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THE PEOPLS JORNA VOL ti -NO. 18a PICKENS. S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 30, OL A THE DEMOCRACY Mc'Laurin's Defer PROTECTION, EXPA The following is the main portion of C., on the 22nd of May, by Hon. John Fellow-citizens: Tle political Re formation of 1800 had for its main object the ndependence of thought and action on the part of the people in political affairs. it was this that made me a " Reformer." A white primary, where the white people of the State could settle their differences among themsel ves. In part it has accomplish ed its object in spite of the efforts to diwarI it mnto a one-man movement. Its leader has not been content for it to be complete, and has attempted more than once to <ictate who should and who should not ie elected to office. All revolutions of this kind go farther thaii its originators design, 110 power can contiol thei. Men who suppose that the " move ment" of 1890 was a mere efferves cence to give ullice to a favored few are greatly iistaken. Some of the best and truest have never held office, and the time is coming when those who betrayed and prostituted this great movement into a " one-man power " I and mere scramble for the "loaves and the fishes "1 will be held to an account. I stand to-<ay just where I stood in 1890, with the added experience of ten years of study and contact, with public I men and affairs. I thank (otd that one thing has been accGmplislied. The people have been disenthralled and on- t lightened, and will never be satisfied d with the accoplllishment of anything C less than the full purpose of the move- 1 inent--free thought, free speech a fair s ballot and rule of the people. This m niust and shall be the final outcome. No attempt to break down the reforms I nearly acconplished can succeed. The t natural and inevitable consequence of d that revolution must follow. Nothing t can stay them. M TrE 4 A LLIANCE." c Fellow-citizens: It affords ine great a pleasure to address 3 ou to-day. I thank 1 you for the honor and the opporLunity. I recognize the fact that I am your public servant, and am accountable to a the people who elected me for my stewardship. This responsibility of public ofice is the great conservative and preservative force in our republi- ti can form of government. It is the g province and duty of a Representative 11 to study all important public questions 1 :11d form a judgment as to their effect f oi the wellare of the people. To do a this, lie must at tines act independent- b ly and lead public sentiment rather 8 than blindly follow what is reputed to d be the majority. It is his duty to study t national problems and vote according to his hest lights and honest convic tions, leaving the heial decision as to a the wis(loiof his course to tile people. b As for myself, I acknowledge no master save the sov'ereign people, speaking at the ballot-box, and I refuse to obey b the dictates of any political Boss, eith- c or in or outside of South Carolina. a Thies ismy Conceptiono the rights, course since my election has been pro- t *jected along the line of discretion and accountability. In voting on great - national issues 1 hlave considered the 0 *best interests of the South and the h -country rather than the implractical re0 sults to flow from a rigid adhlerence to 0 p)arty lines. It is passing strange that -1 some of the 11en1 elected to Cong'ress a ini 1892 should criticise me for doing ~ wVhait they solemnly pledgedl themselves 0 to do. Doni't you remember that anc Alliance Delegation was elected in 1892 pledged not, to be bound by a D ]emocratic caucus, but to vote for i measures calculatedl to benefit the 8 * nation at, large, irrespective of party? tE .1 feel like recalhngi thie words, 4 Oh, Lord Gbod of Ihosts, Lest we forget, t Lest, we forget." C PRiINCI I'LI*S 1 lolE TIIAN l'ARTY. Political parties undIer our form of goverlnmenlt are a necessity. They r grow out, of the political relations r establishecd b~y tihe governmenlt itself. Tihere0 have been si-ce Ilhe b)irtlh of the niationl and always will be two great political parties, if there were noe real issues they wouIld divide andl fIght e over the mere spoils of ollice. These dlitferenices originated in thle dliverse views enitertainied when our Constitu tion was ad~opted1 as to what conisltit 0(1 die proper functions of tile govern P'arty platforms have always been i supposedl to be the exponents of these (utilofttesrgtadfoviews. A bloody Civil war settledl tile I qluarter of a century tihe wavling of thei "bloody-shirt " on the one sidle and (1 Athe " nuigger inl tihe