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X MS I I I 1 :DIMANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, AIJGUS 4 91N.2 M'LAURIN'S REPLY To the Request to Resign His . Seat In the Senate. MEKES A GENERAL DEFENCE. He Regards the Action cf Com mittee as Ridiculous ard of No Legal Effect or Weight. Senator McLanrin replies as follows to the action of tl-e State Democratic Excotive committee: Paris Nourtair. 8, 0.. Aug-t 5ch, 1901. To the Democratic Ez-eu'ive Commit tee, State of South Csrolina. Gentlemen: The official notice of the action of a majority of your com mittee of July 25.h was received by me on August 1st, five days after it had been announced in the newspapers. This publish announcement was the first notice I had that any action affecting me was to be taken by your committee. I am now officially informed that the majority of your committee condemns my course in the senate, demands my resignation and undertakes to expel me from the Democratic party. Twenty one men have attempted, to usurb the powers of the 90,000 Demo3ratie voters of South Carolina and, as an incident, in a meeting called for another purpose, have hastily endeavored to do what can be done only by solemn proceeding of impeachment, expresslvnrovidcd for in the constitution of the U sited States. I hold my commision from the Damo cratic voters of South Carolina. I recognize no authority bat theirs, take no orders from any sourcs but them, and shall in due conute appeal to them for judgment on my coun e as a senat )r, and my character as a man and a Damo crat. Personally I am indifferent to your action because nobody has made you my master or censor, and I regard what you have done as merely expressing the malice and the fears of one individual, Senator B. R. Tillman. But for this always evil and indecent inflaence, ordinary respect fcr the proprieties, would probably have prevented the four of you who are my declared competi tors for the seat I now have the honor to occupy, from attempting to use the pox ar entrusted to you by your party to remove a rival from your path. As a citizen and Democrat of South Carolina, I am mortified by your action, because it has brought upon the State the condemnation and the ridicule of the press and public throughout the country. Unhappily, those who are not intimately acquainted with our con ditions accept the action of your ma jority as representing the intelligence and Democracy of our State and both are made objects of derision. Against this I wish to enter my solemn protest. I shall demonstrate how unfair, absurd undemocratic your actionis; ard I shall trast to the Democrats of South Caro lina to repudiate it when the oppor tunity is given them. Your purpose is to deny that opportunity. It is in strong contrast with th3 blatant boast of Senator Tillman at Gaffney to put me on trial before the party on the hustings with himsdlf as prosecutor. As you know, I sought that test by accepting a proposal of ap peal to the people, but the governor saw fit to forbid it. Now Senator Tillman appears as prosecutor against me in my absence and by proceedings like those of the star chamber, which was the most infamous trirouuai of .&ngilsh his tory, and the most abhorrent to Acglo Saxon instincts, seeks to exclude me from-party and its debates and public assemblages. It is your duty, as cus todians of the party interests, to seek recruit. and to strengthen the party. To save Senator Tilman from staking his recoid, strength and fortunes against mine, you undertake to exclude me and my friends from the party. What ever your individual motives may have been, the purport of your action is to facilhtate the senator in dodging me and to deny the people the opportunity of passing on my positions and c cnduct. It seems to me the Democratic masses of Scuth Carolina are competent to say at ahe polis whether or not I haave been a a fainhful senator and a consistent Democrat. Wny shoutd you attempt to prevent them? [t is no cause for wonder that Sena tor Tillman should seek to make poAiki cal assassins of you to avoid open and fair figut. He has e imoed to po.wer by venomous abuse of many of the purest men in the state who c pposed him, for which he has al. sys carefully shirked prsonal responsibilay, and on the po litical lives and fortunes of those who befriended him while he needed friends. Norris, Tindal and Donaldson, men representing earnest purpose and the interests of the farmers of the state, and, therefore, strong, were used by him to promote his own interests and then thrust aside. Irby, Shell and Farley died despising him because of his treachery to them and to the peo ple. I am now in his way, and becauee he has failed to strike me down, he in cites you to attempt to strangle me, and at the same time-to destroy a white primary, to his advocacy of which he owed much of the best of his early fol lowing. Party ir~neiples are fired, and to the principles of the Djmocratic party I have been uniformly faithful. Party policies are determined from time to time by party elections and conven tions and no man, nor body of men, has the power to say between these elee tions what policies shall be the tests of party loyalty. Senator Tillman is as suming the prerogative of supreme boss and dictator to say who shail or shall not no be regarded as a Dem cerat next year L.I do not concede any such pow er to nim nor to you. He, or all of your committee together. has not the power to exclude from candidacy nor the polls at the Democratic primary the humblest citizen of South Carolina who declares himself to be a Democrat and pledges himself to support the nomi nees. Suppose in 1890 the execuuive committee of the state had ruled out of the party all who engaged in the "Iar mers' movement?" Suppose two years later it had excluded aill who favored the sub-treasury idear Such action would have bee; unjust, tyranical and and Democrats, but not more so than this proceeding of yours. In his double character as prosecut ing witness