The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-10-05
POLITICAL NOTES.

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thirty-o one counties.
The irrepressible Judge Mackey says
that "every man on the Republican tick
ct has we'll defined criminal record"
- Belknap has determined to 60 to
California to live, unless the election of
Hayes re-opens a place for him in the
Cabinet.
Senator James M. Smith, a Repub-
ilcan member of the last Legislature
from Barnwell county, has renounced
radicalism and returned to the Demo-
cratic fold.
- Major Theodore Il. Barker, of
Charleston, has been appointed by the
State Executive Committee on the Dem
cratic ticket for Elector at Large, vice
General John A. Wagner, deceased.
.-.The,full returns of the late election
in Arkansas are published, showing the
vote on Governor and Secretary of State.
The Democratic majority lacks but a
mere triae of 10000, and will go over
that in November.
= 1t is an encouraging thing for those
who hope for reform in the administra-
tion to remember that the increase of the
Democratic vote in Vermont was 4422
while the increase in the Republican vote
was only 418.
- There is not single white man in
South Carolina, who has the least spark
of self-respect about him, who can vote
the ticket nominated by the Republican
Convention without feeling that he is
doing wrong.
- The Republicans are straining every
nerve to carry Indiana, we'll knowing
that defeat there means ruin to them in
November But the prospects are that
they will be defeated in Indiana, and,
the chances are, in Ohio also.
- At Rantowle's, in Colleton county,
Colored Democratic Club has been
formed on rice plantation. The Club
is headed by Capt. Jack Holmes, fore
man on Mr.. Fishburne's plantation, and
its membership already is 40.
- The Stste Democratic Executive
Committee have appointed j. Adger
Smyth, ESQ.,, of Charleston, to ill the
vacancy on-the Committee caused by the
resignation of Col. John H.. Evins, of
Spartanburg, who is candidate for Con-
gress from the Fourth District.
= Hon. Joseph Segar, now Republi-
can candidate for Congress in the Second
District of Virginia, has been greatly dis
gusted by the publication of a letter
written by him in 1868, in which he said
ri abominate as I have always abomina-
ted, universal suffrage, either for black or
white men. l regard negro suffrage as
the veriest absurdity that was ever con-
ceived by human hallucination."
"A number of negroes employed in
Atlanta have notified their employers
that they will give up their situations on
the 1st of October, in order to remove to
South Carolina, where, they say, wages
are better. This ia looked upon as a
political trick of the enemy, and done to
strengthen the rapidly waning fortunes
of the Radical party in this State, and it
would be we'll to look out for imported
colored voters.
DIR. Benz. L. Brisbane, editor o. the
True South, published at Brunson's, S. c.,
and also a minister of the Gospel, who
has always heretofore rigidly adhered to
the Republican party, has now declared
for Hampton and Reform, and is doing
much good service for the ticket in bis
quiet way. Like Judge Cooke, he still
adheres to his Republican principles, and
will vote for Hayes and Wheeler, but
will support our State ticket.
The records prove that the number
of offceholders has been increased during
President Grants administration from
54.267 to 94,119, or at the rate OF more
than 5000 year; that during almost
the whole of this period the country has
been suffering from great commercial de-
preston, and nearly every home has telt
the pressure of hard times. This is the
army with which the Republican leaders
hope to overwhelm the voice of the peo-
ple at the coming elections.
The woman sufragists of Massachu-
setts, losing faith in the honesty of the
professions of the Republican party OF
that State, in regard to their cause, held
State Convention last week, and adop-
ted the ticket of the Prohibition and
Labor Reform parties. The combination
hope to poll fifteen to eighteen thousand
votes, and thus defeat their late friends.
They claim to hold the balance OF power,
and if so will make trouble in the Re-
publican camp of Massachusetts,.
"A mass convention of Union SOL
diers and sailors, who desire reform in
the government, is called to meet at
Albany. N. Y, on the 10Th of October.
The call is signed by Major General
Hooker and several other Union officers,
and it declares "The enrolment already
made at these headquarters shows con-
clusively that a majority of Union SOL
diers and sailors are not in favor of the
perpetuation of Grantism in the election
Of Hayes and Wheeler, as stated by Gen
eral Dix and other Republican leaders,
but in favor of reform and the election OF
Samuel J. Tilden for the Presidency"
Gen. Johnson Hagood has made a
report of the part taken by him in the
Aiken and Barnwell disturbances. He