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VOL. X. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15,1894. NO. 3. TilE ANDERSON 1EET1IG ONE OF 7 HE LARGEST HELD DURING T - E CAM PAIGN. Evans svd Flle be Go ter Ech Other and hthlr PArt!aLst Appland Them The Senatorial Condidatte aro Very Mild. ANPERSON, S. C.. Aug iSt. 7.-Two thousand live hundred people sat on an old cotton platform, with a contingent perched in the trees near by, to beir and whoop up the day's performance. Ellerbe gave Evans a sheolic drubbing, and the slight but manifest preponder ance of the crowd was apparently in sympathy with him. The two elements were not altogtther friendly with each other, and they howled mutually and all in a jumble in entertaining antago nism. Governor Tillman bpoke last. The candidates, without exception, had departed, leaving the field to him, the reporters and the unanimous, voluble and jolly Tillman boys. About 500, however, of the audience had left. The Governor and the remainder had a roy al old time Logether which they enjoy ed Immensely. JcSh Ashley composed a large portion of the audience and was heard voluminously. CANDIDATES FOR T13N STATE OFTICES. Gen. Richbourg spoke first, and was willing to admit that "he was wrong in prmlitting his name to remain on the,Haskell ticket in 1890." Four or five cheers hailed Gary Watts, who stated that "he had been criticised and even black-balled for doing his duty and being a Tillman ite." Next cane Jones, Whitman, Keitt. Yeldell, Wilborn and Gray,in the order named, with scintillations interpolated from Joshua Ashley. Gray stated that his own county convention had endors ed his candidacy. THE GUBERNATORIAL CANDTDATES. Mr. John Gary Evans was made su premely happy by long continued cheers when be was introduced. Evans read an anonymous note inquiring if he had not said or intimated that he would oppose W. A. Neal for re-elec tion to his present office. Evans as serted that Neal had come to him and asked him to lead his fight for superin tendent of the penitentiary and he had done It, Now he had heard that Neal was fighting him, and (passionately) "I will fight any man that fights me." This raised the ire of one Joshua Ashley, standing twenty feet In front of the stand, who insisted loudly that Evans should "return good for evil." Evans: "Josh and [are together." The crowd howled and counter-howl ed. Josh appeared inflamed and blared sonorously. A citizen near the stand: "You shut up, Josh." A remark which he repeat ed several times with gaudy red trim mmngs. Finally the chairman begged for quiet, and Evans explained that Neal had sent him word by his (Eran's) brother that he was not fighting him, and that he would support Neal, as he had always supported him, so long as he was true to the Retorm movement. Evans referred to the fact that Eller be owned a plantation and store, and shouted, "All of you who have paid a lawyer 350 hold up your hands." Two hands were raised (a symptom that law is cheap in Anderson.) "Now." said Evans, "all of you who have paid a merchant $90 or $100, hold up yours" and a good sized forest of them rose and the shriekers shrieked. Mr. Evans ended with the usual hand primary on the opening of the dispen sary, with the same old result. The entire audience did not vote; it never does. Mr. Evans closed, ana an enor mous bouquet hurled from the crowd narrowiy missed crushing him. Dr. Pope declared that he did not want to be elected if he had to appeal to passion and prejudice. This- he fol lowed with hard blows in advocacy of the constitutional convention, empha sizing the necessity of a solution of te negro question by the passage of a lmited suffrage provision. He defend ethe sub-treasury valorously. Miy friend Evans, said Dr. Pope, makes fun of what I have said. He talks~ like he could grease a man's ear aan an~ sallow him whole. I'm not this sort of a man. Here Josh Ashley's hands clapped to gether. Mir. Tindal, after going in the his tory and theory of the Reform move ment and impressing the importance of education, asserted that he had come Into "the race to cringe and crawl be fore no man." He had fought in the ranks for Reform in the days when its friends were a minority, and now that all its objects have been accomplished, they talk about turning us old horses out. "I don't believe you are going to do It," he said, with a confident air. Touching the dispensary' he said, that it should not be a partisan questior, because thousands of Conservatives favored the law and many Refor mers opposed it. It was rnot originally a Reform demand. It was a moral ques tion and could not be enforced writh sentiment divided, but the great ma jority of the people we-re behind it. 'The people came to me two years ago ~-- and told me that I w as their chotce for their next Governor. If I have been wheedled out of the office lby trump cards pla'yed by Dolitical workers in the State, I can't help it. Ellerbe was introduced and a cheer was given rivalling the Evans demon stration. There were counter cheers for Evans. Ellerbe promptly began the spanking process and the Evans crowd became restive. They jeered. Mr. Ellerbe repeated his usual attack on Evans, but spcke with unusual paw er. Ellerbe people on the right yelled and Evansites on the left shrieked. The chairman advanced but Elierbe repelled him saying: "I can handle lhis crowd." The fuss was kept up for several minutes, Ellerbe and the crowd dividing time about eq:!ally. Noise grew louder as Ellerbe's lick became harder. Joshua Ashley was frantic with delight. Evans is making the "Betsy and the bar claim,"exclaimed the'speaker. Gov. Tillman told him at Winnsboro that he had nothing to do with refunding the State debt and now he is going around claiming credit for. Evans interrupting: "Governor Till man did not say it." Ellerbe, emphatically: "ie did say it. He is here and can speak for him self." Evans entered another denial. Mr. lEllerbe asserted that he had un derstood that Evans represented the syndicate in the bond purchase and .not the State and that Evans was to receive several thousand dollars for it. Ellerbe alluded to the Governor hav ing attempted to get Evans to with draw from the race, and declared that he would not have entered It had he not been assured that he would not have to scramble for It. "Can you plow'Y' asked a man. "Yes, get a mule and I'l1 teach you something about it." (Great cheers.) -"When Evans says 1 withdre w from the Alliance," continued Ellerbe, he knows he does me injustice and tells an untruth. Evans: "You were given a demit. I didn't say you withdrew." 