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VOL. III. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, THE STATE CONVENTI0. A LARGE, BUf FAST MOVING BODY OF DEMOCRATS. Delegates Elected to the National Conven tion-Several Important Matters Con sIdered-The State Primary Rej. cted by a Heavy Vote-A Full Account of the Proceedings. Pursuant to the call of the State Ex eeutive Committe, the Convention of the Democratic party in South Carolina as sembled in the hall of the House of Representatives, Columbia, or 'hursday the 17th inst. Precisely at three minutes of t3) o'clock, Gen. J. W. Moore, Chairman of the State Executive Committee, called the meeting to order. Secretary Wilie Jones then read the call of the Convention. Chairman Moore proposed the Hon. Y. J. Pope, of Newberry, as temporary chair man of the Convention. It had been gen erally expected that ex-Governor Sheppard would be presented for the temporary chair manship, but for reasons best known to the Executive Committee, it was decided otherwise. Mr. Pope was unanimously elected, and addressed the Convention as fcllows: MR. POPE'S REMARKS. Gentlemen of the Convention: I have not words at my command to express my thanks for this unexpected distinction at your bands. As I take it, the Democratic Party in South Carolina has made up its mind as to the work cut out for the Con vention, and no words at my hands are needed to bring your minds to a thorough apprehension of the work before you. Again thanking you for your kindness. I declare the Convention ready for business. Messrs. C. E. Sawyer, of Aiken. and W. L. Glaze, of Orangeburg, were elected secretaries of the Convention by acclamation. The credentials of the delegates from the different counties were prest. nted. This was followed by the roll call, finding 306 delegates present. The Chairman accordingly declared that the temporary organization had been per fected. On motion, the temporary organi zation was declared the permanent organi zation of the Convention. Chairman Pope again addressed the Con vention and thanked it in graceful terms for this additional exhibition of its kind ness. The duty of the Democratic party of South Carolina was so plain that he felt he would be trenching upon the time of the Convention by referring thereto. The proceedings of the Convention were opened with prayer by the Rev. W. R. Richardson, of Columbia. VICE-PRESIDENTS ELECTED. The Chairman announced that in order to complete the organization it. would be nedessary to elect one Vice-President of the Convention from each Congressional District. The following were elected by acclamation: Henry A. Meetze, C. J. C. Hutson, S. M. Orr, T. W. Woodward, R. T. Mockbee, C. S. McCall and J. P. Blanding. Captain Wilie Jones, of Columbia, was unanimously elected Treasurer of the Con vention. DELEGATES AT LARGE. In nominating the delegates from the State at large to the National Convention at St. Louis, no speeches were allowed. The following were elected by acclamation: Hon. James F. Hart, York; Capt. F. W. Dawson, Charleston; Capt. Wilie Jones, Columbia; Hon. C. A. Wood, Marion. Alternates-T. M. Raysor, Orangeburg; A. M. Ruth, Hampton; S. P. McCravy, Spartanburg; J. F. Rhame, Clarendon. COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. The following Committee on Resolutions was appointed, one from each county: W. 0. Bradley, E. B. Murray, Johnson Hagood, H. A. M. Smith,'G. L. Buist, W. A. sunders, W. J. Hanna, H. D. Elliott, C. S. Land, C. C. Tracy, E. E. Evans, B. R. Tillman, .John Bratton, J. H. Read. W. H. Perry, M1. B. McSweeney, T. W. Daggett, W. M1. Shannon, C. T. Connors, John R. Smith, G. Leaphart, S. A. Dur ham, W. D. Evans, George Johnstone, J. C. Cary, J. F. Izlar, W. A. Clyde, John C. Haskell, D. R. Duncan, R. D. Lee, D. P. Duncan, J. F. Hart, T. M1. Gaillard. A number of resolutions were offered and at 2 o'clock the Convention took a re cess for 30 minutes, to enable the commit tee to consider and report upon the resolu tions, and for the Congressional delegations to present nominations for district dele gates. DISTRICT DELEGATEs. On re-assembling the following gentle men were presented by the respective Con gressional delegations as distxict delegates to St. Louis:* First District-F. W. Wagener, of Char leston, and G. T. Graham,.of Lexington. .Alternates: L. Arthur O'Neill, Charleston, and Dr. A. S. Hydrick, Orangeburg. Second-M. B. McSweeney, of 11amp ton, and A. S. Seigler, of Aiken. Alter nates: W. R. Kelly, Barnwell, and W. L. Durst, Edgefield. Third-J. K. P. Goggans, of Newberry, and Dr. 0. M. Doyle, of Oconee. Alter nates: J. C. Cary, Oconee, and J. D. Max 'well. Anderson. Fourth-Col. John T. Sloan, Jr., of Co lumbia, and N. B. Dial, of Laurens. Al ternate: L J. Browning. Fifth-Leroy Springs, Lancaster, and W. L. T. Prince, Chesterfield. Alternates: B. D. Springs. York, and J. D. Means, Chester. Sixth--B. W. Edwards, Darlington. and H. L. Buck, Horry. Alternates: A. E. Bristow, Marlboro, and J. E. Jarnegan, Marion. Seventh-Win. Elliott, Beaufort, and Altamont Moses. Sumter. Alkernates: Josiah Doar, Georgetown, and James P. Adams, Richland. At seven'-minutes to 3 o'clock the C~on vention adjourned until 5 o'clock. The Evening Session. Major Buist, as chairman of the com mittee on resolutions, reported