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TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAT, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANT MAN. BY THOMPSON, SMITH & JAYNES. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, JUNE 30, 1892. VOLUME XLIII.-NO. 26. : Gathering His Lilies. nv r.KV. L. ir. wixsox. [Selected by a friend for Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Cherry, of Seneca] Dedicated to the Jacobs bereft of their Josephs, and the many Rachels weeping for their children and refusing to be com forted. "My beloved is gone down into his gar den, to the bed? of spices, to feed in the gardens and to pat?er b7.>.*."-Song cf Solomon, o:2 The Lord of the vineyard came down one day Into his garden fair, To gather the lilies which clustering lay In richest profusion there. And he plucked one here. And he plucked one there. As he gathered a gf.rlauu gay; "Far too fair,'* sai J he. "And too rare they be In a world like this to stay." "Oh, what hast thou done".'" Moaned the sc re-smitten one, . As she watched her fair floweret beside: " "Tis my heart thou art breaking. For my joy thou art taking. My darling, my treasure, my pride;" And her heart bled afresh As she uttered her wish. While her tenderly watched one ?lied. "Nay. nay," cried the Master. *"Xot llilnr but mim, Min' is that beautiful flower, I gave it and watched it, I loaned it to thee. Aud .'... ;?' is it now, and mine mus: it be. So come lily fair, and brighten my bower. Then the lily it drooped and its head bent low. As the Master passed OD, on his rounds below. Along on his errand of love, And he smiled as he said. "'I want it, you know. To bloom in fi. beauty where storms never blow. In my choice garden above." Yet he whispered ?ne word as he plucked it away. A word, oh, s<> loving and kind "Knrh/ lout, ' tirUj mxt d: be still and obey. Come, follow thou me and yonder, one day, Tlnj jim?' n t again flinn si,nit find." Then weep not so sorely, oh. comfortless one. Xor grieve at the act the Master hath done. Though darkly the cloud around thee lowers: For I'l'st 'tr'- they (di whom the Master doth call, Aye. blest above others, though early they fall 'Tis the Lord of the vineyard gath ering dowers. THE NATIONAL DEMO CRATIC PLATFORM, AS ADOPTED AT CHICA 1-0. Section 1. The representatives of the Democratic party of thc United Slates, in national convention assem bled, do reaffirm their allegiance to the principles of the party as formu lated 1 y Jefferson and exemplified and illustrated by his successors in Democratic leadership from Madison to Cleveland. We believe that the public welfare demands that these principles bc applied to thc conduct of the Federal government through th?' accession to power of a party that advocates them : and we solemnly declare the need of a return to these fundamental prin ciples of free, popular government, based on home rule and individual j liberty, was never more urgent than now, when the tendency to central ize all power at the Federal capital has become a menace to the reserved rights of the States that strikes at the very roots of our government under the constitution as framed by the fathers of the republic. Section '1. We warn the people of our common country, jealous for the preservation of their free institu tions, that the policy of Federal con trol of elections, to which the Repub lican party has committed itself, is fraught with the gravest danger, scarcely less momentous, that would result from a revolution establishing a monarchy on the ruins of the repub lic. It strikes at the North as well as the South, and injures colored cit izen.- even more than the whites. It means a nords of deputy marshals at every polling place and armed with Federal authority, the outrage on the electoral rights of the people in several States, the subjugation of thc colored people it) control of the parg in power and the reviving of race antagonisms now happily abated, an utmost peril to thc safety and happi ness of all, a measure deliberately and justly described by a leading Republican as "the most infamous bill that ever crossed the threshold of the Senate." Such a policy, if sanctioned by law, would mean the dominance of a self-perpetuating oli garchy of office-holders, and the party first entrusted with its machi nery could be dislodged from power only by an appeal to the reserved rights of the people to resist oppres sion, which is inherent in all self governing communities. Two years ago this revolutionary policy was emphatically condemned by the peo ple s.t the polls, but in contempt of their verdict the Republican party . ^ defiantly declared in its latest Tthoritative utterance that its suc cess in the coming election means an enactment of a force bill and the usurpation of