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Scraps and |acts. ? The convention of the Southerrt Cotton Growers' association which convened In Ashevllle on last Wednesday, has since been engaged In trying to agree on minimum figures at which the price shall be fixed. The statistical bureau of the association on yesterday gave out its estimate as to the probable number of bales of cotton that will be ginned this year at 9,588,133. There has been talk of fixing the minimum price at 10 cents; but many delegates are of opinion that the figures should be placed higher. There is under consideration a proposition to purchase outright one million bales of cotton in order that there may be no trouble about insuring a good price for the balance. ? The south last year exported 41 per cent of the value of the exports of the whole country?a total of 3614,900,000. Of course, the greatest single commodity was cotton. Cotton to the value of $379,965,014 was sent to other countries; cotton seed oil. $15,125,082; cotton seed cake and meal. $13,897,178; naval stores, $16,106.643; phosphates, $6,886,274. Besides this, manufactured cotton goods, timber. tobacco, petroleum, grain, coal, cattle, iron, steel, etc., were exported The south Is coming into her own industrially. She is developing her own resources. And the Immediate future will see still further increases of such an astonishing nature that the world will be compelled to "sit up and take notice." It should not be long, at this rate, before quite half of the whole country's exports will be sent out from the south. ? Contrary to expectations, the Japanese people have gone into a perfect frenzy on account of what they considered the tremendously humiliating peace terms their representatives have agreed upon. The resentment, too, is largely directed against the United States. There was more or less disorder on the receipt of the first news, and it has been growing in extent and violence daily. A dispatch of yesterday tells of the burning of ten Christian churches in Toklo and elsewhere, and also of the burning of the palace of Baron Komura, foreign minister. now In the United States. On Wednesday E. H. Harriman and a party of Americans were attacked on the streets of Toklo. The American consulate was besieged by a dangerous mob which had to be kept at bay by bayonet charges. Another big demonstration was on foot yesterday, and the leaders of the uprising said that their action was for the purpose of attracting the attention of the emperor. They wanted him to refuse to ratify the treaty. ? Washington, Sept. 6: David E. Salmon, chief of the bureau of animal Industry of the agricultural department, has tendered his resignation - "" * * ana ll nas Deen accrpieu iu ibivc on October 1. The resignation was announced by Secretary Wilson at noon today, but he declined to state whether the severance Is due to the charges filed recently against Dr. Salmon. These charges related to the connection which Dr. Salmon had had with Geo. E. Howard. In the printing business, and which later resulted In the organization of the Howard Label company, which holds the contract for supplying meat Inspection tags to the government. The relations of Dr. Salmon and Mr. Howard were investigated by Solicitor McCabe. of the department of agriculture and the doctor was exonerated, it having been shown that he withdrew from the company soon after the first contract was received from the government. Charges were preferred against Dr. Salmon also in connection with the meat inspection service. He was exonerated also on these charges, but the report was not accepted as satisfactory by the packing concerns, whose applications for meat inspection had been denied. ? In attempting to inflict punishment on a motorman last Tuesday night an angry crowd in Clinton street, New York, caused the death of a little girl who otherwise would have escaped with a few slight bruises. In the riot that followed several persons were badly hurt and police reserves had a hard fight to disperse the mob. The victim of the accident was Anna Shrinshock. two years old. With her father and another man she was being led across the street when a crowded north-bound car rolled tne grin unaer the fender where she lay crying, but apparently uninjured. Before the mo. torman could step from the platform and lift the fender the crowd made a rush for him and In the scramble he was forced against the controller, turning it around and putting a full current on. Instantly the car shot forward a distance of 200 feet and the child's body was ground to pieces. The sight of the mangled body added fury to the mob, and the motorman was dragged from the car and nearly beaten to death. ? There is considerable dissatisfaction. says a Chicago dispatch, among the older members of the Knights of Honor, a fraternal organization, with a large membership scattered throughout the United States, over the Increase in the rates which went into effect last Tuesday. Thousands of the older members seriously consider the advisability of severing their connection with the organization. The change, which was decided on some time ago by the officers of the supreme lodge, differs essentially from the change which caused so much dissatisfaction in the ranks of the Royal Arcanum. It affects only members between sixty and seventy years of age. Formerly ail members over sixty years of age were assessed $8 per month, while under the new arrangement members of seventy will be assessed $15 a month on $2,000 insurance: those of sixtynine years, $14; those of sixty-eight years. $12.50 and so on down the scale. Officials of the order state that the increase in the rates became necessary owing to the fact that during the last Hv? venrs SI .915.471 in more was paid out in death benefits to families of members between the ages of sixty and seventy than was received from the membership at that age. ? September Pilgrim: There are many brilliant women lawyers in this country, but probably no other has won so notable a case as has Mrs. Bwlva A. Lockwood of Washington. As far as amount of money Is involved, it is said to be the most Important ever brought before the United States court of claims?the famous Cherokee case?giving to the Eastern and Emigrant Cherokees over $4.708,70!>, which is their share of the tribal property long withheld from them. It was a complicated, difficult and long contested case, and in the years It has been pending Mrs. Lockwood has prepared very able briefs and carried her arguments skillfully from point to point. Her share of the fees will probably be $50,000. Since the decision Mrs. Lockwood has made a sale of guano lands (that have been in her hands, as attorney, for thirty years) for $250,000. She has also filed another case In the court of claims amounting to $1,000,000. Mrs. Lockwood was at one time the candidate of the woman suffragists for president of the United States and Is a brilliant orator and lawyer. At the recent meeting of the International League of American Press clubs her plea for higher Ideals on the part of those engaged In newspaper work elicited a storm of applause from the men and women of the convention. 