Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-06
From tho Charleston News and Couricr1
The Republican State Convention.

! . COLUMBIA, Wednesday, April ~
The Republican State Convention met in
the Hall Of Representatives ut noon to day
aud was called to order by II. b. Elliott,
the Chairman of the State Executive Com.
mittee.
j.. w. NJ. AIackcy, Of Charleston, D. D.
hlcCail, Jr., of Marlboro, w. A. Hayne
! OF Marion, and Roht. Smalls of Beaufort,
were proposed for tho position of temporary
chairman. Smalls, lIaync and Mccall de-
clined tho nomination in favor of Maokcy,
who was elected temporary chairman as
per proGrammc previously agreed upon
Harry Noah was then elected temporary
secretary.
The Convention consists Of eighty two
negroes and thirty.six whites. The coun-
ties Of Lexington aud Horny failed to
send delegates, and there were some abscu-
tees from other counties. Of the negroes
nearly one third appear in the fraud COM
mittecs report as thieves aud bribc kcrs,
and the white delegates with scarcely an
exception, either are or have been (and
hope TO he) Federal office holders. In ad-
dition to the delegates, there is u small
army OF hhngcrs-on who have swarmcd iu
the lobbics all day. The douyhnut stauds,
which have been conspicuously absent from
the State House for some years rcappcarcd
to make tho picture complete
as an cvidcncc of how Mr.. IIaycs'
civil service reform works in this State,
| noto The presence in the Convention of
nineteen Office holders in tho revenue,
customs and postollicc departments and
besides this number there were several
United States officials dulging around the
lobbics and through the hislrs of the hail,
looking after their interests. The au,hor;-
ties in Washington may want to know the
names Of somc of these officials who have
thus violated special order Number l,
which positively lorbds amy person holding
| Office under Tic United States Government
from t1king an active part i'll any political
movement.
From the revenue department there arc
IN The convention Il. NJ. Braytou, collector,
q: 7. Kirkland, special deputy collector,
n. +. Meyers, clerk in internal revenue
Office, W. Kennedy, john =. Scruggs, IL.
W. Hendricks, II. II. Jillson and q. N.
Cummings deputy revenue collectors.
l'iam the customs department. are, r, B
Elliott, Robert Smalls, Garrett Byrns
W. II. Birnic, =. Gregorie, NJ. a. Haync,
and j. ". Smith. From the postolfcc
department there arc Fred Nix and t. A.
Webster. From the judiciary department.
there are Il. w NJ. Ma,key, W. j. Mixsop
and Absalom Blyth.
There were some few changes made in
the list Of delegates. Saml. II. Pointer
was substituted for Elijah Jones, colored,
from Spartanbnrg, w. j. Middleton, color
ed, Tor IT, L. Coghlan, from Sumter, and
Warren j.. Marshall for G. j. Pride, from
York. The substitution Of Marshall for
Pride provoked the irst symptoms of the
customary disorder.
Shrewsbury, Of Fairfield, and Moblcy of
Union, were much opposed to the substitu-
man who had been elected by the people of
York. Taft and W. II. Thompson joined
in the fight
AS. Wallace, who seemed to bc cha
pcronipg Marshall, made very warm
speech, in which he declared the right of
the York delegation to fill their va.
cuncics from wherever they pleased.
Mohlcy replied that Wallace had once
got . scat ia Congress without being elected
aud he had cheek enough to mako any
proposition no matter how unfair.
II. IL. Deas, young muiatto from Oar
lington, after making several attempts 70
get something off his mind which was
evidently burden to him, started a war
whoop 10 drown the voice Of tho other
speakers. lie Was ouly quictcd by
threat OF summary election by the sergeant.
a. arms. a vote was finally reached, and
Marshall was scatca-ycay 10, nays 81
Shrewsbury, from Garfield, mulatto who
formerly held the position of confidential
clerk Of Woodruff and Jones, and assisted
in unklhg up the journals of the House in
the years Of gooh stealing, created "a scnsa--
tion ay Offering the following resolution:
Resoloe1, 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
instructed aud solcmDly pledged TO vote as
unit to the cud of the contest for tho
world renowned and most available of all
candidates. U. S. Grant-and that
upon all questions of import, arising in said
convention, thoy arc earnestly recommended
to vote in like manner to tho end that the
truo intcrcst0 Of the constituency that they
represent may be subscrved.
lie asked the immediate consideration of
the resolution.
Elliott objected aud demanded that it te
referred under the rules to the committee
on resolutions.
Wlnpper excitedIy declared that the
resolution could not be referred to the
committee on resolutions because no such
committee had been appointed.
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