The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-09-04
THE POLITICAL ISSUES OF THE DAY.
A SPLENDID MEETING IN GREENVlLLE.
Hemphill, Latimer Henderson and Johnstone Make
Strong Arguments Against the New noctrines OF
the Commercial DemOcraCV


lican majority to give tho Charleston
Exposition cent
Latimer then discussed "the Philip
pine business" He wanted to show
what this doctrine Johnnie McLaurin
was teaching would do for the people
before him He repeated the two meth
DDS of expansion pointed out before,
and gave the history Of enacting treaties
When he said McLaurin never had an
original idea in his life he WAS cheered
vocifcrously. He gave Il pungcut &C.
count Of McLaurin's political acrobatic /
performances and told how McLaurin,
| Strait and himself had been blackisted !
in the post Office department! at Wash
| ington because they were Populists and |
he had caught up with it, Mr Hcmphill, !
Mr.. Johnstone and Senator Butler were
the accusers, and when he asked for an
opportunity to face these gent' 'emen aDd
the day had been appointed, Nc Laurin
had ilunked and gone home. He said
McLaurin had built his fort on Paris
Mountain, fred few shots down the
line, and when he heard that we were
coming he got up and ran away" He
had sympathy for a man when there was
sickness in his family but there had
been too much reliance upon sickness in
this case He believed McLaurin's sick
ness in 1897 sent him to the Senate He
roasted McLaurin for voting to ratify
the Paris treaty, and said he had a pri.
, vate secretary with ten times as much
, brains as himself, who was once a shin.
. Ing light in the Republican party.
McLaurin had betrayed ev'rything he
,, , had ever had anything to d h. He
! had started out opposing tho Reform
movement. He had undertaken to run
the campaign Of w. D. Evans and elect
8 cd himself He had been opposed to the
dispcnsary after the Darlington trouble.
McLaurin had como to Congressman
Strait and Talbert and himself and had
. tried to get them to sign proclamation
. with him to lead the people into the
Populist party.
> Mr. Latimer said he was in favor Of
=, building every cotton mill possible in
South Carolina, and Of attracting every
q dollar of homo and foreign capital oh
n tainable to build as many as possible and
4 bring good people to work for them
y He for one would fight for equal rights
~ for all OF them, but he wanted them tC
o o understand that the way to get results
:. was not the way McLaurin pointed out
but was by joining hands with the Dem
q ocratic party and its principles. II,
>. wanted all these presidents in the figh
:. with him. He would do as much fo
=. the cotton mills as any of them. AL
or lulo Vi III
3 policy he had always advocated. From
~ the foundation of the government New
n England had taken out 81 for every :
10 placed in the national treasury. MI
., Latimer then spanked McLaurin again
~ the audience hca tily approving, an,
- concluded with the argument that if W
a went ahead and spent much on tn
,tt Philippines we would be the loser. 70
N other nations by retalatory measure
II could force us to put the ports on a.
"a equal footing with the United States.
HON. DANIEL S. HENDERSON.
a When Chairman Austin introduce
le Hon Daniel 8 Henderson, State Sena
ID tor from Aiken County, he took tn
10 stand amid applause and was eviient
e among friends and admirers. He sal
N the first taste Of the Senatorial campaig
" when Mr. McLaurin delivered his open
N ing speech in May. Mr.. McLaurin ha
N started out q short time ago and raise
or the issues and now when invited to NEE
o his opponents he was not here. TIL
r. faculty would like to meet him in argu
ii mcnt on hard facts, not gcncralities
y These meetings had shown that the pee
pie were not going 10 be led away aftc
H. false gods. He told good sea stor
70 illustrating the uselessness of commo
ID ton, fuss and feathers. Tho people ha
s. awakened to the situation and wer
t. looking into these matters. Nobod
)f wanted to abuse Mr.. McLaurin but h
% would tell the truth. Then he tool
G. up the issues McLaurin had presented
10 and said that while presenting them HI
was shouting: IL am Democrat" Fl,
l. wanted them to look into the facts abou
IS the preacher Of these doctrines. He Wig
d orously presented McLaurin's change o
! | nd
|, read tho opposition speech of the Junior
o Senator, which he made only few days
8 before the treaty was ratified. 1t wa.
D demagogy to mix religion with cxpan
/, sion.
When McLaurin was Democrat he
q had advocated what his opponents were
1 now advocating. McLaurin had held
, up to the country that the Democratic
I party is dead that it has no leaders, and
that they should be routed out. Then
he asked why he did not go to the State
t convention and tell his party these
l things? That would have taken courage
, and manhood. He then referred to the
constitutional convention and said Nc.
Laurin was not willing to take the politi.
, cal risks following the solving Of the
suffrage problem. He devoted some
time to explaining the fallacies of the
: arguments for the new expansion. All
} we want is the open door for our trade
} and for our missionaries.
Mr.. Henderson applied new mule
joke to the Eastern question and the
, audience saw the point. He made an
, eloquent plea for adherence to the max
inns and principles Of our fathers sell
the islands and give these people proper
treaty rights. We are about to turn
, Cuba over to her own people, and this
will be bright star in our flag He then
dealt with the doctrine of protection
; advocated by McLaurin and presented
, forcible yet plain illustrations showing
, the fallacies. The great trusts were the
children Of this policy Of protection. He
touched lightly but forcibly on ship sub
sidy. He wanted the Dingley tariff
provision repealed. This doctrine of
McLaurin was dangerous to the unity OF
our white people. McLaurin, William
mckinley and Mark Hanna want u, to
, divide, and then good .bye-whcn thew
get foothold to the solid South. He
could not, would not, believe that the
substantial people Of Greenvillo would
ever go into any such endeavor He said
Hanna and Mckinley, who were backing
up McLaurin in this matter would laugh
at US Vigorous applause Mr.. Hen.
derson concluded with a story illusrat.
ing the wind up Of this fight. 1t was a
new. clever and apt pcroratiop He
concluded amid not only cheers but
hand clapping