The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, October 10, 1894, Image 1

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VOL. X. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1894. NO. 10. AN ALL NIGHT CAUCUS. BUT IT REFUSED TO NCMINATE A STATE T ICKET. The Prectcdtu.g ot the Ant:-Timite State Ctarni tIon w hich WA WIeld In, Columbia Lsot We ek-1he- Hutht-es Die, proirted. COLUMBIA,! S. C., Se pt. 2.-The con vention vadled to consider the propriety of nominating a ticket to be run in the general election against the regular De mocratfc ticket assembled in this city yesterday and remained in sessioa un til after four o'clcek this morr.it g, when it adjourned without x orking a nomination. The delc gates to the con vention had begun to arrive the even ing before. The morning traim-s brought ink a good cro Yvd, and tMe middiav and afternoon trains did the rest. Xearly every man who was here last Monday a week ago was here ug-do, and a good rany otheis from various couuti-s were here also. The dtlegates freely discussed during the day the advieabil ity of nominating a full State ticke, and heard ai the arguments on boLn sides. A canvass of the delegates sho ved tha', while there,was strong op position to the making of nominatious, there was in the af zernoon an undount ed majority in favor of making them. But there seemed to be no certainty as to what the convention was going to do. The executive committee met at 11:30 o'clock at the Hotel Jerome. The plan oi holding a caucus of the chairmen of the various delegations and the members of the State commit tee only, was abanuconed, it being thought best that the entire matter should be fully discussed first in a gen eral caucus. The following resolutions were therefore adopted by the commit tee: Resolvee, That the call for a caucus of the chairmen of each delegation and the Executive Cemmittee at 6 o'clock p. m., is hereby rescinded and instead thereof that it is hereby resolved that a caucus of the entire delegations, auly elected or appointed from each of the counties of the State be present at a caucus to be called to orde; at 5 p. I., and not until the adjournment of the said caccus will the convention con vene. Resolved, that there be absolutely no exceptions made, as to the admission into the hall of the House of Repres entatives, and that only the delegates duly elected or appointed be admitted to said caucus. Resolved, that delegates are request ed to present themselves in a body from each of their respective counties and that a list of each delegation De handed to the secretary of the Democratic EiC - ecutive committee sj that he can i ur Dish it in ample time to the doorkeeper. Be it further resolved, that we earn estly request citizens who are interest ed in the result of this caucns and con vention, that they be patient and await the action of the caucus, which is necessary to precide the opening of the convention. The delegates all went to the hall of the House of Representatives at 5 o'clock and the caucus began. The above resolutions haa been posted on the various bulletin boards in the city and had been published, conseqaently there was not such turmoil about the doors as was witnessed at the previous convention. The caucus at once took up the question of making nominations and argaments began on both sides. Every possible phase of the situation and the Dossible future results was fully and exhaustively presented, and there was a full, free and untrammelled exchange of views from all parties. At 7 e'elocxa arecess was taken for supper. At 8 o'clock trie caucus was resumed. There was no Indication of a vote being reached until the midnight hour, if then. All outsidere, consequently de cided to try the waiting policy. It was of grave import, and the result of the deliberations of the caucus was await ed with the deepest interest by many of both political factions and all other parties. All knew that the Irby com mittee was here wating to ta-- imne diate-action with regard to anything the convention might do. A SECRtET SOCIETY. The caucus was practicamy a secret society. Waiter Capere, Douglass Sy m mers and Mr. Koon were stationed at the main door leading to the hail of the House of Representatives as doorkeep era. They had the names of the dele gates from each county, and before a man was admitted the doorkeepers had to be satisfied that he was the right per son. T wo p->licemen were statior.ed at the outside of the door. Even the newspaper reporters in sympathy with the objects of the movement were ex cludedi. When Cnairman Carwile called the caucus to order about 5.30 o'clock there were numerous vacant chairs. Chesterfield, Sumter and Kershaw counties had no representatives, and the cards marking the seats for these counties stood as the only representa tives, Many of Hampton's chairs were vacant and the same was the case as to other countie s. It dId not look like there were more than 22-5 men in the hall. SThe caucus remained in session for an hour and a half and ad journed until 8.3 o'clock when it resumed its secret work, some of the members stating that it would be hours before the cau cus would be reaey to go into conven tion. About 9 o'clock it was given out that the caucus would discuss the ques tion of rnominations for three nours and then go into convention. The early hours of the caucus were spent in listening to reports on the outlook in the various counties. As a general rule the reports were rosy. These re ports came from members of the exe cutive committee in favor of nomina tions and who were Butler men. Shortly afcer 10 o'clock a Register re porter was informed on what he kno ws to be excellent authority that the out look at that hcur was against nomina tions by a majority of eight to ten. The gentleman who informed the re porter stated that all the preliminary motions which had tbeen offered and which had anything of the element of a division of the two factions had been won by the men against nominations. One of the motions defeated by the '-no nominations" men was that limit ing debate so as to allow only the chairmen of the delegations to speak. This was a scheme in favor or nomine tions, as the nomination men had found that the maprit y of the chair men were in favor of putting out a ticket. Tihe no nomination men spoke strongly against it and alleged that there was something like gag law in the proceeding. The motion was de feated and then one was passed limiting debate to four hours and the speeches to ten minutes each. The Drospects were that a vote would be '.naen auout 12 o'clock mianight. Early in the evening A. 13. Williame, of the Greenville News, offered a reso lution in favor of nominating a candi date for Governor and against putting out a full State ticket. It is under etood that his motion was defeated by a rising vote. This was one of the first test votes. Exactly how Mr. JVil liama stood on the question of nomina ting a full State ticket Is not known. The vote on i he question of limiting debate stood 71 to 140. At 1 4 o'clock the convention, finish Sd taking a yca and uay vote on the question of nommnatioc. The vote resulted 123 to V) in favor of noinia tions and ine couvution decided to go into nominations in a thort time. DELF.