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XLVI. WIMSBOKO, 8. a, WH)M>AY, MARWi 3a 1892. " NO. 38^^H ' :!.c y^mdlDJI of iftNo Dir. ct Primary Asked- A HJO|^^Hl9firapku*erv;ii; Adopitd. EjP^^KeQtiuu called by a uu:u ber of yeutlemeiKto devise some means to restore harmony^ the ranks of the DemocratpPPif ic party in South Carolina met in the * State House Mhis afternoon at five F v o'clock, and w&s called to order by General Edward McCrady, of Charleston, when Mr, Aartfn Cannon ol Laurens said: I rise to nominate for temporary chairman one who will represent . \ both the low countrv and up country. \ one who was m public life anil served | bis people well and voluntarily retired ^ \ therefrom, Hon. Samuel Dib ;le of ]ed the nomination, and ^ir. Dibble was Tile ascended to the Speaker's desk VFellow Democrats of South Carolina: I thank you tor ihe distinguished honor y<Au have conferred upon me of presidiaAover the_ temporal orga^^^^^ IflPte Km* Hpack 8?g solid K, band in Kon of our Mfcion. How gift was by ^Htfe is strength. Hps have uchapBpthe Democracy 9k cbasm has interBH^ers. May it be the syention, acting calmly Hr to form a bridge over plause.] So that the agpciiher hand may meet in gCTaLd join hands again once Hpplause.] We are here rather than speech-making:. There IlPfceccmes my duty to announce j Sis convention is ready to proceed j siness, which will be in order. Is 5 pleasure of the convention to late a secretary or secretaries for mporary organization of the conin? prs. Andrew T. Woodward of veil and W. W. Ball of Laurens ?cted temporary secretaries. Bp.11 of delegates then commenced, ipilovtfng delegates attended the Eon: g|-D S Henderson, J P McNair, B Br. J Quinly, J Martin Salley, J L ply. W B Woodward. ||||le? J C Maxweil, J W Williams, Bfron, W C McGowan, Thomas F B Gray don, W W Klugh, David WfifcRobinson. George M Anderson, [sHKh, William Hood, M J Wood Turner. E_ B Murray, D W Hiott, G B^^hn^'(iree^i, B F Cray ton, pjjotmson Hagood, F M BamRtigue, George Morrell, A T Bsford, J B ' Guess, Simon BBftlliams, John B peeves, John L | JFWalsh, R W Memminger, Jr, < ??| 1) Bryan. i Rndon?J P Richardson, J A Mills, ( BSHBgH^Ev D Gamble, B F Barron. ^ ^ ^ ! ^Kr?JohnLApirs, TV" R Davie, ^R . Bell, James BWylie, John Houze. riield?A McQueen, E C Clark, L ton?W E James, J F \Yi!son, J jag H T Thompson, J C Nettles, J i||ld--.J C Sheppard, J A Brooks, ?Ken, M Stoney, J M Forrest, John t> 'Hanni' T rP H,n?n fljvn. H T nl-o rjL* J, V X JLTCtWAl, V?^V -Uiiav. I Id?G W Ragsdala, K J McCarley, ;h, 1L O Duke, Henry Heirs, J S j s, Spann Edmunds, J C Themas, E?Jno McSvreen, S A Gregg, II I A Mclaggart, J C Lynch, C A |F Hensby, D II Hankie. ile?W L Mauldin, Jas L Orr, S B Jno W Baker, C O Allen, T 15 Bun. T K Earle, Silas Trowbridge, Bj&oW McCollough, D R AnderBfilliams, Chairman. Bwc?U P Allston, Richaid Do as P cparkman, Allen Me Hamjjgk IXX UiiUCi 'J iiC. Norton, J K Allsbrook, W B Lichardson, M M Cox, Samuel |as L Hudgens, J J Johnson, iaron Cannon, J B Humbert, N B Dial, W VV Ball. -John Law ton, R F Causey. -B H Bovkin, j B Steedman, J H Sjchwerin. K C Commander, ton. -R E Allison, R E Wylie, Sham, W D Ingram. J A "Woods, J T Brown, D E E McCallum, John L Dew. -Knox Livingston, Dr. T. W. ' A Douglas, Col. Alexander jn-as J Kodgers, W J CovingLi' Parleau. [~J F J Caldwell, A J Living-1 Lith, A J Gibson, L F Miller, ft Jr, J M Suber, Thomas \V I A Lourey, W 11 Hughes, I:?S Dibble, J W Snmmers, olioway, J W Hodges, Jas M > E Dukes, J K Fairey, F J .mmennan, Charles Od'om, A >hn S Rowe. IB Allgood, F C Farsons, J km McMahan, J E Boggs, D Bade Hampton, Thomas TayIcgieton. James Bates, S W Iroy F Yoiimans, John P Gonzales, J Q Marshall, J -John W Hubbard, J M Moore, D M Cokes, Moses iliiland, Jas Walker, J W B'alter West, B J Hill, J M SLiexander, W E Lucas, gjf B Haynsworth. Altamont Rnmantier, E W Moise, K I icott, Frank Mellet, W D J Mayes, B F Jones, J M SSLoise. Bf-ipscomb, S M Rice, Jr, J KBrowning, J M Levaster, A MeWMrter, J E Jeter, iainy, Cad Jones, Kufus JJeloach, Jas F Hart, Jas arish, C E Spencer, Tlios ein^er. E J Harper, Jno A Keljin, J A Ferral, J M Ex\ B W Jones, J 1> liamer. I Mr. 1). 6. Henderson Itemporary organization pmauent. Mr. Dibble mention lor the additionInouoced the convention |SS. ~-~pe following committee on platform and resolutions was appointed. Aiken, M B Wood wood: Abbeville, W. C McGowan; Anderson, E B Murray; Barnwell, Johnson Hagood; Charleston, H T Williams; Chester, John L Agurs; Chesterfield, Alexander McQueen; Clarendon, .1 P Kichardson; Colleton, M P Howell; Darlington, II T Thompson: Edgefield, W ,S Allen; Florence, S A Gregg; Georgetown, C P Alston; Greenville, A B Williams; Hampton, John Lawton; Horry, J R Allshrook: Kershaw. B H Kovkin: Lancaster. REWilej; Laurens, J T Johnson; Lexington, H*J Wiugard; Marion. J T Brown; Marlboro, Knox Livingston; Newberry, L i' Milier; Oconee, .1 (J Gary; Orangeburg, .1 W Summers; Pickens," J F Bradley; Richland, Wade Hampton; Spartanburg, J E Moore; Sumter, E W Moise; Union, W L Lipscomb; Williamsburg, Edwin Harper; York, John L Rainey; Fairfield, G W Ragsdale. Capt. John D. Browne, who was for years sergeant-at-arms of the House, was elected sergeant-at-arms. Gen. McCrady said: "I believe that this convention was called lor the pur- j pose of making nominations for Slate ] oilicers. (Applause.; i propose 10 ofier a resolution that a committee of one from each County be appointed to suggest a ticket to this convention. That the members shail be appoiuted by the delegations. The call states that this convention wa3 for the purpose of making nominations. Every gemlemau came here for that purpose. Ilave we come here simply for _tUe_.parpose"of n^a^^^rons, or are we ^oius: to Hpviews into the embodimem of c.in^Qates to go bef^e the people?" W After considera'?-discussion on a division 1G7 voted for the adoption of General McCrady's resolution. The na\s asked for no further couQt. The following: committee was then formed: Aiken, D S Henderson; Barnwell, F M Bamberg; Charleston, Edward McCrady: * ?1 _ 1 J A vaesierneiu. Aic.