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V -4 VOL. V1. MANNING, S. C, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 22, 1890. NO. 45 IHEY WANT HASKELL. THE COLORED CONVENT!ON EN DORSES JUDGE HASKELL. A. Object Lesson for White Men-Sote -Jitbursts of Eloquence that Ought to "etroy the Lrnt Vital Spark of the Ha% kel: Movement. 0oLttlAuM, S. C., Oct. 15.-The Col ure( Reform Conference met in the Ha, of Representatives to-day at one 1)'cl k. There were just twenty-two ..iehates present, but the number was ines e:ased by degrees to about sixty, of whonm Richland County furnished the m'iority. The Rev. J. J. Durham of tered a prayer in which he asked that characterize the deliberation of the Con;ference, so tbat they migh t result in tcod to all the. people. The call for the Conference. signed by Prof. Morris xna others, was read by the secretary, -ind on motion of R. H. Jenkins, of BIeixely. it w as unanimously adopted. J:f. J. W- Morris was elected tempo inry chairman and Prof. J. H. Jamison was elected temporary secretary. The credentials t'f the delegate-s were called for, and lists of names were handed up to the secretary. The enrolment showed -.- eighty delegates were In attend anne. The following is a complete list AMbbville- .':..Jamison. Barnwell-W. S. Dixon, F. W. IYil tian, Lewis Fraser. Oliver Dunbar, Pieter W ade, Fred Nix. Beaufort-J. I. Washington. lBerkeley-J. E Hayne. R.. H. Jen <iris E..3. Snetter, W. M. Night, II. T. Wi-liamus. Lexington-W. A. Smith, A. W. Johnson, J. E. Hiller. New berry-P. M4. Miller. S. C. Gary. Orangeburg-C. W. Caldwell, R. Car roll. .1. J. Johnson, George Robinson, J. Emmly, J. H. .'osey, J. II. Fordhan. M. I'. Glover, D. T. McDaniel, J. W. Robi:.son. Ea1rlield-H. M. Rayford. 3eo.rretown-R. W. Harrison. Kershaw-J. H. Johnson. Fi-rence-E. R. Roberts, J. It. Wil son. Laurens-P. S. Suber, C. G. Garett, T. A. Saxon. Ch-riezton-J. M. Freeman, T. H. jone, H. W. Purvis, S. W. McKinlay. Clarendon-W. D. Chappelle. Coleton-W. A.Paul, John J. Crouk, W. A. Chizens, D. S. Singleton, H. Winins. Rchland-J. W. Morris, R. E. Wall. '. I'. Davis, James Robinson, W. Wil hams, W. Ferguson, M. J. Williams, R. 13right, C. Alston, W. Roof. L. W. Coo per. L. Eades, L. Brown, H. Lee, S Johnson, J. Black F. Hicks,J. S. Nesbitt, S. B. Thompson, C. C. McMeans, H. H. .Jolnsor, J. L. Simons, J. W. Sanders. .7. C. Dlaniel, S. J. Gregory, H. Coultry. Spartanburg-A. W. Pincknev. M. Myers, Thos. J. Smith. K. Wilson, G. W. Murray. Ujnion-E-D. White. The chairman announced -the ap pointmest of tLe following commit tees: On Address-J. E. Hayne, W. D, Chappelie. Levi R. Johnson, R. II Jenkins, S. B. Thompson. Resolutions-J. J. Durham, W. Ray ford. W. Williams. S. W. McKinlaw. Eduetion-R. E. Wall, Richard Car roll, J. B. Johnson, C. G. Garrett. Advisabilty of endorsing the Isas kell State Ticket-T. A. Saxon, D). G. Mc )aniel, W. A. Paul. M4. P. Glover. A recess was taken until four o'clock mn order to give the committees a chance to get their reports ready. The Conference did not reassemble until 5 P. M., at which hour reports from the committees appointed were called for. The only one presented was by3 the committee on education, which was read and. adopted. No other business pressing uron the Conference, the Rev..W. D. Chappelle, of Columbia, presiding elder of the A. M4. E. Church, a very intelligent young black man, made a speech in favor of education, which was well received. The Rev. J. J. Durham, from the committee on resolutions, presented and read the following. Whereas, the political situation in this State is at present very complicat ed, and in some respects delicate; and whereas. the Democratic party is divid ed and has two tickets in the State. Therefore resolved: 1st. That we do not deem it wise, prudent or practicable for the Republi can party to put a ticket in the field. 2d. That in regard to the Haskel. movement, while we believe in good government, and a just and .impartial administration of its laws, and while we believe that our rights, privileges and interests would be best conserved by the element represented by the Haskell movement, yet, taking into consideration all the circumnstances, we do not think it wise or practicabale to endorse said movement, but to leave the matter with the State executive committee, feeling sure that the wis dom and dis-retion of said commit tee will decid. for the best arnd bighiest interests of all concerned. 3d. That we do not desire social equality, nor demn:ad political su;premn acy as a race, tbut as citizens ot this Strcte and of the United States we do demand an impartial administration ol the government under which tve live, and a just and fair share in that sd mmistration. 4th. That we condemn the bitter par. tisan feeling and rashness which tend to engender and stir up strife among the faces. without conducing to the in terests of either race. Coultry, of Columbia, said he hoped the Conference was not here to endorse either faction of the Democracy, althouah it had been rumored that was the object of the gathering. This was a Dimocratic fight, not a Republican, and no resolution pertaining to it ought to come up in Conference. The negro had b~een under the ban fourteen years in .:'uth Carolina, and he candidly did not believe the burden could be any greater tnan it had been. That resolution, said the speaker, should sleep as she are. [Roars of laugh ter.i Some one had surmised that if Tillman b'ecamue Governor a constitu tional convention would be held, which would dlisfranchise the negroes. For his part he considered them already disfra:nchised. No matter what they miaht do on November 4 they would still be treated like negroes. If the Democratic house was divided and the negro tried1 to prop it up it would not fall and the people would go on living in it. The News and Courier, the jour nal of the State. had plainly told the negro that he w~as not wanted in this fght. Like the News and Courier he was opposed to the negroes having any thing to do with this thing. Points of order were made on the speaker, and, as he exprsssed it, he w a attacked on all sides. but he finally moved that the resolutIons be indeb mtely Postponed. The Rev M r. Chappelle did not be lieve in dodging the question and put ting the responsibility upon the exe cutv committee. Hie said: The gen tleman had sawr the negro was not con cerned in this fight ietween Diemcra'.s. In a figh t one side was sure to be right and the other side wrong, and he be lieved that that faction which sought the good of the whole State, which was willing to give the negroes their rights ern4er the Constitution, whether they askedd or not, should be supported to a man -y the negroes of the State. [Applause.] GregorT: "Any guarantee of our Chappe'le: *No; but one. faction says it