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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. ^ 1 ISSUED TWIOE-A-WEEK?WEDNESDAT A.3XTD SATURDAY. l. m. grist ft sons, Publisher*. { % dfamiljj Jtepager: 4or gromotion of thq golitical, Social, ^rtqultupl and d{ommer[ciaI Interests of thq ?outh, {TERsiNG?l?cQopYYraR^ cenwNCE* VOLUME 42. YOEKYILLE, S. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1896. NUMBER 76. BY ALFRED ] Copyright, 1896, by American Press Assoclatlo \ CHAPTER XXVII. Bouton expected to meet with a fierce opposition before entering the valley, and he knerw if he was not opposed it wonld be on account of the prisoners. As the Prophet had told his companions the prisoners were Bouton's strong point ?stronger than his allies. One of the gang proposed that they should give three cheers when they emerged from the canyon into the valley, but no response was given; the bravest felt an awe he oould not define and a sense of weakness in striking contrast with the - *- ? Aftwnl/iQ/lfl Q recent vaunting. iuc taiai^aw ?uuv down to the lake and went into camp on the shore. The horses were staked in such grass as they had never cropped before, and they rolled and ate with a sense of enjoyment in striking oontrast v. with the feelings of their masters. Fires were lit and the red glow flashed out on the lake, turning it to blood and frightening the wild fowl sleeping in the sedgea Bouton affected a greater flow of spirits than usuaL When the evening meal was over, he went from fire to fire, cheering the men and assuring them that if they continued to do as they had done a fortune such as would exceed the dreams of the most ambitious awaited every man in the party. "What are your poople going to do with the captain?" asked Alice Blanchard of Bouton. "Going to try him, miss." "What are they going to try him for?" "For shooting down their friends and ,J killing one of them when we were in the pass yesterday." ' "What right have they to try him?" "Maybe they have no right in West Virginia, but out in these mountains no "Qolivj to try him, miss." man ever saw a right that didn't have the backing of power. What would all your law be if there was no power to enforce it?" He saw that he had unconsciously evoh ed a strong argumeut, and he felt rather proud of it as he looked into the beautiful pain lined face for an answer. "If your people find the captain guilty, as they are sure to do, what then?" v " asked Alice. "Then he must die," 6aid Bouton grimly as he turned to rejoin his companions. Alice burst into tears. - "Do not cry, Alice. Do not give way, my child. We have all done what we thought was for the best," said the captain. And he made a movement as if he v would lay his kindly hand on her head, but the cords cut into his wrists and reminded him that hb was bound. "But," she sobbed, "they will take you away and kill you." "They will take me away and go through the farce of a trial, not to elicit truth, for that is a thing they know nothing about, but to afford amusement or satisfaction to the red handed gang. I do not fear the result because I do not and never have feared death." "From my earliest recollection I have heard of Captain Brandon," said.Nora, who was also weeping, "but until he was captured I never saw him. He has been not only my hero, but an idol of . my father and mother, who never set eyes upon him If I could save him by dying, I would gladly do it" "I lun sure of that, my child, " said the captain. "But in our dire distress we should not lose sight of the fact that these men cannot?certainly not in this Dlace?have their own unobstructed way. The Prophet is here, and he is a host. Louis Kyle is here with the herders ; besides Howard Blanchard is here with the immigrants, and Henry Kyle, like an angel, is watching from the cliffs and the God of the just is watching over alL The outlaws are not as strong as they were. The Indians under Black Eagle have refused to accompany v their white allies, or rather their white masters, into this valley, which to their people has ever been held sacred as the dwelling place on earth of the Great Spirit. Let us therefore have patience. We still live, and the end of our efforts and hope is not yet in sight." The girls felt the better for the captain's brave, strong words, and they were about to assure him bf the fact when two rough men came from the largest firo and stood before them. "We've come for Captain Brandon," said one of the men. "I am here," replied the captain. "Get up and come along with us," said the jnen, beckoning to the captain to rise. R. CALHOUN. n. "I caonot walk. See, my feet, like my hands, are bound," replied the captain. The man drew his knife and with a dexterous slash cut the rope that bound the captain's feet, and was in the act of seizing him roughly by the arm when the captain bounded up and said, "1 am ready!" "Waal, stan in haratween us. We're sheriffs," said the man who had so far kept silence. The captain obeyed, and one of the men