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"'l-j-1.1 iti?- ~ ~ " ..-. ;...- -. - .< -.- -. ~" . * '"" r * VOL LIV* WINNSBORO. S, G, WEDNESDAY. MAY 30, 1900. NO. 42 w ** AN ADDRESS : tl Te Th8 People of the State of 8 t South Carolina 1< t b FROM THE PROHIBITIONISTS P a e ^' ?- I ?>? A r> i lo /H in 0 ins Uispensary uai* nsjamu ( Unmeasured Terms and Many a / a Crimes Laid to Its Door. d h The following is the address to the f( Prohibitionists of South Carolina to o ^ the people, which was prepared by Col. a, Hoyt: c I "The prohibitionists of South Caro- i< in anr>#?ftlin!r to the Democratic I b "u" -fl o -- voters to join them ia suppressing the a liquor traffic in this Siate, deem it p proper and right that they should clear- b ly and unequivocally state their posi- n tion with reference to the business con- s; ducted in the name of the common- s; wealth, which thereby makes ail its p citizens responsible in a measure for ii ' f -V-M I _ the continuance ol tins tramc, wmcu r< we believe to be a crime against hu p inanity and a means cf degradation to * the people. w "In the first place we haye chosen to tl make this contest at the Democratic o primary because we are members of ai this political organization, which is in li virtual control of all the affairs of the b State. d "W?? have the rizht to raise this is I within the party lines because the w knory of the State government lias b ttfd to construct and operate a o< ttf liquor selling, which has for it Bobject the constant increase t) Bisumption of liquors by the si Bf the State, mainly with the ti Baking money out of tha busi- ir Hfwhich the State is engaged. lj Bid violate conscience and prove n Br. tn dntv as eood citizens if we T Hot protest against this iniquitous o< 9PQHP^od of obtaining money through the a sensual indulgence and debauchery of o' our citizenship, and we axe making this o: r protest in a fair, manly and consistent a: way, appealing to the higher instincts e: of humanity, and pleading for the so- w cial, domestic, moral, religious and po- c] litical elevation of our whole people, b By banishing the evils now fastened ti upon the State in conseiuenee of the tl system under wnich the sale of liquor b is conducted, we wouid protect our y young manhood, bring relief to wronj^d d and suffering women and children, and t! inaugurate an era which would e?entu- p ally rid our homes of the blight following the use of liquor as a beverage. w The State is now encouraging this use e. ox liquor uii iiic poivt v'i no wuifivuo ^ when it should by every means discour- ci age that which wastes the resources, 5 paraljies the energies and destroys the e] manliness of those who should be the g shield and protection of our homes. , w The State is engaged for proSt in a1>u3- j( iness that strips the home of comforts 0 ^ with as much certainty as a cyclone f, ^?^^nows down the mighty forest; a busi- a ** that opens the g*t<j3 of perdition n L_ t^TOst souls; a business that the genius ^ of hell has never fashioued a more com- ^ nlete method of recrukicg its ranks; a a business that has borne iroin time im- ^ memorial the badge of disgrace in civil- jj ized and Christian communities, and ^ sak that is now exalted in the sovereign a B^and enlightened commonwealth of p ffiflffiLSoath Carolina to the dignity of govern- a SnHKaent service and government protec- c SHHg^n, so that our youth are taught by a ?amnlfi of the eovernment itself 1; the manufactnre aod sale of liquor ^ ll^^|honorable and def-iiable occupa- 2 tion. 'Whence caaie this usurper of e governmental authority ? Did the citi- ^ zens of the State dtcrec its introduc- n tion as "the best solution of the lienor w question?" "Eight years ago the Prohibitionists o of South Carolina asked the privilege a of testing public opinion as to whether h licensed saloons should be prohibited n within its borders. This request was tl made of the managers of the Demo w ? " cratic election machinery, who consent- p ed that a separate and unofficial box p might be placed at each poll where to- ij ters ecald east a bailoi; for or against S - t*l * An?/\*iAinfa r\$ tlia f%i prom Dili JU. AilO VI vr license system were without efficient h (organization, but the voters voluntarily p went to the polls and rolled up a decid- li ed majority against the saloons. P$- w litical exigenceies did not favor a pro- t' hibitory lav?, and although a majority of the house of representatives passed tl such a law, enough members were after- f wards found to reject th3 law which I they had aided in tramiog and a sub- 1< stitute was discovered in the present c dispensary system. 'Ye asked for fi bread and were given a stone; ye asked it for a fish and were given a serpent.' q ''Prohibitionists w<re then placed i? in an awkward position and many of w them knew not what to do. The saloon 0 had been abolished, arid this was one j of the objects for which they had strug- c gled in the past, jet liquor selling was si not stopped. On the contrary, the li State had Deen made to eDgage in the v business under the pretence of con- ti tVm trofflo onf^ iMvir.