The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-11-09
'Re QdUertiSer
The Result-Yan Wyck Goes In.

great big world had its eyes on Greater
New York last Tuesday. Tammany is
no better than she should be, but pro-
badly better than all the rest. She is
atloast Democratic, and always stood by
the South, when she could help herself
In the game. All the rest beyond Ma
son and Dixon have, as Il rule, been
against us, except New Jersey. New
Jersey never kicked out of tho traces
until Bryan of the Woody West came
with his new cvangcl, Tammany will
not steal any more than Platt's crowd
Low is probably Il we'll meaning man,
rat he could not purify his environ
mGnt. Hercules, who cleaned up the
stables OF Augcas, where stood some
twenty thousand oxen, was a hero in Il
heroic age, and was dciticd in the end.
No; the spoils were the stakes and it
was simply a shuming of the cards as to
who held the longest aud the strongest
suit. George was honest, but was as
one to ten thousand and had no chance
TO win If he had lived. Good for the
South, though Bryan II Tillman
''"t thbO hS OSI L vas ~
fanatic. He wanted no private owner
ship OF land. The South has nothing
else but land. All railroads, telegraph
limos, banks, bonds and bacon belong
North. If the George theory gains
strength then the country goes over to
the socialists and Southern civilization
and the hopes Of our children and
nhi1l rn,', nltll,> -. --
time. Only those politicians favor
George and the George idea, who know
that they a never climb to the up
permost rounds of the ladder under
normal conditions.
So, let us be content with Tammany.
The milllonairos and plutocrats at the
North own no land comparatively.-
C~oniscating the lands would not hurt
them and would beggarisc the South
ern white man.
The result OF elections in other
States has little significance. 1t is an
"off" year. 1t scarcely rises to the
dignity Of an ''off" year. Elections
next year may give a taste of what is
to come in 1900.
h other elections go the usual
way, except-"My Maryland.' She
ought to be with Jefferson. Jackson,
and that immortal kit of fish-no sar-
dlnes--but she founders in the filth
like q mud cat AMI is with the Re-
publicans and sugar trust robber band.
German therefore is retired to private
life and will repent at leisure. The
socalled Democrats Of Ohio made a
good fight and it did not look healthy
Tor Boss Hanna, but at this writing it
appears that he will land, and Wash
ington will be his villa for six years.
Somewhere in Ohio Hanna has a
handsome winter homo then q palace
floating upon one Of the great lakes
for his summer outing and why not a
palace near the seat Of majesty, the
White House? 1t will be but a hop,
skip and a jump to button-hole Me-
Kinley and give him his commands.
When they twittcd Lucullus about his
marble palaces by the sea and his
villas on the mountain cliffs and cas-
tiles in the great Capitol, he responded
that, he was as the birds that changed
their homes with the seasons and would
they have him less wise? land so.
weary William, who is heading now
for the sunny side, away down South
in Dixie" "Old Virginia never tires
and goes he usual way and Daniel
will return to Washington. Iowa is
steady in her tracks in the Republican
column and believes that Hanna set
the pace for wheat. AS for the rest,
motley is the only wear"-Nebraska
and K~ansas-these are not to be placed.
They may be this or they may be that.
UP in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts
1.-THE boys" did not make the game in
teresting and 1T was n walk over for
the ~broadcloth gents. Jones, (of Ark
ansas), and Bryan, however, are en-
couraged at the outcome, exchange
congratulatory wire messages, and
plume thems' Ives with the consolation
that 1t will be all right for him who
waits with patience. 1t is sad to read
now Fred Williams was used up in the
odd Bay State" and we can recall
nothing SO hagg'ed except the treat
noh' vi oohH ouficyCOrn In We OlQcn
times:
They laid him out upon the floor,
10 work him farther woe,
And still as signs OF life appeared,
They tossed him to and fro.
They wasted, DER q scorching flame,
The marrow of his bones,
But g miller us'd him worst OF all,
For he crush'd him tween two stone s.
We neglected to mention in it's pro-
per place that it is all right in "My
Old Kentucky Home" and that Joe
Blackburn's heart is glad and not sad.
XIX
For about four years a class OF
s%crupulous editors in this State have
clamOred. for the enforcement of che
|Dispensaary law. Your exemplary man
is an object lesson. He wants every
statute on the books strictly observed.
Whether it be good law, obnoxious to
the constitution or to higher judicial
6aniefpn hn io f,o H.