The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-07-27
A Review.

The Campaign like John Browns
spirit goes marching on. 1t is a splen-
did school for Evolutionary culture--a
fresh audience, eager for political
education, squaring the great speak
ers in the face each appointed day.
> The weeks work opened in Winnsboro,
thence to that cultured and innocent
childlike community, Columbia, the
site of your capitol. The meeting was
very cheerful and pleasant, honeyed
words characteristic of the uttcr-
ances. But there was nothing new.
The great men seem to have exhausted
their argumentive and inventive re-
sources. Gov. Ellerbe who has been
criticised by some of the speakers, was
invited to be present and defend him
self. But he failed to respond. He
was right. Mr.. Duncan appeared for
the first time and spoke generally
without regard 70 any particular line
of policy. He has not appeared since.
Mayield attacks McLaurin's tariff re-
cord md hits the Dispensary and jabs
Ellcrbe and his administration. Irby
strikes right and left hitting Ellerbe
between the peppers, q right jab at
McLaurin's tariff views, plays a prank
or so upon Evans, jollies and laughs at
the gang. Evans has a good speech
about old times, the tariff of '32, and
so forth. All have been good and
faithful Reformers, McLaurin fights
the whole train, with an occasional
left %upper-cut, and then delivers his
speech in defence Of his tariff votes at
Washington. Columbia was their great
day-it is presumed that each did his
clean best-and the great dailies'
spread themselves, and their pieces
were printed at large on Wednesday
last. They must be here on the 7th
and we will hear from them. The crops
will be by then clean and laid by. Get
q good sharp appetite for their pa
triotic deliverances+4 prepared to give
each and every man a ~good-natured,
good tempered, and square hearing.
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1t had the appearance of a forlorn
hopO WHICH, oCIldUOI IlllIldu UTdQS-
ferred the struggle for his Dispensary
baby from the State to Washington.
Judge Simonton is not a Gibralter. in
fact but one little man, and the owe
the machinery, and the money of the
whole people of South Carolina has
been brought to bear against this one
little man. As a last resort and hope
Senator Til!man with six representa-
tives in the House at his back brought
into play his talents and energies 70
influence the Congress to hold up his
tired and faltering hands. We must
commend the zeal and skill of Senator
Tillman, as we always have. The
Senator handled his pitchfork deity
and got a Bill through the Senate
branch Of Congress without a hitch
intended to perpetuate the Dispensary
system in South Carolina. The argu.
ment used was in the Calhoun role of
State R~ights-that South Carolina
hould be allowed to manage her own
internal affairs. But, but, but, we
who are Democrats are taught to be-
ohoo VhS IONCEIlluCuU
must be made to hands Off severely
and it was p~aternalism OF the worst
kind, a contradiction and inconsistency
of the most Migrant sort, to appeal to
che Federal Government to make q
law to regulate and control the inter
nal affairs OF the States. The Demo
Gratis, even Republicans demand of the
Federal Power as to where the people
OF the States shall trade and trafick
bands off. So when Senator
Tillman called upon Speaker Reed,
the Chairman of the committee on
Rules. with--"help me, Cassius, or I
sink"-the Ear drawled, and stood
upon the Democratic doctrine Of not
helping a political machine in South
Carolina, and our Senator's pitchfork
lay at his feet. the keen point of the
rapier putting it harmless by. So there
is no help FROM Congress which ad-
iOurns in ten days or sooner to assem-
BILE in December; and If the Dispen-
sary a stand on its own legs, until
the year of grace 1893, it can live out
dPPolltCo udYS WlUuOuU foreign
support. But it will die the death and
ought to die and die quick. 1t is the
most %corrupting monopoly and agency
&nat ever existed in a State. 1t is the
most Migrant agency for political
henchmen aver existing in a State or
conceived. That our people have not
seen its debasing workings is simply
that they have shut their eyes. Our
purpose was to commend Senator Till
mat for the skill he has shown in car
rying the Dispensary law to Washing
ton, and to show how Ear Reed, was
Jack, the giant killer, with his nine
mile boots, his cloak OF darkness and
his sword OF sharpness. And so we
trust 1t will aver be with a socalled
Democrat, appealing to Republican
practices.
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Governor Ellerbe.