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y. IL. NJ. Troy, Chairman OF the State
Democratic Executive Committse:
Your attention is hereby respectfully
directed to an editorial article from the
Cotton Plant, which clsims to be the organ
Of the Farmers Alliance of this State, pub
lished in another column of this newspaper.
The Cotton Plant has at the head Of It's
editorial columns "J. VIM. Stokes, Editor"
j. VIM. Stokes is the president Of the State
Alliance. He was a delegate frsm this State
tn the Democratic Cow ention at Chicago.
He is a candidate before the democrats of
his district for the nomination for congress.
You are respectfully asked to rule, in
your official capacity az chairman of the
democratic executive committee Of this
State, on the question whether J.. VIM.
Stokes can bo considered and voted for ss .
democrat unless he disavows responsibility
for or endorsement of the editorial else
where quoted, printed under his name in q
newspaper Of which he is the known editor.
That article, rs you will discover by pc
rusal, is distinct and vicious donunciation
of the man chosen by the democratic nation
| al convention of which you were q member.
Us its candidate for president. 1t is q direct
| appeal to the farmers of the State 10 vote
agaiost that man and for some other man.
1t is printed in the Cotton Plant of date
| of Saturday,, June 25th. The nomination
of Grover Cleveland as the caud date of tho
| democratic convention for president was
announced in all tho daily newspapers of
this State Thursday morning, June 23j.
When You have ruled, Chairman, Irby on
the standing of Mr. Stokes as a democrat aud
candidate for democratic nomination for
congress, you will further rule on this ques-
| tion:
Is man who intends 10 vote for q third
party or republican nominee for president
q democrat in the meaning of tho cons'itu-
tion Of the State democratic party! Has lie
| the right to vote at a primary election Of the
| democratic par y of this State for State and
county offices?
As we understood, the rules of the party
say that mon shall vote at its primaries who
are known democrats and who will swear to
support the nominees of the democratic
party. What is meant by democrat"
and what "nominees' must he swear to sup
port!
| If it As meant that only such men as will
swear to vote the full party ticket, Fe deral,
| State and county, are democrats and ent t.
| led to vote at democratic primaries, please
say so. If anything else is meant kindly
inform the democrats of this Slate, of whom
you nre the official head.
These are living and important questions.
| They confront us at this moment aud ought
to be answered. Let US know who are to
| y
at the democratic primaries for nominees Of
the democratic party.
You are party man. You have time and
again proc aimel your allegiance t. The
psity, your purpose to Qbsy the will of its
majoaity in any anI all circumstances. A
great many Of w.. under tho same under
standing OF parry duty that you profess,
voted two yeas ago for b. r, Tillman for
governor. Those who did not do so have
been publicly and frequently denounced by
those assoc;cei with you in politics as trail
tors to the people. no better than radicals.
| We now desire 10 know how those who may
refuse to accept the decision Of two-lhirds Of
the representatives Of the democratic party
assembled at Chicago arc to be considered
aud treated.
Let the lines he drawn plsinly and
promptly. When democrats 60 to tho poll,
| to vo:Sin primaries Ct thec party !hey have
the right to know who they are voting with
-Greenpilie Nep,
"P4Rrr rER!Sy:"-Gsvernor Tilman told
thS ois'eiand nau.gsrs IN Chicago that if
Cleveland was nominated he did not believe
that he could carry South Caroline on ac-
count Of his financial views. The Governor
never spoke q truer word. The very acme
of tyranical party rule is obtained when the
wishes Of the democratic voters of States
, whose electoral vote has always been cast
for democracy; are ignored and candidate
| forced on them Who OPPOSES every principle
| held by them, aud that action is adding
iusulb J9 in;Ery when We know that his
nomination, II fore ID ny tie sto LINEN and
Office seekers from States who have mover
given and never will give an electoral vote
for the democratic nominee. There is yet a
| spirit CT liberty left in the heart Of the men
Of Carolina that Ieyolt asainst such uIscrupu-
lous bossism. y $50 -
No, the al.iancemen of the South cannot
support Cleveland, because he is the embodi-
msnt Of the p!utocratic IDEAS that refuse to
recognize our IssIs eyen, aud are still far
ther from giving US any remedy. The
nomination Of Cleveland will mean, if he is
elected, that monopoly will be fosiered,
plutocracy protected, aud very few white
men in the Sou'h will get to feed al the pub
lie crib. No re ief for the toiling masses; no
promise Of better times in the future; you
farmers and working men Of oil classes must
submit; you merchants must say nothing,
toil and sweat and sink into the depreciation
Of serfdom, but you must vote the party
ticket for fear Of the force bill and the evils
af domination. And when you vote fJr
Cleveland YOU vote for man who never
raised his finger against tho force bill, aud
who onenly encouraged miscsgns alton.
And you will settle in your mind, before
you vote which is the greater evil The
shadowy possibility of negro domination or
the continued rule Of English and Wall street
monay that is certain and unavoidable
Cleveland means that tho national democracy
slaps you in the face and intends to whip
you into line, The reiut will show how
much tho spirit Of freedom obtains among
opr people Shd how fer tley will submit to
tho bossism Of lnscripmlons POLITICIANS. -
Cotton Plant, June IS
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