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The Opening of the Cam
paign at Greenville.
We give below, as reported by th?
Greenville News* the speeches of Col.
Earle and Gen. Bratton made, at the
opening meeting of the campaign at
Greenville od the 10th.
Speeches were also made at the same
meeting by Captain Till man, Gen.
Pope of Newberry, Mr. Hugh S. Far
ley of Spartanburg. Mr. J. Q. Marshal
of CohiBibia, W. D May field, of Green
ville and Col. J. H. Rice, Comptroller
Gen. Verner, and Col. E B. Gary.
Capt. Ttllmah'esp?eeh was a repeti
tion of his other speeches with the ad
dition of a specially prepared statement
about the Department of Agriculture,
the length of which prevents its publica
tion in this issue, but it will be given
next week.
col earle's speech.
There .was some confusion as Colonel
Earle advanced, caused partly by the
exclamations and shouts of some per
se ns in the crowd and partly by the
efforts of those behind to make those
in froot sit down. This continued at
intervals but gradually lessened as the
speech progressed until toward the close
there was general silence and clo.-e at
tention.
Colonel E trie said he felt that be
needed no introduction here ; he felt
that he bad the right to speak to the peo
ple of Greenville. He was upon his -
native heath; this was bis own, his
native land. He was born here, he
was educated at the feet of that grand
old man James Furman. After that
as a poor boy he commenced the duties
of life here supported, patronized and
encouraged by Greenville's generous
people. He felt it was right that they
should hear him, though many there
might differ from htm, for he Was a
Greenville boy come back to Greenville.
He proposed to discuss temperately
and dispassionately, but positively, the
issues, and matters now pending He
was here as the representative of no
convention, a member of no combina
tion. He was here as a simple Demo
crat to speak to Democrats It was
right that they should come together.
Knights aud tnonarchs ruled their sub
jects with an iron hand. Those effete
monarchies they had heard referred to
sank because of the want of manhood
and of proper agitation among their
people. We belonged to a different
class. Here the people were the mas
ters, the officers the serrants. When a '
man came to them asking for their suf
frages it was right that they should
have the opportunity to look at bim and
hear him and consider bis life and ser
vices.
'We were all Democrats. We could
remember the time when South Caro
lina rose aud put down the rule of the
alien and the robber. Since we had
bad ? constitutional-government of our
own, h? would like to have them study
the history of the past. He would like
to show them that all was .not rotten in
Denmark (Cheers ) He did not ask
them for their applause, but for their
attention.
Was tber ; anj^ corruption in the
State government ? Had any been
proven ? He aeked the man who was
temperate and fair to consider and say
if they had had any proof. Was the
government extravagant? The people
had the right to call on each servant
for an account of his stewardship ;
tb 3 right to examine, to admonish
if they bad been guilty of wrong, to
kick them ou'. The citizen ought not
to be called on to pay a cent more than
his proper portion of the expenses of a
government honestly administered.
North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware
and Rhode. Island were the only four
States of the Union in which the tax
rate was lower than io South, Carolina.
Only Alabama and North Carolina pay
less than we do per head. Notwith
standing this good- showing, however,
?f our government could be adminis
tered more cheaply than it is it ought
Gp be.
He then briefiy reviewed the items
of the State finance. The total income
of the State government, he said, is
$1,003.210 of which $730.000 was
from direct tax. The total income,
according to the census of 1880, was
$1 00 a bead. The total direct tax
was 70 cents a head. The expenses
for the whole State "(Hurrah for Till
ioan-?" A confusion of cries,) were
eeven mills on the dollar of the $143.
000,000 of property.
It was right to keep nothing of the
peoples affairs out of their sight. Had
Capt. Tillman shown them how the
government can be run for less than
now '! (A voice : "The farmers can
do it.") Where could they cut down ?
If they could get good men to do their
work for less than was now paid they
should do it by all means. The work
on the State House could be stopped:
If South Carolinians were willing to let
the State House stand as it is the peo
ple had the right to say so. Would
they abolish the South Carolina Univer
sity ? They had the right to say so
and do it. What was all this fuss
about? (A voice, Tillman.'")
You are right. That's what it is."