a despotic control over %hs elections in all the States. Believing that the preservation Republican government in the lrnil States is dependent on the defeat this policy of legalized force a fraud, we invite the support of citizens who desire to see the con? tution maintained, with the la pursuant thereof, which have giv our country a hundred years of un< i ampled prosperity, and we pied j the Democratic party, if it j entrusted with the power, not oi j to the defeat of the force bill, I j also to relentless opposition to t j Republican policy of profligate exp( I diture, which, in the short space \ two years, squandered an enorme j surplus, emptied an overflowing tri ; sury after piling new burdens of ta ation on the already over-taxed lah ! ot the country. Section 3. We reiterate the o: j repeated doctrines of the Democral ] party that tho necessity of the go [ eminent is the only justification f taxation, and whenever the tax unnecessary it is unjustifiable ; th when custon house taxation is levi* j on articles of any kind produced i this country the difference betwe? the cost of labor herc and abroa when such exists, fully measurer- ai possible benefits to labor, and tl ? enormous additional imposition the existing tariff falls with crushii force upon our farmers and working : men, and for the mere advantage i j a few, whom it enriches, exacts froi labor a grossly unjust share of tl ! expenses of the government ; and v> [ demand such, a revision of the tari j laws as will remove these iniquitoi ; inequalities, lighten their oppressior j and put them on a constitutional an i equitable basis. But in making j reduction in taxes it is not propose to injure any domestic industrie but rather to promote their health growth. From the foundation ( I this government taxes collected ? the custom house have been the chit ?source of Federal revenue. Sue they must continue to be. Moreove many industries have come to rel ' on legislation for successful continu ance, so that any changes of l:v\ must be at every step regardful C i the labor and capital thus involved The process of reform must be sui ! ject in the execution of this plain die tate of justice. We denounce the .McKinley tarii law enacted by the Mst Congres.? a the culminating of class legislation we endorse the efforts made by th< Democrats of the present Congres _to modify its most oppressh e fea tures in the direction of free rav materials and cheaper manufacture! goods that enter into general con sumption, and we promise its repea as one of the beneficent results thai will follow the action of the peoph j in entrusting power to the Demo ?eratic party. Since the McKinley j tarin went into operation there hav< j been ten reductions of wages of labor ' ing men to one increase. We deny that there has been an} j increase of prosperity to the countrj since that tariff went into operation. I and we point to the dulness and dis ! tress, wage reduction and shrikes in I the iron trade as the best possible evidence thr.t no such prosperity j resulted from the McKinley Act. We j call the attention of thoughtful Amer icans to the fact that after thirty ?years of restrictive taxes against the ! importations of foreign wealth in ? exchange for our agricultural sup 1 plies, the homes and farms of the country have become burdened with a real estate mortgage debt of $2,50.0, 000,000, exclusive of other forms of indebtedness: that in one of the chief agricultural States of the West there ap]?ear? a real estate mortgage debt averaging ?165 percapitaof the 1 total population, and that similar ?conditions and tendencies arc shown to exist in other agriculture export ? ing States. We denounce a policy which fosters no industry so much as i it docs that of the sheriff. Section 4. Reciprocity is a time honored doctrine of the Democratic faith, but we denounce the sham reciprocity which juggles with the people's desire for enlarged foreign markets and freer exchanges in pre tending to establish closer trade rela j tions of the country, whose articles ! of export are almost exclusively agri I cultural products, with other coun i tries that are also agricultural, while erecting custom house barriere of ,' prohibitive tariff taxes against the ! richest countries of the world that j stand ready to take our entire sur . plus of products and to exchange j those for commodities, necessaries ; and comforts of life among our peo I plc j Section ">. We recognize in the j trusts and combinations which are I designed to enable capital to secure j more than its just share of the joint j product of capital and labor the nat i ural consequence of the prohibitive I taxes which prevent free competi I lion, which is the life of honest trade, j but we believe their worst evils can ! be abated by law, and we