The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, October 14, 1896, Image 11
The Press and Banner.
BY HUGH WILSON.
A mi KYI 1,1,1:. V".
BRYAN IS A WINNER
HON.GEORGE T. BARNES COMES FROM
WASHINGTON WITH CONFIDENCE.
Popular SentInienl In tlio N.it ioiml C?nplt
Ml U for Itrviin. All KsllliiHto liy Hie
Washington Cost Attract* Attention.
Augusta, Oct. The Chronicle,
a f?w days ago, published the following:
Hon. (Jeorge T. Barnes returned
yesterday morning from a business
trip to Washington City, and was
seen soon after his arrival byaChroniele
reporter. In answer to the ques
tion what he thought of the Presidential
situation after his slay at the na
tioual capital ho replied:
"I am greatly encouraged, and my
faith in Brian's election has been
considerably strengthened. The Congressional
campaign committee is doinggcod
work, and they are conlident
Bryan is a winner. Of course there
are .Republicans who claim McKinley's
election, just as confidently, but the
predominant sentiment is for Bryan.
_ f I nn/l <V,o
tilt) owners ui iar{cc huv.
heads of big concerns are for AIcKinley,
but their clerks and employes are
for Bryan. I was told by a clear
headed neswspaper man of experience
in Washington that this is true-all
through the city. Having had occasion
to spend some little time in a
large bookstore where I was acquainted,
I tested the matter, and found the
proprietor for McKinley and the
clerks for Bryan. I am informed
that in the Public Departments the
government clerks are confident of
Bryan's election, and this isalwajs re
garded in wasmngion as a prcnj m
liable public pulse."
What is thought of Bryan's campaign?
'It is the worder of the dav. The
politicians no longer talk of directing
his movements or cautioning him
about what to say, or what to leave
unsaid. He has proven himself a
marvel of political sagacity. He always
says just the right thing at the
right place, and never speaks anywhere
without making Bryan voters.
He is his own campaign manager,
and sajs just what he pleases, and always
says it well. As a rule, t he controlling
newspapers are unfriendly,
and instead of the best possible presentation
of his meetings being made,
- - ! 1
they are minimized as lar as possioie.
A congressman who was with him in
Virginia sajs the newspaper accounts
gave no fair conception of the marvelous
outpouring and the tremendous
impression he made."
Don't you think, Major, that Bryan
should stay in the doubtful Middle
Western States for the rest of the campaign?
"Yes; and he will do so. for the
most part. He will put a whole week
in Illinois, and will speak all over the
State. The Democrats mean to carry
Illinois, and I saw men of conserva
live opinion to speak intelligently on
the subject, who declare that Bryan
has an admirable chance of carrying
Ohio."
What is the Democratic estimate of
Bryan's electoral vote?
"Intimates are likely to be colored
by the wishes of the partisans who
make them, but one that has just been
published by the Washington Post
has attracted much attention and dis
cussion. The Post is independent,
and publishes the facls of the campaign
as it sees it, regardless of partisan
bias. The Post's estimate to which
I refer is as follow: The Post favs:
Nobody seriously expects Bryan to
carry any of the New England states,
or New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, or Ohio. We may, therefore
concede to McKinley the votes o'
those States, as follows:
Connecticut 0
Maine 0
Massachusetts in
New Hampshire. 1
New Jersey . 10
New York HO
Ohio W
Pennsylvania >?
Vermont 4
Rhode Island. 4
Total 110
Nobody seriously expects McKinley
to carry any of the Southern State?,
with the possible exception of West
Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky and
North Carolina. We may therefoie
concede them to P?ryan, as follows:
Alabama 11
Arkansas 8
Florida.... 1
. Georgia IS
Ijouisiana 8
Mississippi
Missouri 17
^ '* A
bourn v,arojina ?
Tennessee Yi
Texas ir>
Virginia 12
Tola] US
To these we may with safety add?
i Col.rado 4
Idaho 3
Montana * 3
Nevada 3
North Dakota 3
South Dakota.. 1
Utah 3
Washington ;1
Wyoming 3
H Total 30
??' ?making for Bryan a grand total of
H We thus dispose of 288 out of the 117
fl votes which now constitute the elccto
jpl ral college. To carry the day a can9
didate must have 224 voies, and thus
flj McKinlev has yet to gain 81, and Bry
an has yet to gain 70 votes out of the
9H States which are in doubt, and chielly
so because of the uncertainty as to the
M consummation therein of a genuine
H fusion between the Democrats and Jhe
EH Populists. Should that fusion be efgn
ftcted Mr. Bryan will be very likely
B to carry?
Kentucky... 13
Sgjl Kansas.... 10
H Nebraska 8
m Indiana 15
??| North Carolina 11
"""""rMs will bring up his voie to 20f?~
leaving the battle-ground in the ten
H Qtotps not vet accounted for:
I Illinois.. 21
Oregon 4
California ' *
Maryland $
Delaware....
