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V V MANNG S VOL* VI. MANNING S. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 189.NO TI LLM . AT RIDGEWA THE OPENINC SPEECH OF HIS CANVAE FOR CGVE-RNOR. A Statement of the reasons for the Farm era' Movement in the Present Shape Where the Legislature Has Done Wror How to Correct Existing Evils. The following is the report mad by the Columbia Register of th speech of Capt. B. R. Tillman at tb public meeting held in Ridgeway: Mr. Chairman and Follow Citizen of Fairileld County: Before I begi tu say. what I have to say, I mmu specially request the men behind in to come around in front and be wher they can look me in the eye. (Ar: plause.) I will make a furthaer re quest, and that is that you give mi your undivided attention. (Voice 'We'll do it.") If there is any on, here who loses his interest, if h< wants to talk, he should walk on side where he won't disturb thos< who want to listen. I am pteased to meet my fellov citi'zens of Fairfel 1 county. It a] wayk affords me pleasure to meet m fellow citizensof any county that the: may look me in the eye and judge whether I am the man I have beeI painted. From what you have seen ir the newspapers you have reason to be lieve that you would see a man witl horns, hoofs and a tail, who would belch forth tire anI brimstone. But you wdl see only a simple farmer, whc up to four years ago never had made a spee~ch. THANKFUL FoR FREE ADVERTISING. I want to return my thanks to the newspapers of South Carolina for so liberally advertising me. I think the newspapers should furnish me a parse for giving them so much ma toial to put in their papers gratis. CHILDREN OF ONE FAMILY. We are here as the children of one family. sons of old South Carolina, and I feel that I can appeal to all of you to do nothing to cause heart burnings or cause any to regret this meeting. We have a family quarrel in this State. When it is over we must come together as one man and see to it taat the ascendency of the Demo cratic party in this State is main tained. AT THE NEWSPAPEs AGAIN. I have no bad feelings against the newspaper men. I cannot feel other wise than grateful to them for draw ing to me friends, such friends as always come from just men to any one unjustly treated. It is sweeping through the State, from county to county. This intolerance, this abuse o an honest wlute man and a Demo crat, is having the natural effect of '-aking me friends. And in some p ai-S they are taking a most effec tive V of bringing the newspapers to ta by refusing to subscribe to them. " I don3t want to be understood as saying alything against the freedom f the press. A free press Is the pal adium 6bf our liberties. A licentious, one-siedpress-every paper of that ind shounld be made to see that you an maintain your own right to think or youriself and keep your money in youbreehespocket at the same time. But they'll get right. They'll eet step in in time. You need more pa pers; youneed good newspapers. You read too lhttle. We are too~ Ignorant, That is one reason of the trouble in the Democratic party of this State today. This has driven us to a can vass tomeet the people face wo ace, and explain what thes newspapera suppress and garble, and tell themi the truth. AtL svMOE AND POWDER. While iho newspapers have thun dered to the..right and to the left of me, it has been all smoke and powder. They have shot no bullets. A gentleman is here (turning tc Colonel Youmans) with a carpet-bag full of them (referring to the Colo nels valise on the platform) and ] hope and beg you to give him a re spetful hearing. (From the crowd: We'll listen at him, but they didn't listen to you.") Captain Tiflran- "I had a good deal of cheering the last time I wai in Barnwell" Resnming the direct line of his re marks. the Captaia continued: Whai is the charge against me! Sifted down it is that I have dared to alloy the Farmers' Conventi'.n to put mi before the people as a suitsble mar for Governor. Alluding to what he was pleased t< term the suppression of his speecd before the March convention: I an here as the EIPONENT OF A PRINCIPLE. and advocate of a policy. I am th< hampion of the principle Ibel'eve t< be for the best interest of this people and that is self-government. Th< policy I refer to is fair play amons Democrats, and such reform as wil give us an ecgjiomical and good goi ernent. This is Tillmamsm. If you have self-government, an have bad government, you are t blame, and you can remedy it who the shoe pinches. Now you don have self-government, and when th shoe pinches you can't remedy it. WHY THE ONVENTION WAS C'A~L. Captain Tillman then went on t Sexplain how and why the Farmer: .nvention was called. He said b ad something to do wi h having th convention called, and had bee charged with having it done to g< hitun,elf nominated for Governor. Continuing, he said: Let me te you why it was necessary to have convention called and some one not inr"-- for Governor, or else we wou] be by the superior tactics az supe?.r organization opposed to1 in 1886 and 1888. I went round wil Governor Richardson to the sev< meetings held in 1888. In four 01 o the seven counties where the met Figs were held that had forestalledi and had elected delegates to the Sta onvention before they heard ix They had the credentials of the del gates in their pockets and so the C plow farmer had to go home ar swallow Richardson, when every o3 knows he wasn't the choice of tl di mt+at Stateonvention d They made two important changes in the party constitution. They did away with the State canvass. They 3 don't like canvasses. They don't like this canvass. They prefer working in the dark. Then they did away with the clause so that a convention held in May may It nominate for September. They pro posed to e TAKE A BREECHES HOLD