Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-29

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The. situation in South Carolina, a
we understand it,. is something lik
the following: There has been 70
several years an irrepressible con
flict in that state between .Governo
Chamberlain and Moses, Whippe
and other members of the Suprem
Court Chamberlain, for3 good rea
sons, opposing theirappointment ant
the democrat generally, all over tn
country, supporting Chamberlain il
his hostility to what they called al
infamous and corrupt court in al
their newspapers and from every
democratic stump In the land.
Wade Hampton, on his own admis
sion, has generally ignored the pres
idential fight Ho has been simply
running Wade Hampton. He hal
stated on the stump that he would bt
perfectly satisfied with Hayes, and
he has pcrsistcntly claimed to be q
better friend to the colored men thar
Chamberlain, who went down tc
South Carolina during the war, tc
fight for their freedom.
This state Of affairs led naturally to
q fusion between the Whippcrs and
Moseses Of the Supreme Court, and
Wade Hampton, their common shib-
boleth being anything 10 beat tho
republican reformcr. Chamberlain.
Knowing their men of tho Supreme
: Court, and relying on their hostility
to Chamberlain, and believing that
by fraud and terrorism they had got
ballots enough in the boxes to count
In Hampton, Tilden and democratic
Legislature. thus securing a United
States Senator in place OF Robertson,
(republicanl the democratic manag-
ers readily enough induced this un-
savory Supreme Court, the other day
I to undertake the business of counting
and returning the vote of South Car
olins, thus arbitrarily assuming the
functions Of the proper returning
board, created by law.
To this end the democratic manage
crs procured a temporary mandamus
restraining tho board from perform-
ing anything more than clerical duty
in the matter of the count, AZ to
the vote fer President, and ordering
1t to make an immediate count of all
the votes and return the result to the
Supreme Court to enable that body, as
it claimed, to decide whether the court
should make the order permanent
and mandatory, restraining the board
from performing anything more than
ministerial Duties.
That count and return to the Su-
preme Court elected Hayes Electors,
but gave the Legislature and Govern
or to the democrats, the most Of the
other State officers to the Republicans,
and this on a simple enumeration of
all the ballots before them, without
any reference to their character, or to
the alleged frauds in many counties.
This result was entirely satisfactory
to Wade Hampton, prospective Gov
ernor and United States Senator. but
not so to the democratic statesmen in
Louisiana, interested in Mr.. Tilden's
election and John Morrissey's pool
box. They didn't care a fig for Mr..
Hampton, and were disgusted with
his apparent treachery to Tilden, and
for his failure to stuff the ballot boxes
with enough spurious votes to save
Tilden, while he was looking out for
his own interests in that direction.
So they again appealed to the immac-
ulate Supreme Court to preserve the
sanctity Of the pool-box, and while
that very superserviceable body was
preparing to order the board to make
another count aud another return to
that body, the board had.been in the
meantime quietly performing its duty
by carefully counting the vote, which
they have done, and returned to the
Governor which shows the election Of
the entire republican ticket. This
result being accomplished, the board
adjourned, one Of the members, Pur-
Wis, resigning, which is, perhaps, the |
end of the matter after Chamberlain
gives his certificates 10 the officers
certified to him, by the only legal anl
competent authority to canvass and
return the vote.
In the meantime, Wade, Hampton,
having failed in his conspiracy with
the Supreme Court to steal South |
Carolina, has issued his manifesto to |
the people, protesting against what
he calls the outrage, ard hoping to
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get his rights in the court of Moses.
1t is also intimated that Moses will
order the Board of Canvassers to re-
assemble and obey his mandates. 1t
remains to be seen how many Of them
will listen to the impotent rage Of
this unholy Moses.
I. It is handsome rumpus as it now
stands, with Wade Hampton and the
democratic party generally, standing
by the court of Moses, which they
have denounced all over the countr
- the most UNANIMOUSLY corrupt judi
cial body which everexisted.
In the meantime, the republicans
have secured the state by a scratch,
in spite Of stupendous frauds, when
they should have had fully twenty
five thousand majority had there
been such an election there az we
had in Iowa. They can, in view OF
the circumstances, afford to lot Wade
Hampton and the other heathen rage.
pao The New Orleans Times ia the lead
ing democratic paper Of Louisiana.
y is 2 larger and more widely read
Z paper than any other in that State. 1t,
too, is tho organ Of what is styled the
conservative democracy Of Louisiana.
Al such journal, its sayings in re-
gard to the situation, may be justly |
taken a. the oppression Of tho major
ity q the democratic, party Of that
-StAts.5 We give below d clipping
from recent editorial In that paper.
II says: 4s tl-isG sass slsi q
q The sentiments in the South, bitter
aHwarned BY previous deceptive as
'aatAnces, has grAvltated, with eingu-
2 lar unanimity, to the conclusion that
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