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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1893. _ - r-? ----- 4> VOL. LVIII. NO. 39. The Whiskey Rebel lion Quelled. Governor Him Addresses tie Troops and Citizens. ASSUMES CONTROL OFPOLICE Threats to Kill the Governor. BAND-BOX SOLDIERS. White "Winired Peace Xow Hovers O'er the Scene-But the Law Must and Shall be Enforced. On Tuesday morning last, at 10 o'clock the State troops were march ed from their quarters in the peni tentiary grounds to the State capi tol, preparatory to dismissing them to their homes. When they had been drawn up in line in front of the capitol, the Governor spoke as follows: Citize.x-sokliers, Volunteers, and Fellow Citizens : South Carolina to-day is attract ing the attention of the entire United States. The situation here is so grave and so anomalous that "~TC is proper for a clear and oificial -statement to go forth, and that an analysis of the causes, which have brought it about should be given to the public. As the Governor of the entire people (for I have never Bought to be anything else) that statement can best come from me. You all are familiar with the oc currences of the past four days the conflict between citizens ami officers of the law. You are aware of the contention made by those who are resisting the law-the dis pensary law-that it is an invasion of private liberty, that it is un constitutional and that it shall not be enforced. That contention should not be settled, as I have al ready said, by arms. THE PRIVATE HOUSE MATTER. Now let us look for a moment at the consequences. If the claim set forth that private residences shall not be searched for whiskey, is once admitted, it simply repeals the dispensary law, and it repeals it in an unconstitutional manner; for if whiskey can be sold from private residences, if a man's house can be turned into a saloon, if a private residence can be made a bar from which whiskey can be transmitted into pockets, or .by other means to regular saloons, and we are not permitted to go in that private residence, search for and seize contraband goods, you can readily see it is useless to pretend to say that we have a dispensary law. It is a law, was enacted by the Legislature and it is on the Statute books. I, as chief execu tive, have sworn that the laws of this State shall be obeyed and re spected ; and until the dispensary law is repealed legally SO HELP ME GOD I will exert all the powers I have to see that all the laws are obeyed. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, we will not dis cuss the reasons, whys and where fores, and advantages and disad vantages of the dispensary law that will be a political issue in the coming campaign, and you, the sovereign people of South Caro lina, will pass on it at the ballot box. THE DARLINGTON AFFAIR. When, unfortunately, the colli-j sion occurred at Darlington th news was flashed from end of Sout] Carolina to the other that an arm ed mob (hundreds of men it wa said) were mounted, in Dursuit o tho State's officers, charging then with having wantonly provokec the conflict and murdered innocen citizens. How do the facts bea out the statement? The constable! had discharged their duty, and liai gone to the depot ; they had beer sent to Darlingtoo because the sb who were on the ground had beor nearly mobbed the first day, hac to desist from the execution OJ warrants and return to their hotels and when the chief was orderec here with reinforcements, the mayor had allowed them to be in sulted, abused, and cursed to theil faces; an armed mob bad broker into the armory and stolen th? guns of the military company, anc the spectacle was presented of citi zens seizing the arms of the State for the purpose of shooting down officers of the State. I ordered out the local company, and the captain telegraghed me he had recovered the guns; not trusting his com mand ? ordered the Sumter com pany to go there ; when they re ported everything was quiet I or dered them to return home. Now when the constables got tc the depot, two boys, stripplings,gol into a fight, ene got whipped and ran off and got reinforcements and came back with 25 or 50 men (we don't know now many), armed tc the teeth; they rushed down lo the depot and picked a quarrel with the constables; the collision occurred, men were killed on both sides, and thc fault cannot be clearly placed yet, if it is ever clearly placed. Now the Mayor of Darlington said that the taking of the arras by the mob waa fun the same kind of fun we have seen slsewhere in the State. The armo ries were broken into here and the armory of Chester was broken into and some of the militia have been in open mutiny against the Com monder-in-chief and have refused toohey orders; but, thank God, enough were left to respond to the call-enough of you old soldier boys to realize tho danger, and know that this govermeut is of the people, by the people and for the people, aud no oligarchy ahall ever rule it again. You responded to the call of the Governor, and are here to uphold the law. (Cheers.) THE MAYOR OF DARLIXGTOM this morning, in