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W M'SWEENEY LEADS, j Official Count cf the Vote in th8 1 Primary. / THE LUCKY CANDIDATES. k ? ! Names of the Defeated, the Eiect? ed ana Those Who F Will Have to ? Run Over rThe Sufe Dcino3ratic executive committee met Friday night and in a few hours the official returns were tabulated, the results declared, the second primary ordered and nominees for presidential electors made. For State officers there will only have to be a fecond racc for .governor, lieutenant f governor abu rauruau uuiu^j^siuuci. Of the officers nominated on the ?r3t ballot Mr. Jen&ings, for State-treasurer, is the only man not an incumbentThe total vote for governor was 92,429, whioh was but 2 greater than that ^ Jor lieuterant governor. The total vole for the other efnees was: Treasurer, 91,198; comptroller general, 91,491; fcUDenntendent of education, 91 811; adjutant gfneral. 90,864; railroai commissioner, 90,62-1. There were IS 750 who did not vote for Senator TilJman. The result of the primary was a sur_ prise to many. It was claimed by Gol. Hojt-'s friends that he would lead in the race for governor by several thousand, but the result shows that Gov. MoSweeney was the favorite. The vote for governor waa as follows: M R MftSweenev 39.097 Jas A. Hojfc 33 833 ?. B. Gary." 32 956 A. H. Patterson 6,052 G. Walt Whitman 491 McSweeney leads Hoyt bv 5 263 votes. Gary, Patterson and Whitman combined did not get much over half L^_s?_ many votes as McSweeney. McSweeney and Hoyt will have to ran i a. over. Gov. McSweeney lacfced a little over 7,000 votes of going in on the first bal> lot. To zet t!iis 7,000 he has the vote k of Gary and Patterson, who are all for 1 the dispensary. Give Col Hoyt fifty ^ per cent of this vote ard McSweeney Bft- would still have a handsome majority. Rs- LIEUTENANT GOV.ERNOR, k There was no choice either for lien tenant-governor. The vote for this i f5*e was as fellows: J.H. Tillman 85 339 0. L. Winkler 16 065 John T. Sloan 16 697 Knox Livingston 14 7 i3 k C. L. Blease 9,556 jt* liilman and Sloan will have to make'tbe race over for lieutenant gov ternor in the second primary. " STATE TREASURL? The race for State-treasurer ic c'o3e, T ? ^ n- T: jk \japt tienoiugs uci"?ijux l'i- l. liuluqi n man by a few thousand vote? Ihe BgfiM?ote was as follows: HmLSl Jennings 46,444 Timmerman 44 757 ('apt. Jennings having received a r majority wins tbe nomination. RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS. The vote for railroad commissioners was considerably scattered, all of the candidates getting a share of the vote. The result was as follows: W. D. Evans 21 914 -v -? -rr rr?i S.'ll J. jfcL. yycarton.. jo.uui ' B. B. Evans. 14 616 W. D. M&yfield 15.42S J. Pettigrew .. 5,014 Thos.N. Berry 11,240 J. G-. Ethredge 5,912 There was no Eomiuation and Messrs. "W. D. Efins aac J. H. Wharton will have to ran over in the second primary. INSPECTOR GENERAL. There was was no race for this office at all, Gen. Floyd defeating Ronse by a large majority. The vote was as folJews: J W. Floyd..... TG634 Geo. D. Rouse 14 250 It will be seen that Gen. Fiojd had a walk over.v * SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION. The race for superintendent of educa tion was a one sided aSair, McMahan - defeating Capers by nearly two so one. Here is the vote: J. J. McMahan 55,960 y- Ellison Capers^ Jr 36 600 COMPTROLLER GENERAL The race for comptroller-general was w;urm between Derham and Brooker, but the former won by large majority, the vote being: J. P. Derham 69 699 N. W. Brooker 21,792 Tfhot RrArtl-or It ID gcuciaxij wvng?s.u t.uwv "* hurt his race by his attack on Derharo. THE CONGRESSMAN The following is the result of the primary in the congressional districts: Third District. La timer.. 11 283 v~ Wyche 2 99<> Verner 1,321 Fourth District. Johnson 11 337 Wilson S,657 Fifth District. "Ffntav . 7.81 S Strait 5 2i5 Sixth Diatriot. Norton 3 315 Scarborough 5.921 Elierbe 2,484 Norton and Scarborough will haye to ^ run over in the second primary. } There was no contest in the first, second or seventh districts Congressmen ftMfr Elliott, Talbeit and Stokes having no ww opposition. THE SOLICITORS. N The following is the vote in the different judicial circuits: first Circuit. P. T. Hildebrand t>,252 \V. Henry Thomas 3,987 Second Circuit. K Divis i>,36S Sinms 4,S02 Third Circuit. "Wilson Fourth Circuit. Johnson , 193 Brown 3,494 Fifth Circuit. Thurn: ond 7,065 Muller 3,644 Sixth Circuit. ? s. 4r.c* ilenry McDow 2,664 Hough 2 471 Seventh Circuit. Sease 15,111 Eighih Circuit. Boggs 8,514 Mooney 8,045 THE SENATORIAL VOTE Senator Tillman was not soratcbed to to any very great extent. The total vote was 92,000 and he received 73.679 nf if Trusts Came to Time. A dispatch from New York says: Senator Mark Hacna received news Thursday that the corporations would produce sufficient finanoial atsistan.e within the nest few days to enable the national committee to pay its bills and extend its op' rations. This arrangement was at a meeting in the New York Life Insurance company kvi^l/Jinor TirV)*sr?? tKp_ flATlfttftr mP.t, representatives of the trusts and other financial concerns and concluded his series of talks to them. Then he caused it to be announced that he saw his way clear to ltave the city some day nest week, and he would go out to Chicago "to stir things up and disturb the apaihy that appeared to have settled on proeeediegs out there." He *aid it wa3 not his intention to stay out