The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, June 12, 1901, Image 1

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XVI' MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY JUNE 12, 1901 ON HIS DEMOCRACY. Senator McLaurin Says Ho is a Disciple ot HIGH GRADE DEMOCRATS. He Makes a Lerghy R ply to Requests That He Show Whreln He is Not a Repub ican. The following correspondence was given out at Bennettsville with the permission of Mr. Clayton: Florence, S. C., June 3. 1901. Hon. John L. McLaurin, Bennettsville, S. C. Dear Sir: 1 have taken .4reat interest in the political outlook and as a matter of in, struction ask that you aifferentiate between your views, and the views held by leading Republicans. Most of us see no cifference, but perhaps you can show some ditference, so please do it, as I am not inclined to con demn you without a hearing. Yours truly, W. F. Clayton. Bennettsville, S. C., June 4, 1901. Mr. W. F. Clayton, Florence, S. C. Dear Sir: In your letter of June 3rd you ask me "to differentiate between my views and the views of leading Republicans as most of us see no difference." I am viry busy at this ime, but will dictate a few thoughts as they occur to me in reply to your question. I do this with the more pleasure because you have been opposed to me politi cally, but show a desire to seek the truth At the time of the adoption of the United States constitution there were several dis tinct plans of government proposed. Of these plans the fight was made upon two; the Hamiltonian idea and the Jeffersonian idea. Alexander Hamilton openly main tained that the British constitution was the most perfect instrument of its kind ever in existence. He wanted all laws for the gov ernment of the States to be passed by the i congress of the United States. He wanted the president of the United States and the senators to hold office during goo I beh avior. 1 He wanted the governors of the States ap pointed by the president of the United States and he wanted the Federal govern ment to assume the debts of the statutes. He wanted a strong senate and a weak house of t representatives and openly proclaimed him self that the people were incapable of self government. John Jay was sent as minis- h i er to England in order to make a commer cial treaty which would have placed our t, commerce under the control of Great Britain v The Hamilton idea was so far carried out c that he succeed in preventing the incorpora- f tion of a bill of rights in the Federal constitu g tion. Under his leadership the congress ii imposed the excise tax which made the ricn o escape the burdens of taxation and placed t those burdens upon the poor. This brought a about the revolution in Pennsylvania and I came very nearly disrupting the new repub- b lic. Thomas Jefferson forced the bill of d rights into the constituti n as an amend ment. As minister to France he succeeded in defeating the purpose of the Jay Treaty with b England. Hamiton favored and Jefferson 9 opposed the granting of monopolies, the i: establishing of a United States bank, and the c assumption or the State debts by the Federal c govenment. Associated with Jefferson were a Madison, Monroe, Samuel Adams, Albert, t Gallatin, George Clinton and Benjamin i Franklin. Assodiated with Hamilton were I Joan Marshall, John Ja-,, John.A. ata and I Pnzckney. The Democratic party has 'e n in continuous existence ever eince the adop| tion of' the constitution while the Federal party of which the Republiica-s are? tha suc cessois have passed through a number of changes. The Federal party, at first suic-e cessful, finady conmmitted suicide by carry- t ing their doctrine of a centralized govern e ment so far as to pass the alien and seditions laws. Under this lair the president wast authorized upon his own volitijn :o expel u from the country any alien whom he might suspect as dangerous to the peace and liberty of the country et c., this radical measurei created a powerful reaction. The Democrats then remained in power almost without interruption until 1860O.I During this time all the territory acquired1 by the United Smates up to 1898 was secured except the territory of Alaska. and every I foot of it was encountered by the vigorous I denounciation of the depubhcans.a During this entire time the Democrats were the progressive men. They held to the principle that the people should rule but that the general government while keeping taxation at the lowest rate consistent with good government should expend the fund thus derived for the good of the whole peo- I pie. In 1856 they favored subsidizing the Pacific railroad. About the same time they started the subsidy to the Collins line of steaships between the United States and England. Based upon the principle of the Jeffersonian commercial treaty with France, they had concluded treaties with all the principal nations and those treaties are still in force. They had built up our foreign f commerce until it excited the wonder and admiration of the entire world. They hadj under Gen. Jackson stopped imprisonment I foi- debt. They had fought two successful wars with foreign nations. They had es-t tablished a credit throughout the world second to no nation on earth. They were fighting for principles of the liberty ofc thou'ght and action and the freedom of 1 American Eitizenship. Matters of internal concern, the leaders of the party differed t about. Gen. Jackson was The first to made a reciprocity treaty. The nest reciprocity treaty was n ade by President Pierce. John Randolph acting against the leaders of his party voted against the em-. bargo act and was finally successful in de-i feating that legislation. Clay, Calhoun, Cheves and Lowndes actively opposed Prsi-t dent Jefferson in the matter of decreasingE the arms. The firet proposition of a y rotec-t tive tariff for the purposes of protection came from James Madison and Calhoun andt Lawndes joined with Madison in its favor. The Federalists opposed protection. Clay and Calhoun favored internal improvement and Mladison vetoed them. Our great distinc tive foreign policy known as the Monroej doctrine was a Democratic policy. The Democrats defeated the scheme of the Re publicans to turn over Oregon and Washing ton to Great Britain.] The Democratic pla-ty