Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-11-20
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THE VERGE OF REVOLUTION.
VIVID DDESCRIPTIONO OF NEW YORK'S CON-
DITION Il FEW DAYS AGO, AND ITS MAR
ROW ESCAPE FROM MOB VIOLENCE
From the New York Herald, November 9.

From, the New York Herald, November 9.
This morning the Hera1tps assurance to
the people of this nation that "All's quiet
along Manhatten Island" will carry tidings
of equal significance to millions of people
interested to know the outcome in the me-
tropolis of the United States.
But it hasn't been so long.
WHAT WAS NOT TOLD.
The Herald is a newspaper, but it did not
on Thursday tell all it knew. The HerGtd
goes not alone to men upon the street and to
women and children in their homes. Its
stories are read not alone by lawyers and
bankers and thinkers and taiIors, but by Ia
dies in their boudoirs and by others in their
stores ond shops, by passengers in the rail-
way trains and by walters in the depots.
Had it told what it knew it would have
said We are on the eve of revolution;
the official breast is disturbed; anticipatlons
of something more than idle talk and gossip
and buster on the streets have caused our
officials to lay in ammunition, to call out
the police and put every man on duty, eth
er on the streets or in station house reserve
Such ideas once started soon become preg-
nant, and in their train come other ideas,
multitudinously professional and dangerous
to degree.
Had the truth been told, not alone the
thousand roughs from Philadelphia and their
well termed "friends" from other cities, not
and the bullies, who, strange to say, make
their nests along the rock bound shores OF
the Hudson, but the riff-raf from Jersey
City and Brooklyn, the ruffians from Staten
Island absolutely and literally the hordes
of men who live by their baser wits, would
have come tumbling pell-mell into the
peaceable streets of New York, where,
mingling with the crowds already excited
and gathered in significant places, they
would have added fuel to the pyre and fur
nished the blazing torch besides. That
would have meant something besides "Hur-
rah boys!" The cries would not have been
Regards to Mrs. Fisher" or blaine!
Blaine the thief from Maine !" But
Where the bank! Where the we'll stored
magazine! Where the warehouse filled
with plunder The torch and axe and the
'.jimmy" would have taken the place of the
waving hats and shaking canes:
Could this story have been told!
Not precisely.
But it was true, all the same.
It was, indeed. And nobody knew it
better than the Governor of the State, and
the mayor of the city, and the board OF
police, and the United States marshal, and
the chief supervisor of elections, and the
men whose hands are upon the helm OF
affairs deciding which way the craft should
steer toward an honest determination of the
votes of the people, or a dishonest twist of
what would then be a farce-our popular
election.
The wisdom of the Herald's course is uni
versally conceded. Enough was told to
show to the people who control those
things-for strange as it may seem these
things are controlled-that the danger they
were threateningly welding over this me-
tropolis was fully understood and absolutely
appreciated. Nay, more, that had it come
the responsibility would have been laid at
the feet and placed upon the heads OF those
who had it in their power to control it in
the first instance.
THE RESPONSIBLE PERSONS.
That they had it in their power to control
it was from the outset proved-frst by the
changed tone of certain bulletins; second
by the extraordinary agility with which
the majorities were sprung from the col
umns where they didn't belong to the places
where they ought to go; third, by that
extraordinary telegram from Mr.. Jay Gould
to Governor Grover Cleveland, impudent-
ly congratulating him that the people OF
the State which had once before honored
him had again done their part to swell
the patriotic tide that foated him to the
very pinnacle of American ambition.
The majesty of the people was never more
thoroughly exploited than by the changed
tone of certain monopolist spectators and
stock jobbers and their organs on Friday
morning. Yes; even further back than
Friday morning On Thursday night they
began to realize the tremendous proper
tions of the popular indignation. 1t ran
riot in every vein. 1t stirred the inner
most cookie in every citizens heart; Re-
publican and Democrat alike, if honest, shar-
ed this Indignation. No one pretends that
integrity, honor and decent sentiment re-
sides in the breast of Cleveland men alone.
Such assumptions would be insane. Good,
true men exist in every party. Good men
voted for st. John and Butler and for Blaine
as we'll as for Cleveland. Naturally enough,
every man desired the success of the can.
didate whom he had supported. Naturally
enough they hoped even against hope, and
thousands Of them hung on to the tail of
forl0rn hope long after the animal had
Jumped the fence of doubt. But the con-
science of the people was aroused, and
large numbers, not alone those who favored
the success of Cleveland and Hendricks
the vast majority said: Here, this thing
has gone far enough! No 1876 in ours
Grover Cleveland has been elected. To
him shall the certificate be issued, and if
the thirty-six votes of New York caps the
climax of the already towering column, so
that victory shall perch upon that banner,
in the name of all that isjust and honorable
let that be the verdict and let the country
return again to its normal base of trade,
industry and prosperity"
TURN OF THE TIDE.
II, or;1
long story of it-for dealing with generali-
ties is the best course, even nOW-the end
came.
Did physical fear have anything to do
with it?
Physical fear had great deal to do with
it. Physical fear does not always mean the
dread of smashed head, a broken nose, a
black eye ora we'll thrashed anatomy alone.
Sometimes it takes into consideration burn
ing houses, pillaged stores, bloodshed in the
streets, terror in homes, broken and disturb
ed relations in every sphere of life, the sup
preston Of the legitimate ebb and flow of
trade. All those fearful scenes which those
of the Herald readers who can go back to
1868 will quickly and vividly recall. Yes
indeed, physical fear had much to do with
it, and we'll it might, for there is no doubt
that the public mind had made its cOnclu-
sion that in the hand of Jay Gould lay the
secret of the Withheld return, the botched, in
complete, unsatisfactory conclusions, and
for purpose.
That purpose, according to the popular
belief, was that he might have time in
which to concoct stock jobbing schemes fav-
orable to himself and of necessity disastrous
to the common veal. So long as he contin-
ued his projects without interfering with
the masses Of his fellow-citizens they were
content to be quiet. So long as he kept in
in Wall street, dickering here, dealing there,