The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, August 15, 1900, Image 1
tVOLI. XV . M!A NNING. S. C.. jWE )NESDAY, AUGUST 1),109Nq2
Senator Ti'lma=n Replies to Dr.
Ga'dnei's Serrnn.
HOYT REPLIES TO TILLMAN
And Defends Dr. Garcner's Ser
mon. Tiliman Takes a Hard
Primary on the
Dispe nsarY.
The largest and liveliest meeting of
the campaign was at Greeoviile on
Monday of last week. After the meet
ing was called to order. Col. Hoyt was;
presented, and made a happy speech,
giving way to his opponents and giving
them his time and a kind word. He
said that he had lived among these peo
ple for twenty years, and that be felt
that all oresent knew him and his
work. He felt that there was no need
for him to speak, fer all he might say
he felt would change no votes as be
tween him and other candidates, but he
would like his friends to hear all the
other candidates.
Then Col. Hoyt paid a compliment
to each of his opponents, relating how
well he knew each of them and be
speaking for each a kind audience.
Then Col. Hoyt started to walk to his
seat and Mr. Gary suggested that he
add: "That they all vote for Hoy t,"
and Col. Hoyt turned and remarked
that the audience should not forget to
vote for him, and this provoked amuse
ment and much applause for Col. Hoyt.
THE NEXT SPEAKERS.
Mr. Brooker and Mr Derham spoke
next and told the large audience what
they thought of each other, and why
they thought the people should vote
for them for comptroller-general.
Then followed Messrs. Capers and
McMahan who tried to impress the
people why each thought be was better
than the other for superintendent of
education.
Gen. Floyd told the crowd why he
should be elected adjutant general.
Mr. Rouse was absent, but sent his re
grets.
For railroad commissioner Major B.
B. Evans started out by insisting that
the Piedmont section was discrimin
ated against. Augusta and Atlanta
had rates which Greenville could not
get.
Mr. homzs N. Berry reminded the
audience that he was born here and
had always been a temperance advocate.
Some even said he was too good.
J. I. Pettigrew spoke of l.aving gone
to the war with Greenville boys and
his interest in these people He wet
over his qual:ii 'ations for the office.
W. D. May field went into his cus
tomary argument. The outside whole
sale dealers can all undersell the South
Carolina wholesalers because the Iccal
rates are against de South Carolina
dealers.
J. H. Wharton tcok uc' freight rates
and argued that the rover mills here
were discriminated sg-aist, and took
up the matter of conneeuless.
SENATOR Ti LLMAN
was received with much applau e. He
said it was six years since he spoke
here, and it was a great pleasure to be
here again and to be so well received.
From the behavior of the platform
there must be something weak in the
party here.. lie did not know whether
it was prohibition or not. He felt a.
rank and file here were true as steel
and would vote right.
Today for the first time the pro
gramme was changed and the order of
speaking reversed. It was charged
that he had been meddling in affairs
and that he had no right to be here,
and because he had no opposition he
ought to keep away or discuss nothing
but national issues.
He explained the change of pro
gramme and was told he had -unlimited
time. Before he started he told why
he was here and why he had a right to
be here. He explained he was here in
obedience to party law, sa he
wanted it understood he would hew te
the line, and if some fingers and toes
are cut off the fault would not be his.
Then he reiterated that had her rosined
away he would have been accused of be
ing too big for his breeches and having
gotten the swell head, and then when
he came they turne d and told himx he
was meddling, It was the same as of
old; he would be damned if he did and
be damned if he didn t. He asked the
crowd to be quiet until he bottled the
hot stuff.
Then he took up the special board in
this county and said the committee had
turned the candidates loose and was let
ting the question be settled for the
county in a epecial box. It was a bad
plan and was intended to let the candi
dates straddle and honey-fuggle the peo
ple. It is cowardly in the candidates
to ask the committee to allow this
Ecreen. You will be fools ifyou do not
have the candidlates line up and say
whether they are for prohibition or the
dispensary. The special box is a fraud
and if you do not like it lump it.
The question before you is one ef
fecting you and your pregeny for a life
time. It is a question to be decided
upon the merits of the matter. There
should be no undue pressure He was
here also becaume he had been attaced
and he and his administration had been
attacked and held up to derision and
Col. Hoyt the other day. Here the
speaker was interrupted by applause
for Tillman.) Tillman then said he
intended only to speak of Col. Hoyt
kindly. He would treat him as a high.
toned gentleman, but warned the crowd
that the more it hollered that way the
less they would like it before he got
through. He wanted only to discuss
ssues.
Then Tillman related how the dis
pensary came as he has heretofore done.
When the Prohibitionists say he
cheated them they know they are not
telling the exact truth. He repeated
why he had no use for a machine, as hc
had the people back of him He re
lated why he did not want prohibition
and why he thought it would be a fail
ure.
