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Edgefield Advertiser THURSDAY, APRIL 14,1892. THOS.J.ADAMS, - ..... EDITOR A man of very clean record is John C. Sheppard. He has been Governor of South Carolina but there hangs around^ him no free flee pass odor, no $3 poll tax odor ; no suppression of tax extension ; no itching and festering lust for unlawful power; no pitiful stu pidity as. regards legal matters : and, more than all, no wicked, selfish engendering of strife be tween father and son, brother and sister, neighbor and friend. Edgefield Chronicle. The editor of the Edgefield Chronicle was one of the delegates to the Thirteen's convention. That convention professed to be for "peace and harmony," before and above all things else, but no sooner does this delegate get home than he commences to pile his dirty little adjectives upon Governor Tillman. Now, if Tillman and Sheppard were from another county, such a tirade would not be promotive of peace and harmony, but when we remember that both these candi dates ai e from his own county'that tirade becomes a "wicked engen dering of strife between father and son, brother and sister, neighbor and friend." .Our contemporary used no harsher or viler adjectives than these about Chamberlain; the accusations reduced to their j last analysis are nothing. That j "itching and festering lust for un lawful power" was nothing more than a.request to the Legislature to authorize the Chief Executive to'remove sheriffs'where they wil fully and knowingly permitted a prisoner to be lynched. That free pass business was not an admin istrative act. That "suppression of the tax extension" was no sup pression at all, and that "pitiful stupidity as regards legal matters" has been sustained by the Supreme Court of the United States of America and made the law of the land; We would conjure our contem porary to call off his flies-keep them at home to be used on some other moat than a son of Edgefield, We make this appeal in the in terest of "peace and harmony" in Edgefield county, not in the inter est of. Gov. Tillman ; Calumny has done her worst on him, Vitu peration has barked her loudest, and the Father of Lies has called off his dogs. ADVICE TOGO V. SHEPPARD J We believe that when Gov. Shep pard sees, as he must now see that the State of South Corolina is I overwhelmingly for Tillman, that he will be patriotic enough, and irise enough, to withdraw from the race. We know that Gov. Sheppard's ? friends will charge that this advice is evidence of weakness, and that the ADVERTISER apprehends that Tillman may be beaten, but Gov. Sheppard knows this is not so ; he knows that nothing short of a miracle can elect him Governor of South Carolina in 1892; that our advice is, ni this respect, disinter ested and that the ADVERTISER is ag good, aye a better ?friend of his than some of the parasites who are nearer to him in this race, for we would spare him the mortifica tion of defeat as well as the sting which will come to him in after days of having precipitated upon the people: of Edgefield county useless, senseless, and bitter con flict. . . ; Edgefield county will suffer j most should he continue in the ^ field. Edgefield county, his birth ) place and the home of his friends 1 and family anda constituency which has delighted to honor him in th*E>past, will. be torn into ] factions, harassed and distracted ( by the bitterness of the canvass, J and convulsed, perhaps, by inter- , necine strife, brother against brother, son against father, and all for what purpose? To make a 1 holiday for the enemies of Gov. ' Tillman outside of Edgefield ? county. The most intelligent op- 1 ponents of Gov. Tillman know that - the race against him is utterly and absolotely hopeless, no matter whom they might have put up, and their sole object in nominating |i Gov. Sheppard was to weaken Edgefield county and her political influence in the future. They are willing to sacrifice Sheppard to the anti-Tillman Moloch, in the hope by and by, some time, some . where, they might defeat the will of the people when they have no Tillman to lead them. Occasions come in every man's)] life when.the dilemma is presented to him of deciding between two evils-between the devil and the deep sea. Such an occasion now presents itself to Gov. Sheppard. May he decide in the interset of -"peace and harmony" among his .own home people. Wisdom dic tates it-prudence dictates it courage dictates it. Let us have GOAT BOXES. The reporta from the various voting places in Edgefield county give Tillman the following boxes : Blocker, Norris, Eulala, Beuknights, Red Bank, v. Gray, Moss, Red Hill, Rinehart, No. 2, Rhinehart, No: 3, Cooperville, No. 1, Cooperville, No. 2, Centennial, Wise, Big Creek. Colliers, Old Wells, Long Branch, Mine Creek, Meriwether, Dry Creek, Ridge Spring, Hibler, Talbert, Bacon, Mt. Enoh, Huiet, Mt. Willing, Washington. SHEEP BOXES. The Sheppard list is as follows : Hampton, Shaw, Johnston, Plum Branch, Meeting Street, Cleveland, Fruit Hill. The Rehoboth club was divided, and Rinehart, No. 3, failed to or ganize. Upoa this result no com ment is necessary, it carries its own comment and its own lesson. As near as we can estimate it Shoppard has, out of the 3,500 voters in Edgefield county, not more than 800 he can call his own, with the probability that after the 23rd of April there may be some conversions to Tillman. AN: EDGEFIELD YOUTH Writes a Letter from the Indian Territory-Struggle for the New