The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, October 14, 1896, Image 1

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VOL. XlI. MANNING, S. C., WEDNES1)AY, OCTOBER I4, 189. NO. 12. BRYAN IS A WINNER HON.GEORGE T. BARNES COMES FROM WASHINGTON WITH CONFIDEUNCE. Popular Sentdnent In the National Capi tal is for Bryan. An Estimate by the Washington PVo. Attracts Attention. AUGUSTA. Oct. 5.-- The Chronicle, a few days aso, published the follow ing: Hon. George T. Barnes return ed yesterday morning from a business trip to Washington City, and was seen soon aft-r his arrival by a Chron icle reporter. In answ'er to the ques tion what he thought of the Presiden tial situation after his stay at the na tional capital he replied: "I am greatly encouraged, and my faith in Bryan's election has been considerably strengthened. The Con gressional campaign committee is do ing good worki and they are confident Bryan is a winner. Of course there are Republicans who claim McKinley's election, just as confideatly, but the predominant sentiment is for Bryan. The owners of large stores, and the heads of big concerns are I or McKin ley, but their clerks and employes are for Bryan. I was told by a clear headed neswspaper man of experience in Washing'on that this is true all through the city. Having had occa sion to spend some little time in a large bookstore where I was acquaint ed, I tested the matter, and found the proprietor for McKinley and the clerks for Bryan. I am informed that in the Public Departments the governme.at clerks are confident of Bryan's election, and this is always re garded in Washington as a pretty re liable public pulsm." What is thought of Bryan's cam "It is the wonder of the day. The politicians no longer talk of directing his movements or cautioning him about what to say, or what to leave unsaid. He has proven himself a marvel of political sagacity. He al ways says just the right thing at the right place, and never speaks any where without making Bryan voters. He is his own campaign manager, and says just what he pleases, and al ways says it well. As a rule, the con trolling newspapers are unfriendly, and instead of the best possible pre sentation of his meetings being made, they are minimized as far as possible. A congressman who was with him in Virginia says the newspaper accounts gave no fair conception of the mar velous outpouring and the tremen dous impression he made." Don't you think, Major, that Bryan should stay in the doubtful Middle Western States for the rest of the cam paign? "Yes; and he will do so, for the most part. He will put a whole week in Illinois, and will speak all over the State. The Democrats mean to carry Illinois, and I saw men of conserva tive opinion to speak intelligently on the subject, who declare that Bryan has an admitable chance of carrying Obio." What is the Democraticqstimate of Bryan's electoral vote? "Estimates are likely to be colored by the wishes of the partisans who make them, but one that has just been published by the Washington Post has attracted much attention and dis cussion. The'Post is independent, and publishes the facts of the cam paign as it sees it, regardless of parti san bias. The Post's esumwate to which i-refer is as follow: The Post says: Nobody seriously expects Bryan to carry any of the New England states, or-New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Ohio. We may, therefore concede to McKinley the votes o those States, as follows: - Ocnnecticut......... ... ...... 6 Maine......... .............G Massachusetts................ 15 New Hampshire...............4 New Jersey................-.10 New York..................-36 - Ohio....................... 23 Pennsylvania................-32 Vermont..................... 4 Rhode Island.................. 4 Total......................140 *Nobody seriously expects McKinle y to carry any of the Southern States, with the possible exception of West Virginia, Maryland. Kentucky and North Carolina. We may therefore concede them to Bryan, as follows: Alabama..........*.......11 Arkansas.....................S8 Florida......................4 Georgia..................... 13 Louisiana....................- 8 Missisippi...................-9 Missour1..................... 17 South Carolina................ 9 Tennessee.................... 12 Texas................ ....... 1 Virginia..................... 12 Total.....................-11 T h we may with safety add Montana..................... 3 Nevada...................-... 3 North Dakota..................-3 South Dakota.................4 Utah.................. ....... 0 Washington......... .....-.. Wyoming..................... 3 Total...................... 30 --making for Bryan a grand total of 148. We thus dispose of 288 out of the 447 votes which now constitute the electo ral college. To carry the day a can didate must have 224 votes, and thus McKinley has yet to gain 84, and Bry an has yet to gain 76 votes out of the States which are in doubt, and chiefly -_so because of the uncertainty as to the consummation therein of a genuine fusion between the Democrats and the Populists. Should that fusion be ef fected Mr. Bryan will be very likely to carry Kentucky...................-1 Kansas.............. ........ 1 Nebraska.................... indiana........,........1 North Carolina................i1 Total............. ......... 5 This will bring up his vote to 2C5, -leaving the battle-ground in the ter States not yet accounted for: illinois...................... 2 Oregon......................4 California. ........... Maryland.................... Delaware.................... West Virginia......... ....... Minnesota........... ......... - Michigan.................... 1 Wisconsin....................L Iowa....................... 1:1 Total.....................10 Thus we haoe Bryan ................ ---. 2 McKinlev votes ...........