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VOL. IX. _ _MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY., JULY 11 1894. NO. 50. TiE MARION MEETING. a tI IT WAS A GOOD ONE DESPITE THE ai ti BAD WEATHER. ai ce Intereat Shown Ch'ent in the SenatrialI til Fight-GOvernor TIlmaza's Questions st and Senator Batiei's Answerr. sa MARIoN, S. C., July 3.-If this had hi been a ball game instead of a campaign re meeting here today its record would . have been written, "Rain-no game-" ris But the candidates could not be fright- ( ened by a wetting, so anxious were bt they to have their innings, look the t dear people in the eye and see them face to-face. There were about 700 per- m sons who turned out to see the Senato rial rock-pitching and the various and p1 sundry side accompaniments to the big political show. Tney were martyrs ] to their curiosity, Interest or whatever feeling that took them there. They t not only saw reeds shaken by the wind, b but felt themselves drenched from tr head to foot by torrents of water from black clouds that hung over the town. cl For several hours there was a terrific c down-pour and the crowd and most of th the speakers had to succumb to a first class ducking. The meeting was held s W in a grove about a block away from fa any shelter, and the crowd were sensi ble enough to keep huddling together t and crouching under what umbrellas were on hand, otherwise they would have been like drowned rats had they ti broke for cover. General Butler's 15( speech was the feature of today's meet- St Ing. It was really a gem, and the big as Tillmai e audience listened to him m with such rapt attention that he actu- ge ally seemed to have made severe in roads into the Governor's Marion a - forces. His speech was a combination an of eloquence, wit and practical illus tration' Gc Caunty Chairman J. D. Montgomery - opened the meeting by asking the o crowd not to put any "injecting ques tions" to the speakers and reminded them that the city needed money so a that if ahy one misbehaved himself he m would be sent to jail and made to "give on up the stf-l Sol poice-Let every man consider him- th self a marshal for good behavior. (Ap- ti, Plafer prayer by the Rev. Mr. Beas ley the chairman began to call oat the programme and was about to ring in to the Senatorial candidates last when be Governor Tillman halted him with the b remark: "Oh, no, they had us last at Florence and you ain't going to put us o at the tail-end this time." The chair man succumbed and reversed his pro gramme. Railroad Commissioner Thomas came in on the lightning express. He re hearsed his devotion to reform and to quoted Trautwine on Civil Engineer- th ing, declared that the transportation bi question was a live issue and there dl was np better way to make the great th engine of State strike a stump than to put unskilled men on the board of railroad commissioners. le Commissioner J. A. Sligb, of New berry was the next speaker. He ac- w knowledged -that he was not a pretty i man, but consoled himself with the H thought that his wife contended he was - the--best looking man in theI world, though he could get no one else to sympathize with him. to Voice-That's right. (Appluuse.) Mr. Sligh-You know how it feels don't you? (Renewed laughter.) he Mr. Sligh was a very bashful refor- ra mer. His reform was ingrained from a birth and he could not be anything a1 else. He declared that as railroad com missioner he had always risen above St factional prejudice and had endeavored A to solve all questions in an equitable i way between the people and the rail- h roads. He had just remarked that he was for unity among the people when ltise was called on him. Mr. G. Walt Whitman spoke next.m Hie took a hand primary to ascertain how many persons in the cr0owd had read the Allhance .demands, four per-m -sons responding. He began to tell about how a straightout and a mono-b metallist in Columbia had written to wi the Governor thanking him for sup- 11! porting the South Carolina College, c when it began to "pour down cats and at dogs" and he suspended for a while. tb He was dead game, however, and re- en sumed when the rain slackened. He he was still discussing everything in sight m when time was called. tb Governor Tillman declared in his 18 speech that General Butlesr had holler- th ed like Tucker for office after 1876. w He offered to join Butler in signing a tb request to the State Executive Coin- ~ mittee to have a separate Senatorial box in the primary. He added that es even if Butler could get more votes in B, a separate box he was going to get the CI legislators or there would be hocus- bi pocus somewhere. I don't understand an expression w that General Butler used at Darling- ei toD, but I tell him If he will quit abso- r lutely discussing anything but public fo questions and quit accusing .me of hi being a thief with his dispensary ques- uj tions, I will promise to quit pelting te him, for his record is twice as vulner- w able as mine, If he treats me courte- Ye ously I will not hit hiin below the belt, te %rbut I say that I am not to be intimida - ~or browbeaten. There are three th ~psins that I want him to answer: kr 3'rst, let him name the man who he se says told him that I ran at Hamburg sti 'and I will prove him a llar by all the sti other rioters. wi Second, let him give me the names qt of the constables who he says received cli 83 per day from the whiskey men cli while they were getting $2 from the cli .Statei. I tried toget the best men I th sculd for constables but I expect that -w I did get some black sheep In the sp crowd. If he or any man knows of -such cases let him name them. d The third case I want him to settle at with County Chairman Brice of York- wl ville. General Butler said I insulted as him at the Yorkville meeting and at Ci the Chester meeting he pitched into ge me in a very ungentlemanly and outra- pl geous manner. He says he asked per- tt mission at Yorkville to reply to me al and that he was refused. I read from ta the Yorkville Enquirer that Chairman le: Brice asked General Butler if he wished pi to reply and that he declined. He and hi Mr. Brice can settle that between hi them. As Governor and Senator we ought [ -to have enough respect for you and r~ for ourselves to conduct ourselves in ~ a decent manner in this campaign. I eI have simply met aggressIon and insult IC with the same. I I want to say a word to my oppo- B nents. I don't know wny they hate b me. They have imbibed poison from the newspapers until they consider met a devil without honesty or principle.; ai Well, suppose I acknowledge that I am C a devil, but I claim that I have done ei something for South Carolina and I ;ci don't see why we can't have peace. But ' they have got to come