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VOL. XXIV- LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1894. XO. 34. THE MARION MEETING. IT WAS A GOOD ONE DESPITE THE BAD WEATHER. Interest Shown Ch'eflyln the Senatorial FJght?Governor Tillman's Questions and Senator Butler's Answer?. Marion, b. C, July 3?If this had been a ball game Instead of a campaign meeting here today its record would have been written, "Rain?no game*" But the candidates could not be fright ened by a wetting, so anxious were they to have their innings, look the dear people in the eye and see them 4" nnu^?/\ oKAnt 7i'V^ nor. lQl'C L<J i ALT. XUCIC ncio auuut! ?w y\.i sons who turned out to see the Senatorial rock pitching and the various and sundry side accompaniments to the big political show. Tney were martyrs to their curiosity, interest or whatever feeling that took them there. They not only saw reeds shaken by the wind, but felt themselves drenched from head to foot by torrents of water from black clouds that hung over the town. For several hours there was a terriiic down pour and the crowd and most of the speakers had to succumb to a first class dueking. The meetiDg was held in a grove about a block away from any shelter, and the crowd were sensible enough to keep huddling together and crouching under what umbrellas were on hand, otherwise they would have been like drowned rats had they broke for cover. General Butler's speech was the feature of today's meeting. It was really a gem, and the big Tillmanite audience listened to him with such rapt attention that he actually seemed to have made severe inroads Into the Governor's Marlon forces. His speech was a combination of eloquence, wit and practical illustration. County Chairman J. D. Montgomery opened the meetiDg by asking the crowd not to put any "injecting questions" to the speakers and reminded them that the city needed money so that if ahy one misbehaved himself he would be sent to jail and made to "give up the stuff." Voice?Let every man consider himself a marshal for good behavior. (Applause.) After prayer by the Rev. Mr. Beasley the chairman began to call out the programme and was about to ring in the Senatorial candidates last when Governor Tillman halted him with the remark: "Oh, no, they had us last at Florence and you ain't going to put us at the tail-end this time." The chair man suceumoea ana reverseu ms ytugramine. Railroad Commissioner Thomas came in on the lightning express. Re rehearsed his devotion to reform and quoted Trautwine on Civil Engineering, declared that the transportation question was a live issue and there was no better way to make the great engine of State strike a stump than to put unskilled men- on the board of railroad commissioners. Commissioner J. A. Sligb, of Newberry was the next speaker. He acknowledged that he was not a pretty man, but consoled himself witn the thought that his wife contended he was the be3t looking man in the world, though he could get no one else to sympathize with him. Voice?That's right. (Appluuse.) Mr. Sligh?You know how it feels don't you ? (Renewed laughter.) Mr. Sligh was a very bashful reformer. His reform was ingrained from birth and he could not be anything else. He declared that as railroad commissioner he had always risen above factional prejudice and had endeavored to solve all questions in an equitable way between the people and the railroads. He had just remarked that he was for unity among the people when time was called on him. Mr. G. Walt Whitman spoke next. He took a hand primary to ascertain how many persons in the crowd had read the Alliance demande, four persons responding. He began to tell about how a straightout and a monometallisfc in Columbia had written to the Governor tbankiDg him for supporting the South Carolina College, when it began to "pour down cats and dogs" and he suspended for a while. He was dead came, however, and re sumed when the rain slackened. He was still discussing everything in sight when ticie was called. Governor Tillman declared in his speech that General Butler had hollered like Tucker for office after 187G. He offered to join Butler in signing a request to the State Executive Committee to have a separate Senatorial box in the primary. He added that even if Butler could get more votes in a separate box he was going to get the legislators or there would be hocuspocus somewhere. I don't understand an expression that General Butler used at Darlington, but i tell him if he will quit absolutely discussing anything but public questions and quit accusing me of being a thief with his dispensary questions, I will promise to quit pelting him, for his record is twice as vulnerable as mine, If he treats me courteously I will not hit him below the belt, but I say that I am not to be intimidated or browbeaten. There are three questions that I want him to answer: First, let him name the man who he V. r> ^ * mnrv llrvw^kow/* says luiu lulu il*ai xnuiab xiaLuuuig and I will prove him a liar by all the other rioters. second, let him give me the names of the constables who he says received S3 per day from the whiskey men while they were getting 82 from the State. I tried to get the best men I could for constables but I expect that I did get some black sheep in the crowd. If he or any man knows of such cases let him name them. The third case I want him to settle with County Chairman Brice of Yorkville. General Butler said I insulted him at the Yorkville meeting and at the Chester meeting he pitched into me in a very ungentlemanly and outrageous manner. He says he asked permission at Yorkville to reply tome and that he was refused. I read from 4 t* ? V UrirtniFAv f Kof PKoii*rr> or-? ' liO i. Ui A Yliic ijuv^uiici buab vuaii uiau Brice asked General Butler if he wished to reply and that he declined. He and Mr. Brlce can settle that between them. As Governor and Senator we ought tc have enough respect for you and for ourselves to conduct ourselves in a decent manner in this campaign. I have simply met aggression and insult with the same. I want to say a word to my opponents. I don't know why they hate me. They have imbibed poison from the newspapers until they consider me a devil without honesty or principle. Well, suppose I acknowledge that I am a devil, but I claim that I have done something for South Carolina and I don't see why we can't have peace. But they have got to come to us. There is no need of all this bitterness and intense feeling. It's sorter died out now, it's true, because tbe autis are hopeless and have no candidates. But they are hardened in their ways and they must go to church and get reform religion. General Butler began his speech by saying that Governor Tillman had devoted his time to the very thing that he said he desired him (Butler) to avoid?personalities. If you take away the abuse of Cleveland and