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Y VOL. XXVI. TILLMAN SPEAKS. He . Criticises the President's Door of Hope Policy in CONNECTION WITH THE NEGRO. Ballot He Says the South tlie to -y Menace ^Govern iuen^. of the Neffro in la Always u QimmI i bat ite 1 Senator Tillman opened ries in tbe United States Senate last week on tbe negro question. lie was discussing tbe Indianola po*toftlot trouble. In tils introduction lj£. said he propost^d to surprise his friends and astonish his enemies, if he has any, by being very mild and temper ate in what he would say: “If vye had knowh at the beginning of the civil war,” said he, -“what we know now there would have been no war." He inquired why the large majority of tbe law abiding people of Indianola should be punished because there was a small lawless and brutal element. It was contrary, he said, to the fun damental principles of Anglo Saxop jurisprudence. \ Replying to some remarks made by Senator Spooncr in his speech, Senator Tillman said: “It is not the dream of the wildest ass that roams over the >J5outhera States with a wax skin on that the Federal Government is Supreme," but,he said, there were (2f) Yxtgnate propositions which have ^— 'Ignored. ^ Aj said that in the South pt*ople .<e a constaqt reminder that-tbeir ancestors thirtv c five years ago were conquered. "We are perpectually re- minded.'^ he said, accentuating his words, "that we are in tr.e union. but not in it, (xeeut to pay taxes. The poison in the race condition in the South, he declared, lay in the ref eree system which had been adopted. The balance of power, the sfrid, in the National Kepubllean Conventions, was held by the machine of the South,aud that machine was composed of ne groes. When the people of the South, said he, lose patience and do "cruel, bitter, fearful, fiendish "and savage things, there is a howl from men who know nothing and have ,never been South of the Potomac, but have theo rized.”* _____ ' • Continuing, and addressing the lie- publican side, he said that if thU pol . icy of negro equality is carried out, and if some of them could be given places in the cabinet he would vote for them. "I will vote to confirm Booker Washington as secretary of anything. Let us. have a negro, a genuine negro, not a mulatto or hy brid. Then let us make them officers in the array and navy. Let us give them prorata share of all the good jobs, wherever they exist, without re gard to local conditions.” He said that nothing of the sort would be done. Mr. Tillman said that in dealing witiniTr rnmaiiuiii pi WiiTice 'ing^p^s- force us to face the alternative of a conflict of races.” The purpose of those who endorse the president’s door of hope policy, he declared, is that in time South Caro lina should become a State of mula- toes,- and in this even he predicted there would be more bloodshed than was ever shed before. “I beg you, for Cod’s sake,” facing the Republican side, “not to reproduce an acute stage of hatred*, whlcb will bring the two races together with the resolve of the whites to die in order to retain their supremacy.” Mr. Tillman said his newspaper friends always took great pains to quote anything he had said that was “hot,” leaving out everything that was rational, decent atgl-sane in their pursuit of sensations, and in this re spect a great wiong h^d been done him; “A lie,” he said, “never had any particular truth,” and lie would not attempt to make even-a.start to run down those that have been bold on him. , • s ' '7 Mr. Tillman said he did not want to see the African driven to the wall, and he did not want to shut the doOt of, hope in his face, but he could not consent to the dominance of that peo ple over the. whites. He then poked fun at Mr. Hanna and read thetttle of the bill be recently introduced to pension ex-slaves. “Oh, my God!” said be. "did Mr. Hanna mean that or is it a political dodge?” The effect of the bill was. he declared, to give opportunity to unscrupulous negroes to bamlKHizleand deceive their people by securing subscriptions ostensibly to further the interests of the bill.