The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-08-29
F" THE HAPPY FAMILY"
GOSSIP AMONG THE MACKEF AND
BOWEN FACTIONS.

| GOSSIP AMONG THE MACKEY AND
BOWEN FACTIONS.
Tho Rose Co1ored Views OF the Leaders
OF Both Wings OF the Local II Radicals.
The Radical pilgrims from Charleston Coun-
ty have now all returned from the South
Carolina Mecca, and all day yesterday they
were buslly engaged In demonstrating the
purity and policy OF their action In the Colum-
bla conventions TO curbstone congregations OF
their bewlldered constituents assembled for
that purpose in and about the City Hall
Square.
| The leaders of the respective factions we're
occupied during most of the day In their own
offices, receiving alternately the congratula-
tions and maedctlons Of their supporters,
and as usual the reporters of The NEWS were
busily wal:nlug The current of events among
them. Said Que OF them, who ls very closely
identified with the interests OF Sheriff E. w.
NJ. Mackey, II tell you, cir, We have outgene-
rallied the Bowenltes ut every point and routed
them horse, foot and dragons. We return from
Columbia with al the regularity of the party
at our back, and they come back as demor-
allied faction. catching ut such straws as the
Tomlinson bolt. Our candidate for sheriff Is
the regularly elected county chairman Tor this
county He will call thu county convention
In week or ten days, AMI he can't fail to get
the regular nomination lor sheriff, and, what's
more, he will get the office. The Delany par
ty is with Us, first, last and all the time. De-
lany was made member OF the regular
State executive committee, and he came very
near being made one of the Presidential elect
ors. He is going to stump the State for the
Moses ticket, and he supports Mackey for
sheriff The Bowen party had no showing In
the regular convention at all, and they have
only made things worse instead Of better by
going In with the Smalls delegation from
Beaufort, and nominating Ransier for Con-
gressman. Ransier Is good enough candi-
date, but he Isn't the man to harmonlze
things. There is Plllsbury against him, and
Gurney against him, and don't know how
many more. That Congressional con-
yenlion was not regular, according to the
usages of our party. The Congressional
convention Ia subordinate 10 the State conven-
ton, and isn't the Judge of Its own members to
the extent OF throwing out a delegation al
ready declared regular by the State conven.
tlon. There will be another Congressional
convention as sure as you are born, and the
man that 1t nominates will be the regular can
dldate and will be elected. Their mass meet.
Ing tonight is going 10 os azzle, but We will
have O demonstration In about week that
will be demonstration. If we can get CAL
CHM lights enough we will have the whole
sunare ln blaze. We are going to have one
thousand torchlights, with voters instead OF
small boys to carry them, and fireworks and
fire balloons, and | tell you privately we're
going to put Bowen into one of those balloons
and send him up 80 high he will never come
down again."
Leaving this hopeful patriot the reporter
encounLerel another party leader who WAS no
less sanguine, but on the other side, and for
exactly opposite reasons. What he had 10
say was somewhat to the following effect:
~ tell you, sir, we have made our appeal to
the people, and the people are going to sus.
form Ia 80 thin everybody can see right
through 1t. They say We have got some
thieves In our party, but the people know
tey are all thieves. They say our candidate
for Governor is a carpet-bagger, but the peo-
pie would rather have Pennsylvania Quaker
than Soslh Carolina Jew. When Bowens
delegation went up to Columbia we saw just
how the land lay. Frank Moses. Tom Mac.
kew and r. B. Elliott we're the mighty trlum.
vrate, who were running the whole thing,
and 1t Was forsordaIned that Ell. Mackey's
delegation should get In. They said
the reason was because We had dlsrs-
garded Gains second call, but You know
that, as Shakespeare says, reasons are as
plenty as blackberres when you want 10 hnd
them,' and If they could have got US to
support Moses, they would have seated ns, for
the reason that Mackey disregarded Gains frst
call. Everybody knows that Bowen repre-
sented the vast majority Of the Republicans OF
this county, aud they will not be influenced by
this trckery in the convention. We have got
the balance of power in this fight, because the
white people, those who were Relormers In
1870, are going with US. They are pledged to-
1t, and they will do it. Even If they do not
keep their pledges we will still have the bal
ance of power, because Grant will support our
ticket. We have got all the Federal office
holders with us-sawyer, CorbIn, Clark,
Quash and the rest OF them. Orr is acting
under Grants instructions, and Orr knows
what he is about. We may send delegation
to Washington or Long Branch In q few days
to get Grants authoritative endorsement of
our party. which is the true Republican party,
(you ought not to call us the Boiling Radicals
auy more,) and when we get that, the
Moses crowd won't have leg to stand on.
What will they do about IL? Ill tell you
what l think they may do, and you
know that any crowd with Tom Mackey
at It's head may do anything that is
foolish. If We get Grants endorsement,
as we will, Tom Mackey will be for taking his
crowd over to Greeley, and that you know
will kill 'em dead among the niggsrs. Tom
Mackey has been threatening to do this, and
all the time he was In Columbia he had a
Greeley hat In his bedroom, Zone OF these low
down, fuzzy fur hats, with brown rlbbon,l
ready 10 mount 1t and come into the conVen.