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V L XV. ----_-----M- -- -----lAN'1iNG.x S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1900.N~1 About th e Die p -r s . y A I h:' Ma b~r., Mexivg. BET TER THAN PROHIBITION Neariy i the C ,ncidates Has Their Say t" .he One Thcusarnd Par pie W .o Was Present The campaign m etiis at ie~nnetts yile last Wednesday was a udei d by a thousand people, who ca-:ie for miles to hear the e tdidates discu- the issues of the day. This is the i1 r: of W. D. Evans, candidates for roelction as rail road commissioner. -and of Knox Livingston candidia'c for lieutenant goverLor. V. %ch %.-s wt'll received and will carry the county solidly. The first speaker was Baruey b' Evans. He said that Lebad been taunted with thc fact that he ul-i not in Marlboro attack the record of W. I) Evans. He renewed his etarg-s today and said they w, re direct at W. D.'s cflcial record. W. D. hay n' right to ride on a pass. He must pay his fare and railroad refands according to 1 iw. Darey Duncan is the railroad comnas sioner. Mr. Berry said this county is pros perous bccause it is a prohioition county. Prohibition does prohibit here. Col. Pettierew was willing for W. 1 Evans to carry the county, but he wanted the votes not going .' Erans. W. ). Evans, who introduced his competitors, had not intend( d to speak, but replied to Barney. The rates are not driving mills out of the State. Five have been established in this county since he went on the board Pacolet is building a new mill in Gcergia because the attitude of Cheraw is too low, and the mill now runtirg consume nearly all the cotton raised in the State. J. H. Wharton proposed to correct evils of demurrage, overcbarges, etc. W. D. Mayfield is not here. Eth eridge has not been with the caimpaign for five meetings. Gi'BERNATORIAI. CANDIDATES. The first candidate for governor to speak was Frank B Gary. He said he would not force a dispensary ot Marl boro and he did not want prohtition forced on Abbeville. Let each have what it wants. He bclieved in the dis pensary law. There has been a tax en forcement. Have the manhood to en force it in Charleston as well as alse where. McSweeney is running on his record and he desn't show anything but the pardon of Pons. No chid would pardon a notorious bigamist. If the governor would d.ow some back bone, the blind g r.: would be afraid of him. His senti :. that no Con federate soldier sho'.: to the poor house was cheertd. , * cannot do too much to foster the pub is schools. Pat terson asked Gary s'm.t1 i: g about the latter's speech in Chariegoe. Gary re plied explaining fully hiu pociton on the liquor question. 11-- a a-heered Patterson was the rtxt neake r lde is not wel-has been sick for tlir re da s. This is the politie.!o bhp aet of Ben Tiliman. There is a p ,erful newspaper trust, ar.d MeS~ c .y tre a to get the pull of the pres Pat:ern-u stated he had stuck to tne di; essar) through the scendal lat fall lie did not want to force th~e dispeusary on Marlboro. but prohibition la but a sen timent here. in adiditicn to Chsar?y ton's tiger indu~try, he e!airued there are over 200 in the ci-y of Columbia. The law cannot be absolutely, euforced in Charleston, but he womad do it bet ter than it is done now er nep down from office. All through his speech he took great pains to show' his reverence for Ben Tillman. Gov. McSweeney saia that all P'auer son wants is to fool the the people to put in into cifice. Patterson looked all over the vouche;s in the comptroller general's office and could iiud nothins against the administratiOn but war rants paying fur a few newspapers. No man in South Carolina is so, ignorant as to think that a newspaper's support -can be bought for a dollar a year. Every governor had sulsenbr a for pa. pers-some had even taken naapz nes. He was cheered when Le reterrea to the Pons case. Patterson-"I. have a letter from a gentleman in Laurens saying that yo are grinding out a lot of pardons.' McSweeney-'Oh- well. that from some fellow who's in synapithy with you." (A pplause.). . The governor continued tthat he de ied any man to show where a single pardon had not been jastied. He had told his chie-f ennstablie in Charlestor to enforce the dispensary law rigidly. The grand jxry in Charleston, like ,thc grand jury in Barewell, whiech woulan believe Patterson in prohibition days. will not support the otlials in eo forcing the dispinsary law. The govern~or reac letters froms the mayors of Newberry, Chester, Spartanburg. Saluda, Florene and Laurens, commendimg his enforce ment of the dispensary law. lie fur nishes proof of his adamiaistration-thel others make premises. MleSweenes made a very favorable impression here. Col. Walt Whitman came at the eleventh hour, atrivin-g from, ('heraw. His quaint witticisms kept the crow( laughing. The Piedmont thinks it i. time it is getting so'ee of the turkey 1i has been Puierg down.. Col. Jas. A. Hoyt is in accord witi Marlboro-a prohibitionist as long a: Marlboro has bad prohbi>1ion. Thi county has resentcd any attempti change. Marion Lad been a p'ronibi tion county, but a dupentary wss es abished there without the. consent o the people. Dillion. had tried to hay the dispensary removed and could not It ill-becomes a candidate for governo o go around the e:.untry atu:,ing th papers for not supporting him. Patter son has been into 16i counueis and iti a reection upon him that no pape has come to his suplort. Col. Hoy oud not repudiate or re ject thbe sup port of papers that oppose prohibitioD and et they have taken him up on "i manhood. Gary pleads the cause o the Confederate soldier- No one woul< do more for them than Hoyt, who wa e f tbk:. There are large raber: ' ,-, . i : to town tO educate teir.ciilda. leaving their lands to Tan''' who dis not know how to main ise th. The common schools should be bii up. to inaitaiu the agricultu ru :.re -t of the country and keep far:ers froT running to town. Col. +i' } wa- applauded. .Et'rENAN1' (OVERNOR Col. Knox Livingston introduced his coaapetitors, speaking in kindest terms of e:.ch of them present, as well as of Col. Tillman, who wired that he was left in Augusta. Cole S. Blease, Winkler and Sloan ea.:h made a strong speech. Many pco ple think there is as much eloquence amon- the cclinds as aWong the can did ats fur roverno-r. 