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SPA RT A N BlMft JOURNALff! VOL. II. NO. 211. START ANBURG, S. C., FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1902. PRICE: ?5 A YEAR^jt ^ * / TILLMAN'S. _ SPEECH. If hUfl*e^\ HE DEFBITP8 > TfcE/NflOUTH AOAliri^ SEAJTOERS. . v v&r ^ ^ Refutes the Clainv^Nfet Wade Hdxnp ton Set Fire to CtflumfriW'Mid That Sherman Tried to Put It Out. Wahhinwton, May 9.?Special Senator Tillman in hlsspeeoli Wednesday on the Philippines government bill defended the southern states' treatment of the negroes in matters social and political, and urpuioma>1 t.Vin mnn hllfRti nart.V foi its treatment of the Philippine negro while posing as the "champion of the down trodden AfroAmerican voter and good oitizen'1 of this country. Mr. Tillman Said that the white v people of South Carolina were de^ termined to maintain their sup res' ~ y.-0 mac.v by any method neoessary, v Advancing to the center of the ais'e he shook his' fist at the republicar v~ side and dared any one of them tc 5^ - say that he would act differently under similar conditions bnt. none accepted the challenge. Following are parts of Senatoi Tillman's speech in the senate Wed nosdav, which created a sensation It was in answer to republican sen ators who had tried to justify th< // Apre^ent administration's Philippine if-9 P<W?CK oomPar*nK it with th< I > \^ret?tjn&iit of the negro by the whit* $Moplf< \f the South. As will b< \ ^ hOOj^, senator did not mine* V^wofcds tn giving expression to hii >\?fj?jling8, and the position taken bj ^l&iCJs oj/e which few southerner! IlSttVow. If you hud dared at Auponiatto: or anywhere ease to disclose yoni U- nnriyise?ISLO, fl^Ti kftttW T"Y anybody's purpose then?but if i lmd ever entered into the minds o the southern soldiers that it wa not. only to restore the Union am destroy slavery and then put tin ex-slaves in charge ot the state gov era m ants and make them oontro our affairs, I tell you hero then would have been a guerrilla war fare inaugurated throughout tin swamps, the woodlands, and th mountains of the South that wouli have made it impossible that yoi should have won in the long run The history of the struggle in Sout! Africa, the history of Marion am Sumter in the Revolutionary strife will bear out the observation whic! I make, that with the cessation o the war iu 1865 the reason gnerrill warfare was never entered upo was because we believed you wer true and honest in what you sair that yon only wished to restore th Union unci to destroy slavery. But with the reconstruction p< riod which followed?I am not goiu to talk about it at length ; but whe I think of it bitterness surges nj it conies up in such a volume c animosity and recollection of fct degradation to which my peop! were subjected fi mi 1WH to 18< under the horde of enrpetbaggei and thieves and scoundrels an ignorant negroes that I hardly kno how to contain myself?but it sn flees for mo to say for the purposw 1 have in vidw right uowHhat afti we had sqon our>ox-sltvro)K-poo ignorant creatures?givoi^ihp ,bu \l??t?after we had seen fchoTdeatJc held under the Invyonef tind^vikh numerical majority, of 30,000'n groes inducted info tfh#,'<?jitjt>l i the stato of South CttroHtrei at there being today 235,000 more n groes in my state than there ai whites, and 300,000 mors negroes Mississippi than there are whites von declared that a man 21 years age, without regard to any oth qualification, was fit to vote, ai that, the right to vote carried wi H Tilt; rigu^ui k"vfru wiujc tu< were 111 the majority. Grant had sent a regiment of t companies of Union troops into 11 own county of Edgefied ; sent the to repress the "rebels" ; sent the to subject us to the government those negroes and their carpetb leaders. They were ordered preserve order, to preserve us fr< terrorizing the negroes, to kc them from being kept from t polls, and to let them vote. Th obeyed their orders as well as th I could, but the result of the election ' was that, with a numerical majority of 2,000 more negroes who were [ 21 years of age, and who, under the dispensation of my friend from Maryland (Mr. McComas), were entitled to vote, and ought to be , h1 lowed 1o vote now?with ten companies of troops and 10,000,000 more back here to go down there if it was thought thoy were needed to keep us down, how did they oome ont in the straggle against white manhood and white brains? We only l?eat them 3,900 votes. [Laugh* : ter ] But we could have beaten them 6,900, or 9,900, or 99,000 If it. had been necessary. Mr. McComas?If the senator will allow me, I am amazed at the 1 moderation?only 3.900 ! Mr. Tillman?Well, that was all we needed. We only wanted enough , to