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V, BY CLINKSGALE8 & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1901. VOLUME XXXVII-NO. ll. -- AT Aul' A JLAIVJL. 5 WE thought ou?r |fackwcar at 25c. to be the bett found in any Store, ?nd it was, but our buyer while in market picked up ?orne ?hort lots of Silks under price, had them made up,^nd instead of the price being 60c. (which is their real value) we have them in our window At 25c. You should supply yourself at once if you are short on Ties. You can get two for the price you expected to pay for one. They are made in Windsors, Four-in-Hands, Tecks and Imperials. LET IIS SHOW YOU THE LINE. B ?ri ANDERSON, S. C., The Spot (Sash Clothiers 1951. . GREENVILLE. S. C. . A. V. MONTAGUE, PH.D . LL ? , President BO Ol. ? TWO Courses are offered leading tb the degtee* of Bucbelnr of Arin (B- A.) and.Master ol Art? (M. A.) ' Library sud, Heading Ti oom. Chemical and Pbyeical Laboratories New Judson Alumni "Hali; coritiiluin? Auditorium and So ciety balls. Dormitories on campus. Kew Forty-Room Dormitory. Ex penses reduced to a minimum by mess system. Next session begins September 25. catalogues ana circulera of Information on request. Ad drear. .-, DB A. P. MONTAGUE, Greenville, 8. O* For rooms apply to Prof. H. T. OOOK. Gret>nvill?. S. C. 0-8 M. L. GAHLKLK. ii. a. CARLISLE. DROP m AM> SEE US. WE aro notKhe largest dealers but yon will find that we will give you the best values in Anderson. . r. Remember that we haye the exclusive sale of the Walter A. Wood ??ow^n? M^t?n&9 "... Which is given up to beth?'bcBt Mower on the market and e?sts less for re pairs. . We can cite yon to one farmer in Anderson County who haa nut on an average of 100 aorea per yea^for 10 years in* succession with only 35o. cost foi repairs and machine still in good condition. Respectfully,. . CARLISLE ?KOS., Anderson, 8. C. mm Oeerirtg Light Draft Ideal Mowers. THE ON?iY MOWER made with only two-piece pitman. Has adjustable drag bar and light draft We have tho genuine thick centre, Terrell Heel Sweep that has just the right set. A?sOt all sizes of tho Victor S?Tc?p Winga.' If you will come \o see us will make it interesting to yon and will save you some money. BROCK HARD WABE GO. Anderson, S. C. STATE NEW?. - William Forbes ?as killed by toe Air Line road near Wolli ord while trying to beat a ride on the train. - The Mallina Strawberry Growers' Association will plant about one hundred sores in strawberries this fall. - A statement has been made b; well informed penni A thtt this St aie will this year have a million hale cot ton crop? - Negroes near Due West had a rabbit stew barbecue a few dava ago which ended in a fight and many were wounded. - The primary eleotion for the soleotioa of a successor to thc late Congressman Stokes will be heid Sep tember 10. - The Lancaster o otton mill was stopped by high water a few days last week, lue water was eight feet deep about the boilers. - A drunken negro io Chester tried to shoot a white man the other night but the next day the coroner held an inquest on the negro. - Rev. A. W. Walker, the "blind Sreacher," a Methodist minister of igh standing, died mt the infirmary of the Epworth Orphanage. - Another brief has been filed by the attorney for South Carolina pro testing against the payment of a reve nue tax by the dispensaries. - M. Herndon Moore, city attor ney of Columbia, has been eleeted by the trustees assistant professor of law in the South Carolina College. Strike of textile union at Colum bia continues. President Whaley says mills are not materially incon venienced and that strikers cannot re turn to work. - Thoa. L. Poole died at his home at Greenville from the effects, it is thought, of an over-dose of a patent medicine, lie was a member of the firm of W. H>Poole & Co. - Thomas H. Watson, the young white man who was the chief > witness for the prosecution in the trial of Bartow Warren, charged with having robbed an express messenger on the Southern Railway, was shot and mor tally wounded at Branchville by the man against whom he had testified. - A passenger train on the Sea board Air Line, seven miles south oi Chtraw, was derailed a few nights pgo. duo to the washing away of a sand embankment. Fireman Rosa mond was killed and' several other employes injured. There was a large number of passengers in the. ooaohes