Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-09-19
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BOLTOCRAT MANIFESTO.
Goldbugs Asked to Vote For Palmer ant
Buckner.

Although unable to muster a corpo-
rails guard at the polls, there is moth
ing To prevent the goldbugs in this
state from issuing manifestoes, and
last Tuesday afternoon they took ad-
vantage of their privilege as follows: {:
To the Democrats of South Carolina:
The national Democratic conven-
ton which assembled at Indianapolis
on the End of September, mindful of
the trust imposed by Democratic ira
ditions, jealous of the honor and true
to the principles of the parry, entered
its solemn protest against the platform
and nominees of the Chicago conven-
ton against the dangerous and radi.
cal experiment of the free and unlimi-
ted coinage of silver, and against the
unholy wedlock of Democracy with the
painted jade of Populism and the Com
mune.
Formulating platform, worthy of
the best days of the republic, broad
enough, strong enough and sound
enough to afford secure footing for all
honest, intelligent and patriotic Amer
cans, it placed upon it candidates for
the presidency and vice presidency
representing all that is best of Ameri-
can honor, valor, political experience
and ability, and confidently appeals to
American manhood for support.
Elsewhere in this broad land Com
munism, Populism and executive tyr
amy is dread, fear. In South Car
olina it is an experience.
For six long years we have witness
ed the suppression of individual llber.
ty, the violation of corporate and
municipal rights, the usurpation of ex.
ecutive authority, the domination Of
the legislature and the prostitution of
the judicial department of our state
government, all in the sacred name of
the people. -,
We have seen our citizens murdered
without redress by the armed constab-
ulary of an irresponsible and tryan-
nous executive. We have seen the
felon's stripe placed upon a citizen
within the walls of the peniteutiary
without a trial Ivy jury, and upon the
decree of subservient judiciary, at
the bidding of one who now impru.
IDENTIFY and dishonesty inveighs against
government by injunction"
We have seen the time honored and
chartered right of local self.govern-
ment rudely stricken down for party
purposes and to crafty personal pique
and preference.
We have seen the registered appeal
of our people for prohibition answered
by a state monopoly of the whisky
traffic, besotting the people in the
name of law and debauching the
weak virtue of our chosen officials,
and as a natural and fitting sequence,
our political atmosphere reeks with
the putrescence arising from the un-
covered graves of private and official
corruption.
The methods, the purposes and the
very utterances of the Chicago nomi-
nee for president are painfully familiar
to Carolinians:
The effort to array class against class,
country against town, the poor against
the rich, the appeals to passion, pre-
judice and ignorance, the reckles at
tacks upon the judiciary, the charges
of peculation, fraud and dishonesty in
high places, are but faithful echoes of
campaign methods in this state within
the memory of all.
Make no mistake, fellow Democrats !;
! Bryanism is but Tillmanism upon ma
tional scale.
That South Carolina was the hatch
| ing place of Tillmanism is charged
against her, and resented in all sections
of the republic. That she still sup
ports it and attempts to thrust it upon
the entire country by insisting upon
the election of the Chicago nominees
after six years of experience and test
will Justly expose US 10 the execration
of our fellow men throughout the land.
AS Democrats we cannot vote 1or
the nominees of the Republican party.
By us, protection for the mllilonaire
manufacturer cannot be distinguished
from protection for the millionaire
mineowner.
We cannot vote for the nominees OF
the Chicago convention and risk rep
elton Of our own experience for SIX
years, enlarged to the dimensions OF
the republic and intensified by the CO.
operation of such forces and agencies
of anarchy as fortunately we do not
possess in this state.
No man in South Carolina who is
unwilling to see Tilimanism played
upon the national stage, with the army
and navy of the United States IN the
role of Tillman militia, congress repre-.
senting the "driftwood" "June bug
legislature, and the supreme court, the
creature, the puppet and the obedient
slave of an autocratic executive, can
afford to vote for William Jennings
Bryan for president, or for those in the
legislative department who will sustain
his effort to subvert the department OF
justice to party purposes, and the de-
partment of finance to private gain.
We deny the wild and frantic allega-
tions that the neonle of South Carroll