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1.DR1 OU1FgABHINGTON LETTER. RooseveyVv and Populis Southern W r Olaims to be Paid. Special to rald and News. Washingt , Dec. 15.-That the De mocratic part under conservative Southern leaders 's destined to be the refuge of all those citizens who believe that the founders of the gov ernment builded wisly when they framed the Constitution of the Unit ed States with its division of author ity between the States and the-Fed eral government and with its cheecks on the power of the President is shown by the action of the Popllist organzation in Kansas. That organ izatioi which was once all powerful in that State-electing governors, United States Senators, and members of Congress-has decided to disband for the simple reason that the Repub liean party under President Roosevelt has taken up every Populist issue. In., announcing the intention to dis band, the ehairman of the Kansas or ganization said: ''We take the posi tion that we have been the forerun ners of the present Republican policy. President Roosevelt is doing the thin: now that we advocated ten years ago when we were laufhed at. We are all f4r Roosevelt and we are going to get into his party. We have been John the Baptist for him.'' That this combination of Populism and Re pulblicanisn can be successfully at tacked by conservative Democracy is shown by the fact that in no State were the Republican losses heavier in the November election than in Kansas where tht party stood most strongly for the Roosevelt Populistic theories of goveriment. It is instructive to compare results in Kansas with those in Ohio where the Republican party, dominated by conservative anti Roosevelt men, under 'the lead of Senator Foraker, held their own. That Rooseveltism and Populism mean the concentration of all power in the government at Washington, and not in that government alone, but in the hands of a single man-the President-is shown by Mr. Roose velt's message to Congress. From be ginning to end that remarkable doen mont is filled .with recommendations for giving more power to the Presi dent and his appointees. He attempts to bring into discredit that most Im portant bulwark of a free people against the encroachments of execu tive power-en independent ju diciary -and his suggestion that the eurts should stretsh the Constitution so as to validate unconstitutional laws, if carried to its logieal conclusion Would make the courts subservient to the President asd mere enforcers of his decrees. Even more remarkable than his an nual messige was Mr. Roosevelt's special message demanding of Con gress authority, on his own responsi bility and without trial of any kind, to dismiss any officer of the navy. In other wvords he would have the repres entative of the people clothe him with a p)ower possessed by the rulers of but two countries in the world the Czar and Russia and the Emperor of China-a power that would make the will of the President supreme over all law in the contori of the militariy establishment and would make that establishiment absolutely subservienit to him and ready to carry out his will. The significance of this is the mrne striking as this special message fol lowved close upon his'threat to use the army and navy to coerce the sover eign State of California into opening the doors of her white schools to thxe peop)le of an alien race.' It would be but one 'step furthier to the use of the army and navy to open the white shhools of the Southern States. to nxeg roes and to enforce the social equality of the races... Southern Senators and Congress men are hopeful of seuring the early, passage of the wvar claims bill which has been introduced in the House by' Mr. Mahon, chairman of the Comit tee on War Claims. This bill is made up almost entirely of claims for p)ro perty in the Southern States taken and used lby the Northernij troops dur ing the war between the States. The abould all hayg been paid yars ago, btg Mine he.