The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-09-25

called 70 meet to night at Columbia
have q grave responsibility. The CON
~sefyatives have been driven, oat of
self-respect and as democrats, to this
course. AS democrats they cannot as
honest men suffer themselves to be
counted as popnlists and OF those de-
nouncing and traducing the democracy.
Nothing is left them, but to perfect
their organization, State and county
and seek recognition with the national
organization.
Whether they should put up O ticket
Tor November is a mere matter OF ex-
pediency; it involves no principle.
Should they run o ticket and 1t be
beaten no harm has been done; their
ranks will close up the more compactly
and be the mo solid for the fray in
1895. Should no ticket be put up the
organization should be perfected and
made like a Greek phalanx for the flu
ture fray.
The so-called ~orgonized democracy
have divided the house in South Caro-
lima. BY insisting on Ocalaism they
have made 1t impossible for the con-
servatives to stand with them. While
crying aloud for white unity they have
made it impossible. Evans and Till
man have clamored for Union with
the West and urge the West as the
hope and salvation of the South. There
is nothing in the West but PETER, pop
ulism and republication.
John Gary Evans in his elaborate ad-
dress to explain the platform on which
he was invited to stand urged that
plain farmers assembled at Ocala made
that platform and that they in their
innocence could have framed nothing
but what was Jeffersonian in simpiic-
ity. The young man will probably
live to lament hal he didn't meet
McCune and Weaver, and that wonder
full aggregation of the horny handed
who contrived that historic document.
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According to Nominee Evans any
cluster of gentlemen may adopt q code
Of so-called principles and call it de-
mocracy.
"Yankee Doodle came to town,
He rode q little pony,
He stuck o feather in his cap,
And called him Macaroni."
**
Because the Conservatives insist
upon q pure democratic platform the
Reform organs urge that they mean
to call in the "nigger." Thieves and
confederates OF thieves cover their
own sins by the cry of "stop thiefn
Only in our last issue we lamented
the humiliation of Gov. Tillman, Nom
inee Evans and others having to stand
on the same platform with Grover
Cleveland. And now they are half en-
titled to our tender commiseration.
A farmer went to the house of an
actor and found it full of false faces
M masks and returned, saying, there
must be little honesty where there was
so much artiice to conceal the truth.
In China when an official loses favor
the emperor takes away his ''peacock
feather" In South Carolina when q
~favorite turns ''traitor" they take
away his shekels and his feathers fall.
**
Hub Evans is after Latimer's seat in
Congress. Hub should let him alone:
he may yet bring us the "relief do
manded in tho complaint"
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Right now there are many difficult
problems for solution before the coun-
try, but where is the democratic party
OF Georgia "at" on the silver issue?
X X
Is h Columbia organ the official
m~outhpiece of the newly organized SUI
preme Court of this State? Will the
majority Of the Court answer?
#M
Truth Is stranger than Fiction.
Nominee Evans elaborate argument to
his nominating Convention to prove
that he and they are Democrats.
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A fine specimen of special pleading.
Gov. Tillman in his interview in
Atlanta Constitution.
No democrat is justified in voting for
populists, no matter what mask is worn.
Nominee Evans clouds his title.
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Nominee Evans should define Popul.
ism.