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Office Hoars.?9 to 1:30 ; 2:30 to 5. Sept 8 Capt. Tillman's Reply to Col. Butler. In the coarse of his speech at the opening meeting of the canvass, at Greenville on Tuesday the 10th inst., Capt. Tilltnan said : In r^y speech at Anderson I made allusion to the failure of the agricultural department to punish frauds in fertil izers, and I charged in substance as I charge now : .First, That the bureau has made no honest effort to protect the farmers against being swindled by buyingguano below the guarantee. Second, That it has not enforced the law or its own regulations. Third, That although the law is known to be defective, and the punish ment inadequate, no attempt has been made by the Board or Commissioner to have it amended, except that the matter was mentioned in one of the depart ment's reports several years ago. Commissioner Butler, in an open letter addressed to me, and which has been widely published in the State pa pers, says : "I challenge you to point to one instance where farmers have been defrauded by manufacturers of fertil izers where such fraud was not punished with all the power that the department had at its command, and that you make good your charge, or retract it." I will cheerfully comply. As to the first count : The Commis sioner in his letter acknowledges that the penalty of confiscation imposed by law against all fertilizers that are below the guarantee cannot be enforced, for the sufficient reason that when the analyses are made the fertilizers are in the ground, and out of reach, etc. The distribution of fertilizers to points of consumption commences generally in December, and they are not all "in the ground" till May 1, or later. During the last ten years, at a rough estimate, one and a quarter million tons of fer tilizers have passed the quasi "inspec tion" of our Agricultural Department and the amoint paid by farmers for the farcical protection has been upwards of $300,000. In bis letter Col. Butler fur ther says : "I will say that in my opinion, based upon official experience, the manufac turer who deliberately attempts to de fraad the farmers is the exception, and further I believe that va every case where this has been attempted it has failed of success, because of the De partment's supervision. " Here is an acknowledgment thaf "at tempts to defraud" have been made There have been "exceptions" to the rule of honesty. Has he ever coofis cated a single sack ? No. Then cer tainly "the Department's supervision" has not caused the failure of every at tempt to defraud. "Up to eighteen months ago" Com missioner Butler had at. his command a State chemist, employed by the year at a salary of $2,000. Analyses of fertilizers could begin as soon as sam ples were taken?say the middle of Jan uary In 1885 31 per cent, of the am moniated fertilizers analyzed were below the guarantee, and 20 per cent of acid phosphates were the same. In 1886 20 per cent, of ammoniated and 9 per cent, of acid were deficient, and this is about the average of the last three years. Is it possible to suppose that noue of these deficient brands of fertil izers were ever analyzed, or could not have been auaiyzed and their fraud found out in time, so that an efficient and zealous officer could not have found some of it before "all was in the ground ?" No reasonable man in So *.b Carolina believes ic. Suppose, as Col. Butler claims, that the "averages" of manufacturers' guar antees exceeded those guarantees $3 68 per ton, what satisfaction was it to a farmer who bought and paid for the deficient brands to know that some one more fortunate had got a brand above the guarantee, and was being benefited at his expense ? That he had paid for what he had not received, and that though the farmers paid $30,000 a year for inspecting fertilizers, the inspection was a fraud, his guano a fraud, and no punishment meted out to the rogue ex cept to print his brand in italics in a report which not one farmer in fifty ever saw or heard of. Only 1,500 of these "italicised"-re ports of analyses were printed in 1889, and I doubt if more than twenty men in Greenville other than editors ever saw one. By the way, this system of punishing a rogue by printing his brand of guano in italics'' ought to be pateoted. Of course it is well known that the brand may be changed next season and the italics rubbed out. It is notorious that manufacturers will fill sacks, branded in a dozen dif ferent ways, from tbe same pile, but then the chemist can catch the thief and "italicize" him again, and why should we farmers complaiu ! Oh my coun trymen ! It is this fatal laxity ; this couuiving at crime ; this dethronement of law ; this obtuseness of moral con scientiousness ; this "political leprosy" that permeates our entire governmental fabric, and is summed up in one word, "neglect nf duty," that is destroying our very civilizarion itself. We punish guano frauds with italics; we punish lynch law, which is the result of this laxity, with italics; we punish mur derers, who have money, with new trials and italics, and the people are sick nigh unto death of such govern ment, aod they are determined to make a change. The law governing the sale of ferti lizers provides that any one selling guano without branding the sacks giv ing analysis and manufacturers' name shall pay a fioe of $10 for each pack age ; that the man who delivers or re receivos Fuch package, railroad agent or other persons, is similarly liable. Any fertilizers frold not coming up to the guarantee is liable to confiscation. "The one branded is liable to the fine." The ittju.