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glggs^ ' - ; $. - ~ " - ? . ' ; fc--:V. . 4 ' " ' - ' ' % * ' * /vol liv. ~ ~ winnsboro. s, c., Wednesday. February 28,1900. no. 28 || -W - J? / '- - . . ? " : : ? _ BRYAN'S CHANCES.;,: The Trusts Are Driving Thousands to the Democratic Party. SO SAYS JAMES CREELMAN. He Declares that the Crushing Power of the Cerporations is Hurting the Republican Party. : In a recent issue of the New York Journal Mr. James Creelman, who has been traveling extensively over the Northern ana Eastern States, says the rushing power of the trusts bo un-^ scrupulously exercised is forcing the ?maU dealers and manufacturers out of the Republican party into the Democratic party. Here is tbe letter of Mr. Oreelman in full: The most significant fact revealed by Mr. Bryan's tour through the eastern states is that tho'isands of small business men and manufacturers whc feupported McKinley in 1896 have decided to support the Democratic party this year. A more significant movement can hardly be imagined. This means that the crushing power exerted . by the trusts is driving the victims of i bis all-engulfiBg, rapacious system of centralization out of the party dominated by Mr. McKinley and Senator Hanna, the open agents of trusts and s} ndicates. For the first time the trust issue has become a factor?probably a costroling factor?in practical politics, not only iu the west and south, but also in the east and particularly in New York, t- While Seaator Hanna is arranging with the trusts for a campaign fund of twenty-fivo million dollars?that is - said to be the estimated sum?Mr. Bryan has been receiving assurances from hundreds and hundreds of business men who opposed him in 1896 that they will aid him now ie self defense. There is but little X?al opposition in the country to corporate combinations, and tru&ts formed and operated for the purpose of reducing necessary expenses and solving the problem of cheap and intelligent distribution. Workmen and consumers alike recognize that organization and system are necessary oorollaries of cheap production, and that > with reasonable opportunity for com-* petition the general pnblic_ will ulti mately get the benefits. Eat the cry which rings irom stale to state and increases in volume and intensity every week is a cry against a system of absolute monopoly, backed by government favoritism, which is crushing out sni&ll proprietor^ fitting the gates of op^ portunity and converting a large and important body of hitherto independent bisioess men into salaried empioyes. The change has been swift vfp< ^ad almost noiselets. ia every city and town are to bef found scores of hired men who, only two jcars ago. were in business on their own account. These men were helpjess to resist the overpowering weight - of the trust 8) stem. Let any man in any part of the country investigate this statement in his own community. The great danger which threatens the country is that no man will be able to engage in any of the businesses controlled by trusts unless he does so as a hireling, and that, with competition destroyed, the prices of necessaries of life will be fixed arbitrarily by the trusts, without restraint. <l/? tn ar>T7 efArp in vnnr neiffhborhood \JIV wv wv.v ? j _.-0 and ask whether the trusts have reduced prices. The rapid risse in the prices within the past year is startling, almost incredible. Senator Hanns says publicly that the trusts are doing good by lowering the cost of manufacture and distribution. That is true. The Journal has said the same thing. It is a part of the order of progress. Organization and systematic economy, whether by trusts or otherwise, must cheapen manulacture. 1 have failed to Sod any man whose opinions on any subject are not worth hearing who is willing to say that it is not a gooa thing to lessen the cost of producing any necessary of life. But Senator Hanna has nothing to say about the fact that the trusts have become so powerful, so ruthless, that, while the post of manufacture is growing less, the price to the consumer is increasing. The btartling rise in the price of articles manufactured by trusts completely unmabks the gigantic industrial and commercial conspiracy which is bleeding the whole country. Mo man is safe now. No man dares to interfere wiih the pillage. Within one year the trusts have nearly doubled in power and in perfection of organization. Yet the - prices in the retail stores everywhere are going up and up and up. If you are not already aware of this ask your wife, your housekeeper, your butcher, your grocer. This is the most overwhelming thing on the whole social, political orQeconomic landscape. This it is that is driving tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of new recruits to the democratic party. Monopoly.stalks grimly on the ashes of competition. These arc not theories?they are plain facts. I personally know that ^ - even important bankers have iniormed iAs Mr. Brjan within the past few weeks ,Cy that they are no longer independent; that they feel the enslaving, humiliat' - ing clutch of the great trusts and syndicates, forcing them this way and that against their will. The business community is losing its independence; the trusts, with a newly awakening realisation of power, are raising the prices of everything they manufacture; in small towns and villages clerks are taking the place of proprietors. President McKinley and Attorney General Griggs are sympathetically inactive. They know that the supreme court of the Uaited States has declared in the most positive and unmistakable language that the and trust law passed by congress is constitutional, and that it is sufficient co reach the criminal nature of the trust conspiracy. The president and the attorney general know that at the present time there is being organized the most extensive and irresistible combination of railroad transportations, hand in hand with the other trusts, and that the nation is becoming weak and bloodless under the burden. But they also know that Mr. Hanna expects to get twonty-five million dollars from the trusts to be used in keeping the administration in power. The attorney general refuses to enforce the anti-trust law, and the president will not compel him to do it. The result of my investigation in New York and the middle west duriDg the past few weeks is a firm conviction that for the first time the country is aroused to the real peril to a Republican form of government arising from the trust system, which Mr. Hanna says is a good thing I This is the supreme Democratic issue. 