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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 free pass odor, no $3 poll tax odor ,* no suppression of tax extension; rat no itching and festering lust foi unlawful power; no pitiful stu pidity aa 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 foi "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 ol peace and harmony, but when we remember that both these candi dates are from his own county'that tirade becomes a "wicked. engen dering of strife between father and son, brother and sister, neighboi and friend." ,Our contemporary used co harsher or viler adjective^ than these about Chamberlain; the accusations reduced to theil last analysis are nothing. Thal "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 oi America and made the law of thc land. We would conjure our contem porary to call off his flies-keep, them at home to be used on some other meat than a son of Edgefield We make this appeal in the in terest of "peace and harmony" io 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 TO-GOV. SHEPPARD; We believe th?t when Gov.^hep pard sees, as he must now see that the State of South Corolina is overwhelmingly for Tillman, that he will be patriotic enough, and wise 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, m this respect, disinter ested and that the ADVERTISER is as 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 weil 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 most should he continue in the field. Edgefield county, his birth place and the home of his friends and family and a constituency which has delighted to honor him in trrtHfepast, will. be torn into factions, harassed and distracted by the bitterness of the canvass, and convulsed, perhaps, by inter necine strife, brother against brother, son against father, and all for what purpose? To make a holiday for the enemies of Gov. 'Tillman outside of Edgefield county. The most intelligent op ponents of Gov. Tillman know that the race against him is utterly and absolotely hopeless, no matter whom they might hive put up, and their sole object in nominating 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. JUay 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 peace. GOAT BOXES. The reports from the various I voting places in Edgefield county I give Tillman the following boxes : Blocker, Norris, Bulala, Beuknights, Red Bank, 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, Meetiug Street, Cleveland, Fruit Hill. The Rehoboth club was divided, and Rinehart, No. 1, 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 I 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 I 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 tho 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 amu8eyou all, my friends in Edgefield, to .sec 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 I 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 herc is more strictly drawn than any where in the South. When the order comes to open up the country, an army officer on horse back rides down his portion of the line, firer his pistol, then the crowd rushes in. One can see women, children, old and young, in and on every conceivable vehicle and animal, struggling, pushing, fighting, cuss ing, swearing for miles to get homes in a country, in the greater part of which one can hear "cow i peas grunting a mile trying ti sprout." There are two factors wanting in this country to make home comfortable, and these are wood and water. From this post one can look and see open country for miles and miles, farther than the human eye can reach, without a tree on it half as big as any of the scrub oaks in the pine woods in the lower part of Edgefield near Aiken. This section is very much like the lower part of Texas bordering on the Rio Grande, and I think we ought to declare war with old Mexico and make her take this portion of Texas back. Many of my friends, no doubt, will conclude at once that I have not a very exalted opinion of I this portion of the west. What I j have said though is not through prejudice, but it is the truth. Another feature that is against | it also, as a desirable country, ?B the wind that blows almost con tinually. I have boen out for a I few miles ride and before I could get 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 iii doors. I have gone to bed at night with the stars shining in the heavens bright and clear and arisen 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, bnt this climate is far ahead of it. A man never thinks of going any distance with out his overcoat, "slicker," and Buffalo robe,in order to be ready for | J sudden changes. This is about the^ average climate for all of the till one reaches the foot hills Rocky Mountains; this ma chain of hills breaks the fo the winds. The only adva this country has over ours is the lands are fresher and a better, but the other advar we enjoy compensate for thi? I want to say something t colored friends to try to ii them to stay at home. I wish they, could take a peep t poor, homeless,shivering, des colored people that can be sei some of the stations on the roads in the territories, that would make them remain fe where they are. If a colored gets a claim in this countr reckless, desperate class of w will make it so hot for him