s g.oing to prevent the negro from votingand the other hasn't said so.' [Applause. Voice: -_Petween two evils we will choose the least." Gregory: "A few of us have voted for the last fourteen years. Have you any guarantee that our votes will he counted this time?" Chappelle: "The only way to prevent Is-tO tave-bitnmen-to do the count in"g. [Laughter.] If there's good in any of these parties.for the well-being of the negroes of South Corolina we ought to go to it. We have been waiting too long t~obe invited. We are citizens. Present your checks and claim your baggage. I am in favor of supportilog Mir. Haskell. I am going to vote for him and I don't care who knows it. I want these resolutions to endorse Mr. liaskell and I don't care who knows that. [Applause.] I amn opposed to the man who publicly announces that cer tain citizens shall not have the right (if the ballot. {ilere a delegate shouted, 'Anything to beat Tilhaan,' and there was much laughter and applause.] Whether this Conference endorses Mr, laskeli or not I want the delegates to go home and tell their people to vote for him if they want good government in South Carolina. Judge Ilaskeil's principles of fairness have come down to him by inheritance. Notonly Has kell's, but all the gentlemen who rep resented the true Democracy. Stop and think of these poor hungry Till man men getting control of the Gov ernment. I'm for Ilaskell all the time.' [Applause.] Fred Nix, of Barn well.said he didn't know vet whether he would vote for vJudge Haskell or advise his Republi can friends to do so, because he did not know if he would remain in the field until November. if he did continuea candidate until the election he would vote for him first, last and all the time but let the resolution go to the execu tive committee. Ie had friends in both factions, and had called the Re publicans of Barn well together to dt I cide who to vote for. The ltppublicau I party In South Caroliaa was at an end, and to was the Democratic party. Not withstanding the threats of the gentle man from Edgeileid he would vote for Haskell if he remained in the field. Next Tuesday, the 21st, the Barn 'well Republicans would make a de cision. The Rev. R.Carroll, of Orangoburg said he could not approve of leaving the matter to the Republican executive committee, because he knew the com mittee would endorse the Haskell tick et. [How do you know ?] Because one nf t'h 10-rmr - rtIimere -.0 oppose the colored people taking any action whatever, We have got what we have prayed for so long, a split in the Democratic party. Join one side now and you will grasp a sha dow. Let the thing work. He be lieved Tillman ought to be elected. [Voice: "Oh, no."] Well, let me talk, Before Tillinan was nominated, we were all Tillmanites [Voice: "No, no."] We are rejoiced. We wanted his suc cess. Now he has been nonin-ited. Tiliman has done us more good than any living man since the war. He made colored as well as white people thinkers and readers. Heretofore all Democrats went into oilice on '76 and the negro question. Tillman came along and let the negro alone. [Yoice: "Hamburg." "Ellenton!"] He put peo ple to thinking on other things than the negro. He ought to be Governor, and if .1 was a white Democrat I'd cast 10.000 votes to reward him. i'm not afraid of Tillman. I'm afraid of the men who got in his wagon and were pulled into office by him. The white people are divided, but the moment the negro comes in they will get together again. [Applause.] Both parties wil] turn on the negro and he will have to run to the mountains. I am opposed to the colored people having anything more to do with politics if they act as they have acted in the past. The man who sells his vote ought to be disfranchised forever. (Voice; "The nigger is not the only one.'] If you go for Haskell Tillman will be buying your votes. I haven't lived in Green vile city three years for nothing, see ingthemn buy colored votes with sugar, sacls of flour and so on. [Laughter.] Durham: "We don't come here to contrast the worst qualities of some people with the best of others." The Chair: "The point is well taken." Carroll: "If you endorse Hlaskell I'll enter politics with 100,000 others. ["Won't vote for Tillman.') Ihe'll be Governor just the same.,' [("%ever."] Thomas J. Smith, of Sumter. warmly opposed Carroll's views, if the situa tion was bad for the negro he might keep it from becoming worse. He ridiculed Carroll's praise of Tillman and urged the adoption of the resolu tions. IThe question was put and the reso lutions were unanimously adopted. On motion the roll was called and each dtelegtate invite, to step up and contribute a quarter to the illumina tion? of the hail and other necessary ex penses. The response was by no means unamm zous, In presenoting the report of the com mittee appointedl to consider the ad visability" of endorsing the Haskell ticket, F. A. Saxon declared that Judge iHaskell had expressed his sentiments exactly whben he said no party's will or race terror should prevent him from doing what his conscience dictated. [Applause.] Hie had been strongly urg ed by friends not to take sides in this matter, but he was not working for selfish ends, but for the good of the State and his race. Ie read ihe com mittee's resolution, as, follows: We, the committee, to whom was referred the very important duty of considering the adlvisability of end(ors ig the ilaskell State ticket, beg leave to submit the following report: After having considered this import aut subject committed to us,after look ing at the subject from every reason able standpoint, we have decided not to endorse either of the contending factions of the Democratic party. Jones, ot Charleston, made a warm and eloquenit speech against the adop tion of the report. 'The negroes, lie said, had inherent and natural rights and should stand on one side or the other. in this contest he wouldI support I askell because he had the courage [Voices : "H urrah for Charleston 1"] to declare that the negro had rights anid a personality in politics. Were the negroes going to wait for two years and let their rights be taken awas? Tis was nlot a matter for the whites alone, as the Ne ws and Courier said, but concerned every manuin South Carolina. if the Conference and its constitu Iency were cowards he did not want te be associated with them. if the altar of assassination and murder was to be did be wish to be sacrificed. .ne man who stepped on his rights was a co war:. Ie was not satisfied with the guardian shin of the National Republican party. Let the negro in South Carolina stand by the man who stood by him. [A p plause.1 I am not here for glory or :iincussion. I declare my choice. I stand by Aleck Iaskell, because he stands against the men who conspire against our liberties. le did not