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VOL. VI. 7AMN~ -Mi(liWDNESDAY JUNE %>5. 180It.8 j-. i'RO)ICJ \ SON. DR. TALMAGE'S DSCOURSE AT THE TABERNACLE. IUe Take. Ii Tetxt V.-om the Parable. and Cais vp-w. .1inearerr"Who Vo 11a 6 Wan dered 0f .*um the 1'hurch to .eturn. Dr. T.nage's anday sermon was o t - 1e- Prolbad So-, and his rext, Luke 12 :20: "When he ---as yet a great way of his father saw him, and had compassion. and ran. and fell on his neck, and kised him. Following is the sermon: One of tlie deepest wells that in :puation e~er opened is the well of a praable w;iceh we cm iever exhast. The parable. I sppose, was fouded on facts. I hAve described to you the going away of this prodig:d son from hi father's house, and I have show"'l yoa what a hard time li. " 1l dowu in the wilderness, and wha. a very great mistake it was for him to leave so beautiful a home for such a miserable desert. But he did not always stay in the wilderness; he came br'ck after a while, We do not read that his mother came to greet him. I sunpose she was dead. The father would have given the secondc kiss to the returning prodigal; ihe mother the first .It may have been for the Lack of her example and prayers that he became a prodigal. Some times the father does not know how to manage the children of the house hold. The chief work comes upon 1 the mother. Indeed, no oue ever i gets over the calamity of losing a mother in early life. Still, this young man was not ungreeted when he came back. However well apparelled we may be in the morning when we start out on a journey, before night,. what with the dust and the jostling, we have lost all cleanliness of appear ance. But this prodigal, when 'he started from the swine-troagh, was ragged and wretched, and his ap pearance, after he had gone through daya of journeying and exposure, you can more eesily imagine than describe. As the people see this prodigal com ing on homeward, they wonder who he is. They say; 4I wonder what rison he has broken out of. I won 1er what lazaretto he has escaped -rom. I wonder with whatplague he will smite the air." Although these people may have been well acquain ted with the family, yet they do not imagine that this is the very young man who went off only a little while ago with quick step and ruddy cheek and beautiful apparel. The young man, I think, walks very fast. He looks as though he was intent upon something veryimportant. The peo ple stop. They look at him. They I wonder where he came from. They wonder where he isgoing to. You have heard of a son who went off to sae, and never returned. All. heipkl ii ~the neighborhood thought the son would never return, but the parents came to no such con lusion. They would go by the hour, and day, and sit upon the beech, looking off upon the water, expecting to see the sail that would bring home the long-absent boy. And soI think his father of 'my text sat under the ine looking out toward the road on. hich his son had departed; bunt the ' father has changed very much since ve saw him last. His hair has be.t ome white, his cheeks are furrowed, ns heart is broken. What is all his yountiful table to him when his son ay be lacking bread? What is all he splendor of the wvardrobe of that omestead when the son may not ave a decent coat? What are all he sheep on .the hillside to that fa her when his pet lamb is gone? Still e sits and watches, looking out on he road and one day he beholds a foot4raveler. He sees him rise above the hill; first the head and af er awhile the entire body; and as oon as he gets a fair glance at him e knows he is his recreant son. He forgets the crutch, and the cane. and he btiffness of the joints, and bounds way. I think the people all around rere amazed. They said: 'It is nly a footpad. It is only some old tramp of the road. Don't go out to meet him." The father knew bet er. The change in the son's appear ance could not hide the marks by which the father knew the boy. You know that persons of a great deal of independence of character are apt to indicate it in their walk. For that reason the sailor almost always has a peculiar step, not only because he stands much on shipboard amid the rocking of the sea, and he has to bal ance himself, but he has for the most part an independent character, which would show in his gait, even if he never went on the sea: and we know from what transpired afterward, and from what transpired be fore, that this prodigal son was of an independent and frank nature; and I suppose that the characteristics of his mind and heart were the charac teristics of his walk. And so the father knew him. He puts out his withered arms toward him, he brings his wrinkled face against the pale cheek of his son; he kisses the wan lips; he thanks God that the long agony is over. "When he was yet .a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck and kissed him. Oh, do you not recognize that Fa ther? Who was it? It is God: I have no sympathy with that cast-iron theology which represents God as hard, severe and vindictive. God is a Father-kind, loving, lenient, gen tie, longsuffering, patient and He flies to our immortal rescue. Oh, that we might realize it. A wealthy lady inon of the eastern counties was going off for somne time, and she asked her daughters for some me mento to carry with her. One of: her daughters brought a mnarbie tab let. beautifully inscribed: and anoth er daughter brought a beautiful wreath of flowers. The third daugh ter came and seid: "Mother, I brought neither flowers nor tablet, but here is my heart. I have inscribed it all over withvyour name. and where ever yo go it will go with von." The mother recognized it as the best of all mementOes. Oh, that our souls might go out toward our Father that our hearts might be written all over with the evidences of His loving kindness, and that we might never forsake him Intiherstpnlace inotice in this 'ext, the lathe s eyesight: i the :see d lc I notice the father's haste; end in th third place. I notice the fathe_'skiss. Ts be'n: the fathers eyesight. "Wh en he was a great way off his father saw him.