The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-03-15
THE CAMPAIGN OPENED.
A BIG MASS MEETING AT ABeEvILLE
COURTHOUSE.

COURTHOUSE.
John Gary Evans and ssmpson Pope
Fired Thoir Opening Guns-what TheV
said-No Othor Candidates Preasnt-A
Largo Crowd In Attendance.
ApBEvILLE, S. g., March 9.--Near.
ly q thousand citizens were present on
last Monday to hear the gubernatorial
candidates speak. II was quite dis
appointment to tho crowd that all of the
candidates were not present, tor the
people wero anxious to bear and COM
pare them. Messrs. John Gary Evans
and Sampson Pope were present and
were most cordially received. The fol-
lowing is Evans speech:
MIR. President aud Fellow Citizens:
1t is with much pleasure, commingled
accepted the invitation OF your commit
Ice to address you upon tho maternal and
htate issues which today confront our
that I feel when look into your honest
and 80 many familiar faces that have
: your sympathy. in tho grand cause tor
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be grand victory for the people. am
embarrassed from the fact that 1 speak to
scores of tho constituency of Calhoun
ALWAYS led In all great reforms, moral
and political, and 30 you continue to do
to-day.
My own countrYmen, the doctrine of
Calhoun are as live and clear to you TO-
ho
red bills OF old Abbeville 6fty years ago.
1t has been truly said that tho life of a
republic depends upon the virtue of tho
people, that of monarch upon the igno.
rance of It's people. Under our form Of
government the people alone are sover-
eign and their rulere are simply their ser
wants. It ls evident then that to lnstill
virtue into their officers it is tho right OF
the sovereign people to assemble IN mass
meeting and tho duty of the aervant 10
appear before them, give an account OF
his stewardship and receive from the
people good and wholesome instruction,
and he who tails to respond to the call Of
the people cannot be called faithful nor
oven entitled to tho name OF good citi-
zen.
The time ls past In South Carolina
tate to her people. 1t is boasted that in
the birth OF Abraham Lincoln and of AL
exander tho Great in Russia that with
from 10000, 900 slaves. The future his-
the Reform movement and Ben Tillman
removed In one year the shackles from
1000, 900 white political slaves and we
x0l fta nf Ia
10 all and special privileges to none.
Our national and State po]itica have
become 80 interviewer that it will be i'm
possible to dlscuss the one without the
other and It is we'll that 1t should be 90
national legislation. do not propose
TO discuss national affairs from any but
Southern standpoint. Our country is
too large and our interest too antagonistic
10 think Of legislating tor the above with
out injuring one, OF it's points. The rule
should be to enact such laws as oppress
reverse has been the case withssour Con
gress since the civil war. The policy
of the North towards the South and
West has robbed us almost OF our patri.
mony. Congress has legislated for the
now l6 900 people of our 66, ,000,0 900 own
over one half the wealth of our country
and l2O families in the North own over
one-tweltth Of the wealth of our country.
All obtained by financial system OF
government kept up for the express pur-
pose Of robbing the South and West.
When the Roman republic was de-
storyed, 1900 people OWED all CT her
cd Oc AI,{s -
to be perpetualed by government issues
burdens OF taxation whenever they
threatenedGto overthrow it. A like con.
ditiOh exists in cur country today. New
York cityis feeding 10, 900 unemployed.
Chicago like number and nearly everv
large city in tho North is compelled to
feed its starving laborers to keep down
revolution and anarchy. Shall we not
profit by tho history OF the past nations?
I thank God that such a condition
does not exist IN the South toAaaY. It 10
not because the government has not in
vited 1t, however. We are blessed with
q country and climate whore We can
always be comfortable and Olga living
. out Of the ground. And of this no one
can Rob us.
During tho late panic ! visited N OF tn
ern city and was asked II We had a
panic down South. l asked what they
meant by panic, and I was told sslna-
bility to got money" My reply was that
We had seen no such thing for manv
years and had learned TO get along with.
out it; all we needed with money was to
send North to support the poor Yankee O
soldiers we killed during the war and to
keep Jay Gould and the millionaries from
starving and having their notes protected
In New York. =,
1t is wonderful TO notice the growth
Of these dead Yankee whom we planted
during the war. They have sprung Up
Ike draEon's teeth. In 1870 there were
198,686 on the rolls and they cost US
427, $50, ,8ll,8l. Last year there were
996,Ol2 and they cost US 9l58, 155, ,342..
81. OF this tho South pays one. third and
gets nothing IN return. Wo have paid
slnce tho war enough penslons to buy a
State three times as rich as the State of
South Carolina and coded it to the North