ask the negroes in the upper part of the State. whose persons were in danger, to take this fGght upon theum selves, but from Richland to the s.'a let the negroes roll up a majority for Haskell which couldn't be overcome. [Applause.] Ile would rather have the negro working with the best native born element than have the entire Federal army for his protection. I"Hear ! hear !" Don't sleep on your rights. Don't adopt these resolutions. Resolve to stand for Haskell, because he has shown an indication at lesnt to stand by us. [Cheers.) S. W. McKinlay, of Charieston.agr'd in toto with Jones, but thought th iatter should be left in the hands of the executive comniittee. The whois Atlantic coast was for Iaske . The committee would carry out ti rit and intent of this Conference. No man loved South Carolina more than h. did, her glory and her fame. No man more admired that element of her citiz-n shi) that had made her great. NO tom n like Tillman. who had traduced the State, could have loyalty in his heart, could be an honor to it or its proper renresentative. Even if Ilaskell withdrew he wouia go to the polls anti vote for him. No Tilimanism in his-no slaughterer of a defienceless people should ever rece-ive his support. He was proud of South Carolina's history, and of her chival rois men. The grandeur of a people comes from the best elements which control their action. so that marching onward under th UIaskell banner he would feel assured of victory and hon for the old Palmetto State. Geo. W. Murray, of Sumter, chair man (if the last Republican Statc Con vention, declared that with heart and hand open he would vote for Alex. C. Haskell fur Governor of South Care lina. The condition of ailairs in this State, which closed the school houses and ballot-boxes, was due solely to the existence of two political parties, one composed exclusiv'ey of v;ht es and t he other of colored. As long as parties were so constituted one wouhl rule ani the ether would suffer, and tho one to suffer was the colored party. Of all the papers he ever read the manifesto of Judge llaskell was the grandest and wisest. He was one of South Carolina's chivalrous sons about whose head a dazzling glory hung, and he had called for free speech and a free ballot. [Applause.] What was the effect? The newspapers were crying for peace and agaiast bloodshed at the polls. Why? Becanu3 two white can didates were before the voters. The opportunity for free speech and free ballot had come. Let the negro) em brace it-not because it was thought lie would be put in orice, nor because the supremacy of the race was expected. but becau3c they wanted the equal rights to which they were entitled, and which, he would remark, they never had even before 1876. One of the Democratic parties now existing was composed almost exclu sively of an ignorant rabble. The other embraced the wealthy. educated class, and every man knew the educated, in telligent white man had always been a friend to the negro. Carroll, (interrupting :) "Who divid ed the Democratic party of South Caro lina so you could have the privilege oi' saying who you could voi for?" .Murray: "It makes no dlifference who divided it. 1 rejoice ini the division." [Cheers and laughter.] Carrol: "Don't you think the man who divided it ought to be rewarded ?" Murray: "'Let us reward men for what they did intend to do, not for what they have done. [Shouts of laugh ter and cheers.] Though Tillman may be credited with the division of the white people of South Carolina his in tention wvas not to benefit the negro. Hie boasts that he has a rille now in his parlor with which he killed negres at Hamburg and Ellenton." [Cheers: "Hurrah for Ben Tillman." Great laughter.] Carroll: "Haven't a majority of Democrats gone into oflice since '76 by boasting of what they did in '70 ?" Murray: "Senator Hampton and other gentlemen boasted of their war records, of their contests with Northern soldiers, equally armed, but when Ben Tillman was pressed to say wvhy he should be Governor he boasted of his achievements at Hamburg and Ellen ton an&inst defeneeless negroes." [Shouts of applause.] Carroll: '-Didn't th e so-called Straightouts do the same thing?" Murray: "In all cases where negroes have been lynched, in all cases where they have been assassinated, it has been by the poor whites led on by men like Ien Tillman." [Uproarious cheering and applause, delegates waving hats, chairs, etc.] Carroll: "Were they not led on by aristocrats as well as comnmon men ? Murray: "I expect that every negro when he looks through the jury which is totry him and sees two aristocrats on itknows that he uns a chance, but when he sees the jury composed of such men as are following Tilman lie knows he is doomed. [Cheers and laughter.] When every man can go to the polls and have his vote counted, when he can secure his rights withou~it applying to the National Government, when that day comes, I expect to see some colored men Republicans and some Democrats. WVhen we crowd all white men into one party and colored meni into another, South Carolina will be filled with murder and bloodshed. We do not favor the IHaskell movement be cause we expect Repubilican o'r negro ascendancy, but because the colored people will hold the balance of power, and both white parties will make fair terms with them." E. B. White, recently of Louisiana, wished the negro vote divided. IHe was proud of Mr. IIaskell, prouid of the line race of white men who had been ruling South Carolina for years. Let us all rush along together, ed~ca to his kind. The nig niggers up with the h;: white folks; the little niggers down wvith the little white folks. [Shouts of laughter.] Mr. IIaskell had not asked the negro to vote, anti he should wait until lie was asked. Each of these parties said the whites must rule. But the fact was that the rich men were going to rule. Neither the poor white devils nor the poor niggers were gomirg to have a show. Education was a pow er, character was a poer but money was the greatest power of all. !ie gave an amusing snuary of the situation from his standploiur1. When you are in your virtuous couch you hear a gentle knocking at your dour. There stands the poor white with up li ted hand (indicating the hawlI mn the act of pulling a trigger.) ie can shoot a nigger a nule off. Next morning the aristocrat looks at your body and says: - oor fellow, he was a good cotton hand," and that's all. [Cries of laugh ter.] I won't tell you any lie. If I was living here, before I'd join either side I would want tnrkey You've been hungry fourteen years. in Louisiana the niggers get turkey when they vote with the whites. Caldwell, of Orangeburg, said he would vote for anybody the Rtepublh can committee recommended, but he didn't fancy Tillman. I. W. Purvis. of Charleston, made an conuent spcch, but without any special point, except that he could not as a Republican consistently support eit her laskell or Tillman. Finally, he was called to order and sat down. J. E. Hfavne. of Berkeley. was glad that for once in South Carolina he had the privilege or ieeting in a Conven tion not controlled by noitticians or dernagogues. He was ?lad the negro in the State had the privilege and the courage to rise above party and refuse to be controlled by a certain class who cared more for themselves than for the whole people of the State. The time h-d come for the negro to reject all such influences. Every man with a thimbleful of common ise should see Iibat there was a providence laid before the negro now. which showd be accepted. iVolitieinsn with their ,:e- fixed on the almigrhty dollar could not see the things. 