The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-31

publican party, held their ratification
meeting, ut the City Hall square, last
night at about 8 o'clock the dusky
clans began to assemble around their
general loafing plt ce, the Court House,
and ut the hour designated for the
speaking about 1.500 or 1000 persons
had gathered together. It was venti-
iated quite freeley ON the streets during
the day that the old war of the Mackey-
ites ana the Dowenites was to be fought
over, and the former party were quite
Tree and open in their threats to break
up the boilers meeting in row,
| For this once, however, they made O
mistake. The boilers knowing the
strength of the Court House ring in the
CITY took the precaution to send over to
the surrounding islands for reinforce
mcnts. and promptly to time there ar.
rived regiment of the dusky tillers of
the sea island soil, all staunch adherents
OF Bowen, who were at once formed into
line directly in front of the speaking
stand. The presence of this ..armed
force" had the effect OF somewhat dis
concerting the Court House ring, and
although they managed during the con-
tlnuance of the meeting, under the in
iiueuce of frequent potutions Of tangle-
1901, TO keep up running fire of inter
ruptlons, they were rather intimidated
from going the length of their instruc-
tIons and breaking up the meeting in
row.
| The President W. Il. Thompson, q
coiored man, opened the ball by intro
duclng tue boilers candidate for. Govern
or, Hon. Reuben Tomlinson. He said
that he did not occupy the position from
choice; he would much rather native
South Carolinian had been selected to
head the reform ticket, but as he had
been selected, he would not refuse to &C.
cept the duty imposed on him. It mat
tered very little to him, personally, whe-
ther he was elected or not, but he re-
garded it as important to the Republican
party that some one in it should refuse
to follow the present lenders of it in this
State.
A voice-"How about that phosphate
bill?"
| MIR. Tomlinson was not to he disturb
ed by any such character. If any man
OF character would come forward and
accuse him Of corruption or wrong. he
would answer the charge, but he did not
intend to take notice of such trash He
had advocated the reelection of Scott in
1870. because lie knew nothing of the
frauds since revealed. But now it was
we'll known that there existed no euch
stumbling block to the success of the
National Republican party as the charao-
ter OF that party in South Carolina. He
then pitched into the State House crowd,
and claimed for his party that they in
tended to carry on government in
South Carolina which should be charac-
terized by some reasonable degree of
character and honesty. He was not to
| q fri fano no6 h~,k ko;,
Dagger. He intended to live and die in
South Carolina. although there was
nothing worth living for here at this
time. He claimed that the regulars had
carpet baggers on their ticket, and al
loded to the ubiquitous Mr.. Solomon
Hoge as pattern, whose facility for
Jumping from one Office to another was
not to be excelled
The next speaker was General W. J..
Whipper, the colorsd Representative
from Beaufort, who attempted to make
q speech. but who was completely
choked off by the Court House ring.
He announced his intention to support
the boilers ticket. and said he intended
to make his little speech if he had to
wait there all night. Here a voice on
the outskirts of the crowd yelled out,
"Whipper, shut up dat id nonsensey'
Whipper managed to finish his speech,
and gave way to Corbin.
The multitudinous Senator had hard
time of it. His appearance was the
eignal for general chorus of boots and
yells from tho tangle.footers. But lie
put OH an extra pressure of steam. and
begun by telling how he had gone to Co.
lumbia to help make laws. land, cried q
shrill voice in the crowd, to fiji your
pockets. He had learned last winter,
for the first time, that the party had put
thieves and scoundrels into office, whom
he now avowed he intented to prosecute
with the same vigor that he prosecuted
the Ku Klux.
Mr.. Cyrus G.illard, a gentleman of
color, was noxt introduced, and was
greeted with cries of ''Shut your id
mouth" "Come down, you black
sucker" and other abjurations of equal
persuasiveness and inelegance. But this
doughty warrior was fully match for
the blsckguards who interrupted him,
and paid them back in the same coin.
Said he. "When you niggers talk about
carpet -baggers, you forget who struck of
the shackles of slavery from you, and
some OF you ID villains ought to be