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Caroliniana Columns - University South Caroliniana Society Fat12001 , , '1'111 l lNIVI RSI ry SOll I'll DOCUMENTING THE EARLY lican Party consists of 1.25 feet of CA RO I 1:\ L\:\ ,\ \OC II r't REPUBLICAN PARTY IN material and, is compri~ed of t~ree Al\;Nl 'AI ,\111 IINC, 2001 SOUTH CAROLINA , components: correspondence and other papers from 1932 to )938 of The University South Caroliniana , The South CarQliniana Library's party activist and Sumter .attorney, Society held its 65th annual meeting M~dern Political Collections Divi Marion w. Seabrook, who died on Saturday, May 19, 2001. Two sion is engaged in a project to in~94 7 ; party papers from 1939 hundred members and guests develop its holdings which document to1950; and news clippings,chiefly ' attended the luncheon and business . the rise of the South Carolina Re from 1940 to 1950. meeting at the Clario!l Hotel. The publican Party. This effort is receiv Seabrook'~ correspondents include luncheon was preceded by a recep ing important assistance from former partY leaders such as state chairman,? tion at the S~uth Caroliniana Li party chairmen, Dan Ross and Greg . Dallas Gardner, of Orangeburg; brary. ............................... national commit Th.~se who attended' the reception teeman, J. c. were treated to exhibits of new Hambright, of collections acquired during 2000 by Rock HUl; gift and purchase, entertain~ent Greenville banker, provided by the Dick Goodwin George Norwood; quartet, and the 'opportunity to J. Bates Ger.Jd, of renew acquaintances with friends Summerton; and from over the state. national committee / , Acquisitions during 2000 spanned / chairman, John the 18th through the 20th centuries Hamilton. (nothing for the 21st .as yet) and / The disputed. included the papers of Gen. William seating of delegates Childs Westmorelanq who served in to the 1936 Na World War II, K~rea , anq Vietnam tional Republican and completed his military career as Convention held in Chief of Staff; state Senator P. B!ad Shorni-. Recently, while cleaning. out ,Cleveland and the aftermath.ofthe ley Morrah; ciVIl rights leader Joseph materials sto~ed in the party head convention are documented in great Armstrong Delaine; Alexander quarters attic, staffer Wes Church detail. At that convention, the forces Cheves Haskell, colonel of the 7th discovered two cartons containing . of Joseph " Tiel~ss Jo~" Tolbert were South Carolina Cavalry; and South party records dating chiefly from seated in preference to the "regular" Carolina businessman and civic 1936-1948. He recognized the partytlelegates, which inCluded leader John' Henderson Lumpkin. value of this material and brought it Seabrook. State Vice-Chairman, Also acquired were a letter of Henry to the library. Gisbourne J. Cherry (1869-1939) of Ca~pbell Davis written from the This important addition to the ' Charleston wrote Hambright o~ June papers of the Smith Carolina Repub- See Annual M eeting on page 2 ------ See Republicam on page 3 Stokes recognized retiring Executive Council members Mrs. Ann Bowen and Dr. Charles · Lesser and thanked them for their four years of dedicated service on the council. Mrs. Rose-Marie Williams of Abbeville and Mr. David Hodges of Columbia were elected to the council, and Dr. Ronald Bridwell, of Columbia was elected to complete the one rear remain ing on the presidential' term of Dr. Harry Lightsey. ' In her address to the members a~d friends of the society, Genevieve Chandler Peterkin told how her book H eaven Is a BeautifoL PLace materialized in collaboration with her coastal neighbor, William P. (" Billy") Former Governor John C. West presents the Order ofthe Palmetto to Harvey TeaL Baldwin. She focused on the importanc~ AnnualMeeting continued ____ fort area during the Civil War in her life and, by extension and repre sentation, in the cultural life of the 1860 South Carolina secession and an 1879 stereograph of the region of two remarkable women. "The convention the .day after the ordi "Tressel thr~ugh the Swamp of kindest, most courageous nance was passed; the galley proofs of the Great Pee Dee" taken' by str~ngest, ~nd women and mothers I've known were my Paul Hamilton Hayne's unpublished Rufus Morgan, the father of . mother [Geneveive Willcox Chandler] biography of Francis W. Pickens; and 20th century photographer and her friend, c<?mpanion, and yes, her a ledger, 1792-1799, of the Camden Bayard Wooten. servant, Lillie. Knox," she said. In her