- He concluded by saying that ‘Mn propor tion as you arouse false hope iu the minds of these people you are only sowing the wind which will flame up Into a whirlwind latbr on.” *. * My. Tillman spoke for three hours He was followed by Mr. Carmack of Tennessee, who said t he action of Urn president in tbe Indianola case was not in accordance with reason, justice or the constitution. Tillman Gives His Version Terrible Tragedy. HIS STATEMENT GIVEN IN FULL. c The Other Tcetimony.Offered In Re buttal to that Offeretf by the Htate In Opposition to u Allowing Ball. Last week we published the testi mony offered by the State before Chief Justice Pope in opposing the application of James H. Tillman lor bail,' Below we publish Tillmafi’s statement ih full and other testimony offered by him In rebuttal. Read it and draw vour own conclusions: —times It. Tillman being duly sworn says: r *• That in addition tq the affidavit heretofore made by, him, he submits the following: That he has read the affidavits of Joseph It. Allen and Policeman Bo-, land, and says in reply thereto, that he did walk towards the city hall, all the while, at least for some distai - Melton’s affidavit and those of some others, thift it was Mr. Gonzale’s hab it to walk with his bauds in his pock ets. When be obliqued across, coming towards me, I again repeat, he glared at me, pushing his entire right hand in his overcoat pocket, and every indication and groui lieve, as I have heretofore stated he intended to assault me with _ tol. To show that Mrs. Melton is mis taken when she says: “He (Gonzales) did not look in tbe direction of Mr. Tillman; be was looking director at the opening between the inside gentle man (Senator Brown) and the trans fer station, to which he was Walking, and - through which I had slowed up to let him pass ” attention is called to the affidavit of Mr. Robert Lathan t wherein he states that Mr. Gonzales told him that he had glanced at my face. I deny In toto the statement which Mr. Robert Lathan says Mr. Gonzales made to Wtn in reference to how the difficulty occurred. Mr. Gonzales never said to me what Mr. Lathan says he told hkn.f If he did so state, I did not hear him, and no amdavtr has beun submitted by ,a n y the bystanders that they heard him say It. ,~ r Deponent avers that he has no re collection of any acquaintance with O. D. Black, who has made an afflda vit herein', and denies that he had any time referred to n the ptaltion y W8& *•. Deponent further says that hr has no recollection of seeing Mr. Gonzales, either In the lobby of the State house or in the senate chamber,'as it appears from the affidavits of other parties he may have been. _ *, James II. Tillman. ’efaonally appears John G. Rich- Jr., who being duly sworn, and says: Thai he is a mem ber of ihe House from Kershaw; that ic was inconversation’ with Governor Tillman and others on the evening of January 12th last in the city of Colum bia, and there,was nothing said by Governor Tillman that he can now re call with reference U> Mr. Gonzales, but he states confidently that Gover nor Tlllmiip did not on that* occasion or other that he can now recall make any thrpat of.any kind hgainst-tald. Gonzales. J. G. Richards, Jr. the while, at least for some distance^ conversation at the obliquing to the left, with his pistol 0 n the railroad train, Preston BvCalll- son, who u being duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is a member of the house from Greenwood county; that he recalls the conversations alluded to by Ion. John G. Richards, Jr., and here >y confirms the statement of Richards in every respect. P. B. CalHson. down to his side. That as welj as he recollects, he bowed to a man on the platform of a street car, whom he took to be either the conductor or motor- mini. a . . T J I am under the impression that I walked across the street car track at the end of a car which was standing on it. Directly after I crossed the track on Main street, Policeman Bo land came up to me. I still had my pistol down at my side. I do not re collect aii that was said by Mr. Boland or by ibe, but I 1 think his statement as to what occurred is near about right. I recollect Policeman Boland asking for my pistol, but did not wish to give it up ttnUl lie assured me that I should be protected, as I stated to him, I did 'nefc^vtsh to be butchered up. I think I was about midway, oppo site the city hall, when this occurred, then turned to go with Policeman A DEPLORABLE AFFAIR. Boland to the station house, and after turning the city hall corner, going down Gervais street, my brother-in- A School Teacher Shoot* One of Hie Larger Pupil*. A very deplorable affair took place at Inman in Spartanburg County tbe first of last week, in which Mr. Reu- be» B. Pitts, the principal ot tie* Itv- man school, shot and dangerously woupded one of his larger pupils by the name of Kd. Foster. It seems that on Monday Pitts had ordered Foster to stay ih after school wa^ dis-" missed, but.Foster did not regard the teacher’s words. Tuesday afternoon tlie request \\as repeated7 and aiong with Foster three other of the oldest pupils were kept in. The teacher and Foster went into the room adjoin ing, where tiie three remaining pupils sat, and after closing the door Mr. Pitts stated to Foster that he would have to whip him. Foster said noth ing. PittS secured a switch and be- yari-trr'?rtitkrtbe - student; -wlw way ident and postmaster general trans cended their authority in resorting to method whiclV were both tyranical and unconstitutional. He wanted Ui -know if in figuring up the purpose of their new born zeal "this wld blood ed, caleulative,' advisedly-taken ac tion" was riot prompted by a low mo tive. He charged that 800.000 nc- About this lime the door was shoved open and the three male pupils sur rounded the teacher. Pitts changed his hickory from hterright hand to the eft, reached with hhrrlglit hand into lis hip pocket and produced a 32 calibrejjistol. As he brough the fire- groes-are coercing 50,000,000 of white i people In the North to deal with 17.