The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-08-06
THE SENATOR'S AT LAURENS.
A SPICY MEETING. IN SOME
RESPECTSs

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Reported for the Laurens, Advertiser.
The six candidates for u nited Stats
Senator spoke to araorderly crowd g
four hundred voters Thursday
Holmes Spring Park, belonging to ,th
I.aurens cotton mills. Several coll,
quies spiced the discussion ofnatIoni
questions, but ne sensational incident
occurred. ~ }ss.-s =
Ex.Congressman JohnsJ. Han,phil
of Chester, was the first speaker lntrS
duced by Chairman Pet Smith. Sts9s BE
fore 1861" Mr.. Hemphill said, psth
white South Carohnian was Ayort
three times as much as q, Mas sachusett
man and four times as much as o. Eey
Yorker. The wealth of the North thel
doubled in ten years so that now thi
South is poor and the NorthSi is incom
parably richer. The great problem il
taxation and systems of taxation .unfsi
to The South are what demand correc
tion. Incidentally Mr.. Hemphill touch
ed on the agricultural lien law declar
ing that it, by which {" the merchant
ran the farmer charging HIM thirty OF
forty per cent, was one of the worst
statutes ever enacted. Running the
farmer is the right name, for when
the lien is given the farmer must rum
sure enough and all the time. 1 do not
criticize the merchant. He is COM
PEELED to charge high rates and those
who pay out make up for the losses of
the merchant on those who do not.
But the law itself is wrong"
w. l.. Gray, a leading merchant I'M
Laurens, inquired Were you ever
in the Legislature?" Hemphill: eyes
sir, ia 1882" Gray: I" Did you in
troduce any measure to repeal this
law? ?n "I voted to repeal it," re-
Piled Mr.. Hemphill.
"The United States," Mr.. Hemphill
continued, "paid twenty millions for
the Philippines and it has already cost
Ix,hundred millions to get possession
ofthem. The Republicans at one ses-
sion of Congress appropriated ave hum
dred and thirty-elght millions more of
money than ever the Democrats did in
any Congress. NO government has
ever made money out of colonies which
it had 10 conquer. If we want to in
crease our trade we should make friends
and not enemies" Here the speaker
contrasted the commercial relations
and their growth of japan and the
Philippines with this country. My
opponents think the ship subsidy bill
dead, but / have never heard of any
thing the Republicans would not do to
help their party" Denouncing the bill,
he declared that Americans. should be
allowed to buy ships builtoanywhere in
any market and sail them under our
own flag, Which wouldSgive us an
American merchant marine.
EX GOVERNOR EVANS.
Ex-Governor John Gary Evans, of
Spartanburg, followed in a speech
devoted chiefly to the tariff. He had
rather more applause than any other,
speaker. He referred 10 his campaign
against Senator McLaurin in 1891, de-
elaring that he saw then that McLau-
rln was tending towards Republican
Ism. With the late Senator Irby he
spoke on every stump In the State,
making fight for Democracy which
nobody else would make. "These gen.
tlemen opposing say we are all on the
same platform, but it has, taken them
five years to learn the difference be-
tween Democrat and fepublican."
&C President Roosevelt he Ssaid,
not only entertains the trusts and
the monoplies, but he entertained a
nigger at his table with his family,
striking at your civilization ITSELF"
I. This brought the first vigorous cheer Of
) the day. Referring without calling his
name to Mr.. Latimer, he said that those
who favored "business policy" and
not lighting the Republicans would
merely give the North an excuse TO
take more out of the pockets of the
South, while the South was given only
q SOP. Senator Tillman never ceased
to fight Republlcanism and he got
more out of Congress in year for his
constituents than any other man got in
twenty. (Cheers.) Referring to the
q distribution OF seeds by Congressman i,
he insisted that the farmers' taxes paid
flor the seed. He then made a conyen-
tional but able low tariff argument, ex-
!. blaming with apt illustration how the
protective duties worked hardship to
the Southern agriculturists.
CONGRESSMAN LATISiER.
lsI am the only farmer candidate
) asainst these five lawyers" was Con-
gresham A. G.. Latimer's opening,
He said that Col. George Johnstone
had charged that he claimed TO have
made d speech against the ship sub
s;dy bill in Congress whom as q mattel
OF fact he was in Columbia, ant
3 called on Congressman j. T., johnson
then ON the stand TO say whethei
or not he delivered such o speech OF
S the day named by himself. Congress
man Johnson said that he did. MIR
I.stimer denied another charge of Col
sJohnstone's that he had voted for al
appropriation for the Pennsylvanii
Railroad, saying that he had voted 10
bill TO force the road to pay highe
taxes in the District of Columbia.
Mr.. Latimer then declared that
was folly TO talk tariff to South Cal
olina audience when all were agree
about IL. owe can't change the III
q iouitous tariff while the Republican
are in power. do not favor q lie
{ down policy or a morphine policy, bu
/ believe in acting with an object
view, and getting what can in o pTa
ticai way for my people, IN seeds {
appropriations. All the revenues al
raised by the war tariff or Il
war revenue bill"
Mr.. Latimer then recited what /
ii,ad accomplished IN obtaining appr