Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1878-08-15
commiiioddnrinc The canvass preceding

commiticdduri the canvass preceding
that election for the violent seizure oil
The State government after that election
for the frauds committed at evely special
election held since they obtalnec contlol
of the State and for the system uf mtlm-
idation which sill prevails in many coun-
ties, whereby the Republicans are actually
prohibited from meeting and organizing.
5. We denounce the Democratic party
for the outrage perpetrated IN unseating
Republican members of the General AS
senhly. so Is to increase their majority in
tile Legislature, and especially for depriv-
ing the seventeen Republican representa-
tives from Charleston County of their
seats to which they had been elected by
over six thousand majority; and when
elections were held to fill these vacancies
in Charleston, Orangeburg, Beaufort, Sum
tel and other counties for refusing to give
the Republicans any representation what
ever on the Commissioners Of Elections
or the Board of Managers; for the frauds
committed in the management of those
elections, and particularly for stealing SIX
ballot boxes containing Republican ma
~iorities in TIE county of Sumter, and for
refusing to count the votes cast at certain
NDrecincys at such elections in Beaufort
md O~r5angeburg for alleged irregularities
on the part OF the managers appointed by
themselves.
g.. We arraign the Democratic party for
cnacfing at the last session of the General
Assembly the law whereby numerous vo.
ting precincts in large Republican coun-
ties were abolished SC that thousands OIL
Republican voters are virtually disfran-
chised or else compelled to walk twenty
miles or more in order to vote, and In
some places to c?oss rivers IN order tt
reach a polling place.
r. While condelnning the condnct of all
public officers who may have in years past
violated the trusts coniided to them, anC
while ~denouncing all fraudulent and dis.
honest practices, and dlsc!0iming any de
sire to Shield any individual proved to bt
guilty Of such offenses, we d%enounce thC
method by which the Democratic Farty
through manufactured testimony sought
to inculpate men whose only otfense was
their R~epublicanism, and .ye further de
noumce the unfair and partisan character
of the recent legislative investigations II
this State whereby the. frauds committed
by Democrats have been carefully screen
ed from public view and all testimony
looking TO their exposure has been studl
ously suppressed.
3 We reafirm The declaration made
from time to time that atthe general cleo
ton held in this State on the 7th day o
November, 1876, for Presidential Electors
Governor and other State officers not onl,
were hc..Republican Presidential Elector:
duly chosen, but that Daniel II. Cham
berlain, together with the entire Republl
can State ticket, were also elected by tn
votes Of a majority OF the .quallliec 5lec
tors Of this State.
Q. We deem it iacxpedient to nominal
candidates for Governor and other Stat
officers, because, owing to the condition o
affairs in this State, occasioned by ril
club rule and tso wears Of Democratic su
9remacy, i; i, impossible for the Repubil
can voters in many colnties, without in
curing great personal danger, to organlz
tor the campalga Oh to vote at the electlo.
when held.
10. We pledge ourselves to assist in tn
work OF purifying the public service, an
VIC demand thai the local Republican con
v%entions throughout the State, whereve
they make nominations, shall nominal
only such candidates as are recognized 4
men Of intelligence and integrity as we
as Of established devotion 10 the Republl
can principles.