The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-01-15
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deplored, because Hampton was caucus
man as q matter of course. 1t could not
be Donaldson whose loss he deplores. for
his (Donaldson's) political views did not
admit of freedom from caucus influence.
(History, by the way, furnishes no in
stances 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 lin an
uncommon sense) who vas not elected.
The Colonel seems good deal exas-
perated because | sailed in, as he says,
the Alliance caucus, and he proceeds to
state what trsnspired in TIE former Alli-
auce caucus. He mustexcuse n,efrom dis.
cussing publicly what transpiree 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 see how his
conclusions follow. He says that the
/ Alliance had a majority in the General
+ Assembly and could have elected its
men. Ere ss5s, further, that the atten-
dance upoH tbs Alliance caucus Tas
about forty. It required eighty-one to
elect a Senator on joint saAlet. He can
/ not certify that even all those forty mem
bers present, as he says, at the Alliance
caucus were unpledged or agreed nth
him as to the party caucus clause; and
yet he asserts witheat qualification that
the Alliance could havo elected its man
independent of the Reform members,
who were in full sympathy with the
Alliance, had stood shoulder With US,
and bad 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
Senator within ourselves, which I deny
under existing circumstances, WITH ALI
ance demands absolutely secure in the
hands of Irby, Donaldson or Keitt-the
only men who were to come before that
general caucus as Reformers-l was
opposed to excluding from participation
men Just as true to our principles 0nd
honest, though they we're ineligible to
membership.
Col. Keitt lays much store by the fact
that some Alliance men could not gain
access to the Reform caucus, but he fails
to state that those Alliance men could
not 20 into a caucus of Reformers
because they auers pledged to Hampton.
But I did not act wholly upon my own
Judgment in calling the Alliance caucus.
All the Alliance men candidates were
consulted either in person or through
their representatives, and I thought ]
had their concurrence in doing so. The
only objection heard was raised after |
had notified the general Reform CAUCUS
of our intention to meet With them.
Col. Keitt says I "sold out the KlHaace
for the shadow of being Governor OF She
State four years hence" I deny the
charge in toto and cite him to his proofs.
take it that my denial is worth fully aa
much as his assertion that be was at no
time candidate in common acceptance
of that word, and so some proof will be
necessary on this part. And what does
he submit in the nature of proof? A
quotation from the Worlds Columbia
notes, in which it was stated incidentally
that was being Carefully groomed for
the Governorship in 1884," only this and
nothing more. These are the terms of
the trade he says
The childike simplicity Of this con-
ceptiou is possible only in mind accus-
toned to uncommon attitudes. Certainly
one of us common minds would not be
content with shadow. That sort OF
trading, l presume is peculiarity OF
uncommon minds. Hero is his argument.
He says the World published that shad-
ow !; afterward I led off into general
Reform CAUCUS, therefore the shadow was
the cause Of my lesding off-post hoe
propter hoe. This is logical conclusion
with vengeance. 1t is the logic of SUBJ
limated puerility.
No rational mind will accept this as
proof. he says there vas trade. This
necessitates purchaser as we'll as
seller. Let him name the other party to
the trade, or else stand before the public
to which he has appealed, rather than to
the Order he is sworn to obey, as having
spoken against brother without a
cause.
He should know I was not in the city
when the World report WAS written, aud
had not been for week Let him call
up the man To whom or fr,n whom came
any proposition concerning myself and
the Governursbip. Let him call witness
es within or without the Stale. He has
the World behind him.
He has had q good deal to say about
loyalty to the Order; about crime against
the Order by the election of 1rby, an
henored member of the Order, to the
Senate. In my humble judgment, loyal.
ty to the Order means loyalty to ita
cardinal principles-drotherly love, chart.
ty; crime against the Order is insepara-
BILE from disregard of these principles
That quality of man, as we'll as of an
Alliancemap, is highest which takes a
brother by the hand and says to him,
"Go, sin no MORE" Between this quality
and that which thank God ~ am not as
other men," there is the WHOLE diameter
of existence. J. WIN. STOKES,
Pres. S. c. State Farmers Alliance.
Orangeburg, January 5, 1891.
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