to us. There is i no need of all this bitterness and in- b( tense feeling. It's sorter died out now, p it's true, because the antis are hopeless tl and have no candidates. But they are b hardened in their ways and they must go to church and get reform religion, al General Butler began his speech by tI saying that Governor Tillman had de- a] voted his time to the very thing that te said he desired him (Butler) to roid-personalities. If you take away e abuse of Cleveland and Simonton d myself and others from his speech ere is nothing left. General Butler Lswered the Governor's question con rning Mr. Brice by saying that be re the speaking he had put the ques n to Mr. Brice as to whether there ould be a ten mintues reply, and that r. Brice went to the Governor who id he was willing for Butler to ask m a question, but not for him to ply. Governor Tillman must understand ;ht now, whilst he says be is not oing to be bulldozed, that I never 6ve been qulldozed and never will be tlldozed either. I promise him now at if he will confine himself to legiti ate debate he will have no cause to mplain of me. I do not beg him to ep the lash off, but he must not Bad the baby act when I strike back, iich I am certain to do. The people mt enlightened discussion and they wt to know the remedies offered for Bir troubles. Our people are true and ave and gallant and they want the ith outside of rings and cliques and ey will come up as free American izens and cast their votes. [ join with the Governor in invoking D restoration of harmony which is 4 essential to our progress and wel- , e. No human being can say that t tave uttered a word that would tend separate the white people of this ite into factions, because I know the ipublican party is standing ready to :ow itself into the breach with its 1 ),000 negro majority and capture the I te. I appeal to the people to lay de all political hostilities and ani xsities and put their stoulders to ther and unite for the best. rhe Governor says that he is going beat me in this race. Now that is old dodgo. Iie can claim the heav a and the earth, but that is not going elect him. This is the first time the ivernor has indicated that he would .n me in requesting a separate box , the Senatorial race. At Edgefield me of my reform friends took me aside d told me that they wanted to vote for %, but that they could not go back the movement, as they feared Clem a College would be shut up and all at sort of thing. Hy friends, 1 do not believe in reac >nary legislation. All good citizens oice in the accomplishments of the ,form movement.. All of us ought be reformers, and no patriotic citi a can undertake to destroy what has t en accomplished. The Governor's ministration is, however, amenable just criticism, and because I find mething in it to criticize he cries out base," and says that I attack him rsoDally. Referring to the constable question, n Butler said that he was not going be an informer, but he would say at while passing through Spartan irg at the time of the Darlington I 3turbance a gentleman told him that ey had a nice set of spies there and timated that they were taking pay )m the whiskey men. How, in the me of common sense said Gen. But , can the conclusion, be avoide, ien constables shut their eyes as they lked past open barrooms. Answer ? the Governor's remarks about the amburg incident, he said: I think at in the course of the next few days an furnish the Governor with a cer icate. I was told that when he went Hamburg he could not be found ien the firing began. [ say to the Governor, now, that if will join me in requesting a sepa te box for the people to determine in ?rimary whom they want, that we 11 get a fair expression of opinion d that he will find some politica! rprises In this State by the 28th of gust. Although he has been crow g and flapping his wings, he will g~o me that taay with his finger in his >uth. If he can beat me fairly, I all not whine. If he beats me fairly d honestly 1 will do as much as any mn in this State to put him In the nate. He has not said as much for He says that I charged that he has ought chaos into the State. If we re not on the eve of chaos at Dar igton and Florence, God save the untry from chaos. I voted for him d the entire ticket and I have never1 rown one obstacle in the way of his forcement of the law, but I say tha.t must be subject to criticism. No an in this State was more surprised an I was when it was found after 76 thatlIwas the man to be sent to e Senate. The people called for me th practical unanimity and I went ere by the unanimous vote of the1 allace House. aking up Governor Tilman's charg of corruption in federai affairs, Gen. tler declared that if the Supreme urt was corrupt and the Senate had en bought and the House owned by all street, then popular government s a falure. Gen. -Butler was very ~ective In replying to Governcr Till an's remarks about carrying pitch rs and rocks to Washington with m. He said that if the Governor got Sin the Senate the Senators would i him, "Fling your rocks, young man; Swill go In the cloak iooms and Jet u throw them at vacancy." (Laugh The General said that the Senate was e best oratoricai burying ground he ew. "These pyrotechnic fellows get ant treatment." Hie related an in ance of a man in the Senate "who arted his own mouth off and then mt off to leave It." The man in testion sent some manuscript to the 3rk's desk to be read and while the rk was readidg it went off to the ak room, where he remained until e clerk was nearly through reading en he returned and resumed his eech. Having denounced the Senate how >es Governor Tillman expect to have y influence there ? H~e cannot get at a prudent man can and when he ks for an appropriation for South rolina they will say to him, "Go and t it yourself." (Laughter and ap ause.) His speeches remind me of e piney woods yearling. Take away the abuse and nothing is left but 1 and ears. (Laughter.) Gen. But e closed his speech witn a stirring troration in which he said if he forgot s people may the good Lord paraly se tongue and strike him speechless. Senator John Gary Evans followed. e began to speak in a pathetic vein, calling the doings of his kinamen in anon, when he was interrupted by eers for Ellerbe. lie made the fol wing explanation concerning his re ark at the Florence meeting that the eformers had to "buy out" the Coluim a Register. "I don't think anybody will believe ial any Reformer had a dollar to buy ay newspaper. We held a meeting in lumba to see if we could raise money ough, and afterward the Register me over t- our assistance, and if it as bought It did not get any o f my oney, and I don't believe it was aght. I am here to defend any pa r that has hit a lick for us. As long as te Register stands