The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-02-21
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
Governor Thompson Sure of recollection =
Three Democratic Congregational Districts
to be Contested.

COLUMBIA, February III, is very
early in the political year, but already
the chances of the candidates for the
Democratic nominations for State Offices
and for Congress are under discussion,
| and there is in the field goodly array Of
Carolinians who will consent to serve
The State and their country if they arc
required To DO 80. In other words. in
the political parlance of the day, They
| are in The bands Of their friends
The probabilities are that there will be
no opposition whatever to the r,noInina
ton of Governor Thomp.Dn. a number
Of articles on the subject have appeared
IN the coanty newspapers, but nowhere
| has here been any suggestion Of uppos
ing the rcnornius,iOn OF the present Gov.
crnUr, who !ia, given general satisfaction
by The courtesy, Intelligence and the un.
wavcring fidelity with which he has
discharged the duties Of his important
oce. II had been limited that Governor
Thompson might become candidate for
ConSrc,, this year, but there is the best
authority for saying thar under no cir.
cumstaDccs viii nc accept the nomination
for Congress, aud that lie will consider it
Il high honor if he shall be rcnominaled
and re. elected - Governor.
There will be considerable stir in three
Of the Democratic Congressional Districts
this summer. 1t is no secret that Con.
gresham John II. Evius, of the Fourth
District, is in bad health, and lie will not
be candidate for re election. The State
has no better representative in Congress
than Coz Eyins, aud his inability TO serve
the State ~ longer will be a serious
public loss. There Is no doubt that he
has won the respect and confidence Of
| both political parties as an able and a
hard working member Of Congress. He
is now serving his fourth term and would
! probably have been renominated if he
could have been a candidate. There are
several candidates in prospect. Richland
has ex. Attorney General l.. W. Youmans
aud Col. VIM. Wallace. Fairfield is
| expected to put forward the name Of Col.
| L. W. Woodward, but tha! jovial and
unrecpnstructed gentleman declares that
he will not be 4 candidate again. Green
| vile will have two candidates, ii James
| l.. Orr and Col. w. II. Perry, the eldest
son Of Ex-Governor B. +. Perry. Spar.
tenburg will probably enter AZ Il candi-
date Col. ID. Il. Duncan, now the Circuit
solicitor, and who was the man who, as
president of the company, carried the
Spartanburg and A>hcvilc Railroad
across the Blue Ridge. Union. like
Spartanburg, will have but Que candidate,
and he will be Col. |. G.. Mckissick.
There is plenty of room for speculation
rs to the chances of the several gentle
| men spoken Of, but not more than three
Of them are expected TO develop any
considerable strength.
The present representative Of the
Third District is Col. ID. Wyatt Aiken,
who is serving his fourth term, and il q
| candidate for renOmiuation. There is
! not much likelihood that he will be op-
posed i'll his own county, though it has
been limited that there may be aspirants
there. Newberry will have n candidate
in the person Of the Hon. George John.
stone, who is chairman of the committee
of ways and means of the House Of
Representatives Of the State. Oconce
and Pickens have suggested no candidates
50 lar. 1t - reported that Anderson will
put in the field Mr.. L. b. Murray, the
editor of the ANDERsoN 1STELLIGENCER
| and one of the most active members Of
the House Of Representatives.
The Second District is now represented
by George d. Tillmau, Of EdgelicId, and
his denomination will not be opposed, it
is thought, in his own county. There
may be opposition to him in Hampton
and.Barnwell, rs we'll rs in Aiken In
Barnwell State Senator Lartgue is talked
of as y probable candidate, aud from
Aiken two gentlemen Of merit are nam
ed-State Senator ID. S. Henderson and
Representative G.. w. Croft.
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resented by Messss. John J. Hemphill
and George w. Dargan respectively.
These gentlemen are now serving their
first term, having been elected in 1882,
under the Act e-distric,ing the State.
They have given satisfaction to their
constituents, and will be renomiHated
without opposition.
In tho affairs of the Seventh, or Black
District, the Democrats do not take
much interests. The general opinion is
taker, will be nominated without much
difficulty, but this is by-no means the
fact. There is strong opposition TO
Smalls because of his bad public charac-
ter, and serious effort will be made to
secure the nomination for State Senator
Bruce Williams, of Georgetown. Will
liams is colored man OF respectability
and capacity, and is incomparably supe.
| rior in every way to Smalls. It is not
improbable that there will be several
candidates before the Republican Con
gressional Convention, but the race at
present is between Williams and Smalla,
with the chances in favor of Willi.ms.
The candidates who are on the edge are
ex Speaker Samuel J. Lee, Of Charleston,
mot Sam Lee, Of Sumter,) w. II.
Ahrens, of Summerville. and j. w. Coll
ins, of Beaufort. There is no talk OF
nominating Democratic candidate in
the district, and the Republicans will
be allowed to fight it out in their own
way.
Altogether the outlook for lively times
| during the canvass for the nominations is
quite promising, and it ia not very wide
of the mark To suppose that there will
he considerable activity, OH the part oi
the Republicans, during the two or three
months Immediately preceding the elec.
zion. The indications are that thsre will
be no Republican opposition to the cleo.
| ton of the Democratic candidates for
State offices, or, except in the Republican
counties, to the Democratic candidates
for county offices and tho Legislature.
! The Republicans will naturally make an
effort to carry one or more of the Con-
gresslcnal districts and try to obtain a
majority for their Electoral ticket. Their
chances in the latter respect will depend
very much on the character of the Dem
ocratic candidate for President and the
nature of the platform on which he
stands.-Lorrespondenee Ne,es and Couri-