Simonton and myself and others from his speech there is nothing left. General Butler answered the Governor's question concerning Mr. Brice by saying that before the speaking he had put the question to Mr. Brice as to whether there should be a ten mintues reply, and that Mr. Brice went to the Governor who said he was willing for Butler to ask him a question, but not for him to reply. Governor Tillman must understand right now, whilst he says he is not going to be bulldozed, that I never bave been qulldczed and never will be bulldozed either. I promise him now that if he will confine himself to legitimate debate he will have no cause to complain of me. 1 do not beg him to keep the lash off, but he must not ple^d the baby act when I strike back, which I am certain to do. The people ! want enlightened discussion and they i waDt to know the remedies offered for i their t.rnnhles. Our Deonle are true and 1 ! brave and gallant and they want the truth outside of rings and cliques and they will come up as free American citizens and cast their votes. c I join with the Governor in invoking c the restoration of harmony which is ( so essential to our progress and wel- ^ fare. JJo human being can say that t I have uttered a word that would tend c to separate the white people of this r State into factions, because I know the t Republican party is standing ready to a tnrow itself into the breach with its t 150,000 negro majority and capture the t State. I appeal to the people to lay ] aside all political hostilities and ani- r mosities and put their shoulders to- a gether and unite for the best. r The Governor says that be is going r to beat me in this race. Now that is c an old dodge. He can claim the heav- c ens and the earth, but that is not going t to elect him. This is the first time the t Governor has indicated that he would <= join me in requesting a separate box t for the Senatorial race. At Edgefield s some of my reform friends took me aside ] and told me that they wanted to vote for a me, but that they could not go back E on the movement, as they feared Clem son College would be shut up and all c that sort of thing. E My friends, 1 do not believe in reac- i tionary legislation, ah gooa citizens t rejoice in the accomplishments of the p Reform movement All of us ought r to be reformers, and no patriotic citizen can undertake to destroy what has t been accomplished. The Governor's ^ administration is, however, amenable v to just criticism, and because I find t something in it to criticize he cries out t "abuse," and says that I attack him i personally. t Referring to the constable question, ] Gen Butler said that he was not going a to be an informer, but he would say c that while passing through Spartan- t burg at the time of the Darlington r disturbance a gentleman told him that a they had a nice set of spies there and r intimated that they were taking pay t from the whiskey men. How, in the j name of common sense said Gen. But- ^ ler, can the conclusion, be avoided, J when constables shut their eyes as they c walked past open barrooms. Answer- ' ing the Governor's remarks about the [ Hamburg incident, he sale: i think a that in the course of the next few days ^ I can furnish the Governor with a cer- a tificate. I was told that when he went ? to Hamburg he could not be found r when the firing began. a I say to the Governor, now, that if g he will join me in requesting' a sepa- c rate box for the people to determine in f a primary whom they want, that we ^ will get a fair expression of opinion t and that he will find some political \ surprises in this State by the 23th of a August. Although he has been crow- t ing and flapping his wings, he will go c home that uay with his finger in his e mouth. If he can beat me fairly, I e shall not whine. If he beats me fairly 9 and honestly 1 will do as much as any r man in this State to put him in the ^ Senate. He has not said as much for me. ? He says that I charged that he has r brought chaos into the State. If we 1 were not on the eve of chaos at Darlington and Florence, God save the c country from chaos. I voted for him and the entire ticket and I have never t thrown one obstacle in tne way or ms \ enforcement of the law, but I say th?t e he must be subject to criticism. No r man in this State was more surprised c than I was when it was found after t 1876 that I was the man to be sent to e the Senate. The people called for me t with practical unanimity and I went a there by the unanimous vote of the t Wallace House. 1 Taking up Governor Tilimams charg- c es of corruption in federal affairs, Gen. s Butler declared that if the Supreme j Court was corrupt and the Senate had a been bought and the House owned by t Wall street, then popular government s was a failure. Gen. Butler was very i effective in renlvine to Governor Till- 9 man's remarks about carrying pitch- j; forks and rocks to Washington with t him. He said that If the Governor got up in the Senate the Senators would r tell him, "FliDg your rocks, young man; v we will go in the cloak 100ms and let \ you throw them at vacancy." (Laugh- a ter.) 1 The General said that the Senate was c the best oratorical burying ground he s knew. "These pyrotechnic fellows get s scant treatment." He related an in- c stance of a man in the Senate "who % started his own mouth off and then ( went off to leave it." The man in t question sent some manuscript to the s clerk's desk to be read and while the i clerk was readidg it went off to the c cloak room, where he remained until t the clerk was nearly through readiDg when he returned and resumed his speech. Having denounced the Senate how s does Governor Tillman expect to have 1 any influence there? He cannot get r U ^ i. ~ - , rxA mkAn U -V O wuat a pruucut uiau uau auu wucu un a ask3 for an appropriation for South c Carolina they will gay to him, "Go and a get it yourself." (Laughter and. ap- c plause) His speeches remind me of i tne plney woods yearling. Take away 1 all the abuse and nothing is left but a tail and ears. (Laughter.) Gen. But s ler closed his speech with a stirring t peroration in which he said if be forgot I his people may the good Lordparaljze s his tongue and strike him speechless. i Senator John Gary Evans followed, c He began to speak in apathetic vein, f recalling the doing3 of his kinamen in t Marion, when he was interrupted by 1 cneers ior jcuieroe. ne rnaue me iui- i lowing explanation concerning his re mark at the Florence meeting that the Reformers had to "buy out" the Columbia Register. "I don't think anybody will believe that any Reformer had a" dollar to buy 1 any newspaper. We held a meeting in Columbia to see if we could raise money enough, and afterward the Register came over to our assistance, and if it ( was bought It did not get any of my ? money, and I don't believe it was ; bonght. I am here to