unfavor ably on the following resolutton: Resolved, that the State constitution of the Democratic party be so amended as that all nominations for State oflimes -can be made by primary election. The committee on resoltitions recom mended that this resolution should not pass. On motion of Col. John C. Haskell it, was voted that in the discussion of reso lutions no member should be allowed to speak more than twice. A proposition to limit the speeches as to time was made but withdrawn. -The primary system was urgea b~y Mr. Gaof Laurens, Capt. Tillman, of EdgeilMr. Cannon, of Laureus. -Col. J. C. Haskell, of Richland, Major E. B. Murray, of Anderson, and Mr. - ~Ernt Gary, of Edgefield, opposed it. Term maog: enimated hianssiora was be twen Cpt.B.R. Tillman and Col. John C. Haskell. Capt. Tillman said: "I shall not tres pass upon your patience, gentlemen, but a very few moments. This question of a primary election, in my opinion, is the most important one surrounding the Democracy of South Carolina to-day. We in this State occupy an abnormal position. We are in possession of this Government because we are a unit. We are standing over a volcano, gentlemen, that may any moment sweep everything before it. I stand here representing the people of South Carolina, who cry out for reform. You say we don't need any reform. That is the eternal cry of the demagogue and politician. If I had time I would show why we should have a differ ent system of nominations in the State. We in South Carolina, in other words the Democracy of South Carolina, have differences as to policies, and those poli cies must have exponents. This demand for a primary election is a demand from the people to the politicians to give them their rights. This Convention represents South Carolina. I suppose that it may be said hat this is a body of representative Carolinians, and yet these men are elected by clubs of ten or a dozen men who in nine cases out of ten elect themselves to the Convention. What we need is practical discussion be fore the people by the candidates. Pub lic discussion is the great educator of the masses. Our people for twenty years have been tied hand and foot by one circumstance or another, first by the Radical government and next by the necessity for unity, and this sravery has lasted so long that in many places the people are absolutely helpless and un able to assert their rights. They have fallen into the apathy of death. There is even putrefaction in some sections, they have been dead so long. ",Talk about no need for reform. When I think of the outrages which have been committed in this hall I shudder to enumerate. I want to call the atten tion of the Convention to one fact, that in *1S79, when Johnson Hagood was comptroller general, the expenditures of the State Government were $750,000 a year, and yet with all the pledges of re form they are now nearly $1,000,000 a year. The people know these things and they ought to know them, and they demand that the candidates for public office shall come before them and see them face to face, and explain to them why reform has gone the wrong way. I will not say anything about the injustice which has been done to a certain class of the people in their educational col lege. I will not say a word upon that subject. The politicians may succeed now in voting down the right of the peo ple, but they are only damming back the waters. Two years from now, when there is a full head on, you will be swept before the flood." [Applause.] Mr. John C. Haskell was next recog nized by the chairman. Col. Haskell said: "There are, Mr. Chairman, in this hall nearly three hundred men who are in every sense of the word as true rep resentatives of the people as the gentle man from Edgefield, who threatens us with floods and volcanoes." [Laughter.] Mr. Tillman: "I have not threatened anybody with a volcano, I only said we were standing on one." Mr. Haskell, continuing: "I have heard what he has said, Mr. President. You have heard what he has said. You have just heard him say in substance: 'I warn you that I represent the people of South Carolina. The people that I rep bent will hurl you politicians out of !aeunless you give us our way. Those that I represent are harboring their wrongs that they may break forth and overwhelm you." [Laughter.] Mr. Tiflman: "1 said I did not repre sent anybody but myself." Mr. Haskell: "I once told thie gentle man that his party was in liis hat, and I am glad to hear him admit that he has come to my way of thinking. [Laughter and applause.] The people who come here year after year are representatives of South Carolira. The eighteen men of Richland, sitting here, represent the people of Richland, and every man in the, county had a voice in their selection. I say the same of York, and of Ander son, and of every county in the State. That the people select their delegates and select them as they will, and I say that these men here to-day are as true representatives of the people of South Carolina as the gentleman from Eidge field is. He says that he has left his data at home, and it is good for him that he has. He says that there has been an in crease of a quarter of a million dollars of expenses since 1879. Let him get his data and it will give him an answer as positive as I do-that it is not so." [ Ap plause.] Mr. Tilhinan: "Do you dare say, sir, that the expenditure of this government in 1887 was not $247,000 more than in 1879? I dare you to deny it." [Ap plause.] Mr. Haskell: "I do deny it most posi tively. [Applause.j What the gentle man is driving at is very easily explained. In 1879 there was a fund of money in the treasury and the Legislature did make appropriations largely less than in 1887, because that surplus in the treasury was used in addition to the appropriations made. The - a difference between a levy and an propriation. The levy is what you collect, and the reason why we collected less in 1879 than in 1887 was because we had in the treasury a surplus which had been previously collected. It is a fact, sir, that the expenditures have not increased materially, and that they have been pretty much the same. The appropriation bills upon our statates are things which cannot make mistakes, and they are better proofs than the data which the gentlemian has left at home. These books are here, and my friend can satisfy himself. I say right here that there has been no such increase in the expenditures of the government as he charges, and I say that the people are heard here as fairly as they are heard in any primary election. I say that a pri Mayelection will be subversive of en'ry opportunity for the whole State to se cre a fair representation. If we have a plurality system, the choice of the peo ple will rarely get into positions of honor and trust. If we have a majority system, the people will be so worn out with repeated elections that they will not enjoy the chance of securing their choice that they now do. [Applause.] It will not do, Mr. Chairman, in an intelligent body of men like this, who come here as he repreantativan nf the people with as much right to speak as the gentlemaI from Edgefield; men who dare to do a: much, to suffer as much and are as traw to the State as he or his ever have been, to taunt them with being politician while he and his are the true Democracy of the State. [Applause.] Tell us of real wrongs, tell us of evils that the peo ple are really suffering, and we will try and help the gentleman to relieve them; but it won't do to make vague accusa tions, to charge all the sufferings of the people resulting from the war and the period which followed upon the mere system of making nominations. It will not do to charge the people of the State who have done so much to bring up the State to a higher condition of prosperity, and who will be ever mindful of her in terests, with the responsibility of every misfortune suflered by the people. it will not do to indulge in such glittering generalities. Come down to the proofs. They are here. Let him produce them." [Applause.] .At the close of Mr. Gary's remarks Capt, Tillman again rose to speak, and there were cries of "Question! ques tion!" Mr. Tillman thereupon called out at the top of his voice: "You may gag me here, but I will meet you before the people." Several delegates then moved that Mr. Tillman be heard again, and cries of Tillman were heard from different parts of the hall. After some hesitation Mr. Tillman walked into the middle of the aisle and spoke as follows: "Gentlemen of the Convention, I thank you for this courtesy, and I will try and not impose on your good nature. I want merely to answer some of the points made by some of the speakers. The gentleman from Anderson is anxious to save the dear people trouble. That has been the cry of all tyrants. The Czar of Russia saves his people all trou ble, except the trouble of paying taxes and stopping ballets. There have been such outrages perpetrated in this hall I hesitate to name them, and must speak of them with bated breath. Charleston stands here to-day with ten representa tives, which she is not entitled to if the Constitution had not been tramoled under foot, and Richland has two more than she is entitled to, while the men who did the brunt of the fighting in 1876 are disfranchised by the enormities perpetrated by the Legislature. They came here and took an oath at this desk to support the Constitution; but after they got here they were bamboozled or affected in some way by Columbia water or whiskey or by Charleston-what shall I call it-brain? Charleston always catches on her feet. If she is tripped in the House, she catches on her feet in the Senate; and if tripped in the Senate, she turns up all right in the House. [Laughter.] While we poor farmers are carried around by the dozen under the arms of such men as my friend from Charleston, (Buist,) [Laughter.] If we have a bright boy and send him here to this College he gets switched off. None but the fools come home. That is why we want an agricultural college to give us brain on the farm. The majority of you here. don't represent the people of South Carolina. You represent po titical cliques and rings in your different counties. 