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-DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." Democra YOL,. XIX. BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1904. NO. 45, ON THE RIG ET LINE. Judge Parker Makes Trust and Cor poration Corruption the Issue. THE R?PTJBL G ?N8 W> BBIED Beoauoo All tho B?K Trusta Have Con tributed Ii* boral.v to Their Cam paign Fuud ?B Charged by Pai ker. ? dispatch from Washington says lt is understood lhere orj good authori ty to be the serious Intention of Judge Parker to have the Democratic mana gers make the paramount and closing issue of the campaign on the questkn of trust and corporation corruption In campaigns, as evidenced by their enormous contributions to the Re publican national committee. So many favorable comments have teen made on the speech deli vere d recent ly by Judge Parker, in which the trusts were charged with contributing heavy puma to the Republican cam paign that they migLt be beue?tted by the continuation of the Republi can party in power, that Judge Par ker bas come to tue conclusion that the country is aroused to a high pitch over what appeals to him as nothing more nor less than the pureba ;e ol immunity from a great political party. That speech has created consterna tion among Republicans in Washing ton and elsewhere, and is regarded by persons close to the president as furn sblng an issue that may in the last few weeks of the election change the entire tide of affairs, as now runulng The notorious fact that nearly every great trust and corporation in the country bas contributed, heavily to the Republican campaign has never been so authoritatively and powerful ly emphasized as lu the arguments presented by Judge Parker. At the same time his bold utterances give the Pe to the recently circulated story that.the Standard Oil and other big interests have lately put up much money to the Democratic national committee. It is admitted here by Republicans that what promises to be damaging to them is rapidly spread ing information, which was not ac cepted for a long time as accurate, that all the trusts and corporations have made peace with the adminis tration and will support Roosevelt. _To offset this tlie literary and news paper headquarters of the Republi can committee have been deliberately giving out s'orles that the Standard O.l people have put up money for use In the elope states in the last few days. The fact that this is false is shown in the personal supgrrr^of Roosevelt by nouai 'bai..., o?'r?cw ri ?-ho .OJtYjfo tution owned and contrulhd by the Standard Oil people. President Still man is one of tlie mea who lunched with the President durlr g the summer and who came out for him. As Still man is the banker for the Standard 'Jil interests the story ls regarded here as being a dum; y attempt to de ceive the people, as Judge Parker states the Republicans have done all along on the trust question. Democrats at the Democratic con ^ressional headquarters b die ve that Judge Parker has put the question of the Republicans befog bought up by big contributions in Miob a way as to demand answer and exp iclt and clear answer from high sources, and there are indications here that au attempt will te made that way, but at the same time it ls declared to be the purp'se of the Democratic managers to use the Issue from now on and to directevery Democratic stump speaker to picsent the facts to the country. In the West the Republican masses have been made to believe that Roosevelt was the greatest trust buster in this or any ot her age and something of the same impression has obtained in the East. The charge ff?at ttie only busting he ls doing now is that ol' tearing'a hole in the reserve funds of the trusts for campaign uses will have a different sound if pressed to the fiont in strong and vigorous fashion to the clo.^e of the campaign. The belief strongly prevails that Judge Parker has started on the right track at the last monnnt and that he is clearing tlie way for thousands of Independent vote-. The immense corruption funds lor campaign pur poses are coming to be regarded by fair and patriotic men of all parties as full of danger to thc couutry, and Judge Parker clearly points out that lt is too late to bi gin tte upr< oting of this in this election. The fight must be carried un in the future, and tlie patriotism of the ccuntry appealed to steadily and porsisiently until tlie party using the money of great cor poration interests will bc thrown out of ellice by the people. Thc ownership of political parties by rich men and corporations began in the states and has gradually ex tended, as Judge Parker, says, to thc national ownership. The Southern Pacilic rtad has long run both politi cal parties in Calltornia, but more particularly the Republicans, in Florida a few railroad and hotel magnates virtually sehet the majority of the Important candidates for ulllce. The Michigan Central railway, in Michigan, commands tlie same obedi ence to its behests .md get? what it wants. So it is ina dozen states of thc country. Hnvi it from tho Deco. Thc schooner Cordeda Hayos, which arrived at San Juan, P. lt., Wednes day, brought to port passengers and crew of the Hrithlsh steamer Kelvl, which was swamped and abandoned on October 7th. Those rescued num bered forty-two. 