~ a 0p9ned frem Von gress by politicians anxious to shoV economy-in appropriations. All thes claims have been passed by th Court of Claims and there is no ques tion as to every dollar being owed b the government. The bill include hundreds of claims of residents i every Southern State and will provid for the disbursement of hundreds o thousands of dollars throughout th South. SAYS HAMPTON WAS KING. Stirring Letter on Recent Unveilin of Monument in Columbia. A. B. Williams in News-Leader. Yesterday Wade lIampItoni, dea and in his grave, was king in Sout Carolina, as lie was in this moniith o November thirty years ago. Froi the. summer of 1S7G to May 10, 1S77 in the flush of his manhood and ll mat1uri(v of his strength of iniid an lo(dY, was an absoilue ruler; bi word was law. le hal the power 0 life and death. of peace and war. I had behilind him the white manhoo oa the state armed an(d mounted an wearing the red shirt, ready to g and do at his biddin-, to fight agaiiis any odds, to submit quietly in th face of any plroveatol. We doul: if ever in the history of tle world, i time of peace, any (lie maii has eve had much complete control. Sevent thousand fightiniz men were ready t, answer at ils slightest call, to do li bid<ing anywhere and anyhow. No mni in history has beeii mor desperately determined than ienera H.aml)tqn was after the election o November 7, no man was ever govert ed by a cleaner understanditg of situation by a more alert conscice or sounder sense. He never yielde one inch and would not have yielde in any circumstances, but lie made n1 mistake. le was ready, if the tim came to lead his seventy thousan red shirts heitdlong against the whol power and force of the United State government in one vast and gloriou suicide. His determination to adher to peaceful and lawful methods t the very last possible moment, an then to throw prudence and diplk macy to the winds, and lead as far a any dared to follow, was unknown t those with whom he was confidentia 'Ulampton or Hell I' was the sloga of that campaign, and the men whi used it meant it-the hell of a mill tary government or fierce, open an exterminating warfare. With the pas sion and fury and desperatian of hi owu people on One side with the fere cious fanaticism or the smooth cu ning of the Republican politicians a the north on the other, lie dealt witl masterful hand and steady brain. Thi conditions demanded a great man an( he was great. le had been a ruler and a leade from his childhood, a master by in heritance and by growth. He main tainedl that position by strength o body and mind and daring. Whe: he went to war he was a general b; nature. When his people needed man to lead them in saving them selves from thme horrors ofV reconstrue tion t hey t urned to him unanimouslt Only a man of unumeaCIsuredl strengt2 andI will could have dop9e the worl and he' did it without an error or halt. He had to control, direct an use an armmy scat ter'ed through State under Ithe guise and within lih tinues of civil law and gove.rnmenl Fewv men have had sneh a task and n oIlher man could have performed it s well. lie never could forsake the habit o being master, leader and general. R~ knew nothing of the arts and trick and diplomacies of politics. His bIt soul disdained and was impatient o them. lie was the Cariolanus of mod ern life. Heo could not bear to slim his war worn 'wounds in the marke place that they might beseech pop)i lar favor for him. .Conscious of hi patrioktism and p)urity of p)urpose, h gave no attention to maintaininig li own personal hold on the,people. Din ing fourteen years of peaceful poll tics his will cont inued to be law an. lie ruled South Ca rolinia by the melh ods and pr*hidepes and polities of th old (lays. The goverimnienls were eca' and able .hut wrere miainta'mod an continuedO( by systems mo apprc V priato to military organizations o o an established aristocracy than to th e complex requirements of these late - times. This was not good for stat y or people but the necessity and pro s per changes could have been brough a about quietly and gradually. The timi e and public sentiment were ripe. f Then came Tilman, coarse, vio tent, incendiary, cunning and greedy with his appeals to class and sectiona feeling a.xQd prejudice, rousing oil element of, tle state a'ainst anlothel. 