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*C VO I. MIANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 4,184.________NO. 49. A CHANGE IN TACTICS. SENATORIAL CANDIDATES PUT BY RAW HODES AND SALT. O:dorlv &.e 10C uat Chelteat oG;t g into ial-mu Isues-EItex,)3 anc Er atm Spar for Potat-Tte Cr irwd Undemn oumst il - CHESTEnFIELD, S. C., June 26.-be campaign of education is actually dawning. The meeting of the second week opened here today with a decided revolution in the character of the speakers. Wonderful, wonderful to relate, the lambasting was discontin ned and the discussion of issues began. For a day, at least, the scorcher and the roaster have been laid aside and the people have been regailed with more edifying and enlightening dis cussion. The crowd of about 800 persons was well behaved and in thorough good humor, interferng with no one and ap plauding circumspectly. In truth the meeting was really ideafln comparis'n with Its predecessors, noth in respect to the character of the speeches and the orderly, good natured demeanor of the hardy crowd. About one-fifth of the crowd were tar-heelers who came from the Old North State but a fe": miles distant., and a few of them were Populists to the core. Governor Tillman made a rather easy going speecb,leaving out all harsh references to his oppcnent, and doing his "blistering" in a very mild way. He went into a lengthy discussion of - national questions relating to the con dition of the country. He claimed the ,,crowd but refrained from taking a hand primary. He was not applauded at first, but later on he -ot full meas ure. The Governor's speech was by no means a happy effort. It was rathei tame and did not provoke erthasiasm. 'General Butler likewise dircussed pub lic measures and had nothing salty to say of the Governor. His speech seem ed to be effective with the crowd and Is regarded as one of the best he has made. He was listened to very atten tiveli. The feature of the meeting was the brotherly spat between the Marion swamp fox and the Aiken game cock. General Elerbe charged his brother candidate with tacking himself on to Tillman's coat tail and with voting against salary reduction. Evans, in reply, demonstrated to a nicety that with nim Reform was second nature, while Ellerbe's Reform had a revenue flavor about it. There was not a word from the crowd as Governor Tillman began to speak. He revewed his official career,giving as a reason for his second term as Gover nor that he wanted vindication by the people. He felt and knew that he had done his whole duty, though he may have made mistakes. He scored the Democratic party for its treachery, and Cleveland for having betrayed his trust. He pictured the poverty strick en conditionr of the farmers and said they were euchered out of their earn ings by the same scheming scoundrels in Washington. He went into an ex planation of the money questior, tell Ing how England, the creditor of na tions, had stricken down silver in or der to enhance thavalue of the interest received from other nations. Every man having an income from bonds and stocks was opposed to silver. These fellows had manipulated Congress in regard to the issue of paper money,and now control the outlet of money, prices and products. Silver had shrunk and with it the pockets of the people had shrunk. This country ought not to be paying interest. It ought to be issuing its own money. The only reason that th.is could not be done was because one half of the country was bamboozled by the newspapers and manipulators to vote the other half down, and the money power is always on top and the thieves in both parties joined hands to keep the people poor and make them selves rich. He told about Judge Si monton and the railroads, and after showing up what an awful judge be was, the Governor went vii w uub it into Butler for voting for Simonton's confirmation is circuit judge, saying that he wanted to help him for the same of his kinsman, Bunch MciBee, whom Judge Simontor', he said, had helpe out in the railroad case. GnrlButler received some cheer ing and a cry of "God bless the old General!" when he was introduced. Referring to his fight for silver in Congress he said he had received let ters from people in the North threat * ening to blow him up with dynamite, but that did not stop him. The reason he and the Reform Congressmen, who had been in Washington several years, had not swept out all the abuses that -Timan spoke about was the same that defeated the South in the war they did not have enough men. Cleve land had not bought him with patron age. He had done his best to induce the party to carry out the financial platform. He'saw no relief as long as Cleveland was President. General Butler said it was bis opinion that the tariff bill would be passed this week nd that its passage would bring bet ter times. The trouble with the coun tgdid not lie in the insuffidiency ot themoney but in tte inequality of its dis. 'ibution, and it all came from the national banking'system and Republi can legislation. Representative F. P. Taylor asked General Batler what was his vote on the anti-option bill. The General replied that he voted for an amendment prepared by Senators George and Cox which would have been effectivet in breaking up the gambling in futures, and which provided that any man who traded in futures should be put in the penitentiary. The bill that came from the House was nothing more thar-"-piece of blank paper as far as its e sects for goo:1 went. He ad vocated free silver because it would, to that extent, enlarge the currency of the country and make cotton and corn and all the products bring more. The next great political battle that would be fought in this country would invite all men, of all parties for financial re lief, and he for one was unwilling to sacrifice the Democratic party in the struggle because one man, Mr. Cleve land, was not in accord with it. Gen eral Butler made an eloquent appeal to the people of the State to get together like brethren instead of trying to throt tIe each other like cow boys. ".I beg and| pray and beseech you, if it is the last "'ord that escapes my lips, to bury all animosities that have been created. .If I can accomplish the unity of our peo ple I would lay down my robes of office or even my life, without a single re gret. It is chiefly for this reason that I am making this canvas." He con cluded by saying that the money pow er and corporations have such control in the country that a revolution is cer tain. He w#1l be with the people in that great fight, whiether in office or out. He begged that animosities and bitterness cease. He begged the peo ple to send to the Senate whoever they thought best fitted for it, even If it was Tillman. He made a pretty appeal for white supremacy above everything else. He thoght the best ay to se. cure this sipremacv was by a constitu- oJ tional convention. 