The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-10-01
s. G.
tuesday Morning. October 1, 1872.
For President of the United States.
HORACE GREELEY. OF New York.
For Vice President
II. CRATE BROWN, OF Missouri.
Reuben Tomlinson.

until our State election, when the voters
OF South Carolina will be called upon to
decide which Of the two, Reuben Tom
1inson or franklin j. Moses. Jr., shall be
our next Governor. It is high time,
therefore, that the Conservatives were
settling upon the course which they will
pursue. We desire to say something to-
day in favor of Reuben Tomlinson; for,
being ourselves thoroughly persuaded
that he is inoomparably superior to his
competitor. we are anxious that the intel
igent and well-meaning citizens of the
State should regard him in the same
light. and should give him general and
shearty support at the polls. We are we'll
aware that it is but ordinarily weak COM
mendation Of man to say that he is
tbetter than Moses. It would be diff
cult task to find any man who would
suffer by comparison with this renegade
South Oarolinian. But more than this
can bs said for Tomlinson. He is not
only far better than Hoses, but there is
no Northern man in his party who has
sbeen in anywise associated with public
affairs during the past four years. of bet
ter character than he.
Tomlinson is as acceptable man as
1we could reasonably have hoped to see
nominated by the Republican party.
We can see nothing which can be urged
upon just grounds against his integri-
ty. The very worst that can be said of
him is, that he has been in times past
the political ally of Moses, Parker & Co.,
whom he is now fighting. Previously
to his being brought forward as ON
opposing candidate to Moses, not word
of harm was ever whispered about him.
He was pointed out as the wonderful
carpet-bagger that would not steal nor
participate in schemes of legislative cor
ruption. No sensible man can place any
reliance upon the statements made by
Noses and his followers against Tomlin-
son. Their charges do not amount to q
feathers weight. They have every in
duoement which could influence base
mind to asperse the good name of Tom
inson, and no one who is acquainted
with their acts, during the past four
years, can imagine for o moment that
they would scruple at the use Of any
means to secure new lease Of power.
Nc who will wantonly violate the eighth
commandment will not hesitate at an in
fraction of the ninth. It is an axiom as
old as the hills, that he who steals will
lie. There is bat precious little doubt
on that point, and consequently we
assert that whatever Moses or his associ-
ates may say about Tomlinson. or about
anybody or anything else which it is
their interest to misrepresent, is un.
worthy of the least consideration.
Tomlinson has some bad men support
ing him, beyond all question. but that
could not be avoided. Without their as
distance there could be no opposition
movement in the Republican or Radical
party in South Carolina. Itis one of the
misf0rtunes Of the times that bad men
mostly have political control in South
Carolina. There is not enough of good
material in the Republican party in this
State to organize and carry on reform
movement without giving place and pro.
minence to questionable men. But bad
as were some Of the boilers, they are not
to be spoken of in the same breath with
the regular rogues." The former Sc
lected their best man as their standa rd-
bearer; the latter gave bonus to ras-
cality by selecting the worst OF their lot
to be Governor. We publish in another
column an article from the Nation
upon South Carolina politics, which we
commend to the attention of our read
ers. It will be seen that the Nation
gives the most unqualified endorsement
to Mr. Tomlinson. This is certainly a
very strong guarantee OF his good cha
gacter. There is no paper in the United
States more reliable than the Nation,
and its emphatic approval Of the boiling
candidate gives us tho assurance that
lac is worthy of the suffrage of any