Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-09-25
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Mr.. Franklin ]. Moses for many
years enjoyed the bad pre-emi-
nence OF bong u grand mogul in the
band Of thieves, murderers, iorgers and
perurers, who administered tho State
Government Of South Carolina, and
held high carnival OF crime there for
ten or twelve years preceding the revo-
luton of 1876. We do not understand
that Mr.. Moses undertakes TO purge
himself af this reputation or to deny
his guilt, but being expatriated from
his former State, u disgracod and ruined
man, u broken reed, tit Tor nothing but
confession of his own sins and exposure
of his associate thieves, with something
of the feeling with which the con
demned murderer contributes his body
to the cause of medical science Mr., Mo.
ses has undertaken, through the col
umns OF the New York Herald, to offer
to the public full confession Of the
unholy manner in which he and his
crew discharged their functions of gov.
ernment, abused their trust, plundered
their people, and aided the party in the
North which sustained them in their
political power. We recommend a
close perusal of Mr.. Moses narrative
to the many pious people who have
actually been so far misled by their
bitter preiudices us TO believe that no
such calamity ever beiell State as
when South Carolina passed from Ne
gro and Carpet bag rule to the control
of the Democratic party. If the mod
ern Moses account of the genesis Of
the Palmetto Carpet-bagger, to be fol.
lowed by his exodus, is not as vora-
cious as that of his biblical namesake
it is certainly scarcely less interesting
He makes no effort TO shield or apollo
gize for himself, except that he declines
to be made the scapegoat for the SIM
of all. The Ku.KluX excitement, he
says, was.a deliberate job set up by the
Republican managers to make party
capital New York roughs were i'm
ported an armed constabulary was ap
pointed and a secret managing caba
was formed, all paid out of the Stat,
Treasury and popular taxes, whos'
business it was to stir up or inven
outrages" " whenever occasion ther'
or here demanded them for poitica
effect the infamous Major Lewis Mer
rill, formerly well-known about Colum
bia, in this State, was paid by th'
State officers to keep the State in con
slant pandemonium, and he ailerward
was rewarded by being allowed stea
of s35 900 from the State. By sucl
devices, narrated by Moses in the frs
of series of papers, the Republican
kept this State PROSTATE until they bat
well-nigh destroyed her sovereignty
What do our Republican readers thinl
Of the scamps they helped to sustain
in power
In letter TO the New York SuH
Moses tells how the returns from Soutl
Carolina were manipulated IN the las
Presidential election. He declare
that when they first came in to tn,
Returning Board Il ieds found that Til
den had carried The State by ouer on
thousand majority Of strictly iegat uotcs
A number Of Republican counties wcr
tampered with to increase their maiori
ties, This proof exists
A moderately promiuen, and worthy Republi
eau iyirg in Columbia has In bis lossrssion on
Of the pages Of Paper on which tie dsurIng wa
done, all the characters Of which, with the name
Of the counties, are in the handwriiing Of \. /
Cardoza, one Of the members Of the Board. tn
returns from Charlestown, Georgetown and bar
lington counties were the ones which we're tan
psred with and in which sufficient votes wer
altered 10 give the State to Hayes