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GO, LOVELY ROSE. "Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. "Tell her that's young, And shuns to haye her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Ihou must have uncommended died. "Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. "men oiei ma; sne The common fate of all things rare May read in thee, How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair." FRIVOLOUS EXCUSES. Dr falm&ge Speaks of the Men Who Reject Religion. Brooklyn, Sept. 16.?Rev, 13 r, Talmage who is still absent ^his rounc the world tour, ha3 selected as the subject of his sermon through the press foi today "Holy Compulsion." the test being Luke xiv, 23, "And compel them tc come in." The plainest people in our day have luxuries which the kings and queens oi olden times never imagined. I walked up and dowD the stairs of Holyrood palace?a palace that was considered one of the wonders of the world?and I said, "Can it be possible that this is all there was of this reputed wonderful place?" And this is the case in many other instances. There are fruits in Westchester county and on Long Island farms far better than the pomegranates and apri * - e all anrxko COLS 01 JDIOIC* loiuugu au U(,vu there have been scenes ot festivity, and the wealthy man ot my text plans a great entertainment and invites his fiends. If one builds a beautiful home, he wants his acquaintances to come and eDjoy it. If one buys an exqusite picture, he wants his friends to come and appreciate it, and it was a laudable thing when the wealthy man of my texts happy himself, wanted to make other people happy. And so the invitation, went out, but something went very much wrong. You can imagine the embarrassment of any one who has provided a grand feast when he finds out that the guests invited do not intend to come. There is nothing that so provokes the master of the feast as that. Well, these people invited to this grand banquet of the text made most frivolous excuses. The fact was, I suppose, that some of them were offended that this man had succeeded so much better in the world than they had. There are people In all occupations and professions who consider it a wrong to them that anybody else is advanced. I sappose these people invited to the feast said among themselves: "We are not going to administer to that man's vanity. He is prond enough now. We won't go. Besides that we coald all give parties ii we made our money the way that man makes his." So, when the messengers went out with the invitations, there was a unanimous refusal. One man said, "Oh, I have bought a farm and I must go and v look at it!" He was a land speculator and had no business to buy land on til he knew about it. A frivolous excuse. Another man said, "I have bought five yoke of oxen." The probability is he was a speculator in live stock. He ought to have known about the oxen before he bought them. Besides that, if be had been very anxious to get to the feast, he could have hooked them up and driven them op. the road there. Another frivolous excuse. Another man said, "Oh, I have married a wife, and I can't come." when ii he had said to his wife: "I have an invitation to a splendid dinner. It is highly complimentary to me. I should very much like to go. Will yon go along with me?" she would have aai/4 HTfrv Kn anr* T will cm Annlhftr OWU) JbV W OU4V) X Tt gv? ?w ? frivolous excose. The fact was that they did not want to go. ".tfow," said the great man of the feast, "I will not be defeated in this matter. I have, with an honest purpose, provided a banquet, and there are scores of people who would like to come if they were only invited. Here, my man, here; you go out, and when you find a blind man give him your arm and fetch him in, and when you find a lame man give him a crutch and fetch him in, and when you find a poor man tell him there is a plafafor him in my mansion, and when yotnlnd some one who is so - ragged and wretched that be ,has never been invited an> where then, by the kindest tenderness and the most 'loving invitation any one ever had, compel him to come in." # Oh, my friends, it requires no acuteness on my part or on your part to see in all this "affair that religion is a ban ^UOlii JL UO UtUlO VYOS OOli uu i aiostuiw ? good many years ago, and the disciples gathered around it, and they thought they would have a good time all by themselves, but while they sat by this table the leaves began to grow and spread, and one leaf went to the east, and another leaf went to the west, until the whole earth was covered up with them, and the clusters from the heavenly yineyard were piled upon the board, and the trumpets and harps of eternity made up the orchestra, and this wine of God is pressed to the lips of a sinning, bleeding, suffering, > dying, groaning world, a voice breaka from the heavens, saying: "Drink, 0 friends! Yea, drink, 0," beloved!" 0 blessed Lord Jesus, the best friend I ever had, the best friend any man ever had, was there ever such a table? Was there ever such a banquet? From the cross uplifted high, Where the Saviour deigns to die, What melodious sounds I hear Bursting on the ravished ear! Heaven's redeeming work is done. Come, and welcome, sinner come. Religion is a ioyous thing, I do not want to hear anybody talk about religion as though it were a funeral. I do not want anybody to whine in the prayer meeting about the kingdom of God. I do not want any mao to" roll up his eyes, giving in that way evidence of his sanctity. The men and women of God whom I happen to know for the most part find religion a great joy. It is exhilaration to the body. It is invigoratioD to the mind. It is rapture to the soul. It Is balm for all wounds. It is light for all darkness. It is harbor from all storms, and though God knows that some of ihein have trouble enough now they rejoice because they are on the way to the congratulations eterhal. Oh, the Lord God has many fair and beautiful daughters, but the fairest of them all is she whose way3 are pieasantest and whose paths are peace! Now my brothers and sisters?for I have a right to call you all so?I know some people iook back on their ancestral