The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-18

HEhLoW-CITIZKHS: For che hrst time
sincB the organization OF the Republican
party in South Carolina, We are reduced
to the necessity of making choice be-
tween two sets Of Republican candidates
Tor State offices, recently nominated by
the respective State Conventions at Co.
lumbia.
The cause of tllih unfortunate oondi-
tlon OF affairs IN our party, is due to the
faot that the members OF the Irregular
Convention" have, in disregard of their
solemn pledges to the people to secure
for them an honest government, again
practiced deception upon them, by put
ting in nomitatiop for the most impor
tant Offices IN our. gift, men over whose
heads now hangs grave charges of an
pardona6le oDacial lnsisconduct-theyb being
principals IN, or accessory to, the crimes
which is the cause of all of the financial
embarrassment Of the State, and the
grievous burdens under which we are
now groaning.
And this disgracoiul deception impera.
lively demanded that conscientious Re-
publioans, in order to consult the inte-
rest of the people in their choice Of oan-
didatee, should withdraw therefrom with
view to the attainment of that end;
which being done, after due deliberation
they nominated State ticket, which is
synonymous with that honest govern
ment which is now demanded By the
people, and at the head of which is the
name OF Hon. Reuben Tomlinson, who
ls the standard-bearer Of the true Re-,
publican party" And in asking your
undivided support for this ticket, we re-
commend to you the nominees thereon
as Republicans who stand pledged, by
their honorable lives and otherwise, by
their past official record, as faithful pub.
lie servants, to subserve the interest of
the whole people.
There are no disgraceful charges against
our candidates, and we need no criminal
lawyers to defend them on the stump;
while their known integrity and honor is
sufficient argument against all of the
groundIess, and, therefore, foul oalum.
MES invented by the Columbia sring"
for the sake of detraction, and the ac-
complement of their purposes. On
tho other hand, the legal profession of
some of the candidates of the Moses
faction is to defend criminals, and their
own frequent crimes requiring absolu-
tion have added to their proficiency in
the art; and if the empty eloquence and
loud declamations DO accepted from
Gen. Moses as being sufficient to ex-
onerate him from his misdemeanors in
Office, then the no less strong and
plaueible language OF Scott, Parker.
Chamberlain, Neagle, and the ''ring"
generally. entities them to tho charity,
and under which circumstance they are
all as innocent and pure as ''spirits
bright, iu the face of the fact that the
civilized world is cognizant of the con-
dition of affairs which they have inangu-
rated in our State for their incidental
benefit, and the miseries and mortificn-
tion to which their dishonesty have sub
jeeted the people. None, therefore, of
their adherents. have been so bold and
inconsistent as to stultify themselves by
claiming honesty for their candidates;
while the virtue of the true Republican
ticket is our chief incentive and the
axle of our movement. The ring candi-
dates, therefore, rely on tho making of
delusive promises; but they are decidedly
the same which we have always got in
abundance, in lieu of the honest dis
charge of their official duties, and the
came which have been made to us thou
sands of times before, and as many
times been broken.
Some Of the reasons given for support
ing the Scott-Moses ring are that Moses
is native South Carolinian, SO. We
would reply to this argument by saying,
that this State being also the place of
our nativity, zoe admit that zoe are some
what partial to this species of Know
Nothingism; yet, in the present emer-
gency, when stern necessity ytares rs in
the face and points in ON opposite direo-
ton for our remedy, State pride loses it's
charms, becomes to be of minor import
ance, and we cannot cherish it; for dear
bought experience has taught us that
corrupt natives will not furnish tho re-
quired remedy for the stubborn disease
of which we are now complaining. And
if the blessing of good government can
be secured through the sterling integrity
Of native of sister State, common
reason, as we'll as our common necessity,
demands his support by oil who are tired
of tho present NAL administration.
Again, the most potent reason given
for supporting the said ring is that they
are supporting the Irregular nomineesI'
Now. fellow-c citizens, it is q well-estab-
lished fact that the Democrats, who arc
the only element entertaining opposite
political opinion to our own, have left
the field to US, as far rs State offices is
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