Lands-No Room for the Colored Brother. FORT RENO, ) INDIAN TERRITORY, April 2. ] Look on one of the new maps of this country and you will see Fort Reno, headquarters of the Fifth Cavalry, U. S. Army. You will also notice a good deal of the Indian Territory west of us. All this portion of the Territory will be opened for settlement between this and the 10th or 15th of April. It would amuse you all, my friends in Edgefield, to .see the variety and number of people from every quarter who are ready to fly in at the word and secure homes, such as they are. What we are now looking forward to with much interest is what is known as the "Rush." The town near here is at present infested with all manner of humanity, from the sleek and polished gambler to the desperately uncouth looking professional boomer. One can see more or as much of the west as they wish at this time. There are few if any negroes among the boomers ; their colony is about here and the Tace line out here is more strictly drawn than any where in the South. When the order comes to ?pen up the country, an army ameer on horse back rides down ais portion of the line, fires his pistol, then the crowd rushes in. One can see women, children, )ld and young, in and on every ;onceivable vehicle and animal, rtruggling, pushing, fighting, cuss ng, swearing for miles to get ?omes in a country, in the greater >art of which one can hear "cow leas gruntiug a mile trying t jprout." There are two factors wanting in this country to make home comfortable, and these are wood ind water. From this post one san look and see open country for niles and miles, farther than the luman eye can reach, without a ;ree on it half as big as any of the scrub oaks in the pine woods in ;he lower part of Edgefield near Aiken. This section is very nuch like the lower part of Texas ordering on the Rio Grande, and [thinkwe ought to declare war svith old Mexico and make her take this portion of Texas back. Many of my friends, no doubt, ?rill conclude at once that I have aot a very exalted opinion of this portion of the west. What I nave said though is not through prejudice, but it is the truth. Another feature that is against it also, as a desirable country, is the wind that blows almost con tinually. I have been out for a few miles ride and before I could ?et back a most terrific cold wind directly from the north, known as a norther' would come up and almost most freeze me before I could get in ioors. I have gone to bed at night tvith the stars shining in the heavens bright and clear and irisen the next morning and found the ground covered with snow or torrents of rain falling. I always thought our climate in South Caro lina changeable, but this climate is far ahead of it. A man never ihinks of going any distance with >ut his overcoat, "slicker," and Buffalo robe,in order to be ready for Hidden changes. This is about the average climate, for all of the west till one reaches the foot hills of the Rocky Mountains; this majestic chain of hills breaks the force of the winds. The only advantage this countrv has over ours is that the lands are fresher and a little better, but the other advantages we enjoy compensate for this. I want to say something to our colored friends to try to induce them to stay at home. I only wish they, could take a peep at the poor, homelesSjShivering, destitute colored people that can be seen at some of the stations on the rail roads in the territories, that alone would make them remain forever where they are. If a colored man gets a claim in this country the reckless, desperate class of whites will make it so hot for him that he will have to move on. Last Sunday I went to see a colored man from South Carolina, who is a lawyer by profession and a man of fair intelligence. I had seen him in Columbia looking "fat and slick," but you should see him now, a pretty tough looking citizen. He had been sick and I took him some medicine and gave him some advice in regard to his health. His next door neighbor, a white man, did not even know how to direct me to reach his house which was not much over a mile from him. This colored man is as I have said, a lawyer of fair intelli gence, right in the midst of people mostly from Indiana, Kansas, and Northern States, that are contin ually crying and weeping their philanthropic tears for his race and still will not give this deserving man an encouraging word. I send him my South Carolina papers to read and he has written UH one or two pathetic letters about our sweet sunny South whero he first saw the light. One can almost hear him say : "My heart turns back to Dixie". These two illustrations, my colored fr'ends,are only isolah d examples amongst hundreds of such that can be heard of. So take friend's advice and stay at home here you were raised, and if you only have to work for wages and get three good meals a day and a shingle over your head, thank your God for this much and do not be allured out to a country that 3'ou know nothing of, to suffer and ery probably die for the actual necessariesof life. Tho white man of the South is your best friend after all. Educate your children and work hard yourselves and all will be well with you. What you hear in the North in a majority of cases are but the spasmodic plaints of fanatics who would make you believe that they feel for your race, but. when you look ,' into it, it is only vapor that comes from some short haired woman or crazy sen timentalist. When you thought you needed your