- You have noticed Jo\w Old people soUetfimes put a )Ook off on the other side of the light. They can see it at a distance a great deal easier than they n~elose by. I do no- knw whether this father could see well that which was near hv, but I do know he could see a great way off --His father -aw hi.u7 Perhaps he had been lookiug flor the return of that boy espe--ly that day. I do not know but that. he had been in prayer, and thlat GOd had told him that that day the recreat boy would come home. -Tb a ther saw him a great way oi. I wonder if God's eyesight can us W!.. iI we are cOmuing Lac to Himi The text pictures our con dition-we are a great way off. That young man was not farther off from his father's house, sin is not farther off from holiness. hcll i:, not farlher off from heaven. than we have been by our sins awaiy of from God; aye, so far off that we could not hear His voice, tho;;h vehemently He has called us year after year. I do not know what habits you may have formed, or in what evil places you have been, or what false notions you may have entertained; but you are ready to acknowledge, if your heart has not been changed by the grace of God, that you are a great way off aye. so far that you cannot get back f yourselves. You would like to ome back. Aye, this moment you would start if it were not for this sin, d that habit, and this disadvantage. But I am to tell you of the Father's yesight. "He saw him a great way > He has seen all ;your fralties. 1l your struggles, all your disadvan ~ags. He has been longing for your oming. He has not been looking at -ou with a critic's eye or a bailiff's ye, but with a Father's eye: and if a parent ever pitied a child, God pities ou. You say: "Oh, I had so many vil surroundings when started life. our Father sees it. You say: "I are so many bad surroundings now, md it is very difficult for me to break way from evil associations." Your Father sees it, and if you should ;tart heavenward-as I pray you. may -your Father would not sit idly own and allow you to struggle on p toward Him. Oh, no! Seeing -ou a great way off, He would fly to he rescue. How long does it take a 'ather to leap into the middle of a iighway if his child be there, and a ift vehicle is coming, and may de troy him? Five hundred times long r than it takes our heavenly Father o spring to the deliverance of a lost hild. "When he was a great way off is Father saw him." And this brings ne to notice the 'athr's haste. The Bibl"'says he -an. No wonder! He did not know ut that the youngman would change is mind and go back. He did not mow but that he would drop 'from -xhaustion. He did not know but bat something fatal might overtake nim before he got to the door-sill; ad so the father ran. The Bible, for he most part, speaks of God as walk ug. '"In the fourth watch of the ight" it says, "Jesus came unto hem watching on1 the sea." "He ralketh upon the wings of the wind.~ )ur first parents heard the voice of ie Lord, walkng in the garden in he cool of the day; but when a sinner tarts for God, the Father runs to eet him. Oh! if a man ever wants elp, it is when he tries to become a kristian. The world says to him' Back with'you. Have more spirit. )on't be hampered with religion. rime enough .yet. Waittuntil you et sick. Wait until yo get old." atan says: '-Back with you; you are o bad that God will have nothing to o with you:" or -'You are good ~nough and need no Redeemer. Take ie ease, cat, drink and be merry." en thousand voices say: -'Back with you. God is a hard master. The hurch is a collection of hypocrites. 3ack - into your sins; back to your vil indulgences- back to your prayer ess pillow. :The silliest -thing that young man ever does is to come onic after he has been wandering.' )h, how much help a man does want when he tries to become a Christian! .deed, the prodigal cannot find his vay home to his father's house alone. nless some one comes to meet him e had better have stayed by the swine troughs. I remark upon the father's kiss. He fell on his neck." my text says, 'and kissed him." It is not every rather that would have done that way. some would have scolded him, and said: "-Here, you went off with beau tiful clothes, but now you arec all in atters. You went off healthy, and ome back sick and wasted with your dissipations." He did not say that. The son, all haggard, and ragged, nd filthy, and wretched, stood before 2ifaher.The father char-ged himiwith none of his wanderings. He just re eived him. He just kissed him. His wretchedness was recommendation to that father's love. Oh, that father's kiss! How shall I describe the love >f Go?