The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-09-05
Whom. Moses or TomlinsOn!


1t is a spectacle very seldom witnessed,
that of race foreign to the major'tyof the
inhabitants of country, and exceedingly in
the minority too feeling themselves so
strong and powerful as to divide into fac
tiops and contend for the control Of certain
portions of that country. Especially re-.
markable is this. speetacle in South CaroEna,
where a third party numbering two-thirds
the united forces of the others, lies dor
uant and inactive and spurned, as it were,
BY both of the ether factions. These two
ctions have hell their Conventions, each
has made nomination. and each declares
that the Fight is to b. earnest, and no com
pronises are to be entertained. Each has
sent forth its platform. and bcio,e the coun-
try must stand or fall by it.
But in politics, it is generally conceded
tina; many features of platforms are III
tended solely in pickwiekian sense, and
VIC arc not to eons,ruc them.as literally and
strictly. trasIi- any more than we would all
the uttersiicss d "a stump speaker, carried
away BY enthusiasm and speaking upon the
spur Of shs y! g9Hp9pt.. s9.. ~. :" ..
Now, the Moses faction has indabitably
dechrea that it seeks not, neither will it
have, Democratic aid, bnt one Of the planks
unquestionably contains bid for Democrat
ic votes
The Tomlinson faction has utterly repudi-
ated the idea Of receiving assistance from
any but hue Republicans, and yet it was ex'
ceedingly sorsy.that the State Democratic
Committee did not endorse one or the other
faction.
We think that :-xtaout .auabt, no Nation
al Administration viii BE- aide to carry the
State Governments If :!'n:h Carolina if run
b.; any such man us Mtscs. The Admins
tration organ. the Washington Chronicle,
has declared that Judge Orr is the rccog
nized leader of the Grant party. which would
indicate that Tomlinson is to be supported
BY the National Radical party. Greeley is
notoriously opposed to corruption, and it il
certain that Moses will get no aid from his
side. Consequently, if Moses becomes our
next Governor, no matter who is President,
he aud his party will 60 by default, for if
the Administration had seriously discounte-
;nancea the mapner in which this State Co.
Sernn,ent has. been conducted, things never
would have been as they are.
IfGreeley, is the President, the. corruption
will cease, but the entering wedge having
been drisen in, and = real split effected, the
next election will witness different state of
things, and nows since carpct-bagsers have
been given thesgoDby, then natives. both
white aadaplosa Democratic and Republi-
cans Mare in. the contretof State affairs.
Msk& repsessasss Temlinsaii excel Mo-
sSs9 1fIe nay bSss better man, but that re-
Ra.;ast$ 1bs sss6 Moses is as bad as he
can Be-, and Il is. difficult to reconcile salts
fsctorl.y, his eard denying the, ffaadalent
issue Of pay certificates with the speeches of
Daddy Cain and others in the Convention,
admitting, the ISSUE. and jnstifying it by
saying that the proceeds had been given to
the uni ,rtunatc victims of the vKu-Kiux in
tie upper Counties
- :, True, Tpn,linson has never ben hnomn to
d. having stolen anything, and the weight of
evidence is NOT in favor Of that 'supposition,
for he resigned his position as State Audi
't,r, when he fund how his party was mall
aging. : Yet he dill make use Of the knowl'
slge he obtained from his position, to make
money, but tha. is no crii0e.- ..~..
;,sIn:ma,erial, the nominees Of the Moses
faction gre equal, if not superior, to those of
tie Boilers, yet meme Of them are such as
any Of US would voluntarily support for any
oEce Of trust orpro6t.
Il: Who shall we vote for? We think We had
bstter wait. and whichever, side offers us
the bcstsern S, Lrov:bed there is q good
sshiee.f1sf Wccsss, 80 with that SIDE: -: