Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05


every voter and our system of self govern.
ment, which should never be forgotten or for
given. Many of the men new in Office were
put there because of their corrupt partisan
services in thus defeating the fairly and le-
gally expressed will of the majority, and the
hypocrisy of the professions Of that party in
favor of civil service reform was shown by
placing such men in office and turning whole
broods Of Federal oficeholders loose to infu-
ence elections. Money of the people, taken
out Of the public treasury by these men for
services often poorly performed or not per.
formed at all, is being used in vast sums with
the knowledge aud presumed sanction of the
administration to control elections, and even
members of the Cabinet are strolling about
the country making partisan speeches instead
of being in their departments at Washington,
discharging public duties, for which they are
paid by the people. But with all their clev-
erness and ability, the discriminating public
will, no doubt, read between the lines Of their
speeches that their paramount hope and aim
is to keep themselves or their satellites four
years longer in Office.
That perpetuating power of chronic FEEDER.
al oficeholders four years longer will not
benefit the millions of men and women who
hold no Office, but earn their daily bread by
honest industry, is what the same discerning
public will no doubt understand, as they will
also that it is because Of their own industry
and economy and Gods bountiful harvests,
that the country is comparatively prosperous,
and not because of anything done by these
Federal officeholders. The country is com.
paratively prosperous, not because of them,
but in spite of them. This contest, is, in fact,
between the people endeavoring to regain the
political power, which rghtfully belongs to
them, and to restore the pure, simple, eco
nomical constitutional government of our
fathers on the one side, and a hundred thou
sand Federal ofiicehoders aud their bankers,
,ampered with place and power, and deter.
mined to retain them at all hazards, on the
other. Hence, the constant assumption OF
new and dangerous powers by the general
Government, uoder the rule Of the Republi-
can party. The efforts to build up what they
call strong government; the interference
with home rule and with the administration
of Justice in the Courts of the several States /;
the interference with elections through a
medium of paid partisan Federal oficeholders,
interested in keeping their party in power,
and caring more for that than the fairness in
elections-in fact, constant encroachments
which have been made by the party upon
The clearly reserved rights Of the people of
the States will, if not checked, subvert the
liberties of the people and the government of
the limited powers created by our fathers,
and end in great consolidated central gov
ernment, strong indeed for evil and the over
throw of Republican institutions.
The wise men who formed our Constitution
knew the evils Of d strong government and the
long continuance Of u political power in the
same hands They knew there was q ten
dency in this direction in all governments
and consequent danger to Republican insti,
tutions from that cause, and took pains to
guard against it. The machinery of strong
centralized General government can be used
to perpetuate the same set of meu in power
from term to term until it ceases to be Re-
public, or is such only in name, and ten
dency of the party now in power in that di.
rection, as shown in various ways, besides
the willingness recently manifested by large
number Of that party to elect President for
an unlimited number of terms is quite ap-
parent and must satisfy thinking people that
the time has come when it will be safest and
best for the party to be retired. But in re-
sisting the encroachments of the General Gov
ernment upon the reserved rights Of the peo-
pie and States, wish to be distinctly under
stood as favoring a proper exercise by the
General Government of all powers rightfully
belonging to it and under the Constitution.
Encroachments upon the constitutional rights
of the General Government to interfere with
the proper exercise fits powers must be care,
fully avoided. The anioD Of States under
the Constitution must be maintained, and it
is we'll known that this has always been the
position of both candidates on the Democratic
Presidential ticket. 1t is acquesed in every.
where now aud finally and forever settled as
one of the results of the war. 1t is certainly
beyond all question that the legitimate re-
suits of the war of the Union will not be
overthrown or impaired, should the Demo
cratic ticket be elected. In that event proper
protection will be given in every Legitimate
way to every citizen, native or adopted, in
every section of the Republic in the enjoy.
ment of all the rights guaranteed by the Con:
sttution and amendments.
A sound currency Of honest money value
and purchasing power, corresponding SUBJ
stantially with the standard recognized by
the commercial world, and consisting of gold
and silver and paper, convertible into coin,
will be maintained. Labor and manufactur-
ing, commercial and business interests of the
country will he favored and encouraged in
every legitimate way. The toiling millions
of our own people will be protected from de-
structive competition of the Chinese, and to
that end their immigration to our shores will
be properly restricted. Public credit will be
scrupulously maintained and strengthened by
rigid economy in public expenditures, and
the liberties and the property of the people
will be protected by government of law
and order, administered strictly in the In
terest of all people, and not of corporations
and privileged classes. l do not doubt the
discriminating justice of the people and
their capacity for intelligent self govern.
ment, and, therefore, do not doubt the sue
cess of the Democratic ticket. Its success
would bury, beyond resurrection, sectional
iealousies and hatreds which have so long
been the stock in trade of pestiferous dema-
pogues, and in no other way can this be so
efectually accomplished. 1t would restore
harmony and good feeling between all sec.
tions and make US, in fact, as we'll as in name,
one people The only rivalry then would be
in race, for the development of material pros.
perity, elevation of labor, enlargement of
human rights. promotion of education, moral:
ity, religion, liberty, order and all that would
tend to make US the forew ost nation of the
earth in the grand march of human progress.
am with GREAT resnect truly Yours