3P N r . s y&\sn 'i FORT MILD TIMES. VOL. IX. FORT MILL, 8. ('., WEDNESDAY. JULY 18.1900. NO. 18. CANVASS RESUMED Candidates Take a Fresh Start After Their Long Rest WHITMAN CHANGES HIS POSITION And Announces Himself In Favor of License. ? Clood Feeling Prevails Among the Candidates. Georgetown Gathering. Georgatotfn. Special.?After a rest of twelve dtiys the candidates met here on Tuesday for the purpose of reopentag the campaign. Doss interest, was manifested here tfiau In auy other county. There were not ovqr a hundred white men in the court house During the interim since the meeting it. Monck's Corner the candidates I have not been idle. Gov. McSwecney represented the State in the Democratic convention at Kansas City, but each j of his competitors was hard at work at home The mill district in the i Piedmont was the favorite stamping ground for the candidates for State offices. Barbecues, picnics and other gatherings on the glorious fourth witnessed the presence of windy, wordy candidates. The eleven meetings constituting the first quarter stretch of this open-tothe-world Democratic hurdle were remarkable sn t'nr :k lie nlwIUnnni! conc erned for the good order which j prevailed, for the thoughtfulness and independence ot thought manifested and for the sobriety of the people. There have hern no lines drawn by narrow partisans. Governor MeSweeney was not present. Attorney General Bellinger, hi. Timmernmn and Mr. McMahan were also absent. Col. Floyd was not here, either, nor his opponent, Dr. Geo. 1). Rouse Capt. R. II. Jennings presented his eluitns for the office of State treasurer and was applauded. Mr. N. W. Brooker for comptroller general wanted to go on with the reform which he hud attempted to inaugurate in the method of checking up books of county ofticials. Mr. Derhatn said if the people of South Carolina p anted him kicked out of office they would not give Brooker the job of kicking him out. Derhain ami itmnknv faimiaii n? over tin* alleged error in nulla bona taxes in Sumter in 1896. Ellison Capers. Jr., candidate for State superintendent of education, stated that McMahan is honest and industrious. but has trampled upon the rights of others. lie was applauded when he attacked MoMahan's appointing white teachers to conduct the State colored normal school instead of letting negroes run their own school. Senator Pcttigrew said that in the race for railroad commissioner lie is fighting nobody, lie will commence fighting after election?fighting for the people's interests. Col. Wharton spoke of Georgetown's bright ou^ook. called attention to injustice of demurrage, the charge of a dollar a day for use of car on track. Farmer nius; stop his plow to unload car. and the car often remains there empty for days. Maj. Barney Evans renewed It is charges that the people of Soutli Carolina are paying the highest local tariff of any State. This is because the railroad commissioners are either ignorant or are bought. Mr. T. N. Berry was a candidate on his business qualifications. no; on oratorical qualities. lie spoK?? in behalf of prohibition. The dispensary may lie a stepping stone, but the State has been standing cut that stone long enough. Sickness in his family prevented Mr. VY 1>. Evans from being present. Kthuredge and Mayll"M w re not there. \\ :tif N\ nitni:*i' was the drat at the bat This was he llrst meeting where there were white men 011 one aide, black men on the other and dogs in the aisle. At some cf the meetings there had been two-legged (logs. He was glad of the orderly way in wltieli he was reserved. The question of education is higher than that of liquor, but liquor has been made the paramount issue of tlie campaign. (J. wait Whitman, who has been suspected of dispensary inclinations. declared in favor of license?-not high license, but just simple licenseHe jumped on higher education by the State, giving $2ot),000 to keep up State colleges which half of the taxpayers do not know are in existence, lie said the "Tammanyoeracy"?the Evanses and Garys and .