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A. GENERAL CALI. ! A State Convention of Democrats. i - '.*' The following is the text of the call issued by the committee of the Demo? cratic State.Conference. The call speaks for itself : Ta the Democrats of South Carolina : The followiog preamble' aaa* resolu? tions having.been adopted by a repre? sentative hody of Democrats, com io g from a large majority of the couties of the State, aod having since been approved by many Democrats in all of the counties of the State, it becomes my duty as chairman of the Democratic conference committee, of South Caro* lina, to publish them to the State; and to earnestly urge all true Demoorats to take active part io the mass meetings proposed to be held, and to send repre? sentative delegations to the Democratic State Convention therein recommended. THOMAS W. CAR-WILE, Chairman Democratic Conference Com? mittee. To the Democrats of South Carolina : Whereas, OD der the guidance of those . so-called Democrats/ot a majority of them, who have control of the party machinery in this State, the leaders of the rank and file of the party have attempted to commit thenr to the Third party and to Populist doctrines, have alienated |u# from fel^-Demo erats of the Uoioo, aod nave brought the. party in South Carolina into re? proach as to its alignment with the National Democracy, adopted false and undemocratic principles and promul? gated -the? io the name and nuder the banner ?f Democracy; and Whereas, the Democratic masses of the State have been, grossly betrayed by men charged with the party manage? ment, who have usurped the rights and used the machinery of the party for .elfish ends, a majority of the so-called State Democratic executive. committee actually permitting another self-con? stituted committee (only claiming to represent I a faction of a faction) to SSftume control of the party manage* 'ment, and in. the most flagrant and offensive manner to disfranchise thou sands of true Democrats; aod Whereas, a Ring bas been organised andie exercising most arbitrary and tyrannical power, to the otter subver? sion of the will of the people, aod thereby depriving them of their poli? tical rights ; noir therefore be it Resolved, That we as trae, loyal and uncompromising Democrats, repudiate the Third party platform repeatedly (aod at the recent August State convention of the faction now in power) forced upon our party, and hereby pledge our continued allegiance to true Democratic principles as enunciated at the last national Democratic convention. We feel the absolute necessity of a complete reorganisation of the party in this State and invite all true Democrats to assist us in tts rehabilitation and in toe organisation of Democracy, in South Carolina squarely in line with sound Democratic doctrine ; be it Further Resolved, Tb at we hereby invite the Democrats of the State of I South Carolina to assemble at the court bouses of their respective counties on Saturday, the 15th day of Septem? ber, 1894, and at such other place and manner as they may determine, for the purpose of selecting degates (two for every representative for the lower house and the Senate, for which the county is entitled,) to meet in Columbia at a con? vention to be held on the 17th of September at 8 p. m., for the pur poe e of reorganizing the Democratic party in South Carolina, considering the political situation of the State and taking such action as their collective wisdom may suggest for the public welfare. Once More to the Front. Dr. Samps Pope has issued the fol? lowing : To the Democratic Voters of South Carolina : I understand that one of the Ring said to a gentleman a few days ago, speaking of me : "He shall never bold ! office again." Chagrined at my expos- I ure of Ring methods now practiced, | and at my checkmating bim by refus- j ing to go into his trap at the first and second primary, be thus vents his I spleen. I I believe that the ofEces belong to ! the people aod not to any individual or j set of individuals. I shall (therefore be I a candidate for Governor at the general election. The last kilKog at Blackville bas convinced me that we can never have peace in this State so long as the dispensary law is upon the statute books. 1 shall, therefore, run as an anti-dis? pensary candidate and io favor of true Democracy. Let the people decide at this election whether or not a few men shall dictate who shall hold the offices, and let them decide for themselves whether or not laws shall be passed in tbe interest of peace and harmony and good govern? ment. At this election a ballot can be cast directly for the man of the people's choice. Let the people rise up as one man and see to it that there shall be a fair count. Respectfully, SA5IPSON POPE. Newberry, S. C , Sept. 5, 1894. Dr. Pope says that he is running on bis own merits, and that if a full ticket wants to join bim he will not object, but that be will make the race anyway. He says that Governor Tillman and Congressman Murray have bad a three hours' chat, and that he suspects a deal by which Murray bas promised to de liver the uegro vote. This he ti does not believe Murray caa do. says that Joba Gary Evans rei only about 43,000 votes io tbi primary, and that there are 8 voters in the State, and thereto stands a good chance of election. He Will Fight in the Bank Letter From Senator Butler. To the Editor of the News Courier : Your editorial