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^ VOL LIV, WINNSBORO. S, G, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 15, 1900. ^ NO. 8 A LIVELY MEETING. - ? ', +n rtr Senator ?wman rve^noa ?. Gardner's Sermon. HOY1 REPLIES TO TILLMAN And Defends Dr. Gardner's Ser ? Tnlroc a Ward men. I iiiniati i anvw u. Primary on the Dispensary. The largest and liveliest meeting of the campaign was at Greenville on Monday of last week. After the meeting was called to order, Col. Hoyt was 1 ?J a Tiancv soeech. pr6B6UtCUj dUU Uiaviv ? - * giving way to Ms opponents and giving them his time and a kind word. He said that he had lived among these people for twenty years, and that he felt that all present kne?7 him and his work. He felt that there was no need for him to epeak, for all he might say he felt would change no votes as between him and other candidates, hut he would like his friends to hear all the other candidates. TT-"4 ? <*nmr>liment men uoi? juuj v % vv ~r to each of ids opponents, relating bow well he knew each of them and be speaking for each a kind audience. Then Col. Hoyt started to walk to his seat and Mr. Gary suggested that he add: "That they all vote for Host," and Col. Hoyt turned and remarked that the audience should not forget to vote for him, and this provoked amusemant and much applause for Col. Hojt. THE NEXT SPEAKEBS. Mr, Brooker and Mr. Derharn spoke next and told the large audience what they thought of each other, and why ?. they thought the people should vote for them for comptroller-general. * Then followed Messrs. Capers and McMahan who tried to impress the -people why each thought he was better than the other for superintendent of education. Gen. Floyd told the crowd why he should be elected adjutant general. Mr. Rouse was absent, but sent Ins regrets. Por railroad commissioner Major B. B. Evans started out by insisting that the Piedmont section was discriminated against Augusta and Atlanta had rates which Greenville could not get. ' Mr. lhom*s in. reminded the audience that he was born here and had always been a temperance advocate. ~ ^ j . Some even said ne was too guuu. J. I. Pettigrew spoke of having gone to the war with Greenville boys and his .interest in these people. He went over his qualifications for the office, W. D. Maj field went into his customary argument The outside wholesale'dealers can all undersell the South Carolina wholesalers because the local rates are against the South Carolina dealers. ri> E. Wharton took up freight rates - i | argued tnat tee rouer mma ucic IttsP* were discriminated against, and took up the matter of connections. SENATOB TILLMAN was received with much applau-e. He said it was six years since he spoke here, and it was a great pleasure to be here again ajd to be so well received. From the behavior of the platform there must be something weak in the party here. He did not know whether 1.rirtf TTa folk it was pxuiuuiuuu wi ?v>. ?~ rank and file here were true as stee) and would vote right. Today for the first time the pro gramme was changed and the order of speaking reversed. It was charged that he had been meddling in affairs and that he had no right to be here, and because he had no opposition he - ought to keep away or discuss nothing bat national issues. He explained the change of programme and wa9 told he had unlimited time. Before he started he told why he was here and why he had a right to be here. He explained he was here in obedience to party law, and he wanted it understood he would hew te the line, and if some.fingers and toes are cut off the fault would rot be his. Then he reiterated that had he remained away he would have been accused ef being too big for his breeches and having " * 3 -- J _1 gotten tUe swell neaa, ana men waeu be came they turned and told him he was meddiing. It was the same as of old; he would be damned if he did and be damned if he didn't. He asked the crowd to be quiet until he bottled the hot stuff. ^ on/iAiol kftofrt in J. ILCH iiQ IUU& UU llic Dyvvi?i wvmau iu this county and said the committee had turned the candidates loose and was letting the question be settled for the county in a special box. It was a bad plan and was intended to let the candidates straddle and honey-fuggle the people. It is cowardly in the candidates to ask the committee to allow this screen. You -will be fools ifyou do not have the candidates line up and say whether they are for prohibition or the dispensary. The special box is a fraud and ;f you do not like it lump it. The question before you is one effecting you and ^ your progeny for a life time. It is a question to be decided upon the merits of the matter. There should be no undue pressure ile was here also becam e he had been attacked and he and his administration had been attacked and heid up to derision and Col. Hoyt the othsr day. Here the fc speaker was interrupted by applause PPr for Tillman.) Tillman then said he intended only to speak of Co!. Hoyt kindly. E? would treat him as a hightoned gentleman, but warned the crowd that the more it hollered that way the ' if KofflTP }> fffit. iCOO LUCjr nuuiu nav >? v. 0? through. Ha wanted only to discuss issues. Then Tillman related how the dispensary came as he has heretofore done. When the Prohibitionists say he cheated them they know they are not telling the exact truth. He repeated why he had no use for a machine, as he had the people back of him He re lated why he aid not want prohibition and why he thought it would be a failure. He wished he could leave one matter unsaid and he regretted that he came in conflict with a distinguished divine; one who was honored and beloved, and no doubt properly so. This divine iiad gone