The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-22
HAMPTON'S VIEWS.
What the New eOuth Carolina senator
Thinks on Leading Political and
Financial 0ue nfiAna.

A correspondent OF the Columbia ReO,ste
has visited Gov. Hampton, and elected iron
him certain opinions Of great public ques
tiOns
Personally the Governor is getting alon,
very well, and expects to be quite we'll by tn,
twenty-second Of February, when he hopes {.
go to Charleston and aid In the celebration o
the day.
frank and explicit. He wants bottom in
vestigation Of all the alleged outrages sought
| for by the Teller Committee, because, as h,
says, mo good citizen, no wise man. no goot
patriot, can afford to cloak and cover up frauc
or corruption In elections. 1t goes to the root
OF our institutions, and it destroys the frui
ton OF liberty itself. But we have right tc
ask that the Teller Committee shall tell the
whole story and not the half Of it. Whatever
comfort there Is in It, and / confess it is a
very poor one, due and honest investigation
Will discover as much irregularity on the Re.
publican side OF our household as on the
Democratic And this much must say, that
so far as intimidation Is concerned, there was
literally none whatever on our side whilst on
the Republican side there are the most I'M
questionable evidences OF gross intimidation -
Acknowledging the irregularities on the
Democratic side In South Carolina, he at
tributed them more to the accursed condition
OF affairs left by Radicalism than anything
else, the worst OF it, however, being that it
was entirely superflous in the last elections.
But he does not see what good investigation
will do, IL one-sided. 1t must include Massa-
chusetts as well as South Carolina PennsyI-
vania as well as Louisiana.
On the currency question, Hampton said he
was hard-money man, and did not compre-
bend the greenback philosophy at all He
favors sticking to resumption, and not at
tempting to repeal or hamper it.
His Democracy, he said, was that Of Jack
son, the true policy of which lis to olsen
tagle the business transactions of the coun-
try from the legitimate financial conduct OF
government affairs. To mix the two things
is unwarranted by the constitution and dan
gerous to the last degree Why, does not
everybody see, from what has transpired be-
fore US, that the moment the government be-
comes involved in it's financial operations
with those Of the country at large, the
moneyed men of the country and the great
industrial classes become involved in an ir-
repressible conflict, even more terrible than
former days pressed upon the attention OF
the country"
AS to the campaign Of 1880. Hampton
favored dropping the financial issue as lead
ing element, and adopting that which en-
braces the highest patriotism. "a constitu-
tuaiondt rule, self-gopecnment and no sectional
ism should be the sum and substance of our
fitted to good honorable, trusted
and tried standard-bearers, 1t matters not
whether they be from the East or the West.
l have no patience with an Eastern Democra-
cy and Western Democracy, a Northern DEM
ocracy and the Southern Democracy. 1t is
no Democracy at all which Is not as wide as
the whole country" He believed the sober
second thought of the people of this great
our fathers with one consent and find in its
wide bosom whot we all want, with the excep-
ion OF class Of wicked mischief makers
peace, blessed, hedUen-bOrn pedcei