by us I shall stand The Game Cock discussed the school id dispensary questions and said that te profit from the latter ought to be pled to the public schools. He en LWovernor being allowed only half an iour in which to do their speaking. It was making the canvass a farce and he wanted more time even if it bad to be :aken from other candidates. Secretary Tindal made a nice speech. aying that the people must keep the ;overnment in their hands and not al ow future rings, adding that they nust not exercise their power in a ;pirit of revenge. General Ellerbe was 1ae last speaker. le was received by 3is townsmen with great applause. [Ie said he was for peace and harmony )ut that the minority must give in to ;he majority. He called upon both ddes to lay down their arms and join in ielping to build up the State. Ile said hat he did not favor the dispensary aw at first, but. that it had panned out )etter than he had expected. He hought that the opposition should help )erfect it instead of try to kill it. Chis ended the speaking. SIX WERE KILLED. 3oody and F*tal Causequencen of tbe Great R iload strike. CmcAUo,July 6.-Six dead and an in lefinite number of inj ured is the record if casualties in the strike contlicts in ihicago today. Yesterday one man vasshot in the leg. It the blood-let ing tomorrow shall show a like in rease, the coroner will have a sum ner's work before him. The develop nents of yesterday went far to convince 11 thinking people that the gravity of he situation had not been appreciated oy the authorities or the people at large. ersous who were here during she rail oad strike of 1877, and who saw the tmosphere clear preceptibly when no nore than eighty bronzed and dusty egulars from the plains marched town Madison street and went into amp on tha lake front, wagged their Leads knowingly when three times hat number were ordered from Fort )heridan, comprising the three arms of he service, and said they would make hort work of Mr. Debs's followers. 3ut after twelve hours of as patient ad presistent coolness and bravery nder trying circumstances as was ver seen, these same citizens and the ficers in command were forced to ad it that things were not as they were a '77 and that it was still a long mark o peace and the resumption of unim ieded traffic on any of the railroads unning out of Chicago. The developments of the night and hose of today have Ionfirmed tne con riction that nothing short of an over rhelming armed force, with instrue ions to ahoot to kill, can settle the rouble, or as Col. Crofton put it, "it Las ceased to be a mere movement of roops and has become a campaign." he local and State authorities have mwakened to the critically grave nature if the strike malady which is afflicting he nation generally, but Chicago in >articular. and are taking measures to 6pply adequate remedies. The city lice force has already been recruited ip to over 3,000 men, and oy request of ayor Hopkins and by order of Gover ior Atgeld. two brigades of State mili ia have been ordered here to aid in Luelling the disturbances. At the nation's capital, also the fact s recognized that the preventing con litions are entirely out of ordinary and hat provisions must be made for aucb massing of fighting men as has never >efore been seen together in the histo y of the nation in time of peace,if the 6thority and dignity of the Federal overnment and the processes of its ourts are not to be laughed to scorn or an indefinite time. (The strike ques ion is so infectious at certain points hbat the President and his advisers be ieve it would be unwise to withdraw my more regular troops from the coun ry west of Chicago. It is therefore in ~ontemplation, should the forces, Fed ~ral, State and municipal already gath ~red here, be unequal to the task of re toring order to send here the compa ies stationed on the Canadian border, With the reserved intention, if circum itances demand it, of exercising . the -ight to call for 20,000 men of the crack nilitary regiments of New York and ennsylvania. The day in Chicago has been one of ~onstant alarms and calling for police, eputy marshals and soldiers here, here and everywhere thtoughout a ide stretch of territory in the south rn part of the city. Riot has been utnning rampant throughout the day; ~ars have been overtnrned, switches roken and tracks obstructed in num ~rous ways; the torch was applied in nany instances to cars, s witch towers Ld the like, not to mention an attempt o fire a part of the great Armour pack ng plant-in fact, at one time the In ~endiary blazes followed each other In uch quick succession that the lire de ar tment was put to straits to care for 11lof them. To add to the gravity of he situation it was found that the trikers were interfering with the po ice, railroad and fire alarm telegraph ystems, and in one or two instances olicemen who were using the police elephone calls were stoned The assaults of mobs, however, was iot met with the passive resistance vhich characterized the course pursued resterday. Oa two occasion at least their ttacks were met with accurately aimed ead. During a riot, in the forenoon, ver an incoming milk train at Ken iington, a deputy United States mar ihal shos and killed two strikers, and luring the afternoon, the deputies guarding an incoming Baltimore and 3flio passenger train replied to the rolley of shots and stones which the trikers showered upon them by turn .ng their revolvers loose, killing four f their assailants and waandmng a iumber of others. stoneai i Death'. CIcaCo, JIuly 6.-S. RI. Ritchie, a pecial policeman employed by the ittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago coad, was stoned to death by a mob this fternoon, at the Fifth-seventh street rossing of that road. Ritchie, who was lso a deputy sheriff, caught some boys verturning a switch shanty and com pelled them to set it upright again. While he was talking to the boys a mob approached and attempted to burn the hanty. Ritchie drew his revolver and ureatened to kill the first man who ap proached the shanty. The mob kept. surging around him, but he held it off intil his revolver was accidentally dis :barged, the bullet striking him in the toot. He was easy prey for the mob then and they quickly had him down. They stood around nis body and literal y stoned him to death. Iiis head was pounded almost to pieces. The mob inally went away leaving him for dead but he was still alive when the police arrived. He was taken to the hospital but died in a short time. No ar rests were made. In Dangeir. BRTTOL, Tenn., July 5.