The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-09-16
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Notes from Backwoods Farmer

Mn. EDITor: The crops in this section
arc very shoit. Cotton is very s)rry, and
corn is not as COOL as the farmer, thought it
was.
Mr.. Elior, c'cc.ion il over, and some Of
us are not sorry Of il. Now let all white men
Of South Carolina unite and help B. II Till
man to make his administration O success, as
We did HAMPTON in 1876; and if we do I'll
vouch that in two years from now We will
not have that bitterness among the demo
Gratis that we have hal this year.
Mr.. Editor said in my Article week
before last for all of our best men to come
forward and discuss the great issues which
are being agiiatci etc., ard you say, if they
did they would be insulted and howlcd
down. When have The frmcrs how,ed
down any one? The white caps tried to
howl down Governor Til!man ut Spartan
burg, but they faie ei, and how did the town
Of Union; some few years ago, treat Uncle
John Long, and other citizens of the State,
because they tried to express their political
views as free Americans? They were
howled down, and l say That the Green
back Labor plat form at that time was more
in sympathy with the laborng people than
either the democratic or Republican plat
forms is now, md il there is any one doubts
it let him compare them. No, we want edu-
cation, not abuse, and VIC believe that il why
our opponents arc s. bitter against Tillm,n.
We followed him instead OF bowling him
down, as some hoped we would do.
Two wrongs never made n right, all We
were as much opposed to bowling down
our friend Long, rs we were 10 bowling
down Sheppard, Tillman. Orr and Ioumans.
II You don wish TO listen - n speaker
leave the place, bur don't play the coward
by showing that you feared to hear the
truth, or both sides Of n qucstion.--EDIroR.
We agree with yon in part, about labor
dollar work With heir brains to see how they
can raise the value Of the dollar and lower
the value Of labor, and that il what we are
fighting now. And let me say that this great
reiorm movement has come 10 stay. 1t is
no cid woman dance.
What has tho dollar and brains accom-
pli8hci? a great deal. Where is the Gre
nation act VIII ch destroyed hundreds of
millions of the peoples money? And again,
where is the decentralization act which limi-
ted the coinage Of 81 yer and made money
higher and the products of labor cheaper?
That's what We are fighting. class legislation,
not merchants and lawyers. doctors, anu
other prefcs ioonal mcn, nor oven editors.
~ iNh5 80 my pun S'i laws WI bo'i SIdC'.
We have taken tho liberty to suppress
paragraph here. rs it smacked strongly Of
personal allus!on .hat may be c,nsidc. ei
Objectionable, and oluld not possibly subseryc
any good purpose. Upon mature thought
we ave confident our correspondent will
agree w!S us.--EpICoE.
I notice that tho Union corresp lent for
the STATE, in giving an account of the Union
election. s,id Long defeated two Alliance
men Tor Sheriff. IL seems thn, he wished to
create the impressi that Sheriff Long is
not an Alliance man.
The correspondent surely knows that
Sheriff Long belongs 10 the Alliance. but
from his report to the Siair, he would mako
it appear to the farmers OF Union that he
was not n true Alliance man, and only
lolnei the order for the lo1vcs aud fishes
The correspondent should have stated that
Long was an Allilnco man. 1t is true that
Long was in the Haskell cony ention two
years ago, but he saw their folly, came back
and Joined The Alliance. and has been
supporter of Tillman ever since. ] suppose
the correspondent presumed that Long was
no Alliance man because the Conservatives
almost TO man supported him.
BAcKwooDS FARMER