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f ^ TBTOIIL.OW 8. OABTER, | ^ Family Newspaper : For (he JPromotion of the Political* Sbaial, Agricultural amd Commercial /wtargirt. J TEBMB. $1.60 a Ybaa. bdixob amd muuowtj ~^ i pavakui lhf actahor. oKul-VV KfcKLY ? - L A N C A 6 1' E U, S. O .jf A U U u" 8 T 19 1K99 ESTABLISHED 1*52 WHOLESALE WHIPPING IpnilNn M? wubat. If? .1:? - 1 * ' " IN GREENWOOD COUNTY Peaceable Negroes Terrorize! by Bands of Whitecaps. The Governor Appealed to hi Sheriff Who Can't Preserve Order in the Count}'. Special to The State. Greenwood, Aug 15. ? A por tion of this county between Green wood and Phoenix has for mon than a week pnst been terrorize< by a gang of so-called whitecap: engaged in whipping negroes The whitecaps began Monday night a week ago and ontered tin houses of several negroes wh< urn |'n fob mtf ? > -1 ? k ! ?' vrvt V iniwu uut UIIU ? lll[)|H'll Since then this performance hai been several times repeated anc the negroes are badly frightened The object of the white caps is t< drive off uegro tenants in ordci to secure control at low prices o: valuable farm lands in that sec tion much of which is rented t( negroes by the white landlords. There is no political foundat'or for the troubles and the offenderi are said to belong to a low clasi of whites. The negroes hav< taken to the woods and swampi at night to avoid the visitation ol the gang and many of the colored people have come to Greenwood some of them bringing all thoii possessions and refusing to g( back home. Inoffensive negroei are said to have been whipped am they have told of their trouble! to white friends here but an afraid to talk openly. So far ai known none have left this county but few are anxious to remain it the community. The better class of people do plore the occurrences ami unti now the mnttor has l>een kep quiet, but today the sheriff wirei the governor for assistance, stat ing his inability to control tlx situation. It is reported thai Gov McSweeuey will no here to morrow with Attorney Genern Bellinger and some action will 1m taken. It does not seem to bo the oh ject of the gang to kill or seriously injure the negroes. They siui ply want them to leave tho com iminity in order that the land may be routed by white tenants It is a fine farming soction pro> ducing good crops but is thickh settled by negroes although tlx colored population was somewha thinned out immediately after tlx election riots last November. Tin negroes are now very badly scare( and the object of tho whitecap has been rery nearly attained This is the version of the story a gained from Greenwood men. A large land owner of tha section told me today that he ha< his negroes sleep in hie barn foi protection and that tho colore< population is terrorized. Tw< hundred negroes from that vicini ty spent Saturday night in Green wood to avoid tho visitation o tho whitecaps. The same masterly inactivity which characterized the sheriff1 office in the November riots hang _ AL.I 1- -L ufor ion umc? 111 1018 ltlHUno and nothing haa yet heen done Ja? A Hoyt, Jr. l*ay your uubgcripiton t( Lbdock! IW! niv linn miiuhiimi OI C1'0|)S. lie told of Secretary Wilson's interest in the growing of grasses and the practicability of this in dustry in connection with cattle growing in this State. Secretary Wilson had told the South Carolina farmers that he would upon application send seed for grasses to be used in reclaiming worn out lnnds. Mr Latimer then took up rural mail delivery nod the attendant benefits to the farmers. Ten deliveries had been established in this district. lie explained fully the working and plan of the rural delivery system. 1'ranching oil'to subjects political, Mr Latimer discussed tho monopoly question, paying particular attention to the proposed subsidy of ships which he opposed vehement I v. His | 1 v/u 11 is VI II ULirt 1 , . BARREL OF TILLMAN. 1 Senior Senator Speaks at the Greenwood Convention. f TUB PERM \NENT ORGANIZATION. Next Meeting Will ?,? on August 15, 1900, nt the Same Plueo The Constitution. 3 Stuff Correspondence State. 