01 EVANS AND ELLERDE SPEAK. i General Ellerbe was the tirst guber- a natorial speaker. He said he had beard today and had received letters h from other counties that friends of tt Senator Evans are industriously circu- tI lating a story that he (Evans) is the el choice of Tillman for Governar and cl that Tillman is in a quiet way working hi for Evans. General Ellerbe said: "Tne d< Governor has said, in an intervieiw,that et ne is hands off in this tight and that he tt has no choice. Here is Governor Till- p; man;ssk him if any n.an is his choice. sl I say that it js unfair to me and my friends to be circulating this story in t. the hope of winniug on it." General C Ellerbe proceeded to criticise his tt friena Evans for his tardiness in get- h. ting in the Reform cause, telling some tc things, as at Sumter, highly amusing si the audience. General Ellerbe next S1 charged Evans with having voted b against the salary redaction in 1892. "That is not so," said Evans. g] "I will prove it on you,".said Ellerbe. ei and he read from the reeords where ot Senator Buist, the Charleston anti- T Senator, had moved to indefinitely post- ju pone the salary reduction bill and w where Evans had voted with all the It anti-Tilimanite lawyers for postpone- c ment. Ellerbe also charged Evans C1 with having voted against the farmers B college in 1888. General Ellerbee told what his (Ellerbe's) record is on salary reduction, showing where he had asked to have one of the clerkship of his of- 6 ice abolished and had always been in er favor of all around reduction of sala- at ries. w Continuing General Ellerbe said: I "My friend (Evans) intimates that V, there has been a State House ring and m that Governor Tillman broke that ring. ej I will ask my friend to specify, to name the men who composed that ring. Sen- ed ator Irby wrote a letter charging that tb there was a ring. Fellow countrymen so I have never heard anything in the th State House for Irby but expressions fi of pity and sympathy. Irby charged J( that a caucus of ring Reformers had a been held at Wright's Hotel. It is fasle. The caucus, if it can be so called, was at at Governor Tillman's house and the , Governor was present; (General Ell- tb erbe told who were preseat.) No one pi was discussed as a candidate for Gov- C, ernor at that time. I repeat, and I l want it distinctly understood, that as pi far as I know, there is no ring in the w State House. I want my friend to V specify, and I ask him to do it. I am ot running on my record and I am not in C. any ring. My friend ought to do the at same thing and not tack himself on of Governer Tillman's coat tail. I am as lii good a Reformer as Governor Tillman re or any body else, and Governor Tillman e can and will tell you so. fa The speaker was frequently encour- tb aged by remarks from the audience w and was at times liberally applauded. at He devoted the remainder of the time H to telling what had been accomplished to by the Reform movement and discuss- tb ing natioDat issues. He concluded be- b fore his time was up, and a cloud be tokened a shower. w Senator Evans had been speaking 01 only afew minutes when rain began cc falling. The chairman adjourned the Pe meeting to the court house, a half mile le away, where the speaking was contm- to ed. Senator Evans resumed his el speech, employing his time in answer- be ng the accusation of his friend Eller- to be. He ridiculed Ellerbe in a good na- le tured way, making the crowd w laugh. He told jokes on his friend and these almost amused the au dience. Senator Evans said he was willing to answer all charges. He th did not come in this race to attack fel- at low Reformers, but had been jued on 01 and would defend himself. If Ellerbe ca started out to prove that he (Evans) w ad not-been true to Tillman. and Re- t form, he had a hard and stumpy road to travel. He would not notice every- rig thing, because he was not shooting ca grasshoppers. Ellerbe says he has done lots for Reform, but he has been well paid for it. He is a Reformer, but it looks like he has been one for revenue. Senater Evans says he had been a Re former since 1886. At that time he p1 wrote an article in the Augusta Chron- 01 icle. He read this article. It was a de- 10 fense of the Reform movement then be ginning and the right of farmers to tt rganize for political purposes. The C) article also defended' T[illman, then hi starting his agitation. In 1888 he was elected to the Legislature by the farm- ~ ers of Aiken and was t wiee re-elected, each time on the Reform platform. T wo tI years ago he was sent to the Senate by 9a farmers by a thousand majority. The i people had never regarded him as a coat tail swinger. i To the charge of having voted against et liilman for the Agricultural Board, he ag said it was an attempt to shelve Till- 3 man, who had after ward censured his p friends for rnomnating him. He had P voted against the agricultural college 0o as charged, because the bill for it car ried an appropriation which would have b increased the taxes of the people one- 2 fourth of a cent. This was not in ac- ai cordance with the Reform platform and 1( pledges to the people. Later he had " fought for Clemson College because the ai bill was different. "1 am not Tillmani's candidate or any S bcdy's candidate," declared Evans. "Any man who accusesme of disloyalty eQ to the Reform cause I will tell him he &' lies, but nobody is going to do it. What ti is the matter with Billy (referring to 0 Eler b)? Is it that he has got a big 1 fat office and wants another ? It looks t like he is swinging dn Tillman's coat b tail. I am no coat tail swinger." d Evans told agood joke about ahboy l who had one potato, but wanted t wo, a: and said this is Ellerne, who has one no r tato but wanted t wo. (Laughter.) He a ought not to jump on mue be ause I s~ want a potato. About the salary reduction vote, he t said he cast it because the first bill did tI not cut salaries equitably. He also C said that Jim Norton, Ellerbe's clerk. C had gone to him (Evans) and begged g that salaries be kept as they were, as he n and other clerks couldn't live, lie said c Norton bad put up a poor mouth. Sen- 0 ator Evans declared that afterward he t' had voted for a salary reduction bill. He had voted in 1888 to cut the salary ~ of legislators to $4 per day. He said ~ that every Reform measure has been put in his charge to pull through thte ' Legislature. To hear Ellerbe talk, he said, one would think that Eller be had done everything and that Tillman hiad not existed or taken part in anything. Senator Evans said he had been a Re- ri former by inheritance. His uncle, ir Mart Gary, was a Reformer, and Evans ti desired to right some of the injustice S done Gary. Evans said it