Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-06
POSITION OF THE CANDIDATES.

Growing out of the proposition of Mr..
Wilson, looking to the formation of a new
county with Rock Hill as the county seat,
there has been a good deal of dispute
lately as to the position that York's rep
resentatives in the constitutional conven-
ton occupied in the recent campaign in
which they sought the suffrages Of the
people.
THE ENQUIRER was the only paper
that attempted to follow up the candi-
dates, and from our files we reproduce
the record.
Mr.. Brice said that he was opposed to
any reduction of the area required by the
present constitution, and he was unaltera-
bly, opposed to any movement looking to
division Of York county.
Mr.. w. B. Wilson said that he thought
the area required by the present constitu-
ton should be greatly reduced. North
Carolina got along very well with 400
square miles, and he believed Georgia
only required $50 square miles. He was
opposed to division of York county,
however, from personal interest and senti-
ment, etc., and if sent to the convention
he would not vote there for the formation
of new county. He did not think
that any new county should be formed
except by vote Of the whole people of
the State through their representatives in
the legislature.
Major \. II. White said that he believed
in smaller area for counties but he was
in favor of leaving the matter to vote of
all the people interested, not only in the
section to be cut off; but also in the section
out of which the new county was to be
erected.
Mr.. J. F. Ashe was not present at the
meeting. He sent, however, written
answers to certain questions that he had
reason to believe might be raised; but
had nothing to say OIL the subject of areas
of counties. We have no record of any
thing that he may have subsequently
said.
Captain S. +. White was not present,
nor did he send any expression of views,
in writing or otherwise. The only pub
lie expression that came from him during
the campaign was in the shape of an
interview published in the Rock Hill
Herald of Wednesday, July "A, just pre-
vious to the primary election, which
occurred on Tuesday, July 80.
The Rock Hill Herald usually gets to
Yorkville on the day of publication. The
issue of July "A failed to arrive as usual.
The editor of THE ENQUIRER attended
the Alliance campmeeting at Tirzah on
Thursday, and there learned that The
Herald, of the previous day, contained an
interview in which Captain White en-
pressed himself as in favor of smaller
counties, and also some editorial structures
against THE ENQUIRER for its alleged
action in raising the county area issue i'll
the campaign. The editor of THE EN-
QUIRER was interested, of course, and
tried to get a copy Of The Herald in order
that he might publish the interview Of
Captain White, and, if necessary, also
answer the editorial structures i'll Fridays
issue of The ENQUIRER-the last issue
previous to the election.
On returning to Yorkville, the editor OF
The ENQUIRER inquired Of the postmis-
tress if the Rock Hill Herald Of Wcdncs-
day had arrived. The postmistrccs in-
formed him that it had not-not single
copy had come to this Office. The editor
of The ENQUIRER then requested Of the
postmistrcSs when The Herald did arrive,
to please stamp on it the date OF its receipt.
She agreed, and we now have in our pos
session copy of the Rock Hill Herald OF
July 24, containing the interview Of Cap