defend any pa- \ per that has hit a lick for us. As long as ( the Register stands by us 1 shall stand j by It." . The Game Cock discussed the school t and dispensary questions and said that 1 the profit from the latter ought to be < applied to the public schools. He en- 5 teredaklck about the candidates for \ Governor being allowed only half an hour in which to do their speaking. It was making the canvass a farce and he wanted more time even if it had to be taken from other candidates. Secretary Tindal made a nice speech, sayiDg that the people must keep the government in their hands and not allow future rings, adding that they must not exercise their power in a 3pirit of revenge. General Ellerbe was' the last speaker. lie was received by his townsmen with great applause, lie said he was for peace and harmony Dut that the minority must give into mairtriiv Hp palled unon both i sides to lay down their arms and join ia j yelping to build up the State, lie said ihathedid not favor the dispensary aw at first, but- that it. had panned out setter than he had expected. He thought that the opposition should help perfect it instead ol' try to kill ir. This ended the speaking. * SIX WERE KILLED. illoody aiid FAt%! ConsequSL<es oT the Great II ill road strike. Chicago,July 6? Six dead and an inletinite number of injured is the record if casualties in the strike conflicts in Chicago today. Yesterday one man vasshot in th8 leg. If the blood-leting tomorrow shall show a like inirease, the coroner will have a sumner's work before him. The developnents of yesterday went far to convince ill thinking people that the gravity of he situation had not been appreciated >v the authorities or the people at large. Arsons who were nere duriDg she raiload strike of 1877, and who saw the itmosphere clear preceptibiy when no nore than eighty bronzed and dusty egulars from the plains marched i/-w?rn \forii?nn sfrAAf- and went into IV ?T U AJXUU'^VU k'v??v? ??? :amp on tha lake front, wasged their jeads knowingly when three times hat number were ordered from Fort Jheridan, comprising the three arm3 of he service, and said they would make hort work of Mr. Debs's followers. 3ut after twelve hours of as patient md presistent coolness and bravery inder trying circumstances as was iver seen, these same citizens and the ffficers in command were forced to adnit that tnings were not as they were n '77 and that it was still a long mark o peace and the resumption of unim>eded traffic on any of the railroads nnning out of Chicago. The developments of the night and hose of today have confirmed tne conviction that nothing short of an overwhelming armed force, with instruc10ns to shoot to kill, can settle the rouble, or as Col. Crofton put it, -'it las ceased to be a mere movement of roops and has become a campaign." Che local and State authorities have iwakened'to the critically grave nature >f the strike malady which i3 affiicting he nation generally, but Chicago in )articular, and are taking measures to ipply adequate remedies. The city iclice force has already been recruited ip to over 3,000 men, and by request of kiayor iiopKins auu uy uiuei. ujl vtuvciior Atgeld, two brigades of State miliia have been ordered here to aid in [uelling the disturbances. At the nation's capital, also the fact s recognized that the prevention coalitions are entirely out of ordinary and hat provisions must be made for such i massing of fightiog men as has never >efore been seen together in the histoy of the nation in time of peace,if the luthority and dignity of th8 Federal government and the processes of its :ourts are not to be laughed to scorn or an indelinite time. Tbe strike quesion is so infectious at certain points hat the President and his advisers beieve it would be unwise to withdraw my more regular troop3 from the counry west of Chicago. It is therefore in :ontempIation, should the forces, Fed:ral, State and municipal already gathered here, be unequal to the task of retoring order to send here the compares stationed on the Canadian border, vith the reserved intention, if circumtance3 demand it, of exercising the - *- 11 fn-w OA AAA man Af tho Ar LI I* IU Call IUi iaavyi-4 v*. vov w?ww?~ niiitary regiments of New York and 'ennsylvania. The day in Chicago has been one of .'onstant alarms and calling for police, Lepuly marshals and soldiers here, here and everywhere thtoughout a vide stretch of territory in the southxn part of the city. Riot has been unning rampaDt throughout the day; :ars have been overturned, switches >roken and tracks obstructed in numirous ways; the torch was applied in nany instances to cars, switch towers md the like, not to mention an attempt o lire a part of the great Armour packng plant?in fact, at one time the inpndiarv hlazps followed each other in uch quick succession that the lire detriment was put to straits to care for ill of them. To add to the gravity of he situation it was found that the trikers were interfering with the poice, railroad and lire alarm telegraph ystems. and in one er two instances >olicemen who were using the police elephone calls were stoned The assaults of mobs, however, was lot met with the passive resistance vhich characterized the course pursued esterday. On two occasion at least their ittacks were met with accurately aimed ead. During a riot, in the forenoon, >ver an incoming milk train at Kenington, a deputy United States marhal sho3 and killed two strikers, and luring the afternoon, the deputies tuarding an incoming Baltimore and )hio passenger train replied to the volley of siiotB ana stones wmcn ine trikers showered upon them by tuning their revolvers loose, killing four >f their a33ailants and woanding a lumber of others. Stoned t-*> Death. Ciiiuaoo, July 0? S. R. Ritchie, a pecial policeman employed by the .httsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago oad, was stoned to death by a mob this ifternoon, at the Fifth-seventh street Tossing of that road. Ritchie, who was il30~a deputy sheriff, caught some boys ivertarning a switch shanty and corn>eiled them to set tt upright again. >Vhile he was talking ti the boys a mob approached and attempted to burn the ihanty. Ritchie drew his revolver and hroafonp/i t.n kill t.hf* first man who aD )roached the shanty. The mob kept. ;urging around him, but he held it oil intil his revolver was accidentally dis:hargtd, the bullet striking him in the dot. He was easy prey for the mob ,hen and they quickly had him down. They stood around his body and iiteraly stoned him to death. Ilis head was jounded almost to pieces. The mob iuallv went away leaving him for dead jut he was still alive when the police irrived. He was taken to the hospital jut died in a short time. So arrests yere made. In Dnug:?r. Bristol, Tenn., July o.? News :omes from Bio ae Janeiro, Brazii, itating that Reverend K iward