-News :omes from Rio de .Janeiro, Brazil, tating that Reverend El ward F. Tilly, Methodist missionary to that country from the Holston conference, is in reat danger ot losing his life because de took sides with the re bels and against the president in the recent troubles. It is understood here that foreigners who praticipat ed are to be courtmartialed and shot. Tilly wns born and educated in thi ity. THE GREAT SMIKE. THOUSANDS OF MEN ARE NOW OUT AND MORE GOING. The Nat lonalGovernment Aetu by Moving Treops-The Business of the Rosd. Sot feit-ig Somewhat--strikers Occasionally Kltotond. WASHINGTON, July 4.-Se.retary Lamont went to the War Department afLer the cabinet meeting yesterday and made public the following statement: The United States marshal, the United States District Attorney and the United States District Judge. baving certitled to the President that in their judgment It is impracticable to otherwise execute the orders ot the court, the traops under command of Col. Crofton at Fort Sher idan, consisting of eight camps of infan try, two troops of cavalry and a battery of light artillery have been ordered to Chicaao to enforce the observance of the laws of the United States. These orders were telegraphed at 3:30 p. m. to Cal. Martin, the adjutant general at Gen. Miles headquarters in Chicago. Freight shipments to all points west of Pittsbrug are practically at a standstiii. Tnirty-two Western roads have notified the Pennsylvania Company's general office in Pitthburg that they will not re ceive freight of any kind, until the boy cott has been settled. Freight trains are tied up all along the routes between Pittsburg and Chicag> and the losses from the delays will be enormous. The railroad officials today, for the first time, admit their inability to move through freight. All efiorts are concentrated in keeping local freight and passenger trains moving. * The situation on the Wabash is more desperate than at any time amce the strike began. All of its trainmen, ln cluding locomotive engineers, have quit. Scarcely a wheel on the entire system is moving. The Chicago and Alton is also greatly embarrassed. None of its trains got through to St. Louis this morning. Several trains:are reported tied up at Bloomington. The Wabash shops at Toledo have been closed for lack of workinen. In anticipation of a conflict between strikers and non-union men in the Missouri Pacific yards. the members of the first regiment M. N. G. have re ceived orders to report at the armory and hold themselves in readiness for in stant action. CHICAGo, July 4 -Col. Crawford and his 650 United States troops from Fort Sheridan arrived at the Northwes tern depot just before midnight on their way to the various riotous points in and around Chicago. An order was received at the Fort to move at 4 o'clock, but the start was not made until 9 p. m., and it took over Two hours to cover the twen ty-five miles. There are eight companies of the Fifteenth Regiment, two troops of cavalry, B and K. of the Seventh Regiment, and Battery F of the First Artillery. The second train, bearing accoutremients and cannon, Dulled in af ter the troops' train, but stopped quar ter of a mile east ot the Chicago river. As sor-as-ttr-regrentr lined up on the platform a conference was held in one of the cars between Col. Crafton commanding, '.United btates Attroney Milchrist, J. M. E.an, Assistant Mar sbal Donnelly and the staft officers, comprising Lieut. Col. Obansheim, Maj. Bayly, Lient. Blow, Adjutant and Quar termaster Simley. Manager E zan, pre sented the claim of the railroads, and af ter a brief consultation the following ap portionments of troops were made: Companies A, C, G, and H, comprising the First Batallion of 250 men, to go to Blue Island under command of Maj. Bayley; companies E and F, under command of Col. HIumphreys, to go to Grand Crossing, and companies E and D, Msj. Hartz commanding, to go to Stoca Yards, the cavalry to be divided up tomorrow between Grand Crossing and Stock Yards, and the battery will go to the latter place. Col. Crofton's headquarters are to be in this city, from which point 1.e will direct tbe manage ment of the troops. After the decision as to the location of the regulars they boarded the tramn and were backed to the base of supplies, where two day's rations were issued, and the various de tachments marched to their respective depots for the vrious points. The First Battalion lef t from the Rock Island at 2 a. m. on a special train, with a flit car ahead of the engine, on which was mounted the artillery. This precaution was taken as a show of strength, and was surgested by Milchrist. The detachment for Grand Crossing lef t the depot about the same time on the Illinois Central trian. At 8 o'clock this morning 8,vift & Co. succeeded in getting out a stalled train of beet which had been on the track at Halstead and Fortieth street since Monday. Thirty men from Company B., Ffseenth United Sates In fantry, under Capt. Chapin, with 100 policemen, guarded the tramn to the Michigan Central tracks. When the soldiers marched back to camp they were followed by a crowd of about S00 men andl boys. who cursed and yelled at them until Capt. Chapin ordered his men to charge bayonets, and scattered the crowd. TIlE STRIKERS FIRED UPON' CmeCAGO, ILL , .July;5.-At 3 o'clock this afternoon a special train consist ing of an engine and one passenger car, was sent out on the Lake Shore Road from Van Buren station loaded with a detail of special police. Oflicers of the road were also on board. The police had been dispatched to aid in the moving of trains in the vicinity of the stock yards. At Fourth street thle mob grew so demonstrative that the trin was compelled to halt. The en gineer believed himself the object of attack and drew his revolver. Before he could shoot a policeman disarmed him. The crowd saw the movement ann became wild with frenzy. They rushed upon the train, literally swarm ing around it, pelted it with stones and sticke, breaking many windows and howling like mad men. The po lice then drew their own revolvers and fired into the crowd. One or two men are said to have been hit, but it is not yet known how seriously they are hurt. A dozen shots or so were fired. In the meantime the engineer had reversed hs engine and the train was soon forced backward' out of reach of the now unbridled mob and returned to the city. This is the first shooting in the present strike. It occurred In a locality where the men were already furious and It is believed will be the signal for desperate encounters very soon. A Rock Island express from the West attempted to follow the train bearing the soldiers from Blue Island into the city this afternoon, but at Fortieth street the train was effectually blocked by the strikers, who had thrown flat cars across the track. The mob induced the firemen to get off the cab. Chief Clerk Hubbell of the Superintendent's oflice of the Rock island was severely