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ip pit?|tro?i? ftiif jMttyMr?. >_ '. ?_:_- ? ? '-*--:-'?-:-1-:-:-:-'?-:-:_i_!_t_:_. MK SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April,.issu. . : "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's -and Truth's." . THE TRUE SOUTHRON. Established Jone, 1266 SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1895. New Series-Yoi. XV. No. 1. Cjj? ^tatcjua? at? 3m&st. IPubl??ed 2rer7 "STedaesday, JNV C3r. Osteen, SUMTER, NS. C. TSRMS: Two Bollars per annum-in advance. ADVSSTiSHSn: One Square first toser tion.?1 00 Every subs?quent tos?rtion~.....'.. 50 Contracts for three months,-or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private interests will D?chargea for as advertisements'. Obituaries and' tributes of respect will be caarged'for. * The Plan Disclosed. Tillman's Scheme to Regulate the Suffrage. Special to-Tbe State. AUGUSTA, Ga., July 22.-It is a strange thing that the Constitutional convention is so very close at band a od yet nothing more definite has been made knowe tba? that the regulation of the suffrage so as to disfranchise as many negroes as possible, without dis? franchising any white men, except for crime, is the work it is cat out to do. Not ooe of the other vital issues to come np. before this convention have been presented to the public mind. Men who are. candidates for delegates have as vague an idea of what the con? vention was ?ailed to do as the masses have of Norsemen's Valhalla bat as a matter of fact, the question of how such changes in the organic law of Sooth Carolina-that will affect future generations when conditions, may be different, had not one ray more of light thrown on it yo far as the public is concerned that when Tillman and Irby issued .the address wit ich caused the convention to be called. Daring the last few weeks the Ring leaders bave been seriously considering tbe ..hows" and many schemes have been discussed with a. view of setting on ?orne scheme that will stand the test of the United States Constitu? tion, ?i.} I have daring the past few days moved about among several of the most prominent leaders on the Reform side in the State, and some light can be thrown on the "how." The woman's suffrage scheme has been fully discussed by the leaders. They have discussed a plan like this : To pat on a property qualification of say $200 for ali white womeo, not con? sidering the negroes. This would, it was argued, give the white women in the towns a great power, while in the country it would be % dead letter. Then the scheme cl allowing all wo? men to vote ander an educational qual? ification was discussed. This would give the State some 40,000 or 43,000 new voters ; bat it has been viewed as a dangerous experiment, and macy reasons have been advanced why it should not be adopted. As near as I can ascertain, there now seems to be no chance whatever for Woman's Suf? frage ; though a few months ago there was some likelihood of the scheme just mentioned being adopted. The overpowering question of the regulation of the suffrage then drifted down to the scheme of putting in a property qualification for ail male vot? ers-a small one-bat un examination of existing conditions showed plainly that many white men would be disfran? chised ander this scheme. So this plan was rejected by the leaders A plain educational qualification was pro? posed, bat for the same reason that many white countrymen Would be dis? franchised, it too, was abandoned Other plans and schemes have been given careful consideration and much study ou tbs quiet. It now seems cer? tain that the following is the plan that the Ring leaders have settled upon. This plan is to extend the suffrage to ail men of twenty-one years of age io the State opon an educational qualifica? tion, the test bei?g a man's ability to read the Constitution of the {state to the supervisor. Io addition to this for the first five years lueo are to bs regis? tered, wno, if they cannot read thu 1 Constitution, cao explain the meaning of any clauses read to them, the Super? visor to be the judge of the sufficiency of the explanation. Then-the law will provide that at thc end of this five years ail men registered during that time stiall ho!d their certificates of reg? istration, while all who are registered ! thereafter will have to read the OJO st i tution and show that they understand j it. Under bis plan, also, all criminals j will be disfranchised. j So much for this all-absorbing sut- j frage regulation. Now a word as to the dispensary. It has been long j thought that the dispensary scheme ! would bc put into the Constitution as an entirety, but, as far -?s ? can ascer tain, there is no intention to do sc. j The scheme is to pat clac?es into tbs . Constitution thal will make cons itu-' tiona! ali the features of the law which ? have been showu by thc experience the ' law has had in the court* to be ancon- ; stitutioaal. | '.The only oth.er 1'issue" I hear receiv? ing any disoussiou at all is the "home- . st?ad" clause, as agitated io many