Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CONTINUED FOOT FTBST man observes that the rig h is not sufficient of itself to people from oppression by . bat the only safeguard is io organisation of each inter State Speaking through gent mouthpiece the voice of est could be easily beard misunderstood. The com ph man are never heeded by le rulers ; he ts invariably look a crank. But when an orga farmers speaks through intelligently drawn, even lend an ear to its voice. Tl that we must not go ioto pc it will destroy our organi? you should meet and discuss etc., and adjourn, but fellow this is but the voice of the t seek to steer from the path rocks for the purpose of destr? It is the duty of every go to enter politics and have a vc administration of his State go Show me a people who take i io affairs of State aod I wilt a misgoverned, ignorant aod race. Did you ever hear of I introduced io Congress for th the agricultural class, bills t< gambling or speculation ii futures, sub treasury bill, int bills and tariff reform bills, organization of the National i Remember, the next four y bring to us these measures in l of laws, if you will be true selves. Already the Northen crats. seeing the inevitable unit South and West, have desert party and are now assisting a Re minority to break a quorum an the will of the people, ft The Bland bill,however,bas p; House, but it is understood th Cleveland is opposed and meet defeat in the club Why Mr. Cleveland should of coining the silver in th? sury, which has been robbi Western miners, bot who now n claim upon it, and paying the the nation instead of issuing bc incomprehensible to any honet Will the jack-ass horses please ? We have been branded at W too as being third partyites, th of the earth aod unworthy of r tioo by the Democratic party an meo who are responsible for it a bowing down asking you to them, "the decent element, to off upon a Cleveland Democrats from I am a democrat out ai standing squarely upon the C platform aod I propose to show y< it is almost identical with tbe demand. (Mr. Evans here read the two forms and compared them.) Who DOW are the true democra Alliance mea or the jack-ass-horse rest my democracy here aod wi ceed to discuss State affairs. The Historian Gibbon charact the reign of the A too i o es ovei ' Roman Empire as the only im where the happiness of the peopl the sole objects of their rolers, aod truly may the same be s: the reign of the Reformers io f Carolina. Recognizing the principle that best educated people are the bap aod best citizens, the first o of the Reform Government wi build up the common scbool sys Under the bill introduced by m separate scbool districts have organized in nearly all of our cont aod most of them by the addition small tax our public schools are ruo from six to nine months. I io favor of makiog every distric the State separate and allow il govern itself as to its schools the method of maintaining th aided, of course, by the State propriation. A Constitutional C ventioo should be called and sci law expunged from the constitution left entirely with our Legislature, at present it is daogerous io the treme and a menace to our en system of common schools. We h built and equipped a college^ mod io all its features, where our p boys may obtain an education at smallest expense. The best evidence of its success a the necessity for its establishment is I fact that over 600 students are nt enrolled within its walis and otb? are knocking at its doors for admissic We have maintained every Institut! of the old regime and not a dollar of ezi taxation has been placed upon the pe pie in comparisen with the rate of ti past opposing administrations. R cognizing the great iojuetioe done our womeo, and the indifferen shown ber by -the best element, v bave in process of construction s Industrial College for Women, whic will be the pride of our State. It wi be as grand a success as Clemson Co lege and fill a long felt want. It sad to relate, however, that the tough of the State were the first to recogniz the claims of her lovely women. W have crushed out the Coosaw monopole created by the Republicans and sough to ' be maintained by the best ele ments, and to-day the State is ii possession of ali her rights and proper ty, including Agricultural Hall whicl was attempted to be stolen from us bj carpet-baggers and fraudulent bond? holders. We have endeavored to equalize taxation by assessing the property ol corporations commensurate with that of real estate owners, but by reason of being io hands of United States Court Receivers, they have defied State authority, teodered only the amount of taxes they thought due and are. Daw indebted to the State sun of $201,000. There is i railroad' in the State coosiderin interest paid on a legitimate b indebtedness, which is not asi lower than the average farm, cou ing the interest received by the fi upon his investment. Little di think when Daniel H. Chatnb was driven for the State at the of the bayonet, that he ?oui soon return and snap bis fingers i face of oar government, sustain* men who had denounced him thief and scoundrel-guardian not of oar largest corporation, bat of oar United States Circuit Jo* principal editor of our largest i paper and a criterion of our democ O Tempora, O Mores. Banqueted - by elite of Charle we are forced to exclaim to what