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

that as all proceedings in relation to this
matter had been made in secret, he
moved that the Convention 60 into secret
session. This motion was adopted, and
the Convention went into secret session,
again ousting the reporters, who had
barely got their pencils sharpened to 60
| to work.
As soon as the Convention had gone
into secret session Myers, of Colleton,
from the special committee on nomina.
| tions, reported for majority of the
committee in favor of making nomina-
tions for State officers, and submitted the
following ticket:
For Governor-John Winsmith, of
Spartanburg.
For Lieutenant G .Governor-Thos. E.
Miller, (colored, of Beaufort.
Comptroller -General-E. A. Webster,
Secretary Of state-H. L. Shrewsbury,
| (colored,) of Chesterfield.
Attorney General-Warren R. Mar
shall, of Charleston.
Superintendent of Education-S. D.
Gilbert, of Beaufort.
Adjutant and Inspector. General-O.
@. Turner, of Spartanburg.
State Treasurer-John H. Livingstone,
of Orangeburg.
Mi, Blythe, with minority of five of
the committee, submitted q minority re-
port recommending that no State officers
be nominated.
MI. Taft, of Charleston, favored the
majority in 80 far as making nominations
was concerned, but objected to the head
of the ticket suggested by the committee.
He said he had always persistently advo-
Gated full State ticket, and was still
strongly in favor of making nominations,
but he insisted that the ticket must be q
good one. He said he had high regard
for the venerable Mr.. Winsmith, that he
recognized his exalted Republicanism,
and would like to support him for the
position, only he was too old. He would
name man who was as good q Repub-
lican as any man in the State, and was
in the vigor OF young manhood. He
paid very high eulogy to Thomas B.
Johnston, of Sumter, and moved that his
name be substituted for that of Mr.. Win.
smith. He said he was assured that Mr..
Johnston would accept the nomination
and make the fight.
R. B. Elliott then took the floor and
made speech Of over an hours length,
with telling effect upon the members.
He announced in opening that he was
aware that he was taking an unpopular
position in opposing the nomination of
State ticket at this time, but as Repub-
lican of South Carolina, who had the
good of the party best at heart, lie was
compelled to use what influence he had
in ayerting what he considered great
disaster to the party. Let us not, he
said, encourage hopes in the breasts of
our constituents that are sure to be
blasted. Let us not pursue q course
which will prove unwise at the last mo-
ment. The gentleman from Charleston
| Nv. 81. Thompson) had hurled into his
face the fact that he was an alien and
had no right to dictate to the native sons
of Carolina. He would remind the gen.
tleman that while be was not native of
Carolina by birth, he was South Caro-
linian by preference. If the gentleman
from Charleston had his deserts he would
| be in Liberia, where he had sent so many
of his unfortunate race. 1t had been
said that it was due to the Republican
party to run State ticket, in order to
keep the party together, and as a means
of making the colorel people especially
feel that they were capable of selfp1o-
lection. He would remind the ConYen.
ton that it took years of self:denial and
years of careful training and education
to render a race capable of self.protec-
tion. It did not come in night, and
the colored people must be content to
wait, and raise themselves up to this
higher plane by patient study and self
denial. The great Anglo.Saxon race,
now the proudest and bravest race upon
the face Of the globe, few centuries ago
was the most cowardly and illiterate.
Those who threw themselves beneath the
wheels of the car of Juggernaut were
recognized in this enlightened age and
country rs fanatics only deserving of pity
or contempt. He would warn his friends
who were so anxious for blood that it
was far better to learn how to live for the
party than to die for it. Those who were
now so anxious to have State ticket
would in his opinion have ample oppor-
tunity of testing not only their own gal
lantry, but the gallantry of those COW
ards, who, like himself, were opposed to
making the fight from the mountains to
the seaboard. Of one thing be was sat-
isfed, and that was the Democratic party
would never consent to give up the con-
troll of the State without exhausting
every means in their power The Con-
vention would remember that the Demo
cratic party have never attempted to
wage pitched battle when they saw no
chances of success, but they had bided
their time, and by devices of their own
and divisions in the Republican ranks
they had finally conquered. No one
knew better than the gentleman from
Charleston (Freeman) how these diyis.
ions had been brought about, as he was
prominent leader of the Green bolt in
1874, which shook the party to centre
aud finally resulted in its downfall. He
knew how these bolts had been organ
lied in South Carolina until the regular
party had crumbled like rope of sand.
This had been the history Of political and
military warfare the world over, from the
time of Julius Cesar down. 1t was q
we'll known fact of history that Napoleon
Bonaparte, the greatest of the worlds
generals, had never fought but one pitch
battle, and that resulted in his undoing.
Lis rule of life was to fight the enemy
by detail, and by weakening his line at
the right time sweep down upon him and
crush him out of existence. So in this
State. In his opinion it would be far
better to fight the enemy by detail than
to rush into pitched battle under such
disadvantageous circumstances with GER
tain defeat before them. Georgia was
already referred to as State which in a
short time would be Republican State.
The Republicans had fought the Demo
Gratis by detail. That itself was strong
argument against going into nominations
in this State. Some of his friends talked
about Northern assistance. He knew
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