of tl instant, referred to in the State of terday, gives me the opportunii say that my personal or politics tunes need not io the slightest d' embarrass the Democracy of S Carolina io any steps they maj fit to take to redeem the State the clutches and domination of corrupt Ring DOW Controlling it. I trust I may bs excused for sa that in the years that are past, I reached the age of manhood,. [ "done the State some service,'* \ out the hope or expectation of rev and am not too old to render bei selfish duty now. My candidacy re-election to the United States Se -may therefore be entirely elicits from any movement looking to a reor ization of the Democratic part} the State and the restoration of de government within ber borders. ?he. large body of tax-laying, abiding white voters caonot pass i submit to tbe ruthless disfranchise!: of a handful of selfish Kingsters demagogues without the loss of t own self-respect and the respect all liberty-loving people everywh Io the struggle for re-en frau ch is em if such a struggle shall be de ter in i upon, you may enlist me in the rs until the end is accomplished or chains permanently riveted. I have DO quarter to. ask of enemies of good government freedom' of political opinion nod act; aod none to give. We are be betrayed from the political faith of choice by the men who happen control tbs party machinery, aod into the field of agrarianism, comm ism and anarchism, and because deoline to follow unprincipled lead blindfolded and without protest, we to be charged by them with "indepe entism," with a purpose of appeal to the negro vote, etc, etc. For myi I repudiate the charge as untrue and sit derous, and am prepared -to show t at the door of the Riogsters must placed the responsibility for the p sent unhappy divisions and dissi sions among our white people, a that they have appealed aod will ag; appeal to the negro vote ; that they v encourage bloodshed fraud, outlaw: anything to perpetuate their vulg exercise of usurped power. I do not wish to be understood embracing within this sweeping chat thc entire present State Administi ti on, for it comes within my persoi j knowledge that there are some hom j able, conscientious meo among the who detest Ring rule as earnestly a I feel its injustice as keenly as any bod j but they have not been able, a I are net oow able to corni successfully the reckless and audacio lawlessness of those who wield t power of the Ring. f It is oot a |uestion of the rule the majority but of the Ring. T majority is as effectually muzzled the minority, and both are treated political serfs to do tbe bidding political task masters. There is i such thing as political freedom io Sou Carolina, and I stand ready to aid reclaiming ft, at any and every coe I trust there wi]l oo longer be ac doubt as to my motives or p?aos. Very truly, etc. M. C BUTLER. Edgefield, September ?, 1894. The True Issue. From Harper's Weekly. Among the many public utterance of President Cleveland none has bee more characteristic than bis recent lette to Mr. Catchings, io which he gives hi reasons for permitting the so-calle Gorman tariff bill to become a )ai without his signature, aod io that lette there is oo sentence more pregnant wit weighty meaning than this: "Th trusts aod combinations-the commue ism of pelf-whose machioatioos hav preveoted us from reachiog the succ?s we deserved, should oot be forgottei Dor forgiveo. We shall recover fron our astonishment at their exhibition o power, and if theo the question i forced upon us whether they ?hall sub mit to the free legislative will of th? people's representatives or shall dtetat? the laws which the people must obey we will accept aod settle that issue at I one involving the integrity and safety I of Atcerican institutions." In this j sentence Mr. Cleveland has touched s 1 phase of the protective tariff question which the American people have been only too much inolioed to overlook, bul which bas been set forth io a glorious light by the receot occurences io the j Senate. j We have seen in the Congress of the j United States members of the party, j pot in power for the very purpose ol I reforming the tariff, stand up for pro j tected manufacturing interests, and use i in their behalf the identical argumeots ! with which the Republican protection I is ts bad beeo io the habit of defending j the priciple of protection. Those reoe I gades were so shameless io their zeal for those protected interests as to throw overboard the whole theory upon which the party to which they pretended to beloog had made the fight against the protective policy, thus virtually braod ! ing that fight as a wicked attempt to injure the public welfare ; for if the argumeots used in behalf of the pro tected interests were right., ail efforts to disturb the protective system were wrong. President Cleveland certainly did not go too far when he denounced such conduct as treasou to the party and its cause. ENGLISHMEN** TO INVESTI GATE SLANDERS. Governor O'Ferrall's Scathing Denuncia? tion of English Pharisasism in Inter? meddling With Southern Morals-The Quintessence of Brass and Impudence Lynching Will Cease With its Cause. RICHMOND, VA, September 10.-The Evening State this afternoon says that Governor O'Ferrall received last night the following telegram from tbe New York World : NEW YORK, September 9, 1894.