'lafHER STATES i'!C'E1s Dr. Tian r:nan and Capt. Jennings were here and sp oke. Judge Moore spoke. B.:iinger was absent. McMa han was not i er.'. Capers made a hit Bryoker and )erhmi had a little tiff lro'oker a~cu-td I~rhaim of porverting the ro-rd Derhaw told him he must not -ay that Brooker returned that 1erhan had exhibited a letter fr)m Auditor Squier of Columibia stating that sene of Brcoker's charges were rot true. The latter went to -ee Squire and the litter denied writing it. Drbam ex.ibitd the letter from Sqilier. SENATOR TILLMAN S'EA K5. Senator Tilaan was greeted with cheerit: in two weeks it wi1l be 15 bears i e- !he people of Marlboro di cover, d i' Tilimnn. He made his first spe, el. here in 1S35, Their appre ciation of his efforts then had much to do with shaping affairs in South Caro lina for the last 10 years. He had been at home plodding along, reading papers and books. and doing a devil of a lot of thi::king. not kno-inkg that he had the gift of gab There must have been an occain Tne time was ripe. He happened to step forward when free speech was sweet to the people. They had always found him r ght where he had said he would be. (Cheers.) The State campaign is one of the direct out growths of the Reform movement. The people can get some idea-of the fitness of the candidates. There are a lot of candidates for these offices but nobody wants to be senator. It is an honor to have the almost unanimous endorsement for a place of trust. His old friends are sticking to him and a host of new ones are sup porting him, lie is weighed down with the magnitude of the responsibility. If he has accomplished anything at Washington it is because he felt the consciousness of the support of the people at home. He wanted to take the liberty to give the people some ad vice. If he were a politician he would keep his mouth shut. But as a leader he must say something. The State campaign is degenerating into something which is not good on account of the number of candidates. There is necessarily a time limit. They get up here and say their little speeches and sit down. They cannot debate and bhow their mettle. The people get a half digested idea of the campaign. The people are getting back to a condi tion of stagnation-the green scum is rising over their heads. The people of South Carolina are doing wrong to gag the candidates. The candidates are not saying any thing new or the newspapers are not doing the square thing. 1s it import ant for half a dozen men to diacuss railroads? It is better for two candi des to talk one day and two the next if 'hey tlk4 their out and say some :h h they have any brains it will -b their mettle. He was going to take~ the~ liberty of looking about the d i-r,. Not because he wants to dicite,. the people will not submit to d'ew'i'n. National issues need no discus-ion:. lHe would not try to bias thei:- ';otes, lultng the sale of liquor has bentecause of more trouble than any other problem. If the State has the right to meddle with the sale of whiskey at all it has the right to regu late its sale, Whiskey is usually drunk where bought-other articles of com merce are Lakenr home. The history of former prohibitiotn contests in this S-ate is that town after town would go "dry." and then would go "wet" at the next election. W\hen a town was dry under prohibition, there was just as much drinking and no revenue. There were 95,000) votes in 1892 and but 60, 000 votes on the prohibition question and the crude prohibition questien won b.y 10 000 votes. Childs intro dedan ironclal bill The legisla ture is always a skittish crowd. It pasd tl.e Childs bill. Hie himself had taken this bill, had knocked out some drastic features and inserted the clauses which allowed the State to sell liquor under dispensary regulations. This was passed by the senate and later by the house. It was an issue in 18944 (an~d was adopted ) lie himself had kept the constitutional convention from inserting the law in the constitu tion, body and breeches. It was set tled in 1896 and again in 1898. How many times must it be settled to be settled. The people must quit voting for personal preferences and settle this issue once and for all. The prohibitionists are honorable men and led by an honorable man. but they polled but 15,000 votes last time. Charleston voted for prohibition in the last election. Are they enforcing pro hibition now? There is an unholy alli ance of preachers and barkef pers led by Col. Hoyt, and yet you people vote for their personal preferences. You are not at to vote. (Laughter ) Marlboro is a model county, they say. They have never sold whiskey by law. SOn, you hypocrites! When 1. was governor 1 heard of wagons com ing down here from North Carolina. Where do you get your liquor? I know you drink it. You love it. You go down to the depet on Saturday evening and you will find a whole express car loaded with jugs and demijohns." Tillman replied that this is a knotty question. The constitutional conven tion in its liberality to Charleston de clared that there should be a true bill -by a grand