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8, 6. Y WEDNESDAY. -P ION llATES: ....................$1.50 .s. .. . .. . .. . . ....................... 0 ADVERTIkING RATES: square, one time, $I; each subse t insertion, 50 cents. Qbituaries and butes of Respect cbarged for as regular dvertisements. Liberal contracts wade for three, six and twelve uonths. Communicttions mu-t be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer in order to receive attention. No communication of a personal char acter will be published except as an adver tisemeut. Entered at the Post Office at Manning as Second-Class Matter. MONEY, MONEY. Wb:tt we claim is this: What we do is this: We will save you money on SHOES, DRESS 'GOODS, HARDWARE, TIN WARE, EVERYTHING. GtI to see yon whether you buy or not. O posite Bank of Sumter, next door to DeLorm's drug store, Sumter, S. C. THE3FIGHT BEGUN. Already some of the newspapers i.1 this State have commenced seek iag Senator Tillman's political scalp. They have started out on the line Duncan inau0e:atedjduring the recent campaigu, by insinuations, without offering any proof, as an example, we clip the following from the Newberry Observer: "There is a great deal of talk on the part of some already concerning the re-election of Senator TilIman. Some claiming that no one will be able to defeat him,while others think that is defeat will be an easy mat ter. It is all only a matter of opinion, but we believe that the Senator is at prescnt serving his only term in the United States Senate, for we have strong reasons for thinking that there will be revelations in this State before that election which will prove that Senator Tillman is unworthy the support of the honest yeuinnry of South Carolizia, and if such is the case they will vote for another. Time can only prove these things. Tihis is too much for the Greenville Mountaineer, a Conservative news. pa "er- Iphe by CGol. J. A. Hoyt, and in his last issue he gives the Observer the following gentle rebuke: "Our esteemed comtemporary will pardon the comment, but this is un timely and unwise. Senator Tillman has more than four years yet to serve, and any agitation now as to his suc cessor will only confirm what has been said about the recent primary, that it was intended to precipitate the defeat of Tillman. A very large number of Reformers who voted against Evans are strong friends and staunch supporters of Senator Till man, and thiey will quickly resent any attempt :o undermmne his chances for -re-election. Why not wait until the time comes for agitation of this matter? As the revelations which may come in the future, since it is only a matter of opinion, we can not see upon what the Observer bases its belief that they will damage Till man, who has gone through the fire unscathed so far. He has been sub jected to severe tests as to his man agement of public affairs while Gov ernor, but not a single fact has been developed that shows lack of honesty and integrity. He has always shown a readiness to explain his conduct, and has never concealed the facts from the public. This course has caused him to retaini the confidence of the people, and his opponents must find other grounds on which to assail his re-election. Tillman has his faults as a public man, but concealment of his acts is not one of ehem." Some one sent us a copy of the Scranton, Pa., Times, of date Sep tember 18th inst. It gave an account of the reception given to Senator Till man and his speech at that place. The headlines are as follows: "Sena tor Tillman given an ovation. He was enthusiastically received by the people of Pittson last night. His speech was a big surprise. One of the niost convirncing addresses ever delivered in Pittston--Devoid of all bluster he speaks with commendable plainness on the issues of the cam paign-Plain, homely, forcible and eloquently he lays hare the present political position-Given a reception at the Eagle Hotel-Spoke to about 2000 people." It is to be hoped that our newly elected representatives will study the needs of the people and that they will be able to devise some plan by which this county can have a better system of free schools. We need free schools with longer terms so that the chil dren of the poor man can get some~ benefit of the taxes he is forced to pays After this yeatr's tax is collec tion the free school fund will be in creased, because the levy is more, buf, in order to make the system good and sufficient the very best business methods must be resorted to, and ENTAL CAMPAIGN. The political revolution which is taking place in the United States is an object lesson for those who doubt