<r to V MM ? *~~0 , Burners a commodity that was "ehemi- o cally pure," at a price that would not k admit of profit. This was coupled with i< the declaration that the system thus in- w augnrated without the consent of the w people was "a step towards prehibi- li tion," and m3ny acquiesced in the leg- n islation with the belief that the State c would really undertake to minimize w the consumption of liquor. It was a tj law upon the statute books, and many fi of the law-abidiDg and peice-loving it citizens, though honestly opposed to n linnnr collinc in anv shaDe. threw the fi ? . weight of their influence m favor of t] the execution of the law. > i? "An* armed constabulary was furnished with guns to shoot down citi- n rens who violated the liquor iaw, if in o the judgment of the constable it was s; necessary to enforce their authoritv, o and thus began a long reign of violence e and turbulence in the laud, for the a law-breakers were as ready and anxious t to shoot as the men "clothed with a lit- u tie brief authority," who acted upon t! the theory that their own lives Were in t! constant peril, and their surest defence fi was to take quick aud deadly aim. The li bloody catalogue need not be dwelt 1< upon, for it is the most shameful re- a cord in the history of the State, with li the [single exception of the reign of the o carpet-bagger and the scalawsg. Mean- ti while the law wa3 contested at every a tep, and the courts were invoked to 'woe unlo him that giv ompass its destruction, with the result drink, * * * and make bat the main features of the system also.' Erery day, ai rere sustained by the courts, and the through the day, the tatute was unimpeded in its progress Carolina iB vending awards prohibition. Dispensers neg- stroys the souls of me jcted to observe some of the most salu- vants of God cannot re iry features of the law and themselves or unconcerned while t * * ' ^ ? A - hi ra ecame violators wnere taey were es- tameu iu mc oiahuit. ected to become guardians; minors eousness exalteth a nal nd drunkards have found it easy reproach to and peop] nough to procure liqmor with or with- eoas enormity of this ut the connivance of the dispenser; ness fostered by the I jhemically pure' has become a by-word longer stain the prou nd to mean the vilest of the vile; the our common mother, gents of the State have defrauded and test against this anom; efaleatsd in large numbers, and few of governmental power ave been made to feel the penalties citizen of the State is n ot their misdemeanors; ine oiaie Doara ior a iramc uiau io *uu f control has more than once become eyes of God. The mej n exhibition of exceeding offence in is through the politic be nostrils of the good people of the which we are in part e ommonwealth, so that time and again izens of South Carolina ; was necessary to make cfcaBges and now to make an appeal ring about reformations; scandals al- citiiens that they will lost without number have tracked its storing the old common athway; charges of dishonesty have relation whereby the 1 een constaQt, and the public was be put under ban, so lade familiar with rebates and the and lawmakers will be i imple room; in a word, the entire sity of legislating to i pstem Las been permeated with sus of drunkenness within icion, distrust and causes of offence do this effectually we a x_?L."L i r\v* klo * V* \ a KC110 ah 1 StTl&i.Ug CUIJU<*3L WlbJLL KLXK^ UVUVIUVIW UlOA^ VUIU auwmv wjcord of South Carolina's glorious primary, and hence to ast. tives of our principles' /'Has the system proven 'a step to- for them before the pe ards prohibition?' Not in the sense to obtain control of th< iat originated this phrase, but in an- legislative department ther and truer sense the demand for government.' This is ctual aed honest prohibition of the or object and we procla quor tralfic has been largely iooreased wh*"eh are not hid in a y the failures and shortcomings of the political associates, ispensary system, which has been right to make the issue weighed in the balances and found polls, and insisting th anting." That is the indictment we justice requires ihe rec ?Tij f/\ f Vn* Tlam. ?n?M.jcnniorirp5 insiiift HDg (JjjiiiUDt lb tvuaj . auu wv/ vuv -^v*m itpvo^u??v*.v-.?? ? cratio voters we turn for a verdict. Ia where every other issu s stead we would oSer them still fur- the maintenance of goo ier restriction of the liquor traffic, de- this State, We deny 1 iroying the profit and beverage fea- Democrats have pecul ires of the present syatem, and limit- privileges accorded to t ig the sale of alcoholic liquors to strict- constitution and laws o r necessary purposes, such as medici- we will maintain our ri al, mechanical and sacramental uses. 0n the hustings and to his substitution would take away the trammeled ballot at th< iium of the State's being engaged in The reading of the business that is prostituting the youth tentively listened to, a F the eauntrv. wastiDE the resources aDDlause. f the poorer classes, bringing disgrace * * : nd degradation upon families, impov Beads Like i rishin.e the homes of oar citizens, and Ten thousand peop] ithholding bread from the women and and children, witcesscc hiidren who are cursed with the of the monument erect light of the drink demon. Prohibi- of Francs Slocum, the on offers an opportunity to work for and more generally fc le elevation of the entire people, the White Rose of the Mia etter instruction and training of the ami Indian burjing grc ouog, the creation of incentives to in- from Chiacgo rccentiy, ustry, and the moral advancement of notable one in commen ae State to keep pace-with its material tory of this woman wh rosperity. like fiction and has "The benefits of a prohibitory law national interests ac< ill not be fully realized in a year or ^as tolen when a child ven in five years, for the longer such *r01^ ^er oi )) law is in existence with reasonable ?* hances of enforcement the greater will abductors to Fort v\ e the benefits derived from its pres- adopted by one of th< r + * ^ l Vi. ace as a permanent policy of the chieis ana Drougnt u> iate. A generation that shall grow up kge* six miles, from Itjhottt kaowlaJgn c\t _ ?TC77 Up tO WOIDSnhOC-d >ons, whether operated by individuals Indian. She was ma*c r the State, will be a population noted principal oniefs of the ; >r its sobriety, which will be the rule Col. G-. W. Effing, ai nd not the exception among the young her identity became ku ten. Once firmly rooted and grounded a visit of two brothers j the minds of tho people, a prohibi- from Wilkesbaire. Sh )ry measure will come to be regarded relationship but refuse s a necessity. More than a generation mew, u?iW?l *?yas passed since this law was enacted age ?f ??