Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-07-12

mittee in the campaign. The fact that
these men were plainly dissatisfied
| with the course of events and that
| they did not hold the men who were
| supposed to be manipulating the re-
turns in the most implicit trust, gave
| the reporter much food for thought
this and the other fact that day by day
there were no developments of moment
while the public excitement was ris-
ing higher and higher.
Late one afternoon, after a fruitless
days labor, the wearied reporter Slip
ped into his hotel, and finding an emp
| ty chair in remote corner of the office
sat himself down for a rest. He had
| been resting but short time when
a man whose acquaintance he had
made at the Republican convention in
Cincinnati that summer dropped into
chair beside him. After a few un-
| important remarks, the man suddenly
| asked:
Are you representing the Tilden
| people here?'
The reporter hastened to assure the
questioner that he represented nothing
but his paper-that he was merely a
news gatherer. The man said no more
on that score and shortly after went
/ away. He joined a man leaning against
| the office counter. After brief eX-
change he left the second person, and,
after sauntering about a little, finally
resumed the vacant chair beside the
reporter. BY and by came the question
| whether the reporter knew If there
was a Tilden representative in town
To this the reporter replied that he
knew of none who was openly such al
| though there was one man in town
| who, he had reason to suspect, bore
some such relation. Again the strang-
er went away. An hour elapsed and he
reappeared. asking the reporter If he
would accompany him to a room on
the next floor. The affair was becom-
| ing mysterious. The reporter followed
with some eagerness, for he thought
that in a situation barren of real Incl
dents of moment something of value
might be the outcome. He was rushed
| into a room in which was seated
person, at once recognized by the re-
porter as he was prominent in the
carpet bag control of Louisiana. 1t
was Pnchbeck, then United States
| senator elect. So soon as the reporter
had been presented to Pinchbeck the
, guide disappeared.
Without preliminary remark the
magnate of the carpet-hag asked.
will you give me the name of the
man YOU suspect to be Tilden
agcnt?"
To this the reporter replied:
Il do not know that he is one. l
certainly would not give his name
without his permission.
The upshot was that the reporter
agreed to find this man, and il he was
willing to bring about meeting with
person whom Pinchhcck neither
named nor indicated.
1t was Il singular mission, concern
| ing which he had many doubts. lie
had but little more than a speaking ac-
uuaintance with the person III ques-
ton. He did not know just what he
was. He was by no means certain
] that he was an agent of the Tilden in
| terests, or that he was a man I" be
trusted in such a capacity. He was one
of those men not infrequcntly met
invariably present at conspicuous po-
litical events, moving about with much
reserve. having no visible duty, en-
gagged in no apparent work, knowing
everybody, i'm confidence with n" one
vet well informed, apparently an is"-
lated quantity. Placid. smiling Sc
crctive and cynical. he was an inter-
esting figure though no one Knew ms