Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-29

the most eminent physicians in the place have
been stricken down.
In New Orleans, for the "a hours closing
Monday night, there we're a. deaths and 125
new cases.
In Memphis, from P. NJ, Sunday, to
noon Monday, there were II deaths and 76
new cases. The fever is also spreading to an
alarming extent among the negroes.
New Orleans makes grateful acknowledge
ment for the sympathy shown to the afhict'
ed of the South by their more fortunate neigh
bors of the North. The Times says: "On
every side we learn of most noble efforts be-
ing made to raise contributions in aid of the
afflicted While the North, with lavish hand
is soothing the fevered brow of the Southern
sufferers, she is building monument to graf
itude which will be luminous forever"
ADDRESS OF THE STATE DEMOCRATIC
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
The State Democratic Executive Commit.
tee, on Thursday last adopted unanimously,
the following address, and ordered it to be
published
HEADQUARTERS STATE Dem. EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE, 7
COLUMBIA, S. c., August %, 1878. }
To the People of South Carolina:
The State Democratic Executive Commit.
tee announce to their fellow. citizens that the
State canvass will formally open on Sep.
tember 10th. Already the counties in gen.
eral are ready for action, and the Committee
cannot doubt that the campaign will be as
brilliant as brief.
Throughout the canvass the Democracy OF
South Carolina will have but one rule of con.
duct. The platform of 1876 adopted and
reafirmed in 1878, is the supreme law of the
Democratic party. By it the hig hest and the
lowest are bound. No person or body Of per-
sons, other than the State Convention, can
change or modify its wise provisions and pat
riotic declarations. Within the lines of the
platform the Democracy are safe. Outside
of it and beyond it, there is no true Democra.
cy in South Carolina. No issue not made in
the platform and inconsistent with it can be
raised. No issue made in the platform and
consistent with it can be ignored.
The platform of the Democratic party Of
South Carolina is at once history and a
prophecy. 1t is the record Of what is past
and the assurance of what is to come.
In it are declared Democratic principles and
Democratic practice. The issue in South
Carolina, as made by the Democratic party,
is not an issue of race. On the contrary,
the objects of the Democracy, in retaining
control of the State, are to complete the re-
form of abuses, to punish public criminals, to
MAINTAIN the purity and ability Of the Gov
ernment in all its branches, to lower the rate
of taxation and lessen the burdens imposed
upon the people, to ensure peace and concord,
and, including all else, to give equal and COM
plete protection to every public and private
right of person and property, in order that the
Government, in the hands of the Democratic
party, shall be the Government of no one
section, of no one race, of no one class, but
of the whole people of South Carolina with
out Limitation or restriction.
So far as time and opportunity have ad-
mitted, the Democratic party has kept to the
letter and in spirit, every pledge or promise
made in the platform of 1876. The State
officers elected two years ago are again the
candidates Of the party. With the same
platform and the same candidates holding be-
ne6cent possession of every department of the
State government, the Democracy of South
Carolina deserve success and can command
it. Vigilance is necessary. Action and in
cessant work are indispensable. Unity must
be had. They who slumber on in false secu'
rity, they who postpone preparations for the
fight, they who encourage or permit dissen-
sion and division, for any reason or upon any
pretext, are as much the public enemies as
the political lepers whom Democratic rule
drives into the Penitentary or out of the
State. Malcontents laggards, disorganizers,
shall not pull down the Democratic party, al
though they may multiply its difficulties and
make the struggle harder and more desper.
ate; and, when the battle is won, as it shall
be, the Democratic party, for its own sake,
will pass sentence upon any who, not being
with US, are against US, and make them, for
all time, political outcasts, despised by Demo
Gratis of their own race and Stunned by the
colored Democrats who have been tried and
have kept the faith.
For the white Democrats, the State Com
mittee are sure, no other exhortation is need
ed. They know full we'll that Democratic
rule is worth having, and that what is worth
having is worth keeping, and will be kept.
By the colored Democrats, as the State Com
mittee believe the solid advantages of an en-
lightened and honest government are thor
oughly appreciated. They have seen and
felt the difference between integrity and ras'
cality, between lofty justice and partisan rule.
The hope is that the colored people, in larger
numbers than ever before, will march beneath
the folds of the Democratic banner, and so
assist the Democracy in perpetuatlng the
work of Governmental reform and industrial
restoration.
The reign of ignorance and vice in South
Carolina is past and gone. Virtue, inteli.
gence and elevated statesmenship shall, as
during the last two years, control the public
affairs of South Carolina. For this the peo-
pie fought in 1876, and the sceptre then
grasped for the first time in eight years by
pure and strong hands, will not be laid down
and shall not be wrested away.
JOHN D. KENNEDY, Chairman.
J. M. JOHNSON, w. G. CoKER.
j. j. DARGAN, F. W. DAWSON,
j. T. IzLAR, j. F. RHAME,
S. MCGOWAN, JOHN E. BACON,
i'm. LIPsCoMB, T. SoBo FARRow,
WILLIAM MUNRO, JOHN G. SHEPPARD.
r. w. YoUMANs, WILLIAM ELLIOTT.
AFTER PATTERSON AGAIN.-The Wash
ington Post says requisition from Governor
Hampton, of South Carolina, has been issued
for Senator Patterson, and placed in the hands
of the proper officers to serve at the first op-
portunity. The requisition is directed to the
Governor of Pennsylvania, and detective is
now shadowing Patterson. The officer got on
q train in Baltimore the other night on which