Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-16
POLITICAL NOTES.

Gen. Grant declined to fill the vacancy
on the New York electoral ticket caused by
the removal of the colored man, Derrick,
and then the executive committee took A.
w. Tourgee up. Republican electoral tim
Der must be scarce this year in New York.
The New York World publishes an au-
tograph letter from Warren Fisher, Jr., of
Boston, declaring that Blaine authorized
him to pay Mulligan $4,000 for the famous
letters, and requested that he and Mnlligan
90 to Europe and remain until after the
election at Blaine's expense.
People should not be misled by the
speeches of the Republican candidate. For
purposes of his own he does not 60 back Of
1860 in his statistical history of the country !;
but the United States was in existence some
time previous to that date, and it is wrong
to infer that we had no Government, no tar
iff, no prosperity, no manufactures, no ag-
ricultural interests until the Republicans
came into power.
- Considerable sensation was created at
Hinton, West Virginia, the other day, by
John A. Logan, the Republican candidate
for President, insulting man named
West West walked up to Logan and said:
II am glad, sir, to shake hands with man
who raised Confederate regiment in Illi-
nois during the war" Logan said "You
are liar, sir" and taking a chew of to-
>bacco out of his mouth threw it into Vests
face. There was great indignation felt at
Hinton against Logan.
"A correspondent writing from Johns
town, Pa, asserts that officers of the Cam
bria Iron Works at that place, having failed
to secure pledges from their employees of
solid support Of Blaine and Logan, ordered
them a few days ago to report at the office
OF the company for formation into Blaine
and Logan club. This, the correspondent
says, many of them refused to do, Whereupon
their services were dispensed with. Some
of the laborers attempted to be coerced have
gone to Pittsburg and others are seeking
employment in the steel works at Cumber-
land, Md.
1T is stated in Washington that certain
representatives of the Louisiana State Lot
tery have promised the National Republican
Committee at New York to give the electo-
~ral vote of Louisiana to Blaine. The con-
>sideration is that if Blaine be elected he is
to arrange it so that the Louisiana Lottery
Company is to have unrestricted use of the
mails in the transaction of it's business.
The Lottery Company, under the arrange
ment, is to deliver promises to purchase the
electoral vote of the State if they cannot get
it in any other way. 1t is the most mon
strous proposition ever heard of in politics.
A Boston dispatch of the 9th says that
the latest report there concerning the But
ler campaign is that he is considering the
advisability of coming openly just before the
election and telling his friends that it would
be best for them to vote directly for Blaine.
A leading Democrat in Boston says that
a number of the Peoples party told him
that such step was in contemplation. The
growth of the Butler party in Massachusetts
does not seem to keep pace with the prog
ress of the campaign. At the Democratic
headquarters they do not allow him above
10000 votes, and say his followers are daily
becoming fewer. Atthe Independent head
quarters they allow him 40, 900, and Buffers
shrewdest calculators are privately placing
his vote at $4,000.