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as VI. MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1901. NO. A HOT DEBATE. Senator McLaurin Goes to Ander son Un xp !ctedIy. HE DEFENDS HIS COURSE. Col. Johnstone Foil.ws Him in an Abi t Spat c .;f Biting Sarcasm and I:ony But No Abuse. The distinctive feature of the politi eil meeting Friday at Anderson was the debate between Col. Johnstone and Senator McLaurin, who had unexpect edly arrived at Anderson. It seemed to be absolutely unexpected, and most people did not believe it. When Con gressman Latimer had about concluded his argument a note was handed Chair man Breazaale to the effect that Sena tor McLaurin would arrive about 1:30 and so, after a conference, it was de cided to adjourn the meeting until after the arrival of Senator McL tu:in and to reserve the remaining speaker, Col. George Johnstone, to reply to him. Congressman Latimer and. Mr. Hemphill did not have the opportuni ties of the afternoon session, which was fail of enthusiasm and fire. M LAURIN ARRIVES. Senator McLaurin came into the hall with the most hearty of welcomes. His friends cheered him time and again and he must have felt well over it, because he made a capital speech and he who believes MoLaurin cannot take care of himself is woefully mistaken; but he met a foe of remaikabie ability in Col. (ieo. Johnstone. Mr. Mc Laurin opened up the second section of today's meeting in a speeca of over an hour, and during that time he was heartily applauded at frequent intervals. He did not mention Tillman throughout his speech in any way and he made no reference to Latimer, who had punched, him good and. hard during his speech, but it was more es pecianly in his second or reply speech that he made his best effort. It was then that he took off his coilar and got down to business, and it was then that he threw real feeling into his speech, replying to biting sarcasm of Col. Johnstone relative to his holding the purse strings to public partonage and other things that ne urged snowed the drift towaid Republicanism. Senator McLaurin had the voice of John Ashley and all know what that means; he mane so many interruptions that someone wanted him purifies. But there were others for McLaurin if cheers count for votes and the whoop ing was steady and long. Some say it cane largely from citzens of other counties who came here with McLan rin, who held otfices or wanted them. There were outsiders but there were others-many others who cheered for McLaunn and if cheers are to be votes there will be many here for Coynmer cial Democracy, if no change comes. The McLaurin folks bad plenty of cheers but no one who knows ougnt of tarolina politics can count that way. JOHNSTONE S MASTEELY REPLY. Just after Mtr. McLaurin came Col. George Johnstone, and he was cheered and encouraged as he has no doubt never before been by an Anderson au dience. Men who had opposed him for con gress got up and hurrahed when he ran nis snarp pomnard of ridicule or sar casm deep into the political body of McLaurin. And how ne did it! It had rte ring of Mark Antony's oration "sand these are honorable gentlemen," and then a jab-and so he would say he believed what McLaaurmn said and then a punch and ther. lie would again testify to believing McLaurin's state ment about the pubhuc oflices and an other cut to the core. It was neat, it was clean, it was masterly and it met the issue-the whole of it. I hat the audience thought well of it they show ed and beyond qjuestion. And how Johnstone did buster a son-in-law of Citizen Ashley who rung in Tillman and who gave Mr. Johnstone just the opening lie wantea to grow eicquent in .burying paruisan feeling and insisting that Motaurim of all men had no right ito attack TiL'ilman. suen an opeming ~did Mr. Johnastone give Moh~aurm in one of his premiseS ul facts about ship subsidy and McLaurin as the small bey says "a'id not do a rnrng" but taxe the avantage of the allegen inaccuracy of lao; and pummel his Opponent on tiat pomnt. it was a elean, but a sharp and vig orous debate and tne kind toat ought to tell. Mr. McoLaurin did not say whether he would attend any otner meetings ix invited. deo bald ne liad hastened on iroi Norfai sa was St seasick. THERELL COME ANOTHER DAY. Congressman Laaimer and Mr. Hemp hilt had neart tinrning that it was not their fortune to have the rub with Mc Lanrin but thiey uid not antieipate the run to ast for last N4ace, but there will come another nay. Tnere were from 6u0 to 830 in the court house, most of whom were seared and of that number not more than 150 to 200O in all bothered to make all the noise, but 25 Anderson men can make a good noise. The speeches lasted until a few minutes be fore the party left the court house for the train and the skeletons of the espeeches-mere skeletons-arc well worth reading. 31 LAURIN HEARD' FROM Senator McLaurin said he had no idea yesterday he would be here. On every great question there was more than oroe side and he ascribed to all who differed with him honorable mo tives. His course has been misrepre sented to such an extent that when he saw the papers at Norfolk he decided to be at this meeting, no matter what the expense or pain., He had been charged with trying to help organize .a Republican party in this State. This was untrue and he une quIvocally de nied any and all suoh statemenlts. There are now too manv 'parties and too many politicians. He never had been a party to the insinuation that he was helping the Republican party. Then he took up the conditions int 1890 and how the Reform movement and primary started and the primary sys tem, he said. was one of the wisest dC troves that could be started. Demo- at crats could then differ and have their rights settled by tie white voters. He be had pnrsued a proper c curse and he wI believed as firmly as he aid that