The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-02
& COMPLETE CAPTURE.

a COMPLETE CAPTURE.
z The Republican, County Convention Elec.S
Delcgates, and then Hears some fiana
Truths Dividing Time Opens their Eyes,
and they Adjourn I'm Disgust with be-
ppbncanism. .
The Republican County Convention
met in the Court House on last Monday,
according to cal, for the purpose Of elect
s;ne delegates to Columbia, and was com.
posed entirely Of colored members. Not 9
white man, be it said to the credit OF
4 Anderson County, was to beseen in their
number.
The meeting was called to order by
Rev. w. r. Parker, the County Chair
man, who was elected successfully tenn
porary and permanent chairman, with
sH.G. Owens for temporary and Henry
Harrison and W.H. Thompson for per-
.manent Secretaries. The attendance Of
& delegates was small, several precincts
not being represented at all, but the
crowd Of spectators numbered three OF
four hundred colored men. I awrence
Walker: moved to appoint committee
of FIVE OF seven on delegation, upon
{ which the chairman thought he had a
brilliant opportunity to display learning,
and requested the mover to remove the
g disiunctives conjunction" at which
Walker looked like he had been ad-
dressed in Greek, until it was explained
that it only meant to make the committee
consist Of FIVE, to which he consented.
Capers skelton. who calls himself Cap
tain, did not want any committee. he
thought.the delegation ought to be unan-
.imously elected. Perry Henderson NOV
ed to make the committee one from each
precinct, which Parker ruled to be an
amendment to the first motion, saying
sthat.if adopted it would add one from
each precinct TO the. Eve provided for in
the original motion. Lawrence Walker
said they had as we'll send the whole
Convention. This was q bigger commit
!. tee than Washington sends out. The
field is too bigsand-I never.is going to
give up to it, The Republican party
:. neyar did do this. and. it's no use to 60
putting aon airs now. Hillery Sherman
Ranted the mover to withdraw his. mo-
ton, for it would be more satisfaction if
she would withdraw it. Some one moved
to throw the motion on the table, which
was agreed, to, and Parker ruled that
! both motions had been thrown on the
table. The Convention agreed to vote
for delegates by ballot, but Parker feared
he might not be able to control thseelec-
ton that way, and had q motion made to
reconsider. Some member moved to
indefinitely postpone the motion, and
Parker put it to the Convention, upon
which Walker rose and said, Ak US is
! we ready. Parker answered it's no use,
upon which Walker replied, will make
you ak us, and Parker yielded. After
some nonsensical debate the question
was put and carried by about twenty to
three, but Parker ruled that it was lost.
Some confusion arose aboutit, but Parker
stuck to his ruling and refused another
vote. Col. John 3. Cochran was nomi.
mated as delegate to the State Conven.
ton, but declined the nomination on the
ground thatIprivate business would pre-
vent him from serving. w. R. Parker,
Lawrence Walker, L. Jones and A. Lewis
were elected delegates, and three others
alternates. These delegates were en-
powered to represent the County in the
Congressional and "Judicially" Conyen-
tions, and w. R. Parker was recommen-
ded for appointment as County Chair
man.. The speaking then began, and the
house was filled rapidly by Democrats,
who came to hear both sides.
Parker began by attacking the Demo
cratic party for eytravagance, and read
over the whole appropriation bill passed
by the last session of the Legislature.
He claimed that salaries were too high,
and that as cotton was so much lower
now than when the Republicans had the
government, the Democrats are as bad as
the Republicans. He said that the Demo
Gratis would not give colored people Offices,
and that they would not put as many OF
them on the jury as they once had. He
complained that the Governor only offer
ed q reward of one hundred and fifty
dollars for the arrest of Osborne, the
murderer of Mrs..Compton. He admit.
ted, however, in answer to a question by
Mai. John B. Moore, that Osborne had
been arrested, tried and convicted, but
claimed ths. he had not been sufficiently
punished. He commented particularly
on the salary paid the Governor, and
said that he received the expenses ot
living in addition to the salary, and did
yery little work. That he only went
,iown to the "Court House" and stayed
IN hour or two every day, and then went
back home and spent his time with hi'
family. He said the salary of the pri
yate secretary was too much. That ht