Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4)ALEAS is CIRUWDE!). Over One Hundred Thousand Visitcrs in the City to HONOR CONFEDERATE HEROES. Ei;;hty Thousa:nd Men IleepIing in the City ol Tenzt-. Twelve Thous and Breakfast at One Time. Opening Exercises. Dallas, Texas, is crowded with o'd Confederate heroes anid their frieni It was estimated Tuesday night there was 125.000 visitors in iti),,, From cari morning unItil I night the streets were Ti l : it is said over :;o.000 peope U ited the camp of the old veterans inl tlhe fair grounds. While thousands of visitors did not leave the business sec tion of the city, Camp .Johnston. tw'o miles distant. where tbe opening exei cises were held, was crowded to the limit. Delegation after delegation from the four c-rners of the countr y reported and were assigned to their divisions in the vast city of tents. The great mess shed, seating 12.o0. was opened at 10 o'clock. An armv of cooks and waiters worked like bea vers. while the veterans. with a hun ger born of a night in the open. did their best in an able manner to keep the cooks busy. DIDN'T WAIT FOR COMMANDER. The convention was compelled to open with Gen. Gordon. the comman der in chief absent. Hon. John M. Allen, the orator of the day. was not present when the convention began. Gov. Sayers and lion. G. B. Gerald. however, appeared at the last moment and were vociferouly cheered. Among those on the stage were Judge John H. Reagan the only surviving mem ber of the Davis cabinet: W. L. Gabell: Gen. Stephen D. Lee. a cousin of R. E. Lee: Gov. Heard, of Louisiana: Mayor Capdeville of New Orleans: Col. Lee Crandall, who was on "Stone wall Jackson's staff: Miss Lucy Lee Hill of Chicago, the sponsor in chief. and Miss Virginia Paddock of Fort Worth, Tex., the chief maid of honor. When the convention opened the veterans, many of them comparing the bounteous plenty of their breakfasts with the starvation they were often called upon to endure during the war, were in high good humor. The build ing, seating 9,000 people, was filled to the topmost row, soon after the convention was called to order by Gen. K. M. Fan Zandt, president of the Texas Reunion association. From pillar and post hung bunting and flags and pictures of old Confederate chieftains. The crowds were com posed not alone of veterans, but of their sons and wives and daughters. Maids of honor and sponsors, some notably those from Louisiana-in brass buttons and Confederate gray, but the majority in cool white-lent an air of ornamentation to the scene. Following the opening of the meeting by Gen. Van Zandt, Chaplain Young of Texas delivered a touching invoca tion. Gen. Joseph D. Sayers, on be half of the State of Texas, then wel comed the visitors to the State. He was followed by Ben. E. Cabell. mayor of Dallas, who gave the veterans the freedom of the city, speaking as fol lows: THE WELCOME TO DALLAS. Hon. Commander and M1embers of the United Confederate Vn terans As sociation: Words possess not the power to express the welcome we would extend to you. Within our borders dwell the children of your selves and of your comrades in arms. Taught by the glorious examples fur nished in your unparalleled record of courage and patriotism, we individu ally vie with each other in our devo tion toyour heroic association. Actu . ated by a love akin to idolatry with one voice we bade you come, and from the youngest tot to the aged member of every household feelings of pleasur able anticipation have oone out to every nook and corner of ]5ixie land. Since your coming was announced in our midst there is not a threshold here where aught but glad welcome awaits you. Proud of the historic re cord bequeathed to us by you our ap preciation and devotion to your most noble band by opening our homes, our arms and our hearts for your incoming. We would have you feel that though you have many of you traveled far. you are yet very near and in the very midst of the strongest atfect ions of the sunlit land of the south. I beg to assure you that nowhere in the land that challenges the admiration of the would for its devotion to your beloved association can be found hearts mor'e loyally devoted than those whose guests you are today. We are grateful for this opport unity ti show our children our unchanged and unchangeable devotion to the he roes whose deeds of valor till the brightest pages of our country's his tory. Personally it is the proudest day of my life as the representative of our enterprising city in the name of every citizen to bid you joyous wel come. We beg that you will under stand that we take a holiday to do your bidding. That our most earnest and anxious wish is to act the welcome of our hearts which is more loving than our tongue can tell. To the Daughters of the Con federacy and the Sons of Confederates wye wvish' to give assurance that without them this grand assemblage would he in complete. The veterans regard you as an inseparable part of their associa tion and could not satisfactorily hold their reunions without your presence. Your attendance is a glad manifesto of your appreciation of the glorious herit age acquired by your fathers througvh undaunted courage and unblemishedi patriotism. We bid you thrice wel come and ask your cordial part ici pat ion in all and everything prepared for t his great occasion. To all other visitors coming into our midst to encourage, and join in the glad shouts of lasting love and devotion for the aged veter ans, who in the morniig of their lives, furnished to the world the grandest examples of heroic devotion to thec principles recorded in the world 'is tory, we bid you a cordial welcome. To all that make up this grand assembl age: the people of Dallas. along every street. from the stores and shops, from the mansion and the cott ae. *n one voice in all sincerity cries out wci come and thrice welcome to the hest and all we have. A TEXAS WELCCME. G. B. Gerald of Waco welcomed the visitors to Texas. lie said: In welcoming the veterans on be half of the Confederate veterans of Texas, lion. G. B. Gerald of Wa co. paid a tribute t'o the Confederate sol dier, both in war and in peace: con demned imperialism and opposed the admission of Confederate veterans to homes for U~nion soldiers. thmu~h ihe said he honored President 1e Ninley for his expressions upon this subject . adding that "he thought he voiced1 the sentiment of the south when hec said that MIeKinley's death was thme I greatest calamity this land has known sine the dath of L incoln." Mr7. ni Visitors: An 1 k 1s id. "Build mon I~ af rme 1abl mreo v.o Arl' it ld h ! i..lt i i l it o, u I ie I ll , I rnd .