He wished he could leave one mat
ter unsaid and he regretted that he
came in confiet with a distinguished
divine; one who was honored and be
loved, and no doubt properly so. This
divine had gone out of his way to make
a polca emn.n In this npech he
had taken the liberty or mentioning
his (Tillman'-) name. Self respect de
manded his coming here and talking
plainly. Then he took up Dr. Gardner's
sermon, and read an extract, in which
Dr. Gardner held that the dispensary
business was immoral, and he so
argued. In considering the argument
Tillman urged that the first thing was
whether this proposition, that the sale
of liquor was immoral, would stand.
There is not a scintilla of difference
whether the State sells through licenses
or through the disrensary, but is it an
immeral act? Is it a sin to sell or use
whiskey? These distinguished gentle
men who have held a party convention
and nominated their man have as the
basis of their fight that it is sinful to
sell liquor as a beverage. They quote
from an almost obsolete part of the
Bible and from which he never heard
any other than a prohibition sermon.
He nas as high a regard for the minis
ters as any one. They do not use all
of the text, but quote it in part. He
then quoted from Proverbs and St. Paul
to show that wine drinking was not
prohibited. He insisted that the Pro
hibitionists garbled their text and that
there was nothing in the Bible to pre
vent the use of ,vhiskey. Drunken
ness is forbidden. He had substituted
the dispensary law for prohibition for
the people's good.
Then he took up another extract from
Dr. Gardner's sermon, that the profit
feature of the dispensary made the
agents of the S-ate try to sell as much
as possible. Tillman said there were
two sides to this question. He did not
want the people to get too much liquor.
He wanted the appetites controlled,
and then he jumped on the license sys
tem.
There is as much to be gotten out of
liquor as any other legitimate source of
taxation. This minister openly and
boldly wants to take away the profit,
which restrains drunkenness by not
putting so much liquor in the consum
er's hand. It was fanaticism ran mad
to have as much whiskey drunk as now
and get nothing out of it, and not re
strict it.
In regard to the charge of Dr. Gard
ner that he (Tillman) held the preach
ers up to contempt, he said verbatim:
"He not only charges me with slan
der in my uttcrances, knowing it to be
untrue, but he goes further and declares
I uttered these words to express con
tempt for certain men for whom I have
contempt. I say it here in the presence
of these many people who listen to Dr.
Gardner, that Gardner owes it to him
self to prove his charges by bringing
certificates to prove them or he owes
an apology. When in 1890 and 1892
the preachers charged me with infideli
ty I said then that I am a poor fallen
sinner going from the cradle to the
grave, admitting my weaknesses and
trying to forget them, but I swear no
preacher can say that I ever treated
him except with respect. But now is
there an alliance between the bar room
and preachers, either written or orther
wise? (Voice from the crowd: 'Yes ')
Very well, then, I will vote you on it.
All who believe it is not true hold up
their right hand. All who believe the
preachers are in alliance with them,
either written or not, hold up their
right band. One more word and I am
done. I am sorry I had to bring this
matter out here, but I always believe
in going to a man's house, going to his
teeth, face to face, when I have a eon
troversy to settle, and therefore at other
places I have had very little to say
about it I am sorry he is not here,
but when he comes back his friends
will tell him what I have said, and let
nim write an apology and publish it. I
believe he is a man of character and an
honorable man, and that he will do it.
"An effort is now being made by
some preachers to talk politics, and not
religion, from the pulpit. You have
striven to get rid cf religion taking
charge of your politics, and should be
carful to keep politics and religion
sep'arate. The effort is made to rally
you around Lhe denomina'tional flags,
but it would be well to watch out for
that.
"'You are asked to vote for religion,
for friendship, and all that, but he im
plored all to vote for principle."
FOR GOV~ERNOR
Then the Gubernatorial candidates
were called for. Governor McSweeney
spoke first. He argued that the dis
pensary law can be improved uoon, but
prohibition will be a failure. Prohibi
tion should be regarded from a business
standpoint. He felt that it would be
a serious mistake to go to prohibition
now. The only trouble complained of
was that the grand juries do not bring
in true bills. He emphatically denied
that hie was in any deal or agreement
with any one, but was enforcing the
dispensary law The law is new better
enforced than in the last two or three
years. In reference te Mr. Patterson's
charge that he never ordered bar fix
tures seized, he read a copy of an or
der dated in June, instructing consta
bles to seize fixtures. The constables
had verbel as well as wiitten instruc
tions to seize liquor, beer and fixtures.
He believed the people would agree
that his has been a business adminis
tration. There was no mincing mat
ters in his office or with the constables.
He read~ the letters from the nyayers to
show that the law was being enforced.
He spoke of his administration and
thanked the voters, and wanted to be
judged on his record. He was pre
sented with a handsome bouquet of
fowers.
COL HOT
said he would not have spoken except
for what Senator Tillman had said.
Tillman had said these who had set up
this separate box plan were political
cowards. He had nothing to do with
it and the plan, as he understood, came
from a dispensary advocate. The peo
pe knew what was best for themselves.
