Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-24
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
VIII Not be There.

candidates have accepted the invita-.
tions received by them. There is 6
pretty general understanding among
Senator McLaurin's friends that he
does not propose to attend any Of these
excitement breeding meetings, for sew
eral reasons, among others because nc
good is to be accomplished, and be.
cause it is not wise for a man to dc
what his enemies desire him to do.
The Wire Was Loaded.
Spartanburg correspondence News
and Courier: Saturday, the Rev. Pres.
ton Mills, colored, whose home Is al
Pacolet, was in town. He was driving
out in a buggy and two or three miles
from town he came across a telephone
wire down in the road. His horses
foot came in contact with it and |,
seemed to stick. In his movements
the wire was wrapped around the an.
kle of the horse and he fell like he was
shot. Berry Henley was close at hand
Not knowing what the matter was he
ran up and attempted to cut the wire
with his knife. AS soon as he touched
it there was kissing sound and Hen.
ley was jolted back several feet
Meantime the horse lay helpless, with
the wire around his ankle. Mr.. Hen
ley then took in the situation and with
help he secured pole and released the
wire from the foot, when the horse
bounced up and seem to be all right
During the storms of the week the tel
ephone wire at some point had fallen
across the electric railway wire.
Rural Free Delivery.
The following letter from the gene
raj superintendent Of the free delivery
department of the United States pos
tai service, to Senator Tillman, shows
that quite soon number Of new rural
delivery routes will be established in
South Carolina: "Sir: I acknowledge
receipt of yours of recent date urging
the early establishment Of the propos-
ed rural free delivery district, and note
your statement that your constituents
are very anxious about the deliveries,
and that you would appreciate any ac-
ton on the part of the department
which would crafty the natural ex-
pectations Of the people. In reply,
have the honor to inform you that, in
accordance with your request, the SER
cir
have been ordered into operation from
October 1st, 1901, and that the other de-
liveries will be put into operation on
November 1st. These are the earliest
dates at which the department is now
establishing rural free delivery SER
vice."
Latimer on Subsfdy.
Fairview special Of August 16 to the
Greenville News: followed Mr.. A. c.
Latimer to Wham's Lawn to hear him
speak. Found a nice and orderly
crowd there. There were present some
200 voters, besides numbers Of ladies'
mostly young ladies and their "gal-
lants," who seemed to take no stock In
politics. Mr.. Latimer, Of course. paid
his respects to Mr.. John L. McLaurin,
but he treated him in a gentlemanly
manner so far as 7 am able to judge.
He made statements about him which
or not. He stated that he was at first
opposed to Tillman; then afterwards
swallowed Tillman. alliance, sub-treas-
ury. free silver and all. and Is now
boasting that he is with the brains
and wealth Of the South Carolina De-
mocracy. He said McLaurin is re-
sponsible for the Philippine war after
Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet in
Manila bay. He undertook to argue
that the Philippines were not worth
their cost. Mr.. B., a farmer Of Lau-
rens county. took him up on that point
and rather got the best Of him. In
another colloquy he rather got the
best of Mr.. B. He undertook to ex-
plain to the farmers the nature Of the
ship subsidy bill by comparison, saying
that If South Carolina were to offer to
give to those who might build cotton
factories 100000 in 10 years, $4,000 a
year-it would be the same thing. This
illustration was unfair from the fact
that the other states are not offering
cotton mill builders a subsidy to build
cotton mills. After he got about
through his speech. whilst on the
stand, he was asked two questions,
viz: If it was not because the other
nations subsidized their ships that our
ships were driven off Of the high seas?
He replied that the other nations did
not subsidize ships, but paid them to
carry the merchandise. making other
remarks and lodging the pith Of the
question whether this paying of money
by the government to these ships did
not enable them to drive our ships off
the seas by force of competition.
When asked why the big railroad kings
were fighting the ship subsidy idea, his
reply was in effect, that the railroads
would be forced to build terminals to
points they did not wish to go to. The
general tenure of his speech seemed to
be to arouse the prejudice Of the poor
against the rich. Particularly the
South against New England. He said
New England had been robbing this
government ever since it had been
formed. That the government had
paid it back all it had ever paid into
the treasury and two dollars to boot
for every dollar they had paid into the
treasury. He claimed that the ship
subsidy would only inure to their ben
eft, would be money wasted and the