Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-08-28
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Condition of the Treasury-The Crop.
ping out Of Governors Promprhess
of Tax Payers-Tardinessl In tne
Mandamus decision Of MOrten
Bliss & Co.
COLUMBIA S. c. Aug. %, 1873,
THE TREASURY.


THE TREASURY.
Peoplc continue to throw stones at the
Treasury whether they live in glass
houses or not. 1t is laboring revenge
they seek. The treasurer has answered
more questions, than almost any man
with fair comprehension Of the dignity
of his Office, would submit to. He has
in carefully prepared statements shown
where every dollar has been expended,
vet there are hundreds with wrinkhng
certificates in their wallets, who seems
10 be devoid of any arithmetical calcula-
ton, and know, no reason why more
than two millions and a half OF dollars
cannot be paid with something a little
over a million and half. They do not
look at the source that created these
debts, nor the ways and means that
the sourcs provided for the payment OF
them. They will live and learn in this
respect, and most decidedly will they
hold on to their paper a while longer.
1t is understood that the treaurer has
in print the articles recently published
concerning the condition of the state
treasury and that they will be widely
circulated in pamphlet form.
GRAPHING OJTT.
The prospect of good crop of candi-
dates for governor next term, is good and
growing better almost every day.
Whether the words of Old Deuteronomy
regarding the first Moses,-!! and he
buried him in valley in the land CT
Moab, over against Bethpeor, but no
man kno1eth his sepulclre unto th's
dayl! are to be verified in the next
political shuttle, is a matter, that the
well wishes of the prosperity of this state
may watch with concern. Certain 1t is
that there will be no lack of aspirants for
the Office, as far as this may 20 toward
that result. They are of all shades and
colors. Indeed it is hintcd a: that color
may have much to do with the election OF
the next Governor should Congressman
Elliott become a candidate, out and out,
this argument would be his most patent;
it would please many ofthe short sightcl
in the Republican ranks; and the Demo-
Gratis, who disquieted and disguised, from
pure spite, and kind ofhope that the
Republican party in this state'would
have taken long stride towards its dis
solutions-would gladly welcome a col
ored Governor, if they had to put up
with any Republican at all in that Office.
The wiser heads, such as Nash. Maxwell
and many others, who have been for
some time in the political arena, sec
danger in such movement, and will, in
convention most probably grub it of all
its unseemly sprouts.
Then We have floating up on the sea
breeze from Charleston, the whisper that
Mr.. Collector Worthingtons ambition,
like Elhotts has run away within i'm, and
turned his noddle enough to give him a
fancy for the Gulinoticnal chair.
From many movements in different !di-
rections, and some are in the same direc-
ton, the attorney general is set down as
being fairly prospective candidate: of
course he will not receive the nomina-
ton. The last cropping out, was in Lex
ington yesterday, when ex-senator
Hayes nape was Put forward, and his
claims argued as fitting and EMIT ing him
for the position: the chicfof these was
that he never did anything in the Senate,
(therc may be some virtue in this J and
was college-bred ''man. Everybody
seems to want (?) everybody for govern
or. Scott, poor fellow, is up in Ohio
looking after the remainder ofthat prop
erty he spent so much of while he was
Excellency, yet he receives his ration
of nomination, and it comes from New