but they were not injured.. - J. H. Buchanan, editor of the Chester Reporter, has- received a message announcing the death of his son, John H., of Stillwater, Minn. He was about 24 years old. While fish ing near Chester 12 years ago the hoy disappeared and his . whereabouts were unknown until news of his deatt came. Great efforts vere mado to find him. - Col. T. B. Crews, of Laurens bas prepared, at the request of Gov McSweency, a sketch of the life ol Misa Anu Pamela Cunningham, of that county. She iwas author of the pape] signed ''Southern Matron," which made a great impression in the hO's, resulting in the purchase of Mt. Ver non, the home of Washington, for thc country. - Something new in planting eon is practiced by Mr. G. C. Patterson near Seneca. When ho is ready tc plant, he soaks his corn one night, ii soapy water, which will kill any in sect, or vermin that might dostro: the grain,, . He says by this method he has planted on Thursday andv hat corn up on Saturday. It looks lik< this simple remedy would got ahea< af the bud worms. - The suggestion is abroad amooj somo of the State Fair officials t? keep th** State Fair open in the even inga dm jg fair week this year. I is claimed that many who are unabh Lo attend in the daytime would thu nave an opportunity to attend, am that the attendance at the Fair a night would not be such as to inter fere with the other evening attrac .ions of tho week. - Negro stemmers to the number o? 100, in a Florence tobacco warehouse struck, and in half an hour 50 nev lands were installed. It was rather lueer strike. Not a word was sai to tho management, no grievance wa sent forth, but the leader arose am aegan to sing, "want ninety oentc nust have ninety cents, and I ac joing to get ninety cents." He walk >d out and tho others followed. ' - It is understood that the Cal Houn County scheme is soon to bo ri rived. Several years ago a propoai :iou was voted on for a new count ormed out of the upper portion o Drangeburg County and part pf Les ngtoo County. Tho proposition far id and it is stated that it is soon t yo revived by the people of St. Mat thews, who want to have the count seat. The matter, has not yet take ?efinite shape. r- The executive committee of th Robert Barnwell Rhett, Jr. M. D Memorial Assooiation.which waBforn ned at Charleston a few days ?gt held a meeting later and issued s tddraaa tn the people of Ch?rl??tui it is proposed by the association 1 ttlleoc a fund of $50,000 to bs ibves ?din, the interest of the widow ac jhildron of Dr. Rhett, and ultimate] kp be devoted to the erection of son permanent memorial to him j the city. . The executive oommitU appointed sub-committees for evet ward io the city of Charleston to tal 3harge of canvassing in the in tere af the fond which they are to raise. ?ENEKAL MEWS. - In the last fiscal year 5.770,369 cigars were made in the United States. - Tho leading plow manufacturers have formed a combine with a capital of $50,000,000. - It is deolared that not a single case of yellow fever has occurred io, Havana this year. - Evidences of oil have been found ! in Abbeville, Ga., and also in several I placea in Alabama. - Mississippi's tressurer has been suspended for lending the State's money tn tb?? hicks. - Postmaster William l?rico, of Baltimore, Ohio, found short in his money order aooounts, committed sui cide. - The orops have failed in many Russian provinces and the government ie already buying grain to relieve those in distress. - A disastrous wreok is reported on the Great Northern road in Mon tana. Seventeen persons were said to have been killed. ?- A passenger train running 40 miies an hour jumped the track near Newark, N. J. Two wer o killed and twenty-eight injured. - The Kurds are again massacr ing Armenians. Ii is said that the sultan has determined to exterminate all of the Armenians. - James Sweat, a deputy sheriff, on board a train with six negro pris oners bound for Pensacola, was shot from ambush and killed. - In the year 1900, out of 1,955 raids on stills, 603 were mado in Geor gia, whioh is a prohibition State, ex cept as to four of its cities. - Joseph Wheeler^ jr., ann of the old hero of the same name, has been appointed a captain of artillery in tho regular service by the president. - Bradstreet's trado review takes a hopeful view of the trade situation. They report that