Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-06-05

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- Says the Richmond correspondent
of the Atlanta Constitution The free
silver issue has revolutionized politics
in Virginia and it is certain will retire
to private life some Of the most promi-
nent Democrats now in politics, who
will be succeeded by some of the free
silver champions. Governor OFFER
rail-, who is a staunch admirer and a
close personal friend of President
Cleveland, has been one of the most
earliest advocates of the gold standard
in this State. A letter which the ex-
ecutive wrote on the subject last year
was distributed all over the South by
the gold men. He, like many other
leading Democrats of the Old Domin-
ion, utterly failed to appreciate the
strength of the opposition. Under
these circumstances it is not surpris-
ing that with this sort of misleading
information President Cleveland clung
tenacicusly to the belief that the gold
standard would prevail in this State.
The weather bureau at Washington,
in its report of crop conditions for the
week ended June ! says: Except in
the States of the lower Missouri and
central Mississippi valleys, where Sc
we're local storms and heavy rainfall
have caused much damage, and over
the Western portion of the Gulf States,
where drought is becoming more or
less serious, the past week has been
generally favorable. Over the Eastern
portion of the Gulf States, the corn
crop has been improved by rains
during the week, but in Louisiana and
Texas it continues to suffer from
drought. Cotton has continued to
make good progress, except in East
Louisiana, where it is suffering from
drought. Florida. reports further i'm
provement. Except over the South
west portion of the cotton region, the
crop has made good growth and is
fruiting well. The week has been
exceptionally favorable for transplant
ing tobacco, which has been nearly
completed in Kentucky and Virginia,
and has begun in New England and
New York.
- Governor Bradley, of Kentucky,
who has been endorsed by the conven-
ton of his State for the Republican
nomination for president has with
drawn and written card in which he
. seems to view the growth of the free
silver sentiment in the South and West
with much alarm. He closes thus !:
"The nominee at St. Louis should get
the undivided support of the party, for
the commercial interests of the repub-
lie are in as much danger as in 1861.
Personal preferences should be laid
aside and petty animosities forgotten,
and patriotic Democrats who stand for
the national advancement and pros
perity of the nation should he appeal
ed to to assist in the defeat of those
who would lower the standard of our
money and thereby necessarily strain
the nations honor. Kentucky Repub-
licans won signal triumph last fall
on a ringing declaration for sound
money. They should stand by their
guns, forgetting all internecine strife,
and march shoulder to shoulder to a
grand victory in November"
The house of representatives, on
Tuesday, passed the river and harbor
bill over the presidents veto. The
presidents objections were answered
in the committee report. All but 81
of the AT projects provided for in the
bill, the committee says, were in pre-
vious bills, including one that was
signed by the president, and the state
ment that some of them were imprac-
ticable or that private parties had
previously agreed to undertake them
without expense to the government is
positively denied. Attention is called
to the fact that while during the past
six years, the river and harbor ap-
preparations amounted to 100000
annually, under the present bill, dur
ing the next six years, they will
amount to only s13,lOO,OOO. 1t is
also stated that the failure of congress
to pass the bill will throw thousands
of laborers out of employment that
they had reason to expect, and that
the result will be a great loss to the
government, in the ruin of partly COM
pleted projects. The report of the
committee was received with cheers,
and upon call for the previous ques-
tion, the bill was passed over the pres
ident's veto by vote of 220 to 60,
many more than the required two
thirds.
Some bicycle statistics, which are
partly guess work, have recently been
published and they are interesting,
says the New York Sun. "When AL
derman Goetz proposed to tax every
bicycle in use in this city 81 a year
the question as to the number of bicy-
cles in New York was raised. 1t is
estimated that 25O,000 bicycles are
owned here and as the majority OF
them are medium grade wheels it is
supposed that they represent an initial
cost of about $15,000,000. Very pro.
badly there are not so many wheels as
this guesser estimates in New York
but there are enough to represent mil