The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-08-27
THE CAMPAIGN OPENED.
ADDRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC
STATE EExEcU7IyE CQn1MITTEE.


The Platform Of PHnciples--A History
and Prophecy--TheR Reforms of the
Poet Two Years--The Need OF Unity
and Harmony.
The State Democratic Executive
Committee has adopted unanimously
the following: address and ordered
it to. be- published:
HEADoR's STATE DEMooRAT1c)
FxEcUTJvE Committee, :
CohuNpN, S.: g.. Aug. %, 1878. }
70 the Reol'1e Qt'&oush Caroli,.a::
The State Democratic Executive
Committee announce to their fel-
low-citizens That the State canvass
will formally open on September
10th. Already tho counties in
general are ready for action, and
tho Committee cannot doubt that
tho campaign will be as brilliant as
brief.
Throughout the canvass the
Democ raoy Of South Carolina will
have but one rule of conduct. The
platform of 1876, adopted and re-
affirmed in 1878, is the supreme
law OF the Democratie party. BY it
tho highest and the lowest are
bound: No person, or body Of
persons, other than State Con-
vention, can change or modify it's
wise provisions and patriotic decla~
rations. Withip the limos of the
platform THO Democracy are safe.
Outside of it and beyond it, there
is no true Democracy in South
Cnrolina. No issue not made in
the platform and inconsistent with
1t Gun be raised. No issue mado in
the platform and consistent with It
can be ignored.
The platform of the Democratic
party of South Carolina is at once
q history and q prophecy. It is
the record of what is past, and the
assurance of what is to come. In
1T arc declared Democratic princi-
pies and Democratic practice. The
issue in South Carolina, as made by
the Democratic party, is not nm
Issue of raco. On the contrary, the
objects Of the Democracy, in retain
ing control of the State, arc to
complete the reform Of abuses, to
punish public criminals, to main
tain tho purity and ability Of tic
Government in all it's branches, to
lower the rate Of taxation and lessen
the burdens imposed upon tho peo-
pie, to ensure peace and concord,
and, including all else, to give
equal and complete protection to
every public and private right of
person and property, in order that
the Government, in tho hands of
the Democratic party, shall be the
Government of no one section, of
no one rage, Of no Qne class, but of
the whole people Of South Carolina,
without limitation or reatriotfon. :
SO far as time and opportunity
have ADMITTED, the Democratic party
has kept to. the letter and in spirit
every pledge or promise msde in
the platform of 1875. The State
officers elected two years ago are
again the candidates Of the party.
With the same platform and the
same candidates holdiug benefcent
possession of every department. of
the State Government, the Democ-
racy of South Carolina deserve suc-
cess and can command it. Vigilance
is necessary. Action md incessant
work ore Indispensable. Unity
must be had. They who slumber
on in false security, they who post
pone preparations for the fight,
they who encourage OF permit dis
sension and division, for any reason
or upon any pretext, are as much
the public enemies as the political
!epers whom Democratic rule drives
INTO the pepitentiary or out of the
State. Malcontents, laggards, dis
organizers, shall not pull down the
Democratic party, although they
may multiply it's difficulties and
make the struggle hardor and moro
desperate; and, when the battle is
won, as it shall be, the Democratic
party, for it's own sake, will pass
sentence upon any who, not being
with us, are against us, and mako
thom, for all time, political out.
casts, despised by Democrats of