2fhr ^(ovfetnllc gnqninr. YORKVILLE, S. C.J FRIDAY. SEPTKMBRR 8,1905. It will have to be conceded that whether or not Sei.ator Tillman's purpose In coming to Tlrzah was to de fend himself he was on me aeienmve all right. If there was one proposition more than another in which the big crowd at Tlrzah yesterday completely agreed with Senator Tillman, It was that the governor should kick out the present board of directors and take charge of the business so as to save as much as possible of the $800,000 the state has Invested In whisky. And while the crowd seemed to be in complete agreement with Senator Tillman on this proposition, it war hardly less agreeable to Senator Brice's suggestion that the legislature should meet In extra session and at once wipe out the whole dispensary machine. Senator Tillman's proposition that the governor kick out the state board of dispensary directors and assume a temporary receivership of the whisky business meets our hearty approvaJ. We would not like to see the governor In permanent charge; but we have an Idea that If Senator Tillman's suggestion should be act< d upon, the grafters would be caught redhanded with a large amount of swag. There would probably be more or less resistance on the part of the members of the board; but this would only serve to bring out a lot of startling facts which will otherwise never know the light, and the row that will be kicked up will hasten the end of the whole rotten business. Move, governor, move. Refhrri.no In his speech at Tlrzah yesterday to a recent statement In The Enquirer to the effect that one of the objects of his proposed visit to this county was "to tell the people that they should have no right to vote out the dispensary under the Brlce law," connt/vw tillman n^ma that "mr ' ornu iv/i a ii 111 iu 11 i v iiicai nv u ui?i ?'* ? Grist did not believe that when he wrote It." We are inclined to think that the senator was not altogether serious. In an interview some time back, which Interview was reproduced in The Enquirer at the time; but which was not referred to yesterday, the senator characterized the Brice law as "dishonest," and we thought -we had a right to assume that one of the objects of his visit was to argue the reason. We certainly believed what we said, and furthermore, we believe now that had the senator not found himself anticipated our prediction would have been confirmed. The Town of Yorkville. Although long regarded as the slowest and least ambitious of her sisters in the Piedmont, intelligent observers of progress and development are now beginning to awake to the fact that the town of Yorkville is not only possessed of many advantages over her neighbors; but that she is suddenly shaking off her old time lethargy and putting on a stride that promises the restoration of her old place in the lead. That Yorkville has suffered many serious setbacks in the past there is no question. Some of these set backs have been through her own fault and some have been through the triumph of others who represented conflicting interests. The immediate resvlt of the town's misfortunes were apparently disastrous; but now it is an established fact that these apparent disasters were only temporary, and as a matter of fact. In the long run the town has been helped rather than hurt. The first misfortune to which we refer was in connection with the location of the old Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad. The road was to have come by this place. Yorkville was not insenslbl;; to the probable advantage and did what she could in furtherance of her own Interest, failing only by the closest possible shave. What then seemed little short of a tragedy was repeated in connection with the location of the Piedmont Air Line railroad. This line was to have passed through Yorkville; but as in the case of the C. C. & A. was carried by t/x o l/x/in tl/xr. thot CUIIIIIVIIIIK Iincir.-'is |W a luvauvu mai m^ant long continued injury. In an effort to hedge against the first misfortune, the disadvantageous location of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta road, broad minded Yorkville people built the King's Mountain railroad to Chester, and for the same reason in the case of the Piedmont Air Line the same kind of people pushed the Chester line on toward the mountains of Western North Carolina. The third railroad experience, the building of the Three C's across the county, was entered into not so much through a hope of either present or future advantage, as a measure of self-protection, and although while for a time it looked as if Yorkville had lost again, the facts are beginning to prove otherwise. Surrounded as she has been by rapidly growing towns, in closer touch with the world outside, and having greater advantages in freight rates and facilities. Yorkville has found It difficult to hold her own and almost impossible to make headway. She was discredited at home and abroad until even most of her own people, in fact all but the broadest und most intelligent among them, began to lose all confidence in her future. So common and so general, ii. fact, was the belief that Yorkville was commercially and industrially dead that there were left but few to resent open declarations to that effect. But within the past ten years condi Hons have changed, or rather the farsighted efforts of years ago have begun to bear fruit. It is developing that the railroads which Yorkviile secured largely through her own efforts, give her practically as good freight and passenger facilities as are enjoyed by any of he- near neighbors, and the railroads which were once thought to have ruined her forever are now to be looked upon only as making reasonable boundaries to her growing trade. Too bright Is this picture? Not a bit of it. Is it not a fact that the population immediately surrounding the town and for miles In every direction Is. family for family, the equal In energy, Intelligence, Industry and wealth producing capacity of any agricultural population to be found In any similar radius anywhere In all the South or the United States? Then when Yorkviile gets the commercial Interests of the people properly concentrated around herself why should there be any limit to her prosperity? The fact that Yorkviile is coming to her own is evidenced by the developments of the past ten years. Ten years a^u sue imu nu naici ... telephone system, no electric light system. Her first cotton mill was built In 1896. Since the building of that mill, there have grown up numerous enterprises that have contributed materially to the growth and development of the town. First there came an expensive graded school building worth close on to $25,000, next another cotton mill, then another bank, then an Increase In the capital of the bank already here, then an oil mill, then another, cotton mill. In the meantime numerous new residences, lately the remodeling of numerous store fronts, then the cementing of the sidewalks along Main street, then an additional large store building, etc. All this time additional capital has been coming with new and valuable citizens from abroad, and uniting with local capital. During ten years the town has gained from 1.000 to 1,500 additional population and gained and put to work hardly less than $1,500,000 of additional capital. By far the greater part of the development referred to has been within the last half of the last ten years, and it has all been done In such a careful and conservative manner as to give warrant to the assurance that the events of the present only mean the laying of the foundation for the future. There Is within the town and growing