line, and they see they are descended from the Puritans or Huguenots, and they rejoice in that, but I look back on my ancestral line, and I see therein such a mingling and mixture of the blood of all nationalities that I feel akin to all the world, and bv the blood of the Son of God, who died for all people, I address you in the bonds of universal brotherhood. I come out as only a servant, bringing an invitation to a party, and I put into your hands, saying, "Come for all things are now ready," and I urge it upon you and continue to urge it, aud before I get through, 1 hope, by the bles* sing of God, to compel you to come in, We must take care how we give the invitation. My Christian friends, I thiDk sometimes we have just gone opposite to Christs command and we have compelled people lo elay out. Sometimes our elaborated instructions have been the hindrance. We graduate from our theological semiuaries on still and it takes live or six years before we can come down and stand r?ght beside the great masses of the people, learning their joys, sorrows, victories, defeats. W e get cu: heads so brimful of theological wisdom that we have to stand very straight lest they spill over. Now, what do the great masses of the people care about the technicalities ot religion? What do they care about the hypostatic union or the difference between EublapsariaD and supralapsarian? What do they care for your profound explanations clear as a Lcndon fog? When a man is drowning, he does not want you to stand Dy tae docs aaa aeseriDe tne nature 01 the water iuto which he has fallen, and tell him there are two parts hydrogen has and one of oxvgen gas, with a common density of 39 F., turning to steam under a common atmospheric pressure of 212. He does not want a chemical lecture on water. He wants a rope. Oh, my friends, the coarse of God 1 on the church, it seems to me, in this | day is metaphysics. We speak in an anr known tongue in our Sabbath schools, and in our religious assemblages, and in ' our pulpits, ana how can people be saved unless they can understand us? We put \ on our official gowns, and we think the : two silk balloons flapping at the elbows 1 of a preacher give him great sanctity. ' The river of God's truth flows down be1 fore U3 pure and clear as crystal, but we take our theological stick and stir it up J and stir it up until you cannot see the bottom. Ob, for the simplicity of Christ in all our instructions?the simplicity he practiced when, standing among the people, he took a lily and said, "There is a lesson of the manner I will clothe you," and, pointing to a raven, said: "There is a lesson of the way I will feed 1 you. Consider the lilies?behold the 1 fowls," I think often ia our religious instructions we compel the people to stay out by our church architecture. People come in, and they find things angular and cold and stiff, and they go away never again ! to come, when the church ought to be a great home circle, everybody having a hymnbook, giving half of it to the one next him, every one who has a hand ought to shake hands, the churcn architecture and the church surrouadings | saying to the people, "Come in and be at home." Instead of that, I think all these surroundings often compel the peo? pie to stay out. Now, let us all repent of our sins and begin on the other track, and by our heartiness of affection and warmth of manner and imploration of the spirit of God compel the people to come in. How shall we lead sinners to accept the Lord invitation? I think we must certainly begin by a holy lite. We mast be better, men, better women, before we can1 compel the people to come into the kingdom of Jesus Cbaist. There are flue essays being written in this day about ' science and religion, I tell you the best argument in behalf of our holy Christianity?it is a good man, a good woman, a life all consecrated to Christ, No mfidel'can answer it. Oh, let us by a holy example compel the people to come in! I read of a minister of the gospel who was very fond of climbing among the Swiss mountains. Oae day he was climbing among very dangerous places and thonght himself all alone when he heard a voice beneath him say, "Father, look out for the safe path. I am following," and he looked back, and he saw. that he was climbing not only for himself, but climbing for his boy. Oh, let us be sure and take the safe path! Ou: children are following; our partners in hnsiness are following; our neighbors are following, a great multitude stepping right on in ou? steps. Oh, be sure and take the right path! Exhibit a Christian example, and so by your godly walk compel the people to" come in. I think there is work also in the way of kindly admonition. I do not believe there is a person in this house who, if approached in a kindly and brotherly manner, would refuse to listea. If you are rebuffed, it is because you lack in fact and common sense. But, oh, how much effective work there is in the way of kindly admonition! There are thousands of men all around about you who have never had one~personal invitation to the cross. Give that one invitation, and you would be surprised at the alacity with which thev would accept it. I have a Mend, a Christian physician, who one day became very anxious about the salvation of a brother physician, and so he left his office, went down to this man's office and said. Is the doctore in?" "No," replied the young man waiting; "the doctor is not in." "Well," said rtiia nhx7oioio.n_ "when he comes. in. tell him I called and give him my Christian love." This worldly doctor came home after awhile, and the message was given to him, and he said within himself, "What does he mean ;by leading his Christian love for me?" And he became very much awakened and stirred in spirit, and he said after awhile, "Why, that man must mean my soul," and he went into his back office, knelt down and began to pray, Then he took his hat and went out to the office of this Christian and said, "What can I do to be saved?" and the two doctors knelt in the office and commanded their souls to God. All the means used in that case was only the voice of one good man saying, "Give my Chrirtian love to the doctor." The voice of kindly admonition. Have you uttered it today? Will you utter it tomorrow? Will you utter it now? Compel them to come in. I think there is a great work also to j be done in the way of prayer. If we liad faith enough today, we could go belore God and ask for the salvation of all the people in our churches, and they woula - 11 T? ?