1le stirredI up1) strif'e and prosperet go it. Ile was not Content When th< fld iIluences" were overthrown a.11( the I-mtoirle was brokenl. Un1 der his baneful influence a Imajoritl - of the legislature was calsed to fol I (et. the services that might ha.1v4 atoned for and4 hidden all Vindless ar ray of black sinls 111141 the greatiess oj soul aid heart a1141 braill aid pur a poso which had e the pleople safely thrmi.d the m11ost awful Ii dangers a n. s the deadliest crisis 4f their histor) and Geerai Jaiiipton was diefeate 3 for reelection to he S"'nlate--as 110r a politica'l assassinlation, as slallnefil 1 111 evidenlce of ing''ratitude as 0h< ) World lis ever seen. t Perhaps Hampton was greater it . tihe circumstics' atIeiding his de t feat 'and inl the years following i I even Ihia he was while master of l r seventy thisand fighting men in rei and king of the commonwealth. U refused to yield one inchi from Ilh s traditions to which his whole life wa reared and to which his whole lif was a long allegiance. He decline, to consider any deals or comibilna tion, to implore any favor, to appen by word or gesture to his service Idone for the state. Ie would not g to Columbia during the days of tl d balloting. After lie had been struel down there was no su,Aestion of i manly whimpering, repining or rc sentment. Ie accepted his fate wit] the manly meekness of dauntless an conscious courage. He could hat and lie could love individuals, his enc mies and his friends, but affection s ate, devoted, deathless loyalty to th state and people of South Carolin; and love for them was his maste passion, his ever governing impulse To the very last lie was ready to d what service lie could for either, n matter how small or humble the ca pacity in which lie might be aske< to serve. . Thirty years after the wonderfu i 'and brilliant campaign in which Ii - led and was king, sixteen years at g ter his rejection and overthrow b: - the people of his state, lie was onc - again king yesterday. We are gli t Tillman was not there. His presenel I would have spoiled tile beauty of th 3 memories that must have crowdei I thickly in the minds of the great mul titude assembled to do honor to Wadi Hampton. Hle is ill the saddle agali and * 'will ride there forever, to b king of South Carolina, we hope his sp)irit, his courage and high pur pose, his devotion and his patriotisn supreme in the hearts of her peCople - GEN. WADE HAMPTON; - A SKETCII OF HIS LIFEI .Lieutenant (Gener'al Wade Hlamp)toi iof the Confederate States Army, wa c horn on the 281th of March, 181 8, ih ithe city of Charleston, wit hini somn iof old St. Michael 's chimes, and die< 1 Iin (Colutmb)ia at . D-'tlock on Fr'iday IA pril libI, 1902. HeI was tme thlirid o . his Cami ly to bea11r thle namne lhe mad< > so ill ustrious1 and1 h1oored, anld hi > granldfa lier' serv~ed with 1d(ist inection a a soldier in the Rev~ol utionary wa f under' Maionl and Sumter, belongin a to the cavalry regiment conimande a by Col. Wm.11 Wa1shington, of which hi ,was lieutenant colonel at the battle o Eut aw. His son,,Wade Hampton, wva . a planter with extensive interests an , large estate, and lived at Milwood, t few miles from Columbia, where th . third Wade Hampton -was reared ii luxury and affluence, but was taugh the many virtues unider' refining in I fluences that were character'istic o. .his long life.' - Cen. Hlanfptoni was a gr'adinte o1 'I thle South ('arolina College. and( afthr -ward( studied laiw, but wit hout any in cat ttion of enter'iing upon the pr'actic< :of the~ pr'of'esion. He was recognizon t-. in en,rly life as one of the prominen .. men of the Sata. thondgi hi8 time wa, re not oceipied so much with public a 3 fairs as with his landed interests e South Carolna and Mississippi, d 3 voting himself to the .activties of - planter with ample fortune, and usi4 L for recreation the rod and gun rath than whiling away time with listle purpose in fashion's circle. He wt called u)on to scrvc tihe people in tl legislature, and made an excellent r cord in that body for common sen and soud juidgment. He was a mer her of the State Selate when tie wf broke out, and his political sentimni were sirngly consevative, inot heirl iefill(d to a dismeiberiment of ti Union. Whenl fle States decided upon witidr-awal from lie Union, 1 promptly offered his services as -privalte il i the defense of South Ca olina, but was shortly afierwards i en1 aulll- ity' 1o f1l.2alliZC a C01111mar1 o)f illfa11 ry, a i iIIery a d eavaIi wh-Iich. hvenile knlowni as Ithe 11 llmp)t,4 Lenion. adl cliived great distin fion in vnell arm 4df the ser-vive. 1 i o'(1i1ni11led the inl fant ry of the L I ' WitIih wariked ability at. the Fir 'Mainassas, and was wounded in 11 head. Ii tlie campai-n on tle peni I suila tho voimmaind aainl added to i - reputain a11nd at Seven Piles i L creased tile distinetion and fame of i leader, who\: was a.nini woNided aft I perforiniig gallant and effective se 2 vice. He was commissioned as britn 3 dcier general on the 2Sth of July, 18S6 i and was assigned to tile command 3 a cavalry brigade under Cen. J. E. I Stuart, which figured very prominer - 1 in (lie army of Northern Virginin 1 General Hanipton was henceforl identified with the cavalry servi< and in the Maryland campaign T 1862 lie was in charge of the re -tlguard of the cavalry division in t movement westward from Frederi City, a perilous and important poE tion, as the enemy was pressing t Confederates with vigor and persis 0 ence. He A was a participant - Stuart's raid in the rear of Mead ~ army, and he met the enemy's caval near Gettysburg on the 3d of July, which engagement he was wound( three times, and two of them sab cuts. His command suffered ve: heavily in this battle, nearly one-ha of his men being killed or wounded. On the third of August, 1863, jui one month after the Gettysburg figh Hampton was promoted major-gene al and assigned to the command of cavalry division. G 0ene1al Stuart w mortally wounded at Yellow Tave on the 11th of May, 1864, and dif the next day. Hampton was the ran ing offleer, and took command of t1 cavalry corps of the Army of Nort ern Virginia. Ie defeated the raid Dahligren and Kilpatrick, and aft several days' fighting lie gave Shei dan a cheek at Trevilian's Statio which broke up the Federal plan juncture with Hunter and the captul of Lynchburg. HIe captured 3,04 prisoner's and large quianltities of w miaterial, sustaining ai loss of 719 m< 'in twenty three daiys. In Septembt 1864, lie struck thie rear of Grant army at City Point, capturing 44 .prisoners and bringing away 2,41 i beves, anmd shortly -aftemrwards in a a other action lie eaptur'ed 500 priso i es. In February, 1865, lhe was pr I nmot ed lieutenann-genieral, and( assig I ed to the comiimand1 of the army ,.Josephd E. JTohnson, wh1ere tie rendel F' ed cnieni5))ious service ini cheeckh a the advantce of Shiermn an d in seler m'z in lie baille groiind1 of lenmt onv ill which was the scene of his last e r -rag'ueent wit.h Ithe iFederna 1t1rony SA fw r the close of hiost ilities the r'essj I ed life as a planteIr, and( gave his a I tentioni to the large interests in Mi 1' sissippi, whmere lie was enigaged wh<( a called upon to lead the mioveent f< I the redemption of the State, in 1.87 His courage and( cotlness uder all ei 3 cumstances, coupled wvith his sagaci: and dliscretion, made an enduring su cess of what was regarded b)y n\tma as a hopeless undi(erta:king, anid tic w r er'owdedu ith civic honorsi' thiat eve surpaf):Ssed tie bi.hlll itecord in i r itaiy ife. - Toi 187A lie int with1 an nce1 eanicud flhe los~ nf t,' le t'n v-hii I is 10' stilt huna' in the !:uiance1 -Oan electe'd i'- the Tiited We is Rm~' Mo.n in which en9lted position lhe sern f- MEAT-INSPECTION LAW. in e- Mr. Clark on the Cotton Question a Believes Japan Will Consume ig More Cotton this Year. 3r 3s Special cor. Herald and News. is Washington, Dec. 15.