The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-22
Wasted Liberality.

In Anderson county, the Conservatives, al
though decided majority, have accepted
proposition from the Republicans to make no
party nominations in that county, in order to
avoid the animosties which political agitation,
and especially too strict an adherence to party
lines, are apt to engender The plan is to run
men for Office upon their own merits and per-
sonal character, rather than upon their polite.
al affiliations, which is surely great improve
ment upon the present corrupt system Of cons
ventiohs
The resolutions submitted to the Conservatives
by Col. John R. Cochran, acting for the Repub-
lican Convention, admit that "in Anderson
county peace and prosperity reigns, law and
order are enforced fairly and justly, and the
two races are living happily and harmoniously
together" and the desire is expressed in them
that this good feeling may not be disturbed by
the drawing too tightly of party lines.
This admission of the Anderson Republican
Convention, not only that peace and good will
reigns, but that the government is justly and
is plain and honest contradiction, from a
trustworthy Republican source, of the oft re.
peated and studicusy disseminated lies about
the intolerance, injustice and oppression of the
Conservatives, when they have power, and we
would invite the attention of the eolored peo-
pie to it, because it is not what we say, but
what a Regular Republican Convention says.
Besides this we notice that the Conservatives
of Union, who also have ajority, have placed
three colorcd men on the County ticket.
We are gratfed to note these clear indica-
tions of spirit of harmony and Cancellation on
the part of the Conservatives of Anderson and
Union; but judging from past experience, we
are strongly inclined to the opinion that the
Republicans, in any county in which they have
majority, would see us in the bottomless pits
of his satanic majesty's dominions, before they
would grant us similar advantages.
The legislative is more important branch
of the government than the executive and, if
the conservative elect their own representative
in every county in which they have majority
or an equal number of votes, nearly, if not
quite half of the counties of tine State will be
represented by them in the legislature.
We are ardent advocates of harmony, good
will and political feedom and liberality of sem
tinent, and would hail. as an auspicious omen
of liberty and political progress, the day when
men are elevated to Office upon individual
merits instead of party affiliations; but ':e fear
that our up-country friends, who are stigma
tized as ku-klux, and yet who have made such
liberal concessions of their own accord to the
Republicans, without exacting from them cor
responding concessions in counties in which
they are in the ascendency, are doing an act
which will never be appreciated, and which,
under the present indications of Republican
intolerance, will only result in diminishing the
number of Conservative representatives in the
coming legislature.
Far be It from US to discountenance spirit
of liberality on the part of the Conservatives.
but we do think, in political light, when con-
cessons are made, that they should be recipro-
cal, and not altogether one-sided.-Orange'
burg Times.