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&~4 V~l1. XXI. PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY , AUGUST 9, 1 9.NO 4 HOT TIMES IN UNION. THE CAN:DATES FOR SFNATO MAVE A I ILT. he growd Choer' for Tollinva .vtlb Butler Tiea teo Speak, a,.i ate Olia( Blackeua(lda- Great Excitonent-oauwghl man Tries to Si,eak. UNION, July 31.-Strong men an( brave men looked for serious trouble at Union this afternoon and early to night and held their breaths until it was over. Well, its over. and then was no personal difficulty betweer Butler and Tillman. There were hol words, however, and t he two men shool their forefingers at each other an( talked bard and fast while the train or which they were dashed noisily aloni and everybody breathlessly awaitec the outcome. It's a long story how il all came about, but the public will de your every word with eagerness ant will not then be satitafled. HOW IT CAME ABOUT. Here's the story, although some o0 the same facts appear elsewhere it this report. On Saturday at Laurem Senator Butler gave to the newspapel men a part of a speech which lie in tended to make there. This wasgivet for the purpose of getting it to their pa pers by mail. The entire matter relatet to the Dispensary. Each correspondeni mailed the matter to hils paper. Sena tor Butler did not use the matter iI his speech and the newspaper men tele graphed their papers not to use it. Foi some reason the News and Courier saw filt to publish it on Monday morning with a statement that it was a part of the proceedings of the Laurens meet ing. How it mato the mistake is no known. Governor Tillman was mad The matter again insinuated that ther was something wrong in the Dispen sary. When the Governor spoke today he jumped on the article and on Butler using some strong language to th senior Senator. When the Senator re plied he was severe on Tillman and th( crowd got mad. Butler got mad and for a while things were squally. BUTLER (ETS HOTTER. Soon after the speaking Governoi Tillman went to the private house o Judge Townsend, where lie was stop ping, and was not seen again until thi train came by Union for Spartanburg - Senator Butler was stopping at th4 Union Hotel but he and nearly all oi the others took dinner at the railroat eating house. The Senator appears t< have brooded over what Tillman salt about jhim and the way crowt treated him. As the afternoor wore on he did not cool off, bul got hotter I have never knowr him so mad. At the dinnei table, at which over a dozen men wer seated, Senator Butler publicly stated that Tillman had not. treated him fair ly and that as soon as lie saw him h( proposed to denounce him to his face 9s "a damn dog, scoundrel and vandal.' le was also bitter in speaking of somf of the men whom he considered lead era in yelling for Tillman, one being a man named Mobley and another named Evans. The Senator said he might at well settle all this thing now; that he had only a few more years to live and it would not make much difference i he had to go now. There was some. thing to admire in the old soldior aE his eyes flashed and he talked diliantly, Every man present knew that he would keep his word. They presumed that he might cool off and not use such severe language to Tillman. Ile did not use the same language but ic was strong enough. Senator Butler went to his hotel after dinner and remained ihcre. While there he saw Mobley and denounced him in the presence o1 many people. When he turnedi from Mobley the story is that Mobley saic something derogatory to Butler. A W. Hlarris, postmaster at Union, heard it and st arted to attack Mobley, reach ing for his pistol it is said. Later Ca; Caughman had a difliculty in a room of the hotel with a marn and pulled his pistol. Friends mntcrfered and stopped this trouble. All over town rows were brewing and wvere avoihh d on'y by the presence of cool headed mien. ~Senautot Butler himsetlf tissisted in stopplng some of these, Liquor got in its work on all sides and it Is a wonder that Ih Coroner d es not have to wori k tmorn row. 'il INsMIIT The traiun f rom Columbia rolla.1 Inlto Union tonight about 'i.3() o'clock, T went y minutes we re allo wed for sup per. Senator Butler sat for some time on the portico of the eauting house The train stoppedi at the station f1ft.3 yiards fromn the cattIng house. Glovernor T ilimarn ate supper at , tudge Town seno's arnd was dr Iven to t he depot He got on the train and took a sent 1i the Pullman sleeper which was it charge of Conductor D)awkins. Tlhc ,train was in change of Conductor Carn son. Senator Stanyarne Wilson sat. in the same seat with Governor Tillman No others of the campaIgn party went in the sleeper. Senator llutler got or the firtst class coach with seVena friends. As soon as the traia pullec out he appeared to begin a search foi Tillman. Not seeIng him in the firs: clsas coach lie went into the secon< class. A few people followed him. I10 even looked into the baggage car. Not a dozen people on the train sauspectet his mission, but reporters land theli eyes open. Senator ller retraced hli steps through the seicord and flrsl class coaches andI entered the sleeper Close at his heels were newspaper men. his brother, who lives In Iunion, (Gon oral Rlichbourg, W. LI. Yeoldell, Genera Ellerbe, Col. Jiohn Gary Evans andc Cal Cauph man. They crawled arouni little alsk. a. In a front seat ern thu right hand 81(10 sat Tillman and WVl son, Senator Ilutler walked up I< where they were sitting. TIE RtOW. 1t was impossible because of thi