The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-08-21
SOUTH. CAROLINA
AS IT IS SEEN THROUGH NORTHERN
GLASSES.

deep interc:;t throughout the United
States. The unfounded, and retract
ed charges of Capt. Tillman have bocr
received as simple truth and the won.
dclful strides VIC have made seem to
b, impeded by the reputation our
State has recently acquired, based on
the statements of one of our candi-
dates for governor That he has
given the State such reputation is a
misfortune which every Carolinian
must deplore.
The New York Mail and Express
says:
''The latest advices from the sin
gular md desperate political cam
paign in South Carolina make it clear
that the time has arrived for the as
aertion of their constitutional rights
by The colored voters in that State,
who are decidedly in the majority and
who have been SO long the victims of
the white supremacy doctrine.
They have shown sagacity and
self control in remaining passive spec
tators Of the Tillman and the anti
Tilhnan struggle, while the white
voters have displayed their unfitness
to govern by the violence and viru-
lencc of q struggle that would bring
about an anarchist condition if it con-
tinuod long enough. y The followers
OF Tnlman beHsses f'nat the govern
mcut of the Stnt&,5y thewhite aristo-
cracy since 1870 has been getting
more and moro corrupt. They con-
stitute the middle class and the poor
white class of voters, and have been
gradually getting 1nofe and more
radical and revolutionary. If their
programme was fully carried out,
South Carolina would become Il
bankrupt State, deserted by capital
and by men of large business enter
prise. Yet their wrath against the
'ncompetency and corrupt rule of the
aristocracy is absolutely justifable
and the very wilClnesS of some of
their schemes shows the desperation
to which that rule has goaded them.
with all that has been published
about the crazy schemes of the Far
mers' Alliance that is in rebellion
against the white aristocracy, it is
needful, i'll this connection, to state
briefly what those schemes are. The
Alliance catechisi1, which they have
thrust in the face Of every candidate
for Congress in that State, is so COM
plcte compendium of all the finan-
cial hcl estes ana exploded theories of
the past century that, even if it had
been turned over to the most brilliant
representative of New York bar, he
could not have made it more com
plete or more concise.
"Thls the South Carolina issues
between the white voters are between
tyrannical and corrupt white aris-
tocracy, on the one hand, and finan-
cial lunacies of the widest sort on
the other. Has not white suprema-
cy down there brought the State
near chaos and ruin? Could negro
rule be worse? Would it not be far
'ln South Carolina, the State of
Traitor John @. Calhoun, and where
rebellion first showed it's ugly front
under his malign leadership, the con-
tinuing treason of the white suprem-
acy' doctrine has had full sway for
many years, the negroes having been
kept under OF cheated out of their
uotes, and being the passive sufferers
from the violence, intimidation and
fraud Of the superior race The
anarchic results are fully displayed
i'll the campaign that is now so ex-
citing i'll every district and that
would be attended by great blood
shed but for the fact that all the
white men in this struggle know
that if collisions begin the end
thereof would be appalling to con-
template.
The loyal citizens of South Caro-
lima, the negroes, who constitute
three tifths of the population, have
SO far been passive spectators of the
anomalous struggle between their
oppressors. They have been the
main sufferers by the white mems
government that is at last rebelled
against by white men. They have
had and are having the satisfaction
of seeing the natural result of the
peculiar sort of rule that has dis
graccd South Carolina in political
fight without precedent for it's bitter
ness. Their patience and sclf-con-
troll have been admired by the whole
country.
"Now is the time for them to as
scrt their rights and their manhood
by nominating candidates of their
own and by making we'll organized,
enorgoti" and determined campaign.
Why not! They are the majority.
They have been the special victims
alike OF white rule, through the forms
OF la%' and OF the violence, tyranny
The Constitution and the laws of the
United States give the majority in
South Carolina, as elsewhere, the
right to rule.
They mover had before anythina
like the same opportunity to over,
throw the minority that has held
sway by the foulest and wickedest
deeds and politics. They have able
leaders and organs. They can get
ali tho legitimate help they need
from the North. They will be pro
tected in the exercise of their sacred
and war-won rights as citizens. Fol