Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-01
BIG GUNS voLLeYED AND rHunpeRIo.

Yesterday was big day at Seneca
the big guns of the campaign were fred,
while tho little torpedo-poppers of the
county campaign mingled with the dear
people who had gathered to hear the
speakers. Senators Tillman and Lati-
mer, Congressman Aiken and Solicitor
Boggs were on hand and addressed the
crowd, which was variously estimated at
from one to two thousand. The speak
ers were introduced by County Chair
man G. II. ID. Burns, who, with his usual
ease and grace, presented each candidate
in his most pleasing manner.
Senator Tillman was the first to speak,
and he held forth for two hours and ton
minutes, devoting the greater part of the
time to discussion of the dispen sary,
DEPRESSING now and then to stick prong
of his pitchfork into the Charleston News
and Courier, Columbia State and some
of the little weekly newspapers through
out the State, which latter have always,
he says, bothered him only as gnats on a
BULLS horn. His speech had little effect,
so far as we can judge, in regard to the
dispensary. Oconee has had it, is now
rid of it, and we hope it will never be
saddled upon us again. 1t and bar.rooms
are gone forever. There were some good
things in Tillman's talk-there always is
but taking it as whole it was some
thing similar to some of the beer-pretty
flat.
Solicitor Boggs followed Tillman. He
had no record in the national halls to de-
fend or explain to his constituents, but
he offered himself as candidate for
Congress from the Third District, and
would do his duty as he saw it if elected.
Congressman Aiken came next, detail
ing his work in the National House of
Representatives, making special reference
to the rural free delivery branch of the
Federal post Office department. Through
this means his watohfulness aud care
had brought to South Carolina thousands
of dollars that would have otherwise
gone to the great Northwest; that he
had done his very best to serve his peo-
pie in the Third Congressional District
with large Republican majority against
him; that il reelected he would continue
to give his people the very best service
possible. He referred to the recent trip
of G. r. D. Burns to Washington, and
said some one had started the story that
Aiken had sent Burns free pass. He
wanted it distinctly understood that the
originator of that story was liar, and if
he could find the man who told it he
would slap his face. Both Mr.. Aiken
and Mr.. Boggs were attentively listened
to and they were well received.
Senator Latimer followed Mr.. Aiken,
devoting most of his time to giving an
account of his work in behalf of good
roads. This has been his fort, both in
in fact, that in Washington he is famil-
iarly known as Good Roads Latmer
These four speakers were the "whole
show" The large crowd was in excel
lent humor. There was no drunkenness
or rowdiness, and every thing passed off
quietly and pleasantly. There was no
marked demonstration for any of the
and the only interference to
any of the speakers was the railroad
which seemed to bother Till
man considerably. He doesn't like to be
bothered when he speaks, probably be-
cause it reminds him of how he used to
enjoy the "howling down" of his oppo-
nents at the time when such tactics were
necessary to his purposes,