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- T ??? . " ~ "" ~ 9 " ~ ~ lewis m. gbist, proprietor. J %\\ (Independent ^amilg Iteirapapcr: (Jfor the flromottoii of flte poUtiialr-^fffrnTr^srituttuval and Commercial Jntercsts of lite J>outlt. | TERMS?$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. VOL. 36. YOEKYILLE, S. C,^EDNES^.Y, JULY 9, 1890. , MO. 28. [Copyright, by J. published CHAPTER XVIII?Continued. As the train came rumbling linally infrt fliQ alofmri oltn eottr liim onoo trtrtfP UJWV CUV OMUVU OtlU OC* ?T liiui VHVV uw*v claap her sister's hand; then, with one long look into the sweet face that was hidden from her jealous eyes, he raised his forage cap and stepped quickly back to where his horse was held. Her husband hastened to her side: "Kate, 1 must speak to him. I don't care how he may take it. I cannot go without It" They all watched the tall captain as be strode across the platform, fivery man in uniform seemed to Jmgwjmtjnct; ively that Eayner at last *wa?soek?ng to make open reparation for the bitter wrong he had done. One or two 6trove to begin a general chat and affect an interest in something else for Mrs. Rayner's benefit, but she, with trembling lips, stood gazing after her husband and seemed to beg for silence. Then all abandoned other occupation, and every man stood still and watched them. Hayne had quickly swung into saddle, and had ? ? 1 1? ?U UA turned lor one more iuuji, wueu ue &uw his captain with ashen face striding towards him, and heard him call his name. "By JoveP muttered Ross, "what command that fellow has over himself!" for, scrupulously observant of military etiquette, Mr. Hayne on being addressed by his superior officer had instantly dismounted, and now stood silently facing him. Even at the distance, there were some who thought they could see liis features twitching; but his blue eyes were calm and steady?far clearer than they had been but a moment agone when gazing good-by into the sweet face they worshiped. None could hear what passed between \ them. The talk was very brief; but Ross almost gasped with amaze, other officers looked at one another in utter astonishment, and Mrs. Rayner fairly sobbed with excitement and emotion, when Mr. Hayne was seen to hold forth his hand, and Rayner, grasping it eagerly in both of his own, shook it once, then strode hastily away towards the rear of the train. His eyes were filled with tears he could not repress and could not bear to show. That evening as the train wound steadily eastward into the shadows of the night, and they looked out in farewell upon the slopes they had last seen when a wintry gale swept fiercely over the frozen surface and the shallow ravines were streaked with snow, Kate Rayner, after a long talk with her husband, and abandoning her boy to the sole guardianship of his nurse, settled herself by Nellie's side, and Nellie knew that she either sought confidences or had them to impart. Something of the old, quizzical look was playing about the corner of her pretty mouth as her elder sister, with feminine indirectness, began her verbal skirmishing with the subject. It was some time be fore the question was reached which led to her real objective: "Did he?did Mr. Hayne tell you mucli -about Clancy?" *Not much. There was no time." "You had fully ten minutes, I'm sure. It seemed even longer." "Four by the clock, Kate." "Well, four, then. He must have had something of greater interest." No answer. Cheeks reddening, though. "Didn't he?"?persistently. "I will tell you what he told me of Clancy, Kate. Mrs. Clancy had utterly deceived you as to what he had to tell, had she not?" "Utterly." And now it was Mrs. Rayner's turn to color painfully. "Mr. Hayne tells me that Clancy's confession really explained how Capt. Rayner was mistaken. It was not so much the captain's fault, after alk" "So Mr. Hayne told him. You knew they?you saw Mr. Hayne offer him his hand, didn't you?" "I did not see: I knew he would." More vivid color, and much hesitation now. "Knew he would! Why, Nellie, what do you mean? He didn't tell-you that he was to see Capt Rayner. He couldn't have known." "But I knew, Kate; and I told him how the captain had suffered." "But how could you know that ho would shako hands with him?" "He promised me." The silence was unbroken for a moment. Nellie Travers could hear the beating or her own heart as she nestled closer to her sister and stole a hand into hers. Mrs. Rayner was trying hard to be dutiful, stern, unbending, to keep her faith with the distant lover in tho east, whether Nell was true or no; but she had been so humbled, so changed, so 3haken, by the events of the past few weeks, that she felt all her old spirit of guardianship ebbing away. "Must I give you up, Nell? and must he, too??Mr. Van Antwerp?" "He has not answered my last letter, Kate. It is nearly a week since I have heard from him." "What did you write, Nellie?" "What I had done twice before?that he ought to release me." "And?is Clancy's the only confession you have heard today?" "The only one." A pause, then: "I know what you mean, Kate; but he is not the man to?to offer his love to a girl ho knows is pledged to another." "But if you were free, Nellie? Tell me." "I have no right to say, Kate; but"? md two big tears were welling up into her brave eyes, as she clasped her hands and stretched them yearningly before her?"shall I tell you what I think a girl would say if she were free and had won iris love?" "What, Nellie?" "She would say 'Ay.' No woman with a heart could leave a man who has borne so much and come through it all so bravely." Poor Mrs. Rayner! Humbled and chastened as she was, what refuge had she but tears, and then prayer? CHAPTER XIX. He sprang up and went right out with me. Within the week succeeding the departure of the Rayners and Miss Travers, . , Lieut. Hayne's brother-in-law and his remarkably attractive sister were with him in garrison and helping him fit up the new quarters which the colonel had rather insisted on his moving into and occupying, even though two unmarried subalterns had to move out and make wa3* for him. This thev seemed rather Charles King, U.S. A. Dunraven Ranch," "The Colonel's j ter. '' 4 'Marion's Faith, '' Etc. j ( B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, and i I by special arrangement with them.] : delighted to do. There was a prevailing i sentiment at Warrener that nothing was 1 too good for Hayne nowadays; and he i took all his adulation so quietly and ( modestly that there was difficulty in tell-. 1 ing just how it affected him. Towards < those who had known him well in the days of his early service he still main- 1 tained a dignity and reserve of manner that kept them at some distance. To 1 others, especially to tile youngsters in the ?th as well as to those in the Riflers, he unbent entirely, and was frank, unaffected and warm hearted. He seemed to bask in the sunshine of the respect ' "awt consideration accorded him on every side. Yet no one could say he seemed happy. Courteous, grave far beyond his/ years, silent and thoughtful, he impressed them all as a man who had suffered too much ever again to be light hearted. Then it was more than believed he had fallen deeply in love with Nellie Travers; and that explained the rarity and sadness of his smile. To the women he was the center of intense and romantic interest. Mrs. Waldvon was an object of jealousy because of the priority of her claims to his regard. Mrs. Hurley?the sweet sister who so strongly resembled him? was the recipient of universal attention from both sexes. Hayne and the Hurleys, indeed, would have been invited to several places an evening could they have accepted. And yet, with it all, Mr. Hayne seemed at times greatly preoccupied. He had a great deal to think of. To begin with, the widow Clancy had been captured in one of the mining towns, nrtiaMcha V>?x1 cnno-hf rofmro rrnfl hrnncVit back by the civil authorities, nearly $3,000 in greenbacks having been found in her 1 possession. She bad