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Thc Presidential Outlook. A Canvass of the Chances of the Leading Candidates. Washington, April 17.-Grover Cleveland is not to be a candidate for another terni This fact, known among his most intimate friends for several months, is now in the posses? sion of the public. In reaching his decision the Presi dent is not influenced in any way by the political prospect. He has been discontented with his position for a long time. When he returned to Washington last fall, Secretary La mont told me at the time, with the greatest reluctance, he wanted to re main away from officiai cares and perplexities. He is getting now to be a man well along in life and has had more than one man's share of arduous responsibilities. He wants to rest. In addition to this Mrs. Cleveland is anxious to take her growing children away from the atmosphere of the White House and give some time to their better train ing and education. At present, as can readily be imagined, her social duties are most exacting. So that, if Mr Cleveland's per sonal wishes are alone to be con? sidered, he will be only too glad to be retired to private life. It is re? markable to note, however, the gen? eral sentiment from all sections of the country that he will again be called upon to lead his party. Theie iis certainly an almost unanimous be? lief in Washington that if he sound money men control the next National Democratic Convention they will place Cleveland's name at the head of the ticket. There is some talk, of | course, about the folly of third term- J ism, but it is remarkable how little the fear of an anti-third term feeling affects the friends of Cleveland An interview published in a local paper to day with a prominent Democrat of Cedar Rapids, Ia , quotes him as say? ing that Cleveland ie the first choice of many, and the second choice of nearly all the Iowa Democrats. The reports from New Jersey indicate the same sentiment There is no doubt that Cleveland still has a hold upon the people. With the vast majority of Demo? crats, however, the determination of President Cleveland not again to be a candidate will be accepted in good ai tb, even though their personal preferences would be for his nomina? tion. The question is : Who will be named by the Chicago Convention '! The President's first choice is un? doubtedly Secretary Carlisle His second choice is Ex Governor Wil? liam E. Russell, of Massachusetts. The infnence of the Administration is to be exerted in behalf of the former, but it is not likely to be effective The trouble is that Car? lisle suffers all the 'disadvantages of being a convert. The silver men, who remember how he was once a mainstay of their cause, regard him as a traitor and hate him with a bit ter hatred, while the sound money men have not the same love for him as if he had always been on their side. Carlisle could not get the sup port of a single Southern State It is doubtful if he could even carry Kentucky. Ask a hundred Demo? crats in Congress as to the possibil ity of Carlisle's nomination, and niuety-nine of them will reply that he has no chance whatever. A Kershaw Lynching. Charleston, April 20 -A special to the News aBd Courier from Kershaw, S. C . says : Tom Price was lynched near Westville last night. He was a recently discharged convict from York county and his discharge was io his pocket wben caught He was sen? tenced by Judge Wallace three years ago from York for grand larceoy for a term of three years The Barfield children, aged ll aod 16, were travel? ing the public road. Price followed them for some distance, wheo they turned off, he cut across so as to inter? cept them, took the little boy's hat and coat and shot bim. The giri, aged 16, screamed aod ran, aod he fired twice at ber, both balls passing through her dress. He was caught yesterday Dear Camden aod brought back. He was folly ideotified by the chil dreo aod had the hat aod coat ttill io his po88es8ioo. He oofessed his crime aod was lyoched at 9 o'clock last night at the place whera the crime was com? mitted. The little boy. it is rhoosht, will die. He was shot in the chest with a 38 Smith & Wesson cartridge There is no doubt that, the negro in? tended to outrage the giri. - His body was still haogiog when last heard from to-day. j Mr. Barfield is a very respectable farmer. The lyoching occurred two mile? north of Westville, Kershaw coGoty, on the line of tbe Ohio River and Charleston railroad The* remaining veterans cf the Texas Mexican war, sixty in number, are all m Galveston celebrating the anniversary of the batJo of San Jacinto. The public sentiment of Germany seems to be aroused on the subject of duelling and the emperor is urged to use his influence to restrict it. Johnston, Edgefield County, is at work raising money to build a cotton mill. .ategy. j - I Abandoning Everything to j Hold Maceo in Check. Habana, April 20. Genera! Weyler ha9 8uoceeded iu accomplishing what Martinez Campos and other captains geoeral have attempted in vain. He has built a trocha across the island and kept it intact for two weeks. That the