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________ WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1894. NO. 48. I |??"ME MARION MEETING. [ IT WAS A GOOD ONE DESPITE THE f - BAD WEATHER. I Interest Shown Chiefly in the Son&tctlal FJp-ht?Governor Tillman's Oatstlono ! sad Senator Butte*'* Anawerr. Marion, b. C., July 3.?If this had been a ball game instead of a campaign meeting here today its record would have been written, "Rain?no game*" But the candidates could not be fright ened by a wetting, so anxious were they to have their innings, look the dear people in the eye and see them face to face. There were about 700 persons who turned out to see the Senatorial rock-pitching and the various and sundry side accompaniments to the big political show. Tney were martyrs to their curiosity, interest or whatever feeling that took them there. They 9 not only saw reeds shaken by the wind, I but felt themselves drenched from [ head to foot by torrents of water from black clouds that hung over the town. F For several hours there was a terrific I down pour and the crowd and most of the speakers had to succumb to a first class ducking. The meeting was held ' in a grove about a block away from oKoUm. om/4 rho otaitH warn aftnsi. 9k ble enough to keep huddling together K and crouching under what umbrellas r were on hand, otherwise they would have been like drowned rats had they broke for cover. General Butler's srvwh was thft feature of todav's meet ing. It was really a gem, and the big TiUmaiiite audience listened to him with such rapt attention that he actually seemed to have made severe inroads into the Governor's Marlon forces. His speech was a combination - of eloquence, wit and practical illustration. County Chairman J. D. Montgomery opened the meeting by asking the crowd not to put any "injecting ques. tions" to the speakers and reminded them that; tha rip priori mftnflV SO that if ahy one misbehaved himself he would be sent to jail and made to "give up the stnff." # Yoice?Let every man consider him self a marshal for good behavior. (Applause.) After prayer by the Rev. Mr. Beasley the chairman began to call out the programme and was about to ring in cne senatorial candidates last wueu Governor Tillman baited him with the remark: "Oh, no, they had us last at Florence and you ain't going to put us at the tail-end this time." T^e chairman succumbed and reversed bis programme. Railroad Commissioner Thomas came in on the lightning express. He rehearsed his devotion to reform and quoted Trautwine on Civil Engineering, declared that the transportation question was a live issue and there was no better way to make the great engine of State strike a stump than to pat unskilled men on the beard of railroad commissioners. Commissioner J. A. Sligb, of Newberry was the next speaker. He acknowledged that he was not a pretty man, but consoled himself with the thought that his wife contended he f- -- was the best looking man in the world, though he could get no one elae \ to sympathize with him. Voice?That's right. (Appluuse.) Mr. Sligh?You know how it feels don't you ? (Renewed laughter.) Mr. Sligh was a very bashful refor mer. His reform was ingrained from birth and he could not be anything else. He declared that aa railroad commissioner he had always risen above factional prejudice and had endeavored to solve all questions in an equitable way between the people and the railroads. He had just remarked that he was for unity among the people when time was called, on him. Mr. G-. Walt Whitman spoke next. He took a hand primary to ascertain now many persons m me crowu uou read the Alliance demands, four persons responding. He began to tell about how a straightout and a monometallist in Columbia had written to the Governor thanking him for supporting the South Carolina College, when it began to "pour down cats and dogs" and he suspended for a while. He was dead game, however, and resumed when the rain slackened. He was still discussing everything in sight when time was called. Governor Tillman declared in his speech that General Butler had hollered like Tucker for office after 1876. He offered to joia Butter in signing a request to the State .Executive committee to have a separate Senatorial box in the primary. He added that even if Butler could get more votes in a separate box he was going to get the g legislators or there would be hocuspocus somewhere. I don't understand an expression Hv that General Butler used at Darling* ton, but 1 tell him if he will quit absoj lutely discussing anything but public questions and quit accusing me of being a thief witn his dispensary questions, I \?iil promise to quit pelting him, for his record is twice as vulneroKIa aa mind If hp trwntsi m? <v>nrt"P ously I will not hit him below the belt, bnt I say that I am not to be intimidated or browbeaten. There are three questions that I want him to answer: First, let him name the man who he says told him that l ran at Hamburg and I will prove him a liar by all the other rioters. becond, let him give me the names of the constables who he says received $3 per day from the whiskey men while they were getting S2 from the Sta&e. I tried to Ret the best men I could for constables but I expect that I did get some black sheep in the croweL If he or any man knows of such cases let him name them. The third case I want hinf to settle with County Chairman Brice of Yorkville. General Butler said I insulted him at the Yorkville meeting and at tne unester meeting ne pitcnea mio iue in a very ungentlemanly and outrageous manner. He says he asked permission at Yorkvilie to reply to me and that he was refused. I read from the Yorkvilie Enquirer that Chairman Brice asked General Butler if he wished to replv and that he declined. He and ^ Mr. Brice can settle tljat between wt them. As (Governor and Senator we ouffht tc have enough respect for you and for ourselves to conduct ourselves in a decent manner in this campaign. I have simply met aggression and insult with the same. I want to say a word to my opponents. I don't know wny they hate me. They have imbibed poison from k the newspapers until they consider me a devil without honesty or principle: Well, suppose i accnowieage tnat 1 am a devil, but I claim that I have done something for South Carolina and I don't see why we can'c have peace. But they have got to come to us. There is no need of all this bitterness and intense feeling. It's sorter died out now, it's true, because tbe aatis are hopeless ^ and have no candidates. But they are hardened in their ways and they must go to church and get reform religion. General Butler began his speech by ^tatfing that Governor Tillman had deHkdhls time to the very thing that he said he desired him (Butier) to avoid?personalities. If you take away the abuse of Cleveland and Simonton and myself and other3 from his speech there is nothing left. General Butler answered the Governor's