The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-06-27
PALMETTO POLITICS.
81 YEARS GOOD STEALING IN SOUTH
CIROLINA YET"

CdROLINA HEI."
The Willard nIovement-Boasts OF the
RinS-"Boss" HurIey-AlI for Greeley
The Ku.Klux Indictments.
Correspondence OF the New York Tribuue.1
NORFOLK, Va, June 2l.
Coming down the Chesapeake Bay, yester-
dav, met on the steamer South Carolinian,
who said be edited newspaper in town In
the ''up.country" and also practiced law,
combination of professions not uncommon In
the South. After declaring himself for Gree
ley, he surprised me by saying that there wes
raw of hope that South Carolina could be car
ried against Grant, and delivered from the
carpet baggers who have plnndered her ut
their pleasure since reconstruction went into
effect. I asked how this could be possible, In
the face OF The thirty thousand negro majority
and The perfect organization OF The blacks IN
oath-bound leagues. He replied that the hopes
of relief came from The blacks themselves.
Many intelligent colored men In Charleston
had openly rebeiled against the rule OF
the StaLehouse Ring, had determined to
break loose from Scott. Parker, Moses
and the rest oil the corruptionists. and had
made move 10 secure an honest State gov
ernment. They had asked Judge Willard, OF
The Supreme Court, TO be their candidate ior
Governor and he had accepted in strong
letter In favor of reform. The white people,
the editor said, were watching tfis movement
with great interest, and If it promised 10 draw
of any considerable portion OF the colorea
vote they intended to support 1t. II Was not
gsod policy, he said, for them to give 1t much
encouragement now at the outset, because
the negroes we're still so distrnstful thai many
OF them, however we'll disposed toward IL
they might be, would refuse to Join In any po-
lilical undertaking In which their old masters
were bearing an active part. II The Willard
movement made break ln the colored vote
and drew off some thousands from the CARPET
bag@ers ticket, the white people woulu InroW
their entire vote upon u, whnouI taniuS auy
mart in the canvass until the day ol election.
fassed that he was not very sanguine OF the
result, but there was chance in The move
ment to deliver the Stale from the plum
derers, and 1t was the only chance. Judge
Willard Is probably the only Republican In the
Stale who las q character for ability and hon.
esly that fits him to lead q crusade against the
band oil robbers now controlling the State gov
erment. His hands are entirely clean OF the
dirty work that has gone on at Columbia fOr
four years past. The judge Is New York
lawyer who, after leaving the army, presided
over one OF the seml-mlliLary courts which
administered Justice In South Carolina during
the Interval between the close Of the war and
reconstruction; and when The Slate govern
ment was reconstructed he was elected 10 the
supreme bench. He has won the respect Of
the bur OF The State by his decisions, and is
probably the only official connected with
State affairs who is universally eXonerated
from all suspicion OF completely with the pluu-
dering operations of The carpel-bag ring. He
conlounded the ring recently BY granting an
Injunction against any further Issue oil The
State bonds 10 the Blue Ridge Railroad Com
a nj hlpn
the most profitable to thieves and expensive
to the State OF any of the schemes concocted.
My travelling acquaintance gave me several
bits of Interesting information about the rule
OF the ring that has converted the South Car
olina government into an organization lot tle
purpose OF robbiug the taxpayers. The
sconndrels," he saiu, "Lhlnk they have got US
so firmly by The throat that we would never
shake them off, and they have grown 30 bold
that they openly boast of their brioes and
thelts. There Is Tim Hurley-yon know Tim
he is q Massachusetts, carpel-6ag9er, the
king of the lobby, and sort OF Boss Tweed
among the negroes. Well, Tim told me h!ms
the House. twenty thousand dollars to give
him the charmanship OF the committee on
mines and manufactures, which hus control
of the phosphate business; and hfteen tnous.
and dollars to appoint him second on the
ways ami means committee. Of course ne got
Ms mOLoy uach, Iuioo vi iooi sA'AAS' 49, "
least"
s'Wil the Ring run Scott again for Govern
or ~ / asked. II think they VIII, though
that was not the arrangement agreed upon
last winter. The plan then was to give Moses
the eGovernorship, and send Scott 10 the senate
In place of Sawyer. This was the bargain
made, but Scott is distrustlul OF Moses, and
fears that he would not carry out his part OF
the contract He Ia therefore disposed to
hold on to The Guvernorship, and let Noses go
for Sawyer's place. Sawyer Is supported oy
what we cali the Massachusetts Ring, com.
posed of Altornpy-General Chamberlain, Dis
irict Attorney Corbin, the Charleston collector
and postmaster, and few others, VINO Gla,m
to be more virtuous than the other klns,
which Is made up of the scalawugs and the
Scott carpet baggers. There will be struggle
between these two Rings ovef, the senutor-
ship" "What position Is Judge Orr occupy
ing? A year ago there was some talk ol
making him the Reform candidate for GOV;
ernor this year." ihers is nOs aIcn &c ba slo 80
thick with the Scott Ring thai We have lost
Confidence in him. They have treated him
very ungratefully too. He wanted TO oe
president of the Philadelphia Convention, but
the Ring defeated him, and they would not
even let him h,,ve place on the national
committee. He came home quite crestfal-
len"
Nv acquaintance said that everybody was
for Greeley, in South Carolina, except the ne
groes and carpetbaggers with their few native
white allies. In the Democratic State C0nVen-
ton, of which he was member, there were
but two men opposed 10 indorsing the Cinein-
natl ticket, and one Of those was hall crazy
fellow, who travelled aoout the country IN
wagon, with biz bass drum, stopping at cross
roads and village tIverns, beating his drum
and making speeches. There were naturally
some men who fell into line with good deal
of reluctance, but nearly all had come In. In
his county few prominent Democrats held
out until about fortnight ago, when he got o
dozen Of them together In his office, aud read,
from campaign document which he had re-
celyed, Horace Greeley's letter to the Union
League Cluu. whom they called him to account
for bailing Jefferson Davis. That converted
every man oil them. They declared that tne
author OF that letter was as good friend TO
the South as they could ask for, and they had
been strong Greeley men ever since. de
wished he had one thousand copies OF the doc
ument TO circulate In his part Of the State
Speaking of the Ku-klnx trials, he said they
had gone far enough. Another lot OF prison
ers. Iwenty.three in number. had been sent
to the Albany penitenttary last week. The
trials had broken up the organization, and
ought To sion: but IL there was any positive