-the ardor with which he re eives a sinner back again? Give me a plummet with which I may fathom this sea. Give me a ladder with which I can scale this height. Give me words with which I can describe this love. The apostle says in one place, '-unsearchable:" in another, "past finding out." Height overtop ping a]] height: depth plunging be neath all depth; breadth compassing all immensely. Oh, this love: God so loved the world. Hie loxes you. Don' t you be-t leve it? Has He not done everything thing to make you think so! He has! giveni you life, health, friends, hiomne -the usc of your hand. the sight of your eye, the hearing of your ear. He has strewn your path with muer c-ies. He has fed you, clothed you sheltered you, defended you, loved you importuned you all your life long. Dont you believe He loves you? Why, if now you should start up from Ithe wilderness of your sin. He would throw both arms around you. To make you believe He loves you, He stooped to manger. and cross, and sepulchre. With all that the pas sions of His holy naturec roused. He stands before you today, and would coax you to happiness and heaven. nh, this ntli'n kisal There is so uch meaning. nd I -i Iand com passin in it: so much pardon a ': so nuch heaven in it. I prochum him the Lord God. mercifu grac 'ious "Ind long uffering. abundant god ness a1d truth. Lcst you would not believe him. he goes up Golgotha, a1d hile the roAks are rending. and the gra1 esare opening. and the mobs are howling, and tle sun is hiding. he dies for you. See him oui the mount 0 crucifxiol, the swcai ': hrOw, tinzged witl ih blood cxud. his ai.c.-rat1'd temples! Sec his t ;wi:niniig. in death! Hear the loud breathing of the sufferer as he pants with a world on his heart! Hark to the fall of the blood from brow ani hand and foot, on the ;oeks beneath --drop! drop! drop! Look at the nLils: I-ow wide the wounds are! Wider do they gape as his body comes down upon them. Oh! this crucifiixioni agoi;y. Tarsm ti ter: ;l1 !lowing into blcodi Darkness drop ping on darkness! Hands of nen joined with hands of devils to tear apart the quivering heart of the Son of God! Oh! Will He never speak again' Will that crimson face never ligrht up again? He will speak again: while. the blood is suffusing His brow, and reddening his cheek. and gathering on nostril and lip, and you think He is exhausted and cannot speak. He cries out until all the ages hear Him: "Father forgive them, they know not what they do:" Is there no enipha sis in such a scene as that to make your dry eyes weep, and your hard heart break? Will you turn your back upon it. and say by your actions what the Jews said by their words: "His blood be on us, and on our children?" What does it all mean, my brother, my sister? Why it means that for our lost race there was a Fathcr's kiss. Love brought Him down. Love opened the gate. Love led to the sacrifice. Love shattered the grave. Love lifted him up in resurrection. Sovereign love! Omnipo tent love! Infinite love! Bleeding lovel Everlasting love! 01, Dvr *h!s love let ro's and. hUtIl Their lasting silencc breal:; And a" iiarnonious human tongues; The savior's praises speak ." Now, will you accept that Father's kiss? The Holy Spirit comes to you with His arousing, melting, alarming, inviting, vivifying mfluence. Hearer, what creates in thee that unrest? It is the Holy Ghost. What influence now tells thee that it is time to fly, that tomorrow 'may be too late: that there is one door, one road, ono cross, one sacrifice, one Jesus? It is the Holy Ghost. My most urgent word is to those who, like the young man of my text, are a great way off, and they will start for home, and they will get Lome. They will yet preach the Gospel andon communion days carry %round-theconsecrated bread, ac ceptable to everybody, because of their holy life, and their consecrated behavior. The Lord is going to save you. Your home has got to be re built. Your physical health has got to be restored. Your worldly busi aess has got to be reconstructed. he Church of God is going to re joie over your discipleship. You are ot Gospel hardened. You have not hard or read many sermonus during he last few years. You do not weep. ut the shower is not far off. You ~igh, and you have noticed that there s always a sigh in the wind before he rain falls. There are those who ~vould give anything if they could nd relief in tears. They say: "O)h, ny wasted life! Oh. the bitter past! h, the graves over which If have tumbled! Whither shall I fly? Alas ror the futare! Everything is dark, lod help me! God pity me! Thank he Lord for that last utterance. You ave begun to pray, and when a man >egins to petition, that sets all heaven ying this way, and God steps in and eats back the hounds of temptation o their kennel, and around about the oor, wounded soul puts the cover f His pardoning mercy. Hark! I ear something fall. What was that? t is the bars of the fence around the heefold. The shepherd lets them lown, and the hunted sheep of the nountain.bounds in; some of them heir fleece torn with the bramibles, oe of them their feet lame with the logs: but bounding in. Thank God! saved for time, and saved for eter iity. A Georgian's View or It. A writer in the Augusta Chronicle,J ommenting upon the course of the ampaign in South Carolina, says: I have moved around among the eople and have talk-ed with them. I think I know their senttiments, and from what I have heard I make the rediction that the followving gentle nen wvill be nominated on the State icket: Governor-John Bratton, of Fair field. Lieutenant Giovernor--Jos. H. Earle, of Sumter. Secretary of State-J. Q. Marshall, f Columbia. Comptroller General-Ed.Bacon, of Spartanburg. Superintendent of Education ohn L. Weber, of Charleston. Adjutant and Inspector General M. L. Bonham,; of Abbeville. For Attorney General and Treas urer there seems to be no concen trated opinion. The gentlemen named above certainly have the in side track just no*. That ticket, with a judicious compromise, givesi su~bstantially a new deal, which is really what the people want. The sentiment is strongly in favor of a new deal and young men in oifice. PopulIatioorthe United Sitates.I Estimates of the population which this census will sliow for the Unmte.d St.tes cre various, about the lowest being 6i3,000,000 and the hiighest 6i 000.000. The general opinion is tha the population