West Virginia 0
Minnesota
Michigan 1
Wisconsin 1'
Iowa.. K
Total 105
Thus we have -Bryan
votes. 20;
Mclvinley votes I K
l>oubtful 105
Total 11/
< >f course there may be dill'erences
as'to the doubtfulness of the States w(
have put in the column or tbe battle
ground. They are conlidcntly claimed
by both sides, and it follows that wr
must displease both by this estimate.
The fart remains, however, that most,
if not all, of thetn are doubtful?quitt
enough so lo furnish Mr. Bryan willi
the nineteen votes he needs, supposing
our figures given above to be correct.
And another fnct remains at IpasI
from our point of view, which is that,
without fusion betjveen the Democrats
and Populists, Bryan cannot get those
nineteen votes.
"The view of The Tost is, that with
fusion, Bryan can safely count on 2<);'
votes, but that withoutcompleie fusion
it will be out or the question ior mm
to get the needed nineteen. With fu
sion it concedes that be may. Now, T
have no doubt that fusion will bs effected.
You saw the opposition of
Watson to fusion in Indiana, and that
fusion was effected any anyhow, in
spite of his opposition. So it will bs
everywhere. I have satisfactory rea
sons for beliesving this. The estimate
of The Post called forth quite a storm
of protest from the Republicans, but
it did not recede from it position at all.
It replied to its critics as follows:
Those correspondents who are now
deluging us with criticism of the elec
tion figures given out by the Post
on Wednesday morniDg are reminded
that the most important of the estimates
in question were predicted upon
the consummation of a genuine, cor
dial, enthusiastic afcd thoroughly organized
fusion between the Democrats
and Populists throughout the country.
* * r * *
Then, as to the States which we put
to Bryan's credit in the event of a fusion
on the lines already indicated,
what reasonable fault can be found
with them?
Kentucky... IS
Kansas..... 1C
Nebraska.........*..... 6
Indiana.
North Carolina *11
Total 57
Of course we understand that these
57 votes, added to the 1-18 above calculated,
will run Bryan's strength up to
205?within 19 of election. Of course
we understand that seeing these figures
in cold type is not nearly so encouraging
as whooping and throwing
hats into the air and braying McKinley
into the White House by mere
force of clamor. But really this is not
our fault. The contcst has to be decided
on November 3 next, not by stupid
vociferation, but by the ballots of
an intelligent and patriotic people,
and we mast, in forecasting that decision,
consider facts, reason, probaI
hilitv?nnt our nersonal Dreiudices
and desires. We cannot elect McKinley
by iretting together under an umbrella
and resolving that Bryan is as
good as defeated at the present mo
ment. It is foolish to to blind ourselves
to the existence of the earnest
millions who dwell beyond the Potomac
and the Alleghanies. These mil
lions are there and they must be taken
into account. We cannot dispose of
them by making a great hullabaloo
here on the Atlantic coast.
We still maintain that in the event
! of a fusion between the Populists and
the Democrats everywhere, Bryan
may safely count upon 205 votes to
begin with, and we will stand to the
list of doubtful States from among
which McKinley must get 81 votes,
while Bryan needs to gel only 19, in
order to be elected.
It will not change anything to poohpooh,
and splutter and get red in the
face, and heap savage and occasionally
idiotic epithets on Bryan. If this
youthful person from Nebraska is to
be beaten at all, it must be done by
sensible, fair minded, and rational appeals
to the judgment and conscience
of the American people.
"It is easy to see,"said Major Barnes,
uhow an estimate of this kind put
forth and adhered to by an independent
paper like the Washington Post,
is calculated to disturb Republican
tranquility ; especially when it leaves
Bryan only nineteen votes from the
goal, and with the strong chances he
has of carrying Illinois. Iowa. Califor
nia, Maryland anu wesi Virginia.
No wonder the Republicans are protesting
against the ligures put out by
The Post, but," significantly added
Major Barnes, "who gainsay them."
Don't L'nderatanri It.
Union, S. C., Oct. 0.?The sessions
of the court of general sersions lasl
week was full of surprises, even to the
natives. There were three men tried
for their lives, charged with the fearful
crime of murder. Two white men
had killed two other white men and
one negro had killed his brother. In
each case the verdict rondered by the
petit jury was "not guilty." To say
that these verdicts surprised every per
son who heard these ca^es is to express
it mildly. The editor of this paper is
personally acquainted with all three oJ
the men tried for murder, and has
nothing in the world against eithei
one of them but we are compelled tc
say to them that they were exceeding
]y fortunate men in the selection ol
the juries that sat upon their cases.
We never heard the solicitor make
more able arguments than he made ir
the cases, and the judge did his duty
consequently these men are turnei
loose in Union county again, by tlu
will, or judgment, of twelve jurymen
?Union Times.
