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ESTABLISHED IN 11 -*-? EUSSIA'S SIDE. Mr. Jas. ?. Bandall Talks Interest ingly of Eastern Problem. SPEAKS OF "YELLOW PERIL." Reviews History and Points Out Fa mous Lessons ot Pat>t. Difficult Problems That Have As serted Themselves. We clip from the Birmingham, Ala., Age-Herald a very interesting review on the Eastern situation with Mr. Jas. R. Randall, the distinguished poet and writer, o^Augusta, Ga., Mr. Randall has been visiting friends in Birmingham and while there he was sought out by newspaper men. In troducing Mr. Randall as a prominent newspaper man and author of the .south, that gentleman is quoted as follows: N"With all due respect to those dif fering with me, I sympathize with Russia. The point has been made that Russia is an aggressive nation? what is called a robber nation?but so are Japan, England, France, Germany and the United States. Since the Re publican regime at Washington, this republic has joined the band of rob bers. We are getting to be a world power'?an imperialism, in direct con flict with the advice of Washington, after forcing war on tbe South, as Thad Stevens confessed, 'outside the constitution.' "But for our furnishing England remounts of horses and mules, through a British camp, on the plans of Chal mette and the greater British camp in John Hay's state department, the South African republics would proba bly have maintained their indepen dence. You know what has happened in the Philippines. Japan is attempt ing to rob Corea of her independence just as Russia is robbing China in Manchuria. So honors or dishonors are easy ou that score. russia's expansion. "Russia's logical expansion was and is toward the Black Sea toward Con stantinople. But for the interven tion of England she would have driven the Turk back to his Asiatic lair and placed the cross on the spire of St. Sophia, once a Christian church and now, and for ages, a Mohammeden mosque. So the unspeakable Turk remains in Europe because Russia was thwarted by so-called Christian nations who are jealous of her, remem bering the famous proverb of Napole on that the great power, Christian power, dominating Constantinople would rule the world. "It was not because Peter the Great and Catherine II. pointed the road to Byzantium that the Russians gravi tate to the Black Sea, but, because their commerce is frozen up for half tbe year in tbe Baltic and a nation naturally desires a seaport never closed to navigation. Besides, when a northern people become redundant in population, they are moved almost mysteriously, or by some subtle natu ral law, to lind their home or grave iu the tropic, jusi; as the Mississippi river born in a frozen region makes its way to the warm Mexican gulf?the tropic. Frustrated at the south and diverted from a kind of manifest des-1 tiny in that direction, Russia, taking the only alternative, built the trans Siberian railway and favored by events in China, sought an open port \ iu the Orient. This alarmed Japan and having been tunrned from peace ful Paganism to warlike atheism, with a veneer of European industrial ism or 'civilization,1 she sought to be come a world power and exploit Corea. toe yellow peuil. "Her secret design, confessed by ! some uf her writers is to dominate Asia, by converting China into a pug- i nacious nation like herself. This is! the real 'yellow peri!.' Napoleon aiso said. 'What folly in the European na tions to awaken the Chinese giant iron, his slumber and make him a menace to the west. If that yellow | _ria. it. with 4UO,0UO,000 of inhabitants \ Should become a gigantic Japan, il would be a terrible thing for the ( world. "Kar! Wolseley, the great English soldier, recently said that properly led and disciplined, the Chinese made, the best soldiers in the world and that, if they became thus manipulat ed, a martial nation, they would im peril the whole western region and j like innumerable ants, overwhelm and j devastate the whole of Europe. Some people, less expert than Earl Wolse ley, pooh pooh this, but they form mental processes from vast misinfor mation. Before countless little ants in Africa every living thing, wild beasts or man I lee or are devoured. If millions of warlike Asiatics de- j scend upon Europe what.a peril that would be? kro>! uemote tim es. "Prom remote times the Asiatics! have threatened Europe. They re-! peatedly invaded Greece. They over-1 turned the Roman empire of the west J and captured Constantinople, and still j hold the Turkish empire by the jeal ousy of Christian nations. They over ran Russia. They went to the heart j of France, until beaten back by J Charles Martel, on the plains of Chal ous. Tbey would have captured