Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-04-03
MR.. MOORE ACCEPTS.
The Newly Elected Intendant Will Do
What he Can to Enforce the Law.

The Newly Elected Intendant Will Do
What he Can to Enforce the Law.
Editor of The Enquirer:
Please allow me to express my posi-
tion and policy, in accepting the office
of intendant of the town Of Yorkville,
to which I have recently been elected.
I believe it is the duty of every citizen
to sacrifice self interest and assume the
duties of this most unpleasant, un-
profitable and unappreciated position
but it is a duty only in the order of
rotation. I have expressed privately
and through the newspaper, that 1
would not be a candidate, for l did not
feel that l owed the community this
duty, having served for four years as
intendant or warden. I now enter the
fifth year, at the close of which I will
have surely paid the full duty of pub
lie service. Notwithstanding the fact
that there was ticket in the field for
intendant and wardens composed of,
I must say, the best material as
whole, that 1 have ever known to be
offered for this duty, there was some
dissension which resulted in my elec-
ton. In accepting the labors of the
office to further pay public duty, as my
friends seem to think I owe, do so
distinctly representing no faction, party
or parties; but the people-the inter-
est of the community, to the best of
my ability. I 60 into the Office of in
tendant absolutely untrammeled and
under obligations to no man. 1t will
be my aim to appoint or elect, as the
case may be, men best fitted for the
several positions under my charge for
the interest of good. I shall endeavor
to run the affairs economically, but
will not hesitate to make expenditures
for permanent improvements. On the
all absorbing question of the day in the
midst of our little sphere, my private
views are generally known. 1 favor
high license on principle; but it is
child's talk to advocate the impossible.
Next I favor the dispensary, it being
law, or any other plan that is law. If
it is bad, enforce it and in due time it.
will be corrected. From my observa-
ton, prohibition is a dead failure, not
only in Yorkville, but in the world
not only with whisky, but everything.
Legal control is the only practical re-
straint. In these views, however, I
may be in error. Ny position along
this line, as intendant, shall be that OF
strictly prohibition and adverse to the
establishment of dispensary, the peo-
pie having said they do not want it.
A great deal has been said of the duty
of the citizens opposing the dispepsary
especially, to weed out the "blind
tigers" and not drop the work just
begun, when the election was over. 1t
is to be hoped that this duty will not
be neglected but pushed to Eight
to the finish! !" Remember, am not
elected to the position of spy, detective
or police; but judge of the evidence of
violations of the municipal ordinances
brought to my hearing, and to see that
the scales of justice are held rigid and
level.
Having served with the other mem
bers of the council before, pledge
them, with myself, to give due time
for hearing and an impartial verdict,
according to ordinances violated, to
the best of our ability. We will have
a city attorney, who will be instructed
to make prosecutions on sufficient
charges. Our police will be at your
service to aid you at any time you
desire. Now, if the "blind tiger" and
other violators of law are not eradicat-
ed, whose fault shall it be? Let every
man interested in upholding the law,
make it his business to see to it, for
without the support and aid of our
people we are unable to suppress vio-
lations of our town ordinances. The
result is in your hands and will be as
you make it. Your obedient servant.
w. B. MOORE, Intendant.