The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-08-04
Above the Law.

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Above the Law.
Governor Evans declined at Florence
to submit to arrest for q breach of the
peace, taking the ground that the Gov
ernor was above and beyond the law
1t may be SO, but it is strange If. 1t is
so. Nodoubt, he Is head Of the melish
and might have put any Of the local
State troops under arms. Long ago
an Ignorant party went into o lawyers
office in this city and being a long
winded fellow, the Attorney, an irrita-
BILE gentleman and easily bored, in
timated to the party that he had better
go, that he the Attorney was getting
tired. The visitor not taking the hint
the lawyer frazzled out q convenient
walking cane on the Uranium of his
visitor. The injured person repaired
to the nearest Justice but that officer
turned him off, saying that there was
no law for a lawyer, and that that i'm
portant parsonage could beat whom he
pleased. See?
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"Uncle George" Tillman was the
orator on the occasion of laying the
corner stone of q Court House for
Saluda county a few days ago. He
gibes at Charleston that hat small
town has made it impractical to have a
Saluda Court House for these hundred
years last past. He forgets that Cal
hOun sets up the constitution of South
Carolina of '93 as a model government.
He forgets also hat the Parish sys-
tenn made new counties impracticable
until 1865 and that that system was
not q Charleston feature but apper-
tanned to Colleton, Orangeburg and the
entire lower belt of counties and that q
majority of the upper counties sus-
tanned that system. 1t was abolished
by the carpet baggers and negroes in
1868, who gave us Oconee and we be-
lieve Aiken. "Uncle George" must be
growing old and feeling the weight of
years. Charleston is not legitimate
game for him. 1t Is the rule of smaller
Nimrods to make q target of Charles
ton. They should be left their vocation
-argument-meat and drink. The
speech of Mr.. Tillman we think his
torically untrue. While Charleston
may have upheld the compromises of
the constitution under which we lived
until 1865, the majority of the upper
counties of the State was with her.
The slavery interest Of the State sup
ported the Parish system from noun
tain to sea and when slavery went
Oconee, Aiken and Hampton came,
and other counties followed and will
continue to follow. The old constitu-
tion survived upon slavery. Slavery
dominated the State; there was OPP
preston Of nc section, but the most
liberal and perfectly administered gov
ernment that the earth has seen. We
are not defending Charleston, but the
? truth and the truth of history.
x**
Governor Evans urges that the Demo-
cratic platform Is the Alliance plat
form. Well, probably it is. But all
the Alliance platform now has OF the
Alliance demands is free silver and
free silver Is the George Tillman, Stew
art, and Teller platform. All will re-
member what q time Ben Tillman had
at S%partanburS with Terrell insisting
upon his wild demands about Sub
Treasury and the like, 1t is Tillman
who has beaten the Alliance demands.
If he had stood exclusively on free sill
yer he would have been in the shoes of
8ryan. But he dallied with populism
hid tiat money and we know "where he
Is at"
#x*
Is 1t a "game cock" o blue hens
= chick, or q cock of the walk, that we
want to represent us in the United
States Senate? There is old Hoar of
Massachusetts,, nearly a centenarian,
and John Sherman of Ohio-''oh he IL
old, old,"--is 1t expected to beat anti
tariff and anti gold arguments into
their 'old noggins covered over with
silvery locks? Indeed, it isn't how
much of the game cock is in these old
fellows but how much brains and skill
thoy have for State-craft and howImany
millions Of voters are back of them.
%##
We hope those "lying newspapers"
are not mistaken in saying that Bryan
is sweeping the country and carrying
every thing before him. We are going
to vote Straight" for our w. j. Bryan
and we want him to win and we want
1t badly. We have been in the minority
so long that we envy Ia wicked weak
messy u friends who so dearly love
the rale OF the majority. Yes, for