an address, tries to throw the blame elsewhere, say ing I claim and exercise power to other Governor or executive or officer of the United States ever exercised. I cannot undertake to go through all tho charges or ex planations he has made. I will briefly show just what the facts, as stated from their own stand point'prove. These troops. THESE BAND-BOX TROOPS who have refused to obey orders (laughter and cheers), these sol diers turned politicians, and in fluenced by political raucor and frenzy have, by their action, and the men in different places iu this State, who have sent word to Darlington offering assistante, have convicted themselves in . the estimation of the world, and it cannot be disproved that they are lynchers at heart. The informa tion sent forth was that these men were to be hunted down and lynch ed, and not one to be left alive, and when I ordered troops to go there to stop insurrection, to stop this mob, restore law, protect life and property, and let the law re sume its sway, they wouldn't obey. The mayor said he had the right to arrest ; of course he did, but he ?had no right to send out a mob army undDr no officer, without tht sheriff, or some regularly constitu ted constable in charge of it. Let us look at. THE RIDICULOUS SIDE OF IT. In some respects it has the ap pearance of a big April fool but ihat it occurred on the 30th of March. I say these men were advertising themselves to the world as lynch ers, and that they intended to lynch these constables who were in the woods; none of them guilty of having started the row, they were galloping and hurrahing over the country, sending for reinforce ments and all bearing arms, but they have never fired a shot at a single constable. They waylaid coii6tables~at the depots, but have never seen one since the first fire (laughter), and it seems they didn't want to find the constables. If they were lynchers,as they ad vertised themselves to be, why didn't they lynch the man whom they claimed originated the trou ble, and whom they had in their power? They have slandered them selves by proclaiming that they would lynch those who had caused it, but would not lynch the man whom they say did cause it. TAE SCENE IN 1876. Now, 'gentlemen, it is proper for me to rocall the scenes witnessed here in 1876. Wehn South Caro lina learned that troops had seized this State House, within two days time this whole encampment back to the monument was black with indignant citizens I. was among them), but they were all of one mind. We were all brothers, we were all friends and Carolinians and patriots. To-day we find the State divided into two hostile camps. Why? Simply because the the minority are not willing to let the majority govern. The body politic is disseased ; it is in a fever. Why? Because in this city aud in Charleston the people have taken to their bosoms. A VIPER IN THE SHAPE OF A NEWS PAPER. which distills day by day poison into their system, and will not let the fever subside. They give me credit for nothing. In their vocabulary Governor Tillman'a side of the ledger is all debit and no credit. They try to sting me personally by abuse slander and misrepresentation. I wear a coat of mail which they have never pierced-that is an honest heart desirous of bettering the interests of this State, and looking to the welfare of the whole peeple. But fellow citizens this strained rela tionship between factions in South Carlina must stop must cease, it cannot go on without precipitating civil war. We of the majority fact i .n are" NOT TO BLAME. I deny that we have done anything except in accordance with the law and the constitution. These men who have opposed us, and are still opposing us must come to their senses and realize that if Demo cracy is to govern in this country they have got to submit to the rule of the majorety. These two news papers are like a thorn in the flesh which continues to fester, They will not let the wound which was caused in 1890 by the displace ment ot the old order of things and the establishment of the rule the of people, heal. They. KEEP OFEN THE SORE, they pour poison in it, and the" are encouraged,to do it, aided aiiu abetted in doing it by thus* who are forever and eternally blaming me with it. Well this patient is like a maniac ; there is a powder magazine not far off, he has a lighted match and is straining all his nerve to reach it. The collision in Darlington produced a flame, but it was gas and not powder, mostly newspaper lies, lt flashed abroad, flashed a light that il luminated the State and the United States, based on falsehood. The people listened with bated breath for a reverberation of the report for the explosion expected to fol low the civil wrar which was pre dicted. It didn't come, and it will not come; it cannot come because the people are in the saddle and will continue to remain there. (Cheers.) These. . MEN WC?LD DESTROY THE STATE. in their bitterness and anger, if thereby they could destroy me and through me the rule of the majority. It has been sent abroad all over this State and the Uuited S'ates that my life is daily threatened, that