. .. THE BAMBERG HERALD. ESTABLISHED 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY AUGUST 10, 1899. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. carried j bostbr Wife and Childi m of Lake City Postmaster to be Exhibited. ; COLORED PREACHER CONDEMNS. Young Woman From Boston Takes Them Off-Will Hold Mass Meetings. Charleston, S. C., August 5.? Lillian Clayton Jewett, the Boston girl who recently created a sensation among the negroes of that city by ^ declaring that she would come to Charleston and take back north with her the family of the late h'rasier B. Baker, who was lynched at ^ * Lake City, S. C., in 1897, with a view to beginning an agitation against mob law, has carried out her design. Miss Jewett arrived herP^friday morning accompanied by her mother and a young man named R. G. Lar8en, who is a Boston journalist. She had frequent conferences ^vith the Baker woman and her friends, and as a result accompanied by the entire Baker family, the mother.and five children have left for Boston. Miss Jewett said her plans for '" iim tt'uro vpf. form ii? tUC lutut V w V* v lated, but she hoped to hold mass meetings throughout the north to arouse popular sentiment against lynching and mob law generally. She did not regard her movemeut as an issue between the races, but was advocating the cause of humanity irrespective of color or condition. She said she was educated in Virginia and had some knowledge of the Southern people and she was well aware that the better element in the ^ South joined hearts with the better element in the North in demanding a halt in the commission of outrages that recently have shocked the ^ world. She said that since her Boston address was made she has received many threatening letters from the South, but to those she paid no heed, knowing that they did not come ~ * ? ^ 1 % from a source woruiy ui tuusiuciation. Miss Jewett paid for the tickets of the Baker family from here to Boston and she also bought a number of small articles of clothing for the woman and her children. ""X The Rev. J. L. Dart, a colored minister of this city, who has recently 6pent some time in Boston, returued to the city 'to-day and opw posed violently the removal cf the Bakers from Charleston. He de clares that Miss Jewett did not rejresent the better class of white or ^ I colored people of Boston. He says she and those who stand with her r. merely want to get control of the "|jf Bakers to make notoriety and mon* 2> ey for themselves. Good Advice to Girls. ' ' T 1J -?- * ~ 11 nnnnnr ?1 W18D 1 COU1U atiy w <*u y <>UI.6 girls, in city or country, beware of strangers. Never 6peak, especially when traveling alone, to strangers, unless what they say is said distinctly enough to be heard by all persons sitting there. The low voices of strangers speaking to young women or girls to whom they have not been m introduced should be regarded with suspicion. ^1^^^ Another thiug. Have no secrets ^^from your parents. Danger, if not actual harm, begins with secrecy. Be as opeu as the day. Your father and mother are certainly your best i friends. If you sometimes think they are not, you are probably wrong, but even if right while you n are young it would be much safer for HB you to have all your acquaintances understood. ; * Sometimes strangers endeavor to MM entrap young .girls by advertising that they would like to begin a ?| correspondence. This is the most ^ ? common means of leading girls r' > astray. The awful results of answerpr ing such advertisements as they have been brought to my knowledge \ by letter and personal accounts, and p"* . through reformatory and other insti* tutious, would arouse the American people to such indignation against the newspapers that admit such decov letters, that the wretches that - edit them would be driven from decent society. Never write a letter ? to a stranger, nor one to a friend .T that would disgrace you if it reach* ed other hands than those for which ' it ia intended. In almost every school there iE some girl bad enough to be in a rei. formatory. She may be bright and *. pleasant, but says wicked things and there are many who are weak so that an innocent girl may bt greatly injured by some schoolmate ?* The moment a word is said that yoi would be ashamed to have youi father or mother hear, renounce' tin society of the one who says it. Yot would be afraid to go into a roon with a girl that had scarlet fever. I would be better to have your bodj contract such a disease as that thai to have your soul poisoned.?Dr r Buckley, in New York Christiai Advocate. Happiness is always a memory o an anticipation. _ The Wrong Home. A ^feather beaten member of th a.-. tired rratermty, who had lost a leg an bad it replaced by a wooden substitutt stamped his way np the main street ( ~ T.anarfeshire village the other da W t? and paused at the door of the first likt ly looking dwelling. Knocking at tl t door, which was opened by a brisl businesslike housewife, the man bega f his stereotyped whine: "If ye please, mum, I lost my leg"And before he could unfold anoth< v word of his tale the sharp retort cam< v "Aweel, ye didna lose it hefe!" y "And bang went the door in his fac ?Liverpool Mercury. * Satisfied. Opulent Father-in-law?What ai < you, George ? Since you have inarrii you ?eem to have lost all yoar ambitio George?Well, you see, sir, I reach t the height of my ambition when 11 came your son-in-law.?Harlem Life. Poetics Squelched. B Weary Watkins?Oh, that I had t wings of a