The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-01-22
LAURENs, $. c., Jan. ss, 1902.
The Governors Message.

The Governors Message.
The message is full, written with
clearness, and puts the peoples repre-
sentatives and the people in intelligent
understanding of the condition of the
States affairs. All the departments
are healthy and honestly conducted.
treasurer, Secretary of State, Comp
troller, Attorney General, and Adju-
tant General, all doing their duty. His
Excellency has little to do but to COM
mend and congratulate the people.
The same may be said of the charita-
BILE, penal and educational Institutions
AS the Colleges, the Insane Hospital,
the Penitentiary, the deaf and the
blind Institution. The State as a whole
must be congratulated. There are fea-
lures that may be criticised: too many
candidates arc scrambling to get into
our great two million dollar grog en-
terprise n 1t leads to the suspicion
that there Is something rotten in the
State of Demark-ordinarily the good
people would not hankerafter handling
whiskey for the pitiful salaries attach
ed; and hence the suspicion.
The Governor appreciates the ne
cessity OF doing a good part by the old
soldiers and it is probable that q home
will be built for the homeless.
The Governor cOngratulates the
opoOO upUh liz lbCISdSc VI GdAdD.e
property by ONE ten millions. This
he may we'll do, but not incuriously
taxes are increased from year to year.
1t was ever thus, States are not unlike
men,. As we climb the mountain side
the view expands and wants expand.
All the departments want more money
especially the insane ASYLUM and
the schools. We all know the case Of
the old gentleman whose gals being
grown up wanted a new house; then
when the house was up n piano-then
the carpets and the curtains and the
pictures.
Governor McSweeney however, has
given the Safe a first-class public doc
ument showing the State in good con-
dition and his administration of the
States affairs eminently creditable.
He is to be congratulated.
Child Labor-The Governor urges
legislation on the subject and favors it.
We advise to go slow as yet This is
of our cotton manufacturing competi-
tion. Go slow for the present. This is
not q manufacturing State as yet, but
an agricultural State. Cotton, rice and
tobacco are our moneyed crops, with
sugar and tea it may be, yet to add.
Let our lilliputian manufacturing in
terest get into the saddle.
The Governor favors compulsory ed
ucation and argues that ignorance is
may not he true. Circumstances make
1T IN involved question with us. There
should be no hurry and the question
be conservativelv considered. 1t will
he q question on the stump this sum
mer. 1t may be all right for Germany
or massachusetts and yet a bad fit for
South Carolina.
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j. III. Hoyt, Jr., the Intelligent Co.
lumbia correspondent of his fathers
paper, the Greenville Mountaineer,
writes as follows:
"With the opening of the Legisla-
ture comes q flood of political talk and
gossip to the capital. Candidates for
State offices are already in the field.
1t Is understood that Gov. Insolvency.
will stand for reelection, and the
other candidates so far announced are
ex-Solicitor NJ. T., Ansel, of Greenville;
Mr.. ID. G. Hayward, of Colleton; Con-
gresham w. j. Talbert, of Edgefield,
and Lieutenant Governor Jas. II. Till
man, of Edgefield. There will be
others, including perhaps, Secretary of
State M. r.. Cooper.
Attorney General Bellinger will
stand for Congress in his district to
succeed Mr.. Talbert. The assistant
Attorney General, Mr.. u. X. Gunter,
Jr., will be a candidate for Attorney
General, and it is understood Speaker
Stevenson will oppose him.
For Secretary of State, the present
assistant, Jesse Il. CAN'T; the Cover
nor's private Secretary, E.. Ell. Aull:
Col. j. Harvey Wilson, a representa-
tive from Sumter; Hon. j. Thomas
Austin, of G%reenville, and doubtless
n or two more will be candidates.
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Washington, DC, Jan. 14.-WuT Ting
Fang Is openly credited with being the
author of a mysterious anonymous
book attacking the proposed re-enact-
which caused a sensation in official cir.
cles. If 1t is developed that he is re.
eponstble for the printing and dlstribu-
ton, 1t is expected that he will be
called to strict account by Secretary
Hay owing to 9 similar incident two
These would appearivery ridiculous.
These Yankees, the brightest people
on earth, with Secretary Hay at the
head of the class, ought to be able to
ssanswer the Chinaman. Besides, the
grunt is in the teeth OF the Text-"Oh
that Mine enemy would write a book!'
Again, only the Congress has to do
with the Exclusion Question, and the
presumtion is not violent that Con-
gressmen should be equal to meeting
WI or any other of the Celestials in
argument.
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