The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-09-04
COLUMBIA, s. c..
Friday Morning. September 4. 1874.
Tas Eezs Tvs Years.

up the present situation OF its party,
It has acknowledged before the coun
try it's mal-administration OF affairs il
many particulars, (very mild terms 10,
.ssesling.) 1t has gone before the ba,
OF the American public and made g
plea Of, confession and Avoidance.. Be
fore the Same bar it has promised 6
very zsll and thorough reform in ita
management Of the Ssatei 1T claims
now 70 be 'tabout The earliest 'fulall.
ment Of that pledge" Bot the misery
it complains OF Is that the opposition
woo't believe word OF it. Ia pur.
suing the subject it shows no reason
why the opposition should believe it.
It sneers at It's willingness to accept
from the Radicals "a Republican
nominee for Governor. The trouble
here is that the Republican they would
accept is not the Republican or Radi.
cal the Radicals have to offer. They
have only one sort Of article, and that
of the class OF damaged goods. Be-
cause the Conservatives object to its
quality. the r Adioal shee. charges upon
them the spirit OF diotation. But it is
no diceation to decline investing in
goods that don't suit. that won't look
we'll. wear we'll or smell we'll. 1--WE
are willing, 1t says. "to be judged by
our work for the next two years."
Yes. Where do you think the State
will be BY that time, if controlled by
the hands which now itch to gather up
the reins OF power over it? If, while
MIR. Chamberlain was only member
and the legal adviser of the Financial
Board. it increased the bonded debt, as
he himself tells US, SIC. 200. 600 in three
gears. without equivalent or benefit to
the State, what would be the increase;
what the other similar wrongs, with
Mr.. Chamberlain surrounded by such a
.sing as now enoircles him as Governor?
The prospect is fearful to contemplate.
Ehe work Of the next two years under
Radical rule and Mr.. G. as it's chief,
will be the completion Of the ruin
which he and his associates have al-
ready saddled upon us. The State
viii be murdered in its honor and
prosperity, its fraudulent debt will be
legitimated. the Blue Ridge scrip
made good. and every abuse and out
rage which the ring dare resort to.
visited upon it's conservative people.
As long as man of them can be found
to be aeeced, he will be feeced. When
this further degradation, this final
aesolation. overspreads the State, Mr..
Chamberlain and his ring will smile
complacently on the scene and wonder
what's the matter. He will say If it,
as he has said OF the present fagitious
additional bonded debt. that it is bard
to say who is to blame. ''It cannot
be charged upon any one man or set of
men" Instead OF searching for can
didate, it makes no difference whether
Republican or Conservative, whom the
opinion OF those qualified and having
the right to judge, whether Rcpub-
licans or Conservatives, would approve
as capable, just, fair, well-meaning,
OF good record, without taint and pos.
sessed of sterling and manly qualities,
the Union Herald and the ring which
revolves around it have fixed upon the
most Objectionable man in the State to
be made Governor. Being what he is,
and accomplished as he is. Mr.. C.
centres in himself the fullest measure
OF the abuses of the past and the fullest
measure OF the dangers of the future.
Was 1t fate, or the logical necessity of
procuring the Attest tool to accomplish
an uncompleted nefarious work, that
has driven the ring to select Mr.. G
for their purpose? We may Judge Of
the silent progress which degeneracy
IN this party has made. We may fore.
cast the position it will reach III the
next two years, by comparing its ntti-
tude now towards Mr.. G. and the Ian.
guage and stern recommendation of
the Joint Special Financial Investi.