Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-30

the cheapest defence of nations. 1t is there
fore to the interest of the Democratic party OF
the State to make all intelligent. With the
population we have, excepting the few thou
sand colored people voting with the whites,
no people have ever had an experience similar
to our own. No other than the Democratic
party, representing the property and intelli-
gence of the country, can control the interest
of the State as we have done. Situated as we
are to-day, we are the custodians Of the inter-
ests Of the State. In the present condition OF
affairs, he thought it would really be best if
we had but one party; though as opposite
parties are necessary for the good of govern
ment, twenty-five or thirty years hence, when
all the people shall have been educated to
proper understanding of the duties and obliga-
tions of citizens, then would be time enough
for contending political parties in our State.
But even as at present constituted, there
are two dangers we must avoid, the first of
which is personal ambition. The will of the
party, as expressed in your primary elections,
must be the will of the Democracy of the
county. No one has right to seek to divide
the Democracy of York county. The only
hope of the Radicals is in the disintegration
of the Democratic party. To this effect FL
lott expressed himself in the last Republican
State Convention. We have nothing to fear
if we are true to ourselves and remain united.
A favorite game with the Radicals is the
'possum policy. He had reason to believe
that A. S. Wallace is now trying that game in
York, and he warned his hearers to be on the
alert, and not only watch the movements of
the open enemy, but to frown down Independ-
entism, no matter in what guise it may be
presented.
He then discussed the issues pending III the
National campaign, taking the ground that
the South can never regain her former pros
perity until the National Democratic party
come into power. He reviewed Garfield's
political record, and eulogized Hancock, i'll
the nomination Of whom is the highest trl-
umph of the Southern Democracy, by which
they have shown their ready acceptance of the
Federal soldier and National statesman-a
man who represents a conscientious duty on
the part of a Northern soldier. His military
orders show his conservatism, and being a
high-minded, clivalric man, the people of the
South will rally to his support, thereby prov
ing that they earnestly desire 4 union OF hearts
as well a union of hands.
The first Democratic gun has been heard in
Maine, and it's reverberatiOn will sound from
the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. Hancock
surely will be elected, and when that auspi-
ciouS event occurs, a hallclujah of JOY will 60
up from all the land. Then Union, firm and
true, will once more bless the people OF this
country.
To the people of York he would say, MAIN
tain your Democratic principles in all the
purity of the typical Rose your name repre-
sents, and in the shadow of that Mountain re-
new your determination to continue Home
Rule and honest Democratic Government.
The chairman then introduced
COL. r. NJ. SIMS,
Democratic nominee for the Office Of Secretary
of State. He was happy to meet his friends OF
York. 1t had long been sober thought with
him, and one which no doubt his friends had
indulged, that political strife would cease in
our State, and all classes of people would view
questions of public interest alike. But either
fortunately or unfortunately, such time has
not yet arrived, and until it does come, it will
he necessary for us to meet and discuss the
questions arising for the interests of the peo-
pie.
The main issue now is bad versus good gov
ernment-the broad question whether we will
strive to maintain strict administration OF
the laws, or revert to the rule of Radicalism.
We are laboring to-day for continuation OF
Democratic rule. Fortunately, there does not
exist at this time that party feeling necessary
to excite our fears of danger but how soon
the Republicans may show their strength we
do not know. 1t is necessary to maintain our
party organization, and vote our full strength,
and to be ever ready for the attack of the willy
foe.
The record of the Democratic party for four
years is before you. We appeal to you wheth-
er or not the promises made in the campaign
of 1876 and renewed in 1878, have been faith
fully kept. The laws have been faithfully ad-
miniStered. The school system has been fOS-
tered and encouraged The public debt has
been satisfactorily adjusted. We have de-
monstrated to the country that we could ad-
minister the government of the State honestly
and with fairness and impartiaity to all
classes of people within her borders, and yet
this fact is not recognized by the officials at
Washington. They are still striving to breed
contentious and antagonism beween the peo-
pie of our section.
Four years of peace and quiet have passed
within our State, and if the colored man is
not now convinced of the honesty and sinceri-
ty of the Democratic party, no words of the
speaker could convince him. But, he said, it
IS not so much the fault of the cOlOred people
as the hate and greed for office of their white
leaders, who, for their own ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
deceive them. They hope to regain and retain
political power by engendering hate and ap-
pealing to the passions of the colored race.
He then reviewed national questions grow
ing out of the late civil war, warning his
hearers that the tendency of the Republican
party is towards Capitalization, and that it
must be defeated by the success of the Ma
tional Democratic party on the End day of
November next.
HON. JOHN II. EvINs,
the Democratic nominee for reelection to Con-
gress from this District, was next introduced.
lie said that it is always with great pleas
ure that he meets the people of York, and on
this occasion he desired to return his heartfelt
thanks for the confidence they reposed in him,
and the endorsement they had so recently
given him.
lie then discussed questions arising since
the late war, and reviewed the administrations
of Grant, who, placed in power by Republican
votes, had given the people of this country
more cause for protest than did the acts OF
George I'LL lie traced the policy of the Re-
publican party down to their effort to noml-
nate Grant for third term, and the culmna-
ting act of nominating for President, Garfield,
a man who, by Republican investigating COM
mittee, headed by Republican chairman,
stands to-day morally convicted of acts rem
dering him unfit to be entrusted with the
high duties of the Presidential office Not
alone his populations and connection with
jobs, bribes and frauds, render him unfit for
this position, but he openly boasted that Ham
ilton's doctrine Of electing President for life
are growing in this country, at which he re-
ioiced. This alone, if nothing else, should
unfit him for the Chief Magistracy of Re-
publican Government. He then reviewed at
length the political record Of Garfield, remind
inghis hearers that the charges brought against
him did not originate with the Democratic
party, but were brought out by his own poiti-
cal associates.
Recurring to matters of more local nature,