Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-16
THE POLITICAL CYCLONE.
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS ON THE REPUB-
LICAN OVERTHROW.
THE DELUGE.
National Republican


It was good deal of q shower AccOmpa-
MED as it was with the blowing up ofthe whole
political field, and, with a year left for Sum-
mer following, we think the crop Of 1884 ought
to be all right. What we like is the thorough
ness of the disaster. The small-beer fellows,
who went mincing around, stepping over little
puddles and complaining of the street-sprink-
lers, were amazed to see de-uge, on the mad
waters of which their little egg shells are toss,
ed like foam on the ocean. The country will
not look to these political dandies for the
navigation of the Ship of State. Nor can any
faction exult and offer salvation in considera-
tion of monopoly. All the Republicans who
have not the Bourbon itch will he needed,
and all others who do not want the last twenty
one years treated by restored Bourbons as an
interregnum are also needed. We must have
the party widened 80 as to make more votes
possible There can be no other test so safe
and yet so broad as that of opposition to a
Bourbon President.
GLORIOUS NEWS.
Detroit Free Press.
From every quarter the glori0usHews comes
in. The fiat that went forth, 1.-The machine
is to be smashed" has been answered with the
triumphant cry, 'The machine Is smashed" -"
The whole country was strewn yesterday with
the flying fragments and to-day and for many
day the political atmosphere will be the
purer and sweeter for the explosion. 1t is a
grand, a glorious triumph one in which every
honest elector, every oppressed taxpayer and
every hard worked civil servant of the country
will unfeignedly rejoice. The rebuke of Hub
blaism, star routeism, bossism and river and
harbor thievery is a crushing one; and the
friends of honest economical government, OF
reduced taxation and a reformed civil service
have right to rejoice, as they will rejoice to-
day in every precinct in the Union. 1t IS as
if there were q new Declaration of Independ-
ence with the popular signature affixed in
letters larger and blacker than those which
stout John Hancock used over century ago.
POLITICAL LESSON TO BOSSES.
New York Times.
Tuesdays election in this and other States
was extremely fruitful in political ''lessons.'
They are all written large enough to be easily
understood. though their significance will bear
good dealof personal application. Briefly sta
ted, they mean that peremptory notice to let
has been served served on sundry 'bosses,"
numerous henchmen, and a small army of mer-
cenaries in several States of this Union. The
political balance of States gained in 1880 has
been rudely disturbed, and the majorities by
which Northern States elected Garfield have
been scattered to the winds. 1t is not an Or
dnary wave of popular discomfort that has
swept Massachusetts into the vortex Of party
disaster, that has raised the Democracy to
power in Pennsylvania, and has given the
Democratic State ticket majority in this
State without the aid Of New York and Brook
lyn.
THE PEOPLE THROW OFF THE RULE OF ROB-
BERS.
New York Times.
The real causes of this latest and most men,
orable revolution in American politics are not
far to seek. The scandals of Grantism" had
less to do with the elections of 1874 than the
scandals of Robesonism with the election of
1882. What is now shown is that the Ameri-
can people, neither In hard times nor in flush
times, are willing to be ruled by robbers.
Whas is now shown is that, no matter how
patient the people may be, a time will come
when they can no longer be rallied to the sup
port of party by its name and it's past
achievements alone, after that name and those
have evidently become the cover
for incompetency and corruption. The claim
If the Republican party to have saved the
and paid the debt and grown the crops
has finally ceased, to the average American