throughout the country surrounding a feeling of enthusiasm and confidence the like of which the present generation has never known before, and that the Yorkvllle of five years from now will be twice as large and twice as important as the Yorkvllle of today, seems all but certain. MERE-MENTION. Two persons were killed and thirteen Injured by the derailment of a trolley car at Charlton, Mass., Tuesday 2,000 painters went on a strike In Philadelphia Tuesday. It Is understood that they will be joined by members of other trades' unions. Frost Sunday night Is reported from several points In Nebraska Jos. H. Hoadley Co., a New York syndicate, has offered to take a million bales of cotton at the minimum price to be fixed by the Southern Cotton association at Its meeting In Ashevllle Wednesday Hezekiah Butterworth, author and historian, died at his summer home in Warren, Rhode Island. Tuesday, aged seventy-five years $200,000 worth of property was destroyed by fire at Madisonvllle. Ky.. Tuesday.... $150,000 worth of property was destroyed by an In cenaiary nre-ai i-tarvre, mum., ??cunesday A police commissioner at Gorl, Caucasia, was assassinated by an anarchist Wednesday. The assassin escaped Albertville, Alabama, was almost entirely destroyed by fire, last Wednesday William Gill, formerly district superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph company. and vice president of the Bell Telephone company, died at his home in Cheltenham, Pa., Wednesday, aged 59 years....The Russian forces were defeated after five hours severe fighting with the Japanese forces at Naibutu, off the west coast of Sakhalin, Saturday. The Russians killed numbered 130. The Japanese losses were slight F. W. Palmer, public printer In the government printing office at Washington, has been dismissed from the service by President Roosevelt. The cause assigned for his dismissal was charges of insubordination he brought against two government employes, which charges were not sustained. NEWS AT HICKORY GROVE. Corretpondenct of the Yorkrille Enquirer. Hickory Grove, Sept. 7.?The Hickory Grove Graded school opened Monday morning with a large attendance of students. Rev. L. T. Pressly and family of Edgmoor, are visiting Mr. McDIU. father of Mrs. Pressly. Miss Addie Tlnsley, who has been visiting her uncle. Prof. W. T. Slaughter, returned to her home in Augusta, Wednesday. Misses Winnie Crawford Wilma Logan and Margaret Sandifer of Yorkville are visiting their cousin, Miss Ola Wilkerson. There is some sickness in the community. Mrs. Belle Smith has been unwell for some time. Mr. D. J. Smith a prominent citizen of this community has been very sick but is convalescing. Mrs. Brakefleld is seriously sick. Mr. J. D. Whltesldes of our town, has had fever, but is improving. Miss Violet Orr of Blacksburg is spending some time with her brother, Mr. Lenn Morehead. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Columbia, Sept. 5: The executive committee of the board of directors of the Columbia Theological Seminary held a meeting here today and decided to recommend to the board the nomination of Dr. Theron Rice of Atlanta as president of the seminary. The meeting of the full board will be held in October at which time a formal election will be made. Dr. Rice is one of the best known Presbyterian ministers In the south and has quite a reputation as an executive head. ? Lancaster special of Tuesday to the News and Courier: The grand Jury held a special meeting here yesterday to consider the road question and other matters of importance to the county.' Though in session pretty much all day, but little is known of the proceedings, the jurors wisely keeping their own counsel. The result of their work will probably ap pear In their presentment at the approaching term of court. During the day the grand jury and the county commissioners held a joint meeting, at which the following resolution was adopted: "We, the board of county commissioners and grand jurors, In joint session, do recommend that the county supervisor require the several overseers of roads in the county to meet and make full report of their roads on the first Monday in April and October of each year." ? Laurens Herald: Mr. J. O. C. Fleming shewed us a day or two since, a sample of a bale of cotton grown by the late Henry Thompson of the Scuffletown neighborhood, in 1862. forty-three years ago. The sample of this bale is in a perfectly sound state of preservation, as white and fleecy as when it came from the gin. It would have sold in the latter part of the summer or fall of 1865, forty years ago, for forty cents per pound in gold, and weighing, even say four hundred and fifty pounds would have brought one hundred and eighty dollars In the precious metal. The bale Is now the property of Mr. Thompson's son-in-law. Mr. Samuel H. Fleming. It has never been sold, and is in a warehouse of this city. LOCAL. AFFAIRS. ' NEW ADVERTI8EMENT8. J Strauss-Smith Co.?Offer the Druid sewing machine, which is guaran- i teed for twelve years, for $15 each. < Dobson Bros.' Cash Store?Has Just I received a big lot of millinery from New York for the fall trade. J. Q. Wray?For ten days offers some i attractive bargains in men's and < youth's ready-to-wear clothing. Foushee Cash Store?Tells its friends j that the goods intended for Mon- < day's special were lost in transit, and sale is postponed. < L. R. Williams, Probate Judge?Gives notice that Mrs. M. W. Massey and < A. B. Withers have applied for letters of administration on the estate I of Mrs. M. J. Withers, deceased I L. A. Allen, Gen. Agt., R. F. D. No. 1, Clover?Wants to employ canvass- i ers. $40 a month to begin. First .National tsana?wants you to remember that you can begin a savings account with one dollar. < L. R. Williams, P. J.?Publishes sum- < mons In the matter of Jephtha D. , Gwln, executor of the will of Mrs. i Xarclssa E. Wylle, deceased. i York Furniture Co.?Has a big stock j of all kinds of furniture, pianos, or- I gans etc. and Invites you to see it and get prices before buying. Star Drug Store?Invites school chll- i dren to visit It on Monday for supplies when going to school. R. A. Rouse?Has lost -a pocket book containing money and papers. He will pay a reward for Its return. , J. W. Dobson?Offers two tracts of land near YorkviUe for sale. Now that tho cotton crop of York county 1b so nearly ready for harvest. It Is practically certain that the yield Is lighter than It was last year. The < crop is by no means a failure; but it J is not nearly so heavy as many had < | reason to believe a few weeks back j that it would be. 1 The action of the board of governors j of the Commercial club of Rock Hill in trying to abolish gambling from its club rooms will meet with general approval. There has been no gambI ling nor liquor drinking in the rooms of the Commercial club of YorkviUe. Neither offense would be tolerated. The building of a pile bridge over 1 Turkey creek at Sutton's spring and the grading of the hill on either side, so as to throw the roadway about 10 feet above the creek bed, all of which work can be done for less than $200. would greatly Increase the traffic between YorkviUe and the section Immediately beyond the creek. The publisher* of The Enquirer are very much gratified to note the interest that has been created by the republication of the story of "Ellen Campbell or King's Mountain." This story was popular when it first appeared