The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-06
IRBY SAYS HE'S IN 1T
WILL MAKE THE RACE TO BALK "TLEfE
STATE" ,.sea-
Crew, PSTlis his Xarn-"Bose's' book OF
<.ovelafions, Chapter l-Prooeeds to
n Disclose Alleged Condolences.
Especial to The State.)

tive statement as to his entering the
race for the senate, Tx Senator Irby
said: "The Democratic party of this
State shall have a representative in
the race. l shall run as Democrat
and Reformer. l contributed to the
present confusion in politics IN South
Carolina by my adherence to the
Reform movement throughout my
administration Of six years as chair
man of the party. was u Simon
pure Democrat, as my colleagues
among the Reformers will attest
am farming and would like to keep
out of politics which is not agree,
able to me, but Democracy ,s not
dead iu South Carolina and it shall
have somebody to defend it. It will
be Irby or something better at Sum
ter. My platform will be tariff
for revenue only, and the free coin
age of silver. BY way of warning to
the State say that the combination of
a Populist Republican cannot be
forced down the throats of the Dem
ocrats of the State without q protest.
The editor Of The States influence
over some governors since 70 is not
surprising, but when he dictates to
tho present governor, who was
elected as a Reformer, who shall be
the senator Of the Democrats and
names a Populist and calls him an
available man, there is some surprise.
By the way, I suppose he is satisfied
with the position his Populist Re-
publican candidate has taken on the
dispensary bill, rs the interview of
Congressman Latimer in to-day's
State would indicate. Ex- Governor
Evans and I have met in hotel as
friends and talked as Democrats,
but there is no alliance between us;
l don't know what Governor Evans
aspires TO-" Col. Irby further said:
"Gonzales is McLaurin's adopted
dady. 1 admire Gonzales ability,
but his judgement and Democracy I
deplore"
The following advance proof sheet
of an article that will appear in
The Cotton Plant today was fur
nished by Editor w. T. Crews:
We called attention last week to
our having received the first formal
protest of The Cotton Plant CON-
m;ttao against the editorial policy of
the paper, but owing to it's reaching
us too late for our last weeks issue,
we were forced to lay it over for
this week. The committee, however,
for reasons best known to themselves,
have seen proper to have such pro-
test, together with the letter address.
ed to ourself, published IN the daily
papers of tho State. There are
some inaccuracies in the committeea
letter to the public, but we will pass
that by for the present, as our main
object is to show that we hayen't
committed an unpardonable sin, but
are rather more sinned against than
SHINING. The first time we had on,
suspicious aroused that some Of the
committee at least were not like
Caesars wife, above suspicion, was
when Col. Neal, tho chairman of the
printing committee, took us into his
confidence sufficiently to tell us tho
Dams and policy of the present I'd
ipinistration in shaping the politics
ofthe futule in this State, when he
.~e Explained to us the necessity O.
forming a new political alliance will
that faction of the Conservative
known as silverites, and led by Edi
tor Gonzales of The State; that
was morally certain that there woul'
be two factions Of the Conservative
in future--one known as goldbugf
the ether known as silverites; tha
it had already been arranged for tn
silverites, led by Editor Gonzales
join forces with "our" side, and a
he represented much the larger fat
tion Of the Conservatives Eve ca
therefore control the politics of tn
State without fear of our polite,
enemies. We expressed much su
prise at this atrange turn of the p'
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