noise of the train to catch all that wai ld, but the substance of It was that * tator Butler wanted to know if (by ernot Tillman knew that the publica tion of that article was premature Glovernar Tillman admitted that ha knew so through Kohn, correspondent for the News and Courier. Blutlei then wanted to know why TIillman bat made ueeof it. Tillmnan answered he8 cause lhe did not think that Kohni has anything to do with it and that Butlei ought to have informed him (Tillman that the pullication of it was an acci dent while they wore comingf up on th train together on Mvonday. '.That woulI haye removed- all troublb. General Butler then remarked: "Al that has nothing to. do with it and I want to say to you that you rerpetratet a deliberate fraud today. I hlave' ce to tell you that these thinaa must bi settled personally and that I will meet you anywlere." Tillman answered: "You are an olt man and one-leggt d and I do it t care to have a difliculty with you uudei th se circumstances." Butler' You are one-eyed and need not mind my infirmities. Tillman said his one eye idln't lessen his physical abilitos Tho car rocket along. Conductor Dawkins did not at fiest seem to bomprehend what was the mat ter and refrained from interference Senator B3utler ssid something about blackguards at the ineet.ing. Tillmar said: "Yes,this is a day of blackgtards .You h'lped to enact the anti-duelling law about fifteen years ago and a gen tieman can no longer obtain a ttiifiac tion for an insult. You know I ai not afraid of you." Butler: "That is all fight; but I. say that you have perpetratcd a deliberatl. fraud and lie and that I am ready to settle with you personally." Cal Caughman became wild at thu point and shouted: "Ile Is a liar, G d-n him," and made a motion towards his hip pocked. Caughman had beer talking boisterously for several inis utes and Conductor Dawkins had tolk him to cease. When Caugliman broke - loose with his proianity Condictoi I Dawkins and General Ellerbee seizet him and hustled him out. Ile did not return until the trouble was over Biutler continued oy telling Tillm tn that he had indulged in personalitie. and by God lie did not propose to stant any more of them. "I could tell you,' he said, "of what I have heard ho w you paid off a $16,000 mortgage." Tillman: "Then why don't you do it. You know it is a lie. You cannot sep arate my public record from my pri vato character for honesty." Butler: "I want to repeat to you not to presume on my age or inr'irmities and tell you that I will meet you any place or any time." The Governor told Butler that h was tired of his insinuations that, ho bad stolen money. Butler: "I have not insinuat~ed any such thing. Why don't you deny what I charged and not go into personalities When you want to lIght, G-d d-d it say so and we will have it." Governor Tillman acted very pru 'lently during all this. lie talked with out a break and tremor in his voice I Once or twice he and Butler had thei: I lingers i? each others faces. Senatoi I Butler repeated his remarks severa I times, each time appearing to grov i more. excited. Once he said, "\Yher i you ever have anything persnnal comc to me. Don't put those G-d d-n i hoodlums on me." Tillman: "You know that is not st and I didn't put anybody on you." Butler: "I am going to have free speech or I am going to light for it." Tillman: "When ever you insinuate that I have been stealing I am going to resent it." .iatler: "There is no iise to talk any further when you have any Ihing per sonal say it to me." Conducter Dawkins had for som time been trying to put a stop to the row. iHe at last said that it must stop as ladies were complaining. TLe alair was dropped by Senator Butler walking out and Governor Tillman who had been standing up sitting down. The train rolled into Spartanburg to, night without further incident. Every. body is looking for trouble here tomor row. Senator iutler Is getting desper ate. Political feeling is running high tonight and I understand contingents of Butler men are expected here from Columbia and Isewhere to back up whatever the Senator says and does. Two thousand people will be here -i here wvere other incidents at U~nioir today. Mr. Minnogerode, the populai agent for Church & Co., soda men,who has been'following the campaign dIts tributing samples of his house was ar restedl for obstructing the streets and fined heavily. Mr. Minnegerode hat never interfered with the speaking or with anylbodiy andi his house will brlng~ suilt for false Imprisonment. TH'iIC Sl'EAK(INOt. All the above occurred aifter tht sp~eaking was over, and after the part y had left Union fur Spartanburg. WC will not report the speeches of any can d idates but TIillm ian and I lutier's,as the others made abiout tite same speechet 1-hat they have made at other places After several candidates for State odli ces arnn Railroad Commnissioners htat spoken, Governor Tlillman was intro diuced. lie said that before he began his tias cussion of issues he wvoulid pay his re splects to Senator lButler. le satid that lintler is allowing his month to br tused as a sewer through which othet people mEquirt filth at, him (l'illman,' 11li reviewed hluthler's various cha~rges against him. Now there appears in ti . N ews and Courier part (at wvhat is ali leged to0 have been a speech of Iliutle'r at. Laurens. Blutler did nt deliver any i such spoehi. lTe article referr-ed to b I as follows, and was itendetd to havi I been spokeni by ibuier at L'jurens: .1i have ali-eady dutring lime cam paigti referred I.e the mtanagement, of liii i State Dispensar-y and~ asketi Governiue Tillman what had becomie of the cents per gallon rebate the St at~e war I entitled toi tn his iliuor puruchasers in reply he atated that hie didi nout tei. thi rebate because he did ntot. 