bird : Hungry Higgins?They's less me on the wings than they is on any otfc piece.?Indianapolis Journal. A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY . Mr. Herbert Ellerbe. a Brother of the Late Governor Killed. Latta, Auk- 5.? Last Thursday night Mr. Herbert Ellerbe, a brother of the late Governor Ellerbe, was killed while going from here to his home at Sellers. The story of the killing is a horrible one, yet the tragedy could not have been avoided, for the railroad is not to blame. It was Herbert Ellerbe's own fault, or, at least, from the facts obtained to-day from an attorney, it seems as if he was to blame. Mr. Ellerbe, it is alleged, went to Latta Thursday to sell some tobacco, which he had placed on the floor of the warehouse at that place. The prices did not suit him and he did not sell all his leaf, but decided to wait till next day. Late that evening: Ellerbe left Latta. He was walking on the track. Nothing more was thought about him until next morning, when an old darky reported to the depot agent at Latta I that a man had been killed down the road, the night before by a train. The agent visited the scene and it was then that the fate of poor Ellerbe became known. What there was left of his remains could be picked up on a shovel, for his body was literally ground to pieces, and th6 fragments scattered from the nfhor? ho was killed to Pee puiiib nuv*v ?.v .. Dee Junction, a distance of nine or ten miles. A piece of It is coat and a part of a rib was taken, it is stated, from the brake beam of one of the sleeping cars of the train, when it was inspected in Charleston. The clothing he wore and the papers found were all that could be used to identify the fragments of his body. The coroner of Marion county viewed the remains a?d?ordered the pieces buried. The inquest was adjourned until next Friday, the 11th, at 10 o'clock. The cause of which is that foul play is suspected. The remains were interred yesterday afternoon at the family burying ground, near Sellers. The*train that killed Mr. Ellerbe was in charge of Engineer Frank McGowan and there can be no blame attached to him, for it is thought Mr. Ellerbe was either asleep on the track or he had met with death at the hand of an assassin, and his body placed on the track. The deceased was twenty-eigth years old and was unmarried. Snakes. As it is customary with printers The Chronicle force, after hours, were having their good-night chat, and at this time the discourse was based upon the ever entertaining subject of "snakes." Several tall yarns were reeled off like spun cotton. A stranger from the far west who was paying the force a visit was a careful listener, but he did not coom tr% know much about snakes. He spoke never a word for fully three quarters of an hour. The stranger was a subject for sculpturing. He wore a red beard that closely resembled a torch, his two big toes poiuted and leaned toward each other in the most loving manner possible, and he chewed tobacco like he was doing it at so much a day. When he spit he would shut one eye. At last it became evident that he was loaded with a yarn; it was bulging in him until his eyes stuck out. Then he spoke: ''Gentlemen, I'm but a pilgrim and a stranger amongst you Georgia folks, and I don't want to say nothing rash. My mother put her hand on my head when I was the turn o'four years old and I promised her I'd never tell a lie, nor have I so far yet, nor never will. I'd rather die, therefore what I tell you is the truth, so help me." ' Go on, gdon," ahonted the boys as they gathered around him like flies around a lump of cheap sugar. "Well," he continued, "when I was livin' in Williamsburg, Kansas, in 73, a cheap John show busted in my town, and sold out its goods and chatties. I^bought a snake 12 feet long and the rise. I never bad no idea of startin' a show* nor snake ranch, but 'lowd that this snake would eat up all the rest on my farm. We kept him aboui the house, until he became a pet with the old woman and all the children?they ' are all dead now?and I hope to meet them in heaven. The dogs ' and eats never pestered the snake, , they appeared to know he was load' ed.'for business, and whenever my nniu/lort intn the I'ftrtl to Sllll I Oiiaivu vi ?? *v/v? ^ himself my old Tom cat used to skin ' up aTOfoot sj'camore that stood in the yard and sing a song, a sort of solo? 1 to himselt that was enough to fetch , out the fire companies. The cat argued that the snake had designs on ; his person, and that his intention ; was not honorable; but I don't know i if they were or not. "One day that snake swallowed I my eight day clock, and when I [ found the snake he couldn't look me r straight in the eye, but- every now and then he would wink at ine, much as to say, 'What time you reckin' it is?' I knowed he swallowed the clock cause I could hear it ticking ; inside of him. Me and the old * 'oman held a council of war, and we II decided that it would never do to kill a thirty-dollar snake to get a four-dollar clock, so the snake just r went on living with us like nothing had ever happened to unhinge his character amongst us. "T nlmnst foryot. mv clock 8 when one da.v in the spring follosvin' d I was diggin' in a sand bank of my J, lot and found some aigs?not hen >f aigs, but aigs about as big as goost y aigs. There was forty-eight of em >. an breakin' em one by one what dc [0 you think? r "Snakes?" sang out a chorus ol ' voices, m "As I told you before, gentlemen f would not tell a lie for all this round earth, and I beg that you'll al 31 believe me when I tell you that it each and everyone of them forty eight aigs I found as pretty an open e. faced silver watch as any man it this crowd would wish to carry. ' knowed in a minute that 1 hud fount my snake's nest, and right then knowed 1 had a Klondike in tha ? ?nake. I called him out two day e(1 later and made him swallow fort; n- pounds of two-inch augers, and ^ hope I may die if he didn't lay cor! >?