firm of McRae & Cantey. Among A highlight of the luncheon the printed items are The Southern was the presentation. by former Chant Book of the Protestant EpiscopaL Gov. John C. West of ,!:he Order Church ... (Columbia, 1861); Road of the Palmetto to Harvey Teal, . Maps and Tour Book of Western North former president of the society. CaroLina . .. Together with the Highways Teal was nominated for this from Greenville to Spartanburg, South award by the society in recogni CaroLina, into AsheviLLe ... published tion of his 50 years of dedicated bi the North Carolina Good Roads service as a teacher of South Association; and a brochure entitled Carolina history, as an innovator The Gate of Opportunity for the in instructional television, as an Educationa{ and IndustriaL UpLift of author of historical publications, the CoLored Children of the South, and as an' officer and board Mayesville Institute, Mayesyille, member in a number of local and c . -South Carolina (1921). Visual statewide historical organiza ~ acquisitions i~cluded a number of tions, ~ views of Fort Sumter and the Beau- Secretary-Treasurer Allen Keynote speaker Genevieve Chandler Peterkin ' 2 47979 anecdotal remarks, Mrs. Peterkin dying friend on Waccamaw Neck, flowers there?'" . His last words; she recalled her mother's work and who ne<!r the end always held onto a remarked, spoken to his deceased experiences ~s a collector of folklore copy of it. "I have a feeling he was twin brother, were "You know, from the-AFrican-American and white especially touched by the fact that I Sonny, heaven is a beautiful place." • communities in Georgetown and . had said somewhere, 'What could By Dr. Allen Stokes; Secretary/Treasur:r Horry counties from 1936 to 1938. heaven be if there aren't dogs and . She recounted Gullah stories and conversations which she remembered hearing in the company of her mother and of Lillie Knox. She retold one of the stories for w.hich her book has now become famous - the humorous account of the gift of a German Shepherd puppy to actor-comedian Jim Nabors, whom. she happened to meet at' a wedding in Tennessee. Mrs. Peterkin concluded her address w.ith a story about the effect her book had had on a . Society members peruse exhibits from Caroliniana collections. Repubficam, continued ____--_ 20, " ... you and Gardner ran the Republican Party in South Also documented in these new materials is t.hebattle ror Carolina as a two.men [sic] party. You didn't take the rest of control of the party'in South Carolina through the year 1938. us in your confidence as you should have and when you Seabrook wrote, on August 16, 1937, "We have consistently . needed some help you didn't have it .... With kindest' carried on the fight to re-recognition, and never intend to give regards and best wishes and remember you wasn't the only . up .... If the good people of this State could only be brought one that got it.in the neck at Cleveland." . to realize what it would mean to them to have two competi Dn July 8, Seabrook wrote, "We.think that the biggest tive parties, they would lend us a hand." opportunity in many a yeat is now presented to do Later correspon<;lence, 1940 to 1950, documents the party something in this State for the Republican Party, if we under the leadership of]. Bates Gerald. Correspondents had an organization that we could conscientiously include Isa~c Samuel Leevy (1877-1968) and Modjeska expound to the people ... but this Tolbert situation is a Simkins (1899-1992). Also found in this new addition are a sword-thrust in our side," number of photographs including shots of an Eisenhower rally The bitter nature of this division is captured in a letter ~c.1952) and a visit to South Carolina by' California Governor from Na'tional Committeewoman Clara Harrigal of Aiken, Ronald Reagan in 1967. who wrote Seabrook on July 11, "We had-a respectable The library also recently received the papers of Joseph organization in this State but the party at Cleveland saw Rogers, . 1966 Republican candidate for governo.r. Rogers fit to unseat us & put in that thieving unpri.p.cipled lost to incumbent Robert McNair 184,088 to 255,854 Tolbert who wanted the job for the patronage. He had it votes. A number of oral history interviews are planned with for years and all that he d~d was to sellthe Federal jobs. form~r Republican Party chairs and other party leaders. At And why he appointed negro chairman was to do his this time, interviews have been completed .with Charlie dirty work ...