Vienna but for the heroic King of Poland, John Sobieski. They entered Spain and held their ground there for centuries. "Tba Turkish sultan, Bajazet, at the head of ?0?J,000 men, proclaimed that he would march on Rome and feed his horse at the high altar of St. Peter's church or on the tomb of the Apostles Peter and Paul. There was no organized force then in Europe capable of resisting the in?del. By prayer and the intervention of Provi dence, his purpose was defeated. Just as this irresistible host was about to march, word came to Bajazet that 369. Tamerlane had seized Damascus, his eastern capital, and instead of march ing on Rome the sultan moved east ward, was defeated by Tamerlane, captured and, according to some his torians, was placed like a wild beast in a cage. The expedition of Alexander halted Asiatic aggression. "The crusades prevented ocher ori ental incurs'ons. But I cite these historic incidents to show that it has been hard to keep the Asiatics out of Europe. I sympathize with Russia in this contest not because I admire her policy or despotism, but cecause I believe that she is an instrument in the hands of God to prevent the tre mendous expansion of the yellow peril, which wouid be a tearful menace if Japan had her way in China. The Russian czar has attempted to reform his people. He freed the serfs, he offered to arbitrate national dispute? peacefully, he proposed large disarm aments of bloated standing armies. DIFFICULT PROBLEM. "He has a difficult problem to solve and must proceed slowly. It is cer tain that George Kennon and English writers hating Russia, have misjudged or lied about her. She has been ma ligned in literature just as the north ern writers caluminated the south, in our own country, and educated a gen eration to hate this section and when an opportunity occurred to invade and desolate it. We prate of Russian bar barism, but if a greater and more brutal barbarism than the 'recon struction' of the South was ever per petrated, I am not aware of it, and if any much more infernal treatment exists than that we did in the Philip pines it is net recorded. 'Nothing,' the Bible tells us, 'is more wicked than the heart of mau,' and only the Pharisee proclaims 'I am holier than tbou.' I believe also that China is to be exploited and her ancient wall of prejudice and torpor broken down, it is better that this should be done by a Christian nation, than by Pagan atheistic Orientals like the Japanese, so that the other prophecy may be fulfilled of the sons of Japhet dwell ing in the tents of Shem. "However, I have said more than I intended. At any rate, 1 have at j tempted to show that there is a Rus sian side worthy of attention and that sympathy for Japan is more sen timental than well-founded. Such at least are my individual opinions, and I give them to you for what they are worth." The Keal Heroes. The Charlotte Chronicle says. "Ad miral Urio, the Japanese hero of the battle of Chemulpo, is a graduate of the United States naval academy at Annapolis." To which the State adds: "Now, to be fair, if there was any ex hibition of heroism displayed at Che mulpo it was by the Russians on the two cruisers who refused to surren der to a powerful and overwhelming ly superior Japanese fleet. They fought their ships until the vessels began to sink, then they took to the water and were taken aboard foreign vessels. The Japanese did their work as it should be done in war, but the Russians were as gallant as the Span iards in Manila bay. The vanquish ed may be heroes as well as the vic tors." _ Talk Up Your Town. A Texas editor is said to be respon sible for the following bit of good sense. There are some people whjse chief delight seems to consist in abus ing the town of their residence. To allsuch it is commended for careful perusal and meditation. "The sor riest cuss on earth is the cuss wbo will sit around and cuss his town. If we lived astride the north pole we would call it home and would be ready to boost it up. If we couldn't say anything else good about it, we would say that our ice bill didn't come high. We wouldn't live in a town we had to cuss while the world 1s as big as it is now." A Sad Story. C. IT. Troutraan, cashier of the Merchants and Farmers bank of Milledgeville, Ga., shot himself twice Wednesday nigh!. In a letter to Pres ident J. T. Allen of the bank he said he had touched none of the hank's funds, but bad used $2'l,000 ol the Male funds. This money was in his own possession as treasurer of the State sanitarium. He had engaged in "Otton speculation, and while he had gained a large amount he lost it and more in the slump. He was a past grand chancellor of the Knights of Phythias. The bank has been closed temporarily. I??.?'