The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-12-06
The Future Of Parties.
NO SIGN OF A BREAK IN ANY soUH-
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CHATTANOOGA, Nov. IA see no
indications of a break mp in parties
South, with the exception that the
Republican party is pretty we'll brok-
en- up and played out. In Georgia
it is formally disbaEded. Likewise
in Mississippi. In South Carolina
most of the leaders have been run
OFT or are lodged in the penitentiary,
where more of them belong than
will ever get there. Right here let
me say that sympathy for the South
Carolina Republican leaders is pretty
much wasted. They were rascals and
plunderels from top to bottom, with
now and then an exception that made
the surrounding darkness only more
dark. That fellow Patterson has no
business in the Senate, and should
be kicked out, no matter if his vote
is necessary to Republican supre-.
macy, as L believe it is. lie bought
his place, buying the purchasable
darkeys in the Legislature as the
slave drivers did in the old time,
only under Patterson's dispensation
the darkeys got the money them~
selves. Don't sympathize with the
"persecuted Sonth Carolina Repnh-
licans" more than you would with
an ordinary gang of convicts, or
mourn that the so-caled Democrats
are in power there. That State must
belong either to the thieves or the
Democrats; there is no half way
ground, and it is better TO let the
Democrats have it. We can almost
cry ont, "Anything, Lord, but what
has been for the pas; ten years."
In Alabama there is no Republic
can party to speak of. There is.
Spencer in the Senate, but he soon
goes out and won't 60 in again, and
Willard Warner running an iron
furnace, and Ex-Governor Parsons
attending courts, and Sam. Rice sit
ting on the fence, and Ex-Governor
Lewis down on the other side, and
that is all there is of the Republican
party in Alabama.
In Florida there is sign of life,
growing ont of q collection of North.
ern consump'i7os and native negroes,
but they cannot carry the State. In
Texas the Republican party is SO
reduced that & short string of omni-
buses, moderately loaded, could car
ry it all out of the State, and they
had as well charter the omnibuses so
far as future supremacy is concerned.
In Virginia the party is SO dead that
it did not kick during the late Gu
bernatorial canvass. The "Conser-
vatives" quarrelled among them
selves like tom-cats in a tow sack,
but had the enemy appeared the
troubled waters would have been
stilled and the Conservatives har.
monious. But the enemy did not
appear. He is past that perform
ance.
In Arkansas Joe Brooks il dead,
and Baxter has turned Democrat,
and Clayton subsidized or sacrificed,
and Dorsey soon goes out of the
Senate and won't 60 in again, and
this completes the inventory of the
Republican party in that quarter
In North Carolina, Kentucky and
tennessee only are there signs of
substantial Republican life, but not
enough to accomplish substantial res
suits. These States will remain Dc.
mocratic for some time by majorities
ranging from thirty to seventy thou
sand. 1t is question if the party
IN tennessee has not moro "git up'
than III any other Southern State. It
is certainly ahead of Kentucky, the
Democrats here never being able to
pile up as large majority as in that
State. But even here where the
conditions are favorable to Republi-
can growth If anvwhora 1ro So,l A.