- I1. Dou btful.......................- 102 Total ............-...---- - 117 ) course there m'ay he dit'iererxces as to the doubtfulness of the St:tes we have pat in the columin of the battle ground. They areeoulidently claimed by both sides. and it follows that w mulhst dlisplease both by this estiniate The fact remains, however, that io.'t, if not all, of them are doubtful-quite enough so to furnish Mr. Bryan with the nineteen votes he needs. supposing our figures given above to be corrn et And another fact remains at least from our point of view, which is that, without fusion between the Detiocrats and Populists, Bryan cannot get those nineteen votes. "The view of The Post is, that with fusion, Bryan can safely count on 20 votes, but that without complete fusion it will be out of the question for him to get the needed nineteen. With fu sion it concedes that he may. Now, I have no doubt that fusion will be ef fected. You saw the opposition of Watson to fusion in Indiana, and that fusion was effected any anyhow, in spite of his opposition. So it will be everywhere. I have satisfaorv rea sons for believing this. The estimate of The Post called forth quite a storm of urotest from the Republicans, but it did not recede from it position at all. It replied to its critics as follows: Those correspondents who are now deluging us with criticism of the elec tion figures given out by the Post on Wednesday morning are reminded that the most important of the esti mates in question were predicted upon the consummation of a genuine, cor dial, enthusiastic and thoroughly or ganized fusion between the Democrats and Populists throughout the country. Then, as to the States which we put to Bryan's credit in the event of a fu sion on the lines already indicated. what reasonable fault can be found with them? Kentucky.......................... Kansas...........................10 Nebraska ............S.......--- - Indiana ..........................15 North Carolina....................i Total.......................57 Of course we understand that these 57 votes. added to the 148 above calca lated, will run Bryan's strength up to 205-within 19 of election. Of course we understand that seeing these fig ures in cold type is not nearly so en couraging as whooping and throwing hats into the air and braying McKin ley into the White House by mere force of clamor. But really this is not our fault. The contest has to be de cided on November .3 next, not by stu pid vociferation, but by the ballots of an intelligent and patriotic people, and we must, in forecasting that de cision, consider facts, reason, proba bility-not our personal prejudices and desires. We cannot elect McKin ley by getting together under an um brella and resolving that iryan is as good as defeated at the pres"ent mno ment. It is foolish to to blind our seLves to the existence of the earnest millions who dwell beyond the Poto mac and the Alleghanies. These mil lions are there and they must be taken into account. We cannot dispose of them by making a great hullabaloo e on the Atlantic coast. still maintain that in the event ofa fusion between the Populists and the Democe..ts everywhere, Bryan may safely count upon 205 votes to begin with, and we will stand to the list of doubtful States from among which McKinley must get 84 votes, while Bryan needs to get only 19, in order to be elected. It will not change any thing to po0h pooh, and splutter and get red in the face, and heap savage and occasionally idiotic epithets on Bryan. If this youthful person from Nebraska is to be beaten at all, it must be done by sesible, fair minded, and rational ap peals to the judgment and conscience of ~the American people. "It is easy to see," said Major Barnes, "how an estimate ofthis kind put forth and adhered to by an indepen dent paper like the Washington Post, is calculated to disturb Rlepublican tranquility; especially when it leaves Bryan only nineteen votes from the goal, and with the strong chances he has of carrying Illinois, Iowa. Califor nia, Maryland and WVest Virginia. No wonder the Republicans are pro testing against the figures put out by The Post. but,'' significantly added Major Barnes, "who gainsay them." Fear or Thunder. Electric storms are far less danger ous than the majority of people imag ine. That a severe lightning storm is terrifying admits of no question, and will sometimes bring great uneasiness to the heart of the strongest man. But the real danger is sfight. The chance of lightntng striking a house, for ex ample, is not one in a million. Par ticularly is this true in cities, strung, as most of them are, with electric wires. The great danger from electric storms is in the country, and even there the danger may be lessened if the simplest and most common-sense of precautions are exercised. The sur est electric conductor is a draught, and if, when a thunder storm ap. proaches, it is seen that all windowvs and doors liable to occasion a dranght are he t closed, the danger is at once reduced to a minimum, If a woman is caught out in a thunder storm the safest shelter is a house; the most dan gerous a tree, particularly an oak tree. It is peculiar, but nevertheless a prov en fact, that the oak is the most susceptible of all trees to a cur rent of electricity. Over 50 per cent of trees struck by lightning storms during the summer, the government statistician tells us, were oaks, while the beeech tree was the least harmed. Therefore, the worst possible place of shelter in an electrical storm is under an oak tree, while by all cdds the saf - est place is in a house and out of the draught. The actual danger from an electric storm is. in truth, not from the lightning nor the ttunder, but from the nervous condition into which persons allow themselves to fall. Killed byV an Ov-erdos-e of Mo)rphIie. LtAea-rTE, S. C., Oct. G. - e Reed and his wife, who live on Capt. J. C. Foster's plantation near Rliver side, went to a prayer meeting last Friday night leaving their ten month's old baby in charge of an old colored woman who lived with them. The baby began crying shortly after the parents le ft hiome aE d the old wc mar~, who habitually ustd morphine, conluded to give it a little to qjuiet it. Shie ran her !i!nger down mato the morhine bottle and stuck it in the child's mouth. In about lifteen min utes the child went to sleep and it nevetaw.okeh from the sleep. CAPITAL FOR LABI)OR. ARTHUR SEWALL FORMALLY AC CEPTS NOMINATION. "I ran ar.l Cle-tr Cut. Deli nement of , N a fbon's Troniblop. the Cause amd ltdmnly. A 3illionaire Wi Feels for the Toilers. BATH!, Me., Oct. (.