Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-14
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and CHESTER,
Charge of the Heavy Brigade
Against McLaurinism.

Charge OF the Heavy Brlgade
Against McLaurinism.
PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF Is TO l..
Junior Senator's Ship Raked Fore
and Aft, While Candidates Out-Vie
Each Other In Their Attention to
Tillman-John b. Cleveland Makes
Plea For Business Progress and
Provokcs Threat of the Dire Pun
ishment That Is to he Visited
Against the Mill Men.
Condensed from the Daily Papers.
Ship subsidy and expansion were un-
mercifully pounded at the big political
meeting that was held in Union last
Thursday and Friday. All Of the can
didates in the state for the higher Of
fees had been invited, and quite num-
ber Of them were in attendance. 1t
developed, as had been generally antic-
ipated, that Senator McLaurin was the
sole object Of attack, and the ambition
Of the speakers seemed to be to see
which would lay it on 10 the junior
senator the harder.
There were about 500 people present
on the first day, and on the second day
the crowd was variously estimated as
numbering from one to two thousand,
including. however, quite large num-
ber of ladies. 1t was quiet, well-be-
haved audience that listened to the
speakers, and so long as the speeches
were orderly and dispassionate, the
crowd listened quietly; but when the
violent, a large element Of the crowd
became violent also.
The speakers during the first day
were Senator D. s. Henderson, of
Aiken; Congressman Joseph T. john
ston; ex-Congressman ]. J. Hemphill;
Mr.. John B. Cleveland, Of Spartanburg;
Congressman A. C. Latimer and Col.
Robert Aldrich, Of Barnwell. The Sec
ond days speakers were w. Jasper
Talbert, Hon. John Gary Evans, ex-
Congressman George Johnstone, ex-
CdS;ressman Stanyarne Wilson, and
Senator B. r. Tillman. Messrs. Hen
derson, Hemphill, Evans, Johnstone
and Latimer are generally understood
to be candidates for the seat Of Senator
John L. McLaurin in the United States
senate. Messrs. Talbert and Wilson are
understood to be candidates for gov
ernor. The former has so announced;
but the latter has made no public an
nouncement. Mr.. John B. Cleveland
Is not candidate; but Is earnest In the
belief that the further development of
tine cotton mfff interests Of the south
depends upon an intelligent national
policy that will establish our trade In
foreign countries by means Of the de-
velopment Of the merchant marine and
otherwise. Col. Robert Aldrich said he
was not a candidate for any office.
Senator McLaurin was not present, ex-
planning that he had previous engage
ment that was dependent upon the con-
dition Of his daughter.
With a few exceptions the speeches
were generally temperate. All Of them
but that of Mr.. Cleveland, were direc-
ted against the doctrines Of Senator
McLaurin. The opposition speeches
were based principally upon sentiment,
and while some Of the speakers under
took to make anti-shipsubsidy and
anti-expansion arguments, succeeding
very we'll from their standpoint most
Of them relied mainly upon the we'll
known popular antipathy against the
word Republican" and they sought
to clinch the case against Senator Nc
Laurin by so denouncing him. Sena-
tor Henderson persued this line. so
did Congressman Johnston. Mr. Hemp
hill made about the same speech as at
Filbert recently, while Mr.. Latimer,
got closer down into personalities,
made a very good argument, punched
Senator McLaurin with much vigor
and got great applause.
Mr.. John B. Cleveland made what
he designated as bread and butter
speech. He said that the south raises
80 per cent. Of the cotton Of the world.
and the United States manufactures
less than per cent. Of It, Europe can
not touch us either in quality or price;
but she has the market and the ships.
Last year, on account Of the distur-
Dances in China the factories In this
country which cater to the foreign
trade. were brought to the verge of
ruin, and being forced into other lines
injuring the factories that make goods
exclusively for home consumption.
Many weaker mills were forced to the
wall and the industry was threatened.
IF the cotton industry is to be devel-
oped to the advantage of the cotton
manufacturer and cotton producer,
something must be done to develop for
eign markets. Our occupation of the
Philippines gives us the advantage In
competing for the China trade, and we
want to develop that advantage to It's
fullest extent. South America offers
splendid market for cotton goods.
Last year the one republic Of Argen-
tina took s16,OOO.OOO worth Of cotton
goods from Europe. This is $4.OOO,OOO
more than we sold to China. We sold
to Argentina only about $50O,OOO worth.
There are several reasons why Euro
peans control this trade that we should
control, and one Of them Is the fact
that Euroneans subsidiZe their ships