Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-10-31
POLITICAL NEWS.

The majority of General Hayes, the Radical
candidate for Governor of Ohio, is 355S-all but
eight counties official, The vote is the heaviest
ever cast in the State.
"A Washington dispatch dated the 2lst inst,
saws that Postmaster General Randall in reply to
friend in Wisconsin, asking what he ought to do
about supporting the Republican State ticket,
writes that he would never vote for any man or any
ticket who favor impeachment Of the President !;
that there is neither reason nor excuse tor this war
upon Mr. johnson that the latter has endeavored
to bring about upon just terms, complete restor-
alton of the Union; he has followed the policy OF
Mr. Lincoln, which all Republicans once approved; !;
he has had no other policy, and if this policy had
been carried out, there would have been perfect
peace, the Union fully restored, and representa-
tiyes, loyal all through the war; from the Southern
States, would be filling the vacant seats Of the
House of Representatives.
He says that the Republican party, as constituted
to-day, does not favor single principle upon which
the government carried the war; that it Is time
the work of the dominant party, outside OF the
constitution, was stopped, and the country restor-
ed, as it ought to have been long ago, if the Re
publican party had not abandoned its own tenets
and made war upon the President because he was
true to the principles upon which the people elec-
ted him to his high Office.
Returns from ffty-seven out of ninety couu-
ties in Iowa give a Republican majority Of 54,07O.
The returns of the votes taken in Ohio for or
against the amendment to the State Constitution
extending suffrage to colored men, show that in
thirty eight counties, which gave General Hayes,
the Republican candidate for Governor, 6,394 ma
iority, the majority against negro suffrage was 16,-
IA. This is said to indicate majority through.
out the State against negro suffrage, of over fifty
three thousand.
1t appears by the full official returns of the
late election in Pennsylvania for Supreme Judge
!, the vote stands: Sharswood, Democrat and Con
servative, 26S,032 Williams, Republican, 266,
S24. Majority for Sharswood, l,2OS. At the
Governors election last year, the vote was, Geary
Republican, 3O7, ,274; Clymer, Democrat, 290,096
Majority for Geary, l7,l7s. The Democratic vott
is q, ,O7O and that Of the Republicans 39,070 les
than last year.
The Police Board of Baltimore have publish
ed an order, forbidding parades professions, O.
. assemblages of armed men, other than the regula
State militia, within the limits Of the city, ant
, similar gatherings at night, whether the person
engaged therein be armed or unarmed. The oh
ject of the order is to stop the parades of the Un
ion League and colored military companies, VIII
have lately gotten up serious riots, by their AFRO
CANT demonstrations.
Gen. Mower has, in Special Orders issued o.
the 2ls, announced the result Of the vote in Lou
s isiana, on the Convention question. The tota
number of votes was 70, l74 of which Is, 5,OS9 wer
> for Convention. As majority of the whole mum
ber registered voted, and as majority of the cote
E cast were for a Convention, Gen. Mower notife
f the delegates elected to assemble at New Orleans
on the 23rd of November. The order does no
: state whether those who voted for Convention
constitute majority of the registered voters.
Major General Pope, commanding the thir
: military district has ordered the session of tn
a Alabama constitutional convention under the re