'lhcy left tho ship October 7, when twe days out of New York bound for Montevideo. They took to open botts and spent seven teen days in awful torture at sea un til Hie II ay 08 Friday picked them up. .1,1,111111 m- CaiiiialtlcH. According to a dispatch received by the Japanese legation at Washing ton from thc fort ign ellice at Tokio, thc total casualties suffered bv the Japanese army In killed and wounded, ncludlng odlcers, In engagements around the Sbakhe river up to Wed nesday amounted to 15,07?. ALL ONE PEOPLE. Sonio Strone feud Truthful Worth Iruui a Chicago Papsr. The Chicago Tribune makes tblf admirable say inp : Theje are some Northerners who know more about Germany and about Italy and perhaps about "the roman tic and picturesque Balkan penin sula, than'they do about Georgia and South Carolina, and Texas. Como qu? ntly, tuey sho?v more sense when they are talking about lese majesty, or tb ?ut the temporal power of the Pope, or abui;t Turkish oppression than they do win ri they are talking ab'>ut the rg'it of the m gio to vote. lt ls so ea.>y to think that just be* cause you li ve in a country you must understand it. The Sou UH mer and the Northerner are fellow eltiz ms They owe al eglar.ce to the same Hag. Therefore the Northerner is perfectly competent lo tell the Southerner how to settle the negro question. The fallacy in this logic is that be cause of the pr*.s mee of the ir gro thc social condition of Charleston, S. C., d Hers from that of Bostou, Mass., more than that of linton, Mass., dif fers from that of London, England. And a citiz u of Boston gets on bet ter in London than he dees in Charleston. The negro question ls greater than any other question in America. And it is not only greater but mme deli cate. It is a matter r f social as well as of political and industrial life. So, more tban almost any other qticsiiou that could b9 Imagined, it needs per sonal experience. The occasional negro of the North ls not aa adequate basis for studying the negro of the South. In the South the negro in many communities outnumbering the white, and there is a possibility of negro rule. Therefore. Northerner, if yoi have tirre and mon^y to visit new scenes, visit tho South. Some of your fe\ lows have ynne to tbe South and have li...,,) thnn. f,... n fart. ... o v.. T>W.-.?. ...v..* *. .w.. j ^*... MW j don't feel now quite as you do. See if you can lind out what lt was that modified their opinions. Go South and watch the descen dants ot Washington, Madison, Jack son, Marshall, Jefferson, Clay, Cal houn, Polk, and Lee while they, bone of our bone and tlesh of our tiesh, are working out, with errors of mind and with errors of heart, but with Ameri can plbck and hope, the greatest do mestic problem that ever ate into the heart of a civilized people. Cime back, and If you still think that they are wrong you will say so lu a differ ent tone. That is said in a truly American spirit and its tone should perva le the whole land. What a pity that we have not, at this especially opportune time, at the head of the nation a man vvit'i tuis catholic view ot his coun GOCB lor ItooHcvelt. President Roosevelt Friday receiv ed an open letter from General James N. Tyner, former assistant attorney general for the pesti lli;e department, who several months ago was acquitted of the charge of conspiracy in connec tion with thc all?gea favoring of cer tain alleged get rich-quick concerns. The letter, says the writer was prompted by the recent appearance in a popular magazine of an "inspired article," which is such a deliberate tissue of falsehood and is circulated with such an evident purpose "that he could not Ignore it." General Tyner bitterly arraigns President Roosevelt for bis unwarranted "pro clamation of guilt,"' and proceeds: "Your accusations are false ard have been proven ia'se, but 1 have no fur ther meat.s of establishing this ex cept by going into the courts, and 1 have too much respect for the high e.tlice which you occupy to do this. In my letter to you of December 2. 1903, protesting against jour unwarranted proclamation, 1 belied you to produce a selutillaif evidente in support of ytiiir accusations and now, after I have gone to trial and every act of my pi i vate and otlicial life has been laid bate and not a p .rticle of evi dence has been produced against me. you seek to shield yourself by saying 1 was not tried for what you accused me of, but for something else. Tnat is false; the reooids show, and you know it." I..tsi l.lekH ol Campaign. The work ot the remaining week of the Presidential campaign will be con ducted by b tb Republicans and Ihm ocrats principally in New Y> rk, New Jer.-ey, Wet Virginia, Indiana and the Rocky mountain States. The lie publican national committee in New York is claiming li 17 votes, as follows: California, C 1 mido, Connecticut, De'aware, Idaho, 1.linois, indiana. Iowa, Kansas Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minne: ota, Montana, Nc braska, Nevada, Nev Hampshire, New Jer.ioy, New York, North Da kota, O.iio, Or, gon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Sooth Dakota, Utah, Wasliii g'.ou, West Virginia, Wiscon sin and Wyoming. They concede to the Democrats the solid South, mak ing 151 electoral votes, and place Maryland in the doubtful column. The fl inns of tho Democrats include, In addition to the solid South, Colo rado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Utah and vVest Virginia, which mak sa total of Democratic claims of 259 electoral votes. Burned io lieut li. Wednesday on the Padgett place about six miles from Johnston, a ten ant house eceuphd by John Hollo way, colored, and bis family was de stroyed with Its c intents by lire and : three of the children burned to death, aged about 1 month, 2 and 5 je.irs Holloway and his wife, it is said, we ( In the held at the time the house wai discovered In ll imes, which ls suppes cd to have caught in a pile of cottoi on the door. Tho door was not fasten id, but even the o.der child failed t< Chea pe. I'arroi Cried lor Help. At Chicago excited by sh il ll erie; for