j couuties, and it seeais to be absolutely incertain to be provided for. As to all other waiters, or "issues," nothiog is yet being ?aid by those who are directing the movements of. "the powers that be." They are being left to the members of the couveotion, and . ? doubt if the candidates for delegates have bee? givipg any such matters any . attention. The truth is the agitation of impos? sible schemes for division of delegates, in the several counties, and. ths atten? tion given to the legal fights which have been soing on in the courts, have dnveu.completely into the background all discussion by anti before the people of the momentous question of "how" all these things were to be brought, about. Maybe they have been willing to have others do the thinking. It looks so, aoyhow. fir. J. WATSON. ---- Tillman Discloses The j Scheme. BRANCHVILLE, July 22-When I wrote .the summary of the suffrage schemes discussed by the Ring leaders, which I send in with this, I had no idea that it was so soon to receive direct corroboration from the man who has been .the head of the Reform movement from its very in? ception. But at a meeting held at Hunter's Ferry, ten miles from this place in Barnwell county today, Senator Tillman made a speech in which he handled the matter, and I am able lo quote his exact language on the scheme The meeting was one of the Barnwell county campaign meetings and during the forenoon speeches were made by the candi? dates in the county for delegates to the Constitutional convention. There wereabout 600 persons present, near? ly all of them being Reformers and about seventy-five being ladies. An excellent dinner was served, after which Governor Evans spoke, and then Senator Tillman faced the crowd. He came out squarely and gave the scheme for the regulation of the suffrage, making reference to his remark at Ridgeway when advocat? ing the calling of the Constitutional convention in which he asked the people to trust him and vote for the convention. He stated too that in the spring after the Forty conference he had served notice on all opposed to thc Mississippi plan to get readv for the near future. Then he fu disclosed the scheme as follows : "i have given a great deal of thought to this matter The 15th amendment is an insuperable bar to a permanent and lasting arrangement Any ?scheme that may be adopted can only be temporary and will be largely dependent on white unity, as it is upon the administration of the law rather than in its language we must rely. This has beeu the case with the registrstion law and the eight box law. As long as 'no discrimina? tion on account of race or color, can be made, even an educatiomal quali? fication pure and simple would only serve its purpose of disfranchising the negro* while he remains ignorant. How then can we disfranchise illi? terate negroes without at the same time taking the right of suffrage from the same class of white men ? It is easy enough and cannot be called a fraudulent system. The Mississippi constitution provides that every voter must be registered and that the applicant for registration must be 1 able to read a clause in the constitu? tion or be able to understand and explain it when read to him The right tv. judge of the latter rests with < the supervisors of registration If - the applicant can read he must be registered and therefore be allowed to vote. "If he cannot, it is easy to see that the negro could not understand, while the white man would. Tin's is natural 5 as the whites are the more intelligent raae. Couple a provision forbidding I registration after a conviction for crime, and requite the applicant to ( be also possessed of a good morai character, and you can see how many " iiiou >ands of negroes will be disfran? chised without fraud or without in- 1 fringing on the 15th amendment to the I nited States Constitution Should wc ever have a government that would appoint registration offi- , cers who wanted to enroll the negroes as voters this scheme would not work. But there is a difference be? tween having it in the constitution i und depending on the eight box and I registration laws. A defeated mi- i c nority of white men could never ob ! c tain control <if the government by ! c using the negro vote Such a mi- ! ! nority must obtain control of thc gov- j \ ernment bv obtaining a white m.SM:-- i itv first, and it would then have no '. ! need oi the negro. ? { ..Another safeguard would be to r provide that no illiterate person fail- ? ing (?I' the necessary requirements { c ?br registration will be eligible aft? the first election, and that after ffr years the requirements for registr tion be the ability to read and writ pure and simple. This would ac? ? a spur to men of both races to 'f themselves for the suffrage and wodi not perpetuate the confessedly bl noxious- but necessary provision < trusting tb the judgment of the si pervisor. The charge that "such system would perpetuate 'dishone? elections is false." Continuing, Senator Tillman said "If this scheme is not adopted, ther so far as I cai) see, there is nothin else to do but have qualified' woman' suffrage and hide behind petticoats ? am perfectly willing to give th women of South Carolina the right I vote when they ask for it, but I don' believe they want it. and until the; do ask for it, I prefer the other plan.'' The above' are Senator Tillman' exact words, and they pretty full; cover the all important matter. 