2Elerbe: "Well, why didn't you say so at first." Mr. Ellerbe next denounced as false the insinuation that he avoided the Governor during the Darlington riots. "1 was at the mansion," he declhred energetically,"I found Mr. Evans there witn the Governor- Ile was the scared est fellow 1 ever saw In try life. Ilis face was psie as death. Instead of go ing to the a.arion to defend the Gov ernor and his family he was seeking protection himself." The rewaining remarks of Mr. Eilerhe regarding the Alliance and a variety of ether mat ters, the publie are already familiar wita. The band played and the boys were exuberant for Tillman. THE SENATORIAL CANDIDATEN. Senator Butler waited until their noise subsided. "When I was Elected to the Senate in 187, I never expected to obtain my seat. I should prefer to have died on the field of batUe than to have gone through what I did then with my mouth closed and my hands tied." The Senator declared that he had never been identilh-d with either party in State politics and never ex pected to. The papers of both sides criticised his conduct. The Conserva tives had criticised him for standing by his principles of fifteen y ears held long betore the Alliance was born or thought of, in his fight against the re peal of the Sherman act. Ile denied the slander that Democratic Senators had been bought. The newspaper re porters and editors, he said, had not done the Senate tariff bill justice and bad failed to giye the bill's true pur port. Then he declared that the bill was one of the best ever presented, and announced nimself in favor of the re peal of the 10 per cent. tax on State banks as a measure of financial relief. As Senator Butler drew towards his conclusion there were intermittent cries for Tillmand and sit down. The Senator said lie had intended to close, but since they were so impolite as to interrupt him, he believed he would speak half an hour longer. (More cries for Tillman.) Senator Butler began to speak again and the crowd howled. The noise par tially subsided and the Senator closed. The band broke into "Dixie" and the crowd cheered. The Governor was introduced, hats waved and the Tillman ovation was given with a vim. It was some min utes before the Governor could quiet the enthusiasm. "I've got a good voice and a brass throat. You can all hear me if you'll sit down." The Governor, defending the August convention, asked: "You want for Governor a man as much like me as you can get, who will keep the wagon in the middle of the road. Now, do you want to give the Antis a chance to come in and determine who of the Re form candidates shall govern you? If that Reform committee, which meets in Columbia tonight, should be so treacherous as to call off the Reform convention, then you will have to watch and pray, too, to save your selves." The Governor put in a few words for the nispensary, characterizing its en actment as a compromise between "common sense and fanaticism," and explaining his reasons for reopening it. The Governor discussed the price of liquor, and said the dispensary expect ed to sell a cheaper whiskey. 80 per cent. instead of 100 proof at $2. Josh Ashley: "Give it to us for $1.50." Tillman: "You shan't have it at that price." (Applause.) The Governor in talking on the sub treasury asked when had the sub-treas urv ever won a flht. He said the politicians are in league with the Butler men to elect men to the Legislature on the Ocala and sub treasury platform. After they get to the Legislature they will vote for But ler. Voice: ":But we have got our eyes open." The Governor asserted that if Tom Watson and other Southern leaders will fight right and use .iudgment, the whole South will be ready to go to the West in a body in a short time. The Governor said there is a bribery fund of a half million dollars to beat him. The crowd shouted that it could not be bought. The Governor advised the crowd not to let any sub-treasury man who is willing to swallow the courthouse come in and try to beat him. An Atcemp'ed Assault. LOwN DEsVILEE, Aug. 9 .-O o last Friday night, Mrs. King, a widow, who lives about five miles from here, was attacked by a negro. Peter BArner, who made a desperate attempt ta rav ish her. Mrs. King lives alone with her small children. Barner went to her house, quietly raised the window, and slipped in witnout awaking any member of the family. Before enter lng he had taken the precaution of re moving his shoes so as to reach his victim before an alarm could be given. He wandered about in the house for same time before reaching the bed of Mrs. King. Mrs. King at tirst thought that Barner was one of her children walking about in the house and aske d what was wanted. The negro then ap proached the place from which the sound of Mrs. King's voice came. Bar ner at once tried to intimidlate her by threatening her life if she made an alarm. She caught Barner in the col lar of his coat and defended herself bravely. She began to scream and call for assistance. Several neighbors heard her distressing cries and immediately started at Mrs. King's house and de manded the door to be opened. Barner realized the dangerous position that he now was in, and quickly escaped from an open window. Diligent search is being made for him, arnd if caught, his body will be suspended from the first tree that is found.-State. Terribie Earthiquakce. LONDON, Aug. 8.-A dispatch from Rome to the Central News Agencyv says that many persons have been killed and an enormous amount of damage done to property by an earthquake, which visited Sicily this afternoon. The Rcme correspondent of the Cen tral News telegraphs this evening as follows- "The earthquake centered in the province of Catamia. The towns of Fleri, Aci and Pisane were totally de stroyed and great damage was done in Rennissi and Safarana. Fifty persons were killedi and scores were severely irjured. hundreds of villhgers fled from their homes into the open coun try, abandoning everything. ?the gov ernment officiais are sending supplies and surgeons to the distressed dis tricts.'' A Toung Murderer. MONTG;OMERY, Ala, Aug. 8.-A special to the Advertiser from Opelika, Ala., gives an occount of a deplorable tragedy near that place this moraing. it appears that Roll Love, the thirteen year old son of Mrs. Sam Love, had some trouble with Emmett Brooks, the fourteen year old son of Mr. Charles Brooks. The result was young Brooks received a xoad of duck shot in his stomach and is thought to be fatally injured. The father of young Love de livered his son to be authorities. The little fellow does not appreciate the enormity of his offense and talked freely of the difficulty. He says Brooks cursed him and then attempted to as sault him with a heavy stick. The parents of the children are neighbors, habtween whnm existed friendly relatin THE LAF MEING OF THE CAMPAIGN HELD AT ABBE VILLE ON WEDNESAY. Ti1-m n as ' ual Ca'pnres 1hie Urcwd. Rue -'s-the-le Speech-The G4uibrna tart-1 C.Andid-Iten 1lave The ir Itua L'vely but Good Nat art d Tilt. AnnEVILL. Aug. 8.