The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-07-16

nIiD W nave al tnaL ne lS entltled
and no more.
But, he said, warn you people i
Anderson County to be careful in tn
selection of your Senator and Represen
tatives in the general assembly. The
/ are to make the laws while the Cover
} nor can only enforce them.
He, too, ls in favor of liberal pen
sions for Confederate veterans. HI
ls in favor of proper and careful en-
forcement of the dispensary law, ant
!, wants it enforced as rigidly in on,
section of the State as in another. III,
had a number of friends present ant
was several times interrupted with ap
plause.
COL. JAS. II. TILLMAN
was next, and as he came forward s
voice in the crowd asked, Have yor
still got that sword, Jimmie?" eyes
I've still got it," he replied solemnly
"and i had rather keep it than tc
have Mr.. RooseveltIpresent it to Booke,
Washington, his closest friend" This
brought fo1 th some laughter.
He referred to the vote given him
by Anderson County in his race for
lieutenant governor, and said he hoped
no man who voted for him then would
regret it. He was ready to he Judged
by his record and wanted to be Judged
by the record, and not by newspaper
attacks.
He then paid his respects to the
other candidates. Our frienll Hey
ward gets the flowers at the campaign
meetings. Well, that's all right, for
the people always send flowers to their
deceased friends, and Hayward Is poll
tically dead.
AS for Ansel, we made 1T mighty hot
for him in the low country, but now
that he is in the Piedmont, his home,
he finds things rather cool.
DIR. Zimmerman is pretty good
man, but he is president of u bank and
the bank needs his services, and we
should keep him there.
Last and also least, he said, let's
take Col. Talbert. He spouts elegant
ly about the trusts, but he has been in
office about I'd years and wants to con-
tinue to belong to the office trust. AZ
for his public record L can't criticise
it, for he hasn't got any. About the
only thing he has ever done was to in
troduce bill to tax dogs while he was
In the Legislature. Why didn't he do
something then to throttle the trusts?
Has he done anything along that line
in Congress2
GAS for his position about giving
the negroes the taxes they pay, do you
know that we are robbing the negroes
of two-thirds of the taxes they pay?"
This brought forth vigorous protest
from Mr.. James ID Harris, of Bolton,
WHO demanded of Col. Tillman the
proof. Col. Tillman started to explain,
and Mr.. Harris insisted that Tillman
should not make such an assertion
without the proof. There were cheers
and counter cheers for Tlllman and
Harris.
Then Tillman and Talbert got into
several spats. Tillman criticised Tai
bert's position on negro education, and
Talbert inslsted that Tilman had stated
bis position wrongly.
Tillman quoted something from
speech made by Senator Tillman, and
then Ta)bert jumped up and>s said that
in spec ch in the North the Senator
had said he was opposed to educating
the negroes at all. This brought forth
a good deal of cheering, to the speakers
discontinue.
Then Tillman and Talbert had some
words about Tillman twisting the re-
cord, and both men talked pretty loudly
and made vigorous gestures. There
was good deal of excitement and
cheering, and nobody could tell exactly
what either one was saying. Chief of
Police Dillingham; came up at this
juncture and took seat on the stand,
and peace was restored.
Tillman then defined his position
on PENSIONS. He favors liberal pen
sions, but is opposed to the soldiers
home as il is but another term for the
poor house. He went over the sword
incident making pretty much the same
statement as has already been printed,
and said he had no apologies TO offer
for his action in that matter. He re-
ceived some cheers as he closed.
DIR. w. II. ZIMMERMAN
was the next speaker. DIR. Thinner.
man said ne is asking for the office
solely on his merits and his long rec
ord. He had tried to serve the people
VI tl0 DttIO poIh III puUiiS dhu III pIl"
vate life, and alluded to his long SER
vice to the people of his community as
practicing physician.
A great deal has been said about the
necessity for better education. He
had proven his faith by his works, for
year after year he had employed
teachers at his home and allowed all
the poor children in the neighborhood
to attend school without dollar of
pay.
We are all agreed on all the public
issues-we all favor better school fa-
cilities, better roads, better laws
against the trusts, more liberal PEN
sions. A great deal has been said
about the old soldiers. Well, he had
the honor to command company In
the civil war, but he was not aaking any
favors on that accouDt--he had sim
ply discharged his duty.
He was presiding officer of the State
Senate for three terms and had never
yet heard u word of complaint while in
that Office. He was State treasurer for
two terms and his administration of
that office had been acceptable TO all
the people. He invited inspection of
his record in all the positions he had
ever held, and on that record alone he
asked for the Office of Governor.
He was not criticising any of his
opponents, but he did assert that by