orders for fall goods have excelled any previous year. - William Miiis, hfo daughter-in law and hor two young sons were drowned while trying to cross a swol len stream at Rutherfordton. N. G. ? - Hurricanes and floods sweep sec tions of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Over Jersey City two storms met and destruction resulted. - Mrs. Carrie Nation is in New York, where she is anxious to do a little "hatehetation." She called on Chief Murphy, but he refused tobe lectured. - By the explosion of the boiler of the steamer City of Trenton, near Philadelphia, eleven person are known to have been killed and over a score injured.. - Deputy United States marshals have been oalled upon to prevent the white people of Sapulpa, Indian Ter ritory, from driving ali the negroes put of the town. - Phoenix, Ariz., onco a sagebush desert, has 25,000 inhabitants and an assessed valuation of $10,000,000, all due to irrigation canals brought 'from distant streams. . - Tho Georgia'cbtton growers as sociation has determined to hold their cotton for tcu cents. This decision was arrived at after a careful investi gation of circumstances. . - Bli Gre'jn, of North Judson, Ind., is rapidly turning to stone. A part of his body is said to be as hard as rook already, and the physicians de clare there is no hope for him. - Benjamin Higgins, of Jackson ville, Fla., enters suit against that oity for $10,000 damages. He alleged that his wife died of lockjaw brought on by compulsory vaccination. - The trees now growing on the farm near Franklin, N. H., where Daniel Webster was born, are to be cut up and made into matchsticks by a manufacturing eompany, which paid $2,800 for the timber. - Three lives have been sacrificed so far to tho experiments made with mosquitoes and yellow fever. The physicians will continue to let the mosquitoes bite those who want to bo made immune, however. *- George McLeod, a negro wanted on two criminal charges in Henry county, Ala., while being pursued by a posse, waded into a, pond until he was in water up to his neck and fired at his pursuers until he was shot down. -' New York leads all the other States in the predominance of its city over its country population. Of every 100 inhabitants of the Empire State seventy-seven live in cities and towns. The percentage of the popu lation living in cities and town for the whole oountry is forty-seven only. - Before the Beaumont discove ries tho annual production of oil in this country was about 60,000,000 barrels. Thirty wells at Beaumont nov/ produce 7,500,000 barrels a day, or os' much in 40 days as the wholo country yielded in 12 months. This comparison gives an idea of the im mensity and the importance of the Texas oil fields. - There is on September 17, 18, 19 and 20 to be a great gathering of the people of Northern Georgia at Tal lulah Falls, the occasion being the Blue Ridge and Tallulah Falls Expo sition. lt is a gathering looking to the development of the Blue Ridge section of the Watermelon State and Oconeo county in this State, and it is proposed to make it a noteworthy one. The governors of Georgia and North Carolina have been invited to attend and deliver addresses on this occasion and both have accepted the invita tion?. Tl- ?? desired that tue governor of South Carolina also attend and de liver an address.. --r. ?:? -y , THE "SUMMER SCHOOL. Senatorial Aspirants Rempli Ul, Lati mers XcLsuria and Johastoue En tertained the Crowd la Ute Court House. Tho Democratic mass meeting held here in the Court House last Friday was one of the most important and in teresting events of the kind that has taken place in this State in a longtime. There were two sessions ?? the "school" -morning and afternoon-which was brought about bj the unexpected ap pearance of Sonata? McLamin, who reached here abone ?.db p. a. that day. On Wednesday morning a telegram was sent to him from Greenville by a num ber of friends importuning him 'io attend the Anderson meeting. This telegram was received by the Senator just as he was leaving New York, and he resolved to comply with the request if possible. He succeeded in doing so by coming on a special train from Seneca, which connected with the southbound fast mail on the Air Line Railroad. The fact that Senator Tillman was not on the program disappointed some j of hiB friends. While on his way to Spartanburg