The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-06-20
The Nera1a aud 9rws
SENATORIAL CANDIDATES.
ADDRESS A SMALL NUMBER of VO-
TIERS OF RICHLAND.
ALI Unanimous on National lssues-Bou
Duets In Profusion Thrown at the
Ladies and at Columbla-Little
Enthusiasm.
TColumbia Record.

up some excitement and some Inter-
est in local msyoralty contest, but
since 1890 there has been no gen
eral outpouring of the people at any
State campaign meeting. Today
was no exception. The weather was
pleasant enough and the tempera-
ture in the theatre, where the speak
ing was held, was just right. But
the big auditorium was extremely
sparsely filed. A Aconsidersble num-
ber of ladies was present, but, taking
the audience sll in all, it was not
one to inspire the speakers to in
dulge in any special bursts of ora
tory.
On the stage there were some l5O
chairs, arranged in semi circle, which
were occupied by various citizens,
the candidates occupying the front
row.
. The hour for the opening was II
O'Clock, but at that time there were
hardly 800 people in the building,
and they were so scattered about
the gallery and main floor that they
did not look to be half that number,
although people came struggling in
during the speeches, the candidates
faced more empty seats than they
did audience.
At 11:20 Chairman Gibbes opened
the meeting by asking the scattered
audience to come to the front seats;
but they din't respond to a great ex-
tent. In fact, the outlook was quite
dismal for any enthusiasm. Chair
man ,Gibbes thanked the ladies for
gracing the occasion, and stating
that should any person create any
disorder in the audience he would
Immediately be elected.
MIR. Latimer was the first speaker,
and referred to the small audience
by saying that Columbians were evil
IDENTITY interested in something else
than the senatorial canvass. He then
threw some bouquets at Columbia,
speaking Of her great progress and
the noticeable activity in buildings
and predicted greater progress in
the future. He then complimented
the ladies for their presence. He
then got down to business and said
that last summer there was an issue,
but that does not now exist and all
the sspirsnts are agreed to what they
believe to be the best policy for the
government. There are no issues
involved between them and it will
be purely matter of personal choice
among voters; and said that he had
ten years record in congress upon
which he would stand or fall. He
declared the war in the Philippine
islands had been conducted in cruel
ty and inhumanity. Our trade with
the islands only amounts to $3O,OOO,-
600 per year, and every other civil
lied power has the same trading
privileges. We have already spent
nearly s5OO,OOo,OOO on the islands,
and are spending nearly S6O,OOO,-
600 yearly on them yet, and still
there are people who believe that we
should stay there and murder the
Filipinos, who by all rights ought to
be independent. 1t is said that we
ought to Christianize the people, but
nowhere in the Bible can be found q
sentence requiring that religion
should be spresd by the sword. If
we hold the islands, next we will
want to conquer and finally annex
all Asia. Because we are taking the
same steps that the Romans took and
eventually he predicted our downfall
would be like those.
No Democrat is more of an ezpan
sionist than he, he declared, but it
is not necessary to own foreign terri
tory in order to extend our com
merce. We have treaties whereby
We have privileges of trade similar to
that of other nations. What advan-
tage is there in holding the Philip
pine islands if all other nations have
the same privileges?
He denounced the ship subsidy
bill If 100000 a year is given,
it will go to the rich owners of rail-
roads and steamship lines. The