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// / .'m 4' The Lancaster News LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL. I. NO. 100. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S. C., SEPTEMBER 22. 1900. PRICE?FIVE CENTS PER CODV Bryan in Columbia The Great Commoner Coi dially Welcomed in Care Una's Capital City?An Ai dience of 1,500 Hear H Address. Condensed from Columbia R cord of Wednesday afternoon. Today Colonel William Jei nings Bryan came to Columb as the guest of South Carolin ^ He had a cordial welcome and great audience. He came n< into a strange territory, bi among a people whom he hi visited before and with tl warmth of whose welcome he familiar. All the people do tv agree with him about all thing Out the South Carolinians are mannerly folk, who know ho to receive and treat their vif t >ts. lie is the first and only choit of this great majority for tl presidential nomination in 100; and after today cannot but kno that in South Carolina he is i the hands ot his friends. Tl 2 re at crowd gathered here tods in hi* honor showed t hat t hrougl out the state lie has univcr i and unqualified reapec*, regan 1 ess of political differences, I ^ reason of his ability, his reef tude, his purity, courage and in doubted sincerity. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan reach* Columbia at 3 :30 o'clock th morning, their train being abot two hours late. They were a companied by the special con mitt.ee nt lenrtiiw (lolnmhia ?ii zens who journeyed to Charloli ^ yesterday afternoon to me< them, and t his committee escor eil them upon tlnir arrival liei to Wright's hotel, where the were we'eomed by their host Mr. and Mrs. W. C Wright. After breakfast Goverm Ile\ward and a small group* citizens called upon ;Mr. an Mr-. Bryan at tthe .hotel an after a few minute* converaatic took them lor a run ovnr tt city in motor cars. Alter the drive tlie party pr< ceedod to the campus of >1 University ot South Carolina. Alter tho invocation by I?i: * liop Ellison Capers, M,ayor 1 Hasell Gibbes btiefly bade til distinguished visitor welcome t tlie city, making a ?liort hut nj and graceful little speech, an at closing introducing r.Govern' Heyward, wh welcomed Mi Bryan to the state. Mr. Bry ?n faced a n*wd ( 1,500 or more. It was hotsweltering; and now and the there was a shower. Rut hod j DiiiKiHa viio (list OTniori. iwv. nrya spi ke for nn hour or more, an every word was heard with th most intense interest. His recent world toiir an lessons thereof; free stover; goi ernment wcrr? hip or r?iI way . Secretary Shaw 's recent Soutl 3wl era trij>, the taai/T and the pres i dential campaign of 1908 natur-l ally were the chief topics. Ah touching hia government ownership plan, Mr. Bryan declared | that he believed in it; that he | thought every man who gave the subject sufficient thought is and was not personally biased by monev considerations would believe in it also; that it was two years until the presidential 9 campaign, and he did not propose to waste t vo good years ot his life waiting for an uncertain a presidential election. In other words, he intimated preitv a strongly his determination to :)f continue speaking and working in behalf of government ownershij). But he did not say that he ie would not he the candidate ol jR the party on a platform from rU which the government owner8 ship plank are missing. Mr. a Bryan reiterated liis well known w statements with regard to labor and capital and arbitration between them. To President Koose.e veil ho gave due credit lor his efforts a' settlement of strikes by ^ <?> uii,i uiii\pii, mi' sum nit* prosi w (lent cot. his plan from the Chi [M cajro Democratic platform. ,e Mr. Bryan declared his unIV chanced belief in tlie inherent |j_ righteousness and economic ex ti pediency or fr< e t-ilver., but e??i? 1 j_ nothing about injectinc the old ,y question into the next cuni. paipn. "Tho tariff question," he said, "will probably l?e introduced. airt 1 J or one shall no' object s I've been discussing ihe tiuiil'tor t t wenty-six years." He went into c ii masterly analysis of protective (1_ and revenue tariffs and declared j that ho had never heard a Ite[e publican t r 1 i 11 speech a ten yearold bov couldn't answer. 