+ATEs WITHDUAw. Just a f'ew in ivts aftr'r the vote was announced 1. P. Howell of Colle ton, foliowdt- by every dt 1-gate from his coun y, acouriet( that tLey would withdraw fram the caucus and would not remain in tLe conveition to tade part iu its dnl-eraticns. M. 0 Datn z. Icr made the same annunerment f:r the Orangeburg delegation aI they marched out of tile caucus. The f01 iowing wtre the. Oranseburg memiber:. .K. 1. Hane, J. A. I'er tmi, .ltii S. I -1 %w e, G. D. 1ast, J. a. Crossw.l1, J.lH. O'Ncl H1l~lowaT. E. Dukes, W. B1 rrt z( vit. Col. A. D. Goiwim and 11. M. Rush remained. AL number of judividuil members of I the vaiious delegations windrew, as foliows: J. Richardson and L. W. P.ar kt-r of Greenvili( ; -Mr. Folk of B rn well, orne of the (cretaries of the cau cus; llenry Fuller of Beaufort; nearly all of the Newberty deleg-ttion and ov r half of that trom Spartanburg. File na.?mes of the Newberry and Spar arburg delegates who pulled out couid not be iearned. The resolution on which the debate on nomimations took placei was intro duced oy C. P. Sanders of Spartan burr, and was that the convention deeimed iL expedient that nominations be Diade at this time. Some of the delegations showed good., hard sense in their esti mates of the political situation. In the reports from the counties eighteen reporttd that they couldn't be carrieC; thirteen reported that they cowld be carried and ilve were doubtful. Not ithstautirg that the delegates from [ eighteen counties reported that they would be beaten and were sensible in his report, a majority of the delegates favored nominations. Aiken and Ab beville reported that they would not stand a show. Abbeville said she could not carry three hundred votes. Some of the And-rson men thought they ould carry the county and some that they couldn't. Thirty or forty speeches were made on the resolution of Mr. Sanders. The following were some of the speakers on each side: For nominations-Paul Hemphill of hester, T. B. Butler .of Union, Mayor Dargan of Derlington, C. S. Nettles of Darlingtor, Mills Mooney of Green ille, N. G. Gorzales of Columbia, A. B. Williamas of Greenville. Against nominations-Gen. E.iward McCradv of Charleston, L. W. You mars of Barnwell, J. F. Richardson of Greenville, W. C. McGowan of Abbe Vlle, Mr. Cromer of Newberry and Martin Woodward of Aiken. After the speaking was finishied a rising vote was taken on calling the previous question. This was done and he quEstion was called for. Then the roll of counties was called, but a yea 1 and nay vote was demanded and was taken, resulting as announced. A PLATFORM COMMITTEE. Shortly alter 2 o'ciock a platform .ommittee was appointed and tne cau us took a recess ot an hour to give the ommittee time to report. The plat ,orm was to ibe adopted before the con s ention went into nominations. At 230 o'clock a motion was made to escind the vote by which nominations ere decided on. T'he motion to res ind was lcst by a vote of 43 to 75. At hat hour it began to look very doubt nul if the caucus would make nomina :oLs after all. A great many dele ates had lett the hall in disgust and ad re used to take any part in the pro ~eedings. The attendance had dwin lIed very much and the nomination pople began to -get frightened. At 3.10 o'clock nothing had been lone. The committee on platform was till out and had not reported. At 30 o'clock the caucus looks like It is omg to make a complete izzle on the ~uestitn of nominations. So many elegates have left the ball that there s scarcely a handful sitting In the :hars and standing around, at least so t seems through the glass doors. ?~rominent members of the caucus who ive come out state positively that no ominaions will be made. It is learned that tne committee on latform also has imposed upon it the lucy of me~k1ng the nomination of a State ticket. The comoittee consists f one man from eacy county. N. G. Lonzales is the representative from .Lichland and Mike Brown from Barn. ell. At 4 o'clock this morning the ~ommittee has not reporte.l and there ~re decided Indications of dlickering on sil sides. About midnight several notable Re ~ublican leaders came to the State Cap to. Their coming was a maystery,the xplanation of which no one seemed to mow anything. They stood in the obby down stairs. Among them were Bob Smalls,Brayton,Fred Nix,E dmund Deas and State Chairman Webster. 1'hey at first defeated all Efforts to robe the object of their presence there and in the city. It was finally ascer-a ained. howvever, that they had come ere in advance of their committee t eeting scheduled to be held nexts uesday, for the purpose of watching r o see winat the "l'rue Democrats" did ad what the Irby committee did I hereafter bearing on the sulbject. It t as ascertamned further from a pretty eliable source that it was their pur ose, in case no nominations were made to call their State convention I mmediately and put out a full State t icket. 