The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-24

ever. It was Wade HAM pton who said
IAN Independent was worse than
Radical.n What makes it less natural
for a TiiIman man to resent an insult to
the Gorernor-the Governor, mind you;
not B. r. Tillman-than for Conserv-
tive 10 take up for Hampton? 1t is
time for sensible men GU both Sides to
coudepn the wrong on both sides and
c,fcoru the right on uot!, sides form a
basis Of fjustice where conservative men
may come together in 1894.
fFor Newberry's arbitration" COM
rnittee / suggest Messrs. J. +. j. Cald-
well, Jas. y. Cuibrea and Alan john
stone-one farmer, one lawyer and one
Observation-Disclosures regard to their
politics. It would be the extremity of
fol:v to have two rabid Tillmanites or
TWO rabid ants, and one red-hot man
from each side with sort Of conserva-
tive umpire could only agree in par
rot and monkey way.
In 1896 I had the fortune Tor the
misfortune, view it from either stand
point you may please, to I've on the
riliman side. When voter is sup
porter Of one sideo the other he has
10 take the bad along with the good.
Being on that side, and standing ever
ready to give reason for the faith in
me, I wrote one campaign article,
signed burr Joyce" ! was repeated
ly urged to write again. With the ex-
eeption of few campaign reports and
controversies, I did not write another
political article, simply TO. the reason
thati it is. against my nature TO run
things into the ground" and 10 please
one side of the general public to- the
thorough disgust Of tue other, as both
sides are now doi2g beyond their most
sanguine expectations. But time flies
and the campaign of '92 is upon US in
all its fury, and the question again
rings out to each one of US: Watch
man, what Of the nighi"' | wish to
be as plain as an old shoe. do not
attach any Importance to what I say
beyond, any Importance that attaches
to what any other common individual
might, could or would say, let it be
wbat it may or result SIS it will. De-
spite my silence and strict attention to
business for the past two years L have
been put down as "red-hotn, so may
as well give play to the. spirit that
moves me.
When Hampton was defeated by
Irby, and Tillman accepted free pass,
among other things done by the Dom
Inant Element, I was seriously in
>ciined TO forsake them, as I was salts
fed 10 having helped to change the
order of things in South Carolina, and
was not at that time averse to "eon-
version.n It would be unwise to re-
fuse conversion simply to be consistent
LIN that case sinner would be eter-
nally lost. I know "wise men change
their minds; fools never" I was al
lncst persuaded to go with A. 3. Will
liams of the Greenville News when he
said that the only safe ground was for
conservative men lthe conservative
men of South Carolina and not the
misnamed Conservatives of both fac
tions to get together and shove aside
the extreme Tillmanites and the ex-
treme ants. As a South Carolinian,
and having no special self-interest in
the Tillman party, it would have been
an easy matter to occupy such desira-
bic middle ground. 1 was becoming
warmed up to it when Mr.. Williams
made his famous bat somewhat strong
declaration that he and the News and
all connected with it would go to h-l
before be would allow the Gonzales
crowd to take part in the then pro-
posed March convention. We all re-
member the warm debate between
Williams and Gonzales; how the latter
declared he'd see whether or not they
took part in that convention. All, my
friends, there's the rub. Gonzales did
get in the convention, but Williams
has not gone to that warmer country
and I hope be never will, for with all
his faults like him still.n We all
hnowsthe result: Gonzales didn't crawl
in; he landed in on both feet,s and if
Williams hasn't yet seen bill, South
Carolina certainly has.
z Granting that three-fourths OF what
the other side says is true, for the sake
of argument, there is one thing alone
that explains why /" "Ephriam is Joined
to his idols" Tt is the non-su omission
aud bitter hatred of small and de-
feated minority. Reason as you may,
argue as you will and plead as you see
fit, ye disturbers of the. peace and unity
ofSouth Carolina, the fact stares you
in the face that you are responsible for
the present bitterness and strife. [ did
not uphold the proposition for the first
March convention, so admitting that
it was equally wrong as the second,
and that there were among that large
assemblage in 1890 one or two former
Republicans who then and there re-
turned to the fold, it does not obscure
the fact that Tillman was triumphant
" nominated and elected by the hon.
est Democrats of the proud old Palpet-
to State, and that sore and rejected
minority refused to submit to the will
of the majority, not only refused to
submit, but openly rebelled with scorn
and bolted with contempt, and, in al
most frenzied insanity, voted for and
thereby became an Independent or
Third party. Forget it! Yes, in the
hour of death and the silence of the
great hereafter. Bitter? For what?
Not because honest nen and good
Democrats in this free country eXer-
eised the rights Of American citizens to,
oppose the man, whom they did not
like, while he was candidate for the
nomination. Only senseless fool or
a driyilling idiot could object to that.
But bitter because a few men-up TO
that time respected for the brave stand
they had maintained, in the face of
overwhelming opposition, for what
they conceived to be right-after par
ticipating in the convention, refused
to abide the result-not of close and
contested majority, but far-reaching
and aH-powerful majority.
Individually there are men in New
berry whom [ like regardless of their
Haskellism, against whose characters
there is no word of feproacb; but of
whom, collectively, it is our right and
duty to overwhelm completely at the
polls for the future peace and unity Of
the State.
And who, would like to ask, are
the men that worked and voted for
Tillman? They are the men who, liv-
ing in the surrounding country, rose
from their beds in the dawn of that
eventful day Of '76, and with eager
hands saddling and bridling their
horses, stood ready for any emergency
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