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VOL. XLVI. WINNSBORO, S. ., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2o, 1890. NO. 45. ?.il' .Mimmi rnnwrnx i ^ Jii inn 11 Till-; PilODlG.vL SON. DR. TALMACE'S DISCOURSE AT THE TABERNACLE. He Take. Hik Text From the Pariblo, au<l Calls 1'pon Hi* Hearers \Vh<? Rare Wandered ii(i from the ('fcsirchto Uetitm. Dr. Ta'rnige's Sunday sermon ?vus 011 "'i Prodigal Son." andiiis iexr. Luk; 20: "When he whs yelu. g+VJLl Wiiv vil .LUS iUViitrx Oii\> ni;n, and bad compassion, and ran. and fell on iris neck, and kissed him/' Following is the sermon: One of the deepest wells that in- ! ' piration ever opened is the well of a parable which we can never exhaust. The parable, I suppose, was founded on facts. I have described to yout a .>?*ov aF 4-Vne tytv \rTi <f\ 1 crvr> 1 VA c j^Vas-l.i.?y U, " C* Jf \S\ CiiisJ j/-. V>.^0U,i. ,?v/.v*. J from his fathers house, and I have j .showed you what a hard time he j had down in the wilderness,/md what J a very great mistake it was for him ; to leave so beautiful a home for such I a miserable desert. But he did not always st;iy in the wilderness: he came back after a while, TYe do not read that his mother came to greet iiim. I suppose she was dead. The father would have giveH the sccond idss to .the returning prodigal; the mother the tirst .It may have been for the lack of her example and prayers j that he became a prodigal. Some- J rimes the father does not know kow I to manage the children of the househoi 1. The chief work comes upon : ^ the mother. Indeed, no one ever | gets over the. calamity of losing a j mother in early life. Still, this young j \ man was not ungrecied when he j \ came back. However well apparelled we may j \ be in the morning when we start out ; ! on a journey, before night, what; i with the dust and. the jostling, we ! ' have lost all cleanliness of appear hmcc, But this prodigal, when he ! ( stalled from the swine-trough, was !. ragged and wretched, and his ap- j; pea ranee, after he had gona through . day^ of journeying and exposure, you : can more cesily imagine than describe. ' \s the people sse this prodigal com ins on homeward, they wonder who he is. They say; "X wonder what ; prison he has broken out of. I won- ] ier what lazaretto he has escaped xroin." I wonder with what plague he ] will smite tiieauv' Aitnougn tnese people may have been well acquain- ' ted with ihe family, yet iiiey do not imagine that this is the very young , man who went off only a little while j ago with quick step and ruddy cheek . and beautiful appareL The young j man, I think,' walks very fast. He < looks as though he was intent upon | something very important. The peo- * pie stop. They look at him. They ; wonder where he came from. They wonder where lie is going to. j) You have heard ot a son who went off to sac, and never returned.,, . All , the people in the neighborhood' "J . thought the son would never return, : bat the parents eame to no such eon- j elusion. They would go by the hour, j and day, and sit upon the beech, looking off upon the water, expecting ! MA/v WA'll ^ ImiT* Ct * iru OCU Li-LU OcCjl-L vu.ojlr >? \j luxe. k/x J~ii the long-absent boy. And sol think ' this father of my text sat under the ) vine looking out toward the road on : which his son had departed: but the J father has changed very much since j we saw him last. His hair has be- j come white, his cheeks are farrowed, J his heart is broken. What is all his ; bountiful table to him when his son : may be lacking bread? What is all [ the splendor of the wardrobe of that s homestead when the sou may not } hate a decent coat? What are all : the sheep on the hillside to that fa- J ther when his pet lamb is gone? Still , he sits and watches, looking out on r the road and one day he beholds a foot-traveler. He sees . hiai rise { above the hill; lirst the head and af- ' ter awhile the entire body: and as s soon as he gets a fail* glance at him ( he knows lie is his recreant son. He * forgets the crutch, and the cane, and } the stiffness of the joints, and bounds away. I think the people all around * were amazed. They said: *'It is i only a footpad. It is only some old \ tramp of the road. Don't go out \ x i. " rri.? i ?4^ IHCC& 111 Hi. JL ?1C IcltJLXVX ivu.v>v ksx^ctor. { The change in the son's appeal-- ^ ance could not hide the marks by ( which the father knew the boy. You ] know that persons of a great deal of independence of character arc apt to ] .indicate it in their walk. For that , " reason the sailor almost always has J a peculiar step, not only because he 1 stands much on shipboard amid the r>f flip sr ;)? and he has to bal- ' pjice himself, but lie lias for tlie most ' part an independent character, which ' would show in his gait, even if he ! never wont on the sea: and we know ' from what transpired afterward, and from what transpired before. that this prodigal son was of an 1 independent and frank nature: and I 1 suppose that the characteristics of his mind and heart were the cliarac tcristics of, his walk. And so the father knew him. Ho puts out his withered arms toward him. he brings his wrinkle face against the pale check of his son: he kisses the wan lips: he thanks God that the long agony is over. "When he was yet a iwv off. his father saw him and ?J had compassion, and ran. and fell 011 his neck aid kissed him." Oh, do you not recognize that Father? "Who was it/ It is God! I have no sympathy vdth that cast iron theology which represents God as hard. severe and vindictive. Gcd is a Father?liipd. loving, lenient, gentle. longs uflering. patient and Ho ilies to our immortal rescue. Oh. fjvir. we miirht realize it. A wealthy 1 idy in one of the eastern countries j RBi was going off for some time, and sko I asked her daughters tor some me-1 B mento to carry with her. (hie of B her daughters brought a marble tab-! HBW let. beautifully inscribed: and anoth- j Ier daughter yrou^m. ii wreath of iiowers. The third daughtcr camc and s:iid: "Mother, I brought neither iiowers nor tablet, but here is my heart. I have inscribed ii ail over with vour name, and whoreever you go it will go with you." The mother recognized it as the best of ail mementoes. Oh. that our souls might go out toward our Father? I?