of the country is now about 05,000.000. In 3 SSO it was 50, 155,783. No other country in the world has made such an increase i population since 1880, but the ad vance of the United States in manu factures and wealth has been still more remarkable than in popula tion. This is especially true of the South. -John C. Brian, agent of a wealthy English syndicate, is in Lynchburg, Va., trying to buy all the largesi to ioonweirie8 there. A STATEMENT FROM ITHE COMM!S SIONER OF AGRICULTUREA HisAcewerto the(harte- Marte By Cap tain Tilluta in some of i1S Recent Col.a. P. Butler. Cominssioncr of Agriculture. has sent to the daily papers of thze Stat a rejoinder to the statenc'nt mlea by Capt. B. R. Till . ing Department, at Grenviijik :md . c r phees-. dri the State c'ana.a. 1!mv mn progren': Col. Butk~rpeone iml false- Capi. Tihuau's statcenit that "t'he Bureau has made no honest ef fort 4o protec' tie.' farmerf against ben" svindled by uying gano b low the ur;m , and that -IL hus no0t enfor(c ts own regula Tillman's third stateient t'hat altogther the law is known to be defective and the pwishment in adequate, io attM-.upt has been made q the Board or Connuissioners to have it ameide", *xcept that the mat ter was mentioned in one of the Do partmen.t reports several years ago. he likcwiso knows to be untrue, but being more specific can be met in a more positive manner. At my request several bills were introduced in the Legislature at diferent times. Two of these may be cil': Onte by Col. E. R MIlver at the sessiou of 1885. whieh passed the House ._ntd failed in the Senate, (see House Journal. session 1885, pages 126, 15G, 175, :335 and 340,) and another at the session of 1SS7, introduced by Senatir You mans. but failed in the Senate. Col. Butler then declares that he and the Departant have made every effort to punish the sale of fraudulent fertilizers, and that h-,. knowing the defects in the law, after consnItation with Attorney General Miles, brought the matter to the attention of the Legislature; that in 1S8G (the year cited by Capt. Tillman) there were but three defective brands out of over 200 analyzed. He says that in 1882 the makers of the Cuban Bird guano lost between 820,000 and 830,-1 000 because the Department's analy ses showed that article to have been below standard and below guaranty. He cites the case of Mr'. C. M. Coving ton cf Florence, who accepted one fourth of the price of fertilizers exam ined by the Department and found deficient He says that the analyses have had ample circulation by publi cation in the reports and bulletins of the Department and in the daily and weekly News and Courier. As to Mr. Cannon's statement, Col. But ler says the deficient fertilizer was never called to his attention, nor has the sampler any recollection of it. "But Mr. Connor fully and amply justifies the Department and the Legislature in another way. Ho says: 'No notice, however, was taken of the same by the Department, and Mr. Bopes sent the guano away, as he was completely baycotted and could not continue business. Why was r. Copes boycotted? Simply, as Mr. Couor writes Capt. Tiliman, be ause the Department italicized the deficient' guano. Was it no punish ment to Mr. Copcs to be boycotted and have his business ruined? Was it no injury to the manufacturers to have their goods returned to them? Capt. Tillman says that 'not one far mer in fifty' sees these publications. Is Mr. Connor a farmer? If not, why was Mr. Copes boycotted? We knew that the operation and the result of our method of italicizing dleficient brands was as Mr.Connor stated, but we had no hope of proving it so clearly by Capt. Tillman or his wit nesses. Col. Butler calls attention, to the fact that Mr. Connor was a member of the Legislature, and yet tok no steps to improve the law. The case of Mr. S. W. Gardner, Col. Butler declares, does not fall within the law touching analyses of fertilizers. That was a case of "short weight" not of deficiency. -"This charge is on a par' with another made some time since in the presence of Mr. J. IE. Tindal and Mr. W. A. An crm. Captain Tillmnan then charged similar failure to discharge my duty because he had bought cotton seed meal adulterated with rosin and his neighbor had purchased cotton seed meal adulterated with hulls. At the time the charge was made Captain Tilman knew that both lots had been purchased in Georgia, and yet he endeavored to injure the Depart ment by a charge that he knew to be utterly unjust and untrue!" "So much for the certificates. It should be noticed, however, that these are dated May 31st, June 3d and June 8th,trespectively. All since Capt. Tillman made his, charges at Anderson. Therefore 'his charges at Anderson were not based on these certificates, and he has failed beyond dispute to prove that he had any evi dence of any kind upon which to base his original charge of the time he madec it. This explains, also. why my letter has not been answered before." After an allusion to Captain Till man's efforts to reorganize the Board of Agriculture, Col. Butler says: "Let us follow Captain Tillman to his second attempt at specific char ges and answer them in order. "Why did not the Attorn.y Gen eral conduct the phosphate litiga tion; The laws did not, at the time this litigation was begun, make it the duty of the Attorney General to do this work for the Department of Agriculture. The work was impor tant. and the Board employed law yers. and subsequently made thre parties sued pay them. Was any in justice done the State in that matter? f so, where and how! But after the itigation had1 been commenced the Attorney General was made the ad viser of the Department. except in this jitigation, and that was spe (ially exempted from the amnend mnents to the law." As to Capt. Tilihaan's charge about the disbursement of the moneys re covered in the phosphate suits, and "the insinuation that somebody got, $7,00 who was not entitled to it"i Col. Biuder gives the following state ment furnished by;Hon.:A. T. Smythe,' leading counsel: Amount received in settle -+.t od Pacii cae.. sol,29.33 Amount received for dis bursemnents on account Paciic case........ .1,114.11 LAmount rceved in Pinck UeV c a-sie. 70SR.ij' '0oun1Sel- fee.i PacifieC case.., 0000 Co(usel in Davis and . -Pincknley case . .. . 500.00 Su.ndry cash expenses.. . 13.0 Tu;rned over to State Trea sury for State purp~oses 31 .39G.79 Turned over to State Trea surer for Department.. 22,162.25 Total as above........ .. .53.072.10 -If Capain Tilman can distort these ligCare again so as to show S7 or one cent short, he is welcome todo S0o. "This phosphate litigation has ex cit. 1 sZ mucl initerest and comment that I may be pardoned for saying that when it was begun it was ex ceedingly doubtful if the State could ever rcovel anything. The conclu sion of the case was the recovery of property valued at about 8100,000 and cash turned into the Treasury $31.306.79 without the expenditure of one cent of the people's money. for every dollar exp&nded in prose cuting the case was recovered and paid back into the Treasury. and a part of it is now being used to build and equip the Clemson College." As to the total cost of the Expcri mont Stations, $9,986, Col. Butler makes no comment, because. as he says. Capt. Tillman made none. So with the Hatch fund of 815,000. As to discrepancies between the Comptroller and the Department, Col. Butler thinks they may arise froii the "lapping" of one fiscal year on another, and challenges investiga tion. Col. Butler says that Capt. Tillman's insinuation that prior to 1887no vouch ers were shown is 'malicious and base.' He says that the proper vouchers are all on file. ready for public inspec tion. Col. Butler next refers to the fact that a committee of the Fu-mers' Convention and one of the "Economic Caucus" examined the work of the Department and commended it. Col. Butler's letter concludes as follows: "'or nearly five years I have sub mittedto this sort of thingand when ever I have had to appear in print I have endeavored to say nothing that would offend the most sensitive read er. "I have conceived it to be my duty to act courteously even when deal ing with a blackguard, but forb6ar ance has almost ceased to be a virtue, and it is a question whether I can longer submit to abuse without re taliation. This man Tillman has posed before the people for all this tme asoa reformer. Let us-see if his professions are to be trusted. It is generally believed that at the timelhe professed to be a supporter of Gov ernor Sheppard's he was endeavoring to get Capt. W. C. Coker, of Dar lington, to offer for the same place. If this is not true, let Capt. Coker and Mr. Shepaprd say so. It has been stateit and Tillman has never denied it, that he wrote Capt. Coker, who of course did not encourage such treachery, a letter promising his sup port if he would enter the race. He was instructed by his county conven tion to support Sheppard, yet in the State convention he endeavored to cause a break to Coker, which, if it hd succeeded, would have defeated the man he was pledged to support. Would such a man do to trust in offi cial position? He would betray his brother if it profited him to do so. "Again, I ask Dr. Sampson Pope of Newberry, one of Capt. Tillman's strongest supporters, if he did not have good reason to expect all the support Captain Tillman could give him in his race for Speaker) of the House, and if after that he received it? No> more honorable man than Dr. Pope walks this earth, and while we differ widely in some matters, I have no doubt of his perfect integri ty,and therefore appeal to him to say whether or not Captain Tillman be trayed him. :'When Tillman first began his ca reer as a public critic, I attributed many of his erroneous statements to ignorance. .But he is an intelligent man-not a fool: and I have reluc tantly reached the conclusion that he is dtrmined to accomplish his pa~r poses, if possible, by any means with in his poweri, and that he believes thatL a lie well stuck to is as good as th truth. His recent statements c~n be explained in no other way. "Captain Tilhman, knowing that he cnno .iustify himself, lacks the man ines to make a direct charge of olli il dishonesty against me, but cov ertly stabs with the poisoned dagger of innuendo. I can, therefore, meet is insidious and unwarranted at tacks upon my character only through the public prints. Gecorgia's Alliance Candidates. AmmLNT, Juno 19.-The campaign in Georgia has taken a sensational turn in the formal announcement of the candidacy for Governor of Thom as Hardeman of Macon. Hardeman is one of the famous war horses of Georgia Democracy. This compli cates matters very much, just at a time when the friends of W.J. Northen were confident that he would have a walk over. The outlook now is that Georgia will have an alliance and anti-alliance campaign like that in Alabama. Hardeman has not cnly the anti-Northien and alliance forces at his bhek, but he proposes to go into his op ponent's stronghold. For years he has nosed as a friend of the' farmers and :deveral times has been president of the State Agricultural Society. Hec, too, is an alliance man. though of recent growth. He has always stood as on-. of the strong Demoratic leaders. is chances arc considered excellent. -The Louisiana L~egislature has received from an English syndicatea bid of $1,125.000 a year for the lot-1 