Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-05-06
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Condensed from News and Courier.
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.
The Negroes for Grant. .Knell Of the Carpet.
Baggers.

Columbia, on wednesday, 2SCn OF april, Ill
the Hall of the House of Representatives, at
II, NJ, and was called to order by r. B. El-
lott, the chairman of the State Executive
Committee.
E.W. NJ. Mackey, of Charleston, D. D. Nc
Coll, Jr., of Marlboro; w. A. Hayne, of Mar
ion: and Robt. Smalls, of Beaufort were pro-
posed for the position of temporary chairman.
Smalls, Hayne and Mccall declined the nomi-
nation in favor of Mackey, who was elected
temporary chairman, as per programme pre-
viousy agreed upon. Harry Noah was then
elected temporary secretary.
A committee on credentials, with June Mob
lev, of Union, as chairman, was next appoint
ed, and after adopting the rules of the House
of Representatives as the rules OF the Conven-
tion, an adjournment until 2.3O P. NJ, was
agreed to.
When the Convention reassembled, the COM
mittee on credentials submitted their report,
which showed that delegates were present from
every county in the State except Horny and
Lexington. The following delegates were pres
ent from York and the adjoining counties:
York-A. S. Wallace Butler Askew, color
ed. Lancaster-F. A. Clinton and G. L. Jones,
both colored. Chester-C. c. Mccoy, j. NJ.
Ross, colored, James White, colored. Union
J. S. Mobley, C. w. Wade, James W. DeFour,
all colored. Spartanburg-C. G. Turner, c.
w. Cummings, Elijah Jones, cOlored, Joseph
Young, cOlored.
The Convention consisted of eighty-two ne
groes and thirty-sX whites. OF the negroes
nearly one-third appear in the fraud commit
tees report as thieves and bribe-takers, and
the white delegates, with scarcely an excep,
ton, either are, or have been land hope to be)
Federal ofice-holders. In addition to the del
egates, there is a small army of hangers-on
who have swarmed in the lobbies all day. The
doughnut stands, which have been conspicu-
ously absent from the .State-HOuse for some
years, reappeared to make the picture complete.
There were some few changes made in the
list of delegates. Sam'l T. Pointer was sub
stituted for Elijah Jones, colored, from Spar
tanburg. w. j. Middleton, colored, for T.. F.
Coghlan from Sumter, and Warren R. Mar
shall for G.. j. Pride, from York. The substi-
tuition of Marshall. for Pride provoked the
first symptoms of the customary disorder.
Shrewsbury, of Fairfield, and Mobley, OF
Union, were much opposed to the substtu-
ton of man who lived in Charleston for a
man who had been elected by the people of
York. Taft and w. H. Thompson joined in
the fight.
A. S. Wallace, who seemed to be chaperon-
ing Marshall, made a very warm speech, In
Which he declared the right of the York dele
CATION to fill their vacancies from wherever
they pleased.
Mobley replied that Wallace had once got a
seat in Congress without being elected, and
he had cheek enough to make any proposition,
no matter how unfair. .-.
E. II. DeaS, a young mulatto from Darling
ton, after making several attempts to get
something off his mind which was evidently a
burden to him, started war whoopto drown
the voice of the other speakers. He was only
c,,;o fod hy q of Qipnt1On
the seargant-at-arms. A vote was finally reach
ed, and Marshall was seated-yeas 49, nays g.
Shrewsbury, from Fairfield, a mulattO who
formerly held the position of confidential clerk
of Woodruff and Jones, and assisted in ma
king up the journals of the House in the years
of good stealing, created a sensation by offer
ing the following resolution:
Resolred, That the delegates to represent
the State of South Carolina in the National
Republican Convention to nominate candi-
dates for the offices of President and Vice
President of the United States, are hereby in
structed and solemnly pledged to vote as a
renowned and. most available of all candi-
dates-Gen. U. s. Grant..and that upon all
questions of import, arising in said conven-
ton, they are earnestly recommend 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 re-
ferred under the rules to the committee on
resolutions.
Whipper excitedly declared that the resolu-
tion could not be referred to the committee
on resolutions, because no such committee had
been appointed.
f,,os 41>,o o1>nsr hot r1,1p
for the appointment of such committee had
been adopted, and that the resolution could
properly be referred to the committee when ap-
pointed.
Whipper rushed half way to the chairman's
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 well
as the chair and they proposed to assert them.
He demanded the immediate consideration 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 mat.
ters by soft words. He said he only desired
to do what was fair but was compelled to act
according to the rules which had been adopted.
Smals then moved that the rules be sus-
pended by two-thirds vote, and that the res
olution be put on it's passage. This wasagreed
to-yeas IS, nays %.
The resolution was then adopted without
further fight. This was virtually test of the
strength of the Grant men in the Convention.
The point of instructing the delegates was one
over which big fight was expected, but not
expected at the time it was sprung.
E. H. Deas, the same who was previously
threatened with ignominous election from the
hall, succeeded at last in gaining a recognition
by the speaker, and unburdened his soul to the
effect that the Hon. D. T. Corbin was present,
and it behooved the Convention to hear him and
be advised by him before they made their selec-
tion of delegates.
Fred Nix said the Convention had not as
sembled to hear what Mr.. Corbin or anybody
else outside of the body had to say, and it
made very little difference what candidate Mr..
Corbn favored. This was not the place for
any man to come to advertise himself to gain
popularity in Washington. The people in his
county were going to make a grand success
this year and elect men they could rely on.
They were tired of the old hacks
W. II. Thomson of Charleston, said that
after the Convention had elected their delega
ton to Chicago, anybody who desired to be
heard would probably he accorded hearing,
but they did not want any advice. He was
glad to see that the colored Republicans of
South Carolina were making up their minds
at last that those who had been instructing
and advising them for the last twelve years
had done 50 for the last time. He was sur
prised to see Mr.. Corbn showed upon the Con-
vention for the purpose of securing votes by
making speech. When the party had gone
under in 1876, COrbin left the State with great
expedition, and never returned again until an
IL ,N1Dn
was near at hand that gentleman had come
South to try and play again upon the credulity