- screws enough the next spring t start a hardware store. "Gentlemen, don't you believ me?" jj0 But the boys had all made a strea for the stair-case before he had fir ished the iast sentence. They fonn !at that they had run against one wh ier had beat the champion Georgi snake liar.?Augusta Chronicle. | TILLMAN'S DAY. THE PICNIC A SU CESS | Many Ladies and 500 People Present Synopsis of Senator Tillman's Two Speeches. "Dno?o on/1 TTnit*7 ?nrl Plonsurft in Morning-Firewotks and Ginger in Afternoon Senior Tillman arrived in the city Tt urs- 1 day afternoon and was met at tbe depot by 1 Mayor Hugbsoo ar.d Mr C W. Stansill if 1 tbe reception coi.mittee Be was takeo io 1 a carriage and escorted to tbe Marion Hotel wbere be was entertained Later in tbe after- 1 nooa he was driven over tbe city by other 1 memnersof tbe committee Next morning Senator .Tillman received a 1 large number of callers at bis room at tbe ' Mation, bis numerous friends and political supporters from all parts of tbe county call- ' iog to pay tbetr respects and shake hands ' kiib bim. ' At 11 30 o'clock the committee consisting < of Mayor Haghsoa, Supervisor Doro aod Mr ' " **' ?- - -n.j .L. li - _; _ _ I li. ? . siao&iu, caneu hi iue mnuu n nu carriages aod escorts! Sjottor Tillman and < Coogressmao Stokes out to Ricbuidson'e ' grove, wbere the picnic and speaking were to < be beld. ' At the grove a crowd of perhaps five bun ' dred were gathered. Tbere were at least a < hundred ladies pri-eent, and sea's were pro 1 vided for them in front of tbe speakers' 1 stand, wbicb was erected beneath tbe spread- 1 ing oaks that furnish a grateful shade from 1 tbesoo. < Sojd hfter Senator Ttlman Dr Stokes and < tbe committee arrived on the grounds, tbe * meeting was called to order by Mayor Hogh- f son, wbo made a few remarks in a happy I vein, welcoming tbe crowd aod expressing * tbe hope that all present would enjoy tbe I day, aDd then announced tbat tbe meeting I would be opened witb prayer by Dr J. A. I Clifton. t After tbe invocation by Or Clifton, Sena- I tor Tillman was introduced by Dr H. T. { A? bolt, as folows : I f i Fellow Citizens: ( Daring the eighteenth century ? there figured a man iu Great Britain | who conceived tbat a Reformation | was needed in tbe established church r of England Those high in authority , in both church and state treated him e with contumely The doors of the t churches were locked against him t Lie was abased and vilified And, as { he preached in the streets, and on the ( heaths around Moorsfield, London and f elsewhere tbe mobs would howl, stone and rotten egg aim, ana wim toeir nefarious and diabolical anathemas c pursue hitn like a beast of prey, f But this man 6rm in his couvictious t of right, and upoo whom it pleased God to confer those extiaordinary J gifts which command the homage and admiiatioD of meD, touched the % main spring which put in motion a church whose lever power is uoparailel g ed in the atmals of church history A ( church which from au insignificant j begiuuing has in a little over a s hundred years uot only equalled but ^ surpasses her sister denominations in numbers, wealth and colleges A j church whose preachers are found in t every towu and in every hamlet A church whose doctrines are preach j ed in the populous city, and to the { border ruffians of the far west. A church whose songs are suDg in the palaces of the rich and huts of the ( poor. A church whose missionaries i are found in every land and every ^ clime. A church whose parish is ^ the world A church which has restored the moral elements of human J liberty aud proclaims a free salvation J to all And where is Mr Wesley buried ? ^ The English people reaching the ( highest inspiration of which the high ( est type ot which the human race is capable that of according to an j enemy justice aud recognizing worth , wherever found, he reposes in . Westminster Abbey He sleeps with the kings of England He sleeps with the greatest men of the greatest uation upon which the sun of Heaven shines This act will 1 ever redound to England's glory, aud dazzle and blaze with all its meridian splendor aud halo of glory ^ Ak?./?n aa Iauct QQ UpOU UCr CSUUluucuu on ivug vu history records noble deeds And today there is not in this broad land an intelligent cbristiau of whatever name or creed but what regards it as a benefaction to the world that such a mau as John Wesley lived In eighteen hundred and ninety there appeared upon the political arena of South Carolina an anomaly in poii tics A man entirely unknown to fame A regular one gallus, wool hat horny handed son of toil A full blooded bay seed clod hopper and who had ooly gained some little notoriety by newspaper controversies, in which he always made his adversaries come off second best. He soon gained the hatred, malice and envy of those in hUthority simply because he advocat ed what Jefferson, Jackson and what , every true democrat should, that of ? equal rights to all aud special prm . leges to none A Government ol * the