_ " H-Vii <? **. over with the evidences of His loving kindness. and that we might never forsake him. In the first place, I notice in this ? " r i IflHIH I I MlWHIJ'llfMI 1 . J ; text, the fsthes eyesight; in the sec-! ! ond place I notice the father's haste: i end in the third place, I notice the i father's lass. : Ts begin: the fathers eyesight. ; "When he was a great way oil' his } father saw him." You have noticed J how old people sometimes put a booK i off on the other side of the light, j They can see ii at a distance a great j deal easier than they can jclose by. 11 do not knew whether this father ; could see well that which was near ! hv_ hi?r, T do know he could see a i great way off. "His father saw him." Perhaps lie had been looking for the return of that boy especially that day. I do not know but that ho had been in prayer, and that God had told him that that day the recreat boy would come home. "The father saw him a great way off".'1 I wonder if God's eyesight eau descry us when we are coming back to Kim? The text, pictures our condition?we are a great way off*. That young man was not farther oft' from his father's house, sin is not farther oli' from holiness, hell is not farther oli'from heaven, than we have been by our sins away off from God: aye, so far off that we could not hear Kis voice, though vehemently He hr,s called us year after year. I do not : know what habits you may have 1 formed, or m what, evil places you : have been, or what false notions you < may liave entertained; but you are ready to acknowledge, if your heart has not been changed by the grace of God, that you are a great way offaye. so far that you cannot get back of yourselves. You would like to r>rsmr> l^r>L- Avo. this moment vou i would start if it were not for this sin, j' and that habit, and this disadvantage. < But I am to tell you of the Father's i eyesight. "He saw him a great way ] off." He has seen all your fralties, . nil your struggles, all your disadvan- < tages. He has been longing for your 1 coming. He has not been looking at 1 you with a critic's eye or a bailiff s ] sye. but with a Father's eye: and if a 1 parent ever pitied a child. God pities ] you. You say: "Oh, I had so many evil surroundings when I started life." Sour Father sees it. You say: "I liave so many bad surroundings now, .ind it is very difficult for me to break sway from evil associations." Your ] Father sees it, and if you should start heavenward?as I pray you may i ?your Father would not sit idly , .town and allow you to straggle on j up toward. Him. Oh, no! Seeing : rou a great way off, He would fly to j ;he rescue. How long does it take a \ "ather to leap into the middle of a < lighwav if his child be there, and a ] swift vehicle is coming, and may destroy him? Five hundred times long>r than it takes our heavenly Father , ;o spring to the deliverance of a lost < jhild. '-Whenhe was a great way off ] lis Father saw him."* ( And this brings me to notice the i "atkerV haste. The Bible, .says he < an. No wonder! He did not know \ Dut that the young man would change ] lis mind and go back. He did not i oiow but that he would drop jfrom ] exhaustion. He did not know but i hat something fatal might overtake i iim before he got to the door-sill: r_ ;nd so the father ran. The Bible, for j he most mrf. sneaks of God as walk- i ug. "In the fourth waich of the ] iight.v it says, "Jesus came unto t ;!iem watching on the sea." "He j; vaiketh upon tljp wings of the wind." g Jur first parents heard the voicc of i :he Lord, walking in the garden in t ;hc cool of tho day; but when a sinner \ starts for God, the Father runs to f neet him. Oh! if a man ever wants i jelp, it is when he tries' to beeomc a ( 'Vh-n<if.inn Tho world savs to him: s 'Back with you. Have more spirit, f Don't bo hampered with religion. ( Time enough yet. Wait*until you t jet sick. Wait until you get old." 1 satan says: "Back with you: you are 1 ;o bad that God will have nothing to f lo with you:" or "You are good 1 mough and need no Redeemer. Take t ;hine ease, eat, drink and be merry."' j ren thousand voices say: "Back with c ,rou. God is a hard master. The 1 ;hurch is a collection of hypocrites. ] Back into your sins; back te your s T~i?jr?lr f r? vnnrnrftVPi- / / Vll k/uvu wv j v ?j ?_ ^ ess pillow. The silliest thing i,hat x i young man ever does is to come t lome after he has been wandering." s Dh. how much help a man does want t' ivhen he tries to become Christian! t [ndced, the prodigal cannot find his L way home to his father's house alone. " ' j. 4. UllieSS some Olie comes lu jusjuu iu.jui tie had better have stayed by the swine troughs. c I remark upon the father's kiss. < *Ke fell on his neck." my text says, "and kisied him.'" It is not every 1 father that would have done that way. t Some would have scolded him, and i ?-."J. i-,>n Ttrmifn-n^ wifli lip.n.1% ] tM All- JLjL^XVj J VU MViiw.4 ?? .v*- 4 tiful clothes, but now you xarc all in 3 tatters. Yqu went oil healthy, and 1 come back sick and wasted with your clissipaJ ms." He did not say that, i The sou, all haggard, and ragged, and filthy, and wretched, stood before ' his father.The father charged him with none of his wanderings, lie just re- < ceived him. He just kissed him. His wretchedness was recommendation to ! that father's love. Oh, that father's kiss! How shall I describe the love of God.'?the ardor with which lie receives a sinner back again? Give me a plummet with which I may fathom this sea. Give me a ladder with which I can scale this height. Give me words with which I can describe tiiis love. The apostle says m one place, "unsearchable:" in another, "past finding out." Height overtopping all height: depth plunging beneath all depth: breadth compassing all immensely. Oh, this love! God so loved the world. He loves you. Don't you believe it? Has lie not done everything - ' xi.