thc capacity of the people for self government. The money questiol is the most difficult to understand, and -e m'ost important of all political and economic subjects. It is at the foundation . of civilization itself. There are two inventions of man without both of which civilization is impossible. One is money; the oth er, language. Money enables each member of society to avail himself oi what others produce. Language wakes the krowledge of all accessible to each. No individual can live for any considerable length of time without availing himself of the labors of others. In isolation neither lan guage nor money has any use or val ue. No tribe of aborigines has been found which did not have some kind of money. The impracticability of exchanging commodities for commod ities forces men who associate togeth er to establish a representative of value, or medium of exchange. It may be sticks, shells, or anything else which the tribe selects, and by agree ment or law of the tribe makes a measure of value and medium of ex change. In all cases money is the creation of law or agreement or cus tom, which the tribe or nation obey. The money in any tribe or nation which is used as a medium of ex chauge is in effect a demand for all the property, and all the property of a tribe or nation is a demand for all the money in circulation. The value of each dollar depends upon the num ber of dollars, or other units of mon ey, in circulation compared to the de mand, the same as the value of chick ens or eggs depends upon the supply of chickens or eggs. From time immemorial the most civilized nations have used gold and silver as money. The reason why these metals have been so long used for that purpose is that they are in destructible in quality, easily ihvisi ble, and iiai.ited in quantity. Wen mines are productiv u-=.v is plen tifuLammc.,iizatiou advances; wheu tii mines are closed, money is scar. e, and barbarism follows. In 1873 the mines of gold and silver were pro ductive and had been for more than twenty years, and the civilization of the world was in a most prosperous condition. The indebtedness of the world at that time was estimated at about a hundred thousand million. The dealers in money and bonds wanted to make the property which they had more valueable. They re solved to demonetize one of the met als, which would reduce the supply of money, and by that means in crease the value of money and bonds, which are money futures. Without consultiug the American people, they secured legislation which excluded silver from the mints of the United States and Europe. Previous to that ime, persons who had either gold or silver could take it to the mint and have it coined into money. This privilege had existed among the more civilized nations for thousands of years. It wvas accorded by the con stitution and laws -of the ~Engied States, and eujoyed by the NjQI until the passage of thefuit act in 1873. The demonatiziug of silver threw the entire demand for money upon gold -aloue, and in the last twent-three years has doubled the purchasing power of gold. The Democratic and Republican par ties, in all their national conventions pre vious to the present year, declared that they were in favor of the resto ration of silver to the place it occu pied as a money metal previous to 1873; but whiebever succ-eeded at ithe election used the en ire power of the government to destre' silver as money metal, and a lhete ! to t be e 13 standard. The Populist aul .silve pates came int,> exiateuce as a pro test against the action of the t wo old parties in tuaiut:uuing tue: gulli stain dard. It is acurious iact that the people, at every election, supposed that they were voting f->r the resto ration of the coinage laws of the bet ter days of the republic when theyv were voting either the Democratic or Republican ticket. They could not believe that their trusted leaders were deceiving them when they de clared that they were in favor of the coinage laws of Hamilton, Jefferson and Jackscu. The. creation of the Populist party and the dtiscontenmt of the people could not be ignored. The bondholders and dealers in mon ey controlling the commercial trusts, the banks and the professional poli ticians, all insisted that the subter fuge should be thrown off, and that both the old parties should delare in favor of the English gold standard. Terepublican party complied with the command of the gold syndicate of Wall and Lombard streets, and declared that it would maintain the gold standard as lorg as England and other creditor nations desired. This was regarded by the people as a plea of guilty. 