McKlnley'sCoumIu lioltH.
Syracuse, N.Y., Oct. G.?One o;
Major McKinley's near relatives, Wil
liam B. Albro, a prosperous farmer,
who resides near the little hamlet ol
Cincinnatus, Cortland County, ha:
come out strongly for Bryan and fret
silver. He does not propose to allow
family ties to interfere with his politi
cal beliefs and will not vote for his
Ohio relative. Mr. Albro is Majoi
McKinley's cousin, and lived for forai
I. _ vc:111 1,, ru. Jrv
years ILL me IUWU ui luuiuiuua, vuiv
In an interview yesterday Mr. Albrc
said: "I am sorry to say tbat I cannol
vote or work for McKinley's election
I have just returned from Nebraska
where I Jived for the past fifteen year;
and where I had the pleasure of th(
acquaintance of Mr. Bryan. I believe
that he is perfectly honest in his worl
and I know that he is a gentleman ant!
a Christian. It is for the interest ol
the farmer and all people who till th<
soil to vote for Bryan and Bewail."
| CAPITAL FOR LABOR.
. arthur sewall formally ac}
cepts nomination.
i strong; and cli-nr cut dclinf meiit of ana{
tloit'n troiililr-k. ilio valine ami keineriy.
! a millionaire who kerlh for llio
5 toller*.
Bath, Me., Oct. 0.?The following
is the letter of acceptance of Hon. Ar1
Ihur Sewall. Democratic nominee for
: Vice President of Ihe United States:
l>ath, Me., Oct. G
i Hon. Stephen II. White, chairman,
! and membersof notification commit'
tee.
Gentlemen: I have the honor to
accept in writing, as I have already
< verbally done, the nomination tendered
by you on behalf of the Democsatic
party as its candidate for Vice
1 1 'resident or the uniieu oiaies. auu
in doing so I am glad first, to express
m.y satisfaction that the platform of
' our party "which has commanded my
life-lona: allegiance, is honestly and
fully declartory of all its principles
and especially of the absorbing financial
issue upon which, as you say, I
took my stand " when the hours of triumph
seemed remote and when arro>
g?nt money changers throughout the
world boasted that the conquest of the
1 American masses was complete."
These principles have been of late in
1 abeyance only because those whom
we trusted to maintain them have
failed to do so?these principles never
can die. We have rescued our party
from thase who under the influence of
the money power have controlled and
debased it. Our mission is to now res
cue from this same power and its foreign
alliances, our own beloved country.
This is the first and highest duty
imposed by our party's platform; upon
the performance of this duty all other
reforms must wait. The test of party
' -11 -
principles is uie government, me,/ aaassure;
the proof of good government
is a contented and happy people, and
- the supreme test of both of the ability
to guide the country through a crisis
as well as tc administer the government
in ordinary times.
Our people now face a crisis ; a crisis
I more serious than any tince the war.
i To what party shsll they turnin their
! dire emergency. It is true that the
; present crisis may not involve all
equally; that there are those who do
not sutler now and who may not suf'
fer should the crisis threatened by the
gold standard come on in all its fury.
Human selfishness makes those deaf
( to all appeals, but to these, fortunate,
ly, the Democratic party has never
noorlor) tnannpal to win lis battles. nOr
does it now, save as there are some
among them who can rise superior to
self, in the sacrifice which such a cris
is demands of every patriot. We are
told that the country has prospered
under the present monetary standard;
that its wealth has enormously increased.
Granted. But in whose
hands? In the hands of the toilers,
the producers, the farmers, theminera,
the fabricators in the factories, the
creators of the nation's wealth in
peacs, its defenders in war' Have
they prosperity which was their's so
late as even two years ago. I deny it.
They deny it. None alllrm it save
those whose interest it is to do so,
whose profits would diminish as prosperity
returns to those on whose distress
they thrive.
All is indeed not right between capital
and labor. The best money in the
world is none too good for those who
have got it, but how is it with the 90 :
m vtnnrtla nrltA ViQ TTQ
JJCr UCUl. Ul UUl jicuj/au nav uutv
"got it to get?" How is it with those !
who must buy this "best money in the :
world" with the products of their own ;
iabor? These are the people for whom 1
the Democratic party would legislate. ;
What is the best money for these, is !
the question for all to ask who really
love this land. How, also, can you
increase labor's purchasing power but
by increasing the price of labor's products?
Is it a fair measure of value
that in our great producing sections,
ten bushels of potatoes must be paid
for a dollar, ten bushels of oats for a
dolla.-, six bushels of corn for a dollar,
three bushels of wheat and all other
products of the soil and mines and the
labor of all wage earners at the same
ratio? Does any fair minded man say
this is honest money that forces such 1
an exchange, and if it is not a fair ex- '
change is it honest? Is il less than
robbery.
