The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-02-24
THE ANDERSON DEMOCRACY.

Our contemporary illustrates very forci.
bly, the extremity into which it has gone,
and it is with great difficulty that We can
attempt to answer any of its articles, be-
cause it has been foundering in the po-
litical mire it has made to such an e1-
tent lately, that it. appears to be every
where in politics. One day its leader
announces that nothing will redeem this
State except a two years rule of the De-
mocracy, and that the Republicans must
be made take the stool of repentance
for that period, at least, and the next it
is hurrahing Justify for the hybrid coali-
ton policy.
The Ne,cs and Courier agrees with the
plank in our platform which insists that
none but Democrats bear our standards
in the coming election, but seeks to evads
the plain intent of the resolution by say
ing that we may be called on to support
a Republican, and if SO we do not make
him our standard-bearer. If we support
"a Republican it must be under one Of
two either that We make him
our standard-bearer, or that We agree to
march beneath his banner in the column
of his dusky followers. To neither Of
these conditions have the Democracy Of
Anderson agreed. The News and Courier
suggests that we will run a partial ticket,
leaving portion of the State officers
blank, and thinks the only question of
doubt is whether to run the full ticket or
not. Of all the inconsistencies of our
contemporary this is the most glaring.
If we can elect partial ticket we can
elect complete one. live make a half
handed irresolute fight there are thou
sands of white men who will not go to the
poles, and we are sure to be defeated in
the effort. There is nothing to be lost
by running full ticket, for if some of
the Republicans are acceptable they will
be elected, unless our candidates beat
them, and hence in that event we would
be sure. to have an acceptable man
either way. There is no chance, how
ever, of the Republican party nominating
men who will be acceptable to Tue Dem
ocrats of Anderson County, for we insist
on placing this party upon the stool of
correction to atone its past sins. This
partial ticket plan is worse than no ticket
at all, for it will arouse all the passions
of the Republican party without en-
thusing the Democrats, SO that it will re-
suit in the loss of even our present
strength in the Legislature. This propo-
sition has nothing in it to commend its
adoption, and we predict it will have no
strength in the State Convention. The
Me.u, and Courier says:
D. It is pity that the Anderson Meeting
did not make some acknowledgment Of
the debt of gratitude that the State owes
to Governor Chamberlain.
But when the splendid courage, the rare
sagacity and the unfaltering advocacy of
reform measures which have marked
Governor Chamberlain's administration
are studiously ignored in any County,
there is reason to fear that prejudice, or
pique, to put itmildly, has had undue
weight in the councils Of the party.
The complacency with which this is
said is indeed surprising. We would
like to be informed when and by whom
the Neps and Courier was constituted Q
judge and censor of the motives of the
Democracy of Anderson County. 1t is
arrogance and presumption for any paper
to charge that ninety intelligent repre-
sentatiyes from the various portions Of
Anderson County acted from prejudice
or pique. 1t is slander upon cur people
to charge it, and, as We wish to put things
equally as mildly as our contemporary,
We will not attempt to say what is the
standard by which this selfrighteous
newspaper judges other people. The
conduct of Governor Chamberlain has
never been discourteous towards any
member of this Convention, and they
were not sctuated by any dislike for him,
except so far as his political course has
been outrageous in the past and decep-
tive in the present. Whenever any real
reform is accomplished by him it will be
time to praise him. The mere preven-
tion of Moses and Whipper taking their
seats is something to be sure, but he says
he did it for the purpose of saving his
party. Hence, as the Democrats of
Anderson do not believe in praising
a man for being honest for the sake of
his own gain, they said nothing about
him. They were silent, and the
Mews and Courier upbraides them for it.
They might with very great propriety
have condemned the Governor for his
corrupt and bad partisan appointments,
his improper use Of the pardoning power,
his absence from the State at the critical
period of the Parker trial and the Solo
mon Bank failure, his almost criminal
neglect in agreeing to deposit the State
funds in the Solomon Bank when it was
reputed to be irsolyent, his absence from
the city Of Columbia when the Lsgisla-
ture was in session and he had informa-
ton that the Whipper-Moses crew would
attempt to bring on the Judicial election,
his approval of the two Bonanza bills
and the present tax bill, whereby we are
now paying the highest tax we have
ever had, and last, but not least, his
uncalled-for and insulting letter about
our party to Senator Morton. The Ne'os
md Ito,,v,eyJs couroo noaour that II 10