-The following is the letter of acceptance of I Lon. Ar thur Sewall. Democrati- nominee for Vice President of the United SLtes: Bath, Me., Oct. 6. lion. Stephen II. White, chairman, and members of notification commit tee. Gentlemen: I have the honor to accept in writing, as I have already verbally done, the nomination ten dered by you on behalf of the Demo csatic party as its candidate for Vice President of the United States. And in doing so I am glad first, to express my satisfaction that the platform of our party which has commanded my life-long allegiance, is honestly and fully declartory of all its principles and especially of the absorbing fnan cial issue upon which, as you say, I took my stand "when the lious of tri umph seemed remote and when arro gant money changers throughout the world boasted that the conquest of the American masses was cynplete." These principles have be-en of late in abeyance only because those whom we trusted to maintain them Lave faikd to do so--these principles never can die. We have rescued our part y from thyse who under the influence of the money power have controlled and debased it. Our mission is to nomv res cue from this same power and its for eign alliances, our own beloved coun try. This is the first and highest duty imposed by our party's platform upon the performance of this duty all other reforms must wait. The test of party principles is the government they as assure: the proof of good government is a contented and happy people, and the supreme test of both of the ability to guide the country through a crisis as well as tc administer the govern ment in ordinary times. Our peoplenow face a crisis; a crisis more serious than any since the war. To what party shall they turn in their dire emergency. It is true that the present crisis may not involve all equally: that there are those who do not siffer now and who may not suf fer should the crisis threatened by the gold standard come on in all its fury. Human selfishness- makes those deaf to all appeals, but to these, fortunate ly, the Democratic party has never needed to appeal to win its battles, nor does it now, save as there are some among them who can rise superior to self, in the sacrifice which such a cris is demands of every patriot. We are told that the country has prospered under the present monetary standard; 'that its wealth has enormously in creased. Granted. But in whose hands?' In the hands of the toilers, the vroducers, the farmers, the miners, the fabricators in the factories, the creators of the nation's wealth in peace, its defenders in war- Have they prosperity which was their's so late as even two years ago. I deny it. They deny it. None allirm it save those whose interest it is to do so, whose profits would diminish as pros perity returns to those on wose dis tress they thrive. All is indeed not right between cap ital and labor. The best money in the world is none too good for those who have got it, but how is it with the 90) per cent. of our people who have "got it to get?" IHow is it with those who must buy this "best money in the world" with the products of their own labor? These are the people for whom the Dlemocratic party would legislate. What is -the best money for these, is the question for all to ask who really love this land. How, also, ein you increase labor's purchasing power but by igcreasing the price of labor's pro ducts? Is it a fair measure of value that ia our great producing sections, ten bushels of p~otatoes must be p~aid for a dollar, ten bushels of oats for a dolla.-, six bushels of corn for a dollar, three bushels of wheat aidd all other products of the soil and mines and the labor of all wage earners at the same ratio? Does any fair minded man say this is honest money that forces such an exchange, and if it is not a fair ex change is it honest? Is it less than robbery. This is the condition to which the single gold standard has broughit us. Under it the appreciation of the "best money in the world" has increased the wealth of the rich, and for the same reason has increase the debt of the debtor. So under the present standard it must continue to be. With these object lessons about us little need have we for history and statistics and the studies of scholars. Little satisfaction it is to us that they have warned us long since of the dead ly evil of the gold standard. It has brought us at last to the parting of the ways. Whither shall the people go? In the way that has led to their enslavement or into that which oflers them their only chance to regain in dividual liberty, lasting, prosper-ity and happiness? Let not our oppon ents charge us with creating class dis tinctions. Alas for the Republicmns: They are already here, created by the Republican policy for the last 30 years-::reated by the very system we would now overthrow and destroy. Nor do we raise a sectional issue. The nomination you ender repels the charge. None know better than I that this nomination is meant as no personal tribute, but as an assurance that our party is a non-sectional par ty. Not by our policy, but only by the continuance of the gold standard, car. sectionalism be