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

State 81, ,326, $50, sum largely in excess
of the cost of public printing from the
establishment of tho State government
up to 1876, including the large payments
made in Confederate money. In 1873
the sum of $3.50, 900 was appropriated for
public printing, being much larger
sum than was expended for the same
purpose durlng the twenty-five years next
preceding. In the session of 1S72-13
$l22, 1882 was appropriated for the same
purpose, being moro than the States of
New York, Massachusetts,, Pennsylva-
MIA, Maryland and Ohio all together paid
for printing. Either one of these States
owned a much larger amount of property
that South Carolina. It took ten times
as much to pay for printing In this State
as it did in Ohio, In proportion to the
amount of property owned by the two.
This showed something of the conduct of
the party we had just ovefthrown, but
that was not all. The Radical Legisla-
ture had S5S employees-clerks, pages,
etc.-while 1t had only 157 members.
The Democrats had reduced the number
of employees down 70 So, and everything
else accordingly. II was necessary that
we keep control Of the government.
"ldow are we going to do itf BY march
ing shoulder to shoulder, and allowing
nothing to turn US to the right or to tho
left" Wehad duties and responsibilities
to discharge that are important Our
forefathers created this government, and
we have but to maintain it. We muss
frown down every attempt ut fusionism,
coalitionism and independentism. Sub
NIT to the result of your primary cleo
ton. II your personal enemy is nomi-
all o,,1 fay
It is the only means of maintaining our
supremacy. Independents, though our
worst enensSh, did not stand the shadow
of chance in the State. "As long as we
stand together, and keep one another's
"Posterity will blush with shame if wo
speaker then directed few remarks to
the colored people present, all of whom,
he supposed, were Democrats, as he took
it that none of them were simple enough
to be anything else in Anderson County.
He told them that it was to their interest
to vote the Democratic ticket. Wherever
the white man had put his foot he had
ruled, and that they intended to take
care Of them. They intended to educate
their children, and make good citizens Of
them. The Democratic party was the
party Of peace, the party of equal rights
and the party of power. They had been
told by their leaders since the war that
when the Democrats got in power they
would be put back into slavery. "Has
it been done? The people of the South
to-day would not have you back in
slavery if it were possible to put you
back. They make more money out of
you as free labor than they did as slave
labor, and why should they want you
back in slavery. The young farmers
of the South are making more money
to-day than their fathers did whom you
were slaves" He advised them not to
go 70 Liberia, but to stay among tho peo-
pie they had always known, and who
would do more to help them on the road
to prosperity than any one else. We
wanted them to remain in the South be-
cause it gave us more power in the ma
tional government. If the North could
it would to-day deprive them Of their
political privileges. The colored people
throughout the State were generally well
pleased with the government the Democ-
racy had given them, aud so long as they
were our friends we would be theirs,
and if they would take the right hand of
they should have it. After
again expressing his pleasure at being
permitted to meet the Anderson Democ-
racy-an animal he had long wished to
see-he closed, h&ving spoken about an
hour. He was frequently applauded, and
his amusing anecdotes and illustrations
often produced hearty laughter.
The County Chairman then introduced
rs the second speaker Col. ]. N. Lips
comb, of Newbsrry, 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. 1t was
here that he spent a portion of his early
life, and played with our orrs, Whitners,
1lcFalls, Archers, Harrisons, Keys and
many other of our noble citizens. 81
feel at least half at homo when I am in
Anderson" The speaker then turned to
the colored people present and gave them
soma very wholesome and timely ad-
vice, telling them that 1t was to their in
terest to identity themselves with the
Democratic party, and that the Northern
Radicals, who had come down South,
had simply used them as tools. When
they becarae free they had duties and re-
sponsibilities placed on their shoulders
that were imperative and weighty, and
that they should use their privileges
man say that he will do more for you
than he will for one of his own race, put
it down that he is lying" (''That so
that p' from the colored people.) He
wanted the colo-ed people educated, and
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 q somewhat per-
sonal nature. He said that Col. Cothran,
in his speech at Abbeville a few days
ago, said that he (Lipscomb) plumed
himself on having ney er voted for Re-
pm nblican or q negro, but that he Goth
ran) had voted for both, and did so be-
cause the Democratic party of the State,
in Convention assembled, had said that
it was the best. He said that i'll order to
vindicate his statements and course it
would be necessary to 80 back few
years and review the politics of South
Carolina. lie said, in his speech at Alb
beville, that he had never voted for Re-
publican or negro, nor he never would
as long as he lived. He had nothing to
take back nor nothing to regret. The
Democrats of this State had tSied three
different times to elect fusiBn ticket,
but each time failed. The first was the
Carpenter and Butler ticket, in 1870,
under the Reform movement. He was q
great admirer of Butler, but that he told
him in his own house (Butler's) that he
would not vote for him with Republi-
can. He did not believe that s. Demo-
cratic Convention bad the right to nomi-
nate Republican on a ;icket and de-
mand the people to vote for him, and
that for one he would nevor do it. That
the same policy was carried out in 1872,
when it was tried to elect the Tomlinson
ticket, but 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 it 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. The
people could not support it, and conse-
quently the opposing element was sue
cessful. Then came the straight-out
which a great many had
! II 4. i Ill.