The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-05-21
WAS e SUCCESS.
Six Hundred People at
Wares Shoals Picnic.
Prominent Men Made Interesting
Speeches-CaPtain Hambert Pre-
sided-CoI. Talbert's Address.

sided|C0l. TalbertS Address.
The Wares Shoals Picnic last Satur-
day attracted about 900 people. Adj
dresses by candidates were made and
good dinners were abundant. The
weather was cool aud delightful.
Captain Humbert presided with dig
nifty and grace. Scores Of substantial
people of Sullivan Township and from
their enthusiasm for the development
of the great shoals. A large delega-
ton went up from Laurens.
The speakers were. Congressman
Latimer and Mr.. George tombstone,
candidates for the United States SEN
ate; Congressman Talbert for Cover
nor; u. X. Gunter for Attorney Gene
raj; j. L. CAN'T for Secretary of State;
Mr.. Wilburn, Boyd Evans and A. c..
Jepson for Railroad Commissioner, and
O. b. Martin for Superintendent of Ed
ucation.
Col. Talbert's speech was pitched on
a high plane. He impressed on his u
the value of cotton mills to the
South and said that town and country
people should work tremendously for
mutual upbuilding. He favored the
support of all the colleges we have, but
said the improvement of the common
schools was especially necessary. We
must have better roads, they must be
bettered even il some taxation is re-
quired. He spoke of his work as State
lecturer to me Farmers Alliance and
said hat the underlying principle of
the Alliance still lived. Col. Talbert's
speech was enlivened with good stories
and he created a fine impression. He
did not allude to his candidacy for Gov
ernor.
Congressman Latimer emphasized
the value of cotton mills, but said that
they should not have any special priv
ileges. They could make good divi-
dends without a protective tariff and
they should be controlled by South Car
olinians. He severely arraigned the
Republican ship subsidy policy and in
cidentally Senator McLaurin's position.
the contention that holding the Philip
commerce of the United States with
China, and said that the war in those
islands would cost a hundred millions q
year and bring upon us a horde of evils.
1t was demoralizing American soldiers,
and returning they would bring loath-
some Oriental diseases into homes.
He announced his candidacy for the
Senate and said he felt himself as we'll
equipped to serve the State as any who
would be in the field. He said hat ex-
aggerated ideas prevail as to a Con-
CHEESEMAN'S influence, but a Congress
man is just as big As his constituents
will allow and no bigger. This he il
Illustrated by telling that Senator Money,
of Mississippi, had voted for a bill
which to him he had previously de-
,n,tpnnl ot,l n~n1oinnl thnt 70 hn ha1
not so done, in obedience to resolutions
adopted in his district, he would have
lost his seat.
He would vote for a measure in ODE
dience to the wishes of his people even
if it pinched his conscience a little. "It
| know my people at home want a
thing" he exclaimed, "Latimer's con-
~victions are laid aside" He was not
welded to all political views that might
have been thought right in past years.
With changing conditions he sometimes
changed his mind, He had believed in
the sub-treasury plan az he had beHey-
ed in his W existence, but later inves-
tigation showed that it would have
placed a lever in the hands of a certain
class that would have enabled them to
rob the people. In the same way he
| had believed in free silver at Is to l.
II y iSil lo hOU CSo III UhiU IL Has
been, but the unexpected discoveries OF
gold had supplied the demand for more
money and made It's advocacy now not
absolutely He denounced Mr..
Cleveland's administration and said
that Mr.. Cleveland left the Democratic
party suffering from injuries from which
it had not recovered. Concluding, he
| said that he had been in Congress ten
years, during which the people had
| paid him $4,000, and he had worked
hard to train himself to serve them
botter. Would they throw away what
these years of hard work and expert
ence and this expenditure had made
him in order to elect some other fellow:
Mr.. Latimer received some applause,
though the audience was not a demon
strative one.
Mr.. tombstone scrupulously ignored
politics and spoke briefly, but eloquent
ly, on the good results accomplished by
the construction of mills. He urged
the people to heartily cooperate with
the Wares Shoals Company in develop.
ing their great property, describing
how it would build up a little city and
enhance the value of the neighboring
lands by giving to the farmers a home
market for their products. The value
of the cotton raised I'm the South in the
last thirty years would mount In the
billions. We need in the South, in ad.
dition to the farmers, another class, a
class of consumers, but not idlers, who
would buy what the farmers produce
and thus more of this vast sum of mon.
ey would be kept in the South.
The other speakers contented them.
selves with announcing themselves for
various Offices. Mr.. Gupter and Mr..
CAN'T, both of whom are young men,
made telling though brief speeches.
Mr.. CAN'T is now assistant secretary
of StaVe and Mr.. Gunter is assistant
attorney general.
Everybody expressed qualification
with Col. Talbert's address. 1t gave
confidence in his candidacy to conserva.
tive people. Col. Talbert, by the way,
was serenaded In Laurens Friday
night by the band and responded ia
calls in an effective little speech. He
was the guest OF Mr.. ID. H. Counts
while here.
Col. Robert Arnold, OF Princeton.
was at the picnic and his numerous
friends we're glad Of the opportunity to
see and greet him again.
Mr.. w. ID. Sullivan who is always al
the forefront OF any movement that
means the building up of the county
and State was present.
Railroad Commissioner Wharton
came up from Waterloo, Mr.. d. @,
Smith accompanying him.
DR.. w. T.. Jones was among the
prominent citizens from across the
river.
REVEALS A GREAT SECRET.
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