-tice or weakness of the law is that it is severe on a dealer failing to braud 'he sack, but if a man puts sand in a branded sack and is caught, it can only be "confiscated." And this has never been done ! It is only "italicised !" As proof of his charge that the Com missioner or his agents had on several occasions knowingly and willfully re fused to cuforcc its own regulations, ?ma?B??w^"^??' Capt. ?illman read letters, which came from a very reputable farmer. In reference to the charge that Com missioner Buttler had done nothing to have the defects in the fertilizer law amended Capt. Tillman said : Col. Buttler has held the office of Commissioner of Agriculture since December, 1879 His salary has amounted to ?'22,000, and he has spent in the Agricultural bureau, as I have said, over $300,000 in that time. He has been one of the most influential men in the State and the "Ring," which we are fighting, has stood by him and his Department through thick and thin. He and his political asso ciates had influence enough to defeat the bill I prepared by order of the Far mers association in 1886 reorganizing the Agricultural Department, and he was doubtless consulted by Col, You mans in preparing the "subtitute," which was passed in 1887 in lieu there of, and which is now in force. He knew of this defect in the law, and al though he and bis friends had things all their own way, the provision in my bill punishing fraud in fertilizers by fine and imprisonment was left out of the Youmans "substitute." He and his friend bad influence enough to elect the present board over tbe men nomi nated by the Farmers' Convention, and to re-elect them, and it stands to rea son that if they had wanted to pass a law to give protection to farmers it could have been done. But the Agri cultural Bureau was in close alliance with the university and Citadel. Tbe three bad pooled their streugth to de feat everything the common farmers wanted, and to continue in control of the State. The anomaly was presented of an agricultural department which being opposed by the country people is de fended by the cities. The agricultural bureau has never since this agitation begun, save in a single instance, lacked the solid support of Charleston and Columbia, aud this political "trust," composed largely of merchants, manu facturers and lawyers, with a few "aristocratic agriculturists" as allies have deemed "italics" sufficient punish ment, just as they deemed the annex a "sufficient" agricultural college. So much for the fertilizer business. Now when asked by a gentleman in tbe audience at Anderson where the money spent by the Agricultural Department werjt, I answered, "I do not know," and I told the simple truth. I knew where Col. Butler's report said it went, but I have not seen it paid out, and told him to ask Col. Butler. Col. T J M<>ore of Spartanburg, a member of the B>ard, has come forward and claims that this was a charge of "cor ruption, extravagance," etc. I fail to see how or why. Gentlemen are not usually so touchy about their honesty, and this double exhibition of solicitude about the money spent is curious to say the least. It is on a par with the iterated and reiterated charges, that 1 have "accused the state officers of cor ruption, etc., and my "confession" that there was none. AH this flurry aud hullabaloo about "corruption" can have but one meaning. The purpose is to create the impression that I have made such charges and cannot prove them. Now all I a*k is that some one, the News and Courier, Register, or other "scr&pbook keeper," will put the char ges home and show when and where I have charged "corruption agaiust the State officers." It is time to "show up or shut up." I have made charges enough and am ready to prove them without these ''cuttle fish7' trying to foot the people by accusing me of charg ges I never said Col. Moore gave the itemised expen ditures of the Agriculture Department for 1889 and I will give those of 1880 for nine months to show how this 'IiiDg has grown. Capt. Tillman then read the table furnished by Col. Moore in a letter to the News and Courier showing a total expenditure by the Agricultural De pastment of $85,129 11. He then continued : The demand is made that we make this a campaign of education. So I will play schoolmaster a little further in this matter of expenditures in the Agricultural Department. Here are some questions which whoever will or can may auswer. Fir^t. It is seen that $12,162 have been paid for lawyers' fees. Why did not the Attorney Geoeral and Solicitors, who are State officers with big salaries, prosecute those suits and save that money. Second. Judgments with costs for $76,874 was obtained against the Pacific Guano company when the com pany failed, (which was probably a ruse to get some legal advantage.) Its pre perty was then attached under the judgment, when a compromise was made by which the Pacific company paid $51,249 and cost. The amouut turned