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

Republican papers ADMIT tnaC sweeping
Democratic victory in New York would of it.
self change the political complexion of the
House of Representatives.
Ben Butler has written letters of accep-
tance of his nomination for Governor of Mas
sachusetts by the Labor Reform and Dem
ocratic parties.
Mr.. James. R. Randall, of the Augusta
Chronicle staff, is spoken of as the probable
successor to the Congressional seat of Govern
or elect Stephens, of Georgia.
Col. William Johnson, of Charlotte, N.
c., spoke at Hickory last Saturday, announc'
ing himself an Independent candidate for Con-
gress in the Charlotte district.
"A vote against the Democratic party this
year is vote against Democratic rule at
Washington, and against honest government,
and against an intelligent, patriotic, economi-
cal and just rule in the State and Union.
49, The campaign textbook just issued by the
Congressional Republican Committee opens
with quotation from Garfield and ends with
a quotation from Robson. The party seems
to be broad enough in it's professions and its
practices to take in both.
- The World says of the campaign in New
York ''The ''boom'' is plainly with the Dem
ocratic State ticket, with every prospect OF its
being elected by an overwhelming majority,
but we warn Democrats that they have some
thing to do besides rejoicing over victory be-
fore the election takes place"
The returns of the vote of Arkansas in the
September election on the liquor question have
been received by the secretary Of State from
all but one small county, as follows For IL
cense 1880, against license 45,041. Only
twelve out of seventy-fOur counties voted
against license.
In Virginia the Democrats claim that they
will get 900 votes against $4,000 for the
Straightout Republican ticket and $4,000 for
the Coalition ticket while the Readjusters,
Mahonetes, concede but 10000 votes to the
Bourbons and not more than 5000 to the
Straightont Republicans.
- The Atlanta Constitution says the election
of Stephens was largely due to the zeal with
which the young men espoused his cause.
The young men pulled and the roller chair
went right along. Two solid dayshave passed
and yet no Republican has raised his voice to
excaim that the Democratic victory in GeOr-
gia was won by bulldozing.
- SAYS the Charlotte Observer: Some of the
Radical papers in the North have sent men
down to Lancaster, S. c., to work up the re-
cent riot for the purpose of making campaign
thunder. They need something to divert at
tention from the workings Of the machine up
there, and to draw into line again rebellous
Republicans, and they hope by flying the
bloody shirt to rally the party as Of old.
The Burlington Ha,ukeye thus piquantly
mixes astronomy with politics Nobody lives
in the moon except the one lone traditional
man. No rivers flow across the barren plains,
no yerdure touches the desolate craters and
the gloomy mountain heights. Silent craters,
barren wastes, mighty desolations, universal
solitude, insufferable, binding light of day,
rayless, staress impenetrabe darkness by
night there is no cloud, no drop of rain, no
breath of air, no atmosphere ; nothing but
loneliness and darkness. Often by the aid of
powerful telescopes, the man in the moon has
been heard to say that he felt like Greenback
convention.
Last Friday night, about midnight, dur
ing the progress of a Readjuster mass meeting
in Richmond, Va, an encounter occurred be-
tween Gen. Peyton Wise and Hon. John Am
bier Smith, the Readjuster candidate for Con-
gress from that district, in which the latter
struck Gen. Wise one blow, when friends in
terfered. Subsequently Smith addressed the
meeting, bitterly denouncing Geo. D. Wise,
his Democratic opponent for Congress. To-
day Capt. Geo. D. Wise was heard to make
violent threats against Smith, whereupon a
warrent was served out for his arrest and he
was taken into custody and then bailed. No
warrant has as yet been issued for the arrest
of Smith, and it is not known that there will
he