west, but he v/ould make 6hort visits cast every time financial or other conditions made it necetsary. While Senator Hanna was quite chipper over the prospects of getting financial aid, he was not willing to give out how much he had in prospect. When asked to tell the public the amount that had been promised him he answered: "It is nobody's business how lunch money 1 get." The Cotton CropThe cotton Siates convention of commissioners of agriculture at Raleigh on Thursday issued the following as their statement to the cotton crop of 3900: "Based upon the reliable information from all sources from each of the cotton.States and tenitories, taking in to consideration the condition of the cotton crop, we are led to believe that the following will be the output of the ? OK AAA Al crop for tne season or iin/u ui. "Alabama, 821,000 bales; Arkansas, 809,000; Fiorida, 30 000; Georgia, 1,025.000; Indian Territory 210 000; Louisiana, 603,000; Mississippi 843,000; Missouri, 30,000; North CoroliDa, 495.000; Oklahoma, 100,000; South Carolina, Sol 000; Tennessee, 285,000; Texas, 3, 6U0.000; Virginia, 13,000; other sources 500, making a total of 9,351 500 bales. "This estimate, however, is subject to the weather conditions for the month of September and al30 killing frosis later on. This estimate is given out as beug the opinion of this association." Plunged Into a Fiery Pit. * A. dispatch from Raleigh, N C., says: Dr. Wiliism K. Uapeheart of the state board of agriculture has arrived there from Bertie county and says the fire i Hjde county continues and is destroying trees and soil. The soil is peaty and burns like tinder. Ooe farm, valued at ?10.000, is so burned away that it is tot now worth $100. The fire is burning far underneath the surface in many places. Dr. Capeheart is informed that as a farmer was driving along a highway the fire undermined soil gave way under him and he anv his horse, falling into the fiery pit, were burned to death. The smoak extends many miles at sea and by obsluring the light at Oregon inlet has caused two wrecks in a fortnight Two Children Drowned. A sensational incident occurred at Earle's bridge, on Seneca river, m Anderson coumy Sunday. Two children, aged 11 acd 12, . respectively, named Taylor, accompanied by an old negro woman, went to the river to play on a large rock tlir* .fatted out over the water. The children iost their balance and fell into the river.' This was the narrative of the old darkey at the coroner's inquest, though she added by way of appendix that she had "dived"' after ttie children. The verdiot of the coroner's jury was that the children came to their death by causes unknown to VIA inwTT T k A ran Af Vi 1 o Irn fkTTTTt O Q I til? J ULJ? xug *w> uuvmu HU ''Sis" Taylor, and she lives on the Sharpe place. Remarkable Railroad. . One of the most remarkable railroads in the United States is that which rv-us from Fabyan. at the foot of Mount wasnmgton, 10 ine summit, a tusiauoe of 3.38 miles. Th * time required in making the ascent is one and one half hours, which is at the rate of a mile in twenty-seven minutes. The descent is made in the ssme time. The fare is $4 for the round trip, or at the rate of Go cents a mile. JSo other read in the world charges quite so mush, and few run traits quite so slew a speed. Ab?ut 6,000 passengers ar>3 carried annually. Pile of Euman BonesRather a gruesome and irterf sting discovery was reoently made at Espanita, Fla. One cf the little bojs of the household recently came home with a bone which lie had found. Upon investigation a pile of bones and skulls was discovered a short distance from fT-io enrfioo <if tViA crrrvnnrt 7?tv\Tn tlio heap 15 veil preserved skulls were t*.ken. It is believed that they are the bones of soiae of the Huguenots, who were massacred somewhere in that locality by the Spaniards. One of the skulls was fractured, but the others were in a good state of preservation. Suicide of a Lady. Mrs. Annie Day Mayes, a pretty young actress, committed suicide at Valdosta, Ga., Friday morning with laudanum because of the failure of an amateur play 4'Bibi," which she had arranged and presented for the benefit of the Grady hospital in Atl?^ta. It was her purpose to present the play throughout the State, but ill luck seems to have struck to the venture from the first. Mrs. Mayes was from St. Louis, VTa tt?V?nar ic fr\ kn o j :uv/?^ nucit uvi imuuwi jq tu a professor or lecturer in one of the leading colleges. Killed in a Tornado. In a tornado which passed over the I village of Wapella, Man., Angus McDonald, a fanner living two miles from I ^ j UJWH auU JLU3 LVYV k;uiiuicu ncic aii?cu j and Mrs. MoDonald seriously injured. | The MoDonalds attempted to take rej fugein the cellar, but before they could reach it the tornado lifted them and the house high in the air. Many buildings in Wapella were badly damaged. - WILL CARRY OHIO. James Creelman Says That State Will Go for Bryan. FAMOUS CORRESPONDENT Make a Tour of Harsna's State and Shows Why the PcOr?!? Ara Acrainct fha r " * '& Republicans. James Creelman, the famous correspondent writing to the New 1'ork Journal from Ohio, says Bryan will oarry mat state, giving as big reasons ice following: Because the Mayor Jones party favors Bryaa and numbers 106,721. Because the trusts have forccd skilled merchanics to work in the streets. Because the gold Democrats are returning. Beoause the Republicans are joining the reform forces Because in 189G (during a financial scare) the Republican plurality