Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-06-10
Nominations were then closed, and a vot


Necessary to choice, 80.
There being no election, another vote was
taken with the following result:
Manigault..... ......-..9l
Jones'.
Total vote cast..... ........l3S :.
Necessary to choice, 80
Gen. Manigaut was accordingly declared
duly nominated for the Office of adjutant and
inspector general. On motion of Mr. W. M.
Muckenfuss, of Charleston, the nomination
was then made unanimous.
Mr. Earle, of Sumter, then nominated Mr..
j. Peter Richardson for the position Of State
treasurer. Mr. Giland, Of williamsburg,
seconded the nomination, and there being no
opposition Mr.. Richardson received the nom
ination unanimously by reclamation.
This closed the nominations. Gen. Gary
and Messrs. Allen and Calison, of the Edge
field delegation, refused to vote for any of the
nominees of the Convention.
Mr.. J. G. Sheppard offered the following
resolution, which was adopted:
Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention
| are due, and are hereby cordially rendered to the
president of this Convention, Col. j: 8. Cothran,
for the able, effective and impartial manner in
which he has discharged the duties of his posi-
ton, and that the thanks of the Convention are
also rendered to the worthy secretaries, Messrs.
D. P. Duncan and J. Aucrum Simons for the sat
isfactory and efficient discharge Of the duties of
their Office.
On motion of Mr.. Alfred Aldrich, COM
mittee of three was then appointed to notify
the nominees of the action Of the Convention.
The committee consisted of Messrs. Alfred
Aldrich, j. D. Blanding and George D.
Bryan.
After short interval, the committee re.
turned, accompanied by Gems Hagood and
Kennedy, who were received with continued
applause. After brief and appropriate in.
PRODUCTION by the chairman, Gen. Hagood
said: . - go.
GEN. HAGOoD's ADDRESS.
1t is with feelings Of profound gratitude for
the personal honor conferred, and with deep
sense of the responsibility imposed, that 1 ac-
cept, gentlemen of the Convention, the nomi-
nation you have been pleased to make. Your
selection might well have fallen upon one
worthier of your choice, for the time has come
again when no son of the State could look to
higher position than that in connection with
which you have named me. 1t was only III
the dark days of our history, when the alien
and the dregs Of our own population rloted In
power, that shame was ever suffered to ap-
proach South Cardinals Executive. A long
list of ilustrious names adorned it in the bet
ter days of the past, and Hampton and Simp-
son have filled it in the present. However l
may fail, if your nomination becomes an elec-
ton, in the ability with which, as compared
with these, the trust be discharged, l confident
ly pledge you that the banner you place in my
hands will not be lowered, and that no shadow
of dShonOr or taint of personal ends shall dim
it's folds.
You have not, gentlemen, called me to lead
holiday pageant. The destinies of our peo-
pie for veal or for woe are involved in the
success of the political struggle in which we
are about to embark. The redemption of the
State from the rule of Radicalism was work
ed out in 1876 by efforts made in the white
heat of revolutionary fervor. 1t was main
tanned in 1878 by a triumph won over an op-
position not yet recovered from the demorali-
zation of defeat. 1t must in this year be Sc
cured by conclusive victory, if the efforts of
the past are not to 60 for naught. But your
opponents are nerved by the knowledge that
they are now fighting for their life, and they
may be backed up by powerful extraneous aid.
One more crushing defeat and Radicalism as
a party, such as we have known it, will cease
to exist in South Carolina.
But it may be that in this Presidential year
one of the great National parties will find it's
lease of power dependent upon the restora-
tion to rule in our State of the hybrid con-
cern, which here assumes and disgraces it's
purpose regardless Of the local ruin it will
inhict 1t is the part of wisdom to be pre-
pared for this, and to marshal our forces to
meet it successfully. We cannot rely upon
the fervor of 1876. Such efforts are not re-
peated in generation. We can only succeed
by thorough organization and dilgent work,
and in preparing for this, you have, in my
Judgment, seized upon the true plan of
battle. When the canvass, with it's dirturb
ing influences, is limited to the short period
necessary for the only purpose it can effect,
the arousing and solidifying our friends for
the final effort, you have given the time to do
the work which will be most powerful in ac-
complishing the result. This is a contest to
be won by votes.
There is a portion of our people who are
reliable to man, and who need no summons
but that of the Democracy. To bring these to
the ballot box is the only problem. A very
large part of the remaining portion of our
people have now voted with the Democracy
in two successive campaigns Wehave only to
poll the same votes and to supplement their
number. The time you have wisely given to
the purpose will enable your executive author
tiles, both State and county, to quietly and
patiently organize our forces to move when
the signal is given. An opportunity is af-
forded to recruit our ranks by the exertion of
the full influence of the individual Demo-
cratic voters, that "each man man. policy
which we have before found powerful factor
of success Accepting in perfect good faith
the enlargement and debasement Of the suf-
frage which events have compelled, we will
and must preserve the life of the Common
wealth by keeping it's control in the hands of
it's better element. Seeking to deprive no
man of his franchise, conceding freely to all
men their rights under the law, the God-giVen
right of self-preserYatiOn remains, of which
neither laws nor constitution can deprive a
people, and we will assert it by those appeals
to reason, to interest and to personal associa-
tions which influence men everywhere. We
have found them potent before, and we will
find them potent now. 1 have spoken Of the
approaching canvass only from our local stand
point, because the necessity OF local success
is to us supreme. But our interests and well
fare cannot be discovered from the National
Democracy. Until the General Government
is restored to the methods and doctrines of
it's founders, until the American dotrine of
local government in local affairs is again made
the keystone of the structure, until there is
blazoned upon it's portals once more, that
''the powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution nor prohibited by
it to the States are preserved to the States
respectively Or to the people"-mtil this is
done, the position of civilization in South
Carolina and of all that makes the State fit for
freemen to live in, is at best but that of armed
neutrality. Our people want peace. They
want repose from revolutionary methods.
Ravaged by war and stricken and stunned by
Federal legislation, they have staggered to
their feet and ask only to be let alone in their
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