question concerning Mr. Brice by saying that before the speaking he had put the question to Mr. Brice as to whether there should be a ten mintues reply, and that Mr. Briee went to the Governor who said he was willing for Butler to ask him a question, but not for him to reply. Governor Tillman must understand right now, whilst he says he is not going to be bulldozed, that I never have been qulldezed and never will be bulldozed either. I promise" him now that if he will confine himself to legitimate debate he will have no cause to complain of me. I do not beg him to keep the lash off, but he must not Ko Ktt nnf tnhAri T otribfi ho/>t picau tUC UKMKJJ (H/V nutu x JVA.AO.V wuvu , which I am certain to do. The people want enlightened discussion and they want to know the remedies offered for their troubles. Our people are true and brave and gallant and they want the truth outside of rings and cliques and they will come up as free American citizens and cast their votes. I join with the Governor in invoking the restoration of harmony which is so essential to oar progress and wel fare. Xo human being" can say that I have uttered a word that would tend to separate the white people of this State Into factions, because I know the Republican party is standing ready to tnrow itself Into the breach with its 150,000 negro majority and capture the State. I appeal to the people to lay aside all political hostilities and animosities and put their shoulders together and unite for the best. The Governor says that he is going to Deat me in this race. Sow that is an old dodge. He can claim the heavens and the earth, but that is not going to elect him. This is the first time the Governor has indicated that he would join me in requesting a separate box for the Senatorial race. At Edgefield some of my reform friends took me aside rod told me that they wanted to vote for na hnt. thftf. fhoir not. tret hank on the movement, as they feared Clemson College would be shut up and all that sort of tiring. My friends, 1 do not believe in reactionary legislation. All good citizens rejoice in the accomplishments of the Reform movement All of us ought to be reformers, and no patriotic citizen can undertake to destroy what has been accomplished. The Governor's administration is, however, amenable to just criticism, and because I find something in it to criticize he cries out "abuse," and says that I attack him personally. Referring to the constable question, Gen Butler said that he was not going to be an informer, but he would say that while passing through Spartanburg at the time of the Darlington disturbance a gentleman told him that they had a nice set of spies there and intimated that they were taking pay from the whiskey men. How, in the name of common sense said Gen. Butler, can the conclusion, be avoided, when constables shut their eyes as they walked past open barrooms. Answering the Governor's remarks about the Hamburg incident, he saic: 1 think that in the course of the next few days I can furnish the Governor with a certificate. I was told that when he went to Hamburg he could not be found when the firing began. I say to the Governor, now, that if he will join me in requesting a separate box for the people to determine in a primary whom they want, that we will get a fail expression of opinion and that he will find some political surprises in this State Dy tne zstn or August. Although he has been crowing and flapping his wings, he will go home that uay with his linger in his mouth. If he can beat me fairly, I shall not whine. If he beats me fairly and honestly 1 will do as much as any man in this State to put him in the Senate. He has not said as much for me. He says that I charged that he has brought chaos into the State. If we were not on the eve of chaos at Darlington and Florence, God save the country from chaos. I voted for him and the entire ticket and I have never thrown one obstacle in the way of his enforcement of the law, but I say thft he must be subject to criticism. No man in this State was more surprised than I was when it was found after 1876 that I was the man to be sent to the Senate. The people called for me with practical unanimity and I went there by the unanimous vote of the Wallace House. Taking up Governor Tillman's charges of corruption in federal affairs, Gen. Butler declared that if the Supreme vuuio wao uunupu auu iuc u&uuuv umva been bought and the House owned by Wall street, then popular government was a failure. Gen." Butler was very effective in replying to Governor Tillman's remarks about carrying pitchforks and rocks to Washington with him. He said that if the Governor got up in the Senate the Senators would tell him, "Fling your rocks, young man; ",1 ?-si ~ ?AAMn lftfr we Will go 111 lillO Uiuan. IWIUS auu KU you throw them at vacancy." (Laughter.) The General said that the Senate was the best oratorical burying ground he knew. "These pyrotechnic fellows get scant treatment." He related an instance of a man in the Senate " who started his own mouth off and then went off to leave it." The man in question sei?t some manuscript to the cier&'s aesK to D8 reaa. ana wane cue clerk was readidg it went off to the cloak room, where he remained until the clerk was nearly through reading when he returned and resumed his speech. Having denounced the Senate how does Governor Tillman expect to have any influence there? He cannot get n <5- rwon /tan OY> XXrH^fl h^l wuau apiuucuu uiau mu auu nuv-u " - , asks for an appropriation for South Carolina they will say to him, "Go and get it yourself." (Laughter and applause.) His speeches remind me of the plney woods yearling. Take away all the abuse and nothing is left but tail and ears. (Laughter.) Gen. Butler closed his speech witn a stirring peroration in which he said if be forgot his people may tne gooa j^ora paraijztj Ms tongue and strike him speechless. Senator John Gary Evans followed. He began to speak in apathetic vein, recalling the doings of his binamen in Marion, when he was interrupted by cheers for Ellerbe. He made the following explanation concerning his re mark at the Florence meeting that the Reformers had to "buy out" the Columbia Register. "I don't think anybody will believe that any Reformer had a dollar to buy any newspaper. We held a meeting in Columbia to see if we could raise money enough, and afterward the Register came over to our assistance, and if it was bought it did not get any of my money, ana 1 aon c Geneve was benght. I am here to defend any paper that has hit a lick for us. As long as the Register stands by us I shall stand by It." The Game Cock discussed the school and dispensary questions and said that the profit from the latter ought to be applied to the public schools. He entered a kick about the candidates for V Governor being allowed only half an hour in which to do their speaking. It was makiDgthe canvass a farce and he wanted more time even if it had to be taken from other candidates. Secretary Tindal made a nice speech, sayiDg that the people must keep the government in their hands and not al- ' low future rings, adding that they must not exercise their power in a spirit of revenge. General Ellerbe was the last speaker. lie was received by his townsmen with great applause, lie said he was for peace and harmony but that the minority must give in to i the majority. He called upon both sides to lay down their arms and join In 1 helping to build up the State. He said J that he did not favor the dispensary law at lirst, bur tnat it naa pannea ouc * better than he bad expected. lie S thought that the opposition should help t perfect it instead ol" try to kill it. i This ended the sweakin?. ( ( SIX WERE KILLED. i 1 Bloody ?nd Fatal Cousequ. e&ce* of tbe ( n.Auf ar~\ls A | ?" 