The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-09-21
THE REPUBLICAN, CIRCUs.
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more than two hours having been occa
stoned by the examination of the claim.
vi certain contesting delegations by Tie
executive committee. ''
+. w. N. Mackcy called the Cooven.
lioh TO order, and "Jack" Little. of the
revenue department, read the roll Of dol.
cgates rs agreed upon by the State nv.
names. ~ '''ei'
AS soon as this feat was ACCOMPLISHED
Slackey was besieged by motions from all
parts OF the ball, but positively refused
W entertain any other business than the
e'eclion OF temporary chairman.
for this position Samuel Lee, of Sum.
TER was first nominated, as "ono of the
most worthlest men in the Convention. y
skiiied In parliamentary knowledge ri
faithful 20 the Republican party. is
eiection, 1t was stated, would be matter
OF great significance in the further delib.
would arise. "'' '""'
lom Miller, with a great flourish of
words and much emJrcssen,ent. then nomi.
mated Gen. Robert Smals, "the runaway
negro" from Beaufort. declared that be
had always done his duty to the Repub.
llcan party, and claimed that the Con.
ventlon should pay that honor to Beau.
i9r. which she deserved by making her
distinguished son its chairman.
Both these worthless were warmly Sec
onded, and their names were greeted
with applause by their respective follow.
ers. No other nominations were made.
ana n. 5. Shelton of Richland, and
Warren X. Marshall of Charleston. were
appointed as tellers to conduct the elec-
ton; the delegates voting IA their names
were called. Lee received GO, and Smalls
81 votes, and on motion of Smalls tie
election OF Lee was made unanimous.
shrewsbury, Smalls and Shelton we're
appointed committee TO conduct Lee
to the chair. Smalls presented his sue.
cessiul rival to Mackey, and the Lee fac
ton in the Convention went wild with
delight. Mackey introduced Lee to the
Convention as its temporary chairman,
ana Lee then made speech thanking
the Convention for the high honor con.
ferred upon him, and expressing tue hope
that its business would be conducted
with harmony and dispatch. So
SAM LEE SCORED TIE FIRST VICTORY.
Jack" Little was then elected tempo.
rary secretary.
After the regularly accredited dele
gates to the Convention had become sest.
ed, Ben Donaldson, a pestiferous politi.
cian from ireenville, called attention to
The presence of the Democratic newspa-
pers, claimed that they had never given
the Republican Conventions fair show.
ing, and hoped that they would treat the
members of this Convention with respect
and not ridicule its doiugs. He was
tired of seeing Us many hard things in
me daily press Of the State about the
Republicans, and hoped that the repor-
ter's would turn over new leaf and do
the fair thing.
A committee on credentials, consisting
Of one delegate from each county, was
then appointed by the chairman. After
the committee had been filled number
Of changes were made in the committee
at the request of various delegates, but
at last the confusion became so great and
the request Of substit1tions SO general
that the chairman declared the commit
tee complete and instructed them to re-
tire from the hall. This brought out a
very
BLACK AND BIG-MoUTHED NEGRO
from Lancaster who declared that he un.
derstood all about parliamentary law, for
he had learned it from Barclays De.
gest," and that heknew what he was talk
ing about. He talked at great length
without saying anything, and could not
be silenced either by the gavel OF the
chairman or the insulting aud contemp-
tuous remark of Ben Donaldson that
"this Convention has come here to do
something and not to make jackasses of
ITSELF"
Tom Miller thought that any member
OF the committee had the right to sug-
gest substitute, and that the ruling OF
the Chair wAs unfair. He also took oc-
casion to refer with considerable ssperi.
ty to the logrolling tactics adopted by the
officers of the internal revenue depart
ment, charged that they were importa.
tions, and that they had been appointed
to Offices which better men, both white
and black, who had always been true to
the party should fill, and that no "popin.
;sy" Of the revenue service should charge
him with dirty work" and "logrolling.'
Miller was told that no reference had
been made to him, and finally subsided
A member then moved to go into com.
mittee of the whole to discuss these
questions.
The chairman said that the Conven.
tion had not been permanently organized
and that it was already as much of 6
committee of the whole as it could be.
The big -mouthed negro took the fool
again, aud, swinging his arms like the
wings on a windmill and again quoting
BARCLAYS DIGEST"
utterly refused to be comforted until q
delegate stepping up to him whispered
in his ear that he was making jackass
of himself when he sat down with pro.
fuse apologies to the "cheer."
A motion was made that Gen. Smalls
address the Convention until the com.
mittee on credentials was ready to re.
port. This motion did not prevail,
however, and after great deal more
speaking at last motion for an hours
recess was adopted, and the hall was
speedily vacated, while the dusky states.
men repaired to adjoining peanut stands
for refreshments.
At 3 o'clock the committee OH cTeder'
tiais reported. Majority and minority
reports were submitted, and occasioned
fearfuly long and disorderly discuss
ion. The delegations from Union, Pick
ems and ColletoD, it was claimed, hao
not been properly elected and were no
entitled to their seats. 1t was openly
charged that the delegates from Union
and Pickens had never been elected
that they had been appointed in the in
terest of one man, and that they did Eo
represent their respective counties ir
any way and that they should not 6t
seated. The Myers delegation from Col
Teton, it was charged, had not received