The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-07-10
This is the only safe plan whore class is
arrezad apainat class. The fact that the

This is the only safe plan whare class is
srrayed against class. The fact that the
minority class may turn the scale o7
making a slight inroad among the prl;,,
Yates In the ranks of the majority will
make the majority class r-utious and
conservative when it has captured the
machinery of government.
The gentlemen who are conducting the
fight against Mr.. Tillman are used to
politics and are among the most inteili.
gent in South Carolina, but their plan OF
campaign looks strange to Georgian.
Utterly without organization, thy make
it q point against the Tillman faction that
they are organized ant ha7e an executive
committee. Relying upon the State
Democratic Executive Committee, the
anti. .Tillman people have no organiza,,
ton of their own except in sRlehlano
County. The Tilsman people on the
contrary are compsctly organized in every
County. This alone would be enough to
defeat most any man in Georgia. When
you add to it the result of FIVE years OF
agitation. the result seems inevitable
defeat, If the anti. .Tillman people had
organized several months ago, and had
met every charge and every argument IN
every County, and had then put on the
stump their strongest men, they mlgnt
have succeeded. It is barely possible
that thew might do so now, if immediate
organization were effected in every
County, but I do rot think they can do
much al organization. The local politi.
clans are terrified, and the farmers are
drawing the Tillman lines closely around
legislative candidates. There is hardly
any material left for local organization.
The people in mass will not listen to an
anti-Tillman speaker. The thing has
gone so far that il will take house to
house canvass to reach them, and 1t is
doubtful now whether even that will
stem the tide. A leading gentleman said
to me in Aiken: "The men who have led
the people in the war, in 1876, and in
politics ever since are powerless. They
have no influence at all with the farmers.
I.have two or three uncles who usually
vote with me, but they won't listen to
me now."
lG IL BLU b1ht duObuO1 HovS A1S 49, -
behind the flood in the upper counties,
but I could not find out where it was.
Conservative farmers regret :rowdyism,
but they will vote for Tillman all the
same.
The important question remaining is,
what will the republicans do? Their
leader says the democrats are destroying
themselves snd his party hopes for an
opportunity. Leading men like General
Haskell and General Earle pledge them
selves to abide the nomination, but they.
doubt their ability to carry all the anti.
Tillman faction to his support. A gen.
tleman in Columbia estimates thatlO,.
200 to 10000 democrats would not vote.
I do not think so.
The democratic party does not usually
poll it's strength. It takes opposition to
draw it out, and when; q man has receiy-
ed the nomination through the regular
medium, the party would rally around
him when the old enemy appeared. 1t
is but q few years since shey had negro
rule and arobber Governor. Any evil
would be leas than repetition Of that
experience. When the heat of the cam
paign has died out and Che smoke has
cleared away South Carolina will still be
democratic.