wood-pile '' oil the other 'onistituited the dilvidling hues. I say that every man, on a purely sec tional qjuestion, like white supremacy, is a traitor andl a renegade who (lees niot standh by his own section and his own people. I say that any man), on domestic problemIls, problemls of internial coni cern, should1(, as far as possible, bow to the behests of his party. If 1he cannot agree with his party on ques tions of this kind, lie should, if possi. ble, find a party wvith which lhe ila In .accordl. I assert, follow-citizens, that it is almost a crime for any party to imake great, b~road1, non-political Ameri can mieastures, involving the p)olitical and1( comnmercial dlevelopment of tile nathini, the test of party fealty. issues essential to tile maintenlance of the honor and prestige of the nation are OF THE DOLLA se of His Cause. LNSION, SUBSIDIES. he speech delivered at Greenville, F. McLaurin, U. S. Senator: too vital to be relegated to the plar of partisan and sectional contentioi Out of changed industrial and econ< mic conditions have grown great ni tional questions pertaining to the mi1 terial inteiest of the country, wiic must be considered and settled by ti silent force, the reserved patrioti'sm C the people. Fellow-citizens: There is no greate menace to the stability of our govern onent than a large minority in tl American Congress voting upon broad vital, ion-partisan American question rom purely sectional considerations [ am a Democrat, honestly desirous o enailing so, and witnessing the tri, imph of the party to which I am at ached by association and heredity. I vas never contemplated by the foun. lers of that party that it should becotii I purely sectional affair, yet to-day here is no Democratic party capabl< >f making itself felt outsidie of thl( bouth. In the North and West, it i iermented with socialism, and has Iwindled away into the party of a sec ion, not a nation. I (o not propose, however, to pursuc this line of thought; t is painful and can accomplish nu :ood purpose. THE MONEY QUWESTION. Beginning with the panic of 1893, here has never been such rapid in ustrial changes in any country. These hanges ivere in progress, and our war rith Spain served as a flash-light to how us what was going on. In 1896 re had a campaign uponk the money uestion. Everything was depressed. fel seeking employment, cotton under ve cents, wheat below the cost of pro uction, and idleness, discontent, (is :ust and misery everywhere. We rere told that the salvation of the ountry depended upon the free coin ge of silver. I believed then, and I clieve now, that theoretically we were ight; but new and unforeseen forces ame into play, and I have enough anse to recognize the fact that the iestoration of confidence," about ihich Mr. Cleveland talked. and about !hich I did not know enough at the me to understand, the discovery of old in the Klondyke, the iniiix of ioney from abroad seeking invest tent, and the increase in banking icilities, for the time at least, have Aittled the money question, and no ody but a fool would make a " free Iver'' speech now. Instead of a Dpleted treasury, there is in it to-day ic largest aimloui, of gold in the his >ry of the country, and actually the Bcretary of the Treasury, a few weeks o, deposited money in a Spartan urg bank, something that has never en done before in the history of our tate. I have been listening for some ody to cry out " Republicanism," be tusc I was instrumental in begi-ining movement which I hope in the future iay enable our farmers and ierchaits secure money at a lower rate of in trest. Another great change as thle result, 10 panic of 1893, is thme rapid (level pment of our export, trade. Our ome markets failed us, mlanufancturers >undl themselves with immense stocks [ goods on hand and mobody to b~uy loen, this forced them to seek markets broad, and one enterprising firm in irir inghlam, Ala., shipped 250 tonls f iron to Europe. At that time iron auld be bought for $6.00 per ton in firmiinghlam, and this small shipment ix years ago was the beginning of the 130,000,000 worth of ironi that we hiipped abroad last year, 300,000 toils omng fromn Alabama. To-dIay, enltire Europe is alarmed at be developmenit of our conmmerce, and re see every (lay indicationls of a trade ombine on the part of Europe against be United States, In the financial rorld, insteadl of dlependling upon Eu ope as we (lid seven years ago for our 20ncy, Enigland, G ermiany and RIussia have recently had to comel to New (ark to place their government loans. have givenl nothing but, a mere out ine, and yet, I ask any man withlin the ound of my voice if