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SUPF >LEMENT A TO . .. - t : i DC The Platfori Lbt5^> tn in Part Udc JJUI bj 1*1 T know in which L. ??>.? y ^ ^TESBURG, S. C. thai there b a point beyond win nust not go 111 piiing up dividen kUVC ch tliat it makes it necessary t da tariff wall still higher, win JGcil o raise this iars per mile?moi ich in turn which is water e than one-half of which should be J. Wiilian Congress District o IT is is Making K in the Second C( I* f South Carotin or iiit [is Race for ifS nig iii )ngressional tilled there al kn lore ll cratic consumer will rebel, hence 111 the capital stock w ith water to make their prohts look dece the government stands by prole*, e 1 rust 111 plundering the peop ec dollars where they are only e to one. Mow, 1 am opposed to ; schemes ol spoliation and belie is a remedy. low that it will be iour years b L w ill be possible tor the Llein party to pass an entirely lie ey serves to intrench the 1 rusl 111 curely. Every additional d lit on the army and navy me; :t- least two dollars have been ile the pockets of the people n n- the 1 rusts. It is the policy ill lion and plunder. It means i ve tariff a part of each of your is taken to pay the expenses e while enforcing the rights of o- to seli their products to W aeanist their uill atiH u. ts more se- squeezed out by lr? loliar spent In addition to t ms that at should be given taken from tedious to argue I ;i behalf of the power of the r of spoila- deal with inter-Sta through the he enlarged, so tha days labor "be State Kail way of the navy some relief f the Trusts committed in the i foreigners commerce. w. his the commission other powers too lere. I also think State Legislature to te commerce should t the State law and Commission could rom the outrages name of inter-State I<> illustrate, fcss that it is rigl Steel ( orporatii consumer ten di cent more for n <v-^V tural steel than Ibi V',X diau in Mexican product. I lie He C A \ 1 , : l !| t y ill led liy the la \ ; i ! > I aril) I he Republicans pro- miellu it that the United States great >11 charge the domestic nieal. liars per ton, or 3.3 per Selei ail road and other struc- glaniij. they charge the (Jam- ^uotlat 1 consumer for the same mand inocrats believe that the [ ril!>t mer should not be plun- tilc ^ rilT to the extent of ten ljlc c for the benefit <>f the , .1 . schedule, but 1 believe that ;eiill> and persistently gone ;ood can be accomplished by piec ct one at a time of the mu ; and indefensible cases of i ru ion and turn 011 the light. L) of the Republicans that the. commodities be stricken tro mil lists, and when they hnd tli untry is informed they can t a li them cheaper than they will i at same goods at home. As i e- policy 1 stand in favor of earnings of the toilers in st pockets, even if the 1 rusts n st oi business, ese BOUS'llLS AND HUD in at \\ hile discussing the f- I rusts, it is also proper to sell you the GOOD igainst this leaving the community, e< their own s' ''lions, can be tni nust go out "ul K'>'>d public hi^ their improvement National (Jovernmet SlUlIiS. uiatioiK It is tru< i- paternalistic in i taritT and more so than the g discuss the "'ciu of the hundrec ROADS. pecially in the rural h prosperous witk;hways and I favor by the aid of the it under proper regt: that the principle ts tendency, but no rant of the gov-.n1 of millions of land f l lie Kepuhlica believe tliat it i> ( rations of the h Aniericati iiiauul tlu-y sell iti Kn The I >e moo rat women should ..... i.. ..i. .. .1..1 ins believe or profess to > right, through the op eneticent Tariff, that the facturer charge the good sl ountry twenty-five dol- ,iyuin>l a sewing machine that l,cual1 gland for thirteen dol- 1 lc"1 1 sides paying the freight. A"KI" s believe that our noble y"-'3 ? not he robbed of the en unci i.,. ic, innt lue A1 yj 11 ay. IM I'LKIA LISA!. and with 'he Democratic par l lite Republican policy of In sin. 1 believe that there is sutl territory and resources upon ti jan continent to engage the ene t the people composing tins go it tor ail time to come. 11ns 011 l'oe Doctrine, and 1 believe enecis oi uouimes ana si connection therewith, and scheme of plunder 1 am al; l'irst, as 1 have already sai< ty agree that it is a just princ n. an individual doing a prosp h- ncss in order to subsidize ; lc dividual doing an unprohtab r. 1 cannot \ieu that policy in v. success, except as being a pol ja ful theft. And second, it m; ,t excuse for