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

would be willing to write all the time for
less than fifteen hundred dollars a year.
He thought the negro was unfcirly treat
ed. He was not given his proper share
of public Offices If the Democrats
would divide with them they would not
continue to oppose the Democratic party.
He did not intend to leave the Republi-
can party until the colorea people got
their rights, and he did hot want the
other colored people to do SC,
Maj. E. B. Murray was then loudly
called for, and responded, showing the
extravagant expenses under the Repub.
lican administrations, citing the appro-
priation of $925,000 for printing alone
in 1872, and showing that this was more
than the whole expenses Of :he govern.
ment now, excluding the interest on the
public debt, which was created by the
Republicans. He denied that tie price
of cotton was any lower now than it was
in 1875, when the Republicans had the
government. He told the co2ored people
that the Democratic party had given the
country peace and security, which had
brought demand for labor, and that
to-day there could not be found in this
section a man who wanted employment
without being able to get it. He told
them that our Courts are better than
they were under the Republicans that
men do not now have to buy justice, but
the poor as we'll as the rich and powerful
can. secure their rights before the law.
He said it was true that fewer colored
men were put on juries, but the colored
man received more justice now than be.
fore; that colored men vans to be tried
by white juries in nine cases out of ten
anyway, and that but recently white
man had been hung in SparEanburg for
numbering colored man, a4a that such
an occurrence had never been known
under Republicanism, or when the col
ored people had the greatest number of
men on the juries. 1t did nc' make any
difference whether they got justice from
q colored man or white man SO long as
they were sure to get it. A. to colored
men holding Office, he must say to them
candidly that they would not be elected
until they were quslifed by education
and become Democrats. That people
are not going to elect them to Office sim
ply because they are colored men, nor
will the Democrats try to buy up Repub-
licans by giving them Office. If you
want to obtain position for your race you
must educate ycur children and join the
Democratic party. He told shem that
in Barnwell, Charleston, Sumter, Collie.
ton and Orangeburg where they have
many colored men in the Democratic
party they had given the colored men a
of the Legislature. he told
them that the leaders they had elected
were dishonest, and that he did not know
one who had not been guilty of crime
while in Office. Parker asxed what
about Elliott, to which Mr.. Murray::re.
piled that he, too, had been guilty of
pilfering from the public crib. He told
the colored people that we'wan:ed them
to go with us, but that we would carry
the. coming election certain. We know
the value of good government, and in
tend to give it to you. Even if you do
not want it we will be obliged to give it
to you, because both your iD.erest and
ours requires that We should have good
government.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Murray's
speech Col. J. II. Earle, of Sumter, was
loudly called for, but Parker objected.
Mr.. Earle said he would not speak if it
was not agreeable. Mr.. Murray then
said he hoped no objection would be
urged. Mr.. Earle was visitor here,
and it would be discourteous to refuse
him permission to speak. 1t was then
agreed that he should speak, and that
Mr.. Cochran should reply to him. Col.
Earle began by telling them that be was
from county which had been largely
but is now Democratic, and
would in all probability remain 80. he
was anxious to see the best of feeling
exist between the races; their interest is
one, and it is unfortunate for them to be
He commented upon the
color line in politics, and told the col
ored people that they could never hope
for success upon any such issue, for their
race was in hopeless minority in the
United States. He combatted Parker's
idea of extravaganza under Democratic
government. Parker said ho did not
mean that the Democrats were as bad as
the Republicans, but that ihey were
mere extravagant than they ought to be.
Col. Earle replied that the logic of such
as that was this: "T'he Demo
Gratis do not steal as much as the Repub-
licans, therefore we will restore the Re-
plblicans." He said that might be
good argument for q dishonest man, but
no honest man would be willing to act
on it. He commented on the course of