present trocha is formidable, even the insurgents admit, but they profess that, it alarms them not at all. When Maceo passed through Habana province to the west, and Weyier sta? tioned 10,000 men along the 21 miles from Mariel oo the oorth coast to Maja na on the south, he cabled to Madrid announcing that the second in command of the rebel forces was penned up tn the western province. After staking his reputatioo on the absolute impossi? bility of Macro's crossing, he fouod ?bat detached parties of fro*" 100 to 200 insurgents were getting through the line at will. He then brought all troops frorr. other parrs of the island that could bc spared, leaviog the east? ern and middle provinces with forces barely sufficient for garrison duty, and practically suspending active operatioou io all but the western proviuces. This j concentration raised the force on the j trocha to 28,000, and gave 5,U00 more for use in flying columns, acting in con? junction with those on the line Thc troops were set at work erecting fort*, digging trenches and building barri? cades. The work bas been pushed night and day and the besttrooha Spain bas ever built now confronts Maceo. Through the billy country south of Mariel redoubts have been built for the artillery upon every eminence. Be? tween Guauajay aud Artemisa, along the middle part of the Hoe, forts and block houses, with earthworks between, have been constructed From M>jma to the south coast through very maisby land, a broad ditch, backed by a stock? ade, with b'ock houses at intervals, has been resorted to. General Ar?las, who is iu con? ma nd of the troops on the line says the insurgente cannot cross with? out tremeodous losses The troops are under arms night and day, but though they have waited two weeks. Maceo has j not attacked the line This fact has raised a question as to the value of the line from a military standpoint. To maintain its strength ar all points heaves only a few thousand men who can be used in aggressive op? erations Mace;)'.-i own forces with those of Bandera and Delgado, number about 15,000. They have been in the bills around Lechuza, 15 miles wrs< of" the trocb?, for two weeks. They have plenty of provisions and have Ihe whole province of Pinar del Rio at their backs. They have some ammunition, how much is not known They nearly wiped out of existence the column com? manded by Lieutenant Colonel Dehos, who attempted to drive them out. of ihe hills, and was himself driven to the ! shores of Cabanas bay. A second combination of flying columns has failed to dislodge the insurgents. Meanwhile the main body of Spanish troops holds the trocha Maximo Gomez has nccepted the situation, and has directed Macon to re? main in Pinar del Rio province Sev? eral large insurgent columns have been ordered into Habana provinoe from the ea*t. Ooe of these columns, number? ing 6,000 men, from Santiago province, bas arrived and is now near Quivican, 20 milea south of this city. Rumor bas it that Jose Maceo, brther of Antonio, is in command, but this is not positively known, lt is said that he has been relieved of commaod in the eaHtern districts, and General Calixfo Garcia, who arrived on the Bermuda, has been named as his suc? cessor. In Santa Clara, Serafin Sanchez, having proved himself incapable of handling a large force of men, has been relegated to seceud position, Roloff being given command in the province. Gomez himself assumer command in Cameguey (Puerto Principe,) with Rodriguez second, and Antonio Maceo is given commaod io Pinar del Rio An official decree making these changes bas been issued. Gomez says he is satisfied to have Maceo lemain in the western provinoe, as it keeps 25,000 Spaniards stationed on the line-.and prevents them from interfering with operations in other parts of the island. Gomez is said to be willing to have the Spanish troops hold the Hue until the rainy season sets in, by which time they will find ita very unhealthy spot Reports are already being received of Spanish soldiers succumbing to the heat, aod between the wounded and sick there are fully 15,000 now in hos? pitals on the island, j The stories about Gomtz beiug at j death's door himself are exaggerated. I He is still in command and apparently ! able to keep up some time yet, through bis age and the rough campaign through which he bas parsed have told upon him. Collazo, who landed in Matanzas pro? vince three weeks ago, and lost a por? tion of bis expedition, js now in Habana province. The number of insurgents now between t h is city and the trocha has aroused some alarm here, and Gen? eral Weyler has been compelled to move troops from A nemesia ott the 1 ne to Rincon, just back of Habana. Should Miceo decide to cross the trecha, there are 10,000 rebels on this side who could render valuable assistance. The trocha is built to repel attack from the west, aud were simultaneous assaults made upon it from both sides its mili? tary value might prove to be nil. How Spanish Sti ever, so long as it remains a barrier between Maceo and bis 10,000 men and the other 10,00(J to the eastward. Gen? eral Wey 1er accomplishes