Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-10-12
BULLY AND BRAGGART.
TIE PUBLIC RECORD OF J. HENDRIX
M'LANE.

behavior of j. Hendrix MoLuuo, tho
Grecnback candidate for Governor Of South
Carolina, at Winnsboro' yesterday will not
surprise those who arc familiar with his
record. On accepting the nomination for
Governor, with upliftcd hands and eyes
fixed on the ceiling, he exclaimed: III will
be Governor or by tho eternal we will have
q military Government" This harmoniaes
about US well with his conduct at Winns-
boro' as his oaths aud threats years ago
agreed with his conduct when the hour of
danger came. Throughout his life McLano
has been metaphorically
Tn.RsTiNa son GORE,
and nothing but blood, and oceans of it,
would satisfy him as long ns there was 10
danger that whnt he Invited would come.
The CONTRAST between the protcstations of
the mau and his conduct, aud the recol-
lection of his treachery, will 90 fur to ac-
count for the rude manner in which he was
treated by IL few undisoiplincd Democrats
at the Winnsboro' meeting.
The homo of j. Hendrix McLanc is at
baskerville, in Fairfield county. He is
without education and miserable poor
speaker aud his whole political career
Owes THE LIE
to his present empty professions of fair deal-
ing, free speech aud political reform.
Whenever and wherever McLane has been
able to prevent It, there has been neither
free speech nor fair play in South Carolina.
The cololed people of the State have never
had more heartlcss enemy than he, and If
ho did not make a colorcd graveyard Of
South Carolina it was only because he
could pot keep his courage up to the sticks
ing point when the critical moment oame.
M'LANE AS A KUKLUX.
Years ago, when rumors of Kukluxism
filled, tho uir j. Hendrix MlcLuue paraded
IIc avowcd himself ready to undertake
anything that was demanded Of him. But
as matter of course nothing was demanded
McInno had succeeded, however, in soaring
himself by his stories of his exploits, and
when the Kuklux prosecutions began he
fled frou the State and remained absent
for some years.
In 1876 ho returned to South Carolioa
and
JOINED THE REb-sHfRT DEMOCRACY
being lust as violent then in his declara
lions of hostility to negroes as he had bech
in Kuklux times. lIe went far beyond
tho most cxtrcmc regular Democrats in the
county hIcI.ane declared that 'if the
negroes could not be taught any sense, it
should bo beaten iuto them," and that
armed men ought to be posted along the
highways to shoot them down if they
attempted to go to the polls. Of course
the Democracy had no taste for such pro-
ccedngs as these, but the fact remains that
McLanc advocated
PRESUMPTION AND DLooDsHED,
and must be presumed to have been sincere
in doing it. During the campaign he
was President of the Fcastcrvillo Demo-
cratic club, and Secretary pro tenn. of the
Democratic Executive Committee of the
county. All accounts agree in saying that
To was tho most extreme man in the
county, md that Democratic leaders had as
much trouble 10 restraining him from at
tackng tic poor colorcd men in those days
| az Mai Tom Woodward had 10 keeping
the exuberant Democrats from kicking him
moro than once at Winnsboro yesterday.
MoLnne WIS adjutaut for Maj. Woodward
in organizing the clubs in Fairfield county
and the order book containing his crooked
obirography is still 10 existence.
n few years ago MclInnc had 10 his
possession gun which he claimed to have
captured in raid Which he made on the
colored people in the spring of 1871. At
that tiWe negro company had been organ
lied in Fairfield county and was drilling at
night. The roads were pcketcd by the
company and the pcighborhood was con-
sdcrabIy alarmed. An attack was made
upon the company and ono negro was shot.
Whether MuLune shot him or not am
unable to say, but he claims to have been
the hero Of that raid and boasts of his
prowcss on that occasion. Yet was ho
ALWAYS DISPOSED TO RUN
when trouble came.
10 1873 he organized Greenback club
at Fcustetvlle. At one of tho meetings a
squabbIe took place and MoLane fancying
himself in danger rctrcated to the Uni
yersaIist Church. The story is that he ran
SO fast that bag of Fiat money would have
found secure resting place on his ex-
tended coat tail Before tho election of
1876 McIane urged the baskerville De-
mocracy to pass a resolution binding every
Democrat to refuse employment to any
negro who would not vote the Democratic
ticket, and he demanded further that the
Democrats should cviot from their houses
and throw out into the road every negro
who remained contumacious. Tho moro
conservative Democrats resisted this propoa
siton and it was voted down. The night
before tho day of tho election he tried to
get squad of Democrats to 60 into ambush
and
SHOOT DOWN TIE NEGROES
as they wcnded their way during tho
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