The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-08
publican party, were handled with
gloves off, along tho usual lines.

publican party, were handled with
gloves off, along tho usual lines.
The Philippine war was discussed
at some length. His opposition to
tho acquisition of tho islands was
based primarily on tho fact that tho
natives are Of the colored race, and we
have moro negroes now than we care
to be troubled with, but also on tho
ground that to annex them would be
a breach OF faith after Dewey's COM
pact with Aguinaldo, and again be-
cause the islands produce sugar, rice
and cotton, which would come in
competition with the products or tho
South.
McKinley's policy was severely
criticised and the unauthorized pros
ecution of the war was denounced in
strong terms.
Tho dangers to be feared from a
large Standing army wero depicted
in strong light. The army now is
nothing but breeding ground for
jobs for political henchmen, the
whole Philippine business is fraud
and a sham, and McKinleys talk
about duty and "inamif2at destiny"
| is stuff, and some others who talk
tho same way are hypocrites who
turn my stomach.
AS for the preachers who patted
Mckinley on the back, God help
such preachers. Bibles on the point
Of the bayonet, religion ut the mouth
OF the rifle. Christianity that is in
culcated by shooting tho converts.
Tho solution of the Philippine ques-
t'on was not given by Senator Till
man.
lie likened the administration to a
man who caught wild hog by the
tail and wanted some one to help
him turn it loose. The only way out
of the difficulty he could see was to
turn out the Republicans and put
William j. Bryan at the helm, and
he would turn the hog loose lmme-
diately and leave the Philippines to
run their own affairs under the
American protectorate, they to refund
the $50, 100000 and set off coaling
stations for the United States.
FIREWORKS IN THE AFTERNOON.
ln the afternoon Congressman
Stokes made a speech and then Rep
resentative e. D. Smith was called
to the stand. Ho proceeded to rub
off the "butter.''
Senator Tillman replied in a
speech nearly an hour long that had
all the earmarks Of an 1890 cam
paien meeting. He repudiated the
demand that he discharged his du-
ties in Washington and run State af
fairs; also. He said he would bo a
candidate for re- election and would
take hand in the next campaign,
stumping every county in the State
in support of the dispensary if neces-
sary. He would lick the opponents
of the system out Of their boots or 90
down with its ruins He assorted
that the dispensary was not intended
to be a moral institution, but a place
where people who wanted to drink
could get all they wanted of good
quality and the State receive the
profits.
1t was forced on him, anyway.
He found the devil loose when he
went into Office and he did not at.
tempt to chain him. The State had
to choose between prohibition and
the dispensary, and rs the Prohibi-
tlonlsts we're set of hypocrites and
towards, the choice fell on the dis
pensary. He also went back to the
time the dispensary constables made
q raid in Sumter. Flo said he elect
cd honest, sober, Christian mon rs
constables, and when he sent thom
to Sumter to raid Morris's blind tiger
they were mobbod and rotten. egged.
Then he saw he had to fight the
devil with fire, and appointed mon
who were honest and had sand in
their craws to stand up and fight.
Among IN, ny other things he said
that he was no peace and unity man
and the lines we're still here and
would be drawn. The mon who had
formed the old rings and rode into
Office over the peoples backs were
| still trying to ride into Office md