Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-11-27
wAnHALEA. soUrH oARohINA. NOVEMBER 81, 1900.
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High Hope Sor,9s.
from tho New Fork Herald.l
WAsn1NGToN, November 16. The
spectre of the Farmers Alliance
oyershadoWs all other political con.
alterations here. Clever politicians
estimate the vote polled by that
Organization in the recent election at
not less than 100000. The ALI
ancss people themselves are saying
nothing that can be construed as an
Indication of their future purposes,
The expectation ID. that their party
will increase SO rapidly during the
next two years that their voting
strength in 1892 will not fall muoh,
if any, short Of 100000. In that
event they will undoubtedly place a
Presidential ticket. in the field, with
o moral certainty Of carrying half a
dozen Southern and Western States.
Already they are claiming all the.
agricultural States in'92.
This is, Of course, an exaggerated
and over sanguine view of the situa-
ton, growing out of their recent
success, but they have a reasonable
probability Of carrying North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, South Dakota,
Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota. I
am told by their leaders here that
not only will they continue to
develop strength in the States where
they have already shown unexpected
power, but that Ohio, Pennsylvania,
New York, New Jersey and Massa-
chusetts offer them an equally pro
missing field. The work Of organic
ing will go on rapidly in these States
from this time, with the possibility Of
bringing one or more Of them also
under their dominion.
WILL FUSE WITH NO. OTHER PARTY.
1t is Obvious to any student Of
political affairs that the Alliance
people are "feeling their OATS as
they fguratively put it. They organ
lied originally for mutual b oft,
but they have drifted into politics
almost imperceptibly from the start,
and their manifest purpose now is to
secure control Of the country, or at
least develop such strength as will
enable them to hold the balance Of
power between the two great parties.
1t is not their intention to consoli-
date with either. Their leading mon
tell me they will welcome any man
or sct of mon who may choose to
enter their ranks, but they can only be
admitted by r%enouncing forever their
former political affiliations. It is
only as a distinct organization with
distinct aims and purposes that they
can hope to win, and from this
course they will not swerve a hairs
breadth.
The Alliance people arc claiming
ffty-fve votes in the next House.
Of this number forty are straightout
Alliance Representatives and fifteen
others have committed themselves
in writing to the measures advocated
by them. The more important of
these measures arc the free silver COIN
age and sub Treasury bills. They will
not stop, they say, until they accom-
plish the passage Of both. Judging
from their conversation they expect
to do this before the close of tho SD
Congress.
OPPOSED TO sECTIoNALrsM.
There is one tenet of their politi-
cal faith which fair minded men,
without regard to other c~onsidera-
tons, will cheerfully endorse. They
are opposed to scctionalism and to
the statesmen who support such doc
%trines. They tell me seriously that
their principal opposition to Senator
ingalls, arises from his malevolent
and repeated efforts to widen the
breach between the North and the
South. His other sins they could
forgive, but this they regard as
objectionable. I asked them what,
il that case, they proposed doing
with Senators Hoar and Chandler.
They replied that as soon as the
organization became stronger in
Massachusetts, and New Hampshire,
these gentlemen should be immedi-
ately turned down, unless their
"brigadier scalping" tactics, as thcy
term shem, are abandoned.
The General Council of the Ali