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VOL. IX. ___MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28194NO3. FINANCIAL DEPRUSSION. THE STANFORD LAND LOAN PLAN BE- A ING TALKED ABOUT AGAIN. i g4 The Government's Money Poltcy Had 0: Much to do witb the Present Condition ri of Aftalr-A Plea for the Ag2icultural t Classes. at WASHINGTON, D. C., March 22.-The depression of the times, the general A tightness of money, the gloomy future outlook has again revived interest in d the plan suggested by the late Senator Leland Stanford, of Colifornia, looking to the rellef of the agricultural classes. ei This in brief was that the United et States government ought to loan money on cultivaied lands up to one-half of its assessed value at a rate of interest tb not over 2 per cent. a year. A staunch advocate of this plan, and 0 one who was a warm friend of Senator PE Stanford. is Col. J. K. Rickey, of Mis- Oi soui. Col-Rickey is now in this city. W He has given more than passing study ni to the general questions of finance and m is an authority on its complications. tu 1 asked the Colonel today what in his ii opinion has caused the great depres- of sion which now exists in this and other cc countries. i "The causes are many," he answered, q "but I will discuss only one. The fi nancial policies of the government, fi since the demonetization of silver, tave e contributed more to this depression te than all other causea combined. From c 1861 until 1872 there were amp.e mon- 1s ey to do the business of the country tb and every branch of trade was pros- if perous. "When the policy of contraction en sued, depression set in and has con tinued, until we are now on the eve of " bankruptcy. Our financial and tariff n legislation, whether intentional or not, A, has placed burdens upon the preducing Tl and farming classes to such an extent TI that at least 80 per cent. of the taxes of ml the country is borne by them. A in steady decline in the price of farm pro- m ducts has followed, until now there is ex scarcely a commadity produced on the w ftrm which is not produced at a loss fi Wheat, which sold during and after the a war at from 1.50 to $2.50 a bushel is' bl now piled up in warehouses and eleva- b tors and finds no market at more than er 60 cents a bushel." m "Colonel," I said, "most authorities " on finance theorize; can yon dwell on p1 the subject of taxation in a practical way?" - "I think so," added Colonel Rickey, l "The people of the Unite-d S'atvs have paid smnce the war 830,00,000 000 for 1i Federal taxation, and, fron tne very kt best stattlsicsobtanable, there are now &80,000.000 of Interest-bearing bonds in U existence upon which the people are payIng 6 per cent, or more interest, i besides the individual indebtedness, statistics of which are not obtailnable but which must be many millions more. c The interest tax upon our peupite is greater taan all the other taxes com bWed. As 97 per cer t. of the business of the country was done on credit last May, when the panic set in, and cot fi dence was shaken, this credit, wntcn p was used as money, began to disappear 0 like snow under a warm sun and io less than sixty days money coula not oe had for any kind of.securitv wha ever in -not even for government bonds. Hid an we been doig business with cash in stead of credi,, the panic would never th have occurred and the want and misery g and the untold shrinkage in the value of property occasioned by the panic rel would have been averted. rea "Accordng to the report of the Sec qu retary of the Tre'asurv we have a little b over $2000000 000 in money In thisbl country.: i4l'e we were prosperous and credits answered the purposes of money this would have been a suffii.en cy, but when the fint breath of doubtid spread over us this pittance of circula- t tion was little better than none at all. 3 Money is a tool; the medium of ex change. No nation or individual can St thrive without it. "Who will question King Solomon ? ple Whenhe asked for wisdom from God of to govern his people it was giwen bim. foi One of his first acts was to make 'sil-. Co ver and gold as plenteous as btones' an (II Chronicles, I.) This proves how imn- he portant money was in the days before lie the Saviour was born. How much eff more important now, when the world of is linked together-when trade and corn- thi merce, which require money to transact m4 is greater than ever before ? Who ever 1L, conten~ds for reducing money questIons ad the wisdom of Solomon? All employ- or< ment and labor depends upon it. No fr< development, either public or private, tal can be prosecuted without it. The gov- thi ernent reserves to Itself the right to tic make money, to say what is money. Gold and silver coin is not money un- to til the stamp of the government is a 1 placed upon it. As there is not asuffi ciency of the two metals, nor can ca enough be found in the earth -for the as: uses of money, it is clearly the duty of pe the government to adopt some other m< standard than gold and silver. "In the popular mind great prejudice er: exists against fiat money which comes tb from the lack of knowledge of the fact 00 that all money is fiat." th "What would you Propose as a reme- by dy for the evils of which you speak ?" Wi "in my opinion, which is shared by th, many others, the great producmng class es of the country have got to be relieved te2 They possess the most universal, the or most permanent, the most indestructi ble and the best security in the world so -cultivated lands. if this great gov- be ernent would extend to the farming les and producing. clements the same bo rights and privileges which it has given for the last thirty years to the Dona- po holders the depression, want and pov. bei erty which now prevail could neve-rhave ly existed. ti The holder of government bonds can take his securities to the Treasury and se< draw 90 per cent- of their face value in br: national bank notes without interest. These bonds are placed upon the lands and the labor, and would be worthlets without the basis Wnen the farmer , asks the government for a loan upon t~o his land, f or which he is willing to pay F1 a reasonable rate of interest-say 2 per lic cent--4L is denied him and the meni or Rj class who have made this plea for the J, oppressed producing classes has nteen ne called a crank, a Populist an anarchist, ar etc. u "if 25 per cent. of the credit which of has heretofore been used as mone~y was .su displaced by actual money guar-. Lted l~ by the government and made receivat- lhe ble for all debts, public and private, the fu individual land of tle borrower teing D pledged to ibe government, and carr ing with it the indorsement or toe ps-o- Si