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^ Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic PollJ^L'teraturo^PoUtics and the Current News of the Day. _? ? Till', ritODIti \L SON. OR TALMACE'S DISCOURSE AT THE TABFRNACLE. IIfTiiLis lllxTi'xf 1'roiu Iho I'lirablF, hihI 4':i)Ih I'jtMii IIIh |lrur<>|-H Wlio llii.e Wnn<lor?'?l <tt'l from llio ('hurt-It to Krtiiru. i !>i. Taliu.'iK?'s Sunday sermon ivas > a ""I'll*- l'loilitful Soil, anil his ' u-\t. t.nko l."?, JO: "Whoa ho '"as vi t .1 c.v al way oiV his fathor flaw i Iuni. mid had compassion, and ran, j and fi ll on his nock, and kissed him." | Following in the sermon: One of the deepest wells that in ! W. spiral ion ever opened is (he well of u j 1 parable whieh we enn never exhuust. , 1 The parable, 1 suppose. was founded ! * oil iiicts. 1 have described to you j the ^oing ,mi of this prodigal son as^lairiMP xTer 'T*3||^pHlPBraP?n ftThome lor such juo JOiiB^Wne desert. Hut he did not * tb.vhvavs stuv in the wilderness; he ?' came back after a while, Wo do not rend 1 hat his mother came to greet ~ him. I suppose she wa i dead. The * father would have given tho second ^ Kiss to (lie returning prodigal; the , mothertlu lirst .It, may iiave been for ' Hie lack of her exam pie ami prayers j thai ie Iieeame a nrodiiral. Some ' times tin* father does not know how to manage the children of the household. The chief work coiuck upon '' the mother. Indeed. no one ever ' gets over the calamity of losing n mother in early life. Still, this young man was not ungraded when he " came hack. ? 1 fowver well apparelled we may j' I*- in the morning when we start out mi journey, before night, what S( . jy.uill? the dust and the jostling, we have lost all cleanliness of apjionr- j" ane<'. lint this prodigal, when he 'v started from the swine trough, was , rugged and wretehed. and 11is up jx'urunee, after he had gone through 111 days of journeying and exposure, you }l can more cosily imagine than describe. yl \s the jH-'Oph' s e this prodigal coin ing on homeward, they wonder who !lhe is. They say; *T wonder what " prison lie has I>vok( n out of. I won- rt del'what lazaretto lu has escaped v' rroiu. 1 wonder with what plague he will smite theuir." Although these people may have been well aequainted with the family, yet th"y?do not ^ imagine, that this is the very young n*.? man who went oil" only a little while *!l hiL stC" >ud l'l'.l'lj viLiceK - - IPW1' '?? rUur oy man, Mr.bdc, walks very fast. He ,i i i ii . i l i >11 JOOKS IIS IJlOUgU lit' WHS lilll'lll. UJKMl something Very imporiant. -The i>eo ^( pic stop. They look :it him. They wonder where he came from. They / ' woiuler where lie ingoing to. 11 Von have heard of u son who went ur oil'to sue, and never returned. All 'l,v the people in the neighborhood " thought -the son would never return, but the parentis came to no such con- "T elusion. They would go by the hour, and day, and sit upon the beech, u' looking off ui>011 the water, expecting j.1 to see the sad that would bring home J. 1 the long-absent boy. And sol think j!* tliisi father of my text sat under the vine looking out toward the road on which his son had departed; but the f>' father has changed very much since < r we saw him lash His hair has be J conic white, his cheeks are furrowed, 1 . Ins heart is broken. What is nil his lx.rtntiful table to him when Ins sou may be lacking bread.' What is nil the splendor of the wardrobe of that 1,1 homestead when the son may not have a decent coat.' What are all the sheep on the hillside to that fa tlier when his pet lamb is gone.' Still l': he sits and watches, looking out on Sin I ,111.1 unit . I t \. tin Itt.lwtl.K, ,1 h foot-traveler. He sees hiui rise 111 above the hill; lirst t lie head and af- P tor awhile the entire body: and as 11 . ^ n as lie gets a fair glance at liim " lie knows he is his reercaiit son. lie forgets 11 it* ernteh. and the eane, and xv the stitl'ness of the .joints,and lammls ^ away. I think tin1 people all around " were amazed. They said: "It is I' only a footpad. It is only some old s' tramp of t! * road. Don't go out 11 to meet him ' The father know bet- ^ tor. ^ ?The change in the son's appearrt7^(""eould not hide the marks by j which the fating Icnew tln>J^oy. You 1 know that jhtsous of a great* deal of ~ indeiK'Tidcnce of character are apt to ,S| indicate it in their walk. For that Sl reason the sailor almost always has a peculiar step, not only because he *' stands much on shipboard amid the J rocking of the sea. and he has to bal ' aneo himself, but he has for the most J' part an independent character, which '' would show in his gait, even if he 1 never went on the sea: and we know <' from what transpired afterward, '' and from