1 won't attempt to go into many details that I would like to if I had the time." Mr. Haskell here produced the Stat utes and showed that in round numbers the expenditures in 1879 had been $908, 000 and in 1886 $750,000, to which should be added about $70,000 to balance a di rect appropriation to the Penitentiary of of that amount in 1879, still leaving ex penditures for 1886 about $7,500 less than 1879. Amid the applause that fol lowed Mr. Haskells remarks, Mr. Till man was heard lo say: "I will prove the falseness of those figures before the people." On the question of adopting Mr. Gray's motion to reject the committee's report and prescribe the primary system for State nominations, the vote was taken by yeas and nays, and resulted as fol lows: Yeas 88, nays 207. So the prima ry system was rejecte:1. -A PRELIMINARY CANvAsS. Major Buist presented the following resolution, offered by Senator Murray, with the favorable report of the commit tee: Resolved,. That it is the sense of this convention that the candidates for Gov ernor and Lieutenant Governor should be afforded an opportunity formally to address the people of the State before the election of delegates to the nominat ing convention in each election year, to the end that their views upon public questions may be known in advance of the nominations, and to that end the constitutign of the Democratic party of South Carolina be and the same is here by amended by adding thereto the fol lowing section, to wit: -'The State Executive Committee shall in each year in which an election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor oc curs appoint at least one public meeting in each Congressional District, which shall be publicly announced one month before the day for holding the same, shall be not more than three months nor less than one month before the meeting of the State no-.ninating con vention, at which all of the candidates for Governor or Lieutenant Governor shall be expected to address the people, and the State Executive Com.mittee shall make such arrangements for these meet ings as they may deem proper." The committee recommended the adoption of the resolution and that the constitution of the party be amended as provided for. The convention adopted the report of the committee and passed the resolution. The following resolution was rejected on the unfavorable report of the com mittee: Resolved, That all persons whose names are oflered for nomination in the Democratic State Convention will be ex pected to address said convention and answer questions asked by the memibers thereof,-before a vote is taken on said nomination. An unfavorable report was made on the resolution offered by Mr. Gary of Abbeville providing for the election of members of the State Executive Com mittee at the present State Convention, and the convention adopted the unfavor able report; so the resolution was lost. CONGRESsIONAL AND JUDICIAn. The following resolutions, presented by Mr. Ellis G. Graydon of Abbeville, wa reported on favorably hy the con-. mittee and adopted by the convention, after some discussion and an attempt to fix the date at issue at August 1st: Resolved by this convention, That the constitution of the "Democrat party of South Carolina be amended by striking out the second proviso of the last para graph of the thirteenth article thereof, which is in these words: Provided father, that no election, either for dele gates to a convention or under a primary plan, shall be hereafter held prior to the first day of September in every year. ENDOBSnIG OLEVELAND AND TARIFF REFORM The following resolutions, offered by Major Buist of Charleston, were unani mously adopted on the recommendation of the committee appointed: Resolved 1st, Tiat ,he Democratic party of the State of South Carolina in State Convention assembled do hereby express their unqualified approbation of the administration of President Cleve land and their desire for his renomina tion and re-election. Resolved 2nd, That in President Cleve land the Denocracy of South Carolina recognize an exalted type of American manhood. inasmuch as he is mindful of official responsibilities, fearless in official action and steadfast in the face of im portunity. Resolved 3d, That President Cleveland, in his'public life, exemplifies the simp licity without parsimony, the dignity without exclusiveness, which should mark the character and conduct of one who is higher than all other rulers, in being the embodiment of the sovereign majesty of more than 60,000,000 people. Resolved, 4th, That the enormous ex c-ss of public revenue over the necessary and proper public expenditure -is in itself a startling evidence of needless and therefore unjust taxation. The millions so withdrawn from trade and industry are barren of legitimate fruit, and are in themselves a menace to the business of the whole country. Resolved, 5th, That the message of President Cleveland, advocating a re duction in the revenue, by lowering the taxation on the necessaries of life, and the raw material of manufacture, meets with our hearty and thorough approval as a statesmanlike and practical way in which the overburdened people can be relieved without injury to labor or dan ger to capital. The sixth resolution was rejected upon the unfavorable report of the committee. It is as follows: Resolved, 6th. That, recognizing the necessity for concession in order to se cure a liberal measure of tariff reform, we give to the tariff bill, reported by the Committee on Ways and Means and 1 known as the Mills bill, our cordial ap proval, and urge the Democracy of the country to accept it as a measure which will make life easier to the people at large, increase the opportunities of manufacturers, and maintain the present high position of enlightened American labor. On motion, Major G. L. Buist, of Charleston, was called to the chair. A resolution of thanks to the President for his courteous and efficient discharge of his duties was unanimously adopted. Col. Pope responded in a brief but earn est speech, which was loudly applauded. The Convention then adjourned sine die. MORRISON IN THE FIELD. He Is Willing to be Cleveland's Running Mate This Fall. Qcixcv, Ill., May 15.