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VOL, VI. E i.es
VOL. VI. _ ANNING, S.C.,EDNESDAY, JULY3,80 _ O 3
THE STATE ALLIANAE.
ANNUAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT E.
T. STACKHOUSE.
Rapid Growth of the Order in South Car
olina-Non-Partisan but not Non-Politi
cal-The Farmers Intend to Elect the
Next President of the United States.
GREENILLE, S. C., July 23.-The
Alliance convened promptly at 10
o'clock. All of the orlicers were pres
ent. Col. L. L. Polk made a short ad
dress. A legislative committee, com
posed of one from each district, was
appointed. It was determined to ap
point a committee to examine all the
press reports from the Alliance. Dr.
J. Win. Stokes was elected president
for the ensuing term. The other old
officers were re-elected and Drs. J. A.
Jarnigan and J. Wm. Stokes, and
Hons-W. J. Talbert and A. C. Latimer
were elected delegates to the National
Alliance, and Spartanburg was selected
as the place of the next meeting.
One or the most important actions
taken by the Alliance to-day was the
appointment of a special committee of
five to investigate and report upon a
plan for a mutual fire and life insurance
concern to be operated by the Alliance
for itself exclusively. The Alliances
in the Northwest are operating con
cernsof this kind. W. G. Hinson .was
seated as delegate from Charleston.
The following is President Stack
house's annual address:
Brethren of the State Alliance: In
turning over to you the high trust
which I have endeavored to execute for
you during the two years since your or
ganization, I congratulate you on
the growth of the Order within the
State, and on the good your organiza
tion has already accomplished, and on
the open position for future accom
plishment.
The report of your State organization
shows that the organization has been
planted in every county in the State.
our secretary reports that we
now have 1,052 Sub-Alliances in the
State an increase of 298 since your last
meeting, and an increase of 17,500
members during the year now closing.
The improved business methods in
troduced by the Order have saved hun
dreds of thousands of dollars to the
farmers of the State, but important as
is the money saving to the farmers of
the State, the gain in information and
manhood is vastly more important.
The Alliance has not only demonstrat
ed the practical benefits of unity, but
thatit has stimulated and has given
direction to individual efforts is the
testimony of observers both in and out
of the Order.
The farmers of the State are more
cheerful and hopeful than they have
been for many years, and it will not be
denied by those who have observed and
studied the farmers' conditionthatit is
mainly due to~the beneficent teachings
.nd operations of your noble organiza
tion. In looking to and arranging for
future operations we must be guided
by the same declaration of noble pur
poses that has enable: is to start so
well. They are founded on truth and
equity. Let us study them and be
guided by them. The safety and suc
cess of our organization is dependent
on our fidelity and devotion to these
noble purposes.
The first declaration of purpose by our
Order shows that it looked to the educa
tion of the iultural class,' that they
might epared to grapple with or
enthooned monopoly. I respect
?ully recommend a careful study ot this
entire first declaration and purpose to
the brotherhoodin South Catolina. The
education of the "agricultural class" is
the most-important work of the Alli
ance, not only in South Carolina but in
every State of of this great nation. I
recommend that you consider carefully
the best methods for the accomplish
ment of this geat educational work.
Entrenche monopoly, with its in
fluence and power, must be met and
defeated. This is a task worthy of the
supremest efforts of the toiling masses
of the people of the United States.
From it there is no eseape if we would
preuate free institutions and en
lhtened Christian government. The
tolig masses of the people of this
great nation are girding themselves for
the accomplishment of this task. The
agricultural States of this Union are
uniting for the accomplishment of
this grand task. The great Northwest
and the Cotton States will stand to
gether in the coming battle with the
powers of monopoly. The assaults of
the first skirmish will be recorded in
the election results of the national elec
tion of 1890. But the monster monopo
ly is too firmly established to be defeat
ed in a skirmish. It will require the
great battle of 1892 to dec~de whether
the people or wi ether mo'.iopoly shall
rule this great nation.
The charge of our opponents that we
have abandoned agriculture and gone
into politics is sufficiently answered by
the statistical fact of the increased area
and superior condition of the growing
crops. Whence this fear of the farmer
in politics? But we must ever remem
ber that our politics are to be "strinctly
non-partisan." Any departure from
this rule will be, to the extent of the
departure, fatal to the success of the
reforias sought. The Alliance is in no
sense a political party, nor does it look
to the destruction of either of the great
political parties, but it is a "strictly
non-partisan" organization for the de
fence and protection of the agricultural
classes against legalized spoliation, and
will wait for no change of Administra
tion to present its demands. The na
tional demands formulated by the Su
preme Council at St. Louis have been
considered and pissed upon by the Sub
and Coanty Alliances. I recommend
that the:.e demands, with the action
taken thereon by Sub and County Al
liances, be referred to a special com
mittee on legislative demands and that
all the matters in reference to legisla
tion, State or National, be referred to
this committee. The great consolida
tion effected at St. Louis since your last
meeting and the unprecedented growth
of the National Farmers' Alliance and
Industrial Union inspires the hope that
the demands of the grand organization
will at no very distant date receive
respectful consideration by the Con
gress of the United States.
I congratulate the farming and in
dustrial classes of the State on the fact
that since your last meeting the State
has made provision for the establish
ment of an agricaltural and mechani
cal college at Fort Hill, and that the
work of construction is now progress
ing. The report of your executive com
mittee shows good and safe financial
management. They have enabled your
State organizer, state lecturer and State
president to meet to tihe extent of their
ability to do so all d emands made for
their services. I recom mend that the
committees continue? the same equmit
ab'e and wise arrangement in deference
to the work of the state lecturer, and
that he be required to give his whole
time to the work under their direction
should it be demanried, and I suggest
further, now that the work of org aniza
tion is so nearly cemnpleted, that the
-committee impose the work of State
organization on the State lecturer.
The State secretary, who has made
your State constitution a special study,
has by request prepared for submission
+tnn youbdy a new or revised constitu
tion, with the purpose to make it more
svsteumtic in arrangement, less doubt
ful of interpretation and easier of
reference. I recommend that you take
such action as will best secure a care
ful consideration of this new or revised
constitution.
