The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1872-10-09
The Speech Of the Hon. D. T. Corbin.

from the lash and the bullet, and if any
man was entitled TO fair hearing before
them he vas the man. He had come be.
fore the;n n order 20 advocate tEc claims
Of Tomlinson, and ShoS the reasons why
Moses should not be elected; they had
been deceived in the old officers of the
State and so had he, but when a man de-
ceives you for the first time it is his fault,
if for the second time it is your own.
The speaker then went into dissection
Of the record of Moses, &c.
the charges" nc remarked, "arc
matters Of record any 'nan can find
them sub>tanliated by looking Into the
offices il Columbia: Furthermore they
have never been denied. Melton could
not deny ther, the other day, he only
remarked tina; the Boilers candidate was
as great thief as his" Most Of the
charges considered in the speakers re-
marks had come to Us as reports before,
but having been announced by one who
ought to know, with such precision, in
vested them with new force, and wc
might well refer to them again for the Ill
formation Of our readers.
The expenses of the Legislature for
per diem and mileage could not be more
tcan 100000, clerks and pages, if you
take as many again as there was neccs.
sary, SIS, 900, printing, $4,000, make
the allowance very liberal and say $780,
900 in all. Now the pay certificates
known to he issued by Moses, and paid
by the Treasurer, amount to S5TG, 81. 40.
What has become of the money? Who
could have taken it? Well Informed bro
kers assert that there are, besides the above
amount, $3.50, 600 worth Of pay certifi.
Gates out aud unrcdeemrd. Who has TO
suffer? Lcok at the poor Lunatics in
the Asylum; $50, 900 had been app7opri.
atcd for their maintenance. When the
money was asked for the reply was that
it had been paid out on the pay certif-
Gates, and DR.. Ensor had 10 beg the mon
ey to keep the unfortunate insane from
starving. There was an appropriation
Of $4,000 for the Penitsntiary. The
demand for the money elected the same
reply, all paid on the pay certificates;
and Superintendent Stolbr:nd had to
borrow the money to keep the criminals
confined The Quarantine established
to keep infectious diseases from being
brought to your main Commercial! city
had an appropriation Of $4,000, DR..
Libby could fHd no funds in the Treas
ury, it had all been paid out on the pay
certificates the Judge on the Bench
has not received his salary for ten months,
the teachers 60 unpaid the education of
your children, the one thing which above
all others ought 10 BE- nearest to your
heart, has teen neglected; there is no
money for such t,iieS-the pay certifi-
Gates have 70 be honored. And who has
been paid? Let US look at them:
Joseph Mayer, sl,537.z2. Who is
JOS Mayer? Who ever heard Of him?
Voice. )-Ttat man was never born.
Peter Hagerty, sl,72G.5o. Who is
Peter Hagerty? asked an Irishman at
Union on Monday, and he told me he
knew Peter Hagcrty, lived in Dublin,
and spoke Of coming to America but had
never come yet.
John Sturges, S973.23.
Peter Emmenget, sS43l9, and so on
to the end Of the chapter, ell fictitious
names to hide very tbin!y your regular
nominee for Governor who drew the
money. All that is regular about him is
that he is regular thief. $50, at least,
We understood the spcaker.)
What about the enrolling of the militia?
The whole of it could have been done for
$4,000, or at most SIS, 900 dollars
The amount drawn by Moses, as Adju
tant and Inspector General, amounted to
Sl04, 900 dollars. What has really be-
come Of all that money? Well, Moses
bought his nomination with it. lie of.
fered Mr.. Mayer -, 900 to give him his
influence to secure his nomination; it has
not been denied. Judge Orr got up and
said that he could not support Moses Oh
account of lis record, and what honest
man can?
being asked by one Of the audience
why these things had not been told them
before, the speaker remarked that the
full proof OF all these matters had come
into their possession only within the last
three weeks.)
And now as TO Tomlinson; (con-
tinued the speaker), he is an in
tel'igent man, and, although a North
ern man, identified with the interests Of
the State, and above all he is an honest
man. And honesty is above all things
the one you have to look to. The only
charge that has ever 5cen brought
against him is that his influence had
been bought to pass the phosphate bill
such charge is utterly false; the phos-
phate bill is for the benefit Of the State,
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