Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-09-05

fishness, and corruption of those who have
stolen the garb of Republicanism to cloak
their evil deeds, and who should be cast out of
the company of honest Republicans and hon
est men, as having degraded their high calling.
Our plain duty points to this; our obvious
interests demand this; the interests of party
demand it; the interests of the State demand
it; decent regard for the opinions of man.
kind demand it. We must put forward for
official position those, and those only, who are
known as upright, true, and unstained men,
whose Republicanism is as undoubted as their
integrity, and their capacity to perform the
functions of the Offices for which they are
nominated. Within the lines Of the Repub-
lican party our work lies. There are honest
hearts and wise heads enough in that party to
do our work. Every good citizen, whatever
his party affiliations may have been, owes it
to himself to work to purify and regenerate
our State Government; but the work espe-
cially belongs to US. We cannot abandon it
to our political adversaries, until we have de-
monstrated our inability to do it ourselves.
With this necessity upon us; in an emer-
gency more exigent than has existed in the
history of our party in South Carolina with
the eyes of the National Republican party
upon us, and expecting US to rise to the de-
mands of the occasion, like honest men, the
Convention now in session in this city has
placed in nomination, as candidate for Gov
ernor, the one man whose official acts have
brought upon the State and the official posi-
tions he has held, more disgrace than has at
tached to any other Offices of the State Gov
ernment.
Mr.. F. j. Moses, Jr., was the person who,
as Adjutant and Inspector General, made the
contract with the Roberts Arms Company.
We do not know that he received any part of
the $114,000 which disappeared in its transit
from the office of the Financial Agent of the
State of South Carolina, in New York, to the
office of the Roberts Arms Company but we
do know that 1t disappeared. The Financial
Agents books show that it was paid the arms
company's books show that they did not re-
ceive it.
Mr.. F. J. Moses, Jr., was the person who, as
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
flooded the State with shower of "pay certi6-
Gates" and swelled the expenses Of that
House, for single session, from $145,00O,
(the highest possible figure to which they
could amount legitimately, and this is based
on most extravagant calculations,) to quite,
or over, million dollars. And this palpable
violation of law, this direct flching from the
treasury, is neither denied by him nor his
friends. but is excused on the ground that he
disposed of a large amount of these certi6-
Gates in favor of the poor people who fled
from the prosecutions of the ku-klux khan.
Was candidate ever before driven to straits
like this? A false certificate, fraudulent
and unlawful draft of public money from the
public treasury acknowledged, and the act de-
Tended on the ground that the money was dis
posed Of in charity! Yet even this infamous
excuse is wanting, when we know that not one
per cent. of these unlawfully issued certif.
Gates was thus disposed Of, and when we daily
observe the style Of living this candidate
holds-a style BETTING profigate million
aire, but impossible to an honest man, with
the legitimate income of a Speaker of the
House and an Adjutant and Inspector Gen.
eral We do not attempt to explain the entry
of 81, 900 against the EARNED force" appro-
priation, paid to Mr.. F. j. Moses, Jr.; but the
known charactero of the Speaker of the House
of Representatives, and his career in that Of
fee, awaken a suspicion very we'll defined,
which he has not only failed to clear up, but
has allowed the matter to 60 unexplained,
though for many days it has been commented
on by the newspapers and though it would
seem to be all-important that he should ex-
plain it to those whose suffrage he was solicit
| ing.
We are straight Republicans none will 60
farther than we in any path Of duty or honor,
to serve the interests Of the Republican party.
The cause of the Republican party is dear,
unspeakably dear, to us; its principle Of the
equality of all men before the law is that par
ticular jewel which outshines, with US, every
brilliant in its casket. But honesty in Office,
capacity in administration, fidelity to public
trusts, are principles which cannot be ignored
by true Republicans; and we cannot endorse
the action of Convention which ignored them
all in its selection of candidate for the high
est State Office, however Irregular" that Con.
vention may be. We have, therefore, Joined
in movement for the nomination of an inde-
pendent, true Republican ticket ticket con-
tanning the names of men whose fidelity to the
dictates of honesty and duty is as we'll known
as their zeal in the cause Of true Republican
ism. They are firm supporters of the nomina-
ton of Grant and Wilson, and Of the great
measures of the national Republican party
which has placed them in nomination, while
they add to their character for integrity, su-
perior capacity and ardent patriotism. "
We appeal to the voters of the State Of
South Carolina to support them, knowing that
their election will give us wise, honest, ener,
getic administration of the State Government
and that they will, regardless of their private
interests, or the private interests Of any set OF
men, make it their business to repair, to the
extent oftheir ability, the injuries the body
polite has suffered by waste, extravaganza,
fraud and incompetency.
and throw off the incubus which has lain,
worse than nightmare, upon our State; and
which will be ten-fold increased in its horrors
should Mr.. FL. Moses, Jr., be seated in the
executive chair. Refuse to avail yourselves
ofthis opportunity, and ere many months have
passed over our heads, dire disaster, without
a parallel even in our disastrous experience,
may be confidently anticipated.
JAMES L. ORR, President.
VIM. E. EARLE, Secretary.
Columbia, S. c., August, 1872.
aesr If every man had such treasure of a
wife as q Boston paper tells about, there
would not be so many difficult figures to mas
ter in the problem Of living on a moderate
income. This woman's husband was comfort
oh1u ,pe1I off and oave her q moderate allow