The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-10-10
Pen Picture of Franklin ]. Moses, Jr.

Pen Picture OF Franklin j. moses, Jr.
Much has been said and written concerning
the official character and actions of Franklin j.
Moses, jr., the candidate of the regulars" for
Governor of South Carolina But the palm
must be yielded to a correspondent of the Sum-
ter Neaus, who draws picture of Moses venal-
ity and corruption with the strongest hand, and
rivals the immortal Junius in his bold denun-
citation of the populations and frauds of this
"native" South Carolinian. How any individ-
ual, white or black, claiming to be decent and
honest, can support Moses for Governor, is be-
yond our comprehension. His record is before
the people, and that record is blackened with
the most shameless prostitution of his otf1clai
positions to subserve private ends and personal
gain, and yet there are persons ready to wink
at his election on the ground of opposition to
"carpet-baggers," even though the State is
ruined thereby. We copy the main portion of
the communication in the Sumter News, and
would remind our readers that this comes from
the home of Moses, where he was born and
raised:
AS an humble citizen, and almost hopeless of
the future, have been opposed for years past
to taking any part in contentious between par
ties in the State. But since the partial develop
ment of Moses high-handed and wholesale
depredations upon the public finds, I must con-
fess cannot calmly face the certain consequence
of his election to the Governorship of the State,
while circumstances afford chance for his de-
feat Let Tomlinson be what he may. Let him
be as bad as his worst political enemies would
represent him, still cannot believe that any
one age can produce more than one monster OF
such an Unsuitable nav, and such hell-Dorn en-
terprise in financial deviltry as this same Frank
Moses. He had the bare-faced efrontery IN
recent speech before Charleston meeting, to
use the following astonishing language, viz:
"I can saw with clear conscience that the
white and black people of my native County
and town know that not one Of these charges is
true-I need no defence before them" The de-
vii himself can't beat this for brazen-faced i'm
pudence. There is not a man, woman or school.
bow. white or black, in the County OF Sumter,
who is not perfectly satisied, that Frank Moses
has robbed the public Treasury on most gl-
gaptic scale. Everybody in his native County
knows that at the time he got into office IN the
Radical party, he was as poor as any OF us. II
it was possible that Frank Moses was an honest
man. then he is emphatically the biggest fool on
record for not showing the public how he comes
in possession of such vast amount of money.
On salary of So, 900, he feasts and revels with
the reckless abandon of a spendthrift million
aire, and yet asks for proof for his dishonesty.
He parades an ostentatious arrogance, the ex-
ouisite perquisites of public plunder in open
day. and faunts in the very faces of the people,
the shining trophies of his matchless skill IN
fraud, and cries. prove me robber. This pea
cock vanity displays gratuitously, and absolute
" forces upon the public view evidence ABUNDANT,
pointed and dan,ning, and yet he has the internal
impudence to call for proof He stands to-day
before the bar of public opinion as plainly
stamped with criminality, as if fpMblac th,ef was
branded on his forehead. AS we'll might proof
be demanded that the sun is shining while ms
meridian rays illumine cloudless sky. Indeed,
he seems to have eXerted his utmost to show
himself central Colossus in ring OF thieves,
and thereby establish his claim to the highest
place of honor in the kingdom of Roguedom.
And could the honest property-holder, be safe
from his clutches, we should say, by all means
let him wear the crown without rival, present
or prospective. .e
If this party can carry such dead welgnt OF
ipiouity as this noted specimen OF double-dls-
titled diabolism, and not sink under it, then
surely it will prove the truth of the assertion SO
often made, that the more dishonest man is,
the more certain is he of success in its ranks.
For never has any man in this country, not
even Ohio Scott, been as bitterly cursed and de-
spised in his public character. Assuredly the
honest curses of the people will follow him to
his grave and then embalm his memory in a
most internal immortality.