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1, VOL ,LIV. NO. 8. NEVBERRY. . 0. FRIDAY. I.ANUARY 25, 1907. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR ILLMAIN'S ORDER A PREGEDENT EWBERRY RIFLES 1ISOHARG ED WITHOUT HONOR IN '94. enator's Criticism of President Con flicts With His Own Action While Governor. he State, 23rd. Senator Tillman's recent eriticism f President Roosevelt for dismiss n,, without honor from the army the attalion of negro troops of the wenty-fifth infantry has - caused ome of the members of' the uppek ranch of congress, who approve of he president's action, to produce ome records which, are not a( all leasing to the senior senator from South Carolina in his present predica ent. It appears from the record hat Senator Tillman is criticising the ,esidenit for doing exactly the same ing he did 13 years ago, while he was governor of Sonth Carolina. uring Mr. Tillian second admin stration as governor of this state, he first day of April, 1894, he issued proclamation declaring martial law the counties of D rlington and orence and eflled ont the state mil a to ''suppres the rebellion.f' The Darlington war'' was the result of tter factional feelip, created by e ''reformers," of which Gov. liman was the head, and as a conse elice many of the militia companies fused to obey the orders. Even the Governor's Guard'' laid, down their rms and refused -to. obey th.e - om adl. 'However, several companies ere dispatohed to Darlington and lorence, under the command of Gen, ichbourg, and two or three compa es were assembled in Columbia for e protection of the governor and the tate property and to guard the tele raph offices and exercise a censor hip over the telegrams filed, the gov rnor having:by special manifesto ta en charge of all telegraph lines with n ithe state and ordered that no in lammatory messages be dispatched. There was great excitement .'throughout the state and an attempt upon the life of Gov. Tillman was expected almost any day. At one time a rumor -spread throughout the city that the governor had been killed by a bomb, but it turned out that as the governor's private carriage was cross ing the railroad tracks below the state house the wheels struck a torpe do which had been placed there by some railroad employe. The excite 'ment througlhout the state was at fever heat and the people wre prepar ed to give credene to any rumors cir culatd. Tedegraph Censorship Obnoxious. Among the companies of the state militia slat ioned in Columbia for the pill-pose of .uarding tle state house and teleirapli offices was the New berry Rifles, one of the oldest and best'or-gainizationis of the stale, Capt. Silas J. McCaughlrin commhianlding. On April 2. the day a fteir this compasny was assigned to duty, thei following let ter' was a(ddressed to thle governIor by Capt. McCaughrin: Columbia, S. C., A pril 2, 1894. To His Excellency B. R.J Tillman. Governor- of South Carolina. Dear Sir-: I have the honor to in form you -that we, the Newberry Rifles, have performed the dtuies as signed us, that of guarding the state house and telegraph offices. The lat tey dut3r is exceedingly distasteful to the entire comm and, and as the coin pany. responded to your order to ap 0ar here uinder the belief that they era needed for the purpose of pro eting, life and property anid iiot foil iC purpose of exercising a scrutiny or the- private affairs of the citiz Sof South Car olina, a duty not :distasteful, but, in the judgmient the company, unnecssary and ulated to iiritato the poOple3 all inorb under the present state of Irs, the miembers of the company cring to lie suibjeted to such 'a n the future, beg leave here p ,tender their resignations and y thattheir a'rms, etc., are at communcalion from Capt. McCaugh rin, and without ordering an investi gation or courtmartial,' so far as the .records indicate, Ov. Tilman, as commander-in-chief of the army of the state, issued the following order, summarily dismii:sing in dishonor and disgrace, every member of the New berry company: Headquarters, Executive Mansion. Columbia, S. C., April 2, 1894. Capt. S. J. McCaughrin, Commanding Newberry Rifles. Sir: Your cominnuication of this date has just been received. Under the laws of South Carolina