The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-05-27
SOUTH cARoLINA,s DANGER.

When Farmer Tillman Of South Carolina
started his movement that mato him Gov
ernor Of the State, and dsfested for the Sen.
ate that gallant soldier. and able statesmen
who during the reconstruction period had
| played so oonspicuou.ly o patriotic part 10
the redemption of South Carolina from
| negro and Republican rule, Wade Hampton,
he little appreciated tho trouble he was stor-
| ing up in future for himself and his fellow
ci'izens. In order to attain to the summit
OF his personal ambition, the governorship,
ne excited his followers 10 fever heat, no
doubt imagining that he possessed sufficient
power to call halt when he cav danger
impending. but like Robespierre, who
cultivated such tbirst forsgor among the
people Of Paris that II could not be satiated
until his own life's blood bad been drunk by
the remorsele.s and oruel knife ofth guiIIo.
tine, so Tillman has s.arted q reign of chaos
IN South Carolina to which even he had TO
bow in order to save himself from destruc-
ton.
Asa result of all this what do we now see
in the State! The State convention which
WAS held on Wednesday was Democratic only
IN name and its proceedings were 81 blister
GUS as to become almost riotous. The plat
form adopted Endorsed in its entirely that
most absurdly improbable of all the impracti-
cable notions that ever emauated from tho
sub-'reasury and all other foolish schemes.
And then il denounced Grover Cleveland as
"the tool OF the money kings Of Wal street."
as II Mr. Clevela;-d was ever yet the tool of
any man or set of men, and demanded tho
nomination at Chicago Of an ultra silver man
who would be in accord with all their weird
end destructive ide.s, refusing to vote for
oven Hill unless he would place himself
sq9arely on the Alliance platform.
Is there any sensible man in South Caro-
lima who believes thst tho voice of its delees-
Bsd aai Rbss' thfy HS sssfts sec:issy
will be heard in the eonveutionY Is there
one who has the slightest idea that any man
in the world can be elected President on the
South Carolina, 30 called Democratic plat
form Is tbere one who does not know
that the eighteen delegates from tho State
will make NO moro impression upon the
Chicago convention than a gnat upon the
horns of a bull unless they radically change
their tactics
Evidently South Carolina is stan ding ca
tho crater of volcano. The report Of the
proceedings Of Wednesdays convention
states that it required all tho influence Of
Governor Tillman and Senator Irby combined
to keep down even temporarily, the Third
party sentiment which began 10 be very
exuberant This shows that the people Of
inc slate are on the verge of madness, and
that it will take very little for them TO start
their Third Party, and this would mean that
all the sensible Intelligent and sslf-respsct-
ing Democrats Of the State would DO driven
from them; that the white men would be
divided; that the Republicans would gain
control; that the State would be again SUBJ
jscted to negro rule, aud that tho chaos, dis
order and Generalization Of the Rcconstruc-
ion days would come again. If this uohappy
condition Of affairs should result from the
present unfortunate frame Of mind of the
South Caroliniaus, they would pay dearly
for their folly, for what is worse, they would
lose the sympathy of their sister Southern
States, because this time they would have
brought thoir mi:fortunes upon themselves
through their own foolhsrdiness-R Richmond
Times