these facts (do no0t resent a totally changed condition. hie Spanish war suddenly awoke us 0 tile fact thait our country was one f the groat comimercial and p~olitical >owers of the world. .Believing as I do that, there n' a vital ssues which, growing out, of changed ndustrial conditions, are higheor and >r'oadler thani mere p)arty questions, 1 .iave, as your Senator, looking beyond ,he line marked by sectionalism and )artisaniship, striven to p roinote thle naterial, political andl commlnercial in crests of our commiioin country-for ir 1o doing, I cani biest, serve thme miterestm >f the Statec of South Carolina. Foi .his I have beii arrignied before the people of this State aind charged witha illyinig myself with lihe I lepublicar party. Criticism, abucse anid gross i represenltationi has been indulged in Not contecut with this~ unmfair method oi rittack, sonme of the papers in their viki persecution have deceived the p~eophl by withholding information on on sidle of these great, nationial issues am emlphasizing anld punblishing everythumi on the other. T1hey have persistenmtl2 held me up as a renegadeQ, and1( on mnore than 0on0 occasion alleged that 1 in tended to resign and accept a lFederai appointment. Amid all this persecu ion I have mainingd my sihee confident that when an oppoi un was offered, the people would see til I received fair play, and that tb would at least accord me honesty purl)ose. There are two question that I st mit to the people of South Carolii First. Am I honest in the viewi advocate? Second. Am I mistake As to the first. All that I have say is that my people have shed th, i. blood for South Carolina in every cc test in which she has ever been c gaged. I was born in South Caroli: e 1 took my wife in South Carolina, ni - when I (lie I expect my bones to laid beside five generations ot honi - men and true women who have goi before. 1 have children who mu h bear my name, good or bad. Eve t dollar that I have is invested in ti f State, except a small amount in Nor Carolina and Florida. My interes r are inseparably interwoven with ti - interest of my State, no good can con i to her in which I cannot participat and no evil of which I must not be i my share. If I wanted to have n easy time, I certainly chose the hai road. I might have drifted with t1: current, sang " me, too," and co - tined to hold office. I had prett good tutelage and an illustrious c anple in my early political career i the arts of demagogery, and could d it again in a ipich. But fellow-cit zens, the "1 game isn't worth the catl (ie." If I can't be a Senator, worth the great statesmen whom I succeed I do not wish to hold the oflice. I d in'A claim to be infallib!c, and the tim has been when I would gladly hav been convinced that I was wrong, an thus enabled to escape from the posi tion which at times was almost unen durable ; but, fellow- citizens, I I longer feel that way. 1 (10 not wis now to be convince(d. When a mat has suffered for a cause it become very dear to him, and I think that i would break my heart it I could fin< now that, after all, it is a mistake, an< that I have been deceived by a miragi in the bleak desert. I am human and have my full share of the frailt, aind vainity which go with poor, weal hiuman nature. I look back to som things that I have said and done, an( 1 know that I was wrong, and I wisl it were otherwise. But, fellow-citizens twice within the last thren years I hav< felt that I was very near the time whet I would have to stand before the ba of a just God, who knows the secreti of my innermost soul, and I felt tha lie would mercy have for petty frailtiet and short-comings, and give me credi for the earnest and honest effort, fol the sacrilices which I had made t< 0%rv the ueut,and Uighesi interest o my State and country. I am not afrait to meet my God and stand upon in public record--why, I hen, should fear any tribunal here below ? I on wish that my life as a man was as sin less and free from reproach as it is a your public servant. Charges of cor ruption have been rife in South Caro lina during the past ten years, but m, worst enemies have ntevercharged thal a dirty dollar has ever crossed the palin of my hand. Fellow-citizens To a man wh< loved society and that sort of thimg, V seat in the Senate may be a prize wortl having, but to me, it is of no valu< save to further the best cause to which I am devoting the best years of m3 life. I am in tile Senate for whatJ can get for South Carolina, not to fur ther miy personal interests. D)o yet suppose that I enjoy being flayed alive anid called all sorts of pet nrames by th< growling, grumublinig Gonizales, and