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Two Journeys. "I go on a journey far away," She sa*d-she stooped and kissed me then, * "Over the ocean for many a day Good bye," and she kissed me once again. But only a few short months had fled When again 1 answered my wife's kiss: "I could not larry away," she said: "There is never a land as fair as this." Again I stood by my dear wife's side. "1 goon a journey, sweet, to-day; Ov r the river the.boatmen glide Good-bye; I shall linger long away." "Ah, she will come back soon, I know," 1 said, as sh? stooped for the parting kiss; She cannot tarry, she told me so; There is never a land so fair as this." But many a mont ti and many a year Have flown since my darling went . away, Will she never come back to meet me here? Has she found the region of perfect day? Over tlie ocean she went and came; Over the river, and lingers there! Oh "'illid boatman! call my name - Show me the region so wonderous fair. THE NEGRO PROBLEM. Serious Mistakes Made by the United States Government IN REFERENCE TO THE MATTER lt IH the Problem ol the Agen, and Not to bo Settled in * Dennie or A Century. The following is the lirst section of an open letter frc m Ex-Governor D. H. Chamberlain, formerly or this State, to Mr. James hryce, a member of the English Parliament. The sec ond section will be published next week. Tiie letter ls well worth read ing: The Rt. Hon James Bryce, M. P.,' No. 51? Portland Place, hond?n, Eng land-My Dear Mr. Bryce: 1 think you will understand, after our conver sation last summer, with what, in creased interest 1 have re-read and pondered your great philosophic-for less than that I cannot call lt-Ox ford Romanes lecture on "The ite lations of the Advanced aud the Back ward Races of Mankind." The Unit ed States are undoubtedly the theatre of one of the most notable exhibitions which history anywhere presents of this problem; for here about ?,uuO,OOU of the black race: almost wholly Afri can, are pluced alongside of, inter mixed with, about 17,0u0,ui)0 of the white race, chiclly Teutonic. This population is disposed over the terri tory of fifteen States of the Union, though more than one-half of the whole number of negroes are found in six of these States; in two States the number of negroes lar^ly exceeding that of the white race; and in the State of South Carolina the ratio of negroes to wdiites being as :i to 2; in Mississippi as 7 to 5, and in Louisiana as 8 to 9. ONLY TIIIRTY-KIUIIT YEARS AUO this entire mass of negroes, or their Immediate ancestors, were chattel slaves. To the original, well defined characteristics of both races have thus been added all the peculiar influences, and habitudes, and results which chat tel slavery, in its modern meaning, produces. Pride of race and the bab lt of domination, on the part of the white race, stand over against the consciousness of race inferiority and the habit of submission, on the part of the negro race. Here, in its briefest statement, are presented the factors ol a problem whose complexity and difficulty have never before been equalled. 1 wonder if your study, so much wider than mine, has found its parallel. Mine certainly has not. The sudden, catastrophic transition of this mass of negroes from slavery to freedom was marked by one special peculiarity which ls not often or sulll clently considered; 1 mean :he fact that the transition was to DO appre ciable extent elVected by the enslaved race itself. Here again my study does not disclose another Instance any where of the emancipation from chat tel slavery ol" a people or race without exertion on the part of the enslaved people or race. Usually this has been the chief force in the stiuggle. But till the close of our war of secession, till the actual anti complete triumph of the armies of the I inion, the negro race of the United States, which was In slavery, lifted no single hand, struck no single blow, for its own freedom. Thc .signilicatiee of this fact is tremendous as an indication of character and capacity. ANOTIIKU CHOU Ll A ll KKATUKK or element of this problem ls the fact that the masters here did not consent voluntarily in any degree to the eman cipation of the slaves, lt was strictly forced upon them at t he point of the bayonet and without any pecuniary compens?t ion. This, Lt o, is a fact of great significance as determining the temper and attitude of the master race at the outset of what we call our negro proplem. Before I go fail ber let me point out how largely, almost strictly, artificial, or man-made, are the elements of this problem in the United States. Neith er nature nor providence, to use our common terms, has placed the negro race and the white race in the close contact in which they now live here. The negro has been forcibly trans planted by the white race from his native lard to our shores, from the wild freedom of the land of his origin to the slavery of this country. So. too, as 1 have already remarked, his emancipation has come not from his owu natural ellon s or struggles, but wholly from thc intervention and force of a people dissociated from him in locality and ali, n to his habits, bis peculiar character and his character istic impulses and passions. Again, the negro here has bad political rights thrust upon him without bis demand for them, without, his knowledge or appreciation of them, and without the least preliminary training or ex perience in using them. Contrastall these with the relations of any other backward race with an advanced one, In any other land or age, and the peculiarity of the problem here will . be seen; and not only