The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21
The Radical Mass" Meeting on Last
Saturday.

place last Saturday. In point of numbers and
table speakers" IL was conspicuous failure
but in vinGictiveness and misrepresentation
10 was magnificent success. There were
/ present, by actual count, "a negroes, q few Of
whom were Democrats, and four or FIVE white
Revenue officers few Of whom at least SEEM
ed 10 understand that Mr.. Hayes civil service
reform order was imperative at this time, and
that upon their partizan efforts deI ended the
continuance of their $4.00 per day Jerry
Baker, colored, blacksmith, carried his anvil
out in front of the Court House and fred q
salute in honor Of The occasion. He evidently
expects to use the face of it to work up Demo
| cratic iron and make his bread and meat while
he uses the other side to burn powder to ad-
vance the cause Of Radiealism. The County
| Democratic Executive Committee had made
no arrangements to have joint meeting, but
there were fully rs many Democrats as there
were Republicans present. red shirt mount
ed company from Georges Creek came in
voluntarily, while individual Democrats in
| this vicinity donned the emblematic garment
| and honored the meeting with their presence
Stolbrand, 'the flying Dutchman," and
| candidate for Congress was the only speaker
present, though it had been announced that
Ex'Judge Cooke.and Ex- x-Congressman Rainey
would be here. The meeting took place in
the Court House. Jeremiah Looper, County
Chairman of the Republican party, presided.
Stolbrand commenced his speech by saying
that he had come, by invitation Of the County
Chairman, to discuss, in his feeble way, the
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the life and character of Garfield, commencing
with him when q boy working for his mother,
(as though no other boy ever worked for his
mother,) and followed his career up as q
canal boat driver, president Of college, mem
Der of the Ohio State Senate, member Of Con-
gress, General in the Federal army, member
Of Congress again, elected to U. s. Senate and
finally nominated as the Republican candidate
for President of this great Nation He failed,
however, to enlighten his audience on the
subject of his back salary grab, Credit Mo-
bilier and DeGoylier contract jobs; which,
however, Col, Bowen reminded him Of in his
reply. He reviewed and lauded the Repub-
lican administrations for the past twenty
years; defended all their acts and policies,
reminded the negroes that they owed the right
OF sutterage to that party, and then said that
whilethese topics were interesting he con-
sidered the most important question TO be
ne attitude of the Democratic party in refer.
ence to import duties. He said thatthe Dem
ocratic platform contained plank declaring
in favor ofimpOrt duties for revenue purposes 5
4 ihan ~ ~ =,
and carried out this declaration Of principles.
It would have the effect OF stopping the man
ufacturing interest in the Eastern States and
would throw thousendslof people out of EN-
| ployment, or cause them to have to work for
| nearly nothing; said that it would give the
manufacturers of Great Britain an opportu
nifty to compete with their cheap manufactur
ed articles with the manufacturers of this
country, and would have the effect Of driving
them out Of The. market. He favored o pro-
tectiVe tariff. TO this sentiment of the speak
er the negroes, who, Of course, knew what inn
port duties, protective tariffs, &c., meant,
gave audible approval. They seemed to think
that IL was sufficient if it was q Republican
measure and that it had been enacted for their
do they carey that under the protective tariff
system of the government huge manufacturing
monopolies have grown up in this country at
the expense of our agricultural interest; that
| for nine tenths Of the articles we consume, not
| manufactured at homo, VIC pay o large per
cent more for than we would if we had no
! protective tariff. But this makes no differ
enoe with the Radical ncgro--any Radical
| measure is good enough for him, it matters
not how inimical il may be to the interests OF
the country. ..,...,....- ,.,..
| He spoke Of the recent State elections in
Ohio and Indiana and said he considered the
result as indicative of Republican triunE h
on the I'd of November. He arraigned the
Democratic party for not doing what they
should have done for the public schools, for
i getting again to tell his audience how many
more children there are in the public ,scheols
now than there were during the Radioai yeqiae
and how The Republicans stole the school
money, creating large dsHoiercies which had
to be made good since the Dsmoorats canse into
power. B'sea
Hesaid that he felt ashamed of the condnc,
Of some Of the, Republican leaders, but fell
proud Of the Republican party, told the ne
groes that in the past there was some reasons
for Republican timidty, but that time had
passed and that they must now put on O bold
front and maintain their rights at all hazards
( He said shat the question of slaUery and th
p0IiticcL and csDI rights of neorees aras SETTLE,