This is the condition to which the
siugle gold standard has brought us. 1
Under it the appreciation of the "best
money in the world" has increased
the wealth of the rich, and for the
same reason has increase the debt of
the debtor. So under the present
standard it must continue to be. Witli
these object lessons about us little
need have we for history and statistics
and the studies of scholars. Little
, satisfaction it is to us that they have
i warned us long since of the deadly
evil of the gold standard. It has
. brought us at last to the parting of
the ways. Whither shall the people
go? In the way that has led to their
i enslavement or into that which oilers
i them their only chance to regain individual
liberty, lasting, prosperity
. and happiness? Let not our opponents
charge us with creating class disi
tinctions. Alas for the Republicans!
f Their urn nlrt?nHT7 rr-Aatpfl Vw t.hf?
j Republican poiicy for the last 30
years - created by the very system we
i would now overthrow and destroy.
. Nor do we raise a sectional issue. The
f nomination you tender repels the
charge. None know better than I
! that this nomination is meant as no
i personal tribute, but as an assurance
, that our party is a non-sectional parl
ty. Not by our policy, but only by
j the continuance of the gold standard,
. can sectionalism be revived. Neither
shall our opponents be permitted to
terrify the people by predictions that
temporarv disturbance or panic will
f come from the policy we propose.
- The American people will be loyal to
, the nation's money - will stand b3f
hind it and maintain it at whatever
3 value they themselves may put upon
3 it. Once before in the present generaj
tion have our people been called upon
- to face a momentous crisis. What
i then said Mr. Lincoln, the chosen
leader of the plain people of the land?
; Was he awed by threats or weakened
. by the wily persuasion of the false
> friends who, as today, pleaded for
t compromise with wrong? His answer
. is, "If our sense of duty forbids this,
, then let us stand by our duly fearless3
ly and effectively."
5 Let us be diverted by none of these
s sophistical contrivances wherewith we
: are so industriously plied and belabor1
ed, contrivances such as groping for
f some middle ground between tho
5 right and the wrong, reversing tho
divine rule and calling not the sin
ner3 but the righteous to repentance,
such as invocation to Washington imploring
men to say what Washington
said and do what Washington did.
Neither let us be slandered from our
duty bv false accusations agaiDst us.
Let us have faith that right makes
might, and in that faith to the end
dure to do our duty a3 we understand
it. We know what the nature
of the struggle in which we are engaged,
we are anxious only that the
ueople of the land shall understand
if onfl Uion nn*> halllft is won. Behind |
the strong entrenchment of the gold
standard are gathered all those favored
classes it has fostered tho only
dangerous classes of the land. Avarice
and unholy greed are there, every
trust a<:d combination is there, every
monopoly is there, led by the greatest
monopoly of the power of gold. With
us, in our assault upon these entrenchments,
are all thoso unseifish men
who not now suffering themselves
cannot rest content with conditions
so full of suffering for others, and
that vaster number of our people who
have been sacrificed to tho small and
selfish class who now resist their attempts
to regain their ancient rights
and liberties.
There are the patriots of 18%; the
foes of u dishonest dollar which en
riclies 1U per cenr. or our peopie 10
rob the rest; the defenders of the
homes of the land, of public morals
and public faith, both of which alike
forbid the payment of government obligations
in a coin costlier to those
who have to pay than that the contracts
call for, the defender of the honor
of the nation, whose most sacred
charge is to care for the welfare of all
its citizens. The free and unlimited
coinage of silver is the sole remedy
with which to check the wrongs of today,
to undo the ruin of the past, and
for our inspiration we have the justice
of our cause and those cherished principles
of Jefferson and Jackson which
shall be our guide on our return to
to power: "Equal and effect justic to
all men; absolute acquiescence in decisions
of the majority; the vital
principles of the republic; the honest
pavment of our debts and sacred
preservation of the public faith."
Profoundly sensible of the high
honor of the nomination you tender,
I am Truly yours,
Arthur Sew all.
The Registration Figures.
Columbia, Oct. 9.?The official reports
giving the registration figures
for the several counties in the State
are still being received by the Secretary
of State. So far all the counties
save ten have sent in their reports.
The aggregate number of white voters
registered in the 26 counties that have
reported is 64,892, while the negroes
have registered only 9,060. It is not
thought that the registered negro vole
in the State will exceed 12,000 as most
of the largest negro counties are in
eluded in the list. Below is given the
registration figures so far as they have
been received:
White. Colored.
Barnwell.......... 3,800 250
Beaufort....* 674 503
Berkeley 1,040 245
Charleston 4,867 1,200
Chester 1,907 101
Chesterfield 2,343 340
Clarendon 1,700 250
Edgefield 2,160 425
Fairfield 1,623 82
Florence 2,486 321
Georgetown 814 861
HamDton 1.625 82
Horry 2,828 3815
Lexington 2,899 333
Marion 3,253 450
Newberry.......... 1,938 79
Oconee 2,09-4 276
L'ickens 2,223 185
ttichland 1,711 491
Saluda 1,589 126
Spartanburg 7,451 351
3umter 2,689 422
Union 2,181 197
Williamsburg 2,299 587
York 3,282 125
Marlboro 1,800 379
61,892 9,060
Attempted Assassination.
