Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-03-29
THE QUADRENNIAL CIRCUS.
Republican State Convention Of South Caro-.
lima meets in Columbia.

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2 o'clock the skirmishcrs were out
but not gun had been fired. Eacf
delegate is charged to the brim with
talk, ana as loader expressed il
this morning, they did not have
the chance to vent their elo
quence often, and when once started
it would continue until far into the
night. There is a large attendance
of delegates from all over the State
and the crowd is familiar one to
those who have been handling Re.
publican conventions for years. Bob
Smalls, Webster, George Washing
ton Murray, Purvis, Ensor, John r.
Tolbcrt, John f. Jones, Reed, Rcd
Tolbcrt, Deas, Dickerson, Lathrop,
Morris, Screven and all the notable
figures are here. At 2 o'clock the
hall of the House of Representatives
was well filled with delegates and
others.
1t was little after 2 O'Clock when
Il. II. Tolbcrt called the Convention
to order and Secretary Johnson, of
the State committee, read the call
issued for the National Convention
by National Chairman Mark Hanna.
There were about twenty white men
seated in the Convention hall, all
the others being colorcd.
The State Convention call was
then read, providing for 1875 dele
gates and asking all classes of Re-
publicans to come into the regular
organization.
The counties in this Congressional
District, were represented as follows /:
Abbcvillc--R. r.. Tolbcrt, Jr., j..
Nj. Collins, w. II. Lomax.
Andcrson-E. II. Cochran, Rob
crt Price, M. S. Smith, John II.
Sims, j. S. Adams.
\ Ncwbcrry-R. f.. Williams, ~. II.
Tribblc, J. ID. Dawkins.
Oconec-A. G. nIcrrick, w. j.
Thomas, j. G. Daniels.
Pickcns-J. w. lIadden, A. NJ.
Folgcr.
The platform of the State Rcpub-
lIcan party was presented by Dckcr-
son, who was the chairman, by
OF the committee on plat
form, and it was unanimously
adopted on motion Of Prioleau, with
out the change OF Il word. 1t read
rs follows
THE PLATFORM.
We, the Republicans of the State
Of South Carolina, in Convention as
Scmblcd, re-atlirm our adherence to
the declaration of principles enun-
clatcd in the platform Of the Ma
tional Convention at St. Louis, upon
which Mckinley and Hobart were
nominated and which the American
people so cmphatically endorsed at
the polls in November, 1896.
We congratulate the American
people upon the era O industrial
prosperity so auspiciou".y begun and
grandly kept up under the admins
trat:on of President Mckinley and
upon the further fact that they have
the kccnncss and foresight to see
and know that Organism and Democ-
racy arc mcnaces to these excellent
and that there triumph
would serve only to bring return
OF industrial depression, idlencss and
want to the laboring classes and far
mcrs, with national dishonor and the
humiliation of our Republic in the
eyes Of the progressive nations of
the world.
We endorse the course of the pres
cnt Administration in so nobly and
wisely seeking to guard the results
OF the triumph Of the American
army and navy in rcscuing millions
Of people from the yoke of Spanish
oppression, by instituting American
IN our newly acquired ter
rltory Till the people of these posses
sions are able to establish and main
tain stable governments of their
own.
We still protest against the sup
preston OF the ballot Of the citizens
of South Carolina by the criminal
Of the Constitution and
laws OF the United States, enacted
under the color of law by the so
called Constitutional Convention of
1879. And we contend that the
MUST deprivation of one hundred
thousand citizens Of the State OF their
right Of suffrage is crime against
the Government, which we call upon
Congress to place the seal of CON
dcmn"tion upon, by cnacting such
laws rs will protect the citizens of
the Uni.cd States in the highest
right Of cltizcnship-a voice in the
selection of their public ofliccrs-and
thus preserve i'm IFS puritv " Tho Amor;