was only 48,497. Bscausc in 1892 Cleveland failed to carry the State by only 1,072 votes. Because the Germans are earnestly opposed to militarism. Because the Republicans under Hanna's leadership thow alarm. MAYOR JONES' LETTER. Mr. Creelman says: Congressman Lenlz, of Columbus, wrote a letter to Mr. *fone* a^kir g him practically to declare himself a Demo-crat. Thursday the mayor sent an answer to Mr. Lentz. I give a short extract: "I believe that the result of this coming election will show, first, that the love of liberty has a firmer and deeper hold upon the American hearts; second that partyism and bossism are more unreliable and unworthy to be trusted than ever before; third, that more free men have cast their ballots in the election of 1900 than in any other eleotion that preceded it in the history of the country. "When I savfree men I mean men who own themselves, who do not wear the label of any party; for it is in the hand and upon the conscience of that ?reat army of uncommitted electors standing and watching aloof and in* clining victory to this side or that that the hope and safety of the nation rests. '"My mission (if I have any) is to contribute my mite to the development of the free voters, men who are not owned by anybody, and who refu3e to wear the labels or yoke of any party, or to surrender their allegiance to any of them. And you may depend upon it, candidate or no candidate, I will be true to this idea. "I am utterly sick at heart with the gha9tly pretence and farce of the party idea. 1 do not doubt your integrity in the slightest, but I must believe that you see the ;hin and hollow mockery and sham of it all, when you reflcct that you are the business partner and associate of a man who stands at the head of the government of this State, and who is the direct representative of everything that is evil in our politics, according to the utterances of DemonrotApa OQ a a A t.liA of Hannaism itself. GREAT ARMY OF HONEST VOTERS ' In fact, I think that at heart you must be non-partisan; that you must own yourself; and from your utterances that I have heard I believe the time is not far distant when you will declare your own emancipation and join that great army of freemen that I have already spoken of?the great body of farmers, mechanics, merchants, teachers, laborers, artists and artisans who do real thinking and the real voting that has preserved, and will forever preserve, the liberties of this nation. "It is hardly necessary for me to say anything further in regard to my candidacy for congress. If petitions are numerously enough signed for me to be a candidate I shall be one, as I have said in my printed address, and will do my utmost for the election o? those candidates who stand most nearly in line with the principles of liberty, onnolifw on/1 T 1 m t?UU VIV/AUVVAMV^ J VUMW A. Mku fl V*? known to staod for. Very sincerely, Samuel D. Jones. There is the opinion of the man whose followers will roll up a crushing vote against Hanna and McKinley. Mark his reference to Governor Nash: t:The direct representative of everything that is evil in our politics." So great is the danger involved in Mayor Jones' candidacy for congress that all the .tlepuOliean newspapers are urgiDg the Democrats to refuse to indorse him. The .Republican leaders are spending money to elect delegates to the Democratic congressional convention who will refu=e to nominate or indorse any but a straight Democratic candidate. HAN.N'A IS IN FEAR OF JONES. Mr. Hanna knows that if Mr. Bryan carries Ohio he will be the next president. He knows that the candidacy of Mayor Jones, with a Democratic indorsement, means not only the sure election of Jones, but the loss of Ohio to McKinley. Ihe Hanna machine is concentrating its efforts in this district. Every Democrat who understands the situation is working for the indorsement of Jones. Mr. Cochran, editor of the Toledo Bee, who formerly opposed the mayor, is now leading the i. f- wu, UgU'w ltU" UJS JLUUUlSCULiUIIL. TT 1ICU tU?; campaign begins Mayor Jones will tell the workingmen of Ohio what be thinks about the imperial policy of McKinley and bis voice will be heard from one end of the state to the other. Welcome to All Such. ''The Republicans," says the Pittsburg Post, "are making & great ado over a letter irum a lavureu juuetuuer ui President McKialey's Asiatic pay roll, announcing he will oppose Bryan's election and support McKinley and imperialism, This is Sx-Minister to China Denby. who was later a member of one of McKinley's Philippine commissions. He supported McKinley four years ago." In ihese circumstances it wou'd scarcely be correct, we suppose, to call Mr. Denby a "convert." He baa been i.: i - - 1 e ID JQIB present cumpscy IUU iuutf. iur J | THEY REJOICED GREATLY. Celebration of the Rescue of the Endangered Foreigners. A dispatch from Polio says a medal will be struck commemorating tee siege -e t?.l.:_ TL l.