uses have the better element come. Had these railroads paid their ti and the revenue from phosphates been destroyed, our taxes would be only 2h mills. Io spite of by strict economy we have renfu the State debt, of five and one miilioo dollars, exempted the s stricken sections from taxes, paid old soldiers an extra bonus of $5, and lowered our taxes half a i Salaries have been reduced over per ceDt., but could oct be o to take effect until next year foi reason that the Legislature refuse cut their own. We have been acci of being incompetent and ignorant incapable of running the State ( ero m en t. When the State debt was t refunded, the banks of Charle refused to co-operate with us and that the State could take care of hei and Charleston would do the sa We went to New York and acta the patriots of Sooth Carolina fly-bi ed us and not a banker in that would take our bonds, stating I they had been offered to them a cheaper rate than was offered by State authorities, who alooe had po to sell them. We went to Baltina and succeeded before these people co find oat where we were. I was told a Baltimore banker that he ' approached by one of our patriots ; statesmen and asked why he was be ing Tillman float Bis bonds. Did not koow that he was fighting Bul and Hampton by aiding Tillman, him alooe, said he, and let him refc his owo bonds. This gentleman < pressed to me the profoundest cont?e for such conduct. We were harrasi by these "patriots," who were willi to bankrupt the State for politi purposes. While negotiations w pending ooe weot so far as to iutrodi into the Legislature a bill to exte the old bonds for four years at six ] cent., on account of the inability of I State to refund the old debt. This m knew at the time that the matter h almost reached a successful termin?t] and he did this for no other reason tb to break it op aod he succeeded. T next ?day the matter was telegraph to New York papers, aod bankers we startled and dropped the whole matti We succeeded, however, without t aid of Charleston or the patriots, refunding your debt of $5,400.000 time of panic at 4J per cent., th saving to the State over $80,000 interest annually, and still we are i competent to deal with such questions The Reformers have an opposirit that is as unreasonable as it is bitte and nothing we do can be expected meet with their approval. I am sati fied if we bad enacted the ten comman? ments into law at the last Legislatui the State and News and Courier woul have accused us of heresy. In our efforts to secure the hap pine; of the people we have enacted tb Dispensary Law, wbich stands to-daj the only solution of the greatest an ! most vexatious question which ou j State Government has been called upo j to deal with. We are told that it i j unconstitutional, and bow fashionabl this has become of late. The constitu lion is appealed to, to defeat ever important measure advocated by tb people. - ! It is the duty of the State to regu late any traffic that operates to destro her citizens. The whiskey traffic ha always been under thc control, no j only of the States, but of the Unite< j States Government. No man ha: ! been allowed to deal in the stuff wit bou complying with the stringent regula tioos of our governments. It is absurl j then, to argue that we have deprivee j the citizen of any individual rights j In dealing with States the same rule* i apply as in dealings with individuals, j Wheo the Reformers came into power I we found the old State drunk. Th? j barkeepers ruled our largest cities and j even defied and intimidated our higbesl j officials. Every bar-room in South Car j olina was a political club house, and was ' ran in the interest of some politician, i Our young men were allured by I gaming tables and fancy drinks until i their ruin was complete and the State j deprived of ber good citizens. June Martin-it's mighty high, j The Speaker-You never got any j good whiskey before. > Josh Ashely-Some of it is very ibad i Voice-Government whiskey burns. The Speaker-Make it half water, as they used to do in the bar-rooms, and it won't burn. June Martin-Pm in favor of the dispensary and all that, but the whiskey ain't no 'count. The Speaker-Will anybody in Ab ! beville tell me this was not a proper ; subject for legislation. We do not pre i tend to legislate for old soaks whose j habits are formed. You eau no more 1 legislate sobriety into them than you can honesty into thieves, bot legislate for oar boys and yoong i In two generations our State v ready for total prohibition, sud w have ic. The youog men now gi up will not know the taste of wi the social feature having been des there will no longer dwell a within the cup, and our countr boom with prosperity. Ninety-seven per cent, of the of South Carolina are in favor o law and yet our daily papers are fa iog it and tryiog to prod . - the it sion cu the outside world tit. 