ON US, e if you will excuse the colloquial e phrase. We are now just a little too smart for them, and we propose to s take a breeches hold, We have held Oa our convention and put forth a can * didate. No one yet has screwed his courage up to the sticking point-un e less my friend here is one. e Turning to Colonel Youmans, Cap tain Tiflman asked: "Are you a can . didate for G*overnort" "No, sir," replied Col. Youmans. THE OLIGARCHY THEORY. * Captain Tillman then continued: a For the last ten years the control of the State has been in the hands of a few men. These gentlemen would call their meetings and a few-shall I r say ringsters-well, ringsters, then, - those were in the boat, in the line of succession, those who would get a slice of the pie after awhile-these would meet while the farmers were attending to their own business, would control the county conventions and go down to Columbia. We were right to hold a convention. Even the editors allow we had the right to meet and formulate a plat form. THE NECESSITY OF A CANDIDATE. Is there a man here who will dis pute that if the platform was left without a candidate it would have been broken down by seekers for office! Wouldn't the whole ring got on the platform? In years we tried to get from their ranks some sort of a half-way man to 4 represent us. You know how we 4 slipped up at it. I felt we had 'been burned at it too often. They say I bossed and controlled i that covention. If any delegate from F Fairfield, or South Carolina, can say t I approached him in relation to my z candidacy, I'd like to see him. (A voice: "He ain't here.") What would they have said, if I had refused, but that I was a moral coward and didn't have the courage of my own convictions? ORUMPLED ROSE LEAVEs. Let me show you I'm not on a bed of roses. In the first place, my plan- i tation has to be left to take care of itself, except what the old woman and E the children can do. I have to neg- 1 lect my own affairs. In the second place, it is by no ' means certain Tm to be your next J Governor. You know the ohter side is going to move heaven and earth to E defeat me. f Then the torrent of abuse and ca- E lumnny to which I axm exposed is an- 1 other thing, but -thrice armed is he who has his quarrel just." f THE MAYOR OP COLUMBIA has said he would leave the State if I I was elected. (From the crowd: "Let him leave.") I have heard of some who hate me so that they say they wouldn't vote for me if nomnina ted by the Democratic party. (An other voice: Let 'em go.") But you haven't heard a single Tillman man say he wouldn't vote the Democratic ~ ticket whoever is nominated BUT ONE PARTY.t Ne have but one party. We daret havi but one, simply because a divi sin among the whites would let in f the fioodtide of the black vote; and there would be bidding between the two factions for it. The side that could bid the most and be Dearest to being a nigger would get the black votes, and there would come againE the days of good stealing.t THE "RocEEDIGs wERE DAMPEXED at thisjpoint by the rain, which had been t'reatenaing all the morning, coming downin big drops on Tifliman ites and reporters, without discrimi nation. Ii was at first proposed to adjourn to aginhouse near by, but the atmos pheric moisture came down in such a business-like way that a general helter-skelter rush for shelter ensued GATEERED IN A GINHOUsE. The raina relaxing somewhat, but1 showing no signs of cessation, at a little after noon the crowd reassem bled in the lower part of the ginhouse -referred to, which was certainly hum ble and uncomfortable enough to satisfy he most radical advocate of economy and reform. Mounted on a sill of the structure Captain Tillman resumed his remarks. He opened by saying that though the rain had stopped the meeting, he was glad to see it as it would help the oats. STaking up the thread of his re marks where intterupted by the rain, he said he wanted to show the evils growing out of the condition arising from having, and daring to have, but one party which he hadt referred to. He said: For years after we got out of negro domination anything looking to the discussion of any issue that would create friction in the party twas frowned down by common con e aent. It was thouget better to suffer something than to risk a return of the rottenness of Radhcal domination. o It was thought better that we should ' pull together, as we are now and .e had better do for the next thousand *e years. n The candidates found that it wvas t not required that they should discuss issues and they appealed on the 1 ground of personal popularity only. a You voted for the slickest-tongued a fellow, who could flatter you or your .d wife best. (From the crowd: "We d did ") We raised up a race of moral is cowards. They are proving it now hon the Farmers' Movement. Just n see how easy they'll fly down when at they see which side is best to light on. t-DIsCUSSION THE THING. tIt is necessary that we have a full e. and fair discussion of all issues to et.. e- cate the people what is fair and right, d and then let them decide at the bal dlot box who shall govern in South ae jCarolina. e I want to say vight here if inyour county you have any mien rnnng ,a 'wihhe hare and riding with the hounds spew them out ol your mouti They are time-serving politicans an< place-hunters. CLAIMS A PRECEDENT. It is strange when we look abou to see in what a flutter and in what i distressed coilition the politiciani have been put by the March Con vention. Compare it with the condi tions in 1880, when we had as candi nates for Governor Johnson Hagood and Martin Witherspoon Gary. The crowd who have dominated the Stat< since 1876-who do now and intend to continue if they can-they called s convention in June to choose dele gates to St. Louis tonominate a can didate for