The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-05-26
PlCKENS, S. c., THURSDAY MAY 26 1892

omic manner in which they have admin
istered our State Government.
2. That in their efforts to cuuallZc
taxation, whereby the corporations shall
bear proportionatcly with the farmers
and laboring classes the expenses oi the
Government, we pledge them our hear
ty cooperation.
3. That 1t has ever been the custom
of our party to reward good and faith
tul servants. In this spirit VIC ask our
present State officers to again stand Tor
reelection and hereby pledge them our
earnest an1 hearty support.
The following resolutions, submitted
to the committee, were reported I'M
favorably:
Resolved, That the integrity and sue
cess of the Democratic party in the
South are menaced by the Third or
Peoples party, and We condemn those
who are instrumental in spreading Its
membership and advocating it's plat
form as enemies of the Democratic
party.
Resolved. That, to make the position
OF the South Carolina Democracy clear
and unmistakable, we denounce the St
Louis platform, which is being used to
support the pretenSionS OF the Third
Party in the South.
The minority report was then read as
follows
The undersigned, minority Of the
committee on platform and resolutions
dissent from the report Of the commit
tee. First, because it is grossly unjust
to assail distinguished citizen of the
United States upon charges utterly un
founded upon facts, and in words VIC
latiye of propriety and utterly un
worthy of a Convention Of the State of
South Carolina. Second, because the
financial policy recommended is un.
sound, dishonest, and ii adopted will
be ruinous to the interests of the entirC
country. JOHN 9. HASKELL,
w. ST.J. JERvEY,
GEO. w. NICHOLS.
Mr. SimODs of Charleston moved
the adoption of the minority report.
Mr.. Douglass of Richland was recog
niZed by the chair. He stood here al
most alone, but he would protest
against the most outrageous resolu
tions that had been offered in a South
Carolina convention in a quarter of a
century. Are we going to adopt these
resolutions which set forth what is not
true? Is it within the bounds of pro-
priety that the Democrats Of South
Carolina in convention assembled
should insult Grover Cleveland? Ga
delegate here inquired whether man
could come here and insult this conven.
tion. He was ruled out of order by the
chair, who did not think that anyone
had been insulted)
Mr.. Douglass declared his inability TO
insult the convention; he was here to
ask this body not to insult that man.
He is denounced as the tool Of Wall
street, and as prostituting true Demo.
cratic principleS-is there a man who
can rise in his seat and show that it is
true? If they cannot, he asked the
convention to rise in it's manhood, re
pudiate these resolutions and speW
them from their mouths. He urged
that Cleveland was no experiment
that he had won the only national
Democratic victory III thirty years, and
that he had been elected by the people
ana not by Wall street. In his four
years service no man can point aught
against his character, brain or ability
Ills four years In Office was an oasis in
great political desert.
The speaker insisted that Cleveland
had stood by the South, not as a cham
plon of the South, but us the champion
OF the whole country. From childhood
to manhood Cleveland had been an ene.
my of trusts and his Administration
had been unanimously endorsed by his
party in 1888. He warned the conven-
tion to mark his prophecy thatif these
resolutions were adopted the day would
come when they would regret it. If he
IS your nominee in Chicago are you 60
ing to stultify him and then go to the
polls and vote for him? For the sake
of propriety, for the sake of the party,
40 not IN the excess OF power take this
action"
Mr.. Terrell, of Charleston, spoke
against Cleveland. lie did not stand by
him in '88 and was against him now,
but II nominated they should support
him to man. lie NSkoI mat Wry
aOO1tld not StUltify themselves by ser.
portin9 THIS ma7A aOhO 1ruS dcIc0t"d on
the same 2)iGtfOTaD iu 1888.
Mr.. +. T.. Caughman took possession
of the floor. HIS contortious furnished
intense amuSements for the convention.
His point against Mr.. Cleveland was
the reitterating of the false charge
which has been recently freely circu.
lated in this State by his enemies, that
Mr.. Cleveland had invited Fred Doug.
las and his white wife to a select recep.
ton at the White House.
Mr.. Kirkland, OF Kershaw, an Ali.
anCeman was tne next speaker. The
charges against Cleveland had been
fully answered by his endorsement by
the Democratic party of the union in
cluding the solid South, at st. Louis in
1883. These resolutions were the most
unwise action any party ever took. 1t
would have been II grand thing if South
Carolina had united in the landslide of
endorsement of noble manhood.
Mr.. Gary, of Edgelield, here demand
ed the previous question.
Col. Haskell gained the floor and
spoke in behalf of the minority report
confess, said he, that 1 have, with
the deepest modification, seen a dis.
play made tonight where charges were
made against a gentleman With no
foundation. / have heard the ridicu-
lous charges of Cleveland's having in.
vited Fred Douglas to his house, and
from the lips of his private secretary,
Dan Lamont, have heard that they
are ridiculously false. l am willing
to assume the responsibility for saying
so. Since his retirement into private
life he has conducted himself with a
dignity that has commanded the re.
sDect of all. The gentleman who nm