The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1895-12-04
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III SpedhIAS VA IAe 80
comment on the speeches OF Governor
Evans and Senator Tillman, the
Charleston News and Courier has the
following to say of these distln-
guished South Carolinian's:
..Some criticism has been evoked
by the speeches Of Senator Tillman
and Governor Evans on Thursday
because, as stated up to that time all
the speeches delivered at the Exposl
tion, whether by Northern or South
err men, have been pitched on the
KEYNOTE of fraternity and national
unitv: 'sno one heretofore has ut
tered note of sectionalism;" and
Governor Evans and Senator Till
man struck out on different line in
contrast with what had gore before.
The ground for this complaint ap-
pears to have been found mainly in
Governor Tillman's statement of the
drain cf money from the South to the
North by the operation Of the tariff.
and pension schemes devised for that
purpose-the pension scheme alone,
as he showed, having taken $780,
100000 from eleven Southern States.
This amount, he very truly said, is
more than ten times as much as all
the Northern capital invested in the
South, of which 50 much is heard,
and to the loss on that account must
be added the far greater drain for
the purpose Of promoting favored IN
dustries in the North. Every word
that he said was true, and he con,
fined himself to the mere statement
of facts and figures. It was not his
'sfault if the truth did not accord
with the keynote of fraternity and
national unity, which had been
sounded so loudly and so persistently
by the sweet singers who preceded
him. IF the mere statement OF the
facts was "a note of sectionalism," :"
what is to be said Of the facts them
selves!
"The speeches of Senator 1illman,
Governor Atkinson and Governor
Evans were wholly pertinent and
proper to the occasion in our judg-
ment. Northern newspapers very
generally insist at all times that the
New South, as they ike to call it,
has been redeemed from a condition
of ignorance, duliness and sloth by
Northern enterprise and capital
charitably employed for our benefit
The Exposition itself is very freely
cited By them as an Illustration OF
what they have enabled US to accom-
plish by tie use Of their money. The
Exposition grounds were the proper
place certainly to remind them that
no foreign capital has come here ez7
cept for profit in lines tried by native
enterprise, and that for every dollar
that has come from the North since
the war for investment here for pro-
fit, tie Southern people have seLt
ten or twenty in pension and tariff
taxes to the North for which they
get nothing in return. The Senator
and the tTo Governors simply coldly
stated cold facts, we repeat. They
are not responsible in any degree if
the truth does not. chime with the
song of fraternity and national unity
as sung on the Exposition grounds
or anywhere else"
The animous of the Atlanta Jour.
nal is recognizable from the fact
that our Governor and Senator have
publicly refused to bend the knee to
Cleveland, the god whom the jour
nal has set upon PEDESTAL and has
bowed down and worshipped. Hoke
Smith, at one time editor Of this
paper and perhaps one Of it's largest
stockholders, was before his appoint
ment as Secretary Of the Interior IN
der Mr.. Cleveland, the strongest ad-
yocateof silver the in Southern States;
but since lis appointment his views
have undergone a radical change
and now he is as strongly in favor OF
gold as be was bitterly opposed to
the single standard, and it is but a
logical conclusion to affirm that his
paper has undergone a change of
policy as the views Of its controlli1 6
owner has change, and hence its bit
ter and ungererous denunciation Of
two prominent men in South Caro-,
lima politics, who were the honored
guests of the gate city can, easily be
accounted for.
Judge Simonton has handed down