teryprivilege for which the Louis iana Lottery Comipanyhas offered L 0 00000. - -The Presbyterians of Laurenis have determined w erect a new church building at a cost of about twelve thousand dollars. More than half of the mloney has been sub scrihea. STOSTEAL THE SOUTH. THE ELECTION LAW ACCEPTED BY THE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS. One nouthern Member ObjectA-Warn'ng of the Tr.uble that i. Coning-T m.s of the il t.s Arranged-Defeat of t e Mc C:oma-; Um. The Republican caucus has. by a uianimous vote. adopted the Lodge national election bill prepared by its committee. The principal features of the measure are as follows: The chief supervisors of elections in judicial districts are charged with the execution of the law which is to apply to Federal elections in cities of 20,000 inhabitants or upwards and the entire Congressional districts exclusive of such cities upon applica tion. to the supervisor of 100 voters or in counties or parishes forming part of the Congressional district upon application from fifty votes. Supervisors are to guard, scruti nize and supervise regis-ration and every act and incident connected with registration and the plans for ascer taining who are legal voters. Upon notice from the chief of supervisors. the United States Circuit courts are required to meet for the purpose of transacting registration and election matters. The supervisors are to be appointed by the Circuit Court three in each election district or vo ting precinct. but two of whom are to be of the same political party. The supervisors are to attendall reg istrations in their districts, challenge persons, porsonally inspect anid copy original registration books and pa pers , attend elections and detect and expose improper or wrongful mani pulation of the lists. In case of failure of local election officers to put the statutory oath to the challenged voter, and to pass at once upon his qualifications. then the supervisors are to apply the test and receive and deposit the vote, making a list of all such challenges. They are also to personally inspect billot boxes before elections, keeping ballot lists and enclose the rejected votes (endorsed with name of voter) in envelopes. In addition to these duties the su pervisors are required to make in towns of 20,000 people and upwards a thorough house to house canvass before the election, to inform voters upon inquiry where and in what box to deposit their ballots, and to scru tinize naturalizations. In canvassing votes State laws are to govern except that all ballots are to be counted by tens, first by an inspector of election, and second by a supervisor, local election officers and supervisors keeping separate tally sheets, which are to be compared and the result publicly announced. Ballots deposited in the wrong box are to be counted, Returns are to be made by supervisors in duplicate to clerks of the United States Cir cuits courts and to the chief super visor. who is to tabulate and refer them to the United States board of canvassers of the congressional com mittie, which is to be appointed by the United States Circuit court con sistg of three citizens of the State and persons of good repute, not more than two of whom are to be- of the same polictical party. . The board is to convene on Nov. 15 of each election year,'and is to certify and declare the result of the eetion and send one return to the clerk of the House of Representa tives, one to the governor of the State, one to the proper chief super visor, and is to place upon the roll of the m~embrs-elect the names of the persons declared elected by the Uni ten State canvassers in case there is a difference in the result reached by them and.by the State election oficers. A penalty of between 81, 000 and $3,000 is provided in case a clerk neglects this duty. All ballot boxes are tobe clearly in scribed with their nature. and the boxes are to be kept in plain sight and open to inspection.. H. G. Ewart, Republican, from North Carolina, made an earnest speech against the measure. He toook the ground that it would be fruitless in the South. except to pro duce disturbances. He urged that in sections where the vote is close, each party can enforce a free vote and a fair count, while in districts where negroes largely predominate the measure would only cause trou ble and so the Republican, cause .ac tual harm. He thought the troubles in the South could best be settled by ordinary methods-by educating the masses and by awaiting the inevita be division of the white people. There was every disposition to se cure speedy action upon the bill in the ouse. Having disposed of the subjiect, the caucus next turned its attention t the McComas anti-gerrymander ing bill. This was discussed at some length. Before the vote was taken many members had left the hall, so that the result, which was a defeat of the bill by a vote of 22 to 20. was unsat isfactory to its friends. wvho held that it could not fairly be regarded as an indication of the feeling of the party, and they will probably make another effort to have a consideration of the bill at a subsequent caucus. Colored Ku-Kl~ux. Colly Hawkins, a colored woman of Sumter county, was ku-kluxcd not long since for deeds that Dolly should not do. it is presumed. Dolly in her wrath for the beating she got swore out warrants against sonme of the best colored men in this section as the 1)arties who wvhipped her. Now it seems that Dolly has repecntedi for her hansty action, for now she is wvant eas prosecuto~r, and diligent search on the part of the sheriff can't locate her.-Sumter Wateluaan. The Alliiance in Polidecs. S- P.., MINN., June 19.