THE LYCEUM.
Si: ! ASHEVILLE, X. C.. OCT., 1890. { 4^51
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY
Til man R.. Gaines,
PROPRIETOR AM> EDITOR.
Office 73 Xortli Main St., Asheville, X. C
SIBSOIUPTION:
Otic Year, iti Advance . $1.00
Single Cony . 10 Cts.
Entered at the Postoflice at Asheville,
N. Ci, as second-class mail matter.
Some I nn i-iin ii llisiorr in
Konili i'sii-olina.
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— I MOO.
In the year IS80, the editor of
the Lyceum was engaged in the
publication of a monthly devoted
to the upbuilding of the South,
with headquarters atSpartanburg,
S. 0. The following is copied
from page S of the April issue of
the Southern Herald and State
Builder, which was the name of
the monthly referred to :
" The State Builder’s Ticket.
For Governor,
M. W. Gary, Edgefield, S. C.
For Lieut.-Governor,
W. E. Earle, Greenville, S. G.
For Attorney General,
G. Lamb Buist, Charleston, S. C.
For Secretary of State,
It. K. Hemphill, Abbeville, S. 0.
For Comptroller-General,
K. W. Boyd, Darlington, S. C.
For Adjutantand Inspector-Gen’l,
W. II. Duncan. Barnwell, S. 0.
For Treasurer,
Andrew Siinonds, Charleston, S.C.
For Superintendent of Education.
J. Scott Murray. Anderson, S.C.’’
Then follows :
“A New Platform for State-
Buif.DKRS.
Whereas, it is now evident to
tlie rising manhood of South Car¬
olina who are less trammeled than
their older fellow-citizens by the
training, the prejudice and the
active partisanship of former in¬
stitutions, parties and hostile con¬
flicts — that a new era in State and
Federal affairs now earnestly de¬
mands the rebuilding of South
Carolina, as of other Southern
States, on principles so changed
from those on which the National
Democratic party rests its claims,
that it is not politic that the
strength and manhood of the
present, or the destinies of the fu¬
ture generations, should any long¬
er be bound by •ring’ movements
to support the National Demo¬
cratic party, but that each person
should be left free to form new
party affiliations, or to exercise
his independent free choice to
cast his vote as he deems best,
and,
“Whereas, the older classes of
politicians in South Carolina who
