Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-12
congressman ". u. Talbert.

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Whom the people loseth the
Ants chasteneth. Whenever you
see the old straighout faction and
their organs abusing q Reformer,
.syou can just put it down as 9
settled fact that the assailed in
sdividual is doing good work for
the cause of Reform, and isstand-
ing Loyalty by the people in their
fight for equal rights to all and
special privileges to none. !. The
latest and most picuous victim.
/ of rlng-rule wrath is that iron-rib-
bed Alliancemen and unfinching
Reformer, Hon. w. ]. Talbert, Of
Edgefeld, and who so ably re-
presents his district in Congress.
When Colonel Talbert stood before
Postmaster General Bissell, and
proudly announced the fact that
he was an Allianceman, and IN
tended to faithfully, fearlessly
and unAinehingly battle for the
Ocala demands in Congress; when
he told this official that while he
demanded Offices for his people as
their right, he did not intend to
groYel up his belly before the
President or his Cabinet, or desert
his principles, for the loaves and
fishes of Federal patronage; and
when the gallant Congressman
followed up this manly position
BY delivering one of the grandest
speeches made in the present Con-
gress against the unconditional re-
peal of the Sherman silver purchase
law, brought both applause and
eulogies from friend and foe alike,
it was chen that the enemies OF
Reform and the hirelings of Wall
street turned their batteries loose
upon our distinguished Congress
man, and tried to crush him in
their rage: 1t vas first published
in the ring orgons of our State
that Col. Talbert spoke to empty
benches, and his address was a
bntt for ridicule. But the testl-
mony of many present showed
that the hall and galleries were
we'll filed, and marked attention
given the speaker. As to criticism
on that address, its publication
showed that it was one OF the
clearest-cut and most exhaustive
arguments delivered in the Lower
House of Congress; and in con-
vincing reason, beautiful Of diction
and eloquence of delivery, itranked
alongside the great address OF
William Rryan, of Nebraska, and
which thrilled and electrified the
whole country. Utterly failing in
their attempts to belittle Col: Tai
bert, or bring his address into dis
credit with a sensible and reading
public, Mr.. "A. ". Brabham, Of
Kearse, S. e., tries to convict Con
gresham Talberts Of plagiarism,
by selecting from the entire adj
dress of twenty-three closely prin-
ted pages, two short extracts, not
exceeding two dozen lines in length
that he claims was patterned after
q speech once delivered by Henry
w. Grady, of Georgia. Bear in
mind that Mr.. Brabham studiously
ignores the hundreds of beautifully
expressed and original ideas in
that address, and which he must
confess were original, and selects a
few little, paragraphs, not as long
as a mans hand, and on which to
condemn Col. Talbert of
plagiarism. Well, we have carefully
read both the utterances of Grady
and those of our Reform Congress
man, and while we admit there is
similarity of ideas in these
paragraphs as both the distinguish
ed orators were trying to describe
indenticaIly the same condition
of affairs, the words are entirely
different. But every reader must
confess that Col. Talbert's ex-
pressions were fully equalto the inn
mortal sGrady's which is certainly
ahigh compliment. But why not
Mr.. Brabham do Colonel Talbert
the fairness to speak of his many
other beautiful and well-rounded
sentences, and that were certainly
framed in the orators own mind?
many Of them even surprising in
expression and descriptive force
those little paragraphs said to lie
borrowed" from Henry Grady;
and any one must confess that a
brain which could mould the,
beautiful address delivered by w.
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