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m f.-:- '.yfl "' ""'"" """" ' ^%s& |j.. ' . . '' ? - ~fc VOL LIV WINNSBORO. S, Q, WEDNESDAY. JULY 25, 1900. NO. 5 I ===========_ k , , BEN TILLMAN TALKS j i I About the Dispensary a: ihs Marlboro Meeting. BETTER THAN PROHIBITION Neariy all the Candidates Has! Their Say to tlia One Thousand Purple Who W~s Present The campaign meeting at Bicnetts ? ville last "Wednesday was attended by a thousand people, who came for miles to hear the candidates discuss the issues of the day. This is the heme of W. D. Erans, candidates for reelection as railroad commissioner, and of Knox * Livingston, candidate for lieutenant goverLor. Eioh was well received and will ea:ry the county solidly. .RAILROAD COMMISSIONER The first speaker was Barney B. -fcivaus. tie s&iu ulv taunted with the fact that be would sot [ in Marlboro attack the record of W. D. Evans. He renewed his charges today and said they wire direct at W. D.'s official record. W. D. has no right to ride on a pass. He must pay his fare and railroad refunds according to law. Darcy Duncan is the railroad commissioner. Mr. Berry said this county is prosperous because it is a prohibition county. Prohibition does prohibit here. Col. Pettigrew was willing for W. i>. Evans to carry the county, but he wanted the votes not going to Evans. W. D. Evans, who introduced his competitors, had not intended to speak, ^ but replied to Barney. The rates are sot driving mills out of the Slate. Five have been established in this county -- - - since he went on the board. Pacolet is hor?iTtC2c> building a new mm m uxvigia ? the attitude of Cheraw is too low, and _ the mill now running consume nearly all the cotton raised in the State. J. H. Wiiarton proposed to corrcct evils of demurrage, overcharges, etc. W. D. Mayfield is not here. Etheridge has not bee a with the campaign for five meetings. GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES. ' " The first candidate for governor to gpeak was Frank B. Gary. He said he would not force a dispensary on Marlboro and he did not want prohibition forced on Abbeville. Let each have what it wants. He believed in the dispensary law. There has been a tax en fVwAmfint. Have the manhood to en force it in Charleston as well as alse* where. McSweeney isruoaicg oa his rccord and ho dcsn't show anything bat the pardon of Pons. No child would pardon a notorious bigamist. If the governor would show some hackle bone, the blind tig-rs would be afraid of him. His sentient that no Con k -Wjederate soldier should go to the poor \ blouse was cheerc d. W? aa.uv.ot do too k much to foster the pub ic schools. PatK. terson asked Gary sonict! ire about the latter's speech in Chark > tou. Gary replied explaining fully his position on ^ the liquor question. He was cheered. Patterson was the next speaker He is not wei:?has been sick for thr-je days. Th's is the roliiicil birthplace of Ben Tillman. There is a powerful newspaper tiust, arid McS^ee^ey tried to get the pull of the press. Patterson stated he had stuck to the d^j ecsary through the scandal last fail. He did nftf o7?snf tn fnros the dispensary on Marlboro, but prohibition is but a sen timent here. In addition to Charlts ton's tiger industry, he claimed there r" are over 200 in the city of Columbia. The law cannot be absolutely er.foiced in Charleston, but he would do it better than it is done cow or step down from office. All through his speech he took great pains to show his reverence for Ben Tillman. Gov. McSweeney said that all Patter son wants i9 to fool the the people to put J*. him into office. Patterson looked all p over the vouche:s in the comptroller general's office and could had nothing agaiDst the administration but warrants paying for a few newspapers. No man in South Carolina is so ignorant ^ as to think that a newspape r's support / an hp hr.ncht fo* a dollar a year. Every governor had subscribed for paf pers?some iiad even taken magszines. Ho was cheered when he referred to the Pons case. Patterson?"I have a letter from a gentleman in Laurens saying that, you are grinding out a lot of parlcns." McS^eeney?l'0h, well, that from f some fellow who's ia sympathy with you." (Applause.) The governor continued that he defied any man to show where a single pardon had not been justified. Ke had told his chief constable in Charleston j: to eniorce tue uispeusa.1^ lan u^uij. The grand jury ia Charleston, like the grand jary in Barnweli, which wouldn't believe Patterson in prohibition days, will not support the officials in enforcing the dispinsary law. The governor read letters from the mayors of Newberry, Chester, Spartanburg, Saluda, Florence and Laurens, commending his enforcement of the dispensary hw. He furnishes proof of his administration?the others make promises. McSweeney H made a very favorable impression here. Col. Walt Whitman came at the ? eleventh hour, arriving from Cheraw. ; >His quaint witticisms kept the crowd laughing. The Piedmont thinks it is time it is getting some of the turkey it Viaavn r\vi]]^rvrr una lccu uwttu. sM Col. Jas. A. Hoyt is in accord -with. Marlboro?a prohibitionist as long as Marlboro has bad prohibition. This county has re?cnted any attempt to ^ change. Marion had been a prohibition county, but a dispensary wss estabished there without the consent of the people. Diilion bad tried to have P' the dispensary removed and could not. It ill-becomes a candidate for governor lift to go around the country abusing the Ip- papers for not supporting him. Patterson has been into 16 counties and it is By a reflection upon him that no paper has come to his support. Col. Hoyt could not repudiate or reject the sup^ port of papers that oppose prohibition, and yet they have