Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, September 12, 1894, Image 2

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Jtoaps and ?facts. ? Work on the Panama canal, which was suspended about five years ago, is to be resumed. A new company is being formed to finish the work, and it is understood that most of the capital will be furnished by Frenchmen. ? Louisiana is in danger of going over to the Republicans. That is the latest from New Orleans. The tariff law is the cause of the disaffection. Under the McKinley law, [ sugar producers got a bounty of two cents a pound on all the sugar they made. The I new law not only abolishes this bounty, but reduces the amount of "protection" fully one- j half. The sugar men don't see as much; money in the Democratic as in the Republican noptv nnd a rpppnt convention of! prominent leaders, it was decided to.organize a bolt. It is thought that the sugar men will be able to carry about three districts. ? The war between China and Japan is still in progress; but there seems to be a great dearth of news. But few, if any, of the battles, so far, have risen above the dignity of mere skirmishes. Late reports are to the effect that China is collecting an army of several hundred thousand men in the northern provinces, and that Japan is also raising an immense army. Neither country j has yet shown any remarkable fighting qualities, and the probability is that when their big armies come together, there will be! a few hundred killed and then lots of running. Most of the slaughter will be on the run. ? Lake Grindstone, in Minnesota, is a mile in width. It is near Hinckley. The other day, when Hinckley was burned, several men were on Lake Grindstone in a boat. Describing the fire through the woods, one of the men says: "It came as fast as an express train. In two bursts, with lightning rapidity, it jumped across the lake, and in an instant was roaring and crackling on the other side." Such a leap is phenomenal; the idea that it is possible for flames to jump a mile in an instant is one that the mind does not readily accept; still the men in the boat who saw it were intelligent men. It is suggested by a scientist of Chicago that a current of electricity bridged the lake and took the flames across. At any rate the fact remains that the lake did not check the progress of HIC Ul^? ? On August 31, six Negroes were arrested in Tennessee on the charge of having been concerned in a series of barn burniugs. While the Negroes were being conducted through the country to jail, in charge of a deputy, they were overhauled at Millington, about 30 miles from Memphis, aud shot to death by a mob. The uffair has caused great indignation, and the law-abiding sentiment of the whole State has been aroused. Speaking of the matter one day last week, Governor Turney said : "Millington lynchers must be brought to justice, and I will begin with a thorough investigation at ouce. I will assist the Memphis authorities by offering large rewards and employing detectives to run down the beasts who committed this crime against civilization. Such outrages as this Millington affair would disgrace any community, and an example must be made of the savages who composed the mob. There is no use in talking about the matter; action is what is necessary and this there will be ut once. Lynchings must be stopped in Tennessee, if it is in my power to do so, and I believe it is." ? The Omaha Bee has secured from the county commissioners, and published reports as to the condition of the various counties in Nebraska. These reports indicate that the lot of the people in the drought stricken counties, though bad enough, does not promise to become so bad as heretofore predicted. Only iu the western portion of the State are there likely to lie urgent demands for aid. Iu Lincoln county the situation is worse than elsewhere. The reports from there says : On every hand abandoned homesteads and whitened and withered fields of corn tell the story of discouragement and despair. Along the streams, where irrigation has furnished moisture, farmers have succeeded in raising crops. Elsewhere everything has burned. Many farmers are too poor to move J away. With chattel mortgages on all their possessions they must leave barehanded or stay and starve, unless outside help is. fur-1 nished. Every day new applications evidence the growing distress. State aid is absolutely necessary. To indicate the urgent need of assistance, it may be said correspondence looking to the calling of a convention to consider the best methods for securing and hoe Koon onrriarl nn rPf Pntlv IClIUCIlUg UIU IIMO l/VVH VW* tlVV. v.. .,.wv?.v between many county officials in these western counties. ? Chicago was never more wicked than it is today, according to The Times of that city, which is laboring to arouse the authorities to the work of regeneration and reform. If The Times is to be believed, the police wink at all forms of vice, and afford the citizens but scant protection, whether of life or property. Gambling is practiced so openly that "barkers" are engaged to stand in front of the houses and shout their attractions to passers-by. Sometimes these individuals go so far as to drag their victims into these dens after the fashion of "pullers-in" for cheap clothiug houses. In some parts of the city, basement beer dives are thick on every block, and in violation of the city ordinance they give musical eutertainments every hour. It is said to be positively unsafe for a respectable woman to be abroad down-town after dark. Complaiuts of insult and assault made to patrolling officers, either by women or men, are treated lightly or often ignored. The lottery traffic goes on uuchecked, tickets for sale being displayed in the windows of saloons and cigar stores. Opium dens flourish in the Chinese quarter, and anybody who chooses may pass an hour in them without fear of arrest. Pool rooms are to be found everywhere, and saloons are open day and night. The streets are full of pickpockets and burglaries are of nightly occurrence. In the words of The Times, "the police force appears to be afflicted with paralysis." ? The Democratic National Campaign committee will issue their campaign book to-day. The list of contents is as follows: 1. What the Democratic congress did. 2. Causes of the panic of 1898. 8. Not caused by fear of tariff legislation. 4. Labor Day law. 5 Allen contruct labor law; its repeal. 0. Chinese immigration. 7. Immigration. 8. Tariff schedules and tables, showing schedule rates and articles upon which duties have been reduced 100 per cent, or less. 9. Somers' statistics 011 woollen cloths. 10. Income tax provisions. 11. McMillin's report on income tax. 12. Scott Wilkes's speech on income tax. 13. Tax on luxuries ami wealth repealed by the Republicans. 14. Sugar duties. 15. Trust provisions 011 tariff* law. 10. Carlisle's letter to senators 011 sugar tax. 17. Mill's speech 011 tariff. 18. Appropriations, Sayers's speech and tables. 19. Reforms in departments, Pockery commission, etc. 20. Diplomatic relations. 21. Indian appropriation bill. 22. Democracy and its relations to Union soldiers. 23. Pigot?'s speech on Populism. 24. Abuses of civil service reform, Rynum's speech, Cooper's speech. 25. Democratic platform of 1S92. 20. Cleveland's letter of acceptance. 27. Cleveland's . letter to Wilson. 28. Cleveland's letter to Catchings. 29. Taxation of greenbacks law. 30. Sherman silver law. 31. Silver statistics, exports and imports of gold and silver, production of gold and silver, price of silver dollars in bullion. 32. Currency tables, character and amount outstanding. 