looked like a Ellerbe was jealous of him because he a goes to Tillman's house, Hie said the A Governor often sends for him to advise tj or. matters regarding the Reform n movement, because Tillman thinks I u have more sense than some people. I sl care not if the people know I do love la Tillman and have stood by his side in i1 all dangers. Durlng the D~arlington A trouble he had not slept forty-eight fi hours. c: "About the Stata House ring, all I u know," said Evans, "1s that they want- ti ed a March convehtion. That looked ft like ring rule. They wanted candi- it dates nominated in March without ever '1 appearing before the people. I told ii them that if they didn't let the people a : clice. Governor Tillman endorsed ir views. Ellerbe was in favor of tat March conventien. I made Tili an put his foot on it." Senator Evans said the antis hated :m awful hard. At sumier one of tem said: "If you will let us vote in te primary we will beat Evans and ect ycou, Pierbe." Senator Evans de ared, but Dot egotistically that if he id not assisted -n refundiog the 'date bt, it would never have been refuud 1. Ile had epent his money in doing is and bad never asked tne State to ty back a nickle of ir. Ile not only >ent money, but time. le had defendEd the conststutionali -of the bonds before the Supreme )urt and made no charge ior it. After te debt had been refunded, Eilerbe id the cheek to want the bonds sent his home in Marion. so he could gntbem. It would have cost the :ate $300 to send and get the bonds ick from Ellerbe's home. Senator Finley an' Dr. Strait, Can essional candidates, followed the oth s, speaking on the same line as at her meetings. Secretary of State indal and G. Walt Whitman arrived st in time to addres3 a small number ho had remained in the court house. was then after three o'clock. 'he opaign party went from here to 2eraw'this afternoon and will go to ennettsville tonight. A TrPin HaId Up. SAVANNAIT, Ga.. J une 2,.-Train No. of the Savannah, Florid.% and West n Railway from Thomasville, due to 'rive here at 7 o'clock this morning, as held up one mile this side of 1lo erville, 12G miles Southwest of Sa mnnab. this morning at 1:59 by six asked white men, The satfe in the :press car was robbed of its contents, ,222 in cash. Two of the men board the train at Ilomerville, concealing emselves behind the tender. As on as it was started they climed over e tender, covered the engineer and eman with pistols and told Engineer nktns tostoo when ordered. About mile from Homerville the order was ven and the train brought to a stand ll. Then four. other similarly masked hite men joined the party and while .e two kept the engineer covered they 'oceeded to get into the express car. nductor Farris came out with a train Lnd to investigate the cause for stop ng, but did not stand on ceremony hen ordered to return to his car. 'hile two of the men kept watch, the her two ordered Express &iessenger ilder to open the door. He refused td was then told he had better get out the car. He heard one of the men rating a fuse and before he could ach the corner, a dynamite cartridge :ploded, breaking the door from its stenings and completely stunning e messenger. When he came to he as looking into the barral of a pistol id was ordered to throw up his hands. e did not hesitate long and when Id to open the safe he did so, taking e packages out as ordered. The rob r, there was only one in th e car, thered up the money in his arm and ent to join his associates. They got the engine, made. the fireman un uple it from the cars and then com led both engineer and firaman to ve it. They tock the engine, ran up a point in the woods near Argyle, aven miles from the scene of the rob ry, where they left the engine and ok to the woods. As soon as they fr, word was sent to the officials here, o orJered a freight to bring up the ssenger coaches to their enfine. Ex Leriff Hurst of Thomas county, one of e most daring officers in the %state, at e head of a possee, reached the scene out four hours later and with a pack hounds, from McRae's convict mp, started in pursuit of the robbers, o were thought to have gone off in e direction of Oketinokee Swamp. e officias believe the posse has the abt trail and that the robbers will be ptured. Back at John G ary E vans. COLIBIA, S. C., 3 une 29.-Mr. Jam es orton, chief clerk in the office of Corn. roller General and candidate for that lce, yesterday gave the press the fol wing self-explanatory card: I see it, reported in the papers today at .Senator John Gary E vans said at 3esterfield yesterday that I approach m with poor mnouth-as to my salary. Mr. Evans is entirely mistaken if he ade such statement. What I aid do as to call his and other members of e general assembly's attention to the jast and apparently spiteful disc'im tions in the Senate salary bill of .92. I mentioned the special discrim ation against the office of Comnptroll General. T1his bill fixed his salary $1,900 and current expenses at $1, 0. This was to all intents and pur >ses an addition of the office; the real irnse of the same was to give the lie $2,700 when up to Gen. Ellerbe's rm it took $4,200. This same Senate 11 gave the State Treasurer's olliceS4, 0 when it had before received $4,500 d left the salary of treasurer at $2,. 0. ITe treasurer did not hava any re force than he absolutely needed, d the work in the Comptroller eneral's office exceeds that of the ate Treasurer. The force ini the Comptroller Ge.n al's cilice has been made $3,400 or 100 less each year. than it took under e former administration, or a saving $3,200 for the four years. This is been saved notwithstanding te extra work imposed by the mk and railroad litigation. Un er the circumstances I did mink the Senate bii unfair, unjust, d damnaging to the public service as presented by the Comptroller Gener. 's oflice and I feln~coming,as 1I under ood the bill did, Irom a Senator who as a director and a lawer f>r one of ese railroad 3 lighting the administra on, that it was spiteful to the extent its application to the oflice of the omptroller General. There were other oss inequalities in the bill which- I entoned even to the ways and means >mmittee of the Hiouse. The audit and treasurerer of Charleston coun rreceive salaries larger tihan the omptroller General and the State reasurer. These o111cials get twice hat the same otlicials of Spartanburg t and do no more or little more ork. Respectfully. James N orten. Terrific Cyvclone. ST. P'AUL, Minn., .June 28.