The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-08-22

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only feature OF the railroad discussion
/, was Mr.. Evans query about Mr.. Wh8r
toms membership OF the Neal board o
directors and Mr.. Whartons spirited
reply that nothing wrong was charged
for the time he was on the board, ant
then Mr.. Evans retort that he had le
Mr.. Neal run things his own way.
Barnard B. Evans received large
bouquet OF flowers.
q. Walt Whitman made couple o
futile efforts to have hand primaries
Incidentally In his attack on the gov
ernor he said that the governor might
as we'll not be in Columbia, and ther
he held that tho race was between
HOyt and Tillman. Then Whitman got
on his funny clothes and jOllied things
along as we'll as he could.
Mr. Frank Is. Gary said that the cam
paign liar and emissaries were out and
were telling that he was opposed to the
dispensary, and that this is false. The
lax enforcement OF the law will In time
bring about the repeal Ct the law.
Mr.. Gary said he never fired on q
fiag OF truce. There WAS no agreement
as to the facts in the Charleston Incl.
dent and he simply wanted to impress
this. He did not intend saying any
thing moro about the Charleston affair.
There had already been a difficulty
about the matter and he had shaken
hands, and it was understood they
could not agree as to the matter. He
thought the incident closed, but yes
terday MIR. Patterson mentioned the
matter and gave his version OF it. 1t
was not his intention to repeat the mat
ter, but simply wanted to say he and
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and that he wanted this understood In
advance and that was all He then
| resumed the regular trend Of his argu-
! ment.
Gov McSweeney, he insisted, had no
claims on the Office and had no higher
claim than any one else. The only
| things McSweeney pointed to with
| pride in his record were the refusal to
pardon PoGs and appointing q factory
boy as page. Had he pardoned Pons
he ought to have been burned In eiligy,
and as to the appointment it was not
as much as he had done, and against
these was the tt tai non enforcement OF
the dispensary law. After Gonzales
they could find nothing against him
except that he was q Gary.
Mr.. a. Howard Patterson said Mr..
Gary he'd not discussed the real issues,
but anticipated what he had to say.
III then took up the old soldiers and
said Gary had missed his opportunity
and had not presented q bill in his 10
years experience to help the veterans.
Then he took up the veterans. Then
he took up the Gary matter and want
ed to know who but he defended his
first cousin In the convention against
the attack on Gonzales. He said 1t
was too much power to put in the
hands OF the Garys. He alluded to the
Charleston matter several times since
the Laurens affair. He disagreed and
the audience is to be the Judge. All
he said was that Mr.. Gary did not
answer him in Charleston, and that
was the place for Gary to show his
colors. lie was the only man standing
tlat-foOtedly for the dispensary. He
nevcr changed front. He commented
on not seeing drunken man here and
very little throughout the State.
He then jumped on the prohibition
platform, which was not for real prohi-
bitlon. He took up the coalition"
editorial about which 80 much has al.
ready beeu said. The last section of
his speech was devoted to rasping Gov.
McSweeney for appointing newspaper
men and his administration OF the dis
pensary.
Gov McSweeney spoke OF the fight
Tor George ID. Tillman for Congress and
then wanted all to consider what
charges and proof had been offered to
show that his opponents were better
qualified. He then took up the Charles.
ton situation and said nobody could do
more than he did. The man who SAYS
he was In any combination with liquor
men or neglected his duty told q false.
hood. There have been no scandals
since he was In Ciiice. He believed he
was right and as long as he did he WAS
going right ahead. He knew he was
as good a business man as any OF his
opponents and had proven 1t. He was
not going to be forced to appoint addi.
tional constables and he was not going
to be dictated to. He went over his
record and insisted that he wanted to
be elected entirely on his record. He
raped prohibition. He said his had
been business, non-factional admins
tratiOn throughout.
Col. Jas. A. Hoyt spoke of his many
friends here and spoke OF the many on
his back and how diflicnlt it was for
him to reply to 80 many. He then Wig
orously defended prohibition In Maine
and elsewhere and declared that the
people In Maine are satisfied County
prohibition has been made success.
He then emphatically denied that his
campaign had any purpose OF ever re-
turning to the license system and that
it was all intended to befuddle and
bamboozle the public to say that prohi-
bition would ever lead to free liquor or
license. He insisted that the prohibit
tionists had in no election been In a
minority but that prohibition would
certainly win this time.
There was but little excuse for Till.
man being here, but II he had any
views be could have presented them
and not reiterated the arugment. But
he heard after every meeting that Till
mans interference had turned votes to
him and done him good. He believed
Edgefeld would resent this interior
ence In family quarrel (; that is what
Tt!lman said OF Hampton. He thought
In 1890 Tillman was right as to Hamp-
ton and he now believed Tillman was
wrong. He know plenty who were not
prohibitiopists or bar men who were
going to vote for him. He knew that
Tillman could not get q majority OF the
conference 80 that he cou preach.
He thought Tillman had better start a
| gospel OF the dispensary. He wished
the vote could be had without Inter-
ference, as this Is a great moral Issue.
He raped Tillman's interference
sharply. He received many bouquets.
Col. Tillman introduced the candi-
| dates for lieutenant pOvarnor who