'be ernor cannot enforce it, and th i are against it. They are a sweet i set, these anti dailies They cusi fume because the dispensary mad they say, no money for the first qa and they cussed aod fumed louder cause it did make a little the s quarter. It has paid expenses fro start, and is now paying the S handsome income. We do not care, ever, for the money. It is the li ness and protection of the peop which we are struggling. Drunkenness in our State has decreased over 75 per cent., and a home DOW radiates with the sun of sobriety and Christianity which tofo re was dark with crime and poi We are being watched by tbe ltzed world, and in less than four ; this law will be enacted by a maj of the States of our Union. Ali Massachusetts is following us, aod National Alliance has made it an for the Union. Who are the men that are figbtin The saloon keepers and scum of earth, who live on thc bowerj Charleston and Columbia, aided such patriots as endeavor to bank the State, advise insurrection, and nive at fraud for the purpose of ma a little political capital against movement. I regret to say that a few extr prohibitionists are with them, but not impugn their motives. I ? throw the mantle of charity arc them., and ask you to forgive them they know not what they do. Prohibition is as sure to come as are here, but we most first prepare way for it. When a mau has delir tremens, we do not take his whis abruptly away from him. We mi little io his medicine and filially get in shape to take it from him en tir So we must treat the State, for a S is but a collection of individuals bas the same symptoms and disease: its compound parts. We have been invited to make law i n issue in this campaign and have taken up the glove. Let the e my meet us face to face and we si ask no quarter. Suffering humar has already arisen to call us bl< ed and the true and good must be M us The attempt io place me before people as the candidate of any one u or faction is simply an effort of the position to create the impression tba split exists in our ranks. I am the c didale of no 'man or faction and th who think that a split exists in l ranks of the Reformers are in the pc tion of the little animal, who saw t king of beasts asleep. Thinking h dead, the little skunk offered t monarch an insult characterized by 1 offensive odor. The lion awakeni crushed him with one slap and all tt remained was a small grease spot ai a little offensive odor. So io August next when the Refor lion awakens all that will be left of t opposition wjll be a small grease sp and a little offensive odor in the offi of thc Columbia State. Dr. Timmerman's Speech Dr. W. H. Timmerman then made speech which is boiled down to.this : 1 am not here as an avowed candi? ate for Governor of South Carolina, have only been suggested as a possib candidate. I could not violate pn c?dent, by refusing it, if it wei tendered to me. My life has beeu spent chiefly on tb farm, and I feel that to a reasonabl degree, I understand the wants an needs of the people. Their country i my country. Their God is my Goo Tempest tossed we are pulling for th same shore. The best form of Govern ment is that form known as th Republican or Democratic Government In the exercise of their coostitutiooa "rights the people must rule if the; would perpetuate their liberty. Io a general way, and with ose o two exceptions, I stand on the Ocal platform. I do not ?avor Government owoer ship of railroads aod telegraphs, but j do favor Government regulation o them in such a way as may be just ti them and fair to the people. I believe the repeal of the ten pei cent, tax on banks would be well. I am in favor of an income tax-i gradual income tax that would mak( ! tho accumulation of large sums impos? sible. England has had an iucome tai ; for forty years, and I see no reason why ! the United States should not have suet ; a law I am iu favor of the lowest tariff, ! though I am not a free trader. Though j the tariff tax has barbaric origin, yet I ; favor the necessary tariff. I believe the Southern people have j been robbed of millions by speculations ; in futures. I believe iu a law authorizing the levy of a tax ou corporations, whether j io thc bauds of a receiver or not It is not at all strange that Cleveland j should be opposed to thc free coinage of j silver, aud although he may bc as bon I cst at I am, yet his surrounding? arc j such that he caunot act with the people. I I favor a constitutional conventiou in South Carolina. I SID willing to risk the people in framing a constitution in the interests of the whole State. In 1891 I introduced a bill in the Legislature for high license, and those who were representing the liquor inter? ests fought it as strenuously as they did the dispensary law. I believe that the enforcement of a prohibitory law is im? possible. Under the dispensary law we arc educated in a line toward tempe? rance. The temptation to drink is uow almost wholly removed In a recent trip to the Northwest I find that the ! prohibitionists ?here are willing to ac cept the dispensary law. No man who has the moral welfare of his county or State at heart would encourage the vio lati?os of the law. The people have been informed as to the printing bill. It has gone out that lower bids were received than the price fixed by law. It is true that such bids were put in after the bill had become a law. But whether received early or late, the price is a fair one, and the State will save money by the law. The letter of Hon. J E. Tindal read at the Abbeville meeting will be pub lished next week. Buckleii'a Arnica Smlre. The Bast Salve io the world for Cat?, Braise? Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required- It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded. .nrice 25cents per box. 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