The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-09-10
LAURENs, s. G.. Sept, 10, 1895.
Common Sense.

= 1--WE believe there are ~ counties IN
the State and the Executive Commits
tee commonly called the Irby commit
tee for short is composed of one mem
Der from each county. The average Of
intelligence in Laurens is several de-
gross above the average In the State
but we doubt IL there Is q man In the
county who can name off hand q half
dozen of these notables. Ten years ago
an issue "a made up and the people of
Laurens required to vote ON whether
liquor should be sold in the county and
further, whether county bonds to the
amount OF $4,000 should be issued to
construct railroads. Suppose these
notables or the notable county execu-
tive committee had issued a ukase
declaring them party primaries, then
according to tho judgment Of brothers
Hoyt and Hemphill and lesser lights
those who ignored their orders were
Independents and worse than radicals.
Party issues are not made by executive
committees but by State and National
conventions and the friends we cite
ought to know it. Those who ignored
the power of the Irby committee to
formulate party issues are the only,
straight democrats and don't you for
get it. And don't you forget at the
anne time, that there is very little of
Democracy left in the State with the
dominant element preaching newpar-'
ties, a high tariff for protection, rail
road ownership by the Government,
the sub-treasury demands, and other
measures ten times as radical as any
New Englander ever urged. The truth
l@SS the business is that there is precious
3 true Democracy left in the State
Attorney General Barber states that
he has two if+Adred-appltcants foasskhe
positionof ~engrossing clerk and only
twelve are to be employed and this
three months before the Legislature
c%onvenes. So it looks that Democracy
consists in q clamor for Office at from
$500 to $1,000 a day. To wit: The Gov
n of this State is now given a pa
trOnage of q million dollars and those
who did it imagine themselves demo-
crate with a carload of applications for
teacherships at the Rock Hill State Fe-
male College and two hundred on file
already for clerkship in the young At
torney Generals office at Columbia it
would seem that manual labor in this
State is growing out OF favor. The
penalty imposed or bread winners six
thousand years ago grows onerous.
NV
With pleasure we publish the ad.
dress of our fair and talented country
woman, Miss Floride Cunningham, ad-
dressed especially to the delegates to
the constitutional convention from this
county and generally to it's members.
Comrr.n. gaiiantry will drive them to
w>give the matter faithful consideration.
{2pt the probability is that GALLANT
ASation is as far as they will go
lection of Miss Cuningham's
m. Men generally, and gen
'4e 3se big men who constitute the
place themselves in the
= Thales, the greatest of the
ient wise men of Greece
mixed Fortune, (l) that he
IS Ind not a beast; ~ that he
y ind not a woman; (3) that he
fan and not q barbarian.
woman the better half of
that she is perfectly di-
n %unqueened domestic and So
f't fgre, and hat she lowers her
Ed in demanding the ballot. In
RCarolina we accord to our moth
ers, wives and daughters the first place
in our souls and there let them be con-
tent to reign supreme.
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The Legislature which called the
convention that assemblies to-day fixed
the pay of its members at two dollars
per diem and five cents per mile going
and coming. And now certain Jour
nails are complaining that the pay is
too small and ought to be five dollars
per day. A gentleman being twitted
on his approaching marriage to- a plain
lady without fortune answered: "but
dar's delove, you know" And so in this
case, there Is the honor; and, every
member no doubt, anticipates his fame
ringing down the corridors of time as
solving the greatest problems that
now challenge our time. ~, s.a u
Nv
1t is estimated that the growing crop
Of corn in the United States will reach
two thousand five hundred millions
bushels. This ensures an abundant
beef, pork and mutton crop. The man
who does not enjoy a corn hoe cake or
O johnny cake is not fit to live in the
South. o''uI "'i1 J"
Secretary of State D. Fl. Tompkins
+, -hRil call the constitutional convention
t0@order to-day ut IL O'clock noon in
the Hall of the House of Representa-
tives. 1t is in the clouds who will be
chosen to preside. Mr.. s, W., Vance,
Of this city Is q candidate for Secretary
and will make an efficient officer. g.'A
The Columbia Evening News pub
fishes the suggestion that Eastern