The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-05-26
THE THIRD PARTY,
WORDS OF SOBERNESS AND TRUTH
FROM THE BARNWELL PEOPLE,.

Tho Republican rarty Brnt ON the DO
btruc'lrn of tho Snuth.--If the Present
ConHressmen Have Been Unfaithfui
Turn them Out.
BARNwELL. S. G., May ia friend
living in an adjacent county, who has
been freely reading the National Watch
man, The Peoples Party Paper and
similar literature, asks Us TO discuss the
Third Or Peoples Party mo vcment. AS
there is already considerable latent
feeling in its favor, and as it is quite
likely TO b" a very lively issue in the
near future, we heve no objection to ex-
pressing our opinion in plain and mat
ter of TACT way.
Those in our midst who look favora-
bly, upon this new departure in political
action are generally rs good and true
men as any that the State registers
as citizens. They have been loyal in war
aud in peace and hey az still faithful.
They have answered to every coll that
she has made upon tho m, aud arc still
ready TO serve her with unwcaliened
devotion. But they have LOST heart
and hope in the ability of present meth
DDS To bring back better times. The
campaigns that thcy have lou .ht have
not brought the fruits OF peace, safety
and prosperity that they have been
taught TO expect. They arc losing faith
i'll the wisdom OF their leaders and are
ready to accept new guides and strange
doctrines. At this crisis The Peoples
Party comes to them with platfr0m
and with purposes pro!csscdly IN SYM
pathy with the lOnglngs of people
burdencd with debt and trouble and
sick at heart with hope deferred. 1t
rrollers its readiness to bury tn G issues
that have ior long years kept the sec
t0ns asurder and promises to SO alter
The scheme Of governmental admins
Lralioa that all may enjoy equal rights,
and none be monopolists OF special
privileges. 1t is not strange that such
an appeal should find ready hearers
and willing believers among q people
who have so long suffered as ours have
done. 1t comes 10 them as the CLINT of
the rainbow after the sweep Of the tor
nado, as the bloom OF spring breaking
the gloom OF the weary winter.
But there is another side, and very
different one to the question. Never
from the birth OF tine to The present day
has any individual, any party of people
or any nation gathered all the aims
sought for. From the di3salistac-
ton of our first parents In the
slnlcss Eden Il discomfort with pre-
sent conditions has threaded all his
Dry. The endtaVOr to repair mis-
takes that might have been avoided has
claimed large share of human energy
in every year ofits existence. Today the
South, inheriting the consequences of
the errors Of earlier generations, in her
struggle to rid herself OF the wrongs
that hamper her progress and dwarf
making her condition even more perl
paying the penalty for secession, the
costs of the war Incurred by the victorj-
Gus Nation tor the subjuyation of this
p:ostrate and plundcred section.
The North fattcns on the tribute that
we pay and greedy AZ the daughter of
the horse lccch calls for more life blood
Of cur people transferred into i'll paid
labor. The taril enrichcs her manu-
tacturcrs and the pension largcss show.
crs plenty into hundreds of thousands
Of Northern homes. The Republican
party, parent, guardian, advocate and
pretOriau guard OF all these wrongs is
not even yet content with that mastery
unparalleled in civilized history. La
It's State Conventions OF this year is has
pledged itself with unauimous harmO-
ny to adhere To its traditiOns-aud to
90 further by the enactment Of the
"Force BIZ" which will strip the
South Of any intelligent part III the adj
mlnistration Of the National govern
ment, and forge upon her fettcrs that
only The day of judgment can break.
That is our cncmy, scared as to her
dead conscience and cXultaut in her
il political pirate that would
not have been respectable even IN the
worlu's most barbarOus age.
The Peoples Party is not the David
set apart by political providence to slay
wociully short sighted. III it had con-
Cludcd its work at the great Industrial
Conference held at ST, Louis last Febru-
AIRY with the adoption OF its platform it
could have appealed with the force Of
patriotism to all sections for support,
ort when the mass meeting into which
it resolved itself adopted with only
three votes (and they were from Gcor-
gia) dissenting, the resolution that "we
demand that the government issue legal
tender notes and pay Union soldiers the
difference between the price OF the de-
prcclatcd money in which he was paid
and gold,' it served deliberate Dotice
upon the South that she must continue
to bear the burdens OF unequal taxation
and distribution Of the public bcncli-
cencC, and that SO lar from lifLlry q
feather weight from them they should
be added 10. The resolution that we
have quoted is Il threat aud an intlma-
ton that cannot but drive self respect
ing Southern support away beyond the
voice Of its call. Not satisfied with the
enormous annual appropriation Of $780,
OO0,O for pensions, nearly two and a
half dollars tor every man, woman and
child in this broad UniCn, 1t would lave
the difference paid in gold that the North
might get more plumber, and IN so doing
it would worsh p the golden calf stand
ard and fix for all time upon the people