\rmI o h s )I i' 'l1t I t n rh IC-nfe1 - v -k and Da11"1e ".1. i 1 IV t~ i c. Staini of h-onor: an for. ti' 1: rea si. I ItU itt Itdi 1I 1iiac n ~ spone !o 'eI 1h1 comlimen t pad t a.. U II I I It rt(1 1 1ut i * 1 1% ihah of iie t nedt erzt soit hrsL h Texa~s. 1 ,o t only11v 1 teir old1 com"rades whIo ha ve com'Ie 1) .:"inl inl t he e.r t ion Of 'iht, ! iN * . 1; f *ut4) nT for i tI ause?. bit all oIhers: n) Ii mal li frm whee I her comite. or w het ier I It ey re.' tictl t h. l ictor I f t h lit ' r 0 1 1 u 11 over the <!--tEt of the gry I wel-. come10N yOU 'in the 01: m 1 o 'ite city ol I)la t la"; to Th i tt i'im hearts and j - iitableut lun es, fhinol men ma~it tilentdild wolenit. w\ho arbut N tyrpical oae len te Is IlhiaS i fou/md su re Vtat i is Ie grhat r e publ P(o tf tils me)l spot led of it Voun eirce. 1 V I h1 You to onu andobl.e iind 'k ind1(1red heI(a r! and co IlgenI"d.1 soulsl and te ane to recall1, oi day hun' spenlit wit ii its a-, amnongo Iihe mnostz pleaus anlt s of our lives. Inl wetxotle i l tid old comtrade of oir Skat v,. wihi soe whloml for four lolng \NL.shae rie toils of I Il n itrgl YU t' Wit In Ie auranel hat t Confeer au sokliers of Texas hothn as l itzens of the wtrl and of ea11 gr'eat WRepubli have nlot proved false. to thevir record in the past. To the Sons anod Dausglters of the ConfedraiCy, 1 eend 1o you a doulble welcomne. for. you art, bone of Our hone. and flesh of otur deh. al so ouri and is ommoiTted the t-nk of soelpm to vindiatel wh w e t hof hirtorywh we are goneo. Andl I carge you todlay. Sons and lDaugohters. that You never grow wearv of the rust coasited to your keepi'ng. Remember how lon, it took the word to learn for whal o\ il liam the Silent fough. fo what Horg. Egodont and thouans Of others din :e and that there is surely sleeping in the womb of time the pen of some other Notely which will dive through t he musty records of the past as it tells the true story o[ the rise ahe fall of the Southern Confederacy, and when it is told it will live embalmed in sto:-y and in song unt il the Eng~lish langutage dlies. GE-N. GORDON ARRIVE$. At 1.15 p. .e, Commander-in-Chief Gordon arrived. The manner f his entrance into the vast auditorium was dramatiec. Gen. Van Zandt had an nounced that all hope of the presonce of Gen. Gordon had been abandoned and the meeting hadbeen turned over to Gen. S. D. Lee. commander of the Army of the Tennessee. Gen. Lee was In the midst %f his seec when il commbner hadoce acnd-a ear tf the laor. TheOur loe co alcude hear toheuwod hat wird, pleasedou mAt thanm thse veteany oter toaher.fet "'I wasllt fpaul no mie." said Gen. Goren when the appmande had subn mande "tat s twenty ors ateil aybe you boys can remember a tile wen I was not late." GtEN. (+ORDON'S sPEECHI. (;en. Gordon's speech was as follows:. Governor.3Mr.3Mayor,. Gentlemen of Committee and my fellow countrymen of Teaas: How shall I tell you what we think of Texas, of her gr'eat hearlted peo ple. her broad praires and st ill broader hospitality? I but pooly expr'ess the thought of these vet erans when I say that whether we look at her geographi cally. historically or' sentimentally Tex as is about the bigest t hing? we ever' saw. She can raise cattle enough on he wild lands to furnish all the canned beef for the armies of Uuele Sam. .John Ball and tile Germnan empire. and st ill ha ce fertile lands enoulgh left. if lianited' ill the leeck staple. to mtaixe more hales of cotton than ar'e product.ed by America and Egypt combined: or. if olanted ini train crops, to feed ever'y ian. woman and child ini the union. With such a terrlit ory'-almost equal to that of tile original 13 St ates w"hich t hew otT the yoke of bondage and. wrechted fr'eedom fron t he greatest of empres-tis !gr'eat commonnwealt h holds today w ithlin its boarders a popu lation devoted to 1hose sanme imperish able principules -a ptopulat ILLn whlieb. if tle oceasion should comei would wage another se.ven-year' war int defence of this intherited1 repuldic. its flag. ns laws and its regulat ed lbe'rt les. In the few mtonwttst iln wh'lichl pro p'iety permits mie to speak, I datre not trust myself to make mlore thani the b~riefest allusion to T1exas htistoryv. I cannot sturvey even the continesof that vast tield, made so rich and so inspiring by the great deedsof~i her mar it ial sons. Indulge me~ jtust lung enough to. say that fr'om her birt h, t hrough all her costly experiences as a si ruggling re public, and thro'ugh subseq~uenlL wars. the sons of Texas. whenever sumoned~ to the sacriftice, have poured out their Goliad indl Sain Jai LLnto fromn Buna i \ ti a and Serrto G ordo. from~ Chican matua'.s il and Ithe siere rLL'IC ocks of the IUUund Tops'1 at'Gettyshurgl fromt the hairre of her eowhoys and toughl riders up the wire girdle' stcens of Smli tiaigo. from every 1attle tieldi ma de ieorblte byv .\mteican) val cme's tte t briillingAr 'l anserel ofl Tea XI free dm ca.~ ll. No w onder slhe ha's ml spied hier neigersl'l" bieytod the Ilio rane withi"itI 'uch wholesome respecLt for her proge.s. NO wlonder' that t h Lone Star is so) dazin g to Mlexican yes. Youi ktnw tait tile Miexicans claim they coul' d stan up'1lt fa irly well ga inst the whiole' of the Unit edI State if it were not for Texas But not only is jTe'xas great histoi lly and great in iher tgeogtraiphicval x atse. butt she canf dot. mtore in a smiall space than any Vt1e count ry Inte vorld. As proof. I poinit you to li:l Spinde Top whr Ia fI ew ac.res can pour out of t e greasy throats. of boil ing t hun d'rmg prusherst itli ough to ight e very I a'nt Ithe land an1 at 4 tze smneti tine if government experi ment'Is atre succssul.enug il tt0 kilt all the tma tes lfrom th'e .e'e Agai T'tIexas Ihas it Ie bttr.iggest i' (eI f therh si in al I h le an ivers. Shl i~ lulstrateC byl muing e? T het I broh 'tetly has alr'early an-wered with th lame ofel let''hOu i )'la 'C'S d teool fro lhe WuIde) lohanu tlhouha Ifhe '0''0'lt1' 7 isi' lt('f i~ a011 rn I in >r Ot onenta ite. nr tpcigl lin pLgr yovlse veins runs the blood of the Lounii les of this m Vi repubie whose son it is 'o ih ny for stru in *man'y - igha :o freedom. !u 1 a I n i h dI mi t rdo fl 1:: 10:14hono :na,hIoo.d and loe I:" va I.Inawn.yu yflo ~m v li wmndl \.