The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, July 18, 1894, Image 1

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VOL. XLYHI. WINNSBORO, S. C? WEDNESDAY, JULY 38, 1894. NO. 49. I L THE MANNING MEETING. I GENERAL RICHBOURG'S FIRST APP PEARANCEAS A SPEAKER. Tbe Crowd WUh Till man?An Ovation to Secretary Tlodal?Bntler Favors tbe Formation ot SUvar I,e?Knaa?AYkat the Other Cacdidates s?!d. Manning, S. C., July 10.?Notwithstanding the rain today the conrt house was crowded to hear the candidates for State and Senatorial honors. The speeches of all the candidates were regarded equal to, if not better, than at any previous meeting. The crowd was overwhelmingly for Governor Tillman for Senator to succeed Sutler. General Richbourg made his first campaign speech today. The meeting was presided over by | Hon. S. A.Nettle?, County Chairman. After prayer by Rev. H.M. Mood the k speakers were introduced In the followW ing order: Hon. J. Walter Whitman, General R. N. Richbourg, Hon. W. H. V TeldelJ, Governor B. R. Tillman, Senator M. C. Butler, Hon. John Gary Evans, Comptroller General W. H. Ellerbe and Secretary of State Tindal. The first speaker was G. Walt. Whitman who denounced the charge in Colnmhia.Tnnrnsl that he was run out Of Clarendon County in 1876 as a damnable lie. - ? -Gen R. N. Richbourg was the next w speaker. -S^said he was no politician * and appeareaS5^wflk,stump as a candir date because he had brought for ward by Reform papers an^orominent Reformers. He referred toCBBtep. \ John Gary Watts by saying that heitld , never known as a military man such an office as "Assistant Adjutant General," but he supposed that military men could create what they chose. He loved the military, and if elected thought he could make this arm cf the service the proudest boast of the 1 , State, 4 XX7. XT VqMqiI of ItCplCOCUlAUTO TV* JLI* jl emeu v* j\ Edgefield spoke in behalf of his candi\ dacy for Railroad Commissioner and ; said he was unfairly beaten by tbe Legislature at the last session, jw" Governor Tillman was uproarously |t- "^B^applauded a3 he began to speak. He j said he was telling no lie when he said he was glad to seethe people. Yeldell had said It was chilly, but if he had struck Manning the day he first came here, "Good God, what would he have said about the weather?" He wanted to go to the Senate because he could do more for the people than any other man. FTfl Trnnlri an t.hara with a fnrtc and let out some stench. The Democratic party was as rotten as the Republican. We have seen the President, said he, ^ sell out; go back on the Democratic plattorm; strike down silver; veto the seigniorage bill and now they are tink-f. ering with the tariff bill in Washingf : ton to see how little reform they can give you. If Cleveland is to set the pace of the Democracy in these United I States I am not a Democrat. (Applause.) Free silver meant simplv the restoration of the double standard and ten cents cotton instead of seven cents. These scoundreis know it and they try to befuddle the people and send fel\ . lows to Congress like Col. Elliott to ^ vote for Cleveland's policy. The ftem y publicans and Democrats In New York and the New England States are ldenC tical as to their tariff views and we have got to align our forces with those W of the West and take charge of the Democratic party. If we don't, then we deserve to continue as slaves. We P are the slaves of money and with aK Four ooast? acouj ireeaoai we <ue tuo greatest slaves on the earth. They buy and sell our Congressmen like eheejj, They control elections and they are trying to control this election now and - . buy your votes for the Senate. I won't say General Butler will be Cleveland's "cuckoo," but I say he has more patronage than anybody and that Cleveland prefers him tc me. General Butler was well greeted by the crowd. He warned the people to look out for rings, slates and cliques mat are looming up. xie uuuaiucicu the Alliance the best organization the farmers had ever had, and if it had adhered to the principles which originated it. it would have accou,pik>hul untold benefits, it bad made a great mistake by laying down an arbitrary, Procrustean role with which to work out the financial problem. It was legislation under the McKinley bill and r subsequent Republican legislation that had brought about the hard times. He thought the tariff bill would be put into operation within three weeks and, better times would come when it got] well under way. In proportion as ail ver has been degraded the price or farm commodities has gone down and where silver has been recognized fully and completely prices have gone up. He advised that silver leagues be orifr ganized, not only in the South and PKft West, but in the Northern and Middle States. If we can't get our own party to come up abreast of the times and m give us the relief we are entitled to, he was willine to take relief wherever we could get "it. When sny man talks about not voting for me I want him to put bis band on some act wherein I have been untrue to my duty. He must find some other excuse for turning me down. I challenge any man to point out where I have neglected any public duty imposed on me by the peo?le of this State, either in war or peace, have not taken up the burden from personal ends; I have done it sometimes carrying my life in my hands, and I have simply tried to do my duty in the Senate. The office belongs to the sovereign people and if I am not elected I shall thank my God for being able to turn that office over to you without one blot or tarnish upon its es cutcheon. God grant that all the good tbat has been done by the Keform movement may be perpetuated. God grant that every patriotic citizen of every faction may take up whatever good has been done for the Commonwealth of South Carolina and carry it forward to completion. If Governor Tillman is necessary tor the perpetuation of the Reform movement the best thing you can do for him and for you is to keep him here where he can watch and guard it and send me back. (Laughter and applause.) Keep him a* heme where he L can watch the antis and prod them mg. with his pitchfork. P General Butler had a great deal to [ say on the line of tariff and silver legislation and he was listened to closely and applauded frequently. He held that his service in the Senate had made him better qualified than ever to repre* sent South Carolina in Congress. tjenaiorjonn ixary j^vans xoiiowea. He spoke of the achievements of KeL form and said some member of the & Legislature, who had beea a CocfederBS - ate soldier, going to Baltimore when the bonds were about to be refunded and saying that Tillman ought not to be assisted in this. This same person, he 3aid, had introduced bills in tne Legislature to keep the btate debt running at 6 per cent. If elected he would pursue the same policy as Tillman had. ^ The reason the anti newspapers whined " and wrote editorials against him being Governor was because he had whipped oil >knir trofnoH nQTHannAnfarians In ^ (U1 bJUGAl. bicuiivu y?i4av?