The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-30
POLITICS IN THE STATE.
CONSERVATIVE REPUBLIoAN1sM IN
SOUTH CAROLINA.
What the Press Say and the People
Think.

The advantages and disadvantages of q con
servat.ve or liberal Republican movement il
South Carolina, similar to the Walker move
ment in Yirginia and the Senter movement il
Tennessee, are now thoughtfully discussed b.
the press of the State. The extracts which VI
make from the leading articles IN the differeu
papers show the way that the current Of feel
| iug is now setting, and prove that at presen
public sentiment is opposed to having an!
third party. Two parties are thought to bt
enough, and as the State elections DO not take
place until the tall OF 1870, it. is the genera
opinion that there is no pressing need Of pub
| lie organization for political purposes.
LIBERAL DEMOCRACY.
The Columbia Phoenix thinks that ga liberal
democracy" is the party fJr the sober class
It says:
exigencies Of the times here, We are free to say
| that such party would not be the Conservative
Republican party. To say no more, that party
| is said to be based upon Grants policy, when
Grant is we'll known to have no policy.
Another point-that party in Virginia and Ten
| ne.see, which was the Democracy STOPPING to
| conquer, is party for time and not for eterni-
/ ty: that's, q party formed to win victory and
| not to hold citadel Therefore, the policy OF
| the Wipnsboro News will not answer. How,
then. shall Nc recognize and make the most OF
the liberal spirit to which we have referred to
A liberal Democrat ourselves-a progressive
Democrat always-wes 1apswer, by hberalzng
Democracy, and hbaral Democracy now is
that OF South Csrolina. Here, then. 1s party
for that "sober class" which the Winnsboro'
News claims TO represent. Why look out for
another? It is proposed to raise standard
and bring reasonable men under it. What bet
ter standard at this time than that OF the lib
eral Democrat?
VIGOROUS BLOW FROM CEEsTRRHIEID.
The Chesterfield Democrat is not ready to
agree with the Orangeburg News that the
Democratic journals Of the State should come
out in favor Of Conservative Republicanism.
It says:
The whole party, whether Radical or Con-
servative, is tainted with corruption, and la.
boring for the overthrow of all that is worth
preservation in this corrupt and degraded Rev-
ernment. It is argued that tt Q name OF Demo-
crat should be abandoned, because it excites
the opposition Of the negro nnd the masses at
the North. That is in fact The only reason for
retaining it. The name, 30 Oar as it is designed
to indicate the political views which the party
holds, is altogether worthless, inasmuch as
thu Democratic psrty has entirely abandoned
its original distinctive doctrines, but IL is yet
suggestive OF opposition to the rule Of Africans
and Yankees. Ali that gives it prefere nee IN
our mind, ia the very fact that it has taken
stronger ground than any other party against
the surrender Of the government to ignorance
and vlce. II we we're not compelled to live
under the government, We would not care for
either party; but this seems to contend more
earnestly against the expressions which the
insane idea OF providing extraordinary prlyl-
leges and immunities for the african and the
carpet-bagger has brought about, and, there
fore, we put ourselves under it's banner.
S TlSs5fg sssfS 2E ths esgEa We ssEsa !s
his rights and duties, and we favs ; ssmpa;- IIs;
tion: but having scornfully and insolen.y re-
iected these kind offices from th:se he knew
10 he honest and reliable, and cast hlmsen
into the arms Of those he had found to be de-
signing enemies to him as well as TO DIS sec
ton, we have no further regard Tor MS poiltl'
cal future. W.. h.u
never shape our course to catch their good
opinion, 1f they have such detestation Tor
the name of Democrat it will emily make US
like il the more, Tor there must be something
GOOD about it, whether ws can perceive u or
not. il such men as Grant and sherman anu
Butler represent are hostile to it,. II we nave
no hope OF relief from our present SITUATION
hnt from the negro and the Yankee, we may
az we'll give it up and prepare Tor the Wots''
THE TAX QUESTION.
The Barnwell Journal, capital p: per pub
lished at Blackville. thinks that taxation will
be the absorbing question. 1t says:
A majority OF the last Legislature had no in,
terest in the lands OF this State. They could
easily pass tax bill. for. however oppressive
it's provisions they we'll knew that it would not
materially concern them, as they naa Dut lttle
TO tax. Now, the people will see 10 it, that, at
the next election, another set Of Legislators
shall be chosen, composed OF merclful and
reasonable men. This will bs the great CUES
tion in the next election, and the candidate
who pledges himself to labor for an abatement
OF taxes will surely be elected.
THE COMPROMISE OF PARTIES.
The Orangeburg News comments La this wise
upon an article Of The CHARLESTON NEWS:
TIE NEWS agrees with us as to compro-
mise. but says that our idea Of union between
the respectable men OF both parties ln the
State upon the basis OF the success and ire
pressibie power OF the Republican party. '1s
shrewdly conceived, but Mahomet must come
to the mountain, for the mountain Will not go
to Mahomet."
NOW tQ6 Qu0StlOu iS3 WuiSh AZ
which the mountain. Truly the Democratic
party, with its superstitious devotion to faded
hopes and protest against settled ISSUES, ls
we'll typified BY the great father OF pagan
superstition; while the Republican party, the
embodiment Of ideas which govern the world,
the great lever OF political progress, may well
be compared to the mountain, whose mighty
shadow stretches over this vast continent, and
towers above its pigmy opponents.
The NEWS says that the colored voters OF
the State will never vote with this Conserve
tive party, We ask whether. they will ever
vote Democratic ticket? They have already
throughout the State, IN the township elec-
tions, united with the whites in elechnG
compromise ticket. The respectable colored
men are alike disguised with Radical corrup'
tion and deception, but to Republican trl-
umphs they owe the priceless boons OF their
freedom and theiI suffrage. Will they. we ask,
ever vote with party whose preludlces are
oppos d to both these boons, and who see, IN
the delusive prospective OF their own wishes.
the time when they shall be deprived OF
them?
MOI q compromise upon this Republican
basis is the only feasible and hopeful one.
Such compromise is no ''shrswdly conceived
idea Of ours. but its experiment has been sue
cess IN Virginia, in Tennessee, and 1t IS the
ruling party in North Carolina and MISSISSIPPI.
The NEWS asks us Ito pause and thipk Wnat
this name, Republicanlsm, means in the ears
Of every CaroliDiau." 1t is. it says, identified
with every insult put upon our people by the
mailed hand Of authority; with every wrong we
have been forced to endure; with our every dis
appointed hope; with every blackened home,
and devastated field; with every sorrowIng
douohf or and averv martyred SON." Here our