its peculiarity, but its complexity and difficulty. A I'ROULBW OK Till". AGES. Now let me quote a few lines from the conclusion of your Romanes lec ture: "I have sought," you say, "to sall your attention to a great, secular pro cess in the history of the world, a pro cess the steps in which are reckoned by centuries and who.se magnitude transcends the political cr commercial questions which claim our thoughts from day to day. IL ls a problem which has now entered a critical phase, and we see opening before us a long vista in which there appear pos sibilities of an immense l?crese in the productive powers of the earth and man, possibilities also of trouble and strife between races now being brought into closer and more general contact. As always, elements of peril are balanced by elements of hope. The sentiment of race pride, the keenness of race-rivalry, have been intensified. But the sense of a com mon humanity has grown stronger. When we think of the problems now being raised by the contact of races, clouds seem to hang heavy on the horizon of the future; yet light streams in when we remember that the spirit in which civilized States are preparing to meet those problems is higher and purer than it was when, four centuries ago, a great outward movement of the European nations began." In this I find the philosophic and the Christian spirit. Dealing with a secular process, how weak and spiritless ls our anxiety, our discouragement, or our despair, because in less than four decades our peculiar problen here in the United States is still open and un solved! How poor and shallow the In sight that falls to take note of the es sential factors of the problem and beats aimless about in the factuous ex pectation that a secular problem will yield to treatment which is not found ed upon calm study of all the essential conditions, or which ls swayed by the miserable exigencies of temporary per sonal and political ambitious and de sires! I, for one, can have no controversy with anyone who does come to the con sideration of this problem lu the Uui ted States in what I call TIIK CHIUSTIAN BPIKIT. If anything is clear to me lt is that we owe duties, high and solemn duties, I to thc negro race in our country. 1 trust VUat I am not unduly sentiment al ?a my sympathy and effection foi that race. Their lot at best is a hard one. Heaven forbid that 1 should add to Its burdens! Still more do I trust that 1 am not forgetful that If Chris tianity, if religion, teaches any great and universal lesson it is that we an bond- and the more b:>und as the dis tance between our race and that race seems wider and wider in respect ol education or original capacity or pres ent moral or physical condition-tc feel and act constantly In the spirit ol a genuine belief in the brotherhood ol ail men and the common fatherhood ol God. Contempt or neglect or hatred to wards the negro can have no place lt a Christian man's heart or conduct How to treat him for his own besl good, by what influences to elevate him, by what arts to inspire the race with ambition to become gcci .men and women and hence good citizens how to obliterate all differences except such as are Ineradicable, how to ex bi bit towards him and teach others, al men, how to exhibit towards him, thc virtues of justice, forbearance, sympa thy, helpfulness; these are the certaii and Indisputable claims of our com mou humanity. In my thinking, speak iug and writing on this theme I try tx carry such thoughts In my mind aw heart at all times. It ls the least o! my misgivings that I may be charg?e with inconsistency. 1 hope I am some what wiser on all subjects-this amont the rest-than 1 was thirty or fortj years ago. Regarding our negro problem In th ii spirit, I find myself forced by my KXl'KKIKNCK AND OBSKHVATION to say that perhaps our first practica aim should be to undo, so far as possi ble, what we have heretofore done fo the negro since his" emancipation namely, the inspiring in him the hopi or dream ,of sharing with the whit< race heie a social or political equality for -whoever will lay aside wishes ane fancies and look only at realities wil see that these things arc i m possi bi li ties within any measurable range o time, if ever. 1 assume as a certainty that what you call "the blending o races," by Intermarriage, cannot taki place between the negro and the whiti race of this country. I go further aiu say that such intermixture Is us un desirable as it ls Impossible, lt woulc be the degradation of the white race but not the elevation of the negri race. In your Romanes lecture, afie discussing "the method of fusion o two races into one through Interinar riage," you remark that "this metboi is not always applicable. Were physl cal repulsion, usually grounded on dir terence ot color, exists, sometime where a sentimental repulsion ground ed on difference of faith, exists, tin two races will not mix their blood, bu remain confronting one another as dis ti net and unfriendly h dies;" and yoi point out the Inevitable results of till attitude on your pages 2tl-:t0, page; which 1 wish all our people mlgh read. T1IKUK AUK THOSK WHO DKNY the fact and the verity of the exist ince of this physical repulsion on tb part of the white race here toward JUT negro race. I have some eminen ind wise acquaintances who regard tin issertion of such repltislon as a pre euee. I suppose each idi vidual on tin ndut must be allowed to speak fo llinself. Speaking for myself I frceb LCknowledge the repulsion; and speak tig fruin my observation of others eel no doubt that this repulsion maj >e truly described as a natu nd ant