Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-01-24
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.

1HC EtAsSA AVAAoA -
-- The Indianapolis Sentinel, one Of the
leading papers of the West, in recent issus
comments with energy upon the wonderful
movement among the masses for the restora.
ton of silver back to its proper place among
the honest dollars of the fathers. 1t asserts
what it has good reason to know, that the
people of the country are aroused. 1t says:
"They are in earnest. Enthralled, crushed
aud bankrupt, they are looking around for
leaders, They know that they are suffering ;
that business is PROSTATE; that industries are
paralyzed, that gloom and dependency have
settled down upon Indiana and upon every
other State. They are looking for reliei.
They demand strong and earnest words; bold,
defiant, aggressive leadership. They have an
unmitigated contempt for timidity now.
They are in the grasp of a business cyclone.
Thousands have been wrecked, others are
striking daily upon rocks and shoals. The
demand is for a competent navigator, and
they will find him. The banks are consolida-
ting against the people. The East has plant.
ed itself squarely against the West. The pro-
ducing. working, toiing millions throughout
the West and South are at last confronted
by the Eastern money power 1t is death
struggle The West demands simply that
their property shall not be totally sunk out
of sight; that Shylocks shall not have it all.
The West has the wheat, the corn, and the
bread of the country. 1t can demand its
rights. 1t asks for the repeal of an impracti.
cable resumption law that contraction and
shrinkage may cease"
A Candid Acknowledgement.
--- The New York Post, an original aboli.
ton organ, makes the following frank &C.
acknowledgement respecting Democratic home
rule in South Carolina:
"People who have been waiting for evidence
to show that Governor Hampton, of South
Carolina was not sincere in the pledges which
he made that exact justice would be done, so
far as possible, by the Democrats of his State
towards all classes of citizens, or that he
would not be able to carry into effect his own
wishes, are in fair way to become discour-
aged. South Carolina outrages on colored
men have ceased =; the taxes are willingly
paid, and State expenses are largely reduced
membe of old rings are afforded fair trials,
and when convicted the evidence against
them is so clear as to leave no room for an
honest excuse in their behalf, and when Re-
publcaus take interest enough to bring out a
majority vote-as has recently been the
case--they elect their candidates without any
unlawful opposition.
"A striking illustration of the disposition
of the Democrats of the State to enforce fair
play, was seen in the State House of Repre-
sentatives the other day. At recent elec'
tion in Sumter county the Republican can.
didats was found, when an informal count OF
the ballots was made, to have majority.
Some ruffianly Democrats, in order to pre-
vent an official announcement of this result,
stole and hid half the ballot boxes, and the
election officers reported the facts to the Leg
islature, with statement that the Democrat
ic candidate had majority of the votes IN
their possession. The Representatives there
upon, refusing all efforts to seat the Democrat'
ic candidate or to declare the election void,
gave the seat to the Republican. Verify, a
new order of things has been established IN
that long suffering State"
The Currency Question.
- The currency question seems to be the
engrossing topic at present in the N orth and
West. The laboring masses desire the silver
dollar to be made legal tender-equal IN
value to the gold-and receivable in any
amount; while on the other hand the capital
lists are opposed to legislation tending to such
result. In New York city a meeting was held
on the 18th instant, under the auspices of the
Industrial Union Club, to take action on the
silver question: The following trades unions
were represented: Plasterers, Painters, Brick
layers, Machinists, Tailors, Crispins and u
a. .,nl,ara Iannthu resolntinns we're adopt.