revived. Neither shall cnr opponents be permitted to terrify the people by predictions that temorary disturbance or panic will come from the policy we p)ropese. The American people will be loyal to the nation's money- will stand be hind it and maintain it at whatever value they themselves may put upon it. Once before in the present genera tion have our people been called upon to face a momentous crisis. What then said Mr. Lincoln, the chosen leader of the plain people of the land: Was he awed by threats or weakened by the wily persuasion of the false friends who, as today, pleaded for compromise with wrong? Ihis answer is, "If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our dluty fearless ly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of these sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabor ed, contrivances such as groping foi some middle ground between the right and the wrong, reversing the da ivisne nl calling not the sin ners but the righteous to repentance, such as invocation to Washington im ploring men to say what Washington said and do what Washington did. Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us. Let us have faith that right makes mighi,. and in that faith to the end dare to do our dulty a3 we understand it. We know what the nature of the stru--gle in which we are en gaged, we are anxious only that the people of the land shall understand it and then our battle is won. Behind the strong entrenchment of the gold standard are gathered all those favor ed classes it has fostered the only dangerous classes of the land. Avarice and unholy greed are there, every trust a, d combination is there, every monopoly is there, led by the greatest monopoly of the power of gold. With u3, in our assault upon these entrench rnents,. are all those unseilish men who not now sulfering themselves cannot ret) emtent with conditions so full of suffering for others, and that vastr nuniber of our people who have been sacrificed to the small and sellish class who now resist their at tempts to regain their ancient rights and liberties. There are the patriots of 1SI;; the foes of . dishoneit dollar which en riches 10 per cent. of our people to rob the rest; the defenders of the homes of the land, of public morals and public faith, both of which alike forbid the payment of government ob ligations in a coin costlier to those who have to pay than that the con tracts call for, tie defender of the lion or of the nation, whose most sacred charge is to care for the welfare of all its citizens. The free and unlimited coinage of silver is the sole remedy with which to check the wrongs of to day, to undo the ruin of the past, and for our inspiration we have the justice o! our cause and those cherished prin ciples of Jefferson and Jackson which shall be our guide on our return to to power: "Equal and effect justic to all men; absolute acquiescence in de cisions of the majority; the vital principles of the republic; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." Profoundly sensible of the high honor of the nomination you tender, I am Truly yours, ArTHUR SEWALL. The Registration Figures. COLUMiIA, Oct. 9-The ollicial re ports giving the registration figures for the several counties in the State are still being received by the Secreta ry of State. So far all the counties save ten have sent in their reports. The aggregate number of white voters registered in the 26 counties that have reported is 64,1892, while the negroes have registered only 9,0G0. It is not thought that the registered negro vote in the State will exceed 12.090 as most of the largest negro couwaes are in cluded in the list. Below is given the registration figures so far as they have been received: White. Colored. Barnwell......... S 25 Beaufort... 671 ..0. Berkeley..........1,046 2N Charleston........,87 1,200 Chester............1,907 104 Chesterfield........ 23: 10 Clarendon.........1,70) 250 Edgefield..........2,160 425 Fairfield...........1623 8 Florence............2,4 321 Georgetown...... ..1 t. Hampton.........~2 Iorry ............ Lexington........ S9 :3 Marion........... ,51 1( New berry ......... 195 7 Oconee....... 2,..27 Pickens ...2.... Richland ......... 1,1tl Saluda...... ..... ,S 2 Spatanburg.....15 Sumter.......... ,5 .2 Union........... 2,811. Williamsburg... 58 York.....,....... ,S 2 Marbor....... 74u 5:19 64,867 9,204 Attepte 1,9ass7 104fl ABIEVLLE ~ C,Oc7. 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HENRY GEORGE SAYS M'KINLEY W/ILL BE BEATEN IN OHIO. lie 11:x Come to Thim Cone:miai A fter Spnding Two Wee-ks in tho Stat and Makh;%an I m p:rt Il:al Int e-41 ig:tien of the situation. CLEVE.:LAN, October 5. -After such an examination as one may ma'ke in a little over two weeks. it is my conclu sion that Bryan -,xi'! carry <)hio on the third of November, and that the electoral vote of his own State will be cast against McKinley. This is not a preconceived opinion. On the contrary, when I entered the State my first impression, though not decided, tended the other way. Nor is it an opinion in which the wish has been the father to the thought. I know how subtle is the disposition to see the things through the medium of one's own desires, yet I have not only tried to dispassionately discover and coolly estimate political condions and tendencies, but think that I have so far succeeded in trying to be fair as to under, rather than to over, estimate what has accorded with my wish. Nor have I any such intense desire as to tlie result of this election to warp my judgment. I resolved from the first to vote for Bryan, for, although I might dissent from him on some things he clearly came nearest to ex pressing what I think just and right in national policy. But I would cast my sufirage for him as readily if I knew he would not get a single electo ral vote as if I knew he would gain the whole college. And