1 Chicago,J uly 0.?Six dead and an in- , definite number of injured is the record ] of casualties in the strike conflicts in j Chicago today. Yesterday one man was shot in the leg. If the blood-letting tomorrow shall show a like ia- ; crease, the coroner will have a sum- ; mer's work before him. The develop- * ments of yesterday went far to convince c all thinking people that the gravity of c the situation had not been appreciated c by the authorities or the people at lapge. a TTTKA rnoro KQPQ Wnwnflf T x giouu? vvuw nuin ucio uunu^ uuv. \ road strike of 1877, and who saw the f atmosphere clear preceptibly when no t more than eighty bronzed *nd dusty a regulars from. the plains marched f down Madison street and went into ? camp on the hke front, wagged their hearts bnnwindv when three times that number were ordered from Fort . Sheridan, comprising the three arms of c the service, and said they would make 8 short work of Mr. Debs's followers. c Bat after tweive hours of as patient ? and presistent coolness and bravery c under trying circumstances as was a ever seen, these same citizens and the t officers in command were forced to ad- c mit that things were not as they were c in '77 and that it was still a long mark a to peace and the resumption of unim- v peded traffic on any of the railroads y running out of Chicago. t The developments of the night and those of today have confirmed tne con- c viction that nothiDg short of an over- c whelminar armed force, with instruc- a tions to shoot to kill, can settle the 8 trouble, or as Col. Crofton put it, -'it has ceased to be a mere movement of a troops and has become a campaign." I The local and State authorities have t awakened to the critically grave nature \ of the strike malady which is afflicting a tae nawoa generally, uuo v^uiuayu iu a particular, and are taking measures to 6 apply adequate remedies. The city : police force has already been recruited . up to over 3,000 men, and Dy request of Mayor Hopkins and by order of Gover- 2 nor Atgeld, two brigades of State mili- ? tia have been ordered here to aid in * quelling the disturbances. -i At the nation's capital, also the fact a is recognized that the preventing con- t ditions are entirely out of ordinary and t that provisions must be made for sucb i a massing of Gghting men as has never t before been seen together in the histo- c ry of the nation in time of peace,if the c authority and dignity of the Federal j government and the processes of its courts are not to be laughed to scorn for an indefinite time. Tbe strike ques- ^ tion is so infectious at certain points f that the President and his advisers bo- 1 lieve it would be unwise to withdraw 8 any uiore regular troop3 from the coun- t try west of Chicago. It is therefore in F contemplation, should the forces, Fed- C era], State and municipal already gath- t ered here, be unequal to tbe task of re- ] storing order to send here the compa- j nies stationed oil the Canadian border, c with the reserved intention, if circum- ( stances demand it, of exercising the t right to call for 20,000 men of the crack ^ military regiments of New York and ^ Pennsylvania. 1 The day in Chicago has been one of a constant alarms and calling for police, ? leputy marshals and soldiers here, t there and everywhere thtoughout a ' wide stretch of territory in the south- c ern part of the city. Riot has been a running rampant throughout the day: t cars have been overturned, switches t broken and tracks obstructed in num- r ornno tttotjo lho wad annHeH In a Vi V UkJ IT UJO, WUV WU&VU MW - * ^ many instances to cars, switch towers $ and the like, not to mention an attempt j to fire a part of the great Armour packing plant?in fact, at one time the incendiary blazes followed each other in 8 such quick succession that the lire de- E partment was put to straits to care for ' all of them. To add to the gravity of ' the situation it was found that the strikers were interfering with the po- I lice, railroad and lire alarm telegraph t iir\ AW f nrrt inofQnAao SJfSlCUJB, auu 1U VU.C wnv mguuuvv^ policemen who were using the police telephone calls were stoned The assaults of mobs, however, was not met with the passive resistance which characterized the course pursued yesterday. Oa two occasion at least their attacks were met with accurately aimed lead. During a riot, in the forenoon, over an incoming milk train at KensingtoD, a deputy United States marshal sho3 and killed two strikers, and during the afternoon, the deputies guarding an incamlng Baltimore and Oiiio passenger train replied to tbe volley of shot3 and stones which the strikers showered upon them by turning their revolvers loose, killing four oftheir assailants and wanndm^ a number of others. Stined to Deatb. Chicago, July 6.?S. R. Ritchie, a special policeman employed by the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago road, was stoned to death by a m^ ihis afternoon, at the Fifth-seventh street crossing of that road. Ritchie, who was also a deputy sheriff, caught some boys overturning a switcn soanty ana com- . pelied them to set it upright again. While h9 was talking t j the boys a mob approached and attempted to burn the shanty, Ritchie drew his revolver and threatened to kill the first man who approached the shanty. The mob kept, surging around him, but he held it off until his revolver was accidentally discharged, the bullet striking him in the foot. He was easy prey for the mob then and they quickly had him down. rney stooa arouna ms ooay ana literal- , ly stoned him to death. His head was ' pounded almost Co pieces. The mob J finally went away leaving him for dead | but he was still aiive when the police arrived. He was taken to the hospital \ but died in a short time. No arrests. ( were made. J In Dinjfe*1. ; Bristol, Tenn., July 5.?News i ria T?neirr? Rra?il OWLUCO llVUi M'kV VkV VMMVAktfy statin? that Reverend Eiward E. Tilly, Methodist missionary to that country 1 from the Holston conference, is in i great danger of losing his life because ! he took sides with the rebels and I against the president in the recent 