Year: 1876

ORGANIZING TO WIN BY FORCE.


Political matters IN South Carolina grad
ually ISSUING an animated aspect. The
Democracy are making hcIculean efforts to
secure tlc State q! the coming election.
In their cwn words they are "organizing
for victory organizing to carry the State
pcaCeaIiy If they can and fOrcibly if they
must: organizing to secure ample arrange
mcnt5 FOR general Intimidation work: or
ganiziag TO repeat tic bareiaced and open
frauds which w-estcd from the Republican
party tic important Slate Of Mississippi
las: fall; they are organizing to destroy the
freedom Of the franchise. TO establish sys
TEN Of ballot,box STIRLING: 10 win, if it
must bc. ly cuTb;ng the ful! and free cxer-
else Of the election privilege. This is the
victory they are now organizing for. In
the contest that is coming they are deter
mincd to win. All :he engines of political
triCkcry; all tAe forces Of the White Line
element; al the strength and pcr5istency
and power within their manipulation will
mark their endeavor. They have already
alured the Republican Governor by their
f1attery and buncombe from his constituency
and political faith. Degree by degree they
have surrounded him with their influence
nence and power have been forced to pro
nounce him an apostate, an unfaithful
leader, and withal dangerous man within
the party ranks. They have secured him,
aud now, by welding through his inau-
ence the executive power of the State, they
are stirring up strife and discord within the
Republican ranks, and are attempting to
shatter its organization and produce state
Of confusion out of which the party will
not be able to secure order and
peace in time to save the State.
They are forming a political army
which is 10 be mustered and trained to do
battle against the negro element of the
Commonwealth. In every ward, town
and hamlet in the State these organizations
are being established, and when the cleo
ton occurs their power for intimidation
and fraud will be felt with equal, if not
greater, force than was experienced IN
Mississippi. And Gov. Chamberlain is in
open sympathy with these organized aud
organizing schemes to make political serGs
q! hundreds of legal vGiers, and is leagued
against his own PARTY, seeking its deStruc-
ton. Ii Mr.. Chamberlain Was desirouS Of
securing reiCrm and retrcnchment he could
have accomplished j. within the ranks of
the political organization which placed him
in power aid thus aYCrC,l the great dan
ger which ROW hcsrlS that party from his
official ;nfdciity. Bat l.c thought he saw
political advancement in smiling at the
snUibisn batteries of tue Opposition His
mo!bid ambition urged him to personal
aggrandiZcmcnt TO the prejudice of party
interests. Nj this will prove 10 him
nothing Tut phantom. 1t will pass away
like The mists of the morning when this
armed ard organized Confederate force
within the Union have oYcrthrown the
Republican party. When they have used
him ard their other engines Of destruction;
when they have established their White
Lane government 10y their infamous inftu-
ence of violence and intimidation; when
they have secured the electoral vote; when
by fraud and murder and force they have
won tie victory, then they will tell Mr.
Chamberlain what the Mississippi Legisla-
turc told the apOstate Alcorn-that they
have no faith in betrayer Of party princi-
pies and OF friends.


At Columbia large meeting of the State
central executive committee was recently
held for the purpose Of rcviving the old
organization of the Democratic party, and
a statement was published setting forth
their political schemes for the future
Every opportunity that the Democracy of
the State have had since discovering the
weakness of Governor Chamberlain, they
have proceeded to lavish praise upon him
equal in measure only to the curses and
condemnations they heaped upon him be-
fore he proved himself so susceptible to
their fattery. In their recently published
address TO the voters of the State they say:


sin common with their fellow-citizens, the
State Democratic committee have watched
with anxious solcitude and growing confidence
the course of the present Governor of the State.
They recognize and appreciate the value of
what he has done, in promoting reform and
retrenchment, during the past year. They
applaud his wise and patriotic conduct in cx-
eTting his whole official power and personal
influence for the undOing of the infamous ju-
diciaI election. And they declare their belief
that the Democracy of the State, rising above
party as he has done, will give an unfaltering
support to his efforts, as Governor, for the
redress of wrongs, for the reduction of taxa
tion, to obtain just administration Of the law,
and to make the State government a faithful
guardian of the public and private interests of
the people


Wherever Governor Chamberlain has
actually secured retrenchment or reform in
the administrative affairs of South Carolina
he should receive, and the Republican party
with him, the heartiest congratulations of
all high. minded and patriotic citizens But
this is not the case. The Governor has
taken especial pains to take upon himself
the glory, meagre though it may be, and
allow his party to take care of itself In
doing this he has drifted into Democratic
waters, placed the Republican party at the
mercy of bitter and merciless foe. and in
the end will find himself voluntary and
foolish political suicide.





MINOR TOPICS.


Because Governor Hendricks has said more
with less meaning than any other living Amer