\auuci Jit^ucxu, vuiremu, F C Fishbourne; Clarendon. J A Mills; Chester, R T Mock bee; Darlington, J F Wilson; Edgefield, TR Denny; Hampton, R T Causey; Florence, John McSween; Georgetown, B A Munnerlyn; Greenville, J W McCullough; Anderson, G W Sullivan; Horry, E Norton; Kersliaw, J B Steedman; Lancaster, R E Allisou; Laurens, James MHudgens; Lexington, W T Brooker; Marion, John L Dew; Marlboro, R A Douglas; Newberry, W H Hunt. Jr.; Oconee, W A Hughes; Orangeburg, James M Moss; Pickens, W B Allgootf; Richland, N G Gonzales; Spartanburg, J K JenningsSumter, R1 Manning; Union, L J Drowning; York, S i White; Williamsburg, R H Callahan; Fairfield. G M Ragsdale. The convention then took a reces3 until nine o'clock, when it reassembled, and as the committees..jvere not ready to report, it was moved*"that Colonel J. L. Orr be requested to address the convention. As Coi. Orr arose loud cheers greeted him. He said ihe object of the convention was to devise means and select a candidate on whom the whole people can uuite and give peace aud prosperity to the State. His whole heart was in it. The condition of the State was almost as precarious as it was in '76. He did not charge that the officers were dishonest but they were not working for the best interests of the State. He urged unity and said that a special organization was necessary, tor enthnsiasm could not carry the cam paign. Work would have to be done in every township of the State and would be wrong to suppose that the , work would end here. The only way to disenthrall the neonle was to work in e*7^ y part of the State. He believed thai it all present would put their shoulders to the wheel, avoiding strife and attempting only to reach the hearts and minds of the people they would be successful in their undetakin^ and Tillman would be relegated to obscurity. said that he was impressed with the t jOBviction that if the gentlemen present v would return to their homes to carry :>ut-the resolution showing in their laces s there could be but one result. Xow was f the time to drop all thoughts of self and 11 wcrk solely for the interests of the State. 1 bfo home and say to the'people that the ? credit of the State shall be held as dear * as is the purity of a daughter to a father, j When the executive attempts to usurp the power of and dominate the judiciary \ and the Legislature it is time for the s people to rise up and say that such an c executive is unworthy of the hish office to which he wa3 elevated. Let the peo- 1 pie knovr lhat we condemn the course of 1 a man who made base charges against i j men of high character, which charges ' he knew could not be sustained. lie has beeu tried and found wanting. The , restoration of peace an.! harmony is j greater than the elevation of any man to office. He predicted that the milu- ( ences set in -liotion by the convention < would result in the restoration of har- j mony to the party and good government ] to i>outh Carolina. Mr. L. W. Youmans of Barnwell was | next called out. He announced that ' every demagogue and tyrant had started his career by pretending to take sides with the people and making promises of reform, tie then applied this general proposition to Governor Tiilmau. Mr. Leroy F. Youman3 of Columbia next took the floor iu response to calls. TT ' 1 ,t- 1? 1?J ? momKor At d Jtie saia lUai. Ut5 UO.U ucv;u a lubiuuvi v,. _ number of conventions held in the hall but none that could equal the present one. Two years ago a convention had assembled in the same hall, a convention of Democrats, not called by the regular organization, but a meeting of ; their own accord to lay plans to bring about a change in the State government j and to suggest a distinguished gentleman for Governor. The present convention was similar; it was a meeting of Democrats not called by the regular organization, to lay plans lor a change of the State government, it not being conducted as they deemed right and to suggest nominees for the State officers. The privilege of the 11 oor was extended Col. John C. Haskell, and he made a speech with rather fewer stinging sayings in it than usual. The farmers must be appealed to rise and vindicate the name and fame of the Stale. He denied Colonel Youmans's proposiuou mat me m j jiaivu tioas were similar?the first was a class convention which excluded those who had for years served their State, while in th? other ail classes were represented. He talked a little about the appreach of the time for refunding the State debt, and the decrease in selling price of State bonds, and the loss of revenue from phosphate litigation. After some other gentlemen had spoken Gen. Hampton, as Chairman of the Committee on Flatfo' m and Resolution, reported the follow.^ platform: This conference, assembled in rei snntnu rn rhp *ri^rpss "to the Democrats of 6outh Carolina," declares its endorsement of the purposes and declarations expressed in that address. We declare our fellowship with all true and honest Democrats of South Carolina, regardless of factional differences, ana pledge our faith to the Democratic parly of ihe State as now organized. We declare our unalterable conviction that ail conflicts among Demo crats must be conducted inside the party lines; that the Democratic voters of the State constitute the only tribunal to which we will present our grievances and the demands arising from those grievances. To that tribunal we do now address these declarations and appeals. "We have a just pride in our State. Her history is the history of the best and most 'glorious parts of the life of ^ 1 Zl i TT?i4 U lois l mon; uer aun is uuuscwaicu ?ilu blood shed in defence of liberty and right: her people have developed heroes, martyrs and statesmen, and have re sponded to every demand upon their patriotism, courage and energy. A new emergency is now here and must be met. We must adopt new methods and rely on new sources of wealth and bases of commerce. We must accept the plain lessons of present facts. We are a borrowing people and our interests demand that capital be invited here for investment, that