I have learned not to count to,) much upon elections. I tried to aid the ekcetion of Tilden with all my strength, because I thought him a believer in that Jeffer sonian philosophy of an adherance to which I believe the perpetuity of De mocratic-Republican institutions de pends, I again worked earnestly for the election of Cleveland, only subsequent ly to feel that it would have been bet ter for the immediate success of all I thought him to stand for if the elec tion had gone the other way. I was ready to vote for McKinley, although he stands for everything I oppose, in case Cleveland or such a Democrat as he proved himself to be had been chosen at Chicago, for, free trader as I am, I thought it better to have a thorough going protectionist in the Presidential chair than such a revenue reformer as Mr. Cleveland proved to be. Nor would I now despair were Mc Kinley to be elected, for under him I think there would be such a saturna lia of special privilege as would bring strong and quick reaction. In this cool temper I have gone over so much of the State of Ohio as makes me think I can judge of the rest, forming my opinions from those whom I could think dispassionate, and it now seems to me that Bryan is gaining a greater strengtb n McKinley's own State than even 4 '00a l Dmocratic politicians dare t figure on. Both. the hope and thelfear that Mc Kinley will carry Ohio are'based upon the perfection of the Republican or ganization, the special interests at its back and the great amount of money atits dibposal. But to my mind, there are fo~rces oni the other side that more than offset these. Take the matter of organization, a matter of which every Demccratic practical p -litician laments the lack, and it seems to me that the Bryan people have the advantage. Their organization is of a dilferent kind, but it will prove, I think, the more effective as the short sword and more open order of the Roman legion proved more effective than the long spears and serried ranks of the Grecian phalanx. In every city in which I have been, and in every town of which I have heard, is the proof that the political discussion that is going on is hand-to hand work, and what counts the hang ing up of banners, the hiring of great halls, th~e bringing of speakers from abroad, the getting up of monstrous excursions, to tne talk of neighbor with neighbor that is honeycombing the entire State with free silver clubs and Bryan leagues. Take the power of the bands and railroads and all they control. Time and time it has been proved that their power at the polls is as nothing when a clear issue is made against them. Take the matter of money. It seems to me that the monstrous size of the funds at Republican disposal will prove an injury, not a bene fit, on elec tion dlay. Oiver all the States and from the lips of every speaker, D emno crat and Populist alike, the word has gone fr-th to spoil the Egyptians. "Take all they offer you andl then ask for more, but when you get in the vot ing bo-oth vote as your conscience dic tates." I think the very knowledge of the fact that this on the Republican side is a money campaign will destroy the ef fectiveness of money. Now in the iast Presidential elec tion Harison is credited with having carried Ohio by only something like a thousand votes, but in reality the cont test was even closer than these figures show. One electoral vote was given to Cleveland. The reason of this was that in a number of cases both Repub licans and Democrats were under the imression that by marking the first name on the list of electors they would cast their votes for all the rest. By this mistake the Democrats lost more than the Republicans. So much so that the vote -for the first elector was declared chosen, while the rest of the Cleveland electors were defeated. Thus by the real intent of all the vot ers participating, Cleveland, not Uiar rson, should have carried the State. Now the consensus of all that I have heard is that there wvill be in Novem ber next a full Democratic vote, and that its loss on .the money question will be little, if any. more than its loss by Cleveland's position on the tariff question; that Bryan will have the full vote, as he is certainly getting every where in Ohio the enthusiastic work of the P'opulists; that he will get at least two-thirds of the Prohibition ists, though they may vote for a local candidate of their own; that there is a stronger derteriination among workingmen to vote for Bryan than there ever yet has been to vote for any candidate, ~and that in the strongest Republican counties throughout the State there is a very large nody of for mer Republicans who will this year vote for the D~emocratic Presidential candidate. The specific statements as to counties and townships that I have had as to this from men on whom I can rely would indicate that Bryan ml c~rr thi Staein Novemtber by a perfect landslide. And now, when only four weeks of the campaign remains, there can be no question as to which -:ide is gaining. Free silver is e ery whe-re making its way, and everywhere the Re,pih!ican candidatesare losirg ground. I 1ud this in Cleveland as I return to it. af ter a week's absence, and it is the thing upon which all of those t have talked with elsewhere are agreed. And to to those elements of success is biing add-l that most potent element which Bryan's personal touch with the peo ple is prcducing and inteusifying-a belief in the honesty of the mai. From my views of the situation, I can not think that Bryan will fail to carry Ohio by a large majority, and the same iniluences that give him Ohio should give him all the Central Wes tern States that have been considered doubtful. -- enry George in New York Journal. BYNUM TAKES A GLOOMY VIEW Says Mc Kinley Will Have in Hus4tle to Wia. NEW YOnu, Oct. 5. Congressman W. ). Bynum, who recently resigned as chairman of the National (ioldt Democratic Committee, arrivcd in the city last nig lit. Mr. Bynum's business is to raise money for the caipain, that Indiana, Illinois and other Smates may be carried for McKinley. Don M. Dickinson. of Michigan, also ar rived in the city yesterday, and it is expected that Mr. Dickiuson and Mr. Bynum will have a conference with the Republican leaders today. The ex chairman of the H1annae-ratie- U mi nittee is not as certain of the omwt~iin. of the election as he was t k-o weeks' ago. Speaking of the situation in flli nois and Indiana, Mr. Bynum said: "Anybody who talks ab.u'. whit Indiana or Illinois will do d )es not know what he is talking about. In the southern part of Illinois I know that the whole country is fcr free sil ver. I know from gold De-aacrats that men wearing McKinley ba: tons visiting Damceratic National head quar ters in Chicago every day and scir ing free silver literature which they are distributing to their fellow- work men. The Republicans have a per fect organization. They are sending out about three carloads of literature every day. "In Indiana many Democrats will vote for McKinley, but many Republi cans who are going to vote for Bryan. Of course the Democrats lack organiz i tion, but anybody who thinks they have no votes is badly mistaken. No bcdy knows just how the farmer vo'e and the workingmen's vote is going. "A friend of mire, a gold Democrat, but who has stayed in the organiza tion, talking to me the other day, said that he addressed a meeting of 300 men. The meeting was a secret one of railroad men. The 300 were for Bryan. Of that number more than half wore McKinl-y and Hobart but tons. "I met a man whose brother is run ning for Congress in one of the dis tricts. He himself is a gold man, but, naturally, wants to help his brother, who is running on the silver platform. I asked him how things were going and where he had been, and he told me he had been around in three co ties and he had neverthad such an perience in his ,li6. He sai nearly eyc:y nther man he had changed his politics o the other, but from what he had h he thought the silver men had the best of it. The situation all over the West is just the same, so far as I can learn.' People In Florida Starving. JAKsoxyiLm:, Oct. 5. Every re port in regard to the storm increases the death list and the estimate of the property lost. The condition of the people in the storm district is appal ing and there is urgent need of aid tc prevent starvation. Ad vices. fron Baker say! "While the suffering in Baker county is great from the etfects of the storm, the damage is also very great. It is estimated that the total loss aggregates come $250,00O S1h an derson's loss will reach fully $3,000,t of which George P. Canova, one of the leading merchants, is damaged abouut $15,000 and Mrs. McI ons $3,000 to SS,I)00. Olustee's loss is about $30,000, of which the E~ppinger Russell company lose about $15,000. Johnville's loss is about 00,000, ol which the turp~entine men lose in th( neighborhood of $25,000. McClen ney's loss is about $2n,000. The b~al ance is distribated among the farmers. The above does not include loss of cattle, which cannot be estimated un til spring, Baker county being a larg< cattle raising section. In consequence of the the above losses, the county cJminIssioners have issued the follow ing appeal which explains itself: Te His Excellency, Hion. Henry L. Mitchell. Governoer of the State of lIorida. The board of county commissioners, in regular session, do respectfully peti tion your excellency. in his good jnxdg ment, to der.se some means to assia the sutfering people of this (Baker county in their sad a iiction caused by the storm of last Tuesday. The peo ple are in destitute circumstances, without shelter to cover their heads. without iood to appease their hiunge-, and a great many are without a change of clothing. We would suggest tc your excellency that an earnest call tc uninjured counties to come to our aid, or if necessary, a call for an extra ses sion of the legislature, would be o. great moment. But one gin house stands in the county, every church and school house is destroyed and the mer chants who are heavy losers are un able to contribute to the distressed. Most all farmers in the cunty have lost their cotton crops, just housedand ready for market, and as aconseque net are unable to pay the merchants for ad vances anid fertillizers furnished and even to purchase food for their sufYer ing ones. We suggest that contribu tions be sent to the clerk, of the board of county commissioners. Georgs IP. Carnova. D. L. Roberts. J1. S. Dowling. J. R. Barnes. Fatal l.uler Exlsin D~ANVIs:.. P'a., C ct. s -A boilei exploded this evening in the big roll ing mills here owned by the P'hiladel phia and Reading Railroad company and occu piedl by the Reading Iron com pany. One man and a baby was kill ed and thirteen men hurt, six of then seriously. The furnace was not in use and brick layers were repairing it. The boiler was lifted by the for-ce a the explosion from its bed throuzh the mill wvall and Ilying aclcss the street. crashed through the frail wallb of an Hungarian boarding house, killing the baby. The cause of the explosion cannot be determined to night. A DEFENSE OF SEWALL. A1. PromhtI Pulist Ad vb Wa n t) W;ihdraw. IRo.