HERALD. “IF FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.” VOL. II. DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1892. Will) MADE IT ALLEGED COMBINE BETWEEN HAS: KELLITES AND REPUBLIC A S A Diligent Search Fails to Show any Man in Either Party that Made Such a Bargain. [Prom the Darlington J>'ews.] The sensation of the campaign meeting in Darlington was the reading by Gov. Tillman, in the course of his speech, of the fol lowing circular: “Headquarters of the Republican ex ecutive coininitt-o of the Sixth Con g essional diet) let of South Caro lina. Darlingtos, S. C., Oct 18111. Dear Sir: You are hereby instruct ed and urged to see that the "Straight- outs” or Haskell Democrats carry out their obligation to vote for our con gressional candidate Hon. E. H. Deas, as was piomised by them, as a con dition of our support of their county and State ieket. The Republic n supervisors are expected to asceitain early in the morning whether or not the Straightoi.ts are redeeming their promises by voting for our standard bearer for Congress; if they are' not, the information must be gfven to the precinct chairmen and to other promi nent Republicans, who must at once give tlie Straightout leaders to under stand that unless they vote for Mr. Deas, tlie Republicans will not vote for Mr. Haskell. Yours respectfully, 8. W. Williams, Ch .irman Executive Committee. 8. 8. Drkiikr, Chairman Special Committee. This circular is no new thing to the public. It was published in several of the State papers just alter the election of 1890. It was denied then by persons in position to make a denial. As Gov. Tillman again brought it before the public. The News determined to further investi gate the matter and ascertain if any such agreement was made between the Haskellites and Republicans. The investigation shows conclusively that no such agreement was made. HISTORY OF THE CIBCULAK. The circular read by Gov. Tillman was printed on yellow paper. It was given to him on the day of the meeting by Mr. J. O. Howard, of Stokes Bridge Mr. Howard states that he was at James Crossroads in Florence county on election day of 1890. Isaiah Williams, colored, there gave’ hfrhTin^OT tne clrcmafs and at the same time gave one to Mr. E. E. Hudson, a resident of that section. Williams stat ed that he had received them from Harrell, the colored post master at Timmonsville." On the day of the Darlington meeting Mr. Hudson sent the circular in his possession to Mr. Howard by his son, Mr. Jacob Hudson, and asked that the c ir cular be given to Sheppard or Tillman. Mr. Howard gave it to Tillman. NO BARGAIN WAS MADF. Although we have searched for it diligently we have not been able to find that any bar gain existed. The leaders in the Haskell party and the Re publican party deny making any such bargain. If neither Deas, Williams nor Dreher made it, and they were the only per sons in position to make such a bargain for their party wl o did make it for the Republicans ? If neither Capt Quirk, the Has kell Congressional chairman, nor Dr. Willcox the member of the Haskell committee for Dar lington, had anything to do with making such an agreement, who made it for the Haskellites? Mr. Ward, the county chairman of the Haskell party in Daning ton, knows nothing of the bargain, and, in fact, who does? There is but one answer. No such bargain was ever made. The whole thing is a fraud and falls to the ground. This paper would be willing to expose any such agreement did it exist and it went to work to get at the truth. It has no desire to conceal a wrong though it be perpetrated by its friends. The investigation proved the existence of no bargain, but on the other hand showed that the Haskellites were entirely free from any such charge. WILLIAMS DENIES IT. S. W. Williams, tlie chair man of the Republican party for this Congressional district, de nies that any bargain was made through him. His name is at tached to the circular read by Gov. Tillman. When the charge was first made just after the last election Williams made an affidavit at the request of Capt. Quirk, of Florence, the Haskell Congressional chair man. This affidavit was pub lished in the Florence Messen yer on November 7,1890 and in the Nem and Court ir about the same time. The following is a copy of the affidavit: State of South Carolina, | County of Florence. / Personally appeared before me S. W. Williams, chairman of the executive committee of the Sixth Congressional District of the Republican party, who makes oath that he was called on to-day by Capt. Wm. Quirk, chairman of the Democratic committee of the Sixth Con gressional District, and asked if he hid seen the circular pub lished in to-day’s issue of'the Charleston World over his sig nature as chaiiman. He said yes, said circular had been sent to deponent from Darlington, but as far as Capt. Quirk is con cerned, according to deponent's knowledge and belief it was the first time he had seen it and thai no compact or understand ing of any sort had been made between Capt. Quirk and myself in legard to the Congressional