there D was a God in Heaven that his -position cc would in time be vindicated. He felt of that his every action had been right as and in the interests of the people. at Whether elected or not his position has ne put the people to thinking and looking wi to their own welfare, and if it does es nothing else he hoped his contest would th elevate the plane of a contest of issues. th He said he could have easily avoided th the heart burningi, troubles and trib- cc ulations and taunts, but he took his th positions for the good of the people he as represented. th He then went on to take up the is- cr sues a,, d first handled expansion and Y held that the Damocrstic doctrine had at been to add territory. Until the Span- of is war the policy of tre Republican co party had been to conuast and the D.moorats favored expansion, and then go he discased whether it was a wise, tic just and expedient Xolicy to pursue. de tie took up the events leading to the or Spanisn war and the industrial condi- is tuns of Cuba. Everything that has go occurred since that war came on, he Ca could not see now conditions couldpos sibly have been widely different from Li what they are today. Mr. Bryan, he sh thought, could not have materially hi changed conditions. The Pnilippines Ti aid not come as a foreseen result; it th was an accident more or less and be- tee cause the god of war was on the Amer- pe icans side. He took up the conditions ri in the Pmiiippines and ne always con- wa cluaed that toe war was a Democratic no war. he explained at considerable ret length his vote and bpeech on the Paris ret treaty and based his vote upon the he bold fact that the country was in con ther with. an armed foe ann stood by wa nis own country and people, whether the right or wrong. He had just gone an through a neared campaign; he knew riz nat it was to De maligned and Sian- wo dered and he knew it would bring him censure, but he never for a minute re- mi gretted his vote. He consuited no one. int if the treaty had not been ratified fig Spain and the United States were again wo ready for war and France and Ger- era many were much in sympathy with Sb Spain. we then Senator MoLsurin took up the ke question as to whether this is a good ke policy. There can never be imperialism under the American form of govern- ad ment, and no man would oppose im- ha perialism nmore vehemently than he up would and he voted against everything vit looking lire imperialism in the Philip pine government and he felt in time those people would be given self gov ernment. an He claimed that no people were more t interested in the retention of that seec- wa tion than was the south, which is so Td wrapt up in cotton and manufactured ho cotton. Any country to become rich tri must use its raw material, and so he ma drifted on to show the opportunities of co, this market. It was foolish, he o thought, for American merchants to an try to get into the foreign markets He without the protection of the American it flag. He die not believe it possible witn existing conditions for the United , States to have maintained a footing in no the far east without its holding the hi Philippines. This country would have been cnoked out by pore charges if it did not have the Philippines as a h stand-off. In reply to Hemphill he saud the insurgents had to be subdued an for the reputation of the country and T that was an expense of the war propar,ec but the trade in China will be worth a hundred times what it will cost and he predicted that in nve years no pub tic man could be found in South Caro- Jo lina who would advocate turning loose no the Pnilippines. The value as a base tbh of operations has already been shown an mn the recent Chinese troubles and has. made firm friends of the United States tia and China. shi Nobody is attempting to shoot relig- ME ion into these people. This country cst could have left these people to be mur- he dered and plundered. Having de- fel s~royed their only form of government it was incumbent to establish a new gl( government. Only one tribe he hela 80 was ever fighting this country. This wa country had and has a duty to perform saa and this people will not shik a duty be because it costs. Speaking of Mr. L atimer's references isu to snip Bsmiy, Mr. McLtaurin aenied ht his statement. pu Mr. Laumer said by way of correc- ag tion he had neen unintnrionally mis quoen and he did not say at Walhaila th mar McLaurin voted for the sh;p sub- ye idy biii. Mir. Larumer said he said an MLaurin spoke in favor of the bili. gir Mr. Mchaurin sad he used Tne Co- fo lumbia State as authority and that W ought to be good authoriny for Mr. M~ Laimer. to Mr. Johnstone begged to make a dis- gli interested statement, and said Mr. 50 Laimer was correct in what he had th saim at Walnalta, Ihe expianation was accepted, and p0 Mr. McLauin went on to rnake a brief su :jeouh in it~vnr of ship subsidy and M 'saidu hme woutd iater prepare and pabiah cit nis views on snip subsinies. tie op posed the pencing bi and a totally aiferent ilil is now being prepared. Tihe cry of the nigger in the wood pile mi was dead and every arap of his blood B would be sacrificuid for 12is native State. tha He said he was not hnging on any cot tail. c Voice-The old coat tail is rotten, any way. McLaurin went on to say his oppon- re ents seemed to thirnk expansion was a ca lost chance and so they made the most fa of ship subsidiy and he elaborated this he point. an MR. JoHNiSToNE IN REPLY. th Mr. George Johnstone was reeiived sit with much applause. in fact an ova- an ton, and said if it were not that he be thought the Democracy was in danger ur he would not be here. He acepted Mc- ba Laurin's statcment that he was try- ic< ing to organize a Republiean party, he but he insisted that the adoption of hi MLaurin's policies must and will lead p1 to Republicanism. When the