\mK, VG., Ot. 7. The follow ing letter has been rade public: Rhnkv Mount. Va , (ct. 5,18%. My Dear Sir: From :i sense of patri otic d ut v and in strict accordance with consistent principles of Populist senti ment expressed and asseverated, I write to urge you to cease your oppo sition to fusion where the same is gen e-ally believed to be of advantage to the immediate success of the great cause of financial reform, to which you have so far so greatly contributed. Fusion on this great national question is the only practical means by which success can be obtained. Division at this time means at least procrastina tion. We cannot alford to delay the consummation of this great question. Success now to our enemies means that hereafter means their entrench meats will be made strouger and dilli culties in the line of success to us will be greatly augmented. If I properly understand the terms of oppositon wk Ien four years ago I aligned myself against the two'old farties, it was the enforcement of certain ideas of public policy which you and I then thought, as now, to be absolutely essential to the future welfare of the people of this great republic. Alone as a par;y, not Withstanding the fact that our ideas have been imbued and strongly en dored, we cannot expect in the near future to accomplish our purposes; therefore it is the action of wise men ?.o second the efforts of our new friends and allies and, even though it b3 under their guidance, aim to reach the goal of our desires. Our chances are multiplying, and each day we are drawing nearer to victory. Unity of action in this campaign will insure us the triunph of our principles. It is not a triumph of party which we pro fessedly a'm at. We hLve time after time endorsed "prompt alliance with those who would ac-ord with us in principles." Principles. not party nor men, has been our battle cry. Shall we create distrust by fighting in a manner which assuredly endangers success? Our new allies have adopted almost in toto our platform of principles. They have gone still further and placed as their standard-bearer a man honestly and fully imbued with the tenets of our organizition, a man who is no recent convert to Poixulist ideas, but who has been valiantly and indis putably hghting for a number of years in behalf of our causa. Talk to me of autonomy of party when such principles and such a cause are at stake: There is no eirthly chance of your election. If our cause wins in this race Bryan and Sewall are elected. Whilst I greatly prefer a Southern man to vote for, and a man who, like yourself, has been in the forefront of the hitherto battles fought for reform, yet I cannot hesitate to support Mr. Sewall, no' only because of his availability, but also because I believe that if eccted ind the oppor tunity presents itself, Mr. Sewall would conscientiously carry out the i xt of the piatform upon which - selected. I am not one who that because Mr. Sewall is at banker he is obdurate on the 4 national banks. I do not ndividual; I blame the law es national, banks. You say the m who votes for Sexall had as well and would as consistenifWI for Eobart. The former declares him self in favor of free coinage at the ra tio of it; to 1; the other in favor of monometallism, unless Western Eu rope agrees to bimetallism. (Quite a difference, my 16 to 1 friend. Tne for mer is willing right now to establish free and unlimited coinage; the latter is willing to postpone action until Gladstone and the monarchical gov ernment of England says so..--The for mer is tantible; the latter is positively not so. In conclusion, my dear sir, allowv me to emphasize that your stay on the ticket jeopardizes the success of our cause and that a withdrawal on your part would be heralded with patriotic delight by many of your party friends and largely by those who esteem you as a great andI good man. Yours truly, Populist National Coinmmittee. A City D~estroy.d. New Yo:ui~, Oct. S.-Mr'. Miguel Valvedere, consul general of Ecuador. received a cablegram this morning wxhich st.ated that the great lire in Gxuayaquil had been finally subdued. Loss estimiatedl at $25,000,O00, while the total insurance is but a little over 9'',U00,n00. Mr. Valvedere has had sev eral dispatches yesterday and today regarding the great :conflaeration. Hie says the lire started about mid night Tuesday and spread very rapid lydespite the ef forts of the fire depart mnent. Ax number of persons were burned or killed during thre, progress of the fire, but the exact number is not yet known. The loss of life was heav -est in the vicinity of the arsenal, which blew~ upl while a number of volunteers were making heroic e fforts to prevent the fire from reaching it, The fire broke out in the best section of the city and destroyed the custom house, business houses and stores, sev eral churches and many dwellings. The Malencon, the principal street, has been laid waste by the Ilames. F ullv :30,000 persons, nearly one half of the city's population, are home less. Great destitution prevails, many persons being without food and with out even necerss-ary closing' Consul Valvedere's advices state that the fire was of incendiary origin and that great indignation is felt because of the crime. - 'rompt punisamient will be meted -to. the effer 1ders should they be S:~:ArsE; N. Y., Oct. 6. -One of Major MdKirilej's near relatjy.es, NVil 1am B3. Albro, a prosperous: farmer. who resides riear the little ha-mnlet of Cincin natus,- Cor.andl Coun ty. has come out strongly "for Dryan and free silver. .He does not propose to allows family- ties to interfere with his politi cal beliefs and will not vote for his Ohio relative. Mr. Albro is Major McKinle'.'s cousin, and lived for r ome years mO the town of Milibrook, Ohio. [n an interview yesterday Mr. Albro s~dd: "I am~ sorry to say that I cannot vote or wvorki for McKioley's election. I have just retturned from Nebraska, where i lived for the past fifteen years and where I had thle pleasur-e of the acquaintance of Mr. Dryan. I believe that he is perfectly honest in his work and- I know that he is a gentleman and a Christian. It is for the interest of the farmer and all people who till the soui to vofr P~rvan and Rewall" MR1XSON HAS RESIGNED. THE BOARD OF CONTROL ACCEPTS THE RESIGNATION. The Stato 1oard Then Takes Up and Con ihers OWr Ma:tter-. of Importance to the Stato. CoLunu., Oct. .