-The following letter has been received by prominent Democrats of this city: WASHINGTON, May 3.-I assume that you haye seen some newspaper guesses as 4 to who would like to be on the ticket with Cleyeland. A reported interview with meC in the Chicago Times of March 16, whichj y ou may have seen, to the effect that I f would like to have the place, but think1 there is slight probability of any one from our State getting it, is substantially correct. The same reasons which gave it to Indi ana three times are likely to take it there the fourth. 3Much is said of divisions, etc., in that State, but the same is true of every State. At least I expect Indiana to claim the place, and-she will hardly be refused. It is said the tariff measures will hurt us i-1 Connecticut and New Jersey, if any where. If so, Indiana is more than ever necessary to our success, and the request 1 of 'the delegation from that State is likely I to control the Convention. True, it can be otherwise, and some one from our State2 may have a chance. However slight this I chance many be, I do not want to be cut off I from it, as I would be if the State instruct- I ed for some one else. So I would be glad if our friend! would co-operate and send an uninstructed delegation. This cuts out I nobody, and leaves other States free to se lect from our State, while with instructions for any one, all not instructed for would be excluded. The reduction of taxes being uppermost, the situation is favorable to a man with my. relations to the question, unless our party's necessities require an Indiana man, as they probably do. Please act on these suggestions as far as you think right and practicable. Respectfully yours,1 W. IR. iontasoN. I A Very Tough Boy. About two weeks ago, Charles Angle, i of Eagle Mills, North Carolina, a boy i about seven years old, was leading a i cow, having the rope tied by a slip knot i to his arm, when the cow ran away with him. He was dragged headlong over rocks and stumps, his body dislodging i large rocks from the ground and some times not striking the earth for a dis tance of ten feet, The cow ran until she got into a wheat field, where she 4 got the rope around a stump, the boy's head against the stump, when she pulledI until she broke the rope and freed her self of her barden. The boy was bruised from head to heels and his face and head) were gashed all over, but no bones were broken and in a few days' time he was in as good shape as ever. ElectrIcity as a Motive Power. With 130 miles of electric railroad in operation in the cotuntry and 150 more in process of construdtion, the problem of the economical application of electricity as a motive power is far from settled. The chief question lies between the conduit system and the running of cars by power from stored batteries. The latter method is criticised as expensive and ineffective, while the adoption of the former is delayed by the necessity of radical changes in ex isting lines. The general use of electricity as a motive pougr is probably near at hand. But much yet remains to be done before confidence cnn be placed in its operations n important lines. ATHEISM AS A TRAGEDY. TALMAGE PICTURES THE EXTIRPA. TION OF CHRISTIANITY. Woman's Condition Under the Sway of Atheism and Infidelity--Where and What Examples May be Found--Horror of the Old World-The Awful End. The Rev. Dr. Talmage preached Sun day morning upon "Obscuration" taking the text from Acts ii., 20: "He shall be turned into darkness." He said: "What the destruction of -the sun in the natural heavens would be to on physical earth, the destruction of Chris tianity would be to the moral world. The sun turned Into darkness. Infidelity in our time is considered a great joke. There are people who rejoice to heal hristianity caricatured. and to hear hrist assailed with a quibble and quirk md misrepresentation and badinage md harlequinade. "I propose this morning to take in fdelity and atheism- out of the realm of jocularity into one of tradedy, and show you what they propose and what, if they are successful, they will accomplish. There are those in all our communities who would like to see the Christian re igion overthrown, and who say the world would be better without it. I want o show you what is the end of this .oad, and what is the terminus of this rusade, and what this world will be when atheism and infidelity have tri imphed over it, if they can. "In the first place, it will be the com 3lete and unutterable degradation of womanhood. I will prove it by facts md arguments which no honest man will dispute. In all communities and :ities and States and nations where the Jhristian religion has been dominant, woman's condition has been ameliorated mud improved, and'she is deferred to mud honored in a thousand things, and very gentl.man takes off his hat before