The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-11
Give tho People Light.

leaving the regular rogues, and
in bringing out an opposition ticket, did
30 because they were seriously dis
affected, and honestly displeased with
the nomination of T. J. Moses, Jr., for
Governor, and the other Objectionable
nominations. These boilers are pre-
samed to know O great deal more of the
character and conduct of their leaders
than we outsiders do, and when they
abandoned the Convention and regular
organization Of their party, we knew
and they must have known still better
that there existed abundant cause.
This belief rested partly, OF course,
upon what is matter of general noto-
riety, in regard to the regular nominees,
and upon the extraordinary revelations
and well-sustained charges made in the
Convention itself, and in it's disgraceful
proceedings, as we'll as upon the sup
posed wider, deeper and more init
mate knowledge the boilers possessed of
the fellows they left behind them in the
deserted camp. We think some degree
OF confidence may also be credited to
the motives of Judge Orr and his i'm
mediate associates, based upon the
better character they sustain before the
community. No charges of corruption,
that we know of, have ever been ad-
vanced against Judges Orr and Greene,
and none against their candidate for
until after his nomination was made.
The Nation, journal of high standing,
has vouched for his integrity, ability
and honesty-basing its opinion upon
long acquaintance. That journal has
said that ''could he be elected, South
Carolina would have. for the first time
since the war; creditable Governor,
sagacious aud honorable"
In view of the standing which is thus
claimed for them. and the forbearing and
ever generous construction which it is
the general desire among respectable
persons to place upon their conduct and
motives, we think they owe it to the
country to justify it. if they can, and to
place beyond question the good charac-
ter and honest lives of their candidates.
They claim to be par excellence the party
of Integrity, to desire the correction and
reform of abuses. the Inauguration of a
new era of honest State administration.
Of economical expenditure and strict &C.
countability. This position challenges
investigation, and, as was to be expected,
has already brought forth crop of i'm
putations, iusinuations and charges,
principally. so far, against the candidate
for Governor. It will not do for the
boilers to be silent under these charges,
nor to content themselves with general
denials of them, or to merely make pro-
testations of innocence. This would be
to adopt the weak tactics OF their adver-
saries, MS exemplided in repeated in
stances by Chamberlain, who pretends to
think his character !. tower of strength,
rous swindles laid ut his door. The
most glaring and presumptuous instance
Of this sorry and himsy resort to mere
denial, was made by Moses, Jr.. few
days since. He denied in toto, and in
detail, all charges brought against him,
whether they concern pay certificates,
armed force, purchase Of arms, or any
thing else, and endeavors to throw the
onus pro6andi upon those who make
them. Those who set up for reform, and
who claim to have character. cannot Of
ford to adopt this weak device of the
regular rogues. It is too thin to cover
the nakedness Of their villainy; and, as
an example, it would be dangerous ard
impolitic for honest men to follow.
We heard the denial made by District
Attorney Corbin, in the Boilers Con-
vention, of the completely of Mr.. Tom
linson, charged by Judge Mackey, in
dishonest dealings in the matter of the
phosphate bill and the Greenville Rail
road stock. Notwithstanding this, it
has again been brought forward by SEQ
retary Cardozo and Judge Melton, with