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VOL. XIX. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1890. NO. 45. 1b(JT T1 .NYT ) POPE. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMIT TEE IN DEFENCE. )r. sanliapsor, Plope's Clhargo Againt Its Ac tion.-TIhf: 0so Summed Up as It Stands .,,d Pre-.. .d to the Public. The foil -ving correspondenco be tweet Col. James A. Hoyt, chairnan of the Democratic State Executive Comittee, and Dr. Sampson Pope, of Newberry, S. C., explains itsclh: GREENVILLE, S. C, July 7, 1S'.0. Dr. 1anpson Pope, Newberry, S. C.: I Dear Sir-lu the procceding-4 of 1 the Denocratic County Convention of i Nowberry County, I find the follow- I ing statemnient in the preamble and L iesolutions introduced by you: "Said i Executive Committee did meet, afti by a vote of thirteen to one did re fuse to give us a State prinmary." As this refers directly to the meet ing of the State Executive Committee, held May 9th, 1890, I respectfully I ask that you wil furnish me with your authority for making the stato- 3 ment. It is a matter of simplo jus- t tice to the Executive Committee that f an uiqualified statement, purporting iL to give its precise action at a definite ( time, shall rest, upon good authority, f, or else that that the statement be re- 1i trated, if unsupported by such au- ( thority. Let me assure you that no t, sach action wis taken, and that your 1: inforuation is entirely incorrect. The t Executivo Committeo has never vo- t ted upon the quemiAu of a State pri- v inary a-t alil. 1.rijdfiI\Ivou will *oe Iizo tewh, u the iad r eo C01're men 1'ei .oe tioln in&.Pe Ofcr SLtate. On o4zir poin -u ft-r wavtely, but thore can ne foirience of opinion as to the AWi course on your part to rectify th i Mnatter, which has obtained the sanie- t ion of a County Convention through il your instrumentality. 1 Very truly yours. t JAMEs A. Hov'r, a1 Chairman State Democratic Exe- t cutive Committee. 11 NEWBEiRYu, S. C., July 8th, 1890. e Dear Sir-The resolution referred I to the refusal of the committee in May (a &A.1jor two after the Ridge- N way speech) to call a convention f looluing to the question of a primary c being submitted to it. My recollec- t tion whlen I drew it, was, and is now, i that N. G. G. in his letter published i; th l next morning in the News and i Coarier,stated the Executivo Con- I' niu'ee stood 13 to 1, and stated, I t thijuk, "that it was no secret." If you 1 havo the paper you can, by exanll- t ing it, see whether or not I was a wrong. I have not a copy of it. c Very respectfully, SAMPSON POPE. c t 6GrEENVILLE, S. C., July 14, 1890. t Dr. Sampson Pope, Newberry, S. C. it Dejar Sir: Your favor of the 8th N inst., has been received, and ainswer t delayed by my absence from home. c As I have already assured you that t the State Execut'ive Committee did r not vote upon the question of a pri- r mary at the mooting held May 8th 1 the reply you make is quite unsatis- t factory. You have based an attack r upon the Executive Committee en m formation that is totally incorrect, m andl your statement in reference to t what N. G-. G-. sid the next morning c in the News and"Courier is equally t w ide of the mark. He referred to the e Executive Committee as being 13 t against and one for Tillmnan, but this f is very different from refusing "to t give us a State primary" as you allege c was done. I will be very glad to I knowv whether you propose to make a the correction, and inl case you de- I cline to do so, I will print this corre-t spondeonce in justice to the Executive 1 Committee. Yours resp)ectfully, JAMEs A. HOY'T, i Chairman State Executive Committee. I NEwBERRY, S. C., July 10, 1890. Dear Sir: Your letter of the 14th< was received, and in reply Ihave this t.o say: Mr. Gonzales obtained infor-. 1 mnation from some member of your t committee upon which he based his I letters of the 9th and 10th of May to thme News and Courier. I have been unab)le to get a copy of that of the f 10th, the one of thme 9th being short onl accout-of the lateness of the hour< of adjournment of your committee. 