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~iI 'iIr~ 4. ~ a. VOL. XY MANNINW, S. C., WThNESDAYq NOVEMBER 21, 1900. NO, 364. DISPENSARY SALES. Result of the Legislative Commit tee's Lbrrs. THE VOLUME OF BUSINESS. It Seems to b. Steadily increas ing. The Financial Affirs of the Big M'ral In stitution. The followicg is the cfic al report of the legislative examining committee as to the condition and operations of the State dispensary for the quarter end ing August 3t, filed with the governor Tuesday: To His Excellency, Miles B M31wee ney, Governor, Columbia, S. C.: Dear Sir: The undersigned joint com mittee appointed by the general asscrn bly to examine the books and financial transactions of the State dispensary beg to submit herewith our report for the quarter ending August 31, 1900 The stock on hand was taken on An gust 31st and September 1st by W. H Sharpe, representing the committee, and J. C. Moody. representing the state board of directors. All stock and supplies were ae:ually exhibited, counted and valued. The system of bookkeeping is excel lent and the bookkeepers very particu lar. painstaking and correct. We found the dispansary director coming up to the fall measure of his I duty, having worked the institution up to a high business standard. The board of directors are very har monious by doing their work in a fle I business way. We append hereunto statements of assets and liabilities, cash statement, receipts and disbursements, all of which is respectfully submitted. J. T. Hay, t Senator. t W. H. Sharpe, Member of House of Representatives. t ASSETS AND LIABILITIES. The first of these statements is as follows: ASSETS. Cash in State treasury Aug. 31, 1900...............$142,503 53 Teams and wagons (invt'y) . 64 00 Supplies, (inventors)...... 31,994.10 Machinery and ofnce fixtures (inventory)............2. 765 64 Contraband, (inventory)... 585 83 Real estate .............. 36,635 08 Suspendedaccounts........ 5.987.63 Merchandise in hands of dispensers ............ 210,144.47 Merchandise, (i n v e n t o r y Aug. 31st).. .. ........ 190.9S6 49 Personal aceounts due State for empty barrels, alhocol beer,etc............... 5,13242 Total assets.. .. .....$626,829 19 LLAB! LITIES. School fund.... .......$20.556 86 Personal accounts due by State for supplies, whis kies, wines, beer, alcohol, ete ................ .10,272 33 Total liabilities...... ..$626,829.19 The statements of the profit and loss aecocunt is as follows: PEROFITS. Gross profits on merchan dise sold during quarter..$S79 272 53 Contraband seizures. . 750 66 State's one half share of profits on beer sold by the Germania Brewing Co., during quarter.. ... .. . 2 862 40 Total........ ...... .$ 90,925 62 LOSsES. Supplies-Bottles, c o r k s. labels, wire, tin foil, lead seals, boxes, rails, sealing r wax, etc., for quarter. 28.989 45 Insurance premiums... 666 30 Breakage and leakage... 84 94 Labor (pay rolls). . .... 3,754.20 Expense Account-~Salaries, expenses of inspeetors per diem and mileage of members of state board of directors and legislative examining committee, of fice supplies, lights, tele grams, postage. a t o a k feed, ice, printing, reve Due stamps, telephone rent. etc.............. 6 218 12 Constabulary.. . .... ... 10,278 58 Freight and express charges 15,425.20 Revenue license.... .... ...125.00 Worthless beer at Lancaster dispensary destroyed by. county board of control June 1, 1900.. ..........8.10 Worthless porter, beer, and wine at Winnsboro dis pensary, condemned by oounty board of control.. 17.23 Loss by robbery at G. McC. -Honour's di sp e n sar y, Charleston, S. C........ ..3 7 Loss by robbery at Kershaw dispensary Feb. 24, 1900, per report of inspector Boykin........-----..0 Total expense. .... .. $ 65,647.26 Net profit on sales for the quarter, passed to the credit of the school fund. $ 25,278 36 Total. ...............$ 90 924 62 The cash statement for the quarter ending August 31st, is as follows: RECEIPTS Balance in State treasury May 21, 1900 .. .. .. .. $115871.61 June receipts $116.489 54 July receipts 125.753 55 Aug ... .. ..134,530.60-$376,773 55 Grand total.. ..... ... $409,451 June disburse ments.... $114.319.12 July disburse ments... 116,072.54 Aug. disburse ments ... 119,749.97-$350,141.63 Baance in State treasury Augsut 31, 1900. . - . 142 503.53 WHAT WE M Y EXPECT. The South to be Deprived of their Rights. The hte eiection has given the Re ,.ble~m party conplete control of the Fedd:tl government in both the tx e~utive and legisltive departments. The Sathern States did not contribute to the Republican victory and there fore need not expect any favors. On the contrary, there is rea;oni to b ieve that a d-termsined (%rt will he :nade to punish this seci -u by reducing its political po~cer. Vice )hairmau Payne of t eNati ;ina,;ommit tee, knows what he is ta'k ng about when he threatens the Surt with a reduction of re; resentttion in the House and in the Electoral college. We qiote his wora iiven out in a late revi: "I hope the election will open up a new era in the -outh. At the present the South is neither Democ:atic nor Republican. It is a government of fraud. It is simply anarchy. I do not believe that Congress should longer permit the disfranchisement of any of its citizcns by a Soutbern State with out rcducing the roprtsen:ation of the State in Congress proportiornately. "I know that the Demceratic Sen ators might talk such a bill to death at the homing short session, especially if we try to pass au army bill at the same time. But if we can't pass the bili next winter, we can wait until the next Congress meets, when our