1 .troubles. It is understood here ] that foreigners who praticipac- i ed are to be courtmartlaled and ! shot. Tilly was born and educated in . this city. J i - / TilE GREAT Si'RIKF. 1 HOUSANIOS OF MEN ARE NOW OUT ANL> MORE GOING. i rhe National Government Act * by Movlne ] Tiv-gps? The Bnalnes# ot ihe Road* 8nf- ' l^iloe Somewhat?Strikers Occaalonally < Ktotous. | Washington, July 4.?Secretary Lamont weDt to the War Department ; ifier the cabinet meeting yesterday and \ nade public the following statement: ! rhe United States marshal, the United ( slates District Attorney and the United states District Judge, having certified to \ .he President that in their judgment it is ] mprscticable to otherwise execute the 1 >rder3 of the court, the troops under ( >nmmanrt of flol. Crofton at Fort Sher- 1 dan, consisting of eight camps of infan.ry, two troops of cavalry and a battery )f lis^ht artillery have been ordered to Jbicaeo to enforce the observance of the aws of the United States. These orders vere telegraphed at 3:30 p. m. to Cal. Martin, the adjutant general at Gen. idiles headquarters in Chicago. < "ts * oil *\a? n fn rtrao f * Jt4 reigai BUipiUOUlO vv uu puiuto nv/ou i >f Pittsbrug are practically at a standstill. ( [ curly-two Western roads have notified ] be Pennsylvania Company'a general i )ffice la Pittsburg that they will not re t seive freight of any bind, until the boy:ott has been settled. Freight trains < ire tied up all along the routes between t Pittsburg and Chicago and the losses j rom the delays will be enormous. The { ailroad officials today, for the first lime, idniit their inability to move through reight. All efbrts are concentrated in :eeping local freight and passenger trains ( QOViDg. I The situation 011 the Wabash is more [esperate than at any time sine* the trike began. All of its trainmen, inludmg locomotive engineers, have quit. Scarcely a wheel on the entire system is aoving. The Chicago and Alton i3 Jso greatly embarrassed. None of its rain3 got through to St. Louis this norning. Several trains'are reported tied :p at Bloommgton. The Wabash shops ,t Toledo have been closed for lack of workmen. In anticipation of a conflict >etween strikers and non union men in he Missouri Pacific yards, the members if the first regiment M. N. G. have re- i eivea oraers w ropurL at tuo aimui; a uri hold themselves in readiness for in- t tanL action. I Chicago, July 4?Col. Crawford c ,nd his 650 United States troops from Tort Sheridan arrived at the Northwes- * em depot jast before midnight on their J my to the various riotous points in and ? tround Chicago. An order was received it the Fort fo move at 4 o'clock, but the t tart was not made until 9 p. m., and t t took over iwo hours to cover the iwen- t y-five miles. There are eight companies r -f the Fifteenth JRegiment, two troops Q if cavalry, B and K, of the Seventh I Isgiment, and Battery F of the First v Lrtillerv. The second train, bearing a .ccoutresaenta and cannon, nulled in af- t. er the troops' train, bat stopped quarer of a mile east of the Chicago river. 0 v s soan as the regiment lined np on ? he platform a conference was held ia n >ne of the cars between Col. Crjfton c ommanding, ^United btates Attroney a lilchrist, J. M. E?an, Assistant LCar- v hal Donnelly and the stafi officers, q omprising Lieut. Col. Obansheim, Maj. a $ayly, L'.ent. Blow, Adjutant and Qaar- p ermaster Simley. Manager E^an, pre- e ented the claim of the railroads, and af- d cr a hrief aonsnltation the following ap- F ortionments of troops were made: Companies A, C, G, and H, comprising J he First Batallion of 250 men, to go to * Slue Ialand under command of Msj. J; Sayley; companies ? and F, under ? ommand of Col. Humphreys, to go to c Jrand Crossing, and companies E and e ), Msj, Hartz commanding, go to t ItocK Yards, the cavalry to be divided i ip tomorrow between Grand Crossing t ,nd Stock Yards, and the battery will ;o to the latter place. Col. Crotton't. t teadquarters are to be in this city, from t rhich point te will direct the manage- c nent of the troops. After the decision ^ 3 to the location of the regulars they J oardfid the tram and were backed to ? he baeeof supplies, wb6re two day's : ations were lseusd, and the various de- ]j ?i ? morntiaJ t-n fhoir rAon^rf.ivp ^ dUiltLUCIibO lUQl^UWU IV HUVM w k 'epots for the vrioua points, The First Battalion left: from the Bock Island at 2 m. on a special train, with a flat car thead of the eDgine, on which was Qounted the artillery. This precaution yas taken as a show of utrength, and ras suggested by Milchri3t. The detachment for Grand Crossiog eft the depot about the same time on he Illinois Central trian. At 8 o'clock this moraine: Stfift & J >o. succeeded in getting oat a stalled t rain of beet which had been on the rack at Halatead and Fortieth street < ince Monday. Thirty meo irom J Jompaay B., Ffceenth United Sates In- ] antry, under Capt. Cbapio, with 100 ? >olicemen, guarded the train to the i Michigan Central tracks. When the ' ;oldiers marched back to camp they i 7ere followed by a crowd of about 800 1 uen aod boys, who cursed and yelled at s ,hem until Capt. Cbapin ordered his nen to charge bayonets, and scattered he crowd. . THE STRIKERS FIRED UPON ' f Ciiicaoo, 111 , ju)y;5.?At 3 o'clock ] ;his afternoon a special train consist- j ng of an engine and one passenger i jar, was sent out on the Lake Shore ( [load from Van Buren station loaded ] ^ith a detail of special police. Officers r )f the road were also on board. The j police had been dispatched to aid in ; n.ATrln?nf fpoina in fho Tri/>inff.v rvf 4 -UC LUUYIUg v? biamo <u vuv 1 , ;he stock yards. At Fourth street the ] 110b grew so demonstrative that the j ;raiQ was compelled to halt. The en- 1 jineer believed himself the object of ] ittack and drew his revolver. Before 1 le could shoot a policeman disarmed j aim. The crowd saw the movement ] ma became wild with frenzy. They 1 rusbed upon the train, literally swarm- 1 ,ng around it, pelted It with stones , and stick?, breaking many wiBdows ] ind bowling like mad men. The police then drew their own revolvers and t ired into the crowd. Oae or two men i ire said to have been bit, but it is not i pet known how seriously tbey are hurt. < A. dozen shots or so were fired. In the i meantime the engineer had reversed \ Sis engine and the train was soon < forced backward out of reach of the j cow unbridled mob and returned to the i city. This is the first shooting in the j present strike. It occurred In a locality i where the men were already furious < and it is believed will be the signal for i desperate encounters very soon. A Rock Island express from the < We3t attempted to follow the train < bearing, the soldiers from Blue Island into the city this afternoon, but at ; Fortieth street the train was effectually < blocked by the strikers, who had i thrown flat cars across tbe track. The mob induced the firemen to get