The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-19
Tho s.True Rcpublicnns" Of Charleston
to tho Stnte---hIOses and tho .sIting"
Repudtated.

IhC sIFuS xGcpuDl1Cnn6" OF Charleston
to tho Stntc---AIOses and tho ,sIting"
Repudtated.
FELLOW CITIZENS: For the first time
since the organization of the Republican
party in South Carolina, We aTo reduced
to the necessity of making choice be-
tween two sets of Republican candidates
for State offices. recently nominated by
the respective State Conventions at Co.
lumbia.
The cause of this unfortunate condi-
tion OF affairs in our party, is due to the
fact that the members of the Irregular
Convention" have, in disregard of their
solemn pledges to tho people to secure
for them an honest government, again
practiced deception upon them, b5 put
ting in nomination for the most impor
tant Offices in our gift, men over whose
heads now hangs grave charges of un-
pardonable official misconduct-they 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 disgraceful deception impera-
lively demanded that conscientious Re.
publicans, in order to consult the inte-
rest of the people in their choice of can
didates, should withdraw therefrom with
a 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 tho head of which is the
namo of Hon. Reuben Tomlinson, who
is the standard-bearer of the ''truo 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
groundlees, and, therefore, foul calum-
MES invented by the Columbia "ring"
for the sake of detraction, and the &C.
complishment of their purposes. On
the 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-
ton have added to their proficiency in
the art; and if the empty eloquence and
loud declamations be accepted from
Gen. Moses as being sufficient to ex-
onerate him from his misdemeanors in
Office, then the no less strong and
plausible language Of Scott. Parker,
Chamberlain, Neagle, and the ''ring"
generally, entities them to the charity,
and under which circumstance they are
all as innocent and pure as "spirits
bright" in the face of the fact that the
civilized world is cogniznnt of the con-
dition Of affairs which they have inaugu-
rated in our State for their incidental
benefit, and the miseries and mortifica-
tion to which their dishonesty have sub
jected tho. 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 the making of
delnsive promises; but they are decidedly
the same which we have always got in
abundance, in lien of the honest dis.
charge of their official duties, and the
same which have been mnde to US thou
sands of times before, and as muny
times been broken.
Some OF the reasons given for support.
ing the Scott-Moses ring are that Moses
is native South Caroilnian, &c. We
wonld 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.
Nothingis{h; yet. in the present emer-
gency, when stern necessity stares us III
the face and points in an opposite direc.
ton for our remedy, State pride loses its
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 the re-
quired remedy for the stubborn disease
of which we are now complaining. And
if the blessing OF good government can
bo secured through the sterling integrity
OF native OF a sister State, common
reason, as we'll as our common necessity,
demands his support by oil who are tired
Of the present mal-administration.
Again. the most potent reason given
for supporting the said ring is that they
arc supporting the regular nomineesl"
Now. fellow-citizens, it is q well.estab-
lished fnct that the Democrats, who are