The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-10-30
. BARNWELL IN LINE.
ADDRESS FROM THE DEMOCRACY ON
THE POLITICAL ISSUE.


Mass Meeting to be Hold Mt tho Court
hou'e on October 80 at Which TilIman.
h"good and other Prominent Demo-
Gratis viii Speak.
HAMBURG, Oct. 2O.-The Barnvell
county Democratic Executive commit
Ccc met to-day in the court house to ar
range Tor the coming campaign and cleo
| lion, with DR.. w. B. Rice in the chair.
and d. II. Withcrspoon as sccretarv
1t was unanimously decided that
Thursday, October 80, should be tho
day for holding the County mass meet
ing. The Honorable B. r. Tillman has
been invited to speak and has accepted.
The other orators will be Honorable G..
Duncan Rollinger, Colonel Robert AID
rich, and General Johnson Hagood. Oc-
tobcr 80 will be red letter day with
Barnwell County, and all immepso
crowd Of Barnwell's true Democracy
Will be brought to tho court house to par-
ticipate in the occasion.
"u A|'No SSucd inc following
strong and rousng address to the Demo-
cracy Of the County to-day:
10 the Democratic Voters Of Barnvell
County:
we are confronted by grave condi-
ton OF affairs, unknown before in the
political history ofS0uth Caroline. Tho
lllc OF our party is threatened. White
supremacy Is i'll danger and the ciylli<a-
ton OF our peoples is the issue involved.
what was predicted by some, but upcA.
pcctcd by us, has happened. 1t wa.
hoped that the counsel of moderation
would prevail after the meeting of your
Convention in September. Those
hopes have been blasted. An indopen-
dent movement has been inaugurated
and an independent ticket has bean
placed in the field, and, for its success
n acoalition must be formed with the Re-
publican party. Aid must not bo given
1T from the ranks Of tho Democracy.
a meeting Of citizens has been held.
styling themselves Straightouts, repre.
scnting defeated minority Of tho
Democratic party of the State, and IN
opposition to the regularly constituted
authorities Of our party and IN defiance
OF the Democratic conventions held in
August and September havo issued q
proclamation OF war against our Demo-
cratic nominees, and to- lead them in this
unnatural undertaking they have NOM.
mated full State ticket with Judoo
Haskell at its head. Their action has
been such that they can be no Longer
considered part Of the Democratic
party of South Carolina. They hsvo
abandoned the Democracy by calling on
the negro vote to aid them in their in
famous scheme of overriding tho will of
the majority and placing South Carolina
again in the hands ofthc alien opprossor
and the scrvile and ignorant negro.
While may of them are men of high
social standing and once Of great politi-
cal influence, men whom the State has
honorcd with high political trust, it be-
comes our duty to use all the means in
our power to defeat and stamp out this
wanton act Of indepcndentism which is
lar worse than Radscalism. We owe il
10 ourselves and to our postority never
again TO allow our State to be trampled
under foot and lie PROSTATE at tho feet
OF those who wllldcspoil her. We should
take no risk and listen to no specious
argument that there is no danger, but
DC Oh the alert and use all our influence
III bringing to thcpolls every Democratic
voter and see that every ballot is prom
crly deposited.
1t has been sought to deceive our peo-
pie by the unfoundcd argument that it is
vain to say that tho action of political
party cxcmpts the voter from responsi-
DIhty. Such doctrine is without founda-
ton and un-DemOcratic. Ifsuch men-
bers OF party is law unto himself
then no party could exist. Party fealLy
requires each member to vote for and
support the party nominees.
l would urge you by tho hop. of to
future Of our State and the future ofour
County that you meet this issue on tho
day OF election, and let it be said at tho
close Of the fourth day ofNovcmber that
we have again saved the civilization and
honor OF South Carolina. Your ballots
must decide whether Democracy or Rad
icalism shall rule IN South Carolina. and
we confidently look to your fealty to the
Democratic party that the decision shall
be a triumph of the Democracy and q
ii nal stamping out of all future attempts
to lndcpcndcntism in our StetesEand
County.
A Sensational Case.
In the Court of General Spsaion, for