out of his way to make apolitical sermon. In this speech he had taken the liberty of mentioning j his (Tillman's) name. Self-respeot demanded his coming here and talking plainly. Then he took up Dr. Gardner's sermon, and read an extract, in which Dr. Gardner held that the dispensary business was immoral, and he so argued. In considering the argument Tillman urged that the first thing was WUClliVl LAI ID VUMW WW4V j of liquor was immoral, would stand. J There is not a scintilla of difference whether the State sells through licenses or through the dispensary, but is it an immoral act? Is it a am to sell or use whiskey? These distinguished gentlemen who have held a party convention and nominated their man have as the basi? of their fight that it is sinful to sell liquor as a beverage. They quote from an almost obsolete part of the Bible and from which he never heard any other than a prohibition sermon. He Has as high a regard for the ministers as any one. They do not use all of the text, but quote it in part. He then quoted from Proverbs and St. Paul to show that wine drinking was not prohibited. He insisted that the Prohibitionists garbled their text and that there wa3 nothing in the Bible to prevent the use of ffbiskey. Drunkenness is forbidden. He had substituted the dispensary law for prohibition for * * * _ _ J trie people s gooa. Then he took up another extract from Dr. Gardner's sermon, that the profit feature of the dispensary made the agents of the State try to sell as much as possible. Tillman said there were two sides to this a.uestion. He did not want the people to get too muoh liquor. He wanted the appetites controlled, and then he jumped on the license system. . There is as much to be gotten out of liquor as any other legitimate source of taxation. This minister openly and boldly wants to take away the profit, which restrains drunkenness by not putting so much liquor in the consumer's hand. It was fanaticism run mad to have as much whiskey drunk as now and get nothing out of it, and not restrict it. In regard to the charge of Dr. Gardner that he (Tillman) held the preaohers up to contempt, he said verbatim: "T ' I ? i-X. "ne hoc only caargss me witu Biauder in my utterances, knowing it to be untrue, but he goes further and declares I uttered these words to express contempt for certain men for whom I have contempt. I say it here in the presence of these many people who listen to Dr. Gardner, that Gardner owes it to himself to prove his charges by bringing certificates to prove them or he owe? an apology. When in 1890 and 1892 the preachers charged me with infidelity I said then that I am a poor fallen sinner going from the cradle to the grave, admitting my weaknesses and trying to forget them, but I swear no . * _ .1 j t x i preacner can say mac x ever tres?:u bim except with respect. But now is there an alliance between the bar room and preacher*, either written or crtherwise? (Voice from the crowd: 'fes.') Very weil, then, I will vote you on it. All who believe it is not true hold up their right hand. All who believe the preachers are in alliance with them, either written or not, bold up their right band. One mere word and I am done. I am sorry I bad to bring this matter out here, but I always believe ia going to a man's house, going to his teeth, face to face, when I have a controversy to settle, and therefore at other place3 I have had very little to say about it. I am sorry he is not here, but when he comes back his friends will teli him what I liave said, and let him write an apology and publish it. I believe he is a man of character and an honorable man, and that he will do it "An efiort is now beinz made by some preachers to talk politics, aod not religion, from the pulpit. You have striven to get rid of religion taking charge of your politics,.and should be careful to keep politics and religion separate. The effort is made to rally you around the denominational flags, but it would be well to watch out for that. icrr , 1 i _ i on are asuea to vote ior reugioa, for friendship, and all that, but he implored all to vote for principle." FOR GOVERNOR Then the Gubernatorial candidates were called for. Governor McSweeney spoke first. He argued that the dispensary law can be improved upon, but prohibition will be a failure. Prohibition should be regarded from a business standpoint He felt that it would be a serious mistake to go to prohibition now. The only trouble complained of - it i * i 1 ? _ _ 3. ? was mac me grana. janes ao not oring in true bills. He emphatically denied that he was in any deal or agreement with any one, but was enforcing the dispensary law The law is new better enforced than in the last two or three years. In reference to Mr. Patterson's charge that he never ordered bar fix tares seized, ne read a copy or an order dated in Jane, instructing constables to seize fixtures. The constables had verbel as well as written instructions to seize liquor, beer and fixtures. He believed the people would agree that his has been a business administration. There was no mincing matters in his office or with the constables. He read the letters from ihe mayors to show that the law was being enforced. He spoke of his administration and thanhid the voters, ana wanted to be judged on his record. He was pre seated with a handsome bouquet of Sowers. COL. HOYT said he would not have spoken except for what Senator Tillman had said. Tillman had 3aid these who had set up this separate box plan were politioal cowards. He had nothing to do with it and the plan, as he understood, came from a dispensary advocate. The people knew what was best for themselves. The committee had this right and it ill became