two generations ago, and it seems to be no less popular with the children and grandchildren of those to whom it was originally presented. But this is not surprising. Aside from its store of local tradition so dear to the people of York and surrounding counties, It Is a story of great merit. that would hold its own with stories of its character any- where. While it would be pleasing to know that the Southern railroad Is contemplating extensive improvements In the roadbed of the Charleston division between Marion and Camden, from such Information as the reporter Is able to gather there Is no probability of any immediate material changeB. ^Ana o crAAfl flpdl ftf LillKKICClO lia?c uu.iv a -n work along the line during several months past; but they have merely been gathering exact Information with reference to' future contingencies. .T^ Information will be filed In the engiq^'i eerlng department of the Southerti system, and It may never be put" to any practical use. People who handle more or less money from day to day have been struck with the Increase In the number of one dollar bills. Until recently the $5 bill was the smallest note In common circulation, all under that being in silver. There have been some |1 bills, of course; but the proportion as compared with silver was something like one to five or ten. Now the banks are paying over their counters as much money In one dollar bills as they are In silver dollars. Just where the bills are coming from, it has not been practicable to determine. One of the bankers suggested the other day that quite a number of them were brought from Columbia by the military boys; but this accounts f?r only a small per centage of the total amount In circulation. Some people prefer the bills to silver and others prefer the silver dollar. The banks rather prefer the silver dollars, and are Inclined to ship the bills away. The silver dollar Is not at all popular In the north. Up there they use but little silver except In mak-. ing change under a dollar. It has been so for fifteen or twenty years; but down this way, sliver has had the more general vogue, it Is possible that custom Is undergoing a gradual change. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The Associate Reformed congregation of Yorkvllle still has unde^ consideration the Idea of a new church building; but as yet has determined upon nothing definite. ? School begins next Monday. The children are sorry, and the parents are sorry too; but In the case of the latter the sorrow is because school did not begin last Monday. ? There will be a meeting In the court house tonight at 8 o'clock to make a last effort In behalf of the proposition to secure the location of the Presbyterian college of South Carolina In Yorkvllle. The Enquirer Is requested to urge everybody In Yorkvllle who is Interested In the matter to give their attendance and look It squarely In the face. The hour Is 8 o'clock. -? ? The recent bond Issue of the York Cotton mills amounting to $85 000, has been financed by and through Mr. Sam M. McNeel and the Loan and Savings bank. Practically all of the bonds have been taken In Yorkvllle, mostly by private individuals. The bonds run for fifteen years and draw six per cent interest. The Loan and Savings bank Is trustee. This Is the largest single financial transaction that has ever been made In Yorkvllle, and it was perfected in all its details without a hitch. ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Fannie Moffat of Due West, is the guest of Mrs. D. E. Flnley. Mrs. John B. Williams and children are guests of Mr. Geo. W. Williams's fumily. Messrs. J. L. Williams and Ernest Heath have returned from the northern markets. Miss Addle Moore returned home on Wednesday after a visit to friends at Morganton. X. C. Miss Sue McFarland has returned to her home near Yorkville, having closed her school at Newport. Misses Bessie Adams and Emma Clinton of Clover, are spending a few days with friends at Lowryville. Mr. Keg Turner has resigned his position with the dispensary and taken a position with Mackorell Bros. Mrs. W. H. Herndon and children lave leturned home after a visit of ?everal weeks to relatives In Virginia. Mrs. A. F. Cannon and son, Master Douglass Cannon of Spartanburg, ire the guests of Mrs. R. J. Herndon. Mr. R. B. Russell of Charlotte has eturned to Yorkville and will buy :otton this season for a Charlotte irm. Miss Emma Neil is the guest of Mr. W. S. Nell's family. She will leave on iext Friday for Chlcora college, at 3reenville. Prof. J. H. Wltherspoon left la/.'. Saturday for Fort Mill to take charge of the graded school at that place. Frof. Wltherspoon Is a teacher of character and ability and the Fort Mill people are to be congratulated on having secured his services. A note from Prof. R. J. Herndon tells of his arrival in Kansas City on September 2. He said he had sethis watch back one hour during the trip, and wouid have to set it back another hour on reaching Denver. He sa>s his trip was a most delightful one. He went as far as St. Louis by way of the soutnern. wnicn ne ?a.yo is ... floubtedly one of the best syatenru li America. At Kansas City he met Beveral people he knew from North md South Carolina, He exp*cteJ to leave during the afternoon of September 2 for Denver, from which phn-e it was his Intention to go to Salt lake City and spend a day or two In the Mormon country. TIRZAH AND THE DI8PEN8ARY. There was a tremendous crowd at Tlrzah yesterday. It was gathered from all parts of York county, the north, the east, the south and the west and Included something like 2 000 or 2,500 people. It was a thoroughly representative ;rowd made up of all kinds of folks, men, women and children?people who think and who are concerned about the welfare of the county and people who don't think and who don't care. The occasion of the great assemblage was the much heralded Joint debate between Senators Tillman and Brlce on the merits of the Brlce law as a remedy for the dispensary evil and this was practically the only feature of the exercises of the day. The debate passed off quietly and satisfactorily. Senator Tillman made as good a presentation of his wellknown position as was possible, and Senator Brlce sustained himself In a way that was entirely satisfactory to his numerous friends and no less creditable to the cause he represents. Everybody recognizes the remarkable ability of Senator Tillman as a public speaker and his firm hold on an audience, and but few expected Senator Brlce to stand a reasonable show. Senator Brlce, of course, has his enemies, and these think he was annihilated; but he also has his friends, who are still more numerous, and these think he sustained himself In a manner that was altogether creditable. They are confident that he had the strong side of the question and they have no unfavorable criticism of the manner In which he handled It. On the contrary they are gratified at the most capital showing under circumstances which they considered tremendously disadvantageous. The speaking took place In a cramped rostrum, where there were but poor facilities for writing, and the reporter was at a serious disadvantage; but has been able to get a fair synopsis of the proceedings. Mr. J. C. Wllborn presided as chairman and after the exercises had been opened with prayer by Dr. J. L. Stokes, followed by music by the Gold Hill band, explained the conditions of the debate and Introduced Senator J. S. Brlce as the first speaker. 