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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-09-13

DIsPENsARY EARNINGs.-The Sec
ond report of Commissioner Mixson
for the second quarter, ending July
31st, 1895, is out. This report has
been ready since early in August, but
could not be given out till the exam
lining committee had passed upon the
books and the report.
The report shows net profit for the
quarter ending July 81, of S31 ,066.35.
Accrued profits for six months, end
ing July 81, s79,394.31.
Accrued profits since the dispensary
opened, S1S9, ,953.35.
The report shows the quarterly ex-
penses to be S11, ,539.34; little less
than for the previous quarter.
Total cost of running the dispensary
for quarter ending July 81, including
freight, labor, constables, bottles, etc..
every item of cost, $50, ,345.12.
There is net profit, accruing to the
dispensary from the arrangement made
with the beer brewing companies of
s5,69464.
Stock on hand July l, S65, ,OOO-thls
at actual invoice prices.
Everything is now running smoothly
and on a strictly cash basis.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-09-13
NUMBER 50.

vous, near Broadway and Astor place.
where found Irving, who handed me-
over his "boodle," as he termed it, re-
marking confdentially that I was to
give him on my return his share into
his own hands, and, singularly enough.
each of the others did precisely the same
thing About II o'clock the other two
came in, and after some parley White
handed over his bonds, and Stanley in
formed me he would give me his on
board before the steamer sailed the next
morning. I had already paid my bill
and sent my baggage over to Jersey
City, so about midnight I set out, they
accompanying me as far as the ferry,
and there, after shaking hands half
dozen times, we said goodby. Having
bought my ticket and engaged my cabin,
! went direct to the steamer and went
to bed In the morning Stanley appeared
and gave me his bonds. Ten minutes
later the hawsers were cast of, and we
were steaming down the bay. Two
hours later Fire island bank sank be-
meath the horizon, and we were alone
on the sea.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-09-13
LETTER FROM HICKORY GROVE.

And The Enquirer Will Keep You Posted
The First Bale-Work on the River Sus-
pended.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
HICKORY GROVE, September 12.-
Some interest is being manifested in
the coming constitutional convention.
AS the time draws near for a change
in the fundamental laws Of our State,
the people are anxious to know what
is to be done. We shall look forward
to the news in THE ENQUIRER with
much pleasure.
Jim McKinnie, a colored farmer on
the lands of Mr.. w. w. Thomson,
places the first bale of cotton on the
market from this section.
Mr.. w. S. Wilkerson has received
word from Mr.. Hunt, advising him to
discontinue work on Broad river. Mr..
Wilkerson has done much good work,
and has completed about two-thirds of
the work to he done. 1t is with re-
luctance Mr.. Wilkerson gives up a
work that will do so much good for
this section. We hope he will contin-
ue the good work.
Miss Jennie Wylie, of Chester, who
has been attending school at Rock
Hill, is visiting relatives here.
Mrs. R. E. Dagnall, of Clifton, is WIS.,
iting her mother, Mrs. J. Thomas Will
kerSon. T.
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ENTERTAINING THE YOUNG PEOPLE.
TO BE CONTINUED.

MIR. and Mrs. Carothers Give Delightful
Lawn Party at PineviIle.
Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
PINEvILLE, N. G., September s.
1t was the pleasure of the writer, on
August 80, to attend a delightful
lawn party at the hospitable home of
Mr.. and Mrs. #. K. Carothers, near
this place.
The party was given by Mrs. Ca
rothers, in honor of her Sunday-school
class, consisting of % sweet and ac-
complished young ladies, and, besides,
there were quite a number of other
guests, including % young men who
had been duly commissioned as escorts
to the young ladies.
The guests began to arrive early in
the evening. They found the recep-
tion rooms at the Carothers residence
handsomely decorated and the lawn
illuminated. Here and there through
out the lawn and in the piazzas of the
house, were baskets of fruit and can
taloupes that were standing invitations
to the young people, and during the
evening other refreshments were serv-
ed repeatedly.
The main general features of the
evenings entertainment were organ
and cornet music and singing by the
class. Then, of course, there was
pleasant enjoyment and games and
conversation, and everybody had
delightful evening of it.
I must not forget to mention the
costume, especially of the young man.
1t was decidedly picturesque. The
young man was tall, and his coat was
cut so short that it hardly came to
his waist. He said that short coat
was cooler than long one. He made
himself very interesting, and gave us
so much moonshine as TO render the
Chinese lanterns unnecessary.
Although Mr.. and Mrs. Carothers
have no young people at their home,
they take great pleasure in seeing the
young people enjoy themselves. Their
entertainments are always splendid
and this was no exception.
OBSERVER.
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make $4,000 for y0urSet2"
parted to another. More wine was or
dered, and before we parted had prom
ised not only secrecy; but, worse still,
I had also promised to consider the prop
osition and give my answer the follow
ing night.
As my evil genius would have it, that
very morning I had visit in my office
from the agent of my landlord request
ing arrears of rent and from a trades.
man whom I was owing demanding im'
mediate payment of an overdue bill.
Pressed for money as I was, the $l0,-
900 seemed a large sum and offered an
easy way out of my difficulties. shall
never forget that day nor how its slow
minutes dragged during the mental
struggle. Time after time I said, "What
could I not do with $10,000?" How
vast the possibilities before me wit:
that sum at my command Then, after
all, had not the owner Of these bonds;
lost them forever, and why should not
I have a share instead Of letting those
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15

