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; 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
<<u.h to K-;?? v v. hether a man was ?
refo:mer or a stru ghtout when be\v.*oie
to me or axfcc-il my assistance as senator,
1 have sifivon to serve th? people to
svery way p s>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 (iiu<iuu uisiiuuuuua uciw cu ujcu
00 account >jI 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
<o tlit country. Tbey are tbe seed
corn of liberty, and I tell the people oi
the Norto wneo I speak to them that
when tbey waot seed tbey will have to
comit to 09 to get it for yoa have let
?oora rot. Aod every word of this is
rue. for io tbe South aod deeply im
;>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'
:<? not able to give more.
After President MoKioley went
i down io Atlanta aod made tbat flowery
and puiixio speech about wanting to
betp us take care of (he graves of our
j -mldieri. I was asked wiiac I thought ol
! his offer. i said tbat we want bo help
jo take oare of tbe graves of our dead
j until you do something for our old
j soldiers who are iiviog iu want and
suffering and are going do wo to tbsir
j/ra*cs to uei-d
Toe pio-iou business aud nearly
evdiytii i'2 eUe is a bit; steal, aod as I
nave sa>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/la<l
V* V A vwn vat v??0) uvv mviMUCU
yesterday. Convict biro on J. B.
Watson contract, settled by nnpakl
3. W. Ragsdale's note, $2,000. Ingres
t since December 24,. 1898, $70.
r. B. Watson's draft, unpaid, held
>y 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
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