Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-09-13
THE ROGUE'S ROLL.

Before the holding of the specia! term Of
the Court of General Sessions at Columbia,
there had been some scattering arrests of Re.
publican politicians. upon charges made by
the Investigating Committee, but until the
Attorney. General and his assistants gave out
their bundle of indictments to the Grand Ju-
ry, the public had no conception of the ex-
tent of the work undertaken BY the Commit
tee, or of the number of persons affected by
their inquiry. 1t was we'll known that the
State had been robbed year after year, but 80
vain had been the previous efforts to bring
the offenders to justice that the people were
not particularly hopeful of any tangible re-
Suits The Committee, however, without go
ing far below the surface, have secured evi.
dence that, with fair jury, will ensure the
conviction of the accused, and, BY its charac-
ter, give the lie to the charge that the proceed
ings in Columbia savor strongly Of political
persecution. For the opinion Of professional
slanderers in the North, South Carolinians
care not farthing. We are anxious that
they who have good opinion Of us, who
pinned their faith to the declarations of the
Democracy of this State, through the agoniz.
ing weeks of last winter and spring. shall not
be disappointed, or feel that their confidence
was undeserved. They will see, as events ri.
pen. that every charge ever made by the
Democracy against the Republican party 10
South Carolina, is fully sustained by indispu-
table facts, and they will see that the evidence
is furnished by Republicans, not Democrats,
and that out of their own mouths and by the
work of their own hands the culprits are con.
demned. Some inkling of the mode in which
the investigation has been conducted should be
given. To begin with, we make up roll of
the rogues who were indicted in Columbia last
week: be-. .. .....
l. Robert Kingston Scott, of Napoleon.
Ohio, Governor of South Carolina from 1868
to 1872, two terms of two years each, indicted
for conspiracy to defraud the State, in ma
king and issuing spurious claims on the
Treasury, in the name of fictitious persons.
under the Joint Resolution of February 8,
1869, authorizing the Governor to employ an
armed force for the preservation of the peace.
Scott, when last heard Of, was saying pretty
things in Ohio about Governor Hampton and
the South Carolina Democracy.
2. F. j. Moses, of Sumter county, Cover.
nor of South Carolina from 1872 to 1874,
and Speaker of the House of Representatives
from 1868 to 1872, indicted for e. the fraud
ulent issue, as Speaker, of legislative pay
certificates, and for (2) hiring and counseling
breach of trust. No notice has been taken
of his misappropriation of the Contingent
fund and bis other rascalities while Governor.
Being accepted as States evidence, Moses is
comparatively happy.
3. John j. Patterson, of Pennsylvania,
elected United States Senator for South Car
olina in 1872, indicted (1) for conspiracy to
defraud the State under the Joint Resolution
of February 8, 1859; for (2) conspiracy, with
Parker and Kimpton, to bribe members of
the Legislature; for (3) bribing members of
the Legislature; for (4) hiring and counsel
ling State Treasurer Parker to commit breach
of trust and larceny. 1t was Patterson who
announced year or two ago that there were
five years good stealing yet in South Caro-.
lima" 1t is notorious fact that he was
elected Senator by bribery, his agent being
Fl. G. Worthington, the present Collector at
this Port, who in public has boasted that he
elected Patterson. Senator Patterson is in
Washington.
4. R. II. Gleaves, mulatto, a native of
Philadelphia, Lieutenant Governor of South
Carolina from 1872 to 1876, indicted for O)
conspiring to defraud the State by means of
fraudulent pay certificates, and for (2) fraud
ulently issuing legislative pay certificates.
Gleaves has fed
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