The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, July 17, 1897, Image 1
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SfcMI-WHKLY fcOIHON. LANUASTKK, S. JULY 17 i*<)7~ c~r*nTf^un n,~
OUR LEADERS.
?3 pounds light br<wn sugar for $1 on
8 pound* Aibu -Itles Coffee for 1 00
1 pounds good green coffee fof 1 00
1 pound Hoe Tobacco for 35 PentH.
?T Tin Wure VEIIY CHEAP.
WE KNOW
how close ruonep mutters are with
most people. We are prepared for j
close bu els. Values that two or j,
three years ago seemed almost ini 1
possible are to day an actual fact? '
nearly cut In two. Many are sur? i
prised at the Ime of (Jroeeries I
offer. Some even ate incredulous.
A. <il , V>Si:ii.
AT FOOT OF RLASTKDTKKE.
Roily of an Fnknown Negro
Found. Was Lightning's
Work.
Special to The State.
Hock Hill, July 14. ? Last
Monday afternoon a small lioy,
while rambling on the farm of the
Hon 1) E Finiey, ran upon the
dead body of an unknown negro
man. The body lay at the foot ,
of a tree which had very recently I
been struek by lightning. All
evidence pointing that way, the
jury etnpannclcd by Coroner
Waters rendered the vcalict that
'the deceased eaine to his death j
from a stroke of lightning.' The
body was not identified.
A word of kindness is seldom
spoken in vain; while witty sayings 1
are as easily lost as the pearls slip-j
ping from a broken string.
Stive Your Life.
Rv using "Tick Ghkai' Smith
amkhican klhnkv < i.'kk " Thl*
new lemcily i?? a irient surprise on account
< f its ex*ot*?lu>ir nroinntn?.Hs in
relieving pain in the kiib^'K, liladdei
ami Back in inula or female I*. relieves
retention of water and pain in !
(Missing it almost immediately. Smvc
yourselves liv n-itig thin marvelous
euro. Its use will prevent fatal con* I
sctpiences In almost all cases l?v it* j
great alterative ami healing poweis.
Mold by J F Mackey &( o , /.aucaster.
rt c
Registration Books Open.
TN AirOltDANCR with the Act of
-1 1896 providing f ?r the registration
of electors, (lie hooks of the Supervisorof
Registration will he open at tie*
court liouse on the first Monday i.
each month for the registration ofelec
lots entitled to registration and k> j
i?pett for three successive days in eael
month until lite genets! election ot
inOB W. O. A. Porter,
K. M. Kirk.
R. J. Flyr.n,
Board of Registration.
Nov 18. 1806?tf.
SUMMONS FOR RELIEF. j
(Complaint Served.)
STATE OF BOUTH CAROLINA.
COUNTY OK LANCAHTKK.
Court of Common Pleas.
H Wolfe, Plaliitlir,
avalnat
ft W Wolfe, Defendaut.
To the Defendant K W Wolfe :
You are hereby Hummotied and re- |
quired to anawer the complaint in tliia
action, of which a copy la herewith
aerved upon you and to serve'
a copy of your anawer to the aaid complaint
on the aulmcrilter at hia office
at I ancaater Court Houae, County of
Iianntater. and Mtate of South Carolina
within twenty days after the eervice
hereof, exoluaive ??f the day of
audi service; and if you fail to anawer
the complaint within the time aforeaaid.
the plaintitr in thin action will
apnly to the Court for the relief de?
mantled in the complaint.
Dated April 27lh. 1897.
R. K WYMK,
Plaintiff*' Attorney.
IHea'l W. H. L. PORTER,
fpsea j c c c, L c
To ft W Wolfe, lion-resident Defendant
:
Take notice that the aummona ami
complaint in the above action wna filed
in Hie office of W H I. Porter,
clerk of the circuit court for aaid Coun
tv arid Htate, at Lancaster 0 o u r t
House, on the 27tli day of A prll 1897.
Dated /tpril 27, 1897.'
U K WYLIE,
PlrlntlffH' Attorney
M-21-6*.
