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The Charleston House, JUST RECEIVED 1 Car Fresh Patent Flour, " Schumacher's " Daisy Double Patent, And "Oven Lifter," Single Patent. i Also, Low Grades from $2.75 per Bbl. Upwards. Fancy and Staple Groceries, Canned Goods, &c. Uif>- Drives in O lo tiling's IT n/t?, T>i\y Ciootlm, PO INTE IIS FO R THE PU BLIC. 05#" ???liniim.eliei**N Ooocls ??#~* ^ViO y^h^ ayn B?li?fib^iii.|S9 (Q>^ -/YlwiiyN t. Ii o 13est, IW Always tlie ?? , f?jT .?VI wa y tlie C? li e ?pe s t. Otto . Schumacher, Walhalla, S. C. ' ?-?ocla * ?.elee cl nud X>eli>rei*ecl Free, T. N. Carter & Co ster, s. c. The Leaders of Low Prices. A .RIO propared to sell you bettor geode und givo you botter bargains Iban ever. few nice Summer Suits still on hand that we will soli cheap. A nico lino of Hats and Shoes to suit tho season. Call and seo our lino of Ladies' and Misses' Tan Colored Oxfords. They aro all tho go in tho way of foot wear this season. Wo also have a very largo and well soloctcd stock of Shoes of all kinds at prices cheaper than ever. very large stock of Shooting and Shirting, Drills and Plaids kept constantly in stock. Wo invite any one needing a Saddle, bridle or a pair of Harness to call and in spect our St?ck and you will agree with us that wo can mako it to your interest to buy of us. Call on us if you want a Road Cart or Wagon cheap. fUSt received two cars of Klonr, uno car of Sali, CqrU and Hran. Wo carry the largest stock of Flour in this country and will soli you as cheap as any one. largo stock of Hardware, Glassware, Crockery, Tinware, Window Class, Putty, Faints, Oils, Varnish, White and bed Load, Faint Brushes; <\, kept con stantly on hand. Sugar, Syrup, Molasses, Macon, Lard, Ool?eo, Rice, Tobacco, Snuff, tho best to ho had, kept constantly in stock. EU RN ITU lili ! FTJRN1 T U RE ! ! Call and price our nice lino of Ilodstends, iiuronus, liressors, Center Tables, Springs, Lounges, iVrc, boforo buying. COFFINS ! The nicest lino of Collins and Caskets, P.urial Suits and Robes over brought to ihisjplaco. Collins will ho trimmed and titled up at all hours. Highest market price paid for Wool and other Country Produce, (live us a call. Thanking our friends for past favors and trusting for a continuance of the same in the futuro, wc arc, very respectfully, T. N. CARTER & CO. COFFINS ! The .Gem of the Mountains. f|HTF highest town Fast of the Hockey X .Mountains, is Ilium. .\ \ N. Q.J altitude, Main Streot, :i,S17 foot. Finest all-round climate: .summer bout rarely aboyo 80?; ico-COhl springs; grandest wa ter-fails and mountain scenery; llncst timber and almost al! known minorale. Croat summer and winter resort. The lli<//tltiiitis slur, $i por year? 5o. por-copy} full of information. COIS UROS., Pub lishers, Highlands, Macon county) X. C. In the Land of tho Sky. Merchant Tailor. 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R. .Johnson, Superintendent, Columbia, S. O. CoiiuiilHHioitor Butler to Cupt. Ti liman. THIS COMMISSIONER ANSWERS TUE E 8 MADE AOAINST ,E AND IIIS DEPARTMENT IN TIM. STAn'S latest SPEECH. I havo just rond Captain , K. Tillinun's charges against tho De partment of Agrloulturo and against myself, mnde in his Greenville speech. As ho took tho trouble io writ? them out for the reporters, there is no possibility of his saying hereafter that ho was misquoted. ? For tho past four or iivo years I havo been compelled to meet and ox pose his charges, and havo endeav ored in all that time to keop within tho bounds of decency. My efforts have been to troat him courteously under strong provocation to do otherwise. If I now depart from that rule I trust the pooplo of South Carolina will attribu? o it to tho just indignation of a man and a public servant who feels himself persistent ly, maliciously and willfully slan dered. His first and second statements, that "the bureau has made no hon est effort to protect tho farmers against being swindled by buying guano below tho antee," anil that "it has not enforced its own regulations,'' arc simply false, as the reports of the Department will show. These are general statements, that can only be answered in a similar manner. When a specific statement is made, it will be answered as it de serves. His third statement that "although the law is known to be defectivo and the punishment inadequate, no attempt has been made by the Board or Commissioner to have it amended, except that the matter was mention ed in one of the Department reports several years ago," he likowiso knows to be untrue, but being more spe cific can be met in a more positive manner. At my request several bills were introduced in the Legislature at different times. Two of these may be cited : One by Col. E. R. Molver at tho session of 1885, which passed tho House and failed