**4v?w..w? the Legislature. He had the facts to prove that the Darlington Dispensary f troumble was a riot gotten up by the whiskey trust to show that Tillman could not rule In South Carolina, and at the proper time he would produce them. General Elierbe was the next speaker. He declared the Farmers movement ought not to be turned ii to a lawyers movement. As Comptroller General he paid out annually 554,i)00 to lawyers who were officers of the State while he only paid out $22,000 to all other classes. Lawyers were not competent to represent the interest of 'armaro qci farmers vara fhamqpluftq Secretary of State Tindal was tbe last speaker. He was handsomely gieeted by his home people. His speech was full of substantial advice to the farmers, advising them to educate their children above all things. He said that no rings should be allowed i i the State and hoped that the Dispensary question WDuld be separated from politics. As long as the moral i'orce3 of the State were devided strife would be stirred up. We do need peace, and so far as we can have it without sacrificing principle we muss have it. This was James E. Tindal'd day. Nearly every man in the audience was for Clarendon's son for Governor. Nor no man in South Carolina is more beloved in his home county than Mr. Tindal. He has been honored for years by them and now his thousands of friends and admirers want to see him given the highest honor in the State. If they can bestow this honor on him thflv mill wnrfr ltfrf* hflavPTSt fr.rt di-? so Mi? Tindai was given an ovation today. M^^SS' "S[?tr"Wa'y to Prevsnt a Witness From Testifying Columbia, S. C, July 13.?The State yesterday obtained the details of an exceedingly ugly affair which occured i in the upper portion of the State, just across the line dividing the counties of Abbeville and Edgefield, in the first named county, on Friday night last. The affair was the outrageous treating and shooting of a negro laborer by a mixed mob of white and colortd men without any apparent nause other than that the victim had been summoned to give testimoney in a case against some negroes, pending in court. lie will probably die from the effects of the treatment he received. The facts of the case were obtained yesterday from Cap. E. H. Youngblood, a prominent and reliable gentleman of Edgefield county, the United States Commissioner In that section, on whose place the victim lived. It appears that the negro, James A. Xelson, is a quiet, well-behaved laborer upon Capt. Youugblood's place. On i Friday night last, some time after midnight, several negroes and white men came to the negroe's house and, knocking on the door, woke him up. They told him that their wagon had broken down and asked him to come out and assist them in reparing it. He got a torch and went out with them. When they got to the road tho torch was knocked from his hand and about fifty white men and negroes surround ea mm. xaey tiea nim secursiy auu started him across the line into Abbeville, county. They_gave no reason forthe seizure. As the ne^ro was passing Capt. rouneblood's house he cried' out once, but the mob placed pistols at his i head made him keep quiet. Tt.ey then dragged him along a distance of about three miles until the Cedar Creek section, just over the Abbeville county line, was reached. Th3re they proceeded to whip him In a most brutal manner, and finally wound up by skootlng him with shotguns in the right leg and right side, leaving him there, evidently expecting hiir. to die. The negro manaaed to secure aid, I however, and got home. Capt. Youngblood says that the man'3 bcdy is a mass of cuts, stripes and blisters, where he was beaten, and that there are numberless bullet holes in his leg aDuaiue. ne is m a ^laauvm wuuition. It seems that in this section of Edge field county there are a number of white men and negroes of low class who have been violating the revenue laws. Several days before the-event referred to a deputy marshal j;ummoned the negro as a witness ia a case against another negro. The men who had been dealing in illicit liquor subsequently declared that they would kill asy negro who informed on them, and it Is supposed that -they took the summoning of this negro as a witness to mean that he had informed upon them, and they consequently wanted to rid the community of him. Their idea seemed to be to carry him over into Abbeville county and let it be thought that highway robbers in that pnnnr.w had rtpalr. foiiliv with him. The negro, however, recognized six men in the party?five white and one colored, tne latter being the man who was under indictment and against whom Nelsor was to have testified. Sucti are the facts of the case?State. Charted With Looting the Dlepsnsi-ry. Timmonsville, July 13.?The parties indicated by Trial J ustice Atkinson of this place, upon information of W. H. Newbold, for depredations committed upon the Florence dispensary on the night of the 30th of March, are as named below: There are two cases. The first is for house-breaking and malicious mischief, and involves Lis Hatchell, Willie J. Abrams, Ciia3 Beck, " - ^ t n J nit i .LCI U&UQOU, jnu. \j. uavia auu urm Dougless, and the witnesses summoned in this case are J. M. Powers, H. Williamson and Brooks McCali. The second is for conspiracy involving W. B. Rollins. Lis HatcheJ, Willie J. Abrams. Ed Cannon, John C Davis, J. S. Beck, Gill Douglass, A. A. Cohen, Ed McKay, and Julius DeJongb; and the witnesses relied upon are Gf o. Turbeville, J. M. Powers, P. A. Wilcox, John Chase, and W. W. Hursey, The preliminary hearing is set for today. Some effort was made by tbe accused parties to get Trial ?; ustice Atkinson to go to Florence, where they all reside, to take and determine upon the merits of the evidence,bit without success. It is thought that the course of the prosecution in fixing upon this place for the hearing is influenced by the fear that the main incriminating witness, Mr. J. M. Powers vould be at ? ? some riSK at x loreace, wuoi e utic xcriing against him seems to be very bitter.?J ournal. Would Fly It. Chicago, July 8.?Mrs, Isaac B. Hammond, a Southern *oman, announced that she would display from a window of her