WALLOWING BEGINS
Irby and Evans Neck Dee]
In Insinuations.
TILLMAN'S DISCOVERER
Or the Man Who Weaneii I lei
From Sour Buttermilk- -MeLaurin
Writes Means'
Kpitaph.
Special to The State.
Aiken, .July 14. ? lletwee 1 thrci
and four hundred ..f the 'J.Tui
voters in Aiken county eanie on
today to hear the senatorial can
didates. The court house win
comfortably tilled. The oid linn
enthusiasm was missing. Messr:
Kvans, Irhy and McMaurin eacl
spoke for an hour or more am
when Mr May field's time eanu
the crowd was so weary and Inn
scattered so for dinner that lie ha<
the merev and p>nd sense b
speak for only ten minutes.
Gov Kvans said he rej^rettei
that there was s<> small an audienn
The issues that are now up hav<
not been publicly discussed foi
years. Mr McLaurin, he said
had by acts repudiated the trui
Democratic doctrine and platforu
and was a Kepublican under l)c
mocratie cloak. McLaurin's po
liev, he urj*cd, would only riel
the few and make the cost o
t hours hinrnni" In tlm \t..
? ^? ?.v iiiv iiiun^vnt
I aurin should come out like ??tli
crs, ho urged, sis n protection Re
publican, for it wns wrong t>
servo sis ft Republican in Demo
emtio livery. The Republican
never gave tlie I)emocrnts an\ thin;
unless they sold out or gave tei
for one. According to the paper
McLaurin is doing evervthing ii
Washington and it would pay t(
ask the government to let th
State have the $.'?0,000 and brim
the others home. Ho said In
would ssiv nothing about Gov El
lorbe's failure to take the endorse
inent of 40,000 voters over th
measly politicans. He never ask
ed for the* appointment. If Me
Laurie's policy is carried out i
will cost the farmers 20 per cent
more on necessaries.
He commented on a negro pa
per in Washington urging McLau
rin's appointment because of hi
helping to defeat the Jim Croi
hill.
He then at length discussed th
Peruvian cotton schedules and urg
ed that there could !>o no possibh
good in it to the farmer, except t
pay more for his socks, ami hos
and clothes in which these cotton
are used. Only 100,000 bales o
long staple was raised in thiscoun
try, and three-fourths of that i
Georgia, and tho idea was to ta
the masses to help a few Sen L
land "niggers" and pluntet *. T
show that McLaurin was a pre
lecuonist, no shim .Mri-aurin vote
for a 300 per cent, tax on woe
against the 55 per cont. tax i
the Wilson hill as proposed b
the committee. An to Tillman1
position he di<l not think it th
sumo as MeLaurin's, but if it wer
Tillman was wrong and ho woul
tell him so an \ote against him
lie spoke a long time on the cot
ton schedule uud said it gnve th
north the very club it wanted witl
w hieh to rob the south on t he com
pensntorv tax and on bugging am
ties. It was like selling out fo
a mess of pottage with the south
ern mosses getting nothing. Th
.
' speech of Mr Kvans was full on
) the tariff issue
Col lrby said ho first came to
) Aiken to see how the reform
movement would take in this section,
and after his visit told Til 1 i
man all was safe. He spoke of
taking in now hlood and that Mr
Henderson ws the biggest catch
since 1S00 (applauseV, said he
wanted to talk as a Reformer,
Democrat and farmer. Talking'
of his being the daddy of Kvans,
he said when Tillman wanted Kllerhe
for governor, he had told
Kvans he should he governor, he
^ made Tillman quit Kllerbe, go to
^ Kvans and elect him. He said he
ha<l always been opposed by "the
clique" in Columbia, May field
was a child of Shell?so an or- '
phan; Duncan of the devil, and
McLuurin of (lonzalcs.
He said The State misrepresent
cd hi in and alleged that it was an
j injustice and perversion to have
I said lie favored factional strife
when he did not, (This is where
> i - ., .
the word "not was printed to
read "now.") lie said The State
I , ? -
11mik advantage or hun :it all times.