'j he masses of the Re pubicanr party, who believed in the right of the United States to main tain an independent financial policy, saw that they had been deceived by their party leaders, and that thbey had been voting against their own inter ests for more than t wenty years. Cleveland obeyed the gold gam blers so implicitly in his bond deals and in his financial panics, that the masses of the Democratic party saw that he had betrayed them into the hands of the money powers of Eng land. They selected delegates to the Chicago convention tc represent the people, not the banks. Over two thirds of that convention were Dem ocrats of the Jeffersonian stripe, and less than one-third were Democrats of the John Sherman, Pierpont Mor gan, Cleveland stripe. The majority were the most determined and the most patriotic body of men who ever met in a national convention. They reiterated the principles of the De claration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States as' their platforma of principles, and nominated a man of the people who embodies more of the true principles of Democracy in his life and charac ter, and in his sentiments and opin ious, than any man who has been a' cadidate for President of any party since the election of Mr. Lincoln. Peopl hae resnded to the patri otic action of the majority of the Chicago convention with a unanimity and enthusiasn never before seen in a Presidential election. The pow(rs again-t the people rely oni money to elect a representative of the English gold standard, of the bauks, the trust and the monopolists. On the one side We tind the statesmen, the baik ers and t;.e public press of Europe, aided by the banks, the commercial press, the political bosses, the rail roads and all other monopolists of the United States; and on the other side the American people. The con flict is not doubtful. The American people never have been bouglt or in imidated. In every strugg'le against despotism they have been victorious, anl there can be tio doubt of tibe re sult iu the present contlict. The on ly reason why the money power, stock jobbers and gold gaiblers have been able to transfer so large a part of the earnings of the American peo ple to themselves and their associates is, because the American people trusted Congress and the President, -and did not believe that their public servants would betray them; but when the Republican party confessed that it had been guilty of deceiving the people for more than twenty years, in pretending to be in favor of the money of the constitution, the is sue was made. The Democratic con vention took the side of the people, and the question to be determined in November next is, whether we shall have a government of the peo ple, for the people and by the people, or a government of gold monopoly, for gold monopoly, and by gold mo nopoly. The effect of the regenerated De mocracy which the peopla are de termined to have means prosperity. Those who believe that it will create a fifty-cent dollar will be mistaken. The friends of financial reform be lieve that the unlimited mintage of of gold and silver by the United States would stop falling prices and start the wheels of enterprises. They do not anticipate, and have no reason to anticipate, a great rii in prices, because all the sil-er now produced is used in the arts or coiued into money. It would be impossible for tLUnited States to obtan isutlicien1 of the output of silver t! inioe than keep puce wih populaliou and busi ness and inaiutain stability of prices. Continued faliing prices means stag nation, misery and want. It means enforced idleness, poverty and bank ruptcy. It means an unearned in crement for those who deal in money and bonds, which are money futures. .:e have had falling price: for twenty years. The purchasing power of money has more than doubied. The wealte of the masses has been trans ferreJ I.o a very small class. If this process cannot be stopped civilization will be destroyed, as has frequently happened. rute effort to frighten the people by telling them that the United Siates would be the dumping ground for biiver is in keeping with every prdiction that has been made by gold politicians and the gold press for the last twenty years. They can not point to one prediction which has not failed. They have been false prophets from the beginning, atd when they say that speculators would buy silver in other countrias for (35 cents an ounce and sell it here for $1.29. They presume the peole' o U~nited States are fools. Every one ~~,or ought to knfow tha~t silver as ken and always will be te same prien.iproughiot the world, less the duferener of transportation, and