establish decent, honest govern uient and white supremacy, and we did it. Where is the man in this chamber, or out of it, who will say ' we did not do right? If there be one, let him hold np his hand and , dare get np here and say so. We had to preserve onr civilization, onr homes, oar lives, oar wives, onr children. Our everything was at , stake, and we asserted onr rights , I to live on the earth and to inhabit | the land we had won from the In1 dial*before the Revolution, and we had helped to win the Revolution r itself. You can not help it then and 5 you can not help it now. You say that the negroes in the South are fit to govern themselves and fit to govern us if they - have the majority, and yet you say . the Filipinos are absolutely unfit to . participate in government or have anything to do with it; they have got to be edncated, and by what? } By a military despotism such as you ? claim that Aguinaldo has establish3 ed and would have maintained if we had recognized the Filipino people and left, them to govern 5 themselves in their own way and s had kept out of the miserable mess r of Indulging in pseudo pliilan3 thropy, hypocrisy, infamy and everything that degrades and diegraces the American people. c But the point to which I wish to r direct your attention is, that w^ile t the institution of slavey?thank . T buy i it is. -utiw* ^ ^enslaved the whites more than thi f blacks, and I would not restore it s If I conld do eo simply to the ex I tent of signing my name?but wit-1 e the sentiment which prevailed al - through the North In regard to tkii 1 matter through the reading of Har n riet Beecher Stowe's novel of Unoli - Tom's Cabin and the oratory o e Wendell Phillips and other uboli e tionists, yon were all taught am i educated to believe that the institu u tijn of slavery was one which in i. volved a great deal o* cruelty am b fiendishness and crimes which ar d unspeakable. j, There is not a day that we do no h hear of some horrible crime bein >f committed by one of' these poo a wretches ; there is not a day tha n wo do not rea l of white people wh e become enraged and lose their sens I, of civilization and everything els< e and seizing him and doing him t death in a brutal and fiendish mai 5- ner without trial or anything elm g Why, even bleeding Kansas he n her story of rape und a negr >; burned for it. I have known ( >f two rajxes, followed by murderi le within the sight of the dome i le this Capitol since I have been hci re -?white girls, son*ewhere in tl rs suburbs of this city, robbed of thi id jewel which is the most preoioi w possession of a woman's life, ar f- then butchered to hide the crim as Throughout the South there is t EJr day an unnamed horror hungir r, over every household whose lovt .1- ones are left in isolation or sogregi >n tion on the various farms nr a j obliged to bo there. No fathi o- | leaves his home without the drei of ; that when he returns he may llr id: something horrible to meet him. e- You say wo are hypocrites b re oaune we protest against your jk in ioy in the Philippines. It is beoaui ? we reali/.e that the body politic of tho United Ht-atM already h er coursing in its veins -the \blood ad 9,000,000 black people, jtjad that th ] poison enough. We profit becau ey i we do not believe (as*souBidrn eo 1 federates we coiilft not bdlieve) th on | it is right to go int4>t ^country ? iiy | desolate it with flrd'ntm ^ur und >m a claim of sovereignty. I can s ire i some justification for the war of 1H61 to maintain the Union. I ? - - - ? ?... *1. '? ? . V* * /vma tt t t h (i t tr tl? nuiiuiiu iu am iiiuv ,? to did whut you thought you ought mi I do, and if you will grunt us that op did what wo thought we ought ho do to defend our homos, to res icy 1 invasion, to repel from our bordi iev I those who came there to take fr< IN DEATlifroGETHER. PAUL AND mALK FOKU TO BE BURIED jAmE PLOT. The Murdered n| Suicide to Rest Peecefullt^ v Rether. Mri. Ford i? Critical Conxion. New York, In death the estrangement whir* bad separated the families of Patmdecesier Ford, the author, and jncolm Webster Ford, the atbleteM to be forgotten as the brothers, 7n, the murdered, and Malcolm, B suicide, will be buried togethi I tw same plot Baturday. Death hovered afnight over tbe bed of the widowq bride, who is about to become a lother and her condition today f critical. The family formally fcnonnoed that Maloolm killed bis lother and himself in a fit of temjV&ry insanity. A feud over the esta > of bis father led to the tragedy^ Malcolm had been disinherited be use he devoted his life to athletic The shooting took place yeaterd ^ morning at the home of Paul. \ loolm entered the room of his brol er and asked