Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-08-28

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W3AsHINGroN, .. q. August 49,.
Toward the end OF Julyfali half the
members Of the House of Repre-.
sentatiyes were absent from their
duties. Storm clouds had unex,
pectealy appeared in nearly every
Congressional District in the agricul.
tnral sections of the country, South
and West. The political sky was
ablaxe with suggestive premonitions'
Farmers Alliance was at work. In
a few Districts it had roarcd like q
tornado, overwhelming representa-
tiyes seeking a reelection. Rcpub-
3licans and Democrats had been
served alike. In other Districts it
rcscmbled a flood sweeping over
river bottoms and carrying every
thing before it. There werc astound-
lug reports from Kansas and reports
equally alarming from South Caro-
lima, Alabama, Georgia and tho Gulf
States. Senators as distinguished as
Ingalls, and Vance were threatened.
There were anxious faces in the
House. Experienced veterans heard
the whistling OF tho storm and know
that they were in danger. They
paired with mon of opposite politi-
cal faith in equal peril, and sped to
their Districts to look after their
political households. In some cases
they were TOO late to save them
solves. In others they arc still
struggling.
The rising of tho farmers might
APPLY be compared to tho rising in
tho departments of France at the
time of the French revolution.
Honest Legislators, who had never
failed in devotion to the agricultural
interests of the country, struggled
for their political existence. In
Georgia there was a violent gale.
James III. Blount, of Macon, serving
his eighteenth consecutive year in
the House, was forced to raise his
umbrella. Judge John ID. Stewart
was overwhelmed. Tom Grimes and
Judge Barnes also went under.
There were alarming reports con-
corning the political future of that
prince of Confederate soldiers, Gov.
John B. Gordon. The farmers were
making the fight for the Legislature
witt, tho intention of putting II Of
their own number in the United
States Senate in the place of Gov.
Joe Brown. Governor Gordon had
thrown himself into their ranks in
the hopes of securing the prize.
Such were some of the reports
that reached the House. In Missis-
sippi such tried veterans rs General
Hooker, James Bright Morgan, Gene
raj Catchings and Thomas r.. Stock
dale were endangered. Brilliant
John Nj. Allen received his re-nomi-
nation before the storm had fairly
burst. In Alabama Gen. William
II. Forncy w"a seriously threatened.
His loss would have been a national
loss. He well fills Samuel j.. Ran
dall's place in the Committee on
Appropriations.
In Kansas, Iowa and Illinois every
thing is mt sea. The political life Of
the Rev. John a. Anderson, rough
and-rcady Perkins, and of pcrtina-
cious Funston is at stake. Amber
son is born fighter. His assault
upon the Pacific railroads alone
to cndcar him to the farmers.
He will be in the field despite all
opposition, and if he must go, will
fall like a hero.
Then there was alarming news
from South Carolina. The veteran
George ID. Tillman alone was undis-
mayed. lie is a brother of the Till
man who is shaking up the political
.aristocracy of the Palmetto State,
and whose. obituary is probably
already in type in the composing
rooms of more than one daily news
paper.
Wild rumors came from the North
west. The sitting members were
not only exposed to the blasts of the
Larmcrs' Alliance, but were shaken
by the school question that had
excited tho German Luthcrans. This
agitation threw the Republican Rep
rescntatives of the Badger State into
o. fever. 1t threatens their supre-
macy to such an cxtont that it is
claimed the State will 60 Demo-
cratic. The great Caswell is said to
have been knocked out of u re-nomi-
nation. There were also cyclones in
Congressional Districts i'm Illinois.