..I. ;> Killed. James K. IIicks, of Tnion S. C. was shot and instantly killed at Trioo. N. C. Friday night about Si o'clock by a man of the name of Wakefield. An eye witness says that Wakefield walked up to Hicks and asked him if he had anything against him. 1 licks said no. and asked Wakcticld the same question. About this time, it ; is said, Wake field's brother, who was Iscauding by. pushed IIicks back and drew a 44 revolver and shot Hicks, killing him instantly. Hicks was I a boss weaver in the Union Cotton [ mills. No arrests have been made [ yet. _ r'ight Hundred Killed. The Albanians who were besieging I Shemshi Pasha, who with 2,500 Tur j kish troops and the guns, was Thurs | day reported to be besieged by 20,000 Albanians at Babajhosi, have been 'routed, losing 800 men killed and I wounded. The Turkish losses are said I to be heavy. Fine additional battal | ions of troops have been ordered to I Verisovicb. Preparing for Battle. The report that 3,000 Russian troops had arrived at Chin Tien Cheng, opposite Wiju, on the Valu river, is confirmed, as is the report that the Russians have occupied Wiju itself. They have 2,000 troops at Wiju and the first collision is expected to occur in that vicinity. Sime OK AN GrEBUR< AGAINST CAPERS. Ellery M. Brayton E pudiates His Leadership of the Republicans. BAYS HE DEFENDED A CLIENT And Took Part in the Lynching of Three Negroes in Lexington County About Twelve Years Ago. The following article is clipped from the Southern Reporter, a Republican paper published in Charleston. It is spicy reading, and makes several ex planations from Mr. Capers in order: Editor of Southern Reporter: After witnessing the strange pro ceedings of the State executive, com mittee on Jan. 19th, I became con vinced that a crisis had been reached in party affairs. The submission of the committee to the domination of National Cemmitteeman John G. Ca pers seemed almost abject. Without being a member or holding a proxy he participated in its proceedings, spoke several times, and dictated its action. Of course allowance should be made for the benumbing effect produced by the unexpected and urinatural recon ciliation between Mr. Capers and State Chairman Deas. But that this should have so demoralized and dazed the committeemen that not one of them should have opposed and resent ed the dictation of Mr. Capers or pro tested against the forcing through of such an unprecedented date for the State convention as Feb. 24th., (three months earlier than ever before) when it was known that many of them had expressed themselves as hostile to his plans and purposes and intended to antagonize them, was a humiliating revelation. It was clear the object of the schemers was to take advantage of the apathy and forestall the party be ing aroused so that conventions in some cases well-njgh clandestine could be held. And some have already been held in advance of the issuance of the call of the State chairman. I have hoped that some one would sound the alarm and give expression to reason for the fear, dread and dis gust which prevails among the Re-J publicans of the State, and state the grounds which preclude the party from giving its confidence, respect and allegiance to the leadership of the national committeeman. Some of these grounds have not been men tioned in the opposition so strongly urged in your paper. Feeling that it is right and necessary that this should be done, and believing that an oppor tunity should be' afforded Mr. Capers before the meeting of the State con vention to deny or explain the charges, I ask the use of your columns for this statement. I am informed and believe from creditable testimony that Mr. Capers was present and implicated in the j lynching of three colored men in Lex ington county, S. C, about 12 years ago. That is a vital and disqualifying accusation, if true, against any one seeking to control the action of the Republican party is manifest. No argument or appeal can be needed to cause the Republicans to spurn and repudiate the leadership of one taint ed with this crime. Others may con done and even approve this fast threaten ig evil, but no one would be lieve that the race which is the vic tim of th<s barbarity would entrust! its political interests in the keeping; of a lyncher. And at this particular' j juncture when Gov. I ley ward is ap-j I pealing lo the legislature to lake steps \ I to prevent this demoralizing and de-j j basing crime, and President Roose velt's magnificent letter to the gover nor Of Indiana calling the attention) of the country to its dire conse quences is having its effect, it seems incredible that the administration should twice have been imposed upon, and