has never y et denied< to any man within its lines the pr ivilege ot free thought and free speech. It has never yet failed to correct mistakes when it has made them. It has lost no opportunity to build up the merchant marine and open up our trade with foreign ports. it] o pened up the Japanese ports when all of the nations of the earth had failed. The party has never been inconsiste nt, and yet it nas neve r stultified itself by aier ing to previous platforms when the con ii tions which demanded them had chaL ged. Until 1856l the Democrats had denied the power in the fedeial government to make in ternal improvements, and yet it was the first to advocate the gr at improvement of the Pacific railroads and the Nicaraguan canal.] In the matter of tariff it was a protection1 party under the leader:ehip of James Madi son; decared for free trade in 184S; for '-in-| cidentat protection" in 1868: a tariff for revenue only in 1880 and in 1m84 the con-1 vention said: "Moreover many industries have come to rely upon the legislation for successful con tinuance, so that any change of iaw mnust ) b e a vry step regardful of the labor and i capital thug involved. The nccessary re duction and taxation c-n and must be effect ed without depriving American labor of the abili:y to compe e successfully with foreign labor and without imposing lower rates of duty that will be ample to cover any in creased c)st of production which may exist in conSe.1'lence cf the higher rate of wages prevaihne in this country." In 1z'8 the plaiform still recognized that other thins besides levenue were to be taken into accout in traming tarif legislation. It said: -Our established industries and en terprise s should not be endangered." For more than half a century Democratic :onventions condemned a national bank and ind finally supported a metallic currency. Ia 1660. 181-6 1 and 18a8 the Democratic party ieclared in favor of gold and silver and paper convertible into coin on demand In lbV2 it favored the coinage of both metals ander an international agreement. In 1888 he Repub ican platform real: "Tne Republican party is m favor of the ase cf both gold and silver as money and :ondemns the policy of the Democratic ad ninistration in its efforts t> demonetize iver." In 1892 the Republicen platform was identical in principle upon this question with the Democratic platform of 1SSU, 1884 mad 1888. There hava been protection Democrats ever since Madison and Calhoun favored the proection doctrine. There have been free ade Republicans from the foundation of .he government. Such men as Samuel J. Randall. John Rand iph and John C. Calhoun always spoke reely and clearly whether or not they were ,n accord with the platforms of their parties. L'he Democratic party has always favored 'reedom of speech and action. The Republi -an party has always sought to so central ze the government as to carry out the idea >f Alexander Hamilton. The Democratic >arty has been a party that has had for its >olicy the greatest good to the greatest num :er while the Republican party as a party ins beliesed with Hamiltoa, its founder, in estowing benefits upon the few and only >urdens upon the many. "Until these latter lay saints," have lead the party into social sm, while as to expansion and subsidies, the 3epublicans have taken advantage of the ituation and boldly got upon the Democratic >latform. They are now upon the currency question >ractically where the Democratic party stood Lp to 1S36. They arenow advccating the -eciprocity of Jackson and Price. They are tow advocating the Democratic principles rhich is announced in the Democratic con ention of 1856 in the matter of building the >acitic railroad. They want to apply that rinciple to our foreign commerce. When ver the Republicans are forced to abandon heir own policy they tike up Democratic olicies, and the Democrats are asked to op ose those Democratic policies because they ave been adopted by the Republicans. The Democrats of this country must stand getherand restore their party to the power rhich was theirs. They cannot do it by ondemning that which is good because the aepublicans endorse it nor can they do it by oing off after strange and unsound policies i order to secure some votes which might therwise be Republican. The fight of Hamil )n and Jefferson is still on in this country nd will be until it is fought to a finish. ;tther we will have an aristocracy or we will ave a repubtic. If the Democrats are to iscard their fundamental idea of tae liberty f the individual and freedom of t: ou.Iht ad action by refusing to recognize as mem ers of thtir paty those men who have al rays fought its baties ir. the past, but who a the present betieve that some of its poli ies are not the policies of the true Demo racy is a progressive party. 1I progressed s no (ther party ever has cone and the na ion prospered Dy reason of its witdvm and Ls adminl;tralion of pubic affairs. It can ot prusper if it is to oppose the! extensiown F our foreign trade, the creaon of new araeta, the upounding ot our commre cial uid industriat in erests, and the feedom ~f the individual. If the Repub.ioan party, he record of which shows it to have been a >arty forbidding the free exercise of speech, oncentrating the wea'th ol the country in he ha ds of a few, burdeaing the peopte by xcessive taxation, and c nducting public ffatrs for the benefit of private citizens; if hat party is to be allowed to turn its back tpon its record and adopting the progressive eatures ot the Democracy, become the party if progress, then the Democratic party hay ng adowed it opponent to appropriate its >rinciples can no longr :ive. I believe that the Democratic party does tot exist for the mere purpose ot opposing rhatever the Republican party may enggest. . believe that it lives as it has lived in times >ast for the purpose of adopting that which aright and discarding that which is wrong .nd conducting the affairs of State so as to make all men equal under the law. (Senator MvcLaurin d wells at length upon he money question and its interest does not rarrant giving full space in these columns.) He says in part: There is not a line in any Democratic latform fixing the ration of silver and gold rior to 1896. There is not a line in any tepublican