The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-04-27
Hail Columbia (!

senator morton mas won victory.
The Republican Convention at Colum-
bia, South Carolina, has practically do
clarod for him. The Convention had
very pleasant and lively meeting
All the great lights of the party wero
present, and worked for Morton like
heroes. Whippor was there, tho man
whom the Governor refused to oom-
| mission rs judge because ho had such
! q bad character. Moses was there
who was rejected for the same reason.
Whittomoro was thore, who was turn
cd out of the XLIst Congress for SOL
ling cadetships, and denied admission
when he came back again because he
was Infamous. Senator Patterson was
there until, as reporter brutally ex-
presses it, he "got scared" and ran ~
way. Mr.. Swails, statesman Of COL
or, presided over the gathering, and
Mr.. Elliott, another distinguished
black man, whom Judge Mackoy ter
soly described to his face as the cap
tain of q gang of thieves, regulated
debate with his revolver. A moro
enumeration of the company, howcv
CT, would give but faint indca of the
nature OF the festivities. "Liar" and
"villian," qualified by theological ad.
jectives were the mldest of tho cpl
thcts tossed TO and fro upon the rag
ing sea of discussion. Furniture few
through tho air; tho ruins Of over
thrown desks endangered the nimblo
shins of tho delegates; and in the cri-
sis of tho proceedings chair, flour
ishod over tho head of Governor
Chamberlain, came near bringing the
anti Ring faction of the party to sud
den dissolution. Meanwhile tho pro-
ocodings in the gallery seem to have
We'd in interest with tho official trans.
actions on the floor SUmo Northern
visitors of the gontler sex, unused to
the political customs of Columbia,
tainted dead away, and the negro
wives of the honorable fighters down
bolow ran shrieking through tho pas
sages and clattering down the stairs.
Quiet having been at last restored by
the exhaustion of tho combatants, and
tho gentleman with tho pistol sup
presscd by tho combined physical
foroo of tho newspaper reporters, the
Convention proceeded to rule out all
tho Chamberlain or Reform delegatos
and put the machine in working ordel
to send Morton delegates to Cincin-
natl.
Tho history of these proceedings il
Q worth remembering. because by ant
0 by when the friends of Mr.. Mortor
!, begin to press his claims little mort
Q boldly, we ahall hoar great deal a.
8 bout tho oppression Of tho oolorcd pco
4 pie in tho South and tho villanou
: schomos of the Ku>Klux to skin El
lott and SwAilb alive. 1t is only al
q the protector Of tho class which has
!. lust made this picturesque domonstra
! ton at Columbia that Mr. Morton ha.
any moaning as o candidate for Tho
=, nomination. II we may be allowed
the expression, it is tho red and rag
u ged shirt of Swails that is carried be-
b fore him as labarum. His only pol
10y is TO perpetuato tho supremacy o
the faction which Judge Mackey hap
= PLY characterized as gang of thieves
't the faction which is represented b,
= Noses, Whittemore, and thor blacl
d dupos in South Carolina, by Spencer
@ Hays, Hester and Hlnds in Alabama
c by Ames in Mississippi, by Casey an,
s Kellogg at New Orleans. Morto
y means nothing but tho ruling out O
q tho decent Republicans who arc try
o ing in several of tho Southern State
II to administer political affairs on tn
basis OF the Ton Commandments. Til
country has had enough of unconsti
tutional enforcement laws, enough o
the irresponsible rule of deputy marsh
. ais, enough of tho employment of th
= troops to carry elections, and reign
o Of terror established by an ingeniou
'P constable shooting q hole in his owl