and attorney against me, Seua:or Tillman is reported as saying before your commit-ee that I have voted with the Rtpublicans "in impor tant matters," and that he has seen me conferring with Rapabiioan senators. As I will show by the records, he him self frequently voted with the Repub licans in important matters," a: all other Democratic senators have done fre in time to time. It is frequently reee::sary proper and courteous to confer with members of the opposite party, as he knows and as every man of practical s: nse knows, These expressions of his are attempts to take advantage of cre dulity and ignorance. I do not tnick there is a man ii South Carolina so ig norant as to be reaily deceived by them. He cannot put me under suspicion as he has put himself by his own acts. I have not in publiccfficeretrograded fr )m a, perhaps, honorable bankruptcy to dis honorable ard unexplained wealth. He and I have drawn the same salaries, but 1 I have found it impossiole to save adol lar from mine. I nave never, however, truckled to corporations wita the fawn ing of a tamed spaniel, made speeches against them, then voted for them, and accepted favors as he has done. I have never been the sole boss and buying agent of a newly created whiskey trust, with its rebates of $60,000 to $70,000 a year, none of which ever reached the state treasury. I have never had the handling of a state bond refunding scheme with $28,000 of commissions never yet accounted for or explained. A year ago Senator Tillman went into North Dakota and made speeches advo cating the re election of a Republican senator, Mr. Pettigrew. Senator Tillman and this senator were prominent in pre venting, by fillibustering tactics, a vote 1 on the subsidy bill. Tae newspapers said that Mr. Hill, head of the Northern Pacific lobby against the subsidy bill, gave Senator Thlman's friend and asso ciate a "tip" which paid him $450,000 in the stock market. Birds of a feather, gentlemen of the committee, always flock together. Has Senator Tillman, prosecuting at torney against my Democracy, ever failed to abuse Democrats and Damon- I racy? Do you know that in the last two Damocratic national conventions he has supported the nomination of Repub licans? In 1896 he favored Senator Teller for president, an old line Repub lican and one of the bitterest foes of the South in reconstruction days. He had himself appeared before the con vention as a competitor of W. J. Bryan and been ignominously snowed under. In 1900 he was for Towne, also a Re publican for vice president. Is he the man to be supreme arbiter and judge of what is Democracy in South Carolina? In the senate I have labored, as the records will show, to broaden the pros- i perity of the country, to promote the i interests of my own people, to spread- I civilization, to enlarge and increase op portunity for our young men and to i stimulatte enterprise. His whole I political course and method have been to tear down, to abuse and oppose, to 1 blight and restrain, to bite where he I dared and to fawn where he feared or I sought favor. I shall ask the people to contrast the records and shall claim my right as a free man, a born and reared Democrat and a senator from South< Carolina, to do it regardless of the) ord~rs ot twenty-one members of the executive committee. I shall ask the people to decide between the man who has tried to- help cotton factories, open highways of commerce and to so com mand the Democratic party as command for it the confidene and respect of thei business and laboring elements Northi and South, and that of the man whose conduct and record has been to sink the1 party to disrepute and impotence, I shall ask them to say whether they pre fer the senator who has tried to retain for South Carolina the honor and dignity won by a lonag line of illustrous sons and glorious dleeds, or the senator who. has postured as buffoon and bully and who proclaimed on the floor of the sen ate that he represented a constituency of ballot box stuffers and murderers who wanted their share of the stealage. He is now in a northern state holding up our people as negro murderers and ballot box thievee. You have undertaken to c andemn and expel and depose me, not only without a hearing but wathout evidence. Upon what grounds are mey good faith as a senator and my fidenty as a Demiocrat assailed? Ii is on the tariff? None of you of the committee can prove to the people that the Democratic party is a nies trade party. It has opposed a tariff for protection only, but as early as 1797 we had a protective tariff, and we have never in the one hunared and four years sine known free trade. General Hancock, the party nominee for presi dent in 1880, regarded the tariff as a local question. Samarel J. R andall, for years the l aty leader and speaker of the house, was a protectionist. In every congress where the question has been presented numbers of Democrats have voted against and helped to kill free trade. I have contended that Southern products should be put on equality with others, and in 1897 I fought to have rice, pine lumber and cotton protected The .cry of "Republican"Lwas raised against me then, but the people, before whom the issue was squarely put, en dorsed me by an overwhelming vote. Are you now undertaking to reverse that verdict? I have favored ship subsidies. It is a great question and one, I submit, on which tnhe people of this state are competent to pass after hearing full argument. The subject has never been discussed before them, although it is of vast importance to the prosperity of this state. The purpose of the sub sidy is to develop the building and op eration of great fleets of American ships. It touches the interest of our sea ports, of our lumber industries, of all cur manufacturing enterprises and our great agricultural products. i: is a question on which some of the ablest Democrats of the house and senate are divided. I most hunmbly submit that it is not in order for twenty-one mem bers of your committee to rule that the