Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-08-08
Too Late.

The Administration party Tor nearly
four years has had matters pretty much
its own way. 1t started with great ma
lorities in Congress, and it was almost
equally strong at the North and South.
The people were not difficult to please,
and Hope told hattcring tales without
number and without restraint. And this
is the Administration which now finds it
self put upon the defensive and forced to
resort to hundred expedients to save it
self from utter ruin. In South Carolina,
for instance, q State in which the so-called
Republicans have run riot, pilling up day
by dav the public debt, and carrying on
systematized pluniering which it is fright
ful to consider, the real Republicans are
Just finding out that no party can stand
the Scott Moses style Of managing mat
ters.
Judge Orr and men of his way of think
ing are seeking to defend General Grant in
South Carolina against himself, and to
save him from the consequences of his
own blindness in giving the control Of the
State into perhaps the very dirtiest hands
that ever manipulated the public money.
Grants tax -gatherers and treasurcrs have
extorted and stolen the money Of the poor
and Grants soldiers, ut the point Of the
bayonet, have backed up the thieves. The
powers at Washington come rather tardily
to their work OF regeneration. Judge
Orr Mr. Corb!n, and Ire rest of the quasi
Republicans OF the State have allowed the
knaves TO have tter OWL Way, while the
Head Centre at Washington. has. been deaf
to complaints which have been loud
enough in The ears q; every body else.
Now the Graatlans have discovered that
the State mast be rcdecmcd-from Grant
ism that AIessrs. Scott d Co, must be
sent TO Coventry; and that the matters in
the pool bankrupt and plundercd State
must be .soLiehow arranged before the
next election And loudly tl:e1 call upon
the Greeley and Brown men 10 help ;hr!n
in the desperate worl; which they hdre
undertaken.
Now, the funniest feature of he whole
case is Judge OlT's prescription .0r the
evils which atilict The State. lie wants
all the white men u declare for Grant"
and ally themselves with the regular Re
publican party. The State and National
elections do not coina togn!ho.: tu' qr"er-
" enough. il there is TO be any reform O
State affairs, Judge Orr means ih;.i the
Grant party shall lave all the benefit ot it
The self ll-stylcd Retorners have been asked
10 keep the State al, National canvasses
separate Lut, Sls they do not see how any
thing is to be made :or Grant by doing
that, they are but little inclined 10 do it.
The GRANTEES arc offered the privilege Of
leading the State Reform which IS s. ter
riblv needed but they cannot understand
how anybody can be :, Rctormer 'nless he
is ready to vote for the rcnomination car
ddate They seem To have some mudd!ed
notion that the Grant party alone can get
them out of it.
Judge Orr may he exceeding in love
with reform, but it is rather suspicious to
find him Of the opinion that reform means
" declaring for Grant" His remedies are
altogether too universal Are you squcel-
ed 10 death by taxgathers-dcc.;lye fol
Grant Are you toymcntcd by do,aicili.-
~ vlslts-dorlarc ior Grant Are You DIS
5usted with The spectacle Of a iair State
in the felon grasp Of swindlers and cx;or-
,ioncrs-declarc for Grant That is, if you
wcuid be rid OF Grantisln, Try anOile"
lose OF it swcc;cncd with sugar Of .ciorF:.
Isn't this politial homeopathy with Il ven
geancc? Treatment Of some kind it ran
not be denied that poor South 'aroli'
needs. The enforcement ACT n9t hv an
means dead letter. There Is q PIE d.
warrants for arrest" we are told, III Union
county alone, foot and a half thick.
Not dozen citizens oi he county ,f SAX.
on blood will escape" This is on.y a
specimen statement, aus !. would be easy
enough to add to it. They talk of moth
ing there but arrests and taxes! They
groan for reform, and ;hev are told to vote
for Gen. Grant Judge Orr can offer them
nothing but hair OF the dog which bit
them IN unfortunate people indeed !
New York Tribune.