()It IIIV l\- ~ TeeX of : exSbe lieve. and you have a in1 to believe that everv soldler u~ 10) braveIly fougt ini ihe t'uunfedilati arv ani remnainied Ioyal to its menw1 ries.::sw'I as loyal to the repuibe. 0 a prinee 1n huis Iown right ant hy Is 0 own achivement. You helieve. and von hlave right to bieye. t hat eve ry grav can Ihat ever sheltered Ihe head of : faiul ('onfedral e privat e. is a obler Itrowni t han that. worn hv aI poleniate (n earth. But I am I re passilng anwi imu1st close with1 the affee SionaI reetings of those soldiers to 1, ihs.eaIt S tt e and gloriouseit y. Our a: re (illo hot h s. and so long as life lasts we will hold y-ou in lovin g em brace.' hoausands (if peoiple lined the st reetst during the afternoofn and were appre eiative \witnesses (if the arrival of ; Musta ohtf 1 en Selim. the kaliph, di- I rt fr~l mf:edd The Nal\ip' is king of an organiza tion wV hich annually regales Dallas . with a sort of mardi gras. " lis un uterable xIltedniess" withl his sub Jects 1ar 1 with all thesplendor th it t isei can g:ve, was broug_,ht into the lrenin to len'd a streak of oriental splendl r oi the occasion of the deliv ering of the key to the city to Com mandler-il-Chif ( ordon. The Kal iph and his gorgeous subjects. follow ed by carriages conta'fning Gen. Gor don and distinguish i members of the United Confederate Veterans. Gov. Heard (if Louisiana .nd Gov. Sayers of Texas. ).%. bandls and militiamen and trumpeters. proceeded thro" streets to the ofticial review near the postolice. Het Caiell. in a grotesquely sober speech deferentially presented an immense gilded key to "his majesty." The Kaliph. said to Ie a Texan vf long and I honorable standing, by means of an interpreter. in turn handed the key to Gen. Gordon, thus giving that veteran the suzerainty of the city. THE WEATHER AND CROPS. Light Frosts, it the Outlook is on the Whole Promising. The following is the third weekly bulletin of the season of the condition I of the weather and the crops, of the I State issued last week, by Director Bauler of the South Carolina section of the climate and crops service of tile United State weather bureau: The temperature averaged about 60 degrees per day. below normal, during the week ending Monday, April 21st, and the week was uniformaly cool, with a maximum of 76 degrees at Bow man and a minimum of :7 degrees at Liberty. Light frosts occured on the 17th and l1&h in Horry county. The sunshine was deficient. the sky having been overcast during the great er part oif the week. The winds were generally light, but too cool for vege tation. Some rain fell in the State on the 14th. 16th, 17th and 19th. The rainfall (If the 17th was general and was the heaviest for the week. ex cetthat in places heavier rainfall ac companied thunder storms on the 19th. The average for the week was less than an inch and was about normal. although in many places it interferred with farm work from the 17th to the close of the week. Preparations of lands made rapid progress, except that bottom lands are still too wet to plow. In many l'i alities the week was uniformly fay (ralie for farm work, but, owing to the prevailing low temparature, was unfavorable for germination of plant ed seeds over the central and western cunties, anid for the growth of young e rops, especially corn and truck. The former is yellow and sickly in places. There is a scarcity of good corn and cottonseed. Corn planting is nearing completion over the eastern counties. where much is up to fairly good stands. but not unif. .rmly SO. and where cultivation ha begun:h over the central counties most oIf the corn crop has b~een plant Ied. alt hough hut little is up: while oer the western counties only a small p) ortin has beecn planted, and scarcely any 1s up. Cu: worms and crows have damged stands. necessitating some relantinag. Cotton planting is about half finish ed over the eastern counties, is well. uner wvay and will be general this week river the central, and has only been begun~ over the western counties. Little. if any. is up to stands. Tobacco ulants have been set out in a nurn er of localities, but generally tie plants are too small. although pleatiftul and healthy. Rtice planting continues tinder fav rable conditions. and in places is near ig completion. ThIere is a general improvement not ed in both wheat and oats, although neither grain is entirely satisfactory, owing to poo~r stands and lateness. Fruits of all kinds are considered safe, except peaches in the western portions. wvhere this fruit, was seri o~sly damaged. ir not ruined, by the cold dluring the spring.I Gardens continue backwvard, but look well. Pastures afford grazing except in the western counties, where grass has made scant growth. Watermelons are coming up poorly. ( Theyc Were convicted. One of the most interesting cases i tried at Greenville for a long time wasa against men wvho made an attack up- t on MIr. Thoi~mas 31. Ilill, the depot t agent at Greer's, in which he was so a seriously wvounded that his life hung in 1: the lalance for some days. while he was contined to his home on account t if tihe wounds for several months. t The iun who were arrested for this r astarly crime ga.ve their names as t William *r. Etters and Kelly Goods. e and they ha-;e been cintined in the t Greenville jail ever since. They were v b(.t h conhvicted. n Two\ ladti detitsts received theirk diplomas from the Atlanta D)ental 0 College Monday night, and when they set up shopl fior b.usiness they wvill not dltubt findi their places as piipular as P the femoale barber shops. D ay hy 'ay wome ai~lre forging ahead in all linues 1 .f im'utst rial pursuits, and even the " irofessior is are wit passedl unno ticcd. We would wo(rnt all whlo visit the Itl harestonu Exposition to be (in the It looIkoutI for the pick pockets. Not al Iiv on the groun ds, but everywhere, e .111( especiail y when they are in ah thuig lie had said. MeLaurin had called him a liar and he punched his nloSe. ITf there was any man who thought that in sr) doing he had dis giraced the State let him1 hold up his hand. To this there was no response and the seiltor replied that if lie had not puncied NPLaurin lie wou ld have ben called a coward. Ie was ready to make a special dispensation in be half of this .I udas in order to ive him ;u relief fr the opportunity to goi and hang hiiself. Ile was ready to propose that the State cnvention pass a special res(.luition allowing Mc Laurin ti take or not take the pledge just as be saw lit. Hie demanded of the convention a revision of the con stitution that would guard against traitors in disguise. wHISKEY RElATE CIIAROES. Then Senator Tillrman took up full the whiskey rebate matter and said whenl he took hold of the dispensary failure was predicted. It was a simple business matter. le had $50,000 ap propriated on which to start a busi ness that has since grown to over two millions. Twenty thousand dollars was used to equi p Agricultural Hall and buy machinery and supplies; that left $30.0;0 to buy Stock, and it would have bought practically nothing. These blessed papers fought the dis pensary and tlhey and the dealers warn ed the whiskey people not to sell us. and it was only through the confidence of George Hubbell, of the Mill Creek Distilling Company, that the State could get its supplies on credit. le insisted that the State get pure li quor. and no concoctions, and full measure. He wanted as good liquor as could be gotten for the price- arid mix ed a barrel of cologne spirits with a barrel of two-stamp liquor. One of these grades bore no rebates, as he~ remem bered. and the two were mixed and averaged up about $1 35 and was the best kind of liquor. The State gave no note or other evidence of debt. and he thought it fair for this credit and the averaging of prices that the State waive its rebate. It got none and that has been known all along. There was no use to get rebates; what was wantted was the liquor and as cheap as possible. What hurt him was that this charge was not openly made, like a brave man would have made it. NO REBATE WAS EXPECTED. No rebate was expected. He kept a close watch on the Mill Creek Com pany and it always dealt fairely with him and the State. Without this credit the dispensary would have perished for lack of suppiies. The only reason they charge that rebates were gotten was because a dishonest man could have gotten them. They thereby confess, he supposed, that they would have taken them. After winding up on the first re bate question be said: "Do you vant all these question answered?" Appelt: "I don't think it neces sary." Senator Tillman: "So even you are satisfied?" THE PENITENTIARY MATTER. Senator Tillman then took up the Penitentiary matters, and in brief he said that the sworn statements in thc Stevenson Penitentiary report answer ed every charge. The Penitentiary investigating committee had five 01 his bitterest political opponents and they found nothing against him. He presnted the full report in the Mix son investigation and showed that it was not there charged that he ever got any rebates. Last session, at his suggestion, a resolution was offered looking to an investigation, but it failed. As to the refusal of thc Mill Creek Company in showing its books he knew nothing. He was not surprised if it was so, because thE company had been shabbily treatec after it had sold the dispensary when it had nothing. lie explained that he had always paid every bill he ever made at thC Penitentiary or otherwise. HIs OIL sTOCK. As to holding stock in the SabinE Oil and Marketin" Cormpany, he had a right to do so. 'Ihe insinuation was that he bought it with money he stole A friend of his, Mr. Lockwood, from Pennsylvania, wvent to Beaumont and wrote hinm thiat he had a good thing, and thinking that he had been in th( i business all his life he might makc somethinghe accepted Mr. Lockwood's o!Ter andl ser.t him $1,200 for a twen t-fourth interest. Lockwood was air oil man and had always fought the Stmdard Oil Company. lie always woulri iramble a little, never at cards oi races, and this was a pure speculation. and he was afraid the Texas oil craze had made him lose $1,200. lie had lost money in cotton futures and was not ashamed to tell it. Congress has noth~ ing to (1o with a Texas oil company. After he wvent in the company made him a director and organized in Newv .Jersey, that was all1. lIe had nothing to (10 with Texas oil company, except to lose money or possibly make some. H~e then took up the dead-head frank stamp on the telegram and explained that the law did not prevent its use outside of the State, and that he was rnot to he bought with three dollars' worth of telegraph courtesies. Every Senator and Congressman received such a courtesy. At first he thought the act did not apply to Federal otlicers, but was shown that it did by Mr. A p pelt. Hie read a letter dated April 21, fronm Mr. Burris in which he said "~I have no recollect ion of Senator Tillnman per sonally ordering me not to open an ac count'against him, and if I have so .atedl in the cirtificate given to Col. Neal I did not mean to sav positively that he had so ordered mc. My recol let ion is that I received such instruc ions through Col. Neal and supposed that he had been so directed by Gov. Tilnan." HE Is STILL IN DEBT. lie then took uip the editorials and answered the intimation that lie was a rich man. IHe was to-day, he said, noorer than when lie wvent to Washing on. Ie did own about 2.000 acres of land in Edgefield and Greenwoodl and some lie got in Florida in 1so6. hbut all of his land except Iris home place lie inherited or got before he went into publr lIfe Icle owed $6J.000 when in -1et Governor*'s ottice and paid oli about h lf of it. bumt since he had been in W ahuigton lie had spent a good deal in liv ingi and otherwise and had lost ini cot ton furtures and lie wvas about $9.000~t oi $10.000 in debu to-clay anid he guessed( lhe would die ini debt. He said he was a simple sinner arid not one to ery o~ hurrtiah. Mr. Appelt said lie never charged Tillman with stealing. Then he explai ned about his son, B. R. Tilinan. .1r. being his private see r~tary: cold how lie selected him arid that ire was in Washington studying law. Not only was Mr. Appelt riot sat istied w~it h dragging in the men. but ie dragged in his daughter, lie ex pained how sire wvent to a house party in Lr a. His dauighter taught music in Georgia for eight months and made 'ibout m arid with this money she svenit to buffalo and stopped oti at Eri to v~isit firends, and yet Appelt had to rar her into the matter. In closrin, he said that if the people voted or Appelt under the circurmstan e it would he a virtual condemnation ri h ij -m lf (TiIihnan ) EDI'1oiI APPELT IN REPLY. Ed itor A ppelt said he felt very much ~;raiie at his --light e-tctigntionn * Tilbnan had made a inasterly argu mient and. as he had said time and again. he was going to stand by t he part::. le had never received a dol la from McLaurin atnd every speech he nui>!ished of .1leLaurin was iegit i mflate. Only to-(a'y ht had rtplied to TI Hlmtan'is speechOn i he outisZ hia lie uise:1. As for hiniseliti- hIdv( no taIn11t I lIt-pIullicaniisI and his whli.; lightI ni as 10 heep the !)emocrat ie ;m.y :1 as it nlow is . Nite ZLurin. hitf6l1 . woul h le oo i. M pride to rim as z! ira it y. il' a white mtam and a g'ood mian and I her. is no lise lo rIlb ii In. Ile wotll o il vot e for leILaulrin as a !)emocrat. .s I newspaper lie ?sed ti le vohliin of his paer as lie i hought fairiv :.i pub1lishied niltter Sent ito h1;1n. 1lW irled never to he infair. As to t he Penitent iary report. he had never read the report of I lie colilit tee. The Times puilished that it had certain evidence and ii has produoced it. It has not lied on anyone. The Times sa id it had cert iiCatCs and it offered t hem. Never in his life had he heard sich an adroit dictation tiat lie sliould he left at home. Personally lie cared lit tle for otice. le only wished to serve his people and if they wished others it was well and good with him. le asked all to put it to their hears tnd alwavs remeiher that lie was at all times' r ie to his people. his coun ary and hisSt ate. (Applause.) TILLANN "NOT GUILTY. Senator Tillman then had his hand primary. At iirst there was some confusion aboit the quest ion. evident lv over the word "accusation." but oni the final vote I wo hands were raised to indicate that th elieved him I guilty. but when le askell for the vote on "not guilty" of Appeit's insinua tions there was a general hurrah and hundreds of hands went up to joyfulliy acclaim that they thought him not guilty." It was a regular old-time 'Tillman hand primary and one that gave him the joy of olden times. Thus the meeting ended. WITH LIQUID AIR. How a Hotel Waiter Was Treated by an Expert. Here is a good story of the use of liquid air as told in the Warren 0. Tribune: "Prof. L. Orville Davis. B. L., the liquid air expert, recently had no end of fun at a hotel where he was break fasting with some college friends while awaiting railway connection to the town where he was scheduled for experiments and lecture that night. Having asurplus quantity of air along he carried to the dining room a pint or so enclosed in the wonderful Dewar bulb, the vacum-lacket bottle which so protects its contents from the heat of the atmosphere that evaporation is greatly retarded and the mysterious fluid does not wholly disappear for several hours. It was a pint of the coldest thing on earth-made of every day Boston air. reduced to one-800ti of its ordinary volume: 312 degrees below zero. looking and Jiowing just lake water. one of the most marvelous substances known to scientists and one whose energies, when harnessed, may revolutionize the industrial world. "A rear steak was among the things ordered and the same was soon on the table before Wizard Dav is who. while tihe waiter was bringing coff ee, poured a. little liqiuid air over the steak, quickly freezing it as hard as a rock. "Waiter. where's the rare steak I ordered? And what is this you've brought me?" said Mr. D. tapping the adamantine piece of cow with his knife, while a well-assumed air of in dignation masked his usually happy countenan~e. "I d-don't k-know. b-boss. the wait er faltered: I d-didn't do it," and he starte.d for the head waiter, who quickly appeared. "Does your hotel usually serve steak this way'?" and Mr. Davis picked up the meat between two fingers and struck it with a knife, causing it to ring like a bell. "No-I don't-perhaps its that fool of a cook: he's a new man. I'll find out what it means." and he hurried with the icy beef to the kitchen, where consternation reigned for a while. "Mr. Davis unebservedly turnd a little from his bottle into the tumbler of water. which being neairly 400 de gress warmer than the liquid air, the latter was caused to quickly evaporate and what looked like 'stream' arose from the tumbler. "Waiter, I didn't ask you for hot water; please bring me a glass of ice water." *** 'For de Ian' sake alive, dat man in dare must be de debbil hisself or neah kin shuah. I know when I got 'nough and I don't so neah him no more-not if he done starves entirely"--and he was true to his assertion; though he afterwards admitted "perhaps he's only one of those hypnotesters." "The hotel proprietor nowv appear-! ed and recognizing Mr. D~avis as the liquid air exhibitor, repeated the wvai ter's kitchen remarks and kindly re quested that he not scare away all the hotel help, adding that good igars were in the otlice awaiting the party's pleasure. ''A little- liquid air yet remaining. Mr. D). gave a few stock experiments, such as freezing quick silver into a hammer hard enough to drive nails with. the softening oJf a tin dipper so it crushed as readly as pasteboard. and finally the freezing oif straweber ries as hard as ballets. meantime stir ring them with an old steel fork the tines of which were almost completely meltedl, sparks of burning steel tiying iercely, yet this intense heat not pre venting the liauid air from imparting Its terrible frigidty to the berries. A Sensation in Arkansas. At a meeting of the Second Baptist church congregation of Little Rock. Ark., Wednesday night the disciplin' committee presented charges agai nst Guy. .Jetl'erson Davis. who is a mem er of the church. The allegationsae cuse the governor of profanity. drun kenness and gambling, It was decid by the congregation to appoinit a com mittee of three to wait on tihe gover nor and demand of him a statement as to whether the charges are true or not. No further act ion was taken by the church. ;ov. D avis is Out of the State on a vacation tour andl is not ex pected to return until about .iutne 1. Until his r'eturn no further steps will )e taken in the matter. Weather That Kills. Nebraska is having a vairiety oif weather. There was a drop of 50 degrees throughout the State ont Wed nesay and then a bltzzard set in and( reporrts from the extreme niorthtwest er part of Nebraska and the Black Hills telll of a heavy fall of snow. 15 inches at Custer, and neatly two feet at Speartish. Trains are slightly de layed. more, however, from the furious win1 than the snow. A LIVELY MEETING. tcoNTINrED FROM PAGE I.) arolina penitentia ry. at the request Col. Neal I sh ipped by express t wive ien week during the summer. vege bl Bi . !R. Tillanan. Trenton. S. C. atl i paid out of my.1 prvOW udsth press cliarges for each shipiin. ountlingi 10 about1 t wnV ty1 dollar.11S.Iheit n1V Nt being ifniill bY TillaItni. ol. Neal paid l-,i in p'isoln the t-! ii' mn .\.1.sond ly Columini. S. 0.. 'a 1. .1- . I hIereby c Vt ify that as N : of lie SI al e farm I shipped 8t. I. Tillian. riton. S. C.. tight y buslheis of oat s n t Ihe :( day of ozt o ber. ls1'6. no pa 1l f which lias ever been paid lIo ne. WV. T. i1c0 ill. Thki 3d day of ODotoer. 19i. Columbia. S. C.. Oct. . 1901. 'ol. W. A. Neal. Columia. S. C. lDvar Sir: Beplying to your inquiry s to thew history of the ten tons of COt on seed meal shipped to Senator h. . Tillman, we heg to advise I hat on ch ruary 13th. . we shipped. on our order. as superint endent of t he enitent iarv. to ,. I. Tillman. Tren on, . C.fenl Itons. of meial, charging ame to the peniteitiary at the pritce . which we sold it to u, viz: k 1.5 ir ton f. 0. b. Columbia. We prepaid reight amointing to $15.00. making a ot al charge of $202.50 This account was not paid until J tine Itth 1899. when we received check rom Senator Tillman fer $180. As enator Tillman wrote tis that he had >en in the habit of getting meal at I 8.50 per ton, we agreed to cancel his ecount on receipt of check for $I5. Ae received only $lS0. but marked the eount paid in order to to get it, off ur book. Yours very truly. A. M. Withers. tsst. Mgr. Southern Cotton Oil Co.I Columbia Dist rict. I hereby cert ify that during Ihe yeai 94 and i995 while I was superintend -t of t lie South Carolina penitent iary. he institution furnished R. It. Till nan, governor of the State and chair nan of the board of directors of the :enitentiary the following goods, &c.: Iules. wagons. tools guano. seed and abor to cultivate ten to twelve acres f land near the city of Columbia. said and was planted in oats. After the :.ats was harvested t he land was sowed n peas and the crop mowed for lay. All the crop was delivered in the arn at the governor's mansion. The )enitentiary also furnished Gov. Till nan during the two years wood, coal nd vegetables and many other arti les no part of which was ever paid for. have recently learned from the book eeper of the penitentiary during hose two years that Gov. Tillman in ;tructed him not to charge anything to alm which might be furnished to hir >y the penitentiary. W. A. Neal. October 6, 1901. Anderson. S. C., Dec. 11, 1901. I hereby certify that I was book eeper of the State penitentiary from tbout the 15th of January. 1890. until :he end of Col. W. A. Neal's adminis :ration thereof except about two weeks n Januarg. 1893. The penitentiary frnished mules. tools. seed and com nercial fertilizers and labor for about welve acresof land for Gov. Tillnan luring the years 1893-94, and also fur mshed from time to time wood. coal. egetables, and one car of brick. which was shipped to Trenton. and other irticles for which payment was never made in w.hole or in part during my :onnect ion with the institution. of my knowledge. I was instructed by Gov. Tillman rnot to open account with him on the kooks. IR. C. Burris. A ppelt also produced a paper show ing that the whiskey trust had al towed rebates of from five to ten cents per gallon. Hie took his seat amid hurrahs for himself and for Tillman. SENATOR TILLMAN'S DEFENCE. Tillman's reply and defense con sumed about three hours and only shreds and patches'' of it can be tated here. IIe wa~s only an humble senator from Washington. lie had never felt as large as some persons and hoped to God he would never feel is small as some persons will. (Laugh ter.) You would not hang a dog on 15at this man has brought much less onvict me. (A pplause.) lHe asked who sent these pitiful attacks on hIs :haracter to Appelt. Tilman declared that there had never been a more pitiful petering >ut of a great hurrah than in this ex ibition of Appelt's. "Yesterday."~ said he, "while riding on the train I saw a remarktble incident. Going byv negro cabin I noticed a black cur Sog going full tilt to catch the engine. 3f course it did not catch it because :tdid not try. but I want to ask you vhat would have happened if it had ~aught the engine. (Laughter.) It loes seem to me that McLaurin's lenchman is very much in the condi f that black cur. He has gone abouit :his'dirty business in a way that in licates that: he was afraid, but that le dared not stop until the postoltice Lt Manning had beenfilled. "I want to make this man a warn ng. If there is anything rotten in ne it will come out in him and not hen his hairs begin to grow gray. 'or 54 years I have had a clean re :ord for personal and civic virtue and here is no honest man who is not al endy satisfied with that record. I tt going to make Appeltism a by vord and a hissing as long as there is y record of it in this State." The enator took up Appelt's questions ategorically; answering the first he aid that he was the father of the >imary in South Carolina. 2. Under the party pledge we haive man whol signed it. who has voted pith the Republicans in congress since 900, whose vote against Blryan. and hose every action stamps him as a lepublican. 3. Of course I believe in free actionl ithin the limits of the party. At affney I tried, as a member of the )emocratic executive coimmittee, to xpose McLaurin's treachery, and ince then they have been hunting for ebates and potatoes. Oh. pshawv: it i a waste of good soap to shave an ss. I feel disgusted that I have had o travel all the way from Washing on to come lhere to wash off the dirt nd tilth and manure that this man as been spouting. 