The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-03-02

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to private life on the day after to-mor-
row. It has been q question for several
years among the sentimentally given,
what should be done with our ex-Presi-
dents, but with common sense people
the question has attracted little or no
concern. The real practical question
Is how to get common sense, honest
practical President and what he should
do while he holds that high and re
sponsible Office. Unlike Emperors,
Kings, and other potentates, who are
nominal heads of Governments the
President OF these United States,
(which lately operates as q nationality
has real powers for good or evil; how
he bears the sceptre is of concern to
many millions of citizens, or subjects
as the case may be; his is not a barren
sceptre; but 1t is IN idle and vain
thought to look beyond the occasion Of
our Chief Magistrate laying down the
emb.ems OF power and passing into
the State Of private citizenship. 1t is
however, q noble sentiment to speed
with fair words and courteous good
wishes the faithful public servant as he
bids farewell to all his great employ
ments. AS one Southern man, O South
OF Southerns, we desire to express
our very best wishes for the happiness
OF Grover Cleveland as he lays down
his great omce--and to bespeak for all
his household continued blessings. The
Southern people have not agreed with
Grover Cleveland in his administra-
tive policies for the last four years;
they have been spiteful and angry in
expression; they are hasty and have
the hot blood of a Southern sun in
their veins; but they are generous, and
left to their cool reflections they are
not vindictive and with time to re-
fleet they will remember Grover
Cleveland as their friend and political
redeemer. The Southern States from
Lincoln to Cleveland were provinces,
and %satrapies; with Cleveland they
were restored to Statehood and
equality with Ohio, Illinois aud Penn
s%ylvania. A Southern man now is q
man, in the South, the East, on Boston
Commons, in the White House, in the
Senate Chamber of this great govern
ment. Cleveland filled his Cabinet
and the great places, at homo and
abroad, with the prescribed chivalry
Of the South; he made Gordon of
Georgia the peer of Sherman OF Ohio
and Reed of Maine. Cleveland is q
great man; great, that he resisted
the clamors Of partizans and stood by
his convictions Of right. The time must
soon come when he will be enshrined
in the affections Of the Southern peo-
pie. GIVE them time. To Grover,
Ruth and Esther, each a fair good
night. We are not sentimentally con-
cerned as to what what may be his
state as an ex-President. He can be
trusted without the sickly concern of
the sentimentally feeble.
XIX
Twenty three Charleston christian
ministers have signed an address to
Governor Ellerbe in the interest OF
Chief Martin Of the Metropolitan Po-
lice Force Of that city. They say:
Dear Sir: Inasmuch as the control of
the police in Charleston is one of the
duties of your office, we desire to draw
to the attention Of your excellency some
important facts in connection with the
same.
A careful reading of what follows
disc!oses several conclusions, but not q
single ''fact' that we can discover
Indeed, to u unsophisticated soul it
seems anomalous that the clergy OF
that city should be the forefront wit
nesses upon the administration of the
whiskey laws. or course we dare not
and would not controvert ~''conclu.
s:ons." But good training and safety
~advise-"be careful Of your facts"
~
Otis Smith, the young man who has
been arrested in Atlanta charged with
embezzling $4,000 a y that he could
not be in the swim of sassiety in that
city on $I,25O, his salary. He had to
steal to hold his place. That is, he be-
came O thief to please the fools. AS a
perfumed leader of sassiety he will
prove a success in the Penitentiary
and thus he will have led q check
cred career, Crowded always that
convicts wear stripes in Georgia.)
~
The Edgeield Chronicle makes
plant that no Edgeield man is on
Governor E lerbe's staff and that pa
per contemplates with dismay that the
crop OF Colonies in that county is
threatened. In tender commisseration
we suggest to Brother Bacon: send a
few good looking boys to reside tempo
rarily in Laurens, and we undertake to
return them in good order and time
full ledged Colonies.
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Greece will probably be squelched in
her attack upon Crete. The "Great
Powers" are not yet ready and agreed
upon carving and serving Turkey.