The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-01-27
For the Anderson baelligencer.
TO THE DEMOCRATS OF ANDERSON
E0TJNTY.

The questions we heretofore asked as to
the Democratic organization in the County
and State has been answered in the affirma-
tive, first, by the action of the State E1ecu-
tive Democratic Committee, by the response
of the entire Democratic press, and by the
action taken in many of the Counties of
the State, and in Anderson County by the
people themselves, which is unmistakable,
and which we will carry on to glorious
victory.
Fellow Democrats, when you hear mon
say this government is bad, and We want to
get it bettered as much as any one, yet they
think we had better be tame, very conscrva-
tive, and be careful how we move, or We
might get into q worse condition; or if you
organize your Democratic Club, you had
better do it in very conservative way, what
do they mean? We think we can answer.
They either want to be independent candi-
dates, or they want to get some such stuff
before the County for election. All such
men may be safely put down as Radical
office-seekers. There is no other name for
them in this State; and if such men want
the name of being Democrats, and at the
sai..e time keep themselves in good standing
with the Radicals and negroes politically,
they are no better than Radicals of the deep
est dye, and worse than the Tories of the
first War of Independence; and the Clubs
would do well to inform all such men that
while we would be glad to have your votes,
we cannot endorse your conduct, and we
advise you either 10 repent or go to the
Union League, where you want to be.
We repeat. To organize means to place
Democrats in the field for Office, and to elect
them by the party and any organization
that fails to pledge its members to such
course has failed in its mission altogether.
Our people are determined upon it. They
intend, by the blessing of Providence, to
carry on the good work commenced to
successful termination. Victory is our
watchword, and we intend to have it, Radl-
cal office-seekers to the contrary notwith-
standing. He who would manipulate
Democratic Club to divert it from its true
ends, is q traitor to his fellows and good
government, and he and his deserves uni
versal condemnation, now and hereafter.
There is no halfway ground. We are DEM
ocrats and honest men, or we are Radicals
and dishonest men. We want reformed
goyernm. 1t, or we want share of the
stealage of the present corrupt government.
We want to be honest and stop the stealing,
or we want to be dishonest and steal, or get
some one to steal for us.
Honest men have been divided in policy
heretofore. We voted for Tomlinson, Car
penter and Green, and we were anxious to
win. We thought this might reconcile the
negro, and he would help us to some extent !;
but in this we failed, and not only so, but
the negroes carried off with them all that
class of men who wanted Office by negro
votes. What are we then to do? The an
swer is, Organize. How? Upon the prin-
ciple that you will vote for the nominees Of
YOUR party, and none other. And then
what? That you will denounce oil other
candidates as Radical office-seeksrs. Then
what? Victory.
Fellow Democrats, we have nothing to
saw or do with the past. Our work is to be
accomplished in the future. Our organiza-
tions are not for the past, but for the future.
We are only to know the past, as wO now
too well know it, to keep of the breakers in
the future. The past We cannot low help.
The future we an. If We have erred in the
past, We, must LIT do so in the future. The
yhits man who will not now go for reform,
retrenchment and kicking thieves out Of
office and place, makes himself worse than
the plundering Tories of 1776, and they
must be taught now as then that our people
were born to be free, and that they intend
to be at any cost.
When Charleston was captured in the first
war. she feared for time the men OF the
mountains; but when these men were III
formed of Charleston's distress, and that the
enemy were coming, the mountain men
rallied from the Carolinas and Virginia,
met the enemy at Kings Mountain, killed
and captured his army. But Charleston is
now captured by Whipper, and she ap-
peals to the mountains to come to her aid,
and the mountains respond to man, except
some Tories now and then, as we had in the
first war. But in this centennial year we
mean to be free. 1t cost our fathers much
we cannot say what it may cost u.s. But
we mean to be free. The closer we stick to
nominations when made, the less the cost
and trouble Independent candidates were
admissible in this County at one time, but
not now. The Democrats had no organiza-
ton in the last race, but they will have one
in the next, and to elect its nominees is to
save the State. To fail cannot be endured,
and will not be. We will add to our brave
Democratic members of the Legislature,
who are doing all in their power to relieve
the State, and who are daily abused on our
account, until (and not long, the State shall
be redeemed.
DEMOCRAT.