-.,! > Uvl.,,.. tiung to hi:iko you umuv x . JULV | ; given you life. health, friends, home ?the use of your hand, the sight of your eye. tlie hearing of your car. He has strewn your path with mercies. He has fed -you. clothed you sheltered you. defended you,-loved you. importuned you all your life j long. Don't you believe Ho loves you' I "Why, if now you .should start up from - * T r 1 i the wilderness of your sm, ne womu throw both arms around you. To make you believe He loves you, He stooped to manger, and cross, and . sepulchre. AVith all that the passions of His holy nature roused. He stands before you today, and would! coax you to happiness and heaven. Oh, this Father's lussl There is so gg7-?. tt?aftlflM'.t ?V.K lit 1?IBI ?rwi?I 11 ILL^J. -g iiiucli meaning, and Jove, and compassion in it: so much pardon in it: so much heaven b. it. I proclaim him the Lord God, merciful, gracious and long suffering, abundant in goodness and truth. Lest you would not believe him. he goes up Golgotha, and ' > .I*? ?i *i,,. wnue me rocKs arc remuufj, mm mc graves arc opening, and tlac mobs arc howling, and the sun is hiding, he dies for you- See him on the mount of crucifixion, the sweat on his brow tinged with the blood exuding from his lacerated temples! See his eyes swimming in death! Hc.u iV? loud breathing of the sufferer as iiu with a world on his heart! Hark i j the fall of the blood from brow and hand and foot, on the rocks beneath ?drop! drop! drop! Look at the nails! How wide the wounds are! "Wider "? n - 1 3? Art.VWlrt , tio nicy gape u.s ills uuu.y cuiiiua u^\. u upon them. Ob! this crucifixion agony! Tears melting into tears! Blood flowing into blcod! Darkness dropping on darkness! Hands of men joined with hands of devils to tear apart the quivering heart of the Son of God! Oh! W;Ii He newr speak again? Will crimson face never lisrht up again? He, will speak again; while the blood is suffusing His brow, and reddening his elieeK. and gathering on nostril and lip, and you think lie is exhausted and cannot speak. He cries out until all the ages hear Him: "Father forgive them, they know not what they do!" Is there no emphasis in such a scene as that to make your dry eyes weep, and your hard heart break? Will vou turn your back upon it, and say by your actions what thp Jews said by their words: \Kis blood bo on us, and on our childrenr What docs it all mean, my brother, my sister? Why it means that for our lost race there was a Father's kiss. Love brought Him Town. Love opened the gate. Love ied to the sacrifice. Love shattered the grave. Love lifted him up in resurrection. Sovereign love! Omnipotent Invc! Infinite love! Bleedrnir love! Everlasting love! "Oh, for tills love lot rocks and hil!_ Their lasting silence break; Anrl all Harmonious human tousjues The Savior's praises speak-." > Novr, \nli you accept tliat Father's j iiss? The Holy Snirit comes to you I U JILL JJLlb cvlcix 11x111^ inviting, vivifying influence. Hearer, ivlmt creates in thee that unrest?. It is the Holy Ghost. What influence now tells thee that it is time to fly,, that tomorrow may be too late: that ' :hcre is one door, one road, one cross, .me sacriiice. one Jesus? It is the Holy Ghost. My most urgent word is to those ' tvho, like the young man of my text, ; ire a great way off, and they will : start for home, and they will get ; ionic. They will yet preach the Gospel and on communion days carry iround the consecrated bread, acceptable to everybody, because of : iheu-lioly nre.iinu tiieir consccratcd ; behavior- The Lord is going to save rou. Your home has got to be re- : roilt. Your physical health has got :o bo restored. Your worldly busiless has got to . be reconstructed. ] rhe Church of God is going to re- : oice over yourdisciplcshlp. You are lot Gospel hardened. You have not ' leard or read many sermons during 1 he last few years. Xou do not weep, >ut tlie shower is not far off. You : ligh, and you have noticed that there ] s alwaj-s a sigh in the wind before J he rain falls. There are those who 1 vould give anything if they could I ind relief in tears. They say: ";Oh, ay wasted life! Oh, the bitier past! )h, the graves over which I have 1 L TlTL.-il T AT < iCUili UIL'U: > > ill uutu snajjL x . iuiis or tlie future! Everything is dark. ' Jod help mc! God pity inc! Thank he Lord for that last utterance. You { lave begun to pray, and when a man ] )egins to petition, that sets all heaven iying this way, and God steps in and ' >eats back the hounds of temptation < o their kennel, and around about the ! >oor, wounded soul puts the cover >f His pardoning mercy. Hark! I { lear something iall. Vvhat was that? 1 !t is the bars of the fence around the 1 heep-fold. The shepherd lets them 1 lown, and the hunted sheep of the < uountain ^bounds in; some of them { heir fleece torn with the brambles, ;nnif! of them their feet lame with the < logs; but bounding in. Thank God! ! Saved for time, and saved for ctcr- 1 rity. _ i A Georgian's View ol' It. A writer in the Augusta Chronicle. :ommenting upon the course of the ' :ampaign iii South Carolina, says: I have moved around among the ' III IK I JLitfcVVs CtillVUV.!. nuviii* ;liink I know tlieir sentiments, and rom what I have heard I make the jrcdiction that the following gentle- ; noil will l>e nominated on the State ickot: Governor?John Brat ion, of Fairkid.' Lieutenant Governor?Jos. H. Earle. of Sumter. Secretary of State?J. Q. Marshall. 3f Columbia. n 2.?n ? f\ ?l 171,1 nf L'JiUptrUiH-'l VJt'JUVIiU jlai.j^iVV.