-To Governor Charlea T O'Ferrall: An English committee has been sent here to investigate and and denounce South? ern lynchiogs. Will you please telegraph us what yon think of English meddling with our affairs ? The Governor's reply was as follows : RICHMOND, VA. September 9, 1894.-To The World, New York: Things have come to a pretty pass in this country wheo we are to have a lot of English moralists sticking their noses into our- internal .?affairs It- is the quintessence of brass and impudence. They bad better stop in front of their own doors before seeking to regulate us We might as well investigate English affairs in India, her White Chapel murderers, ber Jack the Rip? per's slashings, the Maybrick trial and her alleged injustice and cruelty to this woman, ber rapacious colonial policy . in ?frica and the degrading effects upon the Chinese resulting from her opium war. What do they propose to do io case they find that the law is not adminis? tered here according td their ideas? Declare war agaiost us or opeo the - vials of their wrath upon our homes ? What information do they seek ? Do they want to know that the white peo? ple in the South have lynched negroes whose miserable lusts led them to the commission of black crimes of rape upon white women ? If so they need not investigate, for such is the fact. Do they desire to know that this bas been done by infuriated communities for the protection of their white women, and to save the victims of these fiends from the humiliation of testifying in Courts ? If so, this is the fact. Do they wan: to know whether there was any doubt as to the guilt of the men lynched ? If so, for the satisfaction of tbeir yearning souls they could have ascertained without encountering the i perils of a sea trip ; tbeir guilt was clear in every instance. If they had desired to learn whether these lynchings were permitted or countenanced by the civil authorities they could have learned,* through the regular channels of cor? respondence, that io every case, the civil authorities were either without knowledge or were overpowered. Io Virginia the authorities in every case have asserted all their power to suppress the lynching spirit, and with? in the last few months I have protected from violence with military, at heavy expense ro the State, three negroes, who were charged with outraging white women. They bad fair -trials, were . convicted and executed. While lynch law is to be condemned, and every effort has been and will be made to s.appress it in tba South without tbe advice of those would-be philanthropists who have taken so much upon themselves, lynchings will surely cease when the crime of rape ceases. These sympa? thetic Englishmen might find missionary work among the negroes of the South io warning them against the conse? quences of forcible, gratification of their devilish lust. CHARLES T O'FERRALL. Governor of Virginia. GOVERNOR NORTHEN'g REPLY. SAVANNAH, Ga., September 10.-A special to the Morning News from Atlanta says : Governor Northen has again come to the front as a defender of the South. He to-day sent to the New York World a telegram to which every lover of the South as well as every true patriot will say, "Amen.'' The Gov? ernor, who in the past has used some very vigorous language on this subject of slander against the South, is still more emphatic in his message of to-day He does not mince words; no ooe can misunderstand bis meaning. This morning the following talegram from the New York World was received by tbe Governor : NEW YORK, September 9, 1894.-To Governor W. J. Northen, Atlanta, Ga.: An English committee has been sent here to investigate and denounce Southern lynchings. Will you please telegraph us what you think of English meddling with our affairs ? In reply to this query Governor Northen this morning wired the follow? ing : To the World, New York : Say to the "English committee/' who have come to this country "to investigate and deneunce lynchiogs at the South," that I am io a position to know that they have received tbeir ? in formation from irresponsible sources and that the English people have declined and re? fused to be properly informed about our laws and the conduct of our Govern? ment. The English papers to my knowledge have declined time and again to publish statements made to them in defence of the South by I Englishmen who are now residents of I thc South. Under these conditions we do not want any further outside hypo critical cant upon false ideas of our Governmant. The people of this State are quite able to administer tbeir own j affaiis, and they are doing ic in full justice to the negro, as our laws aod our conduct will attest. We have already stood more outside iuterferrence in our local matters than we will submissively tolerate in tbe future. Let these kindly disposed Englishmen return to their own coun? try and prevent by law the inhuman sale of virtuous girls to lustful men in j high places, bang ali such demons as j Jack the Ripper, punish as it deserves the barbarous wholesale slaughter of! negroes in Africa by Englishmen who go there to steal their gold, supply ; their necessities to prevent bread and labor riots and strikes, which are j wholly unknown to the people of the j South ; feed and give employment to j the poor as do the people of my section; j give to the oppressed Irishmen tbe j right humanity demands and when they shall have pulled the beam out of their own eyes then they may with better j grace appoint themselves a committee to hunt for the mote