takec hioi up on his manhood. Gary pleads the cause of the Confederate soldier. No one would do more for them than Hoyt, who was ^ one of them. There are large numbers fe *- r of families moving to town to educate their children, leaving their lands to tenants who go not know how to maintain them. The common schools should be built up to maintain the agricultural interests of the country and keep farmers from running to town. Col. Hoyt was applauded. lieutenant governor. Col. Knox Livingston introduced his competitors, speaking ia kindest terms of each nf them present, as well as of Col. Tillman, who wired that he was left in Augusta. Cole S. Bleace, Winkler and Sloan each made a strong speech. Many people think there is as much eloquence among the colonels as among the candidates for governor. OTHER STATES OFFICER*. Dr. Timmcrman and Capt. Jennings were here and spoke. Judge Moore spoke. Bellinger was absent. McMahan was not here. Capers made a hit. Brooker and Durham had a little tiff Brooker accused Derham of perverting the record. Derham told him he must not sav that. Bxookcr returned that Derham had exhibited a letter from Auditor Squier of Columbia stating * i*..* - ^ rtharrr>s were vii?? w St'Ui^ v-? W AV* w ~ 0,? not true. The latter went to see Squire and the latter denied writing it. Derham exhibited the letter from Squier. SENATOR TILLMAN SPEAKS. Senator Tiilruan was greeted with eheeriig la two weeks it will be 15 years hooo ihe people of Marlboro dis covered i>ea Tillman. He made his first speech here in 1S85? Their appreciation of his efforts then had much to do with shaping affairs in South Carolina for the last 10 years. He had been at home plodding along, reading papers and -ioks, and doing a devil of a lot of thicKirg, not knowing that he had the gift of gab. There must have been an occasion The time was ripe. He happened to step forward when free speech was s^eet to the people. They had always found him right where he had said he would be. (Cheers.) The State campaign is one of the direct outgrowths of the Reform movement. The people can get 30ice idea of the fitness of the candidates. There are a lot of candidates for these offices but nobody wants to be senator. It is an honor to have the almost unanimous endorsement for a place of trust. His old friends are sticking to him and a host of new ones are supporting him, He is weighed down with the magnitude of the responsibility. If he has accomplished anything at . i #1. IT.. Washington it is Decause ne ien tae consciousness of the support of the people at home. He wanted to take the liberty to give the people some ad vice. If he were a politician he would keep his mouth shut. But as a leader he must say something. The State campaign is degenerating into something which is not good on account of the number of candidates. There is necessarily a time limit. They get up here and say their little speeches and sit down. They cannot debate and show their mettle. The people get a half digested idea of the campaign. The people are getting back to a condi tioa of stagnation?the ereen scum is rising over their heads. The people of South Carolina are doing wrong to gag the candidates. The candidates are not saying any thing new or the newspapers are not doiDg the square thing. Is it important for half a dozen men to discuss railroads? It is better for two candidates to talk one day and two the next it they talk their out and say something. If they havs any brains it will bhow their mettle. He was going to take the liberty of looking about the <iispea?3ry. Not because he wants to dictate, for the people will not submit to dictation. National issues need no discussion. He would not try to bias their rotes. Regulating the sale of liquor has been the cause of more tronble than any o; her problem. if the State has j LUC ilgui C*J illCUUiV TTibU tiig DM1V whiskey at all it has the right to regulate its sale. Whiskey is usually drunk where bought?other articles of commerce are taken home. The history of former prohibition contests in this Srate is that town after town would go | 4'dry," and then would go "wet" at the next election. When a town was dry j under prohibition, there was jast as ! much drinking and no revenue. There j were 95,000 votes in 1892 and but 60,I 000 votes on the prohibition question j and the crude prohibition question | won 'r.y 10.000 vote?. Child* introduced an ironclai bill. T?e legislature is always a skittish crowd. It paistii the Childs bill. He himself had taken this bill, had knocked out J ?j ; SUiLLe uraauu iciiiuica ituu iusuicu tuc clauses which allowed the State to sell liquor under dispensary regulations. This was passed by the senate and later by the house. It was an issue in 1894 (and was adopted ) He himself had kept the constitutional convention from in?erting the law in the constitution, bod? and breeches. It was settled la 1896 and again in 1898. How many times must it be settled to be settled. The people must quit voting for personal preferences and settle this ! issue once and for all. The prohibitionists are honorable i men and led by an honorable man. but i they polled but 15,000 votes last time. Charleston voted for prohibition in the last election. Are they enforcing pro <J mi : _n: niDiiion now j men; is au uuuuijr alliance of preachers and barkeepers led by Col. Hoyt, and yet you people vote for their personal preferences. You are not lit to vote. (Laughter ) Marlboro is a model county, they S3y. They have never sold whiskey bylaw. ^Oh, you hypocrites! When I wa3 governor I heard of wagons coming down here from Xorth Carolina. Where do you get your liquor? I know you drink it. You love it. You go down to the depat on Saturday evening and you will find a whole