-Special Com o mereial Agent Clark has sent to the 2 Bureau of Manufac.oro an elaborate ;e Iep (r on "o: oilon gO 33 ip dapan whill I- is of special ileres (,. cot ton grow r 'S an1d to Soulthern a acturers of ts voli(In ch . Mr. C'l, 1.ioives thatt the growth of prospeit in Japan e accomanied by inc 'e d wag~es is go ing to restift in a very'- much larger coisimptim'n of cotl",l goods. Much a (of Ihis 1"inprased demlal , especially I. f(r the coarser grades, w%-ill he sul)l)li ' ed by the Japanese mt1ills, bit whether the cloth is woven inl Japan, or Amer ia, or Eurple tihe results will can in d cre-ised deiand for rnw c)t(1n. Not . wvitHistandinl-" Ohe rapidl developmIlentI I' f Ilhe japllaInese textile inidtst ry, Mr. Clrk believes tIlat iilimts of cot(oi e 'O especially ol . the fitter grades, will increase. ite finds that lie Jaip a lnese marlk( Cor (.()tton1l piece g-ooIds lelas, beenllne"leted by Amlerican11 1111u I- iactturers and comimission mierchants, 11and lie believes that a large part of the $3000,,000 exlen(ed by the 3.ap alnese for Europea1i-made cottIon roods couild have beenl brough-It to Ilhe r- unitel States it' the trade had been i- properly eiltivaled. Tle sales of 2, Amtieriain eittoi g4,oods inl Japan for i the year amliointed to only $1,119,1(6. Southern Senators and llepreseina tives will bo the ioe ready to force h the tariff issue to tihe froit. during , th coming session of Congrcss and ofto oppose the centralizing policies of ar President loosevelt as a result of ue thie expvrienec of their section under ?k laws passd at (lie last session increas ;i- ing -the powers of the President at te the expense of the States. The meat t- inspection law, for instance, is CT in forced by the administraition, gives to 's the big establislnients the benefit of -y a government guarantee of the quality in of its products, but the Southern A farmer who kills a few cattle or a few 'e hogs to be marketed in a nearby city, 'y acros a State line, finds that the If government will not allow.him to ship his meat and his eutomers have to it buy of the big packe. The Demo t cratic members of Congress who voted rfo the Hephurn railroad rate law be a lieved that it was to be enforced so as to put a istop to real transportation abuses and had no idO it would be constructed as putting into the hands of a political commissbn at Washing tontl power to interferm with the com. merce of whole secitone of the country and to nullify States laws. Yet the truling of the Interst*ft Coinmeiree Commission as to the filing and post in,g of expert cotton rate plans every Southiern port gt a disadvan me tage, and the tuling that advertising 0 can not be exchanged for tranisporta tion is an interference with the liber' ty of cointract thtat is resented by n iewspaper' putblishers all over the Scounty while a deision -in a 'United OSlates Court in Ar'kanse shows Itat this law has nullified the separate ('oiah laws of (lie Southeretn StatesI as applied1 to interstate passengers, c(mllt('Iinug thle rail road.s to allo w neg rtoes withI interstate I icke(tIs to ride in Ssleepi ng ear's apd parlIor ears and to cat in dlining cars with white passeni ers.li Me'anwhiile, the t ardy enforce metof thte Elkins law~ :and 1 le pani t'ishmtent of rilroadls, 1raffi(e oiffi C1e, cIls and Ifavor'ed shippjer's under' it arie shiowing~ that if President