(Oheers for Tillman )
A voice?' You never made any
corn.'*
Col. Earle?"I've grown more corn
to the acre than you ever did and I
have plowed straighter furrows than
you ever will."
The voice: "Not lately."
"No, not la'ely." Was'ut the organ
ization of the Democratic party good
snough for all Democrats to work* in.
When tbey redeemed their State in
1876 did they not promise to stand
together? Isthat promise kept when
nne faction of the party creates its own
executive committee, calls its own coa
ventioo and puts out its own candidate ?
There were many things he approved
:>f io the platform of the Mireh Con
tention Where was the necessity to
Forming a separate organization to sup
port them ? Nobody could tell him
that the farmers of the State had not
the manhood, determination and intel
ligence to say as ito '76, these things
ire proper, right and must be done
It looks as if designing politicians
wished to make much of little for their
jwn advantage.
Was it necessary to call a convention j
for that platform ? He, the speaker, {
advocated as strongly as be could some
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WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850.
"Be Just and Fear net-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, tee thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's
Conneli lakMl Aug. 2, 1881.]
StTMTER, S. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1890.
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DO special - class particularly. Wheo
the people rose io '76 they did not ask
each other of their avocations. They
felt then that they had common interests
and a common Cause and they stood all
together, all classes and employments.
There was no independent man. The j
most independent man was be who loved
God and obeyed Bis laws and did his
duty to his fellow-man, and he was the
most dependent of all and most ready
and constant in acknowledging his
dependence.
There was talk of an oligarchy. If
there had ever been one he had never
known it. He had never appealed to it
or received its votes. When he was
Honored by the people of his county or
of his State it was by ail classes of them.
He had never been in any combination
or ring and was not in one even in this
election, "Mark that" He advised
them, in voting for men in the county
to select independent men, men who
had opinions and were not afraid to
express them, who did not follow the
name or orders of any man, and to elect
them to place.
Where was the aristocracy? Money
didn't make it; family didn't. An
honest father and a good mother were
no disgrace to a man ; but it was a dis
grace if he failed to use the opportuni
ties given him and to follow the good
example of those who had gone before
him. But tbe road to honor in this
State was open to all. Virtue was not
bought io the market place and was not
the exclusive possession of any class or
faction or element. The road was open
alike to rich and poor. The true, the
truthful, the brave man was the aristo
crat cf our country ; might we never
have any aristocracy here but one of
brain and merit.
He had no objection to 'the proposed
system of primaries. He wished it
were possible, and had said so four
years ago, to have every officer of the
State elected by primary. If he could
not get office by the vote of the people
he did not want it. Without regard to
what the State committee did, if it was
iu accord with the constitution to have
a primary he did not object. Let the
people say, and whatever they might
decide would satisfy him.
He did not know what had been done
with the money handled by the Depart
ment of Agriculture but the character
of the gentlemen who composed it
guaranteed that it bad been honestly
spent. He would not undertake to an
swer for them. Each man must answer
for himself. The Department was con
trolled by farmers. It was established
by and for them. He thought it had
done good and would do in tbe future
as much good as the Olemson College.
He was opposed to transferring it to the
college because that would introduce
politics into the college, put it in the
management of politicians and work its
ruin. '
He then spoke of the Pacific Guano
case. He had not appeared io it, be
said, because it was begun before the
law gave the Attorney-General power
to represent the State in litigation of
that kind, and when the law was passed
it contained a provision specially forbid
diog him from taking part in the
litigation then pending. He had at
tended to all tbe business of tbe State
that came within bis jurisdiction and
appeared in behalf of the State before
the United States Supreme Court and
other tribunals and had never lost a
case on the civil side. They said he
had nothing to do; he only hoped that
whichever of the distinguished gentle
men ^behind him, Colonel Gary or
General Pope, succeeded him he would
have less work than had fallen to his
share.
But why could not all of these mat
ters have been attended to under the
regular party organization ? The peo
ple bad the right to go to their club
meetings and elect men who would
execute their will. Captain Tillman
told them as soon as a man was started
to Coluoibia to a convention he became
an aristocrat and an office seeker, but
by the same rule Captain Tillman was
an aristocrat and an office seeker himself
last March. There was nothing dis
honorable io being an office seeker ; if
they thought Captain Tillman could do
more for them than any other man they
should vote for him. Let every man
do according to his conscience. Bat
we were standing on dangerous ground.