hoese a Confederate flag on July 4. An angry cro9'd, learning of her intentioos, gathered n front of the place, determined to tea;' down the flag if it appeared. Police Lieutenant Stift called upon Mrs. Hammond and advised her not to hang on; the flag. Mrs. Hammond had ordered a CoDfedernt? riaar KnJ- it H**n Bunt hrtm* hv the maker. This was told tho crowd, and it dispersed. She then lung out a Britishflag, which a small toy toofc for a Confederate banner and i romplv toer down and destroyed. The crowd returned later and decorated t:e premises t with the national colors. Dispensaryfigures""" SENATOR BUTLER HAS SOMETHING TOSAYABOUT THEM At the Cawpxizn Meeting at Boare?o?A Small Ciowd Present?Governor Tlllmau S*TS He VT}11 Look Ialoihw Dl?peaaary M*tt?sr. Bonneaus, July 11 ?The campaigners faced the braves of Berkeley today and repeated once more their oft-told taVs lw?fnrf> nne of those "small but en thusiastic" audiences, as apologetic and charitable newspaper men sometimes say of theatrical performances where the gate jeceipts scarcely pay board bills. Speeches were made by Stokes, Tindal, Whitman, Ellerbee, Evars,Butler and Tillman. Gen. Ellerbe got vigorous and laid uhe ring business on John C-ary with a trowel. He first touched up the Spartanburg end ofth9 State by showing up Gantt's inconsistency in packir g that county for the Aiken man. .lie made a cold-blooded charge of double dealing against the sage of the Piedmont Headlight in this wise: - "Gantt wrote me that his county was for me, and that it was impossible for him to carry it for any lawyer. Yet with these misrepresentations and lies they have taken, that county from me, and it's mv-Tesa than robbery. That is CftrtfTTnlr evidence of a rine; and i believe that the rank and file of the people will smash it as we smashed the old ring. One of my friends told me here today that they had already packed this county for John Gary j^vans. The'-Buckley" braves didn't relish this plain talk worlh a copper, and they began to flare up at the intrepid Marion swamp fox. "Who told you that?" asked one of the hosts. "Give us his name," shouted several others. But the General kept that to himstlf, saying that he did not believe the Berkleyttes could be packed. "I'm cripple," cried the irrepressible Ham Murray, "and I can't be packed." And as he Wbnt on peppering Evans the bumptious boys in front yelled, "Look out John!" "You look like a Governor already." EUerbe rapped on, declariEg that if Evans were elected he would put an his family in office. He did not think aJl the Keform plums belonged to the Garys and Evanses. The Aiken game cock had his gaffs on today and he sank them deep into Gen. Ellebee. lie spoke with probable significance of some men who held salaries sitting in bomb proofs in Columbia during the Darlington troubles, while he was standing at the Governor's back. This was greeted with tremendous applause from the Dennis family. "Are you an Alliance man ?" shouted Evans at Gen. Ellerbe. The General tried to explain that he had been a member, but had to quit. Evans waltzed into him, declaring that tiara moa onmofhinor mften in a m?Tl VUCiV ntw kwwwM M ... who joined the Alliance and then quit it. He said that Eilerbe, if elected, would give all his brothers oflice. He apologized for "spanking little Willie and Dnttinz the darling infant to sleep," adding that Ene'roee" made rr " necessary by whining. Evans proceeded to make a very se- : rious charge against the Supreme 1 Court for their decision agaiDst the dispensary law. A gray-haired man on the stand asked if the judges didn't get a little whiskey. "I expect they did get a little through the back door," shouted Evans. "Judging from their decision I would say that they were all drunk, except Tope." ' Gen. Butler's speech contained a statement about the expenditures of. the dispensary. He said: I have presented extracts from Mr. 1 Traxler's report for the quarter endine January 31, 1894, on a former occasion, bat tha facts liave never been grouped as I have them now. If they can be satisfactorily explained, I would be very glad to have it done, as I do not wish to make an uDjust accusation j against any man. Although Mr. Traxler may be pri- | I marily responsible, and I have no reason to doubt his honesty or integrity, I Governor Tillman's name is signed to I the report and of course he must stand by it. The following is the statement of assets and liabilities for the quarter ending January 31,1894: Extract from the Report of the State 1 Dispensary, from November 1, 1893, to January 31,1894. RECAPITULATION. ASSETS. "*T " ? i J O OAOOI AO JNOV. 1.?3iOCK. uu uauu g> u^odi.tu Machinery, office furniture.. 2,589.97 Amt. due by dispensaries.... 82.953.50 Rev. tax ad'vcd distillers 10,336 24 Cash in State treasury 7,514.55 Feb. 1,1894?Stock on hand.. 15,926.00 Amt. due by dispen'rs others. 101,481.87 S280.347.27 ($260,634 16 LIABILITIES. Appropriation S 50,000.00 Bills payable Nov. 1 61,027.53 Bills payable Feb. 1 69,982 58 Amount to balance 99,337.16 S280.347.27 Total sales to date.'. S414.897 14 Total cash receipts 306,147.11 Bottles brouzht back and breakage 7,268.16 Amt. due by dispen'rs,others. 101,48187 CORRECTED. Liabilities S280,347.27 Asset? 260,634.16 Shortage S 19,713.11 It will be seen that the column of assets when added up does not amount to S280,347.27, but only to S260.634 16 and therefore the accounts do not balance, the assets beiog short bv S19,71311. Kow Governor Tillman says this is a mistake of the printer and that the S19.713.ll is accounted for on the oppo site page as "Cash in the Treasury." I must leave the public printer and Governor Tillman to settle the question of mistake,but granting that to be true I don't see how that helps bim, because the column of assest3 is still short and does not balance with the liabilities. Now X make no pretensions to a knowledge of bookkeeping, but I have submitted this report to an expert accountant, and here is what he makes out of it in two separate statements, both of which show a shortage of S7,514.55. Perhaps this may be explained. Statement of cash account from July 1,1893, to January 31,1894: DR. Rec'd from State appra'tionsS 50,000.00 Rec'd from July 1, 1893 to Oct. 31, 1894...... 100,332.13 Rec'd from is ov. i, to Jan. 31,189-1 205,814.98 S35G.147.il CR. Exd. acct. to Oct. 31,1893.. .$ 72,506 36 Mdc. acct. to Oct. 31,1893... 70,251.22 Expense acct- to Jan. 31.1894, 58,103 33 Mds. acct. to Jan. 31,1894 127,998 54 3328,919.45 , To be accounted for 27,227.66 Deduct cash la treasury Feb.l 19,713.11 Discrepancy S 7,51455 Take items on page 5 reported as assets and substitute the figures 819,713 11 for $7,514.55, and the following result is obtained: ASSETS. Stock on hand S 39,831.43 Machinery and furniture.... 