'i No leader or combination of leaders can increase its power or importance. It is changing votes every hour. There Ynay be a difference of opinion regarding legislation on the subject, but every man I have met seems to understand that with a president and cabinet free from the control of the trusts, the country has a better chance to strike at the giant crimes of the trusts than is possible when the president and the cabinet place the whole power of the government behind the criminal combinations. James Creelman. A JUVENILE REFORMATORY. Text of An Important Act Passed at . the Late Sessions. '.. Among the acts passed at the recent session of the general assembly none is of more general interest than that providing for the establishment of a juvenile reformatory for prisoners of tender years sent to the State peniten ? k kflon m o ^ o liar v. uutuu) uitc iuug uv^u 1UKUU in this direction, but the question of the expense has always barred t he way. Tie board of directors will at its next meeting proceed under the act to establish the reformatory. The cost of putting the buildings in proper shape will hardly exceed $500. Here is the act: 'Section 1. That the board of direo tors and superintendent of the State penitentiary are hereby authorized and required to set apart so much of the State farm in the county in Lexington as may be necessary for such leforiuatory. They shall also provide suitable buildings and stockade fur the safe keeping and comfort of persons sentenced thereto.. Bee. 2. The superintendent of the penitentiary is auihorixed to use any money on hand or that may accrue out of:the profits of the State penitentiary to defray the expenses incurred in providing such buildings and stockade and other appurtenances to the State re AUiU1ACUiJ IdlUI. Sec. 3 He slx&ll also appoint, as warden or overseer, a person who, from practical experience, possesses the ability and qualifications necessary to successfully carry on the industries of the reformatory, and to enforce and maintain proper discipline therein, and snaS remove the same at will. Salary of jibe warden shall be paid out. of the pr^&ts of the State penitentiary. Sec. 4. The board of directors and superintendent of the penitentiary shall make rules and regulations for l&e^government of the reformatory. Sec. 5. The superintendent of the penitentiary shall place in the refcrma tory all male criminals under 16 years of age who shall be legally sentenced to Baid reformatory on conviction of any criminal offence in any court having jurisdiction thereof and punishable by, imprisonment in the Stete penitentiary. Re 'shall also remove all such convicts now in the penitentiary as soon as existing circumstances will allow. The lt?A*n1ina /* KA UUVXfiluw *V VVOV4 * VV? AM VA*v prison shall be reformatory, and the warden shall have power to use saeh means of reformation, consistent with the improvement of the inmates, as miyj&e prescribed by the board and superintendent. The superintendent shali.provide for tie instruction of the inmates in morals as well as useful labor. The white convicts shall be kept aad _emplojed separately from the colored": convicts. He Wai a Slasher A dispatch from Williston, S. C., to The State, says: "Our little town, noted for its usual good order, had its peace ? disturbed Wednesday evening. Mr. Bud Hudson went to the home of Mr. M. Jowers to collect house rent. A quarrel followed which resulted in Mr Hudson leiDg cut by Mr. Jowers. Mr. Hudson had no kaife with him. A little later Mr. Hudson returned and entered the house of Mr. Jowers, attacked him and succeeded in slicing Mr. Jowers in several plaoes. It is reported that Mr. Hudson was drinking. Mr. Hudson has disappeared. " A Novel Suit. In Idaho a unique suit for damages has been filed by a tramp against the Oregon Short Line. The hobo recites that he was stealing a ride, being located ;on the brake rods underneath a oar; he sustained the injaiies received $ wing entirely to the fact that servants of the corporation knew he was thj?e without right ana did not put him off, as was their duty, and that through their gross negligence he sustained ihe ir juries for which be claims damages. Owing to the peculiar claim the attorneys of the road are deeply interested. The Horrors of War. The London Daily Mail prints the following dispatch from Mafeking dated Tuesday, Feb. 20: "The houses in the womens' laager are riddled with bullets notwithstanding the Boer prom> ises. A womatr who was standing with a.suckling child, was shot through UA m^ClA AmAnrr WnmOT) ftnH fcllU UiCOOt) TTUIICOUIVU5 ?VV nvuivchildren. An explosive 94 pounder shell buret in the laager, a piece fixing itself in the spine of a 9-year-old boy. The explosive nsed caused blood poisoniDg and he lingered several days in agony. Don't lake the Customs. The Turkish minister Ali Ferrough Bey, recently returned from Constantinople to Washington, accompanied by his wife and sister, and this led to several references to them in the press. The minister does not question the good intent of the writers, but he requested today that the press respect