the whiininig, cringing dlysp)eptic IHemphiill It does not worry me very much, for: knowv that there is one kind of an ani miai that will growl just for the pleas urc of growling, and1 another that wil whine, especially when milk is scarce Thecre is a good dheal of growling an wvhining just now because of a fes Federal plums that have been droppin arounmd, but [ notice that it all com from the direction whlere none ar dlropping or likely to drop. From oh servation 1 infer that there are a plenlt of Gold D~emoc rats, Silver D~emocrati II ryan IDemocrats, Cleveland Dem< crats, McKinley D)emocrats, Tillma D emocrats, Mec[,auri n Democrats, an Democrats none of whom object to job) uinder "' Uncle Sam." FED)ERAL PATR'IONAGmE. Now, fellow-citizens, 1 want, to sa 01ne wordl on thuis subject. 1 (do n( enntrol, 1 (do not profess to control, (md otish to control, nor will I be conmc resp~onsiblei for, tile Federal p~at ronamge in South Carolinia. On accoun of my lib~eraul views, andl what, hle pleasedl to consider my platriotic stani for broadl American (doctrines, the Pree ident has (lone me the hlonor to con suilt mue on certain occasions as to Sout Carolina appointments, Hie has don so, to myl) certain kinowledge, with Ser ators Norgan, Sullivan, McEnery, an< other D~emocrats. 1 appreciate it b< yond~ measure, for a wiser man, a true patriot, andl a more kindly Christia. gentleman, never occuipled the WVhit Ihouse than William McKimley. I be hieve I have his confidence and~ frient sipI, and1( there is no treasure that value more highly. I would not hav it, and( 1 could niot retain it were I Itraitor to my State and people. 1] honors me, because he knows as we as any man living, how much I los my native State. When lie expresse a desire to be tihe P'residlent of tI whole country andl not of a sectioi why should I not meet him half way When lie is willing that tile patrol who support a postofilce in South Ca ohina should be consulted as they al 1min Vermont, Massachusetts anid Ohi -why should I, as your Senator, stick I pitch-fork into his vitals ? - Ah, fellow-citig~cna, if I have Co -trolled any patrmnne. it. hna hnean ity the public interest, not my own. mat nephews of miell have beeni coin ey sioned in the United States Army. of have had no son drawing a large ary, traveling this State at goverum ib- expense, mamipulati ng political att a: for me. Take tLi 3 postoilice at Aik i I of what personal interest is it to n? who fIlls it ? It does not put a do to into my pocket and I do not get Ar mail there. I believe in the rule n. the people, and I want to see the ti n. come when the patrons of the oli a, those who support it, shall name ,d postmaster just, as they do the she be and clerk of the court. Who do 1 'at suppose the people of Aiken prefer ie postmaster- a man who is identil ast with the town, Iorn and reared aim ry them, or a citizen of another Str is with no interest in the town or peo thI further than to use them for his o ts personal advantage ? Who is not ev lc willing, after death, to permit, his cli c to mingle with the soil of South Ca , lina, but had hisi body shipped 1o , to Connecticut for burial, where I , told his family are soon to follow hI d I prefer one of our own people, citll c white or black, to birds of passat l. who invest no money here, and y away when there are no ollices I them. Let it be understood that a gladly welcome any good man w comes heze seeking a loimle, who i vests his muoney and becomes one of a own people ; we exteind to sucl nn. 0 y the right hand of fellowship, and lie entitled to all the honors, social, poli c cal and commercial, which his abili e and character command. That is n. what. we mean by " Carpet-bagisni : South Carolina. Some people, 10 ever, are so disturbed because L . President has appointed a man who Stile people of Aiken have elected Mlay of their town twice, and who is a I Sfinied and courteous gentleman, th l they are preferring chiarges again I him in Washington ; this is doine fi i political purposes and I weli undt Istand it as a lick at me, not Mr. Clia 3 fee. Who should be District Attorm of South Carolina ? A brighit, eiierg tic young man, raised ill) here in th beautiful mountain city, or a foreign and outsider ? I admilt one of t-lie be of his class ; but, fellow-citizens, Soul Carolinians are good enough for in Now when appointments were ma< absolutely repugnant, to the wishes ai the traditions of our people, I was ti only one who held up a confiriata in the Senate. Now when a gentl man, like Mr. Chaffee or ,John Caper the soii of a Confederate Brigadier, wil L four Yankee bullet-holes in his