The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-21

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The Republican State Convention be:
gan its session, as our readers were in
formed last week, on Tuesday, 18th inst,
and remained in session until Saturday
night, 10th inst, imaking fvei days occu-
pied in incubating- q. State ticket and
arranging the plans for uniting the party
in this campaign. Itwas apparent that
there was confusion and anxiety among
thelfaithfal, and that the leaders of the
party were not over,sanguine As TO the
result of this contest (. Tuesday and
Wednesday were occupied inIarapging
the preliminaries, andthe time Was main
ly employed in fixing the credentials, by
the committee appointed for that purpose.
On Wednesday afternoon, 4Honest"
John Patterson entertained the delegates
with speech full of vile and bite, in,
yectives against the Democrats of South
Carolina, and pledging himself to vote
for Governor Chamberlain's re-nomina-
ton, which was warmly applanded. In
deed, this demonstration over i"aHonest"
John was the first spark of enthusiasm
manifested in the proceedings and the
adherents of Chamberlain picked up
courage from that time forward. Among
other things, Patterson referred to the
ability and intention of President Grant
to suppress the Democrats in this State,
and declared that the 'sman on horse
back" as he calls Grant, will institute
measures to prevent the practices Of the
Democratic party IN dividing time at
Republican meetings. ...For they might
as well know now, first as last" said Pat
terson, SHAT the people of the North are
the masters" Again he declared: Let
the Republican party hold the govern
ment. ,Sf this State ten years longer and
you will never hear of the Democratic
party" which expression proves that
Honest" John has extended the era, Of
stealing to twice FIVE. years. He tdefed
any one to prove thatihe had ever. been
guilty ofia Single corrupt act or stolen .
cent from the people, and his. confidence
in this respect shows that he has covered
up his tracks most efectually.. During
the delivery of this harangue, the speech
of Patterson in the United States Senate
on the Hamburg riot was freely circu;
lated among the delegates. His defiant
attitude on the subject of corruption and
stealing cannot be maintained so far as
relates to lying, however, for the publica7
tion of his Hamburg speech furnishes
the evidence that he is first-class liar1
Thursday morning the fight between
the factions actually began, and such q
sham battle has not been seen in South
Carolina during all the farcical days
since reconstruction. The opposing can
didates for Governor :, we're Daniel, II,
Chamberlain and Thomas G. Dunn, and
around these names were rallied the
cohorts of Radicalism. We were, i'm
pressed with the idea all through the ff-
teen hours ofdebate that Mt1 Dunn was
not ayigorous, active candidate fof Gov
ernor, but that he represented the crys-
talization Of votes against Chamberlain,
whose, number was said to be sufficient
at thestart to- defeat Reowily1 Governor.
On this point We are disposed to entertain
much doubt, for we cannot believe that
such rambling, incehereptndebste con-
vinced any one of the motley crew that
it was their duty to support Chamberlain.
Dunn's character and antecedents were
touched upon occasionally; and it was
claimed by some of them that he had
been Democrat, because of his promi-
nence in the last campaign as the leader
of the Green and Delaney, faction, and
because he ran for Congress some years
ago against Whittemore-all of which
was cleared up without much trouble as
not affecting his present standing in the
RADICAL party, for it was ascertained that
more than one-half the members of the
Convention had bolted in previous cam
paigns. But the candidacy of Chamber
lain was prosecuted with steady purpose,
and it was freely declared that he was
the only man who could save the party
from impending destruction; that his
name was necessity to give the ticket
the ghost of chance for success that
his record as a reformer would alone
solidify the strength of the party in this
State, and insure the support of the gen.
eral government. The opponents Of
Chamberlain pretended to attack his re-
cord upon administrative reform at the
beginning, but this was abandoned after
a time, and the fire was concentrated
upon his want of fealty to party and the
negro element. These sins were greater
in their estimation than any failure to
preserve good government, but the style
of attack was weak and imbecile, and
gave the appearance of affording an
opportunity for Chamberlain to clear hil
skirts and renew his allegiance in the
most positive terms to his old associates
which was duly improved by the crafty
Governor on every occasion.
The speeches were mad. upon the nom.
nations. Under the rules, every dele
gate was entitled to speak thirty minutes
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