The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-08-22
Some "reminiscences.

Some "reminiscences.
In 1868, carpet-baggerS, scalawags
and negroes adopted u Yankee const-
tuition for South Carolina. (The South
Carolinian dcspiscd everything Yam
kee or akin to New England They
put into the constitution the New Eng
land public school and Il = mill tax. In
to the law the Township, typically
down-cast or Yankee.
The people living under degrading
tryany = known world-ovcr Us "rhe
PROSTATE State" called to their leader
ship the strongest personality on the
continent, Wade Hampton, who by
tact and prudence ovcrcame Il fifty
thousand ma iOrity backed by the Uni
ted States army and bristling bayoncts
In the canvass Hampton promised
the negroes that the white people, if
they got power would not disturb the
2 mill tax. 1t was a bitter bin, but
the white people swallowed it and kept
the promise,
After a while Ben Tilman came
along denouncing the government of
South Caroliua as an old ctfetc ariStO-
cracy, sinking with 'incipient rotten
ness" and paternalism. San ancient
tish-like smell"
From the mountains to the sea Till
man was Joined II the cry by the sons
and nephews of their uncles and fathers
who had governed South Carolina and
controlled her destiny for hundred
years. Many were old stagers who had
grown gray and were moss backs in
the aristocratic regime. But they
pleaded guilty to the impeachment of
their long ancestral lines, cchOing
Tillman's Indictment
Being in, Tillman hold the whip
hand, recognizing the wisdom of lib
orally sustaining our institutions of
Higher Learning and the fact that the
negro would have the advantage of the
common schools that he was strong in
muscle, that the white youth in the
minority, but of superior intellectual
endowment, must have superior cduca-
tional advantages. Well done for
Tillman.
Tillman holding the State in his
breechcS pocket, preserved the Citu-
del, recognizing that the negro was Il
majority, that the races were nhar-
monious and that the State should
maintain Il military school as Il nucleus
for trained militia should our civiliza-
tiOn be disturbed, our wives d duugh-
was conservatism Of conservatism
smacking strong us ginger of the an
cient aristocracy, and TillmanS head
was again level.
Others of the sons of he old aristocracy
shivered in the icy purlieus of the otli.
cial household, but in 1898, worn out
with kicking they tioclled to the stand
ard of Iillman, joined him in the Con
Stitutional Convention, cringed to the
lash and crack of his whip and under
his direction made our present cOnst-
tuition. 1t is Il very good constitution
and we are not blaming these old econ
3CrIatives, these kickerS these Pro.
testers that their fathers in hOme-SDun
Jeans were aristocrats. that in raw
hide shoes and copperas brecches they
estabi3hed and maintained tyrany.
In this, (Tillman'S Constitutions q three
(3)mill school tax is put and there to stay.
MARK WELL 1t was Tillman's con
vention body and soul. All the con
servativcS in the State Joined i'm this
movement for peace and believed that
factionalism was gone and once more
south Carolinians were Il united pco-
pie.
NowH This harmony .aaS6fAood feel
ing is 70 be disCJn'iu4s 411wvover po-
icing 0f-iHtONiyumtS in the State-a
of police regulation, matter
settled in business way without fric-
tion in every other community on
earth.
We fear that Senator Tillman allows
hisvainty, as the importer of the lis
pensary, to overbalance his iungment,
when he injectS his personality into
the little debate now proceeding about
the State. And especially, when he
appeals to his old following that he is
assailed by the old "kickcrs" and thus
encourages the opening of Il breach
healed in 1894 anG that he should glory
IN closing. And more especially when
but one voice went up from all the
wide State in May last that no demo
for the Senate
Let Senator 1illman tackle the
weighty problems in international re-
lations now obtruding-- if he is like unto
Calhoun in 1912 when war with Britain
came and South Cardinals young
statesman was called to the front and
put in the lead.
Let not our people be again divided
into different camps upon SO small an
issue
All the candidates concedc that the
Dispensary Law cannot be enforced i'm
our large cities. They may deny that
they concedo it, but we are not pre-
pared to admit that they understand
their arguments and statements.
No Right to Ugliness.
The woman who is lovely in face,
form and temper will always have
friends, but one who would be at
tractive must keep her health. If she
Is weak, sickly and all run down, she is