33. Commercial statistics, exports and imports of the United States, and from United King ? The September report of the statistician of the Department of Agriculture, makes cotton show a decline of 5.9 points from the August condition, which was 91.8, against 85.9 for this month. The condition of the plant in the month of June was 88.8 rising to 89.G in July and to 91.8 last month as stated. The August condition for the year 1893 was 80.4, and the September condition for the same year was 73.4, a falling off of 7 points. The September condition for this year is 12.5 points higher than that of 1893. State averages are: Virginia, 100: North Carolina, 88; South Carolina, 80; Georgia, 84; Florida, 82 ; Alabama, 80; Mississippi, 85; Louisiana, 91; Texas, 84 ; Arkansas, 89; Tennessee, 84; Missouri, 93. The principal cause of the decided decline in the condition since the last report, was the excessive rainfall throughout the larger part of the cotton belt, producing too great growth of weed and checking the development of the fruit, also causing shedding, rotting and rust. The general tenor of reports "too much rain and heat, causing too great growth of weed and too little of fruit." The report shows a decline in the condition of corn to 63.4 from G9.1 in the month of August and 95 in the month of July. This is a decline of 5.7 points from the August, and 31.6 from the July condition, j The change is marked in nearly all of the great corn States. The present condition is : 75 in Kentucky, 70 in Ohio, 55 in Michigan,' 80 in Indiana, 78 in Illinois, 51 in Wisconsin, 60 iu Minnesota, 40 in Iowa, 70 in Mis-; souri, 45 in Kansas, 15 in Nebraska, and 16 in South Dakota. In most of the Southern States the condition has risen, and a good crop is certain. ? According to the report of a courier, the bodies of 23 Indian bucks, squaws and pap- j pooses lie between Pokegaina and Opstead, j Mich. The bodies are scattered over 10; miles of couutry, and will, in all probability, i prove food for buzzards and wolves, as the i countrv in which thcv lie is too far from civ ilization for burial ceremonies. The Indians | left their reservation two months ago and j built a hunting lodge along one of the forks i of Shadridge creek. Chief Wascouta was! the big chief of the party and he perished I with his followers. The first body found by j the courier was that of an infant, barely a j year old. Then came those of two squaws and five children. They had evidently turned ! west when the fires swept through the forest. I A ride of a mile brought him to a pile of ashes, which marked the site of the hunting camp. There was one tepee, the shriveled raw hide throngs marking the place where j it stood. Around it were the ruins of a half dozen birch wood bark shanties; protruding from the ashes were the fused barrels of rifles and shot guns. Then for five miles the path[ way was lighted with charred bodies. The | courier counted 53. ?lte fJutMlc #u<jttim. YORKVILLE, S. C.: ! WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,1894. ? There is talk of a possible extra session | of the legislature. It is understood, however. that whether or not it will be called, de pends in a large measure upon the decision | of the supreme court in the dispensary case, and if it is called, it is thought that there will be some revision of the election laws. There is nothing authentic ou the subject, however. Everything is mere rumor. ? The Enquirer has it from a reliable source, that Colonel W. It. Davie, of Landsford, will be a candidate for congress against Dr. T. J. Strait. Colonel Davie will claim to be a Straightout Democrat, and represent Dr. Strait as a Populist. As to whether the colonel will call for the support of the Negro vote has not yet developed ; but, under the circumstances, that seems to be a reasonable presumption. ? John Wannamaker has advertised that in view of the new tariff on domestic goods, he will be obliged to sell his wares much cheaper than under the McKinley law. Wannamaker, though a Republican, is a great merchant, and considers dollars before politics. The Democrats are not slow to appreciate his strong testimonial, and propose to use it for all that it is worth as campaign material. i ? The reorganization of the Richmond and Danville company has reduced its bonded indebtedness from $125,000,000 to $90,000,000?nearly one-third?and the fixed charges from $7,500,000 per annum to $4,500,000 ; a saving of $3,000,000 per annum. This saving represents the amount made by the reorganizers, or the amount stolen from the old security holders. It depends entirely on the point of view from which the matter is looked at.. ? Senator Jones, of Nevada, has formally renounced his allegiance to the Republican party and gone over to the Populists. The Republican party, he says, is opposed to the free coinage of silver. He thinks that the free coinage of silver, at a ratio of 10 to 1, is ! an absolute necessity to the salvation of the j American financial system, and as the Populist party is the only one that is unequivocally committed to that proposition, he believes that he properly belongs in the Populist ranks. ? In another column, we publish a full | outline of a great Democratic speech deliv? ered in Atlanta last Friday night by Charles F. Crisp, speaker of the house of representatives. The speech is as plain and simple as the A. B. C's, and as high above adverse criticism. In every instance the speaker's propositions are simply unanswerable. Not since the days of Calhoun has there been a more statesmanlike presentation of existing national conditions from the stump. ? - ? ? It is reported that the great forest fires which have been causing such terrible havoc in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, are ' ' of incendiary origin. The logging industry had come nearly to a standstill, and thou| sands of men were out of employment. ! When trees are killed by fire, the owners I usually have them cut and converted into i lumber at once. It was in order to kill the trees so as to force work, that the incendiaries started the fires. Besides the death of probably five or six hundred people and , ! numberless animals, the destruction of prop- J | erty foots up millions of dollars. I ! ? Speaker Crisp is in favor of the repeal of ! the 10 per cent, tax on the issue of State j banks, and of the free coinage of silver, j There now ! Read Speaker Crisp's great, speech in Atlanta the other night, and say ; whether it is possible for a man who talks) as this man talks on other great questions, | to be wrong in so important a matter | as the currency question. Thk K.nquirkR| agrees with Judge Crisp exactly. We be-J lieve that the free coinage of silver is a step j in the right direction ; but give us the repeal ' of the 10 per cent, tax on the issues of State j banks, and we will agree to let the currency 1 question take a rest. j ? Last Wednesday's edition of The News and Courier consisted of sixteen pages, and contained an elaborate review of the pro| gross of Charleston and the State during the ; past year. The condition of the State is shown to he better than at any time since | the war, and the business of Charleston is shown to have reached $71,319,702 per nni num. There are now twenty-three feet of - , j water over the bar, and the harbor is one ofi | the. finest on the South Atlantic coast.! j There seems to be no longer any limit to the ! possibilities of the city's commercial (level-' I opment. The only one thing needful is an I energetic and broadminded policy on the! I part ol tnosfi wno control i ne destinies or; the City by the Sea, and when we see tliej i pages of the enterprising and progressive: I News and Courier teeming with liberal and ! intelligent business announcements, we shall 1 be satisfied that the genius of prosperity has ! been awakened from her slumbers. j ?Referring to the immigration scheme i ! now being agitated by the people of Rock | Hill, a Yorkvillc gentleman the other day I remarked, in the hearing of the editor of: Till-: ENyi iKKU: "It occurs to my mind that j the best thing our people can do in this mat- j ! ter is to devote their attention especially to j North Carolina. In the mountains of West- j , oni North Carolina, there are a great many > I hard workers and hard livers. To get a: living out of their lands requires a great I , deal more energy and industry than it re- I quires to get a living out of ours; and if some of these people could be induced to come | down here, they would certainly make valuj able citizens.'' As to whether any cousid erable miniber of North Carolinians could be ' induced to come to this section, we have not 1 suflicient knowledge 011 which to base an I opinion. We are satisfied, however, that if j t they could be induced to come, they would 11 give us just the kind of citizenship that we ji especially desire. 