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W. D. | ALWAYS SELI ctmeb mm km richuu DRY GOODS, NO SHOES, HATS, Ml SUITS, SKIRTS, E A NICE TO SELE t W - I STANDARD C wj i ^ik i 3)f All Tsrieties early Cabbages, Tom jg All kinds of garden seed, ft/ Large, hardy, frost-proof Cabba | HARMON DRUG CO r 1 Foley's , Kidney Pills What They Will Do for You They will cure your backache, fcfrengthen your kidneys, cor* Waall A IUIUA1/ UiC(UiaiiUC9| WUliU Bp the worn oat tissues, and eliminate the excess uric acid that causes rheumatism. Prevent Bright's Disease and Dia* bates, and restore health and strength. Refuse substitutes* For Sale By Harmon Drujr Oo. IP Jjjjf THE Mf WW ? li Ma W W SX IBVSffiio WAFLTAflTED FO71 ALL TIME. Ifyo: -nrc-ha.se the NEW HOME yon v,*:D i^ve a k:\; a. .-v t at the price you pay.*id vriij aot have an endless chain of repairs. llghT-^rtf Qoa^r Hi-fi j 1 if%t, f jSl Considered "T^PSST iuA>s aeapes\ a;.i. m me ena tobuy. b If you Tran! a sewin? machine, write for ?mr Latest catalogue before you purchase. to !te So?? toJris Co.. Orange, Mass. City Hotel and Cafe, AMERICAN and rnnnnr m tmmm GOOD CLEAN ROOMS NEAR THEATRE AND STATE CAPITOL American Rates $1.25 to $2.00 European Rates, Rooms, 50c and up. Sirs, L. !. KfiKINEB, Proprietress, 12IS Main Street Phone- S51 COLUMBIA, S. C. .S IT FOR LESS I ID STS. C0LUM8IA, S, C. TIONS, CLOTHING, [LLINERY, LADIES' TC DT ALWAYS CT FROM I :opse:::5 ~| SARDEN SEEP| atoes, Beets, Peas, Bears, Corn, etc. fe Ferry's, Crossman's. Bulk. )K &e Plants, 16c per 100?now ready. J1]^ LEXINGTON, S. C. || Many a man is praised for his ability when the trnth of the matter is that 1 he simply stumbled on an opportun- < ity. A female philosopher says that as long as a woman can keep out of a man's reach she can keep him thinking she is worth reaching for. The mother-in-law usually has a good deal to say, but about all the poor old father-in-law has to do is to pay the freight and say nothing. If your children are subject to attacks of croup, watch for the first symptom, hoarseness. Give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as soon as the child becomes hoarse and the attack may be warded off. For sale by all dealers. 4 We seldom take a deep aim vital in- 1 tere-t in the affairs of our neighbors? 1 unless they owe us money. - i " t ] I THE MOST COMPLETE LINE WE ' HAVE EVER SHOWN IN HARNESS, ! SADDLES, COLLARS, ! BRIDLES, ROBES, HORSE BLANKETS, i ETC. We have a special home-made slip ] Harness for one-horse wagon at ] $5.00. ( A Set of Baggy Harness for $ 10.00. We buy Hides, Fars, Tallow, Beeswax and pay highest market prices. Wilsa W. Martin, 1116-11 IS Plain Street, COLUMBIA S. C. MAD AS HORNETS Tillman's Reply to Gov Blease Stir3 S. C. Senate. DOES ABNEY BOSS LEGISLATURE? For the First Time in His Political Career Senator Tillman is Placed on the Defensive. Is the Star of . Tillmanism on the Wane? Columbia, S. C.?U. S. Senator B. R. Tillman, in his message to the South Carolina Sod ate replying to the attack of Governor Blease on him, stirred np a hornet's nest. He branded the governorofS. 0., demagogue since the oowlv snnola nf Ro/i'fl. and charared VOUJ wwmw?W W* ? that Ool. Abney was running the 8. U. Senate. % Thia latter attack brought forth a storm of denunciation and protest from the Senate. Senator Carlisle thought neither of the messages should be printed; Senator McLaurin did not think the Senate had the constitutional right to refuse publication to the governor^ message; Senator Nicholson iuggested that if Governor Blease's message be allowed to remain in the T/vnanal in oi/nriit? inotipo f KOf nf TT S VUUIIUU| 1U Oilv? juoiuu VUUIP vr*. w ? v^? Senator Tillman should also. Finally the matter of purging the Journal of the messages or letting them stay was postponed until Thursday's meeting. After thanking the S.*C. senate for their courtesy in awaiting his reply to the governor's attack. Senator Tillman.in his reply says: ' 'Cati;ine among the Romans, and Aaron Burr among the Americans, are the only other men I have ever read of who were equal to Blease in bamboozling the people". 