The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-11-13

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LAURENS, s.. c., Nov 10. 1894.
Cooking backward
Whether we were beaten on Tuesday
last DEFENDS upon who "we'' are. I'm
q~uestk6nably what our distinguished
ate Chairman rolls upon his tongue,
the s~sofganized democracy In these
United States was knocked completely
out. Asfar as the East is from the
West, and In the intervening and sur
rounding territory the democrats and
all its counterfeits were cycloned and
buried out Of sight. The only consola-
tion left lies in the reflection that the
democracy beaten was what o wool
hat anti in this county describes very
graphically as q bastard democracy.
Let us recur. Four years ago we had
q solid South and that meant an UNI
broken phalanx of white men standing
shoulder To shoulder. In 1890 the 1liad
OF isms. began to creep in and disin-
tegrate, but still in 1892 there was
enough solidity In the South to keep
up an unbroken front and along with
the Northern wing to break the re-
4rsahlican lines and put Cleveland in
with o rush and fill the House and the
Senate with o working majority of So
called democrats. BUTT proved a sad
Sjaggregation; the so-called democratic
Congress, Senate and House, was o
4 fraud, o m%enagerie of strange animals,
wearing, as the ass who clothed him
Self in the lions skin, stolen pelts.
EheX were only known in their rue
fhafacter, when they advertised them
elves by their brayings. To illustrate,
this State, Brawley (succeeded by
elar) was the only democrat not
limited with some one or other
tho dozen isms of the tainted
~ In Georgia, only two of their
legation were simon pure democrats,
was throughout tho South and
=. This itself ras - .ghtto star
nation ont of its propriety. The
lie of q great sections represen-
yives, populists, republicans, CEN
ttlists and socialists, posing and pa
rsing as democrats, sickened, dis
r SPVOo WIN lux OLS Vic SESdO DOuy
potic. On the hastings, at tho North
an West the lions skin was ~irrever-
only torn from the backs of the pOpu-
Hiss and bogus Je~ffersonians, their
trD characters exposed and advertised
to he world. In the meanwhile the
South was shivered into atoms. I'm
numbered isms took possession of the
..- manila ,,n1o, .f,onr 1oolone n~l
strange names. Hence we have Till
man, Watson, and Kolb at the South,
with populism, third-party-ism, Till
manism, Jeffersonianism, ce~ntralism,
oil mixed and adulterated with re-
publicanism and a small fraction of
simorspure democrats, in this State,
known as antis and conservatives. This
the condition and has been the
condition over the South and the West
to which our Governor has boon look
ing with anxious eyes. Now comes
the tug of war. AT the North are
forty millions Of people to twenty at
the South and beyond the Mississippi.
Forty millions can beat twenty millions
at any game. These forty became
GldFIlSu ub VIC SOUTHERN OuGlOOR anu
we see tho result. But the funny
thing amidst Pill tho revolution lies in
the fact that even bleeding Kansas,
to which Go" lTillman was looking for
light, has gono wrong, r~cvolutionized
herself and tulnea the free silverites
and populists into tho blizzard,
horse foot and dragons. We will hear
ingalls, again, the Statesman out of
q job" The option states statesmen
have gone and done 1t and now will be
lonesome in Con&rcss. Brother Crisp
of Georgia, will By an ox-speaker and
may now sit for his picture. Instead
of free silver and Gov. Tillman's flood
of g~reenbacks we will have clouds Of
fraudulent pension bills and the Nc
Kiniey tariff once more upon the
country. Cleveland the much cursed
at tho South and specially in this
State, alone stands between the South
and destruction.
The ruling ringst,F clement must be
amazed at what they have done. In
three years Tillman will be alone in
tho great Senate Without q companion
to whom to tell hisN sorrows-not one.
Peffer and all tho rest will be gone
gone glimmering likoa dream. But