The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-03-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

firm of Cook & Cheek, proprietors of the
famous Kennesaw Mills, failed on Tues
day last for large amount.
Judge Taft, of Ohio, has been appoin-
ted Secretary of War, in place of Gen.
Belknap, resigned. His nomination was
sent to the Senate ON Tuesday.
Maj. Martin r. Delany, the candidate
of the Independent Republicans for Lieu
tenant Governor in the campaign of 1874,
was convicted last week in Charleston of
breach of trust and larceny, and sentenced
by Judge Reed to serve one year in the
Penitentiary. Notice of appeal was at
once given, and the case will be carried
to the Supreme Court The charge
against Delany involves the same trans
action about which the Chamberlain
Radicals made so much ado in the last
campaign, alleging that Delany had ap-
propriated funds to his own use which
belonged to church. Delany never de-
MED receiving the money, but his mis-
fortunes prevented him from replacing
the same when it was needed. 1t is
painful acknowledgment to make that
thousands of honest, misguided white
men in South Carolina cast their votes
for such man, and the moral of this de-
nouement to the last campaign is most
obvious. The Democrats of this State
cannot afford to tie themselves to Repub-
lican leaders, white or black! AS Delany
is shorn of influence IN the Republican
party, we cannot expect him to receive
the assistance of Governors, Judges and
other high officials to keep outside the
walls of the Penitentiary.
The Nashville american directs atten-
ton to the curious fact that strange
fatality attends the selection of candidates
for the Presidency from New York
Only one nominee from New York has
ever been elected. Mr.. Van Buren, was
nominated and elected, but there was a
great loss of votes to the Democratic
party, and when nominated again he was
badly beaten, failing even to carry his
own State. Dewitt Clinton was beaten
by Mr.. Madison; Millard Fillmore re-
ceived only the vote of Maryland; Gen.
George B. Mcclellan received twenty-one
electoral votes; Ex-Gov. Horatio Scy-
mour received eighty electoral votes; and
Horace Greeley died before the electoral
college met, but after an overwhelming
defeat at the general election in Novem-
Der. These facts seem to be damaging,
in superstitious point of view, to the
nomination of Gov. Tilden, who is the
prominent representative at this time of
the New York Democracy. But we i'm
agine that there are other considerations
of weightier Importance to control the
and We do not think the Sc
lection will be made from the Eastern
States at all. The West is very powerful
and determined to have representative
man of that section, while the South is
kindly disposed in the same direction.
An exchange says: at ought to be a
silencer to croakers to know that business
is at least brisk in some quarters. The
mining stock business in our foreign con-
sular department t; the post leadership line
in the cabinet; the distillery business in
the White House; the street improve
ment business in Washington, ETC., ETC.,
all seem to be panning out good profits"
Under Republican rule politicians of the
dominant party are about the only per-
sons who have indeed been very prospe-
rous. The frauds and corruptions they
have practiced since power has descended
into their ignoble hands have been very
great, but already the avenging hand
of justice is upon them, and under the
scrutiny of Democratic investigating
committees their disgraceful frauds and
peculations are being shown up and
checked so rapidly that really we think
our contemporary's irony is hardly con-
sistent with the facts, for it seems now
that the business of political rogues is
about as improbable as anything else.
There have been some very great failures
in this department lately, and the panic
has at last reached them, for if they can
not stop investigation their business is
ruined, and they are almost sure to be
invited down and out by the American
people to make room for their present
the Democrats, who, by the
strenuous opposition to fraud and corrup-
ton, have shown that they deserve the
confidence of all honest men. We hope
the prosperity of the political rogues in
South Carolina is destined soon to re-
ceive an overthrow as completely as that
which almost certainly awaits them in
the nation.
"AND STILL THEY ESCAPE"
Charleston has recently been the stage