-I)own in a shadv hollow under big pines and pop lars, >.500 to 3,000. some say 3.500 peo ple including 6W Georgians from El berton mostly Tillmanites, generally nicely dressed and well behaved, and many pretty girls, sat and heard the reverberation of the campaign die away. Senator Butler did not speak more than live or ten minutes. The Georgia visitors are said to have bean Populists. It is certain they were not for Butler, or at least they aid not ap plaud him. TILLMAN AND BUTLER. Chairman Bradley tallied the crowd. begged that Aboeville's reputation be preserved and that attention be given all the speakers. Ile introduced the Governor, who advanced and began. Not a sound was heard. The Governor, after a few remarks, observed that he had more friends in South Carolina than any man. (Whoops, short, sharp and loud.) The Governor enumerated what has been done by Reform that is of value to the people and State, beginning with the choking of Coosaw into submission and going through other things as fol lows: Giving the people the right to see candidates before vot ing for them; making Railroad Com missioners elective by the people direct; reapportionment of the State; primary elections; refunding the State debt; building Clemson College and the Wo man's College; collection of railroad and bank taxes and mating corpora tions obey the law after a hard light; calling a constitutional convention, and, last and gceatest, the Dispensary law. The Governor was applauded as he went through this list and spoke strongly and forcibly of the various achievements of the greatest of all movements. When discussing the scarcity of mo ney there were many sharp comments by the crowd. Tne Governor asked what is money? Voice: "We haven't seen enough of it to know." (Applause.) The Governor begin to skin and stew Cleveland. Voice: "Roast the old devil." (Laughter.) Tillman: "I'm just getting ready to give him his medicine." (Applause.) He was more than usually bitter on Cleveland and Congress and repeated his charges that Congress had been bought, referring especially to corrupt and bought up Senators. The Gover nor's pet plan of getting the South and West together, politically, was given a good deal of attention by him. He in cidentally said that he had seen nobody against him because he was against the sub-treasury. IHe declared that there are hundreds ot men in the Alliance who will swallow a court house or any thing else to gett to the Senate. It was these men who were kicking up all this row. The politicians had always been against him and now have knives up their sleeves for hin and will con tinue to keep them up there, but his strength lay with the common people and wool-hat boys. (Great cheering.) Ie said the Alliance in Georgia fol lowed Tom Watson off and was lying in a ditch with its neck broke. (The boys split the air.) "There are some men in the State," shouted tne [Governor, "who want me to get on the Deala platform wit~h all fours. Some :f those men would s wallo w anything to get to the Unmted States Senate." The Governor spoke on in his usual pic turesque style and the boys kept up their comments. A young man just beneath the stand got into an old time amp meeting hurrah and yelled hister Ically. When the Governor ended the sual demonstration occured.- It was loud. When General Butler was introduced there was some discourtesy to him as, "we don't want to hear you," "go home" etc. Chairman Bradley asked for quiet and the fuss subsided. Gen. Butler welcomed the Georgians thanking them for the aid they gave s in '7. Hiespoke of his record and eclared that his happiness did not de pend on his return to Washington, and he was ready to bow to the will of the people, if he was retired without the agency of political rings and cliques. In closing the General appealed to he people that whatever their political ifferences might be that the bond wich held old soldiers together would not be forgotten. - is voice dropped ow and trembled with emotion and the ast words were, "My fellow country men, I wish you all the choicest bles sings of God." A small cheer followed nterrupteti with a whoop for Tillman. Sheriff Nance arose just as the Sena or was departing and read the Alliance emands, asking the Senatorial candi ates what they had to say about them. Senator Butler returned and said that be had given his opinions on the de mands in a letter to Secretary Mitchell. Ie thought all the demandls, except two ad good D~emocracy in them. Tillman got up and reviewed his po sition to these demands, opposing the sub-treasury in his customary words and manner. He said lie didn't want any warehouses around to store corn and cotton in nor asystem which would Ive the'?arty in po wer a million men. The crowd gradually broke after the two big skyrockets had exploded, but ,500 remnained to see the four Roman andles go off. POPE, ELLERE1E, TINbAL AND EVANS. Dr. Pe~p~e argued strongly for the con stitutiona: convention, and defended the sub treasury as "the best of the Al liance demands." lie criticised the re pening of the dispensaries and de :ared if respect for the courts was not maintained anarchy would ensue, lie attacked the Reform conventiou and exclaimed, "I believe a great deal of prejudice had been injected into the Reform movement to place cer tain men in oflice." lie closed with a plea for armony and said that the Antis dis liked him as much as they did any of hs competitors. lie had fought them but had never struck b'low the belt. A s he sat down the s'iriegers shrieked "vans." Eilerbe remarked that the campaign had been pleasant and instructive. He thought as much of his competitors now as when he went into the cam paign. lie maaehis "farmer for Gov ernor" speech and said that all the Re form lawyers were for a lawyer Gov ernor. On this he took a hand primary and none of the one, two or three thousand Reform lawyers present wanted a farmer Governor. Continu ing on this line he aroused a sleepy lit tle yell, and another when he desired to come back and meet Gen. Bob Hemp hill on the ne w county question. lie favored the new county. lie was in favor of all tbe Alliance dlemauids and "I'll stick to them," he shouted, as lie waltzed oif the platform to a carriage. Ellerbe obtained just enough applause Ito show that the crowd was not unani mous against him. made last year and talked in his usual