pie of the United States, in my opinion pr this money would be good for every p urpose bor which money can be used. The 2 per cent. which the government would receive for the use of this mon- ia! ey from the borrower would pay all thie F1 expense of the government, tbers-by cti taking this enormous tax 01 $1,000,000,- og 000 a year off the people at once,oezior s reducing the interest tax several hun-. dred millions a year." ' "But this money which you propose Ct to issue on lands would be irredeema- te ble, would it not ?' c "Certathly. Why should money be a[ redeemable? We should have, but one H 1rind of money in this country. We bc )w have less than $100.000,000 of gold the Treasury and there are $2,000, O.000 outstanding to be redeemed. ccording to the report of the Secre ry of the Treasury, we have nine frerent kinds of money issued by the )vf-rnmen:,atrounting to over S2 000, ,000. According to the construction the Administration, these nine va aties of money can be presented to e Treasury of the United States and ild demanded. How absurd! It is an isolute impossibility to redeem $2. 0.000,000 with less than $100,000,000. s stated above, since money is only a ol and a convenience for the people, by should one kind of money be re. emed with another?" "But," I said, "Colanel, people think iu Utopian. What nation or city er prospered on the idea of irredeem >le money?" "For 600 years," said the Colonel Tenice maintained a dnancial system, e best the world has ever known, up an irredeemable paper money. Her per issues commanded a premium 'er goid. Although only a little island th only 150.000 people, she was desig ,ted as the mistress of the world com ercially. If that could be done cen ries ago by a government whose pop ation was not so great as the capital this nation and as money has be me more essential than ever before the history of the world, who will tstion that our government, with ,000,000 of people, cannot maintain a ancial policy based upon the doctrin laid down? It is ridiculous to at mpt to transact the business of this untry upon a gold basis when there not enough gold in the world to do e business of New York City alone it were done upon a relatively cash sis. Cities do not need as much aney per capita as the rural districts, cause the banks are sufficient in Lmber tor the convenience of busi ss and checks are used as money. nong the farming and producing isses these conditiohs do not exist. tey need actual money with which to ike their exchanges. The withhold ; from the people of a sufficiency of mney for the purpose of making their changes by the government is as cked and cruel as for a parent to re se to give sufficient food to nourish hild. A sufficiency of money to the dy politic is as assential as healthy >cd to the human system. No gov ament has Aver tried to find out how ich money these people need, and iy should money be limited ?" 'I wouid inquire, Col. Rickey, if this tn you suggest is original with you ?" 'No sir; attention was first called to by a bill introduced in the Senate by B late Senator Stanford, of Califor . I was so much impressed with it, owing that it would have a benefi .nt effect upon the people of the itted States, if adopted, that I was to investigate it The more I think it the more I am convinced that it the solut Ion of government. *1 asked Senator Stanford how he me to adopt this idea, as he was a ry rich man,-and the general impres n was that it would make money so eao that its potency would be i'st. .s reply was that while he was livi'pg Sacramento there was numberless ij -cts aud enterprises he wttfd like engage in, and ne thought profita , but he had not the money nor Id he obtain it. He then began to uire why money was so limited; d after m.nmy years of carefulthougnt d study he evolved what is known as a 'land loan plan,' that is for the Vernment to loan money directly to 3 people upon their lands. Before ;inng, on the night ha died, he was ding a book upon finance and he re sted his secretary to olace two other uks upon the same suoject on his ta where he could consult 'hem in th'e >rring. His last thought upon earth ires ore, were upon this subject, and believed that the adoption of his sa would be the greatest blessing it could be conferred upon the coun 'What is your opinion of Senator iford?" 'It has been my privileire and my asure to meet some of thLe great men the day. To my mind Senator Stan d was truly great. He was deeply acerned ini the welfare of his country d was a true philanthropist. Could have been spared a few years I be e he would have seen his last noble ort of his life enacted as a law. One the principal obstaeles in plac-ing s matter before the peopleis that the. tropolitan press reiuses to discnss and the politician never takes an anced position, content to follow in ler to hold his 'job', but the people, >m whom all great reforms emanate, re it up and discuss it until it is yroughly understood, when its adop n will be certain to follow. 'I will briefly enumerate the benefits be derived from the passage of such >i1i: 1. The government to loan upon tivated lands, at one-half of their leseed value, at the rate of 2 per cent. e annum. Thereby providing good ney at a low rate of interest. '2. The money derived by the gov iment from the loan of its credit to a people, assumiing that $20,000,000. )would be borrowed, would pay all a expenses of the government, there relieving the people of $1,000,000,000 ich they are now annually paying in a way of Federal taxation. '3. The saving to tne pople in in est would amount to $1,000,000,000 more. '4. it would restore to the lands mething of the value they possessed fore this last 30 years of iniquitous islation was placed upon our statute 5 It would compel the men who ssess colossal fortunes, which have en made possible by lesislation friend to them, to invest their moaey in e development of labor. 'Unless a bill similar to this is pas l and that quickly, in my opinion, kruptcy is cetrtain t o follow." W. C. MACB. shot. JACKSONVILLE, March 19.-A special Toe i'imes-Uaiion from Fernauidina, a., says: This morniog Cnief of Po e Lvings'on shot and killed Jack ppart, Jr., and mortally wounded ek Hlippart, Sr. Th6 Hipparts are gro utspe-radoes and were resisting rest at the time. They had been ing indecent language in the presence ladies and Cnief Livin~gston was mnn~ed to arrest them. They at eked the chief, beat him over the ad in a terrible manner, and he was reed to shoot to save his life. The res are terribly excited over the iir and tonight a large i4umnber of ecial 'ilieers are on duty in order to omptly quell any riot. JACKSoNNILEE. March 21.