what tianspireJ be " fore, that this prodigal son was of an ' independent and frank nature; and I * suppose Unit the eharncteristies of N his min i ami heart, were the charac ' (eristics of his walk. And so the N fattier know him. lie puts out his ' withered arms toward him. he brings ' tiis wrinkled face against the pale ? elieek of tiis son: lie kisses the wan lip.'; he thanks (tod that the long * agony is over. "W hen lie was yet a ' great, way ofl, his father saw him and I had compassion, and ran, and fell on 1 his neck at^d kissed him." * Oh. do yon not reoogr.i/," t hat Fa t tlier' Who was it? It is (tod! lit ha\e no sympathy with tliatcast iron < i4i oology wliieti rcprt scuts (Sod as < hard, severe and vindictive, (tod is * a Father kind, loving, lenient, gen i tie, longsulVcring, patient and lie j I llies to our immortal rescue. Oh, i that we might realize it. A wealthy 1 > lady in one of the eastern countries!' was going oJT for some time, and she asked her daughters for some me ' mente to carry with her. One of her daughters brought ii marble tub < let- beautifully inscribed: ami tuioth- i or daughter brought a beautiful i wrcat'i of flowers. Tlio thiul riaugli- ' tor oaiuo ami s?id: "Mother, I i brought uoithor llowers nor tablet, 1 but here in mv heart. I have inscribed ] it all over with vour name, and where ' ever you go it will go with you.'* The ] mother recognized it as the best of i all mementoes. Oh, that our kouIh : might po out toward our Father? that our hearts might be written all i over with the evidences of His loving 1 kindness, and that we might never 1 forsake him. * In the lirsl place, 1 notice in this le\t. the fat he's eyesight; in the see > olid place 1 notice the father's haste; 1 ['iki m inc i mm puiee, i notice tlio 1i hit hers kiss. h Ts begin: I lie fathers eyesight. .> 'Wlit'll lie jvuh n great way oft' his 1 I'atkej^Vj-a'vi ;'mVou have noticed > iiHw"iH'"i "r'? leal easier tliey can Vloso by. ? ! do not kT^W whether this fathci j r< 'oultl sec well that which was near si >y, but 1 do know lie could see a si rreat way oil". "His father saw him." c< Vrhaps lie hud boon looking for the (I etuni of that boy especially that .? lay. 1 do not know but that lie had p icon in prayer, and that (tod had si old him that that day the reercat h toy would come home. "The fa a her saw him a grcsit. wayotV." n I wonder if (tod's eyesight can b cscry sis when wo are coming back w ? Ilim.' The text pictures our con- g it ion?we are a groat way oil". That li oung man was not. farther oil' from <1 i;; father's house, sin is not farther ol tl'from holiness, hell is not further ti IV from heaven, than wo have been hi y our sins away oil' from God; aye, si > far oil* that we could not hoar His bi :>ice, though veliomently He has w tiled us year after year. I do not11! now what habits you may have In irmt'd, or in what evil places you nve been, or what false notions you 11 lay have entertained: but you are d< ady to acknowledge, if your heart u] is not boon chnugcd by the grace of aj rod. that you arc a great way o.T ' M< re, so far that you cannot get. back pi p yourselves. You would like to jo )ine back. Aye. this moment you aj ouhl start if it were not for this sin. of ul that habit. a?ul this disadvantage, ut I am to tell you of the Father's \\ -osight. "He saw him a great way a<j V." He has seen all your bailies, lii 1 your struggle all your disadvan rc ges. He halonging for vour on 5? with "" tW8^.''f""Wokins,it is e, Wit a "1 i rent ever p. - chin I, iJoapities wl >u. You say: "Oh, I inul so many sh il surroundings when I started life." ye our Father sees it. You say: 'I he ive so many bad surroundings now, bn id it is very dillieult for me to break wl ray from evil associations." Your "1 vtlier sees it. and if you should eh art heavenward?as 1 pray you may bv your Father would not sit idly lh >wn and allow you to struggle on F: > toward llim. Oh, no! Seeing dc >u a great way off, lie would lly to lei ie rescue. How long does it take a th thcT to leap into the middle of a re erhwav if Ins child be there, and a to rift vehicle is coming, and may tic- lo rt?y himf Five hundred times long than it takes our heavenly Father > spring to the deliverance of a lost liltl. "When he was a groat way off is Father saw him." Aud this brings me to notice the ]cj .ther's haste. The JJihle says lu> w in. No wonder! lie did not know j], nt that the young limn would change w is mind and go hack, lie did not Js now hut that he would drop Jl'rom ]I( diaustion. He did not know hut t! lat something fatal might overtake f|] im before he got to the dooi-sill; <? id so the father ran. The IJible, for j| ie most part, sjieaks of God as walk ig. "In the fourth watch of