-Meagre ~ports from Southwestern Minnesota dicate that a terriiic cyclone passed rough that section this morning. At eepy Eye, four people were killed and Window two. Great uamage was iso done at R'nville, Collegeville and .berdeen, S. D. St. Jiohn's Universi rat Coliegevile was struck at 8:30 p. t. The industrial school was totally 'reked together with tne carpenter iop, bakery, barn, slaughter house, undry and store and shoe shop. Over ye inches of water fell in an hour-at berdeen. Great damage was done 'om the washing out of crops. The clone struck Renville at a fe w min tes before 6 o'clock, wrecking every. ing in its path. Timbers of a house ei upon Mrs. Cuarles HIackman break ig her thigh and crushing her head. 'he Luthern Church, high school build. ig and the residence ot Frank Berding nd Charles Hackman were demol iher. A QUIE' MEETING. 11 tf PEACE REIGNS BETWEEN THE SENA- C TORIAL CANDIDATES. I r The Csnpaign Gathering at Bennettsville B tic Trdiall. Eiflrbe, Evans cnd Other Can dtdatos Mike Fpecehes Representing P TI-elr Claims. c BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., June 27.-The h campaign is just humming along quiet- t( ly now as a summer sixh. The Gover- t! nor continues to prod Cleveland's "old ti fat ribs" with his pitchfork and G. W. ti Whitman is still blowing up Hell - Gates by the gross without touching i the Satuth Carolina College, but all traces of blood have disappeared from hi the Senatorial moon. A majority of ci the meetiug favored Tillman. d Representative Whitman was the first speaker. He jerked the bell cord of the welkin and rung it for all it was worth. He put on his political diving tc bell and blew up Hell Gate again. He declared that in order to find out a g man's politics these days one had to 0 "revert to genealogy and the records." b He had several other Hell Gates in the shape of the corporations and the mon- N ey power to blow up but did not have time to fix the dynamite. He thought re it was time to rotate Mayfield out of h the State House and rotate him in. f Secretary of State Tindal spoke next. He said that one South Carolina had p passed away and that the reform move ment was making a new one and read- si justing the social lines on a new basis. The agricultural college had been es- E tablished to enable the boSs to apply h science to their work. The South was P1 fifty years ahead of the North except G in one resect-the North has more 0 skilled artisans. The reform move. h ment had taught the railroads and the k; corporations that they could not dic- g tate to the State. It had reduced the in. h: terest on the State debt from 6 to 4% n This govesnment has been taken out of R the hands of the few. thus preventing P, them from rehabilitating it on ante- v, bellum lines. If the people wanted to continne to progress and properly ad- ti just the affairs of government they T must watch and not let another ring a be formed. A government of the whole 1 people would eventually result in a 1i government of the best people. There G was no reason for strife to continue to tt mar the peace and progress of the State. tt It could result only from the mere de- a< sire of one set of men to dominate over t the other. He hoped Tillmanite and hi Conservative would remember this. w The conflict between the towns 'and g1 the cities was deplorable. This came from a misconception of the Alliance s: by the town people who would not open = their eyes to see the object of that sc great organization. Mr. Tindal ti sketched the history ol the Ailiance, = showing that it was through it that the ti nation was awakened to its interests; = that it overturned the Republican par- ti to and placed the Democrats in power; ci and that it stopped the sugar bounty n and the giving of land to railroads. In- sc stead of saying "damn the Alliance" 01 every farmer should join it. He bi warned the people not to allow the Al- al liance to commit Itself to any political party. 'If elected Governor he would st endeavor to administer the affairs of g] gove::ment in equity and justice to all fs alike. ti Senator John Gary Evans was the vj second Gubernatorial batsman. He tc paid a beautiful tribute to the Con- tc federate soldier, especially to the veter- ci ans of the Pee Dee. Discusing national at affairs, he said that the only real Dem- bi ocrats in the South to-day are those p who stand on the Ocala platform. He pl declared that he believed the Sub-Tre asury plan, if adopted Into law, would te destroy the Yankee nation. It would ai make the South the most prosperous rc section of the United Statee, and would hi transfer the iinancial fountain head of H the country to the South. No law, he jl said, could be passed which would not tc benefit one serction at the expense of in another. The country is too Dig. He ti advised the Allance not to surrender T one of Its demands or principles. It tt will win in the end. cc Senator Evans spoke next of his con- ai nection with the Reform mov~ement w and of 3omne of the bills which he had introdtneed and seen become law. He sc believed his county government bill bi one of the greates ever passed and that C it would make splendid roads for the [ people. It had been commented upon it every part of the country. He said pl he introduced a bill to establish separ- la ate public schools for white and color- ly ed children. It had been defeated by ai members from Charleston and Column- pi bia. lie said the article published in A the Columbia State that he had oppos- w ed the two-mill tax was false. The ne people, he said, should vote for a con stitutional convention. This conven- el tion would change the arrngement for it bublic schools. tt Teaching on the Dispensary law, la Senator E vans said the Supreme Court C ad tried to become the Legislature er of the State. T1o prove that the law E was constitutional, he said the whiskey Y men of Charleston had emplbyed law- 1M yers to get their advice on the law ti and were told that it was sound and U constitutional. Every circuit judge in hi the State except one had decided that pi it was constitutional. He quoted decis ions of the Supreme Court showing its al inconsistency in whiskey cases. Ten pl years ago it decided that the right to e sell whiskqy was not inalienable. This T year it had decided Just the opposite. ti Senator Evans anly defended the bi Dispensary law. He showed how much is that decreased drunkness and how Ii much good it had done. The people n' want tne law and are going to have it. ti The speaker attacked prohibition as a vi farce. lie told a good joke on Bennetts- al ville when it had prohibition and gi showed that liquor had been more cc plentiful then tnan now. H3 was jib- I erally applauded when he finished. bl General Ellerbe thepn Look the bat in the gubernatorial game and he knock- ci ed some hot grounders and several sky- si scrapers at the Aiken game cock. ii When he repeated his statement made 0 at Chesterfield that Evans had said h there was a ring in the State House, s the Senator got up an denied he had h made any such statement, that what he b had said was that he was ready to d smash rings. Ellerbe replied