majority in he Senate wilt ba so large that filibus tering by a few Demcrstic Senators kili be impossible. It must be confessed that the pros >et is not cheering for the citizens of his istitude. It will be news to them hat simp'e anarchy prevaiis in this eetion. In Mr. Payne's vocabulary anarchy simply means opposition to be Republican party. If ho desires o build up the Republican party in he Southern States he should know hat his proposed method is not the ray to accomplish it, for it would only evive sectional animosity and confirm he Southern States in opposition to he Republican party whiom has been he auther of all the measures that have roved so injurious to the welfare of he Suth. However, there is some omfort in the thought that all Repub icans are not so hostile to the South s Mr. Payne. It is to be hoped that Lany -f them will refuse to unite with iim in slacing the ban of inferority on hose Sotthern States which have been Iriven by he instinct of self preserva ion to esta.lish an educational quali z ation for srage just as Massacht ;etts has done, though not driven to i; )y the same itperative necessity - Lynchburg News. As Bryn Said. The military spirt is growing sine he election and a b increase in the tanding army is abou. as certain as nything can be in porties. We are n for it and the attendant expense will stonish the people who supported, with their votes, the McKinley admin ration, thereby giving license to the Republican party to go ahead with heir program. Unless we are very nuch mistaken the army influence will ye as strong in this country in less ime than four years as it is today in E'rance. The drift is to military des potism and the only check we see to it s in a combination between the Dcm >crats in the United States Senate and those Republicans who denounced the idministration program during the ast session of Congress.-Chattanooga SNews. The Trusts Are at It. A few days ago it was the meat trust hat tightened its squeeze upon the 2ecple, and now it is the salt trust that .s demandiog more tribute. This lat ;er trust with characteristic greed, has nore than double the price of the comn nodity which it controls. Tomorrow and the next day we shall probably hear >f other trusts that have raised prices >n the necessaries of life. The mono ,olies evidently think that the success >f McKinley has given them license to ob without rest raint. They are fast urnishing the Democrats with a win aing "paramount issue" and with an ibundan ce of campaign material. - savannah Moining News. Big Sale of Lumber. The state of Minnesota is selling today an immense tract of lumber, emibracing no less than 75.000,000 feet f standing pine, tamarack, spruce and :edar. The sale is at the state capitol, mnd there is a large crowd of persons *nterested in the sales in attendanee. h'e timber ranges in value from $1.50 :o $5 a thousand, and much of it is of ~xcellent quality. The greater portion f the timber stands on school lands, hough a considerable amount is in is >lated tracts. According to the con ~ervative estimate of values made by he state auditor, the sale should ring in between $200,000 and $250, 100, Cigarettes Did It. Emmanuel Haskins, of Fairburn Ga , 16 years old, is dead from the efects >f blood poisioning. The young man aad been blowing an ordinary French iarp until his under lip had become ore and infiamed. Being addicted to he habit of cigarette smoking, he ~ontinued to smoke while the lip was .n this condition, and it was the opin on of the attending paysicians that he nicotine or other poison from the ~igarette came in contact with the sore ip and thus produced the fatal result. ['he sufferings of the youth were terri ~le and his head and face were swollen >eyond recognition. Some One is Wrong. "The Filipinos are not warlike or erocious people," says General Mc .rthur, in his annual. Is there one nore traitor in the camp, we should ike to know. Teddy Roosevelt has just ;ot elected to the Vice Presidency by unning around and tellin2 everybody what bi u~y savages the Filipinos are, nd now the commander-in-chief in the hilippines sa-,s that they are nothing >f the kind. We do not often call on he editors of the Springfield Union to ome to the rescue, but it seems to us hat here is a discrepancy which re uires their attention. Somebody is ying about the Filipinoos. Who is it? -H artfort Times. NOT SO EASILY DONE The Reorgarization of the Dem ccratic Party. A SENSIBLE VIEW. The Party Neither Moribund Nor Crippled. Bryan a Great Leader in the Face of Defeat. The D:inocratic party has been beaten, baIy beaten on the electoral vote and in a lesser degree on the pop ular vote. N-:verthe'ess it remains true, as in 1896, that a change of votes in certain States equal to but 1 per cent. of the Democratic total would have suffised to give it a majority of the electoral vote. We are indebted to the ultra-Republican New York San for this calculation: The Sun says: If 7~.000 citizens who voted for Me Kinley in certain States of the union had voted instead for Bryan, McK:nley would have been defeated and Bryan elected. The table below mentions 12 States with the electoral votes belonging to rh' i and their several pluralities for McKinley and Roosevelt, as unoffiially ascertained or as estimated Thursday. Changes in the fgures by later returns will not greatly affect the general prop osition: El'c- Republican tcral Vote Plurality. Delaware........ ...3 5,000 Indiana.......... . .15 27.400 Karnas..............10 25.000 Iaryland .... . .. .8 14 360 Nebraska.............a 5(00 north Dakota.. ....... 