Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-23

election, to enfranchise thousands of white
men who happened to be too poor to own
land in the State that is too small to 60 round.
A Ben Butler will arise there some day. and
demand Justice of the Scribes and Pharl-
sees.
49, The Boston Post would like to see John
G.. Carlisle Speaker, Samuel j. Randall, Chair
man of the Committee on Appropriations, and
William r. Morrison Chairman of the Com
mittee on Ways and Means. That would be
team of which the Democratic party and
the country might be proud.
- The trouble in the Democratic camp will
come when a repeal of the internal revenue
law is bruited. There are Southern as we'll
as Northern men who insist on retaining the
tax upon whisky and tobacco, while others
demand that the whole concern, with it's army
of spies, informers and eectioneerers, shall be
dishanded.
- The clerks of the several departments
who went home to vote are returning to WASH
ington in large numbers. Each one has an
explanation for the defeat of the republican
party. a prominent official of the Interior
department, who votes in Pennsylvania, says
he has Il male relations who have heretofore
voted the Republican ticket, but at the last
election they voted the Democratic ticket.
lie says they changed their votes because he
was compelled to contribute to the campaign
fund and deprive his aged mother and sisters
of their usal monthly instalment of his salary.
GONE COUNTRY...ONE DESTINY"
From the NessS ork Timcs.
The whole country will necessarily be inter-
ested in the view taken by the leaders OF public
opinion i'm the South us to the recent elections
One of the mcst "telling'' of the arguments
put forward 10y Mr.. Jay \. Hubbell, the vice
roy of the Republican managers in the late
canvass, when he undertook to Justify the ell
fOrcement of voluntary contributions, was
that they were absolutely required to enable
the Republican party to save the country from
the greedy polluting grasp of the Southern
ConfederateS. 4 similar exhortation was
launched by Mr.. John f. Smyth on the eve Of
the elections in this State. That close stu
dent of the currents of public opinion inform
ed the voters of New York in effect, that the
defeat of Mr. Cleveland was necessary, it they
did not want to see the fruits of war turn to
ashes upon their lips, and the Government Of
the country pass under the control Of the
rebels. Neither one nor the other of these
prophets was listened to. The voters had
their own ideas of the dangers Of Southern
domination, and good many OF them, If they
really believed that the choice lay between the
success of Hubbell and Smyth and the return
of the South to power, deliberately chose the
latter rs the least of the two evils. But most
of them understood that there was no such
choice. and that these eminent statesmen were
c;, nj, {rv;n ff, fri thom into a
the retention of the unscrpulous band whom
Smyth and Hubbell represented.
1t is, nevertheless, gratifying to find the
Charleston Neocs and Courier, one OF the strong
est Southern newspapers, declaring that the
South has no interest i'll the result of the
elections different from the rest of the country,
and recognizing that the Democratic party,
ito profit by the revolution, must place them
selves in the front OF that revolution, and give
those who helped them achieve it the results
which that revolution was intended to accom-
plish.' These results the Ne'rs and Courier
defines with precision and candor that leaves
nothing to be desired:
''The Democracy it says 'must Danish
from their councils any politicians who would
on any pretext tamper with the tinaces of the
country, or who, directly or indirectly, would
degrade the currency. They must support to
the utmost such a scheme of civil service re-
form as that which is proposed by Senator
Pendleton, and which finds favor with so
many Republicans. They must show them
selves to be steadfast opponents of commercial
monopolies as we'll as political monopolies."
If the voters who, having before been Re-
publicans, joined the Democratic ranks in the
contest last week had formulated the results
which they hoped to bring about by their
action, the language we have quoted would
very fairly have answered their purpose. 1t
was for failing to do precisely what the Neus
md Courier requires of it's party that these
voters left, for the time being, the Republican
ranks. If the South responds, in any reason
able degree, to the views expressed by this
leading Southern journal, the day has gone by
forever in which "a solid South can have
any terrors for the best portion of the Republi-
can party of the North. The latter will be
only too glad to see the South, from the POto-
mac to the Rio Grande, as solid as adamant
for these principles
In this connection we may add that the pro-
test of the Ne,cs and Courier against the man-
ner in which Federal patronage has been used
in the South, and it's conclusion that similar
abuse in the North had much to do with the
recent revolution, will be heartily approved
in this section. We need not remind our
readers that the peryerson of the Federal pat
ronage in the South has been long regarded
by us as one of the chief obstacles to political
progress in that section, and particularly to
the creation of a Republican party there with
which the Republicans of the North could CO.
operate. We hailed the avoWal of civil SER
vice reform principles by President Grant as
one of the most hopeful signs of the future OF
the South. When he abandoned the struggle
and Mr. Hayes had come to the Presidential
office, we urged throughout his term, that no
! ''conciliation' was worth talking of which
did not include, what the latter at one time
promised, ''refOrm'' thorough, radical and
''complete" of the civil service. We pressed
the same view with the utmost earnestness
upon the administration of Mr.. Garfield, and
even when there was small hope of its receiving
attention, upon that of President Arthur. We
are by no means confident that the Democracy
will be equal to the duty now laid upon it,
aud so clearly defined by the Ne'cS md Courier,
but if it should be, it would be doing hum
dred fold more for the South than its best
lovers of the South ever dreamed of, and its
service to the whole country would not be less.
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BEN BUTLER.-Gen. Benjamin F. Butler,
Governor of Massachusetts, representative of
the Democracy in politics as opposed to aris-
tocracy, may well create sensation. Senator
Hoar, the sleek, well fed Puritan, avowed his
determination to emigrate in case Butler ever
sat in the chair of Winthrop or Andrew. Pres
ident Eliot, of Harvard College, publicly de-
cared that rather than confer the customary
and traditional Gubernatorial honor Of L l..
ID. upon such a man as Butler he would resign
his position. 1t remains to be seen whether
Uoar will seek Mahone's bailwck for cOnsola-
ton, or Eliot swallow his wrathful words.