Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-06-12
POLITICAL NOTES.

- The following State Democratic Con-
ventions, held within the last week, have
declared for Tilden and Hendricks: Yer
mont, Connecticut, Alabama, Maryland,
Arizona Territory and Kansas.
The election returns from Oregon show
that the Republican ticket is elected, and
that the Republicans will have majority
in the Legislature on joint ballot, giving
the United States Senatorshship to the
Republican party.
Georgia is almost unanimous for Tilden.
Just why the Democratic party is clamor-
ing for Tilden we cannot divine, but it is a
truth, notwithstanding, that he can pro-
cure the Democratic nomination for the
Presidency on the first ballot if he wishes it,
A Herald writer declares that Butler
for President, will issue manifesto to the
Greenbackers, Anti-Monopolists and Inde-
pendents asking them to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket, promising to look sharply for
their interest. The old man really expects
to be the next Governor of Massachusetts,.
- The Democratic National Convention
will be composed of S20 delegates, 18 of
whom, from the Territories and the District
Of Columbia, will not be allowed to vote.
AS the o-thirds rule will prevail in the
Democratic Convention, it will require 535
votes to nominate the candidates for Pres
ident and Vice-President.
The committee appointed in Chicago
last Saturday to notify the Presidential and
Vice Presidential candidates of their nomi-
nation will meet at the Parker House in
Boston, June 20, and will proceed thence to
Augusta, Maine, the residence of Blaine,
and after notifying him they will proceed
at once to Washington, where they will no.
tify Gen. Logan.
The Republican National Committee
held session in Chicago last Saturday
and elected John w. Mason, of West Vir-
Hooker, of Vermont, temporary Secretary,
and adjourned to meet at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York, June 16. A committee
composed of Lawson, Chaffee, Elkins and
New, was appointed to arrange for perma-
nent headquarters in New York city.
- Representative Hewitt, Of Alabama,
says: awe want to win this fight, and in
view of the necessity for Democratic success
the tariff becomes a matter of secondary
importance. The tariff is, in fact, local
issue. Hancock was right. It is certainly
an issue upon which there will always be
party divisions. In any event we must win
the Presidency. Let US succeed in Novem-
ber, and then we can apply reform princi-
Piles wherever reform is needed. The per-
petuation of Republican misrule is more
to be feared than high tariff"
- The Greenville Neacs aptly remarks:
"The Northern Republican feeling towards
the negro is we'll illustrated in the proceed
ings Of the convention at Chicago. His
representative was given temporary chair
manship against most unsavory carpet
Dagger, to catch his vote, but when the real
narmanant chairman was to he chosen the
colored brother was requested to take a
back seat and Blaine men, Arthur men and
Edmunds men united to give the place to
Northern white man. The negro is ever
regaled with the shadow, but the substance
of all the power and profit will usually
be found concealed about the person of one
of the faithful who sports white skin and
halls from the other side of the Mason and
Dixon line"