demand the enforcement of laws made to pre vent and control them with such fur ther legislation in restraint of their abuses as ex]>erience may show-to be necessary. Section 6. The Republican party, while professing the policy of receiv ing public land for small holdings by I actual settlors, lias given away t ! people's heritage till now a few ra j roads and non-resident aliens, im vidual and corporate, possess a lar" ?area than that of all our ferme between the two seas. The li Democratic administration revere the improvident and unwise poli of the Republican party touching t public domain, and reclaimed fro corporations and syndicates, alii and domestic, and restored to tl people nearly one hundred milli< acres of valuable land to bc sacred held as homesteads for our citizen and we pledge ourselves to contint this policy until every acre of lar so unlawfully held shall be reclaime and restored to the people. Section 7. We denounce the Kepa! Hean legislation known as the She man Act of 1 S9?> as a cowardly maki shift, fraught with possibilities < danger in the future, which shoul make all of its supporters as well : its author anxious foi speed repeal. We hold to the usc of bot gold and silver without ?Lscrimina ing against either metal or char" for mintage, but the dollar unit fe coinage of both metals must be c equal intrinsic and exchangeabl value or be adjusted through an intel national agreement or by such safe guards of legislation as shall insur the maintenance of the parity of th two metals, and the equal power o every dollar at all times in the mar kets and in payment of debts, am we demand that all paper currenc; shall be kept at par with and redeem able in such coin. We insist on thl policy as especially necessary for th protection of the farmers and labor ing classes, the first and most defense less victims of unstable money an? fluctuating currency. Section S. We recommend tha the prohibitory 10 por cent tax' 01 State bank issues bc repealed. Section 0. Public office is a publii trust. We reaffirm the 'declaratioi of the Democratic national conven tion vd 1376 for the reform of th< civil service, and we call for the hon est enforcement of all laws r?gul?t ing the same.-1' The nomination o: the 1'resilient, as in the recent Repub lican convention, by delegations con^ posed largely of his appointees hold ing office at his pleasure, is a scandal ous satire upon free popular institu tions, and a startling illustration of thc methods by which the President ma) gratify his ambition. We denounce the 2>olicy under which the Federal office-holders u.4urp ".he control oi party conventions in tuc States, and we j'ledge the Democratic party to a reform of these and all other abuses which threaten individual liberty and local self-government. Section Kb The Democratic party is the only party that luis ever given the country a foreign policy consist ent and vigorous, com? :lling respect abroad and inspiring confidence at home. While avoiding entangling alliances, it bas aimed to cultivate friendly relations with other nations, and especially with our neighbors on the American continent, whose des tiny is closely linked with our own, and wc view with alarm thc- tendency to a policy of irritation and bluster, which is liable at any time to con front us with the alternative of humil iation or war. We favor the main tenance of a navy strong enough for all purposes of national defense and to properly maintain the honor and dignity of the country abroad. Section 11. This country has always been thc refuge of the oppressed from every land, exiles for conscience sake ; and in the spirit of the founders of our government we condemn the oppression practiced by the Kassian government apon its Lutherai and Jewish subjects, and we call apon our national government, in the inter est (d' justice and humanity, by all just and proper means, to use its prompt and best ef?orts to bring about a cessation of these cruel per secutions in the dominions of the Czar and to secure to the oppressed equal rights. We tender our pro found sympathies to those lovers of freedom who are struggling for home rule and the great cause of local self government in Ireland. Section 12. We heartily approve all legitimate efforts to prevent the United States from being used as a damping ground for known criminals and professional paupers of Europe,! and we demand the rigid enforce ment of the laws against Chinese immigration or the importation of foreign men under contract to decade American labor and lessen its wages, but we condemn and denounce any and all attempts to restrict the immi gration of the industrious and worthy of fereign lands. Section 13. This convention hereby renews the expression of the appre ciation of the patriotism of the sol diers