As to his dispensary views he said
lie wanted the system given a fu'r
1 chance. It was far better than
' open barrooms. He helped make
the law and believed the system
' right yet. If there was any rottenness
it should be remedied, and
if any dishonesty, punished. He
would not charge either. He
f'
objected to features of the law,
especially imprisonment in the
penitentiary for the sale oflicpior.
The campaign had been forced
" on and a horrible schedule arranged
by ('<>1 Ncal and otheis.
Talking on he said if Tillman
~ had taken his advice he would
11 have had a wooden man run against
MeLaurin. He expnlined at length
1 why hi" did not run last year and
" other political arts, heretofore
' stated, lie predicted that there
would he a Republican and Dc'
niocratic party in this State, and
in time the suffrage plan would
he cursed. Talking of the Uc1
form movement he said if it had
not been for him Tillman would
still he selling butter In copperas
1 breeches. The movement, he said,
started in the defeat of Gen Gary
in lHhO. If Gary had lived he
" would have been elected in lSh2
and there would have been no
s occasion for the movement that
v avenged Gary's assassination. He
found Tillman, promised to him
e at Dan Tompkin's house to run
; for governor, and Tillman readily
3 assented, and he was elected. He
o would only have made the first in
? the Democratic party. He said
s he would tell what kind of a Demo i
>f crat he was and that he was not
i- the sort as the governor of the
n State who had sold out the Reform
x party to the Gonzales party. He
i* then went for the governor's
o course in reprimanding and dis>
missing pi and not repri-!
d manding Gen Watts. A repri- j
>1 maud was to ahuso and cuss out.
n Kllerlio's course was, he said,
V 'hnrsll ..~-l
j ?? ?..j ....uviuuviuuv- iiini uiiwar- j
s ranted.' (Applause.) If the conel
tract with Gonzales is carried out,
1 |
o he said, this great friend of the ,
d people will run the Slnio and in
i. 10 years every factory would have
negro labor. Negro la'?or was nl-,
e ready used in Charleston and he j
Ii understood was to ho used in Coli
unibia. Me was opposed to get j
d ting negro labor in mills, as this
r was suited to farm lulior.
i. While in the senate ho only
o made two sjieochcs as he saw no
use for talking. lie always voted
for his people, and when he
fought the sugar differential he
held the balance of power and'
could have gotton a fortune for
his vote. When he voted for the
people he got no ciedit or newspaper
puffs.
lie said he was sometimes afraid ;
to go about the hotels as some, one
might get in trouble for saying
things about his farmer-like ap-:
pearanee.
McLaurin ought to have been
beaten when he wrote that s<juedunk
letter and he understood that
McLauyin and (ion/ales thought
of running independent, tickets i
against the nominees for the Constitutional
convention. (ion Hut-1
lor had McLaurin's blacklist re-j
moved and he wanted to know
what (Ion But'.or was to get for
this and he wanted to know where
McLaurin then stood and who lie
now favors and if he was for Till - j
man's reelection, as that was an
issue, and he wanted McLaurin
asked how he stood as to Tillman. J
Mr McLaurin said if he were I
such a remarkable man as to be a[
Populist, Uepubiiean and Demo-j
oral and could arrange so many
deals he would not think of running
for senator, but would aim
higher. This was the first time j
he had ever been sussed bv a
corpse, ho snid in connection with ,
a joke. 1
The talk about his being in a
combination was entirely to throw ;
people off of the scent of the coin
lunation* against him. lie com"piimejitcd
Irby's political -shrewd-;
ness. As to there beingnnv com-1
bieation against Mo Ivor !>.? .m-i
Mr \Y 1) Kvuns did us much as j
anvone to elect Mcl ver and as to
Irl?y*s hurrahing ahout defeating
grand ? Id men, lir would remind
him that I rhv defeated Wadoj
Hampton, who had done much
for the State. He voted for Irhy
as a party man and his only regret
was that Irhy did not use his ability
and brains to till the place a^
he had hoped lie would. lie said
(Jov Hvans had heen unfair to him
in attacking him in his own home
and trying to tnakj capital out of
, ...r. lilt' .Mill \ TOW fill*
hill. A majority of tl?o Demo- i
orals tleteatoil tlie hill and be op- i
jiosed it because of certain fea- j
Hires in it. I (is people knew how j
he stood and that there was nothing
in this sort of talk. His peo-J
' pie for generations were known j
in this section and no one before
ever tried to make him appear as |
opposed to white men and women. I
lit* now and has always rented his
lands to white tenants, .although
he could no doubt get more from
colored tenants, but he was doing
what ho thought right and what
his people before him had done.
