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VOL. IX. MANNING, S C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 71 ALL.N TO HEWITT. THE MISSISSIPPI 'HUMORIST TAKES HIS INNING. Patterson's Apology lor Southerners Re pudist-d by Aller, but the Apologist is Excused tar C.uine-Fles ftr Pa'rlot sam WASHINGTON. Feb. 28-In the course of his speech in the House today Representative Allen of Mitsissippi said: I was pained beyond measure to read a few days ago in the public press that Hon. Abram Hewitt of New York did not regard me as great as Calhoun, Slidell, Soule and some of the rest of those men who preceded me. (Laugh ter.) No, that is a revelation to me. I had never suspected that I was not as -great as those men, until Mr. Hewitt said so. (Lauguter.) Mr. Bryan: Maybe he does not know you personally. Mr. Allen: That is the trouble. He does know me personally. That is where it stings. (Laughter.) It is ut terly withcut excuse. The truth is, I regard Mr. Hewitt's remark as some what personal to me, because I was to have spoken at the very dinner at whichhedelivered this speech. (Laugh ter.) And one of the great obstacl s in my meeting the approval of Mr. Hewitt is that while Mr. Hewitt is one of the best of men when he is asleep, he is tr~oubled some with insomnia. (Great laughter.) I have one consolation, when I think of myself and the great majority of my colleaguts from the South having in curred his displeasure, and that conso lation grows out of the fact that hav Ing known Mr. Hewitt for some years and hiving talted with him freely, I have never known any man or set of men wbo entirely met his approval, except Mr. Hewitt himself. (Laugh ter.) If he had liyed in the days when common scolds were ducked, Mr. Hew itt would have been drowned before this. (Laughter.) - Mr. Chairman, the people of the South have had a great deal to endure. I shall not refer to the fact that they passed througha terrible war for I think that has been referred to here once be fore. (Laughter)- But sir, they have had a great deal to contend with since that time. They have had drought, cyclones, simoons, epizootic in the horses, tuberculosis in the cattle, chol era among the hogs and the chickens they have had various diseases and pes tilences, they have seen their crops depreciate, they have had to contend with mortgages when they .ja& no money to pay them, but througnout all these trials and tribulations, they have exhibited something of a brave and courageous spirit; and now, just to think that the one thing cherished most of all others, the one sustaining prop that they had amid all these dis asters, the idea that Mr. Hewitt ap proved them-to think that that last prop is taken away, and that, after all, Mr. Hewitt does not approve them. (Laughter.) Why, gentlemen, rather than have nad this cruel disaster come upon my people, I would have paid a silver dollar out of my own pocket. (Laughter.) Mr. Chairman, I am sorry to see that my friend from Tennessee, Col. Pat terson, is not in his seat, because I want to say a word to him. He Is my neigbbpr- and my friend. He is an honeantelligent, hard working rep resentative. I do not know that I would refer to the matter Iam going to talk about now, if it had not already been mentioned in this debate. I sim ply wish to repudiate, so far as I am concerned, the apology which the gen tieman from Tennessee is said to have made for me and my sort in respond ing to ex-Mayor Hewitt's speech in New York lately. I have here what purports to be a re port of.Col Patterson's speech. I will read a few extracts from it. After - stating that the Southern Representa tives in Congress were generally op posed to the financial view of New York,. he went on to make these re marks. He was speaking in New York, and I confess It is right hard for a man to maintain the parity between a speech that is acceptabie in New York and one that woald be acceptable to his con stituents In Hlardeman county, Ten nessee. (Laughter.) He said: "For more than twenty years, every State platform has contained a plank for the free coinage of silver. Tthese men have been brought up to believe in it with out question. They believe it. They are bound to believe it, just as the Bap tist, the Catholic, or the Presby terian, without ever reading in the Bible, is ouie because his father was. So these doctrines have become a part of the Democratic belief there, and these fel lows have followed them blindly. (Laughter.) I was In the same condi tion when I1 went to Congress. (Laugh ter.) I believed in free silver and lots of other things." I suppose the gentle man has ceased to believe anything now. (Laughter.) "But I soon began to study these things, and under the leadership of Grover Cleverand, who is' the only man in the country who coula have piloted the ship of State through these stormy times, I learned the cor rect j~rinciples of soutid currency. (Great laughter.) These other men of/ the South are true Democrats and they love their country." I thank him for that,- said Allen. He says further: "They bave simply followed tradition." Ahlgentlemen let me toil you that when you separate yourselves from the doc trines of Democracy aayou have learned and held them from the time you were born qpto the present, when you cut yourselves loose from the proud tradi tions of that party and set out to study under some new prophet, you are very liable to get tangled in your Democratic harness. (Laughter.) I confess, Mr. Chairman, that I have been brought up to believe in some of these things by traditions, but unlike my triend Irom Tennessee, Col Patter son, I studied publie questions before I came to Congress. (Laughter.) I came here because, I had studied them. That is why my people selected me out and sent ine her e. They did not send me to Congress to schooi, as Col. Patterson seems to have been sent. (Laughter.) They sent me here to maintain, and carry out as far as I could, the great ~)emocratic principles that they had re ceived from their rathers, and 1 hope by the help of God and the constituency in the First Congressional district of Mis sissippi to do it. (Laughter and ap plause.) Col. Patterson says further: "Mr. Carlisle has said that he did not mind having Lhe seignirsage coined. If that bill becomes a law it-geis not mean disaster. It may be a mistake- 1LJ only the last gun of a retreating armY. The men in Ne w York who dread free silver are unnecessarily alarmed." And elsewhere he says: "If the bill to coin the seigniorage passes, it is merely to let these Southerrners go off the field of battle with their side arms." (Laugh? ter.) Mr. Chairman, we have asked no terms. We have not asked to be per mitted to carry off our side