The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-06-22
From Across KcOwce.

EDITOR SENTINEL ! will again sen,
you Il few items from this side of the rive
FIRST, crops are looking very well bu
| owing 10 so much rain recently they ar,
| peSinilihg to Let pretty grassy. We arc
now about the midst of harvesting. bu
hung up. 1t would be very bad to loos,
inc small grain crop as it is very fine auc
will be badly needed.
On the evening Of the I1th inst while
The lion. j. &. Alexander was away from
nome his house caught fire and for the
timely assistance of ncighbOrs would have
been consumed
our FACTORY is progressing finely. The
company have on the grounds one of the
most improved machines for making brick;
also hosting engine for lifting the rocl;
in building the dam They also have ,hcir
| ties and steel rails on the right of wav for
their rail road. All Of this has been done
III about sixty days. So the factory is m
assured tact, if the energy of Mr. John &.
Carey aud Col. Courtney amount to ,nv
thing, OF which you would say it does. if
you could have seen the wild woods sixty
Gays ago where to-day you will see it trans
| formed INTO the abode of man with thc
marks OF enterprise and progression on
every hand. VII
MI. Editor, think it is about time for
The conservative papers to quit saving so
many hard things about Governor 'Tiliman.
since all or their predictions about him
running the States credit &C., have proved
not TO be SO, and instead of tat he refund
Ell the State debt at the lowest rate of in
tercst that it ever was, and the State bonds
selling ut premium. Again Mr. Editor,
all the bitter declarations Of those uapcrs
about Mr.. Tillman and his whskey bust.
ness is Inconsistent when every news pap
or reading man in the State knows that
some OF those papers opposed prohibition
ana advocated the prDmiSciOuS sale of whis
key and tic gambling bIothcls. Now Mr.
Iillman wants TO give the pvoplr pire
whlskey and stop gambling and stop the
vice usually carried on about blr-rOoms and
lake me TAX OIL OF the sober ciliZ"ns to Day
the expense of prosecuting the crime cnuS
ed by the man whIskcy sold to those places
OF ilircputc. For this he is branded as max
ing the State Il bar room Il. q taking The
DrCau from the mouths and the clothes
from the backs of the poor children of
South Carolina ami earring vice and i'm
morality into thousands of homes. No,y
Air. Editor, allow me to say to those great
Euitors mat there was Il time wien they
liau some influence with the people but
that pristine era Of your existence has
departed and hence You NAV write v,u,r
windy editorials and heap up your Ccnun-
cations upon Governor Iillnan. The ONLY
Governor that South Carolina ever had nv
the people and for the people and the re-
form Legislature, but you great l. litors
Will tnd in the end that II is brS; To lc, th,.
will Of the people alone. We Kuow it is
hard Tor YOU and the corporations that YOU
represent to give up and sec the people
rule but nevertheless you will have to do Il
ali the same. So the best thing for YOU
ahd the State is to step down and out from
amonSthc corporations and get among the
grratc"mmon class of our people who have
fought our battles and gained our victories
and made fertile with their blood in every
hmttlc hcld from Lexington, Mass. to the
city of Mexico When YOU nave dome this
you may hope to exert some Influence
among The people. A PAlElur