Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-03

Court ordered their ho;neSteads to be sold by
the assignee in bankruptcy on the first Mon
day in November. We understand these de-
cisions will be appealed from.
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION.
The Republican County Convention assem-
bled in the Court House last Monday, sena'
tor White acting as presiding officer. Every
precinct in the county was represented by
delegates, and in addition to these, the house
was literally packed, the assemblage being
composed almost entirely of negroes who had
come to witness the important proceedings of
nominating county candidates.
a noticeable feature Of this convention, as
compared with similar meetings in the past,
was the absence of white leaders of the party,
who, on these occasions, did the engineering
and speechifying. In this meeting there
were no white leaders observed taking an ac-
tive part in the public proceedings, and as
there was no restraint upon the colored gem
men, their pent-up eloquence was uncorked,
and freely flowed in a continual stream for
near an hour preceding the call of the Chair
man for credentials of delegates.
The gavel finally descended with vigorous
rap and order being obtained, the Chairman
proceeded to address the Convention in regard
to the duties before them, and Of the great i'm
portance to the success Of the party and the
welfare of the country in the faithful dis
charge of those duties. At the close Of the
Chairman's remarks, the delegates retired for
the purpose of making nominations, and no
sooner had the delegates withdrawn from the
room than the oratorical effervescence of quite
Il number of ""spoutinn coues", beaan to huh.
BILE. 1t must be borne in mind that Isom
Buchanan and Nelson Hammond were pres
ent. Without the presence of these colored
politicians, Republican political meeting
would prove failure, which fact they seem
to realize and that the contagion of their elo-
quence should infect all with whom it came
in contact, is not at all remarkable. Dick
Minis was the first to attempt diagnosis Of
the nations diseased economy, and while pro-
ceeding in manner most satisfactory to him
self, having reached filthy, on which point
he was expatating to the satisfaction of his
hearers, he was suddenly pulled down by the
geantat-arms, who fotch him up stand
ing, and by force elected him from the room,
greatly to the disgust Of the advocates of free
speech and niggers' rights. Minor Nc
Connell Isom Buchanan, Nelson Hammond,
and perhaps one or two others, obtained the
stand, from which they iucorently harangued
the assemblage, when Miles johnson, Esq,
former County School Commissioner, ascended
the rostrum, and attempted to address the
crowd, but failed to command their attention.
He was met at once by the cry of deserter,
and asked if he did not, two years ago, de-
sert the party, on his failure to receive NOM
ination. Great confusion pervaded, and it
was with the utmost difficulty that the Chair
man, pro tem, succeeded in restoring order
sufficient to enable the speaker to resume
He attempted to unite the fragmentary threads
of his discourse, by an attack upon the system
of nominating conventions generally, and of
the one then in session particularly, asserting
that the delegates then in conclave in the ad-
joining room had no moral right or authority
to say who should or who should not be can
didates for the sufrages of the people. Just
at this point, Squire Jim Wagner asked the
privilege of one question, which being granted,
he asked the speaker if he did not, four years
ago, under the same forms and regulations
governing the present body, receive nomi-
nation for an office, and if, at that time;
he had any fault to find This rather stumped
the speaker, and before he could make re-
joinder, he was again met by the cry of hav-
ing deserted the party two years ago, and was
also charged with being a member of the Tax
Union, and also ofthe Grange. He confessed
that he was member of both organizations,
which he urged did not affect his republican
principles but the confusion around him was
so great that he could not be heard, and he
was compelled to desist.
The next speaker was County Commissioner
Frank Edwards He deplored the turbulence
and apparent levity which seemed to pervade
the crowd, urging the responsibilities of the
occasion as sufficient reason for calm, serious
deliberation. Several speakers of his own
color had then and there charged corruption
to the Republican party, and without special
ly defining their charges, had left the impress
sion that the colored element of the Republi-
can party was but band of political plum.
derers and corruptionsts, while the fact is, if
any stealing has been done, it is in the main
confined to the smart white men of the party,
who have essayed to the leadership, and who
hold the only Offices placing them in posi-
ton to grab the public money. He did not
deny that corruption did exist in certain pla-
ces, and it was due to his race, to the white
people of his county, and to the Republican
party, that this stigma be removed. Even if
the colored Republicans of York county were
in q LARGE majority. and if they were certain