bod now the Bishop of South Carolina, , iade by the President, not, for politic f purposes, but as an indication of h I good will towards tile people not on of Scuth Carolina, but of the South, see a threat, in the papers that the co; firiation is to be fought. .1 f that politics, if that is Democracy, then (i save me from such infamy. " THIE (3ENTLEMiAN FROM 31EXIco. There is one thing that I have n( heard much of a kick about, the loi of the government exhibit at BuTa to Charleston. I beheve, boweve somebody else claims the credit. Ti is all right with me, it matters not wi gets the credit, just so the city Charleston gets the friendly hand of th government in a great enterprise i which the whole State is intereste< Irrespective of pe1rsonl and politic differences,1i am willing to join hans with my colleague in the Senate ani the members in thme Ilouse in secuirii >an app~ropriationl to reimbu~trse Ciharle ton for all expeCnses incuirredl. If v lay aside little dlitferences and ever Sbody goes to work as one man53, it ca~n I (dine. 1 want to say here, in justice Senator Tillman and myself, we a both capable of rising high enoughm n to permit anything to interfere with matter of such general interest to t IState. I will even go one hetter a1 Vagree, if Charleston gets the appr prliation, to give all thle credlit to "c Gentleman from Mexico.'' C I have just cone or two more tin to say on the Iirst, question I am d Scussing. My intimate friendos kmn ' that it has been my (desn-e to ret -from public life. 1 had dletermin never againi to undertake the canva d of this State,andl were it not, that I f a I owed it to tihe 1)eop)1 of South Cam lina to discuss these issues anid eiial them to act intelligently by placi: Y themselves in touch with tle bc t thought of the age, I would not 1 I here to-day. T1he people0 of this Sta gave [me tihe grandest chance that. i - young man has had sinec the wvar, nz t I fully realize time opportunity a' a dluty. I never dlaubted for onec moime .1 but if allowed to present my case fair 1- to tile people1, I would 1)e re-elected - the Senatec. I have inot miade a ye hi that caii 1)e successfully assaailedl, sa e upon01 narrow partisani grounds. Ilha -however, determined iiot to runi on ii I count of my health. Thme campumi 1897 left ine a physical anid imen i r wreck. My physician hmais reli,eate ni said that I could not standc cmtheri mec .0 tally or physically tihe strain ofi xu another campaign. Withini thlet -. months past, however, my heal t h I beenm wondlerfully improved anid I a '0 ready for the fray. I desire lhe'e a a now to tell tile o Huoses " (in and <i de of the State) wvho hiave decreed 11 political dleath, that I defy I 1om. 'T e0 only way they can defeat ime is to ri dI me out of thle primnary and thus pirev< 0 the people from expr'essinig thiemiselv 4, Let them, if they dare, precvent whi ? men from passing juidlimen it at I 1s ballot-box upon these gmreat natioi r- Issues. One thing more cn the qu 'e tion, Am I h)onest / Those who kii 0, me and1 are liy f riends will never a licye anything else. TPo those who fair and unprejudiced, I say, give a- ani impartial hecaring, and ifyo in not. convinced vnte agili mle LI. No we will still respect eaich other. F< Ilis- Imy enemiCs, hoe who would conden: I me unhcard, the growlers and whil 3al- ers, I carm ntot a red cent what thi unt think, so long that I know that, I a urs honest. eil A31 I MISTAKEN ? MC I desire now to take up some of iu lar votes .and speechies, and address i, mi1y self to the question, Am I mistaken of When I was placed on the Ways III [ile Means Conmittee of the IIouic, I b ce, gaI a systematic course of reading c the the tariff question with reference to i riiT elfect upon the people of the Souti 'oil II March, 1897, 1 made a speech i for which I embodied iy views. I ha id offered anl amendment for a duty ( ng two tand one-half cents per pound o te, cottoii imports, and had Iade a figli plC in the Committee for a proper sciedul yn oil rice, pin( lumber, tlrpentini, col en1 ton seed oil, oil cake, juto-bagging Ist, Cottoil ties and tile coarse graide 0 'o- goo(ds male inl our Southern mille Ile This is neither the lime nor the plio ki to go into a 1iscussioll of the Iariff. Ill. can 81111 it up ill the statement that I d(id 'lot diculiss the question from i :e, theoretic or philanthropic stand-point 113' but merely chimed a full share for tit or South of all the henefits to accrue fron Ve legislation, I.1 recogiiized the fact thal 110 our revenues were to conic from tht ii- ililpositioll of impolI dllies, and as. ur serteld 11111, this beig true, it was but c