hour comes when the sreat Democratic par- he ty will disintegrate man by man he in would stand with the last raising his J< voice for the Democratic party. If st' McLaurin's positions do not lead to the n< ruin of the Democra.ie party then he he Sdid not know what Democracy was. th He said some of his firmest friends cc thought like Mr. McLaurin. He would n< say nothing to hurL the feelings of at tese men or Mc~ann but he would :th his duty to his party and if it made y mad be would endure it. Then he pointed out the difference tween MoLaurin's expansion and tat he called Democratic expansion. imacratic expansion came with the msent of the governed and was only American territory. They were ked to have local self-government d they came in at once as co-part rs. That is Democracy. The forces th which MoLaurin is operating are tablishing despotic government, and en he ridiculed the argument that e Filipinos had no government; and en Mr. Johnstone showed the present nditions in the Philippines and to ese McLaurin himself said he gave sent. Mr. Johnstone urged that ese people are governed by the auto itic power of the president alone. )u who have been pinioned by Sickles i Canby are pointed to the spectacle the Filipinos governed in the same dition as the south was years ago. Mr. MoLaurin justifies this autocratic vernment of the president and sane in the unlimited power of the prebi at. Here it is claimed that De.n itic expansion with self-government claimed to be the same as autocratic vernment-the same as you had with nby and Sickles. Then Mr Johnstone roasted Mr. Me urin's argument that the islands ould be held for trade. McLaurin nself tells you they wear no clothes. Le proper thing to do is to extend e Monroe doctrine to them, make sty agreements and friends of the ople. Then he jumped into McLa t's ship subsidy proposition. ii it s to be done for the farmer why t give the farmer the $1 a bale di itly and so on. Give the money ei it to those Mr. MoLaurin says it will lp and not to the rich ship owners. What he commented on especially s the change of Mr. McLaurin on treaty. It was for him to explain, i the whole thing was tnat McLau was misled and mistaken and uld not see it. EHe enthusiastically favored the ieth an canal and urged that the railway erests of the east and west were kting the canal project. This canal uld give the southern manufactur and shippers the real advantage. ip subsiaes foster the eastern and stern ports and the longer they are pt up the longer will the canal be pt off. Ele then insisted that McLaurin had nitted his fallibility and that he I made mistakes. McLaurin had held the Alliance and now held those ws to be heresies. AN OPENING. Voice-Did not Tillman change too? Mr. Johnstone went on eloquently I forcibly to say he was not a per zal supporter of Tillman, but he s not for pulling down records. is was not the time to revive past tilities and he for one was too pa tic to say one word against 'Tilt n to hurt him or his feelings if he ild. He was not now fighting any s, but he was fighting a principle, I God knows when Tillman and empton stand together for a principle must be right. (Great applause.) Re asked and prayed that the people uld support men upon principles and for personal feeling. it seemed to n that if anyone was to denounce B. Tillmnan, John L. McL aurin was not Sman. (Entense applause ) He held n up as the greatest of leaders, the atest man since John C. Calhoun, it ill became him to now denounce Iman. (Applause.) Or is it another iverion? ANorHz. [t was Mr. Canfield, a son-in- law of sh Ashley, who asked if Tillman had also changed his views on the rd party and Alliance and the roast i sarcasm he got was really sublime. hen he pictured the duty of a Chris n people to the Filipinos and he wed what Christ would have done. Laurin says he has no purpose to ablish a Republican party, but he is e traducing the Democracyr of J ef son. rhen he went for ship subsidy with ys off, and how it differed from ite support of railroads. He says he nts no R~epublican party and yet he d in Wasnington McKinley ought to reelected by acclamation. H. says he does not propose to organ a IRepublican party and he believes n and yet he seems to hold the Re tlican purse strings of public patron [s McKinley likely to help build up SDemosratic party ? McKinley never ted a D~emocratic ticket in his life, I is he such a philanthropist as to e all the public offices to McLaurin a stronger 1)emocrati'ie party?I hat a magnificent picture it is this Kinley hunting for good Democrats hep build up his party. Then ho wingly pictured how Lee and Jack i had sent their muniionsI of war to air opponents I Lt was miraculous how thece ap itments came without solicitation or gesion. It was marvelous how >ilv andi special providence coin led with McI~LAucin' view. M'LAU~RIN RES'LIES. n reply to Mr. Johnstone's argu tt Senator McLaurin, in conclusion2, .d relative to the statement that he d said McKinley ought to be reeleo I by acclamation, that he had said it uld be wrong to defeat McKinicy oe ase of the conduct of the war. 1f issue was to be made on the con et of the war he ought to have been 3lected. He said it was an improper se for a fight for McKinley had done *rly, appointcd southerners, etc. If had consulted his own pocketbook d cmfort he would have secepted position on the Philippine com-nis in. t was a case of damned if he did d if he did not. He did not accept! cause he did not propose to retire der fire and he intended to come ek and render an account of r is serv , After Mr. Johnstone was defeated was going to see if he could not get a position out there. (MIuch ap mse and laughter.) As to the patronage in South Carolina said all he wished was to have been Greenville. Such speeches as Mr. hnstone's were as old als the coon >ry. He told the