Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-09-12
Scraps and faets.

Thomas Dixon, who used to seek fame
by shooting robbins on Staten Island,
is now wooing the elusive goddess by
preaching political sermons predicting
that Bryan's election would bring on
civil war. He has entirely outgrown the
humble calling of a modern clergyman
and announces modestly that it is his
"ambition not to be q priest, but like
the prophets of old" Mr.. Dixon does
not say which of the ancient prophets
he is trying to honor with the fattery
of imitation, but it is reasonably evi.
dent that his taste runs in the direc-
tion of Balaam.
"A dispatch to the New York Trib-
une from Indianapolis says: "If any
expectation that General Harrison
would accept the unique challenge of
Senator Tillman for joint debate,
preferably in Indianapolis, had exist
ed, it may now be abandoned. The
ex-president has paid no attention to
the challenge. When the message
was handed to him by messenger
from the telegraph Office at his Adj
rondacks cottage, he was standing on
the cottage wharf. The messenger
had arrived by the morning steamer.
The general tore open the envelop,
adjusted his glasses and smiled as he
read: Handing the message to Mr..
Tibbott, his private secretary, to read,
he remarked with a humorous play
of features: Il can't enter into con-
test with that man; have no pitch
fork"
- There lives with his family here a
Mr.. Grice, says Gastonia special
of Wednesday to the Charlotte Obser-
YER. Some members of his family work
in one of the several cotton mills in this
progressive town. One of the daugh-
ters of the household, a grown woman,
was accustomed to sleep in an L of the
house. Tuesday night, sometime, an
unknown miscreant placed q dynamite
bomb under the floor, Immediately be-
meath the bed, and exploded it'by
means of q fuse. The concussion
caused some damage to the weather
boarding and flooring, broke the cas-
ters of the bed, and scared the sleeping
Grice family and their neighbors al
most into the next world. No reason
is known for the perpetration of the
dastardly crime. Suspicion rests on
several parties, and the hope is enter
tanned that the foul 6end or fiends,
will be brought to justice.
- Senator Palmer, the goldbug nom
iuee, of the boltocrats, was once an
advocate of the free coinage of silver.
That was when he was newspaper
editor, broadminded and patriotic. In
1878 he wrote for his paper, the Iowa
State Register, as follows: "There is
not a man anywhere who opposes the
coinage of silver who does not insist
that congress has the right to issue le-
gal tender paper at pleasure, or does
not rest assured that congress has the
right to farm out the privilege of sup
plying the people with currency
through banking corporations. Demo-
Gratis, the fight for the silver dollar is
more than 40 years old. We won 1t
once against the national banks under
the lead of Old Hickory, and by his
bones we'll win it again. 1t Is all very
we'll to abuse the friends of the silver
dollar as inflationists, thieves, repudia.
tors, and all that sort of things, but
really the friends of the gold dollar
ought to pay the same attention to the
members of the convention who framed
the United States constitution, and
who made the silver dollar. the unit
and standard of value in this country"
- At Lincoln, Nebraska, last Tues
day, Mr.. Bryan was notified of his
nomination by the National Silver par
ty, and in his speech of acceptance,
among other things, he said: "More
than year ago, when we were en-
gagged in struggle to bring the Dem
ocratic party to an Endorsement Of free
coinage, the question was put to me
whether, in case of failure, would
support the Democratic nominee if he
were gold standard advocate, run
ming upon a gold standard platform.
I never believed that such action was
probable in the Democratic party
then; but when those who questioned
me were not content with probabilities
and asked again whether in that event
I would support the nominee, I said,
as you will remember, that under no
circumstances would my vote be given
to man who would in the executive Of
fee, use his influence to fasten the gold
standard upon the American people.
1 stood where the members of that sill
yer convention stood, and like them
would rather have the approval of my
conscience than the approval Of all the
world. My convictions upon this sub
iect are not shallow convictions. /
may be in error-none of us can claim
infallibility-but I believe that the
gold standard is conspiracy against
the human race"
When the Republican state of
Vermont gave such an overwhelming
majority against the Democrats few
days ago, the Republican papers made
a big fuss. Notwithstanding the fact
that the state Democratic platform
declares for a gold standard, it was
claimed that the result of the election
was an indication of the trend of SEN