The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-05-28

the part OIL our opponents, the Re-
publicans, such as had never been
witnessed in the political history of
this country. 1t was my fortune that
year to be called upon to work IN the
Northern States, AMI L made speeches
IN Pennsylvania, in Oregon, in Iowa,
in Illinois and in Chicago. L know
whereof l speak when L tell you that
the feeling of dread and fear among
the capitalists, the bankers, the cor
porations who constitute the backbone
OF the Republicans cohorts has never
been surpassed in the history of the
organization. But we were defeated.
Something like $17 ,O00, 900 sr' scrIbed
by these unlawful trusts wen. } defeat
Mr.. Bryan.
In the last campaign we went into
the fight under conditions that were
well-nigh hopeless. We had just ended
a successful war brought on by the
Democracy against the protest and
wishes of the Republicans, and the
large amount of money which was set
aioat, 5000, 900 700 of bonds, and the
tax levy increasing the Government
income TO a fabulous amount, the
victories at Santiago and ether places
in Cuba and of Dewey al Manila, left
the Democracy with practically no
chance to win in the last fight, no mat
ter what candidate we had or what
platform we might have gotten. But
we fought bravely and, handicapped
though we were by the conditions /
have mentioned, polled 1000 900 votes
our opponents beating us only by
about q million.
We are now brought face to face, as
L understand it, with this condition of
affairs: The Republicans are drunken
with power. They are moving forward
remorselessly with their programme of
imperialism, by which il is intended
that we Americans, we former colOnists
of Great Britain, who threw off the
British yoke because we did not be-
lieve colonists ought to be governed
from abroad-lhese Republicans, l say,
are ignoring the principles of the De-
%claration of Independence and the
Constitution, and have set in motion
machinery to subject the Filipinos by
force, after having bought them like
chattels in the market. They stand
arrayed to-day in solid phalapx intend
ing to pe%rpetuate the American sway
in the Philippine Islands with the Stars
and Stripes waving over subjects, not
citizens; over people who have been
treated with cruelty such as there is
no record of in the history of humanity
ALI in the name of Christianity and hui
manity and liberty They have or
ganized there a local government,
consisting of five men backed by the
Government of the United States, and
here's the way this local government
consisting, as l said, of but five men
does business: BY the authority of
the President of the United States be
1t enacted by the Philippine commits
sion that a million dollars be appro.
priated for" And 80 we have put
in existence in those islands q govern
ment far worse than we ever endured
here in carpet-bag days, because those
poor, helpless people-colored people
though they re-ar bound hand and
foot without being able to sneak the
English language and make known the
wrongs they are enduring. And we,
as liberty-loving Americans, can only
stand as a party opposed to this hellish
scheme. And this Convention and
other conventions of the Democratic
party have opposed it as Un-American.
What about the prospect of the
party w~inning9 Prosperity, or what /,
called prosperity seems to continue.
There is some indication that every-
body isn't prosperous, however. We
nave a strike IN Pennsylvania ir which
100000 coal miners have gone out to
try and secure a redress of what thew
consider grievances. The trusts are
reaching out to control every avenue
OF business and to make this country q
country divided between millionaires
and paupers. They control the press.
They have throughout the Northern
States control of every newspaper of
any degree of popularity or with any
circulation amounting TO anything;
they control every n of them 1 know
anything about except about five.
they are the instruments by which
the masses arc deceived. The editors
are not known. They are brilliant
writer's, paid large salaries and put in
to their offices with orders to edit these
papers as we want you to don-in
the interest of "my bank" or "my rail-
road" or my corporation" or +" my
trust"
We Southerners, we former Con.
federates or sons of Confederates, oc-
cupya place apart in this Government.
We are looked upon as " rebels" We
are treated as s~tep-daughters or step.
children, with no rights those people
are bound to respect, They have in
The last forty years grantee to other
sections two and one-half billion dol
lars for the pension grab alone, and
the tariff grab, and q big percentage of
this money has been taken from this
section-you and L have been robbed
OF 1t. Two and one-half billions, did
l say2 1t has been more than that,
but 1 want to be within the facts.
Here in the South we are confronted
on the one hand by Northern Repubii-
cans, who are still harboring sectional
hatred and are trying to reduce our re-
presentation in Congress-'mre in this
State from seven to four nd ON tho
other we are face To face with This
situation:
Every railroad that passes through
our country is owned up there; the
telegraph lines are owned up there;
most OF these factories we have been
talking about here tonight are owned
mp there. Half of the stock invested
n South Carolina is owned outside
south Carolina and, while we welcome