The Greenville times., 1881-10-29

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Conservative candidate fnf the
Legislature. Ha maHly aud eH
.hie speech. lpb0Id.Hg the ad
.m.u.Htmt.oH of State and locl
.anmr Dos ouf patty that ought
. tp prove convincing Judge al.
corn bss spoken earnestly and
abIy boo thc county during The past
. Hcrt and uoa leaves for Kinds
cowty.
There rs no Disgusting the mct
. that since Lynch poke here. there
bas hccuu change of tactics by the
coutusiouist speakers. Ia speech.
cs made by j. +. Harris, Cart.
wright aud others, during the past
week, as reported 10 MS, alI effort
is directed To work upon the pref
udicc aud iguoruIcc of the colored
voters. Their speeches have been
/ quite as mcgudiary as those by
which the carpet.baggers kept the
negroes banded while they were
plundcrng the county Indeed
the object of the confusion party
M this county could but be, even
. possibly, ciieeted.by this line of
action to whichline pursuit of this .
object has naturally gravitatcd. /
The effect Of I3nch's appeal plain.
II afforded the cue to his follow. /
crs in Washington county, and
they have taken Il up.
Heretofore, under appeals such /
as are now being made, melting
the cOl0rcd laborcfs to regard the .
white planters MS their enemies,
we have realized that reason is
powcrless. We earnestly hope +
that this realization, and the hope.
lcssnesS attending it, will never
again attend the earnest efforts of
the ablcst aud best men of our
community. We do not believe
that 1t viii; but will know wheth.
er this hope is baseless after next
weeks canvass, under the appoint.
ments which we publish.
We urge upon the planters of
the county that they attend and
cooperate in these meetings.
There is cause for Just complaint
mt the apathy displayed by the
land owners in the pending elec.
ton; wherein they are chiefly. of
all classes, interested. They should
not forget the era of reconstruc.
tion; nor fail to know that there
is u constant danger of the pres.
cnt rclapsmg into the past. Re.
member the difficulty. the ahor.
tive efforts that attended the labor
of Wousiug the people to the rev.
olution of 1915. It was not the
first approaches to n subvcrSion
Of local selfgoyernmcnt that were
resisted ; nor the years of repeat.
ed and constantly increasing rob.
berry and-opprcSsion that banded
all honest white men against the
robbers. II was only when it be.
came u question of c0ntiscation or
revolution that ii was possible to
organize effective resistance. In
this Ben King movement we see u
repetition of the first step in the
establishment of ,earpct.bag GOV.
crnmcnt; with the single change
OF home material, equally mprin-
cipled aud reckless, for the carpet.
bagger The appeals to the ignor.
ant voters, by which foothold
may bc secured, are identical with
those made in 1869. We have not
yet done paying of the debts in.
CURED by the carpet.baggers when
we are threatened with rule of
those having the same object ins
endeaVoring to secure the public
offices. We warn all property
owners that it is economy to meet
and crush ont the first approaches
of this movement
\ sample of the kind of appeals
being made has been handed us.
1t is printed notice of a sale by
a landlord of the personal effects
of a tenant, including even his
bedding. y law that permits this
is barbsrous and indefeusible, and
MUST be amended. 1t is well
known that such an extreme use
of this rent lien by landlords is
rare. And when we some months
ago attacked the features of the
lien law giving extraordinary priv.
ilegcs to that class, SCmc of the
largest planters in the county ex.
pressed acquieseenee in our posi-.
tion. The use of this isolated
extreme instance to excite the