fought like a fury % and proved too much for the sheriff's 0 posse when first arrested, and not until 6 three days after her incarceration was the s entire amount brought to light. There c was no question what ought to be done s with it. f Clancy's confession established the t ; fact that almost the entire amount was S stolen from Capt. Hull nearly six years 0 i before, the night previous to his tragic 2 ! death at Battle Butte. Mrs. Clancy at ! first had furiously declared it all a lie; ! but Waldron's and Billings' precaution ! in having Clancy's entire story taken down by a notary public and sworn to | before him eventually broke her down. , She made her miserable, whining ad! missions to the sheriff's officers in town ?the colonel would not havo her on the : post even as a prisoner?and there she was still held awaiting further disclos: ures, while little Kate was lovingly I cared for at Mrs. Waldron's. Poor old | Clancy was buried and on the way to be i forgotten. What proved the hardest problem for the garrison to solve was the fact that, j while Mr. Hayne kept several of his old , associates at a distance, he had openly i offered his hand to Rayner. This was I something the Riflers could not account i for. The intensity of his feeling at the I time of the court martial none could for' get; the vehemence of his denunciation of the captain was still fresh in the memory of those who heard it. Then there were all those years in which Rayner had continued to crowd him to the wall; and finally there was the almost tragic episode of Buxton's midnight visitation, iu which Rayner, willingly or not, had been in attendance. Was it not odd that in the face of all these considerations the first man to whom Mr. Hayne should have offered his hand was Capt. Rayner? Odd indeed! But then only one or two were made acquainted with the full particulars of Clancy's confession, and none had heard Nellie Travers' request. Touched as he was by the sight of Rayner's haggard and trouble-worn face, relieved as ho was by Clancy's revelation of the web that had been woven to cover the tracks of the thieves and ensnare the feet of the pursuers, Hayne could not havo found it possible to offer liis hand; but when he bent over the tiny glove and looked into her soft and Dnmming eyes at the moment of their parting he could not say no to the one thing she asked of him: it was that if Rayner came to say, "Forgive me," before they left, he would not repel him. There was one man in garrison whom Havne cut entirely, and for whom no one felt the faintest sympathy; and that, of course, was Buxton. With Rayner gone, he hardly had an associate, though the esprit de corps of the ?th prompted the cavalry officers to be civil to him when he appeared at the billiard room. As Mr. Hurley was fond of the game, an element of awkwardness was manifest the lirst time the young officers appeared with their engineer friend. Ilayne had not set foot in such a place for five years, and quietly declined all invitations to take a cue again. It was remembered of him that he played the prettiest game of French curroms of all the officers at the station when he joined the Riflers as a boy. Hurley could only stay a very short time, and the subalterns were doing their best to make it lively for him. Some, indeed, showed strong inclination to devote themselves to Mrs. Hurley; but she was too busy with her brother's household affairs to detect their projects. Ilurley had turned very red and glared at Buxton the first time the two met at the club room, but the bulky captain speedily found cover under which to retire, and never again showed himself in general society until the engineer with the scientific attainments as a boxer as well as road builder was safely out of the post. And yet there came a day very soon when Mr. Ilayne wished that he could go to Buxton's quarters. He had in no wise changed his opinion of the man himself, but the Itayners had not been gone a fortnight before Mrs. Buxton began to tell the ladies of the charming letters she was receiving from Mrs. Rayner?all about their travels. There were many things he longed to know, yet could not ask. There came to him a long and sorrowful letter from the captain himself, hut, beyond a few matters relating to the company and the transfer of its property, it was all given up to a reeapitula| tion of the troubles of the past few years and to renewed expressions of his deep j regret. Of the ladies he made but cas 1 ual mention, lhey were journeying down the Mississippi on one of its big steamers when he wrote, and Mrs. Itiyner was able to enjoy tho novelties of the trip, and was getting better, but still required careful nursing. Miss Travel's was devoted to her. They would go to New Orleans, then possibly by sea around to New York, arriving : there about tho 5th of June; that, however, was undecided, lie closed by ask! ing Havne to remind Maj. Waldron that his copy of Clancy's confession had not I yet reached him, and he was anxious to sec it in full. "The one thing lacking to complete the chain is Gower," said the major, as he looked up over his spectacles. "It would be difficult to tell what became of him. We get tidings of most of tho dc' sorters who wero as prominent among ! the men as he appears to have been: but I have made inquiry, and so has tho colonel, and not a word has ever been heard of him since the night he appeared before Mrs. Clancy and handed over the money to her. lie was a strange character, from all accounts, and must have had some conscience after all. Do jou remember him at all, Ilayne?" "I remember him well. We made the march from the Big Horn over to Battle Butte together, and he was a soldier one ;ould not help remarking. Of course I never had anything to say to him, but we heard he was an expert gambler when the troop was over there at Miners' Delight." "Of course his testimony isn't neceslary. Clancy and his wife between them nave cleared you, after burying you alive ivo years. But nothing but his story sould explain his singular conduct?plaiw ling the whole robbery, executing it wjm ill the skill of a professional jailbird/dejerting and covering several hundred miles with his plunder, then darmg to go ;o the old fort, find Mrs. Clancy, and surrender every cent the moment ho heard )f your trial. What a fiimd that woman was! No wonder she/drove Clancy to irink!" y/ "Will you send copies of her admission with Clancy's affidavits?" asked Hay lie. "Here they are in full," answered the major. "Tbb colonel talks of having ;hem printed and strewn broadcast as earnings against 'snap judgment' and xx) confident testimony in future." Divested of the legal encumbrances vith which such documents are usually weighted, Clancy's story ran substantiaiy as follows: s "I was sergeant in K troop, and Gowcr vas in F. We had been stationed together six months or so when ordered >ut on the Indian campaign that sumner. I was dead broke. All my money vas gone, and my wife kept bothering ne for more. I owed a lot of money irouud headquarters, too, and Gower mew it, and sometimes asked me what . was going to do when wo got back rorn the campaign. Wo were not good riends, him and I. There was money lealings between us, and then there was alk about Mrs. Clancy fancying him too nuch. The paymaster caiue up with a trong escort and paid off the boys late n October, just as the expedition was >reaking up and going for home, and all he officers and men got four months' >ay. There was Lieut. Crane and twenty uen of F troop out on a scout, but the ieutenant had left his pay rolls with >apt. Hull, and the men had all signed >efore they started, and so the captain le drew it all for them and put each nan's money in an envelope marked vith his name and the lieutenant's too, tnd then crowded it all into some bigger mvelopes. I was there where I could ee it all. and Gower was watching him ilose. 