President. They controlled the county conventions and wher they got to Columbia they found they could norinate Ragood. And they did it. It was a smart trick then. It was politics. Now, we farmer- have called a con vention in March, and not nominated but suggested a candidate,and what a howl goes up! SOME SENSIBLE sUGGEsTICS. Captain Tillman, continuing, said mong other things that he had heard omething of their forming a Tillman lub in that county. He didn't want ny Tillman club. but wanted them o send delegates to the regular Dem xratic Stnte Convention to vote for ['illman if they would. He also said that the Alliance was tot a political nachine and ought not o be used in politics at all. The Lliance had its duty, and they iad their duty as Democrats. In al uding to the Alliance matters, he ;aid his remarks were general and lad no reference to Mr. Meares, who iad explained satisfactorily in that onnection, or to Colonel Youmans. THE REAPPORTIONMENT QUESTION vas next touched on by the speaker vho had a number of tables in refer. ne to this matter. One table show d the p.opulation of the various coun ies by the census of 1880, the unit f representation in the General As embly and also the fnumber of repre entatives the counties would be en itled to under what he called a just pportionment. He had also a considerable portion f his remarks on this subject com itted to writing, having done so, he aid,to prevent the possibility of error n the part of the newspaper men in eporting him. FACTS AND FIGUREs. Below is presented a portion of the aatter thus prepared: I will now give you some compari ons as to how fair, just and honora ole are the methods of the party as t present constituted for nominating tate officers according to Messrs. ones, Woodward & Co.'s claim. Compare Hampton with 18,741 and delegates to Georgetown with 19. 13 and 6 delegates, Lexington 18,564 .nd 6, Clarendon 19,190 and 6, Marl oro 20.598 and 6. Charleston with 60,000 has twenty Lve delegates, and Edgefleld with ,844 has twelve deleg. ~es. Compare he following: Richland, 28,573, with 2; Greenville, 37,496, with 10; Spar anburg, 40,407, with 10; Sumter, .7,037, with 10; Laurens, 29,444, with ;Marlboro, 20,508, with 6; Beaufort, ,176, with 8. It takes more than 10,000 people i three of these counties and over ',000 in another for one representa ive, while in Richland 5,714 people, ostly negroes, send a representa ive to the Legislature to vote away e farmers' money and to oppose a hool for farmers' sons. In Edge Leld we have one representative for ,000 people, Charleston one for 5,000 ndan extra Senator to boot. In reference to the question of re pportionmentinthe Democratic Con ention I desire to be clearly under tood. It does not matter who wrote e platform adopted by the March komvention. It was adopted by that )ody without any material opposi ion. It therefore represents the ishes and opinions of that conven ion, and, we believe, a large majori .y of the people of South Carolina. Then adopted not twenty-five men the convention knew who wrote t. I am thre exponent of that plat orm and the leader chosen to give it ife and force. I have shown how nequal and unjust the apportion ent .at present obtaining is to cer ain counties. I have pointed out the crime com eritted against the just distribution f political power among white mer. ound together by every tie which should make them honorable and just to each other. I ask you now whether this wrong committed by the Legislature, under the influence f Charleston and Columbia, shall be righted by the Democratic party as far as it can be done, or shall we take the risk of a division among the white people wnich a failure to do so nay entail! THE PARTY CONsTITUTION QUOTED. The constitution of the Demoratic party provides as follows: "The State convention shall be composed of delegates from each county in nu merical proportion to which the ounty is entitled in both branches of the General Assermbly." No one disputes that according to. the last United States census (which the constitution now recognizes as the legal basis of representation) seven counties are each "entitled"~ to ne more member of the House of Representatives, and consequently tc two more delegates to the State Con vention, than they now have. Mark the words: it'says 'to which that county is entitled," not which that county has, and we demand appor tionment as it is nominated in the bond. Nowv, will the Democratic Execu utive Committee right this, or have it righted; or will they bow to Co lumbia and Charleston. Suppose mi this campaign I should carry thc counties of Greenville, Spartanburg Iaarens, Sumter, Marlboro and Edgefield, which is not at all imnprob able,and that Richland andCharlestor should oppose me. Suppose thai the contest shall be decided againsi me under the existingapporti )nment by twelve votes, what a spectacle wil be presented to the people of unfair ness among those who should be al bohr!What heart burnings! If this the compact we made in '76! cu only submit, and I would do s L. cheerfully, for under no circuD I stances woull I do anything to jeo] ardize Anglo-Saxon unity. Accurse< thrice accursed, be the man "wb would build up his greatness on hi t country's ruin." Accursed, thric t accursed, be those who in South Ca: 3 olina, confronted as we are by dai - gers engendered by those feelings c - discontent, would risk negro don - ma~tion. I Wlule accusing me of "MahonE ism," and thus trying to poison th people against me, signs are no I wanting in plenty to show that th a "ring" will hesitate at nothing-wil take any and all risks to compass in defeat.And I believe that nothingbu I my election by an oveiwhelming vot, will prevent them bolting the ticke if I am nominated. "The chip wil split from the log" rather than suf render the