fair to givo each section and inidustr is a share of the beinelits, as the burden i- Illuist be borne by all. I attacked the ly doctrine of free raw mal erial as a clan ot destine and 111njust formi of protection. in I traced its iiustory and1(1 showel that it V- Wa-1s devised and offered to the manu 10 facturers of the East by Mr. Cleveland Im ill his irst, race, as a form of protec 3r Lion. In other words, ioger M. lills, e- the chii1rman of the \Vars 1and Means lit Coiilittee of tilie Ilouse', was sent up1) St into the New Elngliaiid States to offer or theni this "' left-linded protection," r- while free trale wiS talked inl tle f- South and West. It wias a mere party 'y expedient to catch votes. I think that l-in) political par-ty will "eer attempt is againsh monli tr o injuistce. 11 means that (he farmie1s ini this countryw it shiall Ibe forkced to buiy in a reStrieteil b1 1market and then ii sell al of hir pro 3. (Ilts ill Coipetitlioll wih(l tle paulp er l labor of the world. I made this light I for Sout hern industries while a iilm i her of the IIouse, when I had 110 idea i in the worild of going into tle Senate. You all remember what universal , chorus of approval there was. Sena Stolis Tlillnani, Baconi, Clay and others , took up the same line in the Senate. iS The News and Courier, tile Columbiai d State an1(d nilnety per cent(. of the pa 1" pers of tle South cImmended my Y course. I hazard little in saying had I I never b.eein at cauididate for the Seniatel - the wisdom of my course wouil never i have beeii questioned. I was strongly I rged to Iuni for the Senate in 18z., but I did not wish to leave tle Ways 1and -Mmaus Committee, and besides A >t was tholoughl ly disgusted with tile con n1 ditioni of affaiis inl South Carolina. I 0 Could hiear of iiothing but "t tcharges of . corruption," 11 bond deas ," "1 whiskey rebates," etc. I dill not wish to lie 0 nixed up in such an a ffair ; however ,f it might eveiiuate, a n coul(l iiot but feel lowered and degrlided by comn i lg inl Contact with such ilth. I felt I'irasOibly SUIr t i1hat tiei that. I il could havi been f elected to the Heiiate. s i wa's aissuried, by onle aiuthonrzed to d speaik, that,. ,lge lEarle wouild not be Sa canidate11 if I rani ; but1 1 coincludled .to goi Oni a odt iiet way and c work out my13 dest iny ini the l louse. p 'Tlis wais not1 to be, however. it was me nut intended m that my lines shoul fall Lo ini easy places. Th'lat pure man, chiv~' re- lru genitlemanl and1 upright ,Judge lit your lownusman and1 illy piredecessor a iivedl but. a few short weeks. Governo 's. Ellerbe tendered me the niominat~ioni ni I realized thle radical na~tuire of sonme o o.. my3 utteramices and1( voles, and while h~e coul hniot foresce what, bas lwppilenied I knewy imy nat ure well enough to fee o- certain thatst hiavinhg oncie enilisted it j. the fight I woul never turn bacd ny while life lasted. I, therefore, reCfulse re to aiccept thie ap~poinitmieiit at (lie hamiih rsd of G overnor Illierbe uinless hie wvouk a~s guarantee (liat (lie Executive Commit 31i. tee would order a primary and permil 'o- the peoplie to piass upon (lie issues le which I had raised. ig C .a lu oi O 1897. st It. is unnieces-ary for ime to refer to io that hittecr light. You all rememiber' to (lie meeting ini Greeniville, whmere I wtas iy i nsulIted, bullieid and1 baiited like some1( id wild beast, ; it wits a sammple of some of 1(d the rest. For miyself t amn willing to it "ILet the dead past bury its dead."'' ly have nio ill-feelhn1g towards an~y one on to iiccounit of it,. I spoke, I beOlieve, mi to ini every counlty ini the State outside of 'e my C onigressminal IDistrict except three. d , I ad vocated mys views not only on (he c- tariff but oni what I conisidliered tile lea] ol line of policy' to be puirsumed by South al e rimn 1' preseintatives. I carried about iyeighmty 1p(r cent. oif thie vote east, aoll 1 e 0very coiunity3 excelp.ti thre, which were I lost fr'omI local con siderat ions by sniall 1n marginP~ls. I w i.sh I had timeii to reconi i Is to th 1le people1 what (lie ice schiedulie mi which I got ito that bill, has done foi oh thme rice phanters (in the coasts of Souti ilL Carihni ia, thle Waste pilaces it hias re iy deemied, the thmous:ius of dL llars it hii h~e 1brought m iito t his S tate. Whait. th du1 I ll dle onm ine has done for the lumiber inter nit ests, wildh werme hieing Saiut~iled to Eli 0s ht m ilported free of duty fror ite Canada.