vell-nlgh universal feeling, a fee ! i nj 0 deeply implanted, so strongly fe! >y the vast majority of the white raci tere that lt ls simply quixotic to at empt to preach lt down or to essen ?ally lessen its force, lt ls, therefore . fact to be reckoned with, no lenied or overlooked. Starting with this fact, we lind nex hat a tremendous effort has been mad 1?re to establish political equality be ween the two races, an e ll ort wbicl esulted directly in shocking and un learable misgovernment, wherever tin cgro race predominated. This in tun nevitably aroused the fierce antagon un and hate of the white race. lu th esp?rate struggle of the white race t' brow oil its political bondage to tb ogro, violence and fraud in the! jany forms resulted. The triumph o be white race in this struggle left tin elations of the two races embitterei .) a high degree, (?enerations will bi ceded lei overcome completely the ex eerbations and animosities which an lie direct fruit of the attempt to es iblish by force of law a pol?tica luality between the two races. Thus we see that our negro problen as not only been artificially creater 1 the first instance, but that it ha: eon artificially intensified, made dan ennis to the peace of the country ant estructlve of good relations hetwcei tie two races. hut this ls not all nor tho worst. A NA.MKl.KSS OR1MK, Idely prevalent, has come to heal ie thrlce-hot antagonisms whicl .her causes had aroused and has cov ed with ghastly horrors, not only ir South, but a great part, of om orth. Of this phase of the problem I shall not shrink from speaking with perfect plainness, for 1 know it U hopeless to think of-removing or abat ing the crime of lynching until the crime which bas called it loto vogue shall cease or be abated. I do not wonder, nor will anyone who will real ly make the case bis own wonder, that lynching prevails at our South as a method of punishment or tevenge for the crime of criminal assault by I negroes on white women. 1 think lt entirely safe to say chat uuder Ilk circumstances it would prevail to a like extent in any part of our cou ni ry, or in any Anglo-Saxon community. Theoretically I would say with Abra ham Lincoln, "There ls no crime so bad that lynching for lt is not worse;" but, practically, I come very near to saying that 1 do not blame the South for resorting to lynching for this crime.. And this terrible remedy has been attended and followed by the usual consequences of any resort to lawless methods. In the tir?t p'uee, lt has not been deterrent from the crime in question. In the uext place, lt bas accumulated horrors such as do not occur In any other part of the whole civilized world- the burnihg if hu man beings at the stake-:<ot ?lone, be it remembered, at the South, but In' several of our Middle Western States, and even in John Brown's Kansas. Finally, lynching h is been extended to be the frequent punish ment for other crimes or alleged crimes. The depraved part of society sometimes resort to it for excitement or for personal revenge. What are we tu say and do about all this? MY ANSWER IS, STOP THE CHIME which originally set this dreadful train of horrors in motion. Hut who can do this? My answer is, thc nogro race alone. If half the energy and thought and money that is now wasted in pul p!ts.and pulitics and schools were de voted to one grand, overwhelming crusade against the crime which tir.-,t caused lynchings, the monstrous thing could ire stamped out. With out this, it is as idle to preach and pray against lynching as it would he to blow one's breath against a gale ol wind. Hut 1 know of no special or i strenuous tlTorts on the part of the uegro race or Its chief leaders, or of those of thc white race, who are on sidered or consider themselves tin negro's special champion, to extirpate this crime. Hampton, Tuskegee, the Ogden Educational Trust, the Ameri can Missionary Society, all are alike silent, sa far as 1 know, or engage .'n no special elforts to root out this foul crime, the direct cause of so much woe to beith races. There is in the whole range nf Hie problem under dis cusslon no duty so imperative, none so neglected, as that of focussing ef fort, to the neglect, If need he, of all else, on the arousing of all else, on the arousing ol" the negro race itself to the necessity of extirpating this one form of crime. If all the agencies now working fur the negro tace were turned to this single end for the tu xt decade more could he done lo forward the ne gio's welfare than all that HamptMi or Tuskegee or all the othe r educa tional and religious appliances have done orean ever do. I marvel that no great voice proclaims this duly: that no great agency is directed sole ly to this work. In the tumult and din of discussl m scarcely a note ls heard calling attention to this most necessary, this absolutely Indispen sable, of all remedies or ellorts. WHAT NOW DO WE SEE? We see a race prob'em, lu Us origin artilicially complicated and iutensi licd by rash and vain attempts to lift a backward or inferior raes Inferior certainly hi present attainments -Into equality pf social privileges and stand ing and of p wilie il power with a race lung accustomed to nilethe hack ward race and filled with what at least wc must recognized as tierce prejudices and apparently unconquerable repug nance to equality of any kind between the two races. We see further tht.se relations and long-standing feelings aggravated to the pitch of madness and frenzy which ovenidis all law, ina natural and uncontrollable exa pera tion at the prevalence of a crime which no community ol'our race would tolerate or