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A BUGLE CALL
To The Democracy of the Country to
Get Together
AND SAVE THE NATION FROM
Being Mexicanized by the Man On
Horseback in the White House
and the Dollar Worship
ping Republicans.
There was a notable gathering of
Democrats in Washington last week.
They were there at the biennial ban
quet of the Virginia Democratic as
sociation held in the banquet room of
the Metropolitan hotel. They in
cluo I)emocrats of national promi
nence. Those who spoke included the
following: T. W. Bullock, second
vice president of the association: Col.
Henry Watterson, of Kentucky: Sena
tor Carmack, of Tennessee: Ron.
Lewis Nixon. the leader of Tammany
Hall: Representative W. W. Kitchen.
-of North Carolina: Representative
DeArmond, of Missouri and members
of congress from Virginia. Col. Wal
terson spoke as follow:
"There is no drop of blood in my
veins which is not Virginia blood. Al
though for purposes of my own, hav
ing a deep design beneath them, I
choose this capital of the nation for
my birthplace, my earliest vision of
paradise-the very dawn of all my
conceptions of honor and duty an:
glory-nestled among yonder hills,
across the Potomac: and, when I go
hence, my ashes shall repose upon the
bosom of Kentucky-Virginia's first
born and fairest daughter. There
seems, therefore, some fitness in my
sitting among you.
"Anyhow, being a Kentuckien and
a Democrat, I am glad to be here and
you will not, I hope, think me assum
ing any consequential airs and graces,
if I add that I feel very much at
home.
"WE ARE DE310CARTS."
"We are Democrats. We love our
country. Our hearts beat true to its
institutions. We would rescue the
government from the hands of those
who are converting it into a govern
ment of the trusts, for the trusts and
by the trusts, and restore it to the
hands of those who will have somie
regard for the rights of the people.
"The Republican party is a syndi
cated party. Arbitrary power is its
motor, the almighty dollar its trade
mark. If it be not checked in the gait
it is going, it will in the end surely
31exicanize the republic.
THE 'IAN ON HORSEBACK.
"Once again in the white house we
bhave the man on horseback. Affect
ing the simplicity of the cowboy, he
conceal beneath the self-confidence and
-queer manners of the broncho buster,
the sentiments and ambitions, if not
the talents, of a Diaz. To him, a lit
tle thing like treating an admiral of
the navy, wearing the laurel leaves of
imperishable renown, as if he were a
baby in arms, now to be dawdled and
now to be spanked. is merely an un
dress affair begun and ended during
off-moments between breakfast an'
luncheon. To him the reprimanding
*of the lieutenant-general of the army,
:grown gray in the fighting of the bat
ties of his country, becomes an am us
ing horse play, meant to relax his
muscles and illustrate his high-mighiti
ness, whilst warning lesser otlicers of
the army to obey orders and say noth
.ing.
A 3IILITARY DICTATOR.
"As these things go forward, par
Muking somewhat of the character of
fea:!s to divert and blinds to hoodwink
pt~iic opinion, a bill of army reorgan
ization is prepared and urged upon
congress, which, if it becomes a law,
will make the -power of the president
absolute, and which it is not too
much to say ought to be entitled 'An
act tofmake the president of the Uni
ted States a military dictator.' Be
cause the reprimanded lieutenant
general, answering the summons of a
committee of congress-as was his
duty--expresses an opinion adverse to
this bill, it is proposed to retire him
from the service. Taken in cor nec
tion with some other matters of more
or less sinister suggestion. these are
menaces of most ominous import.
WHITE HOIsE TO THlE CAPITOL.
"But, turn from the white house to
'the capitol, and look at the Republi
cans in congress. The trail of the
trade mark is over them all. OldI high
tariff dances the cancan in the house.
whilst old ship subsidy does the regu
lation cake w alk in the senate. Every
thing for the syndicates. Nothing
for the people. And, not content with
their arbitrary power in the white
Ihouse and their mereenary power in
congress, the leaders of this party of
federalism and false preten~sion wouid
-rip open Pandora's box to filch thence
'the black, piratical Hag of negro dom
ination-the equally disreputa ble anid
bloody shirt of sectional agitation
:and, in order to make sure of the next
bouse they are proposing to bring for
ward another force bill to smite the
:south, to blight the north, and to con
vert a land teeming with love and
peace into a land reeking with hate
and strife. Such is the banquet to
which the exit of McKinley. the
statesman. and the advent of Roose
velt, the Rough Rider, has invited us.
A sL.P FOR FUNsTON.
"I am something of a jingo myself
I believe in the expanding greatness
and glory of my country. I never see
the flag iloating above the dome on
yonder capitol that my heart does not
throb with the proud, glad thoughlt - -
that my eyes do not till with happy
exultant tears-that I. too. am ani
American citizen.
"God bless the flag, and God bless
the boys that fight beneath it. 1
would carry it inviolate, I would keep
them spotless. A nd with this in view.
I want to know what is going on
away out younder across the multitud
inous, the mysterious waves of the
Pacitic sea. I want other witnesses
than self-seeeing politicians and self
exploiting soldiers to~ comec here and
tell me. I refuse to hold my tongue.
T refuce to rest cnontt A nr1 if T
ai told by a whippersnapper in snoul
der st raps that, unless I do. I a!m a
traitor to my country. my reply to
him shall be a slap in the face.