The plan adiopted at your last meet
ing for the establishment of an "Al
liance Exchange" has been carried into
active and successful operation. This
report submitted to this body as infor
mation will sufficiently explain its
operations. Its continued success is
directly dependent on the patronage of
the Alliance brotherhood of the State.
When the business world comes to un
derstand that it has come to stay, that
the Alliance people of the State will
support it to the extent of their ability,
it will surely prove a grand success and
benefit to the Alliance membership
beyond their most sanguine expecta
tions when you organized.
Your State organ is worthy of and
should receive the support of the
brotherhood throughout the State. It
shonld make its weekly visits to every
Alliance in the State. The fact that
most of the State press is opposed to
the derands of the Alliance makes it
dmperative that our people should read
our State and national organ. The
National Economist, your national
organ, is combating with commenda
ble fairness and great ability the evils
and dangers of monopoly. I recom
mend that the Brotherhood of South.
Carolina give it liberal patronage.
I respectfully suggest the propriety
and justice of increasing the salaries of
your president and secretary, as the
salaries, as now fixed by your constitu
tion, are not fair compersation for the
services rendered by those officers. I
trust you will remain in session long
enough to give careful consideration to
all matters of interest to the Order in
this State.
I want to say that the effort to serve
you has been to me a labor of love. I
have brought to the discharge of the
duties imposed my best efforts for the
well-being of the Order. I have been
conscious of my inability to measure
up to the responsibility imposed upon
me. I invoke your indulgence to the
deficiencies and errors in my official
administration. I want to record my
great and full appreciation of the
prompt and generous aid given me in
their several departments by those who
have been associated with me in the
discharge of niy official duties, and I
congratulate the brotherhood in the
State on the wisdom of their selection.
The address was listened to most
attentively during its delivery.
In the Alliance Thursday President
Polk installed the new officers as fol
lows:
President, J. W. Stokes.
Vice president. D. P. Sojourner.
Secretary, J. W. Reid.
Treasurer, F. P. Taylor.
Chaplain, the Rev. J. Douglas.
Lecturer, W. J. Talbert.
Steward, H. McRue. .
Doorkeeper, J. W. Kennedy.
Assistant doorLeeper, A. R. Waller.
Executive Committee-Lucas Mc
Intosh, S. T. D. Lancaster and T. D.
Mithell.
Dr. J. Win. Stokes made a brief in
augural address, in which he thanked
the Alliance for the honor conferred,
and hoped that with their aid he could
lead them on to victory. It was quite
eloquent and interesting.
Col. D. K. Norris, in a few minutes'
speech, invited the Alliance "to visit
Fort ill, the site of the Clemson Col
lege. The invitation was accepted and
quite a number will attend.
The Arkansas Farmers' Alliance
telegraphed fraternal greetings. They
exhort the South Carolina brethren
never to cease the fight for posterity
until victory crowns our efforts. To
this a suitable response was made.
Fraternal greetings were sent by the
Allianoe to the Kansas Alliance, and
the Exchange presented a report as to
its work, which was received as infor
mation..
A meeting of the stockholders of the
State Exchange was held yesterday
afternoon, the stock .being well repre
sented. The report of the board of
directors of the Exchange was alto
gether satisfactory and encouraging,
and an itemized statement of the con
dition of the Exchange was given.
The old officers of the board of direc
tors as follow~s were re-elected: Presi
dent J. C. Coit; secretary, W. 0. Cain;
treasurer, J. W. Ferguson.
The following board was elected:
From the State at large, J1. C. Coit and
J. A. Sligh; 1st Congressional district,
. 1I. Riley; 2d. district, W. A. Zimmer
man; 3d. district, HI. W. Lawson; 4th.I
district, John R. Harrison; 5th. district,
A. H. White;60th. district, J. W. Fer
guson; 7th. district, J. 0. Cain.
The committee on legislative de
mands made a number of recommendla
tions in line with the demands of the
s ational Alliance. The importance of
pushing these demands was set forth
and it was urged that no candidates be
supported who is not in full sympathy
with these demands.
?he secretary of the State and Coun
ty Alliances were forbidden hereafter
to give out a full directory of County
an Sub-Alliance officers except by per
mission of the president and chairman
of the executive committee.
An appeal was made to the brethren
of the North and Northwest to unite
with us in condemning the Lodge bill
and requesting them to come to our
aidin reentngthe passage of said
bil h nent and effort of which we
believe will not be to benefit any class
of citizens, but only serve to break the
force of our united brotherhood in our
demands for financial refor m.
Several amendments to the constitu
tion wvere adopted. The sub-theasury
bill was endorsed and "it is the sense
of the body that no candidate for Con
gress should receive c ur support unless
he favors these measures." The Al
liance was positive in its opposition to
national banks and demands the
removal of all tax upon State banks.
County and Sub-Alliances were en
joined to take more active interest in
the schools of the country.
The alliance met promtly to-night
at 8.30 o'clock. The Teachers' Institute
invited the body to visit their meeting.
A resolution was adopted thanking
them for this courtesy. Col. L. M.
Donaldson made a verhal report about
bagging and ties for the Alliance, and
a resolution was adopted endorsing
those papers that support the Alliance
demands. The meeting has been very
harmonious. At 10.50 the Alliance
adjourned to meet at Spartanburg next
year.
Robbea by a Comnpaionx.
Cn ArL':T, N. (3., July 24.-A. Hlier
holzer, a Virginia commercial traveler
who caine to Charlotte yesterday, was
robbed at a hotel here last night. On
1the train he had formed the acquaint
ance of a man giving the name of F".
H. Thomas. who represented himself
also as a drummer hailing from Colum
bia, S. C. Mr. Ilierholzer became very
intimate with his new friend and last
night they roomed together. This
morning upon awakening Mr. Hlier
holzer found that he had been robbed.
Among other things that were missing
was a new thousand mileage book, $20
in mainey. Thomas left a note bidding
his frien'd good-by and saying he hoped
to see him again. Thomas was arrest
ed at Chester this evening.-Columbia
ABOUT TIE ALLIANCE.
TALKS WITH DELEGATES BY A NEWS
AND COURIER REPORTER.
Col. Leonidas L. Polk, Personal Appear
ance, and What he Says About the Na
tional Alliance-What Some of the State
Delegates Say.
