Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02
Mr.. Burns in Reply to Mr.. Cary.


EDrroRs KEowRE COURIER: In your
last issue Mr.. John C. Cary makes a brief
reply to my partial review of his review,
published in your issue of the 18th ultimo.
7 appreciate the gentlemanly spirit he
eyinces in the discussion of our f~actional
differences of opinion, and shall endeavor
to be equally respectful in what I shall
say in reply.
He, by a process of reasoning, which
he fails to make clear, reaches the illogl-
cal conclusion that all Democrats who
favor the platform adopted by the indus
trial conference at st. Louis in February
last are no more Democrats, but belong
to the Third or Peoples Party. How
can Mr.. Cary, as a loyal Democrat, hold
such an unwarranted opinion, after the
recent action of the county and State
Democratic conventions has, by an over
whelming vote, declared the principles
of the st. Louis platform (Which the
Oconee convention adopted as its own
resolutions) to be sound Jeffersonian
Democracy? AS a delegate in the last
convention he exercised his legitimate
right in opposing the adoption of these
resolutions, but numbers won and he
lost. Now, the minority should acqui-
esce in the will of the majority. How
ever, if this action of the convention was
so undemocratic, as he seems to think,
why did he not bolt: Under Democratic
rules submission Or secession are the
only alternatives of a minority.
Mr.. Cary says my position. which
in a nutshell amounts to this, VIZ: If
the Democratic party does certain
things-adopts the Third o. Peoples
Party principles-we are Democrats!
Where have l ever predicated my De
mocracy on such hypothesis? have
always been aregular straight Democrat
and have never affiliated with boilers,
scratchers an independents. My Democ-
racy is older than the Peoples Party,
and the principles whichitnow advocates
were first formulated by industrial, non
partisan organizations, including the
Farmers Alliance, OF which l am amem-
Der.
Again. Mr.. Cary attempts to predicate
such to be my Democratic position by
taking two junglcd, garbled extracts
from my former article. In this he is
very unfortunate, for those who will read
my speech, made in the convention in its
regular connection. will see from the con
text that the certain things l said if the
Democratic PARTY did not do, sit would
90 to pieces sit was doomed" had not
the slightest reference to the Third or
Peoples Party or its principles. I will
give the conditional admonitions made
on the occasion alluded to. said:
Unless there was an honest effort to
give the people the relief they demanded
the Democratic party would go % pieces
The other was: If the Democratic party
would not need the voice of the people.
and continued to be run by machine
politicians in the interest of the pluto
Gratis of the North. it was doomed Does
this afford a pretext for Mr.. Cary's sinis-
ter charge that eff the Democratic
party does not do certain things
adopts the Third or Peoples Party
principles'-I am not a Democrat?
If so, then the New York World, the
most influential Democratic paper in the
United States, is also not Democratic,
because in one of its recent editorials it
makes a terrible ~arraignment of the
Democracy, when it said, If a haltisnot
called in the protligate expenditures by
the present Congress the Chicago conven-
ticu may as well not meet" but voice
the sentiments of true Democracy
hroughout the country, which Mr.. Cary
LuIst admit, and that is all there is in it.
shese ~admonitions were not specific as
to any set OF demands of the people, but
alaud in support of the plain right
to make any