1 < ll ? A dispatch was sent out from Chattanoo- ( ga lust week to the effect that the New < Southern Railway company is owned and 1 controlled by the Rothchilds, of London and i i Paris, and the Vanderbilts, of New York. L It was further represented that the new ! company was the strongest railroad corpo-11 ration ever formed in the world, and that its projectors had determined on the immediate expenditure of many millions of dollars on public improvements in the South. The story that the Vanderbilts and Rothchilds are largely interested in the property is denied by Southern Railroad officials high in authority ; hut the statement that a great deal of money is to he spent on improvements is true. ? The supreme court is to meet in Columbia today for the purpose of hearing cases in- , volving the constitutionality of the dispensary law of 1893. It is expected that the fight will be short, and that the decision of the court will be rendered without delay. A few weeks ago the opiuion was very general that the constitutionality of the law would certainly be sustained ; but of late this opinion has been growing rather more uncer- i tain. Many good lawyers believe that the i court is going to again decide the law unconstitutional upon some technicality that will not interfere with the power of the legislature to originate a new scheme on the same line. But whatever the court is going to do should be done quickly. No man who thoroughly understands the situation can ] view, with any degree of complacency, the i present efforts of the administration in en- ; forcing a confessedly unconstitutional law. i ? Iii the case of Beaty vs. Melton, reported I ; elsewhere in this issue, Mr. T. 0. l'egram, of ' Gastonia, testified : "I saw a description of ' the gun in The Yorkvii.i.e Enquirer and ! I told Mr. Beaty about it. I was not taking < The Enquirer at the time." That The ; Enquirer has a large bona fide circulation 1 in this section everybody knows; but here is 1 an incident of no little significance to adver- ( tisers and non-newspaper readers. A man who is not subscriber, borrows the paper and < communicates to another man, who is neither < a reader nor a subscriber, certain information < that is to the interest of the latter. The ' moral is very plain. Most people like to ( read a first-class newspaper, and the chances ] are that if they do not subscribe, they bor- ] row. Thus the advertiser is able to reach 1 not only subscribers, but borrowers as well ' as interested persons, who are neither sub- 1 scribers, borrowers or readers. If Mr. Beatty j had been a subscriber, the chances are that j he would have recognized the gun as his own | as soon as the description was published, < and if he had recognized it, lie could have ' at once come to Yorkville and got his property without the trouble or expense of a lawsuit. Directly, or indirectly, The En- j quirer reaches nearly everybody, at leust within 20 miles. Those having business with , the people should advertise in The Enquir- j er, and the few of those people who are not < now readers, will surely, sometime or other, < find it to their pecuniary interest to sub- J scribe. . ? The Republican silver senator from Idaho, Mr. Dubois, thinks Jones, of Nevada, made n mistake in seceding from the Republican party 1 and joining tho Populists. He thinks Jones 1 could have done more to promote the silver interests by staying with the Republican party.?Exchange. i There is a great deal of sense in the prop- < osition, and just at this time it is well worth ; the consideration of South Carolina Demo- 1 crats. There is reason to belivc that it is not 1 the Democratic party; but Mr. Cleveland, who is responsible, nbt only for the defeat of ( free coinage, but also for the defeat of the . proposition to repeal the tax on the issues of < State banks. Mr. Cleveland was no doubt 1 honest; but as regards the best interests of 1 the South, in our opinion, he w<is wrong. ] Whether he was right or wrong, however, , does not affect the integrity or the priciples < of the Daraocratic party. Individual men < arc in power for only a short time. Parties 1 often last for generations. 31 r. Cleveland j will soon have to step down and out. The Democratic party will survive him. Parties j may be moulded to the views of the majority, i With men such is not always the case. 1 With the experience it has had, if the Dem ocratic party continues the light, it may yet ! elect a man who will carry out the provis-1 ( ions of the platform. The individual who , would desert the Democratic party because Mr. Cleveland or any other man is a member of it, is as foolish as the little girl who ! did not want to go to heaven if Jemima M Jones was going there. ! < ? ? ? The new independent movement sug- j1 gested in the call of the "conference commit-! | tee," published elsewhere, is now engrossing! ( the attention of the people of the State. 1 The State, (Jreenville News, and Spartan- I burg Herald, seem to be in favor of pushing !' the movement to an issue, while The News ' and Courier, The Journal, and other Conservative papers, believe in going slow and : \ taking their medicine as they should. Not- | withstanding what is being said, we believe I s that if the convention is held, the result will ' be the nomination of a full independent ! State ticket, to bo voted for in the Novcm- J her election. A big convention, composed j of representives from all parts of the State, j is apt to overestimate its strength and be- 1 come intoxicated with hope. That has been !( the history of other conventions, and it isif likely to be the history of this one. The ' congressional campaign committee at Washington has said that the Irby executive com- j inittee represents the regular Democratic or- j ^ ganization, and, therefore, the new move- f mcnt must necessarily bean independent one. I i Its chances of success are small, exceedingly j1 small, and its principal result will be to ere-!'' site n well defined, nernianent division ninonff '1 the whites, and to call into life the long dor- j j mailt Negro ' vote to become a constant L source of annoyance and danger in the < future. If the Irby faction is left alone, it : I will soon run its course as others have done. {' If the conference committee persists in its ] ^ intentions, it will only solidify the opposition |' of the people, and to undo the mischief j | again will be the work of years. The h greatest political virtue of today is patience, : and it is only through the exercise of this!-1 virtue that the people of the State can hope j j for the early return of peace and prosperity.; | ? The editor of the Columbia Register j recently wrote to General J. II. Earle and I Colonel L. \V. Voumans, asking them to give j their views on the "now independent move- i incut'' about to he started, and outline the duty of the hour. Roth replied to the re- 1 quest at length. General IOarle sees in the 1 movement nothing further than an effort on j ] the part of General Ruller to get back to the i senate, quotes Hampton's famous declaration , that "an Independent is worse than a Kadi- i eal," insists that 'the duty of the hour coin-j pels every Democrat, whether Tillinanite or j ^ anti-Tilinanite, to light now on common ground to sustain white .supremacy." (iener- i, ul Voumans says that white unity was first < disturbed four years ago when (Jovernor! Tillman assumed that lie was the "only man with the brain and courage to array the com- i mon i?eople against the aristocracy of the 1 State." He goes on to say that the Demo- , eratic party is the only one that insures J white supremacy; that the (ircenbackers, ] Populists and other parties have appealed ( jo the Negro and united with Northern |< Republicans in dragooning the South. The Northern Democrats, he says, have stood up for the South during all the vicissitudes of the last thirty years. The originator of this new politicul fuction, who dictates not measures hut men, has already announced his sarly intention of deserting the Democratic party, like McLaue and the others, and, continues Col. Youmans, "I think this 'new independent movement'about to he started by [Jovernor Tillman and those pledged to support him, should he met hv an immediate reorganization of the Democratic party in the State, and that the 'duty of the hour' is for every Democrat who has any manhood or principle, or owns any property that binds him to the State or interests him in its welfare, to aid the reformation with all of his might." And so it goes. Earle