TH1E TRUMPET CALL.
'Friends. brothers, Democrats. let
us have done with dissension. Let us
turn our backs on the past. our eyes
to the future. calling against these
things is my comrade. no matter what
he thinks or ever thought about silver
or gold. le who would deny ine a
place by his side to tight them, must
be either very perverse or very blind.
Let us cross no bridges till we come
to them. But already we can see far
enough ahead to take our reckoning.
TOE THE LINE.
"There will be but one test of a
Democrat in 19404-toe the line-toe
the line, saving to arbitrary power
and absolutism, thou shalt go no fur
ther: we, too. are in the expansion
business: but our expansion is for the
religion of the constitution no loss
than for the religion of Christ an!
Ilim crucitied: our expansion means
peace, not war; the honor. not the de
gradation of the flag: and just as sure
ly as Jefferson wrote the Declaration
of Independence and Jackson fought
the battle of New Orleans-t. resis. l
despotism-shall we make a fnew
Fourth of July and celebrate another
eighth of January, in resisting this
unrighteous scheme to abolish the
constitution and Mexicanize the gov
ernment."
A SENSATIONAL CHARGE.
Agent of Denmark Says He Bribed
Members of Congress.
A genuine sensation was caused in
the house Thursday by the presenta
tion by Mr. Richardson of Tennessee.
the Democratic leader, of charges al
leging the corrupt use of a fund of
$500.000 in connection with the sale
of the Danish West Indies. The
charges were contained in an alleged
secret report of Capt. Walter Christ-!
mas to the Danish government which
declared that he had employed corrupt
means to bring about the negotiations
for the sale of the islands to a con
summation.
The report, extracts from which
Mr. Richardson read, mentioned the
names of Abner McKinley and his
partner, Col. Brown. C. W. Knox, who
was described as "an intimate friend
of Senator Hanna." Richard P. Evans
who was said to represent "Mr. Gard
ner and his friends in the house," and'
two press associations, the names of
which were not given. as having been
interested in the matter. The
charges against members of con
gress were not specified. Upon
the basis of this report, Mr. Richard
son asked the adoption of a resolution
for the appointment of an investigat
ing committee of seven. The speaker
ruled that the matter was priviledged
after Mr. Richardson had amended
his resolution so as to specifically in
elude members of the house.
Great excitement attended the whole
proceeding. Mr. Cannon of Illinois
insisted that Mr. Richardson's pre
sentation was fragmentary and that
the whole matter should go over until
Friday in order that members might
read the documents presented. which
included newspaper extracts, atlidavits
etc., in the Record. Christmas, he
declared, on his own statement, was a
briber and worse. But the house
voted down the motion to postpone
and the resolution after being amend
ed in minor particulars. was adopted.:
The speaker immediately appointed
the following committee to make the
investigation: Messrs. Dalzell (Rep.)
of Pennsylvania, Hitt (Rep.) of Illi
nois, Cousins (Rep.) of Iowa, McCall
(Rep.) of Massachusett's. Richardson
(Dem.) of Tennessee, Dinsmnore (Dem.)
of Arkansas. and Cowherd (D~em.) of
Missouri.
A Democrat Unseated.
The Republicans in the Ihouse last
Wednesday unseated Mr. Rthea of
Kentucky, a Democrat, and seated in
his place Mr. J. Mackenzie Moss, who
was formerly a Democrat but who,
according to his brief, is in accord
with Republicans on the dominant
issues. The Republican majority in
the house is 43.-While only two Rie
publicans. Hanbury and Treeland of
New York, voted with the Democrats.
enough Republicans remained away or
declined to vote to reduce the minori
to 10. The conclusion of the debate
upon the case was rather spirited, Mr.
Rhea making an eloquent defense of
his right to the seat. Mr. Rhea made
a severe arraignment of Mr. 31oss. the
contestant, charging that although
he now called himself a Republican
that two weeks before the election he
had registered as a Democrat and had
pledged himself if elected to go int'
the Democratic caucus. With im
passioned words he challenged the
contestant or his friends to dleny this
statement. "If it is denied." said he.
" willprove him to be the poor. miser
able creature I know him to be."
Jutmped From a Train.
The Blackville correspondient of The.
State says the passengers on the early
morning train from Augusta to Char
leston witnessed a surprising incident
just before the train reached Wark
ville Thursday morning. A young
lady. Miss May Folk. wvho li ves nea
Williston. boarded the train at that
station en route to Columbia. puin
nearing the place the p"jrt er as usual
called, "Blackville.' Miss Folk im
mediately rose from her seat. iuntily
ran to the door and leaped fromo t~h
train which was theni running at s nme
30 o'r 40 n-iles an hour. When the
train stopped it returned and found
the young lady unconscious. She wa
brought to the hotel and found to bi
severly injured. sutreringc from cone's
sion of the brain, shoulder dislo-itel
and badly bruised. She is now in a
very critical condition.
Gen. Hampton's Birthday.
Fridac was Gen. Hlampton's Sith
brthda: and the State says the gene
ral was in tine spirits. It was celebra.
e very quietly at his home. ie had
been very unwell Thursday'U nigt, hut
Friay he was feeling (uite .strong anu
wvas ot for a ride during thec forenio'n
and early after'nooui. .\ niube of
friends called tocongrrat ulate him upon
his birthday. The g'ceera's healthi has
been bad during the past year. but lhe
has continued cheerful and has 1aken
.a nivn- interest in current e'.ents.
