The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-05-06
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II. MEANS DAVIS, Editor.
Wednesday Morning, May o; 1874
Radical Reform.

,., =. Radical Reform.
Tho Radicals arc now making grea,
brotcStatichs OF reform. They lied
unbIushingly for long time, deny.
ing each and every charge Of r.soali
~ brought against thom by the hon
ast taxrayers,, until their crimes wer,
80 fully exposed, that it was useless
TO-. lie any further on this track. The,
now jnat ~ unblu ,hinsly cat thei,
own words, and admit that wrong.
DO exist, and yct, having been prov
Gu guilty both of corruption anG
falsehood they now have the bruzcr
eifrontcry to declare that reform III usI
como from their own party that jus,
IS they have rulnod the State by their
ignorance and proaiyacy, they are
now to redeem it. Who now talk OF
OF reform, and aspire to govern again ?
Tho same corrupt leaders who have
run time md again before. Scott is
one of the rcformcrs. Now Scott is
better than Moses, for tho reason
that tho devil himself has bclterre
putAtIon than our native young Gov
ernor. But Scott hasn't the stuff of
Il roformer. Don't dream Of reform
with Scott as pilot. Chamberlain is
also spoken Of. Chamberlain has had
Pagacity enough to cloak his mis-.
deeds, but Chamberlain belonged to
tho land commission, the financial
board, (thnt issued the fraudulent
bonas) anu 10 s,vo,ul vU,... 1vns VI.
tho bluckest character. lie is not pos
scssed Of n character so immacu!nlc c
as to make him II Trustworthy reform
er. lie has been either corrupt or
weak. Yet he is much better than
the average run Of Rodical cattle,
aud there is more Probability Of his
making n .pNssably decent Governor
| Mex, B. Y. Whittcmore, tho cor
| rnpt, dsprnved, puritanical carpet.
bagging pars"p, who has stolen and
cheated and done wickcdly, more per
haps than any othcr rascal in the
State, who, whom kicked out of Con
grcss had The impulencc to thrns
himself back there, only to be sound
ly kicked ont again, and then, "th.nk
ing GoI that his constituency conld'n,
rcna," got into thv Legislature, ant
grabbed and rlurier.d more thu,
ever, and who had :hc shumelessncs
to 20 to Washington to protest tha
the government iaa good one, when tn,
mere fact that ho is high in powe
damns it in the opinion Of every de
cent man--hc comes ont as 4 roforu
can4idat for Gpve.nor. =.
Next, Elliott, who while me n,bc
Of Coo grcSs left his seat in Washing
ton, and spent weeks in tolombi
lobby ing against tho imleaeh,heh
, Of Scott aud who is accredited with
pay. certificate Of. ten thousau,
dollars who 10 going "to make th
cradle uf rebellion the asylum of th
, slave,' he is also chief mourncr o
past III isdc cohs, and another Lender O
reform. Wo might GO on and Civ
numerous examples, but we arc dis
I gu,tcd.
D. The Union. Herald, a paper tha
. has been doing tolerably we'll of lat
in recent issue took occasion I
compliment Whittemore and Bower
J.. as Leading Republicans, md reform
n crs. Can wo believe any protostu
y tions of reform when they arc con
- joined with praise of such men
i There can be no reform inside tb
l. Radical lines. The leaders (cxccy
perhaps two or thrcc) arc all corrul
7 and they will not leave off their We,
y ality. The Tax payers must aid i
- this reform. Let them, thcp, uni,
~, and starfd. shoulder to shoulder. I'll
||ee timo for "master1y' inactivity hs
er pascal Duty points us to actio,
nf Organize Tax Unions, We must rel
Is on ourselves. Then wo may succoe
N |" regenerating the State,
ID The Coming Campaign,
es The coming State campaign prom
or 'ses to be unusually bitter. Oppo
20 ing aspirants Of tho dominant part