The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-06-27
MANAGER.

ney general, was not present at the
St. Georges meeting, but in reply to
Mr. Lyons position he gave out the
following statement at Charleston the
next day:
81 quoted the Charleston Evening
Post which stated that Lyon deserved
the Office of attorney general for SER
vices rendered to the State and I said
if you will turn back to the day when
| the young men of South Carolina
went forth to do battle for their coun-
try, if you will recall the services per-
formed in Hampton's splendid cam
paign for white supremacy in the '70's,
and the work then done by Gen. l..
F. Youmans and compare it with the
work that Mr.. Lyon or myself has
performed or ever will do, then you
must agree that to Youmans and to
neither of US, must the office be given,
if it is to be as reward for services
performed. But I take it that a mans
integrity and mans ability shall be
the standard by which he should be
judged and the Democrats of, South
Carolina should 60 to the polls with
due termination to select that man in
the race who will most ably discharge
the duties that must devolve on the
next attorney general. Whether or
not man has been for the investi-
eating committee, whether he he for
or against the dispensary, any lawyer
of ordinary integrity if elected attor-
ney general must stand for punish
ment of graft and must stand for en-
forcement of law as his duties under
the statutes may arise. The real
friends of the dispensary are opposed
to graft and stealing and no man can
try harder than to bring the guilty
to the bar Of justice, to remove graft
and stealing from offices and to Wig
crously prosecute those whom the
governor of South Carolina may think
should be made to answer in criminal
courts"
Mr.. LUMPKIN SPEAKS.
The last speaker of the day was Mr..
W. W. Lumpkin, candidate for the
United States senate. He could not
make his regular speech, as he wants
Senator Tillman present to hear it,
but he had a hard time to make any
sort of speech at ali. When he was
first introduced by Senator Dennis,
Mr.. Lumpkin walked to the front Of
the schoolhouse porch-and there he
stood while the crowd yelled at him
in ever increasing volume: "Ben's
good enough for us;' ''Hurrah for
Benz ':Tillman, Tillman," etc. FL
nally, when he could be heard, Mr..
Lumpkin said that Balaam must have
left his beast of burden around these
parts. When the crowd saw in what
good humor Mr.. Lumpkin had taken
the gibing, he was given an audience.
He would shoot the repartee at them
as rapidly as they would make sport
of him-and it "took," as the doctors
say of vaccination. Mr.. Lumpkin
was knocked off of the line of speech
making and spent the time making
friends with the crowd. He declared
that he stands for the toilers. He had
worked on the railroad, he had work
cd On the farm, and he feels great
sympathy for the laboring man. His
platform is:
II am Democrat and will support
Democratic measures in the national
congress.
II believe a candidate for the Unit
ed States senate should leave State
issues to be discussed and settled by
the citizens of the State. He should
! be impartial in these matters, so that
if national legislation is required, he
may freely carry out the will of the
people.
II stand for honesty in all public