1 HeI stated, if I recollect correctly, t that the question of a primary was ] actedl on, and further stated that the c:ommittee stood 13 against Tillmnani to 1 for him. If I recollect properly this last statement was italicized andi in figures. Your committee met< again on the 25th of June. Our con vention met on the 28th of June. I During all of this timL that elapsed < between May 8th and June 25th no correction of Mr. G.'s statement wats made by your committee, nor wvas any aLtionl taken upon it at your meeting of June 25th. You allowed it td%tandl that 13 of the 14 members presenmt wore against Mr. Tillmnan, '&nd it wats only after tho publicationi of our proceedings had on the 28th' of June that we hear of any denial. We had a right to infer from that< statement that a vote on calling a convention for. primary had beeni ta ken], and that it stood 13 against andi I for. You say that no vote was ta- I ken; you say no action was taken oni the primary. Is it not possible. then 'ihat an outsidle agreement was had on tihe question, and dlecided so as to oXidl the (questionl coming up in tihe meetinig? If you will give me the nam\4os of one or more of the 13 who ravom (1 a convenitioni for primary: outsi oe or inside of the moot ing il the 8th of May, I will chleei ully correct to that extent. & go so far in your first iner to me as to say, "the Executive Com mittec has never voted upon the question of a primary at all," and that, too, after they had called a con vention for that purpose to meet on kugust 13th. I am not a member of your comn- tveo, and do not of course cuow how you decide mutters com- 1 ng bofore you, but I do know you , lecided to call and did call a conven iou by some means known to your elvos to meet on August 13th to take nto considoration a primary. These s re not days for quibbling or hair v plitting. I am willing that the pab- s ic shall decide whether or not I have I aisrepresented your committee. You t re at liberty to publish this corres on0denco from beginning to end and I he letter of Mr. Gonzales, published t ai the News and Courier of May 10th 1) eith it, but it must be all published. v Very respectfully, v SAMPsON 1POPE. 11 H GREENVILLE, S. C., July 17, 1890. 1 )r. Sampson Pope, Newberry, S. C. d Dear Sir: I am .i ust in receipt of a our favor of thc t6th inst. I regret & bat you did not see proper to in- t rm yourself as to the facts before itroducing the resolutions into the ( 'ounty Convention. You seem un- f >rtunate also in not being able to rocure a copy of the News and t lourier of May 10th, as that seems t > be your authority for making the lf ositive statement to which your at- k ention has been called, namely, that a lie State Executive Committee by a oto of thirteen to one refused to or- c or a State primary. In order that ii pu may learn, at, this late day, what v 4. G. said in his correspondence % he 10th of May, I will quote the o wraph in full: "The members of v Slemocratic State Committee left seeir homes today. While they n ).'V taken no official action in the I iatter, and have endeavored tomake hb o discrimination in favor of either a [13 Tillmanites or the Anti-Tillman- bi es, it is an open secret that the h iembers of the committee regard v ie Tillman movemient, as organized I ,nd pressed, a serious mQnace to t: ie solidity of the Democratic party, n Ud that none of the fourteen who y athered here last night are support- i rs of Tillman, except Mr. Gary, of t Lbbeville." I do not know the source from ( hich Mr. Gonzales received the in ormation, and which was evidently 1 btained after the members had left v ie city, but I do not doubt the cor eetness of his statement. Yet what t i the relevancy between his state- A ient and the declaration you made, r Pliberately and without qualification, a bat the State Executive Committee t ad refused by a vote of thirteen i o one to order a State primary? You s ro obliged to admit that there is no t onnection whatever between the t tatement of Mr. Gonzales and the o leclaration contained in your resolu ions. Because thirteen out of four- b eon were opposed to Mr. Tillman, as p matter of fact, is no justification I ehatever for an absolute declaration r hat is utterly groundless and with- m 'ut the shadow of foundation. The f hirteen members who are thus mis- s opresented by you have just asmuch c ight to oppose Mr. Tillman as yon c iave to support him, and to distort c heir opposition to him as being 1 gainst a primary is one of the very a tuneer features of this campaign. I g epeat again that no such action was t akon on the quest ion of a primary lection on the 8th of May, or any- t hing akin to it, and the statement f ontainedl in your resolutions is en- c irely baseless and gratuitous. There- g ore, you had no right to infer from c lhe correspondence of N. G. G. "that ii vote on calling a convention for rimnary had been taken, and that it i: toed 13 against and 1 for." It fol- c aws that there could be no denial of I hing which never existed, and it is >lain enough that your authority lisproves your own assertion. The only vote by yeas and nays on hat occasion was upoii the date for t