8enator Brice. Senator Brlce began with an expression of the pleasure he felt in meeting so many of his fellow citizens gathered to hear the discussion of a question that is of vital importance not only to the people of York county: but of all South Carolina. Lpe felt but ill qualified by experience Mr natural talent to meet in debate, an antagonist of such recognized ability as his opponent: but Thrice armed Is he that hath his quarrel just. And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel Whose conscience with Injustice Is corrupted. I stand here today, he declared, for honesty, purity and sobriety in official and individual life. I am here not for the purpose of doing you harm, but to help acquaint you with the corruption that Is sapping the foundations of your government, and In the hope of promoting your social and moral welfare. If I have been instrumental in arousing the people of South Carolina to the dangers with which they are threatened on account of this Infamous dispensary law, I have done so with no sinister motives. Other people have gotten Into office and power and held the same continuously through fifteen years because of agitation against conditions not neaily so Intolerable as those which now exist; but I tell you that I am not a candidate for any office, and I do not expect to be. I have been highly honored by you In being twice sent to represent you as your senator In the general assembly and while I appreciate the honor you have conferred upon me, I ask that you pardon me when I declare that I have spent every cent of my salary on actual personal expenses while in Columbia, and in railroad fare going to and from Yorkvllle and visiting my family. I could have made some money maybe; but when you elected me as your senator I resigned the local railroad attorneyship I held at the time, and gave up the free pass that had been Issued to me on account of that position. The reference to the free pass provoked hearty cheers from Mr. Brlce's friends, and the people generally, seemed to understand the significance of the remark as having a certain bearing on Senator Tillman's record on the pass question. Continuing. Senator Brlce declared that he had no personal Interest in trying to arouse the people to defeat the dispensary law, and he asked no reward except a consciousness of a duty well performed. He referred to the fact that in 1892 he was county chairman of the whole Democratic party, tried to treat both factions with absolute fairness, and had reason to believe that he succeeded In emerging from those bitter times with the confidence of all of his fellow Democrats. In 1895 with the consent of the people, he called a peace and harmony convention that gave both factions satisfactory representation in the constitutional convention and he did this not for his personal advantage; but for the good of South Carolina. Next the speaker referred to the fact that In 1892 he voted for prohibition along with 40,000 other Democrats. Out of the 82.000 Democrats who participated In the primary some 18.000 failed to vote on the prohibition question. About 30,000 voted for whisky. The prohibition majority was 10.000. If he had been governor of the state he would have hesitated a long time before he would have undertaken to have said that these 40,000 prohibitionists did not have sense enough to know what they wanted. Senator Brlce said he was willing to admit that it was a ticklish question. Charleston, Richland and several counties In the lower part of the state had voted overwhelmingly against prohibition and to force It on them meant no end of trouble. However, in deciding the question, Senator Tillman admitted the correctness of the principle of local option In this matter. But If he was unwilling to force prohibition on a county that does not want It, why should he seek to force liquor on a county that wants prohibition. Senator Brlce admitted that he had favored the dispensary law at first because he thought It a good thing, but his mind was disabused by his observation of Its practical operation, and in 1895 he promised on every stump In the county to vote against the Incorporation of any of Its provisions In the constitution of the state. He continued to give half hearted support to the dispensary Idea up to 1900; but In that year he advised the people of his intention to Introduce a bill that would give them the right to vote on the removal of dispensaries as well as on their establishment. He took no part In establishing the grog shop In Yorkville; but voted against It and advised others to do the same. Now, I do not ask you to take what I say on this proposition of the dispensary offering the best solution of the liquor question, I want you to-give the matter your most careful consideration and vote as you please In accordance with the dictates of your best judgment and a clean conscience. I say that the dispensary law is undemocratic. John Stuart Mill said more than a hundred years ago that tbe act of the state In engaging in a business Involving the monopoly of any article of commerce, necessarily Invites corruption, because the individual feels that in the matter of commerce he has a right to do whatever the state does. The history of the dispensary has proved the truth of this proposition. Next Senator Brlce reviewed the development of the dispensary law, showing how It was at first made to apply to the whole state?except In such counties as were previously dry by legislative enactment; how ther^ was an nmonrtmonf nV-nvldlnir that these COUn ties could establish dispensaries on a vote of the people; how the general assembly afterward provided for the establishment of dispensaries regardless of the voters and how when the people of Incorporated towns refused to stand for the liquor traffic the general assembly, In certain Instances, provided for the establishment of dispensaries In the rural districts. All this was undemocratic; but no more so than the fact that If John Sandlfer should sell whisky at night, he might be liable to Imprisonment in the penitentiary; while a rich man might build a fine so-called tourists' hotel in Yorkvllle and get from the state board of control the right to sell whisky when he chose night or day, by the drink or otherwise. But the fact that it is undemocratic is not the real objection to this damnable law. A more serious objection is the fact that it makes every man and woman in the state a party to the liquor business and elevates that business to a high eminence of respectability where it tempts people who would not have otherwise come within its baleful influence. Then again the statistics show that the conduct of the dispensary has been attended by a marked Increase in crime. During the period from 1888 to 1893 inclusive, the attorney general's report shows 2,506 cases of assault and battery and 717 cases of murder. This was before the establishment of the dispensary. During a similar period following the establishment of the dispensary from 1894 to 1899 inclusive, there were 3,558 cases of assault and battery and 1,238 murders, an increase of 70 per cent of murders and 40 per cent of assault and battery. Liquor causes lawlessness and it is a fair inference that the dispensary law causes lawlessness in South Carolina. In 1898 there were 248 murder cases in this state?more than there