that may be in our eyes. While we have irr?gularit?s at the South and negroes are sometimes lynched, they are never slaughtered by wholesale as Englishmen sometimes de? stroy them. I send you by mail tbe law and record of my State on these matters, and I challenge not only the British committee on the lynchings at the South, but the civilized world to show a better. Why come before investiga? tion to "denounce" the South just prior to Congressional election when we have just had a negro lynched in Kansas, April 2, another in Ohio on the Sabbath, April 15, and when white Poles and Hungarian* have recently been brutally butchered in Michigan and Pennsylvania and negroes run out of Franklin Park, >T. J , io herds ? We challenge investigation by all per? sons who have the right to investigate these charges, but any attempt upon the part of Englishmen tainted by their owo national crimes to arraign us for trial mast be considered as a gross impertinence. W. J. NORTHEN, ' Governor of Georgia. WASHINGTON LETTER WASHD?OTOI?, Sept. 10, 1894. Secretary Carlisle has left no doubt as to where he and President Cleveland stand on the sugar question. He told Representative Meyer, of La., that the administration would oppose any attempt on the free list, but would aid in the passage of the substitute pro? posed by the Senate Finance Committee, striking out the different duty of one eigth of a cent a pound on refined sugar, leaving all sugars dutiable at a flat rate of 40 per cent ad valorem. Secretary Carlisle still holds to his original opinion that he bas no authority to pay out a dollar for bounty on sugar, but he told Mr. Meyer that he and President Cleveland were both io favor of legislation providing not only for the payment of the bouoty upon all sugar made previous to the taking effect of the oew tariff but for the payment upon this year's entire crop of the difference between the bounty and the duty on foreign sugar j Had this information been in the | possession of La., sugar planters it is | -probable that they might have adopted j a different sort? of resolution at their! meeting last week. He also told Mr. Meyer that his letter to Senator Harris, showing the necessity for.the revenue that the sugar duty will bring in was submitted to President Cleveland and was approved by bim before it was sent as stated in this correspondence at the time, although the know-it-alls asserted tbat the letter was sent without Mr. Cleveland's knowledge and against his wishes. The true inwardness of the alleged flop of Senator Jones, ot Nevada, from the republicans to the populists is now known. It was merely a republican trick. Jones is no more a populist than be ever was and his pretended flop j is but the first move in a game which j was to have been secret and which has ? for its final object the nomination aod ! election to the Presidency of Senator j Cameron of Pennsylvania Jones is the fainer of the Cameron boom and when be found tbat the suggestion was very coldly received by the silver men of the Northwest, on account of Came? ron's well-known connections with rail? road and other corporations, notwith? standing the free coinage of silver, which was to be the corner stone of bis canvass, he was disappointed. Theo it was that Jones evolved the scheme of joining the populists and 1 turning their organization into a purely silver party, eliminating every thing else from their platform, and having them endorse the Cameron boom, which he calculated would ioduce the repub Hean convention to nominate Cameron j on a free silver platform. The scheme \ would not have had ene chance out of a possible ooe hundred even if it bad . been kept seoret as intended, but now that it has been exposed it simply bas j no chance at all. Men of Doo Came- ! ron's calibre have been eleeted Pre ! sident, but no man of his associations ever has been or ever will be, although of i course he may buy a nomination if be ; will pay the price. This isn't a good admioistaation for sinecures, Secretary Hoke Smith's axe bas just fallen upon another. Like a ! great many other people Secretary Smith was puzzled when he first heard of the editor of the U. S. Geological j Survey. A litttle investigation con- ? vinced him that the said editor was drawing $2,000 a year without render ing an equivalent to Uncle Sam, and j straight away an order was issued ! abolishing the office, which by the I way, was created for the mao DOW turned out, Mr W. A CrorTut, a very pleasant newspaper man with a fad for mesmerism, which be calls hypnotism Mr. Croffut's hypnotism worked all right on a republican Secretary, but it was a dismal failure wheo applied to a hard-shell democrat like Hoke Smith. Es-CoDgressman Breckenridge, of Ark., DOW minister to Russia, is still in Washington, and still very much interested in politics. He said io the j course of a general conversation oo Southern polilics : "My own State has just given an exceptionally heavy majority, which is a- fair indication of what the South may be expected to do in November. I wish,, however, that the majorfty had been a little lighter and the platform adopted at the State convention a little better. Too much was conceded the populists on the financial question. Better to have had a sound monetary plank "than to have gained a few thousand superfluous votes. With the revival of business, prosperity that is now already beguo there cannot be much fear of