The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-02-04
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by authority OF an ACT passed by the
present Republican Legislature of South
Carolina, by the present Governor, who
is a Republican. That a majority of the
Commissioners of each county are Repub-
licans, and full proportion of the Mana
gers; 30 far as they could be had, are of
the same political faith; and if the frauds
that are charged, and so often reiterated,
against the said Commissioners and Man
ayers, or any of them, by the contestant,
are true, they were committed by the
political partizans Of contestant, who so
ungracously assails them, and they may
we'll pray to be delivered from their
friends But 1 charge that the said
Commissioners Except in the county Of
Edgefeld) acted in fairness and good
faith, and that the slanderous and reck-
less charges r>ade against them are alike
false and unfounded.
!, 18th. / charge that an election for So
licitor of the Fifth Judicial Circuit OF
South Carolina was held in the counties
of Richland, Lexington and Newberry,
of the Third Congressional District, on
the same day of the Congressional cleo
ton. That J. H. Runlle. q brother-in
law of contestant, was .he candidate of
the Republican party, and W. II. Talley
of the Democratic party. That the said
W. II. Talley, the Democratic candidate,
who was then ineligible under the 18th
amendment of the Constitution of the
United States, received a majority of two
thousand, seven hundred and ifty-siX
1856 votes in the counties of Newberry
and Lexington, and was declared duly
elected by the Republican State canvas
isers, and has been commissioned and en-
tered on the duties of his office without
protest or objection on the part of said
Republican candidate, his .brother-in- law,
the contestant, or their friends, who were
.on,the spot. and conversant with all the
FACTS That II. l.. MCGOWAN, the DEM
cocratic candidate for Solicitor, in the
Seventh Judicial Circuit, at the same elcc-
-tion, received majority of two thousand,
two hundred aud twelve (2,2l2) votes in
the county OF Abbeyille, in the Third
Congressional District, over the Republi
can candidate, w. McGill Fleming; and
on; the same day W. H. Perry, the Demo
seratic candidate for. Solicitor of the
Eighth Judicial Circuit, received in the
county of Anderson, of the same Third
Congressional District, q majority of two
Thousand one hundred and twenty-eight
.(2.128) votes over S. d. Goodlet, the Re-
publican candidate, and that the said last
named Democratic candidates were de-
elared duly elected by the Republican
: State Canyasscrs, and have been commits
. stoned and entered on the duties OF their
respective offices without protest or OBJ
-iection as to the fairness of the election
q, in the counties Of Abbeville and Ander-
: son, on the part of their Republican COM
= pstitors, their friends or partizans.
l4tb: And l charge that in the. coun-
= ties of .Richland and Orangeburg, of the
Third Congressional District, where con
: testant received majority of the votes
Z. cast, and therefore makes no complaint
= az to the fairness OF the election, the Re-
publican majority was reduced from the
last previous election by - thousand
votes in the county of Orangeburg, and
she Democratic majority increased by
- thousand votes and in the county
of Richland, the Republican majority was
roduced from the last previous election by
- thousand votes, and the Democratic
majority increased by - thousand
votes; and l charge that the increase of
the Democratic vote, and decrease OF the
= Republican vote in said, counties was
brought about by precisely the same in
fuences that carried the counties OF Lex
ington, Newberry, Abberile and Ander
son in the Congressional election.
18th. And charge that the contestant,
during the years 1866, 1867 and 1868,
whilst stationed as an officer of the Uni.
ted States in the county Of Darlington,
= and other counties of the State Of South
Carolina, and up to, or about the time, he
determined to aspire before the Republi-
can Legislature to the Office of Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court Of said
State, which Office be now holds, was an
open and avowed Democrat; that he was
q bitter and uncompromising enemy OF
the colored race; that whilst stationed as
aforesaid, he often proclaimed that he
.i"wished ho had every negro in South
Carolina confined in ten acre field, and
that be (the contestant) could be permit
ted to play upon them with his command,
Ga portion of the 9Th or sth United States
Infantry until he destroyed the last one
of them" or words to the same effect
that on one occasion, whilst stationed as
aforesaid, he lost some fowls out OF his
possession by theft, and ordered file OF
> soldiers 10 make search for them, but be-
fore starting them out, he inquired of
some of the citizens who "was the most
religious negro in town. and on being
informed that certain old colored man
was not only religious person, but
Minister of the Gospel, he ordered SAID
soldiers to 60 and search his (the minis
ter's) premises. that his CONTESTANTS
fowls would be found there.
10Th. And I charge that at the pre-