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oi C>» / microfilmed THE AIKEN RECORDER. BY FORD & McCRACKEN. AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1892. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR. r~ CAS DISGRACEFUL. AFFAIR. for Infants and Children. "Oasterla ia bo veil uUpted to ehQdrea ttuU I recommend it m mperior to any prescription known to me." H. ▲. Akchxk, M. D., 1X1 So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. T. "The use of 1 Castori** is so nnWersal and Hs merits se well known that it seems a work of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the Intellicent families who do not keep Castoria within easy reach." CARLOS Marttw, D. D., New York City. Pastor Bloomingdale Beformed Church. Castoria cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kills Worms, giree sleep, and promotes di gestion. Without injurious medication. * For sereral years I hare recommended your ‘ Castoria,' and shall always continue to do so as it has invariably produced beneficial results.” Edwin F. Pardks. M. D., “The Winthrop," 1.5th Street and 7th Are., New York Cityv Tim Csmtaub Compawt, 77 Murray Strut, 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. All Kinds of Dressed Lnnilier and General Beililni Material. Office, Factory and Yards: Adams, Campbell, D’Antignac and Jackson Sts Augusta, Georgia. NTIG-OIR, T-A-STIE ZEIXlIPIEIRJIIEirsrOIEJ ZEUsrTDEIRIPIRJISIE I. C. LEVY & CO., Tailor-Fit 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 Tit Clothiers. GIN RIBS! GIN RIBS! •:<).- 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 ' AND E EE WORKS. Nos. 615, 617 and 619, Koi.lock St., - - AUGUSTA, GA. CHAS. F. LOMBARD, Proprietor., M. W, PENDLETON, f^up’t. ROBERT POWELL. JAMES POWELL. POWELL BROS., Hardware Here hauls. Store No. 1—Hardware, Cutlery, Stoves, Tinware, House Furnishing Goods, Nails, Iron, Glass, Builders’ Material, Painst and Oils, Agricultural Implements of ail kinds, Garden Seeds, Guns and Ammunition. Carriage Department. Store No. 2, Sign of the Gray Horse, comprises a full line of Ooeu and Top Buggies, Phadons, Surries, Road Carts, Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Collars, Whips, Robes, etc. THE "OLD HICKORY" 1, 2 AND 3 HORSE WAGONS. SewiHE Machine & Orp Department ii 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 F'arraud & 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 and see our large stock. Two stores full from top to bottom on Laurens Atreet, Aiken, S. C. C. B. DOSCHER. C. E. PETTY. R. A. FRAIN. DOSCHER & CO. FANCY FAMILY GROCERIES! PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ORDERS. A Candidate Beaten and Hocked at a Carolina Meeting. From The Augusta Chronicle. The Conservatives or anti-Tillman- ites had arranged for a barbecue at Wiiiiamston on Monday, and it seems that as soon as this meeting was an nounced the County Executive Com mittee ordered a campaign meeting also for the same day, to be held three miles west of Wiiiiamston. at Cedar Grove. At this meeting all the Coun ty candidates were expected, and had a right to be. Major E. B. Murray, of Anderson, a Conservative candidate for delegate to the State convention, and Mr. Jas. P. Gossett, a candidate for the Legis lature, went to Cedar Grove. Upon Major Murray’s arrival lie was met by a crowd of Tillmanites, who told him he could not speak. He pressed his way to the stand, and when about ten steps from the stand, among la dies, he was seized by a mob and struck, kicked and shoved until forced back, and then thrown bodily in his buggy, and it was with great difficulty that his companion forced the buggy througli the crowd. W. A. Neal, a Tillmanite member of the board of penitentiary directors, shouted out that Murray had a right to be present, and one of the com mittee of arrangements endeavored to assist Major Murray on the stand, but the crowd caught hold of him and forced him back into his buggy, dealing him blows all the time. One fellow struck him in the side with a large umbrella staff. Major Murray started to drive off when several Till manites caught hold of the wheels and were dragged along the ground in their efforts to stop him. They then began to throw rocks at him, several of them taking effect. When Major Murray arrived at Wiiiiamston, where the Conservative meeting was in progress, great indig nation was expressed at the indigni ties put upon him, and he was called upon to speak. He expressed regret that the day had arrived when at a public gathering the right of free speech is forcibly denied to one who is entitled to discuss questions affect ing the welfare of the State, and when one attends a meeting of Dem ocrats at the risk of his life. I simply state facts, said he, when I say that had Mr. Gossett and myself remained there neither one of us would have been alive at this time. Woke Up the Wrong Passenger. The Subtreasury Bill. §Q6 Broad Street AUGUSTA, GA. The Congressional Committee on Ways and Means, through Mr. Mc- Millin, has made a unanimous report adverse to the subtreasury bill. The report is a long document and discus ses all phases of the question in a comprehensive style. It begins de ferring for the time the question