Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-10-12


We know that there are some persons who
would be willing to hold Court over some
body's store room, or in somebody's gin house,
and then confine the prisoners in the village
guard house, and thus save the Jail and Court
House expense. There are others again who
would require the bonded officers to keep the
money and papers in their pockets or in a
| borrowed safe, and it is also certain that
there are still large class who would be will
ling to cut down the fees Of the Judges and
| the solicitors to half the present pay. There
are also many men who think the present
pay of the county officers could be reduced
sufficiently to pay the new officers. There are
yet another class of men who think the OIL
GERS who would accept one third of their present
pay in Abbville county, are hard to find.
There are others again who think the above
figures are all wrong. But it should not be
forgotten that the Supervisors of Registra-
tion and the treasurers in no county receive
less than $500.
THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND
MENT.
AT the next General Election three proposed
Constitutional Amendments are to be voted
upon. One of which is to authorize the Legis-
lature to hold the General Election at diff
ferent time from that on which the National
Election is held. Another will add long
list of offences "and other Infamous crimes, "
in order to disqualify the sinner from voting
The last and most important of all is, the
proposed amendment which will increase the
army of officers from little over five hundred
to nearly twelve hundred, and at the same
time more than double the cost of maintaining
the machinery of the government.
These are questions which are of the gravest
10 oil Of tba State rTbpV
are measures which, in our opinion, the peo-
pie should be slow to adopt. If our observa-
tion since the war is worth anything, we
would suggest that our people have suffered
great decentralization by the constant chang
ing of our important laws. The changes have
been so frequent and the decisions Of our
Courts have been such that until recently the
best lawyer in the country was unable to give
satisfactory opinions in many questions OF
law. With the experience of the past, 1t
might then be we'll for our voters to consider
carefully the merits Of question which will
effect the monied interest OF every citizen Tor
all times to come.
So determined are the State Democratic
Executive Committee to force all these amend
mentS upon us, whether we want them or
not, that they have determined to print but
one set of tickets, and that set being eXclu-
sively for the use of those favoring the adOp-
tion of the amendments, while those OF our
citizens who do not approve of those measures
will be furnished no opportunity to vote their
sentiments. Under such system it is prac-
tically proposed to disfranchise a large propor-
tion of the white men of tine State, and we
think we are safe in saying that two-thlrds
of the white men of Abbevile county are
opposed to the division of this county, and
would, if the Executive Committee permitted
them to do so, vote against the Constitutional
Amendment reducing the area of the counties.
If we understand the spirit and temper OF our
citizens who want new court houses in their
respective neighborhood, they would scorn
to take the advantage of their neighbors IN
this way. The people in this county who
want to divide the county are honorable men,
and we cannot believe that they want any
unfair advantage.
We believe the Executive Committee should
represent and act for the whole Democratic
party, and if they persist in their denial to
furnish tickets to those of our citizens VINO
would vote against these amendments, the
public will know how impartially and how
faithfully they have discharged trust OF
honor.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS.
At the suggestion of two or three promi-
nent citizens, the Legislature injected some
Constitutional questions into this campaign,
and now the Democratic Executive Commit
tee would, it seems to us, force their adoption
in a very questionable way When these prop
ositions came before the Legislature, they were
voted for by two distinct Classes. One party
wanted the measures adopted while the other
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