Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-10-10
Scraps and faets.

have passed, whenever the votes shall
have been counted upon the 3rd day
of next November, mark what l tell
you-Bryan will have received more
votes than any presidential candidate
of any party ever did receive since
God made this world of ours" Tire
mendous applause
Hon. Arthur Sewall, Democratic
nominee for vice president, has made
public his letter of acceptance. The
letter is quite lengthy. Among other
things, Mr.. Sewall says: 81 am glad
to express my satisfaction that the
platform of our party, which has COM
manded my lifelong allegiance, is
honestly and fully declaratory of all
privileges, and especially of the ab-
sorbing financial issue, upon which, as
you say, I took my stand. when the
hours of triumph seemed remote, and
when arrogant money changers
throughout the world boasted that the
conquest of the American masses was
complete"
Edward "A. Ross, professor of f.
nance in Stanford university and Sec
retary of the American Economic asso,
citation, has written series of papers
to prove the injustice Of the gold stand
ard. He says: ~ can see no differ
ence in amount of wrong between
forcing your debtor to repay you dol
lars that would 60 twice as far and
are twice as hard to get as the dollar
you lent him, and your raising the
face of the note to double its value
by the use of chemicals. The wrong
is the same. But when an individual
does it, it is forgery; when nation
does it, it is sound finance"
- Mr.. E. w. Barret of the Atlanta
Constitution, is in Chicago. A few
days ago he telegraphed his paper that
he had absolutely satisfactory evil
dence that Mark Hanna had admitted
in private that McKinley's chances of
election were desperate. 81 have but
little, if any, faith in the election Of
Mckinley" the Republican chairman
is reported to have said. The remark
is alleged to have been made in the
presence of a well-known Chicago So
ciety lady, whose husband is for the
free coinage of silver, and she told it.
Hanna and his lieutenants are deny
ing that there is any truth in the sto-
ry; but that, of course, is to be ex.
pected.
Cincinnati Enquirer: A newspa-
per which is 80 low in the scale of
common decency that it proclaims it
self an organ of the treacherous Pal.
mer movement, has this statement to
make: "Mr. Bryan objects to the
gold standard as an imported idea.
He forgets that the best work he ever
did was in contending for reasonable
freedom of imports" This is remark
which carries with it its own comment.
We say the "treacherous Palmer move
ment" because the course of Palmer
involves treachery to the party which
placed him in Office as champion of
the cause of the people, and especially
as representative of the interests of
the workingmen. Two-thirds of the
men in the movement are treacherous
to Palmer. They are using him as
stalking horse. They put him up for
a blind, so that they can pretend they
have not deserted the Democratic par
ty; but they are working for McKin-
ley, are appealing to the Mckinley
management for funds and will vote
for Mckinley.
A big sensation developed in rail-
road circles last Wednesday. The
annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Seaboard Air Line was held
at Norfork, Va, on Tuesday. There
had been rumors of dissatisfaction at
the action of President Hoffman in
precipitating the recent rate war, and
those who thought they were in a po-
sition to know, believed that Hoffman
would be deposed. To the surprise of
the entire country, Hoffman was re-
elected without opposition, and the
meeting was entirely harmonious.
But there is reason now to believe
that the seeming harmony is decep-
tive. There are stories to the effect
that 1000 shares, a controlling inter-
est in the Seaboard, have been bought
by Thomas F. Ryan of New York,
acting for himself and General Samuel
Thomas. If this is true, it means
that the Seaboard is now owned by the
Southern, and the election of Hoffman
as president is merely a blind to keep
the people of the south from realizing
too quickly that they are now in the
power of one big, merciless corpora
ton.
At indianapolis, Ind, last Tuesday
Mr.. Bryan paid his respects to the so
called National" Democratic party as
follows: "This city enjoys the unique
distinction Of being the birthplace
and the deathbed Of so-called party.
[Great and prolonged cheering and
laughter. 1t calls itself the National
Democratic party when it does not ex-
pect to carry single county in the
whole nation. Cheers and laughter.
1t calls itself a Democratic party when
it is organized for the express purpose
of electing a Republican candidate for
president. TCheering.1 If it was big