into the state treasury was $31. ?96, aod the Department kept $12,162 to repay cost, of lawyers' fees, etc., making $43 559. This is $7,690 less than the amount received. I waut to ask why was the matter compromised at all, and where did the $7,090 go, and did anybody get any money for compromising ? Third In 1SS4 the experimental stations cost $5.049 : cost of chemist, laboratory aud sundries, $4 347 ; mak ing $9,986. The State anuually receives from the United States $15,000, kuowu as the Hatch fund, to run an experimental station. I can find no accouut of how that money is spent or where it goes, either iu Col Buttler's report or in j that of the University trustees Are j we spending $25,000 year on these stations 7 Has the station a chemist j or cheuists boih paid by the year, and ; do they then receive additional pay for : analyzing fertilizers ? i IJ.-.ve we duplication of officers and : J duplication of salary and no work in : return thereof ? Is not somebody : making a "?00'1 thing'' out of the spending of these agricultural funds?; Fourth. The uet expenditures of j Agricultural Department as set forth above are $30,427. This includes for State Agricultural Society $2 500, ; making net expenditures $27,427. In Comptroller-General'a report for i j the tame fiscal ye:ir, page 9, the Agri cultural Departmeot is charged ?ith $31,109, but this doss uut include the $2,500 for the State Agricultural so ciety on page 183 of same report Tbe State Treasurer charges the Agri cultural Department with $33,069, and does not include this ?52,500, so we fiud these State officers?I mention their names with fear and trembling?mak ing this sort of a showing about the same matter of public expenditures in official records. The treasurer charges the bureau with $5,742 more than it acknowledges to have spent?$2,500 more than the comptroller says it spent. The comp troller charges it with $3,242 more than it acknowledges to have spent, and yet all the books of these officers tally, and they would not do so if any charges were made. Now have these officers made mistakes or is there "something rotten in Denmark ?" Has the bureau spent more than it accounts for? If the Agricultural Department's accounts are correct (and Col. Moore was parti cular to mention "vouchers." although the bureau prior to 1887 spent over $20,000 without ever showing a single voucher.) how will the comptroller and treasurer straighten their own? Is the desperate and unscrupulous warfare urged against me made lest a thorough overhauling of the State government might show something wrong some where ? Every good farmer cleans up his premises once a year, and especially bis baro. There may be no rats in our State house, and consequently no rats' nests ; but whether one or not, a general overhauling and sweeping out can do no ! harm, and while you may think that I am actuated by selfish motives, I hope we shall have it whether I boss the job or not. Commissioner Butler to Capt Tillman. I have just read Captain B. R. Till man's charges against the Department of Agriculture and against myself, made in his Greenville speech. As he took the trouble to write them out for the reporters, there is no possibility of his saying hereafter that he was mis For the past four or five years I have beea compelled to meet and expose his charges, and have endeavored in all that, time to keep within the bounds of decency. My efforts have been to treat him courteously under strong provoca tion to do otherwise. If I now depart from that rule, I trust the people of South Carolina will attribute it to the just indignation of a man and a public servant who feels himself persistently, maliciously and willfully slandered. His first and second statement, that "the Bureau has made no honest effort to protect the farmers against being swindled by buying guano below the guarantee," and that "it has not en forced its own regulations," arc simply false, as the reports of the Department will show. These are general state ments, that can only be answered in a similar manner. When a specific state ment is made, it will be answered as it deserves. His third statement, that "although the law is known to be defective and the punishment inadequate, no attempt has been made by the Board or Com missioner to have it amended, except that the matter was meutiooed in one of the Department reports several years ago," he likewise knows to be untrue, but being more specific can be met in a more positive mauner. At my request several bills were introduced in the Legislature at different times. Two of these may be cited : Ooe by Colonel E R. Mclver at tbe session of 1885, which passed the House and failed in the Senate (see House Journal, session 1885, pages 126, 156, 175 335 and 340.) and another at the session of 1S87, introduced by Senator Youmans, but failed in the Senate, I think. This latter bill I have not had time to trace through the Journals. These two are sufficient to disprove the charge that the Commissioner has not made an effort to have the laws amended where, in his opinion, amendments were re quired. So many of Ti.llman's charges arc made iu a rambling way that it is only possible to aoswer them generally, and this I will do as nearly as possible in the order in which they are made. I