Democratic masses of South Carolina shall Dot at their campaign meeting Ihear this matter of vital interest to them discussed; and that the people of the sea coast cities, who would like to see new tides of commerce brought to their harbors, and the lumbermen and own era of forest lands, who would be glad to sell material for more ships, are to be thrown neck and heels out of the p+rt beausea they favor.ship suhsidlie. Senators Carlise, Pugh and Morgan a noted for a subsidy bill, which has been n n force ten years, and which has helped r >ur Brazilian trade, in a measure at 'd east. Are they not Democrats, a eori- g .cg to the decision of Senator Tillman n mrd your committee? G I believe that it is our duty to de- r relop the new territory which has come into our possession along cammercial I Lad industrial lines, to civiaize them s md make them the equal of our own c: states in material prosperity. Seuator t riliman would leave them, after we i have deprived them of the protection i )f Spain, to a hopeless straggle ai an i ndependent nation without reso--rcs n yr self-protection. Fortunately for u= 1 f he records show that in building them a ip we are going to benefi: our own country. I Want to give that territory f he best fr3m of government in the t world; he does not want to give it any i orm of government at all. t He says "free silver or bust." I say p the American people have settled thnt a luestion r.t the ballot box. I am for a y ound curency and constant empl'y p nent for all who desire work at remun rative wages. This we cannot have I without an outlet for our surplus pro iuets on equal terms with ail of our c ompetitors in the markets of the world. s Do you think the energetic, live, pro t ressive young business men of the a south will long permit the cabals of a i: ew scheming politicians to stand be. b ween him and the attainment of these c loriousence? If this is not Demo b ,racy, then, gentlemen, I invite you to e join hands with me in making it so. t These are the leading questions on C which I understand my Democracy and y oyalty have been assailed. The re e sords give me little light as to what ; 1urther ground there m'y be for your b Lotion. Allow me to summarize them e yriefly. t In the first session of the fifty-fifth b ,ongress Senator Tillman and myself p toted together in 148 of 150 yea and e lay votes. o I voted against him for protection to t ,he farmers on an amendment to the f tarif bill, proposed by Senator Jonc s, of a rkansas, pres ,nt chairman of the b DeLocratic executive committee. Pos ;bly you may reconvene your cimmit- 1: ee and read him out of the party. I roted with Jones, Vest. Bacon, Bate, b Barry, Daniel, Mills, Morgan and all t the other Damoegats, except Senators a illmin and McEaery who voted with the Republicans. It was a straight , ,arty vote. On another amendment to h the same bill I voted with the Demo- C ,rats. Senator Tillman was the one e Democrat voting with the Republicans. See Congressional Record, vol. 30, page [577. In the second session of the same con t ress Senator Tillman and myself voted C ogether on 82 of 95 roll calls. One rote on which we diffred was on a t notion to adjourn intended to defeat a e esolution calling upon the president o intervene in Cuba Senator Tillman b noted with the Republicans to ai j urn h snd. the motion prevailed by one vote. voted with the Democrats. The c >ther votes on which we differed were mnimportant and not par:y questions, he parties dividing on a'l. I favored t he aooeptanne of the Hawaiaan Islands, dong with such Democrats as Gorman, Kyle, Money, Morgan, P'ettus and ullivan, and he, with the other Dam >rats and some Republicans were op ~osed to it. On page 4858, vol. 31 of the Record, t is shown that I voted, with .all the Dsmocrats but three and all the Re ,ublicans, for a bill to provide for arbi- C ration of disputes between railway c: xompanies and their employes. Sena- I or Tillman was one of the three against a t. We also differed on a bill prohibit- o og intoxicating liquors to be sold in he territory of Alaska. 1 favored and 'a ae opposed the prohibition. Possibly 5 se had views on a dispensary and re- n ates there. On a vote to recommit the confer- a moe report on the river and harbor bill n [ voted for the recommitment with such Democrats as Chilton, Heitfeldt, Ken- c 2ey, Mills, Rawlins and Turner. He i roted against with such Republicans as c llison, Burrows, Culiom, Davis, El- tr ins, Foraker, Hale, Hawley, Lodge, t Prkins, Platt and Quay.a In the first session of 56:h congress Senator Tilirnan and I voted together yn 67 out of 71 toll cilla. In each of the II Eur esses in which we differed the par-vy ies were divided. The most notale l f these was on the admission of Sis tor Quay. -I voted for it with Senators Daniel, Kenny, McEnery, Morgan and 'aliaferro, Democrats. He opposed lI with most of the Democrats and eleven 5 Republicans, including Hanna, Piatt, b 'oraker, Gallinger and Haje.8 In the last session of the same con- f ress Senator Tlillman and myself voted il tgether in most of the 57 votes taken, a On a rosloution requiring the presi- a :ent in ten days to issuc a proclamation 1: iclaiming any purpose to exercise a sovereignty over the Philippines I vet ed "nay" with Foster, Kyle, Lindsay, a Morgan and Sullivan, Democrats. Senator Tlmian was one of 22 e favoring it. On an amendment decisr- e ing that it was not the purpose of the c United States to exercise permanent a control over the Philippines, Senator s Tillman with most of the Democrats and Senator Hoar, Republican, voted j "aye." I, with Senators Foster and Lindsay, Democrats, voted "nay." ~ On tne final passage of the army bill ~ we differed. I voted for it and had with r me Senators Foster, Lindsay, Morgan e and Sullivan. We voted together for amendments extending the constitu tion of the United States over the i Philippines on strict party lines. On the question of governing our i outlaying possessions he and I voted ? together, and it is