AI31JRVILLK, S. C., Oct. 7.?All of
yesterday was taken up in the trial of
three colored persons charged with
arson in having burnt the house of
Mr. Milliner, near New Market. The
case was given to the jury aooui a
o'clock in the afternoon. The jury
remained out until this morning when
they were unable to agree upon the
verdict and Jndge Witherspoon ordered
a new trial. The prisoners
were defended by Gray (I on & Graydon.
About dark last night W. N.
Graydon, Esq., drove out to his home,
which is about a mile from the city
limits. lie stopped at the house of a
neighbor and took his little son,
about :i years old, in the buggy with
him. Just as he resumed his drive a
buggy containing two men passed by,
and one was heard to say: "Ther's
Graydon, you must shoot now." One
of the men turned and fired at Graydon
three times with his pistol at a
distance of about twenty yards; one of
the bullets barely missed his head and
the others came uncomfortably near.
There was light enough for Mr. Graydon
to recognize the men. While
they were not witnesses or directly interested
in the arson case, they were
* ? ??i 1
irom mai neigjQooruuuu auu uuuug
the day had taken great interest in the
trial. Mr. Graydon will proceed
against them according to law. Our
citizens who have heard of the attempt
on Mr. Graydon's life are very indignant.
A Domocnitic Walk Over.
Jacksonville, Oct. 7. The election
in Florida Tuesday passed oil' quietly.
Blackham, Democrat, for Governor,
will have a majority of about 15,000
over his Republic an and l'opulist opponents.
Of the sixty eight members
of the House of Representatives, the
Democrats have at least sixty, and the
thirty two members of the next Senate,
including sixteen holdovers,
will all be Democrats. The new Legislature
will elect a United States Sen'
? Tn
aior 10 succeeu vviniiuauii v^an. *u
joint session 99 votes will be
cast, a hold over Senator having recently
died. As closely as can be
estimated, 20 members favor Call's reelection,
08 are against him, 2 are
doubtful and 3 are not reported.
Captain and Crew t)ro\vne<l.
Jnuoxish, N. S., Oct. 8.?The Norwegian
bark Ariadone, Captain Paulsen,
in ballast for Bay Vorte, ran
ashore below Green Cove, five miles
cast of here yesterday morning during
an easterly gale and went to pieces
immediately. The captain and nine
of the crew were drowned. Christian
Johnsen, the second mate, and a, youth
named Johanus Jievenburg, are the
only survivors of the crew of 12. The
first male's body was found today.
%
WILL LOSE HIS STATE.
HENRY GEORGE SAYS M'KINLEY WILL
BE BEATEN IN OHIO.
He IIbs Coino In Tliln Conclusion After
Spending Two Weekn In tlie State hikI
Making an Impartial Invent igatlon of the
Situation.
Cleveland, October 5.?After such
an examination as one may moke in a
little over two weeks, it is my conclusion
that Bryan will carry Ohio on
the third of November, and that the
electoral vote of his own State will be
cast against McKinley.
This is not a preconceived opinion.
On the contrary, when I entered the
State my first impression, though not
decided, tended the other way. Nor
is it an opinion in which the wish has
been the father to the thought, j
know how subtle is the disposition to
see the things through the medium of
one's own desires, yet I have not only
tried to dispassionately discover and
coolly estimate political conditions
and tendencies, but think that I have
so far succeeded in trying to be fair as
to under, rather than to over, estimate
what has accorded with my wish.
Nor have I any such intense desire
as to the result of this election to warp
my judgment. I resolved from the
first to vote for Bryan, for, although
I might dissent from him on some
things he clearly came nearest to expressing
what I think just and right
in national policy. But I would cast
my suffrage for him as readily if I
knew he would not get a single electoral
vote as if I knew he would gain
the whole college. And I have learned
not to count too much upon elections.
I tried to aid the election of Tilden
with all my strength, because I
thought him a believer in that Jeffersonian
philosophy of an adherance to
which I believe the perpetuity of Democratic
Republican institutions depends,
I again worked earnestly for the
election of Cleveland.only subsequently
to feel that it would have been better
for the immediate success of all I
thought him-to stand for if the election
had gone the other way. I was
ready to vote for McKinley, although
he stands for everything ] oppose, in
case Cleveland or such a Democrat as
he proved himself to be had been
chosen at Chicago, for, free trader as
I am, I thought it better to have a
thorough going protectionist in the
Presidential chair than such a revenue
reformer as Mr. Cleveland proved to
be.