- *000,000 white men in the South in the inten«t of 8j000,000 ignorant negroes in that section. He referred Iai the cost in liV muney on account of the race problem ~ Ter this-country and addressing tbe Republican side, called, on^them to meet him ' upon Ihe’same plane of patriotism of race pride and civiliza tion and not to fall Into the pitiful cesspod-ef-parttsan politics.” He read frnm the, letter of the presi dent written some time since covering his views with respect to appointments lust to the president^ he said, but the views were supernciai. ‘ How little and small and infinitesimal." “Is the knowledge behind such view'.” / , He added that jibe people of the North have no more use for the negro at close quarters than he had. He cited instances of assaults by negroes "ofFwhlfce women and declared that the more the Northern people find out about tbe negro the less use they have for him. - The ballot of the negro, he maintained, was a menace to good government and the people of the North are coming to realize that the enfranchisement of him bordered on a crime. Reverting to the president’s utter- auces that he was unwilling to shufr and asked what wart he matter. I sai to the policeman that he was my brother-in-law, and he then accompa nied us to the police station. The magazine of my pistol had been broken for some time, and as I wasde- s rousAif having it repaired before re- urnlng home, I asked Mr. Fred. Dom- nick on Wednesday to take it to Mr. W. F. Stieglitz'srun shop and have it fixed for me—being then engaged in my official duties at the Statejiouse, and did not have time to gef to the j [unsmith’s. He said nothing to me about the magazine^ until the next morning, when he asked me for the jlstol, saying he had to take it to Stiegliiz to put the magazine in. I do noL know at what time he took the >fstol to Stieglitz nor when he brought Lto my room at the State house. He told me some time during the morn ing that he had left the pistol in my room. ' . - ; I^do not own a Pxince Albert frock coat, nor hive I worn one since my arrival In the City of Columbia. 1 wd-the*.Aod.ona. Brintie Alberteoaton arger and heavier in welgbt-Uian he. Tuesday, Jan. 13,19(fl, )Wr did -I MW \ Knut. 11 mn t P 1SWl ‘/l bl P P<**et, _nOf d d I atm in front Foster struck forward T n with his hand, hitting the pistol and 1 do not recaU meeting Mr.?. T. D. causing the weapon and^he-arm of the teacher to fail, and the gun was discharged. The bullet entered Fos ter's stomach. The wounded boy was carried to the home of~ Browrr, near the school house, where an "operation was- performed. Pitts surrendered to the. sheriff and is now in jail. Foster fs4uying at thfrlKiinf of death and'is not expected tb re- cover. L___ . . . i „ KOSTEK IS DEAD. , Foster died on Friday morning. Be fore dicing he “made the ToUowipg statement: The ante-mortem statendent of Fos ter Was r&atf as follows: Talbird # the door of hope and opportunity iff* the case of a worthy and competent colored man, Mr Tillman said at first blush tliere is not a man alive who would not agree with that sentiment, but he inquired If it ever occurred to any one that in opening that door of hope it might not he to shut it in the face of the white man. Thedoocof hope in South Carolina, he said, at one time had been closed by bayonets to the whites for eight years while rapine, murder and misgovernment ran riot with an abomination in the sight of man. x He declared that he did not hate the negro and that all negroes are not bad. Only a small percentage are >Uhty. Personally came H. L. Foster before. . me and made oath that he is a rest dent of this county, and, being badly wounded by a pistol in the hands of one Reuben Pitts on Feb. 24, 1903 and. realizing that his wound is con-lcurred and sidered dahgerous and might prove faj tal makes tiHs his ante-mortem decla ration: FirsCV that Reuben Pitts is principal of Inn^in graded school's that on tile afternoon of February 24, 1903, the said Reuben Pitts causec me to stay in after school was dis missed: after words he called me up to him and said he was going to whip me. He sent three other ABKetr boys out Of tbe rbom. He me why I did not stay in on the day before. 1 said 1 did not miss but one word and would not take a whipping He then ordered me to get up and sale he was going to whip me: brutfght two -switches from rostrum and laid one on bench; he gave me two licks I then grabbed the switch and told him 1 was rest and being patted on the back by politicians. He regarded it as his duty, be said, to his State to stand forever opposed to any idea ut politic cal or social -equality on the part of the negro with the whites. Continu ing, he referred to tbe adoption of ttye 18th amendment to the constitution, When you remorselessly stand by that, said he, “and say it ia sacred, you not* going to take it. He cjiangec switch Horn right to left hand and put his hand on kip pocket and drew pistol threw it up in my face. I then grabbed pistol and tried to knock It off; he then fired It. It did not weaken iqe at first. I did not know that I was shot and I caught him by the hair he again threw pistol up. I then began to get jreak and fell back on the rostrum aw Judge Buchanan came rushing up “ a ast at the Albion Hotel in Augusta, Ga. I do recollect having a conversation with Mr. E. J. Watson, a reporter for The State. butTdeny the truth of the conversation as stated in his affidavit As early as 1890 the saTu N. G. Gon zales commenced making misstate ments in "reference to me in the public prints of this State, and publicly avowed and published the fact that he was instrumental in causing my appli cation for membership In the South Carolina club to be refused, referring to me as cowaVdly enough to slander him anonymously, which .was utterly untrue. Again in the year 1893, when ,his deponent sent from Washington, >. C. certain dispatches to the Colum bia Evening Journal, the truth of which he did not guarantee,but stated them as rumor. Mr. Gonzales had him self quoted in The State of April, 1893, as saying that the statement was a falsehood without a shadow of excuse and also referred to it in the editorla columns of the said newspaper of which he was the editor, on the 16th day of April, 1893. That the hatn^ of Mr. Gonzales to wards deponent was personal. That under the pretext of doing public good ic hardly attempted to cover his mal- ce and vindictiveness towards me. From the time of my entry into pub lic life there has been an Incessant coarse, brutal, and unreasoning ar raignment of your deponent.' Even stop on Main street near- the steel street as if expecting some , one tq jass.” 1 was not looking for any one in whom I was interested to pass me The affiant F, W. Smith F am inform ed is a boy 12 years old, and Vedder Lancaster on the 14th day of January, 1903, but if he did see me, he could not lave seen a pistol “sticking out from the (my) rear coat pocket,” as I did pistol 1 had in Columbia being broken as above stated: That Mr. S. J. Young may be correct wheh he states he saw me “about 12 feet from thetnsideof the pavemen^” and 1 may have had my pistol eleva ted. I know 1 did not have it pointed at. N. Gonzales, but I was looking at hitn, momentarily expecting him to fire upon me, and when he did not do so l lowered it to my side. In reference to-the statement of Ar- ledge Lyles who, I have been informs s a boy ■about 12 or 14 years of age,- do know that after having tired anc the tire not being returned, Flowered my pistol, as by that time Senator or in November late as July 31,1902, there appeared Tbe State an editorial of abuse, which Ithough beaded “Partly Persona 'artly Public,” was Indeed all person al. An arraignment of your deponent is made, beginning with the year 1890 down through tbe service in the army and up to said date, filled with bruta insinuations, coarse perversion of facts and false insinuations of tbe actini and doings of yoiir deponent. That the issue of Tbe Statejof April 1,1902 four colums of vituperation and abuse were devoted to your deponent: on August 2, thqrt columns on the eaito- jj.aLu ; twu xd/^iUiflealiiJuu iiud .ahus&uia ugust 8, one column; and almost daily editorial comment from said date up to and including August 29 building ind “look up and down thir and even after said time. In The ” . m a. i - a. _ I ♦ r» l I n»v\ no All. State’s survey, editorial columns, Au gust 26,1902, he refers to your depo- ‘ as "reelingsoff miles of lies” and heat: ^conf money entrusted to him* for the tlon ot a monument to the Confeder ate dead,” And on August 29,1902 after the result or the elections hac been declared it is stated that your deponent was not a: gamecock, and never “fit” in the pit, “and if he was not have a pistol with me—the only* found dead there, his remains must as have been thrown in after his demise .from excessive wpeplng.” In the same issue, referring to an occurrence Gaffney, S. C., he refers to your depo nent a&A braggart, and a spotted can didato/and eulogizes E: F. DeCamp who hatL brought on the trouble, “one of the first printers to stick for The State. He WIH permit us say that he has handsomely maintain ed the traditions of the^japer.”