competition in lending may be developed and money cheapened. Our one hope for becoming an independent people with surplus money is to encourage the coming of new population and inverv ent in industries which will de v8iot ,ir natural resources ana give home markets for the production ot our farms. We must do this or see our young men and our farmers confronted' by a hard choice betwejen their | native^t^t^iort'-'r^-riTt remaining here wgHtfrtake this great and necess?J(P?VWk with hope of success the people must be united in feeling and purpose, our party must be solid so that there will be no possible fear of its failure in. control of our affairs; we must have a safe and conservative government and safe and conservative methods of government. We submit that the course of the head of our present State administration both before and since his election has been in many respects unwise and unjust. We believe the tendency of his metnoos ana policy is to aestroy toe credit of the State, to the injury of the people, by making it impossible to refund our State debt at a reasonable rate of interest such as Is given in Sister States of the South. To involve us in long and expensive law suits without proper cause, eating up the substance of the taxpayers for the enrichment of the attc.-nejs and court oihcials. To keep alive discord and strife which endangers the party (on which the safety of the State, her women and her children depends) by constantly adding to the number ot the disaffected. To make a servile Legislature and an intimidated judiciary and thereby to pervert what should be the responsible and protecting government of a free people into an absolute dictatorship w'ltb all power in the hands of one man. To make the Governor the master and king of the people instead of their servant. We present to our fellow Democrats for nomination for State offices by the next Democratic State Convention, or by a direct primary, men who represent no factions, but all the Democrats of the State?conservative men who will inspire abroad confidence int'c stability and moderation of our.otate government, while guarding at heme the rights of the people and holding a just balance between labor and capital for the good of both, bccause the two must work together if we are to prosper and make progress. We favor the speedy adjustment of the matters now pending in the courts between the State and various corpc rations on a common sense and businesslike basis, so tSat all may bear a just share of taxation, all rights may be clearly understood, all interests may be wfth?~-itrmri~n for t.hp.goodof . ^SSXTmrrrni, * i* he StaFFSnd people may be encouraged s vithout injustice to any. 1 "We demand of the next General As- ^ embly such legislation as will give us i i reasonable and equitable system of ( issessrhent for taxation, so that all 1 nay pay honest shares of the expenses i >f government, and we will demand, i ilso, the continuation of the work of c :ompleting and opening Clemson Colege. ] We pledge ourselves, if entrusted i vith power, to protect ths credit of the i jtate by sacredly meeting every just i Migration. , *\Ye pledge ourselves to take no step i backward and to respect and obey the i ivill of the people as heretofore ex- ] pressed concerning the policy of our , itate government. We denounce the proposition to in- j urease the poll tax to three dollars a t'ear because it would unjustly put a j "* ? ?* ? 1 - ? * A A 4-A hoor aurcien on peopie uuu ctuic lu ucai m, We pledge ourselves, however, to use &very just means to further develop and improve our public school system, the deficiences of which cannot be overlooked. We pledge ourselves to the most rJgid economy in the administration of the government, made more than was necessary by the misfortunes of tne people and the impending deficiency in our Treasury, resulting from the unwise management of the present ad ministration, threatening an increase of taxation next year. We oppose and will labor to change the present system of management of the penitentiary, Uy which convict labor is used to "make cotton in competition with honest farmers and laborers, but a cause of loss to the State and her taxpayers. The convicts can oe best and most profitably used in *? fUA ntiVvlin PUDIIC VVOrKS, especiiiuj uu iuc roads. While our farmers are being urged to reduce their acreage in cotton, because it is claimed that our population has outgrown the capacity of cotton to support it, it is Dot right that the State'shouid use her cheap labor to add to it. ' We accept and respect the will of the people as "expressed in the election of 1S90, as meaniDg the larger participation and stronger and more direct iniluence of our agricultural population in the control and management, of our public affairs. We charge that the present constitution of the State Democratic party is unfair and vndemocratic and constructed in the interest of machine politics and bossism, destructive of inT<fYht? rind loea.1 self-eovero merit and evasion of the clearly expressed demands of the people for a direct primary for nomination of State oflicers. Nevertheless, while it is in existence it is the law and should be obeyed, and we call upon the people t') resent the flagrant violation of the party constitution by the present execi utive committee chosen to represent and act for the entire party in the interest of the present administratio'i r.y the creation of unfair rules which deny Democrats the right to express their sentiments by their votes. We disclaim any hostility or ill-feeling to any element or faction of our party; we recogmzt; <tuu iwpci,^ right of others to honest difference of opmiun and claim the same right for ourselves. It was unauimously adopted, though it could be seen that many delegates were disappointed at its conservatism. Mr. D.6. Henderson, Aiken, chairman of the Nomination Committee, announced the committee ready to report. lie added that the committee had j been very careful, had considered the j record of each man- selected, had obtained his assent, and had giveD each ' section of the State a representative. | lie read the names selected, each being i received with applause, though the candidate for the second place got the major portion of it. The "suggested" ticket is as follows: Governor, John C. Sheppard, Edgefield. Lieutenant Governor. James L. Orr, Greenville. I ocuiotctijr ui cutitr, u. . x uuuiciua, Barnwell. Attorney Genera!, \V. Perry Murphy, Colleton. " Treasurer, E. II. Mclver, Darlington. Comptroller General, J. B. Humbert, Laurens. Superii.tendent of Education, Kev. D. W. Iliott, Anderson. Adjutant and Inspector General, W. W. Dixon, Yors;. Ex Goyernor Sheppard, Co!. Orr, Capts. L. W. Youmans and J. J3.'Hurabert, and llev. D. W. Iliott, of those nominated, were present, and returned their thanks for the honor conferred on them and promised to do all they could to make the movement a success. The following executive committee^ ??