the gov eriior is clothed with "the dicretion and power -to call out the militia when ever in the judgment of the governor it may be necessary.'' And when so called into the service of the state shall be subject to the same rules and articles of the United States army. The action of your company, and your daring to send it to me under these rules, is mutiny and an insult to the c6mmander-in-chief, who was given his commission by the people. The duty of a soldier, and the militia are soldiers, when called into service, is blind obedience to orders from his stperior., and not to question them in aiiy degree. You have failed to learn this first lesson and I will make of you and your compainy an example.) Your resignations are not accepted, but you are dismised from the service of the state as uniworthy to wear its uiiform. The arms and other state property in your possession will be delivered to Col. J. 0. Watts, assis tant adjutant and inspector general. You do not deserve it, but I will pay your hotel bills and I trust I may never be bothered with any more such band box and holiday soldiers. (Signed) B. R. Tillman, Governor & Commander-in-Chief. No Investigation. As stited, there are absdlutely no records in- tihe governor's office or. in tile office of the adjutant and inspec tor general to indicate that Gov. Till man ordered any sort of an investiga tion, and no courtmartial proceedingR twere instituted. The order of dis missal wds based solely on tihe letter of Capt. McCaughrin, and nowhere in the records do the names of the discharged men appear in connection with this order. It is safe to assume, after a most careful search of all of Gov. Tillman's papers and records re lating to the "Darlington war'' that he did not have before him a single name of a member of this company, save that of the commanding officer, ond a total of 32 mien were disgraced by the special order of the chief exe cutive without even a hearing. As the order of discharge was issuled imined intely on receipt of the communion tion from Capt. McCaughrin, it is be lieved that no effort was even made to ascertain if the letter expressed the sentinient of every member of tile (ompaylv, but, all were dischar.ged as bein- "iunworthy to wear tle uni for'i' The Men Discharged. Trhe following is ant iincomnplete ros ter-of thle oifileers and niemblers oft the Ncwbe'rry Rifles dismissed from thme serice't withlouit honor01 by Gov. Till manm: Silas McCaughrin. captain;. IH. Wearn, first lieutenant; WV. WV. Hornsby, second lieuteniant; WV. A. IMcFall. junior second lieutenant ; (1. Frank Wearn, orderly sergeant; John A. Eddy, Fair Pifer, H. H. Kinard, M,yer Mittle, J. J. Langford, Stan more Cash, Isiael Brown, Ed Riser, Chink Folk, O'eorge Kinard, R. M. Taylor, John Blatz, E. S. Kingsmore, 0 P. Saxon, all livinig; and the fol lowving since deceased: H. 'lf. White, Frank B. Lane, -B. B. Hunter. Isn't It? Just on1ce iln a while-of course, uin d1er our breath Now isn't it really so? Trheirp comes a dull day, when we tir' ed to dleatIh . Of all tihe ni1cc people we know. And, in deed-it must be-os such things alwvaya go, IThat. withiout'the least inalie or fuss IN'ow and thenI all the clover, nice people we know Get awfully tired of. us. -Bmkia Life. THE LEGISLATURE. 1WE rhe Dispensary Question Will Not Come up Before Next Week-The Want Lien Law. T9 3pecial Cor. Herald and News. Columbia, Jan. 24.-It does not The eein likely that the dicisive battle Wil >ver the dispensary will 1)e begunl un- the n if next, week. Both sides a're wait- ing tI ng oiN the report of the new dispen- Coke ary investigating committee. This Tilli t iz now expected will be ready by will I Priday, aecordinlg to a statemuent to- on II ay a membei of the conimittee made not t( o the correspondent of The Herald AC mild News. The principal bills of each last v ide, that of the dispensary people senat -eekiing a purification scheme along yeste the lines of the Tillmaii-Riysor- Tillin Manning bill of last year, and the Mare Care-Cothran local option county nomil lispensary bill, have both been print- n1oii 3d and are ready to be called upon a ceive( noment 's notice. lut Satiurday will W1 be an off day, both houses having he di selected this day to