Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-08-17

now on their way from Santiago to
New York. Admiral Schley is also
en- route on the Brooklyn. 1t is ex-
pected that they will arrive off New
York next Friday night, and it is the
understanding that they will be order
ed to at once proceed up Hudson river
to the tomb of General Grant and fire
salute. After that the vessels will
20 into drydocks and be repaired as
speedily as possible.
Consul Wildman cables the war
department from Hong Hong, that
General August is there, having es-
caped from Manila on the previous
Saturday. The story is that Admiral
Dewey demanded the surrender OF
Manila within an hour. The Span
iards refused to surrender and Admir-
al Dewey began a bombardment.
Shortly after the bombardment COM
menced the flag was hauled down.
General August escaped to German
vessel which took him to Hong Kong.
There are no further details; but Con-
sui Wildman is satisfied that the above
story, so far as it goes, is true.
Joe Wheeler has done another
decent thing in disarming all criti-
cism of General Shafter. In a letter
to a friepd-A. w. Willis, postmaster
at Nashville, Tenn.-General Wheel
er writes as follows: I think the
criticisms upon General Shafter were
yery unjust. He has had hard task
and has performed it successfully and
we'll. He is a man of more than ordi-
nary brain power and administrative
ability. The criticism that he did not
place himself on the firing line is ridic-
ulous, as on July l he was carrying
on two fights at the same time, one at
Caney and one at San Juan. He had
some reserves, and had to place him.
self where he could see both fights and
manage the whole affair, which he did
efficiently"
Talk about cold blooded heroism.
One of the officers who charged at 81
Caney carried a camera in one hand
and took dozen "views" of the scenes
about him as he went up the hill. The
New York Press describes the incident
as follows: "He charged up the hill
at the head of his company in the face
of Mauser bullets thick as hail, and
with shrapnel shells bursting all around
him. and carried in his right hand his
sword and in his left a rapid-hrlng
camera of his own device. He took
- views on the film plates while he
was running, and when he and the
standing remnant of his company were
in possession of the top of the hill and
the Spaniards were flying down the
other. Lieutenant Wise turned to a
sergeant and said: Il think I've got
some pretty lively pictures this time.
If there was only some ice in this sun
burned country I'a develop them right
now.'"
At Walhalla, last Monday, says
T. Wilson Gibbes, Mr.. Featherstone
smoke with vigor. For IA years he had
been making Prohibition speeches and
his views had not changed one lota.
He had said that he had taken a
drink of whiskey as beverage, but he
was none the less qualified to talk
nrohibition. He had seen the evils OF
whisky and for years had not touched
it. He related an anecdote OF a BOY
holding on to the tail of running
hull. Some one asked him did he
hope to stop the bull, and he replied,
uI'm irving to stop him but if don't,
I'll slow him up right smart" Ihat
was exactly the attitude of the Prohi-
bitionists. When he spoke of the peo-
ple of South Carolina spending $S,0OO,-
900 yearly for liquor, Colonel Watson
asked him how much of that came
through the dispensary? 81 don't
know" he shouted, "and nobody
knows anything about this Internal
dispensary. With its beer privileges,
its blood letting and stealing all over
South Carolina, nobody knows and
nobody ever will" cloud applause.)
New York letter to the Atlanta
Journal: But there is rising star IN
the ranks of the Republican party
which may become so brilliant that all
others will disappear into space. l
refer to Theodore Roosevelt, heuten-
ant colonel of the famous Rough Rid
ers. He may be elected governor on
his war record. His boom is already
on, and his return here from the San.
tiago battlefelds may be the means OF
upsetting all political calculations.
The people of New York are given to
electing war heroes to Office, and they
NAV turn from the winsome trap set
by the willy party leaders and demand
a new idol-Roosevelt, the fearless,
the reformer, the man who rules what
ever he is connected with or else steps
down and out as he did when assistant
secretary of the navy under Secretary
Long, so short time back, when his
individuality got him in trouble be-
cause of his disposition to break away
from the shackles of diplomacy and
talk out on matters connected with the
war. The campaign in New York for
governor this year may we'll be watch
ed everywhere. No matter what the
result, New York state will demand
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