— That prior to deponerii’s candidacy to the office of governor, to wit: In tb issue of The State of June2,1901, ‘ wrote a bitter,^sarcastic editorial of depo- cnl, undei.-lhi heading “We Plead personally appears Dr. I). S. Pope, who, being du' Before me uly swern, says: That" he does not know Capt. J. A. White, ind can give no opinion qa^to lis mental condition; that in the affl davit -igned' by him on the 16th da ■of February, 1903, before William iott, Jr., notary public, he gave his opinion as to tbS effect Of paralysis, but of course there are many excep tions tolhe rule; and it does not apply in all 6ases; that nothing but a per sonal examination of one so afflicted, arid knowledge of his condition before the stroke of paralyisls, could enable him or any other physician to say what the effect of such a stroke would be on his memory or otherwise; that in said affidavit the word "apt”isused whereas the word “may” is what de ponent meant to say. I). S. Pope says: That W is State senator from Union county, and was in his seat io the senate chamber a day or two be fore the difficulty between James H. Tillman and N. G Gonzales: that de^ ponent is not certain of the" day of- the month, but feels contident'it was Wed., the 14th day of January, 1903. That Lieut. Gov, Tillman was presid ing when N. G. Gonzales entered the senate chkmber, took his stand about where the seats commence on the main entrance of the senate chamber, and for fully live minutes stood there look ing over the senate chamber. That bis action was so strange, unusual ana peculiar that he deponent , noticed it; that be inferred this from Mr. Gon zales’ manner and fictions. James T. Douglass, / Personally appears Tillman Bunch, deposes and who being duly sworn, says: That he was told by Gov. Till man to take a certain pistol, a Poll’s 38 calibre weapon, from hip room and carry or return to its supposed owner at another hotel. After attempting MrVttodo so he had to return the weapon, being unable to-find any owner for the same, and himself carried the same do wn to the president’s. It there, where it was when Gov. Till man began to remove his effects. That he did nOt; tell Gov. Tillman tffShad left It In lire president’s room. That he did not know who was-the owner of the weapon, and does not now know. Tillman Bunch. Personally appeared before me B. F. Lewis, who being duly sworn, says: That he has been acquainted will) Richard H. Holsonback for a number of years and that he bears a reputation of being a truthful, upright and reli able man. ^ B. F. Lewis. Personallyappeared Joseph R. Att@n, MPN _ who being duly,, sworn, says: I am city auditor, and on the day Mr. N. G. Ganzales was shot I was standing at-my desk facing east, looking direct ly across Main street. In front of my desk and in front of me was a copper wire screen,the spaces—inches, and the glass of tbe window. Cbriseiprontly I saw Mr. Gonzales through the wire screen and the glass of the windaw. I was about 110 feet from him; find he was about 80 feet from the door of the street railway transfer office. 1 did not see the shooting and did not see what transpired immediately prior thereto. Jos. R. Allen. Personally appeared before me W. H^ Timmerman, who being duly sworn says: That he has known Richard H. Holsonbacke for a number of years; that he had worked for him .jmd’uixt he had always done his work faithfully; that he bears the name of paying his debts and rents on lands leased for cultivation. ' W. H. Timmerman-. Personally appeared befoie me W. H. Hall, who being duly sworn, says: That he is a resident of the cl ty of Camden, S. C. t and was in the city of Columbia on the 15th day of January, 1903. That at the time of the shoot ing of N. G. Gonzales he was standing on the corner of Main and Gervais streets, and has read the affidavit of R. H. Holsonbacke as to how the diffi culty arose and he corroborates the same is every particular. That .dur ing the evening of the 15th of January, 1903, after the unfortuate occurrence, bet--wi0fr-tira -salA-R.