\SX4* \sx Spartanburg. Superin ten dent of Education? John L. "Weber, of Charleston. Adjutant and Inspector General? II. L. Bonliam, of Abbeville. For Attorney General and Treasurer there seems to be no conccn' 1 - rni. _ j.1 tlXllCU OpilllOI). JLJU; ;^cjullia;uu.v;ju named above certainly have the inside? track just now. That ticket, with a judicious compromise, gives substantial^' a new deal, which is really what the people want The sentiment is strongly in favor of a new deal and young men in office. Population of the United States. Estimates of tlie population which this census will show for the United States are various, about the lowest being 00,000,000 and the highest G7.000,000. The general opinion is that tiie population of the country is now about G5.000.000. In 1SS0 ii was 50,- i * ?<20 Vn munvn- in ?0'J* i vy V/WiVi world has made such an increase in population since 1880, but the advance of the United States in manu i ?i -N/U i? o+;n iacuu*es oiiu wtium um ?jwju more remarkable than in population. This is especially true- of the South. ?John C. Brian, agent of a wealth 71 English syndicate, is in Lynchburg, Ya.. trying to buy all the largest to- J baeco factories there. ; f 4 ^ ;J\ : HITLER'S REJOINDER. A STATEMENT FROM 1THE COMMISSIONER OF ACRICULTUREx (lis Answer !o the Charsres Made B.v Caj> tain Til!ii?:tn in Some of his Keccut ^Speeches. Coi. A. P. B title , Commissioner oi' Agriculture, lias sent to tlic daily papers of the State a rejoinder to the statement made by Capt. B. R. Tillman, touching the Department, at Greenville and other places, during - V cu.i. I i.:J" OUli,C eilll\;?>s> juw.v hi | Cux. "Butlor renounces "simply j false" Capt. Tillman's statement that "tlu1 Bureau has made no honest effort to protect the fannerf against being swindled by buying guano below the guarantee/' and that "it has not enforced its own regulations." "Capt. Tillman's third statement that- altogether the law is known to be defective and the punishment inadequate. no attempt has been made qy the Board or Commissioners to linve it amended, except that the matter was mentioned in one of the Dcrpnnvts several years aero. lie likewise knows to be untrue, but being more specific can be met in a more positive maimer. At my request several bills were introduced in .tlie Legislature at different times. Two of these may be cited: One by Col. E. il Mclver at tlie session of 1SS5, : which passed the House and failed in the Senate, (see House Journal, ' - - * 1? ?* 1 r.i? 1TK OO. session p:i{jes> ?-u? *j?ju and 340,) and another at the session ' of 1887, introduced by Senator Ycumans, bur failed in the Senat-." Col. Biitk-r then declares that he and the Department have mado'evcry effort to piuiishthe sale of fraudulent fertilizers, and that he, knowing the ; defects in the law, after consultation ' with Attorney General Miles, brought the matter to the attention of the : Legislature? that in 1SS6 (ihe year citcd by Capt. Tillman) there, were l-mf fliT.oo ,1 brands out of *1 over 200 analyzed. He says that in 1 1SS2 the makers of the Cuban Bird J guano lost between$20,000 .and 830, 000 because the Department's analyses showed that article to have been ' below standard and below guaranty. He cites the case of Mr. C. M. Coving- ] ton cf Florence, who accepted one- < fourth of the price of fertilizers exam- J ined by the Department and found 1 deficient He says that the analyses < have had ample circulation by publication in the reports and bulletins \ " AV\/-1 loA /loil V 1 L>? OH<J 1/^pm tUlCJit ivXJLH. ux ujlxv^ Kicoxj-j and weekly News and Courier. As '< to Mr. Cannon's statement. Col. But- * ler says the deficient fertilizer was 1 never called to his attention, nor has 1 the sampler any recollection of it. ] ;\But Mr. Connor fully and amply 1 justifies- the Department and the 1 Legislature in another way. He says: i 'No notice, however, was taken of the . ] sam o hv f,ho Department, and Mr. j < Bopes sent the guano away, as lie ^ was completely baycotted and could J tiot continue business. Why was J Mr. Copes boycotted? Simply, as '< Mr. Connor writes Capt. Tillman, be- J uausc tlie Department italicized the < deficient guano. Was it no punish- 1 Qient to Mr. Cojpes to be boycotted md have his business ruined? Was ] it no injury to the manufacturers to 1 liave their goods returned to them? i Capt. Tillman says that 'not one far- * tner in fifty' sees those publications. < fs Mr. Connor a farmer? If not. why 1 was Mi-. Copes boycotted? We knew i that the operation acd the result of our method of italicizing deficient < brands was as Mr. Connor stated, but 1 sve had no hope of proving it so Nearly by Capt. Tillman- or liis wit- < aesses." . Col. Butler calls attention to the fact that Mr. Connor was a member ? :>f the Legislature, and yet took no j steps to improve the law. The case of Mr. S. W. Gardner, ] Dol. Butler declares, does not fall ivithin the law touching analyses of } fertilizers. That was a case of "short * weight,"' not of .deficiency. "This charge is on a par with another made 1 'i - i some time since 111 tne presence ui Mi*. J. E. Tindal and Mr. W. A. Antrum. Captain Tillman then charged similar failure to discharge my duty because he had bought cotton seed meal adulterated with rosin and his neighbor had purchased cotton seed meal adulterated with hulls. At the time the charge was made Captain rillinan knew tjiat both lots had been purchased in Georgia, and "Vet :c endeavored to injure the Department by a charge that he knew to be " ' "I 'L utterly unjust ana untrue: k\So much for the certificates. It ( should be noticed, however, that ^ these are dated May 31st, June 3d < and Juno 8th,'respectively. All since < Capt. Tillman made-his j charges at < Anderson. Therefore his charges ^ at Anderson were not based on these 1 certificates, and he has failed beyond ^ dispute to prove that he had any e ?idenco of ni?y land upon which to base liis original charge of the time .. . f-rn 3 he made it. xms expiams, aisu, , why my letter has iiot been answered . before.1' After au allusion to # Captain .Till- ! man's efforts to reorganize the Doarcl ; of Agriculture,?Col. Butler says: "Let us follow Captain Tillman to ' his second attempt at specific charges ana answer them in order. ""Why did-not the Attorney General