the w iglit," it says, "Jesus came unto uj iciu watching the sea." "lie alketh upon tin wings of the wind." }1( >nr lirst parents heard the voice of (; ie Ivortl, walking in the garden in ,V1 ie cool of the day;hut when a sinner r< larts for God, the Father runs to t] loot him. Oh! if a man ever wants p elp, it is when he tries to become a V) hristian. Tho world says to him; i, Hack with you. Have more spirit. p )on't Ik' hainfM-red''with religion, n 'inie enough yet. Wait'uiitil you 'j' et sick. Wait until you get old." j, atan says: "Hack with you; you are ,, o had that God will have nothing to \x o with you;' or "You are good || nough and need no Redeemer. Take ], Immense, ear, drink and l>o merry." Kj Vn thousand voices say: "Rack with j> ou. (Jod is a hard master. The t| hurch is a collection of hypocrites. v lack into your sins: l?aek to your f, vil indulgences; back to yon r prayer- n r>ss pillow. The silliest tiling that ( young man ever does is to come H nunc after he has been wandering." f, )h, how iinich help a man does want ( vlien he tries to become a Christian! t ndeed. the prodigal cannot find his }, vay home to his father's house alone, j "nless some one comes b> meet him ji ic had better have stayed by the | iwine troughs. I I remark uih>? the father's kiss. | 'lie fell on his neck." my text says, < 'and kissed him." It is not every 1 at her that would have done that way. 1 some would have scolded him. and ? aid: **llero, you wontolT with beau- < iful clothes, but now you are all in * alters. You went oft' healthy, and i ouic back sick and wasted with your lissipalions." lie did not. say that. t I'lie son. all haggard. and ragged, f md filthy, and wretched, stood before j liis fatl< r.Tlu1 fat her charged him wit h none ??f his wanderings, lie just received him. I le just .kissed him. His i 1 wretchedness was reeomiueii lat ion to ^ that father", love. < >h, that father's I kiss! How shall 1 describe the love 1 of dod' the ardor with which he u- i LicivcH a sinner buck again? Give nail plummet with which I may fathom tins sea. Give me a ladder with which I can scale this height. Give f me words with which I can describe this love. The apostle says in one place, "unsearchable:" in another. 1 'past finding out*" Height overtop ping all height: depth plunging be neath all depth: breadth compassing ill immensely. Oh, this love! God so loved tin \ ivorld. He loves you. Don't you be- s ievo it? Has He not d me everything f liing to make you tlnm. He has riven you life, health, friend... ?:omep ?the use of your liaud. tin; sight i?i t our eye. the hearing of your ear. :fe has strewn your path with mer- r. ies. He has fed you, clothed you sheltered you, defended you, loved rou, importuned you...-all your life '< ong. Don't voi-v - - te loves you: b "wx '? ftVow iiotli arms' around you. To ti lake you believe He loves you. lie hnnncd lo jiihiicov- nml imvw.; nn>1 il cpulchrc. With all that tlit* pas l? ions of His holy nature roused. H< at lands before you today, and would Ml >ax you to happiness and heaven, h: >)i. this Father's kissl There is so t< itieli meaning, and love, and eom p: assion in it; so mueh pardon in it; h< > much heaven in it. 1 proclaim '>< i 111 tlie Ford Clod, merciful, gracious >" ml long sutlcring, abundant, in good s ess and truth. F"st you would not F elieve liim. heroes up Golgotha, and o! hile the rocks ave rending, and the K raves are opening, and the mobs are w nwling. and the sun is hiding. lie in ies for you. See him on the mount S( f crucifixion, the sweat on his brow ni nged with the blood exuding from "1 is lacerated temples! See his eyes ni vimming in death! Hear the loud reathing of the sullereras he pants ai itli a world on ids heart! llark to et le fall of the blood from brow and fe and and foot, on the rocks beneath d< -drop! drop! drop! Lookat the nails! w iow wide the wounds are! Wider t'1 j they gape as his body eonios down b pon them. Oh! this crucifixion ci yony! Tearsmeltingintotears! Flood In nving into bh.od! Darkness drop <>\ ng on darkness! Hands of men D ined with haiuh; of devils to tear gi iart tin quivering heart of the Son God! se Oh! Will lie never speak again;' hi 'ill that crimson face never light up H :aiiF Ho will speak again: while to < blood i>j Hutl'using His brow, and fo ddcnin<* Jiis cheek, and }jathorin?? I in< i nostril and lip, and you think Ho do .C5*littl8tcd ahii (yjmvt spoak ? lip I ha 'at'ior t'orpV.'V) lat tlie.t do!" I-k tlioro no fclnpha-'hn 4 in such a scone as that to malco to air dry oyos weep, and your hard loi art break/ . Will you turn your no iok upon it, and say hyyour actions th lat the Jews said I>y their words: "3 lis blood be on us, and on our ju: ildren.'" What does it