Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-07-02
MAJOR sIalsLINs FOR CONGRESS.
A Peizer Man VINO Believes striblns The Man
For The Place.
[Beltop Times, June 20.

lBeltop Times, June 20.
Pelzer, 8. O., June 20. 1902.
Mr.. Editor: One of the most perplex-
hug questions confronting the average
voter in the coming primary election CEN
ters In the race for Congress from this
District. The race is a many sided one,
and one that taxes the ingenuity of the
most adept political forecasters to fore
see: The situation Is complex one
aside from the number of entries in the
race and one that needs to be solved in q
thoughtful, calm and unbiased manner.
/ The gravity of the situation demands
that contest upon which 80 much of
| the real welfare of the country depends
should be settled upon matters of princi-
pie and not upon personal grounds. !
am quite aware that Anderson county
has two candidates in the field, deserv
| edly popular and possessed of rare per-
sonal magnetism. Against these really
estimable gentlemen it is not my purpose
to say one word, but 1 do insist that
weighed in the balance of loyalty, party
consistency, and real devotion to princi-
pie in victory or defeat, the example of
Major William j. Stribling, of Oconee, is
without emulation in the ranks of his
opponents. Against his Democracy there
has never been the slightest aspersion,
while reserving to himself tho right of
all freemen to differ with tho real leaders
OF the party in matters of expediency,
he has always bowed in submission to
the will of the majority and fought val
lantly for the expressed will of the party.
In differing with the leaders of the party
in State politics, he has won for himself
golden opinions on account of the forci-
BILE. yet respectful expression of his un-
erring Judgment; the calm, unruffled
equipoise with which he launched his
thunderbolts of logic, swaying the
thoughtful and unprejudiced mind by
his eloquent and unanswerable appeals
to reason, yet throughout it all without
offending the feelings of the most sensi-
tive nature. Active and potent as he has
been in shaping the policies of the party,
antagonistic as it has been necessary for
him to be to certain contemplated actions
OF the party which afterward became in
corporated into the party machinery, not
one violent and hasty expression of his,
uttered in the heat of debate, has re-
turned to down him and to stultify his
party. These facts l merely men,
tion to illustrate his cool, calm, self-con-
troll and his deep sense of propriety and
prudence. These are all prime requi-
sites for the man who shall represent us
in the National House of Representa-
tives. He should not be hot head nor
a figure head; he should not be boss
nor petty satellite; we need no shrewd
] Ho moro GIdu tuo lnOHenSlVG
incompetent. They are all dangerous
men and at this time, the real crisis of
the Democratic party, all true patriots
should put their shoulders to the wheel
and elect the men best qualified to
wrestle with tho deep and momentous
questions of the day upon the forum. 1t
is no time for untried men. Our next
Congressman should be judged by his
talents and his achievements and, by
this test William j. Stribling stands out
pre-eminent above any man in the Dis
trict outside of official life.
| Major Stribling is not politician by
choice. 1t was only in response to the
urgent appeals of his friends, who early
recognized his merit, that he consented
to enter public life when he was elected
to the Legislature of his county in 1888
1884. He then went into voluntary re-
tirement, owing to the drain upcn his
private affairs caused by his continuance
in political life. He was again called
from his retirement to 60 to the Const-
tutional Convention where he distin-
! guished himself and served his
county with honor and eminent distinc-
tion. These are the only political offices
he ever held and to which he ever as
pired. His friends have urged him to
enter the Congressional race and he has
consented to do so. His garments have
never been tainted with the smell of
defeat, and now that he is making a Wig
orous campaign in his behalf, and as his
| friends throughout the District are be-
stirring themselves, there is no doubt
that he is the leading man in the race.
Perhaps the most distinguished fea-
ture about Major Striblings career, both
in public and private life, as representa-
tive in the law-making bodies and in the
party conventions, has been his desire to
promote harmony in the party ranks and
| his broadminded fairness in dealing with
the great question of labor and capital.
He is in hearty sympathy with the great
| army of laborers and is close student
OF the labor conditions of to-day. He
believes the best solution of the labor
problem is the inspiration of confidence
and mutual dependence the one upon
the other of labor and capital, such con-
iidence as is evinced by the operatives
and the owners of the Pelzer, Bolton,
Piedmont and Anderson mills. He
wishes to encourage legitimate invest
mcnt, but in so doing doesn't want it to
use its powers to crush out other legiti-
mate persuits; nor does he consider it
fair and just that, having secured an in
Vestment in our borders, we proceed at
once to harry it with oppressive legisla-
tion in the persuit of its legitimate busi-
ness.
Major Stribling is very successful
iarmer ana lawyer, an able debater with
a well equipped and we'll trained brain,
and q parliamentarian of no mean ability.
The good people OF Anderson county
will honor themselves by honoring such
a man with their ballots, and if he is
elected pledge him to be an honor not
only to his District, but to tho State of
South Carolina. Harmony Democrat.
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