president he could t be given any federal position and told him if he wanted to do any ing for his people he would be glad to operate with him. The president is autocrat; he is a brave, humane d broadminded man. He explained he had tried to put the ofces in the bands of South Carolinians. He could not put Damocrats in all the offices, but he tried to get the best he oculd, and if he could not get Democrats he got the most acceptable Republicani. He went to the senate to represent his people and do the best he could for them. He highly complimented Mr. Jchnstone on his speech for ability and courtesy. Col. Johnstone had made a great blunder in his subsidy argument. The strongest lobby in the senate was the Pacific railway's, and they did not fa vor the subsidy as he claims, but fought it. Mr. Hill, president of the Northern Pacific, fought the subsidy bill all the time.. The subsidy bill and the canal bill have to get together, and to this Josh Aehley said the tenth time, "That's the God's truth." The south will never have shipping interests unlessa i: gives and takes in legislation. As to his silver viewe, there was no man but a fcol who never changed his mind. He and Col. Johnstone were to) progressive to stick to a wrong po eit.ion. He changed his mind every time he found he was wrong. He never attacked anyone but tried to defend himself as best he could. Senator McLaurin made merry over Mr. Johnstone's mistake as to the great railroads favoring the subsidy bill. With fe ling he esaid he would alids the result of the primary. What he regarded as true Dem:cracy was the voice of the white people of South Carolina at the ballot box and he wanted no committee or boss to come between him and the peopie, and if the white people said he was right then, Col. Johnstone would have to come to him. (Laughter) If they did not en dorse him he would abide the result ad stand by the white people. It gave him pleasure to discuss matters wnh such a man as Col. Johnstone and he wcutd like to discuss the subsicy bill with him. Col. Johstore agreed to this, and this closed the meeting as nearly 9 o'clock-j1st a few minutes before train :ime. Au:uat Kohn. The Week's Weather. State Section Director Bauer has compiled the following weekly crop bulletin from reports from over the State: The average temperature during the week ending 8 a. m. Monday August 26, was slightly below the normal, with a maximum of 95 degrees at Batesburg, and a minimum of 65 de grees at Greenville. The amount of sunshine was below the normal. The rainfall was excessive, Allen dale reporting 2.59 inches, Many places report rains every day and some of them heavy. In some locali ties small bridges have been washed out and lowlands overfiowed. Much damage is reported to crops from rain and cloudiness. No hail or damaging wind has been reported for the week. Cotton is shedding and rusting, par ticularly on sandy land, on clay lands the damage is not so general In many places the growth is rapid and still fruiting. Picking though later than usual will be quite generally com menced next week. Fodder pulling has been much re tarded by the general rains and much of it damaged. Early corn is a light rop, while late is much better and generally maturing well. Good week for maturing rice. Some localities report that rice cutting will begin next week, one week earlier than indiated two weeks ago. Other see ios report that harvesting will be ten dys later than usual. Sweet potatoes are doing fine and white potatoes doing well. The pea rops is good as other minor crops. Apples are falling and rotting. Peaches nearly gone. Pastures are doing well. An Important Decision. An important question has been decid ed by the assistant attorney general in relation to the authority of school trustees to appoint teachers beyond their own term of omoe. The trustees of a school district in Greenville county who went out of office last spring, claimed the right to elect a teacher at Dnan's chapel who was to teach the summer school after their own term expired which the new trustees thought was an invasion of their rights. The county superintendent of education submitted the question to the attorney general's offee, and the following is the reply. "You request to be advis d upon the following question: 'Is it lega? for trastees for any school year to make contracts for teachers to serve during the school year succeeding the year in which their commissions expire, and, if so, are their successors bound to execute said contracts?' School trus tees, being creatures of statute law have no power not specincially delegat ed by law, and such powers are strictly construed. No authority is given to publc school trustees in the school law of this s:ate to elect teachsrs be yond their term of office nor can such powerb e impiied. It follows, of courac, that any election beyond their term would be void Osherwise a set of ruseCs now in afig ojuid contract wih a teh er for an unuimited period, and suclia :eacher would be free to act rearless of cne wishes or the welfare of the peopla." Auother Charge. The State says the iciest charge aganst the mosquito is brought by a Norh Carolina veterinary surgeon who has been combatting the horse fevar raging in some partions of that State. 