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University of South THE AIKEN RECORDER BY FORD & McCRACKEX. AIKEX, SOUTH t.UULINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1892. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR. for Infants and Children. “Castarla is so wcD adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me. , • H. A. Aschu, M. D. t 111 So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. T. “Tha use of ‘Castoria* to sonnirereal and Ita merits so well known that it aeema a work of supererogation to endorse it Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Castoria within aasF reach." Cantoa Marty*, D.D., New York City. late Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church. Castoria cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kills Wojyna, gives sleep, and promotes di- Without injurious medication. •* For several years I have recommended J our ‘ Castoria,' and shall always continue to o so as it has invariably produced beneficial results." Edwin F. Pardss, M. D., •‘The WInthrop,” 12Sth Street and 7th Are., New York Cityv POOR MAN’S FALSE FRIEND. B. K. TILLMA* THE FOE OF THE ‘•ONE CALLUS BOY.” Speech of Maj. E. B. Murray of Ander> son at Abbeville, July IS. : Centaur Company, 77 Murray Strret, New York. L. Johnson, President. Chas. F, Degen, Gen. Man. and Sec. & Treas. AUGUSTA LUMBER CO., Manufacturers of ELUMBERE LATHS, SHINGLES, MOULDINGS, DOORS, BLINDS, SASH. ill Ms of Dressei Liitier and General BdMIde Material. Office, Factory and Yards: Adams, Campbell, D’Antiifnac and Jackson Sts. Augusta, Georgia. NTIO-OIR, T-A-STIE EIXIIPIEIRIIEIISrOie] I I I Tailor-Fif Clothiers - - Augusta, Ca- 1892. SPRING CLOTHING. 1892. Our stock of Custom-Made Suits this season will surely command the at tention of purchasers. Every new shade of goods in the market, Crushed Strawberry, Green Persimmon, Wood Browns, Virginia Tobacco, Black and Fancy Clays, and everything new. If you desire to see a line of Spring Clothing that embodies in its variety the ultra and conservative fashionable features of the day call early at I. C. LEVY & CO.’S, Augusta, Ga., Tailor- Fit Clothiers. GIN RIBS! GIN RIBS! Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: In approaching the discussion of the issues of the present campaign, I feel that we are entering upon the considera tion of the most important canvass that has ever been upon our State. Viewed as I view it, the crisis which nowcon- fronts us is the most momentous in the history of South Carolina. There have been crisis which were to determine questions of war or peace—to determine whether the white man or the negro was to rule this State for a time but this campaign involves the conti- dence of the people in South Carolina in one another, and is to determine wheth er our people are to rent into classes dis trustful of and hostile to each other. I come here simply as a priviate.citi- zen feeling a deep and abiding interest in the welfare of South Carolina, to present to men who I know are patriotic and sincere in their wish to do that which is best for our common State, cer tain reasons why I think a change of administration is desirable in South Carolina. I wish to present these views to your reason and to have your calm and de liberate judgment upon them, feeling satisfied that you will, as true citizens, act as you believe to be best for the common good, and for this reason I shall say as little that is harsh as 1 can and shall endeavor to use no epithets towards any man or set of men with whom I may differ, for there is no ar gument in an epithet. Calling names will convince no one. If what 1 say shall reflect severely up on the present chief magistrate of this State I am determined that it shall be the force of the facts of the case and not simply the words of the speaker. CLASS ARRAYED AGAINST CLASS. To begin with, Governor Tillman and his friends have sought to array one class of our citizens against another class, and have thereby produced a di vision and distrust in this State which las been most injurious. It h»s array ed brother against brother, neighbor against ‘neighbor and friend against friend in this little State, which is small enough to make our interests one. Our people ought to know each other in South Carolina from the mountains to the sea so well by character and rep utation that we would appreciate and sympathize with the motives and pur poses of all our people, and not be hos tile to one another. Our interests are the same throughout the State, and the classes of our citizens in South Carolina are so dependent one on the other that it is a gfeat wrong for any man to seek to produce discord and distrust whfea^^rc_was_hafoiony a ml in the so nd of my voice know’ that if tne lie law had teen repealed last year, or tie year before, as Gov. Till man advoated, it w mid have com pelled htidreds and thousands of res- pectablilhonest, hard working white men to Lve hired themselyes and their wivs* and little children as ser vants to nen who had money enough to run witiout the lien law? He say; the lien law has been abused, art uo doubt it has been, but no man isjuupelled to give a lien unless he nds it to his advantage to do so. It is a pivilepe the poor