vein. "You've got more votes in this couri ty than you think," said a mar. "I doubt that John." said another. Col. Tindal declared that when your own newspapers and leaders begin to slander and abuse each other the unity of the Reform party is in danger. He spoke vigorously for party harmony and magnanimity towards the con qu(red Antis." "Your friend, Mr. Hemphill," he said, 'made the insinuation, a mean insinuation, that from ry speech at Hlampton he believed that I had an understanding with the Antis. I said no such thing." Favorable comments from one portion of the crowd were several times interjected. Col. Tindal made his dispensary argument. Voice-If you are Governor, and I believe you will be, will you enforce the dispensary law? "I will to the letter," replied the speaker. (Cheers.) "I believe I am the only man who cau estorce it," he said, "because i can unite more of the moral forces of the State in its support than any other man." (Cheers.) "Trot out little John," was the cho rus from the colonels. Mr. Evans came forward and was welcomed with twice or three times as much applause as any other gubernatorial candidate for Governor, but not nearly equal to Tillman's. Evans said this race started out with four horses. Voice: "We have 'em yet." Evans: "No we haven't. P'ope bolted the track, Tindal sees spooks and Ell erbe is sprung in the knees." (Laugh ter.) He shot a good deal of his ammu nition at Ellerbe for attacking him and at Pope and Tindal for trying to do away with the Meform convention. He asserted that t'ie Conservatives were playing 'possum and showed where they are still alive and scheming to kill the Reform movement. He refer red to Haskell's letter of a few days ago. Senator Evans said that the peo ple pay merchants more money than they do lawyers and took a hand pri mary on it. Voice: "Now ask all who haven't paid merchants what they owed to hold up their hands." (Laughter.) He charged that the newspapers all hate him. The News and Courier won't even publish his speeches. The correspondent of it told him that it does not print what he sends down. He said that no matter whether the Conservatives like the Dispensary law or not it is going to be enforced if it takes the whole State of South Carolina to do it. (Applause.) He said if there is any back down on the Dispensary it is good-bye to Re form. He said the Darlington war was premeditated and asserted that 300 riifls were shipped to Darlington from Charleston on the day before the constables went to Darlington. This was a plain evidence of premeditation. He said, in response to a remark, that he is going to "Step into Tillman's shoes as sure as there is a God in heav en." notwithstanding the newspapers of both sides have been stabbing him in the back. RICHEOURG, WATTS, ETC. Tae small firecrackers entertained the people who reimained to see their gyrations. There was a spat between General Richbourg and Colonel Watts. A man in the auaience asked Colonel Watts if he had always been a Tillman ite. He answered that in 1890 he voted for General Bratton for Governer. Colonel Watts made the usual charges against General Richbourg. Tne latter answered that Colonel Watts was not at the Executive Man sion when Governor Tillman was in danger and asked why did Governor Tillman relieve Watts of the command of the troops at the Penitentiary and put him (ltichbourg) in command? The Governor, he said, had more confi dence In him Decause he was an old soldier. This ended the speaking,and the cam paign of 1894 passed into history, this being the last meeting to be held. TH E WEA TH ER AND CROP3. rue fotereuulog Weekly Balletin or the state Bureau, For the week ending August Gsh the temerature deviated but little from the normal, but tip to and including F'riday the 3rd, a minimum of 10 hay ing been reported from S';. Mattnews an Sunday; elsewhere the lowest was but 59, while the highest temperature for the week, i%, was repor ted from (Ireenwood and Spartanburg on Turs lay the 2nd. The week began and end 'd with cloudy weather and gave only [rom two to three entirely clear days :n the interior, while along the southern ~oast every day was cloudy or partly ~loudy; northward along the coast, in ~he vicinity of Georgeto wn, there was nore sunshine, amounting to abouit the iverage. Tne rainfall for the week was ex ~essive, Until the 4th, showers were scattered and although heavy in places 20t generally so; in fact some portions )f the State were dry and needing rain. Aut during Saturday afternoon heavy uhowers occurred in many counties and y night of that date a general heavy ain set in, and the rain continued fall rg steadily, or with short intervals :hrough to Mondoy night at which ime the weather still looked threaten .ng. T1he rainfall over the entire State inring this period varies from two to ive inches the exact measurement not oeing avaIlable at this writing. The ~ffects of this heavy rainfall on ground uiready too wet for the best develop. nent of most crops cannot be fairly ~stimated but will be reflected in the ~one of next week's bulletin. Injary is ilready apparent due to freshets which iave submerged. large tracts of fertile bottom lands highly cultivated and yovered with most promising fields >f corn and cotton as well as grass for day and pasturage, Hillside crops sus tained injury fiom the washing rains. During the week cotton has fallen off .n condition, or at best, had failed to lake the gains it shoula at this season. F~ew eorrespondentw out that reported excessive shedding of fruit or else grow tug to weed and fruiting too little, with a decided yellowisha color on light sandy soil that showed an unhealthy 3oadition of the plant; rust also nozed in many localities; many lields laid by in crass. The falling off in condition is ?stimated a't fromi 10 to 40 per cent. There are portions of the State where the crop is in the most ex~eilent cor di iu. Corn c-ntinues to do well except on bottom lands where it is lireing to the injury of the fodder and possibly to the ear. Fo'dder pulling will soon become general, but the weasther Is unfavorable for curing. Rich nat vest has begun in a small way and the entire crop is heading very well promising from fair to very goxd yield. Tobacco curing has begun; the crop ts of very good quality and at least tip to an aveaage i quantity. A second crop of strawberries report ed from Darlington county. Haying begun with large crops In sight out weather unfavorable for s3 curing it in good condition. Melons still plentiful. Cabbages rotting o wing to wet weather, J. W'. BAUER,. Director. Colnmbia, . C Aug. "7th, 1(94. THE POLITICAL PROMBIE. THE RESULT OF THE GUBERNATO RIAL RACE IN DOUBT. Tle Slhent Vote an UnknGwn Qnillty-A Prtedimin as to the Rtil t by Counties Masy Schemes 1:Pportqd ltreatiog to De feat Tillman. COL'MMA, S. C, Aug. 10.