1 may be added that this being th scheme the inaugurator of the Reforn movement advocates, it will be almos certain to be adopted. Senator Tillman returned to hi home at Trenton this evening, beinj accompanied/by Governor Evans. E. J. WATSON. The Dispensary's Cut Rat* Price List. A Half Pint of Genuine "Fire Water" Chemically Pare Made Cheaper Indeed Figures for Official Liquor in Any Quantity. At last the State board of contro has announced its new cut price list several times referred to in The State already. The Dew prices become e&ec ti ve on August 1. There have beer very material redactions io the prices of whiskey, bat wines, etc., are left a? heretofore. The dispensary has fouod it necessary to make this cut DO doab! because of the decision of Judge Si mont?n, which bas allowed an unex? pected competition. But here is the list of oew prices to speak for itself: Coro, 80 per ceot., $1 60~. 40, 20 aod 10, for gallons, quarts, piots and half pints. Rye aod Bourbon, 80 per cent., $2, 50, 25 and 13, for gallons, quarts, piots aod half pints. X corn, $2, 50, 25 and 13, fer gal? lons, qaartH, pints and half piot9. X rye, bourbon, rum aod gio, $2.40, SO, 30 aod 15, for gall?os, quarts, piots and half pints. XX rve, bourbon, corn, rum aod gin, ?2 75, 70, 35 aod 20, for gallons, quarts, pints and half pints. XXX rye or Old Velvet, ?3.80, $1, 50, aod 25 for gallons, quarts, pints and half pints. XXXX rye aod Scotch, ?10, ?2.50, $1.25 and 05, for gallons, quarts, piots aod bair" piots. X ThompsoD Old Rye, $6.80, ?1.70. 85 aod 45, for gall?os, quarts, piots aod half piots. Old Cabtoet Rye, Pepper Rye aod Old Elk Rye, $1.25 per quart. .Jamaica rum aod imported gio, XXXX, 50c per half pint. X Cognac braody, ?1 per pint aod XX Cogoac braody, $1 50 per piot. Califoroia brandy, XX, 50c. per piot, aod Califoroia braody, XXX, 60c. per piot. Maderia wioe, XX, 45c. and 25c for quarts and piots, aod Madeira wine, XXX, 50c. and 25c. for quarts aod piots. Sherry wine, XX, 45c. and 25c. for quarts aod pints, aod Sherry wine, XXX, 50e. and 25c. for quarts and pints Fort wiue, XX, 45c. aod 25c. for quarts and pints, and Port wine, XXX, 55c. and 3?C. for quarts and pints. Claret wine, XX, 15c. for piots. Blackberry wine nod Scupperoong wioe, 45c. and 25c. per quart and pint. Catawba wiue, XXX, 45c. and 25o it:d quart and pint. Grap?? wioe, 45?. and 25c. per quart. )er pin t Tokay wine, XX, ?5c 25C. per pjnrf and pint Tokay wino, XXX, 50c. and 25e. <<r quart and piot.. Alcohol, $3.50 per gaiioo. and 90c. j. >er quart.. Beer, 1- l-2c. per pin'. Ale, 25c. per pint. Porter, 25c jeir pint. Vhvoa Mon Hurled Into Eternity I by Dynamite. CHICAGO, July 2-J.-Dynamite ? ostantlv kille-i three meo ac i serious- 1 y injured a lour?b < u the drainage ; ?anal this afternoon. The aceideot oe- j lurred near Willow Spring, ii wa< ..aoscd by a premature explosif o during he process <-t tamping.. Che -iea i aro: rVil'iam Kelly, 32 y":?r< '??.i. lived ? M tr'i'i'tte, Mich. : Th >:na? S iaker, ; .;; years oj agc, lived io VV'ood Street. ! ; Jhic?tjo : .Joseph Smith. 35 years eid, I i esl ScQCe UokOOWD i i Injured: Matthew Healy, 30 years I 1 lid, severe *calp wound. ? 1 I Indians in Insurrection. The Secretary of War Called Upon For Troops. WASHINGTON, July 24.-Immedi? ately after Indian Commissioner Browning reached his office this j morning- and had been advised of the ! contents of mai! and telegrams on his | desk, he went to the war department i and was in conference with Secretary Lamont for an hour or more. When he left the Secretary, Mr. Browning stated that lie had been consulting about the- outbreak of Bannock Indians in Salt River Valley, with the attendant casualties, as reported exclusively in the United Press dis? patches last night His office, he said, had received no communication giving these details, but was advised that two hundred of the three hun? dred Indians were out of their reserva? tion Ile had applied to Secretary Lamont for a force of troops with which to compel their return, but the Secretary, he admitted, was not then prepared to grant the request. It would be made the subject of a con? sultation between Secretary Lamont and Gene?" ! Huger, which immedi? ately folio ved that between the secre? tary and Commissioner Browning. The Lidian Commissioner this morning received a telegram from Agent Teter at the Fort Hall, Idaho, reservation that confirms the press reports and indicates the urgent necessity for the immediate presence of troops at the scene of the trouble in Wyoming. The telegram is as follows : "Hare investigated the trouble between the Indians and set? tlers in Wyoming, and would advise that troops be sent there immediately