Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-07-07

ticated ants rise to the very
height of jmpudence and practi-
cally state that the farmers haven't
the sense to make wise selection.
If these ''horny handed sons of
toil'' had the brain to make the
choice, why do the antis claim they
were duped and deceived by Till
mai?
By their reasoning, therefore,
the farmers are Ignorant, and
criminally ignorant, else they
could never have been so baselY
deceived. Some even use as an
argument against Gov. Tillman's
election, that he said, for that
almost uncomfortable crime, he
would head mob to lynch the vile
scoundrel who committed the deed.
They surely must not know the
inestimable value of the virtue OF
our pure women. Tillman will
lose no, votes by protecting the
purity of woman. All the con
servatives' arguments are, however,
equally as fantastic as the above.
"Tillman arrays class against
class" One of their men, they say
their strongest, Col. Youmans,
when candidate for Congress
said in speech at Wards: call the
other candidates are lawyers, / am
a farmer,you are farmers, therefore,
the shoe that pinches my foot will
hurt yours also" Has Tillman said
any more than this to ARRAY class
against class?" That is that the
farmers have the majority and
should therefore rule it.
These same Consistent con-
servatives" did not wish any Bit
terness in the campaign, they were
going to throw roses instead of
rocks. Have their speakers acted
thus? Have their papers done it?
These same straightouts de-
nounce independentism in one
breath and in. the next eulogise
papers run by independents"
Every act Of the ants is for
"peace and unity" in the Demo
cratic party. Yet they subscribe
to papers gotten up by "bolters"
whose highest object was to op-
pose the Democratic administra-
ton. This they have nurtured
and helped to cultivate this same
discord and dissension, that they
so fercely oppose. They will claim,
however, that they have the right
to subscribe to or to discontinue
any paper they wish, yet if the
farmers were to drop the anti pa
pers which have fought them. SO
bitterly, these same aconserya-
tives' would cry outboycott. But
it is no boycott when an anti puts
anadministration and reform pa
per back in the Office and writes
on it, "We don't read the
I'm justification of their course
these papers say: Fighting the
Farmers Movement, Agricultural
College, Alliance, etc., is not fight
ing the farmers" AS an lllustra-
tion, suppose certain Baptist
church was to call Mr.. A. to preach
for them, and when he gets in the
pulpit he denounces most ardently
close communion and immersion.
His members go to him and say,
"Mr. A. your course is objection
able to us-instead of advocating
our church, you fight it," He re-
plies: "Oh, no, you are mistaken,
I didn't say anything against the
Baptists, I spoke of close COM
munion and Immersion" Now.
wouldn't this be fimsy get out
since these are two of the cardinal
doctrines of the Baptist denomi'
nation? Just so the farmers or re-
form element in South Carolina
is what makes the Farmers Move
ment, the Alliance, etc., therefor
it follows, that when they strik'
one of these principal parts," a
it were, they aim blow directl.
at the farmers.
Some of the zealons anti organ
are willing to lose South Caro-
lina's electoral vote if thereb
they might defeat Tillman. Blu
the very papers and men that s
strenuously opposed Cleveland
nomination, will now he is nomi
mated work hardest for his success
in South Carolina, for they don
belong to the "bolting" class.
The ants have their most dea
trous smiths at work making smal
and comely wedges, and their mos