Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-01-20

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ture must re.district it, and order new elec-
tions in all the districts The Election Com
mittee have decided to take the map as evil.
dence in the contest, which shows that one
county is separated twenty-five miles from the
rest of the district, and plainly in violation of
the act of Congress. The committee, howev-
er, before acting, will enquire into the manner
of passing the act by the Legislature, and if
satisfied it was done for preventing represent
alton to the minority, Hoge will be unseated
The question Of unseating the balance Of the
delegation is not before the committee. It is
mere side suggestion.
ORGANIZE FOR VICTORY.
THE ADDRESS OF THE STATE DEMOCRATIC
COMMITTEE.
Toths People Of South Carolina The State
Central Executive Committee of the Demo
cratic party do not deem it necessary to pub
lish any lengthy statement of the reasons
which induced them to meet at this time. 1t
is sufficient to say that events with which the
people of the State are painfully familiar,
made it Indispensable that the organization of
the Democratic party in South Carolina
should be revived, as the speediest and most
practicable means of bringing together our
hitherto scattered forces, and Of concentrating
them in the struggle into which we are forced
for the maintenance of liberty and law in the
State. Thus it has become the duty of the
State Committee to take such steps as will en-
able the people of the State to begin the work
of party reorganization at once, and make 1t
thorough and complete.
In the contest in which we are about to en-
gage we must win. Defeat cannot be borne.
Success, however, cannot be expected to crown
our labors unless there be absolute unity In
the Democratic party, together with such dis
cipline as will ensure the prompt and efficient
execution of its policy when declared. From
our adversaries must we learn, at last, the
lesson of organization and activity. When
the agencies on which society relies for the
conservation of its varied interests menace
those interests with destruction, and threatena
whole people with ruin, politics are no longer
a matter of sentiment in which the citizen
is free to engage or not according to his tastes.
Upon the management of our political affairs
depends the security of property, as we'll as
the safety of person. By political movements
alone can the publication of the State govern
ment be accomplished Only through politi.
cal instrumentalities can honesty, fidelity and
capability regain preponderating influence
in the councils of the State To politics, then,
for their own salvation, must the people OF
South Carolina now address themselves with
the vigor, the persistency and the systematic
endeavor which mark their conduct in busi-
ness life. 1t would not be wise to declare
policy before the party which shall give effect
to it is ready for both deliberation and &C.
ton. The officers must not be chosen until
the rank and file of the political army shall
have been mustered in and trained. There
should be, in fine, such organization in each
ward, township and county, that when the
State Convention shall assemble, it shall rep
resent by its delegates, the known wishes,
opinions and purposes of the organized De-
mocracy of the State. Then will its voice be
the voice of the people; its determination
theirs its fight their battle. To such organi-
zation, searching and far-reaching, should the
people of the State without delay address
themselves. Without it the State cannot be
saved
The State Convention, when it shall assem-
BILE, will determine authoritatively the policy
of the party and by the decision Of that con-
vention shall we all be bound. As, however,
the Democratic party, as such, has had no
years, the State Committee desire to say en-
phatically that, in recommending its instant
and comprehensive organization, their sole
purpose is to obtain an honest and economl-
cal government in South Carolina, which
shall maintain, without abridgement or
change, the public rights and liberties Of the
whole people, and guarantee to all classes OF
citizens the blessings Of freedom, justice and
peace And in this crisis in the constitutional
life of the State, when civilization itself is in
peril, we look for and confidently expect to
receive the sympathy and aid Of every citizen
whose aims and desires are like unto our own.
In common with their fellow-citizens, the
State Democratic Committee have watched
with anxious solicitude and growing conf
dence the course Of the present Governor Of
the State They acognize and appreciate the
value of what he has done, promoting reform
and retrenchment, during the past year.
They applaud his wise and patriotic conduct
in exerting his whole official power and per.
sonal influence for the undoing of the infa-
nous judicial election. And they declare
their belief that the Democracy of the State,
rising above party as he has done, will give
an unfaltering support to his efforts, as Gov
ernor, for the redress Of wrongs, tor the re-
duction of taxation, to obtain just admins
tration of the law, and make the State gov.
ernment faithful guardian of the publ lie and
private interests of the people.
Therefore, the State Executive Committee
earnestly advise the people of the State to re-
organize thoroughly the Democratic party, in
preparation for the State Democratic Conven-
ton, which will meet at time and place to
be hereafter designated by this committee.
The following gentlemen are charged with
this organization of the party in every pre-
cinct ward and township in their respective
counties:
Abbeville- S. Cothran.
Anderson-James A. Hoyt.
Aiken-G. w. Croft.
Barnwell-T. J. Counts.
Beaufort-William Elliott.
Clarendon-B. P. Barron.
Chester-W. A. Walker.
Chesterfeld-A. Mcqueen.
Colleton-J. j. Fox.
Darlington-F. F. Marley.
Edge6eld-J. Scott Allen.
Fairfeld-John Bratton.
Georgetown-B. II. Wilson.
Greenvlle-T B. Ferguson.
Horry-J. T. Walsh.
Kershaw-E. M. Boykin. .
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