The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-07-14
The Star Of Enpire.

named by the ~silverites for our stand
ard bearer.
"Then charge where You see this white
plume wave,
Amid the ranks Of war,
And be your oriAame this day,
The standard of Navarro"
Sewall, of Maine, is named without
much ado, for second place.
Bryan is q young man Of about thirty
six years, Just old enough to qualify If
elected, has served in the Lower House,
and made a great reputation as an
orator and Is regarded, outside his sill
yer fetch q man OF fine judgment and
statesmanlike qualities. He came, he
saw, he overcame, he went to the ros-
/, trum, opened his mouth, threw an at
titude and the great convention was
his, swept as q prairie fire careers over
the mighty plain.
His craze Is silver-he believes 16
ounces of silver with the governments
superscription is as good as an ounce
of gold, and he believes it because he
wants 1t so and his terrible earnestness, |
was he electric power that crushed
all opposition. He believes in silver, |
and in his speech, gave a crushing
blow to Tillman's populistic idea Of
greenbacks, fiat money, and with a few
words, sounding quick death to Till
mans attack on Cleaveland. For Till
man, by the way, the eighteen votes of
this State were transferred from Co.
lumbia and recorded, Tillman not
voting or voting for some other candi-
date on the first throw of the ballots
For Tillman, however, it must be
stated, that he was in all the councils of
the leaders, his power recognized, and
but for his populistic and extreme
views, he would have had influence in
the great body. He failed in his
speech and comes home O sadder If not
q wiser man.
New York did not vote in the ballot
Ing, unwilling to stand committed to
the silver craze. Can the kite fy?-
Can the ticket win?
Here is the situation: with Connecti-
cut gone to the Republican New Eng
land column, New York, New Jersey,
and my Maryland" added to the great
Republican phalanx-it was useless to
look to the East for q candidate. The
little States beyond the Mississippi,
with few electoral votes all mustered
and In line with the South for silver we
must still necessarily loose. Bryan is
expected 10 hold tLv trans-Mississippi
States for silver and for tn great val
ley States, Ohio, Illinois, India4!., Wis
consin Iowa, MICHIGAN. Some of these
South to assure victory in November.
What New York and the other East
ern democracy will do, we must wait
to know. For the present THE AD-
vERTIsER follows the democratic flag
o flying and will fight it out as mat
tiers now stand-reserving always the
right to enroll under a purer standard,
should Hill and the East unfurl it
h a is to say--offer something better
--sounder democracy.
~
No Issues.
There should be no drawing the lines
In the present campaign upon LEAD and
buried issues. Let us have peace. Let
Laurens be we'll represented in the @.
ii. offices by efficient, courteous, faith
full servants of the people. The same as
to our representatives in the General
Assembly. We want our county repre-
sented by a strong delegation. There
is no reason why this should not be the
case. There is not an issue before us
but competenoy-and we want ability
to devise, shape and guide legislation
and public policy. Again, there is no
Issue before us that should divert us
and we'll wishers of the State from
casting our votes for the most Compel
emit men.
There Is now no question of reform;
no legislation proposed upon which
factions can arise. Nothing could be
more absurd and ridiculous than to
now make a test upon Ben Tillman
or Senator Irby in determining the quail
iications of candidates for Congress,
Solicitor, State Senate, House Repre-
sentatives, county coroner Or Treasu-
rer. There is no possible sense in a
factional fight. Only extremists will
search nut the dead lines of two years
ago. They car only divert the minds
Of voters from the true issue-the ques-
tion of competency, ability, fitness
There should be a unanimous pulling
together as democrats looking in Ma
tional matters to the success of true
democracy--in State and county to an
economical, honest administration of
affairs. Come, now, and let us dwell
together In harmony, in State and
county affairs. Certainly in national
affairs IL we can with honor.
#x#
Pierce M. B. Young.
The South loses a noble son in the
death Of Gen. Pierce M. B.. Young, who
died on the sixth instant In New York.
He had just returned from Guatemala,
where he was Miniater. nm sick leave.