Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-18
GARFIELD AND THE SOUTH.


had almost an iron gray cast.
GARFIELD AND THE SOUTH.
A Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald, said to be well informed, writes
about question that is agitating many
minds at present. He says:
The possible relations of the South to
the new administration are discussed with
great interest. Southern men of great prom.
iuence who came here during the canvass,
did not hesitate to declare that if the Demo.
Gratis were beaten this time "the South
would no longer remain Democratic. Gen.
eral Gar6eld's PERSONAL relations with many
influential Southern men have long been
the most friendly and intimate and it is
thought that while he may not choose to call
into his cabinet any man from section of
the country which did not give an electoral
vote to the party, he may, with the advice
of Mr.. Conkling and other leading support
ers, undertake to put the federal service in
the Southern States on all entirely new foot
ing, selecting prominent and influential South
ern men for the most important federal off.
ces, with view to drawing into the Republi.
can ranks such men, on their guarantee that
they and their friends will reorganize the
party and make it fair representation Of
part of the property and intelligence of their
States.
This plan is thought by General Gar6eld's
friends to be very near his heart, belief being,
they say, that while the country desires for
the present no important changes in. general
legislation, he can make his administration
useful to the country and famous in history,
by doing what Mr.. Hayes so completely fail
ed to do-bringing about natural condition
of politics in the South. "Gar6eld will feel
that he is elected" they say; "Hayes was
the constant prey of terrors about the securi-
ty of his seat. He became from the first, for
this reason, the creature of the vile men in
Louisiana, and other Southern States, to whose
frauds he owed his place. When they threat.
ened ugly revelations, Hayes and Evarts al
ways succumbed, and other members of the
administration chose to make no resistance.
Hayes, therefore, kept in the most important
Southern Offices men hated and despised
everywhere and thus, by reason of his fears
for himself, repelled all honorable Southern
alliances. Garfield will have the courage
which comes from knowing that he is fairly
elected, and he will 60 into the White House
knowing that the sensible men of the South
are heartily disgusted with the Democratic
party. Moreover, Garfield has been long
here in public life and knows the Southern
men, their tempers, influence and antecedents,
about all which important details Hayes was
ignorant as a child of ten years."
Those who thus pretend to foreshadow
General Garield's general policy, 60 a step
further. They say that it is likely to have the
support of Senator Conkling and Of his wing
of the party that the New York Senator
sees that the party can now hope for proper
and large influence in the South, and that
he will not hesitate to join Garfield in hold
ing out the olive branch in the most effective
way.
SOUTHERN QUESTION PLAYED OUT.
There is a growing impression among
Republicans who have visited their homes
during the canvass, that the Southern ques'
ton is, as one of them remarked, "played
out" and that the party will do wisely to
prepare for the next canvass by an effort to
divide the South, and get part Of its inHu-
ential men to head new Southern Republi.
can party. The South, they say, is beginning
to manufacture, and in many parts of it the
people will be strongly protectionist; in 9TH
er parts they want internal improvements
They will come naturally to the Republican
side on these questions if the door is fairly
opened for them, and the party will need all
the Southern votes it can get by and by. 1t
is thought that General Gar6eld's frequent
liberal utterances on the Southern question
and his thorough acquaintance with Southern
men, will be valuable help to sound reor-
ganization of the party in the Southern States,
and that the leaders of the party in the
North-those, at least, who will have most
influence with bim-will support him in this
matter.