'He is a pastmaster i. the arts of a demagogue." The following extracts from the Tillman message, which is a very long one, bear directly on the charges made by Goyernor Blease against Senator Tillman. They are taken from various parts of the message: He knows full well that when the angry passions of the masses are aroused, they lose their reason. He desires to come-to the senate, as he boasted he would do at Richmond in December last, and feels it obligatory on him to aggravate conditions in South Carolina as much as possible.. Whether this is the right way or not j will be shown by the results of the | 1. *?T# Oon jeAb HOUALUi lai jji luxai j . xl i'?u uuuuu Carolina nowspapors do not help him jy abase and misrepresentation, he vill never get there, Right here I desire to call attention :o the evidence going to show that jtovernor Blease and certain friends )f his were in a conspiracy; the friends o write me pretending to be my xiends, draw me oat as to my attitude towards him, and then show him the etters. Otherwise, how did he come nfco possession of so many of my letters narked "personal and confidential"? -I have the original letters at Tren:on to show that perhaps one hundred nen wrote me along the same lines, rhese letters came think and fast and ny answers were always marked personal.' It is very evident that Blease lias seen many of my letters ivhich were marked personal and the recipient asked not to show them to myone. Thus it can be seen whether :hey were secret or not. Some of those rorrespondents who were Blease's ?riends hastened to show them or to send him copies. They were- in 110 tfay the "secret letters'' he would lave the people believe, but letters A'hich ought to have been secret as iarasthe public was concerned and is far as Blease himself was concerned. But I am not concerned about the Blease conspiracy with his friends as nuch as I am about clearing myself >f the charge of writing secret letters :pr the purpose of stabbing him in :he back. The charge of hypocrisy can best De answered by poiuting to my public md private life. It there is any vice in human beings that I despise, it is Hypocrisy and double-dealing. It is uext to cowardice, the most despicable Hf human traits. 3d. The conspiracy with W. E. Gonzales is not conceivable or believable by anyone except a man, who in his desecration. made that charge in order to fire the hearts of his followers. The people of South Carolina well understand the relations between the Gonzales brothers and the Tillmans. The feud is of long standing and well informed people know what provocation theTilhnan.s have had and with what relentless energy and with what ability the Gonzales brothers have prosecuted their side of it. I do not wish to stir theerabers of this feud anew, and I have no such purpose in calling attention to this long-standing | quarrel. Governor Blease irnows that I lip did not believe, when he wrote liis dodger last August, that I had "in?-red into any conspiracy whatever with W. K. Gonzales. I have been told that the Gonzales brothers voted for nu? in the Drimary Inst August. Whether this is so or not. I do not know and do i.ot care. Bat } know rhat I never saw Pat McUowan or I j read Gonzales' private telegrams to him, which some of Blease's friends stole off the wire, and if I had it would not have influenced me at all. Right here, I will ask Governor Blease to answer, point blank, how did he get copies cf Gonzales' telegrams to McGowau? He is such a stickler for the forms of honesty in others, will he be honor bright and 4-rtll n f mhA rfA fVi rtm 0 ten ua xx u\j oiuxc t At this point Senator Tillman introduced a letter from Mr. A. M. Carpenter, of Anderson, S. C., on the origin and genuineness of the Ferguson letter written by Senator Tillman. Farther on,Senator Tillman says: The fourth charge of jealousy is so ridiculous that I cannot bring myself , to consider it seriously. Ben Tillman jealous of Cole Bleaset '1 is unthinkable, and were I to answer it seriously I would be convicted in the minds of all sensible people in Sonth Carolina of the next charge: or Cole Blease Crazy!" 5th. Feebleness of'mind. Whether my mind is feebl8 or not the people will judge fos themselves. I am willing to leave it to any jury in South Carolina, Bleaseites or others, whether Ben Tillman i9 feeble-minded or Cole Blease is crazy. The Blease circular issued on August 25th, which he republishes in the message, says (and ho prints it in capitals), "I have never seen the Ferguson letter, and did not know what was in it until I saw it in the newspapers, and when Gonzales says I did and that 'Blease will fight Tillman' he wired what wa9 willfully untrue." I was elected in spite of him, and he was elected in spite of me. I got more votes than he did and teel that lam a better representative of the Slate than he will ever be; was abetter governor than he has made; and have made a better senator than he can possible make. While what he save about the May convention and the Southern Railway j lawyers may be true, he could not wriggle away from the fact that Ben Abney lives in the executive mansion, although it is the people's house and nnt. a. hntfil T nm informed that his salary is greater than all other Southern Railway lawyers in tae State. He is the real octopus which strangles g Be< 1 I Lets start the 1 of new customc in the price of " of the many hui with us in realfc the best goods j money? If not, every article yc ness they have 1 your iurltier pa SHUN ! Nev I ! 