-o forth" lool. a.vs that he is not responsible for the support of The State. He knows that Gonzales is a heavy yoke on his neck, and he is trying to get out of it. "\\ heuever The State and News and Courier tell the truth, you may know that the miilenium i? at hand." exclaiined Patterson. Patterson produced a letter from Jim Tillman in which the latter declared untrue ail interview in the local columns of The News and Courier in which it was said that Jim Tillman had denounced Patterson, for arraigning the newspapers. Tillman's letter stated further that there were other inaccuracies in the interview. Patterson said he would not arraign MeSweeney in the latter's absence Col. Hoyt closed the debate. His candidacy, he said, is giving his opponents a lot of trouble. In reply to Patterson ho said that the latter favors the prohibitive features of the dispensary law, then why not prohibition? Patterson is also attacking the enforce mont of the very law which he (Patterson) supports, lie also answere.l Patterson's statement that more liquor is sold in Maim than in South Carolina. Patterson had compared the amount of liquor sold illegally in one irtato with that sold legally in South Carolina. How much liquor is sold illegally in South Carolina? Col. Iloyt i then stated that Patterson had falsilied his position on coalition. He had merely urged tlie prohibitionists in the legslaturc to unte with others to overthrow the dispensary law. in order to pass a prohibition law When the legislature refused to do anything with the dispensary he (Iloyt > had stepped baek upon his prohibition platform and is there today, without qualifications. Any man who says that he is today in coalition with any influences I and that he will he so influenced when governor talks foolishness. He then paid his respects t?? Clary. The latter is now advocating local option between prohibition and dispensary, and yet he refused to vote for the Robinson bill last winter. He twitted Walt Whitman for changing lik platform. Walt is opposed to the dispensary, he is opposed to prohibition, in fact i.Caere anything in the world which he is not opposed to? The candidates for lieutenant governor concluded the (innnlfln? r>.. 1 i ? ??? v/vm. Hlease defended the dispensary. He favored liberal support of State colleges. Init he was not in favor of the method of granting scholarships Col. Tillnian stated thai the education of the n< gro mentis social equality, u in alga nrnt ion and finally damnation to the white man. There are not a.oOP pure bred white men In Cuba, where the races ndngle in Sbrlal gatherings. Col. Livingston raid thai the river which pas.-cs through ids county slcirts the city ol Georgetown. He hoped that it would not he long until there would be bands of steel connecting Georgetown and Marlboro. Col. Winkler declared that lie believed in the dispensary, not as a money making institution but as a iui< <>i huihiuu, intemperance. Col Sloan, the last speaker, hurried through his speech, as it was but a few minutes until train time. He made a few local hits and referred pleasantly to Georgetown's growth. j Speaking at K.njjstree. Kingstveo. Special. There were about 200 honest farmers of Williamsburg who listened attentively to the political speakers here. It looked like a scrap when W. D. Evans got up from his chair on the stand and started across the stand toward Bnrney. ltut no accident happened. Gary gaffed Patterson and Hoyt renewed his charge that Gary is supporting local option now. but didn't in the legi.iblture, The ball was opened by Capt. Jennings. Dr. Timmerman was not here. Brookrr andDeerham warmed the boys up a little bit. Brooker charged De'-| ham with allowing treasurers to make settlements whenever the latter want to. Derham, interrupting, said this was untrue. Brooker said he could prove it in the record for 1897 in Richmond county. Derham said that he was contradicting Brooker's atntement. They agreed to talk it out at t 'Florence. ; Capers made the crowd holler b? assailing McMahan for naming a tlag i on Winthrop college for "a Yankee BuuiM-r wno was teaming at :ne sumi mer school. McMahan was not her if. Col. Floyd said WUlinmsburg had boon one o/ the banner counties. He wanted to keep its support. Dr. Rous?* was absent. Th.e candidates for Railroad Commissioners made about their usual . speeches. j Gary was the first speaker for the i office of governor. He for the first time referred to the fact that he has no papers backing hint up. He'reiterated his support of the dispensary, and jumped on prohibition, out advo rated local option between the two. He produced the record showing that he had voted for the Archer bill as amended by Winkler so as to allow cigch county the right to establish or to remove dispensaries. Col. Hoyt said he had not referred to the Archer bill, but to tlie bill prepared by Mr. Robinson cf Anderson, which provided for a vote etweon d;s " pensary and prohibition. Gary charged coalition between blind tigers and Ijm uiiiuii mil id sqiiffir nit" me mil OI the dispensary. He accorded Si I honor to honest prohibitionists, but .vanted honest men not to lie persuaded to vote for prohibition. He again stated that factional lines had been drawn against him as he was a Gary and a Tillmanite. He wants to be measured as an individual. Patterson began by saying that .while Mr. Gary is discussing local option, he would discu.