A SA.'.,UDA TlYSTIERY.
A Bad Negro. Wfho Had Been Miss
ing, lt'nd ead.
A dispatch from S-duda to The State
says the rinding of the dead body of
John Chamnan. a negro in the employ
of Mr. S. 1. Corley. in Mr. Corlevs
pasture has created (julte a sensation.
Chapman. a negro of had reputation.
had been missing for two weeks. On
Sunday. the Mh inst., soon after
Chapman >fi N L. Corley's house to go
to his fish basket i Little Saluda
river. three gtan shots were heard by
several pes.S( in the direction Chap
man had gone. Chapman's wife, fear
ing a (iihculty. as she says, wvent in
search of her husband but failed to
tind him. Searching parties were or
ganiYed. and Coroner (Gibson under
took an investigation. but on being
assured Iy and est i inable lady t iat
she had seen Chapman pass her house
after the tiring of the guns.he abandon
ed it. It was then thought by some
that Chapman had run ott to avoid
arrest for rubbing Riley's store at Mt.
Willing.
Your correspond. nt went to the
scene and attended the inquest.
It was found that the negro had been
shot tv ice. cne loai 'f shot entering
his lie:rt and the.. .ier back of his
heel. An emptyv shell was found near
cs boy. Juia ohapani the dead
ian's wi ,. was e mined by the cor
ner and estitd h her husband
told her on S afternoon previ
OUs to the i ime e , i )uiposed to have
been killed that Bce Corley. Mr. S. B.
.!ev's son had warned iiiin to leave.
. 'b Corlev and.i others would kill
him if he remained there, as he (Cli
:nan) had been telling that Bob Corley
and Bee Corley had helped him to rob
iley's store. Bee Corley was seen
and denied this in toto. Bob Corley
was not present. Both are young men
of good reputatiun.
The only other evidence of any in
terest broght out before this corre
sponrient left was the statement of
Dace Perry that Chapman had sold
h:m a number of small articles pre
sumed to have been stoleo from Riley's
store. The coroner's jury is composed
of good men and thoy s&m determin
ed to solve .ne mystery if possible.
Mr. S. B. Corley and the members of
his family, it is understood. say that
Bee Corley was at home at the time
of the firing of the sh ;ts. Mr. L. J.
Merchant. an honorable man. states
that Bob Corley was at his house when
the shots were ired. (Onc theory is
that Chapman. who was a gambler.
was killed by other negro gamberlers.
It is said that the bottoms of Little
Saluda river are a resort for negro
gamblers on Sundays Chapman was a
negro of had reputation and has ligur
ed in court quite often.
COAST LiE AND SOUTHERN.
Said to Be Uniting to Buy the Plant
System.
The Florence Times is authority
for the statemert that a veteraa rail
road man who is in a position. to get
the "inside" of a good many goings on
in railroad circles says that the report
that the Pennsylvania was about to
buy up the Coast Line was not true.
lie gives it as coming from a re
liable source that the true explanation
of the rise in the Coast Line stock i
due to the fact that the Coast Lin'e
and the Southern are to join together
and buy up the Plant system. The
road is the Florida and West Indian
connection of The two lines and the
Seaboard. The opposition line al
ready has entrance into the promised
land'of the South through the F. C. &
The Plant system is the old road
and ramities through the state n
has extensive Gecorgia connections
and into Alabama. a very rich terri
tory. and the road is regarded as a
fine piece of property. Since Mr.
Plan's death it does not seem to have
had the successful management that
it had before. and the two great sys
tems which are dlepenidenlt on it for
southern connections have joined
tgether in securing it bet ween them.
which will prevent any war or rates or
business bet ween the Coast Line and
the Southern. The Coast Line con
nects with the Plant at Carleston and
the Southern connects near Savan
nah.
There are promninent men in all*
of those roads wvho own stock and large
boks of it inth other lines, and
there is no lc If hrimony among
them. Tlhis is believed to be the
nest. piausl" est'mion of the re
cat senasat l.a in .alred eireles.
Better Lte Than u Nev'er.
Tihe Columbia Stt says5 Henry
W.tt ersn is ahvays racy. always in
.;.s*ve, and~ lie made gaioid use of his
genius for phrase-makiing in the
speech hie deliverod in Washington on
Monday. We hop'e it will have its ef
feet uipon thotse pre.sent oir former
But' Mr. Wt ter~.4> ini urgling the.
TIn.e VraCy to aute (in a plat frm ofl
oppositi. n~ to i'nper'iai.sm and abis
otsis dos not blaze Out a new pathi
f.rte ry Thbe nat iona! Item
rti o vn .1 i 10" dist inell d -
elred that oppsii.nt the :tlminis
rat in' , Tic: ''f i'mpaism~Y5 was 't heit
'LaraV mon is - of the camlpa icn
and. le a ee i hav ction was od
eiu taken by t p at a large ma
jr'ity of I~ c tie Iraipers had
conunlfit Tee th'''esee to the same
p opoti on. The tribi Cwith WVat
tror, is tihat he. hsnt alwayvs been
Ion on i '' iss.ue I himself. Now that
i., v iews\ar amende'~ I and improvedI
we e t gl: 1ut we prottst that our
nee: rit if e' I mewhat audlacious
in sig::lia~mg m co ing tm by
a hl a t id run~v wck. near Wii
m inN.-. u ivre2 a ske't'rn
sllr ki'd unin .- beoreo the rev
be of brass~''' miiar b '1nso EngtiLlish
manufacture duin the Ii severtIenth
cel Onmilv'
TH E RACE PROBLEM
In The South as Seen by a New
England Republican.
