Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-08-17

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REPUBLICANS ORGANIZING.
There was meeting of the Republican
State Executive Committee in Columbia last
Friday. According to the report furnished
the Neus and Courier by it's Columbia cor
respondent, the members of the Committee
were all present except two. The political
situation in South Carolina was fully and
earnestly discussed, but the conclusion reach.
ed and the temper which characterized the
deliberations of the committee cannot he as
certained. A resolution was adopted order
ing State Convention of the party to be
held in Columbia on September y, and pro-
viding that the basis of representation i'll this
Convention shall be one delegate for every
5000 inhabitants and one delegate for every
additional fraction of 1900. The basis Of
representation in the Congressional Conven-
tions of the party will he one delegate for
every 5000 inhabitants and one delegate for
every additional fraction of 800. This will
make the number of delegates to the State
Convention about the same as the representa-
tion in the conventions of former years. The
representation in the Congressional Conven-
tions will be somewhat increased by the ac-
ton of the committee. The delegates to the
conventions of the party will be selected by
conventions which will be held in the differ
ent counties at the call of the county chair
men.
Among those in the meeting was Congress-
man +. w. NJ. Mackey, who remarked to the
correspondent that "Thompson is to beaten, "
and intimated that the Republicans would
make a lively fight in the approaching canvass.
While it is not known that any definite line
of policy has been agreed upon, there is an
evident determination on the part of the
Republicans to attack the Democrats at every
weak point. 1t is probable that they will run
a candidate for Congress in all the districts
and trust to a partisan majority at Washing
ton to carry them through.
CONGRESS ADJOURNED AT LAST.
Both houses of Congress have adjourned
sine die. after session of eight months and
three days, having accomplished little or moth
ing of what the country most expected at its
hands s-a reduction of the burden of taxation
under which the people unnecessarily labor
The problem which the taxpayers proposed
last December to the Forty-seventh Congress
was this: Given a surplus revenue OF $50,
000, 600, how to get rid of it by a wise scaling
down of the income derived from internal
and tariff taxes? Both houses, however, prac
tically confessed their inability to solve the
commission, but meanwhile adopted the easy
plan of getting rid of the embarrassing riches
of the Treasury by spending them with shame
less extravaganza. The session did neXt to
nothing in the way of general legislation. II
passed number of bills of special character
which are commendable in their purpose, but
too often faulty, crude and unStateSmanlike
in their details 1t will probably be remem-
bered however, as the academic sessions, the
issues presented to it for discussion by the
managers being general, and it became pos
Sible for the first time in many years to invoke
principles. This was found not improbable.
The idea of the refOrmerS of the civil service
got hearing, correct notions as to the
changes proper to make in our tariff and tax
laws were spread abroad, and the evils OF par
tiSan administration were exploited in an
comparatively free from passion.
Only when the contested election cases came
up in the House, and the proposition to re-
10 of TO
officers was mooted in the Senate, was the
partisan war-whoop heard in it's old vigor 1t
was an eXtravagant Congress, but, unlike
some of it's predecessors, had the merit of
refusing to set the country by the ears with
bitter sectional controversies. The lobbyist
tlourished as never before for some six or
eight years past, but he piled his vocation
in peace paths. President Arthur's policy of
Cancellation was adopted, as, indeed, was
necessary to secure to the dominant party the
votes of Senator Davis, General Malone and
others, but whether adopted from policy or
principle it is now too late to change it. The
bloody shirt, so long disused, cannot be well
brought out again, and the country is gain
er The Forty-seventh Congress in this its
first session may be said to have done some
thing in this negative way to further the fra
terniZatiOn of the sections, not TO mention
Illt SellCl OuS llllOllS lOl Glc lllplONC-
ment of the low Mississippi, which cannot
fail to exert an influence in the same direc-
tiOn.-BnltinlOre SIN.
.
BUILDING UP THE SoUTH.-Dr. George
Marsbend, corresponding secretary of the
American Bankers Association, which will
shortly meet in New York city, said recently,
in the course of an interview:
From the South the delegates report that a
great improvement has been growing up dur
ing the last year. The crops of corn and cot
ton promise well. Railroad building is at
tracing capital and enrichiug sections of the
country which have long been impoverished
and undeveloped. Old animosities are disap-
pearing before the new era of economic reno
vation, which is just beginning. They also
report displacement of cotton culture in GER
tans sections in favor of cattle raising and
the growth of cereals and food products. Rich
alluval tracts heretofore valueless are being
drained and planted with cotton, and large
amounts of capital are finding their way into
this new avenue of lucrative investment.
Other reports point to the condition of the ne
gro population, which is sharing the general
though it is very uneyenly dis
tributed. The great wants of the South for
diversified industrial development and for ju-
dicious emigration from Europe and from the
Northern and Western States will form the
chiaf tonic oS discussion on tha last day of the