to protect law-abiding citizens, the lawless element among the settlers being determined to come into con? flict with the Indians Settlers have killed from four to 6even Indians, which has incensed the Indians, who have gathered to the number of be? tween 200 and 300 near Salt River in Ufntah county and refuse to return to the reservation. "I find that the Bannock Indians have killed game unlawfully, accord? ing to the laws of Wyoming, though not unlawfully, according to the treat}' between the Bannock Indians and the United States, and the usurping of prerogatives of the settlers in that re? spect caused trouble Nothing but the intervention of soldiers will settle the difficult}7 and save lives of inno? cent persons and prevent destruction of property." Agent Toter's dispatch was for? warded to the Secretary of War, through Acting Secretary Reynolds, of the Interior Department, accom? panied by a copy of the following telegram from Governor Richards, of Wyoming, which was also received to day : Cheyenne, Wyo., July 23.-Dis? patches from Adjutent General Stitz e*r, who is on the ground at Jackson's Hole, repeated to you to day. Will the Federal Government take the matter in hand of returning the Ban? nocks to their reservation, 'or will Wyoming be expected to do so ; Please wire reply. W. A. RICHARDS, Governor. A letter was then sent from the In? terior Department by Actiug Secre? tary Reynolds to the Secretary of War requesting that troops be sent to the scene of the disturbances, in which he said : "The danger of a conflict between the Indians and set? tlers seems imminent, and I fully ap? prove the recommendations of the Indian commissioner and respectfully request that you cause to be sent to the sceue of these troubles a suffi cient military force to prevent a con? flict between settlers and Indians and protect the lives of settlers and re? turn the Indians to their proper res? ervation.'7 After his conference with Gen. Ruger and Major Davis, Secretary I Lamont this afternoon sent directions ; to Brigadier General Coppinger, com- i manding the department of the Platte, 1 to proceed at once to the scene of < troubles and ascertain the exact situ- i alion. In the meantime, Gen. Cop- < pinger is ti) ur.1er the movement of ? such troops in his department as will ; protect the settlers and secure the j i return of tin; Indians to their rescr- ? ? V?tlO?; ] Corbett Knocked Oat. : A? BURY PARK, N. J-, July 21 James J. Corbett, thc champion pu- j tbilisi, who is spending the season at ( Asbury Park, met wir!: an accident , Lo day that will prevent him training I for at least tw<> weeks. Corbett, who ! is somewhat of a bicyclist, was prac- j tisirig"' al the athletic grounds for his j ;>icvele race al Manhattan Beach with 1 Bob Pitzsimmons lie was spinning: ground the track at a li oO gate, paced :>v a stranger, whose nam" ii." docs I mt know. Behind Corbet! was in's jrother Joe Suddenly thc ^stranger ell and Corbett went over him and Joe tumbled over both. The cham? pion was badly bruised and is unable to raise his right arm. His leg was cut from the hip down and it is necessary to support him when he ..walks about. The accident will pre? vent Corbett from racing with Fitz simmons. The wheefhe was riding was a gift from Zimmerman, who won over 100 races on it, while abroad. It is badly wrecked. Deplorable Condition of Ne? gro Colonists Who Went to Mexico. WASHINGTON, July 24.-A serious condition of affairs exists in the American Negro'cotony at Tlahualalo, Mexico ; so serious that Mr. Sparks, the United States consul at Piedras Negras, to-day sent a telegram on the subject to the Slate Department. Mr. Sparks says the negroes have left the colony in a body, and that a number of them are located in a camp under the surveilance of Mexican soldiers Some of them in the camp are afflicted with contagious disease, and altogether their condition is de- ., plorable. The colonists are all from i Georgia and Alabama, whence they emigrated after being giver glowing accounts of the fertility and fruitful- j ness of the concession granted their j organizer, a negro, by the Mexican j government. The State Department officials, af- j ter making every effort to devise ' ways and means to help the colonists, looking to every law that might be j construed to give them authority to j use funds, found it utterly impossible ! to do so. A late telegram from Consul Sparks stated that the negroes were scattered j for miles on the railroad without food, friends or funds, and were liv-1 ing on mesquite beans and branch water. Mr. Sparke could do nothing fori want of money, and added that he feared trouble, as the colonists were starving. The original dispatch from Mr Sparks informed the department that he had received a telegram from Dr. J II Barry, of Torre?n, Mexico, dated July 23rd, which said that 153 negroes from the colony were desti? tute at that point with fifteen cases of contagious diseases among them. The Mexican police were preventing them from entering the towns. The State Department has also