Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-09-11
of Mr.. Blaine and General Logan accepting
the nomination for President and Vice

of Mr.. Blaine and General Logan accepting
the nomination for President and Vice
President.
The Democratic party, the white people
of the State and their colored allies, have
conducted the government of South Caroli-
ma for seven years. In every department Of
the State government, in every walk Of life,
are the marks and symbols of intelligent
and upright rule. The chief executive Off
Ger of the State has guarded vigilantly the
rights Of the people, taking care that the
laws are faithfully executed, in mercy. The
Judges on the bench, in their ability, con-
scientiousness, and their high conception Of
the decisions Of South Carolina Judges were
respected throughout the land. The public
expenditures have been diminished the
interest on the public debt is regularly and
promptly met The school debts, contract
ed by the Republicans and left unpaid, have
been lifted from the shoulders of the educa-
tional system; the number of pupils in the
public schools grows rapidly; the length of
the school session is extended; the pay of
teachers is increased. On all sides there are
evidences of thatsteady and healthy growth
which was impossible during the agonizng
years of Radical dominion. So vast has
been the improvement in the condition of
the State that it is estimated that the whole
income of the people Of South Carolina in
1883 was considerably greater than their
whole income from every source in 1860.
Of all this-of the tranquility, the security,
the comfort, the self-respect, the progress,
the pride in your State and in yourselves,
which Democratic rule gives and secures
the defeat of Cleveland and the triumph of
Blaine will threaten to deprive you. Natu-
rally your first thought is of the State gov
ernment. You control that government in
all it's departments. In its effect upon your
fortunes, in what it assures and what it
promises, the value of that control is incal-
culable. With the election of Blaine the
old difficulties will return. The defeat of
the Democratic candidates for Presidentand
Vice President in November will weaken
that control. Nay! you may lose it alto
gether.
Fellow-citizens: Lack of success in cam
paign so auspiciously begun, and under cir
cumstances so extraordinarily favorable,
will inevitably loosen the ties which bind
the Democratic party together. Yet anoth-
er catastrophe at the polls will render it diff
ficult in the extreme to maintain the Demo-
cratic organization in it's present breadth
and vigor. Faint-hearted Democrats will
be tempted to abandon the losing side and
seek new alliances Opposition to the Dem
alarming, when a strong body of Democrats,
seeking political independence, shall give
cohesion and energy to the colored masses.
From such an alliance naught but evil can
come. Then your choice would lie between
submission and revolution. Even if you
can, two years hence and two years after
ward, elect such Democratic government
, as that which the State now possesses, you
: will still, in the event of defeat in the ma
tional arena, be confronted with trials and
dangers from which you now arr free.
It is evident that there cannot be any
thorough harmony between the races, any
general cooperation for the advantage of
the State, any absolute assurance of the
permanence Of Honest Home Rule while a
horde of Office holders, scattered through
South Carolina, use the power and authori-
ty of the United States as cloak and a
shield in their plotting against the tran
guilty and welfare of this Commonwealth.
; They distort facts; they circulate falsehoods;
they warp the public service to partisan
ends. Such conduct is mischievous enough
in States where the voters, as class, are
thoughtful and intelligent. 1t is criminal
in State where the majority of the voters
are ignorant, credulOus and suspicious. The
freedman is only too ready to yield blind
obedience to the partisan behests of Federal
officials. TO his untutored mind they rep
resent the United States on the hustings in
the same sense that they represent the Gov
ernment in any department of the public
service. And the professional banditti who
pervert to the uses of political party the
agencies which were created for the general
good, run no risk of immediate punishment
or loss. Upheld and rewarded, in any event,
by the party in power at Washington, de-
feat in this State does not dismay them.
The custom houses, the postoffices, the bu-
reau of internal revenue, the court rooms of
the Uuited States Commissioners are their
entertainments, their hospitals their camps
of refuge. They sally forth like the free
hooters of old when there is any hope of
plunder. When they meet with sturdy re-
sistance they retire in haste to their strong
holds. There they repair damages at the
public expense. There they plaster their
wounds with government notes paid out to
them for suppos;+ious services. There they
ever else may suffer. The flag of the Unit
ed States, waving over them, renders the
den of thieves as inviolable as the Temple
of Liberty itself. These knaves, these raid
ers, these robbers, must be banished from
the public places which they defle and des-
ecrate. Put in the Federal Offices, pure and
industrious men, who will show their re-
spect for the government by making it re-
spectacle, and the political reformation and
be complete. The cloud which now wells
the evershining sun Of progress md content
will be dispelled, and the Urited States
Government, as known and judged by its
officers and immediate representatives, will
become trusted agent and friend, looked
upon by all good citizens with pride and
satisfaction, because worthy, in every part,
of the Republic and it's people.
Fellow Citizens You have every incen-
tive to labor unremittingly until the polls
shall be closed on the 4th day of November.
You will do this, if you value good govern
ment at home, and desire that it shall be
made perpetual. You viii do this, if you
desire the continuance and growth of good
will between the diverse: elements Of our
population, so that the great political and
Industrial problem of the century shall be
safely and peacefully solved. You will do
this, if you desire that the United States gov
ernment shall be as irreproachable as the
government of the State. You will do this,
if you wish that the American citizen shall
be respected everywhere and his rights be
|jealously protected. YouWill do this, if, in
the mOmentOus struggle now in progress,
you desire that good shall triumph over
evil, right over wrong. purity over impuri-
ty, fidelity in public life over blistering ras-
cality in public Office. For your own sake,
for the Well-being of your families for the
conservation of your property; for the sake
of those who are to come after you and to
whom you desire to transmit, unimpaired,
the benefits of the republican institutions
which your fathers founded; for all that you
possess and all that you require, we most
earnestly eXhOrt YOU to spare no pains and