The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-09-20
Governor Hampton interviewed.
From the New York Herald.
CHICAGO. Sent. I.

CHICAGO, Sept. 12, 1877.
Governor Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina, will address the Agricultural
Society Of Winncbago county at Rock
ford, ILL.,, tomorrow night. On his Jour-
ney to that point he stopped here short
time to-day, and during his sojourn was
waited on by a Herald representative.
Tho Governor was not much inclined to
touch upon political topics, and remarked
that be would much prefer conversing on
agriculture thai; th3 po,;:;ca! situation.
He then mentioned the fec. tiiat jeff
Davis had been invited two years ago to
address this same agricultural association
Mt Rockford, and the Grand Army Of the
Republic would not permit him to speak.
Anonymous letters were sent to Mr..
Davis, in which threats were made
against his life should he make the at
tempt to accept the invitation.
THREATS OF ASSASSINATION.
~ have been threatened myself anony-
mnnaly," aaid the Governor. az hay.
letters now in which am threatened with
assassination If dare attempt to address
q crowd ut Rock ford, but these letters are
written by towards. The mcanest anon.
ymous letter ever written, think, was
Tai;cd from Chicago. 1t wns addressed
thus:
"'To Wade Hampton, Columbia, S. c..
or wherever else the damned villain may
be. Curses on his soul'"
CARpET-BAa INIQUITIEs.
The Governor then said: "I see by
the papers to-day that Niles G.. Parker
has made confession touching the iniqui-
ties of the Chamberlain administration.
They are ell confessing nov. Parker
used to be State treasurer. He was once
arrested, tried and convicted, but escaped
from the State. BY the way, you know,
secret. investigation is being made into
tho crimes committed by ex-officeholdcrs
in the State Of South Carolina. Some of
the papers arc striving to create the I'M.
pressiovi that this inquiry amounts to a
systematic persecution of innocent par
ties. This Is grent injustice to the poo.
pie Of our State and to the administration
Of which am the head
THE GOVERNOR GIVES THE FACTS.
"Now let me give you the facts" said
the Governor. "a committee was ap-
pointed by the Legislature to ascertain
whether any funds had been misapp-o-
priated by officials or the credit of the
State improperly employed. The resolu-
tion for the appointment of tho commit
tee was offered by Republican. A ma
iority Of the committee itself are Repub-
licans. The Grand Jury, before whom
the fac:s are being laid arc nearly all
Republicans, if am not mistaken. The
inquiry, in short, is essentially Repub-
lican measure, and when all the evidence
against the Tingsters Is brought out there
will not be o Republican in the State
who will not sustain tho committee and
tho Grand Jury.
CATALOGUE OF CRIMES.
"The crimes of which these fellows
have been guilty embrace bribery, forgery.
perjury and all the forms of downright
thievery, and ! tell you, air, the official
corruption and roguery of Tammany or
OF Tweedism were not conceived on a
more liberal or magnificent scale than
that which characterized the Republican
administration in South Carolina. Why,
sir, just look ut some Of the evidence
brought out by this investigation |"
Before the war 1t cost about $450, 900
year tc run the machinery of our State
intn nowar they had the I-aeialatnrA
which they manipulated as pleasure. In
the Legislature one session there were
ninety negroes who had been originally
field hands and who could neither read
nor write. This body appropriated
$3.50, 900 to pay for public printing for
one session. That was nearly as much
as 1t had formerly cost to run the whole
State government This &S5OOOO was
put into the hands Of O ring styled The
Republican Printing Company which
kept two complete sets or buoks-one sat
de5isis!a &c deceive deceive .as ;i5i; public, .s .as
other showing just where the stealings
vent.
DISCOVERIES MADE.
''The Investigating Committee have
discovered that Of this $3.50 900 the sum
Of $l22, 900 was paid out In bribes to pro-
cure the passage Of q bill for the appro-
priRtion. / have recently been shown a
l!iissss liissss g: thirty OF forty Legislators who had
accepted bribes. Opposite each name
waa tho amount asked by the bribe taker
and also the sum paid him. Under the
single head OF legislativo expenses over
81, 900 was disbursed in the interest of
corruption. There 10 plenty of evidence
thBt faces of warrants were tampered
With. For example, one warrant issued
by the State called for $I1, 600; the first
two figures were deity converted 90 ~.
a fellow named b. +. Whittemore, who,
you win recollect, vas expelled from
Congress for trading in cadetships, was