Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-07-25
For the ADVERTISER.
What i'm the Name of DamnatiOn
Does This Mean?

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Mr.. EDITOR: The contest be-
tween Butler and Tillman seems to
have lost some of its Objectionable
features. In other words, they are
behaving better. Let US hope they
will continue to conduct themselves
as becomes representative men of
proud old South Carolina.
In the near future the candidates
for legislative honors and those for
county Offices will swoop down up
on the dear people. Much interest
is felt about the candidates for the
Legislature, and much feeling is,
or will be-, manifested when the
slate is made up, if it is made as
it was in 1892. Many are opposed
to the slate business. and they will
break it this time if it can be done
without a complete abandonment
and surrender of principles-the
principles of reform. They say it
is worse, much worse, than the old
convention plan, a direct violation
of all that has been taught us by
the Reform Movement, for the rea-
son that the masses have less than
no voice in choosing the men, they
being only allowed by their votes
to endorse slate, made they know
not how. If there is not much
discussion, good judgment, used
in the selection Of the .fve, there
will be many who will not vote the
whole ticket, and this scribe will
be one of them, cost what it may.
There is not and will not be any
opposition to some of those men,
toned whose names will appear
on the slate, if one is made. There
are those mentioned who will not
be acceptable, and they will not
be supported except as the very
last resort. We know what we are
talking about, and mean what we
say.
Col. Bob Watson has been named
as one of the five. He is a good
man, an acceptable man, but we
don't believe he will run. Right
here we suggest that he be put up
for the Senate if there should be
vacancy; i. e., if be will agree to
stand for the place. Amore worthy
man cannot be had. We say let
him be made our Senator, if d
Zimmerman vacates the place.
Looking over the field the ques-
tion often occurs to US, "Where are
all those who served us in the
past?" They are not all dead, in
any sense of the word. What is
the matter with old Clint Ward?
He. served US faithfully and ably
for two terms. While in the Leg
islature his every word and deed
looked to retrenchment and reform.
He was an advocate Of the ideas
and plans inaugurated by the Ia
mented Mart Gary, which have
been so splendidly enlarged and
added to by Ben Tillman. Why
not put old Clint on the slate if
we must have one? He would be
more acceptable by longodds than
some of those who are hoping to
be slated; and, if elected, or slated,
which is the same thing, if things
60 as they did in '92, he will be
worth something when he goes to
the General Assembly.
This is written in the interest of
the Reform party. 'Tis intended
as a note of warning. We know
full we'll that there are those, and
nota few of them, reformers, who
will be certainito vote, if they have
a chance, for a good anti before
they will vote for just any gutter
snipe who may be foisted upon the
Reform party by the would-be
slate makers. Let those who love
the Reform party, who have worked
for the movement. be careful lest
they put men on the slate who Will
prove a dead weight and stumbling
block in the way of the further
advancement of glorious cause.
REFoRMER.