Populism makes no warfare upon
the individual least with the sin
gle exception of John Sherman. The
man whose full length portrait in oil
adorns the portals of the Bank OF
England; who originated the hideous
national banking system in conjunc-
tion with the Ikleheimers and the
Bank of England governors; the man
who officially declares that his CON-
mittee secured the depreciation OF
greenbacks to make more profit in
bond-buying; the man who thunder
cred against coin-paymeut of bonds
and then engineered the ''credit-
strengthening" infamy; the man who
secretly destroyed silver money at the
beck and pay of English Seyd-that
man is generally denominated a trail
tor and a wretch. His life Is only fit
to teach a moral lesson which closes
under the gallows.
But the rank and file Of the Repub-
licans and Democrats are grand and
noble citizens-only awaiting the ex-
pected and the positive growth OF
absolute patriotism to overthrow the
vile conspirators who are seeking TO
betray the last great hope OF human
ity in free government
Citizens are not disgraced by cling
ing to party too long, but they endan-
ger free government. they add to the
degradation OF the public conscience;
they put party in the path Of progress
but they do it unwittingly, awaiting
the hour when the door of their rea-
son is thrown open. and justice leads
them forth to better things.
The noblest of men are sometimes
slow to change life policy, through
their conservative development. Con-
servatism in the face of grave dan
gers is not a crime--but it is a mis-
tuue.-Pan Yam IN. W East and
Vast
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15
The Money Prank.

The Republican and Democratic
national position on the meney oues-
tion is clearly stated in the following
plank:
Livery whichness Of the whyness
should be equal to and interchange
able with every wherefore of the
whatness; therefore we demand that
every American whereforeness Of the
whichness shall be equal in value to
every whenceness of the whichsoever-
ness OF the whole civilized world"
The above plank varies in inter-
probation according to degrees OF
latitude and longitude. or the real or
fanciful relations OF the individual TO
the money power.
This is the Populist silver plank:
I'VE demand the free and unlimited
coinage OF gold and silver at the pres
ent legal ratio OF l6 to L.
This plank is interpreted in the
same way by all Populists from ocean
to ocean and from Canada to the Gulf
OF Mexico. New Charter.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15
Why L Am n Republican.

When all the great men have their
hands to their ears to catch the pub
lie call to the presidency, l am afraid
/ will be overlooked by the g. o. D.
unless define my position.
am a Republican because that
grand old party struck the shackles
from four million slaves-and fasten-
ed them onto sixty millions.
Because il instituted the era of cor
ruption and prostitution in official
stations.
Because it gave the nation the
Credit Mobilier swindles.
Because it gave us the glorious
panic of 1873.
Because it gave us the Standard
Oil monopoly.
Because it gave US the national
bank robbery system.
Because it has fostered every crime
in the decalogue.
p. ST. am a Democrat for the
same reasons. for that party helped
do all the above glorious acts-Kan-
sas City (Mo.) Appeal to Reason.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15
NOTICE

