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THE LEDLclR. " Tharlow S. Carter, * kditor and manager. o1 WRDNKSDAT, MAY 20, 1901. " ti McLaurin and Tillman. V. k Both I" 11 ited States Senators lie- I Ki?;n ? A Hot Time at the GatTney Meeting. i (JiitTney, May 2ti?The ?reat i debate between Senator* McLaurin and Tillman was held here toduv nn.l there was a large crowd present. In hi> opening speech Senator McLanrin spokefor half an hour, reviewing his course and justify- i ing his official conduct. He only j in identally referred to Senator Tillman. He said he is standing where ho has always stood, but that Tillman has forsaken his original platform and no longer stands for free speech?no political factions, and a sett ement of all differences of white men at i white primary. Ho *-ofere<l to Senator Till- ! man's attempt to make a Democratic presidential candidate out of Teller, of Colorado, who said a negro was as good us a white man and entitled to a* much share in the government, and who also favored the infamous force bill. Teller was c? airman of the commission whicn in 1876 tried to steal the votes of Louisiana and South Carolina. Tow lie, whom Senator Tillman wanted as the Democratic vice presidential candidate last year, was a similar kind of Republican, lie showed from his utterances that Bryan held himself superior to party platforms and not bound b\ them. Senator Till man was received with applause. He said he was here because invited by genuine Democrats of Cherokee and net to dictum H a t'lulmorl tliut \I < I .1111 ri r attacked him and therefore no hac a right to assail McLaurin. He appoaled to the prejudice! and passions ot his auditors in hi: old familiar style. Whenever tin majority of the people wen gainst him, he said, and he couh n?>t subscribe to the part plat form, he would resign. In this connection ho did no expliin his sixteen to one or tirs threats prior to the Chicago con vention. He jumped on newspa pers for slandering and misropre seining him. He said he would oppose an proposition to keep McLaurin or of the Democratic primary if h would take the regular uartv oat! He said McLaurin had heretofor taken tbe oath and insinuated thi he had broken it. in the remainder of hi* spoec in- picked out sentences of McLai riii's in the speeches and mat serious comments without ente in^ into general discussion of e: pension, subsidies, etc. Ho r peated hir? statement that Ale Lai rin stole from Kev. Dr Van Dyke sermon. Fie later touched in vunoral way on expansion, hu sidies, etc., sneering at McLh rin's position on them. He insi t lint t/\n ?v> 11 I mon urmi try to drum up votes for *M Laurin. Ilu insinuated that M Liiuin was a traitor and h > pocrit. It was a great speech fron Tillman standpoint and ovok considerable applause. It was full of artful demagogy as eggs vwi.it tilf vnn pUi>^ \1 ol .ftmrii llJUUi. M.M J V *? VIVV* ??*1 ho concluded "1 will take it notice that you don't want n for if he ia a Democrat 1 am not In reply Senator Mc^au pointed out that Tillman had i .attempted to reply to his speech bated to insult or ha insulted, e triod not to say anything per>nal or offensive to anybody. ? ill man can only make one kind P speech. He appeals to ptssion ad class hatred. (Applause.) Tillinn's appeals to factory operates to array themselves against wners of factories is a me.iance o South Carolina. (Applause.) >enator McLiRurin nan irieu 10 ruep discussion on a higher plane. Tillman charged him with stealng sermon*, hut if charges were true Tillman had stolen things of more value than speeches. If Tillman meant to insinuate he had any <>f Hanna's hoodie he told a falsehood, and had uttered words unbecoming a senator and a gentleman He had always known, when Tillman was bullying and blustering around there was otic man in South Carolina who could handle him, and then he proceeded to handle him without gloves, the crowd yelling applause of each hard lick. He said Tillman had said if McLaurin were elected he would consider it as proof he was not wanted, hut Tillman had Mopped there and had not gone on and aid he would retign. Senator Tillman jumped up uud said if McLaurin would resign he would resign and they would go before the people together McLaurin promptly agreed to this proposition, amid much applause. Senator McLaurin then proceeded to a logical argument in defense of his position on public questions. Pursuant to the Hgrcemen4: above both senators sent in their resignations to Gov. McSweenev after the meeting. JOBTOUhorr HAVK STOOD IT If he'd had Itching Piles, They're terribly annoying; bui Bucklen's Arnica Salve will cur< the worst case of piles on earth It has cured thousands. For In juries, Pains, or Bodily Eruption it's the best salve in the world Price 25c a box. Cure guaran teed. Sold by Crawford Bros and .J F Mackey & Co. i .1 K\ Stnelcev convicted c manslaughter at Spartanburg i { .1 ulv 1899 and sentenced to 1 I years, was pardoned Saturday b, the Governor. Bdncate