The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-05-08
A Voice frem Poverty Hin.


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A Voice frem Poverty Hin.
Correspondence Of Charleston lPorld.
EDITOR OF THE WORLD: A great
many newspapers in South Carolina have
raised howl about the Farmers Con
7ention and its platform--are any OF tho
editors of those papers willing to 60 be.
fore the people, meet our leaders and fight
the issue out fairly and squarely on the
platform
Hardly, l think.
Some honest papers abuse US outright;
some find grain of wheat in bushel of
chaff; some are weakly trying to pose as
neutral, but the truth ia, they are wanting
in backbone. Later on you will see them
"whooping up" the side they expect to
win, and share it. The paper, above all
others which should have made manly
stand, ore way OF the other, has ignomi.
nously got Oh the fence-the Cotton Plant
which the farmers have made, which
they sustain, and into whose editors
mouths they put bread. Ithas proclaim.
ed itself neutral. He who is not for me
ia against me-" Why is it neutral? ?
Have the people who support it no rights?
Is the platform we have put forward un-
lust? Does it Disseminated Would it
not, if carried out, be of vast benefit to
all classes aud professions, white men and
Democrats especially? Would itnot give
the people q voice in their own affairs?
Would it not lessen expense? Would it
not make men earn what was paid them
out of the hard earnings of the farmers :?
Would it not educate the masses up to
something like what is expected of and
is due them?
Can any, or al Of these papers, tell
Why this platform is not just and fair 4?
How long, oh Lord, how long are the
farmers to submit to ring, controlled by
corporation lawyers, and few unfair,
partisan newspapers
The time has been in South Carolina
when public men went before the people
and with fair argument, force of character
and sound reasoning, created healthy
public sentiment. If l mistake not the
sign Of the times, that time is now at
hand again.
In how many of the Influential daily
papers of the State can we get all sides Of
question presented to the public. The
World and the Groeuville Mc,os ara the
only ones l know.
The other day Col. Lawrence W. You.
mans wrote an article to the Neaos and
Courier giving some facts; telling the
truth /; righleously defending an honora.
BILE grand jury Of his county from unjust
aspersions cast upon them by the Neacs
/ and Courier, and forsootb, that fair, just,
peace loving, pharisaical sheet refused to
publish his article, and Col. Youmans had
| to send it to the World in order to get the
facts of the case before the people.
That same great paper which wanted
Dan Chamberlain for Governor IN rs,
and which thought our own Butler and
Gary we're little better than "Bushwhack.
ers,S is now passing as an educator OF
public opinion in South Carolina. God
save the mark! And the sheet has only
sweet words and smiles for Chamberlain,
who has returned 10 South Carolina,
while its attacks on Capt. Tillman, the
champion of the people, and bold oppo-
nent OF all clnues and rings, are more
bitter and dishouorable than those which
in '76 i. showered upon Butler and Gary.
It also treats lightly and laughingly
grave breach of discipline, and vulgar
demonstration Of college students toward
a respectable Convention of gentlemen,
who lad assembled in Columbia to exer-
else the constitutional rights of freemen
and Carolinians. 1t vas all right, and
really nothing in the estimation of the
News and Courier, for students of the
South Carolina University to act like
roughs and blackgusrds toward men who
had only proposed, or ''suggested" man
for Governor and to treat that man with
contempt and indignity, although he had
written the platform, and the convention
had passed it with practical unanimity,
in which was plank TO make liberal ap-
preparations for the College where many
of these youths are being educated at
public expense.
Will the taxpayers be willing to destroy
the College because Of this disgracetul
conduct? No, trust not; but we owe
it to ourselves to cleanse that Augean
stable and put men in charge of 1T who
are not above us, and who will teach those
students that they are not higher or better
than other people.
Will freeborn white men continue to
support this venal newspaper? When
we-who in '7G were fighting, riding,
voting, giving our time and money, taking
chances for the penitentiary-are we now
to be called "revolters," "deserters,"
"enemies to the Democracy" ETC., "pan-
deripg to the meaner sentiments of the
people, )" playing upon ignorance" and
other vile epithets by the NeVs and Cou-
riiey and its little henchmen-when we, |
say, who did allthis meanness" for white
supremacy in South Carolina are thus
treated.
DO, you, red shirt men Of '76, remem.
Der what that same paper said of Gen. M.
G. Butler and these game "revo,ters" that
were with him in Hamburg?
Do you, Democratic voters Of '7G, who
are distinct political party now out.
side tho pale Of decency or Democracy,
remember what that paper had to say
about Mart Gary?
DO, you, men who had to riss at mid
night, leave your wives and children ex
posed to The mercy of brutal negroes,
whose passion had been excited to the
frightf,l pitch by scalawags and carpet
baggers, and who had for their leader Dan
Chamberlain, that same sweet,scented
Dan that this same sweet scented NeWs
oad Courier was advocating for Governor
of South Carolina, and is now lauding to
the skies-do you remember?
Farmers, red shirts, Democrats, in The
uanle of God, are we to take our political
principles from such sheet? Are its vile