express car witli iiurs and demiinhnq." Tillman replied that this is a knotty question. The constitutional convention in its liberality to Charleston declared that there should be a true bill by a grand jury before there could be a change of venire. The grand jury in Charlesten will never find a true bill against a blind ti ger and is lyiDg. -But if he were governor he ^ould put 50 constables in Charleston and raise hell on Chicco's street. He called upon the people to make the candidates for the legislature declare themselves over their signature in the county papers, and run squarely on the liquor issue. If a man were licensed to sell liquor under constitutional provisions it would bo a failure. He would keep open Sundays, circus days and after sundown, and he would sell a3 mean liquor as he could get. Behind the prohibitionists ccme the high license people?Cronzaies leading the van?and theyare marching against the common foe. He disclaimed med/3Krv<r ?-n(3 cai<3 Vin ?n??>n views for what they were worth." "What about Marcus?" inquired some one. Tillman then said that the Demo cratio party had lined up and reunited. We have the Republicans on ice. Bryan has ?vrt chances of winning to his one in 1890. After Bryan has been In there four years and given them an honest administration the Republican party will not be heard of in 25 years. Tillman's objective is the tier of counties along the North Carolina line. He will go to Darlington Thursday, wheje it is confidently expected Col. Hoyt will reply to him. He will miss Oamden and Lancaster, but will go to Chester and Yorkvillc and thence through all the counties in Anderson. MEETING AT DARLINOTON. The campaign meeting at Dariicgton on Thursday passed off pleasantly. There was about five hundred people present. The spcecbes were about tbe same as those tit other meetinzs, except that Col. Hoyt took issue with Senator Tillman. In referring to the Senator'3 Beanettsvilie speech he said that it is very apparent that somebody is getting very uneasy over this election. There are too many things being said about the chances of H<?t's being elected. Senator Tilluan is down here to weed out liis crop of dispensary cmdidates. There ara too nany candidates and he wants to marshal his forces. He has been out west and perhaps has heard the news. Tiilman courageously speaks his convic'nus. He has not a bad memoiy. Did he not in 1890 protest against Wade Hampton's coming down here and taking part in State politics? And is this not the very thing he is doing now. The people who vote for Hoyt will not go to Tillman to get permission. He, Hoyt, had done as muoh in 1886 and 1888 for primaries and for free speech as had Tillman. Tillman has made a mistake, unless it is his purpose to weed out these dispensary candidates. He ripped one of them up the back at Bennettsville. But it is not fair for him, the United States senator, the representative of all the people, to come down here and disturb the natural outcome. It does not comport with his former fairness. Tillman has a right to the speaker's stand of course, but Col. Hoyt protested against interference. He invited Tillman to visit him at the executive mansion. (Laughter.) SENATOR TILLMAN SPEAKS. Senator Tillman was received with applause. He had always received the support of this county. He wanted the people to see how fat he is getting. People grow fat on abuse and pap. He had worked for every cent he gets. From ?omo words uttered here today, some might be led to think that he is meddling. That old gag of coat-tail ? SWIDKiUg Hits UCSU acaiu Ikaiu. uu UHU never posed 28 a boss. He bad always led the people in the way they wanted to go. Col. Hoyt is an honorable man, who bears upon his person the scars of lattle. But he ought not to object to Tillman's differing with him on public issues. Col. Hoyt had said something about Tillman protesting against Senator Hampton meddling with thelocal race, and the inference is that Tillman is now meddling. Hampton was not at that time a candidate. Tiliman is now a candidate. He had not taken up the cudgels for any one maa, and as a candidate he has the right to be heard. He renewed his protest against the time limit being cut down. Col. Hoyt in his address in Columbia at the prohibi tion convention charaterized the dis- I pensary administration as that of a scalawag, and a little short of radicalism. Tillman claimed the right to defend his administration which was thus attacked. "Furthermore, it is my baby." Should he remain quiet under these circumstances? He is going to talk, and anybody who doesn't like it can lump it. He then went into a discussion of the dispensary versus pro hibition. His interest would be to keep his mouth shut. He would take orders from the people, but not from the newspapers or anybody else. People love liquor. If they are estopped from buying it legally they will lie to get it. He recognizes the evils of whiskey, but people will have it. It has been reeoguized for time out of mind that there is the right to regalate and to police its sales. He called attention to the good features of the dispensary. If you forbid people to drink they will drink anyhow. Why not try prohibition? Because it has been pointed out that it will take force to enforce it, and the people will not submit to a direct tax for its enforcement. The army of ministers wanting prohibition marches side by side with the high license men. Do you want barrooms? If you do, repeal the dispensary law. The revenue will then be lost?nothing to compensate ' ~2- ^ /5wirilrA?nflCO xur 11 viLl U J U3i; <*3 iiaUUJUl ui uuckuuuvo'' as now- There will be a still up every spring branch. Ic has been ten years since Tillman spoke at Darlington, but he was received