The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-03-26
A BIG TALE.
A HINT TO OUR TOWNS AND Els.
PECIALLY CLINTON.
What the New Senator viii Need I'm
Neutrality-suspicious. Whiskey
Questions and Other News
In the Capital.
COLUMBIA, S. G.. March 20, ,a5

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COLUMBIA, S. c., March 26, '95.
The government at Washington is
spending its time these days in getting
out OF entanglements with other coun-
tries. 1t would be a nice state of af-
fairs IL we should have q row on our
hands sure enough. War is not fashiona-
bic these days and it would be acting
the clown for our government to per-
NIT itself to be drawn into a difficulty.
The soldiers and sailors would be
charmed though and their business
would boom.
THE MILL BOOM.
Walterboro is to have a cotton mill
and SO is Hickory Grove which appears
to be In York County. Mills will be
years. Then the profits will hardly be
what they are now,-but they will be
rich for several years to come,-ten or
fifteen years perhaps. Now is the flush
time with them and people who put
money into them without waiting will
be happy. This is why Clinton as we'll
as some other communities in Laurens
county should build mills at once
Clinton Is a town with money and en-
terprise and she should have u mill be-
fore the year is out. And 1 believe she
| will. .
THE NEW COUNCIL.
Now I hope Laurens will begin to
"splurge." TO begin with she should
be lit up brightly. Then she should ar
range to wash oftener,-that is, she
should have water works. And as THE
ADVERTISER suggested last week she
should have q trolley line or two and
build a few more railroads and q dozen
mills. Really this is a splendid oppor-
tunity, right TO- while everybody is in
good spirits, and it should not be al
lowed to steal by unobserved.
II RIGHT AND WRONG WAY.
A ,Yorkville man had a pig whose
tail he concluded to abbreviate or
eliminate. He seized the pig by the
tail and coiled his little finger about
the %appendage referred to and with his
cleaning blade grasped in his right
hand slashed downwards revengefully.
But he mistook the finger for the tail
and that vas what he severed. The
young scion Of porkdom led squealing
with transports of Joy and the man has
not oGnd his finger eve yet. The
moral of this tale IS tthhatthe tail should
have been seized by the pig and not lie
pig by the tail and moreover that the
tail should have been coiled about the
finger instead Of the finger about the
tail. There is q right way to do ever
wrong things and it is to be devoutly
hoped that when the Forty hold their
convention here next week they will be
wise and discreet and cautious and pru-
dent and yet bold enough to frighten
those who ought to be made to trem-
BILE. This convention should be of
priceless benefit to the people OF South
Carolina because it should demonstrate
to them that it is not impossible for
white men of all shades and tints of
political opinion to come together and
following the renowned example of the
COW which Mr.. A. B. Williams has in
troduced to fame consider, consider
and consider"
H CONVENTION WILL DO.
Perhaps it will endorse the Till
man-Hemphill compromise which has
begun to appear in a better light. 1t
remained for Mr.. Cowper Patton of
this county to show hal the compro-
mise did not necessarily include the
enactment Of a system of fraud and he
has opened the way for many to accept
1T as the best eXpediont to be adopted
under very embarrassing circumstan-
ces. | do not mean that Mr.. Patton's
plan is sure to be accepted but its sug-
gestion carries with it assurance that
an even better n may be proposed
and, further, that something in every
respect more decent and fair and salts
factory than the Mississippi idea will
be hit upon.
REASONS WHY.
Why do l think that Tillman will be
with the people in LauralS who desire
a return of good feeling among the fac
tions? Well, q friend Of mine suggested
when the compromise was first an
nounced that TillmaG understood that
the constitutional convention was q
grave and consequential matter and
that Tillman would want the whole
State at his back when he came to deal
with such problems as suffrage. |
think he was right. Tillman would be
Mr.. Hemphill's constitution and Mr..
Brawley's and Mr.. Sheppard's and
Judge Wallace'sE nd one which when
1T is subjected to- the fire of the North
ern press and the federal courts will
have those gentlemen and others of
their ilk to lend q hand and u head in
its defence.
BUT THERE'S MORE IN IT.
SO far as | am aware Tillman is not
tied to the political fortunes Of any
man and I doubt if he has in his com
position q chivalric unselfishness which
when the future Of a friend is at stake
will cause him to forget his own. Till
man will very 500 be the "Senior"
Senator at Washington unless Senator
Irby is re-electcd. Tillman is ambitious
to figure in national politics and the
vision of a mighty framed giant having
his own lineaments shaping the affairs
of seventy millions of people is one
which probably yields him boundless
satisfaction. But the characteristics
which made Tillman a resistless power
in South Carolina will not prove q full
equipment in Washington. His grim,
rude, untoned, ruggedly simple force
will be felt perhaps-not exaggerated
as it has been latterly in this state
but the absence of s%uarvity, diplomacy
and finesse which weaker men possess
will seriously retard his progress
These qualities may in great measure
be supplied by a faithful lieutenant oc-
cupying an official position which will
command influence. A colleague
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