&o nj^n^w^inieu: Ar/crcfille, W C McGowan; Aiken, 1) S Henderson; Anderson, EI> Murray, Barnwell, Johnson Hagoyu; Colleton, K 3 Weeks; Clarendon, IT Brock; Charleston, K S Tupper; Chester, John L Agurs; Chesterfield, \V T'Stevenson; Darlington, K T Coker; Edgefield. W S Allen; Fairfield, G W Ragsdale; Florence, Z T Kershaw; Greenville, A B "Williams; Georgetown, S M Ward; Hampton, John Lawton; Kershaw, W M Shannon; Lancaster, R E "Wiley; Laurens, Aaron Cannon; Lexington, S P~ Wingard; Marion, Robert McFarland; Marlboro, J M Weatherlev; Newberry, W H Hunt, ?Ir.; Oconee, W A Lowry; Orangeburg, S Dibbl8; Pickens, J E Boggs; Kicniand. J Marshal'; bpartanourg, J w Walker; Sumter, K D Lee; Union, L J Browning; Williamsburg, Ur D C Scott; York, Tbos M McDow. Those Counties unrepresented or where vacancies may occur will have the power of selecting their representative. ' ^ Mr. Graydon moved that each County delegate appoint a County executive committee the number to be varied according to the size of the Counties. Adopted. The fight of the night was then had over the question of demanding a primary. Mr. Aaron Cannon proclaimed that Laurens wanted a primary for State officers, and moved that the convention demand it of the September convention of the Democratic party. The house was badly split on this subject. Mr.Mauldln moved to amend by inserting the ilay convention for the Sep tember convention. lie acknowledged that to grant it the May convention would have to violate the Constution, which expressly provides that all constitutional changes must be made by the September convention. lie made an earnest speech for primary. Mr. A. B. Willianms said there was this difficulty about asking a primary at the May convention: If Tillman's party saw that the convention recognized the right of the May convention to alter the constitution so as to grant a primary, what was to hinder it from altering the constitution more than that by Dominating a full State ticket? Voices: "Tnej would not dare to do that." lie added that he had been lighting ior id years ior a primary out now was not the time to ask for it. Tillman will use a demand for a primary, if you make it, against you in the lower Counties of the State; in fact he has already given an interview on that subject will make capital out of it in the black Counties of the State. Mr. E, 13. Murray made the convinc- i ing argument of the tight on this suJMt iect. The May convention harL*wr>fi. g Itltul'ionai right to oTcTeFa primary, and J f it did at the request of this faction $ vhat would hinder the convention from ^ lominating a State ticket, and then .. Governor Tillman's opponents would lave to support him or place themselves P n the attitude of bolters, and he was d lot willing for anything like that to ? >ccur. A e-r\aor?V>QC the Ho. t' iilltir social utuc. vuv w nand for a primary was laid oil tbe 0 :able. The most convincing argument F f\*as that of Mr. Murray that if the oppo- b aents of Tillman get the majority of delegates in the September convention p they would not want to changc the sys- f tern, for having gone through ?ne y heated campaign and won, they would r ciot like to put the question again to the ^ people and risk carrying the direct primary after having carried the primaries f for delegates to the September convention. If the Tillmanites won it would 1 be useless to ask them to give up their advantage and risk a direct primary. ? On motion of Mr. Henderson Mr. Williams took the chair, aDd resolu- s tions of thanks to Mr. Dibble for the t splendid manner in which, he presided, 1 and Messrs. Ball and Woodward, the i secretaries, were adopted. ( Mr. Dibble resumed the chair, and j the convention shortly befora 1 o'clock ( a. m. adjourned. I Eaten to Death by Ants. { Tombstone, Ariz., March 23.?The I ? 1 Indians have always been kqowu jul their devilish ways of torture, but it has { remained for a band of Mexican bandits . to cap the climax. "Dutch Henry's" ; band cf horse thieves raided Henry J Withers' ranch on the Carita river re- J cently, driving away all his stock. Withers started after ihe band singlehanded, and succeeded in shooting down three of them from ambush before they discovered that only one man was pur- ; suing them. They succeeded in cap- : luringhimas he was try ins to get away. Death was his sentence. But shooting was too easy a death. Withers was taken out on the hot sandbeds and leit to lie naked for six hours, fully exposed to the sun's rays. This was not enough, and he was then carried, still nude, to a bed of cactus bushes, where he was laid on the sharp points. lie was bound tightly to a stake, and then a large ant TWi^which was near, was torn open withsttsfcs, and he was left to his fate. ""* z-.nf onrl over me insecure? ai.uj.vu ~? Withers' body ,*5184^ thin two hours he was dead from theirHwtes. The. ants did not leave him alone,"^a*s:eyer, until every particle of liesh was ea^ from his bones. A prisoner of the band was H where he could witness the wh(M?S[ fair, and was atterward turned and told to tell the people tha^^HH would be the punishment of alflHH tried to kill a member of the bant^^^H Took Possession. Jackson, Miss., March 23.?? the Legislature