The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-10-27
BOWDEN'S MANIFESTO.
HE ISSUES klS THIRD PARTY ADDRESS
TOTHE VOTERS.

SOLUNBlA, =. ", OcC. l3.--Ine tol
lowing address nominating candidate,
for Presidential electors on the People,
party ticket was issued from the Office
of Mr.. j, w. Bowden yesterday, ant
willsbe printed in circular form for dis
tribution over the State:
To the Voters of South Carolina:
The closing years of the nineteenth
century seem destined to be the most
fateful Of our country's history, we
might say of the world, for the lowly
and oppressed in every land have Their
eye fixed on America as the battle
ground where the last great fight for
human liberty is 70 take place. Fear.
full forces of antagOnistic elements are
being centered here; but just God has
never yet mOcked anssindividual or a
nation by imposing q task that cannot
be performed If met in proper spirit.
The Old-time, nicely-balanced rela-
tions, and well-nigh even strength, that
once existed between labor and capital
are no more, for while one has shrunk
to pig!ny, the other has grown to a
giant. When autocratlc kings granted
monopOlics to their favorites 1T taxed
their despotic authority to the utmost
to defend them against the competition
of surreptitious traders. While under
our new commercial regime mighty
monOpo}ies are created that not only
crush ali rivalry with ease, but domi-
nate the government, where their sci
fish interests are concerned.
The curse Of our land Is partisan pol
itics. l. is time for us to vote for our
best into rests. The willy politician. by
playing npon sectional and race preju-
dice, keeps the sold North and the
solid South. Every year in Congress
the battles Of the war are fought over
and over, while issues of the utmost
Importance to the welfare Of our peo.
pie are overlooked or lightly dealt with.
: We canl.ot long remain Indifferent to
the cond .tiOnS that confront us. The
volume rf money has been contracted
until business is paralyZed and the
price of .he products of labor has been
reduced below the cost of production.
The CONF piracy of foreign capitalists to
control american labor by controlling
the volume of money has been success
ful. Corporations, welding the power
of aggregated capital, control the gov
ernment and so direct our finances that
all save bare existence is denied the
producers of all wealth. Both Demo.
cratic ard Republican parties, nation.
ally, are controlled by the same inliu-
ence. The judiciary has become the
bulwark of this formidable and grow
Ing power watch, unless checked, will
be the abstraction OF the democratic
principle IN government.
Thorn is Carlyle said many years ago
that we would have our period Of trial
"when health Is intact. crops abundant
and the magnificent land open. Then
so-called statesmen will cry over pro.
duction; and then the man OF the bal
lot, the self-reliant, the self-pliant, Will
60 to the ballot box, amidst hunger and
restitution, Out surrounded by the
glitter Of self-rule) and ratify by his
ballot the monstrous falsehood uttered
by mis-statesmen, and Vindicate by the
same ballot the infamous lie thrown
upon the breeZes by senile editor
through Il corrupt press, thus bringing
ruin upon his country and serfdom
upon himself"
This period is upon us, Reformers of
South Carolina. Will we ratify by our
ballots a system that we know to be
wrong and that is bringing ruin upon
our country and serfdom upon us and
our children? Let us file our protest
in the sacred form Of freeman's bal
lot
nored or shamelt sSly tritled with by
both parties. The fate of the silver
bill in Democratic House is the last
act of treachery.
The day for sentimental politics is
past. Sentimental politics has cost this
country rivers of blood and billions Of
treasure. The sentimental politician
is fraud, a snare and deiusion.
Practical politics and common sense is
the need Of the hour.
Why should we vote for Grover
Cleveland for mere sentiment? Our
State convention In May declared that
the nomination of Grover Cleveland
would be ''a prostitution Of the prlnci-
pies Of Democracy. q repudiation of
the demands Of the Alliance and q sur.
render OF the rights of the people to
the financial kings of the country" lie
Ia not the choice of our people. Is the
party lash to be again cracked to force
us into linep Is sentimental or practi-
cal politics to govern2 Will we vote
for a man whose policy is totally op.
posed to our best interests?
Grover Clevelan> represents Wall
street AID monopolis,ic power.
Weaver and Fields represent the
farmer and laborer. The principles in
yolVed are the same that our people
have endorsed in State politics, and
their 81 pport Is the logical result OF
Cho ucCi5ioli VI Ilic people as expressed
in the N ay convention. We shall abide
the veroict Of the people as EXPIRE. sed
in the recent primary upon State is
sues ana Congressional candidates ant
will give the nominees our cordial sup
port, but we are in no manner bound
by that action to violate our obligation
to only support men who are in favor
Of our demands.
Citi2ens, farmers. laborers, brethren
4e who live by the sweat of honest toll
think we'll, cast your ballots, freighted
with the destinies of generations yeI
unborn, for the man of your choice
Let the politicians and plut; cratic
press rave, but carefully consider tht
question and vote for the ticket whicl
best represents your interests. This i:
due to your God, your country, you
children.
Be not discouraged by the apparen
defeat OF the peoples cause i'm recen
elections, as 1t Is well known that on
poiitlcal enemies, having the election
machinery in their hands, encourage