GREENVILLE, S. C., July 24.-Your
correspondent interviewed Col. Leon
idas L. Polk and a number of delegates
as to Alliance matters. Col. Polk is
a man of striking appearance, about
medium height and size. His bright
black eye reminds one of the earnest
ness in his character. He wears a long
beard, his hair is just turning gray and
he appears to be about 50 years of age,
in manner he is certainly most agree
able-even quite jovial-and has a good
word for all. He is not a graduate of
any college, and only went to school
ten months, but his language is clear
and he is a good speaker.
When asked about the Alliance he
said it was in good condition; more
flourishing than ever before in its his
tory. At the St. Louis meeting last
December the entire membership of the
Order was about two millions. It has
increased wonderfully since then.
Twenty-seven of the largest and most
prosperous States have been orgadized.
He said:
We are now organizing New York,
New Jersey. Michigan, Wyoming, Ohio,
Washington, Montana, Oregon and
California. The business feature has
already saved the members millions.
and has been most satisfactory to all
concerned. Where they are fully
organized the Exchange system is work
ing finely. The Alliance is purely non
partisan, and as an organization can
take no part in politics. It seeks to
educate the masses on economic ques
tions, and to elevate them to a higher
conception of the duties of citizenship.
And leaves the members free to adopt
such course as they see fit. He had
travelled throughout the Northwest,
and found the Alliances there like
here, all united. The sectional lines,
he thought, would be erased in time by
this. The legislative committee was
doing good work. He would leave to
night for Greensboro, N. C., his home,
to address a meeting of 20,000 farmers.
Thence he would go to Washington.
Mr. Chas. Crossland, of Marlboro,
said that the Alliance was in a flour
ishing condition in his county. They
would use hemp and flax bagging in
stead of jute. He said : "We are not
running politics in the Alliance. The
Exchange with us has been a success.
Of course we are committed to the sub
treasury bill."
Mr. C. A. Plyler, Jr., of Lancaster,
said: "The Alliance is in good work
ing order. Will use hemp and flax bag
ging. There is nothing of politics in
the Alliance except in national meas
ures. We endorse the Exchange from
beginning to end. We think Columbia
would be a good location for the Ex
change. We also favor and support
the sub-treasury bill."
W. McK Zimmerman, of Spartan
burg, said : "We are running the Alli
ance on the supply depot plan. Since
last January our business has amount
ed to about $50,000. We passed a reso
lution in the last county meeting to
incorporate the County Alliance for
the purpose of supplying goods to our
members at retail. We do not favor
the Exchange. It is too big, so much
so that it cannot do justice to the
people. We think the sub-treasury a
step in the right direction, think it will
be perfected in time. We keep down
local issues in the Alliance. Endorse
measures, not men in ours. Some have
acted hastily, but we can pay no atten
tioni to that. Will use no jute bag
ging."
The Rev. James Douglas, of Fair
field, chaplain of the -State Alliance,
says : "In my county the Alliance is
doing well. Will use a substitute for
jute. Our county has no connection
with the Exchange, but we are going
in it."
The Rev. M. H. Majors, of George
town, says : "Our county is doing well
for the Alliance. We will not use jute.
Our Alliance is not in politics. We
favor the Exchange."
Mr. J. S. McKenzie, of Florence,
thought the Alliance in his county in a
lourishing condition. They will use
any substitute for jute that can be had
for covering their cotton. The Alli
ance is a non-political body and takes
no stock in politics as an organization.
Mr. J. E. Pettigrewv, Exchange agent
for the same county, thought the State
Exchange all right, as far as his coun
ty was concerned. Most of the Sub
Alliances had subscribed stock. He
thought to change its location to Char
leston a good idea if the right man
could be had to take charge of it.
Dr. J. E. Jarnigan,of Marion, thought
the Alliance in a healthy, strong condi
tion, working in full harmony. His
people will use hemp and lag bagging
as a substitute for jute. In his opinion
the Alliance should not go ijto politics
at all, but of course as 0itizens the
members had the right to/discuss poll
tical matters that touched their inter
est. His people believed in the Ex
change. He thinks the Exchange would
have more advantages if situated in
Charleston, provided Col. Donaldson or
some other good man had charge. lie
thinks his people largely favor the sub
treasury scheme.
Capt. J. W. Wiley, of Colleton,
thought the Alliance was moving on
in his county. The people took a great
deal of interest in it. They will use
hemp and flax bagging for covering
the cotton. The Alliance is taking no
stand in politics. We do not look uponl
the Alliance as a political body at all.
Our people have not taken as much
interest in the Exchange as they should.
We favor Charleston as its location.
Major H.A. Seibels, of Lexington,
thought the Alliance strong and in
creasing in membership. His 'people
will use hemp and flax bagging instead
of jute. There is no such thing as poli
tics in the Alliance. We were not
organized as a political party, but to
ameliorate the farmers' condition. Hie
favors the Exchange being moved to
a more central point.
Col. J. H. Kinsler, of Richland, said:
"We have but a few Alliances in our
county, but they are all in a flourishing
condition. Had sent th eir order to Busi
ness Manager Donaldson for ilax bag
ging. Of course, we would like the
Exchange at Columbia, but are willing
for it to be moved to the most advan
tageous point. We take no part in
State politics as an Alliance at all, but
we favor the sub-treasury bill as a na
tional measure.
Dr. John HI. Price, of Orangeburg,
thought the Alliance in a very hopeful
condition in his county. In fact, it
wa outstripping expectations. The
membership was increasing and many
had received substantial benefits from
a business standpoint. Our people favor
a substitute for jute, and many Alli
ances had placed their orders for hemp
and Ilax bagging. Our body, of course,
is non-political, except as to a few na
tional questions, such as the sub-treas
ury bill. We favor the removal of the
Echange to Charleston on account of
its superior freight and market report
facilities.
Mr. Onan I. Riley, of Orangeburg,
who is the Exchange director for the
firt district, thinks that a Cobumbia
is a central point it would suit tbe Ex
change much better as a locatio;n. ie
says the volume of trade has been
about $85,000 since established. less
than a year ago.
