Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-08-08
Too Late. .

The Administration party for nearly
four years has had matters pretty much
its own way. It started with great ma
]orities in Congress, and it was almost
equally strong at the North and South.
The people were not difficult to please,
and Hope told fattering tales without
number and without restraint. And this
is the Administration which now finds it.
self put upon the defensive and forced to
resort to hundred expedients to save it
self from utter ruin. In South Carolina,
for instance, q State in which the so-called
Republicans have run riot, pilling up day
by day the public debt, and carrying on a
systematized plundering which it is fright
ful to consider. the real Republicans are
Just finding out that no party can stand
the Scott Moses style Of managing mat
ters
Judge Orr and men Of his way Of think
ing are seeking to defend General Grant in
South Carolina against himself, and to
save him from the consequences of his
own blindness in giving the control OF the
State into perhaps the very dirtiest hands
that ever manipulated the public money.
Grants tax-gatherers and treasurcrs have
cxtorted and stolen the money Of the poor,
and Grants soldiers, at the point of the
bayonet, have backed ny the thieves. The
powers at Washington come rather tardily
to their work OF regeneration. Judge
Orr, Mr.. Corb!n, and the rest Of the quasi
Republicans Of the State have allowed the
knaves to have ;ielr own way, while the
Head-C Centre at Washington. has been deaf
to complaints which have been loud
enough in the ears o! every body else.
Now the Graat!aas have discovered that
the State mast be rcdecmcd-from Grant
ism that AIessrs. Scott d Co, must be
sent to Coventry and that the matters in
the poor bankrupt and plundercd State
must be somehow arranged before the
next election And loudly tl:ex call upon
the Greeley and Brown me! 10 help them
in the desperate wofl; which thcy hare
undertaken,
Now, the funniest feature of the whole
case is Judge OiTs prescription :or the
evils which atilict The State He wants
all the white men 10 declare for Grant"
and ally themselves with the regular Re
publican PARTY. The State and National
elections DO not come togr,ho..: bu' queer
" enough. If there IS 10 DC any reform o.
state affairs, judge Orr means iha; the
Grant party shal: lave ali the benefit Of it
Tie seli-stvlcd ReioImers have been asked
10 keep the State al, National canyasses
separate bu;, as they do not see how any
thing is to be made ;or Grant by doing
that, they are but little inclined to do it.
The GRANTEES are offered the privilege Of
leading the State Reform which IS 50 ter
riblv needed but they cannot understand
how ANYBODY can lie 4 Reformer Mless he
is ready to vote for the renomrnatiou can
didate. They seem 10 have some mudCiled
notion that the Grant party alone can get
them out Of it.
Judge Orr may be exceeding in love
with reform, but it is rather suspicious to
find him of the opinion that reform means
" declaring for Grant !" His remedies are
altogether too universal. Are you squeez-
ed to death by taIgathers-dc,ia iare fol
IraHt are you "! u!eHtcu u. 'tOiiitll'-
~ visits-dcc!arc ior Grant Are You dis
susted with The spectacle OF TAR State
in the felon grasp oi awindlers and eX'or-
tioncrs-declarc for Grant That IS if YOU
would be rid. OF Grantism, Try anot.le?
lose OF it swcetcned with sugar Of reforn:
Isn't this politial homeopathy with !; ven
geancc Treatment Of some kind it can
not be denied that poor South "arnliI'
needs. The enforcement act aot hv am
means dead letter There is q PIE Of
warrants for arrest" We are told, in Union
county alone, foot and half thick.
Not dozen citizens oi .he county nf Sax.
on blood will escape" This is on.y a
specimen statement, ans i would be easy
enough 10 add to it. They talk Of moth
ing there but arrests and taxes! They
groan for reform, and they are told to vote
for Gen. Grant Jude" Orr can offer them
nothing but hair OF Tie dog which bit
them An unfortunate people indeed !
New York Tribune.