The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-07-22
EVANS AT AHH& EN.

WAS to give at least one tull report OF the
,rr,mont of each candidate, | send the
.,,ooob Of ex-Govcruor Evans delivered ut
this place.
AZ nm Introduction he said:
lie regretted the small asScmbln%c.
A new issue had been raised for the first
time since 1882. Mr.. Calhoun succeeded
in arousing the people so that this State
was ready for notification against oppres-
sion. The fight eff Calhoun had been con-
tjnucd until to-day, so that l believe
TINT tariff reform had become i'll demo- |
cracy like the religion of our fathers.
lie alluded to the omission Of the word |
"only,, in the Chicago platform. Mr..
EcI.aurin posed to call himScl' the apo@.
tie of the New Evan9cl. lcpudiatcd "tar-
if' for revenue only" and declared that it
was impossible.
Mr.. Evans asserted that NJ cLaurin' :
claim that England did not have free
trade was incorrect; that England had
practically free trade. England, on ac-
count of her exports, was compelled to
export manufactured products.
The democratic party believes in II
"tarfl fol revenue only' that not ono
cent more than was necessary to pay the
expenses of the government should he
raised by taxation.
The Republican, party has h"cn c">r
trollcd bv millionaire manufactures, whose
interests are ant;ry OniStic to yours. Ihry
believe that higher duties Should 1T"
placed on wn"lrn goods, shoe :. etc, III
order to project them, because they were
l.,,.t
pcrsucd So far until they, The protected
manufactures, are lousy with wealth.
During the w;lr, Il war tmi( WAS inst'-
tutcd bnt now when the poor man wants
to buy cheap blankets You are asked To
pay Il tax upon them. Mr.. NcI.aurin
should come ont rs the men on tn" Scit-
coast have, who have received protection.
and who eail themselves r"pnh!j'ans.
1t is wrong to preach rcVuhljrtnitm in
democratic livery.
Yon must iu'Ir,' II man hy The com
pany he keeps. When YOU see rrpnh
lcans pattinyH "Sprlh Carolina Demo.
crnt" on the back and inviting him into
the fold il is time 20 hr Suspicious. When
republicans give Il Democrat bone they
cut the bcrf>trlir from around it. Our
young friend Mr.. Mcl.aurin got to Con-
grcss anu niahr no great reputation but
had the culr>t way he had ever S,ch in
getting around newspaper reporters aud
having hinrcif advertised. ULlughlrr }
Northern newspapers had praised him
and lnudrd him, Six democrats in the
senate and thirty nine in the house only
had voted with rillman and vet Nc
Laurin speaks Of his crowd on the
democracy.
Here Mr.. Evans read an extract from
The New York Mail and Express, n r,.-
publican paper, Welcoming him and laud
ing him as Il protrctionist.
Curtis. Of The Chicago Record. had Il"
c!trui iiti Nici .nurin was :; prot, t. ioni ,
The New York Tribune ylccfull,
quoted McI.aurn rs saying that it wa
time for Southc"', men to cease loafil
around Calhou'> grave.
What is the new doctrine ? Tom Reed
the Interest OF republicans, appointc
MIR. MclMurin to the ways and mean
committee. He was young man an
without reputation, but Rcou had to p'
some democrats on the committed.
negro paper in Washington had editor
all praised McI,aurin for opposing III
"Jim Crow Car Bill" In the South Care
lima house, which Evans voted for an
the purpose of this editorial was 10 II
tlucnce Reed in McLaurins bcbah.
.otton? He puts tax q
... .yatou. only 10000 bales
"a. ,r"ugnt to the United state
,w. cant raise long staple &C
re dependent on the ma
Kc,s oi Lnc world for the price of yo,
cotton. The crop is 6,GGG,000 l,u",U'
arc consumed in This country and the |
mnindcr, 7,0Ao,000, the surplus, 9"
abroad where the price is fixed. Cote
sells for less in El, opc than here, brrau
the European pays no tarlt( tax, MI NJ
Laurin in puttnga Il tax on cotton, tax
the socks and undrrshirts You wear. l.
rlvian cotton is used in adultcrating woo
Won f0rmprc yrbo cup,t blIv yoolrb rnOt
will be forced to pav more for suit lii
this | wear, which cost eight dollars O
account OF the tax Mr.. McLaurin j.;
placed upon it. 1t will cost, say, tc
dollars next year. 1t not this taxing I'll
farmer, his wife and daughter? And ft
what? TO pay debt To Tom Rcr'
YOu farmers who rnsc 0,00O003 bal,
of cotton are to b. taxed for the brnci
of sea island Negroes who produce onl
100000 bales OF cotton and lhrcc-fourtl
of that in Georgia..
III prove that McLaurin is Il prote'
tionisl. When the Dinglcy hell was
the house cnmmittcc, McLiurn vote
stintc the the s. per cent, duty on wOr
Tor the 800 per cent. proposed by the rr
publicans; was not that protcctOn?
Then Mr.. Evans looks up the 'c0u
penSnting tax on manufactured good
and said that TIE republicans had bee
given IN putting the duty on Egyp,ia,
cotton, club with which to maui Mr.
McLaurn'S constituents. II Tillman tool
wrong position, he would dare to vot
against it.
McLaurin claims credit for free bag
ging and ties but he was there to vote 10
them. But we dol't get free baggns
and ties, for raftcr the senate put them ol
the free list the house cOnferccS demand
that the duty be restored on the ground
that concessions had been granted to
southcrn planters which rendered the
restoration of the duty just. Mr.. Evans
read newspaper extracts to prove this
position and asserting it as o. fact. The
republicans were simply using the club
provided by "the New Evangcl.'
The South stands where she always has