The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-07-07
THEY ARE DEMOCRATS,
THE ALLIANCEMEN OF ELkO LOYAL
TO THE DEMOCRACY.

| he AlIiANCEMEN OF EGkO LOYAL
OTHE DEMOCRACY.
| They Dsnounce the Third Party Soho me
and Pledge their United Efforts to So
cure tho Election OF tho Regular Demo-
cratic Ticket.
ELKo, S. G., June 27.-At a regular
meeting of Elko Alliance, held June rs,
the following resolutions were passed:
Resolved by the Elko Alliance, No,
COG, That we have learned with disap-
pointment and regret that the recent
Democratic National Convention failed
TO embodY In their platform several
measures which have been urged by the
Alliance and which we consider Of inn
portance to agriculturists, especially do
we regret that they hail not been more
emphatic in their demand for free coin
age OF silver, And we regret that the
nominee of that Convention for Presi-
dent OF the United States had not been
q man nearer in accord with the Farm
ers' Alliance. But as to the choice be-
tween Cleveland and Harrison, low
tariff and high tariff, between personal
liberty and the force bill, between white
supremacy and negro rule, we uuhesl.
2. That we deplore the fact that the
Third Party should be limited at as even
possibility in our State or any other
Southern State where it would leopard
ize white supremacy. And that we
urge upon the leading papers of our
State the necessity ofceasing their quar-.
rel with each other, and devoting their
energy and talent to the election ef the
Democratic ticket.
3. That we recognize the fnct that
the Farmers Alliance is q non. political
organization, aud deplore the fact that
leading Alliancemen in some sections
OF our State are said to favor the Ali.
ancc going into the Third Party, and
we claim the right if politics are forced
into our Order to cling to the Democrat
lc party, as the only party to which we
can look Tor relief at present, and which
we hope will keep our necks from under
the negro's heel.
i. That every vote in Elko Alliance
shall be cast naxt November for Grover
Cleveland and the nominees of the DEM
| ocratic party, down to coroner.
.. That all county papers, Columbia
| Register, Charleston News and Courier
| be requested to publish these resolu-
tions.
The following was also possed by the
Elko Democratic Club:
Whereas, believing in the principle
that the majority must rule and the
minority yield obesance; and
Whereas, IL has been promulgated by
the Northern press and the News aud
Courier, the leading newspaper OF the
State, hostile to the present Administra-
ton, that Governor Tillman and Scna-
tor lrby said at the Chicago Convention
that II Cleveland be nominated the
electoral vote Of South Carolina would
be lost TO the Democracy; and
| Whereas, the editor of the Gotten
Plant, the official organ OF the Alliance
III south Carolina, said in his last Issue,
since the nomination of Cleveland, that
"the Alliance men of the South cannot
support Cleveland;" and
| Whereas, these statements have given
rise to the impression that the support
ers OF the pre- aent State Administration
and reform movement will coalesce with
or endorse the Third Party movement:
BE it resolved, That the Elko Demo.
cratic Club, as true and tried Reformers,
both State and National, will support
the nomination at Chicago of Cleveland
and Stevenson as our National Demo-
cratic standard bearers, and do pledge
our best and united efforts to secure their
election.
| That we condemn the editorial of the
Cotton Plant referred to as Indepen-
dcntlsm and not the ring Of true Demo.
cracy.
That we condemn all utterances and
Efforts looking to the formation of
Third Party in this State, and call upon
an Democrats who were opposed to
! Cleveland's nomination to bear in mind
the sentiment from one of the Ex-Presi-
DENTS bltterest foes, Chas A. Dana,
editor OF the New York Sun, who, in
his recent comments On the nomination,
said: Better vote for the liberty aud
white government of the Southern States,
even if the candidate were the Devil him.
self, rather than consent to the election of
respectable benjamin Harrison with the
iorce bill in his pocket"
| That with pride we note that Cover.
nor Tillman and Senator Irby have de.
clnred since the nomination of Cleveland
that they will support the ticket and
make the best atiort of their lives tor
| CleVeland'c election, and We pledge our
selves to do the same.
| Bravo, Coy. BoIesl
Dies MONIES, June ga correspon-
Dent OF the United Press interviewed
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