The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-07-24
AN ADDRESS TO THE VOTERS OF AN
DERSON COUNTY.

The Conservative Democrats in Con-
vention assembled having petitioned the
Committee commonly known as the
"Irby Executive Committee" to recon-
mend to the voters of the County an equal
division of Delegates to the Constitutional
Convention as means Of subscribing the
best interests of our people, and this Com
mittea having refused as requested to
grant such petition, the undersigned were
appointed a COMMITTEES to issue an address
to the voters Of the County setting out
the following as the views of the said
Conservative Democratic Convention:
Z. That all voters who have lost faith
in the Primary Election ordered by the
Irby Executive Committee as fair and
untrammelled method Of nominating
candidates for the Constitutional Conven-
ton are hereby urgently requested to
refuse to participate in the primary to be
held on the 30th instant, in order to hold
themselves free to vote in the general
election on The 2cth August according TO
their best judgement and conception of
the fitness Of candidates for the Important,
position of Delegates to the Constitution
al Convention.
z III. That while such voters will not be
bound to support any man not of their
choice, yet a ticket will be nominated in
open mass meeting Of voters sympathiz-
ing with these views. for the onsideration
ofall such voters. That these nominations
will be made in the interest of all our
people, regardless of past factional asso-
Citations, and with an eye single to the
qualifications of the individual nominee.
That the Delegates to the Constitutional
Convention should be men pre-eminent
for ability, safe in counsel, strong in ar
gument, in firmness unyielding, in mod
Grafton wise, whose devotion to their
State is unfailing. Such men will be
made our standard bearers.
III. That in legislation SO momentous
and far reaching in its results to our
lives, our liberties and our property, and
to the welfare Of our posterity, as will be
enacted in this Convention, it is not the
part of wisdom or. of prudence to delegate
to any men, or set of men, the supreme
authority of acting absolutely and finally
for us and we areunalterably committed
to the requirement that the candidates
we vote for shall pledge us their sacred
words Of honor to use their best endeav-
.ors to have any Constitution adopted by
the Convention referred back to the peo-
pie for their ratification or rejection. The
created should never exceed in power
the source of its creation. The Convention
should not be greater than the people.
". That we conjure every voter to
abids by the convictions OF his own mind
and the dictates of his own conscience
and assert his individuality at this great
crisis in our history. It is infinitely bet
ter to be an Independent in manhood than
dependent in politics; and it is better
to resist what we believe to be wrong and
lose than to acquiesce and not win.
v. That we stand for a peaceful and
friendly contest and a fair ballot, and
sincerely hope that the right and the true
may prevail, whether it be in those we
oppose or in ourselves.
JOHN X. HOOD, Chairman,
JOHN G. CAN'T,
JAMES II. HUTCHINSON,
Committee.
Anderson C Julv 23rd. 1S95.