The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-08-11

of Republican newspapers on McLaurir.
lie argued that McLaurin was convicted
by his own statements of advocating Re-
publican doctrines. The farmer wEH
wears the clothes pays the duties Nc
Laurin would impose. The South has
paid too much already. Bailey wants
protection TO-: wool, as he wants to pro-
tect q little wool they raise in Texas. He
made much of the alleged statement Of
McLaurin that eve have fingered around
the grave Of Calhoun too long," McLau.
rim has gone with the champagne crowd,
and has forgotten his place down here.
The farmer has no share in protection,
no matter how it Is put. He said Nc
Laurin should have gone with the Re-
publicans, like Miles Hazard, of George
town. Mr.. ]Ivans was frequently ap-
plauded.
,dR. M'LAURIN
said he thou sht he could satisfactorily
answer every point made against hin to
any fair minded man. He did not see
why he should be attacked as to the dis
pensary bill, when Evans, the father of
the bill. was here. The Latimer bill, he
said, should have been passed, as a mat
ter of States rights. It was voted for by
every Democrat in the Senate. It simply
carried out the intention of the Wilson
| tiCG. AL LuhG WAS WduLeo WdS " loG lu0
people regulate their own affairs. He
wanted to know why when he had to
answer three speeches, and make his own
he should have to defend Governor Eller-
be-. These are all State matters, end should
not be forced into this national cam
paign. He said all of them were running
after him. He was not here to oke, but
to render an account OF his stewardship.
Mr.. Evans had talked as if he (McLaurin)
had some power in framing a tariff bill,
as il he could fix the bill. A Democrat
is almost powerless. He first defended
his raw material principles. He said he
never said anything against Calhoun's
memory, and always defended him, and
stood on Calhoun's principle. Free raw
material was left-handed protection,
and ever more insidious and dangerous.
He took ee sas the P.ositi 10 o. of anf Gal,
and forcibly as he could as to the
Dingloy bill and his position on it. He
took up the only fight that could have
been made against the tariff iniquity. He
made his fights and took his position
when Gen. Earle was in the full power OF
health, and never until there was q va
cancy and they wanted his Office was
there the Insulting insinuation that he
was a Republican. He tried to point out
the horrible inequalities of the tariff bill,
and his and Tillman's fight was the only
way it could be done. He could not see
why a duty on wheat should be support
ed and not one on cotton. Every Carroll:
ma member voted fG.-suI5 duty on wheat
, and Iis was sick and tired Of seeing this
sectional tariff. The Democratic Wilson
bill had protection in it. The duty on
cotton was, if nothing more, a good pre-
c%autionary measure. He read q strong
letter from Mr.. Fred O.. Brown, of An
derson, the largest cotton buyer here.
Mr.. Brown defended Mr., McLaurin's
cotton views on the ground that the duty
was necessary to protect Allan cotton
against Egyptian cotton that came in
competition free of duty. He could not
see how the short staple man could be
Injured by the duty proposed. Mr.. Nc.
Laurin went on to say how he tried to
benefit this promising section, and then
went on to explain his vote on lumber
his duty to stand by his people, and had
it not been for this campaign nobody
would have heard of these attacks on
his record. he took his position before
Tillman took his, although it was identical.
He was called a Republican simplybecause
he tried to stand up for his people. His
purpose had been to get every free silver
man to work together, and they have to
be given q platform big and broad enough
for all to stand on. He said Evans
talking of Bailey being a little Texas pol
itician was like q %toothpick talking of a
telegraph pole. (Applause.) Mr.. Nc
Laurin was well applauded.
Col. IRBY
spoke last. He said he was not going to
talk long. The liar, he said, was still
abroad. He would allow no friend to at
tack the personal record Of his opponents.
They found some n in North Carolina
to daddy the lie. No one here was mean
enough to do SO. He knew it was a lie,
but it had to be nailed to the cross. He
then read the following letter:
TRENTON, s.. c., July 80, 1897.
Hon. j. L. IN. Irby-Dear Sir: I have
Just returned from Mooresville, n, c.,
and write to say the interview copied in
the State from the Charlotte Chronicle is
ed through Charlotte Sunday, and I have
had nothing to say about your candidacy
I do this in justice to myself as we'll as
you. lam absolutely hands eff in the
Senatorial race. Yours truly,
B. r. TlLLMAN.
This was just what he expected. He
ridiculed the idea that he was in any
combination against McLaurin, OF that
he was running with Evans. This all
took we'll. He wss not pleading persecu-
ton, but was telling facts. He was fight
ing the world, the flesh and the devil
Gonzales, Ellerbe and Neal. 1t was fine
to think Of big fat Bill Neal lying up with
Gonzales. Neal actually did not want
the Conservatives to vote way back yon-
der, and they now wanted a new party,
he supposed a F Republican party, because
McLaurin is to head it. The newspapers
did not once love McLaurin, that is, the
State, the News and Courier and the Tom
Tit Herald. McLaurin would have had
a p'alk.over had it not been for his en-
terlug the field, and after he has broken
the pony (McLaurin) the others want to
ride him.
Some one ggested that Irby get to
facts and not run.
Col. Irby then went on to say that what
the people wanted was Democracy, and
that was why be ran. He condemned
the threatened bolt OF the National Con-
v%ention, because he condemned boiling
in 1890. The politicians tried to unload
him because he could not be used like
putty, and the only thing against him
he was sacrificed. Latimer n Strait
were never taken off the black list. He
did not know why McLaurin was taken
off the black list, and he knew the friends
of Butler claim that he was for Butler
against Tillman. He had the right to u
for office whether Mr.. Ellerbe will use
the constabulary against him or not. Why
is it that Gonzales, who has been fighting
the people for six years, takes up Nc
Laurin? Is it as an available candidate
to split the Reform log? Why should
Neal fight him? He had left his work to
go to Laurens and do political work. The
newspapers and others wanted McLaurin
because they wanted a new party and
wanted 10 relegate the old leaders. He
was offered any duty he wanted on rice
If he would vote for the Wilson bill, but
be would not. He did not want the Will
son bill, but it was the best possible. lie
said Samps Pope was a good bed-felloW
for McLaurin, and some time he would
explain the whole of that Murphy mat
ter. It was easily explained II be had
time. There was not a blur or Flemish
on his record. He was q Democrat and
Reformer above all things. Col. Irby
spoke perhaps longer than he expected.
The matter Mr.. Mayfleld referred to as
having the earmarks of a lawyer, was an
interview in the Charleston Critic, and
not the agreement.
The meeting tomorrow will be held
at Greenwood, and the schedules for
reaching that place from hore are poor.
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