1t Look men who book to the geood of the pe..ple to do so andl "olvise them.. 'T'here were now in Sooth Caro;ina two distinct elements belonging to a single party. They had hd a.failing out upon certain measures, and those measures were nothing mnre nor less than the pure principles on which their party was founded. Those who had violated those principles were those who were opposed by Mr. Haskell and his party. The negroes wanted all the people of the State to get along with out friction. Ile would give reasons why the Has kcl ticket s.hould he endlorsted and sip pnrted at the pols. Who represerted the progress of the State but the las kell movement? But they could iot protect their own interests and those of his followers without protecting the interpsts of those. who supported them in this struggle. A man was grateful to those who came to him in time of need. If the bet icr class of voters would rally and maintain the Govern nent in the hauds of those who now control it the troubles which had vex ed the State would be removed. Experience would show how to cor rect existing evils. The idea had gone out that the negro was anxious to get control of the State as i'n the past. The white man who asserted that did not know the negro. The better class of negroes were as much opposed to negro rule of the State as the better I class of whites were opposed to its con trol by Mr. Tillmnan. [Applause.] They had sense enough to know that the people who paid the taxes must control, but they wished that those who in future controlled should do so in the interest of the whole people; that fair laws should le! passed; that they would be remembered in the jury box and in the executive department. The negro simply wanzed to stand in ths hall, not with a majority, but with a fair representation, so that he could voice the sentiment of his people as no other man could do. If he could do it legally and could cast 150,000 votes every one of them would go for Judge Ilaskell and his ticket. [Cheers.] Did the Conferenei remember the platform of 1876 upon which Hampton had been elected? Did they remember what Hampton had said? He promis ed in every county that if the colored people would stand to him he would never forget them and would maintain their rights. Unfortunately Hamp ton's promises had been lost sight of; but Haskell stood to what Hampton had promised; the negroes would not tur.n Democrats, hut they would come so far over as to support that gentle man without one word of solicitation. T. A. Saxon decclared that this Con vention of colored men should act for the colored men irrespective of the Re publican State comumittee. If lie could he would give 70,000 votes to 1{askell. The Democrats had the manhood to say that Tillman had made worse char ges against South Carolina than the backest Rtepublican ever made. de preferred to put the Government in the hauds of the best people of the State rather than in those of this clodhopper. Chappelle said that this Conference had assembled as negroes, not as Re publicans. Durham hailed the day when not only whites but negroes would be divided in the South. Their wite friends did not know them. They didn't want political supremacy, and if to-night by his vote he could restore the State of things existing in the p ist he would not do it, [applause,] and hundreds and thousands of negroes in the State wouldn't do it. [Cheers.] They wanted justice only. Their white friends had made a mistake. They had not given them an opportunity of sup porting them, and when the negroes suported other white men who pre sented themselves the cry of carpet bagger was heard. [Apl~lause.] lie was glad the negro l d the opportunity of showing he was as loyal to his white neighbor as the star to the pole. E. J. Snetter, of Berkeley, said he supposed the idea was it would injure H~askell to endorse him. But he didn't think so. Hie advocated endorsement. Jdmes Robinson, of Columbia, de clared the future hopes of the colored race lay in this great Democratic move meit, lie was independent of the party lash. The State had to have a white Governor arnd the negroes want ed the best man. No matter whom it might offend he favored the Hlaskell ticet. Tillmian wished to change the constitution to, disfranchise the negro. Death wras threatened the colored man who voted for Hlaskell. lie was wijlng to test that question. [Voice: "his is Rlichland County. Go to Laures; go to Edgenleld.") There were men in Edgeheld County who would vote for A. C. Hlaskell in defl ance ot B. R. Tillman. When the murdering begins in this State Tillman won't have much longer to live. [Laughter.1 He hoped the Conference would stand like men and endorse Hlaskell. The negro had crossed in '76 a worse bridge than this. Members were dodging this responsibility and putting it on the ex ecutie comumittee. Tillman could not frighten him from the polls. If Tiihan said the negroes who voted for 1 askeil would have to die, there would ue enough left to see him buried. [Laughter and~ applaiuse.] Hane ofreredl a substitute for the cmnhiitte's resolution: "'Resolved that we recommend the negroes for the betterent of their condition to vote the Hiaskell ticket." The Chair (Prof. Morris) put tihe qIetion of adopting the substitute, an in a breath declared it carried. Much kicking and confusion ensued, a Laurns delegate appeailing from the decision of the chair. The chairman finally said he did not propose to be bulldozed and would't go back on his decision, but for the general satisfac tion wouldl put the question again. There was a storm of yeas and a few sc;tteriig nays and the comimittee was overruled and the substitute adopted. The result was greeted with great en tiusi asm and vociferous cheering. At 'J I'. M. the following address was presented by the comiuiittee charged with preparing it. The address is very long and declares that the real duty of the negro is to do whatever is in his power to overthrow every scheme and plan of the dem