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1TIE LEDGER. |> Tli n rT;<-vy S. Ca.rter, r EDI AND MANAGER. | sati'uday, \r<;rsT 26, 1899. I TIL T.MAN AT HEATH SPRING I [ KM'oKTI'.l* I'llK TII-: l.hlKJKK.] | The initial meeting of the j Fanner'* Institute for this conn- J tv under the supervision of the professors of Clenison College, i was held at Heath Spring on Wednesday 23rd instant. There was a lame <?atherin<r from all sections of the county, the crowd being estimated from one thousand to twelve hundred people. K:\-UepresentutiveK I- IlicUliti presided and introduced the speakers. Col J C Sellers of Marion spoke first?his subject. being the culture of tobacco. The Colonel has had wide experience in the raising of tobacco in the I'eedeo section of the State, lie thought the soil in the Heath . | Spring section would make good j tobacco but bo cautioned the j farmers not to experiment on too i large a scale. lie said the crowd present was tho largest of the. fourteen meetings he had addressed j in the State. Senator I> K Tillman was next introduced by the chairman as "the great commoner whose | name was a household word in j South Carolina." The Senator; was inteiesting throughout and i held the close attention of his| large audience for an hour and ten ' minutes. He was calm and dispassionate when advising as to hest methods of farming and in j general matters, hut when he j would touch on politics, he hecame very much animated, and as remarked by a drummer on j one occasion "his one eye would blaze like the headlight of a locomotive." The subject assigned him was"the practical workings of Clemson Winthrop and Colleges." lie said he would not stick close to this subject ts everybody cor- | rectly informed ought to know the j workings of these two great in stitutions. He said that Clemson, \\ inthrop and the dispensary were j liis three children conceived and j brought forth by the Reform movement that his enemies were constantly trying to undermine! and destroy them, believing that i thereby they would bring about his political death. He said that Representative Smith of Sumter county had jumped on thocalloges in general and him in particular. ' That while iu Sumter he had made two speeches, one in thoi forenoon and one in the afternoon, j That he had made a nice pleasant i speech in the morning. Some) people did not believe he could' make such .-perches but he could. Iu the afternoon Mr Smith made a speech announcing that ho h?~ tended rubbing <?IV some of the hutier ex Senator Abbott hud plastered on bis back in his speech of introdtiction. lie said he had | no objection to the butter being] removed in a gentle way, as lbAbbott hud rather gone beyond ; the proprieties of the occasion, 1 but instead of removing the butter' gently, Mr Smith had used aj curry comb and had raked his \ h'de?and besides he ha I attacked his little girl Winthrop who was near and dear to his heart. Mr Smith claimed that too much mon ey is wasted on the two colleges, that instead, it ought to bo distributed among tho free schools all over the State. Senator Tillman said that was impracticable because all the monev would not run tho free schools more than a few weeks. And besides better teachers were needed for the free schools and that Winthop and i (-lemson would furnish them. He j said that these two colleges and h lie Citadel and Uie South Caroli la colleges were doing a great o P O work. In reply to a question he said that (Jlemson did turn out some dudes hut it was tho fault of the girls who were constantly running after them, being attracted t>v their gay uniforms and brass buttons. He said that Mr Smith jlaimcd that?Clemson and NVinthrop were for the rich mau's sons and daughters. This he claimed was an appeal to ignorance and prejudice, because there was no girl or boy in South Carolina i who with proper application and pluck could not. graduate at either one of the colleges. Ho instanced j the case of a poor boy who made | his way through Clemson by j working near the college during his vacations. Ho advised the i farmer to educate their children and to learn them that they had to "sweat" to accomplish any tiling in their life. Ho said lie believed money spent for education would bring in large returns. That he had endeavored, when a member of the constitutional convention to make the poll tax three dollars, so that the negro should be made to bear some of the expense for educating his children. That ho also favored a