The Klan in South Carolina--Officious Interference in Politics--Atrocious Performances of Men in Masks--The "Shams," or Counterfeit Editions of K. K. K.--How Organized--Purposes of the Organization--Their Vocabulary of Crime--South Carolina Fanatics--How the "Sham" Movement Affected the K. K. K.--Parodied out of the Field--A Resolution of _sine die_ Adjournment--K. K. K. Horrors on the Increase--The "Shams" were Opposed in their Movements not only by the Party who had formerly Upheld the K. K. K., etc.--Rotten-Egg Battalions--Citizens sometimes took the Execution of the Law into their Own Hands--A Case in Point. While the K. K. K. influence was bad enough, in all conscience, and the K. K. K. embodiment a trifle worse, it had imitators in both these elements of its being who cherished even Satanic designs, and we doubt if so much could be written of the former. That the Klan was organized on South Carolina soil, and did much mischief to the Conservative party and influence there by assuming to be its exponent on the most untoward occasions, and at the moment when its services were least desired, is something which is admitted in the former case, and its stupidity heartily cursed with in the latter. But it is equally true that many of the atrocious performances of men in masks which invariably fell to the K. K. K. score were bastardies, and unless, for the sake of imaginative persons, it is admitted that Satan was involved in the fatherhood of both, it may be doubted if even the claim of _illegitimate_ kinship could be sustained.