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TE STATE DISPENSARY, [C3NTINUED FROA PAGE 1.] and as soon as I could get off in tue afternoon Tampkins and myself went to the G veraor an I stated the case. rtold him exictly what Srgggs had told m3 I hada't seena m7 sons. The Gvernor told us to ren tin Q .iet; he'd bring it outt at the proper time, and would see if S-ruggs wuld.r - )rt. I think it was To.nokins w'h) sid we had rep:rted the 'mitter to the proper authority, and it was in his hands. E7rerything was exlained. N-thing was kept hidden as ta my connec tioa er noa connectionoa with it. Wa that desk given you a- an in di -Oldutl or for the Dispensary? a Mr. White said it was for me, pro .vided rd keep it where it could be seen. Mr. Abney: In February ware you c:>gnizant of any presents given to your son James? Mr. Misson: Nathing ex -ept a dia mond pin. Did you make any purchases fro n Live Oak after Scrugg's return. I think maybe some special orlers came in and were sent outyy SrugeA When I discovered it I made him stop sending in special orders-to them. Mr. Abney: Have yoI ever roceiv ed Seeret'commissions for rebates, di redty or indirectly, h any iufiuenca exerted on you to fa or one against another whiskey ho se? Mr. Mixson: Ne r. I never receiv ed a cent. Mr. Abney as d him from whom most of the DI4' whiskey was bought, - and whether e had ever received n' ind eat from them? V. n went over the list. R 3ss Co., B timore, made no induce ts. . obought from Walters be vernor ETans asked him to. their liquor was gool. Abney: It is. (Laughter.) man. Goldsmith & (>., otfered ducements. ught from Francis Kelley because 2,000 empty bqrrels on hand d he promised to take all of them at $L25 less freight, if I'd buy cars of one, two and three X each. Mr. Abne -: Has any charge in writ ing or in 4ngible form ever been madeagainst you of taking secret com missions or rebates and if so where is it.? Colonel Mixson:. I've never seen any. I had no knowledge of the con duct of my sons. The letter of W. T. Mixeo was read in which he confess ed getting commissions. He had never received atelegram from J. W. Mix from Atlanta concerning whiskey I had no connection with and never received from him about such a 5 or 1896. .: Can you tell how the h arose as to the tele as far as Mr. Scruggs is concern loneliMixson: I know nothing of I don't recollect such a telegram any shape or form. At Mr. Ab ney's request Colonel Mixson gave the board auhority to inquire for the tel egram from headquarters. Mr. Abney wanted Senator Eard ex amined as to the prices paid for li quors in 1894, he being a member of tae Legislative Committee. Chairman Jones said that was un neemary. The board adnits that. Mr. Wilams: What amounts did Scrugg report your sons as receiving? Colonel Mixson: I don': recollect. I was worried. I don't challenge the correctness of his statement. -Why did the Live Oak Company give your sons tHs money? I don't know no 'about it. Mr. Williams: You kow the sup position of the public. You kaow .tkiev wouldn't give that inoney unless -They my have thought 16 but'I-had~ -no reason to think they were getting money.' - -- RA RRER QUESTIONs. * Will you state what induced you to -write a letter of introduction for R. M.Mixsn He asked me to do so. He knew I knew Hubbell. He did not state his purpose. ~He may have said some thing abkshipments. Hubbell was a large shipper to Macon and Mixson wasn't -any of the business for ihad nothing to indicate * that e -' = the whiskey business as he seems have done. Didn't know it until this 1etter. was hihr.Hubbell told vernor imnabout it He never to' me veubally or otherwise. - - Aa toT. W. Minson's trip to Cincin ati, he says he went the day beforelI left for Old Point. I knew he was go igto Cincinnati on bicycle business. ewent to see the Peerless Manufac turing Company. When I came back he was at home. I had been gone eight or ten days. I didn't know W. T. contemplated going in the liqu or business. In his letter W. T. speaks about you advising "against it." What was that? He asked me about representing Myers, Pitts & Co., Baltimeqre. Don't remember whether it was subsequent *or prior to my appointment. Never knew anything about W. T. or J. W. receiving money until Servggs told me.. * ~ wHO OBTRE REBATES. Did any other but Hubbell offer ofered me half his commis* sion. -orahalovitch, Fletcher & Oo. of "Cincinnati offered rebates to me individuanly. so did Mr. Blanek of Charleston, who said ha ersne the PurtyDistill ingCopay.Ipucasdsome aftei thtfrom Mhalovth and Live Oak, -but never got any rebates. Got ad' 'rc from them. When ever eoffered me a baitlItook it. I mean bythat special inducements in prcs No beer concern has ever of erdme personal or private induce ments..to buy from them. I nevez had an-offer fom Peebles. - Have you ever received private or personal gainsin purchases? No. Did you ever get rebates or commis sions on supplies! No. -. -. Did Tompkins try to use his influ ence with you to get you to purchase from any one? Only once. There was Major Mc Cann who was on Gary's staff. TH asked me to give him an order if ] colbut his liquor didn't analyvn rih I didn't buy. Doyou know any other Dispensar3 officials who got rebates? I doii$t. Govesdor eEvans next asked ques tions. Don't you remember, he asked, tha we discussed Hubbell' price and toki you they were 5 cents a gallon cheap or? I believe we did. Did I order you to buy from hin after thati No. Did I ever order you to buy fron Ysyou told me to buy fron Hubbell, but I said I'd have my hea cut off first. ~asn't that before he attempted t. your -Yes. Did I ever try to interfere No. Ycu only asked me to buy rrm (Jranston. Wasn't it about the time you wer in office that White tried to bribe yo and dita o - by snnnlien from hii af Lr vardi Yes, I b ught tin foils, corks and miehines. Were presents of silver mide you? Becker gave me a pitc'er ar d t w caps. I only parchasel from Bvcker when he baited m3. I told him if his liquor did not cone up to san- le I'd turn it on him. Isn't his house an unreliable Jew bouse? It is a Jew house, bat aood m my Jews are in the whisk-3y basi ness. I got no more preseati. Didn't I tell you I didn't waat to hurt an innoesnt in in? You might have told m something of the kind. Remember w'a)t I i-L ant your resignation? I offered to resign but you told me not to. I olfered agaiu and you told me not to. Ater vards I heard you wanted mne to resign aul I refused. Didn't I telL you 1 dida't want to hurt an innocent i