government. The Columbia Register has alread: declared its ability to promise 2 votes in the counties of Hampton Horry, Georgetown and Beaufort t< any candidate who opposes me, an< the question arises as to whethe: those counties are rotten boroughs and if so who owns them. THE "TWENTY-ONE CONFERENcE' next received attention from Capt Tillman, and his re- xarks in relatioi to the same were very sarcastic. H< styled the members the apostles o: existing institutions and termed the signers of the call "the three blin. mice." AN ELECTRICAL STORM AT SEA. The Aurania Encounterv an Unusualla Brilliant Illumination. Passengers on the Aurania, whicl arrived yesterday, who ventured or deck on Sunday evening, were treated to a remarkable display of electric il lumination. Few people besides the officers and seamen witnessed it. however, for a heavy rain was falling at the time. The vessel was about eighty miles off Fire Island, and sail ing through a dense fog. At 9:30 the rain became a torrent, while the fog continued, and lightning began to flash in all directions. The ship was in the midst of a great electrical storm, and thunder crashes followed the lightning instantaneously. The masts of big boats like the Aurania are provided with lightning rods, which are made serviceable by run ning insulated chairs from their lower lower ends over the sides of the ship and -grounding" them in the water. This apparatus was unreeAed as soon as soon as lightning appeared, but no bolts hit it. For three-quarters of an hour the flashes were substantially continuous, and, in spite of the mist, were blinding in brilliancy. One of the officers described the effect thus: "The continuous light looked through the mist as if some one were swinging a gigantic lantern behind a curtain. This of itself was very bright, enabling us to see the rigging with distinctness and the sea for a wide space around. There was no wind and hardly a noticeable swell on. At frequent intervals, certainly no more than a few seconds, there came vivid flashes so bright that we seemed to be looking squarely at the sun. These were accompanied by loud thunder slaps, some of the loud est I have ev~er heard, and for that matter I have never seen so contin uous a display of lightning at sea or anywhere else. I do not think that more than two or three passengers came out of the cabin, for the rain was drenching and the thunder terri fying. There was no danger of any consequence to thd ship. We moved out of the electrical storm, or it moved from us, at albeut 19:15, after which the night was perfectly dark and the rain continued for some time longer. I saw no fireballs or other illumination of the yards, except the natural reflection of the water drops, which made yards and rigging glisten at the edges."-New York Letter. MEN'S WOMEN. Wat They Are and Why They Charm the Masculine sex ''What are 'meni's women?'" asked only thie other day the most charming of her sex. "Men are forever saying of So-aud-so, whom, by the way, Idae test, that she is a -mian's women.' Teach me how to be one, please? Where in lies the charm? Must I smoke like your Venetians? Must I talk horse? Must I adopt all the other of your dreadful ways?" Certainly not dear madame. Yet it is quito true that while one man's ideal differs most fortuitously from another's, as one star differeth from another star in glory, there are those who are known among us "men's women" for a happy combination of qualities somewhat dif. fcult to describe. "A man's woman," to begin with, is old enough to know' the world thoroughly: yet, though, she eed never have been beautiful, she must have kept her youth. She is in no sense a light woman. neiher is she over-intel~ lectual; she would not speak Greek, even if she could. She is a creature of infinite tact, whom every being with the outward semblance of a man in terests profoundly. With him she is alwas at bor best and contrives to gel out of him the best there is. She listent wll, and grows sympathetic as she listens. Has he a special weakness? She half tempts him to believe it is a virtue. An adept in the subtlest forms of flat, tery, she would force the meanest oJ us to shine even when he is ill at ease. And vet, above all, she remains sin cere.' Her interest in him is real, and survives the fleeting moment. He Is man; that is to say, for her, the bright et page in nature's book. She re spects convention well when she mau venture to be unconventional; yet shi is unapproachable and irreproachable. In return he adores her. This is all very well, you say, but] don't like that woman. fbearmadam, as It never enters into her calculation thal you should, she does not take such paini with you. She makes dear foes among you, of course. Sometimes, even, sh< does not escape calumny. But this having no actual basis, fails of its owr weiht, and in the end, as you yoursel wilfadmit, you stand in awe of her Your question prToves it. I have trict to tell you why we like her; and If yol must have a word definition, here it is She is one who has the gift to stud; men, and who, having studied many finds the process still amusing. If yo1 lack this primal requisite, abandon the Sunequal contest; you will ne. .r be come like her by a servile imitation 0 - tricks and her manners. In spite o these, which set you so against her, lc a me entreat you to believe her a deserv [ ing woman indeed.