The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-02-23

IL, IS lGQeeu Cheering W reuu SOuliG auC
sensible views like the following from that
able and ouespoketr Radical paper, the Or
angeburg Neirs. Speaking OF the political
campaign in the State twelve months hence.
it says:
ssWe shall. not again contribute our mite
"towards the election of men to Office who do
mot iutent, to make this State their home or,
"in other words, who are not bona fde citizens
s'of South Carolina. We are sick and tired oi
'.hearing of men, who occupy high offices By
"the suffrages of the people. spending and in
"vesiing their money in New York, or some
''other Northern State. 1t is q shame, and a
gross betrayal OF the confidence reposed In
.'them BY their constituents. And i: is one
(which we propose to guard against in the
s'luture
heretofore, just so man said he was Re-
publican. and intended to support the Repub-
s'lican administration, he was Immediately set
'tdown as being emiuently calculated TO fill any
'sot1ice.
mo matter If he had leased his house, in
'.some other State, tor FIVE years no matter if,
Sat the expiration Of said term, he contempla-
'ted an exit from South Carolina, with his
:'coifers lined with money; If he made pro-
"fession Of certain things, no other quall6ca-
''tlon was needed--none was asked for no
'matter if he didn't promise to spend one dol
''lar OF the money made out OF kis Office in
''the county from which he was elected no
''matter if he got eighty thousand dollars q
s'year out of South Carolina, and invested it
''aH in Brooklyn, New York, or some other
Northern city; no matter if he even sent TO
"the North to purchase the clothes which he
'.a.iays himself in; no matter if he told his
"constiLuents TO so 10 the devil as soon as he
"was securely seated in good lucrative office,
':,f he could point to Republican record lin
"regard to which no living mortal knew but
"himsef,) made away of in some other State
"not untrequently his deluded constituents
would go for reinstatng him, when his term
sswas out.
''What commentary upon the ignorance OF
''many OF the Republican party. Cod grant
'ithat in the next campaign these evils may be
s'hunted down and uprooted, and honest men,
sciizens of South Carolina, elected TO I'LL the.
"offices which many hold now but to tarnish
"and disgrace!
"when we say citizens ot South Carolina;
tive mean it in This sense: we mean all those
''who shall live here ut that time, and whose
s'purrose 1t is to use what their office makes
"ior them for the good OF the State; who will
"promise to help tighten the burden of taxa
''liou that now oppresses our people. This is
''plaln. Aud this will be demanded of every
"man who offers himself for position in 1872.
ave have conferred with gentlemen high ia
"position upon this subject, and were assured
'that this point should be most strongly em-
'bodied in the next platform of the Republl-
scan party. All can and will unite upon
''princple like this, and work for the welfare
..ol The State. 1t must succeed, and we but
''echo the drift Of determined minds when we
!;wrte it down TO-DAY. The man who comes
"here one year hence, just on the eve of
''campaign, and pnts himself before the people
s'for an Office, will not meet the reception he
ssmght have received in the past. BE viii |
''be requested to go back home. Aud that,
."loo, by the Republican party"