Tillman as a United States Qan +r\ /?arr a V? n n kn oa tttVi r? f vv oviiiv ouu auusg n uau the Democrats of this county see fit to do. He for one never questioned Tillman's right to be here, but he had as much right to be here and advocate prohibition, which he had done all the days of his life. Another thing he had not said that Tillman wanted the dispensary as a political machine. It is a political machine, and has been used in this very campaign as a political ma/.liTno onr! will f?iYnt?r?T!A tn V?a rssarl as a political machine. Nor did he ever say Tillman cheated them out of prohibition. Then he went over the too familiar story of the origin of the dispensary. There was no more delighted than he that Tillman w%s studying the Bible. He thought Tillman had cot yet read all of the chapters quoted. The preaohers were attacked first In his Bennettsville speech acd he had no doubt Tillman regretted that speech. The barkeepers of today are the dispensers; they say the blind tigers are the barkeepers, but the blind tigers get linnw frnm flia ^ionpnCirripa bugu ilV^VAVJL A1VUA VMV Then lie expalined what were called the "ex-blind tigers." He insisted that there was no alliance between the preaohers and saloon men. He spoke beautifully of Dr. Gardner and his standing for all that was moral and high, and he felt that the people would rebuke Tillman and show that Charles S. Gardner was not to be traduced and maligned. No one could prove an immoral combination on the part of Dr. Gardner. Then he discussed the right of the State to sell liquor and insisted that it was wrong and sinful. \rw TO1VT R r.ABV said the main question was that of liquor and he wanted it understood that he stood flitly for the dispensary. If the law is better enforced now than ever, then the law is not what is claimed for it. MoSweeney said he would send constables wherever asked for and in reply to this he read an affidavit from M. B. Scruggs, of Cherokee County, in which he stated that he had repeatedly asked for a constable for his section, that the people had oonvicted two blind tigers, but the Governor bad not complied with the requests for constables, but had said he would send one after the election, and this looked, Mr Gary thought, as an offering to the tigers in Cherokee. Then he explained his position as to the prohibition option. He regarded prohibition a3 a fares, but wanted those wbo wished it to have it." He discussed the school question and his record in the legislature. MR A HOWARD PATTERSON reviewed tho dispacsary from its inception to the present time, showing that if with fit a hftf? fAafnrp.s nf thfl bar room system and had decreased drunkenness. He said that the prohibition platform is not prohibition. He discussed Col. Hoyt and his platform thoroughly. He said that Governor McSweeney had not enforced the dispensary law. THE SCRUOGS COMPLAINT. Governor McSweeney requests that this statement relative to the Scruggs affidavit be published: Scruggs wrote Governor MoSweeney requesting him to appoint Scrugg's constable as a dispensary constable, as the magistrate's constable received only $40, and he wants him tn m&kfl mnre. Gierk Harris wrote to Scruggs that in case a constable was needed to write to Chief J. R. Fant and request a detail, and it would be sent. Scruggs was reminded that as magistrate he and his constable should help enforce the dispensary law, and all the extra piy he cDuld allow was half the seizures. Ia r*ply to a second letter Clerk Harris wrote that Governor McS^eeney would probably not be able to take up the application made for the magistrate's constable's appointment until after ths election. The idea being that Governor McSweeney was toe bu37 now to wade through the many applications on hand. Governor McSweeoey wouid like to have the entire correspondence printed to show that Saruggs wantedlus constable given a special job to work in a particular territory, for which he was already paid to work and enforce the law. a. k. MUST TOE THE MARK The American Government Makes noTrtaTido mi Thina The following demands on the Chinese government have been sent to Pekin by the American government: "We are availing ourselves of the opportunity offered by the imperial edict of the 5th of Augu3t allowing to the foreign ministers free communication with their respective governments in cipher, and have sent a communication to minister Ganger, to which we await an answer: "We are already advised by him, in a brief dispatch received Aug. 7, that imperial troops are firing_dail_y upon the ministers in Pekin. We demand the immediate cessation of hostile attacks by imperial troops upon the lega fcions and urge the exercises of every power and energy of the imperial government for the protection of the legations and all foreigners therein. "We are also advised by the same dispatch from Minister Conger that, in his opinion, for the foreign ministers to leave Pekin as proposed in the edict of Ausrust 2. would be certain death. In view of the fact that the imperial troops are now firing upon the legations and in view of the doubt expressed by the the imperial government in its edict of Aug. 2 as to its power to restore order and secure absolute safety in Pekin, it is evident that thi3 apprehension is well founded, for if your government cannot protect our minister in Pekin, it will presumptively be unable to protect him upon a journey from Pekin to the coast. "Wo ftiorofnr.i vrpp nnon the im perial government that it shall adopt the course suggested in the third clause of the letter of the president to his majesty, the emperor of China, of July 23, 1900, and enter into communication with the relief expedition so that cooperation may be secured between them for the liberation of tho legations, the protection of foreigners and the restoration of order. Such action on the part of the imperial government would Ka i ctthiafaffArv Hpnmnfifration of its friendliness and desire to attain these ends. Alvery A. Adee, Acting Secretary. Department of State, Washington, Aug. 8, 1900. The Tell Tale Censns. One thing is certain. If the new censns is oorreet ballot box stuffiing in the last campaign was by no means con/ i . .