E. Tilly, Methodist missionary to that country Tom the Holstou conference, is in srreat danger of losing his life because le took sides with the rebels and sgainst the president in the recent roubles. It is understood here diat foreigners who praticipat?d are to be courtmartlaled and ;hot. Tilly was born and educated in this city. I" THE GREAT STRIKE, J a THOUSANDS OF MEN ARE NOW OUT n V( AND MORE GOING. d The National Government Act* by MovJnfc jj Tr? ops? Tlie Bnatnesfi ot the Road* Sufferine Somewhat?Strikers Occasionally fl| C; Riotous. .j Washington, July 4.?Secretary ^ JAmont went to the War Department 31 after the cabinet meeting yesterday and a made public the following statement: f The United States marshal, the United t, States District Attorney and the United Slates District Judge, having certified to tl the President that in their judgment It is n impracticable to otherwise execute the t< orders ot the court, the troops under d command of Col. Crofton at Fort Sher- w idaD, consisting of eight camps of infan- V try, two troops of cavalry and a battery n of light artillery have been ordered to Chicago to enforce tbe observance of the ^ laws of the United States. These orders ^ were telegraphed at 3:30 p. m. to Cal. ?, Martin, the adjutant general at Gen. ^ Miles headquarters in Chicago. g( Freight shipments to all points west tj of Pittsbrug are practically at a standstill. c< Toirty-two Western roads have notified i] the Pennsylvania Company's general n oflice In Pittoburg that they will not re tl ceive freight of any kind, until the boycott has been settled. Freight trains oi are tied up all along the routes between tJ Pittsburg and Chicsg) and the losses f( from the delays will be enormous. Toe railroad officials today, for the Grst time, admit their inability to move through freight. All efforts are concentrated in keeping local freight and passenger trams <j( moving. C] The situation 011 the Wabash is more a] desperate than at any time since the y\ strike began. All of its trainmen, in- U eluding locomotive engineers, have quit, tc Scarcely a wheel on the entire system is d< moving. The Chicago and Alton is b; also greatly embarrassed. None of its C1 trains got through to St. Louis this e: morning. Several trains'ar'e reported tied P; up at Bloomington. The Wabash shops {J at Toledd have been closed for lack of workmen. In anticipation of a conflict 0. between strikers and non union men in jLthe Missouri Pacific yards, the members p( of the first regiment M. N. G. have re- fa ceived orders to report at the armory se and hold themselves in readiness for in- ti stanf action. pi Chicago, July 4?Col. Crawford ai and his 650 United States troops trora Fort Sheridan arrived at the Northwes- ^ tern depot just before midnight on their " way to the various riotous points in and around Chicago. An order was received J? at the Fort to move at 4 o'clock, but the ^ start was not made until 9 p. m? and tl it took over two hours to cover the iwenty-five miles. There are eight companies m of the Fifteenth Regiment, two troops T of cavalry, B and K, of the Seventh U Regiment, and Battery F of the First w Artillerv. The second train, bearing a! accoutrements and cannon, pulled in af- tt ter the troops' train, but stopped quar- *e ter of a mile east of the Chicago river. As soon as the regiment lined up on the platform a conference was held ia one of the cars between Col. Crjfton cg commanding, ^United States Attroney ai Milchrist, J. M. E*an, Assistant Mar- w ?1?1 ChA afoft />Aioara SUm UOUUVliy ttUU iuc oi>au ^ i comprising Lieut. Col. Obinsheim, Maj. at Bayly, Lieut. Blow, Adjutant and yaar- p; termaster Simley. Manager E*an, pre- er sented the claim of the railroads, and af- di ter a brief consultation the following ap- P< portionment8 of troops were made: Companies A, C, G, and H, comprising P( the First Batallion of 250 men, to go to J? Blue Island under command of Maj. Bayley; companies E and F, under command of Col. Humphreys, to go to 01 Grand Crossing, and companies E and er D, Maj. Hartz commanding, to go to tt StocK Yards, the cavalry to be divided x up tomorrow between Grand Crossing ti and Stock Yards, and the battery will go to the latter place. Col. Crofton's h< headquarters are to be In this city, from tl which point he will direct the manage- ci ment of the troops. After the decision SI as to the location of the regulars they ^ boarded the train and were backed to ^ the base of supplies, where two day's J?1 ? " ???" oml flio rorinna <0 A _ ? I'tlUUUS VVC1C J3CU3U, auu mv , v.? tachments marched to their respective ^ depots for the vrious points. The First ^ Battalion left from the Rock Island at 2 t,\ a. m. on a special train, with a flit car tt ahead of the eDgine, on which was pi mounted the artillery. This precaution pi was taken as a show of strength, and O was suggested by Milchnst. tt The detachment for Grand Crossing ^ left the depot about the same time on ^ the Illinois Central trian. ~ At 8 o'clock this morning S.vift <fc jV Co. succeeded in getting out a stalled train of beef which had been on the st track at Halstead and Fortieth street st since Monday. Thirty men from n; Company B., Ffteenth United Sates In- L fantry, under Capt. Chapin, with 100 st policemeu, guarded the train to the ir Michigan Central tracks. When the T soldiers marched back to camp they re were followed by a crowd of about 800 hl men and boys, who cur ;d and yelled at Sl them until Capt. Chapin ordered his men to charge bayonets, and scattered the crowd. f( tiie strikers fired upon 1 ft Chicago, 111 , July;5.?At 3 o'clock \a this afternoon a special train consist- ja ing of an engine and one passenger v car, was sent out on the Lake Shore 0 f T> -i lioaa irom vaiiijureusiauuu juaucu q with a detail of special police. Ollicers of the road were also on board. The police had been dispatched to aid in ^ the moving of trains in the vicinity of tl the stock yards. At Fourth street the1 h mob grew so demonstrative that the ic train was compelled to halt. The en- n gineer believed himself the object of & aitack and drew his revolver, iiefore tl he could shoot a policeman disarmed p him. The crowd saw the movement n ana became wild with frenzy. They t< rushed upon the train, literally swarm- t( lng around it, pelted it with stones o and stick?, breaking many windows h ana howling liKe raaa men. ine pu- v\ lice then drew their owa revolvers and t! tired, into the crowd. One or two men t>, are said to have been hit, but it is not tl yet known how seriously they are hurt. 31 A dozen shots or so were fired. In the w meantime the engineer had reversed tl his engine and the train was soon ei forced backward out of reach of the a: now unbridled mob and returned to the a city. This* is the first shooting in the a present strike. It occurred in a locality tl where the men were already furious 0: and It is believed will be the signal for (j desperate encounters very soon. w A Rock Island express from the Si West attempted to follow the train Si bearing the soldiers from Rlue Island <; into the city this afternoon, but at n Fortieth street the train was effectually 0 blocked by the strikers, who had q thrown flat cars across the track. The mob induced the firemen to get oil the cab. Chief Clerk Hubbell of the Superintendent's office of the Rock I. Island was severely stoned while at- w [tempting to switch the Rlue Island la pecial bearing the soldiers and the 10b burned a Rock Island "freight car t Fortieth street and would have delolished the tower at that point but rere prevented by the police and lire eparrment. At 0 o'clock tonight a mob nurnborig 2,000 men started North on the ,ake Shore tracks, marching toward le heart of the city. At twenty eighth Ireet, they overturned two freight ars on the track; at Twentieth street aree, and at Twenty-liftn street two. 