Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-14
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THE OLD RADICAL REGIME.

THE OLD RADICAL REGIME.
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Herald writes: had talk with 8
South Carolina Republican attending the
funeral of F.. w. M. Mackey. ellis death,
he said, ':removes the only real live politi
cal force opposed to the Democratic party
in South Carolina, State which ten years
ago was as surely Republican as is Yer.
mont. Since the death of Bowen, Mackey
has been the brain and arm of what remains
of the Republican organization. He was
an indefatigable, cool, shrewd and fearless
man, and was the ideal political manager
There is absolutely no one to take his
place."
"Is there any likelihood that the State will
be Republican,"
"Not the least in the world. If it were
not for the Federal office-holders, even the
present shadow of a party would disappear
They 60 through the motions of being a
party, and appear as much like one as pos
sible in order to send delegates to the
National Convention and to recommend
one another for Office"
Social and business Ostracism attaches tC
all who countenance Republican rule. Out
side of these there is scarcely a Republican
who can afford to pay his expenses tc
Chicago"
"Will there be any bulldozing in South
Carolina this fall"
"Not bit. The eight box law makes
that unnecessary. Every negro in the
State can vote if he pleases. Nine out o.
ten of the ballots will get into the wrong
box, and will not be counted, and Jefferson
said that in Republics there must needs be
a government by parties, but the republic
of South Carolina is a government by &
party" ,
"Some negro, undoubtedly; probably Rob
ert Smalls. The fearfully and wonderfully
gerrymandered 18th district has 10000 ne
groes, and was made to be represented by
negro. l don't know of white Repub'
lican living in it, except T. B. Johnston
the present collector of the port of Charles
ton, and he, Of course, would not want tc
give up his present Office"
care the Federal appointees satisfactory
to the people of South Carolina ?''
GAS much so as any that could be made
from the Republican party. They are men
of fair capacity and character, and would be
men of good standing and repute in the
community if they were not Republicans. u
"How will the delegation to the Chicago
Convention vote? %
"For the winning candidate, if they can
find out who he is. The Administration can
have the vote to begin with. They are all
Arthur men now. How do know? Why
1 can name good many of them. There
will be eighteen of them. The Senatorial
delegates will be about as follows: Taft
postmaster at Charleston; Smalls, who will
probably then be representing Mackey's
district; Johnston, collector of the port OF
Charleston, and Sam Lee, who will contest
the Congressional nomination with Smalls'
Col A ;ct hoo1nI hxy Pra xyfnn
Internal revenue collector; Tom Miller, the
colored Senator from Beaufort; SWails, who
is here in the treasury department, but who
holds residence in Williamsburg the
three orfour colored postmasters of the State,
and half dozen deputy collectors"
WHERE THEY ARE
A gentleman, who during the Reconstruc,
ton period, was intimately acquainted with
the Republican leaders of South Carolina,
has written an interesting review of the po-
litical downfall of those persons. The death
of Congressman Mackey, he says, has re-
moved the only real live force in opposition
to the South Carolina Democrats, and that
there is no likelihood that the State will ever
be Republican again. The leaders of ten
wears ago are scattered from Dan to Ber-
sheba.
Outside of the Federal offices there is not
one left. Patterson has given the State a
wide berth since 1876. Tom Robertson, the
other Senator, is a paralytic in Columbia.
Bowen, who held Charleston and all her in
terests in his grip, is dead. Elliott, the
smartest negro developed by a Reconstruc-
ton Congress, Speaker of the House and at
torney general elect, is making precarious
living in New Orleans.
Wright, the negro Justice of the Supreme
Court, is a drunken loafer in Beaufort.
Dunn, the omptroller-general,i lis peddling a
patent glue in Boston. Hardy Solomons,
the Jew financier and keeper of the State
deposits, is possessed of little bake-shop in
Kansas City. Gurney, county treasurer OF
Charleston, is long since dead. Niles G.
Parker, the manipulation of millions of con-
version bonds, keeps little music store in
Indiana, and ekes out q living by lecturng
since his trial for murder, is broken inhealth
and spirit, but is pretty solid financially
from the rise of Ohio woodlands.
Hoge lives in Ohio, and remembers the fat
pickings of the comptroller-general's office
with pleasure. Cass Carpenter isa wreck in
Denver. Ex-Chief Justice Willard has
drifted to Washington, having been digest
ed and disjected by his Democratic employ
ees of 1876. The irresistible Judge r. j.
Mackey has also opened a law office in
Washington.
Cardozo, eX-State treasurer and Swails,
once president of the Senate, look contented
with clerkships in the treasury. White
more is in Massachusetts,. Charley Leslie
is as shifty in Kansas as ever he was in
BarnWell county. Kimpton, once "finan-
cial agent" of the State in Wall street, is a
seedy looking fellow among the curbstone
brokers there. Puffer, who once handled
the assets of the Bank of the State, comes to
Washington occasionally, cheerful, but not
rich. McDevitt knows the value of four
aces in Colorado as well as when he had
the revenues Of Edgefeld county to back his
hand. John B. Dennis prospers in Dakota.
Joe Woodruff practices shorthand in Phil
adelphia. Neagle is special agent of the
pension Office, and last, but not least, Frank
Moses, the young native Governor in 1872,
having served out his term for swindling in
the county prison of New York, is now
teaching the ''rustlers" of New Mexico some
new tricks.-Ph1adelphia Press.
MIR. MACKEY'S WIDOW.
There is quite romantic history connect
ed with the courtship and marriage to his
octoroon wife Of Congressman Mackey, of
South Carolina, who died in Washington on
Monday. Mrs. Mackey's father was white
man, one of the celebrated Sumter family,
of South Carolina, and her mother, quad
room WAS Cecilia Preston a sister of Will