The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-07-02
PERSONAL CHARACTER,

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The Palmetto Yeonan disputes the theory
recently stated by us that the Democratic
party can win on an issue of personal char
acter, if it will "oppos, tho unclean with
the clean, the tainted with the pure" Says
tho leomdn. sE
The head and heprt qualities of can.
didate are very little considered by the ma.
jority of voters. Is he a Democrat or a
Republican Is he on our side Does
nc go for the party, right or wrong2 These
are the questions asked, and if they are
satisfactorily answered, there the iuvestiga-
tion ends. 1t is q mistaken policy to rake
up mans dead and buried faults and de-
linqucnci .s merely because he is candidate
on the other side, and expect to hurt him
thereby among his friends. 1t usually has
contrary effect, and confirms the weak
aud wavering, and brings the stragglers
aud the doubtful into limo. Simple abuse
OF candidate, with no other foundation
for it than that of difference of political
faith and party affiliation is simply ridiculous,
and usually rebounds upon the heads of
those who indulge in it,
But the power that arbitrates and decides
between the two great parties in this coun-
try, IS the immense aggregate of the unat-
tached vote. In the North, where the is
sues between the parties are not, as in the
South, social and commercial life or death
there are thousands of voters without strong
allegiance to the organization or principles IS
OF either party, who look on both sides, and
cast their ballots for the best man. The
body of the Republican party there consists
OF of'intelligent and respectable citizens, who,
as VIC think, err in their theories of govern
ment, but will not hesitate in deciding be.
tween man of unblemished character and
a convicted bribe-taker, perjurcr and sub
orner of perjury. Ifthc theory set forth
by the Yeon'an was strictly accurate, there
would never be change in the vote polled
by the two parties. The same men would
be found on each side year after year.
The offences Of JAMES A. GARFIELD
and CHESTER A. ARTHUR are not "dead
and buried" They are rank and green,
and smell to Heaven. They have never
been forgotten. The abuse of them has
other foundation than ga difference of poli,-
ical faith" 1t is founded on official record ;
on sworn evidence; on the judgment of their
own political friends, conversaut with the
facts; and, in GARFIELD's case, on his own
handwriting.
1t the Democratic party, assembled in
convention this day, nominate another pair
OF political tricksters--if they set up two
other criminals to oppose GARFIELD and
ARTHUR,-thcn, indeed, it will be merely
party issue between hostile organizations,
and the most accomplished rogue will win
But the convention can make the question
one between corruption and puriry-betwcen
evil and good. We have confidence enough
in the American people to believe that the
latter will win GrecnpiMs News.
DEAR OLD PA" WAS TuERE.-It
was dark in the depot one day last week
when the evening train came in. An cl-
derIy farmer was backed up against the
partition, watching in open. .mouthed won.
der the big putting engine and The yellow
covered cars as they discharged their passen.
gers, when handsome young girl in n
sealskin cloak dashed forwar1 and throw
ing herself upon tho honest gransers manly
breast imprinted kiss upon his sunburned
cheek and exclaimed
"You dear old pa, knew you would be
waiting for me! And how's mother, and
how's Jennie and how's John-aud oh /!
I'm so glad to get back-and where's NV
trunk-and oh :! pa, you take tie check
and let's hurry"
The granger was old and kind of dried
up, and he had never known what it was
to have wife, much less a daughter. He
mistrustcd the young lady in the scalskin
sack had made mistake, but instead Of
stammering and hcmming and having, he
came gallantly up to the scratch, and throw
ing both arms around the fair creature, he
made up his mind to be father to her or
die in the attempt. Imprinting kiss like
the report of pistol on her cheek he enthu.
siastically calculated
"Oh, yer mothers we'll, an John Henry
an (smack) an Jane an Susan (smack,
smack, !, an Horace an Belindy an Calvin
(smack), an Peter, (smack, smack,) oh,
they're all smart n'hearty an"
By the time the young lady's friends
could get to her she had slid into a stony
faint and they had to lug her home in
hack, while the aged granger, as he fin.
ishod the third round with her outraged
young man and sauntered out of the depot
leaving him with bad eye and ruptured
coat, chuckled to himself:
"The old mans getting old an stiff an
careless like, but when any young females
wants TO play any games o copenhagen,
they find him right to time, an shouldn't
be s prised if it rained fore nine o'clock
G'lang, Kate !-Hockiand (Me Courier. .
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