8 000 )hegon.......... ....4 14000 south Dakota. ......4 10 000 Jtah.................. 4,000 1 vashington...........4 5,000 Vest Virginia... .....6 15,000 Vyoming.............3 3000 c 71 135 760 8 Thus leaving a margin of 14,000 for ossible increase in the aggregate Re- t ulican plurality in these States, it is F vident that the change of 75,000 votes i rould have reversed the result in all 12 t f them. That is to say, if 75,000 citi a ens who voted for McKinley had ( oted for Bryan, 71 electoral votes now i the McKinley column would have e on' in the Bryan column, thus: s leKinley's electoral vete as it is.. .292 d lectoral vote of these 12 States.. . 71 0 IcKinley's electoral vote as it would P have been... ..............221 o: ecessary to a choice.............224 tc On the other hand: ryan's electoral vote as it is..... . 155 ti -!.ectoral vote of these 12 States... 71 re --f< BI-a's electoral vote as it would Ii ,be been ....................226 fx Nectary to a h-ie. .. .... 224 li The e.nge of 75,000 votes. therefore, w properI-distributed in the 12 States in e' the list,would have given to Bryan ti two more han the necessary number al of .elector- vote-; his electoral ma jority over Mc&Kinley would have gi been 5.w -- w It would saithat a party which can t poll 7,000,0060tes and come as near to Si victory as this, neither moribund nor crippled, and lunder no obligation to E accept the dictaen of the small min.- vc: ority of its for'- members who cast to their votes agait it and defeated it. St The Sun itself ragnizes the strength bi of the Democrati'iemonstration and ta voices a warning a ilar to that given he: by The State on ,morning of the election. It says: In. the first placee owroth polticl evoutin 'ted in 1896 by Sc Bryan and continued sh little, if any se appreciable diminution the campaign be of 1900, must not be himized.' At Pr both elections he was :feated by a Be majority of the electoralte of great proportions, yet at both ILreceived of wi popular votes a much l-ar volume an than had ever been cast a Demo- E eratic candidate for presid- - and the dri greater percentage of the'e- o4 Mr. Mc~inley on both occn was CO only about 5 per cent. Tholiticwas Se force represented by Bryanism there- in fore too tremendous to be ooked ?ri in any consideration of the stical i"' future, more especially of the sture pr of the Democratic party. Ch Estimating that the whole num,. of lic votes polled at this election was 1"il.. m a lions, something like seven millid0g to them were cast for Bryan. In e COh State of New York, out of an aga the gate for both McKinley and Bryan fa e about one millii rn and a half votes, thpoi plurality over Bryan was less than lra per cent. and his plurality over McKin-u ley in this city was more than 27,000, ~t A candidate who receives support so numerous, in spite of a &reat revolt against him in his own p.arty, cannot be removed from political consideration simply because of his defeat, but must rather be regarded sex iously as the representative of a popular feeling of ominous streng*th arnd pervasiteness. It is not improbable, it seems rather to be probable, that if the elements in the Democratic party which represent its conservatism and its national spirit should regain the control of its organ izatioc, the burning political sentimient of which Bryanism has been the ex pression would be driven off in violent re-:-olt to act by itself as an independ ent political movement. In truth, the genesis of Bryan as a political force was the consequence of the dlemonstration of the strength of such a political movement in the campaign of 1892, when Mr. Cleveland wasn eieeted for the second time. In that canvass de Pop ulists polei more than one million votes, exhibiting a stength which alarmed both of the great parties. Bryan's scheme was to prevent this political division by fusing Populis~n with Democracy, and he succeeded in it so far that in the canvass of 1896 Populism disappeared practically as an independent movement. His vote in creased over taat for Mr. Cleveland in 1892 by almost exactly the amount of the Populist vote in 1892. and he kept I it in the late election. Nor is it nowi destroyed by his defeat. Any conser-I vativ domination of the Domocrat iej: rarty. in the next presidential cam paign would be sure to revive it in 1904 and it might again find in Bryan its leader, for his campaign just con cluded was in spirit wholly Populistie. T-e political revolution which began in 1S96 and continued with increasing momentum in the canvass just closed seemed, therefore, to indicate a read j-istment of political relations which intellient men of both the Repulican and Democratic parties will be com pelled to recognize as necessarily per manent, if the dangerous political movement represented by Bryan is to b: kept in restraint and is not to con tinue in undiminished aggressiveness. The quesrmons of policy which have arisen in this campaign will assert themselves the mare in their para mountey as time passes and they will render necessary the ma-ntenance of the new politieal alignment which came in with 1896. The forces behind Bryan in his two campaigns represent a sentiment of discontent powerful at this time in every country of civiliza tion which inevitably wilicrystallize in a political party wnatever its normal designation may be, that will be as in tolerable to conservative Democratic feeling a-d conviction as was Bryan ism in 1896 and 1900. In short, The Sun sees that defeat of Bryan encourages a more extreme pol icy by the opposiion and it regards it as necessary to the continued success of the Republican party that