-A fe w days agu I said in the Iegister that the moan who pretends that lie knows who is going to be nominated in-the Reforni primaries on Saturday for Governor was aMicted with soda water on the brain. I am still of that opinion and beliave that he not only has water on the brain but is full of the ne w cheap grade disptnsary whiskey. I have been in every county in South Carolina since the campaign started and have come in close contact with the Reform leaders and voters. I have watched the drift of things during a speaking and have talked with the rank and file of the Reformers after the meetings were over. I have done every thing possible to try to reach a conc.lu sion of what will be the result on Sat urday. The more I talk and the harder I try to solve the problem the more enigmatical it becomes. There are so many phasEs to tile situation as it now stands and so many conbinations that it would take a Richard Croker to fig ure affairs out. I have been vain enough to believe I knew something of politics, but I ivill now surrender that vanity and leave some fellow who has not been out of his county to tell the public after it is all over that "I told you so." At the outset I have no hesitancy in saying that on the surface the indica tions are that the Aiken Game Cock is going to be nominated, but there is an undercurrent of sentiment and a silent vote which even Tillman, with all his astuteness cannot measure. It is th!s not to be estimated undercurrent which will cut a big figure Saturday. "Miss Alliance," as Senator Evans speaks of the Farmers Alliance, is at the bottom of this and she is worrying the politi cians and the prophets a great deal more than the public imagines. I have watched the crowd of men after Gov ernor Tiliman got through berating the sub-treasury to see what would be the effect of his remarks. I have watclhed his hand primaries on this subject and have seen what might appear to the average person to be the most enthusi astic endorsement of his remarks, but if any man has looked carefully into a crowd during one of these votes he must have seen a large number of old, sedate and intelligent men who took no part in the primary and in the hur rahing which invariably followed. In noting this I want it distinctly under stood'that I do not mean to say that these old men will fight Tillman be cause of his views. I believe that they love him too well to knife him even for the sub-treasury, but they do not have the same feeling of love for some of the younger politicians, and sub treasury Is going to be felt in the gub ernatorial race if not in the Senatorial. These old men are Alhancemen and holu firm.:y to the suo-treasury, and they are the man who caunt on election days. They are the fathers and uncles of the -young men who do the hurrah ing, but who do not amount to a great deal when the time for working arrives. (a Saturday you will see tnese old men turn out and begin to work. They will take some of these same shouters and vote them just as they please. If these old men have settled on any par ticular man or men to vote for Gover nor you can look out for this man or men to show up on Saturday. I am giving all this to show at least one element of uncertainty in the s'.ruggle of a few days hence. In my own ~mind I havo figured out what candidates will get this almost undefined vote, and putting everything together have made up a table of what I candidly believe will be the result Saturday. No partim feeling has guIded the make up of the table and I have not asked suggestions from any body about it. I frankly confess that the chances of Secretary of State Tin dal have pueled me He is not regard ed by the public as being in the race, but ne will show more strength than anybody supposes. if he had the pri mary for Governor that he has asked for on the stump he would be "in it" to a good extent. Nearly every body thinks that the race is between Ellerbe and Evans. Tis has a tendency to hurt Tindal, because hundreds of men won't care to "throw away their votes," as It is called, and will vote for either Eller be or E var s. Here are my figures of the counties each of the candidates will carry. The :oubtful counties and the counties, which will go for Tindal I have put ~lsewhere. The ligures represent the aumber of votes each county will have in the Rteformn convention: Evans. &bbeville...................... 12 Blarnwell........ ........ ........ 12 Beaufort................. ........ 12 Edgelild......... ........ ........ 12 areenville........ ................ 12 3eorgetown.............. ....... 12 laurens.......................... 8 [eXington...................... Drangeburg........ .............. 12 Spartanburg-.....................14 Totals..................... 120 Ellerbe. inderson....................... 12 .hester.......... ......... ........ D)arlington...................... F~airlield .... ......... ...... ..... 8 llorence........................ 8 Elorry......................... Kershaw....................... Laneaster.......... .......... ... iarion......... ......... ......... 8 Narlboro....................... 8 Newherry....................... 8 Deonee.......... ......... ........ Lickens....................... Sumter......................... 12 Williamsburg................... 12 York........................... 1U Total................... 142 Mr. Tindal will get the following sounties: Clarerndon, t; votes, Chester ield, e; votes. The doubtful counties are as follo ws: B~erkeley, 10 votes; Charleston, 22 votes Uolleton, i1) votes; Ihampton, 6 votes; Union, 8 votes; l{henland, 10 votes; to lo1 55 votes. While Charleston iS pos ibly doubtful it will likely get into the Evans column and go far toward swell ing the vote of the Game~ Cock. The hances are that a majorityv of the oth er doubtful counties will get into the Ellerbe column. It would not surprise me to see the Tindal delegates hoka the balance of power in the State conven tion. There may not be many of them, but after all they may have a pienic of their own and on a big scale. Senator B3utler offered to bet at An derson the other day that Tillman will not be the next Uinited States Senator. The offer hie made was 8500 to 8250. lie made this offer to a warm admirer of Governor Tillman, but it was not taken probably because the man did not have the money at hand. There are hundreds of men, however who stand ready to take all such bets and even to reverse It by hetting two to one on Till man. I do not know what grounds