The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-06-02
as Others see Us.
From the Richmond Times.

When Farmer Tillman, Of South Car
olina, started his movement that made
him Governor of the State, and defeated
for the Senate that gallant soldier and
able statesman who during the Recon-
struction period had played so conspicu-
ously a patriotic part in the redemption
of South Carolina from negro and Re-
publican rule, Wade Hampton, he little
appreciated the trouble he was storing up
in future for himself and his fellow-c It'll
zens. In order to attain to the summit of
his personal ambition, the governorship,
he excited his followers to fever heat, no
doubt imagining that he possessed suffi-
cient power to call halt when be saw
danger impending. But like Robcspierre,
who cultivated such thirst for gore
among the people Of Paris that it could
not be satiatod until his own lifes blood
had been drunk by the remorseless and
cruel knife Of the guillotine, SO Tillman
has started reign Of chaos in South
Carolina to which even he had to bow in
order to save himself from destruction.
AS result of all this what do we now
see in the State? The State Convention
which was held on Wednesday was DEM
ocratic only in name and it's proceedings
were so boisterous as to become almost
riotous. The platform adopted indorsed
in its entirety that most absurdly nprob-
able OF all the impracticable notions that
ever emanated from the mind Of man
the Ocala platform-with it's sub-treasury
| and all other foolish schemes. And then
it denounced Grover Cleveland az the
"tool of tho money kings Of Wall street,"
as if Mr.. Cleveland was ever yet the tool
of any man or set of men, and demanded
the nomination at Chicago of an ultra
silver man who would be in accord with
all their weird and destructive ideas, re-
fusing to vote for even Hill unless he
would place himself squarely on the AL
! lance platform.
Is there any sensible man in South Car
olina who believes that the voice of its
| delegation unless they act more sensibly
at Chicago than those who elected them
in Columbia will be heard in the con.
vention? 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 platform
Is there one who does not know that the
eighteen delegates from that State will
make no more impression upon the Chi.
cago Convention than gnat upon the
horns of a bull unless they radically
change their tactics?
Evidently South Carolina is standing
on the crater of volcano. The report oil
the proceedings of Wednesdays Conven-
ton states that it required all the influ.
ence of Governor Tillman and Senator
Irby combined to keep down, even tenn
porarily, the Third Party sentiment
which began to be very exuberant. This
shows that the people of the State are on
the verge of madness, and that it will
take very little for them to start their
Third Party, and this would mean that
all the sensible, Intelligent and self-re.
specting Democrats of the State would be
driven from them; that the white men
would be divided; that the Republicans
would gain control; that the State would
be again subjected to negro rule, and that
the chaos, disorder and Generalization Of
the Reconstruction days would come
again. If this unhappy condition of af-
fairs should result from the present un-
fortunate frame of mind Of the South
Carolinians, they would pay dearly fol
their folly, for, what is worse, they would
soon lose the sympathy of their sister
Southern States, because this time they
would have brought their misfortunes
upon themselves through their own fool.
hardness.