and sailors of the Union in the war for its preservation, and we favor just and liberal pensions for all disabled Union soldiers, their widows and dependents, but we demand that the work of the pension office shall be done industriously, impartially and honestly. We denounce the present administration of that office as incompetent, corrupt, disgraceful sad dishonest. Section 14. The Federal govern ment shoald care for and improve the Mississippi river and other great waterways of the republic, so as to secure for the interior States easy and cheap transportation to the tide water. When any waterway of the public is of sufficient importance to demand the aid of the government, that such aid should be extended cr. a definite plan of continuous work until the permanent improvement is secured. Section 15. For the purposes of national defences and the promotion of commerce between the States, we recognize the early construction of the Nicaragua canal and its protec tion against foreign control as of great importance to the United States. Section 16. Recognizing the World's Columbian exposition as a national undertaking of vast import ance, in which the general govern ment has invited the co-operation of all the powers of the world, and appreciating the acceptance by many of such powers of the invitation extended, and the broadcast liberal efforts being made by them to con tribute to the grandeur of the under taking, we are of the opinion that Congress should make such necessary financial provision as shall be requi site to the maintenance of the national honor and public faith. Section 17. Popular ?ducation being the only safe basis of popular suf frage, we recommend to the several States the most liberal appropria tions for public schools. Free com mon schools are the nursery of good government and they have always received the fostering care of the! 1 >emocratic party, which favors every means of increasing intelligence. The freedom of education being an essen- ? tial of civil and religious liberty, as well as a necessity for thc develop ment of intelligence, must not bc interfered with under any pretext ; whatever. We arc opposed to State interference with parental rights and the rights of conscience in the edu cation of children as an infringement Df a fundamental Democratic doc trine that the largest individual lib erty, consistent with the rights of Others, insures the highest type of American citizenship and the best government. Section 18. We approve the action of the present House of Representa tives in passing bills for the admis sion into the Union as States ?f thc Territories of New Mexico and Ari zona, and we favor the early admis sion of all Territories having the necessary population and resources to admit them to Statehood, and while they remain Territories wc hold that thc officials appointed to administer the government of any Territory, together with the Dis tricts of Columbia and Alaska, should be bonafide residents of the Territory or District in which their duties are to be performed. Tho Democratic party believes in home rule and the control of their own affairs by the people of the vicinage. Section 10. We favor legislation by Congress and State Legislatures to protect the lives and limbs of rail way employees and those of other hazardous transportation companies, and denounce the inactivity of the Republican party, and particularly the Republican Senate, for causing the defeat of measures beneficial ami protective to this class of wage work ers. Section 'li). We are in favor of the enactment by the States of laws for abolishing the notorious sweating system, for abolishing the contract convict labor, and for prohibiting the employment in factories of children under 1 5 years of age. Section 21. We are opposed to all sumptuary laws as an interference with thc individual rights of the citi zen. Section 22. Upon this statement of principles and policies the Demo cratic party asks the intelligent judg ment of thc American people. It asks a*changc of administration and a change of party in order that there may be a change of system and a change of methods, thus assuring the maintenance unimpaired of the insti tutions under which the republic has grown great and powerful. The monthly report of railroad earnings for the month of April, just published, is no improvement on that of March, published last week. The earnings of the various roads named are as follows : Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line, ?54,435.80, against $61, 748.01 for April of last year, a decsease of ?7,312.21; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta, $43,613.37, against $55,0463)0, a decrease of ?11,433.22; Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago, ?9,877.15, against ?10,755.71, a