The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-09-21

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Greenville Road at three thousand dol
lars per annum,, auditor of the State at
twenty-five hundred dollars, and member
ofthetI .esislatnrela at uboutseus thvusaSd
dollars. 1t was said that about that time
Tomlinson had gone to Corbin aud told
him that there was q terrible lot of steal
ing going on around him, aud he thought
he had better resign, and that Corbin
had said, Yes, Reuben, you had better
get out Of that Scott lisa thief, Parker
is a thief, Neagle is a thief, Cardozo is
a thief, they 'alla thieves. You had
better slide out, old boy, and get away"
Bn: if they had discovered all that why
did they not stand up and denounce the
frauds us they were bound by their oaths
as asenator and representative of the
people to do. just about that time
another little. job was sprung, by which
the right tosmine the whole phosphate
| deposits of this State was given to q
private corporation forthe pitt ul royalty
of one dollar per ton. Tomlinson was
member and Corbin was member of
that conspiracy. 1t required fifty thous..
and dollars to get that bill through tho
Legislature, because it was swindle,
and Tonlinson and Corbiu were the
men who put it through. Then Gov
Scott vetoed the bill. Tomlinson up to
that moment had been the friend and
spokesman OF the Governor, but that
day they had falling out, and they
never have been friends since. 1t re-
quired $4,000 more to pass the bill
over the Governors veto, and he
charged that Tominson was engaged in
that. He, charged that when the sena-
tors refused to trust the promises of
future payment made to them by the
man who was employed to lobby
through the Senate, Reuben T:omiinscn
caue forward and pledged his personal
faith and credit that the bribAs Should
be paid stheu. That, he said, he sto- d
ready 70 prove against Reuben Toinlin.
sou whenever aud wherever he choose
to meet it. He also charged that when
he lett the Office Of the State auditor he
left, first, to take charge of the Green
vile and Columbia Railroad Ring, aud,
secondly, TO put up the phosphate job,
tl,..f b.., f,,r L.
worth OF phosphate stock and the tre,s.
urcrship of the company, of which ID.
L. CorbIn was the president and attorn-
cy.
Judge Melton closed with an appeal
to the audience in support OF the regular
chdidafcs, and Sheriff Mackey, after
another interlude by the bond, introduced
General Moses as the nominee of the
regular Republican party CT South Caro-
lima for their next Governor.
Nr, NJ ,scs was received with a perfect
ovatiun of cheers, and made spirited
aud effective speech, lie repeated the
pledges of the regular Republican party
and promised their faithful ful6lment in
tho event ofihis elections, and he then
proceeded TO make an answer TO the char
yes which had been brought against him.
II said thnt if he were there as indivi
dual he would not open his lips in
explanation or dcuial, but as the cand
date Of the Republican party, he bcliev-
ed it ii duty which he owed to the party
aud the peop'e to meet and rotutc thos.
charges. He said, fist, that although
he had been connected with the state
Governnant since 1eGo h LII ::s:u;
been in such position as to have con.
troll of one dollar Of its finances Those
finances we're managed by regularly CON
stituted boards-the finanica boird. the
land commission board, the 81 mixing fund
commissioner. His name was 20 be
found among none Of them! and he de.
clnred, upen his responsibility and hon.
or as a man, that there had never during
his official life been, an, occasion when
one dollar of the State money had to
pass through his hands, directly or To-
directly. For many months, however,
ali the little dogs lin the party, Tray,
Blanche and Sweetheart had been bar
king at him, and Oh that day little pl-
per iu Charleston had propounded ter
rlble string of questions for him to an
swer that evening. He would not shrink
from answering all those questions, and
he challenged that paper to search the
record for themselves aud ascertain if