'It's a big pile the captain's got,' ays he 'I'd like to bo a road agent and lab him.' When I told him it couldn't >o over eleven hundred dollars, he says, That's only part. He has his own pay ind six hundred dollars company fund, ind a wad of greenbacks he's been car yin' around all summer. It's nigh on to tour thousand dollars he's got in his sadlie bags this day.' "And that night, instead of Lieut. Crane's coming back, he sent word he had ound the trail of a big band of Indians, tnd the whole crowd went in pursuit. There wasfourcompaniesof infantry, unler Capt. Ravner, and F and Iv troops? vhat was left of them?that were ordered 0 stay by the wagons and bring them safey down; and we started with them over ?wards Battle Butte, keeping south of he way the regiment had gone to follow dr. Crane. And the very next day Capt. Jayner got orders to bring his battalion ? the river and get on the boat, while ;he wagons kept on down the bank with is to guard them. And Mr. Hayne was icting quartermaster, and lie stayed with is; and him and Capt. Hull was together 1 good deal. There was some trouble, vo heard, because Capt. Rayner thought inotlier officer should have been made luartermaster and Mr. Hayne should iave stayed with his company, and hey had some words; but Capt. dull gave Mr. Hayne a horse ind seemed to keep him with lim; and that night, in sight of Battle iutte, the steaniDoac was ouc or signs ihead when we went into camp, and I vas sergeant of the guard and had my ire near the captain's tent, and twice in lie evening Gower came to me and said low was the time to lay hands on the noney and skip. At last he says to me, You are flat broke, and they'll all be >e down on you when you get back to he post. No man in America wants five mudred dollars more than you do. I'll jive you five hundred in one hour from low if you'll get the captain out of his ent for half an hour.' Almost everybody vas asleep then; the captain was, and so vas Mr. Hayne, and he went on to tell ne how he could do it. He'd been watchng the captain. It made such a big lundle, did the money, in all the sepa ate envelopes that he had done it all up lifferent?made a memorandum of the imount due each man, and packed the jreenbacks all together in one solid pile ?his own money, the lieutenant's and he men's?done it up in paper and ,ied it firmly and put big blotches of ;reen sealing wax on it and sealed them vith the seal on his watch chain. Says Sower, 'You get the captain out, as I ell you, and I'll slip right in, get the noney, stuff some other paper with a few >nes and twos in the package; his seal, lis watch and everything is there in the .addle bags under his head, and I can repeal and replace it in five minutes, and ie'11 never suspect the loss until the comnand all gets together again next week. 3y that time I'll bo three hundred miles iway. Everybody will say 'twas Go\ycr ;hat robbed him, and you with your five mndred will never be suspected.' I asked lim how could he expect the captain to ;o and leave so much money in his jags witn no one to guaru it; anu ne said lie'd bet on it if I did it right. The japtain had had no luck tracking Inlians that summer, and the regiment .vas laughing at him. lie knew* they ivere scattering every which way now, md was eager to strike them. All I had x> do was to creep in excited like, wake lim up sudden, and tell him I was sure [ had heard an Indian drum and their scalp dance song out beyond the pickets ?that they were over towards Battle 3utte, and he could hear them if lie vould come out 011 the river bank. 'He'd jo quick,' says Gower, 'and think of lothing.' "And?I wouldn't believe it, but he lid. lie sprang up and went right out vith me, just hinging his overcoat round lim; and ho never seemed to want to :ome in. The wind was blowing soft ike from the southeast, and he stood ;hero straining his ears trying to heat die sounds I told liiin of; but at last le gave it up, and we went back tc jamp, and he took his lantern and ooked in his saddle bags, and I shook 'or fear; but he seemed to find everything all right, and in the next ;en minutes lie was asleep, and Gower :ame and whispered to mo, and I went .vith him, and he gave me five hundred lollars, in twenties. 'Now you're bound,1 says he; 'keep the sentries oil while 1 $et my horse.' And that's the hist 1 ;ver saw of him. Then si strange thing lappened. 'Twas hardly daylight when i courier cauie galloping up, and I called lie captain, and he read the dispatch, md says he, 'By heaven, Clancy, you vere right after all. There are Indians iver there. Why didn't I trust your 5ars? Call up the whole command. Hie Riflers have treed them at Battle Butte, and Capt. Rayner has gone with lis battalion. We are to escort the ivagons to where the boat lies beyond the jend7and then push over with all the lorsemen wo can take.' It was after daylight when we got itarted, but we almost ran the wagons cross country to the boat, and there Bapt. IIull took F troop and what there vasof his own, leaving only ten men back vith the wagons, and not till then was Bower missed; hut all were in such a lurry to get to the Indians that no one laid attention. Mr. llayno lie bogged lie captain to let him go, too, so the rain was left with the wagon master ind the captain of the boat, and away \v^vent^^>ina!o\^ilu!bou^h^^ht^ and how 'twas Mr. Ilayno the" captain called to and gave his watch and the two packages of money when he was ordered to charge. I' was right by his side, and I swore?God forgive me! ?that through the crack and tear in the paper I could see the layers of greenbacks, when I knew 'twas only some ones and twos Gower had slipped in to make it look right; and Capt. Rayner stood there and saw tho pjfeket, too, and Sergt. Walshe and /Bugler White; but them two were killed with him, so that 'twas only Capt. Rayner and I was left as witnesses, and never till we. got to Laramie after the campaign did the trouble come. I never dreamed of anything ever coming of it but that every one would say Gower stole the money and deserted; but when the captain turned the packages over to Mr. Hayne and then got killed, and Mr. Hayne carried the packages, with the watch, seal, saddlebags and all, to Cheyenne, and never opened them till he got there?two weeks after, when we were nil scattered?then they turned on him, 1 is own officers did, and said he stole it and gambled or sent it away in Cheyenne. "I had Jost much of my money then, and Mrs. Clancy got the*rest, and it made me crazy to think of that poor young gentleman accused of it all; but I was in for it, and knew it meant prison for years for me, and perhaps they couldn't prove it on him. I got to drinking then, and told Capt. Rayner that the ? th was down on me for swearing away the young officer's character; and then he took mo to Company B when the colonel wouldn't have me any more in the ?th; and one night when Mrs. Clancy had been raising my hair and I wanted money to drink and she'd give mc none, little Kate told me her mother had lots of money in a box, and that Sergt. Gower had come and given it to her while they were getting settled in the new post after the Battle Butte campaign, and he had made her promise to give it to me the moment T emf. ?timf cnmolvwl v wna in t.rnii ~ bv,v V....V ?J ble, and that I must save him; and I believed Kate, and charged Mrs. Clancy with it, and she beat me and Kate, and swore it was all a lie; and I never could get the money. "And at last came the fire, and it was the lieutenant that saved my life and Kate's, and brought back to her all that pile of money through the flames. It broke my heart then, and I vowed I'd go and tell him the truth, but they wouldn't let me. She told me the captain said he would kill me if I blabbed, and she would kill Kate. I didn't dare, until they told me my discharge had come, and then I was glad when the lieutenant and the major caught me in town. When they promised to take care of little Kate I didn't care what happened to me. The money Mrs. Clancy has?except perhaps two hundred dollars?all belongs to Lieut Ilayne, since he paid off every cent that was stolen from