The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-05-05
LAURENs, s. O., May s, 1895.
Free siIYer.

FFee silver
Al Laurens farmer during last week
sold o lot of cotton for which he re-
ceiyed $500. Examing the money he
found 1t consisting of $500 in green
backs and $495 In silver ce~rtiicates.-
Thereupon he reflected that IL Car
Isle redeemed 1t in silver instead Of
gold and he embarked for England or
other civilized country, on landing he
would have only $3.50 in his pockets
He believes in the gold standard until
an international agreement with re-
ference to the silver question,
W.
The growing development OF cotton
manufacturing in the South and it's
probable extension raises the question
OF the labor of the future; whether
white labor will be equal to the de-
annd, should the spindles come to the
pm as now seems to be the tn
1t is a good rule to reach the
before crossing it. To the
present, white labor has filled the de-
mand throughout the manufacturing
districts of the South. There need be
no anxiety as to the near future. The
years roll slowly by. 1t will be a quar-
ter OF q century before the South
makes much progress towards convert
ing her great staple. The South is a
vast cotton field with q tendency to
widen and enlarge 1t. There is a fas-
cination in great and expanding acres
and the bulk of the Southern capital
Will seek employment in multiplying
acres. In the meanwhile the trend is
towards great holdings. Much better
were 1t not SO, and II the tendency
were towards farming small holdings
and the multiplication OF small one
hundred acre farms. This being the
case, the farmer and especially the
white tenant farmer will still feel the
pressure of competition in the cotton
fields, the negro labor on the large
plantations, driving him with his fam
lily to seek more remunerative en-
ployment in the various manufacture
Ing enterprises as they may be estab-
itshed. Conditions must greatly
change before there is a scarcity of
white labor for manufacturing at the
South.
Quiet has reigned politically in the
State for fifteen days. The politicians
seem to hold their breath. 1t may be
the quiet that precedes the Storm
Tillman has assumed the role of a ma
ttonal character. There are several
pending issues to interest us all; what
will Tillman do? Who will succeed
Irby? Who will succeed Evans? What
WILL the State Convention say and do?
What will Chicago do? All these
questions and their solution are upper.
most in the minds of the people at this
juncture. The next four months must
settle each and all of them. Politicians,
1--WE have no statesmen) are dumb,
waiting and watching" Tillman and
Irby will probably be in the State Con-
v%ention. Their mouthpieces will also
be there. If it to the scratch
Tillman will be able to control the
body. But pacific councils. will likely
prevail. A middle ground will be
adopted, war will be avoided and Till
Snan and Irby both go to the Chicago
convention. The State Convention
will be q unit or silver. The question
will be conveniently ''straddled." The
Evans and Irby contest will not even
tuate-it will be postponed to the
hustings, and the present Tillman-
Irby issue being q back number, the
senatorial succession will turn upon
merit as Reformers may determine.-
Other Richmonds may be in the field.
Those who are now known as con-
servatives, not being q political party,
having no head, no organization, will
"cut no ice" in all that may happen.
T**
Enterprises of great pith and mo-
ment r reported in all parts of the
State. Great cotton mills and other
industries are daily established. Agri-
culture, with cotton, rice, and tobacco
as the great staples, fourishes. The
educational institutions of the State
expand and education, academic and
collegiate, has never been paralleled
In this State or out of it. And yet we
have no free silver as in the thirties
or forties when cotton went down to
'A0ur cents.
%x*
The recent Legislature enacted that
after the lot of January 1897 it shall be
unlawful for the heads of the depart
ments to appoint to any place of emolu-
ment any person of kin by consanguin-
ity or affinity. within the sixth degree.
This Is q good reform although it takes
a year after "hdtching'' to stand it on
its legs.
*s
Gen. J, Gary Watts will be a candi-
date Tor Adjutant and Inspector Gen
eral. Gen. r. N. Richbourg, of Colum.
bia will also be a candidate.
The Six Reform Congressman at