Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-13
kthough enrolled ;rbut those who fail to
enroll will not be allowed to vote.
Two Political Parties.

and the other Republican; but now
such a division can be brought about
in a manner that will not threaten the
present peace and well-being, as well
as the future civilization of the state
is a problem that the wisest thinker
has not yet been able to solve.
Whatever it may have been in the
past, and most well-informed people
understand what it was, the Repupll-
can party is now as much of nation
al party as the Democratic party ever
was, and the welfare OF the country Is
as safe in the hands of the Republican
party as it is in the hands Of the
Democratic party. There are few fair
minded people of either party, who do
not recognize the absolute truth OF this
proposition, and of the people OF "a
shade of political opinion who are
broad enough to view the subject
calmy and dispassionately there are
still fewer who are fair to recognize the
certain danger of turning the perman-
ent political control Of the country
over to either, party.
After all has been said that can be
said truthfully, there is no escaping
the fact that all politics, whether
Democratic or Republican, is based on
the struggle of the outs to get in and
the ins to stay in. 1t is a matter OF
keep the rascals out and put the rascals
out. The umpire in the struggle is the
public, which, actuated by the great
principle of self preservation, decides
against one or the other on basis OF
it's record Of past stewardship or
promise of wiser and better future
policies.
Because South Carolina is all one
way, she has received but little con-
sitferation at the hands of either
party and her interests generally suf-
fer at the hands of both parties. For
instance when it comes to matter OF
developing our rivers and harbors
erecting public buildings, or spending
public money for experimental pur-
poses, Democratic administration will
overlook us because it figures that IL
has nothing to lose anyway, and
Republican administration will leave
us out of consideration because 1t
realizes that no matter what it might
do, there is nothing to be gained in
this quarter.
To be sure there are altruistic peo-
pie who think that this is all right;
that neither party should be guided In
its action by selfish purposes; that
whatever is done should be done be-
cause it is right and for no other pur-
pose. But these people have no ap-
probation of practical politics, and
still less appreciation Of the fact that
whether the government be Demo-
cratic or Republican, under Wilson or
Harding, it is always directed by
practical politicians and it will always
be so.
When the Wilson administration
went into power at the close of the
Blease administration, the Manning
party, led by w. E. Gonzales. repre-,
senting themselves as the only Demo-
Gratis, saw to it that no man who had
been a supporter of Blease got any
recognition whatever, even to the right
of being allowed to demonstrate his
fitness for a commission at a training
camp and except in rare cases where
there was no way to help it, all of
them were denied all show at public
The majority of the white
Democrats were thus punished because
they had elected Blease for governor,
and so far as anybody has been able
tC make appear, for no other reason.
Because there is only one party in
South Carolina, we are now confront
ed with a condition under which all
the vast Federal governmental ma
of the state is under the con-
troll Of a few representative Repubh-
cans who have not enough followers
Of their affiliation to efficiently fill the
Offices absolutely necessary to con-
duct the local business of our gov
ernment, and the all-important ques-
tion is, What is to. be done about it?
The problem of course, is mainly upI
to Mr.. Joe w. Tolbert and Major John
f.. Jones; but to claim that the rest of
US are not concerned about what they
do is, to say the least, very silly.
1t is not ours to offer Messrs. Jones
and Tolbert any advice. SO far as we
know, there is no newspaper in the
state that can lay claims to the right
to speak for the NOR that desires that
right; but that they have on their
hands n tremendous problem, pregnant
with the future veal or woe of the
state, is a very dull observed who
cannot see.
These men are in the position of be-
ing leaders without a. party, with be-
ing possessed of an immense amount
Of Federal patronage with wide discre-
ion as to the disposal of ID, and plenty !
)f people who are ready to take it; but
hampcrCd as to how
they should proceed TO the best inter-
est of their state as we'll as the party |!
Tor which they stand.
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