building the tarn uLisiuies in "" ne\ i<> me tr to that way lines and since >o opposed. ve;it the one wt shoi J, 1 cannot to decline the ot; iple to tax erous busi- ' HR RACE another inle business. ' '1?lt the solution the light oi ti"ii (if - ;<"!i he p<> iicy of law-*^ imp rtant pi agilities the M '1 ? ti--ns before us :T wall still " important, 1 c ans-continental railwe could not preiiId not be so foolish :icr. PROBLEM. i of the race ques-ible) is one of the olitical and social today, if not the lo not think anv lii My Fellow Citizens:it is my intention to app on the stump and to met you personally as 1 pos: since the limited space o disposal makes it nnpossi at length all of the impc issues, I take this niethot The Republic home manufactu consumer one 1 ? for the same ty| ear before you Knyland i?>r fifi t as many of I hold with tl sibly can, but home con-inner f time at my tins transaction ible to discuss live dollars (45 >rtant political enumerate furtln 1 of acquaint- niodity maiiufaci an TaritT enables the uur rer to charge the home believe uindred dollars ($100) 1 -hristi jewriter that he sells in "terua ty live dollars ($5500). *llc Pu te Democrats that the kclic\e !i.?s been robbed in ls best to the extent of forty- throug 00). But it is useless to Anier* r, as nearly every com- aiK' rc Hired in this country is ''ah l' only course of safety. 1 do in that it is rigiit or lest to fori unit} upon tiie heathen or con I relations upon the foreigner nit oi a gun. Un the contra! y that it is right and 1 believe i to accomplish the same em h peaceful and gentle method can genius, enterprise, mdusti sources are sufficient to accom] ic commercial supremacy of ti ut higher in behalf of the Tr zt. crime of the lawful taking o 11- ings of one citizen ami gi at another is 111 tins way in 1 that, for every dollar collec ,t government to be bestowed js or subsidy, the Trusts are i [s abled to collect two or three y the helpless consumer. ^ As between the Mayfield pi lc <ler in behalf of the navy nlan 1.. 'usts. The thoughtful person f the earn- v*s 1 prophet duri ving it to Pa?gh, when I took agnuied in t:K rof the ted by the dentil amendments as bounty -tit' to >i: 1-. pr , m 1 .hereby en- 1 ecent Republican more from j'doptioi ire plat 1 king to the intn an of plun- horce 11:11. I the r, and the then, and the Rep -f :i.!. tll'i'.etl th-it ?!w vill deny. That I ng the recent cama position in favor fourteenth and fifto the Federal Conjy the action of the Convention in the ik in their platform eduction of another night that I knew ihlican Convention ing you with the opinions lain upon sonic of the 11 t>f tin in. Vou well know dciicv of nearly all natio i< towards the interests promoted l>y Corporation 1 atn a farmer whose identical with those of t the Second Congressional I solicit your support 111 election to he held on tin \ 1 ILMlst i that 1 enter- protected by the lost important from -'o j??-r cei that the ten- even more, nal lagislation 'hit since the of the trusts, chlcl that the lawyers. other direct for interests are l"c<leral governn lie masses of the Democratic District, and a?ree to a " 1 ari i tlie primary onler to raise fin thirteenth of 1 xpenscs ?.f the y lti"< <>ur (lancer 1 aritt to the extent ot >>uliU it to 200 per cent, and which to wai Federal courts have de- l'ie income tax or any cnterpi in of taxation by the spunsil lent is unconstitutional, change party is compelled to foreigi ff for revenue only," in Just s ids to pay the legitimate stand government, but herein long v The Tariff being an P> a,u u given a icuiuuauit mile to accomplish it, without ieso rlike methods. It done throufc ency of diplomacy and bustne rise we are relieved of the r jilities incident to the frequei s ot the political status of tl i countries with which we dei 0 long as these United Stati by the Monroe Doctrine, just : ill we enjoy a peaceful and ha] 1 lasting prosperity. Ill w. |' 141 I' i 1 iw rt tin.- merchant ships, I should ,h fir to submit to the latter, i must. 1 he fact that the S e. iargci\ the consuming sectf m nation makes it the more : lc that these Republican polici ^ tection and plunder preva es the South is paying tribute io consumes, she is getting ne: p. of the benefits of spoliation, a Southern politician shows Ulllrtil ui ' much pre " l'l? J rt ?f the N if submit I Roosevelt, tc outh is so ?