Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-18
JUDGE MACKEY'S VIEWS.

Judge Mackey, who presided at the re.
cent term of the Circuit Court of Greenville,
was interviewed OH the political situation
by reporter for the Greenville Ne,us, and
the following is the result of the interview as
reported in that paper of Sunday: r
Judge Mackey is an IDOL of newspaper men,
inasmlch as judicious tapping will always
elicit something interesting. In the course
of a conversation with reporter for the
Daily News, he gave some interesting facts
regarding the proposed contest Of the vote #
New York. He states that the. Democratic
Committee have in their possession proofs Of
the colonization of $4,000 voters from Yer.
mont Massachusetts the District of Colam'
bia and other points, and have the details
of the movement, the lines they travelled
over, the railroad tickets they used and other
overwhelming evidence which will be laid
before Congress.
The Judge thinks the Solid South should
stand by the Democracy now. Having tai
tered once in 1876, we would lose the conf
dence Of the National party by another fail
ure to support it in its efforts to obtain justice,
and discourage our friends to the point Of
deserting us and allowing the North to solidify-
sure enough, in support of Capitalization OF
government, the two parties dividing the
spoils of the South Congress, he says, can
easily get behind the returns and demonstrate
to the satisfaction of the country The means
by which the Republicans obtained their ap-
parent victory.
Judge Mackey is a vigorous defender OF
John Kelly, who, ne considers a mach
maligned man. He states that the real his
tory of the nomination of Grace for Mayor
of New York, is that under the compromise
between the two factions, Irving Hall was to
name twelve men from whom Tammany was
to select the nominee. Mr.. Grace being
among the twelve, was chosen. A. H. Steph-
ems has described John Kelly as the most
spotless party leader he ever knew, and
Judge Mackey thinks the description pecu-
liarly just one In all the bitterness of the
attacks made upon him, not even the New
York Herald has dared to assail his personal
character. Kelly spent his money freely
for Hancock, and Hancock himself has the
highest opinion of him and has frequently
expressed it. l~ ~
Judge Mackey ascribes the headway made
by the Republican party North to two causes.
One of chem was the failure of the Demo-
cratic party to declare for tariff protecting
the industries by which 100000 men live,
for fear of offending the West. This policy,
however, while not gaining vote IN the
West, slienated the great mass of these
working men. He argued at more length
than the columns of the Daily NesOs will bear,
to convince the wielder of the pencil that the
popular idea that a protective tariff raises
prices to consumers is erroneous, bis theory
being that protection stimulates home COM
petition, which lowers prices more rapidly
and surely than all the free trade in the world,
and he adduced many instances, such as saws,
calico, etc., cheaper now than before the
war, in support of his claim. ,,,.,.
The other reason, he thinks, is the thor
oughly satisfactory administration OF fresl'
dent Hayes, who goes out OF Office with an
unsullied name The. easy resumption OF
specie payment under his administration
told at the North. The Judge thinks that
we at least should hold him in grateful re-
as the restorer Of civic rule An
other point in his favor is that he had the de-
cency to "go west" and avoid saying anytnlng
for Garfield. =. Ia.
His travels North lead him to believe that
the Solid South is feared by the masses only
on account of its supposed solidarity tar
free trade. The "bloody shirt" issue is ea:
.irely forsaken. "The Solid North" said
The Judge, "is myth" He then went on TO
state as the result of elaborate calculations,
hat change of four per cent, or -four mea