The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-11-16
TIE HAMPTON LETTER.
WHAT THE GREENVuLE NEWS HAS
TO SAY ABOUTIr.

There Ii n, U 40 and G rsat Danger In tho
Movement-The Whito People OF tho
State Cannot A ford to ID wide.
GREENvILLE, S. c., Nov. Sit is
better to make open and full confes-
sion. a mans sins will find him out
and when he Is caught he had best
own up. We find the Columbia Regis
ter and the State from opposing stand
points calling on the Greenville News
to speak out on the matter of the or
ganizatlon Of natioual Democratic
clubs in this State as suggested by
General Hampton in a letter to the
State republished in this newspaper
last week. -Four out of live important
Democratic daily newspapers of South
Carolina have spoken in favor of the
scheme and "where is the Greenville
Newst' says the State. "Why this
strange silence of the Greenville
News?" demands the Register.
Well, the truth of it is the editor of
the Greenville News ran away last
week. When his esteemed contempo-
raries were calling upon him for deliV-
eranceS regarding the organization of
national Democratic clubs he was sit
ting on a log in the woods on the side
of mountain in Western North Caro-.
lima. 1t was glorious, too. \ sky of
wonderfully deep blue hecked with
still strips or transparent white cloud :;
the dreamy haze Of the Indian Summer:
air SO crisp, SO deliciously and delicate.
ly perfurmed with the aromatic sur.
gestionS of pine trees and hickory
leaves that every breath Of it was long
drawn luxury. There were few sounds
to disturb the silence. The stream
down In tue darkened ravine babbled
and splashed idly and family and mo-
mentary gllnts of the clear water lash
ed now and then as the thiCkly cluster
ed, deep green laurel swayed noiseless.
ly. The dry leaves rustled Slowly as
they drifted down through the trees as
II lingering to say goodbye to the
companions that had sWung and rus
tied with them while all of them we're
green and beautiful through the sun
shine and breeZAs of the dead, bright
summer. Now and then the air was
filled with the distant drumming of a
pheasant or squirrel could be heard
scampering through the leaves. There
was riot Of color everywhera-crim-
sons, scarlets, browns, yellows, greens,
IN DeWllderjng, gorgeous varieties and
Dlendings.
With a dinner of mountain made
hominy and fried chicken, proceeded
by a taste Of something which had
never yielded any of its sturdy strength
to the mercenary hands Of a dispensa-
ry agent, and succeed 10y tramp over
ridge or two and a briar wood pipe
filled with tobacco like flakes of gold.
the blue smoak of which drifted and
curled slowly away to mingle with the
haze, Il man could sit in a place like
that and be profoundly. magnilicentlv
indifferent to politics, commerce and
finance and all cares and concerns, past,
present and future, public and private,
content simply to be living and i'm.
pressed with the general sensation that
this Is a pretty fail kind Of a world
after all. lie could idle there with idle.
ness made delicious by the fact that he
had been working from fourteen to
eighteen hours day without a break
number Of months, and allow a mind
which is usually struggling TO consider
and remember a Large number of
things at once to be so magniliccntly
vacant aS to decline to remember
whether the right or left hand barrel
was loaded with buckSho and to ac-
cept with cheerful lack of purpose the
possibility of blowing an unhappy
SQulTrel lnCO rags or lmpOtCntly pep.
pering the imperVious feathers OF a
turkey with No. q. Add to all this the
delightful sense of wTongdOiug, not so
acute as TO be uncomfortable, bat lust
strong enough to give 2ASt to the Occa
SlGn-the splendid consciousness of
having run away without asking leave
or license of any body, after writing ad-
vance editorials to be cut off and DUN
ped into holes in the columns like
packing and liable 10 be Inappropriate
TO events, and esteemed cOntempOra.
rleS can understand how much they
nave to be enViOus Of and how glad
the editor Of the GreenVlle News is
that he ran away, even if he did return
to flnd this newspaper being camor-
ously called on tor an opinion and un
der suspicion of lodging. Two or
three days of absolute serenity and in
difference and peace are worth taking
some chances and suffering some seri-
Gus penalties for.
This newspaper would do nearly any
thing for General Hampton and would
work its heart out to serve him be-
cause he Is well worthy of all the honor
and love this State can give him. 1t has
a very strong brOtherly affection for it's
contemporaries with whom it has
fought shoulder TO SHOULDER in a weary
discouraging UP Hill fight for what it
ana they DeIltVe to be right. We be-
lleVe the motives Of General Hampton
and or contemporaries are right, but
tlfeir Judgment in this matter in our
view altogether wrong. In the propO.
sitiOn for the organization of "na.
tlonal Democratic" party in this State
outside the present Democratic organ
iZaiton we see Imuch evil and no good.
1t means, 80 far as we can under
stand, IL split among the white people,
which is the calamity most Of all ca
lamiIi"s to be dreaded and resisted.
Suppose $4,000 men should be organ
iZed as national Democrats. There
would yet be majority of 10000 against
them. If majority Of the white peO-
pie Can be OTgauiI3d as national Dem.
Ocrats there is no need for the organi.
2itiOn because they can win in the
regular primaries. We can not make |
Il minority win without calling in the |
help of the black vote. The Greonville |
News would rather have Tlllman GOV !
ernor for ten or fifteen years by white |