The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-07-03

Thank God! the Old Dominion has
redeemed herself and has consigned
Malone to the infamy he deserves, and
pray to God that such may be the
fate of all such renegades and Inde-
pendents as he is. (Applause.)
Now, my friends. that is a lesson we
should take home to ourselves. | tell
YOU that if We divide we shall fall an
easy conquest to our enemies. United
we can defy all attacks from without
and within our borders. But do you
not see that even now on the calenders
of Congress are election laws framed
by the bitter enemies Of the South,
which, if enacted, will leave the elec-
tions practically in the hands Of the
United States supervisors, and our
members of Congress will be certified
by Federal judge instead of by the
authorities OF South Carolinao My
friends, there is frightful danger be-
fore us-a danger not alone from the
division Of the patty, but from the
passage Of these election laws. We
must stand together, or we shall surely
fall.
Now it is said there is great depres-
sion in the farming interests Of the
South. 1t is not only in the South,
but in the whole country. I know
that, my friends. l feel it, and need
not say to you that | sympathize with
the farmers, for have been farmer
all my life, because it was the occupa-
ton most congenial to me. But, tell
me, vi hat laws can be passed by Leg
islature, or what can be done by Gov
ernor, that will help that depressiono
Ifany man will tell me that the Gov
ernor, whose functions are only ad-
visory, can pass law, then he has
more power than the president of the
United States. What he can do to
help you, passes my comprehension.
We want good government. We want
the laws administered equally and
justice done to every man, aud it can
only be done by the people of South
Carolina taking the matter into their
own hands. l have heard the people
called serfs, slaves, but I believe that
every man here is as free as the air he
breathes. (Applause.} So I say to you
that if you claim that there is a ring
in this government or that conventions
arespicked, that you, the people, your
selves are to blame. Take the county
convention. Who chooses the conven-
ton: The people choose the delegates
and send them there, and you can in
struct them to any convention; the
constituents direct them A:hat, to do.
Take the State Convention. The
county convention elected by you
elects the delegates to the State Con-
vention and the county convention
can instruct its delegates. Therefore if
the people do not choose good men in
the conventions, or in the primary, it
is because you do not take interest
enough in the elections to do your
proper share of the work. Now, I say
that the convention can be conducted
in 4 perfectly proper and straight for
ward manner. l would be perfectly
willing that every Democrat in the
State could express his vote directly at
the polls, but I say that the people of
South Carolina have been free from
rings, from all oligarchy, from ali aris-
tocracy; but what is aristocracy? God
knows, | don't know. I don't recog-
nize any people as 4 common" people.
I recognize every true Democrat, and
especially if he is a man who stood by
me in the war or if he is the son of a
man. (Applauseand hurrahs for Hamp-
ton. If he is the son of q man that
fought in the war he is the aristocrat.
(Applause AID cheers.) Talk of aris-
tocracy in South Carolina! Ny God,
if there be a man here who followed
ME through the war, I appeal TO him
to say, to bear me witness that treat
ed the man in the ragged grey jacket
as we'll as the man with the stars on
his coat. Great applause.) I regarded
them not only as my equals, but they
were my superiors, because the private
soldiers were the men who bore more
of the brunt of the battle, and the pri-
vations of war, and got less credit for it
than the officers.
My friends, you have seen that they
have proposed in Congress some meas
ures that they call the sub. treasury
the ware house system, and our dis
tinguished Senator from California,
Stanford, introduced 4 bill the other
day by which he proposed to lend
money to the farmers on a mortgage of
one per cent. and then he very inno-
Gently said. that the farmers could make
money by lending it out at six or seven
per cent. | hardly think that Stan
ford, when he was railroad president,
would have conducted his business on
that line. l hardly think the scheme
isa good speculation. But it can not
pass because both measures arc absO-
luteiy unconstitutional. You would
hardly expect that any Of your Repre-
sentatives should violate the Constitu-
ton, which they swore to obey, by
voting for these bills.
I say to you that if there has been
anything which has depressed the
turner's above all others it is the tariff.
That is where the pressure is the heavi-
est on the Iaboring man, upon all the
industrial classes of South Carolina.