'This Is given for what it is t orth, and may mean a good deal in I te long ruc.t A few minutes after 4 o'clock Co!. . W. Wood ward of Fairileld was ask d what the convention would de. t Busted all to hell," was his short but t orcible answer, and It told the story I etter than a column of high-ilownI words. NO NoIIINATIoNS. It was e-xactly 4.10 o'clock this morn ng when the caucus threw open its I ors and the convention began its 1 work. The convention was in session yrecisely live iniinutes when It adjourn ed sine die without making nomnina- I ions. E~ven the cornnittee en plat.C orm and nominations, which went out t o make nominations, reported against C nminations and tixed no platin -m. It simply reported to the convention the 1 olowing resolutions, which were I adopted and the convention adjourned:, Resolved, That this convention ac epts the action of the convention held ere on the 19:hi instant in endorsing I the Chicago platformn as a concessionI to the Democracy of the S-ate, but re gards the simultaneous endorsernent of Democratic and P'opulist platforms, representing opposing principleso, as forfeiting the ailegianice ot all straight Democrats and the respees of all hon-I est L'opulists. Resolved, That this convention cor- - dially accepts and endorses the nation al Democratic platform and declares its unwavering devotionl and allegiance to the national Democratic party. Resolved, That we urge and invite allC Democrats ->f the State to proceed toC :rganize for the purposes hereinafter-C se forth. Resolved, That while this conventioni desires to avoid doimrz anything likelyC to cause increasing strife among ouri people we believe that the princiipes of Democracy, the safety of every in terest in the State and the interest of self preservation demand that a hard and earnest light be made against the proposition to call a constitutinoal con vention to create a new fundamental law involving the rights of every man in the State without providing for the su;D mission of its work to the people. We tender to the opponents of this iniqui tous, undemocratte, tyrannical and danaerous Droposition the service of the organiz-tion herein provided for and invite thea to join with us in lightmng it at the approaching general el' lection. It is said that A. B. Williams was the man who forced the convention to abandon nominations. He was in fa vor of nominating a candidate for Lovernor and no others. Ile was made chairman of the platform vom aitttee and is the author ot the fort - ?oiug resolutions. He wielded a pon - -rful iniluence. A few of tne memu jers of the convention in favor of aominationS, among them Mayor Dar zau, voted to the last against the con ventioris action. There was general waiLing and gnashing of teeth this norning and the piteous expression was heard :rom one man, "1haven't ve made asses of ourselves." THIE WEEK'S WEATHER. it' Eilti on hi Or:-p&-Cacuer Th-n U'n'i. fur First Taree D4Ys. COLIUMIA, S. C, September 25 rhe oitowing is tne weatner crop re ort for the week ending yesterday: ['be wek ending September 2th was ooler than usual during the first three lays, the departure from the normal veraging about one degree a dar, but. ;he remainder of the week was warmer han usual. The nights were uniform v cool. The highest tempera.ure was 12 reported from Greenwood, Ab*eville lounty; the lowest 52 reported trom xreenville on the 21st, and from Liber y, Pickens County, on the 22nd. Tne week began with clouly and 'ainy weather which lasted until Chursday, on which day the weather yecame settled and remained clear to ;he end of the week. About an aver ige of sunshine for the week. There were heavy rains on the 18th Lnd 19,h, quite general over the State. .n some purtions of the State the rain all was excessive, ilooding bottom ands and damaging ungathered crops, 6nd staining cotton, where the bolls were open; peavine hay was also dam Lged in some localities; turnips and ;her root crops were also injured more ir less by the heavy rain; where the -amfall was not excessive it proved )eneficial, especially to late gardens d to late cotton, giving the small olis a chance to develop and mature. ease, turnips and potatoes were gen rally benetitted, as well as pastures. Cotton picking was interrupted the rst of the week by the rainy and loudy weather which also checked he opening of the bolls, as did the reailing cool nights, but during the lear weather that followed, picking as resumed arid is progressing rapidly. eports indicate that in many locafi ies half of the crop has been gathered nd tne remainder is in sight, there be ng but poor prospect of a late crop. Vith a few widely scattered exceptions he reports indicate a short crop, con iderably below last year's yield. As he picking advances the former esti aates of a short crop are being verified t is generally stated that the crop is eing marketed as fast as gathered. ea Island cotton coming into market lowly. Corn is largely being gathered and, ith the exception of some late iields hich are said to be poor, the ears are rell flled and heavy and under the in tuence of the hot, dry weather the ker el is ripenihg hard and dry. Rice harvest is Progressing finely ith a fair yield. 0 sing to a scarcity f seed last spring the aggregate crop il be a medium one, the acreage being maler. The pea crop is not of uniform con ition, the excessive rains during its rowing season were injurious to It in ortions of the State. Peanuts are eing dug and yielding only fairly Turnips and other root crops are not ong as well as previously indicated, xcept sweet potatoes which have im roved with a very good yield in places nd poor in other localities. Insects ave attacked turnips in some counties abbages are also being destroyed by hem and rotting badly. Syrup making from cane and sor um continues actively and the yield considerably greater than from that rt gathered, tnere being a marked acrease. Taird crop of vegetables eing marketed from truck farms long the South coast. Taird crop of rish potatoes promise a goad yield. Oats being sown to some extent. In eneral the week was favorable for arm work of all kinds. J. W. B3AUERL, Director. Onke Emi' J rinking. WAsInGTOo, Sept. 27.--Americans ,-e accounted a fairly sober people in he hurlyburly of nations, but the gures of the internal revenue commis oner for the past year are enouga to nake a temperance crank stagger with ut a drop of whiskey or beer. Tne reacher, who peruses them, will hie mim to the pulpit and tell his congre ~atioa what a nation of drunkards we te, stupitied with drink half the year nd drugged with tobacco the othner ialf. That each year we squander upon hse invenuions of Belzebub three imes as much money as is required to :eep this great government iu opera ion and muore than is represented by be circulating meilium of the United tates. Anid wnien the prea4cher goes to ro wing mortal bonds he can load hem with interesting, if not astonish ug tacts, if he so chooses. We distilled last year 87,310,8SI gal ons of liquor not including 1,433,353 ~allons of tirandy, making in all 8S, 77,187 gallons of alcohli spirits. Ex >err, nartenders estimate 63 arinks to he gailon. Therefore there were 5,604, G2,s91 drinks produced in this contry. A conservative estimate af ho v nuch was imbbed across counters Is bout 37,000.000 gallons of whiskey, ,randy and other distilled spirits, or in ~ther words we drank 6,093,000,000 glas es of whiskey for whica