Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-27
Tho State Convention

congressional anu JUDICIAL conventions
have as yet made no call, and though most
OF the counties have appointed delegates to
these conventions, still no nominations con
bo made at the State Convention. In fact
the constitution Of tho party requires the
| conventions to be held in the respective
| districts and circuits, so that our judicial
Conventions must meet iu ono of tho ooun-
ties comprising this circuit. Tho work of
tho State Convention is looked forward to
with much interest by tho people, and cs-
pccially its action on the propricty of nomi.
mating State officers at this time. The
nomination Of delegates to Cincinnati is
of little consequence, os tho South neither
has nor will have any candidate in the
field, and their duty will be, after confer.
cucc with delegates from the North, to vote
for such candidates as arc most likely to
carry New York and few other Northern
states.
IFhilo the Presidential election is impor.
tant, our State election affects us directly in
ovcry important interest and is Of much moro
| consequence to our peoplc. Nominations at
this carly duy wo think unwisc, not only
because it gives US q long campaign and
tends to dcmoralize labor, but also because as
yot we have seen no namo announced for
Governor who will both enthuse and unity
tho people. At present Generals IIagood
and Gary are the most prominent candidates,
and Of these General IIagood seems to have
tho inside track. Both these are worthy
citizens and have done tho State good service,
but they do not seem 10 excite tho interest Of
the people of this section, though of course
our people will support tho nominee whoever
he may be.
Con. Gary is thought by many to 10 too
aggressive in discussion and Hagood not
sufficiently SO, but both arc truo and tried
Democrats.
We want q candidate who will bring tho
people to the polls, for our grcutcsk difficulty
has always been not SO much in inferior
numbers, as in tho failure Of the people to
vote Up to 1876 this county pollcd | 800
votos and in 1876 our vote approximatcd
2,G00 Tho Same was true of other counties,
and oar greatest danger lies in failing to
nominate men who will bring out our full
strength.
lfsuch n man rs cx-Gov. Perry, with his
spotlcss record, his long service in The walks
of public lifo and his old Union principles,
would accept tho nomination, wc think there
would bc no opposition offered to his election,
or if Judge Wallace. Gen. Connor or Judge
kershaw and others would take the field they
would be easily elected and bring out Il full
vote.
Oar people have no cause of objection to
any of the candidates in the field and, if
nominated, wo believe they will accord them
| hearty support, but the election is long
| time off and would it not be better to post.
| ponc nominations to later dny, when the
| strength OF our candidates are better known
and the disposition of tho Republican party
| is asccraincd2 Should the Republicans deter.
mine not to run a State ticket still full
vote Of our party is nll important in order to
| carry the State in the Presidential election.
We have been almost confident that no
State nominations would be mudc, but wo see
the Charleston Nc'os and Courier, which
keeps we'll posted, says there is no certainty
that the convention. which meets next week,
will not mako nominations for State officers.
It says only ten counties hayc expressed
opposition to carly nominations and three
have favored them. Tho remaining counties
thus fer heard from haVo expressed DO au.
thoritativo opinion.
The same journal says of l0l delegates SO
far chosen, Gen. Gary can count on only ninc
and Gen. lIagood has sixty, eighty -onc being
necessary to y choice.
Several counties have not yet held conyenu
tons, or not been heard from, but it may be
accepted as q fact that if nominations arc
made next week, Con. IIagood will be our
candidate for Governor and Gcn. Kennedy for
Lieutenant Governor. They will make good
officers, and, if nominated, will receive our
hearty support.
Since tho above article was put in type
VIC have received information through the
Charleston Neos and Courier, that tho
County Convention Of Charleston, held on
tho 24th instant, by voto of IS to 81
adopted the following resolution.
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
convention that it is for tho interest of tho
Democratic party to nominate State officers
in juno.
Darlington has also instructed her dele
gates to vote for nominations il Juno.
According to tho tablo of tho Nc,os and
Courier fifteen counties have expressed
their preferences in reference to nomina-
tions for State officers next week as follows: