The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, September 02, 1896, Image 1

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VOL. XII. MANNINGI, S. C, WEDNESDAY, SE1PTE.MBE- ,1%,*N. THENEW YORK PRESS. -T !S SEVERELY CRITICISED BY PROF. R. MEANS DAVIS For Its Manner of Treatins Mr. Bryan's Great New York Speech-Mr. Davis Real ly Beieves That Bryan Is Right. To the Editor of The News and Cou rier: The comments of the New York dailies on Bryan's speech, iublished in Saturday's issue of the News and Courier, display an amount of inso lent ignorance, arrogant assumption and fallacious statement not to be ex - pected from intelligent sources, how ever biased. With your permission I shall point out a few glaring instances. The Times, usually able and unpreju diced, heads the list by calling Bryan a railing demagogue. No one who has read that speech of his will fail to be struck with the lofty key in which it was pitched and the remarkable ab sence of vituperation, which would not, indeed, have been wholly unwar ranted. The deliberation with which he threw away the opportunity of making an impassioned harangue and stirring up the masses by invective marks him as a man full of earnest ness and self-denial. The Times next denounces as false and "infinitely mischievous" the as sertion that the gold dollar has appre ciated, thus causing low prices. The very alphabet of economics and fi nance, as given by every economic writer, teaches that money is a mere confrivance; and that commodities themselves are the true measure of value. The average of prices from time to time shows whether money has become too scarce or too plentiful. It has never been denied by any self mzg person that the average of pricesatthis time is lower than it has been in many years. Whatever rea soning unay be given as to the cause othis condition there is no doubt of thefact. Itis-not mischievous to as sert that gold has appreciated in com parison with the average of all other ommodities. It is folly or falsehood to deny it.. When a dollar will buy on an average twice,as many things at one time as at another its value has apeca ed. btta te hns Same claim, however, that gold has nmot -alppreid - but that o ther thinge have 4reiated. This is the same as saying wnen the sun does not erA the meridian as. St. Michael's VLock si'res 12 it is the fault of the -6n and not of the clock. When Pope Iregory was smart enough to realize that the Juliin calendar was ten days tooslow and changed the calendar in 4teadf iming a bull against the sun there were, some benighted people in g 4and who: denounced the Grego ran leadar as a Popish plot and in astedentiking to the old standard as- abnost two hundred years. The Czar of aRathe Ensias like the New York Ties still profoundly uncon acious ofthe fact that his old standard Staenladnr has gotten out of repair. ktizksblndly to it while all the rest of ':Miv tion -have moved on. Tne t -h-iad be made astronomer _;4tof Riein. Its views about the oar are ust advanced enough enableit to its -issue twelve 'initime with great satisfac 4to itself and its benighted sub 'wothiere as to whether the gold ~lahas appireciated or commodities fa e a. tie-claimed-that because thv.on an average are produced t~u~e seailyasformerly they should be-worth half~ as much. Is this true? Iapa tocommon sense.. If a countrynayfinds itself possessed of tonn asnany horses, cattle, sheep, ganis oeloth, hales of cotton, steam engines andeverything else as it own - dtenyears ago, and if it can produce them twice aseasily as before, is it-not twice airell off? IUdoubtedly. Then if it istiwioeas rich, its money values - must show thelfact. That is the whole thinagin anutabell. To show this in ereme-in money values the amount of money must be increased. If free bsnking zaprohibitedt the alterative is frsilver. Calhoun, in one of his prooud speeches, showed that if the -money of the country, other- things being equal, is doubled, the aggregate money values. of the country are dou bled, and vice Versa, and he added that when $1in money represents $30 in ~rythe increase of a million money makes an increase of thirty millions~in propei-ty, while -the nantration of a million in money makesa shrinkage in values of thirty millionns. When credit is used it must -be counted with money as purchasing power. Furthermore, if the volume of mon eymi the United States had never in creased a dollar since 1789, and credit had not been increased, the aggregate me, y values 'of the United States -wonld be no greater today than they were then, despite the fact that the e fortsof life have increaseA a hun dtred fold. This is one of the simplest . ntn in economics, and IE for te qAaborate it. The New York Times has simply written itself down a Dohryin this matter. The Times adds: ''u Mr. Bryan says: Wage-earners know that while a gold standard raises the purchasing power of a dollarit also makes-it more difficult to obtain possession of that dollar.' This is false, and if Mr. Bry an does not know LAat it is false he is too ignorant for the great business in which he aspires to engage. The fig ures of the Aldrich report show that wages have advanced more than 60 per cent. since 1860." The smallest boy who robs an apple orchard knows that if the apples are large he cannot get as many as if they are small. Every child knows that if there is one big stick of candy instead of half a dozen small piec'-s, he will have to smi.li fo it. E re n an infant would convict the Times .,f idiocy in its denial of this proposition. Now for the question of wages. Ad mit that they nave intcreased 60 per cent, since 1860. The census shows that the wealth of the country has in creased from 17,000,000,000 to'$70,000, 000,000 in the same time. That is an increase of 300 per cent. In other words the wealth of the country has increased five times as much as wages Who owns it, this increase? The Times would find some interesting food for thought in answering this question. Under the system which the Times worshsps as a fetich colcssal fortunes have been piled up in great centres while outlyin-g portions ot the country are in distress. The fact is that through the great improvements made in production by labor-saving appliances the labor of a man is many~ times more etticient now than in 1860, and wages should be car nnspndinglv increased. The laborer should receive several times 60 per cent. for his work. This table of wages quoted by the Times is a boom erang. When properly understood it is one of the strongest arguments against existing conditions. The Times proceeds: "The restora tion of bimetallism (says Bryan) in the United States wiil take away from gold just so much of his purchasiug power as was added to it by the demo netization of silve.. That sentence will kill Mr. Bryan as a candidate. There is not oratorical wind enough in all Nebraska to convince the Amer ican people of the truth of the absurd proposition that the demonetizition of silver enhanced the power of gold." Really the Times is the first reputable authority that has ever denied the truth that the deimonetization of silver ceteris paribus, enhuinced the value of gold. Bismarck once said that the struggle of the nations for a single gold standard was like the struggle of two men in a bed to cover with-a-sin ele blanket. There was not enough blanket to go round. Bismarck is not generally regarded as a Socialist, An archist or thief. Possibly the Times may grasp the following simple illustration. At a certain boarding house there are reg ularly biscuits and watl Is for break fast. For some reason the waftnes cease to appear while the number of biscuits is unohanged. There will ne cessarily be a greater demand for bis cuits, followed by a struggle in which the sharpest will win and the weaker go ahungered. Then comes the cry, "Give us back our watfes." A wise landlady will heed the cry, and in re storing the waffles will diminish the enhanced demand for the biscuits. A stupid landlady of Wall street, Low ever, may say, "You are a set of ras cals. You have just as many biscuits as ever. The demand for biscuits can not therefore increase Waffies are bad for the stcmach. Be content with half as many biscuits apiece as before. How long would such a landlady re main in business? The Times disposes of Bryan as fol lows: "All that is leftof Mr. Bryan's assertion is the demand that the dollar shall be split in two, and that is repu diation, naked and ugly." In o'ne respect the Times is right. If the silver movement means anything it means that many persons in the United States believe that the value of the dollar has increased beyond all reason and is devouring all products in its capacious maw. That value must be reduced. When the people of the United States borrowed money the dollar bore a certain proportion to the values of commodities. Now its proportion is much greater. As Bryan said, no one would dare to enact a law that debtors shall pay more dollars than they bargained to pay. No more shall they declare that the debt shall be paid in a bigger dollar. Is this re pudiation? The bondholders bought bonds for depreciated greenbacks worth at one time not more than 35 cents on the dollar. These bonds were payable in gold and silver. Here was a profit of more than 200 per cent. The bond holder split the specie dollar in half by means of greenbacks and thus got two bonds for one. This was the same "repudiation, nakel and ugly," that the Times now denounces. Did the Times raise its voice then in protest? It the bondholder gave the Govern ment the very cheapest money he could find what right has he to raise a howl when the Government pays him back in the cheapest money denomi nated in the bond i Where is the "re pudiation, naked and ugly." here? The Times not only wants all the en hanced value of the bond represented by silver, but t wice as much. No one is afraid of this bugaboo of repudiation. For thirty-aix years the legislation of the Government has been constantly favorable to a certain clique of capi talists, and the people who have been swindled by them propose to restore equity by giving them just what the law demands and no mord. Little space is left to notice the ab surd criticisms of the other papers. But here is a lucubration of the Morning. Advertiser: "WNas ever a more deliberate statement more pre posterouly false? The whole span of history, from the beginning of the world, does not furnish one solitary instances of the creation of value by legislation. On the contrary, every attempt at this form of legislation has proved a signal failure." Mr. Bryan must have produced a virulent form of hydrophobia among his critics. Let us exammne this state-. ment of the Advertiser. The Latin Union today by legisla tion causes a vast amount of silver to .pass current at the ratio of 15i to 1. During the Franco Prussian war the French Government floated a large sum of irredeemable paper money (irredeemable paper money remember,) and kept it at par with gold. This was fist money, pure and simple, and the device of the French Government has been commended by economists. Dur ing the late war the United States Government issued about $450,000,000 in greenbacks and made them a legal tender for all debts. They had no value in themselves, but the fiat of the Government that they should be legal tender for past as well as future debts caused them to pass current and to af ford the means of defeating the South. The Advertiser knows nothing about history "from the beginning of the world,"' as is evident from the above quotation. The best economists, Mill among the number, concur in the be lief that a government can, within certain limits, give fictitious value to money and, by limiting the issue, as France did, can even make irredeem able paper money pass current at par. It is not the best money, of course, but if the Government declares that it shall have power to discharge debt and there is a large volume of debt to be liquidated it willisurely pass cur rent. Furthermore, since men receive money only to part with it, a creditor will take anything whether salt, cod fish, wampum or rags if he knows he can pass it on to the next man. l-am not favoring fiat money, but I know enough of history at least to know that governments at diierent times have been able to give vague by law. Again, "if the people are prepare~d to support Mr. Bryan on this proposi tion they are equally prepared to legal ize theft." Trhe proposition is that free coinage would raise the bullion value of silver to apar with its coin value. This means simply that if one can send an ounce of silver to Wash ington and have it coined free into $1.29, he will not sell his bullion any any cheaper than thlat. I oes the Ad vertiser expect to win with such a manifestation of stupid ity a-s a denial of this fact? Furthermore, as to legalizing theft. The Republican party, to which the Advertiser very properly belongs, has legalized theft over and over again It stole the slaves of Maryland and Ken tucky. It repudiated all the war debt of the Southern States, loaned by in dividuals in hard cash. It stole mil lions of acres of the public domain to enrich the railroad kings. It made depreciated paper pay debts contracted in honest silver and gold. It stole nearly a hundred million of dollars from Southern farmers in an illegal cotton tax which was declared uncon stitutional, and it has never refunded a cent. It uFheld thieving State Governments that robbed the people in every way possible. It has fostered trusts and monopolies and combines that rob citizens every day and night. That is the record of a party whose organs are denouncing Bryan because he wants to shake the plunderers by the throat. The Advertiser is a pretty paper to cry "Stop thief." The New York Tribune and the Phil adelphia Press join in denouncing Bryan because he failed to disclaim the plank of the Chicago platform, protesting against the sending of Fed eral troops to put down riots in.a State. Why should Mr. Bryan dis claim this plank? The sending of troops to Cchicago by Cleveland, against the protest of Altgeld, was the most flagrant violation of State's rights under the Constituion that has ever been perpetrated. I said so at the time and I repeat it now. The Constitution specially sets forth the only conditions under which the Pres ident of the United States can send troops into a State. There is nothing left to implication. He can send troops thither only "on application of the Legislature, or of Li?e Executive when. the Lagislature cannot be con vened." The maxim of interprecia tion of the Constitution is that what is not granted is forbidden. When Granit sent troops to Lauisiana and swept the State House he was acting under the call of the carpet-bag Gov ernor. When he tried to swamp the State of South Carolina with troops he did so at the call of the Governor, and even then the Democrats claimed he was acting unlawfully because the Legislature could have been convened. Cleveland sent troops to Chicago against the protest of a Governor of a sovereign State. The King of Eag. land dared not call out troops to sup press the Chartists. That uprismg was controlled by a chief constable and 250,000 constables and special po lice. If 1he President can send troops into a State of his own volition State's rights are gone. The Democratic party in Congress basely stultified it self when it commended this act of Cleveland. Gen. Schofield is said to have been riding all over the country in Pullman's private car, about the time of the rictswhen Pullman should have been the first to go to jail. He was the greatest *lawbreaker of them all. There are other ways of putting down mobs than by violating the con stitution of the United States. The Democrats deserve to win on this plank if on no other. As to the threat of reforming the Supreme Court it is rather a mischiev ouis measure but the Court has laid itsel unde:- reproach . by the income tax decision. There is no doubt what ever that since the case of Hylton vs United States, about a hundred years ago, the Supreme Court has held valid every form of income tax laid by Con gress. The income tax is the fairest tax ever devised. It is upheld by England 'nd by Germany, two coun tries as far removed from socialism and anarchy as possible. If the Unit ed States Government cannot levy an income tax it must enact the highest possible form of tariff, to meet its enormous expenses, and the Democrat ic policy of low tariff will become a barren ideality. The Courts of the United States have been reformed more thian once. In 1801 the Federalist party, in order to entrench itself in power, created a whole system of Courts, and appointed Federalists as Judges. One of the tirst acts of Jefferson's administration was to knock those Courts and Judges higher than a kite. It was a desperate remedy, but it was justified. After the war the S ipreme Court of the United States, by a vote of 4to3, de elared the green backs unconstitution al This was such a set back to the Republican policy that the Court was reconstructed. T wo Judges were ap pointed by Grant, and on a rehearing they voted with the three old Judges in favor of the greenbacks, thus re versing the decision by 5 to 4. One of these packed Judges, Bradley, stole the Pridency from the Democracy and gave it to IHayes. it comes, there fore, with very poor grace from Re publicans to denounce any proposi tion to tamper with the Courts. They tampered with the Court so as to se cure practical repudiation when they secured payments of debts in depreciated currency. Demo crats cannot say much either, because the abolition of the Federal judiciary was the pet measure of Jefferson. I do not commend the proposition to re form the Supreme Court. But that is no reason for not showing up the ig norance or inconsistency of the vir tuous newspaper critics of the Demo cratic platform. As for the proposition to give a term of years to Judges of the UnitedStates Courts, that is all poppycock. The Con titution provides that all Judges of the United States shall hold office during good behavior,' and the term can be changed only by a constitu tional amendment. It may be set down that no such amdndment can run the guantlet of t wo-thirds of Con gress and three-fourths of the State. R. MEANS DAVIS. Fifteen Hundred Homeless. MILwAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 2t;.-Tele graphic communication has not yet been established with Ontonagon, and details of the fire which wiped that village out of existence yesterday af ternoon are still lacking. Ad vices re ceived by rr i ay officials from sta tions within 4 few miles of Ontonagon are to the effect that only fifteen houses were left standing, but no lives were lost. Fifteen hundred people are homeless at Rockland and other places in the vicinity of Ontonagon, to which the inhabitants fled last night. Relief measures are under way. Isry an'a ILinerary. C'.LLMcls, Aug. ri.-Dan McCoui ville, < hairman of the Ohio Democratic executive czmmittea, says that Bry an's its inerary for Ohio on the next week's visit is: Cleveland, Monday night, August 31, Columnbus, Septem ber 1st, and then the next day visits Springtield, Urbana, Bellfontaine and Finley, en route to Toledo, where he speaks at night. lHe further says Mr. Bryan is to return late in October and put in a whole week speaking at Cincinnati andi all om.. tha State. NO NOMINATION. ANOTHER RACE NECESSARY TO DE CIDE WHO WILL BE SENATOR. Mcweeney Defeats Cooper-Mayflold De feats Robinhon and Watts Defeats Rich bourg-Taousauds of Reformers Voted for .) dge Farle and Against Evans. ~CoLi , S. C., Aug. 28.--Excit ing was the political game played in this State last night. The moves on the political checker board when the official returns for Senator began to come in and throughout the night, were many and intensely exciting. Crowds of excited politicians and others gathered around The State oflice and elsewhere. Never before has there been such a rush for information after an election. Men of all classes and professions got out their pencils and began to figure at a lively rate when the official returns came in for one county after another. Every little margin was eagerly figured out. Gov. E vans was as eager, as anybody for tigures. It was late before he found out that, with Richland staying out of the fight practically, the people had not endorsed his course. It was impossible to tell up to 1 a. m. whether there would be a second race for the senate or not, even when for all that time the vote of only one small county-Saluda-was missing. But that one missing link was what was needed to decide what the result was going to be. When it came at 1 a. m. it showed that Evans would have to go into a second race, and this is almost certain to bring about his de feat. In the first primary a large number of Conservatives did not vote and in addition to this silent vote, which was almost entirely in the cities, it is conceded that Duncan's vote will go to Earle in the second primary. The first vote, one of the largest ever polled in the State, came from the country and is regarded as one of the most surprising revolutions ever known in the State. What caused the revolution those who have followed the campaign reports know best. A HEAVY VOTE. The total vote in the State is 77,743 of which 38.391 goes to Evans, 30,983 to Earle and 8,369 to Duncan. Dun can and Earle's vote combined is 39, 351, giving them 960 votes over Ev ans. It has been a close race; one of the closest South Carolina has ever known. Here is the official vote by counties. The star in the table at Horry, Marion and Pickens means that the "complete" figures for those three counties are the only ones which were not proven correct by the receipt of additional "official" returns last night: Dun Evans. Earle. can. Abbeville......... 1,315 1,116 544 Aiken.......... 1,427 1,044 172 Anderson......... 1,959 1,738 368 Barnwell......... 1,531 1,198 205 Beaufort.......... 175 285 28 Berkeley.......... 572 342 74 Charleston........ 842 1,820 119 Chester........... 874 644 85 Chesterfield....... 1,107 625 93 Clarendon........ 880 400 123 Colleton.......... 1,588 997 206 Darlington........ 986 623 207 Edgefield.......... 483 1,269 159 Fairfield......... 568 451 321 Florence......... 756 673 102 Georgetown....... 161 169 232 Greenville.......1,583 2,499 179 Hampton.........661 534 145 Hrry*......... 990 804 122 Kershaw......... 887 659 75 Lancaster........885 860 219 Laurens........ 1,213 1,019 256 Lexington........1,406 821 213 Marion........ 1,128 716 19 Marlboro........ 731 844 61 Newberry........849 769 224 Oconee........1,105 765 400 Orangeburg ......1,607 1,276 225 Pickens+......... 795 709 136 Richland......... 651 544 530 Saluda........... 996 567 118 Spartanburg...3,403 915 960 Sumter........... 573 975 :346 Union............ 1,260 400 326 Williamsburg..1,074 659 182 york............. 1,370 1,155 422 Total.........38,391 30,983 8,369 MAYFIELD AND MCSWEENE Y. For lieutenant governor McSweeney is a winner apparently by a vote of 41,566 to 30,361 for Cooper. In the above vote there are a few counties missing. The star has the same sig nificance as in the senatorial table. Below is the vote so far as received. Robinson's vote for superintendenit of education is 29,409 to Mayfield's 42,099. The vote so far as received is as follows, the star meaning the same as in the above table: Rob May- M'Swee- Coo inson field. ney. per. Abbeville. 1680 1263 1664 1284 aiken........907 1693 1573 1037 Anderson. 1991 1961 1870 1934 Barnwell. 652 2205 1725 1184 Beaufort... 39 310 333 77 Berkeley.... .... .... ......... Charleston. 912 24130 1966 728 Chester... 936 728 1251 323 Chesterfid 809 1003 1023 786 Clarendon. 229 1152 1031 351 Colleton..984 178.3 394 2408 Darlington 424 1352 857 871 Edgefield. 978 893 1174 687 Fairfield.......... .... .... .... Florence . 665 869 887 610 Georgetown 43 490 546 78 Greenville. 1571 2658 2151 2038 Hampton .. 222 1093 660 670 Horry*.......669 1271 1308 599 Kershaw. 607 713 1262 307 Lancaster. 711 1237 1049 896 Laurens..1519 970 811 1673 Lexington. 831 1606 1098 1343 Marion'.. 224 99 277 3S Marlboro. 498 ' 76 830 443 Newberry 624 *1018 *11Go '486 Oconee.. 1275 967 1253 1009 Orahgeburg. 1090 2085 1333 1728 Pickens*..1300 237 787 834 Richland. 431 1213 1095 546 Saluda .......4:1l 1213 1095 546 Spartanburg. 3598 1410 4254 909 Sumter...... 672 1236 961 869 Union... 110G 883 1359 713 Williamb'g 187 1629 904 9G2 York........ 1079 1835 1730 1143 Total...291u9 42099 41565 30361 AD.1 UTANT GENIRAL. Watts, with the counties of Berkeley and lFairlield mxissing, and partial re turns from twvo or three other counties has 38,80U6 votes to Richbourg's 3:3,0:31, and will be nominated. The star means the same as in the seniator-ial ta ble in the following table, giving the vote s" far as received: Rich Watts. biourg. A bbeville.............1279 1644 X ikn... .....142 3 0 11 _ Anderson ............... 1871 2051 Jarnwell. 1657 12Z1 Beaufoorrtt. .. . 85 111 Berkeley................ .... .... Chartleston.............. 2223 455 Chester................. 622 9:G Chesterfield............. 1342 444 Clarendon .............. 888 474 Colleton................ 2181 55) Darlington............. 927 781 Edgefield.............. 668 1197 Fairfield....................... Florence................ 10 15 441 Ueorgetow........... 310 227 Greenville.............. .283 1930 ampton ...............79 530 !Horry................. 645 1262 Kershaw................ 7 3 Lancaster........... 1010 897 Laurens................ 1883 613 Lexington............... 652. 1780 e1arion................. 748 1199 Marlboro................ 962 715 Newberry.............902 944 conee............... 1072 1170 rangeburg............. 1529 1549 *Pickens.............. 784 845 Richland................ 509 1236 Saluda................ 791 899 Spartanburg.......... 3601 1375 umter............... 252 883 Union............ ...... 1241 752 Williamsburg......... 1068 714 ork................ 1521 1333 Totals................38,800 33,031 ELLEREE IN A CANTER. Subject to the same conditions, El lerbe for governor, has 64,591 to Whitman's 2,186 and Harrison's 13, rO5. He wins in a walk. Here is a vote subject to the same iaterpretation of the star, and to the :onditions accompanying above tables ror State officers: Whit- Eler- Harri man. be. son. Abbeville...... . 57 2031 863 aiken........... 51 2328 244 anderson ....... 50 2949 965 Barnwell........ 82 2603 246 Beaufort........ 9 326 30 Berkeley.......... .... .... Dharleston................ .hester........ 40 1392 104 hesterfield.... . 39 1556 193 3arendon ...... 14 1214 169 Dolleton ........ 72 2533 14 Darlington...... 11 1087 117 dgefield....... 39 1187 652 Fairfield........ .. ---- Florence........31 1297 199 leorgetown... 20 452 76 3-reenville ..122 1524 2596 ampton...... 94 977 262 PEorry.......... 17 1034 773 Eershaw........ 35 1475 132 Lancaster....... 51 1690 218 [aurens......... 29 1445 832 Lexington..... 118 2076 250 arion......... 7 524 19 arlboro........ 9 411 288 iewberry .......*102 +1389 +437 )conee.... ...242 1459 565 rangeburg..... 30 2920 111 Pickens........ 45 841 730 Richland. . 48 1373 262 aluda.........51 1335 299 3partanbrg .... 187 4492 513 3urnter ......... 30 1391 426 nion.......... 263 1534 210 Williamsburg... 36 1694 173 ork........... 155 7452 301 Totals........28 64591 13705 'Phe State executive committee will neet at 8 o'clock this evening in this ity to tabulate the igures and declare he result in all the races. SECOND DISTRICT. This district is complete on the offi ia returns. Talbert had no opposi ijon. His vote is as follows: Eampton......... .......--.1,372 Barnwell........... ...... .2,867 aiken.................---...2,708 ~dgefield...................1,852 Total................ ...8,799 FIRST DISTRICT. Nothing has been received as to El liott's vote in Williamsburg, (Colleton md Berkeley. The rest of his vote is as follows: Dharleston (four boxes shori)... .2,650 [eorgetown (complete)........ 707 Beaufort (partial).............. 152 Total.....................3,509' THIRD DISTRICT. The returns are complete. The vote is as follows: Lati- Keitt Wide- Bow mner. man. den. Abbeville....1,947 343 430 221 Newberry.. ..1,270 341 383 4 Anderson.. ..2,274 317 315 586 Oconee.... .1,743 154 192 250 Pickens... 591 80 98 51 7,725 1,241 1.418 1,112 FOURTH DisTRICT. Tle vote is complete, Fairfield alone being omitted. Wilson. John- Farley. sonl. c-eenville ....2,398 2,050 -- Laurns....1,350 1,134 --- Union........1,134 484 Richland.. 1,080 407 03 Spart~anburg. ..3,048 484 Total...... 9,530 4.625 63 FIFTH DISTRICT. This vote is complete: Strait. Finley. Tran tham. Spartanburg. 254 :94 -41 York.....1,016 1,914 161 Chester....... 978 441 215 Lancaster.. 1;494- 145 384 Chesterfield ... 872 3560 396 ershaw....... 375 27 1266 Union......... 132 229 11 5,121 3.500 2,474 A second race is necessary. SIXTH DISTRICT. eLaurin had no opposition. No returns are in from Williamsburg. Clarendon and Darlington are com plete. The vote heard from is as fol lows: Clarendon 1,425, Darhington 1,815, Marlboro 1,019. Marion 107, Florence 1.601: total 6,567. SEVENTII DISTRICT. All the counties save Colleton and Berkeley are complete: Stokes. Moses. Lexington.........-.1994 4130 Orangeburg............2500 579 umter..............1075 1061 Colleton............... 104 77 Richland............... 04 37 FIRST tIRCUIT. For solicitor in this circuit Jlervey has 2,789 votes in Charleston and 2, 990 in rangeburg (comiplete), with out opposition. Berkeley, the other county in the circuit, has not yet been heard from. SECOND CIRCUIT. Beaufort, for Bellinger, has not been heard from. Tlhe otlicial returns for the other count ies in the circuit are as follows: - Bellinger. Simnms. Aiken............. .2700 098 Barnwell..............175 1268 Colleton ............... 845 24G G131 4464 THIRD CIRCUIT. Solicitor. Wilson has been ronomi nated without opposition. His vote (official returns) is as follows: Flor ence 1,600, Sumter 2.151. Clarendon 1,436, Georgetown 700. Williamsburg has not been heard from. FoJU RTI (I W'UIT. Only one county has been heard from officially in this circuit. Dar lington gives Johnson, incumbent, 1,688 anti Sellers 154. FIFTH CIRCUIT. The official returns are given from all the counties sae Saluda, whieb has reported but three boxes: Thur- Nel- Mul mond. son. ler. Edgerleld .........1074 785 25 Saluda............ 221 76 - Kershaw.......... 609 1120 28 Richiand.......... 519 1133 158 Lexington........ 989 833 646 Total........... 3413 3947 857 Nelson and Thurmond will have to make a second race very likely. SIXTH CIRCUIT. Solicitor Henry has no opposition. York's official vote, the only od'e re ported, gives him 3,057. SEVENTH cnMCUIT. Tne complete otticial returns are giv en: San- Simp- Thomp ders. son. son. Newberry.......6) - 4, 15 Union.........139 60 361 Spartanburg ......721 359 1910 Laarens.......... 29 1071 72 Total...........949 1494 2358 Shum bert. Sease. Newberry.............. 988 882 Union................. 764) 719 Spartanburg ...........1292 1389 Laurens.638 739 3678 3729 EIGHTH CIRCUIT. Apsel. Prince. Abbeville.........1909 1076 Greenville.........3239 1248 Anderson........... .2322 1749. Oconee...............1404 940 Total...............8874 501.3 The Colored College Faculty. The board of trustees of the Colored Normal college at Orangeburg met Friday in the govetnor's office at Co lumbia. All the members were pres ent and also Bishop Walden and Dr. Hamilton, president and secretary of the Freeman's Aid and Southern Edu cation society. The morning was consumed in the board coming toan understanding with these gentlemen about an exchange of a part of the State's land for a portion that belongs to Claflin university. The exchange was made as a matter of con venience to the twocolleges. In the afternoon the election of a faculty took place with the following result: President and Professor of Constitu tional Law-Thomas E. Miller. Mathematics and Mechanics-R. S. Wilkinson, A. M. Moral and Mental Science and Peda goy-Rev. I. N. Cardoza, A. M. English Language and Classics -W. R. A. Palmer, A. M. History and Political Science-W. M. Gilbert, A. M. Agriculture and Agricultural Chem istry-J. W. Hoffman, Ph. D. Iron Working and -Machinery George W. Barnes. Instructor English and History-J. E. Wallace. Instructor Mathematics-M. C. Nix. Instructor Chemistry and Natural Science-J. C. Whittaker. Instructor Physical Culture, Philos oy and Hygiene-Sarah V. Sm. lbs. Instructor Vocal and Instrumental Music-Rowena E. Andrews. Free Hand Drawing and Art-Louise B. Fordham. - Principal Primary' Department Ada R. Stewart. Matron-C. G. Gregg. The following places will be filled at the next meeting of the board: Prin cipal of sewing, dressmaking and inil linery department; cooking and do mestic, carpentry and woodwork, bricklaying and plastering; architect ure and mechanical drawing, book keepiug and secretary, superintendent farm, housekeeper. The following institutions of learn ing are represented on the corps of rofessors and instruction of the Col red college:- Harvard, of Cambridge, Ms., Oberlin. of Oberlin, 0.; Drew Theological Seminary, Modine, N.J.; Michigan State Agricultural college; Lincoln Univdrsity, Pa.; Colgate Uni versity, Hamilton, N. Y.; Howard Universityz.Washington, D). C.; Olaf lin, West Point, Boston School of Art, Boston Conservatory of Music, B~ene dict, Allen,- Avery Normal Institute, public scnools of Charleston and Wa hington, D. C. President Miller, Professor Hoffman and the Rev. I. N. CJardoza are-Pres byterians; Pro essors Gilbert ansd Nix and Sarah V. Smalls are Baptists; Ada R. Stewart, C. .1J. Gregg, Ravena E. Andrews and J. C. Whitaker are of the A. M. E. Church; the Rev. Win. R. A. Palmer, Prof. .R. S. Wilkinson and George W. Barnes are Methodist Episcopalians, and Louise B3. F-ordham and J. E. Wallace are Episcopalians. It was the sense of the trustee board that no one should fill a chair of the college department who did not have the degree of A. B. or A. M. from some college of high grade. Professor Palmer will continue to cavas he State i'n the interest of the col e. Presiderd Miller will have the build ing ready by the second week in Octo ber for the reception of students. Af ter discharging these duties satisfacto rily, the board adjourned to meet at Orangeburg on September 13.' The college buIlding is being erected and will be ready for occupancy by -the middle of October. Five Young Tough8. RoANOn:, Aug. 27.-The police au thorities of this city have unearthed an organized band of robbers, composed of five maybe more, young toughs whose purpose was to murder, if neces sary, to acconiplish ~their purpose. The ringleader and two members of the gang are in jail here- and one of thems has made a confession, revealing the existence of the band and disclos ing the purposes for which they were banded tcgether. The confession re cites that .the band perpetrated all of the recent robberies and outrages which have been committeed in Rloa noke and vicinity within the past t wo moths and also detailed several pro posed robberies, whicn were nipped in the bud by the arrests made today. More arrests will follow in' a- day or tw OLIVFR WIRE CO. WRITES. Tells Wlt it Thinks About the Cotton Tie Fight. CoLUMuI, S. C., Aug. 27.