Year: 1872

lima enunclate the following plat1orm:


Whereas, gross and fragrant abuses in the
administration of affairs of the State Of South
Carolina have grown up in the executive and
legislative departments Of its government,
and have become an intolerable burden on the
Republican party and the State; and whereas
the State Republican Convention had put in
nomination for Governor Franklin j. Moses,
Jr., who is responsible, with others, for many
of the abuses, and who, as Speaker of the
House of Representatives, fraudulently issued
pay certificates for an immense sum, has re-
ceived large sums from the EARNED force"
fund, when no such force was in existence, and
has corruptly controlled much of the legisla-
ton of the State; and whereas the Republic
ans of the State have generally demanded
that those who have been guilty Of corrupt
practices shall be elected from Office; and
whereas the Convention, instead of making
an honest and true Republican nomination,
has by its action shown that the corruption
and incompetency which have characterized
the present administration are to be perpetu-
ated and whereas we, portion of the gener-
al Convention, have felt that, in view of this
condition of affairs, and of this breach Of
trust on the part of the Convention, it is our
duty to withdraw ourselves therefrom, and by
the selection of ticket thoroughly Republi-
can and honest, to 60 before the masses Of the
party for the justification Of our course;
therefore, belt


ResoEued, 1. That we declare our cordial
acceptance of the platform of the Philadel-
phia Convention, and pledge ourselves to the
earnest support of its standard.bearers, Gen.
Grant and Honorable Henry Wilson.


q That inasmuch as the notoriously cor
rupt and imbecile character of the present
State administration has brought disgrace
upon Republicanism everywhere, and is now
heavy burden upon the National party, i'm
peding, if not endangering, its success, there
fore, the Republicans of South Carolina owe
it to themselves to elect such officers as will
insure an honest administration ofgovernment
and thus assure their brethren all over the
land that the disgrace which attaches to the
party in this State shall be removed.


8. That we pledge the honor of the State to
the payment of all debts which have been le-
gally and honestly contracted; but that we
will not hesitate to repudiate that portion Of
it, which is illegal, and, therefore, null and
void.


4. That we pledge ourselves to inaugurate
and carry out an honest administration of the
affairs of the State, and to resist the payment
of all fraudulent pay certificates and war
rants upon the treasury.


g. That we pledge ourselves, so far as in
our power lies, to an immediate reduction Of
the enormous taxes under which the people
are groaning, and that we believe that this
can be most speedily accomplished by intro
ducing honesty and economy into the manage
ment Of the various departments of the State
government.


6. That the pledges made by the Conven-
ton nominating Franklin j. Moses, Jr, must
be judged of in the light of his record, and
Of those who sustain him, and that when thus
viewed, the people of the State will not hesi-
tate to say that pledges from such source
have no value, but are simply intended to
blind the eyes of the people to The true pur-
poses of those men, which purpose must be in
the future, as in the past, the accomplishment
of purely selfish ends, regardless Of the vel
fare Of the State.


Z. That, in our judgment, the best safe
guard to the public treasury is the election of
honest and faithful officers to the various de-
partments of government; and that the histo-
ry of the present administration shows that
no statutory safeguard will protect the treasu-
ry with Franklin j. Moses Jr., at the head
of the government and his willing tools in the
other Offices.


8. That under our constitution, we believe
any other than an ad valoren system of taxa
ton to hs null and void, and hence that the
general license law, passed at the last session
of the General Assembly, was in violation of
the constitution and of the rights of the peo-
pie, and could only have originated in desire
to extort from the people Of the State still
larger sums of money, to be corruptly used by
the men who controlled the government.


9. That we blush for our party when we re:
member that, under this administration, the
education of the people has been so shame
fully neglected, in consequence Of the failure
of the government to pay promptly and faith
fully the appropriations made by the legisla-
ture; and that we pledge ourselves to apply
remedy for this crowning disgrace in the
future.


10. That every encouragement which can
legitimately be given to those endeavoring to
develop the natural resources Of the State
should be extended, and that the interests of
the laboring men in the State concur with the
interests of capital in the demand for an
earnest effort to develop new and varied in
dustries within our borders.


This We regard as the means Of improving
the condition and increasing the wages of
those who form the bone and sinew Of the
State.


THE "REGULAR'' OR MOSES TICKET.


SKETCH OF THE CANDIDATES.


Said Major Louis Merrill, the monarch Of
the ku-klux country, and supporter Of the
boilers ticket, II am thoroughly disgusted
with the present aspect Of things, and my faith
in the fitness of the negro for the suffrage has
almost been touched. Should change tor