The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-31
SOUTH CAROLINA PROSCRIP
TON.

Some time ago, a Mr.. Swails, who
had become somewhat prominent as q
Republican politician in Williamsburg
county, South Carolina, was practical
ly eXiled from his home, under threats
on the part of the Democratic leaders
of that county that, if he remained
there, his life-would be the forfeit No
charge was brought against him by his
prosecutors, except that he was guilty
Of skin not colored like their own, !"
and had the presumption openly to
proclaim himself q Republican, and
solicit the suffrages of his fellow Re-
publicans for office. Lately this indi-
vidual has expressed desire and a
determination to abandon his exile and
come home, but this information hay
ing come to the knowledge of the ed
itor of the Kingstree Star, a Democrat
ic paper published in Williamsburg
county, that paper announced that if
Swafls came back, it would be at his
peril, and the Democratic Executive
Committee were advised to take the
matter into consideration and be pre-
pared to act upon it. These transac-
tions have been extensively comment
ed upon and denounced by the Repub-
lican press of the North, and the Dem
ocracy seems now to be waking up to
the effect which such developments
must have upon the party. The
Charleston NetOs and Courier, a Dem
ocratic, and in many particulars fairly
conducted paper, has become alarmed
at the length to which its contempora-
ry has carried its hate towards this
prescribed colored Republican, and it
advises cessation OF hostilities at
once, but in doing so, it makes a most
damaging admission of state Of af-
fairs in South Carolina, which has been.
constantly charged by the Republican
press and as industriously denied by
the Democratic press. The protest of
the Meas and Courier upon this sub
ject is as follows: We cannot believe
that the Kingstree Star is serious
when it says that it is the duty Of the
Executive Committee of the Demo-
cratic party to warn Swails that if he
intends to return to Williamsburg
county to take up his permanent res
idence, he will do SO at his personal
peril. The Democratic party cannot
countenance such q procedure. It is
the fear that Southern Democrats ac-
quiesce in such propositions that makes
it so difficult for the Democratic party
to regain public confidence. Things
were done in the canvass of 1876 and
1878 that cannot and must not be done
again. It was a supreme necessity.
The necessity no longer exists. The
Kingstree Star has taken an untenable
position. It's threats are already echo
ing and reechoing in the North. This
will not improve the prospects Of the
National Democracy. What comes so
near home is the fact that bulldozing
of any sort hurts right here in South
Carolina"
The people will be likely to inquire
what was the supreme necessity ."
which required things tobe done in the
canvass of 1876 and 1878, that cannot
and must not. be done again The
grossest outrages and frauds upon the
part of the Democratic leaders were
charged, and here is Democratic au-
thority that the charges were true.
Ought a party which perpetrates such
outrages, and thus pleads guilty Of
their preparation, to be longer trusted
with power? In professedly Repub-
lican government, such condition of
affairs presents an anomaly altogether
too contradictory, Inconsistent andI
monstrous to be longer thought Of
State Journal. s..