arms. We have not asked to be permitted to ire the last gun of a retreating army. So far as I am concerned, I do not believe that the retrat has begun at all. I do not believe that we are yet ready to capitulate on this questin. Now I want to say a word for Col. Patterson, as he is not here to say it for himself. E I desire. so far as I am concerned, to repudiate the gentleman's apology made for me. 1 owe no apology to the people of New York; I do not propose a to make any, and I do not propose to have any made for me. But I do not think any man ought to be heid down to a very rigid acconut for an after dinner speech at a banquet. Why, sir, I recollect not long ago I went to a banquet in Baltimore, where every- c thing was so good, where I was sur rounded by so many rich met, that by s, the time it came my turn to speak I felt so well I addressed them as ',fellow capitalists." (Laaghter.) Therefore t beware of the irfluences surrounding a s banquet- If I were not perfectly fa- a miliar with the abstemious habits of my friend from Tennessee I would ] have thought on reading this sDeech n that he had gotten somewhat under the sante influence that another Ten nesseean did that a traveling man told h me about. The story was about a rag- b ged, stedy, hard looking fellow, who 4 learned that the traveling man knew his brother living in Kaufman county, t Texas. The Texas brother was well off, and the Tennesseear asked the ti traveling man if he ever saw his brother again to tell him that he was sl hard up, and that if he was ever going a to do anything for him that was the ti time. Under the influence of two or three drinks, however, things began to brighten with him, and the last the traveling man heard from him was the request to tell his brother in Texas u that if he wanted anything, "just to draw on me." (Laughter.) "Now. un der the influence of one of thess New i York banquets," said Mr. Allen, "with E all they have good to eat, and the ac companiments, one feels, by the time, speaking begins, like telling the rest of the world to draw on him. (Laughter.) i( Therefore. I, on my own motion, would never quote a banquet speech on any- L body, because 1 do not think it is ex actly the square thing." In conclusion Mr. Allen said: "I q would that I had the eloquence of the chairman of the committee on ways G and means, Wilson of West Virginia, 1 in his last appeal here for tMe passage b of his tariff bill. I would like to invoke the Democratic patriotism of our t, Democratic colleagues. I do not claim that a vote for this bill is the roll of h honor, but 1 do claim that in the con- f dition with which we find ourselves h surrounded today, the roll of honor be longs to those Democrats who are will ing to let a Democratic Congress do ie business of this Congress, and I do not believe any man can claim a place upon the Democratic roll of honor who stands here longer and gives his pres ence and his influence to filibustering c tactics that keep us here and make a a spectacle, as has been made, of our- a selves." (Applause.) HOPE FOR THE WHITE METAL. jr 11 Germsny is Weaking -Lstin-Americlan - a: Countrles Wil Consoldate. o WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-Important r and intere3ting infrmauon as to the present financial monetary question is it derived from Signor Romero, te Mex- 0 ican minister to the United btates. In response to irquiries from a rep- e resentative of the Sauthern Associated I Press, who called his attention to the published stategients that Englatd Ger- q many and France were about to take the I iitiative in calling a new monetary con- fa ference to consider the silver f; question, Mr. Rtomero said: "The S cretary of the Treasury of ~ the' Mexcan government mnformed me a by a personal letter, dated January 19, V 1894, that according to private advices tl the German government was leaning to wards a policy regarding silver which si would Drove favorable to that metal, e and that it was almoist sure that the in- o; ternational conference would convene again with better chances of favor ible C results. As long as the United States v or any of the commercial nations of Eu- ti rope take steps to promote the interesta I~ 01 silver, it becomnes the Laitin-Ameri- Y can nations using that metal as money to keep in the back ground and f->llowd the lead of others.a "But if the information should prove incorrect, the situation of Siates using silver as money becomes so difficult that s, they will have to take the question into ,y ther own hands and come to some coo- si 'usion as'far as they are able to do so, with a view to prevent further decine in y the prise of silver and to awaken the in c terest of the financial world on the sub- n ject. It is likely that some of these na- e tions will convene a conference c f the a States using silver as a money, among0 which all the Latin-American States will be included, as well as some of the East ern nations, in order to study the ques- it tion and come to an agreement with a b view to attaining the result." r "This is a burning question, not only p to Mexico, but to all the silver ccuntries p of the world. It is imposible for Mex- ti ico to demonetize silver, because that n wtuld brieg universal ruin to us, and e rather than accept ruch an extra meas- h use, we would make up cur minds to de- I pend upon our own resour ces. Fortuna tely we can produce enough agricultural articles of all the zones to supply cure wants, although our manufactures are et crude, they would receive great im pulse by the high rates of exchan.ge. h "The commercial nations of Europe si are more particularly concerned in the ( question by the high prices of exchange, 8 for the diflerence between the price of tj gold and silver constitutes such a great t: bounty to exports of the commodities of silver countries, which are produced at 4l silver prices and sold on the old markets ~ at gold prices, and this so increases the price of foreign manufactures, that :it c creates a great incentive to revelop home industries s)> that whu~e increasing the y expo ris of silver countries to gold mark- 3j ets, the deprecittion of silver seriously t: cripples the exports of Europe into the r siver countries." t: Mr. Romeo's views on this matter, are shared by the diplomatic represen- d tatives ot other Latin-American coun- n tries. It. is pointed out as a hopeful sigo that the German government already has a commission considering the suh ject, over which the Secretary of the ~ Imperial Treasury presides. Among i the questions presented to that commis sion were those of keeping stable the price of silver, and the best basis for an agrement of nations on the subject. I -ne changed attitude of European na- a tioa,. it is suggested, may be due to the I discove'r.that the Latin-American na- S tons are seritiT considering '.he prob- f able effect of concerad iflorts on their part for the purpose oi deiending silver Lt as been poisted out that these coun ins are getting tired of paying twtelve pence ;interest on their bonds instead of six pence, and that they were deter~ mined to resist absolutely a further im rease in the rate of interest, whicht wu b r mae by a futher fall in si1- 1 'HE WRANGLE STILL ON. LAND CAP TURES A QUORUM ONLY TO LOSE IT ut Prosp:cts of au E srly Ending of the Dead Lck are Brighter.