Dr. W. It. Timmerman, of Edgefield.
also one of the Exchange dir-ectors,
thought the removal of the Excnange
to a central point, say Colmhia, would
be df much bencit to the Exchange
and the Alliances. lie did not think
the freight facilities of Charleston
would do any good, as the goods are
not ordered in bulk.
Col. L. P. Miller, of Newberry, thinks
the Exchange should be mored to Col
umbia, a central point. The Ne.bery
farmers are going to use hemp and ilax
bagging. Mr. Miller favors the sub
treasury scheme.
Col. Joseph L. Keitt, of Newberry,
says : "Our Alliance is in good order.
Our Alliances are becoming better ac
quainted with the State Exchange and
will patronize it more in the future
than in the past. We favor moving
the Exchange to Columbia. We will
use no jute bagging. Our County Alli
ance passed resolutions calling upon
candidates for the Legislature to ex
press their opinion as to the measure
supported by the National Alliance
and to support none but those wh:>
would vote for a United States Senator
who would support these demands.
There is no such thing as the Alli
ance going in to local issues. The
bonds of the Alliance are very well de
fined. A few Alliances may have acted
hastily, but you will find no County
Alliance endorsing local issues."
The Rev. J. A. Sligh, of Newberry,
says: "The Alliance is in splendid
working order. The county is thorough
ly organized. Our people are unani
mous In their opposition to jute, and
will use hemp and flax. The Alliance
as a body will not go into politics, that
is, the Alliance is not a political ma
chine. But, of course, politics to a cer
tain sense will go into the Order, es
pecially national issues. We favor
moving the Exchange to Columbia.
The general condition of the State Ex
change is good. We have operated only
six months, and six of the worst
months in the year. The tuture out
look is very promising. The business
has been good. and we have the utmost
confidence in it."
Col. R. M. Smith, of Spartanburg,
says : "The Alliance is in a prosper
ous condition, growing in numbers.
We will use whatever substitute for
jute we can get. The Alliance does not
work as a political body, but you can
not separate the Alliance from politics,
as all of our people are members of the
Alliance. But we will make no nomi
nations. I am opposed to that. We
prefer having the Exchange located in
the up-country. aWe favor the sub
treasury very strongly."
THE COFFIN BLEW UP.
Many Difficulties Attended the Barial of
Mrs. Peterson.
SEDALIA, Mo., July 24.-A most sin
ular burial took place at Springfork,
fteen miles distant from this city, re
ently. Among the early settlers of
this County were a young German
named John N. Peterson and his wife.
Last Thursday Mrs. Peterson died of
:rcpsy. At the time of her death she
was a remarkably heavy woman weigh
ing nearly three hundred pounds. Im
mediately-after Mrs. Peterson died ar
rangements were made for the funeral.
The largest casket to be procured in
this city was the exact measurement
required at the time of death, but as it
was not delivered until Friday morn
ing, the body had swollen so much that
it was crowded into the casket with
much difficulty. The lid was then
screwed down and the body left in that
condition for burial. Ice could not be
procured. The funeral services were
set for Saturday afternoon, and, as is
custonary, a nt~mber of neighbors act
ed as watchers Friday night. At mid
night the watchers were startled by a
loud report in the room where the cof
n had been placed. it was found that
the gases of the body had accumalatted
within the casket until their force
burst the glass over the face of Mrs.
Peterson. So great was the force of
the explosion that the body wvas shot
forward and upward, the head protrud
ing from the collin. A consultation
was held, and it was decided that owing
to the condition of the body the fu
neral should take place at once. The
grave having been prepared, the coflin
was carried to the burial place and
strong ropes were placed under the
casket. Just as the coflin was being
lowered, one of the assistants let go of
his end of the rope. This threw the
weight to the head of the collin and the
ropes were .jerked from the hands of the
men stationed there. The collin fell
with great force, head down, and burst
to pieces. Another consultation was
held, and it was decided to fill up the
grave at once, without waiting for
another casket.
Mr. Bogerts Rich Find.
ELIZAXBETHI, N. J., July 23.-On .1utne
25th Martha Ann Bogert, aged seven
ty, died at her home, 1,049 Magnolia
avenue, this city. About a week ago
her husband was surprised on looking
over her personal effects to come across
an old, dilapidated handbag in which,
on being opened, was found stuffed a
large niumber ot small tobacco pouches.
On opening them they wvere found to be
filled with rolls of bank bills of various
denominations and silver coin. JDogert,
who was the woman's second husband,
was cute enough to only let a couple
of persons into the secret, as Mrs. Bo
gert had heirs at law, and having (lied
without making a will, he was afraid
they might claim the treasure. He
quickly disposed of all the household
effects and started a fewv days ago for
Oregon, where he has a brother iivingr.
Since his departure the story has leaked
out and the heirs in consequence are in
dignant to think that the treasure has
slipped from their clutches. Those to
whom Bogert confided his discovery
and who had seen the money counted
out by him say that there was over $7,
000 in the old satchel. Mrs. B3ogert dur
ing her lifetinme waLs noted for her mis
erly propensities. it is said of her that
she even used to split lucifer matches
in quarters to make them last longer.
Heid for 3urder.
GREENVILLE, S. C., July 22.-D~avid
Stephen, the man who killed .J. C. Cal
houn Gritlin, a prominent citi::en of
Pickens, at Pickens, on May 3i, was
arrested in Pickens county M:onday
afternoon by .James Heard and brought
here last night and put in Greenaville
jail for safe keeping. Stephens hzas not
been over ten miles away from Pickens
and has been living and sleeping in the
woods, never daring to enter a house for
fear of arrest. lIn an interview with
him to-clay lie plainly intimatedI that lhe
killed Griffin for intimacy with his
wife.__ __
A stroni: Argtwment.
WasmIxoN, Juliy 22.-Gen. B. F.
Butler, who was chairman of the House
committee which reportedl the~ force
bill of the Forty-third Congress, has
written a letter to Mr. Wheeler, of Ala
bama, complimenting Mr. Wheeler's
speech in opposition to the pending
Federal elections bill, as being 01ne of
the ablest and best arguments he has
seen in that very volma inous debate.
But he does not wholly agree with Mr.
Wheelr's argument.
TH: FORCE tBILL DENOUNCED.
iluine. Meni see Only Dis:aiter Follow
in-- its l'assage.
