The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24
Another "Great Speech,

N 'PSSShts
The silence which Senator Irby
has steadily maintained In the
Senate since the delivery Of his
eulogy on the late MI. Stackhouse
was broken with a snap last week
when, to employ q crude metaphor,
he flung his heels out viciously at
Mr. Cleveland Observation-Disclosures
Co). Farley would say) exhibited a
deal of i'll temper on the subject of
tariff reform. The correspondent
Of the Augusta Chronicle, a paper
which we believe is one Of the SEN
ator's personal organs, reports that
the Senator read his address and
scarcely took his eyes from the
manuscript while he was speaking.
we deduce from this that the Som
ator did not "volley and thunder"
In the Senate Chamber as he is
wont to do in the Court House here
at Laurens. 1t is hard for us to
conceive of him dropping syllables
In silvery notes and we had thought
that B%anquo's ghost had no more
persistent upward tendency than
his somewhat uproarous voice.
Viewed as reading mater the ad-
dress, if not equal to the style of
Johnny McLaurin, Is several points
better than Mr.. Strait could have
made and perhaps measures with
the ordinary emanations of Capt.
Shell. We have no idea that Lat
liner could have written English to
compare with it.
Substantially Senator Irby takes
u position about like this: If Mr..
Cleveland, represented by VOORHEES,,
Mills, ct al. and assisted by the John
Sherman crowd forces the passage
ofthe Repeal bill then he (Senator
lrby) will obstruct the passage of
a tariff reform bill championed in
the Senate by that same Voorhees,
and Mills coterie of Democratic
Senators. In that the Democrats
OF this county will not support Sem
ator Irby, big man as-Ra &Samong
most of them. We say this de-
l~iberately because we do not mis-.
trust or suspect the Democratic
principles Of a majority of the peo-
pie OF Laurens county among
whom Tillmanite farmers FREEDOM.
mate. Those people know that
tariff reduction is Democracy no
matter whether it is advocated by
Mills, Carlisle, Sherman, McKin-
ley or Beelzebub. They, not being
tools, are aware that Il bill which
would lower to five dollars, the cost
of a coat for which Mr.. Davis or
Mr.. Simmons are now compelled to
ask ten is worthy of support with
out inquiring who is at it's back. II
it is not absurd to condemn a meas
ure pregnant with benefit to every
laborer and producer in the land
because some of its friends are op-
posed to free silver we hope to be
told what is. Ridiculous though as
the position is, it loses it's comic
aspect when we consider that the
man who holds it has II seat and a
vote in the U. S. Senate.
Senator Irby mas recently been
the subject Of a great deal of news
paper comment which we think
was unnecessary and which we re-
greet. The matter under discussion
on tho other hand has to do with
his high station as q Senator elected
by Democrats. Tariff reform is
the central and foremost principle
of Democracy. Now while the
lines are being formed for the final
struggle in it's behalf Senator Irby
begins 10 fume and sulk. If, he
means to desert he shall at least
not escape exposure.
If "Refawln" papers pretend to
claim the adoption of the "cOmpro-