help coming rrom a burning bui.d lng, liremen fought their way througi Hames to save a supposed person, ant returned with a parrot that belonge to H. S. Fewer, whose rooming housi was damaged S5,O0U by the Ure. SHE SEES GHOSTS. Jane Toppan, Who Poiaoned Thirty One Victims, Herself Haunted BY VISIONS OF GHOSTLY FORMS. She Has Gone Mad and Bernama In Terror at Every Bowl of.Soup or Cup ol Toa Offered. Fearing Poison. Jane Toppan, the poisoner of thirty one people by her own confession, during her career as professional nurse, tho most cruel woman murder er known in modern criminal hi?tory, is now suffering for her sins by a ter rible punishment at nature's own hands ur God's, in the State insane asylum at Taunton, Mass., where she is kept. Uer punishment is exquis itely more torturing and crueller than death or the grave. She imagines that the dead victims have risen from their tombs and are trying to poison her. As the nurses brlnir a bowl of gruel or oup of tea to her lu her nar row cell she screams out: ''It's poisoned!'' She pushes it away and covers her face with her bands to hide the s'gbt of the bony fingers ot her dead patients clutching at her, ar d to shut out the vision of their death's heads hovering over her. lb ls as If the ghosts of all whom she killed had burst loose from their j cc ilins and COVDP forth to torture her to death. Fr^m 'the plump, gocd looking, happy woi'.uan who entered the asylum two years n?'o, chuckling over her own cleverness /n "fooung the doc tors." as she calleM lt, Into calling her Insane, she has badine'a raving ma niac, and a mere Ikeleton. When Jane T-obpan was committed here m j .ne, 1?02, many people v -ght ttiat the electric chair had ri rov-'>iM? n* i.T .i.u.?.,i -<_<.<_, I Ul lio llguuiui ?1? Ul 111, I iWiiSov\yat no form of execution known to; \, w could be tort?reseme enough- 1 *-<" Inhuman woman. Som,. 60 far as to Call it a travesty ua Justice to allow such a tigress in human form to escape legal execution. Hut now the wisdom of the Insanity experts and of the courts has ita fair right to consideration. Nature, through God, in its own way, is working a punishment more terrible than m (liavial torture could bave devised upai this woman, who j dar^d to violate one of the groat Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt not killi" Day and night she ls living over ! the crimes she committed. Sometimes the wing in which she is I ontlntd is aroused at nli>hfc b1?.*^-*.>J ?rw.-ow-i-^Q ?lau . tire, ure."] It is Jane Toppan in her cell imag ining that some one is setting lire to the bed on which she is sleoping. Four times she set Are to houses where she was living-at Professor Wilson's, in Cambridge, in the hope that the shock and excitement would kill weak, sickly Mrs. Wilson. 13ut| this plot failed. Again at tbo Dakin cottage, at Cataumet, on Cape Cod, she started a blaz3 in a closet to de stroy aged Mr. and Mrs. Aldin P Davis. This attempt also failed, so she poisoned both of them a few weeks later. On two other occasions she ls known to have set tires to see her vic tims roast. Now she is haunted by the fear that j others are trying by burn her alive. Week by week Jaue Toppan is ! growing weaker as her crazed mind ls ' racked by torments. Within the last week the physicians at the asylum have c nie to think she cannot live the year out. Nearly every day or night sh' breaks out with some new phantom ot fear. One night she alarmed the patients anti attendant; in the no.th wing with frantic cries of ''Help, help-doctor-they're poi soiling me." Wnen a nurse reached her edi Jane Toppan was dashh g round the sinai room with padded walls, fighting ell some Imaginary assailants. "'Soe," she moaned to the nurse, "SJC how Minnie Gibbs has put mor phia into my arm," and she bared her arm to the shoulder. \ The Moor was dripping from it where slie had scratchc I lt wltti her own tinner nails in uer wild desire to dig out the im aginary poi.-on. Jane Toppin killed Minnie Gibbs by Injecting mcrphia and strophia byperdermically Into her arm when her patient was too weak to swallow poison Io liquid form. Dr. Stedman, the famous alienist, who still continues to study Jam Toppan's case, tells of her phjsicial c l apse this year by starving herself and bec ming reduced almost to a skeleton through fear of oeing pois m ed tbrough her food: She had bec m3 very abusive to the nurses, defying their authority and inciting patients to do the same, go ing so far as to shout to a melancholic whom thc nurse was trying to lee not to cat thc food as it was poison. Hei physical condition had fallen off greatly. She had lost fifty pounds in weight in a few mon tbs In coose quenco of her refusal of food because of false belief in regard to it. Owing to her weak condition she wat* romov ed to the h. lirmary. By February, 1904, she was greatly emaciated, having lost over eighty pounds, or ab ut half her norma! 