off the sab. Chief Clerk HubbelL of the Superintendent's office of the Rock Island was severely stoaed while attempting to switch the Blue Island*; ? / special bearing the soldiers and the mob burned a Rock Island freight car at Fortieth street and would have demolished the tower at that point but were prevented by the police and fire department. At 6 o'clock tonight a mob number Ing- 2,000 men started North on the Lake Shore tracks, marching toward the heart of the city. At twenty-eighth street they overturned two freight jars on the track; at Twentieth street three, and at, Twenty-fifth street two. They were met at Twenty-second street by a small detachment of police md before the officers could make ;inv irrests the mob had dispersed. The irainmen repaired the damage within iwo hours. At 5.80 special D3tective Giegory of ;he Western Indian Railway shot two lien m the leg who had made an attempt on his life. The shooting was lone in selfdefence. Two cars loaded with meat were burned near the Fort Wayne crossing before the lire department v/sre abl? to extinguish the lame?. The Union Stock Yards Switchl- ?* Company has been blocked Dy four irfeight cars which the strikers lave placed acros3 the tracks. From ;here they proceeded to the round louse wun toe intention or piimg some box cars on the switch leading to :ha round house so that no engines jould get In or out of the round house, inspector Hunt with fifty policemen net the mob, however, and drove ;hem away. The mob is very rabid and seem bent >n doing everything to destroy property. They pay no attention to a:tempts ;o dissaude them, having become reckd-ssly daring. There are large crowds locking every street and alley in the itoek yards district. EXCITING TIMES. /",TTTr< a nr\ TiiIct r* The sun TOAnt". VJliVAWVj fj UAJ V- 4-uw wuu n iown on by far the most turbulent and sritical day thus far in the unparilleled railroad strike and boycott. JVhen it opened there was a general leeiing that its passage would go far oward clearing the atmosphere, if inleed it did not practically lift the em>argo on commerce which has held this :ity in its grip for the past week. That ixpectation was chiefly based on the >resence of Federal troops in the most langerous district. Looking at the situation at the close of the day it must be ionfes3ed that the hope indulged at the ?pening in this regard has not been ustified. The troops were few in num >ers at best, when they were divided nto squads and distributed at points eparated by very considerable disances,it soon became evident that their jrestige as overawing bodies had been lissipated at the same time. Instead of fleeing in fear before the 'aces of the veteran?, as was expected hey would do, the turbulent thousands urged about the little basd of soldiers, eered and hooted them, and cast vile hreats at them and literally played tide-and-seek with them, stopping rains at will and generally rendering he embargo In th9 military district Qore effective, if possible, than before. Che throng of strikers did not resist Jncle Sam's police, again and again vhen there were thousands of ttiem >bout a train while it sought to move hey gave way like water before the eveled bayonets of a single company >f infantry or the trampling of a single quad of cavalry. Like water too they loae^ in again at a .point just beyond. Lhey turned swiches, derailed freight ars in front of the slow moving train ,nd played all sorts of railroaders tricks pith which the soldiers :were unac[ualnted. Thus is was that the troops kJhAdlr VoiiHa in naroovoronna onH >ll LJLLC uuuua JL UO 1U yoiouiviuuwv MUM iatieDce spent the entire day in a vain ndeavor to get one train load of Iressed. beef out of sight of the starting loint. Another ana plea'santer thing this exlerience 3howed and that was the adoirable coolness, self poise and discipine of the troops throughout an exaslerating twelve hours. Not a shot was ired; not a man was picked by a bay?net, which argues that with force nough the soliders would have done he-work which was expected of them. Che quality was there, merely the quan lty was lacKing. Aside from the immediate neighbored where the troops were operating, here was plenty of excitement and dis* iraer. lireat moDs gamerea oa jl. tse ihore, Rocfe Island, and the Western Indiana tracks and proceeded to obtruct them by overturning box cars, >reaking switches and the like. At one joint they set tire to a switch tower md interlocking the switch box, hough the flames were extinguished >efore serious damage was done. In wo instances there was bloodshed. On he Western Indin ana track, a hard >ressed special policeman fired at his mrsuers wounding a striker in the leg. )n the Lake Shore Road an official of hat company, in charge of a train vhich he was endeavoring to force .hrough, emptied his revolver point )lank into the massed strikers about lim wounding two or three it is beieved. He was saved from the fury of ,he mob by his engineer, who put on steam and ran back to the point of ,?naf(nn Ct->n1T7 oftor nrtrtO {J YYlnh )VCki. IIUK kJUVi U J ULUWiL uvvu , M J?.wv j lumbering 2,009 started Xorth on the Lake Shore tracks at Thirty-seventh itreet, overturning cars and obstructing the line iu every possible way. Chey were not checked until they eached Twenty-second street, where a leavy force of police was massed, and innnflaHo/1 in tnrniricr t.hom hdf*lr_ ) U^VV<JUV.U 1U VUX/M VMW. Some Pl8ia Talk. Atlanta, Ga.-, July 4.?A Washingion special says: It developes that the inancial statement which Mr. Cleve.and sent out by the press associations ast Monday nijfht was caused by a yisit of some New York financiers >ver here. They came to persuade aim to make another issue of bonds. L'ney agreed to Dlace -350,000,000 in New York and New Eagland. Bat Mr. Cleveland remernbsred the protest ;hat went up from the country when tie made his first issue. He had no dea of facing another such protest and le told these New Yorkers plainly that ie would make no bond issue, even if ;hey agreed to place them at a high premium. To emphasize his determination to make no further bond issue, to make this determination public and ?o attempt to stir up some little patriDtism among our New York bankers, ifi wrote that statement. In his blunt way he did it to let them know that ;hey could not beguile himiato another Dond Issue. He has determined tfcat ;he gold reserve shall stick to the very stone flooring of tbe treasury vaults with not enough gold dollars to speckle :he stones before he shall make another bond issue. If there is ever to be luother issue of bonds duriDg his administration be says congress shall authorize it. He will assume the authority no mce without an express act 3f congress. The plain statement Mr. Cleveland made to the ew l orders, srho were the representatives of a big syndicate formed to force another issue of bonds and gobble them up, is said to have dissolved the syndicate, r.f