- rtnf n au oe savcu, mcic auu wcu, it^uuuh a single exception. There might be professional men there, political men there worldly men there, men who had not heard the gospel for 20 years men who are prejudiced against the mu3ic, men who are prejudiced against the church, men who are prejudiced against God?I do not care?they might be brought in by fervent prayer?you wculd compel them to come m. Oh, for such an earnest prayer! People of God, lay hold of the horns of the altar now and supplicate the salvation of all those who sit in the same pew with ? *? - r _ n i x you?yea, ine redemption 01 an wao sit in your churches. I tell you today, my iriends, of a great salvation. Do you understand what it is to have a Saviour? He took your place. He bore ycur sins. He wept ycur sorrows. He is here now to save your soul. A soldier, worn out in his country's service, look to the violin as a mode of earning hi3 living. He was found in the streets of Vienna playing his violin, but after awhile his hand became feeble and tremulous, and he could no more make music. One day, while he sat there weeping, a man passed along and said, "My friend, you are too feeble. Give me your violin," and he took the man?s violin and began to discourse most exquisite music, and the people gathered around in larger and larger multitudes, and the aged man held his hat, and the coin poured in and i poure.-!in until the hat was full. "Now," said the man who was playing the violin, "put that coin in your pockets." The coin was put in the old man's pockets. Then he held his hat again, and the violinist played more sweetly than ever and played until some of the people wept and some shouted, And again the hat was filled with coin. Then the 1 violinist dropped the instrument and passed off, and the whisper went: "Who is;it? Who is it?" and some one, just enterics the crowd, said: "Why, that is Bacher; the great violinist, known ail through the realm, Yes, that is the great violinists." The fact was, he had ju3t taken that man's place, and assumed his proverty, and borne his burden, and played his music, and earned his livelihood, and made sacrifice for the poor old man. So the Lord Jesus Christ comes down, and he finds us in our spiritual penury, and across the broken strings of his own broken heart he strikes a strain of infinites music, j which wins the attention of earth and heaven. He takes cur poverty. He plays our music. He weep3 our sorrow. He dies our death. A sacrifice for you. A sacrifice for me. Oh, will you accept this sacrifice no v ? I do not single oat this and that man and this and that woman. But I say all man nrtma ort io o 'O orroo f u-ioj wuuw? i.uo oaumuw 10 o j all may be saved, Does it not seem io you as if heaven was very near? I can feel its breath on my cheek. God i3^near. Christ is near. The Holy Spirit is near. Minlatariag angels are near, your glorified kindred in heaven near, your Christian father near, your glorified mother near, your departed children near. Your redemption is near. GOV. TILLMAN'S POSITION. He Is a Democrat and Will Vote Wlth His Party; Columbia, S. C., Sept. 19.?In an interview with a reporter of the Atlanta Constitution recently Governor Tillman said: "The origin of the accusation that Tillmanism in South Carolina is not Democracy was the adoption two years ago as a part of the State platform of the Ooala platform. That came about in this way. At the May convention to send delegates to Chicago there was a strong third party element composed of the more radical Alliance men. These men were clamorous for radical resolutions and there was taiK or instructions to me aeiegates to Chicago to withdraw in case of the nomination of Cleveland. To pacify them and prevent a division of the Democratic party, the Alliance demands were incorporated. I was a member of that convention and made a speech after the resolutions had passed, showing the absurdity and folly of our deserting the Democratic party and urging unity. We went to Chicago and did our utmost to prevent Cleveland's nomination. We were defeated, but like good Democrats, returned home and carried the State by a larger majority in proportion to population than any other Southern State. Only 2,000 Weaver votes were polled in the State. A? a reward some of our Reform Congressmen have been blacklisted and refused recognition by the President" "What is the claim made against you about you leaving the Democratic party when you see a gleam of light in the West?"I asked the Governor. "During the recent canvass between Butler and myself the only practical difference hot ween us was on the oues tion by whom paper money should be issued. I advocated the Issue of legal tender greenback direct to the people and the abolishment of national banks, while he favored the repeal of the State bank tax and the issue of paper money in that way. We both announced the belief that the South and West would have to get together before we secured any relief. But I went further than he did, and proclaimed that I was then and there ready, and I stand by it now, not to submit to or follow the dictation of Cleveland aDd his school of socalled Democrats. I announced the purpose to ally myself with the Western people, possibly under a name other than Democrats, in a struggle for free silver and financial relief whenever I saw a hope of such coalition capturing the government. I said then and I say now, that if Mr. Cleveland is a Democrat I am not one." "Upon what grounds do you hold Mr. Cleveland is not a Democrat ?" 