of i;he constitutionality of the bill, and proceeds to state the objections that occur to the committee. They are briefly stated as follows: If there should be a reduction in i;he value of goods after they are stored, below 80 per cent., the govern ment would lose. If the value in creased the government would get none of the profit. The jurisdiction of Federal Courts would be increased so as to make them an instrument of oppression to the people. The bill tends strongly towards centralization and interferes with individual free dom. A great fluctuation in currency will follow its enactment. The oper ations of the bill would not be con- lined to the farmers, but theironman, umberman and manufacturers gen erally would complain until the gov ernment fixed a limit to a possible oss of 20 per cent, on them and soon. The government would be usurping the functions of the citizens and at tending to everybody’s business but its own. The inauguration of the scheme would be the speculator’s de light; he could carry #470,000 worth of wheat with less than #95,000 cash, and pay the government only 1 per cent, interest. The great increase in the number of Federal officials would make it almost impossible to dis lodge a corrupt administration. No provision is made for the redemption of many millions to be issued under the bill, and the banks would have the power to force the destruction of any part of the government’s money. The bill is class legislation and it would be unjust to the day laborer and other toilers. People having the particular kind of property to deposit could get money at 1 per cent, from the government and lend it at a higher rate to other persons. Lastly, it is violative of the consti tution, as is shown by citations from the highest judicial tribunals in the laud. ^ In Michigan it is unlawful for rail way companies to neglect to block the frogs on their roads so that the feet of employees may not be caught therein. A switchman, while uncouj)- liug cars, had his feet caught in an unblocked frog and was injured. He sued for damages, and proved that other frogs in the yard were unblock ed and that the yardmaster had been notified of their condition. The Court decided that it was no defence that the company had employed men to keep all frogs blocked, and that proper material had been furnished for that purpose, because negligence of the employees was the negligence of the company. From The Augusta Chronicle. The most exciting meeting of the State campaign occurred at Union on Thursday, the 4th inst. There came dangerously near being a personal difficulty on the stand between Gov. Tillman and Col. Orr, which would have resulted in a riot. In his speech Gov. Tillman asked Col. Orr for his authority for saying that a preacher had said that he (Tillman) had flaunted his profanity in public. Col. Orr explained that he did not divulge private conversations, and added that Tillman knew the state ment was true as he could ascertain by appealing to the pieachers in gen eral. The Governor said that sometimes an oath slipped out, but that it had done so only on one occasion during the campaign. He appealed to the ladies present to signify if in their opinion they considered him a black guard, but of course there was no re spouse from them. The Governor then said that Col. Orr or any other man who said he flaunted his profan ity in public lied. Col. Orr advanced to the Governor, and, catching him by the arm, wheel ed him around and asked him if he was trying to raise a personal diffi culty. Governor Tillman replied that he was not, and Orr shook his finger in his face and told him he could not in timate that he (Orr) lied without having it thrown in his (Tillman’s) teeth. He told him further that Till man had boasted of being ‘‘God Al mighty’s gentleman.” The Governor replied so he had. and Orr replied, “He did not do himself credit when he made you.” He agaiu caught hold of tlieGovernor and asked him if he meant to intimate that he was a liar. The Governor said that if Orr did not originate the statement his remark did not apply to him. By this time the crowd had become a raging mob. People climbed up on the stand, men pulled off their coats, swore like troopers and gathered around the two men. It looked for all the world as jf blood was to be shed. Col. Orr stood to the rack and told Tillman he had repeatedly used curse words on the stand. The Gov ernor said he had not done it but once, and he would leave it to Ex- Governor Sheppard, who, however, had nothing to say. ( yQU at Th6 excitement this time was U on ^ intense. Col. Orr nAin caught hold of Governor Tillman, Eyho had turned his head toward the B^iwd in front, and told him if he waif ed a fight he could get it. The Governor said he did not, and Col. Orr went back to his seat, remarking tljat Tillman must let him alone. ain’t bad for a man who has made a failure at farming. In glancing over the Congressional career of Mr. Tillman we are con strained to say that he has, in some things, failed. He failed to misrepre sent his people and vote against free silver; he failed to boot-lick national officials to get patronage; he has fail ed to leave his seat during a session! of Congress, although his opponents were using unfair means to defeat him; he failed to sell out to gold bugs; he failed to slander the Demo cratic party and has always failed to “straddle the fence ” The American Magazine said of him four years ago that he was one of the seven brainiest men in Congress, the other six being Randall, Carlisle, Crisp, Mills, Reed, Burrows and Mc Kinley. Amos Cummings, a member of Congress from New York and staff correspondent of the New York Sun, said in his paper a few mouths ago that Tillman was the brainiest man in Congress from the South; that as an orator he had no superior in the lower House. Such is the record of a man who in Mr. Talbert’s mind has been a failure. In our opinion he has been a howling success in everything he has under taken. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Baki ABSOLUTELY A Lively Congressional Campaign. George 1). Tillman a, Failure. A correspondent of if,ke Augusta Chronicle, writing from Edgefield over the signature of “Democrat” re plies as follows to a charge made by Colonel W. J. Talbert: In a speech at Sycamore, a place in the Second Congressional District of South Carolina, Col. \V. J. Talbert said of his opponent, Congressman Geo. D. Tillman, that “he failed as a lawyer; failed as a farmer; then went to Congress and failed there.” If the outside and disinterested world is to be taken as authority, Col. Talbert’s statement was very far from the mark. The people around Edgefield say that when Congressman Tillman quit practicing law more than twenty-five yeais ago he was ranked by those competent to judge as the head of the Edgefield bar. Col. Tillman was never dependent upon his profession for a livelihood, and many a poor friend has he defended without charg ing him a dollar. The old men around Edgefield delight even now to tell of the last time George Tillman, the lawyer, appeared in a court room. The story is something like this: Immediately after the war Mr. Till man was employed by a widow and two orphan children to break the will of an unnatural husband and father. In his will the dead man cast asper sion upon the virtue of his wife, and accordingly cut his widow and chil dren out of all his property. F'ew people believed the cruel charge, and no one was stronger in their disbelief than young Tillman. The jury was empanelled and one of them happen ed to be a negro. Tillman made a speech. So eloquent was it that we are told it is quoted from to this day. When he was about to close he turned to the Judge, and with flashing eyes and dramatic effect exclaimed, “May it please your honor, before you and in your presence I solemnly swear never again to address a negro as ‘gentlemen of the jury.’ ” The court room applauded. He won his case and has kept his vow. Such is the record of a man who failed at law. The assertion that he failed as a farmer is ridiculously absurd. Four thousand acres of the richest Savan nah river bottoms proclaim the falsity of the statement. And it is only fair to state that Mr. Tillman owned every foot of the land before he was elected to Congress. It is true he might l ave owned more if he hadn’t dispensed most of bis Congressional salary in public charities; but then 4,000 acres The first regular congressional cam paign meeting was held at Denmark on Satuiday, the 6th inst. All of the candidates, Messrs. Gaston, Talbert, Aldrich and Tillman, were present. “Col. Jno. T. Gaston led off in a speech of nearly an hour’s length. His remarks were very temperate and he confined himself almost exclusive ly to the Alliance demands. He also put in some good licks about his war record. He wants the currencv of the country increased to #50 per capita. He did not attack any ot his oppo nents but confined himself to the is sues of the day.” He was followed by Hon. Geo. D. Tillman. We make the following ex tracts from his speech, as published in the Augusta Chronicle: “The reason I have not been able to appear before you earlier in this cam paign is that I had to remain at my post of duty. I had either to stay in Washington and attend to your busi ness, or come home and attend to mine. I preferred the former. “Any man who is fit to represent all ought to be sent there as be is willing to serve if he is honest and does his duty. Does a merchant discharge a good clerk or a farmer a good laborei because of too long service? “Col. Talbert asked what have I done since I have been in Congress. It is not for me to say. What, oh, what can ninety Southern represen tatives of the conquered States do against three times their number from the conquering States. “If Mr. Talbert was in Congress a while he would find a big difference in ordering penitentiary convicts and Northern congressmen to do his bid ding. “Rottenness in South Carolina com pared to abuses ami plunder at the national capita! is no mo,e limn a nickle to a gold eagle. “While you pay about #1,000,000 taxes to the State, you pay #7,000,000 to the United State Government, and very little of it ever conies back. The national government doesn’t send tax collectors around like the the State, but every merchant and ev ery bar-room keeper is nothing more than a United States tax collector. “About CO