The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-02-25

week. which will likely pass and the
resolution In favor of appropriation to
Sheriff Mccrayy which has passed.
The Assembly will probably adjourr
about the first of March. We note with
pleasure that Senator Watson was not
on this ~junketing at the expense OF the
rail roads and the oppressed but moi
humilitated people Of Charleston.
TllIman on TilIman's Speech.
The man who puts himself on the de.
fensive or allows himself to be placed
In that position, is either unfortunate
or O bad tactician. Yet this is the atti
tude OF our Junior Senator, Tillman
has been placed in before three months
OF service In the Nations Senate have
expired. He writes o letter in answer
to and defending himself against the
criticism OF the press upon his recent
speech. The veriest novice in public
matters must appreciate that the YER
dict must rest upon the speech itself
and no e~xcusatory words in explanation
can be allowed TO pass by the country,
II the speech 10 a "yulgar-tirade" ii
must stand as q monument of vulgarity
and hereafter, as a record of that char
acter and high authoritative billings
gate will be appealed te-and~AnPSed.
I.Gerifttfe book thy way INST be
the tasSune of every thing from s!great
rostrum. What is writ is writ-Shat is
said Is said. Brave Ben has m3de q
mistake, and belittles himself Is one
OF the conscript fathers, having the
commission Of Senator from a great
State, having spoken from b.. seaS>ln
this great office, in sendipeout to the
country a pitiful detsfce of his de-
cency. We note sccSn sorrow that II
great Tribune u the people has for
gotten his native dignity. Being
mounted by the overwhelming vote las
he urges) OF a great State and backed
by thirty two millions people, on q
mighty Bucephalus, it is q pitiful specta-
Gle to find the great equestrian be-
stride the corn stalk hobby horse OF q
pickaniny.
**x
There Is q prevailing and we'll found
ed impression that q great crop of cot
ton is to be produced in 1896. Looking
to this as very probable we reluctantly
make this suggestion to a certain class
of farmers. The small farmer whose
crop is ten and twenty bales cannot
compete successfully with the planters
upon o great scale, who make from
three to fifteen hundred bales. These
large planters buy THOR Fertilizers by
the half dozen a loads at reduced
rates, use to a large degree improved
implements, bought at wholesale prices
and in various ways economic where
where it is impracticable in the case of
the farmer in contradistinction to the
planter. The greater the reason, there
fore for the small farmer, to adhere to
u system OF farming, indeed, raising
all his supplies and making his farm
self-sustaining with cotton as a sur
plus. We appreciate hat all must plant
some cotton as a money crop, but our
1%nsistance is upon the cereals and
everything consumed upon the place
that is practicable. And these words
OF warning we think are at this season
eminently proper.
~
The seats of four Democrats in the
House of Representatives for South
Carolina are contested. That is to say,
they claim to be Democrats. Whether
they will follow Senator Tillman's
ignis fatuous slight in the West" and
into Q new party remains to he seeen.-
r. M. l.. the very al e"Was6ington
correspondent Of thee News and Cou-
rier ,wsitas thaat Jasper Talbert's late
h%arangue, the secession" episode, will
1t is now understood endanger three
of these seats. That may be with pure
partizans, but o title to q seat in Con-
gress should turn upon facts and the
law, and not npon pure p~artizanship
But--but-but-while Talbert some
times hits straight. from the shoulder
and hits the BULBS eye, he unquestiona-
bly, talks too much. He should keep a
wise tongue in his head now and then
Young folks should be seen, not heard.
Now Talbert is no infant in O in
deed, but he is three feet high in
craftsmanship. while Crisp and Turner
of Gergia and Culbertson of Texas are
in the neighborhood.
x*x
Congressman Talbert spoke in the
House of Representatives favoring
Free Coinage of Silver. The speech
was full Of good jokes; in fact the
speech Is a Capital joke.
***
The Easley Democrat AYERS that
Tillman will never bolt the Democratic
track. He will need mighty little
"sideling," my brother.
The Columbia State is o full five
years old. The State is still in it's
minority, but Hercules in his cradle
strangled the monster.
wv
The comic papers now have our hero
and his pitchfork and are making q
huge joke Of them.
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