something He has won no itnp>rrant battle during his two months si-?y and he bas failed to clear Habana and Pin*r del Rio of insurgents as he set out- to do, but he bas stopped their movement east and west throngh th ? narrowest part cf the island He kept bis word in that and undoubtedly saved himself from iguo uinous recall to Sppaio, which was pending a frotoight ago. Clark. Like Poor Dog Tray. McKinley's Political Affilia? tions May Prove His Ruin. Nashville. April 19 -Mr. l\ P. Johnson State president of Illinois and a member of the executive committee of the uaticnal advisory board of the ! American Protective Association, is in ! Nashville. Regarding th;* dippatchcs j that. Congressman W. S. Linton says he is not a candidat** for President, be said : "Mr. Linton is a candidate for re? nomination to congress from hi" dis? trict, and by his own action or consent is not in any sense a candidate for the presidency, but in a Presidential cam? paign circumstances frequently arise which no individual can control. Men have been nominated for President and for governor whoee names were never formally presented to the convention The last noticeable instance is Governor Bushnell, of Ohio, where Major McKinley's candidate was defeated. Th'n was largely the result of McKin? ley's record an governor Tn my opin? ion, history will repeat itself in the St. Louis convention in Jane. Before that convention meets the members of the A P. A. together with the members of all other societies in the United States, will oppose the nomination of Major McKinley, as one solid mass, represent? ing over 4.000,000 patriotic voters, who cannot, ?cr. otherwise wheo rh* full record is bfforn them, a? if will hr?, wi'bont violence to the principle" they ho'? :is dear as their citizenship. 'Our order i* not in any sense at? tempting r> dictate to the Repuh?cao party whom it- shall nominate for Presi? dent. It merely cannor support McKinley, and we confidently believe the intelligent and patriotic men who wil compose the Republican convention will not run the risk of lobing 4.000. 000 votes in order to rater to a million aod a quarer. especially when from 95 to 98 per cent of the latter have always affiliated with opposing parties. Our order and its membership is op? posed to Major McKinley not because the Washington manager of his cam? paign, General Grosvenor, insulted and refused to meet a committee of onr national advisory board ; not, because j Major McKinley has appointed i few : r j mat y Romanists to pery offices io Ohio, j while governor : and not, because ho j declined to appoint a few well-known ? and deserving A. P. As , but because ? his political affiliations, his official re j cord, and many of his private expre* ! f-ions. c ly indicate that he was, dur j ing his administration as governor, largely controlled, through fear or con? victions, by and w + s subject, to the in flu*?n.'e of the a^erit* of the Roman ! political hierarchy. "He docs not and will not stand on an American platform. Major McKin? ley has by hi* record and affiliations shown that he has not the courage to stand on this platform." Tennessee's Exposition. Washingt' ?, April 20 -The ways and m^ans committee to-day ordered a favorable report on the bill of Mr. Washington, of Tennessee, authoriz? ing foreign exhibitors at the Tenues see centennial exposition to be held in Nashville in 1897 to bring to this country foreign laborers from their respective countries for the purpose of preparing for and making their exhibits, and allowing articles ito ported from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at that ex position to be imported free of duty, under regulations prescribed by the secretary of the treasury The sundry civ:! bill, as it passed the house, is the smallest since 1892, and it is claimed for the spnate com? mittee that the large increases made were due to the fact that the senate refused to appropriate sufiScient to supply the various departments dur? ing the whole of the fiscal year, which the bill is supposed to cover. The estimates called for ?40,473,653. and the house only appropriated $29,836 992 The Renate increased this by ?5. 121,850. The same bill for the cur? rent year carries an appropriation of $46,500,000. The senate bill is less than the present law by more than $11,500,000 and less than the esti? mates by $5,500,000. -^8- -. ? ? . ?ai-. C II Grivens, of White Pine, Tenn., hired a mau named Dawns to kill his wife, as he wanted to get rid of her on account of another woman Jeff Gardner, colored, was lynched in Arkansas yesterday. Congress did little or nothing yes? terday and there is no prospect cf adjournment in th'1 near future Ninety per cent of the Salvation? ists in St. Pool and Minneapolis have decided to join Ballington Bool n's new organizativa Y. M. O. A. Until further notice, thc Reading Room of the Y. M. C. A. will be open daily frort. 8.30 to TO P. M. Dailies, weeklies, monthlies, will be o:ind there. Also, the Library from the S. L. ?. has been removed to the rooms of the Y. 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