'oltinie htis purchases t) the rumst.. I was net thoroughly posted then ba', htavet inOc had the Imnelt of Comnmissioner Tiraix - br's report- fr-om .July lht, i893X, to Janut Ii ary 1st. 189-1, and in looking overi' Ili that Governor illmhuan is ini i i-re in saying that the State was not eni tIed to this rebatti as none1( of is p~ut chases as puis~ihed ini this report. re leased the Mill Creek istilling Cori pany from payment of not only of tii 7 cents per gallon, but as I will ahoy you of a much greater amount, nrd I it has not been patid steps should b~ taken te have it, collected as the tax p payers 'f the State are entitled t~o it in Commnissioner Tlraxher's report w .are informed that the first puirchaso for the State were made on May 25 1893, from the Mill Creek Dilstllinj Company, who are In the trust, a I amounted to abiout sixty-ono thoiusant -three hundred gallons at a cost o I about $84,300. Of this purchase al except abtout 1.350 gallons were entitlet ) to a rebate of 7 cents per gallon, bu - als two cents per gallon morei fo a cash. The 1,350 gallons of high pricot I whiskey was entitled to a discount o 4 per cent. for cash. Further review I ingr this purchase, I find that the stene paid the Mill Creek Distilling Com. pany $1 :0 per gallon for 17,936 gallons of single X rye, which was only worth on that day $1 20 per gallon. They al paid the Mill Creek Distilling Com pany on the same date 81.26 per gallon for 18 581 gallons single X Mournn the market price of which on (hat da was $1 20 per gallon; so in this slingl( purchase we find the taxiiaye'rs of thI State over Daid. On 17,930 gallons N rye at 10 cenis per Rallon $1,793 0 On 18,581 gallons X Bourbon at I cents per gallon $1.114,8;6 HRebate on 59.950 gallons al, 7 cents $4,19850. Cash discount, 59.950 gallons at 2 olents per gallon, $1.199.00 Cash discount, 1,345 sgallons cost aboat $30 27 at 4 per cent.$120 00 Making a grand total of S8,423.96 lost to the taxpayers of the State or this single purchase amounting to les than $85,000. 1 (1o not propose to go over all the purchases made by the~tatt but simply call your attention to the loss made on this single purchase from the Mill Creek l)istilling Company. Thle Governor promises that tle dis pensary will be in full blaist again at an early day arid apparently lie is anxIoeu to have the law in force aigain and While I do not propose to give my views lor or against it I do think that the State should buy its liquors to the very best advantage and not vest the purchas. Ing power in ode who has no knowledge of the business; and besides, 1 (10 not think it wise to have a l:iw which opens the door to corruption. It is not my in tention to convey the idea that Gover nor Tillmau Is dishones, but 1 dosay that an Act that give3 the power to any one man to use the money and credit. of the State to the extent of hundreds of thottsands of dollars and permit his ac. countings to the State for this trust a4 is done in tliis Dispensary report is, to say the least, an tin wise Act. I have only covered the firsrt purchase made by Governor Tillman and under stand that all rye li,'lors have sinct been bought from this comp any foi the StateDisponsary and will g o no I ur thor, bit I would be glad if some one perfectly familiar with the liquor bust. ness would carefully review all the statements issued by Commissioner Traxler and let the taxpayers of the State know whether the others purchase were made at or above their value. lReplying to this article Governoi Tillman said that It was another insin uation that he wag either a fool or a ras cal; that he had been swindling the peo ple or had been cheating. lie asked 'lutler where he had got his infor -na I tion about the price of whiskey at th< times named. Receiving no answer h( said that Butler didn't know and wa allowing himself to be used as a tool o thewhiskey trust. Gavernor Tillmar went over the other insinuations o Butler and answered them, demanding of Butler the source of his information lie said he was getting tired of thes insinuations and wouldn't stand it lie had never attacked Butler's honesty The people of Edgelleld know that he (Tillman) is honest and endorsed hin two years ago by 1,500,iajority. They will give himi 1,5C3 majority this year The Governor said: "I; comes with poor grace from Butler to insinnate anything about my honesty when he cannot say as munch about paying his own hoiest debts." Butler lie said, charged him with having powei to purchase all the whiskey. This wag not so. The purchasing power is vestec in the Board of Contro). of which El lerbe and i uch anan are members They are responsible but all the respon sibility is laid on me. They frequently leave the purchasing of whiskey to me because 1 am familiar with all details o; the business, but they know that there is nothing in these insinuations. After finishing with Butler Governom Tillman jumnped on Grover Cleveland Speaking of the scarity of mo'ney ho took a hend primary to see how mnan) men in the audiienlce had any money. 