The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-04-27

, PioPcity SOlu Oy the sink
ing tund Commission. This he wa
directed to do by Joint Resolution O
tne General Assembly. approved Marcel
~ 1874, more than year and half ago
Commiss'oner w. j. Whipper, the blacl
candidate for Judge Of the Charleston
Circuit, is openly charged with stealing
1, sum OF money belonging to the Sinking
rund Commission, and he insolently de
hes the Attorney General to put him or
ms trial. Surely the fact that Whippel
Is an active and Influential Radical
while Parker long before his trial was
Holitically dead, cannot have prompted
Neiormer Melton to pursue the one and
10 make no effort to catch the other.
Nor can we understand the studied
inactivity of Reformer Melton in tho
case OF Congressman SmalIs and Rcpre.
sentative James 4. Bowley, who are men
OF mark in the Radical party. BowIey
IS charged with demanding and receiving
6rlbes while q member of the Legisla.
ture. Three times the trial has been
postponed, and Re:ormer Melton, the
otate prosecuting officer. has not raised
finger in aid Of the Circuit Solicitor.
who has neither the skill nor the expe.
rience required for the management OF
an important case. Smals was charged
with corruptly procuring the passage OF
q fraudulent claim against the State.
Ihe .Solicior buDgled the whole case.
iaiied to summon important witnesses.
ana made no good use of the witnesses
lie DID call. The prosecution broke down
and Smalls is whitewashed. The aamit.
ted ability of Reformer Melton warrants
the belief that il he, as true Reformer
should have done, had conducted the
prosecution the result would have been
very different What makes his absence
more conspicuous is the circumstance
that, at the previous term Of Court, Re-
iormer Melton appeared against the two
of Richland county,
men OF no power or influence, whose fate,
ike that oil Parker, involved no political
consequences. Reformer Melton did not
say word for the people against either
Bowley orSmalls, and absolutely nothing
has been accomplished.
There is another point In which Re.
former Melton has been curously remiss.
Woodruff and Jones, the bosses of the
frinting Ring, are rank offence to the
pubic. The sworn evidence of fraud.
In their cases, was placed in the hands of
Neiormer Melton several months ago,
and he has not moved an inch against
them. Like Whipper and Bowley and
Smalls they are Radical big. and
one OF the pair is said to have little
memorandum book as rich in evidence
of corrupt dealings as that which Oakes
Ames made infamous. The dead dog
was nercilessly kicked. What of the
live lionsP
"rhe principal facts Of the Solomon
Bank failure are before the public. Re.
former Dunn's own statement she 8 that
more than one hundred and fifty thou.
sand dollars of the funds of the bank
have been stolen and fraudulently mis-
applied. What has been done 10 recover
the money, or to punish the culprit? 1t
is idle to say that Reformer Dunn has no
power or duties in this matter. When
Parker was the quarry, Reformer Dunn
made the necessary affidavits end urged
on the prosecution with a persisteney
which cannot be too highly commended.
AS the State h's lost over two hundred
thousand dolla,s by the Solomon Bank,
1t is clearly his duty, as Receiver of the
bank, to institute civil suits for the re.
covery of the money, and 70 lay in nforma.
tion tor criminal prosecutions. This is
whe. lie did, and was applauded for. in
the case Of Parker. WHY does he lie
supine now? There is no doubt-for the
bank statements show it-that over
eighty thousand dollars were spent by
Hardy Solomon in b.ibing the 1egisla-
tture, and that over seventy thousand dol
lars were fraudulently applied to retiring
the capital stock of the bank. Yet Re.
former Dunn makes no sign, and Re.
former Melton elegantly does nothing"
Such was the criticism to which AttOr-
ney General Melton exposed himself in
1879. With his record, it is supreme
folly to asseverate that he fought the
government Of corruption in South Car
olina" with call the strength" he had.
From February, 1870, until he was elect
ed Attorney General in 1872, he was
Circuit Judge, under the government of
corruption" From 1872 until April,
1876, he was Attorney General in the
government ofcorruption." The clouds
were gathering thick and fast, and he re-
signca before the storm broke. Slave Of
party, o. slave Of place he was, perhaps :;
but, in those days, not even in burles1ue,
was he the slave of duty.
But Mr.. Melton will have it that there
Is no craftsmanship in South Carolina.
There is none. it is to be hoped, in the
sense in which he has exempiified states.
manship. Mr.. Melton's statesmanship
permitted him TO retain Office for six
years under "the government of corrup-
tion," unmindful of the stain, the shame,
which his Official associates, at that very
time, fastened upon the people whom
they piundered and insulted. II permits
him to do the bidding Of his present en-
Tployers, unmindiul of the misery that, if
he succeeds, he will bring to Il score of
peaceful, happye bones. For him, the
present Is interpreted and expounded by
the past. No hand did he stretch forth
to save, when the black tide of ignorance
aud vice swept over the State. No word
that he can say, no act thct he can do,
will atone for the neglected opportunity.
South Carolina's faults, be they many or
few, come down from the days when Mr..
Melton was the official associate of Moses,
Cardozo, Whipper and Elliott, and, when
those faults slip from her like n garment
that is unloosed, lie will be remembered
as the one son of the State who made a
spectacle of her infirmities and, i'm the
hallowed name of duty, exhausted tongue
and pen in the effort to bring shame and
reprOach upon this people, Charleston
Ncrs and Courier.
= According to official statistics the
total population of the German empire,
as gi7en by the last census, was 45, ,234 ,O91, /,
OF whom 44,65S,205 were natives and
275,856, foreigners.
How the hearts of crowd swell and
throb with pitiless hatred against the
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