jury before there could be a change of venire. The grand jury in Charlesten will never find a true bill against a blind ti ger and is lying. -But if he were gover nor he would put 50 constables in Charleston and raise hell on Chicco's street. lie called upon the people to Imake the candidates for the legislature declare themselves over their signature inth onty papers, and run squarely on the aiqui r issue. If a man were licensed to sell liquor under constitu tional provi.ins it would be a failure. He would keep open Sundays. circus days and after sundown, and he would sell as mean liqor as he could get. Behind the prohibitionists come the high license people --Gonzales leading the vsn--and they are marching against the common fie. He disclaimed med dling and said he had .only given his views for what they were worth." "What about Marcus? ' in1'iired some one. Tillman then said that the Demo cratic party had lined up and reunited. We have the Republicans on ice. Bry an has five chances of winning to his one in 1S% After Bryan has been in there four years and given them an honest administration the Republican party will not be heard of in 25 years. Tillman's objective is the tier of counties along the North Caroliua line. ie will go to Darlington Thursday, where it is confidently expected col. Hoyt will reply to him He will nriss eamdcn and Lancaster, but will go to Chester and Yorkville and thence through all the counties in Anderson. MEETINt ATD.\ItLINGTON. The campaign me-ting at D.frliagton on Thursday passed Off pleasantly. There was about five hundred people present The spceeches were abiut the same as those at other meetings, except that Col. Hoyt took issue with Senator Tillman. In referring to the Senator's Bennettsville speech he said that it is very apparent that somebody is getting very uneasy over this election. There are too many things being said about the chances of Hoyt's being elected. Senator Tillman is down here to weed out his crop of dispensary cndidates '!here arc too many candidates and he wants to marshal his forces. He has been out west and perhaps has heard the news. Ti lman courageously speaks his convie: i -u. Hie has not a bad memoty. Did he not in 1S91 protest against Wade Hampton's coming down here and taking part in State politics? And is this not the very thing he is doing now. The people who vote for Hoyt will not go to Tillman to get per mission. He, Hoyt, had done as mtaah in 1856 and 1888 for primaries and for free speech as had Tillman. Tillman has made a mistake, unless it is his pur pose to weed out these dispensary can didates. He ripped one of them up the back at Bennettsville. Bat it is not fair for him, the United States sen ator, the representative of all the peo ple, to come down here and disturb the natural ouLcome. It does not comport with his former fairness. Tillman has a right to the speaker's stand of course, but Col. Hoyt protested against inter ference. He invited Tillman to visit him at the executive mansion. (Laugh ter.) SENATOR TILLMAN SPEAKS. Senator Tillman was received with applause. He had always received the support of this county. He wanted the people to see how fat he is getting. People grow fat on abuse and pap. He had worked for every cent he gets. From some words uttered here today, some might be led to think that he is meddling. That old gag of coat-tail swinging has been heard aeain. He had never posed as a boss. le had always led the people in the way they wanted to go. Col. Hoyt is an honorable man, who bears upon his person the scars of battle. But he ougtht not to object to Tillman's differing with him on pub lic issues. Col. Hoyt had said somne thing about Tillman protesting against Senator Hampton meddling with thelocal race, and the inference is that Tillman is now meddling. Hampton was not at that time a candidate. Tillman i3 now 2 candidate. lHe had not taken up the cudgels for any one man, and as a can did 3te he has the right to be heard. H e renewed his protest against the time limit being cut down. Col. Hoyt in his address in Columbia at the prohibi tion convention charaterized the dis pensary administration as that of a scalawag, and a little short of radical ism. Tillman claimed the right to de fend his administration which was thus attacked. "Furthermore, it is my baby." Should he remain quiet under these circumstances? Hie is going to talk, and anybody who doesn't like it can lump it. He then went into a dis cussion of the dispensary versus pro hibition. His interest would be to keep his mouth shut. He would take orders from the people, but not from the newspapers or anybody else. People love liquor. If they are estopped from buying it legally they will lie to get it. Hie recognizes the evils of whiskey, but people will have it. It has been re cognized for time out of mind that t here is the right to regulate and to police its sales. He called attention to the good features of the dispensary. If you for id people to drink they will drink any how. Why not try prohibition? Be cuse it has been pointed out that it will take force to enforce it, anid the people will not submit to a direct tax for its enforcement. The army of min isters wanting prohibition marches side by side with the high license men. Do you want barrooms? If you do, repeal the dispensary law. The revenue will then be lost-nothis to comnpensate for it-and just as much drunkenness as now. There will be a still up every spring branch. It has been ten years since Tillman spoke at Darlington, but he was received today as then. Dying by Thousands. An era of hot weather that surrasses in intensity the drought during 189's is sweeping over the southern portion of