The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-11-13
CAMPAIGN LESSONS.

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campaign of 1890 should not be allowed
sto opass unheeded, for there are important
lessons to be learned from what ne have
Just passed through.
First, re should learn that we do not
gain any thing by hayinga "party." in a
ss.party,p and that in the future, as in the
past, the conventions of factions and the
nominations by factions "inside" even of
the party organization, is an unnecessary,
sunwise, and dangerous experiment. For
-ifthe Democratic party is ruptured, and
its future triumph endangered, this split
and danger began with the March Con-.
Yention and its nominations. In the
second place, ne should learn that cam
#paign of false charges against cur chosen
leaders is not only unwise and unfair, but
sendangers the success of our party, and
even though this be to "give force to the
movement" its reaction will. than
g gcounterbalance all that is gained by that
force.
Thirdly, we should learn that while
stwo negatives in Grammar may be equal
Ito an affirmative, it does not follow that
tao wrongs will make right; for even
Sconceding that the Tillman ticket was
3irregularly nominated, there can 5e no
s doubt that the Haskell movement and its
T nominations were outside the party or
sganization. were wrong, and against the
peace and harmony Of the Democratic
J psrty These are important lessons, and
Sin:the future We should not again fall in
Ito the errors Of 1890.
.ssd And now since the campaign lis over,
and the mistakes we have made cannot
be unmade, we should all come together,
s5.apd let the past, with all its mistakes and
..errors,7 be assigned to the realms of OBJ
;5liyion And neither faction should show
ssitself so little and unmagnanimous as to
Fbs: always trying. TO throw into the face Of
the other the wrongs or mistakes com.
lmitted by it. Every true Democrat is or
Ssshonld be willing to do all he can, fairly
and honestly, that is right and magnani.
nous for the success and triumph of the
mocra.ic party, and one of the most
msgnanimous and desirable grace is
charity, which covers multitude of
faults. !" Therefore, every Democrat
SHOULD be charitable to every other Dem.
socrat, and the mistakes and errors he or
sthey have committed for the saAe of
white supremacy, which can be maintain
e1 only through the Democratic psrty..
Z Let US not be like the man and wife who
were quarreliDg over a rat or mouse they
chad seen-one claiming it was rat, and
3 9 big one at that, while the other declared
]. it:was avery small mouse. The preacher
came upon them in this quarrel, and af.
|: ter some time restored peace, and spent
the night with them. The next morning
4 before getting up the good wife remarked
to her husband that they ought to be
ashamed to have been caught quarreling
over such a triaiug thing. eyes," replied
the husband, "but you would insist on its
being 8 little mouse, while I know it was
9 rat, and big one at that" And then
the quarrel was renewed, and the preach
r>had more trouble to restore peace this
time than he had the night before. Let
sus not 60 back to insist on who was right
or who was wrong, but let uB come to-
3gether, forgetting our past differences,
and be q united Democracy.