The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01
A Solid Vote and Victory!

A Solid Vote and Victory!
The candidates nominated by the Charleston
Democratic Convention arc before the people,
They were fairly chosen, according to rule, by
n Convention formed under the directions Of the
County Committee, in conformity with the con-
stitution Of the Democratic party in this State.
There is no flaw in their title as the Democratic
candidates, and the only Democratic candidates,
in Charleston. This is sufficient, without going
further. However tempted any. Democrat may
be to grumbe or struggle, every sensible and
unseGsh Democrat knows, and admits, three
things:
l. That, rs the Slate Executive Committee say
in their address, "there is no peace or hope, no
salvation or success, for South Carolina, except
by and through the Democratic party" Ten
years Of Radical rule are proof enough OF this
inasmuch rs any revived Radical party, in this
State, must be composed of the same material,
and, therefore, have the same faults and weak
nesscs as the old party.
=. That the Democratic party cannot give the
whole State peace and hope, salvation and sue
cess, unless the party be united. Absolute and
unfalering union enabled the Democracy to win
in 1876, and, if they now split up, they cannst
secure, this year, ia surprising and final victo-
ry."
3. That it is impossible to have union, and
strength, which is its consequence, unless the
ton, to the mandates of the party, and support,
with zeal and energy, the candidates of the
party, whether good, bad or indifferent
The election of the worst possible Demo
cratic ticket under the s il 6ss best
conceivable Radical ticket. We must consent to
bow to any edict, however tyrannical, and to
swallow any dose, however nauseous. We must
stoop, if nee Is be, to conquer. This is Cover
nor Iiampton's view. Everybody knows tina:
he is broad and liberal in his opinions. Yet
none insist more sternly than he on such cheer
full obedience to orders as is the mark of the
true and rising soldier.
Every tins vote in Charleston County, white
and colored, is required to be cast on cleo.
ton day. We cannot spare one of them. And
And every vote that is polled ought to be polled
for the whole ticket, from top to bottom, with
out distinction or difference. Every Democrat
Wha was proposed as n candidate in the County
Convention is publicly pledged to abide by the
action of the Convention, and, as matter of
course, to vote the staight ticket. So is it with
the successful candidates. They arc bound to
support the whole ticket, and they will do it
Their friends under the same otligaion.-
Whatever differences antagonisms there were
before, there can be none new, regards the
several parts Of the ticket. In the Democratic
eye no man on ths ticket ~ better or worse thas
aay other man. Every candidate is entitled to
the solid vote of every Democrat in the County.
There is nothing more demoralizing than cutting
and scratchingiickcts. Every candidate gives to
the other candidates the benefit Of the strength
and influence of his own peculiar friends, with
the expectation that he will got the benefit Of
the influence and strength of the peculiar friends
OF the rest of the ticket. This is the honorable
understanding among the candidates, and any
violation Of it splits up ticket efectually as
Independent candidacy can do.
There is every reason to be sanguine in this
County. The complete restoration of the County
TO the control of respectable and faithful citizens
issnigh at.hand. Nothing can rctard its coming
if Ahe Democracy talk hard and work hard, give
their time and money to the canvass, and vote
the, Democratic ticket, the whole ticket and
nothing but the ticket, on the fast-approach-
ing election day.-News and Courier.