New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-29
TAKING ADVICE.

Democrats do not take advice III the spun w
kindness, and very often follow 1t. NOT
everybody's advice on all subjects 10 be sure
but discriminatory, with judgment and with
deIiberatlon. They were advised few weeks
aco nv Massachusetts, well-wisher to permit
some of the defeated cangldates ior
Congress who were declared elected ana some
who were elected by the barefaced tissue
paper frauds 10 be thrown out, and the Legally
elected Republicans to take their seats Ill the
next Congress. This. IT was asserted would
he q fine stroke of policy, as it would win the
hearts of the Northern people who have an
antipathy to fraud and fondncss for lar pay
so that it would be very likely to turn North-
ern State or two III the Presidential election
and give them a Democratic Presi-
dent. That advice was apparently not heard:
YOU cannot expect people as iar Oh from
Massachusetts as South Carolina to hear
everything. Or if heard, it was regarded with
silent contempt. The South Carolina Demo
Gratis are none of your brd-in-the-Dush kihd'
They are well enough satisfied with the pres
ent good of the bird i'll hand. lhey nave
not the slightest notion OF giving UP
n single seat in the next Congress.
nor of having, if they can prevent 1t, any
oucstion raised or investigator ordered con-
cerniug their titles.
Then some other trustful and conf ing
persons have advised Wade Hampton, i'll
view of the fraudulent methods by which
the Legislature was elected, ana the
shameful outrages which have been re-
sorted to to prevent investigation ana
exposure and intimidate wltnesses-to re-
fuse TO accept an election to the United States
Senate at the hands of any such Illegal as
sembly. They do this because of the prevail
inc impression that Governor Hampton
represents the honest and honorable men
of the South that he IS gentle
man of high character and stainless
record. who would scOrn to profit by any
dishonorabe OF dishonest transaction OF his
partisans Among people who love beautiful
language and dotc ON eloquence, and who
think that the era of good will came
in when several Southern statesmen lald
their hands on their hearts and SAID the
magnanimity and generosity OF the North
during the past Summer had removed the
last vcstige of the animositles of the wal
among these it has been supposed that
Governor Hampton was the kind OF
man to rise up aud not only refuse
political promotion at the hands OF fr1udu-
lently elected Legislature, but administer
a severe rebuke to the crimes OF
his partisans, and demand that they be
visited with condiGn punishment. Per-
hans they were the more sanguine that
he would pursue this manly course
from the fact that his political friends and as
A ,,,,,,l, -. 4,Vn
ago that President Hayes should refuse to ac-
cept an office to which he was fairly elected,
but which was close and, rs many Dem
ocrats believed, with cloud upon the
title. They reasoned that men who were
so anxious to have President Hayes
avoid taking Office with so much as suspi-
cion clouding his title would be equally solIci-
tous to save Governor Hampton from the
dishonor of an election to the United States
Senate by Legislature elected by the most
open and barefaced frauds. But their
confidence seems to have been misplaced.
Governor Hampton gives no token even OF
dissatisfaction with the election methods,
and it is quite certain that he will accept the
ScnatorshIp at such hands if rendered him.
And vet we say they do not refuse to take
advice. and sometimes follow it, III South Car
DINA. For instance, not long ago one OF these
nicely balanced newspapers that could not
undertake to dissuade Fejee Islander from
barbecueing a missionary without remarkng
parenthcticaIly-(" although to be sure the
"cltrgy generally have grown to be very cor
"rupt and quite likely the missionary
"may deserve it ")-suggested that the
South Carolina Legislature ought, when
it meets, to take prompt and decided
action with reference to the alleged violent
and fraudulent methods practised at the late
election Coupled with this was vigorous
condemnation of two Radicals elected from
the Beaufort District, who, it is alleged,
have been guilty of bribery. They ought, it
said, TO be prosecuted in the courts. The adj
vice is snapped up by The Charleston he,cS and
Courier at once. THIS is an exceedingly
proper thing to do, it thinks. Self-confesscd
blibe-takeIs," it remarks, with compacency
and conscious pride, "can hold no place
Gin the present General Assembly of
"SOuth Carolina" "The sentimental view
says this heightened journal, 4" is that IA
"only three Radical candidates for the
House of Representatives were elected,
cit will look hard 10 rule out two of
"the trio" But the editor scars above
sentiment, and into the clear, bracing
atmosphere of morality. This. he says
90 is not the moral view. The two members
" from Beaufort are objected TO because they
are criminals, not because they are Radicals"
whats the. difference in South Carolina p
How poor an opinion will Massachusetts, have
"of South Carolina if such law breakers as
Can't and Miller are permitted to take part
"in the momentOus work of making laws for
the Statc7" There is something extremely
touching in this exhibition of sensitive
ness to the opinion of Massachusetts. What
ever else they do In South Carolina,
TO IL.