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THE LEDGER. Thurlow B. Carter, KDCTOR AN I) MANAGER. t SATURDAY, JUNK 8, 1901. ? I What Tillman Sees. The Bamberg Herald draws tho i following conclusions from Tillman's effort to bring on a contset with MoLaurin this summer: 1. That the so-called''McLiurin movement" is very strong all over the Stale. [ Ben Tillman doesn't tight spooks. 2. That Tillman thinks he is the strongest man in the Stale, iin<l the only one that can heat MrLnurin. 3 1'hat the idea of a primary this \ ear is to prevent as far as possible the dissemination among the people of the views held by M eLanrin. f. Tillman sees ahead the downfall of himself unless he can kill this movement in its infancy, and that is why he has thrown himself into the breach. 5. That Tillman and other oldtime politicans believe the only way to defeat McLaurin is to have the tight on him made lhis year, j and that thoy actually want the extra primary. Discriminated in U'avor of the Negro. Camden Messenger. Thos. F. Nelson, William Barlield and John (ireen, two white men and a negro, were convicted ??f cow stealing at Camden Monday. .lodge Gary in sentencing tlx tn said ho would make a discrimination m his sentence in favor of tho negro, for the reason that w he t o a white man would place himself so low as to associate a negro with him even in the commission of crime, he felt that if any ditference should he made in the case the negro should have the benefit >>f it. He, therefore, sentenced Nelson and Barfield, the 2 white men to 2 years each on tho chain gang and gave tho negro Green one year. Nelson and Bartiled, however, shortened their sentence by break . nig jail that night. They had procured a -key and simply unlocked the door and walked out. The jailor wasdischarged as prisoners had escaped in the same way once before. John Boone has open appointed jailor. In speaking of the great Confederate procession in Memphis, the special correspondent of the Atlanta Mows speaks thus of the reception tendered South Carolina's great warrior: No single figure among the gray thousunds evoked more enthusiasm than Hampton. This old Carolinian l he heau ideal of the Confedera cy, presented, with his long silvei hair and beaid, a picture thai stirred the blood of every specta tor and men cried "Hampton, Hampton,'' from one end of th< street to the other, and womer thing kisses and flowers upon hiui The Arm of a Man in Belly of i Big Shark. Special to The State. Charleston, .June 5. ?The fish ing smack Victoria arrived n port today with the left arm of i negro man, which is thought t< belong to one of the 15 men los in the sqnale at sea lust Friday The arm was found in the l>ell of a te.i foot shark, which wa caught this morning by the crei of the lightship stationed ahon 12 miles below Charleston. Haw Art Tear KUitfi t Dr. nobb*' 8para?ti*PIUa?areall kldnoy 111*. 8*ti #1* fro*. AM. SlaTTlnc Htatd; Co.. Chl?n?o or M. 1 For The Ledger, t VAN WYCK ITEMS. ? 1 Farmers have been pushing ,heir work the few sunny days :hut we have had, and aro taking i more hopeful view of the out- j look for their crops, cotton has < heen injured by the wet cold 1 weather and some by hail, nut as i a general thing tha stands are good outside of low lands that I have been ovei flowed by the freshets. The greater part of this overflowed lands will be plauted in corn. A few are planting cotton however, as they say they must have a money crop. The net weather has put farmers several ' weeks behind in their worn, audi cotton and upland corn are sutFeringftir work and in some places the cotton plant is dying out and corn is being damaged by bud worms. The low land corn will have to be planted over, as the stands have been ruined by freshets. Hut most of these lands are still too wet to be worked and if it should rain again will have to be abandoned, which will materially cut off the corn supply as our farmers u*e the bottom lands for their corn crops. A few days after the great freshet, we tried to take a stroll along the Catawba river bottoms to investigrute the damages but we had to abandon our undertaking as the mud and water prevent ed making any progress, i^ast Monday the day wes bright and we thought the mud had dried sufficiently to make the trip. We started at the month of Twelve" ! Mile creek and went up the river ' a couple of miles and met sur1 prise after surprise at the tnanv I ! changes wrought. We have been . . . familiar with these bottom lands ! for the last twenty-five years, and the many changes were easily ! marked. Some of the most fertile i portions are wastes now. Some 1 places large furrows and deep ex! cavations and inland lakes and ' ponds take the place of nice smooth fields and at other places hills and stretches of white drifted i sands meet the eyes. Acres upon acres of theso fine bottoms are now wastes, covered with drifted sands, water and ravines that will not be tit for cultivation for several generations. Along a high ridge, ' where the water seldom overflowed, the excavations reveal an Indian burying ground, where human bones are exposed, and several skulls have been picked up, and bushels of broken earthen pottery, arrow t eads and tomahawks can be gathered. This is about two milesfrom the present Catawba Indian , nation reserve, on the opposite , side of *.he Catawbi river where the lines between the lands of ?J. L. Tillman, Sr. and Dr. ,J. D. Nisbot join. The damuges to these two farms from washing and fill1 . . ing in with sands amounts t( several thousand dollars. Miss Blanche Smith and Mastei ^ Crawford of Waxhaw are visiting their aunt, Mrs M. M. Tillman. ( Mrs. K. D. Tillman visitee 3 friends at Waxhaw last week. ) M rs. J. A. Hya*t, MissPompit Tillnmn and others took in ih< Winthrop commencement thii week. i Master Herman Yoder isathomi from Lenoir College, Hickory, N C., enjoying vacation with his pa rents. Miss Ann Yoder, of Yoder, N ('., is visiting her brother, J. M 1 Yxler. t Mr. J H MoFadden, contracto of the monument to Sovereign W R. Tillman, completed the wor ^ last week. The monument is c g Georgia granite in a handsom t design nine feet high, and is prr nouneed by those who hare ex??n ined it as a splend'd piece of work It will \*e unveiled by the W. C r W. on July 4th with their beai iful ceremony, And an appropri* T te address by an orator who will > auuounced 'ater. OP II \1 US. RarV at Tillman uuua ui i iiimuui 11 governor McSweeney Reminds ' the Senator that beis llespou- I sifde to the 1'uoplo for liis Act ions nod not * to Him. u Colombia, June 5. ?Governor ' MeSweenev today mude the foU lowing reply to Senator Tillman's letter : } Sir: Your let:er of June 1 has ' been received. 1 have carefully I noted its contents and the most > charitable view which 1 can take 1 of it is that it was written in the I heat of passion and without due < consideration. i I note that you sav that 1 have < "transcended" mv authority and I that the governor "cannot compel I a member of the United States senate to hold his commission and 1 exercise the functions of that of?? < lice" if he chooses to surrender it. My sole purpose in returning the resignation was to ask you gentlemen to consider calmly and thoughtfully the consequences to the people of wh it 1 judged to be a hasty act, and I must confess that 1 am somewhat surprised at the tone of your answer to my request. I consider the c >urse which I took in this matter to be for the Kout inlumvlu ttf th? nnntdn nf "" ? ?? I ? ISouth Carolina ami 1 am responsible to them alone for my action, and furthermore I still helieve that my couse has met the approval of a majority of the people of the State, nor do I consider them "unthinking citizens" but men who know and recognizn as fully as any people on earth the rights and duties and responsibilities of citizenship and do not need the services of anyone to tell them their duty. Your insinuation that I have been "importuned" to "await the convenience" of any present or would-be aspirants who "are not yet just ready for various reasons to enter the contest brought on so unexpectedly" and that for this reason my action has taken the direction it has, is unworthy of the man holding the high commission whieh has been civen vou bv the ? O ' ' people of South Carolina and deserves notice in this connection. However, I may shy for your benefit that I alone am responsible i for my reply and will give account i for the course I have taken to the i people who have honored me and ! not to any one individual. > In this matter I have done what I thought was best calculated to , promote the present pr< sperity J and contentment of the people of my State and shall continue to do ) regardless of what any one man may think of my course, r 1 did not think that a political r campaign this summer could do any good. However, had the resI ignations been unconditional and unrestricted my action might have 8 been otherwise. A With due respect for your opina ion, I think I have as high a con. ception of the office of senator and B its powers "as yon or any ather citizen of this State, and you must have known that the brief interview to which you refer meanl that I would simply meet the re sponsihility and perform my duty under the conditions. r If you still wish to resign youi commission and will send to thii ^ office an unconditional resignatioi I will exercise the authority an< e power vested in me hy the people r Respectfully, ^ M. B. McSweeney, : Governor. ^ ><MaM Totr Bowali WUh OMtuMt , nif C?th?rt(c. Ore con?tip*kion forevM *- *0c,26c. It C. C. C. rati, drurt Ibisrotund 'illrnan Gives Out His Hottest Letter. Columbia, June 5.?Senator 'illman tonight sent a reply to iovernor McSweeney's letter reL live to the resignations. It is a lvely letter and opens up a new I ihase of the question?whether he senate itself may not take up he matter. It is Uvelv reading v P ind i?