The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-04-18
The Charleston News And The
Tax.Payers' Convention.
From tho Gresnyille Republican I

| There are some lessons to be derived
from tho late gathering at Columbia
which called itself tho Tax payers
Convention, which it would bo wolf for
the people of this State to. tako to
heart.
Ono of these lessons is, put not your
faith in tho Charleston Ne.os ant Cour-
ier! Now, wo do not mean by this to
say that the news columns of this sheet
are unreliable, or that it habi:u lily aud
willfully misleads its readers. But what
we do mean to say is, that no faith can
bo placed in the political course of this
paper.
Why, in this year of Grace, 1864, wo
End it making fierce assaults on tho
Executive, legislative aud judicial
branches of the State government; We
see in foremost in it's attacks on the so.
called Printing ring wche,r it, thln.
ders Of denunciation against oorrup tion
in the Republican uarty and every little
while feeding its vanity by publishing
some compliment Of itself, written by
some innocent country man who really
believes that the Neus and Courier
means What it says
But there are some among tho people
Of both parties in this State who have
longer memories than these same fat
tcrers to the Ne,cs and Courier's vanity!
There are some of us whose memories
go back to period earlier than the
year 1873, and Who can recall some of
the events of the years 1871 and
1872.
We belong, unhappily, to this num-
Der. We recall the days whom the
Charleston Ne'rs was tho Official 'organ'
Of Charleston cunnty; when it publish cd
the laws of the State AS advertisements,
for which it charged full rates; when it
roarcd out as mildly ia any licking dovo
at the patient wrongs of tho Republi-
can administration OF that day because,
iorsoo,h, it fed OH the pap from the
public treasury.
Pretending to bca Dsrncr,tic organ,
and the mouthpi.cc nf ali that was polFi-
tically honest and rirtou in those days,
it was content to be in tho pay of Re-.
pub 'ican alminiAtr.ti ~ anl maintain.l
Hi"~'.., s;tousu nv lung as silence was
profitable.
And during the campaign of 1872,
when the merit, and denerits of the
rival Republican candidates ior State
officers were thoroughly discussed, on
which side was he Nc,cs iouni7 On
the side of' the present State a.ln..nistra
rio", which it is now arraiugaing.
The editors of that sheet knew Ger.
lectly we'll ia til, SUN ,ncr Of 1872, what
would probably be the administration
which it hel ped to elect Helped, do
VIC Say! Aye, which did moro to elect
the prcscn; State government than any
Ole agency in the Stato
How many timos did it declare its
choice to be the candidates WHO ware
elected, rather than the candidates who
'o"lted the regular Republican ticket,
and how its lead was followed by almost
every other conservative or Democrat
paper in the State!
But that fight is over, and those of |
us Who were boilers have proit.d by
the lcsson of that campaign. The News
tl.en had its way. In less than two
Je,s it i, fierce in its attacks on its own
State government.
Its cditorin.chief goes to the Tax
payers Convention and deuoun ccs the
wrongs which, if they arc real he did
m're to fasten on the people of this
State thar any other man in it holding
similar Poaiti"n; and if they are suot
real, it is worse than puerile to CRY md |
lament over.
He can not plead ignorance of what
would be the probable conduct of the
State government He knew what was
tho past history ofits members, aud from
that could tell what ssits future career
would bo. If the Printing Ring is a
suindlo md a wrong in 1874, it was one
in 1871 2; but the Nc,cs said nothing
tasainst it then Why? Let tho vouch.
ers in tho State treasury answer a
What evidence has tho Ne,os and
Courier furnished that it will stay in
tho path of'retorm which it has opened
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