THE PEOPLES PARTY OF CHI
CAGO, THROUGH ITS COUNTY AND
CITY COMMITTEE, HAS REPUDI-
ATED STATE SOCIALISM BY d.
VORCING ITSELF FROM THE NO
TORIOUS GANG LED BY ONE TOM
MY MORGAN, A LITTLE ENGLISH
MAN WHO HAS JONAHED EVERY
CAUSE THAT HE HAS ATTEMPTED
TO ADVOCATE. THE PEOPLES
PARTY OF CHICAGO is NOW WHAT
1T SHOULD BE-A STRAIGHTOUT,
LE-OF-THE-ROAD ORGANI-
ZATION, STANDING SQUARELY ON
THE OMAHA PLATFORM.
THERE NEED NOW BE NO FEAR
ON THE PART OF POPULISTS
THAT CHICAGO WOULD BE A BAD
PLACE TO HOLD OUR NATIONAL
CONVENTION NEXT YEAR.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15
NATCHITOCHES, LOUISIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER

demagogues and politics; knavss
There is only one thing left for all
honest money men, those who are ir
favor OF gold. silver and greenbacks,
(each equal in purchasing power to
DO, and that is TO throw OFF the dam
nable old Democratic collar. and the
Republican yoke of bondage and come
into the Populist ranks, anu vote fo'
those things.
Will our free silver" (0 Demo
cratic contemporaries or our gOl(
monometalist contemporaries, dare
dispute these facts: We challenge
them to do So. o.-WaXahachie Peoples :
Paper.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15

stance, while contending for a single
stand ard as the basis of all CONNER.
cisl transactions, they profess to wan,
silver used as money to the fullest
possible extent. That is. they want
gold as the primary basis-the re-
demptive agent-while silver. like
paper, is to be an exchange agent. or
credit currency. In word, silver is
to bear the same relation to gold that
paper money does; the same, by
analogy, as checks, notes, bonds,
mortgages-merely an agent to meet
commercial demands for media of ex-
change. Now, it is plain that economy
demands all forms OF credit currency
should be made of the cheapest ma.
terial practicable. IL silver is to be
robbed of its legal tender and re-
demptive features, and thus reduced to
a representation OF gold, mere.
ly a medium OF exchange
what sense is there in having
silver money at all? Why should the
people be taxed millions OF dollars
for silver bullion upon which to put
the government money stamp-even
though the bullion price could be re-
duced to 10 cents an ounce? Why
use any material save good quality
of paper? II it be wise to have silver
money as a mere exchange agent,
then the gold-bugs should carry their
logic to deeper analysis and insist
that notes, bank checks, bonds. mort
cages, and all other representatives
of, or substitutes for, money-if, in
deed. not all legal and commercial
documents-be drawn upon plates OF
silver. Can anybody contend that
this is not in line with the absurd ar
gument for a single standard with
silver used as money to the fullest ex-
tent? This is the Cleveland Carlisle
contention, which is of course echoed
by the lesser lights.-Texas Farmer.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15

OF all the weakened thread bare,
silly and supercillious political clap
trap that we ever have seen or heard
OF in the history OF this republic, the
claims OF large per cent Of the Dem
ocratic party as being in sympathy
with the free and unlimited coinage
OF silver movement is entitled to rank
at the top OF the flag pole. In the last
year or two, with a majority of lS4
members in the lower house of con-
gress. with Democratic senate and
Democratic president, that disrup-
table organization OF political high
waymen took away from silver all the
power granted it by the go;d-fed
ghoulds, of the Repu olican party, and
left it and its friends so powerless that
the secretary Of the treasury could
and did refuse to allow one
dollar. dime or nickle of sill
yer to be coined in the United
States. With all these facts before
the people of the country, with a
Democratic national administration
damning silver With all the fury of
the devil, the Democrats, thousands
of them, even in the state of Texas,
have the audacity, the cheek, the un-
mittigated gall. to ask friends OF silver
to vote with them. That there are
honest silver men in the Democratic
party we will not question, but if they
continue to delude themselves in to
believing they can get monetary sal
vation out of that old organization o:
humbugs. they must acknowledge
they are but the stepping stones 10
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15
REPUBLICANS WANT A CHANCE
They VIII Show the People How to
PrOsper.

