Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-15
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WASTED LLBERALIrY.

In Anderson county, the Conserva-
tives, although in a decided majority,
have accepted proposition from the
Republicans to make no party nomi-
nations in that county, in order to avoid
the animesities which political aglta-
ton, and especially too strict an adher
once to party lines, are apt to engender.
The plan is to run men for office upon
their own merits and personal charac-
ter, tsther than upon their political
affiliations, which is surely great i'm
provement upon the present corrupt
system of conventions.
The resolutions submitted to the
Conservatives by Col.Jno. r. Cochran,
acting for tho Republican Convention,
admit that ''in Anderson county peace
aud prosperity reigns, law and order
are enforced fairly and justly, and the
two races are living happily and har-
moniously together" and the desire is
expressed in them that this good feel
ing may not be disturbed by the draw
ing too tightly of party lines.
This admission of the Anderson Re-
publican Convention, not only that
peace and good will reigns, but that
the government is justly and fairly ad
ministered in this Conservative county,
is a plain and honest contradiction,
from trustworthy Republican source,
of the oft repeated and studiously dis
seminated lies about the intolerance
injustice and oppression of the Conser-
vatives, when they have power, and
We would invite the attention of the
colored people to it, because it is not
what we say, but what Regular Re-
publican Convention says.
Besides this we notice that the Con
servatives of Union, who also have
majority, have placed three colored
men on the County ticket.
We are gratifed to note these clear
indications of a spirit of harmony and
conciliation on the part of the Conser-
vatives of Anderson and Union; but,
judging from past experience, We are
strongly inclined to the opinion that
the Republicans, in ary county in which
they have majority, would see us in
the bottomless pits of his satanic do
minions, before they would grant us
similar advantages.
The legislative is a more important
branch of the government than the
executive, and, if the Conservatives
elect their own representatives in every
county i'll which they have q majority
or an equal number of votes, nearly,
ifnot quite half of the counties of the
State will be represented by them in
the legislature.
We are ardent advocates ofharmony
good will and political freedom and
liberality of sentiment, and would hail
as m suspicious omen of liberty and
political progress, the day, when men
are elevated to office upon individual
merits instead ofparty affiliations; but
we fear that our up country friends,
who are stigmatized as ku-klux, and
yet who have made such liberal con-
cessions, Of their own accord to the
Republicans, without exacting from
them corresponding concessions in
counties i'll which they are in the as
tendency, are doing an act which will
never beappreciated, and which under
the present indications of Republican
intolerance, will only result in dimin-
ishing the number Of Conservative
representatives in the coming lcgisla-
ture.
Far be it from us to discountenance
spirit of liberality on the part of The
Conservatives, but we do think, in n
political light, when concessions are
made, that they should be reciprocal,
and not altogether one sided.
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