such and such men are offer ing to go to Columbia to kill me. One prominent citizen has had the temerity, or rathor the folly to tell Mr. Yeldell-of my own county-he came to Columbia with a shot gun Friday. TO KILL GOVERNOR TILLMAN. I will not give his name, because I do not care to advertise him but can do it when [necessary. Threat ened mon live longest ; a barking dog does not always bite. There never has been one moment when I foit the least uneasiness for im personal safety. My life is not worth much to me, but is worth as much as any other man's and rath er than desert my post to my enemies by leaving the executivo Mansion where ycu had placed mo I would bave gone out of it a corpse. (Cheers.) "Who is doing all this? THE BLAZING ELEMENT. the match which is trying to reach the powder, is the barroom men, the whiskey men and those who are egging them on, encouraging them are the rulers of the old oligarchy whom we overthrew in 1890 at the ballot box. This row which has broken forth is a politi cal frenzy; the blood that has been splilt is an offering to the Moloch of whiskey; they claim and declare that the State shall not control tho whiskey traffics, that they will resume their iniquitous trade, debauch our households, destroy lives, furnish poison to the people and make them kill one another, and they will repeal the. dispensary law by saying they can seli whiskey from their resi dences. Shall this demon who has already had four or five vietims have any more? One negro at Sp'irtanburg a white man at Well ford and three men?t Darlington, killed. I do not intend for him to have any more If I can help it he has had enough. In God's name as a statesmen aud as a leader of enlightened public opinion I SHALL NOT BUDGE ONE INCH from the position I take that this is the people's government and the people shall rule it. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, you may imagino in asserting this, that I am going to aggravate the trouble that in claiming the right to search privare residences I will cause an outbreak. I will tell you I what I am going to do. IN THE INTEREST OF PEACE. I am going to tell the State to morrow in a proclamation-the re vised statutes of South Carolina are a mine of strength, wealth, and wisdom fur a Governor who will search^ the.m" _an?_eAfpr?e..-therjx.; What would I have been able to do if I had not been able to con trol the railroads and telegraph, preventing them from reinforcing the insurgents and sending abroad lies to inflame the people? There is ANOTHER SWORD OF DAMOCLES which the law places in my hand to suspend over those insurgents or people who are pressing for this law to be annulled without process by the Legislature; and to-morrow I shall cut the thread which holds that in suspension and use it, and that is section 519, which gives me power in an emergency to take charge of the police. We have had the spectacle presented of tho offi cers of the law opposing officers of the law; those who have been sworn to support the constitution and the laws, disobey them, and aid others in disobeying them. If the mayors and city councils do not make the police do their duty, I intend to see that the police do their duty or I will discharge the last man of them. (Cheers.) A voice: That's the way to do them. I intend, as I say, to control the State in the interest of law and order ; I WILL NOT SURRENDER 10 ANY MOB or any whiskey element. If the dispensary law is good and proper, and the people want it, they shall have it, and those who don't want it must take it. (Cheers.) Until the result of the new move is seen I shall confine tho duties of the constables to watching the rail roads and seizing contraband whis key, and to watching tho police, seeing that they do their duty, and report to me whether they are do ing. If they don't obey my orders strictly, if the authorities of the towns don't co-operate, then I shall call the Legislature of South Caro lina together, and I will have the power given the Executive to re move these men and appoint others in their stead who will obey the law and enforce it. (Cheers.) We will continue to search private houses where contraband liquors are supposed to be, with warrants when necessary. We are obliged to do this as long as it is the law; it is the law until repealed. A voice : Why don't you obey the law yourself? Gov. Tillman: In what respect have I not obey et it? Cries of "Shoot him," "Shut up." Gov. Tillman : Silence men, and koop quiet. It is true if tho Legis lature is assembled in extra session it will cost money, but money is no object when tho rights and the lib erties of the people are involved. So there is an exlra session in ?fi sight to enact a metropolitan police bill for all cities and towns unless they co-operate with the executive and remove this trouble. In conclusion I will say TO THOSE WHO ARE OPPOSEn to this"- law to submit, to quit, to cease their opposition ; they must cease it.. We are not going to sur render a good law because they are opposed to it. I propose to uphold the law. I have never done any thing to aggravate the situation ; I