Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-31
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the nomination with grateful heart and
deep sense of it's responsibilities, and says
that if he is elected he shall endeavor to dis
charge the duties of the office to the best OF
his ability.
He discusses the tariff question at as great
length as does Mr.. Blaine in his letter of &C.
ceptance, and is equally pronounced in favor
of a protective tariff. He says: "Protection
should extend to every article Of American
production which goes to build up the gen.
eral prosperity of our people. The Nation
al Convention, in view of the special dan
gers menacing thewool interests of the Uni
ted States, deemed it wise to adopt a sepa-
rate resolution on the subject of it's proper
protection. This industry is a very large
and important one. The necessary legisla-
ton to sustain this industry upon prosper
GUS basis should be extended. No one real
ICES more fully than myself the great deli
cacy and difficulty of adjusting tariff so
nicely and equitably as to protect every
home industry, sustain every class OF Amer
lean labor, promote to the highest point our
great agricultural interests, and atthe same
time to give to one and all the advantages
pertaining to foreign productions not IN
competition with our own, thus not only
building up our foreign commerce, but Ia
king measures to carry it in our own bot,
TOMS Difficult as this work appears, and
really is, tits susceptible of accomplishment
by patient and intelligent labor, and to no
hands can it be committed with as great as
surance of success as to those of the Repub-
lican party" ,.
Our monetary system is next discussed, !,
and to the Republican party, ne says, all
honor is due for the system, which ne con-
tends has never been equalled by this or
any other nation.
On the subject of interstate commerce,
he saws: soThere is much desired in the way
of equitable rates and facilities of transpor-
tation, that commerce may flow freely be-
tween the States themselves, diversity OF in
dustries and employments be promoted IN
all sections of our country, and that the great
granaries and manufacturing establishments
of the interior may be enabled to send their
products to the seaboard for shipment 10
foreign countries, relieved of vexatious re-.
strictions and determinations in matters OF
which it may emphatically be said, time is
money! and also of unjust charges upon! ar
ticles destined to meet close competition
from the products of other parts OF the
world"
AS to our foreign commerce, he favors
peaceful. orderly and conservative methods
for extending it to limits commensurate
with our vast resources, and especially
would he encourage the extension OF our
commerce with the republics Of Spanish
America.
He devotes to ''equal rights of citizen.
ship" much space, and from this branch OF
his subject we copy his views pretty much
entire, as matter of interest to our readers,
his effort in this direction being the latest,
and we hope the last feeble attempt at Wav-
ing the bloody shirt. He says.
HWith the elimination ofanother cycle OF
advanced thought, the American Republic
suddenly assumed the full character OF a
government of whole people, and four mil
Iion human creatures emerged from the con-
dition of bondsmen to the full status of free
men, theoretically invested with the same
civil and political rights possessed by, their
former masters. Thesubsequent Legislation
which guaranteed by every legal title the
citizenship and full equality before the law
in all respects of this previously dlsfran'
chised people, amply covers the require
ments and secures to them, so far as leglsla-
tion can, the privilege of American: citizen
shin. But the disagreeable fact OF the case
is, that while, theoretically, we are in the
enjoyment of government OF the Whole
people, practically we are almost as lar from Q,
It as we were in ante-bellum days OF the
Republic. There are but few leading and
indisputable facts which cover the whole
statement of the case. In many OF the
Southern States the colored population is In
a large excess of the white. The colored
people are Republicans, as are also consid'
cradle portion of the white people. The
remaining portion of the latter are Demo
Gratis In the face of this incontestible
| truth these States invariably return Demo
cratic maiorities. In other States of the
South the colored people although not a
majority, form a very considerable o0ay
of the population, and with the White re
publicans are numerically in excess OF the
Democrats, yet precisely the same pol!tlcal
result obtains-the Democratic party lnVa'
riably carrying the elections. Its not even
thought advisable to allow an occaslonal
or unimportant election to be carried by the
Republicans as a blind or as stroke oil
finesse.
Careful and impartial investigation has
shown these results to follow the systemat'
ic exercise of physical intimidation and vi.
olence, conioined with the most shameful
devices ever practiced in the name OF free
elections. So confirmed has this result be-
come that we are brought face to face with
the extraordinary political fact that the
Democratic party of the South relies almost
entirely upon the methods stated for It's sue
cess in national elections.
"The unlawful perVersion OF the popular
franchise, which / desire to state dlspaSS'
-sionately, and in a manner comportlng with
the proper dignity of the occasion, is one
of deep gravity to the American people-lr
| double sense. :,
"First. It is in violation, open, direct
and fragrant, of the primary principle upon
which our Government is supposed TO rest
viz. that the control of the Government is
participated in by all legally qualified citl
zens. in accordance with the plan of popular
government, that majorities must rule IN
| the decision of questions.
| "Second. 1t is in violation OF the rrghtS
and interests of the States Wherein are partlc
ularly centered the great wealth and INDUS
tries of the nation, and which pay an over
whelnling portion of the national taxes
The immense aggregation of interests en-
braced within, and the enormously great
er population of these other States OF the
Union are subject every four years to the
dangers of wholly fraudulent show o
numerical strength. Under this system
minorities actually attempt to direct the
course of national affairs, and though up tc
this time success has not yet attended thell
efforts to elect President, yet success has
been so perilously imminent as to encourage
repetition of the effort at each quadrennl'
al election, and to subject the interests o.
an overwhelming majority of our people
North and South, to all the hazards ofillega
subversion."
To achieve the ideal perfection of popu'
lar government, he favors liberal education
al facilities for the masses, and ne says the
proposition applies itself with full force tc
the colored people of the South.
He favOrs the encouragement OF foreign
| immigration under proper restrictions, and
as to civil service, he advocates "the high
est standard of excellence in the admins,
tratinn of the civil servicen and will lend