The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-08-16

Arc ou ready to say tho people must
give way to thoso modern idea leaders,
who want to look out after all intorests2
They are not making much Of racket
yot but perhaps like snakes in the grass
they arc 8noaking around to- sting you,
Whom you do catch them you arc going
to crush thoir heads. 4
Tho Domooratio party's doctrine is to
teaoh tho people and then trust thom.
If havo any hold on you it is boo .uso
havo trusted you collectively. hayo
always becn trusted and you have fol-
lowed mo; I'm not always right, but
you Lave boen with mo. Ny proudest
boast in Washington is that | REP
resent my people; that whom I speak
you speak. When l feol that have
lost Your confidence and rospeot then
m going homo. And it ID that sonse
of powor- because [ fool do ropro-
sent you-that maks mo 40 sassy.
(Laugh,er,) It was that which mado me
iast wook 10 into Republican strong
holds in tho northwest. 1t was aluxury
10 toll thom to thoir teeth when they
asked mo to DISCUSS the race question
that thoy didn't know a blame thing
about it. | told thom that | would
lead mob to lynch a negro or any ono
else guilty of tho 0rimo Of rspo and
they applauded mo 10 the eoho. Blood
is az thick up there as it is here.
| l spoke Of the fact that Union had
mado great progress. l want to say
that fow Q ton factory mon arc b.
hind tho story that this now doctrine
is strong in those industrios aud in this
sootion. deny that. know Of some
mill presidents who arc not. give
thom credit for having some sense and
II they do try 10 co,roo ytu they will
butt stone wall. | believe that you
Will stand to tho principles Of s,if-
goYernmont, beoauso yol love your
rights and will sustain thom. want to
give word Of warning TO those )tton
mill mon who have gone north and
como back with those no idoas. There
arc somo Of those weak people around.
maybe they include ono half Of those
othoora. Whom did cotton milling in
South Carolina begin to grow? in189D
wo had only handful. It began whom
Cleveland was in tho White House.
Did it owo Cleveland anything2 | dony
It.. Since Mokinloy has como in tho
| A'AA'o ooAtAhHo W ~ ups L uO UullQlDR z
OF mills continue because it was dis
covered that it was moro profitable to
build and operate mills here than any
whore olso Oh earth. Ihen why should
we all join tho Republican party I?
whore 10 inc contontiou's 5 basisff Ii is
a humbug and lie. It is as plain as
two and two makes four. Why do our
mill presidents thon wish to fall in bo
hind those new idoas2 oan sec no
othor hypothesis unluss they havo boon
bootlioking tho money mon north. la
order to curry favor they must take tho
whole doctrine. They can't take the
operatives with them. Why WON'T they
b. persuaded or ooerood2 Because
they are men -somo Of the best, mon,
! Yfo hnyo,S4I wont,to toll thoee me a Why.
| know they won't follow. When you
were working night and day to make
the big profits, did the officers raise
your wages, oto.2 No, in some in.
their money inside OF year, and thon
they aay you must be Commercial
Democrats because it is to their inter-
osta. Thoy tried to vote these people
against me in 1890 and in 1892, but
they didn't do it, and whom they try
to make them vote for John L. McLau-
rim to 60 to the senate next year to
misrepresent the State they arc not
going to do it. (Uries-"Hurrah for
Tillman.') They toll us we must ALLOW
latitude for the mill owners to control
the mills. With tho new constitution
how dare these mill presidents come
hore to lead these people into the Re.
rublioohn party and turn the N ovor to
Mark Hanna? The time may come to
call down those who havo no right to
meddlo and try to run the politioa of
South Carolina. Are we to have this
rule Of wealth come hero. If you have
sunk 30 low as N bo herded then it
will come; i not, it woa'.,: I suppose
thero will bo a row raisid. I am not
arraying the mill operatives against
employers. I'm telling factory owners
to attend to their own business. That
is all. If they try to coerce operatives
pledge you [ will go to every village
and talk to thoso free white men and
tell thom of tho inquities they are try
Ing to prachoe upou them.
South carolina has fostered cotton
mills. Tho constitutional convention
left the thing opon and thore has been
no adverse legislation, but thero may
bo.
Thoy toll you that the negro is out of
the way. My God, don't seduoe your.
self into believing that. Every man
who was in the constitutional conyon.
ton knows that the Sword Of Damocles
hangs over our head; that the suffrage
provision is only temporary at best,
as long as the fourtoenth and fifteenth
amendments arc ia forco. II !, explained
tho provisions.
Whom awhite man booomos infamous
tho n ore educated he 10 the moro info.
nous ho is. In tho r. volution not one.
half Of the mon who made South Oar.
olina free could road or write. You
oan't put the yardstick of education.
Ihcn thore is tho question Of caste.
Whothor we arc better than tho negro
we arc going to run this country. The
effort TO revolutionizs tho party moana
that tho negro who is educated will bo
the balanoo of powor botwoen tho
blacks and whites and tho white man
who comes noaror boing niggor will
get tho m >st votes. Let mo show you
something. Ho citod the Ohio Ropubli.
oan platform just adoptod--in tho pros.
ident's own State. Ho road tho clause
relating to tho s0uth's dopriving tho
no0ro nf hin franoh;so opd do,,.nI tbo4