Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-08-28
Congressman ioes,sln,ll. Tillman Says No

from tho Augusta Chronicle.

From tho Augusta Chronicle.
WAsnINGToN, August 11.-Con-
grcss, nan George ID. Tillman, OF
South Carolina, tho brother of Far
NOR Bon Tillman, who is to be the
next Governor of the Palmetto
State, has written an Alliance letter
which will create q sensation. lie
is brief and pointed and in answer
to tho sub-treasury question firmly
replies, "no."
The letter is written to an Ali
ancc committee of Barnwcll, COM
posed of Mcssrs. w. B. Rice, w. G.
SHINES and j. r. Smith. lie says
l have received your official letter,
as tho organ of tho Barnwcll County
Farmers Alliance, requesting my
views rs a candidate for Congress
in the I'd South Carolina District on
certain measures of proposed legisla-
ton indicated in five interrogatorics.
Understanding from your commu-
nication transmitting the intcrroga-
tories that you do not want a long
letter, but only categorical replies, l
shall be as brief as possible to define
my position without cquivocating,
by merely quoting each inLcrrogatory
separately and making absolute
answers thereto.
Will you, uninflucnccd by party
caucus or otherwise, support the fol-
lowing propositions in the National
Congress:
First. The abolition of the
national banks and the substitution
of legal tender treasury notes in lieu
Of national bank notes issued in sufi-
cicnt volume to do the business of
the country on a cash basis? Yes.
Second. A frccr: unlimited coinage
of silver? Yes.
Third. That Congress issue frac-
tional paper currency in sufficient
quantity to facilitate exchange
through the mails? Yes.
Fourth. DO you approve, and will
you support the financial system
known as the "sub-trcasury plan,"
adopted by the National Alliance and
Industrial Union at St. Louis, Dcccm-
Der 7, 1880? No.
Fifth. The enactment Of such laws
rs will prohibit the ownership of
lands by aliens? Yes, but this has
already been done by an Act of
March 3, 1887.
AN AIILANCEMAN n FARMER.
Permit me to add that for thirty
years have had no industrial occu-
patton bat cotton planting, which
ought to identify me zcalously with
the welfare of cotton planters, who
not only constitute the bulk of my
constituents, but have repeatedly
honorcd me with high commissions,
and that if reelected to Congress |
shall continue in the future rs | have
done in the past to support whatever
| believe to be the best for the in
tcrcst of my class and section. |
myself am Il member of the Farmers
Alliance and deeply sympathizc with
the purposes and efforts of the
organization to relieve the widespread
and long continued agricultural
depression, but the South alone can
not correct the fiscal and financial
abuses Of the Federal Government,
which is now and has been domi-
mated by the Eastern States ever
since the war. The West must
cooperate with the South before
success can be achieved; and, in con-
clusion, let me take the liberty of
advising the Southern wing of the
Alliance to move n little more eau
tiously till it shall have been demon
stratcd that the Western wing are in
earnest about taking the proposed
new departure of abandoning sec
tionalism and uniting with the South
for a redress of mutual grievances.
Very respectfully,
G. ID. TlLIMAN.
Bucklen'S Arnica Salyc.