Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-03-12

WHcLlcl llquol oHoulu Ue soIu III the NoohIJ
or not.
For the office of Governor there are more
candidates than you can count on your fingers
and toes. 1t is the Conservatives or Demo-
Gratis who are so prolific of candidates, and
not the Republicans. The latter only have
one andidate-Horace Maynard. They are
simple enough to believe that Horace can be
elected. He got larger vote last November
than he will ever get again. Since that time
he has taken part in the back pay infamy,
and thus deliberately slaughtered himself with
the more thoughtful and discreet Republicans
Every man who took part in that steal will
find his day of reckoning at hand when he
puts out for an office. They can never reap
benefit from the steal Money got in that
way always costs good deal.
l shall watch the unfolding Of the bcwitch
ing bud of Tennessee politics and from time to
time keep the ENQUIRER posted.
THE TEMPERANCE TEMPEST.
In previous letter I wrote you of the pro-
gress of the women's whisky crusade in Green
vile. Mrs. Ward still refuses to yield. She
evidently sees a chance to make some money
out of it, and will prolong the contest. The
saloon keepers of Knoxville made her up a
handsome purse, and those of Chattanooga
sent her thirty dollars, accompanied with a
letter Of encouragement. But the ladies are
determined, and have the moral sentiment Of
the community to back them. They will tri-
umph at last. They derive more encourage
ment from the news from Ohio than the ir-
repressibe Mrs Ward does from the money
of the saloonists. What a contest is this !!
Little wads of money in the balance against
prayer and tears
The movement will likely spread in the
South. although we cannot expect it to take
the hold that it has in the North. In this
State the movement has been confined to
Greenviile, but the ball will soon open in
Knoxville and Chattanooga. In the latter
city the saloon keepers and whisky dealers
were warned this morning to discontinue the
business. The warning was addressed to them
through the mails and signed "the committee" )"
They are given until the 10Th of this month to
forsake their calling, under penalty ofa visit
from the ladies and song and prayer.
Whether Nashville will escape the crusade
is yet undetermined There is strong tenl-
perance feeling here, and also about seventy
five saloons of various degrees Of respectable
ty-from the first class hotel bar, to the mis-
erable dens in the lower part of the city. If
the ladies commence here they will certainly
have their hands full.
There is no question but what the temper
ance feelingis growing, and that king alcohol
will suffer- The taxpayers of the State are
somewhat aroused on the subject, as they find
that the States share in the cost of criminal
prosecutions last year amounted to nearly a
quarter of million of dollars. They know
very we'll that at least half of this large sum
grew out of liquor. Strong drink is a power
full incentive to crime. This touches the pock-
et-nerve of the taxpayers and makes them
believers in temperance for the sake of keep
ing down taxation, if for nothing else.
Reports from the North represent the cru
SADIE as sweeping all before it in many coun-
ties. In all, one hundred and sixty saloons
have been forced to capitulate. This only
encourages the fair crusaders to renewed ex-
ertions. But it is not the number of saloons
that have been closed, so much as the moral
effect of their closing, which will stimulate
the crusade. Ten thousand men in Ohio
alone have signed the lifepledge, and the
public mind has been aroused on the subject
of temperance as it never was before.
Whatever may be the result Of the crusade
in Tennessee, l will endeavor to keep the En-
QUIRER informed. MEMO.