The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-06-19

he suppose lllt SpceCIl llldtiC llele ny
Captain Tillman is substantially the
same that he will make elsewhere in
the State.
It is, no doubt, the result of thought,
consultation and Investigation and may
oe fairly taken to represent his CAM
paign and to contain all the grounds on
which he intends to appeal to the peo-
pie to make him governor of this State.
Therefore an analysis and review is
! interesting and timely.
He began with the statement that
our neighbor State of Georgia has in
ten years gained 100000 in assessed
valuations while we have gained no.
thing, and went on to argue that this
difference must be caused by the faults
of our State government and political
system.
In the first place money makes mo-
ney. Georgia is by far a bigger and
naturally richer State than ours. She
was ten years on the high road to
| wealth and prosperity while we were
yet under the heels Of the Radicals
she had in the last census year a mil
lion and half Of people to our million
-halfas much again. She had $1,000
white people and 725, 200 negroes; we
! al 39l 900 white people and 6O4,000
negroes. Her white population is more
than double ours; her black population
is but III 900 more than ours.
IfCaptain Tillnan had been honestly
seeking the truth would it not have oc-
Cured to him that these facts have
more to do with the difference between
the States than any difference in their
politics? And if he would have looked
across the Savannah he could have
learned that there is no worse ring
ridden State in the Union than Geor-
gia. The Farmers Alliance is running
candidates there on the same cry Of
ring rule we have here just as it ran
Kolb in Alabama, the most prosperous
of the Southern States, on the same
plea. The Georgia tax levy is more
than ours. That State has had a
dozen scandals in its government where
VIC have had none. Its convict system
and railroad complications cause ever
lasting charges and counter charges of
the worst kind. 1t has not had our
primary election system or anything
as fair as our conventions. Its dele
gates to the State Conventions ha e
been nominated by mass meetings and
the power Of Joe Brown has been recog-
nized as supreme for fifteen years.
He said that everything in the Uni
ted States we are approaching the con-
dition of having swarms Of very poor
people and few very rich. 1t is true
generally, and the statement applies to
tie State of Georgia, selected and held
up by him to the people here as an en-
ample OF the glorieS Of the kind OF GOV
ernment he proposes to give us, as well
as to any other. The farmers there are
complaining as loudly as anywhere.
We believe these conditions result from
the protective Tariff, which Captain
Tillman is said to favor, the principle
Of which is to tax the many for the
benefit Of the few. The troubles of the
people in Nebraska, Iowa, Georgia and
Virginia certainly cannot be charged,
even by Captain Tillman's remarkable
logic. to the political system of South
Carolina. To the contrary wealth is
more e''enly distribute here than III
most States. Few of us have much:
all of us have to scutfie for Il living; but
few Of us ere ahjectly poor. We have
no swarmS Of paupers or hegsar>.
There was 4 disposition, he said, to
stitie free speech and throttle free
thought and to make the people speak
With bated breath oftheir government.
We would like Captain Tillman to
where this disposition is and
who has It. The most we have seen Of
it has been at the meetings where his !.
followers have Interrupted men who !
were speaking against him. We heard !
of q case at LaurenS not long ago in ;
which a citizen was threatened with
death for voting against I'illman res
olution and we have had the pleasure
If perusing L number Of resolutions de-
daring boycotts against newspapers
which opposed Captain Tillman and
lid not Sreak of him with bated
breath. These Instances, however, are
not alarming. IF the other side is not
worried by them we hardly see why he
should be. He has gone around the
State five years saying what he liked
II everybody and everything and no.
,ody has stified or throttled him, or
ried to do it, so IA: as the public knows.
A (.antr,G G;ctiOD or denial bas NOT him, /