cents average tariff is ad ded to every piece of imported goods as soon as it reaches a government custom house. The wholesale dealer has to make his profit, so he adds the tariff when he sells to the retailer. And the retailer sticks it to the pur chaser. This is the way you pay your national tax. “Instead of your worst enemy lurk ing in Columbia or Charleston, or the banks or railroads or factories as has been asserted. I say to you that your robbing foes are north of Mason and Dixon’s line, and are mostly in the Re publican party. “The greatest robbery perpetrated on you is in pensions. Think of it, #142,000,000 was appiopriated during the last fiscal year for pensions alone. The quota you had to pay was #2,800,000 and less than 1.000 pension ers are Hying in South Carolina to day.” ****** “My friend Aldrich boasted at Smoak’s R >ads how be was going to stop it if he got elected; but he will not get elected this time. By the way, he said also at Smoak’s I was the shrewdest politician in America. I thanked him for the compliment, and told him that was why the people were going to send me back. “If Col. Aldrich can invent some plan to stop our pension tributes, the Southern people ought to erect him a monument six hundred feet high, for he would be a greater man than Washington. A voice* Are you for Sheppard or Tillman? Tillman: I am not a Tillman can didate; not a Sheppard candidate, nor am I an Alliance candidate. I am a Democrat. I tote my own skillet, do my own cooking, and keep my own house.” When Col. Robert Aldrich arose he said:— “You all know where I stand. I am where I was two years ago, with the reform ticket. I propose to do all I can toward the election of the Till man ticket. I mean the B. R. Till man ticket. He then took up the Tillman platform and made an able defence of its principles. “Col. Tillman has no right to run for office in a Democratic primary. He has said that he opposes the sub treasury, and said at Smoak’s that Governor Tillman is opposed to the subtreasury. Col. Tillman—Yes, and I say so yet. Col. Aldrich read from the Green ville News, in which Gov. Tillman said if a majority wanted it he would favor it. Col. Tillman—Well, if he isn’t op posed to it, I am. Mr. Tulbert was next introduced. He said he wished he had some man his size to speak against. He was only a plain farmer and unable to cope with his learned opponents. He said he wasn’t fighting any man par ticularly, but if anybody wanted a fight they could get it, as he was afraid of no man. He said he had never given anybody an opportunity to ask him how he stood. Everybody knew his position in State and Na tional politics. Turning to Col. Tillman he said that he would not pluck one laurel from his brow. Upou every question he has yoted right. He is one of the distinguished men who voted against re-chartering National Banks. But he failed to see what good he has done.” CoJ. Tillman then made a short re ply. With eyes flashing fire he turn ed toward Mr. Talbert and began: “Talbert has just intimated to you that I am in my dotage. He said I got mad at Smoak’s. I simply re sented an insult. When he said I rode on a free pass I denounced it to his teeth as a lie. And I tell him now that I repeat what I said then. And I say also that I am responsible for what I say at any time, any place and in any manner. [This referred to the meeting at Smoak’s, a day or two before, when, as rt'ported in a communication to the State, Col. Talbert said: “I do not ride on a free pass on the rail roads, and may be I can not say the same for you,” addressing Col. Till man. Col. Tillman then said: “Who- I ever says I ride on a free pass is a liar.’’ Ctii. TuUieri replied: “I have not said you ride on a free pass, but I ask you if you do not ride on a free pass on tlie Augusta and Knoxville railroad?” Tillman said: “Yes, as a director ami stockholder.” Talbert then said: “I hurl the lie back down your old rotten throat, for you assert yourself that you do ride on a free pass.” Mr, Tillman admitted that he did ride on that road on a free pass as a stockholder. Talbert said: “Now the people here can see who has lied.”] Mr. Talbert made no reply, and Col. Tillman continued: “These op ponents of mine say that I am not in sympathy with tlie farmer. Why, my friends, the only profession I have in the world is that of a farmer.” He explained in a few eloquent words his course in voting for tlie purchase by the Government of the two swords from Gen. Shields’ wid ow, and with this the speaking closed. The Cosmopolitan for August is just the thing for the hammock on the lawn or tlie cool breezy piazza in this boiling summer weather. Its variety of cleverly written romamce, travel and society notes, with its copious and well-executed illustrations ena bles one to imbibe both entertainment and instruction. “Bridges and Bridge-builders” gives an excellent idea of the most wonderful works of the engineers of ancient and modern times. The “Philippine Islands” contains a most realistic account of the earthquake perils, and a general description of that far-off Pacific group. “A Revolution in English So ciety” shows the change of manners in England in the last thirty years, and contains pictures of prominent English women. These are only a few of the many attractive articles. 