The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-12-21
Various Items.
Governor Chamberlayne on the EIec-
ton of Moses and Whtpper.

CHARLESTON, December 20.-The NeWs
and Courier this morning prints an inter.
view with Governor Chamberlayne on the
subject of the election of Ex-Governor
Moses, and Whipper (colored), as judges OIL
the most important circuits In the State. The
Governor, after describing the trickery by
which the leaders in the Legislature took
advantage OF his temporary absence from
Columbia to precipitate the judicial election
which resulted in the choice Of Whipper
and Moses, said:
81 look upon their election as O horrible
disaster-a disaster equally great to the
State, to the Republican party, and, greatest
of all, to those communities which shall be
doomed to feel the effects Of the presence Of
Moses aud Whipper upon the bench. l did,
year ago, speak publicly of Whipper, who
was then candidate for the very position to
which he has now been elected. Then
denounced him as incapable and utterly
unfit for the Office OF judge. OF
Moses, no honest men can have
different opinions. Neither Whipper
nor Moses has auy qualities which al p zach
to qualification tor judicial positions. The
reputation of Moses Is covered deep with
charges which are believed by all who are
familiar with the facts of corruption, bribery,
and the utter prostitution of all his official
powers to the worst possible purposes. This
calamity is infinitely greater, in my judgment
than any which has yet fallen on this state,
or upon any part of the South. Moses, as
Governor, is endurable compared with
Moses as judge" .4EG
Question: What, in your judgment, will
be the effects of the election Of these men ?
Answer: The graVest consequences OF all
kinds will follow. One immediate effect
will obviously be the Reorganization of the
Democratic party within the State as the
only means left, in the judgment OF its mem
bers, for opposing solid and reliable front
to this terrible creYasse of misgovernment
and public debauchery. could have wished,
as a Republican, to have kept OF such an
issue; but have profound belief IN the
logic of events, and Providence, too, that
shapes events, and I do not allow myself to
link that the good and honest men OF South
Carolina will find it impossible because they
ATE organized as Democrats to give their help
to whatsoever shall be best able to undo The
terrible wrongs of last Thursday. l am free
TO say that my highest ambition az Govern
or has been to make the ascendancy OF the
Republican party in South Carolina compat.
ibie with the attainment and maintenance OF
as high and pure love 10 the administration
OF puolic aff4lrs as can be exhibited with the
preudest Democratic State of the South; and it
was also my fondest hope by peaceful agencies
here In South Carolina, also OF all the south.
ern States, to have worked out through the
Republican party the solution of the most
difficult and one of the most interesting po-
lltlcal and social problems which the country
has presented. If these results shall not be
reached The responsibility for the failure will
not rest upon me nor upon the conservative
citizens OF South Carolina who have hitherto,
with unwearying fidelity and generosity.
stood by me in my work, but upon those
and all like them who dealt the cause Of
good government 80 deadly q blow on
Thursday. a., $500. ~
The Governor went on to say that there
were grave doubts, on constitutional grounds,
Of the validity of the judicial election as to
four out Of the eight circuits, Whipper and
Moses being among the doubtful cases. The
action of the Legislature continues to be a
subject Of great popular excitement all over
the State. E. rge