'hey were met at Twenty-second Lreet by a small detachment of police nd before the officers could make any rrests the mob bad dispersed. The ainmen repaired the damage within wo hours. At 5.30 special Detective (Regory of re Western Indian Railway shot two len in the leg who had made an atjmpt on his life. The shooting was one in selfdefence. Two cars loaded 'ith meat were burned near the Fort /ayne crossing before the lire departlent were able to extinguish the ames. The Union Stock Yards witching Company has been blocked y four freight cars which the strikers ave placed across the track?. From ipfa t.hev nrooeerlfA to the round ouse with the intention of piling )me box cars on the switch leading to le round house so that no engines ould get in or out of the round house, uspector Hunt with fifty policemen let the mob, however, and drove lem away. The mob is very rabid and seem bent n doing everything to destroy proper7. They pay no attention to attempts ) dissaude them, having become reckssly daring. There are large crowds locking every street and alley in the ;ock yards district. EXCITING TIMES. CnicAGO, July 5.?The sun went, own on by far the most turbulent and ritical day thus far in the unparSleled railroad strike and boycott, fhen it opened there was a general seiing that its passage would go far jward clearing the atmosphere, if ineed it did not practically lift the emargo on commerce which has held t.bi3 ty in its grip for the past week. That rpectation was chiefly based on the resence of Federal troop3 in the most angerous district. Looking at the situaon at the close of the day it must be mfessed that the hope indulged at the pening in this fegard has not been istified. The troop3 were lew in num 5rs at, Desr, wnen mey were uiviueu ito squads aDd distributed at points iparated by very considerable dismces.it soon became evident that their restige as overawing bodies had been issipated at the same time. Instead of fleeing in fear before the ices of the veteran?, as was expected ley would do, the turbulent thousands irged about the little basd of soldiers, ered and hooted them, and cast vile ireats at them and literally played ide-and-seek with them, stopping] ains at will and generally rendering le embargo in the military district tore effective, if possible, than before, he throng of strikers did not resist ncle Sam's police, again and 'again hen there were thousands of them lout a train while it sought to move ley gave way like water before the veled bayonets of a single company : infantry or the trampliDg of a siDgle iuad of cavalry. Like water too they osed in again at a point just beyond, hey turned swiches, derailed freight irs in front of the slow moving train id played all sorts of railroaders tricks ith which the soldiers .were unacaamted. Thus is was that the troops i the Stock Yards in perseverance and itience spent the entire day in a vain ideavor to get one train load of ressed beef out of sight of the starting lint. Another ana pleasanter thing tbi3 exjrience 3howed and that wa3 the adirable coolness, self poise and discip Lie Oi but) iruups tLuuuguuuo au caw jrating twelve hours. Not a shot was :ed; not a man was picked by a bayiet, which argues that with force lough the soiiders would have done le work which was expected of them, j he quality was tnere, merely the quan-' ty was lacking. Aside from the immediate neighborood where the troops were operating, i lere was plenty of excitement and dis-} der. Great raobs gathered on Lake lore, Itock Island, and the Western j ldlana tracks and proceeded to ob-j rucf them by overturning box cars, j reaking switches and the like. At one oint they set lire to a switch tower I id interlocking the switch box,! tough the dames were extinguished j afore serious damage was done. In vo Instances there was bloodshed. On le Western Indit ana track, a hard rpqfjpd snardal nnliceman bred at his i ursuers wounding a striker in the leg. n the Lake Shore Iioad an oflicial of lat company, in charge of a train hich he was enaeavoripg to force irough, emptied his revolver point lank into the massed strikers about im wounding two or three it 13 be* eved. He was saved from the fury of le mob by his engineer, who put on earn and ran back to the point of ;arting. Shortly after noon, a mob umbering 2,000 started North oq th9 ake Shore tracks at Thirty-seventh xeet, overturning cars and obstrucfig the line in every possible way. hey were not checked until they lached Twenty-second stree*, where a eavy force of police was massed, and lcceeded In turning them back. Some Pluia Tulk. Atlanta, Ga;, July 4.?A YVashingm special savs: It developes that tan uancial statement which Mr. Clevemd sent out by the press associations ist Monday night was caused by a i3it of some New York financiers ver here. They came to persuade im co mase auuuiei isauc ui uuuus, hey agreed to placa 850.000,000 in few York and New England. Eat [r. Cleveland remembered the protest lat went up from the country when emade his first issue. He had 120 lea of facing another such protest and e told these Xew Yorkers plainly that e would make no bond issue, even if ley agreed to place them at a high remium. To emphasize his determi ation to make no further bond issue, ) make this determination public and i attempt to stir up some little patritism among our Xew York bankers, e wrote that statement. In his bluut ay he did it to let them know that iev could not beguile himinto another ond Issue. He has determined that le gold reserve shall stick to the very ;one flooring of the treasury vaults ltli not enough geld dollars to speckle le stones before he shall make anothr bond issue. If there is ever to be nother issue of bonds during his adlinistration he 3ays congress shall uthorize it. He will assume the aujority no more without an express act f congress. The plain