conduct the phosphate litigation; The laws did not, at the time 4-liio lWirro+i/vn tv-o.c hpfllll. TOake it CJ J.JLO 11 1/i^UibiVia T ? ^ the clatv of the Attorney General i<"> do this work for the Department of Agriculture. The work was important, and tire Board employed lawyers, and subsequently made the parties sued pay them. Was any in justice (.tone tlic fttatem mat matter; If .so, where and how? But after the litigation had been commenced the Attorney General was made the adviser of the Department, exccpt in this litigation, and that was specially exempted from the amendments to the law." As to Cape. Tillman's charge about the disbursement of the moneys recovered in the phosphate suits, and j "Hie insinuation that somebody got $7,090 who was not entitled to it" Col. Butler gives ilie following statement furnished by lion.'A. T. Srnyfhe. leading counsel: Amount received in settlement of Pacific case... 8yl.240.33 f Amount received tor disbursements on account Pacific case 1,114.11 Amount received inPinclrney ease 70S.6G Total $53,072.10 * (!r?rmsr>l frpq onuc S 9.0C0.00 Counsel fees in Davis ancl Pmcknev etise 500.00 Sundry cash expenses... 13.05 Tanied over to State Treasury for State purposes 31,396.79 Turned over to State Treasurer for Department.. 12,102.25 Total as above $53,072.10 "If Captain Tillman can distort those figures acairs. so as to show $7.000 or one cent short, lie is welcome 1 *> to cto so. -This phosphate litigation has ex cited so much interest and comment that I may be pardoned for saying that when it was begun it was ex- ; cecdi^gly doubtful if the State could ever recover anything. The conclusion of the case was the recovery of property valued at about ?100,000 < and cash turned into the Treasury : 831,306.79 without the expenditure ' of one c<*nt of tlie people s money, : for every dollar expended in prose- 1 eating the case was recovered and : paid back into the Treasury, and a ' part of it in now being used to build ; and equip tlic Clcmson College.'" : As to the total cost of the Expert- i merit Stations, $9,9SG, Col. Butler 1 makes no comment, because, as he i says, Capt. Tillman made *none. So ' with the Hatch fund of $15,000. i As to discrepancies between the ] Comptroller and the Department, Col. < Butler thinks they may arise from ] Ike ''lapping" of one fiscal year on < ,t n rt W/l AIVN rt 11 /> Afl 1 .AJLLUULLUl* UJLIU -ILL > ^OU-L^cL- J lion. Col. Butler says that Capt Tillman's < insinuation that prior to 18S7 no vouch- 1 ers were shown is 'malicious and base.' < He says that the proper vouchers are i ill on file, ready for public inspec- : tion. ' ] Col. Butler next refers to the fact r Lhat a committee of the Farmers' 1 Convention and one of the '-Economic ] Caucus'' examined the work of the i Department and commende d it. i Col. Ijutler's letter concludes as follows: ' I OhVw >-1 /-io-i>1 tt -fii-nava T Viov/a cnli_ t A" VX -L1.VJ wVA JL J" UV& V V.C4J. *2 Jim JLJ.LV T ^ KJW.V ?, nittedto this sort ofthing,and when- t. 3ver I have had to appear in print I 1 lave endeavored to say nothing that i tvould olfend the most sensitive read- t 3r. t "I have conceived it to be my duty ^ ;o act courteously even when deal- t ing with a blackguard, but forbear- t ince has almost ceased to be a virtue, ? md it is a question whether I can c .onger submit to abuse without re- i ;aliation.. This man Tillman has r posed before the people for all this i ;ime as a reformer. Let usr-see if his professions are to be trusted. It is ( generally believed that at the timepie 1 professed to bo a supporter of Got- f t jmor Slieppard's he was endeavoring c :o get Capt. W. C. Coker, of Darington, to offer fer the same place, t [f this is not true, let Capt. Coker c md Mr. Shepaprd say so. It has i jeen stated, and Tillman has never t lenied it, that lie wrote Capt. Coker, s vho of course did not encourage such s ireachery, a letter promising his sup- t port-if lie would enter the race. He s was instructed by his county conven;ion to support Sheppard. yet in the 1 State convention he endeavored to c 2ause a breaJ" to Coker, which, if it c lad succeeded, would have defeated c ;lic man he was pledged to support, t Would such a man do to trust in offi- ? :ial position? He would betray his brother if it profited liim to do so. t "Again, I ask Dr. Sampson Pope j of Newberry, one of Capt. Tillman's t strongest supporters, if he did not i iave good reason to cxpect all the 1 support Captain .Tinman could give < lim in his race for Speaker^; of the ( Eouse, and if after that he received ( it? No more honorable man than Dr. Pope walks this earth, and while s ?~ -.11 v , .ve cUtrerwiaeiy 111 some matters, x i iave 110 doubt of liis perfect integri- t ;y,and therefore appeal to liim to say whether or not Captain Tillman be- ] ;rayed him. ' * j i'When Tillman first began his ca- i ;eer as 3, public critic, I attributed j nany of his erroneous statements to < gnorancc. But he is an intelligent, i nan?not a fool; and I have reluc- ( Al-, A AAVl/illlftlAri 4-l-? O 4- , jUillLiy tut; UUJLiUXUQivAU. i/jlu*w xxv, j s determined to accomplish his pur- i ooses, if possible, by any means with- \ u liis power, and that he believes 1 ;hat '?\ lie well stuck to is as good as { :he. truth.' His recent statements i 2an be explained in no other way. < ^Captain Tillman, knowing that he 3 cannot justify himself, lacks the man- i iness to make a direct charge of official dishonesty against me, but cov- < irtly stabs with the poisoned dagger ] )f innuendo. I can. therefore, meet sis insidious and unwarranted at- i ;acks upon my character only through 1 the public prints." ^ i "'Georgia's Alliance Candidates. Atlanta, Juno 11).?The campaign ' in Georgia has taken a sensational Cum in tne lormai amiouiiuemuuu w the candidacy for Governor of Thomas Hardeman of Macon. Hardeman is one of tiie famous war horses of Georgia Democracy. This compli? J ?