'Ihe t pr.esent tarill ho called, 1 collectre ing money from a'l the people ... and giving it t'? a lew. Of course, j \ n s the few like it." Ho declared it the most encouraging feature of ihe present ()j time to Democracy that many 1() of those in the North wli# had hitherto most strenuoutdy sup rn ported the protective tariff were le now most stroimly opposed to it. Mr. Bryan tall ed for ten minutes of the Christian i-'ed. ,e . saying that since the age ol twelve he had been a member ^ of church and had tried to I we ' up to his Christian idea'; ie u ? . . , . ji 11 i i n a i never until ? his recent tour of the vvor^' carried him amongst barbarous and savage >r as well as among the most en 1' i tightened peoples, Ifud he appro jciated the beauty and power of t'hat ideal, to the frill Mr. Bryan reasserted his faith 11 in the <1'inocratic doctrine of allowing ?1 ?? rihppilies to gov n ern the til elves imdea 1 oi regujlating their a flairs by outside c force. Ho spoko of the costly blunder the Republicans had made, which cost this country ' * #500.000,000, m re than enough, s>, thespt ?ker declared, than would ! tie necessary toUi? tiro Pauam i i-j canal without lax on the rooi Fugitive from Justice Lo= cated. Whereabouts of Henry Magill, Wanted in Several Criminal Cases, Discovered by Sheriff Hunter- Found his Man in Wadesboro Jail. Henry Magil), the negro who lied from this county about three years ago to escape trial on sev eral grave charges, burglary and larceny among the number, has at last, been located by Sherifl Hunter, who never "lets up" on a fellow wanted for crime until he catches him. Having learned that there was a negro in jail at Wadesboro, N. (1.. answerinir ~ _ _y -> vv/ ?- *%/ UCC3LI ? I' ' H'll of iMagill, Sheriff Hunter we'll to Wadesboro Tuesday to see him. and. on(being show 11 the prisoner, promptly identified him as the man wanted here. The sheriff a' once swore out a warrant for \lngill and will have requisition papers ready to In inn him to Lancaster .just as soon as he serves out his present sentence in NVadesboro jail. MuciH, it appears, hi* been wording on the farm of Solicitor Robinson in Anson county, going oythe name of John Rollings.? Some time ago he was a witness in conrS at Wadesboro, and during his examination on the stand he no de an impudent reply to a question asked him hy an attorney engaged in the case; wherenr\nn tK? i'?'l A .,/w, hh jnugr ceutenceu mill !e jail tor 30 days for contempt of court. His sentence will ex [>ire Oct. I3th, when he will be brouehf to Lancaster. In addition lo the charees pending against Magitl, there is i sealed sentence awaiting liini hero, lie having been tried and 1 4 convic'ed doting his absence o' as*auit and battery with intent to hill. iat Another Threatened Lynching at Atlanta. A thin a, (hi , Sept. 20.?(Joe ernor Terrell has jus* issued an order calling out I lie local mili tia to protec' a negro, who i?alleg ed to have committed a criminal assault 'liia alternom on Mrs. J. A. K'mbill, a lamier'* wile, living in Oaklawn Oitv, a suburb of Atlanta. ! pie, more than enough to reclaim the arid lands ol the West, inoro than enough to regulate railroad ra' es. Mr. H-yan closed with a particularly at tractive period on the corrupting inllinnco of the mon ev power, lie said the Democratic party ReTeral years ago ha 1 warne 1 those people that if they did not stop stealing they won d not only be stopped, tint would l>? compelled to restore vhat fhev had stolen. i ? ? Tillman on Bryan's Government Ownership F reposition. Sioux City Special to Washington Post. That i lie South wouM never agree to the nomination of William Jennings Bryan on a platform containing government ownership of railroads was the declaration here todav in an interview of Senator Tillnmn, ot South Carolina "'In the South are to he found the only true Americans," he said, "a .d we are Democrats down there, too. We believe in a government by individuals and not in paternalism. We are not ready to admit the rail roadu cannot lie regulated, and we are not ready to s e apprais wr-i transform tnem ntto a huge political machine. In the hands jot the government, the railroads i would he used for punishment I of hostile territory. You North I enters must pph<1 down to South 1 Carolina for some true seed of Americanism. In Illinois all 1 louiul was I'etrovsksys, Brod-. iskvs and whiskies. Of the railroad rate law. Senator Tillman said it was never the intention ot Congress j to proluoit exchange of transpor jtition lo?