platform advocating or opposing he ratio of 16 to 1 or any ratio. There rere strong men in the Democratic party in avor of the free coinage of silver; there were trong men in the Republican party in favor f the free coinage of silver. The Republi an party adopted the first free coinage plat orm. Although silver was demon~tized by lepublican legislation in 1873, the only ob ec ion to that act made prior to 1896 came rem the Republicans who had passed the nintage act under which silver was demoni ised. What did these men find when they 'eached Kansas City? They fcund western telegations in which not a single man had >een a Democrat in 1892. These men de nanded a reiteration of the 16 to 1 plank of he Chicago platform. The proposition was nade to them that they could have both tandidates, and diey could have any planks hey wanted which are not socialistic or an ~rchistic and all the Democrats asked vas hat thei party be preserved by maintaining ts reputation as a safe and conservative or anipation. John W. Daniel of Virginia, as horough a believer in the free coinage of iver as any man in his party and one of he grandest characters in the United States senate, worked like a beaver day and night o try to convince these western delegates hsat their policy was suicidal. Governor smith of Marland told them that the Demo trats could carry Maryland without that lank and could not carry Maryland with The old line Democrats declined to be Iriven from their party by a man who dun ng ten years of political life had been a Democrat, a Populist, and a socialist. [ he >nly ofiice waich William J. Bryan ever ie'd he was elected to by the Populists, it :eing impossible for the Democrats to secure in election in that district He acted with he Democrats in congress, but distinctly tated that he was not bound by a Democratic pat form. Senator McTaurin qtuotes the congressional lirectory to show that Charles A. Townte, idvocated by Bryan for vice president, aerer ran for office unt 1 elected to the F'if :y fourth congress as a Repub:ican, against Mlelvin 11. Baldwin, Democrat, and Katel Elalvorson, P'opulist. When a pa~ty of nien are willing to see :heir party go down in defeat in ordler that yne issue may be :taintained they either be jeve that this issue lies at the v'ery founda ion of all government, or else they have tome ulterior motive. Tiae south produces no buion. It would aave no need for maintaining a reserve in he east such as would be created for the oenefit of the west by tae bullion. All of its contracts woull be gold con :racts. For all of its money it would be de' pendent upon the east and be conpelled to ~.ywhatever rates the eastern banks saw fit to charge. Then a part of the sam~e scheme was to prevent the Democratic policy of the repeal of the tax upon State banks. in order to prevent the southern States froi having auy circulation medium wbamever for loc Il purposes. The west would h-tve its silver as a babis for obtaining the gold anl the e ist would control the gold, t' - south would be prevented ;ram even hwing paper, and Would be ut.Ler the atsolute au. complete tnd perfect control of the east ant west. When I ma-le a fight in the liuse for the re pest of the 10 par cent. t:a. Me B:-yaa voted againbt it, and I irvite your atteutioa to his utterance at this time, which full- cunfirm what I say. Congressman Batley, of Tuies, one of the ablest :nen in the Unitea States, ca-led my attentio:1 to thiss nister attitude of Mr. Bryan at the time. The trouble with the southlhas always been its clinging to traditions and its lack of prac tical wisdom, in p;-evenring the other sections from imposing upon them by underhand means. The soutli is solidly Democratic, for nowhere in the wirld is there a greater love for freedom of speech, liberty of thought and action and absolute justic%, which are tre foundation stonei of the Democratic party. But the'y were asleep in 189 i and 19-.0 and totally ignorant of the reasons for this new issue being forced. upon them. It was in the Democratic platform and they therefore voted for it. Now it behoo res them to consider why it was in that platfrom, and they will learn, that instead of being Democratic it, was a counterfeit to be spurned and cast aside. The south should now take advantage of the fact that it controls the Democratic party and see to it, that those principles of justice and equality which lie at the rounda-ion of Democracy are not again departed from and that no scheme for the enrichment of any section, for the benefit of any o:ner section, shall ever again be incorporated iato a Democratic platform. Yours rcpectfully, John Lowndes McLaurin. TILLMAN TO THE GOVE RNOR He Writes a Caustic Letter Scoring XcLaurin. Senator Tillman writing from Tren ton, June 5, says to the governor: Dear Sir: .I am in receipt of your telegram in which you say, "I under stand Senator MeLaurin's letter to be a withdrawal of his resignation," and I have read that wortbv's communica tion in which he graciously consents at your request "to hold on to his com mission as United States senator and continue to serve the State as he ha done in the past to the best of his abili ty," This leaves me one of three alter. natives. To appeal to the Democratic executive committee to take the mat ter up and determine what the best interest of the party requires to be done, to appeal to the senate itEelf to determine the question as to whether a resignation from that body, to take effect at some future time is binding, or witharaw my own resignation. There are no precedents on this bubi :ct be cause in the hundred and twenty five years of our national life, with more than 200 rezignsions from the benate, no senator has hitnerto been widing to occupy the despicaoie at.itule now as sumed by Senator McLaura, and iore ed on me. I am certain or one thing: that the executive of a Sk-ate has no Lu.nority to deciiae a r igaion that has been teraidered, an I am LquaLy certsin that nad yur exc..:ency co. flied your action wihaz iegal rcoust LhAt your appointecs wou.d .je seateeu in tne sen.ate wLaen that Oxry meeto u tne iesitniature oineu.d ac,. in J auary My enief regret is taa 1 asia redo yoar action wo eig-.g ini what the out side woria wiul ceninu<.r a gam eof opera boge