the Republicans of this Stale, in '?? their already wrel ehed condition, af | ll'cted with .siicii an incubus. -! re call that Editor N. G. Gonzales was ! hung in eftlgy in I his city for condemn ing lynching. Instead of suffering retributive justice Mr. Capers holds t he oil ice of prosecul ing United St iitcs attorney, and aspirestebe !.::...?r t In: Republican parly. if he has nol ! already achieved that distinction. I am also informed and believe t hut Mr. Capers was indicted in the federal court of ibis Siate lor defrauding :t j client in a pension case. When it is recalled 1 hat at l bat time bot Ii Mr. Capers and the district attorney were Democrats and thai influences the mnst potential were unavailing to (prevent this prosecution, it will be Understood that tbe proof must have been incont-rovertrible. I am also .informed thai to escape a trial re newed efforts were interposed; and only upon t be assurance thai Mr. Ca pers would Nave the Stale, thus ex patriating himself, us be did do, was i the case nol prossed. And now we are I told t hat M r. ('apurs has t be effronl en to aspire to the appointment ol a ? t inted States judgeship upon the tirst I vacancy occuring. If tliis change is answered I ask ?that a synopsis of the evidence sup porting the indictment be given, for I am informed that if is not only con vincing, but convicting. I could say much as to the manner in wnich Mr. Capers is believed to have trafficked with the federal otlices in this State, his utter failure to do anythything to build up the party, and t he met hods by which expects to control the convention, but those are matters that can wait for another op portunity. ? But attention should be called to the significance of the brazen de claration made by him in a speech be fore the State executive committee, in which he said that the reason why he was anxious for the State conven tion to be held in February was that the United States courts were in session in March and April and he Gr, S. Cm WEDNESDAY, ] wanted it fixed so that his official force and tfiat of the marshal could attend the county and district con ventions. That seemedH-he most un blushing defiance and disregard of the civil service law I ever heard. It is also an index of the man and of the methods he means to pursue. And yet he will be found posing as the original Roosevelt champion in the State, regardless of the president's record as a civil service reformer, and of the fact that he owes his office to Senator Hanna, by whom he was made national committeeman and for whom he would jump the fence at the first chance of success. Do not be troubled by the pretenses and false claims of this imposter. He is a smooth article, but his course is al most run. When the administration sees Mr. Capers in close fellowship with Chairman Deas. whom he has been denouncing, arid with whom he said his self respect would not allow him to confer as a member of the sub committee appointed to agree upon a candidate for collector of customs (neither one of them having retracted the vile things said of each other) and take note of the changes and com plaints against him, he will find him self discarded. He cannot stand an investigation and will not seek vindica tion. ' I .had little personal acquaintance with Mr. Capers upon his introduc tion to Republican politics. Since leaving the State 1 do not remember seeing him here except during the Democratic primary, when he was the political manager foj> Gen. M. C. Butler for United States senator. My lirst insight into the ingrained duplicity of Mr. Capers was at the congressional district convention held at Orangeburg last summer, when, to my astonishment he proclaimed him self in a set speech as the champion of the negro, and boasted how, at the conference with the sub-executive committee he voted on every ballot for Dr. Crum for collector of customs,-" and taunted Chairman Deas with having deserted his race and prevent ed Dr. Crum's selection?for not 10 days before I heard him declare that under no circumstances would he sup port a negro for that otfice. I cannot believe that after the brave tight Chairman Deas has made against National Committeeman Capers that he will yield to his im portunities and subject himself to the suspicions and contempt it would inevitably cause, for no one knows so well his selfish, corrupt and sinister purposes and how blighting or even destructive to the best, interests of the Republican party will be his con tinued ascendency. If only the men that Mr. Capers has played with deceived and betray ed will assert their self respect and resent, it will fully ofTs.it to influence and numbers the onfie holders who wears his collar and