it shall absorb permanently the Cleveland ele ment formerly of the Democratic party. It sees that an attempt to give the Democratic organization the aims of the Republican organization would if successful drive the mass of Democrats into a new and more radical party. The State. ONLY ONE CONTEST. Bechett Files His Protest Against Col. Elliott. The Columbia State says election rc urns from nearly all of the counties iave been received, and all that is to e done is for them to be tabulated by he State board of control. So far there has been only one notice f contest filed with the secretary of state. This is in the case of the con ressional election in the First district, ongreesman Elliott wes opposed in hat district by W. W. Becket, colored, rho received comparatively few votes 2 any county in the district. Never heless, he makes a general protest gainst the counting of the vote for 1 ol. Elliott on the following grounds: "That the said ballots which were ast and returned for William Elliot at tid election, were not legal ballots un- 1 er the laws of the State of South Car. i [ina. "Bsecause said ballots were not of t roper color and did not show for what e ce the said William Elliott was in- a anded to be chosen." t This protest was filed with the elec- c on canvassers of Charleston. After r ading it the board declared that they 3 and "the ballots cast for William Et- s Att, for representative in congress c om the First district of South Caro- p na, were 'two and one-half inches i: ide by five inches long, clear and 'en cut, without ornament, designa- sa on, mutilation, symbol or mark of a y kind whatever, except the name of b illiam Elliott, representative in Con- I ess, Firt district,' for which office he X is a candidate, and that the ballot u is properly printed and according to tI .e laws governing elections in this s< ate." - ti The board, therefore, declared Col. p, Lliott duly entitled to receive the p tea cast for him. Becket proposes Il make a similar contest before the p ate canvassing board, and presuma- rs y this is but the first step towards di ting the contest up to the national T use of representatives. ti Beginning to Squeal Forty-five cotton mill owners in the ti uth, fearing that the recent war will ta riously change the trade conditions m tween this counetry and China, have in cpared a petition which they are b ading to Secretary of State Hay, in at asbington. They fear that Russia ci 11 obtain possession of Manchuria tb d will impose such heavy duties on in nerican goods as to render a with- th iwal of American interests from that to antry necessary. This petition to so cretary Hay reads: "The under- de ned, manufacturers of cotton goods si the southern states, desire to ex- ti< ~ss their approval of the action of ad United States government in the p >tection of American interests in to ima, known as the "open door" po- mi 7', and trust th~is position may be th intained, more especially in regard is Manchuria, to which section of the an inese empire a large proportion of cotton drills and shirtings manu- to tured in the southern states is ex- irc ted. As may be well known, this to de has increased in recent years to i han extent that the prohibition or ms Lrference in China by any European th ernent would tend to seriously in- TI e, not only the cotton manufactur- Ma industries, but other important ad' dacts of the United States which 7te Ebeing shipped to China. For the ter e-tion and perpetuity of these no 0ercial relations, we earnestly pray bu eadministration will take such act -:as may be proper under existing int con~ns. It is not only the manu- in factu of cotton goods who would be ste serlor affected, but the southern an< plantend cotton grower and the be< thosa's oemployes and laboring cor eila arc engaged in the cotton est millhs avho depend on the success adi Ch"ufaturngindustries for a dex Smil Tthis petition is signed by tha 8 il in North Carolina, 21 tiv< ~n n eout (a'na, four in Alabama, a g ne i eouthe one in Maryland. the queal for tpiills are beginning to der hiought was alipen doer, which we evi y wide open. nes HUSucceed- 5re An example the chances in thce Lnited States fo'-e bright and ener ectie young .mah stays in one C lace is furnishe. he ucsso i shiarles M. HaeA h g of hsi cineteen he was a -k in a ragerodhis dfice at St., Louis, I.al railroad $40 ih month. That was a.r n 1 h d1ayes has become -ears ago. Mr. it ~ iouthern Pacifie Railpident of the pre argest system but o0 which is the cor Ie will have a salary og1 the world. tier mud will be the highest e.000 a year, Der n'ia in the world. ied railroad pub crai A GOD .SHOWING Made by the South in the Cen sus Figures. TEXAS LEADS THIS SECTION The South Contains the Purest American Stock In the Coun try. ;Some Very Interest ing Facts. In a general survey of the United States as revealed by the figures of the twelfth census, the south has occasion for self-congratulation. At first glance the reason for this may not be appar ent, but according to an analysis made by the manufacturers' Record it is never-theless a fact. The population of thA United States increased between 1890 and 1900 by 20.96 per cent., or 13,225,464. The population of the south increased 3,950,422. or 20 15 per cent. This percentage was somewhat below that of the whole country, but yet in advance of what maybe regarded as other typical groups of states. The increase in New England, 891;107, was but 18.95 per cent., in the nine middle states stretching from the Atlantic to the Mississippi it was 5,250,957, or 20 04 per cent., and in three states across the