we paid over he bar $6')9,000,0'J3 or $,000,000 more han all the annual appropriations of )ongress combined. This represents a consumption of 100 lasses of whiskey each year for every nan woman andi cmiid between the -ok-bound Pacitic and the sitorm-toss d Atlantic, or countiag only tho mile duits 500 glasses per week each. Of beer tne ligures are equally aston shing. The causumutton was 31,932, 43 barrels; that is 12,765,1690,200 glasses; -epresetting an expenditure for this node of Teutonic hilarity of 5017,258, j0, or about 10 cents for each inhabit nt. In tne neighborhood of 220 glasse3 ire charged up in this calculation gaist each ot us as our annual allow ne, theref ore if we xio not average ur daily glass we may be sure that r neighbors are getting the benefit of >ur abstinence. By estimating this year's internal re tenue receipts from spirits on the basis f last year's product with the increas x tax of $1.10 per gallon, the internal -eanna receipts will be Sta ,64,05 THE LATE CAUCUS PUT DOWN AS ONE OF THE GREAT EST POLITICAL FARCES Ev.er E oacfted in I his Part of the County Foro Spots Lef.. Rhind--Repubican Leadrs on the Watch. but Get Cold Cemrfart. COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 2N.-One of the greatest political farces ever enact ed in South Carolina was the late can cus cf the anti-Tillman Democrats, which was held in this city last Tues day night. The IRgister says it was the most gigantic farce of modern times and the worst demoralized body of men which ever assembled for Dolitical purposes in the State of bouth Caro lina. As much soreness was engender ed in that unharmonious organization as was ever known and one of the last things attempted was the offering of a resolution severely condemning the men who had withdrawn from the body when it bad been decided to make nominations. The resolution of condemnation was defeated by a few votes. How the caucus could have passed the resolution is not known, when many of the delegations had served express notice early in the eve ning that they would desert in a body if nominations were attempted. Some of them farther served notice that in addition to leaving the caucus they would light whatever ticket was put out. As an illustration of the number of bruised spots left behind it may be stated that as some of the delegates who withdrew were leaving the hall they were guyed and sharply reproved by those! who remained. This caused a personal feeling between many and it has not abated. Another specimen oI the feeling engendered against those who left the hall is found in the follow ing utterances of Col. N. G. Gonzales, in which the bolters are put down as deserters: It was the sense of the convention that they were outrageously deserted by men who had submitted tb91r claims to the j adgment of that con vention and after having the fullest and freest discussion had been beaten by a decisive majority. That when they went out they threatened not only to desert the ticket but that they would fight it and put us in the posi tion of breaking up the Conservative party. We refusea to rescind the reso tion, but concluded after appointing the committee on platform and reso lutiocs to place the responsibility where it belongs and abandon the whole thing in disgust." It is learned tnat early in the eve ning A. B. Williams offered practically the same resolutions which the caucus passed just as it adjourned. They were rijactei. He also submitted a plan for tue appointment of an Executive Com mittee which should have the power of nominating a full State ticket. This committee was to spring a ticket on the publii two weeks before the elec tion and the Independents were to try to carry it with a rush. It was to keep the matter a dead secret until the time rxced. Tue plan did not meet the ap probation of the caucus. One stumo ling block in the way of the caucus was that a great many were doubtful if there was anything undemocratic in the platform adopted by the regular Democratic convention last week. They couid not see the point in the ar guments of some of their opponente that the platform was undemocratic, full of Ocalism, etc. The secret has leaked out that during the evening J. C. Hemphill, of the News and Courier, telegraphed to the caucus that he had direct information from Chairman Harrity, of the Nalion al Democratic Committee, and fromI Chairman Faulkner, of the National Democratic Congressional Committee, that these committees would not recog nize the Independents as Democrats. This did not hiave much effect on the hotheads, and they did not pay any at tention to it, but the sober-minded men heeded it. A summary of tae reports made to the caucus by counties showed that there was no chance of carrying the State. Representatives of the following eigh teen counties reported that their coun ties could not be carried: Alken, Abbe ville, Anderson, Barnwell, Chiarleston, Clarendon, ColietoD, Edgelield, Hlamp ton, Lancaster, Laurene, Lexington, Marion, Newberry, Orangeburg, Pilck ens, Union and Williamsburg. The following ten counties were re ported as solid for the Independents: Beaufort-, Chester, Darlington, Fair tield, Florence, Georgetown, Greenville, Oconee, Rtichland and York, although there was some doubt about York. The opinion about Beraeley, Horry and Spartanburg was divided. Four counties, Sumnter,Chesterfild, Kersha w and Marlboro, had no representative in the caucus and this betokened that those counties were solidly against In dependenitism. The reorganization called for in the resolutions adopted has not begun. The symptoms are more of decomposl tion with probabilities of an early de cline and an inglorious death. What the verdict of the coroner's fury will he is wholly a matter of speculation. Oie of the Independent papers is al ready calling for reorganization to start. It is now believed that the men whi favored nominations will refuse to have anything to do with reorgani zation.1 The last resolution of those adopted is regarded by some as a bid for the negro vote in 189d. It opposes the call ing of a constitutional convention and tells the negroes, without using the word, that the aid of the Independent organiaiton will be given them to lght tfnis "iniquitous, undemocratic, ty rannical an:1 dangerous proposition." A gentleman said yesterday that if the negroes and Independents join in fight ing the call ior a convention the inde- I pndeots can say to the negroes in 1 18%: "We helped to save you from los ing your sufft age. Now come to our aid and give us your vote." Everybody noticed that the promi neut negro and Republican leaders, including Deas, Webster, Miller andI Smnalls, hung around the caucus like buzzards. They were eager listeners to whatever news was brought out from tne hall and gathered in groups to talk secretly of it. They had some object. There is a rumor to the effect that Smalls, Miller and Webster had arranged to make a deal with the In dependents by which Murray wa~s to be defeated for Congrees in tne First Congressional District in favor of Smalih and Brayton in the Seventh4 District in favor of Johnson. The I deal was, of course, that the Webster Smalls-Miller influence would be given I to the Independents in the lower part 1 of the State. Dickering of some kindi was done. It is said that the anxiety displayed by the negroes was due to the fact that the Republicans wanted the Independ ents to~ nominate. This would have split the white vote of the State. 