The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-08-17
Outcome Of Tillmanism.

SpARTANBURa, 8. c., August 14.-Our
county candidates have finished up the
first week Of their campaign, and they
have generally had a fair attendance.
They first agreed that delegates nominat-
ed for the State Convention should take
part in the speaking, but after trying
that two or three days the Tillmanite
Candidates concluded that they were los
ing by, that arrangement, and they re-
scinded their former action and excluded
them from the list of speakers.
Another significant development of the
campaign is the "Hooverism' that is
proclaimed by some Of the candidates.
Your correspondent has not heard them,
but disinterested men have reported that
Socialism In its worst form Is adroitly
proclaimed by some of the candidates.
They seek to array labor against capital
and proclaim that this is the poor mans
fight against the rich. When Hoover
was here with his inoendiary talk, few
years ago, he only appealed to the negro.
He had some white disciples, but they
were few. II he were to return now and
make few speeches he would find that
he was far behind the times, and that he
did not know how to stir up the animosi-
ties and the destructive passions of our
landless and moneyless classes half as
we'll as the candidates.
The people are taught to boycott towns,
factories, banks and all corporations.
Indirectly tenants and day laborers are
taught to distrust landlords and employ
ers. The banks that charge over 8 per
cent are held up as enemies OF the poor
man. The tenant infers from such teach
ing that when he rents forty acres Of land
worth S4O0 and pays 500 to $12O q year,
that he is paying the landlord 2eto 80 per
cent on his invested capital. That is an
oppression that should not be endured.
During the speaking at one Of the meet
ipgs one OF the coat-tail swIngers jumped
up and said: "That's the way OF 1t. It
the poor against the rich. Just like it
was in the war, the poor man had to do
all the fighting and the rich man staid at
home"
Such base and slanderous sentiments
are expressed at every meeting, and they
90 unrebuked by the Socialistic members
Of tho campaign crowd. The surprise is
that 80 many well-to.do farmers fall in
with these ideas when they know that
this attempted com bination Of the hire
ling and tenant classes will in the end
work against them, Such Is the spirit OF
the campaign, andi such the teaching.
Never in our history has there been such
nm effort to dissatisfy the laboring clauses
and to cripple the interests Of the people,
Some of the people 60 so far as to say
they will have nothing to do with town
merchants or anything else that belongs
to town.
The feeling is getting so bitter that
some persons will buy nothing unless 1t
is Tillman truck. They are advised to
boycott all merchants except those who
shout for Tillman. A few days ago
farmer carriedia load of watermelons to
Clifton, and fellow stepped out Of
store and said: "What sort of melons
have you ?" The innocent man replied,
telling him the variety. The fellow said:
ST don't mean that. Are they Tillman
melons :" The farmer said 'they have
nothing to do with that question, but
I'm not Tillman man." The reply was:
"Drive on. we don't want you nor your
melons,"
"Such is the feeling engendered here
by artful men who have nothing to lose
and all to gain. Factory hands are taught
to distrust their employers; that they
are dishonest, oppressive, cruel, tyranni-
cal. Laborers are taught that employers
will cheat and defraud them. Country
people are taught that their greatest enc
mics are town people, whether toey live
in large or small town, IT is fearful
campaign of education, and it will re-
quire years Of patient and conservative
work to efface the evil that Is being &C.
complishcd.