that is true this money may be put out in other directions and matters financially may be eased up thereby. Four aS a Birtb, Alexandria, La., June 30? Mrs. TT;Uam A f Aim /tKiMrnn uiibULi, gaye LUILU IUUI v/unu^u, weighing nine pouad3 each?two boys and two girls. l V/ ~" - NEW PARTY NECESSARY. MARION BUTLER SAYS THE SOUTH AND WEST MUST UNITE. Th?i Pr*-frld*ut ot tha Xat;ouaI Alllacce Mow SpaJtklog: Id TJils St*te Glv?s an I ntercutlnjr Iifcerview? The Alll*RC? In Politic*. Columbia, S. C., July G.?Mr. Marion Butler, President of the National Farmers' Alliance, while on a visit to this citv yesterday was interviewed. "The Alliance," he said, "is doing a very satisfactory work at this time. Perhaps there is not as much hurrah now as there was at the begianlng, for the surplus enthusiasm which generally accompanies such an crgaization at the outset has spent itself. It is no devoting a good deal of its attention to < Ka V?nr?ir? /I no f n>o luc uus:ucao uc^aiirncui, ao iuav ujachinery has gotten in good order. At the last meeting of the national executive committee, it was decided to establish a national exchange, which will very probably be located at Baltimore. The intention of such an exchange is to have one general agent make contracts for the various State exchanges and buying goods in bulk, get them at more advantageous prices for the Alliance members. The various State organizations, most of which have capital behind them, would vir many oe responsiDie 10 me contract of the national Alliance, which would place its orders after receiving commissions to do so from the various State exchanges. The government of Chili," he went on to say, "thought so mnch of the undertaking that it sent a special commissioner to the meeting to make arrangements for the purchase of nitrate of soda by the national Alliance. An office has already been secured in Baltimore and the Baltimore anrl HMn "Railroad haci AfFpr<vi a able site for the depots of the national exchange and promised to build them. There can be no question," he said, "about the success of sucn an enterprise. In North Carolina alone, the State exchange does a business of over S500.000, and by proper management as large a business can be done by any other State. j\Tew charters are being issued every day for Alliances ia the Northwest. The Alliance is really stronger in the West than it i3 In the South. This applies to the members who have paid ap th?ir fees, although I believe that our machinery in the South is as good as that in the West. You do not hear so much now about the Alliance m South Carolina as in previous years, but its influence is. perhaps. stronger than it has ever been." Just at this time, Col, Duncan, the national secretary, came in, and in response to an inquiry from President Butler said that the membership in this >S'cate, which was in July, 1893, was 15,000. President Butler then went on to say by way of explanation tor this small membership that is paid up is smaller than it has ever baen sines it amounted to anything, but tbat amounts to nothing. Take my State for instance, where the membership at on? time w*s over one hundred thousand and yet, by the last report, it was only 26,000." He was then asked whether those members who had not retained active members were entitled to the benefits o? the Alliance exchanges. "They arj and they are not," he replied; "for instance, we do a larger business in North Carolina with 26,000 active members than we did with 100,000. While business is generally done under the seal of the sut-alliances, that rule is not ironclad. My lodge has only six morr.hprs- inqf. ennncrh tr\ rfttain its' charter, and yet we do the buying for at least forty farmers, all of whom are good Alliancemen. The sub-Alliances can and do purchase for those who they think are responsible. The hard times brought about the Alliance and yet it is now acting in preventing AIHonnommi frnm navinor t.hftir rinpft. Yet if we were to cut off these men from the privileges of Alliancemen, most of them would join. About this time the question of strikes was brought up and Mr. Butler said that he could not see where at any time s strike could do any good, as it was not a proper remedy for any evlL ''The Alliance would have nothing to do with politics, if the politics ot the country were in such shape that the members of the Alliance could live under it," was his statement in regard to the Alliance in politics. Then he went on to say: "As a proof of that when the Ailiance was organized it was purely for social and business purposes so the fitoo anrt r?r?fTrrl* nf all of fcnfl lirst meetings will show. The arguments cf the speakers in organizing tne lodges was that men living separate on farms at some distance from each other could not develop or rise to as high state as when they were thrown in frequent contact. One phrase generally used by the organizsrs was the only way you can generate was by the friction of intellect against intellect. It is the law of the development among our people. Acting on that hrnad nrincinle that men meetinar fre quently would benefit by each other's experiences in every department of business; tbat all would avoid the mistakes one had made and that all would benefit by one's successful experiment. This was bound to result in a greater production at less iabor and less labsr and less cost, and following this up they would distribute their products to greater advantage. This intercourse in the lodge room soon developed the belief among farmers that there was something radically wrong with the two great instruments of commercemoney and transportation. After discussing these question in the sub, county and State alliances, it was resolved at tbe meeting of the Alliance in 1889 that the Alliance ought to exert its influence to correct evils through legisla tioo, Deneving mat ioey nau ueeu brought about by uDjast legislation. This resulted in what is known a3 the political demands of tne Alliance, which sre practically the same now as adopted in 1889. This is the reason why the Alliance is in politics today, and It will continue in politics until the reforms it has asked for are secured ^ ? ^ mill or\(^iol C&iiU. LUt^LI 10 rv ill u CO uuc o\st*>?c*A and business features." Mr. Butler was asked whatbetnought of the attitude of Governor Tillmah towards the sub-treasury scheme. "The reason the Alliance supports Ben TillmaD," he said, "is because they know and believe that he is working to accomplish the same results as we are through the sub treasury scheme. The subtreasury or some other, is merely a suggestion on the part of the Alliance. Governor Tillman says that he believes in "dome other methods." The Alliance believes that Governor Tillman is honest and sincere in desiringjto secure the same results as it does, Tney Deiieve, therefore, that he and all other Alliancemen will, when elected, consult to secure that end. The sub treasury