Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-03-10
Colonel Aldrich on the Situation.

was so rudely broken by the un~natura
course of events in this State two year
ago." In the election of 1890 unprece
dented unanim;ty prevailed, the success
full candidate for Governor vas elected
BY a majority unparalleled in tire histor.
of political contests, and a graceful
acquiescence OF the part of the yer.
small minority in the expressed will o
the great majority would then have
accomplished all you seem to desire, ant
as that same disaffected minority is nov
the only disturbing elements in our other
wise peaceful and united household,
would suggest that they cease their bick
erings, accord to their b, thren of the
majority what they would claim fol
themselves if the situation were changed
namely, cheerful obedience tc the will o.
the majority, and a more harmonious
political family it would be difficult tx
imagine.
The present Governor of South Caro-
lima was elected upon the idea of popu
lar government, in truth and in fact, az
opposed to machine politics or ring rule
as he expressed it. There was much il
the way he conducted his canvass which
was not approved by his supporters, but
the cause he advocated went straight tt
the hearts and minds of the people, and
you know the result. There : some
things in his administration Of the duties
of his Office as Governor that ere moi
generally endorsed, but if he stands
where he stood before, and no other man
more strongly endowed with the quail
ties of leadership, and standing higher
upon the same platform of popular
rights, tries conclusions with him before
the same tribunal of the people, the
result of the elections of 1892 will be a
repetition of those of 1890.
1 have read with more surprise than
care to express the call published in your
Sunday edition of the 21st and repub-
lished to-day, signed by thirteen distin-
guished gentlemen of South Carolina, al
of whom I know, several of whom I love,
and for none of whom dol entertain any
thing but sentiments of the most cordial
regard, which paper they never could
have affixed their signatures to if they
had bestowed upon TIE subject due refec-
ton.
When Stanley found DR.. Livingstone
in the North of Africa the old explorer
naturally inquired what events of note
had transpired in the civilized world in
the years that he had been shut of from
it. Stanley told him of the emancipation
of the serfs in Russia, the war in the
United States and the abolition Of slay-
cry. the assassination of Lincoln, and
the building of the Pacific Railroad, the
construction of the Suez Canal, the war
between Prussia and Austria, the war
between Prussia and France, the
Reinforcement and exile of Louis Napo-
leon, the uniication of the German
Empire, telephone, phonograph and
other wonderful inventions of the GEN.
tury, to all of which DR.. Livingstone
gave wondering but perfect credence,
AMI asked for more; but when finally
told that Horace Greeley was the Demo
cratic candidate for President of the
United SGtes he few into a rage and
dencuncel 5tarley as a base impostor
from beginning to end, and swore he did
not believe anything he had told him.
If ar rnrepentant South Carolina Dem
ocrat who departed this life in the fall of
earth and be shown
to that paper. and
then told that it was q call for "a March
convention to nominate State ticket
to contest for the Democratic nomination
in the coming election, he would disbe-
l:eve that he was anywhere except in the
place the editct Of the Greenville Ne~>
selects in preference to Independentism,
and would regard his irfnrmer as an
emissary direct from tie father of liars,
seeking to torture him by a most diaboli-
cal imposition upon his credulity. And
when he should be told further that
those gentlemen elect to take that course
when a primary election is now open to
them and will be held, he would exclaim:
Garry me back. carry me back. There
are some things that beat -"
But to return to the subject of YOU
inquiry. 1 have been in various parts o
the State during the past year attending
and addressing large gatherings of the
people, and, to the best Of my Judgment
about 90 per cent of the people of Soutl
Carolina are fairly well satisfied with thu
existing conditions, and about 10 PEI
cent are dissatisfied. This small minor
ity, however, make up in excess VIVA
they lack in numbers and in strength
and they are badly divided among them
selves. I would sugges that, az a condi
ton precedent to general unity and har
mony, they first spool their own issues
for, our common mother having reforme'
her household, will tolerate no sucl
unseemly dissensions as those now pre-
vailing between the factions representa-
by the G~reenville Nears and the State
respectively. Then, upon giving suita
BILE assurances of future good behaviour
re-enter the family circle OF the trS
Democracy, join in the primary election
with a patriotic motive to elect the bes
men to the State nominating conventio
and to all the Offices to be filled, ano
with "a long pull, a strong pull and
pull all together" set our beloved Stat
upon a new era of prosperity and peace
and make her what she IS alone intende
to be, The home of a happy and reunlte'
people. ROBERT ALDHieH'
School Meeting.