Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-10-26
THE NEW COUNTY QUESTION.
HEtPREsy ALIVE TO ITS IMPORTANCE.
Lancaster Ledger.

All Democrats in Lancaster county will
vote against the Constitutional amendment,
passed at the special session, in relation to
formation of new counties !
Pickens Sentinel.
LARGE COUNTIES.
The Saluda Argus says that Abbeville coun-
ty is forty miles square, which makes it con-
tain sixteen hundred square miles. II this is
true why does the Argus advocate the new
county amendment so strongly? The argus
can have its new county under the present
constitutional requirement, and leave Old Alb
bevile with plenty of territory, and some to
spare. G25 square miles is small enough for
counties, any how, and the Arg,ls had better
commence the advocacy of a new county under
the present constitutional requirements and
let the new county craze go.
Newberry Herald.
THE COUNTY AMENDMENT.
AS to the proposed amendment reducing the
area of counties, we do not think it should be
adopted. The smallest county now contains
5lOsquare miles, the largest ], ,9OO-the average
size is SS7 square miles, Should this amend
ment be adopted it will not, of course form
new counties, but will only make their forma-
tiOn possible. There will De a constant wrang
ling between different localities for the choice
of being county seats, and the people compos-
ing these sections will insist on having
Court House and all it's appurtenances regard
less Of the expenses it will entail, which will
he great. The present minimum of Cps square
miles may be too large, but 400 square miles
is certainly too small. We agree with the Press
and Banner that it would he piece of unwar-
ranted presumption on the part of the Com
mittee to dictate or even advise thepeoplehow
to vote on the Constitutional Amendments.
Barnwel Sentinel.
THE STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND THE
CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS.
If the State Executive Committee members
have been properly represented, they have
shown that they are going out of their way to
encourage an evil which large majority of
South Carolina tax payers are opposed to,
and all will receive that condemnation which
their conduct merits. Any one sided express
sion at the ballot-b0X resulting from corking
up process, designed by the Executive Com
mittee in behalf of the Office seekers and their
friends throughout the State, will certainly
result in untold injury to the only party which
now insures to us all peace and prosperity.
This new County dodge for creating more
offices and heaping additional taxes upon our
people, will be made to mature by the Judging
of the States Executive Committee, If the
eyes of our voters are not opened before the
warn them of the fate which awaits our county
boundaries in case they are not posted when
| it comes to voting on this Constitutional ques-
ftion. Now in case our county is flooded with
| the tickets containing the word YES" let
every man erase it and insert the word sNO."
| Yes means to cut the county into as many
parts as office-seekers see fit to cut within the
bounds of the law-so many square miles, &c.
| No means that it shall not be cut, or any
way divided. Our County Chairman occupies
place however, where he understands the
sentiment of our people and conforms to that
sentiment. So pronounced is the opposition
here to the formation Of new counties, that
not the first candidate in our recent primary
election dared to express himself in terms
which in the least favored this new scheme OF
creating offices and increasing taxes by the
formation of new counties. 1t is very good
rule to let we'll enough alone, though it seems
that the result of too much progress on the
part of politicians in this State for the past
two years, has had but little or no effect Oh
those who are recognizedas planners and lead
ers of the Democratic party. Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof. Reader, when you
60 to put your ticket in the ballot box in No
vember, if you wish to protect your county
boundaries and keep down additional taxes,
see that your ticket reads "No'' on the new
county question, for if you make blunder
and the county is divided, you will be respon-
sible to that degree for making your burdens
more burdensOme.
From the estimates made by the Abbeyille
Press and Banner, it will be seen that the
people would be taxed (every year, the sum of
five hundred and thirty-four thousand and
FIVE hundred dollars to sustain just the public
officers, and one million sixty-two thousand
five hundred dollars for the erection of public
buildings and Office equipments. Every voter
may now decide for himself whether the people
of the State are in a condition to shoulder
this tax. We had better surrender our farms,
houses, stock, stores and merchandise at once,
and be done with it, then the desire for more
taxes will have been satisfied and our people
freed from the anxieties of raising the money.
Abbeville Press and Banner.
ERROR OF THE HEAD AND NOT OF THE
HEART.
We know the Executive Committee are
true and loyal men to "the party" Their
every acton proves this And their zeal is
commendable and worthy Of good cause.
The only difficulty about them is, in our opin-
ion, they are laboring under slight delusion
as to who are ''the party" Their action,
which speaks louder and more forcibly than
words, indicates, beyond doubt in our mind,
that they regard 'the party" to be the gentle
men who engineered the Constitutional amend
ments through a caucus, and which caucus
in turn forced them through the Legislature
AS yet the people who, under ordinary cir
cumstances, are admitted to be part Of the
Democratic party have not been consulted
about this most important measure, and the
Committee, who are working for ''the party''
would deprive us Of our birthright.
We are of opinion that "the party" to
which the Committee is so loyal, does not
consist of more than half dozen names, all of
which we will take pleasure in furnishing to
our readers, as soon as they are obtained. To
have full list of 'the party" of gentlemen
who have such absolute control of our Execu-
tive Committee would afford interesting read
ing for the great mass of our Democratic breth-
rem who have heretofore been presumptuous
enough to think that they had the right to
vote as their conscience dictated.
ARE NEW COUNTIES TO BE NAMED FOR OUR
BULLDOZERs?
So far as we have been informed there
seems to be little change in the political situa-
tion hereabout since our last issue. The
question Of which we now hear most is the
new county movement, and the quiet manner
in which the Executive Committee have acted
in reference to the tickets. When questions
of such vital interest are at stake, and when
so much depends upon a faithful performance
of their duty, it is wonderfully strange that
nothing can move the Executive Committee
to break their silence by fair and manly
statement of what they intend to do, and
what we may expect of them. 1t is idle for
the Committee to think that we in Abbeville
are such fools as to be satisfied with tickets
in the negative on constitutional questions,
when the necessary tickets are denied to the