-./vArt^ Oi Jr u&lli. JLL mil i/ta: uit "Men, not walls, make a city." In the grounds of the British legation, where a handful of men withstood the millions of the Chinese capital for 56 days, a memorable celebration is in progress in vindication of that ' " LI . J I principle. Missionaries, asstmojeu about Bell Tower, arc singing the doxolgoy. Rockets are blazing. Soldiers and civilians of all nationalities are fraternizing. The women are applauding the sound of the cannon that are smashing the yellow roofs of the Furbidden city. The tired Sikhs are planting their fflntR on the lawn: and the American and Russian contingents are lighting campfires alocg the stretch or turf extending beyond the Tartar wail. Through the rains of the foreign settlement an eager, cosmopolitan crowd is jostling Indians, Cossacks, legation iaaies, diplomats, Americans from the Philippines aad French disciplinarians from Saigon, who kept discreetly to the rear while the fighting was in progress, but came conspicuously to the front i i < * - ? n.i.a. t wnen looting oegau. \jaiy me tjajjjucsc who have earned the first place, are absent. Kesident foreigners welcome the luxury of walking about and immunity , from bullets. The newcomers are aox- , icus to inspect the evidences of an his- j toric defense. These barrioades are, af- J ter, all, the most wonderful sight iu ( Pekin. Tae barriers hedging the Brit ish legation are a marvel of stone and , brick walls and earthworks. Sand bass j hield every foot of space. The tops a of the walls have niches for the 1 ifismen , acd the buildings, at their porticos and , windows, have armor boxes, bags . stuffed with dirf-, pillows, too. Back of the United States legation is , a work named "Fort Myers," whioh the , marines held, completely screening , both sides of the walls, with steps , leading to it. There is a loophold bar- | rier across the wall which faces a &im ilar Chinese werk a few yards away. , Another wall bars Legation street in front of the German legation; aDd, confronting the enemy's barricades within those limits, are yet more walls, enabling the foreigners to contract the area of defense if pressed. The tops of the American and British buildings were badjy torn by the Chinese shells. The rest ^f the foreign^ settlement was almost demonished. Two thousand eight hundred shells fell there daring the first three weeks of the bomberdment, 400 in one day. Backetfuls of bullets were gathered in the grounds. Four hundred and fourteen people j lived in the plaoe through the greater i part of the siege. Three hundred and ; four marines, assisted by 85 volunteers, j commanded by the English. Capt. , Poole defended the place. Eleven civil- , ians were killed and 19 wounded. Fifty-fovr marines and sailors were killed and 122 wounded. j A Slick Rosue. The family of J. Wood Hannold, a prosperous farmer near Woodbury N. J., had an experience with a burglar that they do not wiih repealed, and a son, Harvey, is berating himself for allowing the intruder to slip away from him after having him in his grasp. Twice before midnight Mr. Hannold , got up and quieted his dogs, which had been barking for an hour. Soon after 12 o'clock Harvey was aroused bj some one in Ibis room. Thinking it his brother Chalkley, who sometimes walks ia his sleep, he asked. "Chalk, is that you?" Receiving no answer he sat ap in bed and s prang out and took him by the arm. The dogs began to howl and Harvey said "Let's go down and see what is the matter." "All right," answered the man and Karvey led the way down stairs. When the lower floor was reached the stranger made a dash for the open door and escaped. Then the ::eal situation dawned on Harvey. The household was aroused and a lower window was found open, but nothing was missing. Our Gold Product. "We commonly give much attention to the exportation and importation of trifling amounts of gold," says the BaltimoxeSun, "but ignore the large quantity of gold which is produced annually in the United States and which for the most part remains with U3. In four years, beginning with 1896, the United States produced $2i7,414:000 of gold. In the last five years wc have produc&9AA AAA AAA fliA roll a<t maf. CU WCl fOVV,UUVj VVU Vi VU.M J Liw rr uivv a). In the four years beginning with 1S96 and ending with 1899 the world's produot of gnld was $1,043 491.000; from 3801 to 1850 it was $787,460,000; from 1851 to 1899 it was $6,665,631,000." Defying Chinese TraditionsThe State department makes public the following cablegram from Minister Conger, received Thursday morning through the United States consul, Fowler, at Che Foo: "Che Foo, received August 30 ?Secretary of State, Washington; Thirtieth, Following dispatch dated yesterday: More Russian-German, French and Italian troops arriving. Imperial palace will be entered August 28 Military promenade of all nations made * 1 1 J .1 J 3 J tjarouKQ u, aicerwaru cioseu. aau guarued. Prince Chicg is expected in a fewdays." A Doomed Village. The village of Santa Foy de Tarentaise in Eastern FraDce seems doomed to be engulfed. The base of the hill on which it stands is beiDg eaten away by the rapid waters of the Isere. Some Some of the houses show cracks rivaling those of old Cheshire Northwich. Some day there will be a "short, sharp shock," and Tarentaise will no longer exist. The Eeal CauseCongressman George Eenry White of North Carolina, the only colored representative in Congress has decided he will not be a candidate for reelection. He gives various reasons for his determination, but the true reason probably is that there is not enough voting ignorance sowin tho old "Black District" to elect him. " WHAT HOYT SAYS. ' Claims That He Will be Nominated IN THE SECOND PRIMARY. He Makes Attack on Governor McSweeney, Rehashing the Cifl Charges of the Campaign. Columbia, Sept. 1st.?Col. James. A. Hoyt. the prohibition candidate for ffnvflfriAr Vtoc liD^n in f-Vin mtT? for o. rlaT? * V/i uvi ) uaj VUViU k LA WUU i Wi M UMJ or so and before leaving for his home in Greenville today he was asked if he had anything to say