Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-08-16
in some abuse of the News and Courier

ling sheet":. He went on to request the
audience to watch the report of the
News and Courier next day and COM
pare 1t with the Columbia Register and
tho Charleston World, whereupon
Shirley Hughson, the representative
Of the News and Courier, arose to his
feet and facing the speaker said:
Captain Tillman, II you mean to say
sir, that I have ever misrepresented
you, you arc a wilful liar and the truth
Is not in you" Hughson had his fists
doubled ready to strike but Captain
,,Tillman made no move and the peo-
pie on the stand interposed in a man.
ner that prevented further difficulty.
The sensation at Charleston was let
ters received by the chief Of police,
stating that Captain Tillman was to be
assasslnated during his stay in that
city. The letters were exhibited to the
crowd by j. B. Murphy, the Tillman
leader. Three policemen, two in uni
form and one in citizens clothes. were
detailed to guard the captain during
his stay in the city and they remained
right with him. The assassination
story was denounced by the opposition
as political claptrap.
Referring at Clarendon to speech
that Hon. Joseph w. Barnwell had
made in a Conservative conference
that had been held in Columbia a day
or two before, Captain Tillman inter-
preted Barnwells remarks to embody
the threat OF assassination as a means
of preventing him from being gov
ernor.
Also at Darlington, Mr.. Earle read a
statement from Col. Ancrum, setting
forth that before signifying his will
ingness to join the Reform movement,
Col. .Ancrum wanted to know Of Cap
tain Tillman the meaning Of the
charges and insinuations Captain Till
man had made against the govern
ment, and Captain Tillman replied:
II know they are not true; but I
thought best to make them so as to
give notoriety to the movement" !"
Turning to Captain Tillman, Mr.. Earle
asked him what he had to say about
Col. Ancrum's statement and Captain
Tillman replied: THE statement is
false from beginning to end"
At Kingstree Mr.. Ellis G. Graydon
made the statement that all the ex-
Radicals and Greenbackers were be-
hind Tillman, and that made Tillman's
friends 80 angry and threatening that
for some time it looked as IL there
would be riot.
The following is from the Augusta
Chronicles account Of the Winnsboro
meeting, held during the latter part
of July, 1890:
Maj. Woodward, one Of the '76
Democrats, was on the stand, wearing
a red coat that he had worn during the
10 campaign. He Is an open oppo-
nent of Captain Tillman. In the course
Of Captain Tillman's speech he read a
letter written by Maj. Woodward 60
the Ridgeway Advertiser some time
since, in which he used sentiments
which Captain Tillman said, smacked
of Tillmanism.
lHlS DTOuSul hdy. "
front, and he vehemently denied that
he had ever written anything that
could be construed as an assault on the
government. The sight Of the red coat
must have infuriated the crowd, for the
excitement became intense, and anoth-
er difficulty arose which was only stop
ped by removing the party from the
crowd. =;
1.-The situation was made more thrill
ling by Maj. Woodward calling to the
audience that several Tillmanites were
on the stand with their hands on their
pistols 1t is impossible to paint the
scene that followed this announcement.
With terrified faces all the ladies left
the surroundings, while several Of the
audience: tried to shield themselves
from an anticipated volley of lead"
During the campaign of two years
later Captain Tillman submitted an af-
fidavit from mill operatives stating
that they had been discharged for at
tending meeting. Col. ]. L. Orr de-
clared that he did not believe the
story, and was sure there had been
nothing of the kind at the mills with
which he was connected, and Eugene
B. Gary, then a candidate for ieuten-
ant governor, now chief justice Of the
supreme court, cited the testimony Of
Josh w. Ashley to the effect that this
had occurred at Pelzer. Later the Of
ficials of Pelzer published an affidavit
to the effect that they had discharged
four men. two Tillmanites and two
Conservatives, for taking q day off
without permission.
But these are only few instances.
The record Of those exciting years
bristles with cases that are easily COM
parable to the present campaign, and
so far as our judgment goes, taking 1t
all in all the heat of the present cam
paign is hardly comparable to the
campaigns of 1890, 1892 and 1894.
The meetings this year are about as
we'll attended as they were then, per-
haps more largely attended, and there
seems to be about as much enthusi-
asm; but the enthusiasm Is hardly as
wild.
At Yorkville in 1892, Captain Till
man made direct, vigorous attack on
the supreme court on account Of de-
cision relating to bonds voted in aid
of the old Three C's railroad. The su-
preme court had held the bonds to be
invalid. The general assembly passed
what was known as validating act,
and the supreme court held the vail
dating act to be good. Captain Till
ha OF a
ly as he knew how, and in every word
he said he was squarely within the law
and within the truth.
There were all kinds Of personali-
ties, ISLANDERS and charges Of every ma
ture from both sides; but possibly
nothing to compare with the Augusta
matter or the Grace matter.
THE WORLDS COTTON NEEDS.