The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-10-16
ULAURENS. s. c., Oct. 18, 1894.


The manifesto" In this State has
come to stay. And now comes a steer
ing committee OF the Tillmanites, flor
want Of a better name) rallying the
peopleto the support OF q constitutional
convention. We are not antagonizing
q constitutional convention and sound
Ing no alarm. Let the people alone;
they are out OF swaddling clothes; they
are wiser and better judges than the
omce-holders who assume to address
high sounding ''manifestos.n AS
o rule they are old ringsters, who
under normal conditions would occupy
private stations. Among others who
sign the-f~te manifesto" is one Willie
Jones. He was Secretary and Treas
urer OF the late Ring Executive Com
mittee, OF which Haskell was the head.
we cite him as a sample, the others,are
persons, and just jumping to
The front and looking well ahead for
office. The whole gang are Office
seekers and photographers of the
hrst water. Beware Of them. We
are tired OF citing the names of these
heformers whose gluttony for office is
unsuitable. They cry 'more, moro,
more, like the ~horse-leech. The "man-
tfesto" declares that there is a party
bent on power who will appeal to the
niger. 1t is without foundation. They
are offce-holders and wallowing in
the mtre and filth Of office and mean
TO TOOL the whole citizenship. Their
shiboleth is 'the people" but we are
oil the people; n man in South Caro-
lima Is as good as another and there
are no masses; II there be any "clasees,"
they, the boodlers and ohice-holders
are these Glasses"
Beware OF the fellow who would
every day and hour insist upon your
being the masses and the people; you
arc better far than he, because YOU
nro Independent, working for your
living, supporting your wife and chill
dren/ He is a fraud.
Inc 1dea OF anybody setting up the
negro to Cypress you is a fraud and a
lie. Stand to your ground as a citizen
OF South Caroliua, as good and better
thar the boodler and ringster, who is
aftcr Office and appealing to your pas
sions.
We are not opposing a constitutional
convention; that is n matter for YOUR
sound discretion and vote upon your
judgment without regard to partisan
considerations.
.Bossism in this State must end. A
SnI{h ~ rD1infup NIL H. r 49,
rens man, must be his own thinker and
his own master. The Knight of the
Rueful Countenance on his famous
Rosinantc charged all the wind mills,
thinking he was ussaulting fortified
castles, holding fair and distressed
maids as captives.
The cowardly boodlor and glutton-
Gus o~fice-holder sees a niger in every
corner. Examine the present roll of
ofice-holders in this State and you
will find every fellow an old ringster
or o fellow who was beaten by them as
unworthy. We want to see the dav
come again when no Laurens man ac-
knowledges q ''boss' and does his own
thinking and exercises his own judg.
ment. No Glasses no ''masses," no
"people"-all citizens and all masters.
**
Tho second edition OF the decision of
the supreme Court is out, pr%onouncing
the D~ispensary law constitutional. 1t
overrules tho former decision, is pro-
-nounced by Justice Gary and concurred
in by Justice Pope, Chief Justice
McIver dissenting. The decision is
what was expected and the readers of
the ADVERTISER arc not disappointed.
There will continue to be friction in
the enforcement OF the law; it is not a
finality; it does not settle the vexed
liquor question. The issues involved
Will sooner or later reach an unbiased
non-political court and die the death.
In the meanwhile tho ADVERTISER ad-
vises non-resistance to its enforcement.
"Bettor to bear the ills we have,
Than fly to others we know not Of"
The conclusion the court reaches,
while lame, is not impotent, don't you
see?
If, ("your If is a dangerous little
word") Gov. Tillman should be elected
to the U. s. Senate, he will be sworn
in on the 4th OF March, 1895. The
Senate will be in secret session five
days, during which our Governor can
use his pitch-fork on the fat ribs of
Cleveland. Congress will then nr'
until Dec. 1896, wher~ as
will have done his wor"' .,ove,apd
will have gone to ! oo,ntrv
the pitchrfor'- onJ
Smplem" " 49, 40 -.
.ont Of political reform.
A Col. Glenn and q Col. Brown, Of
Georgia, have INDUCED charges and
countcr-charges in the newspapers.
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