in tho Senate (see House Journal, session 188 ), pages 120, ln<>, 175, 335 and 3 10,) and another at the session of 18h7, introduced by Senator You mans, but failed in the Senato, I think. This latter bill I havo not had time to trace through the Jour nals. These two are sufficient to disprove the charge that the Com missioner has not made an effort to have tho laws amended where, in his opinion, amendments were required. So many of Tillnian's charges are made in a rambling way that it is only possible to answer them gene rally, and this I will do as nearly as possible in the order in which they are made. 1 have not contended that all manufacturers were honest. If that were true, analyses might bo un necessary. Some have attempted to defraud, and have been punished with all the penalties the Depart ment eould impose. So much for that. With an earnest desire to visit the severest penalties contemplated by law upon any manufacturer who at tempted to defraud the farmers, I requested Attorney General Miles to inform me if an analysis of any brand of fertilizer showed a deficien cy, from the examination of a sample drawn out of a purUcUlai lot, wheth er the Department could seize and condemn any other lot of the same brand not found to be deficient. He gave his official opinion that only the pnrtidular lot inspected would bo liable to the law. To make this per fectly plain, suppose that a lot of Baltic. Fertilizer, sampled at Green ville, was shown by analysis to be deficient. When the Commissioner undertook to seize und condemn that lot, he found that it had all been hauled away and put in the ground, but he knew at the time that there Was another lot of the sumo brand at Spartanburg that had not boon inspected or analyzed. He could not seize and condemn the Spartanburg Shipment, because, in the opinion of Attorney General Miles, it had not been analyzed, and, indeed, an analy sis of that lot might, ns is frequently the ease, show higher results than the Greenville sample gnv.e, Thia is why the law cannot bo enforced. The particular lot analyzed has, in every case I have ever known of, been hauled away before the confis cation could be attempted. All of these defects have time and again boon brought to the attention of members ^of tho Legislature by me, and I have urged that they bo corrected, but, ns I shall presently provo by omo of Captain Tillmnn's own witnesses, the members of the Legislature were not without ronson in thinking that our "italicising" of brands was sufllciont punishment. But Tillman is much concerned about tho farmer who may have lost something, while tho farmers gene rally received full value. This is in reply to my statement that the ave rago commercial value of fort?hters oxecoded tho manufacturers' guaran tees. To show how few farmers lost anything as far as commoreial value is concorncd, tako tho report for 1886 which ho has quoted, and it will bo found that out of over 200 brands analyzed only three woro be low tho guarantees in commercial value. As to tho general supervision of fertilizer sales, it may be stated that in 1882 our analyst showed that the Cuban Bird Guano was deficient. The farmers refused payment and tho analysis cost tho manufacturers between $20,000 and $30,000. Mr. B. M. Anderson, of this city, can substantiate this. Settlements based on tho Depart ment's analysis aro constantly boing made. Upon the analysis of a brand found to bo d?ficient last year, the farmers who purchased the fertilizers have recently settled with the dealer, Mr. C. M. Covington, of Florence, av about one fourth of the price charged?a settlement porfectly sat isfactory to the purchasers. Again, he says that the farnv-rs, or to he more exact, not one in fifty over saw the reports containing tho analyses, and so'leinnly assures his hearers that only 1,500 of these re l?rts were published hi 1889. Dur ing the year 1888 all of these analy ses wero published in the Daily and Weekly News and Courier, For tho sako of economy this was not done in 1889, but the analyses were published as soon as made in the Monthly Hcportsof the Department. About 14,000 of these reports con tained analyses of ollicial samples, and in addition thereto 1,500 special bulletins were issued, making a total distribution of the analyses of 15,500 copies. These facts are fully set forth in the Annual Kcport and were known to Mr. Tillman. This is only an additional evidence of his intention to misrepresent regardless of facts. As to the letter of Mr. Connor, of Orangeburg, tho Department does not want a better witness. If, as ho states, he called the attention of ono of our samplers to a lot of fertilizers that had been inspected and found deficient, it was certainly the duty of tho Commissioner to have at tempted to have tho law enforced against