for publication in view of the second race for governor. He made this statemeot. in reply: "Yea, I desire to express my cordial ar.d hearty appreciation of the flattering support received in the first primary, which his met my expectations so far as m? own vote is concerned, and is fully as large a per centage as could have been reasonably counted k /\ r.A n/vftJr.ef m a t n Vtn /?o m . Ui uc V/UU3 <?6alUo-- nit (U ^Liipaign were difficult to overcome and the onset made in the la9tfew weeks was almost unprecedented in'the primaries of this State, for no stooe was left unturned that would operate to my disadvantage. I was compelled to meet the onslaughts of the other candidates for Governor, and in addition to parry tbo thrusts of Senator Tillman. The outcome of the concentrated attack upon my position in the contest may be left to coojpcture, but it is a?surdely gratifying that so large a proportion of my fellow citizens of their own free will and accord cast their ballots and threw the weight of their influence against political bossism in South Carolina. It ^cght to be ^ell understood that my Section stands for thorough independence of action in the executive office, without the dictation and manipulation :>f any man, and without the controlling bia^ of factional interests. "The time has come for the asser inn rtf manhnnrl and nf nersnnal flhoice In the selection of a chief magistrate, ind while my vote largely represents a positive conviction as to the manage ment of the liquor question in South Carolina, the prohibition Democrats are ilso in sympathy with that sentiment which resents the domination of political leaders, who would suppress individaality and make the bulk of the voters subservient to the will of a few men. Only in certain localities in this State jan machine politics prevail, and we have a striking instance now that_ex tremes can be made to meet. The Dispensary Law has -been fought with rancor and persistence in the city of Charleston until quite recently. So long as there was any real attempt at the enforcement of the law, the oppositioa in Charleston was positive and undeniable, backed by the power of the political machine which held sway for eo many years. Governor McSffeeDey's administration has changed this aspect of affairs, not as a measure of "peace and unity," but as a realization that both elements can find more satisfaction in pursuing a different line of policy. The blind tigers are practi caiiy unmolested, while the dispensaries flourisli from the unceasirg patronage of the tigers. The increased consumption* of liquor thus soldi by the dispensaries enhances the revenue of the city and county, which receive 90 per cent of the dispensary profits. In return for this happy state of affairs more than 70 per cent, of Charleston's vote has gone to Governor McSweeney, who is the beneficiary in this instance, and will remain in political favor so long as he creates no disturbance of the present situation. "South Carolina furnishes the humi liating spectacle of a chief magistrate receiving political support by reason of the non-enforcement of one of its most important laws. His connivance at open and general violation of this law has been constantly rebuked on the hustings by Messrs. Gary and Patterson, and he has been challenged time and again during the campaign to issue instructions to the constables to make raids upon the plaoes where liquor is opeDly and illegally sold, authorizing them to seize fixtures and con nscate suppiieg. U-overnor xUcSweeney s response has been to read instructions issued to constables in June, 1899, which instructions have been notori ouslv disregarded, and to make the plea that constables must furnish bonds in seizing fixtures, which he seemed to regard as a hardship. The State has reached a low ebb when its officials cannot be provided with the necessary backing to carry out a very ordinary provision of the law. It is a pitiable confession on the part of the Governor, but not more so than his frequent a/1 miooinno in 4-Vio oanrmaitrn thar. tViP dispensary law cannot be enforced in Charleston, while in almost the same breath he has asserted roundly that the law was better enforced under his administration than at any time since it has been on the statute books. The people can take their choice of these declarations while they are considering the election returns in Charleston. A great deal has been said in the nunniion aKnnf tVi<? snnnort. whioh vt? 1*4 ?/? ??** w ? would be given me by the liquor interest, and the public will recall a famous declaration at BennettsviUe that "the preachers and the whiskey men were in an unholy alliance, led by Col. Hoyt." What are the facts? The dispensaries constitute the chief liquor interest in South Carolina, and their support certainly did not come to me. No one can produce a dispenser or a dispensary constable who voted or worked for me. The whiskey distillers in the mountain counties were certainly against ice, and it is freely asserted that their liquor was used in behalf of Governor McS^eeney. The blind tigers in Columbia and Charleston are said to hare been nnanimous for the Governor, and so far as I know not a man who is dealing in liquor, eitl er legally or otherwise, cast his ballot in my favor. What became of the ''unholy alliance?" The fusion of liquor interests has been obvious to any man who has watched the progress of events, and the "round up" of Sen ator Tillman has been so far satisfactory to the contracting parties, whatever may be the final verdict upon this new alignment. "In an address just issued the Gov: " /" A..