have not contended that all manu facturcrs were honest. If that were true, analyses might be unnecessary. Some have attempted to defraud, and have been punished with all the penal ties the Department could impose. So much for that. With an earnest desire to visit tbe severest penalties contemplated by law upou any manufacturer who attempted to defraud the farmers, I requested At torney General Miles to inform me if an analysis of any brand of fertilizer showed a di fieiency, from the examina tion of a sample drawn ou of a particu lar lot, whether the Department could seize and condemn any other lot of the same brand not fouud to be deficient. He gave his official opinion that only the particular lot inspected would ho liable to the law. To make this per fectly plain, suppose that, a lut of Baltic Fertilizer, sampled at Greenville, was shown by analysis to be deficient. When the Commissioner undertook to seize and condemn that lot, he found that it had all been hauled away and put iu the ground, hut he knew at the time that there was another lot of the same brand at Spartanburg that had not been inspected or analyzed! He eouid not seize and coudemn the Sparenburg shipment, because in the opinion of Attorney General Miies, it had not been analyzed, and, indeed, an analysis of that lot might, iis is frequently the case, show higher results than the Greenville sample gave, This is why the law can out, bo enforced. Tbe particular lot analyzed has. in every ease i have ever known of, been hauled away before Iii. confiscation could be attempted. All < ; these defects have time and again been brought to the attention of m em h rs of the Legislature by me, a;l 1 have urged that they be corrected, but, as 1 shall presently prove by one of Captain riilinati?* own witnesses, the members oi the Lrgisiature were not without rea son in thinking that our "italicizing'' of brands was sufficient punishment. Dut Tilliiian is much concerned about the farmer who may have lost Sume * 1??n. while the farmers generally re ceived f?ll value Tub is iu reply to quoted my statement that the averse commer cial value of fertilizers exceeded the manufacturers' guarantees. To show how few farmers lost anything as far as commercial value is concerned, take the report for 188(5 which he has quoted, and it will be fouod that out of over 200 brands analyzed only three were below the guarantees in commercial value. As to the general supervision of ferti lizer sales, it may be stated that in 1882 our analysis showed that the Cuban Bird Guano was deficient. The farmers refused payment and the analysis cost the manufacturers betweon $20,000 and $30,000. Mr. R. M. Anderson, of this city, can substantiate this. Settlements based on the Depart ment's analysis are constaotly being made. Upon the analysis of a brand found to be deficient last year, the far mers who purchased tbe fertilizers have recently settled with the dealer, Mr. C. M. Coviogton, of Floreuce, at about one-fourth of the price charged?a settlement perfectly satisfactory to the purchasers. Again, he says that the farmers, or to be more exact not one in fifty, ever saw the reports containing the analyses, and solemnly assures his hearers that only 1,500 of these reports were pub lished in 18S9. During the year 18SS all of these analyses were published in the daily and weekly News and Cou rier. For tbe sake of economy this was not done in 1889, but the analyses were published as soon as made in the Monthly Reports of the Department. About 14,000 of these reports contained analyses of official samples, and in addition thereto 1,500 special bulletins were issued, making a total distribution of the analyses of 15,500 copies. These facts are fully set forth in the Annual Report and were known to Mr. Till man. This is only an additional evi dence of his intention to misrepresent regardless of facts. As to the letter of Mr. Connor, of Orangeburg, tbe Department does not want a better witness. If, as he states, he called the attention of one of our samplers to a lot of fertilizers that had been inspected and found deficient, it was certainly the duty of the Commis sioner to have attempted to enforce the law against it. The sampler, however has no recollection of the matter, and it was certainly never brought to my attention. Mr. Connor does not say that he called tbe sampler's attention to the matter, and I would be glad to know the name of his informant, and when the information came to Mr. Connor's knowledge. But if it was known to Mr. Connor, he might easily have reported the matter to this office and thus secured action in the matter, or have conclusively shown that I did not enforce the law. As it stauds, it is a question between Mr. Connor, or his informant, and the sampler, and cannot be satisfactorily settled. But Mr. Con nor fully and amply justifies the De partment and the Legislature in another way. He says : "No notice, however, was taken of the same by the Depart ment, and Mr. Copes sent ike guano aicay, as he was completely boycotted and could not continue business." Why was Mr. Copes boycotted ? Sim ply, as Mr. Connor writes Cnpt. Till man, because the Department italicised the deficient guano. Was it no punish ment to Mr. Copes to be boycotted and have bis business ruined? Was