all moan, my Lt other, my sister' Why it moans 'N at for our lost race there was a ither's kiss. Love brought Ilim Bt )\vn. Love opened the Rale. Lovo wi 1 to the sacrifice. Lovo shattered nc o grave. Love lilted him up in surreetion. Sovertign love! Omniponl love! Infinite love! Bleeding ea ve! Everlasting love! *1< ni "Oil, for UiIh love lot riK-Ka ami lilils Tliolr lnMlntf lUIOiieo break; aial nil liarinonloilft luuiinn (oiikiic* it Tho Savior'* praise* speak," Now, will you ftccept that Father's ( ' 'Pl.r. 11 <?1\' S<iiuiMf oiininc In v/m i ith His arousing, inciting, alarming, * viting. vivifyinginfluence. Hearer, hat creates in Hi'e that unrestt It the Holy Ghost. What inlluenee fM )\v tells thee that it is time to tlv, j ait tomorrow may he too late; that XY iere is one door, one road, one eross, 1 ic sacrifice, one Jesus? It is the 1U !olv Ghost. My most urgent word is to those ho. like the young man of my text, e a great way olV, and they will art for home, ami they will get j nne. They will yet preach the ^ ( ospel and on eonnnuniondays carry w ound the consecrated hread, ae plnblo to everybody, because of Wl icir holy life, and their; consecrated ('* ehavior. The Lord is going to save S( ;>u. Your home has got to he re- M uilt. Your physical health has got (,r > be restored. Your worldly busi- ?n ess has got to be reconstructed, j 'he Church of God is going to re- ,n )ice over yourdiscipleship. Vou are 111 ot Gospel hardened. You have not n.' ward or read many sermons during J* ic last few years. You do not weep. '1 ut the shower is not far oil". You igh, and you have noticed that there b< i always a sigh in the wind before 111 lie rain talis. There are those who u ould give anything if they could nd relief in tears. They say: ''Oh, ly wastes I life! Oli, the hitter past! U )!i, the graves over which I have 111 tumbled! Whither shall I tly.' Alas C or the future! Everything is dark, A lod help me! God pity me! Thank 1 -w.l l?i( I id lovniwn. V/\n Ot IM- IJUUI H'l iimv HfH uuviiiuv \ . v/u iave begun to pray. and when a man d >egins to petition, 11 nit set !all heaven ?' iying tliis way, ainl (lod steps in ami '? vents bark tlie hounds of temptation h 0 their kennel, and around about tlm >oor, wounded kouI puts the cover 1?f His pardoning mercy. Hark! 1 tear something fall. What was that? " 1 is the bars of the fence around the o sheep folil. The shepherd lets them lown. ami the hunted sheep of the h aountain Jbouinla in; some of them 'A heir fleece torn with the brambles, ionic of them their feet lame wit1 the ' loirs; but bounding in. Thank Hod! t' saved for time, ami saved for iter- ' lity. t d The Presbyterians of Laurens / iave determined io erect a new t hurcli building at a cost of about \ twelve thousand dollars. .Wore than i i lull! of the money has been nub Iji scribed. 1 KL-ILKK'SKKJOtNIMSK. ! I STATEMENT FROM ITHE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. It* Answer to tlio fluirifoo Mmlo I'.y Cap | tain TIIIiiihp In Some of Itln I!wn! . SporcliOH. | Col. A. ihitler. Commissioner ol tjjriculturc. )his s"iit to tlio daily Miix'rs of the State ft rejoinder to the 1 tateinent math* by Capt.. B. It Till j :um. touching the Department', at treenvillo mill other places, iluring he State canvass now in progress. Col. Butler pronounces "simply ilse" Capt. Tillman's stalcim-it that the Dure an has mad.- no honest el' ni to protect the fannerf against ciii?x swindled l>y buying uiiano be )\v Jb". ^rii.i i?i i> L*"1. uv.il that it .i.*> nut yiliOi IT'U lt^ OxVI? Iv < Oils."' *' ( "Capt. Tillman's thivil statement tat altogether the law is known to h rective ami the puniolmu nt in le'.juate, no attempt, has been made r the Board. or Commission! is to fj ivo it amended, except tiiat t lie unit r was mentioned in oiic ol the l>e irtment '< ports several years ago. '! likewi.sc knows to hp untrue, hut I'ing morr specific pan l>p nu t in a t <>ie positive manner. At my request <1 verai hills wore introduced in tin { egislattirp at dilVcront linn s. Two : 1 nose may he cited: One by Col. * 11. Mclwr at tlio session of issr?. t hieh passe*I t!u? House an<l Jailed t the Senate, ye House .Journal, r ssion lNsr>. pay s 12<?. IT", * id :U0,) and another at the session s 1SS7. introduced by Senator Von } ians. hut failed in the Sc na>. a Col. 1 iutier then deel.ires that lie > ul the Department have made every e l'ort to punishllic sale of frandnleni f rlili/ers. and that lie, knowing the c feels in the law. after consultation p ilh Attorney General Miles, brought p ie matter to the attention of the a legislature; that in 1SN> (iho year led by Capt. Tillman'I there were n it three defective brands out of n or 200 analyzed He says that in s; S2 the