1 was a rather delicate question, but ti primary sho wed ani enthusiastic mnaj orn ty without a centt. Governor Tlillmiar touched again today on the Alhianci eud the sub-t reasury. lie declared tha thlv pressing of that demnad at thi: time is sImply blindness and may preci pltate a row in tile Reform ranks whici mny allow seine of our enemies to 5111 in. "1 could have dlodgedl this suib-treas urtiy Issue and let you go on and fall it the (ditch, but I. ant not a demagoguE an d will tell you the t ruath ev ery ti me.' (Cheers.) 'The Governor tol his frtendm to leake every man who is a candidato for the L egislat.ure tell e'xtct ly how he~ standsI. Voice: " I'hey have got it to (do." 'The last thing the Governor spoke 01 was the Dispensary. lIeJ sali that ho hadl hId the 1893 Ia wv from ihe Supremo Court becattse he didn'. want t~he ex puense of an extra session of' the lo'gis laturne to renact It.. The Govueror wmu sustained In what lie had dlone In ro opening the Dilspensary by a hand pri miary. Tlheo crowd promnised to (10 thell dty as;i jurs when men are ar resteE for vIolation of the law. The G ovenio: toli the crowd that when Ithey know a man is violating the law to send him word and lie will send a conistable t( take charge of that man. 'The (Gover 1no1 wals uproariously applauded'o tinogh on ' h is speech. Ever'y bidy who know Senator ihit ho: cant imagine how it lust have~ alfecte< him when Governor 'I'llm 'an tol hua his mouthn was a1 sewer pipe through which other pieople H(quirti the~r 11th a' hi mi. Knowing this the reporters looket ior hiot. stuff from Senator I litler. Tlhe) were i not dIisappioint.edh, biut, th o11ccaI 810)n was lictteri than an~y bod Iy (Ix pected I t, e unet' nieart taount.Iog ito a riot be [o ieu or ailloted to the Senatoi -' a liule pamler thiacnusual as lhe Iaen' -' th os of I y.00 metnt, inearly all (2: Ihe Ti'~i'ill maniteII. ( Grasptinig the ril ing -In I ronti f him, Glenieral Bhitler lIre a paid a few ctompl)~limets~ to the 01(d eel diers of I'nlon. TIhen he saId in stern f tones: Snc t~he progress of' thltI 3 campain ii hayveend(ea vored i.e comnply w with thle rulehs or parliamentary dlebaite -The ox hibiti hero tIl morning Is nm 3 exceptton to) t hi quotatIon t hat' "Whex a man gets miad he' Is a fool." 'a TIurn ing t oward TiIlmian atnod bacd I again to the ero vd, I iitier sid:'' 1 not11Ify both him inde ymu here and1( noti ,that in the i'it.r ni Idut not. )FPropos tU I wash our dlinty lineni in public. If hi I or yeu have any personaul grie'vanice I agaInst, me let him meet, im and wi SWIll set.tle it. H [e k news whiere to lnt r me and knows lie can get u'd.Isfactioi at any time." I' This statement, or at least that pair [CmNeTI~nuDO nuA n Vn n. I LARRY GAN IT HITS BACK. H. REFUSES TO BE TURNED OUT OF THE ALLIANCE. He 0lim that a Whitew4uling Vlunmit ' 4' )iIetumendOti His Fzpribpon ftom th, Order-Sava he is ltAhdy to Prove Hl11 8harges Against Dun eas., SI'ARTANnUI, S. C, Aug. 1-The article printed below, written by Edi tor Gantt, of the Piled mont Ieadlighbt, on his expulsion by the State Alliance from that Order, was published in this week's issue of the leadlight. Ilere is the article: ''he editor o' the Piedmont Ihead light was the ilrat journalist in Geor ia to espouse the Alliance demands. Ile has also the distinction of publish ing the only daily paper In America that, supported Alliance principles. And it was on account of this defense we lost our position as managing edi tor of the Athens Banner. The direc tors of the paper came to us and stated that inless we stopped advocating the Alliance, that our resignation as editor would be asked for. We told those di rectors that these principles were right and just, and we intended to stand by them if it made us a pauper. We were displaced and another party given our job. Afterwards we were elected edi tor of the Georgia Alliance organ, which position we held until our health gave way, when the State Alliance papsed highly complimentary resolu tions of thanks to us. We have never made one dollar out of the Alliance but on the other hand have sacrificed half of what, we had accumulated by bat tling for the farmers. The above are facts and every state ment can [e .substantiated by leading Alliancemein In Georgia, who will tell you how hard, devotedly and unselfish ly we have labored for their movement. We came to South Carolina because the Alliance in Georgia had decided to go into the Populist party, and we knew it meant destruction to their movement. We had the confidence of the members and would not fight them but, at the same time we determined not to aid in any effort that we knew must result in their injury. When we took charge of the Columbia Register, we found this same Third party senti ment in South Carolina, but did all in . our power to suppress it, and succeed ed. As a result in our sister State of Georgia, the Alliance lost all it had gained, and the order three fourths or more of its members; while in South Carolina the farmers are in the saddle, they have made the Ocala platform the platform of their State, and control every of1me from United States Senator r to coroner. We are not working for either gain or applause, but shall hew square to the line, fearlessly and unflinchingly stand by our principles and convictieua and ulace our trust in the people. Aud another thing: We do not propose to keep back any information from the people that we may possess, for they are intelligent and patriotic, and have a right to be informed on all public matters. On this line, some months ago, it be. came our duty to expose the manage ment of the State Alliance Exchange. We stated nothing but facts, and can prove before any unablased and disin terested committee, every charge we have made against the management of D'Arcy P. Duncan. 