tTOsper.
Give us republican rule for a single
decade and we will show the people
the beneficence of republican legisla-
ton. Every man who wants work will
have it. We will restore our merchant
marine to the proper place and increase
our white, strong armed squadron so
they can command the respect of all
nations. We will show the people a
policy that Is American in every fibre"
The above are the words of Senator
Frye, of Maine, at republican banquet
given at Bridgeport. Conn.
Shades of the departed, Only give
'em chance! Only want single dec
ade now! What nerve the senator has.
and he had it with him at that banquet.
This may be styled the sublimate of
gall-armor-plated cheek, minus blow
holes,
Only been out of power little more
than two years when they had had
thirty years of rule, during which time
the republicans came as near sending
the country to the devil as it was pos
sible for them to do, and since the dem
ocrats took hold the republicans have
aided them in every species of vicious
legislation suggested.
During the thirty years of republican
control the curse of monopolistic rule
was fastened upon the country. Trusts
and combines have grown up and -four
ished as never before in the history
of any nation; class legislation has
been the rule, and so deeply is plutoc-
racy entrenched that even conservative
men are free to predict revolution as
a means of freeing the people.
The causes that have brought the
country to where it is today-chief of
which is the present financial policy
originated with the republican party.
which was aided and abetted by the
democratic party.
The present democratic administra-
tion has not deviated one iota from
the policy Of it's republican predeces-
sors, and yet We are now told that IL
the republicans are given another
chance they will bring prosperity to the
county.
Why didn't they do it when they had
a chance Of thirty years duration?
Senator Frye asks for a decade-only
wants ten years to undo what it took
thirty years to build up. That's too
long. Give the populists control of this
government and they will cleanse the
Augean stables in less than one year,
and bring relief to the people inside of
sixty days after congress convenes.
The republican party and the dem
ocatic party have both been weighed
in the balance and found wanting.
Democracy is dead and republicanism
will soon follow. There will be no
more chances for either one of these
old parties. as the people are too thor
oughly aroused to place any confidence
in them. Their records of venality and
hypocrisy are so black and damnable
that they cannot longer deceive the
people.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.

II there was money enough to dc
business on a cash basis there would
never be any financial panics. To.
peka (Kan. Advocate.
II the farmers want low prices and
tight times to continue and get worse
ali they have to DO is TO vote for the
gold standard. Statesboro (Ga. Star
IL the dollar was regulated in value
so that it would be worth the same al
the year round, do you think a mar
could speculate in them?-Greenville
Independent.
Working men have no use for the
habitual candidate who never works
himself and tries to live by bossine
those who do work. New Orleans
Picayune.
There seems to be unanimous i'm.
preston in the country that the presi.
dents speech at Atlanta was a mas.
terly exhibition of how not to say it.
New Orleans Picayune Oem).
The land grabber, the salary grab
ber, the interest grabber and the tan
grabber altogether make plenty oi
work for the American serfs who are
trying to make bricks without mud.
Ind annapolis NOnconforist.
If the laws against theft and dis
honesty were enforced as rigidly in
the case of the big thieves as they
are in the case OF the little ones, how
many vacant pews there would be in
our most fashionable churches
Tennessee City Coming Nation.
Why do Cleveland and other repre-
sentatives of the English gold stand
ard claim to be Jeifersonian Demo
Gratis? Because that will please
American Democracy and will not de-
ceive the loyal subjects OF the Mother
Country. w ashington Silver Knight.
And now it is said that John Sher.
man is belly aching over his failure to
reach the presidency. He oughtn't
to be allowed to join Judus Iscarioi
and Benedict Arnold until that belly
ache twists his umbilical cord into q
moose and straugles him. w Wood ward
%. T.) News.
Gold is being produced for six cents
per ounce in Colorado and not less
than 100000 per month is being
brought to daylight at that coast
viii the nice. cheerful, intrinsic value
idiot please pipe up again? 1t has
been sometime since we heard that
variety OF chucklehead peep. Denver
Road.
Did you ever think what all this
boGd issue means? No? Well think
a moment. Bonds mean interest; in
terest means debt and debt means
slavery for our posteritv. Ii these
millionaires get another term in the
white house. we can have the salts
faction to know our children will be
the greatest debtors ever heard Of
Waxahachie Peoples Paper.
A few men have cornered the peo-
ple's supply OF coal; few more have
cornered the peoples supply of coal
oil; a few more have cornered the
peoples supply OF land; a few more
have cornered the peoples supply Of
money; few more cornered the peo-
ple's means OF transportation. and the
whole combined, have cornered the
government. Austin Peoples Ad-
vOcate.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15
A Correct Calculation.