1 Greenwood, July 10?The coin I s roittee appointed at yesterday's . convention of wheat growers m< t / last night and mapped out a plan a for a permanent organization. It ; >. was decided to hold tlio next eon-1 . j vention at Greenwood Aug 15, i 1900, and each county is requested ] 1 to elect delegates on the first j . Monday in next July. A sub > committee consisting of Mr A C r Latimer and Mr S II Mc'Jhoe f was appointed to prepare a pro gramme for the meeting. There ) seems to be a general determin ation among those in attendance , upon the convention yesterday to i perpetuate the organization, with g the purpose of encouraging a 5 diversification of crops and in this , way lessen the acreage of cotton. ? The committee on constitution I and by laws met at 0 o'clock last , night and organized by the elecr tion of J A Peterkin of (Grange* , burg as chairman, and L J Willi iauis of Edgefield, secretary. I It was ordered that the organisation be named "The Wheat. 51 Growers' Association of South' ? i Carolina;,' that the next meeting i 1 he held at Greenwood on August i , 15th, 1900 at 2:30 o'clock p m. Resolved, That the officers of . j the association be a president, j | vice president, a secretary and an ! II executive committee, consisting' j j of the president of the association . and one member from each con-1 , gressional district, whoso duty it - shall l>e to name the places and . ! times of meetings. I : Resolved, That the discussions 9'of the association he strictly confined to wheat growing and divcrsi- | . i tied farming. Resolved, That .ill persons in- , . terested in the success of the . agricultural interests of tlio State j be required to attend the moot-1 . ings of the association and that . J each county lie hereby requested 1 to appoint double as many dele-j 3 ' gates as they are entitled to repre- j t - sentation in both houses of the q i general assembly. 3 Resolved, That a meeting nt 1 each county seat in the Stato is a I hereby called for the first Mont day in Aug 1900, tor the purjiose J?t ! . S| w* dealing UOI?3??U!S HI llll! ncxi annual meeting of tho association t and that tho members of this com11 rnittee are authorized to arrange r j for samu. 1 Ordered, That Messrs A C 5 Latimer and S II McGee he ap. pointed to arrange for tho next . meeting of the association as ref latea to discussion, etc. Hesolved, That the thanks of ^ the association he extended to the , press of the State for bringing s the association to a successful organization. The ?|>eaking this morning was held in the grove surrounding the court house. Senator Waller r) presided, and the first speaker was Congressman Latimer, who devoted the opening of his speech K (to a discussion of the necessity conclusion of the monopoly issue was that the farmers must also combine. The Philippine war was denounced as contrary to the principles of our government. Mr Latimer raked ho administration's policy most vigorously, and his lino of thought was well received by the crowd, who interjected occasional applause. Senator Tillman was introduced as the "head-rent re" of tlm firm. ers' movement. The senior senator was brought forward "unmuzzled to graze upon whatever topic ho may choose." Senator Tillman started with n pleasant reference to Greenwood county, whose mother ?as Abbeville and father Edgefield. "No county," said he, "has a hotter pedigree." lie told of the tight for Greenwood county and referred pleasantly to the town ot Greenwood and its growth. He paid a compliment to Greenwood's citizenship, but he took up the whitecapping which make* people afraid to sleep at night within live miles of the court house. This he denounced bitterly. lie told of the Phoenix riot and said ho didn't blame tin white people then. 4'If I had been here 1 would bayo goni with you. I have never yet failed to uphold the banner of white supremacy against the devil, the world and the Radicals." The Tolberts he denounced, but the election riot^are over and inoffensive negroes should be let alone and bo given protection. It i you want to uproot the snake ant kill it, go and kill the Tolberts ^cheers). Hut don't bother pool negroes who have nothing to d< with the Tolbo.its. Don't abus< the poor black devils. The rac? problem is coming to the front ir the United States. This Jewet woman has come to Charlestor ! and taken the Baker family tc j Boston, the centre of deviltry.? By allowing the thoughtless, law less men to whip the negroes, yoi give ammunition to your enemie j in tho North. This anarchy wil spread to Edgefield and Abbeville You are masters, and while w< ' must make tho negroes let oui politics and women alone,yet thei must not be beaten and abused. If this thing continues,you wil be deprived of labor by an exodu of negroes and moreover capita will be driven off. You mus make the negro respect you an< keep his place, but you cannot af ford to whip and kill negroes ii this cowardly way. At presen the yankees are disposed to let u alone except to cut down our rep reapnianon because we've disfranchise <1 the negroes, hut such affairs will L'ive them a chance to interpose Federal authority. 