Mississippi, Missruri, Iowa and Minnesota, it was 1 217.435, or 20 65 per cent. Commenting on this the Manufacturers' Record says: "These figures show that the increase in population which made the total percentage of increase in the country slightly more than the percentage of increase in the south, took place in that part of the country which con tinues less than 12 per cent. of the population, in spite of the halting of Eansas and Nebraska and the actual iecline in population in Nevada. The mormons increase of more than 330,000 n Oklahoma, of more than 200,000 in [ndian Territory and of more than 60, )00 in Arizona are clues to the story of t he increase in what may be called the a iewer portions of the country. Com- s ng to the special figures in the south, a t is noticeable that Texas leads the I lder portions of the country in the b >ercentage of the increase; that its ii otual increase of 813,305 is but 77,802 o ess than the actual increase in the v rhole of New England, where Maine, n yew Hampshire and Vermont stood s till. and where Massachusetts' increase E ras 63 per cent., er the total increase p a that section, and that Texas, Florida, a Vest Virginia and Louisiana led in c: he percentage of increase in the south- k rn states, though Alabama, Georgia ad Mississippi stood out well among si he states, making large actual in rease among the southern states were B ot unlike those such as New Jersey, fi 0 per cent.; Ohio, 13 percent.; Penn- si Flvania, 19 per cent.; Delaware, 9 per t< snt.; Indiana, 14 per cent.; Iowa, 17 al er cent.; and Minnesota, 34 per cent.; di i other portions of the country. of "In considering the increase in the I >uth in comparison with those else- w here, however, one or two facts must oc s borne in mind. Outside of Texas, ti ouisiana, Fiorida and perhaps West a] irginia and Maryland the south's pop lation has been little influenced by uj te immigration of foreigners. The m >uth today, and notably those per- ol ens of the south showing the smaller T. srcentages of increase contain the uj irest American stock in the country. D: contains, also, the bulk of the negro th >pulation, which, increasing less pr pidly than the whites, tends to re ice the total percentage of increase. wi here are many indications, however, at that popultion is inclined to drift sti yond the limits of the South, botb Si a northerly direction and also toward th .e southwest, its place being gradually ken by Americans who have tried the iddle west and who now seek ho nes. Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Ala- in ma, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas so d ether southern states. These new ar tizens of the south are largely of da e agricultural class. They are bring- StA g -ew ideas and new methods with i ei., and from them may be expected av spring additions to tbe native-born a c atherners who have set to work to ov velop southern industries. The col >ughing off of the undesirable per- be ins of the south's population and the firn dition of thrifty Amerians from ether p0: rtions of the couintry may be expected sar continue indefinitely and to increase to ich more rapidly in the future, now til it the southward trend of population be: so pronounced throughout the north com fi the northwest." to One of the great southern interests the be reckoned with in this future is be n. It has become the habit to look if the Birminghnm district before pass- pre judgment upon the outlook for the 15s. rket. The view given there during wil past week is eminently satisfactory. SOC e Birmingham correspondent of the bmi nufacturers' Record says that the Dr. rance of 50 cents a ton on November the was promptly accepted without in.. ant ruption of the buying, that it was Ba confined to the small order trade, beil that interests of every degree were leg; ive in the move. By Friday the mui crests that had led the selling were ofC s. very comfortable condition as to has eks. Their surplus was absorbed lsales of comfortable amounts had n booked for the first half of the t 2ing year. A second advance of 25 the ts a ton did not deter buyers. He ter, s that the feeling is one of confi- and .oe in the maintenance of prices and She t the market will remain conserva- o'cli ,. There has been during the week disc >od demand for steel products and spoi steel mill has accepted all the or- the that suited its convenience. An fiert lence that an increase in its busi- shot a is expected is the fact that the Mrs furnace is now being heated in tars paration for going into commission. not Mrs What Thy Should Do. a sh harles A. Towne, chairman of the My er Republican National commite Mar been in conference at Minneapolis, met: s., with other members considering ed t party's future. It is understood that saw as decided to issue an address ex- stret sing the belief that the time has fled e for giving up the party organiza- area; and merging its members into the gone iocray. All Silver and Lincoln Re- hour licans will be urged to become Demo- met] s in good standing. of w TALKING THROUGHSHIS HAT. A Charleston Fossil Tickles the Republicans. The Washington correspondent of the Charleston Post says among Southern gentlemen in Washington is Hon. A. B. Kaufman of South Carolina. Mr. Kaufman is well known throughout the South and takes much interest in all matters tending to the development of the South and especially of his home city of Charleston. He is in Washing ton at present to attend a meeting of the Red Cross Society, of which he is an active member. Although Mr. Kaufman, in politics, differs from the large majority of the people of