re? ceived a letter from Congressman John H. Bankhead, of Alabama, asking if the government can assist in bringing back to their hemes the members of the Tlabualilit colony, who left Alabama and other Southern States about a year ago and who are now, he says, dissatisfied, destitute and unable to return unaided The department has tried every way to afford some relief io the col? onists and has instructed the consul at Piedras Negras to render all assist? ance that he could properly do, and to report promptly any serious devel opments. The charge d'affaires of the United States in the City of Mexico has also been informed of the state of affairs reported by Mr. Sparks, and has been instructed to inquire into the treatment that the colonists were re? ceiving. No funds are available lo the de? partment which can be applied to maintain destitute American citizens, other than seamen in foreign coun? tries, or to provide for their trans? portation home, and Consul Sparks has been so advised as also all those who made inquiries concerning the unfortunate negroes.' Japaa Chooses London. LONDON, July 24.-The Daily News j will say to-morrow that the Japanese Governmnt has intimated its desire that China shouid pay the war indemnity to Japan's order ir? Lindon. The paper will add that it is rather a surprise and j ha.< somewhat displea>ecl the French j md Russian financiers wh?> are finding the money Negotiations have already j been (?pened concerning the remitting . if the money from France and its cus- { .oday herc, bu' in the presen: plethoric : condition of the market there is DO ! Treat dc-ire felt to ta kt; rho responsibil? ity of handling the money. Two mportant houses which were consulted iecii'ii'l m baodie the money;. The . rjaper will farther say that ir '--ar;:? 'rom another ?our?e thur part of rho j "uud ha* ai ready been deposired in the ? Bank of Kagland, hut that it has boen ;, mable r>> ctnSrm this Cotton Prices for 100 Years. An Interesting Bulletin Is? sued by the Department of Agriculture. WASHINGTON, July 24.-The bulle? tin on the prices of cotton for 100 years, which the Department of Ag? riculture has had in course of prepa? ration for some weeks, was issued to-day The period considered be? gins and ends with the two of the most important events in the history of cotton culture, the introduction of Whitney's saw gin (1785)"and the production of the largest crop the world has ever seen, 1894 9c. The highest and lowest average prices, the crops of the United States, the exports to foreign countries, the sup? ply and consumption in the United States, Great Britain and continental Europe are given for each year as well as the chief causes that led to the rise and fall in prices from year to year. In addition to a series of tables in which these facts and figures are presented, the bulletin contains numerous data relating to tue progress made from time to time in the production and consumption of cotton in this and foreign coun? tries These are so arranged as to present a brief historical sketch of cotton production and consumption in the United States during the past century. The tables show that prices ot cotton have not been so low during the past season as they were during the decade from 1840 to 1S50. The object of the department has been to make this bulletin a valuable work of reference as to the produc? tion, consumption and prices of cot? ton and other numerous facts relating to cotton, for all who are interested either in cotton planting or in the cotton trade Referring to the condition of the market and prices in the decade from 1840 to 1850, the bulletin says : "In 1840 the largest crop ever made up to that time, and the largest accumulation of stocks ever witness? ed in Liverpool caused a decline to the lowest average for ten years. This was the beginning of the heavy accumulation of stocks in Europe during the next five years, which led to an extraordinary decline in prices " The highest price per pound in New York that decade was 13 7-8 cents, in 1850, and the lowest 5 cents in 1842 and 184-"> Shepperson quoted middling in that year as low as 4 cents. "In 1842," continues the bulletin, "middling to fair cotton reached as low as 4 1-2 cents in New Orleans and there is on file in the Department of Agriculture, a letter showing that a Marengo county, Alabama, planter sold this year seventeen bales of cot? ton in Mobile at 3 14 cents. The price-currents of the day quote mid? dling to fair cotton in New Orleans in 1845 as low as 4 3-8 cents and in Mobile, the same year, 3 1-4 cents per pound." With respect to 'the lustrum ended with 1895, it is shown that the highest price per pound in New York was 10 5-8 cents in 1S9I, and the lowest 5 9-16 cents the present year. A table of the fluctation in prices' shows that in 1825 it amounted to IS cents per pound ; in 1837 to 12 1-2 cents: in 1864 to $1 21; in 1S65 to $1 47'; and.in 1886 to only .SO of a cent, the smallest on record. Novices in tue Business, STEE?.EVII.I.K. 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