'weight, abd was so weak that fo ced feeding with thctuoe was resorted to for several days, since which time sin has eaten temporarily, but ju^t enough to avoid being fed again. The arti ti cal reeding was only resorted to af tel persistent persuasion and every p;;ssi hie measure to Induce her to eat had been tried, including special articles of ellet from the superintendent's table. A tlioroudi physical examina tion revealed no evidence of budllj distiusj. ( >n a recent visit she began at one on a tirade against the hospital, lt officers and all Its belongings. She insisted that every thing was "rotten,'' that the meat was "embalmed" beef, etc., etc. She persisted in these com 1| plaints after being told that we had just eaten thc dinner provided for bei which we found nutritious and pala - able. Everything was filthy, she said, even the brick walls, which must bs 'saturated with tho tilth of years;" tho water supply (which 1B taken from an artesian well) was "polluted with sewerage;" the vegetables were "rank poison." She spoke rather anxiously atout a general feeling of numbness, and asked what was the cause of it. She was entirely inac cessible to explanation, argument, or even positive proof as to the impos sibility of hi r statements. Occasion ally she would burst out unexpectedly with peculiar and piercing shrieks of laughter which would seem impossible to one in her weak c inditiou. M>ny of her Indiscriminate ana senseless charges seemed tobe rather the expression of an insane malignity toward every one than the outcome of genuine belief that th-y were true.J Hut we were, at the same time, con-[ vlnced beyond a doubt that she was also hollering from strong and genu ine delusions of persecution by poison ing, be. ause her belier in this regard so eon istently influenced her con duct that ber refusa' or food bad prac tically reduced her to a skeleton, and repeabad forcible feedings had no ef fect lu changing her convictions. Her persecutory ideas vary ia strength from time to time, but the delusions of suspicion from which lluj spring remain unshaken. By the progress of lier disease Jane Toppan has come to believe that not only every article of food that is brought to her, every cup of tea or cotlee and every glass of water, ls poisoned. She can see the spectres of her vic tims boveriug over her and dropping thc poison Into these, things just as she used to do to them. Oae of lier ravorite met bois was to dissolve au atrophia tablet in a glass of mineral water and hold it up smil ingly as a draught of health. This ls the way she diugged peor Mr. Alden P. Davis to death. If ber patten's were particularly fond of tea or cede she dis .1 ved morphia or atro phia tablets lu their cups. When Jane Toppan was first com mitt ed to the asylum she was permit ted to mingle with the other mildly insene patients. But as her delusions became more frequent and she broke foi tb into violent tiiades against the other patients and the hospital atten dants, she was nun .ved first to the in firmary and later to a secluded cell in the north wing. The windows have gratings and lt is in reality a prison. "I saw them all last night," she said one morning this week when the nurse came to her room with a tray cf crust, c.li?e and bread. "What do you mean Jane," asked the nurse, as she noticed the unnatur al brightness In Jane Toppau's hollow, :unkeneyes. e "Why, all the people LiiaveJclUed,'!. the woman sald^c^v*^yPu" -'" "pearlog .pr-rfectly rational.- ' They all came and gathered around my bed in the night. There were the Davlses, and Mr. and Mrs. Dunham, and Myra Connors, and Mrs. Brigham, Mrs. Bannister, Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Harry Gordon-oh, I'm sorry I kill d her, she ls so pretty"-and here the har dened murderess, who once seemed to know no such thing as bum iu sorrow, burst into tears. Then, recovering herself, she went on: "But they're all after me now thirty one of them-some want to poison me, aud some come at me with their skeleton bands as if they would choke me. Sje, they're coning for me now-help, mulder"-anel the poor, demented creature fell back upon her cot in a paroxyi-m of Insane fear. Jane Toppan is paying tile penalty if her crimes by Nature's or God's iwn law in a way that is an apalling moral object le son-that no one can take human lifo, even if he escapes punishment of human law, without suffering the most awful bortunes to the end of his ur her own wrotchd ex istence. Summitry of Cotton Ginned. A bulletin issued hy the census bureau gives a summary of the reports on cotton ginned in the United States iu the pris .'lit i c tr up to October 18 The report cover OU counties, and shows a total of 420,883 running bales, as against 202,600 running biles re ported from tile same c >untles for the same period last year. The counties j covered are in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mis sissippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Car .lina, Teure see, Texas and Vlrgiuia. Giorgia makes the largest showing with 34 counties and IDtJ, 744 bales, as agah s. 117,130 bah last year. Toe number of ginneries 'rom which ie ports were received ls j 2,411, as against 2,342 fir 1003. A comparative statement for 1003 shows I that up to October 18 of that year ai total of 3,830,027 hales had been ginne 1. Thc total number of couti ties from which ginning was reported in 11)03 was 812, and tuc number of ginneries 27,723. Will Not Preach. Colonel Juin: s ll. Tillman will not enter tho ministry, right away any how. And If he did take such a step he has his text picki d for his tirst sermon. In speaking of the report that he Intended Lo enter Hie Metho dist ministry, thc colonel said. "\ am imazed that so serious a matter, for he sole purpose or a newspaper sen sation, bus been telegraphed all over thc country. Surely 1 might be per mitted to attend to my own affairs. Sit ce my return to H.lgclield 1 have diligently applied myself to the prac ice of my profession and the court alendars will show that it ls now arger than evor." Tine men who signed the letter re questing Gov. Hey wu rd io resign may oe sensible men, but they did a very fooli-.li tiling when they sent that ibsurd letter to the Governor. It a ot of school boys had done it we might excuse lt, but lt looks extreme ly nonsensical In a lot of grown up men. _ SAY all they can the Republican campaign orators cannot destroy the popular convie! lon that as ex-Senator l?avis stud