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SOUTH OAEOLINA. 



the Secretary of State. "An act to amend 

 the law in relation to the license and registra- 

 tion of pharmaceutists, apothecaries, and drug- 

 gists, and to regulate the vending of drugs and 

 poisons," requiring that any pharmaceutist, 

 apothecary, or druggist, carrying on business 

 in the State, shall obtain a license from the 

 medical faculty of the University of South 

 Carolina, or the faculty of the Medical College 

 of Charleston, after undergoing an examina- 

 tion. Those medical faculties are required to 

 keep a register of all persons thus licensed, 

 and make annual reports to the General As- 

 sembly. In case of the sale of a poison, the 

 apothecary must be satisfied that it is re- 

 quired for a legitimate purpose, and must keep 

 an account of every such sale. 



The first political convention of the year 

 was that of the Republicans, held at Columbia, 

 on the 20th of February, to appoint delegates 

 to the National Convention of the party. A 

 resolution was adopted, indorsing Governor 

 Scott as a true Republican and a faithful public 

 officer, and the following was agreed upon as 

 the platform in the ensuing canvass : 



Resolved, By the Union Eepublican party of the 

 State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, 

 that we indorse the Administration of President 

 Grant in its wise and successful policy, which has 

 reduced the national debt, while lessening the public 

 taxes, and, at the same time, preserved full faith 

 with the public creditors. 



Resolved, That the profound gratitude of the Ee- 

 publicans of South Carolina is due to the Eepublican 

 majority in the Forty-second Congress, for their 

 enactment of the act to enforce the fourteenth amend- 

 ment to the Constitution of the United States, and 

 to its President, U. S. Grant, ibr his prompt and 

 timely enforcement of that act, whereby the armed 

 bands, organized and operated by the Democratic 



Earty, for the suppression of free speech and a free 

 allot in South Carolina, have been themselves sup- 

 pressed. 



Resolved, That while we thus accord merited in- 

 dorsement to the man who, in peace as in war, has 

 deserved the " well done " of the whole country, 

 we respectfully remonstrate against the great major- 

 ity of the Federal appointments that have been made 

 in the State during the past three years, whereby 

 the BepubHcan party of South Carolina has been 

 wounded in the house of its friends, and we do here 

 express our belief that such appointments of persons 

 not in sympathy with the Eepublican party of the 

 State or nation is due largely to the misrepresenta- 

 tions made to the President by United States Sena- 

 tor F. A. Sawyer. 



Resolved, That the National Eepublican party. 

 Laving declared, in its platform of 1868, in favor of 

 amnesty, we do hereby instruct our delegates to the 

 National Eepublican Convention to move and advo- 

 cate the adoption of a clause in the national platform, 

 in favor of the rigid enforcement of universal civil 

 rights for every American citizen on every inch of 

 American soil, and their full and equal enjoyment of 

 all public privileges. 



The Democrats met in convention at Colum- 

 bia, on the 12th of June, and appointed dele- 

 gates to the national gathering of the party at 

 Baltimore. The following resolutions were 

 adopted : 



Resolved, That this convention recognizes the 

 movement which was organized at Cincinnati, on the 

 4th of May last, as the only one in this crisis calcu- 



lated to secure civil liberty, and restore local self- 

 government. 



Resolved, That this convention accepts the Cin- 

 cinnati platform as broad and liberal, and just to all 

 portions and classes and citizens of the republic. 



Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention 

 that the interests of the country require that no sepa- 

 rate and distinct Democratic nomination should be 

 made by the Baltimore Convention, and the dele- 

 gates appointed by this body are hereby instructed 

 to oppose such nomination. 



A minority report of the Committee on Res- 

 olutions, favoring straight - out Democratic 

 nominations at Baltimore, was laid on the 

 table, with only two dissenting votes. 



The Republican Convention for the nomina- 

 tion of State officers was held at Columbia, on 

 the 22d, 23d, and 24th of August. There was 

 considerable contention over the rival aspi- 

 rants for State offices, and several names were 

 proposed for the governorship, and urged upon 

 the convention by their various adherents. 

 The discussion ended on the second day, by 

 the nomination of Franklin S. Moses, a na'tive 

 white citizen of the State, for the chief execu- 

 tive office. On the announcement of the re- 

 sult, James L. Orr stated that, " in view 

 of General Moses's record, he could not, as a 

 conscientious man, support him," and asked 

 leave to withdraw from the convention. His 

 example was followed by a number of other 

 delegates. The State ticket, as finally com- 

 pleted on the third day of the convention, was 

 as follows : For Governor, Franklin J. Moses, 

 Jr. ; Lieutenant-Governor, Richard H. Gleaves 

 (colored) ; Secretary of State, Henry E. Hayne 

 (colored) ; Treasurer, Francis L. Cardozo (col- 

 ored) ; Attorney-General, Samuel W. Melton ; 

 Comptroller-General, Samuel L. Hoge ; Adju- 

 tant and Inspector-General, Henry W. Parvis 

 (colored) ; Superintendent of Education, Justus 

 K. Jillson. There was a good deal of excite- 

 ment over the nomination of Treasurer, Mr. 

 Cardozo being charged with fraud and re- 

 sponsibility for the over-issue of State bonds 

 as Secretary of State. The platform adopted 

 pledges the Republican party of the State : 



1. To the support of Grant and Wilson and 

 the Philadelphia platform. 



2. To financial reform in the State govern- 

 ment, by suspending the payment of interest 

 on every bond of the State to which the slight- 

 est suspicion can be attached, and to the pay- 

 ment of interest on the legal debt. 



3. That a safeguard shall be thrown around 

 the State Treasury. 



4. A reduction of the public expenses, and 

 a moderate system of taxation, and a fair and 

 equitable assessment of property, and the im- 

 mediate reduction of the salaries of all public 

 officers, and a reduction of the number of offi- 

 cers. 



5. It regards the general license law as 

 odious and oppressive, and pledges the party 

 to its immediate repeal. 



6. The enactment of a law providing that 

 no moneys be paid out of the Treasury, except 

 in pursuance of the enactment of law and on 



