The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-25
CHI A r L ES TON.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST as, 1869.
Tho Proposed Third Party.

Ofangeburg News, the only respectable
Radical paper in the State, is so far dis
gusted With the corruption and iniquity"
OF tho Radical party that it ia willing to
supr any organization which pledges
itself . universal suffrage and universal
amnesty. By this our Orangeburg contem
porary did not mean that it wac inclined TO
allow the light of it's oountenance to fall
upon the syerted faces of the Democrats of
the Slate. On the. contrary, it said that
what it meant by universal suffrage was
thai everybody.-should be permitted "lo
'vote and hold office" This was Radical
enough for penitent Republicans; but the
0rangeburg News has slightly changed its
direction, and in its last issue prints q
stirring appeal on the subject of the pro.
posed "Third Party The article to which
We refer will be found in another column.
It is q ory to the Democrats Of South Caro-.
lima to reorganize as Conservative Repub-
loan party, so that the uirtus Of Carolina may
De introduced into the Republican rank, and
9FRiaHT AwAYswrTH THE DIGNITY OF PURITY
s'rTs ELEMBHTs or w8AKNRBs AnD WOE"
Our orangeburg, contemporary is SO em
phatio as could be desired in oondemning
"the corrupt (Radicai) representatives, who
"fil, to a great degree, the oaioes of our
government" And yet it urges the peo
pie Of the State to form beneath the Repub
lioan banner, aud $50 further their own
material interests" In other words, the
Democracy of the State are to aos as e deo-
dorizer or disinfeotant to keep Radiealism
andi,s corruption from stinking longer in the
nostrils Of honest men. They are to fur
ther their material interests by joining, q
party which has done its best to ruin our
people, and which, unless we. shore it up,
will soon tumble tothe ground. bor, ~
II will, we presume, hardly be denied.
even by the thorough-pace Radicals, that
ninety nine one-hundredths Of the South
Carolina white men are Democrats or anti
Radicals. This is the important element to
be considered in all ''Tnird Party" oalcu-
lations. Upon the negroes Conservative
movement would produce little effect.
Throughout the State the machinery of the
Union League would be employed to drive
the oolored people to the polls and to pre-.
vent them from tampering with the com,
promise parry. The out-and out Radicals
would bid far higher than the boasted Re
publioans could do, and when election day
| came il would be found that the mass of the
oolored ment voted with the whites who had
stopped most nearly to the negro level. A
| large number Of oolored men would vote
the Conservative. ticket; but they would do
so out Of the abundance of their confidence
in the white Democrats who were conne oted
with 1t, and not because twas compro.
mise or coalition. These very oolored men
would vote q straightforward Democratic
ticket as readily as they would vote the new
nondescript offered to them. II seems.
then, TO US, that in aiming at the fou2di
ton OF third party the chief object Of the
orangeburg News and those who think with
1t, is to effect an union Of the white Demo
orats and respectable Republicans.
AS ne have said, there is but handful
Of respectable white Republicans in South
Carolina. In what way sre they so strong
that they can reasonably ask 90. 600 white
Democrats to abandon their political allie
glance, and become members Of the party
against which they have been fighting for
eight long years We confess that We do
not see single stout plank in the platform
OF Conservative Republication The res
Simon pure Radicals are strong. They
have numbers, orgsnization,7 money, pa
tronsge, and iupudenos uubounded. But
the respectable Republicans have no
strength-in their party or out Of it, The
Orangeburg News, which We treat no " as
'he representative Of the small squad of
decent Republicans, admits that the Rsdi-
cal party is disorgani.ing In consequences
OF the kaaysry, and ignorance Of its men )!
bers. Il admits that the Radical party can:
not be reformed without tho healing pfes
enoe Of the white Democrats. And II be,
lieves, VIC arc inclined to think, that 40
matter how strong tho infusion OF white
responsibility, there will still be. lsfee
party, which, refusing to be made regene..
rate. will struggle, tooth and nail, againtt
anything which is not concentrated Radi
oslism: The.truhis thst ths respectable Re 3
pubiicsns in the State find; ths. tnsy Viii be
disgrsqsd IL they Fsnata n j ssnne a a Vito
our SCOTS and msokeys and Bowons; bu.,
they know thatthey can do nothing unless
they oAn oszen the Democracy into making
common osuss with them Tdis is shrrssydly
conceived; but We say that Mahomet must
cnmeito the mountain, for thessmountsin
will not go TO Mtnemot We appreciate ,hs
slories OF RspablioAnisp; but-is 70 s. ,ab /
surdity for one man to ask ninety. nias Or
his political opponents to become oonssrits
40 his orssd, bsosuse IL they do .tnot this
solitary warrior will be rnlnsd and undons
The one msn should join The Iinsty. .nine,,