The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-04-02
STORY OF 4 TICKET.
Or How Some Republicans We're
Made to vote for
GEN. HAMPTON IN SEVENTY-sIX.

Done With 1t

ical Ticket, and What Was
Done With 1t.
The writer hopes and expects TO
make good this year voluntary prom
Use of himself to himself. that has not
been forgotten since it was made in
the Fall of 1876. No previous oppOr-
tunity to keep it has been presented.
Near the close Of that now historic
compaign between the republicans un-
der the direction of Chamberlain and
the Democrats under the leadership of
Hampton the writer was requested by
Daniel S. Henderson Esq. then a
young attorney Of the sister town OF
Aiken. to come to his home ard be
one of a conference with few others
who were taking anactiye part in that
contest. On the appointed night up
on arrival at the quarters Of Mr.. Hen
derson he was found in bed, suffering
from injuries received while riding
with other brave young spirits to
quell the riotous proceedings precip-
itated in the Southern part of Aiken
County by the republican managers to
secure the presence of the United
States soldiers at the polls. His ply
sician had forbidden the admission Of
visitors into his room. but disregard
ing that advice Mr.. Henderson dismiss
ed his attendant nurse and called his
friends around his bedside. From a
safe place Of concealment he drew a
bit of paper that many leading Demo-
Gratis had sought in vain to obtain
one Of the republican tickets to be
voted at the election on the following
Tuesday. 1t was surmounted by an
eagle. printed with red ink, and had
been sedulously guarded from Demo
cratic knowledge by the most faithful
Of the republican precinct leaders.
He gave no intimation of how it had
been procured. \ committee, the
writer being one of its number, in pur-
suance OF his suggestion, went to Au-
gusta on the next morning train for
the purpose Of having Democratic
tickets printed in the same style, with
ink of the same color. No such eagle
could be found in the Democratic
printing offices, but an artist was dis
covered who made a wood cut and the
press Of the Constitutionalist was
kept busy in printing in red ink and
under the eagle the names Of the Dem
ocratic candidates in the Western and
Southern Counties of the State. Be-
fore the election they were spread from
the hills to the sea and many an un-
suspecting republican voted for Hamp-
ton and home rule and by his ballot
helped to end the carnival of the seal
awagS and carpet bagger. And there
and then the writer promised himself
if ever opportunity presented to cast
his vote for Daniel S. Henderson for
any office for which ne might in the fu-
ture be a candidate.
Years after it was incidentally learn
ed that Mr.. Henderson had paid sew
enty-fye dollars for the one ticket
above described, and no nobler con-
tribution was ever made to the State
than this gift from the first earnings
of a young lawyer with his way to
make in the world.
And all the life of the now fay0rite
and the foremost son of Aiken has
been in keeping with that act which
is remembered as well as if it had oc-
CURED only yesterday.
Just thirty years ago he chose All
ken as his life home and entered upon
the practice of his profession in CO.
partnership with the late W. Peron-
neau Finley ESQ. Ofsingularly hand
some person, winning in manner. ire
probable in personal and professional
life, gifted with talent Of the highest
order. thoroughly trained as an intel
lectual athlete in the best schools Of
books and men and high endeavor he
found favor in the eyes of the peo-
ole that has grown with the passage
of the years until he has become the
uncrowned leader Of thought and ac-
tion in the county of his adoption. y
safe adviser, an incorruptible advocate,
4 steadfaSt friend, superb man OF at
fairs, in the sunlight of the hills where
he make his home, every bloom OF
promise has ripened into perfect fruit
age. and from the brawling. tawny
Savannah to the limpid, Softtowing
Edisto his name is an honored house
hold word, the synonym Of manly
worth and virtue, in every home, be it
the costly pile of the multi-millionalre
or the cabin Of the humble toiler whose
daily labor is coined into bread for the
wife and little ones.
Some men are born great, others
achieve greatness" Senator Hender-
son, born a gentleman, has lived a life
so white and clean and full Of insplra-
zion to all who have come within touch
of it's enobling influence that none can
say of him that any talent has ever
been buried, nor has his light been hid
den from the public sight. He has
achieved a greatness and goodness
that give undoubted assurance Of an
exalted future. TO those that have
watched with faithful eyes his past ca
reer it has seemed that in the ways OF
Providence men are built to meet the
needs Of the times in which they live.
Having measured up to every duty
and every responsibility his friends
call him to make the race for the
United States Senate, believing, know
ing, that in the high noon of his man
hood. Of perfect physical vigor, OF the
ripe intellectual culture, Of ready and
resourceful equipment. an orator with
all the force OF logic. and the power OF
words y thinker who reasons from