{ government on of this ' ' thV neb'ro. The unfortunate h:ients, while es of pro- stiii inilatned o\ ils. While ltc uar' was the gri on all she evcr committed in xt to none '''ere can never be and when t!.or' 01 peace betw a tendency 1 citl* so long as tl <\ JlUipUbC rthern Republicans maintain the reins through the agency adoption of these tin Northern mind cr the issues of the L'atot political crime this country, and a lasting rcstoraecn the north and le race question re L. J / ARIl I AND 77 It may be said that the live issue in this cainpaigi son that the U. S. Senat* Republican for four year it is, tor the reason, iir; start is not made to ch. Williams. indirect tax. tl.i enccs of which hy the average n iUSTS. ,l landing nigh honest producers tantT is not a If it were pos> i for the reas- know jn-t how n ; must remain nnnt needeil to s. 1 hold that and il" protects it, that if the home indu-try inge the com with .1 just rat _ subtle, blasting influ- But are so hard to be seen selves nan, makes its operation ductrn tmare and curse to all OUr n; and consumers. Alaylie able for every citizen to may a nany dollars the govern- our 111 pay its honest expenses; eign la i ti could be given to under exactly in accordance uncivil :io as between all our micrcs when we as a nation commit ou permanently to the Republics ie of Imperialism at the point < aval guns, advocated by M id in the recent campaign, v >> well at the same time make i unds that we must acquire fo nds as well as subjugate and tal our fostering care barborous ar ized peoples who can never fe t in our government or in 01 to lall in with the Republics schemes of plunder he shouh I the door of exit from the camp, j list as McLaurin was >e ?" >897. J? RAILROADS. Right along side of the 1 ej tion in importance is the ( the just and proper, and vil . sarv control of the railroad* .ns in then u "l-~ " ??'?! i be shown 1,1U 11 : Kcpu Democratic ?8cncj of tlie i kicked out }' 1 n.bcr that than water and tha wiii finally triump conscience is persist tile proper manner, rrust ques- '' that the Not luestion of taiiy neces- : - - h< is, : Nn in- the North w ih be i sot withstanding the blican party, through icgro route, we must blood is thicker it justice and right h if the Northern entiy appealed to in The more and ther*' conscience is 1 the negro and his the more and more >\ I. 111k.' In arlmit tlm plexion of the Senate, it Republican, and second, trusts arc made possible the two must be studie order to arrfve at a clear of their affects upon the country. 1 lie Republican doctrin the 1'aritT is, that the Cap of this country engaged ii ture of articles necessary will always be immstriai pursui that since the ci(?n competiUot by tiic Tariff, small .lander in d together in manifestly imp understanding that but few. il welfare of the determine the ? to run the go\ e in regard to e,ver determine ital and Labor t,"? domestic a. i the inanutac- ductinn ot any i to the comforts : > ""^rta.n : American pcoph is " *tii reference to xor- nisiiiu i. then there wouhl be cu-ope the 1'a.itY. Hut this is additu ossihle for the reason their < f any of us could ever with v xact amount necessary 1 his i crnnient nor could we the pe; the exact difference in respon id foreign cost of pro sheddi jiven article. Now, this our ? is the banc of the peace! and i> what makes the teruris noils, ami wnose synipatlues ai ration we can never acquire. J >11 we must stand responsible f> .onduct towards all other natioi i Inch we are t'pon friendly tern mails in the end a disturbance ;ice of the world for which we a sible, and it means farther tl ng of the blood of the dower jimg manhood who would ullj engaged in productive e es were we to remain within t ia , * . . [_ gl< enterprise in the nation is more power for good or evi [js upon the business intcres ^ country than the railroads. i dency towards the monopoly idea of their operation stan , of the most profound thou ablest men The roads now , their power under the law unmake any community. T1 . are better able to develop laden with it was 1 influences 'it' k .it a i-tr ts of the "-'kc till 11. i;ro the The ten- years go b; or "Trust" ?in-i iicurt is ds in need tlie crime of tl ght of our ' 'iiieii'lnieuts, have it in i: ' ' Htipa to make or P ': le railroads party ! the waste n,3 1:1 recent Kej committed when it ohc of the pen to w lute man's equal. . and the Northern made to see ano to it adoption of these uch men as Roosecker will lose their in tiie Republican ke the attempt durmblican Convention, <>i nil* uiasbo ui 1111a vuu hie to compete with tin l.ahor oi foreign countri similar manufacturing ei that it is a desirable pol mcnt that the masses oi engaged in farming and and who are doing a p; without government aid, I: tariff for the benefit of turer in order to enable 1,'sint: business 111 compel : Capital and tru^ es engaged in V'''"-" .. , . o,. i Washington wr ltcrprises, ami , " , * t ' sion has becom icy of govern , [ tins country otlicr pursuits, '1 the actual aving business f>r? ? 