--A.ter all there have been two very surprising things to develop from the recent dispensary investigation, and the action of the State board of control as published yesterday morning. In the first place State Commissioner Mixson has re signed his position and his duties will cease with tomorrow. This is a com plete surprise to even Col. Mixson 's friends. The other matter is the de termination of the State board of con trol to leave the Mill Creek and Pee bles concerns out of it when it comes to purchasing liquors for the dispen sary. It w.As noised around yesterday rorning th at Commissioner Mixson had determined to hand in his resig nation, inasmuch as the board's reso lution had cleared him of all wrong doing. No amount of questioning could bring any light to bear on the matter. Severs I members of the board, when question, denied flatly that the b.c.rd had requested the resignation, and Col. Mixs:n himself, when asked if this were true, denied it alniost em phati ally. He declined to say whether he would resign or not. Things rock ed along through the day, newspaper men biing constantly on the look out for some davelopment, but no resig nation was forthcoming. During the morning Col. Mixson was summoned before the board of control and found Governcr Evans aheady present. From what can be ascertained this was due to the consideration by the board of the matter of getting Gover nor Evans to stop the seizures of im ported liquors by the constabulary. Mixson, 1t seems, was called in to make a statement as to the extent of such seizures by the constables. What the upshot of the matter was is of course unknown. It was about 6:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon' when Col. Mixson sent to the board his resignation in the shape of the following letter,. which gives his reasons for his action: Columbia, S. C., Oct. 8, 1896. To the State Board of Conttio: It has been my desire for some months to resign my position as State commissioner, but on account of the many rumors and slanderous reports in circulation I could not afford to do so, preferring to wait an investigation by your honorable board. You Lave conducted this investigation and have exonerated me fully from any wrong doing, and I now tender you this my resignation, to take effect as soon as you gentlemen can name my success or, or in any other manner relieve me of the duties. I would be glad to have you act at as early a time as you pos sioly can, but I do not wish to embar rass you nor the business in causing you to act hastily. Very respectfully, (Signed) F. M. MION. Shortly afterwards the-State board of control took a recess until this morning. After the doors were open ed it was ascertained that the board had accepted the resignation of Com missioner Mixson, to take effect at 6 o'clock tomorrow eveni the whsat ite board would do about elect ing Col. Mixcson's successor, stated that the board had not acted in regard to the matter as jd~, '-..t that it would make proper pravision for the conduct of the business of the dispensary until the place could be filled. how the board will overcome the features of the law affecting the con duct of the business in case of the comniksioner's resignation, which were pointed out in The State a few days ago, remains to be seen. Those features - of the law were called to the attention of The State by an' attorney of some note. It is understood that the attorney general's oflice holds dif ferent views, however, and is -of the opinion that the provisions of the law quoed dnt apply to the matter in the way pointed out. The board, it is said, considers itself free to go ahead and select a successor to Col. Mixson. The board was busy yesterday with its monthly purchases of whiskey. Most of the purchases were made; but no information in regard thereto was given for the public, except that no orders were given to the Peebles and Live Oak companies. The board- has determined not to make public hence forth the names of the parties from whom liquors were purchased and the amounts that were purchased. This information will be withheld in the future. Mr. Allen, the member of the board whose church mntimated that it wanted -, his resig-nation as a member of the board, w'as present yesterday. He will very likely have something to say about tbe matter today. Mr. White of Cincinnati is still here. He had the board informed that-while he had refused to make a statement in regard to the rebate qsuestion in Cin cinnati, he was here now and had come her e for the purpose of becom ing a witness. He has not yet gone before the board, however. He will probably give a statement to the press today in regard to the scandal, imas mucn as his name was so frequently brought in by the several witnesses. State. A Sensation in sumter. SaMin, Watober 7.-Since Capt. D. E. Keels retired from the treasurer's otlice of Sumter county it has been re ported that he was a defaulter for sev eral thousand dollars, but until this term of court nothing definite was de veloped. At the last term of court the grand jury appointed a special com mittee to inspect the books of Ex Treasurer Keels and report at this term of court. The committee em pleyed WV. WV. Suder, an expert book keeper, to examine the books, which he did. and the presentment' of the grand jury made this afternoon de clares D. E. Keels a defaulter for N,IMtS. Judge Benet ordered the Solicitor to tike the necessary steps to bring Mr. Keels before the court at this session, which will be done. Murders~ at the Poll. AUGUSTA Uctober 7.-A special t o the Chronicle from Mi'len, Ga., says: >a the opening of the polls at Monte. Emanuel county, Win. Durdens, a negro hand, walked up to vote, when the D)emocratic ucket. was snatched out of his hand by C. WV. Williams, a negro Third partyite. Several Demo crats rushed for him, and Williams pulled his pistol and killed S. S. Mid dleton. H~e made an effort to escape, hut waseorwraklan and shot to death.