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

Keitt and 10 for G. w. Whitman.
There were eight candidates 70
Railroad Commissioner. The resul
was as follows, the three first name,
being elected:
w ID Evans of Marlboro. 204: {
Wilborn, Of Yorkville, 1913 III Il Thorn
as, of Sumter, 1913; w III Yeldell, o
"a j w Gary, of Greenville. % :JaspeI
| Miller of Columbia, IL; III Koon, o
Lexington, 3. The ballotting for Rail
road Commissioners consumed more
than an hour, and was characterized
by great confusion. According to the
votes us first cast, Evans, Wilborn and
Thomas were elected, and immcdiatcly
there was scurrying and hustling
| around, and the swapping seemed as il
it would last all night.
THE NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR.
Just at this moment, as Mr.. Watson
was about to offer u resolution, the
committee sent out to escort the nom
inee 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 Mr.. Evans as "the next
Governor of South Carolina"
the stand and spoke in u clear voice
He made quite remarkable speech
cndeavoring to prove that Ocalaism
and Democracy were one and tho same
thing. He said that there were few
mon in our State who have been hon
ored as he had been by them tonight.
Especially was this true when he real
lied his youth. He felt chat he could
not but appreciate tho honor. He
would be false to himself and every
thing else If he did not assure them
that this was the happiest hour of his
life. The responsibility was great,
but with the reunited Democracy of
South Carolina, which they repre-
his efforts could not prove futile, and
that the will of the people would be
carried out. Their government was
the government of the majority. He
felt that he would be false to them if
he did not carry out the will of the
majority. They were Democrats. He
saw men there who fought for Demo-
cracy; men who learned tho principles
of Democracy at their mothers knee :;
mon who had their tencts handed
down to them from their fathers
men who imbibed Democratic princi-
pies from their mothers milk. Tell
me that these gray-haired sires could
be false to South Carolina. 1t comes
with bad grace from any South Caro-
linian to say that this grand old State
is not safe in our hands. There are
some citizens in South Carolina who
look upon us as attaching II tail to our
Democracy. We are not qualified De:
mocrats. We hauc the principlesof our
fathers, which must be preserved at
all hazards. They had reached that
stage when Calhoun Democracy was
exemplitied in its highest form. The
home OF the Democracy was in the
South and West, Jt was natural
They found the opponents OF Jefferson.
ian Democracy, which means equal
rights to all and special privileges to
nome" in tho North aud East. There,
too, we find the effort to centralizc
government. Now what is our Demo
cracy? / make the prediction that in
1896 the South and West will be called
upon to redeem the Democratic party
from the yoke Of tho money sharks
and the money power. u great deal
has been said by people outside about
attaching tails to our Democracy. lie
said In the end they would die bclicv-
ing that this appendix was the cause
of death.
MIR. Evans went on tC say that SOW
cral years ago there met down in
Ooala in the State of Florida Il body of
honest yeomanry OF the country, not
as politicians, but as men represent
ing the agricultural interests OF this
country. Tnoy adopted chose princi-
pies known us the 0caln platform.
we who are an agricultural people
sympathizc with them. 1t is our right
to do so. We endorsed their princi-
pies boforc you have endorsed him
to-day, and endorse them now. zap
pausc.l
Then he went on to show his hear
crs that certain people who criticized
them did not know what they were
talking of. But. said he, let me show
to you that the Democratic party when
it mot in Chicago endorsed these
very principles. They were true. pro-
per and represented tho true Demo
cracy. | now propose to show you that
the Democratic party has incorporated
one in its platform Of principles or on
acted them into the law in Washing
ton.
We demanded that the amount Of
circulating medium be rapidly in
ccreascd to at least $50 per capita. The
Democrats in their national platform
demanded that some relief should be
given the peoplo.
How could relief come but by in
reasing the circulating medium? ? He
referred to one or two other SMILES
on national issues and then went on to
say that they demanded tke free coin
age OF silver. This had been done in
section Z OF the national Democratic
constitution, but a different construc-
ton had been placed upon it and the
agricultural classes cheated out.
Then there was the principle of ma
tive ownership of land. This was see
tion of the national platform.
They demanded that ono industry
should not he built up at the expense
OF another. That was section of the
same dc 'ur ent. They demanded q
tariff for venue only, yet they had
been given, through the money in
huence, bill but litslo better than The
Mckinley bill. They leave tho nigh
tariff there because The farmers needs
are not catered to.
We demand IL q aduatcd tax on in
come. The Democrats had already
enacted such Il law, and it was going
to make a Republican out of every
Democratic man in the Northwest:
and yet these men, who say that you
are not Democrats. support man who
voted against this provision.
They had demanded that all national
revenue be limited to the actual cx-
penses OF the government; that was in
the Democratic platform.
They had demanded tho government
ownership or railroads. The Demo-
Gratis had never demanded this, but