it... Tho sampler, however, has no recollection of the matter, and it was certainly never brought to ihy attention. Mr. Connor does not nay that he called tho sampler's attention to the matter, and I would be glad to know tho name of his in formant, and wlien tho information canto to Mr. Conner's knowledge. But if it was known to Mr. Connor, he might easily have reported the matter to this office and thus secured action in the matter, or have conclu sively shown that I did not enforce the law. As it stands, it is a ques tion between Mr. Connor, or his in formant, and the sampler, and can not be satisfactorily settled. But -ihcDepartinent and the I.egisla "No notice, however, was taken of the same by the Department, and for. Copes sent the r/i/anoaivay, as he was compieteli/ boycotted and could not continue business" Why was Mr. Copes boycotted? Simply, as Mr. Connor writes Capi. Tillman, because the Department italicized the deficient guano. Was it no punishment to Mr. Cones to be boycotted and have his business ruined ? Was it no injury to the manufacturers to have their goods returned to them ? Capt. Tillman says that "not one farmer in fifty" sees these publications. Is Mr. Con nor a farmer? If not, why was Mr. Copes boycotted? We know that tho operation and result of our method of italicising deficient brands was as Mr. Connor stated, but we had no hope of proving it so clearly by Capt. Tiiimnn or bis witnesses. Mr. Connor has boon a member of tho Legislature for tho past two years. Will ho now, since he has cntored this fight, explain what ef forts ho ?>as made in tho Legislat ure to cure ohe defects in the law, or what ho has done to protect tho farmors against swindling fortilizor companies? But since ho has pro ven himself so good a witness for ly justi turc in another way. Ilo sayrt : tho Dopartmont, I will not insist on his explanation if his constituonte aro satisfied. Mr. S. W. Gardner, Jr., comes to tho front to holp Ids friend Tillmnn out of a tight placo. Ho bought guano that was short in weight and then hie friend romembors that ho too had dono tho samo thing; and liko suffering lambs thoy bloat out tlioir talo of woo whon the friend wants ollioe. Did not Mr. Gardner, iiko Capt. Tilhnan, buy his guano in tho State of Georgia ? Should ho rtot lodge his complaint in that Stato ? In any evont I will bo glad if ho will show mo nny authority in tho Act creating tho Dopartmont of Agriculture that would justify mo in suing a manufacturer for not putting full 200 pounds in each sack of gun |no sold either in this State or in Georgin. As well to ask mo to sue a grocor who gavo Gardner three pounds of sugar for fivo pounds. Tho remedy for that sort of swindling is, as every sensible man knows, proscoution un der the common law in ovory State, and ovory purchaser has his remedy. This charge is on par with another, made some tbno since in the pres ence of Mi'. J. K. Tindal and Mr. W. A. Ancruin. Captain Tillmnn then charged similar failure to dis charge my duty because ho had bought, cotton seed meal adulterated with rosin and his friend had bought cotton seed meal adulterated with hulls. At the timo tho chargo was made Captain Tilhnan knew that both lots had been purchased in Georgia^ and yet he endeavored to inj uve the Department by a charge that he knew to be utterly unjust and untrue 1 Now, Mr. O. F> Connor, this timo of Lancaster, says one of hiy clerks told him that "when the phosphate companies failed in coming up to the analysis required by law thoy would beg off." What the clork probably said to Mr. Connor was that they tried to beg off. And the clerk was right and Mr. Connor is right. But whenever the analyses arc below the guarantee, the results arc published in spite of the begging, unless it is conclusively shown that the analysis or tho inspection has done injustice, and such cases are exceedingly rare. For tho past ten years tlu-y can bo named on the fingers. So much for tho certificates. It should bo noticed, however, that these arc dated May 31st, Juno 3d and Juno 8th respectively. All since Captain Tilhnan mad. his charges at Anderson. Therefore his charges at Anderson woro not based on these eertilicates, and he has failed beyond dispute to prove that he had any evidence of any kind upon which to base his original chargo at Hifi time he made it. This explains, also, why my letter has not been an swered before. I regret that I havo not a copy of Til?ntanos bill which he had intro duced and says provided fine and imprisonment for manufacturers of fertilizers, but I have a copy of his bill proposing to turn over the ana lytical work of the State to his ag ricultural college, and in that bill no such provision occurs. My friend Voumans and myself may have killed his little bill, we woro so in