today as then. Dying by ThousandsAn era of hot weather that surpasses in intensity the drought duriog 1893 is sweeping over the southern portion of Arizona, denuding the land of all food for cattle. To a4d to the suffering that is entailed upon the herds, every water ' hole and most of the wells have completely gone dry. In consequence the cattle are dying by thousands and their shrunken frames dot the desert conntry of Pinn, Pinal, Santa Cruz. Yuma, Cochise and part of Maricopa counties. Not a drop of water is reported in the Gila and in the San Pedro, from Benson to its confluence with Salt river, near Phoenix. Not oneteeth of a harvest will be secured. So r a 1_, _ T dry is tne air ana so lDnammacue nave the forests on Santa Catalinas become that fire is ravaging hundreds of acres of timber. China on the War Path. It is reported from Chee Foo that Prince Tuan has mobilized 950,000 men aDd ordered his nothern forces to expel the foreigners from the Amur district, Siberia. Another force will operate against Meekeden. WORLD VS. CHINA. Th9 Situation Practically is One of International War: AVERY GLOOMY OUTLOOK. The Chinose Ministers Are Not Allowed to Send Secret Mes sages to Their Home Government. The action cf Count Ven Baelow, the German minister of foreign affairs, informing the Chinese legation at Berlin that all telegraphic messages must be in plain language and submitted for approval by the censor, and the suggestion of M. Delcasse, the French minister of foreign affairs, that the exportation of arms to China be prohibited, which are generally regarded as the first steps in the direction of treating China as a state eBgaged in war, have been supplemented by the official announcement from St. Petersburg that certain portions of the Amur territory, including parts of the Khabarovsk district and the coast territory, as well as the towns of Blagovestchensk, Khabarobovsk and Xikolksussuri, have been declared in a state of war since July 17. Russian aciion is regarded in London as at leaat the foreshadowing o j_ J:?: i 01 a speeay uncuuuiuuuai kuu^uuiuu of the fact that a condition af war exists between China and the civilized world, and the general opinion seema to he in favor of such recognition as the best means of meeting the barbarian upheaval, whil8 at th8 same time endeavoring to isolate tfce independent viceroys from the general conflagration. The revelation of the ability of the Chinese forces in the north to stand their ground against the international interests is producing the inevitable results in the south. At Shanghai it is announced officially that foreign womeD and children have been requested to leave the ports along the river. THE QUARTERLY REPORT What The State Dispensary Has Been Doine. The legislative examining committee having completed its examination of the books and afiairs of the State dispensary for the quarter ending May 31, its report showing the financial status of the concern for the quarter was completed Thursday and forwarded to the governor. The committee consists of Senator Hay and Representatives Mob ley aad Sharpe. The following synopsis was prepared Thursday: From the asset column come these figures: Cash ia treasury May 31. .$115,871.61 Merchandise in hands of dispensers 215,756.07 Merchandise in State dispensary 154,269.24 Supplies 36,097 32 Real estate 36,558.70 Suspended accounts 3,558. 70 Personal accounts due for tax advanced on bonded spirits, empty barrel etc 3,810.42 Contrabind 403 02 Teams and wagons aod real estate make a grand total of $569,261.11. The liabilities are quoted thus: School fund, $495,278 50; personal ac ? /? 1- e counts ciue ior supplies 01 wmsxsy, eiu. $73,932 61; making $569,261 11. The gro.;s profits were $127,221 07; contraband seizures, $1,094 74; State's profits from Germania brewery, $1,060.81. Supplies used during the quarter, such as bottles, corks, boxes, etc., amounted to $37,696.30; breakage and leakage, $1,201.87; labor, $3,855.71; salaries, expenses of inspectors, per diem of members, printing, lighta, etc., came to $6,247.34. The constabulary cost $8,417.29, and it will be noted that the seizures only amounted to $1,093.74; freight and express charges took up $17,242 61. Then comes small amounts in various county dispensaries on account of worthless liquors, and two robberiesone at Kingstree. whereby $21.50 was -11 1- ? lost, ana one at oammervine, in wmca $92.29 was lost. There was one fire? that of W. N. Kirkland's dispensary, and the lo3s is placed at $3,302 18. The net profits passed to the credit of the school fund, after deducting the total expenses of $78,337.98, amount to $51,027,64. The account of receipts and disbursements is thus stated: In treasury Feb. 28 $ 89,50139 March receipts 147,027.34 April receipts 128,860 08 May receipts 147,057.58 Total $512,449.39 March disbursements $136,664.29 April disbursements 133 644 75 May disbursements 126,268.74 Total $396,577.78 Farmers OrganizeThe Alabama Farmers Protective Congress met in Montgomery on Wednesday. The purpose of this convention is to fix the price of cotton and other products at a fair price to the pioducers. Tho farmers of Alabama are relieved somewhat by their movement since Georgia and other states have organized similarly. Col. L. F. Culver commissioner of agriculture, and many farmers and business men were present. His Work Done. Down in Camden, N. J., the people areonlyjasta very little lower than the angels. The other day a preaoher baptized 52 of them, and he requested each one that had ever told a lie or stolen anything to raise the hand. "VTrvi- ? TT?r? O yniaoA Q n CI Ti rtP JUbdiiAuu rraj iuiuvu, the preacher has moved away from the oommanity, saying he could do nothing there. Killed by the