The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-01
Correspondence Of the Union TINES. 4 :
Jonssville Forms a straieht-out Club.

Correspondence OF the Union TINES
Jonssvills Forms straight-out Club.
The venerable ehyis6aa gentlemen, Josiai
Foster at the head, foltowed by so good and
true ''untomed' Democrats, who dare to think
and act independeni cf any political bosses.
JoNEsvIILs, July 24.-At meeting of the
straight-out Democratic Club, with Mr..
ID. w. Fowler as temporary chairman, an
organisation was effscted by the election of
the following pernlaaent officers.
JOSIAH FOSTER, President.
]. E. LINDSAY, LIST. Vice-President.
r. w. HAMIEroS, 2ni. Vice President.
F. w. CoAsNAN, 3rd. Vice-President.
II. w. Long, E. L. Eison and L. C. Elmore,
s'fIs'S.lss. R. W. ssot.,
Executive Conimittss.,SV. w. Fowler, C. X.
Long, DIR. K. NJ. Li,tlejohn, John w. Craw-
ford aud W. II. II. Bevil.
The chairman having announced that the
club was organized and ready for business,
after speeches from several of the members,
the following resolutions were introduced
and unanimously adopted:
Resoiued, That we endorse the action of
tho Democratic Conference held in, Colum-
bin July 10th. 1890.
ResoiUed, That we do not believe that our
State officials are corrupt, or that the State
is :'permeated with political leprosy:" Said
charges having been disproved
Resolred, Thatwe disapprove Of the Shell
manifesto, and the irregular methods en-
ployed by Mr.. T,llman and others in con-
ductiug the present campaign.
Resolved, That We will not support b. II. Till
man for Governor Of South Carolins, unless
he is nominated for that position through the
regular Del ocratic channel.
rl..
disrespeGt which has been shown to the
Honorable Wade Hampton, our beloved leader
during aud since the dark days of 1876.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this
meeting be published in the Union TIMES and
the Ne,cs and Courier.
There aro about fifty names on the roll,
and the rapidly developing and growing Anti
Tillman sentiment gives promise of many
more.
The Club is fully organized, thoroughly
aroused, and in splendid working order.
They have enlisted under the banner which
they believe to be right and will lead them
TO victory. Ifit should 60 down, they will
| 'die game"
This organization is imbued with the same
spirit that prompted the illustrious French
man TO exclaim, "The Guard dies, Il never
surrenders p
The resolution with regard to General
Hampton was introduced by Mr.. John F.
Long, Of this town, who was q soldier Of
Hampton's Cavalry, and q brave one, at
sixteen, and does not believe "the time has
come when the men who rode with Lee aud
Jackson should stand aside" Many
OF those who wore the "grey jacket"
were present, aud while "the bonnie
blue flag no longer reflects the light Of the
morning sunbeam, nor kisses with its silkeu
rol. .la II 80
olime," yet the proud memories aud glori-
GUS recollections'' which cluster around
that bullet riddled flag of the South, are too
fresh in the minds and too dear to the hearts
of the brave men who "waved it DER the
fiery crest of an hundred battle felds' and
swore TO protect its sacred folds. to be so
soon forgotten. Nor will the people Of this
fair southland ever cease to remember that
when this loved banner was folded at Apo
mattox, it was these matchless heroes, in
their ragged grey jackets, weak and hungry,
footsore aud weary, but with the unquench-
able fire Of undying devotion burning rs
brightly in their warrior hearts as when
with the vigor of boyish ardor they enlisted
under its gliseuing folds-it was these brave
men "whO stocked their wcll-worn arms
around it, and doffsd their caps to see it 90
down in defeat more precious than many
victories" The Sou;i honors them the
brave soldiers Of the North respect them.
Whether the confederate soldier wore the
privates grey jacket or the generals stars
on his coat, makes no difference; the true
hearts of tho South love anL- -->~..e bin, just
the eafnegNfne heroic conduct Of Wade
Hampton on many a hard-fought field, and
his patriotic ana self-sacrifcing services to
his State during and since the dark days of
1876, have stamped his name too indelibly
aud lovingly upon the hearts Of Carolinians
to be easily effaced. God grant that this
noble old man in his declining years may
not be forced to say in his heart (what his
lips would be too proud to utter) that South
Caroliniaus have forgotten their brave leader
in the trying days when the dark clouds of
Republicanism burst in fury upon the old
Palmetto State. Z. C. E.