The committee had this right and it ill
became Tillman as a United States
Senator to come here and abuse what
the Democrats of this county see fit to
do. He for one never questioned Till'
mn's rih to be here, but he had as
muhright to be here and advocite
prhibiin, which he had done all the
days of his life. Another thing he had
not said that Tillman wanted the dis
pensary as a political machine. It is a
political machine, and has been used in
this very campaign as a political ma
chine and will continue to be used as a
political machine. Nor did he ever say
Tillman cheated them out of prohibi
tion. Then he went over the too fa
miliar story of the origin of the dispen
sary. There was no more delighted
thahethat Tillman wis studying the
Bible. He thought Tilman had not
yet read all of the chapters quoted.
The preachers were attacked first in his
Bennettsville speech ard he had no
doubt Tillman regretted that spceeh.
The barkeepers of today are the siis
pensers; they say the blind tigers are
the barkeepers. but the blind tigers get
their liquor from the dispensaries.
Then he expalined what were called
the "ex blind tigers." lIe insisted
that there Wa3 no alliance between the
preachers and saloon men. He spoke
beautifully cf Dr. Gardner and his
standing for all that was moral and
high, and he felt that the people would
rebuke Tillman and show that Charles
S. Gardner was not to be traduced and
maligned. No one could prove an im
moral combination on the part of Dr.
Gardner. Then he discussed the right
of the Stato to sell liquor and insisted
that it was wrong and sinful.
.\R FRANK B GARY.
said the main question was that of
liquor and he wanted it understood that
he stood fitly for the dispensary. If
the law is better enforced now than
ever, then the law is not what is
claimed for it. MeSweeney said he
would send constables wherever asked
for and in ry to this he read an affi
davit from 3:. B. Seruggs, of Cherokee
County, in which he stated that ne had
repeatedly asked for a constable for his
section, that the people had convicted
two blind tigers, but the Governor had
not complied with the requests for con
stables, but had said he would send
one after the election, and this looked,
Mr Gary thought, as an offering to the
tigers in Cherokee.
Then he explained his position as to
the p-ohibition option. He regarded
prohibition as a farce, but wanted those
who wished it to have it.
He discussed the school question and
his record in the legislature.
MR A HOWARD PATTERSON
reviewed the dispensary from its inc p
tion to the present time, showing that
it did away with the bad features of the
bar room system and had decreased
drunkenness. He said that the prohi
bition platform is not prohibition. He
discussed Col. Hoyt and his platform
thorughly. He said that Governor
McSweeney had not enforced the dis
pensary law.
THE SCRUGGS COMPLAINT
Governor McSweeney requests that
this statement relative to the Scruggs
affidavit be published: Scruggs wrote
Governor McSweeney r;questing him to
appoint Scrugg's constable as a dispen
sary constable, as the magistrate's con
stable received only $40, and he wants
him to make more. Clerk Harris wrote
to Scruggs that in case a constable was
needed to write to Chief J. R Fant
and request a detail, and it would be
sent. Seruggs was reminded that as
magistrate he and his constable should
help enforce the dispensary law, and
all the extra pty he culd alloy was
half the seizures. In reply to a second
letter Clerk Harris wrote that Gover
nor McSweeney would probably not be
able to take up the application made
for the magistrate's constable's appoint
ment until after the election. The
idea being that Governor Mc3weeney
was too busy now to wade through the
many applications on hand. Governor
McSweeney would like to have the en
tire correspondence printed to show
that Seruggs wanted his constable given
a special job to work in a pirticular
territory, for which he was already paid
to work and enforce the law. A. K.
MUST TOE THE MARK
The American Government Makes
Demands on China.
The following demands on the Chi
nese government have been sent to
Pekin by the American government:
"We are availing ourselves of the
opportunity offered by the imperial
edict of the 5th of August allowing to
the foreign ministers free communica
tion with their respective governments
in cipher, and have sent a communica
tion to minister Canger, to which we
await an answer:
"We are already advised by him, in
a brief dispatch received Aug. 7, that
imperial troops are firing daily upon
the ministers in Pekin. We demand
the immediate cessation of hostile at
tacks by imperial troops upon the lega
tions and urge the exercises of every
power and energy of the imperial gov
ernment for the protection of the lega
tions and all foreigners therein.
"We are also advised by the same
dispatch from Minister Conger that, in
his opinion, for the foreign ministers to
leave Pekin as proposed in the edict of
August 2, would be certain death. In
view of the fact that the imperial troops
are now firing upon the legations and
in view cf the doubt expressed by the
the imperial government in its edict of
Aug. 2 as to its power to restore order
and secure absolute safety in Pekin, it
is evident that this apprehension is well
founded, for if your governmentecannot
protect our minister in Pekin, it will
presumptively be unable to protect
him upon a journey fronm Pekin to the
coast.
"We therefore urge upon the im
perial government that it shall adopt
the course suggested in the third clause
of the letter of the president to his
mjesty, the empsror of China, of July
23, 1900, and enter into communication
with the relief expedition so that coop
eration may be secured between them
for the liberation of the legations, the
protection of foreigners and the resto
ration of order. Such action on the
part of the imperial government wouli
be a satisfactory demonstration of its
friendliness and desire to attain these
ends. Alvery A. Adee,
Acting Secretary.
Department of State, Washingtor',
Aug. 8, 1900.
The Tell Tale Census.
