Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-07-28
CORRESPONDENCE
A Very Thoughtful Paper and
+ from a Wise Head, Though IS
on Young Shoulders.

from Wise Head, Though S5
on Young Shoulders.
Mr.. EDITOR: It has been said
"that some people had rather tell
falsehood than the truth, evenif
it were in their favor to tell the
truth"
Referring to the reports of the
Edgefeld meeting on the 18th inst..s,
by some Of the anti-administ alton
organs, we may discover that thisisI
pre-eminently true of those pas|
:pers.
For instance they claim that
only one-third of the crowd foEs
lowed Gov. Tillman to the schools
house piazza, when they knoWt that
at least two-thirds were support.
ers of the administration and fol-
lowed the candidates.to the school,
house.
A more wilful falsehood was:
never uttered than when they say?
Several hundred persons WereI
pulling and pushing the wagon
and they finally rushed it through +
the Tillman crowd and succeeded
in thoroughl..' ,oralizing them; 8
In the first plas ny man with the
brain of a lunatic ought to know;
that several-hundred people could:
not get near enough to q wagon TO
either pull or push, but then fisli q
such proportion of truthful as
the above, we must judge their
count of twenty-five counties for
the Conservatives. q;
Again any sane man ought to-
know that if these vain-glorious;
aantis" had tried to push" q
wagon through the Tillman crowd:
at that time there would have been
more blood spilton old Edgefelds
hills thap>ans OK. could null SS.ss3iS: * &
Suppose, however, we use a little;
[of their own logic and figures.
They say at Edgefe]d Sheppard
had a,decided maj jority, and at HelsI
ley s they say, out Of fifteen lAnnv;
tdred people: present, prob baahgJgIl
sheppard had one hundre d: y
They characte terize the D dge6sld
fefefss fafs6s aad II diSoTde e, while the
| Holley's meeting was the most
orderly yet witnessed in the State.
So by their logic the antis were in.
the majority at Edge6eld and the
Reformers vastly in the majority
at Holley's, therefore it follows
that the Conservatives are making
all the fuss.
G,Iess Youmans must have i'm
agined that inasmuch as Holley's
was "sixteen miles from nowhere
: and in the country, too, that there
we're a great many chickens and
other fowls, therefore he would
not go, for fear that the cackline
! of the hens would ruin his speech
! Youmans left without speaking a
t Lexington and did not 60 to Hol
| lcy's SO here's the query: D'e
"Jrave Laurence Toae,naus" raua9
The next big fuss will doubtles
: be, that Gov. Tillman said that ex
$ Gov. Sheppard represented Repub
!. lican principles. We don't believ
> that Gov. Tillman intended t
Il place Mr., Sheppard on an equaliit..
n with Moses, Chamberlain, or tn
i negro. But it is this: Mr.. shep
e pard is on the wrong side. Demo
q cratic principles as laid down b
Mr.. Jefferson were, 'equal right
to ALL" "the minority to yield t
e the majority" etc. Republican
!, u principles are to protect capita
/ corporations, manufactures, infan
q industries, etc.; in fact it is legii
le lation by which the rich gro
% wealthier, and the poor are mad
Sc poorer. The Conservatives al
L backed by banks, corporation
~ factories, railroads, etc., which al
st kicking against an equalization
lg taxation with the agriculturis
and laboring classes in Sout
N Carolina represented by the pre-
IN ent State administration. So the
le' plan is to place the burden
rs taxes on the farmers and lahore
to generally, and to let capital, bank
IN railroad, and factory stocks, et'
=, escape very lightly as in the pat
w Therefore their stand is n
at vastly different from the Repub
*. can plans of protection and tax