Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1897-08-18

Laurin. taxing up his record In
congress, Col. Irby said he had
cast the deciding vote Tor the
Wilson bill, not that he favored
1T, but because he thought it pref
cradle 10 the Mckinley bill,
which would have been perpetu-
ated for some time had he voted
against the Wilson bill. McLau-
rim In yhe house voted for the
Wilson BIZ, but since then he had
changed his views McLaurin 20
longer believed IN free raw ma
terial, while he did. He favored
freer raw material because it made
the goods used by farmers cheap.
er. The way to fight protection
Is to fight 1t. There is no middle
ground he averred. Some one ask
ed If he favored a direct tax and
ne answered he did, if it were
possible to secure the passage of
such law.
After speaking MS - minutes.
he said he would like to show the
people some Of the double dealing
that is going on and would do so
were he we'll. He contended. how
ever, that Gonzales has scheme
afoot to destroy the reform move
inent.
"Who is Gonzales 2" asked Jrby.
and answered that "Gonxales is
the man who, ever since the re-
form movement, has sought to
neutralize the vote Of the poor
white man by voting the negro" ="
In concluding, he divided the
conservatives into three classes
the hyena class led by Gonzales,
who would vote for the devil him.
self if he would destroy the reform
movement; the mild conserva.
tives who were democrats and
who were going to vote for "me";
and the third class who say that
all the candidates are scoundrels
and they are not going to vote
for any of them.
Mr.. Evans at the outset of his
speech, feiiciUateG himself thai he
had one of his opponents dead
and the other two sick. 1t was
only by the use oe stimulants, he
said, that Irby was able to speak
to. day.
Irby-The only stimulants I've
taken is paregoric. daughter }
Mr.. Evans, proceeding, described
the talk of Irby in opposition to
the suffrage clause. In the midst
of it he was interrupted by some
one in the crowd asking about
rebates. Shaking his finger in the
direction from whence the inquiry
came, Mr.. Evans told his inter
locutor ''to shut up" that he had
heard those dirty lies last year
They had been disproved and he
did not propose to have them told
on him in the future. They were
only harbored in the breasts of
such cattle as his questioner, and
if he did not like his answer he
could "lump it," Mr.. Evans be-
ing thus aroused, he proceeded to
denounce the newspaper associa-
tion and declared they published
but the jokes Of the speeches and
left the discussion of the real is
sue out.
Following up his attack on the
combined press of the state, he
singled out The News and Cou-
rier, which he said, had editorialiy
condemned McLaurIn's tariff poll
icy before the campaign. 1t was
now supporting McLauvin.
Doesn't this look like niger
in the wood pile2 Is this honest
journalism ?" he asked.
MIR. Evans, having by this time
over-mastered his choler. fer five
minutes or more, INDUCED in
some of those jokes which he but
a short time before had condemn
ed the newspapers for publishing.
(The jokes are omitted, not by
request.)
The democratic doctrine de-
mands tariff for revenue only
and free raw materials, declared