--A Spec te te Times Union from Bartow, a., says: Chir place is greatly ex .ed over the mmserious disappearatce Aarcu Ferguson, assistant clerk ol e Cmut Court. He disappeared yea :day, leaving a note stating that a espiracy existed to destroy his char ac .Searching parties have scoured the untry w'thout finding a trace or him it is feared he has comnitted suicide. a handled large sums of public money, HEARING TUE CONTEST. THE FIRST DISTRICT FIGHT BEGUN IN COLUMB!A. The Board of canvassers Meets and Or ganizes-The Complaints la the Chaoles ton Casets-Contesits from Rerkeley and Coilleton. COLUMBIA, S. C., March 23.--The btate Board of Canvassers met yester day at noon in the office of Secretary of State Tindal to consider the contest for the seat in the First Congresssonal Dis trict. The members of the Board present were State Treasurer Bites, Secretary of State Tindal, Comptroller General Ellerbe, Attorney General Buchanan and Cole L. Blease, chairman of the House Committee of Privileges and Elections. The Board organized by electing Dr. Bates chaitman and N. W. Brooker clerk. Mr. Brooker is clerk of the House Committee on Privileges and Elections. The attorneys present were ex-Con gressman Samuel Dibble, J. P. K. Bry an and Mr. Moss, representing Judge IzIlar, and Senator John Gary Evans, Senator Edrd and W. Gibbes Waaley, representing Dr. J. William Stokes. The Board began business by begin ning to open the returns of the differ ent counties. Orangeburg is the only county which has not sent in its returns the Canvasseas of that county having adjourned until Saturday to hear testi mony as to contests of certain pre incts. The attorneys of Dr. Stokes will con test precincts in three counties Charleston, Colleton and Berkeley. There is no contes& from Lexington County by either side. Tne Board first opened the returns from BERKELEY COUNTY. The County Board reported that the total vote in that county was 74, of which Izlar received 60 and Stokes 14. The voting by precincts was as fol lows: Mount Pleasant-Izlar 28, Stokes 11; total 39. Summerville-1zlar 32, S'okes 3; tntal 35.1 The grounds of cntest in Berkeley County were submitted and are as fol lows: First-That there is no poll provided for by law at Summerville; that there Is no such polling place. Second-That the voting at Summer rille was 'illegal and improperly con lucted inasmuch as various parties rated without being qualified by law, some either not Deing residents of such precinct or failing to present registra ion certificates as will appear ty the affidavit of L. H. McCants and J. M. Eeap, hereto attached." 'Tnird-T h e protestant protests against the counting of the ballots at the roll held at Mount Pleasant on the ground that the managers of election were not provided with the registration books as required by law, at the time of ie opening of said poll, but tbat said looks were not bauded to said nauag ?ra until about 11.30 a. m., on saud elec ion clay, as will appear oy the afil'av t o+ J. B Morrison, P. M. Pepper and W. M. Williams. Therefore the protestant prays that the ballots cast at said polls be not younted but be cast out and that thev )e not tabulated in the general results )f the election. The protest was fled by W. Gibbes Whaley and J William Stokes. COLLETON COUNTY. The official returns from Coileton ounty are as follows: Total number >f votes. 8i7; Izlar 439; Stokes 408. As in the~ case of Berkeley County rotest was made by Dr. Stokes. The protest which is as follows, was acconm panied by affidavits: "J. William Stokes a candidate at the maid election, hereby appears before the Board of County Canvassers for Colle ;on County and respectfuliy protests maid election insofar as the same was ielo at the pollmng precinct at Walter oro, in the said county and submits ca rounds why the said County Board of Janvassrs should reject the return of otes cast at such polling precinct and :efuse to count such votes. First-That John Bolack, a person who acted at such polling place as nanager during such election was nev er legally a manager, his appointment iaving been made by one Commission r only and not by the Commissioners is required by law. second-That the said managers so iting as aforesaid acted illeg illy in tilowing the votes of W. 0. Glover, W. . Simmons and others, who had admit-3 ;edly changed their residences since the late of thetr certificates of registration, ;o be cast. Third-That the said managers so 1l egally constituted acted illegally in al owing one H. C. Price, having moved is residence to the State of Georgia ilnce the date of his certificate and aving returned to this State only a ew days, not sixty. Fourth-That the said managers so legaly constituted acted illegally in llowing one J. F. Johnson to vote, his iame not appearing upon the registra ;ion books. Fifth-That the said managers acted ilegally in allowing John Black, who was not a manager, to be present in the poling place and to speak to the voters while in the voting place casting their The County Board endorses on the back of the protest that the election, after a full investigation of the charges made, appeared to them to be cond uct ed in such a manner that no fraud could be alleged and that there were no ma terial irregularities, in consequence of which they overruled the prot ests. CHARLESTON COUNTY. Charleston uounty is the chief ground for the fight for Dr. Stokes. A specific complaint was submitted as to certain preciocs, but there is also an omnibus complaint, charging irregularities througout the city. What will bet done on this complamnt is not koorn. The official returns from Charles .n were as follows: Total vote cast,2,147; Izlar 2,019; Stokes 127; scattering 1. The County Board of Charleston de clined to throw out any of the votes of the contested precincts. Frorm this de eision Dr. Stokes . appeals on the grounds of errors as follo ws: First-In refusing to produce and count the ballots cast or said to have been cast at the twenty four precincts in the city of Charleston at said elee tion, although a protest had bee~n en tteed against tabulating the retures without such proauction and count by the Commissioners, anid althoogh the contestants, through his attol~meys, had made a request for an mnspection ot such ballots. Second-tn -refusing to put t o ofie side and make return as to such ballo's as appeared not to have been folded in one of the boxes produced, to wit: that of Precinct 2. Ward 4. Third-In refusing to cast out and not tabulate the votes cast or sai to have been cast at Precincts 1 and 2 in Ward 4, city of Charlesron. The foilowing is tne original protest of Stokes's atturacys, addresseu to tue County Board of Canvassers:I the ballots cast in