ier. "Now compare this with woman's sondition in lands where Christianity ias made little or no advance-in China, n Barbary, in Borneo, in Tartary, in gypt, in Hindoostan. The Burmese ell their wives and daughters like so nany sheep. The Hindoo Bible makes t disgracefid and an outrage for a wo nan to listen to music, or to look out of he window in the absence of her hus )aud, and gives as a lawful ground for iivorce a woman's beginning to eat be ore her husband has finished his meal. What mean those white bundles on the >onds and rivers in China in the morn g? Infanticide following infanticide. ?emale children destroyed becauso they re female. Woman harnessed to a )low as an ox. Woman veiled and bar icaded, and in all styles of cruel seclu ion. Her birth a misfortune. Her life .turture. Her death a horror. "The missionary of the cross to-day n heathen lands preaches generally to wo groups-a group of men do as they ease and sit where they please; the >ther group, women, hidden and care y secluded in a side apartment, where y may hear the voice of tie preacher, >ut may not be seen. No refinement. To liberty. No hope for this life. No Lope for the life to come. Ringed nose. )ramped foot. Disfigured face. Em >rted soul. - Now compare those two onditions. How far toward this latter ondition that I speak of would woman o if Christian infiuence were withdrawn nd Christianity were destroyed. It is nly a question of dynamics. If an ob et be lifted to a certain point and not astened there, and the lifting power be rithdrawn, how long before that object rill fall down to the point from which it tarted? It will down, and it will go till further than the point from which astarted. Christianity has lifted woman p from the very depths of degradation ,Imost to the skies. If that lifting pow ibe withdrawn she falls clear back to he depth from which she was resur ected. "If infidelity triumph and Christianity se overthrown, it means the demoraliza ion of society. The one idea in the ible that atheists and infidels moat hate the idea of retribution. Take away he idea of retribution and punishment rom society and it will begin very so'on o disintegrate, and take away from the inds of men the fear of hell and there .e a great many of them who would erv~ scon turn this world into a hell. Lhe miajority of those who are indignant gainst the Bible because of punishment re men whose lives are bad or whose earts are impure, and who hate the 3ible because cf the idea of future pun sment for the same reasou that crimi als hate the penitentiary. Oh, I have teard this brave talk about people fear ng nothing of the consequences of sin n the next world, and I have made up ny mind it is merely a coward's whist ing to keep his courage up. Ihave seen nen flaunt their immoralities in the ace of the community, and I have heard hem defy the judgment day and scoff at he idea of any future consequence of heir sin; but when they came to die hey shrieked until you could hear them 'or nearly two lblocks, and in the sum ner night the neighbors got up to put he windows down because they could iot endure the horros. "I would not want to see a railway train with 500 Christian people on board go town through a drawbridge into a atery grave. I would not want to see 500 Christian people go into such a dis ster, but I tell you plainly that I could nore easily see that than Ircould for any >rotracted time stand and see an infidel lie, though his pillow were of eider town and under a canopy of vermillion. have never been able to brace up my ierves for such a spectacle. "The mightiest restraints to-day gainst theft, againstimmorality, against ibertinism, against crime of all sorts the mightiest restraints are the retribu ;ions of eternity. Men know that they an escape the law, but down in the ,fender's soul there is the realizati n of the fact that they cannot escape God. "Forward, march! ye great army of infidels and atheists. And first of all you will attack the churches. Away with those houses of worship! They have been standing there so long de uding the people with consolation in their bereavements and sorrows. All thos chnrches ought to be extirpated; they have done so much to relieve the lost and bring home the wandering, and they have so long held up the idea of eternal rest after the paroxyism of this life is over. Turn the St. Peters and St. Pauls and the temples and taberna cles into clubhouses. Away with those churches! "?Forward, march! ye great army of infidels and atheists, and next of all they scatter the Sabbath schools, the Sabbath schools filled with bright-eyed, bright cheeked little ones who are singing songs on Sunday afternoon and getting in struction when they ought to be on the street corners playing marbles or swear ing on the commons. Away with them! "But on, ye great army of infidels a.id atheists, on! They will attempt to scale heaven. There are heights to be taken. Pile hill on hill and Pelion upon Ossa, and then they hoist the ladders against the wails of heaven. On and on until they blow up the foundations of jasper and the gates of pearl. They charge up the steep. Now they aim for the throne of Him who liveth forever and ever. They would take down from their high place the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost. 