he will have to move on. Sunday I went to see a co man from South Carolina, w a lawyer by profession and a of fair intelligence. I had him in Columbia looking "fal slick," but you should see him a pretty tough looking citizen had been sick and I took some medicine and gave him i advice in regard to his he His next door neighbor, a v man, did not even know hov direct me to reach his house w was not much over a mile i him. This colored man is have said, a lawyer of fair int gence, right in the midst of pe mostly from Indiana, Kansas, Northern States, that are COE ually crying and weeping t philanthropic tears for his race still will not give this deser man an encouraging word. 11 him my South Carolina papei read and he has written rn** OE two pathetic letters about our s1 sunny South where he first the light. One can almost 1 him say: "My heart turns bac] Dixie". These two illustrati my colored fr'e^ds,are only iso): examples amongst hundredf such that can be heard of. So 1 a friend's advice and stay ut he where you were raised, and if only have to work for wages get three good meals a day ai shingle over your hoad, th your God for this much and do be allured out to a country t you know nothing of, to suffer ? very probably die for the act necessariesof life. The white mai the South is your best friend a all. Educate your children i work hard yourselves and all v be well with you. What you h in the North in a majority of ca are but the spasmodic plainte fanatics who would make ] believe that they feel for your ri; but when you look ; into it, it only vapor that comes from so short haired woman or crazy B timentalist. When you thouj you needed your leaders in I? they left you for foreign par proving to you what sincerity tb was in their friendship. F.W. P.B Reminiscences and Reflectioi To The Cotton Plant: Soi years ago (that is to say in t years of good stealing) I was the city- of Columbia at a til when the faithful of the carp? baggers, scalawags, mongrels ai negroes had gathered toge th (like vultures around a dei carcas) to congratulate each otb on the face that North Carolii had just cast her vote for Gener Grant. The cannon was booE ingin the grounds around tl State House, and the house an grounds were filled with a crew < ill-visaged and sinister looking ii dividuals that to look at woul make women turn pale and honei men turn sick. In this ill-favore crowd were many so-called oratoi that held forth one after the othe in commentary on the gloriou occasion. The first that cam forth on the platform (which wa [the State House steps) wa j Beverly Nash, a negro (that wa j as black as the political cloud tha then hung over South Carolina) he made such a harangue as i negro only can make. He wai followed by R. B. Elliott, 'anothe] negro black as Erebus ; what h< said was at least decent. He wai followed by a portly, statesman looking white man ; his head wai covered with the winter that eternity snows upon all that live long enough, his features were ol the kind that Milton ascribes to the "archangel lost." He made a speech-he congratulated the faith ful around on the fact that God in His providence had made such a meeting as that possible in South Carolina. He said the Southern people generally ought to con gratulate themselves that they 1 were not hung to a man as traitors and rebels, and that they ought to be exuberantly thankful that they had fallen into the hands of such magnanimous conquerors ; that it was now the manifest duty of th9 Southern people to put forever be hind them the history and tradi tions of which they had heretofore been so prond, and como 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 talk. The talk from the negroes on this occasion did not seem out of harmony with the surroundings but seemed as something that might re son ably have been looked for, but when the white man gavo expression to the sentiments that he did, thore was something anomalously abhorrent in them words cannot express.. Every instinct of Anglo-Saxon manhood seemed to be outraged and inr suited. Now, the man that made this speech that I am telling you about was James L. Orr,'the man that South Carolina had delighted to honor in the past. He it was that had plunged his traitorous dagger | into the bosom of his country when she lay prostrate and helpless nder the iron heel of a brutal conq 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 asassination 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 Benedict Arnold going about and advising the people what to do and they the * ame peo ple that their fathers had betrayed, and if he is uuable to imagine such a thing, can it be exactly the thing for him to do, when we cannot for-1 get that his father stands on the same plane with the above men tioned worthies? Very truly. - JOHN M. PAYNE. St. Matthews, S.O., 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 man 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 mass of our population. Tho long ad ministration of those old-line aristocrats was dashing and brilliant. -But all of this time the common people-we mean the honest, toiling classes not within this select pale-did not seem to ad vance with tho new conditon of affairs brought about by the emancipation of slavery. If a 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 propert y of