The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, May 29, 1901, Image 1

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XVI' MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1901 TAKEN FROM A DIVE Where She Had Been Ptac -d by a BlInd! Biggar, WHO SEEMS TO BE A FRAUD The Timely Rescue of a Littlk White Girl From a Notor' ous Negro Den In Charleston. The Charleston Post, of Thursday says Nancy Jane McAteer, a yc.ung white girl, aged 10 years, whose heme is in Chester, S C., was Thursday morning taken out of F. Capers'restau rant on Market street by the police. The girl had teen placed there by Robert Summer, a blind white man, who was fined in the Recorders' Court on the charge of being drank and for lar ceny of clothing from Anna Stewart, 111 Cumberland street. The place kept by Capers, who is a negro, is a notorious dive, and is in the very heart ef the toughest and most wicked section of Market street. It is frequented by all sorts of vile men and wemen and is no place for a young white girl. Capers has frequently been before the grand jury on the charge of selliag liquor and has also appeared be fore the Recorder on the charge of keeping a gambling dive. As soon as it became known at police headquarters that the McAteer girl was living in this notorious resort, Lieut. Dunn, the officer of the day, sent an officer to the place and had her brought to the station Louse. She seemed glad to get cut of the place and expressed a desire to return to her home in Chester, where her mother and father live. Steps will be taken to have her sent to her home. In the *meantime she will be cared for by the Florence Crittenton Home, as Miss Tharin, the matron of that instituticn, has consented to take charge of the girl while arrangements are bting made to have her reiurned to her people. She was sent to the Crit tenton Hfme. The child was seen at the police sta tion shortly before being sent to the Crittenton Home. She is a blue-eyed, fiaxen-haiied girl, and is exceed ingly bright for a child of her years. She told the story of how she came to be in Charleston in a plain, straight forward, child-like manner. Frequently she would burst into tears and express a wish to return to her mother and father in Chester. She came here last Friday wi.h Sum ner, a bl.L d man, to lead him about the s;reets, for which he was to pay her twenty-five cents a day and board. She left her home with her mother's con sent to go to Columbia with Sumner, who wa. to return her to her people last Monday, but instead he brought her Carleston Ever since Ler ar rival in .e cit. she has b. en leading himabcut the streets of the city and selling vrsts to people. The verses are of the usual qharacter that blind peop'epeddle on the s:reet s. S2e slept and took her m- al. at the restau-sut o Market a reet. "Mjr Sumner is a bad man some times,''said the girJ, "and last night he got drunk on t e r and wine and was arrested. He is in the guard house now. He curses, too. "What are the police going to do with me?" asked the girl, and in the same breath said she hoped they would send her home. Her father's name, she said, is Reed Mc Ateer, and works in a cotton factory at Chester. Robert Sumners stated that he had hired the girl from her mother, saying that he had agreed to pay her twenty five cents per day to lead him about the streets, and according to the contract he -owes the child $5, but is not able to pay her as businees has been dull since comn ing to Charleston. When asked why he carried the Mo Ateer child to a negro restaurant, he said that it was the only cheap board ing house he could find. He declared he never intended to come to Charles ton again. Sumner has long curly hair, which hangs down on his shoulders, and he looks like the medicine man of Dead Man's Gulch. In speaking about his curly tresss he said he had a us'ietheart in days gone by whom he loved intensely, and she asked him to let his hair grow long, and he granted her request. "You know, a fellow will do anything for ;the girl he loves," he said. Since coming to Charleston Sumner has been a high roller. All Wednesday afternoon it is said he was playing slot machines and drinking beer. He fell into the hands of the police and from him the whereabouts of the child were learned.__ _ _ _ Ended His Life. Bresci, the assassin of the late King Humbert, has committed suicide at the penitenttary of Santo Stefano, Italy. Bresci recently had been suffering from extreme excitement, declared to be from remorse. Tuesday night he made a rope from his blankets and strangled himself. On the wall of his cell the word "vengeance" was scratched with his bloody thumb nail. Bresci's vio lence last week culminated in his at tackirg a jailer, in consequence of which he was placed in a straight jacket. Later the prisoner feigned docility, in 6rder to secure an oppor tunity to commit suicide whichhe ac complished by hanging himself with an improvised rope attached to the ceil ing. In the ealier days of his imprison ment Bresci resented orders to keep silent and threatned to kill himself. At the cabinet couocil had tonight, Signor Golitti, minister of the interior, informed the king of the suicide of Bresci. His majesty remained pensive for a few moments and then said: "It is, perhaps, the best thing that coul~d have happened to the unhappy man." Woodmen of the World. A speoial dispatch to The News and Courier says the Syvereign Camp of the Woodmen cf the World as their recent session in Columbus, Ohio, appropniat ed the sum of $500 for the relief of tialveston sufferers and the sum of $1,000 for the erection of a monument in the city of Galveston to commemo rate the memory of the Woodmen 'who lost theirilives in the devastating storm. The Pacifia Jurisdiction made an ap propiation of $1,100 for the sufferers. DONT WANT N*ROES. A Northern Pap r Says They Are a Menace. There hss been trouble in the coke regions of Pcrnsylvania. They have been importing negroes to ttks the 1lace of rtcalcitrant workmen. The other day th2 lynching of