2,589.97 Amt. due by dispensers 82,95350 Rev. tax advanced 10,336.24 Cash in treasury 19,71311 Stock on hand 15,926 60 Amt due by dispen'rs.others. 101,48187 8272,832 72 Liabilities on page 5 $280,347.27 Assets as above 272,832.72 Discrepancy $ 7 514 55 If there had been reported In the State treasury as on hand February 1, 1894, S27,222.6C the account would have balanced. Governor Tillman admits that he exceeded the appropriation of ?50,000 00 made by the Legislature. The following statement taken from the report shows the amount of tbat excess: Merchandise purchased from May 22,1893, to July 7, *94.$ 93,321.43 State appropriation 50,000.00 excess $ 45,?I.M In the above parches^ the amount paid daring the dbova period for bottles, flasks, kegs, corks, sealing wax and racking cages Is not included. Fifteen thousand doliars would be a low estimate for these items, which would make the expenditures over 363000 m excess of the State appropriation: Now X would like to know where he gets the authority to disregard our fundamental doctrines of our form of government, that no executive officer can spend one 'dollar of public i^ney, except that which has been allowed by the legislature, the representatives of the people. Sec. 18, of the dispensary act makes the appropriation $50,000, if so much be necessary, and not a dollar more and by all rules of the administration flnvflrnnr Tillman waq rflstrfnfc ed to that amount,and he could not exceed it without a usurpation of authority. Section 2 does not avail him, because the expenditure of $48,000 or $63,000 was made before he had sold a gallon of liquor. How can he justify his action, which is palpably in violation of the constitution and laws of the State. If he can exceed the appropriation by $48,000 he may by a million of dollars, so you can readily see where such loose t*t411 looH Thflro io at>0 1 auuiiuitjviaviv/u vrui i^uu< jluv&v as vuu other phase of its administration which I cannot quite understand- A friend has banded me a commission : iziven by Governor Tillman to R. V. Gantt, of Lexington county. It is dated the 8ih of January, 1884, and 1 appoints him a special constable under the dispensary act. How many of these 1 special constables have been thus commissioned we do not know. Governor Tillman alone can inform us, if he wilL In transmitting his commission to Mr. < Gantt, Mr. D. A. Tompkins, private 1 secretary to the Governor, writes the ! following letter: State of South Carolina 1 Executive Chamber. Columbia, S. C., Jan. 8,1894. ' li. V. Gantt, Esq, Irmo, S. C.: ! Dear Sir?Governor Tillman directs tut? to send you the enclose commission-1 i>f a State constable and to say you will receive as pay ?25 for each conviction of a white man aud $10 ter each con- 1 viction of a negro yon secure, and $2 for each seizure. He has no room on the regular for you, but may call on you 3ome time. Very respectfully, D. A. Tompkins. Private Secretary. It will be observed that Mr. Gantt is offered $25 for the conviction of a white man and only $10 for the conviction of a negro. Why this discrimination against a white man, I confess I cannot comprehend. Perhaps that also may be explained. All these facts relate to the administration of the dispensary law and do net touch the merits of the law itself. They are legitimate subjects of inquiry. Governor Tillman has made a fair proposition to pay the expenses of experts to examine the dispensary accounts out of bis contingent fund. I do not object to that, but it seems to me that it is imposing an extra and unnecessary expense upon the taxpayers of the State as these matters ought to be explained by those charged with the administration of the law. This, I believe, is the usual custom where public funds are entrusted to public officers. The last speaker was Governor Tillman, and his introduction was greeted by long and ringing cheers. The Govnor said that one of the plesantest of the campaign meetings In 1892 had been at 1 tbis place, and wnile the crowd was ' small IE was oecause 01 me sparee white population and the long distances people had come to get here. Bat : those you left at home are just as true Reformers and just as determined to vote for me as ever. (Applause.) He 1 alluded to an incident of the last can- ' vass when Colonel Ioumans had claiming he was a better farmer than he was ( aud could split more rails, aud pointing to one of the old farmers present, he said: "You told him the people intend- . ed to make a fence around the Governor's office of brand new rails and keep Tillman in there till he got as fat as a 1 muffled-jawed pig. (Laughter and applause) You see,8aid the Governor, I am growing fatter and have gained some flesh, but if you want those muffles to come you will have to send me to "Washington in Senator Bailer's 1 place. Voices: "We'll do it.". (Laughter and aDDlause.) 1 "Sutler says he has plowed more than I have and is as good a farmer, and as he has had his place eighteen years, I ' think vou. had better let him go to his farm and plow awhile and let me go to Washington in his stead. 1 Replying to Gen. Batler'a dispensary questions the Governor contented him- 1 self with offering to have an examination made into the whole business and if anything wrong wad found to sue Traxier on his bond. As to exceeding the appropriation, he said he simply 1 bought on credit. He had told the whiskey makers he would see that they got either the money or the whiskey back. As to offering ?25 reward for a 1 v?hite blind tiger man. and only $10 for 1 a negro, he said: "The white man deserved just that much more punishment, and 1 just discriminated. for I ean mak^ the tttVinf T nlaoea w Tf thfl Cnnwimo iCYvaiuo nuau x ?.