Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-09-04
A CARD FROM G. E. SPENCER, ESQ.

Tothe Democratic Voters Of York County ):
In presenting myself again as candidate
for the Senate, at the primary election order
ed by your Executive Committee; to be held
on Thursday, the 11th September, instant,
and after being advised that there would be
no other candidate except DR.. j. G. Black,
I have yielded my own personal disincllna-
ton to enterthe race again to the earnestso-
licitations of quite number of my friends,
from various sections of the county, (some
of them supporters of Mai. Hart and Gen.
Law who believe that at the recent primary
Ireceived plurality Of the Democratic votes
of York county, and who insist that it isa
duty devolving upon me to allow them, and
all others who may be of the same opinion,
an opportunity SO to testify before the
people. ...
I'm the investigation by the committee
upon the various charges of irregularlty
made before them, took no part whatever,
holding then, as do now, that it was their
business to pursue their inquiry in their
own way. After sitting more than two
days, and hearing testimony upon these
charges, the committee standing to y
voted down resolution to declare the cleo
tion for the Senate according to the face OF
the returns, as the minutes will show. A
resolution was then offered to declare said
election null and void, when, (at 4, o'clock
Thursday morning) at the request OF Dr.
Black, as the minutes will show, action up
on the motion was postponed until III, A.
NJ, at which time DIR. Black proposed a
new election to the committee, which
proposition the committee accepted, the
result of which was simply to PROFOUND for
your determination the question which
they themselves did not answer, but which,
in Justice to DR.. Black, they should have
answered in his favor, despite his PROPOSE
ton for new election, if they discovered
no Irregularities which, in their Judgment,
may have affected the result of the re-
cent election. But as the new election was
ordered on his motion, certainly DR.. Black
cannot and will not complain that they did
not reach aconelusion upon the pending res
olution. And as the Committee so acted,
without seeking my views upon the matter,
for which do not blame them at all) now
in Justice to my friends (but without any re-
Election whatever upon the Committee, who
I am sure, acted according to what they:
deemed the best interest of the party, ap-.
peal to you, the Democracy of York county,
to decide the question, whether the recent
election was so free from Irregularities as
not to affect my chances for the nomination.
If YOU say that it was, then let DR.. Black be
nominated; if you say not, then let your
votes show that in the future, primaries
must be SO conducted as to speak the will OF
the Democracy of York county. LOIS
And now in conclusion, let me, as one OF
your fellow citizens, indulge the hope that
the new election will be 80 conducted as to
be free from any suspicion of irregularities,
and that the result will be to name a candl-
date who will unquestionably represent
majority of the Democratic voters of York
and receive the hearty suffrages of the en-
tire party at the approaching general cleo
tion. Respectfully, G. E. SPENCER.
Yorkville, S. c., Sept. 1, 1884.