Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-11

bulldozing or frauds. He ntimates that there
will be no sqeamishness about this business
and that wherever there is u pretext, the Dem
ocratic members will have to 60. he says
that when Kellogg telegraphed him from
New Orleans that the Democrats were regis
tering there beyond the legal time, he sim.
ply replied that Kellogg should collect all
the facts, and the matter would be rghted by
Congress, when the new Congress came to-
gether. The Democrats, we are told, are
very much excited by this announcement.
There is no doubt that when the Republicans
once regain control of Congress they will pur-
sue relentless course toward their opponents
in the matter of election contests.
Memphis Appea.-Dem
The Democrats have been badly beaten.
The have suffered complete Waterloo de.
feat. The assurances on which We built our
hopes Of success were as a mountain of sand
to be washed away in night out Of sight by
the food of Republican votes. The solid
South stands almost alone for Democratic
principles. The sections are more sternly de-
fined to-day than they were in 1860. After
attributing the defeat to the rousing of the
passions and predjudices Of the North against
the South, the appeal says: The political
vic ory thus secured cannot last longer than
the administration that is the result of it..
The best answer the South can make to the
gross libels that have won for the Republican
party fresh lease of power, will be devotion
to its material Interests, Il strict maintenance
of the credit of its municipalities and States,
a rapid settlement Of vacant lands, the exten-
sion of its railroad system and enlargement
of its public school system. For these the
South is solid, and, believing still that the su
premacy of Democratic princi Piles is essential
to the maintenance of our Government, it
will continue to be solid and vote solidly for
that party as long as it exists.
Charleston News and Couricr.-Dem.
Whatever the exact way in which it came
about, it is hard fact that the Government
of the United States, for the next four years,
action. The Republican President will ap-
parently have at his back Republican Con-
gress. What they will, they can do with
the Southern States and their people. We
hope and believe, however, that the business
interests which were the handspring of Tues.
days work will be opposed utterly to any
legislation that would, in any way, embarrass
the agriculture and manufactures, trade and
commerce of the South. 1t is to the interest
of the North and West to take this position.
They will do it whenever, and as soon as, the
people of the Southern States cease to be op.
posed by the politicians as the would-be au'
tocrats of the Union that they did their Ut
most to destroy. When the spectre of South
ern supremacy is laid, the Northern people
will be freer to exhibit their kindly and in.
terested feelings And one of the first ques-
tions that the Southern whites will have to
ask themselves is, Whether the welfare of the
South has been, and is likely to be, hindered
or advanced by the alliance with the Demo
Gratis of the North 1t does not hurt those
gentry to be beaten. They are sure to have
just and equal government in their States in
any event. In losing politically, the South
loses in pocket and in peace of mind. Will
the South remain on the losing side, and, if
so, on what terms and for what purpose? The
Southern people, we fancy, will make them
selves heard on this subject before the winter
is past.