-L o...a T_ ? nnea to tae ooutu. xu sumu ui wc strong Republican districts counting the men, women and children, the Census does not give a population equal to McKinley's vot). Bad for Quay. The Philadelphia Press publishes the result of the Republican primaries in Pennsylvania, and declares the defeat of Quay for the United States seDate is absolutely assured. It has been a relentless fight against the bos?, BRYAN NOTIFIED. He Takes the Standard of the Great Democracy TO BEAR IT TO VICTORY. Imperialism Must Be Strangled If Patriotism and the Republic Are to EndureWm. J. Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson were notified officially and formally on laat Wednesday at Indianapolis of their nominations by the Democrats at ) the recent Kansas City convention to the offices respectively of president and vice president of the United States The ceremony was made the occasion of a demonstration with which the Democrats may be fairly said to have begun their national campaign. The notification occurred in the military nnrV a hAanfcifnllv shaded track of ground ia the centre of the city. The park contains probably 30 acres of ground and it was wel? covered with people. Io the vicinity of the speakers' stand the crowd was verp dense. Probably a majority of them were residents of Indianapolis, but many were from other portions of Indiana, while many aho came from distant States. There was also quite a general gatnering or the members of the Democratic national committee, while, of course, the members of the two ocmnittees appDinted to make the official notifications were also present. The oocasion was, therefore, regarded as of national political importance. The ceremony wag preeeeded by a parade through the principal streets of the city, which wad participated in by a number of visiting and local Democratic clubs. These acted as an escort to the notification party and the cavalcade was an imposing one. The meeting began a few minutes after 3 o'clock and concluded at 5:40 p. m. Five speeches were made, Mayor Taggart of Indianapolis adding a welcoming address to the notification speeches of Representa tive Kichardson and (*ov. Thomas and responses made by Mr. Bryan and Mr. Stevenson. The weather was hot, but towards the close of the ceremonies a slight breeza alleviated, to some extent, the suffering ocasioned by the high temperature. At one time it appeared as if actual suffocation might be the result of the terrible crowding in front the stand where the ceremonies occurred, but beyond a few fainting attacks and much personal discomfort, no evil resulted. The platform on which the speeches were made was elevated about six feet above the park lawn and upon it eat -l j t :i: me canuiaaies ami meir iamiueB, ?uu the members of the national commitee, aad of the two notification committees as well as a few invited guests. Mr. Bryan sat near the centre of the stage, juat to the left of Chairman Jones, who presided. Mrs. Bryan and William, Tr., occupied ad joining chairs. Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson also sat in the same group, as did Mrs. Senator Jones, Congressman Kichardson and G-ov. and Mrs. Thomas. The meeting was called to order in a Kwaf anaa/i^ wnl/snma ViT7 \TOTTAf TilCT'. Vi TVVAWU4W W/ v* -* *-Q gert, of Indianapolis. Then followed the speech of Congressman Richardson, who had been appointed to formally notify the candidates of their elootion. Bryan was then introduced and made the best speech of his life. We would like to reproduce is here, but it js too long. The large crowd listened attentively to what he had to say and applauded him 1*1 ll 11 il il V Ti HDerauy an tue way iiiruugu. it nao a great occasion and it was a great speech from a great man. A Call to Organize. The following address wa3 issued tonight: To the Democrats of the United States: The Democratic party and its friends must meet the forces of corruption and . m ...? A:. intimidation in pontics um? yc?t uj thorough organization. A Democratic club or society should be organized m every city, town, village and precinct in the United States. Demoerat3 and all who are in sympathy with the principles set forth in the Kansas City platform are earnestly urged to join the Demociatic clubs, and when none exists to assist in organizing them. This work in uniting the forces of law and liberty into one great systematized civic army should be carried on simultaneously in every part of the country, and without delay. The friends of the government, according to the hitherto unchallenged American theory of political equality everywhere under our flag, cannot afford to be less zealous or less active than the advocatea of an American colonial empire supported by rifles. No patriotic citizen can ignore the attacks which are being made upon the very iounaaiionB oi our ^reoeui. mi;proachable form of government.