one of these negroes was narrjwly averted. The Pittsburg Post c:mmends the aztion ef offic rs in protecting the negro, but adds: The bringing in of Southern negroes of lawless character is an outrage on cit'zeas who have their hcmes in the coke regions and desire peaccable sur roundings. That is something that should be stopped. The negroes are a menace, and appear to be growing more disorderly and reckless as time goes on. Of course, negroes imported to work in northern incustries are not taken from southern penitenciaries, nor do the agents who 0elCot them advertise for the "lawlezs" and "reckless." They timply take thcm as they find them the common run of negro men to be found on the streets of any Eoathern town. These "lawless" a ad "reckless" negroes who are "a menace" in the coke regions are to be found by the thousands in every southern state. In the eyes of northern editors it is a great outrage when a disturbance oc curs in a southern locality where there are as many of these negroes as there are whites, but to bring a handful of them to work in the mines of Pennsyl vania "is an outrage." When will our northern brethren "tote fair" with the south in its beaing of the white man's burden, aad be ready to carry their share?-Augusta Chronicle Disastrous Floods. A dispatch from Richmond Va., ESayS news reached there Wednesday night of disastrous dloods all over the State. At Farmville the Appomattox is higher than in 20 years and there has been great loss to farmers by the washing away of crops. East and northbound Chesapeake and Ohio trains were de layed at Charlottesville by high water, and the Charlottesville wollen mills are floeded to the secand story. Danville reports much damage to the Danville and Western railroal and at Bassett's, west of the city, a church was washed away. The Danville milis are flooded and the electric light plant had to b3 shut down. New river, at Radford, is on the biggest rise since 1878. The electric light plant is wrecked and the roller mills are under water the second story. Traffia on the Radford division of the Norfolk and Western road is sus pended. James river, at Columbia, has risen from five feet above low water mark this morning to 25 feet tonight at 11 oc'oek and is still rising. This m'ans d'nger of a big flood here. The maghmwater from up the James river is txpe cted to reach h re about noon to morrow. The mer hants and others in the low lying section of the city are moving out. A Bristol special says HeLry Mussic, of Hall's Bottom, Va., ana Milton Boyd of Wallace, Va., are reported drowned in the fi od in that sAction. Two residences, a sobool honse and a barn were washed away in Wasdington county. Comes Too Late. In answer to the question "what has been the effect of tae president's atti tude towar d the south. Has it tended to bring about a reconoi~iation between the sections?" Senator Camack, of Tennessee says: "I feel ab ant that a good deal as Dr. Johnsoa did with re spect to the gratuitcus pa:rojnage if Lord Che-terflei: 'Had it been early it had been kind.' When we most needed the cheering wo:d and the help r-g hand we got notning from Mr. Mc Kinley and his party but the curse and the ciinehed fist. So, lon~g as t'hey coul.d make ~party capital by wraving the boody shirt and by teaching the north to hate and distrust the so uth, they did so, and the Republican conception of all that was vile in human nature was summed up in the words 'the Con federate brigadier.' Tnis brigadier was forbidden by law to draw sword for the umion and it was not until the sword was needed :n- the war with Spain that the law was repealed. We rejoice that the time of sectional ha red has passed or is passing; but we do not forget that it might have passed many years ago if Mr. McKinley and other Repubrican leaders had desired it to pass.'' Unprecedented May Rairrfall. Not since 1888 has the total rainfall for May been so great as for the present month. In that year 6 66 inches fell, but with only one heavy rain 2 80 fell in 24 hours. This has been exceeded in the past day, the amount for the 24 hours endirg at 8 a. in. of the 21st hav ing been 3 62 inches. The rainf all of the past few days are unique in the annals of the local offce of the weather bureau, not only on account of the large total, that sinca the evening of the 19th amounted to 6 69 inches, but also on account of the rate of the f all, which can be readily ascertalned by an electric self-registering guage with which the oice has recently been equipped. The rainy condition was not confined to South Carolina, but aceompanied a general storm that entered the conti nent over lower California and moved in an almost due easterly direction with copious rains along its entire course. In breadth the storm covered the en tire cotten belt, and over this vast area the rainfall averaged over an inch in depth with, however, the largest amounts in Georgia and the two Caro linas.-The State. Shot for Eating Pickles. A dish of p'ekles, a sick woman, a greedy man and a msn with a sh ytgun constituted the elementf of a tragedy in Blimingham,Ala., Thursday. Esther Jemison, colored, was the sick woman. She was abed with raeumatism and was eating from a dish of sweet pickles, that being all she desired. Dan Allen, a friend, called and commenced eating pickles. The woman protested, but the al an contir~usd to est.