statement Mr. leveland made to the New l'orkers, 'ho were the representatives of a big indicate formed to force another isae of bonds and gobble them up, is lid to have dissolved the syndicate, f that is true this money may be put ut in other directions and matters :iancially may be eased up thereby. ??t- r? 1*1 ft ?, Alexandria, La., June JO.?Mrs. [ilton, gave birth to lour children, -eighlng nine pounds each?two boys nd two girls. t NEW PARTY NECESSARY. MARION BUTLER SAYS THE SOUTH AND WEST MUST UNITE. I'iiR PrftMcnt or Shs National Aillatce ! Sew In This St-ite an I ater*Htl2R Iat<?ivip\v?The Alliance |n Coi.i:m?ia,S. C., July G.?Mr. Marion liutl^r, President of the National Farmers' Alliance, while on a visit, to thi3 citv yesterday was interviewed. " The Alliance," he said, "is doing a very satisfactory work at this time. Perhaps there is not as much hurrah now as there was at the beginning, for the surplus enthusiasm which generally accompanies such an orgaization at the outset ha3 spent itself. It is now devoting a good deal of its attention to the business department, as that machinery has gotten in good order. At the last meeting of the national executive committee, it was decided to establish a national exchange, which will very probably be located at Jialtimore. The intention of such an exchange is to have one general agent make contracts for the various State exchanges and buying goods in bulk, get them at more advantageous prices for the Alliance members. The various State organizations, most of which have capital behind them, would virtually be responsible fo the contract ot the national Alliance, which would place its orders after receiving commissions to do so from the various State exchanges. The government of Chili," he went on to say, "thought so much of the undertaking that it sent a special commissioner to the meeting to make arrangements for the purchase of nitrate of soda by the national Alliannp An r?ffir>p has alrparlw hppn sf ? cured in .Baltimore and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has offered a desirable site for the depots of the national exchange and promised to build them. There can be no question," he said, "about the success of such an enterprise. [n North Carolina alone, the State exchange does a business of over 8500,000, and by proper management as large a business can be done by any other State. New charters are being issued every day for Alliances in the Northwest. The Alliance is really stronger in the West than it is in the South. This applies to the members who have paid up their fees, although I believe that our machinery in the South is as good as that in the West. You do not hear so much now about the Alliance in South Carolina as in previous years, but its influence is, perhaps, stronger than it has ever been." Just at this time, Col, Duncan, the national secretary, came in, and in response to an inquiry from President Butler said that the membership in this State, which was in July, 1893, was 15,030. President Butler then went on to say by way of explanation for this small membership that is paid up is smaller than it has ever been since it amounted to anything, but that amounts to notning. laxe my state for instance, where the membership at one time wrts over one hundred thousand and yet, by the last report, it was only 26,000." He was then asked whether those members who had not retained active members were entitled to the benelits of the Alliance exchanges. "They are and they are not," he replied; "for instance, we do a larger business in North Carolina with 26,000 active members than we did with 100,000. While business is generally done under the seal of the sub-alliances, that rule Is not ironclad. My lodge has only six active members; just enough to retain it? charter, and yet we do the buying for at least forty farmers, all of whom are good Alliancemen. The sub-Alliances can and do purchase for these who they think are responsible. The hard times brought about the Alliance and yet it is now acting in preventing Alliancemen from paying their dues. Yet if we were to cut off these men from the privileges of Alliancemen, most of them would join. About this time the question of strikes was brought up and Mr. Butler said that he could not see where at any time a strike could do any good, as it was not a proper remedy for any evil. ' The Alliance would have nothing to' do with politics, if the politics of the country were in such shape that the members of the Alliance could live under it," was his statement in regard to the Alliance in politics. Then he went on to say: "As a proof of that when the Alliance was organized it was purely for social and business purposes as th9 (ile3 and records of all of the Lirst meetings will show. The argutYia onaotrare in nr rra ni >7 i r> rr UL VUV7 A it the lodges was that men living separate on farms at some distance from each other could not develop or rise to as high state as when they were thrown in frequent contact. One phrase generally used by the organizers was the only way you can generate was by the friction of intellect against intellect. It is the law of the development among our people. Acting on that broad'principie that men meeting frequently would benefit by each other's experiences in every department of business: that ail would avoid the mistakes one had made and that all would benefit by one's successful experiment. Thi3 was bound to result in a greater production at less labor and less labor and less cost, and following this up they would distribute their products to greater advantage. This intercourse in the lodge room soon developed the belief among farmers that there was something radically wrong with the two great instruments of commercemoney and transportation. Aft?r discussing these question in the sub, county and State alliances, it was resolved at the meeting of the Alliance ia 1889 that the Alliance ought to exert its in4-n avila tfirdnffh IoiHqIq IJLUCUl/C IV CVL 1 ^4^410 Lui.vu?jU tioD, believing that they had been brought about by unjust legislation. This resulted iu what is known as the political demands of the Alliance, which are practically the same now as adopted in 188b. This is the reason why the Alliance is in politics today, and it will continue in politics until the reforms it has asked for are secured and then it will return to the social and business features." Mr. Butler was asked what he thought of the attitude of Governor Tiiimah toward* the sub-treasury scheme. "The reason the Alliance supports Ben Tillman," he said, "is because they know Innrl flint hp in wnrklnc to an lAtAVA, W..VT V V w ? * 3 complish the same results as we are through the sub treasury scheme. The subtreasury or some other, is merely a suggestion on the part of the Alliance. Governor Tillman says that he believes in "some other methods." The