The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-11
STATE EXPENDITURES.
STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE COST
OF THE GOVERNMENT.

John &. Haskell's Speech ia Columbia-Thc
Farmers Actual Proportion of tho Oniccs
and Legislative Power, Population and
Taxable Values.
Ladies aud my fellow citizens: l
come before you to- day asking no
Qtfico at your hands. l am here III
answer to call made against our
mother State. to tell YOU the upon
mOmentous canvass.
came here to day though my busi
ness called me away, to meet face to
face this man who claims to be the
Moses of the farmers; to question
him as to the truth o! the charges he
has made against this State and her
people: to prove to him to his face
that his charges arc false, and now l
find that he has gone. daughter
and applause.) l gave him notice,
for L called on him to stay here to
answer and to make good his charges
against the people of this State, or
here, in the face of South Carolinas,
to acknowledge that he had spoken
falsely. But he answered that he
would not stay, and in fact he has
SoilS.
There can bc no denial about the
fact tnat he has arrayed class against
class,and men who have stood side by
side in the wal, and who lived under
and redeemed themselves from the
worst government the world ever
saw, up to the redemption of 1876.
His claim to the govcrnorship is
based solely upon the grave char
| gcs agaidst men who have Striven to
support us and our State since that
redemption. He has arralgncd the
| 7 T.agislnturo and indicted it for cX-
travagancc and corruption and for
the suppression of the rights of the
people.
1 propose to give him and you
some figures to sustain my position
and as complete answer to his
charges against our people and gov
ernment. They may be tedious but
they are necessary. From 1876 until
the present day there has been no
Legislative Assembly which had less
than II majority of farmers over all
other classes of representatives from
the State. The largest majority of
farmers was 2S in 1878 and the small
est was II in 1884. Now, L challenge
any man in his senses to answer INC
how could the farmers have been
wrongcd or ruled by rings when they
had clear majority in every Assem-
bly, since 1876!
| Now, rs to the oppression by law
I76 but n single ono was Il lawyer
There were Hampton, Hagood, Jctcr
Richardson and Thompson, and not
one of them a lawyer. OF the State
offices majority of them were filled
outside of the profession of the law
there being no lawyers except in the
Attorney Generals $ office Now then,
what does the charge amount to if it
does not amount to thiS-that the
Legislature being III the hands of the
| farmers since 1876, that they have
| been false to their trust, and that the
white people, the white farmers, have
proven themselves unfit for self
government! Great applause and
chcering.l That the charge, my
friends, that he has made against the
good name and fair fame of this State,
and that is the charge that you
must rcbukc by your verdict ut the
polls. tremendous applause and
cheeringD
There has been II very comm "a
clamor that the farmers have ne"el
had fair share ofthcrcpres Ion,
and although he is not | -
been repeated by mcnupol ,rt,
but, by the way, let us first look at
the ticket an1 see how it represents
the farmers. 40 are they! There
is the candidate ~. Attorney Gen
eral, Y. j. Pc"'. He is II lawyer.
There is the candidate for Licutcll-
ant Governor, Mr.. Gary, and he is Il
lawyer, and there is the candidate
for Superintendent of Education, Mr..
Mayfeld, and he is a lawyer, and
believe the rest of the ticket has not
yet been filled out, and there is Mr..
j. f.. Tindall, who is farmer and
whom / believe to be IL good soldier,
for we stood together for three years,
and l know him to be Il brave and
true man.
Let me call your attention now to
the other claims made by this rcfor
mcr9 If we look at the tenth census
we will find. on page 7Sj, that there
are in this State farmers and planters
$4,000; members of other professions
| 10000, or in other words four-scv-
enths of the white voting population
are farmers and the three scvcnths
Hh9IG.." :" "'""" professions. The
NS In Millinef, pay S319.OOO of
L ~. .--immcnSc Figures cannot be
a "s low as any in the from the records
GUY one rhoNl Us Us t the State. Now,
I Ian . vo,, wy, nt'"''n"er' V! have only four
Lcnr that vou VII ~ ,,,' y,'nitc voting popula
two pleasant young l., tilrcc-ScNcnthS OF
you and make you feel the farmers com