Arizona. denuling the land of all food for cattle. To add to the suffering that is entailed upon the herds, every water hole and most of the wells have com pletely gone dry. In consequence the cattle are dying by thousands and their shrunken frames dot the desert country of Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz Yuma, Cochise and part of Naricupa counties. Not a dro p of water is re ported in the Gila and in the San Pe dro, from Benson to its confluence with Salt river, near Phoenix. Not one teth of a harvest will be secured. So dry is the air and so infiammable have the forests on Santa Catalinas become that fire is ravaging hundreds of acres of timber. China on the War Path. it is reported from Chee Foo that Prince Tuan has mobilized 9->0,000 men and ordered his nothern forces to expel the foreigners from the Amur district. Siberia. Another force will opeat against Meekeden. WORLD VS. CHINA. The Situation Practically is One of international War. AVERY GLOOMY OUTLOOK. The Chinese Ministers Are Not Allowed to Send Secret Mes sages to Their Home Goc.vernment. The aution of Count Ven Buelow, the German minister of foreign affairs, informing the Chinese legation at Ber lin that all telegraphic messages must be in plain language and submitted for approval by the censor, and the sug gestion of M. Delcasse. the French minister of foreign aff airs, that the ex portation of arms to China be prohibit ed, which are generally regarded as the first steps in t'., direction of treating China as a state engaged in war, have been supplemented by the official an nouncement from St. Petersburg that certain portions of the Amur territory, including parts of the Khabarovsk dis trict and the coast territory, as well as the towns of Blagovestehensk, Khab arjbovsk and Nikolksussuri, have been declared in a state of war since July 17. Russian action is regarded in L~ndon as at leaat the fereshadowing of a speedy unconditional recognition of the fact that a condition af war exists between China and the civilized world, and the general opinion seems to be in favor of such recognition as the best means of meeting the barbarian up heaval, while at the same time endeav oring to isolate the independent vice roSs from the general conflagration. The revelation of the ability of the Chinese forces in the north to stand their ground against the international interests is producing the inevitable results in the south. At Shanghai it is announced officially thatforeign women and children have been requested to leave the ports along the river. THE QUARTERLY REPORT What The State Dispensary Has Been Doing. The legislative examining cammittee having completed its examination of the books and affairs of the State dis pensary for the quarter ending May 31, its report showing the financial status of the concern for the quarter was com pleted Thursday and forwarded to the grvernor. The committee consists of Senator Hay and Representatives Mob ley and Sharpe. The following synop sis was prepared Thursday: From the asset column come these figures: Cash in treasury May 31. $115,87161 Merchandise in hands of dispensers............. 215,756.07 Merchandise in State dis pensary ............... 154,269.24 Supplies................. 36.097 33 Real estate............ 36, 55C .70 Suspended accounts....... 3,558.70 Personal accounts due for tax advanced on bonded spirits, empty barrels etc 3,810.42 Contraband........ ......40302 Teams and wagons and real estate make a grand total of $569,261.11. The liabilities are quoted thus: School fund, $495,278 50; personal ac counts due for supplies of whiskey, etc. 73,9S2 61; making $569,261 11. The gross profits were $127,221 017; contraband seizures, $1,094 74; State's prfits from Germania bre wery, $1,060. S1. Supplies used during the quarter, such as bottles, corks, boxes, etc., amounted to $37,6396 30; breakage and leakage, $2,231.87; labor, $3,855.71; salaries, expenses of inspectors, per diem of members, printing, lights, etc., camue to $6,247.,34. The constabulary cost $S 417.29, and it will be noted that the seizures only amounted to $1,093.74; freight and ex press charges took up $17,242 61. Then comes small amounts in various county dispensaries on account of worthless liquors, and tw~o robberies one at Kingstree, whereby $21.5) was lost, and one at Sammerville, in which $S2 291 was lost. There was one fire that of W. N. Kirkland's dispensary, and the loss is placed at $3,302 18S. The net profits passed to the credit of the school fund, after deducting the total expenses of $78,337.98, amount to $51,027,64. The account of receipts and disburse ments is thus stated: In treasury Feb. 23... . $ S9.501.39 ~arch receipts .. .. . ... .147,027.34 A pril receipts .. .. .. .. .. .128,60.08 lay receipts...... .. ....147,157.58 Total........ .......$512,449 39 1arch disbursements . . $136664 29 A pril disbursements ....133644.75 3ay disbursements.. .... 126,268.74 Total ..............