The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-08-18


some basis In fact, that a deal has been
arranged by which q large number OF
| Charleston Anti-Tillmanites are TO
vote for Evans for the Senate. It Is
stated that Evans has promised that
Charleston shall have beer privileges
or special saloons or that the dispen-
sary law will be In some way modified
TO permit Charlestonians to get a "wee
nippy" without paying the exorbitant
~dispensary prices. There is q class of
C~harlestonians who are specially fond
OF q glass and Governor Evans has
probably found out that there is still q
way open to obtain the Charleston vote,
--or some of 1t. IL is notorious that
Evans metropolitan scheme has proven
q dismal failure, and, indeed, 1t is
limited at least that the Governor is
himself opposed to O vigorous enforce
ment of the liquor law in the City by
the Sea. AT any rate, the statement of
q dispensary official, Mr.. Yates, has
recently appeared In several newspa-
| pers that as much liquor is sold in
Charleston nov as was sold before the
Governor took charge OF the police and
it has not been denied, so far as we
have seen. 1t is said that any man
who ear good clothes can buy a
drink almost anywhere in Charleston.
The Charlestonians complain bit
terly Of being prosecuted by Governor
Evans but it is true all the same that
Governor Evans has left 1t much easier
t.. a Charlestonian to get q drink
than for his so-cailed "wooi hat"
friends in the country. And the
Charlestonian purchases at a more rea-
sonable price. But there are some
who say Charleston can never be
pleased. equal rights to all" has
a very pretty sound but Governor
Evans willrnot be blamed for extend
ing Especial privileges" to the beer
and whiskey consumers of Charleston
when an election for the Senate is
about to take place. Meanwhile pro-
fits Of the dispensary may come out of
the country boys.
III only those who can meet the test
implied in the catechism of questions
being submitted to candidates for Office
in this county can be voted for by Dem
ocrats then the peace and harmony Mr..
Ellerbe implores in his speeches will
hardly be realized. Now is the time to
secure harmony by ignoring factional
lines and voting for men of merit and
fitness.
Nv
Mrs. Bryan hung fast to Bryan's ell
bow on his great tour of two thousand
miles to New York and facing the hot
test wav that ever swept the CONT
nent, addressed a half million people.
Philip governed Macedon, Mrs. Philip
Philip, and Alexander, a tot, his ma.
Bryan likewise is blessed with "Tots"
and there we are.
1t vas a great speech of Bryan ut
Madison Square Garden on Wednesday
night. The silver side of the question
was presented with all the force of
which it Is susceptible. Gail most
thou persuadest me-" 1t was however
more an essay than a speech. 1t must
have tired. The figure of Columbia
redeemed tiff the features were not
too masculine.
There was no falling of the stars as
pre~dicted-but the people occupying
this particular section of our sphere
will remember Evans, Ellerbe, Whit
man, Earle, and the others and be con
tent. We can't have Mirabeau, De-
%mostheues and Patrick Henry and all
the natural and unnatural phenomina
to boot.
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John Gary Evans says that he and
Tillman wrote the State Democratic
platform and that the National plat
form is copied from it. Ergo, John
Gary Evans Is the author of the Ma
tional platform. There you are.
~*x
Utopia may come at last. The North
Carolina Pops. have declared for a
"%non-partisan Judiciary" We slime
lands" with the Tar Heelers.
#*#
HOnOrs Safe.
Harold M. Sewall, (son of the Dem
ocratic Vice Presidential nominee
will stump the State of Maine, for the
Mckinley ticket.