The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-10-10

south Carolina from 1868 70 1875 cost the
olate ", 49, $50, sum largely In excaes
Oi the cost OF public printing from the
Ssaoi,s1aient ,,r -, ie1e OF tho State government
up 70 1oio, Including the largo payments
made In Confederate money. In is73
the sum of $50, 900 was appropriated for
Pubic printing, being z much Iargey
sum than was expended for the same
purpose during the twenty-five years next
precedihg. In the session or I872-73
SlzzS5z WAS appropriated for the Same
| purpose, being moro than tha s.-.c-
Ncw ork, Massachusetts, Pennsvlya-
MA, Maryland and Ohio all together maid
tes printing. Either one OF these states
| owned much larger amount of property
Ihat south Carolina. It took ten times
as as tnuSn q en- 20 pay for printing in this State
as IL did in Ohio In proportion to fhe
amount OF property owned by tho two
I'm nnin hhowed something of the conduct OF
the party we had lust overthroNn. bnt
that was not all. Tie Radical Legisla.
lure mad 65S employees--clerks, pages.
Sr,I SrS,c.-whiie 1t had only I57 members.
the Democrats had reduced the number
OF employees down to So, and eyerythinr
else accordingly. It was necessary thai
we keep control OF the goyernment.
How are we going to do itf BY march,
ing shoulder TO shoulder, and allowing
| notninR 10 turn us to the right or to the
| .en. we mad duties and responsibilities
|
Ioreiathers created this governments, and
| we rave but to maintain it. We must
'rown down every attempt at fusionism.
| coaiitionism and independentism. Sub.
| mt 70 tho result of your primary cleo
uon. Ii your personal enemy is nomi-
| nated, go and work aud vote for him,
1t Is the only means of maintaining our
| supremacy. Independents, though our
worst enenLssS did not stand the shadow
OF chance In the State. "As long as we
stand together, and keep one e,:S:....s..
secrets, we will hold the government"
| Fosterity will blush with shame If we
conGuct ourselves 30 as to lose it," Tho
| speaker then directed q few remarks to
the colored people present, all of whom.
ne supposed, were Democrats, as he took
IL that none of them were simple enough
70 oe anything else In Anderson County.
u he eold them that 1t was to their interest
10 vote tho Democratic ticket. Wherever
the white man had put his foot he had
ruled, and that they intended to take
care or them. They intended to educate
thelr children, and make good citizens OF
thom. The Democratic party was the
parry OF peace, tho party Of equal rights
ana the party of power. They had been
told by their leaders since the war that
when the Democrats got in power thew
| would be put back into slavery. elias
IL been done? The people of the South
to-day would not have you back in
slavery II 1t were possible to put yon
back. They make moro money out of
| you as free labor than they did as elaye
labor, and why should they want you
back In slavery. The young farnIera
OF the South arc making moro money
to-day than their fathers did when you
were slaves" He advised them not to
go to Liberia, but to stay among the peo-
pie they had always known, and who
| would do more to help them on the road
10 prosperity than any one else. We
wanted them to remain in the South be-
| cause 't gave us moro power in the ma
tional government. If the North could
it would to-day deprive them Of their
political privileges. The coIored people
| throughout the State were generally well
pseased with the government the Ds.nocs
racy mad given them, aud so long as they
were our friends we would be theirs,
and If thoy would take the right hand OF
| fellowship they should have it. After
again expressing his pleasure at being
| permitted to meet the Anderson Democ-
racy-an animal no mad long wished tc
/ seS-iio closed, having spoken about an
hour. He was frequently acplauded, and
his amusing anecdotes and illustrations
often produced hearty laughter.
The County Chairman then introduced
as the second speaker Col. J. N. Lips
comb, of Newberry, who, after speaking
In very high and complimentary terms
of Speaker Sheppard and Coils. Cothran
and Aiken, said that he, too, was pleased
to meet the people of Anderson. It was
hero that he spent portion of his eerly
life, and played with our Orrs, Whitnera,
McFalls, Archers, Harrisons, Keys and
many other of our noble citizens. ~
feel at least half at home when am in
Anderson" The speaker tnon turned to
4 mr. for, n 4 4.
some very wholesome end timely ad-
vice, telling them that It was to their In
| forest to identify Themselves with the
Democratic party, and that the Northern
radicals, who had como down South,
I'D simply used them as tools. When
sponsibilities placed on their shoulders
| that vrsre slGi operative and yeighty. and
that they should use their privileges
judioiousiy. when you hear white
man say that he will do moro for you
| than he will for one of his own race, put
1t down that he is lying" ('That SO /
that SO ~ from the colorcd peop;5.) He
wanted the colored people educated, aud
that when they became qualified to fill
offices, he would take their claims into
consideration. The speaker here begged
the indulgence OF the audience while he
referred to matter of a somewhat per-
sOnal nature. He said that Col Cothran,
In his speech ut Abbeville a few days
ago. snid that he <I1:pscosib} piuireii
himself on having ne! er voted for Re-
| publican or o negro, but that he Goth
ran) Lad voted for both, and did so be-
cause the Democratic party of tho State,
In Convention assembled, had said that
1t was the best. He said that IN order to
vindicate his statements and course it
would be necessary to go back few
years and review the politics of South
Carolina. lie said, in bis speech at Alb
beville, that he had never voted for Re-
publican or negro, nor he never would
as long ns he lived. He had nothing to
| take back nor nothing to regret. The
| Democrats OF this State had tried three
| different times to elect q fusion ticket,
but each time failed. The first was the
Carpenter and Butler ticket, Ia 1870,
under the Reform movement. He was o
him in his own house (Butler's) that he
! would not vote for Linn with Republic
can. He did not believe that Demo-
cratic Convention bad the right to nomi-
nate q Republican on ticket and de-
mand the people TO vote for him, and
that for one he would never do it. That
the same policy was carried out in 1872,
when it was tried to elect the Tomlinson
ticket, bat that, too, proved failure.
He attributed no other than pure and
patriotic motive to any of the movers
and supporters of these tickets, and he
| lieved they were sincere In what they
| did, and did 1t for the good of their coun
try. Again, in 1874, another effort was
made to elect fusion ticket with Green
and Delaney at its head, but that, like
the other two. met with defeat also. Tho
people could not support 1t, and conee-
| quently the opposing element was sue
cessful. Then came the straight-Out
movement. which a great n,e.y Lax.
claimed to originate. He did not believe
q Let, -, 10 AIn