Rloose( voelt had given this law a fair t rial~ 1there woutld have beeni little oceas siopi for fitrt her r'ail road legishlion). s r This is the season of the year when .the base ball uire)i' is a rank-outtsid r' er'. B. '7 Every wonman is firmly convinced (liat she earns1 thie mfoneyV ever' y time - she purchases a dollar' article for 98 hI ed until lol9. He w'as a p'oi n I:a by e'I Preidet Clovehlaninsmit1 lo toii thef for' the Un'ited( State', wvhich he yesignt . d hi 1897. Advertised Letters. Letters remaining in the Postoffice at Nowbory for the week, ending Dec. 15, 1906. B. J. L. P. Brennen, Miss Lucen3y ffiekley, Wilson Bowles, Adeline kdeline Boozer. C. j. T. Carson, Miss Calline Can i0n, F. W. Clemons, Bessic Crough, T. T. Cooper, John Crnber. E. Miss Edna Epling, Manda Egnor. 1". Chaily Floyd. (G. John Grinber. 1f. Alice Uu1tcherson (2), Fances Innt. K. Mrs. E. .1. Kay, Walter Kitt, Mrs .Kibler. L. E. Livingston, V. f. Long, M. . Lonz. . Irs. E. 1). Martin, Samnile ilillis, T. C. Mliller (4), Mfary Mforse, 1'. Nellie Perrin, Ais Peary. S. M:i auic nders, Ether Spear nau, .1. 1'. 11. Ste(le. T. Fnmlezes TunIler. W. S.Illiv Watvrs, Mrs. Ilne Mand ilite, iss lrene Workma11. Per'nlis calli ig ' (I (1heSe will please Z.y 11ha11 theY wer]e( advertised. . Post Iimaster. 'Militar drills and p.1aades by the ines."( Sliiers, of' Em-pie anl Amer en: will bo dbily f'vnilmns or the Ex posi(ionl from Hw 'Irly part, of, 'May until i.he closim.- da.ys, a thirty-acre paradle roud havig been arrang.1:1ed for Ohis purpt4se. Ameri(n'i1s will thenli have ani opporItInity it compare our onw Soldiers with those of the king doms ani1d elipires of tile old vorld. he dril r.1mild is Lire enough for 11tilivy am Cavlry evolutions as well Us tiinltiy drill, and! there will be c(m tIM it i-Ve drill" for honors am141ig an11d between the troops of the different,. countries, which will afford Oportinlpity to jidge of the merits and effi(iency of the brainned soldiers of the world. Naval evolutions of many kinds by evessels wliel float, upon the water and by those which travel under the wjvter, will constitute another attrac tion which Exposition visitors can appreciate. The warships of naval powers of the world will be seen In [he waters of Hanpton Roads, near the magnificent piers leading from the Exposition grounns out into the harbor, a distance of 2,400 feet. Nav al manoeuvres and shall battes will constitute entertaining features nd water pageants and carnivals vill a'dd at the splendor of the occasion. 1,000,000 electrie lights will be us ed to illuilinate the gral piers alone. The novel melmod of submerged illumination of the harbor will be weatitifully weird. Two miles of fence made of roses, koneysuckle and1 t ruimpet vini will Th'Ie great battle bet ween tIle Mcer rimlae andi thle Monitor will b-e repro [hiced in thle samne posit ion these 01(d iron-oladms oceenpied when they fought thlir I errlibleC fighmt ini 1862, dur'in g the Ci vil War. ThIiis famous baIthle was fuughi tmar th le Exposition grounds, lst off the~ po int, oil Hamp1)ton I ti ads. The1U ('lerment bu iil dinugs will r'(nlIi't o4f a large0 genieral exhibit menCtis wil 1be reprel'sen1ted; aL colIonill hailn1i nd,1 'I exibits from AlIaska, pmeis; ai negroi biuilmr, showi nu thie delo'pm4 al o1111 f thle A fican race; elub buildings for the of'ficer's oif thme armIies~ and( nav'ies oif the( United States and visiting countries; fisher ies hii ding, Ilige saving stat ion and lie grand)( piers extending out in to the waters of Hampton 2400 feet from thle Exposition grolrmds. Already in every part. of the' coun try civic organ izaion are. U makinlg ar' raniemets(to hold) 1111 he iru conventions4 at. the .James('town Exposition next theo a(commIfodalt ion (if 5110h bodies by the Evpasitio cOrnpanyllil is attraetinug un1 iersal1 not ice and(ci enIi n' forthIi lie most flattering notes of commienda ton.