Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-03-29
Scraps and faets.


ing I'm the flooded sections have
moved to other parts and livestock has
been driven to the hills. The SHOWS or
the winter have been unusually heaVy
and as they have not begun to melt as
rapidly as might have been the case
with more moderate. spring weather,
II Is expected that the floods are go
ing to give serious trouble all down
the river.
Washington, March 81: The DEM
ocrats of the house tonight In caucus
refused to rescind their action In
former caucus opposing appropria.
tions for battleships at this session Oh
congress. After a long discussion on
a motion of Representative Padgett
Of Tennessee, chairman Of the naval
affairs committee, to rescind the for
mer action, the motion was laid on
the table by a vote Of III to 20. Fol
lowing this action, Mr.. Underwood,
majority leader, moved that the action
of the former caucus eliminating pat
tleship and public appropriations De
made a party measure. and this was
carried by more than two-thirds ma
iority. MIR. Underwood made speech
against any battleship appropriation
on the ground of party economy. Mr..
Padgett, in his resolution to resclnd
the former action, recommended an
appropriation for one battleship.
Representative Burnett, acting chair
man Of the public building and
grounds committee, threatened TO
force a public buildings bill upon the
was authorized.
- President Taft on Tuesday sent to
congress a message urging the imme-
diate enactment of a law to protect
from private entry and exploitation
fields of potash such as recently were
discovered in southern California. The
president declared there was no law
full way at present for him to protect
these mines from entry and suggested
that congress would find the necessary
protection in a bill introduced by SEN
ator Smoot on March 8, 1911, which
was an amendment to the withdrawal
act that governs entries on puollc
lands. The president said that one or
the most acute problems Of this coun-
try Is that of the maintenance OF soil
fertility. Potash is an element OF the
greatest value in maintaining the FER
tility. The adequate protection OF the
beds already discovered and or those
that may be discovered hereafter, the
president said, will inure to the great
benefit of the agricultural industry or
the United States, and may reduce the
necessity Of continuing the present ex-
tensive importation.
In the Republican primary election
held in New York last TUESDAY Tor
the purpose Of instructing delegates as
to the choice Of the rank and file for
the presidency, Mr.. Taft defeated Mr..
Roosevelt about two to one. Colonel
Roosevelt made a speech in Chicago
Wednesday, and allowed himself to
indulge in some pretty hot talk. He
said that election was cut and drled
from the outset. To begin with the
law had been framed so as to leave the
full control of the elections In the
hands of the party machines, and
those in control Of the machines SO
managed that only their side could
have a showing. AS a matter OF fact
hardly a third Of the registered voters
of the state voted in the primary.
Colonel Roosevelt denounced the whole
thing as a farce and as criminal
farce. In short, he said, the election
machinery was used as unscrupulousl'
as in the days of Tweed: names OF
Roosevelt delegates were left on the
ballots, ballots were misprinted, were
folded in such way as TO feaze Vot-
ers and in numerous cases We're NOT
delivered to polling places until four
or five hours after the polls had open
ed and In some instances not before
twenty minutes or a quarter Of an
hour before closing. The election In!
spectors were removed whenever 1t
was thought they were not with the
machine"
= New York, March 27: The Wood
row Wilson headquarters issued today
a statement declaring that press dis
patches last night from Tampa, Fla,
carried conclusive proof Of the exist
ence of a presidential candidate COM
bine, having for its object the preven-
ton of Governor Wilson's nomination"
The dispatches which are thus inter-
preted by the Wilson headquarters,
stated that the Clark and Harmon
headquarters have announced that the
names of those two candidates would
not be on the primary tickets in Flor
ida, and that the contest there would
probably be between Wilson and Un-
derwood. I'm Oklahoma and Kansas a
free field was left to Speaker Clark
without interference by either Cover
nor Harmon or Mr.. Underwood" the
statement reads. The same Is true in
Iowa, Arkansas and Wisconsin,; In
Harmon territory Speaker Clark and
Mr.. Underwood are apparently work.
ing in perfect adjustment with the
is significant: CLARK VS.. Wilson: Iowa,
Wisconsin, Arkansas, Kentucky, Okla
homa, Kansas, California, etc. Under
wood VS.. Wilson: Georgia, Florida,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana. Harmon VS..
Wilson: New York, Delaware, Maine,
and other New England states, Ohio
and states contiguous thereto"
Lincoln, Neb., March 81: William
]. Bryan has given out an open letter
in reply to the letter given out by E..
H. Moore, Governor Harmon's cam
paign manager. In this Mr. Bryan
announces the basis of his distrust of
the Ohio chief executive. He denies
that he has accused Harmon of being
a tool Of Wall street." but says he has
labelled Harmon as the Wall street
choice and as a reactionary. Bryan
recites that the Ohio man was de
Serter from the Democratic cause
in 1896, came back into the party in
1900, but the next year was leader
in the movement organized in Ohio
and throughout the country to turn
the party back to Wall street" Har-
mon is accused of having sought the
nomination in 1908 through influences
from Wall street. That his political
strength has been thrown to the re-
dictionary side since 1908. says Mr..
Bryan, is shown by his opposition to
the placing of the referendum and in
itiative in the constitution adopted by
the Ohio convention. Mr.. Bryan then
adds that men are convicted of
murder on circumstantial evidence
and that it should be ample proof in
the present instance. He asserts that
Harmon has been for years attorney
for corporations in which Mr.. Nor
gan Is interested. He demands pub
lication Of the sources of contributions
to the campaign funds Of the various
Democratic candidates and states that
Mr.. Moore will find little Harmon SEN
timent on his visit to Nebraska.
London, March 26: A fateful day
in the history Of the trade struggles
came to a close early this morning
with the passage through parliament
by a large majority of the bill estab-
fishing in legislation the principle Of
a minimum wage in the countrys
most important industry. The mimi
mum wage bill passed it's third read
ing in the house Of commons by a
vote Of 213 to 4S amid scene Of great
excitement. The house of Lords reas-
sembled at $50 o'clock to receive the
bill and on motion Of Lord HerSchell