4. The senator said that by 'pre ending friends" Appelt meant that le people oif Clarendon were not aanly enough to vote according tot heir convictions, but that they re eivedl their orders from Tillman. i~e ad not been in Clarendon for eight ears and did not personally know 20 en in the county. it is a good bing for me that I came here to -ake you up from your lethargy and ep some peCople fromi making asses themselves. We have omitted that part of Sena r Tillman's~ speech in which he leaded for the solidarity of the State >er tiracy aid discused State pilities 1n this issue, but it w.iil he published in otir next issuie. Ie Chad not come to attack McLaui n. lle could easily hit. him between e ees iin Washington. lHe was wait ig on the committee on privileges rd elections to report that resolution tling on him to produce the proof of is charges against McLaurin. They ired not bring in the resolution h~e muen haenn nol rmo every stlitary SENATOR IN A HIHT. to Fav 7arz AND IS EJECTED F203 CA2. The s*emutor Is Hit .Several TzimJan: Se-naor Mon of M issii.ppi ha-I .n altereation with (. Ii. Shaner. a cOn dultor oa fourteent.i streei car in) Waslhington Ii Thursdlay. which re suited in the senator's receiving t wo severe blows fron the conductor :un the condu:'tor he:ng -It in tle riht band wit h! kPnif. .AseSentor Mon relates the c*r(i!:nstances. he was pro ceding f om his home to the Ial i more and Ohio railroad depot to take the 9 ociock train on that road for 1: ti more. whcre he goes frequantly for 1 medical treatment of his eyes. le had taken a car on the Foureenth street branch of the Capital Traicrion com pany line and had chanced to b) ard a car which stops at the Peace rnonu ment.half a dozen '*wks short of his desti nation. Ie had failed to notice this circumstance until the Car b,gan l o turn around the monument. The car hound for the depit was innedi ately bOhind t!e car on which h2 was seated. The senalor says that h-e ld only three ir four minutes Ilmei which to make his train, but that after he discovered tlhat he was on the wr'-nr car he called to the conductor and asked him for a transrer ticket to the car bound for the depot. He d0Ies not recall what the conductor replied. but failing to receive the ticket and recognizing that he had no time to loose, he jnmped from the car he was on and boardel the other. D*MANDED HIS FARE. lie clad n)0 sooner taken his seat., he says. than the conductor of that car approachied him and asked for his ticket. He then told the conductor he had not had time to secure the transfer and reminded him that he, the conductor, had been a witness to the circinstancas of his change from one car to the other. The conductor replied that the senator would either have to produce a ticket or pay his fare, whereupon the senator told him that having paid one fare and being entitled to a -transfer which he had asked for but had not received, he would not pay another. Thereupon the conductor told him that if he would not pay his fare he would put him ott the car, and immediately pro ceeded to carry his threat into execu tion. This the senator resisted by grasping an upright post, and engaged in a struggle with the conductor, who was not making much headway when a passenger who had been sitting next-I to Senator Money volunteered to assist. the, conductor. By their combined strength they contrived to break the senator's hold upon the post and t.' force him from the car. The senator says thlat when they first undertook to eject hi~m the car was in full motion. and he feels that if thley had succeeded at that time hle would inevitably have been badly hurt. The conductor and his assistant did not. however, succeed in thleir design until thle car-stopped at thle next crossing to let off other pas sengers. - STRUCK SENAToR OVER HEART. Hie says thlatbothl the conductor and tile pasienger were very gruft and abusi ce in their language, and that after ha had reached the street the conductor hit him a severe blow over tile hleart with his clenched fist. The blow, the senator says. was very pain ful. and in order to protect himself he took a small penknife from hlis pocket and opened it This weapon the con dutor grasped and in doing so cut his hand so that it bled very freely. After this proceeding other persons stepped between the two, but notwithstanding their presence, the conductor. who is a very tall nman. struck him another blow over tile shloulder of a man stand ing between them. This blow was struck with tile conductor's bloody hand it hlit the senator squarely on the jaw. He was as a consequeuce of this olow covered with blood from the conductor's wound and this circum stance was responsible for a rumor that the senator himself had been se verely injured. The senator adds that there were three of four policemen present but that none of. them took any steps to prevent the altercation. He says also that both the conductor and the passenger who assisted in his ejactment refused to give thleir names. Tie senator was not badly hurt but is trip to Baltimore was prevented. He. hlowever. proceedea with his cus tonary duties about the capitol du r ilg the day as if nlothling unusual had occurred. sHIANERI's SIDE. Shaner is a vigorous but boyish looking man. He says that lie did not see the senator leave the car preced ing his: that he did not strike the senator until tile latter drew his knife and that lhe did not make an effort to put him off the car while it was in moton. Ilis wound is a sli;;ht iiut across the ball of the thumb. A war -at was issued for the arrest of Conl ductor Shaner on the charge of assault. It was sworn out by Senator Monley. A warrant wias also sworn out by the Mississippi senator against .James E. Iooper, foreman of truck A of the dis trict fire department. Hlooper is tile passeger on the car who assisted tile ' nducetor. Later Senator Money call ed on President McFarland of the btard of commissiOners of thle District (It Clhuimbia and preferred verbal :harges against Hlooper. Mr. McFar land toid him Hooi -would he brought hefre the trial b 'd and tile case throghly investigated. Senator MIoey also wrote tO tile president of the Capital Ti-action company demand ing immediate dismissal of Conductor Shaner and thlreatened to sue the coim pany for dan-ages if such action was 1 not taken. The company severali years ago dismissed a conductor at the request of a Massachunsetts senatort who resented the conductor's polite olter of assistance while leaving the car on an icy day. Thie company's action resulted inl vigorous protests at the time. CH A RGEs AGAINST POLloEMEN. Senator Money later brought chlarges t aainst Capitol Policeman Murphy, who is alleged to have taken thle part | f tie conductor in tile struggle withia ile senator-. Formnan Hlooper and c Conductor Shlaner were arrested. but ir both were released on furnishing satis-|j factory security for their appearance r n te police cour. Is A WELL F.NwN PATRON. n.ar Mone said that be had )een rii..: no th:- i.n - 2: winters and ii:r..2:rn tne' ii trouble he had rii. H-1 h ,l -n very friendly vi';i n m radi and al a sia 1a . . s aborut their .: mi .cated many a,; t: t I ir beneit. When I.