The power of money is always
measured by its scarcity. and the
greed for gold is in proportion to its
power. hence it is but logical Sc
quence readily seen by those who
care to Investigate the subject, that
the present development Of hoggish-
ness and supreme seltishness is caused
by a constantly increasing population
and constantly decreasing volume of
money.-Indianapolis Nonconformist.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15

How the bankers are squirming
about silver. They are alarmed at the
prospect. That twenty-five million
dollars annually stolen from depositors
would weigh seven hunded and fifty
tons IL 1t was all in silver. Just think
Of 1t. II all taken at once would re-
quire 1900 cashiers to carry 1t, would
make a procession eleven miles long.
Every man loaded down with over a
hundred and twenty pounds Of silver.
Some of them like as any would get
caught, too, carrying such load as
that.-Chicago Express.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15

Mrs. VIM. Astor has a wonderful
snake ring, which literally writhes in
constant motion on her finger. 1t is
made of flexible gold wire chain. and
in each loop a ruby, an emerald, or
an amethyst is firmly set.
The heart broken wife of poor
workingman in Chicago the other day
pawned her wedding ring to procure
food for her hungry children.-Com-
ing Nation.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15
NO. 13.

measures that seek legislation must te
submitted to a vote Of the people. but
it does mean that the power exists, and
that WHEN the people wish to do so
they can demand popular vote on any
measure that they consider likely to be
hurtful, IL 1t should become statutory.
There is no such weapon in the hands
of the people against the politicians so
peaceful as this one may be made. 1t
includes every reform in the circle of
its grasp.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15
Not the Issue.

Quibbling and quabbling over the
whisky and tariff question while mo-
nopoly and greed pauperize and en-
slave the masses is like driving the
old SOW out Of the potato patch while
fire consumes the dwelling house and
its contents. Farmers Tribune.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15
Down to "a Sound Money" Hasis.

I'll never saw so maay farmers try
ing to borrow money with which to
pay taxes" said prominent banker
the other day. 1t Is the natural con.
sequence OF getting down to a sound
financial basis and no one should OBJ.
ject. certainly no sound money
farmer. Indianapolis Qnd.) Noncon.
formist.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15

Col. Jones, who was ousted from the
st. Louis Republic on account of bis ex-
pressing friendship for the people. Is
now editor and manager Of the Post
Dispatch. But he is getting too friend
ly to the clod-hoppers again, and the
English tories are determined to firn
him out.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15

Congress must suppress the money
corner by issuing more money and
controlling the value OF it in the in
terest of the people. No set cf men
can corner the cotton crop. unless
they first have a corner on the money
of the country.-ireenvilie Independ-
ent.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15

When their own logic is turned
against them, 1t puts the goldbugs in
. most ridiculous attitude. For in
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15
Great Governor

After the roasting was over,
After the negro was done
There came from the governor a message
Urging the sheriff on.-Dallas News
Great governor. But it is said thai
be understands poker.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-15

Dump your surplus silver at this
office. please.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-03-28
CHRISTMAS HISTORY.

GEN. RADowITz, once foreign minis
ter of Prussia, died on Christmas day,
1853.
GREECE was shaken by an earthquake
in the Pcloponnesus, the day after
Christmas, 1861.
OK the day before Christmas, 1868,
William Mnkepeace Thaclxeray died ut
the age of fiftytwo.
GEN. JOSEPH e. JOHNSTON took COM
mand Of the confederate army in.
Georgia on December az, 1s6a.
The war of 1912, between shc United
States and Great Britain, ended with
the treaty of peace, signed at Client
the day before Christmas, 1914.
On Christmas eve, 1900, only six
months after his victory over the Aus
TRANS at Nlarcngo, conspirators AZ
tempted the life of Napoleon by the in
fcrnai machine.
WILLIAM, the Norman known as tho
Conqucror, was crowned king of Eng
land December 25, 1866. On December
26, ll35, his son stephen was crowned,
William III. having died
TIE great fire in New York occurred
the day after Christmas, 1853. On the
same day, 1850, Maj. Anderson, of the
United States army, occupied Fort
Sumter in South Carolina.
ALEXANDER l., car of Russia, died on
December 10, 1925. On Christmas day
plot was perfected to cause an insur-
rection of the troops mt Moscow. The
uprising began on the next morning,
but was suppressed in three days.
Oh the day before Christmas, 1867,
twelve persons were convicted in Paris
for belonging to secret seditious so
ciety. On the same day eight years
later, powerful Speech made on De-
cember 23 by Buffet, in favor of n
rigid press law, was approved by Mac
Mahon