The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-05-26
The 0cala ESusincsa.
RoANoKE, S. c., May 10th, 1892.
>. Il. BoGGs Editor SENTINEL,

endorsed tho demands, will send YOU the
demands in full, which will explain them,
serves not to gratitiy the wishes of the
voIcrs Oh the county, for large majority
arc well posted on these demands, there
lore needing no explanation rs 10 what they
arc. But there is one point I wish Won S ~
explain and that is, how many of these dc,
mands and which are they that have not at
some time past been Incorporated in tho
democratic PLATFORM?
Also how many, and which arc the de-
man'S that are not in accord with the
teachings Of the democratic party2 I hone
You will publish the demands and answe,
The above questions for the benefit of lh,
voters OF the county. w. II. O'DELI.
| 0CALA DEMANDS.
|. We demand the abolition of nation.
ai banks; VIC demand that the government,
| SHALL establish sub-trcasurics or 0cpo,jtorics
iii the several States which shall loan mon
cy direct to the people at q low rate of in.
'crcst, not to exceed 2 per cent per annum
| on non-pcrishablc farm products, and also
upon real estate, with proper limitations
| upon the quantity Of land and amOmt OF
money; We demand that the amount Of the
circulating medium be speedily increased
to not less than $50 per capita.
,: We demand that Congress shall pass
| such laws as shall ciTcctually prevent the
dca',ng IN futures in all agricultural and
mechanical productions; preserving n strin-
gent system of procedure in trials, such as
10 secure the prompt convi"!' 'n.tVe atLalnt
ton of such penal; prnG!cc,i ilon and imposi-
mGst rcrfrc,'i Lhrics as shall secure the
/, ''and, compliance with the law.
n OF we drnuuncc the silver bill recently
passed by Congress, and demand in lieu
{ thereof the free and unlimited coinage of
silver.
We demand the passage of laws pro-
hlbiting alien ownership of land, and that
Congrc&s take prompt action to devise some
plan to obtain all lands now owned by aliens
and foreign Ryndcatcs, and that all lands
now held Ivy railroad and other corporation
| IN excess of such as is actually used and
ncrdCd by them, he reclaimed by the gov
crnmrnt and held for actual settlers only.
.. Believing in The doctrine Of equal
| rights to AL and special privileges to none,
we demand that our national Legislation
shall he 50 framed in the future rs to not
build up one industry at the expense Of
another. We further demand "A removal
OF the existing heavy tariff tax from the
nccrSSari"S of life which the poor Of our
land must have. We further demand Il
ln&i AMI e'Iullahlc system OF graduate ,d tax
| on Incomes. We believe that the money
| ol the country should hc kept nc much us
possible in the hands OF the people, and
hence We icmand that all national and
State revenues shall hc limited to the nccrs.
&aIy expenses of the government economic
caIiy n!'d honestly administered.
&. We drmaru the most rigid, honest
anti just State and governmental contrci
;nd supervision Of the methods Of public
communication and transportation, and if
This control and supervision do not remove
the abuse now existing, we demand the
government ownership Of such means Of
communication and transportation.
No Democratic Platform since the war
has demanded the abolition Of nationnl
banks, or the establishment Of sub. trcaSur-
les to lend money TO the people or tho i'll
crease OF money to fixed amount per
capita. Nothing has been said in the DEM
ncrailc platform against dealing in futures,
or in favor of free coinage The Ith and
9TH demands have hcrn substantially en-
bodied III the Democratic platform, with
the exception, of the tax on incomes.
lhe Democratic platform cNhOdics the
| ldc" OF controlling not only railroads and
telegraph lines but all corporalcd bodies,
been detected. We think these few re-
marks fully and correctly answer the CUES
tions Of our correspondent
But it seems highly proper to make some
further remarks in this connection. twill
b" seen hy careful reading Of the Ocala
demands that there arc three demands in
30. l, two in No. 4, three in No. ) and
two in No. Cone positive and the other
conditional. So that there are really twelve
instead OF six demands. Had they been
lhus divided, they would have been cosicr
"lScnSscu ana more easily remembered.
Many inquiries were made by some of
the delegates to the recent county convcn-
ton as to what the Oc9a demands were
Ih:S was caused by a motion made by Mr..
Hamilton that each nominee for position
on INC delegation to the State Convention
be required to declare how he stood on the
Ocain demands. The first one called urou
endorsed them in toto The next called
upon was Senator O'Dcll. He said: 81
endorse the Orala demands except in one
particular, and in regard to that | am not
certain as TO what the demand is. If il
says 'cGn,ror of railroads and TELEGRAPH
lines, am in favor Of that. But am op
posed to The Government 'owninr the rail
roads and telegraph linrs.' Thus it is seen
that 1t Is well enough to have them repub
lisIcd. Senator O'Dcll would have voted
against the Government ownership of rail
roads i'll Ocala or Oconcr, s.. Louis or Gin
cinnati. lie has never bad to answer the
political catcchiSm for the prize of political
pap.
Another thing. None Of these demands
are good or bad by their being CT having
been, in or out of the Democratic platform,
and the party will have to go y long WAYS
out Of The way to adopt the sub. treasury
plan or the Government ownership of the
railroads and tc'"gragph lincs. Both these
are patcrnal and ccntraliziny in their ten
!cncCS-both diamctrically opposcd to
IT, past and present teachings of demo
cratic doctrine. They would not be dem
ocrat!c, if they were to be put in the DEM