makers of the Cuban Jlird u iano lost between S2u,0J0 and S:tO,0 because the Department's analy- C s show* d that article to have been J: low standard and below guaranty. II e cites the case of Mr. C. M. Coving- a n rf Florence, who accepted one ii urth of the price of fertilizers exam ed by the Department and found ii ificicnt Ho says tluit, the anub*sq^,^w Mhu'd'lWsiste'nc.e of Irt^agis^A;;-; 4. /I ~*rr,. . . j v- .ii v. Mr. Cannon's statement,'t>oi. But il says the deficient fertilizer was (I v.r cal led to his attention, nor l?as e sampler any recollection of it. JJ 5ut Mr. Connor fully and amply -titles the Depaitment and the f<. gislature in another way. lie says: o notice, however, was taken of the n me by the Department, and Mr. e ?pes sent the guano away, as he h is completely bayeotted and could \v it continue business. "Why was e: r. Copes boycotted/ Siiuply, as r. Connor writes Capt. Tillman, be- t> use the Department italicized the ii ticient guano. Was it no punish- a cnt to Mr. Copes to be boycotted a id have his business ruined/ Was 1< no injury to the manufacturers to ti ive their goods returned to them/ p ipt. Tillman says that mot one far- t: or in fifty' sees these publications, p Mr. Connor a farmer/ Jf not, why g us Mr. Copes boycotted/ "Wo know ] at the operation and the result of o ir method of italieizing detieient t ands was as Mr.Connor stated, but li t> had no hope of proving it so 1 early by Capt. Tillman or bis wit a sses." I Col. Butler calls attention to the ?.! ct that Mr. Connor was a member v tlie Legislature, and yet took no t eps to improve the law. I The case of Mr. S. \Y. (iardner. v ?1. Butler doelares, does not fall t ithiii the law touching analyses of rtili/.ers. That was a cast'of "short " eight, not of (loiieioney. "Tins .' mrge is on a pur with another iimtle t mic tinip since in tlio probence of V r. ,J. K. Tindal and Mr. W. A. An- < inn. Captain Tillman then . barged 1 inilar failure to discharge my duty cause lie had bought cotton sect! < eal mlultcrated with rosin and his >eiglilior had purchased cotton seed 1 ,eal adulterated with hulls. At the me the charge was made Captain 1 illman knew that both lots had I [ en purchased in Georgia, and yet. i i> endeavored to injure the Depart 1 lent by a charge that he knew to be \ ttorly unjust and untrue!" 1 "So much for the certificates. It t lould b,'? noticed, however, that x lose are dated May hist, June Jld t lid .Juno 8th,(respectively. All since 'apt Tillman made his-' charges at i nderson. Therefore his charges i t Anderson were not. based on these i r?rtilicates. and lie has failed beyond i isptite to prove that he had any e?i t ence of any kind upon which to i ase his original charge of the time l e made it- This explains, also, i liy my letter has not been answered 1 ( fore." t After an allusion to Captain Till < lan's etVorts to reorganize the Hoard f Agriculture. Col. liutler says: ' ".Let us follow Captain in in ian to i i is second attempt at speeilie char < en and answer them in oi\ler. < "Why di?l not the Attorney (Jen < ral conduct the phosphate liti^a I ion' The laws did not, at the time t his lit ii? i*io?? was hejjun, make it M lie duty of the Attorney (lenoral to ! lo this work for the Department of nn'ieulture. The work was impor-1 ant. and the Hoard employed law 1 ers, and subsequently made the 1 ?arti< s sued pay them. W as any in ' 1 ustiee done the Ktatein that matter? i t o, where and how7 Hut after the < 4 _ s . litigation had boon commenced th Attorney (Join ml was nnulo the ad visor of the Department. except ii lliis litigation, and that was spo eially exempted from the amend meats to the law." Affto Capt. Tillman's charge about the disburse meat, of the moneys re covered in the phosphate suits, am "the insinuation that somebody gol $7.(>b() who was not entitled to it' Hoi. Butler gives the following state niont furnished bylHon.A. T. Sinvthe leading counsel: Amount received in settlement of Pacific case . SM.'.M Amount received tor disbursements on account l'ueitic case 1,111.11 Amount received in Pinekliey case 70S,0( l'.itai r?a.()7'2.1( i.,n i roes faeille ease . . P.OOO.Ol Jounsel fi os in X>- ?-v-Iw on.l Pinekney oust aoo.ni) sundry cash expenses. 12.<)."> L'urnodn-rr t?> Slate Trcu s'.iry for S| ii?