Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-04

seem to be profoundly impressed with the
terrible malady of which be died, and when
they relate the scenes and incidents of the CO.
casion they seem to feel a sense of horror, and
end by saying 81 can't describe it." Several
persons in the county have been bitten by
dogs supposed to be rabid, and this case Of
POOLS will, doubtless, give a great deal OF
uneasiness to other parties.
Judge Mackey as a Circuit Judge.
- The Charleston Journal Of Commerce
of Thursday makes the following reference to
Judge Mackey as presiding officer:
The June term of the Circuit Court, Judge
Mackey presiding, closed last evening. II
has been memorable term, both as to the
amount of business accomplished and the
manner of its accomplishment 1t is an open
secret that the bar were prepared to see in
Judge Mackey but an erratic force, vigorous
but misdirected-a sort of judicial comet
The result has proved that this view was moi
a correct forecast of the administration of the
law by the presiding Judge who has just
ended his first term on the circuit bench Of
Charleston. He has disposed of nearly six
hundred causes in the Sessions and Common
Pleas in the short period of twenty-one work
ing days, sitting however, on an average ot
ten hours per day. There has not been any
exception taken to any charge that be has
made or a single mis.trial or any appeal from
any Judgment that he has rendered in any
case upon the calendar. But eleven causes
will 90 over to the next term, and they are
continued by special agreement Of parties
In addition numerous decisions have been
rendered in special proceedings by mandam'
US and Injunction, and in cases submitted to
determine the Jurisdiction Of the Masters
Trial Justices and Clerk of Court. Judge
Mackey will carry with him the openly ex'
pressed well-done Of the bar and the people
Of Charleston, and this without regard to
race or political athliation. If he has com
mitted an error, it will be found in his toe
great lenency in the sentences pronounced by
him in criminal cases, especially offences
against the person. We are not disposed
however, to harshly criticise Judge who has
been frank enough to confess in open court
that lie probably erred on the side of mercy
because he himself had been more than once
the beneficiary of that divine attribute. We
understand Judge Mackey desires it to be un'
derstood that he made this allusion in polit'
ical sense from a consciousness Of the gener
GUS treatment he has received at the hands Of
the public and of the press, who have been
''To his faults a little blind,
And to his virtues very kind.'
We deem these words of commentator
due to public officer who is evidently ear
nest and impartial in the discharge Of his du.
ties
Hampton and the Democracy.
- Abiding to The relative popularity Of
Governor Hampton an,! the State officers, the
Charleston Me,os ind Courier remarks edito'
rally:
Governor Hampton will be unanimously
renominated by the State Democratic Conven.
ton next August, and the probabilities are
that he will be elected by the people without
dissent. This is the greatest political revolu.
tion of the age. The candidate against whom
more than 10000 votes were cast, or counted
in November. 1875, will be virtually the
choice of the whole people, whites and blacks
Republicans and Democrats in November
1878. This change has been worked by homes.
ty, liberality and good faith on the part Of
the State Government. 1t is because, in the
words ofthe Democracy of York, "the pledg'
es made in 1876 by the Democratic party
and by Governor Hampton, whereby the col
ored citizens we're assured equal rights and
protection, in the administration of law and
Justice, have been remembered and executed
by the latter with faithfulness that commands
our highest admiration" and, We may add, the
entire confidence of the colored people. The
General Assembly, as whole, was not rea'
dy to 60 so far as Governor Hampton
thought it incumbent upon him to 20. II
was only after hard fight, for example, that
the School amendment was ratified. The
event demonstrates the wisdom of Governor
Hampton's course. It should not be forgot.
ten, however, that the trust of the colored peo.
pie, at this moment, is reposed in Governor
Hampton personally, and not, in the same de-
gree, in the Democratic party. Two years
more of just and economical government will
make the colored people good Democrats, and
give them faith in the Democratic party as
such.
In the same article on the question of Con-
gressional candidates, the News and Courie,
says:
Congressman Aiken and Evins are csndi
dates for denomination in their respective dis
tricts No competitor, 80 far as we have seen
has entered the field against Col. Aiken. In
the Fourth district Maj. Woodward, of Fair.
field, and Gen. Kennedy, of Kershaw, have
been placed in nomination. York county
nominates Col. Evins, as does Spartanburg
county, where he resides. Both Col. Evins
and Col. Aiken have done valuable service
since their election. They are capable, pains
taking and industrious, hard.working mem.
bers Of body where the work of legislation
is necessarily done by few. We should re.
gard it as a positive injury to the State if
there were any failure to reuominate ourpres-
ent members. To those who are practically
acquainted with the organization of the
House of Representatives, it is we'll known
that a new member exerts little influence,
and can accomplish comparatively little for
his constituents in his first term. The rules
of the House are complex in the extreme. 1t
needs thorough familiarity with the ins and
outs of legislation to give any measure fair
chance. In so large body it takes time for
the members to know each other. Oftentimes
a little personal expostulation will accom-.
plish what speeches do not reach. Congress-
men Evins and Aiken have done their whole
duty, and have done it we'll. If reelected
they will have additional power to benefit
their constituents and the country. To dis.
place them, when no faults or shortcomings
are alleged is to change for the sake of
change, and to waste the whole of one Con-
gressional term, by putting in their place
gentlemen who will have to learn what our
present members have already mastered, the