Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-01-08

word to me on the subject. Judge MacKey
had not yet so much as announced his adhe-
renee to our party, and if remember Alright,
was not at Abbeville. Judge Cooke, as'is
we'll known, had only Joined US that after
noon. Coming out to our meeting at a late
hour, he announced from the stand, for the
first time, that he proposed to sustain our
ticket. No one knew of his position towards
US until that moment, and he certainly took
no part in any consultation. do not know
by whom the proposition was made to the ex-
ecutive committee, and had even forgotten
who brought it to US, until reminded recently
that it was Col. Hoyt He can give the facts
There was no injecting" held that night. and,
of course, did not preside over any meeting.
Gen. Toombs, Gen. MCGOWAN and myself
were together in Gen. Toombs' room, but
instead of Offering US $4,000 if we would
consent to withdraw the Electors, General
Toomts readily offered, Internationally, to
give $4,000, out of his own pocket, to aid US
in our canvass for the whole ticket. The prop
osition concerning the Electors was discussed
among other matters, and we came to the con.
clusion, as Gen. MCGOWAN has announced,
that we would not entertain it. Nothing
more was ever said about it, and the charac.
ter of the canvass was not changed in the
slightest degree. The Presidential Electors
accompanied me to every meeting that was
held in the State, and the two tickets were
carried as far as possible together.
THE DISCREPANCY, IN THE VOTES
cast for Mr.. Tilden and myself can be &C.
| counted for in two ways In the first place,
the returns for the election of Governor and
Lieutenant Governor in South Carolina are
required to be sealed by the managers of elec.
tion, to be opened only by the Legislature,
and did not, therefore, 60 before the Return
ing Board. There was no chance of tampeE;
ing with them, while the vote for Presidential
Electors was canvassed by that board, which
was composed entirely of Republicans. An.
other very good reason for my vote being
larger than Mr.. Tildens is, that many white
Republicans, as we'll as some Of the colored
ones, voted for Mr.. Hayes and the Democrat
ic State ticket Republicans of character in
Columbia, Charleston and Beaufort voted for
me, and the difference (about 600) Was even
less than we expected.
GEN. GARY's LAST INTERVIEW.
In his last interview, Gen. Gary changes the
issue and attempts t. prove that there was q
consultation at Abbeville, which has never
been denied I have said, simply, that the
charges that made the proposition referred
to, or that had proposed in any way to sell
out Tilden, or that was unfaithful to the
National Democratic purity, were utterly and
absolutely false, and reiterate it.
Gen. Gary also says in his last interview,
that his statements in the first, in regard to the
meeting at Mrs. Norwood's, have been "cor-
roborated by Gen. MCGOWAN since the ap.
pearance of my reply to him. have just
received the following telegram from General
MCGOWAN
ssI have not seen, but have heard of Gen.
Gary's card in the Herald. When directly in
terrogated I stated, what have before stated
in my letter, that proposition was made
through the Executive Committee which was
brought to us at Abbeville and promptly de-
clined. That the canvass went OF precisely
as it had done before--not one vote being af-
fected by the rejected proposition. That l
knew Governor Hampton to be as true to the
State and the Democratic party as any man
in South Carolina. am out of politics, and
thought you should know the whole truth"
SAM'L MCGOWAN"
GEN. GARY
says again, that he Submitted to be gagged in
1876, and to be dictated to by Hampton
where and when | should and shouldn't
speak," The executive committee, however,
made the appointments, and believe select.
ed the speakers. had not indicated to them
anything in reference to it, and if they did
not invite Gen Gary to speak. they must have
had some very good reason for not doing so.
If he did not canvass the State, it was not
from any advice gave and if he wants in
formation upon this point, the committee
could doubtless give him very satisfactory
reasons why he was not invited to do 80. AS
to my taking the initial step" in opposition
to him, it is we'll known that during the whole
of my term as Governor, Gen. Gary made
constant and unwarranted attacks on me in
the Senate, where he knew could not answer
them, and have never answered them ex-
cept on two occasions One of those was at
Greenville In rep to his remark, in sub.
stance, that "the next thing we should hear
of the Hampton Democracy would be that
they we're dining and wining with the colored
brothers and sisters" replied, as nearly as |
can remember, that eff he had said that
was doing anything to lower the standard of
the Democracy, he had said what was imper
tinent and untrue" If he had not intended
to make those reflections, he could have dis
claimed them, which he never did. The peo-
ple of Greenville had realized that Gen. Gary
had done much harm to our party, and,
through the chairman of the executive COM
mittee, wrote to me to 60 there and endeavor
to correct the injury, which l did,.
THE REPUBLICAN PROPOSITION TO SELL OUT
CHAMBERLAIN.
In farther evidence of the fidelity with
which we sustained the Democratic party,
may relate, what has never before been pub.
lished, that when Judges Denny and Settle
Republicans were in Columbia, and the
Question of the recognition of our government
was in agitation, they said to me, at one time,
that if I would, on any public occasion, say
that thought the State had been carried for
HAYES, the troops would be removed and l
would be recognized. My reply at once was
that II would not do 80 to be made President
of the United States but that if those two
gentlemen, who had access to the returns,
which we had not, would take Gen. Gordon
and Bradley johnson and 60 over the returns
with an expert, would then say just what
the returns showed. Judge Settle laug he'd
and said eve have had one deal with that
pack of cards and have thrown it awayP
meaning, evidently, that they had already
gone over the returns and were not satisfied
with the result.) Gems. Gordon and johnson