by waharawnLg 1iy own remis nation atber 'berator McLauna aa un digndfied and puerile naaen: nut tat purpose for wiaca it was tnee has been thmrtud b, S.enator Mu. Laurin's precipisous acc-eptane oL 6x ecuuive atrvi. .Bjb Aeio. has been ouwdone for OLce. As I have already said I had no motive or purp~se in re sigeing except to force Me Lau:in's, sna there is nothing for me to do :jut ac cept the situation and withchraw my own resignation, if it be iaw'ul to do so. Yours respecftfuiiv,. B. R. Tillman A Plucky Woman. For the first time in the history ci the Iowa State University, a girl attadent, Miss Carolyn Jarvis of Barlington, has been awarded a medal for bravery. A number of students were canoeing on the river near Crallville, when a strong wind capsized the canoe in which Miss Jarvis and R. M. Fagan were riding. Miss Jarvis' dress caught on the rail of the canoe, and she was unable to get loose. Mr. Fagan, being unable to swini was obliged to cling to the capsized canoe. The nearest shore was fully 150 feet away; the girl pluckily sttrack out towing the capsized canoe with Fa gan clinging to it, and after a hard struggle reached the land in safety. A Mysterious Affair. Jemies McAllhster, a liquor merchant of Jacrsonville, Fla., was killed Wed nesday at the home of I. H. West, 737 Talleyrand avenue, while in a scaffde with Mrs. West. Mei.llister boa::ded with the Wests. Mrs. West claims that she took McAllister's pistol from his dresser, and McAllister, fearing that she contemplated suicide, 'ried to wrer'ch it from her, and that in the scumi the pistol fell to the floor, was disenarged, the ball entering MclAllis ter's abdomen producing death. The aff air is a mysterious one. McAllister was from Charleston, where he had con siderable property. A Direful Prediction. Senator Tillman has received a letter from Athelston Gaston, of Meadville, Penn., a Democratic cor~gressman, in which he says: "As a Democrat and sincere admir'er, I beg of you to not insist upon rcsigning your seat in the United States senate. I believe if a contest was waged in your State that a Republican cor rupticnfand would be poured into ' our Stase that would be appallit g in its efice's and you m?ight go down oefore it. Se what Hanna has done in Nebreaa, in .DAkota, ir. Washington, aod in o her States. Help kill McLaurin but stick to yoar seat, sir; stick to it. IHeavy Snow. Snow fell heasiuy Taureday thro-ugh cut the central and nor.mra porins of North Dakota. A somilar state of, I ffairs is reparted ic towns on te Jamestown Northeurn r:,ilmad. The habitants cannot recall asimila occur renee in .Tnne A WORD IN REPLY To Senator McL4urin's Letter to Mr. Clayton. EVADED QUESTIONS ASKE.O. McLaurin Does Not Attempt to Deny that He Supports Re publ can Policies and Thus Evades. The following answer to the letter of Senator McLaurin was the leadiag edi torial in The State of last Thuriiday. It presents the other side of the ques tion and will repay perusal. The 3tate says: Senator McLaurin's reply to Mr. Clayton's letter is a vcry clear Fvasion. He pretends to show that the Republi can policies of today, wich MoLaurin supports, are in accord with the f inda mental principles of Democracy, b-it in stead of proving that proposition which would be impossible-the senator reviews none too accurately the history of the parties up to the time of the Civil War, and from that point jimps to the declaration that the south is in tolerant and should become liberal-by which he may mean that the south is Democratic and should become Bepub lican. The contest between Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian ideas is an historica. fact for the discovery of which Mr. McLau rin can claira no credit. He can, how ever, receive the greatest measu.re of praise if he will prove that the Repub licanism of today is in accord wibh the Jeffersonianism of a century ago and that the Democracy of 1901 is ia line with the Federalist doctrines advanced by Hamilton. This he canDot d,). Mr. McLaurin knows wdll enough th at the R-publican party now stands for a strong national government, centraliza tion of power, a large standing army and special favors to classes through tariff protection and subsidies to cor pcrations. The Demooracy of Bryan opposes all these, just as the Demoo racy of Jefferson opposed them. It would be foolish to assert that the Democratic party has been right at all times and in every position it has taken, but it is true and cannot be con tradicted that the Democratic party has always stood for the rights of the peo ple as against class priviliges. And today the only hope for the preserva tion of true republicanism is off 3red by vnd through the Democratic party. Militarism, congressional absolutism, olonialism and favoritism are s. few of he "isms" not monopolized by the Democrats which threaten to obliterate he ideas of Jefferson and to set; up in ,eir stead the theories of Alexander Rlmilton. Azainst these the Demo :rats are arrayed. He w o is not for as is against us, and though every Ameriern citzan has the right to take iier sid -, the secret serviis of Re ablicanism in tho ranks of Dpmocracy Ls esteemed despicable and dizhonesr reachery. And, sa to say, ti at is the i~-e brought agaiast John L andes lL sriu, a senator from the 8mate of outar Carohlns! Mr. MlcLiurin does not attempt to ~eny that he supports Republican pol ees. That is where he evaded Mr. jiayton's pointed question. Instead of aswering, he discants, as we have ~aid, upon the differeno. s which have o long distinguished the two great arties and then proceeds to assail the idomn of the Demaooratio alliaince with he Populists of the west. The force f Mr. McL aurin's attack at this point s nullified by the recollection that at he time when the southern Demo ~rats were smarting under the leader *- f Grover Cleveland, then sus - i and afterwards proved guilty of treachery, Mr. McL:.urin was noteager for that same western alli ne. He even went so far as to swal ow the Ocala platform without any ~ugar coating and was almost as vigi ant as "Brave Ben".himself in seeking hat elusive "light out of the west." If he Ocala demands were not Populism, what were they? If Bryan was not a emocrat in 1q92, what was Mo Laurin? Did not the Ocah,. demands