that it sever will be transporteac from one country to another uless it is taken there to be exchanged or sld for the commodities ot the count1ry, I have heard in the Senate of the United States the argument used a:iu:, the remonetization of silver, ttte Asiatics would welt their idob, and toring tuem to I his country and hav tiuem coined auto dollars, aul t*1e ti.em back an.I have tnem reforwed into idols. ihre are the argucms which the guliates u~e to deceive what they assume to be an ignoraut people. Since thet Republi can par ty plead guilty to the crime of the standard there has been a movement in this country which suir prised all goldites and all politicians, because they did not know that the people adhered to the old parties, because they would not believe that the leaders of their party were whole sale liars. They believed that they were voting for silver, but when they found tl'tt they were n:>t theyv have shown that they understood the ques tion and knew what they wanted. The reason why the Republican party is beaten and discredited is because it has furnished the proof itself that it had practiced deception upon the people and could no longer be trusted. If Whitney and Company could have controlled the Democratic Conven tion it would have been just as odious as the Republican party, because the people make no distinction between such men as Cleveland and Sherman, Morgan and Carlisle, or any of their associates or abettors. But when the Democatic party raised the Ameri can standard and drove from the Democratic assembly the Pharisees and money changers of the bond dealing stripe, their action was ap plauded by the American people, and the divison line was drawn between the Americau people and the armies of Hessians and Tories who do the bidding of an alien gold trust for the toll they receive ou' the money they filch from the people. Without the elaborating our state. ment that the oper.ing of the mints to free coinage would stop falling prices, we say that the addition to the circulating medium which would be made by the free coinage of silver would so increase the volume of money, or the supply of money, that money would not be growing scarcer adl <Urer, because when money grows scarcer it becomes dearer; and when money becomes dearer, prop ertv end services becomes cheaper. What we want to prevent is prop erty becoming cheaper, because if property is growving cheaper nobody wtsproperty, and nobody can atlrd to employ labor to create prop prty which is depreciattug in value. The trouble is that money has been growing dearer for the last twenty years, aud the instinct of gain has ade the whole community desiro us1 of investing in money or bonds,which are mnoney futures, because they wano inves in things which are going up, and they refrain from in vesting in property or creating prop erty by labor. That. is why there are millions out of employment, and why the country is growing poorer while the few who have money, or money futures, are growing richer. Honest money should have the same vali at all times. Money that takes twiev as much property to buy at one time as-it does at another is a bad measure-it is unjust money. Money, the purchasing power of which will increase iu the safe, is bad money. When the purchasing power of money grows in tLe safe civilization neces sairly decays. Any system of money which makes idleness tuore profitable tian iWdustry is bad mo ney, and we si)biui: to the good people of this country if the idle holders of money in the last twenty years have not had the best of it.-W. M. STEWATR in National Watchman. DoeMi Sampson Pope has accepted the nomiuation of governor from the "Lilv White" Repulicans The Doc tor surely must know that he has no chance of success and we cannot un derstand why he will persist in try ing to accomplish impossibilities. Even if McKinley is elected and the whole of Congress is Republican we do not see how Doctor Pope could expect to be made governor of South Carolina. Bryan, the Democratic nominee for the Presidency, spoke in Boston one day last week to an audience of 75, 000 people. This looks as if free sil ver has a good many supporters at the Hub, the intellectual center of the United State-. From al. accout ts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy i., a Godsend to the afflicted. Tbere is n advertisement about this; we feel just like saying it.