Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-04-05
FREE TRIP To CHARLESTON.

FREE TRIP TO CHARLESTON.
The Charleston reunion comes on
Nav 10 and lasts until May l3, and
among those who will desire to make
this trip, there will, no doubt, be
many who cannot afford the expense.
1t is the desire of THE ENQUIRER to
give every old Confederate in the
county few days of outing, and if
we could, we would be glad 10 send
the last one of them to Charleston,
and not only pay their railroad fare /;
but. also their other expenses. This,
of course, is out of our power but We
can do something in this line, and we
hereby offer to pay the railroad fare of
at least nine of them from YorkVIle
to Charleston and return, on the oc
casion of the reunion.
Although nine round trip tickets
will present pretty good contribution
for one business concern, we have de-
termined on that number, for the rea-
son that there are just nine townships
in the county, and it is our desire to
send one representative from each
township, and then again we do not
wish to show any partiality in this
matter. So to avoid any sign of it, we
want to leave the selection Of the old
soldiers, who are to receive the tick
cts. to the readers of THE YoRKvILLE
ENQUIRER. Here is the plan by which
we propose to proceed:
On the last column of the third
page of each issue of THE ENQUIRER,
Lup to and including the issue Of May
8. will be found a blank ballot, which,
when made out with the name of the
veteran to be voted for and the town
ship in which he lives, and returned to
this office within the time fixed, will he
accepted as one vote for the veteran
named. While it is our earnest de-
sire that the benefciaries of the com
pimentary transportation that we are
offering, be veterans to whom such
transportation will be consideration
in inducing them TO enjoy the pleas
ure of attending the reunion, still this
is a matter that we will not pretend
to try to control arbitrarily. All cou'
pons properly made out in the names
of Confederate veterans living in any
of the several townships of York coun-
ty, will be counted for the veterans
designated, and if the veterans elected
happen to he men 10 whom such tick
cts would be hut lrfing considtra'
ton, then these veterans will have the
privilege, if they do not see tit to use
the tickets themselves, of bestowing
them upon other veterans Of their own
selection, in their respective townships.
1t is our purpose TO see to It, however,
that none of the tickets will be good
except in the hands of bona tide Con.
federate veterans.
The terms under which the elections
are to be conducted are as follows:
l. All voting must be done on cou.
pons clipped from the last column of
the third page of THE ENQUIRER. No
other votes will be recognized.
2. Coupons may be sent in at any
time; but in order to facilitate the
count and classification that will be
necessary, we prefer as little delay as
possible.
8. Coupons will be accepted only in
sealed envelopes; but may be forward
ed to THE YoRKvILLE ENQUIRER
either by mail or by hand. There will
be no objection to number of coupons
for the same veteran or for different
veterans in the same envelope. But
in all cases, the envelopes should be
plainly marked "Confederate Veteran
Ticket Contest"
4. Coupons will be published in each
issue of The ENQUIRER up to and in
Guiding Mays. None will be publish
ed after May 8. The competition will
close with the arrival of the last mail
to Yorkville at o'clock on the even
ing of May 4. No coupons will be
counted that are received after that
hour. If possible, the names of the
fortunate veterans selected will be an
nounced in the issue Of THE ENQUIRER
for Saturday. May 6. This will give
these veterans until the following
Tuesday-May 9-to make other nec-
essary arrangements for the trip.
All of the tickets that we propose to
distribute are to be over the "Old Re-
liable" South Carolina and Georgia
railroad. We have selected this route
for the reason that it is the most direct,