'Down with them!' they say. 'Down with Him from the throne!' they say. 'Down forever! Down out of sight! He is not God. He hass no right to sit there. Down with Him! Down with Christ.' "A world without a head, a universe without a king. Orphan constellations. Fatherless galaxies. Anarchy supreme. A dethroned Jehovah. An assassinated God. Patricide, regicide, sieicide. That is what they mean. That is what they will have, if they can, if they can, if they can. Civilization hurled back into semi-barbarism, and semi-barbarism driven back into Hottentot savagery. The wheel of progress turned the other way, and turned toward the dark ages. The clock of the centuries put back two thousand years. "Oh,'my friends, there has never been such a nefarious plot on earth as that ch infidelity and atheism have planned. We were shocked a few years ago because of the attempt to blow up the Parliament Houses in London; but if infidelity and atheism succeed in their attempt, they will dynamite a world. Let them have their fall way and this world will be a habitation of three rooms-a habitation with jnst three rooms: the one a madhouse, another a lazaretto, the other a pandemonium. These infidel bands of music have -only just begun their concert-yea, they have only been stringing their instruments. I to-day put before you their whole programme from beginning unto close. In the theatre the tragedy comes first and the farce afterward; but in this in fidel drama of death, the farce comes first and the tragedy afterward. And in the former the atheists and infidels laugh and mock, but in the latter God Himself will laugh and mock. He says so: 'I will laugh at their calamity and mock when their fear cometh.' "From such a chasm of individual, national, world-wide ruin stand back. Oh, young men, stand back from that chasm! You see the practical drift of my sermon. I want you to know where that road leads. Stand back from that chasm of ruin." SOLID FOR CLEVELAND. Some Sound Sense from One of the Ablest Democrats of New York. (From the San Diego Daily Sun) Hon. Smith M. Weed, of New York, is registered at the Hotel del Coronado. He is accompanied by his daughter and her young lady friend. Mr. Weed is a rominent New York politician and a eader of the Empire State Democracy. He was Governor Tilden's right hand an, and has been f r many years a arm personal friend of Grover Cleve and. A Sun reporter was pleasantly, re eived by the New Yorker this morning, and found no difficulty in obtaining a ery desirable interview. CLEvEL.ND'S BENoMINATION. "I suppose Cleveland will be renomi ated by your party ?". "Undoubtedly. What niominated rover Cleveland in 1884 was the fact hat he carried New York State by near y 200,000. It was a foregone conclu sion in 1884 that he would be nomi nted." "How is Cleveland's strength in New ork to-day?"1 "I think the President's chances on< lection day this year for carrying New ork State will be even better than onI lection day in 1884. He will lose somei otes, it is true, but he will gain many thers." "How about the Irish vote?" "There is not so much dissatisfaction in the Irish vote this year as there ex sted in 1884." - -'What about Blaine's strength in New ork?" "Blaine has some elements of strength n New York State, and some elements f weakness, which other candidates do not possess. There are few Republi ans, however, who could poll a larger] ote in New York. Such a ticket as resham and Miller (meaning Warner iller) would probably bring out the strongest vote in New York State." BLAINE AND DEPEw. "What about Chauncey M. Depew?" "Depew is going to have the delega tion from New York State after Blaine. You will find the delegation divided be tween Blaine and Depew. My own judgment is that Blaine did not want to run, and unless he signifies himself as not wanting the nomination in stronger terms than in his recent letter, and if he is on the sea when the Republican Con vention meets, it will be taken by his friends that he will consent to run. In fact, everything points to Blaine's nomi ation." "Would John Sherman be a strong andidate in New Yorkz" "No. I don't think that John Sher man would poll as large a vote in New York as the other so-called candidates." "What do you New Yorkers know of General Alger, of Michigan?" "Alger is an unknown quantity in New York State. He is a very nice man, but not of the timLer from which Presi dents are made." CLEvELANE AND HILL. "Will there be any opposition to Cleveland?" "None whatever. He will be renomi nated on the first ballot without dissent." "Will the South be solid for Cleve and?" "Yes, solid as a rock. There will not be a vote in the Convention against him." "Then you do not regard Governor Hill as a candidate?" "No; Governor Hill has never been a candidate. Some of his friends and a few of Cleveland's enemies have tried very hard to bring out a boom for Hill, but there is nothing in it." "What abon't the investigation of charges against Governor Hill?" "It amounts to nothing. Hill raised some money for campaign purposes, but there was no wrong committed." THE CLEVELAND BOOM. "How about the independent vote?" "In 1884 there were many shrewd, careful, quiet men, who were not politi cians in any sense of the word, who voted for Blaine. Among this class there existed a decided feeling whether it