in his letter of acceptance, "tho extravagance In tho conduct of the government ls greater now than it any time in thc history of the country." UL HE MSJPENSAEY. By Invitation Senator Tillman Speaks to the People About lt. STILL BELIEVES IT A 0301) LAW, lim Says He Would be ? Prohibi tionists, If Ho Believed Suoa a Law Could bo Kniorocd. We present below a pa;t of the speech delivered at Gaffney receu'ly by Senator Tillman on the dispensary. Thia part or the sprech may be termed a d.f ence of the D'spensary Liw. Next week we will publish the other, half of the Senator's speech, in wliich he makes some suggestions about changing and enforcing the law. \ Senator Tillman, after referring to his visita to Gaffney on former oc casions slid: I ot"' -lere today In re.spense to an Invitation signed by two or three hun dred Ot you asking me to discuss Temperence, Prohibition, Dispensary and License, as you are to pass on that at the next election. Tnere ls some difference of opinion as to whether I have any business here. There aro some people who arc dispos ed to think that I am a meddler; that I am Interfering with a purely local mattet with which I have uo COLO .?rn and that I ought not to be herc. 1 want ,to say In regaid to that that when you elected me Governor, you did not rob me of the right of a citi zen to discuss any question anywhere and though you have sent me to Washington as your representative in tbe United States Senate I am still a South'Carolinian and still a tax payer, and more than that 1 am still your.servant. (Cbeert.) At least I fei 1 that way and try todo my duty in the National hall and I tried to do my duty in the Governor's office. The question is, why did you as?: me to cone -here? There is a difference of opinion as to why. Who v\as instru mental in inviting m > here? To give you mylreason for saying some things I Intend to say, I will read from the News and Courier of Thursday last a communication from this City or town, which is not signed. The Senator then read the article which was in effect as follows: (T.iat Senator !(Tl)lman was c ming to Gaff ne1* * Interfere in a local matter and era h? ship of a boss over the boy-, ant. 'ko them line up f ir the Dis p n against even their conscien tious - iples?) Now T complain of that manner of treating this meeting as far ai 1 am concc?.rr i because, ?rst, _I am called v *?n>~ * PfiW.Vnnwj!!'"' ' -o-~V*->~ tuait j CO cruck a; wnip over" yuu, and I object to it most because of the fact that this man, whoever he may be, has so little respect for you, so little comprehension of your natural capacity, of your manly self respect, that he s. ates that you will obey the crack of the whip and fall into line and even vote against your cou deu ces and your better judgment. What sort of mangey cur dog-* does he take you to ba, men of Onerokee? Where in South Carolina is there a County which has witbiu its bounds a lot or slavish, ignorant, debased and cow ardly citizens who obey me? This I* the old cry that used to come from way back; that you were a lot of fuols who followed me obediently and that I had only to get out and crack my whip and that ycu would follow ano tlo my bidding. There ls another little clipping, or rather editorial from one of your Couuty papers to which 1 want to as* you to listen while I rei\d it. Senator Tillman then read from editorial in the Gaff ney Ledger, which was to the effect that he had com plained of Senator Hampton coming here in 1800 to In'eifere in a local state affair and that his coining to Cherokee now was very much out o' place. Is lt out of place? Well that is a matter of opinion. I have already said you put me lu the respons ble position which 1 now occupy but j ou did not take from me every right 1 have in my state and this C ninty, and I want to ask yoi, what position would 1 occupy, If I was so much of a politician, so afraid of making ene mks, so cowardly that 1 wool 1 de cline to accept your invitation to come here and di-.euss a great publie q-iestlon in which we are all interest ed, when two or three hundred citizens ask me to discu s the question calmly and dispos onat ly without any fear but merely tu pleas ure you. I say, what sort of a cow aidly creature would IL?; If 1 had said I am too busy or the circumstances are such that 1 .cannot accept? 1 would not have long retained your re spect or goori will. 1 certainly would not deserve to retain lt at all If 1 was so low and contemptible ai that. There is another liing here that 1 will mention. Ile speaks ol" Senator llamp'.on coming here in 181)0. ls there any analogy in tlio conditions? Sena tor Hampton left his seat in thc Sen ate and came to South Carolina when there was a very heated campaign on for the otho:: of Governor. He spoke fio n the same platform with the candidates and lent all his influence in behalf of one man against another and there is no analogy between that case aud this at all. This is not a personal matter, this a matter of principle and public policy. Von are to vote on a moat important meas ure. As both of your papers aro Hued up on one side, ls it not natural thal 1 am glad to come hero to let you hear the otherside and is io not my duty to come? You all know 1 wonk: not presume to come here to fell yoi what to do. You would ride mo on ; rail if 1 was to be so insolent as tx occupy the attitude of a boss. 1 cami here to give you such Ideas In regare to this great subject as might enubb you to judge of lt fairly and judge in tellcgently. I want to say now, tba after you have heard this qucstloi debated by nie and any other wir may choose to spaak from this stain 1 today who wishes to argue from t'a other side, 1 will be most hippy ti hear from bim before you take you action. 