assistance. Paul, v aried by his importunities, refusal. Then followed the tragedy. Paul was the author of "Janice uaridith" and other popular nove*! Malcolm's seven-rear-old son wJ be oared for by the family and tufaght that his father s act was the rkult of insanns the rights of freenit, that is all We are in the Unim. We are not dissatisfied with dr\ condition, although every day j|Be discrimI ination upon discrj^^Mon here, J continue to tre^^^^^^^wi^und.f II squeeze from qollar yoi - j cun get. We hllinei^Wl, Wnee tb *; close of the civ; Qr V, it pensloi ?' burdens and In rymdnt of th 8! pnbllo debt and very ?8t at least tw "1 billion dollars Sfiile, which ha 51 gone among yoi ()fl has been sper f i to beautify and .. "oaden ont an - to lay deep the flations of you * prosperity. s.s I But the senab ' from Massacht '* setts (Mr. Hoar) ying the senate [* from Maryland 1 McComas) on e matter of histor o which I reft with sorrow, u "f*'rtook to shoi that Columbia b [ led itself pruct P cally, or words t| *fhat effect; tlu 'r it was an uccideiU. I have only on kti witness present.?^As I said, I ma 0 bring others, it^now this. Aft* e Sherman's armyJLrossed the Savai nah river into fcajth Carolina froi '? the column therejnarched on eithc x" side for 15 or 20 ililes foraging pa 9- ties o? scouts, awl there was vei 18 little left, after the army had pas ? ed, except the w^ls and the chin neys. They dldj not burn thee 8; selves: That WtJi nobaccidental. " knoW-that tl^reJft^vHving in C 'e lumtfth thday k"c<lres people wl 16 saw unjbn soldAajy running fro ** house t)'h<$?g?, MJlflj'n'fe tpe tore ** and who * / uo 1(1 me no good to <0p, bnt B* will produce tMs?3M?-^ Witness. ?" have in my han/d the Memoirs '8 Gen. William TJ. Sherman, writfc | by himself, anj from puge 287 11' | volume 2 I read this : 1(1 'Many of the people thought th this fire was deliberately plunn u|: uud executed. This is not true. >9 ! was accidental, and. in my jud i ment, began with the cotton whl p" 1 General Hampton's men had 8 ; tire to on leaving the city (wheth | by bis orders jr not is not materia in ' which hre was partially subdu ; early in the cay by our men ; bi 9 j when night hame, the high wi ,s fanned it agriin into full blaze, cj 86! ried it againlst the frame hons n" | which c&nglJt like tinder, and so ,l|. spread beyond our control." n" I Now, the city of Columbia is vr J city of home's. It was at that tii a c ty of homes. In recent ye< I manufacturing Industries h? 11111 sprung up in the suburbs. But t ou ' citv us theai constituted bad w to j streets : flfhe houses hml yai wo around thtim from u quarter to j half acrofp lent; tome of th an aero : ftiid\no wind that CO' k~ MILES WOULDN'T GO. DECLINED INVITATION TO BE C1 SAMPSON'S PALLBEARER General of the Army Never Lets an T Opportunity Slip to Make a Fool of Himself or do Wrong Thing. Washington, May 9.?General Miles without giving reasons re- ? fused the invitation of tho com- R1 mittee having in charge the ar- *r rangements for the funeral of " Admiral Sampson today to act as e< one of the honorary pallbearers, 11 oontenting himself with ordering a the Fourth Battery from Fort P Meyer to perform escort duty and fire appropriate salutes over the grave. General Miles' action ** has aroused much comment and is c< ? A 1 _ ? Al ? h regaraea as me one regrmuiuiu feature of ceremonies that pay remarkable honor to the dead ^ admiral, especially as he was a a retired officer. " Grave and silent crowds snrronnd- n Wl the Church of the Covenant ^ today where the services was held. ^ Except on the occasion of President; ? McKinley's fnneral it was the > greatest turnout seen in Washing-! ton. The president and his cabinet C and committees composed of notable members of the house and senate and the supreme court and 0 diplomatic corps attended. ! o THE BAPTISTS IN SESSION, c b Southern Baptist Convention Meets in Asheville. v Asheville, N. C., May 9.?The Southern Baptist Convention met in ita 4jy^nnual convention at the r audi this morning ut 10 ^ o'clockJ^^Bi iueetingw^a opened . o is pv^deat of the convcnnon^^HEi b teen hundred delegates Were prese ent and the auditorium was crowdn ed with delegates and visitors, e The convention may adjourn next: o Tuesday, or it may remain longer , ? in session. A plan which has the! it nf nil tlio nfflnprj i? til 1 ru\ivi oniivtiv V* i?*? w? ^ d hold only two meetings each day, r morning and evening, thus giving the afternoon entirely to recreation, i- The convention sermon will be ?r preacned this evening in the undi? torium by Rev. F. C. MeConnell, D. t d., corresponding secrotury of the * home missions board of the coni vention. This will undoubtedly be it one of the greatest sermons ever >? delivered In Aslieville. * corrigan'^fuTTeral. 