SunThere were hundreds of deaths in New York, Chicago, Boston and other cities of the east and west last Wednesday and Thursday from the intense heat. There were over two hundred prostrations in New York alone. A EINGING APPEAL To Democratic Clerks All Over tie United States W. R. Hearst, President of the National Association of Democratic olubs, has issuec an address to the clubs in whioh he calls on them to "publicly ratify the nomination of William Jennings Bryan for president and Adlai E. Stevenson for vice president, and prepare to defend the republic against the corrupt and corrupting spirit of imperialism." The address arraigns the Republican party bitterly for its attitude toward "imperialism" and the trusts and urges ail patriotio citizens to organize to preserve the institutions of i the republic. The address continues: ,kThis is no ordinary year in American politics. Colonies have been established under the American flag without ( the consent of the American people i and in defiance of the constitution. The unlawful and brual polioy of Presi- j dent McKinley and his advisors, in- ' volviDg the abandonment of the prin- 3 ciple of political equality on American < soil, has been confirmed by the Repub- 1 lican party in its national convention. ( "The Republican party, under its , present leadership, is attempting to commit a hitherto peaceful and ja3t nation to a career of imperial adventure and conquest. Its conservatism is dis- ; appearing and its main policy is dom- i inated by a vulgar spirit of greed un- I known on this continent until now. The Republican party has become a 1 pay of revolution. It is attacking the ; irreproachable and time approved politi- 1 ?i J??j ?:_i ?*? , cai, luuusinai auu swim ojraicmo uuuci which this repablic hcs steadily grown in strength and glory and has dishonored our flag and our national obligations before the civilized world. "It has trampled the declaration of independence under foot. The Republican party is the promoter and agent | of the new and terrible trust system 1 which seeks to destroy industrial com- ' petition in America?another revolu- i tionary movement hostile to free insti- j tutions. i ' 'The spirit of militarism marks every i act of the rational government. These < radical and experimental changes in the order of onr national progress < threaten the existence of Republican 1 government on the American continent. ] Subjects and citizens cannot long en- i dure under the same flag. Monopoly i takes away opportunity and hope for 1 from the masses of the people; it robs i the young men of the nation of all < chance to achieve their independence i and fastens upon them a perpetual 1 wage servitude; it converts small pro- i nrietors into hirelings, and it puts into i the hands of a few men the absolute control of production and prices. ''Against these new and dangerous policies?condemned alike by experiecc8 and by justice?the Democratic party is exerting its whole strength. Its candidates and its platform represent the conservative spirit of the American people and their pirt in American institutions. They represent opportunity at some ss against adventure in Asia; peaoe rather than war inspired by thelust of money; citizenship, j not subjecthood; a homogeneous republic, not a heterogeneous empire; a na- c tion of prosperous, equal, liberty-lov- 1 ing citizens, unburdened by the taxes 1 of a great standiDg?aimy, leading ulti- i mateiy to military conscription. i "The re-election of President Mc- ' Kialey will be taken by the Republican i leaders as a proof that th? American { people approve an imperial, military t and trust-breeding policy. 1 "In the presence of these impending ] national perils the National Associa- i tion of Democratic Clubs oalls upon all j Democratic clubs, societies and associa- i tions in the United States to organize 1 their foroes for the defeat of Repabli- j can institutions. Patriotic citizens, J regardless of past political ties or 1 prejudices, are earnestly invited to as- 3 sist in this work of preservation. This < the nation mu3t choose between?the < European and the American theory of s government." j A CHESHESE HORROR. < < Awful Torture and Death of Miision- ] ary H. 7. Norman. I 1 A special from Victoria, B. C., says: ' "Advices received from North China i contain particulars of the awful torture 1 inflicted on the Rev. H. V. Norman, j who, with Kev. C. Robinson, was . amnTicr first of the American mis- i sionaries to become vioti ens of the 1 Boxers, A correspondent writing from 1 Tien Tain on June 7, says some refugees who had arrived there gathered from Chinese ghastly details of the torture inflicted on Norman. It seems i that be fell into the hands of Li, the head man of a little town near the An- ! glican mission, where he and Robinson j had their headquarters, Li had a short ' time before lost a son in a quarrel be- j tween the Boxers and the Christians j when the converts had driven of the Boxers from the mission, and he vowed vengeance. This he took in a horrible J maBner when Norman was thrown into j his hands. After his capture by riot- . ers, the missionary was stripped by the J retinue of Li and a collar of iron fas- ' ? a -? i tened on ms necs. a such cuam was attached and he was tethered to a , stake. The Chinese men; women and . children then poked sharp sticks into ; his flesh and jabbed him with tridents. J When he sank down, weak with loss of blood and half crazed by the awful tor- j ture he was unable to get upon his , knees even, the chain being too short and he was strangled to death. Molten lead wa3 then thrown on his nude body and as he writhed in agony he was 1 stabbed to death. Robinson, the other missionary was slaughtered without lingering 00 