*. uuv^u^^v Court had Jet him alone lie would have bad Charleston dry, because he had seen Mayor Ficken and informed him that if he did net enforce the law he would call the Legislature together in three weefes and put the city under metropolitan police and Ficken had gone home and gotten things straight The meeting then broke up. Dag np ? SmalJ fortune. Montgomery, Ala., July 12.?In digging a mess of patatoes from his truck patch, J. P. Reausu, a DeKalb county farmer, found a small fortune. Instead of turning over with his spade a handful of potatoes, he torned up ?3.600 in gold and siiver. The dates on the pieces indicated the treasure must have been buried about the commencement of the civil war. A STORMY MEETING. THE CROWd^lN CHARLESTON JEERS AND HOWLS AT THE SPEAKERS. Tbey G) for Tillm?n and Til.'maa Uot-n for Them-Tapper and Evans G *t lofo a 5p?t-8;mi D Sjtr&cetnl Sc6t.ii. Eoacted. Charleston, S. C., July 12?The meeting here tonight was a very stormy one, aDd indicated very plainly that Charleston has no use for Governor Tillman, who, in turn showed that his love for Charleston had not increased to any alarmiog degree. The meeting was in front of the City Hall, t.hfi anMfeinir hairier done from the nor tlco of that building. There were in all about four thousand persons pres- : ent, and during the meeting a continuous hubbub was kept up. Avjout halfpast 7 < clock County Chairman J. M. : Ktnloeb introduced G. Walt Whitman ; as the first speaker. He was told by the crowd that he was a chestnut, and ! gave him a lot of pet names. Representative Yeldel), of Edgefield, was the ] second speaker, and ran the gauntlet of < insults and jokes, and was followed by ! Dr. Timmerman, candidate for Lieu- ' tenant Governor. The good natured I doctor didn't have a picnic, but the 1 crowd.thought it did. They compared ; his face to all the things in this world \ and the next. I Up to this time, however, there had been no confusion and little excitement. It commenced when Governor Tillman was introduced. His introduction was the signal for a rumpus and an uproar. It was like flaunting a red rag in a bull's face. The Governor's few friends cheered'for him un til hoarse, but hundreds hissed him, hundreds howled at him and jeered their disapprobation of his appearance. Chairman Xinloch made an appeal for order but it was as ineffectual as if he had been talking to the moon. After waiting a good while Governor Tillman began by sayiDg it was the fifth time he had spoken to the people of Charleston and each time had tried to beat some common sense into their heads. This was followed by coufusion worse than confounded. Above the uproar and the hisses Governor Tillman's voice rang out that one time while here a drum had beat and the crowd had run away like cowards. A running fire of questions was kept up at the Governor. He told the crowd that he knew they didn't like him and he didn't care a snap of his i finger for their love. Charleston, he i said, was cat o? from the balance of < the State in progress and sympathy and i could go to the devil in its own way, 1 but that it should not take the State J along with It J Another boisterous uproar eDsued and the crowd howled like coyotes. Of 1 course, the Governer couldn't make a speech and didn't try. The srang yelled i for something about the Dispensary I and the Governor gave them all they < wanted on this subject. Amid min- < ?led groans and hisses and jeers he 3aid the Legislature had passed the ' DJsj.finsary law and by all that was ?????l.nijajiftintp.nrigd to epforpeit. < He said the law was c'Ottrfng Bucr: Hefi was going to enforce It and the crowd could not help themselves. This bold ] defiance was met by curses and every 1 conceivable noise. i The Governor took a hand primary < on the Dispensary and there were some i votes each way, about evenly' divided, but the vast maj ority difrnot vote. The Governor next took a primary as to the ] Senatorship and the votes, not over fifteen in number, were about evenly 1 divided. Annthor nnrnar and storm of veils 1 and hisses ensued when the Governor i 3aid he was going to enforce the Dis- 4 pensary law by metropolitan police. ) The confusion was intensified. When the Governor replied to the ] question of a man about the Darlington war by saying: "I gues3 you are , one of the militia that perjured itself by not going to D Arlington." Gover- 1 uor Tillman said a drum could be I 3tarted and would scare all the fools away. (Violent uproar,) Above the i noise Governor Tillman was heard ask- $ Ing how it was going to sound when c the News and Courier had to announce < that Tillman had been howled down in Charleston where the people boasted of ' their chivalry and courtesy. ] The crowd continued its howling and i the Governor said he would give them i a parting shot. The parting shot was < the announcement that "we are going 1 to have the Dispensary whether you I want it or not .and in spite of vou, and I I am going to eniorue it. The crowd had disgraced itself and ' made nothing off Governor Tillman. ; Gar. Bntler was next introduced. "I I wouJd say," said he, "if I didn't know the Governor so well, that he has had i 3ome of his dispensary whiskey." At this juncture the first stampede ensued. It wa3 caused by a police- < man's collaring a man in the crowd. In an instant all was contusion. The i crowd swarmed everywhere and yelled ] like madmen. Gen. Butler said he had stood where < the shots fell thick and fast, and there were not enough mcn in Charleston to i frighten him. He was goiDg to talk to i the people if he had to remain till mid- : night. i "I have never been able to understand Go/ernor Tillman's intense hatred of the people of Charleston or the bitterness of his resentment against the city. So long as it is personal, no great harm can come of it, but when he uses the great powers of his office, which he i should exercise impartially and justly, i Wnmiw QnW in'firo PhorioQtnn Luuppieos, LiaiLJ auu mjuiv vsu<*...wvvu, he commits an unpardonable and grievous wrong. "About the only offense of which J Charleston appears to have been guilty i is a determination to protect her rights ; of local self-government and her own " rights and interests. She mav also have been guilty of the unforgiveable sin of 1 denying to Governor Tillman the quali- 1 ty of moral, social and political infalli- ' bility, and taking him down from the 1 sublimated heights where his disinterested followers had placed him and re- i quiring him to live and have his being i on the same plane with ordinary mortals. " I Gen. Butler bantered Tillman for not , makiDg his attack on JugdeSimonton < wnere his friends and neighbors were. "I am ready to do it, now," shouted the Governor from his seat. Gen, Uutler replied that ,the old soldiers in the crowd knew what tbat meant. When Tillman had a cbance to fire his gun he didn'i stoot. He had 1 spoken and then he had gone under cover. Demagogues, blatant and unpatriotic, have created prej udice in the interior against Charleston. I predict that Governor Tillman win go inio me country and tell the farmers that Charleston howled him down and try to make political capital out of it, (Voices: That's it,) when he himself provoked it by insulting you almost with his first breath. (Cheers for Butler.) When he talks about the Charleston ring he forgets that this State and the newspapers are ringing with charges that there was a ring In the funding of the State debt. This riled the Governor, and coming forward, he said: "You give me three minutes and I will say the last word of it right here." Confusion cofounded ensued and the Governor went back to his seat. Gen. Butler then read a brief of all the transactions in the funding of the State debt. The foregoing statement suggest the following inquiries: 1. How much of the appropriation of S8.0C0 was expended in the funding transaction, and for what? 2 IIow much of the funds of the linking fund commission was expend ed. and for what? > **T? 4Ua(MO< 1?f ?? o, nuu reccivru tucgi^iuijWi 4 If paid to Mr. Ilhind and his associates as appears to be the fact who were bis associates? 