--Scribner's Maga to elect Strong and defeat his ow wife. k At this juncture in the campaign the Sunday cider question became i side issue, and Mr. Doran practicall] withdrew from the contest, althougI a few of his friends stood by him t< the last. When election day camf there were three tickets in the field, - known as the Doran, the Strong, anc the Brown. Doran had the united support of two restaurant proprie tors, with their cooks and waiters, eleven all told. Strong was support ed by Brown who owned twenty bal lots, and a few who thought it would be a good joke on the women to force him upon them in the City Council. Mrs. Brown had the support of the rest of the community. The women left the management of the campaign on election day tc their friends of the sterner sex, quite generally refraimng from electioneer ing, and only fourteen of them voted. The men, however, took unusual in terest in the contest, and pursuing the usuaal election-day tactics, made the fight a close one. When finally the polls were closed and the ballots counted, it was found that the wom en had been successful. Sixty-five votes were cast. Of these Doran received only eleven, and the women went in with a rush. Mrs. Brown was the candidate upon whom the fight bad been made, and she defeat ad her opponent, Strong. She re ceived 27 votes to. Micawber's 21. The city administration, then, for the ensuing year, is composed as follows: Mayor, Mrs W. H. Kelly; Police Judge, Mrs. T. S. Greer; Council women, Mrs. S. E. Stewart, Mrs. W. E. Ewart, Mrs. R G. Holden, Mrs. Nat Ross, Mrs. H. G. Brown. The Treasurer, City Clerk, and City Mar shall hold office~ by appointment. The women will turn the rascals out and fill the places with officers of their own sex. Mrs. W. H. Kelly, the new Mayor, is probably the youngest Mayor in the country, being only 23 years of age. She is a native of Johnson county, and has beer. married three years. She believ~s in woman's rights, although she says she will not allow her oflicial labors to conflict with her home duties. She is the mother of a youg baby who will pre side with her over the Council meet ings. She is bright, pretty and in telligent. She says it will be her en deavor to conduct the affairs of her official post with an eye to the city's best welfare. Mrs. T. S. Greer will dispense jus tice from the bar of the police court. She also is very young, only 22. She is a native of Van Buren county, Iowa, but has lived in Johnson coun ty for ten years. She is bright, viva cious. and quite too charming to in quire into the merits of "drunks" and -vags." She confesses that she doesn't know much about the law, but she does know what is right and what is wrong, and she will trust to her woman's instinct for the rest. She will enforce the laws to the let ter. If there is a penalty to be im posed it will be imposed-"and not to be remitted, either," to use her own words. "What is the use of fin ing a man and then remitting his fine? They must pay up or break rocks when I am Judge." Among the members of the Coun cil Mrs. Brown is the wife of Brown the avenger. Slhe is young and the mother of a family. Mris. Stewart is a widow on the other side of 50, and will have a subduing effect upon the youthful Mayor and her Council com panions. Mrs. Ewart is on the other side of 30, a widow, and mother of the regulation number of children. She is an ardent suffragist, and is elated over her political ac quirements. Mrs Holden is 25 and the mother of three children. She is the daughter of Councilwoman Stew art. Mrs. Ross is the wife of ex Mayor Ross, who defeated Brown at the election a year ago. She is 30 years of age and has five children. She is a believer in woman's rights and will watch the experiment of fe male government with a scientific in terest. The fight for the appointive offices is quite as brisk among the women as if succulent Government jobs were at stake, and fair contestants are al ready bringing personal and political influences to bear in their favor in the hope of wresting their coveted prizes. There are several seekers for each office. Among those who want to serve the city in the eapacity of Marshal is Miss Mollie Tuniney. She is a handsome girl of 19 years. She does not seem to have a very clear idea of the duties. When asked what she expected would be required of her she said: "Oh, you know, all I will have to do will be to light the lamps." When informed that it was also the Marshal 9 duty to make an occasional arrest she was for a moment discon erted, but rocovered, and a danger ous flash lit her eyes as she remarked, I guess I can manage that, too, if I have to." The first meeting of the new Board of officers will occur on the third Thursday in May, when the city will enter upon an era of petticoat govern ment. The FirstSuniday School. In a recent publication, Savannah and its Surroundings, the following statements occur, which shows that John Webley, in addition to his other honors,was entitled to that of estab lishing the first Sunday-school. "It was in Christ Church that the first Sunday-school was established by John Wesley, nearly fifty years be fore Robert Raikes, who is honored as the founder of Sunday-schools, originated the scheme of Sun day-school instructions in Glou cester, England, and eighty yeara be fore the first Sunday-school in Amner ica on the Raikes plan was establish ed." __ _ _ _ _ _ _ -One of the largest bears ever killed in Wyoming was shot a few days ago by a ranchman near Lara. mie Peak. Bruin had been playuag havoc among the cattle. He had killed a cow, upon which he had feasted once or twice, but when he returned again to take another meal he found serious business ahead of him. IDressed the monster weighed 1,086 pounds. From the nose to the n of its tail it measured nine feet PETTICOAT RULE. 1L WOMEN TO GOVERN A CITY FOR J o YEAR. S - e The Peculiar State of Affairs In Edgerton Katsau-The Triumph of Petticoat Pol itics. A special from Kansas City, Mo. says: Petticoat politics have triumph ed at Edgerton, Kan., and during th< coming year the municipal affairs o: that city will be administered by i t petticoat government. At the recent city elections there the ladies carried the day. It wasn' their