decrease of ?875.56; Chester and Lenoir, ?1,720.24, against ?2,040.14, a decrease of ?319.90"; Georgia, Carolina and Northern, ?10,811.48, against ?7,512.09, an increase of ?3,299.39. In the aggre gate all the roads in the State show total earnings of ?535,378.31, against ?627,117.46, a net decrease of ?91, 739.15, as compared with April of last year. Honey should not be eaten by the sick and feeble, as it continues for a long time in the stomach and pro duces "sourness"' dan J?atulence. The State Campaign. IT HAS XOW COMMEX? ED TO '?ROYV MOKE INTERESTING. I - The prediction that the State cam paign will wax warmer and warmer as it progresses, gives promise of verification. There were three meet ings last week, and each one of them developed some stubborn fighting. It now begins to look like the battle is between Tillman and Youmans, with Farley as a reserve for Tillman j to fall back on. Youmans has re sorted to the same tactics used by Tillman two years ago, and the Gov ernor appears to bc somewhat rest j less under the lash. Something or j other has developed at each meeting i to prevent a decisive battle between j the two candidates, but it has already I become apparent that the people of ?the State-both the followers and j opponents of Tillman-are going to I see the issue between the two men j satisfactorily settled before they al ! low the fight to be called off. AT CHARLESTON. The Charleston meeting was held j on Tuesday night in the open air, at j the comer of Broad and Meeting j streets. The crowd was by far the j largest that has yet turned out to j hear the speakers, but it is rather : difficult to get a correct idea of the I number of people present. The News and Courier says "nearly 110,0.00 the State says "a resistless th nmg of 5,000 ? the Rey ister says ?"altogether from start to finish, 17,000 people heard parts of the 'speeches,'' and the Augusta Chronicle ?says "about 2,500, evenly divided between each faction." The meeting was called to order at 8 o'clock and lasted until Mr. Sheppard was the first speaker. ! Upon his introduction he was greeted with applause. He began his speech ?amid comparative quiet, hut on pro ceeding io attack the administration : on the various issues that have been j brought up, he was subjected lo j numerous interruptions by the crowd, ? and most of his time was taken up I in answering questions. Sheppard ! scored several good humored hits on his questioners, and altogether made ! a favorable impression on the crowd. ? Governor Tillman was the next I speaker. He was also received with ! prolonged applause, but there were j so r lany questions from both sides, ? and so much confusion, that he was unable to make anything like a con nected speech. Ile roundly abused ? the "Charleston ring," savins? :t ^as I largely on account of its existence IO mi that he was originally induced to undertake the success of the Fanners' i movement. Ile believed that he j could be elected with the unanimous ! vote of Charleston against him, and did not care whether that city voted i for him or not. He denounced the j News and Cwtritr very severely, i asserting that he could have had that j paper on his side after his election j liad he wanted it, but would rather j have it against him than for him. j Some one in the crowd charged Till . man with being responsible for the sale of the South Carolina railroad, and he replied, angrily, "Oh ! yes, I made cotton go down, too, and did all the rest of it." At the conclusion of his speech, Tillman took a "hand j primary," but the result of it is very j much disputed. The News and Cou \rier says that about seventy-five I hands were raised, and the Register I quotes A. 15. Williams, of the Green ! ville Nexus, as saying thal "half the J crowd voted, and two-thirds of them were for Tillman." L. \V. Youmans was the next j speaker. As soon as he commenced, j the crowd commenced to howl, and ; he had a rather difficult time of it to ! be heard. He attacked Tillman on his unfulfilled promises; said that ! Tillman had promised that for a j ?.'>,.r)!io salary, he would be worth *100,000 to the State, bul in less j than two years he had cost the State j nearly half a million. While You mans was speaking, Tillman was called away to the telegraph office tc j send instructions to the sheriff ol ! Edgefield in reference to a pending ! lynching. Youmans said he would ' not have left the stand at that lime i unless he had been informed that his I wife and children were in trouble, j When the Governor returned, You j mans said that "Judas Iscariot was j bought for thirty pieces of silver, ! Benedict Arnold had his price, and I Ben Tillman had sold himself for a i free pass." Farely followed Youmans and made some good points against him in well applied anecdotes, but You