The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-06-09
CAROLINA POLITICS,
From the Auqusta Chronicle.

Editors Chronicle-I have been q sub
scriber to your paper for long time, and
have as q general thing admired your
consistency. 1 wish especially to COM
mend you for your manly and very cor
rect editorial in your issue of May 81,
under the heading, "Silence is Golden.''
This editorial in my humble judgment
breathes the proper spirit; it is fair, it is
honest; it is proper: it is Democratic;
but, allow me to ask you if you arc con-
sistent in your sentiment therein express
ed with your duty to all of your readers.
When twitted few days since with i'm
proper intermeddling with South Caroli-
ma politics, you replied, and I thought
properly, that you had large and intel
ligent patronage in South Carolina, and
that it was your duty to this following to
express your opinion on the politics of
of your reply, of course I am not at
tempting to give your exact words, still
your South Carolina readers do not see q
line in your paper condemnating of the
accomplishment by the South Carolina
State Convention Of the very infamy you
charged Hoke Smith with attempting in
Georgia. You charged that Hoke Smith
"attempted, by main strength and awk-
wardness to trample upon the. time hon.
ored customs and privileges Of the dis
tricts, to name their own delegates to the
National Democratic Conventions" and
yet we have not word from you in con-
demnation of the Tillman party, who ac-
tually with high hand, and with flip
pancy unworthy of men who claim to be
leaders, accomplished in South Carolina,
the very thing you denounce Hoke Smith
for attempting to do in Georgia.
Vo,, coIr o1oo fbof 1,otrrc o1-
! WAYS magnanimous this is true; then,
why did you not in Justice to yourself,
| and to your South Carolina readers, de-
| nounce the absolute want of magnanimi-
| ty that characterized every action Of the
| Iillman faction in the South Carolina
| Convention?
Consistency is yet a jewel, and you
should remember that your South Caro-
| lima readers are not by any means all
| Tillmanites Further, Mr.. Editor, you
are strangely silent-so far as your South
Carolina readers have observed-as to any
| comment on, or disapproval of, the fran
tic efforts made by Tillman and the Alli-
ance in the South Carolina Convention OF
caucus, to swallow each other; and you
are also silent as to the outcome of this
wonderful and unnatural jugglery. You
must have seen and must know that our
Convention rode rampant over all the
traditions and principles of the Democrat.
ic party.
You have all along very wisely advised
all Democratic editors against the abuse
Of the different aspirants for the Demo
cratic nomination this our Convention
did directly, thing unheard Of in fail
politics and then performed the most
wonderful feat of political qualification
the world has ever known, adopted ares.
olution in support of the nominee of the
party. Is it fair to your South Caroline
readers that you should have passed these
things quietly by? Then the South Car.
olina Convention, in one gulp, swallowed
the Ocala platform, in its entirety; ano
refuse to say aught against the ThirG
Party. Do you think such actions con-
sistent with the time-honored principle!
of the Democratic party? And do yor
think it consistent with your duty to you
South Carolina readers, and with youl
duty as sentinel on the Democratic
watchtower, to quietly pass such thing.
by without uttering word Of protest o.
! warning9
I ask that you carefully read what they
did, and then say if am not correct.
FAIR-PLAY.
EDaEr1EID, S. c., May %, 1892.