give over to orderly punish ment by thc usual methods ol' the law. 1 shall here venture to ask anyone to point out error, or mistake, or mis statement in this summation of the conditions of the race problem which States at the present time. H. II. Cl IA M UK lt LA IM. Killed by a Train. Tiie North correspondent to the State says an unknown mulatto ne gro was struck by northbound freight No. I on the Scab ?ard Air Line rail way Tuesday afternoon about .'L.'IO o'clock and instantly killed. The dead mau was about lo years of age and ls thought by a resident witness to be named Jesse Williams, which name, however, is faintly recalled. From the coroner's inquest, held by Magistrate W. A. .Johnson, it seems that t he negro got ol? of Tuesday's mid-day passenger train and was con siderably under the influence of whis key. After lounging around the depot ? while he went oil down t he railroad md was seated on the north end of Not th Kdisto trestle about two miles South of that place where he met his loath as stated. Evidently he was I ru uk or asleep or both. A Gootl Mulch. It is tobi of Mr. Fairbanks, the Re publican nominee for vice president ii fact ft is said Mr. Fairbanks is tell ng it himself that a negro laborer mo ployed by the father of this In li ma lawyer, took his meals willi the family, lt ls further recounted in die public prints and also by Mr. fairbanks, it is said,- that when a vbite laborer employed on the same duce objected lu taking his meals vith the negro, a separate table was irovlded, but not for the negro. He ema!ned seated at the Fairbanks lOard with the big and little, male md female Falrbankscs while tho vii i Le laborer sat apart. So, of course, t ls meet and proper that diaries W. fairbanks reared in that redolent al ni .sphere should bc thu running mate f Theodore Roosevelt. State. A (?ood Su but Unto. If elected to the legislature an An crson county man propases to intro ucea bill providing that negro and ,'hite convicts shall not bc allowed to rork together. The State oilers as a ubstitute a bill prohibiting white 'oman and girls, who are not con lets, from working In the llelds with egro men; also prohibiting white omen and girls, not convicts, from joking for and serving meals to negro trm laborers. Let US consider the oman who should bo shielded but ho are not shielded by their men, ifore we give a thought to the sen tl veness of the white criminal in ripes. DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION As Adopted la State Convention at Columbia Last May. AKTICLK I. There shall be one or more Democratic clubs organized in each township or ward, each of which clubs shall have a distinct title, "The - Democratic Club," and shall elect a president and one or more vice "residents, a recording and a corrrs ondlng secretary and a treasurer, and ihall have the following working com mittees, of not less than three mem bers each, viz: A committee o< reg istration, an executive commiutee, and such other committees as to each club may seem expedient. AKTICLK IL The meetings of the club shall be frequent after the open ing of the canvass, and some member of the club or Invited speaker deliver an address at each meeting, if practi cable. The clubs shall meet on the fourth Saturday lu April and the county convention on the tlrst Mon day in May, respectively, of each elec tion year: Provided, That the Coun ty Executive Committee may name any other day within the same week for such club meeting by giving at least two weeks notice by advertise ment in county papers: And provided, further, That in case any club shall fail to reorganize on the day fixed for reorganization, the County Executive Committee may lixaday for such club to meet for reorganization by g'vlng two wet ks notice as provided in this article. Each county shall bo entitled to as many delegates in the State Con vention as double tits number of its members in the General Assembly. AKTICLK lil. The president, or D-<e members, shall have power to call au extra meeting of the club, and at such extra meeting, one-fourth of the mein hers shall constitute a quorum.for the transaction of business. AKTICLK IV. The clubs in each county shall be held together and ope rate under the control of a County Executive Committee, which shall consist of one inemterfrom each club, to he elected hy the respective clubs. The Executive Committee, when elected, shall appoint Its own oilhers (except the chairman who shall be elected by the County Convention.) who shall not necessarily be members of said committee, but a vacancy in the membership of the committee shall be lilied by the club, through the loss of whose member by death, resig nation or otherwise the vacancy oc curs: Provided, That lu case the ollice of Chairman of the County Executive Committe shall become vacant by death, resignation or otherwise, the committee shall have power to fill the vacancy by electing a chairman to ssrve until thc organization of the next regular County Convention: And provided, further, That any otllcer so elided who is not a member of the committee shall not be entitled to a vote on any question except the chairman, and then only in case of a tie voto. The tenure of ollice of the executive committee shall be until the first Monday in May of each election year, at which time the County Con vention shall be called together to re organize the party. Every presiden tial election year County Conventions shall be called by the County Execu tive Committee to meet on the first Munday iu May, which shall elect delegates to a State Convention called for the purpose of electing delegates to the National Democratic ln.