>, and was bi 1 Maine, and for a long time there monument now stands ras a vigorous fight against its contiau- A Brute Lyi nee, but at this'time both political , - {>, arties are pledged to its maintenance dispath. from ri s the settled policy of the State. The fays, a, ^?, .?ek, ry of repeal has been frequently raised lynched Calvin Kimbl< nd not many years ago one of the po- gulled and mnrdere; xical parties made repeal a plank in flr ' 1D,S Is ?\. 13 ' ;s platform, with the resnlt that not ho ' The lynching t >nrf? th<m & half dozen members were P.aSu 0D? Thursday int reeled to the house of representatives cneerea a3 tne hich has over one hundred in its ^legraph pole. The lernbership, and the fight for repeal ?l , ras an ignoiinious failure. be J *04, ft? l? X "Gen. Xeal Dow. who was the apostle 5 wou^ ^9* ,e f prohibition, a man of upright char- ?eg[?* th& a P cter and irreproachable versacity, in ^ st?PP?^ is testimony before a Canadian com- ^oun(^ ono A e? tission on the liquor tarffic, declared was, dragged ^uil a was nfi Stat1* in rlift TTnion neck to a^ telegraph here more liquor was consumed in 8truDS np Oetore :'ie r> roportion Co population than in Maine, ^ Terrific Ex rior to the passage of the prohibitory A terriblo explosion i*. It was then one of the poorest Cnm00ek mine3 ]oea .ates, and under pronibmon it has be- mile3 from Gr,;e-sboro jrne one of the most prosperous, tern00E,4 TBeDty-thrc irgely the result of savings by the peo- ti?ed and thi iojllri le from the discontinuance of the , ?hjt j, quor traffic. He said it was quite foreigner9 ,ad the rel thin the mark to say that not one- Th ? f the lo itentietn as mocn liquor 13 somciap- A( g m all the bo( estinely in thai State as was sola oy 007ered and SBrgeon; do saloons before this law was passed. th' inJ-jre(i ma, ortland, its chief city, wnere Sen. fearfttlly roaoglcd. >ow lived ana died, had seven distil- ? ? jriesaad two breweries, while many Democrats W: argoes of rum were brought every year Mr. Arthur Sewell :om t;he West Indies, and now liquor viewed. He said, ''Is i sold there on a very small scale, the of it" and thei to mat U^Ulliy liUi liUUUlCU'vU b \jl nueu oiiai^uv tv ^mv ? ? i was in the olden time. His estimate tion, he repeats, <kI ai ras that there is a saving of $24,000,- of it." Mr. Sewell me 00 annually, whieh goes to increase the he would under no circ rosperity of the masses, and he de- to a suggestion that he; iared that it is far within the truth to candidate of his part ay that $1,000,000 would pay for all presidency. He beli quor smuggled into Maine and sold in Democratic party can \ iolation of the law. This is the tes- if a campaign without: imony of a man who spent the best ? ears of his life, even down to extreme Turned Tab^e Id age, in advocating a cause that he # At Chattanooga, 1 new was beneficial in a moral, relig- night Will Adams, a )us, industrial and financial sense. A tempted to rob the T rhoIe generation has grown up there which has a vault cr ithout being witnesses to the effects of armor a quarter of an quor, and there are grown men and wo- entered the bank bn ten who have never seen a drunken cealed himself, awaitii lan. Is not such a state of affairs the cashier, with the ii orth striving for, even though the at- g him up when the i linment of such a result involves sacri- He was surprised and ce, toil and endurance on the part of cashier and constable. s advotates? Christian men and wo- Street Car Official len can well afford to make the sacri- A dispatcll from Au ce and bear the toil, because it is m D Dre?ident of th Je direct line of obedience to their wf 'aQPd Electrio con J i rr . J i . . jenerson, a conuuuiur * "The contest we are entering upon is Whitney was shot b1 ot child's play. The prohibition Dem- been iD(jicfce(i fcy the g crats of South Carolina are not re- j 4 v|0iati0n 0f the ponsible that the issue has to be made quiring a separation of n the political hustings. There is no carg_ gince the death hoice left to us except to abandon the compaiiy has been can eld, wherein we would prove recreant genger3 jn trailers. o the most solemn obligations that rest r-pon a christian people, charged with Killed by aJTalJ Le moral and religious elevation of A dispatch from Ct hose around us. To relinquish the the Atlanta Journal, moono tViA rtrtntinnatifin the TTintr a Wfill kBOWn VO VlU fc4*v VVv- "'-Ol - * ? m * Iqucr trafic under the aegis of our be- county, was instantly ) >ved South Carolina, and perpetuates bly mangled last night system that is undermining the pub- under a falling tree. .c weal and destroying the probity ef his friends were cutt: ur public men, a system that sane- tree, King went to s ions with the broad seal of the State was broken and mangli n?-inulment o? the divine njunction, manner. Death was im :a him drunken j NAMES A TICKET. ad every hour State of South that which de- Twenty-two Counties Out of Forn, and the eer* ' ~ r% rt I A/Yo^QC f A main mdittcrftnt iy ocnu wcicgai?d lv his law is con books 'Rightion, bnt sin Ts a PROHIBITION CONVENTION. e' any the hid sin of dmnken State must not Col. Jas. A Hoyt Nominated tor d escutcheon of We must pro- Governor and Col Tribilous perversion , . . by which every Lieutenant nade responsible ~ minable in the Governor. ins of our protest n^e Prohibitionists held a State ConintrusSd^as'cit venfcioQ in Columbia last Wednesday, i, and we come The Conference was called to order by i to our feliow- State Chair-nan A. C. Jones, of Newjoin us ia^ re- terry. He read the call under which weaitQ 10 a ngut ^ (]onveation assembled and emphatha^our rulers s'ze<* ^at on^ ^ree delegates were spared the neces- asked from each county. Chairman ncrease the sin Jones announced that the first business our borders. To wa3 t^e e]ection of a temporary chairtheC?I>fmocratic ? Nr. 0. D. Staaley named Mr. have representa- T. N. Berry, who ran for railroad comwho will contend missioner two years ago. Mr. Berry opie, aDO. 