Charles ton, having advocated the reelection of President McKinley, it is safe to say that there is no man in Charleston who has more friends or who is morn highly regarded than himself. Mr. Kaufman in speaking on different topics while in Washington stated, that although he was gratified at the reeletion of President McKinley, he deplored the fact that the solid north and West was arrayed against the solid South. Nevertheless, he says that there is a large element in the South, as he judges from the vote in South Carolina who were not in favor of Col. Bryan, but who could not be brought to the point of voting for President McKin ley. This element, he says, refrained from going to the polls. Insubstantia tion of this he points to the fact that he registered vote in South Carolina s about 100.000 and less than one half, )r about 40,000 persons voted at the ecent election. The vote at the prim iry election in Charleston, he says, vas 4 500, while at the national elec ion it was only 2,000. In Columbia he registered white vote was 3,000, while only 300 votes were cast. He hinks that the great portion of this rote which failed to express itself was argely favorable to President McKin ey." SCIENCE VERSUS MAMMON. L Revolt Among the Professors of Stanford University. Dr. Edward Rogs, head professor in he department cf economics and so- t iology at Stanford University, has re igned. The resignation caused quite t sensation in university circles, where )r. Ross was extremely popular. In is formal letter of resignation he in itimated that he was being forced out c F the university by Mrs. Stanford, ho had taken exception to statements q iade by him in his public address on 2 >ciological and econmic questions. [e further said that Mrs. Stanford was rompted by certain powerful persons ad commercial interests in San Fran- S sco. Several of the faculty have ta- i sn sides with Dr. Ross. n Dr. Jordan, president of the univer- c ty, said today: o "In regard to the resignation of Dr. t oss it is right that I should make a 8 irther statement. There is not the 0 ightest evidence that he is a 'martyr 8 freedom of speech.' Nor is there v iy reason to believe that his with- C awal has been due to any pressure t] capital orany other sinister influence, t know that Mrs. Stanford's decision ti as reached only after long aud earnest fi 'nsideration, and that its motive was li .e welfare of the university and that sa one." tI Supplementing his former utterances si >on the subject of Prof. Ross's dis- w issal, Dr. Howard addressed his o ass in history today upon the matter. S ie entire hour of the class was given ti > to the discussion of "free speech." ft .Howard arraigned the influences c< at brought about the dismissal of the w ofessor. d4 Prof. Howard concluded his speech d< th this sensational utterance: Is "1 do not bow down to Saint Market S. ~eet. I do not dofE my hat to the t K Companies; neither am I afraid of pc i Standard Oil Company. li< Unfortunate Insane-.u The regents of the state hospital for iane at their recent meeting had no facts presented to them which startling in some respects. The to ~ly average "attendance" has been A adily growing. Dr. Babcock in giv- lei the statistics says: "Last year the '21 irage was barely over one thousand th ay, but this year's average will run ca ir one thousand and forty. The re-c ds show that the great increase has v m since 1870. This is accounted for an t by the large increase in the negroh pa'ation of the hospital for the in- th te, and until 1870 the counties had St pay the expenses of patients sent to hospital, whereas now the state on LrS the expenses directly and the ui Lnty authorities feel Yery much freer is unload patientn on the state, and in *y send patients here who ought to ** kept at home or in the poor housee, P~o io other place can be provided. The aD blem of housing all of these patients it >ecoming quite serious and the state Ge I have to take hold of the situation lea n and provide quarters, instead of At iding here to meet present needs." cax Baboock, with the co-operation of S~o board has make every cent of the sid uel appropriation go its farthest. the report of the regents, which is < ig prepared to be submitted to the lati slature will show that much more an 5t be done for the unfortunate class cot itizens who have to be treated at the she pital' __________ pla Attacked by a Burglar. or. ~negro burglar forced his way to suf apartments of Mrs. Orrin W. Pot- toe wife of- the millionaire steel man me banker, in her home, 130 LakeE, re drive, Chicago, shortly after 1 pro ck Wednesday morning, and when eve overed in the act of applying a pre Ige, saturated with chlorform, to iest nostrils of his victim, struck her a mai e0 blow on the head with a slung tast .The shock of the blow rendered coff Potter unconscious, and the doe- sou: who were called fear that she may to b recover. Just before being struck foot Potter roused the household with and rill cry for help. .per, ra. Potter's daughters, Mies that garet and Miss Bessie, heard their aer's screams for help and -rush o her bed chamber. When they 1N the robber they fled into the cool it and called for help. The robber tran as soon as the young women began ippi ning in the street. After he had shoj the daughters returned to the a Si e, called a physician for their for ier, and then notified the police seen hat had happened. cook WHAT BRYAN WILL.DO. The Question by the Gentleman Himself. In the answer which he has just sent to the publishers of the Denver Post declining their offer to an editorial position at $10,000 a year it is believed