Capt. Hull." Supplemented by Mrs. Clancy's rueful and incoherent admissions, Clancy's story did its u;ork. Mrs. Clancy could not long persist in her various denials after her husband's confession was brought to her ears, and she wa3 totally unable to account satisfactorily for the possession of so much money. Little Kate had been too young to grasp the full meaning of what Gower said to her mother in that hurried interview; but her reiterated statements that he came late at night, before the regiment got home, and knocked at the door until he waked them up, and her mother cried when he came in, he looked so different, and had spectacles and a patch on his cheek, and ranch clothes, and ho only stayed a little while, and told her mother he must go back to the mountains, the l*ia f elm L'nntV TlftW r'?W ....... he spoke of having deserted?and he gave her mother lots of money, for she opened and counted it afterwards and told her it must all go to papa to get some one out of trouble?all were so clear and circumstantial that at last the hardened woman began to break down I and make reluctant admissions. When an astute sheriff's officer finally told her that he knew where he could lay hands on Sergt. Gower, she surrendered utterly. So long as ho was out of the way?could not bo found?she held out; but the prospect of dragging into prison with her the man who had spurned her in years gone by and was proof against her fascinations was too alluring. She told all she could at his expense. He had ridden eastward aftci his desertion, and, making his way down the Missouri, had stopped at Yankton and gone thence to Kansas City, spending much of his money. He had reached Denver with the rest, and there?she knew not how?had made or received more, wj* m he heard of the fact that Capt. Hull had turned over his property to Lieut. Hayne just before ho was killed, and that the lieutenant was now to be tried for failing to account for it. He brought her enough to cover all he had taken, but?hero she lied?strove tc persuade her to go to San Francisco with him. She promised to think of it if he would leave the money?which ho did, swearing he would come for her and it. That was why sho dared not tell Mike when lie got home. lie was so jealous of her. To this part of her statement Mrs. Clancy stoutly adhered; but the officers 'believed Kate. One other thing she told. Kate had declared lie wore a heavy patch on his right cheek and temple. Yes, Mrs. Clancy remembered it. Some scoundrels had sought to rob him in Denver. He had to fight for life and money both, and his share of the honors of the fray was a deep and clean cut extending across the cheek bone and up above the right ear. As theso family revelations were told throughout the garrison and comment of every kind was made thereon, thero is reason for the belief that Mrs. Buxton found no difficulty in filling her letters wilJi particulars oi ueep interest iu nor readers, who by this time had carried out the programme indicated by Capt. Itaylier. Mid-June had come; the ladies, appareiitlv benefited by tlio sea voyage, had landed in New York and were speedily driven to their old quarters at the Westminster; and while the captain went to headquarters of the department to report his arrival on leave and get his letters, a card was sent up to Miss Travers which she read with cheeks that slightly puled: "lie is here, Kate." "Nellie, you?you won't throw him over, after all he has done and borne for you?" "I shall keep my promise," was the answer. [TO UK CON'I'INUKI> KKXT WKKIC.] Igy A clerical correspondent of tlio New York Tribune thus writes; "We parsons find it rather hard to win the approval of you newspaper fellows. If we preach about the iniquity of Sodom and Gomorrah and the sins of the ancient Jews, you say we live in the past instead of the present. If, on the other hand, we preach on the concrete sins of the present (lay you say we are sensation mongers. * And if we avoid both these faults by asserting generally that it is a good thing to he good, and a had thing to he had, you say we are dull and vapid." - ? Jdfeg"- A substitute for whisky as a remedy for rattlesnake bites has ueen discovered. A man in C'linlon county, Mo., bitten on the leg by a rattler while in the woods two miles from home, a few days ago, wiped the blood oil' with a leaf, and taking a big cud of tobacco from his mouth, bound it on the wound with a piece of bark. After reaching home he bathed his leg with ammonia, and has suffered 110 ill effect other than a slight swelling of the bitten spot. THE CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION. 1 A Lively Discussion in Yorkville f Last Thursday. ! Col. Haskell's Presence as a Speaker Cre- i ates Some Excitement among the Tillman Men, bnt Order is < Finally Restored. - i The Day Posses Off Without ICxtrn- ! ordinary Incident. The campaign meeting, as arranged ( for York county, was held in York- f ville on Thursday last. The meeting 1 was largely attended, there heing on 1 the ground occupied by the speakers, , about 1,500 persons, including per- ' haps 1(XJ ladies. A large number of men who came to town on that day J did not attend the speaking. Every ! section of the county was represented, j and special trains from Catawba, to the east, and Blacksburg, to the west, ' brought a large number from all ] along the line of railroad between j those points. Good order* pr?Wtfled throughout 1 the day, though at one time there j was some noise and confusion during < the speaking, but there was an ab- < sence of anger, and though the speak- 1 ers indulged in raillery among them- J selves, the repartee was devoid of bit terness, and the discussion was con- i ducted in a spirit of fairness. The 1 most prominent sallies between the i speakers are noted below in the order ] of their occurrence. 1 Excellent music was furnished during the exercises by two first-class bands?the Gold Hill cornet band, \ Charley Crook, leader; and the Itock ' Hill silver cornet band, Robert H. j Iiope, leader. I The stand was erected in the skirt i of a wood half a mile west of the S public square, and at 10 o'clock, after { an air by the Gold Hill band in front of the Parish hotel, the speakers j and others in carriages, and quite a 1 procession of men on horseback and on foot, took up the line of march for , the scene of the approaching contest. ] The meeting was called to order by ( Maj. James F. Hart, county chair- ( man, who said it was one appointed by the State Executive committee, < that the Democratic citizens of York 1 -- -l J. i r L.n,. 1 liugiik nunr mini iiiun jjuuhv .-.v,. vants and others, candidates for * office. They are distinguished guests, ( who will pass before you for your judgment and from each of whom < you will hear. York county is dis- 1 tinguished for her brave men, her s pretty women, the good behavior -< of her citizens and their high moral i character. I hope nothing will oc- i cur to-day to mar the decorum of f the meeting; that all will show a ( proper regard for liberty and freedom { of speech ; that there will be no in- 1 terruption, and that you will accord ( to all a respectful hearing. He then ( introduced as the first speaker ( (!kn. john hrattox, 1 who said he was personally unac- J quninted with many before him, but he was not a stranger in York. He was before them to speak with frank- ( ness of matters of peculiar interest. . He came talk to the citizens of York J county. There are now many differ- : ences of opinion among our people, , and these differences are fraught with danger. There is an attempt to rush with headlong career into political ( methods for partisan ends, and these excesses are leading us away from the direct line. Men are becoming ah- \ sorbed in this strife for personal ends. It is time to call a halt. He argued [ the importance of the sound integ- J rity of the Democratic party, and ; said it is now time to Iook upon the ' danger of a party forming within a 1 party. There are no adequate J grounds for