Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-24

WILL youuS uiou Wlloso AoInol ohe hou uioo
to capture in years agone She evidently
likes the family .'".''."Caterpillars are des-
troying the oak forests in Tennessee. .'''''''''A
carpenter who was making an air-tight icebox
in restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, acci-
dentally shut himself in, and was nearly dead
when released. .'....'...Florida is manufactu-
ring feather flowers from the plumage of the
white heron. .'''''.''"Telescope hats" have been
introduced. They can be elongated or fiat
tened to suit the features of the wearers.
THE STATE ELECTION.
We have not yet received authentic returns
from the different counties in the State as to
the result Of the election on Wednesday.
We think it safe to presume, however, from
what has been heard, that Moses and the cor
ruptionists have been elected by considera-
BILE majority. A spasmodic effort was made
by some public-spirited gentlemen of this city,
few days previous to the election, by issuing
circular, to draw out the white vote in sup
port of the Boilers or opposition movement,
but it was too late to effect any great good.
There is no doubt now that if a full white
vote had been cast in favor of the Boilers,
Moses and the ring would have been whipped
out of their boots. We had a glorious op-
portunity to redeem our State, and have lost
it. Probably so favorable an opportunity
will never be offered again. We do not mean
to say that the Boilers ticket was unexcep-
tionable, or that itssuccess would have worked
an immediate reform in the State government.
The individual characters Of the candidates,
provided only they were such as We could
honorably sustain, were not to be considered.
1t was our duty, as patriotic citizens, to look
to the future effect upon the State which
the election of the Boilers would have had.
It would have broken at once the power Of
party conventions, which are now manipulated
by bad men, and are chiefly instrumental in
giving the control of the State government to
unscrupulous and venal adventures. South
Carolina is to-day governed by an oligarchy /;
and, what is more to be deplored, by corrupt
and rascally oligarchy, the sole aim Of which
is individual gain at the public expense. The
Republican party rules the State, and this
wretched conclave of fswindlers, of which Moses
is now the acknowledged head, shapes the &C.
ton of the party as it wills. If we had de-
feated the regular Convention nominees, as is
now apparent that We might have done, we
would have been freed, at one blow from the
loathsome power of these bad men. A COM
bination would have been made between the
decent white people and twenty or twenty-five
thousand ofthe colored people, which is sufi-
cient to ensure good government in the State
We would have gotten a foothold. There
would have been bond of union between the
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ed, and which must have resulted bene6cially.
Why is it, now, that the white people did
not turn out generally and support the Bol-
ters or opposition
In our Judgment the blame rests first upon
the Executive Committee of the Democratic
party of the State, and, secondly, upon the
daily press of Charleston. Our people, wheth-
er wisely or not, have been in the habit of en-
trusting themselves in their action upon pub
lie affairs to the guidance of few prominent
men, upon whose intelligence and fidelity they
reposed implicit confidence This body Of
political advisers is at present embraced in
the State Central Executive Committee of the
Democratic party. In an emergency like the
present it was to be presumed that they would
have at least some word Of counsel to give
their fellow-citizens, who were ready and will
ing to do whatever might be deemed best for
our dear old State. But not word said the
Executive Committee. Scarcely dozen Of
them, out of thrice that number, could even
be induced to attend a meeting, and those who
did come could determine upon nothing.
The Charleston press was equally to blame,
for had it done its duty, thousands of white
voters would have attended the polls, instead
of staying at home and giving the State to
Moses.
The News affected to see only "black dog
and monkey" in the two tickets, and attempted
to stand so straight between them, that it
leaned little to the Moses side. The course
of the Neus is inexplicable to US.
The Courier, it is true, showed no leaning
for Moses, but it did nothing to aid the oppo-
sition. 1t was neutral in the fight.
These causes, more than any others, sug-
gest themselves to our mind as responsible for
the failure of the white VOTE Still, we have
ground for congratulation on the general re-
suit. The Conservatives have gained in two
counties, at least-Union and York-and we
have Senator from Greenville, instead Of
Allen.
The delegation from Union, headed by
General w. H. Wallack, and which is a fusion
between the Conservatives and the Boilers, is
an admirable one There is no better, truer,
and, perhaps, no ADLER man in the State than
General Wailack, and we feel that in him all
honest citizens Of the State have champion
upon whom they may rely, and Of whom they
may feel proud. Ten such men as he is in
the General Assembly would leaven the whole
lump. We have had direful forebodings of
the evils which would follow the election of
Moses and his party. Now that he is elected,
we shall demand from him and his admins
tration faithful performance of the promises
they have made the people of a reduction Of
the public debt, and retrenchment of State ex-
penditures. We shall be surprised if they
keep their promises, but not disagreeably so.
Whatever of good they may do we shall un-
hesitatingly approve-whatever OF bad as
fearlessly condemn Columbia Phenir.
JUDGE S. w. MELToN.-It was more than
intimated at the late term of our Circuit Court,
that Herewith terminated our official rela-
tions with the gentleman who, for nearly two
years, has welded the important powers over
the lives, liberties and fortunes Of the people,
entrusted to the circuit judge. In these days
of degeneracy, when the vocabulary of CEN
sure is exhausted in the vain attempt to ex-
press the public sense of wrong and outrage
under the inAiction of incompetent and cor
rupt officials of every grade, it is pleasure
to be able to write hearty "well done" of
any officer to whom it is justly due.
We think we express the sentiment OF the
people and the bar when we say that the otti-
cial career of Judge Melton has been marked