Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-24


lonian frontier question on the lines
proposed by the representatives of the
bowers. The Turks will thus secure
two or three unimportant Greek villa
ges; but nothing more. The indemnity
question is still hanging fire. The
probability is that Greece will have to
pay in the neighborhood of $20,000,-
900.
At their recent convention in
Nashville, the Populists decided to
drop the free silver plank in their
platform. This is taken to mean that
hereafter fusion between Democrats
and Populists will be impossible. More
than that, there is good reason to be-
lieve that it means the end Of Popu-
lism. There are thousands of Populists
throughout the country who owe their
allegiance to the party on account OF
the free silver plank, and hereafter
these will be Democrats. Verify the
political situation seems 70 be clearing
up.
The town of Kings Mountain was
greatly stirred up last Tuesday morning
over an assault which occurred there.
Mrs. P. S. Baker, wife of prominent
citizen, was awakened by burglar
prizing open bureau with an ak. She
screamed to give the alarm. The
burglar dropped his ak, rushed to the
bed, and grabbing her by the arm and
throat, choked her almost into insen-
sibility. He jumped from the window
and escaped as help arrived, leaving
the ak beside the bed. Mrs. Baker
does not know whether her assailant
was a white man or Negro. Blood
hounds were put on the trail and at
last accounts the understanding was
that if the miscreant was captured, his
case would be dealt with on the spot.
- President Mckinley has appointed
Terrence V. Powderly, the great labor
agitator, to be commissioner general of
immigration, one of the fattest offices
within the gift of the administration.
During the campaign last summer,
Powderly was one of the most blatant
free coinage advocates 30 be found in
the whole country. Suddenly he de-
clared that he had determined to sup
port the Republican ticket against the
Democrats, and accordingly he began
talking for the gold standard. The
labor leaders raised the cry everywhere
of bribery and treachery, and repudia-
ted Powderly. From that day the
once influential labor leader has had
no following. But now he is fixed,
and probably does not care. The
Central Labor union of New York has
passed resolutions denouncing the ap-
pointment as "the greatest official
insult ever offered by the Federal gov
ernment to organized labor"
Says the Louisville, KY, Dispatch
Those who are familiar with the tac-
tics of the advocates of the gold stan
dard will observe that they always
send out news of rich gold discoveries
in new fields in advance of the elec-
tions. They make their appearance
as regularly as the story of the sea
serpent on the Atlantic coast, and
there is usually as little truth in them.
That is one of the advantages the
money power has in controlling the
newsgathering facilities of the press OF
the United States Such statements
are published and sent out broadcast
over the country and are usually &C.
cepted as true, and the effect on the
public mind is to suggest that we will
have an abundant supply of standard
money under the god standard with
out reference to the free coinage OF
silver. Reports of these rich strikes
in the gold fields will continue to make
their appearance from now until after
the November election with astonish-
ing regularity. This work is done in
the neighborhood of Wall street and is
mostly manufactured for campaign
purposes.
- President Mckinley was the re-
cipient last Wednesday of unique
compliment in the shape of huge
"cOiSid "dlSl l"Siob. OCNSio INV IL
bers of the delegation in congress, ac'
companied by a number of ladies and
w. n. Mitchell, of Atlanta, the south
ern freight agent of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, made the presentation
in the blue room of the White House
The melon was about % feet long and
measured 6 feet in circumference. II
was packed in golden hamper, wrap
ped in the American flag, and entwin'
ed with white silk ribbon, on one end
of which was the flag of the United
States md on the other the arms Of
the state of Georgia. 1t weighed rs
pounds. 1t was presented by the
southern office of the Baltimore and
Ohio, which offered a prize for the
largest melon grown in the south this
year. The states of South Carolina
Florida, Georgia and Alabama com.
peted for the prize. Representative
Livingston made the presentation
speech. In doing so, he referred to the
old adage about Greeks bearing gifts
and assured the president that when
opened, no office-seeking enemy would
emerge. The president made a happy
response, saying, among other things
that he was especially grateful for the
assurance that it contained no office
seekers.