that Wiliam Jennings Bryan has indi cated his intention to continue making speeches and to be in line for the presi dential nomination four years hence. That appears to be the only interpre tation to be put on his telegram to the editor of the Post, which read: "H. H. Tammen, F. G. Bonfils, Den ver Post, D nver, Col.: Thanks for you offer, but I cannot accept. I shall remain here, and in the future, as in the past. defend with tongue and pen the prinsi ples which I believe to be right and the poicies I believe to be wise." If this does not mean that Mr. Bryan means to pursue exactly the same course he pursued during the past four years wit.h the same object in view, what does it mean? Bryan is not disturbed or concerned as to his ability to make a livelihood for himself and his family. His depth as a political and economic thinker and the ability of his pen assures him that his personal finances cannot suffer. Bryan has made a snug fortune from his writings and lectures in the past few years. Some of this he has kept for himself, but a great portion of the money has been donated to causes in which he has taken an interest. Today Mr. Bryan could retire to prive life and live in comfort on the income of what he has massed. The profits from the book he published after :ampaign of 1896 were sufficient to en able him to invest a sum in bonds which will bring to him an annual income of 2. 000. Bryan is a man of simple tastes, and :his sum would be sufficient to educate is children and sustain his family in somfort. A year ago last week Bryan made a peech in Lincoln in the course of vhioh he said: "Some of my Republican friends," ie continued, "have been feigning vonderment as to what will become of ne when this craze of isms, as they erm the issues, has died out. In order o relieve them of any undue worry I rant to serve notice that I shall con inue in politics in active opposition to ny party or doctrine which violates Lmerican ideals and the true princi les of human liberty until the lid is losed upon my coffin." Mr. Bryan has already answered the uestion: What is Bryan going to do? Ltlanta Journal. Smalls Issues Circular. The negro ex congressman Robt. malls is the author of circular letter hich he is sending to prominent egroes throughout the country advo Sting concerted action in their part in pposition to what he calls an attempt disfranchise his race in the Palmetto tate. The negro ex-leader wants the )ngressional representation from outh Carolina reduced in accordance ith the fourteenth amendment of the onstitution which reads "That when ie male inhabitants of any State, being venty-one years of age and citizens of .e U. S., are denied the right of suf age except for participation in rebel-1 on or other crime, the basis of repre sntation therein shall be reduced in 1 ie proportion which the number of ich male citizens shall bear to the hole number of male citizens twenty ae years of age in such State." If1 nalls would take into consideration I Le number of his race who have for ited all claim to citizenship by the mmission of crimes and felonies it ould be impossible to enumerate >ubtless he would understand the wis >m of South Carolina's registration ws. The negroes here heartily detest nails, but are afraid of him. Many of em are jealous because he is such a t of the present administration and a certainly does seem to be able to 1 t about any apppointment he desires I der a Re publican ad ministration. t A Blow at the Southa Congressman. L eonidas F. Livings- i of Georgia in an interview in the i: lanta Daily News says: "Before d ving Washington, I learned unoff- a 1lly from Republican headquarters i, at it was the purpose of the Republi- a a leaders in the house and senate to v t down the representation, as pro r led for under the 14th constitutional t end ment as they construe it in the ce use, of those States which have made a disfranchisements by Statute or ite constitutional amendment. fI Vhile this is not offcal, I am thor-. rhly satisfied that the matter is u der serious -consideration, and there o great danger to those Southern States aj the attempt to do so, whether sue- p4 sful or not. If successful it cuts our wer in the house of representatives t< ut one-third, as I can approximate is iow." In reply to a telgram sent to a neral Grovesern, the Republican 5, der he wires the A tlanta News from ai lanta, Ohio, as follows: "I do not i e to express an opinion at this time, a t serious a matter deserves great con eration." A Good Health Party. 'A Good Health Party," the very th ~st, is suggested by a Western wom- to who has the courage of his hygienic ie victions. It would begin operations la says, by so stationing the polling to ues that every voter would have to o k five miles to deposit his ballot- hu iers, for this would be a woman's th. rage party, the ballot being granted ret very woman who could show a waist qg bsurement of from 28 to 35 inche:,! is ry candidate would be required to iK re that he toek a cold plunge bath at ry morning, and the candidate for if: iident would have to be the health oei man in the United Stats-"a do I who had never used tobacco or b ed alcohol; who never drank tea or nia ue or water at meals; =who had 32 2d natural teeth; who always went ed at 10 o'clock; who had studied s and always ate for nourishment never for fun; who abhorred pep- Sta vinegar and mustard and believed fiel ice cream should be eaten ho:." C. ______________the Mysterious Disapperance- cen rs. Hancock, wife of Capt. Han- Thi ,U. 8. A. about to sail on the o'cl sport Kilpattrick for the Phil- fro nes, has