\en tion and to ekct the member . to the National Democratic Executive Committee from this State. The State Convention shall be called by the State Executive Committee to meet every presidential election year on the third Wednesday in May, and every State election year, and County and Sta'e ti inventions shall meeton the tirst Monday in May and the third Wednesday in May respectively. AKTICLK V. County Democratic Conventions shall be composed of dele ga? es elected by the several local clubs, one delegate for every twenty five members, and one delegate for a majority fraction thereof, with the right to each County Convention to enlarge or diminish the representa tion according to circumstances. The County Conventions shall be called to gcthcr by the chairman of the respec tive Executive Committees under such rule, not inconsistent with the Con stitution nor with the rules adopter! by the State Democratic Executive L'ommittcc, as each county may adopt, and when assembled shall be silled to order hythe Chairman of the Executive Committee, and the Con vention shall proceed to nominate and dect from among its members a pies Ident, one or more vice presidents, a secretary and a treasurer. Any Corni ly Convention may permit or reccg dze the formation of a new dub or dubs by a majority of its members. In all cities with a population o? f>,OUO iud over there may be two clubs in iach ward; they shall be organized in >bcdlenee to this Constitution, as are .he clubs elsewhere in this State, and n organizing said clubs, they shall nive representation in the County Jonventions respectively as said Con tention situ ll declare In accordance villi the provisions of this Constitu tion. AKTICLK VI. For the purpose of 10mmating candidates for Governor, lieutenant Governor, and all other Stat? ( Ulcers, Including Solicitors in ,he respective Circuits, and Congress lien in their respective districts and ' 11 i tori States Senators, and all eoun y officers, except Magistrates and d asters, and Supervisors of Registra ion, a direct primary election shall ie held on the last Tuesday In August ?I each election year, and a second ind third primary each two weeks uccesslvely thereafter If necessary: 'rovided, That County Executive Jommittee of any county shall beal. ?berty lo order a primary election for Magistrates and Masters, but not for aembers of the County hoard of Con rol of the Dispensaries nor for Corni y Dispensers. At this election only lemocralio white voters who have icen residents of the State twelve Qonths and the county sixty days 'receding the next general election, nd such negroes as voted the Demo ratic ticket In 187?, and as have oted the Democratic ticket contlnu usly siuce, to be shown by the ccrtili ate of ton white Democratic voters, dio will pledge themselves to support he nominees of such elections, may otc: Provided, That no person shall c allowed to vote except his name be drolled on the particular club list at -bleb he oilers td vote, at least five ays before the first election, which luh shall have a separate polling lace for primary elections; except in ie County of Charleston the voter's iime must be on the particular club st at which he oilers to vote at least xty (no) days before the primary lection; and the County Executive ominlttee ls authorized to designate ie number of polling places in that )unty: Provided, further, That in harleston County the candidates for (ingress, Solicitor and oouuty otllcos Il pp^pp lhall lile their pledges and pay their L8sessments within the time fixed by ihe County Executive Committee. The olub rolls of the party shall jonstltuta the registry list and shall je open to h/spection by any member >f tbe party, and the election under ibis clause shall be held and regulated inder the Act of the dene.al AsseT jly of this State, approved December ?2.-1888, and any subsequent Acta of ih? Legislature of this State. The State Executive Committee shall meet m the Friday after each primary, or lucb other time as may be designated jy the chai nu in to canvass the vote ind declare the result as to all State slicers, Congressmen and ' Coiled states Senators. All contests for all lomluationsat primary elections shall J3 heard first by the County Execu tive Committee-of the county in which mell irregularities may have occurred, ind may be reviewed by the State Executive Committee, whose action shall be final: Provided, That no vote shall be counted for any candidate who does not tile with the Chairman ifthe State Executive Committe, or rvitb the respective Chairmen of the bounty Executive Committe:s, a pledge in writing that he will abide Lhe result of such, primary and supp ?rt :,he nomioces thereof, and that be is not, nor will bc become, thc can lidate A auy faction, either privately or publicly suggested, other tba-i the regular Democratic nomination, and ?ach candidate for the United States 3euate and for the United States House of Representatives shall tile an idditional p odge that he will sup -?ort the political principles and policies of thc pa:ty during the ;erm of ollice for which he may je sleeted, and . work in accord villi bis Democratic associates In Con 'ress on all party questions: Provided, 'urther, That no candidate shall b2 leclareel nominated unless he receives 1 majority of the votes cast for the idlee for which he ls a candidate: Provided, That the pledge of such candidate shall be tiled on or before 2 o'clock meridian of the day preced ng the day fixed hy the Coun'y Kxecu ive Committee or the Stale Ex<eu ,ive Committee for the lirst