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ola, nominated SuOer, vi AHo"o ooiIy
Mr.. J. H. Ostendorf withdrew and
Suber was elected by a vote of Is to
81. Suber is a colored man. The
delegation stands: two white and two
colored. with three colored and one
white alternate.
Dr. Crum of Charleston precipitated
q big row over resolutions endorsing
Mckinley, which were expressed in
the following language:
Resolved, That the Republicans of
South Carolina recognize in Hon.
VIM. Mckinley, of Ohio, the most de-
voted champion of the. Republican
policy of protection and reciprocity
that we honor with him as defender
of a sound system of finance, and be-
lieve IN him as a type of the best
American citizenship, in both public
and private life; and that we hereby
express to the delegates elected to the
St. Louis convention our judgment
that they should use all reasonable
and honest efforts to secure his nomi-
nation for the Presidency.
Chairman Miller left the chair and
put Delegate Brown of Charleston in
it, in order to oppose the resolutions.
He held that Mckinley was no more
leader of the party than was Allison.
Reed or Morton and delegates should
not be sent to st. Louis with the badge
of any candidate about their necks.
He didn't believe delegates should 60
there with metallic badges on their
necks, which, probably, was delicate
allusion to the metallic jingle they
usually felt in their pockets by reason
of their votes.
Fordham favored the resolutions be-
cause the rank and file of the people
were for Mckinley. Delegates were
not sent, he said, to st: Louis for
their own aggraudizement, but to give
expression to the will of the people.
&. A. Reed, of Beaufort, spoke
against the resolutions. holding that
delegates should be sent to st. Louis
untrammelled and should vote for the
choice of the people of the country.
After long parliamentary wrangle
as to who was entitled to the floor,
Chairman Webster, of the committee,
finally got hearing and. said that he
regarded the resolutions the most op-
perfume that could be adopted. He
didn't want to see delegates who
would jump on either side to the win.
ming man. They should be men OF
principle. He had been Reed man,
but since we had four contesting Con-
gressmen and two of them had been
Reed man. (Cheers.) He was not for
Harrison. Every district in Indiana
had declared for Mckinley. Wiscon-
sin did the same thing, although she
had a favorite son. He was for Nc
Kinley. (Cbeers) He believed it
would be an impertiuence IN South
Carolina, which couldn't cast single
Republican electoral vote, to stand out
against the peoples cho'ce. Mckinley
could only be defeated by the machlna-
tions of politicians. He was willing to
stake the organization of the Republl
can party in this State on the success
os the peoples candidates.
General Smalls said he was pleased
to see that something had made the
chairman of the committee make a
speech. 1t had been asserted that ne
couldn't make a speech, but something
made him do it today. He (Smalls)
had been favorable to Allison, and ne
would stay at home before he would
be tied, hand and foot, by any resolu-
tions. Other men had been sent to
the convention tied, but when they got
there. they weren't tied.
Miller offered the following substl-
tute.
Resolved, That we request our dele
gates to support either Allison, Reed,
Morton or Mckinley by their acts at
the national convention and assist In
nominating a strong man.
The substitute was lost by an over
whelming vote, and the Mckinley
resolutions were adopted.
Deas introduced the following reso-
luton, which was adopted: THAT
an ear " State convention be called TO
nominate a State and electoral ticket
to be voted for at the coming election" d"
The convention, then, after the usua
resolutions of thanks TO officers, at :5O
adjourned.
THE PLATFORM.
The following platform was adopted
The Republican party of Sauth Car
olina through their chosen representa-
tives in convention duly assembled In
the capital of the State, undaunted by
intrigue of designing men for their de-
struction, congratulate their fellow
Republicans every where upon the
splendid victories achieved by the party
throughout the country, in State, Con-
gressional and Senatorial elections, as
we'll as upon the propitious signs OF the
times of coming victory for the Repub-
Iican party in the Presidential election
in November of the present year.
We reaffirm our faith in the doctrine
of protection to American industries
which under wise Republican legisla-
ton more than any principle OF any
party has maintained the onward
march of prosperity for the working
men of our country, by the reduction
of prices of manufactul led articles OF
general consumption and by levying
duties upon such imports coming into
competition with the products of Amer
lean labor, as well as to equalize the
selling price thereof to the cost OF pro-
duction of similar articles of American
production, and prevent home labor
in it's overcrowded condition of pau
perism. :,
We stand with our party in the reit-
Grafton of its demand for both gold
and silver as standard money" We
believe that legislation should secure
and maintain the party of values of the
two metals, to he end that the pur-