The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-08-01
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ALLIANcEMEN IN CONVENTION.
The Farmers Seem to be Making Fig hit
TiIInan.

AIKEN, S. c., July 25.-The State
Farmers Alliance of South Carolina
met in annual session here to-day.
There was al attendance of 81 out Of
30 delegates, and altogether there are
about IS alliancemen present. Presi-
dent Evans is presiding. The body is
considered the most representative one
that has gathered in the State in years.
In view of the recent indications that
the alliance was about to be natural
death, interesting developments were
anticipated. They came as soon as the
body was organized. President w. D.
Evans delivered his opening address.
1t was strong one. and the following
paragraphs of it sounds the keynote
of the breaking away from ':reform."
The alliance is having wonderful
influence in politics in this State" he
said, Though we are constantly be-
ing told that the alliance is dead, yet it
is a fact when I say that there is no
candidate who stands the least chance
of being elected to the office to which
he aspires IN the campaign now going
on who does not either stand upon the
alliance platform or who has made the
people believe that he does. We have
reached period in the life Of our
order where a most serious condition
confronts US. The supreme test is a.:
hand. The contending forces are drawn
up in battle array, the fight will be
fought out along financial lines. The
issues have been made up and the
result of the contest wfl decide wheth-
er the people shall be the rulers of this
country. or whether the vicious fnan-
cial system devised and fastened upon
us by the money kings of Lombard
and Wall streets shall prevail and
continue to rob the people of their
homes and earnings.
1--WE must fight this fight to the
finish. There is no COMPROMISE ground
for Us to stand upon. We must be
true to our principles, true to our coun-
try, true to ourselves, believing in the
justice of our cause and having faith
IL the just Arbiter ar the affairs Of
men, let US acquire confidence that
victory will crown our efforts. May
the GoG of nations direct your minds
and control your deliberations and
lead you on TO higher and nobler ap-
pseclation of the work that is before
YOU"
At the afternoon session, after the
news of Governor Tillman's declara-
tion at Winnsboro, that he was stronger
than the alliance, and had enough
friends to elect him ifthe alliance did
not care to support him for not stand
n fn o Tc'
passed by good majority, binding the
members of the alliance not to support
any candidate for the legislature who
would not pledge himself to stand fat
footed on the alliance platform and
pledge himself to vote for no man who
did not so stand. Neither Tillman nor
Butler stands on the alliance platform
and the action of the alliance is taken
to mean that third candidate is to be
voted for. The alliance is in fighting
huraor now, Another session will be
held tomorrow.
LADY CAN'T EXPELLED-OF FICIAL
REPORT oPTEE CONVENTION.
AIKEN, S. c., July 26.-The conven-
ton of the South Carolina State Alli-
ance has adjourned and most of the
delegates lett for their homes this af-
ternoon after most fruitful meeting
as far as resolutions were concerned.
Just what they have accomplished is
rather hard for an outsider to say, but
they seem to think tho Alliance is very
much alive and is still one of the
"powers that be-"
They are red hot in the collar with
Tillman and there is but little proba-
bility of his getting any true Alliance
mans votes. In fact the resolutions of
yesterday, in which they said that q
man must stand fat-footed on the
Ocala platform to get the Alliance pie
was the real gist Of the entire meet
ing.
The rumor of yesterday that Hon.
Ellison keitt, of Newberry, would
probably be put out as third SEN
atGial candidate has developed into a
fact and was open talk here to-day.
CAN'T GONE.
Col. It. Larry CAN'T, of the Pied
mont Headlight met with the disap-
proval of the convention and he was
summarily bounced from the member
ship of the Alliance, of which he was
at one time leader. This all came
from his unsupported charges of mis-
mismanagement of the Alliance ex-
change. D. ?. Duncan, manager of
the exchange, appeared before the COM
mittee Of Investigation and answered
the charges preferred against him as
manager. Col. CAN'T did not appear
and so his name as a member was
stricken from the list.
Hon. }. William Stokes was ousted
as State lecturer and in his stead Rev.
J. A. Sigh, of Newberry, was elected.
Mr.. Sigh is. a railroad commissioner
and so he can travel all over the State
in the Alliances interest and the Or
gaMzation won't have to pay mileage.
THE MEETING.
The convention met at $50 a. 10. and
the minutes were read and confirmed.
The chairman of the committe on reso-
lutions presented resolution encourag-
ing and expressing sympathy and sup
port for the press of the State support
ing the Alliance and its demands.
A resolution instructing the execu-
tive committee of the State Alliance to
submit the interrogatcsies framed by
this Alliance at It's last meeting to all
candidates for Congress in this State
and publish their answers in the State
organ.
Urgent and cordial invitations were
extended froro Lexington and other
places for the next meeting Of the
State Alliance, but Columbia was the
most favored place in this matter and
the next session of the State Alliance
will be held in the capital city on the
fourth Wednesday in July, 1895.
Resolutions were adopted commemo-
rating the death Of J. r. Jeffries, late
State lecturer.
A resolution was passed as follows:
That We approve the general course of
our members of Congress who have
been directed in their efforts for relief
by Alliance policy. But express deep
regret and condemnation of their vote
upon the bill to repeal unconditionally