stoned while at special bearing the soldiers and the mob burned a Rock Island freight car at Fortieth street and would have de molished the tower at that point but were prevented by the police and fire department. At 6 o'clock tonight a mob ninber. ing 2,000 men started North on the Lake Shore tracks, marching toward the heart of th'e city. At twenty-eighth street, they overturned two freight cars on the track; at Twentieth street three, and at Twenty-lifta -treet two. They were met at Twenty-second street by a small detachment of police and before the officers could make any arrests the mob had dispersed. The trainmen repaired the darmage within two hours. At 5.30 special Detective G(iegory o the Western Indian Railway shot two men in the leg who had made an at. tempt on his life. The shooting was done in,,selfdefence. Two cars loaded with meat were burned near the Fort Wayne crossing before the lire depart ment were able to extinguish the flames. The Union Stock Yard. Switching Company has been blocked by four freight cars which the strikern have pliced across the tracks. Fron: there tthy proceeded to the rouc house with the intention of piling some box cars on the switch leading tc the round house so that no engine could get in or out of the round house inspector Hunt with fifty policemer met the' mob, however, and drovr them away. The mob is very rabid and seem beni on doing. everything to destroy proper ty. They pay no attention to a ;tempt to dissande them, having become reck, lessly daring. There are large crowd: blocking every street and alley in the stock yards district. EXCITING TDIES. CmnoAoO, July 5-The sun wenl down on by far the most turbulent an( critical day thus far in the unpar alleled railroad strike and boycott, When it opened there was a genera feeling that its passage would go fai toward clearing the atmosphere. if in deed it did not practically lift the em. bargo on commerce which has held tbi: city in its grip for the past week. Thal expectation was chiefly based on th: presence of Federal troops in the mosl dangerous district. Looking at the situa tion at the close of the day it must b confessed that the hope indulged at th; opening. in this regard has not beei: justified. The troops were few in num; bers at best, when they were dividet into squads and distributed at point. sep' ted by very considerable dis it soon became eviaent that theii pr e as overawing bodies had beer dissipi~ted at the same time. Instead of fleeing in fear before th( facespf the vbterans, as was expected thefyuld do, the turbulent thousand" sarg about the little ba.d of soldiers jeered and -hooted them, and cast vil threigs at them and literally played hide-and-seek with them, stopping trains at will and generally rendering th embargo in the military distriel mde effective, if possible. than before The throng of strikers did not resist Uncle Sam's police, again and agair when there were thousands of then about a train while it sought to mov( they gave way like water before the leveled bayonets of a single compan3 of infantry or the trampling of a singh squad-of cavalry. Like water too Ihe closed In- again at a point just beyond. They turned swiches, derailed freight cars in front of the slow moving trait and played all sorts of railroaders trick! with which the soldiers :were unac quainted. Thus is was that the troop! at the Stock Yards in perseverance and patience spent the entire day in a vair endeavor to get ~one train load o1 dressed beef out of sight of the starting point. Another and pleasanter thing this ex perience showed and that was the ad mrable coolness, self poise and discip line of the troops throughout an exas perating twelve hours. Not a shot wa fired; not a man was picked by a b.y onet, which argues that with force enough the soliders would have donE the work which was expected of them The quality was there, merely the quan tity was lacking. Aside from the immediate neighbor hood where the troops were operating, there was pienty of excitement and dis order. Great mobs gathered on Lake Shore, Rock Island, and the Westerr Indiana tracks and proceeded to ob struct them by overturning box cars breaking switches and the like. At one point they set lire to a switch towel and interlocking the s witch box though the Inames were extinguished before serious damage was done. It two instances there was bloodshed. On the Western Indinana track, a hart pressed special policeman tired at hi! pursuers wounding a striker in the leg On the Lake Shore Road an oflicial o1 that company. in charge of a trait which he was endeavoring to forci through, emptied his revolver point blank into the massed strikers aboul him wounding two or three it is be lieved. He was saved from the fury 01 the mob by his engineer, who put on steam and ran back to the point ol starting. Shortly after noon, a mot numbering 2,003 started North on the Lake Shore tracks at Thirty-seventh street, overturning cars and obstruzs ing the line in every possible waLy They were not checked unltil they reached Twenty-second street, where a heavy force of police was massed, anc succeeded in turning tnem back. Some Plaiu Talk. AT LANTA, Ga., July 4.-A Washing ton special says: It developes that the financial statement which Mr. Cleve land sent out by the press association! last Monday night was caused by visit of some New York linancier! over here. They came to: persunde him to make another issue of bonds They agreed to plac3 830.00,0Y0 ir New York and New England. Bul Mr. Cleveland remembered the protesi that went up from the country whet he made his first issue. Hel had nc idea of facing another such protest and he told these New Yorkers plainly thai he would make no bond issue, even ii they agreed to place them at a higit premium. To emphasize his determi nation to make no further bond issue to make this aetermination public and to attempt to stir up some little patri otism among our Ne w York bankers he wrote that statement. Ib his blunt way he did it to let them know thai they could not beguile himinto anothei bond issue. ie nas determined that the gold reserve shall stick to the very stone flaoring of tbe treasury vault! with not enough gold dollars to speckle the stones before he shall make anoth er bond issue. If there is ever to be another issue of bonds during his ad ministration he says congress shall authorize it. Ile will assume the au thority no more without an express acd of congress. The plain statement Mr. Cleveland made to the New Yorkers who were the representatives of a big syndicate formed to force another is sue of bonds and gobble them up, 1! -said to have dissolved the syndicat. If that is true this money m ay bo put out in other directions and matters nancially may be eased up thereby Four at a lieb. ALEXANDRtIA, La., .June :t0.