this that dctermnines i the matter of imperialism, not the poa 1 session of the territory. I voted to I take possession and rule justly. He t voted not to take possession, but to rule.c He and I voted together on all par-c ty questions except those concerning the Philippines, which my judgment, exercised as a senator and a representa tive of the people, told me was a ques tion of foreign relations, involving en-i tirely new problems, and, therefore, not properly a party question, and on whish my political judgment told me the country was practically united.I he Democratic party was wrecked by being forced in this matter into a policy opposed to its own traditious, and the overwhelming sentiment of the coun try, against my protest and that of other loyal Democrats. Developments have proved that those who maintained as impossible, that the people would ever accept our control, end that their stention would be unprofitable and ;ssstrcus, were wrong. I am ready to o before the people of South Carolina ad show them the facts. Do you un ertake to say that J must resign and at myself out of my party because I vored upholding the dignity of the meritan flag after its troops had been r d on, sad opposed a cowardly aban ,nment of the people of these islands chaos? Is the proposition to pun sh me because I did not believe Agu sa' do to be the equal of GSorge Wash :gton or concede that the Filipinos ;ud instantly and unguided organize >r themselves a stable government and high civilizition? I have been at some pains to show rom the recoris, by volume and pate, dat where Senator Tillman and I d: if :r 2 cingress it was not on party qde on; and that he voted with the Re ublians at least as often as I did, nd that in Every case where we di idd I ad with me Detoerats who ossess that confidenc. 'of the patty aroughout the country, and whose )emocray not even his reckless and indcrous insole n )e dare to assail. I ou:d go further and show other in tsnces in which he has voted against he great majority of his party and even gainst his own declarations-notably 2 the Platt amendment to the Cuban ill. He had declared his purpose to ppose and fight this to the last ditch; ut he voted for it. Some of his pres ot newspaper friends said at the time at he did it to curry favor with the harleston vote, hoping to trade the ex osition through. If that was the ase, he was the shallow victim of a olitical green goods game and sold imseif for sawdust. But I have said ccugh, I think, to prove to you, and ) the public that you-like many who ave risen and gone before you-have ermitted yourselves to be made tools f by Senator Tiilman, to promote his wn base and brutal ends and to pro et him from a struggle he fears to tce, because he knows that the facts nd arguments are all against him. His opa is to keep those facts and argu cents from the people of SJuth Caro na. Aeaept my condolence on the un appy and absurd situation into which his would be dictator has led you. 'ou may be assured that he will find a revica through which to crawl, leaving ou to stand the fire when it becomes ot, and that having used yeu he will Est you aside like many he has form ey used. I desire to proclaim to the world that ou do not represent the intelligence, 10 Damocracy or the people of South arolina; and to you and Senator Till tan that he has never been my mas !r and shall never be; that he shall not wape the vengeance that must surely di upon him when the people have sen made to understand his motives, is methods, his debased cheracter and is shameful record. To that grand )nservator of free government, the re :rved patriotism and common sense of ie people, I make appeal, against par san intolerance and tyranny. Very respectfully, Jno. Lowndes McLaurin. THE WEATHER AND CROPS. otton Contines to Improve, but Is 'Late and Remains Small. The follo win is the weekly bulletin f the condition of the weather and -ops in the State issued last week by irector Bauer of the South Carolina rtion of thc climate and crop service Ethe United States weather bureau: Theaverage temperature during the eek ending 8 a. in., Monday, August :h, was shbout normal, with a maxi tm of 102 dcgree at Tillors Ferry, ad a minimum of 64 degree at Cheraw ad Spaitanburg. There was nearly the ormai amount of sunshine. Beneficial and quite general rains cc arred ove:~ portions of the central and >wer Savannah valley and adjacent unties, and there were widely sc3t red showers over the remainder of se state, some of which were heavy nd were accompanied by damaging ail, in nsrow paths in Fairfioid Rich ad, Sumter, Orangeburg; Florence, rshaw and Marion counties. There ere also damaging high winds at a few cnts. A generai rain is needed, es ecilly for younig corn that in places is ifring from lsok of moisture. Gtton coninued to improve, ana yoks heaitay, but generalsv remains miil, is late, and has very few gr.)wn oils. A few localities report the plants rowing too much to weeds and not cu~ioig well, although generally cotton Smoderately well fruited. A little heddiog is reported, and some fields re infested with line and rust. On ght sandy soils growth has stopped, ad the plants are blooming to the top. ea island is doing well, but is dwarfed nd late. Corn barely held its previous week's ondition, except that in places young oin made somel improvement, and in hers has deteriorated for want of ioisture. A worm known as the corn ~alk-borer is doing much damage over e southeastera and central counties. oder is being stripped from old corn. Tobacco cutting and curing still pro ressing favorably, and is nearing comn ltion in localities. The early crop is oor, but late tobacco is doing well, ept that worms are numerous. Rice looks promising and is heading. weet potatoes are the most promis ag of all the minor crops; the earliest re about ready to market. Some white otatoes are being planted. Some peas ave been cut for forage; peas are poor placts and fine in otisex- Turnips eing sown. Peaches are worthless in any places, and