The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1886-06-23
1880 DITFEtENT no 1854.

No''tN WV AOi elIlIcf nlf. LlpScOnD OF
Mr.. Johnstone, whether the nomination
there is ga pretty large contiugent'', as
we said three weeks ago, "who do mot
want either Mr.. Lipscomb or Mr.. John
stone", but some other man. How this
statement can be "a great injustice''
passes our comprehension. Our con-
temporary puts. this contingent" at
twenty-five or less. We beg leave to
call its attention to the fact tnat in the
convention of 1884 ut Newberry, Mr..
Aiken received II votes out OF no that
were cast. Two other delegates an
no"nr"d before voting that they had
come to the convention out-and-out
Aiken men, but voted for Mr.. john
stone Hto show their disupprobation of
the attack made upon him." Others
voted for him for the same reason. Were
all the Aiken men in 1884 in the convcn-
ton? Certainly not. There was ''a
pretty large contingent" for Aiken in
1881. Wouldn't Cothran make MS good
Congressman rs Aiken made? If so.
ana II II pretty large contingent Of voters
in Ncwbcrry County preferred Col.
Aiken to Mr.. Johnstonc in 1854, why
may not ga pretty large contingent"
prefer Judge Cothmn to either Mr..
Johrstonc or Mr.. Lipscomb in 1886 {?
But suppose this ''contingent" were
only twenty-five voters; these twenty
i've voters ought to be permitted to vote
for the man they prefer.
"Ihc charge Of our contemporary that
those who would vote for candidate
outside the county "would do so on nc
count OF some personal matter that they
could not rise abovc', is entirely UNI
founded. Their motives are no doubt
us pure and rs patriotic, andas free from
SHli-lntrrrSL or bias, rs the motives OF
those who will vote for Il candidate i'll
side the county. y.'--NcWdcny Observer,
J""c l7ih.
OiIr contemporary admits that Il ma
iority Of the voters Of Newbcrry County
would vote for either Mr.. Lipscomb or
Mr.. Johnstonc, whether the nomination
br by convention or by primary, yet it
passes lis comprehension to see how tie
statement "that it is useless to tiswuisc
the fact, that there is Il pretty large con-
iingcnt of voters in Ncwbcrry County
who do not want either Mr.. Lipscomb
or Mr.. Johnst0nc' can hc Il great injus-
ticr. II minority would vote for one
OF the two, the other would certainly
get g"o'l vote and leave the smallest Of
three contingcnts TO be divided between
the candidates outside of the county.
So to take the Observers cXplunation
OF the size of the contingent, it could not
be called "a pretty large contingency,
yet the impression made upon the casual
reader outside Of the county was, that it
would seem, from what the Observer
says, that neither Mr.. Iip$comb nor Mr.
Johnsl"nc will receive anything like Il
strong support from their county. and
we arc satisfied it has been used against
them in other counties by the friends Of
candidates already, hence the Injustice
done. The aclion Of the convention of
1851 cannot have any bearing upon the
present contest, rs at that time Col.
Aiken, who had served the District well
for eight years, was Il candidate for IT,
election, and there were i good number
OF l.rrS"ns III Nrwbcrry who desired to
see him rr-nnnIinatcd, but WHO had too
much county pride to oppose Mr.. John
stone, who WAS then the only candidate
from Ncwbrrry. They were willing for
him TO have ;hc delegation, believing that
they wonlh vote for Col. Aiken "a, the
S'cond choice of Nrwhcrry at That timr)
III the event of Mr.. Jollnstonc's failure to
get The nomination; but in his campaign
the situation is entirely different. Mr..
Aiken is not II candidate, and Ncwbrrry
has two candidates instead Oi one. anal
Further, the Observer, which supported
MI. .j"hnStonc during the campaign of
lSS |, is now advocating the claims Of Il
lawyer outside Of the county. Some
Of Mr.. JohnStonc's friends admit that
Mr.. Iipscomb's chances of CARRYING the
county are good, and Mr.. Lipscomb's
friends say they are confident he will
carry the county by any plan the county
may adopt, and the Observer asks that
the contingent be givcna show, there
fore, we sec an entire change in the situ-
alton.
We do not think that Mr.. Cothlan
would make rs good Congressman as
Mr.. Aiken, because Mr.. Aiken had al
ready had eight years experience in
Congress. If we have mdcrstimatcd
the opposition to Mr.. Johnstonc and Mr..
lipScomb, or have been mistaken in the
cause we have assigned for il, we GER
tainly regret it; but from what we have
heard, we have no reason to increase the
estimate of those who will vote against
the two candidates.
We have had no means Of asccrtaininn
the exact cause Of opposition, but as
we have often heard, men claim the
right to cut ticket after il is nomi-
mated on account of some personal differ
anr". We know that there were
those who, If asked who they would
prrfrr for COn"rcSSMnn Moull snv inc