ledge their adherents not to recognize he authority of the party ocucus? The statement that "the only offies which William J. Bryan ever held he was elected to by the Populists" is a erversion of facts unworthy a lover of the truth. It is well known that Mr. Bryan was eleo!:ed to congress as he Demooratic candidate in a strong Republican district by the combined apport of Desmocaats and Populists lhe "fusion" between Derr.oorats and Populists in certain western States of which Nebraska is one is necessary to eep the Republicans from outrol and s a policy of the party it has been ap roved by Democrats of ev ery variety rom Grover Cleveland to B en Tillman. But these false assertions and intima tions regarding the man who has twice een nominated as the Democratic residential candidate and who as such last time recived the largest popular ote ever given a Democratic csadidate how just what irind of De:noorat John [L McLaurin has become. As late as 897, when he was a candidate for the enate, he professed allegiance not only o the Chicago platform of 1896 in full ut to the leadcrehip of Bryan as well. ow he sets himself up as a critic of Bryan and the whole Democratic party s at present constituted, but we do not hink the Democrats of 8tuth Carolina will take political lessons from one who n turn bas been anti-Tillmanite, Till aite, Ocalaite, Brsanite and Fortyite rd is now a McKinleyite and Hanna Mr. McL iurin says a gcood deal about free silver and some of it is true.. It is true, for instance, that up to the last ampaign both parties hal always pro essd to support tbe principle of bimetallism. It is only recently that the Republicans have cone out equare y for the single gold standard. Until this submission to the demands of the mney-interests, the Republicans had avowed themselvee bimetallists. The sicerity of their profession being douted by the real friends of that ceonmi: principle th, Democratic pary cane to be lookeL upon as the real deiendar of the true faith. Hence wen the Denocratic party now de ars hitl fnarahle to the principle of bimetallism, it is merely advocating a policy so distinctively American that neither party has opposed it until the last few years. That is what Mr. Mo Laurin proves by his wandering re marks on free silver and that is all any body can prove. But do we under stand Mr. McLaurin to repudiate bi metallism? Is this another great change within four years? Mr. McLaurin dwells at length on the era of almost continuous Demo cratic rule from Jefferson to Lincoln. That the Democratic party was largely responsible for the almost miraculous growth and progress of the country during that time is well ests,blished But who controlled the party then? The Democrats of the south. Yet Mc Lturin in the very next breath tells us that "the trouble with the south has always been i's clinging to tLaditions and its lack of practical wisdoz, inpre venting the other sections from impos ing upon them by underhand means!" In one sentence the south's policy is lauded; in another it is condemned. This is McLaurins's argument for his "Commercial Democracy 1" For every time that McLaurin can quote John C. Calhoun in favor of a protective tariff we can quote Calhoun one hundred times against protection. Calhoun, the great exponent of Jeffer sonian Democracy, steadfastly fought the very tendencies which the Demo racy is fighting today. The best ef forts of his useful life were devoted to this cause. To pretend that he would favor the policies for which McKinley and Eanna now stand is to grossly mis represent the great interpreter of the constitution. This analysis of Senator McLaurin's letter is perhaps already longer than its importance warrants. Still, if McL surin is to preach his heresies from one end of South Carolina te t!s other, it is incumbent upon true Democrats to point out the fallacies and the false hoods he is disseminating in order that his misstatements may not lead astray the unwary. This must be the excuse for any notice given his ineffectual efforts. But the desire of his constitutents, as expressed by Mr. Clayton, is not for Senator McLaurin to instruct them in political history. What they want him to do is to exrplain wherein his present position is different from that of the Republican -arty of today aind of the last century. That was the point of Mr. Clayton's question and that is the point Mr. McLaurin has evaded. 'LAURIN MAKES A PROPOSITION Which Tillman Says Is Too Puerile to be Noticed. The following appeared in The State of Thursnay morning last: Senator McLaurin passed through the city Wednesday afternoon on his way from Bennettsville to Newberry, where he widl speak Thursday. On the train w-th him was Mr. M. A. Teague of the Baltimore American, to whom SBnator McLaurin gave an lterview in which he spoke very bitterly of Senator Tillman, and stated that if illman would tender to the governor an urc~nditional resignation of his office, he, McLiurin, would consider LAid a direct c'iallenge to himself and wouli resga ha seat atd enter the cantast for S:iator Tujiman's position. WHAT TILLMA&N SAYS. The Rack Hilt correspondent of The State writes as follows to his paper un er date of June 6: Sen itor Tillman was not to be seen today until the Winthrop boaad adjourned for dinner t 2 o'clcek. He da~d not seem inclined o notice the interview with Senator eLaurin, appearing in The State of his morning. Hie considers the stand which Mc:Laurin takes to be so puerile s to be iseneath notice and feels that t would not be dignified in him to re ply to it atsil. After talking on other ubjects and evidently meditating upon his, he again stated that after think ng it over he did not feel that he had ny answer at all to make to it. The iterview, he says, comes in too round bout a way to take as a challenge and he considers that the action taken at affney covered the whole situation. here ne met his opponent's quibbles s to the form of the paper sent to the overnor and gave what he considered n unqualified resignation. At Gaff ey he forced McLaurin to "jump over oard" with him believing that he coRld make land and that McL aurin ould not." "It seems," said he, "that MSweeney has thrown him a rope and auled him in, though the matter eeas to have been arranged