-Hated Collo quy Between Reed and Crisp CreAtes Excitement. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-After the Ill of Committees for their reports, :ilgore offered a resolution, which he tid ought to be a matter of privilege. it were not. It was read for infor iation. It recited the law requiring ie sergeant-at-arms to withhold the dlary of a Representative who was bsent, except on account of sickness t himself or a member of his family. 'hat at this session of Congress many iembers had been absent, and he call I upon the sergeant-at-arms to report hether or not the law in this respect ad been obeyed by him, and if he had een derelict therein to report why. He 'as also asked if in his opinion the w could not be enforced, to inform ie House the reason thereof. Reed made the point that the resolu on did not present a matter of privi ge the way it was drawn. It was mply a resolution, asking an offic',r E the House his opinion upon a ques on of law. Speaker Crisp called the attention af :ilgore to the fact that the resolution )ntained no allegiance that an officer the House had failed to do his duty ader the rules or under the law,which as necessary to make it a privileged Latter. It was simply a resolution of iquiry directed to an officer of the Eouse. Kilgore thereupon withdrew ie resolution. Bland moved that the House go into )mmnittea of the whole upon his seign rage bill and that general debate be osed at 3 o'clock on Thursday. On is motion, the vote by division was 7 to 19. Tracey. made the point of no orum and the yeas and nays were lied. Before the result of the vote as announced, Livingston (Dem.) of eorgia said he desired to submit a Lotion. Rule 8, he said, required mem. !rs present, unless excused, to vote pon every proposition presented to ie House. The gentleman from New Iork (Tracey) had refused to vote and e demanded that he be brought be >re the bar of the House and explain is refusal to vote. Johnson (Dem.) of hio said he had a list of twenty-tive embers who had violated the rule, hich he offered to send to the desk. The chair stated that the rule was ell known. The chair could not en orce the rule otherwise than by ap aling to members to observe it. The iair was but 'the organ of the House d would never make a rule unless athorized and directed so to do by the [ouse. [Applause.] Boatner (Dem.) of Louisiana argued t support.of Mr. Livingston's motion. ; was, he said, an effort to bring a uember to answer to a wilful contempt ad violation of the rules. The House ght to determine here and now hether or not a member can defy its iles. The obsir stated that under the rules was his duty to announce t result a vote. The result was: Yeas 169, ays 5; 5 short of a quorum. It was I Lid that five supporters of Bland fail I to get their votes in, because they 1 'ere not in the hall of 'the House 1 hen called. These, in addition to iose recorded, would have made a orum. Clancy and Magner of the [ew York delegation, who had hereto >re refrained from voting, voted in uvor of the proposition. The proceedings had been watched 'ith the keenest interest by members, ad espe::lally Republicans, as having 'ithin them the possibility of history aking. When the chair announced I vote, however, and ttie incident was ver, the humdrum of rcutine was re imed, and the members who had been ugerly crowding into the pit in front the clerk's desk, faded rapidly away. Mr. Bland moved a call of the House. n this motion there was first a viva1 ce vote, then a vote by division, ird a vote by tellers-Bland ahd ,ed officiating-and finally a vote by eas and nays. The latter resulted: eas 189, nays 4, So the call was or ered. it showed 265 members present ad responding to their names. On i motion to dispense with further roceedings under the calendar, the me procedure was followed-four sparate votes being taken, ending ith the yeas and nays. The call re ilted: Yeas 183; nays 3. Bland renewed his motion and the sas and nays were called. As the roll ull proceeded, it became apparent to tany that a quorum would be obtain and members keeping tally crowded bout the clerk's desk. Tracey (Dem.) New York occupied the seat, wnich >r two weeg's past, he bas kept tally rith the clerk on roll calls, closely fol >wing the responses to the call When was determined that a quorum had een obtained on the second call of the >1, Tracey voted aye, amid slight ap Lause from the Democratic side, his urpose being, as afterward appeared, >move a reconsideration. The an ouncement of the vote by the Speak r, 177 yeas to 7 nays,evoked a round of earty applause from Democrats and 'opulists. Outhwaite (Demn.) of Ohio and Tra ey (Dem.) of New York were on their et demanding recognition, the form r to present an order from the comn ittee on rules limiting debate on the ending bill and amendments to two ours anid the latter to move a recon tderation of the vote jus'; taken. athwaite was given the fioor and the peaker stated, af ter putting the ques on, that Tracey had interposed a mo Lon to reconsider. Outhwaite demanded the previous estion on his motion, but the yeas rd nays were ordered without a di ison. After a name or two had been aled, Reed precipitated an angry dis ussin,which in intensity equalled the enes in the Fifty-first Congress, when peaker Reed was counting quorums. he gentleman from Maine suggested dat a roll call was out of order, inas ich as the last vote did not disclose de presence of a quorum. The Speaker-By what authority oes the gentleman make that state 1ent ? Reed-I am informed by the gentle ian from New Ysrk (Trace3) that he ept a tally and that it did not Show a uorum voting. The Speaker-The gentleman from 4ew York is not the keeper of the roll r the Hlouse. [Applause.J The clerk rilil proceed with the roll call. Reed persisting, amid cries of "regu ir order," stated that when a member rose and suggested that an error had seen cowomitted, he was entitled to re pectful treatment from the chair aL d rom the House. The Speaker-Has not the gentleman Lad it? There has been no suggestion hat the vote had ben impe-ached by he gentleman