who must work for him however they distrust him, and they can so rally the rank.and file of the party that neither money, prom ise of otfice nor threat, or all com bined, can save him. Ellery M. Rrayton. Saved by Soldiers. At Columbus, Ga., on Wednesday afternoon the local military was called out to prevent the lynching of Willie ! Hudson, a negro who pleaded guilty to attempted criminal assault upon Emma Burton, a 12-year-old school girl, a week ago. the plea being enter ed at a special term of the superior court today. Hudson was given the limit of the law -twenty years in the I penitentiary. \s the negro was be ing taken back to the jail Martin llur tou, the lather of the young lady, made a desperate attempt; t > get, to { the prisoner, but was overpowered by J the officers. The trial had caused (great excitement and fearing efforts I would be made by friends of Burton to secure the negro, a company ol Stale troops was ordered out. Anti-Treat in;; Bill. The anti-treating bill b;ir> at iast got through both houses, t bough variously amended. !?: its present Ishapethc bill reads: "It shall be un lawful hereafter lor any person to sell, barter or give away, or treat a voter, '?< any malt or intoxicating liquor nil bin one mile of any voting precinct rbinrur :?nv nrirveirv or oth^r election under a penalty upon conviction there for ol not more than 110 day's im prisonment with labor." Agricultural Course. The house eonferencc committee appointed on Col. D. O. Herbert's bill to create scholarships at Clemson college made its report in favor of the [senate amendment, making these scholarships apply to the agricultural jdcapartment alone, and the report 'was accepted. This provides 121 additional scholarships in Clemson, confined to the agricultural course. This bill will be of great benefit to the State. Killed by Boloincn. A dispatch from Manila says: Lieut. McRac and six privates of the con stabulary have been killed by a hoi j I rush of 500 fantaics while patrolling j the east coast of the island of Samar. Private Saloman, oi the Fourteenth cavalry, stationed at .lolo, has also beei: kiiied by 'ooioincn. Will Join the Marines. .leter R. Horton, for the past three years city editor of the Greenville News, has received the appointment of lieutenant of marines through the influence of Congressman .Joe Johnson. His place on the News has been taken by Douglas Jenkins. They Were Foolish. William Little and Samuel Hall, well-to-do farmers near Whitesburg, Ky., fought a duel on Sunday and both were killed. They used revolvci and had "seconds." They fought about a young woman with whom both were in love. FEBRUARY 24, 1904. TILLMAN HITS BACK. I The Senator Defends Himself from I Newspaper Criticism. PRAISES GOVERNOR HEYWARD. He Claims That What He Said on the Homicide Subject Was the Correct View to Take. We clip the following letter fron. the Greenville News of last Wednes day: Not long since I met a correspond ent iu the corridors of the capitol who sends Washington news to sev eral South Carolina papers, and I hurriedly made some criticism upon the injury to South Carolina result ing from erroneous and false state ments sent out by South Carolina correspondents and editors in their papers about crimes in our State. I did not take the trouble to elaborate or do more than call attention to the fact, and the resulting damage to the State's good name. Strange to say, the worst criminals have not received or copied the interview, and none i nat I have seen have denied the eh ir? ? or attempted to reply, except Lue two Greenville papers. 1 have just read the editorial, "Senator Tillman's Solicitude," in the Mountaineer of the 13th, and an editorial of similar import from The Greenville News, copied in The State. The animus of both the Mountain eer and The Greenville News is of long standing and easily understood by those who are pasted on South Carolina politics, but that is not a matter of moment, i beg to make a few comments on these two edi torials for the benefit of your readers. You say: ''This is anew role for the virile senator, as he has been going about the country for several years advertising the lawlessness of which he approves, and from his seat la the Senate he has boasted of what he would do in certain circumstances to wreak vengenance upon criminals." Once for all, let me say 1 have time and again announced my willingness to head a lynching party to string up any man who would rape a woman. I did this first in the campaign when I was running for the Senate In 1894. I have never seen reason to chancre that opinion and I never expect to change it, and I feel that in making that declaration I voice the senti ment of nine-tenths of