The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-08-10
A Review.

"Thc wheels continue 10 go round"
tho campaign to proceed. The course
is three.fourths run--thc goal is in
sight. Nobody knows how they stand
in the race--tho count must tell tho
tale. With this week ends the contest
in the hill counties and the next two
weeks wind up the circus over on the
Atlantic coast. There is very little adj
ditional interest to the issues already
familiar to our readers. The can
didates talk out the time--but the real
, Sparring is between Irby and McLau-
rim. Apparently the real battle is be-
tweep these two champions. Irby finds
spoohs on his Hanks in the shape of
Neal, Gonzales and Ellerbe. He does
not seem to hear Of the Spartanburg
Herald. He would appear to have left
that Mountain CLARION to the care OF
CAN'T. Irby charges that Ellerbe is
prostituting his high Office of Gov
ernor to defeat him-and Gonzales and
Neal are backing his lixcellency,-
Mayneld finds Il dangerous bogic in
the Dispcnsary, and ba~ttcrwhangs it
right, left and uprcrcits. Wherefore,
he should be United States Senator.
Every sound promise has its conclu-
sion, il there be anything in logic.
Evans is a Northumberland Democrat,
stands by CalhOun's tariff doctrine,
believes in free trade and possibly
sailors rights and abncgatcs the ''new
o~vangel" in the shape Of McLaurin's
views. McLaurin defends Ellerbc, or
Ellerbe in appointing him Senator,
would have removed the Metropolitan
police from Charleston, but circum-
stances, nodoubt, interviewed to control
tho Governors action, defends him
self from the charge Of Republican
proclivitics, and his course in Con-
gress--as we'll us that Of Tillman.
Tillman is on the stump--a sort of
side track--still declaring that he is not
in the scramble. In his speech at Alb
bcville. however, before a Farmers
Institute, he justified his and McLau-
rims tariff misunderstanding that
while the stealing is going on he
wants his people to get their share.
This is in the fashionable line Of the
logic Of the period, also, and leaves
all principle out Of question. Tillman
spoke at Tirza Friday, before Il great
gathering Of Allianccmcn and farm
crs. 1t will be difficult for Benjamin
ITO keep out Of the muss and his
"rutlerS' in the scramble are pro-
badly well known to representative
men from all parts Of the State by
this time. Ninety per cent of the
leading politicians were at Tirza.
In National elections it was once the
well understood lact-as goes Penn
~sylvania, so goes the union"--&nd it
might as well be accepted as a fact
las goes Benjamin so goes the little
South Carolina incident.
~
AT the monthly meeting Of the State
Board of Control on Thursday last the
following purchases were made: 5l5
barrels whiskey, that is to say, 25,-
900 gallons, in pints 200, 900 giving to
every adult man a full pint: the blind
t5ygcr and original package establish
men swell the supply a hundred per
centum. The State also purchased
300 barrels beer. So the State means
that no citizen shall suffer from thirst,
but all the time Gu a temperance
crusade. None must be drank on the
sacred premises but carried home and
drank in Ghc presence Of children or on
hhe highway guIpcd,
Inspector Hill in his report to the
State Board has this to say about Lau-
rens:
July Sth | went to Laurcns TO look
uD the accounts OF eX-Dispcnscr Langs-
ton. This matter found in the hands
of Mr.. N. b. Dial, who will make an
effort to collect and report to you. |
was at Laarons until the 18th, and on
the l4th wont 10 Denmark. This Dis
pensary | found behind for q small
amount, which thc dispenser aid he
said he would soon settle.
August 2 | vent to Vt. stephens, and
on checking up the books OF the DIS
perscr j found that the mistake had
been made Of ~overpaying the town and
county, leaving him due the state q
small amount, which will be settled
this week. / will recur to Laurcns to
say that while there | inspected the
books Of Dispenser Henry and found
his books neatly and correctly kept"
~
III - SSiSh eO Shpbo Wv
says Benjamin. and run for Governor,
If it is necessary, to defend the Dispen-
sary. Never mind, the Courts will
hammer the life out of it in due time.
The Senator will be saved the awful
ordeal of giving up his $1,000 job.
XXX
In New York, the law provides that
%convicts shall not work, as their labor
would compete with that of free labor.
Twenty convicts locked up for want Of
employment became crazy and were
sent to the State asylum. And now
the honest men have TO work to sup
port the insane institution and its in
mates.
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Some Is to / Frce-Silvcritcs may
turn Bimetalists. Wolcott's committee
is making progress in Europe. 1t VIII
\ be bad if the finances arc fixed before
1900 when Bryan snail hove come