people by the people and for the t- people, equal opportunities to all. and that the offices should be divided among those who merited them, aud > not monopolized by a chosen few I But it was not uuiil the campaign 1 opend in Greenville that his mighty powers were developed, aDd, like > A oak of old lowered head aud I shoulders above all hie compeers 1 and proved himself to be an Olym | pian of O'ympia The opposing s candidates flushed with previous y victories, and intoxicated, as they 1 supposed, wjib superior intellect and k training laughed him to scorn aud ? expected after a few speeches on the e hustings to seud this presumptuous plebeian, this demagogue, this crank, k back to plough bandies aud cornfield, ' were he rightly belonged ^ Little did they know the strength a which patriotism lends when liberty strikes with every blow. For as e mountain stands while windstorms! roar so did he meet bis relentless I foes, and again and again sent them back shamefully beaten By the I subtiety of his logic, the epeil of hie J eloquence, the force of his genius, and the magnetism of his person be swayed the multitudes and soon convinced his antagonist and the couutiy he was no ordinary man. At the very first meeting he gen eiated an embryo whirlwind which gathered strength and velocity at every meeting until soon the boasted intelligence, wealth and press with the bull dozing, jeers, sneers, vilifications, vituperation, misrepte sentation and aspersions joined in one miscellaneous, heterogeneous conglomeration of propagandist!) to Btem the tide But all in vain In bis herculean strength he scattered them like chaff before the wind >eeing the helplessness and impo tency of their cause they actually Bent to Washington and Georgia for aelp But tb68e imported politicians, like trees in the lorest before a tornado, be swept aside carrying everything before him and was triumphantly elected governor of South Carolina; and in Four years, having outwitted the statesmen, puzzled the lawyers and confused the judges, and having the egialative, executive and judiciary iepartments of the government, he tvas complete master of the situation to the delight of his friends aud the 3bagrin of bis enemies ana me utter imazeroeDt the country, and placed jpou the statute books some of out Dost salutary laws : instance, the pri nary law, in wbicb the people are allowed to choose their own candi iates from coroner to United States Senator, a privilege all free people ihould have, and which you never i lad before ; Floating the Mate bunds it a lower rate of interest, under the i uost tiying circumstances, thus sav ng to the tax payers seventy five i housand dollars a year; protecting he farmers' interests by really and i lot by going through the farce ot )unisbing those who deal in traudu ent fertilizers; the dispensary law, i vhicb some of the best minds in the < jountry, both clerical and laymen, ' jronounce the best solution of the | iquor question that was ever formu ated, and which Gladstone projounced the most difficult problem < vhich the statesmen of all civilized iud enlightened countries bad to conend And a constitutional couven ion by practically eliminating a cer ain vote from the politics of South Carolina, of itself was worth the re orm movement. While supporting every education il iu9tituion be found, be did what no ' ither actmiuisiration nas ever acne, ouuded two large colleges wbich in beir stately beauty and grand pro lorlions are not only ornaments to South Carolina but to the South 1 And ladies, right here let me say a vord to you. Women, the admired [ if all the world, it would seem like 1 acrilege to approach such objects of 1 miversal admiration with other offer I ngs than hearts of devotiou arid vords of praise .she who is, has 1 >een and ever will be the paragon ot ill beauty, the cyuosuie of all eyes t is at ber shrine that the prince and he poet, the warrior lay their richest ifferiugH It is to gain ber approv ug smiie that stirs within the youth hose deep aspirations for fame, that craving tor boundless ambition, thai quenchless thirst for reuowo which u his wild imagination be hopes to nake earth's teeming millions shout lis praise and the very stars to echo villi tin thunders of bis name Yet pou. the acme of benignity, the ne )ius ultra of perfection, the chef louvre of creation, the croWDiug jewel of the casket, the rose leaf ipou the mantling cup of bliss, the iummum bonum of God's gifts to uau. Yet South Carolina never ap propriated a dollar to build a College P.? mam* /NArvAiltal knriufl t ntit tl iho [Ur y\9 Ul CDpctiai ucunib uum i uv Tillmau administration did this c.owii ingact of justice to your sex, and fe male education will be inseparably connected with his uarne. and the daughters and grand daughters and great grand daughters will ever h: n or his name, thus "The mist of time which lesser lights obscure, Will augment bia glory more and more " And ladies it was he who from the executive chair openly aud boldly declared that under all circumstances aud at all hazards, even with liie itself, would protect women's virtue After another thoroughly organized campaign and being opposed by the best talent the State could afford and again backed by the wealth, intelli geuce and piess and all the outside pressure that could be brought to bear against him, he was triumphantly i elected United States Senator, a posi tiou to attain which was at once the height of man's ambitions, the con ! summation of political aspiration But it was said that when) he coped with those intel leciual giants of the seuate he would be a cypher What was the sequel ? When it was known that the mogui of South Carolina was to speak, the j newspapers tell us every Senator was id bis place, me galleries were crowded to oveiflowing Not a paper perhaps iu tbe U 8. but com meuted upou bis speech, and two thousand congratulatory letters piled Peliou upon Osaa high on his desk, tell in unmistakable language bow the speech thrilled and received a respon eive echo in the hearts of the Amerioau people from the Gulf of the south to the lakes of the north, from the shores of tbe Atlantic to tbe shores ot the Pacific And that is Lot all, the news wae soon sent on the winga of lightning to tbe capitals of Europe, and the next morning the dailies on uounced that the great Oarolinan had thuudered against the gold bugs. Since tbeu be has been invited tc i speak in almost every state of tbe union, and again and again he bat i been tbe recipient of the most eulnu elastic ovations from the people Now. fellow citizens of Sumter County, let us throw aside our pre judieefi and peny' dilVeiences and imitate tiie examp'e of our public spirited mayor and honoted senator and other distinguished citizens, and like the peopie of England. honor him who honors you ami who, we hope, iu nineteen hundred, under the lead ership of VV J Bryan, will be the democratic candidate for vice presi j dent of the United States Senator Tillman spoke for forty minutes The following is au ou'.iiue, nut a verbatim report of his speech. Ladies aod Follow Cuizms : There is an old adage that a prophet is never without honor save in his own country, and I have occasion to realize from reading the South Carolina news papers that if ( have any claim to be a prophet or if I have ever foretold any event with tha true prophetic spirit tbe9e claims have not been recognized, nor have the papers realiz d that Ben Tillman is a prophet If I bad known bow i was to be praised and beiaud'd anu how thick a coat of butter was lo no spread over me, I think I wouid have staid away from Sumter I may have merited to be praised for soar-' things, bu? have never before been the recipient of so much a L)r Abbott ha* bost.iweu Perhaps ail present do no not agree with ali tbat Dr Abbott has said, tbe woood.- are too recent and the soars too frerh for all to feel as be feels, or tbiok as he thinks, and as I have always ad mined and recognized ibe right of men to differ in opinions, and I still recog nize that this right is a heritage of free men. i bear no malice toward those who differed with me in the past aud fought me aud tbe ptioeiples I advo oated Yet while sitting here and listening to Dr Abbott's words of praise I could uot help thinking of what tbe News and Courier and the State would do if Dr. Abbott's 6peeob were to be prioted in their columns. I believe tbe presses would explode with indignation. Had [ been consulted I would have advised Dr. Abbott against makiog the speech he did in introducing me, but as I was Dot consulted aod was cot prepared for what was said I take it a* it was intended. I am not hero to rake up old teeliugs or to 6ttr up strife that belonged to past years We arc getting along pretty well, and I would utter n > word that would tend to toeite feeling aud p e j ldtce. If I laoooi find anything else o tsih titxu: I can (ell you what I know, or iatber what I doo't know, tDout growing tobacco I am just jurtiug to grow tobacco, ani the more I learn about i and the mrther \ ge; oto u the blacker the :.-oa en sr:jois t > urn But before i up hi ;h> discussinus of the * Q ie ti.)ii9 of he Day'' I wo-h to refer to my attitude as your represents vWhen I we>ttoWaah iogton to take my seat in the senate I BDtirely sunk my personality in the position, sod I bate never inquired or <ibii> and a man's politicn affiha it o has bid no II But Lee with m if i wa? called upon to aid hi>u It. has even been e: aigeti tbat wj.-.j tbe appointmepr t;I i ffioers iu the army to tbe war wiib ato wore to be m ide i bad ali ot my worst poiitioai euouiies appointed so as to get tneui out of the couutry. I merely reeognizid in this instance ibJ certain men were uebcrvi ig of recognition and I used toy personal *ud official influence (u secure fir the mi wiiat ibey deserve i Aa I have &aid. I sunk my personal.:y io tbe office, I have known no difference and uave (iiujI factiooal iioes an l l obaii oiotiiiuo to act in tbe Suture iu tb; same way I sec that tbere are many ladies p.eseut here today and 1 am glad to see ,beiD. O i none or my previous Visits toSumie?-u four occasions?were the peup.e of iuioic-i sufficiently cool and in heir right minds, to permit their women to uouie out Hut now they are here acd I am giau to see them, and io know mat (be poop c aie coot. A hot box wij out io L'e com pun d ?9i;b the meeiirs^ nu the G uri 21 iUat quaie iu 1890 when I oarne .? Muoitar. li seeayd to me that ail four wheels were i o. ouiy hot, but almost on fire oo that occasion l ue dititreo ;e today ts sinking ai.d I atu glad to see that Su n't-r has calmed down, but I saw th-ii there had bete a great change from '90 when I intended subsequent campaign meetings. But tbe "Questions 01 iho Day.'1 The catiooal ?i:uatioo, as I see it, is very dirk and gloomy. We South Carolinians,. who are so oonser vative, ?iiJ icj-yisb, I may say, jctubui realize tbe real condition of af? J tair* in the United States. The oondi* j tioui in (be centers oi population are far Wuf?e and the outiook is darker and diore gloomy than you can realize. Kcer since i hsvo been in the senate I ba?e ttoeepevery in vnatiou possible to speak in oilier Sia*?