- Hr- Hoisoribaetec-;* went to the county jail and there saw Lieutenant Governor Jarrifes H. Till man, and told him that he had’: the difficulty, amLoarrated to ...... what the said Holsonbacke stated in his affidavit. W. U. Hall. DISEASE NERVOUS ST8TXK. Dr. Neaoin Hay* It I* Always As sociated With Mouldy Food, Bad Water and Uncleanly Hnrroundlnga. at Dr. Nesom, the State veterinarium Clemson College, is receiving" so letters from various sections to reference to staggers that he has found it impossible to Answer them fill. Jrtt, following letter Will be of interest to maojF^ throughout the Slate. As it is quite out of the questloo to give personal answers to all of tbe letters received from citizens of South Carolina and Georgia regarding , a horse disease commonly ,referred to as staggers, I take this method of say- fiad eport Personally appeared before me P. B. Mayson, who being duly swon , says: That he had known R. H. Holson backe for a number of years and that his general reputation for truthful ness and veracity is good; that he s known to pay his debts, and that de- la believe him on oath. -— J 1 . B. Mayson. ponent woul Personally appeared before me (de ponents stated below) ard being duly sworn said that they know Richfitd H. Ilolsonbacke’s general reputation for truth and veracity and that his reputation Is good and that they would believe him on oath: . A. P. Lott, C. A. Austin, J. W. Hester, J. P. Odom, Samuel Hyatt, Jas. G. Mobley, J. Goldberg, Tbos. Holmes, J. F. Fulraan, W. H. Hall, W. E. La Grove,’ A. C. Mayer. J. F. Murrel, A. E. Carpenter, M* G. Car penter, J. S. Bush, Malcolm Jackson, J.- W. Hardy, gillie Cogburn, Jas. Templesr F. Lr Sawyer,' Ct - -Wr’-Wtfc Before me personally appeared M. C Loriek, who being duly sworn says: That the day of the difficulty between Gov. Tillman and N^G. Gonzales he was standing en Main street; of the city of Columbia and saw the same and was an eyewitness thereto; that he has read the affidavits of Gov. Jas. H< Tillman stating how the difficulty ^llarns, G. .W. Williams, P. A. John son, J. A. Lott, W. H. Lott, J. E. “ Lott, J. S. Gulbreatb, U. M. Powell, io mm j Ct workman, Mr -Or Norris, Hon. J. G- Edmunds; W. T. Walton, J. N. Carpenter, N. H. Jackson, J. H. Cour sey, W. H. Carpenter, R. B. Carpen ter, R. O. Car peuter, C. B. Carpen ter. more cases appear every week, and just at a season when horses and mules are so much in demand for farm work it becomes -a serious question: The losses in South Carolina from this disease during the past year are esti mated at about 110,000, and It is prevalent in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and .JCansas. 1 had diagnosed the disease as cerebro-spl- nal meningetis nearly a year ago, but many ot the diseases did not seem typical ot Ibis disease. 1 have reoent- y forwarded to the bureau of animal industry iat .Washington six of tbe brains taken from borees itbat died of this disease. A partial rei has been received and the disease proves to be cerebro-gplnal meningetis,'? or leucoencepbalitls. * — * This is a disease of the nervous sys tem, affecting chiefly the brain and Is covering membranes. Most of the brains taken out recently have been congealed, some blood serum around the brain, and in either tbe right or left half of the upper portion of tbe braiu (cerebrum) there has been found a large area of degeneration. This cannot be seendn the surface, but If the brain be/^ut open what appears to be a large ulcer is found in the substance of tbe brain. This Is the principal losion and ia responsible for most of the ill symptoms. The symptoms are those of nearly all the other forms of so-called gers,” and death generally follows one or two days if not very soon after the disease Is noticed. The eauae of tbe disease is not well understood, but is always associated with mouldy food, bad water and unclean surround ings. •- The remedy Is to avoid the causes, use only tbe best food, pore water and keep tbe animals under -the beat oX^ooBdlUoaa^ia-ta ! n one case -1 saw where a number of occurred and that his recollection coin-1 11. A. Turner, J. M. Paul, P. L. Brog- cfdes and agrees with that statement the statement of R.^EL ^telsonbaCke; that he recalls particularly the atti tude of N. G. Gonzales dh that occasion and fully expected to see him open fire upon Gov. Tillman, as his every movement and every appearance so ndicated, and from his actions at the lay he'believed and believes now that the said N. G. Gonzales was armed and was Intending to shoot Gov. Tlll- that’he (Gfipzales) was about to draw pistol. K.M- G- LorM,.. zaTesTFcfo noire member saying'. “You will let me alone now.” I do know that-1 did go as Arledge Lyles says he street, obliquing, looking in the direction where the difficulty oc- at Mr. Gonzales, until I for a Sporting Statesman/* hat got to the street car track and c, it, and it was about this time Policeman Boland came up. donoV know Mr. C. M. Lide, who states lie was walking behind Mr. Gon zales and