three mill tax for schools. Senator TilK man then gave an amusing account of his experience in tobacco raising. Said he had been too smart and hud bit otF more than he could chaw. That he had planted twelve acres instead of three or four. That he had to water the whole crop by hauling water in barrels. Some one in the crowd remarked that barrels must be plentiful in his county. He said no he had gathered together some kerosene and molasses barrels and a few whiskey barrels. That his experience with his tobacco this year had been somewhat tough, but that ho was bull headed enough to go through with it just like he did with everything else. He said the farmers were jogging along like their daddies, with a rock in one end of their sack and a pumpkin in the other. That cotton was not profitable; it was the crop of the negro and the lazy white man. He urged the farmers to wake up and be free men and to <piit the life of servitude to the mortgage and the agricultural lien. He advised every farmer who was unmarried to get him a wile ; that a man who couldn't get a wife was worse than a Hop-eared dog and should be drowned in the Catawba river. ? He touched on the negro (picstion i... : it -? i.i "J > Dig llliil DC QSKl SpoKCIl Oil the subject iii North Carolina an.I had advised the people up there to solve tin* problem with the shot trim. He was asked his opinion of the Philipine war. He sai-l that McKinley thought he had a soft snap when he bought the Islands; that a few thousand troops would subdue the Insurgents and then he would have soft places for lb-publicans, but that he < Tillman) predicted that the war would be going on this time next year and would result in the defeat of McKinley for reelection. Senator Tillman closed by announcing that he would be a candidate for re election next year and that if anybody wanted to oppose him, to come right along and tlx1 longest pole would get the persimmon. The next speakers were Dr Neeson, the Veterinary Surgeon and Prof Morrison, both of Clemson. Prof Newman who was expected to deliver an address was disap|K>intcd in not reaching Heath Spring in time. Boh Woodson, col., was killed near Jonesville this week by bis mules running awav with his agon which was loaded with wood. Tillman and the Prohibitionists. \ 11 Yorkville Knuuiror. I Whether he said exactly what he is reported to have said at i Sumter or not, there is no doubt of the fact that, from his own admissions, Senator Tillman is very hostile to Prohibitionists, and it is equally clear also that this hostility is not well founded fioni . I any standpoint of justice. People who are familiar with the history of South Carolina politics during the past dozen, will not have to strain their memories a great deal in reviewing the period ?vhon Senator Tillman was on the fence on the w his- I key question. It was back in 181*2. There was a strong pro hilntion sentiment throughout the , state then, and hut few politicians who dared monkey with the question. Senator Tillman was among the number who agreed to i . i allow the issue to he settled by means of a separate box in the I general primary, and he, like the other politicians, was very careful how he wagged his tongue, keeping that organ exactly in the mid die of his head and generously promising to obey the will of the majority, as expressed at the , ballot box. The result of the memorable j ballot that followed is often referred to with a weak kind of a 1 claim to the effect that a majority of the people never expressed themselves on the prohibition question. It is not worth while to argue this point. The total nuralier of votes cast in the primary of 1892 for Tillman and Sheppard was 87,462. The total number of votes cast on the prohibition (piestion was 72,240. Of these, 35,932 were for prohihi tion, and 26,352 against, leaving the inference that notwithstanding a generul policy on the part of most of the politicians to discourage voting on this (piestion altogether, the subject was quite interesting. The Prohibition plurality in the state was 9,590. It was after this verdict that Senator Tillman gave the state the dispensary law. lie gave this law under pretense of furthering prohibition, and it was on that ground that it received the sun port of Prohibitionists. In nil the terrible war that was afterward waged by the liipior men of tho state against the dispensary law, the Prohibitionists stood firm, and made the success of tho law possible. Had the Prohibitionists