never will. I cannot, I will not, I dare not allow the minority to come forward and say this is a bad law; we dont want it and will not obey it ; you cannot enforce it. If this law is thus annulled, then any law cambe similarly abrogated by a minority, and all law become a farce. We have thousands of other good men besides yourselves who are ready to respond. The people of South Carolina must govern the Slate, and those who are in rebel lion must get out of the road, be cause the train is on the track; I have got the throttle in my hand as Governor; I am going in on time, so-help me God. (Cheers.) EVANS READS AN ORDER. r At thek?onc?usion of his address Gov. Tillman turned and entered the capitol. Col. Mixon brought the troops to a carry, and the judge advocate general then proceeded to read as follows: GENERAL ORDER NO. 10. The emergency requiring the as sembling'of hoops at the capital no longer exists and the colonel commanding will return them to their homes by the nearest practi cable route on the first outgoing train. The commander of each company of militia and volunteers will give a certificate to the rail road conductors of the number of men transported and the point to which they; go, which wil be a voucher to the railroads for pay mander-in-Chief in the name of the State extends thanks to the gallant and patriotic soldiers and citizens, who at a moment's notice, dropped their various avocations and pursuits to respond to his call. Their action is a stinging rebuke to those companies which failed to do their duty ^in this crisis when civil war and anarchy seemed to stare us in the face. It shows to the world, however, when the masses of the people uphold the government treachery and mutiny cannot overthrow it. B. R. TILLMAN, Govern'r and Commander-in-Chief. Governor Tillman during the afternoon issued the following proclamation which speaks for it self and will become operative to-day. PROCLAMATION. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ) EXECUTIVE CHAMBER. > Columbia, S. C., April 3, 1894. ) WHEREAS, Section 519 of the General Statutes of this State de clares that "The Governor shall have authority, whenever in his jndgment it shall be necessary, to arm the constabulary and in any emergency to assume the sole con trol of the whole or any part of the municipal police in cities and incorporated towns, and to author ize the chief constable of the State or auy deputy chief constable to command assistance in the execu tion of process, suppressing riots and in preserving peace." and. Whereas, it is made the duty of and the powor is given said police to enforce the statute known as tho "dispensary law," but that instead of obej ing the require ment!? of said law, the said police, except in a very few towns, have been an obstruction and are ac tive abettors of those who are defying the law ; whereas, under the same statute the Governor is given power to appoint State con stales for the purpose of its enforce ment; and whereas, tho rebelious and lawless element of society have hounded and insulted these officers and sedulously educated the pub lic mind to resistance, causing several encounters, resulting iu bloodshed between constables and illicit whiskey sellers, producing intense excitement and danger to the peace and welfare of the State. Now tharefore. I, Benjamin R. Tillman, Governor of the State of South Carolina, do issue this my proclamation giving full and official notice to tho municipal au thorities of every city and incor porated town in the State of South Carolina and to the police and marshals thereof, that under the powers given me by said Section 519, the emergeecy contemplated bas arisen and does now exist, and that I do heieby assume sole con trol of the whole force of muni cipal police and marshalfi ot the several cities and incorporated towns of the State.. They are here by ordered to enforce all laws on the statate books', together with all municipal authorities not incon sistent with tho purposes of the proclamation. As soon as the emergency which is now upon us shall no longer exist I will re linquish control and restore the former status. By the Governor. B. R. TILLMAN, Governor. J. E. TINDAL, Sec of State. A Notable Accession. At the Aiken county comference of reformers held last week, Sheriff Holley, hitherto a conservative, gave in his adherence to the re formers. He was introduced by Dr. R. H. TimmermaD, a worthy son of a worthy sire Hon W. H. Timmerrnan. The following is Mr. Holley's speech : Mr. Holley was greeted with ap plause. He said in substance: I have been a farmer since I was big enough to crawl. I have been associated with the people of Aiken county many years, and I have lived pleasantly with them and they have honored me, though I have differed with them somewhat. Believing that records are interes ting, I haye preserved a copy of the ticket I voted on the 30th of August 1892. I voted for the list of delegates headed by D. S. Henderson-the Sheppard ticket; for Congress, Robert Aldrich, for Solicitor G. D. Bellinger ; for Senator, John Gary Evans. The balance of Mr. Holley's