1 hog ail, I plead with you to rise i inline man and put down this deVi lmcut (Loud cheers.) Some one may say, "you'll lose votes." 1 don't care if 1 do. 1 dou't want your votes if you ate such cowards as to uphold this lawlessness. Senator Tillman then took up the subject of Farmers' Institutes and the benefits to ho derived if the farmers will take the proper interests in them. In the north the. institutes have proved very successful by the cooperation of the farmers ai d the farmers' wives. The senator said what the fnrm^ or needs is to raise their living at home. Yesterday he had listened to the wheat growers, hut fool as he was ho had a better remedy against wcavils than any of them It is to gi ind as soon as you gath or it. He gave the farmers some advice as to cultivating their crops and told of the great things tob?u>. ' co bad done for Darlington and: ' the other eastern counties, llisj own experience in tobacco raising and its failure was humorously tnlH H? th mm u* ....... I - ?w buv/u(:ub lunt tUVI C nOS I I land aroundGreenwood that would grow tobacco and urged the farmera to try it. His experiences 1 that of a failure and fool." was ' that there was nothing for our farmers in experiments with Asia i grasses, because Asia is an arid [ climate. Speaking of the cotton mill in~ , dnstry, he said he looked for South Carlina to occupy a posi\ tion similar to that of Massachusetts, and become the leading 1 manufacturing State of the South. I ? The farmers of Texas and the: . Mississippi States would drive our ; farmers out of the business, and t in self defense we must do something eh:e. t The senator referred to Lati. ' . mer's activity and poked some, fun at the congressman, and tulk-i s od a little about Washington af I fairs. As S nator Tillman was about I to sit down, a bystander asked i him about his Sumter reference to i the prohibitionists and the dispen- j sa r y. t, in reply tho senatsr said he . wont to Sumter at the invitation I of all factions and in his morning f speech mentioned only national 1 issues. After dinner, Mr. E L) s Smith made a speech in which he r endeavored "to rub the butter oil ,jmv back." 3 My friend N. G. says in pur 3 suing a policy of conciliation my i course is to give them soft talk t and sugar. Well, I've given I . . ) ttiom enough vitriol in the past j' and ought to ho allowed to say . something nico now. - Smith attacked Clemson, Win i throp, etc., and said that Tillman s when governor laid great burdens ijon our people and 1 want him to . come back here and remove those a | burdens. It was tho first time r I've been asked in tho open to ^acknowledge that I'm a damn rascal and damn fool both. Smith I rubbed off all the butter and I in s reply discussed the questions ho I raised. t 1 did not say the prohibitionists 1 are cowards and hypocrites. 1 . did s*y that prohibition would a make cowards and hypocrites of t oar people. Some of the prohi* 8 CONTINUFD ON FOURTH PAGE. DO POLICE UPHOLD TIIE IT DISPENSARY. ! A The Sta'e. Gov. McSweeney recently re ! duced the number of constables employed by the State to aid in j E the enforcement of the dispensary i ?t law. The rosults have apparently i proved satisfactory for the chief pi executive is looking around for j th means to enable the number of|ei constables to be still futther rol0* duced. | T< With that end in view ho has m written the mayors of cities and towns asking them to use their L efforts to have the local police en ' force the dispensary law. lie has is also asked each of them to express m a candid opinion of his views in , O regard to the enforcement of the fh law. - ? - 1 ?( SHERIFFS AND MAG IS- a< TRATES. i si | <>1 Cautioned by the Governor us to ti Dispensary Law. $' :p< In addition to the circular letter i which Governor McSweeney yes- j D terday addressed to the various mayors of the state with reference j to the enforcement of the dispen- j A sary law, ho has sent another to j sheriffs and magistrates as to their , duties. Ho calls attention to the fact that since certain constables 1 S are specially designated to see | thut the law is enforced, other law J officers seemed to believe that 1 they had nothing especial to do with the enforcement of this par * ticulur. After advising them that 0 this is a mistaken idea, he adds ; y that if he has "evidence that any i ? magistrate or constable is winking j 7 at the violation of the dispensary j n law and is not making proper ef- h forts to bring to justice those who | Cl violate it, I shall at once ask for j ^ his resignation. I hope this will ? not Ikj neccessary.1' ^ * ' q Charleston Safe After the Storm. g ! ii Special to ihe State. 