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


= In the recent election in Arkansas
the Republicans carried but one out of
thirty.0ne counties.
= The irreqrcssible Judge Mackcy says
that every man on the Republican tick
ct has Il we'll defined criminal record"
Belknap has determined to 90 to
California to live, unless the election of
Hayes rc-Opens place for him in the
Cabinet
= Senator james NJ. Smith, Rcpub.
llcan .nem!.er cf the Last I.egislatmre
from Barnwcll county, has rcnounccd
radicalisin and returned to the Demo
cratic fold.
Major Theodore q. Barker, of
Charleston, has been appointed by the
state Executive Committee on the Dem
cratic ticket for Elector at Large, rice
General John a. Wagner, deceased.
= Tie full returns Of the late election
in Arkansas are published, showing the
vote on Governor and Secretary of State.
The Democratic majority lacks but e
mere trifle Of 10000, and will 90 over
that in November.
- 1t is an encouraging thing for those
who hope for reform in the administers
tion to remember that the increase of the
Democratic vote in Vermont was 1922
%hilc the increase in the Republican vote
was only 418.
There il not single white man in
South Carolina, who has the least spark
OF sclf-respcct 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, well 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 Rantowles, in Collcton county,
u Colorcd Democratic Club has IN
formed on rice plantation. The Club
is headed by Capt. Jnck Holmes, fore.
man on MIR. Fishburncs plantation, and
its membership already is 40.
= The State Democratic Executive
Committee have appointed J. Adger
Smyth, Esq, of Charleston, to fill the
vacancy ON the Committee caused by the
resignation of Col. John II. Evins, of
Spartanburg, who il q candidate for Con-
| gress from the Fourth District.
= Hon. Joseph Segar, now Republi-
can candidate for Congress III the Second
District of Virginia, has been greatly dis
gusted by the publication OF letter
written by him i'll 1868, in which be said
II abominate as have always abomina-
ted universal suffrage, either for black or
white men. l regard negro suffrage as
the yeriest ahsurdity that was ever con
ceived by human liallucination."
= A number Of negroes employed in
Atlanta have notified their employers
that they will give up their situations on
the lst of October, in order to remove to
South Carolina, where, they say, wages
are better. This is looked upon as a
political trick of the enemy, and done to
strengthen the rapidly waning fortunes
Of the Radica! party IL this State, and it
would be well to look out for imported
colored voters
- Dr. Benz. l.. Brisbane, editor of the
True South, published at Brunson's, S. c.,
and also minister Of the Gospel, who
has always heretofore rigidly adhered to
the hepublican party, has now declared
for Hampton and Reform, and is doing
much good service for the ticket in his
quiet way. Like Judge Cooke, he still
ndhcres to his Republican principles, and
will vote for Hayes and Wheeler, but
will support oar State ticket.
The records prove that the number
Of officeholders has been increased during
President Grants administration from
54.267 to 94,l19, or at the rate of more
than 5000 yea- that during almost
the whole of this pericI the country has
been suffering from great commercial de-
preston, and nearly every homo has felt
the pressure of hard times. This is the
army with which the Republican leaders
hope TO overwhelm the voice of the peo-
pie at the coming elections.
= The woman suffragists Of Massachu-
setts, losing fnith 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 pal ties. The combination
hope to poll fifteel to ighteen 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.
- 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 Gail ia signed by Major General
Hooker and several other Union officers.
and it declares: "The enrolment already
made at these headquarters shows con-
clusively that majority of Union SOL
diers and sailors a.c not in favor of tho
perpetuation of Graniism in the election
of Hayes and Wheeler Us stated by Gen.
eral Dix and other Republican leaders,
but in favor of reform and the election of
Samuel j. Tilden for the Presidency"