the customs of his country in this particular and refrain from reference to affairs nprsnnal tn Ms honsehold. He said he I felt sure that a nation of such hospiJ tality and greatness would readily ap| predate this request KANSAS CITY WINS. Democrats WiSI Name Their Leader on Fourth of July. MILWAUKEE NOT IN IT. An Invitation to All Good Citizens Who Favor a Republic to Join the Democratic Party The next national Democratic convention will be held at Kansas City, Mo., July 4. This was the decision of the Democratic national committee which met at the Hotel Raleigh, in Washington Thursday, to fix the time and place of holding the convention. Milwaukee was the only other city which competed for the honor of entertaining the convention, and the poor showing she made when the vote was taken (the result being Kansas City, 40; Milwaukee, 9) caused a general surprise. The claims of the rival cities are to hotel accommodations, railroad and telegraphic facilities were presented in open session by representatives of each city and jubsequently in exeo utive session. JEx-Gov. Stone, on behalf of Kansas City, and National Committeeman E. C. Wall, on behalf of Milkaukee, explained-the financial inducements, which the cities they represented were willing to make. Each offered the committee $50,000. but in addition Kansas City was willing to furnish hotel accommodations for the member??of (he committee and the hall with decorations and music free of expense to the committee. One of Milwaukee's strongest arguments was the political effect which the holding of the convention in that city would have upon the German-American voters, who were represented to the committee as wavering in their allegiance to the Republican party. It seemed to be taken for granted by at least two speakers that Bryan would be renominated and that the Chicago platform in substance would be reaffirmed. Opposition to trusts, expansion and imperialism, together with every mention of Bryan and the Chicago platform, aroused enthusiasm, but during the open session of the committee there was no allusion to the isroe-of free silver. Three dates for holding the convention were propose 1?May 9 by Mr. Townsend of Oregon, June 14 ^ m-n r CI L n 1! by Senator unman or oouta v/?romra i and July 4 by Mr. McCraw of Westj Virginia. A speech by ex-Senator Gorman in favor o? holding to precedent and naming a date later than that for the convention of the party in power had considerable influence in causing independence day to be chosen. After the committee had selected the "Gate City" of the west the Kansas City boomers held a jollification meeting in their rooms at the Raleigh. ExGov. Stone addressed the gathering,predicting that those who attended the convention would depart with^ praises upon their lips for the hospitality they hud received and that the nominee of the convention would be the victor at the polls in November. The committee was called to order by Senator Jones, chairman. Every1 State and Territory was represented* either by the national committeeman, or by proxy. There were strong indi-^ cations when the convention met that Kansas City would be chosen. Sach city was allowed 30 minutes to present its claims and the two rival cities argued in rotation. James A. Reed, prosecntingattorney, of Kansas City, made the opening speech, presenting the claims of the: metropolis of tho southwest. The invitation he presented, he said, came not only from the citiz? is of Kansas City, but from the unfa.' ering, triumphant Democracy of Missc iri. Kansas City has A lines of railroad, and her telegraphic facilities are excellent. Her hotels are more than ample. Outside of the great hotels of New York, there were in Kansas City seven hotels that will rank as high as any in the United States. The committee, he said, should have the hrst choice of rooms at these hotels, the delegates the second choice. Hotel rates he promised would not be raised* Mr. Reed was especially fulsome in hiB e *i-- ? u.i! eulogy 01 LU? CUUVCUUUU uau, nuuu, he said, would seat 25,000 people. New York was passed, as there was o one to present her same. Mayor Rose of Milwaukee presented the claims ?f the Badger City, whose selection, he said, would do its Democracy good. Although McKinley carried Wisconsin by 100,000 majority he promised that the State would this year give her electoriai vote to Bryan. This announcement was greete'd with great applause. The same element which carried Wisconsin in 1892 was in sympathy with the Democrats now, he said.: The hope of success for the Democracy this fall lay in the GermanAmerican vote. "Show to the Germans," he said, "that the' Democrats are opposed to imnerialism and expansion ind they will be with us." (Applause.) Mayor Hose then turned to the facilities of Milwaukee for accommodating the convention. In the matter of railroads, hotel capacity and telegraphic facilities he said that the conveniion had Lothing tc gaiD by going to Kansas City. Besides, Milwaukee ha*l a summer climate superior to that of "her rival. Tbe determinati ,?n of the convention city, he said, should not be a question of personal predeliotion but of party welfare. Among tbe others who spoke were ex-Governor Peck of Wisconsin and Representative Lentz of Ohio for Milwaukee and David Overmyer of Kansas for Kansas City. At 3 o'clock the committee reassembled. The vote then taken resulted: Kansas City 43; Milwaukee 9. The vote fixing the date of the convention was in favor of July 4, 27 votes; June 14, 21 votes; May 9, 1 vote. A speech which had a great deal of - - ~ t * J ~ influence in nxmg me aate was ou? by ex Senator G-orman. He said that four years ago it might hare been well to hold the convention early, as the party then tock a new position, one which drove many of the leaders out of the party or into temporary retirement. -The