1 v^. i f We will hi ; ^ COME H* XQ&r id iSiF - tlie legislature and persuades it to do his bidding, and has conference with Blease whenever he sees fit. Abney Nichols and Pardons. Governor Blease ask me specifically to say why I "dragged in the names of Colonel Abney and Hon. Sam J. Nichols, and if I did so voluntarily.'' etc. I certainly did, and I ask him again to explain why no one in South n .1: t. ? ? ?J ? 1 1 v^aruiiiitt cu LI get a paruuu uuiess* at* applies to some of Blease's lawyer friends. UnltS3 all information obtainable by me is false, no man in South Carolina need present an appli cation for pardon, unless one of his pardon mongers has received a fee for it. Blease is too good a lawyer to think or believe that Ferguson't affidavit will fool anybody into believing that he had never 6oen my letter to Ferguson. While I know nothing about Ferguson, and never saw him, L do not believe he answered to the exact truth A man can lie by suppressing the truth as well as by telling it directly, and a man with an easy conscience can uorcAf t./-? almnat: anvf.hincr ? ?J n. The sixth charge of having lent myself to signing my name to an article prepared by some one else, whom he designated as a "statesman without a job" and this "astute big ex," meaning thereby, I presume, ex-Gov. John Gary Evans, is shown to be false by the following affidavit from C. G Wyohe, one of my secretaries, a son of Hon. C. T. Wyche, and a brother of Hon. C. C. Wyche, of Sparranburg. Washington City, District of Columbia. Personally appeared before me C G. Wycbe, who on oath makes the following statement: I am a stenographer in Senator Tillman's office, and h( dictated the letter to Harrison Ferguson, of Spartanburg, S. O., to me. No one was in the office except Senator Tillman and myself, as well as I remember, and I know that no one else had anything to do with its dictation to me. C. G. WYCHE. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of January, A. D. 1813. R. B. NIXON Notary Public Does Abney Write Messages? r<nn/N?nnv Plfiaoalo /ih QTCTOfi tVlJlf" T ?1. UUVCIUI'I JLI1DUOU a -> ? gin N< New Year right. We have: :rs last year all because all we have sold. Not ldreds that have passed i cation 01 ine goou vaiues i 'ou have bought for the sin begin now. We will save iu buy. Thanking our friei given us this closing year tronage, we are9 respectli OS AND MM v Brookland S, 9 ivc a Fresh Shi] m an u 'E HERE AB0U1 MAKE YOUR CHC LUMBIA, S.1 , I lowed someone, "this astute big ex," J to dictate to me makes me willing to : ask him if Colonel Abney assisted him in writing this message, His anxiety about honesty is pathetic and reminds me of Hudibras? couplet. "No thief ever felf the halter drawn. With good opinion of the law." Being a low type of man himself, he does not realize and cannot conceive how any one else can be honorable, clean and aboveboard. I I will say in conclusion that I have read the bill introduced by Mr. Remberfc and heartily approve of it. I hope it will become a law, for it is nothing more than just that a newspaper shoald give a citizen who is attacked in its columns the opportunity to reply through the same channel. B. R. TILLMAN, How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.: We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially j able to carry out any obligations made | by his firm, , < XATTON AT, RANK OF COMMFRfTE. Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Care is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Pries 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take HaP's Family Pills for constipation. A Close Race Mr. Henry Wright, of Batesburg, came down in our settlement re. ently and jumped a big red fox and gave him a race of 2 hours and twenty-five minutes. He ran liim through Steedman down to the North Edisto swamp and caught him in the swamp. And at the same time we were having our fun with aI raccoon. We succeeded in catching him with one dog. A COON HUNTER. Foils a Foul Plot . When a shamef ui]plot exists between liver and bowels to cause distress by refusing to act, take Dr. Kiri's New Life Pills, and end such abun of your system. Tbey gently compel right action of 9tomach, liver and bowels, and restore your health and all good feelings. 25c at Harmon Drug Co. >w. made hundreds : we were right w9 are you one i i pieasani year we have given, allest amount of : you money on ads for the busi , and soliciting illy, STRONG, I II JJI jmcnt ol ^ ^ I rJAN 13 | >ice. I 11 |