was assembling Jfl day a crazy man named Bryan J i?' possession of the State house nour and ran things to suit Several officers came to arrest with a big knife in each hand I them at bay and furiously cuiB Legislature. He finally ran dfl steps and into the street, hunfl people, including legislators aJ8 officials, lleeing before him. ting out of the crowd three knocked him down and land^|^H[ jaiL He was recently dischaxfl an asylum as cured but will bejM THE FREE SILVER FIGHT. THE AUTHOR OF THE B!LL FULLY EXPLAINS ITS OBJECTS. I j Bran-ley and Hemphill an Opposite Sides I ?A Full Account of lhe Great Debate j Over the Matter. Washington. March 25.?The de bate oil the silver bill opened last Tuesday. The light was opened by Mr. Bland, the father of the bill. He said the bill proposed to go back 100 years. On April 2, 1792, the founders of the Government, in pursuance of the consti' tution. on the recommendation of Hamilton, Jefferson and the statesmen of that time, adopted the double standard. The act then provided for the coinagc without limit of gold and silver, aud in the mints,of the United States silver to be coined into dollars, halves, quarters, dimes and hall dimes?the dollars to consist of 371} grains of silver, precisely tlio /-Irtllnr in silver whirfi Is fulled for in | hill. There was nothing new in Ihis rnpntnrr^ -^niftLsyStCEn Of money was coutinued id this country uutii January, 1873,{when the dollar previously established was discontinued. The present bill proposed that gold and silver should be in the ratio of sixteen to one. It was to the advantage of all that gold and silver, as far as could be. should have equality. In order that this equality should be preserved it was necessary that silver should be put upon the same plan with regard to issuing certiflcates as gold. The holder of the bullion was not required to wait. lie received leszal tender money of gold I certificates from the treasury upon the presentation of bullion. The act provided that holders of gold and silver bullion should have a right to deposit their bullion at the mint, and the mint could pay for it on the spot. The bullion was deposited and the money turned over to the depositor for gold and silver under the act of 1837, just as required by this bill. The law did not speci.., that the bullion should be coined at any particular time. This was left discretionary to meet the exigencies of the government, but in reality it was coined, for the most part, and the resulting coin kept on deposit to pay the bullion as deposited. There was nothing new in this bill in that regai d. Gold and silver bullion could be deposited in mints and assav offices and coin certificates issued tor their value. These coin certificates were made legal lender for all customs duties and in payment of the public debt. We simply, by this bill, put silver on an equality with gold; nothing more, nothing less. There was a greater necessity for silver to have this right than gold. It is said that we do not need any more money in circulation, and that gold is sufficient to supply the channels of a circulation of metallic money. It is also claimed that gold alone is a sufficient basis lor money, and that under a system of crcdits, bills ol exchange, promissory notes, book accounts, o;}setts that we could get along on the gold basis; that this system answers to the purposes of money, and is treated as money by the gedtlemen who oppose this bill. To a certain extent these devices economize mcueyandml^^jg^H poneit^^a^j^QB no devices.^ra!Ct^W tna'and the Unit^H^B^HffinH old standard. Credii^^BHn|HS|H nderstood, many years agffP^^BHQ ais theory. No man m his sober senses rould say that the amount of transacions adjusted in the clearing house were art of our circulating medium. Book :j ebts and.transfers of accounts through- . ut the whole community would answer ? he same purpose. The revenue sys- ^ em of credits to a certain exeten econmizes the use of money, and it did irobably sustain the crisis for the time ^ >eiog. ^ In 1881, when the legislation was , ending in this^IIouse, a bill was passed or the refunding of the national debt. L'he national banking institutions sur- J; endered about $18,000,000of legal ten-1 [cr mosey to the treasury as a threat r igainst Congress, and a threat made , or the purpose of inducing o veto from . ,he President, and they succeeded. A withdrawal of .$18,000,000 in about ,ix weeks made the interest in New , fork city one cent a day. Money was r icarce all over the country, which was = hreatcned with a panic. The clearing louse in Xew York, with its principle of ssuing cheques, might cancel a million z )r five millions tomorrow, and nobody J mow it. It is not money, it is simply convenience by which debts are paid in .his clearing house, and banking associa- y ,ion3 say their balances are so much. S"o one pays any attention to it, and it ( ias no effect prices compared with ictual circulation and actual money. J lie quoted Cernuschi as saying that France made a grea.1-, mistake when she limited the coinage of silver or took any J ootice of demonetization by Germany. | The opponents of this bill were courting that very danger. The exigencies Lave 1 - * I--- xl__ 1 I resulted 111 oar aemantuug me w . the law of July, 1890. The Governments of the world knew that the wealth ; and power of this country are determined to demonetize silver absolutely, and we were driving them to it. Lombard street and Wall street were twin brothers. The restoration of silver here meant the restoration of it everywhere. When you demonetized silver the "^orld over, gold itself was gone. If that day should come when silver was demonetized, he did not care how soon cold weni with it. The money of the world would then be disembodied and metallic money would then be a thing of ihe past. Gold and silver had been twin brothers since the days of civilization. When you severed the ligature between them they were dead. The benefit to be derived from this bill was that it restored the old power of the two mctails and it 1 i 5. It our remained ;he same i dliierent speech a id he was s seat. Mr. Wilmade the ill for the J I /-v MLiKSUtU LU the counBhis people Bbill delibBits standBf a party Ksnmption, Besisla tloD, Bi to assist B^eeie payB error with which the free coinage advocates started out is that quantity of money was essentially more important than quality, and that money itself was of supreme importance as compared with credit. These errors were one and the same in substance. Where would silver go under tiiis bill? It would go to a discount. I The depreciation for silver would be the markets of the world, and o ^ ^ndard would then be 70 cents on tH\ ? ? \r, in truth. This was repudiatioL^^was scaling of debts; it was a dishonest settlement on the basis of our f offtn/lrtw7 nn/1 ['lUoCUt i^uiu oiauuaiu. ai-iu. uug of the country would never listen to the proposition. 