^ This year every citizen should be a politician. Clubs and societies should at once communicate with the secretary of the National Association of Democratic clubs, 1370-Broad way, New York, so that the united membership may work systematically in defense of the republic as the fathers made it. All Democratia committees, State and local, are requested to aid the National Association of Democratic clubs in this work. W. J. Bryan, Adlai E. Stevenson, James K. Jones, Ch'm. National Dem. Com. Wm. R. Hearst, Pies. .National Ass'n Uem. Ulubs. He Was Buncoed. A clothier on Hester Street, New York, recently sold a $2 suit of clothes and gave $91 in change for a one hundred dollar Confederate bill, and yet there are good business men in Spartanburg who really believe that no financial opinion that is not endorsed by New Yorkers is worth considering. Has a Sad Name. Li Hung Chang seems to be up against it. Oar ministers are unwilling to accept his proffered escort tc Tientsin, and the cantankerous Chinese want to behead him as a foreign sympathizer. Nobody is willing to trust old Li. He has a bad name. PR0P2ETS ELECTING BRYAN. What Experts Say of the Coming Presidential Election. The men who figure and make estimates on elections are not idle. Though the campaign is yet in its infancy and the lines have not been drawn with sufficient clearness for positive estimates of the result to be made, there is no lack of figuring, nor is there any lack of those who predict Democratic success. Congressman McCulloch, of the First Arkansas district, has been doing some Democratic figuring. He counts for Bryan in the electoral college, in addi tion to tne states ne carried iour years ago, Kentucky, 13 votes; Maryland, 8; West Virginia, 6; Indiana, 15; Michigan, 14, and Minnesota, 9?a total change of 6- from the McKinley to the Bryan column, of 16 more than are needed. A citizen of Ohio who had the distinction of winning a prize of $15 offered by the YouDgstown, 0., Vindicator for the closest guess to the vote of the state of Ohio in 1896, and who missed the actual result only 8 votes, now comes forward with the following prediction: ' I believe Bryan is absolutely sure of all the electoral votes received in 1896, 7iz; 176. To this can be added with a certainty Kentucky 13, Maryland 8, total 21, makiDg sure without further details, 197. McKinley's reasonably certain electors do not include more than 125, viz; Maine, 6; New Hampshire, 4; Vermont, 4; Massachusetts, 15; Rhode Island, 4; Connecticut. 6; Pennsylvania, 32; Wisconsin, 12; New Jersey, 10; Michigan, 14; Minnesota. 9; California, 9, which sum up the 125 given above. "The states considered doubtful of which Bryan is sure of at least onethird of the electors and has an equal show of one-half giving him a majority in any event are West Virginia, 6; North Dakota, 3; Illinois, 24; Indiana, 15; Delaware. 3; Iowa, 13; New York, 36; Ohio, 23, making 123 eleotoral voces classed as doubtful, 27 of which are all that are necessary to place Bryan in the presidential chair."?Augusta Chronicle." BUNCOED AGAIN. Spain Unloads Another Gold Brick on Uncle Sam The Spartanburg Herald says there has nerver been an instance in history where a nation in defeat won so much as Spain won when she forced the Uni-ed States to war. We came out the struggle as victor and yet we are burtteaed by loads almost too heavy to hear. Snain hascome out conauered. but sbc'fc of impediments that were fast leading her to bankraputcy. One of the results of that war was the purchase by this government of ten million Philippinos at $2 a head. That looks che^p enough on its face, but the man who would go into market and buy horses at $2 a head without investigating them is liable to make a bad bargain. It turns out now that the only thing Spain transferred to us was the right to take her place in killing the savages. "We paid $20,000,000 for the priviledge of taking up the fight to conquer the people Spain has been trying to conquer for a hundred years. if there is anytning mat tnis government is noted for, anything that the word "Yankee" stands for, it is shrewdness in driving a trade, and yet we have been clearly buncoed by Spain. We not only bought that which was never delivered, but when the trade was consumated and the money paid it was found that two islands were not included in the bill of sale, and with consumate adroitness Spain raised the price and instead of delivering these at $2 a head we had to pay $12. "We gave $100,000 for the two islands which tocAfehftr have anonnlation of 8.000. Ow"? - / We do not believe any friend of the present administration can show any avantage this conntry can have by ownership of Oriental islands. We do not believe that the inhabitants of these islands can be benefited by belonging to us. Aside from the fact that to embark upon a policy of Imperalism vitiates and destroys the charae ter of this government the line of action marked oat by its framers the parsuit of which has brought us greatness, there is nothing to be gained morally or financially. The paramount issue cf the coming nomnaiVn shall to be ?7 Y - buncoed by effete monarchies of the Old World? Shall we become the dumping-grounds for European nations, who have tired of trying to subdue their unruly colonies? A Rare Instance. The Philadelphia newspapers recently published a remarkable advertisement. It announced that Purvis & Co., of Williamsport, Pa., would pay in fnll all claims asrainst the house of Parvis & Co., which failed in Baltimore in 1368. The head of the present I hon3e of Purvis & Co. was a boy when his father and grandfather lailed in 1868. He started in life with nothing in the way of money, but he had a good character, a fine stock of natural ability and a determination to succeed. This he has done beyond his expectations and now he proposes to pay every debt left by his father and grandfather regardless of statutes ot limitations, bankruptcy laws and the fact that not the slightest legal obligation ia the matter rests upon him. This is a very rare case acd in these days sounds more like romonce than actual fact. Ee Withdraws Wednesday State Chairman Jones received from Mr. J. H. Moore of Charleston, candidate for Attorney Vjreuerai, a ICILCJ. VJ. n*vuvtj.