The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-10-15
S. G..
Tuesday Morning. October Is. 1872.
For President of the United States.
HORACE GREELEY. OF New York.
For Vice President
B. GRATZ BROWN, OF Missouri.
Rally to tho Polls.


termine what they will do in the pend
ing State election. No man of ordinary
intelligence. and who has spark of
genuine patriotism in his heart, can be
m indifferent looker-on, when a crisis
affecting SO deeply the interests Of our
dear old State confronts US. This is no
time for mere sentiment, or the indul-
gence of our pet political theories, how
ever wise and just these may be in the
abstract. The question is, will our peo-
pie, our intelligent white people, who
claim to be actuated in their political
conduct by purely patriotic motives,
content themselves with tamely surren-
dering South Carolina into the traitor
GUS and corrupt hands of Franklin J.
Moses? Let every citizen answer this
question for himself, and let him further
remember that evory vote which might
be and is not cast for Tomlinson, counts
half vote for Noses It is idle aud
absurd to say that there is no difference
between Tomlinson and Moses. They
are both Republicans, or claim to be,
but the former has every right to be
considered m honest man, while the
latter cannot be SO pronounced by any
sensible person. There arc thousa nds
OF men in the State whom we would
prefer for Governor before Reuben
Tomlinson; but L. J. Moses, Jr., the
chief of the corrupt ring which has we'll
nigh bankrupted our State, is not one of
them. We accept Reuben Tomlinson
and the Boilers ticket throughout, as
the best Republican candidates which
the matriez of the party in this State af-
fords. tits what we demanded, and what
we are in good faith bound to support.
Reform in our State Government must
necessarily come from the Republican
party. The Boilers, or Orr movement,
is the first effort made in the praise
worthy cause, and whether entirely satis-
fed with it or not, it is the unmistakable
duty of our Conservative voters to give
it what assistance they can. It is the
only practicable weapon within our
reach with which to strike the Infamous
ring that, like the veritable old man of
the sea, has its loathsome legs looked
around the neck of South Carolina, and
will not be shaken off.
The Boilers movement does not pro-
mise all that we would like. It may
sacceed. and still many crying abuses be
left for correction. The men whom it
offers US as candidates may not be alto
gether unexceptionnble. But We must
remember that the decent. intelligent
citizens Of this oppressed State are not
in condition to make terms. or to en-
g'ge in hair-eplitting determinations.
No great undertaking can be accom-
plished in moment. nor can our State
Government be entirely purified in one
election. We must work by degrees,
bravely bend our shoulders to the wheel,
and patiently keep them there till we
are ont of the mire. The most promi-
nent good to be effected by the success
OF the Boilers is the defeat of the regu-
lar ticket. 1t ia party organization prin-
cipally which has stened bad officials
upon US. Through their fears, their
prejudices. and their impenetrable igno-
rance, the oolored people are the blind
slaves of party. A few bad men have
control of the party machinery. They
pack conventions, and have themselves
nominated for office. and then feel sure
OF the negro vote. So long as the no.
mination of convention is equivalent
to election, so long will these bad men
have power to plunder us. If the Bolt
ers win, the power of conventions will
be broken, and with that the influence
OF the unscrupulous villains who now
manipulate them. The negroes can have
no motive in putting dishonest and in
competent men in charge of public af-
fairs any moro than white people have,
and once the false notion of party fealty
which has been instilled into them, and
which eOn, nela tl,am RI voto fDr %Lo 1ou:i