What he said primarily, and repeated
now, was that whenever a man was
abused because he happened to repre
sent them they should call for the proof
against him and not be carried away to
do injustice and wrong by any cry of
class. It was with them. They could
consider the facts and vote for Captain
Tillman. the grand old soldier who sat
there (Bratton) or him (Eirle.) Bat
they should keep in view that the
Republicans of the national Congress
arc putting their heads together creat
ing schemes to rule our State, using the
power they had without scruple. They
should remember that the ignorant class
of the State is crowding the registration
tdnjes, and what for? (A voice:
"To vote for Tillman ") Colonel
Eirle: "You went off half cocked that
tune, my friend. That's one trouble
about being too ready with your
BlOCth."
C<?1. E?rlo closed with a 6nal exhorta
tion to remember that the white people
of the State can not afford to he divided
in bitterness, to abuse each other, to be
rent asunder ; but that such cons?quen
ces wouid surely follow if they allowed
themselves to believe all the insinua
tions and reckless, unproved charged
that might be made against their fellow
Democrats and the officers who repre
sented their party.
CES. .70HN URATTOX'S SPKKC?.
The i-iiuatiou demands the earnest
and thoughtful consideration of the
people of this entire country, and par
ticularly of tlie people of this State, the j
voters on whom, at 1-st, more than
upon the mere personnel of their offi
cials dcpeiivS not merely the policies of
an administration of Government, but
the character of the institutions under
which we live. Although my life has
been spent rather iu thinking and doing,
to the neglect of that cultivation of the
gift of speech which euables men to ex
press clearly, forcibly and attractively
their thoughts and ideas, I am here to ,
coutiihute as best I may, to that agita- 1
tion which will aid us in performing iu- !
teJlt^Dtly. ou.r dutv as ?Uifteus. ?ufc
were I possessed of the fiery eloquence
of McDuffie, or the cultured rhetoric
and elocution of Preston, they would be
devoted, as my humble effort will be on
this occasion, to that fair and frank
statement which will tend to divest the
minds of my countrymen of all preju
dice and passion, and enable them to
look the situation clearly in the face.
For the past eight or ten years, we
have been subjected to the evils of oue
party control, again&t which not even
the increased responsibility and danger
incurred by the f?ct that it is also one
race control could guard us
The aspiring talent of a party whose
nomination is election, finds the ac
quirement of political methods more im
portant, certainly as a first step, than
the mastery of political principles ; and
once in that field, pride of opinion, de
sire for success and the beat of conflict
lead to excesses not dreamed of when it
entered.
The result is that we have made great
progress in political methods and, ab
sorbed in personal contention and par
tizan strife, arc losingfsigbt of the great
purpose of our organization, and drift
ing away from its cardinal principles.
Unable to find a way to combat the
evils which seem inherent in one party
power, I was content as long as it was
confined to conventions of politicians,
to enter the silent protest of haviog
nothing to do with these combinations,
relying on the solid array of our people,
which enabled them to defy and cor
rect the use of perverted power by ad
verse administrations of government to
easily enforce respect for the authority
of our constitution by our own officials.
This partizan strife and contention
which up to this time has been confined
to contests between temporary combina
tions for special or personal purposes,
has made a decided step of progress
in political methods by the organization
within the party of a permanent polit
ical combination for not only specific
but general political pirposes?the prin
ciples, methods and purposes of this or
ganization and its effect on our common
party and the great common interests
of the people are matters on which there
is a difference of opinion. For myself,
I think that in this headlong career of
progress we have reached the danger
line.
Before I utter one word, it is doubt
less known that the Farmers' Move
ment which did not command the ap
proval of my judgment in its incipien
cy when it preseuted itself in its most
inviting shape of an organization of the
most independent of my fellow citizens,
the owners and tillers of the soil?a
band of private citizens who had no
favors to ask but rights to demand?
can not command it now after its recent
culmination into a fully equipped polit
ical organization, pushing its campaign
as independently of our common organ
ization as an opposing party could.
Such a proceeding is better calculated
to command the approval of our dire op
ponents?the Radicals?than of those
Democrats who organized their party
to promote and guard their dearest in
terests, and regard its sound integrity
as of more consequence than the elec
tion of any man or set of men to office.
