The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-05
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BOLD UTTENANCE OF TIE REGISTER.
IElai Paper Fires Shot Right
Straight at the TarGe:.
iniGalb;d Register

II this juncturc Of our political affairs al
| The South, does it not look - the farmers o.
the State that i, is suicidal inlpOltcy 10 suS
rain or give comfort 10 any movement, far.
mers' movement or any other, which would
look, which must look, TO the political scSrc
CATION of any important part OF the Dem
ncratc party?
let us not be deceived in this serious mat
ter. The March convention, which proposes
TO be a movement within the party, Is on its
;.cc movement outside OF the party anG
Is it called in the name Of the DEMOCRATIC
narty: No! Is it called by any official OF
the democratic party? No! Docs Democrat
ic adherence give any man right 10 admit
Republican farmer sit in that body? Yes!
Aud yet this body claims the right. or the call
IS Tor that purpose, TO nominate state officers,
subject to the acceptance or rejection Ci the
Democratic convention.
\ more shameless deceit was never at
tempted by any set of men who ever under
took 10 deal with public affairs. Let the far.
mcrs see this for Themselves: These mon
calm that the farmers constitute 81 per cent
OF the vote of the State, and this Is true.
Now, then, when they have summoned the
farmers here to the Farmers Convention, as.
Suming to DC OF the farmers and for the far
mcrs, and that convention makes nolnina-
ton, If this body does in fact and truth repre-
sent the farmers Is IL not the most unblush.
ing deceit TO talk about submitting that to
the acceptance or rejection of body where
.he farmers themselves hO'd, always hold,
and will hold, - per cent. OF the seats, as they
must do in every Democratic Convention con-
Si>ting either OF men of their own calling or
choicce What is this, then. but II dictati0n OF
the will Of The farmers sitting in their own
hody as a separate and distinct class? If we
are not arrant :0o!S, there can he no other
conclusion reached. And this, forsooth, will
not be only Il dictatiUn coming from Dem.
Ocratic farmers sitting in their own conven-
zion, but, as We have shown, II will he the
ticket of Republican farmers as well. who
,N.r ~ f,f ri iul ii far
Now then Is this scemly, is 1t right is II
safe, just ut the moment that Il dominant set
OF Republican rcvolntlpnists are making n
deadly push ai uS OF the South which may
cost us our all if not bravely met?
We ask Of the farmers OF South Carolina In
perfect good faith : are these men who have
thus thrust themselves against the only party
which cln shield or save us with It's powerful
aliialion In all parts of the Cnion-arc these
men SoutherncrS and CarolinianS. Or patriots
who are ready to jeopardizc our all?
They talk to us of the necessity of REFORM
Ing abuses. If there be abuses, what better
place to correct them than in tie Legislature.
where the farmers may at all times have 81
per cent. of the seats?
What better place than the Democratic Con-
v?ntion of the people where again the far
mcrs may hold 80 per cent. OF the seats?
But the complaint is that farmers come to
State Dcmocratic Conventions to find every.
thing "cut and dried" Don't we all know
that the convention, for the most part, meets
10 confirm the previously aSccrtaincd wishes
of the general public? Don't we all know
that any attempt. or even appearance Of the
same, to override this pubic sentiment c"n
he readily Uvertnrown as was the case whc..
Thompson WAS nominated? Dnn'L we all
know that this complaint is m de by those
WHO have come here time and again with
H,eir trick fixed up and have lost in Il iu!
fight.
And yet these are the men who openly al.
vOcata getting of in u corner by themselves
to frame a "c'it and dried ticket hat they
would force down the throat of the Dem.
ocratic Convention. which to all intcntS and
purposes would be called simply TO 90
through the motion Of confirming what they
would be (Orccd 10 ttt,". Out upon such unfair
dealings and such bald prctenScS which show
rather u contempt for the people Of this Stat"
than an earnest Interest in their welfare.