Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-11-13
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.
From the Ne,c York Herald, Nov. g.,

(rTOW Me NctC 1Ofh 1ic't ttttt3 &'OO' O'I
Honesty and common decency have tri-
umphed. Governor Cleveland is chosen the
next President of the United States.
In is great, a very great gain to the
country, and to the cause of free govern
ment everywhere. The candidacy of a man
like Mr.. Blaine, with his surroundings, was
a humilating disgrace to the country. His
election would have been the national justi-
fication of public dishonesty and trickery of
every kind. 1t would have whitewashed
every jobber in the country, and would
have been, as the Republican ex-senator
Wadleigh said in one of the most powerful
speeches Of the canvass, an invitation to
all young men in places of trust to abuse
those trusts.
President Cleveland has shown himself,
as Mayor and as Governor, an incorruptibly
honest man, man of brains and of un-
doubted courage, the enemy of jobs and
iobbers, the faithful servant of the people.
Every word he has uttered during the can
vass, as every message and other public ut
marks him as clear headed, sagaciOus
man, entirely capable of that great work
which the people have intrusted him to do
at Washington.
At last the country has that change of par
ties for which it has been ready eight years,
and which the selfish, corrupt political man.
ayers who have gained control of the Repub-
lican party had come to believe they could
prevent so easily that they dared to nomi-
nate one of the worst men in their party.
Governor Cleveland himself stated the case
clearly when he said:
There should be no mistake at this time con-
cerning the maintaining ofthe contest. The strug-
gle is to break down the barriers between the
oil noon1a of the nation and the admlnlStra-
ton of their government. The question to be
determined is whether the people may change
their public servants, or whether, while they
fondly hope they have a representative govern
ment, they are bound and held captive by those
who make politics an occupation and hold place
as profitable business. This government was
made for the people but if they must select
the agents who shall have its administration in
charge from self dedicated and self-constituted
class, and if party once in power can perpetu-
ate it's hold on office for all tme it is mockery
to call this government by the people.
On the 4th of next March the Democrats
will, therefore, come into power. We wish
them well. They have succeeded by nam
ing first rate ticket on an uneXceptionable
platform. They are committed on thorough
reform. They will give the people that
"look at the books" to which they have q
right.
The Herald wishes President Cleveland
well. 1t hopes from him conservative,
rigidly honest, economical and wise admin
istration of the country. Washington city
needs man of the sturdy honesty and
strict devotion to duty which the President
elect has shown in all his public life. Let
him not fear to do right, for it is to do right
fearlessly that the people have made him
the Chief Executive Of the nation.
THE New CONGREss.-The returns from
the various portions of the country are not
vet full enough for it to be possible to deter
mine with absolute precision the compost
ton of either House Of the Forty-ninth Con-
gress There is, however, no question that
the Senate will be Republican and the
House Democratic. The present Senate has
Republican majority of four. The Sue
cessor to Senator Slater, Democrat, of Ore
gon, will be Republican, and in the other
In the new House of Representatives, whose
term does not begin until next March, the
Democratic majority will approximate for
ty. The Democratic majority in the pres
ent House is SiXty-seVen. In the fall OF
1882 a great Democratic tidal wave swept
over the country, submerging for the time
being a number of districts which under
ordinary circumstances are reliably Repub-
lican. The tide has nOta!together subsidized.
Throughout the canvass just ended there
were not wanting signs that the corruption
and inefficiency of the Congress run by
Keifer and Robson had left deep impress
sion upon the public mind, an impression,
too, which the course of the Republican
party managers in the campaign did much
to deepen. Under such circumstances moth
ing short of stampede to Blaine would
have wrested the House from Democratic
oontrol In prava crises of DeODle'S hiStO-
nv, when one of two courses must be chosen,
and when to do nothing is to imperil the
nations safety, divided Congress might
be anything but a public blessing. But
when the matters with which the Federal
legislature is to deal are primarily ques-
tiOns of financial and administrative detail,
the necessity of mutual compromise and
concession may result in procuring from
Congress much wiser and fairer legislation
than either party would be likely to enact
if it followed merely the dictates of its own
wishes and prejudices. During the cam
paign a great deal has been said as to the
danger to which all business interests would
be subjected by a sudden and complete revo-
luton in our tariff system, which, however,
has not been contemplated by either party.
The most nervous of capitalists should now
feel reassured that through Democratic
House and Republican Senate nothing
more formidable than very moderate
measure of tariff reform can by any posi-
bility pass.
THE MEMPHIS COTTON REPORT.-The
cotton crop report for the Memphis district,
embracing West Tennessee, North Missis-
sippi, North Arkansas and North Alabama,
issued last Saturday, says: The weather
during October has been favorable, and