The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-07-30
MAJORITY Rail-.

Majority kHles
Senator Irby In his few remarks in
the Court House on the 22d stated that
he had been a lawyer. In the course
OF his speech ne denounced the feature
OF the ~dispensary law under which cir
cult Judges sent white men to the pen
itcntiary for contempt of court. This
was a very proper feeling and no doubt
due to the fact that the Senator had
been o lawyer and had imbibed q scin-
tilla OF inspiration from that class that
has ever resisted the encroachments OF
tyrants upon the liberty OF the citizen.
III he had been more OF q lawyer, he
would not be SO good q radical, and
worship the radical doctrine, that the
majority must necessarily rule and
that a minority has no rights. No man
is fit to make q constitution whoAholds
to the doctrine that because y6rt7can,
therefore you have o God given right.
A constitution should have checks and
balances to protect the minority. The
contrary is tthe doctrine of Thad
Stevens and Reid of Massachusetts,. We
won't to war to maintain the rights Of
the minority. But might isright in the
sight of our Senator; such is his teach
ing. In the COS the majority beat us,
robbed us Of our property, made us the
slaves OF our slaves. God grant that
these chickens do not come home to
roost and that our posterity may not
suffer as we have from this radical
doctrine. Give us q democrat.
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O%racular.
Recently we prophesied that the
constitution which Senator Tillman has
hid in the bushes was a bastard imita-
ton of the Mississippi constitution
The Senator has now ventilated his
scheme. 1t DISTINGUISHES no man white
or black. 1t simply provides that the
registration officer shall do the dis
franchising. The Senator is very
proud of being o plain man and it is
plain that his education has been sadly
neglected, QUI FACIT PER ALUM FACIT
PER Sc. He who does a thing by an
other does it himself. A fraud per-
petrated through an agent has added to
1t the quality of cowardice.
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A Reformer and office holder said on
the street this morning that tho Item
is exactly right on the Primary in so
far as its contended that tho Irby COM
mittee had no right to order a primary
in which Republicans and mon of di-
vers political persuasions are to be al
lowed to vote. He said that Mr.. Irby,
as chairman of the Democratic Execu-
tive Committee, had no right ordering
anything ave q Democratic primary
and that when he went beyond his pow
ers he did great injury to the organ
lied democracy. That is not exactly
Reform doctrine, but the way some Of
the Sumter Reformers talk.-Sumter
Waterman and Southern. .
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Moncks Corner has been chosen as
the county site of Berkeley. BY the
way why don't those fellows abolish
the name Of their county and call it
Dennis? Berkeley was an old English
Lord, as we'll as Colleton, Clarendon.
Charleston, Orangeburg, Georgetown,
Williamsburg, &c, were all called after
English Kings. Marion, sumter. Hor-
ny, Pickens sc, were all lordly land
lords and Bourbons. The convention
will soon sit and their names will like
ly be Dennis, Tillman and the like
That new county of Hampton ought to
be robaptized. j. Billie Stokes or Will.
lie Wolfe would answer.
TX
Douglas and Obear and Goff are
again in the injunction business
Greene, the supervisor Of registration
of Richland county is the proposed vic
tim. All the harm it will work to the
State will be to fill the tills of Senator
Tillmans friends, the array Of assistant
counsel. When Tom Watson burnt his
law books in Georgia he should have
crossed the Savannah and become per-
manen administration counsel and his
place among the Office holding million
aires in South Carolina would have
boon safe.
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The Mississippi plandisfranchises all
who annot read or explain the consti-
tuition. Illiterato white South Caro-
linians have pride of character and will
not rush to expose their illi~teracy--es-
pecially to supervisors moro ignorant
than themselves ana yet have mastered
the two RS and can read and write.
The ''plan" "hatched" out disfran-
chises the illiterate white.
EdgeGeld always sends able men to
the front when they are needed. Among
those urged for the Constitution Con-
v%ention and who will probably be sent
among the seven delegates that county
Is entitled to, are: Senator Tillman,
Hon. George d. Tillman, Ex-Governor