election or other election on the 4th inst. [Signed] S W. Williams, Ch. (3th Con. Dis. Sworn to before me this 6th day of November, 1890. E. W. Lloyd, Trial Justice. In addition to this the follow ing certificate was obtained from S. \V. Williams on Tues day : Florence, S. C., July 20, 1892. I hereby certify that I never made any bargain with any Straightout Democrat or Has kellite in regard to swapping votes at the regular election of 1890. S. W. Williams, Ch. 6th Dis. S. C. for Rep. P. Witness : Waddy Thompson. R. C. Commander. Personally came before me Waddy Thompson and R. C. Commander who made oath that they saw S. W. Williams sign the above certificate. [Signed] Waddy Thompson, R. C. Commander. Sworn and subscribed before me this July 26, 1892. Jerome P. Chase, Notary Public. dreher denies it. S. S. Dreher, chairman of the special committee for the Re publican party, whose name was also attached to the circu lar. makes the following affida vit : Stai e of South Carolina, 1 County of Darlington, j Personally came before me S. S. Dreher, who upon oath says that he is a resident of the town and county of Darlington, State aforesaid and in 1890 was chair man of the special committee of the Republican party of the Sixth Congressional District; that he knows nothing of any ■ rrangements made between the Straightout Democrats or Hask ellites” as to them supp< rang Deas the Republican candidate for Congress from said District provided Deas in return would cause the Republ.can votes to be cast for the Haskell ticket and does not believe that any such arrangement was made because he was officially in a position to know if any thing of the kind had been done; that so far as the circular is concerned which Gov. Tillman read at the meeting at Darlington he has no recollection of it in any way. [Signed] S. S Dreher. Sworn to before me this 26th lay of July, A. D. 1892. T. H. Spain, - Notary Public. DBAS DENIES IT. E. H. Deas, the Republican candidate for Congress, denies that a bargain was made. He would have been the beneficiary of such a bargain and would above all men know if such a bargain existed. Yet he states that none was made. The following affidavit if self explanatory : State of South Carolina, 1 County of Darlington. / Personally came before me Jas. C. Willcox, M. D.. who up on oath says that he is a resi dent of the town of Darlington, County and State aforesaid. That during the year A. D 1890 he represen ted Darlington Coun ty on the Executive Committee of the Straightout Democracy or what was popularly termed by some persons as the Haskell party of the 6th Congressional District of the State of South Carolina. That he knows noth ing of any arrangement be tween said Straightout Democ racy and the Republican party for the support of E H. Deas, the Republican candidate foi Congress provided he, Deas, would influence the Republican vote for the Haskell ticket, or for any other person on said ticket; Jthat any such arrange ment or promises to that effect, either directly or indirectly, could not well have been niado without his knowledge and never was spoken of or inti mated either to him or in his hearing or knowledge, and if it had been so intimated either by any word or act on the part of any member of said committee would have been spurned by him and exposed to the public. That the first time that he ever saw the circular in ques tion was when it was published I in one of ihe Charleston daily | papers, if h's recollection serves ! him correctly it was the World, \ which was then published in ♦he citv of Charleston; that in a da or two afterwards he saw | tna same published in the Flor- lence Messenger and other pa pers; that he had just begun to invesrigate the matter when he saw published in the Charleston News and Courier an affidavit over the signature of iL W. Williams, Chairman of the Ex ecutive Committee of Republi can party of tiie 6th Congress ional District denying any such c. mpact as was implied in said c r ular: that thinking that the i denial was sufficient proof of the falsity of said charges he made no further efforts to in vestigate the matter; that he was astonished at the campaign meeting at Darlington, S. C., on the 21st day of July, A. D. 1892, when Gov. B. R. Tillman again preferred the charges in his presence by reading the cir cular above referred to; that he, deponent, did there and then pronounce the whole matter a lie, and so instructed Mr Gibbs, the reporter of the State, to so pronounce it; that he has ever since been thoroughly investi gating all Matters pertaining to it, but has been in a measure hampered on account of the temporary absence of witnesses; that he has procured affidavits ofE. H. Deas and Wm. Quirk absolutely denying the correct ness of the charges, and has placed them personally in the hands of the Hon. John C. Sheppard for use in causing a conclusive correction of same; that from the evidence which has been obtained, an l inas much as the said affidavit of Williams had been extensively published a few days aftei the first appearance of same in it least the most prominent daily papers of South Carolina, now quiteoneyearand eightand half months, he is forced to tlu belief that the charges in both instances were maliciously made. [Sgnd] Jas. C. Willcox, M. D. Sworn to before me this 26th day of July, A. 1). 