The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-07-17
AN ANTI-T1LLa1AN CONFERENCE.

Judge a. @. Haskell convened in Colum.
,bia on July 10. Every County in the
State was represented but one, and about
400 delegates we're in attendance. An.
Iderson County was represented by N. O..
Farmer. j. S. Fowler, q. W. McGee. 81.
M. Prince, H. r. Vandiyer. An Execu.
tive Committee was appointed, consisting
of one from each Congressional District.
We are not wise enough to predict the
outcome of this conference, but it looks
to us like there will be two Democratic
tickets in the field in South Carolina. We
hope we are mistaken in this view. If
there ever was a time in the history of
South Carolina when ehe good people, of
every shade of opinion, should counsel
moderation and forbearance, now is the
time. We seem to be. rushing on to
destruction with our eyes wide open, but
s'seeing we see not" After the calamity
has come upon us, it will make no differ.
euce whose fanlt it was. Weprint below
the resolutions adopted by the Confer
ence.:
Ex-Governor Hagood for the commit
tee on resolutions, of which Ex-Governor
Sheppard was the chairman, reported the
following preamble aud resolutions, which
we're adopted :
A DEMAND FOB A STATE PRIMARY.
Whereas, on the 9th day of March,
ult., a convention assembled in the city
of. Columbia under the call issued by G..
w. Shell and others, assuming to repre-
sent the Farmers Association of South
Carolina, and suggested to the people
candidates for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor; and whereas the leaders of
the movement thus inaugurated have
assailed the integrity of the Democratic
party Of South Carolina in its admins
tration Of the affairs of the government
of the State, aud have charged its chosen
and trusted officials with extraVagance,
imbecility, debauchery and perjury; and
whereas it, believed and is confidently
asserted that the affairs of the State since
1876 have been administered with ability,
with justice, with unimpeachable integ-
rity, in strict compliance with the
demands of the platforms of the Demo
cratic party, and in faithful obedience to
the requirements Of the Constitution and
laws Of the State; and whereas in the
prosecution of the issues thus presented,
without precedent and without justiica-
tion, prejudices have been excited and
strifes have been engendered which jeop-
ardize the unity and solidity of the
Democratic party. and which imperil the
maintenance of white supremacy in South
Carolina; and whereas it is the duty of
all good citizens, members of the same
political household, who are willing to
subordinate self-interest to the public
veal, who are willing to sacrifice person.
al aspirations to the general welfare,
having one country and common des.
tiny, to heal the breach NOW existing
and restore harmony in the Democratic
party; and, whereas, to this end it is
important that the individual judgment
ofevery Democratic voter in South Car.
olina should be separately expressed /;
and, whereas, the people demand that
hereafter nominations for State officers
should be made by primary election !:
Therefore be it
ResoEved first, That the delegates to
the nominating convention called by the
Democratic Executive Committee to
convene on the 10th day of September
prox. should be chosen by q primary
election.
Second, That committee be appoin
ted by the conference to prepare and pro-
pose for adoption by the convention
called by the Democratic Executive
Committee for the 18th of August prox.
an amendment to the constitution Of the
Democratic party of South Carolina,
providing for primary election, which
shall contain the most stringent rules
and regulations for the conduct of such
primary election so as to insure the most
perfect fairness iu the management and
the most truthful counting snd returning
of the results thereof.
4 CO OPERATIVE COMMITTEE.
The following resolution reported by
the committee was adopted:
RESOLVED, That 8 committee composed
of two members at large and of one from
each Congressional District of the State
be appointed for the purpose Of advising
and cooperating with those Democrats
in the several Counties of this State who
are in favor of sustaining the integrity
Of the straigh:out Democratic party and
sustaining and following the constitu-
ton of the regular Democratic party.
and Of proposing such measures within
the lines of che regular Democratic or.
ganization as in their judgment may
conduce TO the consolidation and extern
sion of d sentiment in favor of sustaining
the principles and rules Of the straight
out regular Democracy of the State, and