scores Butler and Youmans scores Tillman. There is more or less ground for charges of personal feelings in the utterances of both ; hut, after all, the main issue involved is that one side is out and wants to get in, while the other is in and wants to stay there. Such is politics. ? THE VOICE OF A (JIANT. Speaker Charles F. Crisp .Justifies the Democratic Party. There was a big Democratic campaign meeting at DcGive's opera house, in Atlanta, last Friday night. The meeting was addressed by Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith, and by Speaker Charles F. Crisp. Secretary Smith devoted himself to a defense of Cleveland, and said hut little that was of striking interest. The great speech ofthe night and indeed of the year, was made by that Democratic giant, Speaker Crisp. He said : When the 53d congress met in August of last year, it was confronted with difficulties i i 1 _i * /v..?tnivin WHICH seeineu U1IUU5L lii.iuiinmniuiun;. i iuuc was paralyzed, maniifacluring had almost ceased, labor was idle, our banking institutions were failing, and confidence, the life and soul of commerce, was utterly destroyed, [n so far as this deplorable condition was attributable to legislation, tbe Republican party was responsible. For more than 30 years that party had made our financial and economic laws. Until the meeting of the 53d congress, the Democracy was without power. The condition which confronted us, while not wholly, was very largely due to evil legislation. In 1873 the free coinage of silver had been discontinued and gold became the standard of value. In 1878 partial coinage was resumed. In 1890 this law was repealed, and soon thereafter coinage of silver practically ceased. These acts of the Republican party resulted in so lessening the volume of money of final redemption as to Jecrease the price of all commodities, increase the burden of all debtors and impair the confidence of the people in the power of the government and of banking institutions to redeem their outstanding obligations. A law and a practice which allows a citizen to pay his obligations to the government in silver, and at the same time permits him to :lemaud of the government gold in redemption of its obligations, is manifestly unreasonlble and unjust, and in the nature of the case must impair confidence and tend to produce panic. For 30 years the Republicans had j oeen building up tariff walls around the! country, and in 1890 passed what they termed a perfect protective tariff law. I SOME INCONTROVERTIBLE TRUTHS. A protective tariflf restricts trade and commerce, it limits the market in which we must l)uv and depresses the market in which we must self. It is a tax upon a foreign product which the cousumer here must puy. By taxing his foreign competitor you enable the lomestic manufacturer to increase the price cf his wares to the extent of the tax, and this, Loo, when the consumer here must pay. When you buy foreign goods and pay duty It goes into the treasury, and is called a 'tax when you buy the domestic product ind pay the increased price it goes into the pocket of the American manufacturer, and s called "protection." POLITICAL ECONOMY FOR THE MILLION, f J.n InMlinn nf tlio mniiiifnpfnrv flfitpr mines the name; but the rate of the duty letermines the price. Under such a tariff you must buy in a market where competition is destroyed and where scarcity is crelted by law. You must sell at prices fixed in the market, where free trade and the law )f supply and demand prevails. Trade and sommerce is the exchange of commodities. A. protective taritr prevents us from exchanging our surplus of cotton, corn, wheat, meat and other products for the surplus of manufactured goods abroad. We freely export our product, but that for which we exchange it is so heavily taxed as to make the exchange unprofitable. Commerce ceases a lien gain is gone; one cannot buy unless he can sell, nor can he sell unless he can buy. Commerce and agriculture go hand in hand ; ivhen one ceases the other languishes. The laws which destroy the one make the other unprofitable. Taxed crude materials injure ;md depress manufacturing. It wants the markets of the world, but under the protective tariff has not been able to enter them. A. protective tariff fosters and builds up trusts and monopolies. It creates 110 wealth, it only prevents its natural and just distribution. Thirty years of such a system did much to produce the conditions existing ivhen the oltrd Congress met. WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC CONCH ESS DID. What has the Democratic Congress so far lone for the people? The first matter considered was the financial question. What should or could be done 011 the silver question ? We had pledged ourselves against the makeshift Sherman law, and in favor of both gold and silver as the standard money jf the country. By an agreement arrived at aetwecn Democrats, we determined to take the sense of the House on the free and unlimited coinage of silver at several ratios. After full debate a separate vote was had 011 jach, and on the repeal of the purchasing dause of the Sherman act. The result you <110w. While not professing to understand the question fully in all its bearings, I have ilways been in favor of the free coinage of diver. I am in favor of it now. I believe [he fears of friends who oppose it are largely imaginary, and I believe the enactment of meh a law would afford great relief to the people of the country. So feeling, I need not say that to me personally the result of the rote on the free coinage of silver was a great lisappointmcnt. This question is not settled. ITIK CHEAT STRl'CCLK FOR TARIFF REFORM. wrr.i 4 ?1.. r... 4 III" _?f. >> nil uur fulfill Mruggic iur uuiii iuiui in >'ou are familiar. Thirty years of class legsiation had built up in this country large rusts, large monopolies and large combinaions of capital. All these interest were irrayed against us. and in the hitter contest hrough which we passed were earnestly | ind actively aided l?y a compact Republican ninority. All that wealth, all that energy, ind all that great intelligence and capacity I iould do was daily and hourly done to defeat lie cause of the people. Under these conlit ions our progress was slow. The house rained and passed a tariff hill. This went ;o the Senate. After a long and tedious druggie the senate passed this hill with j intendments. The house was not satisfied ivith the amendments; the bill went to conference; for more than a month, with daily meetings, the conferees failed ("o reach an igreement. Finally the question was presented in such fashion that we must either j leeept the senate amendments or have 110 liill; thus permitting the odious McKinley law to remain upon the statute hooks. WHY (SO 11 MAN'S HIM. WKNT TllKOt'lSlt. When we were convinced such was the true situation, we did not hesitate a moment. We accepted the senate amendments and so the bill became a law. This bill is not all we hoped for. It contains provisions we deplore, provisions which the house, by separate bills, immediately repealed, and yet, taken as a whole, it goes further in the direction of relief to tax ridden people than any bill that has been considered in any congress since the war. Its reduction of rates is greater than those proposed in either the Morrison bill or in the Mills bill. It places wool, copper, tin, lumber, binding twine, bags and bagging, agricultural implements iiu<l many other articles on the free. list. In nearly every schedule there arc large re J notions. MANY ICKDITTIONS OK oVKlt 7"? I'KU CKNT. Iii the iron, steel and wollen schedules I he re are many reductions exceeding 7o per cent. On the basis of the importation of 18S)2-!>3 on woollen manufacture alone, there is a reduction to the consumer of more than $!(?.'>,000,000. On cotton, on felts, on common velvets, and on hundreds of other articles, the reduction is greater than ">0 per rent. The bill places a tax on sugar. A j large majority of the Democrats in the house opposed this, ami as the bill passed the 1 house, sugar in all its form is on the free list. THE MATTER OF SUGAR. 