General Butler has for offerig to make such a bet. It cannot be on supposition that Tiliman will not get a majority of the white votes in the State, for he Is certain to get that. I have beard a number of suspicious things which make me believe that the opposition to Tillnan is counting on beating him in some way make public. They may hope to do this by an independent movement and by a coalition with the negroes. I have even heard it boasted that Till man will not be seated if elected to the Senate; that a contest will be brought and ihat he will lose his seat by Repub lican and Democratic Senators voting against him. I am absolutely cetain that a big scheme for the defeat of Tillman outside of the regular channels has already been planned or is being planned. It will develop before many months. While mentioning the subject of bets I have found that the odds in the bet ting on the gubernatiorial race are of fered on Evens, bat a good deal of even money is going up, and Ellerbe's friends have been getting more confi dent every day for the last two weeks. It has been a jolly crowd which has gone the rounds of the campaign, and at Abberville Wednesday there was a gederal bandshaking and a lot of sin cere farewells. There has not been an unpleasant incident in the party from beginning to end, except that between Butler and Tillman at Union, and that was to have been expectet sooner or later. The other candidates have been brothers, dwelling in peace and har mony. The candidates have been kind to the newspaper men and many pleas ant and never-to-be-forgotten acquain tances have been formed. Bad luck will be the misfortun of some of the best and truest men who went around on campaign. The newspaper men would wish, if it were possible, that every one of their candidate friends could get an office, but as that cannot be they will sympathize with those who are left and congratulate such of the victorious fellows as they think are worthy to hold the positions they have asked f or and have gotten. W. W. PRICE. THE CONVENTION. It Is Thoogt That A Full State Ticket Will R3 Named. COLWmIIA, S, C. Aug. 10.-State politics are getting lively just now. 1he dull, heavy and uneventful cam paign speaking is over now, and the next ten days will witness more real political campaign work than all the three months just past. The fact is, the real fight is just beginning. It is pretty safe to predict that there is go ing to be no end of fun between now and the general election in November, and no one can tell how it is going to end. There Is every indication now that Evans, as stated yesterdayis going to get the Reform convention nomination, without the slightest trouble, on Thursday next. There is every indica tion, too, that the convention is going ahead and nominate a full State ticket -the ticket -quoted yesterday. The convention is called to make nomina tions for Governor and Lieutenant Governor only. And thereby will pro bably hang a very interesting talk-to be developed in the next month or two. There is music in the air. Some Reform leaders were talking yesterday, as Re form leaders have not been heard to talk for many a day In South Carolina. The dissatisfaction over the attempt to make a ring nomination has growr to much larger dimensions than any one has thought. The fact Is, there is now every indi cation of a dark horse from the Alli ance against Evans, after he is nomi nated, if the convention exceeds its du ties, under the call, The dark horse whose name is freely mentioned, is a stronger man than Pope, and Pope will probably step aside if he Is put up. And then again, the fight from what can be heard, will go beyond the State, Democratic primary and September convention and will be fought in the November general election. The State is not at liberty to give what informa tion it has on this matter just yet, but it will not be many days perhaps before it will be known-that is, if anything at all is done. Ail the talk that can be heard indicates that such is going to be the result-, but no mne hereabouts of course is able to tell with positiveness what will come of it. There seems to be a good deal of con fusion among the people about what the various political gatherings and event" schedIuled for the next month mean. Tomorrow the Reform faction of the Democratic party holds its club pri miaries, to el act delegates-either Eller be, Evans or Tindal men-to the sever al county conventions of the Rleform faction, which meet on Monday, to elect delegates to the State Reform convention, which meets on Thursday next to make nominations for Gover nor and lieutenant Governor, for the Reform faction. In the primaries to morrow, only members of Reform fac tion clubs can vote. Then, on the 28th inst., the State De mocratic primary election, to choose electors tc the State Democratic con vention in September, will be held. In this election, all members of Democrat ic party, Conservatives and all, can vote. September convention electors for the nominee of the Reform conven tion, or for any other candidates run ning against his nominee, can be voted [or. When the September convention meets, composed of these electors, It will make the linal nomination of a State ticket for the Democratic party of South Carolina. Then any independent or Republican State ticket can come out and oppose the Dermocratic ticket Ine the general election to be held in Novemner. In this November election any qualilled voter having a registra tion certilcate can yote.-Srate. Hiungby H to Eyebrow. NoI~STowN, I'a., Aug. 6.-Frank Supple Nas the victim of an agonizing accident near Merion Station !sst even ing. lHe Is the of Mark Supple, and was standing upon a box feeding cows- In making a spring to jump from his perch, his head struck an iron hook used for holding the lantern. The sharp point of the hook passd under his right eyelid and came out above the eebrow4, suspending him from the ground. The torn and bleeding flash was strong enough to hold, but he almost fanted from the dreadful torture. Seizing a beam above his head, young Supple pulled his body up so that the book slipped from the wound. RIot in Miwaukee, MILwAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 9--One und rea police ollicers, under command of Police Otlicer Johnson, who had been sent to the public square on the orr.er of Eighth avenue and Milwaui kee street at 8 o'clock tonight to pre vent a mass meeting of citizens pro testing against the placing of small pox patients in the hospital located In that vicinity, were attacked by a mob num bering 4,000 men, with stones, bricks and clubs, and tne the result is a list of twenty five wounded oflicers and citi zens, and eleven arrests. Oflicer Al bert Niedaes had his skull crushed and will probably die. Hie is the most se riomsly hurt KOLB MEANS TO FIGHT. B14Rucent Defeat Dennuncid as Wroig and a Robbery, BEmirMIN AM, Ala., Aug. 9.