The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-17
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Revived
The question of what TO do with our
ex-Presideats is being revived. zest
is given to the question as 1t Is now OF
moment WHAT do with Ben TiIlman
after he has served his two terms.
Cincinatus, after his Dictatorship of
Rome retired TO his farm consisting Of
four acres.
We do not see any probability of get
| ting rid of Tillman as o so-called DEM
| ocrat. The national Democratic con-
vention will declare forfree silver, and
| that will put him In q hole. He cannot
amount TO much in the Democratic
party OF the country, but he might be
aleader IN o strictly silver party. He
wants TO bolt, but he will be given no
excuse for 1t. We shall have to stand
T'llman with free silver Democracy
rather than gold standard Democracy
without Tillman. Thus are the bitter
and sweets of politics intermingled.-
The State.
We do not concur In the result, us
ing the ~stereotyped language OF our
delicious Supreme Court, striking out
the "not.n The East, and sufficient of
the middle States will strangle a free
silver plank. But there may be a
straddle as usual, an accommo-
dating platform. AT any rate IL
they so word it as to h~ypnotise Tillman
and he remains in the Democratic or
ganization, he will be a small potato,
and there will be no more hero wor.
ship. 81 want a hero" has been the
Cry from of old and his worshippers
will apotheosize another Peter Hermit.
But Tillman will not abdicate so easily.
"Innocuous desuetude" will be so
against the grain, that he will kick the
traces and he may be confidently look
ed for among the sand lotters of the
West where the star Of empire takes
it's way.
State Chairman j. l.. M. Irby calls
the State Committee to meet at Column
bia on the 7th of April, looking to the
reorganization of the Democratic
party and sending a State delegation
to the Chicago convention. The Chair
man briefly states the necessity of the
rule OF the country by the democratic
party, the urgency of unity and har-
mony, and sharply hints the danger to
result from threats of a "determina-
ton to disorganize If we cannot have
u particular views carried out" The
paper is brief; but the case is clearly
put. There is no pitchfork, but o
glimpse of the rapier about the pen of
Chairman Irby.
#**.
Tillman and Irby are vis-a-vis at this
juncture. AS matters now stand Till
man may want to carry two flags TO
Chicago. Irby's position requires that
the delegation be pledged to stand by
the action Of the National Convention,
no matter what may he its financial
plank. So we may expect the fight in
the State convention and no doubt all
over the State the lines will soon be
forming.
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1t is beginning to be observed that
our Jtngos are not nurrying to Cuba as
DeKalb and Pulaski to America. The
British will be laughing at us again
and claiming that Washington, Marion,
Sumter, Warren and Andrew Jackson
were born under the British flag. Cuba
is only O stones throw from our coast.
x~x
There is a fine prospect of D settle
ment of the Venezuela question. Brit.
ian makes concessions. The consumma-
tion will enhance the glory of Cleve-
land, and Olney, his Secretary of State.
But the jingos all over the land will be
sadly disappointed.
NV
Senator Tillman being in for six
| years can daily with democratic doc
trine. But he is dangerously near q
jumping off place.