by mu ual friends, and while I do not mean o charge Gov. McSweeney with sin ster motives, he has been unduly in ineced and has transcended his au hority." When asked if he thought here was a possibility of the junior enator taking the initiative in this atter and sending in his resignation first, Senator Tillman hooted at the dea, saying that after having turned ail an~d run before, that would be boy's lay in McLaurin. A Fierce Ba~ttle. L~rd Kitchener, in a dispatch from Pretoria, dated June 4, says: "Dixon's eport of the fighting at Vlakfontein, 0 miles from Johannesburg, May 29, ust received. On our side, 1,450 m'en ith seven guns were engaged. The orce ivas returning to camp at Vflak fontein when the enemy under cover of veldt fire, rushed the rear guard, con isting of two guns of the 28th battery nd 380 men of the Derbyshires and Yeomanry. They temporarily captured he twro guns. When the remainder of the force came into action the Boers were driven off, the guns were recap ured and the Boer position was oc cpied. Our caualties were six officers ad 51 men killed, six officers and 115 men wounded and one offiser and seven men missing. One officer and four men have since died of wounds. Forty-one Boer's were killed on the ground. The arther Boer casualties are not known. Reinforcements are being sent. Prices for Counties. Director General Averill of the ex position company returned Saturday morning from Columbia, where Friday he attended a meeting of the exposi tion commission. The meeting was a mot successful one. The commission decided to give three prizes for the three counties making the best exhibits, $1,000 to tbe county having the best exaioiL, $500 to the county having the second best exhibit, and $250 for the third best. A FEDERAL SOLDIER - Whose Resentment Died With the Last Shot He Fired. To the editor of The Sunday News: Major W. L. Glaze, one of the delegates of the Southern Camp of Woodmen of the World, returned recently from a most interesting trip to Columbus, Ohio. The journey began its interest as he reached Richmond, passing over historic battlefields, then, going by the Chesa peake and Ohio, he ran up the valley to Kenova, W. Va., thence through Sciota Valley to Columbus. There was a pause as he stood at Tre villian Station. Here, in the great cav alry fight of June 11 and 12, 1864, the father of Major Glaze gave his life for the Confederacy. Thesonrealizedfor the first time the sacredness of this glorious battlefield. The popularity of the Ordr of Woodmen brought together represen tatives from every part of the country and the beautiful and timely proposition came from them that the Confederate graves at Camp Chase should be decor ated. The suggestion was made known to Col. Knaus, an ex-officer of the Union army, (who has undertaken to keep up this Confederate cemetery.) He joined heartily in the project; nos only so, but led the Southerners to the graves at Camp Chase. This act was a strong bond of union and lefts its due weight. A large attendance from the country around witnessed the proceedings. H. F. Simrall, a young Mississippian, presided at the services. First a prayer was offered by the Rev. J. E. Watts, of Mississippi, then an address by D. E. Bradshaw of Arkansas. Mr. Will T. Collier, of Vicksburg,' followed; then was sung above the sleeping dead of the South "Nearer, My God, to Thee," led by the Woodmen. Mr.' Morris Shepard, of Texas, and Ben Craveess, of Arkansas, made addresses, after which "Asleep in Jesus" was sung by the audience. This was followed by ad dresses from H. Pinckney Wells of Louisiana, and Col. Knaus of Colum bus,'Ohio. Messrs E.' B. Lewis spoke for North Carolina, J. E. Fitzgerald for Missouri and Major W. L. Glaze for South Carolina. The occasion heightened to enthusi asm when Col Edmundson, of Georgia, an Ex-Confederate, and Col. Knaus, an Ex- Federal, took the platform and clasped hands. Amid greatest applause the climax of brotherhood was reached. Flowers were piled on the great memo rial rock which marks the sacred spot. "2,260 Confederate soldiers of the war of 1861-1865 buried in this enclosure" is inscribed thereon, and above is the patriotic, manly inscription, "These are Americans." Col. Knaus presented a silken nation al flag amid great applause, and the de lightful execreises ended with "Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow." The Rev. Mr. Smith, of the Grand Army, dismissed the audience with a truly eloquent prayer. Camp Chase is five miles from Colum bus and is properly a city suburb. Two thousand, two hundrcd and sixty Con federates who died in prison were buried here, of these eighty five were from South Carolina. When Er Presi dent Hayes was Governor of Ohio he was pained to see this burial spot ne glected. He personally gave for ssveral months $20 at his own expense to put it in better shape. Governor Foraker con tinued the good cause until an appropria tion of $6 000 was secured to surround it with a wall and keep it in fine condi tion. A beautiful incident is that ten years sgo Col. Knaus personally assumted the care of this ground. With a -:ommittee of nineteen ladies and gentlemen there is an annual decoration on the 20th of June of these Confederate graves. These exercises are exciting public fa vor and crowds attend every decoration. Col. Knaus is now planting trees, some of whiah are from the South, in the en closure, and is beautifying the spot with flowers and shrubbery. He has a great heart, as he had a stout arm during the war. He fought as a soldier and a! an American he recognizes liberty of thought, especially when it is expressed in patriotic graves. Our young Southerners will long remember their visit to Camp Chase, and especially in meeting the brave old Federal Col. Knaus. J. A. H. Orangeburg, May 29. Desperate Bobbers. A dispatch from Toronto Canada, says of the three men, Fred Lee Rice, Thomas Jones and Frank Rutledge', extradited from Chicago to stand trial f r the robbery of a bank in Aurora, Ont., Rice is the cnly living survivor to serve out the 21 years imprisonment to which he was sentenced Friday morn-1 ing. Two tragedies have put Jones and Rutledge beyond the reach of law. Jones died from bullet wounds received in a desperate attempt to escape from the