The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 03, 1890, Image 1
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Vol. I.
SKNATOH 11A NI'TON.
His Words of Warning mul Wisdom
at Columbia?Counsels
Unity in t lie 1 >einoerat io l*nrt.v.
Columbia ltcglstwr
At 11:15 Chair.nan Sloan called
me meeting to order and announced
that the Rev. Dr. Ellison Capers
would open with prayer.
Rev. Dr. Capers invoked the Divine
blessing as follows:
Almighty God, the fountain of all
wisdom, who knowcth our necessities
before wv ask, and our ignorance in
asking, we humbly beseech Thee to
have compassion 011 our infirmities
and\those things which for our miworthiness
we dare not and for our
blindness we cannot, ask. forgive
us all our sins for Jesus Christ's
sake And < >, God, who dost from
thv throne in heaven heboid all the
dwellers on earth, most heartily we
beseech Thy favor and blessings upon
Thy servants, the Governor of
the State, the officers of the State,
our good people and all in authority
over us. And so replenish them
with Thy grace and holv spirit that
they may always be inclined to walk
in Thy ways. And <h Gracious father,
we especially invoke Thy bless
ings upon these Thy servants assembled
here. Re gracious to direct all
ll.. ..111!' 1 i 1 1
uiu cuusiiiunions to inc auvaneeliient
of Thy. good and Thy church,
tind the safety and honor and welfaro
of our whole people. And let all
things he at last settled upon the ha
sis of the surest foundation, truth
and justice, religion and piety. Mer
cifully grant Thy holy spirit in our
hearts may dir.eet and rule us
through Jesus Christ our Lord:
Amen.
UKTTINU ItKAlJY TO L18TKN.
As the meeting was opened and
the people began to collect near to
thu stand, some from the seats, hut
many new arrivals, and the big
crowd expected gradually began to
materialize.
An old man in the front ranks of
the the crowd called for three cheers
for General Hampton, and the same
was grven with right good will.
Constant accessions soon so enlarged
the audience that the fainthearted
ones, who at the outset had
feared that the meeting would fail
to reach the magnitude expected,
were reassured, and might well be.
Almost the entire space between
the stand and the new building was
occupied by a crowd which could not
for the hot rays of the sun, nor J. he
fatigus of standing so long as they
could, see and hear the speakers.
The umbrellas raised to temper
_ ^ the former, however, gave this portion
of the assemblage the appearance
of a sea of umbrellas, with}
waves of si lk, ,',erge and alpaca. Beneath
was a "sea of faces'," however,
honest, earnest, intelligent faces,
tilled with interest and beaming
with delight or clouded with frowns
as the points made, or sought to be
made, commanded their approval
and sympathy or their condeuma
tion.
STAHflNG THK SPEAKING.
After a brief interval for the arrival
of late comers; Chairman Sloan
advanced to the front of ihe stand
and motioned for attention.
Chairman Sloan spoke in substance
as follows:
Ladies and gentleman and fellow
Democrats: I appeal to you to day
for order and for peace. I appeal to
you to give to each speaker a respectful
hearing. We must, have order.
We intend to have it, peacefully
if you wish it, otherwise if yon
demand it.
The first Speaker I have the pleas
lire o? introducing to you the Hon.
Wade Hampton, (loud cheers) that
< grand hero of South Carolina, who
>1 in all her emergencies of war-or
A peace has ever had had her true wel l\
fare at heart and never has been
K I found lac Wing. (Tremendous cheering.)
He has come from far otT
lauds and has been on the cars for
Hp days and nights to reach this place
in order to discuss the issues of the 1
day?issues that threaten the <1 is
ruption of our party and the demoralization
of the grand old State.
AN OVATION TO HAMPTON.