generally rotting ex esively. Apples continue to drop. Inh hay being gathered along the ast and from river bottoms. Tea and offee plants are very promising. A Negro Under Bed. Last Thursday night Mrs. Patterson pent spent the night with her mother n law, Mrs. Miller, and during the ight she awoke and discovered that he light had been extinguished and he window opened. She called her nther-in law, who made a light in the comn, and there sticking from under h bed was a pair of large black feet. ['hey sliprped out of the rooms and Mrs. iler went for a neighbor, but Mrs. ?atterson could not bear the strain of eing left alone and she screamed out, 'rightening the negro away before help TILLMAN AT UNION. He Pours Hot Shot Into the Camp of the Commerc'alists. ADVICE TO THE WOMEN. Warns Cotton Mill Presidents and Pays R!spects to "Those Damnable Charges." The staff orrrespondent of The State furnishes the following speech of Sena r Tillman delivered at Uunion last Frida:~iien-tor Tillman said that as near as he could cskulate those who were hear had been listenirg to about 11 hours of speechmaking. "We were told two and one-half months ago that you did not want to be stirred up," he said, "You must be stirred up about something or you wouldn't be here. Voice-We wanted to hear Tillman. Tillman-That is quite a compliment. Thank you. Some time ago it was said they I couldn't get up a meeting in Anderson to hear him. N> such effort was made; i it was a story gotten up by some of F this new fangled Commercial Demoe racy press. I haven't been here in some years, but I am glad to come and i thank you for the honors given me. 1 He told something of life in Washing ton. He had become nauseated on eloquence. While he used t> love to 3 speak him;e'f, now he was like an old mule plonged six or eight years that his i lost his fire and spirit. He made 45 < speeches last year and had looked more i South Carolinians in the face than any man alive. He knew much about the georgraphy of his State. When he re fiseted they had heard all the speeches they had there was nothing left for him to say. The bone had not only been gnawed clean, but lieked white. He i would have to pick up the scraps and make the hash for them (Laughter,) < "and the best thing about it is the salt and pepper," he added. (Laughter.) I "You know I used to have a good sup ply of those condiments. We seem to i have a new issue bobbing up here. I would like to dress it, but the man who i raised it is not here. That is the wont I thing about it, for I don't like to fight i that way. I like to getin front of a man I and shake my fist in his face."(Applause < and laughter.) What is this issue? The 1 very first thing is Democracy. What < eonstitutes Democracy and who are Democrats? I go north some times- < and I do love to take my pitchfork and 1 stick it in and drive it home. (Laugh t ter.) The Republicans north will come i out to see what this animal looks like. (Laughter.) Now as to this new issue. 1 Have we any sinners here? I would I lice to know how many, if any, are here in doubt if they are Democrats or f not? Ti ose who are somewhat doubt- i ful as to what Democracy means? If t there are any honest doubters here- J those who see anything in this new e Democracy to make them thing they don't know where you are at, if so 1 please hold up your hands? ~ There was not a one. Tillman-Well, this is a manufac turing centre, where cotton manufac-. turing as expanded and the growth has been marvelous. Surely there I must be some one here who takes hold I of these new doctrines, but no one I holds up his hand. I believe I'll try I the other sid 3. A great many hands went up, but there were some that did not. Voie-They all go up. Tillman-No, not all. But may be when 1 put some more salt and pep per on their backs they will get a little more life in them. Senator Tillman went on to give his definition of Democracy which be said was that of Thomas Jefferson, the greatest exponent of Democracy. "Da mocracy is the government of the pee-i pie." flow then are the people to gov-] ern themselves? By means of the bal lot box. When the honestly cast bal- 1 lots are counted the man who gets thei majority must be the Epokesman of tne people. The people can't vote every week or month. Their will can only be expressed through those who are selected as spokesmen. These men once chosen they are bound fcr the term to which they are elected as the spokesman and agent of the people. He may represent ideas of his own, but he must subseive them to the wishes of the people. The will of the peoplej can be expressd in no other way. I1 want to impress juzst here the respon sibility of Lfhe individual voter. What a great thing it is to ha one of 90,000 and be able to select your agent to do your will. No water can rise higher than its source. If the spring is mu idy the stream will be muddy. Tierefore if the voter misuses his vote, allows some one to boss and direct him, how despicable a character he becomes. Fellow citizens, the time seems to be coming when the effort to coerce you will make you scratch your heads and therefore it is time for servants to face-the people and answers questions. This is the great value of our primary system. In England suffrage is lim ited; only proper:ty owners can vote. In other countries it is worse. Let's go to the other end. L at't go to the men you have elected to the senate and the! house. If you have your allegations as a voter, what of the men, your agents? Are they to sell the power they have had entrusted to themn; are they to trade it for patronage, to barter it so they can appoint some one postmaster at Greenville, Union or Columbia? You didn't give this power to them to usc far their own aggrandizement. I have tried as senator to always guard your interosts first and get my own step to the rear and a Democrat will do it always. It is a Republican1 doctrine that public office is a private snap, and the holder may use it for his own purposes. There lis no principle