in? I think you said soi 3thing like that. Ive you ever heard of my getting rebatesI I in ly have. I lhwa heard of Till mn tu, Traxer, you and me and the present b.xard. (1, iughter.; ' it I'm willing 16o swear tiat you never got any rebates. Mr. Nicholson somnewhat indig nant.) Haive you any reason t> be lieve the b-3rd got rebates? No sir. Rpoarts are the same with everybody who touches liquor. I'm positive Gavernor Evans got none. Chairman Jones: Aren't you p3si tive about the board? (L-mghter.) I believe I am. (L-ughter.) Mr. Williams: Can you state wh> told you the board got rebates? No sir. You can hear anything. -Mr. Nicholson: It -nuthave made an impression on you sin&3 you re member it. N) sir. it did not. Mr. Weston: Did the Governor ex press an opinion as to your guilt or in noceace? I'm not positive, bat I think he said "Mick, don't think yoa did wrong." Did you hear any reason why he wanted ,o rssign? Notbag except Mr. Tompkins came to me from'him. GaN ernor Evans den.ied that Tomp kins went to Mixson from him. Mr. Abney asked was it possible to trace rumors of wrong doing in the Dispensary. Colonel Mixson said it was not. Even ttie hands wouldn't teli when rumors were out that some of them were taking whiskey. The air seems infectious with idle, meaningless ru mors. -Mr. Williams jocularly asked whe ther he couldn't recall who cast asper sions on the board, for the board would hold him responsible. J. W. MXLSON. Mr. J. W. Minon was the next wit ness. In reply to Mr. Abney's ques tion about the telegram, he said it didn't in any way or form relate to liqaor purchases. He went through Atlanta on his way to Cincinnati and stopped about an hour. He never sent any telegram and never signed his name "James," but "J. W.' B. B. Evans: I saw the telegram. It was signed J. W. Mixson. Mr. Abney: You received $690 from the Live Oak Company. What was that for? That was commissions on whiskey I suppose. I suppose W. T. Mixson was the general agent. I collected it for him. I was going to Cincinnati any way and he asked me to collect it for him from Yost. After he told me it was commissions on whiskey I told him he better let it alongvli ?'iLght cause pa to give ug-1iis position and me lose mine. Fasked W. T. whether my father knew of it and he said he Idid not and he didn't intend for him to. Have you had any agreement, un derstanding or partnership with him to receive any of the commissions? No.. I wasn't here when Siruggs re turned. -This was absolutely my only connection with it and I don't know whether my brother has received any more. He promised me not to. f went to Cincinnati to see the Southern agent of the Peerless Bicycle Com pany. What abou~t an entertainment there? I met the agent, Mr. Eckert, and was with him all day. We went to the theatreat night. About 12 o'clock next day Ireceived a note from Yost to call on him at the Live Oak office. went there and with another gentle m we went to what they called 0o ney island. That is all tlie einertain ment iow of. What'abxui.-aninteiview? A newspaper man called on me at the hotel and asked me about politics. I didn't know much about it but talked about Tillman, the Constitutional Convention and the Dispensary. Examined by Mr. Barber: I sent no telegram to father from Atlanta. Didn't send one to W. T. Mxron; didn't give Yost any receipt for the money. I simply handed him the statement given me by my brother and he paid me in currency. Father didn't know anything about it from me. Mr. Abney: Tell about that diamond stud. Mixson: I don't mind telling, but the board has no right to ask me. In March or April Yost was hero and I was in my farther's office doing some typewriting, having then no office of my own. Yost asked me to write him a list of Dispensaries and Dispensers addresses. I promised to do so. I took a copy of them on paper and copied them on a typewriter when I was in Sumter and sent them to him. I got a letter asking me where I would be soon and replied in Columbia. Soon after he sent me this diamond shirt stud, which I wear. I expected no remaneration-and didn't look on it as a bribe. I don't know anything about any contract with whiskey meri my brother has. Questioned by Governor Evans:I didn't tell my father about my brother because he promised not to do so any more. I paid my own way to Cincin nati. I borrowed $25 from your Sec retary, Gunter. I did have a pass over the Seaboard Air line to Atlanta which I used that far. I haven't got a pass now and haven't had one fora year. W.T. MIXsON. A suggestion was made that W. T. Mixson be called, while the board :,waited for Mr. Tompkinks, who had been sent for, in order to let himi make a statement. Mr. Abney thought it would be un kind to ask him to testify to matters he had already told. The confession has been made and it would be humi liating to make him go over it. The board. of course, can do as it pleases. After a little consultation the board decided to hear him and Mr. Mixsor said that to the best of his knowledg< his father had never received any comn missions. His father never knew hi: connection with commissions. Som< time in December mentioned some thing about me going in with Barne' I fvans. He said he intended to giv Baroey the Dispensary insurance.. > determined to go in it as my salar; had been cut one-half in the Superin tendent of Education's omlce. 1 men tioned the matter to Barney and ais< the brokerage business which my fath er said nothing about. I did this be tcau.se i saw St. Julian Yates gettin; n coimmiisdons from the Pennsylvania ,i ramum. i wa clerk of h, board. -It put me in mind of the brokerage busiuess. I thought if I could get a good house my father would give me the preferenc e. I didn't see anything wroag in it. Whiie talking to Barney abut it in the Senate c-amber he said: "Don't talk s) loud. Somebody will hear you." I talked to my father about it but he advised a<Xainst it but didn't seem violently opposed to it. 1 made a e mtract with Meyer, Pitts & Ca., and Live Oak Conpany. My, father told me to drop it; that he would have nothing to do with anybody I had anything to do with.. I never sid nnthig, more about it. Yost was dawn here and %4beu I first made the deal I didn't tell him to keep it secret. Bat when he came the see owl time 1 told him to tell no on - not even my father. I had put all- I had.in-the bicycle business and was hard up for money. I hesitated to trust my brother. with my secret but needel the maey and gave him the statement. Then lie told me to let it alone. I promised ,to do so. lie brought back $t50. I knew the amount because I was a privileged character in my father's office, and-got the amount out of the in voice book. I never talked to my father except indirectly ab:>ut Live Oak Company. My cmmissions were $1 for a barrel of X, $3-for X X and $3 for XKK I e Ya-nintl the in voice books abut dinner time when nobody was in the ofli .e. I got the $3.30U odd dollars and that wa all. The last paymnnt was in Jv'uary. Lqiaor was bought in February, but I got nothing for it. My father never received a cent of these commissioas. Mr. Abney-Do you swear positive ly that your fathei knew nothing of it until you made your confession? Mixsoa--I am under oath. Mr. Abaey-Bat I want to'remind you of its s)lemnaity. Mixson-He certainly knewiothing from me and I don't suppose the ]Ave Oak people told him. Ex amined by Mr. Barber: The first money my brofther got. Tae next was gotten at the Atianta Exposition, I having writtea to Mr. Yost to meet me there and told him that a package of labels-would be ap preciated. He replied that the labels were in the hands of Hairry Gilmore and I could get them. Labels meant cash. The last payment was collected by myself in Cincinnati. After I got back my statement didn't agree with him by $39 which he owed me. I got $1,290 from 'Gilmore. My first con tract was made in Atlanta with Mr. Peebles. I was to sell the liquor to the dispensary. My father .44d been buying from thei and I hqard him say it was gooafliquor. Mr. Barber-Then in rerua for this money you were to use your influence with your father, which you say you never did except indirectly. Mixson-Yes. Quest'oned by Mr. Williams: What indirect remarks did you make to your father in favor of Live Oak? Mixson: Yost wanted me to get an order for 50 barrels of XXX. I re marked to my father a few days after that that Live Oak was pretty good stuff.- Everybody liked it, and if I was him :I'd buy all XXX. He could not suspect anything from that. He knew nothing of my going to Cincin nati. I have collected commissions twice since my brother advised me not to, but he knew nothing of it. Q iestioned by Governor Evans: Wny did you think it would influence your father to sy that Live Oak was goadfliquor, when he knew you didn't drink? Mixson: Well when anybody praises anything it has an effect. I made ov. ertures to the whiskey men, telling them I could influence my father. Yost claimed to be employed by the Board of Control. Governor Evaus: He had nothing whatever to do with it. He assisted Gunter during the Legislature, and whatever pay he got came from Gun zer. I don't know what I did with the money. Some was put in my business. The rest was spent-it's hard to say how. I never bothered the invoice books in Scruggs' presence. Scruggs: He certainly never looked at them in my presence. I don't allow anybody to do that. Nicholson:- If you had .no permis sicn to look at the books, what right had vou to look at them. You were onan illegitimate mision. Mhson : Well, I don't know about that.. UGovernor Evans: Who gave you the privilege of being a privileged per son in your father's office? Mixson: No one. Nicholson said 'he simply wanted to bring out the fact that neither Col. Mixson nor Scruggs had given him permission and he was simply an in - truder. Mr. Mixson said that when he was told that he had been found out-he was completely demoralized. He was in his office when he wrote the letter to his father. No one was with me. I had no one to consult. Colonel Mixson being recalled said he didn't remember his son's recom mendation, but he only bought oQne car load of XXX. Don't remember exactly the date. - COLONEL TOXPKINS. Colonel Tompins was called. Mr. Abney asked him about the letter from Peebles asking him and Mixson to vis it to Cincinnati and whether he had ever tried to induce Mixson to buy any liquor. Colonel Tompkins: I never dida I never had anything to davith. sMix son's purchases. Hethen told about Scruggs informing him of what he had discovered in Cincinnati. "He and Misson went to the Governor and told him. They saw the boy atter wards and he confessed. After that the Governor told me he had told Tillman and he thought Myson ought to resign. I told Mixson and he said he would resign whenever the Gover nor wanted. The Governor after wards told me that he had ad vised Mixson not to resign. I never saw anything to implicate Mixson. When all the facts were fresh in my miind I never saw any circtimstance that would indicate that he had done wrong. I was willing to find any thing, but didn't know where else to to go. Governor Evans told me that Mixson's boy, was trying to make a deal with whiskey b-uses. Hubbell .told Tillman and I told Mixson not to let him have anythiug to do with them. Mr. Williams asked Mr. Tompkins as a member of the Board of Control, why the Governor wanted Mixson's resignation. The reply was the only thing the Governor said to hiL-a was that he wanted him to resign on account oft his boys. The Governor asked was there really anything for the boat-d to sconsult albout it? Mr. Tompkins said b e had signed some revocations of dis tilline license. He said he never would rsign a paper to license distillers. Gov eernor Evaes then wvent on to say there Iwere few meetings of the board and Sall that was done was perfunctory. -Mr. Tompkins asked whether it was necessary to call the board together tc take away Columbia's profit. Gover nor Evans then said that the profits had been taken away before be came ;in oflice. Governor Evans and Secre atary of State then had a lengthy col .-lin abou the responsibility of ee.1h for acts af the board, which had noth iag to do with the investigation and after a time the chairman called them to order. In reply to Mr. Barber he said he knew nothing of any commissions ex cptas to Mixsou's boys. Chairmin Jones asked if Colonel Tompkins had ever heard anythin; reflecting on the presen board. Mr. Tompkins: Oh, yes. I've heard talk. (Laughter.) Acriox no;anso There bein g no further wittnesses the board w ant into executive session at 8:3. After several hourii' session, they announced that all action hal been deferred until the nfxt regular meeting in October. RFELIUGN IN CITIES. REV.DR TALMAGEPREACMiES UPON MUN!CIPA!_ EL'ECT IONS. He3ays theCitipisofSin Are All Geiug to C,) Captured by the Sunglass of the Oog p, F.wuxAdI Up-,n wickednee--He Er pa C s to Li V to See I t.. WASuINaTo\, Spt. 13.-S> much that is dapressing is said about the wick'dness of the cities that it will cheer us to read what Dr. Talmage says in this sermon about their coming re aemption. The text is Zechariah viii, 5, '"And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof." Glimpses of our cities redeemed! Now, boys and girls who play in the streets ran such risks that multitudes of them end in ruin. Bat in the com ing time spoken of our cities will be so moral that lads and lassies shall be as safe.in the public thoroughfares as in the..nursery. Plit and printing press for the most part in our day are busy in dis cussing the condition of the cities at this time, but would it not be health fully 'encouraging to all Christian workers, and to all who are toiling to make the world better, if we should for a little while look forward to the time when our cities shall be revolu tionized by the gospel of the Son of God, and all tne darkness of sin and trouble and crime and suffering shall D8 gone from the world? Every man has a pride in the city of his nativity or residence, if it be a city distinguished for any dignity or prowess. Cosar boasted of his native Rome, Virgil of Mzntua, Lycurgus of Sparta, Demosthenes of Athens, Ar chimedes ofSyracuse and Paul o: Tar sus. I should have suspicion of base heartedness in a man wno had no es pecial interest in the dity os his birth or residence-no exhilaration at the evidence of its proeperity or its artistic embellishments, or its intellectual ad vancement. I have noticed that a man never likes a city where he has not behavey well People who have had a free ride in the prison van never like the city that furnishes the vehicle. When I find Argos and Rhodes antmyrna trying to prove themselves birt.h place of Homer, I concj ., at once that Homer behaved wAJ * He liked them, and they liked We must not war on laudabl . eity pride, or, with the idea of b ~ oing ourselves'up at any time, try to pull others down. Boston must continue to point to its Fanenil hall and to its Common and to its superior educationa' advantages. PhiladelpW m ontinue to point to its In ence hall and its mint and Gisdcollege. Wazhington must continue to pint to its..wondrous cap itoline-' buildigs If I should find a man coming from any city, having no pride in that city, that city having been the place of his nativity or now being the place of his residence, I would feel like asking: "What mean thing have you done there? What oufrageous thing have you been guilty of .that you do not like the pl ce?" I think we ought-and I the it for granted you are interested in this great work of- evangelizing the cities and saving the world-we ought to toil with the sunlight in our faces. We are not fighting in a miserable Bull Run of defeat. We are on our way to final victory. We are not follow ing the rider on the blackl horse, lead ing us down to eath,- akd darkness and edoom, but th rider on the white horse, with the .oon under his feet and the stars of eaven for his tiara. Hail, Conqueror hail! I know there :-e sorrows, and there are sins, and t :re are sufferings all around about n but as in some bitter, cold winter da .when we are thrash inlgtbur arms ound us to keep our thumbs from ezing, we think of the warm spring -that will after awhile come, or in the dark winter night we look up and sjthe northern lights, the windows o .ieaven. illuminated by some great vicf try, just as we look up from the nigh >f suffering and sorrow and wretclied4 ssin our cities, and we see a light str mi through from the other side, an we ow we are on the **ay to morning- ore than that, on the way to a mnorni without clouds." I want you to u erstand, all you who are toiling f Christ, that the castles of sij are al going to be cap tured. Th~ victory r Christ in these great to~wns is goin o be so complete that not a ihn on h or an angel in heaven op a devil i hell will dispute it. How'ido I kno I know just as certainly as'GerJ1 and that this is holy truth. The ol ible is full of it. If the nation is to saved, of course all the cities are to b ved. It makes a great difference h you and with ,me whether we are iling on toward a defeat or toiling toward a victo ry. - :Now, in this mu ipal elevation of which I speak, I h to remark there will be greater fi cial prosperity than our cities hay ver seen. Some people seem to ha morbid idea of the millennium, a they think when the better time co to our cities and the world people, give their time up to psalm singi and the relating of their religious e rience, and as all social life will be p fled there will be no hilaritys and as 1 business will be ~purified there wil no enterprise. There is no groun r such an absurd anticipation. In the time of which I spea here now one fortune is ma there will be a hundred fortt , made. We all know business sperity depends upon confidenc tween man and man. Now, wh at time comes of which I speak, when all double dealing, all dis ty and all frauQl are gone out o mmercial circles, thorough confi will be establish ed, and there better business done, and larg rtunes gathered, and mightier s es achieved. The great bu s disasters of this country have c from the work of godless specula nd infamous stock gamblers. Th t foe to business is crime. Wh e right shall have hurled back the ng, and shall have purified the ercial code, and shall have thu d down fraudulent establishments d shall have put into the hands nest men the keys of business, b I time for the bar gain makers. not talking an ab straction. I a t making a guess. I am telling od's eternal truth. In that day hich I speak taxes will be a me ing. Now our bus iness men ar ed for eve~rythng City taxes, c rtaxes, state taxes, license ta:?s, manufacturing taxes -taxes, taxes, taxes! Oar business men have to make a small fortune every year to pay their taxes. What fastens on our great industries this awful load? Crime, individual and official. We have to pay the board of the villains who are incarcerated in our prisons. We have to take care of the orphans of those who plunged into their graves through sensual indul gences. We have to support the municipal governments, which are vast and expensive just in proportion as the criminal proclivities are vast and tremendous. Who support the almshouses and polic stations, and all the machinery of municipal go vern ment' The taxpayers. But in the glorious time of which I speak grievous taxation will all have ceased. There will be no need of sup porting criminals; there will be no criminals. Virtue will have taken the place of vice. There will be no or phan asylum,, for parents will be able to leave a competency to their chil dren. There will be no voting of large sums of money for some municipal improvement, which money, before they get to the improvements, drops into the pockets of those who voted it. No over and terminer kept up at vast expense to the people. No empanel ing of juries to try theft and arson and murder and slander and blackmail. Better factories. Granderarchitecture. Finer equipage. Larger fortunes. Richer opulence. Better churches. In that better time, also, coming to those cities, Christ's churches will be more numerous, and they will be larg er, and they will be more devoted to the gospel of Jesus Christ, they will accomplish greater infl uences for good. Now, it is often the case that churches are envious of each other, and denomi nations collide with each other, and even ministers of Christ sometime%( forget the bond of brotherhood. _'ut in the time of which I speaIc., ile there will be just as many di erences of opinion as there are now, ere will be no acerbity, no hypercriticism, no exclusiveness. In our great cities the e1iurches are not today large enough to hold more than a fourth of the popalation. The churches that are built-Mcomparatively few of them are fully occapied. The average attendance if the churches of the United States today is not 400. Now, in the glorious time of which I speak there are going to be vast churches, and they are going to be all thronged with worshipers. Oh, what rousing songs they will sing! Oh, what earnest sermons they will preach: Oh, what fervent prayers they will offer! Now, in our time, whatfis called a fashionable church is a place where a few people, having attend very carefully to their toilet, come And sit down-they do not want to be crowded; they lite a whole seat to themselves-and then, if they have any time left from thinking of their store, and from examining the style of the hat in front of them, they sit and listen to a sermon warranted to hit no man's sins, and listen to music which is rendered by a choir warranted to sing tunes that nobody knows. And then after an hour and a half of indo lent yawning they go home refreshed. Every man feels better after he has had a sleep. In many of the churches of Christ in our day the music is simply a mock ery. I have not a cultivated ear, nor a cultivated voice, yet no man can do my singing for me. I have nothing to say against artistic music. The $2 or $5 I pay to hear any of the great queens of song is a good investment. But when the people assemble in religi ous convocation, and the hymn is read, and the angels of God step from their throne to catch the music on their wings, do not let us drive them away by our indifference. I have preached in churches where vast sums of money were employed to keep up the .music, and it was as exquisite as any heard on earth, but I thought at the same time that for all matters practical I would prefer the hearty, outbreaking song of a backwoods Miethodist camp meeting. Let one of these starveling fancy songs sung in church got up before the throne of God-how would it seem standing amid the great doxologies of the redeemed? Let the finest operatic air that ever went up from the church of Christ get many hours the start; it will be caught and passed by the hos anna of the Sabbath school children. I know a church where the choir did all the singing, save one Chrisitan man, who, though "perseverance of the saints," went right on, and after ward a committee was appointed to wait on him andt ask him if he would not please stop singing, is he bothered t'ie choir. Let those refuse to sing Who never knew our God, But children of the heavenly King Should speak their joys abroad. 'Praise ye the, Lord. Let everything with breath praise the Lord." In the glorious time coming in our cities and in the world hosanna will meet hos anna and hallelujah, hallelujah. In that time also of which I speak all the haunts of iniquity and crime and squalor will be cleansed and will be illuminated. How is it to be done? You say perhaps by one 'infiuence. Perhaps I say by another. I will tell you what is my idea, and I know I am right in it. The gosepel of the Son of God is the only agency that will ever accomplish this. A gentlman in England had a theory that if the natural forces of wind and ti-le and sunshine and wave were right ly applied and rightly developed it saould make this whole earth a para dise. In a book of great genius and which rushed from edition to edition be said: "Fellow men, I promise to show the means of creating a paradise within ten years where everything de sirable for human life may be had by every man in superabundance with out labor and without pay; where the whole face of nature shall be changed into the most beautiful farms and man may live in the most magnificent pala ces, in all imaginable refinements of luxury and in the most delightful gar dens; where he may accomplish with out labor in one year more than hit herto could be done in thousands of years. From the houses to be built will be afforded the most cultured views that can be fancied. From the gal leries, from the roof and from the tur rets may be seen gardens as the eye can see full of fruits and flowers, ar ranged in the most beautiful order, with walks, colonnades, aqueducts, canals, ponds, plains, amphitheaters, terraces, fountains, sculptured works, pavilions, gondoals, places of popular amusement to lure the eye and fancy, all this to be done by urging the water, the wind and the sunshine to their full development." He goes on and gives plats of the machinery by which this w~ork is to be done, and he says he only~ needs at the start a company in which the shares shall be $20 each and .$100,00g or $200,000 shall be raised just to mak a specimen community, and trien, this being formed, the world will see its practicability, and very soon $2, o00,000 or $:3,000,000 can be obt ained, and in ten years the whole earth will be emparadised. The plan is not so preposterous as some.[ have heard of. But I will take no stock in that com pany. I do not believe that it will ever be done in that way, by any me chanical force or by any machinery that the human mind can put into play. Iti to be doclnc. b tbr. gonel of the Son of God-the mnipotent machinery of love and gra e and par don and salvation. This is to empar adise the nations. Archi edes de stroyed a fleet of ships comr ng up in the harbor. You know ho lie did it. He lifted a great sunglass, hi tory tells us, and when the fleet of shi s ca me up tne harbor of Syracuse he rought to bear this sunglass, and he -cused Tbe sun's rays upon those ships, Now the sails are wings of fire, the rn ts fall, the vessels sink. Oh, my frie ds, by the sunglass of the gospel conve &. ing the rays of the sun of righteous ness uDn. the sins, the wickedness of the world, we will make them blaze and expire! In that day of which I speak do you believe there will be any midnight carousal? Will there be any hiecti off from the marble steps of shive ng mendicants, Will there be . y Uni washed, unfed, uncom children? Will there be any pl .shemies in the streets? Will there any inebriates staggering past? N . No wine stores. No lager beer salo ns. No distilleries, where they make the three X's. No Bloodshot ey . No bloated cheek. No instrume s of ruin and destruc tion. No ti: pounded forehead. The grandchil en of that woman who goes dow the street with a curse, stoned b the boys that follow her, will be e reformers and philanthro pists ai d the Christian ien and th - honest "rchants of our cities. Th -n what municipal governments, too, e will have in all the cities. So e cities are worse than others b in many of our cities you Ju-st walk down by the city halls and I k in at some of the rooms occupied y politicians and see to what a sens ual, loathsome, ignorant, besotted crew city politics is often abandoned. Or they stand around the city hall picking their teeth, waiting for some emoluments of crumbs to fall to their feet, waiting all day long and waiting all night long. Who are those wretched women taken up for drunkenness and carried up to the courts and put in pron, of course? What will you do with the grogshops that make them drink? Nothing. Who are those prisoners in jail? One' of them stole a pair of shoes. That boy stole a dollar. This girl snatched a purse. All of them crimes damaging society less than $20 or $30. But what will you do with the gambler who last night robbed the young man of $1,000? Nothing. What shall be done with that one who breaks through and destroys the purity of a Christian home, and, with an adroitness and perfidity that beat the strategy of hell, flings a shrinking, shrieking soul into ruin? Nothing. What will you do with those who fleced that young man, getting him to pa rloin large sums of money from his empjoyer-the young man who came to an officer of my church and told the story and frantically asked what he should do? Nothing. Ah, we do well to punish small crimes, but I have sometimes thought it would be better in some of our cities if the officials would only turn out from the jails the petty crtminals, the little offenders, $10 desperadoes, and put in their places some of the mon sters of iniquity who drive their roan span through the streets so swiftly that honest men have to leap to get out of the way of being run- over. Oh, the damnable schemes that professed Christian men will sometimes engage in until God puts the finger of his retribution into the collar of their robe of hypocrisy and rips it clear to the bottom! But all these wrongs will be righted. I expect to live to see the day. I thinklIhear in the dis tance the rumbling of the King's cenar iot. Not always in the minority is the church of God goingto be orare good men going to be. The streets are goin to be filled with regenerated populations. Three hundred and six ty bells rang in Moscow when one prince was married, but when right eousness and peace kiss each other in all the earth, ten thousand times ten thousand bells shall strike the jubilee. Poverty enriched. Hunger fed. Grime banished. Ignorance enlightened. All: the cities saved. Is not this a cause: worth working in? Oh, you think sometimes it does not amount to much! You toil on in your different spheres,sometimes with great discouragement. ;People have no faith and say: "It does not amount to anything. You might as well quit that." Why, when Moses stretcened his band over the Red sea it did not seem to mean anything especially. Pecple came out, I suppose, and said, "aha!" Some of them found out what he wanted to do. He wanted the sea parted. It did not amount to any thing, this stretching out of his hand over the sea. But after awhile the wind blew all night from the east, and1 the waters were gathered into a glit tering palisade on either side, and the, billlows reared as God pulled back on1 their crystal bits. Wheel into line, 0 Israel! March: March! Pearls1 crashed under feet. Flying spray] gathered into rainbow arch of victory | for the conquerers to march under. Shouts of hosts on the beach answer-1 ing the shout of hosts amid sea. And when the last line of Israelites reach the beach the cymbals clap, and the1 shields clang, and the waters rush1 over the pursuers, and the swift fing-1 ered winds on the white keys of thei foam play the grand march of Israell delivered and the awful dirge of | Egyptian overth~ro w. So you and I go iorth, and all the people of God go forth, and they stretch forth their hand over the sea, the boiling sea of crime and sin andi wretchedness. "It doesn't amount to anything," people say. Doesn't it? God's winds of help will after awhile begin to blow. A path will be cleared for the army of Christian philanthro pists. The path will be lined with the treasures of Christian bereticence, and we shall be greeted to the other beach by the clapping of all heaven's cym bals, while those who pursued us and derided us and tried to destroy us will go down under the sea, and all that will be left of them will be cast high and dry upon the beach, the splinter ed wheel of a chariot, or thrust out from the foam, the breathless nostril Sa rideless charger. Preferred Death to Poverty. TAMPA\, FLA.,Sept. 16.