The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-10
SOME OF THE FIRST FRUITS.
How the Press of the State Stands on the
Suggestion of Capt. Tiilman.
T(ireenVille News.

GreenVllle News.
No political organization has ever
been in better shape than the Farmers
Movement, representing the reform
and progress wing Of the Democratic
party OF this State, was two months
ago. 1t had grown from small and
derided minority to a large majority,
respected and feared. 1t controlled
the House of Representatives and
lacked but one vote of controlling the
Senate. 1t had virtually controlled
the last two Democratic State Conven-
lions. 1t was solid, strong and conf
dent and had the great body of the
people and all the press, except half a
dozen newspapers, with 1t. 1t had
forced the general adoption Of the prl-
mary system, securing the direct and
absolute rule of the people. All 1t had
to do was to 60 into the State Demo-
cratic Convention i'll August and noml-
nate its own ticket for State Officers
and to 60 into the county primaries ana
nominate its own nlen for representa-
tives and senators. There would have
been no opposition to it worth con-
sidering and it would have had every
thing its own way, peacefully and
easily.
But Captain Shell and Capt: in Till
man and the others of them stepped to
the front. They issueda manifesto and
called Il convention of the Farmers
Movement and forced it to do their
will, which was to Suggest" Captain
Til!man for Governor.
We have been during the last two
days printing the comments OF the
weekly newspapers Oh the conventions
work-not the daily newspapers
printed in the cities, but weeklies,
printed in the smaller communities,
circulating among the people, close to
them and rejecting their opinions and
leading their tho ght. All who have
read these Interest ng expressions must
have been impress, q by the unanimity
with which Captain Tillman's "sugges-
ton" is opposed and denounced. We
do not know that the State press has
ever before been so nearly solid on any
question.
We have been ut some pains to take
a running note OF the positions OF the
newspapers and have found them as
follows:
Dailies for Tillman, t!!e Charleston
World-l.
Dailies against Tillman, the News
and Courier, Charleston Sun, Columbia
Register, Columbia Record, Greenville
News.
Weekles for Tillman, Laurensvllle
Herald, Edgeiield Advertiser, Green
vile Enterprise and Mounlaineer,
Bamberg Advertiser, Branchviile Spec
tator, Prosperity PresS-G'
Weeklies nOn-conlnittal-1O Orkville
Enquirer, Lexington Dispatch, Able
Vile Medium, Barnwell People,
Orangeburg Times
Weeklies against Tillman-NeW-
berry Observer, Newberry Herald and
News, Edgetield Chronicle, Abbeville
Press and Banner, Anderson Journal,
Anderson Intelligencer, Easley Mes
senger, Pickens Sentinel: Keowee
Courier, Seneca Free Press, West
minister Banner, Spartanburg Spartan,
Spartanburg Herald, Onion Times
Sumter Advance, Sumter Natchman.
Clarendon Enterprise, Rock Hill
Herald, Lancaster Review, Aiken Re
corder, Winnsboro' News, and Herald,
Laurens Advertiser, Florence Times,
Hampton Guardian, Marion Star, Che
raw Reporter, Wateree Messenger,
Chester Reporter-W
Where there was strength, unity and
confidence there is weakness, division
and doubt. The faith Of the people in
the Farmers Movement has been
shaken, we fear beyond restoration,
and ali because some Of Captain Till
mans special friends sought to crafty
his ambition to be governor. A mighty
movement which promised to do great
and lasting work for the State and the
generations of her children who are to
come after has been weakened and
imperilled for the sake of one man.
1t is easay to tell lies about the press
being subsidized or terroriZed, but
every body who knows!anything knows
that nobody is paying the newspapers
Of this State to fight Captain Tilman,
and that the press has no occasion to be
afraid of anybody but the people on
whom it depends for living. Any
man of ordinary common sense who
studies the utterances of the news
papers will understand that they eX-
press strong public sentiment in each
of their communities, and that public
sentiment is against the suggestion"
and the methods by which it was
brought about.