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Biden, Other Hopefuls Set for Down-home Southern Politics

Associated Press

   GALIVANTS FERRY, S.C. - Four Democratic presidential candidates
   descended on South Carolina on Monday for what organizers call the
   oldest traditional campaign speech event in the country, taking an
   opportunity to continue to make their cases ahead of the first Southern
   vote of 2020.

   On Monday, Joe Biden, Bill de Blasio, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar
   spoke at the Galivants Ferry Stump, a biennial Democratic event that
   takes place in a rural portion of northeastern South Carolina. One by
   one, they addressed a crowd of about 2,500 gathered in the
   unincorporated community of Galivants Ferry along the banks of the
   Little Pee Dee River.

   The event dates back to the 1870s, when former Civil War Gen. Wade
   Hampton arrived in Galivants Ferry as part of his campaign for South
   Carolina governor. Area businessman Joseph Holliday began to invite
   Democratic candidates to give campaign speeches from his Galivants
   Ferry store, standing on a tree stump to be seen above the crowd.

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