the white peo ple of South Carolina, and I doubt now whether the editor of either tbe Mountaineer or Greenville News will over his own signature, dare take is sue with the sentiment. Again the I Mountaineer says: "His violent and j turbulent disposition in and out of oilice is by no means an example to be commended at home or abroad, and his denunciation of the newspa pers for exposing the criminal record of the State comes with ill grace from a man who has never lifted a linger to stay the tide of crime and lawlessness which has grown at a fearful rate since be entered upon public life and became a controlling factor in the political life of the1 State." I I call attention right here to the i fact that in my interview I mention ed no names either of men or of papers, singled out nobody for criti jcism, and only denounced a senseless Islander of our Stale and its peopie by its own citizens. But, let me call I the attention of your readers to some facts. ! In my inaugural address as gover I nor 1 made the strongest possible plea I to the white people of the Stale for law and order, and I exerted myself 1 to Hie utmost as executive to protect persons charged with crime from lynching, and as for the charge that ' the tide of crime and lawlessness has grown, 1 desire to say that may be i attributed much more justly to the 'educating influences of those papers i which have counselled disobedi< nee to I the law, notably the dispensary law, and have encouraged in every w-xy us , nullification. The grand juries in cer tain counties under these influences ; have systematically broken their oaths and purged themselves, and it islitti. Short "I ill f "I III' ?US !"!' l!'"S" wm> ,,!?<? guilty ot t mis attempting '." "Vi-rridr : the will of the majority to charge the I resulting demoralization to me. Tb< , Mountaineer says that 1 do not ''in veigh against the crim'nals or censure I their action.--, but am incensed at the I facts being given to the world." This is just where the trouble lies. The tacts have not been given to the world. Every humide ment ioned in the attorney general's report necessitated a technical indictment for "murder," but that was no warrant for the news papers to herald it to the world that _'_o "murders" had been committed in South Carolina in the !a>:! year. It Was no warrant for the slander that the juries tailed to do their duty in nearly every instance and that crimi nals were rarely punished. Grant that there is demoralization in the State. ' grant that ive are ever ready as a peo ple, to ready t<> resent insult, ami tu , use the pistol. It has always been so I and what good can come from distort I ing the facts and setting every case of la negro killing another negro in a (drunken brawl as a "murder" to be charged against our State's civiliza i tion? The Statements which have j been sent abroad to claim that all or j half of the violent deaths mentioned J by the attorney general are "mur dm." I may not be privileged to act as : in regard to what constitutes . " yec almost tne whole edi jtorial fraternity In South Carolina have assumed the right to declare what constitutes "murder," and have :x Tcised the priviiege of abusing ju : ries for failure to do their duty, as j Lbe editors saw it. Whether or not I have done more to "befoul the pood name of South Carolina by my public utterances at home and abroad" than these slander ous editorials, I leave for the people to judge. I have spoken the truth as I have understood it, both in the Sen and before Nothern audiences, and I have nothing to regret or to take back. But I suggest that it is an evi dence of malice and of personal ha tred rather than of calm deliberate judgment and sense of public duty that made my indictment against the slanders of South Carolina in regard to crime an excuse for villiflcation and abuse of me personally. I can stand it because I am used to it. Can the editors of the Mountaineer and The News justify themselves for befouling South Carolina's good name in the way they have? This much for the Mountaineer. Now for the Greenville News. That paper makes allusions to my lecture tour in West last summer, and speaks thus: "When he was spouting fire on that spectacular trip this newspaper cjeclared that Senator Tillman was killing off all hope of bringing a desir ably class of immigrants to this State by his alarming speeches." I recall the fact that some garbled and dis torted reports were sent abroad while the debate with Senator Burton was going on last summer, with a view to creating a sensation. I cannot di.?cu s the immigration question in an aitio.e like this, but in presenting the view to the Nothern people that with 780, 000 negroes and only 500,000 white people in our State that absolute equality before the law meant domi nation by the blacks, and that the whites would resort to fighting before they would submit to it, I thought I told the plain, unvarnished truth, and 1 think so still. 