Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-03-17

The Worlds Fair Convention at Column
1ia, S. c., and the States 0utburst
Against the Political Farmers Of the
Palmetto State.
Correspondence KEowEE COURIER.
Having been honored by the citizens OF
Oconee county. and Walhalla especially,
to represent them at the above mentioned
convention, it becomes my duty to let
them know what / saw and heard and
what impression the convention has made
on me. and vindicate the so-called "poli-
teal farmers" of South Carolina of the
charges the "Ringster Paper" The State,
has made against the farmers in its issue
of the 18th instant.
l do not think the so-called political
rmcrs of the State were represented in
the convention, except by the writer, il
he may be called one, on account of his
services rendered the Trustees of the
Clemson Agricultural College, in making
the State exhibit at the last Augusta Elk
position.
The political farmers were Informed
beforehand that the Ringsters intended
to capture the convention and would ap-
point the managers to suit themselves,
and leave no honors to the political farm
ers. 1t was therefore prudent for the
latter to stay away from the convention
and let them run the machine to suit
themselves. which l must say they have
done admirably well, and to which the
Ringster Rooster has loudly sung his
praise, by saying in its issue of the llth
instant:
"A. P. Butler, Manager at Large
There is the Department of Agriculture
killed by political farmer Tillman vindi.
Gated.
I'VE congratulate the Worlds Fail
Convention upon its wise and patriotic
action. Let US all work together to aic
the men and womea so well chosen tc
advance the interests of South Carolina al
the Columbian Exposition
And further it says: When it comes
to looking after the industrial interest:
of South Carolina you will observe thai
the old 'Ringsters' are put in the front
rank. Political farmers did not attenc
the convention last night, which did mo-
promise OF e, but entailed hard worl
for the State"
Now as to nominating Col. A. P. Butler
a manager at large and the balance of thu
district managers and other officers,
assert that they really nominated them
selves, and that the ticket had been fixet
before the convention was h. !, or IL
other words. was a cat and dried one.
AS an individual 1 have nothing to sa!
against the honored ones, but as a either
of the Piedmont Belt it strikes me most
forcibly that this most fa"oIed section Of
the State has been literally ignored anc
left without any manager at all, which
consider an insult.
The division into Congressional Dis.
tricts l consider not only a great mista.e
but a total failure, as the Counties Vi
York, Sp~artanburg, Greenville, Laurens
Pickens, Oconee, Anderson and Able
vile are sighted in the list of genera
managers, which can be easily observed
in looking over the same:
Col. a. P. Butler, Aiken, Manager a
Large; J. f. Enslow, Charleston, Isl
Congressional District; Harry Hammond
Beach Island, I'd Congressional District
T..W. Holloway, Pomaria, Sd Congress
sional District; DR.. w. J. Murray, Column
bia, 4th Congressional District; r. a
Love. Chester, 9Th Congressional District
E. r. McIver, Darlington, 9th Congress
sional District: w. II. Lockwood, Beau
fort, 7th Congressional District.
4 want L. put these questions to the
South Carolina Worlds Fair Ringste1
Machine:
!. What part of the State has mos
literally contributed to the New Orlean!
Exposition?
2. What part of the State can give thu
most inducements to invest capital ant
induce immigration ?
8. What part of the State has the mos
genial climate and fertile soil?
4. What part of the State has the mos
magnificent forests and more numerou:
varieties of timber?
). What part of the State has the mos
different kinds and richest mineral de
posts and quarries?
6. Where can be found the grandes
water powers that might be utilized il
running machinery, and in what part o
the State can you find the most diversi
fed farming and fruit culture?
Will you not agree with me in answer
ing, it is the Piedmont Belt? Will yol
stubbornly insist that the citizens of thi.
section have not brains, muscle and pa
triotism enough to act for themselves
but have to be dictated to from the banks
of the Congaree or Cannon Creek in New
berry county?
There are no better and o patriotic
citizens found in any section of the State
than in this favored Piedmont Belt, but
the political farmers" shoe is pinchins
the " Ringsters."
Shall political site and i'll feeling keel
us apart in this grand and noble work il
having our State fully represented in
company with her sister States at thu
Columbian Worlds Fair?
Fellow-citizens of South Carolina, ano
you, the managers, forget politics. give
us recognition, or else the ".politica
farmers" of the Piedmont section may
forget their duties to the State and will
not participate in this noble work.
Let us work as a united people ano
show to the world that we are not stub.
born and blind enough to be divided on
account of politics in her own interest IN
showing her own resources and adyanta-
ees at the Columbian gathering of ma
lions. u. WAIVER,
Secretary State Horticultural Society.