~ i-i. *vmi in ot o^"0 CatCS lliULi'tirs \ciy xiiuvyix, juou t?v i. time when the friends of W.J. Northen were confident that he would have a walk over. The outlook now is that Georgia will have an alliance ancl anti-alliance campaign lite that in Alabama. Hardeman has not only the anti-Northen and alliance forces at his bhek. but he proposes to go into his opponent's stronghold. For ypars he lias posed as a friend of the farmers and several times has been president of the State Agricultural Society. Ke. too, is an alliance man. though of recent growth. He has always stood as 0112 of the strong Democratic leaders. His chances are considerc .! excellent. ?The Louisiana Legislature has; received from an English syndicate a bid of ?1,125,000 a year for the lottery privilege for which the Louisirmn. Lntterv Conroanyhas offered SI, 000,000. " * ?The Presbyterians of Laurens liave determined to erect a new church building at a cost of about twelve thousand dollars. 3lore than ,11011' of the money has been sub1 scribed. TO STEAL THE SOUTH. THE ELECTION LAW ACCEPTED BY THE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS. One Southern Jlemlwr Objects?Warning; of the Trouble that is Coming?T ms of the Bill as Arranged?Defeat of t o IVIcComas Bill. The Republican caucus has, by a unanimous vote, adopted the Ledge national election bill prepared by its committee. The principal features of the measure are as follows: The chief supervisors of elections in judicial districts are charged with the execution of the law which is to apply to Federal elections in cities of 20,000 inhabitants or upwards and the entire Congressional districts exclusive of such cities upon application to the supervisor of 100 voters or in counties or parishes forming part of the Congressional district upon application from fifty votes. Supervisors are to guard, scrutinize and supervise registration and every act and incident connected with remstratioii and the nlans for ascer-1 Earning who are legal voters. Upon notice from the chief of supervisors, the United States Circuit courts are required to meet for the purpose of transacting registration and election matters. The supervisors arc to be appointed by the Circuit Court? three in each clcction district or voting prc-cinct, but two of whom are to be of the same political party. The supervisors are to attend all registrations in their districts, challenge persons, personally inspect and copy original registration books and papers , attend elections ?nd detect and jxpose improper or wrongiui manipulation of the lists. In case of failure of local election officers to put the statutory oath to the challenged voter, and to pass at >nce upon his qualifications, then ;he supervisors are to apply the test md receive and deposit the vote, iiaking a list of all such challenges. Chey are also to personally inspect billot boxes before elections, keeping jaliot lists and enclose the rejected rotes (endorsed with name of voter) n envelopes. In addition to these duties the supervisors are required to make in ;owns of 20,000 people and upwards i thorough house to house canvass before the election, to inform voters lrwn fnmiirv wIiptp and in what box I ;o deposit their ballots, and to scrutinize naturalizations. In canvassing rotes State laws are to govern except hat all ballots are to be counted by ;ens, first by an inspector of election, md second by a supervisor, local Section officers and supervisors keeping separate tally sheets, which ire to be compared and the result )ublicly finnounced. Ballots deposited in the wrong box ire to be counted, Returns are to ye made by supervisors irr duplicate -o clerks of the United States Cir:uits courts and to the chief super. isor, who is to tabulate and refer liem to t he United States board of :anvassers of the congressional comnittee, which is to be appointed by he United States Circuit court con;isting of.ihrce citizens of the State rnd persons of good repute, not more han two of whom are to be of the ;ame polietical party. The beard is to convene on Nov. .5 of each election year, and is to :ertify and declare the result of the ilection and send one return to ttoa ;lerk of tlie House of Represents .ives, one to the governor of the state, one to the proper chief superisor, and is to place upon the roll of he membcs-elect the names of the persons declared elected by the Union State canvassers in case there s a difference in the result reached )y them nnd by the State election )f?cers. A penalty of between ?1,)00 and ?3,000 is provided in case a, :lerk neglects this duty. All ballot boxes are tobe clearly in .cribed -vvitli their nature, and tne doxgs are teHoc kept in plain sight md open to inspection. H. G. Ewart, Republican, from STorth. Cclrolina, made an earnest speech against the measure. He ;oook the ground that it would be fruitless in the South, except to proluce disturbances. He urged that h sections where the vote is close, iach party can enforce a free vote md a fail- count, while in districts vhere negroes largely predominate ;he measure would only cause trouble and so the Republican, cause actual harm. He thought the troubles n the South could best be settled by ordinary methods?by educating the nasses and by awaiting the inevitable division of the white people. There was every disposition to se sure speedy action upon tlie bill in :he House. Having disposed of the subject, the caucus next turned its attention Lo the McCoinas anti-gerrymandermg bill. This was discussed at some length. Before the vote was taken many members had left the hall, so that the result, which was a defeat of the bill by a vote of 22 to 26. was unsatisfactory to its friends, who held that it could not fairly be regarded as an indication of the feeling of the party, ancl they will probably make another effort to have a consideration of the bill at a subsequent caucus. Colored Ku-Klux. Colly Hawkins, a colored woman of Sumter count}', was ku-kluxed not long since for deeds that Dolly should not do. it is presumed. Dolly in her wratli for