The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-05-14

in South Carolina had the authority
10 revise the returns and it bodily
threw out the counties Of Edgetleld
and LaureuS. the first OF which gave
1900 Democratic majority and the
second LOO. by which it returned Il
majority for Chamberlain of 3.433.
The Senators and Representatives
elected on the Democratic ticket in
those counties were refused admission
to their seats and the result was the
organization OF two Legislatures and
the inauguration of two Governors.
Chamberlain had the advantage OF
being in possession, and l doubt
wheteher Hampton rendered more
heroic service in the flame of battle
than he did in restraining his friends
from reS0rting to violence, when the
election fraud was perpetrated, and
driving the corrupt carpet-baggers
from the State: but he held his peo-
pie steadily to law and order, feeling
assured that in time the right would
triumph. President HayeS'S assurance
had been given that the Democratic
State officers of Louisiana. Florida
and South Carolina would be given
their places as they were undoubtedly
elected. and after several conferences
between both the disputing parties
and the President, notice was finally
given that the Federal troops would
be withdrawn from Columbia, and that
at once ended the contest. Chamber
lain quietly gave up the Office of Gov
error, and the Democratic State and
! Legislative officers were admitted to
their seats without further dispute.
Having assured honest government in
his State, his friends naturally de-
sired to confer upon him the highest
honorS within their gift, and he was
soon thereafter chosen United States
Senator practically without contest,
and at the end of his first term was
re- elected in like manner.
HAMPTON IN THE SENATE.
During his twelve years service in
the Senate he was always one OF the
most conservative and patriotic OF
Southern lawmakers. lie exhausted
his effort to suppress section strife.
Not only by example, but by every de-
liverance he ever made, he pleaded for
the suppression Of sectional bitterness
and the restoration Of fraternal rela-
tions between the North and the
South. He was one of the most de-
lightful of all the Senators to meet in
social intercourse, and his magnificent
physique, soldierly bearing and hon.
est face commanded the admiration OF
all who came within the range of his
acquaintance. At the end of his
twelve years service in the Senate he
was overwhelmed by the agrarian
PopuliSt element that swept the
South. He could have no sympathy
with those who would destroy the
Government credit that is the life OF
the Republic, and he had none OF the
arts Of the demagogue to pac.fy the
masses by promising them impossiblli-
ties. He could have retained his posi-
tion in the Senate until his death if
he had joined in the tempest Of pas
sion, but he was honest in all things,
and he bowed to it, preferring to main
tain his convictions, his integrity and
his patriatic manhood to continuance
in office. President Cleveland recog-
nized Hampton's claim upon the coun-
try by appointing him as commissioner
of Pacific Railways, where he served
with his usual fidelity until change
of administration deposed him; and
since then he has quietly lived among
the people who so devotedly and en-
Enthusiastically cheered him throughout
his long career, and finally when he
had faced the storms of 81 winters he
was borne to his final resting place by
the profoundly sorrowing multitude.
A. X. Mcclure.