The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-04-03
TARIFF REFORM.
Most important National Issue
Says Hon John Gary Evans.
HE GIVES HIS VIEWS

On the Other More Important Issues
of the Campoign-Favors Imnsis
grafton to Meet State Problems
We Print Below His Formal An
nouncement Of His Candidacy for
the United States Senate.
Sometime ago Ex-Gov. John Gary
Evans formally declared his inten-
ton to be candidate for the United
States Senate in the primary this
Summer in letter, which we pub
lish below:
Evans Announcement:
The following is the announcement
Governor Evans gave out:
1t has not been deemed necessary
heretofore for a candidate for the
nomination of United States Senator
in Democratic primary to write a
platform, especially before the as
sembling Of the State and National
conventions of the partX. l would
therefore, simply state that am a
candidate for the nomination of
United States Senator by the Demo-
cratic party of South Carolina, but
as others have published what they
stand for, word from me may not
be inappropriate.
I believe the most important is
sue to be pressed before the people
Is, that of tariff. I have in former
campaigns endeavored to show the in
luuity and injustice of the Repub-
lican policy so far as the South is
concerned and l shall continue to
do so.
We are still an agricultural peo-
ple, cotton raising and cotton manu-
featuring are our principal industries
and will ever be. These industries
furnished the United States las, year
balance in trades without which our
country would have been debtor to
the rest of the world instead OF q
creditor. Since the war between the
United States, the South from its cot
con crops alone has brought into
the States approximately fourteen
million of dollars of foreign gold
This sum represents enough money
to purchase at their assessed valua'
tions for taxation today the States OF
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsyl.
uania, New Jersey, Delaware, and
Ohio and surplus sufficient to ado
100 per cent. to the taxable property
of South Carolina. If this none!
could have been kept at home the
South would be the richest countr!
in the world. Where has 1t gone:
The answer is easy, to fatten the pro-
footed interests of the States enum
Grated. Our farmers who manufac'
ture nothing have been forced te
sell their cotton in Europe, compelled
to bring back gold only to be robbed
at the custom house and forced te
purchase tnelT plou6Hs' poo'"'
buttons, coats and supplies IRON
home manufacturers at prices IRON
6fty to three hundred per cent. hish
er than they could have been gottel
in the markets where they SOLD thel'
cotton, and yet we are told that th'
Southern farmer is lazy and indoi
ent. The time has come Tor 'h'
truth to be preached ana demah'
made for fair treatment.
The Republican party is tast De
coming divided into two hostll'
camps on the tariff. New Ensiano i
thoroughly developed. her manutac
turers no longer monopollZe I''
home market, they are depenueu
now for dividends upon the snr'lH
ms Jefferson. Andrews jackson AM
Abraham Lincoln with Mr. Bryan Il
thc cer:or, under whose picture
;Eis inscription: The Peoples = 1"Ic'
:. Two ton is Il legend, "Eneml'S 0