The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-09-18
Political Summer School.
A reported for the News and Courier
by Editor of Laurens Advertiser.


by Editor Of Laurens Advertiser
Laurcns, S ptcmber l2.- Special .
The advertised political summer
sChOO.' meeting was called to order in
the Court House by County Chairman
G.. i. Smith at IL q. m. The Court
room was full about three hundred
people Deing present, one-third from
the city and two-thirds substantial
farmers. Messrs j. II. johnson, A, G.
Latimcr, j. j. Hemphill and GEORGE
tombstone arrived last evening and ad
dressed the meeting. Senators Nc
IGurin and Tillman and others were
invited, but old not attend. Mr.. Hen.
dcr,On, OF Aiken, wrote, explaining
that a previous call to Hampton Coun-
ty prevented his being here.
The speeches, Of forty minutes each.
were necessarily on the same lines as
heretofore expansion alias imperial.
ism, subsidy and protection-and were
received with enthusiasm. Congress.
man Johnson, an old Laurens man, met
Il cordial round OF applause when he
bowed to an old home audience. He
said that there were three questions
raised by the occasion which brings
the audience together, expansion, sub
Sidy, protection. He differentiated ex
pansiOn OF Jeifersonian times and the
sway OF the commauder-in-ch chief OF tho
army and the navy. Jeifersonian prin-
Cp'cs are sound to-day and fit all times
as the ten commandments. The Ham
i'tOn AN idea is adverse to the rule of
the people. Protection is Republican,
ism. We arc all eXpansionists in one
sense, but Industries and commerce.
must not be expanded at the expense
Of right. The proposed subsidy is a
giJt pure and simple out of the public
trcasurey. His speech was mostly on
this subject and was well received.
Congressman Latimer was greeted
heartily. He had his audience by the
car with an anecdote and the pith OF
his speech was caught when he an.
nUurCcd that the extraordinary course
OF the Junior Senator had brought the
audience together. lie referred to the
Anderson meeting, when McLaurin
slipped in at the back door at the eley-
crth -Four, with a yelling crowd at his
back The same crowd would have
yelled for him if he had been the black.
est Republican, But Anderson will be
found all right when the votes are
counted. He then made q speciality Of
the Junior Senator's record. McLaurin
was backlisted with himself, but he
soon had his patronage when he found
him to have bacKSlided and panderinp
day If he were assured Tlllman would
not. Not a Democratic Senator has
any respect for him He touched ex-
pansion, subsidy and protection, and
captured the crowd with his climax
that the new movement is old Republl-
caniSm.
The crowd was getting little tired
when Mr.. Hemphill was introduced,
but an anccdote, a pleasant aside, and
he was soon in full accord with the au-
dicncc. His speech was devoted to the
practical failure as well as theoretic
wrong Of Republican expansion. He
put strongly the enormous burden,
present and prospective, of supporting
this policy. 1t is a false prctence and
a cheat that prosperity must follow
from trade with the people of the east
who live on pauper wages, and he COM
pared our Eastern trade with Canada
and Western nations. He was particu-
larly clear and strong upon the matter.
lis speech had close attention, punct-
uated with applause, and his anecdote
OF the bad fellow, who confessed to all
the sins to his parson, but thanked God
he St'l! had his religion, applied to Re-
puhlicans calling themselves Demo-
Gratis captured the crowd.
Col. George Johnstone Is we'll known
here. He is an orator and an earnest
speaker. He spoke last, bat there was
no impatience when il was known he
was to come. lie was greeted warmly.
Ills speech was an eloquent arraign-
ment OF the arbitrary rule of the Phil
ippines by the autocratic will of the
President. The theme just suited his
genius. lie was forced largely to 90
over the ground of the other speakers,
but he did it with original and charac-
teristic force. He said that the post
Offices were the small change compen-
sations for transforming Democrats in.
to Republicans. The subsidy scheme
is entended to divert the country from
the lsthmiAu Canal Of such vast con-
Germ to the people. He was greatly APP
pauded. He told his coon story and
the meeting dissolved. The meeting
will nave q good effect.