Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-10-30

Our next convention should therefore seek men
for the State ticket whose conservative views
would unity the Democrats, and not antagonize
tho Republicans. We can only speak from our
own County. and IL not badly mistaken. the
prospect horo is not so bright as in 1875, unless
strong ticket bo put in tho field. There are
many things tho people at largo do not fully
comprehend and blindly lay TO tho charge of
tho Democrats During tho days Of Radical
rule cotton and farm produce wcre high and
money as consequence was moro plentiful.
notwithstanding heavy taxation. In 1876, the
year of Democratic success, an unprec edent ed
Hood occurred, destroying largely both tho corn
and cotton crops. While then taxes were re-
duced money and provisions were scarcer than
in previous years. The return to specie pay
ments has again operated 10 keep all farm
products lower than before 1876, and wo have
had three stringent years, due first to exhaustion
from over.taXation under Radical misrulc and
next to the effects of providcntial disaster
The crop this year is shorter than known since
1916, the cotton not yielding above half crop.
and the corn, by reason Of tho late freshet being
reduced perhaps below an average hnlf CROP.
In poverty and misfortune people easily are led
to look to any source of help, and while noon
mature reflection they shoua see tina! their only
salvation rested IN continuing tho Democrats in
power, yet upon impulse and imprudent nom
NATIONS Oh our part great danger of defeat is
apparent.
There is another cyesore to the Democrats,
which to thinking men may mean nothing, but
which to very many may be turned against us.
We refer to the recent homestead decisions of
tho Supreme Court, rs construed by many, ope-
rating to tho benefit Of the rich or land owners
and to the oppression of the poor or renters and
tenants. These decisions are, as all LAWYERS
admit, in strict conformity with the constitution
rs construed by rules established for centuries,
and are the decisions which every court in the
nation must have rendered, whcther Democratic
or Republican. The questions were not mado
before the old court but we, and, as we think,
oil lawyers entertained the opinion of the law,
rs it has since been construed The fault does
not iio with my party, but in the constitution
itself, which needs amendment in many respects.
While this is true, all these matters will be
turned against us and made TO do the dirty work
of Radical Office. seekers. Let US all then
realize tho danger before us, q danger which
threatens to depopulatc and destroy tho State,
unless We unite and nominate our most unobicc-
lionablc men in the next campaign. We write
in behalf of no man or ticket, but We think that
our people should begin 10 look around and pre-
pare for the great contest of $780, in which the
greatest efforts ever yet made by the two parties
in the government will be put forth. The
strength and influence Of the national ticket
will be brought TO bear in every State, and We
should seek both for Congress and tho Stale
ticket the best, most experienced and most con
scrvatiyc men We can find. This is the road to
safety and success.