The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, April 24, 1901, Image 1

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XVPC MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1901 NO.6 DEFENDS HIS VOTES Senator~J -hn .L.':McLaurin Fires His First Gun. A REAL CAMPAIGN OPENER. The Work for Southern States men as He Sees I*. Insists on Being Independent on Great Issues Senater John L. McLaurin spoke as follows at the banquet of the Southern Manufacturers Club at Charlotte on Thursday. He said: I desire to make a statement of some what a personal nature before proceed ing with this speech, which I intend to deliver tonight. A certain newspaper correspondent in the city of Washing tqn has persistently spread the report that I was coming to Charlotte to make a speech which would launch a new party in the south. The report is ab solutelv false. If I had any such in tention good taste would prevent me from taking advantage of an oppor tunity of this kind. I am content to advocate within Democranc lines the polices which I believe to be best for the south, and when I can no longer do this I am ready to retire to private life. In the south we are today -real'zing some of the dreams of its far-reaching statesmen and business men of fifty years ago. With prophetic eye, they saw the industrial and commercial pos sibilities of our highly favored south land. With an advance of thought that is really surprising, they suggested en terprises of wonderful magnitude for its upbuilding and commercial domi nance. From 1838 to 1860, conven tions were held to voice the demandsof a deepseated public sentiment for in. dustrial progress. The story of these movements is chronicled in a Suth 43Mrolina publication, which, under the name of Debow's Review, did for the old south what the Manufacturer's Re cord is doing for the south today. The same spirit which enabled our fathers to leave the field of defeat with nothing but their courage and their characters left, still live in the south, and inspires you today in your great undertaaing. The plans of the great southern business men and statesmen of fifty years ago are no longer idle dreams. Postponed by a cruel war which destroyed our social and indus trial system, and which for years reach ed cooperation in national undertak ings almost impossible, such men as I meet here tonight are making these dreams actual living realities. Talk about the "New South," the name is a misnomer. It is the same old spirit revived which sixty years ago made the south the dominant power in this nation-a position of which noth ing but war could have robbed her. What we need now to again attain that proud eminence is the same broad con eeption and the same comprehensive grasp of the true situation. The last twenty years have wrought an industrial revolution in the south, which must mid expression in our social and politi eal life. The time is past for the discussion as to whether this government is to be one consolidated in its structure or a loose aggregation of (so callec) sovereign States. The civil war settled that. It is useless to discuss the question of whether this is to be a purely theo retical Democratic government or an expanding and giant Republic. The Spanish war settled that. Why not then accept conditions as they are and make the moat of them? The agitation of such issues only serves to sidetrack broad American doc trines and should not be made party questions besuse they grow out of actual political and economie con ditions, which it is beyond the power of either party to change. I care not' of what political faith the occupaat of' the white house might have been; for, if a true American, mindful of the honor and dignity of the nation, the zesult of the Spanish war could not be widely different from wiat they are to. day. Why should our people be the only ones to close their eyes to what is going on? Why should we move along in the same old ruts and insist that political policies and old traditions, iong since dead are vital living issues, /and depend upon them for the salva tion of the south? 7The triumphant re-elec'tion of Mr. McKinley in the last campaign is full of significance. It is a stubborn fact confronting the Democratic party to day; suggestive of reproachful remem brances and fearful menacer. What a reflection that this new Democracy did not carry a Stats where the isssues were discussed and judgment passed by the people upon them on their merits. Of course with us it has been impos sible to decide elections upon iues. It has been simply a question of white supremacy. In the north and the west, dissolved into factions, tainted by the errors of republicanism and the follies of populism, the party could not with stand the tide -of popular opposition excited by unreasonable criticism of the conduct of a foreign war, and by the-vicious and incendiary appeals made during the last month of the campaign to claus hatred and prejudice. Fundamental principles were lost -sight of, and in an insane effort to se cure party suocess at any cost, the at tempt was made to combine socialism, populism and sectionalism, with -noth ing but the sentiment and traditions of Democracy. The real Democratic lead ers of the renate for the past three sears have been Allen, Teller, and Pettigrew, all of them anle men, but one a populist, one a high-tariff Re publican, and the other, 1 do not know what. All of them opposed to State banks of issue with proper safeguards, and most other things we need in the south. This was called the "New Demooracy" in contradistinction from the old, and some of its leaders stated that its creeds were revolutionary and were so designed to be. To sow discontent with industrial conditions and distrust of the govern ing power; to array class against class, 'n the hope of securing fancied social and industrial equality, is to my mind the first step in revolution. The south is the