it, and it is based on charges that have fallen to the ground. One of these charges is * that we have never had a repub- 1 lican form of government. How can the election of State officers * give us a republican form of govern- J ment? If whom you elect for governor fails to do his duty, he would 1 be a usurper. Whom you elect must ' be true to his obligation. As long as ( our people have the manhood to en- 1 force the laws, we have all we wish. c The only appeal I make to you is to consider the public business with the ^ same discretion, and give to it that j attention that you would give to your own private business, and not to ( go about it with a whoop or a yell. He then spoke of the hostility to the * South and our own State of the Fed- 1 eral government. There is where our 1 danger lies, in- their power to tax. They have, by their system of Fede- *, ral taxation, deprived us of our just : ii? ,.i <.,x-oti/vn * earnings*' j 11 11iu aiuijic ui iuaihiuh i . they take from usonebalein six of ! the cotton we produce. Of that only a small amount is disbursed in the * South. Of $100,000,0(10, $80,0IM),0U0 is 51 disbursed in theSouth and$70,000,000 ^ in the North. The government should be properly administered to j every man, one and all. We have a favored class that levies tribute and c derives the benefit, and there is the * danger to. our State government, , which is honest and economical. lie referred to the days of LsTii, , when our State was under the heel of class legislation, and our people, old and young, as true Anglo-Saxons, ar- ' raved themselves and forced a proper S acknowledgment to the will of the 1 people. J In conclusion, he said this is an unprofitable quarrel among ourselves. He appealed to his hearers to think , of these things and stand shoulder to : shoulder. He would appeal to their reason to think of the danger of this * strife. If they would only consult what was best for their common in- I terests, he had no fear of the results. c When Gen. Bratton took his seat I a lady in the audience sent up to him ^ a magnificent boquet. * (JKX. JOSKI'ir II. KAIU.K was the next speaker introduced, j He said he should speak with mode- ( ration, and discuss the issues before .i the nennle without anv bitterness mid in a spirit of conservatism. t He gave what lie claimed was a i true history of the Farmers' move- < meat, which originated four years t ago, and road from the proceedings < of their State convention, their pur- 1 poses as set forth in the resolutions adopted. The main point in the res- s olutions, he said, was that they t would eschew politics, and labor to t place farming on a tirm basis. To that no man could object. Hut instead of t adhering to this declaration, the I movement has, step by step, gone t into politics. It has gone into politics 1 and formed a party within a party, t He then discussed the Shell mani- s festo. lie asked, how many of you t have read it, and after reading it, <. did you give it your assent? 1 know, \ said he, you did not. Of the March convention, he said i a majority of the farmers in that i hody were opposed to making nomi- j nations at that time. They did not believe it was right or just or Demo- ; cratic. He said all have a right to j meet in convention. Hut the March t convention was not a convention ap- ? pointed by the Democratic party to meet for making nominations. They t did, however, nominate candidates i independent of the Democratic party. ; Their candidate for governor is now i before you. I know nothing against ( him that he has not said himself. 1 He speaks of our State government 1 as corrupt and extravagant. That ' is an issue he has raised which is < stirrmgupour people from the mountains t(rthe seaboard. Of one is*ue, what the nominee lias said as to thescorruptness of the State government, if 1 have accused him wrongfully, let him correct it. He said the nominee could not show one instance of corruption and robbery. He then read printed extracts from ['apt. Tillman's writings and utterances, and referring to Tillman's charge that political leprosy is permeating our political government, lie asked what did he mean by that? He uses the word leprosy to lescrihe the present condition in South Carolina. Since 1K7(>, who, in our State government, is so corrupt as to he a political leper? Again he read from Tillman, "It was hoped the day for addition, division and silence in South Carolina I 1 1 n .,,1 /in 11swl [UUl JIBSSKU ilWcl^', JUKI ?/ii Capt. Tillman to point out who lias kept silent for money. Let him point to one Democratic official who lias been bribed. He read a pa in that Capt. Tillman liad said that "he should retire and lttend to his own private affairs, as lie had no hip salary with which to influence lepislation." T~ this Gen. Karle asked, Does this not imply that senators have # been bought? Let him point out whose vote or influence could have been bouplit. Ken. Earle charped that by such iharpes and insinuations as these, Capt. Tillman has broupht about the present state of things in South Carolina. He cannot prove them. I un proud of this prand old State. Since 1870 she has been politically pure. Let Capt. Tillman come to the front and answer these things. If tie cannot answer them, then you must conclude that he has said them to poison the public mind. He next discussed Tillman's charge that the State government has been extravagant, and said that Shell is the executive committee under whom rillman now comas before the people. He said that Capt. Tillman's friends fuul secured the legislature, and that farmers had been in the majority for /ears. Appropriation measures commence in the house, where the farm??.' Imi'O n nioinrilv mwl if tllPV hn.Vft ilO imirv W JII?JV1.V) .. )oen extravagant, why were they not promptly defeated ? Let him show the extravagant appropriations of ivhieh he complains. Up to this point, the meeting had ieen quite orderly; but now cries for 'Tillman," "Tillman," began to be leard. Gen. Earle waited for the lemonstration to cease, and then complimented the audience on their juiet behavior. He then continued by referring to he appropriations made by the last egislature, and said: It is seen from Lis that Shell's legislature appropriited $100,000 more than has heen appropriated by any preceding Democratic legislature. Gen. Earle denied the charge of the extravagance of the Shite government. The taxation averages about seventy cents per capita. The averige expense of county governments s about eighty cents, and for schools ibout forty cents. The interest on the state debt is $.'?>0,000. We owe $0,000,)00, not contracted by the present government, on which the interest nas to he paid. The South Carolina ollege requires about ;V. cents per capita, and the citadel about two cents. Of your property $1,DIM) pays :o the State $7, and for county expenses and schools about $lo. These are :he facts and figures and they are not extravagant. lie compared our coalition now with that of Republican rule. With an average of one-third :he true value of our property, South Carolina has a lower rate of taxation ban any other State in the Union ; >ut even at that, if our expenses can )C reduced, they should be diminished. He then asked, where will lie commence the reduction ? What will he ibolish??the South Carolina colegc? That would not be just. The citadel ? That would not he just. The unatic asylum ? Would that be humane? I want him to show us where ic will commence. He speaks of the Jtate board of health as a useless exlense. It is important to the State md it would be unwise to abolish it. rint Cnnf Tillmon w/inlil mill it lown. He would take down, but I un for building up. Gon. Earle then argued that the governor can do but little in the way >f effacing economy. ] le should see hat the laws are properly executed, md beyond that he has but little >ower. No matter who may beeleet d governor, he can do nothing to educe your taxes. The speaker then discussed the State board of agriculture, which he laid Tillman wishes abolished. Gen. Carle urged the benefit it has been to lie farmers ofthe State in the matter if inspecting phosphates. Here the audience again began to ihow impatience, and repeated the ;all for Tillman. When the lialloong ceased, Gen. Earle continued: ('apt. Tillman would transfer that lepartment to the Clenison college. Hutthespeakercontended that in that jvent the work of inspection would >e but imperfectly done, and cited he case in Georgia, where the phosihates arc analyzed by the professors md students of the'Georgia State :ollego, with unsatisfactory results. Te urged the importance of this department, and said it does all it can o prevent imposition upon farmers. 