The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-11-15

are going to 90 their own thinking
and act Independently and they
ought to do it. It is indispensable
to good citizenship that they should
do it.
Explanation and Definition.
Greenville News, Conservative.
*oa
This newspaper would do nearly
anything fur General Hampton and
would wosk its heart out to serve
him becapse he is well worthy Of all
the honor; and love this State can
give him. It has very strong
brotherly affection for its contempo-
raries with whom it has fought
shoulder to shoulder in a weary, dis
couraging up h;ll fight for what it
and they believe to be right. We
believe TIE motives Of General Hamp
ton and contemporaries are right,
but their Judgment in Tins matter is,
in our view, altogether wrong. In
the proposition for the organization
of National Democratic" party in
this Stat@outside the present Demo
cratic org SEation we see much evil
and no g
1t meal ar as we can under
stand, a png the white peo
pie, whic calamity most of all
calamitie V dreaded and resisted:
Supposd men should be orga-
nIal Democrats
600 against them. If a majority Of the
white people can be organized as
National Democrats there is no need
for the organization because they
can win in the regular primaries.
We can not make a minority win
without calling in the help Of the
black vote. The Greenville News
would rather have Tillman governor
for ten or fifteen years by white votes
than to have a government composed
entirely of men of it's own selection
chosen by the help of colored voters.
So long as white men rule, however
serious or expensive their errors may
be, there is always hope of improve
ment, always time to look to when
common sense and conscience will
bring change for the better. Elk
perience has taught us that when the
colored vote rules or is influential
matters steadily become worse for
the whites. Whichever race has con-
troll will use its power for it's own in
terests and the interests of the two
races here are sharply opposed in
very many respects. We have the
kindest feelings for the colored peo
pie but we do not want to see them
exchange places with the whites.
There is race question and race
issue here. Cover and twist it as we
may, it is at the bottom of all our
politics White men ought to stick
to and stand by their race through
thick and thin. The Democratic Or
ganization here is the white mans
organization. We intend to stay and
labor in it until the bulk of the white
people desert it. Then we will be
free. If the evil time comes-which
may Heaven forbid-when the Dem
ocratic party in South Carolina is
dead aud we have to choose between
populists and Republicans we will
go with the Republicans as the choice
between evils and will do it straight
and without disguises or modifca-
tons, because the Negro will then
have the balance of power anyhow
and it will be simply fight for his
vote. T. we have to scUtfle for Negro
votes we would rather DO it for the
Republican party than for tie popu
list party.
Let all of US South Carolina white
people stay and stand to-
gether. Let us do our fighting
among ourselves and accept the re
suits and swallow our medicine like
men without calling in any other race
or anybody from outside to interfere.
We ale Of the same kind and stock.
Our fathers and brothers have min
gled their blood for the State, have
loved, hoped, suffered end died to-
gether-TilImanites and ants, ALI
ancemen, Ocalaites and Cleveland
Democrats. We have factions
enough and bitterness enough now.
Let US refrain from doing anything
to make bad matter worse, to make
our misfortunes and troubles fatal to
US. Let US maintain our race power
in the general elections, humbly
trusting that the Almighty in His