The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-21
COLUMBIA. S. G.
Wednesday Morning. August 81, 1872.
For President of the United Stotes.
HORACE GREELEY. OF New York.
For Vice President
B. GRATZ BROWN, OF Missouri.
The Two CnndIuates.

~ AZ ~" SOdOtohJ ohoSAoIOoA SA"S
the two best supported aspirants for the
Office of Governor before the Conven-
tion, to-day, will be the Hons. +. j.
Moses, Jr., and D. FL. Chamberlain.
Other entries for the race will, doubt
less, be made, but 30 far, these are the
two favorites. Tho former is supposed
to have large colored backing. but is
especially the representative of that class
OF our colored fellow.citizens who have
become contaminated by Office during
the last four years, and now think them
selves likely to obtain better share Of
the spoils under such leadership. The
latter is par excellence the rings man.
Backed by Scott, Parker, et III omne
genus, his hope lies in the length of their
purse. For the rest, they are both of
them worthy representatives Of their
pestiferous constituencies archie
types Of tho classes to which they seve-
rally belong. It is scalawagism end car
petbaggery reduced to the last analysis.
1t is pull Dick, pull Devil, over the pub
lie Treasury.
Although not very pleasant for tax
payers to contemplate, it is not hard to
see why these two men, of NIL others,
have been brought into such promi-
nence by their respective partisans.
Moses is the darling pride OF the corrup-
tionists, the idol of the lobby. Therein
lies his strength. If the record made
out for him by his most trusty friends
speaks but half the truth, he comes for
ward foul with the prostitution of trusts
which he has held for the last four years,
seeking only broader field for the exer-
oise of his dangerous talents. It is said,
boldly charged by Republican speakers,
that F. J. Moses has flooded the State
with bogus pay certificates, amounting, as
is charged, to near million OF dollars.
The Treasurer claims to have already paid
out nearly $500, 900 on these certificates.
The cry is. still they como. and Heaven
only knows how many hundreds of thou
sands are still out. In the matter OF the
arms account. too, the purchase of new
guns, and the alteration of Springfield
rifles to breech-loaders, &C., which bust
ness was entrusted to F. j. Moses, the
State was chiselled out OF near 5000, 900.
Lastly, his name appears upon the un-
explainable list of benefciaries of the
armed force fund, from which it seems
he received 1000 for services which
seek not the light Of day.
Snoh are some of Dicks claims in the
contest. Now, let us turn for a moment
to the Devil. We beg pardon-it is not
to the gross conception represented by
the dry Angle. .Snxon term that We com.
pare our honorable Attorney General,
but to his Satanic Majesty, as creation
of high art, to the subtle ephistopheles
Now, as our readers know, We have al
ways had rather predilection in Mr.
Chamberlain's favor. We believe, Goo
forgive us, that once we even inscribed
his name upon the roll of Republican,
whom we thought to be honest. A man
OF refined habits, cultivated tastes and
undoubted intellectual force, it was hare
not to discriminate between him and the
coarser scoundrels of his fellowship
But we have closely examined the record
which his acts of Office have made fol
him, and are now forced to the unwill
ing but deliberate conclusion that ht
only differs from the others in this, that
being of all 70 esthetic nature, he has re
duced his villainy to fino art. Thi
gentleman, however, is schemer OF NJ
mean order. He has never descended
that we know Of, to petty rascalities
But whenever bonds were to be manipu
lated, and the job became q question o
millions, the Attorney General was SUR
to have his finger in the pie, although h.
has shrewdly managed to conceal hi
share OF the plums. It is not the leas
of Mr.. Chamberlain's recommendation
to the ring, and offences against the peo
pie, that he was the first to discover tha
incarnation of fraud and engine of ol
iniquities. the oherubio Kimpton; ant
now these two, perhaps more than AN.
others of the conspirators, stand respon