Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-07-23
PALMETTO STATE POLITICS.
The subtreasury and Free Railroad Passes
Mix the Alliance Children Up.

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Mix the Alliance Children Up.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
CHARLEsToS, g. c., July 23.-Politics never
we're in a bigger mess in South Carolina thar
they are today. There are four factions-ths
anti-TiIlman straightout democrats, the Till
man anti-subtreasury alliance men, the sub.
treasury alliance men and the republicans.
The fight last year between the farmer ele.
ment, headed by Gov. Tillman. and the
'straightout" democrats, which resulted in
such decisive victory for the former, the
election Of Tillman to he governorship and
the defeat Of Senator Wade Hampton for re-
election to the Senate, embittered these two
factions OF the democratic party against each
other SO that they will have nothing to do with
one another.
But things have grown even worse here
lately. Tho Farmers Alliance element OF the
party is about to split wide open on the sub.
treasury issue. Gov. Tillman is dead opposed
to that measure and when Ben Terrell Of Texas,
the alliance lecturer. was making tour OF this
state recently the governor met him and an
swered bis arguments Whenever possible. So
the subtreasury mon ore now oil down on TILL
man.
THE RAILWAY PASS BUSINESS.
Nor is that all. The alliance lays great stress
on the railroad pass business and has con-
demned the issuing Of them to officials in the
severest terms. Gov. Tillman before his cleo
ton was one Of the noisiest Of those denouuc-
ing the acceptance Of FREQ passes by Legislators
and state officials.
Imagine, then, the horror OF the alliance
people when the newspapers proved some time
ago that Gov. Tillman himself had accepted
passes since his election and was riding all over
the country on them. The next thing they
heard along that line was that Senator Hamp-
tons good alliance successor was riding on a
pass, too.
The farmers were greatly shocked by these
revelations, and they got together and re
solved that their governor and Senator must
surrender those passes. But SO far their reso-
lutiOns have had no effect, for it was only the
other day that Gov. Tillman, while delivering Q
speech, produced his railroad pass and waved
it triumphantly over his head, declaring that
while it was great convenience, no little thing
like that could bride him.
The Charleston World, which supported Till
man for governor. now goes for that gentleman
in the following style:
what outrageous nonsense 1t is to attempt
to palliate Gov Tillman's acceptance of rail-
road passes by the statement that editors also
use them. The railroads expect pay for the
passes they give the newspaper men. and they
get It, too. several times over in the way Of no.
tices OF excursions, &c, &c. Railroads seldom
give something for nothing. As to the gov.
ernor's passes, while, as he says. no one imsg-
inee tnat ne couIu DC Drlpec by such o small
thing it 10 nevertheless true that the rail-
roads did not present Gov. Tillman with
the useful little pieces of pasteboard with
any intention Of making him less friendly
toward them. A few railroad passes could not
Of course, bride Gov. Tillman or any other
man, but they might cause him to be less
violent in his denunciation of the corporations
at whose hands he has received favors than he
otherwise would be. That's all there il Of
it."
The republicans are 'laying low and saying
nothing. That party in this state lacks general
ship and it is not known now whether it will
take advantage of the three-cornered fight in
the democratic party or not. But The STAB
readers will all agree that politics here arc in
q terribly mixed condition and no one will be
surprised to hear sumthin' drap" in Novem-
Der, 1902.