New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-28
THE LODGE BILL AND THE FARMERS.



FEDERAL AUTHORITY.
% the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Whatever doubt there may have been In the
minds Of tbs farmers the necessity Of the Lodge
Election bill has been dispced by the conduct OF the
south Carolina OlgarcEy toward candidate Len. TIL
man, and Of Colquitt Brown and Gordon toward
Colonel Lconidls n. Livingston. OF Conycrs. Rockdlc
County. Georgia president Of the Georgia state Farm
cr5 Alliance. Tillman has been threatened with as
sassnat.on and suudry device, have been rcsOrtcd
to by those who claim the prcrogativc Of perpetual
Office and have held absolute sway the politics
Of South Carolina To draw him ino personal controversy
tending TO terminate his life. The inlammatory Ian
guaec of Of their newspapers has been Of a
nature to iucltc violence and bloodshcd regardless
of the fact that If one Tillnan killed hundreds
would appear in his place The farmers have been
ruled by the ante bellum ari,tocacy OF South Carolina
long enough. and have determined TO elect of them
selves to tie Office of Governor and the logic Of events
warrants them in asking for the protection Of Federal
authority.
Must revolt against the old Demo
cratic Machine be punished with dcathl If the
farmers thinking thcm.e.ves entitled TO more
liberal legislation in their interests and to change
in the old order Of thin;s seek to promote their vel
fare by getting Of the od!ces, they to be
frtven by threats from the primaries ana from the
POLLS They call upon Congress to say NOR
The case Of Colonel Living ton who SO, Ks The seat
now occupied by Judge John u. stewart. OF the Vth
Georgia Congress District. IS similar. stewart was
captain in the 18th Georgia Regiment during the war.
and is a gentleman of unexceptionablc character not
however, surprising tina; Of the farmer. IeonidaS T.
Livingston. lie represented eleven agricultural conn
ties, and when he and Livingston travelled through
Walton County 1t did not take him long h. ascertain
that the voters preferred Livingston who is carpet
bagger. In a recent letter to me. he says:
Ny grandfather with brothers. TO th, country
landing In New.Yor,-two remaining there My grand
father settled fret ia Pennsylvania then in VIRGINIA and
from thrre h. removed to Georgia The New-York Liy.
MISSIONS descending those brothers. our rcla
uyos. Ny flth,r Alf-fd Livingston. cIetyseycn year,
Of age Of Coylne)n, Georgia knows much Of the family
in Ncw.Yofk.
In his letter to ne under date o: April II. he says;
Please my thanks for the Interest you manifest
IN the work have undertaken. Ours is a hcrculean
task. desperate disease must he met by prompt and
rfircn: reuedlc- We nay be- mistaken in the D. mcGy
b.tre1suly PLAN. but certainly not u III: disease
Your description Of tie farmer md his environments IS
true 10 life. We have strong and ABIDING mlt uot
our appeal Justice and equity N tie u the
people will b. tual We DO not hope - sccur all that
We pay for AZ the hands % our Congrr, unu,dat u, but
The ind cat ous iaforalle 70 our people
Sow. is there anything terrible I'm all this! VIII
not thc ofcln, of Georgia and OF south Carolina aud
Of the other southern states. p'smlt tl, farmer.
ho OWN. eighth, 81 o." properly, t. cl.rt some
Of their own Number IA Cougr..~f
Ncw.l ork. July -, 1890 join LIVINGSTON.
v-tr,r TIE LODGE ITTI MEANS