1. We charged Mr.Duncan with try ing to make his brethren in Spartab burg county pay the Exchange $180 per ton more for guano than an agent for the same company was selling the same brand of goods for, and that our county trads~ agent, Mr. B~urtor, had to write Duncan several letters before he could get any satisfaction from him, This charge we can substantiate by Mr. Burton himself, and by any num ber of Alliancemen. Now, we contend that there is something radically wrong with the management of the State Ex change when Allianeemen must use outside competition to force their -.z cing prices. u.We char-ge that Manager Dunncan stated on the stand at Spartanburg that hie paid $17 60 for a sewing machine that sells for $18 25. We had a stand ing offer in the IHeadlight to sell the identical machine, to any farmer, at only $14; we also proposed to Mr. Dun can at lemnan to ship him one of these machines, and let it be compared with the machine lhe says cost him $1'7.50, and ii a committee did not say that Ithey were identically the same ma chinea,then we would present the one wve ordlered to the Exchange. So Man ager Duncan either misstated facts or lie is not a competent man to conduct the b~usiness for four farmere, when a weekly newspaper can purchase a sew ing machine at $3 50 less than the State 'Exchange, that receives them by the car load. 3. We publish a letter written by Manager D~uncan to an Alliance brother at Biling Springs, in this county, so liciting from him a letter endorsing the Exchange, for publIcation in the Cot - ton Plant. Hlut so far from this AIli ancoman giving the endorsement asked he states to us that he ordered some - hour and molasses through the Ex Ichanuge, andl the flour cost h im 90 cents per barrel more than merchants sold the same brand for, while the molasses was billed ten cents a gallon over the market price. We can glve the name of this brother if' desired, an~d he is the puurchasinig agent for his lodge. 4. We charge that Manager D~uncan idirect violation of a plain statute of the State of South Carolina, hats been using his railroadi passes to travel over Sout h Carolina in his private Interest and conduct lisa lnoiticai campaign. Now can the Alliance afford to con. (10on0 or endorse such a plain and shameless violation of our laws In one of its highest oflicias~? We say not. 5 We al-c prepared to prove that Manager D~uncan has been buying goo:ls for Alliancemen from retai mer chalints5 in Columbia-including Lorlck & Lowrance, Governor Tillman's bait terest ediemies-ind that charging his brothers a higher price for these goods than the~ same mnarchuants sold ro farm ers for. Now, theae are tile only charges cve Shave madte against Mr. Dunncan as busi ness Manager or the State Exchange, i or with which the Alliance has to deal, I We have chlarged him with political disloyalty against the leeform move mont, and( using his powera as chair t man of the board of railroad commis sioner <to unjustly oppress the people, but they are matters foreign to the province )f the Alliance, and the peo ple will Pass upon them at the polls. At the Inman Alliance we met Mr. Duncan face to face, recited our char ges in his presence and before iliteen hundred people, and we can prove by every person present that he did not answer a single one. On the other hand, he appealed to the prejudice of the people becaus-e he was a farmer, when Mr. DUnnc m is no more of a farmer than his opponents, having held oflice in Columbih for many years. lie claimed that the Ex - change had reduced prices, when lie knows that the reduction in the price of all manner of goods is owing t.o a contraction of currency, for the saine prices rule in States where there Is no Alliance Exchange as in South Caro lina. lie boasted of reducing the rail road freights on fertilizers, but did not tell his people that he also permits these roads to charge one-half cent, per mile more passenger tariff than te same lines exact in other States; and while the rates on third class freight. From Baltimore to Spartanburg are 48 ments, goods are hauled through our 3tty and 150 miles further on to Ath ns, Ga., for only 25 cents! Mr. l)un Man says this is attributable to the fact hat those G eorgia cities have water transportation. This 1s not true so far is Athens is concerned, for it is lifteen miles further from water navigation han Spartanburg. Now it was far from our desire to misrepresent Manager Duncan, and it .s also our earnest desire to have this )usiness investigated to the very bo. ,om by the State Aillance. We stated joth through our paper aud in the itand that if a full and rigid investiga ion of our charges were made, and it was shown that we had done the Alli mee Exchange or its ianager the ihghtest injustice, that we would heerfully and freely make the correv Ion. So with this end in view, we 'ransmitted to the State A liiance by Dr. M. 0. Rowland, delegate fron ipartanburg county, the following 3ommunication: 'To tle State Alliance: "I have called attention i n the lied mont Headlight to the reports which lad come to me as its editor, concern ing the management of the State Alli ance Exchange, whereby the Alliance men were charged excessive prices for fertilizers, sewing machines and other articles; and the manager o0' the Exchange having entered into a con troversy with my paper, in which lie denies the reports; and Alliancenion in different parts of the State having manifested considerable interest