-s the dispenar.v. Nobody in the campaign has said anything about tlie Gar.vs holding ofttce until yesterday, when Walt Whitman said something ahout it. Nobody is attacking Gary for supporting Tillman. He said that Gary didn't have the courage to come out in favor of the dispensary at Charleston. Gary?That is absolutely untrue. Patterson said that at Charleston he had asked Gary if the latter wsui n favor of high lieense for Churn ston, tad the latter riid that his position was understood by the crowd Gary?I asked the crowd if they, wanted me to explain my position iftain. and they said no. Patterson?But the people of South arollna must have an explanation. Gary?The people know how 1 stand. You are the only one who does not, and you haven't got the hi.sin.-, to take it in. I can't give thcnt to you. Patterson then paid his respect to prohibition. Everybody in South Carolina knows that if Gonzales take up a fellow It heats that lellow. ami so Col. Hoyt says he did not s" U tl port of Gonzales. Patterson then hrg:.n on ii ;- a> :i ey. making the same < !i;?: . t>f n that the editor of the county paper could he bought for a "dollar and n half a year? As to granting I'uitod States licenses, how could any power stop the granting of them. The constables get a list of those holding licenses and trail them, but it is imposibie to absolutely enforce the law in a seaport neyi eon Id not go around like Patterson looking for blind tigers. He could not force the grand jury in Charleston any n ore than Patterson when a prohibitionist could prevent the grand Jury of Darn well from tlirowin gout the war. ants which Patterson placed in tin ii bands. McSweeney defended his record and < said the dispensary 1^' had been en- j forred better than ever before and without bloodshed. Col. lioyt said there were admirn- I ble features iu the dispensary law as j compared with the barrooms. Hut the IK Hltic VfliA l .. < >. #1 ! i.... .n U.IOUVT I.mil in." Illt-rilllg Ul Spartanburg, i The candidates for railroad commissioner made their regular speeches. W D. Evans replied to charges that rate on fcotton is driving mills away by saying that $!*.0()0.00u has been projected in cotton mills in this State this year and Augusta mill men are : establishing a bleachery here, j Wharton had been here :!0 years ago as a Confederate soldier and a few years ago voted for formation of Flor- ! enee county. Why is it Hour can be Shipped to Lake City S cents cheaper than to Florence? lie wants to stop ! demurrage, I Harney Evans sailed into W. IV | again. W. I), had chaperoned the . ' .Jim Crow car amendments with uni1 form passenger rates in last legislature. W. I>. replied that he had not J been before the legislative commit!* . 1 at all. He retorted Harney's own 1 brother voted for the bill. ' Harney disclaimed responsibility for . was generously applauded. T. M. Hcrry made a prohibition talk i an I said a practical prohibitionist in, a safe business man. W. I). Mayflcld contended that cotton mills in upper Carolina are sending to Albany for cotton on account of local rates. Mr. .1. E. Pettlgrew was at home and j courteously declined to speak, but wel; oomed the candidates to Florence. Patterson was the first speaker in ' the gubernatorial tourney. Gov. MeSweeney was not here, lie I sent the following: "A bouncing baby boy arrived at the mansion early this morning. Request county children to present my best wishes to the Democracy of Florence and my regrets at not being able to attend meeting." Col. Hoyt. was received with cheering. lie was forced to omit discussion of other issues and confine himself to the liquor question, as his opponents had devoted so much time to him demonstration. 