American end of America. In no section is there so small a foreign clment no much conservatism, and so pure a patiotism.. What a political paradox then it is for our people to be the allies (.f professed revolutionists elsewhere. - It was not the pure type of south ern Democracy that the balance of the country feared in the last presidential election. They knew that properly in terreted. this was coneervative and safe. It was well understood, however, what iLfiinenes dominated, and that, therefore, the south in national affairs was still powerless. One doubtful northern State had than and has now more influence than the entire south combined. One party say s, Why should I consult you, I can hope for nothing. ['he other says, I've got you any way, and I will do as I please; help yourself if you can. Whata position for a brave, high-spirited people bound hand and foot, the miserable slaves of one party and a football for the other. I, fer one, do not believe that the people of the south ara ready to trust this government into the hands of any party to begin the leveling process through the exercise of the taxing powcr; and et this is exactly what this new gropaganda mea-s, and out side of the south it is proolaimsd by the very same cass who preach and practice social equality between the races. The two dogmas are inseparably < interwoven. Go into the west, attend one of th-ir campaign meetings scratch beneath the skin and you will find the i same old social equality dogma, to the 3 tune of which the soul of John Brown E is still "marching on." Taxation for i the purpose of equalizing or redistribu t Ling property is rank socialism, not De mocracy. Let it take hold in the south and with it will go those.barriers which 1 we have erected to maintain the purity < of our race and the integrity of our civilization. Another thing-to my mind it is folly i to oppose expansion under the name < of imperialsm. It deceives no man of f intelligence. He understands that there is no analogy between this country and t the Roman Emp'ra, ard that those t who talk of imperialism do not-:6ke into aceaunt that power which is born t of our free institutions, a fortress in c the hearts of our people stronger than any ever built of stone. As long as f this is there they can never become slaves; and when it is dead it matters ] not whether under republic or empire, i they become an easy prey. It depends t upon the people, not the government, t whether they be slaves or freemen. It ; is the people that make the goveriment I not the government the people. With j a brave, strong, intelligent people, with a a free press and popular education, t there can be no imperialism. Why q should we be afraid to trust ourselves? The whole tendency of the times and c the spirit of the age is toward Democra- t tic instead of imperialistic ideas of gov- I ernment. a The throne of the "Great White a Czar" trembles today at the roar of a the D. mocra' io Lion, and the echoes t resound even from the far off Orient. a Our people uaderitand that it is not s actual territory or dominion over people i that we seek, but the expansion of i Aiaerican thought, ideas of government a commerce, and civilization. Political i leaders might well le: ra that the law t of progrzss will sweep away as chaff a those who would place barriers against c this mighty tide which is destined to c spread the Democratic idea of govern ment to the uttermoqt bounds of the t earth. My definition of Democracy is I liberty for man, formulated into a s theory of goverannent. It means man's f inalienable ownership of himself, it _f means f:-ee thought and free speeh. :o In the dark ages of the past some a poor slave raised his bowed head and b looking up into the blue sky caught in- . spiration from God's free air and sun- a shine that he also of right was free, and t ever since, that vision of liberty has f been ar undying revelation for every I age and all climes. Grecian and Roman a slaves saw the heavenly light, and f facing their masters' swords, bravely died. Saxon churl with wooden collar, if and our own fathers, at Cowpens and e King's Mountain, looked upon the ce- t lestial picture, and with a smile of joy y gave up their lives. Why need a true Democracy hunt for g issues in our relations with foreign I countries? it is upon domestic prob- a lems, the rights of man and man, the t relation of labor and capital and its 2 stand upon these home issues that has f endeared it to the people in the past f and upon which it must finally stand or ia fail. It is folly -to attempt to dwarf t great national and international issues ,1 into mere questions of party policy; it e failed in the last campaign, and will e fail every time it is tried. z Every member of the American con gress, when it comes to aforeign policy 5 a foreign war, and army, a navy, a mer- a chant marine, or any other question af- a fecting our honor as a nation, or our t prosperity as. a people, should be free C and untrammeled to vote as his judg- C ment and conscience dictates. For my- a self, I would not, under existing, con- i ditions, be willing to hold a seat in the I United States senate upon any terms. 