-s in order to luforiu (ny.niif on ;i.c c i-..it:oi>s in toe couuiiy at. ioujc ? > t_i; I might be able 10 *' rve you aud ifae o 'uutry belter and uuio lufrjiigeuUy The country beyond tj?* r\.t..ui*o ih teeming wnb wraith, but the nr-ij.le do not own :t I'mTe is more pnvertv. more stiffennt?, m??rs* L'riuatng d wo nj tbo ma-s of people these ii;uii to the south 1 li-? w%i.1:ih h (onc: ti!ja ed in the bands of a lew rich mo:;, and tbe condition of the oth-ts n worse than we real zi S !o:e the war there were nut few m-ilnmires >ti ibe United States, ihe wealth ;!. country wai i more tijually ii:sii ibuteti -.uu tbe cou' ; ditioD of itie people was far better i Mow tbero are :our or five tbousanc millionaires, they bold tiie wealth o the oouotry in their hands and thej also own the government and ^oootro > its poiiay Some of these men bavi } fortunes of ten. twenty, fifty or a bun i dred millions, and the combined powe .bat they wield i? almost beyond belief J fb y ' wo the government aod seleo' i 'ne . ffi ers. They are moving row u I >biaio a fuller oootrol of (be oouotr) and arf aiming to establish an industrial slavery. Why is this ? Tbe people of the north are not Amerioais. but foreigners Tbe uorth has been Sited up with foreigners who came over io sucb uum | bers that tbey bate accomplished an ! industrial conquest These people are not Amerioaos aod are ready tools io tbe bands of tbe bosses aod of (be money power Tbey are corrupt and sell tbeir votes. Tbey vote as tbey are told aod bave no voice in tbe selection of tbeir officers or io tbe goveromeot Tbey simply obey tbeir bosses. This condition of affiirs makes it possible for <>ue man to control tbe great State ol New York, aod today Thomas C Piatt is the bo?s who selects tbe officers aod dictates tbe polioy of tbe State Ii was the same tbio if when Oroker or Hill was tbe boss io New York In Pennsylvania, tbe oezt State io : - J 1-.:? \T V~_v .L. nunc* auu pupumuuu iu aicw iun, iuc racne condition exists. Matthew 0 Q jay is boss, and be roles it absolutely. Ail of ibis is the result of foreigo imjjigraiioo The country bas beeo filled aod over orowded wiib igooraot cusses who are slaves of tbe politioal machines. They obey absolately tbe command of their bosses acd vote for their nominees. When tbe men tbus elected go to Wasbingtoo ibey are Dot free men aod representatives of tbe people, but tbe tools of the monej power and tbe puppets of tbe bosses * ho made them It is ooly since the war with Spain that southern men have bad a show, aod tbe war was worth all it cost if ii accomplished no other good to tbe couotry But tven at best, aoutbero men can d;> but little, tbey cannot speak freely ind advocate tneir principles or work for tbe iotcrests of their constituents Tbe sye'em of boss ruie extends to congress, and men may not get up oo the fioor and speak or introduce a bill without tbe permission of tbe speaker Kveo tbe men of tbe Repablioan party may not speak without tbe permission of Reed, and then oot more thao so many hours or minutes. A Democrat may want to introduce a bill ; be must get up oo tbe fioor, address tbe speaker, who asks what tbe gentleman from South Carolioa wishes to discus*; wbeo told that be wishes to introduce a bill oa suob aad saob a matter, the speaker looks tbe other way a?d says, "the gentleman from Virginia baa tbe fi tor," aod the geotlemao from Soatb Carolina mast sit dowo aod pooket bis hill. Wbatoau oor poor little seven representatives from Sooth Carolina do ? Very little What are we to po about it, with ooly tweoty million against fifty: million ? Wbeo asked. I say to tbern. "We will stand up io tbe middle of tbe road aod, so belp as God. fight until we redeem tbe country and bring it back to tbe uaea of free* dom and liberty." Tbe people of the Soatb, and tbis app'ies especially to South Caroiioa, are a homogeneous people, descendants 01 Revolutionary sires, of English, Freoob Scotch. Scotch Irish, Dutob and Irish t-x iftcrioo, and'tbey have married and in'or-'iiarritd until tbey are are Amflri cans And in our people we have tbe only true Amerioaoa now to be found Luted io tbe hearts of tbe people, developed aod handed down through ^oer^tions as a priceless heritage is he spirit of freedom aod tbe troe viemuoraiio priooijfles that must redeem this oouutry if it is ever redeemed from corruption aod tbe money power < J _L. O7?o. 1 am odeo aeaea wujr i>ua ??oat, which is ground dowo bv the money power, whose farmers have to oooteod jagaiost too oeot ooro aod fifty c?n' wheat, aod suffer equally with th Sou.h froui (be unproductiveness of firm labor, does oot joio with tbe South iu tbrowiog off tbe money power aod restoriog tbe free ooioage of silver Tbe principal reasoo is tbat tbe West has bad (be flood of peosioo money tbai is poured ioto tbe pockets of ber people to help them eke out a living Some States receive as moob as fifteen million dollars a year and tbey have bees able to endure ten cent ooro. Tbe West has received this stream of money from Washington wbiob we are taxed to help pay, while our old soldiers are iu waur We give them a beggarly $100,000 a year, wbiob is not tuuob when there is go much need, acd I bave ..fti'O wished is was more, but tbe Srat' :d - fore, L waot a share for tb< soufb 1 Know it is oot right or neoes >ary to steal, but while it is goiog or and when I see it I waot my share, aoc ' ' ' - It namflrtrtlH ?eri I COlI IQ6U) 55J li IUO i/wimvvi ?.?? iu control ibere would be oo meals, ao( tbe government would be ruo honestly but as long as the Rjpnbiioios oootro and as loug as the people of the oortl , uphold boss rule aod tbey stiok to tb party aod vote for anybody the bosse . put up, tbere will be oo obaoge Tb j steals vr: 11 go OO i IVus s are the progeny of tbe Repat . 