The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1905-08-23
THE OLD WAY E S

play pOIlCtcS ueCenCly. ne mas DeeEt
speaking without indulgence in n great
deal of demigogic appeal. He has only
now and then resorted to false state
ments lin the past few weeks. The
lapses were perhaps from force of habit
rather than intention. Consequently
his speeches have aroused no enthusiasm.
Moreover, the Senatorhas been writing
for the newspapers. He has confined
himself to the employment in his COM
m%unications, also of respectful and
fair words. He has been in a discus
sion with DR.. George B. Cromer of
Newberry. The latter has completely
outclassed him. The Senator has not
been able to hold his own.
AS long as the Senator arouses preju-
dice, as long as he stops at nothing,
charges good men with ''incipient cor
ruption" and slightly regards limita-
tions that usually govern sincere and
honorable men in public discussions he
has no equal in South Carolina on the
stump. 1t seems unfair to expect SEN
ator Tillman to refrain from ruffian Ian
guage when he speaks and writes. He
makes such a poor, pitiful show of him.
self when he is trying to be good. The
Senator should round out his career by
Safeguarding and %denouncing honest
men and whining that he is LIED upon"
by the newspapers.
He has nothing to gain from the
friends of Wade Hampton, whom he
caused to be howled down in Aiken, his
name will forever be remembered with
his way into the affections of those in
Laurens whose fathers he caused to be
insulted by their own friends.
No, Senator Tillman fails, m~iserably
fails, in the role of a high-minded and
dignified statesman. Let him issue an
other manifesto. Let him SOW seeds
of hate. Let him teach one part of the
people to turn with fury on the other.
Oh, he is a master of that black art.
1t made him governor. 1t made him
governor again. Then it elected him
Senator over a gallant old soldier of the
Confederacy who is still stamping
grounding on one leg. He is in high
place. He eats of the fat of the land.
Let him stand to his old ways and
engage in his old tricks and not try to
feebly initiate. First thing he knows,
some one of his former apt pupils will
step in and kick him out of the Senate
while he is practicing the manner of
SO coarsely.
But, for Heavens sake, won't he re-
frain from allthis canting talk about the
behavior of his ~Spartanburg followers?
1t is too much to see this man, who ac-
cepted whiskey samples and carried
them home and used them and then
boosted of it, holding up his hands in
counterfeit disgust because poor old
Dispenser Ferguson, a humble common
man, not smart and shrewd and clever
as is the Senator, but wearing on his
breast the cross hat tells of service
more honorable han Tillman ever did
for South Carolina, did the same thing
accepted samples. 1t is too much. If
the father of the Dispensary, the gov
ernor of the State, a great and good
man, could accept samples without
shame, is it any wouder that the poor,
humble, ignorant cusses and hangers on
around these moral" saloons in Spar
tanburg should have trangressed a lit
tie farther and sold the samples and
committed other little sins? There's
Blease-he's probably a pretty hard
citizen-but he has stood by his gang.
He hasn't gone back on his friends.
His friends are Tillman's friends
though of course Tillman has thousands
of others who are as good men as the
State has and who have been fooled.
But those Spartanburg creatures that
loafed in the beer pens and whom
Blease, it is said, was trying to put
next" why they are the kind that
''howled down" the Antis-that made
Ben Tillman! AS for Blease, he is at
least not setting up that this foul Dis
pensary is a holy thing, an improver of
public morals; if he is, he is doing it in
a mighty lame way. Tillman would APP
pear better if he followed Blease or
locked arms with him and stuck to the
old-time game.
Senator Tillman never discovered
that anything was wrong in the Dis
pensary until the whole world knew it.
Even in 1900 when Tillman spoke
throughout the State--long after Dan
Miles had left the Board of Control be-
cause it smelled so of rottenness-the
Dispensary received only praise from
its fond papa.
If Der Tillman will continue to abuse
the ANTS" he will stay in the Senate
perhaps. Otherwise he may be beaten
some time. He will need those Spar
tanburg Dispensary toughs.
Raise Mules.
MIR. Wess Donnon of Tylersville was
IN the city or Thursday and following
his buggy were three fine mule colts.
the colts were the subject of much
favorable comment and a ~bystander re-
marked to THE ADVERTISER reporter
that that was an industry that his pa
per should advocate. THE ADVERTISER
has always advocated raising every
thing that is used on the farm and some