it no injury to the manufacturers to have their goods returned to them? Capt. Tillman says that "not one farmer in. fifty" sees these publicatioLS. Is Mr. Connor a farmer? If not, why was Mr. Copes boycotted? We knew that the operation and the result of our method of italicising deficient brands was as Mr Connor stored, but we had no hope of proving it so clearly by Capt. Tillman or his witnesses. Mr. Connor has been a member of the Legislature for the past two years. Will be now, since he has entered this fight, explain what efforts he has made in the Legislature to cure the defects in the law, or what he has done to protect the farmers against swindling fertilizer companies ? But since he has proven himself so good a witness for the De partment, I will not insist on his expla nation if his constituents are satisfied. Mr. S. W. Gardner, Jr., comes to the front to beln his friend Tillman out of a tight place. He bought guauo that was short inj weight and theu his friend remembers' that he too had done the same thing,, and like suffering lambs they bleat out their tale of woe when the friend wants otnee. Did not Mr. Gardner, like Captain Tiilmau, buy his guano in the State of Georgia ? Should he not lodge his cemplaiot m that State ? In any event I will be glad if he will show me any authority in the Act creating the Department of Agriculture that would justify me in suing a manufacturer for not putting full 200 pounds in each sack of guano sold either in this State or in Georgia. As well ask me to sue a grocer who 2:ive Gardner three pounds of sugar for five pouuds. The remedy for that sort of swindling is. as every sensible man knows, prosecutiou under the com mou law in every State, and every purchas er has his remedy. This charge is on a par with another, made some time since in the presence of Mr. J. K. Tindal an.) Mr W A. Au crum. Captain Tillman then charged similar failure to discharge my duty because he had bought cottuu seed meai I adulterated with rosin and his Delghbor had purcha.-ed cotton seed meal adul terated with hulls. At tin: time the charge was made Captain Tillman knew that both lota had been purchased in j Georgia, and yet he endeavored to in ! jure t-he Department by a charge that he knew to be utterly unjust and un true! Now, Mr. O F. Connor, this time of Lancaster, says one 61 my clerks toid j : him that "when the pb-'vphate com- ; ! panics failed in coming uj: to the anal- ! ysis required by law they would beg j off." What the clerk probably said to ; Mr. Connor was that they tri;'d to beg j I off. And the clerk was right, and Mr. j Connor is right }>ut whenever the j analyses are below the guarantee, ?he i j results are published in spite of the j ; begging unless, it is conclusively shown I that the analysis or the inspection has ; i done injustice, and such cases are ex- | j cecdingly rare. For the pa^t ten years j j they can be named on the fingrr So much, for the certificates. [t should be noticed, however, that these are dated May 31st, Jane 3d. and June 3th respectively. All since Capt. Till man made his charges at Anderson. Therefore his charges at Anderson were not based on these certificates, and he has failed beyond dispute to prove that he had any evidence of auy kind upon which to base his original charge af the time he made it. This explains, also, why my letter has not been answered before. I regret that ? bave not a. copy of Till man's bill which he had introduced and says provided fine and imprison ment for manufacturers of fertilizers, but I have a copy of his bill proposing to turn over the analytical work of tbe State to his agricultural college, and in that bill no such provision occurs. My friend Youmans and mvself may have killed his little bill, we were so influen tial, without knowing his good points. If so, it was through ignorance, and net through malice, as I will try to show in regard to another matter. Captain Tillman has beeo for years talking about reorganising the Depart ment of Agriculture. Finally the men whose iuflueuce he dreads so much de cided they would help him in this work. Col. Youmans drafted the bill, and ail who had anything to do with it tried to put into it every good suggestion that anybody, including Captain Tillman, had made. We adopted ten members as Captain Tillman suggested, we took in farmers' institutes, we provided for State farmers' conventions and we kept everybody but farmers off the Board. The Legislature did everything it was asked to do, and we thought Captain Til'mau had every change he wished. Only one failure from his standpoint could be pointed out?he failed of elec tion on the Board?and that was saffi cient to cause him to put a plank in his March platform abolishing the Depart ment. His silly charge that the Depart ment is controlled by lawyers, etc., is absolutely untrue. There is not a pro fessional man on the Board or connect ed with it in any way. The Legis lature, to please Captain Tillman, pos sibly, put all farmers on the Board, but they refused to stultify themselves by patting Captain Tillman on it, and so of course he is not happy. Let us follow Capt. Tillman to his second attempt at specific charges and answer them iu order. First. vVhy did not the Attorney General conduct the phosphate litiga tion ? This