The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-01-08


Marble, who answered promptly, saying
that we had conducted the canvass we'll,
and he hoped we would continue it on
the same line.
HAMPToN's DIsINTEREsTEDNEss.
In further evidence of my disposition
regarding this matter, it should be re-
membered that before I was nominated
in 1876 declared in the Convention that
I considered it of more Importance to Sc.
cure the success of the National ticket
than that of the State, and that if any of
our friends thought my nomination would
be prejudicial to the National Demo-
cratic party, I would not accept it. l
urged the Convention not to nominate
me under such circumstances, and with
drawing from the body in order to leave
them entirely untrammelled in their ac-
ton, did not return until the nomination
was unanimously rendered to me.
THE ABBEvILLE CONFERENCE.
As to this specific charge of time and
place, Col. Haskell gives the explana-
ton that at the mass meeting we held in
Abbeville the Executive Committee sent
word to us that proposition had been
made to them concerning the withdrawal
of the Electors, and one of the Commit
tee, Col. J. A. Hoyt, came up to consult
with us in reference to it. Neither Judge
Cooke nor Judge Mackey had ever said a
word to me on the subject. Judge Mack
ey had not yet so much as announced his
adherence to our party, and, if 1 remem-
Der Alright, was not at Abbeville. Judge
Cooke, as is well known, had only joined
us that afternoon. Coming out to our
meeting at a late hour he announced
from the stand, for the first time, that he
proposed to sustain our ticket. No one
knew of his position towards US until that
moment, and he certainly took no part in
any consultation. I do not know by
whom the proposition was made to the
Executive Committee, and I had even
forgotten who brought it to US, until re-
minded recently that it was Col. Hoyt.
He can give the facts. There was no
injecting" held that night, and, of course,
/ did not preside over any meeting.
Gen. Toombs, Gen. MCGOWAN and myself
were together in Gen. Toombs' room, but
instead of Offering us 0,00O if we would
consent to withdraw the Electors, Gen.
Toombs readily offered Internationally
to give in $40, 900, out of his own pocket,
to aid US in our canvass for the whole
ticket. The proposition concerning the
electors was discussed among other mat
ters, and we came to the conclusion, as
Gen. MCGOWAN has announced, that we
would not entertain it. Nothing more
was ever said about it, and the character
of the canvass was not changed in the
slightest degree. The Presidential Elec.
tors accompanied me to every meeting
that was held in the State, and the two
tickets were carried as far as possible to-
gether.
THE DISCREPANCY IN THE VOTES
cast for Mr.. Tilden and myself can be
accounted for in two ways. In the first
place, the returns for the election of Gov
ernor and Lieutenant Governor in South
Carolina are required to be sealed by the
managers of election, to be opened only
by the Legislature, and did not, there
fore, go before the Returning Board.
There was no chance of tampering with
them, while the vote for Presidential
Electors was canvassed by that board,
which was composed entirely of Repub-
licans. Another very good reason for
my vote being larger than Mr.. Tilden's
is that many white Republicans, as we'll
as some of the colored ones voted for
Mr.. Hayes and the Democratic State
ticket. Republicans of character in Co.
lumbia, Charleston and Beaufort voted
for me, and the difference (about 600)
was even less than we expected.
GEN. GARY's LAST INTERVIEW.
+ Tn his last interview Gen. Gary
changes the issue and attempts to prove
that there was q consultation at Abbe-
vile, which has never been denied. I
have said simply that the charges that I
made the proposition referred to or that
1 had proposed in any way to sell out
Tilden, or that I was unfaithful to the
National Democratic party, were utterly
and absolutely false, and reiterate it.
Gen. Gary also says in his last inter-
view that his statements in the first, in
regard to the meeting at Mrs. Norwood's,
have been "corroborated by Gen. Nc
Gowan since the appearance of my reply
to him." I have just received the fol-
lowing telegram from Gen. MCGOWAN:
(coPY.)
I have not seen but have heard of Gen.
Gary's card in the Herald. When di-
rectly interrogated stated what I have
before stated'in my letter, that propo-
sition was made through the Executive
Committee, which was brought to us at
Abbeville and promptly declined. That
the canvass went on precisely as it had
done before-not one vote being affected
by the rejected proposition. That 1
knew Governor Hampton to be as true to
the State and the Democratic party as
any man in South Carolina. I am out
of politics, and cannot be induced to ap-
pear in print, but I thought you should
know the whole truth.
SAMUEL MCGOWAN"
GEN. GARY
says again that he Submitted to be
gagged in 1876, and be dictated to by
Hampton where and when / should and
shouldn't speak," The Executive Com
mittee, however, made the appointments,
and believe selected the speakers. l
had not indicated to them anything in
reference to it, and if they did not invite
Gen. Gary to speak, they must have had
some very good reason for not doing so.
If he did not canvass the State, it was
not from any advice I gave, and if he
wants information upon this point, the
Committee could doubtless give him very
satisfactory reasons why he was not in
vited to do so. AS to my taking the ''ini-
tial step" in opposition to him, it is we'll
known that during the whole of my term
as Governor, Gen. Gary made constant
and unwarranted attacks on me in the
Senate, and where he knew I could not
answer them, and I have never answered
him except on two occasions. One of
those was in Greenville. In reply to his
remark in substance, that "the next
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