1 am thoroughly well satisfied that a race war would result should Northern fanatics again en deavor to force negro equality upon us. I think it did good to tell those peo ple this and let them understand,- the true situation. If it drives immi grants away from our borders well and good, but certainly the statement which has been made in cold blood by South Carolina newspaper men that murder and lawlessness were rampant, that jurors were perjurers, life and property were unsafe, etc., were cal culated to deter home seekers much more than the threatened shadow of a race conllict, as 1 predicted and which may never come. I mentioned immi gration in that interview for the pur pose of showing the inconsistency and the idiocy of those who proclaim such a condition of affairs in South Caro lina, and yet were urging the expen diture of our taxes for the purpose of bringing immigrants to our State. The News charges that 1 spoke thus because I was paid to do it while clairaiug that slanders by it and others "voiced the sentiments of the decent law abiding people in protest ing against the disgrace of the com monwealth and it did so believing that it was performing a public ser vice, and not because there was a re ward." At first blush it would appear that because I received money for my work and the newspapers did not, I am in the wrong. It is a bad bird that will befoul its own nest whether for reward or without it. In standing up for white supereraacy before North i cm audiences and proclaiming frankly and boldy our intention to preserve it at all hazards, and driving the hypo crisy and political greed of those who were apposing it. 1 may have been in error, but what defense can be ottered by him who befouled the State's good name either truthfully or untruthful ly. No good whatever has been ac complished, and J really cannot sec \ what my having been paid has to do ', with it. j The conditions in South Carolina 'are not such as I would like to sec, ? but those who charge that the dlspen I sary law, as The News does, is respon sible, must first answer for the educa tion of the people to which I have made allusion in the belief thai it. was right and proper to override that law by any and all means. They have sown to the windnnd arc reaping the whirlwind. I want to say further that when The News says "that the existing conditions in South Carolina are due to Um: weak politicians who have been ?I icted to cilice and nearly all of these nice are disciples of Tillman,'' that ii. is well known that the last two Legislatures of South Carolina have bad a majority ?>!' former Conserva tive in them, and our present brave .iod noble-hearted governor, who is doing his whole duty towards enforc ing this obnoxious law obnoxi >us to The News and the Mouutilizer is well known to have been a Consesvative. I close by saying to The Greenville News that I am not worrying about the immigrants 1 have kept away from S'Hitii Carolina nor those who may be dt terred from coming In South Carolina by its own slanders, but let us keep the record straight, and let Liie people understand that their senior senator may lie "violent and turbulent" as the Mountaineer says, and The News may not have any "faith in his sincereity" about immi grants or anything else, but they have not cleared themselves from the charge he made of having slandered South Carolina, and what is more they cannot. They have simply abused me to hide their own fault. B. it. Tillman. Washington, I). C. Feb. hi. 1!>04. They Want to Die. It is said Japanese officers from the general staff downward are enthusias tically patriotic, and the rank and tiie desire to die fighting, rather than live at home with their families. Friends and relatives of departing soldiers say not good-by, but "fare well, for your sake I hope never to see you again." Perilous posts are eagerly sought, and the opportunity to die is coveted. Life is regarded as synonymous with dishonor. gl.00 PEB ANNUM. THE DISPENSARY. The House Passes the Local Option Bill With Amendments. BOW* THE MEMBEES VOTED. A ay County Can Vote Ont Dis pensary it It Will Tax Itself to Enforce the Law. The Brice local option bill, which passed the SeDate last week came up in the House on Thursday, and passed pretty much in the shape it came from the Senate. The house refused all amemdments to the bill. Mr. Dor ruh's amendment was the only one on which a test vote was taken. This amendment provided that instead