1 The cane growers got no aid from the gov| eminent; the sugar trust got no aid from the j' I government. The bill as it became a law j plates an ad volorem duty of 40 per cent, on j. | sugar ; leaves the sugar refiner a little more j ! than one-half what he got under the McKin-1 ley law, and repeals the bounty of two cents i j a pound. This provision will pay $40,000,000 into the treasury, and save the $12,000,-1 < ' > ' ? l 'Pl.? Kill i ! UUU we paid IUSI year US i/uuiliy. IIIC uiii contains a provision imposing a tax of 21 ' per cent, on all incomes in excess of $4,000. | I have thus outlined merely the provisions; of this great reform measure. It strikes at j trusts and monopolies. It reduces the cost j of the necessaries of life. It to some extent j j opens our market at home and enlarges our I markets abroad. It promotes agriculture, it i j encourages manufacturing, and it will add ! ! to the comfort of millions. STATE HANK CURRENCY. We voted upon a proposition to repeal the tax upon the circulation of State hank currency. I helicve that our people would derive more immediate benefit from the repeal ' of that law than from almost any other legislastion that could be had. Against us on the 1 question we found many Democrats, all the Republicans and all the Populists; a majority thus constituted, defeated our efforts and the repeal bill failed. This question is not settled. We have repealed the Federal election laws. Laws which permitted the interference of outsiders with our domestic affairs, and which were used only to defeat the will of the people. Henceforth Georgia, as well as every other State, will manage I elections in accordance with their own laws, I and elections will be free and fair. We have ! passed a law which subjects to taxation by < 1 States more than $500,000,000 which, under it* -l-i; i _ ! ItepUUIICilll IllWS, With CAClllJil Hum liiAliuuii, ; thus relieving, to some extent, the burdens of the taxpayers. FORTY MILLION DOLLARS REDUCTION. We have reduced public expenditures some $40,000,000 for the current year. With this I record who can assail us? Our ancient . adversary, the Republican party, though! not strong in this State, is the enemy we j must meet. When Democracy sutlers defeat, Republicanism will be triumphant. Here at home we are challenged by the People's party. This organization has candidates, < and it has a platform of principles. Of its candidates I shall say nothing. They are presumed to he as good ; I hope they are bet- ' ter than their platform. That platform con- 1 tains some planks which are new and some 1 which are old. Those which are valuable j are not new, and those which ure new are | not valuable. ( Our Populist friends want to buy the railroads, the telegraph lines and the telephones. The thousands of millions of dollars necess- ' ary to do this does not stagger them. The i great army of office-holders necessary to 1, manage and operate these enterprises does!, not embarrass them. The Populist leaders deal with millions as ordinary people deal J' with dollars, and us for offices, they all want}' them. This party has about a dozen mem- 1 bcrs of congress only, and yet the bill they I have introduced in congress proposes the i appropriation, or rather the printing and issuing, of two or three times as much money | as there is in the wide, wide world. ' j The Democratic party enters upon its con- j test with Republicanism and every other temporary issue which may present itself, with | courage and confidence. While we have not j done what we hope to do, we have done more j1 in the past year to redress the wrongs of the j people, we have done more for their relief, than was ever done by any party in the same j j length of time in any country under the sun. I These are bold words, yet I hold myself at , all times ready to defend them. A HILL OF PARTICULARS. Coming into power at a time of panic, when ' buiness was at a standstill, when labor was 1 unemployed, when our treasury was empty, ' with courage and fidelity we entered upon a i struggle with the enemies of the people; we emerged from that struggle victorious in this : We have repealed the McKinley law ; we have greatly reduced taxation ; we have made living cheaper ; we have made all money taxable ; we have taxed surplus incomes; we J have restored freedom of elections; we have ' reduced public expenditures and we have declared undying hostillity to all trusts and monopolies organized for the oppression of the people. Ou these foundations we "build our house ;" on these issues we go before the 1 people. For them we have "fought the good f fight;" to them we have kept the faith, and i of them we have no fear. AT LAST IT HAS COME. If ere I? tlif> Final Snllt In th?( White Muh'h I'urtv Which May llrlng the Negro to the Front. 1 For weeks it lias been a matter of course. Everybody has been looking for it, and now it is no cause for surprise. Here is the final i split in the "White Man's Party" in South < Curolina. From now 011 there will be two ' j separate and distinct organizations, and both j will probably be fringed in black. After ; ! several conferences in Columbia, dissatisfied 1 Democrats from various sections of the State, ( on last Saturday, issued an address to the 1 people. The address reads as follows : To the Democrats of South Carolina : ( The following preamble and resolutions having been adopted by a representative 1 I body of Democrats coming from a large majority of the counties of the State, and having 1 since been approved by many Democrats in 1 all of the counties of the State, it becomes my | duty as chairman of the Democratic confer- ; ence committee of South Carolina, to publish j them to the State, and to earnestly urge all true Democrats to take an active part in the mass meetings proposed to be. held, and to 1 send representative delegations to the Demo- > ; eratic State convention therein recommended. Thomas W. Caiiwii.k, | 1 Chairman Democratic Conference Committee. 1 1 To the Democrats of South Carolina: Whereas, under the guidance of those so-1 called Democrats, or a majority ol'lhem, who have control of the party machinery in this State, the leaders of the rank and file of the s party have attempted to commit them to the j Third party and to Populist doctrines, have alienated us from our fellow-Democrats of the Union, and have brought the party in ( South Carolina into reproach as to Us align- ' mcnt with the national Democracy, adopted I false and undemocratic principles and promul- I gated them in the name and under the banner of Democracy; and I Whereas, the Democratic masses of the State have been grossly betrayed by men \ charged with the parly management, who J have, usurped the rights and used the ma- ' chinery of the party for selfish ends, a ma- I ioritv of the so-culled State Democratic exec- ' [ utive committee actually permitting another I self-constituted committee (only claiming to 1 represent a faction of a faction) to assume |* control of the party management, and in the '' most flagrant and offensive manner to (lis- M franchise thousands of true Democrats; and | i Whereas, a King has been organized and | is exercising most urbitary and tyrannical j j power, to the utter subversion of the will of the people, and thereby depriving them of their political rights; now, therefore, be it 1 Resolved, That we as true loyal and tini compromising Democrats, repudiate the 1 Third party platform repeatedly (and at the j recent August State convention of the faction j, now in power) forced upon our party, and j. hereby pledge our continued allegiance to | true Democratic principles as enunciated at, the last Democratic convention. We feel < 1 the absolute necessity of a complete reorgati-' < izution of the party in this State and invite j all true Democrats to assist us in its rehabili-1 j tation and in the organization of Democracy j | in South Carolina squarely in line with sound I Democratic doctrine ; he it Further resolved, That we hereby invite j the Democrats of the State of South Carolina 1 | to assemble at the court houses of their re- J; jspective counties, on Saturday, the loth day ;, ! of September, 181)4, or at such other pluce! land manner as they may determine, for the! I purpose of selecting delegates (two for every |' 'representative for the lower house and the 1 senate, to which the county is entitled) to U meet in Columbia, at a convention to be held ! t ' on the 17th of September ut 8 p. m., for the t purpose of reorganizing the Democratic party : in South Carolina, considering the political ! situation of the State and taking such action j as their collective wisdom may suggest for the j. j public welfare. j1 : J ! Curious ColiM'idonco. ? Some months ago, the fine residence of t i (Jeorge I). Tillman, in Kdgelield county, > was destroyed by lire. One day last week j the residence of Congressman Talbert also t went up in flames. The cause of neither lire is definitely known. Tillman formerly oecu- ' pied the seat that is now occupied by Tal- ' licit in Congress. t LOCAL AFFAIRS. IXDKX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Hart it Hart, Attorneys?Announce that John R. Hart, Esq,, is associated with them in the practice of law. VV. Hrown Wylie, Administrator?