Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-02
COUNTY CANDIDATES.

| A number of new candidates are announced
under appropriate headings in this week issue
By inadvertence the name of j. P. Gage, Esq.,.
announced several weeks ago, was omitted last
week. He wishes it to be understood that he
is a candidate. BY the card of w. Waddy
Thomson, it will be seen that he withdraws
his name from before the primary election
The various candidates before the primary
election up to the present are as follows:
State Senate-I. D. Witherspoon.
House Of esentatives-Iredell Jones
James F. Hart, w. Porter Good, B. II. Mas
sey, J. G. Chambers, John P. Gage, Peter
Garrison, DR.. John G. Black.
| County CommissiOners-Cal Whisonant
Alexander NJ. Black DR.. j. B. Allison, W. A.
Robinson, Andrew F. Lindsay, w. W. White
James Scoggns, John M. Jackson, A. F.
Mcconnell, DIR. E. L. Glenn, Maj. I. Milton
Wallace, j. V. McFadden.
County Treasurer-James NJ. Hope, Robert
D. Mcknight, j. Ernest Lowry, Hyder A. D.
Nicely, James A. Wallace.
| County Auditor--W. B. Williams, A. Springs
Withers, +. F. Bell, G. Scott Wilson, VIM. S.
May, j. NJ. Sherer.
| Clerk of the Court. F. Wallace, Col. w.
H. McCorkle, DR.. w. E. Erwin.
Judge of Probate-W. B. McCaw, Joseph
A. Mclean.
Sheriff-W. J. Stephenson, R. H. Glenn.
School COmmissiOner-Rev Robert Latham.
YORK REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
The York county Republican Convention
met in the Court House, at II O'Clock last
Friday. So quietly are the Republicans OF
York moving, that no one outside the conf
dence of the party was aware that such meet
ing was contemplated, and when crowd OF
about one hundred colored citizens had assem-
bled in and around the Court House yard,
some speculation was indulged as to what it
all meant. Investigation, however, soon dis
closed the fact that q convention of the party
had been called, and the gathering crowd of
dusky patriots was to compose the meeting.
1t was noticeable that only two or three white
men were in the crowd, and still more remark
able Was the absence of the colored men so
conspicuous in Republican meetings in the
days when the goose hung high. There was
recognizable only one face of the old school OF
colored politicians and that was the visage OF
Nelson Hammond, who, Notwithstanding the
Republican banner has been for the last four
years obnubilated in his bailiwick, manifested
the zeal and enthusiasm so characteristic of
him in days agone; and, in truth, it may be
said that without Nelson, the convention last
Friday would have been a tame affair indeed.
The meeting was called to order by ex-Con-
gresham A. S. Wallace, County Chairman,
who said the convention was ordered in obe-
dience to instructions from the State EXecu-
tive Committee for the special purpose OF
electing delegates to the State Republican
Convention to be held in Columbia on the End
of September and though no time has yet
been fixed for holding Congressional and Ju-
dicial Conventions, yet, he said, it was deemed
advisable to elect delegates to these conven-
tions also, in order that provision would be
made for them in case they should be called.
He expressed the hope that the convention
would be digniied in it's deliberations remind
ing the delegates that should their proceedings
be marked by indecorous or boisterous actionss
the fact would be spread on the wings of ths
wind, as it should be, and known all over the
Union before sundOwn.
1t was then moved and carried that w. b.
Watts be requested to act as Secretary.
The roll of delegates was next called, and
the following were reported in attendance
Yorkrille Hammond, Alfred Nc
Knight, w. G. King, 7. F. Hunt, II. Chalh-
bers.
Rock HM.-Wylie Davie, W. B. Watts, 8
A, Hawkins. H. S, Steele ]. G.. Byers.