- About this time Frank Miller, another friend, entertd the room and became apprised of the aciots of Dan Alilen. Miller had a sho:gun with himn. He raised the weapon to his shoulder and remarking to Allen: "I'll show you how to eat a sick woman's pickles," sh',t Allen. Allen will die. Miller was arrested and put in the county iail. A'LAURIN SPEA(S To A Large Crowd in the C tv of Oreervil e. DEFENDS HIS POS!TION, Which He Claims Is True Demccracy, and Not Re publicanism as Many Claim It Is. The following is the speech o Sens tor John L. McLaurin, which he made at Greenville last Wednesday: Fellow c'tizens: The polit:cal Re ormation of 1890 had for its main ob cet the indeperdence of thoug:ht and ation on the part of the people in po itical affairs. It was this that made me a "Rsformer." A white p::imary, where the white people of the State :ould settle their differences among hemselves. In part it has accom plished its obj. et in spite of the efforts to dwarf it into a one man movement. ts leader has not been content for it to be complete, and has attemptel more than once to dictate who shc.ld and who should not be elected to cifi 3e. All %volutions of this kind go farther than its originators design, no pow-er can ontrol them. Men who suppose that the "move nent" of 1890 was a mere effervescence o give cffice to a favored few are great y mistaken. Some of the best and ruest have never held cffice, and the .me is coming when those who btrayed tnd prostituted this great movement nto a "one man power" and mere cramble for the "loaves and the fishes" will be held to an account. I qtand to lay just where I stood in 1890, with he added experience of ten y:ars of tudy and contact with yublic men and Lfairs. I thank God that one thing Las been aCdomplished. The people ave been disenthralled and enlightened nd will never be satisfied with the ac omplishment of anything less than the ull purpose of the movement-free hought, free speech, a fair ballot and ule of the people. This must and shall )e the final outcome. No attempt to 3reak down the reforms nearly accom Alished can succeed. The natural and evitable consequences of that revolu ion must follow. Nothing can stay hem. THE "ALLIANCE." Fellow-citizens: It affords me great easure to address you today. I thank ou for the honor and the opportunity. recognize the f sot that Iam you, pub ic servant, and am accountable to the eople who elected me for my steward hip. This responsibility of public fiee is the great conservative and pre ervative force in our republican form 4 government. It is the province and uty of a Rerresentative to study all mportant public questions and form a udgment as to their effect on the wel are of the people. To do this, he must t times act indopendently and lead blic sentiment rather than blindly ellow what is repited to be the maj ri y. It is his duty to study national roblems and vote according to his est lights and honest convictions, leav g the final dccision as to the wisdom f his course to the people. As for yelf, I acknowledge no master save :he sovereign reople, speakong at the allot box, and I refuse to obey the die ates of any political Boss, either in or utside of South Carolina. This is my onception of the rish:s, duties and osition of a Sanator. My course nce my eletion has been projscee long the line of discretion and nocoun ability. In voting on great national sses I have consid~red the best inter sts of the South and the country rather hn the impractical results to flbw from rigid adherence to party lines. It is assing strange that some of the men elected to Congress in 1892 should' ~ritiisz me for doing what they solemnly pledged themselves to do. Dn't you reine aber that an Alliance elegation was elec'ed in 1892 pledged ot to be bound by a D.:mocratiis cau us, but to vote for measures ca'culated o benefit the natiion at largo, irrespec :ive of party? I feel like recalling the words, 'O0, Lord God of Hosts, Lest e forget, Lest we forget." PRINCIPLES HIGHER THAN PARTY. Political parties under our form of ~overnment are a necessity. They grow cut of the political relations established by the government itself. here have been since the birth of th~e nation and always will be two great political parties, if there were no real issues they would divide and fight over the mere spoils of office. These differ mees originated in the diverse views ntertained when our Constitution was adopted as to what constituted the pro per functions of the government. Party platforms have always been suppoed to be the exponents of these views. A bloody Civil war Eettled the uestion of State's rights, and for a quarter of a century the waving of the bloodshirt" on the one side and the "nigger in the wood-pile" on th'other onstituted the dividing lines. I say that every man, on a purely scotional question, like white supremacy, is a traitor and a renegade who does not stand by his own section and his own eople. I say that any man, on do mestic probleme, problems of internal onern, dould, as fsr as passible, bow to the behests of his party. If he cannot agree with his party on ques tions of this kind, he should, if possi ble, find a party with which he is in cord. I assert, fellow-citizens, that it is almost a crime for any party to ae great, broad, non-political Ameri can measures, involving the political and commnercial development of the nation, the test of party fealty. Is sues essential to the maintenance of the honor and prestige of the nation are tco vital to be relegated to the plane f partisan and Eectional contention Oat of changed industrial and econo ic conditions have grown great na tional questions pertaining to the ma terial interest of the :ountry, which must be considered and settled by that silent force, the reserved patriotism of the people. DEMOCRACY BROADER THAN SECTION ALISM. Fellow-citizens: There is no greater menace to the stability o: our ge vern et than a la minority in the American Congress voting upon broad, vitil, roD partisan American questions from purely sectiot al consideration. I &m a Democrat, honestly desirous of remaining so, and witnessing the tri umph of the party to which I am at tached by association and heredity. It was never contemplated by the found ers of that party that it should beceme a purely sectional affair, yet to-day there is no Democratic party capable cf making itself felt outside of the South. In the North and West, it is permeated with socialism, and has dwin diled away into the party of a section, not a nation. I do not propose, however, to rursue this line of thought; it is painful and can accomplish no gcod pur puse. THE MONEY QUESTION. Bi ginning with the panic of 1893, there bss never been