was proper and safe to elect a Demo crat to the Presiden-ial chair on account of the financial and business outlook. Many of this class who did not like Blaine voted for him. Now they see that the country is safe, and this fact will largely increase Cleveland's vote among what old Governor Tilden used to call the independent votes. On the other hand, Cleveland will lose some votes in the Eastern States owing to the tariff question. It will be a close fight in Connecticut, but I think we will win. As to Indiana, I am in doubt, as I know ve-y little about that State." RANDALL AND THE GERMANS. "How about Sam Randall and his friends?" "Randall is all right. He and Scott are having a personal fight in their own State. However, Randall is as good a Democrat as lives in the Republic, and a sound, sensible man." "What party will get the German vote this year in New York?" "The liquor question in my State will give 20,000 votes to the democratic ticket. Those Germans who have always voted the Republican ticket are now with our party. They think that drinking a glass of beer, even on Sonday, is not a crime, although the Republican party thinks so." A OO) Iwono Eo amE. CLEVELArD. ' "You believe in Cleveland?" "Most assuredly. He is a wonderful man. I know him as well as I did Govenor Tilden. He is one of the few men in this world who would not do what he thought to be wrong Lobe elected President. Throughout the length and breadth of the land the - people admire his pluck and independence, and think well of him. If there was not the hurrah md hurly burly of a campaign, if there were no brass bands nor speeches, he would receive an unprecedented vote from the common people. It is true he makes mistakaes. Everybody does that, but the wonder is that he has not made more mistakes than he has." THE NEW YORK PRESS. "What New York newspapers * will support Cleveland?" "The World, the Times, the Star, the sews, the Post, the Herald, andprobaly the Sun. Brother Dana may mourn for i month or so, but he will come around ill right. The newspapers of New York ire a great, power, and then again they ire not. Look at the .recent Fellows ight. I tell you there is no element so langerous as to get the crowd enraged." "Will the New York societies fall in ine for Cleveland?" "Yes, all the halls will stand straight n the coming fight. There will be no rouble, and New York State will give rover Cleveland a big vote. Blaine ad Cleveland will be the two opposing ~andidates. and in my opinion the man rom Maine will be defeated the second ime." Mr. Weed leaves for the East on Wed esday night. Died for is Family. Henry W. Ford, of No. 120 Wythe ave ue, Williamsburg. who cut his throat. ith a razor Saturday, died yesterday. The icide was employed until a few weeks go in the docperage of Lowell M. Palmer t North Fourth street and Kent avenue. Since bis discharge he found it Impossi )le to secure employment, and in order to urchase bread for his family was com elled to sell his little householdi effects. )n Saturday the family parted with the ast of their furniture and they are now in listressed circumstances. This so preyed ipon Ford's mind that he determined to ~nd his life in order that his family might eceive the small insurance upon his life to eep them from starvation. Before coin nitting his rash act he wrote this letter to ais wife in a small account book: "BRooKLYN, May 12. DEAR AND BELOYED WIFr-I must take uy~ life in order that you can get the in urance on it. I lost my health in the lizzard when I went to ,Jersey City for .Ir. Palmer's interest, and he paid me well or my services. True to his interest, I sked for $13 to tide over my misfortune, d he refused to help me, knowing that I vs a temperate and steady man and would ay the last cent that I owed anybody. If me had given me the money I would be a appy man, struggling to make my family Lappy, but he chose to do otherwise, and I nust die that you and my children may ive. Bury me with my little daughter in very cheap coffin, and may God bless ou. You were the best woman I ever saw. loved you unto death. "HENRY W. FonD. "P. S.-Loved by your husband unto leath, lived for you and my children, but ~an't stand the agony of my soul at seeing ou suffer. Kiss my chitdren, and may od comfort them. Yours in death, "HENRY W. FoRD." It is not known whether the widow will eceive the iusurance money.-New York Star, 15th. A Greai Endorsement. Roscoe Conkling expressed himself in private conversation to a friend thus con erning the political situation, which re nins unchanged: "To judge of the cali re (of the men now leading the Republican arty, you need only to read John Sher nan's speech attacking the President's mes age. In the first place, the message is criticised by these Republican orators on ie ground that it is free trade, a ridiculous nd fallacious and deceptive criticism. Eery disinterested Citizen knows only too well that of all the statesmanlike utterances f the past six months the President's mes sage takes the first place. The pronuncia nento that followed it from a wonderful American statesman in Paris was buncombe and Mr. Sherman's effort was no better. n the second place, Mr. Slierman can find only one other ground on which to abuse the message-the President recommends conomy !"-Buffalo Courier.