ENFRANCHISING THE NEGRO.
Was a Fundamental Mistake, Says
Mr. Littlefield, a Congress
man from the State
of Maine.
The Washington correspondent of
The News and Courier says Charleston
will hear with interest (f a speech
made in Washington Wednesday night
by Representative Littletield. of Maine
upon the "lRace Problem of tbe South.'
Mr. Littlefield was a member of the
Co-gressional party that visited the
Charleston Exposition 'week before!
last. Ile returned to Washington Sun
da:. week and has been generous in his
good words about "The Ivory City"
ani- "The Old City by the Sea." His
speech at the annual meeting of the
Waishington Congregational Club last
night is but in line with a number of
other views held by the distinguished
gentlemen from Maine, whom Demo
crats and Republicans recognize as one
of the broadest-minded men in Con
grass to-day.
Mr. Littlefield gained considerable
pr:innence several years ago by a
speech he made in defence of Brigham
IT. Roberts. the Mormon member from
Uah, whom -the Republicans refused
to seat because of his religion. Mr.
Littlefield ranged himself with the
D2mocrats on that question, claiming
tlat there was no legal reason why
R)berts was not entitled to a seat in
tte House. In the debate upon the
Porto Rican tariff bill Mr. Littlefield
again showed himself broad enough to
cut away from party fetters and op
pose that measure. His latest utter
ance on the negro problem is in strik
ir c contrast to the Crumpacker resolu
tion which an element in the 11epubli
can party is endeavoring to get into
the House, with a view to cutting
doi*n the South's representation on
account of educational and qualifica
tion suffrage laws here. The speech
a so gains in significance, delivered,
as it was, immediately after Mr. Lit
tietield's vizit to the most Southern
c.ty in the South. It was the first
trip of the "Man from Maine" to that
section of the South and, while de
s .rous of seeing the Exposition, it is
understood that the main object of
his trip was to see for himself the ex
act conditions in the South.
Mr. Littlefield, in taking up the ne
ro problem. said that the black slaves
was a vital factor in the development
(f the country when cotton became
the staple production of the South.
A t the close of the war the United
S;tates was left with four millions of
blacks on its hands. This was the
rost serious problem left hy the war.
These negroes had been freed from
Ilavery and were occupying a position
of peril to the Government. The civ
ilization of the white people, said Mr.
Littletield, had been accomplished
after years of struggle and association
with the greatest races of mankind.
Thle negro had been brought direct
from his home in Africa and no efforts
had been made toward his education
or civilization.
"By what right,"' asked - the man
from Maine, the man from Blaine's
wn State, "does an Act of Congress
seek to place an inferior race on an
equal footing with men who have liv
ed through two thousand years of
Christianity? The nation sought to
create in the negro race the ability
not only to govern themselves, but to
assist in the government of others.
What was the result? This race was
in the midst of a people developed in
the highest state of civilization known
to man. A people who have been
overwhelmed -by one of their own kind
and whose wounds, physical and mor
al. were smarting under the blow of
dlefeat.
"The Kuklux Klan was the out
come, with its civilization behind it,
trying to suppress the newly-created
citizens. Then came the "grandfath
er clause ," which virtually disfran
chises every negro in the South where
it is in existence. If the elective fran
chise had been given only to those
who had the intelligence to use it the
tendency in the South would have
been to increase its representation by
legitimate means. To-day the tenden
cy is to keep Southern men in igno
rance and to keep the negro out of con
trol. To increase the representation
properly under such conditions requires
the utmost intelligence.
"Few men to-day know what is to
be done. The negro is with us. lie
has the right of citizenship* and we
cannot adopt th6 measure so often
suggested to deport him. There is
no authority under which we can de
oort a citizen from the United States.
lht namesake of the Father of his
Country. who is working down In Ala
oama. is doing the most practical
work. We must look to the practical
education of the negro as the only so
lution of the problem. Fundamental
mistake was in enfranchising the race,
placing in tne hands of those people
powers they were unqualified to exer
cise, giving them power over a civiliz
d race overpowered by war. It takes
more than a generation or two, or
three, even. to civilize any people. For
tunate will be the generation that will
see a true solution of this problem.