ought never to have been made a demand. It was intended as an illustration of how a demand onght to be carried out; if, however, there is a better plan no one will hesitate to accept it." Then Mr. Butler was asked whether the Alliance wa3 getting ready for the Presidential election in '96. He said m :.bat tQis worK ougnt to ds lawn upj ? now, but that it could hardly be done until the coming elections were over. He went on to say that "all sections whose predominant Interests are the , production of wealth have interests that are diametrically oppo3ad to a small class of monopolists and speculators in the ^North and East. They ] will never get a position that is just to them?I do not mean class legislation? I until they can have influence In the national affairs of our government and that can never come through an administration that" is nominated by the Republican or Democratic partv as now constituted, because the class in- < terests that now dominates has control ( of the machinery of both of these organizations. This condition is soon going to force a new alignment of par- ( tie?, and seems to me all patriotic peo- < pie ought to do all they can to see it { come about as soon as possible. This t result will have to come about by the t Solid West and South and all of thosa t whose interests are common with them ' uniting in nominating and electing the . administrative offices of the govern- 1 I meat. What I would liKe to see come about is for a national convention to ! be called representing the interests I have named and made up from Demo- > crats from the South and by that I t mean Democrats?with due deference i to the News and Courier?3nd the Peo* c pie s party from the West and tbose t from the North who want to join, nom- t lnating a Presidential candidate and ( electing him. The People's party out , West Is nothing more than a party of converted Democrats, but who on accouDt o? their prejudice to that name . will not admit it, bnt they are as good J Democrats as the Jeffersonian Demo- 1 crats of the South." ? 'The real Democrats of the South i and the Populists of the West have the : same principles while the socalled i T\o(MAii?nfa fKA TT7ArifCfotaa ora J^CUJUUiaLO \JX. UUC T? WtOlU OIXJUCO OlO I nothiDg more than gold bug Democrats { and have never yet done anything to < electa Democratic President. Tnese t Western Populists or Jeff<rsonian { Democrats will not go into a Damo- , cratic convention witn that name, but < if a convention of the American party ' or the Jefiersonian Democracy were called they would combine with the 1 Democrats of the South to nominate k and elect a President. I would like to 1 see this combination effected in lime i n - _ ?. i one* L..1 ZD *?. r iur me campaign 01 iovo, uui- n. iu is i not done by that time, it is simply a ! matter of a few years before it will be done."?State. WASHINGTON NEWS. Gov. Atgeld Objects to Federal Troop a In Chicago. Washington, July 5.?The President, Secretary Lamont, Postmaster General Bissell, and General Shofield remained at the White House tonight until nearly 12 o'clock. Many teleapams were received and sent during the course of the evening; General Raffles brincrinar one over to General Scho fceld from General Miles. When the conference broke up Secretary Lamont, ; acting as spokesman for the President, announced there was nothing to make public, except the telegram from Governor Atgeld of Illinois and the President's response thereto. Governor Atgeld protests against the presence of United States troops in Chicago. To this the President responds: Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., July 5,1894. Hon. John P. Atgeld, Governor of IlliO Til ijuib, oprmgueiu, jui. Federal troops were sent to Chicago in strict accordance with the Constitution and laws of the United States, upon the demand of the Postoffice Department that the obstructions to the mails should be removed and upon the representations of the judicial officers of the United states tbat the process of the Federal courts could not be executed through the ordinary means and i upon abundant proof that conspiracies i Acrainst finmmerce between the < States. To meet these conditions ] which are clearly within the province of Federal authority, the presence of Federal troops in Chicago was deemed not only proper, but necessary, and there has been no intention of thereby interfering with the plain duty of the local authorities to preserve the peace of the city. (Signed) Groyer Cleveland. Governor Atgeld says that waiving all questions of courtesy the State of Illinois is not only able to take care of itself, but it stands ready to furnish < the Federal government aoy assistance it may need elsewhere. The State troops have not been ordered out be - J? n? cause noDouy iu wwa. vAdiutj, umuu 1 or private citizen, has asked for their assistance or Intimatedthat it was needed. Tne railroads aie paralyzed, he siys, \ not by reason of obstruction, but be- J cause they cannot get men to work 1 them; that such was the case wheu 1 State troops had been recently called out at the request of the Railroads els e- i where than in. Chicago. Atgeld, says i the conditions do not exist in Chicago t which bring the case within the Feder- , al statutes and that he (the President) < has bten imposed upon for political f ends. ( The following is the concluding par- , agraphs of Governor Atgeld's telegram: To absolutely ignore a local ' government In matters of this kind, when the local government is ready to 1 furnish any assistance needed and is ] amply able to enfore the law, not only insults the people of the State by ] imputing to them an inability ] to govern themselves or unwill- < ingness to enforce the law, but | is in violation of a basic principle , of our institutions. The question of Federal supremacy is in no way in- : volved. ]So one disputed it for a mo- : ment, but under our Constitution Fed* j i 1 ?u I erai supremacy anu imxu acu government mu3t go hand ia hand and to ig- 1 nore the tetter is to do violence to the 1 Constitution. As Governor of the State of Illinois I protest against thi3 < and ask the immediate withdrawal of 1 the Federal troops from active duty in this State. Should the situation at any time get so serious that we cannot control it with the State forces we will promptly and freely ask for Federal as sistance, but until such time I protest i with all due deference against this un- ] called for reflection upon our people . and again ask the immediate with- : drawal of these troops. I have the j bouor to b<\ 1 ours respecnuny, ^ John P. Atgeld, < Governor of Illinois. i I Double Killing:. Magnolia, Miss., J oly 5.?The news has reached here of a double killing that took place In Amite county. A i negro teacher named Hood wrote the i county superintendent of education an : insulting letter, about which some ; young men went to see him. They arrived at the negro's house at midday and sent a young man Darned Hanks in tn toll him fn ant. Thft IlfCrO responded to the request by snooting Hanks down and then, walked to the window and began firing on the crowd with a pistol. The crowd returned the fire, completely riddling the negro's body with bullets. Hanks was a son of an ex-sheriff of the county, and was exceedingly popular, and his death at j the hands of the negro has created great excitement. 