The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-06-25
THE SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN,
HEAVY GUNS ARE BROUGHT
INTO ACTION.
The First Engagement Was On
the Banks of the Con0aree.


The First Engagement Was o
the Banks of the Congaree.
The candidates for United State
Senator met in forensic display at til
theatre IN Columbia on the 18th inst
and not moro than five hundred pee
pie out of $4,000 population wer
present during the meeting, which in
Guided large number of ladies', man
of them the lea lers of social life q
the capital, who were occupying tn
boxes, the parquette, dress circle an
balcony. The theatrical scenery rep
resented beautiful grove, in front O
the grounds of a picturesque European
palace, the terraced grounds coyere,
with roses and statuary.
Each speaker was given the closes
attention and was generously ap
plauded. Mr.. Henderson's referenc,
to the Booker Washington incident
produced an outburst of applause
The speakers touched ON the great ma
tional issues, ship subsidy, isthinian ca
nal, so-called expansion" the Phil
ippines, and so on.
There were no striking features oil
the speeches, most of them being very
like those delivered in the preliminary
campaign last summer, save for the
speech of Ex-Governor John Gary
Evans, who told plainly why he was
in the race again, touched up Mr.. Lat
inner by implication, recited his own
political record and stated that the
fol H., II
out that he was right when he had
told them that McLaurin was R"pub-
lican. He also paid his respects 10
Cuba and Cubans in no complimentary
manner.
Chairman w. III. Gibbes, Jr., called
the meeting TO order and thanked the
ladies for their attendance. He then
warned all present that no disorder
would be allowed and said, in introduce
ing the candidates., he would simply
announce the speakers
Mr.. l.atimer was the first speaker,
and at the outset he threw some bou-
quets at Columbia, speaking of her
great progress and the activity in
buildings, and predicted greater
progress IN the future. He said that
last summer there was an issue, but
that does not now exist and all the
aspirants are agreed to what they be.
lleve to be the best policy for the gov
ernment. There are no Issues in
volved between them and it will be
purely matter of personal choice
among voters, and said that he had a
ten years. record in Congress upon
which he would stand or fall. He de-
clared the war in the Philippine is
lands had been conducted in cruelty
and inhumanity. Our trade with the
lslandH only amounts to $30,0O0,000
per year, and every other civilized pow
er has the same trading privileges. We
have already spent nearly $500, 600, 900
on the Islands, and are spending near
ly $50, ,O00, 900 yearly on them yet, and
still there are people who believe that
we should stay there and murder the
Filipinos, who ought to be inde-
pendent. 1t is said that we ought to
Christianize the people, but nowhere
in the Bible can be found sentence
requiring that religion should be
spread by the sword. If we hold the
Islands, next we will want to conquer
and finally annex all Asia. Because
mans took and eventually he predicted
our downfall would be like theirs. No
Democrat is more of an expansionlst
than himself, but it ls not necessary to
own foreign territory in order to ex-
tend our commerce. We have treaties
whereby we can have the privileges
of trade similar TO that of other ma.
tions.
He denounced the ship subsidy bill.
If $9, 9,O00,0 900 year is given, it will
go to the rich owners of railroads and
steamship lines. The masses would
not be benefited one iota. The rail-
road corporations are the greatest
trusts in the world. They make and
unmake cities and towns and States.
We don't need subsidies to send the
American flag all over the world flying
from American ships. This can be
done by the repeal of the present ma
rine laws. He favored tariff for rev.
enue only, and would have law
whereby all corporations should be
compelled TO show their books, 80 that
the trust problem can be ihtelligently
handled.
MIR. Henderson followed in a good
speech, and said that all issues should
be discussed manfully and calmly. In
quite an earnest and eloquent burst he
declared that it was not necessary in
South Carolina in order to be progress
sive to be Republican. Let us be
progressive, but let us not cast aside
the principles OF the Democratic party.
He declared that some things had
been settled by the war and some can
never be settled except in the right
way. Slavery has been abolished for.
ever in the country and the negro has
his rights, but that will never fit
Booker Washington or any other OF
his class to sit down at the same table
with white man applause and
cheers). He said he was sick of the
phrases 6" Old South" and New
South" We are proud of the South
and as the union is one and indestruc
tible 1t must not be forgotten that the
same is true of the States.
He declared that trusts were the le
gitimate offspring of the Republican
tariff, and in the good old days of tn,
Democratic tariff such thing wa
never heard of. No one but the mos
blatant demagogue would pirate agains
corporations because they are such
but when they stifle competition an,
an.