In closing Mr. Littlefleld touched
upon the Philippine problem as anoth
er one which the country wa called
upon to solve. "It is not possible,"~
he said. "by any legislative act or by.
education to create in any race the
power of self-government. It may be
latent Dower in some races that only
need thie touch of the higher civilized
bdes of men to develop. I am pre
pared to say it is not in the power of
the negrro to govern himself, as some
~eople have said. What we know of
the 1Fiiipin)o -what Gen. Chaffee says
ii his report-is that this race excelsl
ii duplicity, treachery and the arts of
savagery the American Indian. There
are ten millions of people dependent
upon us. Only a few of them can
readi and write. I do not know what
wllb acmplished. T do not think
it is giving away a State secre, to say
that there is not a man in the -louse
of Representatives on eitber side who
sees the proper solution of this prob
lem ahead. I believe that. the Ameri
can people now face a serious situation:
that it will require all the shrewdness
and Christianity of our people to solve
this most difficult question. But I
have faith in the future of the Repub
lic, despite that international vermi
forn appendix known as the Philippine
Archipelago"
Mr. Littlefield's speech has been
hailed with delight by the Democrats
especially. and should the Crumpacker
resolution ever reach the House from
committee it is thought not unlikely
that the man from Maine may take the
floor in opposition to the mnasure.
Certain it is that. Mr. Littlefield has
shown that he is not afraid to say
what he believes. be it Republican in
sentiment or not.
A:1i iditor's Lament.
Trhe Knoxville Sentinel says it is
astonishing how the public looks upon
the newspaper as a free horse to be
ridden to death. People will pay
money for a band. for lights. janitor.
to go to a job printing office and buy
thousan's of dodgers, pay boys to de
liver them. pay performers in the en
tertainment. if they are professionals,
or pay some manager to get up the af
rair and give him a large percentage
of the receipts. pay all their bill-in
fact. pay for everything except that
Which is most valuable to them--to
%vit, -newspaper advertising. And if
the new ;paper is unwilling to deavote
nore notice to sue:i entertainment
than Ih-ral news notices it comes in
for much abuse. And yet why
houl I not the newspaper charge
for its a Ivertising sp tee just as the
wner of the hall charges for its rent,
the bilibjard man charges for the use
of his bilboards. the lithographers
charge for furnishing posters, the
job printing office charges for the
odgers, and the outside parties charge
for their services? The newspaper has
nly two souras of revenue. One is
ubscription, the other advertising.
The subscriptions to newspapers are
o cheap that they little more than
pay the cost of the white paper.
A Cruel Husband.
J. B. Post, a farmer 35 years old,
living on the Worth road, four miles
;outh of Tanawanda, N. Y., bound his
wife Amanda to a stake in the bull
pen of his stable Thursday morning,
She wore a red calico apron, which
troused a confined bull to frenzy and
in its rage the animal attacked the
woman and gored her to death. It is
aid that Post's act. was caused by
jealousy of Hiram Coates, a Free
Methodist preacher who lives at Ken
more, half a mile south of the Post
farm. Coates has been a frequent
aller at the Post farm and had often
one out driving with Mrs. Post.
Thursday night he met Mrs. Post at a
prayer meeting at Kenmore, and as
the pair were attentiveto each other
Post quarreled with his wife on re
turning home..
A Horrible Fate.
As a result of an accident at the
3rr Mill at Anderson one day last
week Hugh H. Scott, a machinest and
egineer, lost his life. Scott was sent
here several weeks ago by the West
nghouse-Church-Kerr company to
uperintend the erection of the new
,000 horse power engine. Steam was
urned on the engine for the first
ime and Scott was standing by watch
ng its movements. He stepped upon
he base to oil a bearing when his
oot slipped and he fell into the rapid
y moving fly-wheel. He was whirled
round and hurled to the opposite side
f the engine. He was horribly
rushed and mangled, both legs being
roken and the lower part of his body
as crushed. Notwithstanding the
njuries he was conscious when assist
mce reached him and wrote the name
f a relative in. Michigan to whom he
vished a telegram sent.
Corpse Held for Board.
A funny case is reported from St.
ouis. Until a few minutes before
he hour set for the funeral of Mrs.
arrie Schlosinoger, Friday afternoon,
here was doubt as to whether the
ervices would take place; the body be
ing held for a board bill alleged to be
ue Levi Silverman and wife of 2816
)live stredt, where Mrs. Schlesinger
led. Henry Schlesinger, the woman's
on. who is a traveling salesman, was
otified by wire of his mother's death,
nd came to St. Louis to arrange for
he funeral. The Silvermans presented
o him a bill of $S0 for his mother's
oard and their care for her. Schles
nger declined to pay and was told
hat the body would be held. Schles
nger employed Attorney Howard
idener and was about to enter suit in
eplevin when the matter was compro
nised.
Has Thirteen Wives.
Christian C. Nelson. railroad con
tractor and horseman. alleged to have
3 wives is in jail at St. Joseph, Mo.,
in the charge of bigamy, having just
een brought in from San Antonio.
ex., where he was arrested a few*
'lays ago. NeIkon will be tried in
t. Joseph because one of the women
nost active in his prosecution was mar
ied to him in that city last Septem
er. This bride was Mrs. Mary A.
arker of Plattsburg, Mo. Nelson
dmits having three .wives, but says
he other 10 are miyts. He is said
O be wanted for bigamy in Chicago.
an F'rancisco. D~es Moines. New York.
t. Paul, Sumter. S. C.. and Conway.
Ark. His preliminary trial will be
aeld before the same justice of the
peace who solemnized his marriage
with Mrs. Parker in September.
Hard1 on Funston.
