The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-06-30
Whittem ores Defeat.
sennblance.

The action of Congress in refusing to give
seat to B. f. WHITTEMoRE, claiming to repre-
sent the First Congressional District of this
State. has been commented on at length
throughout the country. 1t is generally con-
ceded that this rejection of the Representative
is stigma upon the constituency that re-elect-
ed him after his disgraccful exit from the
House last February. 1t is certainly strange
commentary upon the reconstruction acts and
universal suffrage, pronounced by Radical
Congress. But we turn aside from this view OF
the case, and would inquire as to the effect OF
his rejection upon the Radical party Of this
State Its organ claims that the party Is not
concerned. and that the odium attaches to the
"reyerend rascal" alone This is lame and
impotent conclusion. In the first place, the
desperate cause of Mr. WHIrTEMoRE has been
bolstered in every conceivable way by Radical
officials. Did not Gov. SCOTT suggest his re-
signation last winter, in order that the culprlt
might escape expulsion and deserved censure?
furthermore, the appointment OF WHITE
MoREs partisans and friends as Commissioners
Of Election is another evidence that the great
leader Of the Radical party intended to secure
his reelection, if the power of official patron
age could assist him. 1t was shrcwdly man
aged that no Convention was held to nominate
candidate for the vacancy, and it is through
this loop-hole that the Radicals expected to
escape the charge that this was q party affair
But it is useless now to deny that B. +. WHIT
TEMoRE represented the Radical party of his
Congressional District He is the embodiment
OF that party all over the eastern section of
this State and has done far more to secure its
triumphs heretofore than any other half dozen
men, Now, it is declared that the responsible
ity of his reelection and disgraceful failure to
obtain his seat in Congress docs not attach to
uhe Republican party but that the statements
made by him during the canvass secured his
reelection, as these statements were believed
and relied upon This is simply ridiculous.
The defeat of the cadet broker is a just rebukc,
administered by Radical majority in the
House Of Representatives., to the Radical party
of this State, which has sustained and upheld
such Infamous characters from the beginning
of reconstruction to the present hour.
A word as to the statements put forth during
the recent canvass. Mr. WHITTEMoRE declared
that Gen. LOGAN repented Of his course to-
ward him, was sorry that the committee of
which he was chairman did not report reso-
lution of censure instead of expulsion, and
hoped that he would be returned to Congress,
and that he LOGAN would be the first man to
welcome his return. To his corrupt practice
as representative, wurTTEMoRE added the
infamy of lying TO secure the favor OF his
brethren, or else Gen. LOGAN shamefully eat
his own words, for he was the first man to op-
nose WurrrEMonEs re-admission, and thus
practically deny the statements of this enter
prising Representative Of South Carolina Rad
icalism. Either horn of the dilemma is bad
for the party Of "grcat moral ideas"