leaders in 1876 they left you for foreign parts, proving to you what sincerity there was in their friendship. F. W.P.B. Reminiscences and Kef lections. To The Cotton Plant: Some years ago (that is to say in the years of good stealing) I was in the city of Columbia at a time when the faithful of the carpet baggers, scalawags, mongrels and I ? negroes had gathered together M (like vultures around a dead I carcas) to congratulate each other j on the face that North Carolina 1 had just cast her vote for General t Grant. The cannon was boom- k ingin the grounds around the I State House, and the house and 1 grounds were filled with a crew of i ill-visaged and sinister looking in- I dividuals that to look at would ? make women turn pale and honest ^ men turn sick. In this ill-favored ? crowd were many so-called orators t that held forth one after the other in commentary on the glorious * occasion. The first that came L forth on the platform (which was a the State House steps) was 1 Beverly Nash, a negro (that was e as black as the political cloud that J then hung over South Carolina) ; ^ he made such a harangue as a L negro only can make. He was a followed by R. B. Elliott, 'another C negro black as Erebus; what he said was at least decent. He was 8 followed by a portly, statesman- ? looking white man ; his head was p covered with the winter that 0 eternity snows upon all that live ti long enough, his features were of h the kind that Milton ascribes to s the "archangel lost." He made a n speech-he congratulated the faith- ti ful around on the fact that God in His providence had made such a U meeting as that possible in South c Carolina. He said the Southern b people generally ought to cou- p grat?late themselves that they a were not hung to a man as traitors v and rebels, and that they ought to S be exuberantly thankful that they A had fallen into the hands of such C magnanimous conquerors ; that it L was now the manifest duty of th9 Southern people to put forever be- J hind them the history and tradi- = tions of which they had heretofore been so prond, and come forward into the new light of the new gospel of caipet-bag evangelization ? as North Carolina had done, and a " great deal more of the same kind of tl talk. ti The talk from the negroes on a this occasion did not seem out of Jj harmony with the surroundings p but seemed as something that j? might rcsonably have been looked for, but when the white man gavo 0] expression to the sentiments that c he did, there was something Ii anomalously abhorrent in tljem L. words cannot express.. Every instinct of Anglo-Saxon manhood seemed to be outraged and in7 suited. Now, the man that made this gt speech that I am telling you about ai was James L. Orr,'the mau that South-Qarphna had delighted to honor in the past. He it was that | had plunged his traitorous daggei into the bosom of his country when she lay prostrate and helpless nder the iron heel of a brutal con ueror; and it illustrates the eternal fitness of things when the on of that hoary-headed assassin of the liberies of his native land shonld put himself at the head of a movement to again degrade the proud name and unsullied fame of South Carolina. There are many things that ought to be forgot, there are many records that should be erased from the tablets of memory, but among the things that should never be forgot is the betrayal by Judas of his master, the treason of Benedict Arnold and the aeassination of his country's liberty by James L. Orr. Now let this son of this man whose record I have tried to give in the foregoing lines ask himself if he could by any possibility imagine the son of Judas Iscariot or the son bf Beuedict Arnold going about and advising the people what to do and they the ?ame peo- j pie that their fathers had betrayed, and if he is nuable to imagine such j a thing, can it be exactly the thing for him to do, when we cannot for get that his father stands on the! same plane with the above men tioned worthies? Very truly. JOHN M. PAYNE. St. Matthews, S. C., March 25. Governor Tillman. Americans are born politicians, and this characteristic is peculiarly | highly developed in our South Carolinians. But ever since the Revolution, as every one knows and every truthful mau must con fess, the management of public af fairs in this State has been resigned into the hands of certain men and families, who looked upon this entailment of power as their inherent right by birth and mental superiority ove the common maBs| of our population. Tho long ad ministration of those old-line I aristocrats was dashing and j brilliant. But all of this time the common people-we mean the honest, toiling classes nut within this select pale-did not seem to ad vance with tho new conditon of atFairs brought about by. the emancipation of slavery. If ai poor man's son felt a spark of commendable ambition burning in his breast, he was told to] smother it ; that the place to. which he aspired was tho inherent property of another ; but to prove to this young man that his merits and ambition were not ignored, BO long as they were confined within plebeian channels, he was permitted to endorse by his vote the ticket selected by the old rulers for him to support, and he was also kindly permitted to pay taxes, and keep on plowing But one morning these old leaders awoke and found a new tuan at work in the political arena, ivho was acting without their lognizance or consent. This reformer was B. R. Tillman, and md his burning