were in Japan with her forty millions of people. After discussing the crime feature Senator Brice proceeded to denounce the effort to popularize the law by engrafting it on to the state's most cherished institution?the free school system. Here he warmed up to the subject and was most scathing in his denunciation. "It is a common cheat and swindle," he declared, "a delusion, a fraud, a miserable makeshift, a vast lake of pitch that defiles and blackens every one who touches it. It is a deadly vampire whose hellish wings hover over every home in South Carolina. It is a whitened sepulcher, beautiful without; but within filled with dead men's Bones. It is the dog returning to his vdrnlt again, the sow that was washed going back to her wallowing in the mire. Instead of a step toward prohibition it is a step toward perdition. Instead of liquor chemically pure it is pure chemicals. In brief my position on the dispensary system. Is that it is worse than bar rooms, worse than blind ligers, worse than no law at all." For a dispensary advocate to get up before an audience of intelligent people and denounce liquor and talk about the evils, the barrooms and blind tigers is like the devil dressed up in a long tail coat and silk hat, and with a long, hypocritical face, ravening wolf In sheep's clothing, telling the people to beware of Beelzebub or he will debauch them, when the devil with his greater ability, power and Influence can make them tenfold more the children of hell than can any of his lieutenants. The dispensary needs defense and it needs the defense, of a man like Senator Tillman. A weaker man could not carry the load. He boasts that it Is his baby. If I were the father of a thirteen-year-old baby that was guilty of so much murder, so much stealing, and had debauched so many people until its work had begun to sap the very foundations of the state Itself, I would hang my head in shame and confess to the people of South Carolina that I had sinned before man and God in bringing this unnatural creature into existence. [Cheers]. If you do not believe the devil is In liquor, Senator Brlce advised, just drink enough of it, and the blue devils will come and sit down on the side of your bed to keep you company before you reach the home of Dives. It is useless to argue that the dispensary law has not had a fair chance in South Carolina. It has never been in the hands of its enemies until last year. Every change that has been made in that law has been made in Its interest, as its friends supposed. I have been a member of the state government for four or five years and I am the worst enemy the law has had since 1900. The only Important change In the law since 1896 was that giving county legislative delegations the right to name county boards of control. The only dispensary in this county is the one at Yorkvllle. I have seen to it that It was In the hands of good, clean men who were enemies of the system. I selected Mr. Snider, who discharged his duty honestly and I also am responsible for the apDolntment of Mr. Sandlfer, who Is my personal and political friend, and a clean man. But this Yorkvllle dispensary Is only a little baby lion that has not yet cut Its claws. If It Is not wiped out It will eventually become as corrupt as the worst of them. It Is useless to argue that the dispensary system has fallen Into the hands of thieves. It Is not the fault of these men that they are unclean. They were honest enough when they took charge. They did not debauch the dispensary. The dispensary debauched them. The thing Is rotten to the core and you cannot possibly make It clean. [Cheers and counter cheers for Brlce and Tillman]. If Senator Tillman would take the position that had been taken by the junior senator?that It was proper for the respective counties to deal with this question as they pleased, Senator Brlce said he would have no quarrel with him; but when he assumes to say that we have no right to rid o'urselves of that damnable law, I will hit him. This dispensary law Involves questions that are both moral and political I would not try to deny that; but right here I want to place before you two witnesses to prova that It is to the moral side we mustr look for relief. The political side must be subservient to the moral side. This then la the testimony of my witnesses. Senator Tillman Insists that we purify this thing. More than 3,000 years ago Job, the grand old man of Uz asked, "Who can make an unclean thing clean?" Senator Tillman has admitted that this machine Is unclean. Can he make It clean? The testimony of Job Is against him. Then again we are told that the corrunt tree brings forth corrupt fruit. Who are you going to believe, your Divine Master, or B. R. Tillman? Some two or three disorderly smartles had been trying to disconcert Mr. Brlce all through his speech, and It was expected that they would answer, Tillman, at this point; but to their credit be it said that they kept their mouths shut. But suppose you could purify the system, continued Senator Brlce, and place the honesty of Its conduct above reproach, what would be the effect? Would you not elevate liquor to the plane where everybody would consider drinking respectable. Why there would eventually be a dispensary In every school district and along every rural route and the very school children would at length acquire the habit of coming out with their teachers at recess to buy liquor to their own ruin and the benefit of the school fund. What an eloquent admission of the inherent corruption of this system the distinguished champion of the state liquor business makes when he proposes that the bids for liquor sales be opened by the governor, chief justice and speaker of the house, each watching the other to keep them from stealing. He actually proposes to assemble the highest dignitaries of South Carolina to do the dirty, mean, contemptible, damnable office of a barkeeper. [Cheers for Brice, and counter cheers for Tillman.] It would make South Carolina the laughing stock of the world. I wonder that he did not also propose ' to! provide that these functions be opened with prayer tty Bishop Potters [Laughter]". I'll admit now that they were honest when they Instituted this law; but those sunup and sundown and no drinking on the premises features who were thev Intended to catch? It was not the old topers. It wai understood that they I would get their' liquor. all rightl It r must therefore have been a sop to those | who were fighting liquor. Why even the very ministers of the gospel were deceived and for a time it looked as If the Angel Gabriel and the devil had come to an agreement as to the. best solution of the liquor question. . We are asked. If we don't have the 1 dispensaries what are we going to have. They say blind tigers in prohibition counties and bar-rooms in 11| quor counties. I want to say that unI less there is sufficient public sentiment behind prohibition It will do some harm; but still I claim that the only way to settle the matter is to leave the people to settle it for themselves. The only thing there is in my law is the right of local self-government. I am opposed on principle to forcing prohibition on Charleston, Richland and other counties that want liquor, and I am opposed to having these counties force liquor on York If we prefer prohibition. Prohibition merely means that liquor can be sold only under the ban of the law. It does not mean