the beating she got swore out warrants against some of the best colored men in this section as the parlies who whipped her. Now it seems that Dolly has repented for her hasty action, for now she is wanted as prosecutor, and diligent search on the part of the sheriff can't locate her.?Sumter Watchman. The Alliance in Politics. St Paul. 3Iixx.. June 19.?By- a unanimous vote of the executive committee it was decided to iioia a Stats Convention of tlic Fanners' Alliance- for the nomination of a State ticket at St. Paul on July 16. The Alliancc is strong in the State, and this makes the result of the coming ! election a decided uncertainty. The | Alliance will be in the Congressional fights. THE CAMPAIGN. I PROCRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CANVASS. Proceedings of the Different Meetings,Condensed From the Greenville Daily Xeirs. The meeting at Abbeville on the 17th inst. was attended by between 1,000 and 1.200 people. Good order and good humor prevailed. Speeches ! were made by Capt. Tillman, Gen. Bratton and Col. Earle. No new points were developed- Captain Tillman stated that while opposed to the Citadel he would not if elected Governor, recommend the closing of that institution. General Pope, Colonel Gary. Colonel Farley and General Bonharn also spoke. Anderson. An audience numbering between 2,000 and 2,500 people assembled t? hear the speakers. Capt. Tillman's mends were m me masonry. J.ney were very enthusiastic?some of them lifting him from the train to the carriage, others drawing the carriage in which he rode from the |hotel to the ^speaking ground. The candidates for Governor went over pretty much the same ground covered in their remarks at previous meetings. "About the close of the speech Tillvnon cairl lib VlOvl QHTDA thing to say which would doubtless surprise them. When he spoke here before he had said certain things in roferrence to the situation of CoL John J. Dargan. It had been said in the heat of debate and he considered it his duty to retract it He desired to withdraw his charges and apologize to the people who heard him and to Colonel Dargan. He spoke of Mr. Latimer's letter to Colonel Dargan and said that gentleman had I withdrawn what he had said, and as Colonel Dargan was present he hoped the people would hear him and let him. explain his position. "Colonel Dargan was not on the stand and said nothing during the meeting. 'Colonel Gary spoke half an hour. He defended Capt. Tillman and expressed the fear that somebody would assassinate him. He spoke. of railroads and banks not paying the proper amount of taxes, criticisedThe News and Courier and the Twenty-One Conference and closed ?- 1 A- XI? s wiun an appeal to one ijumsia uv | watch close or they would lose their rights. <;E. G. Gray don followed. He explained several matters concerning the Twenty-One Conference. He appealed to Colonel Tindal to substantiate what he said in reference to the cutting down of appropriations by the Committee of Ways and Means. There was no need to discuss reapportionment and other dead issues, he said. He defended the Agricultural Department and State Government, making a very able speech, and receiving a^very quiets respectful hearing. "General Pope spoke humorously fnr twoflfir mrnnfes. The eTeater part of his speech was directed at The News and Courier and its editor. He eulogized Captain Dawson and ridiculed the present editor. He said General Earle's explanation of why he would not accept the nomination for Governor in 1888 was satisfactory. "Captain J. E. Tindal made a speech announcing himself as a candidate for V^Vi. V J VA IVVMW "Dr. Orr announced that General Bonham was a candidate for re-election and Colonel Hugh Farley made the announcement for himself. Dr. Orr also read a letter from Edmund Bacon, announcing his candidacy for Comptroller General." A>" EPISODE. "In the course of his speech Col. Earle referred to the Gos.sett episode at the Anderson meeting. Captain Tillman told young Gossett, when he was manly enough to disagree with ULLLLIj y<JLL aic Ujqvi vmv MW* you will die so.; Then some one had said, He's a Radical.' "Before Colonel Earle had closed his lips after this statement, Mr. Josh Ashley, who up to that time had seemingly taken little interest in the meeting, arose and said he had said what he did on that occasion in a "joking way." Colonel Earle replied that he should never have .said so even in jest "Here Colonel Earle opened a paper whicli he held in his hand and proceeded to ask the question of Ashley if he had not said, in the presence of several gentlemen, that if Tillman was not elected he would go over to the Radicals and he would carry two hundred votes at Honea Path with him. Mr. Ashley arose and with the utmost emphasis characterized the statement as a He. Suddenly he was surrounded by a mob, and it was said that pistols and knives were ready to resist any efforts to sup press him. -."Colonel Earle.jofter waiting, advised the crowd to Tlet Mr. Ashley make a statement. This, at first, he seemed determined to do and came up on the stand. bu?he seemed to be [ persuaded by his friends to say nothing. and Dr.Orr made a statement to that effect to the crowd. ' During the clamor Captain Tillman advanced to the front of the stand and said he was almost tempted to go home if the people could not treat each other respectably ana appealed to them for their decency and self respect to keep better order. Oconec. The mass meeting for Oconee was held at Walhalla on Thursday the 19th hist. General Bratton was the first speaker. His speech was brief and embodied those points with which he has endeavored to impress on his hearers since the beginning of the cam? -? Vne pq_ jJIUUJii. Hi; ciX JU*, V?. ills' (VWCVU.VMW pecially of the danger of sacrificing Democratic principles to political methods. Captain Tillman was the next speaker. He reviewed briefly the platform for the March Convention and stated his position upon the matter. He brought up the