original then went into new hands, in the hands of able men, bat many of whom had not been active in control of party affairs, it took them some time to organize. Now there was a good organization. The party was ready and equipped to enter upon the campaign. The party in power should be allowed to hold its convention first and the indictment of that party could be made as it has been in times past. Mr. McLean of Ohio also favored the latter date. Chairman Jones was authorized to appoint a sub-committee of seven to make arrangements for the conven| tion. It is probable that Messrs Store of Missouri and Johnson of Kansas will be members of this committee. I The following call was issued: "Tho natinnal ftnmTTIlfc tee, having met in the city of Washington, on the 22d day of February, 1900, has appointed Wednesday, the 4th day of July, as the time, and chosen the city of Kansas City, Missouri, as the place for holding the national Democratic convention. Each State is entitled to a representation therein equal to doubled the number of its senators and representatives in the congress of the United States; and each territory, Alaska, Indian Territory and the District of Columbia, shall have six delegates. All Democratic, conserI vative reform citizens of the United States, irrespective of past political associations and differences, who can unite with us in the effort for pure, economical and constitutional government and who favor the republic and oppose the empire, are cordially invited to join us in sending delegates to the convention. The committee then adjourned. Starving Millions. Two weeks ago Lord Carzon gave the Dumber of persons receiving aid and food from the Government in India at 3.252,000. He has raised the total twice since then to 3.500,000 and 4,000,000. Bat large as these figures are they give no full idea of the extent of the suffering. "There are, as a mat' ter of fact, two famines, one covering an are of 300,000 eqaare mile3, with 40,000.000 people, the greater proportion of whom will bo brought very near to starvation before they can har vest another crop, and another of 145,000 square miles, with 21,000,009 inhabitants, where more or less relief will be needed." The whol* number of people affected, it will be noted, is about equal to the population of the United 8iate3 ten years ago.?New and Courier. Tried to Walk a Trestle, A dispatch from Augusta, Ga., says a remarkable feat wa?-uodertaken by a horse Wednesday, which "1?d^*~fatal I ending for the horse. The animaV"^] fine pray, owned by Mr. J. J. Thar* mond, was tamed loose and was grax;ng near the railroad trestle at H^wk'a gaily. This trestle is aboat thirty feet high and a hundred feet long. The rails are laid on sawed trestle ties, aboat a foot apart, and without a plank running lengthwise between the rails. The horse started to walk across this trestle and actually made about one-third the distance safely. Here he m'ade a misstep and-slipped through the ties, breaking two of his legs. It was neces sary to kill him and drag the body off with ropes to clear the track for the approaching train. A Popular Mayor, " m n iV. ? 1 Q -M. V/srsuu, me ui wunuouuc, Texas, is known in that country as the X{'perpetual Mayor." He has held the office for twenty-one years, and he can not scet out of it. He has declined renomination time and again, and threat* ened to resign if elected; but the people hare nominated and elected him ia spite of it. He was the first Mayor elected in Texas under the new Constitution of 1879, and before, that he had been an Alderman for a number of years. Sold His DaughterBessie Titsworth, who is only sit. years old, the only daughter of Simon Titsworth, of Milfoid, Pike county, Pa., by a second wife, was sold by her father for $1 to the Key. W. R. Neff, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church. The father relinquished all rights and olaim to the child. An instrument in writing was drawn up and signed by the contracting parties and the custody of Bessie was transferred to Mr. Neff. \< The Only One. ' v Dallas, Texas, nas a woman deputy sheriff, the ooly one in this country. Her name is Mrs. Emma Van Dusen. Her father was Robert O'Diniel of County Cork, Ireland, and her mother was a cousin of 4 'Stonewall' Jaokson. Her husband, Charles Farmer Van Dasen of Evansville, Ind., died nine years ago. Soon after his death she removed to Dallas, and until her reoent promotion has been connected with the office of the clerk of the federal court. A Million Stamps. , Some three or four years ago a wealthy man of Chicago told a young woman that he would provide for life for a protege of hers, a heloless man, if she would collect a million postage stamps. She has just done so, but in the meantime the helpless man has not only recovered his health, but has made a fortune of a quarter of a million, while | the young woman's parents have died : and left her in straightened circumstances. A Bad ?07. Ojcar Collins, of New Fork the son of John Collins, a cotton broker, has been I missinK'uince Thursday. His disappear{ ance brought out a story that he was an embezzler in his fathers's firm for $6,000. Today Eugene J. Monthen, the bookkeeper, was arraigned in the police court, charged with being an accomplice. O^car circulated a story to hide Ka amWilflmiint that his father had failed. Disappointed in Love. A dispatch from Darlington says James Gardner committed suicide at Mechanicsville in that county Thursday night by taking strichnine. Disappointment in love "as the cause. Mr. Gardaer was from North Carolina aod was 55 years old. He willed all his property to the girl who rejected him. The coroner's verdict was that deceased came to his death by taking strichnine in grape wine with suicidal intent. AN ADDRESS Issued by the Prohibitionists' Excutive Committee WAR ON