1101 m p.ity. C pttai oo longer eona . petes a^aiost capital, aod tbe prices c ] of articles are oo longer fixed by oom f petition. Tbe day of reasonable prof y is gone. Combinations have taken tb l place of competition and tbe prioe i 3 fixed, and tbe people iuva to pay tb . prioe demanded Yon suffer, bot tbi r is nothing to tbe trosts. There ai [CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR.] W" "LYNCHING JBOSSED. Young Henry Grady Writes to Mew York Herald. SOME VERY PLAIN TALK. . "Office- Seekers, Invalids, and Cowards < are the Only Ones Who do Not Take Part -In Lynchlngs for Rape." i To the Editor of The New York ( Herald: Strange as it may seem, 1 no writer or speaker has yet had I he 1 courage to tell the truth about the lynchings that take place almost ' daily in the south. Immediately < arter tne sam tiose jyncning mere was a rush of southern apologists who undertook to enlighten the north as to the irue situation and make excuses for this section. The people here at home simply took their utterances as a huge joke, quietly loaded their guns and waited until it should again become their duty to avenge some ruined family. The honest truth of the matter is, the people of the south, almost as a body, are not opposed to lynching the black brutes who assault white women. Tne best people of the south have no excuses to offer to the people of the north. They fail to see the necessity of apologizing to the people of any section. It is a matter that does not and never can concern those who do not live in the south. The problem is with the white people of the south and they are * going to solve it regardless of out- t side interference. 1 The one cause that writers from ? both north and south play on persist- < ently as the cause of the lyuchings * is the slowness of the courts. The 1 tardiness ot the courts has nothing 1 to do with it. Swift justice would I not cause lynching to stop. Noth- < ing can stop it as long as the crime s is committed. Nothing ou God's earth will stop it as long as there is 1 a white man left in the south. All ( of the talk and the newspaper arti- * cles will not decrease lynching as 1 long as our unprotected white wo- * men in the rural districts are as- ( saulted. ' And the plain unvarnished truth 1 is, there is not a white man in the 1 south who wants to see it stopped. ^ This is even truer of the good white 1 women of the south. 1 The State officials offer rewards 1 and do much talking after each lynching, but it is all for effect. 1 How foolish it is to think that any 1 individual in a section could be 1 punished for something that all 1 take part in or at least sympathize 1 with. Is anyone insane enough to ' think that any southern governor would commit political suicide by letting the impression get out that 1 he was making an honest effort to ( punish those who lynch negro as- ( saiIants of women? * . The people of the south do not 1 claim that lynchings will put an end to the crime. But every white man ^ believes that matters would be 1 much worse were it not for the 1 prompt action of the people. ( Revenge is not the basis of mob * action. Rage is the crystalliziug 1 point of mob action. And it is the 1 rage of the frightened animal * brought to bay?the frenzy of men ( who cannot but feel that their .own * homes may suffer next. Office seek- ( ere, invalids and cowards pre the ^ only ones who do not take part in the lynchings. Another strong reason for lynching is the example it offers. ( It is a strange fact that negroes regard a legal hanging as they would t regard a picnic. It has no terrors 1 for them. Whenever a negro is hanged publicly, the negroes of his j race flock by the thousands from miles around, and spend the day, as f they call it, "frolickin'." But let a < negro or two be lynched by a mob < and the effect very different. ( There is nothing funny to the iguo- ( rant brutes about the way Hose was , treated or the way negroes have < been treated in the lower part of this " State the past few days. The in- j variable result of such action is that I all the bad negro characters in a settlement leave or behave as decent 1 citizens. It is safe to predict that ' there will never be another criminal i assault in the Palmetto and Newman sections, until this generation i has died out and the fate of Hose 1 has been forgotten. The only regret the people of the south have is that . the crime makes the lynchings a f necessary evil. The ignorant ne, groes of our country districts are I worse than animals. Even those ' I who have lived in the south do not I understand them, but we do know that tho moment the white race loses absolute control of them life in ' the south would he impossible. The ' hatred that lurks in their souls for : the white race is more bitter than the hatred of an Indian, and in secr tions where they out number the * whites three to one it is absolutely J necessary that they be kept in subjection. We