The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-04-14

ways and post routes throughout the
land. We must have government doc
tors, lawyers, preachers, churches aud
co!eges, Tor they are "public necessi-
w." When we have taken charge of
1.-THE :and, and all the natural sources of
wealth, as the heritage of all the people,
and made them as free as the air and the
sunshine, then. as there Will be no in
centlVe to individual eXertion, and as
everybody who eats must work." We
must have government oversetrs in
every shop bailiwick to see that every
man works, then for fear some mau will
eat more than he sweats, we must SGT
the public table rs they did in ancient
! Sparta, and give every one his rations.
We must have government mills. tac-
tories, stores, that goods may bc "issued
at cost" to the people. Thcu Utopia has
| come! Then BellamY is no longer
''Looking Backwards" But you have
| destroyed the American citizen. 1t
may appear to the honest and unsuspect-
ing farmers that l am jcsting, but L
| assure them that the socialist element
At st. Louis sees all this and more III the
GLORIOUS declaration"
Now as to the different reports as TO
| what the platform is. The platform
| was read and adopted as given above. l
| copied 1t from the knights OF Labor
Journal, of March 3, published ten days
after the meeting. The secretary of the
| knights of Labor was the secretary of
the convention. 1t was sopublis he'd ia
nearly all the Alliance papers in the
country. 1 have a letter before me
written by Miss Willard, the president
OF the Women's Christian Temperance
Union, whose reputation for truthfulness
8 recognized throughout Christendom.
tShe was member OF the platform COM
mittee. In this letter she states that
the pension plank was adopted in the
committee and IN the conference as a
part of the platform. Jerry Simpson has
said repeatedly here, that, not only Is it
a part Of the platform, but that it has
been in every greenback platform since
the war. The editor of The National
| Economist, in the issue of March II, ad.
mits that "the division (of the plat
form) into three plans has been done
since the adjournment of the conven-
| tion," and that he did 1t at the sugges-
| ton of Marion Butler, of North Caro-
lima. The truth of the matter is, when
y,
the bosses here in Washington patched
it up and issued special edition for
Southern consumption. They don't
deny the pension plank in the North
and West. Mr.. Turner, the secretary,
says he favors it. Why do they want
to deny it? The Third Party Con-
greesman favor it. Just the other day
eight OF them voted to add about
twelve million more to a pension bill
that was already too large.
The Alliance Of Georgia WAS given
six votes, counting President Living
stoE. On this basis, the ten Southern
States had sixty votes in convention
IF over 800 votes. Humphreys, of
Texas, claimed to represent Il million
negroes, and the committee gave him
n1nety-Seven votes to be placed where
they would do the most good. Who is
! Humphreys2 a political preacher of
no standing In Texas. l have been told
by good men, he would not be beieved
on his oath by his noig giiSor- lie is the
creature who tried to get the negroes
OF the South to strike last fall for a
dollar hundred for picking cotton.
have seen a letter written by him to a
| colOred man in Georgia on that subject,
in which he said, Thank God, South
ern white men can no longer take shot
guns and drive cOiOred people into their
| fields to work for half wages" He
placed eleven of his votes in Georgia.
In whose hand did he place them?
| Richardson, the president of the Geor-
gia Colored Alliance, was there; but he
| would not let Richardson have them,
| because he would not declare for Third
Party. According to Richardson, he
| initiated white man by name OF Gil
more, contrary to the law, and gave
hi M hn yntn I Il
is another political preacher who is a
foreigner Of no fixed abode, and who
had been turned out of his church.
This man controlled the voice of Geor-
gia. by his help Post was elected"
| over Vice President Wilson Il member
| OF the platform committee. When
some one moved that a colored m an be
elected as assistant clerk, Gilmore
shouted that suits us fellows in Geor-
gia." For fear Gilmore might not be
able to control things in Georgia, the
National Citizens Alliance came to his
aid. They were allowed 25 votes. OF
these, three were placed in Georgia in
the hands of Ellington, Branch, Parker,
and one OF them put on the credential
committee to see that Post and Kemp
were seated. Is there any Citizens AL
lance In Georgia? Why should three
votes be given Georgia when other
states had none2 The Citizens Ali
ance of Georgia (whatever that be) had
as many delegates as the Farmers AL
| lance. The backbone Of Georgia."
| you see, had to be broken.
1t is but fair to the president of the
Colored Alliance Of Georgia to say, that
he repudiated these schemes, and went
homo to tell his people that he was
deemed unworthy to represent them.
Richardson says they told him at St.
Louis that he and his people must fol-
low Post, because Post was from the
North, and was their best friend.
gave the list of organizations said
to be represented. PoWderly said some
of them existed only on paper. Others
mad authorized no one to represent
them. For instance, the Secretary OF
Patrons of IIusbandry, or Grange, says
they had sent no delegates to the con
ference; and everybody knew that
Humphreys had no right to ninety
seven votes.
J. have now given true statement
or facts. | have tried to do so In non