mans defended himself as weil as he could, and in one instance turned the laugh against him. Farley started to say "let me buy L. W. Y'oumans at his real value and sell him for what he thinks he is worth, and-." Y'oumans replied, "I would not be sold to B. R. Tillman for *1,500 a year or $15,000 either." The next speakers were W. W. Dixon and Attorney General Mc Laurin, and the throng guyed both gentlemen as long as they were on the stand. AT BERKELEY. The Berkeley meeting was held at Bonneau's Depot, a small station on the Northeastern railroad, on Wed I nesday. There were about j present, and the meeting was most quiet and orderly of the paign. Sheppard's throat had ? out at Charleston, and Youmans the only speaker on his side of question. Speeches were road' the other side by Tillman, F: and Mclaurin. There was no terness whatever on either side, about the only incident of the worth mentioning was a joke Farley got off on Vournan.i Sheppard. Vouraans had been ing Farlev for telling rabbit st in Iiis speeches, and when it < Farley's tum to talk, gravely pulled out of his pocket a rabbit, He explained that it was thc hind foot of a graveyard rabbit, he crossed Sheppard and Your with it, asserting that the opers was the only thing necessary to them squarely on the farmers' j form. The crowd was very n tickled at this bit of pleasantry, day wound up with a big picnic ner, and in the afternoon the sp j ers left for Kingstree, the coi j seat of Williamsburg. AT WiXT.TAMSBL' UG. j The meeting at Kingstree, seat of Williamsburg, very exciting, and the incide nts trans .ired are very likely*to fi? conspicuously in succeeding m ings. There are several stories the day, all differing more or leta details. We print the follov from the Augusta Chronicly bec; written by a presumably disintere? outsider, it is likely to be loo j upon as being most fair to all part Governor Sheppard opened I meeting with an hour's speech, was followed by Governor Tilb in a speech of an hour. During Governor's speech, Colonel Youri moved up and sat at a table by j Governor and took notes and ; posed of his scrap books. Tho G j ernor ma^?e a bitter speech, in wi j he said tb. * despite all protcstati' ! Conservatism was Haskellism in j guise, and the Conservatives M j. the nominee so long as the nc I nt was not Tillman. Iii? said t ; Governor Sheppard was a .diam ?a trickster. Iiis strictures v. ! otherwise severe. Before he concluded, he f : severely that he must close, as tl: : was one man who wanted to sp ! (Youmans), and be wafted the crt to hear him. Saying this, he as ? for his hat, saying lie was goi g j his hotel. At this declaration there was gi j excitement. The Governor's trie j were taken aback. The action ' ; a great shock and a surprise "o eve (body. The opposition cried : "li ningi" The meeting stood still recover from the shock. Whet j necessary or not, the administr?t j friends felt that a mistake had b j made, and it was an unfortun ! occurrence. j Col. Yoamans begged the Gos i nor to remain and hear his spee ! If is speech would be directed airai j him ami he wanted the Governor ?hear it. "Ihope yon will stay;: I hear me, Governor, I am going i attack you," said Colonel Foam; j calmly. j The Governor became very excil i and was apparently angry and sn "If you want to speak, the Neicsa Courier will publish all you s; Go ahead." Excitement still p vailed, and Col. Yoamans and G< Tillman stood upon thc stand, 1 Governor with his hat in his ha saying he was going to his hotel. "I am tired," he said. "I lui been speakirs', friends," advanci to the front of the stand and faci the audience, "for three days." j Colonel Youmans-"So have ! the rest of us." Governor Tillman, harshly-"Mu shall be speaking when you ha broken down, sir. I have been ht for two hours. I am hot and tin and shall go to my hotel ami rest." "Fellow-Democrats, I leave ht J to-night for Florence. In the mor i ing I will get to Columbia, and sh; . have to go on to the Chicago con ve tion. I am Governor ami a priva ' citizen too. I have duties to attei to as Governor tomorrow in Cohn bia, before I go. I am going to ri hotel and I am going to rest ." "General Farley and General M Laurin are here to answer you, sir (turning to Colonel Youmans in passion). "Go on, Governor," sai<2 sever ! voices ; "go and rest." The crowd, however, were again the Governor without the shadow a doubt, and the cries to him we: weak. His friends were surprise' The Tillmanites were largely in tl majority in the meeting. There wi continual excitement with mingk ejaculations, such as "Go, Gove nor !" from a few Tillmanites, an "Run !" from the opposition. "I am not running," said: Gove: j nor Tillman fiercely. Colonel Youmans-"Governor, wish you would stay. I do not war to talk behind your