campaign neetlng of the County or Slate re pectivelv. AKTICLK VII. The olllcers of the ?tate Conventi m shall be a president, dee president from each Congressional >!strlct, two secretaries and a .rcasu rer. AuTicnK VIII. Thc State Kxecu" ive Commit!ce shall he comp sad of me member from each county, to be lected by the County Convention on he lirst Monday In May ol' each elec lon year. When elected, said execu ive committee shall choose its own 'Ulcers, not. necessarily members hereof, prior to said elections: Pro dded, That any otlieer so elected who s not a member of the committee hall not be entitled to a vote on any [uestion,' except the chairman, and nen only in cuse of a tie vote. The ?tate Executive Committee shall meet t the call of the chairman or any live aembsrs, and at sucb time and place s he or they may appoint. The ?embers of the National Democratic Executive Committe from South Caro ma shall be elected by the May S'ate convention in 1890? and every four ears thereafter, and when elected hall he ex-olllcio a mcmlier of the ?tate Executive Committee. Vacan tes on said Executive Committee by eath, resignation or otherwise, shall e filled by the respective County Executive Committees. The State Executive Committee is charged with he execution and direction of the ol i cy of the party-in this State, sub let to this Constitution, the princl les declared in the plat foi ra of prin ip'es, and such instruction, by re-:o ition or otherwise, as a S late Conven ion may from time to time adopt, uot aconslstent with this Constitution, nd shall continue In onlee for two ears from the lime of election e r ntil their successors have been e'ec ed. The committee shall nominate residential electors, and if any vacan y tccur In the State ticket of electors r of thc member of the National Executive Committee, by death, asignation or other cause, the cora littee shall have the power to lill he vacancy; all hy a majority of the ,'hole committee. AUTIOLK IX. The vote In the 'Spec tl ve counties for all of the State llicers, Congre smen and United tates Senat ir shall be transmitted y the Chairman of the re*p~ctivt Ounty Exeu tl ve Committees to the hairman ol the Stale Executive Com litee as early as practicable aftei ich primary, who shall proceed tc invass the vote and declare the ?suit. AKTICI.K X. When the State Con ehtion assembles It shall he called 3 order by thc Chairman of t he State ixecutivc Committee. A temporary hairman shall be nominated anei lected by thc Convention, and after .5 organization the Convention shall recced immediately to the election f permanent oillcers and to the tran lotion ol business. When the bush PSS has concluded lt shall adjourn nc die. Ait'rionK XI. I te fore the election i 1H02, and each election thereafter, (cept as herein provided, the State democratic Executive Committee mil appoint and arrange for two impaign meetings to be held in each ninty, not less than two weeks apart ie of which meetings shall be ad ressed only by candidates for State bees, and the oilier oui/hy Cindi ates for United States Senator, nited St ates House of llepresenta ves and Circuit S il ici tors. In addi on to such campaign meetings the O' nty Chairman of the respective Qiigresslonal Districts and .Indica i reu I ts shall, when there is mort ian one candidate for either of sait bees, arrange for and appoint sepa ite campaign meetings for theil ispective districts or judicial cir lits the time and place of such eetings to be published in ead ninty, at which only the candidate.' ir said offices Shall be invited toad .ess the people: Provided. Trial i any year in which no candidate foi nited States Senator is to be voted ?r, the State Executive Committee ay dispense with the second cam lign meeting it is authorized to ap )int under this article. Au'xionB xii. It shall be thc duty each County Executive Committee i appoint meetings in their respec ve counties to be addrcsied by the .nd hints for thc General Assembly id for aill?rent county offices, all of hom except Magistrates, Masten id Supervisors of Registration, shall ; elected hy primaries on the last uesday in Augusta of each election ar under the same rules and regula ms hereinbefore provided. ARTICLE XIII. Each county dele itlon to a State Convention shall ive power to lill any vacancy there AuTicr.n XIV. This Constitution ay bo ameuded or altered at the gular May Convention of the State j v - .or at any convention called specifically for that puposo, the call for which shall specify the changes to be made. AHTICLE XV. Any county failing or refusing to organize under the pro visions of this Constitution shall not have representation in the State Democratic Convention. WILIE JONES, Chair. State Dem. Ex Com. Secretary. TO GO TO MANAS8AS. Col. Herbert Issues Orders Govern Inj; Preparation l'or Trip. The Second regiment of State mili tia will leave this State on the 2nd of September for Manoseas. The pro visional regiment will be commanded by Col. 1). O. Herbert of Oraugeburg and will consist of eight companies from his own regiment and four from the Third regiment. Orders for the First regiment have not yet been is sued. Col. Ilerbert lias Issued the follow ing general order governing the prep arations for Uie trip: ''Far. I-The Second regiment of infantry (S. C. V. T.), provisional, will leave home stations fur the Ma nassas, Va., encampment and manoe uvres on September i2i.d, 1 ?04, and the organization will be as follows, viz: ''First-The field officers and the entire regimental stall of Uie Second regiment will be expected to go. "Second-The company orgaidzv