1 neti 11 l?etv .e taxed by the t--reign tnanuia. the inauufac- twenty per cent bun to do a satisfied ^ wit ition with tor ' r' Section, lit 1 lie lobby of paid at princij tied by the Trusts in which ii!e Congress is in ses- for so e an international scan \]; of the difference in the cost of ]cn u \ een the domestic and hke it : Hirer should be ten or , the home man should accout h that much Tariff or aiuj , it he is not. lie wants reacht )les of the Monroe Doctrine up< tiie Democratic party has sto< many years, history teaches that the beginnii end of all nations that have ii as when its people became \va i spirit and corrupt in politics. years ago the expenditures < it of our navy was $i6,ooo,cx he past year the expenditur d the enormous sum of $8j,oo< ptaccs ' i our country man . single agency, therefore th 1 i- the greater that the niter roads and the interests of tli :1S handled with the more cai U" more justice. It lis very c< ir* ever, tltat justice as betweei and the people will not prev; 311 halls of legislation tilled \vi >?> lawyers in a representative c case m point a- developed it 3> campaign was the it. rod leti any otner ' ' . o.c e necessity ' ' 11 :'t Kv?scvt ests of the as well e people be ' -: Vi;' i re and the '' ' jrtain how- *'. ' 1 Ke;> n 1 the roadail with the : girl, on term; ith railroad : 1 opacity. A Anieri ; pie i the recent on into the south t an on Horseback t to force soc.al a> political tquality die white man when Nigger was put . an r.-trum alouga: delicate little ; equality, will be at conscience of the Such conduct will . both north and ma; .1 nirreements eigncrs. In other words, few of the people so wel manufacturing that it itax all of the rest of the | to pay their losses. Nov of fact, the government ducer of wealth, and h own except that which it pockets of productive tut' its power to tax The Democratic party that it pays a l,lr arm wan 1 to engage in ccn* or ' , desirable 10 competition. V people in order " 's mane ^<> n as a matter factnrers cannoi is not a pro- ?o I anflf duties is none oi its hence the 1 aril takes from the measure and t rprise through ' ' '1 . erased to pert . , . , , and has become holds that it is . , , , . mg uii the ban nuiu up to 5U or uaj per ooo, a a- to destroy all foreign niet'u o\\, then, after the Tar- grand high that foreign manu $_>oo,oi t send their goods here. lt> pr, are collected upon them, j?,int f ceases t<? be a revenue ?u.n becomes a measure of Ilt government has then onjN j >rin it< proper function, jnli"j a highway robber, hold- u ar ids of its subjects while ml t lie army lias cost the gover the past >ear $118,000,000, or total tor the army and navy 00,000. Uur army and navy L-sent size has reached the dang because when this vast number ire confined 111 idleness and taug ig but the methods ot war, it uiuian to expect that they will ? devilment that will bring abc which they would personally w n* State Senate t what i- kn a "Tcm Case Bill in beh. ?i Soutl rn Railway. by Mr. N >n the introduction and passa ler hill, the claims of citizens o aggregating, it i- van .:>ly l"1 at from $200,000 to $1.50 ,s barred tr<>tn a In a ring m While 1 atn not a lawyc tut sense t< aches nie that then c'" fectivc way t'' i>rotect the own as the ' of the c' laytield. In tw< ?' ' > CO ge of thi^ e|uca f this State estimated. I ! 