The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-09
THE BLACK STALWARTS.
They Insist on State Ticket In South
Carolina but Finally Back Out.
From, the Neops and Courier.

FROM ERe NepS ana CONTlT.
COLUMBIA, S. O., September 2.
learned very soon after arriving here
this morning that there was considerable
discussion going on among the delegates
to the Republican State Convention
as to whether the Convention should
make any nomination for State Of
ficers at all. The white delegates,
reasons bitterly opposed to the nomina'
numbering twenty two, were for obvious
tion of State ticket, their chief objec-
tions being that the expenses of running
such ticket would be considerable and
would fall exclusively on the few white
men in the party; that there was no
hope of electing State ticket even if
nominated and lastly, that there was
really no material in the party fit for the
formation of such ticket as they would
be willing to place before the country as
the representatives of the Republicans in
this State.
The colored delegates, numbering over
one hundred, were almost unanimously
in favor of nominating State ticket
They saw no force in any of the objec.
tions of the whites. In the first place
they had nothing to lose and nothing to
contribute towards the expenses of the
campaign, and consequently cared very
little about the matter. AS to the hope
of electing their ticket they expressed
vague idea that something would turn up
in the shape of aid from the North,
which would reinaugurate the old flush
times in South Carolina. AS to
the respectability of the ticket that
was a matter of very little concern
to them. In fact, as 1 heard one
of them remark, eff the Republican party
waits to find men enough to put on the
ticket who haven't been 'cused of steal
ing, they'll never get up ticket" He
was in favor of putting up ticket COM
posed of "loyal men," whoever they may
be.
The aspect of the delegates compos.
ing this Convention, as they struggled
around the lobbics of the State-House
previous to the opening of the Conven-
ton, was rs sorry sight as I have had
occasion to witness for many long day.
Here and there could be seen familiar
face, whose term in some Republican
Legislature had given him place in the
reports of the fraud committee, and few
and far between were the white men
lounging around in an uneasy manner
as if half ashamed of being seen in such
company. / don't think l saw a single
sleek, well-dressed colored delegate
They were all woefully seedy and hun
cry looking. Four years abstinence
from State pap and State plunder had
indeed wrought wonderful change.
1 noticed, too, that among the delegates
were great many young men, mostly
mulattoes and apparently mere boys,
such as one sees in nearly every barber
shop in the South.
It was very evident that head was
wanted very badly. Mackey had been
quite sick the night before and wasn't
able to get out of bed until about 10
o'clock this morning. Elliot, the chair
man Of the executive committee, also
complained of feeling sick, in fact the
whole crowd looked sick. Elliot is by
no means as popular as be used to be
either, and a strong movement is on foot
to oust him from his position as chair.
man of the State committee. All these
circumstances conspired to make things
very unsettled this morning. The rou-
tine matter of obtaining access to the
hall of Representatives had even been
overlooked, and the delegates were com.
PEELED to lounge around the outsidC of
the door and MUNICH pies and peanuts
while they waited for the key.
At about o'clock, an hour later than
the appointed time, R. B. Elliott, the
chairman of the State Executive Com
mittee, walked into the hall of represen-
tatives, called the Convention to order,
and read the call by virtue of which the
Convention had been assembled. A
quorum being found present, nominations
for temporary chairman of the Conven-
ton were announced to be in order. T.
E. Miller, of Beaufort, nominated E. W.
NJ. Mackey; delegate from York NOM
mated r. B. Elliott, who declined to
serve, and Deas, (colored,) from Dar-
lington, nominated w. A. Hayne, OF
Marion, who also declined.
Col. Mackey being the only nomina-
ton before the Convention was elected
temporary chairman unanimously, and
was conducted to the chair by T. E.
Miller and w. A. Hayne.
Elliott then made little speech in
which he assured the Convention of the
profound pleasure which il afforded him
to present to them their chairman.
Col. Mackey, who was quite sick all of
last night and WAS still pale and weak,
with much difficulty acknowledged the
honor which had been conferred upon