'Then the Reoublicans would hold a conven tion and nominate a ticket. Dr. Samp- I son Pope Is deliguted that a State tick- 1 et was not nominated. Hie says that he is good for about 15,000 Reform I vesaond all the Conserunva votes I and that this will elect him. Had thi caucus nominated Dr. Pope wouk have missed the Conservative vote. Senator Butler is said to be as nea broken hearted as a brave man can be. His whole heart was set on a State ticket and his hope was in that action Now he is left with no hope. The only chance he has is for his sympathizern to run Indepondent tickets for the Legislature in such counties as they think they can win in. This would not even give Senator Butler the opportu nity of making a contest in the Senate as he has no organization backing him, THE NEW TARIFF. The Hon. William L. Wilson Shows Where McKink y Toxes are Reduced. Just before leaving for Europe the Hon. William L. Wilson addressed a letter to the -New York World explana tory of some features in the new tariff law. From it we extract the follow. "Let us now consider, in some detail, the most helpful reductions made in the bill as it finally became a law, be ginning with those articles altogether released from taxation by both House and Senate hills. "In the chemical schedule $712,000 worth of articles of the importations of !893 are transferred to the free list, the most important of which are sul phuric acid and sulphate of soda,which lie at the basis of many chemical man ufactures. "In the metal schedule the amount imilarly made free of duty was 81,100, )00 in value, including cotton ties, cop per ores and pig and old copper fit only tor remanufacture. "In agricultural products and pro visions duties are abolished on 81,500, )00 of the imports of 1893, including abbage, fresh fish and salt. "In the flax, hemp and jute schedules the value of free imnorts on the same Importations is l,700,000.including un iressed flax and hemp and binding wine. "In the woolen schedule the value of he fibres transferred to the free list on he same basis is $18,500,000. "Free paintings and statuary in 3rease the free list over $2,000,000,while he abolition of retaliatory duties un ler the so-called reciprocity clause of he McKinley law releases from taxa ion articles valued at $4,400,000, to wit, offee, raw goat skins and hides. "In fine the total amount of the im ortations of 1893 transferred to the ree list by the House bill,and included n the bill as passed, was $41,398,000 Phese freed articles, it will be seen, are f great importance, embracing free wool, flax and hemp or free floers to kmerican manufacturers, and free works of art of American scholars and ;he people generally. "In addition to the above the Senate tdded to the free list by its amend nents dressed lumber, burlaps, grain ags made from burlaps, and cotton agging. Of the articles placed by the louse on the free list, over forty in lumber were restored to the dutiable ist by the Senate-generally, however, with reduced rates-the most import rt ornich are borax, refilned camphor d sulphur, clays, granite and fire tone, unmanufatured; nickel, mica licksilver, molasses and sugar, coal nd iron ore and meat products. "It will thus appear that very sub tantial and important parts of the louse bill were saved, and that with ree lumber, free copper, free works of rt, free wool and other fibres, untaxed otton ties and bagging for both cotton md grain, our che!f export crops, a )retty large hole has been made in the cKinley bill and in the protective ystem generally, and that the P'resi lent was fully justtffad in assuring the eople that with the first effort of the emocratic party the era of mad pro ection In this country was over. Much tigher rates were finally kept in the oollen and carpet schedule than can e justified on the basis of free wooi, ut It is a great achievement, added o that of securing free wool, to get rid f the fraudulent compound duties un ler which the wearers of wollen goods iave been so mercilessly taxed in this :o untry. "The cotton schedule said to have pro eeded from the Fall River manufac urers, was accepted in the Senate with he exception of reducing its ratet In :onference, but the final and successful itandtaken by the Senate against any hanges in its amendments forced Its ioption as made by its original fra ners. "In conclusion let me add that there s much to satisfy and far more to en ourage tariff reformers in the new bill. he people will feel the lightening of heir burdens, the release of their In lustriss and the quickening of their ome and foreign commerce resulting rom its passage, and there need be no ear that they will ever return to Mc inleyismf, or again submit to the crip >ling and asphyxiation of American ndustry at the command of a combi ation of tax-gatherers. More than all ey will steadily march on to the goal af commercial freedom. "It is a mkomentous victory to have urned our faces once again and firmly oward that goal and, as the extreme njustice of the monopoly tariff of 1890 vas its own overthrow, it may well appen that the Sugar Trust and other nonopolies which have been able to wart our efforts to get a better reve me bill have been builded better than hey know." Will Nominate. GoLUMBIA, 5, C., Sept. 2.