back." Governor Tillman prepared t leave. Colonel Youmans-"I have som questions to ask you." Governor Tillman, whelling aroun -"Well, ask them now ; I can ar iwer them." Colonel Youmans-"Well, I do not j like to ask them in this way. I don't like to ask them at the beginning of j my speech. I would like to ask them in the course of my speech in their j places." Governor Tillman turned to go. Colonel Youmans-"Did you not I say at Hampton that you never did j ( criticise your preceding administra- ! i tions for beautifying the State House ! ! grounds?" ! Governor Tillman-"No, I did not. | sir." Colonel Youmans-"1 can prove it." j Governor Tillman, sarcastically "Oh, yes, and 1 bought dowers for j . j the yard of the Governor's mansion, ; ! and a joggling hoard, and a tin pan." I ! The audience applauded and the ; ? Governor looked sharply at Colonel i j Youmans and left the stand. The j i i chairman, who had been standing all . j this time waiting to introduce Col. j i i Youmans, performed this duty and ; i Col. Youmans was received with ap- j * [ plause. ? [ Col. Youmans said he would not; .?speak the speech he intended. He j wanted Gov. Tillman to hear it. He ' would not deliver it behind his back.; ' He proceeded tfo deliver a strong! ' ! speech against Gov. Tillman's, ad- ! ' ministration, unlike his Hampton ; j speech, however, in that it was not ' j nearly so personal. ' He said, however, that Gov. Tiil 'jman w.as whipped. He (Tillman) > I was afraid to meet him (Youmans)! ?! - ion the stand. He had told him this! II at Hampton, when the Governor got? ' j so mad that though he tried to ap- \ : j pear inattentive by reading a paper, j ? j his hands shook the paper like a leaf, j 'jHe said Gov. Tillman had made a, 1 ! plain back-down. ? He said that Gov. Tillman was * ; dead from this day. South Caroli- : 3 i nians would not longer cling to a " > coward. " j Col. Youmans spoke an hour and a 1 i half. ' I Tillmanites openly condemned the ' j Governor's action. His dosest ad - ! herents ??ive as the true cause of his I " i action this : That he has a contempt h for Col. Youmans and it is his deter g? mination to ignore him. Some of - j bis warmest friends, however, (on , thc ticket too) say they never would *; have left the stand unless the^ had L* j been dragged off. They say liv {j should have stayed no matter how ^; fatigued he was, if for nothing else, * ! in order to avoid the bad position in 5 j which it would place the administra . tion faction a the damaging effect tjit will be certain to exercise against s ; them. sl Gen. Mcl.aurin and Gen. Farley i * [defended Governor Tillman's action " j in their speeches. Gen. Farley said Djat one time, however, turning to r I Col. Youmans, "I will not run, sir." n j The Conservatives attack GOT. 111 Tillman's excuse for leaving the 01 meeting, saying it was too flimsy. They say he left the stand tn Char "1 lesion Tuesday night while Col. Youmans was speaking to avoid as * much of his speech as possible, but 01 when ho returned he explained to ' 'the audience that he had received a 01 telegram from a threatened lynching s i and went to reply, but that Col. ,' Youmans by this time had nearly ? concluded speaking. '? Col. Youmans says Gov. Tillman 1,7 will not hear him speak or meet bim '. on the stand. It is certain that the ?' Governor never attacks Col. You .imans in Iiis speeches, though he e pitches into all the other opposition 1 candidates with gloves oft. The Conservatives arc very much e elated, and the friends of Gov. Tiil ?? j man are surprised, and some say s they are humiliated. ll! WHEN AND WHAT TO READ. j ; If you are impatient, sit down quietly (. and have a talk with Job. g. If you aro just a little str?>ng I beaded, go to see Moses. If you arc getting weak-kneed, e take a look at Elijah. If there is no song in you heart, |] . listen to David. , ' If you are a policy-man, read Dan e iel. ,] If you are getting sordid, spend a while with Isaiah. y ' If you feel chilly, get the beloved disciple to put his arms around yon. I If your faith is below par, read ? Paul. ai If you are getting lazy, watch ! James. j ; If you are losing sight of the fu ture, climb up to Revelation and get t a glimpse of the promised land. ,f| e Nothing sits so gracefully upon '.jyoung people, and nothing makes e ; them so lovely, .as habitual respect ?and dutiful deportment toward their ^ ? parents and superiors. There are more divorces granted in the United States than in all the rest of the Christian world put together. Americans are very dis criminative-after marriage. "Hasn't your horse got the heaves?' asked a customer. "Heaves, is it ?" exclaimed the apparently astonished owner. "An if he's any the better for the heaves, he has 'em ; if not the dey il a bit has he J" An