- e1he loop car the conductor, he . w i his hand to the conductor ~i theda r e iniatn that it was li 1 t. H i celad there were ---s : i (;tinct assaults >mc po anI~ ! drew his knife. S a. : ;: . . but not -i ......ccci from the - i :m " t ! w u-itii after the con : o:nd m: ed 1to attempt to i1u0t;1f w e the ejectment. Fore na'i II'par did not strike him, he ad. bMut tuged at his wrist to jerk -is I vI lio-4 frron the post beside his a t t!m, i.tin in the first assault. "A fr wve were all out upon the :vhemenia." said the senaator. "HIooper wized my wrist to prevent me from at tui cuadu,;tor, a. Woaih t. but no one preventetthe con juctor uon striking me a heavy blow aer ut heart. Tnat blow constituted be .nd asisaut. an I the third was _nMnhttil Wt1a tae conductor reach -' over piicema:n Marphy's shoulder nd slapped ne on the jaw wifh his >i yand. T.i plc in did not ry.. t) per.:t thi, blosv. After the tlitereLt-i was oese the conductor ihreit - en1m with personal violence a the future. I feel very badly- in ieed and a'n uider treatmnt for my injuries." Aogs Soldier. Thc proposition to erect a monu ment to commemorate the war record (.f Gen. B. F. Butler, of unsavary ieuory, has called out some salty eminaisc<.nees of his disgraceful acts v:hile vc:.ring the uniform of his country as cne of her soldiers. - We fully agree with the Augusta Chronicle that "the Massachusetts legislature will do well to let him sleep on, and not unnecessarily provoke a discussion of t he war recor d. of this military governor of New Orleans. Little good is to come nt fanning anew the embers of a dead past, but in this na tion that has not many honorable heroes, so many soldiers who wore the blue, whose memory is as fragant and respected in the south as at the north there is no need for any state to select for conspicuous public honors one whose name is an offense to any other state in this reunited country. Very. naturally the propsition to rear a monument to Gen. B. F. Tatler has aroused resentment in Louisiana, and the New Orleans Time-Democrat pilorids him as "a bogus soldier," and. recites some of the eiecrable exp0A riences that citizen of tlhe-Ae nt City endured under his--military rule." The Times-Democrat says general o-rder No 28, which was -issued by Gen. Butler when he was military governor of New Orleans during the civil war, "is not an order that can be broadly discussed in polite society, which is unfortunate, for it is upon this infamous order alone that the fame of the Massachusetts general as a soldier rests. There is nothing .else in his military career that is worthy of serious comment. Ludicrous inci dents there are'in plenty, such as the attempted destruction of Fort Fisher by a raft loaded with powder, but his career throughout the war, aside fronm the issuance of the infamous order, is a matter for discussion by 'the humorist rather than the historian. A consummate judge of human nature, this "soldier" knew that the surest means to strike terror into the1 hearts of a race of men possessed of . courage was to threaten their helpless women. That was the purpose of the infamous order No. 28, in which a rude and poorly disciplined soldiery was ordered to treat any woman whose carriage or conduct did not meet their own views of what was right "as women of the town plying their voca tion." This order proved to be, as It was intended to be, a revenue pro ducer. It inaugurated as gigantic scheme of plunder that has not been known in the history of warfare since Count Tilly sacked Mad'geburg. "The redoubtedly general organized a system of robbery and blackmail that proved that he made up in his capacity as an organizer what he lack ed in military ability. He instituted a system of confiscations and auction sales of the property of "enemies of the country" that resulted in the sale of household effects at prices n heard of before in the markets of the world. It followed as a necessary corollary of this system that the wealthiest citizens were the, most treasonable. To be a traitor it was only necessary that one should possess property that some one else wanted. Camp followers wore velvet, and the private soldier could purchase the accumulated wealth of a well-to-do family. Real laces sold at the price rf calico, and 'negresses blazed in jewelry. Ladies and their children were turned out on the streets because their place of residence had taken the fancy of some dissolute camp follower. Priceless libraries were packed and shipped to northern homes, and were followed by cases of bric-a-brac, family pictures and even horses and. arriagzes. Silver in whatever form vas " contraband of war" and silver~ pwins were treasonable." To the :onr of the Massachusetts Legisla ure. be it sailI. it, refused to appro riate the people's money to erect a uonument to the memory of a man whose chief claim to military distinic Ion is associated with an order so in ~aous, and an era of blackmail and apine that can never be forgotten by ts victims. In honorlag the memory f such a man Massachusetts would I ishonor herself. Negroes Want It. A committee of negroes, composed >f eilovernor Pinchback, of Louis aa: 1;ishops A. Grant. of Indiana; 3.W. Lampton, of Mississippi, and N. McKinley. of South Carolina, call d on the presideht Wednesday and .skedl his support of the Crumpacker esolution, and the bill introduced by lepresentativye Irwin providing for he appointment of a commission to uvestigate the condition of the negro. 'hey declined to discuss the details of he interview, but said it was entirely atisfactory. For Melon Growers. The new act of the general assembly equires all railroad lines to iile with he railroad commission for publica ion by that body the t-tritTs on water Ielons in .Janua ry. or February of ach year for the seasoan following, id provides that the rates cannot be hanged during the season. Thus far ne of the roads have complied with rith the law, and the railroad comn aission Thursday notified them to