(Jives notice to the debtors and creditors of the estate of J. Milton Wylie, deceased. I\ B. McClain?Wants all the cotton seed which you have for side, and will nay cash for all that is brought to him. lie also hits more than a half million bricks for which he wants purchasers. Reg M. (irist?Can furnish you witli rubber stamps, stencils, wax seals, linen markers, key checks, etc. ['arolina Buggy Company?Have on hand a large number of second-hand vehicles, including buggies, carriages, wagons, etc., which they want to sell at bargains without delay. They also have Cincinnati vehicles which they will sell cheap, and last but not least, "Carolina Vehicles" of every (1CMCI l]Jllf Jl], WI1HI1 Llll\> nullum in HIT .11-1 Rood as tlie best. Kennedy Hrothers A Harron?As usual at this season of the year, have received a stock of Salem and Georgia jeans for those who prefer to have their clothing made at home. They also have a new supply of crockery and a fresh stock of shoes. They also keep on hand staple groceries, including sugar, cotl'ee, lard, rice, hominy, molasses, flour, etc. J. H. Kiddle?Has on hand a supply of bagging and ties, red rust proof oats, and Farmer's Friend turning plows. Geo. T. Schorl)?Is ready to supply you with one of the celebrated Wilcox A White organs, a piano of high grado, and the National typewriter, which he claims to be equal to the best, but cheaper than some other makes. T. M. Dobson A Co.?Announce the return of Mrs. Dobson from the Northern markets, and tho arrival of Miss Emma H. Weller, and a fine stock of millinery goods. His stock of shoes is large and at all kinds of prices. He can also furnish you with good jeans at a low price, and Hutterick's patterns on short notice. Dowry A Starr?Spectacles and eyeglasses, stationery, machinery oil, and20 plugs of tobacco for $1. S. T. Frew A Co., Rook Hill?Again call your attention to their 827.50 sets of furniture, and announce that they are on top on all kinds of furniture, heating and cooking stoves, tinware, sewing machines and housefurnishing and decorating goods. II. ('. Strauss?Has returned from the Northern markets, and announces his readiness to Iiirmsn you Willi goous OI :ui qualities ami ut all kinds of prices. John J. Hunter?Can supply you with handsome nothing, shoes for men or women, urn! dry goods of pood quality at living prices. THE OUTLOOK FOR COTTON. "The cotton outlook is u sealed hook." That was the statement of one of Yorkville's most experienced cotton men in answer to a question yesterday. "Last year," he continued, "the principal cause of uneasiness was the uncertainty of the buyers as to their Ability to get money to move the crop. The Tear proved to he entirely imaginary, and the crop was moved without difficulty. This year there is no trouble about money. There is plenty of it. The question of concern is the price. Some of the Northern men preJict that the price will improve ; but they ilon't tell why. T, myself, hope for an improvement; hut like the others, I am unnhle to give any reasons. The estimates place this year's crop at anywhere from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 hales, and unless something unusual turns up, that means low prices. However, at present, as much as I ever saw before in my life, everything is at sea." CHURCH NOTICES. Episcopal ? Lay service on next Sunday at 10.45 a. in. Sunday-school in the afternoou it 5 p. m. Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. S. A. Weber, pastor. Prayer-meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Services next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, and evening at 7.30 o'clock. Sunday-school at 4 p. in. Presbyterian?Rev. W. G. Neville, pastor. Sunday-school at A o'clock p. m. Prayermeeting tomorrow evening at 5 o'clock. Services next Suuday morning at 11 and evening at 7.30 o'clock. Baptist?Rev. W. J. Laugston, pastor. Union.?Services next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Yorkvillk?Sunday-school at 4 p. m. Prayer-meeting tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. Services Sunday evening at 7.30 o'clock. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. Boyce H. Grier, pastor. Youkville?Ser i. O ,1 _ 4. 11 vices next ouuuay morning ut n u uiuoa, and evening at 7.30 o'clock. Sunday-school at 4 o'clock p. in. Prayer-meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock. "I AM FOR WHITE SUPREMACY." In reply to a question yesterday as to what he thought of the rumored independent candidacy of Colonel W. It. Davie against Dr. Strait, Senator Finley said : "Colonel Davie, I presume, has not been afliliating with the Democratic party this year, and if he desires to run as an Independent, there is no question but tliut he has an individual right to do so. But there is no justification for his course. All Democrats were eligible to vote in the recent primary, and all Democrats were also eligible to candidacy for congress, or other ollices. Colonel Davie has had the opportunity to submit his claims to the white voters. He has neglected to do so. His candidacy now means that he intends to set Independentism above organized Democracy. 1 have always been, and always expect to be, a Democrat in principle, in practice and in name; but above all else in politics, I am for white supremacy. I ran against Dr. Strait and was defeated. I am now especially pledged to support him; but were I not so pledged, I would support him anyway, because lie has been nominated by white men in the Democratic party." THE MYSTERY EXPLAINED. The story of the finding last April, by Frank Melton, colored, of the breech-loading shotgun in the old gas tank in Yorkville, was published in Tim Knquirkk at the time. How the gun got there has been the subject :>f a great deal of speculation; but at lust the mystery lias been solved, and there is no longer any doubt that the gun is the property of Mr. W. E. Beaty, of Point, S. ('. The question was settled before Trial Jus lice Carroll and a jury, last Saturday, in an iction of claim and delivery?Beaty vs. Melton. Mr. Beaty testified that in December, 1891, a Baker gun had been stolen from liis house. He traced the thief as far as Vorkville, and lost him at this place. He recognized the gun found hy Melton as the me stolen, and to prove the fact, produced he number tag on the gun jyhen he bought t. The numbers on the tag and gun were dentical?7,1DS. Mr. T. C. l'egram, of Oastonia, testified as "ollows : "On December 31, 1891, Mr. l'eaty old me that he had losta"Xew Baker" gun, uid that he thought the thief had gone to Vorkville. I told him that I was going to Vorkville, and if he would give me a description of his gun, I would look out for it. I wrote the description in my memorandum jook as follows: 'No. 12 gauge, New Baker, ( ,198; barrel 80 inches?weight 7j pounds. [ came to Vorkville but did nofsee anything jf the gun. Not long ago I read the descripionofthisgun in Thk Yokkvii.i.k Exquiiikk, (I was not taking Thk Exquikkk at the ime) and told Beaty that I thought it was Iiis gun." Several other witnesses were examined ; jut their testimony was unimportant. Frank Melton told the story of finding the gun kvhilc hunting in the old tank for eels and jooters : but made no effort to try to disprove lie claim, and the jury awarded Beaty the ;un. Melton, through his attorney, J. It. Hart, Ks(|., then set up a claim for "salvage," ind next Friday was fixed as the day for a rial of the merits of the claim. 