Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-10-21
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.

will be endorsed by the Republicans"
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Progress of the Railroad.
On Wednesday of last week the editor of
the Gastonia Gazette visited South Fork
River, where the bridge of the Chester and
Lenoir Railroad across that stream is being
built. Speaking of the progress of the work,
he says:
The bridge is being erected by Messrs.
Wilkins Post & Co., of Atlanta, Ga. The
mason work was completed Tuesday evening
by Messrs Reese & Deming, which is rough,
but very substantial looking.
We found Mr.. j. H. Rousseau, superin-
tending the bridge work. He said he would
have it ready for the trains to pass over by
the first week in November. There are three
spans, ITO feet each, and the entire length OF
the bridge is $50 feet The mason work is
25 feet high and the bridge Is feet inches !;
total height 43 feet inches
Mr.. Rosseau got the staging across the first
span Wednesday evening, but complains of a
scarcity of hands We were surprised to find
the track, instead Of being temporarily laid,
to be in excellent condition. Upon the whole
.the wo k has been creditably performed ; and
the tI.stle on Long Creek, built by Henry
Setter, Esq, is the best on the road.
Who Is Weaver
- The Rochester IN. W Union, after
stigmalizing Weaver, the Greenback candi-
date for President, as traitor to the Green.
back cause, sketches his political history as
follows:
That James B. Weaver, the Greenback
candidate for President, is traitor to the
Greenback cause and has been upon the
stump in this canvass nothing but hireling
of the Republican National Committee, has
long been evident to every man Of political
intelligence in the country. No proofs be-
yond his public course were needed to estab-
lish the fact. Still, the letter of DR.. Lum,
the Assistant Secretary of the Greenback Ma
tional Committee, given in part in our tele-
graphic columns to-day, is interesting. DR..
Lum's evidence and structures, addressed to
the chairman of the committee, Congressman
Murch, of Maine, whose defeat Weaver
sought to accomplish by his visit to that State
before the election there. will open the eyes
of such members of the Greenback party as
have heretofore been deluded by Weaver.
This man Weaver is native and long
time resident of Dayton, O., and cousin OF
James A. Garfield. He is Republican, dis
cused as Green nbacker, and nothing else.
He has been Republican officeholder under
the State government of Iowa, where he now
resides, and was for six years and until the
office was abolished, Assessor Of Internal Rev.
enue for the first district of Iowa under the
Republican Federal administration.
The Chief. Justiceship.
On Friday last, the Supreme Court,
through Judge Hudson, acting Associate JUS
tice, renderered its decision in the case Of
William D. Simpson, plaintiff, against A. j.
Willard, defendant, denying the claim of
Judge Willard. The decision is concurred
in by Associate Justices McIver and Nc
Gowan The opinion concludes as follows:
"That when, on the 18th day of May, A.
D., 1877, the Hon. A. j. Willard, the present
defendant, was elected Chief Justice, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death Of the
Hon. F. j. Moses ST., on March 6, 1877,
whose term expired July 30 1880, he was
elected to fill such unexpired term only. That
said term having expired on the Goth day of
July, A. D., 1880, the lawful term of office of
the defendant as Chief Justice Of the Supreme
Court of South Carolina ended on the said
3Oth day of July, A. D. 1880.
That when on the 18th day of December,
A. D. 1879, the Hon. w. D. Simpson, plain
tiff herein, was elected to the Office of Chief
Justice by joint vote of the General Assem-
bly,, he was elected to fill the full term of
six years, beginning July 81, 1880, and end
ing July 80, 1886.
THAT he is, therefore, entitled to have
and to hold the said office of Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of South Carolina against
the said defendant, and for the full constitu.
tional term aforesaid, and it is accordingly 80
adjudged."
Northern Republicans Turning Southward.
- The editor of the Charleston Nescs and
Courier telegraphs to bis paper from New
York under date of last Saturday, the follow
ing intelligence, which would indicate that
the Republican leaders of the North contem-
plate political raid on the South:
Their victory in Ohio and Indiana has IN
duced the Republicans to push their cam
paign in the South. At the meeting of the
Republican National Committee yesterday,
Sam Lee gave picturesque account of the
political situation in South Carolina, assert
ing that Hancock's letter on Rebel claims has
disgusted the Democrats and disposes them
to help the Republicans in exchange for the
support of their local Democratic tickets.
The Independents, he says, are courting the
negro vote, and are determined that there
shall be no intimidation and fair count
Lee declared that all bulldozing in South
Carolina is at an end, instructions having
been issued against violence, and that not
disturbance has yet been heard of through
the State. He believed, he said, that if North
ern speakers Of prominence were sent to South
Carolina, the Republicans could elect their