Explanation. WALHALLA, S. C., June 21,1892. MESSES. EDITORS : I hope you will allow me space in your valuable col umns to give some explanation in regard to some double entries for tax for the last year. And now in the outset I don't want the people of Oconee county to think that I have the least idea of impeaching any county officer or any individual of this eTor, although some of my ene mies are laying the whole blame on mc in order to make capital of it in the ensuing election. It is true there are some executions against some people tMt have paid their ta*-, and I am the man that lias charged them up on the tax duplicate twice. Well, how is that? I don't make returns for any man. I enter them as they are made to me. Monroe Scott made a return for Henry Williams in Keo wee township and Henry Williams made his own return in Whitewater township, and he paid one and tkere is an execution for one. Thomas Smith returned for (4. (?. Smith twenty-three acres of land at two hundred dollars, but never said from whom or when the land was bought, and Joseph M. Kelly had on the tax b<x>k twenty acres at one hundred and one building at fifty dollars, total one hundred and fifty dollars, and never reported to me the trans fer, although it was the same land, and the law directs me to not let any land drop off thc tax books, but to continue to transmit it from year t? year. So, you see, I could not leave Kelly off, not knowing he had sold it. Thus, you see, personal and real property ar? accounted for, and am I to blame ? Now, in regard to errors of polls, let us consider the cause of that. In ; the first place, the law says that the 1 school trustees shall furnish the Aud itor a list of all taxable polls in their ' respective school districts, and I ; believe they who have sent me lists have sent me as correct a list as they ; could, but not knowing the boundary exactly, and some of the school dis tricts embrace a part of three town ships, and I see the same name reported in one township, and per haps he has made his return in ano ther township, and how often is it thc case that there arc two and some times three or four men of the same name, and I cannot afford to leave i return off that the school trustees send me upon the supposition that this is the same one. Jasper Crooks had on the tax duplicate 350 acreri of land valued at $1,200, and one building valued at $100, making ! $1,300. This was in the year 1889, 'and in 1890-that is, for last year's . tax-William J. Crooks returned Iiis personal property and 100 acres of land at $1,300 and om.* building at $50, making $1,350, that turned out that it was the same land and the same man. I [e had the acres changed a little. Wm. A. Hays made his return and paid his tax. Abram A. ; Hays and Buck Butchers names had been returned to me for poll and there are executions against tho two and the Sheriff went in search and 'when he found Wm. A. Havs he - 1 answered al! the names, but onlv paid : one time. The above illustrations are a few of the leading causes. As for myself. ! I return no property only my own, ainl I have made some returns for others by their request. . I have illus trated a few causes of the double entries and the sch.?.! trustees have (sent me some who are not liable, but ! they have returned about two lum dred that have evidently been dodg ing poll tax. Now. I ask the question, Can any clear-ruin'' d, thoughtful or consider ate man blame me, as a county officer in discharge of my duty? I leave it for them to say. Or can they blame .the schcol trustees, whom the law t directs to m.ike out those lists to th* 'best of their knowledge? And if they have ??jade a little mistake in \ locating a man or gave mc a few names that are exempt by reason of disability, over or under age, they only have to report to me they are \ not liable an?! that ends it. The ! school trustees get no pay, and, there ; fore, they cannot well afford to inves j ligate the liabilities of every man in ; their district, and tho result their ! reports have made, as I said above, . about two hundred polls, and there are a few of the trustees that have ' not sent in their reports yet, but I ! hope they will not get discouraged, ' but send in their reports, and I will j enter the names on the tax duplicate ' for a poll thal have not made their ! return. Now, in my conclusion, I will say that if any one desires information in j regard to any particular case, I would ! be glad if they would call on me and ! I think I can give them satisfaction. Yours respectfully, T. R NOKRIS. ! Whatever may be the custom and ; law of a country, woman always gives ! the tone to the morals. Some people are never abreast of the age. They dive into the stream of the past and don't come up again ; their heads stick in the mud ut the bottom.