from New York. If one gas made, the chair will be glad to Laye it examined in the interest of. hieti exy-Kas proceeding. he members rushed dovwn the aisles to he centre, and Outhwate and McMil n m.) of Tennessee asserted that~ Tracey had accepted the validity And correctness of the vote by moving to reconsider it. His remedy was to have the vote recapitulated, and this he had Liicld to do. "he confusion became so great,mem ber3 shouting at each other and the chair, that the SpeAker suspended pro ceedings until comparative order was restored by members taking their seats. Reed, resuming, stated that be had been out of the hall while the roll was being called, attending a meeting of the committee on rules, at which he unaerstood he was to have an oppor tunity to b? heard on the order report ed, and of course, did not know what had occurred. The gentleman from New York (Tracey) had informed him that a quorum iid not voted and knowing that gentleman had been keeping tally for a number of days without making an error, he *as so much impressed with the statement of the gentleman that he felt it to be his duty to call the attention of the chair and the House to it, that the error might be corrected, if one had been made. McMillin (Dem.) of Tennessee de clared that the gentleman from New ) ork should speak for himself and not by proxy. Meredith (Dem.) of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, there has been a comedy of rrors here, and the gentleman from New York has been In error for some weeks and is in error now. Mr. Tracey endeavored to make him elf heard, and finally succeeded. He said tat It was a matter of but little moment. A quorum would be secured in any event, he conceded. But he had kept what he believed to be a correct tally, and it showed but 174 votes. But he would not unlertake to impeach the accuracy of the official count, whereupon the storm subsided and the oll call proceeded. When the letter T" was reached there was a slight quall. Reed called the attention of he chair to the fact that the clerk, ifter calling Talbert of South Craolina, eturned and called Stockdale of Mis siEsippi, which he said, was out of )rder. The Speaker coincided with the gentleman from Maine, who continued rom the floor: "It le decidely out of >rder. The clerks have no right to nterest themselves in the votes of entlemen on the floor, to back up heir action. But it is only a part of what we have been having right along." Springer (Dem.) of Illinois stated hat Mr.Stockdale had responned when 21s name was called. Speaker Crisp lirected the clerk not to return t9 a iame after it had been passed; it was iot in order. Outhwaite's demand for the previous iUestion was seconded-170 to 10-and igain the friends of the pending bill mxressed their pleasure &t the result )y vigorous hand clapping. On the passage of the order the vote m the division was ayes!145, nays none. rhe ayes and asys were ordered. Be lore the call had proceeded far, how )ver, Burrows and Reed criticised the methods of the.readng clerks Burrors maid the roll was really called four Aimes, every name being repeated on ach roll call, Reed called attention to the fact that the calling was irregular, some names being called once, others wice, and some three times. untl . the -lerk forces an answer. There was no uthority for this they contended. The Speaker stated that he did not now how the practice had grown up )ut ever since he had been in the House :he names had been called twice, when he member failed to answer. The philosophy of the rule, he supposed to De that, with the least nesessary delay, very member should have an oppor :L nity to vote, and arepetition of the ame was probably the best method >f securing that end. Tne vote resulted: Yeas 165, nays L-three less than a quorum-and at o'clock,. on motion o. Oath waite, the Eouse, adjourned until noon tommor A Horrible Tragedy. PITTSBURG, Pa, Feb. 28.-A terri le tragedy was enacted at the Hotel Iffel, at 508 Smithfield street, at 8:30 'cock tonmght, from which Pitcher ,leNabb, of ttie Baltimore club, is dead md Louise Kellogg will likely die from he resus of the wounds received from m pistol in the hands of McNabb. L->uise Kellogg was a member of the lvin Joslin theatrical company, and :ame here from New York today. She net McNabb a short time before 8:30 >n Fifth avenue tonight, and they both went to the Hotel Eiffel, where a room was engaged. A young man named ilen, a friend of both McNabb and ~he Kellogg woman, went up to their oom about 8:30 to call on them. He 2eard the woman groaning, and called for help. As it is right across from the :ity hall, Inspector McEivy and sev ral officers were soon on the scene. rhe door was burst open and a bloody ighlt met their gaze. On the floor lay ~he woman with three bullet wounds a her head and neck. McNabb was ying beside her with two shots through ~he head that killed him almost instant y. The woman was taken to the Eomeopathic Hospital. She can hard ty recover. McNabb's body was re moved to the morgue. There was a fire a few doors above the hotel at the time acNabb did the shooting This caused much excitement in the vicinity, and bhhotel people did not even hear the shots fired. McNabb evidently meant murder when he went to the room, for ae was only there a short time before de did the shooting. Louise Kellogg's right name is Mrs. R. E. Rock well, and she has a husband living at Seattle, Washington. Kel logg was her stage name. Her parents Live at Braddock, near this city. Unless she regains consciousness, the cause of the shooting may never be known. Louise Kellogg, or Mrs. W. E. Rock well, the woman's right name, is the wife of the president of the '.aliforma baseball league. From what could be learned from young Gillen, after the shooting, Miss Kellogg was endeavoring to break off her relations witn Mci abb. A number of letters belonging to Miss Kellogg showed that she had been keeping McNabb supplied with money the past few months. The company se was with disbanded some time ago, and she came here with the probable in tention of either staying with her pa rents in Braddockr, or getting money to tidA her over until she procured anotiaar engagement. McNabb met her here, and as the woman was probably trying to break off her intimacy with him, this'probably prompted McNabb to shoot the woman and then himself. A Tough Yarn. RICuMNs, VA, Feb. 28.