fault that they did. They didn' try to and they didn't want to, but they carried the day just the same and now find that they must shoul der tlie responsibilities of the city government. Of course they might resign their offices, but that would be at total variance with the Kansa custom. Besides, it would necessi tate the trouble and expense of a new election, and that the women have determined to avoid. They won't have very much to govern. Edgerton is only a small town. and its most enthusiastic boomer dare not claim for it more than 450 inhabitants. It attained the distinction of becoming a city only by virtue of the Kansas law, which allows the smallest communi ties to incorporate cities of the fourth class, and to govern themselves by the same methods as their larger sis ters. Edgerton is an old town, how ever-that is, in a State where noth ing datos back further than John Brown's residence therc,the Quantrell raid, and the border wars. It occu pies a picturesque location in the southwest corner of Johnson county, on the Southern Kansas Railway. It is a qua;nt and typical village of the plain. The prohibition law has done away with the saloon, and the ab sence of the saloon has in turn done away with a great deal of the village drunkenness and rowdyism. The ladies won't have much to govern. It came about in this way. A. year ago the candidates for Mayor were Nathan Ross and H. B. Brown. Mr. Ross is the village school teacher, and being a man of considerable tact and some personal attractiveness, made a very popular candidate. Mr. Brown was a grain dealer and pro prietor of a lumber yard. He, too, was popular. and the fight at the polls was a close one. The registra tion list contained -only auout 125 names, and the count was kept even with the balloting. It was a neck and neck race, and when the hour approached for closing the polls Brown had a lead of three votes.Ross had polled every vote he could com mand, and defeat stared him in the face. His pedagogic mind was fer tile in political resources. None of tht, women had voted. Why not bring his friends among the women to the polls! Tae plan was executed immediately upon its conception, and Mr. Ross sought out eight women, -mothers of his favorite pupils, took them to the polls and they cast their ballots for him. This coup d'etat brought conster nation into the camp of the enemy. The only way to fight his opponent was with his opponent's jwn weapon. He pressed his friends into his ser vice and they scoured the town for women who would vote for Brown. Finally nine of them were found and taken to the voting place. Too late. The prlls had closed. The school teacher had been elected Mayor. Brown's failure at the polls rank led ini his breast. He treasured up his defeat and planned the revenge that he would visit upon the women, the cause of his misfortune. When election time came around again the politicalissue in the village was the Sunday closing question. Peter Doran, ex-Mayor,declared him self in favor of the open restaurant. A meeting of his friends was called and he wvas nominated at the head of a city ticket on a personal liberty, anti-blue law platform. All went well for Doran until a few days before the election. Then came Brown's opportunity for revenge both upon Doran, who had been a Ross man, and the women who had obstructed his ascent of the political ladder, He would defeat Doran by running a. woman ticket against lum, and at the same time humiliate the ladies and heap ridicule upon them by placing at the foot of the ticket the name of T. H. Strong for the City Council. Now, Strong was the Micawber of te town, the corner grocery whit ter and dry goods box story teller. He was ignored b)y most of the men and scorned by all the women. By electing him, the only man on the woman ticket, the ladies would be humiliated mightily. Brown matured his plan, announc ed his candidates, and printed his tickets. At the head of the ticket he placed the name of Mr's. W. H. Kel ly, the wife of the City Clerk, who had been appointedl to the place by his foe. Nat Ross. For Judge of the Police Court he named Mrs. T. S. Greer, who had voted for Ross at the former election. Ini the list of the prospective Council he placed the names of Mrs. WV. S. Ewart. Mrs. Nat Ross. Mrs J. Stew art, and the latter's daughter, Mrs. R. G. Holden, all of whom had assisted Ross to the Mayoralty. At the hot tom of the ticket he plac ed the name of Micawber Strong. The women were scandahized and indignant. but still. not fearing elec. tion, took no great interest in thE campaign. The political enemies of Brown, however, desirous of seeing his revenge fail of its objects, issued a new ticket, omitting the name of the village Micaw her and sustituting that of Mrs. Brown, his own wife thus stealing his thunder and threat ening defeat to his plans. Mr's. Brown was absent from the city and could offer no opposition to hi r nomination. When she returned she cast her lot with her village sisters and. rather than see them humiliated and made ridiculous by the election of Strong, entered the campaign with energy and fought her husband, politically, as bitterly as his most despert te ene m. But, the die having been cast, Brown was not the mian to shrink from the result. He had placed tStrong on the ticket to be elected land he would not allow his defeat is his political shrewdness could pre ve.i.