The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-08

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csive at least the benefit that such a compll
ment would carry with 1t. This class was
larger than might, at the first thought. be
supposed, and although it has been fashiona'
BILE of late years to revlle and rldicule the
intense love for political preferment manifest
ed by the newly-created Radical voters OF oul
community, it must be confessed that the
same amiable weakness ls extremely preva'
lent among their betters, and that for almost
any Office In the gilt of the people there are to
be found plenty of Intelligent Conservative
gentlemen whs are quite self-sacrlfcing
enough to accept of nominations.
There was one class Of people, however,
discovered by the active reporters of THE
NEWS in their perambulations yesterday, who
were intensely exercised over the editorial
course which had been adopted by this paper.
Those of the other classes of citizens who dis
approved OF the course of THE NEWS express
ed their objections in language which was al
least rational and gentlemanly, and In a 30
Der, sensible and argumentative manner; but
the class of DIRECTORS now referred to appear
ed In q frame Of mind bordering on frenzy,
and would have, or did have, nothing to cay
OF the merits of the question except the most
vehement and vigorous objurgatlons of TIE
NEWS, the Hobson's Choice ticket, and The Con-
servatives generally. This class, as may natur-
slly be Inferred, was composed of the
men on both the Mackey and Bowen
tickets who had not discovered their names
upon the ticket of Hobson's Choice. They
| were absolutely Wild. Their imprecations and
! anathemas were both loud and deep, their
bowls were deafenIng, and their gestlculations
| were like the writings of the Voudoo der
| wishes. They unanimously refused to be In
Uervlewed, but they made no pretence OF con-
cealing their rage and modification. One Of
the reporters of The NEWS was simultaneously
buttonholed by three sn"h politicians yester-
day, 1.-TWO Bowenites a: one Mackeyite,) and
In halt an hour he heard more pyrotechnlcal
profanity than he had heard before In half a
decade. he managed to get away from them
at che end of that time, but left them engaged
In the most complicated cursing, while the air
Ia their vicinity was absolutely blue With In
precautions.
The net results Of the various interviews by
THE Nsws reporters, among the citizens and
politicians, may be expressed as follows:
The merchants on Meeting, Hayne and King
streets, 30 far as they had any opinions to e1-
press, manifested great satisfaction with the
suggestion of TIE NEWS, and assured our re-
porters that it would meet with a hearty res
ponse among niae.tenths Of the business men
of the city. One substantial gentleman, who
does a large Wholesale and retail business,
expressed his sentiments as follows: I'VE
want better officials, certainly, and we would
like to have, If we could get them, officials
from among our " people and Of our w
choice, but we can't get them, and we had
best accept the greatest measure of Improve
ment we can get. But however much we
want better officials. We also want rest from
political turmoil. We are doing very well
now. Trade is frst.rate, and every
body is engaged In the legitimate affairs
OF everyday life, and In that way are working
out the problem of the city's regeneration far
more practically than by dabbling In the dirty
pool of politics. II we were to nominate a
third ticket we would all get drawn into the
political contest, business wonld bs neglected
| to a greater or less extent, and the political
gain would be nil We want to rest from poll
| tics and attend to business, but at the same
| time we want to throw our votes where they
| will do the most good on election day. Your
paper now makes q practical suggestion for us
to follow, and / for one, and l believe most OF
my neighbors, intend to follow it."
Another gentleman, prominent In financial
| circles in Broad street, said In answer to the
questions Of reporter, II cannot say that l
agree with your papers recommendation to
the white people to do nothing but accept the
least Objectionable men upon the rival Radical
| tickets. It looks like supineness, and I don't
like that. II we had time to do It, I should be
| decidedly In favor of putting out q straight
ticket In the nope Of electing one or two OF
the nominees upon 1t, even If 9 could DO no
more"
Reporter. That would require prompt &C.
ton, hard work and some money. You are a
rich,mau. Would you subscribe one hundred
dollars toward a campaign fund for that pur-
pose
MI. -. No, certainly not, at this stage
of the game. I believe though that If the
thing had been. started In time, a matter Of
ten Thousand dollars, with proper manage
ment, would have enabled us to elect a good
ticket.
A shrewd merchant said, " am sure that
| the suggestion by TIE NEWS is the best possi-
| BILE suggestion that could be made as the mat
ter stands at this time. I believe, also, that
| nine-tenths of the Conservatives, however
! they may be taken by surprise now, will come
to this view before the day of election, and
| that the Hobson's Choice ticket will be the
successful one. There Is only one danger that
! suggests Itself to me, which Ia that the re-
/ spective factions of the Radicals may, In their
anxiety to defeat those OF the opposite foe
lions who have been put on Hobson's ticket,
| withdraw their votes from those of their own
| men who have been put on that ticket, 30 as
to give q 'plumper' to those of their men who
| have been left out in the cold. The Maekey-
ties will hardly do that, however, because
that would lmperll the chances OF Mackey
| himself, and I expect you have spiked Bowen'a
guns by nominating the only strong men on
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