Your Bowels Wtlh Citscnrets. > Candy Cathartic, ourc constipation forevei 10c, 25c. II C.C.C. tail, druggists refund mone: s At Mountain Island cotton mil 1 the race dam broke, the mill wt - flooded and machinery, yarns, etc i were washed from the secon t ; story. The wall of the dye rooi t i and one of the warp room wal - | were undermined and fell, tl - | ware house crumbled and tl - i weave room was entirely und< water for five hours. Logs, 1 y inches in diameter, were swe it through the intire length of tl o mill. Two islands, of two and thr i. acres area, rising twenty feet o o of the water and covered with tre it some twenty inches in diamett are gone from the river. A n< :h channel 75 feet wide unci 10 U i- deep whs made from the poi le where the water entered the ri\ r . again. Water reached the seei x- floor of tenement houses and e- tho president's house. ii- Two persons were drowned a '? sixteen houses and contents a a the Baptist Church were was! I)- away at Bakeisville, N, C. J u- houses and contonts at Loafei n- Glory, every house at Magnc Id City, twenty at Koon Mount c- Station, and eight large storeb c- Big Rock Creek wore also wasl a away. Damage in Mitchell coui believed to be #1300,000. , a The damage to the Ashev e(j division of the Southern Kailr aH is $500,000. of ^ A I 1 V/HO i vnn UH For Infants and Children. ,e; The Kind Yss Han Always Bog not 68. ' SubscribetoTheLedger. t BcLaorin at Greenville. 8s Hie Junior Senator from South w Carolina Declares himself on u National Issues. ? n Wednesday, May the 22nd, *' Hon. .Ino. L. McLuurin addressed * the citizens of Greenville hy . special invitation of a committee from that city, who had invited t him to speak in their midst ?o t that he might declare his position i on national issues. His opening | remarks were: < Fellow-citizens: The political j Reformation of 1890 hud for its ( main object the independence of thought and action on the part of , the people in political utfuirs. It was this that made me a ''Reformer." A white primary, where the white people of the State could settle their difference among themselves. In part it has accomplished its object in spite of the efforts to dwarf it into a one-man movement. Its leader has not been content tor it to he complete, and has attempted more than once to dictate who should and who should not he elected to office. All revolutions of this kind go farther than its originators design, no power can control them. Men who suppose that the 4 'movement" of 181)0 was a mere effervescence to give office to a , favored few are greatly mistaken. Some of the best and truest have never held office, and the time is 1 coming when those who betrayed ; and prostituted this great movement into a "one-man power" and mere scram hie for the 4 'loaves 1 and the fishes" will be held to an account. I stand today just where . I stood in 1890, with the added b experience of ten years of study . and contact with public men and ~ affairs. I thank God ihat one ' thing has been accomplished. The people have been disenthralled f and enlightened, and will never n he satisfied with the accomplishment of anvthing less than the full purpose of the movement?free thought, free speech, a fair I ballot and rule of the people. This must and shall he the final outi. come. No attempt to break down the reforms nearly accomplished # can succeed. The natural and IS ' i inevitable consequences of that " revolution must follow. Nothing can stay them. His political independence ho Is declared in the following terms le As for myself, I acknowledge n< 10 master savo the sovereign people, tr speaking at the ballot-box, and 1 refuse to obey the dictates of unj ^ political boss (ither in or outsidi 'ie of South Carolina. * * * ee , , 44 It is passing strange t tin some of the men elected to Con ;0g gress in 1892 should criticize m !>r ' for doing what they solemnl 3 W pledged themselves to do. Don' , you remember that an Allianc Delegation was elected in 189 rer pledged not to he bound by ^ Demoratic caucus, hut to vot for measures calculated to henef ^ the nation at large, lrrespecti* of party i I feel like recall in ?d a.? ??.i? u/u i i /i?.i Iliju wwius, v/iij liwiu uim \ *s, Lest we forget, Lest w f?rget." llis views in regard to purl !