such rapid industr.al changes in any country. These chtnges were in progress. and cur wir with Spain served as a fiash-light to show us what was going on. In 1896, we had a campagn upon the money question. Everything was depressed. Men seek ing employment, cotton under -ve cents, w heat below the cost of production, and id'eness, discontent, d's'rust and misery everywh<ro. We were told that the sal vation of the country depended upon the free coinage of silver. I believed then, and I believe now, that theoretically we were right; but new and unfcrescen forces came into play, and I have enough sense to recCgniz3 the fact that the "restoration of confidence," abou, which Mr. Cleveland talked, and about which I did not know enough at the time to understand, the discovery of gold in the Klondyke, the influx of money from abroad seeking investment, and the increase in banking facilities, for the time at least, have settled the money question, and nobody but a fool would make a "free silver" speech now. Instead of a depleted treasury, there is in it to day the largest amount of go!d in the history of the country, and actually the Secretary of the Treasury, a few weeks ago, deposited money in a Spartanburg bank, something that has never been done before in the history of our State. I have been listening for somebody to cry out "Republicanism," because I was instrumental in beginning a movement which I hope in the future may enable our farmers and merchants to secure money at a lower rate of in terest. Another great change as the result of the panic of 1893, is the rapid develop ment of our export trade. Our heme markets failed us, manufacturers found themselves with immense stocks of < goods on hand and nobody to buy them, this forced them to seek markets abroad, 4 and one enterjrising firm in Birming < ham, Ala., shipped 250 ton of iron to i Europe. At that time iron could be < bought for $6.00 per ton in Birmingham 1 and this small shipment six years ago I was the beginning of the $130,000,000 J worth of iron that we shipped abroad < last year, 300,000 tons going from Ala- I bama. To day, entire Europe is alarmed at he developement of our commerce, and we see every day indications of a trade combine on the part of Europe against the United States. In the financial world, instead of depending upon Eu rope as we did Eeven yeirs ago for our money, Eagland, Germany and Ruseia have recentLy had to come to New York to place their government loans. I have given nothing but a mere outline, and et I ask any man within the sound of my voice if these facts do not present a totally changed condition. The Spanish war suddenly awoke us to the fact that our country was one of the great com-C mercial and political powers of the world. HOW CAN I BEST SERVE THE INTEREST OF SOUTH CAROLINA? Believin g as I do thsat there are vital issues which, growing out of changed t industrial cornditions, are higher and broader tha2 mere party questions, I have, as your Senator, looking beyond 1 t e line rarked by sectionalism and par tisanhip, striven to promote the mate rial,political and commercial interests of I our common country-for in so doing, I caii besi serve the interests of the State of South Carolina. For this I have been2 arraigned before the people of this State1 and charged with allying myself witl i the Republican party. Criticism, abuse and gross misrepresentation has been] induged in. Not content with this un fair method of attack, some of the papers in their vile persecution have de ceived the people by witholding inf orma tion on one side of these great nationl < issues and emphasizing and publishing< everything on the otner. They have1 persistently held me up as a renegade, and on more than one occasion alleged that I intended to resign and accept a Federal appoint ment. Amid all this persecution I have maintained my si lence, confident that when an opportu nity was offered, the people would see that I received fair play, and that they< would at least accord me honesty of] purpose. There are two question that I submit< t o the people of Souith Carolina; First, Am I honest in the views I advocate? Second. Am I mist iken? As to the first. All that I have toi say is that my people have shed theit blood for South Caro'ina in every con test in which she has ever been engag ed. I was born in South Carolina, I took my wife in South Carolina, and] when I die I expect my bones to be laid beside five generations c-f honest men and true women who have gonei bfore. I have children who must bear1 my name, good or bad. Every dollar that I have is invested in this State, except a small amo'unt in North Caro lina and Fiorida. My interet5t are in separably inter woven with the interest of my State, no good aan come to her: in which I cannot participate, .and no evil of which I must not bear my share. If I wante d to have an easy time, 1I' certainly choose the hard road. I might ave drifted with the current, sang "me too," ata continued to hold office. I: had pretty good tutelage and an illust rious example in my early political career in the arts of demagogery, and could do it again in a pinch- But, fellow-citizens, the "game isn't worth the candle." If I can't be a Senator, worthy the great statesmen whom I suc ceed, I do not wish to hold the office. I do not claim to be infallible, and the time has been when I would gladly have been conrvinced that I was wrong, and thus enabled to escape from the position which at times was almost un endurable; but, fellow-citizens, I no: longer feel that way. I do not wish now to be convinced. When a man has suffere for a cause it becomes very dear to him, and I thirk that it wc uld break my heart if I should fiad now Ehat, after all, it is a mistake, and that I have been deceived by a mirage in the bleak desert. I am human, and have my full share of the frailty and vanity which go with poor, weak hu man rature. I look back to some things that I have Eaid and done, and I know that I was wrong, and I wish it were otherwise. But, fellow-citizens, twize