'seek wag unanimously elected. He was es) executive and COrted to the chair by Messrs. E. D. ha ?J.o Sfatp I c_:.U T. "R n,nn?, vr? """""" OUllLUj UX UUUW | JJ. t*r. ju.o;uvj, >/? do unwoithy aim J^exiogtoo, and Joseph Spratt, of Man,im the purposes, ning. Chairman Berry called upon Dr. corner^ to our (J^alfccey to open the formal exercises demanding^ the with prayer. He prayed that the sins at the primary an5j blunders of the past be forgiven, .at fairness and jir> Berry thanked the convention for lognition of our his election and said he wa3 ready for the psrey lines,- ^ork. Prof. A. B. Stall worth, of e is settled for Greenville, was elccted temporary secid government in retary, and on motion of Mr. C. C. :hat any class of Featherstone Mr. B. E. Nicholson, of iar and speoial EdgeSeli, was clected assistant secre,hcm under the retary. if the party, and joel E. Branson suggested that ..V<- .-> Via Virvorrl 1_ 1 11 ? J ? tU~i 6"" lv eacu cuuuty ue utucu auu m>v mo >.u oast ajree, un- rolment bo named from the fliior. This 5 poll." plaa wa3 approved and the roll was address was at- landed in as follows: ,nd greeted with Abbeville?M. L. B. Sturkie. Aiken?0. L. Jones and J. F. Z:~T" Philip. Andsrson-J. h. Hall, K. P. Clink^e, men, women sca]es aQ(j j w-. Qaattlebaum. *. unvei ing Barnwell, Beaufort and Berkeley? Bd to the memory No repre8entatioQ. Indian - captive, Bamberg?W. E. Johnson. ;n?,w? f* *h.e Charleston?J. E. Kirby, E. 0. mis" at the?Mi- WafanT! tucds, ten miles Chester?N-o reoresentation. ..he event is a Chesterfield_j. T. Hurst. F. ML lorating the his- Cannon and j G iosq story reads Clarendon?Joseph Sprat*, C. -M. become one of Mason and D. J. Bradhacn. 1 history, one Cherokee and Colleton?No repre1 . nveo yea/_3 sentative. :esDarre, ra., m Darlington?T. N. Berry, B. U. Bris|ght west by her fcQW; j R Howle and R Howie_ ayne, she was Dorchester? S. Utsey Walker and G. s Miami Indian M 1)ayig the Oisge vil- Ed?eSeld-L. R. Gwaltney and B. E. Chicago She NichoIson. . to all mten s an Fairfield, Florence ana Georgetown om,nfxb^ representation. DaV??; T,ro?gh Greenville?James A, Hoyt, A. B. a Indian trader, Stallwonh and ;y. W. Kcys. own, leading o Greenwood?J. G. Jenkins. and one stser Hampton?No representation. e recognized tae Horrj and Kershaw?No representai to retujn with tioQ_ h 9, 1847 at the Laurens?-Robert Abereroabie, C. C. ineu waere tae Featherstone and J. M. Friday. ? ; Lexington- -L. B. Haynes and J. S. Abercrombie. .bio,' Colorado, T" ;m?,Ua NegroTbo ?Marbn and Marlboro-No represen1 two little white v n\ a n t i,, p r? vi. /\ j dewberry?A. C. Jones and the fiev rueoto vrpu-uo j w> ^ 00 Pjace A, J1' " Oconee?No representation. DtJl. * Orangeburg?J. K. Fullmer. Wffl iT nf I, Pickens-J. E. Boggs. ?f ' tr*L^ Richland?T. J. Limottc, C. B. tions for fear the Stanley' M- Speigner, Frank Roberts, Lions lor tear t he ^ j H Q d j L B tram and seize o j *r "6 1 j *; Saluda?No representation. St?*rnbars-a T-Soaife-J-Brope^aroun'd bis DS^^~K C' and E' poll Md thrice U^OD?S. M. Rice, of Eist Uoion. Wjlliamchnrtr?.fnAl R Rrnnsnn. T. plosion- 0. Epps and E B Rhocius. occurred in the York?S. M. Grist, F. M. Whisonted some forty an^? C. Strauss. i Wednesday af- . The number of counties represented e miners were ^he convention is twenty-four. The 2d. Ot' the dead number of counties not represented is icluding several sixteen. mainder colored. When Aiken was reached it was sion is unknown, stated that the two delegates present iies had been re- wer? volunteers, not having neen elect3 were working e^; They were elected to memberay of whom were ^ hen Bamberg was reached a delegate announced the name of the ?? Kev. W. E. Johnson as a delegate and ill Win ahked that he be enrolled. has been inter- The temporary officers were made im positively out permanent, aad Mr. Waddy C. Thomp;e his words go 6on was elected vice-president. Mr. nd bring convic Fulmer, of Orangeburg, then moved n positively out that the convention hear the address :ans by this th%t prepared by the campaign, or executive uoostances listen committee, which was in the hands of again become the Col. James A. Hoyt, of Greenville, and y for the vice- prepared by him for the committee. 'Hl:. ?n,.i leVcB Lliaii cue J Ui3 muuuu piqvaucu auu vv?. iAv;v ?in in New York read the address, which is published nistrkes is made, elsewhere. The address was received -?zrr with applause. Oil Him- Mr. Abercrombie moved that a com?enn., Thursday mittee of five be appointed to select , desperado, at- such portions of the address as were racy City bank, deemed advisable and use the same as iclosed ia plate ail address to the people. inch thi:k. He ^lr. Rice, of Union, wanted the adiiding and con- dre3S amended so as to address it to the 32 the arrival of Prohibition Dftmoar&ts and all other atention ot hold- Democrats. safe was opened. Mr. Featherstone thought some of the captured by the expressions used Were too rough. He thought it unwise to say that the dispenIs Indicted. sary wa9 t^e worst in South Oaroeu^ta savs D B ^na excePt reconstruction. He opposed e Aueusta Rail- suc^ severe expressions, because there m* ,pj t? (i were honest and -sincere men who advo n a car oa which cated the dispense/. He fought and , a Neero, have forked for prohibition, but thought the '"and iury for al- aQare83 5aouia De toaeu aowa ia a ie>v State 'aw in re- particuJara. tbe races on the Mr* .Hoyfc thcmgkt Mr- Featherstone of Whitney the was mi3takeQ iQ his interpretation as to ying Negro pas- th|?:H^ynes^anted to avoid conten tion with the dispensary. It would be ling Tree. best, he thought, to leave the dispenliloden, Ga., to sary alone and plead for prohibition says: "Charles alone. uog man of this Col. Hoyt said his comparison was dlled and horri- simply as to the shooting of citizens, ; by