The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-21
TIE THIRD DISTRICT FIGHT.
Tn Alliance I:etS ON NGrri-. and Thus
Huuuirap> The other CONTESTANTS in
the Political Sweepstakes.
Special To News and Courier. |

-ANl)i.kStJN, August H. ucCucIOSc(
circular explains itself. 1t was issue,
OH last Friday. Mr.. Benet handled i
very severely in his speech on Satur
day. All the speakers took about tn
same ground lis Oh former occasions
Mr.. l:euet opened, was followed b,
Col. Norris, who was in turn followed
10y Major Murray, Col. .Johnstone cam
next and Col. X. T. Bowen followed
him. Mr.. Calhoun closed. The crow(
was not very large at any time, but by
the close of Mr.. Johnstone's speech tn,
Court House was getting thin" HI
made Il Very fine speech, as did all The
speakers, wien all the circumstance:
are considered, but it is impossible t
give anything Ikea report OF them.
The following is the address:
AN ADDRESS To oTIlEALLIANC: VOTERS
OF TIE THIRD CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT.
Brethren: We, the members Of the
| District Alliance of the 81 Congress.
sionai district OF South Carolina, deem il
necessary TO call Your attention to the
| great Importance Of sustaining the Ma
! tionaI Alliance platform and the sub.
treasury plan, which has been univer,
sally endorsed by the County and Sub
Alliances Ofthe whole country, in the
coming Congressional election: and We
wish to especially and strongly empha-
size tho declaration in the platform,
that we will only support such men
for Congress as will bind themselves to
support those measures, uninfluenced
| by party caucus.' When Il majority
OF the voters have decided on measure
ut the polls, is Il matter ofSimple justice
| their wishes should not be defeated bv
the arbitrary decision Ofa party caucus,
which relieves the individual Congress-
man Of personal responsibility to his
constituents, and shields him in sup
porting measures that are detrimental
to the interests ofthe people and in not
supporting those that are in their in
terestS, placing the interests of the party
above the Interests of the people, and
we submit that the interests of the
masses Of our citizens are above those
of any party; and we most earnestly
| urge you to see to it that the man you
Vote for Congress binds himself to carry
out your wishes.
Our Order spreads over the United
States, and is strong because it is nom
partisan in politics. The Alliance of a
Republican State is as much bound Us
We are to provide against the danger to
our demands arising from the influence
Of Il party caucus. Our national pre-
sidcnt, Bro j.. i. Polk, has conveyed
to US tie cordial greeting of our Repub-
Eican brethren Of the great Northwest,
with the assurance that they are now
tramring under foot the bloody shirt
politicians who cngcnder and intlame
sectional strife and animcsitics. They
desire that we join hands with them,
not as partisaus but as brothers, and
endeavor by united action under the
grand principles Of the Alliance to lift
The burden f'rOm oppressed agriculture.
We commend to our brethren.the Wis
dom OF our national leaders in calling
upon Us to commit candidates for Con-
gress to support Alliance demands,
unintlucnccd by party caucus.
The State Alliance and the Alliances
Of the Sd district have endorsed the
National Alliance platform and the
sub-treasury plan astheir platform, and
the executive committee Of your Dis
trict Alliance was directed to present
the same to the candidates for Congress
from this district, and the candidates
were requested to give their views in
writing to the chairman of the eXecu-
tive committee Of the District Alliance.
Mr.. d. X. Norris is the only candidate
who has complied with the request and
pledged himself to support the de-
mands, and the District Alliance has
unanimously endorsed him as the Alli-
ance candidate for Congress, and every
true Alliance man is urged to give him
their hearty support, thereby carrying
out the principles for which we have
bound ours elves together to fight for,
and it cannot be done in any other
way. Before endorsing Mr.. ID. K.
Norris the District Alliance considered
the position taken by each of the cam
didates.
Serious objection is made to the rosi-
ton of the other candidates:
First. In their failure to pledge them
selves to support Alliance demands
unintluenced by party caucus.
Second. We desire to call attention of
the brethren to the fact that candidates
have not been asked to support either
Of the sub-treasury bills now before
Congress. The Alliance demand is the
''sub-treasury plan" announced by the
Supreme Council at ST. Louis.
Candidates who fail to give a positive
pledge to support this plan without
modification cannot be considered as
endorsing the Alliance demand.
Congressman have been invited to
make any improvement upon the bills
before Congress consistent with the SUBJ
treasury plan, but candidates for Con-
gress have not been invited to consider
them. And all propositions made by
them to modify the bills are useless so
far as the Alliance demand is concerned.
We earnestly urge all members of
the Alliance to support the action OF
the District Alliance, and respectfully
invite all good citizens TO join with US
in securing the enactments of the prin-
ciples of cur Order:
J. G. Alexander, President.
%John /. Duncan, Secretary.
j. l.. Smith, Joseph l.. keitt,
Thomas BIbh. u. \. Sigh.
J. l.. FenEcl!, %John W.Scutt,
f.. : Griffin. W. \. Neal,
"W. T. Fields, "A. e. Latimcr.
L. y. Richardson, }. w. Bowdcn,
"John VI. Glenn, %.iohn y. Hays,
The names marke with aSterisks (%)
were absentees. Question: When was
the circular prepared? If on Friday;
then how did the abSentees sign? If be-
fore, the whole thing Was cut and dried
before Friday.
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