within the last three years I have felt that I was near the time when I would have to stand before the bar of a inst God, who knows the secrets of my tinermost Eoul, and I felt that he ould meroy have for petty frailties ad shcrt-comirgs, and give me c:edit for the earnest and hon,.st effort, for the sacrifices which I had nade to serve Lhe best and highest intErest of my tate and etuntry. I am not afraid to meet my God and stand upon my public ecord-why, then, should I feat any ribanal here belo.i? I only wish that ny life as a man was as sinless and free ram reproach as it is as your public ervant. Charges of corruption have 'een rife in South Carlmas du ing the past ten years, but my wors enemies have never charged that a dirty dollar as ever crossed the prim of my hand. Fellow citizens: To a man who lov d society and that sort of thing, a seat n the Senate may be a prize worth iaving, but to me, it is of no value ave to further the cause to which I m devoting the best years of my life. [ am in the Senate for what I can get 'or South Carolina, not to further my ersonal interest. D) you suppose ;hat I enjoy being flayed alive, and ialled all sorts of pet names by the rowling, grumbling Gor-zales, and the hinning, cringing dyspeptie Hemp 1ll? It does not worry me very much, or I know that there is one kind of an inimal that will growl just for the yeasure of growling, and another that will whine, eslecially when milk is icares There a gcoi deal of growling md whining just now because of a 'ew Federal plums that have been iropping around but I notice that it ll comes from the direction where ione are dropping or likely to drop. ?rom observation I infer that there ire a tlenty of Gold Democrats, ilver Democrats, Bryan Democrats, eveland Damocrats, McKinley Democrats, Tillman Democrats, and Democrats none whom object to a dcLaurin Demoert job under "Uncle .;Aa." FEDERAL PATRONAGE. Now, fellow-citizens, I want to say as wer on, this subject. I do not ontrol, I do not profess to control, I lo not wish to control, nor will I be o ne responsible for, the Federal pat onage in South Carolina. On account f my liberal views, and what he is ileased to consider my patriotic stand or broad American doctrines, the ?resident has done me the honor to onsult me on certain occasions as to 3outh Carolina appointments. He has one so, to my certain knowledge, with senators Morgan, Sullivan McEnery nd other Democrats. I appreciate it )eyond measure, for a wiser man, a ruer pairiot, and a more kindly Chris ian gentleman, never occupied the hite House than William McKinley. believe I have his confidence and riendship, and there is no treasure hat I value more highly. I would not ave it and I could not retain it were a traitor to my State and people. H e onors me, beciuse he knows as well s any man living, how much I love my mative State. When he expressed ade ire to be the President of the whole ountry and not of a seotion, why should not meet him half way? When he is iling that the patrons who support a ostoffce in South Carolina should be onsuhed as they are in Vermont. 4assachusetts and 0 aio, why should I, a your Senator, stick a pitcoh-fork in o his vitals? Ah, fellow citizns, if I h-ave con rolled any patronage, it has been in he public interest, not my own. No ephews of mine have been commission d in the United States Army. I have tad no son drawing a large salary, raveling this State at government ex ~ense, manipulating political aff airs for ne. Take the postoffie at Aiken, of hat personal inter st is it to me who ills it It does not put a dollar into my oket and I do not get my mail there. believe in the rule of the people, and want to see the time come when the )atrons of the offie, those who sup ort it, shall name the postmaster just e they do the sheriff and clerk of the ~ourt. Who do you suppose the people f Aiken prefer for postmaster-a man vho is identified with the town, born ud reared among them, or a citizen of nother State, with uo interest in the own or people further than to use them or his own personal advantage? Who not even willing, after death, to per nit his dust to mingle with the soil of outh Carolina, but had his body shipp d home to Connecticut for burial where [am told his family are soon to follow iim. I prefer one of our own people, ,ither white or black, to birds of pas lage, who invest no money here, anc. ly away when there are no offices for hem. Let it be understood that we ~adly welcome any good man who tomes here seeking a home, who in rests his money and becomes one of ur own people; we extend to such a ne the right hand of fellowship, and de is entitled to all the honors, social, political and commercial, which his abiity and character command. That s not what we mean by "Carpet agism" in South Carolina Some people, however, are so disturted be tau..e the President has appointed a nan whom Lhe people of Aiken have leted Mayor of their town twice, and who is a refined and courteous gentle mnan, that they are preferring charges igainst him in Washington; this is done for political purposes ar.d I well under itand it as a lick at me, not Mr. Chanffec. Who should be District Attorney of outh Carolina? A biight, energetic oiung man, ra's-d up here in this beautiful mountain city, or a foreigner md outsider? I admit one of the best f his class; but, fellow citizens, South Carolinians are good enough for me. Niow, when appointments were made ibsolutely repugnant to the wishes and the traditions of our people, I was the only one who held up a confirma ion in the Senate Now when a gentle man, like Mr. Chaffee or John Capers, the on of a Confederate Brigadier, with four y ankee bullent-holes in his body, now the Bishop of South Caro lina is made by the President, not for political purposes, but as an indietion of his good will towards the people not only f South Carolina but of the South, I see a threat in the papers that the confirmation is to ba fought. If that ii politics, if that is Democracy, then God save me from such infamy. THE