The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-05-06

vote as d Unit for Grant Carried will, a
Kush-June Mobley Denounces the White
Radlcals-Cadet Whitaker Sympathized
With and His Prosecutors Denounced.
Condensed from the Nc'ns and Courier.
COLUMBIA, S. c., April q.
The Republican State Convention met
in the Hall of Representatives at noon
to-day, and vas called to order by R. B.
Elliott, the Chairman of the State Exec
utive Committee.
Z. w. NJ. Mackey of Charleston, y.
D. Mccall, Jr. of Marlboro, w. A.
Hayne of Marion, and Robt. smalls of
Beaufort, were proposed for the position
of temporary chairman. Smalls, Hayne
and Mccall declined the nomination in
favor of Mackey, who was elected tenn
porary chairman as pei programme pre-.
viously agreed upon. Harry Noah was
then elected temporary secretary.
A committee on credentials, with June
Mobley, of Union, as chairman, was next
appointed, and after adopting the rules
of the House of Representatives as the
rules of the Convention, an adjournment
until 2:90 p. m. was agreed to.
The Convention consists of eighty-two
negroes and thirty-six whites. The
Counties of Lexington and Horny failed
to send delegates, and there were some
absentees fon other counties. Of the
negroes nearly one.third appear in the
fraud committees report as thieves and
bribe- takers, and the white delegates,
with scarcely an exception, either are, OF
have been land hope to be) Federal
oficeholders. In addition to the dele.
gates, there is small ARMY Of hangers.
on who have swarmed in the lobbies all
day. The doughnut stands, which have
been conspicuously absent from the State
House for some years, re-appeared to
make the picture complete.
AS an evidence of how Mr.. Hayes
civil service reform works in this State, /
note the presence in the Convention of
nineteen office. holders in the revenue,
customs and postofHce departments, and
besides this number there were several
United States officials lodging around
the lobbies and through the aisles of the
hall looking after their interests: The
authorities in Washington may want to
know the names of some Of these officials
who have thus violated special order
Number /, which positively forbids any
person holding Office under the United
States Government from taking an active
part in any political movement.
From the revenue department there
are in the Convention i. NJ. Brayton,
collector, q. P. Kirkland, special deputy
collector, N. F. Meyers, clerk in internal
revenue office, w. Kennedy, John p.
Scruggs, H. w. Hendricks, II. 81. Jill
son and c. N. Cummings, deputy reye-
nue. collectors. From the customs de-
partment are, r. B. Elliott, Robert
Smalls, Garrett Byrns, W. H. Birnie, P.
Gregorie, N. A. Hayne and ]. w. Smith.
From the postoflce department there are
Fred Nix and E. A. Webster. From the
judiciary department there are E. W. M.
Mackey, w. J. Mixson and Absalom
Blyth.
After some few changes were made in
the delegates from some Of the counties,
on account Of sothe of the delegates be-
ing absent, Shrewsbury, from Fairfield, q
mulatto who formerly held the position
of confidential clerk of Woodruff and
Jones, and assisted in making up the
journals of the House in the years of
good stealing, created sensation by
Offering tile following resolution:
Rssolved, That the delegates to repre-
sent the State of South Carolina in the
National Republican Convention to nom-
mate candidates for the offices of Presi
dent and Vice-P President of the United
States are hereby instructed and solemn.
ly pledged to vote as unit to the end of
the contest for the world-renowned and
most available of all candidates-Gen.
U. S. Grant, and that upon all questions
of import, arising in said convention,
they are earnestly recommended to vote
in like manner to the end that the true
interests of the constituency that they
represent may be subserved.
He asked the immediate consideration
of the resolution.
Elliott objected and demanded that it
be referred under the rules to the COM
mittee on resolutions.
Whipper excitedly declared that the
resolution could not be referred to the
committee on resolutions because no such
committee had been appointed.
Mackey from the chair declared that
rules for the appointment of such COM
mittee had been adopted, and that the
resolution could properly be referred to
the committee when appointed.
Whipper rushed half way to the chair
mans desk, and excitedly declared that
while the friends of Grant were willing
to abide by any fair means, they would
not submit to be choked or trampled
upon, and they had rights as we'll as the
chair, and they proposed to assert them.
He demanded the immediate considera-
ton of the resolution.
The chair decided that the resolution
must be referred unless by unanimous
consent.
Shrewsbury appealed from the decision
of the chair.
Mackey then tried the plan of soothing
matters by soft words. He said he only
desired to do what was fair, but was COM
PEELED to act according to the rules which
had been adopted.
Smalls then moved that the rules be
suspended by two-thirds vote, and that
the resolution be put on its passage.
This was agreed to-yeas SS, nays %.
The resolution was then adopted with
out further fight. This was virtually
test of the strength of the Grant mon in
the Convention. The point of instruct
ing the delegates was one over which a
big fight was expected, but not expected
at the time it was sprung.
Shrewsbury then offered the following
resolution, which was adopted without
debate:
Resolved, By the Republicans of South
Carolina in convention assembled, that
we regard the dastardly, 6endish outrage
perpetrated upon representative of
South Carolina in the National Military
Academy at West Point, in the person
of cadet johnson Whitaker, as shame
opd d;eoroca to tho civilization Of an on.