in it. Our government is such that, patterning after England, we have always had two great parties, with leaders representing well defined poli elos. Here Hamilton was on one side urging that only the wealthy property owner3 should have a voice. Jefferson stood for popular goverment, the only free government. Some people don't seem to ant free government any more. Chere are some people in our State now ining up, and buying up newspapers. yo .re 3 o a ready to say the people must ;ive way to these modern idea leaders, an vho want to look out after all interests? an Chey are not making much of a racket ret but perhaps like snakes in the grass vo h( y are sneaking around to sting you. sty Nhen you do catch them you are going gr o crush their heads. tie The Democratic party's doctrine is to foe each tie people and then trust them. ca: I have any told on you it is because kn have trusted you collectively. I have .ii blwavs been trusted and you have fol- th ow( d me; I'm not always right, but the ou have been with me. My proudest E1 >oast in Washington is tnat I rep- $2 'esent my people; that when I speak to :ou speak. When I feel that I have oat your confidence and respect then pu .m going home. And it is that sense f power-because I feel I do repre- C ent you-that maks me so sassy. wa Laughter,) It was that which made me th ast week go into Republican strong- to iolds in the northwest. It was aluxury to] o tell them to their teeth when they ge ktLi to discuss the race question pl+ hat they -iidn't know a blame thing th bout it. I told them that I woald be ead a mob to lynch a negro or any one oli Ilse guilty of - the criwe of rape and hey applauded me to the echo. Blood in a as thick up there as it ii here. dr I spoke of the fact that Uaion had wi nade great progress. I want to--iil m hat a few coaton factory men are be- M ind the story that this new doctrine f* a strong in these industries and in this ba section. I deny that. I know of some be nil presidents who are not. I give (L hem credit for having some sense and f they do try to coaroe yt a they will an utt a stone wall. I believe that you M vill stand to the principles of self ;overnment, because you love your re: -ights and will sustain them. I want to oh ;ive a word of warning to these catton ag nill men who have gone north and mi some back with these new ideas. There TI ire some of these weak people around, I< niybe they include one-half of these th ,ficers. When did cotton milling in $6 South Carolina begin to grow? In 1890 be ve had only a handful. It began when to 3eveland was in the White House. lei Did it owe Cleveland anything? I deny ali t. Since McKinley has come in the ti( nills continue to go up. The building lai if mills continue because it was dis- th covered that it was more profitable to yo uild and operate mills here than any- mi vhere else on earth. Then why should Cs re all join the Republican party? I i ihere is the contention's basis? It is be humbug and a lie. It is as plain as in wo and two makes four. Why do our st< nill presidents then wish to fall in be on dd these new ideas? I can see no ag ether hypothesis unless they have been oh >ootlieking the money men north. In wa rder to curry favor they must take the !hole doctrine. They can't take the so operatives with them. Why won't they ch a persuaded or coerced? Because to hey are men-some of the best men ho ye have. I want to tell these men why TI know they won't follow. When you sll sere working night and day to make he big profits, did the officers raise th ,our wages, etc.? No, in some in- Pe :ances they out wages while doubling wa heir money inside of a year, and then flu hey say you must be Commercial m: )emocrats because it is to their inter- cl se. They tried to vote these people th ganst me in 1890 and in 1892, but of hey didn't do it, and when they try th o make them vote for John L. McLau- th in to go to the senate next year to nisrepresent the State they are not au ;oing to do it. (Cries-"Huirrah for ec lman.") They tell us we must allow to atitude for the mill owners to control he mills. With the new constitution io dare these mill presidents come th here to lead these people into the Re- crt :ubliccan party and turn them over to rel dark Hanna? The time may come to tic all down those who have no right to an neddle and try to run the politics of fo: 3outh Carolina. Are we to have this or ule of wealth come here. If you have tic unk so low as to be herded then it vill come; if not, it won't; I suppose here wili be a row raised. I am not rraying the mill operatives against a mpoyers. I'm telling factory owners s o attend to their own business. That he a all. If they try to coerce operatives ne pledge you I will go to every village m ad taik to these free white men and tih el1 them of the inquities they are try- s ng to practice upona them, to South Carohina has fostered cotton b nils. The 'constitutional convention ei eft the thing open and there has been th io adverse legislation, but there may gi They tell you that the negro is out of co he way. My God, don't seduc3 your- la: elf into believing that. Ebvery man vho was in the constitutional conven- as ion knows that'thc Sword of Damcooles sh iangs over our head; that the suffrage tv >rovsion is only temporary at best, m s long as the fourteenth and fifteenth ac bmendments are in force. He explained ha he provisions. cc When a white man becomes infamous th~ he at ore educated he is the more infa. su nous he is. In the Ro',iatuion not one- w: iaf of the men who made South Car- ca lina free could read er write. You be an't put the yardstick of educstion. fe: [nen there is the question of caste. ta hether we are better than the negro b ye are going to run this country. The pr :ffort to revolutionize the party means thc hat the negro who is educated will be be he balance of pewer between the ye lacks and whites and the white man in ho comes nearer being a nigger will s ;et the mcst votes. Let me show you iomething. He cited the Ohio