'The apDoiDtment of a Republican to the highest position in hL cabinet, his joining forces with John Sherman and the Republicans against a majority of his party in the demonetization of silver; his veto of the seigniorage bill in face of the Chicago platform," and his debauching the House of Representatives and the Senate by the use of patronage in carrying out his anti-silver policy. These are my reasons for charging him with being more of a Republican than a Democrat." "What effect upon the Reform movement in South Carolina will the attempt of the Conservatives to reorganize the Democratic party in the State have?" "There is so much insolence and idiocy and blind rage combined in the preteDse of reorganization that I cannot think it will have any considerable following. The Democratic party now organized will go on doing business at the old stand, with at least threefourths of the white people of the | State enlisted under its banner. The pretense that we are not Democrats because we do not bow to Cleveland is too shallow and transparent to deceive many. The leaders in this new crusade for straightout Democracy are more greedy after office?the crumbs from Cleveland's table?than they are for principle. They are sick nigh unto death with the long fast since they were turned out of power in th9 State in 1890." "What chance have they of controlling the Legislature ?" "Xone whatever, from the present signs of the times. I expect to go to the Senate if I live." "Will you affiliate with the Democrats ?" "Of course I will, with the decent, honest ones, who stand by the party platform, as interpreted by sensible, honest men, and not by knaves and charlatans; but I expect to vote with absolute independence, always looking to the best interests of the masses of the people." Lady Odd FeUows. Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 20.?The tmra aay s session 01 ine sovereign Grand Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., was opened at Lookout Inn this morning at 9 o'clock. The report of the commission appointed to locate and erect a building as headquaters of the order in Baltimore was postponed indefinitely. The law requiring a canton tax was repealed. A Past Grand Masters' and Past Grand Patriarchs' Association was authorized for cash jurisdiclon. A special committee was appointed to Investigate the alleged misappropriation of funds donated to the Fargo sufferers. The temporary bond of S10000 each, made bv the Grand Secretary and grand treasurer, is to be made permanent after six months. Legislature on the admission of women to the order through the Rebekah Lodge came next. The new legislation admits the Odd Fellows and their wives and the white women over 18 years of age who >> "believe in the Ruler of the university Formely only the wives of ?dd Fellows were admitted. The ladies had their time of pleasure this afternoon, being taken as the guests of the local Rebeckah Lodge (Florece, No. 32) for a r drive over the government road to Mis sionary Ridge and Delong's place where a Bohemian luncheon was served ^Another tradition ha3 been shattered by the iconoclastic hand of science. The popular impressions concerning the bee must be revised, says an investigator of the honey-makers. The bee has long been praised for its industry and diligence, but it has recently been learned that in these respects the bee is a fraud. As a matter of fact, "the little busy bee" works but three hours a day, and is a most thoroughgoing loafer for the rest of the time. Must we give up forever the happy phrase, "the busy bee?" Let us that hope.the investigator is mistaken. A GOOD SPEECH. i JOHN G^RV EVANS DEFENDS THE OC^LA PLATFORM. What Ha Had to Ss.v Before the State Democratic Convention?He Will Be the Governor of the White People, and Not a Fact'on? Columbia, S. C., Sept. 21.?The following is the speech of the Hon. J ohn Gary Evans before the State Democratic Convention after the nomination for Governor: Gentlemen of the Convention and Fellow Democrats: Few men, gentlemen, In the history cf our State have been honored as I have been tonight by you. .Recognizing the fact of my youth T havs fpit. that. T nan indeed thank von from the bottom of my heart for this honor. I would be false to myself if I told you I thought this is the happiest hour of my life. I feel that the responsibility resting upon my shoulde rs is indeed great. But I feel that with the united democracy and with the people of South Carolina, whom you represent, supporting me in my effort for honestgovernment, that my efforts will not prove futile and that the will of the majority of the people of South Carolina will be carried out at all events [Applause.] Our government is a government of ; the majority, and should I be elected to the position of chief executive of your State, I feel that I would be false to you J should I not carry out the will of the ; majority, when it i3 fairly expressed, ; at all hazards. (Applause.) We are, gentlemen, Democrats. We ] are here men who fought for the prln- ! ciples of Democracy; we see here men 1 wbo sat upon the laps of their mothers and heard of the brave deeds of ttieir J fathers who fought for State's rights ] men who sat there, children then, men j now, Democrats now?men who imbibed Democracy with their mother's ; milt. Tell me tnat tnose men, leu me that those gray haired sires, could be ; false to South Carolina. It comes with bad grace, from any South Carolinian, seeing your complexion, seeing and hearing your principles, and hearing the voice of South Carolina expressed at the ballot box, to say that this grand old State Is not safe in your hands. (Applause.) There are some citizens in South Carolina who are fond of attaching a tail to their Democracy. We are Democrats. We are not Cleveland Democrats. We are not any other kind of qualified Democrats. We owe allegiance to no man. We owe allegiance to the principles which were fought for by you and your fathers and my father, and those principles must be maintained at all hazards. (Applause.) We have reached a state in the history of our country which was prophesied by your own statesman, Calhoun. We have reached a state now where parties ars not defined by principles, but are drawn by geographical lines. We find true Democracy in the South and in the West, the home of principle, whose men fouzht for Stats's rights, and who are against a centralized government. 