1 nis report to the agricultural depart ment, so says the Cha rlotte Observer's Rleigh corre.gondent, he declares that while "the disease is not contsgious from one horse to another," it is "in coulable from horse in any way, and is rapidly carried by mosquitoes from sick O:es to well ones. Mosquitoes con tine inoculating the sick ones, so as to make it rapidly fatal."' The fever, he says, "oriainally appeared in 1867 and t intervals of seven to ten years has broken out when mosquitoes are numerous." Old Germs Deadly. Irene Keck, daughters of Bert Keck, of Marion, Ind., is ill of diphtheria and a playmate of the same age was taken with the disease at the same time and neither is expected to live. In the investigation to aiscover in what man ner the disease was contracted, it de veloped that the two children had made their way to an attic and there had opened an old trunk and played with toys that belonged to a child that died f diptheria fifteen years ago. WHAT TILMIAN SAYS About the Charg-s Made Against Him. WARNS THE MILL PEOPLE Defends Himself from the Charge of Having. Abandoned the Democratic Party and Dis cuses Other Matters. The News and Courier correspondent says Senator Tillman espeoially regret ted his inability to speak at Spartan burg, because there were several im portant points upon which ho desired to define his position once and for all. Among these was the talk there has been of coercion in the cotton mills. Before leaving the city he gave out. a statement for publication covering these questions. It is as follows: There has been more or less strenuous effort made in various quarters to cast imputations on my Democracy and to charge that I have been disloyal to the oraanisation in the past. Senator McLauri-'s supporter seek to defend his own treachery to the party by making these charges, while on the other hand some of my old political op. ponents, who have never been able to give me say credit for anything that was w.rthy or good, have joined in this aoceusat!oo, and I therefore fool that it is nothing but right that I should let the younger generation of voters, who krow nothing of the facts; hear the plain truth, so they may know how much credence to give to these charges. HOW AGITATION BEGAN. I made my entrtrance in the political arena at Bennettsville in '85 purely by aeident. The agitation began there. This, followed up in the News and Courier in a series of letters and ad dresses in advocacy of a farmers' col lege, took a political turn in '86. In the Democratic State Convention of that year I had a large follk ii 2g, bat we were beaten by those in pcsees non of the machine, (the ring I called them) and I was among the first to move that the nomination for Governor be made unanimous and to pledge my support to the successful candidate. Continuing the agitation, which b-oadened into a demand for goneril reformation of the State Government and the abortion of various abuses-we were again beaten in 88 by a very narrow margin, because Attorney General Earle, our candidate, refused to allow the use of his name after the balloting began, and I again moved to make the nominations unani mou,, thus showing my loyalty to the party in State affairs. In 1890 I was put forward as the nomi.nee of THE MARCH CONVENTION to run as a candidate for the nomina tion for Governor in the regular Demo oratio Convention and the system of joint discussions was inaugurated. I was .overwhelmingly elected in the Demoortic primary, and although there was a bolt and effort to elect an inde pendent candidate, I was chosen Gov ernor in November following by a laige majority. Thi Alliance had been organized in '89 and was a very potent factor in the success of the Reform movements but there was a very power ful political current flowing before the Alliance was born. In '91 I discovered that Ben Terrell, the lecturer of the National Alliance, was systematically going from county to county, sowing the seed of Third-partyism and preach ing the doctrine of "voting for Betsy and the baby," rather than the Demo cratic party or any other party. This led to my challenging Mr. Terrell to a joint discussion on the subject of the sub treasury and other issues, upon which he was basing his propaganda, and the debate was held before t'HE STATE ALLIANCE in this city. I pointed out in the de bate the danger of the white people of South Carolina risking any division as long as we had such an overwhelming negro majority, and insisted that noth ing should be done of a political character outside of the Demouratio ranks until we had held a Constitutional Convention and take3n steps to safe guard white supremacy. I demanded anid obtained a pledge in that meeting to make the fight against Clevelandism and the other undemocratic policios thet were being urged by the New York wing of the party inside of the Demo ratic ranks, and thcr3 are I undreds of witnesses to the fac&. The result was in '92, notwithstanding the Alliance was in absolute control of the political affairs of the State, and there was an overwhelming sentiment in opposition to the Domocratie party tenets as they were thee PSOMULGATED BY CLEVELAND and his crowd, there was no effort made to organiz3 a Populist party except in two coinios, sven after Cleveland had received the nomination at Ca~icsgo. Oar State Convention had denounced him as "a prostitute of Wall street" and de larod that ho was not a Democrat, but when he received the nomination I re turned from Chicago anid counselled acniescence in the resuLt, and I make bold to asser; that but for my influence and the irnfluence of the men allied with mec the State would have gone to the Populists that year by an over whelming vote. As it was, South Caro lina was the only Southern State whose Populism did not make a bitter fight rgainst the regular Democracy.. I epoke very bitterly of Dieveland's policy and proclaimed my desire for a union between the Southern and Western farmers; and declared I -was ready to lad a revolt against the Democratic party as then led, and leave it if need be, whenever I saw anywhere to go, and made allusion to "A LIGHT IN THE WEST" -as a sigaal. in the meantime I set myself zealously to work to obtain a Constitutional Convention so as to take steps to disfranchise as many of the colored people as we could under the 14th and 15 amendments. During the period from 1892 to 1896 there was bit ter and constant