-The conference of Kolb leaders which con vened yesterday finished their labors today. They have been consul' ing on the situation and discussing a plai of action. The following address to the people was given out this afternoon as the result of their labors: To the people of Alabama: The camaign committee of the Jefferson tan Democracy and the Peop!e's party of Alabama have been instructed by a conference of our State candidates, the leading sunporters of that ticket and the State Executive Committee to pro mulgate the following: The election returns as reported by the Associated Press and supporters of the ticket headed by Colonel Oates s'ow a repetition of the election frauds of 1892 with less pretext and absolute ly without the least semblance of jasti ficalion, in order to overcome legiti mate majorities for our ticket in forty one white counties. The false and fraudulent majorities aggregate 24,107 from lifteen black belt counties. In 1892 these same black belt counties had aggregated majorities of 28,669. In ad dition to this frauds have been peroe trated in white counties of not less than 15,000. With the consummation of these has been also brought forth four or five fraudulent elections of Sanators and eleven or twelve fraudulent elec tions of Representatives in the General Assembly. This outrageous action, intensiiied by the impudence .nd ef frontery with which it has been taken, displays a disregard of public senti ment in such a brazen faced manner that it seems to have been intended to add insult to iDjury. The law under which the election of 1892 was held, which was devised to as sure the prevention of fraud with ease facility and safety, has been amended by the Sayre law, the purpose of which to assure the perpetration of greater wereto disfranchise illiterate voters and frauds in the black belt counties. This has been demonstrated by the election just held, and was known and intended by the usurper who exercises the func tions of Governor and was Illustrated by his remark when he signed that biR. A contest law was promised to allay and prevent a popular uprising in 1892 to be broken in the most shameful manner, and the perfidy and trea':hery displayed was afterwards boasted of as a fine piece of legerdemain. We ad monish our people not to accept prome ses nor pledges from those who have proven themselves recreant to every requirement of law, to every demand of honor and to every exaction of duty. They demonstrated that they are enemies to liberty and re publican institutions. In the face of the fact that only a few months ago the proposition to sub mit the election to a State primary was made, in which only white voters should participate, which was after wards so amended as to meet the sup posed wishes of Gate's followers by eliminating white Republicans, which they declined to accept upon a specious excuse that was an after thought and very puerile, combined with the fact that only 42,000 votes were polled in the State primary that brought out the full strength of that party, they now claim, urge and insist upon the most extravagant and rediculous figures as correct and true. The conditions in this State have reached a climax. There is no doubt that the State ticket headed bp Captain ER. F. Kolb has been elected. The al ernative is nresented of submission to wrong, insult and robbery or to assert he sovereign power before which thrones totter, scepters fall and ontrages f tyrants cease. That alternative must meet a response from manhood r silent submission from those un worthy of citizenship. A proud and hivalrous people worthy of freedom annot shirk the responsibilities the ituation enforces. A distinguished atriot has asserted that the man who ill not fight for his liberty is unwor hy of freedem. We do not advise ighting or lawlessness of any kind, but he crisis has arisen that the sovereign o wer shall assert itself to compell un orthy servants of its will to submit to Its power and recognize its authority. Your committee recognizes that it as been entrusted with certain duties nd that its powers are circumscribed; nd it feels authorize-l only in going to he extent of advising and urging those whom it represents to exercise the ower invested in them and to hold neetings on Thursday, the 23d of Au ust, at the respective court houses, if ot otherwise speciied to act upon this reat crisis and to insist that manhood atriotism and love of liberty which as always evoked prompt and decisive ction from them shall iind expression n their course, that will be creditable o their revolutionary sires and furnish precedent in our history to which all ill ever revert with pride and satis action. At the same time and place, we would rge the organisation of law and order eagues to uphold the supremacy of that reatest of all law and power-the sove u-eign will of a free people. Upon the djournment of these meetings, reports f the proceedings should be furnished mediately to W. HI. Skaggs, chair an, Birmingham, Ala. (Signed)-W. Hi. Skaggs, Chairman Jetral Campaign Committee; A. T, ood win, Chairman Jeffersonian Exec itive Committee; John WV. Pitts, Chair nan Peopi's Party Executive Commit Went Jtack on Him. MONTctO3ERY, Ala., Aug. 7.- Near y every County turns up with a heavy oss for Kolb as compared with his rote of 1892. For instance, Madison jounty in 1892 went for Kolb by 298; flicial returnes give it to Oates by 1, 4, a change of over 1,700 votes. Law ence, another Tennessee Valley jounty, goes for Kolb by only 1,250, as ganst 2,135 before. Limestons goes or Kolb by only 153, as against 1,623 n 1892. Tallapoosa goes for Kolb by nly 600, as against 2,449 in 1892. In 3herokee his majority falls 330. Cren haw went for Kolb 775 in 1892. This ear it is very close. Sumter goes for )tes by over 2.500; Democratic gain f over one thousand; and Macon -goes for Oates by 800, a Democratic gain of ver 1,500. Henry Oates' o wn County ent for Kolb in 1892 by over 1,500; ,is year over 500 for Oates. Barbour, >licial Democratic majority insreased . he smaller Counties go the same way in less degree. Oates' majority will .b iosed to 40,000. No one places it unaer l5,000. Legislative retuzrns indicate ae Democratic majority, even with ut Jefferson's delegation of six, hough the prospects are that Jefferson has gone Democratic. A Man Trap, A NwA CITY, Mo., Aug. 7.