As Senator I lampion rose to speak
he was made the recipient of an ovation
such as might justly till the
heart of any man with pride. A tre
mcndous chorus of shouts and cheers
rose. Men waved their hats and
tossed them aloft, and cheered and
cheered again. The ladies waved
v their handkerchiefs, the hand's
CO N \V
strains wore drowned in the almost a
deafening welcome tendered South t
Carolina's senior Senator. This con- c
tinned for minutes, and as in a com h
partitive lull the notes of "Dixie' h
were heard thu people went wild r<
again, and it was only when the c
County Chairman signed for silence a
that the cheering ceased and Senator f
Hampton was allowed to proceed. n
The old war horse was in his best h
form, looking the embodiment of
power. Am he gradually warmed up o
in spirit by the importance of theoo I
eassou and the interest of his theme t
he paced the platform, and shoved n
back the sleeves of the thin coat he n
wore and emphasized his points with p
forceful gesture. I o
sknatok wade ii amllton's speech, tl
Mr. Chairman and my fellow citi- t
i/.ens of South Carolina: The
warmth of the greeting Unit you have |(
given me has touched my heart so
that I have hardly words with which
to thank you. I have come in obe- ,
dieiiee to the call of the Executive ^
Committee of this my own County. (j
that County whose people for years |
and years past have given me every ^
honor in their power, and whom. I jhave
tried to serve with every ener
gy of my heart, my arm or my h<
tongue that I might come here to h
speak to them today of the grave ei
issues?the gravest 1 may say that '|
have touched our Stats since 1S7??;:
that 1 might consult with our Dent
ocratie friends how best to preserve (,<
not only 1 he Democratic party, hut ai
the welfare and prosperity of ali the J\
people of the South. I have eonie ),
to see the survivors 1870, those men .
whose heroism, whose devoted efforts !'
whose sublime courage, redeemed 11
the State from rule more disgraceful
more humiliating, more ruinous
than ever a civilized people were ,
subjeced to; I have come to meet
them again, to iook into tne laces of
of the men who sustained tne 1870, 11
to have eousel with them, to ask I
them, what we shall do, and to listen y
to what thev may have to say. '
My friends, before 1 begin to dis-i
cuss the issues, let me say that I concur
heartily with what .the Chairman a
has said. I implore you to treat cv- e<
cry candidate to-day in the most, res j
pectful manner, for I am ashamed to (
say that, has not been done in some
of the meetings in South Carolina. ''
When I saw in the papers the other t
day that that old hero who had led i>
South Carolina in the jaws of death,
and who bears upon his body honorable
sears to show his devotion to ?
South Carolina?[cheers]?when I '
saw that, a South Carolina audience (
could insult General brat ton n
[cheers]?1 thought: Good God! o
how the memories of'til,'05 and '70 N
have been obliterated! and of all that si
had been done by the men who tried t
to Sl'l'vn Stnnfb I lurrtlinn lino !t .'II >
vw .,V. . r VHWM VUlV/MUUj I I CI O II' #111 I
been forgotten? Oh, mv frieiuls, let e
that not ho said of liichland County, i:
Treat every" man with respect; hear |i
everything. We arc told that this a
is to be a campaign of education, t
Let it be so; but how can it bo unless o
all the speakers are given a rcepect- a
ful and attentive audience? And 1 p
ask it not only for those here, but I n
ask for myself that you will hear me <?
for my cause, for my cause is the o
one t hat has been next to my heart |
and of my heart?my cause is South s
Carolina's cause. [Cheers.]
I have come, my friends, to discuss
measures, principles and policy not
men. It would be eminently iin- (
proper in me either to advocate the ^
claims of any candidate, or to con- t<
demn or criticize anyone with whose v
views, with whose methods and with s
whose policy I do not agree. It v
would be improper and indelicate, /
and I have no idea of so doing. Kv lj
cry citizen in South Carolina has a t
right to seek office. It is a laudable Is
ambition, and if that will inspire f
him to seek it by honorable means
and honorable methods, I know of
no higher cause in which man can
engage himself. Hut we are now
confronted 1
WITII TIIK (1KA.VHST I SSL" KB. 11
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>>'j iiiiw ij;m kj ineei inyeurs pa*i.