$396577.78 Farmers Organize. The Alabama Farmers Protective Congress met in M1ontgomery on Wed nesday. The purpose of this conven tion is to fix the price of cotton and othcr products at a fair price to the poducers. Tho farmers of Alabama arc relieved somewhat by their move ment since Georgia and other states have organized similarly. Ccl. L. F. Culver commissioner of agriculture, and many farmers and business men were present. His Work Done. Down in Camden, N. J., the people are only julst a very little lower than the angels. The other day a preacher baptized 52 of them, and he requested each one that hal ever told a lie or stolen anything to raise the hand. Not a hand was raised, and since then the preacher has moved away from the community, saying he could do nothing there. Killed by the Sun There were hundreds of deaths in New York, Chicago, Boston and other cities of the east and west last Wednes day and Thursday from the intense heat. There were over two hundred prostatin in New York alone. A RINGING APPEAL To Democratic Clerks All Over the United States W. R. Hearst, President of the Na tional Association of Democratic clubs, has issuec an address to the clubs in which he calls on them to "publicly ratify the nomination of William Jen nings Bryan for president and Adlai E. Stevenson for vice president, and pre pare to defend the republic against the corrupt and corrupting spirit of impe rialism." The address arraigns the Republican party bitterly for its atti tude toward "imperialism" and the trusts and urges all patriotic oitizsns to organize to preserve the institutions of the republie. The address continues: "This is no ordinary year in Ameri can politics. Colonies have been estab lished under the American flag without the consent of the American people and in defiance of the constitution. The unlawful and brual policy of Presi dent McKinley and his advisors, in volving the abandonment of the prin ciple of political equality on American soil, has been confirmed by the Repub lican party in its national convention. "The Republican party, under its present leadership, is attempting to commit a hitherto peaceful and just na tion to a career of imperial adventure and conquest. Its conservatism is dis appearing and its main policy is dom inated by a vulgar spirit of greed un known on this continent until now. The Republican party has become a pay of revolution. It is attacking the irreproachable and time approved politi cal, industrial and social systems under which this republic has steadily grown in strength and glory and has dishon ored our flag and our national obliga tions before the civilized world. "It has trampled the declaration of independence under foot. The Repub lican party is the promoter and agent of the new and terrible trust system which seeks to destroy industrial com petition in America-another revolu tionary movement hostile to free insti tutions. "The spirit of militarism marks every act of the national government. These radical and experimental changes in the order of our national progress threaten the existence of Republican government on the American continent. Subjects and citizens cannot long en dure under the same flag. Monopoly takes away opportunity and hope for from the masses of the people; it robs the young men of the nation of all chance to achieve their independence and fastens upon them a perpetual wage servitude; it converts small pro prietors into hirelings, and it puts into the hands of a few men the absolute control of production and prices. "Against these new and dangerous policies-condemned alike by experi ence and by justice-the Democratic party is exerting its whole strength. Its candidates and its platform repre sent the conservative spirit of the American people and their part in American institutions. They represent opportunity at some as against adven ture in Asia; peace rather than war in spired by the lust of money; citizenship, not subjecthood; a homogeneous repub lic, not a heterogeneous empire; a na tion of prosperous, equal, liberty-lov ing citizens, unburdened by the taxes of a great standing army, leading ulti mately to military conscription. "The re-election of President Mc Kinley will be taken by the Republican leaders as a proof that the American people approve an imperial, military and trust-breeding policy. "In the presence of these impending national perils the National Associa tion of Democratic Clubs calls upon all Democratic clubs, societies and associa tions in the United States to organize their forces for the defeat of Republi an institutions. Patriotic citizens, regardless of past political ties or prejudices, are earnestly invited to as sist in this work of preservation. This the nation must choose between-the European and the American theory of government." A CEINESE HORROR. wful Torture and Death of Mission ary H. V. Norman. A special from Victoria, B. C., says: "Advices received from North China contain particulars of the awful torture inflicted on the Rev. H. V. Norman, who, with Rev. C. Robinson, was among the first of the Amierican mis sionaries to become victims of the Boxers, A correspondent writing from Tien Tsin on June 7, says some ref u gees who had arrived there gathered from Chinese ghastly details of the torture inflicted on Norman. It seems that he fell into the hands of Li, the head man of a little town near the An glican mission, where he and Robinson had their headquarters, Li had a short time before lost a son in a quarrel be tween the Boxers and the Christians when the converts had driven off the Boxers from the mission, and he vowed vengeance. This he took in a horrible manner when Norman was thrown into his hands. After his capture by riot ers, the missionary was saipped by the retinue of Li and a collar of iron fas tened en his neck. A short chain was attached and he was tethered to a stake. The Chinese men, women and children then poked sharp sticks into his flesh and jabbed him with tridents. When he sank down, weak with loss of blood and half crazed by the awful tor ture he was unable to get upon his knees even, the chain being too short and he was strangled to death. Molten lead was then thrown on his nude body and as he writhed in agony he was stabbed to death. Robinson, the other missionary was slaughtered without lingering so long in agony. A number of the mission converts were also saughtered. Some were asked to re cant and those who