-Mr. Jesse Spri it, one of the most prominent ciuzens of Pitt County, N. C., is the authri ty for the statement that Green Couny, in his State, is the home of one ofthe tuos:. remarkable freaks of nature this eaui try his probably ever prodnced Tuis frauk is a seven years old son of \!r Lassiter, a firmer of Green County Around the pupil of each of Lhe boi eyes, in circular shape. is the worJ "Aican, in perfect characters. Tne b 's eyes ar'e dark and the letters are brow and legible upon a close ieection. This wonderful prenomenon! is a birth-make. Mi. Sprght's testimony is borne cu: it bs asserted, by other varacious citizens who have examined TILLMMN IN ERVIEW ED. THE GOVERNOR GIVES HIS VIEWS ON THECOLLETON IDEA. He Thinks a Few Changes Wculd Do Good -Wants a B!g Campalgn2 Committee Thinke That the Conselvatives Will Fight for the Legislature. CoLumBiA, S. C., March 1.-' Some of them are pulling on the bit and some of them on the breeches," is the way Governor Tillnan regards the political aitnation in this State so far as the Re form faction of the Democrtic party is concerned. Governor Tillman can alawys be de pended on to sneak plainly on any politi cal matter. There is no policy about hiin. If he thought he would offend his best friends in opposing their wishes he would ex Dress his convictions no matter who it hurt. This is why the Governor is appealed to to give hi- advice on p> litical matters. His advice has been asked many times recently as to what course the Reformers should pursue in the coming campaign. He has not given any free expresssion on the later develop ments until yesterday when a Register reporter saw him and obtained his con. sent to an extended interview. The Governor answered freely and without hesitation all the questions put to him, and at the same time showed a deep interest in affairs as they stand. "Gevernor, you have seen the cal i of the Colleton Reformers fr a mass meet ing in that county on Monday, March 5, for the election of a delegate to a State convention, and an invitation to the other counties to do likewise. What do you think of it?" The Governor answered, after some consideration of the question: "I feel, some reluctance in obtruding my views' on tne publi: on a matter which I fully discussed in an interview shortly after my return from Washington. There is evident among the people a feeling of restlessne3s and an uncertainty arising fro'm all this talk and advocacy of an early convention. It the 'antis' were making any active moves, I could under stand it, and see how it would be desir able or necessary to concentrate the Re form vote in support of one leader, but the advocates of a convention to nomi. nate a Reform candidate for Governor appear to forget that such a nomination, without previous discussion to allow the people to judge of the fitness of the vari ous aspirants, is totally Inconsistent with all our previous professions and practices and must necessarily breed heart-burn ings among the candidates who may be cut out and cause disgust among their friends. The dangers which some men profess to see, if there is a free for all race in the primary, do not appear to me as great as those which will confront us should the man who may get such nomi nation not meet the expectations of the pepple when he begins to canvass." T'You take it then, that the candidate - Gnvernor will canvass, even though he has no oDponenent?" "Why of course. Tae constitution of the Democratic party In this Statle re quires-candidates for the State offlices to make a canvass, and ahculd a conven tion put forward a man who did not trive satisfaction on the stump, some other Reformer, or unobjectionable anti would inevitably be brcurht out and might beat the convention nominee. We had bet ter be consistent in our practices and ad. here to our principles and run the one danger rather than stultify ourselves and at the same time run the other risk." "What, then, do you consider the best course to be pursued by the Refor mers?" was the straight question which was asked next. "The Colleton people have hit on a acheme to allay the unrest, which is, per haps, as good as any, with two additions or changes. They were in too big a hurry, and instead of calling a conven tion of one from each cuity, the miss meetings of Reformers in the d'fferent counties should simply meet and elect one of their best men, with no axe to grind, to form a State campaign commit tee. It takes at least three weeks for any movement among the people to get under way, so as to carry the whole mass. One half the Reformers in Colleton do not yet know that a mass meeting is called for that county next Monday, and not knowing it,. they would resent any radical action such as instructing their delegate of one to the State convention to call a nominating convention later. If itis the desire of the masses of the Re formers to move In this matter, the pro cess is easy and simple, but it must not be too hurried. There is no need olhurry anyway, and any movement which does not come from the people themselves will create great dies itistaction and must defeat." "How, then, shall the thing be brought about?" "Well, in my judgment the only gay in which it qan be~brought about is for flfteen or twenty leading men in each county to unite in a call similar to that of the Colleton leaders for a mass meet ing of Reformers at their respective court houses, salesday in April, to elect a member of a State Reform campaign committee. This can be done next Mon day in every county, and I hope it will be done. There are many reasons why we should have such a committee of which I will tell you presently. A month being given during which the people can discuss the question of convention or no convention, the mass meeting in April, when they elect their representatives on the State campaign committee, can at the same time decide for or against a convention and instruct as to their wishes. If any shorter time is given the committee would not represent truly the wishes of the people.'' "Well, Governor, tell me what this committee would have to Co?" was asked. "The first thing," he answered, "would be to get at rest this question of a Retorm nominating convention, and until that is done the bickerin'g and jealousies and ambitions of the aspirants for the various offices will keep the Re fro mi camp in a constant state of tur moil. If it is decided by this committee to call a convention (coming, as it will, form the people, after fair and full notice) no fair-minded, loyal Refor ner can ob ject and we will have gained that unity and harmony which do not now exist. If, on the other hand, the question ol nomination he left to be sett~led at the August .primary, as I hope it will be, tbis committee will have charge ot tue Reform campaign, and will look atter the interests of the Rlefornm faction." "Would it have any specific powers or duties other than those mentioned ?" "Ot course, it would be subordinate to the State Democratic executive com mittee, for we must never lose