The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-23
Republican Platform.

The following is the platform Of til,
Republican party in South Carolina:
lst. The Republican party Of Soutl
Carolina, in convention assembled, he
lieving that the principles Of equal civi
and'political rights are vital to the inter
est of good government, and they can on.
ly be enforced by the party which he
engyafted them upon the State and Ma
;ional Constitutions, hereby express thei
earnest approval of the platform ant
principles adopted by the National Con
vention at Chicago on the I'd day OF June
1880, aud we cordially. endorse and ratifl
the nominations made by that Convention
OF james a Garfield and Chester A
! Authur for President and Vice Presi.
dent.
I'd. Believing that tho right to n frct
ballot is right preseryative of ail rights
we denounce tile Democratic party o.
South Carolina for the outrageous system
of fraud which they inaugurated for the
purpose OF suppressing that right. and we
assert thet 1t is only by preventing full
vote, by denying free ballot and by re.
fusing fair count that the Democratic
can have any hope whatever of carrying
South Carolina.
Sd. That we denounce tho actions OF
the Democratic Governor of the State ia
refusing 10 allow the Republicans in many
counties OF tho State any representation
whatever on the bcasd OF commissioners
of election recently appointed, and the
denial of such representation gives good
ground for the belief that in such cases
the commissioners of election werc mp.
pointed for the purpose of defrauding the
popular will by an unscrupulous exercise
of the large powers which the election
laws of the State confer upon them.
4th. In the appointment of managers
of election by the commissioners of cleo.
tions, We demand that q Republican
manager be appointed at each poll, and
i'll making this demand We call attention
to the fact that when the Republicans
controlled the appointment of election
officers representation WIS allowed Mt
every election to ,he Democrats on every
board Of commissioners and every board
Of managers.
5th. That we enpaasico!iy deny the
assertion made by Wu1s Hampton that
forty.6ve thousand Republicans voted
for him as the Democratic candidate for
Governor at the general el :tion of 1878,
and we believe that the sertion was
made to account for the thousands
of tissue ballots stuffed in the ballot boxes
by Wade haMpton's election officers ut
that election.
9th. We charge the Democratic party
with being unfaithful to the many pledges
and prnmises made 10 the people of this
State, as demonstrated by their reckless
disregard of the rights of citizens, and
especially their attempts to disfranchise
large portion Of the voters by unconsti-
tutional enactments.
7th. That We arraign the Democratic
party for their bad management of the
State Penitentiary and the brutal treat.
ment of the convicts in that Institution,
the sickening details of which send n
thrill of horror to the hearts of nll hu-
mane people and make blot on the civ
iliZation of the age.
Taft said that as all the business of the
Convention had been finished, nothing
else remained but for him to give few
parting words of advice to the delegates
who were about to go to their homes. He
told them chat the Republican party had
before them one of the most important
campaigns in tho history of the party {;
that upon the SUCCESS of this canvass all
the hopes Of Republicans hang that tho
campaign is fraught with great dangere,
and that ali the Republicans must de-.
termine to 3, home and work unremit-
tiDgly for the success of the cause. He
admonished each delegate to divest him
self of all bitter feeling that might have
been engendered by this meeting, and to
return home with the determination to
work with q will.