One thing is certain. If the new
census is correct ballot box stuffling in
the last campig~ was by no means con
fined to the South. In some of the
strong Rcoubliom~ districts counting
the men, women and children, the
ensus does not give a population
e.nal te \keKinley's vote.
Bad for Quay.
The Philadeilphia Press publishes the
result of the Republica'i primaries in
Pennsylvania, and dectlares the defeat
of Quay for the United States senate
is absolutely assured. it has been
BiRYAN NOFIF"IED.
He Takes the Standard of the
Great Democracy
TO BEAR IT TO VICTORY.
Imperialism Must Be Strangled
if Patr iotism and the Re.
public Are to
Endure.
Wm. J. Bryan and Adlai E. Steven
son were notified officially and formally
on last Wednesday at Indianapolis of
their nominations by the Demo:rats at
the recent Kansas City convention to
the offices respectively of president and
vice president of the United States
The ceremony was made the occasion of
a demonstration with which the Demo
crats may be fairly said tc have begun
their national campaign.
The notification occurrei in the mili
tary park. a beautifully shaded track of
ground in the centre of the city. The
park contains probably 30 acres of
ground and it was well covered with
pe"opie. In the vicinity of the speakers'
stand the crowd was very dense. Prob
ab!y a majority of them were residents
of Indianapolis, but many were from
other portions of Indiana, while many
alo came from distant States. There
was also quite a general gathering of
the members of the Democratic national
committee, while, of course, the mem
bers of the two c-mnittees appainted
to nake the official notifications vere
also present. The occasion was, there
fore, regarded as of national political
importance.
l'he ceremony was preceeded by a pa
rade through the principal streets of the
city, which was participated in by a
number of visiting and local Democratic
clubs. These acted as an escort to the
notification party and the cavalcade
was an imposing one. The meeting be
gan a few minutes after 3 o'clock and
concluded at 5:40 p. m. Five speeches
were made, Mayor Taggart of Indian
apolis adding a welcoming address to
the notification speeches of Representa
tive Richardson and Gov. Thomas and
responses made by Mr. Bryan and Mr.
Stevenson.
The weather was hot, but towards the
close of the ceremonies a slight breeze
alleviated, to some extent, the suffering
ocasioned by the high temperature.
At one time it appeared as if actual suf
focation might be the result of the ter
rible crowding in front the stand where
the ceremonies occurred, but beyond a
few fainting attacks and much personal
discomfort, no evil resulted.
'he platform on which the speeches
were made was elevated about six feet
above the park lawn and upon it sat
the candidates and their families, and
the members of the national commit
ec, aid of the two notification commit
tecs as well as a few invited guests.
Mr. Bryan sat near the centre of the
stage, just to the left of Chairman
Jones, who presided. Mrs. Bryan and
William. Jr., occupied adjoining chairs.
Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson atso sat in the
same group; as did Mrs. Senator Jones,
Congressman Richardson and Gov. and
Mrs. Thomas.
The meeting was called to order in a
brief speech of welcome by Mayor Tag
gert, of Indianapolis. Then followed
the speech of Congressman Richardson,
who had been appointed to formally
notify the candidates of their election.
Bryaa was then introduced and made the
best speech of his life. We would like
to reproduce i: here, but it is too long.
The large crowd listened attentively tc,
what he had to say and applauded him
liberally all the way through. It was
a great ocession and it was a great
speech from a great man.
A Call to Organize.
The following address was issued to
night:
To the Democrats of the United States:
The Democratic party and its friends
must meet the forces of corruption and
intimidation in politics this year by
thorough organization. A Democratic
club or society should be organized in
every city, town, village and precinct
in the United States. Democrats and
all who are in sympathy with the prin
ciples set forth in the Kansas City
platform are earnestly urged to join
the D.emociatic clubs, and when none
exists to assist in organizing them.
This work in uniting the forces of law
and liberty into one great systematized
civic army should be carried on simul
taneously in every part of the country,
and without delay. The friends of the
government, according to the hitherto
unchallenged American theory of po
litical equality everywhere under our
flag, cannot afford to be less zealous or
less active than the advocates of an
American colonial empire supported by
rifles.
No patriotic citizen can ignore the at
tacks which are being made upon -the
very foundations of our piresent irre
proachable form of government- This
year every citizen should be a poli
tician. Clubs and societies should at
once communicate with the secretary
of the National Association of Demo
cratic clubs, 1370- Broadway, New York,
so that the united membership may
work systematically in defense of the
republi as the fathers made it. All
Democatic committees, State and
local, are requested to aid the National
Association ot Democratic clubs in this
work.
W. J. Bryan,
Adlai E. Stevenson,
James K. Jones,
Ch'm. National Dem. Comn.
Wni. R. Hearst,
l1zes. National Asin Demn. Clubs.
He Was Buncoed.
A clothier on Hester Street, New
York, recently seid a $9 suit of clothes
and gave9in change for a one hun
dred dollar Confederate bill, and yet
there arc good business men in Spartan
burg who really believe that no finan
cial opinion that is not endorsed by New
Yorkers is worth considering.
