The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-10-26
Ex-Auditor Gary, and his Mani
fcst0.

This gentleman was candidate on
the Boilers ticket for State Treasurer
His apponcnt was the Hon. =. L. Car
doza. The official count shows that the
latter gentleman is successful. Gary, as a
matter Of course, is mortified, mad and
ashamc. His dear god--the sweet idol
of his boyship's aspirations-the State
Treasury and the exceedingly conspic-
uousness of his ridiculous failure to get
it, have conspired to make the man pre-
sent to the world moving panorama
of his real mature. At one time in
South Carolina, Edwin L. Gary was re-
gardcd by the Republican party as
t"lerah!y clever and promising youth !;
not, how, Yer, SO far as executive ability
was concerned (for no one has ever
accused him with possessing the slight.
est part of that traitD but as good
clerk-a young man who could keep
books very well, and write pretty nsat
fist. lie was employed by Parker as
chief clerk in the Treasury Office, pre-
vicus to the act of His Excelcncy's,
which made him Deans successor as
Auditor. While in the former position,
acting in the capacity of clerk, under
the honest and noble martyr, Niles G.
Parker, Il is thought he contracted a
longing appetite for the position of his
employer. Whether this be true or not,
y tess5 hut i annld seem,
from the itching palm he has displayed
for the handling of the public fluids,
there must be somewhat of truth in
the supposition. Taking it for granted,
however, that he did, or did not, form
his attachment for Parker's office, while
working for that individual, yet it is
certain that he was the nominee of the
Boilers, who have been ignominiously
defeated. This, then, furnishes the pub
lie with a sufficient explanation of his
remarkably boyish AMI strange
conduct asinca his defeat. Feeling
that he had been told that he
was unworthy of the confidence of his
eoantrymen By the general and decisive
voice of the ballot box, aud that his
place would soon be abolished by limita-
tion of law, and that none of the off.
GERS elected had sufficient confidence in
his honesty to secure for him even a
clerical appointment, under them, he de-
cided to throw every obstacle in the way of
the future administration, before hay
ing his position and hence his strangely
Inconsistent address to the "Citizens of
South Carolina" Mr.: Gary affects to
play the role of an "honest" man. For
his sake we trust that he is. But how
far the honesty Of man who,
according to his own words, was offered
several bribes not to do certain things,
and which he himself kept carefully
concealed from the people until after
tletsottd IN the regular Republican State
Conesntion can bear scrutiny and
be judged to bo honest, the citi-
zens to whom he appeals for hear
ing, must render a verdict. If Gary
had been the man that lie now would
have the public to believe him to be,
Why in tho name. Of Heaven did he not
expose the men who endeavored to cur
rupt him before he got the nomination
of Corbin, Orr and sawysr's GonVsu,
tion ? 1t would seem that something of
an acquieacenco on his part (granting
that offers were made) was manifested or
else one so honest as himself would
have rushed into print, Immediately I.
Clearly he has a penoRant for such noto.
riety, and if backed up all the time by
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