The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-04-07
COUNTY ALLIANCE.

L Ik NV dotNA WHY AAtCOpAhE VI OuiO
Alliance convened at Lisbon on
Friday, Bird inst. State Lecturer
Welborn was present and delivered
one of the most practical adj
dresses on the principles, aims and
purposes of the order ever listened
to in this county. The meeting
was enthusiastic and a large crowd
was in attendance. The most inn
portant question of the times-the
financial issue-is the result of AL
lance teachings, and the three
patriotic souls-three old farmers
of TeSas-who first agitated the
alliance question ought to have
monuments erected to their MEM
DRY as imposing as that to Wash
ington.
While the Alliance throughout
the entire county may not be as
large in enrolled members as for
merly there is no disputing the
fact that its principles are in
stilled deeper than aver in the
minds of the. people and they do
not intend to be "blown off the
track" by designing politicians
and place-seekers. The following
resolutions we're reported by a
committee appointed for the pur-
pose and passed almost unani-
mously:
WHEREAS, certain interested and
self-seeking politicians, are attempting
to blind the people as to the great,
burning and paramount issue of the
national campaign now pending, towit
the question of finance, by magnifying
the name Of Democracy, while they APP
pear to ignore it's true principles and
to be oblivious to the vital interests of
the people involved, it is becoming in
this County Alliance, which claims to
represent in part, the producing classes
in the contest now waging, to give a
public expression of opinion. Be it
therefore,
RESOLVED, 1st. That we value the
name of J~effersonian Democracy for
its grand achievements in the past and
it's ~unwavering loyalty to the true in-l
terests of the people under the leader
olllp VI OSIleISOI, CdChSOu dilu OdIIlOuI,
while we spurn, lOathe and abhOr the
name of a Spurious democracy domi-
mated by gOld-bugs, who, instigated by
selfish greed, would enslave the people
and confscate their property.
End. That the National Democratic
party is soon to undergo the crucial
test, by the attitude it shall assume on
the question of financial reform at it's |
meeting in Chicago to lay down a
platform and to nominate a Democratic |
candidate for President of these United |
States, and should it, by its action,
prove false and an enemy of the inter- |
ests of the great producing classes, we,
as Jetfersonian democrats are hence
forth absOlved from all obligation to
give it further support.
3D.. That it is the duty of every |
white democrat Of South Carolina to |
go to the election and select delegates
to the May Convention at Columbia, |
who are true to u alliance demands
and "the principles we have been con-
tending for" The State Convention
should send a trusted delegation to
Chicago with a platform of principles
clearly laid down as a basis for their
action. And on the one overpowering
and burning question of finance, we
should demand of the National Demo-
cratic Party a clear and unmistakable
utterance for free silver at IS to 1, the
issue of all paper money by the govern
ment in sufficient volume, and a sys-
tenn of banking which will provide
against the concentration and conges-
ton of money in the large cities to the
detriment and ruin of the country.
4th, That to insure victory all true
friends of free-silver should subOrdi-
nate al other issues to this great one,
and vote for no candidate for President
who is not q bona-fide and uncondi-
tional friend of free-silver, without re-
gard to party name or utilization.
Tho nauspopop hn,oinooo 10 still hoop.