Year: 1878

whose letters received here show that they out
ragged and indignant at what they rightly regard
as deep disgrace to the State and to their party
RISG OF POLITICIANS.


According to these letters the democratic organiza
ton in the low country of South Carolina. where


these frauds committed, is better than ring
of unscrupulous politicians whom Governor Hamp


ton, If he had not been besotted by his ambition to
become Senator, ought to have aud could have de-
nounced and crushed out These men have been for
year busy in preventing the growth of independ
ent movement which. il it had prospered. If Hanp
ton had fostered 1t. he must have done had he
been statesman, would have divided the white and
also the negro vote and reestabishcd the politics Of
the State on sound basis insuring good govern
ment, no matter who was elected. Having crushed
out the independents. they then rejected the
colored voters who offered themselves and prepared
to stuff the ballot boxes and secure thr ras "a, ontea
fraud. They made thoroi iA4rourth king of Scobee,
Assembly returned y ammo 1000. Eva, Inn,
ssts of 194 democrats and only three republicans and
both smalls and Rainey cheated out of their cleo
ton to Congress- 1t remains only for Governor
Hampton TO allow his Secretary Of State to give
tfcates to the two democrats who returned by
fraud from these two districts complete the dis
grace of the State and his 1t is scarcely poss
BILE that the democrats in the Forty-sixth Congress
will admit the two men the certificates, il
they get them The least they do will be to order
a election.


AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES. STATEMENT.


As to the honest citizens OF Charleston and the ad
jacent country. IL they sit still and make protest
against the wrong in which they had part. but
which they committed under their noses, they
will deserve to be misgoverned and will not find it
to secure honest public service hereafter for i'll
their case particular outrage committed. They
Ia ono m bray nnd
to withstand the pressure OF the democratic Ring and
to place himself in nomination for the State Senate
platform of honesty and Cancellation. This
Mr. James b. Campbell. genternsn Of the high
est character, able lawyer and life
long democrat. His letter to the demo-
cratic voters OF Charleston county, dated four
days before the election, gives very frank and
trenchant account Of the reasons which had led him
to come forward an independent candidate for the
State Senate. He did in order do what he could
to carry out the policy announced by Governor
Hampton in 1876. solemnly promised by him and by
the democratic party in 1877 and which he vio-
lated against his remonstrances and protest the
Legislature of that year by the passage of bill
ducing the number of voting places in Charleston
county. This, he explains. made it ingen-
iously impossible to the colored voters to reach
the polling places to get their votes
all in even IL they did BY this bill many voters
compelled to go twenty-five and forty miles to
reach polling place. and the hours shortened
that even moderate challenging would have excluded
the greater number Against this wrong committed
by the last Legislature Mr.. Campbell appealed the
people of Charleston county asking them to return
him to the Senate to mark their disapproval of this
gross violation Of Hampton and the States solemn
engagements the colored people and the country
Mr.. Campbell came forward in opposition to what he
speaks Of the dictaton of the close corporation
which, at this day. governs the democracy with po
itical tyranny unsurpassed and never before at
tempted in this State" He appealed as Hampton
democrat. He said:-


There are two policies in the democratic party
republican meetings to divide time and by the dis
graceful precincts law l have described This law
is fraud upon any promise to give the coored voter
policy and for that stand.


He pointed ont that in Charleston county there is
numerical rcpusaicsn majority Of from FIVE to six
Thousand votes ssdls reat.d that tho opening of
the the committee of the radical party made
a written proposition that neither party should make
partisan nominations but that full delegation of
all orthodox democrats should be named by the dem
ocrats and elected. This proposition was not ac-
cepted, was not answered by the democrats and
he adds that Men who being entrusted with the
duty Of lifting a minority into power. could reject
such opportunity have not the political sagaciy
to inspire confidence alM4


COUNTED OFT. nee


Well. the negroes voluntarily voted for Mr. Camp
bell. though he professed always To- Ybe democrat
certain not nconsiderable number Of democrats
voted for him. He undoubtedly elected and by
large maority, and yet he counted ont and de-
clared defeated The little pudding tickets and
other fraudulent devices used against him with
effect. But this is not all During the Governor



for the who openly and bravely stood on the
Hampton policy, but against him. Surely ii is
not often in these days that has
stopped get into the United States Senate as
Hampton has done in these last few months. And
now they the hand arresting and i'm
prisoning who make complaint to the federal
officers of the notorious frauds and the other
whining that IL they could be tried before Judge Ker
shaw in State court they would not mind but that
from the federal Judge Bond they will get no justice
But the is. "why do not the State authorities
beginning with Governor Hampton, take cognizance
of these crimes? Why do the local authorities con-


fine their efforts solely to shielding the criminals and
furnishing the vctims?'


VIEW ADMINISTRATION.


The view Of these occurrences taken by the adj
ministration differs in essential particular from
that of the socaled stalwart republicans. The lat
ter rejoice exceedingly. and behold already the ma
terials for a brand new bloody shirt" They ex
aggerate all that has been DONE which s bad enough
without exaegeration. The President and his Cab
net intend TO do their fol- duty, enforce the laws
and punish offenders; but they do not rejoice over
what is really calamity. and they wait to see what
the respectable and honorable part Of the democratic
party, not only in South Carolina. but in the North
also will say TO all this. Even party attitude this
would seem to be the wsest. for the really serious
not frau.1
very few and limited localities and the President.
policy is. he secs, completely justified by the
generally peaceful and fair canvass and elections in
the South. The serious matter will be IL there arc
not found honorable democrats in South Carolina
and elsewhere TO denouncc these frauds and TO refuse
to take advantage of them, and the silent waiting OF
the President will have far greater effect on the