The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-02-25
LET Us ALL GET TOGETHER.
A State Convention called for March 2
to Nominate Full State Ticket.
,ocruts of South Carolina

we dSh yOu W CouSAoo1 "1Lnooo PA0Jc
dice what we say to you, and to let your
judgment be governed by an intelligent
regard for your own interests and direct
ed by your love and respect for the State
and her people.
We are not trying to stir your passions
by general accusations which we cannot
prove, or to excite vain hopes by extrav-
agant promises impossible to fulfill. We
do not wish to undo any g"od that has
been accomplished or to reverse any pol
icy which the majority of our fellow
Democrats favor.
We ask you to join US in an honest,
united, determined effort to remove the
dangers confronting our people, the evils
under which they suffer. We must re-
store peace and good feeling among our
selves, that we may stand and work to-
gether and give that mutual help and
cordial cooperation necessary for the
well-being of any community. We can
do nothing while we are divided into
hostile factions and neighbors are separa-
ted by political dis.rust and discord.
We submit that the course of the pres
ent State administration tends inevitably
to continued irritation, division and dan
ger. In the campaign of 1890 the public
was deceived with promises OF reforms
which have not been kept. ALI of those
who expressed their dIstrust of these
promises We're then violently denounced.
Even such of these as, despite the bitter
ness with which they were assailed,
accepted and supported the will of the
majority of their fellowDemocrats, have
been treated as enemies, and the present
indications are that this prescription ls
to be continued and extended. Recent
public declarations by those high in au-
thoriiy assure US that those who were
from the first friends and followers Of the
head of our State administration, but
who went with him only SO Tar as their
consciences would allow, and then resist
ed or opposed his purposes, are likewise
to be put under ban. Representatives of
the people have been slandered, reproach
ed and derided as ''driftwood" because
they could not in all things think and act
with the Governor, and dared to vote ao-
cording to their judgments. We are open
ly informed that strong efforts will be
made to secure at the coming election the
choice of q Legislature more obedient to
tie Governors demands, more pliable in
yielding 70 his will than the last.
A Circuit Judge has been rebuked in
an official message because his decision
on the bench did not accord with the
wishes and opinions Of the executive.
The Legislature elects the judiciary.
Control of the ono means the control of
both and the Capitalization Of all the
powers OF making, expounding and exc
cutting the laws (powers given by the
Constitution for the safety of the people
to the keeping of three distinct branches)
into the hands of one man.,
Tho present management of our party.
apparently in full sympathy with the
purposes and demands Of the Governor,
and with his help, has incorporated into
the rules of the party new devices for
perpetuating the power now held and
making it more difficult for the majority
of the Democratic voters to Withstand the
power of the machine controlled by
minority.
The tendency Of all these acts and
methods is toward further and deeper di-
visions and continued strife among US.
The signs Of the times warn US that un-
less there is change we may have to
choose between slavish submission to
dangerous and degrading despotism or a
bitter, desperate and ruinous struggle
among ourselves.
To avoid these dangers, to restore peace
and harmony TO our party and people, we
call On all Democrats who wish to secure
conservative, safe, efficient State gov
ernment, representing solid Democracy
and confidence of the world at large, to
give us the active help of their influence
and votes.
We pledge ourselves and those who
think and act with US to abide faithfully
the decision of the State Dem ocratic Con-
vention, to make this fight for good gov
ernment, the freedom Of legislation, the
independence of the judiciary and the
liberty cf the people within the party
lines, but to make it earnestly, courage
ously and persistently in every township
of Every County of the State. We call on
all Democrats who are willing to act with
us on the pledges and for the purposes
above announced, to assemble in mass
meeting at their respective Court Houses
on such days as they may see fit, and
elect delegates to Convention to be held
at Columbia the fourth Thursday in
March, 1892; which Convention shall be
authorized to name State ticket tor the
Democratic voters and the State Demo-
cratic Convention called to nominate
ask that each County elect to the Conven-
LlOu uok0Uy C6llCQ tAo aOAO5otOs' o9
it is entitled by the rules of the party
to send to State Conventions.
We are moving for the peace, strength
and prosperity Of the State we love, and
for the happiness, freedom and safety of
the people we honor.
We invite every Democrat to help in
this work for South Carolina and South
Carolinians, for the principles of Democ-
racy and the party representing those
principles.
j. G. MAXWELL, M. D.,
WADE HAMPTON,
JAMES F. HART,
JOHN G. SHEPPARD,
E. E. MURRAY,
JOHNSON HAGOOD,
WILLIAM MUNRO,
JAMES L. ORR,
M. P. HOWELL,
D. F. BRADLEY,
j. w. SUMMERS,
A. B. WILLIAMS,