continued democratic ascendancy. I feel thar we shall control the next House.'7 Of the tbr?ateod secession of sugar .planters from the democratic party, Mr. Breck ioridge said : "It is natural for the Louisiana sugar growers to stand by their chief product ; they have always done so. But I do oot see what they have to gain by bolting their party affiliations. It will do them more hurt thao it will the democracy. For every vote lost by such a desertioo six would be gained. Oo longer reflection, it is doubtful if they will go over to the political party which they have battled against all their lives. Costly Mistakes of Congress. From Harper's Weekly. The Wilson bill, as reported to the Seoate by the Finance Committee last February, contained about 50,000 words. It made a volume of more tbao 200 of the large pages customary in Congressional bills, printed in large type with ample spacings and margins. By the time the Senate got through amending it, it was a great deal longer. The McKinley bill, as it came from the House of Representatives, was ooly sixty-seven pages long, but the amend? ments to it made io the Senate Com? mittee on Finance filled 162 pages, and amounted to 40,000 words. Next to the McKinley bill in length, in the record of the engrossing clerks of Con? gress was the inter-State commerce law, which contained 8000 words. It is a physical impossibility in copying so many words to avoid making errors. The fact that laws are now printed on parchment instead of being engrossed with the peo makes the liability of accident in copying a little leas. Proof-reading is easier on the printed page. But where every comma bas an exaggerated value (and a comma ic a tariff act may bc worth a millioo dollars or more to the government), it was to be expected that costly errors woold fill the new law. Twenty-five or thirty have already bee? discovered, and more will undoubtedly appear. The costly errors made io the past have not all been attributable to the engrossing clerks either. Where so many subjects are handled (there are 690 in th ; Wilson bill, as well as more than 100 paragraphs relating to the administration of the law) something must be neglected. The Treasury Department officials who examined the Wilson bill for the Seoate Committee discovered over 400 errors in it. lt bas been fouud, now that the bill bas become a law that some errors of con? sequence escaped even the vigilance of the Treasury experts. The Color Line in Ohio. FOSTOKIA, O , Aug 26.-A decided sensation was created here by the mar? riage last night of the Rev. Mr. Thomp? son, of the Methodist Church of this city, to Miss Bibbie Hawk, who is a mulatto. She is an attractive young woman, well educated, refined and a great church worker. She was a mem? ber of the Rev Mr. Thompson's con? gregation aod for the last five years, he bas been paying her marked atten? tion. His congregation remonstrated vigorously and finally, a few weeks ago, be was given indefinite leave of absence and the church was closed. The Marion couoty fair will be held Oct. 31st and Nov. 1st and 2d. The premium list is a good one. mum ? i - South Carolina has no worse enemy than ignorance, the motor of vices, and nothing tends more to make perpetual that ignorance than the persistent idea of cotton, cotton to the exclusion of! producing home supplies first aod chen cotton.-Cotton Plant. Senator R. R. Hempbill has been defeated by I. H. McCalla for the Senate. Senator Hemphill's work io the Senate last winter in defeating the Greenwood County bill is the cause of his defeat primarily. The new county advocates voted against him and for Mr. Calla, which with the votes he got in the rest of the county elected the latter. While io Chicago, Mr. Charles L. Kahler, a prominent shoe merchant of Des Moines, Iowa, had quite a serious time of it He took such a severe cold that he could hardly j talk or navigate, but the prompt use of I Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cured him of j his cold so quicly that others at the hotel who j had bad colds followed his example and half a dozen persons ordered it from the nearest j drug store. They were profuse in their thanks to Mr. Kahler for telling them how to cure a bad cold so quickly. For sale by Dr. j A.J.China. For choice Beef and Mutton go to Eugene Hogan. He will only send you the b?st that j can be had in the market. 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The privilege heretofore granted to Bicy? clist, riding upon sidewalks of City of Sumter, within the limits prescribed by Ordinance, is hereby revoked, this being necessary on ac? count of the business transactions on streets referred to in said Ordinance relating to Bicycles. Producers bringing into City of Sumter any products of the farm, grain, fruit, vegetables, poultry, wood or any other produce are not required to pay a license for same. Boarding Houses in City of Sumter are not required to pay a license for accommoda? ting private, petmanentboarders ; but only in cases of accommodation of travellers or tran? sient boarders. By order of City Coucil. C. M. HURST, Clerk and Treasurer. Sept. 5._ Y. M^C. A. Until further notice, the Reading Room of the Y. M. C. A. will be open daily from 8.30 to IO P. M. Dailies, weeklies, monthlies, will be found there. Also, the Library from the S. L. I. has been removed to the rooms of the Y. M. C. A. 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