Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-08-08
Too Late.

The Administration party for nearly
four years has had matters pretty much
its own way. 1t started with great ma
lorities in Congress, and it was almost
equally strong at the North and South.
The people were not difficult to please,
and Hope told hattering tales without
number and without restraint. And this
is the Administration which now finds it.
self put upon the defensive and forced to
resort to a hundred expedients to save it
self from utter ruin. In South Carolina,
for instance q State in which the so-called
Republicans have run riot, pilling up day
by dav the public debt, and carrying on
systematized plundering which it is fright
fill to consider, the real Republicans are
Just finding out that no party can stand
the Scott-Moses style Of managing mat
ters.
Judge Orr and men of his way Of think
ing are seeking to defend General Grant in
South Carolina against himself, and to
save him from the consequences Of his
own blindness in giving the control of the
State into perhaps the very dirtiest hands
that ever manipulated the public money.
Grants tax-gatherers and treasurcrs have
extorted and stolen the money Of the poor,
and Grant soldiers, ut the point Of the
bayonet, have backed up the thieves. The
powers at Washington come rather tardily
to their work OF regeneration. Judge
Orr, Mr.. Corbin, and Lie rest of the quasi
Republicans Of the State have allowed the
knaves to have ;helr own way, while the
Read-C Centre at Washington. has. been deaf
to complaints which have been loud
enough in The ears o.. every body else
Now the Graat!aas have discovered that
the State mast be rcdecncd-trom Grant
ISM that AIessrs. Scott d Co, must be
sent TO Coventry; and that the matters in
the poor bankrupt and plundered State
must be somehow arranged before the
next election, And loudly tEex call upon
the Greeley and Brown men 10 help 'hrn
in the desperate work which hey have
undertaken.
Now, Tie funniest feature of The whole
case is ,Iudge Or's prescription .or the
evils which afict The State lie wants
all the white men u declare for Grant
and ally themselves with the regular Re-
publican party. The State and National
elections DO not CONE toga!ho- but queer
" enough. il there Is 10 be any reform o.
State affairs, judge Orr means that the
Grant party shall lave ali the benefit Of it
The seii-stylcd Rciormers have been asked
10 keep the State AZ, National canvasscs
separate bu;, 'as they 90 not see how any
thing is to be made :or Grant by doing
that, they are but little inclined to do it.
The GRANTEES arc offered the privilege oi
leading the State Reform which IS 50 ter-
riblv needed but they canncl understand
how anybody can he :; Retormer 'nlcsa lie
is ready to vote for The renomlnation can
didate. They seem 10 have some muddled
notion that the Grant party alone can get
them cNt Of 1t.
Judge Orr NAY bc exceeding in love
with reform, but it is rather suspicious to
find him of the opinion that reform means
declaring for Grant !" His remedies are
altogether too universal. Are you squccz-
ed 10 death by taxgathers-dcciare fol
Jr2Gt Alc YOU to!u!c!ltcu u. iOi;!lclli.N-
lv visits-dc;!arc lor Grant Are You dis
tusted with thc spectacle OF a TAR State
in the fe!on grasp OF swindlers and ex;or-
tioncrs-declarc for Grant That is. if you
would he rid Of Grantis!n, Try anojir.,
lose OF it sweetene.t with sugar Of reform:
Isn't this polltial homeopathy with u ven
geancc? Treatment Of some kind it cali
rot DC dea:ed that poor South raroil
needs. The enforcement act noi iev am
means dead letter There is q pc Of
warrants for arrest we are told, in Union
county alone, a foot and half thick.
Not a dozen citizens oi he county IF Sax.
on blood will escape This is on.y a
specimen statement, aus !. would be easy
enough to add to it. They talk of moth
ing there but arrests and taxes! They
groan for reform. and they are told to vote
for Gen. Grant Judr" Orr can offer them
nothing but u hair OF Tie dog which bit
them An unfortunate people indeed !
New York Tribune.