-Mrs Hilton, gave birth to four children, weighing nine pounds earn-t wo boys and two girls. NEW PARTY NECESSARY. MARION BUTLER SAYS THE SOUTH AND WEST MUST UNITE. Th-e Pec-idenut Ct the NaI&oal A111auce Now Sptking In This stCAte Gives an I a tecEr.ti'ng Intqev:.-w-rhe Allanceo In P.-Ilnes. CoI.uMaBi, S. C., July G.-Mr. Marion Butler, President of the National Far mers' Alliance, while on a visit to this city yesterday was interviewed. " the Alliance," he said, "is doing a very satis factory work at this time. Perhaps there is not as much hurrah now as there was at the beginning, for the sur plus enthusiasm which generally ac companies such an orgaization at the outset has spent itself. It is no;v de voting a good deal of its attention to the business department, as that ma chinery has gotten in good order. At the last meeting of the national executive committee, it was decided to establish a national exchange, which will very probably be located at Balti more. The intention of such an ex change is to have one general agent make contracts for the various State exchanges and buying goods in bulk, get them at more advantageous prices for the Alliance members. The various State org'anizations, most of which have capital behind them, would vir tually be responsible fo the contract of the national Alliance, which would place its orders after receiving commis sions to do so from the various State exchanges. The government of Chili, he went on to say, "thought so much of the undertaking that it sent a spe cial commissioner to the meeting to make arrangements for the purchase of nitrate of soda by the national Alli ance. An office has already been se cured in Baltimore and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has offered a desir able site for the depots of the national exchange and promised to build them, There can be no question," he said, 'about the.success of such an enter prise. In North Carolina al-me, the State exchange does a business of over 8500,000, and by proper management as large a business can be done by any other State. New chartere are being issued every day for Alliances in the Northwest. The Alliance is really stronger in the West than it is in the Sonth. This applies to the members who have paid up their fees, although I believe that our machinery in the South is as good as that in the West. You do not hear so much now about the Alliance in South Carolina as In previous years, but its influence is, per haps, stronger than it has ever been." Just at this time, Col, Duncan, the national secretary, came In, and in re sponse to an inquiry from President Butler said that the membership in this Scate, which was in July, 1893, was 15,000. President Butler then went on to say by way of explanation for this small membership that is paid up is smaller than it has ever been since it amounited to anything, but that amounts to nothing. Take my State for instance, where the membership at one time was over one hundred thous and and yet, by the last report, it was onily 21L0.", - He was then asked whe ther those members who had not re tained active members were entitled to the benefits of the Alliance exchanges. "They are and they are not," he replied; "for instance, we do a larger business in North Carolina with 26,000 active members than we did with 100,000. While business is generally done under the seal of the sut-alliances, that rule isnoiIonc-A. My lodge has only six active members~jUt enough to retain its charter, mnd yet wgdo the buying for at least forty farmers, all of~a are good Alliancemen. The sub-Alli ances can and do purchase for those who they think are responsible. The hard times brought about the Alliance and yet it Is now acting in preventing Alliancemen from paying their dues. Yet if we were to cut off these met from the privileges of Alliancemen, most of them would join. About this time the question of strikes was brought up and Mr. But ler said that he could not see where at any time a strike could do any good, as It wes not a proper remedy for any evil. "The Alliance would have nothing to do with politics, if the politics ot the country were in such shape that the members of the Alliance could live un der it," was his statement in regard to the Alliance in politics. Then he went on tosay: "As a proof of that when the Ailiance was organized it was purely for social and business purpo es as the tiles and records of all of the first meetings will show. The argu. mentsof the speakers in organizing the lodges was that men living separ ate on farms at some distance from each other could not develop or rise to as high state as when they were thrown in fre quent contact. One phrase generally usea by the organizers was the only way you can generate was by the friction of intellecs against intel plect. It is the law of the development among our people. Acting on that broad principie that men meeting fre qjuently would beneit by each otner's experiences in every department of business; that all would avoid the mis takes one had made and that all would Ibenefit by one's successful experiment. This was bound to result in a greater production at less labor and less labar and less cost, and following this up they would distribute their products ta greater advantage. This intercourse mn the lodge room soon developed the belief among farmers that there was something raically wrong with the two great instruments of commerce money and transportation- After dis cussing these qnestion in the sub, coun ty andi State alliances, it was resolved at the meeting of the Alliance in 1889 that the Alliance ought to exert its in tiuence to correct evils through legisla tion, believing that they had been brought about by unjust legislation. This resulted in what is known as the political demands of the Alliance, which are practically the same now as adopted in 18S9. Tnis is the reason why the Alliance is in polities today, and it will continue in politics until the reforms it has asked for are secured and then it will return to the social and business features." Mr. Butler was asked what he thought of the attitude of Governor Tilimah to ward3 the sub-treasury scheme. "The reason the Alliance supports Ben Till man," he sai-l, "is because they know and believe that he is working to ac complish the same results as we are through the sub treasury scheme. The subtreasury or some other, is merely a suggestion on the part of the Alliance. Governor Tillman says that he believes in "some other methods." The Alliance believes that Governor Tillman Is hon est and sincere in desiring to secure the same results as it does. They believe, therefore, that he and all other Alli aucemen will, when elected, ccnsult