The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-09-29

with the Mackey wing of republicans
upon the basis Of proportional distri
button Of the Offices. This coalition
was s1ccessful in the contest for
state Offices, and the Nceos ec Courier
believes it will win in the ensuing
election. The programe is for each
| party to nominate n certain proper
tion OF the aldermen and school com COM
missioners free from any Influence
by tho other party md tho conglo.
merato nomination to be voted for by
both parties, This contains essential
ly the spirit of minority representa-
ton and in our opinion is an admira-
ble scheme, If it can be carried out.
Tho Nc'cs' 90 Courier states that
this proportional representation is
the condition of it's support of Gun
ningham, and that should the re-
publicans fail to .acquicscc iii this
scheme it will advocate the nomina-
ton Of n straight out conservative
ticket .....t .. ." luW,.. H..
We sincerely trust, however, that
this necessity will not arise. The
system of proportional representa-
ton is 50 equitable and just That we
hope to see it adopted not only in
Charleston, but in every county in
the State.
MIR. Washington Schcll and Mr..
Waltor Schcll, the brother and
the nephew of DR.. Schcll, have been
arrested on suspicion Of the mlr-
dorcr of Joe Crews. They protest
their innocence.
When Adam Crews and two ne
groes were arrested for the murder
Of Schell, on an affidavit of the nc
grocs that they had pcrpctratcd the
murder they were released
without tho formality of a
trial, This doubtless caused the
people Of Laurons to believe that
they might rs woll expect nothing
from the law, and somo misguided
individ i took tho law into his
own hands. We do not point to the
friends Of Dr. Schcll by this. Joe
Crews had made many other enemies
equally as bitter. But this Schell
matter was test case. Had it been
tried in opon court before Il Jury Of
twelve mon, the verdict would have
been respected and as thoro was
probably sufficient doubt to have
cleared Crews, he would have been
living to-day just rs Bowen is But
whom the confessions Of the accused
persons themselves were set aside
upon hearing of merely IN applica-
tion for Aabeos corpus, it might have
been expected that other enomics of
Crews would seek redress before
another tribunal It is true the ne
Grocs made counter ahidavits after
wards, but these wero rs improbable
rs IN oriental fiction for they i'm
piicated among other purties the
Grccnvillo Nc'cs as having organized
u conspiracy against Crews. This
was so abs,udly ridiculous that it
stamped the whole affidavit as false
1t will be found that tho slowost way
Of conducting affairs is the best. It
is moro expensive to try an accused
party before II jury, but tho loss of
money is moro than compensated
by preservation of peace and
order. '.f.
In conclusion wo suggest to the
Schclls to make aflidavits that they
had nothing to do with this murder
and thon to apply for release on Il
writ of habeas co,pts. ~. .'
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Is it not strange that some I'M
lucky accident befals every financial
board upon which Gov. Chamber
lain is placed ? We arc allacqrmint-
od with his misfortuncs before he
became governor. Since his olova.
ton to this high dignity, he hns
mot with another piece of bad luck
His was the casting vote which
placed tho deposit in Solomon's
bank. And when the bank fails Inc
pleads ignorance of its condition.
expresses sorrow that he was q
victim of misplaced confidence, and
demands that the public excuse him
| And thus far for some reason he hns
escaped all blame. Now if the
assertions of tho Treasurer be true
Gov. Chamberlain is as culpablt
as Comptroller Dunn. If an invcs
tigation of the condition of the bnnl
was demanded by Cardoza bcfor,
tho deposit was made, it was th,