The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-11-20
THE VERGE OF REVOLUTION.
NEW YoRKs CONDITION A FEW DAYS
AGO.

bo'Aho SohsplratOrS who Brew the
Storm Hasten to Dissipate it.--A Swift
Change, I'm Consequence or Fear and
Guilty Conscience.
Gfrom the Ncuo York Herald Of Sunday. 7
This morning tho He:alNs assurance
to the people of this nation that "Al's
quiet along Manhattan Island" will
carry tidin9 of equal significance to
millions Of people Interested TO know
the outcome in the metropolis of the
United States.
But it hasn't been so long.
WHAT WAS NOT TOLD.
The Herald is n newspaper, but it
did not on Tuesday tell all.it knew.
The Herald goes not alone to men
upon" the street but to women and
children in their homes. Its stories
arc read not alone by lawyers and
bankers and thinkers and tailoes, but
by ladies in their boudicrs and bv
others in their stores and shops, bv
passengers in the railway trains and
by walters in the depots. Had it told
what it knew it would have said: We
are ON the eve of revolution; the Of
ficial breast is disturbed; authorizations
OF something more than idle talk and
gossip and bluster on the streets have
caused our officials to lay in ammuni-
ton, TO call out the police and put
every man on duty, either on the
streets or in stationhouSe reserve !!
such ideas once started soon be prco-
nant, and in their train come other
ideas, multitudiously professional and
dangerous to n degree.
Had the truth been told, not alone
the thousand roughs from PHILADELPHIA
ana their we'll termed "f'icnds" from
other cities, not alone the gambling
fraternity from Boston and the bullics.
who, strange to say, make their nests
along the rock bound shores of the
Hudson, but the rifl:raT from Jersey
City and Brooklyn, the ruffians from
Staten lsland--abSolutclv and literally
the hordcs of men who live bv their
baser wits, would have come tumblino
pell-mell into the pcaccable streets of
New York, where, lningling with the
crowds already excited and gathered
in significant places, they would have
added fuel to the pyrc and furnished
tho blazing torch besides. That would
have meant something besides "Hur-
rah, boys!" The cries would not have
been "Regards TO Mrs. Fishcrr' or
"Blaine! Blaine the thief from Maine |!
Rut, "Where is the house of this rich
mani" Where is the bank!" Where
is the we'll stored magazine! Where
is the warehouse filled with plundcrl
The torch and axe and "jimmv" would
have taken the place of the waving
hats and shaking canes.
Could this story have been told?
Not precisely.
But ii was true, all the same.
1t was, indeed. And nobody knew
it better than the Governor of the
State, and the mayor Of the city, and
the board Of police, and the United
States marshal, and the chief supervis-
or of elections, and the men whose
hands are upon the helm of affairs
deciding which way the craft should
steer toward an honest determination
or the votes of the people, or a dis
honest twist of what would then be a
farcc-our popular election.
Ehc wisdom of the HeyaldS course
is universally conceded. Enough was
told to show to the people who con-
troll those things-for strange as it
may scom these things are controlled
that the danger they were threatinrlv
over the metropolis was fnlly
understood and absolutely appreciated.
Nay, more, that had it come the re-
Sponsibility would have been laid at
t he feet and placed upon the heads of
those who had it in their power to con-
troll it in the first instance.
TIE RESPONSIBLE PERSONS.
That they had it in their power to
it was from the ontsct proved
first, by the changed tone of certain
bulletins; second, by the cXtraordina-
ry agility with which the majOrities
were sprung from the columna where
they didn't belong to the places where
they ought to go; third, by that extra.
ordinary telegram from Mr.. JAY
Gould to Governor Grover Cleveland,
impudently congratulating him that
the people of the State which had once
before honorcd him had again done
their part to swell the patriotic tide
that fioatcd him to the very pinnacle of
ambition.
The majesty Of the people was never
ulofc tnoFougnly cSplOltCQ than by the
changed tone of certain monopolist
spcculators and stock jobbcrs and their
organs on Friday morning. Yes:
even further back than Friday morn
ing. On Thursday night they began
to realize the tremendous proportions
of the popular indignation. 1t ran
riot in every vein. 1t stirred the in
most cookie Of every citizens heart;
Republican and Democrat alike, if
honest, shared this Indignation. No
one pretends that integrity, honor,
decent sentiment resides in tic breasts
of Cleveland men alone. Sue assump-
lions would be insane. Good, true
men exist in every party. Good men
voted for st. John and for Butler and
for Blaine as well as for Cleveland.
enough every man desired
the success Of the candidate whom he
had supported. Naturally enough
they hoped even against hope, and
thousands of theW hung on to the tail
ola forlorn hope long after the animal
had jumped the fence of doubt. But
the conscience of the people was arous-
ed, and large numbers, not alone those
who fnVOIed the SucccSS of CLEVELAND