The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-08-06

CANDIDATES,
A PLEASANT MEETING AT THE
CITY PARK.

81" 49, ANN IaN.M II
Five Hundred People Listened TO the
Speeches with UnfIagRing Interest.
Greenville Mountaineer, Aug.2
The six gentlemen who are candi-
dates for the United States Senate hon
ored the people OF GreenyiIle with their
presence yesterday, and they were
greeted at the city park by an audi
ence of five hundred, including about
fifty ladies, who were on the outskirts
of the crowd. The order throughout
the speaking was most excellent, and
it was plainly to be seen that it WAS
"No-Man's Land" 80 far as the de-
monstrations indicated the preference
in candidates. Greenvllle is fallow
ground for them, and the seed sown
by the speeches will terminate and
bear fruit ON the Goth of August. Capt.
A. Blythe presided at the meeting,
and introduced the speakers in the
briefest style, 30 that 20 time was lost
on the preliminaries. The bulk of the
audience came from the lower section (
of the county, and 1T ia presumed the
county campaigners had awakened a
thirst for politics in the earlier, part OF
the week. The following is a sum-
mary of the speeches in the order they
were made:
Elk Governor Evans told why he is in
the race and denounced McLaurin, who
Is bringing at the foot Of a Republican
President. He Is not here to vindicate
his course, as it does not need any vim
d%ication. Every man has a right to offer
himself for the suffrages of the people, |
He does not claim any right to be elected
because he foresaw the Republcanism
Of the man who has misrerep
sented South Carolina during the last
term in the United States Senate. The
man who keeps his mouth shut and takes
favors at the hands of the Republicans
is sure to land in that party. Is the
South wrong for maintaining it's rights?
The farmers Of this country sent abroad
$797,000, 600 in cotton, corn, wheat and
other products of the soil, while manu-
%facturers exported 1921, O00, 900. This
immense sum of farm products went to
pay the manufacturers OF the North for
the clothing, shoes, hats, plows, farm
implements, and there is not enough left
to buy chewing gum for the baby. Tariff
reform is tho only slogan for the Demo
cratic party, and under this banner 1t
won the greatest victory and elected its
l only President since Buchanan. Till
+ man has made a most acceptable Senator
| and the Republicans will give him al
q III Nv ooho " Amy tCbDCCL
him and are afraid that he will iell all he
knows about them. One of his competi
tors (meaning Latimer) has been In a
. boom-prcof fort the past ten years,
1 drawing a big annual salary, and tells
the people "how brave we are and what
s wonders we performed" Mr.. Evans
made his tariff reform speech, portray.
ing the woes of the Southern cotton
d farmer. 1t Is time for the people to wake
v up, he said, and quit sending corpora.
! tion lawyers to the United States Senate
and he General Assembly. All this talk
u about turning loose the Philippines is
nonsense, for the Republican party has
got them andis going to hold them. The
same way with Cuba. Mr.. Evans told
n of his experience in the Island of Cuba,
"where the sweet perfume of the flowers
mingles with the disgusting smell of the
7 Cuban Niger" The only pure bloods
l there are Spaniards, who will not allow
their children to be born on the island
for fear that they might be called Gu
y bans. Under the banner of tariff reform
h can the National Democratic party hope
II to gain victory? He is not here to dis
n Ecuss purely academic questions, such AT
the ship subsidy scheme, stating that
Mr.. Morgan had anticipated the action
of Congress n bought up all the i'm.
. portant steamship lines. He spoke on
the Transportation Trust and the neces
sity OF stringent navigation laws.
If In conclusion Mr.. Evans begged the
people, when you come to choose a
Senator to set up beside old Ben Till
, man, for the Lords sake don't yoke ur
a jackass with a thoroughbred"
MIR. Latimer told his audience that
e this is but a repetition Of what the peo.
@ pie have had to listen to every time an
alanfinn nnmna round co,.l;1, IA 49,.
and tell you all the woes imaginable and
70 ask election, n that endsi it. He wants
Q to bring every dollar possible into the
n South. He is in favor Of lowering the
taxes, but 1t is folly to attempt to change
q the tariff under Republican administra.
ton. The Wilson tariff law was enacted
by the Democrats, but there was a deficit
. OF $2Sl U In the expenses Of the
government during two years. The
Dingley tariff law was made by the
Republicans, and there is no chance to
@ change 1t by the votes Of Southern Dem
q ocrats. He Ia against the ~iniquities of
the tariff, and he has pursued no coward
;, ly policy in Congress. The man who
charges 1t is making a false statement.
Therefore he works for practical results,
@ trying to do something for his people.
o He agrees with all the principles of his
party on all national questions and 1t is
useless waste Of time to discuss them
before q Democratic audience. Choose
q man to go to the Senate who has a
: fixed purpose when he goes there see
that he brings home some tangible re
Il suits and not stand up in Congress and
s make speeches which count for nothing.
t MIR. Latimer told Of his appropriations
v obtained and spoke in defence OF his
seed, which he said had been character.
I lied as being rotten. He claims to have
: brought into this State 1912, 900 in the
y way OF appropriations. He advocated
. bringing every Yankee possible into tho
State and let them see US as we are.
The bringing of Mr.. Littlefleid down to
r the charleston Exposition he regarded
as his best work while in Congress. for
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