fluential, without knowing his good points. If so, it was through igno rance, and not through malice, as I, will try to show in regard to another matter. Captain Tilhnan has been for years talking about re-organizing tho Department of Agriculture. Finally the men whose influence ho dreads so much decided thoy would help him in this work. Col. Youmans drafted tho bill, and all who had anything to do with it tried to put into it every good suggestion that anybody, including Capt. Tilintan, had made. Wo adopted ten mem bers as Capt. Tillman suggested, we took in farmers' institutes, wc pro vided for State fanners' convention and wo kept everybody but farmers off the Board. Tho Legislature did everything it was asked to do, and wc thought Capt. Tillman had every change ho wished. Only ono failure from his standpoint could be pointed out?he failed of election on tho Hoard?and that was sufficient to cause him to put a plank in his March platform abolishing the Dopartmont. Hit. silly charge that tho Department is controlled by lawyers, etc., is abso lutely untrue. There is not a pro fessional man on tho Board or con nected with it in any way. Tho Legislature, to pleaso Capt. Tillman possibly, put all farmers on tho Board, but they rofuscd to stultify themselves by putting Capt. Tillman on it, and so of courso ho is not happy. Lot us follow Capt. Tilhnan to his second attempt at spcoifie ehavgos and answer them in ordo*. First. Why did not tho Attornoy Genomi conduottho phoephato litiga tion ? This is ?o old a question and has boon answorod so ofton that it might well havo been loft alono. But it shall be answorod again, for foar that some man living in a remote part of tho Stato may not havo heard it. Tito laws did not, at tho time this litigation was bogun, mnko it tho duty of tho Attornoy Gonoral to do this work for tho Department of Agrioulturo. Tho work was im- } portant, and tho Hoard omployod , lawyers, and subsequently made tho parties suod pay them. Was any injustice dono tho Stato in that mat- ? 1er? If so, whoro and how? But after tho litigation had boon com menced the Attornoy Gonoral was mado adviser of tho Department, except in this litigation, and that was , specially oxempted from tho amend- , monts to tho law. This should bo satisfactory to tho most rabid Till manite. Second. "Judgment with costs for $70,87 4 was obtained against the Pacific Guano Company when tho company failed, (which was probably , a ruse.to got somo legal advantago.) Ite property was then attached under . tho judgment, whon a compromiso ? was made by which tho Pacific Com- , pany paid $51,241) and costs. Tho , amount turned into tho Stato Trea- ? sury was $31,390 and tho Depart- \ mont kept $12,102 to repay the cost of lawyers' feos, oto., making $43,- , 650. This is $7,090 loss than tho j amount received." Then follows | tho insinuation that somebody got ( that $7,090 who was noi entitled to ? it. ; , The statement of the settlement | of the phosphnto litigation, furnished ? by lion. A. T. Smythe, leading ; counsel in the case, is as follows and answers the charge and infamous insinuation without further com mon t : Amount rocoivod in settlement of Paci ilo caso.$51,240.83 Amount received for disburse ments on account of Paci Ac enso. 1,114.11 Amount recoived in Pincknoy caso. 708.00 Total.$58,072.10 Counsel fees Paciilo caso.$ 0,000.00 Counsel fees in Davis and Pincknoy caso. 500.00 Sundry cash oxponsos. 13.05 Turned ovor to Stato Trea sury for Stato purposes. 31,800.70 Turned ovor to State Trea surer for Dopartmont. 12.102.20 Total as abovo.$53,072.10 If Capt. Tilhnan can distort those ligures again so as to show $7,000 or one cent short, ho is welcome to do so. This phosphnto litigation has ox citcd so much interest and comment that I may be pardoned for saying that when it wub begun it was ex ceedingly doubtful if the State could over recover anything. Tho con clusion of tho case was the rccovory of tho proporty valued at about $100,000, and cash turned into the Treasury $31,390.79 without tho ex penditure of one cent of the peo ple's money, for every dollar expen ded in prosecuting the caso was re covered and paid back into the Trea sury, and a part of it is now being used to build and equip tho Clemson Agricultural Collego. Third. "In 1889, the Experimen tal Stations cost $5,049, cost of tho chemist and laboratory and sundries $4,337, making $9,980." This statement, charge, or what ever it is, is sot up without com ment, so that I am in the dark as to Capt. Tillman's particular objection to the expenditure. I cannot con ceive of any that he has, hecauso ho expects to do the samo thing at tho Clemson College. Possibly tho anti cipation of similar expenditures there caused him to change his mind and forbear comment. At any rate I will wait until ho makes it beforo answering it. The $15,000 Hatch fund, as Ti'i mi well knows, was given to tho University and I knov nothing what ever of its disbursement. Perhaps Dr. J. M. MoBryde, tho Presidont of tho University, who is also tho Director of tho Stations, will oxplaiu or givo any information tho publio may desire in regard to that. Fourth. "Tho net oxponditures of tho Dopartmont as sot forth in above aro $30,427. This includes for Stato Agricultural Society $2,600, making a net oxpondituro of $27,427." Capt. Tillman thon follows \> Ith a --?