1892. W\ F. Dargan, Notary Public. Dr. Willcox states that the affidavits of Capt Quirk and Deas were given t > Governor Sheppard. The News wishing to sift the matter to the bottom will publish these affidavits as soon as copies of them ~au be obtained. Deas is absent from Darlington, hence our inability to see him in person. ANOTH - R DENIAL. J. J. Ward, Esq., who was County Chairman of the Has- kellite party in Darlington dur ing the campaign of 1890, sub mits the following affidavit: State of South Carolina, \ County of Darlington. J Personally appeared before me L J. Ward, who on oath says that he was Chairman of the Straightout Democratic or Haskellite party for Darlington Oo.unty in 1890, and that he knows of no agreement having been made between said Demo crats and the Republican party as to tiading votes in tlie elec tion of 1890, and tiiat no propo sition was ever made to him looking to such an agreement. [Signed] J. J. Ward. Sworn to before me this 27th day of July, 1892. W. F. Dargan, Notary Public. All Klectrlc Hull Cull. One of the patents for electrical con trivances issued from the patent office is for an automatic gnest call for use in hotels, it consists of a combination of a clock connected throngh a series of relays and contacts with an annuncia tor bell system. A guest wishing a call at a certain time baa his bell connected to this time strip on the clock circuit; at the designated hour the bell in bis room rings for a certain period, or until bo stops iL—New York World. HAUIlon DEFENSES. PLANTING DEADLY EXPLOSIVES TO PROTECT THE COAST. NO. 48. HERMIT. I ACCEPTED tHE SITUATION. What a Time Vast ami Barbers Use Little Wax Now. Says a barber; “A thing that isn't used much these days is grease. This store consumed three pounds of it a day ten years ago, and we don’t get away with a solitary pound now. 1 ones cal culated that 100.000 New York men car ried around 150 pounds of wax in their mustaches. This was at the rate of ono ounce of wax to forty mustaches.’’—New York Herald. Kuemies of the Salmon Fisheries. Seals and sea lions are a great nui sance to the salmon fishermen. At the mouth of the Columbia river they watch the gill nets and grab the caught salmon by the throats, devouring those parts which they regard especially as tidbits. Bears are very fond of salmon and catch a great many of them in the streams. They eat only the heads.—Washington Star. Felt Flattered. England is laughing at the story told in Henry Norman’s “Beal Japan” of the American minister at Tokio.who thought the Japanese “darned clever” people be cause they greeted him with cries of “Ohavo." “How did they know that / was from Ohio?” he asked. Tall Men in Asia and Afrlen. The tallest men of South America are found in the western provinces of the Argentine Republic, of Asia in Afghan istan and Kaypootana, of Africa in tha highlands of Abyssinia.—Yankee Blade. Amount of Labor, Skill. Money Is Needed to Com* plete a Thorough SyHteni of CoaNt De- fen ae— Ad vantage* of the Torpedo. There is a very’ widely diffused idea among i>eople who have not made a special study of the subject that torpe does, and torpedoes alone, can defend any harbor against a hostile attack. Tlie destructive effects of a few tor pedo explosions under the most favor able circumstances have caused this branch of warfare to assume an undue imiKirtance. an importance wholly un warranted by the results and created by generalizations from isolated instances, entirely without regard to tlie natural limitations of the efficiency of any tor pedo system, however perfect It is tlie object of this article to en deavor to show the actnal capabilities of torpedoes, tlie results attainable by their use, and the restrictions inevitably at tending their indefinite expansion into a complete system of defense. Ureat guns must play an important part in all harbor defense, but for the proper and adequate defending of navi gable chennels bonyant mines, exploded by contact, are the mainstays. With their nse, however, a host of per plexing conditions arise, the twisting and wearing of the cables and moorings, the depression due to the currents, the danger of sympathetic explosions, the leaking of tlie cases, tlie obstruction of the channel for friendly navigation—all tiiese have to be overcome as best they may lie. Where a port has several navigable channels, and it is [iraeticabie to sacri fice one or more, their closure by means of self acting toriiedoes is easy. Where a channel, however, cannot be entirely abandoned, self acting mines are useless, for in order to be thorough ly reliable they must be as dangerous to a friend as to an enemy. Furthermore, their planting, and much more, their retttwo or three years he was the subject moval upon tlie cessation of hostilities of charity among h is to be accomplished only at great risk. Tlie limited applicability of ground mines is well known. Torpedo science furnishes two other types for harbor de fense; tlie buoyant mine and the dirig ible torpedo, although the latter proper ly forms u distinct class. Great nicety in planting toqiedoes cannot lie expected, and this fact, cou pled with the inevitable shifting of the mines from various causes, leads direct ly to tlie conclusion that a great num ber of iiiiues must be relied upon rather than precision in their manipulation. Desiste tlie nniutier of mines, a vessel attempting to (laas tlie lines may still fail to strike a mine hard enough to w6rk the circuit chweF.'