\lC nllegiunce was thus expressed: rtlD bloody civil war settled the que ^ a* tion ot States' rights, and for quarter of a century the "wavir of a bloody shirt" on the one sic and the negro in the wood-pile ( j the other constituted the dividii line. I say that every man on purely sectional question li1 u:4~ , ? - wiiitti mi |;i uiu y in ? iiuuui ui \ a renegade, who does not stand I his own section and his own pf IgM pie. 1 say that any man on d - mestic problems of internal cc cerns, should as far as possib bow to the behests of his pari If he cannot agreo with his pai d questions of this kind, he cu lould, if possible, find a party ca ith which he is in accord with isues essential to [be maintenHn ce th f the army and prestige of the w! ation are too vital to be relegated fo i) the plain of partisan and sec- of ional editorial. p Part" sectionalism he rebuked sn 11 the following terras: ir There is no greater menace to 01 he stability of our government it han a largo minority in the ti \merican Congress voting upon fi jroad, vital, non-partisan Ameri- h 3an questions from purely section- ti il considerations. I am a Demo- d crat, honestly desirous of remain- a ing so, and witnessing the triumph li of the party to which I am attach- t ed by association and heredity, t It was never contemplated by the a founders of that party that it a should become a purely sectional t affair, \et today there is no Demo-* "H cratic party capable of maki g t itsel'f felt outside of the South. In J the North and West, it is permeat- c ed with socialism, and has dwin- <\ died away into the party of a sec- t tion, not a nation. 1 do not pro- ( po>e, however, to pursue this I line of thought; it is painful and < can accomplish no good purpose, n The money question was com- 1 men ted on as follows: "In 1896, wo had a campaign upon the money question. Everything was depressed. Men seeking employment, cotton under five cents, wheat below the cost of production, and idleness, discontent, distrust and misery everywhere. NVo were told that the salvation of the counry depended upon the free coinage of silver. I i. i ? i a i i T i i: peneveu men, unci i ueiieTe uuw, that tbeoi elically we were right; but new and unforeseen forces came into play, and 1 have nough sense to recognize the fact that the "restoration of confidence," about which Mr. Cleveland talked, and ' about which I did -not know enough at the time to understand, the discovery of gold in the Klondyke, the influx of money from ^broad seeking investment, and jthe increase in banking facilities, for the time at least, have settled i the money question, and nobody but a fool would make a "free silver" speech now. Instead of a depleted treasury, there is in it 1 today the largest amount of gold ; in the history of the country, ana [ actually the >ecretary of the Treasury, a few weeks ago, deposited mouey in a Spartanburg : bank, something that has nevdr ) been done before in the history , of our State." [ Federal patronage was disposed / of in part as follows: a "I do not control, I do not profess to control, 1 do not wish t to control, nor will 1 become re ' 1_ I _ J! A. I 1 3 _ .1 1 i. - gponsioie ior, uie reoerai patron e age in South Carolina. On acv count of uiv liberal views, and t w mt he is pleased to consider my e patriotic stand for broad Atueri 2 can doctrines, the president has a done me the honor to consult mt e on certain occasions as to Soutl it Carolina appointments. He hu: e done so, to my certain knowledge <r with Senators Morgan, Sullivan >f McEnery anil other Democrats e I appreciate it beyond measure ! for a wiser man, a truer patriot, :v and a more kindly Christian gen A tleman, never occupied the Whit s- ! House than William McKinley. a believe I have his confidence am ... ' friAnrifthm. and them is no traa* le are that I value more highly. >n would Dot have it and 1 could no ig retain it were I a traitor to m i a State and people. He honors ra< ke because he knows as well as an nd man living, how much I love, m by native State. Wnen he expiesse 10- a desire to be the president of tt lo- whole country and not of a ae< >n- tion, why should I not meet hi le, halfway?" ty. A protective tariff on the ra ty, ipaterial of the Seuth was di 4 SHOti in connection with the v< mpaignof'97: I 1 wish I had time to recount to n e people what the rice schedule, n hich 1 got into that bill, has done c r the rice planters on the coasts t South Carolina, the waste i laces It has redeemed, the thou- t mds of dollars it has brought J ito this Stute. What the duty 1 n pine has done for the lumber ? iterests, which were being sacri- I ced to the white pine imported 1 iee oc duty from Canada. The lorth, which is almost bare of itnher, instead of going to Canaa, has been forced to go South, nd that has put thousand of dolni-s into this State. There is no elling what an arrangement of he schedule on cotton goods, so ,s to prevent discrimination gainst coarse fabrics, has meant o the cotton mills of the Sou?h. * * I will refer, however, 0 the duty on raw cotton, which 1 advocated at the time. Cotton, ;orn and wheat are our great exports. Now I want to a*k any nan of reason, wny is it that a luty of twenty-five cents per bushel is put on wheat, and fifteen cents per bushel on corn, while nothing is put upon cotton ? They thee stand exactly upon the same basis. It is this, Northern liepre* sentatives protect corn and wheat against importations from Canada and elsewhere, while cotton has been sacrificed to a mere sentiment. 