The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-06-17
Especial to News and Courier.

meeting at Donald's to day was at
tended by a large crowd, probably
by two thousand persons, and by
nearly every candidate for State,
Congressional and Senatorial Offices.
The regular State campaign will not
open until Tuesday, the opening
meetings of which will be held at
Columbia and Sumter, and the meet
ing yesterday was prelude, kind
of dress parads, SO to speak. 1t had
been arranged for the convenience Of
the people in the corners of Abbe-
vile, Anderson, Greenville, Laurens
and Greenwood Counties. 1t was at
tended by a larger crowd probably
than will attend any meeting this
summer, and for shat reason was
most important one.
All of the candidates for governor,
four of the candidates for the United
States Senate, all the congressional
candidates in the Sd district, and
great many of the candidates for the
minor State Offices were on hand.
The crowd was good natured one,
and the day passed off pleasantly
and harmoniously. A barbecue was
given by private persons and q very
creditable colored brass band from
Laurens County furnished music for
the occasion, The principal interest
seemed to be conferred IN the speeches
of the candidates for governor and
these spoke first. All of the candi
dates had friends in the crowd and
the speeches were we'll received.
Messrs Ansel, Talbert, Zimmerman
and Tillman IRE well known to the
people of the up-country, but Capt.
Hayward was almost an entire stranger
to the greater part of the crowd and
this was his first formal appearance
on the stump in this section. He
spoke we'll and made good impres
sion. He had a number of active
friends present, who did hard work
for him all day, and he will get big
vote in that section as a result.
There was q remarkable sameness
about the speeches of the first four,
They spoke mainly about the neces
sity for better common schools and
better public roads in the State, and
agreed on sll essential points; their
references to each other were COM
plimentary and pitched on high
ground.
DR.. Zimmerman declared that the
grsvest evil now facing the State was
the exodus of the white people from
the farms to the cities. The only
way to stop this is by making farm
life more attractive, and this can be
done by providing better school ia
cillties and better highways.
COL. JAMES H. TILLMAN.
Lieutenant Governor and a can
didate for Governor, came next. 1t
had been announced that on this oc-
casion Col. Tillmau would answer
the charges made against him by
Editor Gonzales, of the State news
paper, and there was more interest
attached to his speech than to any
of the others. During the last
session of the Senate, Tillman, as
presiding officer, made a ruling
on parliamentary that was not
satisfactory to the body and the rul-
ing of the Chair was reversed by the
committee on rules. Tillman in
private communications with mem
bers of the Senate and newspaper
reporters stated that he had tele-
graphed the facts to Speaker Hen
derson and Senator Frye, President
of the United State Senate, and that
both of these had sustained him. Till
man also inserted in the Senate
Journal statement explaining his
reasons for making the ruling in
which he stated the parliamentarians
were not all agreed on the questions
at issue, but that he had been sustains
by the two highest parliamentarians
in the country, giving the impression
that it was Frye and Speaker Hen
derson who had sustained him. Ed
itor Gonzales was not satisfied with
Tillman's statement and wrote to
Senator Frye and Speaker Hender-