1 We And on the contrary the opponents 8 of JefiEersonian Democracy, which means equal rights to all and special 1 privileges to none?we find those men? 8 living in the North and the East. We I find an effort to centralize the govern- 1 ment confined to a section which has e grown rich upon the success of princi- 1 pies which have robbed the farmers of the South and the West. What is our Democracy ? In 1896,1 t make the prophesy here that the South 1 and the West will be called upon to re- 1 deem the Democratic party from the ^ plunderer and the monopolist aad the 8 millionaire, who are growing fearful, if 8 they do not have centralization of the government that those will become the f halter that will surround their necks. 1 A great deal has been said in your I convention about Democracy. A great t deal has been said by people outside ( who attach tails to their Democracy 8 against you. In natural history we ^ read that the ape as he grows old be- * ? -g vi. t<- r comes suspicious UL urn iau. 10 rrui- ries him mentally and physically until c he dies, believing that that appendage is the causD of his death, buch will be t the fate of such Democrats in South * Carolina. (Applause.) There assembled in Ocala under the t Southern sun, under the shades of the t palmetto, and almost down on the t "Swanee Ribber," a body of the honest c yeomanry of the country. Those men e did not go there as politicians, not as ( representing party, but they were there representing the agricultural interests s of this nation. They set forth there 5 certain principles which are commonly C known as the Ocala platform. Those f principles were set forth as principles i that were necessary to rescue their gov- c ernment and to save your interests r which is the basis of all wealth, agri- ^ culturally, from the clutches of the P Northern Shy lock. e We who are dependent on agriculture o for our existence sympathized with, o them. We said in oar convention, -jluis * is true Democracy, and we endorse it E here,' and I endorse it now. (Applause.) But they say it is not Democracy, b Bear with me a minute, and let me e show the ignorance of people who crit- t icise and condemn you. Let me show o you that those people cannot recognize ii Democracy when they see it in print- f er's int. Let me refer to this platform, v The Democratic party in convention n assembled at Chicago endorsed a plat- o form of principles. They are true and ( represent honest government and are dear to the hearts of every one of you. e They have been endorsed by your con- a vention properly as true Democracy, ji and these principles connected with e them have been endorsed, ana I will a show you that the National Democrat- a ic party in convention assembled in Chicago has incorporated a majority of g those principles, and that the Demo- b cratic majority in Congress have en- t acted into law every principle of that e platform adopted save one. p Is not that the highest evidence of its Democracy ? li It reads as follows: "We demand the t abolition of national banks." That is I Democracy as formulated in Sec. 8 of \ the Chicago platform. When they o asked for the abolition of the tax on v State banks what did that mean? It v meant death to national banks because they cannot compete with State banks g whose issue is untaxed. c "We demand that the amount of the o circulation medium be speedily in- e creased to not le3S ttan $50 per capita." a The National Democratic platform de- d plored the state of affairs of the farm- t ers of the country, calling attention to y the tremendous mortgage indebtedness e upon the farm3, and called on Congress r toafEord relief, flow was that to be a obtained if not by an increase of the t circulating medium i So that plank is included m the national platform. "We demand that Congress shall pass such law3 as will effectuallyprevent the i dealing in futures of all agricultural a and mechanical prod uctions; providing b a stringent system of procedure .in tn- o als that will secure the prompt convie- t tion, and imposing such penalties a3 l shall secure the most perfect compli- p ance with the law. That has passed d the House of Congress, where the Dam- y ocratB had over 80 majority, but was I defeated by the Senate. So, is not that d adopted by the Democracy ? v "We condemn the silver bill recently s passed by Congress, and demand in lieu y thereof the free and unlimited coinage d of silver." That demand is made abs'o- r lutely in section 7 of the Democratic & platform. ft English means anything a it means that free and unlimited coin- f age was demanded by the Democratic a party, but under the prostitution of the y .President of the United States a dif- b ferent construction was placed upon s: that demand and we were cheated and d defrauded of Its beneiits. (Applause. "We demand the passage of laws prohibiting alien ownership of land, and that Congress take prompt action to devise some plan to obtain all lands now owned by aliens and foreign syndicates; and that all land3 now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of such as is actually used and needed by them be reclaimed by the government, and held for actual settlers." That is the section 6 of the Democratic platform adopted at Chicago, and almost identical in language. "J3elieving in the doctrine of equal rights to ali and special privileges to none." Those are JeHersonian principles which are set forth in the Chicago platform. "We demand that cur national legislation shall be so framed in the future as not to build up one industry at the expense of another." This is' almost identically section 5 of the Democratic platform adopted at Chicago. "We further demand a removal of the existing heavy tariff tax from the necessities of life that the poor of our land must have." That is the Democratic plafhk of the Chicago platform demanding a tariff for revenue only. But what have we today ? We have a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate and a Democratic President, and we had the right to expect a tariff for revenue only, and yet we have a bill comparatively better than the McKinIey bill. Why? Because the South and the West now raise raw materials cheaper than the Northeast, and they leave a high protective tariff on ma^ifactured