25 cents a number; #3 a year. It is a truth in medicine that the smallest dose that performs the cure is the best. Dewitt’s Little Early Ri sers are the smallest pills, will form the cure and are the best. per- McELHEE’S WINE OF CARDUI lor Weak Xervcs. Thera is in this issue, perhaps than usual of the merely The August number of Good House keeping is worthy of a careful inspec tion by every manager of a household, since it aims at ali seasons of tlie year to aid in those duties which are indispensable, without reference to season or temperature; to make the home bright and interesting. , less technical and routine, with more of that which pertains to the general life, but the various departments will ss ever be found well balanced, and fascina ting, Clark W. Bryan & Co., Spring- field, Mass, at #2.40 a year. Benton, Ark., May 20th, 1892. Lippman Bros., Savannah, Ga. Gentlemen: I have had Rheuma tism about two months during last winter, was confined to my room most of the time; I saw an advertise ment in the Saline Courier reeom- .mending P P P. as a cure for Rheuma tism, I bought three bottles, but be fore I got through with the third bot tle I was cured and have not felt tlie least effect of Rheumatism since. It is undoubtedly the best remedy for Rheumatism I ever tried. I can cheerfully reccommend it to the pub lic. Yours truly, D. M. Cummingham.^ K*?~BLACK-DRAUGHT tea cures Constipation A cold blooded murder was com mitted in Bennettsville Saturday night between 12 and 1 o’clock. L. D. Taylor, of Tennessee, a trestle builder on the C. S. & N. road was shot and instantly killed by a negro named Jack Bradley, a grade hand. He fired six shots, with a double-action No. 38 pistol only one ball taking effect, entering at the right of tlie backbone and ranging toward the heart. It was all about a woman. Thimble-Rigged Conventions. At Denmark on Saturday Hon Geo. D. Tillman said: “Up to a few vears ago, you didn’t exercise the suffrage of free white men. Thimble-rigged conventions were held, and you had to support whoever was put up as candidates. But now they are elected by the peo ple,” We are sure that Mr. Tillman will see the injustice of this statement when he reflects upon his own very brilliant and successful career. He lias been elected to Congress eight times, and has been the Representa tive from the 2d district for seven con secutive terms, covering a period of fourteen. If we are not mistaDen, Mr. Tillman was elected each time by the people. We think that lie will agree witli us upon this point.—A r cic« and Courier. If dull, spiritless and stupid; if your blood is thick audsulggish; if your appetite is capricious and uncertain, you need a Sarsaparilla. For best re sults take Dewitt’s. W. J. Platt. Try BLACK-DRAUGHT tea lor Dyspepsia. Tillman wants power to pass a #3 poll tax law and put white men on the chain gang with negroes; and to put a qualification on sufiage that will deprive free people of their vo tes. He also wants to pass a road Jaw that would sell a man to a con tractor for eight dollors. 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. *«TWINE OF CARDUI. a Tonic for Women. The State Lunatic Asylum ims for the past four days been reciving an average of two patients a day. The authorities find that tlie colored male department is getting crowded. The outlook i- number of patients will 1 after the 11th, when the gents will meet. very that e sent board much quite a home of re- It is that to a fixed and immutable have good, sound health What Stronger Proof Is needed of the merit of Hood’s Sar saparilla than the hundreds of letters continually coming in telling of mar vellous cures it has effected after all other remedies had failed? Truly, Hood’s Sarsaparilla possesses peculiar curative power unknown to other medicines. must have pure, rich and abundant blood. There is no shorter nor surer route than by a course of Dewitt’s Sarsaparilla. W. J. Platt McElree’i WINE OF CARDUI for female diseases. The Edgefield Monitor says: “A correspondent from Governor Till man’s home says that in all his life the Governor lias not been known to do one act of charity toward tlie poor. But lie’s the poor man’s friend now. Oil yes!” Hood’s Pills cure Constipation by restoring the peristaltic action of the aliment canal. They are the family cathartic. Botli of the leading canidates for president are members of tlie Presby terian church, and both men whoare to conduct their campaign, Harrityand Carter, are Roman Catholics. “Late to bed and early to rise will shorten the.road to your home in the skies,” But early to lied and a “Lit tle Early Riser,” tlie pill that makes life longer, and better and wiser. Tlie first bale of tlie new crop of Georgia cotton, classed fully mid dling, was sold at auction .Saturday in front of the New York Cotton Ex change at eight cents. Bright people are the quickest to recognize a good thing and buy it. We sell lots of bright people the Lit tle Early Risers. If you are not bright these pills will make you so. W. J. Platt. Col Streator’s mistake appears to have been that he regular army. thought lie was iu