The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-08-19
GRANT AND TIE SOUTH.
Will the Ey.PrcsIdent Canvass for Car
field.
SprcinL toMe New York Herald.
WASHINGTON, August

WASHINGTON, August s.
a project has come to light here with
reference to the South in the present
campaign, which, whether practicable
or not, goes far to explain the purpose o.
the open discussion over Southern needs
and prospects at the Republican confer
cnce in New York the other day. Great
care has been taken since the project
WIS conceived to hedge it about with
secrecy, and since its developments were
entrusted to discreet management it has
been skilfully and quietly engineered
1t may have been noticed that at the
conference several speakers, upon the
subject of prosecuting the campaign in
the South, laid stress upon the desira-
bility of having ,ncn 90 South who were
we'll known republicans, and upon whose
utterances the colored people could rely,
and whose influence would govern them
at The polls.
Pinchback, fur instance, was explicit
in the declaration that the South did not
want money for campaign purposes, but
men. To II casual observer the discus
sion might as well not have taken place,
for it seemed to accomplished nothing.
But it accomplished all it was intended
to accomplish publicly, and that was to
sound the conference upon the subject of
sending into the South men whom the
negroes would be likely to trust and fol-
low implicitly. There are not a dozen
Republicans of whom the mass of ne
groes know and by whom they would be
guided. 1t is doubtful if there are o half
dozen. They have heard, most Of them,
of Blaine, but not in way to inspire
them with confidence in him. OF Sher-
man most ofthem have heard, but as the
purveyor of official patronage for private
ends, and they are not so benighted rs to
repose confidence in one addicted tosuch
operations. Garfield was q stranger to
them before the Chicago Convention.
Since then they have heard little of him
except in connection with the questiona-
bic career which has tarnished his pros
poets in the North, and history of the
Credit Mobilier and De Golyer transac-
tions, with the salient features and the
moral effect of which they have become
acquainted, has rather deepened their
disappointment over his nomination.
The original reason Of their disappoint.
ment was because they had set their
hearts on Gen. Grants nomination.
Interviews published just after the con-
vention and circulated tbroug hout the
country were abundant evidence that the
bulk of the negroes regarded the defeat of
Grant as u defeat of the party. Their
institutions led them even further than
this, for Gar6eld's nomination was inter-
preted by them us Democratic victory.
Grant was and is their hero. The afec-
ton they cherish for him is little short Of
worship. With him leading them they
would 60 anywhere and do anything.
A few shrewd political managers here
took in these notions and then cast about
to see what their practical application
would be in the present canvass. Atthe
same time the debt troubles of Virginia,
Tennessee and Arkansas began to attract
public attention. Many of the would-be
repudiators are negroes, and the Repub-
lican managers having the matter in
hand concluded that this could be
explained by the fact that the negro's
sole political aim just now was to array
himself against Democracy. They did
not for moment believe that he hose
to side with repudiators because of repu-
dating instincts. The Readjusters last
year, with the aid of the negro NATURALLY
Republican, vote, they argued, carried
Virginia. There was a fair chance that
Tennessee and Arkansas would follow.
Putting the conclusions with reference to
Grants supernatural influence over the
influence over the negroes and of negro
ignorance and gullibility together, the
plan of having Grant himself make
another tour of the South was batched.
The proposed operation was to be that
Grant could wean the negro Readjusters
in these three States from their new al
legiance, and since the State debt agita-
ton is reasonably certain to continue
through this campaign, its advocates,
barring the negroes, being largely Demo
cratic, would leave the Democrats divid-
ed and give to the Garfield electors in
each State plurality. Then in the
Carolinas, Florida, and Louisiana the
preponderance of the negro vote would
be relied upon to return these States
Republican. Such in brief was the pro-
iect. Garfield and Conkling were both
made acquainted with it. The knowl-
edge that no public discussion of it
would be attempted accounts plausibly
for their absence from the conference
which they went to New York avowedly
to attend. Whether or not the matter
was discussed at the subsequent confer
ences of the managers, with closed doors,
depends entirely upon Mr.. Conkling.
The task of inducing Gen. Grant to un-
dertake the tour was to fall, naturally, to
him, for it was conceded that he alone
could do it. That also Mr.. Conkling
realized, and he understood perfectly the
advantage he held in that respect. It
was but natural then, that he should
have demanded of the party managers
and of Gen. Garfield such promises and
concessions for himself in advance of the
undertaking as would duly compensate
him. If the scheme was to succeed, as
many of the managers believe it would
the party was entirely in his power, for
without such success he knew rs well as
they what wuld be the fatal consequences
in November.
The really probable effect of any such
undertaking would in all likelihood fall
as short of what the Republicans expect
of it as wild schemes usually do of reali-
zation; but there is little doubt that it
has been strongly urged during the past
few days in New York and duly weighed,
and lift has been abandoned twas because
of the failure to agree on compensation
between the managers and Gen. Garfield
on one side, and the cxacting functiona-
ry who alone could putt in operation on
the other.
No"N1GGER" NEED APpLY.-The mig
ger,
The everlasting niger, is at the front
again
Demanding Office.
The nigger's highest idea Of civil lib