The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1872-11-27
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The Negro vs.. The carpst,basger
fse' The contest for the United States
Senatorship promises to be a very
earnest and Interesting one. There
are three Richmonds already IN
the ,'field,d and theI scramble
for the position will. in all proba.
bility, be confined to them. There
is first j. j. Patterson, Esq, Of
Blue Ridge fame, and generally
known by the sotbriqnet of Hon,
est john" WITH which it would
seem he has been dubbed upon the
l,tctts q non Iucesado principle
He is a genial sort of man; seems
to bear no malice against any per.
son, party or people is. devoid,
apparently, of any political on 9th.
er convictions, except pecun!ary,
lupoh which he has very decided
views, and always acts up to them.
He would be rather liked If he
would keep out of the lobby and
apply himself fmore to his own
legitimate, private business, ana
less to the development of the re.
sources OF the State In which he
occasionally manifests' u alarming
concern. He is a bad man and a
carpet bagger, but being particu.
larly polite to members of the
Press, our sarcasms are softened in
spite of ms, and we can only say OF
him that wewish he would go back
to- the bosom OF Cameron, from
which he came, and leave poor
South Carolina alone. She has
been well nigh bled to death al
ready. .'.l. -..rg =,
A second candidate for senate.
rial honors, is our excellent gov.
ernor Robert K. Scott. who "has
been running our State" very rap.
idly for four years past. We had
hoped that he was played ont DO
litically, and such has been the
common opinion. He does not
see':i to agree with US however,
and, we hear, imagines that he has
still a strong hold upon the hearts
OF the colored people for whom he
has done 30 much in proving to
the world how worthy they were
OF self government, as shown in
the selection OF himself tor their
first Ctief Magistrate. There is
one good reason perhaps why lie
should be sent to the Senate, and
that is that by 50 doing, his pres.
ence will be saved from South Car.
olina. -. -'' ID.
The third candidate is R. B. El-
liott. at present member of Con
gress from the Third District, and
nrnlaS}Eb maa R}IFb the E,s most Ssp popular celored
State. lie is running on his mus.
Gle merely while his opponents de-
pend mainly upon the power Of
money. So report says. Ea
1t is no fight of onrs. None oi
the candidates can be regarded as
in any way fitted to represent the
Conservative elements in the
State But we can never refrain
from taking sides when a question
is raised, which, we believe, can
effect the welfare of the State,
even in the smallest degree. 'OGi
Judgment, and our inclination
lead rs to wish for Elliott's sue
cess in the Senatorial contest
We do this in the first place be-
cause Elliott is colored man, .anC
in the second place because he il
able and is no worse, if not fal
better in point of character, thar
the other two. He has a con.
sti,uency-the colored people o.
the State-they have none. unles:
the few dozeI political adventur
ers, with whom they are allied
may be SO regarded. In right
the white people ought to have
the choice of one of the Senators
and should place the best ant
ablest man in the State in that i'm
portant position. If we canno
get a capable and honorable
white man, we next prefer to Sc,
representative of the negro race
there. 1t has been our observa
ton that a place in Congress, anc
particularly in the Senate. has {
strong tendency to liberalise tht
views of Southern Radicals. We
would like to sec the experiment
tried upon Elliott. 4sHe has great
influence here with his race, 0anG
should his mind be ever honestly
and earnestly turned in that di
rection, he could do much towards
the amelioration of the miserable
condition of our local govern
ment. The atmosphere of the
Senate might probably be whole
some to him, and he in turn dc
valuable service to- the State