Has a Bad Name.
Li Hung Chang seems to be up
against it. Our ministers are unwil
ling to accept his proffered escort to
Tientsin, and the cantankerous Chi
nese want to behead him as a foreign
sympathizer. Nobody is willing to
M'KINLEY SCORED
By a Republican Senator For His
Imperialistic Plans.
WILL SUPPORT BRYAN.
Wellington, of Matyland, Gives
His Reason for Not Vcting
With His Party
This Year.
United States Senator Ukorge L.
Wellington, of Mar3land, Republican,
has made a formal statement of his
attitude in the present campaign. He
says:
"I an unalterably opposed to the
re-election of President McKinley.
Bryan is a better man in every way
than McKinley, and I regard his elec
tion as essential to the preservation of
the Republic.
"In regard to the Philadelphia plat
form as a grave departure from the
faith of our fathers. It is not the Re
publicanism of Lincoln, but an indorse
ment of the inimical policies foisted
upon the country by McKinley.
"I am anti-imperialist. I do 'not
talk one way in congress and another
way on the outside, nor do I talk one
way and act another. I am not like
old Hoar-able to appeal to the past
and the futureand then stultify my
self. I see only the present. The
past is gone and the future can care for
itself; but I'll help take care of the
present.
'I am convinced there is a great se
ret alliance with England beyond any
doubt. You remember the cry that was
raised against Cleveland of subserviency
to England. There was not one quar
ter ground for it that there is for the
same cry against McKinley. He would
not dare do a thing that would be un
acceptable to England, for he is noth
ing more than an English proconsul.
"President McKinley has betrayed
me. I was opposed to the Paris Peace
Treaty and would never have voted for
its ratification of my own volition. I
told the president so, and he induced
me to vote for it by solemnly pledging
me that it was not the intention of him
se f or the government to forcibly hold
or permanently acquire the Philipp
ines.
"He further said that his personal
desire was to restore law and order in
the islands and then submit the matter
to congress, with the idea of having it
grant absolute freedom and self-govern
mentto the Filipinos. 'With that pledge
from President McKinley I voted for
the treaty. Without it I never should
have done so.
"The resolution I offered in the sen
ate and which was the basis of my
speeeh on the Philippine question,
provided for exactly what the presi
dent himself told me he desired to bring
about.
"Bryan is absolutely right on the one
great issue involved in this campaign,
and, with the money question at rest
for four years, he is a bigger, a better
ad a safer man than McKinley. Even
f the money question were not settled,
Bryan is a man of too much sense to
ndertake to tamper with the currency.
Bryan is certain to be our next presi
ent, and I shall be glad to see him
elected.
"McKinley is totally unfit for the
office of president, because he is so weak
and vacillating that he can't stick to an
opinion over night. If he could know
his own mind and be consistent for
twenty-four hours at a time he might
do, but such a thing is impossible with
him, and for that reason he is unfit to
be president."
As-ainst MlcKinley
About foir hundred Boston market
men and others opposed to the re-elec
tion of President McKinley because of
the Philippine policy of the adminis
tration, held a rally in Faneuil Hall at
noon Tuesday. On the pltform were
George S. Boutwell, former governor of
Massachusetts; Gamn liel Bradford,
Ervin Winslow, and other weli-know
anti- imperialists. The principal ad
dress was made by ex-Governor Bout
well, who justified the action of those
who had withdrawn from the Republi
can party on account of its attitude on
the question of imperialism by the state
mnt that the Republican party itself
was born of deserters from parties then
existing. Ringing resolutions were
adopted, the striking phrase of which
follows: "We believe that free silver
is less serious~than free slaughter; we
depreciate the cannon abroad; the doc
trine that Americans can be made rich
taxation and Filipinos righteous by
force, and the pratice of assimilation of
lower races in Asia and the malevolent
dissipation of higher ideas in America."
Leaped to Instant Death.
Wash Turner, an unsophisticated
young farmer with his wife and two
year-old baby, jumped from a west
bound Southern railway passenger train
at McFall, Ala..- Thursday morning,
and was killed- He threw his wife and
child from the train and they were
seriously injured. Mrs. Turner will
probably die. The train had whistled
for McFall and Turne: immediately
jumped from his seat and hurried his
wife and baby to the door. Two or
three passengers tried to stp him, but
he brushed them aside. He evidently
was not used to traveling and did not
appreciate the danger of jumping off.
Mrs. Turner's leg was broken and the
hilds arm broken It is stated that
Turner had never been on a train be
Li Hung Chang in Despair
A dispatch from Washington says
an important dispateh has been received
in dilomatic quarters, forwvarded from
the foreign offices of onc of the powers
taking part in the international move
ment and giving with much detail con
versation by Li Hung Chang in which
he expressed his despair over the con
dition of the Chinese government in
iis fears that the anti-foreign element
had gained complete ascendency at
Pekin. The conversation was with
the consul of the power receiving the
dispatch and as he is an intimate,
friend of long standing with Earl Li
the-latter spoke unreservedly of the de
plorable condition of affairs among his
PROPHETS ELECTING BRYAN.