olding the nominating Convention. ( iome favored September 3rd and < >thers September 10th, wvhich was 1 >fred as a substitute, and the vote vas upon a motion to lay on the ta >lo-ayes 5 and nays 8. The substi-< ute (September 10th) was then adolp- 1 ed. .I am not writing at random, but I vith an exact copy of the minutes be- 1 ore me, nor am I taking so mumchl >ams to correct your egregious error 2 in account of any personal reasons,J >ut becaumse you succeeded in getting he e ndorsement of the Newberry )enmocratic Convention, thereby ri ving the declaration an importanco n did otherwise possess. I cannot close without giving a nlomlent to the extraordlinary qluery ~ontained in your last favor, wherein oum say: "Is it not possible, then, t hat an outside agreenment wams had >n the question, and decided so as I .o avoidh the (juestion coming upl in 1 he meeting?" The members of the state Executiv'o Committee hiave al vays shown the courage andmanliness o0 act openly and in accordance wvithm heir convictions, and the insinua ion you make is only another injus ice added to the injury already done. L'here is not the slightest shadow or wrotext for this violent supposition >n your part, which is in keeping vith the spirit of your resolutions. I will furnish this corr'espondlenec .0 thme newspapers, so that the pub ic may judge as to your course in ,hus matter. Rtespectfully,1 JAMEs A. Hovrr, Chmn'n State Dem. Ex. Coin. 1 --While ti ying t.o stop a light at Blakersville, N. C., on Friday, Stokes Burlinson, a prominent citizen wyan I stabbed to death by Mitchell dreen I m notorious rough. Green is in jail l I md( ma.y be lynched. I - THE SOLDIER WAS A FATHER. k Romantic and Thrilling Story ofithe Civil I War-How a Letter From lion e CaiRed aI)eHertion. (From the Halinore Ruts.) NEW YORK, July 23.--There was j >uried at Greenwood yesterday a i uan with a curious history. Ho had Y weni a Confederat:: -oldier, as brave ,s any of his comrades, i..A h,(, de erted his army during the war - mas tried by court-martial for doim; o. Edward Cooper was his namV. Por the past yvar he has been living i t No. 155 Fonth avenue. ~ 1 One bleak December morning in It 862 he was before a court-martial of 8 lie Army of Northern Virginia. The 0 risoner was told to int'roduce his C 'itnesses. Ie replied, "-I have no b rittesses." Astonished ait tho calni- 0 ess with which he saened to be a abmnitting to his inevitable fate, Uen. ' 'attle said to him: "Have you no efense? Is it possible that you i bandoned your comrades and do- b 3rted your colors in the presence of c be enemy without reason?" i "There was a reason," replied ,ooper, "but it will not avail imo be- t >ro a military tribunal." c "Perhaps you are instaken," said t Lie General; "you are charged with 9 1o highest crime known to military c tw, and it is your duty to make I nown the cause that influenced your c ctions. b Approaching the president of the r ourt Cooper presented a letter, say- 0i ig as he did so: "There General, is c 'hat did it!" j The letter was offered as the pris- i ner's defence. It was in these I 'ords: t "Dear Edward: Since your con- a ection with the Confederate army 1 have been prouder of you than ever 1 efore. I would not have you do nything wrong for the world, but i efore God, Edward, unless youcome - ome we must die! Last night I e as aroused by little Eddie crying. R called to hin and said: What is - ic matter, Eddie? He replied: Oh, 1 kamma, I am so hungry. And Lucy f our darling Lucy. She never com lains. But she grows thinner and r linner every day. Before God, Ed- 1 rard unless you comehome we must f .ic. YouR MARy. 1 Turning to the prisoner, General t lattle asked: "What did you do t ,hen you received that letter. Cooper replied: "I made applica ion for a furlough. It was rejected. Lgain I made application and it was - ejected. That night as I wandered bout our camp thinking of my home be wild eyes of Lucy looking up to t 10 and the burning words of Mary inking in my brain, I was no longer lie Confedeiato soldier, but I was Lie father of Lucy and the husband t f Mary. "If every gunin the battery had i een fired upon me I would have I assed those lines. When I reached < ome Mary fhlig her arms around a iy neck and sobbed: "Oh. my Ed- I rard! I am so glad you got your I arlough." Sho must have felt me I hudder, for she turned as pale as i eatlh, and catching her breath at very word, she said. "Have you ome without your furlough? Go < iack! Ed .vard, go back! Let me ud the children go down to the ~rave, but for Heav-en's sake, save he honor of our niame! There wvas not an officer on that, ourt martial who (lid not feel the< ore of the prisoners words, but, achl in turn pronounced the verdict ] uty. The proceedinags of the ourt were reviewed by General Lee, nd( upon the record was written: "Headquarters A. N. V.