The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-03-10
At It's Old Tricks.

| Tho sprightly Winnsboro Now
says thut tho News and Courier Ia
been "bulling" tho new State bonds
aud is now "bulling" Treasurer Car
iozo. a fow days ago all up-oountry
paper was confident that thorc wa
something wrong about The New
and Courier, because it had spukct
approvingly Of something that tn,
Columbia Union Herald had said, nnc
the un;on-Horald had returned til,
compliment. Something Of the sams
sort will very likely be said by two.
! thirds Of the Conservatives ncwspa.
pers in the S;ate-at all events shY
any that think that no republican
| official measure oan have any good
points. We may as we'll answer
them in bunch at once.
Treasurer Cardozo hos, We think,
made an excellent State Treasurer,
and iu tho matters at issue between
him and tie Legislature, We have
given our reasons for saying 50. All
the papers Of imp ortancc, pro and con
have been published in these columns
aud We have given our reade,s ample
opportunity to judge whether We aro
right or not. We didn't cxrcct all
of them to agree with us, and don't
gonmblc about il. Thoy do expect
US to give them our honest opiulvns,
and VIC give wholher they ars
likely to be popular or not
So VIC have been "builling" the
bonds have We : If that meals that
we have shown what the quality Of
the consolidated bonds Is, and what
security the holders huve, we have
certainly been "bulling" them. We
opposed tho scaling Of the old State
debt "s strongly as wo could but
our counsel was overruled, and nearly
all if not all, tho Conservative mem
bers of the Legislature voted for the
Funding bill. At that point our
opposition to tho bill ended. 1t is
the law and as the State, by that
legislation, will only pay fry cents
on tho dollar, aud as there is no
earthly prospect of making bcttor
tcrms, we think it best for tho public
credit and the public interests in
general thLt the funding of tho debt
shall bo completed as rapidly as pos
sible, 30 that the State may again be
numbered with States which pay in
terest promptly and regularly on
their whole dcbt. Tho best way to
promote that result is to show that
the bondholders would not gain any
thing by waiting and that the new
bonds, or Consols, arc absolutely
secure. That we have tried to do,
and if that bo "bu!liug" make the
most Of it.
Several Conservative newspapers
in this State, that we might name,
arc prone to think OWL things of the
The News and Courier. Their
praise is very faint, and there is
suspicion Of n civil snccr in their
assent to any propooili,n Of ours.
Just as soon as anything is said that
they d ont understand, or that they
don't like, they wag their heads ard
whisper that the News and Courier is
at it's old tricks; which tricks arc, as
we know them, to do the best we car,
and the best we know for brave and
rather intractablc people. There is
possibly one remedy for this. If the
country editors would decide to have
that talked Of convention in tharles..
ton, for the purpose Of forming Il
State Press Association, they might
by sight aud touch, convince them
selves that The News and Courior is
not 80 bad after all, aud that a news,
paper which is rated and criticised
by both Radicals and Democrats can
hardly be the hireling of the one
party or the tool of the othcr.--
Nevs 6 Courier.