The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-05-20
soUrH CAR01INA,s DANGER.

When Farmer 1ilman. of South Carolina.
started his movement that made him Cover
nor of the State, and defeated for the Senate
that gallant soldier and able statesman who
during the reconstruction period had played
so conspicuously IL patriotic part in the re-
demption of South Carolina from negro and
Republican rule. Wade Hampton, he little
appreciated the trouble he was storing up in
future for himself and his fellow-ctizens
In order to attain 10 the summit OF his per
sonal ambition. the goyernoTship, he excited
his followers to fever heat. no doubt i'm
agining that he possessed sufficient power to
call halt whenever he saw danger impend-
ing. But like Robespierre. who cultivated
such thirst for gore among the people of Paris
that it could not be satIated until his own
life's blood had been drunk by the remorse-
less and cruel knife of the guillotine, so Till
man has started reign Of chaos in South
Carolina TO which even no had to bow in
order to save himself from destruction.
As result ef oil this what do We now soc
in the State, The State Convention which
was hold on Wednesday was Democratic only
in name and its proceedings were so bolster
Gus as 10 become almost riotous The plat
form adopted Endorsed in its entirety that
most absurdly improbable OF AL the imprac-
ticable notions that ever emangted from the
mind of mantle Ocala platform-with its
sub-treasury and all other foolish schemes.
And then it denounced Grover Cleveland AS
the tool of the money kings Of Wall street. "
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any man or set OF men, and demanded the
nomination at Chicago of an ultra free silver
man who would be in accord with al their
weird ana destructive ideas, refusing to vote
for even Hill unless he would place himself
squarely on the Alliance platform.
Is there any sensible man in South Carolina
who believes that the voice of It's delegation
unless they act more sensibly at Chicago than
did those who elected them in Columbia
will be heard in the Convention. Is there
one who has the slightest idea that any man
in the world can be elected President ON the
South Carolina, so-called. Democratic plat
form? Is there one who does not know that
the eighteen delegates from that State will
make no more impression upon the Chicago
Convention than gnat upon the horns OF a
bull unless they radically change their tao
tics:
Evidently South Carolina is standing on the
crater Of volcano. The report of the pro-
ceedings OF Wednesdays Convention states
that it required all the influence OF Governor
Tillman and Senator Irby combined to keep
down. even temporarily, the Third party SEN
tment which began TO be very exuberant
This shows that the people of the State are on
the verge IF madness. and that it will take
very little for them TO start their Third party,
and this would mean that all the sensible in
tellgent and self-respectng Democrats Of the
State would be driven from them; that the
white men would be divided; that the Repub-
licans would gain control; that the State
would be again subjected TO negro rule, and
that the chaos, disorder and decentralization
of reconstruction days would come again. If
this unhappy condition OF affairs should re-
suit from the present unfortunate frame Of
mind OF the South CaroIinans, they would
pay dearly for their folly. and what is worse,
they would lose the sympathy of their sister
Southern States, because this time they
would have brought their misfortunes upon
themselves through their own foolhardiness.
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AND the Convention II was about as nota-
bic body of Yirginisns as ever yet assem-
bled There were the crippled old soldiers