said election at Pre cincts 1 and 2, in Ward 4, city o: Criarleston for the cause that voting al said precincts was irregularly and ille gally conducted and, tirst, as to Pre cinct 2 in Ward 4, the protestant pro tests against the counting of the vote said to have been cast at said precinc1 inasmucti as First-That various parties were al lowed to cast their ballots at ssid pre ciuct contrary to the Statutes of th( State of South Carolina inasmuch as that said parties failed to produce reg istration tickets as required bylaw, tht vote being taken, received and counted without the production of such certili cate. Second-That the ballots found in the box at the closing of said poll ex ceeded the number of names on the pol list, and said irregularity was not cor rected as provided for by law, but thal the ballots weie allowed to remain in the box and counted in the tabulation of the result of the election at such pre cinct. Third-That the poll list which is re quired by law to be returned , within Lnree days along with the boxes con taining the ballots and the written statement of the result of the election at said precinct, was not so returned, but, according to the information and belief of protestant, the same has been destroyed, and further, that the written statement of the result of the election at said precinct is not a true and cor iect statement and that the signatur ot the managers thereof or of the maj ority of them was obtained before the result of the counting &of the ballots had been decided and that subsequent ly thereto one or a majority of the said managers protested against said return being made to tho Commissioners 01 Election'on the ground that the same was not true and correct; that one or more of said managers reported the same to Mr. Trenholm, a member of the Board of Commissioners, and pro tested against said statement being re ceived as a true and correct tabulation of the result of said election, and said Commissioner assured the manager that he would obtain legal advice as to the matter, and with such assurance, believing that the injustice would be corrected, the saidmanager allowed his name to remain upon said statement and the same to be returned, subject, however, to his protest as to its incor rectness. All of which will more fully appear on references to the affidavits of Horace Bolger, A Bacon and of W. A.8chiffley, hereto attached. Further this protestant protests against the counting of the ballots of Precinct N o. 1, in Ward 4, for that the said election at said precinct was fraudulently conducted the member of votes reported by the managers to the Commissioners of Election being argely in excess of the actual number of votes cast at said precinct as will more fully appear by reference to the affidavit of A. J. Kulinski, hereto at tached. Wherefore the protestant prays that the ballots cast at said two pre cincts be not counted and that they be not tabulated in the general result of said election. We in additioz attach to this protest as exhibits cooy of letter of A. Bacon ro Louts G. Trenholm, chairman, fated 16 h afarcb, 1894, and also copy If no-es to the Commissioners dated Lth -arch 1894. In addition to the foregoing protest are the following sweeping charges as Lo illegalities and frauds throughout the city of Cnarleston: "J. William Stokes, by W. Gibbes Whaley and John Gary Evans, his at Lorneys, now appears before your hon. )rable body and protests against the sounting of the votes cast on the 13th of March, 1894, at the twenty-fonr pre incts in the city of Charleston on the grounds that various and many parties were allo wed to vote without a resis ration certificates and there were nany other irregularities the proof of which will appear upon the counting of :he ballots. '-Therefore the contestant prays that he relt of the election be not declar ad until the ballots heve been counted md canvassed by your honorable body wd the contestant prays that he may se represented at said counting by his ittorneys. WV.GIBBEs WV HALEY. "JOHN GARLY EvA~s." A ffidavits accompany all the protests >ut the Board will not allow these affi. lavts to be published. The formal protests from Orange. >urg, on behalf of Judge Izlar, will be supmitted to the Board when the re urns are received from that county. The law requires that thle Board shal neet each day until the case is dispos ad of. In compliance with this the oard will meet this morning and ad ourned until the next morning an so >n. Pending the decision of the contest he Board will tabulate the votes of >recincts which have not been contest On motion of Secretary of State Lndal the Board fixed Thursday next, t 10 o'clock, for arguments to begin y the attorneys on each side The Board thinks that the arguments will lot take more than five or six hours. ?hen a vote can be taken as to wh> hal get tha certiticate. The~ case must >e decided by Saturday of next* week. The number of notes involved in the 3harleston contest, in the two precincts named, is over Stokes in the district was something over 400. If the Char eston boxes are thrown out It it will tive Dr. Stokes a majiority. -Reister. Will Use Winch esteri. TOPEKA, Kan, March 19.-All the tare officers today received a copy of ;he Kansas Commouer, a Populist p a er containing an article which is re ~arded as most revolutionary in Its ;one. The article reads in part as fol ows: "Carlisle is represented as ecretly negotiating with a Lombard treet syndicate for the sale of $50,000, )00 mre bonds. The nation demands suflicint currency for the transaction a its business without issue of bonds and the people will stop this bond business with ballots or bullets. Let ur rulers make their choice and make i soon It Secretary Carlisle dares to wake another issue of $50,000,000 of gold bands, not a hundred thousand but a million men should go to Wash ington, not with a paper petition, but with steel Winchesters." The circula ion of the paper containing this ar tice has carried a sensation in official yireles and it is regarded as tbe most Winlmatory of any declaration yet made by any Populist. A Javenie Oaitrsge. LEXINGTON, Ky., March 18.-A :ule' or precocious youths had a mitaia lu-e lynching bee here last night. Mr. Jon Parroit, who lives at Forest Hill, [uod his 12 year old son dangling from the limb of a tree, swinDng to a rope which enctreled his neck. Blood was ~uhg fcom the boy's nostrlis and ears nd he wvas in a dead taint, The father eut the rope and1 by applying restora tives soon bad his son in a c inscious ate. The boy said that two compan ions, one cf waom was Dan Slavin, be came enraged at bim for some triillns occu-rence, and seizing him procured a rope, and atter fastening a noose on it placed it around his neck. They then threw the rope over the tree and yanked him in rea! lenchingr style. REPRESENTATIVE SHELL ANALYZES THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN THISSTATE. He is ser No Office but Wishes the Rn form Movement to Go On Successfuil and lonorably--Hu Denunciation of His IDetamnera. Cor4ThfBIA, S. C., March 21.