The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-08-17
To Tillman Men.
Elect Tillman.

ELECT J llltnQ0.
Elect legislature pledged to Tillman:
That is what the Tillman bosses and
managers are telling you that you must
do.
Next year elect men to the constitu-
tional convention who are compelled TO
obey Tillnan.
Don't say you won't do it. You ought
to be and will be ashamed not to do it.
After you have elected man on dis
tinct issues you cannot 90 squarely back
on him and say he shall not carry out
his schemes. If you do so you class
yourself as O coat tail swinger and
"driftwood' supporting Tillman because
he is popular but helping to defeat his
measures.
No matter who you elect to the consti-
tutional convention or what instructions
you give.
If your delegates 60 to the constitution
al convention and defeat the three dollars
poll tax and the qualification for voting
you will spend the 100000 the conven-
ton will cost for nothing.
But there is no danger of that. The
convention will be confronted with the
plain fact "the people in 1892 elected Gov
ernor Tillman squarely on the poll tax
and qualification issue. By that election
LQ6y SalQ Luey WauCeu LlOSe tuluSH' 4ou
can't go back on it,"
The convention will adopt those plans
of his. The delegates will not be afraid
ofconsequences because the victims OF the
new laws will be deprived ofthe power OF
voting.
You men who have not certain
being made fools of-especially you
young men who have not yet had time to
acquire property.
You ore being told there is no danger
that you have the matter in your own
hand and can defeat Tillman's 8 ideas while
electing Tillman.
But you can't. You vote for Tillman
and you vote to take your votes from you
and to impose the three dollars poll on
yourselves. Extra taxes and no rights.
You vote to enslaye yourselves and to
put yourselves under the heel of the ne
gro you have helped to educate or who
has been fortunate enough to gather somo
property.
It is Just as plain as daylight. When
the convention has acted you can't help
yourself. It's action won't be submitted
to the people for ratification.
You will have mighty little to say in
the matter, anyhow. Your represents
tives in the Legislature may oppose the
constitutional convention, but with Till
mans influence the representatives from
other counties will probably force 1t.
When the election Of delegates to that
convention comes you may call out in
agony and fear for anti help to defeat those
who favor the extra poll tax and the dis
franchisement, and you may get 1t in
some counties, but other counties may
and almost certainly will send delegates
favoring those things. Then you will be
gone. You will have no more to say.
You will have tn take what comes and
when too late curse your own folly. You
will be fooled, trapped, destroyed. You
will look back then and know how you
have been sold out by the false and emp
ty claim that in voting for Tillman you
were voting against the "aristocrats" and
rich men and for the poor men and the
people.
It may be property or an educational
qualification or both. Once let 60 your
grip, once walk into the trap, and you
cannot tell where it will go. It may get
you either way, whether you be a poor
man with some education or q learned
man with no property.
Every man who believes In the people,
every man who does not want to see
white men forced into political alliance
with negroes and an attempt made to
force them into social alliance, ought to
bring these facts to the attention OF fevery
voter.-Greenrilte Nep08.