uttered the word "MarchI" when Alice and Nora came before the captain and with lou i sobs threw their arms about him and kissed his wounded face. The darkness prevented their seeing that his one eye was filled with tears and that his bronzed cheeks were wet. The captain was conducted to the largest aVinnf trViinVi nil th? outlaws had assembled, to witness not to participate in this sickening burlesque on justice. He was placed on the ground in a position where all could see him, and the men who had been chatting and swearing at opce became silent Bouton rose to his feet, and after some forced coughing delivered himself as follows: "Boys, Captain Brandon has always been down on our crowd, and if we were as bad as he thinks we are, instead of giving him a trial, as we intend doing, we'd kill him on sight." He was interrupted by Fairplay, who had rejoined the party as they were entering the canyon, with: "That's so Bouton. You are talkiu sense now.. Why, cuss him, he's been a wuss enemy than all the troops and law oddicers from here to Texas. And I'm for finishin the job without any more palaver!" Another storm of applause followed the rising of Sim Bliss. Thin, beardless and weak locking, Sim Bliss formed a striking contrast to the hardy ruffians about him. But the contrast was only physical. In thought and feeling he was quite in sympathy with these desperadoes, and with more strength and courage he might have been a leader. But he soon proved that he had a quality more admirable than any of them possessed and a power that made the strongest feel like an infant before him. Sim Bliss was fairly educated and well up in all legal forms and legal tricks, for law has its tricks as well as vice. He was a ready speaker, and he used words that were beyond the comprehension of his rude auditors, which was a strong point in his favor. After recounting Captain Brandon's crimes Sim Bliss proposed that Bouton should act as presiding officer of the court and that all the men present should consider themselves jurors in the case he was about to call up. In all this there was not even the semblance of legal method, but as he was the only man present aware of the incongruity the forms were accepted with due solemnity. The fact that some of the jurors were called as witnesses struck no one as be ing at all out of order?indeed, nothing that Sim Bliss could have done or suggested would have been thought irregular. He was a lawyer, and they reasoned, as other men do about doctors, that he should know everything pertaining to his own calling. Sim Bliss had been duly posted by Bouton as to the captain's offenses against the gang, and as there were witnesses ready fo prove anything that might be charged, there was no trouble in sustaining all that was asserted. "Before asking you, gentlemen and friends," said Sim Bliss, after concluding the farce of taking testimony, "whether the prisoner at the bar is guilty or not guilty, I think it would be only right to ask the prisoner at the bar if he has anything to say in his own defense. " Sim turned to the captain and nodded to show that he was at liberty to speak if he so desired. "I have nothing to say," replied the captain. "I have no favor to ask." "That being the case," interposed Bouton, with a smile of malignant triumph on his olive face, "I'll ask the boys if they think Brandon guilty or not guilty?" He rose and looked at the men, and the men with one accord sprang to their feet aud shouted: "He is guilty!" "What shall we do with him?" asked Bouton. "Hang him!" was the response. "Don't you think we had better shoot him?" suggested Bouton. "That'll give every fellow a chance to get in a little work." "Yes. Shoot him!" they answered, and more than one hand was reached back to the revolver stock. "When?" "Now!" came the thundering respouse, and the men crowded forward. "I think, "said Sim Bliss, "that tc execute him now would be a little irregular. It is customary to give the com demned ail opportunity to make theii peace." "Then we'll give him till sun up!" shouted Faii-play. This suggestion was acted upon, anc the qpudeinned man was at once placed under a special guard. TO BF. CONTIXUKD. SST The lady looks eldest who trie; to conceul her age. If she refuses t< let her age he upon her tongue, it wil be all the more in her face. Miscellaneous Reading. % ? m BULTOCRAT MANIFESTO. 