What Experts Say of the Coming
Presidential Election.
The men who figure and make esti
mates on elections are notidle. Though
the campaign is yet in its infancy and
the lines have not been drawn with
suffiient clearness for positive esti
mates of the result to be made, there
is no lack of figuring, nor is there any
lack of those who predict Democratic
success.
Congressman McCulloch, of the First
Arkansas district, has been doing some
Democratic figuring. He counts for
Bryan in the electoral college, in addi
tion to the states he carried four years
ago, Kentucky, 13 votes; Maryland, 8;
West Virginia, 6; Indiana, 15; Michi
gan, 14, and Minnesota. 9-a total
change of 64 from the McKinley to the
Bryan column, of 16 more than are
needed.
A citizen of Ohio who had the dis-|
tinction of winning a prize of $15 of- I
fered by the Youngstown, 0., Vindica- I
tor for the closest guess to the vote
of the state of Ohio in 1896, and who
missed the actual result only 8 votes,
now comes forward with the follow
ing prediction:
' I believe Bryan is absolutely sure
of all the electoral votes received in
1896, viz; 176. To this can he added
with a certainty Kentucky 13, Mary
land 8, total 21, making sure without
further details, 197.
McKinley's reasonably certain elec
tors do not include more than 125, viz;
Maine, 6; New Hampshire, 4; Vermont,
4; Massachusetts, 15; Rhode Island, 4;
Connecticut. 6; Pennsylvania, 32; Wis
consin, 12; New Jersey, 10; Michigan,
14; Minnesota, 9; California, 9, which
sum up the 125 given above.
"The states considered doubtful of
which Bryan is sure of at least one
third of the electors and has an equal
show of one-half giving him a majority
in any event are West Virginia, 6;
North Dakota, 3; Illinois, 24; Indiana,
15; Delaware. 3; Iowa, 13; New York,
36; Ohio, 23, making 123 electoral
votes classed as doubtful, 27 of which
are all that are necessary to place Bry
an in the presidential chair."-Augusta
Chronicle.
BUNCOED AGAIN.
Spain Unloads Another Gold Brick on
Uncle Sam
The Spartanburg Herald says there
has nerver been an instance in his
tory where a nation in defeat won so
much as Spain won when she forced
the United States to war. We came
out the struggle as victor and vet we
are burdened by loads almost too heavy
to bear. Spain has come out conquered,
but shorn of impediments that were
fast leading her to bankruputcy.
One of the results of that war was
the purchase by this government of ten
million Philippinos at $2 a head. That
looks cheap enough on its face, but the
man who would go into market and buy
horses at $2 a head without investigat
ing them is liable to make a bad bar
gain. It turns out now that the only
thing Spain transferred to us was the
right to take her place in killing the
savages. We paid $20,000,000 for the
priviledge of taking up the fight to con
uer the people Spain has been trying
to conquer for a hundred years.
If there is anything that this govern
ment is noted for, anything that the
word "Yankee" stands for, it is shrewd
ness in driving a trade, andyet we have
been clearly buncoed by Spain. We
not cnly~bought that which was never
delivered, but when the trade was con
sumated and the money paid it was
found that two islands were not includ
ed in the bill of sale, and with con
sumate adroitness Spain raised the price
and instead of delivering these at $2 a
head we had to pay $12. We gave
$100,000 for the two islands which to
gether have a population of 8,000.
We do not believe any friend of the
present administration can show any
avantage this country can have by
ownership of Oriental islands. We do
not believe that the inhabitants of
these islands can be benefited by be
longing to us. Aside from the fact
that to embark upon a policy of Imnper
alism vitiates and destroys the charac
ter of this government the line of ac
tion marked ont by its fransrs the pur
suit of which has brought us greatness,
there is nothing to be gained morally or
financially.
The paramount issue cf the coming
campaign is; shall we cou ihus to be
buncoed by effete monarchies of the
Old World? Shall we become the
dumping grounds for European nations
who have tired of trying to subdue
their unruly colonies?
A Rare Instance.
The Philadelphia newspapers recent
ly puiblished a remarkable advertise
ment. It announced that Puirvis&
Co., of Williamsport, Pa , would pay
in full all claims against the house of
Purvis & Co., which failed in Baltimore
in 1868. The head- of the present
house of Parvis & Co. was a boy when
his father and grandfather tailed in
1868. He started in life with nothing
in the way of money, but he had a good
character, a fine stock of natural abil
ity and a determination to succeed.
This he has done beyond his expectati
ns and now he proposes to pay every
debt left by his father and grandfather
regadless of statutes of limitations,
bankruptcy laws and the fact that not
the slightest legal obligation in the
matter rests upon him. This is a very
rare ease and in these days sounds more
like romonee than actual fact.
He Withdraws
Wednesday State Chairman Jones
received from Mr. J. H. Moore of
Charleston, candidate for Attorney
General, a letter of withdrawal from
the race. In his letter Mr. Moore
states that he withdraws for reasons
over which he has no control, one be
ing that he finds it impossible to get
his opponent to meet him upon the
stump. He say, in effect, it is due to
the number of friends throughout the
State who have given him enoourage
ment to apologize to them for the dis
appointment caused them by his with
ANOTHER BATTLE
In Which the-Americans Suffer
Serious Loss.