ticket was mainly made up of Re formers. I endorsed the call to get a_can^ did what I promised. The time Tillman first spoke here I was one of a committee to meet him. I found I had a little prejudice against him-thought he was sim ply after an office. I was not en tirely sure I Was right in opposing him. I never told any man not to vote for him. I have five boys, and they all voted for him. I believe Governor Tillman has made some mistakes, but no man has ever encountered the the op position he has and done so much under so many difficulties. I have followed his career closely because I wanted to find out if I was right in my course. It is the hardest thing for a man to confess being in the wrong. That is the trouble with this country. I believe all should come up and acknowledge. I have not been badly wrong after all. I have not flopped. I balieve I am on the right side uow. Yes, I was prejudiced against Tillman, but I am here to say he was right and I was wrong-here to say he can always be found true to what he says. Ben Tillman has not stirred up a hornets' nest but a nest of yel low jackets. Mr. Holley then made many pointed, sensible observations on matters of finance, covering mortgages, etc. He said he favored a dog tax of $1, which should go to the public schools. He believed there was unfairness in the exemp tion of certain enterprises from taxation. He had heard of cotton factories being exempted, but never of sawmills; he was very glad tho railroads had been com pelled to pay their taxes; he said the abuse of the officers of the law known as "spies" was abominable. No human language was too vile to apply to these constables. The good people are not in sympathy with this abuse. Tho Dispensary law is one of the best laws ever put on the books. I have watched its operations closely and am thoroughly con vinced. I hope I shall never live to see open barrooms again. This expression was tremendously cheered. I am not hunting office. I have good friends, many friends on the otherside. They are prejudiced. I believe I am right becuase I believe Tillman has done us so much good. The chairman said: Sheriff Hoi ley, are y<m with the Reform movement, heart, soul and body?" Sheriff Holley; -lI am with them for all I am worth." Then there was tremendous ap plause. BUTLER IN DARLINGTON. SOME SAPIENT REFLEC TIONS BUT VERY ILLOGICAL CONCLUSIONS, A Very Startling Position for a Military Man to Take. FLORENCE, April 3.-Senator Butler says : "I have come down from Dar lington where I have been the past twenty-four hours. As far as I could learu everything is perfectly quiet and the civil authorities pre pared to discharge their duty. It seems that a number of Slate con stables or spies as they are called, had been to Darlington for the pur pose of ascertaining if there was any contraband whiskey. In the search they made, they were sup ported by the mayor and civil au thorities of Darlington, as there was not the slightest resistance to this enforcement of the dispensary law; on the contrary the people of Darlington co-operated with the enforcement. This was prior to Thursday, March 29. It appears the forcf of constables or spies was increased on that day, by a re inforcement of about eighteen men, armed with Winchester rifles and pistols. Why this reinforce ment of armed men should be sent into a peaceable, law-abiding com munity where there had been no resistance to law, I cannot under stand, and I think the authorities will have difficulty in explaining it. It also appears that this armed band were about to retire from that community where they-had ..not .been jBoleF,ted:or disturbed,..when a personal difficulty arose between two young men at the railroad sta tion where these spies were. This difficulty, from what I can learn, was an entirely personal matter be tween the parties engaged and in no way connected with the execution of or resistance to the dispensary law. "One of these armed constables, McClendon by name interfered in this private difficulty. A citizen, Mr. Norment, at the depot on busi ness, made some remark, and there was an inter-change of epithets be tween him and this,man whereupon the constable opened fire upon Mr. Norment, with the remark, 'G-d d-n it, boys, let her roll.' The firing then became general be tween the armed constables and the few persons who appear to have been at the station by accident or on business. The result of this firing was that two unoffending citizens were slain, one constable killed and this man McClendon badly wounded, and several othi r citizens, among them the chief of police, who was trying to preserve order, were several times wounded. "The people of Darlington, natur ally indignant at the extraordinary and violent measures adopted by the authorities of tho State, were outraged, and upon the informa tion of this emute at the station they set out and pursued the men who they rightly thought had com mitted a wanton and unprovoked murder upon two of their best citi zens. They pursued these men, I take it, as long as there was a pros pect of arresting them, and, we must assume, bringing