did so to save their lives were saddled and bridled and forced to crawl to the temple of idols. Russian Cruelty "The Japanese correspondents charge the Russian soldiers with appalling barbarity toward the Chinese. They declare that the Pei Ho River is full of of the corpses of women and children and that the Russians loaded 300 bodies on a jnk and burned them." A VOTE GETTER That Is What The Damecratic Platform Is. HOW TILLMAN READ IT. The Impressions Made on a Writer in the Kansas City Times Who Heard Him Read It. Perry S. Roder, writing to the Kansas City Times, says: This has been the greatest convention ever held on American soil. The whole convention at Chicago in 1592, which framed the celebrated tariff platform and nominated a successfal candidate for the presidency, including speech making, parades, nominations, applause, cheering, enthusiasm, did not equal the two hours from 4 to 6 o'clock yes terday. No one can call to mind any two hours in any other convention com parable to these two. The spirit moved mightily among the people. It grew out of the reading of the greatest platform ever framed by a national convention, its most powerful reading by Senator Tillman, and its unanimous indorsement by a united party that four years aao was torn as under by the adoption of another noted platform. and by the appearance on the stage immediately thereafter of Webs ter Davis, "the orator of the adminis tration" of President McKinley, until a few months ago his assistant secre tary of the interior, to announce that "I stand on your platform and will sup port William Jennings Bryan." There was an hour in the convention of 1896, when Mr. Bryan made his great speech for the Chicago platform, when the genuine enthusiasm equaled this, but there were two hours here yesterday of the most intense convention spirit and enthusiasm instead of the one there. In these two hours I have not in cluded the demonstration which fol lowed the presentation of Mr. Bryan's name by Mr. Oldham, immediately after Davis had closed, nor that cordial enthusiasm which at tended Senator Hill's utterances in seconding .Bryan's nomination-either of which easily equaled the enthusiasm attending Cleveland's nomination in 1892. I have not done so for the rea son that mere or less demonstration al ways follows the nomination of a presi dent, and it may not indicate anything of especial importance. But it is a rare thing that the reading of a plat form carries a convention off of its feet for two hours. No great cheering at tended and interrupted the reading of the Chicago platform of 1896, although a mighty shout went up when it was adopted, nor that of the famous tariff platform of 189::. It was the reading of this platform yesterday which meas ured the high mark of enthusiastic Americanism. Senator Fairbanks read the republi an platform at Philadelphia in exxl lent voice. Bat no one listened to him. The inattention and indifference was so marked that when he had read about one-third of it the chairman, Senator Lodge, arose, stopped the reading and begged and urged the dele gates to listen to it, stating that it was the important function of the convea tion. Fairbanks read on and when he had finished about another third Lodge again arose, stepped to the froM of the great platform and pleaded and begged, urged and almost ordered the delegates to listen to the platform, but it did no good. No one cared anything about it. t fell perfectly dead upon the conven tion and after it was adopted the mouth-pies'. of the adcninistration, Grosvenoi ,>f Ohio, publicly, over his own name, pron~unced it a forgery and a fraud on the convention. How marked was the contrast here yesterday --as different as the principles of the two parties, as different as the Ameri canism of 'this, and the English tody ism and trust cant of that. The Phila delphia platform has already been for gotten because it aroused no manly sen timent in any honest American heart. The Kansas City platform has not only already been dubbed another Declara tion of Independence, but it has al ready aroused so much enthusiasm that the purblind trust-ridden newspapers will today show that they have been scared into conniption fits by it. They will say it surrenders 16 to '1, and in that they will lie. But they must lie about it or meet defeat. Every one listened as Tillman read. At the strong utterances and apt ex pressions the convention jumped to its feet and shouted. Bat in a minute his voice could be heard to the furthest end of the hall. lie is a remarkable mn. It is doubtful if there is another like him in America. He is the Robe spierre of America, who looks like the husband of Madame de Farge, the keeper of the wine store, in Dickens' "Tales of Two Cities." He is a man of great power, physical, mental and moral, though some of his enemies have no hesitancy in saying he is lack ing in morality He is a big raw-boned slugger, equal to any political contest with the world's greatest political glad iator. He loves liberty, he loves indi vidual manheod. he loves the plain peo pe, but he more strongly hates tyran ny. frauds, hypocrisy, cant, plutocracy. Perhaps he never took more genuine pleasure in any. work of his whole pub lic career than in reading this platform, which he secemed to know almost by heart. When he reached the end of the plank on imperialism, the first one of the platform, and which is about a third of the whole document, and read that "the importance of other questions now pending before the American people is in no wise diminished, and the Demo cratic party takes no backward step from its position on them, but the burning issue of imperialism we regard as the paramount issue of