long in agony. A number of the mission converts were also slaughtered. Some were asked to recant and those who did so to save their lives were saddled and bridled and forced to crawl to the temple of idols. Busiian Cruelty "The Japanese correspondents charge the Ruseian Boldiers with appalling barbarity toward the Chinese. They declare that the Pei Ho River is full of of the corpses of women and children and that the Russians loaded 300 bodies on a }unk and burned them," A VOTE GETTER That Is What The Democratic Platform is. HOW TILLMAN READ IT. The Impressions Made cn a Writer in the Kansas City Timas Whn Heard Him Read !t. Perry S. Roder, writing to the Kansas City Times, says: Thi3 has been the greatest convention ever held on American soil. The whole sonvention at Chicago in 1892, which framed the celebrated tariff platform and nominated a successful candidate for the presidency, including speech making, parades, nominations, applause, cheering, enthusiasm, did not equal the two hours from 4 to G o'clock yesterday. No one can call to mind any two hours in any other convention comparable to these two. The spirit moved mightily among th.? people. It grew out of the reading of the greatest platform ever framed by a national convention, its most powerful reading by Senator Tillman, and its unanimous indorsement by a united party that four years azo was torn asunder by the adoption of another noted platform, and by the appearance on the stags immediately thereafter of Webster Davis, "the orator of the administration" of President McKinley, until & few months ago his assistant secretary of the interior, to announce that "I stand on your platform and will support William Jennings Bryan." Tiiere was an hour in the convention of 1896, when Mr. Bryan made his great speech Por the Chicago platform, when the ? ?: 1 ?j *!.:? v? 4. genuma eatuubiasin equaieu ilus, uut there were two hours here yesterday of the most intense convention spirit and enthusiasm instead of the one theie. In these taro hours I have not injluded the demonstration which followed the presentation of Mr. Bryan's name by Mr. Oldham, immediately after Davis had closed, ior that cordial enthusiasm which at:ended Senator Hill's utterances in seconding 'Bryan's nomination?either )f which easily equaled the enthusiasm attending Cleveland's nomination in L892. I have not done so for the reason that mere or less demonstration always follows the nomination of a presilent, and it may not indicate anything )f especial importance. But it is a are thing that the reading of a plat ;orm carries a convention olf of its leet :or two hours. No great cheering attended and interrupted the reading of ;he Chicago platform of 1896, although i mighty shout went up when it was adopted, nor that, of the famous tariff platform of 1892. It was the reading >? this platform yesterdsy which measired the high mark of enthusiastic ^merioanism. Senator Fairbanks read the republi;an platform at Philadelphia in excclent voice. Bat no one listened to lim. The inattention and indifference vas so marked that when he had read ibout one-third of it the chairman, Senator Lodge, arose, stopped the reading and begged and urged the delegates to listen to it, stating that it was ;he important function of the convea;iou. Fairbanks read on and when he lad finished about another third Lodge igain arose, stepped to the froat of the jreat platform and pleaded and begged, lrged and almost ordered the delegates ft listi n to the Dlatform. but it did no good. No one cared anything about it. [fc fell perfectly dead upon the convention and after it wa9 adopted the aouth-pi^a of the administration, jrroBvenux of Ohio, publicly, over bi3 jwn name, pronounced it a forgery and i fraud oa the convention. How marked was the contrast here yesterday ?as different as the principles of the two parties, as different as the Amcri3anism of this, and the English todyism and trust cant of that. The Philadelphia platform has already been forgotten because it aroused no manly sentiment in any honest A merican heart, rhe Kansas City platform has no' only already been dubbed another Declaration of Independent, but it has already aroused so much enthusiasm that the purblind trust-ridden newspapers will today show that they have been scared into conniption fits by it. They ftiil say it surrenders 16 to 1, and in that they will lie. Bat they must lie about it or meet defeat. Every one listened as Tillman read. At the strong utterances and apt expressions the convention jumped to its feet and shouted. But in a minute his voice could be heard to the furthest snd of the hall. He is a remarkable man. It is doubtful if there is another like him in America. He is the Robespierre of America, who looks like the husband of Madame de Farge, the keeper of the wine store, in Dickens' "Tales of Two Cities." He is a man of great power, physical, mental and moral, thoueh some of his enemies | bave 110 hesitancy in saying he is lacking in morality Ho is a big raw-boned 3lugger, equal to any political contest srith the world's greatest political gladiator. He loves liberty, he loves individual manhood, ha loves the plain people, but he more strongly hates tyranny, frauds, hypocrisy, cant, plutocracy. Perhaps he never took more genuine pleasure in any work of hia whole public career than in reading this platform, which he seeemed to know almost by heart. When he reached the end of the plank ' on imperialism, the first one of the platform, and which is about a third of the whole document, and read that "the importance of other questions now pending before the American people is in no wise diminished, and the Democratic party takes no backward step from its position on them, but the Vinminc