- purposes :'.l I'uni'vl ever to State Troa surer for Department 12,l(i2.2"> 1'otul as above $.">"1.072d0 If Captain Tillman van distort iiese figures atrain so as to show $7. HIP or one cent. short, lie is welcome o tin so This phosphate litigation has e\ iletl so lunch interest ami comment hat. I may be pardoned for saying hat when it was he??ur. it > as e\ c dinnly doubtful if the State could ver recover anything. The coiiclnion of liie cast was the recovery of iroporly valued at about $100,000 ml easli turned into the Tr. asnvy '<21,OOP..70 without the expenditure 'font cent of the pcoph s money, i>r every dollar expt mled in prose utiug the ease was recovered and aid back into the Treasury, an.l a art of it ii now being list d to build ml equip the Chanson College." As to tlie total cost of the Ex|>eri lent Stations, $t),0?SO, Col. Puller lakes no comment. because, as be ays, ('apt. Tillman mad. none. So rith the Hatch fund of $ir>.0')o. As lo discrepancies between the !oiopt roller it nd t he I > p.'-; l hit nt. ('< >1. hitler tliinks thev may irise b- iu 10 "lapping" of one lise 1 year on nollter, and eh ulcngcs investiga Oil. / 1?1 Tl .il i * ' ' ? ' 1 v/ui. jnun'! sri\ i nitl v_.apl. a i ill nan h tsinuation that prior to 1KX7 no vouch i'swto ^uw?.v.-'i.,.|i;,.;..iiu niul base." I) 1" i IJ' ' ' >" r nV .v- ^ I ^ htvx't refers to till' fact, liat a committee of the Farmers' 'oiwciilion and one of the "Keonomie iaitcus" examined the work of the >opnrtnient and eoiniueiided it. Col. Butler's letter cone-hidet! as jllows: "For nearly five years I have sublitted to this sort of thinguuid whenver J have had to appear in print I ave endeavored to say nothing that ould ofl'end the most sensitive read r. "I have conceived it to be my duty ) act courteously even when deal lg with a blackguard, but forbcarnec has almost ceased to be a virtue, nd it is a question whether I can juger submit to abuse without reiliation. This man Tillman has osed before the people for all this hue as a reformer. Let us-see if his irofessions are to be trusted. It is enernlly believed that at the tiinejho irofessed to be a supporter of Govrnor Sheppard's he was endeavoring ogetCapt. W. ('. ('oker, of Daring! on. to ofl'er f*r the same phtee. f this is not true, let ('apt. ('oker nd Mr. Shepaprd say so. It has ii-cji stt.iitcd. jiiiil Tillnem has never eer ur ii public critic, I attribute* nany of bin erroneous statements b wnorance. Jtut lie is an intclliwen uan not a fool: and I have rcluc autly reached the conclusion that lr s determined to accomplish his pur >oses, if possible, by any means with n his power, and that he believe hat *a lie well stuck to is as wood a he truth.' His recent statement an he explained in no other way. "Captain Tillman, knowing that h annot. justify himself, lacksthe man iness to make a direct clmrwe of otli ial dishonesty awainst me, hut co\ rtly stabs with the poisoned dn<?we if innuendo. I can, therefore, me< liis insidious and unwarranted at lacks upon my ehnnicter only throuw Ihe public prints." -The Louisiana Legislature hn rceeiv<*?l from an Knwlish syndicate bid <>f !?1,1'2"?,0U0 a year for the h> leryprivilege for which the Lour iana Lottery (VinipanyhnHOlVcrcd*! [>00,0<H) r lenicd it. llmt lie wrote (.'apt.. (Joker, i*lio of course did not onooiirn"j? such reaehery, a letter promising his sup >ort if lie would enter the race, lie run instructed hy his county eonven ion to support Sheppnrd. yet in tin itate convention l;e endeavored te ause r, break to (Joker, which, if it iad succeeded. would have defeated lie man lie was pledged to support A'ould such a man do to trust in olli ial position? lie would betray lib mil her if it profited him to do so. "Again, I ask Dr. Sampson Pop* >r Newberry, one of ('apt. Tillnian't t congest supporters, if he did nol lave good reason to expect all tin upport Captain Tillman could givi lim in his race for SpcakeiJ: of tin louse, and if after that hc recoivei t.' No more honorable man thai >r. I'ope walks this earth. and wliih ve dilVer widely in some matters, nivo no donht of his perfect int.ef.Ti y.nnd therefore appeal to him to sa; vhether or not Captain Tillman l?e rayed him. T;U....... r..-e? l.io /.a | ? |PROGRESS OF THE DEMOCRATI STATE CANVASS. i rrik'ciMlliiKs ii( the l)i(fvr?Mit McctliiKH.Om I J ilriiirtl Krtim the (Irwiivtllc Dally News. j Ti.e meeting at Abbeville on tli 17th inst. was attended by betwee 1,000 and 1,200 people. Good ordc and ^ood humorprovailed. Si>eeehc were made by Capt. Tillman, Gei I 15 rat ton and Col. Earle. No net ^ points were developed. Captain Til man stated that whilo opposed to th Citadel he would not, if elected Goi crnor, reeoinmend the closing of llui . | institution. Goneral Pope, Colom Gary, Colonel Farley and (ienern ( lionham also spoke. 1 An audienee numbering betwee 2.000 and 2,500 people assembled t hear the speakers. <\ipt. Tillman friends were in the majority. The. won* very enthusiastic -someofthen lifting liim from tlx- train t?