a fow days preceding ho met with an accident by getting a cin der in his eye, and being under a phy sici?h's care could not attend. The crowd in attendance upon the meeting was not us large SB was ex pected. Very few farmers carno to town, evidently showing that they felt very little interest in the meeting. Had it been known, however, that tho Junior Senator would bo here, there would probably have been moro people here. At the morning session the au dience was estimated at about ttOO per sons. Everybody appeared to bo in a good humor and willing to hear all that tho speakers had to say. In fact, the meeting throughout was most or derly, and the audience in point nf intelligence was perhapB aboye the average usually in attendance upon mass meetings. With ono exception all the speeches were on a high plane and free from "mud-slinging"' or per sonal abuso. The distinctive feature of the meeting was tho discussion iu the afternoon between Senator Mc Lnurin and Col. Johnstone, and there was very little enthusiasm in the meet ing until that time. County Chairman Jotiu E. Breazeale called the meeting to order at about ll o'clock. In a few appropriate remarks he explained its object, and introduced as die first speaker Hon. J. J. Hemp hill, of Chester. * Mr. Hemphill went directly into the new questions thnt have been present ed as Democratic. ?Ie defined expan sion and told of the enlargement of tho United S tutes from 10 States to 45 States and livo Territories, which was tho annexation of contiguous territory but this was no excuse orprecedent for the seizure of islands 10,000 miles away. He described tho character bf the Philippines and their worthlessness to us. They have already cost UH about $300,000,000. There will be always a struggle there. Every tax payer will have to contribute td tho cost. It.will cost us at least $40,000, 000 a year to maintain our authority there which we will always h?ve to fiay. The pension cost afterwards will >e a big item. The cotton mills of the United States sold $10,430 worth of cotton goods last year, which is the 100th part of ono mill prolit por each citizen. We have plenty of land and do not need to KO to the Philippines. Mr. Hemphill explained tho ship sub sidy doctrine, ind told of the limita tions of tho maritime law, which he said ought to be repealed. Under it a man cannot buy a ship in n, foreign country and fly the American flag on it. We are paying more than twice for carrying foreign inniis as Great Britain, and tho latter pays no other subsidies. A subsidy is a Republican measure drawn by Edmunds and push ed by Hanna, He did not see how any man could believe in it. The Republi can party is the enemy of the South and always was. He referred to car pet bag days and many points in his speech were illustrated with anecdotes. He consumed about one honr in deliv ering his speech, and was listened to with close attention. Congressman Latimer was the next speaker and launched right out on Mc Laurin. He repeated all the charges that have been made against the Junior Senator, who, he said, bad traded with Republicans in order to get on the wnys and menus committee, and had endeavored to get him and Dr. Strait to issue, a manifesto to encourage the populist movement in this State. He referred to McLaurin's votes, especially on the Paris treaty, and urged that it was the act of a "treacherous traitor," and insisted that Mc!.anna should have stood by his party on a strictly Earty issue. Ho snowed what the remocf?tic party had done for trade expansion and how treaties were the best mode of securing trade rights and not subsidies and imperialism. He said no one would trust the Senator as a leader. He wanted the masses to prosper, but imperialism and ship sub sidies would not bring prosperity. The way to get the trade, said he, is to get treaties, send agents, study their ?eeds and enter tho field of competi tion and on a competitive basis. Some one asked him whether he did not favor the Southern Railway fast mail appro Briation and why it is not a subsidy, [e explained that he got petitions from rivery town in his district and he voted for the proposition to get the fast ser vice if it contd not be gotten other wise. It ia tho Government's business to carry mail and to give the best ser vice, but these ship subsidies are for private gain. He had no