-The Demociat, Carrollton. Ky. For sale by R1. B. Loryea, t le druggist. Glave's Eager Spirit. Among the young officials who were waiting appointments at Leopoldville was Mr. E. J. Glavo. He appeared to be a slim, tall boy of 18 or 19, but dur ing the few days I remained at Leopold ville I saw that he was a man of char acter, well educated, fond of sketching, and eager for active service. I was al ways on the lookout for willing spirits. Every European seemed willing enough when he first landed on the river, but very few, after an experience of the fever, long retained that willingness. However, Glave condemned his inac tion, and when offered a chance of prov ing his mettle and ability at Lukolela, became aglow with animation.--Henry M. Stanley in Century. The name of the "century plant" is misleading. It blooms, not once in a century, but once in 10 or 12 years, then dies. Mexico's largest gold nugget was found at Pianohas Placers, Sonore, in the spring of 1892. It weighed 14% pounds. SENT IT TO HIS MOTHER IN GER MANY. Mr. Jacob Esbensen, who is in- the em ploy of the Chicago Lnobe- Co., at Des Moineis, Iow -I haveir~st sent some med icice back to my mather ib the old coon tre that I know from personal use to be tI- hest medibine in the world for rheu matism. having use-1 it in my family for several years. It is called Cbambherlain's Pain Balma. It always dloes the -work." 50 eetbotls for sale by JI. B. Loryea, the Drgist Genesis of Cotton In America. The first planting of cotton seed in the colonies was in the Carolinas in the year 1021, when seeds were planted as an experiment in a garden. Winthrop says that in 1643 "men fell to the manufacture of cotton, ivhereof we have great stores from Barbados." In 1736 it was cultivated in the gardens along Chesapeake bay, especially in the vi cinity of Baltimore, and at the open ing of the Revolution it was a garden plant in New Jersey and New York, but its real value seems to have oeen al most unknown to the plant rs up to about 110 years ago.-St. L~ouis Re public. Ia recent latter to the manufacturers Mr. WV. F. Benjamin, editor of the Specta tor, Ruslitoi, N. Y., says: "It may be a peasure to you to know the high esteemr in which Chamberlain's medicines are held by the pe'ople (of your own State, where thev met be best known. An aunt of mine, who reside< at Dexter, Iowa, was abont to visit me a tew years since, and be fore leaving homes wrote mie, asking if they werie sold here, stating if they were not she would bring a qu intity with her, as she did not like to he without them." The m.licines referred to are Chamaberlain's Cog:h Rtamedy, fiaaus for its cures of cods and crono; Chamborhein's Pain Balm for rheumatism, lame back, pains in the side and cbest; and Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and iarrhoea Remedy for bowel complaints. These medlicines have been in constant use in Iowa for almost a quar ter of a century. The people have learned that they are articles of .;reat worth and merit, and unequaled by any other. They ire for sile here by R. B. Loryea, the drug gist. Tax Notice. COUNTY TREASURER'S OFFICE, CLARENIJON COUNTY.I Manning, S. C., Sept. 21, 1890. The tax books will be open for the collection of taxes for the fiscal year commencing January 1st, 1896, and for the months of November and De cember 1895, on the 1.5th clay of Octo ber, 1896, and will remain open until the :31st day of December, following, after wvhich time a penalty of 15 per cent. attaches to all unpaid taxes. The following is the tax levy: For State purposes, four and a half (4i) mills. For School Tax, three (:3) mills. For Ordinary County Tax, three and one fourth (3+) mills. Special two (2) mills, School Tax, School District No. "19." Special four (4) mills, School Tax, School District No. "7." Special two (2) mills, School Tax, School District No. "20." Every male citizen between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, except those incapable of earning a support from being maimed or from other causes, and except those wvho are now exempt by law, shall be deemed taxable polls5. The law requires that commuta tion road tax shall be paid for the succeeing year when State and County Taxes are patid. S. J. BOWMAN, Trreasurer Clarendon County. 4LEYL, ATTORNEY AT LAW ANNIV, S. C.. EVERY PRICE OF EVERY YOUR ARTICLE IN EVERY DE- MONEY'S WORTH PARTMENT AT EVERY OR TIME CUARANTEED TO YOUR BE Here is the MONEY The LOWEST. BACK. ThePalace Dry Goods Emporium! If it is inconvenient to get here, write! Lots do. Seems as though every lady ought to have the privilege of knowing What The Fall Stuffs Are Like! How the New Styles are Running! Our mail order department is so prompt in snswering, so accurate in choosing, that mistakes are few anl far between. Send for samples to us. WE OPEN THE SEASON With the Largest, Choicest, Best Selected and Cheapest Stock of Dry Goods that has ever been offered. There is No Mistake About the Following. Prices are Just as Given. Values Precisely as Stated ! Go over the list often. Who ever sold such qualities at such prices? 