I come here and find division among
Democrats of South Carolina.
When I remember the scene that.
I witnessed on this very spot, in '70,1
this space was packed with men who!
had gone through the campaign (for J
this was the la;t meeting); when I
remember that those galleries were;
filled with fair and devoted women, i
who contributed so much to our
success; when I remember the. chil- j
I dren were enrolled in our ranks, and
prayed for the success of the Democratic
party,when I remember that
i we all stood side by side and shouUlster
to shoulder to meet a common
i enemy, I confess that my heart sinks
when f see this division amongst ourj
selves. v i
It is said to be only family quari
rel but, my friends, you know no
quarrel in the. world can he so bitter
:.y'
" fx True to )
A Y^. C A r
s a family quarrel. Wo are told
hat both faction* are of the Denioratic
party?Democrats they doubtjssare.
In tbo ranks of both arei
onest, conscientious, patriotic men.
pcogni/.e that: I know it; I appre-1
iato it. I do all honor to men who'
re following convictions, lint, niv
riends, let me tell you that we
ecdn't go very far for a pregnant
?sson to teach us
WHAT Will. UK Til K IIMM'l'
I'a divison in the Democratic ranks,
jook al our old sister commonwealth,
lie Stiite of Virginia. You jill re*
lumber that when Hancock was
oiuinated for President that Mahone
laced in the Held an electoral tick
I in opposition to the regular const i111eel
one, and yet they all declared
luit they wero^ Democrats.. And
lnit was the result? The State was
>st. Mahone became a lleadjuster
n I ndependent, and as an Indepen*
ent Democrat as he claimed himself
> be he was elected to the I'nited
tsites Senate. In his tirst utterance
here he said that he was a better
>eniocrat than the Senator from
leorgia, lien Hill. And v?d, mv
. . i *
riends, immediately thereafter he
dd himself to the Republicans and
ccaine a most -hitter and malignant
iiein\ to his own people. [Cheers]
'hank Hod, the Did Dominion has
deemed herself, and Mahone is
unsigned to the infamy he deserves,
nd I hope to perpetual oblivion,
hid 1 pray to (iod that, such may
e the fate of all such renegades and
ulepcndeiils as he. [A pandonionini
of applause. |
Now, mv friends, that is a lesson i
e should take home to ourselves. I
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IF \VK UIVIOi: \VK SHALL KALI,
ii o:isv compiest, to our enemies,
riito?I we can defy nil attacks. I >o
on not see Hint, even now on the
alemlurs of Congrss are election i
iws framed by our bitter enemies, I
ml wbieb will leave the Federal el-!
t ions practically in the hands of j
'nited States surpervisors; and our i
lumbers of Congress will be certified j
.) by Federal Judges instead of by 1
lie authorities of South Carolina? It<
? a frightful danger before us,
W F, M LSI ST A Nl) TOO KT1I K It,
r we shall surely fail. It is said,
hat there is a great depression in
he farming interests of the South?!
ot only in the South, but through-;
ut the whole country. I know t hat,
[y friends, I feel it, and I need not j
ny to you that 1 sympathize with
he farmers, for I have been one du- j
ing my whole life, and it is an oeupat
ion of all others most congou il
to me. Hut what laws can be
asscd by a Legislature, or how can
Governor of South Carolina help
he farmers? Now can the Governor
f South Carolina, whose functions
re only advisory, and who cannot
ass laws?who cannot have any
lore effect in passing upon the laws
f South Carolinathan the President!
f the I'nited States?how can help
he people is beyond my comprehen-:
ion.