>an?? uv? the race. In his letter Mr. Moore states that he withdraws for reasons over which he has no control, one being that he finds it impossible to get his opponent to meet him upon the stnmp. He say, in effect, it is due to the number of friends throughout the State who have given him encouragement to apologize to them for the disappointment caused them by his withdrawal. J ! M'KINLEY SCORED ' By a Republican Senator For His Imperialistic Plans. WILL SUPPORT BRYAN. Wellington, of Maryland, Gives His Reason for Not Voting With His Party . This Year. United Ftates Senator George L. Wellington, of Maryland, Republican, a 4% ^ a* 1 r+ofrttnnrf r\ t* l>ie umo JLuauc a iua.uj<*i oi*v?mcub vi aaao attitude in the present campaign. He says: "I an unalterably opposed to the re-election of President McKioley. Bryan ia a better man in every way than McKinley, and I regard his election as essential to the preservation of the He public. "In regard to the Philadelphia platform as a grave departure from the faith of our fathers. It is not the Republicanism of Lincoln, but an indorsement of the inimical policies foisted upon the country by McKinley. "I am ami imperialist, 1 do not talk one way in congress and another way on the ontside, nor do I talk one way and act another. I am not like old Hoar?able to appeal to the past and the future, and then stultify myself, I see only the present. The past is gone and the future can care for itself; but I'll help take care of the present. <-I am convinced there is a great secret alliance with England beyond any doubt. You remember the cry that was raised against Cleveland of subserviency to Eogland. There was not one quarter ground for it that there is for the same cry against McKinley. He would not dare do a thing that would be unacceptable to England, for he is noth- j ing more than an English proconsul. "President McKinley ha? betrayed me. I was opposed to the Paris Peace Treaty and would never have voted for its ratification of my own volition. I told the president so, and he induced me to vote for it by solemnly pledging me that it was not the intention of himse'f or the government to forcibly hold or permanently acquire the Philippines. "Ee further said that his personal desire was to restore law and order in the islands and then submit the matter to congress, with the idea of having it * 1 i- <* J - _ 3 _ _"!/? grant aDSOiuie ireeaom sua Beu-guveramenfc to the Filipinos. ' With that pledge from President McKinlcy I voted for the treaty. Without it I never should have done so. 'The resolution I offered in the senate and which was the basis of my speech on the Philippine question, provided for exactly what the president himself told me he desired to bring about. "Bryan is absolutely right on the one great issue involved in this campaign, ana, with the money question at rest for four years, he is a bigger, a better and a safer man than McKinley. Even if the money question were not settled, Bryan is a man of too much sense to undertake to tamper with the currency. Bryan is certain to be our next president, and I shall be glad to see him eleated. "McKinley is totallv unfit for the j office of president, because he is so weak I and vacillating that he can't stick to an opinion over night. If he conld know his own mind and be consistent for twenty-four hours at a time he might do, but such a thing is impossible with him, and for that reason he is" unfit to be president." Against McKinley. About four hundied Boston market men and oihers opposed to ths re-election of President McKinley because of the Philippine policy of the administration, held a rally in Faneuil Hall at noon Tuesday. On the pltform were George S. Boutwell, former governor of Massachusetts; Gaa?iliel Bradford, Ervin Winslow, and other weli-know anti-imperialists. The principal address was made by ex-Grovernor Boutwell, who justified the action of those who had withdrawn from the Republi can party on account of its attitude on tbe question of imperialism by the statement that the Republican party itself was born of deserters from parties then existing. Ringing resolutions were adopted, the striking phrase of which follows: "We believe that' free silver is less serious than free slaughter; we depreciate the cannon abroad; the doctrine that Americans can be made rich T7lK*\i?A3 Ko ia&auuu auvk ri^uiwuj uj force, and the pratice of assimilation of lower races in Asia and the malevolent dissipation of higher ideas in America." Leaped to Instant Death. Wash Tamer, an unsophisticated ? V>io tiTTpa yuuilg iitilUCi m>.u uu nut uuv> *nv year old baby, jumped from a west bound Southern railway passenger train at "McFall, Ala., Thursday morning, and was killed. He threw his wife and child from the train and they were seriously injured. Mrs. Turner will probably die. The train had whistled for McFall and Turner immediately hia oaaf and hnrrip.d his I JUUi^/CU 1AVULL um ? wife and baby to the door. Two 01 three passengers tried to stop him, but he brushed them aside. He evidently was not used to traveling and did not appreciate the danger of jumping off. Mrs. Turner's leg was broken and the arm hrAlrpn Tfc is stated that Turner had never been on a train before. Li Eung Chang in DespairA dispatch from Washington says an important dispatch has been received in diplomatic quarters, forwarded from the foreign offices of one of the powers taking part in the international movement and giving with much