GENTLEMAN FROM MEXICO There is one thing that I have not heard much of a kick about, the loan of the government exhibit at B uffa!o to Charleston. I believe, however, somebody else claims the credit. That is all right with me, it matters not who gets the credit, jast so the city of Charleston gets the friendly hand of this government in a great enteprise in which the whole State is interested. Irrespective of personal and poli ical differences, I am willing t> join hands with my colleague in the Smate and the members in the House in securing an appropriation to reimburse Char leston for all expenses incurred. If we lay aside lit-le differences and every body gy to work as one man, it can be done. I oart to say here, in justice to Senator Tillman and myself, we are both capable of rising high enough not to premit anything to interfere with a matter of such general interest to the State. I will even go one better and agree, if Charleston gets the appropria tion, to give all of the cridit to the 'Gentleman fiom Mexico." WILL NOT BE DRIVEN. I have just one or two more things to say on the first question I am discus ing. My intimate friends know that it has been my desire to retire from public life. I had determined never again to undetake the canvass of this State, and were it not that I felt that I. owed it to the people of South Caro lina to discuss these issues and enable them to act intelligently by placing themselves in touch w:th the best he thought of the age, I would not here to day. The people of this State gave me the grandest chnce that any young man hag had since the war and I, fully realize the opportunity and duty. I sever doubted for one moment but if allowed to present my case fairly to the peolle, I would bere-elected to the Sen ate. I have not made a vote that can be succ:ssfully assailed, save upon nar row partisan grounds. I had, however, determined not to run on account of my health. The campaign of 1897 left me in a phydoal and mental wreck. My physician has repeatedly said that I could not stand either mentally or physically the strain of such another campaign. Within the ten months past however, my health has been wonder fully improved and I am ready for the fray. I desire here and now to tell the "Bosses" (in and out of the State) who have decreed my political death, that I defy them. The only way they can de feat me is to rule me out of the pr'mary and thus prevent the people from ex pressing themselves. Let them, if they dare, prevent white men from passing jadgment at the ballot box upon these great national issues. One thing more on the quesiotn, Am I honest? Those who know me and are my friends will never believe anything else. To those who are fair and unprejudiced, I say, give me an impartial hearing, and if you are not convinced vote against me, then we will still respect each other. For my enemies, those who would condemn me unheard, the growlers and whiners, I care not a red cent what they think, so long that I know that I am honest. I desire now to take up some of my votes and speeches, and address myself to the question, Am I mis aken? When I was piaced on the Ways a- d Means Committee of the House, I began a sys tematic course of reading on the tar.ff question with reference to its effect upon the people of the South. In March, 1897, I made a speech in which I em bodied my views. I had offered an amendment for a duty of two and one half cents per pound on cotton imports, andI had made a fight in the Commnittee for a proper schedule on rice, pine lum ber, turpentine, cotton seed oil, oil cake, jute-bagging, catton ties sad the coarse grade of goods made in our Southern mills. This is neither the time nor the place to go into a discussion of the tariff. I can sum it up in the statement that I did not discuss the question from a theo retic or philanthropic stand point, but mrely claimed a full share for the South of all the benefits to accrue from legis lation. I recognized the fact that our revenues were to come from the imposi tion of import duties, and asserted that this being true, it was but fair to give each section and industry a share of the benefits, as the burden must be berr~e by all. I attacked the doctrine of free ra e material as a clandestine and un just form of protection. I traced its history and showed that it was devs:d and offered to the manufacturers of the East by Mr. Cleveland in his first race, as a form of protection. In other words, Roger Q. Mills, the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House, was sent up into the New Eng land States to effer them this "left handed protection," while free trade was talked in the South and West. It was a mere party expedient to catch votes. I think that no political party will ever attempt again such a monstrous in jus tice. It means that the farmers in this country shall be forced to buy in a re stricted market and then sell all of their products in competition with the pauper labor of the world. I made this fight for Southern industries while a member of the House, when I had no idea in the world of going into the Senate. You all remember what universal chorus of ap proval there was. Senat-ora Tillman, Bacon, Clay and others took up the name line in the Senate. The.News and Courier, the Columbia Stato and nine ty per cent. of the papers of the South commended my course. I hazard little in saying had I never been a candidate for the Senate, the wisdom oE my course would never have bcen questioned. I was strongly urged to run for the Senate in 1896, but.I did not wibh to leave the Way s and Means Committee, and besides I was thoroughly disgusted with the condition of affairs in South Caro lina. I could hear of no:.hing but "charges of corruption," ' b~nd deals,." "whiskey rebates," etc. 1 aid noat wish to be mixed up in such an affair; how ever it might eventuste, a man could not but feel lowered and degraded by com ing in contact with such filth. I felt reasonably sure at that time that I could have been electe d to the Senate. I was