white man has which nable« him to liveand sup port his w’le and children by honest work as a tee man and as his own boss. I, for one would never be willing to see this l.rge claS^ o' our fellow citizens depivtd of the opportunity to live as tiny hud n their bappirrss and THE PVT RIOT ost conducive to rosperity. MPOR MAN. ig men of this of the campaign with unmixed 1 services of this As one of he you State who sav much of 1876, I renember gratitude thespleudi tenant class (four cijizen in the ef forts to redeen Sout| Carolina. They rode with us <n many a night and many a sultryday. They responded in rain or hotbst sui shine, and shar ed in the Fullest eve y peril of that magnificent contest, and I, for one, as long as I remenber heir gallant and ever ready service, cmnot consent to see their only ueam of credit taken from them at atimewhen their crops a»-e scarcely mfficient to support them, and thousand of them would have to break uo hemes, which are happy, even admif their toil and forced economy, to liecome the hire ling and servants of their more fortu nate neighbors. Governor Tillman certainly is not their friend w’hen be would takeaway from them their onl/ means of credit, and reduce them to the positions ot serfs. THE POOR man’s Eld HT TO VOTE. But this is not all. in this country the. sovereign power i of our govern ment resides in the^0pie, and this •:o.- I HAVE secured Patterns and propose to furnish RIBS for all makes of Gins at reasonable prices. CASTINGS of all kinds in Iron and Brass at short notice. Special attention given to Repairs. Satisfaction guaranteed! THE PENDLETON FOUNDRY AND E El WORKS. Nos. 615, 617 and 619, Koelock St., - - AUGUSTA, GA. CHAS. F. LOMBARD, Proprietor., M. W, PENDLETON, Sup’t. ROBERT POWELL. JAMES POWELL. POWELL BROS., Hardware Merchants. Store No. 1—Hardware, Cutlery, Stoves, Tinware, House Furnishing Goods, Nails, Iron, Glass, Builders’ Material, Painst and Oils, Agricultural Implements of all kinds, Garden Seeds, Guns aud Ammunition. Carriage Department. Store No. 2, Sign of the Gray Horse, comprises a full line of Ooen and Top Buggies, Phietons, Surries, Road Carts, Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Collars, Whips, Robes, etc. THE "OLD HICKORY" 1. i AXD 3 HORSE WAGONS. Seiins Machine & Orp Department in Store No. 2. We sell the DAVIS, STANDARD, DOMESTIC and WHITE. These are the best made. Also a large stock of second-hand machines at $5 to $20. Agents for the celebrated Farrand & Votey Organs. Machines and Organs sold at low prices and on easy terms. Our motto is to keep the best goods and meet any competition. Call aud see our large stock. Two stores full from top to bottom on Laurens Ktreet, Aiken, 8. C. C. B. DOSCHER. C. E. PETTY. R. A. FRAIX. DOSCHER & CO. FANCY FAMILY GROCERIES! PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ORDERS. 006 Broad 8treet AUGUSTA, GA. has done this uiinFr the plea that ;he is the laboring man’s friend. HOSTILE TO THE POOR MAN. I propose to speak to you plainly and candidly to-day, and at the risk of aston- ishing you by the proposition, I arraign this administration as the most hostile in the measures proposed and advocated, to the laboring man of any Administra tion the State has ever hail, not except ing the darkest Republican Aministra- tions of our State. I want you to understand me clearly. I do not believe that this Administrtion has stolen money from the people, but I say its attitude towards tlie laboring man in South Carolina is more hostile than that of Moses or Scott. They robbed the State, but in order to do it they taxed property and stole only from the property holders. TUE $3 POLL TAX INIQUITY. In adopting the present Constitution, which has been so much abused aud ob jected to, thev fixed the burden which the laboring man must bear in taxation at one dollar per head, and never sought to raise it. They taxed property to run the public schools, retained the lien law and enacted the homestead Jaw, but it is reserved for tins Administration, fif teen years after this party of corruption and oppression were driven from power to come forward and as the professed friend of the laboring man, as the avowed champion of the wool hat crowd, to propose to change the pro vision of the constitution relating to the poll tax aud raise this tax from one to three dollars per capita, or to place three times the burden of taxa tion upon the poor man’s head which the Republicans themselves put on it. The plea for this is that it will make the negro pay his share of the school tax and run the schools longer. In order to oppress the negro they propose to oppress the poor white man too, and if they could run the schools longer there are hundreds and thous ands of poor white men who would have to pay this tax that could not send their children, for in making an honest living for themselves and fam ilies they are compelled to take theii children in the busy times of the crop to the fields, and only the men who d<> not have to put their children in the field could get the benefit of these schools run by the tux on the poor man’s head. THE PROPER BASIS Of TAXATION., This basis of taxation is wrong. People ought to be taxed to support the government according to their ability