in having the correctness of those reports established or refuted; and inasmuch as the manager of the Exchange has constituted me the prosecutor in the matter and the representative of I he complainant; it is a matter of vital in terest to the future usefulness of the Al liance Exchange that these reports be inquired into. "I respectfully petition that a com mittee of five Alliancomen be appoint. ed by your honorable body, who shall be authorized and empowered to make a full, complete and thorough investi - gation of the btusiness management of the Exchange during the past three years, and that they have power to take testimony of witnesses, to receive testimony of witnesses, to receive and collect letters, papers and documents, to appoint a bookkeeper if necessary, and to make their report to the presi dent of the State Alliance; and In order that it may be fairly, impartially and satisfactorily done, that the manager of the State Exchange be permitted to select two of the committee, your peti tioner two, and these four to select the fifth, which last shall be chairman of the committee, that said committee be required to accompany their report with all the testimony which they shall take, and all the letters, papers and other documents which they shall col Now, we ask every reasoning Alli man in South Caroiina,is not the above proposition entirely fair to0 both. Mana ger Duncan and ourself, and whom he had made the nrosecutor ? We pre suimed that the honor of the order, and consistency to the profession", and plait form, would demand of the State Alli ance that the very bottom facts be got ten at in tis Exchange business, for as an honorable body they could not afford to endorse anything that smacks of whitewashing or a cut-andl-dried report. All we asked, and what alone will satisfy the peop~le, too, will lie that thle business transactions or this State Exichiange for the past three years bo thoroughly ventilatedi and laid before Alliancemen. That thei-e is wrong somewhere, and some one is to blame, we are thoroughly convinced. \Ve are prepared to establish every charge that we have made, and defy Manager Dun - can or tise friends anid backers to) ac cept the perfectly fair proposition thai, we ha~ve madle above, and let the Alli ancemen read thie testimony taken by an impartial comnimittee, chosen jointhy b~y the accusedl and 1the f~rosecutor. And agamn the proposition that we made was the fairest anti b~est, that, could be made, for to have the conven tion investigate the IExchange buisinesm would require at least a week, andi no cessitate an expendliture of a [irge' sum oif money, in summoning witnetss es andi examining bills. Manager D)uncan "publicly at ated both at hnman atnd We-st Springs that lie would brIng ouir charges before the meeting of the State Alliance at Aiken, and where we would be summoned to appear. Weo chee-rfully accept thIs proposition, atiind adl all of our ar rangements to attend thiat convent lion, were our presenc'i asked. hut to our surprise we had no not-aicationi to at tend said meeting, and the first, intima tioni receiveli by us that, these charges had come tip and were disposed of was a telegram in the Greenville N ews, a bitter anti piper, and whIch was d a plicated in the other ring-rule shleets over our State; and so elatedt were these papers over what they thought dlefeat for a men who had fought them and their faction so long and unilinich ingly, that they gave the proceedings that referred to us under dhaming lieadl lines; andI some of these same paipers actually pennedl editorials favorable to the action 01f i,hie Alliance-an oirgani z~ation that they hayo fought so long andl slandleredt so villainously. Now, it seems to us5 very strange thait infor mation touching the loyalty of a brother member, who is im good stand ing, should be given to the public be fore even the members of our order were tnadle acqluaintedi with the same llere is this report "exonerating" Manager D~uncan: "The commIttee, after repeated of. forts, due notice having bee,1 given, failed to get Mr. Gantt before them in person or with testimony, flads the charges alleged are groundless and the conmittee fully exonerates M-n ager Duncian of said charges. W. N. Elder, Chairman. Now, bear in mind that the above report was made without summoning us before the State Allianco, or hearing our charges or giving us an opportuni ty to produce our witnesses. How then does-H this committ.eo know that. our"charges are grouindless?" and in publishings their proceedings, why did they omit to also give to the public the perfectly fair proposition handed the convention by Dr. M. 0. towland ? It simply shows to the world that these men had organized themselyes into a whitewashli-g commit tee, and trampled every principle of justice and fairnesa under foot. We asked for an oppor tunity to present our ch arges and our witnesses, and this was denied to us. And not only this, but that, report Is signed by " W. N. Elder," the same man who had already made a report exoner ating Manager Duncan, and upon whien the whitewash was so tians par ent. that even its beneflciary refused to uso it. Now, for Mr. Elder to have made any of her report, or have accept ed our proposition, would be acknow legemuent, that he had not ulscharged his duty in the lirst instance, when his committee pretended to examine into three yeais' business of the State Ex change, and vindicate Its management, in -about one hours' time. The men who made that first "vindication," and