5 Whom did Mr. Rhind represent, and to whom was he to look for compensation. 6. What was Mr. llhind's financial standing? Was it such as to justify his employment in so grave and Important a Jioancial transaction involving so much to the taxpayers of the State? It is claimed that the funding of the State debt was a great achievement in view of the existence of a distressing panic. I would not rob anybody of the ! credit properly due them, but I must say that in my opinion the conditions were not favorable for funding the State debt It was true iheLeglaisture ' had armed the commission with the fullest powers. The entire property of ! the people of the State was mortgaged : to secure the debt. Millions of dollars were locked up awaiting investments I in good interest bearing securities. Grovernment bonds were drawing only } npr rpnt. interest, (reoriria had re- ' funded her debt at 3 per cent, and our Donds ought to have been floated at par and at the highest 4 per cent If they had been floated at that rate of interest without cost to the State you can readily calculate a saving there would have been duriDg the life time of the oonds, theirty years, 1 believe. One-half per cent, on $5,250,000 for thirty years would have saved a good round sum to toe taxpayers. I am credibly informed that some of your leading banks here took $2,000,000 of the bonds and paid par for them, which is a pretty good indication of their value. Gen. Butler was heartily applauded when he declared that he had never lone anything to divide the people. Secretary of State Tlndall was the aext speaker. He was well received and made a good speech. After Mr. | Tindal came "John Gary Evans. He was greeted with cheers and hisses. He said he didn't mind the rattle* make hisses, but it was a humiliating spectacle. He cherished no malice igainst them and when in the Governar's chair he would pardon every one Df them because they did not know 1 what they were doiDg. All the blind Mies had congregated here under St. Micheal's. ( Voice?"How much do you weigh when you are fat ?" Mr. Kirby Tupper asked Mr. Evans 1 if it was true that be had been paid 51,000 for protecting the palmetto brew- , ;ry and that he had gotten a royalty ' m the sal9 of the beer. "No, it's a lie," replied Evans; and rupDer called for three cheers for him. Erans also said it was an infernal lie, ibout his having gotten S15.0C0 for asnetlllfft in tfao St.ftf P iiORdfl. He declared that the (^arlestorpeo?" pie would not support their own insti ;ution.?, but invested their money out- , side of the State. That was not patriate and the young men ought to stamp :t out. Voice?"Shut up." j "1 am here to say what I believe and , pou have sot to swallow it." Voice?"Tell us about the Black district." Evans?Your own Congressman told ae that it was easier to carry it this 1 way than if it had been left as if it was 'What'e his name?" asked KirbyTupDer. "William H. Brawley," replied Evans. "It's a lie," shouted Tapper over and , )ver again. Evans replied that if Topper wanted ;o call him a lie to come at him when 1 le was off the stand. Tupper bounded forward and was Baking for the stand when he was | grabbed by a policeman and a half lozen irienas ana rusnea dhck iihu tuts jrowd. Evans continued. '-Yon know me. Cupper, and I know you, and you know ( [ will slap your face so damn quick you von't know it. If that man wanted to , 3ght, let him come to me somewhere ' 3lse. It is fashionable to call men liars ihese days when they are on tbe stand, but it is no evidence of anything but ;be coward." Evans thanked the crowd for their 'kind attention," whereupon there was isort of ''hell-broke-loose-in-Georsria" rime. Comptroller EUerbe got some rousing cheers as he was introduced. He wanted those who thought his record was all right to vote for him for Gov- , arnor, and those who did not could vote for his cousin John Gary. (Cries of "OX no!") Evans had pitched into : him at'Bonneau's where he thought he bad a lot of friends, but played the dunghill today in not repeating it here. He tben cracked some jokes at JohnDie's expense, getting cheers from the crowd. His remarks about Clevelend not being in sympathy with the producing classes of the South and West met with assent from a score of throats. ir 51arr?y Drowned. Anderson, July 7.?Mej. E. B. Murray was drowned this afternoon in a small pond in front of his house. He and bis daughter, Felicia. Miss Mary Pceer, aud Miss Helen Sloan were in bathins. Afar being in about an hour M?j. Murray carried a boat out aear the rtf tli/i tv n/1 f,ip r>n? r>f t-.hft cnnna LLliUU'C/ V/A bUV ]/ uu v/w w j ^ Ladies to dive from. She uived and swam ashore. Wbile standing oq shore Lhe party noticed Mr. Murray straggling [n the water at some distance irom lhe DDat. His daughter asked it she must :ome to him. He shook his head. She then went to hiro, along with Miss Preer. Maj ?r Murray caught hold of each of the young ladies and would have pulled them under but that they caught hold of the boat. Tbev called for help, but beiore any assistance arrived Major Murray saukin water about ten feet deep. The news fpread very rapidly and a larse crowd soon gathered, found the body and after several efforts brought it up, and carried it to the shore. Drs. Harris, Wilhite and Freison were soon at work exerting every tll'jrt to resusciate him, but after working more ibao an hour they found no signs ofiife. The body was in the water about twenty minutes. It is thought by the doctors that h#> waa attacked bv cramr> or ver ti*o. Toe death of Major Morray causes great sorrow and gloom here. He was one of the leading men of the State and had done much bard work for them. He wa3 for a cumber of years Rapresentative and Sjcator from this county and always took an active Dart in those bodies. He was ia his forty-second year. Further