The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-08-05
Press Comments on the Parker Trial.
F;on, he AbberiNe Medium.

What has become of Governor Cham
berlain, and does he expect to return to
South Carolina or make his bed with the
good people at Cape Cod? His absence
from the State at this. particular time is
causing great deabof talk among the
opposition-those who do'not believe in
his professions of reform. They know
that he went to Massachusetts, to speak be-
fore the Alumni of Yale College, but they
do not very we'll understand why he
should so long absent himself from the
State when he could do much good by his
presence. In, the Parker case there were
some damaging charges made against
him, and. whether he got the fifty thou
sand dollars in bonds said to have been
set aside for his use or not, he should be
hereto throw what light he can upon the
subject. Then the great Solomon swindle
has come to the surface since the Govern
ors pilgrimage to the Bay State. By this
operation the State has lost an immense
sum of money, and that too without ex-
ouse. We do not charge Chamberlain
with being in any way connected with
this gigantic theft-far be it from us to
throw single stumbling block in the way
of REFORM. but his presence in the exec
utive chamber at Columbia would do
much to strengthen the faith and estab-
lish Vie hopes of the people. Were he at
his post they would be more confident
and would feel semblance Of safety,
knowing that they had a sentinel on the
watch-tower who would sound the alarm
and rout the enemy.
So soon as he can make it consistent
with his own bodily comfort, we hope he
will return to his post, aud wage more
vigorous war against the thieves and
plunderers by whom he is surrounded.
From iae Beastn! Tribune.
= The charges against Niles G. Parker in
the Land Commission Frauds have been
dropped by the State. It would no doubt
have opened door for the prosecution of
q large number of our officials had this
case been pressed, and what our spotless
politicians dread is that if these cases go
too far some one will squeal. All the
good the recent verdict against Parker
will do the State is NIL, but the effect
hoped to be produced in the country is
that the Republican party is purifying
itself of all its iniquities. Our Republi-
can Congress has tried the same game for
two wears and with such disastrous results
that the party was almost ruined, despite
the attempts made to conceal frauds and
cover up bribery, which can only be
thoroughly overhauled by the incoming
Democratic Congress. 1t would seem as
though the party leaders in South Caro-
lima were doing all in their power to
place the State in the same position as
Georgia, where the colored mans polite
al prospects have been entirely obliterated
solely on account of the men who they,
in their blindness, elected to power.
From the Greenwood Ne.0 Era.
If the trial of Niles G.. Parker had re-
suited in his lodgment in the Penitentia-
Ey for period of years, there would have
been less suspicion Of the whole proceed
ing being a farce, as it is characterized.
It is an easy matter for a man who has
stolent $3.50, 900 to refund $4,000 of it
and then have handsome sum of it left
But it is said that even the amount of the
verdict can not be realized; then of what
consequence is the finding of the jury?
Twenty years in the Penitentiary, or even
ten years, would have sounded far more
like business to the citizens of the State
than an empty judgment for even $780,
0O0.