The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-08-29
Address OF the State IN mocratIc Ex.
ecutiye Committee.

The State Democratic Executive Com.
mittee yesterday adopted unanimously
the following address and ordered it 10
be published:
HEADQUARTERS STATE DEMOCRATIC
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
COLUMBIA, s. c., Aug. 22, 1878.
TO the People Of South Carolina
The State Democratic Executive Com
mittce announce to their fellow citizens
that the State canvass will formally open
| on September 10th. Already the covn.
ties in general are ready for action, aid
the Committee cannot doubt that the
campaign will be as brilliant as brief.
Throughout the canvass the Democracy
| of South Carolina will have but one rule
Of conduct. The platform of 1876, adop-
ted and reafiirmed in 1873, is the su-
preme law of the Democratic party. By
it the highest and the lowest are bound.
No person, or body Of persons, other than
State Convention, can change or modify
its wise provisions and patriotic declara-
tions. Within the lines of the platform
the Democracy are safe. Outside of it
and beyond it, there is no true Democ.
racy in South Carolina No issue not
made in the platform and inconsistent
with il can be raised No issue made in
the platform and consistent with it can
be ignored.
The platform of the Democratic party
of South Carolina is at onco history
and prophecy. 1t is the record of what
is past and the assurance of what is to
come. In it are declared Democratic
principles and Democratic practice. The
| issue in South Carolina, as made by the
Democratic patty, is not an issue of lace.
On the contrary, the objects Of the Dem
| ocracy, in retaining cort.ol of the State,
punish public criminals, to maintain the
purity aud ability Of the Government in
all its branches, to lower the rate of tax
alton and lessen the burdens imposed
| upon the people, 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 the hands Of the Democratic party,
shall be the Government of no one sec.
ton, OF no one race, of no one class, but
OF the whole people of South Carolina,
without limitation or restriction.
30 far as time and opportunity have
admitted, the Democratic party has kept
to the letter and in spirit every pledge or
promise made in the platform of 1876.
The State officers elected two years ago
are again the candidates of the party
With the same platform and the same
candidates holding beneficcnt possession
of every department of the State Govern
ment, the Democracy of South Carolina
deserve success and can command it..
Vigilance is necessary. Action and in
cessant work Are indispensable. Unity
must be had. They who slumber on in
false security, they who postpone prepa-
rations for the fight, they who encourage
or permit dissension and division, for
any reason or upon any pretext, are as
much the public enemies as the political
lepers whom Democratic rule drives into
the Penitontiary OR cut OF the State.
Malcontents, laggards, disorganizers,
shall not pull down tho Democratic
party, although they may multiply its
difficulties and make the struggle harder
and more desperate; and, when the bat
tie is won, r it shall be, the Democratic
party, for its own sake, will pass sentence
upon any who, not being with us, are
against us, and make them, for all time,
political outcasts, despised by Democrats
of their own race and summed by the
Il
and have kept the faith.
For the white Democrats, the State
Committee are sure, no other exhorta-
ton is needed. They know full we'll that
Democratic rule is worth having, and
that what is worth having is worth keep
ing, and will be kept. BY the colored
! Democrats, 90 the State Committee be-
lieve, the solid advantages of an enlight-
ened and honest government are thor
oughly appreciated. They have seen
and felt the difference between integrity
and rascality, between lofty justice and
partisan rule. The hope is that the COL
ored people, in larger numbers than ever
before, will march beneath the folds of
the Democratic banner, aud so assist the
Democracy in pcrpetuating the work of
Governmental reform and industrial
restoration.
The reign of ignorance and vice in
South Carolina is past and gone. Virtue,
intelligence and elevated craftsmanship
shall, as during the last Two years, con-
troll the public affairs of South Carolina.
For this the people fought in 1876, and
the sceptre then grasped for the first time
in eight years by pure and strong hands
will not be laid down and shall not be
wrcated away.
JOHN d. KENNEDY Chairman.
| j. NJ. JOHNSON, w. =. CoKER,
y. =. DARdAN, +. w. DAWSON,
J. 7. IzLAR, J.F. RHAME.
| s. MCGOWAN, JOHN E. BACON.
j. N. LrpsCoMB, r. SroBo FARRow.
WILLIAM MUNRO, JOHN c. SHEPPARD,
L.. w. FOUNTAINS. WILLIAM ELLIOTT.
The Executive Committee has made
the following appointments for the State
campaign:
| Newbcry-Tuesday, September 10.
tairiield-Friday, September 49,
Laurcns-Thursday, September IL.
Abbeville-Saturday, September ii.
| Chester-Monday, September le.
Wednesday, September 18.
Barnwell--Wednesday, September f6
Aiken-Friday, September 20.
Sumter-Saturday, September 81.
Clarendon--Monday, September IS.
Wednesday, September 25
Gfarlboro-Friday, September 27.
Williamsburg-M Monday, September 80.
Edgefield-W Wednesday, September 80.
| Charleston-Wednesday October Q.
Lexington-Thursday, October 8.
MISUNDERSTANDING, October s.
Georgetown-Monday, October 7.
Oconee-Wed October 8.
Colleton-Thursday October 10.
Pickens-Friday, October IL.
Chesterfeld-Friday, October IL.
| HamptonSaturday, October II.
Horry-Monday, October II.
i %ioNa,iiiv.-i ,cStiay, Outober i5.