issne of imDerialism we regard as the paramount issue of the campaign," the audience cheered and cheered and cheered. As he proceeded and reasserted and defined the Monroe doctrine, denounced trusts, monopolies and militarism, pointed out the frauds and hypocrisy of the Republican platform declared for commercial expansion, denounced national bank money, and demanded the free and unlimited coin age of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1, every man in the audience seemed to be satisfied, and when he finished 10.000 flags, on which were the words, ! "The constitution and the flag One and inseparable, Now and forever, The flag of the republic forever, Of an empire never." ' came from nobody knew where or how, ; and from the girders of the roof was let j down a flag fifty or seventy-five feet Inns? and half a? wide. Men mounted i their chairs, women shouted and waved j their hands and Sags old men looked j young again, and from ths throats of j 20,000 people there was a rushing, sweeping, roaring flood of enthusiasm j that lolled through the hall like the | breaking of a mighty storm. Had old Senator Hoar of Massachu- j eetts, John B. Henderson of Washing- j ton, Senator Hale of Maine, and the hundreds of thousands of true sons of Puritan fathers in New England been present they would have been swept into the Democratic party as was Webster Da7*s, who likely never made a speech before which he so much enjoyed. When this storm of enthusiasm, as honest as a summer's rain from a western skj, had lasted for more than twenty minutes and the audicace had Oil ? CT tif Snanclo/} RinTiAr." My Country:'Tis oTSe? tho"^,' White and Blue" over and over again, Davis had added 5,000 to the Democratic majority in Missouri and 50,000 in the entire country, Mr. Bryan was nominated, Senator Hill being one of those who seconded his nomination. H-3 took occasion to express his approval of the document. "The man who can not stand on this platform is not entitled to be called a Democrat," he said, and there was not a discordant note in the entire hall. The work of the platform committee ba3 not only been well done, it has i * j: ?ii If UCCU CALidUlUiJuaiiijr rvcn uuug. ib uv serves the thanks of every patriotic man in America for its work. It has framed a platform in harmony with its candidate, who is himself the best platform any party has liad since Lincoln, and it has shown exceedingly good tact and sense in so singling out the important campaign issues now on, and in not repudiating or dodging any issue for which the party stood in 1896, that every breeze that blows between this and November will be freighted with Bryan victory. From this day the Republican party is on the defensive. No party can long live that will turn its back on the Declation of Independence and the constitution. It must show that thi3 charge is not true. Perry S; Rader. The Pekin Massacre"A Chinese merchant who has just arrived from Pekin gives horrible details of the massacre. He says he saw European womea hauled into the street by shrieking Boxers who stripped them and haoked them to pieces. Their dissevered limbs were tossed to the crowd and carried off with howls of triumph. Some were already dead, having been shot by foreign civilians. He says he saw Chinese soldiers carrying the bodies of white children aloft on their spears, while their companions shot at the bodies. He gives other details too horrible to be particularized here. "It seems that the Boxer leaders had organized a plan, including the offering of rewards and rich loot for the annihilation of Europeans throughout China and the Prinoe. Tuan's generals have been emphasizing the opportunity the soldiers have of seizing the bodies of white women." P/WAra Wo#?or^o. u A AUVMA VM" The Boxers' placards, placed throughout Pekin, reads as follows: "I, tiie commander-m-chief of Heaven's troops, will maich from Pekin to I\ankin with them shortly. Oar principal object is to burn and destroy churches and chapels and then the telegraph and postoffice, colleges and schools. The people need not be frightened when they see our arrival here. We are going to drive away the foreigners so as to keep the empire in peace and comfort. Parchasing provisions for providing U3 we will give the market price, but sellers must also charge moderately. We will not destroy the yamens and customs, they can levy duty as usual. If any people disobey this order they will be beheaded at once." In Le^al Terms. "I? I were to gire you an orange," said Judge Foote, of Topeka, "I would simply say, I give you the orange, but should the transaction be intrusted to a lawyer to put in writing he would adopt this form: "I hereby .give, grant and convey to you all my interest, right, title and advantage of and in said orange, together with its rinds, skin, juice, pulp and pits, and all rights and advantage therein, with full power to bite, suck, or other wise eat the same, or give away with or without the rind, skin, juice, pulp, or pits; any thing hereinbefore or in any other deed or deeds, instruments of any nature or kind whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding." We Lead the SouthThe Baltimare Manufacturer's Re* - * * -ii *11 _ cord gives tae ngures 01 couon mm invesements for the first six months of 1900 at between $20,000,000 and $25,000,009. The number of spindles added to the eotton manufacturing is put at 875,368, as follows: Alabama 76,640 Georgia 192,428 Mississippi 41,240 North Carolina 152,952 South Carolina 349.252 Tennessee 28,500 Texas 35,256 It is thus seen that this state is a long way in the lead, equalling the next next two highest, Georgia and North Carolina, together. The Good Old DaysThe Springfield Republican thinks it an open