Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-11
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
New York Herald,-Ind.

aVOlQeu, anu IOr tnis Ill Eoou CIIiUeus, oil
men who love their country, no matter for
whom they voted, will be devoutly thankful.
There will be time enough hereafter to dis.
cuss the causes of the overwhelming victory
OF the republicans 1t is plain, however, that
the country does not fancy solid South
and that it does not admire the lack of brains
and of principles for which the democratic
canvass was chiefly conspicuous. 10 their
general honor must be added this, that the
American people, who are, like all free peo-
pie, conservative, and properly so, were in
clined to let we'll enough alone. They saw no
sufficient reason for change in the admins
tration. The democrats asserting that there
were such reasons, but the vote showing that
they were not able to convince the people.
Whenever the democrats can agree upon a
policy and muster up courage enough to as.
sert and explain it before the people, if at the
same time they can shake off the load Of the
solid South they may have some hope Of
success. The republicans have the presiden-
cy and working majority in both Houses of
Congress. For four years from the 4th Of
March next they have the destiny Of the
country in their hands.
New YORK Timcs-Kep.
1t can hardly be necessary to point out
that with its return to complete control Of the
national Government, the Republican party
will take upon itself great responsibilities.
No party has ever been more signally, more
completely trusted, and to every trust there
are two parties. The momentous issues of
the past are decided. They will, in the nat.
ural course of things, give place to others,
perhaps not so we'll defined, and of less
stirring nature, but, in their turn, important
and imperative. Yesterdays election puts
the entire country on the same footing. 1t
makes sure the disappearance of sectional
questions by the triumph of national princi.
pies. 1t will remain for the Republican Par;
ty to administer the Government for the
whole Nation. 1t will be its duty to complete
the adjustment of the national debt, that
its burdens may rest as lighty as possible on
the people; to reduce taxation at every avail
able point; to remove the inequalities which
now exist in the operation Of much Of oui
fiscal legislation to make the currency Who'll
ly and permanently sound. 1t will be its
duty to correct the evils which have crept
into the civil service, to perfect the divorce
which has been undertaken between that ser
vice and partisan politics, to remove all just
complaint in any section that the national
Government is partisan, to attract to the Gov
ernment the upright men of all parties by its
purity, integrity, impartiality and efficiency
If it hopes to reap the full fruits Of the be-
ne6cent victory Of Tuesday it must admin
lister the Government in the spirit in which
the people voted-the spirit of intelligent ano
generous patriotism, of fidelity to the highest
aims of free government, of Jealous devotion
to the equal rights and best interests of tht
whole people
Philadelphia Ledger-Rep
This result was made inevitable from the
moment the Cincinnati convention adopted
its wholly unnecessary resolution for "tarif
for revenue only" The blundering construct
or of that plank builded far worse than he
knew. He forgot that the line between what
used to be called distinctly the agricultural
and mechanical States WAS no longer drawn
along the head waters of the Ohio river; he
forgot that that line is obliterated every
where this side of the prairies. That pre-
posterous piece of political blindness imperil
ed at once every one of the four States that II
was possible for General Hancock to carry,
and at least three of which it was impossible
for him to do without. Il
New York CommerciaI.-Rep.
The great victory that has been won shows
that the people of the Northern States are
true to the principles Grant, Sherman, Gar.
field and Hancock fought for. There were
okL>o s,,uoo hpff this tho
ering one. The tariff played its part, but it
was not the fear of the South that brought
the tariff question out. The South as man
aged to-day is antagouistic to the North in
all its parts. The demand for free. trade
comes from the South the "changes" asked
for were first heard there. 1t was the deter.
mination that the South should not rule this
country through Hancock, Bayard or any
other Northern man, that brought about the
result Tuesday. Men may deny this, may
sneer at the "bloody shirt" and praie about
the "war being over" but these are the hard
facts and cannot be disputed.
New York Express.-Dem.
The result has disappointed Democratic
expectations 1t was confidently expected
that Hancock would be elected by decisive
majority. The most trustworthy reports from
doubtful States were were full of assurances.
Capable and we'll informed Democrats based
their confidence on ascertained facts. The
result has reversed the most judicious and
we'll founded calculations. How it has been
gained, how the Republican managers were
able to boast week ago that they would car.
ry even Democratic strongholds, how the
vote has been almost preternaturally swelled
in places where there has been no increase,
but even falling off in population, are ques.
tions that will require full investigation here
after.
New York Post.-Rep.
There was still more potent reason for
the ineficiency of the Democrats, and that
was their want of definite policy and their
faithlessness to such fragments of policy as
they had positively avowed. A party in op,
position which invites people to abandon a
party in power has two things to do. 1t must
prove the party in power either theoretically
or practically unworthy of trust, and it must
provide a consistent and attractive scheme
of measures wherewith to supplant the incum
bents Now the Democratic party was an
opposition, and no more 1t had great
deal to say against the Republicans, and it
proved great mistakes, miscarriages
and positive ofences-but it had nothing to
substitute that was better. On all questions
of legislation likely to arise it was quite at
sea- As to the finances, it coalesced freely
with the addle.headed teachers of the paper.
money gospel, aud it did so in the face Of its
own most honorable traditions.
New York Sun.-Ind.
When party abandons its successful and