1 To allow others to think for me upon r these great questions is a cowardly eva e sion of my responsibilities, and a crimi- i nal neglect of the true interests of those i who select me. I am rejoiced tonightt to be in the presence of so many of the great captains of southern industry. You are the men whose energy' and en terprise are developing our natural re sources and thus laying the foundation f for the full enj)yment by our section S of all that must follow in the wake of1 the expanding glory of our Republic; I and this in spite of the fact that it has ' become the fashion in some quarters to sneer at what is termed the "sordidt commercial"argument in favor of expan-t sion and other national issues.1 Our political leaders should not for- I get the fact that modern Democracy I had its origin in this same *ommnercial instinct. Two hundred and fifty yearst ago it had its birth in those cities along I the river Rhine, where, through trade and manufacturing, the people could compel the feudal lords t,>~ grant them civil rights. The free institutions of which we boast grew up under the fos- t tering care of commerce. The rights I of the individual expanded into rights I for his city and these for the State, i so that modern Damo~racy does not< teach that there is an absolute rule for government, and that any particulari theory of government is of permanent I value ar~d adapted under all circum stances for the welfare of man. The< fathers of this Republic never intended to lay a foundation which was to be always of the same circumscribed pro porin, with a superstructure of nice ly measured, parts all to exist perma nently just as constructed. They aimed to create a giant not a pigmy. For a nation the century has been content to grapple with questions of internal development, but suddenly in the evolution of our national destiny, we have become one of the great pow ers of the world, and can no logger move in a circumscribed orbit. I: we would maintain our supremacy or even iuality among the nations of the world, ste shackles forged by narrow, see tional prejudices must be broken. The question of the hour is not whether this Republic is what its foun lers (with the light before them) in ended to make it; not whether this is heoietically an ideal Djmocratic gv rnment, at all tmes in exact conformi ty to the technical requirements of a written cnstitution, but whether with .he spirit rather than the letter of that onstitution, we are making the most f our national opportunities and meet ng the political economic conditions browing cut of the constantly changing seeds of the people. It is historically rue that no form of government evar lid result from deliberate choice; it ians always been the logical result of senditions. The nation is nothing but the type af individual life, and as from child iood to manhood we outgrow garments md duties these are put aside, so it is n the Evolutionary development of a ration, social, political, and industrial lystems that have their day are thrust aside for new methods and new sys ems to meet a change and higher tate of existence. We have reached stage of development in the south here it is unprofitable to rake the lead ashes and charred embers of the >ast and where we must look forward a her than backward. Tine states anship, while vigilant as to the pres nt, looks with prophetic eye to the ature. The people have a right to expcct heir leaders to be in advance of the bought of the age, and not tamely trift with the current. In an era of ransition and change like this, with ut some such forecast, political parties rill cling to dead issues, and finally ounder in the maelstrom of factional .ivisions and greed for office. When louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Califor is were acquired the great leaders of he Democrasy acted upon this doe rine, and so when this war with Spain rodneed cer:ain results it would have een the part of wisdom to have made arty platforms and policies corre pond with existing conditions and heir natural and inevitable conse uence!. We are now in the commercial erena, ontesting with the other nations for he trade of the world. S3o far we have nilt up our foreign trade by intense bsorption in the internal development f our domestic industries. We now roduce sufficient for the needs of wics our population, and not to find market for our surplus is to invite Lagnation and decay. The most strik eg feature in our export development i the remarkable and constantly in reasing demand for our iron and steel Vithin six years we have advanced to o the position where American iron nd steel enters into the construction f every bridge and railroad in the world r fixes the price therefor. I saw in the papers a few days ago ha the Baldwin locomotive works in 'hiladelphia were supplying the Rus ian government with 150 locomotives or the Trans- Siberian railroad. The iats surrounding this sale are of pe alar interest. The Rusisan govern tent owns its railroads and maintains rge shops. It ruts a duty of 4 cents er pound on imports, but when it aine to supplying the equipment for his giant road of 8,000 miles, it was ,und that they had to nome to the Inited States. And yet, seven years go tt e first iron shipment abroad was om Birmingham, Ala. Another feature of Americsan in uence is our suddenly acquired finan jal independence. For years we have een borrowers, but during the two ears pass we have become lenders of toney. Three of the largest Eairopean overments, England, Germany and tussia, have found it necessary to nine to New York for important loans, hus showing that the centre of the. nanial world has been trannferred om Lombard to Wall street. It is lly for the political leaders of the auth to close their eyes to the truth at the comnme. eial expansions of the nited States is a fact of constantly nlarging proportions, demanding hanged governmental policies to meet ew conditions. In spite of higher wages, with labor aving machinery, the superior skill nd intelegence of our operatives, un er a factory system better organized an any in the world, is giving us in ustrial ascendancy. It Deeds, how ver, to support it a broad statesman hip, not handicapped by sectional rejudices. We can differ about do. estie matters and divide upon party ines, but when it comes to utilizing ational opportunities, north, south, ast and west should unite in maintain og the supremacy of the United States a the great struggle among the na ions for the commerce of the world. The south must play an important art in our country's future. For a bird of a century she has . been ham ered by a struggle for mere existence, orced to devote all of her energy and tatesmanship to the maintenance of rhite supremacy. Thank God, this is sermanent and assured beyond perad enture of doubt. At last she has merged from her for'orn and pros rate condition; freed from her en hrallment, she can put herself in touch rith the best thought of the age, and gain exercise an influence in national ife. I believe the time will come when he south will be the hope and ualva ion of this nation. Her marvelous rowth in manufacturing enterprises, Ler development of national resources, ,d her rapid advance in progressive hought and action, is making her gain the leading section in this coun ry. The centre of manufacturing in he United State. has been transferred rom Fall River, Mass., to Columbia, . 