The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-01-17

"The politicians must be made to
| take a back seat and let the people
themselves set the pace. To do that the
people should meet in their neighbor-
hood clubs and send delegates to a
State Convention, which will adopt a
platform and nominate candidate for
Governor to represent our people on
that platform. A Lieutenant Governor
should also be put up, but the re-
ma;nder of the State officers can be
nominated by the delegates to the Sep
tember Convention.
s'The State Convention for this pur-
pose should be held not later than the
month of March-before the farmers
get too busy in their crops to attend to
il. and before bad blood rises between
the friends of the aspirants for the Gov
ernorship on the Reform side.
"The Alliance caunot take part IN
partisan politics, and therefore has
only the right to point out the necessl-
ty of calling the people together and
leaving it to some one else to do Ohe
work. We believe that the last presl-
dent and executive committee of the
Farmers Association of this State are
the proper ones to issue such CALL
and we are confident that the people
would respond promptly and unanl-
nously to call issued by them. This
is movement of the people to reform
and improve our government, and not
. movement to place any man or set
of men in Office merely. We must
keep Oh the high ground of pure os-
triotism, and seek out the men for ser
vice who will be the most capable OF
carving out our wishes. Measures
and not men must be made prominent.
"It will be noticed that we do not
agree with some points in the resolu-
tions passed on last Friday by our Lau-
reDs brethren and published elsewhere
in this issue; but after mature consld-
Grafton we feel satisfied that our posi-
ton is the correct one. We hope that
our readers will use our columns 10
discussion of the matter, and IN that
way reach the most satisfactory conclu-
sion. We have briefly outlined our
views, with reasons therefor, and we
shall use our best endeavor to maintain
the rights and privileges of our people
ard promote harmony il the work."
THE ALLIANCES PART.
1t will be noticed that the Alliance
is to be kept in the background as far
as being political machine is concern
ed, bat great deal Of good solid work
has been done by the leaders among
the Alliancemen all over the State, and
they will be as a unit against the oppos-
ingfaction.
THOSE LAURENs RESOLUTIONS.
Yesterday a representative of The
State had quite long talk with one or
two of the leaders of the Alliance side.
They say that the leaders of the other
side will be Irby, Stanyarne Wilson,
Larry CAN'T and John Gary Evans.
They seem to think that a combination
was formed nearly year ago by Iroy
and his followers to run things to suit
themselves and make slate of the
officers for the coming term, which
would be presented to the voters and
would be swallowed by them. They
say that the effort to crush out every
leading Tillman mau-the attacks upon
Tindal, McLaurin and others-was the
direct result of this combination engi-
neered by Irby. They consider Irby
dead as far as State politics are con-
cerned. In regard to those Alliance
resolutions adopted in Laurens few
days ago, one Of these men yesterday
said that they were gotten up under
Irby's influence, and represented no.
body's views but his own. He was a
good manipulation, and got the County
Alliance to adopt them. He did not
think that another Alliance in the
State would have done so.
TILLMAN HANDS OFF.
The leaders say that inasmuch as this
will not affect Governor Tillman's fight
for the Senate, he will be hands off in
the fight. They say that 1rby has been
spreading the idea that he and Tillman
have been working together. They
know that Governor Tillman's views
in regard to convention are notthose
that were expressed in the Laurens
resolutions. They think, too, that
Governor Tillman wants u farmer for
Governor.
Before and Since.