that no liquor will be sold. That depends upon public sentiment. But the people of the state are not parties to the sate of liquor in violation of the law. But so long as the dispensary people are not even pretending to try to curtail the saJe of liquor they have no right to complain of the attitude of the prohibitionists. So far as blind tigers are concerned. Senator Brlce asserted, there are more now than there have ever been in the history of the state. The United States revenue records show that there are more than 400 liquor tax receipts held In the state?an average of ten to the county, and this does not Include even a large per cent of the total number of illicit dealers. All this in spite of the fact that the maintenance of the state constabulary cost $66,000 last year. I want to pause here, digressed the senator, to recall that at the recent hearing of the dispensary Investigating committee in Spartanburg a former member of the state board of control, away back ten years ago, testified that liquor had been sold from the state dispensary to blind tigers and he did nnt know what had become of the money. There was more in what this man did not say than in what he did say. and there is reason to believe that many of the rascals are so uneasy that they tremble in their boots every time they go to church and hear the preacher give out that good old hymn. "The half has not been told." "I will never as your senator vote to purify this law," Mr. Brlce declared. "Its purification Is impossible, and I will only vote to kill It." In conclusion Senator Brice called attention to the fact that Cherokee had voted out the dispensary before the development of the recent exposures, and then enumerating Pickens, Newberry and Union, he declared that the movement had gotten the headway of a big locomotive on a dowp grade and the little bull calves must either get out of the way or be run over. He then read some extracts from an anti-dispensary pamphlet by Rev. Mr. Kirton, a Methodist minister, formerly of this state, but now of the North Carolina conference, and advised those who were lnt?restjd, to buy copies of the book. Somebody suggested to Mr. Brlce that they, would rather hear him'talk than read, and he asked him how much more time he had. "You'd better put in your whole wad while you have a chance," said Senator Tillman, "for you will need that twenty minutes you have in reply." [Laughter.] "All the points you can make about your dirty, filthy, liquor business can be answered in ten minutes," retorted Senator Brlce, and he sat down amid liberal applause. After a whispered conference with Senator Tillman, Chairman Wllborn| announced that Inasmuch . as the crowd was no doubt tired he would adjourn the meeting for three-quarters of an hour, to give an opportunity for dinner and after dinner Senator Tillman would speak. The recess was taken at 12.45. The crowd scattered and dinner was spread under the trees in various parts of the grounds. Dinner was quite plentiful and practically everybody in the big crowd was provided for. The crowd promptly reassembled at about 1.30 and after music by the band, Chairman Wilborn introduced Senator Tillman. . His mobile features having already been composed with that studied art so familiar and so characteristic into an expression that was both interesting and fetching, Senator Tillman slowly moved Into the place that had been vacated by Senator Brice, and turned his head first to one side and then to the other, half comically and half fiercely until he got the desired grip on his audience. Then he paused until the initial applause began to die away, and brought the crowd to attention with the drawling remark: "Hogs down my way root with their noses. They don't shout." A number of people laughed and cheered, and as though oblivious to the audience and its expectations, he turned and jerked out: "Take that pitcher away. I don't need it." He referred to the water pitcher that was sitting on the pounding board, and the remark as well as the accompanying action were taken to be funny. After another pause, be phc-utcd: "I was merely alluding to the fact that it has been said that there were evidences of a purpose to pack this . Hlor^n. IIIffllHK Willi I WICIO IUI tuv vi iu pv, sary." Thin sally brought forth laughter from many and a few roots from the rooters. Senator Tillman continued: Ladles and Gentlemen: I am no stranger here. My friend has alluded to my first visit as being sixteen years ago. It was nineteen years ago. The place was MasRey's grove across yonder: but It was Tlrxah. I came to you as a stranger, and spoke as best I knew how. I come to you today not as an office seeker; but In response to an Invitation signed by four or five hundred people and In order that you may understand why I will make certain allusions and follow certain lines I will read It to you. Senator Tillman read the petition which Invited him to come and defend himself on account of certain "attacks" that had been made on him In the antl-dlspensary mass meeting in the court house on August 7. He said that the first petition contained only about 2f> names, and as he had not considered It worth his while to come here to "defend himself," he replied that he would not feel Inclined to come unless the demand seemed more general. Accordingly the number of names had been Increased sufficiently to warrant him In feeling that he could come without laying himself open to the charge of meddling. The senator was armed with some papers Including some copies of The Enqi'irjjr and proceeded to read from an editorial In the Issue of August 29, where It was stated "we think the people of York county understand the whisky question better than Senator Tillman understands them." The senator paused looked fierce and comical until a portion of the audience began to encourage him. and continued, "If Mr. Orlst ever did drop his candy he dropped It right there." [Laughter]. Then he went on to tell how In his first scatorlal campaign In 1894, Senator Butler undertook to pack the opening meeting at Rock Hill with a railroad Coxey's army to root for Butler. He told them at the time that Butler was getting the shouts but he would get the votes. He got them. Proceeding with the editorial the senator remarked that although he was not a preacher, he liked to have a I text, and when he came to the state0 merit that "Senator Brices goes to Tlrzah not because he wants to; but as the representative of the dispensary opposition in York county," he paused again. He pursed his lip, bunched his nose, frowned and turned around and laughed at Mr. Brice. The same part of the crowd that had been applauding applauded again. Mr. Brloe showed no interest. Senator Tillman went on with the reading, "to persuade the people that they have no right to vote out the dispensary under the Brice law," and after a pause declared. "I don't believed that Mr. Grist himself believed that when he wrote it." There was more laughter and rooting ^ as Sena.or Tillman contlni^ed "I have come here as a public servant to let you know that I am not too big for my breeches and to discuss the most important public question that has ever confronted the people of South Carolina. I have my opinion on this matter, and I will not glve:up my opinion for all the pofltiolanb |in or out of York county or South Carolina. Passing along I recifll that Senator Brice remarked that