0. But if we would make the most f our opportunities we must renounce etional prejudices and support broad iational policies, looking to she crea ion of foreign markets, the expan ion of trade and the upbuilding of a ommon country. We inust demand ud have for the south a full share f the benefits as well as the burdens f national life. The south is vitally uteete in the Asiatic markets. Her manufacturers arc studying the need of the people in an intelligent effort t turn out p:oducts suited to those max kets. The closing of the china market owing to recent troubles has caused glut of goods, which is affected by decline of three cents a pound in ra ca tton. The administration is doing a gres deal towards improving our commerois opportunities in the east, by showin some regard for the inalienable rigbt of China, while protecting the lengiti mate demands of foreign intereste Dewey's victory first established Amex ioan prestige along the Asiatic coast It was then that 800 million people ii the orient learned respect for the Uni ted S.ates and saluted us as a first class po ver. The attitude of the Uni ted States since in the field of dipiom aoy in China has given confilence an increased that respect. The Unitet States from the first took lead, at< even the warlike Emperor of Q. rman' has had to yield to ' Uole Sam's friendly admonitions. We now occup: the vantage ground, because on friend ly terms with all the powers. I makt the assertion that the south has more to gain than any other Eection fron the foreign policy now pursued by th< a ministration, particularly when the Istnmian canal is constructed, as i will be. I have read extracts from th< speech of my amiable and distin guished friend his excellency, Minister Wu, recently made in Chicago. It it replete with wisdom and good sense, We cannot hope and we should not wish to break down the civilization of China upon which is based a polity, society and religion the Elow growth of 4,000 years. To do so is to destroy the Empire in the attempt to suddenly thrust upon her a western civiliztior for which her people are not prepared All we can hope to do is to vital-zetht o:d civilization with western ideas, science and inventive genius, thus making it more potential in material achievements. This country has done well to use every < fLrt by the benign influence of its political and commer cial power to preserve the identity of the Empire and the integrity of itt civilization. Under this t.oier, it it reasonable to expect China to become the constantly expanding market foi our products, and as gradually her in terior is fully developed by a network of railroads and all of her cities openec up to foreign commerce, the oppor tunities almost without limit.. The South now controls most of this trade and with such develorment, in the neaw future, it should increase tenfold. We are no longer a I urely agrical tural section, but mining, manufactur ing and kindred interest have sprung., into prominence and d mand govern mental policies to protect and develop them. A statemanship so partisan in its charaoter as to adhe"e to old politi cal doctrines, either settled by the arbitrament of the sword or firmly fixed as governmental policies, caanot solve the political and economic pro lems now confronting the southern peo pie. Such a statesmanship cannot properly interpret present economic movements, nor provide by aggressive and progressive thougat for the rad: tally changed conditions now confront ing us. A Frightful Accident. Four people are dead and seven prob ably fatally tnjured as the result of an explosion Wednesday afternoon on the steamer Ramona whioh plies on the Fraser river. One of the plates in the rear of the boiler blew out, tearing away the whole front of the vessel ano knocking into the water all those in that part of the steamer. The accident happened when the boat was in mid stream opposite Fort Langley, thirty miles from Vancouver, B. C. Two women, Mr3. Harry Morrison of Lang ley and Mrs. J. Bailey of Mount Leh man, were standing on the front deck and were knocked into the water and drowned. Two deck hands named Jeames Mack and Andrew Phippa were struck by one of the flying boiler plate. sad instantly killed, being so horribly burned by the escaping stream as to be unrecogninable. A. Power, the purser; J. Maynard, mate, and Victor Newell, the fireman, who had gone on that day for the first time, were burned so badly that they cannot- possibly recover. Four Indians were dreadfully scalded and only oine of these is expected to re cover. One Indian baby is at the point of death. Zapt. Seymour and John Oliver, the engineer, who. owned the largest interest in the vessel, were un hurt. Both Mrs. Morrison and Mrs. Bailey had left trieir babies upstairs in the saloon and had come on deck for fresh air. The babies were unhurt The injured people were brought to Westminister. Power, the purser, has gone insane and the others are in sueh a concition that no hope is held for their recovery. How He Got It. A Washington dispatch to the Char leston News-and Courier, referring to the appointment of Mr. John G Caper. as United States district attorney for South