Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-04-01
clear to bolt with. aBen Bolt" just
vet aWhile.-Cllnton Gazette.


there are grave abuses in our finan-
cial system is only too apparent to
every one, but to follow Doctor
Tillman absolutely would be SIM
ply Topping from the frying pan
into the fire.
But the Senator has cast the die
and declares himself finally pre-
pared to cross the Rubicon.-Char-
lesion Sun.
Hon. W. D. MaYfeld, member
for South Carolina of the Bimetal-
ic National Committee, issued
through Tuesdays daily papers a
two column address urging strong
ly that the fight for free silver must
be made within the Democratic
party if success is hoped for. Gov.
Evaus said of the address that it
was sail rrght."-Barnwell People.
Mr.. W. D. May6eld's address to
the "bimetallic Democrats" of
South Carolina which appeared in
Tuesdays papers, barring a few
unnecessary diversions, is along
the right line and we agree with
him in toto that the fight should
be made within the Democratic
party, for therein lies silver's only
hope of success. An independent
movement in this state would be
suicidal and would drive away
most Of the white metals most en-
thuslastic supporters.--Spartan-
burg Herald.
This paper yields to none in its
devotion to silver and has and viii
exert all its power and ability to
accomplish the financial reform it
believes to lie conducive to the
best interests of this country.
However, we firmly believe that
he relief we desire can be had only
through the democratic party and
we propose to adhere to tha' party
and its principles so long as they
represent what we consider the
wisest and best course in rational
politics. We believe that free sill
yer will come in time and that it
will he through the medium Of the
democratic party. 1t may not be
this year, but silver will in time be
accorded ju:tice and at the hands
of the democratic party, The prin-
ciples Of the democratic party are
100 firmly imbedded in our nature,
its history and traditions are too
dear to US for us ever to desert its
standard unles all that endears it
to us is prosti,uted and destroyed.
Whether it-accepts or rejects sill
yer, we shall remain in its ranks
With abiding hope that it Will
return. to the faith Of its founders
which it seems to have forsaken for
the time.
Mr.. Tillman in his letter to The
Register takes position thorough
ly inconsistent and untenable. He
wishes to be sent as a democrat to
democratic convention with the
avoWed purpose of boiling that con-
ventioa if its action does not please
hint. lie arrogates to himself the
,ioht tS define what national de-
mocracy means and what consti-
tutes a democrat. He proposes to
do exactly what the Haskellites did
when they bolted the State conven-
sicn in 1890, and after denouncing
that faction as bitterly and as per-
sistently as he did, it comes with
poor grace for him to advocate
boiling the national convention.
and it will be hard to convince the
people of South Carolina that his
action IS honest and that ambition
to receive the nomination for the
presidency on the Silver ticket is
not the ruling motive.-Spartan-
burg Herald.
To show our intelligent people
that they can hope for nothing
from The silverites or p7pullsts, we
have only to refer to the wrangling
and strife now going on among
those would-be boilers IN our own
State. Senator Tillman advises
remaining in The democratic party,
but boiling unless free silver
platform is adopted. Let South
Caroline, send delegation to Chi
cago under any such instructions,
and the only way they will ever en-
ter the convention hall would be
to mob the sergeant-at-arns or
climb down the chimney. =
** We must go into the next
democratic convention as demo
Gratis, and send free and uninstruct-
ed delegates. Our people are for
free silver, and we believe that a
majority of country is with US. But
if those in favor of bi-metalism
divide and split up into warning
factions, of course the gold bugs
will take advantage of the situation
to control matters in their own in
terest. But of one thing we do feel
assured: If the county cannot Sc
cure relief through the democratic
party, then we had as we'll hang
our harp on a willow troe, sing the
Long Meter Doxology, and dismiss
the congregation.
The word Democrat" in the
South means more than any polit-
ical movement. 1t means the rule
of tba wbi+a noaioritv-tha no1iti-