The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-11-07

tute because they claim that 1T Is UNI
for they can not sub
nit your authority for it. We desire
to give tho. right of suffrage to mon
who have sacrificed thor blood for it.
Jefterson said that men who had
fought for their country should have
the right to vote. | am reminded of
tale told by Il Confederate soldier who
lost his leg at Chckamauga After
Mr.. Cleveland presented his free trade
message this gentleman, who had
boon Democrat ever since the war,
went to tho chairman Of the tepubli-
can club and told him to enroll his
name, that he could not stand this free
trade business. The next day he went
to him and told him to take his name
of of that club roll. Tho chairman
asked him why. and the gentleman
replied: Because / had u dream
last night. dreamed that [ visited
the battlefield OF Chickamauga, and
as stood upon the spot where [ stood
that day, upon the spot where | saw
my old captain stand to his post, and
felt the touch of the elbow Of my com.
rades on the right and left, the spot
where lost my leg, and where | saw
around mo the bodies Of my friends,
and was much distressed by tho re-
collection Of that day as stood there
saw u leg come hopping over the
field toward me. | saw that it was the
leg had left upon that field, traces Of
blood upon it, and ! desired to get
away from those memories, and | fled
and the leg pursued me. | came to Il
fence and icaped over it, and the leg
followed mo, by one gigantic effort
clearing the fence, and began kicking
me, and it kicked me three miles be-
cause | had gone back on the memo
ries OF my Confederate friends and com
radcs."
1t was a strange coincidence that the
speaker who took the floor just after
Governor Sheppard had concluded his
onc-lcg story was MIR. Bradham. a Con.
fedcratc veteran with only one arm.
He spoke on the committees side. He
said in substance
| am not Il lawyer and do not know
the constilutionality Of this nor of any
other measure, but | do know some
thing of the people Of my county. | do
know something of the Confederate sol
uicr. If, as my friend from Horny re-
marked, the dead soldiers could arise
from the battlefelds of Virginia,
would meot them and with that greet
ing that can only be understood by
comrades who have shed their blood
together in defence Of their country, |
would say by the measure proposed by
the suffrage committee every Confed-
crate soldier is provided for. AS one,
n part OF whose body is buried in Vir-
ginia' would SAY that would lose my
oJhcr arm before | would consent to
disfranCbise any one OF them.
"My first objection to MIR. Patton's
plan is that all white voters who wore
too young to go into the war and whose
fathers did not, and cannot read and
write, would be disiranchiscd.
My second is that the sons of men
who died before the war and who were
too young themselves to &c into it. will
be denied the ballot.
My third objection is that those
whose fathers were invallds ana could
not go into the war will be dislran-
chiscd.
My fourth is that those whose
fathers wore too old to go into the war
and all good people who Lave moved
into the State since the war and can
not read aad write will be shut out.
1.-The better clement Of negroes do
not want tho ignorant and vicious ne
gro TO vote.
- remember when a boy in going to
Charleston with Il load of cotton we
passed place w5erc IL young mau,
while running horse race. had been
killed. His tombstone was by the side
of the road and on it these lines:
Ne living men as ye pass by,
AS you are now 50 once was [
AS am now, 50 you will be;
Prepare for death and follow me-"
"a man who was something of a
wag, came along and after looking at
1T Il while, wrote:
ITO follow you am not content,
Unless know the road you went.
For they do fork and no one can tell,
have gone TO heaven or hell
l" And that is the way wiah MIR. Pat
tons plan we do not know where it
will lead u.s." loud laughtcr.J
Immediately upon the assembling
OF the convention AZ night, a vote on
tho Patton substitute was taken.
The yeas and nays being called, the
substitute was rejected by Il vote of
III to 20, as follows:
Yeas--Bates, ~. w. Brcc, Burn.
Iteitt, kiugh, McDcrmotte, w. }.
ritto, j. II. Read, Russell, Sheppard,
Smith, Stackhouse, Sullivan
and Wigg.
Nays-Gov. Jno. Gary Evans, Presi-
dent, and Messrs. Alexander, Andcr-
son, Austin, Barker, Barton, Bchrc,
l}cllingcr, Berry. Bobo, Bowen, Bow.
man, Bradhan, Brcazcale, j. S. Bricc,
Bryan, Buist, Cantcy, Carver, Connor,
Cooper, Cunning ham, DELAY, Dennis,
Doyle, Dudley, EirG, EIicrbc, w. ID.
Evans, FarrOw, Field, Fitch, Floyd,
Fraser, Cage, Gamble, Garris, Gary,
j. l.. Glenn, j. p. Glenn, Cooling,
Gray, Guntcr, Hamel, Harris, Harri-
son, Hay, Haynswortb, Hemphill ID.
5. Henderson, Henry. Houser Hutson,
lrby. II. E Johnson, George Johnstonc,
]. b. Jones, Kcitt, }. w. Kennedy,
Lee, Lowman, Lybrand, McCalla. Nc
Caslan, McCown, McGowan, Mckagcn,
McMakin, McWhitc, Matthc vs.,
Mcarcs, Miller, Mitchell, j. d. Mont
gomcry, Moore, Morrison. Mower,
Murray, Nash, Nathans, Nicholson,
Oliver, Otis, Parlcr, Patterson, Rags
daic, Rosborough, Rowland, Scar
borough, Shulcr, Sing gIctary, Sloan,
Small, A. J. Smith. jeremiah Smith,
IL f. Smith, w. 6. Smith, Sm0uk,
Stokes, s5tribIins, Talbort, Taylor, B.
II. Tillman, G.. ID. Tillman, Vonkolni,z.
Waters, Watson, VOLS, Wharton,
Whippor, a. Il. White, S. E. White.
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