COLrnBUs, Oio, July 24.-The Fed
eral elections bill is attracting more
generai attention than any proposed
legislation daring the last twenty-five
years. Within the past week the foroe
measure. despite the Republican State
Convention, has formed the great topic
in all t he political clubs, the hotels,
and, in fact, among travellers. Busi
ness men having a large Southern
trade have become interested, and the
belief is expressed that in the event of
the bill becoming a law such cominer
cial centres as Cincinnati, Columbus
and Cleveland. in Ohio, would suffer
the loss of Southern trade. A repre
sentative of a large manutacturing es
tablishmnent in Cincinnati having a
valuable trade South expressess the
I most se:rious apprehensions, and says
that fron what he can learn there will
he an organized protest sent to the
Senate against the passage of the bill
by the business men of the country, a
prom-st so strong and vigorous in tone
that the Senate will not fail to heed the
warning.
It now transpires that it is not Dem
ocrats alone that oppose the passage of
the Lodge bill, but a large and influen
tial body of Republicans who have
grown weary over the constant agita
tion of the Southern question and the
rights of the negro. In conversation a
well-known Republican, speaking of
the force bill, remarked: "There is
quite as much need for a peep into the
election returns in the district repre
sented by Speaker Reed as in any Con
gressional district in South Carolina.
There are districts in Pennsylvania
also quite as bad, when it came to an
honast count, as any in the Southern
States. A great deal of money from
Ohio has been placed in Southern en
terprises, railroads, mines and manu
facturina industries, and fears are ex
pressed that the political agitation in
cident to the passage of the force bill
will seriously disturb all elements of
society and retard the building up of
that section of the country, if it does
not permanently derange all of the
more important industries that have
been so prosperous and promising
during the past few years. What the
South needs, what the country needs,
and will insist upon. is peace instead
of agitation and strife. When there is
principle at stake, when there is an
issue, the people will not be slow to ex
press themselves and enforce obedi
ence, but when a measure so radical
and so ill advised is presented by the
party that for the time being is in full
power and control of the Government
for the sole and only purpose of in
trenching itself to retain its position,
it will not receive the endorsement of
the great body of the American people.
"The passageof the Lodge bill will
create a reaction, and it would not be
surprising if the voters of this State
should pronounce their verdict by de
feating the Republican State ticket by
30,000 majority. The Southern ques
tion will work its own solution in good
time if left to itself. Experiments and
quack doctors will afford no relief, but
on the contrary will only aggravate
the disease, and in the end retire with
less dignity than the carpet-baggers
I some years ago."
A NEW SCHEME.
The Force bill May be Abandoned for a
New Reapportionment.
WASINGTON, July 23.-The outlook
for the force bill in the Senate is not
as hopeful as it was two weeks, or even
one week ago. The estimates most
favorable to the passage of the bill give
it only thirty-live votes, leaving twelve
Republicans who are absolutely op
posed to it, or who feel indifferent as
to its fate.
The chief reason that leads to the
conlusion that the bill will be aban
doned is the wide difference of opinion
as to whether it is better to pass a force
measure or a reapportionment bill.
Both cannot or will not be passed.
There are some Republican leaders who
insist that they can accomplish the
same results under a reapportionment
bill that can be had under this election
scheme, and there will be no evil results
to follow.
In the State of Illinois, Wisconsin,
Nebraska and Minnesota decided gains
in the mnattcr of representation are
assured, and these votes added to the
Republican votes from the new States
will increase their numerical strength
in the IHouse above twenty. On the
other hand it is claimed that Texas and
Missouri only of the Southern States
will gain in the matter of seats.
So the control of the flext IHouse may
be secured by adopting the more con
servative plan. The next caucus of the
Republican Senators will determine be
tween these two propositions. The
general opinion see~os to be that the
South's best policy just now is to keep
cool. She has strong allies, and her
cause is not b~y any means lost.
Sons of Ternperance.
COLnUMI, S. C., July,23.-The Grand
Division of the Soils of Temperance
mtin annual session in this city to
da ltO0A. M., Grand Worthy Patri
arch Alexander presiding. The re
ports of the grand worthy patriarch
and grand scribe show a slight de
crease in membership and in the num
ber of divisions now actually at work
in the State, the decrease being mainly
due to the failure to get a permanent
State organizer. The morning session
was chielly taken lup in the reception
of reports and committee work. At
the aiternoon session the following
grand officers were elected for the en
suing year: G. W. P., John Alexander,
Colum ida; G. W. A.. T. B. Fast, Santuc;
G. S., F. S. Dibble. Orangeburg; grand
treasurer, S. S. Slokes, Union: grand
chaplain, F. F. Jecffecoat, Eutaw; grand
conductor, L. Ri. Marshall, Columbia;
granid sentinel, W. Chambers. Colum
bia. All of the above officers were in
stalled at the night session, after which
plans for future work were discussed.
Pendi.g the discussion the Grand Divis
ion adjourne d until 10 A. M. to-morrow.
The work of the session will then be
cloeds h Grand Division will be
adoune ine die.
Gougedi Out Its Eyes.
PESTHr, July 22.--A band of gypsies
solicited alms to-day from a group of
peasants, who were eating their din
ners in a field, near Torak Bets. One
of the peasant women spoke to tile
ypsies, wvhereupon a little girl five
years, blind and half starved, cried out:
Mothe.r, oh, mother, come to mne!" The
woman started, and screaming -My
child! my child!" rushed to the little
girl, tore her ragged dress open and
showed a birthmark, which she0 recog
nized :as having been on the~ breast of
her baby daughter stolen from her a
year ago. The gypsies had put out
Ithe chald's eyes to prevent her recog
niing her mother or friends. The
peasants, enraged, wouldl hove lynched
the gypsies but for the interference of
the ge.2darms, who took the band to
prison for examination.
Nineteen Corpses Recoveren.
ST. P~ETnSaBunG, July 22.-Part of
the town of Slonim~ has been wrecked by
a hurricane. Many persons were buried
in thei ruins. Nineteen bodies have
been recovered.
DEATH AND DAMAGE. -
A SAVANNAH BOARDING HOUSE MYS
TERIOUSLY BLOWN UP.
