The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-03-13
The People and the Woman.

Some twenty-four years ago a DO
litical campaign was started in this
State pitched on the charge that the
State was ruled by "an oligarchy of
aristocrate." The charge was false,
but majority of the people believed
it and they came to believe that they
had been delivered out of the hand
of the "aristocrats." A result of the
campaign was cruel, senseless and
wholly artificial division of the peo-
pie of South Carolina, and one group
of citizens was taught to hate an
other group but, according to the
claims of the faction that won, the
"plai npeople" were raised to power
IN the government. We suppose that
it will hardly be disputed that they
have been in power ever since-at any
rate their great leader, Captain Till
man, was reelected to the United
States senate last year and one of
his early and devoted followers was
reelected governor.
In the course of time a Young conn
try girl of York county, the daugh-
ter of "Reformer" or "Tillmanite. !"
went to the peoples college for wo-
men that Tillman established at Rock
Hill and thence she went to the Med
lcal College in Charleston, where she
graduated with honors. Naturally
enough, this talented girl of the peo-
pie was given an opportunity to
serve the people in a State institu
ton, the Hospital for the Insane,
where it is unanimously agreed that
she has labered seven or eight years
with zeal, unselfishness and marked
ability for the diseased and afflicted.
Within the last few months war
has been waged against this woman.
Of course, there is chorus of de-
nial from all sides that any one in
tended to injure her reputation or to
reflect upon her work or to hurt
her feelings or to drive her from
her post, but that denial is not ac-
cepted by DR.. Eleanora B. Saunders.
When man or woman is bounded,
he or she usually knows it and if
this woman, who is representative of
the plain people of York county and
an honor to them, has not been bad
eered, heckled, nagged at and hound
ed, then she has not known what
size has said when under oath she
testified in er own behalf. 1t is not
now for The State to say that she has
received this treatment, notably on
the twelfth day of last December. but
neither is it for The State to saw
that what she says is untrue.
Now The State and thousands of
people who have been it's staunch and
abiding friends have been accused for
twenty-four years of being "aristo-
Gratis" and the "enemies of the plain
people" However ridiculous the az
cnsation may be and is, it is hardly
the obligation OF The State, thus
suspected and maligned, to take the
lead in defending the cause of Dr.
Ejeanora b. Saunders and in asking
that those whom she regards as her
prosecutors and traducers be re-
buked.
The case rests with the people OF
Socth Carolina and, more particu-
iarly, with those Ct the people who
have long been ar.ayed agains. the
"aristocrats." The "aristocrats" and
"'c'learchists," SO called, usually have
taken care Of their women-at least,
there is not on record in South Car
oiina the history of any kind of fight
or warfare waged against a woman
in public or private life by these peo-
pie who have been falsely described
as "aristocrats" and who are in very
truth of the same blood and ancestry
with this woman of York.
The "plain people" are in power
in South Carolina. They are a great
majority Of the voters. The next
primary elections viii lprove whether
or not they stand by their women.
They can't avoid, whether thew would
or not, wkriting verdict by their bal
lots, for or against DIR. Eleanora B.
Saunders. It will be verdict for
or against the poor girl who fights