is so old a question and has been answered so often that it might well have - been left aloue. Bat it shall be answered again for fear that some man living in a remote part of the State may not have heard it. The laws did not, at the time this litigation was begun, make it the duty of the Attorney General to do this work for the Department of Agriculture. The work was im portant, and the B)ard em ployed lawyers, and subsequently made the parties sued pay them. Was any injustice done the State in that matter? If so, where and how ? Bat after toe litigation had been commenced the At torney General was made the adviser of the Department, except in this liti gatiou, and that was specially exempt ed from the amendments to the law. This shoald be satisfactory to the most rabid Tillmanite. Second. "Judgment with cost for ?76 874 was obtained against the Paci fic Gaano Company when the company failed, fwbich was probably a rase to get some legal advantage]. Its prop erty was then attached under the judg ment, when a compromise was made by which the Pacific Company paid ?51. 219 and cost. The amoaot turned in to the State Treasary was $31,396 and the Department kept ?12,162 to repay the cost of lawyers' fees, etc., making ?43,559. This is ?7,69 ) less than the amoant received." Then fol lows the insinuation that somebody got that ?7,690 who was not entitled to it. The statement of the settlement of the phosphate litigation, furnished by Hon. A. T. Smytbe, leading counsel in the case, is as follows at:d answers the charge and infamous insinuation without further comment : Amount received in settle ment of Pacific case, ?51,249.33 Amount received for dis bursements on account Pacific case, 1,114 11 Amount received in Pinck uey ca.-e, 708 66 Total, $53,072 10 Counsel fees Pacific case, ? 9,000 00 Counsel fees ia Davis ucd Pinckuey case, 500.00 Sundry ess h expenses, 13 05 Turned over to the State Treasury for State pur poses, ov.-jo? i J Turned over to State Trea surer for Department, 12,162 26 Total as above, $53.072 10 If Captaiu Tiilman can distort these f?gues again so as to show ?7,100 or one cent short, he is welcome to do so. This phosphate litigation has excited so much interest and com met; t that I may be pardoned for saying that when it was begun it was exccL-djngiy doubt ful if the State could ever Iscover any thing. The conclusion of the ease was the recovery of property valued at. about SiOU 000. and cash turned into the Treasury ?31 396 79 without the cx p ndituie of one cent of the people's money, for every doliar expended in prosecuting the ease was recovered and paid back into the Treasury, and a part of it. is now being used to build and equip the Clemson Agricultural College. Third. "In 1889, the Exp?rimental j Stations co>t ?5 ?>49, cost of the chemist and laboratory and s;uudrics ?1.03;, making <\) 986 r This statement, charge, or whatever it is, is set up without comment, t-o that I am in the dark as to Captain Till nans particular objection to toe ex penditure. I cannot conceive of any that he has, because he expects to (io the same thing at the Clemson College. Possibly the anticipation of similar ex penditures there caused him to change his mind ami forbear comment. At any rate I will wait until he makes it before answering ic. The ?15.000 Hatch fund, a? Tillman well knows, was given to the Univer sity and I know nothing whatever of its disbursement Perhaps Dr. J. M McBrydc, the President of the Univer- | sity, who La al^u the Director oi the Stations, will explain or give any in formation tbe public may desire in re gard to that. Fourth. "The net expenditures of the Department as set forth in above are ?30,427. This includes fur State Agricultural Society 2 500, making a net expenditure of $27.427,'' Captain Tiliman then follows with a statistical statement charging that there is a dif ference between the amounts said to have been disbursed according to tbo reports of the Comptroller Genend, the State Treasury and the Department of Agriculture The figures given in the first two re ports are identical to a cent and amouut to ?33,699 95. So far this charge is without truth. According to the De partment's report the amount disbursed was ?3,272.61 less than the oth?r two reports show. This is easily explained. At the close of every year a large num ber of warrants are drawn. It. is pos sible, [I say possible because I do not care to stop now to verify this state ment.] that many of these warrants 1 were carried over from the previous year and paid within the fiscal year ! under discussion. This would easily I account for aoy differences between j the two offices and my own, and was I doubtless the ease. It is a matter I easily settled, however, with time to ! check off warrants drawn and uupuid last year, and will be done whenever it is necessary. Under bis fourth charge Capt. Till man again resorts to insinuation in say ing that prior to 1887 no v aers were shown There has not b^.