-De witt de DowelJ, a prominent business man d his wife were imprisoned in their ~olding bed Sunday night, caused by its ccidentaly closing up. They were ex ~ricated with diffeulty after being in. ~her perilous position for several hours. cDowell died yesterday from the in-. uries received and his wife is seriously hnt. WHO WILL BE GOVERNOR? HOW THINGS STAND AT THE CLOSE F THE FIGHT. Accord1rg to the Columbia Reaister and Governor Tillman the Race for Gover nor la Nip and Tuck Between Evans and Ellerbe. CuLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 5.-The Rezister of today prints the following from its campaLan correspondent, Mr. W. W. Price, who has followed the speakers all over the State: The people are trying to fixre cut who is to be the next Governor, or rather who is to be the Reform nominee for that place. This now perplexing question will be answered in a few days by the people of the State. There are going to be some surprises, is a predic tion I make Well, the fact and the straight fact is this: The man who says he knows who is goine t be the Reform nominee has soda water on the brain and needs examiation. Governor Tillman agrees with me. I spent Friday night with him at Clemson College, and m conversation with several persons he said the race is one with as much doubt in it as he ever knew. He declared that nobody knows who will be the winning man. He even went so far as to say that there is a quiet vote in the Reform ranks which cannot be euessed at and that the weight of it will be felt. This is the vote which the friends of Ellerbe and Tindal claim. It's all muddled. I have now been in every county in the State except three, but the nearer I get to the end of my campaign work the more muddled I be come on this question of the next Gov ernor. Oae day I think it is going to be Ellerbe and the next I think Evans is the, winner. I do not beheve there will be twenty votes diflerence between them in the Reform convention. It may turn out that Secretary of State Tindal's friends will hold the balance ofpaar ki the convention. G(veroner Tillman mAde a statement in his speech ai Pickeas which was un derstooa by some to have indirect re ference to General 1lerbe. He was talkiig about the efforts being made to change the C>Heton ph-nt conveation to a pzimary and said thai ~ da of "oeaten" candidates were respo for all trouble. In view of the 'Lupres sion nearly everywhere that the Gover nor Is a friend to Senator Evans, It is noL to be wondered that the remark was taken as a slap at General Ellerbe. I remarke-' to the Governor at Clemson College that his words had a pWhOar sound or significance. He said that be had no reference to General Ellerbe, and then proceeded to eulogize Ellerbe as one ot the best and strongest men In the Reform ranks. He warmly compliment ed the Marion Swamp Fox on his Spartanburg speech. The Governor up to now has not seemed to appreciate that the conditions are such at this time hat almost anything. he may say which'is not definite and explicit will be hkely to more than one construction. The sit ustion is delicate and I am satisfied the I Governor is chaing under it. Since the Unian row Governor Till man and Senator Burler have let each other severely alone. They were getting pretty "chummy" before that exciting little incident. They used to ride to gether in carriages and w 3uld joke each other on trains and everywhere. They got to be as thick as school boys and as oay with each other as two-year-olds. Now they avoid each other and to hear one ot them speak you would not think he knew the name of his rival. I heard in Greenville that they refused to ride to the speaking place in the same car riage together. This may have been a rumor. At any rate it is not probable that they will reter to each other on the stump agamn this campaign. Interesting to stockmen. Colonel Thos. W. Holloway furnishes the following interesting information to raisers of live stock in the State: At the neeting of the State Agricul tural antd Mechanical Society of South Carolina, at Rtock Hill, August 2d, Messrs. E. R. Mclver, IR. A. Love and W. G. Hinson were appointed a comn mittee to consider and to report upon the feasibility and advisability of hay Eng sales of stock during Fair Week, made the following report, which was adopted: "The committee to whom was refer red the resolution to institute auction sales of live stock at the annual State Fair, and to suggest a plan for regu lating same, beg leave to report that they have carefully considered the same and make the following report, viz: "1st. The committee think it entirely feasible to have such sales and sug gest that the Secretary be instructed to have prepared for general distribu tion as long before the beginning of the Fair as possible a catalogue of all animals to be sold with theirt pedigree registration numbers, and such other information as shall be furnished by owners of said animals, concerning such animals as may be offered for sale. "2d. That no by-bidding will be al lowed, but the owner will be allowed to ix a price below which no bid will be considered. "#3. All entries must be made on or before November 1st, 1894. "4th. That a payment of 25 per cent. af purchase money shall be made by such purchaser of an animal as soon as the animal is knocked down to him, and the balance shall be paid within wety-four hours of close of sale; but the animal shall be at the risk of the purchaser immediately after his bid is accepted and sale completed. "5thi. That the sale shall take place in the horse arena, beginning at 2 o'clock p. nm. on Thursday, November 5th, 1894 "6:h. That in order to compensate the Socie',y for advertising the sale, paying the auctioneer and other ex penses, no animal shall be entered in said catalogue for sale before the own er piid to the Secretaryv of the Society the sum of $1.00 for each horse and 50 :ents for every other animal, and there shall also be paid to the Society by the owner of the animal a commis sion of 2 1-2 per cent. upon all moneys received for sales." Stock raisers throughout the State re hereby informed that as soon as slanks can be gotton ready I will most gady furnish the blanks to all appli :ants. Already I have information of three dorses to be sold incompliance with the foregoing report of the committee. Stock can be shown at the Fair as well as sold. Fenl Five storles. NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-Mary Ilass lives as 339 East Seventy fourth street. She is 22 years old. While watering plants she leaned too far out of the win dow and she and the plants and pots tumbled down Ave stories to the street. She was taken to the Presbyterian hos pital internally injured, but will proba. ly get well.