particulars cannot be obtained tonight, j The funeral will take place Monday: 1 CONVENTION WILL BE HELD The Sleet lag of the Reform Execn ive Committee. Columbia, S. C., July 11.?The State Reform Executive Committee met yesterday at noon in the Senate Chamber, Chairman Sligh presiding, with fall attendance. The entire business transacted by the committee is comprised io the resolutions adopted almost unanimously by the committee and given herewith. The point upoo which there was most 3erious deliberation was that as to whether the August convention shoald be called off;this question, however, was favored by only three members of the committee. Messrs. Kirk land, Glenn and Earle, Mr. Ktrkland alone speaking in behalf of the general primary. There was a most patient bearing accorded this small minority sentiment and the committee placed itself in possession of all the arguments, pro and con, before taking ac* tlon.The only change from the original plan is that the convention Is called to take place two days later in order that the.canvasss may be ctynpleted, thereby giving every candidate an opportunity to address voters in every coonty. The following is the address and res olntions: To the Reform Voters of South Carolina: At a meeting of the State Reform executive committee held this day the cinders1 gned members thereof were delegated to prepare a statement of the p-oceedlngs of the said committee that the Reform Voters throughout the Stat? may act uniformly in expressing their choice of the candidates for the different State offices, which will b3 subject to the action of the Democratic primary to be held on the 28th day of August, 1894. The following are the resolutions: Firs*. That a convention for the suggestion of candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor be held in Columbia. S. C? on the 16-.h day of August, 1894, at 12 o'clock m. Second: That said convention be composed of delegates elected by con ventions to be held in each county on Monday, the 13 th day of August, 1894, each county to be entitled to double as many delegates as it has representatives in both houses of the Ganeral Assembly. Third. That the county conventions* aforesaid be composed of delegates elected by the various Keform clubs in th3 county, each club to send one delegate-at-large and one delegate for every twenty-five members or majority fraction thereof. In those counties where there are no distinct Reform clubs the Reform members of each club shall be called by the executive Reform committeeman to meet at the usual place of meeting and elect delegates as aforesaid to the county convention: Provided that in the cities of Charleston and Columbia the number of Reform clubs and polling pre- < cincts shall be left to the discretion of the members of the State executive committee. For the purpose of said election the clubs aforesaid shall be called to meet on the 11th day of August, 1894. At such meeting no member shall participate except such as voted for the Reform delegates in the August primary of 1892 and all others who will pledge themselves to abide by and support the ticket suggested by the State Reform convention of 1894. - all Rpform candidates for State offices, ""ThcltRPrrg^ lattruaul commissfonersjahall publicly announce their candidacy, ana shall file with the chairman of the State Reform committee a pledge to abide by and to support the nominees of said convention. That said pledge shall be filed as aforesaid on or before the 25th day of July, 1894. No vote for any candidate shall be counted in the State convention who has not complied with the foregoing requirement. Fifth. That in holding the primary elections in each Reform club provided for. to take place on the 11th day of August, 1894, each club is to provide managers for holding said election. The committee adopted the follow ing resolution: Resolved, That this committee.suggest to the county Reform conventions to be held on the 13tb day of August, 1894, when they elect delegates to the State convention, to also instruct said delegates whether or not to vote for tbo nominating of a full set of State officers, Including the office of railroad commissioners. This committee take pleasure in commending to the consideration of the people of the State the address issued by the special committee on the 1th of April, 1894. J. TnoMAS Austin, J. 1L Glenn, J. R. Earle, H. A. Deal, J. C. OTTS, Louis Appelt, Special Committee. The following 13 a list of the committeemen in attendance upon the tn66tin?r Abbeville, I. H. McCalla; Aiken, J: T. Gaston; Anderson, J. M. Glenn; Barnwell, A. H. Patterson; Berkeley, J. B.Morrison; Charleston, W. Gibbes Whaley; Chester, T. J. Cunningham; Chesterfield, E. U". Bedfearn; Colleton, L. E. Parler; Clarendon, Louis Appelt; Darlington, E. L. Gray; Edgefield, J. M. Gaines; FairfieW, J. W. Lyles; Florence, J. S. McCall; Greenville, J, T. Austin; Georgetown. J. H. Datyens; Hampton, W. H. Mauldin; Horry, J. M. Stalvey; Kershaw, T. J. Kirkland; Lancaster, E. P. Lingle; Laurens, J. A. Jones; Marlboro, J. P. Breeden; Marion, J. M. Rodgers; Newberry, J. A. Sligb; Oconee, J. R. Earle; Orangeburg, J. W. Stokes; Pickens, W. T. Bowen; Richland, H. A. Deal; Spartanburg, T. L. Gintt; Sumter, H. R. Thomas; Union, J. C. Otts;.Williamsburg, IVm. Cooper; York, J. C. Wilborn. The committee adjourned last night at 11 o'clock. A Fatal Fall, Savannah, Ga., July 8.?Supt. J. Glascock Mays of the Southern Express Company, with headquarters in Atlanta, died today at the Savannah Hospital from the effects of the shock recieved by a fall from a third story window of the Tvbee Hotel last night about 9:30. Mr. Miys had jast eDiered his room and was about to retire. He was sitting in the window leaning backward in his chuir. The sill was very close to the fbor and in raising he lost his balance and fell out. Mr. Mays, was bruised on almost every part of his body. He fell on his right leg and the bone was shattered at the knee by contact with the plank walk on which he fell. He received several gashes on the head and face and was badly bruised about the forehead and eyes. He was rational last night when brought to Savannah and it was at that time tbat h* ha/1 a pood chance for recovery. He sank rapidly this mcraing and was unconscious some hoars before his death which occurred at 10 o'cIock. The oody was taken to Atlanta toaight and will be boned there Tuesday morning. Mr. Mays started with the Southern Express Company as messenger and worked his way ap to division superintendent. He his been with the company 28 years and was regarded as one of the best men m the service. HARD TO PLEASE. ' -I V ^ MEMBERS OF THE REFORM PARTY DIFFER AS TO A POLICY. The K v Men Jubilant, |b at the Ellerb* Men Ejae?Sortie Strong Talk Indulged f. Iq?The Alliance aid ths Senatorial Figli'. f-n-r TT.m< . C r\ T.