1110 WAS A NATIVE OF YORK. Ex-Judge B. C. l'ressley died at his home n Summerville, last Wednesday, aged 79 rears months and 19 days. Judge l'ressley was a native of York couny, having been born about two miles cast of vliat is now Tirzah church, on February 1 <?, .Slo. At an early age he was left an orphan, ind his bringing up devolved upon the late 'ather Adams, of Bethel. After securing idniission to the bar, he settled in Charlesou, and rapidly became one of the leading lawyers of the city. During the first years of his professional career, he won distinction by compiling lYessley's Laws of Magistrates, a text hook that is still of great value to bench 1 and bar. In 1877 he was elected judge of the First judicial circuit, and presided with abity and dignity until a few years ago, when he resigned on account of ill health. Judge lYessley was a brother of the lute Mrs. A. I. Barron, of Yorkville, and, therefore the uncle of Messrs. \V. T. and John A. i Barron, both well-known citizens of York. Judge lYessley was one of the most re uiarkahle men of his generation, and of his strong individuality many characteristic stories have heen told. When, after a long absence, he returned to York county us a judge, he determined to visit his boyhood home in Bethel, and was accompanied by Mr. W. T. Barron, his nephew. Mr. Bar' ron did not know the road, and Judge Pressley undertook to show the way. After a long drive through old fields, patches of forest, j and across various streams, the place was reached. The old homestead was occupied j by the late Mr. Leroy Adams. "Where in j the world did you come from ?" Mr. Adams asked. Judge Pressley described his route and Mr. Adams exclaimed : "Well, I know of my own knowledge that this is the first time that old road has been traveled in 40 years!" As a lawyer, Judge Pressley had few ecptals in the State. Most judges look upon the decisions of the supreme court as law. j With Judge Pressley such was not necessariI ly the case. If the utterances of the court j appeared to him as unsound, he had no hesiI lion in deciding as he-thought was right, so |as to allow the court to again review the law and probably reverse its decision. < >ft tener than otherwise he was successful. On one occasion, in an argument, an attorney made a point that struck his honor as unsound. "What is that?" asked the judge. "I quote from Pressley's Laws of Magistrates," triumphantly replied the lawyer. "Sol presumed," returned his honor; "hut that proposition is not sound. I know a great ileal more law now than when I /?nmntlorl luwtl/ P' v-w...,...^.. ...... . ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Maggie Moore, is at Cleveland Springs. Kiss Kitty Dickson is visiting relatives and friends in Gutfuey City. Mr. John It. Ashe, of Kershaw, spent several days in Yorkville last week. Mr. Meek Williams, of Fodder, left Monday for Davidson college, as a student. Mr. Tracy Willis, is quite sick at the residence of his brother, Mr. M. C. Willis. Miss Kola Jack ins, of Blaeksburg, is in Yorkville, visiting Miss Mamie Johnson. Mrs. Julia Parker, of Chester, is visiting the family of Mr. E. B. Beard in this place. Judge I. D. Witherspoon lety on Saturday last to open court at Beaufort on Monday. We received a pleasant call on Monday last from Mr. W.J. Caveny, of Rock Hill. Misses Georgia and Iva Withers are visiting relatives and friends at Lowrysville. Mr. J. A. Page, of Gastonia, has heen employed as a compositor in The Enquirer office. M iss Mamie Drallin, of Lancaster county, visited Miss (trace McElwee in this place, last week. Miss Emma H. Weller, of Baltimore, has 'charge of the millinery department of Dobson's Racket. Mi's. M. M. Neely, of Kdgmoor, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. H. A. D. Neely, in Yorkville. Mr. Frank McElwee has returned to his duties at the Patrick Military Institute, at Anderson, S. C. Mr. Walter Neil left last week to take a position as a teacher in the military school at Rutherfordton. Messrs. H. C. Strauss and J. J. Hunter, and Mrs. T. M. Dobson, have returned from the Northern markets. Mr. William Banks, of this place, leaves today for Davidson college, to become a studeut in that institution. Mr. John M. Moore, who is convalescing from an attack of fever, left for his father's home, near Shelby, on last Saturday. Miss Lessie Witherspoon ^returned home last Thursday, after an extended visit to friends and relatives in Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. J. M. Brian removed with his family, on yesterday, from Lincoln avenue to the Warren residence, on East Liberty street. Miss Corinne Hudson, from Bennettsville, S. C., and Miss Pearl Payseur, of Lancaster, are in Yorkville visiting Miss Anise O'Leary. Prof. R. J. Herndon, who has been teaching n enr-iief, hand in Blue Field. W. Ya.. re turned to hits home in this place, last Monday. Messrs. Harry Atzrodt and Jas. Green, of Yorkville, returned last week, after a pleasant visit to friends and relatives in Baltimore. Mr. Juo. B. Bowen, for the past two years with I)r. J. C. Kuykendal, leaves today for Baltimore to attend the lectures on pharmacy. Mr. Will Moore has been employed as a clerk at Lowry it Starr's, Mr. John Barron is wish Dr. J. C. Kuykendal, ami Mr. Howard Caldwell, is with H. C.Strauss. Mr. J. ('. Mallard, who has been spending the summer in Yorkville with his sousMessrs. James and John?returned on yesterday to his home in Williamsburg county. Miss Ossie Jellerys, of Cowpens, Spartanburg county, who has been visiting Mr. R. A. Parish's family for the past few weeks, returned home last Wednesday, accompanied by Mr. J. Ed Jetl'erys and Miss Evelyn Parish. Prof. A. T. Von Shulz and wife, are registered at the Parish hotel. Mr. Von Shulz is a member of the faculty of the Baptist High school and will have charge of the department embracing Greek, English and modern languages. LOCAL LACONICS. The Enquirer, to January 1, 1805, ? Will he furnished to subscribers from this date for tit) cents. So quit borrowing from your neighbor. It is meau and dishonest. The First Hale. ? New cotton is coming in slowly. The first bale was sold 011 Tuesday of last week by Mr. John M. Hope for fit cents a pound. Lattu Bros, were the purchasers. ! Next Friday is liie Date. ? School Commissioner Edwards requests us to again remind those who may be interested, that next Friday is the day lixed for the competitive examination for the citadel vacancy in York county. Surorssful .Meethi);. ? Charlotte Observer, t?th: The big Baptist meeting at Flint Hill, which has been in progress for one week, closed on Monday ! night with over fifty conversions, ltcv. W. J. Langston, of Yorkville, did the preaching.. | I'lintor of Cellar SprhigM und Hradley. ? From the Associate Reform Presbyterj inn, we learn that Rev. Dr. R. Lathan, of ' Due West, has accepted a call to the pastorate of Cedar Springs and Bradley A. R. P. churches, in Abbeville county. ; Nrxt Wednesday the Day. ? Those of our people who are interested i in the immigration convention to be held in Rock Hill, should remember that next Wednesday is the day appointed. The call of the committee is for five representative men from each county. All who desire to attend, however, will be welcome. I Fertilizer KxperiiuentH Wltli Cotton. ? Thk Exqi'IUKK has received from Clemj son, Hulletin Xo. 18, giving a full account of ' some recent valuable fertilizer experiments with cotton. To cotton raisers the bulletin i is worth many times the cost of a postal ; card, but it may be obtained free by anyone | who will take the trouble to make application I to J. I'. Smith, secretary Hoard of Fertilizer ' Control, C'lemson College, S. C. j Worth Sot) n Vi*hi*. ? A great advantage of Vorkville's water 1 system is the ease with which, in dry, hot 1 days, the business men can settle the dust in . front of their stores. In reply to the ques1 lion as to the value of this convenience, the I , , other day, Mr. T. M. Dobson said, without 1 hesitation, " I would not be without it now ; for $")0 a year. It is worth that much in [ actual saving to my goods, to say nothing of i the comfort and satisfaction.'' Mr. T. M. Wliituker III. ? Mr. T. M. Whitnker, of Yorkville, was ! suddenly stricken down on the St. Louis, I Mo., race track last Wednesday. The news j came to this place in a telegram to Mr. ('. (J. Parish, who is Mr. Whitaker's partner. Mr. Parish left for St Louis 011 Thursday to be in a position to render Mr. Whitaker all assistance in his power. I'p to yesterday, no fur11her