The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-06-03

knavery. This is what we desire to witness at
an early day, and for this we have labored in
season and out of season. We want no obsta-
cles to free and impartial investigation by
the Courts, and we have pointed to Attorney
General Melton as the proper person to give
this coveted boon to the people. We regard
him as representing, in a peculiar manner, the
administration of Gov Chamberlain in this
crisis. He made earnest frequent and solemn
pledges during the last campaign, and we will
hail with satisfaction every movement inten-
ded to unveil the shocking corruption and
criminal proAigacy of the State government
We repeat that this alone will perfect the right
to our confidence in Gov. Chamberlains ad-
ministration.
We feel assured, moreover, that active steps
will more than likely probe corruption up to
the very entrance of the present administration
into power. 1t has been freely alleged that
the nomination and election of Mr.. Chamber
lain were secured through the liberal use of
funds belonging to the Bank of the State
These assets belong to the creditors of the
Bank, and any deficit must be made good from
the pockets Of the taxpayers. There has been
no exhibit made since the present Receiver
took charge of the assets, and it will be inter-
esting to know whether any sum was employed
last summer and fall in furthering the aims
and purposes of scheming politicians. Attor-
ney General Melton is respectfully urged to
provoke an examination into the management
of this fund, and perhaps the result will justify
the assertion that some of Gov. Chamberlain's
friends knew how to manipulate sacred trust
to their own advantage.
We want a thorough and searching scrutiny
into all the transactions which bankrupted the
State and allowed Republican officials to revel
in riches. 1t is only a partial reformMwhich
promises honesty and economy hereafter: The
purity and cleanliness of the present admins
tration must be based upon its integrity and
faithfulness in discharging this imperative and
paramount duty to the people. All the invec-
tive and declamatory writing of partisan friends
will not relieve Gov. Chamberlain and Attor'
ney General Melton of the great responsibility
now resting upon them, nor inspire respect and
confidence in their intentions.
A word or two in reference to the editor of
the Union- Herald. On the 10Th of February,
1874, which is only about fifteen months ago,
Treasurer Cardozo addressed a letter to the
Tax Payers Convention, in which ne alleged
that Mr.. James G. Thompson "was well
known broker and street hawker in State paper
during the administration of my predecessor in
Office, Hon. Niles G. Parker, with whom he
was on intimate and confidential terms" We
presume that Mr.. Cardozo knew whereof he
was writing, and this may account for the win
cling of our contemporary when any reference
is made to the Parker frauds Boss Tweed and
his friends in New York doubtless imagined
that the attacks upon their conduct were Sim
pertinent" and "illogical." So may the editor
of the U,;on- Herald vainly characterize the ut
terances of an independent journal in this
emergency.