The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-04-20

L loA1oo Va eA0 VOL ah0 w JOAa Ahauc3 bu6
good people of both sections, in read
ljusting the shattered fabric of rcpubli-
can government, and then unite hence
forth in the progress and development OF
our great country, in the line and to the
end for which tho honored fathers of
the Constitution labored.
Trouble I'm the Radical Cump in Penn-
| sylvnnin.
The action OF the late Radical Nomi-
mating Convention in Pennsylvania did
not result in throwing oil upon the
troubled waters. The Press, F'orney s
paper, is loud in its denunciation of the
"self-constituted representatives. mani
pulated by ''the ring" The chief cause
OF dissension is the nomination of one
Gen. Hartranft, as the candidate of the
Republican party for Governor. A
largo number Of otheT Republican papers
OF the State express their disapproval as
warmly as does the Press. Hartranft,
they all say, is dead load to the party;
nor are the other nominations, save o
few, very honorable exceptions of any
better character. The Radical party in
Pennsylvania, as in every other State
where it has enjoyed untrammeled sway,
has drifted into the hands and is now
under the almost absolute sway of o
small clique Of corrupt office-seeking
individuals, who control its conventions
and in fact dictate its nominations. We
do not pretend to assume that this is
condition of things specially ohargeable
to the Republican party, Us such. 1t is
a result that always follows overgrown
party strength, and is only accelerated in
this instance, Us elsewhere in these
United States at the present day, by the
confused and abnormal state Of public
sentiment and intelligence, incident to
the disorganizing tendency of war. Still
the Republican party cannot escape the
responsibility of it's misconduct, anl its
defeat in Pennsylvania will doubtless
follow swift upon the heels of the mani
fest corruption into which it has fallen
and which its own organs arc free to ad-
NIT.
The most damaging complaint against
Hartranft is the connection which it is
alleged and generally believed that he
had with the Infamous ''Evans fraud"
A committee of the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature investigated the transactions OF
Evans, and unearthed the startling proof
that Evans, who had been appointed by
Gov. Geary the special agent of the
State to collect certain war claims against
the Federal Government, swindled the
State to the tune of 1901, l16 SO. Evans
had confederates in the Treasury De-
partment at Washington and in the Lc-
gislature at Har,isburg, by whose aid
the fraud was consummatel, and among
whom the spoils were divided. OF these,
Hartranft, the ring nominee for Govern
or, is said to have been one; and the
honest members OF the Republican party
are Justly indignant nt having such IN
odious candidate fostcd upon them.
From tho discordancc thus created in
the Republican ranks, it is reasonable to
predict that there Will be serious dc
fection of those who have heretofore
supported Grant, whose candidate Uar-
trnpft is. Indeed, the prospect brightcns
from day to day, i'll every part Of the
Union, of the defeat OF Grant and a re-
demption OF the country froin the hands
of iobbers and spectators, ard, better
still, from the mHc.ssrom Of military
ceuralism, to wLicii it is SO rapidly
verging, under the rule of Grant ard lis
Office holders.
Tho first batch OF cmisrai.ts from
Alsaco and Lorraino arrived in New
York last week. They numbered ] eco
i'll all, and Immediately left for the great