The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1876-10-26
CAMPAIGN NOTES.

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Every day adds names is the roll
OF colored Democrats in Colleton
county.
SThe colored Democratic club at
Timmonsville has already forty
members, and still they come.
The Radical tickets in Barnwell
and williamsburg are worse than
ever before. Reformi
Bowen seems to be running the
Radical machine in Charleston
county oil to himself. His nomi-
mating convention will be hold on
the 31st inst,
The U,ion- Herald is q dirtier
sheet now than ever before-not ex-
ceptmg the days when Cass Carpen-
penter filled it with political filth.
1t is Chamberlain's organ!
The following meetings remain to
be hold i'll the Demo cratic cnnvass
Oolleton, Oct 27; Charleston,
OFT. 80; Georgetown, Nov. 1;
Orangeburg, Nov. 8; Columbia,
NV. 4.
AT q Radical meeting at Darling
ton on tho 18Th inst, there were
two bodies OF armed negroes, with
guns and fixed bayonets. Let's
hear from our Massachusetts govern
or.
1t was reported that Butcher
Merril would arrive at Elgefeld
last week, but he is not como yet.
tte and Corbin and Chamberlain q, !
bosom friends, and all three arc fond
Of dirty work.
AS result of the Radical how
WOW at Manning, one colo rod Demo
cr&t back-slitled, and about fiftv
co!ored Republicans G. tl1er declared
tor Hampton, or OK pressed an in
t~ntlon not to vote ut MI.
The notorious and villanous C p.
Leslie has go'le back to Barnwell,
and 1T is expected that he will re-
celve the -<adical nom nation for the
State S:enate, instead of the man
AREA ~ nominated. Reform
Tho marshals did some very di .ty
Fat none tho less congeniul work at
/ Aiken just after tie Democratic
meeting. They arrested several
! gentlemen present, among them Col.
a. L. Butler, the marshal of the Il ".
Notwithstanding the absence of
Hampton (who was prevented from
attending by the death of II near
relative) the Lexington meeting was
q perfectsuccess. The speeches were
unusually fine, and the crowd wore
IN the best of spirits. Of course,
Lexington is safe for Hampton and
Reform.
Arbitrary arrests by Chamberlain's
mnlons did not check the ald)r of
the Aiken Democrats. The meeting
held there on Friday last was a
grand success. There were present
moro than one thousand mounted
men, and upwards of four thousand
persons i'll all. Addresses were
made by Hampton, Simpson, G.rv,
Youmans and others. Everything
went off finely.
Tho Clarendon Radicals, when
bout to hold their meeting nj
Mann ng, asked permission to use
the stand previously erected by the
Democrats, which was promptly
granved. The Democratic county
convention was also in session, AMI.
taking advantage Of the appartn
good feeling, the Democrats rske,
Tor q dlrlcion of time, which was
readily asserted to. But the Demo-
cratic speakers were frequent tl7 md
rudely inte 'ptcd, Ill ut last they
left the meeting in natural disgust.
The Radicals made q lame apology
for their indecent behavior.
Hampton's meeting at Edgefcld
was fully up to the expectations OF
the most enthusiastic. The mount
ca procession, marching in column
OF twcs, was more than n mile lono
The enthusiasm natural to the
Edgefeld Democracy WAS increased
by the presence of General Hamp-
ton and those who accompanied
him: Everybody was in tho finest
spirits. Speeches were made bv
Cen. Hampton, Col. Simpson, Julge
Cooke, Judge NIackey, Col.
Lipscomb, Gen. Gary, Mr.. James G..
G!bbes and others. The Egefeld
fellows mean business, and they are
su, Q to win.
After the Edsefold Democratic
meeting IL most diabolical murder
was committed. AS q party of
whites were returning from it thev
were fired on by party of negroes
IN ambush. One man, Mr.. Jno.
Gilmore, was killed, and ono
wounded. Another, going for the
coroner, WAS likewise fired on and
wounded. Great excitement natu.
rally followed, and it was only
through the powerful efforts Of
Generals Butler and Gary, and
others, that the whites were pre-
vented from Dunishinp tbooo c,,,