-The find 2g of the court is app)lrovedl. The pris ner is pardoned anad will report to is company. "it. E. Lee, General." Two 11irds With One Guna. SAvANNAh, Ga., July 19.--A special o the Morning News says: "At iuyton to-day iR. G1. Norton, Jr., son f a physician of this place, shot and :illed two brothers named Willie and rohn Bird. Yesterday young Norton ,nd Willie Bird traded mules. To lay Willie Bird, accompanied by his >rother John, wecnt to Norton's place o get him to trade back. Norton 'ofused, and John Birdl, drawing his >istol, told his brother to op)en the table dloor and recover his mule. L.t this point young Norton shot the 3irds dead. Norton floed." Is Face Was Clean. A rather p)recocious infant had its bristening unfortunately deferred mntil it was able to talk, and at the ont wvas lifted in its father's arms or the ceremony. After the minis11 or had dipped his fingers in the wa or, and made the sign of the cross n her forehead, the unawed child enned down, and catchling up the ong sleeve of his white gown, wiped he water away, calmyl remarking: Baby' face tlcan. Don't want was i; dlot it wvassed fore us tummed unt!" Killed by a Crow Bar. UNION, S. C., July 18.-A Ma'. Cox, uporintendent of Messrs. Jones & Jo's. works on the Georgia, Carolina t Northern railroad, was killed Wed aesday evening, near Fisil Dam an his county. Hie wvas sitting downa vhile some negroes were at work >uildinig an arch and1( while some very leavy rocks were being moved a crow ar slipped and struck him on the leadl. He (lied almnost instantly. Fle is said,.to haive b)een very wealthy. ---T,iA Governor has offered a re yard of one hundred dollars for the ~pp hension and conviction of per.. onf who attempted to assassinate h jtwn marshal of Jacksonboro, 01 gtcu ounty, Juno 27th. WHITES AND BLACKS ffect of the Lodge 1ll1...Tho Measure, if Enacted and Enforced, Will Cante Trou ble In the South. NEw Youi, July 24.-When asked or his views of the probable effect on ho industries of the South of tho oassage of the Lodge bill, General togor A. Pryor said: My opinion is hat the enforcement of the bill, if nacted, will ivitably provoke cullis ,nsof violone in tho So1t hern States. .1 conisequenIly IApital will be with Lrawi f:-ou t lie Siouti, or at all events will no 1ong w .n- i.hillher. E, t'oiw be1F otwee; te. itheoib reat present. pr:et:.; pa imi11(td ati,sfactory to both, but any attempt f the federal government to influ. lice the electoral franchise in the outh anid so to disturib the e<piilbiumii f the races will provoke resentment lid inflaime passions iniconlsisteit. tith public order and tran(lulity. o man, whatever his pohtical opin >ns, can travel in the South without eing favorably inpressed by the ontentient and prosperity pervad ig colored coimnunities. "It is to the peaceful relations be ween the races and their cordial co peration in industrial development bat the present extraordinary pro ress is attributable. To set the two lasses in hostility, as this bill would o, would infallibly arrest the course f Southern prosperity. It is a nota le fact that collisions between the aces in the South have invariably nd exclusively beon caused by politi al coutroversiks. On1 every other sub ,ct the harimony between the races i compltA. At present there is othing in the political cont--sis of le South to exasperate oe race gainst the other. But this bill will Udoubtedly array the factions in im lacable antagousnim. It may as well be understood, once or all, that the whites of the South to not intend that the blacks shall equire the ascendency, and in so far 6 this bill tends to the accomplish 2ent of that ascondeney it will chal nge resistance. If the races be left ree from Federal intervention, they 'ill work out their pacific and in ear est co-operation, not only to the enUfit of the South, but to the wel are of the entire country. It is la aentable at this juncture, when every hing is so quiet and prosperous in he South, that a measure should be troduced which cannot but result n discord and disaister." Hon. J. Simis. president of the ?ourth National Bank, took t differ of view. He thought the South vould acquiesce in the operation of he bill if it was made a law. "The ante-bellu days," lie said, 'are not the days we live in. The south is law-abiding; so that while here may be some resentment it Vill not occasion any serious disturb .nces. I don't