to pay, by an equal tax in pro portion to the property they own. Any scheme of taxation which seeks to tax the poor man heavily is unjust, and I cannot see how one pro fessing to be tlie poor man’s friend could be willing to permit such a tax upon him. much les*- to advocate it, as Governor Tillman does. THE REPEAL OF THE LIEN LAW. Again Gov. Tillman has expressed himself as favoring tlie repeal of the lien law. There may have been a time in the history of our 8tate when crops were abundant and prices good, that by giving timely notice it might have been done to repeal th s law,but in the last two years when crops were short aud prices were going down, down, until the staple crop of our country reached a point below what many persons believe to be the actual cost of production; when the landlords have been scarcely able to make ends meet, and when the tenants have been barely able to support them selves and their families, often endur ing many privations, there has cer tainly been no time when it would have done to repeal the lien law. Why, ii y friends, don’t every man sovereignty has «• v itself except tlie hi/1 It is by the ballc law-makers aud or stue and enforce te only enact new Ifi injurious ones thr the ballot. It is by the righfij can assert our wiss' ermeut which con.] liberties and our highest right of d^l It is the right *< dignifies every tri yet Governor Till tiiat he is the woo declared th&t he tional couveutil ay of asserting »t. ihat we select our officers to con- laws. We can or repeal bad or ;h the exercise of vote that we to the gov- our lives, our irty. It is the Itizens. .ch enables and ^lerican, and ixvho claims friend, has rage in tbis suant to this which is two-thin a resolution calling voted down a resol anti-Tillman Senail woik of this convei' ted to the people. Governor fillmal shows how little hi man in South Can take away from unless he lias property or a ceil cation. TO DEGRADKl He would thusl grade those who\ enough to own pro j| cation to tlie exte^f and their purposohl convention and min" without reference ai pie liked tlie Constea or not. WHAT A TILLM.l Education “ion for suf- and pur- |Xi the Senate, -illman. passed ^convention and on offered by an to require the bin to be submit thus further tares for the poor 'a by trying to ,iihe right to vote ain amount of tamount of edu- M 'POOR MAN. Hate and de- “not fortunate or have edu- iy might fix, to call this Fits work final hether the peo- |ion they made SENATE DID. ed down a res- auti-Tillmau convention to aw, thusshow- This same Sena^r olution offered Ire Senator to requin, a reenact the homeste* ing that it was their purnose to repeal I this law which is certainly intended lo protect the unfortunate, who with out it, might be reduced to absolute penury. Aud this Senate likewise voted down a resolution offered by an anti- Tillman Senator, requiring the con vention to re-enact the two-mill school tax, thus showing, it seems to me, that the party in power proposes to exempt property from taxation for school purposes and to make the poll tax $3 instead of $1, and run tlie schools on it, which would practically be making the poor man pay to edu cate the rich man’s children. There is certainly no friendship for the poor man in this. THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT INIQUITY. This convention was defeated in the House of Representatives by theauti- Tillman vote going against it. Again a bill known as the County govern ment bill, was introduced into the House of Representatives and repeat edly asserted to be Governor Till man’s bill, and he never denied it that I heard of, so that we may fairly call it his bill. It provided for the aboli tion of tlie office of county commis sioner and for the election of one man in each county and the appointment by the Governor of three in each township who were to run the county governments in the State. This bill would have given the Gov ernor practical control of all the coun ty governments in this State. It also provided lor working the road by con tract, and required every able-bodied man between certain ages to work these roads eight days or pay $1.50. BOOK MEN WITH THE CHAIN GANG. If they worked they were to be un der the control, and work at such times and in such manner as the con tractor should designate, thus practi cally hiring them out to the contract or. If they worked, the State charged the contractor $4, or 50 cents a day for their servies, but if they paid out of the work it only cost them $1.50. So that the man able to pay only had to pay (bis sum. But the man who worked had to pay eight day’s work. Governor Tillman therefore seems to think that the working man is only worth 18)'2 cents per flay, and board himself al that. In addition to this, there must be a County chain gang, in which ail parties sentenced to imprisonment for any offense, whether for a vicious crime or for a simple fight, were requir ed to be worked, and the free labor of the country would have to work along side of this convict labor. HOSTILE TO THE LABORING MAN. Now, my friends, have I not shown you be} 7 ond the possibility of a doubt, that this administration is more hostile to the interest of the laboring and poor man than any we have