The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-11-05
LAURENs, s. e.. Nov. 8, 1895.
The Convention.

tnentts stilEin the clouds. We venture
to guess that they will be able to turn
over the keys by the 2Oth instant, how
ever. the structure done, whether
founded on sand or good masonry or
stone. AS we have before said, there
has been too much talk. Twenty min
utes is long enough for q statesman to
wag his tongue-it takes two hours to
pull of a half digested harangue. Be-
sides there are honorable gentlemen
who conceive that the convention Was
called specially that they might air
their ~vocabularies. The suffrage ques-
tion is still under discussion and will
probably be brought to a vote with the
close OF This week. There is no ques-
tion, as now developed, that the com
mittee plan, a modification OF the
Mississippi plan will be adopted. With
this course we concur, several fantas-
tic propositions have been presented,
notably the Patton idea and the femin-
inc gender notion, but they were very
sensibly, In our view electrocuted, in
plain anglo IN, killed. The Missis-
sippf plan S Juld havc been adopted
without crossing an or dotting a -
The Qualifications" - Invented by the
committee is u mistake. We will come
out at the same hole at which we went
mas b. r. Tillman honestly con-
~fesses, 1t won't work with downright
common honesty. Probably the Mis-
sissippi plan does not. The plain truth
is that the people should not have been
promised that an honest plan could be
Matched Of securing white supremacy
Without atsfranchising a single poor or
~illiterate white man. The thing was,
Is and will bsNimpracticable. Gone to
the extent it hSs, the committee report
should be promptly adopted and the
! convention should adjourn. Then the
white people ought in q twinkling to
get together. With the white people
divided into factions in this State there
Is no safety. This is sure as fate
This can be successfully accomplished
only by side-tracking the demagogues.
Then, If factions still exist, the leaders
If not utterly depraved self-seekers,
could easily compromise all differ
nee But this anon. We simply
urge that the work ought to be prompt
ly done and the convention adjourn
The judiciary article remains to be
settled and this ought to be quickly
finished. There should be no radical
changes. The present system has
worked we'll. Add one other Supreme
Judge and one other Circuit Judge in
view of the fact that counties develop
Ing as Greenville and Spartanburg
have developed, developes more bust
ness for the courts. All the nonsense
lately written about creating impromtu
quick courts to prevent lynching is
quixotic. 1t is not the delay in judi
cial proceedings that causes %lynching.
1t is the apprehension that under the
law and by a legal trial the evidence
will not be sufficient, that causes the
resort to eX-trajudicial remedies
Judge Lynch, Lynch law can only be
abolished by creating Il controlling
public sentiment against it. Let the
Convention adjourn promptly. We
have this to say to our readers and all
are to be congratulated. We are COM
ing out not far from where we went in,
with this difference: there is little left
for white people to quarrel over in this
State-really nothing except the Off
ces. There will of course be those
who will want to keep up the old di-
viding lines that they may win office
by appealing to the passions and feel
ings growing out of past differences
Let such be sent far to the rear, surely
out of the neighborhood of the commits
Sary and quartermaster trains. A gang
of railroad men gave to an old comrade
5hS other day a silver loving cup of
two gallons capacity. We are for one
as big as the court house that every
democrat can take a swig at.
1t has been accepted as q fact for
acme time that Senators Irby and Till
man-were at Cross purposes land have
been whetting their teeth) upon the
suffrage plan as reported by the COM
mittee and Senator Irby had declared
his intention to antagonist it when it
should be on for action, and the coun-
try has been on tip toe to hear what
these stalwart reformers had to say.
1GpJ opoho vi EIlucy Unwilling IuoV dhu
Tillman at the night session. Both
champions claimed to be off their feed
and unfit for the ordeal, but they came
TO the scratch, and did some good hard
knocking and clever fencing. There
was some gentle elimination and re-
.saimination, but the country is not i'm
terested in it. 1t seems to be conceded
by both that there are 5000 white vo-
tiers in the state who are illiterate OF
have not 5000 in taxable property.
Irby claims, as we understand tho is
que, that the committee plan will, may
or must disfranchise these, and he
poses as their die-in-the-ditch cham
tpion. Tillman urges that the plan
need not, will not and shall not disfran-
chise these, and he too poses as the
~neyerdying champion of the same
class. Tillman does not claim that the
election officers of the future will have
cleaner hands than the same officials
I'm the past and does not hint that they
may not wear gloves. Senator Tiliman
aa Iavtdantl, NJ npfnfn, that kha ,,a,,