The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-05
acknowledgement
wuEELING, ooro nER ., 1905,


The friends OF good government are
looking with deep concern on what is
going on in South Carolina, whore the
Tillmauiscs are doing their Lowell best to
lick into shape the most fantastic con-
satution ever adopted by any state in
this Union. Harper's Weekly, which
in tho,e days is certainly not biased in
favor Of anything Republican, says that
"whatsver will give to white ignorance
and corruption the control OF South
Carolina win be adopted Dy Senator
Tillman'S convention"
So itseems, and it seems further that
the state lies helpless in the hands Of
the Tilmanites, as precious gang OF
Rdysnturera as ever cursed q state. The
rule OF the carpst.bSggers becomes re.
spectacle aud highly honorable in COM
pariSon. Harpsrs Weekly takes a
glance backwards and recalls little
history:
There are Thousands Of good men IL South
Carolina. but In the hands OF the IllImAnilei
they are pOWOflesa as the negroes have been
since the DAY when Made Hampton became soT..
cTnor, and the state started Oh what WAS hopel
would DO q career OF good fortune Then tue
rule OF tie whites began. but a. last the eleay'
age has come in the ranks OF what Is called the
dominant Iaco iheu, and the division Is be,
tween ignorance aud corruption on one side aud
Intelligence and character on the Other The
Tillmanltes stand between the best OF the whitOs
and the negroes. hating and fearing both and
for the time a. least South Carolina taxes ~
place rs the most backward OF the states In tue
art Of government.
The old governing class in South
Carolina wanted white rule aud rO.
sorted to fraud aud violence to mako
sure Of it. They made it so hot for the
negroes and the few white men who
acted with them that they stamped out
the Republican party. Then they
looked for "a career OF good fortune"
1t was u vain hope. The conditions
were intolsrablo under i republican
form Of government, aud good fortune
for the state was impossible.
The dominant class OF whites, the
arissocraLic people Of the COAT, had
shown that it was possible to rule the
state without any regard to the law Of
the land, merely by the suppression Of
numerous vote. The up.country pso.
pie, who have onvIed and hated the
coast people, were apt to learn the
lesson. They saw that the thing could
be done and went in to profit by 1t,
Tillman is an up.coun!ry man, a con.
summate demagoguo aud the ,hrewdost
Of the lot. Under his leadership the
men who siIonced tho colored vote aud
wiped out the Republican party have
been sent to the rear, having now no
moro potent VOICE in tho government Of
tho state than the colorod voters have.
The very thing has happened that
might have been expected. The mon
who diggcd the pit have fallen thOrein.
II tho mon who have been Overridcn
by Tillman's gang could regain their
lost footing with tho assistance Of tho
coiorOd vote they would DO ready enough
to avail themselves Of that assistance,
but Ti!lman haa them bound hand and
foot ard they cannot movO agGInIt him.
1illmanism will run its course, but
meanwhile the state will pay dearly for
him aud his.
No sympathy need be wasted on the
men who showed Tillmau the way aud
stimulated him to action, but every
American will regret that any state Of
this Union cad TALL SO low as tho once
proud state Of South Carolina has fallen.
The ario.ocrnIs OF that state have made
their own bed, and uncomfortable a, 1t
is thOy must Ito in II for while.
IT Is suggested that we create tiIIsI Of