Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1880-05-13

Will d tOUCu VI 1uO Oico"
and file Of the party, with a great
captain foreshadowed as their leader.
with the right to send United States
marshals to every election prec3ict
backed by the United States troops.
with the recent decision Of the Su-
preme Court Of the United States
which declares that judges, comnis.
s~ioners and managers Of election,
where candidates for National Offices
are voted for, are subject to inaict-
ment and trial in the United States
Courts where partisan Radical judges
preside and prostitute the law for
party purposes. This is all done dss
pite the tenets of the Democratic par
ty. despite the theory Of local eelf-
government or the doctrine Of States
rights. It is Il party with the pms:
and sword in their hanls, aid ayr
ty who are avoweily ready t cnSean'
or both to secure, maintain and pr
petuate their party in poxer.
This startling picture of power and
the sinews Of party should cause our
most reckless autocratic leaders to
pause and consider their line of-ac-
ton, and our most selfish offi,essek-
ers to inquire, are there not oskcrs
as we'll qualified as themselves to ho;d
office?
In my four years service in the
State Senate have had to ezeose
those who were high in office, who
had banded together to rob the fax
payers by compelling them to retog-
nizs and pay the s3,6oS,71 of those
bonds that were fraudulent. l have
had to point to the bond rings pr
g4nized to secure payment, dollar-for
dollar, for fraudulent bonds bolght
at ten cents. on the dollar; to break
up, as far as I could, their rascally
schemes to ROB the people Of tnelr
scanty ~sustenance. I have had to
oppose the placing upon the Bsnea of
men charged with bribery and cor
ruption, to the exclusion of sons Of
the ablest and purest lawyers oI2ur
State. I have had to oppose the
turning loose upon our society tie
thieves and robbers who despoiled
our State. The failacious mNin
that universal amnesty was the hiGh-
est ststesman-hip is demonstrate 10
have been not only an error, baa
criminal mistake-a %griev6dis wrong
to our people. Itis said that ~
thirds of The members OF the recent
Radical Convention which met in Co
Mrnbia were who had beehgr
ed an amnesty Pardoh, or w4ff7Gu7
figured prominently in the repiFSs
Of the committee on frauds. TO
compound a felony is against the an
cient common law Of the land. If
those guilty men had been consigned
to the State P~enilentiary, where they
properly belonged, there would not
have been a corporal's guard Of the
Rsdic,' party left IN Ills State
My r~nrrlsnt;ng opposilion 10 pre-
f>sional and unScrr!nl!ous poii'icianS
has nai.ralY %ctas-.i ;h"m 20 ana
ga";x m in every rossibi. manner
il tie r0ty, VAS gage III 1878,
Tor fear that | would TIL what |
knew oil their bribery and corruption,
| can only look to the pure, pttriotic,
and manly element Of the Democrat
lie masses to sustain my course and
to vindic4te M record. During the
whole term of my service as Senator
7 have iroa time to time been the
sulIectofhars criticismand unbla7h-
ing SANDERS. I have borne the crit
ici.m with Indifference. and cefated
atain AMI again their lying and ma-
%lirions SANDERS At II time | was
CHARGED as bang about to Hf re
Radical ariy, AMI his vie s'a"'Er
WIS at once echoed in this comfy y
tfose WHO have rirsed t!eir l'ersrn-
nj ann si;l,s to keep item wa@m,
ans, who under cover Of t:oii'irai cp-
position have given currency 10 such
n3lound~l siansicrs. Recently they
have ,i.a:aci me with having de-
cIarsd ihai / intended 10 run rs an
InderqnA -nt candidate fo' Gover"e:
T4is .isnder is in keeping win the
on@-th4' I Intended To join III" Il:
paIIie"n qrly. It IS as false IS the
rt<t
hay, never announced myself as
a candidate for lie office Of Governor.
Ih4v- sai. that it was AZ ~llic} that
woail not e-li, IN thai r@rtth-
er be politically hight thai to be
Gcyelno! Of The Sfa:n; aid | repeat
again this sentiment. | have always
recognized the fact that the mal nty
should rule as being a part OF the
Democratic creed, and applicable
alike to tie action Of conventions and
the result Of Democratic primaries
and l uledss myself to abide their
action. The recent statement that-l
was the author or i'll any way cog
..;,L IL r,oa for the mnnici