The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-03-13

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Salesday next two or three hundred
gentlemen of leisure will Assem- BILE in
the Court House a select to gentleman
to go to Columbia. 1t is cut and dried
that he with some thirty others shall
evofy Aa suitable successor of Governor
Tillm ". 1t seems, in fact it may be
SO, nONIoubt it Is true, that there is no
constitution Of a democratic party in
this state. Then any, and all methods
of putting candidates in the field are
"egular and right. But let it go. 1t
$40" us mainly those who desire Office
number being only some hun
n.eu wv 50 it. matters little.
Let it go and dream THAI Sou are choos-
ing your rulers.
John Gaty Evans at Abbeville said (f
correctly reported) that "Tillman had
= free a hundred thousand white po-
litical slaves. The North boosted that
Lincoln and Peter the Great had set
free oven million souls" All right
about Lincoln; Peter, however, is
hardly entitled to SO much credit; he
cad about a million of his benighted
'arbarians against Charles XII, Of
veden, who slew neal that number
nd thus indeed were they set free.
Mr.. Evans will do as we'll repeating
>istory as making it.
Congressman Talbert shows his
Edgeield raising in the spirited man
ner in which he resents the insulting
aings of the bitter South haters. A
mall yearling bovine when q railroad
locomotive first invaded his precincts
curled his pendent, paved the ground
With glaring eye, and waited it's APP
roach.
dis courage was %applauded while his
discretion was debatable.
Gov. Tillman, of old Edgefeld, wrote
the managers of the Abbeville meet
ing that he was not a candidate for
Governor and therefore declined the
invitation to speak. The idea! Ben
Tillman wants something better,
don't you know" and s'don't you for
get it,"
In the Pension debate the South was
twitted upon the meagre impost duties
derived to the Government through
Southern ports. The fact is true, but
the South Is unfortunately q mOnstrous
consumer through the purchase of
= goods that pass the collectors at Bos-
ton, New York, and other Northern
Ports of entry.
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Secretary of State Tindal wrote an
elaborate letter to the Abbeville COM
mittee. He admits being a little con-
s%ervative, cautions against passion,
hints that by "that sin the angels fell'
and warns his friends against extreme
measures. "Be merciful if We are pow
erful."
The breach Of promise suit for $50
600 of Miss Madeline Pollard against
Congressman w. G. Breckenridge OF
Kentucky, is in progress, in Washing
Z ton and is the sensation OF the hour.
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The S%eignorage Bland Bill, having
passed the House, will probably go
through the Senate, but it is said will
be vetoed by the President. The
President can see q great way through
q milestone, but to our vision the bill has
an innocent look.
The Senate Finance Committeee has
reported the Wilson Tariff Bill greatly
amended to suit local and narrow Sen
ators (cut out and made up to fit par
ishes) and thus modified will probably
pass the Senate.
Comptroller Ellerbe had official bus.
mess and did not 60 to Abbeville.
Being in a financial department he
figured out the situation and snuffed
treason in the tainted gale.
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Senator w. d. Evans could not re.
spond in person to the Abbeville invi-
tation as he had TO nurse and keep
warm his political eggs in the Pee
Dee section.
DIR. Zimmerman, of old Edgefeld, did
not declare himself q candidate for
Governor. He would stand and not
dodge IL lightning struck him.
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Croker, Bourke Cochran and other
Tammany braves are down in Texas
holding q pow-wow at the Morris cat
tie range. The reporters are "steer-
ing@ them.
ension enormity after a bitter
House 3of Represen-