to secure that end. The sub treasury ought never to have been made a de mand. It was intended as an illustra tion of how a demand onght to be car ried out; if, however, there is a better plan no one will hesitate to accept it." Then Mr. Butler was asked whether the Alliance was getting ready for the P.residential election iri 't;. He said that this wor+ oughtt e akelrn up now, but that it could hardly be done until the coming elections were over. He went on to say that "all sections whose predoninant interests are the production of wealth have interests that are diametrically opposad to a small class of monopolists and specu lators in the North and E ast. They will never get a position ;hat is just to them-I do not mean class legislation until they can have iniluence in the national affairs of our government and that can never come through an ad ministration that is nominated by the Republican or Democratic party as now constituted, because the class in terests that now dominates has control of the machinery of both of these or ganizations. This condition is soon going to force a new alignment of par ties, and seems to me all patriotic peo ple ought to do all they can to see it come about as soon as possible. This result will have to come about by the Solid West and South and all of those whose interests are common with them uniting in nominating and electing the administrative offices of the govern ment. What I would lite to see come about is for a national convention to be called representing the interests I have named and made up from Demo crats from the South and by that I mean Democrats-with due deference to the News and Courier-and the Peo ple's party from the West and those from the North who want to join, nom inating a Presidential candidate and electing him. The People's party out West is nothing more than a party of converted Democrats, but who on ac count of their prejudice to that name will not admit it, but they are as good Democrats as the Jeffersonian Demo crats of the South," "The real Democrats of the South and the Populists of the West have the same principles while the socalled Democrats of the Western States are nothing more than gold bug Democrats and have never yet done anything to elect a Democratic President. Tnese Western Popalists or Jeffersonian Democrats will not go into a Demo cratic convention wita that name, but if a convention of the American party or the Jeffersonian Democracy were called they would combine with the Democrats of the South to nominate and elect a President. I would like to see this combination effected in time for the campaign of 1898, but if it is not done by that time, it is simply a matter of a few years before it will be done."-State. WASHINGTON NEWS. Gov. &tgeld Objicts to Federal Tro ->ps in Chicago. WASHINGTOy, July 5.-The Presi dent, Secretary Lamont, Postmaster General Bissell, and General Shrfield remained at the White House tonight until nearly 12 o'clock. Many tele grams were received and sent during the course of the evening; General Ra gles bringing one over to General Scho field from General Miles. When the conference broke up Secretary Lamont, acting as spokesman for the President, announced there was nothing to make public, except the telegram from Gov ernor Atgeld of Illinois and the Presi dent's response thereto. Governor At geld protests against the presence of United States troops in Chicago. To this the President responds: Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., July 5, 1894. Hon. John P. Atgeld, Governor of Illi nois, Springfield, Ill. Federal troops were sent to Chicago in strict accordance with the Constitu tion and laws of the United States, up on the demand of the Postoffice De partment that the obstructions to the mails should be removed and upon the representations of the judicial officers of the United States that the process [df'the.ederal courts could not be ex-' ecuted tlir r-hOQdinary means and upon abundant proof ans~piracies existed against commerce betweeLthe States. To meet these conditions which are clearly within the province of Federal authority, the presence of Federal troops in Chicago was-deemed not only proper, but necessary, and there has been ne intention of thereby interfering with the plain duty of the local authorities to preserve the peace of the city. (Signed) GROVER CLEVELAND. Governor Atgeld says that waiving all questions of courtesy the State of Illinois is not only able to take care of itself, but it stands ready to furnish the Federal~government any assist ance it may need elsewhere- The State troops have not been ordered out be cause nobody in Cook County, official or private citizen, has asked for their assistance or intimatedthat it was needed. The railroads ale paralyzed, he s ays, not by reason of obstruction, but be cause they cannot get men tc work them; that such was the case when State troops had 'been recently called out at the request of the Railroads else where than in Chicago. Atgeld, says the conditions do not exist in Chicago which bring the case within the Feder al statutes and that he (the President) has bten imposed upon for political ends. The following is the concluding par agraphs of Gkovernor Atgeld's tele gram: To absolutely ignore a local government in matters of this kind, when tile local gofernment is ready to furnish any assistance needed and is amply able to enfore the law, not only insults the people of the State by imputing to them an inability to govern themselves or unwill ingness to enforce the law, but is in violation of a basic principle of our institutions. The question of Federal supremacy is in no way in volved. No one disputed it for a mo ment, but under our Constitution Fed eral supremacy and local self govern ment must go hand in hand and to ig nore the letter is to do violence to the Constitution. As Governor of tbe State of Illinois 1 protest against this and ask the immediate withdrawal of the Federal troops from active duty in this State. Should the situation at any time get so serious that we cannot con trol it with the State forces we will promptly and freely ask for Federal as sistance, but until such timelI protest with all due deference against this un called for reflection upon our people and again ask the immediate with drawal of these troops. I have the honor to be, Yours respectfully, Joirs P. ATgELD, Governor of Illmnois. Donble Killing. MAGNOIA, Miss., .July 5.