The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-19
COLUMBIA, s.. C. {;
Tues s,ay Morning March 49, 1879.
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the eyes Of the colored people to q true
sense OF the duties OF citizenship. the
champion Of corruption replies to our
charge Of his not being representa-
tive white man." by bowling about Ku
Klux outrages. It is the Radical dema-
gogue's usual trick, but it is becoming
threadbare. The colored people are be-
ginning to get little insight into the
deceitfulness> Of suoh pleas. The Ku
Klux Klan. as it is called, or persons
under the guise of Ku Klux, committed
q number OF brutal and shocking out
rages, beyond all doubt; but We fail to
SEQ, and every sensible colored man will
fail to see, how that fact can make an
honest man white man. or q good, re-
spectable negro Of the nondescript who
offers himself to the people OF Columbia
as Alderman OF the Fourth Ward. he
seems to think it very improper that
personal issues should be made in this
municipal election. We can readily
understand why the would.be Alderman
wishes to quiet suoh questions. If per-
sonal integrity and fitness are made
the measure Of candidates chances for
election, he would Inevitably be counted
out; but If considerations Of that cha
racter are to have. no weight; if party
strife can be raised, and profession OF
Repnblicanism, however false, 40 it be
but loud-mouthed, made the only reqni.
site, then he will be as sure to go in as
Columbia will be TO ''go up"
To men of His stripe-the carpet-bag
element, the floating scum of the North,
irresponsible adventurers, who have
dooked into South Carolina, and by stir
ring up i'll blood and distrust between
the two races of native citizens foisted
themselves into public positions, and
gained control of the finances of the
State-is solely due the enormous in
crease of our public debt and our ruin
ous taxation. They have come for
money. and for nothing else. Not
money earned by honest toll, but by
public jobs-venality and outright plum
dering OF the peoples funds. They
have already pocketed millions. but they
are insatiate. They debauch the minds
OF the untutored colored men, with
whom they are associated. and are q
curse to them no less than to the ooun-
try. They restlike an incubus upon the
industry and growth of the State. and,
in checking the increase of capital. keep
down the price of labor. They serve no
good purpose in our midst, and the
sooner they are thrown into that obscu-
rity from which they sprung. the better
for all our people, black and white.
Among this class the "white representa-
tive"-God save the mark-of the Fourth
Ward is prominent. He has been the
henchman of Scott & Co., and their
interruptions advocate and apologist in
all their jobs and frauds upon the State.
His part during the late session of the
Legislature was to preach an increase of
taxation from frat to last until the out
rage was consummated. He is the con-
slant traducer of the white people Of the
State. What excuse is there for making
such man as that an Alderman of the
city? What interests does he represent?
We repudiate him for white man. He
knows he is not one. His skin may be
white, but he has not the trust and esteem
OF corporal's guard of honest white
people. Neither can he, with more pro-
pristy. be said to represent the oolored
people. The fact that he may pay taxes
on his ill-gotten gains does not, more
over, make him proper representative
of the taxpayer, as he sophistically in
ninuates. He is about the last man in
the city that the taxpayers would select
to manage their affairs. He is an out
spoken advocate Of high taxes, which, OF
itself, is enough to kill him with both
property holders and laborers, or work.
ing-men. AS we have said before, nei-
ther he nor any of his white brother can
didates represent any interest in the
community or any class of people except