detail con? * 'T ; OVin** Tn vemau.u.u uy j~u uuu^ vunuS .. he expressed his despair over the condition of the Chinese government in his fears that the anti-foreign element had gained complete ascendency at Pekin. The conversation was with the oonsnl of the power receiving the dispatch and as he is an intimate, friend of long standing with Earl Li theTatter spoke unreservedly of the deplorable condition of affairs among his own people. TOWUE WITHDBAWS. Declines the Populist Nomination for the Vice PresidencyCharles A. Towne, who was nominated by the Populist party for Vice President on the ticket with Bryan, has written a letter to the committee appointed to notify him declining the nomination. Rfeviewincr the coarse of events from Ins own nomination to the naming of Mr. Stevenson by the Democrats, he says: "Everybody knows that either Mr. Stevenson or Mr. .Roosevelt is to be the next Vice President of the United States, I am expected to take a laborions part in the campaign. I shall, of course, advocate the election of Mr. Bryan and Stevenson. The Democratic convention, before which I was a candidate, nominated Bryan and Stevenson. The Silver Republican party, of which organization I was the official head for nearly four years, has nominated Bryan and Stevenson. In what light shonld I appear before the Ameriean people if while advocating the election of one ticket, I should be going through the form of running on another? Nobody in the United States would think I had the slightest chance of being elected, and nobody would believe that I considered myself seriously as a candidate, unless at the same time he believed me to be absolutely lacking in common sense. Whom cauld such a phantom candidacy deceive? What respect siiouM i deserve, indeed, it in such a matter I should attempt to deceive anybody whatsoever? I know the People's party to be composed of men most exceptionally keen and expert in polit isal j adgmen t. So obvious a sham could not elade their vision. Either they would resent my implied complimentary estimate of them or they would be jastified in forming one of ma which could result only in injuring the' cause which it had been the professed object of my mistaken folly to advance. Consistency and candor in polities, therefore, my own self-respect, proper deference to the People's party and a sincere regard for the welfare of the cause of political reform in the United States all couasel that I now respectfully replace in your hands the honorable trast' which your great party committed to me in contemplation of a different comolexion of affairs than that which has resulted." CONGEE HEARD FSOH AGAIN - "v ' Little Ammunition or Provisions and K ~ Attack Expected. f. A aIi TXT* i n roftfl n uiapaicii nviu. rr asuiugtvu cojro another cablegram cams to the state department late Wednesday afternoon from Minister Conger at Pekin?the second that has been received direct from him since Jane 12. It is the first which has come direct from the nlinis ter since the above date, the othe? having been received ^ through the intermediary of the Chinese minister, Mr. Wu. Wednesday's advices show that the situation in the Chinese capital is still of a very serious character, that the ministers are still in danger from the Chinese troops and that their supplies of ammunition and provisions has been reduced'to a very considerable extent So important were the statements contained in the disnatch that a confer ence was held by wire between several of the officials here and the president at Canton, lasting for several hoars. At its conclusion the cablegram from Mr. Conger was made public as follows: Secretary of State. Still besieged. Situation more precarious. Chinese government insisting upon our leaving Pekin, which would be certain death. Rifle firing upon us daily by imperial troops. Have abundant courage but little ammunition or provisions. Two progressive yamen ministers beheaded. All connected with legation of the United States well at the present. Conger. The cablegram came to the official cipher of the department. It is undated like Mr. Conger's previous cable, but from the internal evidence finished by his reference to the beheading of two members of tsung-li-yemen and to the insistance of the Chinese government on the departure of the uuLiuiaterB iiuiu ICMU, Boatc ucpaituicuvi officials say it may be assigned a date not earlier than July 30, and perhaps not later than Aug. 2. The Chinese Dictum"In case the troop advance the Chinese "must figlit. The suggestion that the allies should be allowed to enter Pekin in order to escort the ministers trt Tion Tain is fthsnJnfplr imnrtflsihta" A dispatch, from London says the above is the dictum of Li Hung Chang. It was transmitted to Mr. Morgan a London merchant by his agent at Shanghai. The agent had carried to E irl Li a message from Mr. Morgan urging that the allied troops be allowed to enter the capital and stating that a settlement could be made at Tien Tsin, whereby a war of the world against China would be averted; but even the optimistic Li failed to hold out the slightest hope of feasibility, although he reiterated to Mr. Morgan's agent his declaration that the ministers had left Pekin, fixing the dase of their departure as Aug. 2. What Tillman SaysSotnaf-nr Tillman evidentlv don't be lieve the the charge that Mr. Patterson has persistently made that there are 600 blind tigers in Charleston and 200 in Columbia, In his speech at Laurens Senator Tillman said he did not think all this talk about 600 tigers in Charleston and 200 in Columbia amounted to much. He believed there were tigers in both these places. They are bolder than when he was Governor, but he did