Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-21

out tomorrow. [Laughter.] lam
told that my time is about out.
Colonel Orr has harried your souls
by charging that I in an interview
declared that the farmers move
ment could whip the Alliance. ]
deny absolutely that 1 ever
thought such a thing, wrote such
a thing or said such thing. Can
you believe that I would see the
reform movement split in half
and taking each other by the
throat and like two dogs quar-
reling over a bone, destroy their
combined power? Do you suppose
THAT I would ever by this means
let that gang of sheep over there
seize this government again?
| TApplause and cheers. My
friends, I would have been not only
a political idiot but a double dyed
traitor had I announced such a
sentiment. Applause and
cheers.l
Last year I said that I believed
that the sub-treasury bill was
unwise. I went to Spartanburg
and in a meeting of the State
Alliance gave my reasons for say
ing that 1 opposed it. I say to
you to day that at that time l was
fighting what I supposed was a
third party movement and not
the Alliance. [Applause and q
cheers [ was opposed to it, and ]
believe that all of you are opposed
to it now, because it has been
withdrawn by the Alliance itself.
I say to you here now as a loyal
Democrat, as a loyal Allianceman,
as loyal farmers movemenfman,
thattI am bound by the rule of
the majority and that if q majority
of the people want these demands
I shall not attempt to dictate to
you. Prolonged cheering and
applause.
I have been accused of trying to
dictate to the Alliance, but I have
given you my reasons for my
opinion and my position. I am on
record as opposed to the sub-treas-
ury, and 1 am opposed to it now,
but the rule in the Alliance and
Of the Democracy is to abide the
will of the majority, and 1 am not
going to fight my brethren. Cheers
and applause Just before the
Spartanburg meeting, don't you
remember how sweet and smiling
the newspapers were to me? They,
actually slobbered over me. The
Greenvilie News voices: "Oh loh"]
and the News and Courier voices !:
"Oh, yes, old primary or split and
that catamount in Columbia { The
State) [derisive laughter and
cheers were trying to seduce me.
They wanted to get me away, and
if I had chosen to 60 with them I
would have been a king among the
Sheep, but a traitor to the Goats.
Appluse and cheers.
| want to say to you that we
have but one party in South Caro-
lima, the Democratic party, and we
will have peace and unity if these
gentlemen will let US. If we are
beaten in this fight we will not
do as the Haskellites did, get out
of the party and bolt. We have
control of the Democratic party.
We can enunciate any platform
that we please, and on that plat
form we VIII make our fight The
majority must rule in this State
and I would prefer to follow you
to h-ll than to go with these men
to heavon. [Tumultuous cheering]
Of course 1 mean this as merely
typical langugne, simile without
intending to be lrreverent, but it
does mean thatI am now with the
farmers of South Carolina, and
with them I expect to die. Ap-
pluse. In 1890 I did not run on
the Alliance platform, or SUBJ
treasury platform. 1 tried my
best to make the fight and that the
Alliance shonld not 60 in as an
Alliance. I objected to that at
Ridgeway. I have not betrayed a
single pledge I ever made. I have
never failed to keep promise, and
I defy any man to prove it. /
made charges of corruption, and I
found that one officer of the govern
ment had embezzled $5, 900 within
a month after I came into my
Office; that three County Treas
urers have taken some thousands
more, and that there were shortages
(and that is an euphonious word)
Of about $4,000,
Your endorsement. my friends,
shows me that you realize the
objects of these men who are trying
to put me off the platform which
founded, who are trying to ride
in on the palace car. But don't
you know that there is a sign on
The doc, of this car that you must |
not ride on the platform. APP
plause and cheers. These fellows
are trying to ride on it, but 1 know
you will switch them off in Sep
tember, and in the election 1 will
vouch for it that Orr and Sheppard
will vote the straight Democratic
ticket. [Appause.
The speaker next took up the