Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02


to pieces. is merely grevolse~
ton of his own. If it were not so at
variance with his former ~utterances, l
would say that it was his political "posi-
ton resulting from a change Of heart
since the adjournment Of the recent
State convention.
advocated the adoption of the st.
Louis platform, because l believe the
masses to be right in the principles they
there enunciated. / urged the Democ-
racy to adopt these planks, thus prove
itself the party of the people, by becom-
ing the means for them to secure the
ends of wise, honest, economical govern
ment. Now the fact, that after the adj
journment of this conference, the execu-
tive committee of the Peoples Party
met and adopted this platform in toto, is
no reason why the Democracy should ig-
more these demands OF the people. On
the contrary, it should say to them that
the Peoples Party is young and untried,
while we are old and established, and
take up these demands along with our
one idea tariff reform and lead to victory.
Why does not Mr.. Cary urge the Demo
cratic party to abandon its demand for
free coinage OF silver, tariff reform and
against National banks and alien owner
ship of land? For him to be consistent
he should, because the Peoples Party
have incorporated these planks also in
its platform
We have more regard for true Democ-
racy than many of its pretended friends.
The large majority of white Democrats
Of South Carolina who endorse the st.
Louis platform do not desire to see the
party commit suicide, but throw aside
machine politicians and return to the
principles taught by Jefferson and Jack
son.
Oconee should feel proud of the
advanced position she assumed in her
recent convention after q slight skirmiSh
with the Ants, for the State convention
fully indicated her action. The Big
Four-Tillman, Irby, Talbert and Stokes
will put the national Democracy on
record as regards our resolutions at Chi
cago. Oconee declared her demands on
the national Democracy, delegates were
elected to support them before the State
convention, that convention endorsed
them and sends delegates to Chicago tc
try, as the ser ants of the whole people
OF South Carolina, to have them incor-
porated in the Chicago platform. This
was sublime Democracy; true in princi-
pie, true in practice.
Let us contrast Mr.. Cary's idea OF
endorsing the party and its nominees
unconditionally.' 1t would operate
about this way: The local clubs would
meet, the people Internationally endorse
the party, the local bosses get themselves
elected delegates to the county conven-
ton, where these bosses would fix county
politics and the shrewdest get elected to
the State convention; when it would
meet they would fix matters to suit them
selves, make states, pull wires, cut and
dry everything, nominate a State ticket
and elect delegates to the national con.
vention of the shrewdest old rats in the
barn-those who could make the people
think they were doing the most, when in
reality doing the least. Is it not the
p~lainest declaration of bossism and
machine politics that you ever before
heard2 Time has been when it would
work; but when the people felt that they
were being robbed for the beaefto of the
few, they meekly asked these bosses,