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


the safety and tranquility enjoyed by the
people Of every other State, and to which
every American citizen is entitled.
The Struggle in South Carolina.
The Philadelphia Times, an independ-
ent, non bipartisan paper, and one OF the
most powerful and influential Journals in
the world, properly appreciates the stu
alton in South Carolina, and, in its latest
issue, speaks these brave and encourag-
ing words: ...1. -.
There is one State in the Union where
the campaign is not conducted on issues
of the past. In South Carolina-plun-
dered. PROSTATE South Carolina-the is
sue is one of life and death. No talk
there of the Missouri Compromise or the
terms of Lees surrender, nor OF income
returns or milage accounts; no talk even
of Tildenior Hayes. A people for long
years depressed in spirit, stripped OF
worldly goods by thieving officials: ground
under the heel of ignorance and vice.
slandered and villi6ed at home and
abroad, cratic but honest and brave
withal. are making a last desperate effort
to redeem their State and place it once
more ON the high road 10 prosperity SO 70
lone by them uutroddeu. ."My God,"
said Gen. Hampton to tue correspondent
of a Republican Journal, 1--WE cannot
stand it,! Our substance is consumed,
and the very name of South Carolina has
become a by-word and a reproach. We
are in the gulf of despair. If the North
ern people even the Northern Re-
publicans-knew our condition; knew it
lust as it is; knew how we have suffered
and 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 a 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 elec-
ton is nearly two months away, but the
campfire blazes on every hill. Where
hundreds came together in former polltl-
cal con.ests, thousands now gather. Ev-
ery 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 service, and The women vie
with the men in what is termed the payri-
ic revival. A favorite device on the
transparencies tells the story. It. rep
resentation of female figure bursting
asunder her chains, and the legend
hereunder reads: "The PROSTATE State
Aroused" The campaign is one of SEN
tlment, indeed, but of stern reality as
we'll.
We have indicated the characteristics
of the Conservative line of battle. What
of the array on the other side? Within
the last week the frightened robbers, re-
alizing the earnestness of their victims,
have patched peace among themselves
and organized as we'll to defend their
booty as to perpetuate their power. The
Charleston papers bring us reports of the
proceedings of the State Republican Con
vention, at which nominations were made
in opposition to the Reform ticket. II
was 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 in the Republican Convention, Of
1874; Patterson, the purchaser of a seat
in the United States Senate; Whittemore
the Congressman expelled for cadetshlE
peddling; Bowen, the bigamist; Mobley
the incendiary, and dozen other notorl'
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 wors
man in the party was nominated he woule
vote for him, and said with glee "that i
there was five years of sealing in Soutf
Carolina he was glad of it, as it woulo
serve the Democrats right" At last tht
charges and counter charges became 81
bitter and disgracefu( that the convention
went into secret session, and for nine
hours washed their dirty linen with CLOSED
doors. After such scenes the ticket pre-
sented was such an one as might have
been expected of such body. For Gov
ernor, they named Chamberlain, who
having put bis hand to the pillow of re
form, turned back to get a nomination
from the men whom he had pilloried a
the worst that ever cursed free country
for Treasurer, Cardoza, who escaped i'm
parchment fof malfeasance by spendln!
the fortune stolen from the State in buy
ing his sworn judges; for Attorney Gen
cral. Elliott, who was denounced by tn
head OF the ticket as thief, and who il
turn spent hours in trying to prove to th'
convention that the head of the ticket
a traitor and knave. And this is tn
party and the ticket with which Northern
people are, expected to sympathize, ant
for the success of which Chandler is t
send his money and Taft his Marshal
and Cameron his troops to South Carroll
ma. And this is the work for which tn
New York G7Imcs thanks God, an
which it calls victory for reform. An
other Hayes organ has said that whe
the people of the North have to choos
between an ex-febel and q thief they WI
take the thief. The sympathies OF a.
honest people, North or South, must 6
out towards the Conservatives OF Sout
Carolina in their struggle for honest go,
ernment. Shame to the party who woul
have it otherwise.
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