a-I gogues and politicians opposed to the general interest of the whole people, and of course both races. This Con vention, now assembled, has no other motive than to advise and discuss dis passionately what It conceives. in com mon with the better classes of both races in the State, to be the course each should take, regardless of race or poli Itics. The address then denounces the ac tion of the late Republican State Con vention in deposing E. M. Brayton from the State chairmanship as the work of demagogues controlling the ring, and that such action did not rep resent tie will nod wishes of the party. It then declares that the Republican party up to this Convention existed practically in the few or many ofice holders under the National Govern ment, and that "an immediate change ought to obtain." The address con tihues: "It is commonly spoken cn the streets and In the newspapers of the State that the negroes were anxious for a sp'lt in the Democratic party, know ing that a split would afford them a splendid opportunity to capturc the State out of the hands of thn present I rulers, and thus plunge it Into ruin and degradation. The gentlemen who hold that view and proniulig.te the saime do not voice the sentiments of any negroes In the Republican party. There ns no cles of citizens anywhere in the United States that are more interested in pure and good government, national and !1 cal, than the negroes. They do not want control of the State, they only ask for fair play In the legislative halls, in the judicial departinents and in the executive branch of the Govern ment. it. in short, the real and ideal principles of the original Hampton Government of '76 are carried out faith fully the negroes would be contended under the circumstances. It should he remembered the negroes have a record in this country that is sacred to them and they are proud of it, and to it at all times and under all circurmstances now they refer." The remainder of the address deals with negro progress since emancipa tion. Murray, of Sumter. moved that the reflection upon the action of the late Republican )nvention be stricken from the address. On motion of a Berkeley delegate Murray's motion was laid on the table. The address was then (eclared adopted, a demand for a division being ignored by the Chair. Fordham offered a resolution for the appointment :f a committee of five to wait upon Governor Richardson and request him to give the Republican party representation upon the board of election commissioners. Saxon opposed the resolution as being inexpedient and unnecessary, saying that the ballot-boxes would be looked after and sufliciently guarded without any action in the matter by this body, and upon Saxon's motion the resolution was laid on the table. A motion was then made that Mr. Ellery M. Brayton be invited to address the -Convention, which was greeted by loud and enthusiastic cries of "Bray ton! Brayton!" Jones, of Charleston, opposed the motion. This being a colored men's Convention he objected to any white man being invited to address it. Hayne, of Charleston, took issue with his colleague and made an earnest ap peal in behalf of the motion to hear an address from Mr. Brayton, which mo tion was then adopted, and Brayton was escorted to the stand and intro duced to the Convention by the Rev. R. E. Wall, who had just taken the chair. By tlis time the Convention was in an uproar, caused by the oppo nents of Brayton, some of whom a eemed determined he should not be allowed to speak. Muiirray, of Sumter, jumped to his feet and wildly demanded recognition by the Chair upon a question of privi lege. Murry was greeted by cres of "Put him out." The utmost confusion and excitement prevailed. Delegates mounted the chairs, yelling and wildly gesticulating. Murray dared anyone to lay hands upon him, is friendls crowded around him and exposi ulated with him, but in vain, he declaring, with an oath, that Brayton shor.ld not speak until he had beeni heard. At this juncture a riot seemed imminent, and the chairman, who was powerless to enforce order, upon the suggestion of a reporter, requested Mr. Paul Joiner, the speciai State House police officer, to remove Murray from the hall. Mr. Joyner at once forced his way through the crowd, and taking Murray by the coat collar attempted to push and drag him toward the door. The obstreperous Sumter delegate vigorous ly resisted. His frIends clo::ed in around him, blocking the way to the door and a general scuflle ensued, which continued for several minutes, the of ficer finally being compelled to relin quish his hold upon Murray, who re mained in the hall surrounded and pro tected by his friends. Prof. Morris here resumed the chaIr and by a few calm remarks poured oil upon the troubled waters, Murray be ing finally prevailed upon to take his seat. M.Baton w as then introduced to the Convention and proceeded to speak, and was listened to respectfully and attentively. He paid his respects to the State Convention which had dleposed hhni from the State chairmanship. The corrupt agencies employed to control that convention could not, he declared, be approved or endorsed by the party. He then turned his attention to the present political crisis. No one, he said, could tell what the outcome would be, but he felt sure that out of the breach in the Democratic party there would result good for the whole peo pe, good to both races. lHe didn't be lieve there was a Republican in the State that had not rejoiced over the way in which the Tillman movement had swept the State, and that they had also rejoiced in the fact that the mino rity of the Democratic party had risen in opposition to the movement. It opened the eyes of the white people, had aroused a spirit of independent ismn. and the result in the future would be a better condition of things in this old hide-bound State of South Carolina. He expressed the belief that the change which would result from the present political crisis would bring about a de gree of toleration and conservatism which would give the negroes rights and justice now denied them, and that the pledges made by Hampton and his party in 1876 would yet be fulillied. At the conclusion of Mr. Drayton's speech Murray, of Sumiter, denounced: the action of the chairman in refusing to accord him a hearing on his ques tion of privilege as ungentlemanly and unprliamientary. He also denounced Brayton. in whose Interest lie declared this Convention had been called. said its princIpal object was to slplit the party in 1892 and he appealed to the meibers of the Convention not to allow themselves to be tied to Bray ton's coat-tails. Prof. Morris gave the lie to the state ment that the Convention had been1 organized to break up the party. Tihe point of order being raised and sustained by the Chair that Murrays personalities were out or order, that abstreperous individual took his seat amid loud cries for Brayton. The Convention then, on motion of Prof. 