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

1t has been suggested that the Till
man-Evans-Hemphill aggregation and
the "4O" should hold a conference and
unite on a plan of peace. We second
h motion. 1t Is worth q trial. 1t is
best for South Carolina that the white
people get together. Every effort for.
harmony should be made. 1t is no easy
matter we accord, because q permanent
harmony Is death to the hopes OF eager
Office seekers under present conditions.
If all the people in the State were of
n race there would be no danger in
division. SO our divisions must be
healed.
And the danger is great. AS the
State we'll puts it, a great body of
sound democrats in this State will be
sent to the kitchen along with the
menials no longer. They will form a
party of their own and seek q family
connection where they may have self
respect and the respect of others
There Is a generation coming on that
"know not Joseph" and their name is
legion. Gov. Tillman proclaims that
democrat" is no longer "a name to
conjure with. He knows. The danger
Is imminent. We trust that Tillman
and his crowd will meet the $40" as o
committee Of free conference and
splice the cable.
There are always %innocents abroad
and they would pose as philosophers;
even on the South Carolina Press we
have brethren whose mothers may be
concerned that they are abroad. They
SfsRkk OF settling the negro question for
ali ~t{a8Hasaaby the coming constitutional
conventions &4TShis is absurd; from the
trend OF suggestion lar whatever
is done will be a maR&eshlie; IL nus
needs be but a temporarysu!ussnent
to present conditions; thus fan &ea~42S6S
farther; the problem will continue to
rise up like Banquo's ghost to vex us
and those who follow hard upon our
footsteps. But to adjust the matter to
meet present conditions and the neal
future, as things now stand, is sufficient
to command our best consideration. A
quarter OF a century hence, we trust,
will find a citizenship equal to the then
surroundings. Sufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof"
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The point has been raised that broth
er Lansing's charge of drunkenness
against the President, publicly made,
was well, az the SANDER had been pri-
vately hawked about and opportunity
was now afforded to give it the lie.--
This is very we'll. But the trouble
grows out Of the agility of a lie: give a
lie on crutches leap the go on the
plain honest truth, and the speed of a
Nancy Hanks will never overtake its
elastic competitor. There Is however
one consolation. In a few years Cleve-
lands public documents, and all that
he has said and a faithful account OF
all that he has done, will they not be
embalmed in the chronicles of his
eventful time, and among them as a
choice morsel, the stigma of LIAR to q
name else consigned to oblivion.
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There are those that advocate the
recognition of the independence of
Cuba, annexing her to Uncle Sam, and
then after robbing, make war upon
Spain. But these Jinjos were careful
to keep out OF the way of helping the
Cuban patriots and the road is still
open.
England, q speck On the surface of
she globe, dominates the civilization of
the Western world And now it seems
that Japan, q mere midget in size, will
shape the destinies of the East.
Spring is full OF terrors to all whose