1 Ie said in this matter the farmers should be protected. Some of Tillman's men were in the legislaure; why did they not see to it ? Col. Pope: You were in the legisature. Why did you not see to it? Gen. Earle: 1 have never accused ithers of not doing their duty. 1 lad lomplaint been made to me of defect n the law, I should have done all I ould to remedy it. Why did not 'apt. Tillman have it done? [Huzzahs for Tillman.] Continuing, Gen. Earle said : Col. hitler, the commissioner ofagriculure, has time and again made suggestions to correct these abuses, but lis recommendations were never Kissed. He said the State now revives a royalty of over . ??!(),(>(10 from iliosphates, and if the law under vhicli the royalty is collected does o well, why give it away for an tinned experiment ? (ten. Earle next took up Tillman's ilatform. J Ie wants a constitutional 'onvention to cost from $10(1,(1110 to 11 ">0,(100. Why call a con Just here the rear side of the stand, o which a large number of persons vere clinging, in addition to two rows if seats running its length being oe upied, fell with a crash, a distance if about three feet; but no one was uirt. Gen. Earle, however, finished his iiieech, though he did not complete he word he started to utter when he crash came. He said the accident seemed to be lie irony of fate; that he only reerred to the farmers' platform when his one fell. Continuing his remarks, in uni.l . /'/,1 l!?m> hmiiP <i i>, met i t n_ iomil convention called in order to itrike out the provision in reference o the debt clause. The constitution an be amended year by year vithout any costs' * Gen. Earle favored the amendment iow pending in reference to abolishng county commissioners. J Ie comilimented the county officials of Vork, but said county governments ire expensive, and hoped that if the Proposed amendment shall be adopt d, that a better and more economical lystem will he devised. * He then concluded by reference to lie term aristocracy. lie said any nan of character in South Carolina is is good as any other man. There is 10 aristocracy in South Carolina ex:ept that resulting from virtue and irains. The true aristocrat is he who "ears his God and does his duty. Vou should consider the man who mines before you for what he is, and not his family. lie complimented the private soldiers in the late war, and thanked the audience for the attention they had given him. During the intermission, after this speaker, the stand was repaired, the work requiring some little time, the tedium of which was relieved with music by the hands. COL. JXO. C. J TASK I'LL. After the wreck had been restored and the speakers resumed their places on the stand, some commotion was created in the audience by Capt. Tillman stepping, without introduction or announcement, to the front. It was the signal for prolonged cheers, and after they had -sufficiently subsided, Capt. Tillman said: My friends, by invitation of the countv chairman, a distinguished gentleman who is not a candidate, is here to address you to-day on the issues involved in the canvass. As a personal favor to me, I beg you to let him shoot his gun. He then introduced Col. John C. Haskell. The appearance of Col. Haskell was the signal for prolonged hallooing and yelling in which huzzahs for Tillman and for Haskell were intermingled. This demonstration, which at first appeared to be a cordial greeting to Col. Haskell, continuing for an undue length of time, Capt. Tillman stepped forward to beg silence. Col. Haskell, probably not interpreting the demonstration of the crowd, signified to Capt Tillman that his request was unnecessary, but the shouting grew louder and louder. Tillman then advanced a second time and begged them to desist. He was answered only by prolonged yells and cries, "We don't want to hear him." In the din and confusion, Col. Haskell then announced, as well as he could, that he was on the speakers' stand by invitation of the county chairman, and he should remain until ordered down by him. After Capt. Tillman's third appeal for order, which was still disregarded, Col. Haskell again announced that he was invited there by the county committee; that the invitation was unexpected by him ; he had no desire to speak, but having been put up for a speech he should remain where he was until ordered down by the chairman. Intermingled with jeers and cries of derision were also hurrahs for Haskell, and cries of "hold your ground"; "don't come down," etc. Capt. Tillman made a fourth ap peal lor silence, ana solicitor ivicuonald spoke from the stand, assuring the knot of noisy men whose attention he secured, that it was Capt. Tillman's request that Col. Haskell he allowed to speak. Hut the noise and confusion increased, Col. Haskell remaining cool and unperturbed amid it all. Finally, County Chairman Hart secured sufficient silence to make himself heard and he said that Col. Haskell would stand where he was, or would speak, or as chairman of-the meeting ne would adjourn the meeting, as he claimed the right to do. He appealed to thc'pride of the people and their good reputation for their regard for free spcecn, and said Haskell had as much right to speak at that meeting as though he were a candidate. Capt. Tillman followed Maj. Hart, making a fifth appeal for quiet and order. He said that up to this outburst he had congratulated himself 011 the prospect of a quiet, orderly meeting in York, especially as compared with several other counties, and concluded: "You are not doing right now. As a special personal favor to me, let Haskell say anything he wants to say." This had the long desired effect; and the pandemonium of noise measurably ceased. COL. HASKELL SPEAKS. Col. Haskell then proceeded with his remarks. He said that he was there to tell only facts; fo show that many statements made just preceding and during this canvass, are untrue. Since 1870 we have had no legislature that was not under the absolute control of the farmers of the State.- If the farmers have had a majority in the legislature and the laws they have enacted are oppressive to the farming class, who is to blame? The farmers i>nv one-third of the tuxes of the State. Capt. Tillman has made charges of corruption, but he has retracted every word of it. I defy any man to name a charge that he has made that he hits not retracted. lie then referred to the unity prevailing among our people preceding the Shell manifesto, and said he was here now in the interest of unity and to work for the welfare of the State. He was here to ask the people not to turn their hands against one another. Should this continue, it is easy to see what will be the result. He wanted no office; hut he never failed to respond to any call of his State, and was here now at the call of that gallant gentleman, your county chairman, to ask you not to divide. I am here to say that all charges of corruption in our State government are false ; that he who says we have dishonesty among our government officials tells what is false. I am here to say that the man who does so is no friend of the State. The day will come when you will curse the day when these seed were sown. There was 110 division among our people in 187(1. Then we redeemed our State, as it now seems, only to sow the seeds of discord. Let those who then redeemed the State reflect upon the course our people are now pursuing. We have lived in accord, and can do so again. Before the first of November we will all be together. If Tillman receives the nomination he shall have my support. But 1 give the warning voice that we are now in danger. Northern Republican papers are are now gloating over the candidacy of Tillman and its prospective results. He then referred to Bray ton's recent advice to the Republicans of the State to be quiet and await jthe result of this movement. [A voice: (live 11s something about railroads.] Haskell: 1 have no connection with any railroad. 