news had been recieved as to Mr. Whitaker's condition. , High Sellout Keeeptfoii. ? Professor and Mrs. A. It. Hanks tendcrj ed a delightful reception at their residence, last Friday evening. The object of the reception was that the young people of the town and others might meet the students of the Hanks' High school. The invited guests present numbered perhaps 40 or 50. Music was furnished by the Silver Link Cornet hand, ice cream and cake were served, and in j every particular the entertainment was a I splendid success. Doing an Well hh Ally. ? Mr. Hugh G. Brown, of Filbert, was in Yorkville yesterday. He says that so far j as he is able to see, the cotton that was replanted in his neighborhood on account of the great hailstorm last spring, is as good as that which escaped injury from the storm. This, he says, is especially the case on sandy j lands. He has no knowledge of the condi| lion of the replanted cotton on red lands. Shut-ley 103 ; Kdwarils 111. ? Second primary at Yorkville precinct : fur school nimmiwinnpr vesferdav nassed of / I " quietly. The voting, however, was spirited and very close. In all, 218 votes were cast. Of these 2 were challenged, and of the 210 left, Shurley received 105 and Edwards received 111. The result in the county will not he definitely known until declared by the county executive committee, which i meets in the court house today for the purpose of tabulating the returns. A Profitable Experiment. ? While at the resilience of Dr. John G. I Black, in Blacksburg, one day last week, a representative of The Enquirer noticed an unusually line lot of sweet clover hay that wusjust being hauled up from the field. The hay was unusually well cured and calculated to attract the attention of almost anybody. Dr. Black explained: "This is Japan clover (lespedeza striata.) I sowed four arcesofit, and off of one-und-a-quarter acres, all that is yet ready to cut, I have hauled up eight two horse wagon loads. I got the idea of the experiment from Dr. Anderson's Clemson college letter, and I have been paid most handsomely." A New Chautauqua Circle. ? A new Chautauqua circle, to be known as the "Weslbrooke," was organized at the residence of Mr. S. L. Davidson, last Thursday evening. The following members were enrolled : Misses Huldab McNeel, Jessie Lat| imer, Mary Sehorb, Jennie Hart, Grace MeI Elwee, Ophelia Davidson, Sadie Duulap, Mesj srs. A. K. Banks, J. S. Drakeford, Francis W. Gregg, Sidney Davidson, M. W. White, Sam Moore, Beg. M. Grist, G. W. Williams, W. P. 1 Harrison. The olficersare as follows: A. R. Banks, president ; F. W. Gregg, vice-presij dent; Miss Jennie Hart, recording secretary ; Miss Huldab McNeel, corresponding secretary ; R. S. Davidson, treasurer. HERE HE IS AGAIN. I Dr. Sampi) Pope Will Kun for Governor in November. Dr. Samps Pope, of Newberry, is still dissatisfied with the manipulation of the Reformers in the recent primaries, and proposes f a on n eir liia nnnao I a I Ko tronornl olonl i An in IW LUl I J IIIO V/UUOU IU llIVy ^IlViUl V lUil III November. So far he has raised only two issues; one of them against ring rule and bossism, and the other against the dispensary law. Ilis pronunciamento to the people, which was published in the daily papers of last Saturday, is as follows. "To the Democratic Voters of South Carolina: I understand that one of the Ring said to a gen- _ tleman a few days ago, speaking of me, "He shall never hold office again." Chagrined at my exposure of ring methods now practiced, and at my checkmating him by refusing to go into his trap at the first and second primary, he thus vents his spleen. I believe that the offices belong to the people and not to any individual or set of individuals. I|shall therefore be 'a candidate for Governor at the next general election. The last killing at Blackville has convinced me that we can never have peace in this State so | long as the dispensary law is upon the statute I books. I shall, therefore, run as an anti-dispensary candidate and in favor of true Democracy. I Let the people decide at this election whether or not a few men shall dictate who shall hold the of! lices, and let them decide for themselves whether I or not laws shall be passed in the interest of peace and harmony and good government at this election. A ballot can be cast directly for the mun of the people's choice. Let the people ; rise up as one man and see to it that there shall be a fair count. Respectfully, Sampson Popk. Newberry, S. ('., September 7, 18U4. Dr. Pope claims that according to the j newspaper estimate, there were only 58,000 ! votes cast in the recent primary, and of these only 48,000 were for delegates to the State i convention. The total vote two years ago was j 88,000, and he thinks that by the time of the ! November election, a large number of the j 48,000 voters mentioned will desert the Evans standard. "I am making the race on my own hook," says the doctor. "I have not been tied to anyone's coat tail, and as to whether any one will run with me I do not know." For the present, the doctor intends to conduct his light from Newberry, and later he will probably move his headquarters to Columbia. Will Fight in the Ranks.?Senator Butler has written a letter to the newspapers iu which he says "his candidacy for the United States senate may be entirely eliminated from any movement looking to the re-organ- ? ization of the Democratic party in the State, and the restoration of decent government within the borders." Continuing, he says : "The large body of tax-paying, law-abiding white voters cannot passively submit to the ruthless disfranchisement by a handful of selfish Ringsters and demagogues without the loss of their own self-respect and the respect of all liberty-loving people elsewhere. In the struggle for re-enfranchisement, if such a struggle shall be determined upon, you may enlist me in the ranks until the end is accomplished or the chains perfectly riveted. "I have no quarters to ask of the enemies . of good government and freedom of political opinion and action, and none to give. We are being betrayed from the political faith of our choice by the men who happen to control the party machinery, and led into the field of agrarianism, communism and anarchism, and because we decline to follow unprincipled leaders blindfolded and without ; protest, we are to be charged by them with j "Indepcndentism," with a purpose of appealing to the Negro vote, etc., etc. For myself I repudiate the charge as untrue and slanderous, and am prepared to show that I at the door of the Ringsters must be placed the responsibility for the present unhappy divisions and dissensions among our white people, and that they have appealed and j will again appeal to the negro vote ; that | they will encourage bloodshed, fraud, outlawry, anything to perpetuate their vulgar exercise of usurped power. "I do not wish to be understood as embracing within this sweeping charge the entire present State administration, for it comes j within my personal knowledge that there are ! some honorable, conscientious men among i them, who detest ring rule as earnestly and feel its injustice as keenly as nnvbodv ; but I they have not been able, and are not now 1 able, to combat successfully the reckless and audacions lawlessness of those who wield the 'power of the ring. "It is not a question of the rule of the majority, but of the ring. The majority is as effectually muzzled as the minority, and both are | treated as political serfs to do.the bidding of I political taskmasters. There is no such thing | as political freedom in South Carolina, and II stand ready to aid in reclaiming it, at any and every cost. I trust there will no longer ' be any doubt as to my motives or plans." Willi fliHlrmiiii C?r\vlli< Is. ?Columbia Register : The man who has been selected to lead the Independent fight and direct its movements, Major Carwile, of Kdgefieled, is well known throughout the State, but he has never before been indentified to any degree with politics. For years he has been a salesman of large fertilizer concerns. He is a shrewd man with a warm , hearted disposition. What kind of a showing he will make as a political leader remains to he seen. He is a bosom friend of Senator Butler, and the senator knows a sagacious politician when he sees one. That may account for Major Carwile's selection.