which Manager Duncan was ashamed to use, have now gone to work and (i plicated their job. And then, in order to add insult to the injury that they have done a brother member, they pub lish tojt.he world the libel that "having failed to got Mr. Gantt. before them in person," when they well know that we were never summoned to the State Al lianc-, and when this self same com mittee was in session in Columbia that we asked them to postpone matters for two days so that our business would promit us to appear before them. But our enemies did not stop here but in their desire to crush us, have gone to work and attacked our loyalty to our order-and an order, too, for which we have spent. our time and our means striving to foster-and build up. itere is their report, in which our ex pulsIon is recommended: "The committee to whom was re forred the resolutions to investigate the conduct of 'T. L. Gantt, editor of the Piedmont Ileadlight, and a mem ber of the Farnmer's Allilance, would re spectfully submit: "['hat as such editor he has persis tently used the columns of hi paper ir preferring promiscuous charges agains a brother member, 1), P. Dauan, thi State Exchange agent, instead of pro ceedng according to the provisions a expressed by the constitution, Sectioi 4, article 15. "That in thus using the columns o his paper he not only violates the spirJ and a letter of Alliance la fv, and bring discredit upon the order, but forfeit ihe condition upon which editors aro eligible to membership under section 1 article 10. "In view of the above violation o the constitution, we recommend tha lie be expelled from the order. "Signe(d: W. 0. Tatum, J. It. lilakn .Jr., J. 1). Montgomery, J. C. Elliott, J L. Smith." Now we appeal to the just, rationa and fair-minded Alliancemen through out this country, who we feel will say that a brother member has been wrong fully and shamefully treated. But we don't I rntend that this mattei shall end here. We shall appeal to th president of' our county Alliance t( appoint a fair and impartial committe who will give us a hearing, and befor whom we can make our charges and bring our witnesses. As an Alliance man in good standing, we have a right to demand this act of justice and pro. tection andl we know that the sub lodges in Spartanburg county will al: unite in asking that thuis be done. This thing of condlemning a man unheard ii a p~arody on justice, a shame upon any convention that cou ntenances such and we (do not propose to quietly sub. mtel to it. When this county comnmit. tee reports the people will know all thi facts, for we have ready reliable witnesses by whom we can establisti every charge that we have made against Manager Duncan. If the Head light, hass misrepresented Mr. Duncan, let censure Ihe put upon us; b)ut we have inot misrepresented him, and are readly andi axnious t~o prove every state me:t I, mlad e. Tlo expel a member you must try him before his sub-Alliance, and this we aire ready for. T1he Ileadlightis not ail A lliance organ, while supports antl( dlorse's the princiPles. We publish 11 political newspaper, and in tend to keep our readers posted as to all p~ublic mat. entersjthat transpires. if we must hiavi a gag put upon uts, anid are f orbidden te lay any information before our readere except. such iii the State Alliance judi(1 clary ctomipittee sees fIt andl proper to have published, then we shall at onci resign our membership in the organiza tioni, for our self'respect, our manhood anid our duty to our people forbid us t( accept such servitude. That day has passed1, never to return, when informa tion must he kept from the people and only given to a chosen few. Our far mers are no0w educated, and they are the .jury to which we shall always ap peal,111( andhatever we learn they shiall know also, if' it affects their interest of wvelfrare. 13ut while that committee were pass ir g their vote of censure against tha Ileadligiht editor, and demanding our e'xpuilsion because we "preferred con spieuous charges against brother D). P' Duncan," why d1id they not also deman< theo expluision of brother J1. W. hiowden editor of tiiteir own organ, for bringng "cons picu ons charges" against brothue 'J. L. M. irby, the man who organizem every subi-Alliance in Laurens county andl who is as true to our cause as thu needle to the pole? Tlhe motto of thu AllIance is "equal rights to all an< special privileges t~o none;" thuen wh single out brother (Gantt and arraig himn for attacking brgther Duancan, ove looking the fact brbther llow:len ha denounced brother I rby in even harshe language than we have ever used ta ward Manaiger D~uncan? And agaih the Chtton Plant is your Staute Allianc organ, and you have jurisdIction ove itsa columns, as it is kept up by a month ly appropriatIon from the State E change. On the other hand, the con mittee has no juridiction whatever ove the Piedmont Headlight, and neith< shall they' ever have any control ovi [CONTINUEDm N P~A FOU~~~m.] T11 K SITUATION: ASIfFN THAUTGI THE EYES OF A HOSTILE NEW8PAPER. A Very fR1n101 Overdrawn PicturwA of ibe AftIra In the ltto,,n Itsnnka-.1ey tar Nott Halt as h4 as Painted& COLUMBIA, S. C., July 26.