The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-07-03

Texas formulated an alliance and pro-
mulgated to the country certain de-
mands-what is called the sub-trcasury,
Or something better; control of the
telegraph lines; control of ~transporta-
ton; ownership of railroads. Demo-
Gratis held that these demands were
impracticable. Democrats held that
the financial and tariff laws were OPP
pressive to tho people and ruinous to
the South. Certain men calling them
selves reformers joined the Alliance
and coquettcd with the "dcmands" Of
that order, blowing hot and blowing
7 cold; at the same time crying from the
housetops and from the streets of
> Ascalon "Reform! Reform! Reform"
These leading Reformers have de-
serted the demands; have left the
Alliance high and dry, and are now on
the Democratic platform OF q low tariff,
abolition of the taX on State Bank
issues, anti-Cleveland and free silver
forever. The old Democrat, however,
who has adhered to his platform and
his principles is denounced rs q traitor
and the fellow who went wild for the
demands and has deserted them, saying
they are impractible is still the little
god. All this is curious and ineXpli-
cable, but it Is the fact. Now there is
Ben Tillman, who to say the truth was
largely instrumental in building an
agricultural college,at a vast expense,
which while it will prove q cheap col
lege is a rich mans college, as oil col
leges are fcp rfCfr-nfef. Nobody has
o~veYzs6own how he stood on the ALI
ance demands; if anything he was
against them. He is q great planter
instead of being q farmer and was
easily, softly and sweotly scduced by
the seductive Establishments of q kid
glove gentleman to dirty his pure
horny hands with railroad free passes
All his sympathies are with tho rich
because he is rich himself. Human
nature is the same all over the world
and the rich man does not join the
working mans union and fight to the
death for higher wages. The proprie-
tor and the worker do not work to-
gether. But all those who stand
against Tillmun are traitors while
Tillman has abandoned the Alliance
principles and now stands with Brat
ton, Butler and the rest. South Caro-
-hnians ought to have gumption enough
not to be fooled; but more especially
the men of Laurens who in intelli-
gence and independence are above the
average of the rest of mankind. They
should not be coat-tail %swingers. Till
mar nov says that all the Alliance de-
mands except those held by the Dem
ocratic party are impracticable. All
those who held to the Alliance de-
mands have gone over to the -populists.
If Tillman believes in the Alliance de-
mands, then he wants the courage of
his convictions and poses as a Demo-
crat to steal into power to support pop
ulistic doctrines hereafter. He now
stands or the anti Cleveland platform
81 with Gen Butler, the difference being
that Butler believes Cleveland an nom
est man, while Tlllman denounces him
as the partner of thieves and the re-
ceiver of stolen goods. 1t is saying q
good deal, but there are some who will
agree with the writer: M. G. Butler,
OF all men of the South has stood in the
Senate with Vest, Morgan, Vance and
other Senators as tho friend of the
people. Let any show the. contrary
who IAN. Besides, Butler, when the
truth of history comes to be written,
will be set down as the hero of the war,
so far as South Carolina contributed to
Southern heroism.
Hampton, q simon pure farmer, who
belonged to q ra"N of farmers, was
hunted down in his privacy in 1876, to
fight the strongest power on Garth
the most desperate of forlorn hopes.
He was then on his poor sand hill farm
In Richland. He was the man to win
by bravery, wisdom and GOODNESS.
Hampton was the man who redeemed
us after we won. Hampton was the
man who saw Hayes and told him to
his teeth that he had been elected
Governor and Ii. c would. have the
office. Hampton was the man Hayes
and Grant respected and were afraid
of.
A card to be found in all the papers
of South Carolina published about the
HTSU VI ouiy, oio II lSncu ny vi. u.
Butler demanding Of Hampton that
he should lead the people Of South Car
olina in q struggle for independence.
Butler and Gary with him led the
hosts of Edgefield and set the pace.
Edgeield gave Hampton q big major
ity. Laurens with a majority OF 1900
negroes) led by Dials Township with
great ~gallantry al q good deal of
"devil-may-care," gave 1900 majority.
The writer of this article is not at
lacking the honesty of Ben Tillman or
any other Tillman nor the principles
of the Alliance or any other>set of men;
but the writer believes there is q brave
people who will never forget the fl
deity of men like Butler and some
day will lament that they have taught
their sons and thoir daughters to for
= get them. Laurens has q thousand
men, fathers, sons and brothers dead
on the field of honor from 1861 to 1865
-you would not be deprived of the
weight OF a hair of the glory attaching