The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-09-18
COMMUNICATION.
JOHN GARY A

He proposes to be South Carolina's
next Governor. In an interview pub
lished or the first page of your last
weeks issue he says: 81 am a Democrat,
and in entire sympathy with tho DEM
ocratic platform as adopted by the
party In convention assembled in Chi
cago, of which convention L vas a
member" The latter clause l suppose
Is true; but is the first part true? Is
he a Democrat? Let us measure him
by his own words. In the next sem
tence Immediately following ho says:
81 believe i'm the free coinage Of silver
| at the ratio of 16 to l." In this alone
without more, he puts himself outside
of the Chicago platform. We will just
quote enough from that paper to show
he is not on it, viz: "We hold to the
use Of both gold and silver as the
standard money OF the country, and to
without discrimination against either
metal or charge for mintage, but the
dollar unit of coinage OF both metals
must be of equal intrinsic and ex-
changeable value, Oh be adjusted
through international agreement, or
by such safeguards Of legislation as
shall insure the maintenance of the
parity of the two metals, and the equal
power of every dollar at all times in the
markets and in the payment of debts;
and we demand that all paper currency
shall be kept at par with and payable
in such coins. We insist upon this pol
icy as especially necessary for the pro-
lection Of the farmers and laboring
classes, the first and most defenceless
victims of an unstable money and q
~fiuctuating currency" Thus spoke
the Democratic party of the whole
United States sin convention assembled
in Chicago" And thus speaks Mr..
Evans the prospective Governor of
South Carolina. = Is he a Democrat?
Again he says: ~ believe in free
trade" Now free trade means, direct
taxation to meet the expenses of the
general government and to pay interest
on the public debt; and, ex necessitate
rel, an army of tax gathercrs invading
the country from Maine to Texas, and
from the Carolinas to California to
collect it; thereby giving up to the
moles and bats all the custom houses
with their furniture which line our
vast extent of sea coasts and harbors
and adorn many of our interior cities,
costing for their erection n furnish
ing more millions of dollars than could
be collected directly from the pockets
of the people in several years.
Whereas the Democratic party is COM
mitted to q tariff for revenue sufficient
to meet all the expenses of the govern
ment economically administered Is
Mr.. Evans a Democrat?
He is pledged to the Ocala platform
of the populist party, whose members
in Congress act with the Republicans
in defeating or rendering less effective
all measures Of the Democratic party
to reform the tariff and make it less
burdensome to the people. Is Mr..
Evans O. Democrat?
He says, 81 believe in free trade"
and yet he condemns Mr.. Cleveland
and the Democratic party in Congress
because certain raw material, wool for
instance, which every man, woman and
child must wear whether cheap or dear,
are to be admitted into our country
duty free. Free wool means cheaper
garments of wool, and cheaper blankets
of wool, and cheaper everything in
which wool is used. Is Mr.. Evans con-
sistent?
He advocates s~ectionalism by an al
lance of the South with the West
against Democrats of the North and
East. The former is the hot bed of
Populism and have always been our
bltterest political enemies, while the
latter were our friends and stood like
a break water between the South and
destructive legislation advocated and
pressed ny extreme anatlcS from me
West who would have overwhelmed us,
but for true men from the section WHICH
he now condemns. Who're are the
Western Democrats who hold views
in common with Mr.. Evans? I have
seen the utterance Of none of his politi-
al faith. He stands on MI. Tillman's
platform, and. both when tried by the
true standard of Democracy of which
Mr.. Cleveland is the head and leader,
are not entitled to bear the name.
VERITAS.