The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-11-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.


the Democrats. Do nothing which car
be misconstrued into anything like in
timidation. We cannot afford to have
the vote of Anderson County ignored.
If Grant had been as prompt in send
ing soldiers to fight Sitting Bull las
spring as he is in sending them to fght
the imaginary insurrectionists in South
Carolina, our nation would not to-day be
mourning the death of the gallant Custer
and his brave men.
Next Tuesday will be the Waterloo ol
Republicanism in the United States
Grant, Taft and Chamberlain have sealed
the fate of poor Hayes, and in the effort
to hold up the rotten fabric of Republi-
canism in South Carolina they have de-
molished the decayed structure in the
Union.
Judge Mackey eloquently arraigns
Gov. Chamberlain before the people of
this State for his fragrant treachery,
criminal neglect of duty, and shameless
disregard of truth and decency, and dubs
him "the chief political conspirator of
the present age" No decent man in
this State can afford to vote for such a
creature.
Judge Mackey was serenaded one eve
ming last week in Lancaster, and respond
ed in ringing speech for Hampton and
reform. He places Hampton's majority
in South Carolina at fifteen thousand at
the least estimate, Judge Mackey is a
shrewd politician, and has shown much
accuracy in his political estimates here
tofore. The indications are that he will
be correct in this instance. Perseverance
will accomplish it.
Judge Cooke has declared his intention
to have Chamberlain in the penitentiary
within six months, but we are inclined to
doubt the judges ability to do so, because
this Massachusetts governor is capital
fellow when it comes to running from
danger, and if he happens to get cornered
he knows just how to hide himself from
sight, even if it is necessary to get under
bed to do it. Don't vote for him, COL
ored men. He has never properly pro-
tected your race, and never will do it.
Every man in South Carolina should
go to the polls before the box is opened
on Tuesday morning, and remain there
during the day to work for Hampton, not
only by voting, but also By getting others
to vote for him, and to be present to
challenge the vote of any incompetent
person they may know. When the polls
close, committee of discreet and intel
ligent men should be appointed to re-
main and see the counting done. Work |!
Work! Work. is our motto, until the
last vote is polled on next Tuesday.
Victory will be the reward of such a
course.
The Democrats of South Carolina
voted for Reuben Tomlinson for Govern
or four years ago, and he has since that
time occupied position of some respecta-
bility, but his original ploclivities have
at last got control of him again, and he
is now stumping it for Chamberlain. AS
he has come to the rescue of the plumber
ers of South Carolina he must be classed
with them. "Birds of feather will
flock together" and Tomlinsun has
shown the tribe to which he belongs by
his recent course, and thereby gives adj
ditional proof of the necessity for straight
out action, for whenever we support a
Republican we get neither thanks nor
profit for doing so, and sooner or later he
is sure to prove unworthy of trust or con-
fdence. Poor Tomlinson now has not
the friendship of Republicans nor the
respect of Democrats.
The election laws of this State are
rather ambiguously worded, and some
doubt has arisen from an examination of
the statutes as to whether there is to be
one general ticket On which the names of
candidates for Presidential Electors,
Congress, State and County officers are
to be placed. This question has been
submitted by the State Democratic Exec
utive Committee to Attorney-General
Stone, who has decided that there is to be
one general ticket, on which will appear
the names of persons voted for, together
with an expression of opinion as to the
Constitutional Amendment in relation to
public schools, regulating the school tax
and its distribution. This settles the
question finally for the coming election.
We hope every Democratic voter will see
to it that the Constitutional Amendment
gets full vote in its favor.
Let us strive to make our nations
entry upon the beginning of the second
centennial of its birth as glorious in South
Carolina as the natal morning of the
Palmetto State one hundred years ago.
The trying days which developed our
Marions, Sumters and Moultries have
gone into history as the grand birthday
of our nation and of the true spirit Of
liberty. Let it be recorded on next Tues,
day that these achievements have been
wrested from impending destruction and
re-established in perennial youth and
strength, and when they have Travelled
down the stream of human generations
for another hundred years, dispensing