agitation in this and other States against Cleveland's policy, and I denounced his betrayal of the Demoratic party with all the bitter-. ness that I felt. I proclaimed that if he was a Democrat I was not, and I merely gave voice, in all my denouncia tions of Cleveland Democracy and tlsreats of leaving the party, to the over whelming sentiment in control of the State. In other words, I was absolute ly loyal at all times to the majority of my fellow citizens, who were Demo crats, but not of the Cleveland type, and what I said about leaving the party then was not the prevailing sentiment in South Carolina. I made a speech in Memphis and one in St Louis in which I DENOUNCED CLEVELAND and his policy as Un-Democratic and proclaimed my willingness and purpose to fight to recapture the Damocratie party from the wreckers, and, failing there, to organize a genuine Democratic party, which should maintain the prin ciples of Jefferson, the father. I an nounced this policy as the spokesman of the Democracy of this S:ate on the floor of the Senate on the 1st of May, 1896, in a debate with D. B. Hill; I announced it in a speech at Danver, one in Wichita, one at L3xington, Ky., at Dallas, Texas, and Atlanta, Ga., in all of which the slogan was "16 to 1 or bust." The South Carolina State Con vention, which sent delegates to the Chicago Convention in 1396, was so thoroughly imbued with the purpose to have a different kind of Democracy from that of Cleveland and his follow ere that they sent a delegation to that Convention with instructions to with draw and return home for farther coun sel in the event we did not get a plat form to suit us. I HAVE NEVER AT ANY MOMENT or any time or any plane given voice to any feeling or sentiment about the Democratic party that was disloyal to the will of the majority of my fellow Democrats in this State. I have al ways claimed to voice the will of the majority of the people of the State and to be a representa tive of the majority, and every well-informed man in the State knows that what I have spcken is capable of proof from the records, and, therefore, I repeat what I said at Union, that any man who charges me with disloyalty or with any purpose at any time of oppos ing the genuine Democracy of South Carolina as represented by the majority lies, and knows he lies. I AM CALLED A POPULIST NOW by Republican and gold bug papers that are so much in love with Com mercial Democracy. I always have, and always will, spurn Cleveland's Demo cracy as nothing but thinly di guised Republicanism, and McLaurin's De mocracy is even lessrespectable. Cleve land never played the hypocrite, while MoLanrin was as eager once to press Populism, pure and simple, as he is now to advocate McKinleyis m, and Bow den, the apostle of Populism in South Carolina in 1892, was the first man he gave a job to after his appointment to the Senate, and it is said that this same Populist leader is now a strong supporter of Senator McLaurin's last brand of politics. Some of the newspaper editors and other ardent supporters of Senator Mo L urin have been very much shocked and outraged by what I said at Union as A WARNING TO MILL PRESIDENTS not to attempt to coerce their opera tives. It is considered an unjardon able sin that I should dare to threaten to interfere in this matter. . What I said on that occasion was for the pur pose of warning these men against at tempting to go too far. I recognize the right of every man to try to persuade others to vote with him, but I deny that the employment of men in mills carries with it a right on the part of the mill to corece or control the votes of the employees. The relation be tween the mill owner and the worker in the mill ie one of mutual advantage, and the mills were not built for the purpose of giving employment to labor, but for the purpose of making money. All men who work in the mills give la bor for the money they receive. The in terests of mill o gner and the mill hand may be identical or may be antagonis tic. It has been com~non in the North for the laborers employed in the manu facturing establishments to-bs driven when they cannot be cajoled into vot ing the Republican ticket, and the threats of discharging laborers and closing down works in '96 and even in the last Presidential election no doubt secured the McKinley triumph. THE OWNERS OF OTTON MILLS that have sprung up so rapidly in South Crolina are in many instances North ern men, and possibly more Northern capital has been invested in this indus try in the last ten years than home cpital, but that does not carry with it any obligation on the pait of the opera tives to vote for a Repulican who comes either openly or in disguise. The mills in Southi Carolina have been treated by the State Government, which is Demo ratic, with great liberality, but if their owners attempt to drive our na tive-born South Carolina Democrats into the Republican camp the other Democrats of the State will not calmly submit to it, and the operatives will ha the first to resist sush action. There is no proof in the world that manufac turing in South Carolina owas anything to the Republican party. The MILL OPERATIVES AR3 NATIVES of this and adjoining States. They are as thoroughly grounded in Democratic principles as the farmers or any other class of our citizens. They are as g od people as we have, and I only declared my purpose, if an attempt to coerce them was made, to go to the mills at night and explain to these people just wherein they are being misled or being unduly influenoed or driven. In doing this I do not propose to array labor against capital, but I do it for the pur pose of warning capital to attend to its own business and not attempt to make slaves of our white people. If the mills are closed on campaign days, so as to allow the men to hear the speeches there would be no need of anyone