Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-09-28
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MACKEY,S CANDIDACY.
HIS REASON FOR NOT WITHDRAWING FROM
| THE FIELD As AN INDEPENDENT.

Your correspondent, knowing that Judge
Mackey OH his retirement from the field as
Congressional candidate promised to give the
public his reasons for doing 80, sought and
found him at his Office in Chester and received
the following as his views thereon in answer
to various questions. The interview is given
in the exact language Of the ex-Judge:
'My purpose of retiring from the contest
was sincerely avowed for the following rea-
sons Colonel Cash having received the en-
dorsement of the Republican State Conveil-
tion would necessarily carry away from me
fraction of the colored vote, estimated by me
at one-third of the whole, in District which
has not less than one thousand white register
ed majority, although there are eight hundred
and. .sixty-four more colored than white per-
sons of voting age. was unwilling, there
fore, to render myself obnoxious to the charge
of dividing the Independent vote by my con-
tinued candidacy and thus aiding IN the GER
tain election Of the Democratic candidate.
have been led to reconsider my purpose OF re-
firing by the earnest protest against my leay-
ing the field which comes from white and COL
ored independents in all parts of this Congress
sional District, who refuse to recognize Colo
mel Cash's leadership. Especially is this true
in Chester county, where an actual canvass
has proved that I have to my satisfaction
majority of the white voters with me. Hence,
I shall remain in the field unless the Indepen-
dent voters will yield to my Judgment and
permit me to retire. | will not support the
Greenback State ticket, although recognizing
Colonel McLane, who is at its head, as
worthy gentleman and patriotic citizen. lam
not in any degree responsible for that ticket,
as nearly every man upon it was personally
unknown to me. AS it stands before me now
in it's entirety my sense of duty to the State
will not permit me to aid in its elevation to
power, while good faith TO the Greenbackers
will restrain me from assailing it. AS to the
Democratic State ticket, cannot support IT,
as it represents a party system and methods
of government to which as hepuDllcah alil
unalterably opposed.
"Among the many peculiarities of the can
yass is that Cash as a candidate is never as
sailed by the Democratic speakers, their bat
teries being entirely directed against me as
the assumed flagship of the Independent
squadron. while Cash sails the political waters
in his little cutter flying the black flag of the
Republican party and is not even recognized
as belligerent although the declared endorsee
of the Republican party, whose leadership,
with few honorable exceptions, symbollZes
political brigandage in South Carolina. This
is all the more singular from the fact that
Cash claims still to be a Democrat, while l
have canyassed as q Republican who was re-
elected as such to the Judgeship of this Cir
cult by the Democratic Legislature in 1878,
and vet my supporters among white Demo-
Gratis out number those of Colonel Cash at
least fifty to one in Chester county, and very
largely in the entire District. In my Judg-
ment Colonel Cash will he defeated overWhel-
mingly-that is by at least six thousand ma
jority-whle if I ran alone am convinced
that would carry the District"
A little later the Judge told me "the In
dependents of the District generally are now
preparing written appeal to Colonel Cash
requesting him to retire from the field in my
favor as the regular Independent and Green
back candidate"
In answer to question, he said: II have
been assured by several of the intimate friends
of James E. White that they called on him
and requested him to state to them whether
he wrote the ''tell-tale letter"-money against
honor-and he declined either admitting or
denying the authorship. In other words, to
use term of the law applied to criminal at
the bar of the Court, who will not plead to the
Indictment, che stands mute, " and yet the
public will not follow the established rule in
the criminal Courts in such case OF entering a
plea of mot guilty for the defendant" IN an
swer to another question, he said: "There
is no doubt that Mr.. Capps of Chester bore
the damaging letter, but knew nothing of it's
contents Judge Mackey further states as
his doxology in this case that he had always
regarded Mr.. White as praying Christian,
but is sure now that the revenue politician
spells pray with an e., thus: Let us prey F'-
Chester Correspondents Columbia Register.