The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-04-01
OUR PREFERENCE.

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cheerfully support any candidate who re.
ceiyes the nomination for Governor from
the Democratic State Convention, we
will indulge our preference to such an
extent as to present the name of Hon.
William 81. Wallace, of Union, the
Judge of the Seventh Circuit, as our,6rst
choice for the important Office of Chief
Magistrate of South Carolina. Judge
Wallace is an able, pure and upright
gentleman, who would WELD the sceptre
of power with conscientious and impair
tial hands, and would give to the State
as efficient and prosperous an admins
tration as any man that can be selected.
His nomination would give to the party
~s-candidate calculated to elicit more en-
thusiasn- than any other man in the
State except Gov. Hampton himself.
The Judge has long been in public life,
and that, too, during a portion OF our
most important history. During the
whole of his public service he has added
to his fame and to his personal strength
by his straightforward and upright
course, so that he is justly popular with
every one. He has no party arrayed in
opposition to him, and, if nominated,
would poll the entire Democratic vote,
besides drawing many recruits from the
colored voters, with whom he is very
popular. His varied experience, in
which we may mention particularly his
presiding as Speaker over the memorable
Wallace House, fits him for the conduct
of any campaign with which he might
be confronted. In quiet contest or
heated canvass he would be entirely at
home, and, by prudence and judgment,
would lead the party to victory as safely
in one as the other. We feel that in a
canvass of such paramount Importance
as the approaching one, the Democracy
cannot afford to nominate candidate
who is strongly opposed by any consid-
erable body of Democrats, and, therefore,
that it would be well for the party to call
for the services of some citizen who does
not desire the position enough to actively
seek the nomination, either personally or
through his friends. Such selection
would give great unanimity to the party,
and avoid any acrimony now or here
after. For these reasons we believe the
nomination of Judge Wallace would be
the strongest and best that could be
made. Not being candidate he has
aroused no opposition, either sactious or
otherwise, and all candidates and their
friends could and would accept him as
settlement made by the people without
any reflection or injustice to any one.
We should be delighted to see a man
elected Governor who has not sought the
Office, and who would 60 into it without
obligation to any one or prejudice against
any one, with no friends whose campaign
services he would feel compelled to re-
ward with public Office, and no enemies
he would desire to defeat. Such selec-
tion would give us a government devoted
only to the public veal. Judge Wallace
would fulfill the foregoing conditions,
and would be very satisfactory to our
whole people. We will, however, cheer
fully accept the nominee Of the Conven'
ton, and have no doubt that candidate
worthy of the Office and of the public
confidence will be placed at the head OF
our next State ticket.