Tillman stands with Alliance demands on national questions
In a 1894 exchange, South Carolina candidate B. R. Tillman responds to Farmers Alliance pressure. He pledges to discuss Alliance policy in the campaign and to vote by conscience, while respecting state party platform. He opposes government lending to farmers but supports free silver and expanded greenbacks.
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Columbia
S. C
Tillman
Lion
Thomas P. Mitchell
Farmers Alliance
Alliance
South Carolina
National Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union
8. C
Benodice VL
Mitchell
Woodwards
United States
B.R. Tillman
Woodward
B. R. Tillman
Sir
United States Senate
Butler
Tiros
P. Mitchell
Ae P. Mitchell
Etter
Reform Party
St. Louis
Stradi
Ocala
Cleveland
South
Silver Democrats
Lombard & Wall Street
Senate Democratic
House
Meeting in Lexington protests Breckinridge renomination
A large Lexington Opera House gathering heard speakers attack Col. Breckinridge’s bid for Congress. Ester J. McCarvey defended the ministerial union while Milton J. Durham urged voters to oppose Breckinridge, appealing to mothers and wives and urging support for the resolutions against his renomination.
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Luxinaron
Breckinridge
Lexington Opera House
Ashland
Col. L Breckinridge
Congress
Kentucky
Ester J. W. McCarvey
Paris
See
Milton J. Durham
The
Treasury
Cleveland
Ile
Durham
Col. Breckinridge
Earthquake Wipes Several Venezuelan Cities on April 28
A Caracas dispatch reports a terrible earthquake in Vengula on April 28 destroying Morida La Quatilas Chiguara and Dan Jian. Villages are wrecked and widespread destruction is noted with entire towns reported obliterated.
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Many Perlah
New York
The
Herald
Caracas
Vengula
Morida
la Quatilas
Chiguara
Dan Jian
Tillman Addresses Corner Stone of Winthrop College for Women
Governor Tillman speaks at Rock Hill on the laying of the corner stone for the Winthrop Industrial College for Women. He traces Masonry origins, praises Clemson and state education for men, and argues for women’s higher education as a rightful state advancement.
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Gov. Tillman
Winthrop Industrial College For Women
Rock Hill
Tillman
South Carolina
York County
Woman’s College
Christ
God Himalef
Victor Tueo
Pyre
Smida
Solomon’s Temple
Hugo Apothegar
David
South Carolina College
Columbia
Citadel
Republicans in State Meet as Row Over First District Nomination
Delegates converge in Columbia for a closed Republican executive meeting amid a dispute between Bob Smalls and George W Murray over the First Congressional district nomination. The gathering focuses on election law testing, redistricting rules, and a September state convention while pending decisions on the Seventh district race.
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Columbia
8. C
Repuplican
South Carolina
Bob Smalls
George Washington Murray
Jenkins
Bucksley
Dickinson
Edmund Deas
Fordham
Brayton
Webster
KE. A. Webster
Orangeburg
Robert Smalls
Beaufort
E. H. Deas
Darlington
Lopez
Colleton
G. W. Murray
Charleston
Ki. E. Brown
E. J. Dickson
Aiken
Professor Morris
Barnwell
J. H. Johnson
Newberry
R. A. Tolbert
Abbeville
W. J.chomas
Oconee
L .F. Goldsmith
Greenville
Means
Spartanburg
W. E. Boykin
Kershaw
J. E. Wilson
Florence
L. Jacobs
Williamsburg
St. A. Stewart
Clarendon
W. W. Ramsey
Sumter
George A. Seld
Berkeley
State Republican Executive Committee
Smalls
Murray
Jordman
State Supreme Court
United States
S. L. Richardson
T. 3. Johnson
EK. M. Brayton
Sperry
R. J H. Jenkins
Sonalis
M. Brayton
Congress
Repubiicans
Sam
J. H. Manly
Carter
National Republican Party
Babcock
National Congressional Committee
Messrs
Brayton and
Deas
National Committee
National Congressional
Bribery Attempted Shocks Senate Session
In Washington May 16 a Massachusetts Republican Senator Lodge offered a resolution about bribes offered to sway votes on the tariff bill. Hunton of Virginia and Kyle of South Dakota confirmed being approached for 25 000 but refused to name the man. A Democratic Senator named C W Butts was cited by a reporter as the alleged briber.
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Washington
Senate
Lodge
Massachusetts
New York Sun
Philadelphia
Cockerell
Missouri
Hunton
Virginia
Kyle
South Dakota
New York
MacFarlane
South Carolina
North Dakota
Capitol
C. W. Butts
Congress
Lynching of Nero Young At Ocala Jail
A mob of about a thousand men overran Ocala jail at dawn and hanged Nero Young, accused of ravishing Lizzie Welr. The jailer surrendered the key as doors were battered with sledge hammers. Young confessed before execution. Citizens of Ocala sign the report.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Times Union
Ocala
Nero Young
Lizzie Welr
Citzens
Tillman denies Observer’s claim on Evans Ellerbe race
Gov Tillman refutes Charlotte Observer Washington report alleging he favors Senator John Gary Evans or General Ellerbe. He says he wrote no such letter, claims no part in the governor race, and asserts both Tivans and Ellerbe are his friends and will make a good executive.
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Columbia
38. C
Charlottee Observer
Washington
Tillman
Ellervbe
John Gary Evans
Ellerbe
Charlotte Observer
Tivans
Wither
Roegiater
Murder Feud Shatters Baxley Area Killing
A feud flared near Graham in Baxley county when John Dyatt fatally shot William McKachin and wounded Andrews McKachin after accusations over poisoned dogs. The McKachins are nephews of Dyall. Dyall fled as the coroner's jury ruled murder. All parties involved are white.
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Savannam
Baxley
Graham
John Dyatt
William McKachin
Andrews McKachin
McKachins
Dyall
Crank disrupts House gallery during Coxey vote
A burly blacksmith Matthew A. Cherry interrupted a District business session in the House gallery threatening destruction if the Coxey good roads bill failed. Cherry was arrested and ejected after attempting to see Speaker Crisp as guards described a rising tide of cranks in Washington.
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Washington
District of Columbia
House of Representatives
Matthew’ A. Cherry
Capitol
Sixth Precinct
Cherry
Speaker Crisp
Ile
House Chamber
Crisp
Col Snow
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
Dors
House
Bowen
Young Swindler Nets Postal Notes At Fernandina
A Jacksonville, Florida, post office tale describes a young man purchasing seventeen postal notes at ten cents each, ranging numbers 13764 to 18780, then hoarding them to redeem for $4.10. One merchant cashed a note under protest, and three more payees followed as the swindler vanished, leaving angrily swindled customers and a missing suspect.
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Jacksonville
Fia
Fernandion
Pee
Clark
Permandina Postimaster
Terror to Coxey's Army Moves to Spa Camp
Washington May 14 Jacob Coxey's commonweal troops will quit the District of Columbia. A new camp will be at the Spa spring near Bladensburg over the Maryland line. The army’s general decided followers could be punished in the workhouse if confined by city government. The terrors of the workhouse discouraged the movement as working disheartened officers and privates alike.
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Washington
Jacob Coxey
District of Columbia
Spa Spring
Bladensburg
Maryland Line
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