The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1875-12-26
Ex.Goy. Moses and Whipper.
GOV. CHAMBERLAIN OPINION OF THEIR
SELECTION AS JUDGEs-IT IS "A HOR-
RIBLE DISASTER"


GOV. cHAMBERLAIN's OPINION OF THEII
SELECTION AS JUDeEs-IT IS "A HoR
| EIBLE DISASTER"
CHARLESTON, s. c., Dec. 20. Gov
Chamberlain, in an interview with {
representative OF the News and Courier
speaking of the selection of cx-Gov
Moses and Whipper as Circuit Judges
said:
look upon the selection as horribl.
disastcr--a disaster equally great to thu
State, to the Republican party, ant
greatest OF all to those communities
which shall be doomed 10 feel the full
effects Of the presence Of Moses anC
Whipper upon the bench. did veal
ago speak publicly OF Whipper, who
was then q candidate for the very posi-
ton to which he has now been elected
Then denounced him as incapable and
utterly unfit for the office of judge.
OF Moses no honest man can have q
different opinion. Neither Moses nol
Whipper has any qualification for judi.
cial 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, / might add,
on any part of the South Moses az
Governor is endurable as compared
with Moses as Judge.
q. What, in your judgment, will be
the effect Of the election of these men,
A. The gravest consequences of all
kinds will follow. One immediate eff
feet will obviously be the re-organi-
zation Of the Democratic party within
the State as the only means left, in the
Judgment OF It's members, for opposing
/. solid and reliable front to this terrible
crevasse of misgovernment and public
debauchery. could have wished, as a
Republican, to have kept off such an
issue, but l have a profound belief in
the logic OF events, and u providence,
too, that shapes events, and do not
allow myself to think that the good and
honest men OF South Carolina will find
it impossible, because they are organi-
zed as Democrats, to give their help to
whomsoever shall be best able to undo
the terrible wrongs of last Thursday.
/ am free to say that my highest am,
bition as Governor has been to make
the ascendancy of the Republican party
attainment and maintenance of as high
and pure tone i'm the administration OF
public affairs us can be exhibited in the
proudest Democratic State of the South
and it was also my fondest hope, by
peaceful agencies, here in South Caro-
lima, of all the Southern States, to have
worked out, through the> Republican
party, the solution Of the most difficult
and one Of the most interesting po-
litical and social problems which this
century has presented.
If these results shall not be reached
the responsibility for the failure will
not rest upon the conservative citizens
of South Carolina, who have hitherto,
with unvarying fidelity and generosity,
stood by me in my work, but upon
those, and all like them, who dealt the
cause Of good government SO deadly a
blow on Thursday.
The Governor went on to say that
there were grave doubts on constitu-
tional grounds Of the validity Of the
judicial election as to four out of the
eight circuits, Whipper and Moses be-
ing among the doubtful cases.
The action of the Legislature con-
tinues to be the subject of great popular
excitement all over the State.