01 ai Goldbugit Asked to Vote For Palmer and ^ Bnckner. ft Although UDable to muster a corpo- p< ral's guard at the polls, there is noth- tt ing to prevent the goldbugs in this state from issuing manifestoes, and ^ last Tuesday afternoon they took ad- ^ vantage of their privilege as follows: r To the Democrats of South Carolina: R The national Democratic conven- P' naeomkla/1 of Tnrlio no nnlifi tr l/I Uli \V UIDU aOOCUJUIIbU UV AUU1HUM(/W?.w on the 2nd of September, mindful of ^ the trust imposed by Democratic tra- c< ditions, jealous of the honor and true to the principles of the pany, entered its solemn protest against the platform 1D and nominees of the Chicago conven- p1 tion ; against the dangerous and radi- 'n cal experiment of the free and unlimi- tc ted coinage of silver, and against the P' unholy wedlock of Democracy with the ^ painted jade of Populism and the Com- di mune. h Formulating a platform, worthy of v< the best days of the republic, broad enough, strong enough and sound 91 enough to afford secure footing for all ! honest, intelligent and patriotic Amer- P1 cans, it placed upon it candidates for w the presidency aod vice presidency . representing all that is best of Ameri- 9,1 can honor, valor, political experience a( and ability, and confidently appeals to American manhood for support. Elsewhere in this broad land Com- Pj munisin, Populism and executive tyr- P anny is a dread, a fear. In South Carolina it is an experience. For six loDg years we have witness- P' ed the suppression of individual liber- PJ ty, the violation of corporate and a municipal rights, the usurpation of ex- I,11 ecutive authority, the domination of a the legislature and the prostitution of 99 the judicial department of our state P1 government, all in the sacred name of the people. ^ We have seen our citizens murdered aI without redress by the armed constab- !?! ulary of an irresponsible and tryannous executive. We have seen the te felon's stripe placed upon a citizen a/ within the walls of the penitentiary 11 without a trial by jury, and upon the decree of a subservient judiciary, at the bidding of one who now impru- P( dently and dishonestly inveighs against "government by injunction." We have seen the time honored and &1 chartered right of local self-govern- ment rudely stricken down for party purposes and to gratify personal pique cc and preference. We have seen the registered appeal P' of our people for prohibition answered by a state monopoly of the whisky er traffic, besotting the people in the m Inm on/1 rlahsnohinor t.hp P' UttUJC UI JOW auu UWHUVU?Ufi ??, weak virtue of our chosen officials, ^ and as a natural and fitting sequence, 0 our political atmosphere reeks with e3 the putrescence arising from the un- a' covered graves of private and official corruption. " The methods, the purposes and the ?c very utterances of the Chicago nomi- J" nee for president are painfully familiar 1 to Carolinians. cs The effort to array class against class, country against town, the poor against P1 the rich, the appeals to passion, pre- t0 judice and ignorance, the reckles at- te tacks upon the judiciary, the charges of peculation, fraud and dishonesty in . high places, are but faithful echoes of Ju campaign methods in this state within IC the memory of all. Make no mistake, fellow Democrats; Bryanisra is but Tillmanism upon a na- J. tional scale. *? That South Carolina was the hatch- jr ing place of Tillmanism is charged ,(j against her, and resented in all sections P of the republic. That she still sup- w ports it and attempts to thrust it upon 03 the entire country by insisting upon Sl1 the election of the Chicago nominees aJ after six years of experience and test will justly expose us to the execration of our fellow men throughout the land. As Democrats we caunot vote for the nominees of the Republican party. By us, protection for the millionaire manufacturer cannot be distinguished from protection for the millionaire et mineowner. We cannot vole for the nominees of m the Chicago convention and risk a rep- th etiou of our own experience for six is years, enlarged to the dimensions of ci the republic and intensified by the co- tr operation of such forces and agencies B of" auarchy as fortunately we do not ol possess in this state. tii Xo man in South Carolina who is i unwilling to see Tilimanism played th , upon the national stage, with the army in , and navy of the United States iu the tl: role of Tillman militia, congress repre- T seutiug the "driftwood" "June bug" tl [ legislature, and the supreme court, the b< creature, the puppet and the obedient al slave of an autocratic executive, can 01 afford to vote for William Jennings ai Bryan for president, or for those in the ei i legislative department who will sustain tc his effort to subvert the department of b; ???/! t Un rliv . justice 10 pariy purposes, ?uu .. part meut of finance to private gain. tl We deny the wild and frantic allega- p( 1 tions that the people of South Caroli- di na are struggling in the depths of mis- w I cry and calamity. We declare that si I the industrial conditions of our people h< are pictured in colors so false that the hi natural result must be to repel immigration and frighten away capital, rt While recognizing the inevitable dif- tl 5 fereuces in wealth which have always uj j existed among men, we call attention In I with pride and satisfaction to the pros- st perity that the masses of our people ai jjoy and the rapid and unchecked rogress being made in the development of our state's resources. Amoog lr farmers and mechanics, the stand d of living is constantly improving, teir children