Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-04-10
Some Of the First Fruits.
[From tho Grconvillo News. |

oSiatiS p0IgJ u tIilS otalc, WIS lW(
months ago: 1t had grown from {
small and derided minority to d;
large majority, respected and feared
1t controlled the House of Rcprcscn
tatives and lacked but one vote o.
controlling the Senate. 1t had vir
tually controlled the last two Demo
cratic State Conventions. 1t was
solid, strong and confident and hat
the great body of the people and al
the press, except half a dozen news
papers, with it. 1t had forced tn,
general adoption of the primary
system, securing the direct and abso
lutte rule Of the people. All it hat
70 do was to go into the State Demo
cratic Convention in August an(
nominate its own ticket for State
officers and to go into the count,
primaries and nominate its own mcl
for Representatives and Senators
There would have been no opposi.
ton to it worth considering and i,
would have had everything its owl,
way, peacefully and easily.
But Captain Shell and Captain
Tillman and the others of them
stepped to the front. They issued Il
manifesto and called a convention OF
the Farmers Movement and forced
it to do their will, which was to "sug-
gcst" Captain Tillman for Governor
We have been during the past
two days printing the comments of
the weekly newspapers on the con-
vcntion's work-not the daily news
papers printed in the cities,
but wccklics, printed i'll the smaller
communities, circulating among the
people, close to them and rejecting
their opinions and leading their
thought. All who have read these
interesting expressions must have
been impressed by the unanimity
with which Captain Tilliiiaii's 'sug.
gcstion" is opposed and denounced
We do not know that the State press
has ever before been so nearly solid
on any question.
We have been at some pains tc
take running note of the positions
of the newspapers and have fount
them as follows:
Dailics for Tillman, the Charles
ton World--1
Dailcs against Tillman, the New,
and Courier, Charleston Sun, Colum
bia Register, Columbia Record
Grccnvillc Ncws-5.
Wccklics for Tillman, Laurcnsville
Herald, Edgciicld Advertiser, Green.
vile Entcrr Use and Mountainccr
Bambcrg Advertiser, Branchvill,
Spectator, Prosperity Prcss-G.
Wccklics non-commi,tal-York,
vile Enquirer, Lexington Dispatch
Abbcvillc Medium, Barnwcll People
Orangcburg Timcs-Dcmocrat-5.
Weeklics against Tillman-Ncw-
berry Observer, Newbcrry News and
Herald, Edgcficld Chronicle, Able
vile Press and Banner, Anderson
Journal, Anderson lntclIigcnccr
Easlcy Messenger, Pickcns Sentinel
keowcc Courier, Seneca Free Press
Westminster Banner, Spartanbure
Spartan, SpartanLurg IIcarld, Unior
Times, Sumter Advance, Sumter
Watchman, Clarendon Enterprise
Rock Hill Herald, Lancaster Review
Aiken Recorder, Winnsboro' News
and Herald, Laurcns Advertiser
Florence Times, Hampton Guardian
Marion Star, Chcraw Reporter, Wa
tcree Messenger, Chester Reporter
20.
Where there was strength, unity
and confidence there is weakness
division and doubt. The faith OF
the people in the Farmers Move
mcnt has been shaken, We fear be-
yond restoration, and all because
some OF Captain Tillman's special