The spirit in which it is entered upon
affords material aid and comfort to our
old enemies. The charges of corrup
tion sweeping, not specified, but made
with recklessness unprecedented in our
history do not simply please, but actu
ally strengthen our opponents and ac
tually weaken us.
Now I do not propose to assume the
role of special champion of the admin
istration of our party or State. They
need none so far as I know. But if
they do, it might be presumption in one
who has had so little to do with either,
and again, [ desire to divest as far as
practicable my discussion of the situa
tion of any personal consideration what
ever, and direct it to its bearings on
our common interests. I will, in this
line, however, ask bow oven if the
charges are true, can this clamor which
has been raised and caught up by oui
euemies and rung from end to end of
this broad land, possibly conduce to
our common iuterest? Is the tendency
to reform, to purify or elevate us or is
it the reverse? Is is not inflicting on
us all, already the innocent sufferers by
the evil doing, if it ha3 done, the pains
and penalties that should be visited
upon the evil doers? Is it not a polit
ical error that involves a fearful perver
sion of justice? No, my friends, if our
officials have wilfully violated the law
regulating the conduct of their offices
they are guilty of high crimes before
the baseness of which, any violation of
a statute by a private citizen wouid pale
into white innocence, and it would be
the part of wisdom, plain practical
sense, simple justice and our dtfty as
Democrats to arraign them before the
courts instituted for such purposes.
But these random shots fired into the
multitude that strike inuocent parties,
are audaciously reckless and danger
ous to the public welfare, although they
may be intended merely as shrewd
political devices for the attainment of
personal ends.
But I would ask your attention to
one charge, because it takes us back to
first, principles, to which we can not
recur too often in periods of difficulty
aud doubt. The charge is so sweeping
as to involve us all of the white race,
and our anccsto'-s to the third and fourth
generation, in thcd irkness of Ethiopian
ignorance, of a vile conspiracy against
our own rights. It is the charge that
we have not, aud never have had, a '
Republican government in Sou h j 1
Carolina. This has a familiar sound to '
those of us who are old enough to recall |
the experiences of the days of "destruc- ?
tion and reconstruction," when reckless |
Radicalism, fury, and hate had full ! }
sway. The charge then was that we ?
had never bad a Republican form of 1
government, and tho consequential in- <
feren< e was that some power outside of ; )
ourselves was necessary to give it to us, ?
and arbitraay power was used to pro- t
vide us for the first time with that bless- 1
M
To give life and force to this reform j
a baud of reformers and progressionists |
were sent among us, and by appeals of
class prejudice, vague, unintelligible as- i v
sumptions of benefits and advantages i ?
over other classes to accrue to them and j c
a strong infusion of the dangers lurking j '
in the hearts and presence of all who j.
were opposed to their id,***, a?4 4euwi-11
ciatioo of all such &n "bourbons, aristo?
crats and tyrants," they succeeded to
arraying the numerically strougest class
of our citizens and gaining possession
of the government and we experienced
the practical operation of a govern
ment of the people by a class. To sj?y
nothing of the bitterness engendered
by tbe "progressive" career of these
"reformers," the evils of which can
not be remedied in generations, if ever,
the result was, what it must ever be
when such violation of the theory of
our government is practiced?lawless
confusion and chaos, infiictiog fearful in
jury on all, but greatest on tbe class for
whose special benefit and advantage it
was ostensibly and so unwisely attemp
ted.
While it is not for me ?o judge of the
motives of any man. not even of these
carpet bag "reformers," whose actions
we should and do justly execrate I
would say that if their purpose was to
bury us in tbe ashes of our rains, under
the weight of an organized majority,
who were known to have no conception
whatever of Republican government,
but reasonably expected to sympathize
in vengeful bate and act with reckless
passion, the gracious consideration of
providing us with a Republican govern
ment was moat diabolically adapted to
its accomplishment.