Thirteen of the Occupants Crushed and
Mangle'd Amid the Debris of the Falling
Building-Three Are Taken Out Dead,
the Others Seriously Injured.
SIvAsA1r, Ga., July 24.-W- J. Bul
lard's boarding house, a three-story
brick dwelling, No. 203 Congress street,
was blown up at 1:20 o'clock this morn
ing. Three persons were killed and six
injured; two of them will probably die.
There were thirteen persons in the
house. The explosion shattered the
walls, which collapsed and fell in a
mass of ruins. Most of the occupants
of the house were asleep and were
hurled from their beds, and either
buried under the falling debris or
thrown on top of it.
The killed are Mrs. W. J. Bullard,
Lockley and Gus Robbies. The wound
ed are John Roborts, right ankle frac
tured and concussion of the brain from
the shock; L. J. Tate, contusion of the
face and chest; Melton Haywood, col
ored, shoulder dislocated and bruised;
Edward A. Remes, slightly bruised;
Mrs. Edward S. Everitt, slightly
bruised; Sam King, colored, badly in
jured about the body.
The first taken from the building
was L. J. Tate, collector for the Citi
zens' Bank, who was sleeping on the
second floor and was pinned down by
the fallen timbers. A few minutes
later the mangled body of Mrs. Bul
lard was found eight feet under a pile
of bricks beneath the room where she
was sleeping. Robbie's body was taken
out at3 o'clock, and was laid in Franklin
Square on a mattress. Robbies came
here from New York about a month
ago, and was engaged by McDonough
& Co., as a scroll man. He slept In the
front hall room, on the second floor,
and was found under the sheet on the
bed where he had evidently been kill
ed as he slept. He has a wife in New
York, from whom he received a letter
a day or two ago. He was about 49
years old.
The body of Lockley was found about
4 o'clock. It was the last taken out of
the building.
J. A. Remes, who was sleeping in the
front room on third floor with Roberts,
was hurled to the second floor and was
pinned between the bed and the floor
until he was pulled out by the firemen.
He did not see Roberts after the explo
sion occurred. The first he heard was
a grinding noise, and then came the
crash and then a blank. The next he
knew he was being taken out from the
debris. He was slightly bruised.
Mr. and Mrs. Everitt, who were
sleeping in the front room on the sec.
ond floor, were pulled out from under
the ceiling above which held them fast.
Mrs. John Paige and baby, who were
sleeping in the room back of- Mr. and
Mrs. Everitt, escaped unhurt and were
lifted out by the firemen.
As fast as the injured people were.
taken out they were carried into the
rear' of Andrew Jackson's residence,
just East of the fallen building.
Jack Roberts, who slept with J. A.
Remes on the third floor, sustained se
vere injuries about the body and head.
Mr. Bullard, who was sleeping with
his wife, had a marvelous escape and
received but few slight bruises. Mrs.
Bullard was dead when taken out. She
was fearfully crushed.
The cause of the explosion is a mys
tery. There are many rumors of an
ugly nature, but nobody will take the
responsibility of making a direct state
ment. One man insinuated that there
had been a row in the house toward
the end of a jollification, in which the
inmates had been indulging. Lamps
were used instead of gas, and it is said
that there was no meter In the house,
though it was suppplled with gas
pipes throughout. Most of the people,
therefore, are unable to see how the ex
plosion could have been caused by gas.
The fallen building was a three-story
tenement, built on the French flat
style, and faces North and South, the
t wo top floors being used as sleeping
apartments. The explosion blew the
entire building to the Northward, some
of the furniture being blown across
Julian street into splinters, while the
flying bricks went as far as Blay street,
the entire structure collapsing outward
on Congress street.
Farmers Protesting.
BIin3INGHAM!, ALA., July 23.-The
State Agricultural Society adjourned
to-day after two days' session. Major
H. Hawkins, of Barbour County, was
elected president. Before adjourning
the following resolutions were unani
mously adopted:
Resolved, That this society is unal
terably opposed to the passage by Con
gress of what is known as the force
bill, because it would be a source of
unending trouble to the people of the
North and South. It would tend to in
terrupt the cordial social relations and
intimate business connections now so
happily existing between the people of
the two sections, to the untold injury
of both.
Resolved, That we call on people and
rnerchants and business enterprises of
the North, which deal so largely with
th South and whose interest are identi
cal with ours, to bring their influence
to bear on the course of national legis
lation and join us in stopping the pas
sage of a bill that aims as directly at
their prosperity as at ours.
Resolved, That we are in sympathy
with all measures legitimate and pro
per that will prevent the passage of the
force bill, whether taken at the South
or North, believing that in this matter
the commercial and industrial interests
of the t wo sections are identical.
A Bishop Killed.
LONDON, July 22.-A dispatch from
Tiflis to The Daily News says that the
Armenian bishop of Erzeroum was
among those killed in the riot of June
20, and that his death has roused the
Armenians to the highest pitch of ex
citement. The whole country is in a
state of anarchy. Business is at a
standstill and travelling is impractica
ble. Half-starved Turkish soldiers and
K~urds,mder the pretence of maintain
ing order, patrol the country plunder
ing wherever they go. The Persian
consul at Erzeroumn offers persecuted
Armenians an asylum in Persia.
Part or His Brain Gone.
FORT DODGE, JOwA, July 24--Wil
lie Eberhart, a nine-year-old boy living
here, is getting along with an ounce
less brains than he had a week ago.
Willie had his skull caved in by an ac
cident at a mud crusher a week ago,
the brain protruding in places. Al
though it was thought the boy could
not live an hour the wound was dress
ed and a portion of the brain weighing
an ounce was taken out. The bones
were placed back in position and knit
ted nicely. To-day the child is out of
danger and the surgeons say he is sure
to recover.
An Alliance Candidate Beaten.
CIARLOT TE, N. C., July 24.-Last Sat
urday's primaries insure the nomination
of Congressman Johm S. Henderson over
peaker Leazer, the Alliance candidate,
Henderson mearly doubled Leazer'i
votie.
HOME RULE FOR THE SOUTH.
Northern rroducts to be Boycotted if the
Force Bill Passes.
ATLANTA, Ga., July 26.-The Consti
tution in a leading editorial recently
emphasizes its position on the force
bill in a strong editorial favoring a
systematic boycott of Northern indus
tries in case the force bill goes through.
