Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-07-21

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to make the fight and as long ashe
sticks to the platform we must stick
to him His enemies try not only te
break him down but also the
whole movement behind him.
The other side have acknowl.
that we are right. / believe when
the prodigal son comes home he
ought to be allowed to go to work
with the other boys, but 1 don't
think ne should be allowed to put
out the old man and run the farm
himself.
He then enumerated the many
things done by Ben Tillman for
the people. There would have
been no campaign meeting this
year had not Ben Tillman tried to
carry out the whole platform.
Since the war the poor people have
paid the taxes of the State. Go to
the tax books and corapare. the re-
turns of the poor people and the
banks and the railroads and the
men lending money.
He jumped on the exemption of
factories from taxation, which if
continued would have been bad
precedent and would have per-
meated the whole tax system. All
should be taxed at the same rate.
These pessimists and obstruc-
tionists, if our platform is right,
why did they not find it out and
fight for it, before. They simply
want to fool you and get you to let
them back into Office.
The Haskell movement accord
ing to Hampton is the backbone
of the Conservative Democracy.
Humbert said he has no criticism
for Haskell, for he believed him to
be q good Democrat. This cam
paign is a big funeral procession
and in August we will bury them
out of sight. I guess We'll give
Shepparda funeral with military
honors.
An axiom is a self-evident fact
and if Orr amt an axiom 1 never
saw one.
I was asking the other side how
they got TO be bald:headed they
are nearly all bald-headed except
my little lamb, Dixon, who hasn't
even amoustache. One said when
he was engaged his sweetheart
used TO often ask for q lock of his
hair, but tafter marriage she he1pad'
herself.
General Farley told a Hindoo
Joke with good effect. Youmans
and others bad twitted him with
being a bachelor, which wasn't his
fault. Youmans had been married
twice. One old fellow said if his
wife died he'd marry another at
once to show how much he loved
her. The Hindoos believe in q sort
of apurgatory through which dead
people must pass before they can
get to heaven. A man came up
and admitted that he had not been
through purgatory, but that he had.
been married. The guardian of
the portal said come in; that it
was the same thing. Another came
up and said he had q double claim
to admittance as he had been mar,
.
ried twice. The guard frowned and.
told him to be gone, as fools were
not allowed in heaven.
General Farley was presented
with a bouquet, which elected a
q good response from him.
Governor Tillman was next in
troduced and received with a loud
cheer of appreciation and devotion.
He said:
This is the first time 1 have
spoken in this corner of the:
county. 1 did speak ONCE at
Etheredge's not far from here, but
/ do not know nine-tenths of you.
I am glad to meet you. The broad
.Saluda runs quiet because it is
deep. This meeting is SO quiet
that / am led to suspect that there
is but little opposition to the
Farmers Movement in this section
of the world to fret you and make
you noisy like the rocks in the
river. s'The shadows murmur;
the deeps are dumb
Down in your hearts you know
/ stand here as the representative
aud spokesman to give voice to