The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-10-09

| 'tS" VI ~ EFlSate CtttZen as (,
the Condition of our Srate--B,
Thinks Jfllman Has Carried Gu
the Laws Under Great Difficulties.
Baltimore News.
DIR. Thomas Il. Earle of South Caro-
lima is spending the day in the city
He arrived yesterday with his son
who Is student at the Maryland Tn
1versity. DIR. Earle is not only a prom
1nent man himself, but is also tn,
brother of Ex-Attorney General Joseph
II. Earle, one Of the leading states
men of the Palmetto State. General
Earle ran against Tillman for the
governorsnip and is conceded to be the
most conservative man Of eminence in
the State-not in tho sense of repre-.
party, but as a moderate, who has i'm.
partially weighed the claims of all
parties and factions.
AT this critical time, when there are
evidences of SO many radical changes
In Southern politics, Doctor Earles
opinions are especially valuable as Civ
ing a view of the condition of affairs
In the State which is considered by
many to be the political storm centre
OF the South. The doctor was averse
TO talking politics, and when approach
ed by a News reporter endeavored to
turn the conversation into Industrial
channels.
Our State is very prosperous just
now" he remarked, cheerfully. "The
crops are splendid, and we have even
been benefited by the hard times. Yes.
the money stringency prevented MANY
from getting credit, and consequently
running into debt, and having been
forced to economize, they find, now
that they have made fine CROP, that
they have good deal of clear money.
! thlnk the recovery permanent, and
that we will resume the progressive
and prosperous work which was tenn
porari.y checked by the financial de-
preston"
Recurring to politics, he said, speak
ing reluctantly, but decidedly:
The state of political affairs in our
state Is not very pleasant one for
anyone to contemplate, and is especial
ly distasteful to a patriotic South
Carolinian. The contest begun a few
years ago with the advent of the Farm
ers' Alliance into politics has now do
veloped into state not far removed
IRON chaos. There are divisions and
suo-diVislons, made not along lines of
principles, but wholly upon personals
ties. The contest from the beginnipg
has been a SOCIAL revolution instead OF
p political one, despite the superficial
appearances and the ostensible causes
of quarrel.
The common people have conquer
ed the dristOcrats and nothing is left,
for the latter have been completely re-
iegated to private life. Yet can not
blame Iillman. True, he is lacking in
the spirit of cultivation which one ex.
poets in the chief executive: but then
he has strong provocation If I had
been treated as no has been / don't saw
Eut that L might be as bitter as he is.
When man who has been lawfully
elected governor is ostracised, insulted
and maligned, as he has been, it is lit
tie wonder If he remembers his power
and forgets the virtue Of forbcarance
and lenienoy.
Why, in Charleston and other
places there are those who refuse 70
even speak to him, and are willing to
JON any organized movement to resist
his lawful authority on the sIigbtest
occasl9n. And f0r what Because he
has won, After ALL Tillman has only
carried out the laws.
Bad as is the state Of affairs in our
state, they, are not near gs !,ad as out.
siders think they are. The blame for
all over the country as regards Tho
condition of South Carolina has been
brought about by our own newspapers
"Regardless Of the welfare OF the
State, they have kept up a hopeless
fight, whose only result has Aeca 60
show their Impotence fur any purpose
except inIurlng tho State abroad.
They have persistently magniiied
every error of the administration ex-
aggerated evcry mistake and bclittlea
every worthy action. J thiuh that, as
the Tillmanitos are unqucstionably in
the majority, it would be better, and
certainly more graceful, for us of the
opposition to remain in retirement,
and keep silent nn.ess we had some
thing DeJJer to offer than criticism,
which is only futile when it is not in
furious.
! '"it Is dinioult to prophesy as to the
outlook, | think, however, that in the
bitter warfare Of factions the negro
will again enter the arena of politics,
whence he was expelled in 1876. Not
that he desires to do so. He Cuiy wants
to he LET aiQua. tut tho whites will
drag him in. This will he done be-
cause each faction will think that it
can get more of him than any other
faction. Which can really 90 80 Is
more than cah foretcii If it is
matIer OF money, the longer purse will
win.
" AS to the present contest, thinl;
that there is not the elgntest doubt
that the Tillman State ticket will be
elected and that Tillman will bo sent
to the Senate. / would rather see him
there than Butler. Butler is as much
of populist as Tillman. and | would
rather see the latter in the Senate.
Whom Butler was in the Senate he did
all he could do to conciliatc tho popu-
list vote, and when they refused him
the reward he thought he had earned
he was SO sore that he boltcd. But he
has bOltcd alone.
" He has no backing ANA loss moral
standing than he had before. Matters
in my State viii doubtless adj Just them
selves to an orderly basis after awhile,
but not before there has been consid-
cradle more agitation. In the mean.
time we are ppospering, despite the
handicapS which all this turmoil has
imposed on us. We continue to marry
and give in marriage, to SOW and to
reap, and just now we are rcaping
very abundantlY:"