-A t 10 o'clock yesterday morning Rafael Garcia Lu-i que, reader for the cigar makers int Julius Ellinger's factory, mounted his platform, and, instead of reading, he addressed the 250 amen, telling them that they had not paid him enough of late for the support of his family and that he could no longer live as he hadt been living. He then drew a revolver and fired four shots. The last ac complished its purpose only by his I holding the barrel against his temple with one hand and pulling the trig ger twith the other. | Two Outlawi Kmtld.j Bmr~msnc~uA, ALA., Sept. 10 -Bart Thrashe:-, the notorious Bibb county I outlaw, and his pal, Dock Panther, but whose real identity is unknown, t were killed by Deputy Sheriffs IHenryt Cole and J. Ball, of this city, near p Iersa Creek, Walker county, at dark p last evening. Ever since the murder a >f Deputy Sheriff Gritlin Bass, at 1 locton, three weeks ago, Cole andif: Dali have been on the hunt for the Is >utlaws, for whom a larg-e reward wasP ustdng.n y ASSISTANT RE PUBLICAN8, THE GOLDBUG WING OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRACY. An A dd res to the People, by Those Sel f Constituted Delegates who Attended the luntlianapolls Convention Which Nomi. nated Palmer and Muckner. To the Democrats of South Carolina: The national Democratic convention which assembled at Indianapolis on the 2d of September, mindful of the rust imposed by Democratic tradi ions, jealous of the honor and true to Ahe principles of the party, entered its solemn protest against the platform and nominees of the Chicago conven tion; against the dangerous and radi cal experiment of the free and unlim ited coinage of silver, and against the unholy wedlock of democracy with the painted jade of populism and the commune. Formulating a platform, worthy of the best days of the republic, broad enough, strong enough and sound enough to atford secure footing for all honest, intelligent and patriotic Ameri cans, it placed upon its candidates for the presidency and vice presidency representing all that is best of Ameri can honor, valor, political experience and ability, and confidently appeals to American manhood for support. Elsewhere in this broad land com munism, populism and executive tyranny is a dread, a fear. In South Carolina it is an experience. For six long years we have witness ed the suppression of individual liber ty, the violation of corporate and. municipal rights, the usurpation of executive authority, the domination of the Legislature and the prostit.tion of the judicial department of our State government, all in the sacred namecf the people. We have seen our citizens murdered without redress by the armed constab ulary of an irresponsible and tyrann ous executive. We have seen the fel on's stripe placed upon a citizen with in the walls of the penitentiary with out a trial by jury, and upon the de cree of subservient judiciary, at the bidding of one who now impudently and dishonsestly inveighs against "government by injunction." We have seen the time-honored and chartered right of local self-govern ment rudel; stricken down for party purposes and to gratify personal pique and preference. We have seen the registered appeal of our people for prohibition answered by a State monopoly of the whiskey traffic, besotting the people in the name of law and debauching the weak virtue of our chosen officials, and as a natural and fitting sequence, our politi cal atmosphere reeks with the putres cence arising from the uncovered graves of private and official corrup tion. The methods, the purposes and the very utterances or the Chicago nomi nee for president are painfully familiar to Carolinians. The effort to array class against class, country against town, the poor against the rich, the appeals to prison, prejudice and ignorance, the reckless attacks upon the judiciary,.the charges of speculation fraud and dishonesty in high places, are but faithful echoes of campaign methods in this State within the memory of all. Make no mistake, fellow Democrats; Bryanism is but Tillmanism upon a national scale. That south Carolina was the hatch ing place of Tillmanism is charged against her, and resented in all sec tions of the republic. That she still supports it and attempts to thrust it upon the entire country by insisting upon the election of the Chicago nom nees after six years of experience and test will justly expose us to the exe ration of our fello w men throughout the land. As Democrats we cannot vote for the nominees of the Republican party. By us, protection for the millionaire manufacturer cannot be distinguished from protection for the millionaire mine owner. We cannot vote for the nominees of the Chicago convention and risk a repetition of our own experience for six years, enlarged to the dimensions of the republic intensified by the co operation of such forces and agencieE of anarchy as fortunately we do not possess in this State. No man in South Carolina who is unwilling to see Tillmanism played upon the national stage, with the ar my and navy of the United Sitates in the role of Tillmnan militia, Congress representing the "driftwood" "June bug" Legislature, and the Supreme Dourt, the ore tur-e, the puppet and the obedient slave of an autocratic ex eutive, can affordr to vote for William Jennings Bryan ior President, or for those ia the legislative department who will sustain his etfort to subvert the department of justice to party pur poses, and the -lepartmnent of finance to private gain. We deny the wild and frantic alle ration that the people of S->utth Caro lina are struggling in the depths of nisery and calamity. We declare that the industrial conditions of our peo - ple are pictured in colors so false that ~he natural result must be to repel mmigration and frighten a vay capi al. While recognizing the inevitable liferences in wealth which have al ways existed among men, we calatten ion with pride and satisfaction to the prosperity that the masses of our peo ple enjoy and the rapid and uncheck x progress being made in the devnl >pment of our State's resources. Among our farmers and mechanics, he standard of f iving is constantly mproving, their ciiildren are being ed icated and their debts are being paid. At no period in the history of the ltate have the people enj yed more f the comforts and luxueies of life, nd this we attribute, in sone measure at least, to the achievements of the in sumbent Democratic national admin stration in retarding class legislation f the Republican party. Wittiin the1 -ecent past a splendid mnaaufacturmng ndustry has been successfully estab-1 ished in the State, and all signs point o its contiuned expansion. We, therefore, denounce the cry for< n inflation of the currency as unwise, nexpedient and unnecessary and as alculated to dest oy that confidenca n prevailing couw- >s most needful o the continued enAn~cement of our >rosprty, a prosperity w-hich has not >een hahied even oy in. :uarplots and isturbers of business, ve i which we< iave been so sorely s.ili eted. The roters of the State are prepared tot ink for themselves. They v~ill be low' to endorse the pure specu'ative ilanetal retuedy oilfersd oy i.: eaaai >ioLs of free sitver at 16 to 1- They I 'ill halt long before hazarding the in- I vitable panic in business and paraly is of industry which must follow itsi .doption. Besides, when it is