Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-23

injustice, robbery and oppression OF
the masses by The privileged classes.
l see men reaping where they have
not sown, gathering where they have
not planted. The overshadowing
issue, therefore to-day and will be
until victory is achieved, is: Which
shall govern this country, the dollar
or the people:
From the standpoint of our friend,
the Wall street goid-bug sympathi-
ger, how different the scene appears
But for the courtesy of our Seneca
reformers, who rendered him a seat
in our recent convention, he proba-
bly, never would have withdrawn his
gaze from the palisades on the Hud-
son to have heard the plain, deter
mined demands of his country
men in their cry for relief from
the real burdens that are weighing
them down. After what he heard at
| Walhalla and later at Columbia, how
sympathetic when he exclaims in a
burst of patriotic fervor: 81 claim
that am as much in favor of reliev
| ing ourselves and country of the bur
dens which seem tc be upon us as
any one in South Carolina" An
unconditional endorsement Of the
party and It's nomitees is the only
thing he has given us in support of
! this "claim' > Possibly "oe~selces"
only includes the elect Shepparditcs !;
and again from this standpoint the
burdens do only seem to be upon us.
The loss of offices and governmental
.spap" does seem to be about all the
burden that rests upon them. As he
believes that 'sthey" have majority
on their side, it is, therefore, only
necessary to bind unconditionally the
/ St,Louis platform Democrats to sup
port the nominees, forsooth the his
tory of go might repeat itself by my
kind of Democrats; but no such
apprchensions need arise. We know
how to use the st. Louis hatchet; We
are only hewing to the line ard car
ing nothing about the chips.
Mr. Cary asks: "Iow many voters
OF Oconee county knew before the
meeting OF the county convention
that the ST. Louis platform was to be
an issue in the convention :" |
answer, All who read the county
papers and were interested enough
in politics to read the proceedings Of
the local clubs, which met on the 9th
of April last. West Union club
unfur!ed the St. Louis banner and
unanimously adopted it as sound JET
fyrsoT1i:1i Democracy. Fort Madison
club, week later, did the same. This
thing was not done in corner-'cut
and dried" ''fixed up," as Mr.. Cary
would fain have the intelligent pub
lie of Oconee believe.
No, Mr.. Cary, the record is against
you. There was fair warning;
three times and up went the St.
Louis platform and down went Gro
yer. 1t is true, as time rolls on and
the curtain is drawn aside, we see
more tcristtng Thus We see Mr..
Cary's ''little band of twenty-four
that fixed the proceedings OF the con-
ycntion ten days previous" fade away
as a meth. In yindication of the
unfounded charge against ne Oconee
county Alliance, No. 400, will say
that was assistant secretary of the
meeting held on April 22d, and that
no action by motion, resolution or
otherwise was taken in the Alliance
tending to ''fix up" the proceedings
for the Democratic county conven-
ton. ! deny that only hrenty..f~"r
delegates composed that meeting.
There exists ne Gideon's Band, Red
Legs or any other kind OF an iml,er-
i.lm IN uperio in any counties OF
this State within the order, to the
best OF my knowledge and belief.
The Alliance Democrats held a
conference in Columbia the night
before the convention met, so that
Aibereuce~ might be reconciled and
platform formulated that would
embody the wants and wishes OF the
great majority of the people OF the
State, as they had expressed them
selves in their county conventions,
held on May I'd. These delegates
deserve the "well done" of the peo-
pie. Tile Neors md Courier, Tile
State and other State papers have
got Mr.. Cary tangled again, for he
says the ',caucus,'' "whip in,' "cut
and dry and fix up what the conven-
tlon should and did do the next day.
South Carolina did speak in no un-
certain sound. If ece won by 2Sl to
40 by playing four duces, does it not
show that you never had even a
trump:
] Mr.. Cary in his effort to make my
illusions as to the way ring rule,
bossism and machine politics ope-
rates, fit the recent action of the
party in our county and State, j. in
the face of the plain facts of the case
Ludicrous; it is like trying to put
the big pot in the little one; it is a
physical impossioility.