The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-07-31
LOgan's Letter Of Acceptance.

Senator Logan has accepted the Re.
publican nomination for the Vice.Pre
idency, and pleads "party usage" as an
excuse for inficting upon the public a
long. .winded personal ratification of the
party platform. His letter compares
favorably with Baine's. 1t is not quite
as long, it is not quite as dull, aud it is
a great deal more frank. Senator Logan
begins his letter with a quiet touch of
humor in reminding the Grand Old Party
that the nomination which he accepts
came to him unsought. That, in Pick
wickian sense, is fact. 1t was the NOM
ination which Blaine got that Logan
wanted. Nobody will care much to read
what the would be Vice.Presideut has to
say about protection. the currency, the
civil service, Mormonism and our foreign
relations. He was expected to display
the bloody shirt; but the following para.
graphs from his letter form the nearest
approach to it:
"Our forefathers, in the attempt to
erect a new Government which might
represent the advanced thought of the
world at that period upon the subject of
governmental reform, adopted the idea of
the peoples sovereignty, and thus laid
the basis of our present Republic.
While technically government of the
people, it was in strictness only govern
ment of portion of the people, exclud.
ing from all participation certain other
portion, held in a condition of absolute,
despotic and hopeless servitude, the par.
allel to which fortunately does not now
exist in any modern Christian nation"
"With the elimination, however, of
another cycle of advanced thought, the
American Republic suddenly assumed
the full character of a Government of
the whole people, and four million human
creatures emerged from the condition of
bondsmen to the full status of freemen,
theoretically invested with the same civil
and political rights possessed by their
former masters. The subsequent legis-
lation which guaranteed by every legal
title the citizenship and full equality
before the law in all respects of this
previously disfranchised people, amply
covers the requirements and secures to
them, so far as legislation can, the privi-
leges of American citizenship. But the
disagreeable fact of the case is, that
while, theoretically, we are in the enjoy
ment of Government of the whole
people, practically we are almost as far
from it as we were in the ante.bellum
days of the Republic. There are but q
few leading and indisputable facts which
cover the whole statement of the case.
In many of the Southern States the col
ored population is in large excess of the
white. The colored people are Republic.
cans as are also a considerable portion of
the white people. The remaining por.
ton of the latter are Democrats. In
face of this incontestible truth these
States invariably return Democratic
maiorities. In other States of the South
the colored people, although not q ma
iority, form very considerable body Of
the population, and with the white Rep
licans are numerically in excess of the
Democrats, yet precisely the same politi.
cal result obtains-tbe Democratic party
invariably carrying the elections: 1t is
not even thought advisable to allow an
occasional or unimportant election to be
carried by the Republicans as blind
or as stroke of inesse.
Careful and impartial investigation
has shown these results to follow the
systematic exercise of physical intimida'
tion and violence, conjoined with the
most shameful.devices ever practiced in
the name of free elections. So confirmed
has this result become that we are
brought face to face with the extraordi.
nary political fact that the Democratic
party of the South relies almost entirely
upon the methods stated for its success
in national elections.
"This unlawful perversion of the pop
ular franchise, which I desire to state
dispassionately, and in manner COM
porting with the proper dignity of the
occasion, is one of deep gravity to the
American people--in double sense.
"First. 1t is in violation, open, direct
and fragrant, of the primary principle
upon which our Government is supposed
to rest, viz: that the control of the Gov
ernment is participated in by all legally
qualified citizens, in accordance with the
plan of popular government, the majorl-
ties must rule in the decision of all ques-
tions.
"Second. It is in violation of the rights
and interests of the States wherein are
particularly centered the great wealth
and industries of the nation, and which
pay an overwhelming portion of the
national taxes. The immense aggrega-
tion of interests embraced within, and
the enormously greater population of
these other States of the Union, are SUBJ
iected every four years to the danger of o
wholly fraudulent show of numerical
strength.
"Under this system minorities actually
attempt to direct the course of national
affairs, and though up to this success has
not attended their efforts to elect Presi-
dent, vet success has been so perilously
imminent as to encourage repetition of
the effort at each quadrennial election,
and to subject the interests of an over
whelming majority of our people, North
aud South, to the hazards of illegal sub
version"
All this is very sad. But Gen. Logan
does not suggest any new and startling
programme for mending it. He wisely
limits himself to the mild suggestion
that Gin accordance with the spirit of
the last resolution of the Chicago plat
form, measures should be taken at once
to remedy this great evil"
A WOman's New Shoes.