-" " ernor has much to say about the business features of his administration. All of us are quite famili&r with this claim on his part, but it does not seem to dawn upon him that other men have business qualifications as weli as himself, and his appeal for support on this ground is hardly applicable jast no*. '"The era of good feeling in the State is not attributable to the present administration. It was begun some years ago, and in alarge measure the people were acquiescing in the submerging of factional differences, but the recent campaign has witnessed adroit and ire- I quent allusions to the past, which were intended to revive contentions and bickerings so as to divide the forces into hostile oamps. Governor McSweeney has been the legatee of such work, whether or not he approves of it, and no doubt he enjoy the results of such appeals to fractional spirit in the second primary, if they can be made effective. WHERE HE WAS SCRATCHED Table of these Who Scratched Tillman by Counties It will be interesting to figure out what proportion did the "scratching in each county." Senator Tillman's promise, which wag questioned, that he would not accept the office of Senator if he were not voted for by a majority of the total vote cast was entirely safe and everyone who knew anything about the affairs of the State ought to have known this, but some actually seem to tiank that with no opposition a considerable portion of the voters were going to out him and make his election doubtful under his promise. A comparison of the votes for Governor and for Senator, shows the following number of "Tillman scratchers" in each county: Abbeville 433 Aiken 441 Anderson 994 Bamberg 100 " * n/>rr I tsarnweii ^oi Beaufort 186 Berkley 80 Charleston 89 Cherokee 519 Chester 44U Chesterfield 79 ClarandoD 245 Colleton 164 Darlington 442 Dorchester 34 Edgefield 377 Fairfield 19 Florence 464 Georgetown ' Ill Greenville 1,495 Greenwood : . 484 Hampton 122 Horry 436 Kershaw 479 Lancaster *. 87 Laurens 644 Lexington 404 Marion 644 Marlboro x 357 Newberry " 476 Oconee 585 Orangeburg 709 Picken3 644 Tfc 1 1 > 1 111 memaDQ Saluda 379 Spartanburg 1 876 Sumter 734 Union 400 Williamsbuig 252 York...! 579 Total .-18,213 The counties that scratched Tillman most gave Col. Hoyt his biggest vote. Take for instance Anderson. Col. Hoyt carried that county by a clear majority and it will be noticed that Tillman wa3 badly scratched there. Greenville is another county that gave Col. Hoyt a majority and scratched Tillman badly. In Richland and Spartanburg counties Col. Hoyt ran well, and they scratched Tillman. Charleston on the other hand went for McSweeney but scratohed Tillman very little. THAT PULL DINNER PAILr? .A.* n T5 some neuecttozis on a xavoiite iwepuulican Argument. One of our Republican contemporaries prints a picture of a workman's dinner piil on every page of every issue. There is an inscription which says that the pail is full, and as we are not allowed to look inside we have to take the editor's word for it. i4The Fall Dinner Pail" is the chief Republican argument this year. It is on the ground that a workman is able to fill a tin bucket with edible matter that the American people are asked to consent to the transformation of this republic into an empire. Well, let us assume for the moment that the "Full Dinner Pail" is a reality, asd not a myth. Let us assume that the workingman who putsin eight or ten hours of exhausting labor a day is really able under Republican "prosperity" to put two or three sandwiches, a wedge of pie and a pint of coffee into a tin bucket. Under those conditions, the contents ef the 'Fall Dinner Pail" may be worth 15 cents. Mr. John D. Rockfeller has an income of about $40,000,000 a year. That is over $130,000 per working day. Mr. Kockfeller's daily income would fill the dinner pails of 500,000 workmen. In other words, Republican prosperity puts the dinners of 900,000 inln nna mon'c mniloat lift.lo IUIV vuv w jhuvww* pail. That is the Republican idea of good times. Nine hundred thousand men happy and grateful because they can put 15 oents worth of dinner apiece into their tin buckets, and one man who *bsords as much of their earnisgs as the cost of the whole 900.000 dinners put together. There are scores of monopolists like "Rrt/>Vfol1or nnlv in desrrefi. and the unearned incomes of 100 of them could probably pay for the dinners of all the workiDgmen in the United States. If the policy of favoring such concentrations of wealth were altered, the workers might .have not only full dinner pails, but possibly some of the little luxuries that Republican polioy considers entirely out of their sprere.?New York Journal. Lamb Stealing Eagles. Two large eagles have been giving the farmers of Port Jervis N. Y., much A? lof/1 TKflT? Vl OTTO MWO/I UVttX/XC/ VI A V\> U(4 T W VU1 ii 4V^\A away young lambs and a valuable hound pup, and mothers are now in a state of terror lest the eagles next turn their attention to babies. DROUGHT DOES DAMAGE The Hoi Wave of August Plays Havoc With Crops The Grescville News gays "the r><r onn int^rieA Vinf. email nf w? ry v* J> auvvmwv **v? w ? ? ?month of August has played havoc with the crops, not only in this section but in almost every section in the South. The cotton crop is the most seriously damaged and planters are beginning to feel blue over the situation. "The cotton crop, which is always the largest crop in this State, will, it is thought by prominent farmers, fall far below the general yield and there are many large planters who do not even expcct to make half a crop. The condition of the crops in Georgia is just as serious as in this State. "The cotton fields in Greenville and other neighboring counties present a parched appearanee because of th* drought and the young bolls have begun to fall off. In a general soaking rain should fall within the next few 2 - l Z ~ ? 