Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-09-21
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From the Rock Hill Herald, Sept. IA.
THE NEW COUNTY MATTER.

THE NEW COUNTY MATTER.
In other columns of this issue we publish an
editorial from last weeks Yorkville ENQUIRER
in reply to our article on ''The County Can
vass,'' published in the Herald week before
last. The burden of the ENQUIRER's edito-
rial is to show that its communication signed
'sAiany Voters'' contained no threat that any
man would be defeated in the primary cleo
ton who favored the proposed amendment to
the Constitution reducing the area Of the
counties. We spoke with a knowledge Of the
full import of our language, and while it is
true no such threat appears on the surface,
our contemporary ought to be willing to admit
that that Inference is the only reasonable one
that can he drawn from it. What else could
the correspondent have meant by forcing upon
the candidates in favor of the amendment all
issue which he must have known would arouse
sectional feeling against them that would
perhaps ensure their defeat, as electors IN the
primaries are moved more by prejudice than
by reason? He certainly knew that the Dem
ocratic voters in the section Of the county ia
yoring division of York county and desiring
to make Rock Hill the seat of new county
were'in the minority, and he must have known
| that the forcing of the issue would excite the
same feeling against the legislative candidates
| from Eastern York which seems to have per
vaded the Western side in the last Senatorial
primary election, when, the ENQUIRER Will
remember, the candidate from this side OF the
county did not receiyea single vote at some
of the precintcs, all because of his known ad-
vOcacy of the new county movement, and
when as we are reliably informed, at one pre-
cinct, at least, it was said that in voting for
Maj. Hart they were voting against Rock
HILL Again, we failed to appreciate the per
tinence'; of the correspondents question, and
we regarded it, as everybody here did, in the
light of the SPIDERS invitation to the fly. The
Constitutional question, rs the ENQUIRER IS
forced to admit, is a matter for the PEOPLE,
OF ALL PARTIES, to decide at Tie polls an the
General Election nert November; it is a ques-
tion with which the candidates for nomina-
tion in the primary election have nothing 10
do, and their position on the subject as such
candidates can have no effect on the final
result. Hence, we utterly fail to appreciate
why the correspondents query is ''perti-
nent'' one. Remembering all the .cHcum-
stances by which we find ourselves surround
ed in the forcing of this unfortunate issue
upon us, we are willing for the public TO
draw their own conclusions from the cOmmu-
nicaton in question, and to say whether it
Goes or does not contain an implied threat that
the candidates favoring the proposed consti-
tutional amendment will meet defeat in the
primary election.
| ENQUlKEk lilC ltSliS"l
and Pertinent Question" was signed by all to
whom it was offered. We deny 1t. we nave
conyersed with at least one gentleman from
it's own town who informed us that he not
only refused to sign it, but denounced it as a
movement that would deprive Eastern Y ork
of representation in the General Assembly,
He took about the same view of it that we
did, and we contend that is the only rational
conclusion that can be drawn from it. If the
new county advocates had been known to be
in the majority in this county, would ''Many
Voters" have proponnded his query, or would
Mr.. Grist have admitted it to his columns
with his endorsement ? We pause fora reply.
If the fate Of the constitutional question de
pends upon the vote Of the people," as our CO.
temporary says it does, and which we heartily
admit where is the sense or the justice IN
making it criterion of merit us to the candi-
dates /? We submit that it is not a legitimate
issue as between candidates in the primary
election, and if persisted in to the extent OF
depriving any section of the county OF its just
rights, it will destroy that harmony in the
Democratic ranks which is so essential to sue
cess. and the persons who forced the issue
must bear the responsibility. The citizens of
Eastern York don't intend to be ignored and
disfranchised to gratify any clique or clan.
They are willing to submit to the will OF the
majority, fairly expressed, but we mistake
their temper if they will allow few men, who
are pulling the wires and kissing on the dogs
of war, to SOW the seeds of dscOrd in our
midst without making ringing protest. The
ENQUIRER talks about the Legislature creating
the issue The Legislature had nothing to
do with creating the selfish and unwise issue
which has been forced upon the candidates in
York county through the agency of the ork-
vile ENQUIRER. If it did, it created an issue
for York county, alone, as we hear OF it no.
where else in the State. Our cotemporary
thought it.was ''arrogance" on the part of the
Gaffney CaroliniUn to suggest such an issue
in Spartanburg, but generously informs us
that it's praiseworthy object in York is "the
enlightenment of the voters of the county
the Rock Hill Herald included" 1t is well
for us, perhaps, that
mature to all things fixed the limits fit,
And wisely curbed proud mans pretending viii"
Else we might be swallowed up by our pro-
found and SagaciouS cotelnporary.
The ENQUIRER seeks to make it appear
that we are opposed to discussion Of the
measure. Nothing that we have said will
warrant such conclusion. We are not op-
posed to free and full discussion of the ques-
tion on it's merits at the proper time and in
the proper spirit. In our article last week we
did suggest that it would 'be best to eliminate
all such questions entirely from our local CAN
vass" BY this we meant, and we thought we
had made our position plain enough for the
ENQUIRER to understand us, that it would be
best to eliminate all irrelevant questions, such
as the constitutional amendment from our
primary canvass, since the candidates chosen
at the primary elections have nothing to do
with the adoption of the amendment other
than as electors.
The ENQUIRER asks, eff this the constitu-
tional amendment and similar questions are
not to be discussed in the primary canvass,
where can they be dscusSed?" In reply to
this question we contend that it should be dis
cussed by the people in the county and State
canvass, and not in the primary canvass to To-
ment discord and discussions in our party
ranks.
We would not he understood as writing in
the interest of any candidate, as that is not
our purpose. We are fighting what we believe
to be false issue, thrust into the canvass
perhaps with no evil intentions, but which has
already aroused an immense amount of bad
feeling and which threatens the harmony of
the Democratic party in this county. Beiev-
ing that it ought never to have been sprung as
an issue in our own party, we intend to fight
it to the bitter end.
| WHY THE CABBAGE IIEADS.-1lOw many
of our readers can tell us why the cabbage
makes large compact head, instead of a loose
open one, like the cOllard? In the wild state,
the parent does not head. There the process
is this: The plant sends up it's flower stem
in the spring, bears seed and dies, and the
seeds are scattered upon the ground, and al
most at once the young plants begin to grow.
The next year the new plants bear seed. And
| thnc the inlpfin itn1y