of the flat tax of half a mill on the coun ty which votes out the dispensary, the matter should be left to the gov ernor, and if, in his discretion, he should think the law was not being enforced by the people of that county he should order the half mill tax lev ied. This was rejected by a vote of 49 to 66, as follows: Ayes?Messrs. Baker, Banks, Bar j ron, Bates, Beamguard, Bomar, Brown, Bunch, Carey, Coggeshall, Doar, Dorroh, Doyle, Ford, Hendrix, J. E. Herbert, Hunter, Humphrey, James, Xibler, King, Kirby, Lanham, Lofton, Logan, McCain, McColl, Maul diu, Middleton, Morgan, Parnell, Peurifoy, Potts, Pystt, Quick, Ready, Richardson, Sarratt, Sinkler, Jeremiah Smith, Strong, Toole, Wade, Walker, Wingo, Wise, Wright, Youmans?49. . Nays?Speaker Smith and Repre- ' sentatives Aull, Aycock, Bailey, Bass, Bennett, Black, Blackwood, Brooks, Callison, Carwile, Colcock, Cooper, Culler, Davis, DeBruhl, Dennis, Des Champs, DeVore, Donnald, Dowling, Edwards, Etird, Fox, Fraser, Gourdin, Haile, Harrellson, Haskell, Herbert, D. 0.; Hill, Holman, Irby, Jarnegan, Johnson, Kelley, Lancaster, Laney, Leverett, Lesesne, Lide, Little, Lyles, i Mace, Magill, Mahaffey, Mims, Moses, j Moss, Nichols, Pollock, Potts, Pyatt, ; Quick, Ready, Richardson, Sarratt, i Sinkler, Jeremiah Smith, Strong, I Toole, Wade, Walker, Williams, Wingard?66. THE BILL AND ITS RIDER, The bill provides that section 7 of the old dispensary law be amended so that the removal of a dispensary may be obtained in the same manner as the establishment, upon the petition ofoue-fourth of the qualified electors of the county, when the county sup ervisor shall order an election upon the question of "dispensary" or "no dispensary," to be voted upon by the qualified voters. The bill then con tinues: "And if a majority of the ballots cast be found and declared to be for a dispensary, then a dispen sary may b3 established in said coun ty, but if a majority of the ballots cast be found and declared to be against the dispensary, then no dis pensary shall be established therein, and any dispensary already established shall be closed. Flections under this section can be held not oftener than once in four years. "No dispensary shall be established in any county, town or city wherein the sale of alcoholic liquors was pro bibibited prior to July I, 1893, except as herein permitted: provided, that where dispensaries have been estab lished in such county, town, or city, they shall remain as established un til removed or closed as permitted in this act: provided, a tax of one-half mill is hereby levied upon every dollar of the value of all taxable property in all counties voting to remove or close the dispensaries as above pro vided: for tiie purpose >of defraying the expenses of the enforcement of the dispensary law in said county under and by direction of the gover nor, said tax to be collected as other county taxes and forwarded to the State treasurer, to be expended, or -0 much thereof as may be necessary, as now provided by law, for such pur I poses. Any balance remaining un j expended at the end of the year to be returned by the State treasurer to I tue county treasurer of such county ' for general county purp ?ses. and that j the value df all confiscations of con | traband goods seized in such county, as determined by the State board of directors, .shall bo paid to the State treasurer, to lie credited to the fund raised by said levy for the enforce ment of the lav/, as above provided. And any amount expended in said county for the enforcement of the dispensary law shall be refunded to the state treasury upon the collec tion of the tax above levied. Anv county voting out a dispensary shall not thereafter receive any part of the surplus that may remain of the dis pensary school fund after the deficien cies in the various county school funds j have been made upas provided by i law.' There is also a povision put in the ommittee that "A dispensary may be located elsewhere than in an in corporated town in the counties of Beaufort and I lorry, and no others, except such as are authorized by spe cial act of the general assembly." Mr. Tatura withdrew his proposed amendment providing for elections "no oftener than once in two years," and the bill went through with the four year limit. Worth Two Dollars. The Columbia State says: "When cotton was selling for five and six cents a pound the publishers of many weekly papers reduced the price to one dollar a year. They probably now realize the unwisdom of that course, when everything that goes to make a newspaper and to keep the makers of newspapers alive has advanced in price-. Any weekly paper worth read ing is worth $2 a year, according to present standard.