The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-21
Our Policy for the CampniSn-What
Can be Accomplished.

All good citizens concede that it is su-
preme necessity to secure, next fall, at any
cost, q decent, capable and honest govern
ment, in place OF the Radical Ring, which
squanders the means and paralyzes the in
dustries OF the people Of the State.
A changeo rulers, and change for the
better, we must have whatever the price.
But any policy which smacks of compro-
mise or equivocation is fraught with danger
4 victory won by degrading the upright and
intelligent to the level Of the ignorant and
base, would be more disastrous than de-
feat. The fight can be surely won, OIL a
square ISSUE if the white people so resolve
It is only by joining issue with Radicals
and with Radicalism, face to face and front
to front, that we can redeem our State.
And when we set our forces in the field,
we have, to-begn with, enough Of assured
strength to strip the result of imminent or
mortal danger straightforward, manly
policy, rallying in common cause the hon
esty and the worth and the industry OF the
State, must give us, at the worst, the dis
tricts in which Radicalism was defeated at
the elections of 1868. Then there was no
great excitement, nor was the canvass es-
pecially warm. The popular mind was i'm
pressed with the belief that the Radical cam
didate for President would certainly be elec-
ted and that the vote of South Carolina
weighed little in the scale. And yet, with
out effort, as without work, there was
handsome Democratic majority in Abbeville
Anderson, Chesterfield, Greenville,i Horny,
Lancaster, Laurens, Lexington, Marion,
Newberry, Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg,
Union and York. Fifteen out OF the thirty
one counties in the State did their duty
nobly, and voted the Radicals down.
This was more than year ago, when no
living issue animated the public heart. Now
it is stirred to the core. Another twelve
month OF negro rule and burdensome taxa
tion of official nepotism and party fraud,
has nerved the arm and cleared the vision
of our people. They will do more in 1870
than they did in 1868. Working heartily
and steadily, they may wrest from the Radi-
cal grasp the most Radical counties in the,
State. Under no circumstances Gun they,
or will they, do less now than tlct did at
the last elections. And if they only do as
much, if they only crush out Radicalism lin
the fifteen counties which gave Democratic
majoritics in 1868, we shall have, from the
start, .torty:fre members of the lower house
OF the General Assembly, ready to meet the
Radical majority at all times and upon all
occasions.
Forty-fve able and incorruptible men,
backed by the moral influence of the
whole State, might do much to control
the action of the General Assembly in all
that concerns deeply the welfare of our peo-
pie. The forty-five should be a nucleus
around which the more sensible or dissatis-
fed of their opponents would naturally
gather Their influence would be potent in
exposing the follies and uumasking the vii
lanies of the Radical crew. They would
be the rallying point, the forlorn hope, the
soul and the tongue Of all South Carolina.
Armed with truth and justice, fighting
against ignorance and vice, these forty-tive
guardsmcn could and would prevail.
And this mark it is the worst fate
that we are called upon to meet, so long us
we show bold front and allow no strag-
Cling from the ranks. WE ARE SURE OF
/ G
FoRrY-FIvE REPRESENTATIVES IL TaR LOWER
HOUSE, If WE DEFILE NOT OURSELVES By
FATuRRING THAT POLICY OF COMPROMISE
WHICH srrsKs IN THE NosTRILs OF ALL HON
EST MEN.
Forty-flve out of one hundred and
twenty-four is the least that we shall have.
AND WE CAN HAVE MORE. We may carry
twenty counties instead of fifteen We may
have SIXTY or SEVENTY representatives, if we
plan and toll Alright and steep not our souls
in the sinks of Radical iniquity. But COM
promise with sin. bargaining with guilt,
will, no matter what venal politicians say,
whelm the State in ruin
THE State Senate turns up its nose now at
an extension bill. Hail Columbia! The