> tin* cat riage, others drawing the eai riage in which he rode from the hole to the speaking ground. The candi dates lor Governor went over prett; much the same ground covered i: t heir remarks at previous meetings "About the close of the speeel Captain Tillman said ho had some 1 liing to say which would doubtless surprise them. When he apoke hen before he had said certain things it referreneo to the situat.ou of Col John J. Dargau. It hail been sai? in the heat of debate and he con sidereil it liis duty to retract it. lb desired to withdraw his charges am apologize to the people who heart him and to Colonel Dargau. llcspoki of Mr. Latimer's letter to Colour Dargau and said that gentleman had withdrawn what he had said, and as Colonel Dargau was present he hoped the ] ample would hear him and let him explain his position. "Colonel Dargau was not on tlu stand and said nothing during tlu meeting. "Colonel (larv spoke half an hour, lie defended Cap!. Tillman and ex pressed the fear that somebody would assassinate him. lie spoke of rail voails and banks no! pa;, ing '.In proper amount of taxes, criticised. The News and Courier and tlu Twenty-One Conference and closed with an appeal to the farmers to watch close or they would lose then rights. I * If ^ ,.%4-^A. --treTCT .1. ^ . -w , -VtfO t^onference. He up pealed to Colonel Tiiulal to snhstan Date what he said ill reference to t in cutting down of appropriations lp the Committee of Ways and Means There was no need to discuss reap poi tionnienl and oilier dead issues, lie said. He defended Die Anneal tural Department and Stale (lovern moil, making a very aide speech, ami receiving a" very quiet. roH|>ectful hearing. General I'oih* sj>oke humorouslv for twenty minutes. The ^reatei part of liis speech was directed al The News and Courier and its editor. He eulogized Captain Dawson ami ridiculed the present editor. Jh said General Marie's explanation oi why he would not uccept tlx* nonii nation for Governor in isss wassatis factory. "Captain J. 15. Tiiulal made a speed announcing himself as a candidate foi Secretary of State. "Di\ ()rr announce*I that Genera Dunham was a candidate for rc-elec tion and Colonel Hujjh Farley niad? Dm announcement, for himself. Di Orr also read a letter from T5dmun< ieieon miuiniioiinr liio ooin]nlo/>\' f/M Comptroller (.Soncral." an i:riaoi>k. "Ill tllf COllISC of llis ( ' -1 Mull referred to the Cosset! episodi at the Anderson mci timj. Capfait Tillman told youn^ Cossett, when hi was manly enough to disagree will 1 him,'you arc dyod in tin? wool am [ I .ton will die so." Then some one hat sail 1 He's a Itadical." "Before Colonel Marie had closei his lips after this statement, Mi .losh Ashley, who ii[> to that tun had seemingly taken little interest ii the meeting, arose and said he ha< i said what he did on that occasion ii a "joking way. Colonel Mario r< plied that he should never have sail so even in jest. , "Here Colonel Hal lo opened a pi jmt which lie held in his hand an ' proceeded to ask the quest ion of Asl . ley if he had not said, in the present1 of several gentlemen, that if Tillma was not elected he would 140 over t v the Kadica's and lie would carry tw hundred votes at Honea l'ath wit 1.;... Ullll. . .Mr. Ashley arose am I with the 11 most emphasis characterized tli ' statement as a lie. Suddenly he\va surrounded 1 ?y a mob, and it \va said that pistols and knives wei r ready to resist any ellbrts to su| i press him. "Colonel Marie.fdter waiting. a< s ' d the crowd to 'let .Mr. Aside s ! ' ^a statement. This, at first, 1 s sC-*med determined to do and can upon the stand. but he seemed to 1 ( persuaded by hia friends to say not! ! ino. and Dr.Orr made a statement t ' that elVcrt to the crowd. ' "During the clamor Captain Til man advanced to the front of tl [' stand and said he was almost temj p ed to home if the |H ople couldli treat each other respectably ami a pealed to them for their decency ai self respect to keep better order. ^ i Oconee, a I The mas meeting for Oconee wi ! | held at Walhalla on Thursday tl l Mh inst. . j (Jem ral lhatton was the tirst spea er. His speech was brief and ei bodied those points with which he has endeavored to impress on his hearers since the beginning of the cam c paign. Hi'war noil his audience, especially of the danger of sacrificing Democratic principles to {tolitical methods. 0 Captain Tillman was the next speaker. He reviewed briefly the 11 platform for the March Convention l' and stated his position upon the mat s ter. He* brought up the reapportionK ment nmtter.but omitted the charges of perjury against the State Senators. ' He urged more especially reduction I' of exix'nditures for the State Univere sit-y and compared the ligures for it before the.war and now. lie thought 1 the institution might be kept up at less exiK'iise. He spoke of the sala'{ riesof certain State ollieials which 1 had been increased since the incoming Ol' tiiC , ?