he was tI glad that E vans had the manliness to nr say that he had been misrepresented, p as he belonged to the State Hiouse a crowd, and if there were any charges h about aring there he wanted names. ti Evans-Ifdid not say there was no t< ring there, and you can tell that part .ti of it for yourself. What I say is that I C never s tid there was a ring there. b Ellierbe again banged away a-. Evans I for not supporting Tillman until he c began to itch for oflice. He declared c that the Aiken candidate represented I the new Issue, "the death-bed repent- n ance boys." He read from the House C journai shaging that E.: ~z-.ad voted it with Hiasfell and Brawley and other ti anti lawyers against Clemson College, I "and yet he gets up here, puts on his ti gaffs and swears he will stick them In S anybody who attacks a Reformer. I (Laughter.) Why, bless his soul, he r rought us for live years until we whip- a ped him in." He wanted It distinctly understood that he had been a Refor- o iot off his gun here in Bennettsville. in Le was no compromise candidate- He to Ldked some about the condition of the gi untry and said that the South and or Test must come together and elect a fo resident. He showed how he had w, tised the assessment of the corporation fo ad tried to make them pay proper m ixes as well as the farmers. R Gen. Butler was received with ap B lause. Speaking of the maLgnuficent 1i4 :ops and nice homes of Marlboro qi )unty that he had seen while riding tO ere from Cheraw, te said there ought fr > be no calamity howlers here, and gc iat the people should be happy and w, iankful. He thought and prophesied at iat times would shortly be better ra iroughout the country. The c apital- qt ts in the North said there was 324 ou ,r capita, while we did not have $2 a p1 ad. le told of how a bank in his se )unty could not lend 8150 because it d not have the money. The trouble about the national ban ks as that they contractea or en- G rged the currency to suit themselves. hese banks reduced their circulation a minimum,and he had voted in Con- ci cess to allow them to istsue an amount m currency equal to their depotit in ac >nds, insteaa of nine-tenths as now, Gi order that the circulation of money th increased. Answering Governor D 111man's charge that Wdl street bad tb sed a fund t-) have him re-elected, said that Wall street had no liking A ir him, and that it had threatended to ]u ow him up for standing for the peo- to e in Congress. When rillman wanted fund the State debt he went to Wall sp reet. se In regard to his voting for Judge Si V onton's confirmation he asked why id Gorvernor Tillman not sent some otest to Washington against it. The sp overnor's mouth ought to be. clcsed no a that score. Judge Simonton was an qt )nest, upright man whom be had vi sown for forty years and he could not th At up in the Senate and vote against of im just because Governor Tillman did A like him. The Alliance and the eform party were just getting on his Latform, as he had advocated free sil 3r for fifteen years. In the face of previous Experience ie people had re-elected 'ileveliand. hey knew at the time he would veto free coinage bill or anything that C. 'ould help the South. It was the pol- F Aicans who had opposed Cleveland. St en. Butler said that if he had any- ce ting to do with the Democrat party in m Le future he intended to read the riot b3 :t and tell the people that they ought m >have a candidate from the West. He yc id in mind a man from that section ho was with us completely on all our esat questions. The Southern farmers were the Gi nartest people in the world. They .ade cotton at nine cents per pound, A ild it at seven and still lived. But in Ley could not live long at this. They gi ust have relief. The General said be tat chairman of the meeting had re- G inded him before the speaking that e people wanted to hear iAsues dis issed. This was what he wanted. He H wver heard a speech but that he learned th imething and he always tried to tell ct ;hers what he knew. He deprecated wi .tterness and hoped to see the people 1 together. G avernor Tillman was received with touts and cries of "tell it," "we are ad to see you again." He recalled the C. ct that he had tegun his attack on hE ie "oligarchy,"right here In Bennetts le nine years ago. He did not wait catch the popular side. He just ok his stand and somehow t'e boys TI Lme right along and ranged them- 91 ives around him. Ele was going to st the advance guard sent by the peo e to take the government from th6 utocracy. He was not responsible for the bit- th rness that bad passed between him id .Butler. He jiist pitched back two ecks for one. He warnted peace, butA Swas not going to be dictated to by a o inority. If those who had fought sa .m so bitterly and were ready it' join the church and would quit call- n g him a devil, he was ready to open e doors. (Voice: They want oflice.) y es, that's what is the matter with t em. Let them take back seats and tr ~me in on probation and show they e n't for revenue and offics and may be Gi e wil promote them some time. g I do not hate these men who hate me c .I feel sorry for them. They are c ,nighted and have read the Ne ws and aurier so that they think I am a devil. ,ughter ] He would talk to the people as a amn farmer and a statesman, which ti: tter he claimed to be, as he had right- g interpreted the will of the people to id had 'lone their wishes. The Ri- se ibhcafis and Il-amiltonians and the in ntis were at heart Republicans. They ye ere no more Democrats than he was a a gro. p 'Cleveland is not honest today, or st: se he is the most damnable traitor A at has ever held that seat," shouted a Le Governor amid applause. Cleve- M~ ud and his so called D~emocratic su ygress were responsible for the pov- m ty stricken condition of the country. co ngland had bribed Congress through te rail street. Before they went to yr rashiogton and bought the nomina- s on of Cleveland. They also bougot et arrison's nomination. Th'ey were th ippy and made the peopls pay the p1- pe r, no matter which one got elected. ne The Governor said that the News cc id Courier and other subsidized nes TI psrs that were bossed and owned Ji hined about an "honest dollar." p hey made silver dishonest by legisla- og on. The governor argued for green- hi icks and asked why did the capital- p( ts want the promise of the govern- Ce ent on a bond and yet reject it on a t te. Hie wanted Uncle Sasm to des- p oy national banks and make gold. sil- wV ar and paper receivable for all does se id go ahead and turn on a stream of lei reenbacks that would .irrigat~e this p >untry. Of course the oppositio~n ca ould say this was the rankest heresy, of at he did not care. g The sub-treasury was simply an edu- H tional doctre'e used eflicaciously to p tow the tart ers that they bad