+ Her ent into the camnpair 1 THEY LYNCHED HIM ANYHOW. The Indignation of the People! at the Law' Delay Prompts Them to a Bloody De d. r The correspondent of the Green ville News gives the followingaccount of the lynching of the negro Willie Leaphart, at Lexington, S. C., on the t 5th inst.: "Willie Leaphart, convicted of criminally assaulting Miss Rosa Cannon. was lynched here this morn. ing. The lynching party numbered about one hundred. Some were from the country and some fromtown. Its members make no effort to conceal their identity and openly acknowl edge and discuss the matter on the streets. The bogus detective, Foster, was in the cell with Leaphart when the mob entered. He was shot in the arm and had a narrow escape from death. By desperate fighting he freed himself from Leaphart's grasp and got in another cell. The mob forced themsalves in the cell corridor and poured volley after vol ley in the cell with little effect, Leap hart keeping in a corner at the en trance Three lamps were brought and he shivered them to pieces with a stick. Five men successively at tempted to enter the cell and were cracked over their heads.After several hunired shots had been fired a bullet struck Leaphart in the head, hurling him to the floor. He was then dragged out and sixteen balls from a Winchester were fired into him. The intention was to hang him in Graham's yard, but the mob had to kill him to get him out of the cell. The lynching was caused by a rumor to the effect that Graham and Depu ty United States Marshal Miller had obtained a further respite and had given the papers to Sheriff Drafts yesterday and that Leaphart was to be transferred to Columbia. Gra ham and Miller left here this after noon for Columbia on foot to ask the protection of the Governor. The matter is very coolly discussed here. The situation is marked by a total absence of excitement. The lynch ers seem perfectly willing to take the consequences of their act." THOSE AFFIDAVITS. Governor Richardson has made public the affidavits on which Leap heart's respite was based. One is from W. J. Miller, United States Deputy Marshal, alleging -that after the trial and conviction of Willie Leapheart, Charlie Cannon, brother of the young lady, stated t.> depon ent in the presence of other witnesses that he did not believe Willie Leap hart assaulted his sister, and that he believed that she had been per suaded by certain persons to state that the negro had committed the crime in order to convict him." There-are also %oV etters from Miss Cannon to her mother, stating that Leaphart did not hurt her in any manner except when lie caught her by the throat. A Startling Statement. COLUMBIA, S. C., May 7.-There is now very strong reason tobelieve that the aflidavits and letters which se cured the respite of Leaphart were forgeries. In regard to the affidavit with Charlie Cannon's signature at tached and alleging to have been sworn before J. P. Bodie, notary pub lic, April 28th, Bodie has written a letter for publication in which he says: "He made no such affidavit before me. I did not even see Mr. Cannon on that day." This affidavit was to the effect that Ruth Cannon declared that Leaphart had not at tempted to assault her and only in tended robbing the house. Capt. J. B. Wingard, the attorney who assistedin the prosecution of the case on behalf of Miss Cannon, ar rived here to-day and said that he visited Miss Cannon this moning, who stated upon her word of honor that she did not write a line to her mother and that all the letters pub lished, alleged to be to her mother and corroborating the alleged state ment to her brother, were forgeries and that she would make affidavit to that effect at Lexington to-dlay. Cap tain Wingard said the affidavits were pure fabrications, hatched by Lawyer Graham and Deputy Marshal Mil er and if they had been made known affidavits in rebuttal from unim peachable people could have been presented. More Startling Statements. COLMBIA, S. C., May 8.-Matters in the Lexington tragedy have taken a new turn. Fresh developments oc cur almost hourly and more are ex pectel.Attorney-GamteralEarle went to Lexington last night, and as a result this morning warrants were sworn out for the arrest of F. C. Caughiman, Pearce Taylor and A. Marks as being concerned in the lynching of Willie Leaphart. The parties have not yet been arrested as they wer3 not in the village. Caughiman swore out a war rant for the arrest of Attorney Gra ham, charging him with forgery and subornation of perjury1. Grahamn was arrestedI here to-day and his attorney, John Bauskett, sued out a writ of habeas corpus before the Supreme Court this evening. Bail was grant ed in the sum of $1,000. Miller has made an affidavit in which he denies having made the original affi Ltvit whereupon the respite wz.s grau.ed. He stated to the Attorney General that he was drunk at the time and that Graham wrote a.sd he (Miller) signed it unawares. Governor Richardson, however, states that Miller brought the aflida vit to him and affirmed its genuine. ness. The Governor said that Miller was perfectly sober at the timeg. The other parties alleged to hiave written the remaining affidavits and letters! have made affidavits swearing that those attributed to them are forgeries. F. C. Caughmnan stated here to day that he would swear out a war-I rant for the arrest of Governor Rich ardson for being accessory before the fact. -Letters received from Josephine Marie Bedard, the fasting girl of lime museum fame, by friends in the~ French quarter in Lewiston, Me.,. state that Miss Bedard, who, it is al-i leged, has fasted for nearly eight years, and who has been critically ill for some weeks past at her home in Tinwick, Quebec, is now recovering, and since her illness has been blessed with a vigorous appetite. TRICKS OF A TRAPPER. ft Which He Was Very Ably Assisted by ifs Mle. There were thirty of us In camp on a spur of the Black Hills mining for gold, says a writer in the If. Y. &m, when one afternoon we looked down upon the level plain and saw four mounted redskins chasing a white man on a mule. He was making for us, but tiey were rapidly overhauling him, and it was plain enough that we could render no assistance. The -fore