-.1 to 1H.O ?/. VVLUJIDIA, O. VJ, O UIJ ly. JLU.C M' tion of the Reform executive committee at its recent meeting in refusing to call off the State Convention to nominate a candidate for Governor is not givin? general satisfaction as the articles published balow will amply prove. The following is clipped from the Register of today: A prominent out of town Reformer talking on the political situation yesterday and referring incidentally to the action of the Reform committee in making only a partial change in the plan for a Reform primary, said that a growing discontent was manifest among the farmers at the prominence a certain influence within the faction was taking in the management of affairs. The farmer's Interests, he said were being relegated to the rear by this influence, and lawyers and wirepullers have assumed the entire CDn- , trol and conductof things. A few men who have gained power and place by their association with the Beform f-m movement are now seeking to snbvert the interests of tbe people to the furtherance of their own nolitical amrran dizement The band that manipulates the caucus and the club is becoming bolder and bolder and throws it in the face of the farmer that there is no man in their own ranks capable of filling the duties of high positsons and responsibility. "Are we," he said, "to be set back where we stood before 1890 by the very men who have been bnt the recipients of our favor? The peopie of So nth Carolina in 1890 set the ~ v-3 seal of their condemnation on ring and caucus government and those men will reckon without their hoet when they undertake to leave the farmer unconsulted in the choice of a leader and to foist upon them any man that a rtf lawvprn sditora. officeholders and wire pullers may choose to select." The views of this gentlemen were somewhat pronounced and the emphatic nature of his leaves no doubt that he meant what he said. He was not alone in these sentiments or expressions and others who were in the city yesterday, and the day before, talked in the same strain. On the other hand, there were many who seemed to take the opposite view of the case and in their conversation the wisdom of the committee in making no material change was heartily approved of. The choice of the majority of the Eeformers, they say, will give entire satisfaction to all except a few disappointed office seeks and the ranks A of Estorm will be as solid as ever when jM the time comes to support the nominee. ^k m It is useless to disguise the fact, how* ever, that a considerable amount of un- A easiness exists among many of the Be- ^k formers as to the outcome and time alone will prov.i whether the views of dk H the first party quoted are correct or ^ The Sta^e, or lutS' ttty, sue of this date: S The action of the Stato Reform com- fl mittee has caused quite a little stir in political circles. Tne Evens men are V rery jubilant and don't hesitate to ex* M fha fhAV prCSS liUCU UCilKut cau ui? w ww^ have gained. The Eilerbe men, oa the other hand, while they keep a stiff upper lip seem to be pretty blue. The Eilerbe men openly charge that Governor Tillman had ms I hand in the pie and* assisted Iff in carrying the Evans scheme " through. The Alliancemen say too, that if Governor Tillman wishes to risk his own chances by taking Evans on to his coat-tails and imposing a lawyer upon themffor Governor, he can go ahead. Many think that the Alliance is a dead cock in the pit, but the Alliance's time is coming, they say. ' All kinds of harsh talk is hurled at State Chairman Sligh. Some of the Eltarho men savs that he is responsible for the action of the committee. They say that there is no doubt that the committee is composed of a majority of Ellerbe men, who, under other circumstances, would certainly have c called the convention off. They say that Chairman Sligh got in his fine work by calliag the committee together and not telling aDy of the members before they came what they were to do. They came here and had previously been instructed to carry oat the Colleton idea by their counties. The change was spruog upon them and nearly all voted against the change cn - ???J fkcl* /innnHM hfl/1 I LIB gruuuu beau buui wiwhvw _ given them bo instructions contrary to those originally received. The EUerbae men say, however, that * ? he has no fear of the consequences, even now. Thev say that the counties in which the Evans machine has been organized and may be regarded safe for Evans are not more than seven or eight and that Ellerbe will have 'an equal showing with him in the organization of ail the other counties. Pope and Tindal are generally regarded as out of the race now. Eat there is going to be a meeting * OCrt. mnnfh over 3D A1&6QUU MIC 4uuu ui wild wvuwi which may change the political outlook somewhat Some of the Alliancemen seem to be very mich disgusted with Governor Tillman as an Allanceman. The meeting referred to Is to be the annual meeting of the State Farmer's Alliance. It is said that the meeting is going to be the most eventful and interesting one that this body has ever held. The statement is made that the Ailiance intends to pass resolutions urging all Alliancemen In the State, ? and farmers who are not members of the Alliance, to support men for the Legisl ature in their respective counties who stand flat-footed for all the Alliance demands and obligate themselves . > | to vote for such a man for the United f : s CfotM Hanota Tf this hfl done, thft uwavcg ? ? ? j Alllencsmen cannot of course vote for either Tillman or Butler men for the Legislature and that third candidate who has been so much talked of m the last week or two may makp his appearance. It remains to l>e seen ?"? therefore whether Governor Tillman is really bigger than the Alliance cr not. The above summary of the political manoeuvres now going on is based entirely upon talk heard in political circles yesterday. J J At tempi at K abbar*. Savannah, GaM Jaly 7.?This morning three men apoeared at the !? fice of the Southern Express Company at 4 o'clock and pretended that they wanted to send a package. The clerk ? told them they were too soon. The 3 strangers crew lueix jnstuio auu w?u, Tbe clerk returned the fire. The men ran up Whitaker street and escaped. Later in the day three dynamite fosea -~~ -S were fount' in the suburb* ot the city left by three men answering the description of the early morning marauders.