11 was absurd. It was the duty of this country to secure silver again in its proper place in the currency systems of the world. He believed It as accessary to do this, as did Mr. Bland, but he did not believe that because the evil existed throughout the world thai the people should be indicted .with all the disastrous results which must follow from iL under a Iree coinagc act. lie then submitted as au amend- j ment the bill contained in the report of! the minority of the committee, provid- j ing for an international monetary con ference. The remarks of Mr. Wllliams Mr. Ilarter reviewed britlly the history of the silver question. lie conteuded that the Bland bill would contract and debase our currency. Mr. Bland's claim that the passage-of the bill would make mouey more pleutiful was misleading and untrue. All the laws that Congress could pass from January to December, from now until eter; ity, would not materially alter the marked. or the world or the value of silver. The trusting farmer, who today was standing by with bated breath, waiting for the salvation which the Bland bill was to bring him. would lind its becom rag a law* would sweep away one-uaii of the savings of his lifetime. Truly Mr. Bland would prove a worse curse to the farmer than all the dry seasons, wet seasons, frosts, cyclones, locusts, chinch bugs and protective tarifl's he had suffered from during the past decade. The Bland bill, he said, while called a tree coinage bill, was really a bill compelling the nation to buy all the silver the silver ring could get together, no matter how much it might prove to be, at 129.29 per ounce. This would utterly and hopelessly bankrupt ihe country, and might in the end create revolution and ultimately change our form of govnrnmanf During the course of his remarks, Mr. Harter referred to the free coinage men at "people who come here and take us by the back and shake us like this, [illustrating this point by grabbing Mr, McKaig of Maryland by the collar and shaking him vigorously.] Mr. McKaig showed hostile intentions at first, but afterwards joined in j the great outburst of laughter that con- ; tinued lor several minutes at his expense. Messrs. Taylor and Hopkius, Republican members from Illinois, opposed ' An/lnz-l I tuv; j. iio ill dt? tuuteuueu UJdl> if the bill passed the silver miner would be able to pay his labor with cheap money. The laborer now receiving $3 a day would be paid $2.10 per d??y under this bill. The pensions to the pension- J ers would be reduced 30 percent^J|jj J Republican. parLvstoti^x^flj Mr. an, favored the bill, and said he was -k 'illing to go with the Democrats when ^ tiey were right. They were right on ^ [lis silver question. If the Wr 11 street -t len could reduce the amount of money tj he-half it would reduce m ine same a iroportion the trouble and expense of y, orneriug it. I3y this bill the American C) lollar became the dollar or the world? p; he only dollar in the world. - r< Mr. Brawiey of South Carolina op- h >osed the bill, because the ratio lixcd ti q it was not the ratio iixed by markets if the world, as Jefl'erson and Hamilton ?oth said it should be. This was, as refterson said it should be, a purely bus- s; ness question, and the ratio should be ^ ixed by the ratio of relative prices oi ^ he two metals. We of the South have jut one product to sell?cotton. The greater part of it is exported and brings ^ jold? money of international value. c kVby should we sell it for silver money r )lonly local value? It would poisen the 1; iource of prosperity i: we depart from p ,hat standard, which ha? unvarying t quivalence with the money of the E vorld. t Mr. Livingstone of Georgia said that ? iverything thus far spoken on l^his bill f vas prophesy. Branching from the question, he said that class legislation a iad brought all the trouble on the coun- c ;ry. We sliould return to constitution- j il and Jeflcrsonian Democracy for re- t Lief. The country would then be more f prosperous and peaceiul. Silver had 1 aot depreciated but gold had appreciat- I sd. The country was controlled now 1 by the sold bugs of this country and Europe. Hill and Cleveland simply meant silver and anti-silver. t Mr. Ilarler then jumped to his feet j and said: uDo you mean to say that | Ilill is in favor of free silver':" < >\Ir. Livingstone?Well, I will ask you j this question: Will you vote for him if he is? | Mr. Ilarler?Xo, sir! [Loud applause.] ' 1 Mr. Livingstone?Xow, gentlemen, ! Ihore is a demonstration of wnat I con- J ^ 1 * 11 a tlinra 1Q in ! ICL1U. All IUC ?SULLiiji~icl^j buvw .u that crowd means Cleveland against the J world or a Republican or a Mugwump. You can lake them in your hand and squeeze them, and you can't squeeze one cucce of Democracy out of the whole crowd. [Loud applause and laughter.] Mr. Hemphill of South Carolina favored the meaa>.ure. He was opposed to the present law, which authorized the purchase of $4,500,000, and thought the present bill was preferable to it. .No nation on earth could hoard in its vaults '1 1 ?1,f c ? ?