-The ie ws has reached here of a double killiog that took place in Amnite county. A negro teacher named ilood wrote the county superintendent of ed ucation an insulting letter, about which some young men went to see him. They ar rived at the negro's house at midday and sent a young man named llanks in to tell him to come out. The negro responded to the re quest by shooting Hianks down and then walked to the window and began diring on the crowd with a pistol. Tne crowd returned the lire, completely riddling the negro's body with bullets. IHanks was a son of an ex-sheriff of the county, and was exceedingly popular, and his death at the hands of the negro has creatted Srat excitement. & NETTLES TO BUTLER. CLARENDOv COUNTY CHAIRMAN REPLIES TO HIS REQUEST In the 7'Itter of Manaters of Election The Snuat ,r'j Representative Prompniy R'plies to Nettles' Answer--interesting Readiug. COLMueBA, S. C., July 3.-A few days ago Senator Butler sent out to each of the various chairmen of the Democratic executive committees of the several counties in the State-a letter looking to obtaining representation on the boards of primary election managers Yesterday the followving renly was received from the chairman of the Clarendon commit. tee: Manning, S. C.' June 30, 1894. Hion. M. C. Batler, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: Yours of the 26th instant to hand, in which you say: "For the cominz primary election, 28h of August next, I ve the honor to request that I be allo v ft rom among my friends an equal division of the mana gers of said election. Either give me Lwo managers and give Gov. Tillman the other manager and the clerk, or give Gov. Tillman two managers and give me the other and the clerk." . I confess to very great surprise at the above. You seem;not to realze the ob jects and interests of our primaries, but to have r ached the conclusion that their sole aim and end this year is centered in the Senatorial contests. Passibly you have overlooked the fact that there is really to be ho election in our prima ries for a United States Senator, but as usual these offiers are elected by the State Legislature, and it is to be pre. sumed that our legislators will have some other merits and qualifications than simply to vo'.e for a United States Senators. You have aprarently jumpsd at the conclusion that the heretofore Re form and anti-Reform factions of the State have been revised and that their platforms of principles are now ooncen trated on Tillman and Butler, or on Tillmanism and Batlerism. You surely lost sight of the fact that there are many other candidates, each of whom may feel as great interest in his individual election as you do in yours. I believe it is a fact that there are already four ca4didates fr Governor. Then there are candidates for the other State offices, for Railroad Commirsioners, for Congress, for the Legislature, for coune ty offices-a great host of candidates, each one like yourself, possibly, fearful of the consequences. Suppose that fol lowir'g your example each one of this mighty host should demand two man agers, that he might feel fully assured that- every vote cast for him was proper ly counted (and you must admit that in this Democartic country of ours you have no rights that the humblest cannot equally claim, what would b3 the re sult? I think when you carefully consider this questionyou willrealize that your request is unreasonable. We iave in Clarendon county twenty five club3, and in each the line is strong ly drawn between Reformers and anti Reformere. Fifteen of these clubs are Reformers and ten are Antis. At our primaries ia 1892 we agreed upon the following plan: Each club should select from its own members two managers and one clerk, and a neighboring club of the opposing faction should complete the Doard by sending another manager and a clerk. By this plan each club had three managers and two clerks and both factions wdre represented. We found it to be a most excellent plan and' will probably be adopted again this , ar. -iy' these anti clubs e form clubs)~s diddeel ftro champion your candidacy, and to select Butler mana gers, they would of course have a right to do so, and in tbis way ycu may get your wishes gratified, but then, as you will note, this is a private matter with the clubs and not for the executive com mittee. You know it is now "equal rights to all and special privileges to none." Yours very respectfully. S. A. NETTLEs. Chairman Democratic Executive Com mittee, Ciarendon County. - CAPT. CAPERS REPLIES. Columbia, S. C., July 2, 1894. Mr. S. A. Nettles. Chairman, Clarendon County: Dear Sir: Your favor of Jane 30, in reply to the letter writteni by Senator Butler, asking for an equal representa tion at the coming primary election in the board of managers, dulf to hand. Your expressions of surprise are as absurd as your ideas are narrow and par tisan. It aflords me some satisfaction to feel sure that you do not express the views, nor do you represent the feelings, of the executive committee of your coua ty or of the white Democrats of South Carolina, matt :s not to what faction they may belong. Many of your refer ences to Gen..Butler are unworthy of you, but I dismiss them and credit them to a bi as which has characterized your public cireer for the last four years. F.-om many portions of South Caro lina I have received most courteous re plies to Senator Butler's letter-from county chairmen, wh> have been in the movement longer than you have and who are no doubt just as true Reformers. Do me the aindness to eubmit Sator Butler's letter to your executive comn mittee when it meets. The simple re quest is only for "fair play" and you should not sho w so mnch nervous agila tion in anticipating that fair play would mean the removal of yourself and some others fcom infiuence in Clarendon coun ty. Very truly yours, JOHN G. CAPERs. An Accident at Oakley. OAKLEY DEPOT, .BERKELEY COUN TY, July 4.-Recently as the down train from Columbia was rapid ly approaching this place two negroes, Ned Wehman and an unkno wn colored man, were run over and killed at what is known as the "Broughton Swamp Trestle," about a half mile above the diepot. Wehman, it appears, had clear el the trestle, and upon looking back saw that the unknown man was in danger of being injured. He sprang to his assistance, and it was in the at tempt to save the man's life that both were killed. As soon as the men were discovered upon the track every effort on the part of the engineer and those in charge of the train was made to avert the accident, but without avail. They were so close upon the men that it was impossible to stop in time. A jury was empanelled and an inquest held by Trial Justice RI. W. Hains, acting as coroner, and a verdict was rendered in accordance with the above facts,no blame attaching to the '"o!!road company. The wonder is thsat likz, acci dents have not happencd before and more frequently, for th'- negroes, make a pubiic course of the railroad track and trust to luck to get out of the way of passing trains in time to avoid in it,'17