sight of white unity as the only means of preserving white supremmnacy. We have the right to organize and contend inside the Democratic party for men anr1 measures, but when the party speaks through its accustomed channels every decent, patriotic man must sub mit." "Why would not the State Democratic executive ccmmittee, which is com posed almost entirley of Reformers. answer?" "Because that committee represent the entire party, both Reformers and antis,and it cannot, with propriety, organize one wing of the party, against another." Do you think it likely that the antis will organize and put out candidates?' "if there is unity and harmony and, fair play among the Reformers, no not for Governor or -State efficers, but they -are going to make a desperate ef fort to control the legislature; and the whiskey ring and railroads will furnish a large curruption fund." "Why do you think they will make their principal fight for the 1egislat ure?" "The whiskey people because they want to repeal the Dispensary law, the railroads in order to enjoy in security the special privileges which they had before I was elected, of paying such taxes as they saw fit." What about national issues-will they cut any figure in the coming cam paign ?" "Most assuredly. Mr. Cleveland is using his patronage to strengthen the antis wherever he can, and the gold bugs will doubtless supplement the railroad and whiskey campaign fund to any extent that may be necessary. "You think money will be used freely then in the campaign?" "Oh, yes; all that can be placed where it is thought it will do ary good." "Have you any fears ?" "Not if the advice which I have given in this interview is followed. The Cleveland Goldbag Democrats and cor Dorations cannot buy our people. The R eform cause is as strong now as it has ever been. With good leadership our victory nex summer will be a re petition of the campaigns of 1890 and 1892." "If the people instruct the campaign committee to call a nominating c-n rention, what would you advise?" "Why, that is simple. Let the Re formers in each township meet and lect delegates to a county convention just thesame as to a De-iocratic county ionvention. The balance of the pro gramme could conform in every respect ,o the system adopted by the Demo 3ratic party as a whole." "Under such circumstances would the Conservatives take part in the rega lar Democratic primaries?" "I think most of them would, be :anse, as I have said, their fight will be for the Legislature. I don't think, af ter the experience of 1890, that any con siderable number of them would be willing to try a repetition of Haskellism. ome, of course, are ready now to ig tore the Democratic primary and make 'heir fight at the November election, but there are only a few thousand of ,hem, not enough to accomplish an y thing."--Register. THE DEED OF DEVILS. Elther and Babisiaah'erel-The Has a bamd's Vergc a,c 0 SOMERVILL,* N. J., March 1.-A orriole trageay occurred early this morning at the home of Moore Baker, near Frankland Park, in this county, Mr. Baker's wife and a year old baby were murdered and their murderers Willard Thompson and Helhry Baker, botn young negroes, were killed by the frenzied husband and father of the victims. Baker is a powerfully built young farmer, of about thirty years. He is quite well off. He married Louisa Evans three years ago, and a baby girl was the result of the union. Henry Baker, the young negro, work ed for M~oore Baker's fatner for years, and has often worked for the son also. Yesterday afternoon when he quit work for- the day he asked Mr. Baker for a loan of two dollars. Mr. Baker asked him if he could change a $100 bill, upon the negro saying "No," he produced the bill and showed it to him. This money was what the negroes were after. At about 1 o'clock this morning Mrs. Baker awakened her husband and told him she heard a noise in the house. Baker calmed his wife's fears, but up on her earnest request, and because Baby Gertrude, who was in a crib be side her father and mother, was crying he got up and lighted a lamp. He then returned to bed, and had almost fallen asleep when he heard a slight nolse,and quickly turning, he saw the two ne groes standing at the foot of the bed. He recognized them as Henry Baker and Willard Thompson. Thompson was armed with an axe, which he had taken from the wood pile in the rear of the house, and both negroes wero in their stocking feet, their shoes being found on the back steeps this morning. The moment Mrs. Baker saw the ne groes she screamed. Thompson leaned over the footboard and struck Mrs. Baker on the head with the axe, cut ting a fearful gash and killing her in stantly. He then wentarsiund to the crib and struck the baby twice with the axe, each time making a deep wound. The little one made a convul sive spring toward its mother and ex pired. In the meantime, Mr. Baker had jumped out of bed and grappled with the negro, Baker, and had so terrified him that he ran into a rear bedroom. Moore Baker then turned to Thompson who still held the bloody axe, and a fearful struggle ensued for its posses sion. Baker wrested the axe from Thompson and struck him in the head. He followed up this blow with others and seven times he sank the axe in the negro's head before the latter fell to the floor dead. Baker then dropped the axe and ran for his double-barreled gun, which, loaded with No. 3 buck shot, stood in a corner of the room. Seizing the weapon, he walked to a door leading out into a small back hall, shouting: "Henry, you black --come out of that." With a bound the negro sprang into the hail and darted down the back stairs, only to receive the full charge of one barrel in the right side of his face, near one eye. He fell with a groan and lay where he fell until he died, at 6 o'clock this morning, without once recevering consciousness. Moore Baker called in the neighbors and soon all the people from miles around, were on the spot. A coroner's inquest justi fied Baker. The people wished to burn the negroes' bodies, but this the coroner would not permit. They will be burled in ordinary pine boxes in the same grave at the country's expense, as their triends refuse to have anything to do with the bodies. AN exchange very truly says the man who thinks a newspaper should be made up exclusively of reading mat. ter suited to his particular whims and prejudices is pretty hard to please. He forgets that there are others interested in subjects which he deems obnoxious. All kinds of people read newspapers, and there must be variety in the kinds of news published. MICIIEL Aub is having built in PariS a five-story house without any stair cases.. It is in the Rue Muller, a street wi.h a very deep gradient. As the groundrises the levels of the floor rise so one can step from the fourth and fifth floors to the stret inst as from the first AN ABDUCTOR CAPTURED. He Ban Away With a ThIrceen Year Old GIl. COLUMBIA, S. C., March 1.