Then we were suffering the pangs of
defeat in war, scattered and helpless
and at the mercy of lawless force, but.
contrary to expectation tbe maimed and
mutilated -fragments of unsuccessful
war, with that inbred tenacity to liber
ty which I trust will ever characterize
us as a people, gathered themselves to
gether and with the aid of their 90ns
and1 the encouragement of their wives
and daughters, lifted the load, stormed
the old fortress occupied by freebooters
and desnoilers, and planted on it
their standard of constitutional liberty
and established in it constitutional
government. This is the only type of
government that affords guarantee to
the liberty of the people, for as l<?ng as
they have the intelligence and manhood
to maintain and enforce their constitu
tion, all the liberty to which they are
entitled under it is absolutely secure.
The agency which enabled us to estab
lish aod maintain such a government is
the organization of the Democratic
party, pronounced Bourbons and aristo
crats. The * Republican form of
government" dodge was use<J to sup
press aod prevent its organization.
The charge now is practically the
same, though it implies what tbe other
did not?bad faith in our management
under the Republican form of govern
ment that has been given us. With
this addition, it embraces the. same
allegation and tbe same consequential
inference, that some power other than
that at present organized by us must be
invoked to consummate our blessings io
that line. Tbe same methods are used.
The only difference consists in tbe
source from which tbe charge emanates,
the band of reformers and progression
ists spring, and the class of our citi
zens to be arrayed, taken. They are
all from the ranks of the "Bourbons/*
"aristocrats" and "tyrants." And
although I know that no such results
are expected or intended, yet when we
put the same causes to work, how are
we to avoid tbe same or similar results?
If the purpose were, and I know it
,annoi: be, the disintegration and fioal
destruction of our party, our friends
who have called it up again might be
congratulated, on its aptness for tbe
business, for by fair construction, it is
a simple and plain argument, not
simply of its methods, but of tbe party
aod its principles, as a cheat and a
fraud, which never have given and do
not now give us what we are entitled
to?this Republican government.
But I cannot attribute such a pur
pose to any sons of South Carolina,
particularly those who are proud of the
noble services rendered by them to their
party, and the prominent part taken by
'hem in its conflicts and triumphs. In
?.he excitement of partisan strife, it is
an unconscious fling at the bridge that
has given us safe passage thus far, and
which has a tendency to weaken and
impair its efficiency. But I call your
atteotioo to this charge particularly, ;
because it takes us back to first princi
ples, a due consideration of which will
throw some light on -the question as to
what sort of government we are en- i
titled to, and enable us to form an
opiniou as to whether we have it or
not.
When our ancestors determined to
exercise the sovereignty which* always
and everywhere abides in the people,
they deemed i? best in order to secure its
untramelled exercise to cast off every ,
semblance of personal or arbitrary
power. Tney accomplished this by enter
ing into a compact which they framed
and solemnly enacted into law. This
law, the embodiment of their sover
eignty?the Constitution?was en
throned as the ruler of the government
established by them. Provision was
made for the conduct of this govern
ment, for the appointment of the va
rious officials prescribed by law, and
also rules and regulations for the con
duct of each and every office Power
was couferred really on the office, not
on the individual occupying it, for one
moment before he enters an office he is
a private citizen, and one moment after
he leaves it he is the same, but the
power and authority of the office con
tinue.
It will be seen that so long as the
offices are conducted in accordance with
these rules and regulations the govern
ment thus administered is the sort of
government to which we are entitled,
:all it what you may, and actually is a
joverument of the people, by the peo
ple, for the people, aod that is the sort
)f government that our fathers fought
for aod won the right to establish?the
?ort of government that was maintained
i>y the party of the Constitution in
South Carolina for nearly a century, j.
be sort of government we fought for iu '*
he late civil war, the sort of govern- J
nent we lost when tbe blessings of a
Republican form of government was ,
or the ?rst time bestowed on us. It is (
he sort of government we regained '
vhen in the depths of our adversity, we J
>loughboys, Bjurbons and aristocrats 5
f South Carolioa arrayed ourselves on i
he lioes of the Constitution and en
orced its authority against overwhelm
Dg odds. Thus was our sosietv or- 3
gaoized into a State. One State joined
other States ro another compact estab
lishing another government subject f9
the s?ie or similar roles and regula
tions f namely, the government of the
United States. The only material
point of difference in tbe eondoet of
these governments is in the mode 4$
providing for their maintenance.
S ) far as the conduct of the officiate
is concerned, they are equally subject
to the supreme law, and whefr adtefic
istered in strict accordance with if, er*
equally governments of the people, trf
the people, for the people.