CASUALTIES OF SIXTY.
The .Town' of Yang Tsun was
Captured and'Will be
the Base of 'the
Allies.
A dispatch from .;Washington says
.the capture of Yang Tsun, 'the Anal ob
jective point of the international forces
was the supreme news, of iimportanoe
received Thursday on the Chinese situa
tion. The first word. of this capture,
effected last Monday, came in a brief
dispatch to the signal office at the war
department from Col. Scriven, the sig
nal officer at Chefoo, saying:
Chefoo, Aug. 9.-Yang Tsun cap
tured today. Wire up. Need own
transportation. All well. Scriven.
Half an hour after this message a
cablegram came from Gen. Chaffee,
giving additional details of the capture
and showing that it had been at the
cost of about 60 casualties among the
American troops. Gen. Chaffee's dis
patch is as follows:
Yang Tsun, Aug. 6.
Yang Tasunoccupied today. Wounded
Second Lieut. Frank R. Long, Ninth
infantry, moderate; casualties about 60
men. Ninth United States infantry;
Fourteenth United States infantry and
Battery F, Fifth U. S. artillery. Nearly
all from Fourteenth infantry. Names
later. Many men prostrated, heat and
fatigue. Chaffee.
A JAPANESE REPORT.
Hardly less important was a dispatch
from Gen. Terauchi, second in com
mand on the Japanese staff, sent to the
war office of Japan, and transmitted to
the legation here, stating that he in
ternational army -would total 50,000
men on Aug. 15, at which time the real
advanceon Pekin would begin. Gen.
Terau'chi's -dispatch stated that on the
4th, when it was forwarded, the ad
vance had not yet begun. This was at
first incomprehensible, in view of the
fact that fighting has actually occurred.
But the later statement that the inter
national force would total 50,000 on the
15th appears to make clear Gen. Teran
chi's meaning and to reconcile it with
Gen. Chaffee's dispatches. The pres
ent movement of some 16,000 men
doubtless is viewed in the lipht of a
reconnaissance in force, the main move
ment of the army of 50,000 to follow
on the 15th. This makes clear the
meaning of Gen. Chaffee's dispateh
that Yang Tsun was the objective
point. The war department here has
been considerably puzzled over this
statement of an objective point, far
short of Pekin. It would appear, how
ever, from Gen. Terauchi's dispatch
that the first force of 16,000 men hav
ing opened up communications to Yang
Tsun, brought forward supplies and. es
tablished this advance base, the way
would then be clear for the advance of
the larger force on the 15th. The cap
ture of Yang Tsun is therefore an im
portant strategic branch of the fast
maturing military plans. The place is
about 18 miles beyond Tien Tain and
little less than quarter of the way to
Pekin.
Aside from the military developments
of the day the diplomatic aspect of the
crisis was made more clear by the pub
lication of the demand made by the
United States on the imeperial govern
ment of China and transmitted to Min
ister Wu last evening.
REPUBLICAN LE&ADERS SCORED.
Mark Hanna and Others Are Xaking
Frantic Calls.
Those weak-kneed Democrats who
think it is all over but the shouting,
and that McKinley is already as good
as elected, do not get their inspiration.
from their reading of leading Espubli
can newspapers. If they are confident
of victory, they ar.' carefully keeping
their confidence in the background.
All along the line they are declaring
the necessity for Republican activity,
and even Mark Hanna is calling on the
party to "awake!" The. New York
Mail and Erpress, one of the staunch
est and most partisan of Republican
organs, declares to its readers thus:
"Wake up! There is work to be
done. The enemy, boastful, aggressive
and stealthful, are already advancing
their lines. They see a chance to win,
not because of any strength or merit of
their own, but thraugh apathy, indif
ference and overconfidence on the part
of the R~epublicans.
"Wake up, everybody! Let us un
derstand that we have a hard fight on
hand-a fight with an opposition which
is compact, ambitions, supplied with
unlimited funds and resolved to win
by fair means or foul. If the Republi
cans are to succeed in the coming bat
tle it must be through an immediate
awakening of party spirit, party loyalty
and party courage in behalf of living
issues."
That is the sort of exortation that
is being passed along the Republican
lines. It may be the part of tood poli
tics to run a scared x ace all the time,
but it is well enough for some Demo
crats to see that the Republicans re
eognize that they have a big fight on
hand, and are by n~o means counting
on a walkover. Let Democrats awake
and go into the fight with the pluck
and confidence worthy of their great
leader.-Augusta Chronicle.
Death fromt a Slight Wound.
A dispatch fro'm Rock Hill says Mr.
S. Augustus Matthews, whose acciden
tal pinching of the skin between the
thumb and finger resulted in blood
poison, followed by the amputation of
hight arm at the shoulder ,ioint, died
at his home in Ebenezer Thursday
morning and was buried the same day.
A Noble Woman.