Nor would I now despair were McKinley
to be elected, for under him I
think there would be such a saturnaI-"
MMitrila/va oe mnnlrl KrinCt
ilA Ui apcuim piiviic^o ag nvuiu
strong and quick reaction. In this
cool temper I have gone over so much
of the State of Ohio as makes me
think I can judge of the rest, forming
my opinions from those whom I could
think dispassionate, and it now seems
to me that Bryan is gaining a greater
strength in McKinley's own State than
even the local Democratic politicians
dare to figure on.
Both the hope and the fear that McKinley
will carry Ohio are based upon
the- perfection of the Republican organization,
the special interests at its
back and the great amount of money
at its disposal. But to my mind, there
are forces on tne other side that more
than offset these. Take the matter of
organization, a matter of which every
Democratic practical politician laments
the lack, and it seems to me that the
Bryan people have the advantage.
Their organization is of a different
kind, but it will prove, I think, the
more effective as the short sword and
more open order of the Roman legion
proved more effective than the long
spears and serried ranks of the Grecian
phalanx.
In every city in which I have been,
and in every town of which I have
heard, is the proof that the political
discussion that is going on is hand-tohand
work, and what counts the hanging
up of banners, the hiring of great
halls, the bringing of speakers from
abroad, the getting up of monstrous
excursions, to tne talk of neighbor
with neighbor that is honeycombing
the entire State with free silver clubs
and Bryan leagues.
Take the power of the bands and
railroads and all they control. Time
and time it has been proved that their
power at the polls is as nothing when
a clear issue is made against them.
Take the matter of money. It seems
to me that the monstrous size of the
funds at Republican disposal will
prore an injury, nota benefit, on election
day. Over all the States and
from the lips of every speaker, Democrat
and Populist alike, the word has
gone forth to spoil the Egyptians.
"Take all they olFer you and then ask
for more, but when you get in the voting
booth vote as your conscience dictates.
"
I think the very knowledge of the
fact that this on the Republican side is
a money campaign will destroy the
ellectiveness of money.
Now in the last Presidential election
llarison is credited with having
carried Ohio by only something like a
thousand votes, but in reality the contest
was even closer than these figures
show. One electoral vote was given
to Cleveland. The reason of this was
that in a number of cases both Republicans
and Democrats were under the
impression that by marking the first
name on the list of electors they would
cast their votes for all the rest. By
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than the Republicans. So much so
that the vote for the first elector was
declared chosen, while the rest of the
Cleveland electors were defeated.
Thus by the real intent of all the voters
participating, Cleveland, not Harrison,
should have carried the Stale.
Now the consensus of all that I have
heard is that there will be in November
next a full Democratic vote, and
that its loss on the money question
will be little, if any, more than its loss
by Cleveland's position on the tariff
question; that Bryan will have the
full vote, as he is certainly getting
everywhere in Ohio the enthusiastic
work of the Populists; that he will get
at least two-thirds of the Prohibitionists,
though they may vote for a local
candidate of their own; that there is
a stronger dertermination among
workingmen to vote for Bryan than
there ever yet has been to vote for any
candidate, and that in the strongest
Republican counties throughout the
State there is a very large oody of former
Republicans who will this year
vote for the Democratic Presidential
candidate. The specific statements as
1 A- 1 thof I hnUft
io counties aim tunuwip^ - -? had
as to this from men on whom I
can rely would indicate that Bryan
will carry this State in November by a
perfect landslide.
And now, when only four weeks of
the campaign remains, there can be no
question as to which side is gaining.
Free silver is everywhere making its
way, and everywhere the Republican
candidates are losing ground, i find
this in Cleveland as I return to it, after
a week's absence, and it is the thing
upon which all of those I have talked
with elsewhere are agreed. And to
to those elements of success is being
added that most potent element which
Bryan's personal touch with the people
is producing and intensifying?a
belief in the honesty of the man.
From my views of the situation, I cannot
think that Bryan will fail to carry
Ohio by a large majority, and the
same influences that give him Ohio
snouiu give mm an wie v,enirai western
States that have been considered
doubtful.?Henry George in Now
York Journal.
BYNUM TAKES A GLOOMY VIEW
Say? MoKlnI?y Will Hav? to Hiih!1a
to Win.
New York, Oct. 5.? Congressman
W. D. Bj>num, who recently resigned
as chairman of the National (Gold)
Democratic Committee, arrived intne
city last night. Mr. By num's business
is to raise money for the campaign,
that Indiana, Illinois and other Suites
may be oarried for McKinley. Don
M. Dickinson, of'Michigan, also ar?% ?
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nvcu in iiio uujr jcatuiuaj} auu xb xo
expected that Mr. Dickinson and Mr.