11o was glad that Pfe Doe and Piedmont are alike progressive and steadfast to tlm landmarks of Denux racy. After the recess the candidates for lieutenant governor spoke. Kurh improves daily in his exortation for sary; ditto f'ol. iliman and Col. Sloan for local option between prohibition, high license nnd dispensary, and %>l Winkler for dispensary with a prohibition loeal option rider. Dr. Tin)merman, who was at (liagstree. spoke here as did Cupt. Jennings. (}< n. Bellinger was cordially received sin.l made a pleasant talk to his constituency. The candidates for Congress: it B. Scarborough made a splendid speech. Norton had not done more than his duty in getting I'nited States courthouse for Florence. He himself and others had worked for the court house. Norton had said that committee work counted. Scarborougti contended that he could go on as important committee as Newton. At the'suggestion of Mr. Hnrtwell M. n;?r, m- upuiaRiH were entertained by the people of Florence at thoir homos, and the visit was enjoyed bfr the candidates. SAVINGS BANK SUSPENDS Treasurer of a Newark Institution Accused of Embezzlement. IIit? IVculiitioiin Amount to About * IO.OOO " lie Apparently Attempt* Smtitle When ArreMetl. Nowsitk. X. .1. tSporinl). In rouse 111 me snortagc of lichvccu $:;>?.( too anil NUUKMl ill Iln- funds of the Dime Savings Hank.of this city, which amount t'hnrles R. Westervelt. t he secretary ami treasurer, is chained with embezzling. tlie institution suspended payment. Shortly before opening hours, while the crowds surged ahout the doors, the managers held a meet inn aiitl decided to suspend payment of depositors, taking advantnne of the days of nriiee allowed savinns hanks under the law. Policemen were summoned, and the depositors, half a dozen at a time, were allowed to enter and present their hooks. Wonieu were admitted first. The majority of those who had come with the hope of withdrawing their money were under twenty-live years of age. Nearly all wore anxious faces aud several were weeping. When they passed in their hooks business cards on which the mini tiers of the hooks were inscribed were handed hack to them. They were told that they would he informed within a week that they could come and get the | books hack airain. In the meantime, the hank's hook- i keepers, assist eel hy a special force of I experts, will compare the balance in ! each deposit hook with the balance of the depositor as recorded in the ledgers. .Many discrepancies are expected. as Westervolt s scheme was to ' represent on his vouchers that the depositors had withdrawn larger stuns than they actually took out. The difference between the amounts entered on their hooks and the amounts up- | pen ring on his vouchers he is alleged to have appropriated. \o money will he paid out until those who are examining the hooks can learn the hank's exuet liabilities. I'res- * nn>.n 1....1AO > ...? mi .Minn .1 l wilVUl Nl ) > I I If * MM'Hn* ' ties are intact. The other officials of I lie hank anil the examiners corroborate him. According to the last annual statement the assets of the institution ! are Jjs 1.11 lo.'Ji!. There is due depos | Iters ?1.010,51 leaving a surplus of j $108,017.87. I Westervelt is fifty-two years old and i has been connected with the bank since 1871, working himself up front a i clerkship. He confessed his guilt to lohn II. Meeker, counsel for the bank, and a director. t Westervelt was placed in jyil and . held in $lo.OO 11 j lists almost prostrated him. The shock | ' >f his arrest has proved very severe to liis family. TRAIN ROBBERS' EXPLOITS. | | 9n. Arrslml uml Amillipr Shoot. ? Po- j licemini in St. I.ouix. St. I.ouis. .Mo. (Speeitil).- The cap- , aire of Mike I'onley. alias Doyle, at I Cairo. 111., one of the trio who held up and rot died the Illinois Central, limited, near Wiekliffe. ky? was followed by the arrest in this eity of j Charles \V. Itarnes and the daring escape of .lolm Nelson, tlie third bandit, after a desperate light with the otliccrs it whieh over lifty shots were ex- j hanged and Ottieer Murray, of Chi ago. Chief of the Illinois Central detective force, was wounded. Karnes confessed that lie went to the scene of the robbery on an Ilinois Central train and was joined there I by Nelson and a man named Dyer, alias Connelly. Karnes stated that Dyer ( ante from Still Francisco four months ago and < that the plot was arranged in this ' city. Admiral l:?mey Arrive* at ('liee-Koo. irn^ rofflij Admiral I{ente\ commMiuli'i' of tin* ^ .Viatic station. has arrived at Chec- J l oo anil is now in command of tlie >j Vinorican force in China. Olilo Woman'* Dramatic Suicide. A dramatic sniciilc took place at d ftallipolis, Ohio, when Mis. Sophia ^ Uurrison