THE DISPENSARY. The Newspapers, The Good Women and Christian Ministers Called on to Help the Cause. The prohibition conference held in Columbia on the 12th of January, 1900, adopted the following: ''Resolved, That Joel E. Branson, J. S. Moffatt, E D. Smith, J. A. Hoyt, F. E. Kyatt, W. C. Thomson and Jeremiah Smith be and hereby are appointed to prepare an address to the people of South Carolina, setting forth the work and issues before us, and to plan for and perfect an organization of the prohibitienists for the coming campaign." In. accordance with the above, we snhmifr. tho fnllnwinsr addrpqs! To the people of South Carolina: The prohibitionists of the State are encouraged to make another appeal to the voters for a supreme effort along the line for the abolition of the manu: facture and sale of liquor in South Carolina. For many years the men and women of our State have toiled earnestly to effect legal prohibition of the liquor traffio, and gratifying progress was being made not only in banishing the licensed saloon from all territory without incorporated towns and cities, but there was much beiDg accomplished in the way of reducing the number of saloons here and there, and fclso in securing control of the smaller municipalities through the ballot box or restrictive legislation. This progress in temperance reform ioduoed an application the regularly constituted authorities of the Democratic party in control of the election machinery of the State for a separate bix in which to vote for or against prohibition, and this privilege was granted in the primary eleotion of 1892, resulting in an overwhelming majority for the legal prohibition of the liquor traffic, and along with this re?u)G there was obtained a dear majority of members in the lower house, who passed a strict prohibitory measure in accordance with the verdict ol the people. This measure was defeated, however, and in its stead was substituted the dispensary law for the regulation and control of the traffic, an importation that was recognized as contrary to the wishes of the people and in direct conflict with their ascertained verdict. Thus the dispensary began its career as a supplanter, and it has made seven .of uncanny record, marked by bloody an4-4?grac??al-&Ups-froiB -tiebeginning. The present condition of the liquor business can hardly be said to be satisfactory to a single intelligent person in the State. When the dispensary law was first adopted, thousands of our honest people hoped for, and expected much from it. They were told that the restrictive features of the law would be enforced by sober State officials, who, not having any financial interest at IaVaw <A IIAA AAnonmru DUl&Cj IT\JU1U IBUUl IV iwuugw vvusuuiy tion of liquor and make the dispensary system a stepping stone to prohibition. The dispensary had been in operation but a short time before the greed of gold began to manifest itself among high officials, and pressure was brought to bear upon dispensers to increase sales. The annual salary paid to a commbn' county dispenser would buy thirty bales of cotton, and he was given to understand that his dispensary must be profitable to the State or it would be closed and he himself dismissed from the service.- The sales increased at once and have increased month by month ever since;- so that today the State is * selling nearly as much liquor as ever did the old barrooms in their palmiest days. And how eould it be otherwise? The appetitejor drink is the same and every hindrance to the sale of liquor has been swept away. The door of the dispensary stands wide open to serve every _ vr?. ne uue tliai will Uujr. municuj^ vi the purchaser necessary, ne inquiry as to the purpose for which the liquor is wanted, and no signature to any request; simply pay your money and take your liquor, ss much as you can carry, if you like. So indifferent and demoralized have become our State and county officials, that although these violations of law are known to all of them, they have neither the manliness nor moral cour* age to tiy-to bring the offenders to justice. . Tourist hotel privileges and .beer shops Lu've been,, and are still, conducted under the very nose of the governor of the State without'a shadow of law, and no effort made to prevent it. Dispenser after dispenser has stolen or lost the money of the State and not one Has ever been ounished or even prosecuted, except in one or two instances. Commissions and rebates and bribes and thefts andunurdera have been the natural products of this system of State liquor selling, and, after years of such work, its managers still plead with us to ' give it a fair trial." Those who manage it say the dispensary paid last year $130,000 to the education of the children of the State, but they did not tell the startling fact that the dispensary had drawn from the people of the State at least 20 times as much and spent it in- fat salaries and other expenses, purchsaes, etc., of the liquor system. It may be said that in addition to the $130,000, the counties and towns received a small sum eajh and to this we reply: The expenses incurred by the counties and towns in the trial, punishment and support of criminal*, who have been made such by the liquor sold them by the State, Will far more than balance the money received from the dispensary. We state it modestly when we say the present system of liqaor selling is robbing the people of the State of $20 for every dollar paid to the State treasurer for educational purposes. The State board of control is sending out of our Siate each- j ear at least $1,000,000, and in exchange for it bringing into the State and distributing to our people five times the amount in poverty, wretchedness, disease and death. We appeal to every newspaper in the State that has a sense of honesty and fairness to lose eight of the few dollars