visit, Clemson had ,-ollege, and as thle committee report speah will not be in before Friday, there They will be no time for action this week. ''I A subject of special interest to the votin readers of The Herald and News is to si the probable action of the legisla- State lure this year oil the lien law. It is ''i impossible at this stage of the game malic to foretell what. will be done. Bills of S to repeal the law entirely and bills with to make important amendments are bark( pending in both houses, each branch Jam having gone upon the subject to back beire Rway again in the form of motions pelnso to ,adjourn debate. It is ekident that he ki there will be the usual warm contest com13 in both houses. Tle factions seem ''s equally confident of victory. hii ] The fate of the bucket-shop nuis- mone. ance may be decided in the senate this rebat week. Judging from the num4ger of Carol bills being urged on the subject it lie w icems likely that some sort of change state will be made. the 1 Compulsory education will not be more reached in either house till next week. rectoi Some bill along this line will likely it to get closer to ratification than any purpo have yet done, but it does not seem Mr lickly that compulsory education will be sp be enacted into law at this session. ards Perhaps the most important nega-- thus Live legislation of the session so far expr<e has been the putting to death of the Soutil Frost joint resolution calling for an be st inter-session commission to investi- DNo vate the railroads and report by bill was 1 ,ind recommendations and testimony. a fev The resolving words were stricken motio mt by a vote of 65 to 48. It lookel T is if this bill would forestall action es o 4ough1t in other p)elding bills. An important piece of positive leg- been silation of interest to your readers odist was the pasing by the house of Mr. to le Walker's bill to allow 50 cents a day eral to jurors serving inl magistrates aourts in criminal eases. Desperate tol el 3ffort was made to kill the bill on 'hird-readinig, flirst by a motion to re !omm111it and t111 )y a motion to col- 'r"L - < mit, a roll c'all heing deade hnea A featunre of the'house session this towi veek was ' ' the st ateilnent of ieasons peng~ R~epresentative Coke D).' Mainn gave met or. not vot ing to con firm the eleet.ion Mir f Senaitor Tillmani. Hie seint, upl his lur i v.ritteni rea'sonis to the speaker's desk p)ositi is follows: 'foned ''I wish to staite my reasons for bittet lot voting for the Hon1. Benj. R. Till- imig 'V nan to succeed himself in the Unit- ed th;~ ..l State senate. $60 th ''Pirst. He made - a wanlton anId Mir. i nlahicious attack upon the ministry of tions Southi Carolina, charging them wvith er~s, )eing in league with the exba'i'keepers and(i >f. Vhe state, wvith Col. James A. not Iohyt thme standard bearer of the pro- expe0i libitionlists, to defeat and destroy the the fa lispeii.9ry law in South Carolina. ted. 1 this lie knewv was false and1( an1 out- t hat 'age on-l cOloo dhec.ency- stronI: '' Second. Befoie I could vote for a hiar nm I woulld hav'e to know hiow miuchl aidil (ebates allowed the state. I contend pulpi hat as governor lie wasw hAndling the conta nloney of the state anld htid no0 right Bile o return it to the liquor hou-se, any 3i. nore than the p)resent board has the aque 'ighit to apprqaiate such money~ to fenise heir.ow usl .l~ . ed1 ill On mjotion of lpesenttative Rich- with irds th&' gtso'W were promptly the fm e $'i~~ he Co1 COKE D. MANN WOULD NOT VOTE s to Know How Much Rebatei lman Gave Away-Could Not Print in Journal. tate. 23rd. enl the house journal is read b: 011)ebers of that biody this Imorn le rea1sns advalced by Rev. 1) Mann for not votin. for 11. R aIII for Unlited States senlato. 0( he found tlherein. The oiise olion of Mi. Richards, decideic piniit them. 'oring to a resolitioll adopte( .eek the voting for United Statel )I (,litl ill) in tlie house at,i nooi .day. Mr. Dixon nominated Mi an for the term which expires it Ih. MIr. DeVore seconded th, latioli and Mir. Wade move thi intionls .elose. Mi. Tillman re 1 114 votes. ten Mr. Maniis' name was ealle d Iot vote anid wlhen the votinij bwen finished lie sent to th er lite reasons for not votiig wer-e as follo%-w: wish to state my reasons for no x for the Hlon. Benj. R3. Tiliial eveel himself' in the Unitei S wenate. 