The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-11-08
hampton az Chief.
i ttantG Consolidation.

COLUMBIA, S. c., November 2.-Since
the State Farmers Alliance of South
Carolina voted that as prerequisite to
receiving Alliance votes, all candidates
in the Democratic primaries next year
must pledge themselves to support the
Ocala platform, the Cleveland Democrats
of the State have believed that the Alli-
ance proposes to use the Democratic
machinery to elect Populists to Congress
sional and all other Offices.
This belief has been confirmed by the
declaration in the silver debate by Sena-
tor Irby, who is the State Democratic
Chairman, that if unconditional repesl
should prevail, he and his people, the
Alliancemen, would refuse to follow
Democratic leadership further, and that
he would vote against any tariff reform
measure introduced in behalf OF the
national administration.
A probable result Of this policy is indi-
Gated in letter from General Wade
Hampton, Federal Com missioner of Rail
roads, to the editor of the Columbia State,
and which will appear in that paper to-
morrow. General Hampton is vice
president for South Carolina Of tho
National League of Democratic Clubs, OF
which Chauncey +. Black, of Pennsyl-
vania, is president. Noting the fact that
tie State and other Conservative or anti
Ocala papers have been advocating his
taking the lead. in organizing this league,
for the support of the Democratic princi-
Piles asserted at the national convention,
General Hampton says:
~ have waited to ascertain the views
of the Dem ocratic press Of South Carolina,
for these papers represent, in my opinion,
the only true Democratic sentiment of
the State, and this sentiment should be
expressed by what are called the Censor
vative papers. My own judgment is
clear that the time has come when the
stand on the Ocala platform and those
who stand on that of the national Democ-
racy. No man who upholds the former
can claim properly to be Democrat, and
unless our people choose to support the
fallacies of the Ocala adherents or to be
led into the Populist party, the true
Democrats of the State should organize to
maintain the principles of the Democratic
party as set forth in the Chicago platform.
If my Democratic fellow citizens agree
with me that this Is the true policy to be
adopted shall at once proceed to organ
ize national Democratic clu bs throughout
the State, and shall exert. my utmost
efforts to keep the State wherei it properly
belongs, in the great Democratic column.
"I believe that this can be done, for our
people will scarcely now, in the hour of
victory, forsake the flag they followed
steadfastly and 80 faithfully when that
flag went down in defeat. INSCRIPTIONS
dem aeogues have by false pretenses
misled many of our most. honest men,
and they have brought shame upon our
proud State.
IT still have abiding faith III the men
who followed the starry cross through
trials and carnage; who bore, with the
heroism of martyrs, the suffering of the
reconstruction era, and who, with q
devotion and pluck never surpassed,
rescued the State in 1876.
"Those men cannot forget the past, nor
can they forsake the banner under which
the victory of 1876 was won. If can
once more give aid to my State, shall
gladly enlist in her service aud shall
rejoice to join those who seek to maintain
her welfare, to protect her honor and to
save her from shame and disgrace. I am
very truly yours,
WADE HAMPTON"
This will probably insure the organiza-
ton Of the league to represent Democratic
interests in the place of the present com
mittae, which is controlled by believers
in POpulist doctrine.