3,000, were t t :e aci the courts I oca r, common t is an ef interests of At .v. i .r t 1. enervation that can i v repeal of these st:u:;:onal amendhead and an nr. :;g the white - tiie first step : :-ument of this ti aead. together ear: of the negro, tr.culties of the P" ent the negro proper mat me governor its subjects in order to r sary revenue to pay ley ses of the government everv dollar taken from enterprise tor the beneiit zen or enterprise is rob the essential difference Democrats and Kepubl Tariff question i>. that idea of prosperity is th great fortunes in the bat (Jill MM HI III UlA , #t , ? the trusts are j aise the necesitimate expenitself, but that When l'resul one citi/.en or ' ru<t a?lniitteil of another citi port ?luty on h ibery. So that to make $12 or between the reasonable prof leans on the -ion that his si the Republican plete monopoly e amassing of 1 > 'arift jirotec nl> of the few, < '. >-t him $12.00 ;oing through their poc t- the \ nt Schwab of the Steel t|,, under oath that the ini- ai;,.Vt) is products enabled him uav i per ton more than a t|)C ;t. it was also r.n admis- , u ll,r teel business was a comor Trust, made possible i)t rt tion. He claimed that it ^ ;u. per ton to produce steel , ,lV;d elicve that we have in the Sou t ry best people on earth, as w i* best country, and if peacefu d to uork out our destiny in o that tin- section will prosper eld and in the shop and in t y a- no other country has ei rr< d Hut if the Maytield pol linious and commercial conqu conipli-hed at the point of c Runs, then our peace, conte lilt* <ti: i " 11xi iiiL ii ith me n< iv, I would suggest t ell gihning must be had in Wr lly the -nape >t a law increasit mr ers of the Interstate RaiKv; in <i'>n t< deal "h te rate :he the law is now the couimis ;er nothing but pretend to ar icy which appears t<? them to est and while the railroad is fi >ur ruling :u th< ts the 1 nt- by the railroads remains i &I11> ucuuc hat the be ishington in I ir!> - is t lg the pow :?> Commis- : v th< h : cdule As 1 - c'.cct sion can do ' : .strict:-, uiul a rati- ; : be unjust, A1 > lu a ghting their - t . : rate fixed " ' ; in force. I i . \er m me nomi: : e Republican -<- at.ee of power ere^. since he al.. arice of power in t'.s u. thirty of the ' t the present rate : Southern negro few years before he : elections of the y iv , rovisions of - id ive wi'.: while the Democratic i must he general among t Republicans believe tli: money out of the packet is great financiering I believe that it is a gr plunder. The Republicans helie\ to bring prosperity and 1 people of the country is earnings of the people (lea is that it rai!?. and that lie masses 1 he the Iuiglish pr< it to legislate a^ net p - of the classes rcasnuuhh- hut he Democrats consumer $l2 0 eat scheme af a total net pro I he census e that the wa\ propert> < t tlie lappiness to the is worth $5"*' to legislate the recent organic, into the coffers i/ed the Steel ? .1 . .1 ho could compete with nK.nt oducer at $16.00, leaving rofit, which he said was he charges the home aiu.j? 1 more, making $28.00. or .,]t. , fit of $1600 per ton. reports show that the ever I' S Steel Corporation taugli 000,000. and under their lie n: ation they have capital- and 1 Trust at $1,500,000,000. that ?i i,...,,. a...:a~a . ami progress is gone. Depe it; that the only stable fount upon which any government c >r tin material interests of its pi - it< civil as against its milit; rs. fiod forbid that the time v come to us when we are e it by our government or our p len to iose faith in the sufficiei llie stability of our civil rights, it may ever happen that the m nd think the c mmissi n shell ia- powered t" annul an unjust an the same time to promulgat eo- and put it in : while try is fighting the justice of tl vill The people of the country w ver railroad- ir payi:.- inter* ub- dends on more than six bi icy of watered stocks and bond or italization of the railroads o lili- Stntc^ in 190a was twelve ?!..? I . ....... . . . .ild be emrate and at e a just one the railroa 1 leir decision it in t it '.o patronize st and divi- : : -i 11 ion dollars ;-n v- If The capi the United billion, one i:.u r : ,vr. " ' 4 11 ~ - . r. ourselves as cratic South." . ' endorsed ,..rty it- St Louis te> .. peaceful - - Republican r..ce an I sectional ivi inaugurate this .n'.-rirtand discre'. . pendent upon t the Republican of the financier^ throng route, and the Hcniocr. there can he no pertna but that based upon lion ;n me ircasur> ?mtu humus u its believe that billion dollars nent prosperity selves and call est toil. In other \v< uu 111v > Iiavc ui>iucu uuc i?ii \ of water among them- ci\ il it stock. of tli mis the trust managers ascei lUlil U II Will l \ CI SU^CILCUC Hut this is not the worst feat lis Republican doctrine of milit idency. This policy is so expen: 11IV til . . . I . . . ure ami the mileage being 202,1 arv calculation di<u\ : 1;nt : sive capitalized at about six.y ti .:i uuna* v ; 471 a simpl? ti 1 >er. !'.e road* ar? \\ -1 luusand dol- twi purpose. ims way to - -.c\ of the North here' > accomplish a to-\s it: the ascend