Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-07-08
Organize.

The coming Presidential election is not
to be curried by emotion, by mass meetings,
by shouts, or by fine sentiments, says the
New York Sun. 1t is true, the campaisn
opens with confidence on the Democratic
side and with distrust on the Republican
side. There is the greatest contrust be-
tween tho unspotted integrity of General
| Hancock and tho notorious vcnality of
Gen. Garfield, to attract support for the
former, and to alicnato honorable Rcpub-
lcaGs from tho latter. The record of Que
is unsullicd, and that of the other is stain
Cd all over.
But tho contest is not between the per-
| sonal character and merits of the two Gun.
didates, though they will exert on iucden
tai influence as it progresses. The Re.
publican party hos teen in continuous pos
session of power for twenty years. 1t has
command of The whole machinery of the
Government; of standing army of more
than hundred thousand ofliceholdcrs; of
the vast and ramifying operations of the
Treasury; of the forty and more thousand
Post Offices; of the Custom Houses and of
the internal revenue system
Some idea may be formed of the cnor-
nous amount of money handled under the
direction of ono man, and ho unscrupulous
as political manager, when it is considered
that the ordinary receipts and expenditures
last year aggregated five hundred and forty
millions. Including tho receipts from
loans and Treasury notes, aud the trausacs
tlons in the public debt, they exceeded two
thousand mi'ious! The money market, tho
centres of trade, and the productions of
industry are all in a greater or less degree
affected by the mighty power Of tho Treas
ury, which John Sherman knows how to
weld ior the benefit Of himself and of his
party. The whole of this massive engincry
will bo used to retain possession of Office.
The Republicans will fight with tho supreme
energy given by despair. They know that
defeat now means disruption and ruin.
They also know that Democratic success
means exposure of the secrets that will
bring conspicuous leaders to grief, and un
cover corruption that investigating commit.
tees failed TO touch.
Ience the Republicans have the strong
est motives for making this fight, upon
which tho very existence Of the party
depends, the most desperate of any of their
long career. If money will avert disaster,
they will pour it out like water. John
Sherman has only to lift his finger in Wall
street, or to make sign to the First Ma.
tional pet bank, 10 order to raise any sum
that may be needed
At crisis like that now impending,
there will be no scrupe about EN- ploying
any agency likely to promote success. The
mon who invented and perfected the Great
Fraud of 1876, and arc enjoying the profits
CT that villoiny, are not likely to stand on
tr'les at this time. They have audacity
enough for any other enterprise equally
wicked. And if they become satisfied, as
tho canvass progresses, that the Presidency
cannot be captured or stolen, their attcn.-
tion aud their resources will DO turned upon
the Senate and tho House of Representa-.
tivos.
An Administration coming into power
without Congress to carry out its policy,
is like cripple attempting to run a foot
raoo. 1t is of tho first importance that the
next Congress should be assurcdly Demo.
cratic. The present majoritics in both
Houses arc small, and it will need effort to
insure tho Senate with anything like
working foroo after the fourth Of Maroh
next.
Elections arc not carrcd by enthusiasm
alone, which, though desirable factor in a
campaign, never takes tho place Of hard
work. The first duty of the friends of
Hancock is to organize thoroughly in every
Northern State especially, and not to neg
leot single Southern State. The nomina-
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