Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-18

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nay, we believe that had gold bee1
offered him be would have spurn
ed it; but fattery, most cunningly
disguised, did what perhaps gole
could not do. In our imagination
we saw the paid agent of greed anc
monopoly Scar" Reed, with sa
tanic ears and forked tail, person.
flying his hellish majesty-takt
our junior Senator upon a higE
mountain, and with his face turn
ed toward the glittering dome o.
our beloved national capitol, say
to him: "Fall down and worship
at the shrine of protection, anG
riches and honor shall be yours
At first his hot Southern blood re.
belled, and We saw resentment
o'erspread his handsome face;
but in moment of weakness the
tempter whispered: "Why con.
tinue the useless struggle SO long
and usslessly carried on by your
predecessors? See them now in
their poverty, with no one to do
them honor, then see what this
doctrine has done for Hama, Nc
Klnley and me! Come and par
take with US" He fell, and great
was the fall; and as they came
down from the mountains the re-
publican hosts came out with ban
ners to meet them, singing: "Great
is Gear Reed, for he has broken the
solid South %
Thousands of Confederate wild
ows and orphans, often wanting
the necessarles of life, have been
forced by this undemocratic doc
trine to contribute. of their hard
earned dollars, while millions of
wealth have been accumulated in
the protected North - building
palaces on land and sea and buy
ing husbands from the effete no.
bility of Europe for their pamper-
ed daughters. 1t is insult to the
manhood and intelligence of a
southerner to ask him to vote to
continue for Gay system of rob-
bery-so long forced upon the peo-
pie. That McLaurin should have
failed to see through the renubli-
can fattery and Establishments is
almost objectionable.
The Western republicans have
received rude awakening and are
fast breaking away from the pro-
lection deluslon which has held
them as slaves to the East; the
republican majority in the Senate
is melting away, and they are look
ing South for members to fill up |
the vacancies and for converts to
their doctrine of protection, Ever
since the war the republicans have
trie.l every conceivable means to
control the votes of the South, but
failing to do 80, they have sneaked
into our lines and hoodwinked
trusted sentinel: but if the voters
If South Carolina are fooled by
such chaff, they will be acting with
rs much wisdom and humanity as
he Africans who sell their off
'pringIor glass beads or red calico.
!. We had hoped that the coming
senatorial election would bo mere
choice of men, but McLaurin's
change of front has carried it far
beyond such narrow confines; it
s fraught with greater danger than
my election since '76. fractional
ines should be forgotten in one
upreme effort to blot out, once
or all time, this abominable re-
publican heresy. Once. allow our
and senators to dicker
nd trade with the agents of mon
poly for place and honor, and all
'ope of the masses escaping the
of taxation and oppres-
ion will be gone.
May the Great Ruler who holds
he destinies of nations in the hol-
DIV of his hands deliver US from
uch a calamity.
w. G. SMITH.
Williston, S. G..