objection to getting and paying for the best mail service. His people asked him to vote for the fast mail service, which gave the people here their mail fifteen hours ?coner than if this train was not opera te& Mr. Latimer spoin about forty five minutes, and many .if his friends thought that ho was too bitter in de nouucing McLaurin and those who en dorsed his views. At the conclusion of Mr. Latimers speech Chnirinun Breazealo announced thnt ho had just been informed that Senator McLaurin would arrive in the city in a short while and would, there fore, adjourn tho meeting uutil 2, ! o'clock. I lt was 2.80 o'clock when Chair mon Breazealo again called tho meet- * ?mr tn rtr?lnt> nn.l 14- ........ ~-; .1_i ? ??*?T*a" . ? ' "**? ???J VJ ? j nu LI 1 that Senator McLauriu's coining had greatly increased the attendance, for the Court House was crowded to its utmost capacity. When tho Senator entered the Court House he was re ceived with an immense ovation, and throughout the meeting it was the general opinion that he had at least 75 percent of the auditors with him. Chairman Brenzealo announced that the Senator would be the first speaker with a limit of ona hour and a half. Hon. George Johnstone to follow, and tho Senator a rejo i uer of thirty minutes. The debate between the two gentle men was full of oratory, satire and ridicule, couched in the most courteous terms, but cutting to the core. There was not a personal or offensive remark between them. As Col. Kobo, of the News ami Courier, made n pretty full and fair synopsis of the speeches of the two gentlemen in his report to his paper, we reproduce the following from his pen : Aftet the dinner recess Senator Mc Laurin said he had no iden yesterday he would bo here. On every great question thero was moro than one Bide and he ascribed tn all who differed with him honorable motives. His course has boen misrepresented to such an ex tent that when ho saw tho pnpers at Norfolk ho decided to bo at this meet ing no matter what the expense or pain. He had been charged with trying to help organize a Republican party in this State. This was untrue and he unequivocally denied any and all such statements. Thero are now too many parties and too mnny politicians. He took up tho conditious in 1MH), upd how tho' Reform movement aud primary started, and tho primary sys tem, hu snid, was one ot the wisest moves that could bu started; Demo crats could then differ and have their rights Bottled by tho white voters. He had pursued a prower course and he believed as firmly ns he did that there was a God that his every action bad been right and lu tho iuterest ot' tho people. Whether elected or not his position has put tho peoplo to thinking and looking to their own wel fare, and if it does nothing else hu hoped his contest would elevate the plane of political conteste. He said he could have easily avoided the heart-burnings, troubles and tribu lations and taunts, but ho took his po sitions for the good of the people he represented. He then went on to take up tho issues and first handled expan sion and held that the Democratic doc trine lind been to add territory. Until the Spnnish war the policy ot tho Re publican party had been to contract and the Oe ir o era ts favored expansion, and then he discussed whether it was a wise, just and expedient policy to pur sue. He took up the events leading to the Spanish war and the industrial con ditions of Cuba, everything that has occurred since that war comoon. He could not see how conditions could pos sibly have been widely different from what they are to-day. Mr. Bryan, he thought, could not have materially ch??ged conditions. The Philippines did not come as a foreseen result. It was au accident, more or less, and because the god of war was on the American side. He took np the conditions in tho Philip pines and he contended that tho war waa a.Democratic war. Ho explained nt considerable length his voto and speech on the Paris treaty and based his vote npon the fact thnt the country j was in cont ?cfc with an armed foo and I he stood by his own people, whether right or wrong. . lie bad just gone through a heated campaign. He knew what it was to be maligned and slandered, and he knew it would bring him censure, but ho never for a minute regretted his vote. Ho consulted no oue. If tho treaty had not been ratified Spain and