1 ? \ I n |. _ v * NETTLES TO BUTLER. " CLARENDON'S COUNTY CHAIRMAN REPLIES TO HIS REQUEST r n the. TVf a F +a** n f ManaPftvi r* f OaaMam The Ssnat >rV Representative Promptly : ftipi:?s to Netties' Axuwer?interectlag ^ Readtnjr. Columbia, S. C., July S.?^A few Jays ago Senator Butler sent out to each >f the various chairmen of the Democratic executive committees of the several counties in the State a letter looking to )bt.ainiog representation on the boards of )rimary election managers Yesterday he following reply was received from ,be chairman of the Clarendon commitee: Manning, S. C-, Jone 30, 1894. Son. M. C. Batler, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: Yours of the 26th instant ;o band, in which you say: "For the coming primary election, 28 th of August next, I bave the honor ;o request that I be allowed trom among ny friends an equal division of the managers of said election. Either give me ;wo managers and give Gov. Tillman ;he other manager and the clerk, or give jov. Tillman two managers and give me ;be other and the clerk." I confess to very great surprise at the . ibove. You aeem^not to realiza the ob- 'U ects and interests ot our primaries, bat :o have reached the conclusion that their sole aim and end this year is centered n the Senatorial contests. Possibly pou have overlooked the fact that there s really to be no election in our primaries for a United States Senator, but a3 isual these officers are elected by the State Legislature, and it is to be presumed that our legislators will have some other merits and qualifications han aimnlv tn vr?'? fnr a TTnifc*^ SfcfttAa Senators. Yon have apparently jampad it the eocclasion that the heretofore Reform aad anti-Reform factions of the State have been revised and that their platforms of principles are nowconcen* iratedon Tillman an^ Batter, or on Fillmanism and Batlerism. Ton surely lost sight ; the fact that ' -it.'? _ i. ,nere are many oiaer ^naiaaies, eaca )f whom may feel as great interest in hia ndlvidaal election as you do. in yours. I relieve it is a Wet that there are already :oor candidates f->r Governor. Then ;here are candidates for the other State offices, for Railroad Commi* aioners, for Congress, for the Legislature, for county offices?a great host of candidates, sach one like yourself, possibly, fearful ^ | >f the conscqaences. Suppose that foiowicg your example each one of this nighty host should demand two manigers, that he might feel folly assured ;hat every vote cast lor mm was propery counted (and you must admit that n this Democartic country of ours you lave no rights that the humblest cannot ^ squally claim, what would ba the result? I think when you carefully consider ;his question you will realize that your ponftstis unreasonable. We have in Clarendon county twentyive clubs, and in each the line is strongy drawn between Rsformers and antiEJsformere. Fifteen of these clubs are Reformers and ten are Antis. At our primaries io 1892 we agreed upon the ollowing plan: Each club should select rom its own members two managers md one clerk, and a neighboring club of .he opposing faction should 'complete ;he ooard by sending another manager md a clerk. By this plan each clab had ;hree managers and two clerks and both actions Wire represented. We found t to be a most excellent plan and it ?ill probably be adopted again this year. Ef now these anti clubs (or Bsform ;lab8) should see fits to champion your candidacy, and to select Butler mana/vf ViriTT* A 'ccs) llicj wuuiu vi i/i/iuoo imitv a &tgu? io do so, and in this way yoa Hiay get pour wishes gratified, bat then, as yoa will note, tins is a private matter with ;he clab3 and not for the executive committee. Yoa know it is now "eqaal rights to all and special privileges to aone." Yours very respectfully. S. A. Kettle*, q Chairman Democratic Executive Committee, Clarendon County. capt. capers replies, Columbia, S. C., Jaly 2,1894. Mr. S. A. Nettles, Chairman, Clarendon Countv: Dear Sir: Your favor of Jane 30, In reply to the letter written by Senator Batler, asking for an equal representation at the coming primary election in ,he board ol manazers, duly to hand. Your expressions of surprise are as ibsurd as your ideas are narrow and pariisan. It affords me some satisfaction to feel sure that you do not express the - ?. ?iew8, nor do you represent the feelings, the executive committee of your county or of the white Democrats of South Carolina, matters not to what faction they may belong. Many of your refer* am AM Af 5UV/C3 IAJ VJCUi JJUViCi olo usativ4?uj v* 70a, bat I dismiss them and credit them to a bias which has characterized your public career for Che last four years. From many portions of South Carolina I have received most courteous replies to Senator Butler's letter?from :ounty chairmen, win have been in the movement longer than you have and who are no doubt just as true Reformers. Do me the Kindness to submit Senator ~~~ Batlef's letter to your executive com 1 :i mUA mutec WUULL lb i_UCCU5? 1UO OUJUpiQ iv jaest 13 only for "fair play" aad you s&ouldnotsho* so much nervoas agitation in anticipating that fur play would mean the removal of yourself and some 0 tuers irom iDiiueuce m v>iareuuuu uuuu- . ty. Very truly yours, John G. Capees. o An Accident at Oakley, Oaxley Depot, Berkeley Couniy, July 4.?Recently as the down train from Columbia was rapidly approaching this place two negroes, Ned Wehmanand an unknown colored man, were run over and killed at what is known as the "Broughton Swamp Trestle," about a half mile above the ri onnt-. WAhman i f. aonears. had clear el the trestle, and upon looking back 3aw that the unknown man was In danger of being Idjured. He sprang to his assistance, and it was in the attempt to save the man's life that both were killed. As soon as the men were discovered upontne tracts every enort on the part of the engineer and those in charge of the train was made to avert the accident, but without avail. They were so close upon the men that it was impossible to stop in time. A jury was empanelled and an inquest held by Trial 3 ustice R. W. Rains, acting as coroner, and a verdict was rendered in accordance witn the above facts,novblame attaching to the railroad company. The wonder is that like accldents have not happened before and ^ftAAiiAntlTT tha nooi>Aoa o VA UlUiC IIC4UCUUJ1 1VI kjlakj uv^ivuj, mang a public course of the railroad tract N ? and trust to luck to get out of the way ?fc.' of passing trains in time to avoid injury. ; ' - m