The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-04-22
COLUMBIA, s. G.
Wednesday Morning. April %, 1874.
Implied AdmissIons and TelI-taie
Figures.

we nave out lew WOr0s 20 say 10 the
'.Uaioa. It's elaborate Misrepresentation
OF the history and conduct of the
PHGN1x can do it no harm. We la7o
Lived and worked to little purpose, il
sour good name could be impaired by
.3he tongue of one whose abuse is no
scandal. In it's discussion OF the memo.
rial OF the Board of Trade and of the
r,l,ety prominent business men of Co.
lumbia, in which they charged that the
@hittemore delegation sent on to Wash
;ngton to controvert the statements OF
the Ta1-Payers' Committee, had profit.
ed or grown rich by their connection
with the State Government, it uninten-
tionally admits the corruption which in
words it denies. In ito oagernoss to
black-ball members OF the business
community, it represents them as deal
Ing in Legislative pay certfoa tes, as sell
ing goods, such as private wardrobcs,
furniture of houses, from the kitchen
to the parlor, from cotton shirt to
Brussels carpets, and from mean whis-
. key to the finest champagnes. and re-
: cefving pay in promises Of the State. It
asks whether merchants, who furnished
suoh goods to officials, and received
promises of the State to pay, knew that
.cnch transactions were questionable?
Akat is their own affair, and if there be
snylavolved in transactions of the kind,
ehey=csn answer if they choose. We
know nothing about such matters Ad-
nltting the statements to be true, We
: 5hould 'hnd-very little hesitation in de-
nor rnoing suok1isreputable proceedings.
But they are not now under considera-
zion. The question with which We have
to deal is not with other the innocent
Sscs:a as or The guilty partners and ao-
oomplices of the legislative and official
4glnnderers. We are dealing with men
IN public stations, who prostitute their
power and position to gain private ends,
at the expense OF the public interests.
The statements Of the Union are to the
effect that we have State officials who
pay their private accounts, furnish their
horses and roll in luxury and splendor
out OF the State Treasury. BY it's own
-sdmicsions. that fact is incontestible. It
SHOWS what sort of men are in authority.
To one not blin led by moral obliquity,
it ia not difficult to fx upon the dividing
line of responsibility between those
whose whole official life is wholly dis
hoaoreaale. or those who may be drawn
into the same vortex by the solicitations
and temptations they offer. While the
Latter are inexcusable. the guilt rests
mainly with the men who take the money
OF the State and go out into the market
with it as il it was their own.
The Union says that no paper in this
State, since reconstruction, has received
more from the despised Radical Govern
ment than the PHOENIX. The Union
knows that that is not so It does not
expect it to be believed. It is just as
insincere and untruthful in vauntine
itself as content to compare records
with Us to determine who has received
the most. It made the same boast two
,.:yaars since, and then never met the
figures which we submitted. We showed
from records in the State Treasurer's
Office that the Union received in 1871:
November 18, 1878 So; November 21,
81, 2,78l.41; November Is, $500; Decem-
ber 2. $3.50; December 8, 1874 67; De-
cember 13, $500; December 16, $3.50;
December %. $517; D cember %. $500.
1S72-January 2, L. O. Carpenter, 1910;
January 6. L. @. Carpenter, $1,540;
January 13. Union. $l,181.28; January
20, Union. Sl,275; February 3, Union,
1865; February 8, Union, $695; total,
Sl3.O22 81. The receipts OF the Puu-
NIX for the same time were as follows:
1871-November. 100000; December,
100000. 1872-January 81. SI2I.SO;
February 81. $l64. 65; total, $ls6. is.
Up to February 8. OF that year, out
OF 2SS Acts and Joint Resolutions, only