The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-23
Republican Platform.

The following is the platform of the
Republican party in South Carolina:
lst. The Republican party of South
Carolina, in convention assembled, be.
lieving that the principles of equal civil
and. political rights are vital to the inter.
est of good government, and they can on
ly be enforced by the party which has
engrafted them upon the State and Ma.
tional Constitutions, hereby express their
earnest approval of the platform and
principles adopted by the National Con-
vention at Chicago on the I'd day of June,
1850, and we cordially endorse and ratify
the nominations made by that Convention
of James A Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur for President and Vice Presi-
dent.
I'd. Believing that the right to a free
ballot is right prescrvatiye Of all rights,
we denounce tile Democratic party of
South Carolina for the outrageous system
of fraud which they inaugurated for the
purpose of suppressing that right, and we
assert that it is only by preventing q full
vote, by denying q free ballot and by re-
fusing fair count that the Democrats
can have any hope whatever of carrying
South Carolina.
Sd. That we denounce the actions Of
the Democratic Governor of the State in
refusing 10 allow the Republicans in many
counties of the State any representation
wha ateyer on the board of. commissioners
of election recently appointed, and the
denial of such representation gives good
ground for the belief that in such cases
the commissioners of election were ap-
pointed for the purpose of defrauding the
popular will by an unscrupulous exercise
of the large powers which the election
laws of the State confer upon them.
4th. In the appointment Of managers
of election by the commissioners of cleo
tions, we demand that q Republican
manager be appointed at each poll, and
in making this demand We call attention
to the fact that when the Republicans
controlled the appointment of election
officers representation was allowed at
every election to the Democrats on every
board of commissioners and every board
of managers. -,
5th. That we emphatically deny the
assertion made by Wade Hampton that
forty.fve thousand Republicans voted
for him as the Democratic candidate for
Governor at the general election of 1878,
and we believe that the assertion was
made to account for the thousands
of tissue ballots stuffed in the ballot boxes
by Wade Hampton's election officers at
that election.
9th. We charge the Democratic party
with being unfaithful to the many pledges
and promises made 10 the people of this
State, as demonstrated by their reckless
disregard of the rights of citizens, aud
especially their attempts to disfranchise
large portion of the voters by unconsti-
tutional enactments.
7th. That we arraign the Democratic
party for their bad management of the
State Penitentiary and the brutal treat
ment of the convicts in that institution,
the sickening details of which send a
thrill of horror to the hearts of all hu-
name people and make blot on the civ
ilization Of the age.
Taft said that as all the business of the
Convention had been finished, nothing
else remained but for him to give few
parting words of advice to the delegates
who we're about to 60 to their homes. He
told thr IN that the Republican party had
before them one of the most important
campaigns in the history of the party;
that upon the SUCCESS Of this canvass all
the hopes of Republicans hang: that the
campaign is fraught with great dangers,
and that all the Republicans must de-
termine to go home and work unremit-
tingly for the success of the cause. He
admonished each delegate to divest him
self of all bitter feeling that might have
been engendered by this meeting, and to
return home with the determination to
work with O will.