The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-01-23
wARMlNa FOR THE coNrLicr
IrbYS Speaks Aaafn-1The Pur.
poses OF the Reform Moveni&ntuot
4 ye3 e3IAccomplislled-@ 3bjecfS 10 bein&
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qSenator IrbN Speaks again The Pur.
y sposes OF tho Reform Moveni&ntIiot
.S5 yc3 35accomplished &c ObjecfS TO bein2
&, g...Assassinatsd e. In the bark
aletter Yritten him y;the Hon. w.
L. Q. Bates, Treasurer of South Caro-
< liDa,t has been published, and manifes-
ing, as 1t does, considerable warmth OF
feeling on the part of the writer, and
Z shutting : treason on the tainted gale
as we'll ss, using some frankly spoken
3 words, itwill be read with interest by
al intsSssted In the present aspect OF
politics. in South Carolina y
81 4 x, {UNtTRAgSTApEs SENATE.
q s w WAsHINGPoNySD. 81, Jan. 10, 1894. \
HoL. Nv. II. C. Betess Columbia, SC. &
Mygdear sif:,tI haNe your letter OF
auiry lis 10 What / think should be
done in reference to hol olding aIfactfonal
convention Of the Reform party OF
s5'{South4 Carolina, to which i answer
hastily, but frankly. sF. e
S4 tre9lpt us deeply as you, TO see di-
!. visions in the Reform movement OF. our
. State!I The purposes fofs w hich its,be-
y gan have NOT bSAn, Accomplished; and
cannot be, with6at the exercise of harr-
Inony, justice, comhh6n Sense and fair
dealing. have had but one purpose
+ from the very beginning, and that was
ito do, my duty by itsto the very best Of
Sg have been persecuted bymen, Sanppos-
ed to be prominent in the Hetorm
movement, from the very beginning,
!. until made ZIP my mind that Iswould
not submit to it any longer, and ap-
pealed to the trug meRs among US to
protect me. .sagaiinst jsdeh political ase
sassinationN -. '
1t is not my fault that we have thesS.
evidences of division in our State. ~
furnished no excuse, for every Reform
er who> goes hSoMmbia from the
rural districts to the State House to be
!. taken to one side and groomed and
against '.rbys manager
. ment of the party,p when even the
'Antis themselves acknowledge that my
4 conduct as chairman hasS been perfect:
y ly fair. | am unwilling shat a Thfi'd'
I party leader shall takefcharge of the
Reform movement in South Caroliha,
Eand thus dictate the Gflominees OF tlie
Democratic party. u am Satisfied thaf
the ipeopleiof the State will not Submit
= to lit, and the sooner he, and 9th befs,
:sswho expect to reap &offfce !6nd eH finn,
tIr iind this out the better fos ~ and q q
answer you frankly as TO what il
think ought to be done, SO far as1s Ggnj
see. There are Six or seHAn other; cans
.didates for gubernatoriAl honors.
These men have been true and. iowa,
and are all able mens Hey are sen4 en-
titled, at least, toA HfaiH c0ntests ands
bthe protection Of the pNheiples & the
! Srst March convention,lE the emost Epro-
] manent Of which wassthe right ofthe
s people to name their candidates, in
( stead of a ring in the State Houses; 1T
that Is tO,be led by me assiD Democratin,
b schairman, that these contests shall be
settled within tho lines of our faction,
and that, altar the people have had
q &time,to weigh and measure them and,
fconcnde as to their choice, the suc-e
cessful one shall beSgiven fhS colors Of
our faction to meet >thes Conservative
I Sfaation In debate on s4tslSll6 hsfqrs.
d the genera primary & 81 i0nstt IS
Shnnot bs done with an ca 1eonVen--
-atiail had Aud & lArt, sta keT be-,
fsss the hsS5 yS ssS san or hesra .Ss the sn
sS6issassis AsSi q sof ths Reform 9pafty. ut
savors tdo much Of old ring rule fatfd
HasKellite methods, and the peoplewill
not countenafice 1t.
%Ghfs is perfectly fair andsall parties
!. will be- satisfied but theipeople, who
y believeIgih the theory and system Of
2 primary elections, will not stand for,
two or three men-one q leader of the
Third iparty and the self-constituted
spokesman of the Third party the
other H. traitor to the Reform party,
& who sgeks, as an emissary from the
enemy to ruin the Reform party. and
other men who desire office--to fix up
a slat} now, have it endorsed by con-
venti n as early as March, and rammed
down their throats. | say this be-
cause IF their scheme is allowed to go
throu IN under the whip and spur of
the tegister, the movement cannot
stand Selfrespecting men in 1t would
ratht ! go to the wall than to serve un-
der traitor to his movement aud to
see themselves assassinated in the
dark by men who have claimed to be
their friends, and the people robbed of
the enefits OF the vital principles of
the f fst March platform. ~
Tst0, haas been written to you just as
/ tht Tx it and believe II. Thave tried
!, to b true to every man in the State
I Houfe and subjected lnyself to abuse
and criticisms in 1902 for leaving my
seat In the Senate to go to South Caro-
lima 10 work for them and their re-elec-
tion.I / do not intend now to be abused
by them.
.As you suggest /, being the State
chat man, nave no right to call a fac
tion Il convention.
hsI hye never assumed or contemplat-
.lasdt3 lny such action, nor could such II
cont fusion be drawn from anything
.#that have said or written. a The or
gan kation last presided over by the
Hon G. w. Shell is defunct, because.
wheu the crisis came in '92, we failed
to have seen or heard of any action
FROM him in behalf of the Reform
;rnovtment and, besides its mission
was fulfilled as political organization
as sObn as it's object was accomplished,
to wit: the capturing of the whole State
g'oveT 'nment by the people. 1t, being
"a temporary organization, could not
q OK ISL longe.+ than after the Inaugural
tiop of the State officers. He, there
forN, cannot call and control caucus
or onvention and the only way for it
to be- done regularly within our party
lines Us, as suggested by the Laurens
Alliahce resolution, to,wit: That Gov
ernor Tillman call around him the
leaders, draft rules and call q conven-
tion If they SEQ fit
I In concl usion. allow me to say that [
Will do more and go further to heal
breaches an d unite our forces than per-
haps any man who has been treated as
: / have in tho, house of my friends but
/ will not submit to the dictation of
Third party leaders and traitors to
our movement lot tho consequences be