Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
POLITICAL POINTS.

- 1t is said that not only General Hancock
but General Mcclellan is in the hands of his
friends for 1884.
- Mr.. Blaine is urged by the Boston Aduer-
tiser to again enter the House of Representa-
tives. 1t does not admire the record he made
as Secretary of State, but says he would at
once become the leader of his party in the
House.
- The editor of the Anderson Journal, writ
ing from Columbia, says: Some have said
that Governor Hagood lost his opportunity Of
being the successful third man when he sent
in his stock law message to the General AS
sembly, and many of these, together with
others who do not concede this, unite in say
ing that it will be incumbent upon the next
State Convention to call upon some able and
competent man who does not desire the posi-
tion or its honor to lead the Democracy to
overwhelming triumph. There is no one bet
ter suited to meet the requirement than Judge
Wallace, of Union. Just, generous and brave,
he would infuse more enthusiasm into the
campaign than any man in South Carolina.
- A late issue of the National Republican,
published at Washington, makes strenuous
appeal to the conscientious members Of the
Republican party to throw their principles to
the dogs rather than lose supremacy at Wash
ington, and to form any alliances at the South,
no matter how paradoxical or base, so that
the organized Democracy of that section can
be defeated. 1t comedies that without such
an unscrupulous policy the Republicans will,
not only lose the next House and Senate.
but that the Presidency itself, with it's pro-
digious patronage, may suffer tremendous
change. Never was there such an open and
undisguised admission of the weakness of the
Republican machine, and the crucial necessity.
in place of principles, to establish any dishon'
est craft in order to preserve position and
plunder.
- The Columbia correspondent of the Ne,rs
and Courier says he was told last Saturday by
prominent Republican politician that it was
determined at the recent conference of the
central Republican executive committee tt
hold general conference in Columbia on the
second day of March. This conference will be
attended by two delegates from every county
in the State, who will be chosen by the centra
committee. In fact, they have already beer
selected, and on last Tuesday invitations were
forwarded asking them to attend the confer
ence. This mode of selecting delegates, a!
my informant suggested, was adopted ''ir
order that the brains of the party might bt
brought together" The conference in Marcl
will shape the future course of the party ant
finally determine upon some definite plan o.
| political action.
"A late Washington dispatch says that Gen
Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina
who served with Clay and Webster and Doug
las, beginning as far back as 1S43, who repre-
sented the Old North State in the United
States Senate for several years next preceding
the war, and who has been an ardent Demo
crat for thirty years past, is in Washington
and unreservedly and most emphatically de
clares that he is sick, uneasy, and disguised
with the Democratic party of his State as il
exists under the leadership of Senators Vance
and Ransom and Gov Jarvis. Gen. Cling
man in the plainest possible terms avows a!
his conviction that that party in his State j!
as corrupt as any political organization thai
ever existed during the history of the country
and has repeatedly said since his arrival here
that he is ready to cooperate in a move tt
combine into one independent party all those
who with him sincerely desire the overthrow
of the Vances and Ransoms and Jarvises o.
the State and the party these men lead ant
| control