The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-08-10
The Radical Confession of Radical
Wrong-Doing.

Wrong-Doing.
The disclosures OF fraud and extravaganza,
on the part Of the State officials, contained
in the Columbia dispatches OF this paper
are neither new nor strange. These identl-
cal charges have been set forth, week after
week, by the opposition press. Yet there ls
q distinction with difference between Ihe
two sets of charges-the one came from Inc
representatives OF the Conservative taxpay-
ers: the other comes from oftice-holders OF
the Radical party, men who stand h'Sn 10
mower. and were trusted implicitly by the
very officials who are now arraigned before
their party. It was easy enough to pooh
pooh, or fatty deny, what THE CHAKLEsioN ri. l
NEWS might say; but the whole complexion
OF the accusation is changed, in Radlcai
ewes, when Senator and District Attorney
Corbin, Secretary Of State Cardozo' 'uose
Orr and Superintendent Stolbrand are 'ne
public prosecutors. These officers nave oee'i
led on step by step, and the reVelaetons
which they make, as men who kno" Oh "naH
thew speak, shall condemn the cuiprlts 70
lasting shame, even il they do not cause 'ne
nortals OF the penitentiary to yaWn LOT Ihelr
reception. Whatever difficulty Superlntena-
ont stolbrand may have in equipping anu
provisioning his wards, it is not TO De aouos.
ed tbat he would contrive to find a ratlon oi
bread and fat bacon, as we'll as o penitentlai
coll for such convicted public servants as
tho courts might commit to his keeping
Great would be the fall from the uiahonaS'
tho fast horses, the ripe wines, the Iurkisn
carpels the Venetian mirrors, Tue "no'e
nride and pomp OF successful jobbery, 10 the
close-cropped hair, coarse garo' hard pane'
and harder labor OF the State prison. ~
this complexion nay they come at lasll
The principal allegations OF fraud nave
heep made by Senator Corbin, IN puollc
sneech at Greenvllle. and in the course OF
the Blue Ridge suit. He charges that 'he
Land Commission and the Sinking Funa
Commission were huge cheats. He charges
that six million dollars OF State bonds were
unconstitutlonally issued. He charges tna'
ohout seven millions OF conversion bonus
igpr were issued while only one million dollars
were actually converted. He charges That
Sneaker Moses, the prominent Radical can
didate for Governor, is corrupt to the CORE
and has been bribed to support nearly every
measure of importance which the Legisla-
ture have passed. Judge Orr is equally
severe in his denuuciation Of the State off,
cials, and declares that the accused persons
should be prosecuted at once. Secretary OF
State Cardozo, an educated colored man OF
excellent reputation, charges that the pre-
tended conversion bonds, now in suit, ore
not issued pursuant to law. He pronounces
the Validating law and the Conversion law
null and void. Besides these, there are hosts
OF other allegations; amongst them are the
statements that $4,000 OF the Blue Ridge
scrip were paid to Treasurer Parker, s2o' 900
to General Worthington, and $1,000 to Mr.
Hardy Solomon This scrip, recently deci-
ded by Mr.. Justice Willard to be unconstl-
.utional, was issued 'or the exclusive pur-
pose of liq1idating the debts OF the Blue
Ridge Railroad. No one believes that The
persons named as receiving the sums before
mentioned had any legitimate claim against
the company. AS to the charges against
Speaker Moses, it is believed in Columbia
that he received $4,000 for his influence in
passing the Blue Ridge bill, and @ like
amouns for the Validation bill, for The Green
vile consolidation bill, and for defeating the
impeachment OF Governor Scott. The man
lives like Sybarite; the United States
Treasury Department could not print green
backs faster than Mr.. Speaker Moses, "our
s'next Cover Dr." could spend them.
The taxpayers have now the consolation,
such as it is, OF knowing that the leading
Radicals confess the internal rascality and
wholesale swindling OF the State officials.
What next? The thieves deserve punish
ment, They have, doubtless, slowed away
their ill-gotten gains in safe places. 1t may
be impossible to make them dlsgorge. But
this is oaly an additional reason why the
hands OF their accusers should be upheld,
and why the taxpayers should be ready to
cooperate with them. There are young and
active lawyersiin Columbia who stand ready
to prosecute the accused officials. They be-
lleve that there is abundant Radical testi-
mony to insure conviction. The expense
will be trihing, and some hundred dollars
have already been subscribed in Columbia to
the prosecution fund. It rests with the
Charleston public to say whether they WILL
Join their fellow. citizens in the effort to bring
tojustlce, at this auspicious time, thescoun
drels who have stolen and squandered the
hard-won money OF the people.