~ The Northm, which is alma he0 btare of timber, instead of goimgt ta Canada, hias been5 forced to go South: 135- and( that ha1s putE thiouisandsi of dollai >W into this Statec. TIhere is no telliii >e- what ani arrangement of (lie schedul tre oni ottoii goodls so) as to prevent dIi mne c rimnination against course fabrics, hi ire Imeant to (lie cotton mills of' the South en Thia ia not (li hpi,.,. to ep.a,., ..,i. )r the retention of the home market nmans wheln- a imanufacturer seeks a i- foreign outlet. I will refer, however, y to the duty on raw cotton, which I ad n Voented at the time. Cotton, corn an( wheat are our great exporti. Now I want to ask any man of reason, why it ly is that a duty of twenty-flvo cents per - bushel is plit Oil wheat, and fifteen ? cents per bushel oi corn, while nothing d is put uPonl cotton ? The three stand 3- exactly upon the Baltic basis. It is i this : Northern Representatives pro We tect corn and wheat against importa I. Lions from Canada and elsewhere, n cotton has beei sacriliced to it niero d sentiment. I think that I am the first f Representative inl Congress to point n out the danger to the cotton planters .t arising from the importation of Egyp tian cotton. Tien years ago there were no importations to speak of. The year I made this speech there was in rolnd f numbers fifty-six inilliois of pounds, 1and ls. year there was almost seventy millions, ini increasc ofgnearly twenty per cent. Since then two mills ja&VO been built in South Carolina (in one of which I am interested) usiig nothing blit EAgyptian cotton. Now I contend, if the cotton farmers were protectCd ti liko the wheat and corn planters, We I coild produce any kind of cotton that it is needed. South Carolina is the home ru of the cotton plant. No cotton comes W into competition with our Sea Island P' cottoni, and coinllioji sense tells me iI that we enili develop any grade needed tih bet ween that and the sliott staple. Ten Ci years ago the "Alleti long staple'' was fo planted all over ipper South Carolina, in andl([ I know of some men who bougiht CO g.ns especially adapted to this cottoin, vil but they had to throw them away. flr Egyptian cotton has driven them olt CO of the business. The red lIlls of this wi up-country are the very place where th this cotton should le grown, but how (O cani1 we (levelop t. inl coplletitionl with I Pr the c(heap labor of Eyl)t ? WVhat are Iv we doing now, meeting and passing wi resolutions to i educe the acreage, while foi English eigineiers are const ructilag ln( daus in tie valley of the Nile, which tili withlin two years will add one mdlilion n< and one-half bales or one-eighth to the sP1 cotton crop ; whifle we are redliing Bl8m tll acIrage here our competitors ar Ag ilcreasing 11, and we are to furnimh erS tIe market for the ilerease. I say, "'G away with the impractical statesmaii- na111 ship which will sacrifice the cotton MU planiters of Soith Carolina to those of thi Egypt. After I was olected to the wh Senate I atteinpteld to puirsue tle same Ag liue iml everything, int I was very ill tici for a long time alfter lly calimaigi, fic< conthied to my bed at one time for !f seven weekis. Theise eurible cam- ill paignis (it ours. inl thie heat of immiier, to iaking speeches day after day, sitting fen1 for C' aur or five hours, your clothes wet col w itl pwrspiiration, in the sun, inid one- vol half the time wit hout dilnner, thei e are rea blit few men who have gone tl-ouglih fe wi lth it ad not had theiri health im- aWO paired. I have no doubt but, that whi it shor-tened the days of the gallant wil Earle alli eveln rugged .John Irby. pilt' Till TIt|CATY WI'rli S'AIN. oUl While I was in this physical and incital coidition, the war with Spain canie ,11 and I had to grapple with these inew questions. I was sick, heart, body and soul. All that I wantel was peace and to ble let alone. The cruel tailit.s alid slicers of- "liepiblicai and traitor'' hurt ine (lien, while I can laugh at them now. I made up my inuind inot to create aniy further issues, ur butL tamely fall in and follow the lead of ,1 ones, T1illmian, l'ettigrewv & Co., am and thben to quietly retire at the end ohf(' my term. My intimate frienlds know than, this was mny intentjin. WVhen hey cncluded to (defeat thie treaty, I could iiot see what, great harm couild coiie to the couitry fromi forcing the lIepuiblicanlS to call aii extra session. It woul only postpone miatters by oneO moiithi. 