1 think that I am the first Representative in Congress to point out the danger to the cott n planters arising from the importation ?f Egyptian cotton. Pen "years ago tnere were no importations to speak of. The year I made this speech there was in round numbers fifty-six millions of pounds, and last year there was almost seventy millions, an increase of nearly twenty percent. Since then two mills have been built in South Carolina (in one of which 1 am interested) using nothing but Egyptian cotton. Now 1 contend, if the cotton farmen were protected like the wheat anc corn planters, we could produce any kind of cotton that is needed. South Carolina is the horn? of the i cotton plant. No cotton come: into competition with our Set Island cotton, and common sens* tells mo, that we can develop an^ grade needed between that an< the short staple. * * * Wha are we doing now, meeting ant passing resolutions to reduce th acreage while English engineer are constructing dams in the valle, of the Nile, which within tw years will add one million an one-half hales or one-eighth t the cotton crop; while we ar reducing the acreage here ou competitors are increasing it, an we are to furnish the market fc the increase. 1 say, away wit! 1 the impractical statesmanshi which will saciitice the cotto planters of South Carolina to thoi of Egypt. > After declaring that he had ii i tended to vote against the Spanh s treaty, he thus explains his vo , in favor of it: , ' However, on Sunday afternooi fhrt /lov hafm'A tho frnnf\7 tuau tuv v? l?J WWIV/I V/ vuv Ul VUi J *T WO , be voted upon, the news w , flashed over the wires that o - troops* had been fired upon by tt e very people whom we had fre I from the tyranny of Spanish o d pression. This presented an e tit-ely new situation, and before 1 had finished reading the "extra >t the correspondents of the Ne y York Sun and I think of t J, World, called at my house heft, y 1 had consulted with any hum y being;, and 1 expressed this op id ion, as the files of the newspap< le will show. One month of del d-* might mean serious consequent m co the people of the United Stat * * * * To defeat the trei w meant that we were still at v a- with Spain, and that our soldi rer6 intruders in the Philippine stands. To ratify the treaty neant not a state of war, hut a nere inam rection and deprived ither nations of an excuse for inerference. ***** It s charged that my vote ratified he tieaty and stopped the war. If so, I am proud of the fact, and I am thankful that 1 had the strength to do my duty and cast that vote. I fear that I would not have had the courage to do it, had I felt that my vote was absolutely necessary; hut realizing the far-reaching effect and the fearful responsibility, L cast my vote accordingly I have never seen the da when 1 regret ted it, and my children will-remember it after I am dead, with pleasure and pride, as the most glorious act of my life. Expansion, commercial expansion, called forth the following remarks: "1 am an expansionist ? 1 favor the political, commercial and religious expansion of our country. This is along the line of progress. We cannot attain a certain growth and then stand still. As in the individual, so in the nation. We either move towards perfection, or backwards towar? s decay. There are certain crises in the life CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE. KAOINO. KOAKIKG FLOOD Washed down a telegraph line which Chas. C. Ellis, oi Lisbon, la., had to repair. "Standing waiat deep in icy water," he writes, "gave me a terriole cold and cough. It grew worse daily. Finally the best doctors in Oakland, Neb., Sioux City and Omaha sa;d I had Consumption and could not live. Then 1 began using Dr. King's New Discovery 1 and was wholly cured by six bot1 ties " Positively guaranteed for Coughs, Colds and all Throat and , Lung troubles by Crawford Bros, p and .1 F Mackey & Co. Price 50c and $1.00. A TV ' OPPORTUNITY ' TO BUT : - GROCERIES 'i OF ALL KFNDL CHEAP. t We liuve Bought the Defunct I Stock of the Parlor Grocery Co., 6 and with it have soma wonderful 8 bargains to offer our customers. y I It is not necefe9ary to quote prices. ? All you have to do is to call and see what bargains wo are offering 0 in fancy and heavy Groceries. e Country Produce wanted r ?such as nice Butter, Eggs, Chickens, etc., for which highest ,r market price will be paid. k Yours to serve, in _ - IS M. MATHS I CO. 3e ???? . IHiS WAL - PLEASE 1 n, Just received a carload of Coto lumbia and Jewel Buggies. Top and open, all the different kinds of springs and colors. These bugur gies are beyond doubt the nicest 10 and best wearing that we have ed handled. We have also a large p- lot of Buggy Harness, from $6.00 n, to $18.00 per set. Plow and Wng| | on Bridles, from the cheapest to ,, the best. We still sell the best Mules and 5W Horses for the least money of any h? other dealers in the uncountrv. ire We have a number of extra an good Harness and Saddle horses, in- Our livery outfit is the best and }rs we can always furnish a nice turnay out at very reasonable rates. (!ome and see us. ces ; ELLIQTT& : CRAWFORD .