'Morris, at 11.45 adjourned sine :le.-News and Courier. OBJECT LESSONS IN TARIFF. A Bad Campaign Document For the Uc publican Party. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-Some of the RepublIcan managers are disposed to Ind fault with the retail merchants who tave taken advantage of the new tariff [aw promptly to raise the prices of their wares. They insist that there is no aeed for such an action this fall, because the big dealers in all kinds of merchan ise laid in a sufficient supply for six months to come before the passage of the law, and so can well afford to dis pose of it at old prices. It is an expo nent of greed that the politicians can not condemn in strong enough language. The trouble is that the prompt rise in prices of the common necessaries of life is bringing the Republican tariff home to the masses of voters in a way highly I ansatisfactory to those who made that i tariff. The Congressional Committee j wants to send out a campaign document telling the people that living is going to t be cheaper under the McKinley act, but with higher prices already asked in the retail stores, such an assertion is not ikely to be easily swallowed. In fact, the managers greatly fear that every merchant who has put up his I prices is making Democratic voters out f his customers. It is a pity, they con fess, that the new law did not go into ef feet three or four months ago, or not antil after election, so that its effect up on prices might not have been felt, or that this effect might have had its edge taken off by long familiarity. As it is, vidence is coming in at a rate the corn mittee does not like that increased prices are furnishing object lessons of the Republican tarilf policy which are loing the Democrats a great deal of t good. I Those business men who have not yet put up their prices are many of them lso open to Republican criticism, for they are filling the advertising columns f the newspapers with advice to the people to "buy now," before the figures re forced up by the new tariff. This is almost as bad as charging the higher rates at once, for it is a notice that the tariff will increase the cost of living. Taken altogether, the high protective tariff is not as good a campaign docu ment as the Republican leaders wish it Was. THE NUPTIALS ARE OFF Tho Daughter of the Confederscy Will Not Wed.} SYRACUSE, N. Y., Oct. 14.-The en- 1 agement of Miss Winnie Davis, the Daughter of the Confederacy," to Mr. Alfred Wilkinson, of this city, which was announced less than six months ago, and which created so great a surprise inl t all sections of the country, will never be onsummated. Very intimate friends I of Miss Davis here authorize this state ment. They assign as the cause the ill- I health of the young lady. Now,that the rumor first started from 1 the South, as it should properly, friends i of both are less reticent regarding the I matter. It seems that Miss Davis has not been i in good health for some time, and that J he went abroad for the purpose of re- t ruiting her strength. Her trip was bene Rcial, but it did not restore her fully to ealth. Her mother and her intimate friends feel that nnder these circum stances it were best that the prospected t marriage should be annulled, and this step was most reluctantly taken by Mss Davis. On the other hand, some of Mfr. Wilk inson's friends are of tihe opinion thati the recent reverse of his family, his mod 2rate income, and the still more recent burning of the old homestead, had somei weight mn shaping Mi1ss Winnie's decis ion. There is general regret ,here that1t the match will not take place, inasmuch as it would have been one of the most re markable and romantic marriages on re cord. MIr. Wilkinson has had nothing to say about the matter, even to his most inti mate friends, and conducts himself ad-' mirably under the trying ordeal. Ie re-t fuses to be interviewed on the subject, and seems much engrossed in businiess. The statement is made in a local pa per that some time ago a prominent ~entleman of this city received a request from the South for information con eerning M1r. Wilkinson. The failure of the Wilkinson family was particularly inquired into. This was thought by some to be quite signiticant at the rLime. StorIes or shockizug Crueities. CONsTANTINOPL E, Oct. 14.-Dispatch as received here say that a party of Ar menians and Druses attacked the bar racks at Silensia, syria, and blew up a portion of the buildings. Forty Turkish soldiers were killed. The Armenians then invaded the government building, killed tile Governor and robbed the treas ry of its contents. From there they proceeded to the prison, which they car ried by the storm, liberating .all the pris oners-. VIENNA. Oct. 15.-A dispatch fronm Constantinople states that the arrests of Armenianis are still being made, and that many of those who have been taken into custody have been shoekingly mal treated and tortured. Among the other eruelties to which the prisoners have been subjected is withholding from them of ali food. They have also been ceprived of sleep. Persons suspected of disloyalty are arrested upon information being lodged] Igainst them by any spy. An Armei-( an recently arrested for attempting to nurder a priest in thle Koomakapoon huarter of Constantinople was to-dayj ound dead in his cell. It is allegedt :hat his death was the result of tortures nfited upon himl. T[he oflicials at Vau. Armenia, are 1 til burning Turks. and outrages upont :rinllians here are of frequent occur ~ence. Secured Freedom. SPAnTANInino, S. C., Oct. 1.-There vas great excitement created on the ~tret this moring by the annlounce nlent that the jail had been broken open mid a numbler of the prsnr had escap d. A representative of The Register ,ent immaediately to the jail, and found lit eight of the sixteen prisoners had otten out. They were all in the day ~oom on wvhich the various cells open and aking advantage of the temnporary ab ence of the Sheri ff and his deputies they ore down one of the massive cell doors, md~ using that as a battering ram sue eeded in breaking down tile door to the ay room. They then descended to the ' ~rund floor and picked the lock off a ack door and freed themselves. They C ere discovered by the negro cook just is they were issuing fronm the jail. She d rave the alarm, but before the Sheriff I ould be summoned they had all gotten 1: vel away. Chase was immediately o iven. At this hour three o: Lthem have Jeen retaken. Considerable 'excitement a prevailed, as several of the escap'e' pris- ' >ners are known to be des gerate charac ers. There is parties out in every direc zion searching the country, and all thec prisoners will soon be retaken.