^PfTuieiSt this! contingency a perfect torpedo system must provide means for firing the mines at will in groups of three or four. It will always be possible to accurately lo cate a vessel within a dangerous space of this number of mines, and theirsimul- taneous explosion will have the desired effect. To furnish a jiassage for the electric current many cables are needed, and to avoid confusion some regular method of planting must be adopted. It is con venient to plant tlie torpedoes in gronps capable of being fired by judgment, these gronps constituting tlie units, which are combined into tlie larger unit whose limit is generally the number of mines that can be oiierated through u single seven core cable. The grand gronjis thus formed are ar ranged in lines, tiie latter radiating in such a manlier from tlie operating case ments tiiat tlie seiiurute units can be easily located by triangulation. Tlie intervals between the lines are filled with skirmish lines—single mines strung on a single conductor cable and exploding by contact only. Many forms of movable torpedoes for harbor defense have been tried in differ ent countries with varying degrees of success. For accuracy of direction and range of destructive power the Sims-Ed- ison fish torpedo is ]ierliai>s unexcelled. Extended trials at Willet’s iioint have satisfactorily demonstrated its ability to carry 200 pounds of dynamite to a dis tance of two miles at a sjieed of abont twenty miles per hour. Tlie charge is exploded upon contact with tlie vessel or by the action of the o]>erator on shore. The dirigibility of tlie torpedo is per fect. It follows its prey as though endowed with life, swerving to the right or left as necessary, diving under booms or other obstructions, cutting throngh nets, and never slackening its great s]ieed until the end of its cable is reached. At present a two mile radius is deemed sufficient, although this could be increased if necessary by enlarging tlie “fish” itself.—(Josuiopplitaa Confederate Camp Flags. The Confederate stars and bars were in 1868 supplemented by the camp flag. This was in size and shape like the other, except that it was white, with no stripes, and the buttle Hag in the upper corner next tlie staff. It was found deficient in actual service in that, displaying so much white, it was sometimes apt to be mistaken for a flag of truce, and on Feb. 24, 1805, it gave place to the last flag of tlie Confederacy, the outer half being a red vertical bar. Apiiearing so late in tlie war, it was not so familiar as the others—in fact, it was comparatively little known.—New Orleans Times- Democrat. Tli« CorgoMt Ocean Steamers. Who Cost Several Fortunes and Died In a Morel. Ip a miserable sjianty near tlie mouth of jPalton canyon, in the northwest part of Pomona valley, Joseph Underwood waa found dead a day or two ago by a pafty of hunters. He had probably been dead about twelve hours, having died watli heart disease, with wiiich he hafl been afflicted for several years. UtJSerAood’s life was one of strange vicissitude. He was born of wealthy patents in England in 1820, and studied fo/a tune at Cambridge university. He came to America in 1048 with capital an|l started in tiie boot manufacturing bullness in Buffalo, and for several years he prospered. He enjoyed the friendship of such men there as Presi dent Filipiore and Dean Richmond, and was frequently a guest at the palatial home of Lewis Allen, the uncle of Grover Cleveland. ^ IJnderwood had an unfortunate love affair in Buffalo about 1840 that changed his disposition and wrecked hty business and reputation in that city. He would never speak of ill’s > anyone. He went to Chicago and ma.lo money there in buying lots in that lit tle city. He then got the gold fever and came overland to California, suf- ferijur untold agony from hunger and thirst for weeks on tlie way. He was ill 7or two years as the result of his ex perience in crossing the plains. Underwood made a fortune of 675,000 in yhe mines in four years, hut lost all in t thre4|lnonths’ experience in placer dug. Then Mr removed to San mciaco and bought real estate, and »ix l or seven years he made thou- ‘s of'dollars. In 1871 he had a rape of over 6L5C.000 and went on ip to Epfflpnd and through Europe. In;returning to America he fell in love wjjh a young widow, and they were married immediately upon arriving in N