words of elo quence, as the flaming torch of Scotland, drew the inmates from )very home and rural hamlet, who iollow him with that unselfish oyaltyand devotion peculiar to he agricultural population of the South We all know the history of that emarkable campaign-how the old Tilers were overthrown and ' new nen, fresh from the hands of the >eople and in full accord and lympathy with their views, were ?leeted to positions of honor and rust-places that were before lealed by the lock of caste against heir aspirations. As is ever the case in revolutions, he resentment of the defeated side iras concentrated against the man rho organized and led this revolt Q igains the old rulers. Even before b Tillman assumed the helm of gov- ^ rnment, their phials'of wrath and v tatred were poured upon his b tead by the organs and leaders of he vanquished side. Never was ?an fonght more bitterly |e nd persistently than has been rovernor Tillman. But with the clear head and uperb nerve that carried him I ? afely and triumphantly through L he campaign, and that won the olitical liberty of the people, our|?? rovernor has pursued the even Bnor of his way, and brought to ear on the affairs of State the ame sound judgment that has lade a success of whatever he ouched. He is now crushing his enemies rith the power of merit, and the ||, harges made against him are one y one vanishing in the air, or roving boomerangs to his ssailants. His last and crowning w ictory was the triumph of our tate, the administation and p Morney General'McLaurin in the oosaw case. 145 m w IE ANNOUNCEMENTS 01 FOR CONGRESS, The friends of Col. W. J. TALBERT? ^cognizing his ability and fitness, his hristian virtue, and the deep interest tanlfested by him in the welfare of lp ie whole people-his known opposi-1 nj ?on to monopolies-his advocacy of better system for circulating the cur ?ncy of this great country-his in, ;rest in the general welfare of the u] eople and especially of the farmers, ereby announce him as a candidate e >r election, under the Democratic IC jle. to the House of Representatives 81 r the United States from the Second fa ongressioual District of South Caro na. MANY CITIZENS. gi HAMLET, tb ? W P? Our jack,.-'HAMLET," will, afterdate, and the soring season at Mr. Eidson's t0 Fruit Hill. cc STOCKHOLDERS. 4-7-92-1m * F. * STRSC Successor to STROM & STEI -THE LEADER IN Hardware, Stov Good Goods. Cheap for Call to see me, at the Opera H W. F. STRICKL "V^E are receiving SPRING GOODS every day and will be glad to hav? che public come and see them. We do not require you to buy but mly wish to satisfy you that we have a nicer selection than you can ge elsewhere in the town. Also that We Guarantee Prices. Everything has come in except Dress Goods, Gloves, Hosiery and Embroidery ; these goods we are looking for every day. We will have a LARGER and MUCH NICER line of DRESS GOODS this season than ever. Mantau JS/LCLJSLIXX^ . We have added Mantua Making to our business. Miss Amoss, a celebrated dress maker from Baltimore, will preside over this depart* Dient. Remember we guarantee every dress to fit. Our terms are STRICTLY CASH. SHOES! SHOES!! We will also carry a large line of Ladies' and Gents' Shoes, the best, without any exception, that has ever been brought to this place; having bought close and discounted every bill we care nothing for completion. Try us and see ! We have added Zephyrs and Embroidery Silks to our stock ; come and see them before they are picked over as they are selling very fast. OUR PRICES. We will not quote prices or mention, at this time, the different kinds.of goods we carry in stock, as we keep everything that is wanted in a first-class dry goods store. You will save money by trying us all we ask is a trial and wo will convince you. PEARCE & ALLEN. And Spectacles, FOB A LAO ASSORTMENT AND LOW PRICES, -GO TO R. J^. FOX. Edgefleld, S. C. DURING March, April, and May [ will sell EGGS to persons in Edgefleld county at $1.50 per sitting of 13. Send or illustrated circular, showing SHOW record. Farmers can do no better han to PLANT a few chickens this year. HENRY TE*. COOK, GRANITE VILLE, S. C. ? FURNISH THE BOOKS YOU CARRY THEM AWAY. JEN. .GRANTS MEMOIRS ORIGINAL $7.00 EDITION, P"OR SO C?NTS! No book has ever had such a sale in the United States as General brant's Memoirs. Over 650,000 copies have already gone into the ornes of the rich, but the subscription price of $7.00 has placed it eyond the reach of people in moderate circumstances. If 650,000 eople have been willing to pay $7.00 for Grant's Memoirs, there must e a couple of million people in the United States who want ;them, nd will jump at the opportunity to buy at the low figure here offered. We will send you General Grant's Memoirs, publishers' original ditioD, best paper, cloth, green and gold binding, hitherto sold by nbscription at $7.00. For 50 cents and absolutely a proposition such as has never been iode in the history of book publishing. The two splendid volumes f Grant's Memoirs, of which 650,000 copies have already been sold ot a cheap edition, but the best-for 50 cents; provided you send our subscription to the ADVERTISER for one year, and also a subscrip on of $3.00 for the Cosmopolitan Magazine, the brightest and cheap st of the great illustrated monthlies, itself equal to the best $4.00 lagazine. If, however, you have Gront's books, the Cosmopolitan's offer ill permit you to take instead, Gen. 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