question whether life was not ? i M 3 i Happier in tne gooa oia aays wnen uj?ease was laid to a visitation of providenje, and the most prudent took their typhoid bacilli regularly with their milk, dropped ice without inquiry into their drinking water, slapped at mosquitoes with no thought of malaria, drew their water from the dooryard well, and iived or died as it happened, with nothing to worry over but a few standard infections like measles, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and. at rare intervals, smallpox. SOME GOOD NEWS Comes to Washington from the Chinese Capitol. _____ I IT COMES FROM MR.CONGER He Says that the Only Way to Prevent a General . Massacre is by Quick Relief* Mr. Wu, the Clinese Minister at Washington, received a cipher cable dispatch on Friday .from United States Minister Conger, who was reported massacred in Pekin with other foreigners. It is in the state department cipher and is transmitted through the Tsung Li Yamen and the Shanghai Taotai. It contains about fifty words and is signed in English with the name "Conger." % At a quarter to ten Minister Wn handed the Conger dispatch to Secretary Hay who immediately called in his assistant secretaries and private secretary and work was begun in translating the cipher. No doubt is expressed by the state department officials as to the authenticity of the message. The translation of the Conger message is as follows: "In British legation, Under continued shot and shell from Chinese troops. Quick relief only can prevent general mocaoArA flrtnffAf " The message is not dated, bat it is understood that it was sent from Pekin on the 18th. The following statsmeat has been made at the state department: "On the 11th. of this month the state department communicated a brief message asking tidings of Minister Conger in the state department code. Mr. Wu undertook to get this into Conger's hands if he were alive. He has succeeded in doing this.. Friday morning the state department reoeived a tele- \ r% i i .1 ni gram irom uonstu ttooaenoir mi snsnghai saying: "Ths governor of Shanghai informs me that he has revived Friday* cipher message from Conger of the 18th." A few minutes later Minister Wu appeared at the state department with a telegram from the Taotai of Shanghai dated the 20th of July, which has been received by Minister Wu at 9:30 Friday morning readiBg as follows: "Your telegram was forwarded as requested. I sent a reply from the Tsung Li Yamen as follows: "Your telegram 15th date of this moon (11th of July) received. State department telegram has been handede to Minister Conger. Herewith is Con ger's reply to the state department." As soon as Minis ter Conger's cablegram had been translated a cabinet council was called in the offioe of the secretary of State. A iJEJfEGADE EDITOR. rA A North Carolina Speciman Bought by Republicans. The Democracy of North Carolina is making a hard fight for white supremacy, and it looks as if it were going to be successful, but there are many secret enemies that stab in the dark, and the following from the Wilmington Star ' gives an idea of how that dad: fighting is oarried on: 'The Asheville Gazette, which was formerly a Democratic paper, and up to a certain date an advocate of the constitutional amendment, suddenly flopped and became a vociferous opponent of the amendment. It was publicly charged in Asheville that it had sold out to Pritchard, Holton & Co., which charge the editor denied and demanded the proof. One of the citizens of Asheville who made the charge and was called upon for the proof presented enough, to convince any jury in a court of the truth of the charge, bat ainoe then further proof comes in the form of an affidavit of W. Bay Somervilie, one of the stockholders in the Gazette, who swears that Norton, the editor and principal stockholder, "agreed with Senator Jeter C. Pritchard, Collector H. S. Harkins, Col. V. S. Lusk, District Attorney A. E. Holton, and other representative of the Republican party, to oppose the constitutional amendment and the election law drafted by VIA T^AmA/iHAfiA AI 1 ftQQ " 111 tug j/ciuuuiauv nvvuv v? considration of the sum of $500, to be paid in $1,000 instalments, and that in February, 1900, $3,000 of thii amount had been paid to Norton. The full amount was to be paid by April, 1900. 4'He further swears that Norton said to him that the only motive he had in opposing the amendment was the $5,000 paid to him." Betting on the Election. Hon. Joseph Green, of New York, and Col. A. S, Henning, of California, both rioh, met at New Orleans, recently, discussed the November elections, and ended with a bet. Green is a Democrat and Henning a ^Republican. The latter was so confident of McKin* lev's election that he gave odds to his ; opponent He bet $10,000 to $4,500 on his man. Mr. Green is confident that | he will win the state, and inaamach u I Mr. Henning "expects Georgia to vote for McKinley, this year," he most be making some wild estimates. Mr. Green not only feels assurance of Bryan's triumph, but declares that it will bo a landslide for him. .' His reasons for such confidence may be premature, but they are forcible and sagacious. We trust that he will be richer by $10, | 000 next November than he is at presi ent and that Mr. Henning will be a j pooreer and wiser man.?Augusta Chronicle. Hot for Train Bobbers. The new locomotives just put on by the Denver and Bio Grande Bailway have an unique attachment as a safe imard acainst robbers, in the way of Q? ?0 , - . a nozzle on the roof of the cab. These connect with the hot water of the boiler, and point at the rear end of the tender. The nozxle can send ' jet of mixed steam and boiling water at 200 lbs pressure, that would kill anyone in its raage. - ".--J