Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-08
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Mr.. EDITOR: Every thing outside
Of the Conservative party seems to
herald the approach of the opportunity
SO long hoped for. by the patriots of
our down trodden State. The mad
career Of riot and robbery in which
Carolina Radicalisra has gloated seems
about to meet with its merited end a t
the hands of an outraged people. In.
spite of what the Chamberlain organs
say, ! think that by the time the elec.
tion day comes on, their nominee will
think seriously of throwing up the
sponge. They have utterly failed in
their efforts to hood-wink the leading
Journals of the North and West; nor
will they succeed any betterin their
application Of the party lash to the
misses Of the colored voters at home,
upon whose backs they have hitherto
been able to ride into the offices and
misrule the people. tcI Sc
What are the Conservatives going
to do towards securing their own deliv-
erance7 We hope that they are not
going toilet the opportunity go by the
board, either from thinking the matter
sure without their aid, or from thinking
that all former efforts have failed. "A
similar opportunity has never. before
been placed within our march. Never
before have both nominations emana-
ted from purely Republican sources.
Never before has any wing of the Re-
publican party put forward candi-
date SO thoroughly and Intimately
identified with SO many of the notori-
GUS State robberies MS is Chamberlain.
1t is therefore eminently our duty to
come forward and poll the Conserva-
tive vote to q man. Let the lukewarm
arouae their patriotism; the liberal
theirliberality, and the extreme follow
the lead of General Kershaw and Elk
Governor Perry.
The difficulty with which all leaders
in southern politics had to contend
when this was a white mans country,
was to get up following; every man
wanted to vote for such a man, and
him only, as would represent his indi-
vidual views and the consequence was,
that before the war full vote was
very rarely polled at any election save
those where some important national
question entered into the contest. Now
however the order of things is changed,
and if we expect to make any head
way against this oppressive robbery,
we must be willing to rub down the
little asperities of our individual incli-
nations, and patriotically put in our
every vote, to aid ourselves and others
in obtaining such an aggregate as shall
overtop the opposition, who, we may
be sure, will vote the last man that
they have got, and as many more as
they can count by stufing ballot boxes.
This is another of the evils we hope
to see remedied by the election of
Judge Green. We do not deny that
money was used formerly in our elec.
tions, and that some Legislators may
have been induced from private inter-
est to vote contrary to the dictates of
his conscience. These evils are inhe-
rens in Republican forms Of govern.
ment from the notorious weakness of
individual men. But these things we're
noi donein matters ofvital Importance
a notoriously bad law never could
have been passed by money power;
nor was any attempt ever made to
force an unsuccessful candidate upon
the people, by means of suited ballot
boxes. Such an act would have cost
the perpetrators their lives at lamp
post or tree-limb, and, indeed, would
now, were itnot for the hue and cry of
ku-klux that would follow,
RAMBLER.