Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-04-03

public mind and keep the two present
parties alivo aud intact until after Novem
Der, 1880. Hence, while few moderate
and Sensible men of both sides would gladly
settle the ditterencse concerning the election
laws, and could do so in half an hours dis
oussion, they are powcrless because tho
leaders sico with the extremists, ADD think
deadlock aud protracted struggle moro
for their interest Tho party lenders of
both sidos believe they dare not 20 to the
country on any question of real public value
or interest. The Republicans foar the strepgth
OF the soft money and imitation sentiment
in many of the States which they must
control to win the Presidency next year.
They were ut ono time inclined to tako up
the defence of the national banks against
the Democrats, but they are reluctant to
rsik even so much as this now, and arc agreed
that their safest course is to raise anew The
cry against tho s'solid South" The nows
received by them from various parts of the
North aud Northwest pcrsuades them that
they have succeeded, by bringing up jeff
Davis and by circulating stories Of South
ern prcdomincnoc in Congress, in alarming
ave have walked up the North at last"
said staIwart yesterday. "That speech of
Zach Chandcr's did heap of good.
We'll show tho Confederate brigadiers
there's q 'solid North as we'll as solid
South next year.
1t is 10 pursuance of this policy that tho
Republicans have determined to oppose all
legislation except tho passage of the appro.
priation bills. Mr.. Congcr, in tho House,
announced this morning that ho would OBJ.
ject to all proposals for legislation except
the regular appropriation bills, which is
equivalent to announcing deadlock; for on
one hand it is said that the President objects
to having the political legislation tackled on
these bills, and, on the other, Mr.. Conger
declares that his party will not allow it to
be even brought before the House separate.
ly, for one objection under tho rules is fatal
to ANYTHING except an appropriation bill.
MIR. Conger practically said to tho Demo.
Gratis, therefore, TINT unless thoy give up
entirely the political legislation proposed,
and which they have tho necessary vote to
pass through both houses, there should be
deadlock. 1t is in pursuance of the same
rlppn that Senator IIoar denounced to day
appropriation fpffls irg' aeftitbaiisnuefo,faf;
revolutionary, aud, if persisted in, leading
to the overthrow of constitutional govern.
mcnt and the destruction of national lifo."
All this twaddlo is, of course, meant for
home consumption. 1t is intended to fire
Northern heart, to place tho Republican
leaders once more before tho Northern
voters as the saviours of the Union aud to
perfect that issue for the campaign of 1880.
The Democratic leaders are as desperately
concerned for an issue as their opponents.
Many of them would like to Join hands
with the Grcenbackcrs and fight it out on
the fiat money issue, but they sec that they
cannot do so without splitting their party to
pieces, and they have suspicion that the
Greenback question may be substantially
dead before next year. Moreover, it is pri
vately confessed in Democratic circles that
Mr.. Tilden, if he lives long enough, is the
inevitable candidate, and he would not tol
erato Geccnbaok conimittal. Tho Demo-
cratic question, therefore, is precisely that
with which tho Republicans also are strug-
Cling, how to fiud and make an issue for
next year on which the whole of their dis !
tracted party can bo united; false issue, of
course, bocouso on all real questions neither
party dares to commit itself. AS the Re-
publioans have determined on tho "solid !
South and the danger of rebel supremacy
as their issue, so tho Democrats conclude
that tho "fraud' cry is the only thing that
can unite them. Whether Democrats arc for
hard or soft money, for liberal tariff or
high protection, for or against subsidies, all
can be united, it is thought, on the fraud
issue, and it is to make that plain and in.
tensify it in the popular mind that the lead.
ers have 60 vigorously insisted on tho effort
to repeal tho election laws. The immediate
repeal of these laws. is matter of no
practical importance, for there are no cleo
tions this fall. 1t may even happen that
after an excited and prolonged debate, sufh
cient to arrest tho attention Of the country,
the whole schomo will be suddenly given
up.
FRANKFORT, KY. March 2G. Judge
j. NJ. Elliott, of tho Court Of Appeals, was
assassinated in tho street in front of the
Capitol Hotel to-day by Thomas Buford,
Of Henry County. Judge Elliott had rem
dcrcd an opinion adverse to case Buford
had for some time in court. Buford loaded J
q double barrelled shot gun and waited for
Elliott to como to dinner and walked up and
shot him through the heart without warns
ing, killing him instantly. The assassin
was arrested, and is now in Jail. There is
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