'iit. He made a wnton an, iolls attack up oil the ministr; mutlI Carolina, charging I t Ieiig inl league witli the ex !elers of the State, with Co' s A. Hoyt. as tlieir standardl 1, to defeat and lestroy the dis ,ry law in South Carolina. Thi LeN was false and an outrage o decency. econd. Befere I coild vote fe should have to know how muc v he returned to Mr. Hubbell a Ds allowed the State of Sout ina. I contend that as governo as handling the money of th and lie had no right to retur aoney to the liquor house an than the present board of di 's has the right to appropriat their own use, or to such othe ,ses as they might see fit." Mann asked that these reason read. on the journal. Mr. Ricb iaid he did not think they shoul, )e,,recorded because they did no s the views of the people o Carolina. He-moved that the; -icken from the record and Mi re seconded the motion. Ther 1o roll call or diiision and onl v voted against Mr. Riclhards 1. genieral assembly has a join in today to eleet several olleer, . Coke 1). Mann has for year I prominent figutre inl fihe Meth church in this state. Ie is sail a man withoul fear and oi sev [casions hi,as iad his courag While at lamar, in Darling mnty, a few yea's a,--o ini effor. inde to liave a dis)elsary placel leross (lie street from his loi< barter of thle towni forbadle th ishmen t ol a d ispensariiy or an; kind of' wh'iskey shop ini tha and thle onily way' to get t lie is iry was by3 legisl at ive( amendi~ to the town chai'ter. Maiun caime bef'ore the legisla nd( successfully opposced the pro oni. On his return to Ljamiar h that there was a great dealh o ness against him and the feel as kept up until lhe wvas inform t a certain party had been p)ai< i give the preacher a threashing fann is keeping with the tradi of the p)ionleer Methodist prech vent immediately to this part; iquired suavely if the latter di< tink $60 very cheap foir bur'in ses with nothing to be left fo mily. Mir. Mann w'as not moles f'or does lie denty the allegatio1 he feeling aminst him was s e that lie was forced to carr d bag to churceh Sunday night since it in front ofi him a on thI .The hand bag is sa id to htav ned somethiung else beCsid.l. and( a hymn hi\ookI. Mann is more than a p)iture sharacter'. TPhis at titude of de wast ntot aissumedC(, hut was fore >Oul him. 'Thlat he stands htigi is deniomina'tiont is evidentl froni cttlhat whlen conference met ' 1W jfour~ years gigo hio was ele South Carolina Methodist at the g oral conferenee of the Southern Mi odist church. His son Dr. 1). L. Mr silperintendent of the Florence gi ed schlools, is olne of the leading e entors inl the state. PORAKER RP4SOLUTION PASS Passes Over Legality of Justice of Discharge Order of President Roosevelt. Wash ington, .1an. 22.-The set tday pasetd the ollroiilse Foa iesolttion althorizing tlie Conii oin Iilitary affairs to investigate facts of -e affray at Browisv Tex., on the nights of August i 14, last ''without questioning the I gality or justice of aniy ret of presidelit inl relation'' to or Conniec with that affray. This actioin came after the sub of the pres.ident's discharge of negro troops had beenl under consi, ationt almios't daily 4inee thle i 3 d.ay of the present session ol congi and every phalse of the question beenl dlisculssed onii all sides. Be the adoption ofl the resolution eral substitute measures were VC down. Olne by Senator Mallory, clariiig that tle president had at olity for his course and acted jum was tabled by a vote of 13 to 22. - other, by Senator MeCumbller, sin Iovidiig for an invest,igation, w out refereece to the presidenlt in nanner, was tabled by a viva N vote. A third, by Senator Cul soi, simply indorsing ithe preside -action and providing for no invi gationi, was tabled by a roll call r of 46 to 19. There was' no 'rec 4 vote on file resolution adopted. 