Lion will be as follows, viz: Com panies A, Bi C, I), E, F, G, 1, IC and M of the Second regiment, S. C. V. T., and Comp in b's G and II of the Third regiment, S. C. V. T. "Par. II-Officers and meu will wear tile khaki service uniform com plete in all particulars, and they will j go fully armed and equipped. Com pany commanders will see that men are fully uniformed, and will at ouc? take steps to get any missing parts of uniforms, such as regulation chevrons, hat bands, ero s rides, etc., which they will have to order from some uniform house. "Far. lil - No ammunition of any kind whatever will be carried by the troops. Baggage will noL be allowed tj exceed une lield allowance as lixed by tile United States anny iemula tions: and captains will at once see ttat ail arms and accoutre ments are In proper condition. Care stu tdd be taken that all men have stout, easy and comfortable shoes suitable for marching. "Far. IV-Company commanders will push the drilling in extended order until all ollicets and men are prolicie ut In this drill. This is of ut most importun ce and must be attend ed to at once. "Far. V- This regiment will he a portion of the second division, or thc "Frown army," and the service uni form alone will te worn while on duty. "Par. VI-The otllcers of the field and stall will carry their horses with them from their hume stations. "Far. VU-Bach company must carry at least 40 men besides Olli ot rs, and captains will soe that each mau carries a brdtiek or sack. Straw will be issued at camp " Further detailed instructions win be issued later. THE CITADEL SCHOLARSHIP. Qualification ol (lie Candidates for Sctioiarsliip Passed Upon. The Columbia State says few young men were rejected Tuesday by the board of visitors < f the South Caroli na Military academy, which met In the oilier ol Gov. Heyward to pass upon the applications of the candi dates for the beueficary scho'arshlps at the Institution. There are each year a number of applicants f*>r the scholarships and thc qualifications of each must be passed upon before they are allowed to stand the competitive examinations. If a hoy is able to ed ucate himself or be educated by his parents it is seid ?rn that he is giveu.a beneficiary scholarship. Tuesday Col. C. S. Gadsden, the chairman of the board, the governor, Gen. .lohn. I). Frost, Maj. J. J. Lucas 1 nf Society lli'l and Superintendent ol' Education Martin were pres nt. Those ab lent were. Messrs. E. M. Fly the of Greenville, W. W. Lewis of York ville, Orlando Sheppard ct Llgelield and the legislative members of the board. The examinations this year will be held an August -ii hy the county hoards of education, 'l here are 8-1 ap lioauts for 19 vacancies as follows: Vacan- Appli cies. cants. A hbo ville. 2 8 Anderson . 1 S Colleton. 1 4 Cherokee. 1 'A Darlington . I :t Edgelield. 1 2 Dorry. 1 2 Kershaw. 1 1 Lee. 1 2 Lancaster. 1 4 Marlon. I ?> i >rangeburg.2 14 Pickens. I li Richland. t J1 Spartanburg. 1 ;t Sumter. 1 4 Saluda. 1 :i Killed :t Pol I et; man. J. W. Brown, a member of the Charlotte, N. C., police force, was killed by Paul Diggers, a IO-year-old white hoy Tuesday. Diggers had been arrested for violating a city ordinance and after the hearing the boy passed the olllcer and laughed or sneered Rh him. Drown gave chase and laid hold of Diggers, who struck him in the stomach with Iiis list. The officer thereupon knocked the boy si useless with ids club. A large crowd gathered and threats against the olil eer were made but the crowd was kept back and the b.iy taken tn the police station. Drown was taken ill shortly afterward as a result of the blow struck by Bigge rs abd died a few hours later, niggers was released on 11,000 bond. _ Waterspout Was Seen. A dispatch from Charleston to The state says a largo waterspout was seen it sea late Thursday afternoon. The rreat mass of water, In state of con tinual revolution and swayed by the vital, presented an inspiring picture, md the spectators marveled at the ihenoraenon. The shaft seemed to each from the sea to the sky, being arge at the liase, narrowing in the ?entre and then broadening forwards he apex. The column of water mov id rapidly and was dissipated when it truck a fringe of woods on Morris island. There was no shipping in the our.se of the spout elsa damage would nive been none. Tine men who aro guilty of the foul nurder at EutO-wville should bo mulshed to the full extent of the aw. PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, CLirJTOIM, s. c, BOARD, ROOM-RENT and TUITION for Collegiate Year for $117.00. Next Session begins Sept. 22, 1904. For Catalogue or information address JV. ID. SPENCER, The Sky land Home, 28 Miles west of Asbevllle, N. O. CLYDE, N.C. Altitude^, 700jfeet. Building burge andJComfortable. Ideal [.Location. Scenery unsurpassed, Uv l*The I-sadJoJ the Sky." Nu place in ?io Mountains butler suited fur rest and recreation than thu beautiful Pigeon Uiver Section. \V. K. Woodall, Proprietor. RATES: $5.00 to $7.00 per woek, 2 hi a room, singt? Rooms $8.00 tu $11.00. Special nilen to purtles ur fu ni i HOM fur Season. /V) A1 Osborne's Business College tSMmtmb" AUGUSTA, GEORGIA OK TUITION RCFUNDCD BOOK-KEEPING. SHORTHAND AND TELEGRAPHY WRITE US 1854. COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 1904. An institution Tor the higher education of young women. Classified as a College. University plan of studies. Strong faculty. Literary, Music Art, Expression departments are under thoroughly competent and experienced teachers. Cistern water, bleated hy hot water. Health record unsuipassud Great advancement lu Music department. For catalogue address the President, W. W. DANIEL, Columbia, S. C. Iii Tl A \A/d fr*Vi Dun't think Umt overy una who bangs out a sign as a "watch 111C VV <XLL.ll ranker" is competent to repair your Ano watch. Repairers who 1? . . aro fully competent are scarce. We du wurk only uno way.