The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-10-21

producing the greatest pandemouium
that has ever been seen in Fairfield
The delegates, 73 in humber had sat
up the livelong night before, and by
wiangling and whishey hadbeen made
utterly unfit for the serious duty
they were to perform. y. S. Rice
was elected permanent Chrirmau.
Capt. S. NJ. Smart and Jno. NJ.
Martin wero proposed for Secretary,
The hubbub then began. but Guallv
avote was reached and Capt. Smart
elected. John Martiu assistant secre.
tary. TheL Il committce on Gre.
dcntials, was appointed which raised
another roar, Levi Douglass shout
ing, eve wont have it, we wont have
it," and crowd yelling I'VE WON'T"
and dozen or 60 untreutcd out.
siders joining in the general yell.
Tho disorder was dreadful. a hun
dred throats babbling, yelling, curs-
Ing aud hootiug at the same time.
lu vain the chairman called on the
"bIcthren" to be statcd. No atlcn.
tiou was paid to him. Half the
delegates and (,everal outsiders also)
were making separate speeches IL
tho top Of their voices, gcsticulaliugs
shaking their fists, and stamping
their feet and numbering the Kinb',
English fcaliully. At last the com.
m'ttee returned and reported in favor
Ut the Beatty tclegution, whcreut
a ford Moore wa&cd hot. and with
powerful voice demauded justice.
Ills adhere"ts and oppoueuts Joiued
IN the general melee and coulG>iol,
again reigned supreme. But we
cannot describ. Il sceNc which lasted
Tor SIX hour aud vas double Bed.
lain all the time. \ Columbia poli
tlcian who "ttcndod the convection
r, marked "Things is mig ty mixed
II Rlchlaud, but be ID if ever
saw any such thing as this bcfore."
Alter an interminatble wranslings
in which the outsiders participated
freely. and strongest lungs had tho
best OF the argument, motion was
carried that majority vote should
be required to elect.
zen ABOUT twenty nomlnati on
For the Legislature were IN AIDE, and
the voting commenced amiI great
confusion. The first ballot was uu.
satisfactory. Prince Martin receiy.
ing 27 votes. The second ballot vas
taken after long Interval of shout.
ing and confusion, in the course Of
which Reub. Woodward disgrunt.
ted candidate denounced everything
in general and the chairman in par
ticu|ar, saying "Dey c.c"call d. dat
m-lnan CHI chairman, h.he amt n.no
ch chairman h-heth a p-p p-puthy
cutter (pcrsucutor). Another fellow
said "For Gods sake let me out here
or Pll pukc." We heard these re-
marks only because they were made
near US. No voice could be gcncr.
ally distinguished in the confusion.
At the close Of this ballot the
secretary Jno. NJ. Martin said "l
will & We you the only two interesting
votes-Prihce. fIartin 4l-Jno.
Gibson 2l. Here Dan Bird rushed
to the stand with private tally aud
shouted that fraud had been com
mittcd, that Martin hadn't got but
80 votes. Levi Douglass, Jno. Gibson
and others also shouted fraud, aud
the whole convention was by the
ears in Il minute. 1t was claimed
that Rice had given his votes to
Martin. Martins friends claimed
the election as carried, and after
u fearful row of ,vo,Gs, in which
member said II fav or. an honest gov
ornment and I'll 'fcnd it now and
ascertain it at the polls,' the con-
vcntion adjourned till nine O'clock
next morning. Caucuses were held
that night and the merits ofa bolt
were freely discussed.
The next morning the ballot Of
the afternoon previous was over
thrown, showing that an entirely ne "
slate had been made. Thus did
victory slip from the hands of Prince
Martin. His star had set After
SOME more confusion had intervened,
the convention settled down to work.
AS Delegate informed us, money
and whiskey bad given out. O, the
first ballot j chm Gibson was nomiu
mated. Then Joe. Thompson was
nominated. Then :he question was
raised VII thcr a white man should
&c put on the ticket. This raised
another small sized row from disap.
pointed culored candidates, but a
lar C ma j'rity were opposed to the
question of color being raised. Joel
Copes was then nominated by a
threo four.iIj vote.
Then came the, ballet for sch ool
commissioner. Mcssrs. ". J. Craw.
ford, W. b Pcake, A. G.. Elder
aud JON" d. Smart (colorod) we're
nominat ID. \. the close Che vote et6od,
Crawford ~ TIC others SO, and
llenry Johuoon not voting. Crawford
claimed LIN anl wanted to vote
him. Ibe other sido vcbemcntly ?
opposed this. The chair decided ho
could vote. and Johnson after fo,u