Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-28

ster evil, ! synonymous of all that
is villainous, vile.and degrading?
The corporations that dictated the
ticket supported By the Greenville
News may go into the Republican
party-for it's principles give them
the privilege of exacting usu-
rious profit on their capital-but
we deny that one South Carolina
Democrat in one hundred, yes, in
a thousand, would SO debase and
prostitute himself in order to de-
feat the will of the majority of
our white voters. If the third
party is organized in our State, it
will be fought from behind the
ramparts of Democracy, and not
by coalescing with Republicans
and negroes, as the News threatens
will be done.
But that Greenville paper even
goes further than. this. 1t
threatens that if any number of
our Alliancemen decide to vote for
the third party, that the wealth of
our State will go into the rice
fields and sea islands, and with
the votes of ignorant and
purchasable blacks trample the
white majority in our upper
counties under foot, and place the
heel of the African laborer upon
the political neck of the Anglo
Saxon farmer; that if the money
and corporations of our State can't
rule it, they will crush the white
majority and Africanize it.
And then the Greenville News
threatens these honest white
farmers with the Infamous force
bill and bayonet rule. 1t says
that the white masses in our State
will be made hopeless and helpless
political slaves, under the con-
troll of solid negro vote, backed
by the money power at home and
abroad, and Federal bayonets, if
necessary.
Now let the organs of that
corporation-dictated ticket deny
The Register was wrong when it
exposed the conspiracy between
the defeated politicians and
corporations to rule South Caro-
| lima and make slaves of it's people
Here is an avowal from one of
the leaders in that Thisteen'a
convention, and the up country
organ of the ring ticket, who says
that the white masses will be
crushed by negro votes, backed
by the money power at home and
abroad, and, if necessary, even
the force bill will be passed and
put into effect!
The editor Of the Greenville
News cannot evade his menace by
saying that it was meant only in
the event of an organization of the
third party in this State. We
cannot dictate what ticket voter
shall cast, for this is free conutry
and we live under a republican
form Of government. If the third
party is made an issue, have we
not our Democratic voters to
combat it with? And in that event,
will it not be the duty Of onr
members to stand the closer
together, instead Of q defeated
minority accepting this new party
as an excuse to unite with the
party that sought to bankrupt and
disgrace our State, and reinvest
with power an ignorant and venal
class of voters? Had the editor
of the News rather see his State
ruled by wealth at home and
abroad, and brutal Africans from
the sea islands, than by the
intelligent white farmers of upper
Carolina, and from whom he
derives his support?
But the editor of the Sheppard
Orr organ in Greenyille certainly
does not know his own people.
Let his crowd attempt such
methods as he threatens, and he
will see that the spirit of resist
ance is not yet eead in our people.
Does the News editor suppose that
the "white mases," as he terms the
farmers of our State, will submit
to having their votes and their
rights overthrown by the money
power and negro votes? By the
Eternal, mol So long as there is
a drop OF Carolina blood coursing
through the veins of our people
such a disgraceful state of affairs
as predicted by this Greenville