The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-01-10
WADE HAMPTON TALKS AGAIN.

| From the Charleston, Is, I y News, Dec ~
Senator Hampton has talked freely with
the correspondent Of the News and Courier
at Washington. The denial Of the charge
that the Democratic leaders, or Senator
Hampton himself, proposed or desired to
abandon the TIlden Electoral ticket in
1876 is repeated and rivcted. An entirely
fresh incident Of the campaign of 1876 is
the generous offer of Gen. Toombs, Of
Georgia, TO give $4,000 out Of his own
pocket to the campaign fund. Contrast
this with the fact that the National Democ-
| racy did not contribute a dollar TO the eX-
penses of the canvass, and with the dis.
| creditable circumstances that the sum Of
$4,000, which was paid 10 counsel, at the
instance of the National Democratic COM
mittee, in order that the vote for electors
might be brought before the supreme court,
has never been repaid to the South Caro-
lima committee.
South Carolina bore the whole cost of the
canvass and contest, from beginning TO end,
Not a farthlng was given to the Democracy
by any persons other than Carolinians, out
side the state. 4 toothsome revelation is
made concerning Judges Settle and Denny,
These were two of the statesman who
visited South Carolina TO look after the in.
terests OF the Republican party and the
safety of the board Of state canvaSserS.
Senator Hampton informs our correspond.
ent that Messrs. Denny and Settle, lone of
whom has since been elevated to the United
States bench by grateful PRESIDENT, told
him that, if he would say, on any public
occasion, that the state Of South Carolina
had been carried by Hayes, the troops would
be withdrawn and the Hampton govern
ment be recognized This was after the
canvassing board had had the opportunity
to fix the returns. As one of the statesmen
said I'VE have had one deal with that pack
of cards and have thrown it away" Of
course, Gov. Hampton declined to be bribed,
but this does nor make the offer less scan.
daous
Senator Hampton gives his opinions about
the canvass of 1880. In his opinion, the
State can be carried in only two ways. One
is by adhereing TO the policy of 1876, which,
in his judgment, is no longer an expert
ment, and will enable the Democracy to
win enough colored votes to give them
majority. The other is by suppressing the
coored vote by fraud. We go with Senator
Hampton to the extent of believing that,
with such candidates as were then in nomi
nation, and with equal determination and |
enthusiasm on the part OF the people, the |
State can be carried in 1880 as it was
carried in 1876. We go further, and say,
that, with no Republican candidates for the
State offices in the field the State can be !
carried in 1880 as il was IN 1878, Beyond
this there Is nothing certain. The legisla-
ture has declined to order the registration |
of electors, which would have lessened tic |
opportunities for fraud, and which could !
have been arranged so as to relieve the low
country OF the crushing weight OF the ne
gro vote.
We are not told whether this means that
the State is to be carried somehow and any
how or whether It indicates Willingness 10
allow the whole Of the low country to revert
to the Radicals. No plan Of operations
can be arranged until the objective point is
determined upon. The system that will
suit, if the purpose is to carry every county
in the State, will necessarily differ from a
system that will answer if the object mere
" is to elect the State ticket and two or
three of the five congressman, Until We
can know what is expected of the Demo-
cratic party by the low country, and what
the low country is ready to pay for what it
wants, we can not say what manner Of man
should be nominated for governor, or what
should be the programme of the Democrat.
ic party