officers who were transferring the prisoners from the court house to the jail last Tuesday and Rutledge com mitted suicide Friday by jumping from the gallery in the jail to the stone court below. The first tragedy which startled the citizens of the city was the daring1 attempt made by the three prisoners to escape from the constables on Tuesday night. While the carriage containing Rice, Jones and Rutledge and two con stables was proceeding from the court house to the jail an accomplice threw three revolvers through the cab window. The desperadoes evidently were expect ing outside help for they acted prompt ly. Securing possession of the three revolvers the three men opened fire upon the constables. County Con-1 stable Boyd was shot and killed. The officers returned the fire and Jones was wounded in the groin and arm. HeJ died at the hospital. A street car con- 1 ductor, whose car the burglars attempt ed to board, struck Rutledge over the head with a piece of iron, knocking him senseless. Rice surrendered. Fri-. day Rice and Rutledge were sent- 1 enced to 21 years imprisonment in Kingston penitentiary. Rutledge was being taken with another prisoner in charge of one of the jail guards to din- I ner about 3 o'clock. Suddenly he made a dash and springing up the stair way mounted to the gallery running around inside of the jail, 30 feet from the floor. Climbing over the railing Rutledge jumped. He fell headfore- 1 most on the stone floor fracturing his 1 skull. He was immediately taken to the hospital where he died without regain ing cnsciousness. THE GOVERNOR'S REPLY To the Letter Wrote Him by Senatoz Tillman. Following is a copy of the letters sent to Senator Tiliman by Governoi McSweeney: Sir: Your letter of June Isthas beer received. I have carefully noted its contents and the most charitable view which I can take of it is that it was written in the heat of passion and with out due consideration. I note that you say that I have "tran scended" my authority and that the governor "can not compel a member of the United States senite to hold his commission and exercise the functions of that office if he chooses to surrender it," and that you "decline for the pre sent to withdraw" your resignation. Had you read carefully my letter ad dressed to you and to Senator McLau rin, you must have seen that I did not express any desire to "compel a mem ber of the United States senate to hold his commission and exercise the fune tions of that office," if he choose to sur render it. My sole purpose in returning the resignations was to ask you gentle men to consider calmly and thought fully the consequnces to the people of what I judged to be a hasty act, and I must confess that I am somewhat surprised at the tone of your answer to my request. I consider the course which I took in this matter to be for the best interests of the people of South Carolina, and I am responsible to them alone for my action. And, furthermore, I still believe that my course has met the approval of a majority of the citizens of the State, nor do I consider them "un thinking citizens," but men who know and recognize as fully as any people en earth the rights and duties and re sponsibilities of citizenship, and do not need the services of any one to tell them their duty. You insinuated that I have been "im portuned" to "await the convenience' of any prosent or would-be aspirants who "are not just yet ready for various reasons to enter the contest brought on so unexpectedly" and that for this rea son my action has taken the direction it has, is unworthy of a man holding the high commission which has been given you by the people of South Car olina, and deserves notice in this con nection. However, I may say for your benefit that I alone am responsible for my reply and will give account for the course I have taken to the people who honored me and not to any one indi vidual. In this matter I have done what I thought best calculated to promote the present prosperity and contentment of the people of my State, and shall con tinue to do so regardless of what any one man may say or think of my course. I did not think that a political campaign this summer could do any good. However, had the resignations been unconditional and unrestricted, my action might have been otherwise. With due respect for your opinion, I think I have as nigh "concepion of the dffie of senator and -its powvrs" as ou or any other ciazea of this b;atu, ana you must have keown tnat the brief inteiview to which you refer meant that I would simply meet rthe re spons10ility and perform my duty un aer the condition~s. If you swki vislh to resign your com mission and will send to this offico an unconaitional resignation, I wdil exer cise the authority and power vested in me by the peopie. Respectfully, M. B. MeSiveeney. JECLhU.AIN AND THE CAUOUS. Was Not in Line With Party on Political Questions. "Chairman Jones made a statement to the caucus to the effect that he had approached Mr. MicLaurin, of Soutli Carolina, and inquired whether it was his wish to participate in future in the Democratic caucuses of the senate and Mr. McLaurin had answered that he was not in line with the party on poli tical questions and did not desire to take part in its caucuses." The above is an extract from the minutes of the Democratic caucus, or the organisation of the Democrats of the United States Senate. Senator Till man has given the extract for publica tion in connection with a letter from Senator Ei. W. Carmack, of Tennessee, secretary of the caucus, who writes to Senator Tillman: Dear Sir: Some time ago I read an interview or statement of MeL iurin in some newspaper in which he made a qualified denial of the charge that he had refused to take part in the Demo ratic caucus. I was elected secre tary, and I enclose you an extract from the minutes. Senator Jones had called to see him just before the holding of a caucus during the extra sessions of the senate to know if he wished to take part. This caucus, you know, related wholly to matters of organisation, etc., and did not involve any of the ques tions on which MicLaurin claimed not to-be in accord with his party. So that there was no reason why he should not have attenaed if he still claimed to be a Democrat.