Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-08-31
STATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.
STIRRING ADDRESS TO THE DEMOCRATIC
VOTERS.
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STATE Dem. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
-ssas COLUMBIA, S. c., August 15, 1882.
Fellosc-citizens Tie candidates nominated
by the State Democratic Convention at Col
umbia are worthy of the support OF the Whole
people. No other political body will, or can,
present to you candidates for State offices who
have equal claims to your confidence. The
Democracy of South Carolina have received
the nominations with Hnfeigned satisfaction,
and are determined to elect their candidates.
It will be an unmixed blessing to the State,
however, if there shall be q truce to political
strife, and honest men, with honest purpose
and without regard to their political associa-
tions in the past, unite in voting for the up
right, capable and faithful candidates who are
now before the people. The Democracy can
not be expected to continue to load themselves
down with taxation for the benefit of their
former opponents, if these persist in preferring
political tramps or imported vagabonds to
Carolnians of proved worth and acknowledged
merit.
The principles declared by the State Conven-
tion as formulating the objects and intentions
of the Democratic party are ineligible, liber-
al and progressive. They look to the preser-
vation of Honest Home Rule as the paramount
need of good citizens of every condition in life,
and they pledge to all the people the just ad-
ministration of equal laws, sand economy with
efficiency in 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 lessen
the burdens on the people, and to the reform
of the civil service as means of purifying poll
tics. When the political workers shall no longer
have a hundred thousand Federal offices as Il
lufellnd bait for their hungry dependents, the
power OF combinations Of unscrupulous politi-
clans will assfFedly be broken, and for every
candidate within, his party, there Will be
fair field and no faveT. The democracy de-
mand likewise that the Federal Government,
by liberal appropriations from the treasury for
educational purposes, help the Southern States
to convert the present and rising generation
of freedmen into intelligent and responsible
citizens. In all things the South CarolrRa DE-
mocracy solemnly bind themselves, before;
their rfellow-countrymen, to pursue that public
policy which will make the whole people con-
tent, by securing their rights, guarding their
privileges and fostering their growing prosper
ty.
The State Executive Committee remind
their Democratic fellow citizens that, while
the control of South Carolina has been won by
the party, and with that control has come the
intelligent administration of governmental af-
fairs and peace in every Carolina home, the
power Of the Democracy can only be maintain
ed and consolidated by eternal vigilance and
untring effort. The Democracy are not so
strong that they can afford to disagree or dl-
vide. Disunion now would be as perilous as
in the historic campaign six years ago, when
the State was wrested from the grasp of the
ignorant and corrupt. Toleration there should
be within the party lines. There is ample
scope and verge there for the assertion of in
dividual views and opinions. But those who
abandon the party or oppose it, because the
measures they prefer have not been adopted,
make themselves the enemies Of good govern
ment, whether they choose to masquerade as
Independents or boldly faunt the black flag of
the Republican party. Political solidarity is
as important as ever BEFORE and there IS less
excuse than in any previous canvass for dis
content and desertion. Opposition to the
Democratic candidates and the Democratic
platform, in this campaign, must be taken as
proof of invincible ignorance, or OF greed ana
ambition that would sacrifice the brightest
hopes of the State for the qualification Of per-
sonal desires.
The State Committee earnestly urge their
fellow-Democrats to exert themselves to the
utmost to bring out full vote, and to spare no
pains to swell the ranks of the colored Democ-
racy BY well-considered laws, repeating and
balot-box stuffng are alike guarded against
The Democracy, therefore, can 60 into the
canvass with the assurance that the strength
of the opposition will not be increased by
trickery or fraud, and with the satisfaction
of knowing that, in South Carolina, there shall
be, beyond dispute, a free and fair election.
BY personal eXertion, in exhibiting and ex-
planning to individual voters the benefits and
blessings of Democratic rule, the Democracy
can command the intelligent support and con-
tinuing cooperation of the colored people.
To this end no labor, no persuasion, no argu-
ment should be spared. SO will the Democra-
cy be proud of the triumph they shall enjoy, as
the lawful and legitimate result of just ad-
ministration, wise nominations, liberal princi-
pies, and systematic and unfagging work.
This we owe to the State, and we owe it to the
traditions of the master-race to which we be-
long Victory we must have and Honor with
victory.
T.>,vc z JzI Ap Chairman