Bynum will have a conference with
the Republican leaders today. The
ex chairman of the Hannacratic Committee
is not as certain of the outcome
of the election as he was two weeks'
ago. Speaking of the situation in Illinois
and Indiana, Mr. Bynum said:
"Anybody who talks about what
Indiana or Illinois will do does not
know what he is talking about. In
the southern part of Illinois I know
that the whole country is for free silver.
I know from gold Democrats
that men wearing McKinley buttons
visiting Democratic National headquar
ters in Chicago every day and securing
free silver literature which they
are distributing to their fellow-workmen.
The Republicans have a per
icut urgauiLaiiuu. xuuv axe? ocumu^
out about three carloads of literature
every day.
"In Indiana many Democrats will
vote for McKinley, but many Republi
cans who are going to vote for Bryan.
Of course the Democrats lack organization,
but anybody who thinks they
have no votes is badly mistaken. Nobedy
knows just how the farmer vo e
and the workingmen's vote is going.
"A friend of mine, a gold Democrat,
but who has stayed in the organization,
talking to me the other day, said
that he addressed a meeting of 300
men. The meeting was a secret one
of railroad men. The 300 were for
Bryan. Of that number more than
half wore McKinley and Hobart buttons.
"I met a mail whoso brother is running
for Congress in one of the districts.
He himself is a sold man, but,
naturally, wants to help his brother,
who is running on the silver platform.
I asked him how things were going
and where he had been, and he told
me he had been around in three counties
and he had never had such an experience
in his life. He said that
nearly every other man he had met
had changed his politics one way or
the other, but from what he had heard
he thought the silver men had the best
of it. The situation all over the West
is just the same, so far as I can learn."
Fear of Thunder.
Electric storms are far less dangerous
than the majority of people imagine.
That a severe lightning storm is
terrifying admits of no question, and
will sometimes briner creat uneasiness
to the heart of the strongest man. But
the real danger is slight. The chance
of ligbtntng striking a house, for example,
is not one in a million. Par
ticularly is this true in cities, strung,
as most of them are, with electric
wires. The great danger from electric
storms is in the country, and even
there the danger may be lessened if
the simplest and most common-sense
of precautions are exercised. The surest
electric conductor is a draught,
and if, when a thunder storm approaches,
it is seen that all windows
and doors liable to occasion a dranght
are ke t closed, the danger is at once
reduced to a minimum. If a woman is
caught out in a fhunder storm lithe
safest shelter is a house; the most dangerous
a tree, particularly an oak tree.
It is peculiar, but nevertheless a proven
fact, that, the oak is the most
susceptible of all trees to a current
of electricity. Over 50 per cent
of trees struck by lightning storms
during the summer, the government
statistician tells us, were oaks, while
the beeech tree was the least harmed.
Therefore, the worst possible place of
shelter in an electrical storm is under
an oak tree, while by all odds the safest
place is in a house and out of the
draught. The actual danger from an
electric storm is, in truth, not from
the lightning nor the thunder, but
from the nervous condition into which
nAftnna .allow t.hftmSP.lVPS tO fall.
Another Democratic Sweep.
Atlanta, Oct. 8.-The following is
from A. S. Clay, chairman Democratic
executive committee: Georgia has
gone Democratic by 10,000 majority.
Governor Atkinson is reelected by at
least 40,000 majority over the combined
opposition. The rest of the State
ticket is elected by over 45,000 mojority.
The General Assembly is composed
of 175 members of the House and
41 Senators. The Populists have
elected 22 members of the House and
four Senators and tho Republicans
have elected two members of the House
and one Senator. The Demccrats
have elected .">9 Senators and 151 Rep
resentatives. This is approximately
correct. Georgia will giveBr^an and
Sewall a majority over the combined
opposition and will elect all the Democratic
nominees for Congress.
Governor Matthews Confident.
Uintrnnvn Va CVt, 7.?Governor
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Matthews of Indiana has written the
llichmond State as follows regarding
the political situation in this State:
"In reply to yours of .'Wth ultimo,
which I have just received, I am glad
to sav that after quite an extended
canvass of the State, I have no doubt
of the result. Bryan will carry Indiana
by a tremendous majority. Our
people, especially iu the country dis
tricts, are thoroughly aroused to the
importance of the issue. My advices
lead me to believe that Illinois will be
for Bryan, and Ohio may be put in
the doubtful list. Well informed
gentlemen from Kentucky feel satislied
that Kentucky will return to the
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MIXSON HAS RESIGNED.
THE BOARD OF CONTROL ACCEPTS
THE RESIGNATION.
The State Hoard Then Takes Up and Considers
Other Natters of Importance to
the State.
Columbia, Oct. 9.?After all there
have been two very surprising things
to develop from the recent dispensary
investigation, and the action of the
State board of control as published
.vesterday morning. In the first place
State Commissioner Mixson has resigned
his position and his duties will
cease with tomorrow. This is a com*
plete surprise to even Col. Mixson's
friends. The other matter is the determination
of the State board of con
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bles concerns out of it when it comes
to purchasing liquors for the dispensary.