6. ?\, ? uajs it 13 iJUL ueneveu tuai cue uutiuu crop would be benefitted, as the great damage has already been done." "Not only the cotton crop but other crops are showing bad effects from the drought. The sweet- potatoe yines have commenced to look eickly and dried up, and nnless there is a fall of rain very soon this crop .will be seiionsly damaged throughout the State. A good heavy rain within the ntxt few days would bring out the potato crop wonderfully, for August and September are the months that the potato crop 2 .v. i L :? aV uueo cue UC3C 11 tile aic gvuu. "The corn crop has beeD seriously damaged also by the lack of rain. The ears of corn are small aad the grains are not full grown. In some sections of this county the upland corn crop has been totally destroyed. The bottomland oorn, however, in many sections is in a very good condition. '"To some extent the drought has interfered with the working of the roads. The ground is so hard and dry that the road overseers find it a difficult task to do anything with the roads. The following letter from Columbia was received at the cotton exchange office here yesterday: "I cannot too fully impress on ycu the fearful disaster that has overtaken our crop. In many fields on many stalks every boll is open even to the little ones. Am certain that all South Carolina southeast of Columbia will make 20 to 30 per cent lees than last year, even with abundance of rain from rr?L . ; xi. _? *aV dow oh. i ue portion norm 01 us witu raics and late frost may make 10 to 20 per cent over last year, but as a whole the State will'be short of last year." A "Yankee" Trick. Senator "Vest has a story he sometimes ^-to41^trate Arkansas character of the Bourbon mossbaok type. According to the narrative the Senator, in the . days following the Civil War, when he practiced law, had occasion to drive across one of the counties of Arkansas to keep a legal engage* ment. He thinks it was in the northAftRf, r>arf, of fchfi State. insfc helnw the Missouri line. The journey went very well until the Senator came ' upon a group of natives in the road. Across the roadway a tall tree had fallen sqaarely. There was no way to get around and lay out a new road after the usual plan of dealing with snch an obstruction in that country. The tree had to be moved. Neighbors had come from all around in response to the summons of the road overseer. They had strung their teams out and had tried two or three pulls without any result beyond breaking a couple of trace chains. They had stopped to deliberate on the next step. The Senator looked at the tree and at the helpless crowd of Arkansas natives, and then said: "Whv don't von cut the tree in two at the middle and haul the ends out of the way V There was a moment of silence, broken suddenly by one of the cro*d, who reached for his gun and exclaimed: ''Yankee, by gum!'' Too Common to Notice. Anti-negro riots are becoming so frequent in New York city that they seem no longer to attract much attention. The third within three weeks occurred Sunday when a negro dangerously shot a white messenger boy. The New York Press says there were several dangerous outbreaks against the negroes, but the police were equal to the occasion and no serious harm was done. These frequent occurrences will hardly account for the claim made in eome quarters that the results would be the same if the offender were an Italian, a Greek or a Chinaman. Here Is Your Chance. A prize of 1;000 . francs is offered, says the Electrician, by the French Industrial Association against Accidents to Laborers, at Paris, for the most efficacious insulating glove for electrical workmen. The gloves must be strong enough to resist, not only the electric current, buc also accidental perforation by copper wire, etc , and must, in addition, be easy to wear by hands of any size and allo y the workmen's fingers sufficient freedom to execute their work. The competition is international, and is open until December 31.1900. Hanged for Assault Wm. $lack, colored, was hanged at Bdlair,'Md., Friday morning. He met death with considerable calmness although he was plainly very nervou3 on bis way to the scaffold and has for several days past been in a state bordering on complete collapse. Black died for a criminal assautl on Miss Jessie iJradford, a 15 year old girl, who lived near Aberdeen, this county. Great precautions were taken to avoid a lynching, which was feared even at the last moment. Death of Col- Patrick. A dispatch from Anderson says: Col. John B. Patrick, a prominent educator of that city, died ihij naornicg at 6:30 o'clock of apoplexy. He was apparently in good health, and up to the day of his death actively engaged in work connected with Patrick Military institute, of which he was founder and head. His death is a loss to the community, to the educational interests of the State and to his church. He leaves a widow, two eocs and three daughters. AN ADDRESS lj To the Paopie of the State from McSweeney. 