/ ./\^T-ir*cm f\f I LI1C DUIUOLi iruiil VYlilUU UIU KsVLLiex^x, v/i the world was made. lie would move, at the proper time, two amendments? one to increase the amount of silver put into the silver dollars to 525 grains, so as to made it equal in market value to the gold dollar; another authorizing the Sedretary of the Treasury to increase or diminish the amount of bullion in the silver dollar to make it equal in value to the gold dollar. After considerable debate on Thursday a motion was made to lay the bill on the table and a vote was ordered, which resulted 1-iS yeas to 14$ nays, which neither defeats or passes the bill, but restores it to the calender. Of the South Carolina delegation 3Ir. Jirawley voted to lay the bill oil tb( table, Messrs. Hemphill, Stackhouss and Tillman voted against laying th* bill on the table, and Messrs. Elliott Johnson and Shell did not vote. NO LETTER WITH! WING. Mr. Cleveland Denies Frepalrlnii any Statement Declining Nomination. Lakem'OOD, X. J., March 19.?"There is no truth whatever in that silly story," said ex-President Cleveland to me, this evening. He had just linished reading the story in this evening's Telegram to the effect that previous to his having written the letter to Gen. Bragg, ot Wisconsin, in which he left it to be inferred that i? the people so willed it, he would accept the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, he had prepared a letter for the Associated Tress in which he positively declined to be a candidate. Alte- writiog it, however, the story went.ne was pursuaaeu to ueativj iu. "Wliy," resumed the ex-rresident, "1 never dreamed of writing such a letter, and surely if 1 had penned such a letter J. certainly would know something 1hfniH it vvf1!, u"a11"' hp HOTin "So they say Mrs. Cleveland induced me to suppress a letter that was never written. That silly story is an absurd one, for the main fact that Mrs. Cleveland never interferes in political matters in which I am concerned. "The only letter I have written of late was tne one to Gen. 13ragg, and that was written in a hurry, ana just when 1 was on the point of leaving for my gunning trip. That letter, whi^h the General has seen lit to give to the press, expressed my views plainly. 1 did not tnink at the time 1 wrote the letter that it would ever be used in the manner it has, or [ might have taken more time in answering." "Then, Mr. Cleveland, I am to understand that you never wrote such a letter as The Telegram claims you have, for the simple reason that you are in your friends' hands to do with you as they think best?" "I do not put it in that light," said Mr. Cleveland, "but as 1 never dreamed o? writing any such letter I cannot understand why the papers will publish oimV> ofufF 1 huvo iilumt maneim mv .31 UU.. J- lit. TV. ? J mind to quit contradicting tne many silly rumors that have appeared of late, and would not contradict ihis one were it not that it charges that Mrs. Cleveland had become interested in politics." During my conversation "with Mr. Cleveland, wnich was in the reception room of his isolated cottage, Mrs. Cleveland sat in the ex-President's private study, which adjoined the sitting room, the door of which was ajar. A lt-jected Lover'a Deed. Alliance, Pa., March 19.?Mrs. Belle Snyder, a dashing young widow, with five clrUdren, the oldest of whom is 14 and the youngest C years, smote the heart of young Selan Shutz, who for Jhe past three years paid her the most loving attention only to be refused when he asked her hand in marria^g rhe whole affair has caused the Df the boy great trouble, as hsgfl 20 years ot age, while hizgm g| ?armer is 3U. Thj^gw ?. ^ W n ^ ugtfjj uw ul lover so prg|^fl lie wouldrujtfW Lrs. Snyderrasheafro^uBWWHH| le street, where she made known what < id transpired within. Physiciaas ere summoned, who made an exam- ; lation of the wound and pronounced i le cut an ugly one. The windpipe J id jugular were untouched. The aung man is now in an unconscious )ndition. He cannot recover. The arents of the boy are wealthy and ispected, while the woman in question ; as always borne an enviable reputa on. < Two Men Lynched. Alexandria, Va., March 18? A pecial from Warrenton to the Gazette . ays: "Lee Ilelllin and Joseph Dye, ! rho last fall murdered the Ivines famy, were this morping at 2 o'clock ! inched near Gainesville, Prince Wil- ; am County. The men were to have ' een hanged today but a stay of proeedings had been secured. The Warenton authorities, fearing violence, - - t-x. A I- MA Af% fxA m icil iSl nigllt lUUii. LUC liiCU Xiuui J c?j, laced them in a vehicle and started hem for this city. A party ot sixty nen was hastily lormed, who overtook he vehicle near Gainesville, overpowred the guard, hanged the murderers o a treaand riddled their bodies with lullets. llelllin and Dye were under :onvlction for the murder of Mrs. Klnea md her three children. The crime was :ommitt d last November at Mrs. vincs's house near Warrenton Juneion, Fauquier County, Virginia. Heflin and Dye were employed as farm aborers in that vicinity. They robbed tfrs. Kines's house and murdered Mrs. vines and children. Two Wosnen Burned. London*, March 18.?Fire occurred his morning in a butcher's shop in Liliebridge road, Brompton, causing ;he death of two persons. Apartments )ver the shop were occupied oy iu? family of the butcher and a man named Western. The fire spread with great rapidity and cut off the escape of Mrs. Weston and a girl named Amy Glover ivlio was employed as cashier in the 3liO[). After the fire their bodies were found burned to a crisp. Another woman who was in the house was terribly burned but managed to make her way to the street. She was removed to the hospital where the doctors say there is no possible hope of her recovery. Paid tho Toll With His Life. Camden, S. C., March 19.?Ammons, keeper of the toll bridge near here, killed George A. Rabon, a farmer, this morning. Ammons bad refused to let Kabon's wagon pass without paying toll. Rabon sprang out and tried to seize Amnions, who retreated and snatched up a boat paddle, llabon drew a pistol. Ammons dropped the paddle, ran into his house, got a double-barrel shotgun, came out ana nreu iwice. iae lirst load pierced Iiabon's heart and the second knocked the pistol out of his hand. Amnions delivered himseli'up to