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- O 7 VI M 1ANNING, S. (2., WEI)NESDAY JUNE2G102 O4 ON THE STUIP. The Candidates for State Offies on the Rounds. THE CROWDS NOT VERY LARGE. In the Main the Speaikt- .i: the Same and t he s'pech1't'. Esen tially the S:11m, at :til Meetin . The canipain!1 for Stat ofi 'r. was opened at Sumter on last Tue-sday and up to Saturday meeting wore hld in Orangeburg. laumberg. St. Gerg:x and Charleston. The maetingrs have not been very iargely attended. as the farmers are two busy in their cropo to give much attention to politics just at this time. The sccen'i mue.tin a' Orangeburg on Wednesday was at tended by about 500 people. w:ich is about the largest attendance yet sec ured. The following account of the meeting we take from the News and Courier, whose correspondent. Mr. J. E. Norment, says it was a tield day for Ileyward. his reception being a genuine ovation, which seemed to have the effect of making Col. Talbert hot under the collar, but he soon cooled down. Col. Sloan got the first pervasive cheers, warmed up to his work, made a tine impression, wind ing up with a colloquoy with Mr. Bleas'e, who skilfully turned some of his opponent's thunder. Many tilts were. lively, but that between Col. Gunter and Mr. Stevenson was, per haps, the most exciting episode of the day, being a spirited. rather personal, controversy, more than slightly tinged with acrimony. The audience was thoroughly attentive during the en tiresday, had much to say and seemed to enjoy the entire occasion. THE HON. F. B. GARY, candidate for Lieutenant Governor. was the first speaker and was received with applause. He wanted the office honorably. - He would say nothing derogatory to his competitors. Show ing another's unworthiness does not prose. fitness of speaker. le referred to the duties of the office he sought and their similarity to the duties of Speaker, which office he held for six years. le opposed the Phillippine war, opposed expansion, was down on trusts and wa'ited to wipe out fac tional feelings. Mr. Gary closed amid applause, having made a good speech. The next candidate for the office was THE HON. JOHN T. SLOAN. He referred to a past election when Gary appeared as candidate for Gov ernor and Sloan for Lieutenant Gover nor. This was going backward and he wanted voters to help him put this Gary back. He was proud of Orange burg County. the best county in Am erica-in some respects. le joined his friend Gary in asking the audiencee to be just. Gary made a fine presid ing otticer and it is now time for some one else. Division of ottices is a car dinal principle o'f D~emocracy. As a boy, lhe said, he joined the Confeder ate'army and later rode with the red shirts. Now it was time he was re warded. He was second in the race last year, and if the winner had been named Jim Jones, instead of Jim Till man, *.he would have beaten him. (Laughter and applause.) Col.-'Sloan made a vigorous speech, being inter rupted with resounding cheers and re peated hurrahs. He effected the tirst real genuine, old-fashioned warming up of his hearers yet seen in this cam paign. THE HON. OLE L. BLEAsE came next and he began by saying he would not recount ancient history, but would give his platform. First, he favored white taxes for white schools, biennial sessions, good roads. building'the common school system, schools taught by Southern teachers out of 'Southern books. lie then as sailed Mir. Gary's speech, saying he had not defined his position. lie re ferred to the "A. F. 11. Dukes as sault" and declared himself in favor of the dispensary. It is not yet a set tled question. Why do they dodge these issues? Because both once went to defeat on it. lHe said he was ;standing on the same platform of two years ago. MIr. Blease made a good speech and received applause and commendatory remarks from his hear ers. MIr. J. T. Sloan asked for one min ute for a question of personal privi lege. He vigorously disclaimed the 'dodging" ascribed to him and de *clared himself in favor of the dispen sary. MIr. Blease asked him where he stood last year. Like Calhoun, .Mr Sloan replied. I changed my mind. .Amid cheers for both candidates and some confusion the episode ended. The legal luminaries next came for ward to shed light upon-various sub jects. THE HON. w. F. STEVENsON led off here today. He was not per sonally acquainted here. but was glad to give reasons for his candidacy. lie said: I am challenged by my oppen ent to say why Mr. Gunter should be turned out of ottice. He wanted the ottice of Attorney General and not the ottice held by Mr. Gunter. Mr. Stevenson referred again to his record and practice, reaching from highest to lowest Courts of the land. Referr ed again to his being associated in work with the present A torney Gen eral, lie said that he had done more to double taxable property in his town than any man who had lived there in ten years. ils public career was then refer~redato. lie again1 vigorou~sly an ticipated Mr. Gunter's speech by say ing -again he was not runnmng for as5 sistant'Attorney General. He~ was here interrupted by Mr. Gunter, who stated his position briet" ly - M-3r. Stevenson then referred to Mir Gunter's record, making a coirrection at the flat denial of Mr. Gunter. Mr. Stevenson again saiid assistants, as ~ rule, should not necessarily be pro' moted. When he mentioned tighting the trusts he was greeted with hur rahs. -iM. U. X. L'NTER t followed and was greeted with cheers. I aippluse and cries of "(unter." Af- c t er int roductorv remarks detining his position Mr. (hunter turned his guns onli e enemy. le said ihe was run- t n inig on his merits and not I hea Use ofst ist orted reasons given by his oppol e't1. Stevenson Could dist-rtit was ali he could do. In detail he submit- u teId his record and was interrupted r with ''lurrah for (hinter:" This (e hate wa(. ful of vim11 and vihor and the audience. which now eruowded the building, showed decided interest. Mr. Gunter made a foreilble speech :and seeme'd to have the crowd. d M i.t Stveii.