the United States were again ready for war, and France abd Germany were much in sympathy with Spain. Then Senator McLaurin took up the question as to whether it is a good nolicy. There can nevyer be imperial ism under tho American form of gov ernment, and no man would oppose imperialism more vehemently than ho would, and he voted against everything looking like imperialism in the Philip pine government and he felt, in time, those people would bo given self-gov ernment. He claimed that no people were more interested in tho retention of that sec tion than was the South, which is BO wrapped up in cotton and manufactur ed cotton, and any country to become rich niUBt uso its raw material, and so he drifted on to show the opportunities to this market. It was foolish, ho thought, for American merchants to try to get into the foreign market with out the protection of tho American flag. Ho did not believe it possible, with existing conditions, for tho United States to have maintained a fooling in the far East without its holding the Philippines; this country would nave been choked out hy port charges if it did not have tho Philippines as a stand off. . In reply to Mr. Hetnphill ho said the insurgents had to bo subdued for the reputation of tho country, and that was an expense of the war proper, but the trade in China will be worth a hundred times what it will cost. Ho predicted that in five years no public map could be found in South Carolina who would advocate turning loose the Philippines. Their value as a base of operation has already been shown in tho recent Chinese troubles. Nobody is attempting to shoot religion into these people. Tho country could not have left these people to be murdered and plundered. Having destroyed their only form of government it was incumbent to establish a new govern ment. Only one tribe, he held, was ever fighting this nation. This coun try had, and has, a duty to perform and this people will? not shirk a duty because it costs. / Mr. McLaurin went on to mako n brief speech in favor of ship subsidy, and said he would later prepare and Sublish his views on ship subsidien, [e opposed the pending bill and a totally different bill is now being pre pared. . - . The cry of tho "nigger in tho wood Silo" was dead and every drop of hie lood would bo sacrificed for his native State Ile said he wac not hanging ou any coat-tail. voice:m "Tho old coat-tail is rollen, anyway." McLaurin went on to say his oppon CHU seemed to think expansion was a iHMt chance, and ao they made the most ot t.L,p s.?D8i4y ftnd uo elaborated this point. Mr. McLaurin spoke further on lasues, and closed amidst great and hearty applause. THE HON. GEOHGE JOHNSTONE. Mr. George Johnstouo was received ' with much applause, and said if it were not that he thought the Democracy was in danger he would not-bo herc! HQ accepted McLaurin's statement that he was not trying to organizo a Republi can party, but he insiste d that the adoption of McLaurin's politics must, and will, lead to Republicanism. When tho hour wimp; TV hen the great Demo cratic party disintegrates, man by man, he wonld stand with the last, raising his voice for the Democratic ?tarty. If McLaurin's positions do not ead to the ruin of the Democratic Early then ho did not know what democracy was. He said some of his limiest friends thought like Mr. Mc Laorin. He would say nothing to hort the feelings of these men, or MeLau rin, but he would do his duty to bis party, and if it made any mad he would endure it. Then he pointed out the difference between McLaurin's expanaion and what he called Democratic expansion. Democratic expansion came with the consent of the governed and was only of American territory. They were asked to have local self-government and they came in nt onceas copartners -that is Democracy. The forces with whioh McLaurin is co-operating are establishing despotic government. He ridiculed the argument that the Fili pinos had no government and showed the present conditions in the Philip pines. Mr. Johnstone urged that these peo ple nre governed by the autocratic power of the President alone. You who have been pinioned by Sickles and Canny nre pointed to the spectacle of the Filipinos governed in the same condition as the South was years ago. Mr. McLaurin j us ti i i es this autocratic covernuiont of tho President and sanc tions tho