Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-26

splendidly.
The rain of last Monday cut great
bitches through plowed fields and did
much damage to terraces.
b Mr.. John r. Blair, agent of the Far
liners Cooperative Demonstration
work in York county. estimates that
there has been an average Of only
about twelve days plowing so far.
s. s. McNineh, of Charlotte. was in
Yorkville Wednesday, the information
Is, in the interest of Mr.. Roosevelt's
candidacy for the Republican presi-
Dental nomination. AS to how he pro-
ceeded or what he was able to do no
Information has been obtained.
A gentleman who generally knows
pretty well what he is talking about
when it comes to matters political. ex-
pressed the opinion to The Enquirer q
few days ago, that Rock Hill would
probably have trouble in getting up its
full quota of delegates to the county
convention to be held on May 6. 1t Is
to be hoped that not only Rock Hills
two clubs, but all the other clubs in
the county will be fully represented.
The Fort Mill Times criticises the
county chairman because Of his alleg-
ed failure to give any more publicity
than he has given to the fact that the
Democratic precinct clubs are to be re-
organized tomorrow. 1t is fact that
the county chairman did not give as
much official publicity to the matter
this year as has been customary; but
as to whether there Is ground for
great deal of criticism we are more or
less doubtful. 1t has been our obser-
vation, extending over a great many
years, that except when political eX-
citement Is running high, there is very
little interest in the club meetings no
matter how much official publicity
there has been. More than once we
have put ourselves in touch with all
the county executive committeeman
with a view to securing the names of
the delegates to the county convention
from the different precincts, with the
object of publishing the same In ad-
vance. In no case, however. have we
ever been able to collect the names of
more than half Of these delegates. and
the blame did not attach to county ex-
ecutive committeeman either. The
trouble more than anything else arose
out of the fact that a number of pre-
cincts failed to hold meetings and elect
delegates. The people were Indifferent,
and finally the precinct would be rep
resented by the executive committeeman
and such others as he was able to bring
along. 1t has frequently happened
that some of the precincts were not
represented at all, and time and again
we have known Yorkville and Rock
Hill precincts to go into the convention
with only two-thirds or three-fourths
Of full delegation. Often it is as-dif-
ficult for these large precincts to get
up full delegation as 1t Is for some
of the smaller precincts to have them
selves represented at all. 1t ought not
to be so, but 1t is so. There Is no fight
on In York county at the present time.
If there is any intention of making any
changes in the officers Of the party
the executive committeeman, the coun-
ty chairman, the state executive COM
mitteemen, or any special interest In
the matter as to who will go to the
state convention, II is difficult to get
line in that direction. The question of
passing resolutions instructing for one
or the other candidates for president or
leaving the delegation to Columbia un-
instructed, has been more or less cas-
ually mentioned; but there has been no
public indication that any considera-
BILE number of people care two cents
who Is the presidential nominee,
whether Champ Clark, Woodrow Will
son, Underwood, Harmon or W.. ]. Bry-
an. There Is not much reason to think
either, that a resolution to instruct or
not instruct will make any difference.
While we think we are stating facts,
we do not want to be understood as
approving any such condition OF af-
fairs. We would rather see good,
healthy interest in the situation, with
each delegate to the convention hold
ing up for his favorite. However, with
the knowledge that the only individu-
ais who are going to take any consid-
cradle interest in the matter already
have in the situation, we are not In
clined to think much more interest
would have been stirred up even by
little more official publicity. 1t has
been the custom heretofore to insert
in the call for a county convention In
formation as to how many delegates
each precinct is entitled to, and the ma
ture of the business to be transacted
by that convention. For some reason,
whether they considered II unneces-
sary, or whether they preferred not to
incur the expense, the officials left this
information out Of the call this year;
but The Enquirer saw proper to give
the information unofficially on its own
responsibility, in the belief that other
wise some of the clubs might not have
records from which they could deter
mine the number Of delegates to which
they are entitled. But after all. we
venture that the convention will be
about as full as usual and If there was
any way to ascertain the correctness or
such a prophecy we would venture that
the nersonnel of the convention will not
be very different from what 1t would
have been even had there been more