>n a year, nor a payment, for which the Depart ment has not vouchers, so that this charge is malicious and base With the exception of the first year, when the Department was only in operation for nine months, and the form of publish ing financial statements was unfamiliar te me, a comnletc summary of all dis bursements, and itemized statements in addition, have been published either in our reports or those of the Comptroller General, as Capt. Tillman weii knows These vouchers are now on file subject, to investigation at any time by Capt. Tillman or any other citizen of the Stale. So much for that base insinua tion. This. I believe, disposes of all Cap tain Tillman'.; specific charges. I will not attempt to reply to the others save by witnesses whose honesty and integ rity even Captaiu Tillman will not doubt. In the first Farmer?' or Till man Convention held, this phosphate litigation was the subject of an investi gation by a committee of which Cap tain G. W- Shell was Chairman. After the investigation had been made and j the officials of the Department ex ! amined in the open convention, resolu I tions completely exonerating the De ! partment from the charges and com : mending the ofiiciu1.-. were unanimously. | adopted. At the legislative session o." 1885 a committee appoiuted by what is known as the Economic Caucus, with Dr. Sampson Pope of Newberry as Chairmam, investigated the Depart ment aud again we were commended for our work. At every session of the Legislature from 1S8? to date the De partment has made its reports and has | been ready for official investigation. It j is ready to-day or at any other time. When Captain G. W. Shell and Dr. Sampsou Pope can find nothing to con demu in the Department of Agriculture, we feel justified in saying that it does not dread an investigation by others. As '0 Captain Tillman'a statement that Colonel Donaldson was defeated be cause he was a Tillmanite and I was ' not, I beg to say that, unless I am very much itiistakcn, Colonel Donaldson's friends Were at. some pains to prove that I he was not a Tillmanite. Bat in this matter if Colonel Donaldson was de feated because he was a Tillmanite, ? may be permitted to say that I think the L?gislature acted very wisely. At any rate [ am personalty satisfied with j the result. I believe that I have .tt great iergth j covered all Captah] Tiilman's charges. I am not through with him, however, aud must beg the indulgence of the public for a while longer. For nearly five years I have subrnit ; ted to this sort cf thing, aud whenever ? [ have had to appear in print I have 'endeavored to say nothing that would j offend the most sensitive reader. I i h.ivo conceived it to be my duty to j act courteously even in dealing with a j blackguard, buf forbearance has almost i ceased to be a virtue, and it is a ques j tion whether I can longer snbuiic to i abuse without retaliation. This man i Tinman has posed before ihe people for j all this time as a reformer. Let us see j if his professions arc to be trusted. It ; is generally believed that at the time he j [ professed to be r supporter of Governor : Sheppard's ho was endeavoring to get j I Capt. W. C. Coker, of Darlington to j ! offer for the same place. If this \s no: J j true, let Capt. Coker and Mr. Shrppard I say S'>. It. bus beer, stated and Tillman j has never denied ir that l.c wrote Cspt. ; Coker, who of course did not encourage ? such tcachcry, a letter nromising his : support; it be wouta enier tne race, j He was instructed by his County Con ! vent ion to support Sheppard, yet ir: the j State Convention h^ endeavored to j j cause a break to Culler, whirh. if it had succeeded, would have defeated the j man .he was pledged to support. Would i such a man d.? to trust in official posi [ fions 'I lie icould ht I ray Jus broth?r if \ it YU'VJlted In al tu >lu SO. Again, 1 a>ked Dr. Samps-m Pop**, ? of Ncwberry. one of Captain Tiilman's j strongest supporters, if he did i;ot have ! 2ood reason to expect all the support Captain Tillman could give him in his ; race for Speaker cf the House, and if after that he received it ? No more j honorable man than Dr. Pope walks this earth. :od while we differ widely in so.no matters, \ have no doubt of his j ! perfect integrity, end therefore 3ppeai hit.i to say whether or not Captain ; Tillman bel rayed him. When Tillman first began his career! as'a public critic, I attributed many cf his Crronereousstatements to ignorance. But he is an intelligent mau?not a ; fool: and I have reluctantly reached the conclusion that he is determined te j accomplish his purposes, if possible, by any means wit h iu his power, and that ! he believes that "a lie well stuck to is as good as the truth/' Iiis rectnt [statements can be explained iu no other way. 1 Captain Till mac, knowing that btf cannot justify birnself, lacks the manli ness to make a direct charge of official' dishonesty against me, but covertl/ stabs wiih the poisoned dagger of in-" r;unendo. I can, therefore, meet his" insidious and unwarranted attacks upon* my character only through the publie" prints. A. P. Butler, Commissioner of Agriculture". Columbia, S. C, June 12. 