> as follows : Trenton, S. C.,June 5,1901. dis Excellency, Miles B McSwee ney, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir : 1 am in receipt of your telegram in which you say ?I understand Senator McLaurin's *tter to l?e a withdrawal of his resignation'1 and 1 hare read that worthy^ communications in which tie graciously consents at your request "to hold on to his commission as United States senator and continue to serve the State as he tins done in the past to the best of his ability.11 This leaves me one of three alternatives, to appeal to the Democratic executive committee to lake the matter up and determine what the best interests of the party requires to be done, to appeal to the senate itself to determine the question as to whether a resignation from that body to take effect at some future time is binding or withdraw my own resignation. There are no precedents on this subject because in th<j hundred and twenty-live years of our na tional life with more than two hundred resignations from the senate no senator has hitherto heen willing to occupy the despicable attitude now assumed by Senator Senator McLaurin and forced on me. I am certain of one thing; that the executive of a State has no authority to decline a resignation that has been tendered and I am equally certain that had your excellency confined your action within legal bounds that your appointees would be seated in the senate when that body meets in December and hold their seats un-. til the legislature should act in January. My cheif regret is that I am forced by your action to engage in what the outside world will consider a game of opera boutTe by withdrawing my own resignation after Senator McLaurin1 s undignified and puerile action but the purpose for which it waf tendered has been thwarted by Senator McLaurin's precipitioui acceptance of executive advice. Bob Acres has been outdone foi once. As J have said I had n< motive or purpose in resigning except to force McLaurin's han< and there is nothing for me to d( i ^ but accept the situation and with I draw my resignation if it be law j ful to do so. Yours respectfully, B. R. Tillman. Senator Tillman passed througl the city tonight on bis way t Winthrop College. He gave ou an interview and said he woul i : not reply to Gov. McSweeney' ! last letter and reasserted his dem ocratic principles and why he ha to take his position. ? - '4 I Disastrous Wreck on Southern f Atlanta. t Atlanta, June 4.?A switch ei t- jjine on the Southern railwa tracks struck an incoming passet 1 ger t^ain from Macon today ner the shops and overturned seven r coaches. 3 Three people were instantl 1 killed and three more were pe 1 haps fatally crushed. Two others were dangerous hurt and ten or fifteen, more < less, are wounded, ^ TTin ? 'TMK McLaurin Stands for Progress.? Says Representative Curtis. The Washington Star says: Representative Charles Curtis of Kansas left for home yesterday. A representative of The Star, who met him at the railroad stution, asked him what ho thought about the contest in South Carolina between Senators Tillman and McLaurin. "1 hope McLaurin will win," replied Mr. Curtis, emphatically. "While 1 do not indorse all of his sentiments, several of the principles for which he stands appeal to me strongly, as they ought to us all. It's a contest with progress and advancement on the one side and retrogression, crawfishing back into the old days before the war, standstill and trifling politics on the other. WHAT T1IXMANISM MEANS. "Tillmanism means just what he as-erts?back to the days of the old century. No industrial expansion, no industrial increase of wealth, no advancement in principles, political, industrial or otherwise; notning new, same old story, nothing new. Just peg along with the old mule, plow the corn, pick the cotton, stand still and let the rest of the people get rich, and the rest of the country expand, build up and grow wealthy. "it s h goon tnwg mat sucn sentiments do not rale in the United States, outside of his section: If they did, we wouldn't need to import into the state of ^ Kansas 20,000 men to help the thousands already there harvest the wheat crop this