-Capt. E. C. $llen, chairman of the committee on invitation for the Spartanburg meet ing, is received the following letter from Gongressman Shell in resvonse to an iantation to speax at that meeting, "if he;were a candidate for Governor!" Capt. E. C. Allen and Others u. the Committee, Spartanburg, S. C. Gentlemen: Yom favor without date, inviting "all candidates for Goveraor and for Congress in the Fourth District to attenid a mass meeting of Reformers called'for Soartanburg County on the 24th igst.," was duly received. Why this invitation was addressed to me I dan hardly imagine, because it is well Ehbwn to every intelligent man in SouthjCarolina that I had declared my intention to.retire from politics, and I cannot conceive how I could make it consistent and accept an invitation to address a mass meeting, either as a can didate for Governor or Con.!ress. It would have given me mu::h pleasure to have met with my Spartanburg friends on thab occasion and had accorded me an opportunity of defending myself agaidst the contemptible misrepresenta tions constantly made against me, but your invitation is so environed with con ditions that I cannot easily accept your proffered kindness. There may be a time ur'the near future, however, when I will seek an opportunity of saying something to the good people of Spartan burg-.County on matters and things of my own. choosing, and when I do, my future- aopirations and intentions will not be misunderstood. I have an ambi tion not satisfied, but, if health will per mit, I yet hope, to secure the talfill ment of my heart's desire, and when accomplished all the decent people in South Carohna and elsewhere will re joice in its cnsummation. When properly informed of my con duct, our people will have no just c tuse of complaint against me and my action as a public servant. Indeed, there is no objection, except on the part of those who are diseased with "politicai lepro sy," and flthy henchmen employed to do their bidding. The political situa tion in our State is well understood, and we are marching with rapid strides to the end of oar journey. The Reform party was inaugurated, with rare ex ceptions, with pure intentions, and should have been as lasting as the "rock of ages," but its existence is now threat ened with dire calamity, which sooner or later, unless rescued from the despoil ers, will bring it in disreptite and finally to wreck and ruin. The people, ho v ever, are alive to the situation and kno * full well who assisted in bringing about thevoalut.ion which resulted in giving them a government of the peolpe, by the people and for the people." It is true some of those who were earliest toilers in the Refrm vineyard, and who give their time and money treely for its success, have been ignored and neglected even by those who have shared most in the grand speculation for spoils and plunder. We hear no complaint or ex pressions of dissatisfaction on the part of those neglected and abused, but. on the contrary, the howlings and mutter Iogs of the craving malcontents can be heard throughout the land. They are eismorous anid savage for reform, full of desperation and denouncing everything and everybody who do not yield quick obediencei to their will and dictation. The impatience of those who feed on the passions of the people shows that they know fuil well their only possibility of success depends on the amount of racket and confusion they can create and the quantity of fifih they can disgorge. There is nothing wrong with the Re form Movement, it will be kept intact by the patriotic infinences that dominate the State, regardless'oi selfish dictation or imnported hirelings, who are prosti tutes to princicple, and are always for sale cheap to the highest bidder. It would be exceedingly mortifying it I thought all these years of toil and trou ble had been spent in vain, but relying upon the loyalty and wisdom of the peo ple, a consciousness of security tranqil izes the mind, and we have no fears but what at last the consummation devoudly wished for will be realized. Revolutions seldom go back wards, but oftimes go down from the weight of uim becility and burden ci mistakes, but let us hope that the latter condition will not 2 obtain, or discourage those who are< honestly endeavoring to do their iuty,3 but persevere on reiegating to the rear, all whost selfish ambition is paramount, to the general good of our common coun try, The situation is critical enough at best, without supplementing our dangers with ridiculons propositions and dogmas too exaggerated to attract a sersible thought. We are a part and parcel of the greatest nation on earth, and are ex pected to contrIbute our share to its wealth, honor, prosperity and its remnot- 1 est destinmes. To accompiish these things we must be in sympathy with all its In-< stitutions and progress, otherwise, we 4 cannot expect to inherit any of the mu nificence or distribution ot its immense wealth. We are already suspected and charged with being in league with conepirators to undermine and destroy the public credit, Of course there is no foundation for this charge, for the 1R. formers are as jealous of the public credit, both State and national, as any class of citizens in the country. This letter has been extended beyond my expectation, but I trust you will par- < don its length, as it is intended to deline the situation as I vtew it, and as con cisely as possible. Please accep'. for yourself and others associated withi you my thanks for the compliment paid, and your kind atten tion, and if my public dutes will permit I may possibly attend your meeting as a spectator to see and hear what oihers may haro. to say on that occasion. Very respectft.111y, your obedient servant. . G. W. SHELL. 1 Washington, March 19. Tillman In Washington.1 WAsiNToN, March 19.