Senator Pattersons. of Colorado in
the United States Senate Trhursday
sharply criticised the methods by
which Gen. Funston captured
Aguinaldo and sought to show that'
le. Funston's statement published
to today that he had not violated the
rticles of civilized warfare was not
accurate. The senator said that all!
tuthorities upon international law
nd the articles of civilized warfare
declared that the use of the enemy's
niform was not warranted and that
a man in an enemy's uniform wh o
killed another man was guilty of'
assasination and outside the pale of
potetin.
DID A GOOD BUSINESS.
The Insurance Made a Handsome
Profit Last Year.
The official figures were received
Friday from Mr. A. W. J"nes, who is
in charge of the insurance department
of the Comptroller General's office.
showing the. income and losses paid by
the foreign insurance companies on
their business in this State. The cor
rected and official figures are today
given for the foreign companies hav
ing agencies in this State. The state
ment shows that the foreign com
panies, which do about half of the fire
insurance business in this State, have
not come out at all badly and that
they have a safe and liberal allowance
on which to do business and, that
after agents' commissions have been
paid and an allowanc' is made for
adjusting and the like, there is still
a pretty good margin of profits in the
S.-uth Carolina business. If the in
su rance companies have, as they clai m.
lost three millions of dollars on their
busines east of the R'ckies they cer
tainly have not lost any part of it in
tnis State, if their aggregate reports,
made np by the companies themselves,
are to be relied upon, and these re
ports are made under oath and are the
basis for the taxation of the various
companies in this State.
The American companies have al
reported, but their figures have not
been verified: but the figures, which
are practically correct and mostly
verified, show that the total receipts
from premiums for fire insurance for
the year 1901 are $941,746 and out of
this sum $534.712 was paid in losses,
which gave the companies 44 per cent
out of their gross receipts in this
State on which to do business, and it
looks rather reasonable that insurance
business ought to be done on 44 per
cent after losses have been paid provid
ed the salaries are not too great a per
entage of the earnings of the iarious
companies. As will be seen, ofcourse,
some individual companies did not
take in as much in premiums as they
paid out in losses, but the figures that
are given are for the business of all the
ompanies doing business in South
Carolina and, parenthetically, it may
be mentioned that those companies
that made money last year on their
business In this, as weli as other
States, have all joined in the general
increase of 25 per cent on the rates on
erchandise and stores. The follow
ing Is the official shoying made by the
foreign insurance companies doing
business in this State for the year end
ing December 31, 1901:
Name of Company. Risks written.
Baloise......... .. ..$-- * **
Br.-Amer. Assu. Co...... 421,862 00
Caledonian.................. 237,312 00
ommer. Union Assu....... 1,957,509 00
Ramburg-Bremen......... 497,066 00
Helvetia Swiss Fire.... ***
Imperial Insurance Co..... 466,745 00
*Lancashire Fire......... * *
Lin....................111,906 00
Liverpool, London, Globe. 5,463,049 00
London Assurance........... 329,394 00
London & Lancashire.... 1,151,543 00
Madgeburg Fire......... * *
Manchester Fire ........ ..356,682 00
ketherlands Fire.............***
North Br. Mercantile....... 1,632,606 00
Northern Assurance.... 1,160,781 00
Norwich Union.......... 1458,849 00
Palatine .......... .. ... 599,310 00
Peoenix Assurance......1,452,683 00
Royal Insurance ......... 3,142.353 00
Royal Exchange Assu. 315,231 00
Scottish U. &N.. . .... 455.562 00
sun Ins, offie........... 613,879 00
Svea Fire and Life....... ***
hames & Mersey Marine 1,078,529 00
nion Assu. Society...... 752,479 00
Western Assu...........1,139,550 00
Total................824,884,882 93
*Withdrawn from the State.
**No report.
Premiums Losses
Received. Paid.
Balose....... 2.88626 **
Br.-Am. A. Co 7,544 99 2,437 56
aledonian...7.134 36 4,711 28
oin. U As..20,645 36 15.682 62
'burg.Bremen. 10,740 15 14,116 35
~Helve'a S'iss F. 3,746 04 * **
mpe rial Ins. Go 8,263 21 16,401 91
~Lancashire F.087 98 * **
Lion........... 1,677 27 2.2.53 97
ierpool L & G 72,174 48 29,476 07
ondon Ass.. 4.528 95 5,415 18
~Madgeb'g Fire. 7.915 75 10,954 78
ancnester Fire 533 87 ***
etherland F. 7,460 68 7.12~8 63
orth Br. Mer 21,422 37 7,925 68
orthern Assu..- 15,397 49 3,140 23
Norwich Union 21,068 52 5,763 30
Palatine........ 6,0158.3 7300
Phoenix Assu. 20,800 42 11,598 09
Royal Ins........25,954 84 25,262" 68
Royal Ex. A ssu 4,069 94 -658 04
Scottish U & N 8.416 12 10,046 18
Sun ins, office. 10.730 45 4,2 97
ESveaF &L ....1,879 26 *
Thames & M. M. 2.444 80 330 .35
nion Assu So 6,194 46 7,746 11
Western Assu ..13.264 99 12,902 49
Tot al........316117 80 8$198,826 47
Gave His Life for Others.
To the Editor of The State:
Seeing an inquiry in your paper as
to the whereabouts of Dir. J. W. Powell,
urgeon in the Confederate States
rmy. I will say Dr. Powell went to
ississippi during the yellow fever
pidemic several years ago and died of
the fever. He went there to help the
fever sufferers and lost his life. Dr.