that may come to it through those who love liquor; to forego the imaginary pleasure of holding up the hands of those who cry, "personal liberty," when the personal liberty is violative of the rights of others, and to join with us in the effort to remove the accursed liquor traffic from our State. We appeal to the good women of the State, and when have the women of South' Carolina ever failed in a good cause? You cannot vote, it is true, but you can give expression to your opposition to the liquor traffic by wearing the badge and by a thousand acts of your life, and it may be your hand that shall drive the "tent nail" through the head of the monster that is now actually eating your o&priag. We appeal to the Christian ministers of the State. Shall these who preach the gospel enter the field and speak - n n i! it .i.._ against liquor selling: oee me master with a scourage driving out the money changers from the temple, overthrowing the tables and pouring out their money; and hear Him cry, "Woe unto scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; ye serpents, ye feneration of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" and you will see that He did not seem to have a sort of namby pamby citizenship, nor to have been afraid of offending against the proprieties of life. Remember that this liquor selling and liquor drinking is the one great battery of hell, manned chiefly by the devil himself, and is shelling the church of Christ, slayinac you brothers all around you, and you stand as watchmen on the walls of Zion and must cry out with warning to those around you. Arise as soldiers of the. cross and silence forever this destructive agency of the devil. Light the fires of prohibition on every hilltop in thG State; let the rays go gliding down the valleys and floating on the bosom of every stream until the kaalrncp Kaama oVioll pVAPU UVOllUg UUU1A |/VWW?*MW w> I nook and corner, every crack and crevice in the homes and hearts of our people. "Then shall the earth vield her increase; aBd God, even our own God, shairbless us." Joel E. Branson, Chairman. J. S. Moffati, E D. Smith, James A. Hoyt, F. H. Hyatt, W. 0. Thomson, Jeremiah Smith. TO SUE THE STATE. The Carolina National Bank of Columbia Authorized to Do So. The legislature passed the bill. auth-. orizing the Carolina National Batik io bring suit against the State for Ut^^eI covery of money placed to the credi?pf the State penitentiary oa tw.o.notea eiajiorsed by Neal as superintendent, | said notes having never been paid. The State will lose nothing in the sait. If it it be shown that the bank can hold the State responsible, then the State may go back on Neal's bondholders. If the State is not accountable, then tho bank and Neal must hive it out between them. The recent legislation further provides that this suit will not afiect the status of the criminal action already brought against Neal. The joint resolution reads: Whereas the Carolina National Bank of Columbia, now holds one note of W. W. Russell for $600 dated July 8 th, 1899, and one note of C. W. Kagsdale for $2,000 both payable to the order of W. A. Neal, superintendent, and endorsed by WV A. Neal, superintendent, and discounted by the said bank for the accommodation of the State penitentiary, the proceeds thereof going to the . * . v _ _ ? J credit or tne penitentiary in me saia bank; and whereas both of said notes are now past due and unpaid, and the makers thereof having failed and refused to pay the same on demand, the said bank claims that the State should pay the said notes and refund and return to it the proceeds thereof, placed by it to the credit of the pentitentiary, with interest thereon; and whereas, the State is unwilling to do so unless its liability in the premises shall first be legally estatyished; and whereas, no action can be brought against the State without its authority; therefore, Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of South Carolina: That the said bank be, and it is hereby authorized to bring and prosecute against the State, in the courts of the State, any action or actions, as it may be advised, for the purpose of testing the liability of the State in the premises, and of establishing the validity of the said claim against the State. The leave herein granted to sue the State is noon the exDress condition that nothing herein contained is to be considered as estopping the State npon any action that it may be deemed proper to bnng on the official bond of Neal and his sureties upon the matter in question; and upon the further condition that if such action so allowed to be brought is not carried to final judgment (should the said be against the State) by six months before the right of action in the State on said official bond would be barred, thea said ajtion is discontinued, and iany judgment against the State rendered thereon thereafter, is null and void and of none effect. . Sec. 2. In ease' the claim of the said bank shall be legally established by final judgment of the courts of this: State, as provided for in the preceding section, then, and in that event, the superintendent of the State penitentiary, and the board of directors thereof, shall* pay the full amount of the same as fixed by such final judgment, with legal interest thereon to date of payment, together with the cost and disbursements of the action in which said final judgment may be recovered, such payment to be made out of there - ? ? u ~ Cf.fa nonitonfioru r*r nnv U1 CUC kjwave Vk I funds in their hands belonging to the wid penitentiary. Where is Aguinaldo! A special from Hoog Kong, British Chiaa, to The Evening World, says: "United States Consul Wildman has information that three members of the Filipho junta, Luban, Ponce and Agoncillo, brother of the envoy, left recently for Japan to meet Aguinaldo. This gives credence to the story that Aguinaldo escaped from the island of Luzon to Foremosa when hunted by Gen. i Lawton's expedition through tho north 1 .