are being educated and leir debts are being paid. At no sriod in the history of the stale have le people enjoyed more of the comirts and luxuries of life, and this we .tribute, in some measure at least, to te achievements of the incumbent emocratic national administration in Warding the class legislation of the epublican party. Within the recent ist a splendid manufacturing indusy has been successfully established in le state, and all signs points to its lutinuea expansion. We, therefore, denounce the cry for i inflation of the currency as unwise, expedient and unnecessary and as ilculated to destroy that confidence i prevailing conditions most needful i the continued enhancement of our rosperity, a prosperity which has not ;en halted even by the marplots and sturbers of business, with which we ave been so sorely afflicted. The >ters of the state are prepared to link for themselves. They will be ow to endorse the purely speculative aancial remedy offered by the cbamons of free silver at 16 to 1. T*y ill halt long before hazarding the instable panic in business and paraly 3 of industry wnico musi ioiiow iu> loption. Besides when it is brought 5me to them that reckless tampering ith the money standard involves the obability of repudiation, the princies of strict and stem honesty, theirs j ancestry and education, will assert lemselves and repel the insidious ap?al to them to compromise or tern>rize with conscience. The political mosphere is clearing in South Caroaa, and the temper of the people is vorable for the return to old, tried, ife and established monetary princies. . The national Democratic party offers >u in the persons of John M. Palmer id Simon Bolivar Buckner, candiites safe, conservative, wise and pure. !en whose lives have been consecrad to duty, broadened by experience -J -J nfo.roon. Ill CUUUtltCU IU tuouiavuaigv vi vawm ve trusts, and who in every emergenr and place have proven themselves inest, faithful and true, and equal to jsition. Representing, as they do, le blue and the gray, their nominaon upon the same ticket marks the ave of sectionalism. Their election will bind together in iple bands of steel all sections of our immon country. Every interest, rery cause and every man desirous of eserving unimpaired the liberty of te citizen, with the constitutional pows of the government in all its departents, its honor, its integrity and the iblic faith, will drive affrighted to leir loathsome dens the hideous forms anarchy, license aud disorder, roked by the nomination at Chicago id St. Louis of the grand high priest 'communistic agrarianism, and will ansmit to posterity the blessings of institutional government strong in stice, tempered with mercy and unnchingly sustained by every Amerim worthy of the name,and of suffrage. Electors will be chosen and tickets *ovided in this state for all who wish J?:? I? fA n trnrt t.hfl H icpQ. I JUIL1 1 LI tUC CUU1 V VU i?VV( v vuv miwmw rs which threatened our civilization, i perpetuate the name, the faith and e principals of Democracy and to stify the confidence which the Ameran public has always placed in the and old party of the people. We invite and urge all Democrats in ie state who appreciate the necessity r the reorganization of the national emocracy to join actively in our efrts and to this end they are asked to ace themselves in communication ith Mr. W. R. Davie, the state comitteeman, at Landsford, S. C. Their iggestions, advice and co-operation e needed. W. R. Davie, ember National Executive committee for South Caroliua. W. W. Ball, Frank Evans. ANARCHISTS AND SOCIALISTS. ? ' .? i.i-.i : Few persons uuaerstanu me iueune? Jtertained and preached by the ad>cates of these two systems. The ention of the one generally suggests le other, and one person in a hundred not aware that Anarchists and Soalists reprerent the two pales or exemes of social theory. From the oston Herald we reprint definitions ' each, showing their marked opposiou to each other : Stated briefly, the Anarchist believes lat the people of this couutry are too uch governed ; the Socialist believes lat they are not governed euougb. he Anarchists would do away with le laws that are now on the statute >oks, whatever they may be; would jolish congress, legislature, govern s, presidents, city councils, mayors ad all of the paraphernalia of gov'nment, giving each individual aright > do as he saw fit, qualified merely y the right of all other citizens to do .1 in nat uiey saw ut, ucucnug man iu lis way each man would be iu a asition to secure, without let or hinsrence, the largest possible share of orldly well-being. If he did not icceed it would be his own fault, and e would have no one to blame but imself. The Socialist theory is precisely the sverse of this, starting as it does, on le assumption that it is incumbent pon each individual to do all that u can for the welfare of others. Inead of finally dismissing legislatures, id discharging, once and forever, all of the executive officers of the government, the