Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Ict for the Protection Of Fish.

- The last session of the Legislature
passed an Act amending previous Act for
the better protection of migratory fish. By
the provisions of the amended Act, as will be
seen, it is made unlawful to fish in inland
waters with seines, nets, &C., from sunset on
Thursday to sunrise on Tuesday. The fol-
lowing is the text of the Act, approved
March %, 1878:
That there shall be close time in all the
creeks, streams and inland waters of this
State froru the setting of the sun each Thurs
day until the rising of the sun on Tuesday,
during which time all seines, nets or any plan
or device for the stoppage or collecting OF fish
which obstructs any portion of any creek.
stream or inland waters, other than dam
for manufacturing purposes, shall be removed
from said creeks, streams or waters; and the
owner in whole or in part of any such ob-
structon, plan or device during the period
aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of mistle.
meanor, and, upon conviction thereof before
court of competent jurisdiction, shall be
fined in the sum of two hundred dollars, one
half of which shall 60 to thu informer and
case shall be tried, or imprisoned for period
of not less than three nor more than six
months, or both, at the discretion of the
court trying the case.
Hayes Title to the Presidency.
- A ripple of excitement has been created
in Washington by the publication Of the
sworn confession of Judge Samuel B. McLin,
member of the late board of canvassers of
the State of Florida, in which he confesses
that Florida was carried for Hayes by fraud.
The fraud which he claims to expose is al.
legged to have been perpetrated by surrepti-
tiously adding votes to the ballots of differ
ent precincts in order to bring Hayes in the
majority. The confession closes as follows:
The conclusion, therefore, is irresistible
that Mr.. Tilden was entitled to the electoral
vote of Florida, and not Mr.. Hayes. In
making this statement my motives will doubt
less be questioned by many, but the facts will
stand alone as the truth, without any mere
motives to sustain them. [ am free to admit
that viewing things asI now do, and remem'
bsring that Mr.. Hayes was continually in
spring his personal friends and trusted agents
BY every means in his power to secure for
him the electoral vote of Florida and Loui'
siana and, believing it to have been a con-
scious wrong on his part, done with knowl
edge that he had not been elected, as his sub.
sequent reputation of Governor Packard,
whose title was bound up in his own, and his
willful and cowardly desertion of the very
men who contributed 80 largely to his election
has shown my contempt for the pitiable lit.
| teness of the man is beyond my power of
expression. Mr.. Hayes has denied the valid.
ity of his own title in denying Gov. Pack
ards. He has ignored his Florida friends,
showing he believed them unworthy and
tainted with fraud, yet he holds on to the
Presidency, which, in his own opinion, was
secured by this very fraud. He has coward
w abandoned and betrayed his southern re-
publican friends through fear of being ousted
from an Office that he believed he never was
elected to by the people. Whatever may be
the opinion of men in regard to my motives,
I give them facts and leave my motives to a
bieber tribunal. SAMUEL B. McL1N.
The confession, at this late day, supposing
it to be truthful, can add nothing to the rep
utation of McLin, nor can it in any degree
affect Mr.. Hayes title The confession will
have but little more effect upon the country
than the latest acknowledgement of Mrs.
Tilton. Whatever may taint Mr.. Hayes IT,
tie, it is now too late to reopen the question,
a fact which the Democratic leaders in Con-
gress recognize, as is clearly shown in their
treatment of the Blair resolutions. Disap-
pointed Republican ofice.seekers will find
that their tardy confessions of fraud and cor
ruption in the management Of the last elec'
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