1 m An Extraordinary Pageant Did Hon?r or to the Dead Prelate. r* New Your, May 9.?The cere v . .. ,, ? , , ^ monies attending ine iunerai 01 a. Archbishop Corrigan began at 9 :30 a- this morning with a procession of * ecclesiastics the largest ever seen in this city. Cardinal Gibbons led the m slow, majestic pageant, followed h, by Archbishops Ryan, Ireland, Elder, Williams and Chappelle, the j consulting clergy of the diocese, Qf visiting biphops, a thousand priests >n and nearly 100,000 mourners. ?f BAfiBEE AND SMITH at WHOLLY EXONERATED ed Dallas, Texas, May 8.?Much o! the d.?y's session was taken up with jjjj an exhaustive report from the boofc ^{committee, in which the war clain: er j case took up the larger part of it '). Barbee & Smith, the book agents ^ were completely exonerated. nil King Victor Attacked. ir" Romk, May 9?Advices recelvoi on' from Turin today say that Ktnf ! Victor was attacked by a worknmi a ; while ont walking, but his assailan me was arrested cefore doing the kin| ?rs any harm. Northwest Oale Coming, ide ^ashinoton, May 9.?The weath r<js er bureau today hoisted a storr a warning for a northwest gale du e|T| tonight. Most people believe in the totn depravity of somebody else. ? ilOESTY ASKED FOR. OBAN LEADERS WANT PRISONERS RELEASED. hi President, However, in Line With His Frugal Use of the Pardon Power, is Not Favorable. Wa6It:x?ton, May 9.?President oosove't has been urged to grant etneral amnesty t-o all Amerimn* nprisoned In Cuba at the time tl?t> ^ idependent government is installI. Cubans who will be prominent 1 the government are anxions to void the heritage of Amerioait risoners, with which they are now tireatoned. It is said the president is not parcularly taken with the idea, beinse it does not harmonize wit!* is frugal use of the power of p*ron. It is considered doubtful rhether he will decide on amnesty mong the Cubans and it id not uprobabla that the Cuban congress lay adopt a resolution requesting lie president to take such action efore the government is turned ver. JO DECISION^ REACHEDlemson Trustees Consider the Sophomore Trouble. Clkmsox Colleok, May 9.?Speial: The trustees met iast night. )r. Thornwell presented an appeal n behalf of his son. The faculty ommittee at the request of the ioard read a statement giving facta ipon which the faculty's decision iras based. Dr. Brackett appeared and teatU led as to the circumstances of the eport against Cadet Thornwell. ?he entire evening was consumed n taking evidqpce and no decision of the week was the afternoon partygiven Wednesday by Miss Dot Dean ; in honor of a most attractive visij tor, Miss Minna MoLeod Beck of ! Atlanta. Miss Dean's guests west* iTAiinif lu^ inu \UOVA I V> cuujr J uuu^ luvit^u ?? ???' w entertained at an interesting game of "Old Maid." Several pretty souvenirs were presented by tho j hostess, the fortunate recipients being Misses Beck, Btringfeilow and ' Nora Wat kins. I Spartans in Charleston. News and Courier. 1 A prominent visitor here?and one gladly welcomed?is W. A. r o i. i? n?u:? i? n Mills. Messrs. Twitty and f'. nquio 0 will attend the Cotton h^.i .:;urs* mooting hero today. il! Life is full of cheoks, an 1 many 1 i of them are forgeries. | I i l_.ltW Ul 0|wrtnuuuiuna in rim county that captured the first prizo in the county competitions and Mr. Law is just the sort of man ono would expect from such a county, j Ho js presidout of the Central Na. tional Bunk and of the Spartanburg ! Savings Banks, both of which art* 1 dividend-paying institutions. Hits ! parents are from tho low-country, j but this young Carolinian, though of 'up-country'' nativity, known J only South Carolina in the broadest I and most patriotic sense of tho ! j words. Mr. Law is president of tho Bankers' Convention and is keenly alive to the best and most advanced needs of the day. George E. Ludshaw, a prominent . civil engineer residing at Kp.irtttn~ burg, is in the city, register *d at* 1 the St. .John Hotel. Mr. Lad haw ?; i- i..ia.. it.. ... / [ ! lias U w 11 lu ri-i>ui(t i mjii iiiu< i >,nwiiu J the country in this line. :(? in / I author of several valnablo worka ( I pertaining to the development of 1 ? | natural water powers in the South, , ' | and is a recognized anthorit ' anionic ! scientitio men interested in thia ! branch of the study. Weldon Twitty and (Gabriel < Rouqule of Hpartanburg are rngis1 tered at the Argyle Hotel. "?r a. I number of years these gen* Vman ^ have been prominently i<'-" stilled with the cotton man u facte ring industry of the Piedmont ( it At present both of them hold ro? miHi* ble positions with the Sn,:tan