Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-09-19
there. There's no use, ANYWAY, of fighting

lighting any longer" Here the Senator
threw the striped stockings over the rails Of
the bed and plunged his face into the pillow,
as though be were burying there old recol'ec'
tions that were painful. Then he straighten-
ed up and went on: champion made fight
and came to Washington q conqueror-no
less than conqueror, strand Hayes, the
President of the United States, got down
and licked his feet. That was all right for
Hampton, but bad for our man. Bad? 1t
was disgraceful. Oh, yes, great fellow, Hayes
is."
"How about civil service?"
The Senator's arms went over bis head,
that now lay peacefully upon the pillow. He
answered meditatively: "Great things, that
civil service. 1t don't exist. Grant did try
to enforce it, I know. We have talked it all
over together, and he told me himself that the
first man appointed under ita rules went to
the penitentiary in short order. forget the
fellows name; it was out West, though. We
never had so personal an administration in
this country, not in forty years, at any rate.
Grant, I say, tried to do something with civil
service and accomplished little; but these
fellows only profess to do it, and those profess
ions are through the newspapers" The Sen.
ator shook up his pillow and lay down again
with an air of satisfaction.
"Now, Senator, say something about your.
self, the probabilities of your arrest, you
know"
II don't know anything about it except
what read in the newspapers. My friends
down there tell me there's nothing in it at all,
and that it has never been contemplated to
send requisition after me-"
"If you went back, do you think they would
arrest and try you"
swell, if went back they probably would
arrest and perhaps bring me to trial. |
amt going back" The Senator readjusted
his pillow and spoke with emphasis, and pres
emily added, AT least not just now"
Because of the likelihood of arrest2"
mo, too hot; I've got no business there
now; it's hot enough here"
"You were there last summer, thought"
"Oh, yes, had business there then"
"You don't look after your constituents at
short range then, eh ?"
"They are able to look out for themselves.
| couldn't do any good there to the party. 1t
is beyond redemption in the South. l do not
believe, however, that it has been seriously
thought of to take me back to South Carroll
ma. My information, and its source is good,
is that all such talk originated in Washing
ton. When it was first heard Of, my friends
at Columbia asked. me, by wire, what it ell
meant. I answered them, You are down
there, you ought to know They didn't know,
though, and definitely found out that it was
Washington talk, the whole of it,"
Now, Senator, I've got question on my
notes here want to ask you"
"Heave ahead" said the Senator.
"Well, how about the saying, There's five
years good stealing down here yet?
"Im glad you mentioned that. never
used that expression at ALL Twas an old ex.
pression-a kind of popular slang phrase in
South Carolina when Scott was Governor,
from 1868 to 1872, but this was the way it
ran: There's several years more of good
stealing yet Everybody used it, Well, in
1876, Judge Mackey was making speech at
Chester, and revived it, and attributed its
origin to me, saying used it in a speech in
the State Legislature. Now, the truth is /
Was uoL III NoIuuoio Iuat "iuLel. N1aehoy
was supporting Chamberlain and 1 was op-
posing him at the time. Chamberlain got
that 6rn-fool notion of civil service reform
into his head, too, and at the very time Of
that campaign was trying to sell out to the
other side. Oh, know all about that, you'd
better believe. He prepared the State for
Hampton"
us Hampton to be the next Governor OF
the State?"
"There is no opposition. His government
has given universal satisfaction. 1 think he
wants to do right. By the way, see that
colored ex.Judge of South Carolina paid bis
respects to me the other day in an interview
published in the Times AL right The
darkies wanted representative in every
branch of the government, and Wright got
on the Supreme bench. He's disreputable
nigger, corrupt on the bench and drunk every.
where"
"How about the statement by your son,
Silas, in Washington, that he saw Pauline
Markham seated on Governor SCOTS knee in
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, and kiss.
ing him each time he set seal to bond ?"
Now, that is a newspaper lie. Silas never
said so. He never saw any such affair. He
was only IA years old at the time, and was
at school. l deny that be ever said anything
of the sort"
"There has been a publication, in SUBJ
stance, that you recently visited Washington,
and finding Jud dge Humphries who released
you once on writ of habsas corpus to be out
of town, you also left at once?"
"Now, that's not 80. Judge Humphries
was in Washington. He lives at Alexan.
dria, and comes up every Wednesday to hold
court. He was the only Judge in town, in
fact I went to Washington on business, got
through with it and left. 1t has recently
been published that wrote to Senator But
ler, appealing to his aid to prevent my ar.
rest. Why, that is nonsense. Butler tele'
graphed for me to come to see him in Wash
ington. I was so far away that before l
could get there he had gone"
ut is said you propose to buy house here
and settle down. Is that 80 ?"
"Well, property is cheap here and l may
buy some as an investment. had rather
live in South Carolina than anywhere else,
though"
"You propose to retire to private life after
your term as Senator expires?
"No, sir; I do not intend any such thing.
1 don't know where shall start again, but |
suppose T shall break out somewhere. You
can say, too, that do not intend to retire be-
fore my term is up. have made no propo.
sition to Governor Hampton to resign in re-
turn for the stopping of legal proceedings
against me-"
The Senator sat up in bed as if in defiance
of such probability and said goodbye. II
could give you fellows lots Of inside history Of
W.eb;rrton-eooroth history von know"