Carolina, says that "forsomne time past he has been in frequent con ferences with Senator Pritehard of North Carolina, Senator McLaurin of South Carolina and other well known southern men who profess to be in terested in the formation of a white man's Republican party. One of the most active and influential supporters of Mr. Capers is Senator McLaurin, who recently declined to cooperate with his formereDemcratic asseicistes in the senate and has since -been classed among; the independents or a new con vent to Republican principles. It has beenknown for some time that Senz.oot MLaurin has been. industriously at work in behalf of the appointment of Mr. Capera as dis riot attorney for A Great Seandal. The London Globe scents a grose scandal in its alleged discovery that twc member.; of the governmental committei appointed a yesar ago to determine the value of various explosives have taker out patents in their own names. The Globe says: Col. William Roberts. Austen secured a patent for improve ments; in detonators while Sir William Crookes has paitented nitro explosivei for artillery. When -the committee war appointed Lord Lansdowne, then wa: minster, assured inventors and manu faotrers that they might submit theil products to the committee in the utmost cndence. aM 'LAURIN SCORED. 5 a His Terrible Araignment by a Senator Tillman. 1 CHARGESOFOISHONESTY. g s - Has B uhedforSouth Carolinaon His Account and Northern Contlemen Have Shared His Feelings. Senator Tillman was seen at his home at Trarton Friday night and replying to a rcquest for his opinion on Senator McLmurin's Charlotte speech, says: "It is contradictory, fall of para adoxes nd seems intended to pave the way for the senator's passage into the R'publican camp. It may excite sur prise ortside of the State, but the only thing vhich astonishes is here is his continued effort to pose as a Democrat Democ:acy has a broad or general meaning and a spreial or local mean ing as applied to one of the great na tional par.ies. My colleague isys, 'My definition of democracy is liberty for man formulated into a theory of gov ernment; it means man's inalienable ownership of, himself. It means free hought and tree speech.' This is not the delnition given in any dictionary, nor is it the definition given by Jeffer son, and it is only intended to justify the senator's desertion of his party, his treachery to its principles and his be trayal of the people of South Carolina who have trusted him. Tne Kansas City platform is the only rm'od-ment of Dem cratic principles that can now be-recsgnized a-d no man can be con sidered a Damocrat who ignores the principles and policies laid down in that platform and persistently votes with the Repuolican administration in both its foreign and domestic policies "Se:ator McLaurin iterates and re iterates the charge that the 'new Da mocracy' is a asoti 'nsi p'tr:y and then truthfully claims that the south waich in the last campaign was alone Demo cratic, 'is the American end of Ameri ca.' S range th'at because of this fact and our veneration and love for the printcples upon which our government rests Lat this 'broad American states man' and new born Democrat of a hitherto unknown type should council our people to 'accept conditions as they are and make the most of them' S inatcr V1oLiurin declared in '98 that '%eKiLley shonid be renominated by acl.mation,' and if his speech means anything it means that the De .moeratic party ought to surrender all of its traditions which he claims are 'long since dead,' become an echo to the Republican party, endorse its for eign policy as well as its domestic p oli oy, ship-subsidy, large standing army and ev: rything, and subside absolutely as a Democraiic- party. ' If the administration policy is right in every respect what need is th; re for the Democratic party as a political fac tor. I have never believed that my colleague t.uld dare face the people of South Carolina in any political cam paign again, knowing what I do about him, but as he indicates his purpose to utill masquerade as a Democrat and while attacking me covertly as one of the 'leaders' of the so called new De mocracy, it is his purpose to lead our people into tae Repuoltoan camp, duty compels me to speak out and tell certrin thines. "Mr. McLaurin made in the senate, January 1899, a speech which was as ultra and as pronounced in its denun ciation of the acquisition of the Phil ippines and portr ayed the many dan gers which threatened our country in consequence as any every delivered in that body. Up to Saturday night be fore we voted on the treaty with Spain on Monday, FAbruar3 7, 1899, he re peatedly told me and other 'senators he wras bitterly opposed to the ratifi cation and would not voise for it. Be tween adjournment Saturday evening and the vote on Monday the mantle of 'broad American statesmanship' de scended upon him and a few minutes befo:re the senate went into executiva session to consider the treaty and take a vote as ageed, he gave a halting and lame explanation of his intended char ge of front. His vote secured the ratification because on the first roll call Mr. Jones of Nevada who had also told us he would vote against the trea ty, 'passed' when his name was called, and I[feel certain if Senator McLaurin had stood by his party and by himself, Mr. Jones would net at the end have voted for ratification. "Jonscions as he is that his vote was the governiog factor in the train of inamentous consequences so far reaching and terrible and involving the war of subjugation in the Philip pints, the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars, the loss of thou saads of lives and other dire results whioh no man can foresee, it is natu ral for Sanator McLaurin to make a desperate effort to vindicate the Presi dent's policy and his own action. The declaration of independence of course has become absolute and an abandon ment of 'dead tradition' is the policy of~ a man who behaves as he has done. "Such a man has no conscience or priociples- The eloquent speech which he delivered in the senate was largely stolen from a sermon delivered by the Rlei. Dr. Henry Van Dyke on Thanks givinug day, November 1898, in the Brick Church of New York city, two months before Senator McLaurin delivered it in the senate. "I have not only had to ablush be cause McLaurin had desarted his party in a great crisis under suspicious cir curostances and contrary to his avc wed purpose but have had the mor ifauioa of having other senators, northern gentlemen, speak of the deg rad ation to which South Carolina had come in being represented by a man who would boldly steal the brain work of another by whole sentences and paragrapha and have the effrontery to deliver it in the senate. 