We* want good government. Wo
ant justice done to every one, audit
an only he done by the people of
louth Carolina taking everything in
a t heir own hands. As I have said
re have been called slaves and
erfs. I believe I am free, I believe
ery man in South Carolina is free,
tnd if you complain that there has
iecn any wrong in packing of conions,
or anvthing of that sort in
Ionth Carolina, I say to your face
III". PEOPLE TH KMSKI.V Ett AUK TO
HI.A ME,
If the people do not choose good
nen for their conventions, or in their
irimarics they do not choose good
nen, it is because the people tlicmelves
do nor take interest enough
n the elections to do their proper,
hare of the work. I say that con_
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(_ 1111o11m cm< oc; coimuctcu m a perectlv
proper ami straightforward
iianncr.
I have no objections to primaries,
would be perfectly willing that
very Democratic in the State should
xpross his vote at the polls. Hut |
say that the people in South Our-1
diua have been as free from all wrong
rom all rule from all oligarchy,
rom all aristocracy?I do not know j
vhat aristocracy is. Cod knows I
lo not know. I do not recognize1
tnybody in South Carolina as comnon
people. I recognize every true j
)emocrat, and especially if he is a
nan who stood by 111c ill the
var, or the son of such a man, I re i
-ognizo. f Loud cheers. | Talk of ar-.
stocracy in South Carolina. If there
s any man here who followed nie
luring the war I appeal to him to
iear mo witness that 1 treated every
nan in tho ragged jacket as well as
did the man that wore the stars on
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on/ II 'ord, )))/(/' II 'of/c ant/ )
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his coat. [Voices from the crowd: I
"You did so"?loud cheers for j
Hampton.] They were not only my
e(|iials but my superiors, because,
the private soldier, the man who
stood more the brunt of the battle;
and the privations of war, had less
of the credit than the officer. [Cheers)
TUB KlH-TJtKASUHY SCI I KM K.
%. Now, my friends, you have seen !
t he proposition that they have j
'brought into Congress, that they call
the Sub-Treasury or warehouse system,
and our distinguished Senator;
from California, Senator Stanford,
introduced a bill the other day I
by which he proposes to lend money
to the fanners, on mortgages, at 1
per cent., and then he very innocent ;
ly adds t hat these men can make a
good ileal by lending out this money i
at <? and 7 per cent. I hardly think
that Mr. Stanford with his millions,;
whew he was a railroad president,
would, have conducted his business
on that line. I hardly think it
would be a good speculation for the
Cnited States government to lend
money at 1 per cent, and pay for
borrowing it. And beyond all, neither
of the measures can pass because
both are unconstisutional.
IT IS NOT T11 H I.AWS OK Til V. STAT K,
that have been oppressing the farmers,
but it is the Federal law..
There's where the pressure is j
brought upon the farmer.*., the laboring
and industrial interests. Protection!
I am not for free trade, I am
not for it because it is impracticable.
Ilecnusc 1 say the farming interests
should receive all the benefit ?
KAIII.U's roKDIAI. WUI.COMK.
Of a sudden a wild yell of joy rose I
from those on the outskirts of the
crowd. The cause was soon apparent:
at the head of the delegation
from Sumter ami other near by
inu'iK i uii 11111,, I..... I oil....... .......a
? li W iKIIIMI V \| OllUII^, I I I 11 I I IIUVI
across the arena Attorney (ioneral
Marie. As t he people realized who
had come, they showed their appreciation
of the bold and fearless defender
of South Carolina's fair fame
by resounding cheers, (lencral
Marie's progress to the stand was a
triumphal march, The people's
hearts were full of sentiments which
could find vent only in shouts and
hurrahs, and evinced the strong hold
theCenera! has gained on Kichland
Democrats as well us those of the
rest of the State.
NOT! NO Tin: disti noflsii kl> arrival.
Now, my friends, I notice another
has come, and I do not propose to
detain you any longer. If you will
give me three minutes more I will
conclude, and you will be as glad as
1 will be. I only want to say a few
words in conclusion as to the motive
which brought, nie here. In every
canvas since 1870 I have taken the
part which the Executive Committee
has assigned me. I have worked for
the supremacy of the Democratic
party. When you placed the Hag of
the Democracy in our State, House,
from that day to this 1 have felt the
suprumesL inieresi in me success or
that, grand old party, and 1 have
eome down here to appeal to the men j
who once listened to me, who once
trusted me, who once had confidence
in me?1 have come to appeal to j
them, as I would to my old brigades
on the eve of going into action, to
stand shoulder to shoulder.