dissappeared. She was me: ping with her sister yesterday in in xth avenue and excused herself Sta few minutes and hai not been res! since. Her sister says Mrs. Han- and has been'ill for some time. ver MASK THROWN OFF. Tne Republican Party and the Trusts. TO BE GIVEN FREE REIN. One of the Organs Comes Out and Boldly Declares the Re publican Position as to Trusts. The most unblushing repudiation of campaign promises and confession of party hypocrisy is made by the New York Sun, the metropolitan organ of the Republican party, in the followiny: It has been made evident by the election that the people of this country, besides being determined to maintain their financial honor in good times and in bad, are very tired of the howls of cranks against corporate enterprise and of visionary crying of communisti Utopias. Such was not the case four years ago. Despite the sense of relief that was experienced over the defeat of Bryan at that time thoughtful men realized perfectly well that practically the same contest would have to be waged four years later, and that not until it could be demonstrated to poli ticians that the Bryan theories did not appeal to the hearts of the people could Bryan's hold be loosed upon the great political party that he had seized. Re publicans knew this as well as Demo crats, and ever since the last election the leaders of the Republican party have made all sorts of efforts to pla cate and allay what they feared- was the Bryanism latent in the country by various anti-trust laws and other leg istative measures which would have the appearance of meeting half way that hostility to corporate and business enterprise which it was feared Mr. Bryan had evoked. Now this Is changed. There is little fear that there will be more anti-trust laws at the com ing session of Congress or at the one next after it, and it is probable, so far as our own Legislature is concerned, that not only will no such laws be pass ed or even introduced, but that some hasty measures of the sort that have found their way to the statute books will be amended, if not repealed. The net result of it all is a general onol dence in the health and solidity of business conditions in this country such as has not been known in many, many years. It is of a .deeper and stronger nature than the wild buoyanoe >f the opening days of 1898; it is the settled and serene conviction that, for i time in the future beyond which mer ohants can not forsee there is to be an and to demagogic attack upon busi ss. The Charleston Post, which support d McKinley in the late election, says: Here is an open acknowledgment that he anti-trust legislation promoted by he Republicans was mere sham, enact d for campaign purposes, not for emeding an evil, and also a declaration hat the promises of the Republican >latform regarding the restriction of he trusts will not be kept. The sub tance of the statement is not at all a natter of surprise to those who under tand the Republican party's charse or, but the confession is in a way a niece of honesty that we scarcely had ixpected. Hard Winter Coming. "All the signs in the woods," ex. dlained an experienced woodsman to a ktar reporter, "point to a very severe rinter, though it may be a short one. 'he squirrele have already begun laying way thieir winter store of nuts, though i the immediate country around Wash 2gton the nuts have not begun to fall >any great extent. The crops of morns, hickory and chestnuts is un sually large this fall, some trees that ave come under my observation bear ig at least double the quantity they Id last year. This is a very reliable gn of a severe winter. Another sign the crop of persimmons, which is Lso very heavy. The few frosts that e have had have not done much to pen the persimmon, and many of iem are yet green. My observation mvinces me that these signs are en tied to some dependence, though, of )urse, they are not recognized as in ilible by the authorities on the sub et. I think I have satisfied my own ind on the bearing the persimmon has uthe weather that is to follow, and at, this is incontrovertable: If the rsimmon ripens ani falls early the Lnter will be brief, but if it holds on the tree late into 7the fall the winter very liable to be late in its wind-up d severe while it prevails. The an uals are preparing for a cold winter, d there are some reasons for believ r~ that they know what they are out." War to The Death. The time has come, in the opinion of ose in chstge of the War Department, pursue a policy of absolute and relent s subjuagation in the Philippine Is ids. If the natives refuse to submit the process of governmentas mapped t by the Taft commission they will be nted down and will be killed, until ~re is no longer any show of forcible istance to the American government. e process will not be pleasant, but it 3onsidered necessary. President Me uley is determined to end the War the earliest possible moment, so that t be necessary to kill off 60 or 70 per it of the entire population it will be ie. The process may seem harsh, it is a common preliminary to colo ation movements in the tropics. Will Swing. L. dispatch from Georgetown to Tiea te says: "The case of John Brown I, charge with the kiling of James hurry, which gained notoriety from fact of having precipitated the re t riot, was brought up in court traday morning and concluded at 8 ock Friday evening, with a verdict n the jury of guilty, without recomn idation. The deceased was acting ~he capacity of constable, and the te made out a clear case of malicious stance both with State's evidence that of the defense, so that no othr lict was possible."