Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-09-07

of the Convention in this respective are
pleased to present for the consideration of the
public the name of Col. Asbury Coward, so
long and favorably known as the principal of
Kings Mountain Military School. We are
aware that Col. Coward declined to allow his
name to 20 before the Convention but his
friends are now renewing their efforts to in
duce him to reconsider, and we trust he may
Weld to their solicitations. To those who
know COL Coward, it is mere surplusage to say
that his name wiilatd new lustre to the al
ready brilliant ticket now before tha-people of
South Carolina for their sutfrages.
A DARK PLOT DISCOVERED.
We produce in another column very re-
markable article from the editorial columns
of the Rock Hill Herald. That paper has dis
covered huge mares nest in what it evident
ly conceves to be plot on the part of voters
of York county against the Legislative candl-
dates now before the primary election, and
away down in the inmost recesses OF the con-
spracy the Herdlds penetrating eye sees an
implied threat that any man will be defeated
for the Legislature who favors the proposed
Constitutional amendment for reducing the
area of counties. The Herald berates the En-
QU1RER for admitting to it's columns the
communication, which, though short, it does
not print, that readers of the Herald might
see and read it for themselves, but contents
itself by saying that the suggestion of the
ENoUIRER's correspondent is out Of time,
and hopes that it will meet with no response
from the people. AS to the pertinency of the
communication in question, and to give the
public a second opportunity to detect the lin
piled threat'' we reprint from the ENQUIRER
of August 24th:
l"Communicatedl
"a PRACTICAL AND PERTINENT QUESTION.
1--WE respectfully request that the Senator
for York county, and the candidates for NOM
ination to be voted for as members of the House
of Representatives, declare definitely whether
they are in favor of, or opposed to, the pro-
posed Constitutional amendment adopted at
the recent extra session of the Legislature,
reducing the area of new counties in South
Carolina to four hundred square miles. Re-
plies to this interrogatory may be made at the
public meetings to be held previous to the pri-
mary election, or through the county news
papers. MANY VOTERS"
Such is the communication. Referring to
it was the following innocent paragraph in
the local column of the same issue:
s'To CANDIDATES.
"Legislative candidates may he interested in
a communication in this paper under the head
ing of "A Practical and Pertinent Question,
and signed Many Voters Inthis case Many
Voters is not mythical character; but the
same paper we print is in circulation and Sc
curing the signatures of all to whom it is pre-
Sented."
Where the ''implied threat' is in either, or
how both paragraphs construed together, can
be perverted into an ''implied threat" is more
than we can understand. The communication
is terse and to the point, but it does not hold
out rod So far from implying "threat"
it does not even indicate whether the candi-
dates shall favor or oppose the amendment,
but only asks them ''tostate definitely whether
they are in favor of, or opposed to, the pro-
posed Constitutional amendment" &c. The
local paragraph referring to it stated that the
paper was ''securing the signatures of all to
whom it was presented" =" and this clause was
simply meant to convey the idea, which was
true, that voters, irrespective of their predi-
lections were signing the paper in circulation A.;
that it was known to contain the names OF
those who are opposed to the proposed amend
ment as we'll as those who favor the formation
of new counties. 1t was signed by all to whom
it was offered, and for the simple reason that
one of the most momentOus questions that has
been presented to the voters of South Carroll
ma is involved in the present canvass. 1t is
estate question" as the Herald terms it, but
it's fate depends entirely upon the vote of the
people, and it is every voters right to know
and to demand to know, before casting his
vote in the primary election that nominates
the ticket, what is each candidates position
on the question. 1t were useless for the voter
to ask the question after the nomination IS made.
To arrive at an ineligible conclusion as to
which candidate would be the man of his
choice, the voter must know the candidates
position on the questions of the day. Before
we had read the Herod's article we were fully
of the opinion that such was the object OF the
primary canvass and the writer of the Offend
ing communication had for his object only the
enlightenment of the voters of the county
the Rock Hill Herald included-on this vital
question. 1t is not an issue of our creation,
or of any person or voter in York county, as
some persons would make the people believe.
The Legislature created the square issue when
it adopted the resolution submitting the
amendment to be voted upon. We regret
that it did so ; but it is before us, and we
must decide intelligently how to vote upon it,
We think the Herald is singular in it's posi-
tion that the question "anda all such questions'
should be- eliminated entirely from our local
canvass" 1t has not been long since the
Gaffney City Caroliniaa,, red hot "new coun-
ty' paper, contained a communication more
nearly 'implying a threat" than does the one
in the ENQUIRER which so disgruntles the
Herald. 1t was in connection with the argyll
ment for forming new county from portions
of Spartanburg, Union and York, and arro-
gantly demanded that the legislative candi-
dates before the people should Enthusiastically
define their position on this question and our
recollection is that the writer referred to cam
didates in Union and York as well as those in
Spartanburg. For aught we know, it was
this same communication that suggested the
''Practical and Pertinent Question" in the
ENQUIRER two weeks ago. And again, if
this and similar questions are not to be dis !