His very vote he contented was |
strictly on the party platform and '
ho has never been a protectionist. !
He thought it robbery to get more
money than the government want-1
ed. He cited as an illustration of
his position. Suppose the ]>eople
voted for a graded school system
find parrloil i# nti.l ' ' ' 4
..... .V ...Ml in- Jiiim HIS UIXCS
to support the system, would there
i?o uny sense iu hi.> keeping his
children away from the school
because he did not believe in graded
schools? So with the tariff.
There was a Republican house and
senate and President. None of
the Democrats made the hill or
had much to say, hut should they
try to make it as much non-sec.
tional as possible, or not? Tho
hill was going to pass. Nothing]
could defeat it, and the que
was whether to sit down an
it go as it was prepared and
sented or to try and get some
out of it for his people hy ti
to get some justice and eq
lie wanted such things equal
There was never proposed an
crease in the price of eatinjj
and the hill does not raise
price, hut simply changed
classification so as to tax the.
the hrewers have been using,
to the fallacy of the argunien
ed against the cotton tax last. ^
short staple cotton was hrti
to New Orleans from Mexico
more will come unless then
duty. Senator llacon and n
proposed this tax or cotton,
said he would keep up his
for all time for free haggin<j
ties. As to his sending on
tirst speech, lie sent out ><),
as many as he could afford,
it was printed in nearly c
paper and he stood hy it.
was not a protectionist, as he
hut held that the people of
Carolina had as manv rigli
any other people. lie neve
memhered saying the people
cred and loafed too long an
Calhoun's grave, t?ut it ocei
to him that Kvans likes t<
around the grave he was p
l ist year. He said he and
man stood today where Cal
and Iluync stood. llayne a
ed in fixing a duty on indigr
held it was in strict con for
with all of the principles o
hill, lie and George 1) l il
also held very much the
ideas. As to voting for the
tariff on wool that was in
mittee and had nothing to do
the hill.
Jt was a fight between McL
and I'ailcy and he stood by 11:
who, he said, some were tr\ i
got in a hole. Theeommitte
ed this regardless of hi-? voti
il was a purely side light. I'
diil not seem to know how b
along without Tillman's coat
He thought he was on it,
now Tillman says his view
identical with his own and 1*
is still holding on to the eoat
uk* man insult' ot it wits gon<
The great ohjcetmn to liin
been that lit1 would not sti|
everything sotno people wu
He would not have cared if
one had been put up against
after the 'stjuedunk' letter,
wrote every word of it to A
and had no regrets to ex pre:
it. He said after the prima
would write Kvans' epitaph a
would read:
Here lies a poor ahote.
Who grabbed at Ben'a coat
To pull him in the boat.
And missed bis hold
Ih left in the cold.
A letter of regret froi
Duncan at his inability to Ik
sent at the meeting was read.
Mr Maytield said as evei
was tired he would speak for
10 minutes. He said mow
phatically he wan in no com
tion and was running on hi?
hook. 1le stood for true I)
cratic doctrines at all tim
consequently did not l?olic\
McLauryis position correct,
slandering, no matter under
excuse, ho held, was wrong,
increase in prices was a spec
rohhorv and that was whi
McLaurin's view led to. T<
islate prices was wrong ni
one had a right to legislate fa
As to the Mexican cotto
amounted to nothing. The 1
pool market lixos the prices,
to the dispensary, it was a m
LP i Hpmi' ii r I f
?ti?n!we Undersell All Others In
id let i ,
,,re- Groceries.
thine
I < I S T E IV :
rying
uitv pounds (granulated Hu^rar for $1 00
. 24 pounds light brown Sugar 1 00
1/x;( ' j We have the cheapest line
y In* | of Chewing and Smoking Tohaceo
: rice in town. Also we carry a nice line
i the of Notions, such as handkerchiefs,
j]lc Ladies' and dents* Hose, etc., etc.
i rice l?- Ch-irr^' ?S: I iro.