going to speak at night. But I am resolved they shall hear the truth before joining the Republican party. I MEANT W HAT I SAID and have nothing to regret or apologize for. I honestly believe that if such a move is made by any considerable num ber of the mill owners of the State it will result in legislation that will do away with some of the special privileges now enjoyed by the mills. The peo le of South Carolina are ready to wel come capital for investment in tais or any other manufacturing industry, but every free-born South Carolinian will resent any effort by Northern capi:al ists or Southern superintendents and presidents to dragoon free-born men into becoming R~publicans. Any man who wants to j in the Republican par ty and vote that ticket has a perfect right to do so, bat I again warn those who may think they have a right to drive the free white men in their em ploy into the Republican camp to take heed how they press that idea; and I warn the men, many of whom are and always have been my friends, to watch closely and weigh all of these questions fully before voting. He declared that this was no ordin ary contest, but that it was a death grapple between the forces of freedom and the forces which led on to mon archy. He reviewed the history of the conflict in Cuba and of our interference in that island He emphasized the right of that people to expect of the United States that our original con tract with them should be carried out in its spirit and its letter. Not to do so was to breed in them abhorrence of the American flag and detestation of our morals. He entered at large into a discussion of the Philippine question and com batted with effect the arguments in behalf of ship subsidy. J. H. Marshall. FATAL EXPLOSION Of a Large Steamboat on the Delaware River. While the steamboat City of Trenton, of the Wilmington Steamboat company, was on her way from Philadelphia to Trenton Wednesday afternoon her port boiler exploded, killing several persons and injuring over a score of others. Nine persons are known positively to be dead, at least 19 are missing, more of whom are believed to have been on the steamer, and two of the injured still in the hospital will probably die. The identified dead are. William Nelson, aged 67 years, a vet eran of the Civil war and formerly an inmate of thesoldiers's home, Hampton, -Va.: James McCormick, 23 years, Wil mington, Dal., fireman; lisabeth Green 21 years, Philadelphia;. William Dann, 38 years, Philadelphia; Arthur R T. Lansing 14 years, Trenton, N. J.; William H. Keen, Philadelphia; Jessie Stratton, Trenton, died in hospital. In addition to these there are two charred bodies, believed to be those of females, in the morgue. They are be yond recognition and will be buried in potter's field. So great was THE FORCE OF THEt.3XPLOSION that a piano in the upper drawing room of the boat was hurled many feet away from the boat into the river. This proved to be a fortunate circumstance for many of the injured passengers. Thrown into the river, scalded and otherwise injured so that they were rendered helpless, they clung to the piano, which had fallen into shallow water until rescued. When the explosion occurred Mate Vanderveer and Pilot Curry were in the pilot house. Both were hurled with terrific force from the little enclosure, and the wheel on the starboard side refused to work while that on the port side, for some unaccountable reason began revolving with lightning like rapidity. As a re sult of this the rudder turned the bow of the boat toward shore and she quick ly ran aground fastening herself in the mud. By this time the vessel had caught fire and those of the passengers who were still aboard were compelled to leap for their lives. Futunately the water was not more than four feet deep and many of the victims of the disaster were able to wade ashore, some how ever, who were too seriously injured to help themselves, were rescued by mem bers of the boat clubs whose houses line the river front at this point. The captain and crew of the boat conducted themselves as heroes. They rendered all the assistance possible to the in jured and Capt. Worrell was the last man to leave the boat. All of the se riously injured were hastily conveyed to the hospital at the House of Correc tion at Holmesburg, about three miles below Torreedale. Although the searchers, consisting of a corps of city police, hiving been dragging the river ever since Thursday afternoon, they have been unable to find any more -bodies. That there are more victims in the river is the firm be ief of the authorities, and the failure to find any additional dead is supposed to be due to the strong current in the river at the point where the explosion occurred. The water was pumped out of the hull of the barned steamer, after which a careful search was made for additional victims of the explosian, but none was found. An attempt was made at high tide Thuraday afternoon to float the wrecked vessel, but it was unsuccessful. As to the exact cause of the explo sion nothiing is yet known, but an in vestigation is to be conducted at ornce. Fire alarshai L attimer, Coroner Dagan, the poiice department and the United States boiler inspectors for this dis trct will each carry on an indendent investigation, but little can be known until the survivors have been examined sad a carefal inspection of the wrecked steamer shall have been made. Mlany of the passengers who escaped miu~ry maintain that the City of Tren ton, which was late when she left her wharf in Philadelphia, was racing at her topmost speed and that if this nlad not been the case the accident would not have happened, This is partly borne out by a statement said to have been made by Assistant Angineer John Chew. Chew told his wife that he ex pested to be killed by an explosion on the steamer, as the company made the