The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-07
Tho Two Tickets.


The white people OF the State are very
generally agreed to put no candidates in
the field for State offices. The Conserva-
tive preas of the State, which We pre-
sumo is quite a safe index of the public
sentiment in this regard, is unanimous
in the opinion that there should be no
Conservative opposition. Our concur
renee in this view has been on f1le for
several months. Inasmuch, however. as
we decline, from prudential reasons, to
have candidates of our own choosing, it
is eminently proper that we weigh we'll
the respective merits and demerits OF the
two Radical tickets, to which we are to
be confined in our choice. Some of our
contemporaries seem to see very little
difference between the two. The ex-
pressive terms ''biled crow and buz.
zard," ''bl4ok dog and monkey" &c.,
are used to convey their estimation of
the comparative characters of Tomlinson
and Moses.
We have taken, and still take, far
more comfortable. and, as We think, a
far more correct view OF the case.
If Tomlinson is no better than Moses,
then there is no choice even of evils left
US, and no hope of reform, however the
election may result. People who think
that way, who see only "biled crow and
buzzard" offered up before them. should,
to be consistent, make an effort to secure
some third and more palatable dish. We
throw out this suggestion particularly
for the consideration OF our contempo.
rary, the Charleston News, which pro.
fesses to have local reform 30 much at
heart that it fell into the liveliest appre.
tensions. afew days ago. lest the "dan-
gerous lead of the PHOENIX" might
deprive the good people Of the State OF
the charming prospect held forth to
them of choice between "biled crow
and buzzard." Now, we have to say to
our friend of the Neos, if we thought as
he processes to think, We would not hesi-
tate to advocate just what he seems 80
much to dread, and which is to nomi-
nate another set of candidates. against
whom no suspicion could be entertained.
We would not, at any rate, as the
Ne~s is certainly doing. bolster up the
odious and corrupt Moses. by berating
the better Tomlipson. If they are both
thieves. both bribe-takers and stepped in
venality, We would all be acting the part
OF poltroons and faithless citizens of the
State to tamely submit to the election of
either one as Governor Of South Caro-
lima. But We do not, we are glad to say,
think as the Ne,0s does. Reuben Tom
linson, until his nomination by the
Boilers Convention, was the boast of
the Republican party, on account of his
integrity. He was pointed to by the
Radicals as living refutation of the
charge that the carpet baggers were all
thieves and sooundrels. His integrity
was unquestioned by the Conservatives,
even in the bitter campaign Of l87O,
when they said everything bad which
they knew or had reason to suspect of
their political antagonists. He was. in
deed. sort of curiosity among carpet
bagg, RS, because he wouldn't steal,
or, ut least, had that reputation.
Everybody believed he was honest,
and very reasonably. too, for it is hardly
within the bounds of possibility that the
other guilty officials would have allowed
him to remain as standing reproaoh to
them if there had been any truthful
grounds Of suspicion. Now. because he
heads an opposing political faction. the
Irregular rogues" turn and attempt to
blacken the only white spot left on their
dirty record, that declaring that there
was no honest carpet-bagger, for even
Tomlinson is thief. Now, if Tomlin-
son is corrupt, they have been lying to
rs all along, and without any apprecia-
ble motive. The chances are as thou
+, sand to one that they are lying now.
when they have every inducement to rob
him OF his good name. esle
We are sorry to zee that the Moseyites