The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-01-15
COL. KEITT Is MAD.
HE MAKES A MOST SAVAGE ATTACK
ON DR.. J. w. STOKES.

ON DR.. J. w. STOKES.
Says Senator Irby Is no Statesman and
With being Influenced by His Own Per-
sonal Ambition.
NEWBERRY, S. c., Jan. 3-The fol
lowing article appeared this week in
the Newberry Observer:
Alliance men, our noble Order now
covers thirty-tive States, and we have
millions of members. We have a great
and holy work before us. TO have Il
clear understanding of the obligations
OF each one to the other and to the Or
der education is absolutely necessary.
10 get that education l invoke you to
subscribe for the National Economist,
the official organ of the Order pub
Hshed at Washington city. 1t will cost
you only one dollara year. 1t is worth
to you more than all the other news
papers put together. You will learn
the Order and its great end and aim.
II you do not take it, subscribe at once
for it.
There is great lack of knowledge
among those who ought to be posted.
The following will show the obligation
OF each member of the Alliance to the
Order and to those organizations with
whom we have confederated:
ST. Louis. Mo December 9th, 1889
Agreement made this day by and be-
tween tho UNDERSIGNED committee repre-
Senting tho National Farmers Alliance
and Industrial Union on the one part, and
the undersigned committee representing
nc knights of Labor Oh the other part.
Jo3 WifsNt" Vi: The uderSignee committee
representing the knights of Labor having
demands NJ
Alliance and industrial Union which are
embodied In this agreement, hereby endorse
the same on behalf of the Knights of Labor,
and for tho purpose of giving practical
elect to the demands herein set forth the
legislative committees of both organizations
will act i'll concert before Congress for the
purpose of securing the enactment Of laws
in harmony with the demands mutually
agreed. And it is further agreed, in order
to carry out these objects, we will support
for Office only such men as can be dcpcndcd
upon to exact these principcsc into statute
law uninfuenccd by party caucus Ma
tional Economist, Vol. 2, No i, page 214.
Is 1T not clear from the above agree
ment that any member Of Congress who
is a member of the Alliance commits
perjury II he goes into Il caucus of
either of the great parties? If he is in
any degree influenced by party caucus
he is perjured. There is no escape from
it.
On the heels Of Mr. Irbys election to
the position of United States Senator
he was interviewed by the corrcspon-
dent of The News and Courier, and is
reported as making the following state
nlepG:
81 am going to the Senate as a Democrat
and in full accord with the National De-
mocracy. l am in full sympathy with the
Alliance, but whatever may be obtained
by me for the Alliances must be obtained
through the National Democratic party
How does this statement of Mr.
lrby's who is the Alliance lecturer of
Laurens County, compare with his
Obligations as a member Of the ALI
ance? Is he ignorant of his obligations,
or is his conscience SO scared that he is
insensible Of his sworn duty?
Brother Alliancemen, great prin-
ciples and demands are the basis OF our
noble Order, and we have before Con-
gress pressing for solution a measure
of financial relief Of the greatest mag
NUDE; Inc Alliance is non partisan,
but political. 1t rises high above men
and parties. 1t is the creature of the
times and the condition of the country.
Financial reform is the imperative de-
mand. 1t was that, and not tariff re-
form, that caused the recent great
political revolution. The people of the
North and Northwest are sick and tired
growing corn for 12 cents per bushel
and raising beef for 1 cent per pound.
This is only the beginning of the rev.
olution for the purilication of the Gov
eminent and financial reform The
time is near at hand when the Order will
move ont and, taking its position, will
piles and demands, and, striking right
and left will spare no foe. Whoever
Talters in the fight is a traitor, and
SHOULD meet the traitors fate.
10 permit a scurvy fellow, leprous
with crime and without an element of
craftsmanship, to worm himself by po-
ultical trickery into high position. is not
'only an impeachment to the work, but
crime against the Order. a major
ity of the members of the General AS.
sembly are Alliance men, and they could
have elected a clean and able man to
reprerent our Order in the Senate and
push our measures to success. All was
lost by the treason of one man, Senator
Stokes, president of the State Alliance
How and why?
On Friday morning, Dccembcr5 ), 1880
the following appeared in the Charles
ton World, the organ of Tlllman and
Irby:
"What 1 have seen and heard to-day
confirms me IN my previously express Scd
opinion that State Senator j. W. Stokes,
who Is also President of the State Farm.
ers' Alliance, will cut no figure in the
next Tuesday; but that on the contrary he
Is being carefully .grO0mcd for the Cover
Inorship in 1894, when Tillman is more than
likely, as l have already pointed out in
these columns, to succeed the Hon. NJ G.
Butler in the United States Senate.''
The Tillmanite who inspired this
knew his man. Stokes snapped up and
swallowed the bait with avidity, as the
sequel shows. On the night Of the
next day, Saturday, there was q caucus
of about forty Alliance men, which was
presided over by Senator Stokes, presi.
dent of the State Alliance A ballot
was taken, with Donaldson in the lead
next Irby, then Kett. Stokes, as pre-,
dicted, in the Charleston World cut nc
figure in the fight lie got only four
votes, He was out of the race i'm an