The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-11-16
want to see them exchange places with
the whites.

the whites.
There is race question and race is,
sue here. Cover and twist it as we
may, 1t is at the bottom Of all our poll
tics. White men ought to stick to and
stand by their race through thick and
thin. The Democratic organization
here is the white mans organization.
We intend to stay and labor in 1T until
the bulk Of the white people desert it.
Then we will be free. If the evil
time comes-which may Heaven for
bid-when the Democratic party In
South Carolina is dead and we have to
choose between Populists and Republi-
cans we will 20 with the Republicans
as choice between evils and will do 1t
straight and without disguises or NOR
tilications, because the negro will then
have the balance of power and it will
be simply IA light for his vote. If we
have to scuffe for negro votes we
would rather do it for the Republican
party than for the Populist party.
Let all of us South Carolina white
people stay and stand together. Let us
40 our lighting among ourselves and
accept the results and swallow our
medicine like men without calling in
any other race or anybody from out
side to interfere. We are of the same
erS have mingled their blood for the
State, have loved, hoped, suffered and
died ogether--Tillmanites and ants,
Alliance men, Ocalaites and Cleveland
Democrats. We have factions enough
and bitterness enough now. Let us re-
traln from doing anything to make a
bad matter worse, to make our misfOr-
tunes and troubles fatal to US. Let us
MAINTAIN our race power in the general
elections. humbly trusting that the AL
mighty in Ills good time will set us all
right, show us all where our mistakes
have been and restore peace and unity
among us. So long as we are together
there is hope for that. When we divide
that hope will be gone.
The thing for us to do is to cultivate
charlty and tOleratlOn among ourselves
and to discourage any new splits or fac
tions or causes of quarrel. For the
men who have for their own selfish pur-
poses stirred strife and for the many
and various squirts and chumps who
nave perverted good principles and pur-
poses to lift themselves to power and
place we have no respect. The masses
OF the people, however, are good and
sound and honest. If they are wrong
they are not the first people who have
butted themselves into headaches
against the hard wall of their own mis-.
takes. The Greenville News will never
help in or submit to any attempt to use
the colored vote against any white peo
pie until they try to use it against us
If there is to be split let it come from
the other sile. Let the Populists be-
gin 1T, and then on their heads will be
the responsibility and the conse
quenceS. Meanwhile we will make ou
| lights and say our say inside the Demo
cratic party as now organized and viii
| accept the action of it's majority, not a.
controlling our opinions but as govern
ing our action and position in the re
gular elections. An organization out
side the present organization Will find
no recognition anywhere and should
find none.
General Hampton is an honest, pure
and patriotic gentleman. SO is Judge
Haskell. In this matter we cannot fOl-
low General Hampton any more than
we could follow Judge Haskell in | 800.
-G ,eenvill News.