engineer keep up too high a pressure of steam. On a Strike. A dispatch from Columbia says the textile union has declared a strike at the Whaley mills. Offisial action to that effect was taken Thursday night. At the meeting of the members of the union it was decided that employment would not be accepted until the authori ties of the cotton mills affected with draw their declaration against the un ion. A representative and thoroughly reliable o:tizen who attended the meet ing reports that the hall was packed to suffocation and there were many others who could not get in. Yet with all this crowd there was no intemperate paking no rash utterances. A MtU1AL IiUiuM S A Young Lady Meets a Violent Death. KILLED BY A BLACK BRUTE. Although Shot in the Head She Lived Long Enough to Tell the Name of Her Assailant. Mary Henderson, age 40, was assault ed and killed Wednesday evening by Wm. Francis, colored, at the farm house of her brother-in-law, Charles E. Hayatt, near Columbus, Mo. Francis fled but hundreds of men are scouring the country and his capture and death are considered almost certain. Miss Henderson resided with the Hyatts on the farm near Columbus, in the heart of the richest agricultural district in the State. Wednesday even ing the Hyatts went to she home of friends for a brief visit. Francis, who had been a trusted employe on the place for several years, was left to his own devices. Shortly after sunset he entered the farm house for his evening meal. Miss Henderson personally pre pared it and was about to call the ne gro when he stepped into the kitchen and attacked the defenseless. She. screamed loudly and long for help, but none was at hand. The negro was driven, finally, by her desperate resis tones to the yard in the rear of the house, but in the end she was over powered. When the Hyatts returned Miss Hen derson was found lying near the house with a bullet hole above the left ear. The only horse remaining on the place had also been killed in his stall, evi dently to hinder pursuit. Miss Hen derson is said to have survived long enough to inform her relatives of her assailant. This announcement removed all doubts from the minds of the citi sens here, and- half a dozen posses were immediately formed. Every inch of territory in the country is now being scoured. A suspect is under arrest at Independenee and anotheris being pur sued near Sedalia. It is practically certain that Francis, if captured, will be burned at the stake. CONGREBBM&N RULL'S RP0ET. Filipino Can NeverFally be an Ameri can Citizen. Congressman Hull of Iowa, chair man of the house committee on mili tary affairs, who has arrived at San Francisco on the transport Hancoek from a five months' tour of China,: Japan and the Philippines, is deeply impressed with the possibilities of the New American possessions in the ori ent. He says: "If I were a young man I don't know where I should rather go than to the Philippines. For a man of brains and industry the islands open a vast pros pect in almost every line of busines for one who has the grit to go there and stick to it. "The mineral, agricultural and tim ber resources of these islands consti tute a field for commercial enterprise that is practically unlimited. Of course the present conditions of brigandage make it exceedingly unsafe for peo ple to settle in the islands away from the protection of the military posts. But the people, or the great majority, desire peace and safety and are doing' all they can to help the troops attain tais end. "Of course it is impossible to make an Anglo Saxon out of an OrientaL Therefore, the Filipino probably never will be an &meneoan citizen in the broad sense that it is understood by all that term conveys to the man born in the United States of white parents. ~ Bat as soon as he gets a sufficient edu cation and becomes a little more im pregnated with our ideas and loses some of the ideas acguired by 300 years association with the Spaniard, the Fil ipino will be a citizenin spirit, patriot ism, industry and education, and will be worthy of participating to the ful lest extent in all the beneflts of this government. "Of course we shall have to govern them with firmness as well as with kindness. I think 40,000 soldiers should be kept there for some years to come." What Hei Thought. "I don't take much stock in these stories about a drowning man's whole past life rushing before his minde's eye like a panorama," remarked Uncle Al len Sparks. "I got tangled up with a horse in deep water once, and had a pretty close csll, but all I1 thought was, Td nate to have folks think I1 hadn't more gumption than to get drowned trying to ford a -creek where it's ten fees deep. We must -get out of this!' And I managed to cut the horse's har ness, and we both got out alive. I don't know what the horse was thinking, but I'm willing to bet it was abour, the same."-Cicago Tribune. Accident to Tillroan. Sonator Tilinjsn did not speak at any of the meetiogs last week. On his way from Philadelphia to Spartanburg he got a cinder in his eye, and he could not speak. The State correspondent says the cinder had worked its way into the flesh, and Drs. Tabor and Bunch had to perform an operation to remove it. This morning the senator was utterly unable to stand the light. so he took the first train to Columbia to have a specialist treat his eye, declaring he would be unable to attend any of the other meetings. Fifty Perish. The British War effice has received the following dispatch from Lord Kitchener, dated Pretoria, Aug. 16: "While a party of 50 of French's scouts were proceeding to join a column near Bethesda they were surrounded in the hills by a superior force under Theron and surrendered. One was killed and three were wounded, Capt. Bethelheim dangerously." Lord Kitchener does not give the date, but the casualty list indicates Anugust 8