ever had in South Carolina. I do not see how any laboring man in this State can get his 1 consent to vote to keep Governor Till man in office another term. FAILURE OF PROMISE. I also arraign Governor Tillman for a failure to perform his promises made to the people of the State in the last elec tion. You remember how he promised to reduce salaries and expenses and to reduce tlie number of offices in the State. NO SALARIES REDUCED. Has he reduced a single salary in the State? Not one, as far as I know, lias been reduced a particle. Has he abol ished any offices? Not one, and on the contrary they have actually increased them. But it will be said the Legisla ture is to blame for this; audit might be, if the Governor had vetoed the in crease. Did he try hard to reduce sala ries or abolish any offices? What offices did he ask to have abolished? None that I know of, except County Commission ers, and in their place he tried to estab lish about forty new ones in each Coun ty. Now his friends are forced to ad mit that he either made promises he could not carry out, or that he has failed to carry them out. NOT A DOLLAR SAVED BY TILLMAN. At Newberry when Earle offered to give $1,000 of his salary to the public schools if he should be elected Governor, and called on Tillman to know if he would do the same, Governor Tillman replied no, but I will save the people of this State $100,000 the first year I am Governor. Now, will any friend of his in this large audience tell me of $1 that he has saved the people of this State by being Governor that any other man would not have saved ? 1 wait for a reply. Can’t some Tillman man tell me where Governor Tillman has saved the State $1, much less $100,000, in one year of his Administration. (Here some one asked if our taxes are not half a mill less.) Yes, our taxes are half a mill less but the assessments are higher, aud it is stated that there will be a deficien cy in the treasury this year, which will necessitate a considerably higher tax levy next year. This is the elec tion year, and the tax levy was run down to make the people believe their government was being run cheaper, but the real test of this is the appropriation bill. This is the bill which tells us how much the government Is costing us TV you go lT,TDU~np‘pViqn»ttnvA-crrri j- can tell what your government is cost- g you. Is not the appropriation bil ast year larger instead of lower ^’^^efore? Then you see Governor than^W has not saved the people any- Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Baki ko ’■:A ft V , l!tN,A vV ABSOLUTELY P&. TillmaT thing DESTROY I N< CONFIDENCE CTATE. IN r Tillman I arraign GovenT3ltat^j, 0 <^^lonly for destroying confidenceSSEFtween our own people, but also for destroying the confidece of the people outside of the State in us. He has declared that there was incipient rottenness in our government, and without justification or reason lias abused our best and pur est men. There has been no name so high or so revered as to be free from traduction by him and his followers. There has been no life, however pa triotic and devoted to the people of South Carolina, that has been free from misrepresentation. THE QUESTION OF JUDGES. He has abused the judges of our State, ana not only did he go to the extent of setting his legal opinion up in a message against that of Judge Wallace, when as the executive he should not have sought to interfere witli the judiciary, but he went ac tively into the election of a Judge of the Supreme Court, aud secure the election of an Administration candi date for Associate Justice. And now that in one case Judge Pope as Associate Justice has had the Judicial integrity and the honest man hood to decide a case as he believed the law was, Governor Tillman is go ing over the State abusing him and the Supreme Court, and to show his contempt for the learued and pure Judges of this State he lias resorted to the new practiceof putting his friends from the lawyers on the Supreme Court when any Judge of that court is disqualified. VIOLATING THE CONSTITUTION. The Constitution says that the leg islative department and the judicial department of our government shall be kept separate and distinct, and 3’et he has attempted to appoint the Lieu tenant-Governor and the Speaker of the House to sit as Judges on the Su preme Court. It is due to Mr. Speaker Jones to say that he promptly declined, because he knew he was disqualified. IMPORTANCE OF A PURE JUDICIARY. My fellow citizeu, the judiciary is the most important department of our government. So long as it re mains pure and independent your lib erties are safe, but it is the last ram part behind which a free people can protect their liberties. When tlie ju diciary is brought into contempt, when it is made tlie reward for parti san services, and when it becomes servile aud subservient to the will of any man, your rights, your lives, your liberties and your property will be insecure, and the permanence of free institutions will be endangered. I beseech you to condemn in the most emphatic manner this attempt to over-ride and destroy our judiciary in its integrity and purity. I arraigu Governor Tillman for res ponsibility for much of the lawless ness in the Stale. He has been at many public