The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-09-04
LAURENS. S. c., Sept. 4, 1901.
Ti,ir,an's Review of Tillman.


Whom Hannibal invaded Italy he sat
down with an army OF hundred
thousand who fattencd on the country
for ten years. Scipio thundered in
the Roman Senate that the way to get
rid OF him was to carry the war into
Africa and when an army was sent to
attack Carthage Hannibal was necessi-
tated to go home TO defend his own
country. Tillman's enemies know the
trick, and these daily and weekly,
fetch to the front that "Tillman is not
democrat" reproducing many Of his
loose speeches, and threats to abandon
the democrats unless they followed his
flag and stuck to his dogma and de-
mands. Our Senior Senator now pub
fishes n review of his record since 1885
in State and Federal politics. From
this review, which is atleast fair, we
are to infer how far he Is responsible
for the political situation to-day in
State and Federal relations. Tiilman
Is right now, conservative, strong, and
we are free to say, is the master spirit
who has brought tho State back to
where 1t normally should be, where it
had stood for half Il century before
T1llman, and stood nohly and honora-
bly,. He is to be congratulated that
With years and disaster and failure has
come wisdom and prospective health
and strength, and with his strenuous,
energetic nature and talent, duly bal
anced and "tamed so-to-speak, - he NAV
yet be Of great service to his State and
his people. He is IN high place for six
years, and the representative of his
State, he is in the very flower of his
manhood, and he has his opportunity.
AS far as industrial DEVELOPMENT con-
Germs the state, it is notorious that
South Carolina statemen have never
contributed a feathers weight. Mate
rally, our state has moved along for
hfteen years, taxes are not lower,
wealth has somewhat increased, but
Tlllman and McLaurin have not build
ed mill, a railroad, or chicken COOP
westward the Star Of Empire takes
it's way" is pretty poetry. The SEN
ator and his following, McLaurin, and
all the rest, urged kissing hands with
the farmers of the great West, and
bent all their energies to control this
great country, whose power and wealth
lies in the East, through the wooley
hOosiers of the West These Western
hoOsiers arc the barbarians who burnt
up the State and outraged our women
in 1864. They mostly came from Eas-
tern Europe originally, and they and
their sons have as little sympathy with
Southern men and women and South
ern ideas less by far than with the in
habitants OF Timbuctoo, Dahomey, or
the dirtiest Greezers that ever came
out of Eastern Europe or Western
Africa.
Thus in Federal politics, the South
ern leaders have made woful failure.
They are certainly not in control of, or
influential in the destinies of the re-.
public at this hour. We beg t0 in
stance that we are eminently an agri-
cultural people in the South. Our sta
pie product is as foreign to the pro-
duets OF the great Northwest rs to
those of Russia and Germany. We
buy from the Northwest, are interest
ed in keeping down their prices, and
selling to foreign people. We want
these foreign consumers. But are we
to conquer the East, establish them as
dependent colonies, saddle armies upon
them and make them slaves, and fill
theIr ports with men Of war in order to
secure them as consumers of our in
dustrial wares? Cuba with one third
back, one-third half breeds. and a third
Spaniard, is free. SO Of all South
america and there are probably no
peoples on the globe less capable OF
self-goyerment. Imperialism or cx-
pansion except upon the idea of giving
home rule to all the earth is the worst
reaction.
Iillman is on the right track now:
he has plenty of ability to locate the
true path; and we trust he will not
nave to stop to explain in the future.