The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-04-12

The evidences of the Greenback plot
accumulate. In Mcl.aues letter Of Feb.
10th, lie says: 81 am, for day or two,
with DIR. Kelly. lie is all right" and
now correspondent of the Williamsburg
HruH says that DIR. Kelly, the Radical
Greenback Lacquer in Williamsburg
County, is circulating Ii story that q.
Hendrix McLane will be in the Cover
nor's seat on the lst Of June" The
UsraM also states that Dr. Kelly mistook
& true Democrat on board the cars for q
Greenbacker, and told him he had'spcnt
over 500 in the election cases and will
spend more. There can be no reasonable
doubt that the Greenback party are at
the bottom of the political prosecutions
now pending in South Carolina. The
cases started by DIR. Kelly and his friends
in Williamsburg have been dismissed
but then he got to harrass his political
opponents by having them arrested after
day or two of comforting with McIane.
D.
Hon. Ricl ard Crowley, Of New York
who was sent down here to prosecute the
South Carolina election cases in the
United States Courts, after surveying the
field has given up his commission and
returned home The business has prov en-
to be too contemplate and unfoUnded
for gentleman Of Mr.. Crowley's stand.
ing and reputation to embark in. This
is rebuke to the course pursued by the
administration ~nich cannot he covered
M, The business which Mr.. brewster
il conducting in the United States Court
in South Carolina for the benefit Of Will
lard, Mcl.ane Il Company is too disrcpu
table for even IL New York Republican
of fair reputation, to take even part as
paid attorney in. This man, not iden
tilted with our people, refuses to do fol
money what District Attorney Melton
who was born, raised and at one tim,
honored in South Carolina, glories in tn.
opportunity Of doing. Mr.. Crowley
however, has not yet lost his regard 70
the estimate placed upon his honor b.
the respectable and intelligent portion
of an honorable people, and seeing tha
these prosecutions arc ,rilling, mean an,
despicable, he very prudently decline
besmirching himself by having anything
to do with them.
The prosecution of Democrats 70
alleged election frauds in williamsburg
County, has been conducted in the mos
malicious and unexcusable manner con
ceivable. OF all the cases started from
that County, the United States Commits
sioner has not found one in which tn
testimony for the government was suffi
cient to justify him in sending the case
up to court. Hence, after dragging me-
away from their homes, carrying som
Of them even to Charleston. forcing then
to employ lawyers and go to the expens
of preparing for trials, even the prelimi
nary trial showed that there was nothinj
in the prosecutions. In Chester, Fair
field and Clarendon Counties, wher
large numbers Of arrests were made, onl,
two or three cases were found wher
there ssss any :satimcny 8: "!l agains
the parties accused. This state of fact
shows that the Greenback leaders, VIII,
are responsible for these prosecutions, dt
not want to punish crime, but that the.
wish to harrass and annoy decent peopl
as much as possible. Our people shoul,
remember this, and never forgive an,
man who il connected with these vii
outrages upon liberty and right. Thi
whole prosecution is the most iniquitou
business that has ever been attempted il
South Carolina. Heretofore the Repub
licans committed great outrages upol
our people by arresting numbers Of then
upon perured negro testimony, but /
has been reserved for the Greenback
willard -Ma!-=a= party, to 10: on:y follow
in the foot path Of radicalisn in securip.
arrests upon the flimsest and most unre
liable testimony, but also to carry it fur
ther by venting their hatred and malice
upon hundreds of innocent men whom
they cannot even bring to trial. They
begin against them simply to harrnss
annoy end personally injure political op'
ponents. The conduct of the Republic
cans in political prosecutions has been
Infamous. That Of the Greenbackers
has been worse.