1890. COUNTY PREMIUMS AT THE1 STATS FAIS. The subjoined letter from Col'. Thomas W. Holloway explains itself and should be read by all our farmer^ friends. It is needless for us to urge upon the' farmers of Sumter to make the display called fer by tbe letter. They can1 see the advantages of it and should pro fit by it. The letter reads "On page 10 of the premium lists of this society for the present year will be' fourni the offer of premiums, amounting; io the aggregate to $o00, for the coun ties making the best display cf cou-uty products to be shown at the fair iNovem ber 10, 1890. The requirements are : ''To the county making the best asd* largest display of products grown or" produced by r-sidents of the county t premiums will be awaded as' follows : First premium, ?250? Second premium, 150* Third nremiism, 100*" In all ?500* ''Ail grain must be shown in quanti ties not less than one half bushel. The judges making the award in tnis contest will consider : first, quality;" second, quantity ; third, variety, and1 fourth, arrangement. Articles for the' county display still not count in the: individual premium. "I beg that you call special attention* to this feature, and urge your county to* be a competitor ia the contest. Aside' from the money involved, county pride' should stimulate our farmers to enter" heartily into the matter, and thus show* the progress of agriculture in our State. "I take it that the most effective plan? would be for the several County Al liances from the sub-alliances to can vass the matter at an early day, and thus become organized, so that by t&e first of November each county will be' able to know what wiil be shown, and at what railroad station shipments wilt1 be made. "Railroads require the prepayment' of freight, but upon its return to the' original point of shipment, with the* certificate of the secretary that the same' had been cn exhibition, the amount paitf wi!l be refunded. "I will be pleased to furnish a cop/ of the premium list to all who may apV ply to me." The Eichland Democracy. The following resoicticss are the? "platform of principles" by the Rich land County Campaign Ciub, ex-Judge' A. C. Haskell, Prescient, and of which* mention was made ia last week's paper. 1. The preservation of honest Demo cratic government won and established by the white people of thrs State in" 1870. and never to be surrendered: 2 The election to cQ.ce of men who* would rather serve their country thatf themselves. 3. The refutation before the people* of the charges made in the "manifesto" by which the March assembly was: called together?charges ir. themselves" false, and iu their purpose selfish and' unpatriotic, and iu their terms deroga tory :o the good name of the State. 4. To speak plainly and show to the1 publie the falsity of the uttcra-nces of B U. Tillman when he charges our" government officers with dishonesty and .corruption and the members of our General Assembly with- "daninable' perjury.'7 5. To call upon good citizens all over the State, men who neither seek office' nor desire self preferment?the men' and the women who redeemed the State1 in 1870? call uson these and ail who* love the gcod name of the State to at tend all public meetings, suppress vile" language and untruthful slanders and restore the good order and decency that are essential to the pnbiic welfare. C). To better effect these ends io urge; upon ail Counties and preciucts to or ganize campaign cluos without delay. Membership?Ail true white metf who recognize the above duties may be' members of the campaign club. The Pulpit and the Stage. Rev. F M. ?liront. pastor United Brethren' Church. Diue Mound. Kan.. says: -I feel it tny" luty n> tell hat wonc*srj?Df. King's New DU cowry, has doue for me. .My lungs were bnd!yr diseased. ::r><i my parishioners rb?-ught ? cou'd1. live only a few v.-tks. I t.? k five K-tties <>f King's New Discovery ami am soui.J and well; gaining 26* !bs. in weight." Arthur L?ve. Manager Love's Fanny Folks' CoHibiRStier., writes : "After a thorough tiial' and convincing evidence. I am confident Dr. King's New Discovery f-r Consumption, heats' "eni :;'!. :?:? < .:: (-. > when everything eise fails. The grvates; kindness ? can dossy many thous and frieods is to urge them to try it." Free Trial Bottles -t Dr J. F. VT. DeLormsY Dre;: Store. Regular sizes 50c. and $1. 3 Bucitlcn's Arnica Sttlve? The Rest Salve in the worl I for Cut?, Rruisce* Sores. tJicers, Salt ?heum. Fever t >res, Tetter,' Chapped Rands Chilblains, G.rr.s rnd ail? Sinn Eraptions. and positively car:- Hies, or" cc pay required. It is guaranteed to :^ivc per satislacticu, <>r isoncv refunded. Prico* 25cents per bos. For saio by J. F. V?\ De Lorme. o WE CAN AND DO ran tec Acker's Rh ?d Elixir f->r i: has hccn! fuliy demonstrated tbe people of this coun? try th.it u is superior to ai! other preparations' for blood disease--. It is a positive cure for' syphilitic poisoning, ? leers. Eruptions and Pimples. Et purities the wJ:o?e system and' thorough^ build's up the conswiution. Sold' l>v J- F. W. Del;?>rtue. 7 There are times when a feeling of lassitude' v '; me the most robust, when the sys tem craves ! r pure blood, tu famish the ele ments of ; nu? strength. The best remedy for pnrit? iag the blood is Dr. J. H. McLean's Sarsaparilla. flap Pimples, blott hi'S, scaly skin, ugly'spots,' suits and ulcers abscesses ami tumors, un healthy discharges, such as catarrh, c?-z<-ma, ringworm and other forms of skin diseases,? are symptoms of blood impurity. Take Dr. J. H ! McLean's Sarsapariiia. vlap The most t't-I:c:?:constitution can safely' use !>. J. H. McLean's Tar Wine Lung IJalin. It is a sure remedy for co?ghs, loss, of voicey aadall throat and !ua : troubles-. "riw