Powell was a native of Fairfield coun
y and has quite a number of relatives
in that county now.
J1. S. GUNNELL.
New Brookland, March 26.
A Dangerous Tool.
The best of bank safes are no longer
urglar proof for Julius E. Ilaschke, a
Chicago electrician, who has bought
m invention which will enable the
nan applying it to cut through the
ardest steel plate as a boy with a
mnife would cut St. Lawrence county
heese. Armor plate such as is used
n the United States battleships, can
e perforated as an auger would bite
ts way tnrough a plank of Northern
pine. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Justice at Last.
Neely, Rathbone and Reeves, the
merican carpetbag offeials who loot
d the Cuban postoffce department,
ave received tardy justice ini senten
es of ten years' imprisonment accom
panied by fines ranging from 8$35.
10 to 856.000. The cases agains
them were begun two years ago,
md the slowness of the American
dministration in Cuba in pressing
a.h proecinn s has been scandal
MASONS ON A LARK
Shriners do Not Represent Serious
Side of Grand Lodge. .
Grand Master Walter M. Whitehead,
of the South Carolina Grand lodge,
contributes a card to the Charleston
Evening Post Thursday, called "Draw
ing the distinction between Ancient
Free Masonry and the order of the
Mystic Shrine" with the end in view
that the public should not confuse the
serious order with the amusement
branch of Masonry, about which so
much is being written and talked- now
in connection with the coming celebra
tion of "Shriners' day" at the exposi
tion. Grand Master Whitehead ex
plains that the Mystic Shrine with all
its amusements and attractions is not
Masonry, although the only prerequis
ite for n-embership in the Mystic
Shrine is that the applicant must be
either a Knight Templar or a Mason
of the 32nd degree of the Scottish Rite.
Among other things Grand Master
Whitehead states:
It is to be expected that the "pro
fane," the uninitiated who has never
learned the beautiful system of mor
ality that Masonry inculcates, may con
clude from the absurd, farcical parade
and the reference to hot sands," "hot
air." "sober camels," "astute astrolo
gers," "rope ends." and other fantas
tic and nonsensical terms, that Mason
ry is unworthy the attention of seri
ous and dignified men.
Such, however, Is not the case. The
Shrine should not be confounded with
the Masonic system, as it is neither
Masonry nor a branch of Masonry.
While it diverts its members and
amuses the gaping crowd the grand
old order of the Masonic fraternity,
which has survived the criticism of
centuries of inquiring thought, sur
vived. the hostility of crowned and
mitered heads, grown grander as It
has grown older, which has secured
the fealty of sages, philanthropists
and patriots, which has dried the
tears of orphanage, hushed the wail
of widowhood, helped the stranger to
friends and the poor to benefactors
will continue to move forward down
the centuries undisturbed and undis
mayed by the silly pranks and foolish
antics of the Mystic Shrine.
TILLMAN'S CHARGES.
Senator McLaurin's Friends Insists
on an Investigation.
Senator Pritchard, of North Caro
lina, is making an effort at the meet
ing of the committee on privileges
and elections to secure action on the
resolution he introduced some time
ago calling for an investigation of the
charges made by Senator Tillman
against John L. McLaurin, that the
latter was influenced by promises of
control of federal patronage In casting
his vote for the ratification of the
Paris peace treaty.
There Is a feeling among certain
Republicans in the senate that this
subject should be allowed to drop,
but Senator McLaurin's friends insist
that the investigation be made, and
Mr. Pritchard, who is a member of
the committee before which the resolu
tion is pending, will urge that a favor
able report be adopted. Sentiment
in the senate seems to favor the adop
tion of this resolution. Mr. Tillman's
friends say he can prove the charges
he has made, while Mr. McLaurin's
friends insist that he can not. Both
sides, -therefore, are ready to support
the proposition for an investigation.
It is said that Senator J. 0. Bur
rows, of Michigan, chairman of the
committee, does not favor the Pritch
ard resolution, and will strive to have
it suppressed. Among the warmest
advocates of the resolution Is Senator
M. A. Hanna, who says he believes
the Tillman charge reflect on the late
President McKinley, and he will lend
his efforts to a favorable report upon
the ground that the memory of the
assassinated President should be
purged of all aspersions.
Tired of Life.
Wednesday evening a porter of the
Scriven House, Savannah, Ga., de
tected an odor of gas. It came from
roorn63. He tried the door and found
that it was locked on the inside. He
got on a table and pushed open the'
transom over the door. It was dark
inside and the porter struch a match
and held it up. Instantly there was an
explosion. Room 63 and a number
adjoining were wrecked, and windows
shattered in other parts of the house.
A fire alarm was turned in. Firemen
entered room 63 and found on the bed
the dead body of W P. Hankinson,
aged 24, of Ellenton. S. 0. He had
taken morphine, unscrewed the tip
from the gas burner and turned on
the gas. Letters found on his body ex
plained that he was despondent and
determined to die.
Republicans in a Hole.
Speaking of the Crumpacker resolu
tion, Representative D. Linn Gooch,
of Kentucky, who is one of the most
conservative men in the house, said
last week that "for once the Republi
canls have placed themselves in a hole."