the sherifi'. A Jt'ecro Exodus. Memphis, Tenn., March 23.?A meetlsg was held last night in Zion Ilall by about 2,000 negroes, who passed resolutions condemning the lynching of Moss, Stewart and McDowell on the 9th inst., as a foul and unjustifiable murder and outrage. Negroes are leaving this locsaty in large numbers for Oklahoma and other points and a general exodus is apprehended. ; A STATE PRIMARY. -'m ; , THE VOTE ON THIS QUESTION. IN THE CONVENTION OF 1888- ; Xli? Names of Those Who Voted for and Against the Measure at that^Xime as Published In the Xews and Cornier of Jlay 10, 188*}. ' f1nr.TT\Ti?r a S C\ A/fuivh Tho fA - i lowing vote in the Democratic State j Convention that assembles in this city - :ZM in May, 1888, on tne question of a State .. Trimary win be read with interest at 1 this time. It was published in the News ana Courier of May 19,1888: The vg, vote in the State Democratic Conven- M tion yesterday on tne question of adopting tne primary system for the nomi- WM nation oi State officers resulted, as was stated in these dispatcnes, in the defeat of the proposition, tnere being 83 yeas to 207 nays. The official record of the vote in detail is given below. It is A not absolutely oecurate, as a half dozen J names are missing, but it indicates I clearly enougn that the demand for a % ' State primary was supported by only & sectional vou). ~~ iliedelegatesrromLaii^^HBRHHMBtoH Oconee, 1'ickens and JlH solidly, for the primary, and ltnH the support of a majority cr tne H| vilie, <jnester, Darlington, Green vilifcJM Spartanburg, aad' York delegations. ine proposition was opposed by tne solid votes o? Aiken, Barnwell, Baautore, Berkeley, Cnarieston, Ch&jterfleld, Clarendon, Colleton, Fairheld, iiorry, Hampton, JLancaster, Marlboro, Newberry, Or<mgeourg, liicHland, Sumter m ixiiaixiouuig, Xiugcueiu, VxeurgBWWIl and Kersiiaw gave majorities against it. Capt. Tillman's own county gave thiee votes lor the primary aid eight against it. Here is the record: Abbeville?Yea: B. R Hemphill, WO ? Bradley. A W Jones, VV K Hail, EU-ixraydoa, VVyatt Aiken, W J Moore, Eugene B (iary3 J E Todd. Kay: if B liray, James M Baker, J M louche. Anderson?Kay: S At Orr, E B it array, J M Sullivan, Jd. ii Yandiver, K E Smitn, E J Martiu, E M Kucker, Jr. Aiken?Kay: JD a Henderson, C E Sawyer, W 6 Cnafee, A if Brown, A T Woolward, L C Ligon, John K Clay, Jonn T Gaston, A S aeigler, D A Kansonu Barnwell?.Nay: Kobe Aldricn, K F Ku'kiand, Johnson Hagood, W Martin, VV" - , K Boyntoii, J knelling, C- i) Bellinger, l, T izlar, JJ D Copeiand, B E Sojourner, J B ? - (a-uess, C C Sun ins. Beaufort?Kay: J MKliett, H I) Elliot, J J O'Keiil, W u Erenti&J, J VV Barnes, C Eoye, J a Kted. Berkeley?Kay: J \Y Fowier, J B Wiggins, E C Way, E J Ughe, H Ji Kiric, J l> Weber, W M Jdallj M JD Harri*. ^ Charleston?.Nay: E W Dawson, W St J Jervey, A T Smyuie, Or D Boist, Simeon Hyde. G A McHugh, E Kresseit, Jr, ii E jga H Cnaza1, S Thorn as, J K Owens, B Mantoue, J C Bloume, T B Barker, H B Dee, "W A Boyle, W H Brawiey, J Adger JamesE Walsh, KSTupper, Bi^j^ nam, M WJftwers, J 9 capp.en^^^^eorg<^tf A. ^ jpw " \ Greenville?Yea: W H Perry, JLOrr, B F Perry, A W McDavid, W A Hunt, H J Ceatty, T H Cooke, George Westmoreand, W F Young. J C Mooney. Georgetown?Nay: J E Steele, P K Lachicotte, F L Dorroh. Yea: Josiah Doar, It S Wilkinson. Horry?Nay: C P Quattlebaum, E Nor jon, E K Beatty, J E Dusenbury, T W Daggett. Hampton?Nay: C J C Hutson, M B McSweeney, J W Moore, J C Richardson, C R Fitts, A M Kuth, W J Causey, 0 F Duke. Kershaw?Yea: N A Bethune. Nay: P U Nelson, S C Hough, E E Still, D L Be Saussure, W M Shannon. - Laurens?Tea: G W Shell, W A McUlintock, K H Yeargin, A.aron Cannon, J R Smith. E B Furguson, W L Gray, C 31 Sullivan. Lancaster?Nay: Leroy Springs, Ira B. Jones. Lexington?Nayr J L Graham, G Leaphart. W T Broofeer, J N Fowles. H A Meetze, J II Counts. Marion?Yea: Walter Gregg, S. C. Sellers, S. A. Durham, J. G, Ease [den, J. C. Timmons, N S Gibson, J E Ellerbee, J W King, Robert McFarlan. Marlboro?Nay: C S McCall, W D Evans, Knox Livingston, J P Green, C W . ;' Rogers, J W Drake. Newberry?Nay; George Jonnstone, J K PGoggans, BTCHunter, O L Schumpert, Thompson Cromer, R. C. Carlisle, Y J Pope, W H Hunt, Jr. Oconee?Yea: M W Coleman, J C Cary, W A Lowery, R A Thompson, J W Halle man, D P Bobbins, _ OrahiTelvjrf*?Nav: J F Jzlar. J E Wan namaker, A ?S Hydrick, T M Raysor, 0 H Ott, W T C Bates, C G Dantzler, TA Jones, W L Glaze, J H Dukes; A FlndcL Pickens?Yea: W E Clyde, P L Gignll- , llat. flM Richland?Nay: Wilie Jones, A C Has- SB kell, John C Haskell, John T Rhett, J P Adams, W S Pope. W W Ray, N G Gonzales, G A Kaminer, Thomas Taylor, Joha F Sloan, Jr. Spartanburg?Tea: D R Duncan, W W Simpson, S T McCravey, W D Smith, W S Thompson, A N Wood, Nay: T J Moore. Sumter?Nay: J J Dargan, J D Blanding, W 0 Cain, J D Graham, _H F Wilson, R D Lee, Altamcnt Moses, w is James, jr., Marion Moise. Union?Yea: D P Duncan, A C Lyles, L J Browning, McBsth Young, J C Dancan, S L "West, J C Sartor, G E Tucker. Williamsburg?Nay: A II Williams, J T Gamble, R H Kellahan, J U Lynch, S M Askins, T M Gilland. York?Nay: J F Hart, B H Mnssey. Yea: R H Glenn, W H Stewart, A R Banks. W 15 Smith, F ii Brown, D E Finley, L. 21 Grist, W M WhiteThe Free Silver Debate. Washington, March 21.?Representative Brawley has been assigned a conspicuous position in the debate against ^ the free silver bill. According to the list of speakers made out today by Mr. Tracy, who is to lead the opposition, G. Fred Williams, of Massachusetts, opens the disscussion, and he will be followed by Messrs. Ilarter of Ohio, Rayner of ' * r- CAtif h JJUbSUUil, JJiawlOJ Ui. ouauu and Warner of Xew York. Oyer seventy-live gentlemen have requested permission to participate in the debate against the hill and it is probable as many more will speak in favor of it. ?^S'ews and Courier. A Brig Lost. London, March 16.-Tbe British brig _ Gudrun, of Fowey, has been wrecked on "l'ae sningies" on x-ne ?s:e 01 vy iguii, and the entire crew of ten were. drowned Nothing could be. done to. help them, \ ~ ~