'iThe people of South Carolina can not be further deceived or misled by this man and I speak now in order that they may fully inform themselves on all of these matters and stand ready to furnish the proof of everything I say and if necessary will meet Mr. McLaurin face to face in any forum he any choose. If his proposed scheme of broad statemanship is Democracy, then I am not and have never been a Democrat, andas the peoeple of South Carolina have recently reelected me as a Democrat without opposition, I feel warranted in letting the people outside of the State as well as those inside know 1ust what manner of man this p is. I have kept silent heretofore, be S cause I was ashamed to let the world n know how our people had been de ceived in him." b The Evils of Divorce. C Charles H. Sweeney, a wealthy cotton planter of Greenvil'r, Ky., Thursday Ii bhot and killed his wife and then com mitted suicide in the apartment of his wife's bister, Mrs. W. L. Philips, wife o of a Chicago tobacco merchant, in the a Dabuiue flats, Rush street, near the Granadada, hotel Chicago. Mrs. S tee ney left her home at Greenville a month I since going to Chicage, it is said, for the f1 purpcse of securing a legal separation. a S weeney is said to have told his wfe he ti would kill her if she persisted in suing a; for a divorce. Sweeeney reached Chi- P cago Thursday morning and carried out P his threat. Mrs. Sweeney arrived a n day or two ago and Thursday morning c during the tcmporaay absence of her C sister, she went down town shopping. W She returned at 9 o'clock and stepping C into the apartment, was met by her has - I band who had been admitted by Mrs. k Philip's 6 year-old son. Sweeney E grasped her wrist and pulled her inside. 8 At the point of a revolver he ordered the b boy to run. Crying out that a murder p was being comitted, the child fisd to the is Granada hotel, but before help could al arrive two shots was heard and-the ho. is tel attaches found the man and woman vi lying on the fbror. Mrs Sweeney was ol dead and in a few moments her husband W expired. Mrs. Sweeney was the daugh- vi ter of Thomas P. Morgan, an extensive sc planter of Greenville. of KMGHTS OF HONOR. t A Pleasant and Profitable Session. p Order in Good Shape. d The Grand Lodge of the Knights i of Honor met Wednesday night in Co- w lumbia with a good attendance of dele sl gates. The reports of the grand effi3ers were.read and properly referred. The following working committees were ap pointed: On Memoirs to the Supreme Officers S -P. K. McCully, B G Clifford and D 01 McIntyre. a On M, moire for Grand Lodge Mt m- b bers-N N Burton, A Berg and J 0 a Vernon. s On Returns-Wm. Hoffman, M R P Haimar and L D Rarrall. On State of the Order-S3l B!ak a W A Fewell and Samuel Littlejohn. t On Appeals and Grievances-H R c* Ryttenberg, J P Phillips and M S S Polier. 8 On Press-B C DuPre, C W Birch- a more. t Ex-Governor John C Sheppard repre- 01 seats the supreme lodge of the order ti and on being called on Wednesday ai night made an appropriate response. After the reading of the report 'on 1i the state of the order, Hon. J C Shep- 'i pard, superme vice president, addressed of the grand lodge, which was greatly en- 01 joyed. The grand lodge determined to again tC employ an agent to represent and pro-a mulgate the principles ana berielts of b the order. The following officers were installed ci by Vice Supreme Dictator Sheppard: H J W Todd, Seneca, past grand dicta. tor. t M F Kennedy, Charleston, grand 8 dictator. i P B Waters, Johnston, grand Tioe, dictator.T J B Lewis, Anderson, grand assist-w ant dictator. L L N Zealy, Columbia, grand repor- 0 ter. Tgadt J TRobertson, Abbeville,grn treasurer.w Rev. N N Burton, grand chaplain. 6 T P Quarles, Abbeville, grand guide. John Kennerly, Eigefield, grand guardian. W C Meredith, Pelser, grand sen- C tinel. at J 0 Ladd, Samter; H 'C Mosses, i Summeiville, and B C .DuPre, Co'um- ej bia trustees, ci J G fompkins, Edgefield, represen- pi tative to the supre~ms lodge for two w years; John Kennerley, alternate. t Invited to Greenville. w The following correspondence ex plains itself: hI Greenville, S. C., April 13, 1901. 01 Hon. John L. McLaurin, Bennettaville. C Dear Sir: Believing that a formal b presentation, from your standpoint, of certain national issues now before the people will be both interesting and tg helpful, we ask permission to make an ft appointment for you to address the y public, in a meeting to be held in Greenville, at such time as will be con- a venient to yourself. We would suggest some date about the middle of May. e We will take pleasure in making suit able arrangements.. Hoping to hear at an early day and favorably, we beg to remain respect- lid fully, le Jas. L Orr, J. H. Maxwell, Mr. D ,U Jos. A. Mc~ullough, Frank Haummond, C W. J. Thadkaton, Lewis W. Parker, iS W. C. Beacham, W. D. Metts, A. A. US Bristow, Alester G. Furman, A. J. 8. a Thomas. a Bennettsville, S. C , April 15, 1901. of Messrs. J. L 0:r, J. H. Maxwell, M. c* D., J. A. Mc~ullough, Frank Ham- w mend, W. J. Thackston, Lewis W. se Parker, W. C. Beacham, W. D. n