I implore you, men of South Carolina,
not to forget the past. J implore
you not to allow passion or
prejudice to dethrone your reason.
It, is useless to say that we are all
Democrats, and it is useless to say
you arc all Democrats when we do
anything that, may divide the Denr
ocratic party. (Cheers.) Stand together,
I implore you. 1 have no
personal interest in this canvas. I
can have none. The people of South i
Carolina have bestowed upon me j
every honor in their gift, and as I
stand here under the gentle skies of
my native soil, I declare to you on
my honor I would rather he Governor
of South Carolina than to be pros-1
ident of the United States. (Loud
applause) You have bestowed every
honor upon nic which I value, and J
I value still more than all the politi-1
cal honors the kindness and affection
which have been showered upon me i
1)V the food neonleof Mnnfh flur/.ll
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nti.
A PATHKTIC ALLUSION.
}.ry career must soon close. In
the natural course of events I cannot
hope to be hero much longer. I i
hopo to God tluit when the time
oomqp T shall rest forever in the soil1
'our Cou ufrtf. '
v Y, .11JI :
which gave n?e birth, and (hut my K
eves will look over a happy, prosper- .
ous and united people. I hope that
the merciful CJod may shower every j'
blessing upon the people; and I end 1
by saying; "tied save the old State."' 1
(l.oiui and continued applause.)
TO STK.\iiTII! :M:\TIIOI si
A Halt to ItciMibiican Violence
ItocklcHS I'art Ihuii*.
j ?
The Federal flection hill, forced
through the party caucus of the 1
llousc on Monday evening last, says '
the Philadelphia Ti/m's editorially 1 '
in to day's issue, is so monstrous in 1
its revolutionary features that Speak -' '
cr I iced and his fellow conspirators,;*
in the attempt to maintain political 1
power bv violence, feared I*) allow 1
the liepuhli?*an Congressman to see
its provisions until the caucus was
ready to ply the lash. 1
The hill is modiiied only in its 1
least offensive features, while all the
revolutionary provisions of both the
hills presented are retained. It is, r
in brief, a hill to enable an irrespou- '
sihle partisan Board of Federal Canvassers,
not answerable to the people
of a State or their laws, to declare
who is elected to Congress in each
district of the State, and the Clerk
of the House is required to place on- i
ly < ho names of persons so certified j
on the roll of the Mouse for the organization
of the body, under penalty
of fine or imprisonment. 1
The I louse onee organized under
this revolutionary method, there
could he no redress; no matter how:
sweeping the violence of the fraud:'
and the fa that the authors of this '
bill have seated contestants who '
were beaten four to one at their
home elections, proves the purpose '
of Speaker lieed ami his fellow revolutionists
to steal the next House
from the people. They know that
they will lose it; they mean to steal
(lie power (1 i;it tlx- people refuse
Ihi'in.
I'll is bill is preceded by u judicial
bill, authorizing (lie appoiiitniont of
many new Federal .lodges, so (hut
I he source of t he election supervisors
shall he surely partisan; and ? v
cry Congressional district of each i
State is to be registered, practically
counted and certified by a partisan
Federal Board, whose decision shall
be absolutely iinal in compelling the
Clerk of the House to accept the return.
More than live millions of voters
will be voiceless in either making
these election returns of in convicting
or punishing (lis burglary of (he
ballot. In the South it is to be a
return to the carpet bag returning
boards of J 870, which brought con-J
suniing shame upon the republic and
ended Republican power in evorv
Southern State, and in the North in j*
the North it is handover to the j >
Dudleys and Davenports the ubso-' lute
manufacture of certificates of 1
election for Congressmen. It is sim- I
ply bald, reckless, wick&b revolu- <
tionary, and none can mistake its I
meaning.