assured, by one authorized to speak, that Judge Earle would not be a candidate if I ran; but I concluded to go on in a modest, quiet way and work out my destiny in the House. This was not to be, however. It was not intended that my lines should fall in easy places. That pure man, chivalrou~s gentlemen and up-right Judge, your townsman and my [Continued on page 4.] SHE CLAIMS SELF DEFENSE. Mrs. Bonin@ Has Confessed to Killing Young Ayres. - The mystery attending the killing of James Seymour Ayres, a census office clerk, in the Kenmore hotel early last Wednetaay morning, at Washington, D. C., anod whi h because of the peca liar circumstar0s surrounding it has troused Washington more than any tragedy in several - ears, was solved Monday by a voluntary confession from Mrs Luiu 1. Bowne, a married woman and a guest at the house, that the three shots which ended Ayres' life had been fired in a struggle between herself and Ayres. Mrs. Bonine, whose husband is a drum x er for the wholesale drag house of Dewitt & Co. of Ci-i3ago, ex plained her presence in Ayres' room at 2 o'clock in the morning by saying that he had come to her room complaining of a chill and asking for madicin:, and had induced her to follow hi . to his room to talk over some watters of differ enee there had been between them. She said that she dress-d herself in a wrap per and went to his room. He had pre ceeded her and when she opened the 'door and walked in he quickly closed it and informed.her he had enticed her to the room for his own purposes and said if she did not submit to his wishes he would kill -her. Ayres, she said, was undressed and had a revolver in his hand and in a struggle for its possession which ensued immediately after she entered, it was discharged three differ ent times, the shyts striking Ayres at each discharge, the last one proving fatal. After her statement, which was made to the chief of police and a nun ber of other officiale, Mrs. Banine was placed under arrest and taken to the house of detention, where she will be held pending the result of the coroner's inquest, which has* b3en in session since Saturday and at which ~Mrs. Bonine was to have appeared tomorrow as a witness. The tragedy which re suited in Ayers' death was discovered first about 8.30 o'clocklast Wednesday morning when his dead body was found in his room at the Kenmore, a small family hotel situated not far from the capitol. An examination of Ayres' body showed that le had been shot three times, one ball entering the left leg, another the left arm, and the third penetrating the heart and causing death. Suicide was the first theory advanced, but statements from two witness that on the night of the murder they had seen a woman descending a fire escape leading from the front of Ayers' room at the hotel and disappear into the parlor of the house ended this theory and the Killing was quickly de veloped into a mysterious and sensa tional affair that baffiod the police un til Mrs. Bonine'confested. Saturday the corner began his in quest, but no substantial clue was found to connect any person specifically with the tragedy. The inquest was re sumed Monday and had developed nothing directly bearing on the tragedy except that Mrs. Bonine was much in Ayers'room, when it was suddenly ad journed on information that the dis trict attorney and others were wanted at police headquarters to hear a state ment made by Mrs. B&.Rne. Disastrous Storm on Lakes. A special from Tawas City says: A terrifice northeaster revailed all day and last night. The stearmer Balti more, coal laden, broke in two and sank off Au Sable this morning before dayligt. Thirteen were drowned includ ing a woman and a boy. The tug Columb:a of Detroit with a govern menit steam dreage and two loaded lighters for the Soo was caught in the storm. The lighters and dredge were lost, parting their six-inch cable. The crew of six men is missing. While searching today for her tow the Co lumbia picked up two men from the Baltimore o'm a raft. They were almost dead and were taken to cast Tawas. An other man was on the raft, but was lost despite the efforts to save him. The Eenrooner Montmorency, which went around on the Charit~y islandis several days ago, has gone to pieces. Her crew left hr Thursday. Ti e Tawas life saving crew made a trip to her at midnight and rowed 18 miles in the storm and against the wind, but found no one aboard. The Columbia pyked up her dredge tonight, but the lighters and the expensive machinery they carried and the six men are still missing. The wind is now going down. A Hundred Entombed. An explosion occurr ad Friday morn ing at the U~iversal colliery at Sen gnenydd, in the Rhondda valley Eng land. About a hundre i men were in the pit at the time of the disaster and there is little hops a f saving the lives of any of them. The reseusrs at the Universal colliery are working with great diffiulty owing to lack of air. Five bodies have been recovered. Tae rekage of the pit is complete, al most precluding hope that the impris oned men can have survived. There are 78 miners missing. The rescuers have found more bodies, but there is no hope that 70 miners who are still en tombed will be brought out alive. Killed Himself. A dispatch from Cambridge, Mass., says Fred C. Foster, of Cambridge port, w ho was under suspicion of the polica in c~mnection with the explo sion which wrecked the Cambridgeport National bank here Wednesday, cam mitted suicile by bhooting today in the presence of a police offier who had calei on Foster make inquiries in con necticon with the case. Foster was 43 years old. F.,ster had a wife and three children. He had been under sur veilance, the police say, since Wedne day afternoon, when it became known that he presented a check at the bank calling for $1,100 for which he had no funds in the bank. The gates of Bilibid prisons, Manila, s sung open Friday and admitted a mule wagon bearing three former United off ers who reluctantly alighted and be gan to serve sentences in expiation ,of crimes in connection with