The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-10-01
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LAURENs. S. O., oct j. 1895.
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LAURENs. S. O., Oct j, 1895.
Dne of tke blazing, burning, corrod-
ing questions OF the hour is that of con
stituting new counties. Many smart
n pushing towns in the State want to
have q court house and q court crier:
"Ch, yez! oh, yez, and SO forth. Ours
Is the smallest State t~erritorially south
OF Mason and Dixon althougha big
feeling State. This is all Fight pro-
yided she don't get too large for her.
She can't conveniently hold as many
counties as Georgia or North Carolina.
But there are some large counties, as
Edgefield, Abbeville, Spartanburg,
Orangeburg, Colleton; with the area
reduced, 1t may be practicable to Gre
ate new counties out of these to the
convenience and betterment of the peo-
pie. In the eastern part of the State the
counties are all small and ought not to
be tempered with. In the west, Lau-
rens, Newberry, Union, Greenville,
Lexington, Oconee, and Pickens, have
too much territory. Very few people
. indeed are outside OF seventeen miles
from q court house in any of these
counties. Besides, railroad v
fences are all around and the court
house is ten-fold more accessible to the
people than twenty years ago.
The writer lived at Daurens court
house fifty years ago and the court
house did not make it q town-350 peo-
ples white and black, making up the
EVAPORATION. The writer was at q Caro-
lima cour house ten years ago and the
court house and the jail with 4 cottage
or two for the court officers and o black
: &ade up the city. Railroads,
ss&&etories and hundreds of in
dustries make towns and fourishing
cities. Even ME- county officers need
not reside at thscourt house and many
do not. Every ambitious town in the
State can't have so dignified q person
age as q court crier. The big counties
we named might be ~sub-divided, but q
general cutting and slashing among
the counties OF the State is not desira-
BILE. We think a good county can be
had owe the Enoree with our good
neighbor Woodruff as county seat with
out an inch Of Laurens dirt. We will
send them O car load Of Laurens clay
to salt their snowy sands with and give
them SAVIOUR.
The Convention has decided that the
term of the Governor under the con-
.sSitution now building shall be two
years as against four. A majority Of
the conservatives voted two, as more
agreeable to democratic doctrine than
four. The argument for four years was
silly sometimes, but it is not every
reader that will expect every member
of that convention to be a Solomon
Such Is not the case by odds. 1t was
urged that it is q law of custom that q
Governor shall now have two terms,
which is equal to a four years term
There Is no such custom although it has
so happened since '76 except in the cas-
of Governor Hagood who was too mod
est to take q second term and believed
in what is called rotation in office. The
convention has settled the matter we'll
to make a&he term two years. Ofcourse
the Ay out Of State House Off
;t8MHt two terms Of two, four
fefgnt years. Whoever heard Of an
o~fice-holder, county or State who vol
UNFAIRLY retired, having had enough =
The cry is still for ''mor., more, more"
Then, it is we'll settled, at a two years
term, leaving the people to put man
in again If he is found to be the right
man for the place. The anne reasoning
applies to other officers, county and
State. 1t Is mere folderol that the peo-
pie get tired Of elections. The fact is
that an off year Is a dead failure at the
South. Voting is elegant fun. and even
h new woman is now moving heaven
and earth to get into the swim. Ta-ta-ta.
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Susan b. Anthony is son her ear"
asSehator Irby would say about the
Massachusetts referendum plan of de.
Gliding the question of woman suffrage.
ohS o@Jo ohNu Nv 'IuSoUloh TdlSSu DY
the Legislature was really evasive, and
the idea Of gaining the privilege Of
themselves deciding whether or not
they desired suffrage had never oc-
CURED before to her knowledge. "But
them" she said, one may expect moth
ing better from Massachusetts, anyway.
1t Is only q penny and q half State
The idea of deciding the great suffrage
cause in that way is simply a makeshift
of the Legislature and q way of getting
around it. The suffrage women look
upon 1t as o direct insult to them and
feel very bitterly about it. The ques-
ton is not whether the majority of wo-
men want 1t, but whether it is q ques-
tion Of citizenship, which must either
be right or all wrong. We did not
cars'fo a vote on municipal suffrage,
but perhaps that is better than nothing
at a,l."--News and Courier.
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"Jingoism" is a word Of recent
growth OF English origin and signifies
greed for q fight. 1t comes from the