products and demand free i?W materials because the farmers consume manufactured articles and sell the raw materials. We asked for bread and they gave us a stone. "We further demanded a just and equitable system of graduated tax on income." That is not incorporated in the Democratic platform, but it has been passed a3 a law by the Democratic party in Congress. And that is the tumbling block which will make Republicans of every Democrat in the Northeast. Already the Republican Legislature in one Northern State has ratified the course of the Democratic Senators of that State in their opposi;ion to this measure, which is not in :his platform, and which has been enhv tho TTnito/i Sfal-oa nnncrrps* And yet these men, these men who say ;bat we are not Democrats, support a man who voted against that provision, i man who leagued with the Republicans to defeat that provision, and to iefeat silver legislation and other principles of pure Democracy included in ;he Democratic platform. "We demand'the most rigid, honest md just State and national government control and supervision of the means of public communication and transportation, and if this control and tupervision does not remove the abuse low existing, we demand the government ownership of such means of communication and transportation." They lave never demanded the government cwnershipof railroads. They simply lemanded the control of the railroads, md when we come to the point when t will be necessary to keep them from iwnlng the people then we will demand rovernment ownership, and not till hen. Is not that pure Democracy and :or the protection of the people ? That las been enacted by Congress when ,he interstate commerce bill became a aw and we only ask that the commislion be given full power. When you passed your railroad commission law ycu gave your commission ibsolute control of the railroads, with lower to fix rates, schedules, connec;ions, etc., but you have never demandid ownership of the roads and you do lot desire it. "Wfi demand that the Congress of the Jolted States submit an amendment to he Constitution providingffor the elecion of Uiuted States Senators by diect vote of the people of each State." rhe Democratic Congress has that enicted into law and a Democratic Senite defeated it. So you see every plank of that platorm save one, which is the sub-treasiry, is included in the Democratic >latform and those which are not have >een enacted into law by a Democratic Congress. The sub-treasury is simply i plan put forth as an evidence of a Lisease existing among the farmers 7ho demanded of these doctors of the lation to do something to cure that lisease. Have not the peopie the right to peition Congress ? I maintained this beore the people and I claim that they tave such a right under the Constituion of the United States. I am a rue Democrat and I stand on the naional Democratic platform and I stand a the Ocala platform. I will not fool oy people, let it cost me what it may. Lcud applause.) Now, gentlemen of the convention, I ay this because it ha3 been flung in our faces as a taunt. We in South ^orAlmo ot?Q O Wfi ah ATS 1/1 yaiviiua t*j.c a uuuic povj/iu* v* v lot cherish animosity and do not. ' We nvite every true and honest citizen to ome with us and join in this bill of ights to preserve white supremacy. Vhite supremacy is worth more than :arty principle (loud applause) and the aan who oppose these demands, who pposes the free and unlimited coinage t silver, cannot stand before his peo>le and claim to be a Democrat. (Ap>lause.) We are a united people. We stand lere united, and if I thought, gentleaen, that my nomination and my elecion meant unhappiness to the people f South Carolina and threatened the nstitutions of my State, which I love, or every true patriot loves his State, 1 yould ask you to take back this nomllafcion, and I would pray God to put ut the snark which erlows in my heart. Appiause.) If elected I shall be Governor of the ntire people. I shall know no faction nd shall see that the will of the maority is obeyed and the interests of the ainority are protected by all the law nd power which is placed in my hands 3 your Chief Executive. (Applause.) And now I shall leave you. I conxatulateyou on the work that you .ave today. I congratulate you upon he bold manner in which you remaind steadfast to principles and the ledges you made to the people. I promise you that the Dispensary aw, which seem* to be the bone of conention among some people, but which believe to be the only solution of the phiskej problem,.and the only rescue f the people from the tyranny of the whiskey ring, I shall enforce to the ery letter. (Applause.) I thank you for your kind support, ;entlemen. I thanx you as the Demoratic party and as the Representatives f the people, and when I pledge you ay heart, wheD I pledge you my hand, nd when I pledge you my head, I have one all that mortal can do. You do he rest and support me, and I assurou that the proud banner of the P al aetto State which you have placed in ay hands shall never trail in the dust ? inn* as Smith Carolinians are trua o principle and to South Carolina. Executed with Ballets. Lehi Junction, Utah, Sept. 19.? inoch Davis, the wife murderer, died : 110.-15 this morning with six rirle; iullets in his breast. About thirty j ilicers and reporters were present at he execution, but no minister. At 0 40 he was placed in a chair with a lank at his back. The penitentiary octcr pinned a prescription blank rith a black mark over the heart. )avls was given liquor and strapped own. lie protested, as he said he ranted the sharpshooters out in plain lght, instead of in the tent as they rere, and he said he did not want to ie "like an Indian." When all was eady the marshal cried: "Make ready, ake aim, tire!" Six 3hots were lired, nd Davis moved slightly and gasped aintly. The doctor said it was only contraction of the muscles. Death ras practically Instantaneous. Pour ullets pierced the paper, two at the ide, and one ball pierced the blaok aark. f SILVER TONGUE SiLENCED. The Successful Campaign of the Women for Purity la Pollilc?. Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 15.?A special from Lexington, Ky.,says: The women who have made the most noble fight during the campaign against the defarmer of their sex gave a last appeal in the local press here this morning, and today at 10 o'clock they met with the ministers in Morrison Chapel to cffer up a prayer for Breckinridge's dsfeat. The following is a sample of the many small cards issued by them this morning: To the Men of Ashland District: We, the wives, mothers and sisters of many of $e voters of the Ashland District, appeal to the voters to help U3 in this fight against Col. Breckinridge. It 13 the figlit of virtue against vice, and we appeal to the brave men of this glorious /I'M /-liofyi/if +/-\ Violr, na or in fViio tiorhf Q'lr? UAU UlOlllOli WV u -J tt iu u^uwf mum we will pledge ourselves to go on from this to other and equally useful victories, and in a short time we will free our lovely city from the curses which now endanger our beloved one\ to-wit: The saloon, the corner grocery, houses of the scarlet women, the gambling hells, the race tracks, and will redeem the fair name of our city and our district. (Signed) Manv Women. Lexington, Ky., Sept. 15,6 P. M.? Estimate of complete returns from Scott County, Owen's home, give Owens 1,600 majority. Owens claims nomination by 1,000 plurality. Lexington, Ky., Sept. 15.?All the cities in the district are heard from. Breckinridge carries Lexington by about 200. Frankfort, complete, gives O wens 658, Breckinridge 276, Settle 70. George town, Owens's home, give Owen's 452. Breckinridge 28. Owenton, Settle's heme, goes lor Breckinridge. Paris goes 13 for Owens. Frankfort, Ky., Sept. 15,?Woodford County, with two acknowledged Owens precincts to be heard from, gives Owens 256 over BrecKinridge. Scott County, Georgetown, Owena 415 Breck inridge 28, Settle 7. Henry County prvklnan/ia "rr?r>binridor? ?1 owknr 87 ' JL-illliUUUOV^ v w >* w?? ? > Settle 45. Bourbon County, Hutchison, Brecnkiiidge 45, Owens 33, Settle I. Lexington, Ky? Sept. 15.?The 1 Breckinridge people practically concede that they are defeated by Owens. Fights were numerous throughout the district \ but only one man is reported badly hurt, madeline" pollard's revenge. Lexington, Sept. 15.?Midnight to- 1 nigfct Col. Breckinridge was in his headquarters surrounded by the friends who 1 have stood by him in all his troubles. He was a crushed and disappointed man. Just a3 the last news was coming in he turned from the table where his son, Desha, was figuring upon the returns, ! and said: "It is my own county of , Fayette that gives me greatest grief. 1 1 thought she would give me at least 800 majority, I and many of my friends expected as much as 1,500. Instead of that mv majoritv in my own county is only 205. In Woodfield we also ex- ' pected a majority of several hundred, bat the county has gone against me as has Franklin, another county that I 1 thought would give me a small majority. They are holding back i'ne returns from ' Scott Coun ty for the purpose, I believe ( of declaring them if the news from the other counties does not suit the O wens people. In this way they will probably defeat me. I had expected Scott to go 1 for Owens t>y about 1,200 majonty, ( but of course they can fix returns to suit themselves." 1 The Colonel's headquarters seemed 1 almost like a tomb, but the Colonel him- 1 seit held up well uuoer ms aeieawu;cu he did not fally acknowledge and talking aDOut his fatnre plans said: "I expect to live out my days right here in Kentucky and will countinue to go in and o ut 1 among these people until I am laid u ;ay in the beautiful cemetery where sleep all that is mortal of my ancestors. As I said to these people on the stump, if j they do not chose to send me back to Congress I will find some otber sphere in which to labor for them." Col, Breckinridge is ia splendid health, but he presents a sad sight. To-night around tys headquarters everything was silent as the grave and one square further down, the Owens headquarters, thousands cfyouag men and old ones too, were making night hideous with their yells, blowing tin horns and shouting for Owens. Gen Gentry proposed three cheers foi the women in the distnX. and th?v were suven with such a will as to almost deafen people who were standing on the other side of the street. They then gave three cheers for the newspaper correspondents. Chinese Naval Dl iaster. London, Sept. 19.?A dispatch to the Central News from Shanghai dated September 19th, mictoigkt, says: "A number of officers who were engaged in the naval battle on the Yalu river have arrived at Port Arthur with half a dozen war 8bip3 badly damaged and filled with wounded men." The dispatch says that the Chinese admiral, Ting's, fleet* 1 left port on Friday eveniiig to convoy seven transports conveying a large force 1 of troops. A number of Europeans in the perverice of the Chinese admiralty ] accompanied the troops, which were to ; be laqded uear Wipi, from which point ! they were to be sent to the front. These troops comprised some artillery but were mostly composed of infantry. Nothing was seen of the eoemy uatfi the Chinese fleet reached the mouth ol the ] Yalu river when a fleet of Japanese war 1 ships was sighted. Thereupon the trans- ^ ports were harried forward and the war ] 3hip3 were cleared for action. The ef- < fort of the transports to land the troops were successful, and most of them were gotten ashore before the naval battle began. The Chen Yuen was the first vessel to open fire, and was soon engaged with two Japanese war ships of about the same size, one of which is supposed to have been the cruiser Chi Yoda. Soon all ftl the vessels of both fleets were engaged with the Chinese cruisers. The Chin Yuen and King Yuen were sunk and 600 officers and men on board of them were drowned. Only a few ot the men struggling in the water were picked up. The Chao Yung and Youn Wei, in manoeuvering for more advantageous position, got into shallow water and ran around. The stranded vessels were helpless under the fire of the guns of the Japanese ships, and were finally set on fire by the enemj's shells ana became wrecks. It is feared that some of the traussports ship3 were sunk, including one whose