most Indian fired a shot, and man and mule fell in a heap. The Indians pressed forward, yelling and exulting, but the faint reports of a revolver reached our ears, and we saw redskins and ponies tumbling over at every re port. Some of our men slid down the steep mountainside to take a hand in, but it was not needed. When they reached the man he sat on the ground laughing as if he would split. - "To think!" he shouted. as soon as he could control his voice, "that these 'ere Sioux, who are rated sharp as razors, could be fooled by that old trick-ha! ha! ha!" And he laughed until he had to wipe away the tears. On the ground near by were three dead Indians and another about to die, while two of the ponies were dead and the other two badly wounded. It had all been done with an old-fashioned Colt's revolver, loaded with powder and ball and carrying a percussion cap but the work had been rapid and sure, The Indians had closed in on him, sup posino, him to be dead or badly wound-. ed, w* 'e neither man nor mule had been touched. After a bit the man, who was an old trapper, went over to the wounded warrior and said to him in the Sioux dialect, and chuckling be tween the words: "Say, did any of you fellers ever see a white man before?" "Many of them," gasped the war rior. "Didn't you ever hear of that old trick before?" "Isn't the white man wounded?" "Not by a dozen, Nancy Jane. Thay bullet didn't come withii a rod of me. I gave my old-anule the signal to squat and down we tumbled to draw you-on, The other three are dead. and you are about to go. Say, I don't want to hurt a dyin' injun's feelings, but-ha, ha, ha--but it was 'nuff to kill a fellow to see how you four opened your-ha, ha, -eyes when I began to pop. Funniest hing I have seen in a year. Durn it, [ won't need any qui'neeu for a month. [Im just sweating the chills off with laughing. The Indian gazed at him in a trou bled way for a moment, seemed to realize that he had been duped, and he closed his eyes and died witbout. syer raising the lids again. The Hardest Worker In Jamates, Everywhere, where the water is quiet in bays and harbors, ong sees the man grove at its silent, asele w k. The parent nnk. pink stem, shoots up i shru with wide-spreading branches, clothed perpetually with glossy green leaves. From these branehes long slender roots_ drop into the water beneath, where, in the muddy soil at the bottom, they themselves take root, and in turn be, eome trunks and trees. And every where under the snake-like not-work of roots which rise out of the muddy soil. and In a tangle of branches above, life is pulsing and rustling. Innumerable rabs, with long red Yegs and blaek bodies peppered with white spots, scurry and crawl in and out up~on tp rank mud beneath the arching reoti ad droll hermit-crabs draw them selves with a cliek Into the burrowed houses-strange-looking shells with ong spines, curious spirals, mottled with blue a~ad gray and yellow. In the days of the Spaniards vesseis ued to sail up the Rio Cobra to panish Town; now it is welnigh. coked with the wash of centuries. To enter it you pass around a long spur oif sand that stretches far out into the bay. a roosting-place for sleepy pelicans resting from their fishing---old Joes," s the islanders call them. The channel, barely deep enough for the light canoes f the fishermen, is tortuous and winnd ing, and further up along its course is early roofed in by overarching trees, and bordered by impenetrable thickets that now forever shut out the life that used to come and a'o between the bar oor and San Jagolde la 'Vega.-Howoard Pyle, in Harper's agazine. SUBSTANTIAL HIANDSHA KINGS. A Preacher's Parishioners Play an Eides,. able Little Joke on Him. It was years since, in the Ozark region, where I was riding a circuit, that I saw a minister enjoy a most substantial handshaking, says a writer in the Globe-Democrat. Shaking hands was his peculiarity. He believed In the potency of a cordial grasp to win men to the church, and though successful in winning souls he was very unfortunate n the matter of getting dollars. In fact poverty continually stared him in the face. He owned a little farm and mortgaged it as long as it would vyield dollar, The mortgages were falling due, but there wasi n . prospect of pay ing them. Bet it did not bother him a bit. He shook hands more heartily than ever. "I have unbounded faith In hand shaking to bring everything out right," he often said, until his penchant came to be the talk of the town. At last came the day when the mortgages must be foreclosed that would deprive him of the little home that sheltered his .amily. On the eve of that day a knock at the dor of his house, which was a little way from town, called him. When he opened the door a whole crowd rushed in, and, without saying a word, corn" menced shaking hands. He felt some tning cold in the palm of the first man, nnd when the hand was withdrawn it stuca . .s own. 'That is the mo$ mbstantia. shake I ever experience? he said, as he held up a $5 gold piece. But the next man stepped up and a silver dollar was left in the preacher's palm. No) one would say a word in explanation, but pressed in on him as fast as lie could stick the metal and bills into his pockets. The house wa&' not large enough for the visitors. eael one of whom dleposited from $1 to $11 in the outstretched hand. Each ,AfT the moment his little errand was ao coplished, and not a word could be ha'd in explanation, except the last one who, as he turned to go. remark "We wanted to tilay a little joke you, and we Eave." The seve "jokes" netted just $871. His ho was saved and a neat balance wasI besides. The minister maintained be had contracted a habit that that for a year afterward, whe utook a hand, prompted him to into his own palm, aalf expec .. a piec of metal there.