Alliance believes that Governor Tillman is honest and sincere in desiring to secure the same results as it does. They believe, therefore, that he and all other Alliancemen will, when elected, consult to secure that end. The sub treasury ought never to have been made a demand. It was intended as an illustration of how a demand onght to be carried out; if, however, there is a better plan no one will hesitate to accept it." Then Mr. Butler was asked whether the Alliance was getting ready for the Presidential election in 'W. lie said that this work ought to he taken up now, but that it could hardly be done j until the coming elections were over. He went on to say that "all sections whose predominant interests are the production of wealth have interests that are diametrically opposed to a small class of monopolists and speculators in the North and East. They will never get a position that is just to them?I do not mean class legislation? until they can have Inlluence in the national affairs of our government and that can never come through an administration that , is nominated by the Republican or Democratic partv as now constituted, because the class interests that now dominates has control of the machinery of both of these organizations. This condition is soon going to force a new alignment of parties, and seems to me all patriotic people ought to do all they can to see it come about as soon as possible. This result will have to come about by the .^onu west ana iscucn ana an or tnos3 whose interests are common with them uniting in nominating and electing the administrative offices of the government. What I would like to see come about is for a national convention to be called representing the interests I have named and made up from Democrats from the South and by that I mean Democrats?with due deference to the News and Courier?and the People's party from the We3t and those from the North who want to join, nominating a Presidential candidate and electing him. The People's party out West Is nothing more than a party of converted Democrats, but who on account of their prejudice to that name will not admit it, but they are as good Democrats as the .Jeffersonian Democrats of the South." "The real Democrats of the South and the Populists of the West have the same principles while the socalled Democrats of the Western States are nothing more than gold bug Democrats and have never yet done anything to elect a Democratic President. These Western Populists or Jeffersonian Democrats will not go into a Democratic convention with that name, but if a convention of the American party or the JeSersonian Democracy were called they would combine w:',th the Democrats of the South to nomina: e and elect a President. I would like to see this combination effected in time fCir PVtc Mmnaiitn rcf 1 8Q^ if iP id vuu WMUiyaigU V-L IJUU iL A V AO not done by that time, it is simply a matter of a few years before it will be done."?State. WASHINGTON NEWS. Gov. Atgeld Ot>j jcta to Federal Troops Id Chicago, Washington, July 5.?The President, Secretary Lamont, Postmaster General Bissell, and General Shofield remained at the White House tonight until nearly 12 o'clock. Many telegrams were received and sent during the course of the evening; General Bugles bringing one over to General Schoiield from General Miles. When the conference broke up Secretarv Lamont, acting as spokesman for the President, announced there was nothing to make public, except the telegram from Governor Atgeld of Illinois and the President's response thereto. Governor Atgeld protests against the presence of United States troops in Chicago. To this the President responds: Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., July 5,18^4. Hon. John P. Atgeld, Governor of Illinois, Springtield, III. Federal troops were sent to Chicago in strict accordance with the Constitution and laws of the United States, upon the demand of the Postoffice Department that the obstructions to the mails should be removed and upon the representations of the judicial officers of the United States that the process of the Federal courts could not be executed through the ordinary means and upon abundant proof that conspiracies existed against commerce between the States. -To meet these conditions which are clearly within the province of Federal authority, the presence of Federal troops in Chicago was deemed not only proper, but necessary, and there has been ne intention of thereby interfering with the plain duty of the local authorities to preserve the peace of the citv. (Signed) Grcver Cleveland. Governor Atgeld says that waiving all questions of courtesy the State of Illinois is not only able to take care of itself, but it stands ready to furnish the Federal government any assistance it may need elsewhere. The State troops have not been ordered out be cause nobody In Cook County, official or private citizen, has asked for their assistance or Intimatedthat it was needed. The railroads aie paralyzed, lie says, not by reason of obstruction, but because they cannot get men tc work them; that such was the case when State troops had been recently called out at the request of the Kailroads elsewhere than in Chicago. Atgeld, says the conditions do not exist in Chicago which bring the case within the Federal statutes and that he (the President) has bten imposed upon for political ends. The following is the concluding paragraphs of Governor Atgeld's telegram; To absolutely ignore a local government in matters of thi3 kind, when the local government is ready to furnish any assistance needed and is amply able to enfore the law, not only ' - ? 1 fc? maamIa rtf fV?A Cfofn litJ 1USUI13 U1C ycuyiv UL uuc kjj imputing to them an inability to govern themselves or unwillingness to enforce the law, but is in violation of a basic principle of our institutions. The question of Federal supremacy is in no way involved. No one disputed it for a moment, but under our Constitution Federal supremacy and local self government must go hand in hand and to ignore the letter is to do violence to the Constitution. As Governor of the State of Illinois I protest against tbi3 and ask the immediate withdrawal of the Federal troops from active duty in this State. Should the situation at any time get so serious that we cannot con trol It with the State forces we win promptly and freely ask: for Federal assistance. but until such time I protest with all due deference against this uncalled for reilection upon our people and again ask: the immediate withdrawal of these troops. I have the honor to bp, Yours respectfully, Joiin P. Atgeld, Governor of Illinois. Doable Killing. Magnolia, Miss., July 5.?The news has reachedhere of a double killing that took place in Amite coumy. a negro teacher named Hood wrote the county superintendent of education an Insulting letter, about which some