Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-01-26
Democratic Tests in South Carolina.
ATLANTA Constitution.

The Charleston Meas and Courier seems
to be somewhat worried over the distri-
button of Federal patronage in South
Carolina. 1t hailed with loud cries of
delight & remark attributed TO Daniel
Lamont while ago to the effect that Mr..
Cleveland was not going to forget the old
guard, and it watches with keen and
jealous eye. all the developments and
manifestations of ofiice-seeking.
In a Late issue our contemporary re-
marks that owhen Mr.. Cleveland takes
up the Question of Federal patronage in
South Carolina, it is reasonable to assume
that he will not be controlled by any of
the purely local issues which have so
disturbed the harmony of the white peo-
ple'' in South Carolina during the last
few years. "The test of mans Democ-
racy is not the personality of the candi-
date whose cause he espoused in the con-
vention at Chicago, but It is the princi-
pies which he avows," says the Ne'es
and Courier. ''If he has professed his
allegiance to the platform OF the National
Democracy, he is a Democrat"
THIS is very sensible and satisfactory,
and if our contemporary had stopped
right there we should say that it was en-
gagged in the grand work of restoring
that harmony which is essential to Demo-
cratic success everywhere and especially
in South Carolina, but the -Ne,cs and
Courier goes on to remark: ''It is not
true. as Senator Irby told the New York
Times rep.ter on Sunday night, that we
are all loyal Democrats now and have
been ever since the nomination of Mr..
Cleveland at Chicago If Mr.. Cleveland
wants to find out how much truth there
is in Senator Irby,s statement, let him
send for the record.
Evidently things are getting lively In
the Palmetto State. But who IS Mr..
Cleveland to send for the record, and
what will the record show after it is
found and forwarded? Evidently South
Carolina is trembling on the verge of an
interesting disclosure. We judge from
the .Ne1rs and Courier's remark that 1t
has in its possession a duly attested
record going TO show that certain South
CarolinianS, who supported Democratic
candidate for President on Q Democratic
platform. are not Democrats.
We trust Mr. Clevelaud will take this
patriotic editor at his word, send for the
record, and give it to the press, so that a
curious public may understand how it is
that what constitutes Democratin other
parts of the country fails utterly in South
Carolina.
According to report printed in one OF
the interior newspapers of New York,
Mr.. Cleveland is beginning to feel some
what ifritated over the intimates who
are buzzing around him and fixing up his
administration, and We have no doubt
that when he opens the door to the gene
raj pubic, he VIII ma lhe oio Sudio 1oo
numerous for comfort.
We don't know what the trouble with
the -NewS and Courier is. nor where the
proud spirit of civil service reform has
fled TO. but we do not think there is any
danger of serious attempt in South
Carolina to snatch the official teat out Of
the mouths of those who were for Cleve-
land first. last and all the time.
At the same time. we should like to
know how it is that a South Carolina
man who supports Democratic candi-
date on Democratic platform can be
proven by the record not to be a Demo
crat