The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-04-23


The old parties in this nation ant
their successors were founded on grin
ciples imbedded in the constitution
All parties now, under vhateyerSdme
administer the Government ypon ex-
pediency. Nobody regards principle.
In this way it comes andig%oming that
party IN are links1of sand. AS
the whig party yapahed into thin air
before the antissiayery crusade, a mat
ter OF e~xpediehcy, outside the constitu-
tion;<1neWhig doctrine OF broad con
stpdction of the constitution was
absorbed by the Republicans, but the
Wings South went to the democrats up
on mere e~xpediency and so the North
ern Wings aocked TO the republicans. 1t
looks now that the democractic party
will be absoi bed by the populists, while
in the East the anti-silverites under q
new nam will prepare the battle. Up
on the financial policies the next great
battle will be fought. This is the trend
to-day. emphasizing the necessity of
the white people gteting together in
this State in the teeth of the negro is
sue.
They say that one-half of the world
don't know how the other half lives
And it is curious what Impressions get
currency abroad among our neighbors.
Outside the State, it is believed that q
social revolution has taken place in
South Carolina within q few years, that
an effete Bourbon dynasty has been
overthrow; that the people now reign;
that q popular government now sub
'sists and that salaries are reduced to q
level with agricultural prices. We fear
many of our c%ountrymen labor under
this delusion. Among the big State
officers in Tillman's time we're those
whose fathers, whose u%ncles, cousins
and aunts we're chronic office holders
in the good old bourbon days. You
can scarce find a high official, Judge or
otherwise in this State, whose kin has
not belonged to the office grabbing
families. The law of heredity need be
discussed no further.
1t has been urged for four years in
this paper that all our woes, hard lines
and hard times, grow out of fiscal and
financial laws of the general Govern
ment. That the difficulty was not in CO.
lumbia. And yet we may find q dem
agogue still who can lay the hard times,
on a Columbia ring, the Columbia club,
q mythical Bourbon, Or asystem which
gives q Judge $4,000 a year.
Gov. John Gary Evans has been IN
terviewed about the Barnwell- Tillman
compromise. 1t was merely q funny
game, a finger bet, and the wager be-
ing impossible of delivery was not in
tended to be paid. Neither party to
the compact was in O condition to de-
liver the goods. A sort Of gambling in
futures.
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Governor Evans expects TO go to tho
Constitutional Convention, if wanted
by his county, so he is reported. He
states further that Senators Irby and
Tillman will be delegates, and that
Wilson OF Spartanburg ought to be one.
Having arranged the caste and figured
at the rehearsals, itwould be awkward
for the stock actors to be absent.
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OF the eight Circuit Judges, six get
$500, two SO, 200. OF the three SUI
preme Court Judges, the Chief Justice,
McIver, gets $4,000, Pope and Gary
each $500. The stuff il handed over
at the end of each month. This is the
case with every mothers son of them
all the big officers.
"Fools rush in where angels fear to
tread."s The woods are full of people
who are assured that, they can make q
Constitution for this State and com
pose all her differences, for all time,
without a second thought.
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Senator Tillman blunders when he
says that democrat" is no longer a
name to "conjure with" Some are still
beguiled with the notion that Tillman
Is a democrat.
Some three hundred cases of cocktails
have been ordered by the State Dispen-
sary. Gov. Evans explains that these
fancy drinks are for Charleston outlets.
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1t looks nov like the Reformers
would have the responsibility of a new
constitution all to themselves.
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Those ccocKrafs may be for the State
officials. Nectar for the d~ivinities.