The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-03-12

IN his carT~0A<8D9ot he was too
busy then, perhaps, in spanking for
the Office 10 make invidious com
parsons. He di,ln't find fault with
US then as a stirrcr Up Of strife.
What DR.. Fuller says about that
"body of patriots and gentlemen,
who undertook t0 counsel the De-
mocracy Of South Carolina to com
pose their differences" ETC., a little
time will show that the HERALD
has dealt oven more leniently with
them than they deserve. If there
ty (nOt excepting Or. Fuller) saying
or doing anything to counteract
the possibility Of negro domination
we would like for the Doctor to
point him out. The extreme Anti
organs, who are at the back Of this
negro movement, are calling upon
those Of their faction to meet with
the Forty and TO take part in their
meetings, as they say that the only
chance of an amicable agreement
must come through The Forty. Now
when ii is known that ii is this
faction of the Conservatives that
have refused every basis of concil-
ration offered by the Reformers,
even to the extent Of dividing the
delegates equally with them, must
they not have sOmO kind Of assu-
n from that Forty-those "pa-
triOts and gchtlemen"--that an al
lance with them upon their own
terms will be favorably entertained
by the Forty? What seems to
have aroused the Indignation of
DR.. Fulier is because we expressed
the opinion that the agreement of
Messrs. Hemphill and Barnwell
with Senator Tillman and Cover
nor Evans could not strengthen
the true-biuc RefOrmers sufficient
ly to counterfeit the effects Of the
Gonzales-Williams faction, Forty
traitors and the Republican ne
grocs." In this connection it seems
that DR.. Fuller has deliberately
sought to pervert Il meaning by
making it appear that we had ref
erenco t. the number of men Who
signed the Forty Address, Instead
of to the name of tho faction 70
which they belonged, which has
now passedinto the political history
Of the State AS The "Forty" faction.
We have repeatedly said that we
considered many Of those Forty
signers to be loyal, uncOmpromis-
ing RefOrmers, but that we cOnsid-
cred the leaders and promoters Of
the Forty scheme rs traitors, pure
and simple. DR.. Fuller knows this
and so when he tries to make us say
that every man Of the forty who
signed that paper is II traitor, he
knowingly and willfully p%erverts
the record.
Now let us sec where we find
these Forty "patriots." 1t is well
known that the terms Of agreement
reached by that conference pledged
the conferce Conservatives to COM
nit themselves to the following:
1. The preservation of white suprem-
acy by a qualification of the ballot.
2. Every delegate must subscribe to
man shall be DISTINGUISHED, except for
crime.
3. That no delegate shall be elected
against submitting the new Constitution
back to the people.
T.. That the convention shall deal only
in general principles of government and
leave tho Legislature absolutely un.
tramele2 on the questions Of police reg
ulations and free schools.
These conditions or pledges have
been r%epudiated by tho Gonzales
Williams faction of Conservatives
who are confident that they can
make better terms with the Forty,
who arc likewise opposing tho
agreement, and we want DR.. Ful-
Ter, who subscribes himself as "one
OF the Original Forty" to explain
to us why IL Is that these Forty pa
triots and gentlemen are opposing