The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-03
TIL RSDAN, OCTOBER 3, 1899.
dsrrcuylIIr News EXrOriatcI.

stay SO lbI StNcIal Gays, con ana
strike at every thing they hear, re-
gardlcSs of whether they hit or
not. Of course ono need not to en-
pcct otherwise than to be struck
at if he makes an audible noise.
But thc one We arc having SO
much fun with Just now is II bipcd-
al, binocular and dctcrious blunt
racer. He seems to be worry much
annoyed and is continually strik-
ing at everything he hears but to
10 avail as tho record Of tho gen
cral election ON the Goth ult., goes
to show. This peculiar kind Of
reptile has his den somewhere in
the rltv of Grrcnvillc South Car
nllna. lie is not rs long as some
ovlparou5 Reptiles ! hnv" seen, but
he about makes it up m cirrum-
ference. Just exactly how many
departments and different -noors il
took /" max" up his person we arc
unable to say. but anyway in the
top story between the two cranial
dense plates, is an apparatus sortcr
in the shape of what our old grand
mother used tocall "haclirr sock >"
Just how this apparatus works We
have never hccn ahlr to- ascertain,
but anyway with the gratuity of
two fingers and Il thum it manages
to dlsprnSA indrpcndrntism (what
W" have always been taught to y"
a hrot her to radcaIiSm) enough lu
fill one hundred and four copies of
s"ml-werkl ~ edition. called The
Grccnvill" News, Il year. OF course,
IN order to max" lis H,d"prnd'nt-
ism prOcrata, but thanks he IT
- Failed to raise seed enough to- re-.
plaut) this little "sock" had to rs,
Il heap OF ilowcry words, dcnuncia-
tons, quotations., rctrospccts. &c
we'll. W" suppose that this littlC
'sock" had made such nice thing
out of its indcpcndcntlsn, that is
in It's own estimation, by preach
ing to the people that the primary
election was not democratic. was
called without authority of party
law, was not Il white mans primal
~ because lwo-thirds of the whito
men OF the state, of both factions.
did not vot" in it, that it conclud-
cd it know moro than all the dele
gates that had been elected in the
state, and as to its carrying the
county "f Grcnnvillr. that was Il
matter not to hc doubted. Consp-
uncntl y about two weeks before the
lIShrrl a i,,1 r.
OF this llttl" ''sock s. issues an
nounrlng that its editor was at the
head of an independent ticket for
delegates t. the convention from
Gr"rnVll," county. OF course he
sollcll"d liv" others of the Same
tnith to Join thc band Gust to hc
IN accordanc" with the law for this
little "sock' contained wisdom
and knowledg" enough to frame
the constitution, but when tho re-
uulr"d numh"r failed to rrspond,
tn" proprietor of this little "sock"
suggested that they fiji out the
complement with three Of the reg
MAR democratic nominees. orr
course tho Willingness of tho NOM
lnccs was not sought, Like true
ocmocratlc statesmen, some of
th"m, II not all, we bcHcvc, docIn-
"d to run ON that ticket. Tho con-
sequence was the proprietor of the
little "sack" and the head Of the
ticket received onI " 1871 votes out
nl lhlrtN-onp precincts. OF course
IN acoordancc with its editorial
preaching after tho primary there
are only l37 truc democrats. be-
sides the proprietor OF the little
sack, provided he didn't vote for
himself, in Grccnvilc county.
What a pity!
AS we have given aa luculont a
description of the little "sack"
ana is proprietor as we know how,
we wish to draw its attention to
cold and indjsputablo facts.
The editor of the News said that
we discussed the duty Of the Con-
stltutlonsl Convention in our COM
munlcatlon to THE JOURNAL, "es-
peclally the franchise and pIura!
Votlng system" We never did
anything of the kind. There was
no "duty' in IT. We only gavo
our views on tho Kennedy plan as
IL was outlined by the News. We
were not in favor Of the plan thcn
nor are we yet.
me editor of The News seems
20 hoid that the negro should be
In.I ~ In equality with the white man
,"ha,> nI.l, poltlcally and socially, and
wnen nn any ono differs With Kim he
@ olulls them with the fifteenth
amendment Of the Constitution Of
the United States, which raods DC
thus: "The rights of citizona % ns
the United States tovote shall not
be denied or abridged by the Un;tO
ed States, or by any State, on ac.
count of race, color, or previons
condition ofservitude." Now how
II H.