meetings in this State where riots have been imminent and has repeatedly seen the right of free speech abridged and even denied to men simply because they were criti cising his official acts. If he did not approve of this course, why has he not taken measures to stop these un seemly manifestations? It is due to the dignity of his office that in hie presence no crowd of roughs shall bs permitted to break up a public meet ing or prevent a man from speaking his sentiments. He may claim to disapprove of these things, but at the Lexington meeting were Cal Caughman led the party who inter rupted the speakers and refused to let Col. Youmans speak. Governor Till man went arm in arm with Caughman to his house as his personal and ap proving friend, so far as appearances go. Is it to be wondered at that we have disorder at our public meetings when the Governor thus manifests his friendship for the ringleaders of the disorder? LYNCHINGS AND LAWLESSNESS. You know that Governor Tillman has professed to abhor lynchings, and that he promised to stop them in South Carolina. There have been more Ivuchiugs in this State since lie was Governor than in double tlie same time before, as far as I remem ber; but, be this as it may, at the last session of the Legislature he sent a message to the Legislature, charging them with responsibility for the lynching of a prisoner in Edgefield, because they did not give him power to remove sheriffs, and in less than three weeks after writing that mes sage he appointed Cal Caughman to the only office created by that Legis lature, although Cal Caughman boasts that he was present and helped to l>nch Willie Leahart in Lexington jail. Now, what do you think of his sincerity when he professes to wish to stop lynchings, and at the same time appoints lynchers to State offices? HIGH OFFICERS VIOLATE THE LAW. Again. You heard Governor Till man say two years ago that he would see that State officers who violated the law were prosecuted, or words to that effect, and yet he has heard the Attorney General the highest law of ficer of "this State admit that lie went to the Greenville meeting with a pis tol concealed about his person. The highest officer of the State, to prose cute those who break the laws of the State, himself violating the law! We frequently see some poor fellow who has a rusty pepper box in his hip pocket brought up and punished in our courts and yet this high State of ficer violates the law with impunity, and Governor Tillman takes no step proinm bf ination for Governor, but declined it because his business would not per mit him to take it. He would have taken that if he was hunting an of fice. THE FACTORIES AND BANKS. Again, we are told that Orr and Sheppard represent the factories and banks. I do not think this is any ob jection to them. When analysed it simply means that they have been honest enough, intelligent enough and successful enough for their neighbors and ac quaintances to be willing to risk their property in their hands. If honesty, integrity, successful bus iness management and the confidence of one’s neighbors and friends is to hurt a man in this country, I greatly misunderstand the temper aud spirit of our people. SHEPPARD DEFENDED. in the crowd—What about Sheppard drinking and Voices Governor gambling? I was Governor Sheppard’s room mate at college, and have been asso ciated with him for twelve years in the Legislature, and never knew or heard of his being under the influence or liquor or betting at all. He was elected four or five times to the Legislature, three times Speaker of the House, and once Lieutenant Governor, and you know it would have been charged on him if true. You know that no bank in this country would keep a man for presi dent who either got drunk or gam bled; and last of all. Governor Till man either insinuates what is not true about Governor Sheppard or lie attempted to get the convention to nominate a man for Governor who is a drunkard and a gambler, when he seconded Sheppard’s nomination in the State convention. Let his friends take their choice in this dilemma. Either wav it refiects severely on Governor Tillman. LOWERING THE STANDARD OF MOR ALITY. In conclusion, I arraigu Governor Tillman for lowerLog the standard of fr«pe»cuted," despite hiV- i8 f ’ A LAW BRL, And^^«^^£A KINQ GOVERNOR. ter |,Vlfga!n, Governor Tillman, gpi^aving sworn on af- the holy Evan- ststhat as Governor of the State, he ould discharge the duties of that of- ce. which are to enforce the laws (not a part of them) to the best of his ability, so help him God, publicly de clared as Governor, with the sanctity of this oath on his lips that for one crime he would lead a lynching party! What right has he to say which laws he will enforce, and which he will break? If he can select one to break he can select another, and another, and so on as far as he pleases. How can you expect the people to obey the laws when the Governor and the Attorney General acts in this way? Does it not look as if the Governor thought laws were made to be obeyed by common people and to be broken by State officers? Have I not made good my charge that this Administration is responsi ble in part for the lawlessness in South Carolina? REPUBLICANISM AND HASKELLISM. I