1 am here to speak in' kindness, to appeal to the people to pause and to let no man rise at the discord of the people. Tillman has made charges which I ask him to withdraw. Tillman: lie asKs me ro retract my words. I eat no words 1 ever uttered. Haskell: Tillman's charges are equivalent to saying that you are permeated with political leprosy; that your political government is corrupt. The man who makes these charges without the proof raises the matricidal arm to strike the mother who bore him. The speaker closed by saying that the legislature of 1SRS-S1), which had been captured by Shell, appropriated ?1(10,000 more than any preceding Democratic legislature; but as the sums were for pensions, Clemson college, etc., he had no complaint to to make. Jle then thanked his hearers for the attention they had given him, notwithstanding when he got up to speak he thought they would not hear him. After music, the chairman introduced as the next speaker, CAl'T. ]{. K. TIF.I.MAX, whose appearance, as he stepped torward, was greeted with immense cheering and round after round of applause. He said: Four years ago I had the gratification of addressing an assembly of the people of York at a picnic at Tirzah. I was then an unknown and untried man, and that was the first extemporaneous speech 1 ever made. I'p to five years ago I had taken no part in politics. Many of you are familiar with the history of the Farmers' movement for the past four years.* J had the highest compliment paid to me this morning tliat lias ever been paid to a farmer in South Carolina. That compliment consists in the attorney-general?a man who is recognized as the equal of any lawyer in this State?and the distinguished chairman of the ways and means committee from Columbia?two men who stand in the head and front of the legal profession, are pitted against a man who has never been a member of the legislature. Is not that a compliment? If I go down before such lions as that, I have the consolation of knowing that I have foemen worthy of any man's steel; and if I am notable before them to uphold my cause, there can be no disgrace in it. I defy any man to cast imputation against my Democracy or manhood. If I fail to show you that I am right, then you should condemn me ; but if I show vou that J have been iin posed upon, then it is your duty to stand to me. There is so much that I want to talk about that 1 don't know where to begin. There is so much in those two speeches to answer ; hut the time is so short I am compelled to he hrief. [Voices: We are willing to stay until sundown.] As to whether I am here to make discord, it is for you to determine* This is a "campaign of education" they say, and I am the schoolmaster; but I can't teach you unless you are willing to hear. This is the first time in the history of South Carolina that candidates for State offices have gone before the people to discuss issues. It means revolution. If these men can satisfy you that no good can come of it, all right; and if I fail to show you that things are in a very bad shane, I beg you to let them stay as they are. Why is all this concourse of people collected here? [Voices: We want to hear Tillman.] Yes, and you want to hear him tell the truth, and as God sees me I am going to spit it out. It is because you feel that there is something wrong in South Carolina, and you are going to apply the remedy. They may abuse Tillman as much as they please, hut there is one thing they have never said of Tillman yet, and that is that he is a fool. Nor they can't say that I am a nonentity in South Carolina. I am a positive fac-* tor. [A voice: Hurrah for Earle.] \ Yes, he'll need all your hurrahs, and votes too. We have in South Carolina but one party, the party of the white people. Self preservation requires us to keep together, and the result is political stagnation. The masses of the people of South Carolina have no voice in the government of the State. The officers are nominated by conventions thrice removed from the people. You vote for delegates to the county convention. They elect delegates to the State convention, and here your 3,500 or 4,500 white voters in York county are boiled down to ten men. The result is, the people demand a primary election. Gen. Earle": Who nominated you. and the other candidates on your ticket, Mr. Tillman ? ('apt. Tillman: "Who nominated you f Gen. Earle: The people. Tillman: Ah! [A voice: "The people are responsible for it."] Gen. Earle then spoke of the methods of the Farmers' movement, referring to the March convention, and stated that the candidates on the Tillman ticket were nominated through a little understanding between Shell, Tillman and one or two others. First, Gary announced himself as candidate for attorneygeneral, and afterwards he changed to lieutenant-governor. Tillman: But when your Democratic convention met? Earle: Yes; Democratic, that is right. Tillman: Oh ! I made a mistake there; I meant aristocratic convention. When these conventions made nominations you had to swallow them. This contest means, shall the politicians continue in office, or shpll the people rule. Earle: But how about your nomination ? Why did you not wait and secure it by the regular methods, or by a primary ? Tillman: Because I did not wish to fool with Hoytand his committee. They are opposed to me. This is a contest between the politicians and the people. What do Bratton and Earle represent? The ring, which has governed us since 1870. Earle: I never belonged to a ring and never expect to. Here Capt. Tillman gently chided a bevy of young ladies, whom he seemed to think were trying to get up a disturbance. Continuing?Capt. Tillman spoke of the March convention as an effort to secure to the people the right of pure Jeffersonian Democracy denied to them by the ring. He then spoke of the "Twenty-one conference," and the conference of the three blind mice, as a result of which petitions were sent out to this man and that man to become candidates, and those on the other side were here simply as representatives of the ring. They came out in response to these petitions. Gen. Earle : If you want to know the true reason why I am here, it is because of your published statements, time and again, defaming the fair name of South Carolina, and I call on you before you take your seat to prove what you have said. Capt. Tillman replied that he stands by every charge that he has ever made, and went on to arraign Gen. Earle for his refusal to accept the gubernatorial nomination in 1888, when the same had been practically offered to him. Gen. Earle replied to the charge in the way that has already been several times printed, explaining that he was committed to Gov. Richardson not to be a candidate for 1 the office, and although he knew he could have had the office for the acceptance, was not willing to take it at the sacrifice of his personal honor. Tillman: Collusion between you and Richardson. Belonged to the rin?if, and it wasn't your time yet .Earle: I said I was prevented from accepting through 41 regard for honor, sir! <>od forbid that 1 should 1 ever sacrifice honor even in the service of my .State! Tillman: Ambition had nothing 1 to do with it, then ? Earle: I did not say that. Tillman: Ah! Have you got the leprosy too, then ? I will now take up one of the 1 charges against me?that in regard 1 to political leprosy. What L meant 1 by that expression is that ottice seek- 1 iiig is the leprosy, and I fear my friend has it. Earle denied that his charge of political leprosy permeating the State government was susceptible of the charge that it referred only to office j seeking. * 1 Tillman: Do you believe I am i lying? So much for the leprosy. 