When the Bourbon Democrats 1
wore convulsing the nation with,;
their death throes by the Lecompton
revolutionary political methods, of '
which the new Federal election bill i
is the legitimate spawn, they were <
content to attempt the theft of a,'
State by violence and fraud; but I
Speaker Heed and his Jacobin fob ?
lowers now adopt the old Lecompton '
methods of the Democrats, which *
cost them nearly a generation of do- <
feats, and Haunt the crime in the I
' t
face of (tvery State in the I'nion. I
But there were brave Democrats I
in the Lecompton days to revolt and
declare the truth to the people, t
Where are the. Douglases, the Han i- i
u.? n:~i, 'i -
ovo, nit; I i u I.IIC iYIOnigOUl- i >
erys, the 11 ask ins of the Hcpubli-ii
can party of to-day? Arc there 11
none manly enough to call the halt j\
and enforce obedience to the com f
mand? One brave man could do it; 1
but thus far not one of all the Ke- \
publicans of the House has won the i
title of statesmen and patriot; not 1
one. ; n
Above all let Pennsylvania call a n
halt in this fearful wrong. Xo i
Philadelphia Congressman can vote 1
for such a measure without awolling i
the ail verse tide now visibly con i \
fronting him, and oven Pennsylva- j i
nia, with her boasted 80,000 Ilepub- . 1
lican majoritv, will revolt against \
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1 S< )( ).
uioli ignoble and violent leadership,
rile lial* must be culled in Congress,
>r the people will eal it in cyclonic
ioiee in every section of the country.
\\ho will call t he halt?
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Columbia Register.
The Charleston II Orh/ of yesterlav
gives us a leader on I ho "True
Issue,'' whieli is intended for a his;ory
of South Carolina civilization
nit which is the purest hosh in the
world. It is exactly what aeultiva
led Yankee of a placable disposition
would have written about the people'
if this State. All that polished and
refined society of the colonial period,
that cultivated and enlightened aristocracy,
is pure humbug. There
was, of course, some culture and a
considerable social grace among
these people as soon as tlicy acquired
wealth. Ilut the early people of
this State for the most part were
strong, vigorous people who had risen
ad of straitened circumstances, if
not actual povert y, into competency
if not large wealt h.
This was so up to the ver\ lo volution,
and the maimers of these
people were more indicative of strong
self-conscious manhood of men who
had made their own way in the
world?than of all that sweet mannered
gentry we hear so much talk
about now.
The truth is there was scarcely an
important family in the Stab* up in
the vitv <I? 1 n of -occasion that, had
not come out of th honest manhood
of some self-made ancestor. It is.
odious toe. II name to illustrate this
tact, hut there is one whole class of
our peooplo recognised not only in
the Stale hut out of it as among tlie|
most enlightened, cultivated and
honored expressions of our civilization?the
Huguenots whose original
stock were artisans. That is a
notorious fact in our social history.
And many, if not all, of our people
>f Knglish blood rose out of just as
humble bcghinings. Our ScotchIrish
population, among the strongest
of the several families who built
ij) ('andina society, were a strong,
iiunly, but. rough raeo, who were acjustoined
to call a spade a spade at
dl times; and thoy doit yet. Hence!
dl this talk about the population of
he State being divided into four
lasses proper, the planter, the far- '
nor, the cotter and the squatter, is
humbug. We know, as any man
mows who has a proper reckoning of
Carolina life, that these humbler
dasses were constantly coining up in
he scale, so t list there were men of
argu wennn in one generation who
nunc out of the very humblest classis
of another generation. The illdances
are too frequent all over the
>tatc to be treated as exceptional.