1 am not hore to bambo /. i or honeyfuggle any one and while tb i dlsponbary may need changes still, 1 ls for you to determine whethor yo want L'UIS system to continue. It is your right to kick lt out. I believe In local self government, but I don't believe in two newspapers refusing to print an artiole because lt ls not In accord with their views. I understand an article was placed in tho bands of one of these news papers and they refused to print lt. Mr. DoCamp: They didn't 8 nd lt to me. Mr. Parrot: We did not refuse to print, any article. Sin. Tillman: I will ask the man who brought that paper to me to please rise. (A.man arose In the back uf the bouse) (Cheers-). (The mi... stat ed that the pap:r was p'ac:d with tbe piper edited by the Messre. Parrotts and was signed G. B. Daniel). Pa'rott: I have the article. (Laugh ter and cheers and much shouts for Tillman). Td min: Wait a moment, if I was mistaken I want to take it back. Perrott: I have the article on hand to ba published as noon as we can do so. Tbe article will appear as soon as we Lava time to print lt. Sen. Tillman: Will lt appear before the election? Parrott: Yes slr. Sen. Tillimn: He says lt will ap pear before tho election. That is all right. Parrott: My brother and I do all the work in the tillie and we do not hive time to set up all the matter that wine, in at one time. Now, I will try to Justify myself Tor coming here. 1 will always believe that it was my duty to come. I will always come when you edi rrn because you have always come when I called for you. You all in tha rear, there is rojm up here instead cf the aisle. I want you to come up to the amen corner b ciuse I am going to preac 1 the gospel accord li g to Tillman ti nny. (J.ieer..). There la always room f r tiose who climb and there is plenty of ro m here. I just want to speak something further in referen?e, if I niiy use a str ujer word, of my coming here to meddle in your affilrs. Well now, I haven't the invitation, but 1 have a very good memory, I re member that when you were consider ing the ad visibility and wisdom of cutting lo isc frjm the counties of York, Union an 1 Spartanburg to set op for yourselves, that there was a ureat difference of opiuion as to how the thing would go. The town of Gall ley was very anxious to become a Courthouse and discussion was going on as to whether it would add to your taxes and c .mpensate you for the ad ditional burdens by the advantage* offered, and another invitation curie to m i eight years ago to come here to express my opinion and advise with my fellow cltizins as to the wisdom and advantages of establishing Ohero .raj Cou^.r-w -ind I.HIV very A'lto ULI cv Ll LIIICLC "rr.... ".n. ffl?U ?.UV?- Bl'glitiU' that petition who wrote one of these editorials calling ma a meddler. (Che-r.-). When I came here then, he tb .ught it was thc proper thing, ile did not say then as he says now ihat lt was out of place. I'll bet If 1 had the list here now 1 could Hud pus sibly onehuodrel names of men who are now lly-blowitn; me on the side and telling others that I am coming here to whip you boys into line and that you haven't manhoid enough tn resent lt. It reminds me of the old story that we boys wh.i were taught in the blue back spelling book us id to read. There was a certain farmer who bad a Hue steer, living as a neighbor to a lawyer who bad ii hull, and the bull killed the steer and the farmer went to see the lawyer in reference to lt and told the lawy r that a most unfortunate thing had occurred that his steer had killed the lawyer's bull ar:d the la vyer said .'well you are liable for killi g of my bull and I suppose you have come to pay for it." Hold on, said the farmer, it was jour bull killed my ox, I made a mi.stake." On, said the lawyer, that makes a dlllerence, we will s.e about it. Y\ ry easy when tli3 fanner was to pay bim but dilTerent when it was otherwise. All right when 1 came here to discuss other matters hut di ci ledly out of place for nu to C3in> h-re and discuss temperance and th flispe: stry law. SJ much by way of preliminary. As 1 told you, I was Invited here to discuss the questions of Temperance, Dispensary law, Prohibition jr Li cciisi. I am going to rio lt honestly and frankly as L always do everything. 1 started too late In life to teach my tongue the trick of saying oae thing and meaning a other. Tnere is no one litre who wains to make this a personal issue, but I waut to invite any man who feels so disponed to ask me questions, and I will answer them if 1 can. 1 am here for the truth as I .->ee it. I may be in error. There is nothing in this for me in any shape, form or fashion except that 1 will feel wheo 1 get through that 1 luve done my duty and you eau do as your c lu sciences dictate after I get through The question of control of whiskey and how to prevent the great evil* which every thoughtful man sees re suits from it is one of the most didi cult In government, lt is a question which ls always present in some form, the ovl s of liquor drinking to excess. lt is an issue thal) will never down be cause it can never bi settled ace ?rd lng bj the co.illictlug opinions of the p onie interested. It ls going on in one form or atuther^ in a thousand cnn n laities t niiy i'ney hive tr led prohibition in three states, and it has failed signally in stopping the sale of liquor or preventing drunkenness. L'he bir rojms aro run opealy In the 1 city of Portland, Maine, so 1 am iu 1 formed, and it is the same in Kansas City, Kansas, and while there are ' many small towns in tho two staten 1 whore 1 uuor is dillijuit to obtain, thc L number of revenue licenses to sell ? liquor