It was noised around yesterday
morning that Commissioner Mixson
had determined to hand in his resignation,
inasmuch as the board's resolution
had cleared him of all wrongdoing.
No amount of questioning
could bring any light to bear on the
matter. Several members of the board,
when question, denied llatljr that the
board had requested the resignation,
and Col. Mixson himself, when asked
if this were true, denied it almost emphatically.
He declined to say whether
he would resign or not. Things rocked
along through the day, newspaper
men being constantly on the lookout
for some development, but no resignation
was forthcoming. During the
morning Col. Mixson was summoned . . w -'.-3
before the board of control and found
Governor Evans alieady present.
From what can be ascertained this
was due to the consideration by the
board of the matter of getting Governor
Evans to stop the seizures of imported
liquors by the constabulary.
Mixson, it seems, was called in to
make a statement as to the extent of such
seizures by the constables. What
the upshot of the matter was is of
course unknown.
It was about 6:30 o'clock yesterday
afternoon when CoL Mixson sent to
the board his resignation in the shape
of the following letter, which gives
his reasons for his action:
Columbia, S. C-, Oct. 8,1896.
To the State Board of Control:
It has been my desire for some
months to resign my position as State
commissioner, but on account of the
many rumors and slanderous reports
in cii culation I could not afford to do
so, preferring to wait an investigation
by your honorable board. .You have
conducted this investigation and have
exonerated me fully from any wrongdoing,
and I now tender you this my
resignation, to take effect as soon as
you gentlemen can name my successor,
or in any other manner relieve me
of the duties. I would be glad to have
y ou act at as early a time as you possibly
can, but I do not wish to embarrass
you nor the business in causing
you to act hastily.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) F. M. Mixson.
Shortly afterwards the State board
of control took a recess until this
morning. After the doors were opened
it was ascertained that the board
had accepted the resignation of Commissioner
Mixson, to take effect at 6
o'clock tomorrow evening. One of the
members of the board, when asked
what the board would do about electing
Col. Mixson's successor, stated
that the board had not acted in regard
to the matter as yet, but that it would
make proper provision for the conduct
of the business of the dispensary until
the place could be filled.
Pirtor tlio hnnr/1 will nvAmune the
features of the law affecting th6 conduct
of the business in case of the
commissioner's resignation, which
were pointed out in The State a few
days ago, remains to be seen. Those
features of the law were called to the
attention of The State by an attorney
of some note. It is understood that
the attorney general's office holds different
views, however, and is of the
opinion that the provisions of the law
quoted do not apply to the matter in
the way pointed out The board, it is
said, considers itself free to go ahead
and select a successor to Col. Mixson.
The board was busy yesterdajr with
its monthly purchases of whiskey.
Most of the purchases were made, but
no information in regard thereto was
given for the public, except that no
orders were given to the reebles and
Live Oak companies. The board has
determined not to make public henceforth
the names of the parties from
whom liquors were purchased and the
amounts that were purchased. This
~i:? ~.;ii Ko nrithViAlH in t.h?
lmuniiauuu mu nt>uu?'<.
future.
Mr. Allen, the member of the board
whose church intimated that it wanted
his resignation as a member of the
board, was present yesterday. He will
very likely have something to say
about the matter today.
Mr. White of Cincinnati is still here.
He had the board informed that while
he had refused to make a statement in
regard to the rebate question in Cincinnati,
he was here now and had
come here for the purpose of becoming
a witness. He has not yet gone
before the board, however. He will
probably give a statement to the press
today in regard to the scandal, inasmuch
as his name was so frequently
brought in by the several witnesses.?
State.
A SeuHRtlon in Sumter.
Sumter, October 7. Since Capt. D.
E. Keels retired from the treasurer's
ollice of Sumter county it has been reported
that he was a defaulter for several
thousand dollars, but until this
term of court nothing definite was developed.
At the last term of court the
crand iurv appointed a special com
miltee to inspect the books of ExTreasurer
Keels and report at this
term of court. The committee empleyed
W. W. Suder, an expert book- .
keeper, to examine the books, which
he did, and the presentment of the
grand jury made this afternoon declares
D. E. Keels a defaulter for
$7,164.9">. Judge Benet ordered the
Solicitor to take the necessary steps to
bring Mr. Keels before the court at
this session, which will be done.
Murders at the Polls.
Augusta, October 7.?A special to
the Chronicle from Mi'len, Ga., says:
(>n the opening of the polls at Monte,
Emanuel county, Wm. Durdens, a
negro hand, waiked up to vote, when
the Democratic ticket was snatched
out of his hand by C. W. Williams, a
negro Third partyite. Several Democrats
rushed for him, and Williams
pulled his pistol and killed S. S. Middleton.
1 le made an effort to escape,
but was overtaken and shot to death.