-The State. Jumped to His Death. Dr. Thomas Bond, a well known sur geon and analysist, committed suicide Friday by throwing himself from the third-story window of his residence in L~ndon. He has been suffer-ng from melancholia for some time. Dr. .Pond, besides being the late Mr. Gladstone's surgeon, was noted in connection with inevtigations and discoveries in the cases of several sensational crimes, not ably the Lafroy, Lamson and Camp murders. No Objection if It Pays. Gjen. Bates says that we continue to pay money to the Sultan of Jolo to keep him in good humor just as the Spaniards did, but that we get much better returns for our expenditures. As long as we continue to get good returns from our permission of slavery and polygamy in Sala the Sultan is safe. It was only when the North ceased to get returns from slavery in its midst that it bean the crusade against the South. EATEN BY SHARKS. That Seems to Have Been the Fate of the Fishermen, LOST OFF CHARLESTON BAR A Horribly Mutilated Arm of a Negro Man Taken From the Stomach of a Monster. The News and Courier says the left arm of negro man, horribly mutilated and mangled, was out Wednesday from the stomach of a ten-foot shark, which was captured after a desperate struggle by the crew of the light ship. The arm was undoubtedly that of one of the fifteen fishermen lost in the squall of the Eastern Patches recently. When brought to the city by the fish ing smack Victoria and delivered to Coroner Vaughn the lacerated limb was examined closely by the fishermen who escaped the storm, but there was no mark or sign by which it conid be iden tified. The negro was probably dead when his body was seized by the sharm With this latest discovery at the light ship the evidence is almost con lusive that the crews aboard the three fishing boats were drowned. The seaching parties which went to sea Saturday and Sunday came back with stories of the numerous sharks seen skirting the waters and apparently hunting for prey. These rapacious monsters seemed to have detected an odor of death and many of them fol lowed the boats doggedly. They splashed through the waves, darted back and forth, and followed water trails which might have been leading to where bodies were afloat. Two of the boats which managed to escape the fury of the storm pulled to ward the light ship and remained there Friday night. The sharks had followed at a distance. They returned toward the Patches, but earlp Saturday morning they were seen again, wandering aim esly through the water and eagerly searching for hidden, ghoulish food. The men aboard the light ship cast out a line, but without inaking a capture, and the sharks disappeared. They ap peared again at intervals, and then rushed away. Tuesday, however, sev ral of the ten-foot monsters swam near the light ship and in the afternoon sev ral of the men on board let down a ope line on which had been attached a irong hook. The bait was supplied. )ne shark dived playfully about the xook, jerked at the bait and then dis ippeared. He came back again and eemed bolder. All at once he opened bis big jaws, took in the hook, and tarted away with the prize. When ,he rope was hauled in taut the monster ;quirmed and fought. The men hold ing the line were experts at shark fish Eng, however, and they let the rope usak off and by the peculiar twisting mnown only to the experts gave the ihark a big jerk which caused his big nouth to open for gallons of salt water o pour in. After this had been repeat id once or twece the monster beesme troggy, although he was still fighting riciously and slapping at the boat, vhile his eyes giared with anger. He law the desperate situation and tried iard to escape. But the line was rawn in more and more, finally, when rak and whipped, the shark was drag ei on deck, and lay there twitching md dying. Quick work by the crew rnded his existence. The light ship crew had suspected hat the sharks were out prospecting or the dead fishermen and it was do ided to rip the stomach open to see if 12e monster captured had feasted on he unfortunates. Long knives were orced into the tough meat and he flesh was torn apart. After dig ~ing for the stomach the crew :pull d out a strange object, which proved n a closer examination to be the arm fa man. The carcass was removed ~nd the arm was preserved. When the ishing smack Victoria hove in sight arly Wednesday she was signalled from he light ship and turned her course ear in. Capt Abram Gray, in com nand of the smack, was deputizsd to >ring the arm to the city. They Come High. The Ne wport Moraing News says the reight on the $20,000 cargo of coal hich will be shipped from Norfolk by he government to Manila will be $60, P00, or three times the value of the el that the British steamship Ataka rll take to the fleet in the Philip >ines. That is a slight indication of he beauty of holding those islands and >f running the subjugating business at hat distance. There is neither glory or profit in it for the country, but the yndicates must have it. Eight Miners Killed. By the Explosion of a quantity of owder and the suffocating fumes that ollowed eight men were killed in the eventh level of the Ludington shaft of he Chapin mine. Suddenly there as a rumble and smoke began pouring romn the mouth of the shaft. Resen rs huried in to the mines as soon as the moke cleared sufficiently and found ight miners dead. The cause of the xplosion has not yet been determined. Ray and Roy. Ray and Roy Burgebs are two re narkable twin brothers lately living in Luburn, N. Y. They are seventeen rears old, 5 feet 9 inches in height, eigh 144 pounds each and are so much like that Roy has immigrated to Keene, i. H. to acquire identity. Even the Bertilon measurements failed to dis inguish them, except by a few scars. Fishermen Lost. Five fishing boats which went on a ishing cruise in Iceland waters have een missing for two months atud are iow believed'to have foundered in a ale April 6. Their entire crews, num ering 117 men, are supposed to have erished, There is general mourning ite neighboring viltages. For Governor. It was officially announced Thursday hat Mr. M. R. Cooper would next year e a candidate for governor on the latformn of a rigid enforcement of the ispesary law. Mr. Cooper was a nember of the State board of control