The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-09-18

GH0 DOSS6s Balu Cu6y IuISuG UO 1bs LIE
constitution says plainly that the party
shall be recognized at the opening 0.
the campaign, and yet the antis opposed
lit in every county in the State becauee
they had control of the party machinery
A great howl was raised all. through the
cam mpaign about the farmers boiling the
party. How has that turned out Why
the very men who hoWled the loudeal
about splitting, and who had the cheek to
style themselves s'straightout" Democrats
were the very ones that did the boiling.
They bolted the August Convention, and
refused to make the nomination of the
Governor and other State officers unani-
NOUS, in the September Convention
which is equivalent to bolt, and now Sc
prominent .'straightout" as Gen. Earle
Isays that he does not feel bound. by the
State Convention, and that he will meet
1.-the farmers at the,polls next November
Does that mean that he willrun as an in.
dependent? 2. If he does not mean that, il
is queer talk, and no one but q straight.
outn would be guilty Of using such Ian.
guage. One of the cardinal principles OIL
Democracy is that the. majority should
rule, and it seems q cardinal principle Of
'sstraightoutYs Demo ocracy that an "intelh
| gent minority should rule.
IsY, Another queer idea.
s. It has been revelation to most of the
farmers, how bitterly the politicians and
town people have opposed their candidate
and platform, both State and National
and here is where the disgrace Of iteomes
in. Candidates who were particularly
active in defending and maintaining the
farmers Movement and alliance platform
were outrageously abused by the opposi.
ton, who did not hesitate to. make up and
circulate in underhanded ways various
slanderous lies, doing their utmost to in
| jure the character of the farmers candi.
date for; Governor; Congressman and on
down to the Legislature. We are surprised
and sorry to see white men in South Car.
olina, who claim to be Democrats, finding
themselves deficient in argument, resort
to the cesspool Of slander, and dirty
themselves trying to blacken the white
garments of fellow white men and Dem.
ocrats. a man who is a gentleman will
not meet argument with abuse or facts
and figures with personalities. a great
deal has been said about the farmers stir.
ring up class prejudice, demanding class
legislation, &c. If you will examine the
tabulated returns of the Primary election
you will see that the towns voted more
solidly against every candidate the far.
me,s put up than the country for them.
Doesn't it look as if there was class preiu-
dice on the other side. To illustrate !,
take the vote for Congress in the town of
Anderson. In the first election Maj.
Murray received 295 votes and MI. Nor
lris 19. That was all right, they were both
Anderson County men ). but in the second
election Mr.. Johnstone received 9O7, and
Mr.. Norris only 81. Why did the city
of Anderson go back on the county can
didate? Wasn't it class prejudice? Mr..
Norris was the farmers candidate 2 Most
assuredly it was, and it is absurd to claim
otherwise. Fellow farmers, you may as
well open your eyes to the fact that that
is the kind of class prejudice you will stir
up as long as you hold your own ideas of
governmental policy and dare maintain
the principles Of right and justice you
have so persistently fought for this year,
and 80 long as You put up q candidate
who will stand by them, be be pious as a
Saint, and as wise Solomon.
And then there is that ear splitting cry
of ring rule" that is going up from the
soreheads Of the opposition. A great
many of the newspapers are weeping
themselves blind over the terrible state Of
ring rule" that we have fallen into.
And what is it all about? Why it is be-
cause the Alliance, through its regularly
elected representations was bold enough
to lay down platform, and say that
candidates for Congress must get on it to
receive their vote, and representative
men from 81 clubs of the county got to.
gether and suggested to the people four
men to vote for for the legislature. Was
there any ring about that. Yes, sir,
there was ring of business and earnest
ness about it that the politicians and op
ponents of the farmers did not fail to un-
derstand, and it is ring that has reyer.
berated from one end of The United States
to the other, and has sounded the death
knell of all political bossism, party ty.
ranny and sectional hatred by which the
capitalists and speculators have so long
held the power over the great Agricultu
raj and working classes.
There are great many other ideas,
equally fallacious, that have been advanc.
ed in this campaign, but we havn't space
to enumerate them. To any one who will
recall them and put his thinker to work,
and study them over carefully, this will
have proved TO MIN a campaign of educa-
tion, indeed.