been ca aposed upon and to show the iniqnity St Sthe national banking system; aud it to as servei its purpose. The Governor de id that at Spartanburg when he had , is famous debate with Ben Terrell di afore the Alliance, and behind closedp oors, he had satisfied his audience at iat it was South Carolina's p-art to rt Lage their fight in the Democratic 'w arty and so ne let the sab-treasury se one because he did not want to light ne L brethten. When the State cr-7en- 31 on met last year the feeling was not -t >send any delegates to Chicago. or if cr ey did to instruct them to lea.ve if leveland was nominated. I n a caucus e spoke against this and showed tbe .eformers the unwisdom ot such a 11 ourse. He then argued that they in ould not afford to risk the election of de [arrison by dividing the national D~e- w tocracy.. The convention put the w cala platform in the State Democrat~ di :plattorm. He did not agree with r1 1em and told them so, but that was tt eir right, and by putting it there rc ie Third party was kept down in ath Carolina, while, said he, you and 01 and two-thirds of the people had a o erve of Third partyism up our backs n s big as your finger. In other States the Alliance kicked T ut of the party and had ruined itselt n a doing so. South Carolina remainea a: the Democracy and was an example the other States which are now re etting that they bad not followed .r course. We are likely to have them flow our lead if we lead wisely and elI, but we must not fritter onr rces by dividing on small issues. We ust not load down uur platform with ch impractical schemes as are on the >puitstic platform. If we make the ht in the South and West on the estion of the government issuing all e paper moniy and taking it away >m the corporations and making !d, silver, and paper interchangeable 1 will win. The tariff is a side issue d 3o is governmental control of the ilroads. We must leave all these estions out of it and consecrate all r strength on the fight for the peo 's money. Speeches were made by reral candidatos for State offices. NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE. rm An Fast)iers Refused Permisloni to VjPjt AU&Ulta. COLUMBIA, S. C.. June 29.-At a spe Ll meeting held on June 18 the Ger in Fusiliers of Ctiarleston decided to cept the invitation of the German iardsof Augdsta to participate with em in their celebration of "German ty," or "Dantsche Tag." (.June 27) at city. l'he company, havifg decided to go to agusta, Capt. Schacte wrote to Co mbia for permission for his command leave the State. Ihe following self explanatory corre ondence then ensued between him f and Assistant Adjutant General attS: Charleston. June 18, 1994. Uen. IL. L Farley, Adjutant and In ector General State of South Caroli -General: I have the honor to re .est you to grant me permission to 3it Augusts, Ga., with my company, e German Fusiliers, on the 27th day June, 1894, Very respectfully, HENRY SCIIACTE, Captain German Fusiliers. Respectfully forwarded approved. T. A. HuGUENiN, Brigadier General. Columbia, June 25, 1894. Captain Henry Schacte, Charleston, S. : Dear Sir:-Your letter to General rley asking permission to leave the ate armed and equipped has been re Ived and was reterred to the Com mnder-tn-chief, and I am instructed him to say to you that as your com ind is under charges he cannot grant ur request. Very respectfuly, J. GARY WATTS, Assistant Adjutant and Inspector meral. Upon the receipt of the letter of the Jjutant and Inspector General refus g the desired permission the tele aphic correspondence below passed tween Capt. Renkl, of the Augusta rman Guards, and CaDtain bchachte: Charleston, June 25, 1894. Capt. A. J. Renkl, Augusta, Ga.: aving been unable to procure a permission of the Cominander-in lef to leave the State we regret that cennot be with you. HENRY SCHACHTE, Captain German Fusiliers. Augusta, Ga., June 25, 1894 Capt. Henry SchLachte, Charleston, S. : Ship uniforms and come anyhow; 'e aplenty of gnns. Answer. A. J. RENKL. Charleston, June 26, 1894. Capt. A. J. Renkl, Augusta, Ga.: :tanks for your telegram. Would idly do so, but udder the circum nces impossible. HENRY SCHACHTE. After sending the above telegram ptain Schachte wrote to Captain mkl the following letter with which e correspondence closed: Charleston, June 26, 1894. Capt. A. J1. ?Renkl. German Guards, igusta, Ga.-Dear Captain- I write behalf of the German Fusillers te rthat we regret sincerely our inabil to parlicipate with you in your an tersary celebration. As explained to you by telegraph r application for permission to leave i State was refused by the Comnmnd in-chief. WYe send our greeting to the German tards of Augusta, and wish them tinued prosperity in the years to mie. Very truly and sincerely yours, HENRY SCHACIIfE. E ad . I the Mcl'Ati Case, W. IL. McFail's peculiar and, by this ne, famous case has at last been de itely decided and he will have to go the penitentiary to serve out the ran ye ars sentence for manslaughter posed upon him something over two ars ago. Mc~ail has been as free as >ird for two years owing to the most culiar combination of legal circum mces ever known in the State. ,out fo'ur years ago Mc~all got into liflicuty with the town marshal of idway, in Barnwell county, which ra led ic his shooting and killing the arshal.. Hie was arrested, tried and nvictel of manslaughter, and sen aced to the penitentiary for seven ars. An appeal was takeD to the ate Supreme Court and McFall got t on bond. In the course of time e Supreme Court dismissed the ap al because McFail's attorneys had t had the briefs printed etc, in ac rdance with the rules of the court. ie remittituer was sent down on ne 16;, 1892. After this McFail's ap retly aiving up all hope of keeping t of the State prison surrendered oslf to his bone holders, went to the niteatiary and of Tered to deliver him [ up to the authorities. They re sed to take hitu, the commitment pers having no'; been reoeived. Mr. illiamns applied to the United States preme Court for a writ of error, al ring that his client was being de ived of justice by the State Court be use he was too poor to have a brief his case printed. The writ was anted and McFail went home e has been there, unmolested for the st t wo years. .Some t.:me ago the se was called in the United States preme Court and the State moved have the case distarissed. The man te of the court dismissed the case th costs and penalties. The court smisses it upon the ground that the titioner ia.ilei to have his cause filed d docketed, as is required by the les of the courr. It appears that Mr. illiams having moved to ganother etion of the country either forgot or glected the case, an~d in consequence Oai! will he obliged to go to prison once, the remittuer of the State lur h aving alreaidy gone do wn. Tired of Living. CUAnusITosN, June 28.