\ s ' ? r/w?vuttarm
t us.' ul issue as to the Latimer hill,
rear ! which ho opposed. He did not
m'dit helievc the State should <_r<> into
i an<l the liquor ousincss. There arc
is a many good features about the disot
he pensary law, but the State, had no
He business in the business. lie cxli"ht
plained his position as to giving
r and the State prohibition with local
it his option under proper restrictions
(>00 for the sale of liquor
very TILLMAN SL(VKSS1-TL.
Ho
said, He (lets His dispensary Hill
><aith Through the Senate Without
its as ( )pposit ion.
r relinir
Washington, .lulv l.">.?.1 ('
mind Hunter lias eaptured the post-mas.
irred tcrship at I'liion, S. ('. His
?loaf | nomination, which has been pront
in | dieted in these dispatches, went to
Till- the Senate today. He is a Lilv
Iioun While, Republican, lml he had the
ssist- Jendorsement of *Iloss* Webster,
? ami land that suemed to settle it.,
mity I Senator Tillman today succeedif
the led in passing his dispensary l?ill
linan through the Senate without obssunc
I jeetion. The hill provides that
high all fermented, distilled or other
com- , liquors transported into any State
with or Territory for use. consumption,
or sale shall he subject to the opaurin
oration and cll'ect of the laws < f
lilev, such State, and shall not he ex
ng to enipt hv reason of bring introdue
e 1 ix- ed in original packages for private
' and use or otherwise: and such Slates
Ivans shall have absolute control uf such
a get li'piors within their borders, by
tail, whomsoever produced and for
l..o : ' . .
.>< 1 . "iianiUI ll-il- 1II1|I(M It'll, | >1*1 IV l< MM t
s ure t!?:it nothing herein contained
Avails shall lie construed as atFccting tlio
?1 mt internal revenue laws of tlio I Hit ?.
ed States or of liquors in transit
n has through such States.
>port The general elleet of the lull is
nted. to carry out the provisions of the
some | south Carolina dispensary law,
t linn J not-withstanding the numerous
He decisions obnoxious to the enforeeppelt
j ment of the said law. The bill
vs for passed the Senate, without a word
ry he j of discussion, by unanimous eonaid
it | sent.
j Stokes Wants to Ride Free to
Washington.
1 Washington, July 12. ? Iteprc11
1 r sentative Stokes, of South Ca.ro'
P"0 lina, today introduced in the
House a bill to compel the issuance
>one t,y rail roads of free transportation
on ^ to members of Congress, Federal
t c m
iudws, the bends; of the ovfl/'iilivii
)>ina '* o ' ? ? * "- vrt^'v.f.'v
departments of the government
' ?w j and chiefs of bureaus.
emo- (
e and * ' ? .
| Patients of the late Dr .1 N 'Fa I e
Mr! . .
. lev, of (yolumbia, have on foot a
Any
. ? movement to erect a monument to
what
^ i his memory.
Itiicklcn's Arnica Salvo.
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n leg i Rrulees,Sores, Ulcer-, Halt Khumer
. (Fever Korea. Tetter, Chapped Hands
I1<l no fjtillbloino, Corns, ami all skin erupiVors.
tons, ami positively cures pifea, or no
. ; lay required. It Is guaranteed to xivo
n, it perfect satisfaction or money refunded
dver- ! price 25 cents per box For sale bv
^ j i'fiwford Hros
?tion-1 rjiUdnw Cry *w Pitcrw's Castor ia.