The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-09-11
LAURENs, S. G., Sept. IL, 1894.


tycoon of the republicans would reject
1t as too utterly utter radical for his
followers in the utterly utter down
East. All the same, in South Carolina
they pass for democrats; God save the
mark. There has never in the history
OF manhood been such a fraud. cam
l o dog that / should do this thing"
How many democrats of the true faith,
real democrats in|South Carolina, have
been kicked, cuffed, spat upon in the
last four years, utterly ignored and
told to git, go, stand aside as rotten
and utterly unworthy, there is no
knowing. AT present they are counted
with the Tillmanites who spurn them
and whose shoes they are licking. They
have been sent to the shambles. Will
you stand it? How long are you to
lick the hand of the master, as the
"mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound and
u OF low degree" fawns and whines
around the whipperin? Answer upon
your manhood, II any is'left.
The popular party in this State has
for four years denounced the demo-
cratic party and its leaders. Populism,
agrarianism, socialism and every
other ism foreign to democracy entors!
into the platform of the so-called de-
mocracy. There is o respectable mi
nority of pure democrats in this State,
who do not bow down nor propose to
bow down and worship these strange
gods. What are they to do? They
have been told by the ruling majority
we will have nothing to do with you.
Then let this minority go in peace;
form their society, anu set up the God
of their fathers, holding to the tabor
nacle, II there be but ten OF them TO
I'VE the city.
Senator Irby rallies to the defence Of
poor Gov. Tillman, who is unable to
take care Of himself. He says that
Tillman is q simon pure Democrat and
Cleveland's sort ought to leave the
party, If anybody ought. There is an
old PRECEDENT of the members rebelling
and the hands refusing to supply food
to the stomach and the legs to carry
the body. This is the first proposition
recorded of the entire body rebelling
against the head.
The conservatives are the authors,
makers and finishers Of the election
laws of South Caroline which gave her
without fraud q white mans govern
ment. And now by audacity and fraud
the conservatives are robbed of any
participation in the State Government
or State affairs. And with reluctance
we say that those who formed the
Democratic State Executives Com
mittee in 1SSS-90 are solely RESPONSE
BILE for the fraudulent situation.
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Gov. Tillman begins to see that the
ADVERTISER was right some time ago
in the position that light didn't come
from the West. For the last four years
he has had enacted in Columbia by his
multifarious mongrel conventions a
populistic platform. Itseems now that
he is troubled with something like the
buck ague, and will sneak on to the
Democratic Platform.
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A movement of some sort is antici-
pated in opposition to the Ring which
named Evans for Governor and in
which movement the Conservatives
were contemptuously excluded. What
ever is done will be done in the inter-
est of true democracy and not in the
interest of Gen. Butler or any one
man.
Judge B. G. PRESLEY died at his res
idence at Summerville at an advanced
age on last Wednesday,. He was an
able lawyer and upright man who stood
to his convictions, as far removed from
a time server as any man who has lived
in the State, and was IN honor to his
race.
And the proposition is for "Reform-
ers" to name the candidates for a great
party and then denounce those who
were excluded from participation as
independents" and worse than radi-
Gals. Eth?
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The Supreme Court orders an extra
session for Wednesday the 18th to de-
termine the constitutionality of the
Dispensary Act of 1893. The decision
OF the question will likewise decide if
the Supreme Court is supreme in this
State.
In Arkansas the Democrats beat the
Populists hollow. The trouble with
the Populists lies in the fact that they
are not sufficiently populous. Watch
South Carolina, il you please.
John Gary Evans says ii elected he
will be Governor of the whole State.
Tillman has given up Georgia and
don't even help Tom Watson.
Judge Cobb, of Alabama, "Where
am / at" is renominated for Congress,