The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-27

This body met, yesterday, agreeably 10
adjournment, ut II a. M. Judge Orr
took the Chair.
The FL rst busines SIS in order was the no.
mination Of o candidate for Lieutenant
Governor. Mr.. w. II. Jervey, Of
Charleston, nominated James N. Hayne,
colored, of Barnwell, who was elected by
acclamation
On motion of A. Q. Richmond, Macon
Is. Allen, (colored.) of Charleston. was
nominatsd as candidate for Secretary
of Stute
II. l.. Hayne, of Marion, was also no
| minated
Q. Q. Bowen opposed the latter nomi-
nation in n spirited manner, upon the
ground that H. E. Hayne wus the nomi-
nee of the Moses faction, with which
this Convention should and would have
no connection whatever.
"A division was called for, and tho vote
stood: Allen, 80; Hayne, s. So Macon
Is. Allen was declared the nominee of the
honest Republicans for the Office of Sec
retnry Of State
For Comptroller General, Gen. W. J.
Whipper nominated Mr.. J. Scott Muir
ray, of Anderson, in q very fattering
speech. MIR. Murray was elected by nc
clnmntion.
For State Treasurer, Samuel Lee. of
Sumter, suggested the name of Edwin
L. Gary, the present State Auditor
dwelling in terms of the highest encomi-
um upon his honesty and integrity.
Judge Orr added to the remarks of
Lee, by stating that to Edwin +. Gary
was mainly duo the disruption of the
revenue bond scrip swiudle: to stop his
legal proceeding against which Mr..
Gary had been approached with bribe
OF S30, ,OOO, which he Indignantly refused
For Superintendent of Education, J.
NJ. Sullivan, of Greenville, nominated B.
L. Roberts, of Greenville, colored.
MIR. Whlttemore nominated J. K. Jill
son, aud followed his nomination in a
lengthy and vehement speech, setting
forth the claims uf Mr.. Jillson, but more
especially attacking that bane of White.
more's life, Tom Mackey.
Mr.. Roberts was nominated by q vote
Of So to 2.
Mr.. Philip Ezekiel, (colored,) } of Beau
fort. was elected by acclamation as q
candidate for Adjutant and Inspector
General
For Congress at Large, George ".
Clarke, Collector of Customs at Charles.
ton,) L. Cass Carpenter, Louis E. John.
son, late United States Marshal,) and
Joseph Quash, colorec, of Aiken Coun.
ty. were nominated.
n his speech in support of Louis E.
johnson, Mr.. Pointer stated that he
came from the Ku Klux region, where
the Republicans had been whipped and
killed, that the cause Of the Ku Klu3
was the horrid corruption of the State
Government, and he could not go back
and tell his outraged constituency thai
he had voted for such man as F. J,
Moses, Jr.4
Mr.. Northrop, Of Charleston, in advo.
eating the claims of Mr.. Clark, stated
that he was the representative, par ercel
lence, OF Gen. Grant. upon whose coun-
tenance and known favor the success OF
the movement would greatly depend
@. @. Bowen withdre', the nam, o1
Louis E. johnson.
Benjamin Byas, of Orapgebr &c.
conded the nomination of l. srpen.
ter, upon the ground 90 general
fitness for the positic- ..na further, that
being the propr & of the. only daily
Republican journal Of the State, his sup.
port to the movement was worth at least
ten good stump speakers Snid Mr..
Byas, L.. @. Carpenter is in sympathy
with this movement, and that he iByas)
had conversed with Mr.. Carpenter not
twenty minutes before, and felt autho-
rized to say that L. G. Carpenter and his
powerful paper--the Union-were with
the honest Republicans in this effort for
REFORM,
Mr.. Whittemore withdrew the name of
Mr.. George w. Clark.
Mr.. Johnson. of Anderson, withdrew
the name Of T.. @. Carpenter.
Mr.. S. Lee, of Sumter, was nominated
by oolored delegate from Charleston,
the nomination being seconded by very
commendatory speech from Mr.. Bowen.
Mr.. Lee begged leave to decline the
nomination, for the reason that he was
one of the pioneers of the reform move
ment-not ono of whom had yet sought
or received nomination. That he
wished to avoid the charge of being a
sore-head. or of being aotuated by selfish
motives in his public conduct and there
fore preferred, for this campaign, at any
rate, to accept no position.
Mr.. Joseph Quash was unanimously
nominated.
A resolution was put and carried, that
the President of the Convention appoint
q committee Of seven to frame plan of
organization for the honest Republican
party.
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