The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1905-03-01
We Don't Agree.

= NEANoty EfNhs
AS in the old Alliance movement,
the political CRATER is going to be the
parasite to ruin the Southern Cotton
Association" said a well known cotton
man in G~reenville yesterday. "The
thing has scarcely been organized, and
1T has been organized along good bust
ness lines, too, and yet the politician
is already in evidence. did not go to
the New Orleans meeting, but l hap
pen to know something about the Hon
orable Harvie Jordon of Georgia. He
is a politician and he is riding the asso-
citation in an effort to be elected Gov
ernor of Georgia. In my opinion the
greatest mistake the New Orleans
people made, and it was the first and
about the only one, too, was in elect
ing Jordon president of the association.
He has a way of firing communications
into the press hat are full of poor
judgment and bad reasoning. The bust
ness world has come to regard Harvie
Jordan as q huge joke and when he was
elected president of the association,
Wall street snickered. And it was rea-
sonable that they should. Who made
himself more ridiculous than the Hon
orable Harvie Jordon on several occa-
sions last summer, when he sung out
for 12-cent cotton and when the props
were knocked from under him he had
to sing down to a 10-cent tune and now
| cotton &c cn1linor Co., n ~o~ IL L.
cost the farmers of the South a mint of
money. He showed he did not under
stand the cotton business and was hope
lessly lost in his estimates of the size
of the crop. Can such a man inspire
conidence--th the kind of confidence ne
cessary to make the cotton association
a power and a success?
"As for the State Convention at Co.
lumbia several days ago, that was
nearer home. l had an opportunity to
watch it, and watched it closely. 1t
was badly crippled by political schem-
ers: men who have got to be rooted
out If the association is to be worth a
cent. In fact its very life depends on
freezing out the political CRATER who
is %eternally trying to help himself at
the expense of the public. There were
men at the State Convention who
wouldn't know a cotton stalk from an
Irish potato bush. They were there
for a purpose, but not for the good of
the farmer. They destroyed much of
the confidence that was necessary to
the welfare of such a gathering. l have
no reference whatever to the cotton
mill presidents, for they were specially
invited and very properly accepted, the
interests being so much in common, but
am after the fellow that wants to be
Governor of South Carolina, or Con-
gresham or anything else, who goes
into the farmers association with the
idea that he is lettering his chances of
election.
For my part | fear still lower
prices. The farmers have fired their
last gun. There will be nothing now
to prevent a bear campaign, and the
bears are going to put in some heavy
work. They have been stupying the
situation. They know that at every
Convention there has been pickering
and strife and discomfort. heard a
prominent farmer say a day or two ago
that he was Disguised with the turn of
affairs and that he expected to sell his
cotton as he saw fit. The association
could go TO pieces so far as he was
concerned, because it had already been
ruined by politicians and it's effective
ness destroyed.
This course is a gloomy view 1t
may be an eXaggeration, but it serves
to show the effect of unwarranted in
reference on the part of the mar with
an axe to grind. The association is by
no means wrecked though it has been
crippled and injured by some of it's of
fcers. There are strong men in it and
| hope to see it held together and firmly
established, but in doing this they will
have to gag the politician and the man
with the to grind, gag them and
throw them out, and as soon as posi-
BILE.
II am afraid that hundreds of the
farmers are going to sell with each lit
tie advance in the market. This re-
lieves the situation. 1t gives the bears
just what they want and they keep
hammering at the market. That is nv
reason for fearing a further decline.
The biggest gun of the farmers has
been fired. 1t has proved to be weak
and now | predict a bear movement of
the most strenuous sort. - Greenville
News.
The gentleman above referred to
may be correct in his prophecy. We "~a
inclined to believe otherwise. Mr..
vie Jordan may be a politician.
of it? If the scheme succeeds an
ends are accomplished, let the pror
ers run for Congress or Governo.' DC
anything else they wish. Moreover
they will deserve something. Not as a
reward but because they will have
shown themselves capable of undertake
ing the management of the affairs of
the people.
At present there can be no danger
because they themselves have pre-
Guided that by a constitution of their
own making.
If the scheme falls to the ground as
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