being caught and that reign of terror and turbulence Whilo a nartv of and killinsr waa what was said to be ing down a beo second only to the reign of the carpetleep. His body baggers in Sontb Carolina. Mr. Hoyt jd in a frightful read the paragraph and insisted it was 3tantaneoiis." warranted by history. Mr. A. C. Jones thought it best to Q'fi'Xf AT0"R TI refer the address and all other papers to O 1j x 1 ill v 11 11 a committee of on? from each county represented. Mr. Boggs and the Iter. E. 0. Wat- Gets a Bauquet frorr son urged that this would simply mean a doubling of tho discussion and delay P.Jones. work. Mr. Watson wanted coadopt trie paper as a whole, word for word. The strong statements appeared to him as HIGHEST SORT C being exactly correct. Ke did not want to wake up more snakes than could be killed, but he was an.open fighter. He Greatest Senator Sol wanted no emasculation. Let the paper go forth jast as it reads. Has Had Since t Mr. Abercrombie said he did not want to arouse any scare. He ojected ?? John C. Cat to the paragraph comparing "that gang t> o o t i-l to the carpet baggers." He thought it . P- J< }' would De just as well to leave tnat out. writes ?o iwwwa n Mr. Scaife, of Spartanburg, wanted to the Atlanta Journal: an aggressive^ fight from now on. The There are no dull da very point criticised in that address and reC0rd of any day's hapj and he was all. He thought voting down ma]-e a Political the address was taking away their >lethodist general confei strongest weapon. mnventions. soldiers' i The addresss wag then adopted, word cour8eS) etc.', besides a t for word, with the exception of insert- thiDgg t0 filj the coiumas ing the w?rd Democrat tfter thQ word and satisfy desire for the Prohibition throughont the address, so ^he two wjDgg 0f the as 10 read Prohibition Democrat held their COQ?entions ; Mr. Joel h*. Branson, to test the sense thcir oacdidates and ado] of the Convention, moved that the Con- form? acd a<jjourned. vention suggest candidates for Governor ^ few days later the and Lieutenant Governor. There were tte Democrats and Rep some opposition to making nominations gather, one in Philadelp but the convention finally resolved to ;n Tr*naa? C.itv annmir do so. forma and nominate theii After tue adoption of a resolution jt j8 a f0reg0ne concln endorsing the Charleston Exposition, Republicans will nomin: the platform was presented by Mr. E. aa(i the Democrats will s D. Smith, and it was adopted. It reads an ag tfcejr candidates. ' as follows: . t the tug of war. We, the Prohibition Democrats, of ^he present outlook the State of South Carolina, in confer- j00j- brighter for ihe Den ence assembled, hereby declare the fol* jg a growing feeling amo lowing platform: tbat Mr. McKinley is tl 1. That competency, honesty and so- rapt political bosses, an( bricty are indispensable qualifications publican party is in lea for holding office. trusts and combinations 2. That taxes should be made as Iot movca t0 tbe tap of the as possible, consistent with efficiency moneymoneers. If th< ?* ??*?rnm?Dk i * i- won't act the fool and ^ 3. That the sale of intoxicating liqu- strong m&n a9 chairmar ors for beverage purposes is not a func- tional committee, they tion of government, but a disgrace to chance this tima t0 put j Christian civilization; a dishonor to ^ate9. If they will put t manhood, and a political wrong of un- tion in t^e background, paralleled enormity; that it is an awful sion denounce impcrialis crime against the women and children, pure Democracy, and figh against the home, against the Church Btand for principles ane v-L- ? t_ t e - ^on> an<* leave out & few 4. That prohibition of the sale of in- sential planks of the Chic toxicatwg liquors, lor beverage pur- then they have a chance, poses, is the true, consistent remedy, gtrikes and dissentioi and to this end we demand that the dis- multiplying among the la peDsary system be shorn of its evils, The KepubliCan party such as selling intoxicants as a bever- mafciDg the most egregi age; and that authority be given by the Bossism growing more uo General Assembly for the State to sell Boss-riddea and monc alcoholic liquors for only medicinal, trust-ridden as the Reput mechanical and sacramental purposes. stiu it-s a power> A pa] Nominations for Governor aniLieu- brains than conscience, i teaaut vxuvcruur was uuw 6yuo than principle, a party p Col. Jas. A. Hoyt and Mr. Joel E. pensions and mastered by Branson were placed in nomination for still ^e more than a n Governor. A ballot was taken which democrats. resulted: Jas. A. Hoyt 30, Joel E. Senator Ben Tiilman, Bruoson 11. The Her. Mr. Davis 0iiaa spoke in Bdtimo moves that nomination be made unani- afc a ]>^mocrat:c raiiy mous by arising vote. Adapted and WL-ds of the cit7. He s all rose. . and strong things. I g j / nomi- seQtences of his speech: sated for Lieutenant-G-overnor without "j am fresh fr0m the opposition. ber at Washington, where At 12 o clock the Convention was hard all day today to pnr ready to adjourn, when Col. Hoyt was ury of the UQited State called for. He said it was too late to looted 0f eight million c make ^ sDGOwiu Sc would &pp6&r in ormA^ each county. He would do his utmost ig looted it is you d to gain a victory and believed it would rant Democrats and Rsp be had. The conference then adjourned. poggegs heads but D0 brj A Large Lake Vanishes. w?? ^av.e v?tes an.^ PUJ A special from Guadlajara, Mexico, who steal and you haven says: Many buildings in the town of enough to catch them Autian, situated in the southern part en??2?1 to exp?se. ' ' of the state of Jalisco, were demolished fi11 8!?01?1 bj the recent earthquake. When the first trembles were felt the inhabitants , * dAiTT^o ATI r at r nfl YMi nllP ir fled to the mountains. Had they remained in the houses there would have exPense 0 ei c been heavy Igss of life. Mach damage means governmen by t was also done in Tnscacnesco and Tonitapa. The water of a large lake near the town of Zapotalan disappeared fi c ' in a great fissnre in the earth, which J? ? ? J?? => seemed to be prodnood by a second ** L shock that lasted about one minute, ; j ? n * 1 The bed of the former lake is now dry, ?d?"