Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-03-02
"HERE'S FOR A COMPROMISE"


''no compromise" 1t demands that all
Federal Offices be given to straight and
stalwart Sheppard and Orr men-tha'
weak kneed Conservatives and Tillman-
ite converts and men of unknown posi-
tons be all barred. 1t insists that the
line be drawn and that all the Federal
Offices be given either to Tillmanites OF
Conservatives.
We do not know whether or not the
Greenville NeuS would be classed by the
State as weak kneed." We have our
own opinions on that matter.
This newspapers, however, thoroughly
in favor of compromise and fair divide
all around. The masses of Gov. Till
mans supporters are not radicals or poll
teal plunderers. They are good people
and are as honestly anxious for the well
being of the State and as much inter
ested in it as the State or the Greenville
-Ne,rs or anybody else. We do not wish
to treat them as foes, and could not do it
if We wished to.
When people of the same race, the
same party and the same interests have
had a quarrel, concessions and compro-
misses, involving no surrender of principle
on either side, are the only proper meth
DDS of restoring peace. Peace is surely
desirable for every reason. We do not
intend to surrender to the Tillmanites
and confess that we have been wrong
and they right, nor would we ask them
to make such confessions and surrender
to US. We believe the people on both
sides are anxious to get together. We
know it is of tremendous importance
that they should get together. SO long
as the present breach and bitterness con-
tinue the Szate is in very serious danger.
To adopt the expressed policy of the
State is to play exactly into Gov. Till
mans hands. He knows that there arc
no differences of principle among the
Democrats of the State. His organs and
spokesmen are unable to name one point
of essential difference. Gov. Tillman
knows, or should know, that he has been
an expensive failure; that so soon as his
record is calmly and honestly studied he
will have to 60. 1t is to his interest to
keep alive bitterness and tactional feel
ing and heat. His purposes would be
served just as well-better, perhaps-by
the drawing of the line against his fol-
lowers as by the drawing of the line
against his opponents.
The Greenville Ne,es is against Tillman
because it is for South Carolina and the
great Democratic party. For the same
reason it opposes the ostracism of any
Democr because of his honest opinions
in State politics.
We hope to see the line drawn only SO
far that care will be taken that each side
of the line will have an equal share with
the other side in South Carolina. We do
not wish to see a conquered peace. We
wish to see a peace secured by the good
feeling of the good people Of both sides
so that the strife of the last three years
may be remembered only to be avoided
in the future.
Extreme and violent men of both S; les
should be left out. Men whose allegi-
ance to the Democratic party and doc
trine is doubtful and wavering, and who
are not sound TO the core, ought to be
rigidly excluded. Men who have labored
to stir strife for their own advantage
ought to be denied all favors by people
and President.
All the offices, Federal and State, should
be divided with precise equality between
the two factions. They should be given
to moderate, fair minded, sober men,
who are true Democrats and who have
taken and held their positions from hon
est sense of duty. There are plenty Of
such men in both factions.
We should all work together to have
factional lines broken down in this State
by 1894, so that the white people OF oul
State may again be solid, invincible
host, working and thinking together fol
the State and the party. That is patri
otic hope and purpose, the only one we
can see our way to hold; for continuance
of the conditions of last year means al
inevitable split and fearful disaster.
These Tillman people are South Caro-
lima white men, They cannot be whipped
or bulldozed or bullied into peace. We
would be ashamed Of them if they coult
be. We are equally sure that the anti
Tillman people cannot be driven or forced
by threats or pressure or starvation
The thing to be done is for each side tt
drop its arms. prove its purpose to dea
Justly with the other and agree OF; ;
peaceful union on fair terms, each for
giving and forgetting some things, eacf
surrendering some of its claims, or ever
its rights, for the sake Of the State.
The Greenville Neps is one anti-Till
man newspaper which favors compromise
and fair division of the Offices and peace
and unity in 1894. Furthermore. We
happen to know that many Of those will
whom the Greenville Neus had the honor
to labor during the last campaign-mer
who with voice, and pen, and purse: ane
time, and at serious financial and per
sonal risk, helped Sheppard and Orr, ane
would do it again if necessary-believ'
and feel as we do.