The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-07-17
Evans and Latimer Stirring Up Bad
Blood
LIVELY TALK OF AN ENCOUNTER
"Liar''and Other Complimentary Ep.
ithets Hurled at the Meeting at
Peaceful Georges.
At Narion.

candidates addressed the voters here
Tuesday But little new argument
was employed, the speeches. being
about on lines identical with former
meetings. Evans, Henderson and
Lattimer had somewhat of three
cornered word war, but this did not
amount to anything.
The first speaker on the list was the
Hon. D. S. Henderson who said he was
not in the race for the emoluments
connected with the office but in it with
the hope that ne may benefit his peo-
pie by being sent to the United States
senate. He again made the statement
that he will not voluntarily enter into
squabbles with his competitors believ-
ing that the people are tired Of cam
paigns conducted in this manner. He
does not care for an office obtained IN
that way and is confident that the best
element of the voters will sustain it.
He spoke of the contest in '76 and the
constitutional convention which he be-
lieves not only gave the people the best
constitution the State ever had but at
the same time buried factional issues
forever.
Col. Johnstone doubts that the Phil
ippine islands have ever been made in
tegral part OF our possessions, the gov
ernment at Washington can only enact
treaties with foreign powers and to the
constitutional lawyer this act is ques-
tionable. The FilipinoS can never be-
come a part of us and if admitted to
our legislative assemblies will ever vote
with the alien and it Is seasonable to
suppose will endeavor to put the negro
in the South in control of our State
government. We fought war for S20,-
100000 and have paid up to this $780,
O00, 900 to make good our title and the
end is not yet We are taxed at he rate
of $215 per capita to carry on this cru
sad of plunder. The cotton manufac-
turers will, as soon as they can, plant
their factories there and work our
Southern cotton into cloth with cheap
Filipino and Chinese labor in compe-
tition with American operatives. 1t is
not Christianity to go there with a
rife in one hand and Bible in the other
and try thus to induce these people to
follow the beloved NaZarine in direct
contradiction with doctrines which he
taught when here on earth.
Congressman Elliott again disclaimed
that he is not the seed man but he gets
appropriations for his people and he is
proud of it. He gets them, too, without
sacrificing principle and his record as
a soldier and statesman is we'll known
to all men conversant with public af-
fairs. He has fought the Republican
party at every step, (Col. Johnstone in
terrupted him and said, why, colonel,
let us get this thing straight
Col. Elliott-No, sir, you are not the
man.
Mr.. Henderson evidently was the
man Col. Elliott was after, but Mr..
henderson kept profound silence.
Col. Elliott went on and specified
exactly in which debates he was en-
gagged with the Republicans, and yet
he got large appropriations
Mr.. Hemphill again assumed the role
Of record maker and record breaker but
no one this time had anything to say
about the fate of the man who, it IS
said, attempted to ride two horses at
the same time. The crowd had been so
large that by request the meeting was
transferred from the court house to the
court yard, the stand erected for Sen
ator Tillman when he visited Manning
Just before the last State convention.
There in the open air Mr.. Hemphill ex-
banded to his hearts content and to
the apparent delight of his audience.
Ex-Governor Evans told why he is in
the race and saw significantly that II
he had not been betrayed by his friends
that he would now be in the senate.
His claims are greater than his COM
petitors, for he was a watchman on the
tower and exposed Republicanism
wherever he saw it. He thinks Mr..
Hemphill has been sitting in Washing
ton for 10 years looking at things in
South Carolina through the wrong end
of the telescope, and now he comes
here and asks that he be sent to the
senate.
Mr.. Latimer said in his introduction
that these lawyers cannot agree here
or at Washington, therefore we farm
ers have to keep them straight. He
said Mr.. Evans had gone down into
che grave to get something against his
record-meaning the Stokes matter
and then repeated what has before
been published in refutation of the
charges, again fatty denying that he
had ever rendered Dr.. Stokes an annual
free pass over the line. He turned to
Evans and said: "You we're charged in
the McLaurin campaign with taking
$4,000"
Mr.. Evans-I denied at the time,
denouncing it as lilo and you know
1t was lie, and now again denounce
1t as such, and you know it.