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


the rascals and kick them out. This contest
amounts to this-those out of Office want to
get in, and those in Office want to hold on
where they are.
[Question didn't you impeach Gov
ernor Scott?]
The reason why we didn't impeach Scott
was because we couldn't find the facts upon
which to proceed-there was nothing impeach-
able in the case.
Reuben Tomlnson is Quaker's son, and
is nice man !; but don't know that he is any
better than Moses. Tomlinson used to be
with US all. He was with us at the COM
mencement-was with us long time. He
belongs to the Republican party, but we didn't
think we could trust him. Moses is the best
man of the two. He was born on Carolina
soil, was educated in our State University; is
the son Of our chief Justice, and can accom-
plish more than Tomlinson for the good Of
the State. If Moses proves recreant, we can
impeach and remove him. With the honest
Attorney General whom we shall have, we
can bring him to punishment if he does wrong.
We will be perfectly safe in electing our tick
ct. The speaker closed by again urging his
hearers to stand shoulder to shoulder and vote
for the Regular Nominees of their party.
The next speaker introduced was
D. T. CoRBIN
Who said that he appeared as no candidate
for Office but for the purpose of advocating a
good and honest government in South Caro-
lima. propose to give you my advice hon.
estly and faithfully. If you have confidence
in US vote along with us-if you don't believe
us, vote for the others. Cain said that We
are "bolters," and that we didn't want to fol-
low the majority. That is not so. We didn't
want to follow the candidate which the ma
jority chose. Suppose one hundred men are
chosen to nominate candidate, and the ma
iority chose to 60 wrong and nominate dis
honest candidate, that is no reason why the
rest should follow their lead.
The history of the officers of this State for
the past four years has been disgrace to the
Republican party. In 1868 you elected r.
K. Scott, Governor; D. q. Chamberlain, At
torney-General; N. G. Parker, Treasurer
and j. K. Jillson, Superintendent of Educa-
ton. These officers were elected to carry out
the laws and not 10 rob the people. The OBJ
ject of government is to benefit the people by
sustaining schools, making good highways,
and keeping open courts. The government
was not instituted for the purpose of making
any man rich. At the same time as this
election you elected members to the Legisla-
ture You sent them to Columbia to make
laws. You sent them there to organize the
government, to provide for the schools, to in
stitute courts, to provide for the public debt.
The Legislature authorized the issue of 81 )
100000 of bonds for the purpose of paying
the debt of the State and for other purposes.
The duty of the State officers was to issue
these bonds and no more. Governor Scott
and Parker, and Cardozo, issued S10,0OO,-
900 of these bonds. I think nearly as bad
of some of them as I do of the ku-klux.
These men at Columbia ku-kluxed your mon
ey, and they ought to he at Albany where the
ku-klux are. The "bo;ters" are opposed to
all these rascalities. -. am .. ..-.
In 1868 the Republican party elected F. J.
Moses, Jr., to the office of Adjutant and In,
spector- General. His business was, under the
direction of the Governor, to organize the mil
itia. What did he do? Therei'w only
four companies organized in York. He gave
them arms when there was no necessity tor
them, and when the ku.klux came he took
away the arms. Scott and Moses have pro-
ven themselves weak, vacillating and dishon-
est. Scott said he couldn't protect the people
of York county. The Attorney-General Of
the United States and myself went to him and
told him how the people in Union, York and
Spartanburg were being maltreated by the
ku-klux, and asked him to protect them.
But Scott said "No, I am afraid of them
can't do anything"
The excuse of the ku.klux for what they
did, was that you voted for dishonest men for
Office. The ku.klux had no right to do what
they did; but if they had thought to do any
thing at all, they should have gone on the
men at Columbia who were engaged in rob-
bing the State. You voted for these officers
before, because they said they were Republi-
cans but there is no excuse for you in the fu-
ture if you vote for bid men for Office. =.
There are two tickets in the field. One is
the ticket Of what is called the Regular
Convention. Now what have these Regulars
done? The first thing they did was to nom.
mate Moses for Governor. What does his
past guarantee for the future? If a man is
bad in the past don't trust him afterward.
FL. Moses has received from the State
over 100000 for enrolling the militia Of the
State. 1t didn't cost anything like this sum
for what he has done. He has never made
any report-but he has got the money. /
speak by the record He has drawn the mon.
ey and has never accounted for it. He hasn't
made a report Of how it was expended, and
can't make it. :. ... IN 80,
AS Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, Moses was authorized to draw pay GER
ti6cates for the members and employees Of the
House. The last session lasted about 1O7
days-the pay Of each member was about
$640-of all, the members about $4,000.
Fifteen or twenty clerks and employees are
sufficient for the House; but suppose that the
salaries of these was as much even as those
of the members themselves, that would make
all the expenses only about $4,000. In
stead of that amount, Moses has drawn more
than $500,0O0. He and the President of the
Senate together have drawn 1,250,000. In
the Convention this wasn't denied by Moses.
Mr.. Jones, member of the Convention and
a supporter of Moses, admitted that his can.
didate had drawn too much money, but said
it had been given to the poor people who had
been ku-kluxed. I have inquired of Colonel
Merrill at this place, of Major Brown at Ches-
ter, and have heard from Laurens and Union,
and can't find one person who has been ku.
kluxed who has received a pay Certificate
There is not word Of truth in it. Every
person who was driven away by the ku.klux
was driven away before August After the
troops arrived here, the ku-klux drove no per-
son away. These certificates were issued six
months afterward and were never given to any
of the men who were driven away from their
homes. When they say it was so paid, they