in the same*tlirection Mr. Lide states: "That he (referring to me) maintained that position with his hahds inxhis overcoat pockets until just before ne had fired the shot here- inafterwards\ described.He also states:^ “When just he (Gonzales) Ti was going around the three, on the in side of the pavement,Tillman being on the outside of the three, and near the outer edge of the pavement and hav ing both his hands in his overcoat pockets, the latter (that is Tillman) suddenly fired his pistol.” My over coat has no front side pockets, and it was therefore a physical impossibility for me to have my hands in my over coat pockets—the only pockets in my said overcoat being in each tail of the rear of said coat, and I had a pair of gloves in' my left hand, both hands be ing by my side. This statement 1 beg to verify by the coat which is in the possession of the sheriff. As to the affidavits of Abram Brown (a colored man) and of August Schied- eman, the same are not trfie in so far After all this,deponent submits that he was justified lu believing, from tbe writings of the said N. G. Gonzales, from tbe threats communicated to him, and from his actions when they met. that the said N. G. Gonzales in tended to make, an attack upon him, and his every movement as seen by deponent so indicated, and would have been so interpreted by any one possess ed of ordinary firmness and reason,and deponent again reiterates that when he left the State house .to go to his hotel, he did.not know that he would meet the said N. G. Gonzales. That when deponent first saw him he was glaring at him and continued to do so until he, Gonzales, was almost re also kept inlng f Raymond Wolfe who were io, who were in an adjolpfng room, come in when the pistol fired. Pitts said, as I fell down “J ust as 1 expected, you are all oo me.” He jumped up two or three times saying he was aw fully sorry about it. About that time Jessie Ballenger bad my clothee un- which is corroborated byjthe a of Melton C. Loriek, and W. H. and that of Richard H. Holsonbacke. I have only to say in reference to the affidavit of Mrs- Emma C. Melton that tbe lady ia mistaken in the position in which sbo places me on the sidewalk. I know nothing, of course, neither had I iliy knowledge up to that time, and #, lave none nor as is stated ha Mrs. him. . was almost up to That, the said Gonzales then obliqued across the pavement in the direction of deponent. That when he obTTnued was ihe time when deponent saw him thrust the thumb of his right hand into his overcoat pocket, and the pocket wfis pushed backward. That the said Gonzales glared viciously at deponent at the time he did this, and was cutting across, coming towards him. That deponent firmly believed that the said N. G. Gonzales was about to draw a pistol and fire upon him. That his manner, appearance and motions. were'Such as to justify such a'belief by deponent or by any person of ordinary reason and firmness, who had been slandered, vllllfled, abused, and threatened, as deponent had been. That deponent fired believ- to save him- 'stair- )w§ In A similar certificate as to. Holson- backe's character was signed by citi zens of Aiken county, as follows: M. C. •Whitlock, John R. Edison, don,.J. G. Hoard, J. T. Mayer, B. W. Hester, Samuel Hyatt, J. 0. Mobley, J. B. Odam, P. L. Brogdou, J." Hand, J. T. Mayer, J-. Flinn, W. L. La Grove.; Before me personally appeared B. R. TlUman, who being duly sworn says: That he is a resident of the county of Edgefield, South Carolina; that he knows the reputation and Ohafaetefqf Gapt. J.-A. White of the town ofEdgeffeld in said county and State; that case I saw mules died, the only bad environment I could find was that a lot of rank weeds had been mowed down around the bam and left there to decay dur ing a rainy spell or weather, Medical treatment is almost useless^ as the losions of the brain have al ready occurred when the symptoms are noticed and cure is generally out of the (Question when so nquch of the brain has become decayed. Gold shower baths to bead, doses of one ounce of chloral hydrate, one ounce' aloes, or for ounces of whiskey, may ayapitosBi hi^A iMli> When the disease appears dean^t*- whitewash the barn, and do not use a stall where a bone has died. If possible abandon lots and barns for two ur three months and N provide quarters elsewhere for all Personally appeared before me Philip Epstin who being duly sworn, says: That he was la the ball of tbe bouse bf representatives on the day of the felection of speaker—thinks It was Tuesday, January- 13, 1903. That James H. Tillman came into the hall, went upon the speaker’s stand and said a few words to the speaker. That he then came down from the stand on the northeast side and went