believe in the bill. I ,m not apprehensive of any violence >n the part of the South in case it hould be enforced. Of course mil ions and millions of Northern money iave gone South for investment in the ist few years, and that very connec ion will be an influence teidiig to ontrol any outbreak that would en langer the enterprises that Northern apital has built up." L Mcteor Drop)pedl Into 11is wagont. V~,ersa~ille,s (Ky.) corresp)ondence t. Lois Globe-D)emocrat: John iVhittakcer, of' near Oregon Bend this ounty, was driving bomse last night, vben a meteor flashed acr'oss the lenvens, and the next instant a huge tone, measuring about eight feet in liamlet('r, camne through the air, and vith terrific forece crashed into the >e'd of the wvagoni directly behind luim, grazing the seat lie occup)ied as t fell. The horses were wild with right, but the heavy stone pinned he wagon to the earth, and as they ~ould not break the heavy chain races they were unable to run off. KIr. Whittaker says lie heard the neteor whizzing through the air, but ind no idea what it was until he was olted out of his seat by the crash. i number of sightseers visited the upot today and inspected the won lerful rock. Corpulency Cured by Faust tng. P'oUoHKEEP'siE, July 24.-Dr. Chas. K. Barlow, one of the leading deni Lists of this city, has taken no food of any kind excep)t a glass of milk or' a my~ of coffee each day for forty-five lays. When hie b)egani fasting hie weighed 215 po0unds andl meuasuired t0 inches around the body. He now weighs 201 p)ounlds and mueasur*es 35 nei(hes aroundl the body13. When the foitrt-fie days were up he was ready to eat something sub)stantuial, >uit his appetite failed himn and1 has mot yet r'eturned('(. His board bill for lifty three (lays has been less thani M2. lie says he feels goodl andl has worked hard every dlay diuig his ~ast. His entire food todlay conlsistedl fa glass of milk and a plate of ice wreanm. fie is about forty years of ige. His eyes are bright and his niov(menCits sp1rightly. Attackedl by WhIite Rloughs. GamJ:vra.:, S. C., July 24.-Jess RIackey, colored, was seriously cut md( bieaten on Sunday unight last by hree young white meni, wvhose names ire George Rotterse, Walter Beardl mid John Smith. Mackey claims hat he w~as near the Columbia and~ 3ireenville railroadl in the West End, vhien he wvas attacked by the men n('ntioned above, and if lie had not -un away would have been seriously murt. As it is he has a knife wVound( n the back wvhich is considered dlan er'ous. The young men are under irrest to await the result of the yound. -The State Farmers' Institute will be held at Ridge Spring, 28th wel 2th inst. TllE S'T,AvE ALLIANCE. THE PROCEEDINOS OF THE ANNUAL SESSION AT CREENVIL-E. The Anuail Addr-es Shtpwa the Order to be Isn i Flourithing Condition --A Plan for at Mutual ire tmd 1.ife Imiurme Company to) ho W.esen4vid-Tho Ellectionl of Mltivers. Gi-:i:NvI.i:, July 2:3.--The South Carolina State Farimers' Alliince met here to-day-most every conity be ing represented. The morning ses ;,1o1 W;as de%voted chiifly to or1galIMza tion. The annual addres- (! Pr'rsident inekchouso showed the memblwrship to have increased to 17,500 in the last two yvears. There are 1,t 52 sub-alli ane('s il tie State. Colonel F. F. Polk, President of the National Fitrwit' Allilnce, ad dressed the alillman ce in the morning, aind tonight delivered a public address in the opei house to a lage audience. The most iportant action was the appoinltiuent. of a coninittee to col sider plans for a mutual fire and life insurance company to be operated by the Alliance. Dr. J. William Stokes, of Orange burg, editor of the Cotton Plant, 'as elected president by acclamation to gether with all the old officers. Spar'tainburg was selected as the lext place of meet-ing anild following delegates were elected to the National Alliance: J. William Stokes. W. J. Talbert, A. C. Latimer and Dr. Eugene Jarlgan. SE oND DAY. Gin:EvLL:, July 24.