Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-09-28
The Aurkrille Guqllirer.
YORKVILLE. s. c.:
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. %, 1882.
THE RESULT.

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THURSDAY MORNING. SEPT. %, 1882.
THE RESULT.
We publish to-day tabulated statement of
the primary election last Monday. The logi-
cal conclusion of the vote fully sustains the
position of the ENQUIRER on the proposed
Constitutional amendment question and clear
ly proves that so far as a majority of the DEM
ocratic voters of York county are concerned,
the amendment is not desired. This is shown
by the ballots cast for Messrs. Wilson, Riddle,
Massey, Chambers and Hood, who were under
stood to be opposed to the amendment, nota-
bly, all except Mr.. Massey, and he clearly COM
mits himself, after having carefully considered
the question, against division OF York coun-
ty. AS an analysis of the returns shows, the
nomination of John c. Witherspoon, ESQ.,, is
due entirely to adventitious circumstances.
His selection by no means implies an endorse
ment by the people of his views on the ques-
tion of the amendment nor does the vote he
received give him any cause for exultation.
He runs far behind the lowest of the success
full candidates, and may attribute his election
to division of votes between Messrs. Hood
and Chambers, the bulk of which, with Mr.
Hood out of the field, would have been cast
for Mr.. Chambers. But with the election of
Mr.. Witherspoen the eastern side of the coun-
ty will have representation in the persons OF
himself and Mr.. Massey, while the northern,
southern, western and central portions can
possibly be looked after in the House by Col.
Wilson, and Mr.. Riddle. We certainly have
no regrets that the eastern side of the county
has representation. We supported Mr. Mas
sey, as we did in the primary election two
years ago, and as we voted for him prior to
that time when before the people as the nomi-
nee of a convention, and we bear cheerful tes-
timony to his ability as a representative not
of the east, but of the county at large, if we
may be permitted to coin the expression.
The selections for County Commissioners
Drs Allison and Glenn, and Mr.. Riggns-are
all good men, as are the gentlemen selected
for the other county officers. In the choice
made, the Democratic voters have expressed
their preference. The ticket is before the
county. We shall cheerfully support it in its
entirety, erasing from it not name, and such
ic voter. But we also wish it to be under
stood that in thus plghting our troth, we in
no measure modify single word in the article
which follows, or in notice elsewhere of the
meeting last Saturday.
Strictly according to promise made at divers
times and sundry places, Capt. John c. With
erspoon promptly appeared at Yorkville last
Saturday and hurled at the ENQUIRER and it's
editor the bottled thunder which he had kept
Theoretically sealed for the occasion, and which
as it was discharged from the depths of his
intellectual mind, broke forth in strange erup-
tions as though an earthquake smacked its
mumbling lips over some thick-peopled city.
Wonderful as it may seem, among the many
surprises which have marked the late primary
canvass as an era of surprising Developments
while he rose to the Importance OF the occa-
sion and proved himself equal to the emergen-
cy, westill live, and are enabled to-day to graf
ify our expectant readers by spreading before
them his burning eloquence, brilliant with ex-
plosive coruscations of heterogeneous thoughts,
which, scattering like a shower of shooting
stars, ended in the greasy sunshine of his own
illuminating opacity. Our printing his re-
marks at the Court House last Saturday may
prove to him another surprise in this strange,
eventful history - but our reply to what he
then said cannot well be made unless accom-
panied by at least the substance of his sophis-
tical harangue.
He sets outsgenerally by expressing ''sur-
prise'' at the course of the ENQUIRER towards
him in this canvass That is to say, denying
to us the distinguished honor of leading the
people in this political Israel, he alone must
be vested with all the pomp and circumstance
of generalissimo, and besides playing the role
of political bantam to the people of the county,
also reserve to himself the right of assailing us
from the stump at his pleasure, depriving us
the poor privilege of even a.word in reply.
What more surprising phase of egotism than
his surprise that we should suffer his attacks
upon us to 60 unanswered His self-compla-
cency amounts to the sublime when he takes
upon himself to act as our censor and abuse
and villify US from the stump at every joint
discussion save one in the county, and expect
us to bow our devoted head because it was he
who spoke. We answered him within circum-
scribed limits during the progress of the cam
vass, and as he said last Saturday, it greatly
excited his surprise to think that we should do
50 rash thing We are at a loss to conceive
at what point his wonder will cease, and sup
pose he will look upon the notice we here take
, of him as a marvellous piece of impertinence.
So having prepared his obtuse mind for the
surprise in store for him, we shall pass on,
briefly noticing the points made in his last
attack
He said that on the day of the joint discus
sion at Hickory Grove, a paper was being cir
culated for signatures, pledging the signers
not to vote for any candidate from the eastern
side of the county, and to vote against Rock
HILL We innocently attended that meeting,
not then dreaming that this immaculate po-
ltical potentate would impute to us sinister
motives, and we did not see or hear of any such
paper on that day, and since the assertion
was made, we have enqured of, persons who
were there, and whose reputation for veracity
will stand favorable comparison with that
of Capt John c. Witherspoon, and they all
say no such paper was circulated to their
knowledge. But to the amusement of all who
may remember the facts, he says it was a
cloudy day, so much so that in attempting to
reach Hickory Grove, he could not keep the
points of the compass, and he arrived on the