Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-08-12
THE GAFFNEY MEETING.
Two Correspondents Tell Different
Stories.

AS To what readers are getting al out
campaign meetings seems to depend
upon the bias of correspondents. Here
are two brief accounts of the Gaffncy
meeting Wednesday. the first from
the Grecnville News and the second
from the Spartanburg Journal:
Gaffney, Aug. 1O.-Hon. c. C. Feath-
erStOne of Laurens today went after
the Columbia State and the Charleston
News and Courier, for fighting his cam
didacy for governor, as he claimed.
Newspapers said Mr.. Featherstone, do
] not attack candidates who are in the
lead, but those who are heading the
procession. He gave the newspapers
credit for being great powers for good,
| but admitted that they were not in
falible. When they are right, l fol-
low them." said Mr.. Featherstone
and when they are wrong. don't fol-
| low them" He said that he was not
the candidate of any set Of newspapers
| and did not belong to them. Mr.
| Featherstone correded to the newspa-
per the same right to their opinion as
| he had to his own: nothing more. He
called attention to the fact that the
| Columbia State last August esDOused
| the cause Of the Richland county dis
penSary. He then discussed the liquor
question and other matters. The meet
ing between Attorney General Lyon
and Barney Evans was not as exciting
as it was yesterday. Mr. Evans was
much mlder in his charges than here
| tofOre, though he presented them in
one form or another. and read an edi-
torial from the Laurensvlle Herald
criticising the attorney. Mr.. Lyon said
| that the Laurensville Herald was a
| q of q al
written on that papers stationery,
| from w. T. Crews to the Augusta
| Brewing company, suggesting that
Crews as county dispenser, be given
| his share Of the inducements" before
he ordered another car load of beer
Mr.. Lyon defied Evans to prove a sim
gle statement, and said that ii was a
bitter pill to go through the cam
paign with such a creature as Evans
| Although all the candidates for gov
ernOr had friends in the audience, the
Hon. John G. Richards of Kershaw
carried off the honOrs in applause. The
speeches did not vary from those OF
former days.
Gaffney, Aug. 1O.-A new feature
was introduced i'm the Lyon Evans
fight for the attorney generalship OF
South Carolina this morning, when Mr.
Evans read an editorial appearing in
recent issue Of the Laurensville
Herald, to the effec, that Lyon could
brand Evans as liar but to answer
the charges brought against him for
paying out over seventy thousand dol
lars of the states money to one attor-
ney as a retainer fee was another mat
ter"
In his reply Mr.. Lyon evaded the
seventy thousand dollars and jumped
into storm Of criticism of the Laur-
ensville Herald, branding them as
Infamous lies" and stating that the
son of the editor was a CRATER run
ming the dispensary."
| He read a letter signed by the edi-
tors son, which was addressed to an
Augusta brewery, sticking his hand
out for graft" Lyon called Evans a
thing" but said nothing about the
seventy thousand dollar fee paid
Roundtree and Wilson.
| The other candidates delivered their
usual speeches before an audience of
about five hundred people in the Star
theatre.