of the south regret J that we have the negro with us at all, and there are but few men in the 0 south who would not be glad to see the whole race back in Africa. But _ so long as the negro is with us, there is one thing certain, and that is that the white people of the south must ) control. f Henry W. Grady. | Atlanta, Ga., July 26, 1899. it e [Henry Grady is the son of Henry is Grady, the lamented editor of the e Atlanta Constitution. This publicait tion was iu the New York Herald of e July 31, and has caused much comment.] ^ ... INVESTIGATION IDE Penitentiary Business Comes to a Close. MUCH CARELESSNESS SHOWN. Col. Neal Admits Responsibility for Over $3,000. Greenville, August3.?The Penitentiary investigation has been closed. The committee is now at vork preparing its report. It will )e submitted to Governor McSween?y, and he will take such action as >6 sees proper. 1 lie sequel will ne me or more cases inj civil Court and ikely criminal. The testimony has ieveloped two striking things: Almost absolute indifference and careessness in the handling of the State's ttfaira and business by those charged vith such responsibility, and sec>nd, the development of the tendency to get something for nothing out >f the State, that is, "any old thing" it the State's expense. The commitee has not yet summed up the imouut due the State for "any old hing," convict hire and the like, ieveloped in the testimony. The ecord thus far makes up this aumnary: Admitted by Col. Neal to be lue by him and which he expects to )ay $3,584.41. This includes $387.17 r>r tho irol I no fa nnf lnnln/lay bank settlement for convict bire M 12,600. Interest on Watson's draft lince February, 1888, $60. Open ac-> sountofJ. B. Watson for convict lire $2,800. Total admitted due $11,- - r 04.41. This does not include $72 for he Tillman carload of bricks; or the aundry account, or fertilizers for. jubernatorial farms, etc., commissary stores and the like. The committee held over to-day for the express purpose of hearing the testimony of Col. Wilie Jones and Mr. W. W. Russell. Mr. Rossell was sick and could not come, and 3ol. Wilie Jones arrived, but his examination did uot last three mkiites. He said that the W. W. Bus sell note for $600 was a new note, the proceeds being all placed to the . Penitentiary account. The note was i renewal, nor did it take place of iny other as far as he could , recollect. Mr. Stevenson said that the commitee would enter upon the record that it would agree if Mr. Russell were present he would testify that the note given by mm July 8, 1888, was an accommodation note, signed t>y Mr. Russell at the request of Col. Neal, and that the proceeds of the note went to the Penitentiary account, and that the note was a new >ne, and not given to take the place )f $ny previous note for convict* or >t her wise. This .ended the testimony. Mr. Prince, on the part of Col. deal's counsel, said there was nothing further, and he wished to idd that counsel were highly pleased with the just and fair treatment ;hey had received, and wished to ,hank the committee for its fairness ind liberality to themselves and ;heir client. It will probably be a jouple of weeks before the report and Inal testimony are placed in Governor McSweeney's hands.?Aug. Kohn in News and Courier He loves hest who loves last. Too many cooks boil the brottt. It doesn't pay t%J^e too forward, especially in a head-end collision. Blessings are like children; to be ippreciated they should be few and fur between. Economy is a good thing,, but it Js i pool policy to set a hen on one egg m save eggs. Keep Che Stomach and Bowels. In ?ood condition, the waste avenues >pen and free by an occasional dose >f Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine. For sale by Hughson-LigonCo. The girl who can speak seven anguages is less sought after than the girl who can hold her tongue In ine. One of the things that we most idm re about ourselves is that we haven't the faults of other people. For Headache caused most likely by a Disordered Stomachu accompanied by Constipation, use Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine. For * sale by Hughson-Ligon Co. , The coal companies have gone into a combine. Look out for a freeze:?ut this winter. Loafers Hurt Business. The Abbeville Medium has a word to say about loafers which is well and timely. The Medium says: We heard a man of wide business experience and observation say recenilv. that one of the Quickest wavs for a merchant to kill'his business was to allow his store to become a welcome place for loafers; that de- Arable customers would not fro to a store that always had the do-nothings of town sit around it; that any man who had habitaally sat around another's place of business was a ' repulsive eyesore to intelligent customers. We thought this was pretty well said. In Diarrhoea Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine is invaluable. It gives Tone to the Stomach, Aids Digestion and Assists Nature in carrying off all Impurities. For sale by Hughson-Ligon Co. ? # District Appointments. The following are the appointments for quarterly Conferences of the charges on the Sumter District, S. C. Conference, for Third Quarter of 1899: Santee, Summerton Aug. 12,13 Heath Springs, Hanging Rock Are 18 Kershaw, Shiloh Aug. 19,20 Camden CtM Ebenezer:... Ang^tfEnfT Camden Station AfiggmMgiraHg Wateree, Salem B Richland. Browns Church. Sumter Ct Sqn9HI^|^H Sumter Station CM B Tho8. J. CLYDaajjjBM^^B m m ' 'ViMMi