Socialist would increase the duties of the legislature, and greatly multiply the functions of the executive. The hours of work should be regulated; the amount of pay should be officially fixed ; the individual should have no wealth at all, except his share in the general wealth, or such possessions as be saw fit to accumulate for bis personal use should be strictly limited ; many of the services now performed for gain by individuals or corporations should be assnmpH hv the HtntA. and when carried to a communistic extreme, the Socialist theory would necessitate the breaking up all separate households and the merging of individual existence into a great common family, all working as nearly as possible alike, and all sharing equally and together in the product of work. The theories of both are in opposition to a republican form of government, and there is no room for them here. BRYAN AT CHARLOTTE. He It Seen and Heard by a Crowd of Over Twenty Thousand People. It was the largest crowd that has ever been seen in Charlotte. That is the unanimous testimony of old residents in regard to the great multitude that assembled at the postoffice park last Thursday to hear Candidate Bryan. And there is little reason to doubt the truth of the assertion. Great crowds of people were there from all the surrounding portions of North and South Carolina. Yorkville had a delegation of between 20 and 30, and the attendance from various parts of the county, mors especially Bethel and Fort Mill tcwoships, is conservatively estimated at between 400 and 500. The entire crowd, including, of course, a majority of the people of Charlotte, is estimated as numbering somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000. Mr. Bryan's special train arrived at a late hour Wednesday night, and was sidetracked until Thursday morning. The candidate was up before 8.30 o'clock. The people were already assembled. There was a great procession, which wound up at the postoffice park. The speaking commenced at 9.30, and lasted only about half an hour, during which the enthusiastic people?Democrats, Populists and Republicans alike?howled themselves hoarse. Mr. Bryan's speech is reported as follows: Ladies and Gentlemen : The Republican party has been legislating to make a dollar dearer, and then they deny that legislation has anything to do with the dollar. I want, this morning, in the very short time I can keep your attention, to call it to the conditions in the volume of our money. Now, I want to assert at first, as a DroDOsition that cannot be disposed of, that the money of the country must keep pace with the population of the country and with the industries of the country [Cheers] and that unless the money does so, we shall dud that a dollar rises in value all the time. Now when a dollar rises in value, it simply means that prices will fall and falling prices are an injury to' the men who produce the wealth of this country, when the products of their toil buy money. Falling prices are good for the man who has and wishes to use that money to buy the things falling in price. Senator Sherman who stands at the head and front as the recognized leader of the Republican party and all that portion of the Democratic party which is trying to elect a Republican for president, used these words in a speech which he made in behalf of the Sherman bill on the 5th day of June, 1890: "If our present currency," said Senator Sherman, "is estimated at [$1,400,000,000 and our population is increasiug at the rate of 3 per cent, per annum, it would require $42,000,000 increased circulation each year to keep pace with the increase of population ; and as the increase of wealth and business is continuing at a still greater rate than the increase of population, it was thought that an immediate increase in circulation might be obtained by the larger purchase of silver bullion to an amount sufficient to make good and retire all bank bills and keep pace with the growth of population. Assuming that $54,000,000 a year of additional circulation is needed upon ttris basis, that amount is provided for in the bill by the issue of treasury Dotes in exchange for bullion at the market price." There Senator Sherman declared that money must increase with population and even more than that says that wealth and business should increase more rapidly than population, and therefore he defends the Sherman bill on the ground that it gives to the I neorile about $54,000,000 each year in new money. Remember that the very man who gave that did so as a reason fpr the enactment of the Sherman law then turned round and joined with the opponents of free coinage in repealing the Sherman law and leaving uothing to take its place. Instead of having $54,000,000 of new money each year we have *been decreasing in our circulation for the last two years. What provision does the Republican party make for the supply of the money that you need ? None whatever. I am not surprised that even men who have been Republicans all their lives are