another ; but to prove to this young man that his merits and ambition were not ignored, so long as they were confined within plebeian channels, he wai 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 man at work in the political arena, who was acting without their cognizance or consent. This reformer was B. R. Tillman, and and his burning words of elo quence, as the flaming torch of Scotland, drew the inmates from every home and rural hamlet, who follow him with that unselfish loyalty and devotion peculiar to the agricultural population of the South. We all know the history of that remarkable campaign-how the old rulers were overthrown and . new men, fresh from the hands of the people and in full accord and sympathy with their views, w?re elected to positions of honor and trust-places that were before sealed by the lock of caste against their aspirations. As is ever the case in revolutions, the resentment of the defeated Bide was concentrated against the man who organized and led this revolt agains the old rulers. Even before Tillman assumed the helm of gov ernment, their phials'of wrath and hatred were poured upon his head by the organs and leaders of the vanquished side. Never was man fonght more bitterly and persistently than has been Governor Tillman. But with the clear head and superb nerve that carried him safely and triumphantly through the campaign, and that won the political liberty of the people, our Governor has pursued the even tenor of his way, and brought to bear on the affairs of State the same sound judgment that has made a success of whatever he touched. He is now crushing his enemies with the power of merit, and the charges made against him are one by one vanishing in the air, or proving boomerangs to his assailants. His last and crowning victory was the triumph of our State, the administation and Attorney General'McLaurin in the Coosaw case. ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR CONGRESS. The friends of Col. "W. J. TALBERT, recognizing; his ability and fitness, his Christian virtue, and the deep interest manifested by him in the welfare of the whole people-his known opposi tion to monopolies-his advocacy of a better system for circulating the cur rency of this great country-his in terest in the general welfare of the people and especially of the farmers, hereby announce him as a candidate for election, under the Democratic rule, to the House of Representatives of the United States from the Second Congressional District of South Caro lina. MANY CITIZENS, HAMLET, Our jack, .-'HAMLET,'' will, afterdate, stand the soring season at Mr. Eidson's 11 nt Fruit Hill. STOCKHOLDERS 4-7-92-1 m W. * F. * STRIC Successor to STROM ?fe STRI -THE LEADER IN Hardware, Stov Good Goods. Cheap for Call to see me, at the Opera H W. F. STRICKL T?TE are receiving SPRING GOODS every day and will be glad to , have the public come and see them. We do not require you . to buy but only wish to satisfy you that we have a nicer selection than you can get 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 j a, LARGER and MUCH NICER line of DRESS GOODS this season than ever. Mantau ILEals-ixxgr. We have added Mantua Making to our business. Miss Amoss, a celebrated dress maker from Baltimore, will preside over this depart ment. Remember we guarantee every dress to fit. Our terms are STRICTLY CASH. SHOES! SHOES!I We will also carry a large line of Ladies' and Gents' Shoes, tho 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 ! Zeplayrs ctxxcl Sillas. 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. OX JR 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 U6 all we ask is a trial and wo will convince you. PEARCE & ALLEN. And Spectacles, FOB A LARGE ASSORTMENT AND LOW PRICES, -GO TO . Xv. FOX. Edgefield, S. C. DURING March, April, and May I will sell EGOS to persons in Edgefleld county af. $1.50 per sitting of 13. Send for illustrated circular, showing SHOW record. Fanners can dono better than to PLANT a few chickens this year. HENRY IP. COOK, GRANITE VILLE, S. C. ffE FURNISH THE DOOKS YOU CARRY THEM AWAY. GEN. .GRANT'S MEMOIRS .' ORIGINAL $7.00 EDITION, FOR 50 CUNTIS ! 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 lomes of the rich, but the subscription price of $7.00 has placed it aeyond the reach of people in moderate circumstances. If 650,000 people have been willing to pay $7.00 for Grant's Memoirs, there must ae a couple of million people in the United States who want them, ind will jump at the opportunity to buy at the low figure here offered. We will send you General Grant's Memoirs, publishers' original edition, best paper, cloth, green and gold binding, hitherto sold by subscription at $7.00. For 50 cents and absolutely a proposition such as has never been node in the history of book publishing. The two splendid volumes >f Grant's Memoirs, of which 650,000 copies have already been sold lot a cheap edition, but the best-for 50 cents ; provided you send TOUT subscription to the ADVERTISER for one year, and also a subscrip ;ion of $3.00 for the Cosmopolitan Magazine, the brightest and cheap ?et of the great illustrated monthlies, itself equal to the best $4.00 nagazine. If, however, you have Gront's books, the Cosmopolitan's offer viii permit you to take instead, Gen. 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