-The upublcan leaders of note who came mre Tuesday to watch the movements f the State convention of true Demo rats were pretty well all here yesterday hen questioned as to their intentions rih regard to the approaching general lection, several of the m)s; prommnent edrs unqualdfiedly stated taat it was heir purpose to put out a full State icket, and it would be composed of the trongest men that they could secure. tse Chairman Webster, when seen resterday afternoon as he was taking he train for his home, said that there ad ben no conference ol the leaders !ho ad been in the city, and that the tire situation and outlook would be ully discu3ned and actecn upon when he S'.ate executive committee met in his city on Tuesday next. The Sta te onvention will be called by the corn ittee for an early dat.-State., Eialded Hamburg. AvoUSTA, Ga., Sept. 25.--DIspensary onstables Johnson, who has been doing usiness in and around Augusta, ac :ompanied hy two other constables, nade a successful raid in Hamburg, on e other side of the river, the other ight. They had learned that whiskey nd beer were being sold in Hamburg, vhere the state of South Carolina had lot permittea or licensed a dispensary. 'hey made a raid, but there was not nuch stock on hand. What was found as, according to the law, confliscated, Ld the place was locked up by the of icers. It is stated that the blind tiger vas operated or owned by Max Saltett md Bud Padgett. The proper warrants 'or their arrest and prosecution have ieen sworn out. THE NEXT LEGISLATURE INCICATIONS POINT TO MUCH NEM "MATERIAL." The Nominees of the Receat Primary oi the Hlouse-Senators.1 Cnanges-Effori of the GeneralI Election on rheir Elhc. lion. COLUMBIA, S. C, Sept. 28.-The peo, ple of tne State are now speculating E great deal as to what Senator Butler i going to do about his race for the Uni ted States Senate, going on the as sumption that he had great hopes o: benedt to his chances, resulting from the nomination of a State ticket b3 the true Democrats. Such nomina tions as all know were not made Whether Senator Butler had any such hopes or not is not known. So now the Senator's race is left ir the condition it was three weeks ago whatever that may be. No one can at. tempt to say what strength Senatoi Butler will develop in the Legislature. He may have assurances of support from many of the Tillman men, who sc far as any one knows now, will be elected in the general election, having been nominated in the primary election recently held. Such support will, how ever, not be confined to party lines-to Tillmanites and anti-Tillmaaitea. There is no certainty that all the Con servatives in the next General Assem bly will support Senator Butler, and likewise there is no certainty that all Tillmanites who will L in the body will support Governor Tillman, though the indications are all that way. Looking at the composition of the next General Assembly, which will be elected in November, the only Conserv tive delegations that are certain of bein in there will be those from Rich land Charleston and Sumter. Beaufort had a split primary, the Conservatives out voting the Tillmanites, and will likely win the fight finally. George town may have Conservative Repre sentatives, but will have a Tillmanite Senator. Chesterfield will have a Con servative Senator. Now in the counties of Horry, Fair field, Darlington and Florence the Straightout Democrats are going to put up and run in the general election of November 8, tickets in opposition to the tickets nominated in the primaries. From these counties, therefore, it will be impossible to say what the delega tions in the General Assembly will be. There is talk also of similar fights be ing made in the counties of Oconee, Eagefield,Williamsburg, Lexington and Chester. Not taking into consideration the tights that are to be made In the gen eral election referred to above, the Conservative strength in the coming General Assembly which may be re garded as "certain," will be as. fol lsws: In the Senate-Charleston, 2; Rich land, 1: Sumter, 1; Newberry, 1; Ches terfield, 1; Beaufort:, 1. Total 7. In the House-Baaufort, 4; Charles ton, 7; Georgetown, 2; Richland, 4; Sumter, 5. Total 22. This gives the Tillmanites a majori ty of 29 in the Senate, the Conserva tives having lost Senators in two coun ties in the past two years, but gaining two other counties. In the House, ac cording to the above speculations, there will be a Tillmanite majority of 102. 'The Irby State executive committee has reeeived the declared results of the recent primaries from 22 counties, giv ing the party nominees for the Senate and House, and old county offices. In these counties the chances or election of these nominees in the general elec tion, are subject to the conditions re ferred to above. It will be Interesting to the general public, however, inas mucn as the chances of election of nearly all the nominees in these 22 counties are almost certainties to glance ever the personnel of the next General Assembly and see how many men have "been there before." THlE SENATE. It is Impossible as yet to get at the composition of the Senate entire. For Instance Dr. Timmerman is still the Senator from Edgefield and Stanyarne Wilson is still the Senator from Spar tanburg. E ach will likely go to a high er office. They were elected in 1892, and their respective terms ran for two years longer. Neither of them have yet resigned. They will doubtless do so after the November election and the new president of the Senate, who will be the present incumbent, most likely, will doubtless order special elections in each of the counties named to fill the vacancies. There is now a question as to whether Dr. Timmerman naving be come Lieutenant Governor, from the fact that he rose to the pasition of president pro tern of the Senate by teing Senator from Elgefield, could accept his own resignation as Senator from Edgefleld and order an election for a Senator from EdgeLdeld. But it he is elected Lieutenant Governor, then he ceases to be Senator from Edgelield, as he could not hold both odfices at the same time and can order the election. It looks as if Col. R. B. Watson will represent Edgetisld In the Senate at the next session. The roll of the coming Senate, sub ject to the conditions already referred to, will likely be as given below. The terms of eighteen Senators-from Sum ter, Dariington, Florence, Charleston, Clarendon, Marlboro. Anderson, Abbe ville, Berkeley, Kershaw, Chester, Hampton, Pickens, Union, Cnestectleld, Richiand, Lancaster ana Williamsburg -expited tnis year, and elections were held to fill the vacancies. All the Sen ators from other counties should have held over-in other words their terms don't expire for two years. Messrs. Smythe of Charleston, and Hazard of Georgeto wn resigned, however, and the two Senators--Wilson and Timmerman -mentioned above will go out by the resignation