Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-05-25
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TILLMAN AND PAP.
Newspaper Declares interesting Polit'
icaI Policy.

Rock Hill have asked US to make a
pronouncement Of our political views
regarding county and state issues-is-
sues which will be paramount during
the approaching campaign. This we
gladly do.
BY way Of introduction 1t might be
said that the editor Of the Record was
born and raised among Democrats
whose allegiance to the party was not
contingent upon getting a front seat
at the pie counter" For nigh unto
twenty years he has been editing pa
pers which supported Democracy. in
her victories as well as in her defeats
NOT allowing our love for the party
to become dim because the rings ia
vorite paper was allowed all the pub
lie pap as is now the case in York
county.
The editor Of the Record, while he
will always try to help fight the battles
of Democracy has ever been ready and
willing to fight, by his pen, any men
who try to dominate the party. We
want no one-man party.
We believe the most important prob
lem which confronts the Democrats Of
York county is not the question Of
"Eispensary or no Dispensary," but
whether the Democratic party Of York
county should be dominated by bosses
scisted into power and held there by a
county seat organ. That there Is a
bargain between the Yorkville ring
and the Yorkville Enquirer Is too ap-
rarent to need argument. And as a
result Of that bargain the men running
The Enquirer have waxed rich and
prosperous for many years-and they
are still getting the money out of the
county treasury. AS proof Of this
charge, let anyone examine the report
Of the county's expenditures, issued at
intervals, and see II any paper In York
county save The Enquirer Is allowed
so much as $500 per year Of the pat
ronage from the county seat. See how
often the names Of the Herald of Rock
Hill, the Times Of Fort Mill, the New
Era of Yorkville and the Record Of
Rock Hill appear In the county ex-
penditures.
1t Is clearly evident that The Enqui-
rer's fealty to the Democratic party Is
| 'argely sustained by what 1t can draw
from the county treasury. The issue
as seen by The Enquirer Is not wheth-
er the dispensary should live or die,
but whether that paper, through the
rosses, can so continue to dominate
the party in this county as to retain
al of the patronage Of that party
which the officials at Yorkville have
to give out.
1t is this situation against which the
| RI cord raises its voice and for which
we hold the present county bosses re-
| ponsible. The people IN the eastern
| rart Of York county should have the
privilege of reading the legal notices
issued from the county seat. But no.
The people on this side. and they are
| 'arger in number than those In the
western part, are not permitted to
| know anything Of the county's affairs
md finances unless they subscribe to
the Yorkville Enquirer. The bosses
have made a lot Of mighty good can
vassers for that paper. It has often
| occurred to us that the people OF Rock
Hill, the richest and most populous
city in the county have the right to
'rnow what is going on In the coun-
ty finances, and the Record expects to
foht for this privilege for its readers.
The editor of this paper has been In
rolitics for twenty-odd years and he
',nows the earmarks of political deals.
With The Enquirer it's a case Of ''you
| tickle me and I'll tickle you'-and The
Enquirer Is thus enabled, year in and
out, to stand up to the pie count
r. and gobble up everything in sight.
Then when the counter Is empty, the
| doors are thrown open and the other
editors in the county are invited In to
Nnlp fight for the party on this or that
issue.
There are those who do not see how
we can endorse Senator Tillman and
at the same time be against the dis
,r nsary This is easy.
We cordially endorse the Mr.. TILL
man of the present, not the Tillman or
the past-that's ancient history and
has nothing whatever to do with To-
day. He has made of himself COM
manding, towering figure in national
affairs: but we hold that he should be
kept at Washington and out OF state
politics. Let the people decide the
state issues. On state issues we Will
oppose him. He has advertised South
| Carolina all over the civilized world.
Whenever an Associated Press wire
runs there runs Tillman and South
Carolina. For this one thing the peo-
| pie of this state should give him full
credit-and we believe they do. or
course no one expects the State or
ENQUIRER to be broad minded enough
| % take a rational or sensible, view OF
Mr.. Tillman. They hold up ancient
history against him. Suppose Mr..
| llllIndn SnOulu 5O VII lHe Stuhp th'"
summer and rake up ancient history
against The Enquirer and tell the peo-
ole how The Enquirer stood In the
dark and troublous days Of 1868 to
1876! Did The Enquirer then once
raise it's voice against helpless and
negro dominated people? We have
nothing whatever to do with the Mr..
Tf!man OF the past. We can but look
with admiration upon the Mr.. Tillman
of the present He Is a man who does
things" No one can deny this.
AS to the dspensary. We are
against it, for two reasons. We are
now and personally always have been
against traffic in liquor. The dispensa-
ry is the most abject failure the world
has probably ever seen. 1t Is rotten
from centre to circumference with cor
rupi ion and graft. Ard there are those
who say. with probably much truth,
that this Is so because for the past few
years the dispensary has been under
the control of Mr.. Tillman's political
enemies. However this may be, we
know that no man can handle or sell