Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg Court House [S.C.]) 1877-1881, 1880-08-27

to escape the consequences of their
mischief making.
AN ATTEMPTED RADICAL RALLY.-A
SICkLY AFFAIR.
In obedience to circulars lavishlv
distributed throughout the County
by the Radical Ring leaders, an
nonncinS grand Garfield and
Arthur Ratification meeting, with
Mackay, Taft, and others. of the
lights, us speakers, crowd ofabout
six or seven hundred blind mud
dusky followers of the Ring of the
party, gathered into town on Satur-
day, and after marching in process
sion through our streets, repaired to
Sunny Side, where Il stand had been
erected for the speech making.
The procession on the street was
about onc-tourth the length of the
Chamberlain procession of '76, and
along the way desperate effort was
made to raise an enthusiasm, but the
yclls were SO sickly that everybody
seemed to get the biucs, the speakers
included.
But while the crowd was much
smaller than in the Chamberlain raj
~, 1t was a noticeable fact that the
mules were fnttcr, and the men bet
ter clad, which speaks well for the
good effects of the few years of Demo
cratic rule. Many Of them came in
ON their own animals, bought under
the era of good government, and
others were furnished with mules
wagon, and forage by their Demo
cratic employers for the full cnjov-
ment of the harmless frolic.
At about IL o'clock =. l.. Duncan.
the County Chairman. introduced
George l,olivcr, who made the first
speech, i'll which he completely
out Bolivcred Bolivcr. Hc dilatcd Il
long time upon Garfield rs the poor
mans candidate, urging his lclulcd
hearers to stick to the Republican,
ticket, telling them not to listen to
the Democrats, but to come out and
cast their vote for the Republican
ticket which was as much their duty
rs to 90 to church on Sunday He
read letters or dispatches from
Mackay, Taft, Lee Il Co.. cNcusing
themselves ior not coming and vclv
generously added in cNtcnuation that
they were engaged at more doubtful
posts, knowing that Orangrhury was
able to take care Of herself He
pitched right and left into he DcnA,-
cratic party, and said that he was not
only innoccntly prosecuted, but un-
justly prrSrc"fr" by that party: that
Solicitor Jcrvcy brought twenty in.
dlctmentS against him. and offered
to drop them il he would resign his
Office as Clerk Of Court. but tha, he
Indignantly refused the o'rrr. pre-
icrring to stand his trial. and, if gull
ty, crack rock in the pcntrntiary
He also told his hearers that they
would have Il fair election, or the
Yankee guns would see to it.
Iarson Webster, the Post Master
EX ollicio, spoke next. He went over
the old story about the Yankees free
ing the negroes who were kept in
ignorance by "Southcrn gentlemen"
lie rehaShcd the hacknrycd tale hat
the Democrats would put the negroes
back into slavery AS usual he at
tackled Dr. Cooke, who istrviny to
run Clatlin University as an rdura
tional institution and not as a politi
cal nest. We judge from this that
he is mad because the Democrats are
giving yearly to this institution a
large amount OF money for tn, cducu,
'ioI of the colorcd people, although
not cent has been given yet for the
higher education of the whites. He
seems togct infuriatcil every time the
Democrats give money to educate the
c"lorcd people. The pulpit does not
seem to be large enough for him to
let otfhis bile. 5" he mounts the poll