route. The roll will likely be us follo ws: Aiken-0. C. Jordan; succeeding John Gary Evans. Abberville-L. H. McCalla; succeed ing Hlemphill. Anderson-D. Ki. Norris; succeeding J. P. Glenn. Barnwell-S. G. Maytleld; hold over. Beaufort-W. J. Verdier; hoid over. Berkeley-(No report.) Charleston-G. L. Butst, re-elected, and Joseph W. Birnwell, to fill unex pired term of A. T. Smnythe, resigned. Chester-J. 11. McDaniel; renomi nated. Chesterfield-John HI. Turner, nom inated. Clarendon-L. M. Reagin; renomi nated. Colleton-A. C. Sanders; nominated Darlington-(No Report.) Edgetieid-(N o election ordered.) FaXirleld-(No report.) Florence-J. 0. Byrd, to succeed L. S. Bligham. (Subject to opposition ticket.) Georgetown-R. J,. Donaldson, suc ceeding Walter Hazard. Greenville-John RI. Harrison; hold over. Hampton-W. H1. Mauldin, succeed ine J. W. Moore. Harry-J. P. Derham; hold over. Kershaw--T. J. K irkland, succeed ing J. R. Magill. Lnaster-R. F. Millr, succeeding T. J. Strait. Laurens-A. C. Filler; hold over. Lexington-C. M. Efird; hold over. Marion-W. A. Brown; nold over. Marlboro-H. M. Stackhousp, suc ceeding W. D. E vans. Newoerry-George S. Mower, suc ceeding J. A. bligh. Oconee-S. Y. Stribling; bold over. Orangeburg-W. S. Barton; nold over. Pickens-W. T. O'Dell; renominated. Rlchland-John T. Sloan, Jr., renom inated. Spartanburg-(No election ordered.) Sumter-Altanount Moses, succeed inw H. T. Abbott. Union-J. T. Dauglass; succeeding G. T. Peake. Williamsburge--A. H. Williams; re nominated. York-D. E. Finley; hold over. TIHE HOUSE. The foloving is a list of the nomi neesof the primary for members of the House, as reported to the State committee. The list is not yet com plate. The new men are maiKed wita an asterisk: Abberville-James E. Todd* J. To wnes Robersn* Frank B. Gary, Dav IL . Magill. Aiken, E. B. Tyiei*,John T. Gaston*, T. S. Williams*. Anderson-J. E. Brazeale, J. B. Lev eret*. I. W. Pickes*, J. W. Ashley, J. B. Watson. Barnwell-(N.) report.) Berkeley-(No report.) Beaufort-(No report) Cnarleston- -. -. Gadsden*, -. -. Devereaux*, -. -. Bolgei*, I. M. Luf ton, T. W. Bicot, -. -. DIata*, -. -. Mehrten4*. Chester-Joseph Nunner*, S. T. MC Keo WL*, Peter T- Hollis*. Chesterfield-J. M. Hough, W. P. Pollock*. Clarendon-J. W. Kenned5 *, C. M. Davi *, W. C. Davis*. Colieton-M. R. Cooper. John G. Saunders*, Calvin W. Garrit*. Darlington-(N o report.) Edgefield-(N o report.) Fairfield-(No report.) Florence-Dr. William Ilderton*, W. E. Finklea*, J. M. Humpzirey*. Georgetown-(No report.) Greenville-B. M. Snuman, H. P. Goodwin*. John T. Bramlett*, Zerah Hammett. Hampton-M. B. McSweeney*, E. H Wyman. Horry-(No report.) Ktrshaw-C. L. Winklei*, J. W. Floyd*. Lancaster-Ira B. Jones, J. N. E3 tridge. Laurens-(No report.) Lexington-W. H. F. Rtast, J. Walter Mlitchelh*. Marion-(No report.) Marlboro-C. P. Townsend*, J. F. McLaurin*, J. B. Banch*. Ozonee-C. R. D. Barns*, J. R. Earlt*. Newberry-(Na, report.) Orangeburg-I. W. Bowman*, L. K. Sturkie, L. S. Connol*, W. 0. Tatum, J. H. Price*. Pickens-B. J. Johnstone*, Fred Williams*. Richland-F. H. Weston, J. P. Thom as, Jr., H. C. Patton*, H. W. Adams*. Spartanburg-(No report.) Sumter-C, H. Williamson, R. T. Manning, A. K. Sanders*, J. H. Wil sor.*, Frank Mellette*. Union-J. C. 0.ts*, G. B. Fo wlei*, J. S. WeIL*. W illiamsburg-E. R. Lesesne, J. H. Blackwell, W. J. Singletary. York-R. M. Carroll, T. R. Caruth ers*, W..N. Felder, W. B. Love. It the above nominees are elected, it is seen that the 23 counties given will send 50 new men to the House. The total membership of the House is only 124, and there are yet 12 counties to be heard from. It is easily seen that the House will be composed of considera bly more than half' new material. The Senate will have a good many new members also, as shown above. The reports received so far indicate 12 new Senators out of 22. The fact that there will be such a large proportion of new men makes it impossible to speculate as to Wnat strength Senator Butler will be able to develop.-State. DIFFEREN T MO TIVES. Why Cerpenter and the Atkinsons Were IRecommnended S o Mercy, COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 2f.-Governor Tilliman's commutations of Carpenter, the Edgefield murderer, is arousing a good deal of comment in the newspa pers hostile to the Governor take up the Governor's statement that he commut ed Carpenters' sentence because the jury recommended him to -mercy and say that in the case of the Atkinsons, hanged in Fairlield last week, the jury also recommended them to mercy. The cases are not at all similar. In the case of Carpenter the jurors state that they would have brought in a different verdict had they known the result of their verdict would have been the hanging of Carpenter and Murrell. The foreman of the jury in the case of the Atkinsons has writte~a Governor Tlllman the following jetter showing that the motive uf the recommend ation to mercy in the case of the Atkinsons was entirely different from that of the Edgefld murderers: Wood ward, S. C., Sept. 1, 1891. Governor B. R. Tillman, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: I have the honor to acknowl edge the receipt of your favor of the 28th ultimo, desiring me to give you some information as to what influenced the jury in the case of the Atkinsons to recommened them to mercy. in re sponse to your inquiry I beg to say that this recommendation to mercy was not because the jury entertained a shadow of a doubt as to their guilt, for they considered the evidence against the prisoners conclusive and were there fore satistled that they concocted and exected the diabolical crime with which they were charged. Nor was it on ac count of any extenuating circumstances connected with the murder. One of the jurors while admitting that the prison ers were guilty beyond a reasonable doubt said that he would not agree to a verdict of guilty unless they were re commended to the mercy of the court, and gave his only reason that they were young men and poor. Believing that unless they were recommeneded to mercy a mistrial would result, which we were exceedingly anxious to avoid if possible, we yielded to this juror and rendered a verdict of guilty with re commenedation to mercy. I will fur ther state that a negro juror at first was a little reluctant in agreeing to a verdict of guilty, which we attribute to ignorance more than to a calm and thoughtful considerationl of the case. He finally, ho wever, because convinced and agreed to a verdict of guilty, with recommendation to mercy.