reapportionment matter.but omitted the charges -f +Vin Sfofrj Ronofnrs IUi ptMJUJ.,y UilV/ wtuivv He urged more especially reduction of expenditures for the State Univerr , - I i sity and compared tlie figures for it i before the war and now. He thought the institution might be kept up at less expense. He spoke of the salaries of certain State officials which had been increased since the incom: i-1- - J. -3 I* uxg ui me present aaimmstranoiL He alluded to the steady increase of expenditure for funiture and repairs for the executive mansion and asked why it was so. There must have been extravagance and if he got there it would be goo I enough for him as it is. Closing his remarks CapL Tillman said the party was undivided ftnd wrmld Tamai-n cr> A farmer fr\* Governor would do no harm and would lessen the few burdens that could be lessened. If the. medicine of reform he has given was too strong then the people would not take it. A voice cried"WeTL take the whole dose." When Capt Tillman finished he was presented with two bouquets and a number of peaches. He r^ marked, if Colonel Earle would not take the flowers he knew he would not refuse the peaehes;and they were generously divided among the gentlemen on the stand. Col- Earle followed Capt. Tillman He touched upon the division, of the. party and the appeal to class pre judice. The road to nonor, he said, .was open to any man whose character was pure and unspotted. He did not see the necessity for the March Convention. He spoke of Capt. Tillman's repeated denunciations of the Senators who voted against reapportionment and named Biemann and Izlar as men, whose character heretofore unsmirched, had been assailed without reason. He called to * Capi Tillman to answer on the tari ?? on/1 ttt'syn-n vko i:? ojj-lvj. ?v tuat xxc?vi. octr ted his position said it Capt Tillman .vent to the United States Senate he would vote with the Northern manufacturer and monopolists. During the course of CoL Earle's speech he said he had offered Capt \ Tillman to join him in employing ?' two accountants to examine into the affairs of the agricultural department Capt. Tillman had declined. He then offered to pay both and he " had declined that. Capt Tillman rose and said he did not charge the bureau with dishonesty. He only charged extravagance in management The meeting' was continued for snmp Hm#> find ^.fi-ss.rs. Or vV don, Pope, i?oniiain, Farley and Mayfield all made short speeches. The Yfalhalla meeting was decided Iv the most orderly and deferential of any of the campaign. The little demonstration that was made was of the most orderly kind an I all were impressed with the general aspect of the meeting. About a thousand people attended. Pickens. The meeting at Pickens was held on Friday last. ^ Greneial Bratton was the first speaker. He thought the danger of the time was a class party in tne Demorcratic party. He thought the greatest danger was the arraying of the class against class. "I beg to assure you, fellow citizens," he said, "and you, sir," to Tillman, '"that if there is any bitterness in this cam- . paign it aid not emanate from me/' He said he had no personal appeal to make to them but desired to impress them with the danger of arraying class against class. He advoeate?xongly the primary plan of nomina^Kr th e Governor. General Bratton^B^ck was about the same as heretoforl^y^ ?-- : when he closed a slight cheer^J^p^ <r?T7on Vnm Captain Tillman came next and was announced amid broken applause. He said he did not want to appeal to their prejudice but their good sense: Never before in the history of South Carolina had the people had the right to make their choice for State officers, said Captain Tillman. We had had nothing but aristocratic government, he said. The people, had been held down by an oligarchy and political ringsters. (Cheers.) He said, "All you had to do heretofore was to join the ring at Columbia and the offices would be handed down by inheres. _ tance." . (Cheers.) If the farmers took the government and made a failure they would not be any worse off than they had been. Eis whole discourse was a general tirade upon the ''ring" and the State government. General Eaiie, to the regret of his many friends, was not here. Nevertheless some kind friend remembered him with a beautiful bouquet of flow- . ers which was sent to the Mountain View House at Easley for him. General Earle doubtless would have gained many friends here had he come. rinirtnnl Pnrv> r-.pvf, srvnVe. He said > V/VJLVMVA the State government had been run since 1876 by rings and cliques. He was not afraid of dissension in the party. He discussed at length the March Convention and said it was not arraying class against class. He abused and ridiculed the TwentyOne Conference. The result of the Thirty-live Conference, he said, waspetitions to men?General Bratton,. Earle and others, to run for Governor. He said the farmers's candidate dis- ? cussed a'platform of principles, but he wanted the people to see if the opposition had any platform. He discussed the Agricultural College, Governor Richardson and the Clemson College bill, and charged that the Agricultural department was opposed to the Clemson College. He scored several points against the members of i the Legislature who voted against re-apportionment. General Bonham next took tb? stand aud discussed in a calm and dispassionate yet forcible way the issues of the day and the charges against the officials. He first took up the Shell manifesto and dissected it. He showed there was no extrava gance in the State government, general Bonham's speech was strong and forcible. Captain Farley and TV. D. Mayfield closed the speeches of the day. Unusual good order prevailed. ?The same Gel-man iirm mat last week shipped a million dollars in gold to Germany has ordered anoth.er half million for the same pur- j pose J I{ ?Five men were drowned on the Canadian Pacific Tuesday night, a* I engine on which they were riding V < piuBgmg suddenly into a wa-biu/uu *>?