Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1890 — NOVEL MOVE IN POLITICS. [ARTICLE]

NOVEL MOVE IN POLITICS.

Straight Democratic State Ticket Nominated by South Carolina RepabllcanSs Thb Tillman ticket nominated by the Democratic State convention of South Carolina on'Sept. 10 bsa by no means been elected as yet. A bom be exploded yesterday by tha Republican State .executive committee which threatens co put an entirely different phase on the matter. The committee wae authorized by the State Republican convention to put out a State ticket if they deemed it advisable, and the committee have agreed upon a ticket. All the nominees are stxdnght-out Democrats who opposed tne Tillman movement, and most of them opposed it on the stump. Republicans assert that the ticket can be elected even Without the white voters. Colored voters in the State num”seFls7JJoo7agiCifia(about 80,000 whites. Of the colored voters they say ever 110,000 aro registered and qualified to vote for State officers, and they can poll 100,000 of these for this straight-out Democratic ticket. Besides this they assert that 20,000 Democratic voters will join them in voting for this as against the Tillman ticket.