The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-09-26

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the committee, aud decided to consider
any resolution ordered.
Just at this moment, as Mr. Watson
was about to offer a resolution, the
committee sent out to escort the nomi-
nee of the convention for Governor into
the hall. came in bringing John Gary
Evans and the other nominees There
was wild applause as they mounted the
stand. The chairman introduced MIR.
Evans as 1.-The next Governor Of South
Carolina.
Mr.. Evans spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of tile Convention and
Fellow Democrats
Few men, gentlemen, in the history
of our State have been honored as |
have been tonight by you. Recog-
nizing the fact of my youth, | have
felt that I can indeed thank you
from the bottom of my heart for this
honor. l would be false to myself
if told you I thought this is the
happiest hour of my life l feel that
the responsibility resting upon my
shoulders is indeed great. But | feel
that with the united democracy and
with the people of South Carolina,
whom you represent, supporting me in
my effort for honest government. that
my efforts will not prove futile and
that the will Of the majority of the
people of South Carolina will be car
ried out at all events. (Applause.
Our government is a government
of the majority, and should be elect
ed to the position of chief executive
Of your State, | feel that ! would be
false to you should / not carry out the
will of the majority, when it is fairly
expressed, at all hazards Zap
plause.
We are, gentlemen, Democrats
We see here men who fought for the
principles of Democracy we see here
men who sat upon the laps of their
mothers and heard of the brave deeds
of their fathers who fought for States
rights, men who sat there, children
then, men now, Democrats now-men
who imbibed Democracy with tLeir
mothers milk. Tell me that those
men, tell me that those grayhaired
sires, could be false to South Caro-
lima +!
1t comes with bad grace, from any
South Caroliuian, seeing your COM
plexicn, seeing and hearing your
principles, and hearing the voice of
South Carolina expressed at the ballot
box, to say that this grand old State
is not safe in your hands. Gap.
plause. There are some citizens III
South Carolina who are fond of attach.
ing tail to their Democracy.
We are Democrats. We are not
Cleveland Democrats. We are not
any other kind of qualified Demo
Gratis We owe allegiance to no man.
We owe allegiance to the principles
which were fought for by you and
your fathers and my father, and those
principles must be maintained at all
hazards applause.
We have reached a state in the his
tory of our country which was pro-
phesied by your own statesman,
Calhoun. We have reached a state
now where parties are not defined by
principles, but are drawn by geogra
phical lines. We find true Demo
cracy in the South and in the West
the home of principle. whose men
fought for States rights, and who are
against centralized government
We find on the contrary the oppon-
ents of Jefersonian Democracy,
which meanc equal rights to all and
special privileges to none-we find
those men-living in the North and
the East. We find an. effort to GEN.
trallZc the government confined to a
section which has grown rich upon
the success of principles which have
robbed the farmers of the South and
the West.
What is our Democracy? In 1896,
l make the prophesy here that the
South and the West will be called to
redeem the Democratic party from the
plunderer and the mcnopolist and the
millionaire, who are growing fearful,
if they do not have Capitalization of
the government that those million will
become the halter which will surround
their necks.
A great deal has been said in your
convention about Democracy. A
great deal has been said by people
outside who attach tails to their
Democracy against yoa. In natural
history we read that the ape as he
grows old becomes suspicious of his
tail. 1t worries him mentally and
physically until he dies, believing
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