Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-08-14

Dargan.
In the Seventh or Black district Robert
Smalls, colored, is the candidate, without
Democratic opposition.
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STILL HARPING.
Our amiable cotemporary, the Abbeville
Press and Banner, is still harping on its IA
vorite theme, the estate Superintendent
of Education" and in the course Of an ar
ticle in its last issue under the caption OF
"Unorganized Democratic Newspapers" in
which it discusses the why's and wherefores
of the positions of different journals on
this much-veXed question, says:
AS "a matter of course, the YORKVILLE
ENQUIRER would excuse its neighbor. 1t is
right and proper that it should do so, for
Col. Coward may act as Superintendent OF
Education, and look after the schools OF
York on Saturdays, if he chooses to do so,
while he furnishes high school to the viii
lage people five days in the week. School
master and Superintendent Of Education
combined. A splendid idea for Iorkville,
but we submit very poor one for the State.
We are afraid the Press and Banner is
measuring the ENQUIRER by its own stand
ard, and we must beg leave to enter our
protest. If Col Coward is derelict in the
discharge of his official duties, the fact Of
his being citizen of Yorkville would give
him no more immunity from criticism by
the ENQUIRER, than if his place of resi-
dence were Cainhoy or Abbeville. We
have defended his official conduct only SO
far as we have been able to form an esti-
mate of his discharge of his duties as COM
pared with the work of his predecessors,
and in this he has accomplished as much as
any who have preceded him. We have
also come to his defence-though that were
quite unnecessary the score of ability
and competency, and we still mintain that
there is no man in the State better qualified
for the discharge of the responsible duties Of
this important office than the present in.
cumbent. With the exception of the peri
od during which he was in the war, his
whole life has been devoted to the educa-
tional interests of the State. He is life
long teacher by profession, and he knows
the wants and needs of the people, and has
the executive ability, so far as the work OF
organization and discipline are concerned, to
supply those wants. He is not responsible
for the ineficiency of teachers, if there is
a lack of efficiency, nor should he be held
to accountability for the stupidity of pupils,
if any there be who do not make that
rapid progress in their studies pleasing to
the Argus-eye of the Press and Banner.
In fact, we opine that the head and front
of Col. Coward's offending is the zeal and
interest that he takes in the cause of educa-
tion. Like the Press and Banner, he thinks
the South Carolina University very good
institution in it's place; but unlike that pa
per, he also appreciates the Importance of
the common free schools and would not
close their doors.
Complaints of Col. Coward's official con-
duct would come with better grace from those
who are known to bein sympathy with COM
mon school education. Had Col. Coward
remained in Yorkville all the while for the
past two years and prevented the opening
of an occasional ''nigger school' in some
remote part of the State, instead of devot-
ing four-fifths of his time to his official du-
ties-as we are inclined to think he has
done, and which is as much time as any
State official bestows upon his otfice-we
doubt if any clamor would have been rails
ed against him; nor do we fear that a
report of his operations will meet the ap-
probation of all the real friends of education
in the State.
Ex-SPEAKER KE1FER.-The political
sun of the notorious ex-Speaker Keifer
has gone done down, perhaps forever, by the
result of the Clark county, Ohio, primary
election held on the End instant. The pri-
mary was held to decide which of the Clark
county candidates, Keifer or Bushnell,
should have the solid support of the county
in the Congressional Convention. Under
the rules which governed the primary, the
successful candidate is allowed to appoint
his own delegates throughout the county
and thus shut his opponent out altogether.
Bushnell carried the city of Springfield
against Keifer by $50 majority and the en-
tire county by over 500 majority. Keifer
lost every ward in Springfield, and only
carried two or three insignificant. county
precincts. Keifer has worked day and
night for some days to carry the primary,
and even started newspaper to champion
his cause and plead for vindication from
his constituents. He spent large sums of
money and made reckless promises of po-
litical appointments to win support.
His opponent, Captain Bushnell, is a mil
lionaire manufacturer, who is determined
to get into Congress at any cost, and who
succeeded in obtaining the support of every
newspaper in the county. These organs
used Keifer's few mistakes in Congress ope-
rated against him with terrific force. Keif-
er's career is forever closed by the decision Of
the primary. He has not yet made any
plans for the future.
REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN SCHEMES IN
THE SoUTH.-A Washington letter in the
Baltimore Sun says: Several members of
the Republican Campaign Committee, who
have visited the headquarters of the Con-
gressional Committee in Washington claim
that with an active and vigorous campaign
the Congressional Districts in certain South
ern States now represented by Democrats
can be secured for Republicans or protection
who are just as good for their
They base their claim upon the
that within the past few years
strong protection sentiment has grown up
in the States of Alabama, Georgia, Tennes-
see and other States where manufactures
have thrived. There are said to be men in
these States personally popular with a large
body of the more liberal element among the
Democrats who are 'tired" of the wavering
or undecided course of the Democratic party
in dealing with the tariff, and that these
men are willing to unite with the Republi
cans in taking a bold stand in favor of Or
ganized capital and protective policy.