(A. :?i j J era pair 01 uie uiwuu. PENSION GB&B2E&S. Congressman Sims of Tennessee Makes an Invidions Comparison. The Savannah Morning News makes the following comment on a matter that has been attracting a great deal of attention lately: The politicians of the north have debauched pnblic sentiment in that section in respect to pensions. In their efforts to curry favor with the soldier voters they have fayored pension laws of such a liberal character that about every one who served in the Union armies daring the war of secession has been, or will be, able to get a pension. Tens of thousands of men have been given pensions who are no more deserving of the assistance from the government than if they had never , been in the army. As a result of this there is a violated public sentiment in the north in respect to pensions. That fkia ia on ia shnarn Ktt tVio rinmhor nf tuto AaJ UV UUV rv U VUV v? applications for pensions by northern volunteers who served in the SpanishAmerican war. In a speech in the house on Wednesday representative Sims of Tennessee called attention to the fact that from eight volanteer regiments from the states of Net? York, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio and the District of Columbia which were engaged in the battle of Santiago, and which had 209 men killed and wounded, there have been filed already 3,588 applications for pen* sions, and that from twenty?three regiments and two battalions of regulars that participated in the same battles, and lost in killed, wounded acid missing 1,344, there have been 2,962 applications for pensions. It seems, therefore, that eight volunteer regiments from the north have filed 636 more applications for pensions than the twenty-three regimi>nh) ami fwn hafrifllinna rAimlarfl. though the regulars have served from April, 1898, until the present time, while the volunteers served only about six months. Mr. Sims compared the pension record of the foregoing eight, .northern regiments with eight regiments from the states of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. These pouthern regiments served for * looger period than the eight northern regiments, but from them have been filed onlv 761 applications for pensions, being 2,827 less than the number fifed by the eight northern regiments. "Look at the Ninth Massachusetts," said Mr. Sims, in the course of his speech, "and notice what a record it has for pension applications. It did not have a man killed, --wounded or disabled, and yet it has on file 643 applications," for pension. Mr. Sims expressed the opinion that if it had remained in service six months longer every man in it would have been ah applicant for a Tnere does not seem to be any donbt -i&*t-ift-tfee-a<Srth the idea lis to miss no chance to get a pension. The people of that section have been in the enjoyment of pensions so long, and on such a liberal scale, that the pension crazc is general and acnte. The foregoing comparison between the eight northern regiments is a remarkable one. If the pension record of these regiments show anything, it is said in the south the young men volunteered from patriotism, while those in the north had in mind the opportunity for getting on the pension roll for life. Ic will be said in the north probably that the difference in the number of pension, applications does not show srreater patriotism in the south, but greater tbriftiness in the north. A National Dishonor* The first trade to follow the flag in the East, it appears, is the liqaor trade. The Chicago Chronicle reports: "The trade in strong drink has outstripped all other lines of American commercial enterprise in Manilla. There were but three saloons in the city when the first American troops arrivod; now there are four hundred. If one pioks np an American paper published at the metropolis of the Philippines he finds that practically all the advertisements set Lrth the attractions of saloons and the virtues of numerous brands of American beer and whiskey." As the President piously remarked in his recent message: "The Filipinos will soon recognise the fact that oar flag has not lost its gift of benediction in its journey to their shores." Nor our beer and whiskey.?News and Courier. Gilt Edged Affections* Just after the minister united Millionaire Samuel Stone and Begina Neville in the holy bond of wedded bliss at Colorado Springs, Cal., a deputy ? i ? i i i i s&enff presented cue Diusning oriaegroom with a capias calling for bonds in the sum of $250^000 to insure the payment of damages in a suit instituted by Anabella Vance, of Goldfield, who charges him with trifiint? with her affections. As Mr. and Mrs. Stone were about to start upon their wedding trip another deputy sheriff served a capais issued to Miss Nelli Lewis who charges that Stone enticed her to New York npon a promise of marriage, and that he there cruelly deserted her, and sbij pad ber and her sisters to Pasa. dena, Cal., where they now reside She placesher damagesat $ 200,000, ; What they Seed. In his speech in the House on the Porto Rican tariff bill Mr. Swanson, of Virginia, "argued the injustice of permitting the .300.000 tons of RUgar in Hawaii to be admitted free of duty, while at the same time the bill imposes a heavy custoja-uduty upon the 60,000 tons of sugar from Porto Rico; t>the difference in this treatment re?v .a from the fact that the sugar interest of Hawaii was owned by a few millionaires, while that of Porto Rico was owned by several thousand small farmers." The Porto Ricans should get some of the trusts interested in their products. They would have no more tronble then. exceDt. of course, to pay the trusts for their services.?New* and Courier. * * "" ; Sewall and/Biyan 2?eet. Hon. Aithur ^^l', oi Bath,Me., candidate for ^Ice-.poBsfdent on the ticket with Bry&jf Sif!