The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-06-28
him stop tax execution, which occa-
stoned considerable merriment.

We refunded the State debt, which
saves you 5000 yoar. We built
Clemson College for your sons, where
we mossbacks can be educated. Our
PenttentiarY Is now managed as we'll
as any In the country, while now Col.
Neal Is turning money over to the
treasury. Yet we are asked what we
have done: Yet we have done all this
without increasing your taxes, al
though when we went in we found
$4,000 debt. We had to raise taxes
last year because we had money tied
up by the railroads. Then look at the
litigation they forced us into. Then
we are building your colleges.
| l joined the Alliance when 1t was
lirst organized, and | believe in it. l
believe 1t will do us good. 1t Is an or.
ganization to help the agricultural
classes. They tell you our demands
are unconstitutional, and they would
not know the Constitution coming
would do better than what we have. 1t
Is time to do something for the people.
He touched lightly on the banks.pro
lection, free silver, national aid to the
railroads and the Alliance demands.
He favored national control Of the
railroads, especially those aided by the
Government. The roads can be re-
produced for three billion dollars and
| they are trying to pay interest on nine
billion dollars. He favored an income
tax. lie wanted some way to send tax
perjurers to the Penitentiary. am In
favor of peace and unity myself, but
there Is one thing our people will have
to understand. and that Is the minority
cannot dictate to the majority. Repub-
| l'caniSm would be cruel fallacy II
this was the case.
There was not ilutter or word of
applause as Mr.. ElleIb bee finished, al
though his speech took very we'll with
the audience.
CANDIDATE TINDAL.
opened by saying that for eight years
he had been working to build up the
"Reform" party. lie did not feel like
a stranger.
He continued: You were in bygone
days suffering from political lethargy.
| You felt an oppression and wrong,
but you did not know the cause. l
then tried to tell you what was your
trouble and that Is why you are here.
What you want to know Is what you
are voting for. Today l am candi-
date, not Of my own choice, but be-
cause my friends want me to run. The
> great acts Of the Performers" are tht
building Of Clemson College, the Win
throp College and the railroad ta1
fight, which really meant that they
must pay the same taxes as others, anG
| venture to say the roads and the peo
pie hereafter will be on more friendly
terms.
You have today an honest and eli
cient Government. 1t is Govern
ment of white people. No one denies
that. Why can't we have peace In
South Carolina2 Nothing we have
done Is disputed. Why not come to.
gether2 All Of our people speak for
peace. never have been able to be.
lieVe that any portion Of our people
can be enemies to the State. Nearly
ali we suffered during Radical days
was brought about to perpetuate the
party. All we want is a Democratic
party in this State. We want one uni
ted force to accomplish our work in
Washington.
The "Reform" party has never de.
pr1Ved anyone Of hts rights. If can
remove any prejudices against the AL
lance would be glad to do so. The
politics Of the Alliance are as open and
as broad as the monday. 1t has no se-
business, like merchants private
mark, Of which none complain. When
the Alliance went In 1t went to fight
trusts and extortions. The farmers
found they must work together, and
when they opened their eyes they
found their Government giving mil
lions Of land to railroads; 1t found 1t
giving $180OO,OOO to sugar growers as
bounty; 1t found farmers almost de.
priyed OF the use of money with which
to raise crops. Then the Alliance got
up its demands in order to get you to
direct your attention to the questions.
| 10 ~,
tIarcb, 1890, / introduced the platform,
from which 1 will read extracts
Mr.. Tlndall made good clear, forci-
| bic anGech.
DIR SAMPSON POPE
made an exceedingly clear cut, open,
plain speech. lie wanted the Constitu.
tion oyerthroWn 30 as to insure white
supremacy. Vote for it, he said, and
there will be no danger of the white
people separating. IIe favored pro.
lection and said: Y ou have not suffer
ed by the sugar bountry. You have
betn benefited more than hurt, getting
five cents sugar. Everything is cheap
as dirt. We only need more money.
The raritf does not hurt you. L would
have voted for high license, but after I
saw the operations Of the dispensary /
now favor the law. II unconstitutional,
| IllCll hS q u BO lOI ulBu
license. Prohibition does not prohibit.
If tho law Is passed there ought to be
a State board of police commissioners.
There never was and would never have
been an innocent mans house searched
l would not be a PrOhibti0nist. The
bitterness was not due to "Reformers,"
but to the newspapers.
lie charged that all the newspapers
except the Greenvllle News and the
Register had worked against the State
refundlng It's debt. The Greenville
News, he said, did not even spell reform
correctly. Mr. Smythe anu others had
gotten $4,000 for defending the rights
of the Coosaw Company, from which
the State gotno money, and 1t was
said he was also paid by the company,
and the old Administrations thought
COosaW could not be made to loosen
its grips.
The announcement OF
| ID. L.. FINLEY
as candidate for Congress brought
about considerable applause. He said,
in opening, that he had always been a
consistent "RefOrmer" He was bound