-g statistical statement charging that there is a . difference botwccu tho amounts said to have boon disbursed according to tho reports of tho Comptroller Gonoral, tho Stato Trca eurer and tho Department of Agri-..; Tho figures given in tho first twoY; reports aro identical to a oont and amount to $33,099.95. '?o far the ' ohargo is without truth. According >> to tho Department's Report tho amount disbursed was $3,272.01 less '',"' than tho other reports show. This is easily explained. At tho eloso of :: ovory yoar a ,'argo number of war runts aro drawn. It is possible, (I say pos8?hlo hecauso I do not oaro to stop now to verify the statement,) that many of these warrants wero carried over from tho previous year ; i\nd paid within tho fiscal yoar under disoussion. This would easily ao- o count for any difforonoo betweon tlio two ofilcos and my own, and was doubtless tho oaso. It is a matter easily settlod, howovor, with timo to oheok off warrants drawn and unpaid <; last yoar, and will bo dono whonovor it is nocessavy. Under his fourth ohargo Capt. Tillman again resorts to insinuation in saying that prior to 1887 no vouohors wore shown. Thoro has not been a year, nor a payment, for . ;: which tho Department has not ; vouchers, so that this ohargo is mali i-ious and base. With tho oxooption of tho first year, when tho Dopart? |. mont Avas only in operation for nine;: months, and the form of publishing linanoial statements was unfamiliar :{ to me, a completo summary of all disbursements, and itemized state monts in addition, havo boon pub lished either in our reports or tlioso , ' of tho Comptroller General, as Capt; ?k Tillman woll knows. Theso vouchers' it; uro now on filo subjeot to invostiga Lion at any time by Captj. Tillman or V. uny other citizen of tho State. So . inuoh for that baso insinuation. Jjfij -This, I believo, disposes of all Capt. Tillman's spoohle charges. I will not attompt to reply to tho others save by witnesses whoso hon esty and integrity oven Capt. Till man will not doubt. In tho firstvV. Farmers' or Tillman Convention hold, this phosphate litigation was tho subject of an investigation by a committoo of which Capt. G. W. ? Shell was Chairman. After tho in- . vestigation had boon made and tho . officials of tho Dopartmont oxamincd, in tho opon convention, resolutions completely exonerating tho Depart ment from tho charges and com- , mending tho ofiicials wore unani mously adopted. At tho legislativo session of 1886 a committoo appoint ed by what is known as tho Eoo?18 nomio Canons, with Dr. SnmpscJ|||| Tope, of Nowherry, as ChuirmaimH investigated the Dopartmont and again avo wore commended for our work. At evory session of tho Leg islature from 1880 to dato tho D? partmont has made its reports and # has been ready for official investiga tion. It is roady to-day or at any ? other timo. When Capt. G. W. Shell and Dr. Sampson I*opo can-find nothing to con donili in tho Department of Agrioul - i} turo wo fool justified in saying that it does not dread an investigation hyV^, othors. As to Capt. Tillman's statement that Col. Donaldson was defeated ? because ho was a Tillman ito and I was not, I bog to say that, unless I urn very much mistakon, Col. Don aldson's friends wero at some pains to provo that ho was not a Tillman ito. Dut in this mattor if Col. Don aldson was defeated because ho was a Tillmanitc, I may ho permitted to say that I think tho Legislature actod vory wisoly. At any rato I am personally satisfied with tho re sult. I belicvo that I have at groat length covered all Capt. Tillman's charges. I am not through with him, howevor, and must bog tho indnl^inco of tho public for a w?.ilo longor. For nearly fivo years I havo sub mitted to this sort of thir ?, and whonever I havo had to appear in, print I havo endoavored to say nothing that would offond the most sensitivo roedor. ^ I havo concoiv?d it to ho my duty to not courteously oven in doaliwr with a blackguard, but forhearanee has almost ceased to ho a virtue, and It is a question whether I can longer submit to abuso without retaliation. This man Tillman has posod before tho people for all this timo as a reformer. Lot us soo if his profes sions are to bo trusted. It is gone [CONCI.UOKD ON UK FOVJUTU ' ,