--J. Henry ackerman, a young white man. comi itted suicide five miles from here to. tv. ie tied a bar of iron around his ist and went out into tne river. lre he shot himself, it was his evi t intention to have fallen into the v'er after shooting himself. Hie left following note on the table in his Dear Mother and Father:-l am tired living and so I will make an end of life. So I mean to die and bury yself. It is useless to try and find y body, for you will never find it. his is ahoiit all I have to sav out of y mouth while I live. Your truly HAR3'3 BATTERY REUNION. A L-rge Cfowd and GoOd Sptchies at the Celiblauton. MIDWAY, S. C., June 28.-Wednes day morning, June 27th, dawned with a slight cloud overlooking the horizon and looked as if the day would be a very rainy and ill looking one, but soon afterwards the clouds vanishel and the day put forth its golden sunshine and proved to be a veiy line day. At 1l o'clock a. m. near one thousand people lined the beautiful pavements of the little city o' Bimburg, S. C, and one hour later between three and five hun dred more put in their appearance, the occasion being the Ileunion of Hart's Battery. The First Georgia Regiment Brass Bond, of Savannah, composed of 13 pieces was there in good style and gav'e elegant music. At 10:30 o'clock the band struck up a familiar piece and marched to the place designated for thespeaking, followad by possibly a thousand persons. The speeches took pla::e under large oaks which made a kind ot park and also a very pretty place. At II o'clock all seemed anxious to hear the orators, were called to order by Chairman W. G. Smith, who an. nounced that Rev. J. W. Elkins would lead us in prayer. Mr. Elkins arose and made a noble and earnest prayer lasting about fifteen~minutes. Chairman Smith then made a short address and in conclusion introduced one of South Carolina's noble. distin guished, and patiiotic gentlemen, Mj. James F. Hart. The Major arose from his seat casting a glance at the im mense crowd and then a look at Bam - bi-g's fair damsels with great admira. tion, standing there upon the rostrum looking like a brave veteran who with his comrades went through the terible hard str uggle fighting for their countiy during the late war, gave tha crowd a smiling bow and spoke for about half an hour. He was greatly app'a-aded all through his speech and was loadly cheered at the conclusion. Major Smith next intriduced a son of one of the survivors, a 17 year old lad, Mr. R. A. Sherfesse of Rock Hill. The young orator came forward and with a ple ising smile quivering about his lips rang out through the crowd his youthful voice. His effort was grand. He spoke near twenty-five minutes and at the conclusion, the fair damsels came on the stand and presented the young orator with exquisite and beau tiful bouquets of flowers. He was also loudly cheered by the crowd and de serves great praise for his utterances. Col. Robert Aldrich of Barnwell. S. C. was the next to come forward. His bright intelligent physiogomy being fa miliar took In the smiles and admira tion of everybody, for they knew that it was not often that they hear such an orator as the Colonel. His speech was eloquent and was very interesting to all present. He spoke fifty minutes and was loudly applauded. At the conclusion of Colonel Aldrich's speech, the band struck up "Dixie" and the remaining survivors of Hart's Bat tery. 17 in number, jumped from their seats and yelled hurrah, hurrah! waiv ing their hands and hats, for the Con federacy and Hart's Battery. The old familiar time seemed to have brought back recollections of the years of '61 to '65. The survivors who. were present were as follows: Maj. James F. Hart, Gen. 1.M. Bam ber, Louis Sherfese D. H. Sally, Wii 11am Paillips, Jeff Harvey, W. M. Fel der, Joseph Gillard, E. B. Guess, Por ter Pearson, Henry Kennedy, John D. Livingstone, Charles Sherfese. Jo3eph Murdock, D. P. Sojourner, 3. H. Tru dal, A. V. Eaves, J. E. Walker. Chairman Smith at 1 o'clock directed the crowd to the well-filled tables of eatables near the fitting schooll build ing where every body went, and after a hearty repast seemed exceedingly happy. Every body had a nice time and went home praising God.-Columbia Journal. "Ihis World is Gioomny." BENNETTSvILLE, June 28.-Nit. H. W. Wingate, a merchant of this town conmitted suicide this morning about half past nine o'clock by cutting his throat with a razor. He had been un well for a few days and was despond ent on account of money stringency. He spent a sleepless night, and early this morning called on druggist Doug las and purchased a two ounce bottle of laudanum, stating that he wanted it for his wife. lHe went to his store and was seen there until 9 o'clock. Soon afterwards he was discovered, through a window, under the counter in a pool of blood, with an open razor near him, and the empty laudanum bottle on the counter. The door was locked with the key on the inside, in the lock. Coroner Sampson was at once notifieli An entrance was effected. Mr. Win gate was found to be dead. A jury was empaneled and several wit nesses examined. An unfinished letter dated June 28, was found on the dead man's person, which read as follows: "Dear Della: This world is gloomy and my troubles are crushmng me and you and the children. It is best for me to leave this world." His wife's name is Della. The sup position is that he drank the laudanum, and that drug not taking effect as soon as he desired he determined to use his razr. The verdict was that he came to his death by a razor wound at his own hands. Mr. Wingate was about 40 years of age and leaves a wife and live children. He married a niece of Jumdge C. P. Townsend.-State. Forty Thousand Strike s. ChicAoo, June 28.-It was estimated today at the headquarters of the Ameri can R ailway Union that fully 40,000 men are now out on a strike on account of the refusal of the Pullman Company to settle the differences with its emplo yees in the shops- By tomorrow night nearly double that number will have been ordered out, and the strikers will include not only members of the union but Knights of Labor, Brotherhood men and other organization can in any way affect the interests of the roads which have decided to stand by Pull man. It was given out at headquarters today that to-morrow morning the dif ferent railroads out of Chicago handling Pullman cars would be sufliciently crippled to warrant the removal of the base of operations of the oflicers of the American Railway Union f1om Chicago to St. L ouis. Passed the H.ouse. WNSHING'TON, June 22.