-Column THE NEXT HOUSE. :STiMAYES INDICATE A DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY OF EIGHTEEN. Iut it Ymy be Larger--Three Great Is suc3-Warfarc Against Protectica andt the Centralization of Power to Be Ccn tinued at the Polls. WASINGTON, Oct, 14.-Three weeks ,ence the voters of the United States ill pass in judgment upon the Harri on administration and the record of he Fifty-first Congress at its iirst ses Ton. The Cromwellian rule of Speaker iee&, the economic policy of Major Mc inley and the Lodge force bill are ach oi thei distinctive feature of the iepubAican policy and are to be ap roved or condemned at the polls by he American people. Of all the issues which will tend to hape the result, the new tariff law is ikely to prove the most potent factor in leterwining it, because its effects are so ar reaching and it comes home to every ndividual consumer in the land. Whilei resident Harrison was elected on the rotective tariff issue by a minority of he ropular vote, though a majority in .he electoral college, the Republican eaders never intimated that they pro )osed to go to the, lengths of the neas. re that has just become a law. The bill has been passed despite the yrotests of large and important element if the population. Already its effects re being felt. Prices are slowly but teadily going up on articles of almost iniversni consumption. On the other and wages have riot acted in sympathy vith prices. The home industries, vhich are expected to receive such an nipetus by reason of the new tariff. annot experience it until the large tock of foreign goods which has been aid in becomes exhausted. The effect of all this must operate to! he detriment of the Republicans, and owhere more than in the agricultural tates of the West, where the farming aterests are greatly depressed. Sena ors Paddock of Nebraska, Pettigrew of outh Dakota and Plumb of Kansas ealizs d this fully when they Toted gainst the McKinley bill on Its final )assage, and in doing so they represent d the views of their constituents. The tbsence of harsh criticism of their rotes in the columns of the Republican >apers in those States proves this in :ontestably. The force bill has had the effect of ierving up the Southern Democrats to a upreme effort and very few Republi ans will sit in the next Congress from hat section. So strong is the feeling >n the subject that Mr. McComas, who as been repeatedly elected to represent ,he Sixth Districi of 3Maryland as a lepulican, is thought this year to be n danger of defeat. The same thing ill :Fpply to Congressman Brower of Sorth Carolina, who has twice been dected as a Republican. No efforts vill be spared by the Democrats in the iouth to carry every district possible nd an increased.Democratic represen ,ation may be expected. In this connection it is advisable to ;ouch on a movement which is attract ng widespread attention and which is xpected to play an important part in ,he future politics of the country. I efer to the Farmers' Alliance. The Iepulicans are laying the flattering inction to their souls that through this edge they will be able to break up the olid South and perhaps prevent the emocrats from organizing the next Ious:.. In this they are likely to be )adly deceived. True, in many districts in the South, liance men have defeated Democratic reterns for the nomination. This tappened in six of the ten Georgia dis ,its. But it was merely a primary :ontest, and the nominees are running ts Democrats and with the understand ng tLat they will participate in the )emocratic caucus. They well know hat to prove recreant to this pledge rould doom them to future political >blivmon. The Southern Alhiance Dem >crats will stand by their party. But in the Western States the Re >ublicans are trying to utilize the alli me and withisome success. In several tates. in close and doubtful districts, hey have indorsed alliance candidates >r h'ave secured the nomination of alli tce candlidates who had been lifelong tepubicans. This is notably the case n the Eighteenth Illinois district, ,vhere the President of the Farmers' lliance of that State is the Republican andidate for Congress. This coquetting of the Rcpuiblicans vith the alliance men may lose a few listricts to the Democrats, but only erv Jew, for most of the Western itaes are Republican and have been :arefully gerrymandered in the Repub ican interest, and where there is a )emocratie district it is usually large y Democratic. The Oliio Democrats nve adopted the system this year and >ropose to try it, and great is the wail ng and gnashing of teeth among the ollowers of the grandl old party at that they are pleased to term the "in ~aeus D)emocratic gerrymander." The following ligures will show the ituation at a glance: First we will ake the South. In the present Con ~ress :rom thait section the Democrats av 104 members and the Republicans .7; in the next Congress the Democrats vil likely have 107 and the Republi ans 14, being a gain of 3 for the Demo rats in the South. In 1888 the Demo rats lost one of the Baltimore districts >y carelessness, Stockbridge, Republi an, defeating Raynor, Dem.ocrat, by 0 votes. 31r. Raynor is again ai candi ate and will surely be eltecd. Thle 'ifth district of M1aryland, carried by ampton, Democrat, by 121 votes in 888 (he was afterward unseated,) has een strengthened by the addition ot a )eocratic ward of Baltimore. While he Democrats are hotly contesting the ith district, lieComas, Rep'ublican, tad to win. In Virginia Professor agton is likely this year to carry he Petersburg district on his merits, et thiere are two Repubican candi ktes in the Norfolk district and the ivisioui of thle vote is likely to result a the return of a Democrat. in l orth Carolina the Democrats ave a good prospect of regaining~ either he Fifth or Ninth districts. Brower, tepublican, c:arried the former in 1888 v only 675 votes, and Ewart the latter v 518. The vote in both districts was full one. Cheatham, the only origi Lal colored memnber of the House, car-1 ied the Scond district by hut 653, but is district is Republican. The Second district of Louisiana, art of the city of Newv Orleans, was arried by Coleman. Republican, in 83 by 174 majority. It was entirely ue to D~emocratic dissension andl the istrict this year will go heavily Demo ratic. In Kentucky the Legislature has re istricted the State and all the strono tepublian counities have been massea r one district. This assures a gain of ne member to the Democrats. The Legislature of Tennessee has iso redistricted that State and the hird, or Chattanooga district, which eturned a RepubncaIn in 1888 by 28$ ajority, had a thousan~d more Demo ratic voters put into it. The Republicans elected four meme iers to the presnt Congress from M1is sourj. inree or Tnein