Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-10-26
POLITICS AND TRADE.
How They Are Combined i'm the
Solid Southern State Of
south Carolina.


From the Boston Transcript
The ways of Southern politics, in
some respects clear enough, are still
past finding out. South Carolina is q
Republican State by majority of
many thousands; but the declsration
has gone forth that the Democrats are
to take possession after this year, and
the small traders and poor labOrers
have taken the alarm. The advertis-
ing columns of the daily Democratic
papers show how the:alarm is manifest
ed. The Charleston Journal of Com
merce, r. Barnwell Rhett, jr., editor,
contains the following:
"a CARD-UNTIL FURTHER
NOTICE 1 will receive applications
from those seeking employment, on
MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS and FRI
DAYS: and orders from employers for
Straight-Out Democratic WorkingmeE,
on TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS and SAT-
URDAYs. / am prepared to furnish
Democrats with Democratic labor al
reasonable wages, to any extent at q
moments notice. To employ Repub-
licans and starve Democrats no longer
pays. 1t is crime, and will be held
to strict accountability.
ar. S. THA1RN,
''75 Broad street."
To understand the effect of an an.
nOuncement of this kind it must be re.
membered that the great majority Of
Republicans are laborers, and the ma.
jority of Democrats are employers Of
labor in some form or other. Such q
notice as this is, therefore, an appeal to
the fears of those who are dependent
on their daily earnings, and would
rather change their politics than lose
them. 1t is also threat against those
who refuse to surrender. Here is
another notSe of the same kind:
ITO OUR MERCHANTS, WHARF
OWNERS, AND TRADESMEN
GENERALLY.-The Workingmen's
Democratic Association are now pre-.
pared to furnish from 100 to 200 able.
bodied men for any kind of work.
Apply at their hall, Queen street, near
Meeting, from to II m., 2 to 6, and
to Up. m"
This modified form of intimidation
is carried into the various branches oil
retail trade. Twenty-one butchers OF
Charleston unite in a card which the
News and Courier prints under the
heading,
"BUTCHERS TO BUY FROM.
"WHERE DO YOU Buy YOUR MEAT?
TO the Democratic Ptlblic.-The un-
dersigned, butchers in the Charleston
markets, who are earnest supporters OF
the cause of HAMPTON AND GOOD GOV
ERNMENT, respectfully solicit the Gus
tom of their Democratic fellow citizens.
"HOUSEK EEPERS CAN GET
THEIR Meats from Democratic Head
quarters Stalls Nos. 40, so, 81 and 5S,
Lower Market. Also No. 9 and 10,
Upper Market, 4 to l2I cents per pound.
1t is not Democratic money alone that
we want, hut WADE HAMPTON and
REFORM"
Paul Trescott, good South Carolina
ldIu6 duuS W tllo uQuiUcI vi otniil
the Observation-Disclosures Demo.
crat :" and T. R. TulIy, caterer, "de
sires TO remind the general public o.
what his old customers all know, thai
he has been for years stanch Demo
crat, and is now supporter of Hamp
ton and good government" Surely
the ruling white race, 'the natura
leaders," are setting noble example
for their less fortunate fellow-citizens
If the marketmen and household par
veyors of any Northern city were II
advertise their wares in this way
toadying to the Eejudices of their rici
customers, and threatening their rival
with the destruction of their busines
unless they changed their opinions, ou
rigorous Northern climate would soor
be made uncomfortable for them. Tht
negroes have, indeed, much to learr
and to unlearn when the superior white
race sets them so poor an example.