The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-08-12
TALK ON TIMELY TOPICS.

shry and Endorses McLaurin's Tariff
Views--He Approves Ellcrbe's
Course About Metropolitan Police.
Columbia Register.
Senator Tillman spoke to the Farm
ers' Institute at Abbeville on the 4th
inst, delivering the first speech he
has made in the State since tho OPEN
ing OF the present Senatorial campaign.
He defended tho dispensary law and
declared that the troubles it had been
involved in were dus not to the law
itself, but to it's unwise administration.
He endorsed the tariff views OF Sena-
tor McLaurin, and said that while he
himself WAS not protectonist, If
there was any stealing to 20 on he
wanted his State to havo its share.
He told his hearers that he was the
only farmer in the Senate, and
that he therefore represented 3O,OOO,-
0J0 farmers Of the United States. He
declared that his speeches wcro as
popular In the Senate as at homo, and
told how, whom he arose to speak, tho
cloak rooms always emptied and tho
galleries filed.
Chairman Blake introduced Senator
Tillman as zone whom we month ago
mourned as dead, but who Is now alive
and In our service
The Senator spoke, in part, as fol-
lows:
"Eic@cH years ago yesterday, spoke
advocating an agricultural college and
the rule OF the people. Since | have
been here repeatedly. l have never
been shown an act OF dlscourtcsy
Tho dispensary is the best liquor sys-
tenn. We have tried others. The dis
pensary romoves the chief demon Of
| the tr0 tflp--narsnpal ,rnEt IIn1,,
high license keepers would sell at
night and on Sunday at all hazards
Ii the dispensary management Is
rotton, sturn the rascals out There
was no rOttenness whom l was Cover
nor. 1t is as possible to got honest
dispensers as honest treasurcrs and
auditors. favor the election of dis
pensers by the people. Tho liquor
mon have appealed to Cesar, and our
his palmiest days, could not exceed
Simonton as tyrant. He has rnn
government by courts to an unbearable
limit The change from the old board
or control to the new was q sad change.
There Ia politics In the board. Two
against three shows something wrong.
Something is wrong with any man the
Legislature elects. The governor, etc.,
are the rightful board.
"As to the metropolitan police,
Charleston had virtually seceded from
the State. Her grand juries persis-
tently refused to do their duty. The
officers OF the law were discredlted.
Governor Evans was right In putting
on the metropolitan police. Governor
Ellcrbe was right In maintaining 1t.
El(erbe wanted to remove the police,
but necessity called for It's mainten-
ance.
"lf the dispensary Is rotten, you are
largely to blame. II you admit you
cant elect honest dispensers, you can't
elect honest treasurers, and therefore
admit that civilization is failure. In
Abbeville and elsewhere you have had
honest management
"Men who have constantly opposed
Ben Tillman and all his work are
bound to admit that the dispensary Is
superior to the other two systems we
have tried.
"As to my Senatorial record: |
went to Washingto ton to work, and have
worked. | have helped save you
81 900, 600 on armor plato. I passed
the dispensary bill in the Senate and
Latimer did his utmost to pass 1t In
the House, and but for Tom Reed IT
would have passed. OF $500, 900
farmers, l am their only representa-
tive In the Senate. l don't claim pro.
lection is right. TO Illustrate: Three
brothers own q COW; two take all the
beof, as .two-thirds of tho Americans
have taken all the protection. | want
our share of cow"
| Asked as to the Senatorial candi-
dates, the Senator said: "If the four
can't convince you one OF them Is 1T,
leave all. For % man who as State
Senator has been friend and q sup
porter OF tho dispensary, Msytield Ia
taking q remarkable course.
1--WE are trying to got mon at Glenn
son fit to teach the boys. We want
boys sont from the school to the farm
not from school to b profession and
tho do-nothing class"