the cam paign," the audience cheered and cheer ed and cheered. As he proceeded and reasserted and defined the Monroe doc trine, denounced trusts, monopolies and militarism, pointed out the frauds and hypocrisy of the Republican plat form declared for commercial expansion, denounced national bank money, and demnded the free and unlimited coin age of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1. every man in the audience seemed to be satisfied, and when he finished 1u.000 flags, on which were the words, "The constitution and the flag One and inseparable, Now and forever, The flag of the republic forever, Of an empire never." came from nobody knew where or how, and from the girders of the roof was let down a flag fifty or seventy-five feet long and half as wide. Men mounted their chairs, women shouted and waved their hands and flags old men looked young again, and from the throats of 20,000 people there was a rushing, sweeping, roaring flood of enthusiasm that iolled through the hall like the breaking of a mighty storm. Had old Senator Hoar of Massachu setts. John B. Henderson of Washing ton, Senator Hale of Maine, and the hundreds of thousands of true sons of Puritan fathers in New England been present they would have been swept into the Democratic party as was Webster Davis, who likely never-made a speech before which he so much enjoyed. When this storm of enthusiasm, as honest as a summer's rain from a wes tern sky, -had lasted for more than twenty minutes and the audience had sung the "Star Spangled Banner," "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," the "Red, White and Blue" over and over again, Davis had added 5,000 to the Democratic majority in Missouri and 50,000 in the entire country, Mr. Bryan was nom inated, Senator Hill being one of those who seconded his nomination. He took occasion to express his approval of the document. "The man who can not stand on this platform is not en titled to be called a Democrat," he said, and there was not a discordant note in the entire hail. The work of the platform cornmittee has not only been well done, it has been extraordinarily well done. It de serves the thanks of every patriotic man in America for its work. It has framed a platform in harmony with its candidate, who is himself the best plat form any party has had since Lincoln, and it has shown exceedingly good tact and sense in so singling out the impcrt ant campaign issues now on, and in not repudiating or dodging any iPsue for which the party stood in 1896, that every breeze that blows between this and November will be freighted with Bryan victory. From this day the Republican party is on the defensive. No party can long live that will turn its back on the Dee lation of Independence and the consti tution. It must show that this charge is not true. Perry S. Rader. The Pekin Massacre. "A Chinese merchant who has just arrived from Pekin gives horrible de tails of the massacre. He says he saw European women hauled into the street by shrieking Boxers who stripped them and hacked them to pieces. Their dis severed limbs were tossed to the crowd and carried off with howls of triumph. Some were already dead, having been shot by foreign civilians. He says be saw Chinese soldiers carrying the bod ies of white children aloft on their spears, while their companions shot at the bodies. He gives other details too horrible to be particularized here. "It seems that the Boxer leaders had organ ized a plan, including the oficing of rewards and rich loot for the annihil ation of Europeans throughout China and the Prince. Tuan's generals have been emphasizing the opportunity the soldiers have of seizing the bodies of white women." Boxers Placards The Boxers' placards, placed through out Pekin, reads as follows: "I, the commander-in-chief of Heaven's troops, will match from Pekin to Nankin with them shortly. Our principal object is to burn and destroy churches and chap els and then the telegraph and rost office, colleges and schools. The peo ple need not be frightened when they see our arrival here. We are going to drive away the foreigners so as to keep the empire in peace and comfort. Par chasing provisions for providing us we will give the market price, but sellers must also charge moderately. We will not destroy the yamens and customs, they can levy duty as usual. If any people disobey this order they will be beheaded at once."~ In Legal Terms. "If I were to gire you an orange," said Judge Foote, of Topeka, "I would simply say, I give you the orange, but should the transaction be intrusted to a lawyer to put in writing he would adopt this form: "I hereby give, grant and convey to you all my interest, right, title and ads'antage of and in said orange, together with its rinds, skin, juice, pulp and pits, and all rights and advantage therein, with full power to bite, suck, or other wise eat the same, or give away with or withouit the rind, skin, juice, pulp, or pits; any thing hereinbefore or in any other deed or deeds, instruments of any nature or kind whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. We Lead the South. The Baltimare Manufacturer's Re cord gives the figures of cotton mill in vesements for the first six months of 1900 at between S20,000,000 and $2>, to the cotton manufacturing is put at 875,368, as follows: Alabama .... .. .. .....-.--..-- 6,640 Georgia......... -- ....192,428 Mississippi........----------------41,240 North Carolina.. .. .. .. .. ...12,952 South Carolina............349.252 Tennessee ...--..--..--..