Mette, A. A. Bristow, A. G. Furman of and A. J. S. Thomas, Greenville, ai 8. C. OS Gentlemen: I am in receipt of yourb letter of the 13th instant, asking per- Cl mission to make an appointment for to me to address the public in a meeting C* to be held in Greenville at such time as may be convenint to me. I note what you say about making suitable arrangements. It will afford me pleas- ha ure to accede to your wishes and to ad. N. dress the public in Greenville from my re: standpoint of certain national issues as] now before the people. I would sug- tit gest as a convenient time for me the se 22nd day of May, or thereabout. Until fo) that time I have engagements in Wash- an ington and elsewhere.W Thanking you for the kind interest C< you have shown in thus giving me anW opportunity to present my views on Mr these issues, I am yours sincerely,. a Jn T Meaurn. M ME. CAPERS' APPOINTMENT. 'he Old Line R'publicans May Make a Fight. The Washington Post says the ap ointment of Mr.-Capers to be United tates district attorney of South Caroli a will be a great surprise to residents i that State, although rumors.of it ave been aflat for some time. Mr. apers will succeed Abial Lathrop, the resent district attorney for South Caro na. Mr. Capers is at present an attor ey in the department of justice, in this ty. He has been in the department bout eight years, having come here -cm South Carolina dur:ng the Cleve td administration. In 1896 he re seed to support Bryan for president, ad again werkt d against the Democra 3 candidate in 1900. He some time o aligned himself fully with the Re blican party. Mr. Lathrop was - ap )inted four years ago upon the recom tendation of E A. Webster R publi in national committeeman from South arolina. It is understood no charges ere made against Mr. Lathrop. Mr. apers is a warm friend of Senator Mc urin and a scion of one of the best nown families in the Palmetto State. is father is Bishop Ellison Capers, of oath Carolina. Mr. Capers will pro ably take the leadership of an inde 3ndent element which is just now fcrg ig. to the front in his state. He is >out 36 years old, of good record as a wyer, and progressive in his political ews. It is expected that some of the d line Republicans of the State will ake a fight and may seek some ad intage from a prosecution against him me years ag. of a technical violation the pension laws in the conduct of a nsion case. The ca-e was investiga d by Attorney General Olney and was llowed stortly afterward by Mr. Ca rs' appointment as an attorney in the spartment of justice. President Mc inley was fuuy informed of this oc rrence, and Mr. Capers states that he ill be ready to meet any charges and Low his innocence. State Press Association. The coming annual meeting of the .ate Press association promises to be te of the most successful and enjoy >le in its history. The meeting is to 3 held at Glenn Springs the first week July and the members exprct to art at its conclusion on a trip to the an American exposition at Buffalo. i resident Aull, of the association, td Secretary Langston went to Spar. nburg last week, composing a speoial >mmittee. At Spartanburg they were et by the Messrs. Simpson of Glenn 1 rings, Mayor Calvert of Spartanburg. id the local newspaper men of Spar- i nburg. The reception was a cordial i e. The committee was assured by te Messrs. Simpson that they were I ixious to do all within their power to ake the meeting one of the most de ghtful the editors had ever had. They reed on all arrangements. A ban et will be furnished the association 4 t Thursday evening of the session. artanburg wishei the association i spend at least one day in that city, id a programme-of entertainment will Sprovided. Mayor Calvert and the ectric railroad company have this ini arge. Mr. J. T. Harris, formerly of arris Lithia Spings, also met thei inmittee and wants the association visit his new springs. The pro-i amine will no douct be arranged so at a big barbecue can be served the siting edirtors at Mr. Harris' springs. dse whole Spartanburg programme ill, however, be furnished Secretary angton by May 1, so thast he may get t the full offiial programme as soon ereafter as possible. The executive miittee is now putting in some hard rk on the arrangements for the trip Buffalo. Cannot Serve Two Masters. Noting the fact that Mr. John G. apers, the newly appointed district torney for South Carolina, "will re rn to his native State as the expon t of the strange doctrine that a man n openly espouse the cause of onei ~litical party andi claim affliation ith another," the Greenville Moun neer remarks: "What more is re tired to place him in full affilation ith the Republicans? How can a an masquerade as a Democrat when is doing the work of the Republi n? Senator MeLaurin and Mr. spers may think they have a right to irsue such a devicus political course, it they will find out their mistake. en it is too late, and they will be mpelled to repceive the remainder of. e degrees which will entitle them to I 11 and complete membership in theC .Kinley Hanna aggregation. The itiation fee has been paid, but there ~ e other exactions yet to be encounter .' Ye cannot serve twomasters.'" Deserters Rewarded. The Columbia State says: "The ug-a ,st feature about President MeKin- I v's appointment of Mr. Capers as nited States distriot attorney for South a irolina is that it displaces a man who 1 admittedly a good officer and entirely 1 tebjetionable to the public although 1 Republican of longstanding. In this t in other matters the president kicks t e principle of civil service reform out j the door. Merit, it seems, is not to aint in South Carolina's federal offices ien policy demands the reward of de tersfrom the Democracy. We would it be'surprised if Postmaster E ssor a this city, who has been a faithful ' d efficient offier, and is a Republi- z a who has been held in much respect I this community, where he has