Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-09-29
which we have just passed

are we'll UNDERSTOOD, ana IL; ls
quite unnecessary for me to
rehearse them now. One of these
issues-and perhaps the one that.
was foughtiwith the most bitter.
ness, and excited the most enthus-
siasm-was whether I should be
returnedato my homein Edgefeld
with the stigma of the disgrace cief
upon me that I was an unworthy
and incompetent public servant,
lar whether I should receive the
plaudits of my people as having
tried to do my duty. (Cheers and
applause.) The efforts put forth l''th
by those who believed that I was
unfttosgovern this: State were per-
haps worthy of patriots, because.
they certainly fought me with "a all !
the ardo1, enthusiasm and yigor
of men engaged in a patriotic un-
dertaking.
But, I am not here to stigmatize
their motives. I am here ready to
acknowledge that there are good
men en- both sides, patriots on
both sides, and that those who
fought the Farmers movement
and Reform in State afairs made
their fight on what they believed
to be their duty...All I now ask them
is that they shall believe and ad-
NIT that we were actuated by q
sense of duty. Gap plause.)
I stand here, gentlemen, to thank
the people of South Carolina who
have sent you hererthat they have
not sent me home in disgrace, but
have again placed in my hand the
banner which they gave me two
years ago-that banner of un-
stained Democracy under which
we shall again move forward,
working with common will, COM
mon zeal, and common energy for
the welfare of South Carolina.
(Applause.) Let me ask you, gen.
tlemen, when you go back home,
to return my thanks to the people
again. Individually, too, I thank
you, because you have been in the
ranks with the masses. And to
those. who have fought us Iwonld
say, we extend you the right hand;
of fellowship, friendship, and
eTo,aefiy !oye D ca7ol;nian to
; Garolinnn, gi+h tie ho9e TIA: 8a
shaii :unve '2a"N, 24tua.o3 bv
tie one Gesirc fn IL io5t.s-
aa,s Il iae Sta AnI,lau5a ag@
ehes-el
brloi speeches CT acce..tanee
and thanks were also made ny
Lieutenant Governor Gary, secre-
tary of State Tindal, Treasurer
Bates, Attorney General Townsend,
Superintendent of EducationlMay-
field, and Adjutant and Inspector
General Farley. On account of in
disposition Comptroller General
Ellerbe was not able to be present
and respond.
The following resolution, which
was offered by Col. D. K: Norris,
was then passed:
We return thanks to our presid-
ing officer for the able and impair
tisl manner in which he has pre-:
sided overithei deliberations ofiths
body, and to our secretaries for the
efficient discharge of their duties.
On mtoion of Cob Cole L. Blease,
of Ne#berty, the following resolu-
tion, which will explain itself, twas
passed:
We, the Democratic party of
South Carolina, in convention as
sembled, desire to express our ap-
probation of the patriotic; services
of the Columbia Register Eand it's
able editor, Mr.. T. L. CAN'T, in be-
half of the cause of true Democ-
racy and the rights of the people:
The resolution was vigorously
opposed by Col. John G. Haskell,
who held that the convention had
already passed upon its subject
matter, that.the committee on reso.
lutions had been discharged and
that many members of the con,
vention having left it would
amount to snap judgment.
Col. Blease, in reply, simply
moved to suspend the rules, and
the resolution WAS put andicarried
with a rush and a whoop.
In few moments thereafter, al
e:3O p. M, the convention had
passed into history, to use a phrase
of Gov. Tillman, "the people be-
ing still in the saddle"
Aunty-I feel provoked to think