if my position on ** this subject had been the same as that of Senator Latimer, he would not have hit roe.' Now I don't know that I have questioned his right to hit me as much as he- wants to: but at the same time 1 would have it understood that T An not ?iirr?n(lcr mv right to hit him back. This was said with a facial grimace that brought an applauding response, and with expressive intonation the senator went on to say that Mr. Erice had not shown him proper respect In charging the dlspensaft law to himself aod the devil. He thought Mr. Brlce would have shown more respect had he said that the devil had all to do with It I really dpn't think Mr. Brlce Is a candidate for governor, Senator TUN man declared; but somebody Is trying to put a bee In his bonnet and If Mr. Brlce does not run like the devil that bee Is going to get there. He referred to editorials and news letters which mentioned Mr. Brlce -as the logical candidate of the dispensary oppo- w sltlo". Then turning tauntingly to Mr. Brlce, he said: "I hope you will reconsider because I really think you ought to be a candidate." Beating about for a new start, Senator Tillman asserted that Senator Brlce had gone so many directions, wobbling and twisting from one side to the other until It was almost Impossible to follow him; "but one thing Is certain, he did not want many of you to read that book [Kirton's pamphlet] because." and the assertion was concluded with contagious laughter, "he read it all himself." This 4 whisky question* he went on, has so many sides to It that nobody, not even the ministers of the gospel, are Infalli* ble. Referring again to his papers, Senator Tillman took up Thv Enquirbr's report of the anti-dispensary mass meeting and said that he had hoped that Senator Brlce would follow up the line he had started out on there, and then asked, "Who gave Senator Brlce the right to declare publicly In this Qod-feartng community what my rellglous views are?" This man has charged me with Infidelity, with blasphemy. with collusion with the devil, 4 and I have a right to defend myself." His face assumed an Injured expression that seemed tb make a powerful appeal for sympathy. Then he declared that he was willing to compare records with 8enator Brlce and prove that he had contributed $10 to build churches where Mr. Brlce had contributed $1. He told how frequent church building subscription papers A were brought to him, and how he Invariably explained that he was unable to give much, but nevef failed to fork over $&. DUl I UIU. IIUl VU1I1C uvi C. AVI ? quarrel." the senator continued; "but for a reasonable, logical discussion of the liquor question. Tou have had eloquence and beautiful rhetoric; but fine words butter no parsnips. The question Is not whether you should have liquor, for you will drink, but whether you shall have It In a legal way. ' These prohibitionists tell you to get It by express If you are rich, but If you are not rich they expect you J o sneak around after a blind tiger. At Rock Hill a reliable-man Inform* ed me that the average receipts of liquor by express were from 16? to 200 gallons .& week?something- like ?^ 10,000 gallons a year A pretty good showing for a dispensary, Is It not? he sneered. The Brice bill, he declared, can drive the dispensary out of York; but it cannot drive liquor out of York. The United States supreme court has ^ guaranteed that. The human appetite craves stimulants, Senator Tillman declared. If It is not whisky, then it Is tea, coffee, morphine, cocaine. Yoq. will have it and if you can't gift It lawfully you will have it unlawfully. If you can't get It from a dispensary you will order It by express or buy It from a blind tiger. Recurring to the fact that Senator Brlce was once his political friend and falling to elicit just exactly the re-: sponse that he seemed to have deslr- > ed, he reminded his audience that he was very sick last February and, I did not know then whether I would ever see you again. In a subdued solemn tone, Indicating a feeling that he realized that he is now In uncertain health he concluded Impressively, "I don't know now that I will ever see you again! "If I believe the dispensary law is the best solution of the liquor question," he declared, getting back to his subject, "I am going to say it to the teeth of every man. in South Carolina, no matter what he think, whether he * j be a prohibitionist, local optlonlst or what." . Reminded by hi* notes, he referred sarcastically tp Senator Brlce's suggestion that he had ridden Into office on a movement, and had been enjoying a princely salary ever since. He.. said he was giving value received and was worth the money. He claimed also that he had nothing to gain in agitating this question; he could have easily played hookey and nobody * would have found It out. He declared that he no longer delighted in public speaking and that he could have gained another election without opposition. Then as if seeking to explain the small support the dispensary is getting from others besides himself, the senaaiflmlflnanHv ' A# VIM iriuat nru oiQiiuivckii vi/, v. the dispensary politicians seem to have taken to the bushes?not to the bushes exactly; but to the tall timber. They are giving anxious study to the atmosphere and asking whether or not it is a dispensary cyclone that is coming." v. Defending the establishment of dispensaries in various counties without a vote, which act Senator Brlce had declared undemocratic. Senator Tillman claimed that it was done at the instance of the representatives of those counties In the general assembly. Senator Tillman re-Iterated his belief In local self-government, declar- ? Ing that he had sucked It with his mother's milk, and then went on to argue the hopelessness of Senatdr ' Brlce's desire to abolish individual participation in the liquor business for the reason that the United States government Is now in that business to the amount of $170 000.000 a year. ^ Can those people who claim that the sale of wh|kky in dispensaries is immoral, claim ahat the sale of whisky would be moral under high license. ^ I'll not attempt to ^ass upon Mr. Brice's Christianity. I will leave that between him and his God, before whom I have to give my own account. "Judge not lest ye be judged, sir," he snapped, turning to Senator Brlce. Then he proceeded to ask the moral difference between selling liquor according to law and drinking It. "I don't know anything about his habits, but I will say this. During the fiftyeight years of life I have not drank all told fifty-eight gallons of whisky. t Can he say as much? If ali the people In South Carolina had appetites like mine, it would put the dispensaries out of business, and the tigers and express companies, too. "I say that the dispensary law Is the best solution of the liquor ques- * tion if the people will take It out of J the hands of the thieves elected by the legislature and place it In the hands of the governor, chief justice and speaker of the house. , "The devil may have been present at a cerraln conference, referred to by Senator Brlce. I don't know; but / along with him there were as good men as J. Steele Brlce. He named Rev. S. A. Nettles and Mr. Childs. He told of that conference, how he argued the Impracticability of prohibition and prr ised that If the dispensary law wao passed he would drive every barroom from South Carolina. He claimed that he had done so, and J