unlimited power of the Presi dent. Then Mr. Johnstone blasted Mr. McLaurin's argument that the islands should be heid for trade. Mc Laurin himself tells you they wear no clothes. The proper thing to do is to extend the Monroe doctrino to them, make treaty agreements and friends of the people. Then he jumped into McLaurin'a ship subsidy position, If it was to be done for tho farmer, why notgivothe farmer the $1 a bnle directly to these Mr. Mc Laurin says it will help, and not to the rich ship owners. What he commented on especially was the change of Mc Laurin on the treaty. It was for him to explain, and the whole thing was that McLaurin was misled and mis taken and would not see it. He enthu siastically favored tho isthmian canal. He then insisted that McLaurin had admitted his fallibility and that he had rando mistakes. McLaurin had upheld the Alliance aud now held those views to be heresies. Voice: "Did not Tillman change, too*" Mr. Johnstone went on eloquently and forcibly to say he was not a per sonal supporter of Tillman, but he was not for pulling down records. This was not tho time to revive the past hostili ties, and he for one was too patriotic to Bay one word against Tillman, to hurt "him or his feelings if he. could. Ho was not fighting anyone, bnthe was fighting a principle, and "God knows when Tillman and Hampton stand together for a principle it must be right." He nsket and prayed that tho people would support men upon ?irinciples and not because of political Oeling. It seemed to him that if anyone was to denounce Tillman John L. McLau rin wns not tho man! He has held him up ns the freutest of leaders; the greatest mau .iinco John C. Calhoun, and it ill became him to now denounce Tillman. It was Mr. Canfrecd, a son-in-law of Josh Ashley, who asked if Tillman had not also changed his views on the Third party and Alliance, and tho roast he got was really dramatic. Then Mr. Johnstone pictured the duty of a Christian people to tho Fili Einos and he showed what Christ would ave done. Mr. McLaurin says he lms no purpose to establish a Republican Barty, but ho is here traducing the ?emocrncy of Jefferson. Col. John stone "went for" ship subsidy with gloves oil' and he showed now it i fte red from State support of railroads. Ho says he wants no Republican party, and yet he said in Washington McKin ley ought to be re-elected ny acclama tion. He says ho does not propose to or ganize a Republican party, and he elieved him, and yet he seems to hold the Republican purse strings of public patronage. Is Mr. McKinley likely to help build up the Democratic party? McKinley lever voted a Democratic ticket in his life and is he such a philanthropist as to give all the public offices to Mc Laurin fora stronger Democratic party? What a magnificent picture is this of McKinley hunting for good Democrats to help build np his party. Then Col. Johnstone glowingly pic tured how Lee nnd Jackson would have taken such tenders; whataningniiicent thing you would have thought it if Leo nnd Jackson had sent their munitions of war to their opponents. It wns miraculous how these appoint ments came without solicitation or sug gestion. It was marvellous how Mc Kinley and special providences coin cided with McLaurin's views. SENATOR M'l.Al'KIN's REPLY. In reply to Mr. Johnstone'sargument Senator McLaurin in conclusion de clared, relative to tho statement that de said McKinley ought to be re-elect sd by acclamation that he had said it would be wrong to defeat McKinley because of the conduct of tho war. If tho issue was to bo mado on the con luct of the war he ought to have been re-elected. 1 Ie said it was an improper cause for a fight, for McKinley had lone fairly. If he had consulted his own pocket book and comfort he wonld have ac cepted tho position on tho Philippine commission. It was a casoof "damned f he did and damned if ho did not." ile did ' not accept because ho did not propose to retire under fire, and he in ended to come back and render an ac count of his service. After Mr. Johnstone wasdefeated ho ivas going to see if he could not get lim a position out there. (Much ap plause and laughter;) As to tho pat xmago in South Carolina, ho had said Ul ho wished to iii Greenville. Such speeches as Mr. Johnstono's ?roro as old as tho coon story. Ho told tho President he could not Continued on Fourth l*ng?.