-Govern-4 or Tiilman, of South Carolina, arrrived in Washington this morning for the purpose of conferring witn tne oflicials of :he national Government on the liquor seizure in South Carolina by Federal officials. A conilhet of jurisdic ion has arisen bet ween the UnLtied States internal revenue officers and Governer Tillman's constables~and it is to settle this quettion, which is a high ly important one, that he has come here. He callel at the Treasury De partment this morning, but as neither secretary Carlisle nor Commissioner I Mllet was In Governor Tiliman had to 1 dafer the matter nil tomorrow. CLEARING LIQUOR MUDDLES. anjv. T mlntn TtlIN What Ile Aceoma plished in WashIngton. COLUMETMA, S. C. March 24 -Govkr aor Tillman is ho-ne from Washington, and he came chock full cf information. The Governor denied emphatically that his visit to Washington had any political significance. He went there to bave a fail understanding with United States Revenue Commissioner Mil:.er. in reL ard to the liquor troubles, and te had it. He says that the commissioner has :rdered the release of the l:quor that the collector has been tryIng to take away rom the State. which liquor the State Irst seizd. He says the matter was ad justed in the pleasantest and most satis actory way possible. He says he does :iot think that Mr. Townes tried to make the United States laws otnoxious, but was simply carrying out the instruc tions he had from headquarters as he un !erstood them. They agreed that both he State and the United States govern ment had a right to seize contraband iquor, and the State dispensary officers )emng a portion ot State court, when they Yot upon the ground first; were entitled ;o what seizures they could make. The matter of others, besides the tate authorities, bidding at government tales of confiscated liquors, was 'also hiscussed and an agieement reached. rhe Governor says that both he and the :ommlssioner were desirous of reaching m amicable adjustment of this puzzling lueftion. He told the commissioner bat while the State law gave him the inthority to destroy competition by the ower it gave nime to seize liquors tound n the possession of any one, he had no esire to destroy any competition that night exist. He has theref:re agreed, ie sa3 s, to .furnish all parties who par. ,hase liquors at such sales certificates to ship them outside the State. This ap lies to buyers who come into the State mnd Iocal buyers, too. The Governor will permit purchasers >f all retail packages thus sold, to re ain possession of them, furnishing them ertificates, provided they certify that he liquor is for their own use and t0ey >ay the State an advance of 25 per cent. n the purchasing price. Tae commis iioner asked the Governor to lix sonim Lrbitrary figure of ,his kind, and that is iLure agreed to. This, he says, was be only way he saw out of thir trouble. -'We both desired to have it adjusted on i feiendly basis, and this was the only 3au we could discover." Governor Tillman stated that he spoke o the commissioner about the matter of he. contemplated removal of the collec r's office to Greenville. The coanmis ioner said he bad as yet received no real application for such removal. iid the Governor: "I discouraged the -emoval. I told him it was far more :onvenient to us to have the offie in 3olmbia. The State has to advance noney to the distillers within the State md pay the tax upon hone manufactured whiskey before we can use it, and thus we have a great deal of buiiness with the )ffie." He added: "You might say fir ;be lene bit of the whisfey en who sell t'ie S-ate whiskey, hat we fully discussed the question )f 'outs' also." The general public per. iaps does not kao- what this term neans. When a barrel of whiskey is itored in a warehouse, if it remains there or two years, about three gallois e apo ates in tnat time. If it remains there ve years, about five gallons evapo ates. The shortage on account ot age termed "outs" by the whiskey manu acturers. It sec-ns that all the liquor ,eized by the U uted States authorities o tar, as contraband, has been in bar els marked all right, but wh-c'1 wheu ~uaged were shown to bs full, thus prov ng that the same barrels had in so.ne vav been used twics, and were filled ith raw liquor on which no tax had een paid. At the request of the com nissoner, Governor Tillman promised tot to~ bave any' of the whiskey par based by the S~ate emptied out of the arrels until it has been inspected and uaged by the United States revenue ~fficers. Mr. Traxler will be instruc ted Ilso not to pay asy one for ligour until t has passed through such guaging. The Governor stated, too, that he iad promised the commissioner to turn iver to him all contraband liquor seized hich has no stamp upon it, when the >ackages cootain more than five aallons. overnor Tillman says he never had a nore pleasant or satisfactory conterence vit'i any one than he did with the com nissioer. -State. A Mother's Vengeance. NORFOLK, Va., March 21.-Fred Vatts was shot and killed today at .ee's Store, about two miles from this ity, by Mrs. Henry Hugo. Watts is a ~oung man of about eighteen years of ige, residing in the-cottutry, rnear the cene of the tragedy. Some time in Fanary, it is claimed, Watts went to e residence ofithe famiry (Hugo) while hey were in the city, ann finding Edith [go, the sixteen-years-old daughter done, threatened her with death it she idiot comply with his desires. The1 ~Irl, it is stated, in fear of her life, rave way to him, and he accomplished s purpose, swearing her to secrecy mder threats of kiling her if s'1e re ealed the crime. As a result of this rime, he transmitted a loathsome dis ase to the girl, who was taken ill, and ro wing rapidly worse, her parents ent her to friends in town for treat nent, not knowing what her disease vas. She did not get better, and she vas sent to the St. Vincent's Hospita!, here at last the attending physicansi Liscovered the real nature of her dis ase, which was then made known to ter parents. Mrs. Hugo went to the tore today where the tragedy was nacted, under pretence of naaking a >urchase. Watts was standing in the loor with his back to her, when she uddenly whipped out a revolver and ired. Watts called to a cotored by to teep her off, but Mrs. Hugo rushed at iim, pressed him down and tired two nore'shots at him, only one o1 the hots taking effect in his baS, resutlt ng in death ini ten mmiutes. After kirs. Hugo had ceased liring, she thre w liquid in nis fice. Mr. and Mrs. ugo came to town and reported tne ase to Justice A. IH. Hawkins, who ummoned a jiiy or irquest. Tney ene' ed a verdict that Watts came to its deatn uy a p~stol shot, tired by Mrs. lenry Hugo. Mrs. Hugo is about .hirtyeignt years old. Sne is perfectly :am and quiet tonight. A Deiume. LrrrLE ROCK. ARK, March 21. [he greatest flood i .he sistory oit ;utb Central Arka'sas is no'v on, and nat part of the Statec is rapil ?p >roaching an inlandI ocean. 