The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-08-07
TIE STATE CAMPAIGN
EcoNrINUED FROM FIRST PACE

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Gen. Buffers speech was pitched on
q high plane, dealing with issues
which he discussed In Q practical way.
After the Senatorial speeches we're
ended q great many OF the crowd left,
In o g largo number left after Tih-
man spoke4 - G1I0W HXJs@l
DR.. Pope was the first candidate for
Governor to come forward. He did not
speak long, but charged John Gary
with being ambitious and dramatically
repeated Cordinal Wolsey's soliloquy
beginning Cromwell, I charge thee
tbgow away ambition"
Zen. EDerbe was not feeling we'll
aud spoke very bciefy and was listened
to without interruption.
He was followed by Mr.. Tindai, who
made q calm, dispassionate speech,
urging the Reformers to stick together.
He also argued the necessity OF a pri-
mary to prevent discord among the Re
formers. Discord meant disunion and
disunicn meant death.
After some complimentary allusion
to the Piedmont people, Mr. Evans said:
DIR. Pope has bolted the track. my
friend Tindal has blind staggers and
sees spooks and Ellerbe says, 'tHelp me
antis or / sink" / am In the middle of
h track and will pass under the line
in the .ead as sure as you are living.
It's in bad taste for the candidates to
cry out now againstthe convention and
play into the hands Of the antis. They
were in favor OF q convention at the
start and did not see spooks when I
told them that they had to see the peo-
pie and look them straight in the eye.
The executive committee determined
on q convention after the State cam
paign and they now see ghosts. This
is the way OF tho defeated candidate.
Ambition!" cries DR.. Pope. Is my
friend going to play the Brutus act on
me? Has he got a dagger lurking in
his breast? Why does he point ut me
and cry Ambition !" Is not Ellerbe,
and ia not Tindal as anxious to be elect
ed as | am ? will tell you what's tEe
matter with DR.. Samps. He said to
am a one-gallus boy, here, take my gal
. lus and go in" Now you SEQ l have
got the n gallus and he is about to
lose his breeches, and 80 he is begging
for it again. But l am not going to
give it to him until after my election,
and then | am going to give it to him
and say, eco and sin no more"
Now, Mr.. Ellerbe says he wouldn't
call Mr.. Cleveland Il thief. I call q
spade q spade, and 1 say to you If
Grover Cleveland is not O thief he is
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When Mr.. Cleveland told the people
they could not have the fifty millions
lying In the treasury to pay their
-debts, he was a thief If 1 know what a
thief is. 1t Is like the banker who has
five thousand dollars of your money in
his hands, and when you want to build
house and go to him and ask him for
the money he puts it in his pocket and
says, mo. you must put u mortgage on
your house." Wouldn't you say that
banker vas q thief? Well, that's Just
what Cleveland did.
MIR. Evans spoke of being in sympa-
thy with the Alliance, and said that al
though he was not allowed to join
them, yet at his own expense he had
gone all over the State advocating
their demands and principles. He adj
vOoated the control Of the railroads by
the general government, saying that
the State controls through the rail
road commissioners the roads in tho
State, fixing rates, regulating tariffs
and making schedules, and the general
government should do the same. In
speaking Of the Alliance demands and
the sub-treasury bill, he said it was the
duty of members of Congress to listen
to the people and to frame bills to meet
their demands in such way as to be
constitutional, and that they we're paid
for this purpose. 81 am" he said,
!" for anything that will help South
Carolina, even if it b%ankrupts the
North. II it hurts the Yankee nation
let it hurt 'em. You should join the
West because they are agriculturists
and you are agriculturists, and the
North is depressing them and Cypress.
Horace Boies as candidate for presi-
dent and Ben Tillman for vice-presi-
dent we will sweep this country. Those
people who said in '92 that what we
said about Cleveland being a prostitu-
tion OF Democracy, are now saying that
we were prophets. Even A. b. Will
liams is now saying that we were right,
and ii you wilt just take him down to
Reedy River and duck him and get a
little mud on him and fix him so these
people in Greenville wouldn't recognize
Speaking of the public school system
he said /: "The 2 mill school tax ought
never to have beer in the constitution.
1t was put there in 1876 by the Hamp-
ton administration as q bait to the peo-
pie up North that we we're going to
take car of the niger. Since then
we have been trying to get a new con-
stitution and we have just got it so
that you a vote for it. Now, when |
went to the Legislature L passed the
bill to allow any school district to make
itself a separate district. My idea is
to take it out OF the Constitution, so
that when you pay your tax you should
have the right to say to what school it
shall go. 1 have nothing against the
niger, but we have got to take care
of our posterity in South Carolina" In
speaking further on this question, he
srid: Every Yankee school-marm
can Introduce a niger into any school
in South Carolina. Take it out of the
constitution and then we can pass O
law under which the people can say
1--WE want our money to go to the
school in my district where my child
goes" We pay more tax on niger
wool than the whole State of Ohio pays
ON sheep. 1t Is time to protect our
own institutions the North never sent
any money down here to build our in
situations. So 1 say when you vote
next remember vote for the constitu,
tional convention"
The next most important law is the
dispensary law, and the one on which
Ishave been cussed more than anything
else, and l am willing to be cussed
about It., but they had better not cuss
me to my face. 1t was not passed as
Mr.. Tindal says, as a compromise. tOf
the re-opening Of the ~dispensary, he
said: "And DR.. Samps sees blood on
the moon under it.. l tell you the
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