The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-07-16
CAMPAIGN DAY AT ANDERSON.
ANsEL WAS THE FAvoRIrE.
Taibert and Til1man Locked
Horns Agatha Pleasant
Time Otherwise.


The campaign meeting at Anderso
was rather uneventful, but on TIL
whole the speeches had life and zes
in them. The crowd numbered eigl
hundred, and il was representative
character. Chairman III. III. Watkin
made capable and court eous presidin
officer, and the first speakers were tn
candidates for Governor.
CAPT. ID. C. IIEYwARD
was the first speaker introduced an
was greeted with warm round of az
plause. He was suffering with hoarse
ness and spoke under great disadvan
tage, but was listened to with close at
tention. He alluded to the fact that h
was comparatively unknown in Ander
son County, " but" he said, we ar,
all South Carolnians aud South Caro-
hnlans are never strangers" and h,
alluded to Anderson County's splendit
record in the cause of Democracy. i
was here that in 1876 the movement
for white supremacy commenced, ant
there are men now living who remem
Der that great meeting and who tool
part in 1t, and he deemed it an honor
to speak to those men. lie was glad
to see so many ladies present, and said
the affairs of the State were safe when.
ever the women of the State took an
interest in its political affairs. His
tribute to the ladies was pretty and
graceful one, and he made many friends
and supporters among them. He ap.
peared as a candidate for office for the
first time in his life and was conduct
ing clean campaign and he was not
attacking any of those who were op.
posing him. His own county had
endorsed him unanimously and with
out his own solicitation, and with the
unanimous endorsement of the people
who knew him he comes before the
people of the State.
He had no great and wordy promises
to make, but would say that if elected
the laws of the State would be enforc-
ed. No man can promise any more.
There are no great political issues
involved in this campaign. All the
candidates are practically united on all
questions and the greatest question
now concerning the people of this
State is prOgress--industrla and com.
mercial and agricultural development.
The South has spent too much time in
the past in discussing abstract political
problems, while other sections of the
country have been developing their
resources, and as result the other
sections have grown rich while the
South has renamed poor. But there
has ccme change, the South is look
ing after her material welfare, and
that is happy omen.
He Is in favor of the dispensary law
and in favor of its enforcement. He
thinks it is the best possible solution
of the liquor question.
We must have improved school faci-
lities in this State. We have heard a
great deal lately about the necessity of
an open door in China" for our cot
ton goods, but a more vital question
concerning us is to have the door of
every school house in this State open
to every child in the State.
We need moro school houses and
better ones, and longer school terms
and better paid teachers. If there is
one class that the people of the State
owe debt of gratitude to, that class is
the teachers, and especially the women
teachers. They have labored long and
faithfully and 80 often without proper
pay.
We need more stringent laws against
trusts and monopolies and more rigid
enforcement of the law.
He was in favor of mora liberal
pensions. AS for the soldiers home
he doubted if it would be practicable,
but If the veterans want IL they should
have it. They are the ones to settle
that.
He was in favor of a just child labor
law, one that would keep the small
children out of the mills and at the
same time work no hardships on the
mills. The law should be gradual in
its operations.
Capt. Hayward interspersed his
speech with good anecdotes, and work
ed them In at the right time and with
telling effect. AS he closed he was
given liberal applause.
CONGRESSMAN w. j. TALBERT.
was next. He, too, was glad TO see 80
many ladies present. He said he WAS
no stranger to Anderson people as he
had been here many times during the
days of the Alliance. And speaking
of the Alliance he said that while that
order had apparently failed, its prin-
ciples can never fail because they were
right. Many Reformers have appar-
emily failed, and yet they have sue
ceeded, for the principles they advo-
Gated have been carried into force and
effect by other hands. The motto OF
the Alliance was " Equal rights to all
and special privileges to none," and
that was the principle of Thomas Jef.
ferson, the greatest Democrat that ever
lived.
And the enforcement of that primer.
pie will be our salvation against the
greatest danger that now confronts US
that of trusts and monopolies, the
unjust combinations of wealth. We
want capital and industries and legiti
mate corporations, put they should bt
made TO obey and conform to the sam,
law that governs private individuals
There should be no special favoritism
We need an improved method of as
sessing property for taxation 30 tina
the burden should fall equally upon al
alike.
He was in favor of child labor law
but the law should not be an arbitrar,
and unjust one.
We need more school houses an,
better ones. There has been al
awakened interest along this line with
in the past few years, and he attribute
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