?n ZZ and fissure' oan be plainly seen. It is . ..J * .. . * y ? . !. mL^ ?;j 1 one to J Tkey are subsidized by ^ and the p0rp?3? dtd little d?ma8, ^Sel^in words Wreck Near Laurens. true words as they appl The wreck of a freight train on the Chaleston and Western Railroad near have watched with Laurens Wednesday morning caused e career ot Ben Tula the iustant death of Eogineer William |ieve in him because he Mecklin and the colored brakeman, has the courage of his con Charley Haynes. The train with n?e?.^.im .in l^e UQlt"2a twplcfi loaded cars was movine on at a W1^h his pitchiork and a twenty miles rate, when the engine man.13 ? bigger man to suddenly jumped the track, turned day in his life. He is ni over and plowed into the deep embank- teemed by his friends ment, a distance of about fifty yards. aQd hated by his caemics As the engine turned over, McKinnev Senator Hoar say the str and Haynes. who was on the seat with truest things that have him, were violently hurled against the j senate sit i furaace and covered with coal. They Hul and Boscoe 0< were literally roasted to death. The Tillman uocsn t contrim fireman who was on the opposite side of Ejty to the senate, but h< the engine from the engineer escaped ?* an<* billy goat, with slight injuries. on? eQd and butts with tl 1 *- ? ? 1- I ~ rinman nas as mucn ur; A Big Failure. backbone than any man Price, McCormack & Co., one of the today. Go it, Ben, yoi largest brokerage houses in New York, your friends and a dose failed Thursday with liabilities esti- your enemies. You mat mated at thirteen million dollars. The lina a good governor and firm is a member of the stock, cotton of John Calhoun she has and produce exchanges and of the Chi- equal in the senate. cago stock exchange, and has branch Old Senator Morgan of I in rhrnnahnnt the Hoar. of Massachusetts,! VILLUS -O United States. The failure is ascribed ran their race, but they to the fact that the firm was long of honored by a grateful cot cotton in the face ef a fa3t falling mar- may die in the harness ; 1 ket. They seem to be puzz] ou n ?rz? mates for MoKinley am Shell Did Explode. party wants a tail to tl A special dispatch from Culloden, enough to steady the kit Ga., to the Atlanta Journal says two it to the political breezes little children of Mr. and Mrs. Fitz- Teddy won't play tail Patrick were playing with an "un- kite, and Towne may be loaded" shotgun shell yesterday after- Democratic kite. The noon, when the shell exploded. A por- may have a Long tail to t lion of the flying missile passed through Sa the window, striking the infant ohild, ; which was in his mother's arms. The Converts With th children were badly powder-marked. The situation of Chi menia is rapidly becomi Severe Coast StoriJL The Turks are forcing . From reports received at Astoria, the hundreds to embra Oregan, from points along the coast it outrageous vexations to 1 is thought that more than four lives dents are of daily occurr* were lost in Thursday afternoon's storm. T" The gale which suddenly sprang frem Crushed to De 1 1 *L""' ? *!??. ?A frnTn TLome ' toe SUUllitJaSL W<S3 WC WU1H waii [IW ~ ! prevailed on this part of the coast at great crush in the cai this time of the year. The wind monies at St. Peter's Fr; reached a velocity of over 60 miles an to which over a hundred i hour. Fishermen were everywhere on grims flocked, two persoi the river with their nets out. and many others fainted. LLM AN LIGHT AT EVEHTIDEA Beautifol Prose Poem That is Worth i Rev. Sam ***&. Below we publish one of the beautiful prose poems that has made A. B. Williams, Editor of The Greenville )F PRAISE News> famous. Read it, and then cut it out and put it in your scrap book. Here it is: ith Carolina rm ?A *1^ T) UCli WO ^lUTT VUU liig iigouuViSD he Days of youth and have not yet bejpin to know * the decay of old age we are in the land houn. and time Of prose. No poet sings of us, no painter paints us?except portraits sgreat evange- for which we are required to pay?do r>m RaHimn-p novelist puts us in hia stories except as filling and background. They do not make heroes or heroines of us, and our ys now. ine trials and sorrows and triumphs and )eniDgs would adventures seem to be of inteiest to no I conventions, body. It is just at that time when we ences, Baptist are old to the very youDg and young co eunions, race the very old that is called middle life, housand other where we begin to know and be part of ; of newspapers real life that all those whose business is sensational. with, fancy and poetry neglect us. 'Tops'; have Youth and age have each their special md nominated graces and beauties, but we between 3ted their plat- them are allowed neither. One is loved and the other venerated, but we arc old regulars, merelv useful. It is the privilege of ublicans, will youth to dream deauliful dreams and hia, the other look forward longing tD rainbows broad ice their plat- as the firmament and distant, stately candidates. alabaster temples, towering amid purple Lsion, that the hill tops and tinged with the hues of ate McKinley the sunrise clouds, glowing in the announce Bry- glory of the dew risen sun. It is the rhenwilicome happiness of age to dream yet more beautiful dreams of a past softened and 1 it: i ./.it ,1 4.1 rnaMja luiugts giorineu Dy me SUTer misc 01 tae gaiuerlocrats. There iDg ?ears, the far receding temples g the masses shining with the light of tender memole tool of cor- ries, the fragrance of old joys stealingI that the Re- across the shadowed hill tops in the gue with the deepening silence and the subdued i, and that it radiance of the sunset time. It is the i drum of the part of middle age to be, to do and to ; Democrats suffer?to be the verbs of life, giving it fill put a live, meaning, to bear the burden and the t of their na- strain. stand a good It is the time of strength' and ripea their candi- ne33 and production and value, for midhe silver ques- die age must be the help for the young T7Ai* fltnon. J iL. J? il,A /%1 A T L 4a ""v" aaa llle pruy lot IUV UiU. J.U ta bue ;m, champion time, too, of straggle ami weariness and t paternalism, discoaragement when the first impulse 1 fight protec- and eager, sanguine hope of youth have of the nones- g0Qe ar.