Issued by tho United States ; government in Maine is more than ' double the licenses in South Carolina, * bot i for dispensary and the blind ' tigers. Maine has half our popula ^ Mon, wai e iu Kansas with a little 1 more population than we have, tilt ' Ile? uses are more than four times ut 1 many. a When I was In the campaign foi J Governor In 1*802 the question of pro r hihilion became a very burning om B in several sections. Tue prohlbitloi ? element started out io Inject that inti Ll (.CONTINUED ON V?QK 4.] i ? FLY IMG MACHINE. IC TakcH a Flight of Ten Miles Across tho Mississippi. Propelled part of the way by Its own power and tbe remainder of the distance by tho wind, which was blowiug at 10 mlle* an hour, The Arrow, an airship, owned and per fected by Thomas S. Baldwin of San Francisco, in charge of A. Roy Kna benshue of'Toledo, Wednesday made an unannounced Hight of 10 miles Trom the world's fair grounds over St. Louis and aaross the Mississippi river to Cahokia, Ills. T. e aerial perfo'mxnce attracted the attention of thousands of persons who cheered almost continuously as the big Hying machh e passed over the expos tlon grounds aud soared high above the high buildings of the busl ness quarter of St. Lo lis. Clinging to th'} frame work of the car, his precarious fiothold, an iron tube that forms one side of the base of the triangular network of supports and ribs of The Arrow's body, Koa bensbue din cted the movements of thc Hying machine and manoeuvred in birch's and against th1, wind high over the great buildings of the exposition before an accident to the motor ren dered the hig fan propellers useless and curtailed command of direction, but uot t f su pc-nsion or descensi?n. Wfcea the motor broke Knabenshue manoeuvre! the fl,ing maciiine into the wind, and he was enabled to steer the arrow io a eourje tbat varied s:v eral points either way from the trend of th"? wind and to land at a point of his own se ecting. Wuen within 10 feet or the earth, Kuabeushue threw out his grapple, and one or the ho ks caught in a large tree. The large balloon settle d slowly to the ground, resting lightly on its fra m ;work. Ku ib ms'iue alighted, secure 1 the airship to orevcut injury from the wind and assured Mr. Baldwin by telephone that The Arrow was unin jured, ex-opt for the minor breakage of the motor. After lauding Knabe nshue said that in his opinion the trial of the airship was a distinct success. Toe airship was onstructel under the personal supervision of Capt. Baldwin in O iii fo mia, and differs in many features from ships constructed iu the past. It cirrus a double cylinder, seven power gasolene engine, making 2,000 revolutions of the propellers a minute possible. The machine ls arranged so that the ship is pulled instead of pushed. Wednesday's flight was nib a trial for the world's fair $100,000 prlzi, C?nt_J?aJAirln r-^'-l .'Mihi'---' - ?5 to convince the residents of St. Louis and the world's fair vistors that he had au airship that could fl/. Palled'it off. James IL Ferris-?, "National Chair man of tlii People's Party," had been" planning a "great convention" of "Bryan Democrats" and "Silver Re puollcans'' to ba held in Chicago last Monday week. He bad been advertis ing the event with a great blow of trumpets aud much z?al. Toe Repub lican newspapers had been helping along. Ferrlss had baen using "paid matter" in Dem icratlc newspapers. He d iclarei that "hundreds of thous ands" of Bryan Democrats were ripe for revolt, and were getting in line for a great demonstration. But sud denly the thing has been called off, to prevent a miserable fluke, says the Au gusta Chronicle. A dispatch from .Toilet, Illinois dated Oct. 23, the day before the great convention was to be held, said: "James II Ferres?, national chair nan j of the People's party, announoed Fri day night that the meeting of 'bryan 'Democrats aud 'Silver Republicans,' called to bc held In Chicago on Octo ber 25, has b2en postp m d until after the coming election. Mr. Ferrlss ?states that If any of the 7,000 persons to whom Invitations to the inseting were sent ??.hall come to Chicago be will meet them at the Briggs II ouse on the late originally named for the conven tion." lu commenting on the failure to iio'.d the convention the Augusta Cor?nide says "the truth is, they cmld .not afford to make a show of nandi, or count of noses, and the thing had to be callel off. It ls a con? fessio i that there is nothing in the so-called and muon-tl outed revolt. Hiere was nothing in lt. Democrats have buried their differences, and are, now working together for the eleotlon of Parker. From Bryan to Cleveland - all the way-they are inline, unies* we note the rather queer conduct of Mr. Hearst." Criminal Cnroli-Htmons. A stray bullet from a revolver tired hy Wm. II ffedlinger, formerly a mor chaht of Crestlline, Ohio, resulted in t ie death of two women Friday night. Tho bullet was tired to fright en two companions of Qeffeltingei who wero escorting him home. Tin bullet went wild and struck Mrs, Harry Klmloy, tho wife of aClevtlinc man, who was visiting at a Crestline home, in the head. She died within ? few minutes. Her friend Mrs. Carrie Shafer, on learning of the tragedy, fell dead from heart disease. Ilcffol linger was locked up. Old Mon Fight. At Holyoke, Mass., Patrick Olaug helay and William Glllawe, each 7C years old, roommates In the Bright side threw a chair at him and as lu was about to pick up another Oillawi hit hilra over the head with a caue A south i followed and some men aboul the place separated them. Claughe ? lay did not appear to ho the worse foi 1 tho affair, but on going lo bed be fel dead. G Mawe is much affected ove 1 Hie