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The Charleston Daily News
Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina
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Nominations for U.S. Congress in South Carolina's districts as of the report: First District Radical nominee J. H. Rainey (colored, State senator from Georgetown); Second District Radicals C. C. Bowen (incumbent) and R. C. DeLarge (colored, State House from Charleston); Third District Radical R. B. Elliott (black, Legislator and Assistant Adjutant-General); Fourth District Radicals Colonel C. C. Puffer (Northern) and A. S. Wallace (South Carolinian), Union Reform Colonel J. J. McKissick (Union).
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The nominations for Congress, made up to this time, are as follows:
First District. Radical nominee, J. H. Rainey, a colored man, State senator from Georgetown.
Second District.—Radical nominees, C. C. Bowen, the present incumbent, and R. C. DeLarge, a colored man, member of the State House of Representatives from Charleston.
Third District.—Radical nominee, R. B. Elliott, a black man, member of the Legislature and Assistant Adjutant-General of the State.
Fourth District.—Radical nominees, Colonel C. C. Puffer, a Northern man, and A. S. Wallace, a South Carolinian. Union Reform nominee, Colonel J. J. McKissick, of Union.
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Nominations for Congress in the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Districts, primarily Radical party candidates including several colored or black men holding state positions, with one Union Reform nominee in the Fourth District.