must condemn without reserva tion the charge made by Governor Tillman that Governor Sheppard and ais ticket are Republicans at heart. You all know there is not one particle of fact to base this charge upon. Voice in the crowd: Did not Hamp ton say that an independent is worse than a Radical? I believe so. Do you think that? Yes. Then aint the Haskellites worse than Radicals? No. I think Judge Haskell and those who acted with him made a mistake, but there were a great many Irregularities two years ago, and you all know that Judge Haskell and most of the men who voted for him are honorable men, and as honest in their conviction as either you or I. 3ut that has nothing to do with this question. Neither Governor Shep pard, Col. Orr or I voted for Judge Haskell. We voted for Governor Tillman because he got what we con sidered the Democratic nomination, and when Governor Tillman says that Sheppard and Orr are Republi cans, you know it is not true. WHAT SHEPPARD AND ORR DID. In 1876 when the Wallace House made the famous march from Caroli na Hall to take possession of the State ut on all moral i,u»s State, not to endorse him as an example worthy of imitation by our young men. No man in this audience, I venture, has ever before heard of a Governor of South Carolina publicly profaning the name of Gid.in a pub lic address to tbe people of South Car olina. No one here ever heard of a Governor of this State, oecause he was provoked, publicly declaring in a formal speech that lie ' mid rather go to hell with his party uiends than to heaven with others. Z^o one here ever heard of a Governor of South Carolina being so vulgar in his public speeches as to make men afraid to take their wives and t heir • daughters out to meeting where the welfare of the State is to be discussed. PUTTING THE VOTER TO A HARD TFSv. My fellow citizens, the Goven »• has always been regarded as an exaii ed type of manhood, worthy of emu lation and admiration. Are you will ing to affix your approhat ion as Chris tians and moral voters to this con duct? Is there any man here who would be willing, with the responsi bility of a father resting on upon him to train up his children, to take his little boys around his hearthstone and point to the character of tlie Gov ernor of South Carolina as a suitable type of noble manhood for the emula tion? I take it not, and if not. then let us vote for the men that do not thus offend tlie moral and Christian sentiment ol our people. GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE BY GOOD MEN. It was William Penn who said the best government in the hands ol bud men is as bad as the worst, and the worst form of government in tlie hands of good men is as good as the best. We believe this republic of ours and this State government of ours are the best and most enlightened and freeest government in the world, giving more of liberty aud independence to its citizens than any other upon tlie globe. Let us not commit the folly of entrusting to bad men! It is a truth in medicine that tlie smallest dose that performs the cure is the best. Dewitt’s Little Early Ri sers are the smallest pills, will per form the cure and are the best. Governor Tillman thus further shows how little he cares for the poor man in South Carolina by trying to take away from him the right to vote unless he has a certain amount of House, Johu C. Sheppard marched at property or a certain amount of edu the front of that column, and when they reached the door of the House of Representatives it was the strong arm and the cool courage of James L. Orr which hurst the sentinel-guarded door open; and under that arm John C. Sheppard was the first mau to en ter that hall in defence of the rights of the people of South Carolina, and evi u since that time both of them have been in the fore-front of every fight for the Democratic party, long before B. R. Tillman was ever heard of. Call these men Republicans! Eith er of them young, intelligent and in fluential, could have had the highest reward from the Republican party when it was in power, but they helped with all their might to hurl it from power. You know that it there are any two men in South Carolina whose Democ- racy is beyond question or cavil John C. Sheppard and James L. Orr are so. PURELY FROM PATRIOTISM. Today J. L. Orr stands before you as the candidate for Lieutenant-Gov ernor, purely from patriotism. He could have had tlie unanimous nom- cation. If dull, spiritless and stupid; if your blood is thick andsulggish; if your appetite is capricious and uncertain, you need a Sarsaparilla. For best re sults take Dewitt’ W. J. Platt. The Conservative Democrats of South Carolina should take courage. The prospects are most encouraging. If the Conservatives will go to the polls at the primary in August Tillman will he defeated. Mrs. L. R. Patton, Rockford, II!., writes: ‘‘From personal experience I can recommend Dewitt’s Sarsaparilla, a cure for impure blood and general debility.” W. J. Platt. Gov, Tillman is in favor of educa tional aud property qualifications for voting, and wants a Constitutional convention ! n order to restrict suf frage. No other Sarsaparilla has the mer it by which Hood’s Sarsaparilla has such a firm hold upon the confidence of the people.