not believe there were near as many as was represented. Here ? ?.J 1 * AA ??A? <lnnn!r LLC 1UUUU J-jOUU UlCd ctuu uuvvueuiuuii. There could not be many tigers about here or some of the men would have been bitten. The VeteransWilliam Jennings Bryan will attend the meeting of the Gr. A. R., at Chioago and the Republican papers are beginning to make face3 at the "grizzled veteran." You c&n't lose William Jennings. ' - . .A':- -i ANOTHER BATTLE In Which the Americans Suffer Serious Lost. CASUALTIES OF SIXTY, The Town of Yang Tsun was Captured and Will be ;| the Base of the Allies. ? A dispatch from Washington aaya the capture of Yang Tsun, the final objective point of the international forces was the supreme news o! importanoe receiveu xiiursuay on me v^aiuesc situation. The first word of this capture, effected last Monday, came in a brief dispatch to the signal office at the war department from CoL Scriven, the signal officer at Chefoo, saying: Chefoo, Aug. 9.?Yang Taun captured today. Wire up. Need own transportation. All welL Scriven. Half an hoar after this message a cablegram came from Gen. Chaffee, * giving additional details of the capture and showing that it had been at the cost of about 60 casualties among the American troops. Gen. Chaffee's dispatch is as follows: Yarn; Tsun, Aug. 6. Yang Tsnnoocupied today. Wounded Second Lieut. Frank JR. Long, Ninth ? infantry, moderate; casualties about 60 men. Ninth United States infantry; Fourteenth United States infantry and Battery F, Fifth U. S. artillery. Nearly all from Fourteenth infantry. Names later. Many men prostrated, heat and fatigue. Chaffee. A.JAPANESE REPORT. Hardly leas important was a dispatch from Ges. Terauohi, second in command on the Japanese staS, sent to the war office of Japan, and transmitted to the legation here, stating that he international army would total 50;000 ' men on Aug. 15, at which time the real advance on Fekin would begin. Gen. Terauchi's dispatch stated that on the 4th, when it was forwarded, the ad vaace oaa not yec usgun. xus was first incomprehensible, in view of the fact that fighting has actually occurred. But the later statement that the international force would total 50,000on-the 15th appearsto make elearGes. Terauchi's meaning andto reconcile itwith G-en. Chaffee's dispatches. The present movement of some ' 16,000 men . doubtless is viewed in the ? reconnaissance in force, the main movement of the army of 50,000 to follow on the 15th. This makes clear the meaning of Gen. Chaffee's diroateh that Yang Tsnn was the objective point Tiie war department liere has been considerably puzzled over this statement of an objective. point, far short of Pekin. It wonld appear, how- > ^ ever, from Gren, Terauchi's dispatch that the first force of 16,000 men having opened up communications to Yang Tsun, brought forward supplies and established this advance case, the way would then be clear for the advance of the larger force on the 15th. The cap-' cure of Yang Tsun is therefore aa important strategic branch of the fast maturing military plans. The place is about 18 miles beyond Tien Tsin and iittle less than quarter of the way to Pekin. :M >\ Aside from the military developments of the day the diplomatic aspect of (he crisis was made more clear by the publication of the demand made by the United States on the imperial government of China and transmitted to Minister Wu last evening. REPUBLICAN LEADERS SCORED/ . r*Mark Hanna and Others Art Making jrrantic uaiit. Those weak-kneed Democrats who think it is all over but the shouting, . - Sgl and that McKinley is already as good as elected, do not get their inspiration from their reading of leading Republican newspapers. If they are confident of victory, they are carefully keeping / ' their confidence in the background. All along the line they are declaring A IIAAAOai^lT P AVkTlVkll/IHfl ciig ucug?ivjr ivi x?^uvuv?u and even Mark Hanna is calling on the party to "awakel" The New York Mail and Express, one of the staunoh- - .> ^ est and most partisan of Republican organs, declares to its readers thus: "Wake upl There is work to be * done. The enemy, boastful, aggressive and stealthful, are already advancing their lines. They see a chance to win, not because of any strength or merit of their own, but through apathy, indifo n/^ ATTAv/i/\n^^on/ta An T>aff. igiguvo auu vrwivvuuuvuw vm ??*w of the Republicans. ''Wake up, everybody! Let us understand that we have a hard fight on hand?a fight with an opposition which is compact, ambitious, supplied with unlimited fands and resolved to win by fair means or foul. If the Republicans are to succeed in the coming battle it must be through an immediate awakening of party spirit, party loyalty and party courage in behalf of living issues." That is the sort of exortation that is beiEg passed along the Republican lines. It may be the part of eood poli * ? il . ^ tics to run a scared lace au cue ume? but it is well enough for some Democrats to see that the Republicans recognize that they have a big fight on hand, and are by no means counting on a walkover. Let Democrats awake and go into the fight with the pluck and confidence worthy of their great learter ?Anfrnsta flhmmfile. Death from a Slight Wound. A dispatch from Bock Hill says Mr. S. Augustus Matthews, whose accidental pinching of the skin between the thumb and finger resulted in blood poison, followed by the amputation of hight arm at the shoulder joint, died at his home in Ebenezer Thursday morning ana was uuxieu uic mhuu u?/. A Noble Woman. : Amelia E. Barr, the novelist, has, besides writing thirty-two books had time to perfect herself as a housekeeper, and is the mother of fourteen children.