-By a uuanous vote of the executive connittee it .was decided to hold a State Convention of the Farmers Alliance for the nomination of a State ticket at St. Paul on July 110. The Alliance is strong in the State, and this makes the result of the comung election a decided uncertainty. The 'Alliance will be in the Congressional THE CAMPAIGN. PROCRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CANVASS. Proceediugs of the Different Meeting.,Con densed From the Greenvile Daily Ne*rs. The meeting at Abbeville o:, the 17th inst. was attended by between 1.000 and 1,200 people. Good * order and good humor prevailed. Speeches were made by Capt. Tillman, Gen. Bratton and Col. Earle. No new points were developed. Captain Till man stated that while opposed to the Citadel he would not. if elected Gov ernor, recommend the closing of that institution. General Pope, Colonel IGary, Colonel Farley and General Bonham also spoke. Anderson. An audience numbering between 2,000 and 2,500 people assembled to hear the speakers. Capt. Tiliman's friends were in the majority. They were very enthusiastic-some of them lifting him from the train to the car riago, others drawing the car riage in which he rode from the hotel to the ,speaking ground. The candi dates for Governor went over pretty much the same ground covered in their remarks at previous meetings. "About the close of the , p3nech Captain Tillman said he had some thing to say which would doubtless surprise them. When he spoke here before he had said certain things in referrence to the situaion of Col. John J. Dargan. It had been said in the heat of debate and he con sidered it his duty to retract it. He desired to withdraw his charges and apologize to the people who heard him and to ColonelDargan. He spoke of Mr. Latimer's letter to Colonel Dargan and said that gentleman had withdrawn what he had .said, and as Colonel Dargan was presenthe hoped the people would hear him and let him explain his position. "Colonel Dargan was not on the stand and said nothing during the meeting. 'Colonel Gary spoke half an hour. He defended Capt. Tillman and ex pressed the fear that somebody would assassinate hirn. He spoke of rail roads and banks not paying the proper amount of taxes, criticised. The News and Courier , and the Twenty-One Conference and closed with an appeal to the farmers to watch close or they would lose their rights. "E. G. Graydon followed. He ex plained several matters concerning the Twenty-One Conference. He ap pealed to Colonel Tindal to substan tiate what he said in reference to the cutting down of appropriations by the Committee of Ways and Means. There was no need to discuss reap pertionmentand-other 4eA issues. he said. He defended the *.c cul tural Department and:8tate ment, making a very able speec receiving a: very quiet, respectf hearing. "'General Pope spoke humorously for twenty minutes. The greater part of his speech was directed at The News and Courier and its editor. 1 He eulogized Captain D~awson and idiculed the present editor. He3 said General Earle's explanation ofI why he would not accept the nomi- t ation for Governor in 1888 was satis-2 factory.t "Captain J. E.Tindalmade a speech ( anouncing himself as a candidate for Secretary of State. "Dr. Orr announced that General Bonham was a candidate for re-elec tion and Colonel Hugh Parley made the announcement for himself. Dr.] rr also read a letter from Edmund t Bacon, announcing his candidacy for Cmptroller General.'4 AN EPIsoDE. "In the course of his speech Col. arle referred to the Gossett episode t the Anderson meeting. Captain Tillman told young Gossett, when he was may enough. to 'disagree with him, 'you are dyed in the wool and you will die so.' Then some one had said, He's a Radical.' "Before Colonel Earle had closed is lips after this statement, Mr.I Josh Ashley, who up to that time had seemingly taken little interest in the meeting, arose and said he had said what he did on that occasion in a "joking way." Colonel Earle re plied that he should never have said o even in jest. "Here Colonel Earle opened aya per which he held in his hand and proceeded to ask the quest-ion of Ash ley if he had not said, inthe presence of several gentlemen, that if Tilhrnan was not elected he would go over to the Radicals and he would carry two undred votes at Honea Path with 1 Mr. Ashley arose and with the ut most emphasis characterized the I statement as a lie. Suddenly he was surrounded by a mob. and it was said that pistols and knives were ready to resist any efforts to sup press him. : "Colonel Earle~joiter waiting, ad vised the crowd to let Mr. Ashley make a statement. This, at first, he seemed determined to do and came up on the stand, but he seemed to be persuaded by his friends to say noth ing and Dr.Orr made a statement to that effect to the crowd. "During the clamor Captain Till man advanced to the front of the stand and said he was almost tempt ed to go home if the people couldnot treat cach other respectably and ap pealed to them for their decency and self respect to keep better order. Oconee. The mass meeting for Oconee' was held at Walhallia on Thursday the General Bratton was the iirst speak er. His speech was brief and em bodied those points with which he has endeavored to impress on his hrear ers since the beginning of the cami paign. He warned his audience es pecially of the daunger of sacrificing Democratic principles to political methods. Captain Tillman was the next speaker. He reviewed briefly the I platform for the March Convention and stated his position upon the mat ter. He brought up the reapportion ment mnatter,but ountted the charges I of perjury against the State Senators. He urged more especially reduction of mxpndm-re for the