The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-04-15
A Work for Young Men in Politics.

The Boston L1erGtG suggests tnaC Cne
young Democracy organize in the same
fashion as the young Republicans to de.
mand good nominations for office and
override the dictation of the hack poll
ticians. Where there is need for this sort
of thing the suggestion should be carried
out, and meanwhile there should be
throughout the whole country a coming
forward of the young Democracy into
public affairs with view to securing for
their party candidate capable of calling
forth their enthusiasm and worthy the
support of honest men of both parties
Horatio Seymour said the other day that
it WAS mistake for parties to espouse old
mems quarrels, but the active men CT q
party should rally able and vigorous
leaders and press them for nominations.
This is the duty of the young men, every
where, and nowhere more than at the
South.
The South has sent some splendid men
into politics since the war. Wade
Hampton, Lamar, Randall, Gibson, NJ.
G. Butler, and others are no cold-blooded
schemers, pulling wires in corners, but fine
specimens of vigorous manhood, in the
prime of life, who illustrate the virtues
of the Southern character without mani
Testing its faults. They are not hot
headed or romantic, but carry level heads
on noble bodies and they inspire affec-
tion as we'll as confidence among all with
whom they come in contact. They are
no mummies whose purpose must be read
in cipher, nor spiders who spin webs to
secure power, but honest, manly men who
say what they mean and mean what they
say, and who have come into public life
because they love their own people and
the love is enthusiastically returned.
They are the true conservatives as well
as the really progressive men ofthe South.
They do not think justice to their own
States is to be won by O swap with Grant
ism in which they surrender consistency
and self.respect for the capricious favor
of an autocrat, nor do they think on the
other hand, that faithfulness to their own
people demands that they shall refuse to
recognize that anything whatever has
happened since James Buchanan went
out of the Office of President.
These are true leaders of the South and
they will lead it wisely and its young men
should rally around them and follow
them in making the voice of the South
heard for wise and manly choice of q
candidate for the party in which the
South is so potential. It will not profit
the South or the Democratic party to
have the Southern Democrats try to
conceal their choice, and on the other
hand wise choice by the South is the
best guarantee to the country at large
that the Democratic party will choose
wisely, for no one is so blind as not to
see that the Southern Democrats are
numerous enough 10 control that party,
and no one ought to be SO forgetful as to
not remember that several times OF late
years they have controlled it to its own
and the country's good. Let the young
men of the South, then, assert themselves
aud speak out, and let them see to it that
their best and truest men 60 to Cincin-
natl, and go their to express with manly
firmness the wishes of their people. If
the Democratic party stands for one thing
moro than another in American affairs,
it is for the rights to an equal voice in
this republic Of all the people of all the
states, without regard to geographical or
other divisions, and any convention fit to
represent it will apply the same principle
to its own deliberations. 1t is not only q
cowardly but mean and sneaking sug-
gestion that the Southern delegates at
Cincinnati shall sit with locked lips
while men who represent no constituencies
with the power to elect anybody choose
candidate for others to elect. The
Young men of the South cannot do bet
ter thing for their party, for the South or
for the country, than elect men to the
convention with too much manliness to
submit to any such policy Wilmington
(Dek.) Every Euening.