the commis sary Ecandals. Captain Frederick J. Barrows, late depot quartermaster of the department of Southern Lusan, is sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Captain James C. Reed, late depot com missary at Manila, to three years' im prisonment, and Lieutenant Fredenic r Boyer, late depot commnissary at Ca lmbs, to one year's imprisonment. M'LAURINS PLACE. There Are Many Candidates In the Field For It. THE CAMPAIGN OPENED. There Will be No Lack of Can didates, but Who the Lucky One Will Be No One Knows. Senator McLaurin's spe ch Wednes day at Greenville is generally regarded as the opening of his campaign for re election, although there are some who still profess to believe that Senator McLaurin will not be in the campaign next summer. However that may be, his activity at the present time naturally directs attention to the race for the seat once held by Wade Hampton. From present indications that race will be a war.a one. Con gressman Latimer, of the Third dis trict, is already an avowed candidate and is actively at work. It is general ly understood that at this time at least Congressman Latimer has the good will if not the active support of Senator Tilman. State Sanator D. S. Hender son, of Aiken, is also understood to be in the race for all he is worth, which is not a little. It has recently been stated that there is an understanding between Messrs. Latimer and Hender son; that the former is looking after Charleston and the low country and the latter paying particular attention to the Piedmont. - Just what can be gained from this alleged cooperation is not known, but circumstances give eredenpe to the report. Congressman Latimer's efforts in behalf of the Charleston exposition are supposed to give him Charleston's vote so far as it can be controlled, while Senator Hen derson being posssed of some influ ence with the cotton mill presidents of the Piedmont would be more apt to undermine McLaurin in that quarser The name of Col. George Johnstone, of Newberry, has been often mentioned in connection with this race. If he should be a -candidate he would be pitted against the man who- defeated him for reelection to congress-A. 0 Latimer. Thisis an interesting coinci dence. CoL Johnstone was in the city Tuesday, but was not talking poli tics, being busy with some legal af fairs. A close friend, however, stated that it was most probable that Coi. Johnstone would have something to say on the stump next Eummer. He is one of the most eloquent kers in the State and a ready stump debaer; so that his entry into the field woudo muchto liven matters up. There areia number of other gentlemen mentioned for the. place, among them being Gov. McSweeney. A West Virginia Story. A Job, W. Va., special says: Tobe crushed to death in the embrace of a monstrous black bear and their little bodies afterward mangled and partly de voured was the frightful fate that befell the three young children of E. P. Por terfield, a mountaineer residing about 12 miles southeast of this place. The remains were found Wednesday by a searching party whieh had been out since Sunday evening. The party in eluded John Weldon, a Maryland hun ter, who within a few minutes after dis- - covering the bodies, shot and killed the bear in a neighboring thicket. The children were Mary, aged 3, Willie, aged 5, and Henry, aged 7. Shortly after noon .Sunday they left home to gather fbwers in a clearing near their home. Nothing more is known but it is supposed they wandered into the goods and becoming lost continued on their way until they were overtaken by the bear in the dense forest three miles from their parents' home. The bear - feasted off all three of th'e bodies. The bones of the chiliren had been crustied like straws and the flesh stripped off with teeth and claws. The party divided and began a seareh. Within a few min utes Weldon discovered is in a thick clump of hemlock saplings near a sma'l stream. A single shot ended its life. It was declared to be the largest~ bear ever seen in this neithborhood. Burned the Site. The State jeper board recently quiet ly purchased a large plantation in Jeffer son parish, opposite New Orleans, .and made arrangements to establish a leper laznretto. When the news became pablia Jefferson and St. Charles parishes arose to an indignant protest and threats wera freely made that the torch and rifb~ would be employed to prevent the trans fer of t he leper colony to the point se lected. At a meeting the board heard the vigorous protests of the citi zens of the two parishes but decided to take no action at present. The pro testants concluded, however, that the board had determined at least to at tempt the establishmentof the lasaret to in Jefferson. The result was that during the night the proposed home and other buildings on the plantation se lected were fired and totally destroyed. Lost in the Flood. Millions of dollars of damage baa been done and at least eight lives lost in Upper Tennessee by the floods, caused by the recent heavy rains. The Doe river, the Wautaga, the Holston, the Chukey and the French Brod are out of bounds and growing crops have been swept away along their oaurses. On the Chukey river, three children of Joseph Hill wire drowned in his house while he was at his barn looking after his stock and unaware of the danger. O02 this river six bridges were swept away, doing a damage of about 60,000, while the damage to'farms, houses and stock along this stream in Greene county alone will amount to one-half a million dollars. At Leeper's mill, on Cjhukey rver, two Bolivar brothers fell. from a boat into the river, one being drowned._________ A Voyage in a Buggy. A dispatch from Sharon says Willie Hoyle started to Yorkville Wednesday morning in a buggy and in crossing a selal stream jast this side of Yorkville his buggy broke loose and was carried dewn the stream. He could not swim but saved himself by getting on the horse and riding it out. He went on to Yorkville and procared assistance and came back took the buggy out but it was bar11y tnrn up.