<i the restfulness and resigna:ago platform, tion of age have not yet come. It is the time when men and women are said as are already to be in* their prime, and they need to boring masses. be? for a]j their power and strength are is constantly demanded by. the ever gathering weight ou3 blunders. 0f responsibilities. Yet it is the time popular daily, the least help and sympathy is iv-ridden and oi^on is kindlv and toler jlican party is-, ant to youth, its follies and faults are :ty with, more readily forgiven and sympathetic hands nore prejudice and hearts are ready to raise it from its lerpetuated by fau3 an(i aid it in its progress. Old millions, may age appeai8 to every instinct of benevolatch for the lence and its foibles and exactions and sins are condoned with prompt comof South Car- plaisance. For the middle aged there re two nights j3 no allowance. The man who goes of the several down at that timeof life is in evil fcase aid some true an(j mnst recover by his own strength ive you a few aD(j courage for the world is busy helping aad mtvine the old and the young. senate c^am? jfc jg xigb.t. It is just that in the I have worked tjme wfcen oar strength is greatest the rent the treas- burdens should be heaviest and that we 3 from should be the helpers of those who are kiliars by two COming after us and the props of those ! hen the treas- wb0 haTe g0ne before us, and some of ebased, igno- whom bore burdens for U3 in their day. ublicans who somebody ought to write some lins, you men p0etry or paint some pictures about us ; men in office or make us heroes and heroines of some t honest sense DOvela. We are not yet ready to be or manliness venerated por do we want anybodv to r? . i 1 1 3 J ? J j n tiic iuviifiu- pat uS on tne neaQ anu xeeu us ixigair it he will send piums or mate love to us, but wc tire lation who are now an(j ^hen?all of us?of being so mburse them- entirely prosaio. "We want to be coneasury for the gidered somehow as something more u Democracy than the world's working people and he people. It jraUght animals and general burden >ple get orders bearers?things to be made use of withlotions from a outi being admired. Yet brethren and ;oing to stick 8isters?we who are living in the late ouths and be spring and the full summer and ripe RiWfl Tlddfin. no *iAf r^ninA Kon^iiCA tta 7 duiumu U0 uvu iv^uv wwvhuwv If V oration-riaden mU3t be the prose pare of the story knees eveiy 0f iife an(j looked on as the general >aper; it is full bearers and carriers and helpers. Suretor yourselves. jy there is no place more honorable, the wealthy Let us do our work staunchly and is to have the sturdily and with cheerful and hopeful and clean and wholesome hearts, and no doubt $0T th0 summer will begin to wane y in many in- presently and glide gently but swiftly into autumn and from autumn to win fc v4-v *rVV* ter* JLiltllO vJT JXbUlU tug n^uu VI wuv aan and I be- 8un an(j the moon and the stars shall is amaa who be darkened and the clouds gither after victions. we the rain and those that look oat of the States senate windows shall see dimly and the strong ,11. Ben Till- meQ how themselves and the keepers of day than any the house shall tremble and fall more iore hignly es- an(j more an,j the grasshopper be a burid more den intolerable on the backs now broad i. tie and old an(j str0Dg. Jiet those of us who must ongest and the ^ear an(j caIlj rejoice that we can, looku 8j 01p *DS t0 that sure time, if we be spared ice the days of to it, when we can not?that time when - - ~ ~ T* ~ - ' * ? * i a i - p t ill ; jama*, ucu tbe golden Dowi 01 me snan De wearing ite much dig- t0 jtg inevitable breaking and the Vrls,a. mixture silver cord shall vibrate but feebly to He ^lth the faict and failing melodies of the ie other. Ben daughters ?* music because it is about ?ins and more t0 jjS loosened. in public lire jt he g00(j jn ^at time to know 1 are a joy to that the knees bending beneath our of caiomel to offn weight have been strong and willie K.outh ^ar0" ing to bear the burdens of many and since the days swjffc t0 angffer where there was need. 1 not had your w;u he comforting to know that the ... , hands trembling impotently hare in Aia&ama, ana tbejr tjme 3one mucb work andbuilded bave well nigh weu and ^een powerful to lift and raise are loved and and -^old an(j pr0p# \YheQ the eyes see mituency and dimiy what js about them it will it they choose. peace and glory to look back through ed for running the vejj 0f siiver mj3t 0f the gathering l Bryan; each year3 to the far off white temples of cur le kite heavy sanrjse dreams and know that while :e as tney fling dreams were beautiful and have van" v ' *3ke(* well done shall endure. So to McKiniey s jQ the deepening silence acd darkening u<^ on 1 tiie shadows and fading glories of the sunl\epuo.ieans SAt, time and the winter the memories of heir kite. t^e D00n aa(j 8Utnmer dajs shall live in 31 ^ones- the soul and illuminate an<? gladden it. 9 Sword. ^-n<* c^ere at eventide. istians in Ar- JT _ " ng intolerable. They Will Vacate. Armenians by A dispatch from Frankfort, Ky., ,ce Islam, and says Bepublican Auditor Sweeney sent Christian resi- for Democratic Auditor Coulter Friday jnce. morning and notified him he was ready to turn over the state records and posatii. sessions