"Oar present troubles are attributable to*
mal administration in the Federal gOT*
em men t. Its long continued control
by the republican party, which baa
never been capable of operating s ce#
8titutional govrnmeut, has resulted in
progressive encroachments on the sover
eignty to which it owes allegiance. If
was in its incipiency intended to be 9
sectional party, and the administrations
furnished by it were from the first
wide departures from the track of
the Constitution, and Were in fact the
government of the whole people by a
section for a section. But the progres
sive spirit of which it beasts, did not
long rest there. It bas made another
stride in the conversion of coostiro*ioa
al power into personal or arbitrary
force, and degraded even the govern"
ment by a section into a government by
a fraction of that section. It bas*
ceased to represent or enforce even the
will of a section of people of all classes,
but is controlled by the money power
of that section which it has concentrated
into the hands of a few, by its iniquitous
restrictions, not on the production of
wealth by our people, but on its just
distribution. We are in danger of
having an oligarchy fastened on us, ao
aristocracy through the instrumental
ity of the Federal government, not the
State, which is in very deed the only
protecting shield of our iodivkiaal lib*
erties against the encroach Stents of un
lawful power.
These measures of restriction opotr
the just distribution of wealth are tfcs
key to the stronghold of the enemy.
They are exerting all their skill,
stretching to the utmost limit the
power of the government to fortify and!
strengthen it on the one band, and to
distract the assault which we are ar
ranging against it on the other. They
are increasing pensions to as e&orstfty
to invite our attack 00 tbat point, and
at the same time arraying the Grand
Army of the Republic Qo their dis
grace) for its defence. They are dis
tracting our producers from the truer
path to relief by promises of ware- ,
bouses.
At this point General Bratton said a*
there were many speakers to follow h\m
be would not loager tas frfs ?esrefB>
and retired.
At Lanre?s.
The Till ma nit es Run the Meetiflg
to Suit Themselves.
Li?RENT8,~Jone 12.?The campaign
opened here lively to-day. Between*
1,200 and 1,500' persoae were present.
The Tillman men were armsually de
monstrative, and long before the meet
ing opened the Captain was drag get}
from the Clerk's ofice by a balf a
dozen enthusiasts and was given a
r?de around the solare on the sboslders
of his friends.
The Till man men wore badges, ami
if by this distinction we are to judg*e
his strength, the farmers present were
about equally divrded.
The speaking, took place m the grote
at the Male Academy, and Was opened!
by Gen. l?r?ttotr. Bis appearance wa?
the srgoal for ?oed and long sheafs for
Tillman, and after Vainly eiroeavorhig*
to be heard for some time, be was- com
pelled to stop
Captain's Shell and Tiffmatr eaefc en
deavored to gain a hearing for General
Bratton, but the violence at those rar
mediateJy around tbe stand drowned hkf
words.
Gen. Bratton finished bis speech de
spite the jeers, which Was ro sobstancer
the same as defivered at Spartanburg.
Capt. Tilrman spoke next, bet pre
sented nothing new. After speak rag
for about an hour a terrible wind and
rats storm threatened and the crowd
began fo reave, so he closed.
After the raiu the crowd assembled in
the court" bouse fo bear Gen. Earte,
The disorderly conduct of the ?rs&
meeting was continued, and Captais
Tillman was compelled to call od lite
followers to liste* to the speaker, He
said the idea woald go ont that his side
would not tolerate a fair discussion.
Gen. Earle spoke of the secret ctr
cnlar recently issued by Captain Shell,
in which he urged his followers to or
ganize Democratic clubs and see 'hafc"
none were allowed to pass unless prop*
erly vouched for.
General Boo h am made a telling
speech, which, though short, was pro
nounced one of the best of the cam
paign. He took a firm stand, and the
people listened with rapt attention.
Col. K. B Gary was Vebei?e?t iff ul*
demands, and abused the present ad
ministration without leaking any speci
fic charge.
Gen. ?*. J. Pope also spoke, bat
having sacrificed his voice at Spartan
burg, could hardly be beard,
Taking all in al), '.he meeting ap?
peared to be for Til?man, a?fhoagfc
many farmers have unhesitatingly ex
pressed a cbange since they bave heard
both sides.
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