1-.has rained imost meessaatly all over the Smate nod in the Indian Territory for tour day. Milway communication since MonaUy uas been almost entirely cut cir fsom the ,bouth to Texarkana, and froxn reesat re >orts it is no:. impr->bblbe that the sam acte awaits the country n >rth anil a dA osibly thoeast._ TAR!FF BILL PRESENTED. Mr. Voorhees Gives Notice That it Will be Cale I up April 2. WASHINGTON, March 20,-Soon after the reading of yesterday's journal Mr. Voorhees,chairman of the finance com mittee, reported the tariff bill to the Senate. Mr. Morrill, one of the Republican members of the committee, stated that so far as the Republican members of the committe were concerned, they did not object ts the reporting of the bill. They were opposed, however, not only to the income tax feature of the bilIbut to the change from specific to ad valo rem duties,and to the great bulk of the provisions of the bill. Mr. Voorhees moved that the bill be printed and placed on the calendar; and he gave notice that on the 2nd of April-a week from next Monday-he would call up the bill for consideration by the Senate. The motion to print and place on the calendar was agreed to. Mr. Manderson asked Mr. Voorhees whether there was any written report for the bill. Mr. Voorhees-There is not. Mr. Manderson-Will there be any statement submitted by the committee on finance? Mr. Voorhees-There will be, when the bill is called up for action.. Mr. Manderson-Which will show the changes made in this bill from the existing law? Mr. Voorhees-There will be a full statement and explanation when the bill is called up for consideration. This will be ready in printing on the 2nd of April. I expect to make a statement myself at the same time. Tnere wIll be a comparative statement, accessible to the Senators. Mr. Manderson-I made the inquiry because of the fact that the main change in the bill is the change from specific to ai valorem duties; and that it would rEquire an expert to show the effect of the changes. Mr. Voorhees-An explanation will be speedily afforded to the Senate and to the Senators. Mr. McPherson, a member of the finance committee, said he had assesnt ed to the report just made by Mr. Voorhees, justifying his action by the belief that, whether wise or unwise in all its provisions, the bill was the best compromise obtainable in a committee whose members differed so widely in their views on economical questions, and on the effects of the bill on the prosperity of the country when em bodied into law. He said that he would find no difficulty in supporting in the Senate the colleagues with whom he had served on the committee in enacting into law as much of the proposed legislation as would yield to the government all the revenue needed when economically administered. Be yond that just and proper limitation he must not expect to go. There were two subjects in the bill which had received much public attention, and he would state to the Senate, as he had done to the committee, his views upon them. First, he disagreed with his colleagaes of the c mmittee on the income tax section of the bill. Ample provision havipg been made in the bill for reve nue, the presence of an income tax in the bill was unnecessary. An income tax was unamerican, undemocratic,and he thought unwise; and he should, at the proper time, move to strike it from the bill. Secondly, he disagreed with his colleagues on the committee in re gard to the sugar schedule as it appear ed in the bill;aud he should feel impell ed to offer an amendment to that schedule, believing that the option to custom officers to elect whether to im pose duties by the polariscope test or by the "Dutch standard" test was a dangerous power. He trusted, however, that the finance committee would on f ther consideration adopt that view and would offer an amendment to re strict the test of all sugar, raw and re fined, to the polariscope alone. Mr. Allison, another Republican member of the finance committee, su gested that it would be a great con venlence to have a pamphlet printed of the bill, showing in paragraphs the ex sting law, the House bill and the com mittee's bill; and Mr. Voorhees said that there would be no trouble about fixing up that matter. Mr. Hoar made an ing'eiry as to the parliamentary attitude of the bild, and was informed by the Vice President that it had gone to the 2alendar. Mr. Peffer gave notice that he would move as a substitute for the tariff bill tne one which he had in'.roduced last week. Mr. George then addressed the Sen ate on the legal asoects of the Hawa iian question. He spoke for about two hours. devoting most of his argument to the'support of the President's right to appoint Mr. Blount as commission er paramount without the necessity of confirmation by the Senate. After a short executive session the Senate, at 4.30, adjourned until tomo r row. Likely to Escape. COLUMBIA, S.C., Marc'i1.-The State has already called attention to the ac that tbe late Legislature, hav ing put a proviso In the new act that the various county boards of commissioners of the several counties should meet be ore the end of January and fix the lice ses upon peddlers and sewing machine agents, made it impossible for the coun tv boards to comply with the law. The ~chland board did not meet within the specied time, and it is ascertained that at a single board in the State did either ill holding their meetings subsequently. he act declares all other acts on the ame line repealed, and hence it is ab olutely impossible to charge the old icense fee, wbich, by the way, was nev er collected, so far as know'. The new e as fixed by the zounty boards ap paari on its very face to be illegal, and .hoe whom the la w a dect claim that they ~annot be charzed any thing at all. It s understood that one of the biggest con ~erns in the United States, which is af ected by this law, intends to bring a et ere in the courts as soon as possi e. Simething interesting along this :ue may be exoected in a few days. It oks as if those whom the law was in .ended to reach will escape the pay ment >f an., license at ail.-S:,ats. Murdered. WrAirrOs, Texas. March 20.-HI. G. Bouuin, a wealtu' planter last year purchased several large bodies of land Li Matagoraa county. On thins land ne zro-s were imported from Alabama snc were colonized. F4Iliog to do heir work Bouldin ieprimainded them. Late yestcrday a mob of 50 negroes went ~to his house and shot him to Iath. Only one white man resides withbin mniles of Bouidic's ?lace. He s3n organilzed a posse. They first se :ured the dead man's remains and sent them under escort to the railroad sta tion for shipment to Chappell Hill. CoDstablo lleamrtt, of Wharton, raised a iao~s and reports tonight that sixteen f the~ mob have been captured ad ioJg~ed in Matagorda. The excite aaris intense and a race conflict may >er as there is every indication that ,he .datagorda jail will be stormed and he assassins taken out and put to iath. CYCLONE IN TEXAS. A LARGE FAMILY ALMOST EXTERM INATED. Balls of Ice Weighing 18 Ounces FPe!i, Roofs Penetrated, Cows Killed and Pro porty Damaged by this Unprecedented HaD. LONGVIEw, Tex., March 18.