death of h's old friend, bot say bc struck in self-defense. [ Ho Wan MiHtuknn. i Over sixty years ago Spencer T Hancock of Manchester, Vt., was ii r bad health thought he was going t . die and named the poisons he deslre< . to ac j as his pallbearers. Last Sunda i ho celebrated his elghty-flrst birth i day. All tho orlglual pallbearers ar * dead aud he bas now picked out a nm list. MINING DISASTE?. From Thirty to Sixty Men Tost Their Lives by FxploBion. IN AN IBON MINE IN COLOBiDO. Tho Women and Children Hud lo be Led from tho Mino to Pro vent Their Being Killed by Fumes. From 31 to 03 mm lost their live in a terrine explosion whloh occured at mine No. 3 of the It >cky Mountain Fuel and Iron company at Terlco, 4P milos west of Trinidad, Gol., Friday afternoon. The exact number of dead miy never ba known, as the mine i8 burning and In all likelihood the bolle? will ba consumed. A large numbar of mine offlalals left there as soon as word of the accident was re ceived. The compaay dcotors were picked up all a'l along the line a* well as all available physicians. ' F. J. Foreman, a government stock Inspec tor, was at T?rrico when the explosion occured. Ile returned Friday night and gave the following account of the affair: "1 was standing not more than 300 yards iron the mouth of the tunnel when th ? explosion occurred. 1 "The explosion was preceded by low rumbling sound, resembling an earthquake, which made the earth tremble and startled tha neighbor hood. "I looked toward tin mine and out of the mouth of, the tunnel and two air shafts came a great volume of smok^ and dust which continued for nearly a minuto. Out of the two aie shaft', each of which ls seven feet in diameter, timbers that.were fully two to three feet in diameter were shot into toe air and broken into spllpt&rj. - Et >cks were thrown over the camp for a distance of a quarter of j, mlle. In fact lt rained rocks, broken tlmbars and all kinds of debris ^or fully a min ute and many people were injured by being struck with thens missiles. ''Tue explosion. .which resembled a volcanic eruption, caused the wildest excitement. Men, women and chil dren rushed to the mouth of the tun nel and women whose husbands were in the mine had to be brought away by miners to prevent their being killed by deadly fumes coming from the mouth of the tunnel." The mine In which the accident oc curred employes 80 men and it Is be lieved that at least 60 were in the mine ac the time. News of the ex of men were trying to enter the mine. Deadly fumes overoame tha rescuers frequ .?nely but their places immediate ly were taken by others ready to risk their lives. It was not thought pos sible that any ono in the mine could escape death. It was impossible to secure names of the dead und injured Friday night. Nearly all the miners employed are. Slavs. The explosion is supposed to have been caused by dust. But one body has b ea recovered, that of T. Duran, a driver who was just enter ing the tunnel when the explosion occurred. THE PRESIDENT AND TEE MOB. Mow tho Violent Hare Been Encour aged to Break tho Law. country and in all parts of it' has brought our good name and fame into I disrepute, and justly discredited our boasted American civilization. ni?h functionaries of the Republican party, recognizing this fact, vie with each other In tierce denunciations t f tue practica, lt ls too muon to ask tuena bo remember that a ra >b has as much right to be a law unto itself as a Pres ident or Cabinet minister, or a Cor gress; that, lo its ignorance and un disciplined passions a m >b has excuses for Illegal violence wbich its superiors in stat,iou aod enligbtmenc cannot plead; aud that obedience to law, un der whatever circumstances and in spite of all s;ductlo:is by the highest in office, as wall as fie lowliest of pri vate citizens, is patriotism of tba genuine type compare! with whloh the exercise of the fighting instincts and propensities whlon we share with the bruce creation is of little worth and small account? Ile who will not govern himself by the law has no right to aspire to govern others. "Against the self-seeking, tbe can celt, tlie impatience of legal and con ventional restraints,thed^vourlog am bition, which arc at the bottom of such a candid'.cy, the Democratic party protects not In words merely, but by the very character of its nomi nee for tue Presid?ntlal otllco. lt not only antagonizes Republican policies as a'ready described-lc submits to the judgment and coascieoca of the American people that, whatever may be the p?lleles, the Rer.jblican Candi date for the Presidency has deraon stratednls unfitness to be thc head and tlie official representative of a free, a law-abiding and peace loving people-. In its own nomiuec it presents a candidate who is the exact antithesis of the Republican candidate; a a an of mo lesly and self restraint. Not a glori tier of war, but a representative of the absolute supremacy of the law, which ls tho Vliry climax of the triumphs of peace; not a seeker of odlce, but sought for by lt; a man by nature and training and experience reverential of the Constitution aud laws, and sure to be governed by them hims 'ti' aud to insist that all others shall be; a man who can bo relied upon co recognize the people as tho source of all political power aod himself not as their DOSI or overlord, butas simp ly tho agent and exponent of their will; a man not compelled to republato his convictions as a private citizen and public expounder of economic and political truths in order to justly his ?.cts as National Executive and I eep his place as a party candidate a mau, In short, who willarra* ' ' * 'di upon Washings I Presi dents, r ^ors and a* - From * a New