The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-07-30
NO 455
REPUBLICAN LEAGUE.
WHITE MEN START IN TO INAUGu-
RATE A STATE CAMPAIGN.

An Address Issued, Setting Forth tho
why and Wherefore-A Club Member-
ship Approximating Three Thousand
| Clained-TeXt of the Circular
COLUMBIA, 5. g., July 17.-J. Hen
dirk McLane came to town Wednesday
from the city of "Culchaw" to start that
Republican campaign of education
scheme in South Carolina, that Boston
crankS are every now and again talk
ing ABOUT aud promising to put up the
"Stuil TO start. n meeting was held
III the Grand Central hotel last night.
and the rough draft Of an address was
made which was completed today.
only white men were present and
they constituted the executive commit.
Tee OF the State Republican league.
those present were Postmaster CLAYTON
OF Columbia, Rev. II. w. Memminger
OF Charleston, Simeon Corley and Frank
NlchOll OF Greenville, j. Hendrix Me-
Lane and T.. NJ. Brayton, Columbia.
~ Is proposed to go to work and thor
oughly organize in every county. and
IL at all successful to enter the field of
State politics III earnest. The address
IS as follows:
The Republican league of South Car
ollna deems it proper to publish a few
Drlel statements which will refute car
tam ISLANDERS that have recently been
published and otherwise circulated by
those calling themselves Republicans.
but who are unfrlendly to the leaoue
movement.
The eNtravagant and nnwarranted
charges that are made both in print and
IN il private way against the colored
| clergy as we'll as against some of the
| men who are DrOn monthly pnpno,to,l
| WIN TINS republican club organization
both in and outside of the state, impe]s
us to this action.
!. We wish to state that there was no
fund raised in Boston last year or at
any other time and put into the hands
OF Mr.. McLana or any other member of
the League to help the Farmers Alliance
in this state.
:. In consequence Of the foregoing
the Wholesale charges of corruption
mate against the colored clergy fails
pnWerleSS at the feet of these people.
i'uC the election last fall fully demons
tratrd one patent fact-that the colorcd
race Is not hereafter to be traded on by
the mere political speculator--no furth-
er proof Of the impotency Of those who
Tor years claimed to he the custodians
ol lhe colored vote is needed they could
: not deliver anything this farce can be
, carried on no longer.
\ 5. Never before have we known Gen.
!. GARRISON branded Us u curruptionist,
4 On the contrary we know him to be a
: pure and upright man, and one whom
e any party or state could well he proud
q OF. And we think the Republican
II league Of the United States is to be con-
: graduated on its choice of so able and
: efficient an organizer
z 4. 1t is, however, very easy to define
). The reason why that element in this
/, state who have formed the habit of
thinking that they had Il monopoly of
the name Republican would be greatly
aGltatcd and concerned OH account OF
Ine league movement. For this gen
ulhe Republican organization does not
present any such rOSe-cOlOred induce
mrntS to such class, but intends that
III the future the doors Of the Eepubli-
can party shall be wide enough open for
lhe admission Of all worthy people who
may wish to enter.
In support of this view, we quote the
following extract from report which
has been published and sent ont over
the country by the officers of the Ma
tional league.
Nhen the league undertook the work
OF organizing the party IN the South, il
: lett that the task was one Of no small
magnitude. There Is opposition within
! as well rs without the party. Men who
have controlled the Federal patronage
for years and kept the party organiZa-
tlon IN their own hands, directing it
Sole'y Tor their own benefit, view the
league movement with more alarm than
favor, and secretly throw all the ODsta-
clc' thry can IN the way OF Its develop
mrnt. However, one of the most
satisfactory features about the league
work IN the Southern States is found
In the character OF the men who are TAX
ing hold of 1T. They are not mere en-
thuSiaNs or politicians who have out
lived thcir usefulness but men Of stand
ing and influence, who want to see the
party work on Il different plane than it
has been on in the past,
They talk plainly about the difficulties
IN the way of building up a successful
party organization such rs the league
has undertaken to form throughout the
south. They are thoroughly in earnest.
loyal to the party and perfectly willing
20 assist in the work. but they want the
efforts they make to be of a practical
ana effective character.
"from the foregoing it is plain to be
seen that the league oraniZation does
not hold out any hope to mere place hun
ttrS or cOrruptiOnStS of either race.
Hence. realizing that they will be un.
able to manipulate this new Republ.
can organization, it is but natural that
some of them would try to ignore it by
SlandtrIng its prominent members.
"Fhc absolute necessity for a clean
and efficient party in the state to oppose
| the regular Democratic party is our
e Justification for having entered upon
e 'hl' work. We ar" getting encourage
e ment from all directions from the righ,
! thinking element Of both races. Nor,
y IMAM sixty clubs have already been re
+ ported, some of them having Il mem
j. bershlp OF more than fifty. We invit,
1 the active co operation of all good peo
J. PIE who are in favor Of Republican
y form of government.
e (Signed) SIMEON CORLEY, Prest.
q A.P. CLAYTON, Sec'ty.
'e By order of the State League, Colum
l. bia, ). c., July Is. 1891"
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