1 Cant. Tillman then discussed the 1 candidacy of Gen. llratton, who re- ; spondee! to the call of duty, and said: 1 All are trying to do their duty hut 1 poor me. Heretofore the ring has 1 manipulated the nominations 011 the 1 principle, "heads 1 win, tails you 1 lose." The only ring I represent is the hands all round ring, which 1 means that a majority of the people i shall rule. With the ring, thearisto- 1 cracy has simply given way to the < oligarchy. . 1 On taking up the reapportionment 1 question, Capt. Tillman read from the t State constitution the provisions re- f quiring that the census be taken 1 every ten years and apportionment of ] representatives made in accordance ; therewith, and referring, to the fact j that 110 census was taken in 1885, ( repeated his charge that the fifteen 1 senators who voted against the cen- 1 sus bill willfully violated the constitution. He said he did not withdraw the charge of perjury against the members of the legislature who voted against it. Col. Earle stated that the constitution also provides that the State university should he open to all citizens of the State, and asked if Capt. Tillman was willing that negroes be admitted to it. Capt. Tillman said: Tillman: We are going to have a new constitution. Earle : Yes: but you haven't got a new constitution yet. and if you are elected governor you will have to swear to uphold the present constitution. Will you do it? Tillman: Yes. Earle: Then you will throw these schools open to the negroes ? Tillman: No; a thousand times no. Earle: Then, will you not be guilty of perjury? Tillmiin N*n T won't. Earle: Why how do you make that out? Tillman: Simply because I would have no power to do it. The legislature would have to do it and you know it. He then referred to the Columbia canal and said the legislature had spent, over two hundred thousand dollars on this blessed ditch and then given it away to some of the ringsters. While on the canal question a, voice was constantly interrupting with hurrah for Earle. Capt. Tillman said: I wish somebody would take' this Earle man out and douse him with water. He's bad off. Gen. Earle: I am glad to say that he has been taking nothing but water. Capt. Tillman?I'lEbet a hundred dollars he's got something stronger than water under Jlis shirt. The speaker next gave a lengthy and humorous/Recount of the workings of the cluJf room and the Greenfield buildinj/on the rural legislator. Capt. Tilkman next took up the matter of fertilizers and said the people had ni protection against fraud. Before hy had gotten very far with the matter, Gen. Earle asked: "Did /ou not cause a bill to be introducoft in the legislature to double the pr/vilege tax on fertilizers, and when/some one obiected that the farmers would not like it, you said, \Oh,/the farmers will never know \Tj \ QRpt. Tillman: I wanted to make tax large enough to secure an honest inspection. We are willing to pay double for honest goods. Gen. Earle: But answer me. Did you not say that the farmers would never know it ? Capt. Tillman: Well, may be I did. I don't go back on anything I have said. Capt. Tillman next paid his respects to the management of the penitentiary ; the laxity with which the laws regulating the sale of fertilizers are enforced; and reverting again to political leprosy, he asked if, before the war, did we ever hear of a governor of South Carolina resigning his office to accept a clerkship in Washington becasue it paid a better salary? Or did you ever hear of an associate justice of the supreme court resigning his position for a railroad presidency ? Or a circuit judge resigning for a seat in congress, and in turn resigning from congress to accept the attorneyship of a railroad corporation ? It is the result of the greed for gain. How do you feel about it? We have sunk so low in this State that we have almost lost the seed of honor. Even railroad officers have gone into the legislature to act as solicitors for railroad corporations. He next instituted, a comparison between the working of the Georgia railroad commission and that of South Carolina, showing that as between the two, the Georgia commission is of practical benefit to the State, while ours is not. He contended that their mode of inspecting railroads was farcical, being done while riding in a special coach at the rate of thirty miles an hour. If debauched they ought to be ashamed; if only bamboozled, they ought to learn to do better. A bill was introduced in the last legislature to provide separate coaches for the races, out the bill was lost, and immediately on the adjournment of the legislature, Bush McBee had special coaches provided in which to send the members to their homes, and I don't think he charged them a cent. as to me amount 01 rax per capxui referred to by Gen. Earle, he said that the white people pay nearly all the tax except a little poll tax. There is not a single dollar of wealth in our State, except the few factories, that is not dugout of the ground. He would abolish the State board of health, and let Charleston, Beaufort and Georgetown, do as Savannah and Brunswick, Ga., do?furnish and pay for their own boards of health. As to the alleged danger of splitting the party on account of the farmers' movement, he said that is a false alarm. I say to you, fellow Democrats of York, I come to you with every vote in the convention. Haskell said I have retracted every charge I have made. Well you see to-day how I have retracted. I have made no charges of corruption against State officers, and yet they boast that I have retracted that very charge! We had a political aristocracy before the war, and for fourteen years, since 187(5, party machinery has kept it up; but as we had a political emancipation in 1876, so is the second emancipation now coming. The opposition is fighting me because I am a farmer and because you are farmers. If you want this movement to go through successful!v, watch your clubs and see that only true men go to your conventions. Stand shoulder to shoulder, steady march, and in November, if I am not elected your governor, (glancing his eye at Gen. Earle) you will at least have a straightout Democrat. At the conclusion of Capt. Tillman's speech, short addresses were made by the following candidates: ('apt. E. B. Gary, candidate on the Farmers' ticket for lieutenant-governor. Col. Y. J. Pope, candidate for attorney-general on the Farmers' ticket. Hon. E. G. Gray don, candidate for attorney-general on the Earle ticket. Col. H. L. Farley, candidate on the Farmers' ticket for adjutant general. Owing to the lateness of the evening and the arrival of the time for the departure of the special train for Lancaster, Messrs. Crawford, Mayfield and Marshall, who were present, did not speak. How Thread is Numbered.? Every seamstress, whether she wants VT.. OA /?l\ l>u. ou or ou ur j_u uiruuu, miuhs from the number just what size the thread will be and what kind of sewing it can be used for; but how the numbers came to be just what they mean, not one person in 1,000 knows, yet it is a very simple matter to explain, provided you only know the points and how you elucidate them. When 840 yards of yarn weigh 7,000 grains (a pound of cotton) the thread-makers mark it No. I. If 1,580 yards weigh a pound, it is marked as No. 2. For No. 50 yarn it would take 50 multiplied by 840 to weigh a ]>ound. This is the whole jxplanation of the yarn measurement as used by the spool cotton manufacturers. The early manufactured thread was of three instead of six-cord, the number being derived from the number of yards to the pound, just as it is to-day. No. 60 yarn made No. GO thread, though in point of fact the actual calibre of No. ift thread would equal No. 20 yarn, 5eing made of three No. 21 strands twisted together. A