The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-03-24
OUR COLUMBIA LETTER.
THE APPOINTMENT OF CAPT.
MELTON, A "LlLY WHITE"
The WsLaIk in The Capital City =
70 's'"er p,,a. a''sr1s''


ed in the A4&ntment of Lawson
d.. D Melton as United States Mar
shall. Mr.. Melton is a represen-
tative Of the faction that has tried
so long to make Republicanism
less of an offense to the white men
of the state, and which has been
termed the oily white" faction
as opposed to the "b'ack and
tan," or the old timers-~the relics
of 1876. Heretofore the president
has ignored the "lily whites" in
his distribution of patronage and
that faction was likely to
s:arve to death. The faithful We're
just about TO stampede back to
the Democratic party, which with
all its strictness is so big as to be
good natured and disposed to for
give and forget. So these erring
cons OF Carolina were about 10 put
on sackclo,h and ashes and sit,
some of them have actually sat
before the doors of The house upon
which they had turned their back.
Had they been readmitted there
is no doubt but that the sackcloth
and ashes would have soon been
discarded and they would have
been asking for the purple robes
Office and demanding that the fat
ted calls be killed for their return.
This appointment made and
present change-stock in the
"Lily White" faction is beginning
to mount up and the faint-heart-
ed are taking strength and scat
tering back to their tents beyond
the outer wall, How much the
Lake City affair has had to do with
this appointment no one can pos
itively say, but it is thought that
the administration is beginning to
realize that the South is a white
mans country as we'll as the
North, and that politics is nnwhole
some for negroes in this section.
AT all events we may expect to
see the Lilly White" ranks filling
up with some of the dissatisfied
politicians from The Democratic
ranks, which are really so large
that every man can't be a colonel
or a major, and some have to car
ry the gunS.and knapsacks Of the
high priyates. The Republicans
promise TO make it lively for US in
the next election. There really is
no telling what fun there is ahead,
but there certainly will be large
and varied assortment of sports in
the political arena in the coming
sumMer.
The war talk continues to be Of
an exciting natur, but so far ii has
not visibly affected business and
the extension of improvements
and enterprises along the coast.
1t looks like every body is ready
to fight, and ev.ry body is fully
confident of the Stre2sth and abil-
ity of the Federal government to
amply protect its coast line. There
is, however, little probability of a
war.
The war spirit in Spain is Tot
surprising for the people of the old
world cannot realize the immens-
ity of the United States or its pow
er. The people ofSpain especially
are ignorant and have an idea that
they are the greatest people on the
earth. They know nothing ex-
cept what the governments permits
them to learn. but laterindications
seem to be to the effect that a
slight sglimmer of the truth is
dawning upon the government OF
Spain and there is a great deal less
of blunder than formerly Spain
is really about two thircs the size
of Texas, has population OF about