out of the hall. That N. G- Gonzales was stand ing a few feet frdm the reporters’ tables facing to the southwest, his back being to the passage by which Tillman must pass to reach thq door. That Gonzales turned around asTill- man was passing and stared at Till- man with a shoering and bantering- smile of derision upon his face, and in a taunting manner. That Tillman apparently.took no notice of Gonzalei or his banterijpg manner but passed on by him with a sad and rather sub dued expression on his face. Phillip Epstin. appeared John E. Fiani- duly sworn, says: I got Personally gan, who being off tbe street car which was going to the river in front of the transfer sta tion corner. I got off about opposite the southern corner of the transfer station and the City Hall and about In the middle of the street. My at tention was attracted by a report, being forced 1 reasonable i fired ti & rehemslon that his life was about to be taken, or that be was about to receive serious bodily barm, and still so believes.- Deponent furtbev says in reference to seeing Mr. Gonzales near a commit tee room in tbe State bouse at tbe time mentioned In tbe affidavits of Robert Latban and E. J. Watson, It Is 1n mi which I at first thought was a torpedo. I looked and saw Mrs. EmmaiC. Mel ton; she ' was very much exciteu, was moving her head and body in every di- TUrreputatlou and veracity is high, ahd he (depon ent) would believe any statement he made. ' B. R. Tillman. horses kept on the place. (LB. Nssom, --re state Veterlnfirlum. A Destructive. At three o’clock Thursday morning Peak was aroused by tbe alafm of ire at the Southern railroad depot. Forty-four bales of cotton were and Personally appeared before me (de-, ponents stated below) and being duly sworn, says; That they are well ac quainted with J. A. White and know his general reputation for truth and veracity and honesty and fair dealing to be excellent, and that they would believe him on oath. That Captain White is in full possession of his men tal faculties and consequently knows what he says and does. W. G. Ouzts, deputy sheriff. P. B. Mayson, C. W.Odom, J. G. Faulkner, on fire- Tbe depot and nine store houses and warehouses were burned t# the ground. As all were wooden build ings very llLLl# was saved. Mr. W. H. Huber lost two stores and two warelMtuses. Mr. S. T. Swygert, stock of goods valued at $5,000; insui- ance, 12,000, and 1500 on house. Mr. H. W. White’s store was occupied by J. H. Bushard as postofflee and mer- cbantlle business, was destroyed. Tbe contents were partially saved. No In surance. — V M. L.‘ Brunson, magistrate; N. G. Evans, J. T. Patterson, M. D..; C. M. Wmiaaag^ county treasurer; W. A. Bird, county superintendent of educa tion; W. H. Timmerman, Personally appeared before^me W. H.Timmerman, who bejngduly sworn, says: That he has known J. A. White fora number of years and that his reputation and character have always been excellent for truth. , - W. H. Timmerman. never seen anyone Just as I looked and saw ny life. her, 1 saw Mr? Gonzales; he took a step or two, and seemed to lean against the building, then he recovered himself, and he turned and walked hack to wards his office. Mr. James Sims and Mr. A. G. LaMotte joined him when he got at or near the building occu- plea by Mr. Way; each of them seem- Personally appeared before me R. H. Holsonback, who being duly sworn says: That be did make a statement that he had something else in view when be came to Columbia besides a m Thom** Jefferson. A letter has been received by Gov ernor Heyward from the Tbooms J6t- ferson association of the United States, asking his cooperation and endorse ment of a project to erect in tbe city of Washington a suitable memorial to the man who wrote tbe Declaration, of independence. Tbe letter calls par* tlcular attention that there has never been provided such a memorial in any city of tbe United States. The asso ciation wishes the endorsement of the plan by the governors of all tbe'Slites. Capt. F. W. Wagener of Charleston is the South Carolina member of tbe board of governors of the association. which he re ferred was to secure a position as spe cial constable on the dispensary force; that, he was also trying to get a posi tion fcs doorkeeper to tbe bouse of representatives; that be attaches to Ibis affidavit letters from Hoe. L. J* [continued on 1 page 4.] Want the Dispensary. The governor has received a request jgBerafc for full Information about tbe opera tion of the South Carolina dispensary law, their purpose being to UUiodnoS' a like measure In tbe New Hampshire general assembly. Tbe governor will forward a copy of tbe law and copies of tbe official reports of tbe operations of tbe dispensary. Jfc V- V • /.. . ' < w - v