Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-01-23
souTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The house on yesterday killed
Don McQueens bill to reduce the legaI
rate of interest to 6 per cent.
President Wilson on yesterday
nominated George B. McMaster to be
postmaster at Winnsboro.
Mrs. Robert Threath Of the Ian.
caster cotton mill village, was burned
to death last Wednesday, while max
ing a fire in her cooking stove.
THE cotton mills Of Anderson have
adopted q system Of paying their help
on each Saturday, much to the satts-
faction Of employees, grocers and oth-
ers.
The commission appointed at the
last general assembly to investigate
the advisability Of the states working
It's phosphate properties, has advised
against the undertaking.
j. O. Little has announced that he
will again seek election as mayor of
Gaffney. Mr.. Little has previously
been mayor Of Gaffney, having been
succeeded by the present mayor, Col.
T. B. Butler.
- Reports from Washington are to
the effect that Senator Tillman has
been suffering for some days from an
attack Of erysipelas; but he is thought
to be improving and his physician
states that he will be able to return
10 his work within few days.
Gaffney special Of January 81, to
Charlotte Observer: At Wilkinsville,
Cherokee county, yesterday 6-year-
old son of Mr.. Chris Thompson was
crushed to death in the oil mill at that
place. The little fellow was playing
in the room near the elevator, when
he was caught in the machinery and
crushed so badly that he died within
a short time after the accident.
Columbia, January %: A resolu-
ion memorializing congress to repeal
the fifteenth amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution was adopted by the
senate this morning. after Its judiciary
committee had reported a resolution
with the preamble stricken from 1t as
IL came from the house. The resolu-
ton passed the house last year, hav-
ing passed that body overwhelmingly.
It will now be returned to the house
for concurrence as amended. The f1f-
teenth amendment, in effect, gives the
negroes the right Of suffrage, and 1t is
today as it has been all along. OBJ
noxious to the white people Of the
south.
Columbia, January 20: David II.
Coker of Hartsville. president Of the
South Carolina Plant Breeders asso-
citation, in his annual address before
the meeting Of the association here,
advised against planting long staple
cotton next season except in sections
Of the state where the marketing ia
cilities are good. THE growers Of
long staple cotton have been unable to
interest the cotton buyers to the ex-
tent of creating a steady and uniform
market for staple cotton" he said. Il
have done all could to second Presi-
dent Dabbs Of the Farmers Union, in
his efforts to better the marketing
conditions I believe proper system
Of warehouses would greatly benefit
the staple cotton market. Unless we
can change present market conditions
I believe that farmers should stop
planting staple cotton, and go back to
short staple cotton, where they are
not favorably located as regards mar
kets."
Columbia special Of January 19,
to Greenville' News: Governor Blease
in a statement today, declared that he
would veto any matters which the
general assembly might enact dealing
with the commission form of govern
ment, medical inspection Of school
children, any form Of compulsory ed
ucation, or the primary. The only
way these matters can become law, he
says, is over his veto. II propose to
stand by every pledge / made to the
people" he said, ION the stump and
every campaign promise have made.
and I expect to veto any form Of bill
that provides for commission form OF
government in any town or city In the
state, for the reason that I believe 1t
Is republicanism pure and simple. /
propose to veto any bill that looks to
the medical inspection Of school chill
dren and propose to veto any bill in
reference to compulsory education To-
cal or statewide. I propose to veto
any bill in any manner, shape or form
that abridges the right Of any white
man to vote in the primary. was
elected on a platform opposed to these
matters and / was reelected on the