them to justice for what they considered an unprovoked homicide. As a proof of their conservatism, the wounded man, Mr. McClendon, who had shot Mr. Norment, was taken to the jail and there protected from further injury, although the people of that town were greatly infuriated at his conduct. "I think it may be safely asser ted that there is not a more law abiding, inteligent commuuity anywhere in the United States than the two counties of Darling ton and Florence. Now. it does seem to me that if I had been Governor of the State of South Carolina I would have felt it to be my duty, upon being informed of the occurrences at Darlington, have gone promptly to the scene of the disturbance and assured the people of that hitherto law-abiding community that they should have fair play. I think if Governor Tillman had done this matters could have been composed in 24 . .' '.. t ...... .:. - . v~:ir?':-../;; hours, aud whoever should Been proven to be in fault would have been made amenable to the law. In stead of that he issued a proclama tion denouncing thc good people of these two counties as insurgents and insurrectionists and ordered the military of the State to camp upon them. During my stay at Darlington I vas deeply impressed with the anxiety of both the citizens and the military to keep within the limits of the law. I advised as far as I had the right to advice, that under our form of government the military be subordinate to the civil power, and the use of the military arm was only justifiable when the civil authority was prov ed to be poworless and paralyzed and, I think, if Governor Tillman had or could recognize this Con- ' stitutional relation of the two powers of our goveanment, he would avoid mauy of.'the blunders which he has made. There are two ways to execute any law. The one by wisdom and conservatism and fairness, and the other by harshness, violence, and au over bearing diregard of the citizens. I need not now express any opinion in regard to the dispen-,; sary law, but I may say that, in my judgement, the Governor is attempting io enforce it in a harsh violent and ill-advised manner. He ought to know that tho Anglo Saxon race, particularly in our day and generation, will not sub mit, beyond a certain point to bo harried and repressed and pursued. The Coustitution of the United States and of the State gurantees the citizen against unreasonable searches,and is nothing there in the dispensarylaw that I know of,which justifies an invasion of this sa cred right. Governor Tillman must not imagine from the patrotic submission of the people in the city of Charleston, where he 3eems to haye practically unchallenged sway in the harsh execution of this law, that the people outside of that city, less accustomed to the res triants of municipal government, will quietly submit to invasion of their righ ts and it would be prud ent on his part to go slow in the rigid enforcement of a very un popular law. "I should not be understood as encouragingjin the slightest degree lawlessness or resistance in any form to lawful authority. The peo- . pie of Darlington and Florence, as a rule, have not resisted the lawful authority. There may be exception al instances, as there are in every community, but they do not justify the wholesale denunciation which he seems to have put upon them. From what I observe in both these counties there has not been the least excuse or justification for ordering the military to these points. Ho has done so at au enormous expen se to the taxpayers of tho State,and of course, he will have to look out for that. "While in Darlington, I advised, as far as I had the right to advise, that] the friends of the deceased who were killed in the emuto at the railroad station, go before the trial jvstice, make affidavit charg ing the accused parties of the offence which they thought they were guilty of. demand the issu ance of a warrant, let the same be placed in the hands of a duly au thorized constable or citizen, or where the accused has fled the juris diction of a^ warrant, that it be Bent to the sheriff of the county where they are fouud,endorsed and served by him, so that the parties might be arrested according to law, required to appear, give bond aud answer to the charges in the due course of judicial administration. If resistance should be made to the constable of the trial justice, and he should fail to make the ar rest, he should be required to en dorse such failure on the warrant, and then, and then only, the civil authorities should call on the mili tary to act as a posse for the arrest of the accused. "I see by thu papers that Gov ernor Tillman, in a note to Capt. McCaughrin of the military company, has stated that'the duty of the soldiers, and thc militia are soldiers, when called into servive is blind obedience to orders from his superior, and not to question them in any way,' To my mind this proposition is simply mon strous, and is not true. No officer is bound to obey the orders of his superior when tho order issued is illegal. Nothing is better settled in military law than that. Suppose CONTINUED ON SECOND"*YAGE?