-The last forty-eight hours have witnessed more aignttloan; political events than the entire four years previous. There has been no end of slate smashing, and In a word the entire political situation in South Carolina has been turned upside down iii this Short space of time. When one louis at a lReformer today especial. ly an oilce seeking Rsformer, he no. tices that each and every one of them has unconsciouly taken unto himself that peculiar "where am I at" stare. All schemes and plans nave been kiocked into a cocked hat. rite action of the State Alliance in displaying a huge undreamed of back bon and declaring war on everything conemted with the Tillmau-Evans. Wil son combination has stunned the Refor mers who are about the Capital. None of then expected to see the Alliance develop a lighting humor, but throught that it was going to quietly submit to everything. Nothing else Is talked of here today but the action of the Alli ance and its effect upon the outlook. I ascertained before leaving Aiken that a census of the Evans and Ellerbe strength in the Alliance had been taken and the result was that out of the entire membership including the officers and committeemen, Evans had but six sup porters. There werelamong these the delegates from Aiken, Spartanburg, Laurens and Georgetown. Every one of the politicians gays they dare iot try and say what will happen now. Ono thing is certain, although the Alliance has not fifteen thousand active members, its strength is great.ly dreaded. Tno cause is that each Alli ance man Is usually a middle aged man of influencein the community in which he lives, having great power over all the younger male members of his fain ily and over his neighbors. Then again the Alliance organization is not only perfect but far-reaching and the results of any such action as that taken at At ken can extend to the very uttermost backwoods district quicker than any political machine can carry it there. Ellerbe's friends are somewhat jubi lant over the result of the Alliance meeting. They consider that the ac tion of the body in expelling Gantt was a heavy blow to the Evans side-just t. as heavy as the "Legislature" resolu 3 tions were to the Tillman side. - Now there was one thing which s neither I nor any other correspondent heard of at Aiken. The Alliance after passing its own resolution in regard to f how the members of the body should t vote, went to work and endorsed those a Marion County Alliance resolutione s along the same line by a big majority. .iut the Alliance's action is not all that has paralyzed the oflce seekers. The action of Dr. Pope has created another stunning wave for the Reform t leaders. It is true that Ellerbe and Tindal have sent in their pledges, but there Is nothing to prevent these two withdrawing them. It looks to me as if the light will finally narrow down to a battle In the general primary election between Ellerbe and Evans. Yet I am told that Ellerbe's friends are now per fectly confident of controlling the Au gust Convention. But all one cin do on this line is to wait and see. It would amuse most of the people of South Carolina to be able to be around here a little today and hear the many harsh terms that are being applied to Governor Tillman by men who two weeks ago would have kissed his feet if he told them so to do. I have not found any two "Rsformers" today' who bold exactly the same views with regard 1.0 the outlook. All agree that the deveiopments of the last two days have overturned all schedules, etc., and frankly say they do not know what will happen next. A good many of the Alliance mem bers returnim~r from thte meeting at Al ken passed through the city teday. Among th em were C11. Norris, Senator Evans, Col. D~uncant and others. I no. ticed one thting yesterday, that every member of the body seemed to be per fectly delighted with what the body had done, and seemed to be in a more hopeful and satisiled humor than any body of men I ever saw just complet ing their work .-News and Courier. Still in Force. Cor.UsrnrA, S. C., July 26.-41Iabeas e .rp~us proceedlings were brought before Supreme .Justice l'ope, formerly attor.. ney general under Talman, tm a cise of the state against SIlver, of Ocangeburg, charged with violattmg the dispensary law in June last, The Jostice, in a ver bal decision, held that' the act of 1893 was stall in force, and that it had not been acted upon by the supreme court. An appieal will be taken to the whole supreme court, and the case will be heard as soon as Justice-elect Gary, for. merly lieutenant g.overnot, takes his seat on te bencht. It is a case made up by the state and was devised to give some color of' right to G*overnor Till. man's issuing his proclamation. No in timation was given that the case was to be brought and the publice heard nothing of it until Justice Pope's decision was made known. An ArchdIuk. Kinled, VI iNNA, .July 29.-While the Arch dutke William was riding this afternoon in Bladen, near Vienna, his horse bolted, being frightened by an electric car. ,T he Archduke was thrown andi his f oot caught in the stirrup and he was e(raggedl more than a hundred yards. li e was insensible when the horse was ,stopped, and he died at 7:30 withot having recovered consciousness. The physicians who attended him saidl that death was caused by concussion of the y brain. The Archduke was born In 1827. Sie never married. IHe was master of e otdnan( e in the Austrian army. ft Ii Erned. r WVA1Asu, indl., July 30.--A locomio live ont the Wabash road set lire to a "field of oais, four miles west of the Scity. There were 12 acres in the fiold, *and it was entirley dlestroyed. Oyer 90 ~. panels of fencing were burned. A very . .pecular feature of the lire is that- only a he heads of the oats and the weeds and er glass about the held burned, the straw I standing as thick and erect in the field -s ever. Over 000 bushels of Qats Wefe