It outlines a plan of operation in the
organization of home rule leagues
throughout the South. After quoting
from the Herald and other papers which
have taken the lead in the fight against
the force bill the Constitution says:
"Appeal to reason and conscience,
indignant protests and shotgun
methods will not meet the force bill,
but the most tremendous boycott of all
the ages will make it a dead letter. wipe
it from the statute books and banlle and
defeat its supporters. Sometimes there
has been a little talk about the solid
South. Our partisan enemies do not
fully realize the meaning of the phrase
and they may count themselves for
tunate if we do not teach it to them in
the bitter school of experience. With
the promulgation of the force bill every
white human being in the South be
tween the cradle and the grave will
unite with his fellow countrymen and
stand with them to the end. There will
be no more discord or factions in the
Decmocracy, and around the standard
will rally the last white Republican.
A common danger will bring the whites
of the South together, sinking all the
differences of the past and sacrificing
every personal ambition for the
supreme interest of the hour.
"The boycott, with every white man,
woman and child in the South behind it,
will be mightier than all the armies
whose marching feet once shook this
continent from sea to sea. With this
peaceful weapon in our hands all the
hosts that hate us cannot prevail against
us. Home rule leagues will be organ
ized everywhere in the South, and the
members will pledge themselves to buy
n2t a dollar's worth of anything that is
produced or manufactured in the North.
Commercially speaking an impassable
wall will arise between the sections.
All the benefit will be on one side and
all the loss on the other. The necessity
of the case-the home demand-will, as
was the case in the blockade days dur
ing the war, stimulate the growth of
every Southern industry. Manufac
tures will spring up everywhere. Our
farmers pledge not to buy corn and
meat from the West, will riase their
supplies at home and our dream of self
sustaining, diversified agriculture will
become a fact. Our long delayed trade
with Europe will come with a rush and
the flags of all nations will flutter in
Southern harbors. Paralysis will seize
the congested capital, industries, com
merce and the railway lines running
from the North to the South and hun
dreds of thousands of desperate and idle
workingmen in the great cities in the
North and West will fiercely turn upon
society and raise the cry: 'Bread or
blood.' If we have to try the boycott
under the force bill we shall revive the
old time enthusiasm and patriotism of
the early sixties."
Tlne Chamliers or Commerce of New
Orleans, Birmingham, Lynchburg, Au
gusta, Montgomery, Savannah and
other Southern cities telegraph the Con
stitution, favoring a convention of the
commercial South to consider the
course to be adopted in case the force
bill passes. Richmond telegraphs that
it does not deem anything like a boycott
advisable, as does Charleston and
Mobile, Baltimore and Chattanooga
say their organizations are non-politcal,
but they are strongly against the force
bill.
A Blob's Cowardly Deed.
NEW ORLEANs, La., July 22.-The
Times-Democrat's special from Paris,
(Tex.) says: Parties who came in here
to-day bring information of what will
doubtless prove to be a most brutal and
cowardly assassination which took
place Saturday morning, about twelve
miles Southeast of here, in the Re:1 river
country. it seems that about 2 o'clock
in the morning, a party of six or seven
men went to the house of Andy Young,
a hard working negro, living on the
farm of Nathan Grant, and called him
up. When he came to the door a volley
from Winchester shot guns and pistols
was fired into him. The Winchester
balls went through his head in front of
his ears, cutting his tongue in two. is
body, legs and arms are filled with bul
lets. Yet, strange to say, he was alive
last and conscious, but it was not re
garded as possible that he could live.
It its thought that he knows who shot
him, but on account of his tongue be
ing cut out he cannot tell. There was
a number of shells picked up in the
yard and it is thought the officers have
a clue. No reason is known for the
shooting except that the negro had a
difficulty with some white boys.
Death in the Flames.
CINoINNA'rr July 22.-At about 10:45
to-night a douhle alarm rang out from
box 16. Engines dashed down to the
public landing to lind house No. 44,
Front street, all ablaze. It was a four
story brick, known as the John Christie
tenement house. The first story was
occupiedby Solomon MIenski as a second
hand store, All other nloors were occu
pied as tenements, and while the nlames
were eating their way to the roof there
were thirty people in the building.
The great crowd onthie outside shout
ed to the police, who arrived first, and
to the firemen, who arrived later, that
the people inside were burning up..
With commendable bravery the police
went groping into the deadly, suffocat
ing darkness, and began the work of
rescue. In the second story were two
familiesof ten persons; in the third were
two more, numbering ten persons; in
the forth were two families also num
bering ten persons. The MIenski family
occupied the rooms in the rear of the
store and here all the fatalities occurred.
The dead are Menski, his wife and two
children. The two persons injured are
likely to die, and it is said some are
mismg.________
A New Agricultural Paper.
CoL1.2IIA, S. C., July 24.-A declara
tion has been filed and a commission
issued for the incorporation of the Far
mers' Sun Publishing Company of Pen
dienton, Anderson County. The corpo
rators are: J. C.S~tribling, D. K. NOrris,
John C. Watkins, J. B. Djouthit, J. P.
Glenn and J. M1. Glenn. The company
proposes to publish an agricultural
newspaper and to do a general publish
ing and printing business. The capital
stock is to be $5,000, divided into 500
shares of $10 each.
Mfarion Goes for Tiliman. I
The 3Marion County clubs met on
Tuesday to elect delegates to the County
convention. Tillmani carried twelve of
the thirteen. In the nine clubs report
in their comparative votes the Tillman
deYegate-s got 1,320 and the anti-Tillman
287, of which 139 were in the town of
3arion. Only Carmichael Township
elected anti-Tillmani delegates. This
virtually makes Tillman's strength in
the State Convention 110 to 18 againt
Neccessary to elect, 01.
Sixteen Drownett.
LONDON, July 23.-The America
schooner William Rice has been lost a
sea. The whole crew, consisting of
sixteen persons, perished. The vessel
was on a voyage from Cape Ann to
Iceland.
TIlE CAM1'AIGN NEETI1TS.
THE SAME OLD SONGS SUNG BY THE
CANDIDATES.