8 When the Brownsville resolu was laid before the senate Mr. A r lory of Florida disculs sed the If 0 questions involved in the preside discharue of the negr<d troops. Mr. Mallory's Substitute. Mr. Mallory offered a substi for the compromise Brownvillc r solution, presented yesterday by Foraker. The resolution of Mr. I s lory provides for an Investigation ter resolving as follows: ''That in the judgment of the ate the recent action of tile pres in diseharging withiout honor inli men of Companies B, C and D of Twenty-fifth infantry, was within scop)e of his authority and power the proper exereise thiereof.'' Mr. Mallory said lie could not port tle Foraker resolution becf t. its language as to ilie preside poWeI was eqluivocal. Senator Teller opp)osed tile iden vaneed in a re(ei'I sp)eehel by Sen Sted'' power froi le king. This - at new doctrinle and tle Colo, L senalor said le could see how% it i become Immop lul inl soile localitie -.enlator. Hacoof (d, i '-upp) 1 ed lie I lallory sibstituiite. le e 1e0erized tihe t mon11g1evilen n t1 l R'We'ubi.an Aon teiLnrker res -tion a'sian iltlusto of teir wit Scempidenliei in suornligunasl fo which they can ao vpose andh in asetn, ad nderin t lite ' wh theasiiit resouton re ltes.'' F otaker teoluin he detcolre'i Whe i. n rh B iadco ntmared thie t iihapresidentt wat cote witi cmpromis t in u'sufrho tanguag ich f.hot wic 'n'hose aded ported im odunt, Mr. frin ( Aldh asked ''hdiidt udrtande Olthea I n orasayvthat, the lstio who' -the prsident'iis contet roith thi .otsiin te thow maint ietion?'' i rHadlet But ower Purose 1)01 Mr. Baon reliednt ona 1eher mighlatr thik'wakfr frmt.hedi tan fro tre, ''iiad,' hoein add aned hal wase farct o eph what3ihadt saidt th cotary RepliiEhoM. aonsarL en- Ie was far from being an advocate th- of the president he yet .believed the nn, language proposed in the Foraker res ad- olution wats an injustic to the presi du-- dent. Mr. Bacon wanted an oportunity to vote directly on the question aD. whether the president. had the legal power to diselllirge the Iegro troops the and on t'he question of tabling the revsollitioln. Be spoke of the affray at Ilrownsville as ,"an uspeakablo o it rag"e. late A roll call was taken on Mr. For ker aker's motion to lay tihe Mallory sub lee slittie on the table. This motion pre the Vailed, 43 to 22. Messrs MeCumber, lle. Warner andt(] aFollette voted with uid the )enoerats andi Messrs. Teller and le- Tillman with withl the Republicans. tie Stone Not Offended. ted Mr. Stone took occasion to review Senator Tillan's "attempt. at iu et 1nr'' yesterday. He said lie had t-he taken nto offense at the reference to ler- 'hiniself in Mr. Tillman's eharacteri ist zalion of the senate as ''a minstrel eS S, troupe'' and was sorry tlie senator 1U1d 1from Tenessee (Mr. Cargilack) and ore the senate had eliminated it from The 40V- Record. He was opposed to hallviig ,ted Tl lieeord "a tomb for platitdes' de- and Ie hoioped Senator Tillman would Ith.1- reconsider Iis resoiution "n141t do so 11y, againl" l)( would "soft(n his tone' An- and ma1lke many113 ture aiittempIts. 1ply Seilor Culberson proiosed at sIIu) ilh- slitute whici provided for no investi anY gation but siliply resolved tilit the ,oce pre.sidet wis autilorized by law and )er- justifie(l by the facts inl dismissing It's the negro troops'. sti- Explaining the need for the resoli 'ote tion lie said the whtole question was iord now in the hai ds of senatora who op Lion posed or denied the authority or "" right of the position of the president. A vote on the Foraker resolution gal wa-s then taken and without a roll call t the resolution was declared adopted. The resolution was referred to the committee to audit and control the contingent expenses of the Henate in re- order to secure authority for the ex ' penditures of the inquiry, whereupon fal- Mr. Kean, chairman of that commit af- tee, immediately announced lie had been authorized by that committee to ien- make a favorable report onl the reso lent lition and this report was agreed to. dted the the BEST DRESSED BRITISH. and Comes with Husband and Twenty p- four Trunksto Pay Visit. kiuse t's New York Times. irs. Ilafa t Williams, to whom 1dw- dward VI is said Io alive referred Its "hIle best dresse( womian in g lad"camen hiere yesterdaly wvithl her o hulisbatid ont Ihe laniburg ,Ameriean ht Liner Kaiseriii Agisle Victoria. hey ex-ect o Ienlainl at least two limot' s oni this si4 (fl, he Wa(er, ald 1).. durin th at tivs e Nirs. 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