troop3 had not yet been ? fpi.. Insa pf.imatftd iHLlUCUt JL UO vuiuvww *vww *w ? >>?? at 1,500 killed and wounded, and the Japanese loss is supposed to be 1,000; but none ol the Chinese officers giving accunts ol the battle, know the names or the size of the lour vessels of the enemy which are alleged , to have been destroyed. Taking ? the Chinese best view ol the battle, it is f plain that the encounter has resulted in e seriously crippling the naval strength of 13 China. On Monday near Bowling Green, j Ky., a negro fellow, by name Moses [ Christopher, assaulted a little girl of 7 t years old, daughter of Mr. Jndson Car- ii ter. The child is in a very critical con- s dltion. The liend was captured and a o large crowd was in favor of lynching 7 him at once, but being assured that j us- a tice would be done by the law allowed ^ him to be put in jail. Oa Tuesday he 1 was iDdicted, arraigned before the ? Court, convicted and sentenced to be " hanged on the 14th of November. All a o which is most respectfully referred o our own Courts. 3 ? A GREAT BATTLE. THE CHINESE DEFEATED WITH MUCH LOSS OF LIFE. The Japanese Make sn Attack on the Chlntso and Utterly Kont Them?Over Sixteen Thousand Chinese Killed, Wounded or Captured. London, Sept. 17.?A-. Central News dispatch from Seoul, dated 6 p. m?, September 16, says a great battle has been fought at Ping Yang between Chinese and Japanese troops, in which the former were utterly routed Oa Thursday a Japanese column from Pong San made a reconnaisance in force, drawinc the fire of the Chinese forts, and thus ascertained their positions. The columns then fell back in good order. By Friday all the JaDanese were in nosi tion for a combined attack upon the enemy. The Gen. San column threatened the left flank of the Chinese, the Pon San column threatening the Chinese center, while the Whang Ju column operated agalnist the right, which had been reinforced the day berore by detachmens of marines from the fleet at the mouth of Taiton river. The Chinese had utilized the old defenses at Ping Yang and had thrown up new works, making their position exemotionally strong. The battle wa3 opened Saturday at daybreak by a Japanese connonade on the Chinese works, which was continued without cessation until the afternoon the Chinese responding. The work with heavy guns showed good practice. At shout 2 o'clock a body of infantry was thrown forward by the Japanese maintained arifim fire upon the enemy until dark. Throughout the day only the PongSan column was engaged. The Chinese defences had suffered greatiy, bat losses on either side were small, both Chinese and Japanese having taken advantage of all shelter available. Japanese troops, however, bad gained some advanced positions. Toe firing contmued at intervals during the night and in the meantime two Japanese tanking columns hadjformed a cordon around the Chinese. At 3 o'clock in the morning sd ? 4 tn /\V* !?.% -? MA A J A \m-? 4 ?-> A TAM AM AAA /* A1 uiiaufi wae uxauo uy iuc japauuoo tuiumns simultaneously and with admiraDie precision. The Chinese lines, which were so strong hi front, were found to be weak in the rear, and her* the attack was a perfect success. The Chinese were completely taken by surprise and were thrown Into a paic. Hundreds were cut down and those who escaped death, finding themselves surrounded at every point, broke and fled. Some of Viceroy L'.-Huag-Chang European drilled troops stood their ground to eastward and were cat down to a man. The Pong San column, 5warming ever defences in front, completed the route. A half an hour aftir the attack opened, the positions at Ping Yang were in possession of the Japanese. It i3 estimaed that 20,000 Chinese soldiers were engaged in the battle, The Japanese captured immense stores of provisions, amunitions of war and hundreds of colors. \ The Chinese loss is estimated at 16,000 Killed, wounded and taken prison ers. Among those captured by the Japanese are several of the Chinese commanding officers, inclading General Tso Fang, commSnder-in-chief of the Manchurian army, who was severely wounded. The -Japanese loss is only thirty killed and 270 wounded, including eleven officer. Most of the losses amng the Japanese occurred during the hrst day's fight and very fo* were the result of the uight attack. The Japanese forces are in active pursuit of fugitives, who have thrown a^ay their arms ana icadiiy yielded themselves prisoners. A desultory war may be carried on for some time to come, but unless China I Bhall succeed in getting another army into the peninsula Corea will undoubtedly remain in possession of the Japanese. Taefe Trust. New Yoke, Sept. 19.?The Atlas Tack Corporation has become a trust. It controls 90 per cent, of the tack and shoe nail product of this country. This monopoly was formed originally ten years ago. Its plan of operation then was to take in competing Interest ana pay premiums on profits; also to pay the expenses of men unemployed because of being laid off by the trust. The annual profits then were about SI, 000,000. But some 40 per Qpnt. went tor "dead wood," or idle men. January 1 last the corporation sent out a new price list, prices being advanced an average of 10 to 12 per cent. January 24 a second list showed an additional increase of a similar percentage. It was not until April 14 though that the Boston corporation showed its hand in full by making an additional increase, which has been figured out by an expert in this city at 33 13 to 35 per cent, over the other two increases. This makes a total increase over the prices before January 1 last of from 60 to 65 per cent. While the profits under the old combination were SI,000,000, of which 40 per cent, weat for premiums, etc., Treasurer Barks is declared on good authority to have 3atd that the present profits are from 52,000,000 to $3,000,000 a year, with nothing to be paid for premiums or "dead wood^ __ Cotton Never So Low, New York, Sept. 21.?A new low price record was made lor cotton today when October contracts sold at 6 27 and further sold off to 6.24. The lowest previous record was in 1892, when. March contracts sold at 6.28. 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