1 n (Charleston, Aug 15?The ?Vest v Indian storm has passed Charles- , c ton, doing but little dumage. f This morning about 5 o'clock jj tho wind reached u velocity of 57 | q miles per hour. A number of (j limbs of the trees on tho Battery ( and other sections of the city j were blown down, and the tele- , 1 phone wires suffered to some ex- | s tent from tho blow. The breaks i ; in the wires were repaired early ^ | this morning by a force of line-i a I men, so telephonic comm inica- j 8 ; tion was cut off but a short time. r Tho tide came up in many of , the streets last night, and got in- t 'to some of the houses in low ( | places, which seemed to give the , streetH a good cleaning. RF-M ARKAIlhK RKSCUK Mrs Michael Curtain, Plain-i I field, 111., makes the statement, h j that she caught cold, which sct- L ! tied on her lungs; she was treated I for a month by her family physician, but grew worse. He told 1 her she was a hopeloss victim of < consumption and thut no medicine , could cure her. Her druggist ( anrriYoulotl Ilr K' inir'a V#w Miu. ' ",ufs " covery for Consumption; she * bought u bottle and to her delight < found herself !>enetittod from i first dose. She continued it* use and after taking six-bottles, found i herself sound and well; now does her own housework, and is as well as she ever was. ? Free trial bottles of this Great Discovery at Crawford Bros' Drug Store. Only 50 cents and $ 1.00, every bottle guarranteed. HE TEX AS FLOOD DAMAGE Government Expert Finds that it Amounts to $7,400,000. Washington, D C., Aug 14.? S Holme*, Jr, an expert of tho atisticul bureau of tho departent of agriculture, has just comoted a report to Chief Statisui n Ilyde, of that department, nbodying the results of a tour 1 the Hood devasted region of oxas and making a careful estiate of the damage done, the ng"egat? of which ho places at If 7.14,000. The number of farms submerged estimated at 8,100 with a total ea of about 1,380,000 acres, f this area at the time of tho )od thoro were about 503,000 ues under cultivation, 339,000 :res being in cotton, 124 400 jrea in corn, 10,>800 acres in igar cauo and 2S,6<>0 acres in thor crops, with a total producOl) in Hltybt ?nniv?lAnt /? oK..n? 7,950,tOO, which is about $74 ?r capita of the population. OCK JOHNSON'S HORKI BLE CRIME. ttempted to Ravish a 4-Year Old Daughter of Greenville Farmer. Safe in Jail. pecial to The State. Greenville, Aug 16. ? Dock ohnson, a negro boy about 15 or 6 years old, was put in jail here londay night on the charge of ss&ult with intent to ravish. The utrage was committed on a four ear old daughter of Mr Frank lates, who lives near Marietta, 'he mother of the child saw the egro and gave the alarm before e accomplished hi pur|K>se. She ailed Mr Bates, but without aiting for an interview the uero struck out down the road toward Greenville. A crowd was uickly formed to pursue the noro witli the intention of diupusig of him, but Mr Jesse Bates nd other citizens decided to preent a Ivuching. The latter party aught Johnson about four miles rom Marietta and hurried him to lil, reaching here about 9 o'clock, 'he attempted outrage occutred uring the afternoon. William Harris Arrested. Special to the State. Moffettsville, Aug 15. ? Will, am Harris, who is charged with ttempting to assault his sister everal days ago, has been arested. A preliminary hearing vas given him this week and as a ciult of the trial ho was bound >vor on bond to appear at the lext term of court. The Right Line. Hon D E Finley has sown 155 bushels of clay peas this season. How will this do to supplement the short crop of forage this year? fie also intends sowing wheat snough for 1,000 bushels next jeason. This looks like farming >n the right line. If others will :>nly follow suit, the redemption jf the south from debt and money iharks is not far distant.?York ville Yeoman. Notice to Road Overseers. A lib Overseers of the Public Boa da i?re hereby ordered to call out heir hands and work thsir respective tections at once. By order of Board. M C. Qarunkr, Co. Hup'r. L J. Perry, Clerk.