1/| HIS PLATFORM RESTATED. The Governor Thanks His Friends for Supporting Him. Asks Their Votes in Secend Primary, Following the receipt of the returns from the first primary election, Gov. McSweeney Thursday issued the following address: To the People of South Carolina: Fully appreciating the large vote which I received in' the primary on Tuesday as a strong endorsement of my administration, I desire to express to my friends my sincere acknowledgement for the support given. The bfcttle 10 WKJ UC iUU^Ut VYCi UCtTfCQU Wi? .: Hoyt, the prohibition candidate, ?nd yself oq Tuesday, Sept. 11. The vote on Tuesday showed tint the sentiment olthe State is against prohibition by statutory enactment, and in favor of the dispensary as the best solution of the liquor question. While felly persuaded that this is true, yet I do not rest my claims entirely on the liquor question, because there are other issues of as far reachI have felt it my privilege, as welt as my duty, to ask my fellow citizens to endorse my administration by giving me a fall term, and I have rested my claims on the record of my administraIt has been my earnest endeavor to discharge the duties of-the office faith- . ^588 fully and impartially and to follow so lead but that of duty. My efforts have been to give the people a business administration, free from-polities, because this is peculiarly a business age. In how far success has crowned my efforts the question is submitted to the business men of the There lias been good feeling among all the people of the State and I have contributed what I oonld as chief executive to that end. There is no reason for onr people to be divided into hostile camps, for such a course wonld retard - -3 the material development and progress of the State. The charge that the dispensary law has not been enforoed has been met and answered folly byjpae on every stamp in South Caroliria/'^ is better en- v * ^ ?? - ? - rrr t i iorcea mail since it naa ueea on sue statute books, and it has been enforced with fewer constables, with less expense and without friction or bloodshed. It should be remembered that the charge of non-enforcement conies largely from those who oppose the law and want to see it overthrown, and who are no more in favor of prohibition than ^ the dispensary, but are endeavoring to use prohibition with which to idQ the dispensary. 1 am deeply gratefnl for the hearty support given me by the people of the entire State; and, as to Charleston, my desire is that the people of that city shall feel that they are an important part of the commonwealth, and Charleston being the metropolis of the State, -1her citizens shonld be in business and commercial touch with every section of South. Carolina. I feel that the support given me in Charleston and Columbia is the support of business men and those who endorse a business administration . and are tired of eternal bickerings and suarlings and captious fault-findings. The educational issue has been overshadowed by that of liquor,, and it is well to say that my record for the com mon schools and the State colleges has always been positive and for their hearty support I may say, incidentally and mcdestyl, that I am no recent convert to the support of the higher educational interests of the State, bat stood there when they needed friends in the senate and house of lepresentatives. I have made no deals but have held myself free to follow the path of duty At* "h ?TI ttjtt a hv auu ,kavu^ VM?U u?rv ?*vMk #/ deals and combinations, I should pre* fer defeat. _ * ,;S In making appointments it has been my endeavor to select men of character and efficiency. Believing in local selfgovernment in all local matters, the counsel and advice of the senators and representatives from each county have been sought. I believe the people, recognizing the justice and fairness of giving my administration the endorsement I seek, will give me a handsome majority on the 11th of Septembor. My friends should not become over confident, however, because there is always danger in over confidence. If they turn out and vote, success is assured, and aside from my personal interests, it is of the utmost importance that there be a free and full ballot in the secotd primary. M. 3. McSweeney. A Suspicious Coincidence. A little study of the passenger lists o y r 1 # T* ci steamsnips doueo. ior irarope win disclose a peculiar phenomenon. It will be foiled that statesmen. (i. e.) Coogressmen) who were conspicuous in their advocacy of the shipping subsidy bill, sometimes cilled the Hanna-Payne bill, have almost without exception taken a trip to Europe this summer. But it will further be noted that with equal uniformity they have chosen, to 11 ,1 /l i r ? i . l. travel oy cne "American Juine Doats. These, it will be remembered, are the ones controlled by the International Navigation Company, of which* Mr. Grisoom is the head, and which wis (or is) to get about $9,000,000 .a year out.of the proposed legislation. Of course, no one believes that a free trip to the Paris Exposition would warp the judgment of the eminent statesmen who have urged the passage of this legislation and the facts above noted art interesting oflly as a coincidence.*/ ' Nothing Strange- ; Mr. Bontelie, of Maine, who is in a i . i i _ 1 _ j i lunatic asyium, naa ooen renominate, for Congress by a convention of -his party and the papers are commenting on it as if it was something to be woi? dered at. Muoh worse lunatics than Mr. Boutelie have been nominated'for Congress.