>? *?"""< tie alluded tot lie steady increase ol ?i exjwnditure for funiture and repairs .. for the executive mansion and asked .. why it was so There must have . | heoll l>V I I'll Vinril !? .111.1 it it ii it would bo yoo I enouyh for liim as it is. Closing his remarks ('apt. Tilliimn said I In* party was undivided 1 aiul would remain so. A farmer for Coventor would do no haun ami ? would lessen llie few bunions that i could bo lessened. It the medicine of reform tie hasyiven was loo strong i then the people would not tak" it. A voire eried"We"!l take the whole ^ dose." When ('apt. Tillman finished he was presented with two bouquets i and a number of jwiieher. lie r . marked, if Colom i Karle would not t take the Mowers he knew lie would not refuse 'tie peuciicKuind 1 hey were yoneiousjy divided utnony tie* yen 1 t lemon on t lie stand. | I'ol. Karle followed ('apt. 'J'lllman . lie tourhetl u)M)ti the division of (he. 1 party and the appeal to elass pie 1 jiuliee. The road to iionor, lie said, t was open to any man whose eiiarae1 ter was pure ami uiiS|N>tled. lb-did not see the necessity for tlu Maieh Convention, lie spoke of ('apt. Till man's relocated denunciations of the . Senators who voted against reapportionment and named Ihemann and l/.lar n-^ men, whose chatnoh r heretofore uusinirehed, had been sailed without reason. He called to Capt. Tillman to answer on (lie tar ill' and when thai rentleinnn had eta ted his position said it ( apt. Tillman WI'llt < 1 t I If F ' II 11 f < Vtl , 1 '? ? n ui iwtii nr I would vote wit it i In- Northern man i ufactui'or ll'lll moiiopolh Dui-my tl^ toiiv;.cot Cul. Katie's ^ ?& mctlt Capt 1 i 11111 < 111 had deriiic d. . lie thru oJVcred to puv both and he ,* 1,11.1 declined t llMl . (.'apt. Tillnmii rose and at-1 In did not charge tin1 bureau with *ii-, honesty. He only eharyed rxt: iva iranec in in:m:iy< nr t:f Tile meeting w m- continued tor | sonn time ami Mrs .r>. (btrv. (.'ny | dot!. Pope, Bonlmni Parley and .May field all made short speeches. The W ulhulla mcetin.'.,'was decided ly llir most orderly and deft rent ial of any of the eamp:ii??ii. The little denionstration that was made was of I the most orderly kind and all were . impressed with the general aspect | of the meeting. About a thousand people attended RED MOT ALABAMA POLITICS' 'l'ln- Kiinm-m* Antilles- StlrrliiK TIiIiikh t'|? nt ii Ureut Utile, Monkiomkuv, Ala., -litne 1'.). The nominations by the recent State*('-on vent ions have not set tled all the poli tical cotitests in Alabama for l.s'.at even in the ranks of the l>eniocra<*y. ' The State otticcrs will be < leeted 1 without opposition, except from tin* Ucpwhlicnus. hut the Democrats will have a lively Jij^lit anions themselves . ami the Fanners' Alliuiu'e in at least [< iwo of the (-oti?^'?ssional districts, i William Dates, of the Third District. [ ami Hillary A. Herbert.oi tin- Second i District, will have strong opposition, I headed by the Alliance. They will I he opposed by the Alliance because they have openly and boldly declined t to support the Sub Treasury bill now \ pending in Congress. A. A. Wiley, e of Montgomery, will opp|>ose llerII belt The opposition to -Sir. Oaten 1 litis not decided upon its candidate n as yet. The Legislature which will assem I hie next full will < lect a I 'nited States Senator, and James L. l'uj.:h will i have a strone opposition to tif/ht. j|r d will he opposed by (Jovernor Seay, i ex Governor Thomas it. Watts and :e probably It E. Kolh, whowas recentn ly defeated as the Alliance eamlio date for Governor. Kolh has not cn0 tered the race, hut it is generally ehh lieved that he will, and if he does the Alliance will supjiort him. Leading t Alliance men say they are now in ic i>oliticH and will he heard from a^ain. s Cobiml>ia'H ( ainpattfii <"lul> e ('oi.uMitii. S. ('.. June 17. - A lar^c meeting was held in the court house here tonight, and a campaign eluh 1 for ISftO formed. Its objects are to 'imi i ...,r..it.:.. ..i > opjMJW i iiiniiui, aim 111 tuu m? i iruU? gCH against till- Stuto gOVenilllCllt. ie Judge A. (', Haskell, who has not ?c been in i?olities since IK70, when lie li did noble work in redeeming the .0 State, was elected president of the club. He addressed the assemblage II and aroused the greatest enthusiasm, jo Colonel John ('. Haskell and (lener?t al Johnson Hagood, ex governor of ot the State, were present. jind de~ p nouiiccd Tillman's mode of comluct:tl ing the campaign. The club will attempt to organize the opposition to Tillman in every county in the State Atlanta Constitution. us ic Five men were drowned on the Canadian Pacific Tuesday night, uji k- engine on which they were riding n plunging suddenly into a washout.