ESTABLISHED IN 11
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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.