Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-28
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BIack Heels on White Necks."
few days since the Greenyille
News published one of the most
outrageous editorials we have
eyer read in a Southern paper.
we give a few extracts from that
terrible menace to the white
Mrmers in our State. 1t starts
|9f by saying:
IA number of Democrats of the
State who oppose the present
admin nistration have worked hard
If fo prevent a split among the
white people. They understood
The danger of having faction of;
white men, however. shall,
ESepres esenting respe6tability, in
Haence and wealth, outside the
lines of the Democratic party"
b We would just here ask, was it
|hotz those "who oppose the present
administration" who were the bolt
|srs in 1890, and who appealed to
Ehe negro to defeat the nominees Of
Hthe Democratic party? And were
not these same men the leaders
|e the convention that placed the
Sheppard Orr ticket in the field?
I'VE deny that the Thirteen's Con-
|Yention and Haskellite faction as
hhe News intimates represents the
spectability, influence : and
wealth" Of our State. When a
man guides the plow, or tolls for
hiss daily bread, he can be and is
Fas respectable as the bloatsd
bondholder or president of a rail-
gOad q. bank or cotton mill. SO
Efar as influence is concerned, our
Republican form of government
|Goncedes that power to the ma
|Sority. The dictatorial influence
Df wealth the people intend to
|eurtail, and keep it in the proper
Esphere. Itwas to place this power
over the people that the Piedmont
directors were consulted before a
candidate for Governor OF South
|EGarolina could be nominated; but,
thank God, their little scheme to
wealth and corporate
EpoWer as the rulers of free born
Carol olinians was exposed, and the
people will now understand the
Zeal issue in our State campaign.
|dhat one 8 paragraph in the Green
EiiIlsNews is an insult to every
ll.ssn ~ II does not the purple
and who earns his bread by tho
sweat of the brow.
But here comes in a dire threat,
that will make the blood of every
Democrat and believer in white
supremacy over the African boil
in his veins. Read it, and see if
it does not stir your heart and
nerve your arm for the contest
now upon US. The following
menace is not taken from a
Yankee bloody-shirt-waving sheet,
but from South Carolina paper,
protesting to be q Democratic
organ, and whose editor boaste d
that be was reared on the farm
and in full touch with the people
"a paper now upholding the
Sheppard Orr banner: -,
aBut suppose we split? .. ). ~,
"a very large part Of the wealth
and braSns of the State will not go
/ into d, a'ird party. twill go into
|! the Repu blican party SO soon as it
is, plain that the Democratic
party has gone to pieces. on,.-
aLet twenty five thousand
intelligent, courageous, respectable
white men with money behind
them become Republicans, and
take charge of the negro vote to
mould and use it, and what will
be the result? .,r. ~
"The negroes now have ma
iiotlrrity of from 10000 to 10000.
Does anybody. believe that any
considerable part; Of that vote
would go for a third party with
tie Republican party representing
wealth and intelligence demanding
its help? -. a,.,.,..., t.,
aWith white men to back it the
negro vote would swarm out Of the
rice fields and sea islands and cot
ton plantations in the lower part
Of the State. SO that q unanimous
vote this side of Columbia could
not touch it. With white men
interested in enforcing the election
laws and aiding, the machinery
Of the United States Courts would
be used against any opposition to
Repnblicanism with fearful effect,
With few votes from the South
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