- Trusting that the above will be satisfactory and that you will excuse delay in answer ing your letter which was brought about by its being sent to Blackstock's instead of Weodward's, I beg to remain. Yours most obediently. . A. STEwART. A WESTERN CYCLONE. ITS PATH MARKS DESOLATION AND DEATH. One Hadred Livep, and $1 ,000,000 Lost -Fortnnately it V:stted Sparcely Settled Districts-The Narrow swath of the MINNEA PDLTS, Mun., Sept. 23.-R,. ports of the destru.tion wrought by Fri day night's ciclone indicate that the loss of life will be in the neighborhood of seventy- five, while the injured will num her several times as many. Some of those burt are expected to die and it is not unlikely that fully 100 persons wil be numbered in the list of the cyclone's fury: The property loss is very heavy and it is almost impo.-sible at this time to obtain anything more than rough esti mates of the damaze. As indcated in last night's dispatches, the storm originated near Emmettsburg, Ia., and passed east and north to North ern Iowa and Southern Minnesota, fian ally passing over into Wisconsin. No reports of serious damage have been re ceived from this section and the fury of the elementis seems to have ben spens with the destraction of Spring Valley. lere four persons are dead, some severe ly hurt, while the property loss is esti mated at $85,000, the xesidence portion of the towa lying directly in the path of the cyclone. At Leroy, lying southwest, four are dead and several fatally injured. The destruction of propertyamounts to about $75,000. This is a heavy blow to the village, for its chief business houses lIe in ruins. Eive miles north of Osage, Ia., six per sons were killed and a large number hurt, the destruction of farm property is quite heavy, but no estimates have been made. East, at Lowther, a town of about one hundred souls, on the Chicago Great Western, three persons were fatally hurt and the whole country for miles around laid in ruins. The loss in this vicinity will probably be not far from $1,000,000. Fiteen miles north of Mason City, Ia., four were killed outright and as many more probabhi fatally hurt, while all the buildings struck'a1Nt+tal wrects, the loss being in the neighborho- ,t $50.000. West of Mason Clty, near Britt, two persons were killed outright, while north of this town, some half dozen lost their lives. Three miles north of Wesley, Kos suth county, J. W. Bingham's houie was overturned and caught fire. The inmates had a narrow escape. ThC killed in this vicinity are M. Castie and wife, J. W. Digham, Mrs. Tweed, mother of Thomas Tweed, two children of Thomas Tweed. M. Schwepps and two children, Fred French and two chil dren, infant of Mr. and Mrs. Eden and Mr. and Mrs. Rockaw. North of Algona seems to have been the scene of greatest harvest of deaths, more people being killed in Kossuth county than in any other county through which the tornado passed. Nineteen funerals were held at Algona today. North of Emmettsburg, which sems to have been the point where the cy clone frat assumed dangerous propor tions, two lives were crushed out. From here tae deadly storm went tearing across the country demolishing every thinir in ,t path. For the most part of its course, it travelled through a farm ing district, Leroy and Spring Valley, Min., being the only towns of any con sequence that were damaged, nut even here the deaths were comparatively few. The fact that the storm welt tearing through a portion of Spring Val ley and a greater portion of the residents were not aware of its work of destruc tion until the dre bells were rung, shows what a narrow strip of country was swept. As the storm travelled through the country and avoided villages and towns, the property loss is largely confined to farm buiidings and these bemng badly scrattered, iender even an approximation of the loss Impossible, but conservative estimates place the damage at not less than $l,000,000. The Blue Ridge Railroad. ANDEIsON, S. C., Sept. 27.-It looks very much like there is something in the reportedl porject of Tanderbilt to complete the Blue ridge Railroad. Re eiver Averill, of the Port Royal and Western Carolina Railroad, has had a conference with him. The Augusta Cronicle of the 17th inst.. says: Mr. Vanderbilt seems to mean business about the Blue Ridge Railroad. Recei ver Averill, of th~e Port Royal and Western Carollina Railroad, has had a conference with him and the plan seems to be well on font. The Augusta Chro nicale of Monday, 17th inst., says: "The news lirst published by the Chronicle ast week th~at George Vanderbilt, who owns thousands of acres of land in North Carolina, is going to turn his at tention to -ailroad building, looking to a direct line as a means of getting out much of the timber of that section of the South, has caused considerable interest. The scheme of Mr. Tander bt if carried out wll add quite a splendid line of railway to the South, f or while he is not after building any considerable road in point of miles, it will, when finished, be one of the most cesirable connecting links for the outh Atlantic coast and the North west. A direct line from Knoxville to Anderson, S. C., is said to be the plan and it is ir.teresting to know that a great part of the distance between these t wo points is already graded. The road, when finished, in connection with the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Cincinnati Railroad and the Port Royal and Western Carolina, will shorten the distance between Cincinnati and the Southern coast 100 miles. Receiver Averill, of the Port Royal and Western Carolina road, who is said to have been on a conference with Mr.YVanderbilt concerning this mstter, passed through Augusta t ae other day in his private car on his way to Port Royal. In case the deal goes through Augusta wiai havena direct line from the Northwest." --Ad vocate. Capt Capers Not Guilty. FLORENCE, Sept. 20.-Special: The :se or the State against Capt John G.l Capers, of Columbia, for criminal libe was tried in the Court of Sessions here :o-daiy. The jury were out about thirty :inutes and returned with a verdict of aot guilty. Acting Solicitor 1R.0.Purdy, >f Sumter, assisted by W. F'. Clayton, of Florence, were the attorneys for the prosecution and Col C. S. Nettles, of Darlington, and P. A. Willcox, of Florence, were attorneys for the defend ant. This case was brought about the publication of a letter from Capt Capers i the I olumsbia State in which it was claimid that certain defamatory matter against the character of Dr. J. 0. Byrd, of Timmonsvlille. had been printed.