-the pr PTYllt'l fl Cf BOBt-we can make any pan of a which, or a completo watch. AV^f o* ^ur prices aro often no moro than yuu pvy for inferior work. VVhon;our ohar watch, go for work is $1.50 or over wo will pay express charge one way. Send us your 1?. H. LACHICHOTTE & CO. Jewelers, 1424 Main St, Columbia, S. C. WE ARE L00KIN FOR YOUR ORDERS COtUMBIA tUHBER & MFC CO COLUMBIA, sc. Wk Whiskey I Morphine Cigaret I Alli Drug au1 Tobacco Habit, I Habit | Elabit | Habits. Cured by Keeley Instit xii Ci, of C 1329 Lady St. (or P. O. Box 76) Columbia, S. C. Confidential correapond -?nce solicited. WHAT DOGS JLOP COST? Write to us and we will bo glad to give you prices that will interest you on PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, BRUSHES, etc. What is Calci mo? COLEMAN-BALL-MARTIN FAINT AND OIL CO. 3?7 King Street, CHARLESTON, S- 0_. MACHINERY SUPPLES. Everything for supplying Saw Mills, Oil Mills, Quarries and Ginneries, Belting, Packing, Shafting, Hangers, Pulleys, Pipes, Valves, Fittings, In jectors, Lubricators, etc. 10,000 ft. of good 1 in. second band black pipe for sale. Write COLUMBIA SUPPLY GO., Oolnmoia., S. O. The machinery Supply house of the e-tate. Southeastern Lime & Cement Co. CHARLESTON, S. C. Building Material of all kinds. High Grade Roofing "RUBEROIO." Write for prices. Inline cement, Plaster, Terra Cotta Pipe, Roofing Paper, Car lots, small lots, write, Carolina, Portland Cement Co., Charleston, ?. C. When Dog DayaBegin. Several persons have recently made inquiries as to the first dog day. They have ccih making the same in ipi I ry at Intervals for more thau twenty centuries. In the days when Home was mistress of the world they supposed that malarial diseases pre vailing ju the Italian coast came in with the sultry days that b;gan when Sit ius, or the dog star, rose with the sun. Owing to the presence of the equinoxes the helical risln; of Sirius ls later now atid dues not occur until August lu to li). The old lloma ns and dwellers on the coast of the Medi terranean believed those days very productive of diseases. In recent times until lately all almanac makers had to note the beginning of dog days. They differed considerably. Some of them reckoned the time from July 9 to August ll; others from July 24 to August 21, while nearly every day of the last week of July has been consid ered at one time or another as the be ginning of these days. So there Is no lixed date for the lirst dog day and thc makers of almanacs generally omit to nute the day. Solillers Proteot Negro. George W. Williams, the negro who wits rtcjntly arrested for assaulting Miss Laura Knude, a white school teacher, near Harper's Ferry, was tried at Charlestown Va., Tuesday afternoon and found guilty. He was sentenced to be hanged next mouth. The trial was held with soldiers sur rounding the court house, during the proceedings 13 men were arrested for beating down the doors. No shots were tired, but the military was kept in active service to prevent an upris ing. The ne^ro ls now under strong guard and renewed reports are in cir culation thr.t the Charlestuwn jail will be attacked. * Killed Oy "Kat Biscuit." Flole Hurbon, aged 3 years, the child of Mr. M. R. Burton of Marianna, Fla., died about midnight Sunday from eating poison. Karly Sunday morning, playing on her father's desk, the little girl found an open package of "rat biscuit," and ate two of them. A negro child with ber ate one or two of the biscuits also. Antidotes were at once given both children, and Sunday afternoon lt was thought they were out of danger. During tho night Floie became much worse and died about midnight. The negro child will get well. Refused to l'union Wooten. Gov. Hey ward Tuesday refused to pardon Pink Wooten of Greenville, convicted ot violation of the dispen sary law and sentenced to serve 60 days on the county chaingang. Wooten was tried in the mayorvs c?uf% of Greenville. The p?tition stated that be was sick and unable to work and at the time he had already served ten/days. Gov. Hey ward was Inform ed t.iat Wooten, was an old offender against the dispensary law and at the time of this trial there were beside the city case two State cases against him. Ile was glved 30 days ou the city case and 30 days on one of the State cases. He confessed bis guilt. * Death of D. A. Hart. D. A. Hart, maisbal of Holly Hill, who has been 111 with typhoid fever for some time, died at his residence there Saturday night July 30, and waa burled Sunday afternoon following by Holly Camp No. 148, W. O. "W., of which be was a member. He leaves a widow and one child. Hart was under a $1,000 bond to appear for trial at the next term of court in the case of the negro taken from the. guard house and shot bo death. Men^ who ar* tn need of th? beat liirilloM treat ment should not fall to consult Dr. Hatha way at once, as he U r e c OR n 11, e d aa the leading and moat suc cessful 8 p e c t a 11 st. You are ul? in placing your cass In hit) hands, as he ls thc longest established and has the best rep utatlon. He cures where others fall. thar? la no patchwork or experimenting lu his treatment. Per tonal attention by Dr Hathaway, also ape na. iiiTHiwiT. clal counsel from hi* > associate physician* when necpR'sary, which no other office has. 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