He said further: "We remember what
followed the force bill legislation of the
fifty-irst congress-the election of a
Democratic house and two years later
the election of Mr. Cleveland. I do
not hesitate to say that in my humble
:pinion we will elect aDemocratic house
this fail and thus pave the way to car
ry the presidential election in 1904,
nd the Crumpacker resolution will
prove to be worth thousands of votes
to us next November."
Who Can Answer?
Governor McSweeney has received
a letter from Edwin D. Newton. A.
M., M. D)., asking for the whereabouts
of Dr. J. W. Powell who was medical
irector of the 3d army corps of the
Army of Northern Virginia. Mr.
Nwton was a member of the immedi
ate statf of Chief Surgeon Guild, A.
SOME PLAIN TALK
From General Miles on the Proposed
Army Bill.
IT MXAJS CENTRATIPAT'ION.
"Throwing the Door Wide Open
for a Future Autocrat Or
a Military Despot,"
Says the General.
The statement of Gen. Miles before
the senate committee on Military af
fairs as it will appear in the official
records, has been made public. The
features which caused something of a
sensation when published the day the
statement was made do not appear
and the following colloquy at the close
of the hearing explains it:
Mr. Pettus-Mr. Chairman, I think
there ought to be some mode of hav
ing these notes revised.
The Chairman-That will be done.
Mr. Pettus-The report of the pro
ceedings should be submitted to Gen.
Miles, with permission to strike out
such portions as ought not to be pub
lished.
Mr. Proctor-That is it.
Gen. Miles-I do not know that
there is anything to be stricken out.
The Chairman-We have. been in
the habit of submitting to the witness
before the committee, whoever he was,
the stenographer's report of his re
marks for correction, of course.
Mr. Pettus-I wanted to go further
than that. The stenographer has no
doubt taken down correctly what the
general has said, but there are some
things that he said which he may de
sire to strike out, and I think he should
be allowed that privilege.
The Chairman-He must be the
judge of that.
Mr. Pettus-He should be allowed
the liberty of striking out anything
which ought not to be published, even
if it is stated correctly In the report.
The stenographer's report was sub
mitted to Gen. Miles and theofficial
report indicates that he followed
closely the written statement he had
prepared and read to the committee.
The main facts of the generals opposl
tion to the war department staf bill
were given at the time. Sbme of the
features of the statement, however,
not reported at the time' are of In
terest.
Gen. Miles said of the bill:
"It is centralization of the most
pronounced type, augments the power
of the staff and in effect.removes It
further from touch with the fighting
force of the army. The scheme is rev
olutionary, casts to the winds the les
sons of experienee, and abandons
methods which successfully carried us
through the most memorable war
epochs of our history. *** The pro
posed plan is but an effort to adopt
and foster, in a republican ;formof
government -such as ours,. a system
peculiarly, adopted to m6narchies hav
ing immense standing armies. It
would seem to Germanize and Rus
slanize the small army of the United
States."
In addition to that .portioni of the
statements heretofore published show
ing how the president could by-promo
tions makesa captain chief of staff
with the grade of lieutenant general,
Gen. Miles said:
"It seems to me you are throwing
the door wideopenfora future autocrat
or a military despot. It Is not, in my
judgment, in accordance with the
principle and theory of democratic
government and for the best .interests.
of the army, which has existed more
than a hundred years and fulfilled all
your requirments, to adopt -such a
scheme "
In commenting on the above The
State says this is stroung language,
certainly, and quite eneugh to make.
It plain why President Bossevelt on
hearing of It was seized by and almost
Irresistible desire to retire Gen. Miles
from his position at the head of the
army-a method of restoring har
mony In the military establishment
which he was only kept from adopting
by the urgent advice of his friends In
the senate. This indictment of the
measure by Gen. Miles corresponds.
with that pre seated several days ago
by this newspaper on the strength of
Secretary Root's admisson that the
purpose of the army bill was to let
the ranking officer of $he army "come
in with the president and go out with
president." We obsereve that Henry
Watterson took the same 'view In his
speech on Monday night, Then he de
clared that this army recorgnzationu
bill, if it shall become a law, "wil~.
make the power of the president abso
lute" and that it ought to be entitled
"an act to make the president of the
United States a military dictator."
Cotton Warehouses.
The stockholders of the Trust Com
pany of the Republic met last week
in New York and elected D. Leroy
Dresser, president; Alexander Grieg,
vice president; F. F. Robertson, sec
ond vice president; and James L. Liv
ingston, third vice president. Thomas
Clarke will be the secretary and tireas
urer. The company was organied prin
eipally to develop, in conjunction with
the Security Warehousing company, a
system of warehouses through the cot
ton belt and to finance issues of in
vestment certificates basedbon guaran
teed warehouse certificates. To carry
out this plan the Security Warehouse
company will enlarge capital and build
about. 150 fireproof wareh~ouses
tarough the South. Connections will
also be established with a .large
number of southern bankse and
t is intended to reduce the rates
the of insurance and interest to
producers. The company plans
also to extend this system eventgially
to other industries, such as mining,
umbering and grain growing.
A Blind Architect.
D). E. Rearden, a Boston architect,
s totally blind. Nevertheless he has
lesigned may building in that city,
and has just completed the plans -for
a six-story apartment house to. be
erected by the Perkins Institute for
he Blind.