^5896, met"Bryan in Atlaota on Wfedtoesdiy. Mr. Sewall said he had no choice- fof the vice presi* dential nomination. Mr. Bryan's nomination for first place on the ticket he put down as a foregone conclusion. - - - - ' _. . THE STATE CAPITOL. The Text of Act Recently Passed to Complete it WORK WILL BEGIN AT ONCE. - All Realize That the Completion of the Structure is the Wish of tbe? People and 1 Legislature. In~a?few months the neighborhood around the old State capitol will be the scene of great activity, unless -there is trouble with the sinking fund commission about getting the money. Jhe building is to be finished if the legislatures wishes are to be carried out. The splendid, but rather ponderous, .pile of granite is to be transformed nto something ^nore stately and more State like. It was with somo trepidation that friends of the movement introduced a bill to appropriate $50,000 out of the State treasury for that1 purpose. The ______ senate passed the bill by a large m?- . J iorifcv. The house was not so stronzly in fayorof the measure, for the $10 000 appropriation for the Chickamauga monument and the $35,000 appropria- ra tion for Winthrop's new dormitory had , been graft ted. ^ Bat Mr Steven3on from Chesterfield, came to the rescue. He showed that the sinking fcmd, commission had nearly $200,000 in the bank drawiag foar per cent. interest. Why not lend this amount to the State treasury refaad it at the rate of $15,000 per aunum? This would cot increase the levy of the State and would not hurt the appropriations to other causes. The suggestion was adopted by both houses, and the following act was passed and -has been approved by thegovernor: Section 1. That* the sum of $175 000 of the siokiog fund in the hands of the sinking fund commission, as shown by their report, shall be used by the sink"? ing fund commission to complete the State house, the said commission acting with the commission hereinafter appointed in having the same completed; ' and the sum of $15,000 per year of the taxes collected annually for State parposes is hereby set aside and pledged - . ^ annually to repay the sum so used from the sinking f and for this purpose, and ? .. four per cent annual interest thereonv. '-- V till the whole is pajjd. . Sec. 2 Tha: the. governor, secretary - * ? of State and one member of the senate, - -V. to be appointed by the president ot the senate, and two members of the hoose, to beiijpj^iliieiby the speaker of the . house, be, afiTiimir T ff^T) iVecLa - commission with the siokiog fund com-"*" mission to take charge of aad direct the completion of the State house; to let out all work herein authorized, to make all necessary contracts, ioluding the employment of an architect, and .to see that the said work is completed according to the contract, and to do any and every act necessary to carry out the purpose of this act Provided/That no fands shall be set aside except as they are actually needed, and shall not be used unless a contract be entered tA knnOA 1UIU WJ CUUipiClC tut} (NUU uporc uviuv for the sum get apart Since the adjournment of the general assembly the point raised in the senate as to the legal right to loan the hinkiog fund money to the State has created no ~ end of discussion am >ng lawyers, and those who are mcm^ets of the commission have been locking * | into it with care. They say if the State could be sued there would be no trouble. They, realifb that it is the wish of the people and the general assembly that the oapitol be completed in this way, and say it will be done if it can be done. Fr<>m what can be heard now it looks as if the whole matter will be taken up when the sinking fund commission meets early in Al*rch. There is a strong sentiment among the . m^mViArs tin makfl nrt a casa to be taken i before the supreme court, Askiag an immediate deliverance from that tribunal so that the work will not be de- ? Iayed if the legislature's wishes can be carried out?The State. To Punish Amitsin. . A dispatch from Frankfort,- Ky., says as a result of a conference of the Democratic legislators on the proposed reward biU a substitute for Senator Ferguson's bill was drafted. The new measure provides for the eleotion of five commissioners, viz: John K. Hendrick Joseph H. L^wis, John D. Clark, William M. Moore and B. W. . Bradbnro, to have charge of a fund of $100,000 apppropriated out of the state treasury and to expend so much thereof as they deem necessary to apprehend and convict the assassin of "Governor William Goebel and conspirators responsible for the act of the as^issin. U provided that not exceeding $15,000 be voted to the preliminary work of the commission. The commissioners shall offer out of the fund whatever reward "f they deem necessary for the apprehension of the assasin, and each conspirator. The bill provides that not a cent of the fund shall be used in the employment of counsel and that no order expending money shall be valid except by the C'i unanimous consent of the commissioners. Burned to DeathBen Walker, an old Negro, was burned to death, near Thomaston, Ga., Wednesday night, in a peculiar manner. Walker had some money buried ? ? * 1 -I l ! 1* under His nouse ana waen me ouuamg took fire he ctawlcd under it and attempted to ^dig it up. /Wben he was . taken from under the borniog building be had ieoeived burn* which proved fatal. It Took Mon?y. Senator Clark insists that he paid no money for the purchase of votes, bul says: "It was estimated that it would take $35,000 to control the committee and that $75,000 would be necessary to control the-fegialature. There ?a^ no limit and I agreed to pay whatever might be necessary." Ao yet Senator Clark insists that be was working to purify his party and bought no votee.