-A cy clone swept over this place at 1 o'clock this morning, accompanied by hail stones of immense size. The greatest fury was six miles east of here, where it struck the large country home of John Cain, lately occupied by a large family of negroes. The house was in an ancient grove of oaks, twenty in number. Every one of them were torn up and piled up in terrible confusion with dead fowls, dogs and cows, and five dead, and eight badly wounded negroes. Old man Alexander Lester was found fifty yards away entirely nude and dead. His wife, Sarah, was pinned under a tree, mangled and dead. Alexander Lester, Jr., was mangled, and Is dead. Robert Lester, nine years old, was found near a tree without mark of violence, dead. Jasper Collins was pinned under a large oak, snuggi. ly covered, his head crushed, and his limbs broken, dead. Beside him crawled painfully out, his young wife. Mollie Collins. with an ugly hole In the centre of her forehead. She will recover. Sissy Lester, infant, was found in a fallen tree top with legs and arms crushed, dead. Silas Johnson, who was visiting, was bruised from head to foot but no bones broken, will recover. Frank Dizer, also visiting, leg broken below the knee, may recover. Dock Simmons, who was in bed with Alex ander Lester, Jr., had his head bruised and will die. O'Dessa Lester, four years of ae, leg and both arms broken, will die. She was found :many yards away in the fields. Arthur Lester, six years old, leg broken in two places above and below the knee and other wise badly bruised, and will die. Willie Lester, five years old, slightly hurt. Says he woke up a long way's from home in a field, suffering from hail and rain. Mr. Ben Hope, a white man near by, brought assistance immediately, and the dead and dying were taken to a one-room house belonging to E. C. Edwards, a son in-law, where they were laid in bed in strange confusion, dead. unconsious, suffering side by side. The correspondent of teh mistaking living for the dead. Mrs. Hall and Wilson were attending the worst hurt, while the woun(dz: who were able, hob bled, painfully bleeding about the yard, in the rain, bemoaning the fate of their relatives and friends. Half a mile south of this house, the house of Mr. Davis, a white magn, was completely demolishca, but with the exception of a few pai aful bruises, all escaped death. John Buffett's wagon, near by, was blown away and much of it has not been found yet. The grain ery of Nick Harris, two miles east, was unroofed. The house of Sallie Jones, colored, was wrecked and her four year-old daughter, Lorilla, was perhaps fatally wounded by hail stones. A passenger train passed just as the cy clone s vept Uy, narrowly escaping it. Al previous aeccounts of immense nail stones and wind dwindle into in significance. Many of these biocks of ice weighed from fourteen to eighteen ounces, while others found as late as 9 o'clock, after a warm rain and warm weather, were larger than a goose egg Two of these missiles passed through the roof of C. E. Thornton's residence, making a hole like a cannon ball, while fowls roosting In the trees were killed by the hundreds. A cow belonging to Frank Lawson was killed, and stock bear many marks from theseice stones. About 300 window lights were broken in this place. Farm fezeces and fruit trees were prostrated for miles around. How They Leved Rim. WASHINGTON, March 22.-"Gen. Robert E. Lee once' told me an ova tion he received that touched him more than any demonstration ever made In his honor." said the venerable Judge White, of Virginia,to a postman at the National. F'oilowing closely on the surrender of the Southern army, the commander-In-chIef of the Confedera cy went to pass a season at the home of his particular friend, E. R. Cocke, who last November ran as the Populist candidate for Governor against Col. O'Ferrall. After a few weeks of the most hospitable and elegant entertain ment Gen. Lee was called to the presi dency of the Washington and Lee University. Bidding his kind friends adieu he started for Lexington on horse back and alone. He had gone some miles and was passing through a rath er dreary stretch of wooded country, when he espied a plain old. country man mounted on a sorry nag com ing toward him. As they passen each otner both bowed as is the fashidn when strangers meet in out of the way places, but the old farmer in the home spun suit stared hard at the soldierly figure as though not quite certain of recognition. He went his way a little further, then turning his horse-around cantered ba-: and soon came up with the General again. "I beg your pardon, sir, but 13 this Gen. Robert Lee. Did I ever meet you before, my frierfd ?" "Then the old Confedrate grasped the chieftain's hand and with the tears streaming down his face said: 'Gen. Lee, do you mind if I cheer you. The General assured him that he did not mind, anid there on that lonesome pine bordered highway with no one else in sight, the old rebel veteran with swIng ing hat lifted up his voice in three ringing rounds of hurrahs for the man that the Southland idolized. Then both went their way without another word being spoken."-Post. In a Qaandary. WAsHINGTON. March 21.-The pres sure being brought to bear upon Presi dent Cleveland in regard to the ac tion he shall take upon the Bland seig nioraze bill is not coodfned to Senators and Bapresentatives, for he is in recsipt of letters andtelegrams from all sections of the country upon the subject, and, contrary to the belief that seems to pre vail, a very large majority of these com munications urge him to exercise the veto power, Many of the most emphatic of the letters in their urgency for a veto are from Baltimore, New O rleans, Richmond, Va, S:. Lnuis, Charleston, S. C., and other Suttern cities and rep resent b >ard of trade and leading busi ness. Similar communications have been received from the cities of Chicago, Pittsburg. Allegheny City, Detroit., Bostou, N'iw York Philadephia, Roches ter, N. Y., and Provicence, R. I. The prevailing sentiments contained in these appeals are the exoression of an apprehension that should the bill be come a law there would result a loss of confidence in the credit of the Govern ment a fear that the gold.would b3 drained from the treasury, and a feeling that the Government would be unable to main tain the parity between gold and silver, thus placing ,its financial status on the same footing with Mexico, the South Ameriann repnnhhcs and India.