-- .....28,500 Texas.................... ' 35256 It is thus seen that this state is a long way in the lead, equalling the next next two highest, Georgia and North Carlina, together. The Good Old Days The Springfield Republican thinks it an open question whether life was not happier in the good old days when dis ease was laid to a visitation of provi dene, and the most prudent took their typhoid bacilli regularly with their milk, dropped ice without inquiry into their drinking water, siapped at mos quitoes with no thought of malaria, drew their water from the dooryard well, and 1ived or died as it happened, withnothing to worry over but a few standard infections like measles, .diph theria, scarlet fever, and, at rare inter als smallpox. SOME GOOD NEWS Comes to Washington from the Chinese Capitol. IT COMES FROM MR. CONOER He Says that the Only Way to Prevent a General Massacre is by Quick Relief. Mr. Wu, the Chinese Minister at Washington, received a cipher cable dispatch on Friday from United States Minister Conger, who twas reported massacred in Pekin with'other foreign ers. It is in the state department cipher and is transmitted through the Tsung Li Yamen and the Shanghai Taotai. It contains about fifty words and is signed in English with the name "Conger." At a quarter to ten Minister Wu handed the Conger dispatch to Secre tary Hay who immediately called in his assistant secretaries and private secretary and work was begun in trans lating the cipher. No doubt is expressed by the state department officials as to the authenti city of the message. The translation of the Conger message is as follows: "In British legation, Under contin ued shot and shell from Chinese troops. Quick relief only can prevent general massacre. Conger." The message is not dated, but it is understood that it was sent from Pekin on the 18:h. The following statement has been made at the state depart ment: "On the 11th of this month the state department communicated a brief mes sage asking tidings of Minister Conger in the state department code. Mr. Wu undertook to get this into Conger's hands if he were alive. He has sue ceeded in doing this. Friday morning. the state department received a tele gram from Consul Goodenow at Shang hai saying: "The governor of Shanghai informs me that he has received Fridaya cipher message from Conger of the 18th." A few minutes later Minister Wu appeared at the state department with a telegram from the Taotai of Shanghai dated the 20th of July, which has been received by Minister Wu at 9:30 Friday morning reading as follows: "Your telegram was forwarded as requested. I sent a reply from the Tsung Li Yamen as follows: "Your telegram 15th date of this moon (11th of July) received. State department telegram has been handede to Minister Conger. Herewith is Con ger's reply to the state department." As soon as Minister Conger's cable gram had been translated a cabinet council was called in the office of the secretary of State. A RENEGADE EDITOR. A North Carolina Specimen Bought by Republicans. The Demooracy of North Carolina is making a hard fight for white suprema cy, and it looks as if it were going to be successful, but there are many secret enemies that stab in the dark, and the following from the Wilmington Star gives an idea of how that dark fighting is carried on: "The Asheville Gazette, which was formerly a Democratic paper, and up to a certain date an advocate of the constitutional amendment, suddenly flopped and became a vociferous oppon ent of the amendment. It was public ly charged in Asheville that it had sold out to Pritchard, Holton & Co., which charge the editor denied and demanded the proof. 02e of the citizens of Ashe ville who made the charge and was called upon for the proof presented enough to convince any jury in a court of the truth of the charge, but since then further proof comes in the form of an affidavit of WV. Ray Somerville, one of the stockholders in the Gazette, who swears that Norton, the editor and principal stockholder, "agreed with Senator Jeter C. Pritchard, Collector H. S. Harkins, Col. V. S. Lusk, Dis trict Attorney A. E. Holton, and other representative of the Republican party, to oppose the constitutional amend ment and the election law drafted by the Democratic legislature of 1899," in considration of the sum of $500, to be paid in $1:000 instalments, and that in February, 1900, $3,000 of this amount had been paid to Norton. The full amount was to be paid by April, 1900. "Hie farther swears that Norton said to him that the only motive he had in opposing the amendment was the $5,000 paid to him." Betting on the Election. Hion. Joseph Green, of New York, and Col. A. S. Henning, of California, both rich, met at New Orleans, recent ly, discussed the November elections, and ended with a bet. Green is a Democrat and Henning a Republican. The latter was so confident of McKin ley's election that he gave odds to his opponent. He bet $10,000 to $4,500 on his man. Mr. Green is confident that he will win the state, and inasmuch as Mr. Henning "expects Georgia to vote for McKinley, this year," he must be making some wild estimates. Mr. Green not only feels assurance of Bryan's triumph, but declares that it will be a landslide for him. His reasons for such confidence may be premature, but they are forcible and sagacious. We trust that he will be richer by $10, 000 next November than he is at pres ent and that Mr. Henning will be a ooreer and wiser man.-Augusta Chronicle. Hot for Train Robbers. The new locomotives just put on by the Denver and Rio Grande Railway have an unique attachment as a safe guard against robbers, in the way of a nozzle on the roof of the cab. These connect with the hot water of the boil r, and point at the rear end of the tender. The nozzle can send a jet of mixed steam 'and boiling water at 200 lbs pressure, that would kill anyone