were irom z. Louis districts heretofore represented by Democrats. It is safe to assume that at least one of them will be re :leemed. Four Democrats were returned from West Virginia in 1888 by small majori Ies. two of whom have since been un seated. It is fair to divide the -delega lion eqally between the parties at the comir',s election, considering how close the State is. In Arkansas the Republicans are Likely to gain a member. They had none at the opening of the present Con 7ress, but unseated two Democrats. So the result of the estimate shows a net loss to the Republicans of three and a net gain to the Democrats of three in sixteen Southern States. In the Eastern States the Democrats'. now have 28 Conrressman, while the Republicans have.67. It is expected in the approaching election that the fig ures will stand about as follows: Democrats 31, Republicans 64, being a gain of 3 members for the Democrat&s Maine has already voted and elected four Republicans. In New Hampshire the Democrats have a fair prospect of' electing one member, as they have also_ n Rhode Island, but both are conceded to the Republicans in the estimate. In Massachusetts only the two Boston listricts are put down as Domocratic, though the Democrats have hopes of :thers. The delegation is left tin :hanged. In Connecticut a gain of one flistrict can be safely claimed by the Democrats. In several Congresses they have had three members. The Repub icans carried the first; third and fourth :listricts in 1888 by 813, 748 and 26 ma jority respectively. In New York the Democrats are z'nv. :ee;ed a gain of one distric*. They lost the Fifteenth District in 1888 by 74 votes. In the Buffalo distiict John M. Farquhar has been left out in the cold, and against the present Republi -an nominee Mr. Dan Lockwood, the Democrat., can win. In the Thirty third the Republicans are as badly di vided as in 1888, when John Wiley car ried the district by 564. Many helieve that the Republicans will lose the Ro ehester district, owing to the unpopu larity of their nominee, Dan Voorhis. Mr. Greenleaf, the Dmocratic candi date, beat him several years ago. In New Jersey the Democrats are sure of the three districts they now hold, and are likely to capture the Newark district. In Pe'nnsylvania the bolt against Delamater. Senator Quay's candidate for Governor, is likely to affect the close districts, and in one of them, the Twenty-fifth, two Republicans are in the field, so that a Democratic gain of one is not an unreasonable claim. From this section. including New England and New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. a Democratic gain of three and a Republican loss of three is claimed to be the probable result. Lastly, the Western section or the country, embracin the nineteen re maining States. Six of these-North and South Dakota. Montana. Washing ton, Wyoming and Idahe-id not vote in 1S88, though the first four'id in 1889 and their Representatives par icipated in the organization of the present House. In this seetion-a gain for-the-emo crats of eight members can be confi, dently expected, and a corresponding loss by the Republicans, and when the test of political probabilities is applied to this claim it-will be readily seen that it is a conservative one. In Ohio a Democratic gain of seven members is a very conservative claim. In the present Congress there are but live Democrats froni- Ohio to sixteen Republicans. The "infamous" gerry mander which produced this result has been duplicated by the recent Demo eratic Legislature, with the shoe on the other foot, and fifteen districts have been constructed with Democratie ma jorities ranging from six hundred to three thousand. Six districts were made heavily Republican, in some of. the districts the Democratic majority is small, notably in the Sixth, Eighth and Thirteenth. wvhere it does not ex eeed 1,000, and so these districts are conceded to the Republicans in-the esti mate. Moreover, the Republicans them seives concede eleven districts to the Democrats, and say that if they can keep the Democrats down to that figure they will have won a great Republican victory. in 1888 the Indiana Democrats car ried ten of the thirteen Congressional D~istricts. Six of the ten, however, were carried by less than 750 plurality, four of them by less than 500, and t wo of them by less than 100 plurality, the First District ~by 20 votes and the Eighth by 09. It is well known that t~he Republican managers sacrificed everything to secure the electoral vote rof the State for Harrison. It is there tore safe to assume that the Republi eans will gain two districts this year, and they are accorded that in the esti mate. In Michigan a gain of one is assured to the Democrats. In 1888 they lost the Sixth District by only 367, and the Tenth, or Bay City District, oy only 113, and in the latter the Republicans put forward their strongest candidate, who is not in the field this year. In Wisconsin the only gain claimed for the Democrats is the Milwaukee district. That city elected a Demnocra tic mayor this spring by over 6,000 ma jority, and on an issue which is the issue in this campaign. WVhile the D emocrats have nominated the million aire John Michell as their candidate. the present Rlepuublican member. Van schaick, who has never met defeat, would not consent to run again. ie dropped out once before when Democratic success was assured. In Iowa a gain of one is claimed from the Republicans. Last year Governor Boles carried live of the el -ven districts in the State. Certainly one of these should elIect a Democrat this year. The Io'va liistrict, now held by the Democrats,t.nd the two held by thema in Wisconsin a're largely Democratic and safe. T he abov e are the only Western Staites in w hich any Democratic gains ire cl aid, though there is a good prospect of defeating the Republican :adidates in both the First and Fourth ilifornia districts, now represented in Jongress by Republicans, The esti arte is intended to be conservative. tid gives to the Republicans everV hing they can possibly hope to carry. To sum up, the Republicans cannot wope to secure more than fourteen ntemblers in the South, sixty-four in he East and seventy-nine in the West, mad to secure this representation they tre accorded nearly every doubtful dis riet. The representation will then tand nearly as follows: Republicans. Democrats. inst.............864 31 ,Vest...........793 outh...........14 107 Total........157 175 Democratic majority at lowest calcu A n insane P'rinter MUNICE, Ind., Oct. 10.-Win.Shumm, printer on the Miunice Times, laid his mead on the Big? Four track, near Sali la this conty, and wa decapitated by i freight train. He leaves a widow md eightschildren in destitute circum itances. He was made insane by set Ling up the description of a murder