The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-04-25
the NATIONAL DEMOCRACY
GEN. HAMPTON's REQUEST FOR Or
GANIZATION IN THIS STATE

GkNIZATION IN THIS STATE.
tits Suggested that the Clubs be Formed
at Every Election Precinct, which Every
Democrat who Stands by the Nation
al Platform Is Invited to Join.
The following letter from Gen.
Hampton is published for the eonsid'-.
Grafton of the Democracy OF South
Carolina:
To the Editor Of The News and
Courier: The following letter was ad-
dressed to me recently by the Hon.
Chauncey F. Black, the president OF
of the National Association OF Demo
cratic Clubs, and as it is so forcible
plea for the organization Of these clubs
throughout the country I deem its
publication important. AS vice presl::
dent of the League for South Carolina
it is my duty to respond to the call OF
the president, and as my views on the
subject he has so ably presented are IN
full accord with his that duty becomes
in this case a pleasure.
In my judgment, if there ever was
time when the great Democratic party
depended for its permanence,t its very
existence, on the unity of its members
it is now, when false creeds and
false prophets threaten to destroy it.
This regard as eminently the case in
South Carolina, where many OF our
truest men have been led astray by the
promulgation of political heresies,
claimed by their advocates to be true
"Jefersonian Democratic principles"
The vast majority of the whites in
South Carolina are at heart staunch
and loyal Democrats and they would
not knowingly imperil their party, so
when warned as they are in such
strong and truthful language by one OF
the noblest leaders of the Democracy,
as Governor Black has always been, OF
the dangers threatening the party, I
have faith that they will rally to- the.
support of the only party which pro
misses peace, prosperity and protection
to the South.
MY function as vice president OF the
Natioual League is to present to the
people of South Carolina the views and
wishes Of the president. If they are in:
accord with him as-to the danger
ahead of Us and the vital, importsn &c
ofprompt action in order to avoid themt
Ishall gladly give all the aid in my
power to the formation Of Democratic
clubs. ,. ..... -. -. .,.
therefore urge all Democrats who
stand on the National: platform to-
organize promptly their clabs, to
which every true Democrat will be
eligible as member.
WADE HAMPTON,
Vice President National Association. of
OeNOCI5tlc SluUS.
PRESIDENT BLACKS LETTER
NEW YORK, March l, 1894.
Nv Dear Sir: At the recent meeting
of the executive committee of the
National Association Of Democratic
Clubs, at which you were good enough
to appear:as vice president for South
Carolina, it was resolved to push the
organization of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
throughout the Union with all the
energy at our com mmand. -. T."
We believe that this is especially
necessary in the South, not only for
the reasons heretofore given publicly
by you ard personally to the COM
mittee, but for similar reasons advanced
by many distinguished leaders of the
Democracy in that section. The
really great interests of the South, that
is to say liberty to preserve the peace
and order of Southern society, un-
hindered by any intermeddiing CEN
trail power at Washington, freedom OF
elections and the development of her
vast agricultural possibilities, un-
vexed by adverse and oppressive
Federal taxation, depend entirely, it
appears to me, upon the continuance Of
the Democratic party in national
power, and that again upon the
intimate and cordial association of the
Democracy in the Southern States
with the Democracy North and West.
We should know but single platform
of principles and we should: I've
animated by but single purpose.
Our interests are not divergent, but
complementary. Whatever Injuries
you Injuries US, whatever the injuries be
to your liberties, as citizens of our conn
mon country, or to your commerce,or
to your agriculture, or to any other
industry. But unfortunately South
ern Democrats, since reconstruction,
forgetting to some extent the hideous
perils they had passed, and relying
upon their great natural majorities,
have, in some places, neglected their
organization, allowing strange heresies
| to arise and fatal divisions TO threaten
the party. I am not intending to say
that this is peculiar to the Sonth. It is
too frequent elsewhere. . =
WHAT Is THE REMEDY.
Is there remedy? Itseems to me
plain. With the sagacity of an e1-
| perienced and enlightened statesman
you have very clearly pointed it out,
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