Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-11-28
Scraps and faets.

UQaC SOlu SGduudTu ScudOolS Will Ho'
be permitted to take part in Demo
cratic caucuses. 81 don't think they
would desire to affiliate with US any
way" says Senator Morgan. "They
have denounced US as anarchists, and
until they repent, I do not see how
they could have very much to dc
with u.s."
- There is a great deal of concern
to know what part Mark Hanna is
going to take in the next administra
ton. The story is that he wants tc
be senator from Ohio, and to this end
will arrange that John Sherman be
appointed to place in the cabinet
In the event that Sherman does not
agree to this, it is believed that Hanna
will 20 into the cabinet himself as
secretary of the treasury.
1t is stated in Washington official
circles, says dispatch, that Russia has
made overtures to the United States,
England, the Argentine Republic and
Australia for an international confer
ence to fix the price of wheat. The
idea suggested is that these nations,
should they see fit to unite in an
agreement, could fix a price to be
maintained uniformly through various
seasons of overproduction and unsatis-
factory crops, and thus make the prin-
cipal grain staple upon which the mil
lions of consumers depend for food al
most as Interchangeable in value as gold
itself.
The Homestead, an agricultural
paper published at Des Moines, Iowa,
charges that Mark Hanna spent over
100000 in subsidizing western agri-
cultural papers during the last cam
paign. The Homestead claims that it's
information is from actual experience.
Hanna and his agents offered the pro-
prietor of The Homestead $4,000 for
his help. The proprietor claims that
he pretended to give the matter favor
able consideration until he got the
names of the other papers that had
been bought, together with the amounts
paid, and then he let the negotiations
drop. The proprietor of The Home.
stead is Republican.
A San Francisco dispatch says
that successful airship has at last
been constructed. The inventor is
said to be a millionaire of Oryville,
who has been working on the contri-
vance for Is years or more. One day
last week, it is claimed, that the in
ventor made a trip of about 100 miles,
in less than two hours. The ship has
a wave-like motion, however, that
makes the passengers seasick, and
this the Inventor is now trying to cor
rect. In the meantime, the ship is
said to be under guard on San Fran
cisco bay. Several papers have char
acterized the story as fairy tale (;
but strange things are happening now
adays, and perhaps it will be we'll to
wait awhile before dismissing the mat
ter on any such basis.
-" "The free coinage movement is
not dead nor sleeping, and its triumph
in 1900 is just as certain as the tri-
umph of human liberty in $780," says
a Denver paper. And the Providence
Journal says: "The defeated candl-
date for the presidency is about to
start the campaign of 1900, and there
appears to be no disposition on the
part of any of the silver leaders to
abandon the fight. The possession of
the reins of government by the Re-
publicans is a point against the latter
rather than in their favor. If there is
discomfort between now and 1900; if
unseen causes occasion adversely in
the commercial world and the middle
west come to believe that the Repub-
lican party has not been true to its
trust or equal to its opportunities,
there may be reaction. As has been
said, we have won the Gettysburg Of
this conflict, but Appomattox is still
before u.s."
The New York Journal has been
interviewing the United Stated sena-
tors as to what congress is likely to
do with the Cuban question. A ma
JOrlty OF tne SeuaCOTS SeemS W ue III ID
vor of recognizing the belligerency of
the Cubans; but great many prefer
to leave the whole matter to the man.
agement of President Cleveland.
Here are the views of John T. Nor
gan, the fighting senator from Ala
bama: II am not a prophet and l
would not venture to say what con-
gress or the president may do on the
Cuban question between this and the
4th of March. You can never tell
what luck or half-broken steer will
do, and as there are great many men
in this congress who are about to be
swallowed in an abyss, they may do
some very unexpected things before
they so down. I may say that the
public conscience is shocked it is par
alyzed by the atrocities that are being
committed by the Spaniards in Cuba.
For time public attention was held
by the elections; but now the news
papers will focus it upon Cuba, and
there is 70 telling what the sentiment
of the people will amount to. This
government has been slow to act. In
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