The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1904-11-16

If the trusts bought the Roosevelt
msjorities it is safe to say that the
trusts are busted"
For the first time since 1876 q
"bolter" and "independent" has been
elected to Cfiice in South Car olina. Mr..
Walker OF Greenville is record
smasher.
Mr.. Walker Of Greenville may have
been justitl In claiming that he was
cheated out of the pri1ar nomination
In Greenvs,le but two years hence
some may cry fraud whether there be
fraud q net.
1t is TO b, hoped that tn. General
Assembly will have sufficient intelli-
gence TO create two new judicial Cir
QUITS. The population OF the State has
doubled since the provision fer eight
Circuits was made. The State is filed
with special judges, some OF whom are
fit and some of whom are unfit.
Uuless the lawyer candidates who
may be members of the General AS
sembly XII the next bill for additional
Circuits the bill will become law
Scores of lawyers fear that in arrang-
Ing the new Circuits no provision viii
be made for themselves for Judgeships
or So,ic,torships. But for this, the new
Circuits would probably have been ts-
tablshed long ago.
The Results.
The election of this man Roosevelt
and the triumph of his party is q per-
sonsl misfortune to us Southern people
In three ways especia'ly,-as we'll as In
others.
In the first pace, it means con-
tinued high tariff and that means we
must pay more for most of the things
we buy than theY are worth
In the seco1d, this Roosevelt has no
better sense seemingly than to appoint
negroes to Office. He may do this for the
want OF sense or he may be a dirty,
spiteful bad fellow. We are not prepared
to say which he is. If he does appoint
negroes to Office here and there, it will
make trouble. Southern people will
not "stand for it," 1t makes us sick 10
contemplate the killing IF poor, fool
negro politician. We do not approve
of the beating or hruising of negro
merely because be may hold an office.
But the beatings and bruising and kill
ings will take place whether we ap-
prove it or not. There is town in
South Carolina called Lake City aud
there are many South Carolina towns
much like Lake City. We do not like
to think of the miserable, nasty trouble
that fool president may cause.
In the third place, we regret that
RooseveIt's election will enable a
small number of white men who have
bartered their allegiance 20 their kind
to hold Office in this State.
The Cherokee Vote.
Cherokee county voted the dispen-
sary out OF the county. The prohibit.
tionists knew that they were voting
tax upon themselves. They understood
fully that the laws of South Carolina as
now written in the statute books pun
tshes by fine those counties which dare
to oppose the Tilman whiskey ma
chine. The Cherokee prohibitionists
are honest and earnest in what lhey
profess.
The f.rmers in South Carolina have
always been prohibitiOnists. They
voted for prohibition in 1892. They
were promised prohibition if It should
have majority in the special boxes at
the primary of 1892. After the general
assembly met Senator Tillman, being
afraid of prohibition compelled his
Legislature to convert the Stale into a
whiskey-selling concern. Senator Till
man has been sustained in his acts,
good and bad as rule. Nevertheless,
the people of Cherokee, have, in spite
Of the Senator's whiskey speech in
Geffney, voted the dispensary out of
The county. What the Senator will do
to the people of Cherokee we DO not
know. We rather fancy that his dis
pensary friends will see to it that p9o-
hibition has tough time in Cherokee.
1t will be easy to distribute samples In
Cherokee. 1t will be worth while to
the ditpensary gang, backed by many
whiskey houses in other States, to en-
deavor to drown the prohibition tenti.
ment of Cherokee county. We shall
not be surprised il "blind tigers" be
set up in business throughout Cherokee
county.
The hardest task is before the Chero-
keo people. They have won only the
preliminary skirmish against the dis
pcpsary. The dispensary will maintain
an incesssnt and insidious attack upon
the prohibition forces. The Cherokee
people made the first breach in the
d'spensary wall. The dispenssry gang
will be quick to see that their institi-
tipn is threatened and they will resort
to every imaginable device to demon
strate that prohibition in Cherokee Is
q failure.
Every friend Of Senat Tillmao, IL
he loves the Senator more than he
hates VIII skey, should rally around tie
dispensary at this crisis. The dispen-
sAry In at least one county has been