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

one place, which amounts to Dut llttle. Inc
yield will be increased from 10 to 80 per
cent. over last year.
ECHOES OF THE ELECTION.
- Pennsylvania's gratitude to the hero of
Gettysburg-30,000 Republican majority.
- The Connecticut Legislature is Republi-
can, which will retire Senator Eaton, Demo.
crat.
- Curtin is elected to Congress from Penn
sylvania. He contested Yocum's seat in the
46th Congress. A Democratic gain.
The New York World is of opinion that
there will be no attempt at another recon-
struction of the South.
- The Indiana colonization materially re-
duced the colored vote in Eastern North Car.
olina, but increased the Republican vote
where it would do that party most good.
- The New York Tribune says: Hancock
| proved an unfortunate candidate for the
Democrats, but he was respectable one, and
his behavior during the campaign was dig
nifed if not altogether discreet"
Asks the Augusta Chronicle: eff Gar
field should prove second Hayes, with all
the modern improvements, what will Grant
and Conkling think Of the President they
made?"
- Says the New York Star "Four years
hence, we venture to predict, a large per cen.
tage of the men who voted for MIR. Garfield
will regret the result far more keenly than
will Gen. Hancock"
- The Virginia delegation in the 47th Con-
gress will probably stand Democrats, Re-
adiusters and Republicans. Randolph
Tucker has been reelected but the State and
country sustains a loss in the defeat Of John
Goode and Cahell.
- Says the New York Commercial, Repub
lican: "The great victory that has been won
shows that the people of the Northern States
are true to the principles for which Grant,
Sherman, Garfield and Hancock fought
There were other issues, but this was the
great overpowering one"
- The New York World, the Democratic
organ, says that the election of Garfield is
virtually the reelection of General Grant, but
asserts that the continued control Of the
House of Representatives is assured by the
election to Congress of the enemies of Gen.
tralization.
- The Cincinnati Enquirer, Democratic,
says that Grant, Conkling. Cameron and
Logan have been elected President. Among
the causes for the Democratic defeat it as
signs the decision which made Indiana all
October State and the cowardice which four
years ago gave up Tilden's cause.
NO negro is ever sent to Congress from a
Northern State. Only two negroes have ever
been elected to a Northern Legislature.
From the State and municipal offices in the
North the negro is excluded There is not a
negro oficeholder in Mr.. Evarts' own State
of New York.
- Congressman Emory Speer, of Georgia,
a Democrat, and strong supporter of Han.
cock, says of Garfield: "He is liberal, con-
servative Republican, independent in poll
tics. He has never been guided by the ma
chine His nomination was regarded as q
liberal victory for that wing of the party,
and unless he has seriously compromised him.
self with Grant, Conkling & Co., in this can.
vass the South need have no apprehensions" +"
- The Wilmington IN. CO. Star says: Gar
field married the first cousin of very worthy
lady of this city, who would not let the fact
be known if her name had to be published in
that connection, Notwithstanding the Ameri-
can people have thought fit to make the man
President of the United States. She has
moreover the consolation of knowing that
none of her family connections supported him
for the high office which he seems destined to
fill.
- The New York Evening Telegram, COM
menting on the result in that city, says: "In
1876 the number of votes polled was III $3.50,
and the Democratic majority that year was
53969, against majority of 41,376, thus
showing loss to the Democrats of 1858.
These figures are more significant consider
ing the enormous increase of 83,831 in the
registration. The Presidential vote, accord
ing to all calculations, based upon the past,
should have shown a Democratic majority
of not less than $4,000 in this city. As it is,
the Republican vote has unaccountably in.
creased 43 per cent. and the Democratic vote
only per cent. in four years"
"A New York dispatch on the day after
the election says: "At the National Demo-
cratic headquarters, there was much depres.
sion throughout the evening. The detection
was intensified as the night advanced and the
defeat of Gen. Hancock seemed assured. The
QeQuuCdLlOu VI JOUu Nelly dS IIe mdlu
cause of the unexpected republican strength
in New York city was loud and frequent. 1t
was asserted that he had sold out the party
for personal ends, and that his enmity to Mr..
Tilden was the main cause of the disaster to
the Democracy. Only meagre returns were
announced, and the national committee were
secluded in an upper room. There was not
even cheer for Gen. Hancock up to mid.
night.
The Hartford Times thinks the effort of
the Democratic organization has been, in its
relation to the Republican party, like that of
a set Of hoops on rotten barrel. Strike off
the hoops, and the foul barrel will no longer
hold together. If the Democrats were to
make no nominations, the Republican party,
finding itself no longer opposed, would quick
ly fall to pieces as party organization, from
the very force of its own antagonisms and
internal corruption. This would necessarily
happen from the incongruous and hostile ele.
ments of which it is made up. These ele
ments, like the ill fitting slaves of badly