-At 1:45 o'clock this atternoon the aii-o;aim bill passed the House by a vteac nouced to be yeas 150, tiays S7, pre7i and not votjig 1. This result 'as rec ed after two hours cone.:derat:OrI et thc amendments to the bi, under the tve uinute rule end an heue speash by Hatch, the author of the bill eu umina up the arguments in its favor. The bill, as finally passed, was the bill that came from the committee cn agriculture, with the sinale addition of iour to the list ol articles which may not be traded in. The vote in favor of' the btll is summaxized as folle ws: Demo - crat, 93, Republicans 47, Pocpulists 10. IThose who voted against it; Democrats 161 RepublIcan 26., A TEURRIBLE DISASTER. TWENTY FIVE MEN DROWNED BY THE SINKING OF A BOAT. A Tuz Ov :r-crowded with Members crA F1P'hin, Club Founders od Atlantle H ShI acds -The Steamer Alcorqulu and Two Tae t o t - Rescue. NEW YoRK. June 24.-The tuz Jas. D. Nichois, ovued by WM. Reeves, of 87th street, this ci.. fouadered off the Atlantic Highlands shortly befare 1 o'clock this afternoon. The ,N.chols had on board a party of excureionists nume bOrting sixVy -eitht persons and also car ned a crew of live men. As near as can be lea:ned at this writiog xty eight persons were rescued by th'e steamer Alzonquia, of the Clyde L ne, and the tuis Governor Wallace B. Flint and R. J. Morgan. This leaves t - en!y U-ve persons unaccounted for and these have p-obably been drowned. fhe names <f the victims have not all been learned yet. and it will probably be sev eral das before a corplete list ot the dead can be gathered. The tu- Nichols was chartered by an assoc'ation known as the IHerring-Fish ing Club, whose headquarters are at No 55 1st avenue, this city. The tug, with Lhe p.rty on board, left the toot of 5& s.reet, Elst R ver, at 7 30 o'clock this mrninz. She stooped at Pier 3 on her way to the dishing banks off Seabright, N. J., where several more persons were taken o2 baard, making sixty-eight in all. The fishing was inliflerent and the weaher threatening, and the tug started homeward. Sories differ "s to what happened on board the Lur. According to one chapter of the nearrative the fish ermen; to avoid getting. wet, moved around on the dry side of the vessel; that is, the side where the waves did not strike with much force. 'It is claimed by some that this action on the part of the passengers resulted in the foundering of the tu. With the increased weight on one side she toppled over and the water ran into' her to such an extent that it was thereafter imoossible to navi gate her. She struzgled for a short dis tance and then, ap the water continued to roll into her, she sank further and further into the swells and went doen. By others it is claimed that the shifting of the passengers had nothing to do with the accident. These allege that the tug was an old and rotten affair; that she was terribly over cro vded and con scquently top-heavy, and that when she got into tie heavy sea she simply went over. She blew her whistle and attracted at tention on board of the steamer Algon quin, which was a mile away. The Al gonquin lowered a life boat, but the tug sank before either the life boat or the tags named came up. As she shank ont of sight the top of the wheel house, together with a ratt and a life boat, re mained AIating on the water. To every particl5 of wreckage clung one or more of the drowning throng. The life raft was the iost-sought f)r and those who were so fortunate as to make it were saved. The tug's life boat was found afloat, but full of water. In it was the body of a drowned man tanzled up in fishing lines. The water was so rough that t1- Alaornain made no attempt to pick up her life boat, but gave it a hae and towed it astern until quarantiie~Wa, reached. - Why HeKilled HIm. LYoxs, June 26.-Santo, the assassin of President Carnot, was again brought up this morning for examina tion before Examining Magistrate Benoist .When the examinating magis trate asked Santo whether he had a personal grievane against President Carnot,.he replied: "No, but he was a tyrant, and I kill ed him for that reason." "How did you stab him'./' asked the magistrate. "'I pashed aside the horses and curl asoer and advanced to the carriage. I had a dagger concealed in my sleeve. I only had to raise my hand. I aimed at the stomach and brought my arm down sharply, shouting "Long live an archy." Tihe crowd rushed upon me and laid me prostrate, I was beat mer cilessly." "Is the president dead ?" asked Santo. As the magistrate made no reply, the prisoner took It for granted that his victim was dead. He smiled and rais ing his hand, imitated the act of stab bing the President with undisguised glee. Thle examination lasted four hours. A LAy Kied. FLORENtCE, S. C., June 27.-A horri ble accident occurred here at 11 o'clock today, in which Mrs. Fannie Nachman lost her lite and Mrs. hielena Welsh re cived a horrible scalp Wound. Mrs. Welsh, a widow lady and a cripple, was out shopping today driving a horse and buggy. While on Darlington street the lorse took fright and ran down Irby street. While crossing tha Wilming ton. Columbia and Augusta tracks Mrs. Welsh was thrown out, falling on her head and receiving a gash from the forehead to the back of her head about sx inches in length. Mrs. Welsh may recover from her injucries. The horse continued his mad run till it reached the electric light pole in front of the court house. Here the buggy was smashel into smithereens and Mrs. Nachmaun was thrown about thirty 'eet, failing on her head. She was knocked senseless, the concussion being so great that she died in about five minutes. No one knows the cause of the horse running. It is indeed a sad affair and has been the topic of conver sation all day. Oultlaws at Yemasse. Y EMAssEE, S. C., June 26.-Yester day afternoon three negroes were caught breaking into the freight cars of the Charleston and Savannah Rail way near Central Junction, and were folowed by !ram White, who is em ploed by the roa'i. ie followed them to Yemassee, but before they reached there they had committed another of tese. The'y had robbed another negro rig ht in the sight of the Yemassee de Ipot, und took all the money he .had, Ialso shootinig hi-m and badiy bruising him. A posse was at once organized and they captuired the offenders at Coosawh:- ch, having to shoot two of them andc iojuring~ them slightly. They were takern to Hampton County jail today. Operator Commins took a very activd part in their capture. A sad Death. C2IIRLOTTE, N. C., June 2G.-John L gau Jamison, Jr., assistant overseer on the Thompson orphanage farm near Charlotte, was killed by lightning this afternoon under a poplar tree, under which he and his mule, with which he had been plowing, took shelter. Last Wednesday young Jamison was marri ed to pretty Ruth Brown, one of the ward of theTompsoon orphanage.After a motherless and fatherless childhocd, Rth had at last found happiness in marriage to a manly husband, but now, after Live days of wedding life the nin- e fortnate woman is a widow