The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-10
Shall there he Reform

noteworthy 1acC t1aC Lne CO~f1e'' III oio
cussing the Bowen and Macky programme,
confines itself to an expression OF the opin-
ion that neither OF the Legislative tickets, nor
a combination OF both tickets, offers any
hope OF reform. The NEWS has given its
reasons for believing that the election OF a
selected legislative ticket, composed e1-
clusively OF Radical nominees, will imme-
diately improve the character OF the repre-
sentatlon OF the county, and 30 give the
people o promise OF broader and deeper re-
form. These reasons remain unanswered;
and TIE NEWS thinks that they are unan-
swerable. But what OF the County officers
upon the Hobson's Choice ticket; about
whom, IL it be correctly understood, the
Courier has nothing to sayi
The candidates for Sheriff are @. G. Bowen
and E. W. Nj. Mackey. They who wish to
brush up their memory with regard to the
career Of the former, will do well to consult
the files of this paper. No marin the State
is accused OF more crimes than G. c. Bowen;
and not o single accusation has been fairly
met, or Its truth denied. E. W. n. Mackey
is o Radical politician whose connections
are bad, and who, because OF his intimate
connection with municipal politics, has be-
come extremely offensive to the Conserva-
tive citizens. One Of the twain will infaIf-
bly, be elected. The question for the Con-
servntlves to decide is, whether they will
elect Bowea or Mackey. Now. The NEWS
believes that Aackey, however bod, is in-
comparably better than Bowen, and, there
fore, advises the Conservatives to vote for
him.
WHICH CANDIDATE DOES THE Courier PRE-
FER?
The candidates for Clerk Of Court are
jacob Whitman and A. G.. Richmond. Mr.
Whitman Is an experienced officer OF ire
proachable character, under whose man.
agement there will be no jobbery, and no
paying ten or twenty prices for what work
| Is required TO be done. Mr.. Richmond is q
partisan politician, who has no earthly
thing to recommend him to Conservative
support.
WHICH OF THESE CANDIDATES DOES THE
Courier PREFER,
The candidates for the delicate and impor-
tant Office OF Coroner are Aaron Logan and
John A. Mushington-the one a black man
and the other a colored man. Logan is
known In this city and in Christ Church as
a negro agitator, who is as malignant as
he is tyrannical. His pranks as Trial Justice
show what he will do when any authority
over the whites is entrusted to him. Mush-
ington is IN intelligent young man OF good
manners, whose past conduct is a reason
| able guarantee that he will do his duty as
Coroner courteously and considerably.
WHIcH oF THESE TWO CANDIDATES DOES
THE Courier PREFER?
The candidates for school commissioner
are F. P. Hedges and B. b. Hoyt. Hedges
IL an educated colored man, and Hoyt
is-welll he is q white man. The only OBJ
lection to Hedges is his color.
WHICH OF THESE TWO CANDIDATES DOES
THE Courier PREFER
The candidates for the peculiarly respon-
sib!e Office Of county commissioner are G.
L Cunningham, L. Dunneman and William
G.. Fields on the Hobsoa's Choice ticket, and
M. Mclaughlin, W. 81. Thompson and John
Bonum on the Bowen ticket. Messrs. Gun
bingham and Dunneman are property hold
ers, who, for their own sake, will look sharply
after the county expenditures. Fields is a
straight. forward colored man, against whom
The News Knows nothing. The trio, whom
the Bowenites desire to elect, cannot hold q
candle to their opponents. Mr.. McLaugh-
lin is one OF the present county commission
ers, under the administration OF whom and
his colleagues the county has been brought
to actual bankruptcy. Thompson and
Bonum are his creatures-mere registrars Of
bis decree,. Nor should 1t be forgotten
that Mr.. Mclaughlin, rightly or wrongly, is
under Indictment for official misconduct
WEIGH OF THE TWO SETS OF CANDIDATES
DOE THE Courier PREFER?
AIRS cuuS Iut llbb VI COuuIJ oLuSSlc' tao
position Of The NEWS, to restate it, is, that
no new candidates can obtain a large part
Of the Radical vote, without which they
must fail; that, at the best, any Conserva-
tive candidates could not poll more than
five or six thousand votes, which is less than
one.haii Of the gross Radical vote; that it Is
q wise and practical solution OF IN intricate
question to cast the Conservative vote in
fevor OF the best OF the candidates already
nominated by the Radicals; that the persons
named In the Hobson's Choice ticket are,
one and all, the best Of the Republican can
didates; that the Conservatives can elect
them; that their election will give the
county better officers than it has had for
four years-better officers than those OF
either Radical ticket as a whole, one OF
which straight tickets will be elected, II the
Conservatives do not support Hobson's
Choice.
Now il the Courier can re fute this reason
Ing, or can sugges. something which is more
practicable, as well as more advantageous,