Amelia E. Barr, the novelist, has,
besides writing thirty-two books had
time to perfect herself as a house
keeper, and is the mother of fourteen
" TOWNE WITHDRAWS.
Declines the Populist Nomination for
the Vice Presidency
Charles A. Towne, who was nomi
nated by the Populist party for Vice
President on the ticket with Bryan, has
written a letter to the committee ap
pointed to notify him declining the
nomination. Reviewing the course of
events from his own nomination to the
naming of Mr. Stevenson by the Demo
crats, he says:
"Everybody knows that either Mr.
Stevenson or Mr. Roosevelt is to he the
next Vice President of the United
States, I am expected to take a labor
ious part in the campaign. I shall, of
course, advocate the election of Mr.
Bryan and Stevenson. The Demo
cratic convention, before which I was a
candidate, nominated Bryan and Stev
enson. The Silver Republican party,
of which organization I was the official
head for nearly four years, has nomi
nated Bryan and Stevenson. In what
light should I appear before the Ameri
can people if while advocating the elec
tion of one ticket, I should be going
through the form of running on another?
Nobody in the United States would
think I had the slightest chance of be
ing elected, and nobody would believe
that I considered myself seriously as a
candidate, unless at the same time he
believed me to be absolutely lacking in
common sense. Whom could such a
phantom candidacy deceive? What
respect should I deserve, indeed, if in
such a matter I should attempt to de
ceive anybody whatsoever? I know the
People's party t~o be composed of men
most exceptioDally keen and expert in
political judgment. So obvious a sham
could not elude their vision. Either
they would resent my implied compli
mentary estimate of them or they
would be justified in forming one of m3
which could result only in injuring the
cause which it had been the professed
object of my mistaken folly to advance.
Consistency and candor in politics,
therefore, my own self-respect, proper
deference to the People's party and a
sincere regard for the welfare of the
cause of political reform in the United
States all counsel that I now respect
fully replace in your hands the honor
able trust which your great party com
mitted to me in contemplation of a dif
ferent complexion of affairs than that
which has resulted."
CONGER HEARD FROM AGAIN.
Little Ammunition or Provisions and
Attack Expected.
A dispatch from Washington says
another cablegram came to the state
department late Wednesday afternoon
from Minister Conger at Pekin-the
second that has been received direct
from him since June 12. It is the first
which has come direct from the minis
ter since the above date, the other hav
ing been received through the inter
mediary of the Chinese minister, Mr.
Wu. Wednesday's advices show that
the situation in the Chinese capital is
still of a very serious character, that
the ministers are still in danger from
the Chinese troops and that their sup
plies of ammunition and provisions has
been reduced to a very considerable ex
tent. So important were the statements
contained in the dispatch that a confer
ence was held by wire between several
of the officials here and the president
at Canton, lasting for several hours.
At its conclusion the cablegram from
Mr. Conger was made public as fol
lows:
Secretary of State.
Still besieged. Situation more pre
carious. Chinese government insisting
upon our leaving Pekin, which would
be certain death. Rifle firing upon us
daily by imperial troops. Have abun
aant courage but little ammunition or
provisions. Two progressive yamen
ministers beheaded. All connected with
legation of the United States well at
the present. Conger.
The cablegram came to the official
cipher of the department. It is un
dated like Mr. Conger's previous cable,
but from the internal evidence far
nished by his reference to the behead
ing of two members of tsung-li-yemen
and to the insistance of the Chinese
government on the departure of the
ministers from ?ekin, state department
officials say it may be assigned a date
not earlier than July 30, and perhaps
not later than Aug. 2.
The Chinese Dictum
"In case the troop advance the Chi
nese must fight. The suggestion that
the allies should be allowed to enter
Pekin in order to escort the ministers
to Tien Tsin is absolutely impossible"
A dispatch from London says the above
is the dictum of Li Hung Chang. It
was transmitted to Mr. Morgan a-L -
don merchant by his agent at Shanghai.
The agent had carried to E arl Li a mes
sage from Mr. Morgan urging that the
allied troops be allowed to enter the
capital and stating that a settle
ment could be made at Tien Tsin,
whereby a war of the world against
China would be avert-ed; but even the
optimistic Li failed to hold out the
slightest hope of feasibility, although
he reiterated to Mr. Morgan's agent his
declaration that the ministers had left
Pekin, fixing the date of their depar
ture as Aug. 2.
What Tillman Says.
Senator Tillman evidently don't be
lieve the the charge that Mr. Patterson
has persistently made that there are
600 blind tigers in Charleston
and 200 in Columbia. In his speech
at Laurens Senator Tiliman said
he did not think all this talk about 600
tigers in Charleston and 200 in Colum
bia amounted to much. He believed
there were tigers in both these places.
They are bolder than when he was Gov
ernor, but he did not believe there were
near as many as was represented- Here
he found 1,500 men and not one drunk.
There could not be many tigers about
here or some of the men would have
been bitten.
The Veterans
William Jennings Bryan will attend
the meeting of the G. A. R., at Chicago
and the Republican papers are begin
ning to make faces at the "grizzled
veteran." You can't lose William Jen