-- The Farm ers' Alliance of South Carolina met in the Opera Rouse at 1) o'clock this morning. The proceedings during the day were largely devoted to dis mussionm on various tops. The com iimittee which wi appoilte(d to pre pare the reports to be given out to the press gavv out the following: The comnlittee on legislative diandsI" made a number' of recolllen(ldatiolns in line with the denmanld!s of the Na tional Alliance. The importance of pushing these demands was set forth, and it was urged that no candidate be supported who is not in full.symn pathy with the demands mad. The Secretaries of the State and County Alliances were forbidden from heie. after giving out a full directory of t he County and sub-Alliance oili(eers ex cept by permission of the president and chairman of the executive com mittee. An appeal was made to th Alli ance, members in the North and Northwest to unite with the South Carolina Alliance in coildemnimg the Lodge bill, and requesting tiin to come to our aid in preventing tile passago of said bill, the intent and effect of which, we believe, will be not to benefit any class of citizens, but will serve to break the force of our united brotherhood in our demand for financial reform. Several amendi ients to the constitu tion were adopted. The sub-treasuiry bill was endorsed, and it is thme selse of the body that. no candidate for Congress should re Ceive our support un.less le favors that Ileailre. The Alli:mce was positive in its op positionl to national banks, and de man111ded the reimUovil of all taxes o a1111 State banks. Sub andl County AIliances were' ;n jioined to take morie aictiv' h:it.eresi ini the schools of the coret r-. Thle President uriged uiponi the County and sub Alliances the imopor tanci of having their indti,. idual seal. The secretaries of sub-Alliances are urged to press the (claims1 of pa-* per's that have pressed anid will pressi thle dlemuanids of our11 or'der. Br'ethmren of the St ate 'Alliane - Ini turning over to youl thme high truist which I have endeaQJvored to) ('xecuite for you dlurinIg thme two years sIince your or'gan ization, I congr'atulato you on the growth of the order within the State, on the good your orgainization has already accomnplished and on1 tihe open prospCet for futur'e ac'com tplish - mlenit. Thle r'eport of your' State 01r ganizer shows that the orgaizi,ationi has niow lbeeni planted ini every'3 counIty i thme State. Your secr'etar'y reports4 thlat we niow~ have I1,05'2 sub)-Allianc(es iln the Sta:t e, ani inicrease of 298 iiinc'e your' last meeting, anid an incrlease of 1 7,500) members (luing the year now closing. n.NErIlT's (IF TUlE o1lumiS. The improved business methods in troduicedl by the or'der' haive saved hun~dre~ds of' thousands of dhol's to the farmeris of the State, b)ut iiim't aint as is this money saving to ht farmers of' tihe State, the gainr in in formaUition1 and1 manLIhiood is vastl1y more1( imipom'tant. Thet All ianice hats nlot only~ demIonlstrate.d the practicali b)eniefits of iunity, but thait it has stimulaihted and1( liais given dlirectionl to Jidividla1 efforts, is the tecstimony of obser'vers, bo0th inl and( out of the ordter'. Thme farmers of the State are msore chieer ful and1( hlopeful than they have been for manny yearsl', and1( it will ntot be de nied by those who have observed and studliedi the farmer's cond(ition, that it is mainly due to tihe beneficie'nt teaching 4 and oper'ationis of your' 1no - ble or'ganization. olUJiDEm nY NonLIE lU li'oSEs. In looking to and arranging for futur'e operations, we must be guided by the samie dleclarationl of noble pur' poses that hasi enlabledl us to start so) we(ll. They are founded oni truith and e'quity. Let uis study them and be guided by themi. TIhe safety and success of ouri organization is depend ent oni ourl fidelit,y and devotioni to these noble purposes. EcoNOMICAL EDUCATION. Thn firat delaation of pur,o-- b our order shows that it looked to the education of the "Agricultural class" -that they might be prepared to grapple with organized and entrench Cd miinopolv. I respectfully recom mend a careful study of this entire first declaration of purpose to the brotherhoo A in South Carolina. The education of the "Ageicultural class" is the most important work of the Alliance, not only in South Caro lina, but in every State of this great natioll. I reconuend that you con sider crel'ly the 1)est, methods for I hie ac,omllish:a -it 0' this great ed eatimial worl. M on opoly.- -int Irencht.d Imnopoly, with iimilhty inl!uvinve andl, pwor -mluIst be iiit ail dc '-'eated. This is a task worthly of the supr1,emust elfforts of the toilinig liassc-s of the peopile of t he United States. It. is no escalw if' we would perlwtuate free inlstitutionls a111 (.nligh tenled Christian govermn11eut. The toiliig mjasses of the peopl of this great nation are girldinig themiselves for the accom plishmlleilt of this task. The agricul turil States of this Uniou are uniting for the accoiptlishlent of this grand task. The great Northvest and the Cotton States will stand together in the coming battle with the 1overs of monopoly. The assaults of the first skiriimish will be recorded in the elee. tion resuh. of the National lectiols for 1800O. But the mons11tri-Moniopoly -is too firmly