- advertising. Howev r, lie was glad this had be^ti .one, as he said it would free the press all over the country from -u< erviency t ? t lie railrn ?*' - 1 i v/ ?*? Family of Rev. J. W. Wolling, Formerly of Lancaster, Back from Brazil. Mrs. .1. W. Wolling and sons, Meredith and Spencer, arrived it' Winnsboro Saturday niiiht ftoni It ?> do Janeiro, Brazil, the steamer Tintoretto having brought them to New York in 17 days, as they lett Brazil on Aul'. 18th. Dr. Wolling will re turn to the United States later. Mrs. Welling will remain at Winnbsoro with her oister, Mrs. J. F. McMaster. tor the present, while Meredith will go to the Bunberg Fit'imr school. Miss Marcht Wolling, who has been in this country tor a year, is visit'nir in Columbia.? Union Pro trress. Charlotte Didn't Enthu6e Over Bryan. Charlotte, N C.. Septwm'er IS.?Closing a two days' tour of North Carolina in wtiicU he made prearranged sreeches in :i towns and rear plallorni talks in halt as many more, Win, J. Bry an elosed his ongngements ill this ><i i e lomirht wiili an hoar's 'alk in Clnrlolte and passed on to Columbia, S O. A crowd of less than lour hundred porsons greetml the clistiniiuiirhed Vobraskan here, and while MY. Bryan was made to feel welcome, there was j n ?no of 'he wi d eemonstration tliut has marked his appearances elsewhere. ) Six=!Hile Church i ' Why, According to Tradition, the Location of the Church and Cemetery was Changed. I Mr. Sam F. Massey, of 0-*c< o'a, in Fort Mill Tim hp. One thing suggests another. So, I have picked up some tradition a* to the cause of moving the location ot Six Mile chuich. In olden times superstition was very prevalent among our ancestors, and has not yet died out; indeed we may truthfully assume that every human being has at least a streak of it in his physical structure, and it is not a violent presumption that brutes are a ill i ct eel in the snmo way. The aioresaid tradition cimes through two generations an 1 on that account is in a degree respectable. It is said that atter the church was burned some people wfi" digging a grave in the cemeten and found a large nug get of gold?about the size of the tron? j dot ot a man's thumb This c'rcumsfatice was the f\iuse of much speculation as to tin. propriety <f any further btnials in th it cemetery. When this burial took place the nugget of trold win cast into tlie vault of i he grave as uncanny Whether this wa- done because of super slitiou, or f< r the reason that it was impracticable to decide the owueiship of the gold, deponent sailh not. At any rate it. was decide 1 to forego the practice of burving there and the location of . :the church and cenuury was. i changed. Was this the effect of superstition, or was it supposed that future mining operations might disturb the ash-s of the deid? | Lst s'une one else decide ; it is I too hard a nut lor ine to crack. Auspicious College Open ings. Greenville special in yesterday's Observer: Furman University opened this morning for the tall session, the registration 225, the largest enr i.ment 011 any lirst day in the history of the institution t'hicora Coll-ge I opened with 100 boarding pupils. The Furman Fitting School opened with *17 students. These ins'itutions :.l! ut served the opening dav with appropriate exeicise-, abbesses be \\z made by prominent ministers and business men of the city. Examlinations will be held at once and I tdie ro.'lilor ...ill ? ,, v>.? n III ?> IT ii III ! 'A* ) Monday, Greenville Female CMl?'<i[e opened yesterday with an unu-u ally largo attendance. ? - ' I Congressman Hitt Dead. j Chicago, Sept. 20.?OongreK*| man K. II IJi't, of Illinois died 'this morning o! heart o so at IK arr igmiset' Pier. { r many years he wii* chairman oi the committee on foreign affairs. 4