The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-01-15
manShip in the Order resides in him
will be grudgingly admitted by u large

was lost by the treason Of one man,
Senator Stokes" 1t would bC Interest |
ing to know what the "GW' was that |
Col. keitt says was lost. We presume
he wrote from the standpoint Of an AL
lance man, and now the Alliance !
could lose anything in the election Of
Col. Irby, an honered and trusted Off
Ger of the Order, pledged to its de-
mands and tireless worker for its
cause, rs United States Senator, passes
my apprehension. In the absence of
an itemiZed account of loss we are
driven to inference or else the method
of exclusion. 1t could not be the loss of
Hampton he deplored, because Uamp-
ton was a caucus man as a matter Of
course. 1t could not be Donaldson
whose loss he deplores, for his (Donald
sons political views did not admit of
fl eedom from caucus influence. UIis-
tory, by the way, furnishes no instances
of nobler bearing during the fight and
defeat than that Of Donaldson and
Hampton.)
Then where and what is the loss?
Col. keitt was the only candidate Tin
an uncommon sense) who was not
elected.
The Colonel seems a good deal ex-
asperated because / called in, as he
VllC hlltdllCO CUuCllo, ttlllt 1lc plO-
ceedS to state what tranSpired in the
former Alliance caucus. lie must cx-
cuSe me from discussing publicly what
tranSpired behind the closed doors of
an Alliance meeting. The pledge at
initiation expressly forbidS this. But,
assuming that the brothers premises
are correct, let us sec how his conclu-
sions follow. He says that the ALI
ancc had a majority in the General AS
senbly and could have elected it's man.
lie says, further, that the attendance
upon the Alliance caucus was about
forty. 1t required eighty-one to elect
a Senator on joint ballot. lie cannot
certify that even all those forty MEM
bers present, as he says, at the ALI
ancc caucus were unpledgcd or agreed
! with him as to the party caucus clause;
and yet he asserts without qualilica
! tion that the Alliance could have elect
| ed its man independent Of the Reform
members, who were in full sympathy
with the Alliance, had stood shoulder
to shoulder with us, and had in many
| instances come to the Legislature on
Alliance issues, but who were ineligible
to membership. For my part, even if
it had been possible to elect a Senator
within ourselves, which | deny under
existing circumstances, with Alliance
| OF lrby, Donaldson or keitt--the only
! mex who were to come before that
| general caucus as ReformerS--I was
| opposed to excluding from participa-
ton mex just as true to our principles
and honeSC. though they were ineligible
to membership.
! Col. kcitt lays much store by The
fact that some Alliance men could no
gain access to 1Ee Reform caucus, bu
he fails to state that those Alliance
men could not GO into Il caucus Of Re
formers bcc0usc tt"y 7cere piedycd {,
| Hampton.
| But l did not act wholly upon my
own judgement in calling the Alliance
causus. All the Alliance mem candi
dates were consulted either in person
or through their representatives, and
thought had their concurrence in do
| ing so. The only objection / heard was
raised after I had notified the general
! Reform caucus of our intention tC
meet with them. Col Keitt says "solG
out the Alliance for the shadow OF be
ing Governor of the State four years
hence" | deny the charge in toto and
cite him to his proofs. l take it that
my denial is worth fully as much us his
assertion that he was at no time a can
didate in a common acceptance of that
word, and SO some proof will be neces
sary on his part. And what does he
submit in the nature of proof? a
quotation from the Worlds COlumbis
notes, in which it was stated inciden
tally that was being "carefullv groom
ed tor the Governorship in 1884," onl,
this and nothing more. These arc tn,
terms Of the trade he says.
The childlikC simplicity Of this con
ception is possible only in a mind &C
I cuStOmed to tIncOmnlOn attitude:
| Certainly one Of us common mind
| would not he content with a shadow
I That sort of trading, / presume, is
peculiarly of 7tncOmmOn minds. Her
us his argument. He says the Worl
f9dblished that shadow afterwarG
he'd off into general Reform caucu
therefore the shadow was the cause {
my leading otf--pOSt hOc 2ropter Ia
{ This is clog! cal conclusion" with Il vel
geG1ce. 1t is the logic OF Sublimatc
puerility.
Nc rational mind will accept this
, proof lie says there was a trad
, This saecessitatcs a purchaser as well
, Il seller. Let him name the other par
to the trade, or else stand before Il
: public to which he has appealed rath
, than to the Order he is sworn TO cbc
Sas having spoken against IL hs0tR
without cause.
lie should know l was not in the eli
when the World report was write
, and had not been for week. Let hi
, call up the man to whom or from who
came any proposition concerning m
self and the GOVernOrShip. Let hi
call witnesses within or without tt
State. He mas the World behind him.
lie has had good deal to say abol
loyalty to the Order; about erin
4 against the Order by the election {
lrby, an hOnOred member OF the Orde
to the Senate. in my humble judg
ment, loyalty to the Order means Iowa
| ty to its cardinal principlcs-brothcr,
toce, ch0rity crime against the OrdC
is inseparable from disregard Of thcs
principles. That Quality of man, ;
= well as of an Allianceman, is highc!
which takes a brother by the hand an
. says to him, "Go, sin no more" B
tween this quality and that whic
thanks God 81 am not as other men
there is the whole diameter Of exi
tence J. WIN. Stokes,