The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-08-11
Orangeburg.

that great stronghold of reform,
Orangeburg. Indeed IL q Yolun-
teers to manage the meeting laid down
laws to govern the debate, to the eff
feet that no personalities should be
used by the speakers. This capsized
the whole thing--there was nothing
left--you have heard of Hamlet with
out the Prince. All the same the
managers got there--they were mostly
Whitman's ''pap-suckers' and there
was much fun. AS each speaker
closed, these gentlemen took the mat
ter OF personalities" in hand and pro-
pounded sundry questions involving
only the character, record and hon
esty of the aspirants. Every mothers
son except their favorites were put on
the defensive by line of thumb screw
ing interrogatories. They did and
they didn't--they wanted all clean
they loaded down the meeting with
filth. Indeed, this is an age of educa-
ton. but the ages to come will stand
amazed when they read backwards
upon the Orangeburg record of last
Tuesday. May we not take nto our
paralized souls the f~lattering unctioh
that the mouthy spokesman for
Orangeburg in her great assemblies
are u bakers dozen of self-constituted
leaders, and we trust that we CAM
Sampson was sheared of his locks
Eliminate the indictments of the can
didates themselves and the debate is
the vacuu which nature abhors. We
entertain a dreary hope that the Smells
and Jone will not run the thing for
W But we are not hopeful. Here
is a sample of the Orangeburg debate
from the report by the estate" now
the leading Free Silver organ of South
Carolina. Here, here, here, and with
many misgivings:
"There were many Interruptions, in
which Bill Smell and Jim Jones we're
leaders. Smell disliked so much talk
about pa%psuckers. He was no pap
sucker, he never had been but he would
consider a conversation about liquor
much more interesting.
oohOo hdNlhS udrdSSeu WulUmdn
further, the candidate told him his
brains were in his heels. When the
chairman mildly demonstrated with
Jones the latter retorted: "God---d DIN
him, he has been abusing our men all
over the State, but he can't do my
thing in Orangeburg."
There were frequent cries for Eller-
bo, and Whitman said: 81 have never
said that Tillman was q liar as Ellerbe
has said when he vent about the State
crying because Tillman gave the CUB
ernatorial apple to Johnnie in 1894.
Snell-What about this d~ispensary?
Whitman think it the biggest
humbug God Almighty's sun ever
shone on. At these campaign meet
ings they claim to be closed, but the
back doors are open to your howlers.
When Whitman repeated his saying
about his having a "little bread and O
plenty Of butter; that his bread was
time and his butter truth, but it was a
Goshen butter and did not go rancid"
Jim Jones remrked, "You smell
rancid"
He also asked Whitman who was
paying his expenses. The candidate
replied he was paying them himself
and had the brains to make money.
Jones advised him to go home and
save his money.
Whitman said Ellerbe was supported
by only one paper in the State-The
News and Courier.
a Voice-Knock him off the stand,
Mr.. Chairman"
*x*
The Hon. George D. Tillman has been
chosen Chairman of the Board of Trust
ees for Clemson College. He favors a
Professor of dancing and teaching the
boys to "trip it or the light fantastic
as John Milton puts it. If so then
Winthrop should have a like attach
ment as the boys will need partners
This Is a campaign Of education. We
are not quarreling with "Uncle
Georges" ideas.