Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-08-31
Address Of the State Democratic
Committee to the People of
tho State.
ROOMS OF THE
STATE DEM. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,

Iatcd by the State Democratic Convention
at Columbia are worthy Of the support of
tho whole people. No other political body
will, or can, present to you candidates for
States offices who have equal claims to
your confidence. The Democracy of South
Carolina have received the nominations
with unfeigned satisfaction, and arc deter
mined TO elect their candidates. It will be
an unmixed blessing to tho State, however,
if there shall be truce to political strife,
and honest men, with honest purpose and
without regard to their political associations
in the last unite in voting for tho upright,
capable and faithful candidates who arc
now before tho people. The Democracy
cannot bo expected to load themselves
down with taxation for the benefit of their
former opponents, if these persist 10 pre-
ferriug political tromps or imported vnga-
bonds to Carolinians of proved worth and
acknowledged merit.
The principles declared by tho State
Convention os formulating the objects and
intentions of the Democratic party arc in
tcligible, liberal and progressive. They
look to the preservation of Honest Homo
Rulo ns the paramount need of good citizens
of every condition in life, and they pledge
to oil the people tho just administration
OF equal lava, and economy with efficiency
10 the conduct of the Government. In the
broader arena of National affairs the South
Carolina Democracy stand pledged to the
reform of the tariff system, so as to lesson
the burdens of the people, and to the re-
form Of the civil service as q means of
Improving politics. When tho political
workers shall no longer have hundred
thousand Federal Offices as lure and bait
for their hungry dependents, the power of
combinations Of unscrupulous politicians
will assuredy be broken, and for every
candidate, within his party, there will be q
fair field and no favor. The Democracy
demand likewise that the Federal Govern
ment, by liberal appropriations from The
treasury for educational purposes, help the
Southern States to convert the present and
rising generation of freedmen into intclli-
things tho South Carolina Democracy SOL
emnIy bind themselves, before their fellow
countrymcn, to pursue that public policy
which will nuke the whole people content,
by securing their rights, guarding their
privileges and fostering their growing pros.
pcrity.
The State Executive Committee remind
their Democratic fellow citizens that, while
the control of South Carolina hos been won
by tho party, and with that contro. has
come the intelligent administration of gov
crnmcn:al affairs and peace in every Caro-.
lima home, the power of the Democracy can
only be maintained aud consolidated BY
eternal vigilance and untiring effort. The
Democracy arc not so strong that they can
afford to disagree or divide. Disunion now
would DC as perlous as in the historic cam
paign six years ago, when the State was
wrestcd from the grasp Of the ignorant and
| corrupt. Federation there should be within
the party lines. There is ample scope and
verge there for the assertion of individual
views and opinions. But those who
abandon tho party or oppose it, because tho
measures they prefer have not been adopted,
| mako themselves the enemies Of good gov
ernmcnt, whether they choose to mas
querade as Independents or boldly haunt
the black flag of the Republican purity
Political solidarity is as important us ever
before, and there is less excuse than in any
previous canvass for discomfort and dcscr-
ton. Opposition to the Democratic oandi.
Gates and the Democratic platform, in this
| campaign, must be taken rs proof of in
vnciblo ignorance, or Of greed and ambi>
tion that would sacrifice tho brightest hopes
of the State for the qualification Of personal
| desires.
Tho State Committee earnestly urge
their fellow Democrats to exert themselves
to tho utmost to bring out full vote, and
to spair no pains to swell the ranks Of tho
| colorcd Democracy. by well considered
laws, repeating and balot-box stu(1ipg are
alike guarded against. The Democracy,
| therefore, can 60 into tho canvass with the
assurance that the strength of tho opposi-
ton will not be increased by trickery or
fraud, and with the satisfaction of know.
ing that, in South Carolina, thero shall be,
beyond dispute, free aud fair election
BY personal excrtion in exhibiting and cx--
planning to individual voters tho benefits
and blessings Of Dcmocratio rule, the
Democracy can command the intelligent
support and continuing co operation of the
colorcd people. TO this end no labor, no
persuasion, no argument should be spared
So will tho Democracy be proud of tho
triumph they shall enjoy, as the lawful and
Legitimate result Of just administration,
wise nominations, liberal principles and
sympathetic and unhagging work. This
traditions of the master.raoo to which we
belong. Victory wo must have; and honor
with victory.
James +. Izlar, Chairman.
G. D. Bryan, WIN. Munro,
j. Otey Reed, II p. Todd,
G.. W. Croft, Willie Jones,