11y man of acquaintance with the
people of our State who will consult
he truth must see far himself, lion
)ver much of snobbishness he may
ind around him, that there has ever
toon a broad, honest manhood that
uis at all times held control of our
iffairs in South Carolina?held it
socially, morally and intellectually,
md hence, of course, politically. It
8 only necessary to run over the list
if our great leaders in any line of
ife to see that this Carolina people
uive been the underlings of no set
>f men Cod ever made. And we
lave yet to lind the man of true
iclf-respect in South Carolina, how ver
humble his station in life, that
'ailed to secure the respect of his
'ellows in every other condition of
ife.
We deny with scorn and indignaion
that there ever has been a time
ii this commonwealth when men,
vllo were uurl li ?..illiiw.
wur
uailo to disown their manhood in
he presence <>f any other man of
voman born. Let "dancing dogs"
eel otherwise, no man who has the
icnrt of a man and a gentleman
vithin him will ever confess for his
leighhors, however humble the ir l?t
n life, that they have been spit upon
md resented it not. ft is a mean
md ignoble nature who would crawl
nto place and position upon the
niserable cry of that "poor whites'*
nvontod by somo Yankeo moralist
vho had no moro knowledge of the
jcople of whom he talked than ho
md of so many Kamschatkans. Out
vith it ami down with it.
No. ">\.
Tillman vs Hampton.
Captain Tillman has not denied
or disputed the statement; that lie is
working to step from the Governor's
place into Die seat in the United
States Senate now occupied by Wade
11ampton.
The indications are that, if he is
elected Governor lie will be a more
complete and despotic boss than this
State has ever been cursed with.
His methods have all been those of
the boss, lie tried to boss two Democratic
State Conventions and failed
in both, lie bossed and ran the
farmers' Movement Convention in
March with the help of an impro
vised Charleston delegat ion and two
Alliance delegate.- from I'eaufort.
1 Ic is the dictator and king of hifuetion
of the party. It lie is ehoen
Governor it will probabh be
with a Legislature elected on hiticKet
and completedv subservient t,?
his will.
Wo t hink it will he well for the
men who followed \Vad< Hampton
from 1st;J to 18155 and in 187b to
ask themselves seriously whether the\
are willing to have him thrust from
his seat in the Senate chamber in his
old age to make room for Hen Till.......
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III.ill. HI 11 it \ c uppoHCU rU'UUTOr
Hampton in i.miiiv things; but thesis
a sentiment among men which is
a product of the host and highest
part of iheirnatarc. It ought not
to he overlooked even in oolities. It
ought to prevail even against prejudices
art ilieially inflamed and passions
cunningly stirred among tin
people.
W ade Hampton stands as the most
prominent survivor of those who il1
list rated the courage ami soldiership,
the dash and chivalry of South Carolina,
on many hat tie fields. Around
him cluster all the memories of the
time, fourteen years ago, when
South Carolinians were all South
Carolinians, when high and low, up
countrymen and coast' people, were
shoulder to shoulder, when the few
rich spoilt their money like water
and the many poor dared danger in
the common cause, when with one
mighty effort wo rose us one man
ami overthrew oppression that was
real and corruption that was proved.
When he was in Itichmond the other
day he rode the streets erect and
proud with his head bared in acknowledgement
of the ringing cheers
that hailed him everywhere as a noble
representative of his State, a *
worthy type of the manly virtues
and heroism of the cause in which
he had fought.
The men who rode against the
face of death behind him ought not
to allow .themselves to be hurried to
forget fulness of the fact that the\
loved and honored him; they ought
not to lrt the clamor of politicians
drive from thorn the recoHection that
where Hampton's sword llashed and
struck South Carolina men followed
him to glory and hewed out honor
which will be a priceless heritage
to their children's children. The
blood of brave men once cemented
the hearts of general and soldier;
common sufferings, common danger
and common triumph once hound us
all together. These things should
not he forgotten.
When an audacious scheme of polities
has been successful and Wade
Hampton is turned out in his old
age, degraded and abandoned bv the
State he loves so well and has served
so faithfully, it will be too late far
repentance and sorrow The wroiur
will have been done, the blow will
have been struck against a gallant
and loval heart. f/m,i/o'/A Daily
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