-An ab ductor of a pretty young girl, after ef fectually dodging the officers of the law for aboft ten days, was yesterday afternoon run down and captured in company with the child whom he bad taken away from home, and is now be hind the bars. The parties came from Charleston and to Charleston they will have to return. It is quite a romantic story, and it is hard to believe that a girl of such tender years could become so much infatuated with a grown man, so homely and unprepossessing as the one in this case, as to willingly permit herself to be abducted. She is a miss of only thirteen years, petite and pret ty, well developed and altogether quite a striking looking child. The man, on t!! e other hand, is a long way from be ing good looking. He is red-headed and has a red face, and wears a short cropped moustache. He is about thir ty y ears of age. He hailed originally from Lexington county, and was once employed in the Congaree cotton fac tory here. The girl is from Charleston where her parents live. When the pair were arreeted yesterday afternoon and taken to the station house, she did not seem to mind it much, perhaps too young to realize what it meant. The fellow seemed to be much excited. About ten days ago Chief of Police Radcliffe, having previously received a brief telegram, got the following letter notifying him of the abduction: Charleston, S.C., Feb. 19, 1894. Mr. L. J. Radcliffe, Chief of Police, Columbia. S. C.: Daar Sir: Please use your best en deavors to capture the following per sons, viz: Ben Gregg, John Rambo and a young girl named Marian Williams. The description of the girl is as follows: About Live feet four inches tall, dark brown eyes, dark hair, very young but well developed. When she left here on the evening of the 17th inst.,-she wore a black hat, black dress trimmed with red velvet, and a blue blazer and had a locket ring on one of her fingers. The charge against the man is abduc tion. The girl is not -et thirteen years old, but looks much older, and was en ticed away by these two men, one of whom, Ben Gregg, is a married man. They are all factory hands, and the men will very likely try to get work in some of the fa.tories in your city. They left here for Columbia on the 17th at 7:30 p.m. - - We are very anxious to get these persons, and trust that you will be able to assist us in their capture. - Yours respectfully, J. ELY ORE MARTIN, Chief of Police. The man brought the child in here on the night mentioned in the letter and they spent the night at the Hill House, on Gervais street. The next morning they went on to Newberry and tried to get work in the factory there, anid failing in that proceeded to Greenwood trying to get work in the factory at that place. They failed there too, and yesterday afternoon returned to this city, via the Richmond and Danville road. Conductor Roche ot the South Carolina Railway happened to be standing near. by when they stepped off the train. He recognized the couple and informed Officers Grif fin and Clark of the police force that they were the parties wanted. In the meantime the couple had started off to wards the river bridge. They were soon overhauled and taken into custo dy. They were forthwith taken to the station house, where the man was placed in a cell and the girl was kept in the ante room. The man is Ben Gregg. Rambo has not been seen or heard from. They told a good many different stories, but made no effort to deny their identity. As first they said they had been mar ried while in Newberry. Then they said that they were going over to the home of an uncle of the man in Lex ington county and intended to get mar ried there. At first the girl denied that she had ever been to Charleston, but soon confessed it all. The man denies emphatically that he was ever married. He says that he lived with a certain woman in Charleston for three years, but he was never married to her.' The father of the girl is a fireman employed at the Edisto phosphate works in Charleston. Both Gregg and the girl had been working in the weaving room of the Charleston factory. Bgth deny that Rambo had anything ta do with the abduction. Gregg says that on the afternoon he left CYnarleston, Rambo simply walked a portion of the way to the depot with him and that wss his only connection with the affair. After the arrest last evening, Chief Radcliffe telegraphed the officials in Charleston of the capture and Chief Martin replied: "Hold Mary Ann Williams and all of the parties until our officer can come for them." The wayward girl wil accordingly be taken back to her parents and Gregg who has been living with the child for the past ten days as his wife will be prosecuted.-State. Ending of the Fitibuster. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-The estab lishment of a quorum in the Houss this afternoon ended one of the most cele brated and extended. filibustering con tests of late years. The Bland seigniorage bill was call ed up in the House on the 9th inst., and debated generally for several days. On the 13th the opponents of the bill began to filhbuster by refusing to answer to the roll calls, thus preventing the pres ence of a quorum. The Republicans, under the leadership of Reed of Maine refrained from voting, with the excep tion of a few Representatives from the West, who favor the free coinage of sil ver. The ranks of the Republicans were remnfozed by all the Demccrats from New York and New Eugland, with a few scattering votes from some of the other Northern State east of the Mississippi. On the vote by which Bland secured a quroum on his motion to take up the bill for consideration, the fol lowing Republicans voted with the Democrats and the Populists in the af firmative: Aitken, Bowers of Califor nia, Broderick, Doolittle, Ellis, of Ore gon, Funston, Hortman, Herman, Hill born, Lacy, Lucas, Marsh, Pickier, Set tle and Sweet-15. Clancy, Cummings, Halnes. Magner and Tracey, New York Democrats also voted in the affirmative- [race~y to move a reconsiceration. The negative vote comprised Causey. McAleer, biutchler. "Page, Pigott, R~usk and Ryan-all Democrats. At 3 o'clock this afternoon, when the presence of a quo. rum was established, the crowd was so dense that the doors could not be 'closed and scores of persons stood in the cor ridors outside, unable even to see the dloor beneath. Many of the visitors were strangers in the city. A Cyclone. LONDON,Ferb. M.