now in favor of the free coinage of silver [Great applause.] I am not surprised when I find that Republicans who recognize their principles of finance and apply them to the money question, I am not surprised that they desert the Republican party this year when it comes out and attempts to defend the Democratic administration, which was repudiated by the Democratic party itself. [Great applause.] You remember here in North Carolina, the Republicans have made more capital by denouncing this administration than in any other way. What do you think now when the Republicans of North Carolina become the sponsors for tde Democratic administration r [Wild applause.] I am not surprised mat earnest and sincere Republicans prefer to stand with tbe Democratic party in demanding bimetallism, which even tbe Republican party of four years ago said was dear to tbe American people through tradition. I am not surprised that Republicans who, eight years ago, stood upon a platform that denounced the Democratic party for its- attempt to demonetize silver?I am not surprised that those Republicans join with us today in demanding bimetallism, which has been the historic policy of the United States until 1873 and received the support of all tbe statesmen?Republican, Democratic, Whig and everything we ever had in this country. [Long and continuous applause.] Mr. Bryan quoted from a speech made by Henry Clay, in the United States senate on the 20th day of January, 1840: "Of all the conditions of society, that is most adverse in which there is a constant and rapid diminution in the amount of the circulating medium. Debtors become unable to pay their debts," and said Mr. Clay simply described the very condition which confronts the American people today and yet the Republican party not only refuses to recognize that condition and bring relief from that condition, but the Republican party pledges itself to a policy which increases financial distress of this country, makes debts harder to pay and summons the sheriff to take charge of I the property of the citizen and then leaves the debt unextinguished to hang over him still. fGreat applause.] * My friends, 1 must leave. [Cries of "Oh, don't stop!"] In the state of North Carolina, where the people can I still listen to the echo of the words of ' their great statesman, Vance, [great applause], it is not necessary for one to come from abroad to call your attention to the perils which surround you. You remember that one of the last speeches that he ever nttered was upon this question in which he showed to the American people that the great contest between the money power and 1_ _? I 1 ine comrnoU peupits wtta at uauu. XI there is one in this audience whose sympathies in this contest are with the money power, we do not expect him to support the Chicago ticket, but we do appeal to the support to all of those whose sympathies are with the masses of the people and who believe that prosperity must first come to those who toil before any general prosperity can reach those who live upon the toilers of this country. [Great applause.] Among those who wept over from Yorkville were: Messrs. W. B. Wylie, W. B. McCaw, H. I. McCaw, T. F. McDow, W. W. Lewis, D. E. Finley, R. G. McCaw, R. L. Wilkerson, Benny Johnson, Louis Roth, F. A. Gosman, W. B. deLoacb, J. W. Alexander, W. G. White, J. M. Starr, E. B. Beard and others. All who went were delighted. Mr. TT7_. 11 ~ Ka nrnf Wit Kin nhnnt. SO wyue otxy a uc gvv nnutu yards of Mr. Bryan, and although the speaker was somewhat hoarse, every word he uttered could be heard distinctly. Mr. Wylie said also that he talked with quite a number of North Carolinians from different parts of the state, and although most of them seem to be somewhat doubtful about the chances of the state ticket, they all appear to be sanguine that Mr. Bryan will get the electoral vote by a big majority. Russian Babies.?As described by a recent traveler, Russian babies, as seen in the homes of the Russian peasants in Siberia, are very unattractive specimens of humanity. "I looked curiously at one little bundle," says the traveler, "which was laid upou a shelf. Another hung from the wall on - ntkila a ttiirH WHS sllinc OVer tt FCK> ? o one of the supporting rafters, and was being swung to and fro by the mother, who had a cord loop over her foot. 'Why,' cried I, in surprise, 'that's a child!' 'Of course it is,' replied the woman; 'what else should it be ?' Having learned so much in so short a time, I had an irresistible desire to inspect the contents bf the swinging bundle. I looked, but turned away in disgust, for the child was as dirty as a pig in a pen. I could not refrain from asking one question. It may have been impertinent. 'Washed!' shrieked the mother, apparently horrified. 'Washed! What? Wash a baby? Why, you'd kill it!' " Bryan and Free Silver.?The New York state Democratic convention met at Buffalo last Wednesday, endorsed the 'Chicago platform and ticket, and nominated John Boyd Thatcher for governor.