broughti ome to them that reckless tamperingt rith the money standard involves the robability of repudiation, the princi-t dles of strict and stern honesty, theirss my ancestry and education, will assert heseives and repel the insidious ap- x eals to them to compromise or temn- s orie with conscience. The political i iosphere is clearing in South Caro- I na, and the temper of the people is t< mvorable ior the return to old, tried, i .e and established monetary princi- tI les.3 ~AKI POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all in leavening strength. --Ltest Untited States Government F~ood Reporit. ROY., BAKING POWDER CO., New York City. you in the persons of John M. Palmer and Simon Bolivar Buc 'ner, candi datessafe, conservative, wise and pure. Men whose lives have been consecrat ed to duty, broadened by experience and educated to the discharge of exec utive trusts, and who in every emer gency and place have proven them selves honest, faithful and true, and equal to position. Representing, as they do, the blue and the gray, their nomination upon the same ticket marks the grave of sectionalism. Their election will bind together in triple bands of steel all sections of our common country. Every interest, ev ery cause and every man desirous of preserving unimpaired the liberty of the citizen, with the. constitutional powers of the government in all its departments,' its honor, its integrity and the public faith, will drive af frighted to their loathsome dens the hideous forms of anarchy, license and disorder, evoked by the nomination at Chicago and St. Louis of the grand high priest of communistic agrarian ism, and will transmit to posterity the blessings of constitutional government strong in justice, tempered with mercy and unflinchingly sustained by every American worthy of the name and of suffrage. Electors will be choon and tickets provided in this State fo. all who wish to join in the effort to avurt the disas ters which threaten our c.vilization, to perpetuate the name, the faith and the principles of democracy and to justify the confidence which the American public has always placed in the grand old party of the people. We invite and urge all Democrats in the State who appreciate the neces sity for the reorganization of the na ton democracy to join actively in our efforts and to this end they are asked to place themselves in communication with Mr. W. R. Davie the State com mitteeman at Landsford, S. C. Their suggestions, advice and co-operation are needed. W. R. DAVI, Member National Executive Commit tee f or South Carolina. W. W. BALL, FZa&N EvANs. dniver Elements Maast Combine. WASHINGTON. Sept. 16.-The lead ers of tne differentelements which are supporting Mr. Bryan who are in the city, including Senators Jones of Ar kansas, Garman and Faulkner, Dein ocr'ats, Teller and Dubois, silver Re publicans, and Butler, Populist, and Mr. St. John, the Democratic Nation al committeeman of Kansas, have spent a quite busy day in conference among tnemselves. Tney have not all \~ been together at one timne but theid has been no time during the day whea two or three of them were not closet ed. They have discussed all phases of the campaign, and it may be stated in a general way that they have gone over the entire political situation with the view of obtaining united action in all states. Senators Jones and Butler devoted two hours to the question of fusion on Presidential and Vice Presidential electors. The failure of the Democrats and Populists in many of the States, especially in tbe South, to agree upon some electoral ticket was discased,and it is understood that the chairmen were agreed on the necessity of im pressing on the members of the two iarties in the discordant states that they should get together as soon as possible. They went over the differ ences in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alaba ma, North Carolina, Kansas, Florida, Texas and West Virginia, and agreed upon a line of action to be recom mended in each State. In Kentucky and West Virginia Senator Jones agreed that the demand of the Popu lists for two electors in each was rea sonable, and he will.recommend that the proposition of the Populists to fuse on this basis be accepted. He will re comiaend some what more liberal con cession in Tennessee. There are three straight tickets in the field in Florida, and as a result of the conference an effort will be made to merge the Democratic and Popr :st tickets. There will be an attempt ..o get the twe parties together in Alaba ma, Louisiana and Texas. In Texas there is a movement on foot looking to a fusion bet "een the Populists and Republicaqs. Senator Butler's influ ence will be exerted to prevent this. With reference to North Carolina, Senator Butler gave th .ne e that whether there -fsusion or not, the electoral vote6 the State could be 3ounted upon for Bryan. 'It is," he said to Senator-Jones, "'like the case of the two women who appealed to King Solomon to settle the dispute as to the 21otherhood of a child. Neither of us :an accord to have the child killed to settle the dispute." The situation in Kansas received special attention. Some of the Popu ists in this State are dissatisled with the arrangement ther", which they ilaim would result in giving the elec oral vote of that state to Sewall and gnore Watson. Mr. Butler is inves igating the situation, with the hope >f securing better terms for the Kan as Populists. Mr. Johnson assured iim, however, that the leadin -i >ers of the Populist party were ent-w .. y satisfied with the arrangement in bat State. tra tnat the movement for Ssecom Poon'Lt convention was in iowise generai among the members >f that party. It is unzlerstood that senator Jones promised to give atten ion to the situation there and to use is good offices with the Democrats to eeure some concession for the Popu ists on the electoral ticket of the ;tate in case it should appear advisa >le so to do. One of the reasons for a general un [erstanding in the states where there s known to be a majority favorable o silver, which was conc:ded by all, was the necessity for arranging mat ers s:) as to permit the leaders in those tates to devote themselves to the cam sign in other sections. In this con tection there was considerable discus ion of the sit uation in Idaho as bear ag upon Senator Dubois's re-election. twas generaIly agreed that the effort > reach an harmonious understand ig there should be continued, with ie view of permitting tie Senator nd is rinustoparticipate freely in .