State Univer sity and compared the figures for it before the war and now. He thought the institution might be kept up at less expense. He spoke of the sala ries of certain State officials which had been increased since the incom ing of the present administration. He alluled to the steady increase of expenditure for funiture and repairs for the executive mansion and asked why it was so. There must have been extravagance and if he got there it would be goo I enough for him as it is. Closing his remarks Capt Tillman said the party was undivided and would remain so. A farmer for Governor would do no harm and would lessen the few but-dens that could be lessened. If the mnedicme - of reform he has given'was too strong then the people would not take it. A voice cried"We'll take th-e whole dose." When Capt. Tillman finisheal he was presented with two -bouquets and a number of peaches. He re marked, if Colonel Earle would not take the flowers he knew he would " not refuse the peaches;and they were, generously divided among the gen tiemen on the stand. Col. Earle followed Capt. Tillman He touched upon the division of the. party and the appeal to class- pre judice. The road to honor, he said, was open to any man whose charac ter was pure and unspotted. He did - not see the necessity for the March Convention. He spoke of Capt. Till man's repeated denunciations of the Senators who voted against rea;s " portionment and named Biemann - and Izlar as mer., 'Vhose character heretofore unsmirched, had been ar sailed without reason. He called -to Capt. Tillman to answer on the tar iff and when that gentleman had sta. ted his position said it Capt. Tillman went to the United States Senatehe would vote with the Northern man ufacturer and monopolists. ' - During the course of Col. Earle's speech he said he had offered Capt. Tillman to join him in employing two accountants to-examine into the / affairs of the agricultural depart ment Capt. Tillman had decline& He then offered to pay both and he, iad declined that. Capt. TLlman rose and said he did not charge the bureau with dis honesty. He o;ly charged extrava-~ ance m muaagemen The meeting was coninned for'. ;ome time and Messrs. Gary, Grty !on, Pope, Bonham, Farley andMay ield all made short speeches. The Walhalla meeting was decided. y the most orderly and deferential of - iny of the campaign. The little do onstrdtion that was made was of lhe most orderly kind and all were ,mpressed with the general aspect >f the meeting.. About a thousa . people attended. MIckens. The meeting at Pickens was held :n Friday last. Genczrl Bratton was the first :peaker. He thought the danger of he time was class party in the emnorcr atic party. He thought-the st danger was the arraying )f the e s against class. "I beg to tssure you. ' w citizens." he said, 'and you, Sir,_ t ' illman,"that if here is any bitternes this cam vaign it did not emanat f m me. Ie said he had no personal ap ake to them but desired to impress T hem with the danger of arraying class gains't class. He advocated strongly e primary plan of nominating the ?rovernor. General Bratton's speeck 'as about the same as heretofore and rhen he closed a slight cheer was 'iven hinm. Captain Tillmnan camie next and ras announced amid broken applause. , ie said he did not want to appeal to eir prejudice but their good sense 'ever before in the history of South ~ aroina had the people had the gght o make, their choice for State officers, aid Captain Tillman. We had hadd ething but aristocratic government,3 e said. 'The people, had been held 4 own by an oligarchy and political . ingsters. (Cheers.) He said, "All on had to do heretofore was to join e ring at Columbia and the offices ould be handed down by inheri ace." (Cheers.) If the farmers ook the government and made a llure they would not be any worse ff than they had been. His whole iscourse was a general tirade upon e "ring" and the State government. General Earle, to the regret of his iany friends, was not here. 2dver heless some kind friend remembered m with a beautiful bouquet of flow rs which was sent to the Mountain. 7iew House at Easley for him. Gen ral Earle doubtless would have ained many friends here had he ome. Colonel P~ope next spoke. He said e State government had been run ince 1876 by rings and cliques. He* as not afraid of dissension in the ,arty. He - discussed at length the Ltarch Convention and said it was o arraying class against class. .He bsed and ridiculed the Twenty )no Conference. The result of the 'thirty-five Conference, he said, was )etitions to men-General Bratton, iarle and others, to ru~n for Governor. e said the farmers's candidate dis ~ussed a platform of principles, but t wanted the people to see if the )pposition had any platform. He liscssed the Agricultural College, jovernor Richardson and the Clem ;on College bill, and charged that the t.gricultural department was opposed :o the Clemson College. He scored several points against the members of he Legislature who voted against *e-apportiomnent. General Bonham next took the ;tand aud discussed in a calm and lispassionate yet forcible way the ssues of the day and the charges ~gainst the officials. He first took ip the Shell manifesto and dissected t. He shovr'ed there was no extrava ance in the State government. Gen ral Bonham's speech was strong and oratain Farley and WV. D). MIayfeld ~losed the speeches of the day. Un sual good order prevailed. -The same German firm that last eek shipped a miillion dollars in ;old to Germany has ordered anoth r half million for the same pur -F!ive men were drowned on the Canadian Pacific Tuesday night, an mngino on which [they were riding lnging auddsnly inte a washocht