Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-24
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From the Charleston News and Courier.
D. H. CHAMBERLAIN,
THE PARTNER OR TOOL OF KNAvEs AND COM
MON THIEVES.

THE PARTNER OR TOOL OF KNAvEs AND COM
MON THIEVES.
The supporters of D. H. Chamberlain, those
who procured him the nomination for Cover
nor on Saturday night, are the men who de-
vised and carried into execution every fraud
of magnitude which has been committed in
South Carolina during the past six years.
Against him, in the nominating Convention
or out of it, we do not find more than one
criminal of note. For him, in the nomina-
ting Convention and out of it, is every princi-
pal actor, excepting Ex-Governor Scott, in the
corrupt practices which have marked the his
tory of the State Government since recon-
struction.
This is proved by an examination of the
vote by which D. H. Chamberlain was nomi-
mated He received seventy-two votes, and
those who voted for him are: 1. r. B. Elliott,
ex-member of the Legislature, where he was
never known to vote for a good measure or
against bad one the agent who saved Gov.
Scott from impeachment, and is charged with
having received large sum of public money
for the job the champion of Moses two years
ago, and his counsel in the Orangeburg lar.
ceny case the man who delivered a civil
rights speech and Sumner eulogy, which d.
H. Chamberlain is declared to have written
for him. 2. United States Senator j. j. Pat
terson. who bought votes for others in Penn
sylvania and for himself in South Carolina,
who is recorded in the proceedings of the
Pennsylvania Legislature as being convicted
by that body Of perjury who says that South
Carolina will stand good deal more squeez-
ing ; who On the floor Of the nominating Con-
vention openly and shamelessly directed the
words and acts of the delegates whom he had
bought, and who cheerfully bore in public the
badge of their slavery. 3. w .Whipper, a
Northern negro made fortune in the Legis-
lature and lost it in gambling; Secretary of
the Sinking Fund Commission, (of which
Chamberlain was member) and openly
charged with misappropriating $4,000 of the
Sinking Fund money. 4. o. L. Leslie, OF
New York, the ex-Land Commissioner and
head and front of that "outrageous swndle,"
the Land Commission; made S2OO,OO0 or
100000 out of the State through the Com
mission lost his money in speculating in New
York real estate; has come back to South
Carolina to make second fortune, and blglns
operations by supporting Chamberlain and
becoming candidate for the next "reform'
Legislature. 5. B. F. Whittemore, Of Mass.
achusetts, is the noted seller ola cadetship, for
which transaction he was twice expelled from
Congress he has voted for every corrupt
measure that ever came before him in the
State Senate, and has received as much money
as any other member of the Legislature;
most of his ample means are said to be invest
ed in Massachusetts, to which State he would
have, doubtless, returned had "the party
nominated an honest man for Governor. b.
T. J. Mackcy, the demagogue Of the Judicia-
ry was violent Moses man and an antl-car-
pet-baggcr two years ago; he is now for Cham
berlan, of course. Z. Treasurer +. il. Car
dozo, who nominated d. II. Chamberlain. as a
pure and an honest man arho hadno part IN the
frauds of the Conversion bonds and the Land
| Commission, stands on the record rs having de-
clarcd that Chamberlain forced him to issue The
fraudulent bonds, and as having been driven
out of the Land Commission by the corrupt
conduct of his associates Of the Advisory Board,
of ,clom d. III. Chamberlain auas one. s.
Thad. C.. Andrews, a Southern man, sold the
political control Of the Columbia Union.Her-
ald to Governor Moses for $4,000 Of the peo-
pies money politics have paid him very well,
and he is uncompromisingly for Chamberlain.
8. S. A. Swails, the mulatto Senator from
Williamsburg, was leading promoter and
defender of the Blue Ridge swindle. TO- Ju-
MUS S. Mobley, an iliterate mulatto from
Union, is always found where the most money
is. II. C. S. Minort, colored, is the Patterson
candidate for Senator from Richland county;
has the same inclinations and follows the
same public pursuits as Mobley. II. Y. j.
P. Owensis Chairman of the Finance Com
mttee of the Senate, and was Leslie's right
hand man in the Land Commission business.
| 13 Joe Crews docs not pretend to be honest,