stepped in front of a passon- !j ger train and was instantly killed. > She was sixty eight years old. and a 1 mother of "1M" Harrison, a baggage ? man on the railroad. f The Iteuutirul Kulu. Mr. White Waahbrush, who was a. i event vomer, had been trading fault with the rainy breather we have had af late, when lie was upbraided by Mr. Shi'ic M. I'pp in this fashion: Hit doant beeonis you. Mr. Washbrush. who had so reeently adopted this as you' futuh abidin' place, to bo inukiu' slightin' 'marks 'bout de ever welcome rain we have been habin'. You see. de faek is. we who has been residin' long in de nateh'ral gas region knows how fully to 'predate de blessed intluences ob all dis beau'ful rain; for if hit wan't fob de rain we would hah no nateh'ral gas to bu'n, as you see we now hah. Hit's dis way: de rain falls in llowiti" quantities, an* soaks down fru tie groutf, an' fru do iM-.-M.iMn- im in- oritiistone an' ono thing anuder; whereumby' oomln' in contact will de 'forementloncd ingreejients dereby generator de gas. which is afterward lodged in do large nateh*ral resumvor underlyin' all dis kentry round about. An' nen all we has to do is to insert our hollow gas pipes an' do preshus stuff comes floatin' to us in de ready-made coudishun in which we now find it. Yes. sah, de rain ac ts on de natch'ral earthly ingreejients de same as do watah does on de earbide in yo* bicycle lamp."?Indianapolis News. . i?n i1 T-trt- m ^ SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 7?ntrat Ttme at Jim kionvlllo anil Savannah. Eiinti-rn Time at Other Points Schedule iu KiTcot May fith, ISM). Mixd'?l !ulv? M NOUTHBorxn. L.V. Jacksonville (P S) H Win 47if>, " Savannah (So. Ry ).. 1215p 12 05ai " Harnwell . <02p I 00a; " Bhickyilhi 4 lTp 4 1 *>u " Springfield .... 4 40p 4 .tHii Sally 4 4hp 4 47a. * r. Columbia '?iKm Lv. Chnrleeton. (So 11 y 7 Ii40; 11 >*)p ' Sunimtirvdlo . . 7 4la lJOOot " Hrnnchvillo S.Vm, 1 55t?l " Ornngi'lmrg ( - 7>0i* " Kingviile . ... ... 10 ion: 4 :w? Ar < oluinhiii . j ,j)l (K)? ft 55a i.v AtlKUSta, (S "iJ t*?:4J 3UUIJ (JJVJp Lv. Hrniitti>vUl? 4oa' :t illy to hip1 Lv. feiguttuia. . .. .j.. ~ nop r~7| Lv Aiken . _ . 3*')> i.v. Triton . .. T..~ IliUpj Johnston. .VJOa, 4 Upllilp Ar Co unihta. (IT D.) 35yp' io?. Lv. Columbia, ( Bldg St 9 iJOuk tl ltlpj ?i l.W * \N intisboro : .7 Hip' 7 Jtln .. Vihc?,?I 7 f?lp t> I'Ja 4 "rM ?l H21p H 47a ftr. vhayrttto . (i iop >t 40a. A r. Pan villa _. jfi Mul lTwp Ar Richmond . quor, t. JAp kT- Wikshingtoa L . , 7 8Sft| SSOp Baltimore 1 Pa KB) 1 (ili, n iip ?hllfkdolphia i U.t'iii j.Via N",w York . .. J 208p 6 I3? Lv.Columbia . iTioii : v.i Ar. SpAriatihurg ... I 3 lop 11 Aslpjville "l'?P -oOp Ar. Knoxvillo ^ ^ , 4 i.,a 7 -)|> Ar Cinninnuti I ; ?"75)p T4?ia Ar l."niMill.i' . . . [.~~~"|"7";iup . 55? houthoovso f,v-. l;..ui,viu,. _ , "" (.,(> Ly^ Cincinnati .... .." j. . TTS)H|~8U(ip Lv. Knoxviiio .TT~77 ... .. 1 isia! a Ashuville HOUtj litttp Spartanburg ... .. I! 4.1a tl hip Ar. Columbia ll&ip' '.M.'ip Cv jfew YurkUl 15a [A- kichinonci ~ n!^:> lUTiTS Lv. Danville . i r-a 4*i? Lv. Chariot"- . .. . . .. 8 15a|lOOUp " Hot-It Hill .... tl () .',-i 10 lap " Chester UltSn jlilp " Winnshoro . lit _'la 12 17>* Ar. Cnliimlmi. ( Hide St 011 i'm 1 JU? LvColumbia. ( U !>.).. .. 11 fiOu I mm Johnston . loitop l!i3p " Tronton . |ll00p I45p| A4H? Ar Aiken ... ~7&)p fr mm Ar. Ktl^oflnltl ^ 4U5plllt0a Ar. (irnniteviTie . ? fiOOnt l! lap <" ISii Ar Aneiirttii .. MjDUti! JKDU.V Lv. Columbia |Ho Uy7 4 OOp 1 Ii6? " Klnk'viUo 14ai>> uitta " Omnja-lnirK r>:kJew York Nos :KI iiikI.14 N<-\v Yorlc nnd Florida Bx[>ress. Drawing riMon nice pi in; cars b?tweer? Augusta and New York Pullinnn drawing-room sleeping cars IwiIwoeu Port Tlini|>:i, .IncUsoiivillc. Savannah, Washington and New York. Pullman sh cping cars hetw< n < 'harlott> and Richmond Inning cars between Char lotto Hid Savannah N'os. H.1 and IT S. Fast Mail. Through I'lillmnti drawing room buffet sleeping cars between Jacksonville and New Yora and Pull* man sleeping cars lroi ween Augusta and Charlotte Inning cars servo all meals onrnufo. tollman sleeping ears between Jack son villi* ind Columbia, enrollle daily between Jackson* inlie and Cincinnati, via Asnevillo. FRANKS (IANXON, J MCI Id'. Third V P.AMimi. Mgr.. Traffl. Mgr.. Washington. I? C. Washington, l> O, IV A. TURK. S H 1IARIAVICK. (Jen Pass Ag't.. As't Hen. i'lisi. Ag't., Washiugtvu. L>. C- At lantu, Ua WBm K promptly procured. OR NO FEE. fwnuut flvic- Faithful vl, j)