The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-05-10
Especial dispatch TO the Baltimore SUM-
The Contest for Chief-JHstice iii South
Carolina, &c.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEADLOCK.

THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEAD-LQCk.
WASHINGTON, May S.-Private informa-
ton from South Carolina gives some addi-
tional points of interest connected with the
refusal Of the State Senate to participate IN
the election Of a chief-justicc. The Demo-
Gratis, who counted on controlling the SEN
ate through the casting vote OF the Lieutcn-
ant G. ovsrnor, relied upon the support OF
John Cochran, who was elected as an indie
pendent Republican from Anderson county,
and whose vote cast with the Democrats
would make the Senate Il tic. 1t seems that this
reliance is not we'll placed Cochran some
often going against them. lie is represented
as man Of violent preiudices, whose course
! cannot be calculated upon. Last winter
during the exciting times ut Columbia he
became engaged in a barroom alteration
with the son OF the sheriff OF Richland
county and killed him. He is a native Of
South Carolina, was in the Confederate army,
and although claiming to be Il Republican
has natural hatred for all carpet-baggers.
He has personal antipathy to Associate
Justice Willard, and his vote against going
into convention was doubtless to prevent
the election OF Willard to the chiei-i Justice
ship.
Opposition to Associate-Justce Willard
also comes from General VI. W. Gary, who
is Il member OF the Carolina Senate, and
who is looked upon rs leader OF the " last
ditchers.' He has been Il resolute oppo-
nent OF the paciiication policy OF Governor
Hampton, and has bitterly resented the
preference OF Hampton for Willard. Gen
cral Gary is also very ambitious to come to
the United States Senate, and ever since
the meeting of the Legislature he and his
go Il 70 tl..,n In
ton on the ground that the election OF Cen
cla NJ. G.. Butler was Irregular" So much
feeling hos been aroused OH the subject that
Governor Hampton has deemed it necessary
to intimate very plainly that if another cleo
ton was gone into he would refuse to give
certificate because he had already issued 4
certificate to the duly-chosen senator, Cen
cra Butler. The deadlock in the Legisa-
ture is probably due in some respects 10 the
dissatisfaction Of Gary and his friends, who
do not, however, appear openly III 1t. AS
| Cochran is Il man who takes tie liberty OF
changing his mind without assigning any
due cause, he may break the deadlock ut
a4y time, if it so suits him. But the present
situation shows what has heretofore been
apprehended, that Governor Hampton, in
the good work which he has laid out, is not
destined to have plain sailing.
SENATOR GORDON UNDER FIRE..
Serious and concerted attacks have been
made on General Gordon at home on ac-
count of his attitude during the progress of
the electoral count, and his subsequent in
tercourse with President Hayes. The acts
and the utteIanceS OF General Gordon have
been very much miSrepreSented in the in
tcrest Of parties who are anxious to obtain
his place in the Senate. The discussion
over the matter in Georgia has become so
bitter that several duels have in consequence
been imminent General Gordon is now
here, but will soon return home. The tight
for his seat in the Senate, which has already
commenced, will be kept up with increasing
bitterness to the day OF the election, which
is some eighteen months of.
POLITICAL INCRATITUDE ILLUSTRATED.
here went to the White House and gave
them some pretty plain talking. He said il
the election in Ohio was to come off to-
morrow the Republicans would not carry a
single county in the State. 1t was impossi-
bic, he said to have conception. OF the
universal dissatisfaction OF the party in
Ohio unless by personal observation. The
Republicans there thought that the Presi-
dent was giving his entire time and atten-
ton to the South, and ignoring his oWn
party and his own section absolutely. The
gentleman who thus unburdcned his mind
is not an oflice-seeker himself, but some OF his
friends have been well provided for through
his influence, and it is not unnatural that
the President thought such talk little un-
grateful, and particularly when he has been
condemned elsewhere for making so many
Ohio appointments. 81
GARFIELD IN a QUANpARY.
Friends of General Garfield say that he is
much chagrined that he yielded to the So,
licitations OF the President and RETAINED
from contrasting for, Sherman's seutin the
Senate. They say That Garfield is now in q