lived i er since the war, should be displaced K make room for some shabby turn- t it." C t Tax Reform. r The National Civic rederation is to C ye a national conference at Buffalo,c Y., on the great question of "tax ~orm." Wednesday the governor was ted by the secretary of the federa n to appoint 10 delegates to repre- e at this State at the conference. The d lowing were named: W. J. Storen a d J. D. Cappelman of Charleston; a . A. Clark and R. Means Davis of E lumbia; Geo. 8. Mower of Ne wherry; y .L. Mauldin of Greenville; W. J. E ntgomerY of Marion; D. E. Hyduick v Spartanburg; T. W. Bouchier of a ..1born- LeRoy Springs of Lancaster. j A DEADLY FOE. Mosquitoes Responsible, for the Spread of Yellow Fever. TO PREVENT THE DISEASE The United States Oovernment Revolutionizes its Methods. No. Quarantine of Bag gage Necessary. Surgeon General Steeburg has just given his approvel, without reservation, to the report of the special board compos ed of Surgeons Reed, Carroll and Agra monte upon the "etiology of yellow fever," in which the conclusion was reached that the mosquito is responsi ble for the transmission of this fell iisease. Moreover, the medical depart ment of the army is moving energeti eally to put into practical operation methods of treatment for the preven tion of yellmv fever, involving a rad cal reversal mxisting methods, which form the basis of the report. Wednesday, Surgeon General Stern. burg formally approved a circular pre pared by Chief 8urgeon Havard at Habana, with this enorsement: 'In my opinion the present state of our knowledge fully justiies the 'pub lication of this circular." The teat of the circular which will form the instructions for all medical :ffioers in the army inareating fever is ittached. The general orders referred :o under head one provides for the lib ral use of coal oil to prevent the hatching out of mosquiso eggs.- The nireular says: "The recent experiments made in Habana by the medical department of the army having proved that yellow lever, like malarial fever, is conveyed shi fly, and probably exclusively, by the bite of infected moquitoes,, im portant changes in the measures used for the prevention and treatment of this disease have become necessary. 1"So far as yellow fever is odneerned, infection of a room or building simply neans that it contain infected mac initoes, that is, mosquitoes which have j ?ed on yellow fever patients. Disin ection, therefore, means the employ nent of measures aimed at the de truetion of these mosquitoes. The nost effective of these measures is umigation either with sulphur, for naldehyde or insect powder. The tmes of sulphur are the quickest and he most effective insecticide, but are' otherwise objectionable. Formaldehyde ;as is quite effective if the inected ooms are kept closed and sealed for, so or three hours. The smoke of in oot powder has also been proved use ul; it readily stupeles mosquitoes, hich drop to the foor and can be asily destroyed. "The washing.of walls, floors, el ngs and furniture with disinfectant. is nnecessary, "As it has been demonstrated that aellow fever cannot be conveyed by' edding, clothing, effects and bag, hey need not be subject to any special Liinfection. Care should be taken, iowe'ver, not to move them from tie nfected rooms until after formalde iyde fumigation, so that they may not Larbor any infected mosquitoes. "Medical offier. taking care of yel ow fever patient. need not he isolated; hey can attend other patients and as ociate -with non-imnmunes with per oct safety to the garrison. Nurses and ittendants taking care of yolow fever ,atients shall remain isolated, so as to bvoid any possible danger of their con reying mosquitoes from patients to non mmunes. "Malarial fever, like yellow fever, is sommunicated by mosquito brsest' and asjust as much of aninfoction disease Lnd requires the same measuresof pro ection against mosquitoes. On the issumption that mosquitoes remain in 5he vicinity of .their breeding places, r never travel far, the prevalence of nalarial fever at a post woukk.indicate. want of propar care and diligenee on :he part of the surgeon and command ng offcer." A Maddog Epidemic. J. N. Barwick, P. E. Meyers, Geo. W. kvinger, B. E. M. Avinger and J. H. Tille Ponteaux, citizens of Cordesville, n Berkeley county, have written the overnor about a maddog epidemic in heir section and asking for somekind f aid. They say their community is o infested with maddogs that it is oilly dangerous for children and older olks to be out. They detail many in tances. They say: "They have been ;oing mad in Berkeley county for some ime and we write asking for protection. Ihe negroes of our caunty have half tarved dogs by the score running at argo," and that the owners pay no tax a on them and they should beconined t least. As the State has not yet pro ided a hospital for maddogs, and the Bgislature has always stepped aside to Bt all kinds of dogs pass, it is diffiult D see what the governor can do. And his is one epidemic report that cannot e "referred to Dr. Evans. A Doctor Murdered. D:. H. S. Seruggs, Jr., who resided t Autona, a suburb of Memphis, Tenn., ras found sitting upright in his buggy ear his home early Wednesday. A allet hole behind the left ear showed hat he undoubtedly had been assassi ated by some person who climbed upon he back of the vehicle as the physi ian was returning from visiting apa ent. The horse wandered along the sadway for several hours before the rime was discovered. There is no lue to the murderers.. Fatal Collision, A rear end collision oocurrred in the ity limits of Danvillle, Va., Wednes ay afternoon between a freight train E the Danville and Western road with freight train of the main line of the outhern railway, resulting in the 'reeking of a caboose and box oar of outhiern freight and engine of Dan ille and Western and causing the eath of Fireman John McBride of the )anville anr1 Westen ianein.