-A dispatch from Port Lauris, Mdauritius, reports a cy clone swept the Island yesterday, deing almost incalculable damage to proper ty, killing and injuring many persons. A crowded railway train was blown from the track, rolled down and em bankmnent into Coromanidel river, kill 50 persons and injurfng a large n ube of others. LIQUOR AND EXPOSURE FROM DRUNKNNESS TO DEATH ISAN AWFUL' FATE. Crawlord Batler Found Dead in an old Field-Som ' Circumstancee Thit Xtke thieC seeaLie SteMyst rous AUGUSTA, Ga., Feb. 26.-Crawford Butler, colored, was found dead out in the territory Sunday morning. The report was circulated Sunday that a man had been found frozen to death, but Chronicle reporters were un aale to verify the story. The coroner was sought, but was not found, nor could any news coarming the report he had. At police hea d quarters the officers knew nothing more than that there was such a rumor but up to midnight were not able'to give any definite informatioa. The report was only too true, how ever, an unfortunate man, with too much liquor aboard had fallen by the wayside and perished in the cold. His - body was found by John Smith in the ditch that drains the Lafayette race course near the site of the old dancing pavi-lion. The absence of the man's breeches gave rise to rumors and thoughts of foul play, but an envelope containing the remnants of a week's wages were found in his vest pocket. Through this it was learned that the body was that of Crawford Butler. He had been emploped by Mr. T. 0. Brown. There Is still much speculation as to the man's movement before his death. His missing breeches" coold not be found after a thorought search. All his other garments were ac.ounteI for. The coroner held an inquest and Dr. Morgan examined the body. There,, was only a slight scratch on the.knee and no marks of violence. The corpse was found face down buried in the mud. The man had been in Mr. Dick Timm's store the night previous and being already in a state of intoxication the proprietor refused to sell him any liquor. He was boisterous and offen sive and some of his acquintances per suaded him to leave and started him on his way home. He soon lost his bear ings, however, and wandered around in the cold until he fell by the wayside. From drunkenness to death is an awful fate. The coroner's verdict was "death trom exposure to cold when in a state of intoxication."-Chronicle. LYNZHING AND LYNCHING. A Vendetta Threatened in Alleghany County, North Carolina. RALEIGH, N. C.,Feb. 28.-A few days ago, these dispatches gave an account of the murder of John Bare and Ed ward Long,in Alleghany County.North Caroliaa, by Daniel Slaughter, of Vir ginia, a cattle buyer, who had been in that section some time. He - was in vited to a wedding at the house of a man named Robinson. In one room sat an old man, a relative of the bride, and to him Slaughter behaved in a very insulting manner. Some of those pres. ent forced Slaughter to leave the house and it was thought there would be no trouble, but in a short time the man returned. He renewed the disturbance whereupon a friend of the family stood between him and the crowd and told nim to keep quiet. Suddenly Slaughtf er drew a knife, and, witnout warning jumped at Bare and stabbed him to te heart, Death was instantaneous. Slaughter was not satisaed and made another cut at him, bat the bride sprang for ward and seized Slaughter's arm. He drew the knife from her, cutting her in the hand. The crowd began to move, and Slaughter jumped for the doorway, where Long' stool, who was quite young. He, too, was killed ini an instant, and then Slaught er dashed out of the door. Pursuit be gan at once, and the next morning the murderer was found not far away. The country is very wild and he did .not. know his way. An inquest was- held. Thiere was no doubt of Slaughter's guilt, and he did not deny it, assigning as a caise of the killing that the peo ple at the house were crowding him and slapping him. An attempt was then made to lynch him, but for some reason it failed. The people were greatly wrought up by the brutal mur der, and Slaughter was hurried to ail at the little mountain town of Sparta. The jalier was vigilant, but as the night passed without an~y appearance of a lynching party, he began to think Slaughter was safe. Sparta is far away from any railway or telegrdph line. News has just reached here from El kin, the nearest point, that a mob had gone to the jail and roaade a most de termined attack on the buiding. The jailer was on hand, and when the mob advancedsin deliance of his warning he shot one of the men in it. He was quickly captured. Slaughter was tak en out and hanged near the jail. It is conjectured that .among the mob were people who were at the wedding and saw the double murder committed. MORE TROUBLE. RIonioND, Va., Feb. 28.--Special: The men who last Saturday nightlynch ed David Slaughter at Sparta, Allegha ny County, N. C., are threatened them selves with like vengeance. Rose, one of the mob who attacked the Sparta jail and carried the murderer off, was shot by thejiler and Captured. Slaugh ter's five brothers an.? other-friends of the lynched murder ar have made it so hot that tne sheri-.f of Aileghany has removed the lync aer to Wmnston to avid t-ouble. Eose is in a critical conditiori'havin~g twenty-four buckshot in his body. THe says if put on the stand that hemwl~Eeal the names of all those engages. inlyn~chete Slaughter On the other hand if he - Oi who participated in the de... almost certain to wreak to.~ geance upon their disloyal asst are" . TJhe Sheriff of Alleghaney left Winze for his home. He says that he expec. serious tronble and probao1y bloodshed as an outcome of the excited condition of public feeling at Sparta, N. C. strong L enguage. A TLANTA, Ga., Feb. 28.-The follow ing is an extract from Dr. Hawthorne's latest sensation sermon in Atlanta, preached receatly; "If all the thieves were put into the chaingang to. morrow it would make gaps in the business world too fuil to contemplate. 1t would wi pe out Wall street, it would annihilate the grain rings, the meat rings and the wniskey rings; it would destroy half of tne manufactures and shut up two thirds of the brokerage Aicer-; it would suspend half of the wate-r works, cancel a majority of street sv ia~r contraicts and utterly extermin- . atne plumbing business. It would thin the ranks of the legal and medical fraternmties, take thousands of insur ance agents from the tield, shut the doors of real estate otlicars and so re duce the representation of congress that no quornm could be obtained until after the next election." starvinlg. NItIS, Omto. Feo. 25.-Ooe hundred fitnuiies Ia tfls place are without food. Trhey. have b.?ea supplied by the city authoritives, but furthler aid has been refused because there is no more money