The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-10-05
The Struggle In South Carolina,


cnt, non-partisan paper, and one Of The
most powerful and influential journals in
the world, properly appreciates the stu
alton i'll South Carolina, and, in is latest
issue, speaks these brave and encourar-
ing words: =.
There is one State in the Unio,. where
the campaign IS not conducted on issues
Of the past. In South Carolina-plun-
dcrcd, PROSTATE South Carolna--thc is
sue is one Of life and death. No talk
there of the Missouri Compromise or the
terms of Lees S::rcndcr, nor of income
returns or milagc accounts; no talk even
of Tilden or Hayes. A people for long
years depressed in spirit, stripped Of
worldly goods by thieyius officials. ground
under the heel Of ignorance and vice,
slaudered and villiticd n: homo and
abroad, crratic but honest and brave
withal, are making a last desperate effort
to redeem their State and place it once
more on The high road 20 prosperity SO
long by them uutrodden. "My God"
said Gen. Hampton to tue correspondent
OF Republican Journal, "we cannot
stand it! Our substance is consumed,
and the very name of South Carolina has
become by-word and reproach. We
are in the gulf Of despair. If the North
ern people-yes, even the Northern Re-
pub!icans-knew our condition knew it
just as it is knew how we have suffered
aud how we have been robbed, their sym
pathies would be extended to us in this
struggle. What We want is relief from
the robbers" An enthusiasm has been
born of this desperation, and the result
is seen in conservative canvass which
has had no parallel in our history, unless
it be fonud in the Log Cabin and Hard
Cider demonstrations of 1910. The cleo
ton is rearly two months away, but the
campfire bazcs on every hill. Where
hundreds came together in former politi-
cal con,ests, thousands now gather Ev-
cry man who can speak is on the stump !;
clubs are active in every township; torch
es, fireworks, music, flags and flowers are
pressed in;o servicc, aud The women vie
with the men in what is termed the pa:ei-
ic revival. A fnvorite device on the
transparencies tells the story. 1t is n rep
rescntation Of female figure bursting
aslnder her chains, and the legend
Hereunder reads: "The PROSTATE State
Aroused" The campaign is one of SEN
t!ment, indeed, but of stern reality Us
we'll
We have indicated the characteristics
of the Conservative line of battle. What
Of the array on the other side2 Within
the last week the frightened robbers, re-
alizing the earnestness of their victims,
have patched q peace among Themselves
and organized as we'll to defend their
booty rs to perpetuate their power. The
Charleston papers bring us reports OF the
proceedings of the State Republican Con-
vention, Mt which nominations were made
in opposition to the Reform ticket. 1t
was a motley gathering. If there was
an honest man in il he does not open his
mouth. The leading spirits were Elliott,
the most corrupt, though, perhaps, the
ablest, colored man in political life !;
Jones, of Georgetown, who sold himself
thrice III the Republican Convention, OF
1874; Patterson, the purchaser of seat
in the United States Senate; Whittemore
the Congressman expelled for cadetship
peddling; Bowen, the bigamist; Mobley,
the incendiary, and dozen other notori-
GUS fellows, tarred with the stick of COR
ruption. The speeches were marked by
open assaults upon the integrity of every
candidate before the convention. One
man openly declared that if the worst
man in the parry was nominated he would
vote for him, and said Will, glee "that if
there was five years of sealing in Sorth
Carolina he was glad of it, az it would
serve the Democrats right At last the
charges and counter charges became SO
bitter and disgraceful that the convention
went into secret session, and for nine
hodrs washed their dirty liner with closed
doors. After such scenes the ticket pre-
beea expected of such body. For Coy
arnnr fhau r,op,aI las -,ho
having put bis hand to the plow Of re-
form, turned back to get nomination
from tie men whom he had pilloried as
the worst that ever cursed free country ;
for Treasurer, CardoZa, who escaped i'm
peachment fof malfeasance by spending
the fortune stolen from the State in buy
ing his sworn judges for Attorney -Ger-
cral, Elliott, who was denounced by the
head OF the ticket as q thief, and who in
turn spent hours in trying TO prove to the
convention that the head of The ticket is
traitor and q knavc. And this is the
party and the ticket with which Northern
people are, expected to sympathize, and
for the success of which Chandler is to
send his money and Taft his Marshals
and Cameron his troops to South CARROLL
ma. And this is the work for which the
New York g7fmes thanks God, and
which it calls victory for reform. An
other Hayes organ has said that when
the people Of the North have to choose
between an ex-iebel and thief they will
take the thief. The sympathies OF all
honest people, North or South, must &c
out towards the Conservatives. of South
Carolina 10 their struggle for honest gov
ernment. Shame to the party who would
have 1t otherwise
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