year, which will be the largest we ever had. According to Tillmanism, this is all wrong. We mustn't advance, i We should remain in the buffalo and prairie dog stage forever, i "McLaurin is a brave man. He is also a blight man. A man ha< got to be both to advance such views as he expresses in the rock 1 ribbed democratic section in which he lives. They already say he i will be defeated. New ideas am principles don't digest well there, ! I hope he conies back to the sen ate. He has shaken up the drj I bones and scattered the dust ane mold of steel bound conservatisn in a way that hasn't been wit nessed in the south since the war He wins admiration for his cour age of convictions, at least. ' I 4 4The position of The Star oi the question of the new south i 5 sound and in accord with twentietl century ideas. The turtle shel of conservatism which keeps tlia fertile part of our country back - ward is bound to be pierced som day. In one respect McLaurin i } a sort of a Moses. His under taking to lead bis people out o the past into the brilliant light o , the advancement of today alum industrial lines is a big one. ] ^ the bulrushes of the south cor ceal a few other little Mosessc ^ let us hope they will be discoverer Judge M'lver Stays the Proceer ings. d <0 Spiciai to The State. Che?*aw, June 6. ? W. H. Lyli ^ representing the South Boun< railroad, D. W. Robinson, repr< Renting the Florida Central ac Peninsular, and W. F. Stevensoi y representing the Sea board Ai ' Line Railroad company, appearc ,r , before Chief Justice Mclver at h 14^ chambers this afternoon in tl case of Watts against the abo' y named railroads in which ca r" Judge Gage bad granted an ord< appointing a receiver, and thi 'y obtained ao order staying procee jr ings. WANTED, for oaih. Dogwood a 0K persimmon Logs. Southern Ma Wood Oorapaoy, P. O. Box 629, Chi eston, S.,C. nc A.t present South Carolina virtually has no choice in the settlement of public questions, as the vote of one senator kills the other. ? W. J. Bryan. What drivel to come from a man who has twice been the Demo- ? cratic candidate for president of the United States It. was because South Carolina had two representatives in the United States senate instead of only one that she was enabled to secure to this nation Porto ttico ?nd the Philippin e islands, and at the same brilliant stroke plaee the United States in her rightful position as the foremost commercial power of the world. Still more, the vote that accomplished all this was mado with the approval of Mr. Bryan, and it is because of this vote that Senator Tillman is now claiming that "If McUaurin is a Democrat I am not !" ?York Enq? irer. Educate Your Bowels. Your bowels can be trained as well as your muscles or your brain. Cascarets .Candy Cathartic train your bowels to do right. Genuine tablets stamped C. C. C. Never sold in J bulk. All druggists, ioc. South Carolina has been very kind to B. R. T. ?made him governor twice and United States senator twice; adopted the dispensary system by his dictation and retained it by his advice. But all this does not entitle him to dictate who is to be his colleague in the senate. He ought not to try to control everything, j ?Newberry Observer. I DOCTORS say "Consumption can be cured." Nature alone won't do it. It needs help. Doctors say "Scott's Emulsion Is the best help." But you must continue its use even in hot weather. If you have not tried it, send for free sample. SCOTT & HOWNE, Chemists, " 400-415 Pearl Street, New York. L ) $oc. and $1.00; all druppist. j AN 1 OPPORTUNITY TO BUY 1 - GROCERIES ! OF ALL KINDS CHEAP. We have Bought the Defunct Stock of the Parlor Grocery Co., and with it have some wonderful 1 bargains to otfer our customers. 8 j It is not necessary to quote prices, h All you have to do is to call and II see what bargains wo are offering ,t in fancy and heavy Groceries. Country Produce wanted e ?such as nice Butter, Eggs, s Chickens, etc., for which highest market price will be paid. Yours to serve, [S. I MATHS 4 CO. mis WAL PLEASE! Just received a carload of Columbia and Jewel Buggies. Top and open, all the different kinds of springs and colors. These bug58 gies are beyond doubt the nicest d and best wearing that we have ?. handled. We have also a large l(j lot of Buggy Harness, from $6.00 to $18.00 per set. Plow and Wagon Bridles, from the cheapest to ir the best. 'd We still sell the best Mules and is Horses for the least money of any ae other dealers in the up country, re We have a number of extra ae good Harness and Saddle horses. gr Our livery outfit is the beet and we can always furnish a nice turnout at vary reasonable rates. "" iJome and see us, .1 . ELtfDTTfe - timm