of the office in the statehouse says in the without waiting for action by the court ionizing cere- of appeals. It is understood the other *i'? :n J icay momiDg, nepiDiican omciais wm uu uicmoc m thousand pil- the next day or two and that by next 13 were killed week the statehoase will be officered exclasively by the Democrats. THE SMALL POX. Got. McSweeney Reviews the Situation in the State. HE OFFERS SUGGESTIONS. I . . They Are Based on a Letter Received From One Who Hat Watched Course of Things Closely. In talking of the smallpox situation in the State which has required bo much attention for some time, Got. AlcSweeney Wednesday said: ''I have been very much interested in the effort to stamp out smallpox in this State and all cases reported to me have been promptly referred to Dr. James Evans, secretary of the 8ttte board of health, and by him given immediate attention. In spite of these efforts the disease still lingers in the State and if not checked or stamped nnfc msv cause much trouble during the coming. fall and winter. I am afraid oar people do not realize the importance and necessity of vaccination. The State board of health has endeavored to impress the importance of vaccination as a preventive and has emphasized the fact that through vaccination was the only way to prevent a spread of the disease and to stamp it out effectually. And yet we have been unable to secure complete vaccination. If the managers of our ootton milU and the ODerators could be made to realize the importance to their own communities and to themselves and their property of vaccination I am sure they would not neglect it any longer. Com- pulsory vaccination is not only not popular but the use of force is not always the best way to accomplish results. '"In fact I doubt the wisdom of a re- v sort to force 'except it may be in extreme cases where persons persistently and stubbornly refuse to submit to vaccination. My purpose now is to call the attention of the people to the importance of this matter and to urge upon them the gooi j adgment in assisting the suppression of the disease by submitting to vaccination. I weald be glad to have the managers of the cotton mills to call the attention of the mill comaHicities to the importance of vaccination and I am snre if it is done in the proper spirit there will be no resistance or objection to vaccination. School trustees and teachers and superintendents could also aid in this work by requiring evidence of the vaccination as a requisite for the entranc* of pnpils to the schools. I hope all the people of the State will unite in an effort to sfcamn nnfc the disease. _ "Some days ago I received a letter irom CoL J. J3. Cleveland of Spartan- ^ burg on this subject which states the case very plainly and which I recommend." The following is Mr. Cleveland's letter referred to by the governor: Hon. M. B. McSweeney, Governor of ' ' South Carolina, Columbia, S. C.: Dear Sir: I am afraid that the State will have much trouble during the fall I and winter with smallpox. There are so many more centres of effeotion now than there were a year ago, snd from what I can learn, they are increasing daily. I do not think our people are educated as yet up to the idea of compulsory vaccination. There i3 a woeful lack of knowledge of the benefits of vaccination. In the town of Whitney it has been 6hown conclusively that vaccination gives perfect immunity i i t from the disease, la one noose wnicn was a boarding house, there were some twenty people all of whom were exposed, seventeen caught the smallpox, and the three that did not take it were the only ones that were vaccinated. In the German empire where they have compulsory vaccination, there are only eight deaths in ten thousand from smallpox. In England where they hav? cot compulsory vaccination, there are one hundred, ana thirty aeatns irom smallpox oat of ten thousand. Statistics taken from official documents in Germany show as against eight deaths from smallpox, there are fonr hundred and fifty deaths from typhoid fever out of ten thousand. In fact, out of sixteen different diseases which are enumerated, the death rate from smallpox is much lower than that of any other disease. This to my mind is conclusive that the only way to stamp oat the disease is by vaccination. As I hare said, I do not think compulsory vaccination would be popular, bat there is one way that I think it can be done and that is for the trustees of every public school in the State to lay down the law that no child shall be enrolled in the school 1 3 ^ * _ tf uaiess vascmatea, ana me prooiui iuv vaccination shall be a well defined scar. I think this rule could be enforced and the resalt wiii be that in a few years our entire population would be vaocinated. Tne making of such a rule is not a hardship; it is simply making the parents do what they should do. The schools for the fall session will be open in a few months, and if it is possible for you, the State board of health or the State commissioner to take up this matter with the different school trustees, and see that such a reeulation is made, it would do more to stamp out smallpox in'this State than any other plan. If this matter cannot be handled in this way, I am going to see what can be done in the mill to^ns about it. Yours very respectfully, John B. Cleveland. Political Suicide. , The Spartanburg Herald says:. "Iiawrecce W. Yoemans is geiting cold com fnrf. fr.Tm fho fnr Tns ill timed effort to stir up strife in the state convention. If he had only had the good sense to see it, there might have been a future for Yoemans." 1 * Cut Eer Throat. Mrs. Anna Chisolm Gilmore, wife of Major J. 0. Gilmore, assistant adjutant general of the National guard of Penn eniAi/^A Tsyt /*tiffirtem I CjiVAUlaj vvuiuiibwgu ujr vuwviug her throat with a razor at Philadelphia J Thursday. She died in her husband's i arms. ' * - - ' . Vvi - . *?a8S&fr