Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-12-25

fealty and loyalty to that grand old party
is tho exponent of pure Republican prinoi-
Piles, is not shaked by past events or future
dangers, nor turned aside by tho disposition,
becoming SO prevalent, to run utter now
gods.
Abboyille Press and Banner
Apd now our own chosen Democratic
Congressman, whom we have sent to the
outposts, flies of at tangent and proposes
to disband tho Democratic party.on tho eve
OF going into supreme contest with the
Republicans for President. A proposition
on tho part of our Congressman looking to
Independentism sounds 30 unlike the Hon.
ID. Wyatt Aiken that wo can scarcely boz
lievo our senses when we read his doclara-
ti0ns which arc to be found elsewhere in tho
columns of the Press and Banner. He claims
to havo had many advantages by reason of his
travels and by his stay in Washington.
These travels aud his stay in Washington
may account for his advanced political ideas,
Which would disintegratc tho only political
party that has ever shown the South any
consideration, and into whose fold tho
South has made almost superhuman efforts
to place the local State governments. The
boys at Schenectady, Significantly says:
"Wcrc their plastic minds not moro or less
imoucd with tho ideas that alionated them
from their native Stato?" 1t may be wise
to ego back" on the Democratic party now,
but we fail to SEQ it in that light Tho
lottcr of tho Hon. d. w. Aiken will bo
read with surprise by constituents who have
always regarded him rs simon-puro Dom
ocrat and q genuine Radical hater, and ns
politician with suoh pronounced Democratic
views as would allow him to make no poit.
ical affiliations whatever with Republicans
Of any sort.
Abbcyillo Medium
Col. Aiken says that neither party now
in existence has the power to promote Tho
wolfaro Of the country or strengthen the
government; that they arc selfish aud de-
signing and having outlivod their usefulness
aud tho special objects of their creation
they must dissolve and give way to grand
national party, organized without regard to
former political party or section aud work
for tho good and glory Of the whole ooun-
try without any reference to the solid South
or the solid North, but in harmony for the
Union. Col. Aiken proposes to make up
his party out of the industrial clements of
sooiety-tho farmers ond mechanics and
workingmen of tho nation. Ho has been
looking into tho future and is confident that
the organization of this great national po-
litical confederation is only question Of
time and that it must bo speedily formed.
No one will deny that there is crying ne
cessity for reform in tho politics of all pur-
tics and that the Union cannot stand forever
if those who fll the Offices and mako the
laws arc chosen for purely party and not
patriotic reasons. The tendency is steadily
downward-thc money rings aud all their
foul and hateful allies arc sucking the very
lifeblood out Of the government. This is
all true, but it is q question of very serious
Importance whether this is the time, just in
advance of the next Presidential election,
which will be the most important ever held
in tho United States, to agitate tho do
struclion of all existing parties and tho
formation of q new society against the
enemies of our country: whether the old
Democracy cannot better meet tho emor-
genoics of tho times than any party Col.
Aiken can ever hopo to start. It takes
time and labor to organize political party.
Tie Republican party was not the work Of
the war. 1t was in existence forty years
before it had any impression on the politics
or the nation and it only gathered strength
by tho lapse of years and tho vigilance and
activity of its founders. If this new party
is to draw its strength from tho farmers and
worklngmon of the country whose interests
arc divided and who have never yet been
known TO unite on any single public qucs.
ton, it will die before it is born. Colonel
Aiken should know that it will DO many
years before any political party in South
Carolina can take the place of the Demo-
oracy of l876--the party that mudo him
what he is and saved the State from con.
dition worse than death. He should have
known that in view of the next campaign,
now already opening on every side, this is
not the time to agitate the organization of q
new party. The Democratic party, with
all its faults, is good enough for US. 1t has
stood the test of revolution aud served our
country in every trying emergency Of peace
6nd of war and it will die hard.
We regret that COL Aiken wrote this
letter. 1t will be used against him by his
enemies, of whom he must know he has not
u few. 1t will bo twisted and contortcd into
a thousand shapes and ho will be the suf
fercr-his honest sentiments, which We have
Ito doubt were spoken with an eye single to
the good Of tho State ho has always loved
aud served so WE'LL will be used as club to
break his head. Tho News and Co..
'tcr has already suggested that it is little
singular that he should try to break down
tho party that put him in office. Col
Aiken is evidently infatuated with his new
marty idcn. for in n lnttnr To Tho A nnn.fn