established for to be defeated in a skirmish. It will re (uire the great battle of 1892 to de cide whether the people or whether m11on1opoly shal1l 1111le this great liatioln. VoLITICAL. DANOEI.. Thme charge of mur 01i-its tht We have abdoned agricultl re aid ,on(, into 1p1litics is sulicieitly an swered bY fthe 'ifitist-ical fact of inl Crena r aad 11-v s luperior voindition11 of the grCoing erops. Whence this feal of tlh( ftirmier in polities? But we imlust everremiieime that our poli tics ire to be .Stlietly ionl partisan. Any departure from the rule will be ---to the extent of the departuire fatal to the success of the reforms sought. The Alliance is in no silse a politictl party, nor does it look to the destriletionl of vithwr of the rleat political parties, but it is ia "strictly nlonl partisan" orgaization for the de f'uce aid protectioll of the "agricul tural cla(ses" against legalized spolia tionl, and will waitt for 11 change of aihiistrationi to prmi~- (l e I nitI ds. '[lhe natioi'ftiitem:laIls foriniulateU by tho Suprtile Council at St. Louis have beenl 'onlsid"red and passed liio by tie Sn b and County Alliances. I reconllnenl that these deiands with the action taken thereon by Sub and County Alliances be referred to a special committee on legislative de imands an4 that all matters in refer 01nce to legislatiomi, Stat or national, be referred to this comnmittee. The great (cnsolidation efllectedl at St. Luis sicev your last. meting, anld tle ill precedent ed growth of the Na tioil Fariners' Alliance and Indus trial Unlionl in;pires the( ho0pe thlat the (141inanlds of that grnilld rII11galizationl, will-at. no dishilit, dy--receive re spect fuIl consid(eration by the Con)gress of the United State:i. iE AORIT11Li'AlA AND MECIHANIAL Co J LIiE. I cOli:.rautidit the fitriuig aiid ini dusitrial chIIse(s of tie SUtt ou1 :he fact, t h:t since your last meeting, thle State ha nu5 iitde pro1visionl for1 the cs tablishmnenit of anI A;ricultral:u and1 MechanLlical College at F ort HI ill, and that the work of1 construction is no0w The4 rept 1 f ytourV4)ii lhXcu1tivye C om-i mit tee shows good andi safe fiinanicial your Stte ornganliz('r, Stato lecturer and Stiate Vpresidenlt to met., to the (extenit of' thieir abilit y' to (do so, all de mandsI(1 miade for' their service(s. I ie conii~ued that thle conuniiittees5 (con tiue the same1( equlitaLble anid wise ar raiigoenit in reference to the wvoik of the State lectui'er, and that he ho rired( to giv'e his whole time to the work unider their dlirecttionl should it be demalndei(d. And I suggest f urther', now thiat; the work of orngaizaiitioni is 50 nearly eomplleted,. tiat, the eomm mtittee imposo5 tile wor'k of State or ganizer on the StaLte lecturer. coNSTITUIO"iN. '1lie State Secretary, wilh ias riintle your State's (constituntioni a special study, bats, by requesICt, prepa)iredl for i-ubmllissionl to your1 body ia new~ or' a irevised cons5t.itutioni, with the puriposo t o iijake; it more sys 5'ltemaitic in alrr'ange ment1, hess doubt) ful of initernpretationi and( eaisier' of r'eernce(. I r'ecom mindi( th:at you take such actioni as ill be&st secure' ai careful conlsidlera tion of t his newv. or' r'evised constitu tionli. AIAi.Net: ExCHIANoE. TIhe( plant adop)ted at your' last mieet inig for' tihe (stablishiment of "an AM lianie E'xchiange" has been carried iii o ne'tiv(' and suicessful1 operation. Tlhiis repmort, submitted to this body as: ini tO<>rnatiou,wivll siuflicienitly explain its operations. Its conitinuedI success isndir'ectly (depenident oin the patron age of the Alliance brotherhood of the State. When the business5 world comies to unider'stanid thait it has "comeI to staLy," that the Alliance neo ple of the State will support it to'the extent of their abilitp, it will surely priove a grand success amid benefit the Alliance nmemubership b)eyondl their most sanguine expectations. v'OUR ORo(ANs. The Cottoni Pflnt, your' State or gani, is worthy of and should rceOivo the sulpp)ort of the l:rotherhood throughout the State. It should make its weekly visits to every Alli ance homeo in the State. The fact Vhhat most of the Stato press isoPPoSCd to the demands of the Alliance makes it imperative that our people should read our State and national organs. The National Economist, your na tional organ, is combatting with com nendablo fairness and great ability the evils and dangers of monopoly. I recommend that the brotherhood of South Carolina give it liberal patron age. )ALARIEs. I respectfully suggest the propriety and justice of increasing the salaries of your Piresident and Secretary, as he