Republi an platform just adopted-in the pres dent's own State. He read the clause bi elating to the south's depriving the p< iegro of his franchise and demand that th epresentation be given on a basis of da >opulation. Mark Hanna presided and ra iere is his lieutenant down here pa- as ading up and down telling you tre wi egro won't bother you any more- ne hat the ghost is dead. en This scheme will take away 50 of our til ongresemen and 50 from the electoral pa ollege. This is to put negroes on a th asis with you factory operatives; to P4 stablish equality and send men to con- ul ress to betray them. They drive the pr egro back from Illinois when he goes ha here, meet him with rifles, yet they w~ iay they must be allowed to vote here. wl [ don't hate the negro. I don't believe ta a lynching for anything but rape. I re o for thast crime. I tried to stop lynch- ed ngs when I was governor. How many w >f you are for sale? Are you ready to w: ell out without knowing it. They are h o low and mean that its hard to be- ea Lieve God Almighty made them. tu Mr. Latimer-The devil made them, a mean. Tillman-I don't recall in the Bible ythving about the devil having made ybody. (Laughter.) When the tariff bill was passing I ted for a protective tariff on long ple cotton, rice, etc. Southern con )ssmen had asked that bagging and s be put on the free list. We asked M some equalty. The bagging trust ne and had the southern farmer ocked out. The northern farmer got A binder twine free. If you vote for a Republican ticket will they take a tariff off? Do you reckon they will? rery man, woman and child is paying apiece for pensions. Are they going change that? My God, why if we all become Rs blioans who will there be left to rob? He told of a Mexican war veteran in tester who had lost his arm in that e r. He had also, however, served in e 3 Confederate army. They refu3ed f4 give that old soldier his money. He d of the hard work he has had to t it. Tirey consider the southern peo as slaves born to pay taxe3. Naw if ey want you to go with them. I don't n lieve there's a county of South Car- i na that can be seduced in this way. I tried to avoid all this. I walked out a the pond with him and wanted to o own him out. But our governor d nted peace and unity. He had no I >re right to do it than you have. And 3Lurin. He coilda't take it back t enough. 'He aso.lad to get it i ck. No chicken ever lit -an i e g as he did. He was so very glad. - sughter.) t And now he's out in a paper last week d actually says I'M AFRAID TO EEI HIM, (Laughter) a Permit me to digress a moment. You t nember those old threshed over e arges Gen. Butler made seven years a o about my getting rebates. It re nds me of last year's bird nest story. ey charge that Istole money because a ould, because I had the chance. Now 8 e $6,000 charged then has grown to 0,000. Isn't that charge that I stole cause I had a chance to a high plane get to? Let's see what that would a d to. Let a lady and gentleman be ? ne for half an hour and her repata- n n would be gone. I never took a dol and everybody knows it. If you ink I've bee ime wealthy as they tell a, go to Edgefield and lok up the )rtgages on my place and go to the i rolina bank in Columbiaand see how stand there. When he says I steal n cause I could, I say people who live g glass houses ought not to throw ines. Why did he vote-for the treaty that Monday morning after speaking iinst it the Saturday before? I don't * rge that he was bribed, but what a the qaid pro quo? "Let me say to you that it will take r nobody of more responsibility and aracter than this Jno. L. McLrurin i make the people believe that any dis nest dollar ever passed my palm. key won't believe any such damnable nder." Sentor Tillman then paid tribute tor a women and said he had been under tticoat government all his life. There a nothing to equal the elevating in ence of a good woman. They often ide brave men of cowards. He con ided by advising the wives that if 0( sir husbands showed signs of running after Republican fisshpots to take ~ ir broom sticks and make them do air duty. As Senator Tillman concluded the dience rose and cheered him to the io, and a number came on the stand shake hands with him. His speech ended the meeting. ? After the speech Senator Tillman said G it he had dignided McLaurin and his >wd by noticing the charge about the >ates, but he felt that it was high a ne for those~who made these charges d repeated them-now threshed over g years-to either furnish the proof , stop rehashing such dirty insinua- c New Disease Among Animals. ti Charbon or anthrax, which is ray- I ing the plantations of the Missis- cl pi delta and killing the cattle, a rses and mules at a fearful rate, is a o w disease to us, as it probably is to p ist of our readers. Reports from a s infected distries say the disease is a resding, and horseflies and mosqui- c 35 are credited with being responsi- I a for a large part in the dissemina- a in of the infection. The name of 5 e disease, anthrax, is of Greek ori 2, and Webster's defiaition of it is: -a i. carbnle; a manIgoant boil, ac- Y mpanied with gangreen of the celu- I Stissue." One authority describes the disease virulent ailment among horses and eep, often producing death within 'eve to forty-eight hours. It seldom ikes its appearance in man. In most g) ue csses the anirals fall as if they j ,d received a severe blow, and go into h nvusions. The pulse is quick and I e breathing rapid and labored. In y ch instances, death usually occur thin a few hours. In less acute t ses, the animal loses appetite and a c~mes feverish and thirsty, and suf- 9 es intestinal troubles. The first at- t: k may pass off, only to be succeeded g) a second attack, which usually j ves fatal. The mortality from an-h rax is very high. No specific has yet en di cavered f or the disease. Pre- a ntive inoculation has been practiced t some sections with some degree of a ecess.d Burned at Stake. t) With agonizing screams and his eyes s: ging from his head, John