The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-02-22
pEcrAL TELEGRAM TO THE NEws.l

- ESPECIAL TELEGRAM 10 THE NEws.1
COLUMBIA, Wednesday, February Il.
The Radical Ring Convention which adjourn
ed at a late hour last night has certainly not
left 1.-THE Party" in South Carolina more har-
monious than it was when it assembled. The
upshot of all the squabbling and the pickering
which attended the organization Of the con-
rention was the choice of the following dele
CATION to represent the Republicans of South
Carolina in The Philadelphia Convention next
lyme:
THE DELEGATES.
First District-Maxwell, Swails and Jones.
AlternatesE Greene and Whittemore.
second Dlstrict-E. W. M. Maekey, Mcintyre
and Swails. Alternates s-dedges, G. D. Hayne
and ]. W. Hayne.
Third District-Elliott, Nash and Orr. Alter
mates Wilder and Cain.
Fourth District-T. J. Mackey, Allen and
Patterson. Allernates-Moses, Mobley and
OConnell.
Speaker Moses and Lieutenant-G Governor
Ransier were elected for the State at large.
The delegates are to-day in session. appa-
rently duly impressed with sense Of their
new dignity and busy making arrangements
for their trip 10 the City of Brotherly Love.
The efollowingi is the platform constructed for
the convention by Mr.. T.J. Mackey, who had
engineered himself into the position of chair
uan of the committee on resolutions:
PLATFORM.
Resolved, BY the Union Republican party of
kho nf2 20mfh Carolina In HnnVpnti0n ia.
sembled, that we endorse the administration
OF President q. 8. Grant In its wise and sue
scessful policy which has reduced the national
debt while lesseniDg the public taxes, and at
the same time preserved full faith with the
public creditors.
RsSoived, That the profound gratitude of
the Republicans Of South Carolina Is due to
the Republican majority In the Forty-second
Congress, for the enactment o. the act 20 en-
force the fourteenth amendment to the con-
stltulion OF the United States, and 10 Presi-
dent q. 8. Grant for his prompt and timely en-,
forcement of the act, whereby the armed
bands organized and operated by the Demo-
cratic party for the suppression of free speech
and free ballot In South Carolina have been
themselves suppressed.
Resolped, That while we thus accord mer-
tied endorsement to the man who, IN peace as
In war, has deserved the well done ofthe whole
country, we respectfully, but earnestly re-
monstrate against the great majority of the
Federal appointments that have been made In
this State during the past three years. Where
by the Republican party OF South Carolina has
bean wounded In the house Of Its friends; and
we do here express our belief that such ap-
pointment Of persons not In sympathy With
The Republican party ofthe State, or nation, is
due largely 10 the Misrepresentation made to
the President by United States Senator +. A.
Sawyer.
Rssolued, That the national Republican par
ioa lrf ffs r,1o n
favor OF amnesty. We do hereby Instruct our
delegates to the National Republican Conven.
ton to move and advocate the adoption OF
clause in the national platform 10 favor OF
the rigid enforcement OF universal CIVIL
rights for every American citizen on every
inch of American soil, and their full and
equal enjoyment OF all public privileges.
The platform was evidently little to the
taste of many of the most intelligent members
of the convention but Mackey somehow. Sc
cured it's adoption without much difficulty.
Governor Scott dscreetly withdrew his
name as candidate for delegate at large.
His letter was read as follows:
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
COLUMBIA. S. c., February 20, 1872
General r. B. Elliott:
MYDEAR SIR find that several OF my par
tcular triendS VINO nave AT al tlmes pCoVSu
themselves true and unshrinking Repuoli-
cans, have very reasonable amoition to be
delegates TO the Philadelphia Convention. l
feel that 1t would be unjust to them to permit
nv name to take place on any ticket In the
Nominating Convention whereby some OF
theirs would be necessarily excluded. I there
fore feel 1t but just to them to ask you to
notify my friends that they should support
some one instead Of me, whose services to the
party justiies such an honorable recognition.
With the assurance of my earnest co-opera-
ton in whatever measures the convention
may adopt for the benefit OF the party, have
the honor to be Very respectfully,
r. z. SCOTT.
AS a fitting climax to Its proceedings, the
convention, previous to adjourntng sine die,
adopted, at gulp, the following remarkable
resolution, which was introduced by Hayne,
of Barnwell:
Resolved, BY the Republicans Of the State
of South Carolina, in convention assembled,
that we do hereby endorse Governor Robert
z. Scott, as true Republican and faithful
public officer. PICKET.