youDg men went to see him. They arrived at the negro's house at midday and sent a young man named Hanks in to tell him to come out. The negro responded to the request by shooting Hanks down and then walked to the window and began tiring on the crowd with a pistoi. The crowd returned the lire, completely riddling the negro's body with bullets. Hanks was a son of an ex-sheriff of the county, and was exceedingly popular, and his death at the hands of the negro has created great excitement. NETTLES TO BUTLER. CLARENDON'S COUNTY CHAIRMAN REPLIES TO HIS REQUEST la th*? M-tfer ol of Klectfoa? The S>nat?r'j Rapresant.Ulve Promptly Replies to Nsttlr#' Annwrr-1ntereitlog Reading. Columbia, S. C., July 3.?A tew days 420 Senator Butler sent out to each of the various chairmen of the Democratic executive committees of the several couulies in the State a letter looking to obtaining representation on the boards of primary election managers Yesterday the following reuly was received from the chairman of the Clarendon commit Manning, S. C., Jane 30, 1894. Hon. M. C. Butler, Columbia, S. 0. Dear Sir: Yours of the 26th iustant tohaud, in which you say: ' For the coming primary election, 28'.h of August nest, I have the honor to request that I be allowed trom among my friends sn equal division of the managers of aaid election. Either give me two managers and give Gov. Tillman the other manager and the clerk, or give Gov. Tillman two managers and give me tbe other and the clerk." I confess to very great surprise at the above. You seemjoot to realize the objects and interests ol our primaries, but to have reached the conclusion that their sole aim and end this year is centered in the Senatorial coqtests. Possibly you have overlooked the fact that there is really to be uo election in our primaries for a United States Senator, but as usual these officers are elected by the State Legislature, and it is to be pre- sumed that our legislators will have some other merits and qualifications thaa simplv to vote for a United States Senators. You have aonareutlv iuauDsd at the conclusion that the heretofore lieform aed anti-Reform factions of the State have been revised and that their platforms of principles are now concentrated on Tillman and Butler, or on Tillmanism and Butlerism. You surely lost sight of the fact that there are many other candidates, each of whom may feel as great interest in his individual election as you do in yours. I believe it is a fact that there are already four candidates f-,r Governor. Then there are candidates for the other State offices, for Railroad Commifsioners, for Congress, for the Legislature, for county offices?a great host of candidates, each one like yourself, possibly, fearful of the consequences. Suppose that following your example each one of this mighty host should demand two managers, that he might feel fully assured that every vote cast for him was properly counted (and you most admit that in this Demccartic country of ours you have no rights that the humblest cannot equally claim, what would be the result? I think when you carefully consider this question you will realize that your request is unreasonable. We have in Clarendon county twentyfive club3, and in each the line is strongly drawn between Reformers and anti R;tormere. U'ltteen 01 tries# ciuds are Reformers and tea are Aatis. At oar primaries ia 1S92 we agreed upon the following plan: Each club should select from its owd members two managers and one clerk, and a neighboring club of the opposing faction should complete the ooard by sending another manager and a clerk. By this plan each club had three managers ani two clerks and both factions were represented. We found it to be a most excellent plan and it will probably be adopted again this year. If now these anti clubs (or Reform clubs) should see fits to champion your candidacy, and to select Butler managers, they would of course have a right to do so, and in this way ycu may get your wishes gratified, but then, as you wiil note, this is * private matter with the clubs and not for the executive committee. You know i'. is now ''equal rights to all and special privileges to " Vnnra itapv rAanftritfllll V. UUUVt -X Vulw ? VI j v S. A. Nettles, Chairman Democratic Executive Committee, Clarendon County. capt. capers replies. Columbia, S. C., July 2, 1894. Mr.S. A. Nettles, Chairman, Clarendon County: Dear Sir: Your favor of Juae 30, In reply to the letter written by Senator Butler, asking for an equal representation at the coming primary election ia the board of managers, duly to hand. You? expressions of surprise are a9 absurd as your Ideas are narrow and partisan. It affords me some satisfaction to fsel sure that you do not express the views, nor do you represent the feelings, ot the executive committee of vour county or of the white Democrats of South Carolina, matters not to what factioa they may belong. Many of your references to Gen. Butler are unworthy of you, but I dismiss them and credit them to a bias which ha3 characterised your public career for the last four years. From many portions of South Carolina I have received most courteous replies to Senator Butler's letter?from county chairmen, who have been in the movement longer than you have aud who are no doubt justas true Reformers. Do me the Kindness to submit Senator Butler's letter to your executive com nrtllfao roVian if m??ta Th* aimnl* r?. LUIVIA/V/ iv iuvwww? ? quest is only for "fair play" and you should not sho w so much nervous agita tion in anticipating that fair play would / mean the removal of yourself and some others from irlluence in Clarendon county. Very truly your3, John G. Capers. An Accident at Oakley. Oakley Depot, Berkelet County, July 4.?Recently as the down / tram from Columbia was rapid'' ly approaching this place two negroes, Ned Wehmanand an unknown colored man, were run over and killed at what is known as the "Broughton Swamp Trestle," about a half mile above the depot. Wehman, it appears, had cleared the trestle, and upon looking back saw that the unknown man was in i danger of being injured. He sprang to his assistance, and it was in the attempt to save the man's life that both , were killed. As soon as the men were discovered upon me tracK every enort on the part of the engineer and those in charge of the train was made to avert the accident, but without avail. They were so close upon the men that it was impossible to stop in time. A jury was empanelled and an ioquest held by Trial Justice R. W. Hains, acting as coroner, and a verdict was rendered in accordance with the above facts,no blame attaching to the railroad company. The wonder is that like accidents have not happened before and more frequently, for the negroes, make a pubiic course of the railroad track and trust to luck to get out of the wav of passing trains in time to avoid injury.