The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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Democrats signing the official bonds of
Republicans as sureties is now the subject
of much discussion in Charleston. If the
Democrats throughout the State would
adopt the plan of letting Republicans.
supply their own bondsmen from among
themselves, many of the corrupt officials
would be prevented from assuming Office
because of their inability to secure suf6-
cient bondsmen.
The Republicans in Washington are
becoming alarmed. They fear the recent
infamy of South Carolina Republicanism.
There is danger that the conduct of the
lawless strikers upon the Combahee, who
say they were ordered to do as they did,
the causeless murder of four white men
in Williamsburg, and the fearful riot in
Charleston may set their outrage mill to
grinding backwards, in which case it will
furnish bread for the Democracy.
In the Arkansas State election William
R. Miller, the Democratic nominee for
Governor, was elected by an oyerwhelm-
ing majority of nearly fifty thousand.
The Legislature is also largely Demo-
sratic, and will enjoy the privilege of
putting good Democrat in Mr.. Clay.
tens seat in the United States Senate.
That honor will very probably be be-
slowed on the present Governor, A.
H.. Garland.
Governor Chamberlain has issued a
proclamation forbidding the assembly of
armed bodies of men upon the streets of
Charleston, but has very little to say
aoout the punishment of the rioters. He
could offer $4,000 in rewards for the
lynchers of the villains who murdered
the Harmon family in Edge6eld but
there is not generosity enough in him to
offer one cent for the punishment of the
infamous mob which murdered peaceable
men and put the whole city Of Charleston
in terror and danger. He has discrim-
mating mind.
Gen. Sherman declines becoming a
partisan in the Presidential contest, and
says that he intends deyoting himself to
the military profession. He also takes
issue with Judge Taft about the authori-
ty of United States Marshals, and in
structs his officers to use their own judg-
ment about obeying the Marshals. He
thinks that if the Marshal has authority
over Captain he has also over the Gen
eral, and Sherman denies this. We are
betting the General of the army has
more authority over his troops than the
Attorney General. Mr.. Evarts, the
greatest lawyer of the age, has hereto
fore given a different opinion from
Judge Taft's.
The Republicans elected their State
ticket in Vermont, which is not a matter
OF much surprise, it being one State in
the Union which has never voted for a
Democratic President. Their majority
this year, however, is smaller than it ever
las been, whilst the Democrats, show a
greater increase. In the last four Sep
tember elections, held in presidential
years, the Republicans got majorities as
follows: In 1864, $4,000; in 1866, 2S,-
COO; in 1872, $4,000; in 1876, $4,000
which shows that their vote has steadily
decreased, whilst the Democratic vote,
small though it is in this ultra radical
State, was in 1872, 12,677; in 1874, 49,
257, and in 1876, 21,035; showing an in
crease in four years of nearly seventy pei
cent A like per centage of increase in
the other States would insure the election
Of Tilden and Hendricks.
Although the white men accused in
the Hamburg riot were present in Court
and demanded trial, the Judge, P. L.
Wiggin, continued the case because the
Attorney General was not present. This
carpet-bag dignitary of South Carolins
has since written a letter to Governor
Chamberlain stating that the reason be
did not try the case is that there are
armed men in Aiken County who have
terrified the witnesses so much that they
could not be relied upon to testify. Thi:
is simply subterfuge. The real cause
for postponing is that the Republicans
dread the exposures which are to come
from that trial. and do not wish them tt