-Col. Duncan received a letter yesterday from the Oliver Wire company of Pittsburg. It is given in full to show what manufacturers think of this lght. It reads: Pittsburg, Aug. 24, 1896. Col. D. P. Duncan, Columbia, S. C.: Dear Sir--We regret that you could not make it convenient tocall at Pitts burg when you were north, and are sorry that our invitation did not reach Columbia a few days earlier. Please accept our thanks for the many kindnesses shown and courtesies ex tend to our Mr. McManus, who visit ed you recently. We sent him into Carolina to investigate the cotton tie situation, and he writes that he is in debted to you 'or a great deal of val uable information. From your letters and through the columns of The Cotton, Plant of Spar tanburg we are well informed as to the strong effort you are making to find a good substitute for strap cotton ties, and we believe you will succeed with wire, but we are inclined to think that No. I will be found too heavy, for however thoroughly it may be an nealed it will be iound too stiff to be bent, twisted or otherwise manipu lated with the fingers. Our idea is that No. 8 or No. 9 will ultimately be used, bat in this we might be mistaken as we must admit being ignorant of what is reqaired and essential in a good cotton tie. It is very evident, however, that the strap tie manfactur .rs will not remain quiet and see their business taken from them. The present agitation in favor of a wire tie may result in breaking the combina tion prices of the ordinary article, so that it will hardly pay a manufactur er to incur any great expense at present, but we have an idea that should your practical experiment clearly demon strate the utility of wire ties we can compete against the flat article, even should the price on toe latter go back to somewhere about 80 to 90 cents a bundle. To do this, however, we think that No. 8 or No. 9 gauge wire will have tobe used. By concurrent post we are sending you four sample pieces, two each No. 6. and No. 9, showing different lcops designated respectively "single twist" and ' double twist." We presume that either one of these loops would answer the purpose, but would like to know what you think of them. Should it be necessary to build machines to form these loops, it would, we think, be to the advantage of all concerned to adopt the "single twist." We pro pose to send you also in a few days three small bundles of these ties, 11 1-2 feet long, made each of Nos. 6, 8 and 9 wire. These we would like you to test at your earliert convenience.- - It occurs to us that wire ties, if ulti mately adopted, could be used twice. The ties coming from the country press could be taken off at the hydraulic press, straightened out, and cut down to the length required by the hydraul ic press. Hoping to hear from you further on this su ject at your earliest conveni ence, w.,e are yours very truly OLIVER WmE COMPAN. \Viped Out by Forest Fires. GREEr BAY, Wis., Aug. 26.--Oato nagon, Wch., is entirely destroyed ex cepting 12 dwelling houses located in the extreme eastern part of the village. There are innumerable persons miss ing and reperts are that several have perished. 'These reports are not as yet verified, however, and it is hoped that the missing ones are being cared for and sheltered in farm houses. I. W. ight, president of the village, wired an appeal to Superintendent Minturn on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul county, for tents, provisions, etc., for 1,500 people this morning. Mr. Minturn immediately repeated the message to the mayors of all the cities in this part of the State. A car load of supplies was collected in this city in less than an hour from the time the message was received by Mr. Min turn and shipped to Rockland a small place out of Ontonagon, where the sufferers are gathered. The main street of Ontanogon had six blocks of business buildings. The village pro per was between eight and nine blocks long and from 14 to15 blocks wide. Fire has been burning in the woods to the southeast of the town for two weeks but no danger was anticipated until yesterday, when a high, wind blew the flames into the place.- At noon an at tempt was made to telegraph for- help fromad joining towns but the telegraph building was on fire and the opera tor was driven from his instrument. No further telegrahic coinmiunication with Ontonagon until today. Help was sent by rail but it was devoted to the removing the people to places of safety. - Insurance statistics which are probably complete, show that the heaviest loser is the Diamond Match compaxi whose property was valued at $1,000,000 and consisted of stores and merchandise worth $75,000, a saw mill and box factory, with machinery, worth $300,000, -and -lumber worth $600,00. The insurance on the lum ber is $227,000; on all the other prop erty $200,000. The busines and resi dence property was well insured. The sole support of the town was the Dia mond Match company and its future depends upon the course that the com pany will take. The consensus of opinion is that the company will not abandon the village.- The village of Trout Creek is not destroyed, but is seriously threatened as the choppings in the underbrush and woods are fier cely burning all around it. Fasion In Michigan. BAY CrrY, Mich., Aug. 27.- It was after 2 o'clock this morning when the fusion convention completed its la bors. The ticket was completed by the selectiozi of David E. Haskins (Democrat) of Hillsdale for Superin tendent of Public Instruction, Martin Loennecker (Populist) of Jackson for Commissioner of Land OInice and Franklin S. Dewy (Democi-al) of Al pena for member of the State Board of Education: The otlice of Secretary of State was left blank in hope that the Prohibitionists would name a candi datefor that ollice and withdraw the l-alance of their ticket. The Demo crats have, eleven and the Populists three electors. Murder at a wedding. PriTrsPGRu, Aug. 27.-During the festividies following a colorcd wedding early tiis morning. Bert Scott, a for mer lover, insulted the bride, and the groom, George Hall, at once shot him dead. A general fight was then pre 'cipitated in which the bride was dan gerously stabbed twice and the groom badly hurt. The latter was arrested and is now-in -jail - -.