joined forces with the enemies of the law, then it would have been swept from the staiuto books tho same as would be the case in the same event now. So instead of abusing the Prohibitionists on this question, it woii|d become Senator Tillman much hotter if he would acknowledge his obligation ' . to them on the subject, for basing, ' as he does, his career on the dispensary law, he owes to the Pto ! hibitionists all that he is or exrtAclu tn !m> When Senator Tillman assumes that the Prohibitionists of the j state are enemies to him or to the dispensary law, lie makes a serious mistake. The Prohibitionists of South Carolina euro verv little for Senator Tillman, | Mr Featherstone or nnv other , man. But they do care a great deal for the principle they advocate; and in one respect, at least, Senator Tillman is at wide variance with them. For instance, aU though he started out with the declaration that the dispensary law was intended to restrict and curtail the sale of liquor, he now announces boldly that the primary object of the Ihw is to give the jieople all the liquor they want to drink, encourage them to drink as much as possible, and to thus aecure to the state from ...tips ^ f ^ ^ /* ^ f - Unoi! Til!' ') 11M 111 A 5 BUT THEY % A \f 0 Think of !i! 1 \ yf '? .HI cents .!< <1 have one hue \\ $3 pants, i t $1 50. $*2 pants, v Q $1. About fi \) Sold 47 pairs Q $1 50 pant at-75 cents. y> y Come "a run 7<S Q A SI 11RTS AT B A KG AI Ni Good Chcviotte work Shirt? A Best Buckskin Twills n y, Struck it Ri| T E N T110 IT S A N D Y A KI >fc A Percales on the market at 1< I 5 ai ALL TH? A Such as Orgnndiea, Lu y Real nice White Goods in |i ,A price T.t cents. 0 - LITTLE A Kf 'l'ltc I test on earth for t A sole agents for this great lit t ^ Buy good Shoes ami save n A " 1 Many good value? v. stores and you will lind the . motto : "I'nderhuy, I'nde Xf r ftll'llll'I'S ii A v ' Lai\ 7 t ^ '"r ^ ^ ^ : >r ^ *? ? KV * ? UN N K b it O source all the revenues that is U he had. Having accepted Till man's original declarations ii good faith, the Prohibitionist hold to them yet. They believ that until the liquor evil is gottei under still better control than i is now, the dispensary is the lies solution of the question that ha ever been deyised, and for th present they are willing to hole on to the dispensary: but at tlx same time they are determine* on a policy of restriction and cur tail men t rather than of furtho development of the liquor busi ness in South Carolina. The genuine Prohibitionists o South Carolina arc neither hypo el ites or cowards. No more s< than is Senatoi Tillman. Tliej have not lieen and are not as in consistent as is Senator Til I man They do not harbor the leas hostility toward Senator Tillman ami thoy would no moro thinl of combining with the so callet local option liquor men, thai they would of voting outright fo the reinstatement of the saloon grogshop oi brothel. Rut Sena ip ffliilc lie o CANNOT LAST 3 TlirV A DP f x XJLJu X o ^tepfe Goods ai 'an Pants now at idrcd pairs now on ivorsteds and eassi worsted and cassi 11 fly pairs of these t i in two days, s, all wool and wo< min' " If You Wa ? I ny of These Go y ! Formerly 50, 00 and 75 cents, all >, heavy and strong, only 20 cents ? tin t 25 cents, worth 40 cents ?hl Again! >, and the lirst shipment just in?heavi 0 cents. We sell them at id 3-4 ce :S| GOODS VERY wns, Muslins, Nainsooks, In<lia Linens ilaids and stripes and plain. India I GIANT SCHOOL; he money. Kvery pair warranted to j ic of Children's Shoes, and have now u lonoy. * we cannot mention, hut call on us i greatest collection of bargains you hav rsell. Of the people, for the people, I itiA* mill Hit caster, > k ~ ^ ~ ~ ^ >4. ^ ^ >4, / ^ ^ JS-* n Haw v to W . tor Tillman need never ask the] I Prohibitioni>ts of South Caroli- " i \ na to co operate with him in des' veloping the state's liquor husiness through the dispensaries or l in anv other wnv T'lmw ??ill /I,. I J J " "" I t nothing of the kind. If, however, j t j-ho will return to his original deft duration of restriction and cur e tailmcnt, looking to the eventual 1 abolition of the liquor business in 0 South Carolina, he will find in 1 these same Prohibitionists, whom * - he is now disposed to abuse, the ^ r most powerful and enthusiastic < 1 - supporters he has evor had in the a state. 1 I II AT TIIKOBHIKU II K A I >A C11 K ' I Would quickly leave you, if you used Dr King's New Life Pills. 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