A Quiet and Orderly Meeting at Conway
Capt. Tillman and his Party Give th*
Charleston Meeting the Go-By.
CoswAY, S. C., July 22.-Hurrah for
Horry! The Independent Republic has
given the campaign speakers a cordial
welcome. It was certainly one of the
most dignified and respectable meetings
>f the entire campaign. It is thought
'hat the meeting has done considerable
.o enlighten the people of Horry upon
the issues of the day. There were, be
:ween fifteen and eighteen hundred
epresentative farmers at the speaking.
Quite a number of negroes were
imong the audience.
The meeting was in reality a battle
between Senator Jeremiah Smith and
rillman. The general verdict was
,hat Smith scored a signal victory. He
s a good straightout talker, knows., his
facts and has the utmost confidence of
he people. The war of words between"
Dapt. Tillman and Farmer Smith-was
it times exciting, but never exceeded>
he bounds of propriety. To Senator.
Smith, Col. Earle in great measure gave
;he field, and the Horry Senator made
hings lively for Capt. Tillman. The
rillmanites, as usual, were out to' a
man. That is a part of their pro-,
,ramme. The Straightouts were. pres
ant in large numbers, and were con
idered in a large majority at the meet
og.
As soon as Capt. Tillmanhad-finished
bis reply to Senator Smith the band
eaded a procession and led Tillman
Erom the meeting. It being somewhat
Late. the crowd, under the seduction of
he music, naturally left the meeting.
he band then came to the meetingand
o the annoyance of Col. Earle, coh
inued to interrupt him by playing vile
music until it was routed.
Another curious incident was the
sudden and unexcused departure lof
iliman from the stand. He.left as
oon as Col. Earle rose to speak, not
allowing him a chance for direct reply
r cross-examination. The Straigt
muts seem to have very little doubtAnow
:hat the County will send six Regular
Democratic delegates to Columbia.
he speech of Senator Smith, with those
f Earle and Bratton, did 'effective
ork.-News and Courier.
THE CHARLESTON MEETING.
CHARLESTON, S. C., July. 24.-Theo
Eour burly policemen and two cute de
ectives, who have been acting as a
body guard to Captain B. R. Tillman
,ver since his arrival in Charleston,
were relieved from duty this afternoon
it 5 o'clock, when the Captain and his
icket took their departure for Sum
merville, where they will speak to-.
morrow. Captain Tillman and his
party arrived here at noon on Wednes
lay, and the head of the ticket has been
faithfully guarded by the police ever
since. The Chief of Police says that he
made the detail at the request of John
D. Murphy and T. B. Reeves. Captain
Tillman's two lieutenants here,. who
aid that they had received threatening
letters during his entire stay.
Captain Tilman was closeted in his
room at the Charleston Hotel. On
Wednesday afternoon he was given a
carriage drive by ex-Mayor Courtenay,
and this morning he took a flying trip
to Sullivan's Island, leaving at 10 a. m.
and returning at 1 p. m. Nd attempts
were made to assassinate him. The
traightouts indeed say that the protec
tion called for was to protect Murphy
and Reeves. They feared, it is claimed,
that the "ringsters" might guy them
while they were buzzing in and out the
hotel.
There are rumors here that a corres
pondence is going on betwe Captain
Tillman and J. W. Barnwell, in which
the latter demands an explanation for
the assertion made by Captain Tfl1man
that he, Barnwell, had threatened him
with assassination.
The straightout Democratic' mass,
meeing to-night can scarcely be called
a howling success. Three causes are
ascribed: First, it was a squally w'et
night; second, a rumor got abroad dur
ing the day to the effect that the Demo
ratic Executive Committee had deter-c
mined to abandon the meeting afters
Tilman refused to speak. --
Despite these drawvbacks, however,
the house was fairly crowded and the
meeting was peaceably condifeted.'
There was but one Tillmanite in the
audience, which numbered about 1,000,
and he became obstreperous and was
put out by a policeman. This was
about the only Tillman feature of the
meeting. Speeches were made by Gen.
Bratton and Attorney GeneralEarle,
straightout candidates for Governor;
Secretary of State Marshall, Judge
Crawford and others, and the meetig
became enthused to a high pitch.
MEETING AT sUMMERVILLE..
SU3IERVILLE, S. C., July 25.-The
meeting here to-day was not much of a
success as to numbers. The meeting
was held in a little pine grove at the
southeast corner of'Main sfreet and
Railroad avenue. . There were no deco
rations to speak of, except two flags
with Tillman mottoes, which were
nailed to an oak tree in front of the
stand, and there was also on the street
a wagon loaded with upright green
corn stalks.
As to the crowd, it was not very large;
but it was in no sense entirely repre
sentative of Berkeley. The "Berkeley
campaign meeting" was, in fact, a big
misnomer. As Capt. Tillman remarked
in his speech : "You are here not alone
from Berkeley, but from Colleton and
Orangeburg."
The proceedings were not noisy or
boisterous, except at one point towards
the close of the meeting. There was to
all appearances only one drunken man
in the whole assembly. Two others
got into a dispute, which ended in a
fisticuff, but that was the sum total of
the disturbance.
Gen. Bratton was the first speaker.
His speech was about the same in sub
stance that he delivered at the other
meetings. Cal. Earle was absent, and~
Gen. Bratton was followed by Capt.
Tilman. The crowd cheered him lusti
ly and it was quite evident then that
mre of his friends had taken the
trouble to attend the meeting than the
friends of the other side. The Colleton
and Orangeburg people were for him
and about an even share of the Berke
ley people.
He began with the subject of free
government, and mentioned the ab
sence of Cal. Earle.
A voice: *"He was afraid to come."
Capt. Tillman : "No. sir, he was not
afraid to come. Cal. Earle is not afraid
o any man in Berkeley, or the whole
of Berkeley County, or any set of
men."
A voice : "Well, why aint he here?"
Tilman : "I don't know, but I know
he has good reasons or he wouldn't be
absent. Possibly his home news is not
good. But whatever may be the cause,
whatever keeps him, I can say that if
you saw him you would see a good and
high-toned gentleman, and one who
would make a good Governor if he
were on the side of the people." ["Hur
rah for Earle !'']
From this paint on he continued his
speech without much interruption.
Captain Tillman was followed by
other spakers.