---- - INCIPIENT isOYCOTT. A WAGON FACTORY SHUTS DOWN ON THE ALLIANCE EXCHANGE. Colonel D. P. Duncan, Manager of the Exchange, itsies an Addreps to Allance men on the Subject-Will Fight Back. COLUMIA, S. C., Aug. 2.-When the State Alliance Exchange com menced its business of saving money for the farmers by enabling them to buy direct from manufacturers and thus avoid paying the charges of mid dlemen, there were mutterings of dis centent from the middlemen and threats of a boycott. A small one is on now, as will be seen by the follow ing address to Alliancemen written by Col. D. P. Duncan for publication in the Cotton Plant, the Alliance organ: To the members of the Farmers Alli ance in South Carolina: I regret that the force of the circum stances requires me to lay before you the following communication for your information. as well as for your ac tion. OwENSBORO WAGON 00., Manufacturers of the "Owensboro" Wagons, Drays and Dump Carts, Owensboro, Ky., Aug. 11th, 1896. Mr. D. P. Duncan, Manager. Colum bia, S. C. Dear Sir: We regret exceedingly now to state that our business rela tionship with you will have to be sev ered. We have had a representative in North and South Carolina for the past month or six weeks and the deal ers there have entered into a boycott unless we discontinued selling you. Ourrepresentative succeeded in getting quite a number of carload orders with the positive understanding that we woud not sell the Farmers' Alliance. We have entertained the hope that we might be able to serve you without be ing known in the transaction but we have concluded that it will be impos sible and as much as we regret to dis continue the business relationship with you. the necessities of the case de mands it and there is nothing else for us to do. Trusting that you may suc ceed in connecting with another con cern and thanking you for past favors, we are, Yours truiy, OwENORO WAGON CO. Since I have been manager of your Exchange, I have been placing a part of your orders for wagons with the Owensboro Wagon Company, of Ken tucky. I admit that I did not by any means deal with them exclusively. Always paid them cash for Wagons. On several occasionsthe Owensboro Wagon Company have notified me that the merchant dealers were com plaining because they were selling us their wagons direct from the factory. We have always replied that we have advertised the wagons in our current price list, that is sent out weekly to the members of the Alliance, and had no doubt done more. to advertise their wagons than all the dealers in the State. Por this reason, this company has continued to fill our orders for wagons, without however, putting their name on the wagons. The were made for us and branded tIL "State Exchange." We never made any objections to others handling the wagons, we always paid cash for what the dealers get long time on, and now we are served with the notice of this boycott on the part of the South and North Carolina merchants who deal in Owensboro Wagons. I feel satisfied that your manhood and self respect will dictate such ac tion as you shouid take without sug gestion from me. I wish you to send me the name or names of all parties who handle the Owensboro Wagons in your section of the State and I will publish a list of same in the Cotton Pl1ant that all may be informed just who compose this boycotting party. I am sure you do not wish to force your busiueiss either upon manufac turers or merchants who do not wish to sell "The Farmers' Alliance." I desire to add that I do not think my , management of your Exchange war rants this action on the part of thega merchants and this manufacturer. Your Exchangehas madenowar on any business interest. I have always held and advised that you purchase certain articles from the manufacturer be cause they were such things that should carry only one profit. Your fertilizers, bagging and ties, machinery and all vehicles should be bought direct through your own busi ness agency and said agency keep you informed as to the market prices of all classes of goods, making no fight on any business or class. The action of the Cotton Tie Trust and the merch ants' Wagon Boycott demonstrates the necessity and value of your maintain ing a business agency. Continue to send your Exchange your orders for wagons. You will get the Exchange Wagon guaranteed to be one of the very highest grades on the market and the freight will be only a fraction over half of that on the Ow'ensboro. D. P. DUNcI N, Manager State Alliance Exchange. Combined for Free silver. BAY CITY, Mich., Aug. 26.-The conferees appointed by the three con ventions yesterday reached an agree ment at 11 o'clock this morning. They decided that the name at the head of the ticket should be the "Democratic Peoples' Silver Party" that the Pop ulists should be accorded threeelectors and to have the nomination for Au ditor General. The three conventions will meet in joint convention to nom inate the State ticket, the Populists ad silver men together to have a rep ez.ntation equal to that of t wo Demo etats. Biurglars Fired On. B~ran11xua~AM, Mich., Aug. 27.-Thiree burglars entered the feed store of Vol ney Nixon early this morning. They were discovered and pursued by Mr,. Nixon and two companions, who over took the thieves on the outskirts of the village. Nixon called on the thieves to surrender and when they refused the three pursuers fired on them. One of the robbers was instantly killed and another captured and placed in jail. The third man escaped. The man who is in jail has not revealed the identity of the dead man. Fueson ia California. SAN FRANCISCo, Aug. 26.--The fu sion committee representing the Demi ocrats and Populists and Bimetallists has met and appointed a committee of sixteen to be known as the joint Con oressional Committee, who were or aered to select Congressional candi dates. The- candidates will be the nominee of the three parties. Other nominees must then withdraw or de pend for their support on their per snal foibsr.