The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-25
OUR RADICAL BRETHREN.
How the Washington Chronicle Dis
poses of our Amiable Lfeutenant-Gov-
ernor.
From the Washington Chronicle, October 2l.l

FOR THE BENEFIT OF A. J. RANsIER.
We intensely desire that the interests of the
Republican party OF South Carolina, as of other
States, shall be managed by its general COM
mittee In wise, firm, vigorous, consistent
and honest way. The chairman oil the COM
mittee In that State, Mr.. Ransler, has proved
himself to be Ignorant. weak, indolent, vacil-
lating and dishonest, besides being vain,
pompous, assuming and irrepresslbly garrul-
Gus. We said 80 for his good and for that Of
the party.
paragraph of ten lines In dense column Of
innuendo, brag and bluster, which of itself
furnishes incontestible evidence of nearly
every characteristic named In our faithful
analysis of his character.
Mr. Ransler waddes forward in the stolen
raiment of man pleading ''in the interest Of
the life Of the party, as we'll as that OF the In:
dividual members of it, and Ia the interest of
outraged liberty and law" This aptly Illus.
trates the character of that person. Just be-
fore thinking to make capital with native
secessionlsts he had written letter denying
all unusual crime in South Carolina, aud in
slsting that there was no need of troops or
martial law, or of any special efforts to pre-.
serve life and property. This letter ne dared
to sign, totally Without authority, as chairman
voice Of that committee 1t has been trumpeted
with great glorihcation by the Democratic
newspapers throughout the country. For this
we censured him. For this, at Its meeting,
the committee denounced him to his face for
cowardlce, trucking, falsehood and usurpa-
on his knees begged absolution and swore
fidelity. And now from hIs new position, to
which he has come by square somersault, he
whineB out defence as II he had been there
year instead of q week, and intended to stay
there always, instead Of already looking both
sides OF him and behind to see which way he
shall jump next.
making one point on us, which is, that ne can
not be very bad, unless that we, In once sup
porting him for Lieutenant.G Governor, did
knowingly commend very bad man. 1t is
true that the Daily Republican, Of Charleston,
8. c., of which the writer, In 1870, was one OF
the editors, felt called upon to support him as
the regular Republican candidate. because, sell IN
was upon the party. We then did that which
we never again, on Gods green earth, will do
pretend to commend man, conspicuous
only for demerit, simply because he has been
nominated by our party.
We can further truly say that we did not
know the worst of the facts of his political his.
tory, which we now state. In the summer OF
1870 he entered into corrupt combination
which proposed to secure control OF the State
for two years by the pending election. TO
affiliate with that combination he basely de-
| serted and betrayed the secrets of candidate
| for Congress, who had done for him more
| than all other men. When he found that this
combination was not so strong as to elect him
| to the State Convention, he offered plainly to
desert his new friends for his old, provided
the latter would elect him. This refused, he
rejoined his new friends and headed boiling
delegation to the convention. He used his
position as chairman OF the State committee
| with villanous treachery to secure his seat anu
the nomination by boiling convention OF q
candidate for Congress, receiving therefor the
nomination as Lieutenant-Governor and his
continuance as chairman of the State commit
tee, because supposed to be the most plant
and cheapest tool the aforesaid combination
could have.
When he still found that his old friend was
the stronger in Charleston, he united with him
| In the county convention, In speech declar-
ing that he was glad to be with his friends
once more; that he left them to carry his OWL
done it, he was back again. In the conVen
| ton he made long and very urgent speech
| for the nomination of Mr.. Tomllnson to the
Legislature, and sitting down, Immediately
went from delegate to delegate, saying, "Do
not vote for Tomlinson. 1t was TOR my inter
est to speak for him, but do not want him
nominated" Throughout the campaign ne
explained to each how 1t was that he had 10
saw and do things which looked like helping
the other. This he obtusely fancles to be
shrewd political diplomacy. BY 1t he justly
forfeited the confidence OF every Republican
who knew him.
| And vet he struts before the world as chair
man of the committee which repudiates him,
and pretends to represent party which Will
not again endure him at the tail Of ward
com nnittee. When we find such man back
| ing and filing at the head of what ought to be
| working party committee, a man having
| neither knowledge, energy, capacity, good
Judgment or integrity, we deem it privilege
to drive something into him, or to inspire the
rest OF the committee to go over him to dlgni-
| ty and success.
Mr. Ransier assures us that he will not per-
nit US to silence him. We shall not again at
tempt to do what long years ago Balaam SO
| Intellectually tried. But we commlserate the
Republican party and committee in that State
Mr.. Ransier hints that We ventured to say
what we have because at safe distance from
his puissant arm. We beg to suggest to him
that Washington Is but short ride from
| Charleston.
We leave him to be- comforted by two reflec.
| tions-the first, which doubtless often occur;
| to him. that his liberty Is not likely to be re-
strained while justice is 80 rarely done In Soutf
| Carolina; and the second, that we shall proba
bly, not lake the trouble to tell the worst tha
we know about him.
The RISE IN CoFFEE.-The recent extraor
dinary rise in the price of coffee has produced
much discussion in commercial circles. Ins
price of good Rio in cargo, for instance, na'
| within lew weeks advanced from - cent