The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-03-03
TO OPPOSE TILLMAN.
AN ADDRESS TO THE DEMOCRATS OF
SOUTH CAROLINA.
a Convention of the Democrats in the
State Who Arc Opposed to the Renomi
nation OF Coy. Tillman to be Held in
Columb bia Ia March.

nation OF Coy. Tillman to be Hold in
Columbia Ia March.
To the Democrats of South Carolina:
We ask you to consider without preju-
dice what we say to you, and let your
judgment be governed by an intelligent
regard for your own interests and di-
rected by your love and respect for the
State and her people.
We arc not trying TO stir your passions
by general accusations which we can not
prove, or to excite vain hopes by eXtrav-
agant promises impossible to fulfill. We
do not wish to undo any good that has
been accomplished or TO reverse any
policy which the majority Of our fellow
democrats favor.
We ask you TO join us in an honest,
united, determined effort to remove the
dangers confronting our people, the
evils under which they suffer. We must
restore peace and good feeling among
ourselves, that we may stand and work
together and give that mutual help and
cordial cooperation necessary Tor the
we'll being OF any community. We can
do nothing while we are divided into
hostile factions and neiyhbors are sepa-
rated by political distrust and dlscord.
We submit that the course Of the pres
ent State administration tends inevita-
bly, to continued irritation, division and
danger. In the campaign Of 1890 the
public was deceived with promises Of
reforms which have not been kept; all OF
those who expressed their dlstrust of
these promises were then violently de.
nOunccd. Even such OF these as, despite
the bitterness with which they were as
sailed, accepted and supported the
will Of the majority OF their fellow DEM
Ocrats, have been treated as enemies,
and the present indications are that this
prescription is to be continued and eX-
tended. Recent public declarations by
those high IN authority assure us thai
those who were fro II the first friends and
followers Of the head of our State adj
ministration, but who went with HIM
only SO far as their consclcEces would
allow, and then resisted or opposed
his purpose, arc likewise to be put un-
der ban. Representatives of tho peo-
pic have been slandcred, reproached and
derlded as "driltwood," because they
could not III all things think and act
with the governor, and dared to vote ac-
cordng to their judgments. We are
openly informed that strong efforts Will
be made to secure at the coming election
the choice of legislature more Obedient
to the governors demands, more pliable
IN yielding to his will than the last.
n circuit Judge has been rcbuked in an
Official message because his decision on
the bench, did not accord with the wishes
and opinions OF the executive. The leg
lslature elects the judiciary. Control of
the one means tho control of both and
the centralizaton OF all the powers of
making, CXpounding and executing the
laws (powers gwen by the constitution
tor the safety of the people to the keep
ing OF three distinct branchCs) into the
hands of one man.
The present management of our party,
apparently in full sympathy with the
purposes and demands of the governor
and with his help, has Incorporated into
the rules of the party new devices for
perpctuating the power now held and
making il more difficult for the majority
OF the democratic voters TO withstand
the rover of the machine controlled by
Il minority.
The tendency of all these acts and
methods is toward further and deeper
divisions and continued strife among us.
The signs OF the times warn us that I'M
less there is a change we may have to
choose between slavish submission to a
dangerous and degrading dcspotlsm or a
bitter, desperate and ruinous struggle
among ourselves.
To avoid these dangers, to restore
peace and hal ,Aony to our party and
people, we Call Oh all democrats who
wish 10 secure a conservative, safe, cili-
clenL State government, representing a
solid democracy a! home and COM
mandlng the good will and confidence of
the world at large, to give us the active
help OF their Influence and votes.
We pledge ourselves and those who
think and act with us to abide faithfully
the diclsiOn of the State democratic con-
vention, TO make this fight for good gov
erlment, the freedom of legs slalioD, the
independence of the Judiciary and the
liberty of the people within the party
lines; but to make it earnestly, cOur-
ageously and pcrsistcntly in every town.
ship OF every county of the State. We
call on all democrats who are willing to
acs with us on the pledges aud for the
purpose above announced, to assemble
ia hitoo iAiSSClLfS IV IlSll ACSpCCIiNC
houses on such days rs they may see fit
ald elect delegates to convention to be
held in Columbia the fourth Thursday
in March, 1892; which convention shall
be authorized 80 name a State ticket
to be submitted TO the democratic
voters and the State democratic con-
vention called to nominate State
ticket for the democratic party. We
ask that each county elect to the
convention hereby called as many dele
gates as it is entitled by the rules Of the
party to send to State conventions.
We arc moving for the peace, strength
and prosperity of the State we love, and
for the happiness, freedom and safety of
the people we honor. We inv'to every
democrat to help in this work for South
Carolina and South Carollnlans. for the
principles of democracy and the party
representing those principles.
EDWARD MCCRADY,
j. &. MAXWELL, M. d.,
WADE HAMPTON,
JAMES Il. HART,
JOHN &. SHEPPARD,