salaries, au now fixed by your Constitution, are not fair compensa tion for the services rendered by those officers. I trust you will remain in session long enough to give careful consider ation to all matters of interest to the Order inl this State. In conclusion, I want to sa)y that the effort to serve you has been, to ue, a labor of love. I have brought to the discharge of the duties imposed liy best efforts foi the well being oi the order. I have been conscious of muy inability to measure up to the re sponsibilities imposed upon me. I invoke your indulgence to the defi ciencies and orrors in my official ad niistration. I want to record my grateful appreciation qf the prompt and generzous aid given me in their several dlepartinents, by those who have been associated with me in the :diseharge of my official duties, and I ertg( Aulate the brotherhood in the Stato on the wisdom of their selec t ion. ITEMS OF INTEREST. He umy ',. Stanley's manuscript is very legible, and scarcely an altera tion is made in a folio. --A Woman buried at New Madrid, Mo., a fw days ago, weighed 750 pounds. There were 16 active pall --One of California's pretty heir esseh is Miss Grace McDonough, who will inherit a fortune of $3,000,000 from her mother. -Senator Wade Hampton has at last shaved off the side whiskers which* he has so assiduously culti vated for lo! these many years. ---The esthnated expenditure in the British navy for the year will be, from all sources, ?19,263,633, while that of the army will be ?19,047,800. --The Emperor of Rassia, Alexan ALor II, has just had 1,000 pheasants se from England to his shooting plaeh'i the Gulf of Bothnia, at an expense o" ~ceach.,~ -A report havig reached the ears of P. T. Barnum that the grave of Jenny Lind is forgotten, he indig nantly denied it, and added that it is strewn with flowers every day. --Great fears prevail all over Eng land that the harvest will be a total failure, and the archbishop of Can terbury has ordered prayers for fine weather to be offered in all the churches. -Experiments prove that the At lantic breakers have a force of three tons to the square foot; thus asurface of only two squaro yards sustain a blow from a heavy Atlantic breaker (Iual to Iifty-four tonis. -According to the statistics gath ered1 by Mr. E". Payson Porter, sta istical secret:-y of the international Sunday School convention, there are in the United States 109,252 Sunday Schools, with 8,643,255 scholars and 1,1:48190 teachers and officers. --In the course of his successful (car1eer, Capt. M~cMickan, at present thme commuander of the Cunarder Umn b)ria, has made '178 passages across tie Atlantic, carrying 165,670 pas sonigers, and sailing on all voyages over a distance of 2,129,800 miles. --Thme Rev. John Prince, a MVetho (list clergy'man, agedl 80, and Mrs. Cynt hia Wood, aged 84, were married recently in Montireal. They were lovers ini childhood and would have b)een married sixty years ago, but their p)arenlts prevented the match. -James Melvin, of Concord, Mass. has for 12 years lain upon a bed with out changing his position. The os seous portions of his body have united into one picce, and from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet there is not a joint responsive to his will. --A German of Detroit tried to iigure the height of 100,000,000 silver dollars if p)laced one on top of the other, and because he couldn't get it within a foot or twvo he jumped off a wvharf with suicidal intent. Although lie never had a pile a foot high he wanted to be exact about other peo pie's muor-.ey. --Job: Merriman, of RhodoeIsland, (called I imself a humanitarian and broughW up a lot of old1 horses and turned them out to pasture to end their days in peace. He had got about thirty and the papers were eulogizing him, when his wife got a divore on the grounds of extreme cruelty. She p)roved that he .almost starved her to death. --In: speaking of Sam Jones's ser mon at Oxford, Justico Lamar said: "It was striking in many senses. Parts oi it wereolike a Pullman palace sleeping car-capable of being htch ed to any train, going in any direc tion, at aniy time-fitting ainywhere, acting automiatic~ally, and capable of emanating from no brain other than that of the original Sam Jones." --In an interview with the Roches ter Union (Deim.) Bob Ingersoll says: "I believe in protecting what are ('alleCd thme infant industries, but after tl,he -infants' get to be six feet high and wear No. 12 boots it is about time to stop rocking the cradle, es pecially wvhen the 'infant' tells you that if you stop rocking he will get out of the cradle and kick your head off."