Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-06-18
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Candidates Use Printers Ink.

Candidates Use PrtnterS Ink.
August Kohn in News and Courier:
Never before In the history Of cam
paigning, has there been such liberal
use Of printers ink-in newspaper
sketches, in handbills, circular letters,
cards and extracts from newspapers.
Mailing lists have been at premium
and some Of the candidates have al
ready spent hundreds Of dollars In
"circularizing" the state as to why
they should be elected.
Tilllman Hands on.
Under the teaching Of the past ten
years, great many people bave set
tied on the conviction that very little
attention Is to be paid to the declara-
tions of politicians as to what they
would do under certain political coll
tingencies. 1t has been stated from
time to time that Senator Tillman was
backing Mr.. Latimer for the senate.
Many people believed this, while 9TH
ers assert that Mr.. Henderson is the
senator's choice. There was a strong
conviction in 1897 that Senator Tillman
was more partial to Hon. John Gary
Evans than to any Of the other candi-
dates. Since last summer there has
been more or less doubt as to just
what would be the senator's attitude
to these two men. Mr.. Evans went TO
Washington last week, and after talk
with Senator Tillman, announced that
the senator would remain hands of,
which fact has definitely decided him
to enter the race. Shortly after this
interview with Mr.. Evans, Senator
Tillman gave out statement that has
been published as follows: There Is
really no reason why should mix up
in this race" said Senator TilIman,
nor do I intend to take the slightest
part in it one way or the other. It is
true that before Evans entered the
race there was but one candidate in the
field, Representative Latimer, who had
not at one time opposed me. For this
reason, thinking to hurt Representa-
tive Latimer's chances for election. the
report has been circulated that I was
backing Latimer. 1t Is untrue to say
that I am backing any one of the
candidates and the circulators OF this
report hurt Mr.. Latimer's chances by
the gratuitous falsehood. Now that
Mr.. Evans has definitely announced
his candidacy for the senate there will
be two Of my former supporters in the
race-another reason why I am not
called upon to take a hand. But it
should be remembered that none Of the
candidates In the race are running for
the senate against me. They are after
the Junior senatorship. And because
in the past the other candidates, Mr..
Elliott, Mr.. Hemphill, Mr.. Henderson
and Mr.. Johnstone. have been political
opponents of mine does not seem to
me to furnish either an excuse or a
reason for my meddling in the game.
1t is rule, adopted in the '90s. that no
one who Is not a candidate shall be al
lowed to speak in the campaign. That
rule met my approval at the time Of
It's adoption and 1t meets mine now.
You can therefore say that any report
circulated by anybody to the effect
that I am backing Latimer, Evans or
any Of the other senatorial candidates,
is not only without authority but it Is
absolutely false. I have said this sew
eral times before and assert it again
on the eve Of the campaign"
The Meeting Mt Donald's.
The political meeting at Donald's last
Saturday was attended by a large
crowd Of people from the adjoining
corners Of the counties Of Abbeville,
Anderson, Laurens and Greenwood
counties. The newspaper men esti-
mated the crowd at from 1,60O to 1000.
All Of the gubernatorial candidates
were present, and also all Of the sem
atorial candidates except Hon. John
Gary Evans. Speeches were made by
Messrs. Ansel, Talbert, Zimmerman
and Tillman for governor, and Messrs.
Latimer Johnstone, Elliott and Hemp
hill for the senate. The speeches were
pitched on high plane, and were de-
void Of personalities Education and
road improvement were the principal
topics Of discussion among the guber-
material candidates. The senatorial
candidates discussed national ques-
tions. The principal interest Of the oc-
casion centered in the answer that Mr..
Tillman would make to the case that
has been made against him with refer
ence to his ruling in the senate some
time ago, and his subsequent efforts
to justify himself. 1t is probably re-
membered that Mr.. Tillman ruled on a
certain question and that the senate
reversed him. Afterward he claimed
that his posillon had been endorsed by
two Of the ablest parliamentarians in
the country. The inference was that
the two men referred to were Senator
Frye and Speaker Henderson. Subse-
quent correspondence with these gen.
tlemen disclosed the fact that although
Mr.. Tillman had corresponded with
them they had disagreed with him.
Mr.. Tillman called attention In his
speech to the fact that he had never
claimed that Frye and Henderson were
the men to whom he alluded; he had
merely claimed that authorities differ
ed on the question. He claimed that
Gonzales was merely actuated by spite
and malice. With regard to the sword
incident, Mr. Tillman said, that had he
known before what he had learned af-
terward-that Roosevelt had denounc-
ed President Davis as a traitor to his
country, etc. he would never have ask
ed him to present the Jenkins sword.
After the invitation had been given,
President Roosevelt had gratuitously
insultod Senator Tillman, and the in
vitation was withdrawn for those rea-
sons. The speaker said he alone was
responsible for the withdrawal Of the