25c Fancy Dress Goods, 26-inch Fruit of the Loom 36-in., beautiful styles for. .15c Bleach for..............7c 35c All-Wool Flanneis, 36-in, 36-inch Special Bleach for . 5 all shades, for ..........23c 38-inch- Fine Quality Bleach, 25c Cashmeres, 36-in., new worth 8J, for...........6ie shades for................19c! CAN 100 pieces good Calico. for.. -4c 35c All-Wool Fancy Flannel, 1 case Best Calices, Indigo 36-inch. for...............23c ANY ONE Bine, Old Color., Dress 35c Fancy Mohairs and Bril- Styles and Monings, for..5c liantines. 40-in.. for .......25c 1ATOL 124c Duck, special offering.... 8c 35c all-wool urges nd 7c Fancy Oting fornd. 4 Cheviot, 36 in., far......THESE 10c Fancy Outings for. 7c 60c Flannels, all shades, 54 7c Ginghaus (a good oue) for 5c inches, for................40c OFFERINGS? 10-4 Bleach Sheeting, 20c 75c all-wool Fancies, S.ripes, Check and Mixtures, extra ine goos for ..........8c WILL 110-4 Brown Sheeting for. 14c 25c all-wool Red Twill Flan - 10-4 Bleach Sheeting, 25c nel for ...................15c quality, for............ 19c 20e all-wool Red Flannel for 121c 36-inch Sea Island, 7c qnal 25c all-wool Red and White TRY? ity, for................ c Flannel for .............. 15c3-inch Sa Liand. best 15c Fast Black Ladies' Hose f'r 10c quality, for............6c 25c Ifernesdorf Black Ladies' Hose, seamless, foi.. ..... 15e bales Chc Ho.ne .. 15c White Linen Initial Hand kerchiefs for...............6c 10 bales 27-inch Best Home 75c 6 Hook Corsets, black, spun, 7c quality, for . 5c gray and white for ....49c 10 bales R R Homespun for. .5e W e mean just what we say. Conme once and you'll want to call-again. Great Sale of Cloaks and Capes from $1.00 up. We have lots more in store for you. C ARLE F. NTADDIN Has oened poneofnth laret Gfteneral Mercantiler..t.re. in....ter. Acrdalwecoe6-ixtnhedcialm Clear.5 endon piecendgoodiCalicosofor...er. ueOdCos rs Charleandso Frings for..5 1896. MOSES LEVI. l891 Business is Business. I extend a cordial invitation to every man, woman and child in C endon to visit my store where they can see oce of THE LARGEST STOCKS OF GOO in Manning. I know that these goods were bought in first-class n kets where the cash is an important purchasing factor. In buying gc for the cash it is to get the advantage of all the discounts, whexeby .I give the benefit to my customers. I realize that to gain and hold tr the purchasing public must be satisfied. I claim there is no house in ibis section better equipped to give val and that my selections in DRY GOODS and NOTIONI Can not be excelled. Families laying in a winter supply should I in mind that I make a specialty of selling everything in the Dry Go line. My assortment of BLANKETS, LAP ROBES, ETC, Is too large to itimize here. Come and see them. SHOES! SHOES! Ere-rybody knows that this li ne is owe of the most i mportant i n a General M!er tile establishment and I will guarantee that Ihave not nly a are slock, bt the, best makes. Don't forget it, that I can satisfy you in shoes. Clothing, Hats, and Gents' Furnishing Any mar. or boy can be fitted in tbis .departnient. A large assortuaent to M~ from, and the prices -re low -ir Neckwear and under clothing is the best we ever carried. HARDWARE, CROCKERY AND TINWARE. This line was selected with great care and we can supply you with everything wi.%. Come and see our fine line of harness. Groceries. The Grocery Department is one of the best equippedin the State. Ity stapreeg it to say that I wont be undersold. I am also paying the highest prices for cotton Yours truly, MOSES LEVI. CL.OTHING! -4CLOTHIN C~LOTHING for MEN LOTHING for BOYS LOTHING for Children. Pine Clothing! Medium Olothinj Common -Clothing ! I think I can say without any exaggeration that I have one of the best stocks of Clothing, Hfats and Furnishing Goods for Men, Boys and Chi!dren that has ever been brought to Sumter. If you want A - REAL - CHEAP - SUI' You can get it. If you want A MIedium Price Suit I have hundreds for you to select from. If you want A +: Fine, o: Tailor-L~de,+--Perfect-Fitting -: Su~ You will find a good assortment of the most popular fabrics made up in Cambridge, Princeton and Ox ford Sacks and the latest style Cutaways. No other house will show you a larger or better selected stock. No other house will sell you cheaper, and no one will appreciate your patronage more than Yours truly, D. J. CHANDLER The Clothier, SUMTER -------S.C.