Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-07-09

passed a joint resolution uncondition-
ally admitting him on ito the charac-
ter and privileges Of American citizen
ship" and the senate concurred.
The bubonic plague has broken out
in Havana. Several deaths occurred
in the city last week among laborers
engaged on sewerage work near the
palace of the. president. AS soon as the
nature of the malady was determined
the workmen who had been exposed
were isola ed, their homes were fuma-
gated and a war was commenced on
the rats of the city. Rats are suppos-
ed to be the most deadly carriers OF the
disease. Surgeon General Blue, OF
the public health and marine hospital
service has telegraphed orders to all
United States port officials to be on
the especial lock out for all vessels
from Havana, and great precautions
are to be taken to prevent the bringing
of the disease into the United states.
All port officials are especially warned
to guard against rats. And vessels from
Havana are to be held some distance
from American wharves to keep the
rats from coming ashore.
THE platforms Of both the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties call for
the rigid enforcement of the antitrust
law. They are wrong" So declared
Theodore Roosevelt last Friday. The
former president said that in his cam
paign he would attack both parties
upon this score. He intends to take
the position which he outlined in a
speech at Oswatomie. Kas., years ago,
when he said that the great business
enterprises of the country had come to
stay and should be controlled by means
of close supervision by the national
government. To attempt to abolish
them he said today was futile. Colonel
Roosevelt also denied a report that he
had offered the nomination for the vice
presidency to Judge Ben B. Lindsey, OF
Denver. IF the convention nominates
me for president" said Roosevelt, 1T
certainly won't wish to have me name
the vice president. That must be done
by the people. The convention will de-
cide."
Christian Herald: The three-year-
old child of Albert Stepp, living two
miles from Canton, Tex, fell feet fore
most in a 13-inch bored we'll 60 feet
nf q
child could be seen and the little fell
low was constantly crying and calling
to his grandpa to come and get him.
The grandparents and parents were
wild with excitement and overcome
with grief at their inability to afford
immediate succor. Forty or fifty men
and women were soon gathered, all
anxious to get loop over the child
to draw it out, but with no avail. A
negro boy IL years old was let down,
and, getting the child by the sleeve,
both were drawn up half way. The
sleeve gave way and the child fell
back to the bottom. All were horror
stricken for fear the fall would GER
tainly kill the child. Then they tied
a rope to the leg of the negro boy and
let him down head first. He put the
loop of rope about the child's body
and then the two were drawn out Sc
parately, first the negro and then the
child. The miraculous part OF the IN
cident is that the child was only bruis-
ed little and not seriously injured.
- Senator LaFollette in a printed
article last Friday, asked Roosevelt
for the second time to publish his
campaign expense account or else
candid statement of his reasons for
thus spurning one of the basic princl-
plies of public morality and political
decency." When LaFollette made
public a statement of his campaign re-
ceipts during the Ohio primary con-
test, he called on Roosevelt to do like
wise. There has been no response.
LaFollette says in part: big business
is ever in politics, and is ever ready TO
place its funds back of likely winner
who is either subservient or is HARM
less. Special privilege puts money in
to the political campaign by way OF
investment. Roosevelt entered the
contest as a Progressive. He made
strenuous campaign for votes and
noisy scramble for southern delegates
on the ground that he represented the
Progressive doctrine. In this fight
he had the backing Of the steel trust,
Harvester trust and fiancial giants
like Perkins, Hanna and Munsey con-
tributed to his cause. His campaign
was characterized by riotous expen-
diture of money. Yet he has made
no public accounting"
The high stand, according to an
Atlanta dispatch, taken by Judge
John T. Fendleton of the Georgia su-
perior court, that judge should not go
out and solicit votes even though a
political opponent has entered the
field against him, has resulted in re-
markable situation here. Judge Pend
leton's point was impersonal-not that
he was an individual too dignified to
make a ward to ward campaign, but
that the judgeship itself was too dig
nified an office to mix into that kind
of politics. The consequence OF his
decision is that leading members or
the Atlanta bar have decided to wage
Judge Pendleton's campaign for him.
He will have nothing to do with it..
j. d. Fitzpatrick, president of the At
lanta bar association, will head the
campaign committee. and numerous
attorneys, probably including Luther
Il. Roosef, Jack ]. Spalding, Charles
r. Hopkins, Burton Smith and others
will have charge Of the active fight.
Judge Pendleton himself will not ask
a single one of his friends to vote for
him, much less the general public. He
stands. or rather quietly sits, on his
record. Judge Pendleton's opponent,
Alex. w. Stevens, a great nephew OF
the famous bearer of that name. is
waging an active campaign on his
own behalf.
- North China Daily News: A visit
to such a district as this cannot be
made without witnessing many har-
rowing scenes. The mortality has
been something awful, and at the hos
pitfalls pathetic sights have been but
too often witnessed. For instance.
wretched looking boy would appear
at the hospital. and in answer to in
quiries about his home he would sor
rowfully tell the tale that all but he
had perished. At Hwaiyuen. some
eight miles from Pengpu, the mis-
cry was to be seen at Its height. Walk
ing along the street at night one
would see people lying there. and re-
passing half an hour later they would
be dead. Some distance away one poor