Wesley 'I innington, a negro, was burned at fl e stake near Enterprise, Ala., Thurs- fi y, before a crowd of five hundred en- s: gd citisens of Coffee county. The d emblage was composed of both b ites and blacks, and although the gro plead for mercy and frantically deavored to break the chains that ;htly bound him, not a trace or sym thy was shown on the hardened faces n at peered at him through the flames. h innington had committed an assault e. on Mrs. J. C. Davis, the wife of a i ominent farmer of Coffee county and 1 d confessed his guilt. The crime 21 ~s committed on Thursday afternoon a ile Mrs. Davis was gathering vege- fi bles in her garden. As soon as she ti gained her senses, Mrs. Davis crawl- z to the house and told her husband a iat had happened. A large posse 2 is quickly organized and with blood- e unds they chased the negro until t ly in the morning, when he was cap- z red in a swamp. IEN AGAINST MON EY trongest Labor and Financial Organizitions In America fILL NOW ENOAOE IN WAR. General Strike in Ali SteelCom panles Works Ordered. Big industrial Army Called from Their Posts. A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., un er date of August 6, says: The die is est. The battle of the giants is on in irnest, whether to ignominious de Sat of one side or the other, or cam romise, remains to be seen. Up to 'uesday evening it was merely a skirm ih, each side tryjng to find the vul erable spot in the other's armor. Now is different, brought about by the tual issurance by President Shafer f the long talked of general strike or er. This order was prom ulga Inesday evening to take effect after he last turn of the mills on August 0th. What the result will be no man an fortell, but judging by the ex ressd.... determination of -both par les to the v the battle will e wages fast and fuAniy. Much oney will be lost, -thousands u housands of men will be idle, great offering is looked for, even bloodshd nd death are possible and feared. The strike call includes practically l1 Amalgamated men in the United tates Steel corporation's employ not ow on strike. It was issued from the amalgamated association headquarters ad mailed to all Amalgamated lodge' finials who are expected to' call their Len into the strike. The text of the call follows: "Brethren: The officials of the inited States steel trust have refused recognize as union men those who y re now striving for the right to organ e. The executive board has author ed me to issue a call upon all Amal imated and other union men in name ad heart to join in the movement to ght for labor's rights. "We must fight or give up forever ir personal liberties. "You will be told that you signed ," ntraots, but you never agreed to sur inder these contracts to the United tates Steel, corporation. Its officers Link you were sold to them just as the ills were, contracts and all. "Remember you agreed to any con sot you took an obligation to the malgamated association. It now calls au to help it this hour of need. "Unless the trouble is settled on or afore Saturday, August 10, 1901, the ills will close when the last turn is ade on that day. "Brethren, this is the call to pre Ire our organization. We trust you id need you. Come and help us and ay right come to a just cause. "Fraternally yours. (Signed) "T. J. Shafer." The Texas Cotton Crop. Mr. Harvie Jordan, of Macon, Ga., resident of the Southern Cotton - rower's &ssociation, has just returned om atrip to Texas where he made a rr of that State in the interest of the isociasion. With regard to the or mization there he said that it was Lore thorough than in any other State iih the exception of Georgia.- Bvery unty has its organizer and the State being flooded with literature calling athe farmers- to organize for protec on. Mr. Jordan traveled all over exas and says that the cotton crop anot possibly be as large there as it as last year, notwithstandingthe fact E increased acreage. For the most art this incressed acreage is repro mied by cotton planted on grain lands Eter the grain had been cut off and the otton will not amount to anything. [e said he taiked to business men in Illthe principal cities and the univer m opinion was that the cotton crop !ould be less than last year. When sked about corn he said that there ould be about a third of a crop. 'exas is well adapted for any plant rith a tap root in case of dry weather. A Brave Girl. Wnen a burglar attempted to enter de residence of W. C. Huttleston, 294 ast avenue, Atlanta, Tuesday night, e was met by a very courageous young ay with a pistol in her hand. Mr. [ttleston and his wife 1lf t home to pend th avening with friends and heir daug -r, Miss Carrie, remained t home with her grandmother. About o'clock the young lady discovered at a burglar was trying to break into be house through a rear window that ad been left open. She quietly got er pistol and slipped into mne yard by omng around the side of the house. Por young woman to attempt in this way > head off a burglar, and she at home nd unprotected, was about as brave a ed as a lady might well perform. isa Carrie did it, and when she saw be burglar dart away in the .darkness be deliberately fired two shots at him. 'he burglar ran around the house and liss Carrie again headed him off and red two more shots. The only reason le missed him was because it was too ark for her to get a good aim, and the urgar kept on the run. It Took Forty Minutes. Guarded by three companies of State -, dlitia, called out by Gov. Candler for is protection, Raymond Ross, a negro barged with assaulting Mrs. Miller, 'as carried to Canton, Ga., from At nta Wednesday to stand his trial. special session~f the Cherokee court 'as called by Judg'e~.ober, who asked >r troops from Goir.,Candler. The me the trial consumed wa s o 4 dnutes. The negro was convicted nd sentenced to beo hanged August th. Ross was brought back to this ity by the troops. Gov. Candler said be expense incurred by sending the iilitia to Canton to protect Ross will t be much under $80.