The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-06

cratic majority of 5000 thus giving Hampton a claim to
the office Of governor.
Hampton has his monument and the people OF South
Carolina love to honor his memory, but Butler and Gary
are entitled to equal, if not more credit for the victory OF
1876.
In nv visit to the north as a lecturer have come on some
strange and interesting things. Some years ago L lectured
at Iowa City, Iowa, the former territorial capital OF that
state. After l had finished speaking and returned to the
hotel an old Union soldier, whose name I forget called on
me. He was very much impressed by what said and
asked if l would not allow him to show me the town next
morning. Finding l would have an hour or two alter
breakfast before my train left, | agreed. lie carried me
to the old territorial capitol which he said had been de-
signed by Jefferson Davis when secretary OF war and was a
reproduction of the Parthenon at Athens. we entered
the building and he directed my steps to the rooms occu-
pied by the state historical society of Iowa. Iowa has
made very little history, so there was nothing much worthy
of notice. But in a glass case carefully preserved ana
abeled with certificates as to when, where and by whom
lit had been 'captureu he showed me the large silk Hag
with the blue ground a~I white Palmetto tree and crescent
which was used on state OCCASIONS to drape the front OF
our state house in Columbia. Gen. o. O. Towards GER
tifcate gave the name of the soldier, company and regi-
ment who had done the gallant deed of "capturing" it or
stealing it from the secretary of states office. 1t is in a
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splendid state of preservation, the silk being Of the finest
and the border being Of heavy gold fringe. 1t must be at
least twelve by twenty feet in size. South Carolina has
made so much history and written so little that Iowa may
want to keep this memento of her part IN the suppression
of the rebellion and the burning of Columbia. | + they
can afford to keep it, we certainly can afford to let them
have it. But if CO ndiions were reversed lshould certain
ly feel ashamed as a citizen of Iowa to hold the stolene en-
blem of a sister state as a trophy of the civil war.
A more recent event is equally interesting: About
three weeks ago I addressed the chautauqua at Batavia,
Ohio.
MI. Miles Bicking, who said he was a democrat, ap-
preached me and said: Il have something here which has
been in my possession about thirty years and | thought !
would bring it out today and show it to you and ask you
about the story of tissue ballots we have heard about IN
South Carolina. Your lecture has given me all the lntor-
nation I want and ask you to accept this as a curiosity. y
I give the exact reproduction of this curious relic OF by
gone days. 1t is the democratic ticket for Rchland coun-
ty in Hampton's second election for governor in 1873.
HIGHLAND COUNTY.
For Governor:
Wade Hampton.
Lieutenant Governor:
w. D.. Simpson.
Secretary of State:
r. NJ. Sims.
Superintendent Of Education.
H. S. Thompson.
Comptroller General:
Johnson Hagood.
Adjutant and Inspector General:
E. w. Noise.
State Treasurer:
S. L. Leaphart.
Attorney General:
Leroy F. Younans.
Congress-Third District:
D. Wyatt Aiken.
State Senator:
John H. Kinser.
Representatives:
ohm E. Bacon,
ohm A. Elkins,
John c. Haskell,
John C.. Seegars,
E. Nice. Clarkson, - C---] sss~
School Commissioner:
L. C.. Sylvester.
County Commissioners:
w. C. Startling,
N. J. Dubard,
7. A. Scott.
1t will be recalled that the tissue ballots were used
in the heavy negro counties for the purpose Of having the
all together in a way to have them drop apart in the
boxes. The law provided on closing the polls that If
there were more ballots found in the box than there were