The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-21
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bia. He wss opposed TO getting negro
I la'or in mills. IS this TO- getting the
; iris too rear negro labor, which was
Sn.t,d 20 fArrl labor.
While in The Senate he Cnly Teee
two speeches. IS Re saw no use for
taking. Re always voted Tor lis PEG.
PIE. al d vixen he fought the sugar
d.lTt rtnt:al he held the balance Of
power AID could hare gotten a fortune
for his vote. When he voted for the
people he got no credit Or newspaper
pufs.
He said he was sometimes afraii to
go about The hotels as some II might
get in trouble Tor saying things about
! is farmcr.!ike~ apncaraEce
McLau,in oug httnhave been beaten
when he wrote that squtdunk letter
ard he understood that McLaurin and
| Gonzales thought Of running indepen'
dent tickets sgsirst the nominees for
the constitutional convention. 6eu.
| Butler had McL,urin's blacklist re
moved and be wsnted to know what
! Gen. Butler vas 10 get for this. ard
! he wanted to know where McLaurin
then stood and who he now fav0rs,
! ard it he was for Tillran'sre election,
as that was an issue and he wanted
! McLaurin asked how he stood as to
T!llman.
| SENATOR MCLAURIN.
! ur N"Lauriu said If he were such a
| remarkable mar IS to be q Populist,
! Republican and Democrat, and could
| arrange so many deals he would not
think Of running for Senator, but
! would aim higher. This was the first
| time he had ever been sassed by q
| corpse, he told in connection with 6
! joke.
The talk about his being in a COM
! birstiop was entirely 10 throw people
; off Of the scout of the combination
! against him. He complimented lrey's
| political shrewdness. AS to there being
! any combination against McIver, be
! and Mr.. W. D. Evans did rs much as
! anyone to elect McIver; and as 10
Irby's hurrahiag about debating
| grand old men, he would remind hi:n
! that Irny defeated Wade Hampton,
| who had done much fer the State. He
| voted for Irby as q psriy man, and his
! only reeret was that Irby did not use
his ability and brain to fill the place
| as he had hoped ha would. He SAID
! Governor Evans had been unfair to
, him in attacking him in hisowo home
and trying to make capital out of his
| opposing the Jim crow" car bill. A
majority CT the Democrats defeated
| the bill, and he opposed it because of
| certain features ia it. His people
| knew how be stood and that there was
nothing in this sort of talk. His peo-
! pie for generations were known in bis
! section, and no one before ever tried
to make him appear as opposed to
| white men and women. He now and
| has always rented bis lands TO white
! tenants, although he could, no doubt,
| pet more from colored tenants, but he
| was doing what hethoueht right and
| what his people before him hsd done.
His every vote he contended was
! strictly on the party platform, and he
! has never been q protectionist. He
| thought it robbery to get more money
! than the government wanted. de
| cited the following as an Illustration
| of his position: Suppose the people
! voted for graded school system and
! carried it, and he paid his taxes to
| support the system, would there be
any sense in his keeping his children
| away from the school because he did
| not believe in graded schools9 So
| With the tariff. There was a Republi-
! can House and Senate and President,
| and none of the Democrats made the
| bill or had much to say; but should
| they try to make it as much non sec
| tional as possible, or nota Should
they try to equalizs the bill or not3
The bill was going to pass; nothing
| could defeat it, and the question was
! whether to sit down and let it go as it
was prepared and presented, or to try
| and get something out OF it for his
| people by trying TO get justice and
equality. He wanted such things
| equalized. There was never proposed
any increase in the price of eating
rice, and the bill does not raise the
price, but simply changed the classi6
cation so as to tax the rice the brew
| ers have been using.
As to the fallacy of the argument
| used against the cotton tax: Last year
| short staple cotton vas brought to
New Orleans from Mexico, and more
| will come unless there Is a duty. Sen
! ator Bacon, aud not ne, proposed this
| tax on cotton. He said he would keep
up his fight for all time for free bag
| ging and ties.
AS to his not sending out his first
| speech he sent out 80. 900, as many as
| he could afford, and it was printed in
nearly every paper, and be stocd by
| it. He was Tot a protec;ioulst, as he
said, hut held that the people of South
| Carolina had as many rights as any
| other people. He never remem bered
! saying the people fingered. and loafcd
| too long around Calhoun's grave, but
| it occurred to him EvaDs likes to loaf
around the grave he was put il last
| year. He said he and Tiilman stood
I today were Calhoun ard Hayne stood.
Hayne assisted in fixing a duty on in
digo, and held it was in strict con.
formity with all of the PRINCIPLES Of
the bill. He and George D. Tillman
| also held very much the same ideas.
As 10 voting for the high tariff on
wool, that was in committee, and had
nothing to do with the bill. 1t was a
fight between Mcmillan and Bailey,
and he stood by Bailey, who, he said,