'At the request of somie of the D emnocratac leadlers, [ made(1 ai speech, not, ag'ainst the treaty but against Ima- fi p lerilaham, which speech was at the t tame, and withI the lights biefore me, nmy oipinioi. I haad not drawni thie dis Lametion bet weeii Expansion ando Imnpe rial isnm, anid Ii ully intencaded toi votoi aigainast the ratificaitioni of the treaty, I wvas so tired~ of being abiused and1( ac- i ciised of disloyalty to my party, At T liat time, however, I c~ontend~ed ina " private thant the rejectioin oif the treat~y was unwise even from a piarty stand- yo pint. I lad then , as I hlave now, very10 little conoi ideince in thle political sagacity " of Senator , armies K. diones, amnd I be lieved thint Senator (Gornian Was at hear t li an Expansionist, beocauise lie votedl for At the acquisitioni of th lao awaiian Is- pr lands, andio I 51uspected him of an amblhi tionl aifi ea Mr. Biryan advisaed the rati- pr ficationi of the treaty, to defeat it aniil Sc thins supplant him in the leadership. Not, that I objected to this, for Gorman is a conservative mani, and might have 9 beenm elected I 'resideint, the last time, could lie have commnanded the nomina- n tionl. I Jowever, on Sunday afteraiooii thbe day before the treaty wats to lie votect upon, the news was flashed over the wires (liat our troops had been fired upon01 by Uhe very pieople whom we had I reed froin th e ty riaiy of Spainish op- 1 priessionii. TIhiis proeent ed an nireii mly Inew situation, andm' befde I lhad lina islhed reading the "'extra"' ihe or -'m Sondi~ents~ ci (lie N 'w Ymok .annr anid I thinsk of' the Woreldl, enhed'' au nau house - liefole I had ~onlte I d wi th a >i Ian ~ oI being, anad I expresised ii of iion asl~ 1 1(lie files of the lnewpper will showi. t' One imonath of delay maight meani sc ri rious cionisequenOces to thie peoplhe of et , (lie United States. i 's It must, be remlemberOied that Spain g had the symlpathay of entire Europe, 1'1and after tile baitthe of Manilla nothing - a- but the tact, of D ewey aind the attitude T .s oif England prevenited~ u~s from being . i. forced inlto a war for which We were u it totalhy unprepareitrd. To defeat the i No crop can be W, grown without - -Potash. Supply - enougA Pot ash and your '\ profits will be large; without Potash your crop will b)e "scrubby." Our broks, telig .,tit C(llceojt loll (ir ferfli,.rs aS dupwtd Ic)r .111 .a 1,1.,~ e ;1.(! u! zraer GE.RMAN KA1,11 \vttg caty meant that we were stll at wit ith Spain, and that our solilers were truders in the Philippine islands. To tify tho treaty meant not a state of ar, but a mere insurrection and (e ived other nations of an excuse for terference. It scoms to me any way, at no matter what the situation or uses may bo, that the only position r a man to take when we are engaged a foreign war is to stand by his own antry, right or wrong. Lot ine re 1w the situation a moment. In the it place, I had not, as long as it Lld be avoided, been in favor of the ,r, and had but little sympathy with inflammatory addresses made in igress, which embarrassed the esLedent in his humane efforts to 3rt the war. I could not but look .11 distrust upon those men who ced the war on by frantic appeals I then, the very moment that hos ties were begun, criticiseid every vement made to bring the war to a edy and successful end. It was a ill Iiand petty part for Senators to play uiinaldo had many warmi sympathiz in Congress, who compared him to eorge Washington" and his half ied followers to the heroes of King's uitain and Bunker Hill. Some of Snowv cannot conceal the chagrin eh they feel at the capture of minaldo and the cessation of hostilh .It is charged that my vote rati I the treaty and stopped the war. 80s, 1 am proud of the fact, and I thankful that I had the strength 1o my duty and cast that vote. I r tlat I would not have had the Lage to do it, had I not felt that my . was absolutely necessary ; but liziig th1e far-reaching effect and the rful responsibility, I cast my vote ordingly. I have never seen the (lay en I regretted it, and my children I remember it after I am dead, with nIelre and pride, as the most glori act of my life. IN A HUMOROUS VEIN. Dear mel Have I got to write it sO?" said a woman at the Whist ni-ress last, week, at the Credential inluittee's request that she shudd ;ister her namue and1( address. "' It's fortunate, because, you see,'' em.l rraussedly, "' I am from Cincinnati d " "Well,'' interrupted the ark. "' I.-I never can remember >w to spell it," cried the womuan..-N. .Sunt. "' JDo women who have had( the azd imitage of adlvancedl education maiikc od wives ?"' asked the bachelor, ioughtfuilly. At this the benedict ok hium to one side, where lie could leak conm 'ldentilly- " If you ever arry,"' he said, "'and linud occaIsion to ime up a real good excuse for a pro-. ted sessioni at the cmlb you will dix, vor' that, it is p)ossible for a woman to ow too much. "-Chicago Post. 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