~ (I deied the stat e:Went t hat lie rceived a salariy iromi the Sea- 4 HaId Air Line. Mr. Gunter retorted' that if he did not then Stevenson was a hieger fl)oi than he ever thought h1m11. Mr. Gun- j ter made the charge that C'oirt at Newberry was adjourned lecause law yers would nOt try railroad cases be fore Stevenson. Mr. Gunter further t charged that as Speaker Mr. Steven sn appointed a railroad committee. before which he subsequently appear- t ed as atto;rney for the Seaboard Air 1 Line. The clash here was vigorous and in- 1 tensely personal. cries of "Gunter. Stevenson and ginger" mingling with much confusion. a Mr. Stevenson denied the charges c and Mr. Gunter pressed them with d strong reiteration. The scene was 11 lively and earnestness developed to an e extent that had more than the ordin ary meaning. MR. J. T. GANTT t was the first speaker among the can- S didates for Secretary of State. le a had been chief clerk in this ottice and O would give his record, which showed 11 abilitity and good work. lie showed that this otiee in New Jersey paid the expenses of the State Government. le had studied this question. and had a fee bill introduced. and now receipts a last year were 840,500. when before that the receipts were $4.000. He showed familiarity with needs of the ottice and his speech received its share r of applause. COL. J. HARVEY WILSON, t amid appluse, stated that no one word e from would injure his opponents. v Cheers greeted his statement that he g wanted no office at the price of honor. to It would not take long for him to re- li count his record. He was only a plain v farmer. Vote for the best man and u if I measure up to this. then do your J duty. His college career ended when g the war began. (Applause.) Laid t down his arms with Bob Lee at Appo- c mattox. (Cheers.) Then he went b home to work, had already tried per- d ishing and again it was plough or per- f, ish. Col. Wilson wanted votes only ii because of merit, to be decided by the n voters. His speech was a manly effort. E pitched on the highest plane of pat- f riotism and he made an impression t worthy of such a speech. s COL. J. T. AUSTIN followed on the same lines as his pre- C decessors. le was always a Demo- s crat anr then as a stranger here, un- ii folded an honored record of valuable u service. He was in hearty accord s with all the principles of the D~emo cratic party. All issues would be fair- b ly and squarely met and he received b2 some cheers, closing with a request for f, votes from Orangeburg. c THE HON. JOHN J. M'MAHAN had to attend a meeting of Winthrop n trustees and, as his sabsence was un- C avoidable, the chairman read a letter g Mr. McMahan had sent. This out- p lined Mr. McMahan's position, as fol- n lows: Because of nis belief that the V education of the masses was the foun- n dation of the welfare of the State. he a had taken an advanced position in y educational reform and now stood for C these issues. It would be the pleasure' s and pride of his life to continue this I' work if the people so will. Referring s to the views of his opponent on "ele- a vating to greater efficiency the county a superintendents,"~ he said this matter b2 was in charge of those who may be c elected to the Legislautre. lie again f stated that in the matter of selecting 0 text books he was not responsible for 5 work done by the State board of edu- q cation, though he believed this work d was ,well done, and referred to Mr. P Rasor, of the board, who also favored "' what had been done. Mr. McMahan b2 met the issues squarely, with sincere I regret that he could not be present. Dl PROF'. 0. BI. MA RTIN. candidate for State Superintendent of r Education, then addressed the voters t of the "magniticent county of Orange- a burg." The responsibilities of the ( oice were evidence by the attendanced f of the boys here today. Mr. Martin d~ at once claimed the attention of the e crowd. lHe was specially interested in the work of this office, also in suc'h ield work as is being done today. lie was interested in the practical details of this work, the work of public schools. to inspire boys and girls to seek an education. Mr. McMahan hadt two terms and preached against this r two years ago. As a teacher he would excuse Mr. McMahan for carrying out his ideas. but not his abstract, theo-. retical ideas. Then he assailed the. cange (of the mode of election (of county superintendents. This was, he sid, "mean pohtics." Mr. Martin' ~ speech wa wvcl received and was a good onie from his stand polut. g Caindidates for .ostrTOA)LLi:R OEN1:1.\L .1 eame next. Mr. A. W. .Jones coming jr irst. who0 made a brief. but strongy business speech. Inequality of prop- js erty taxation. hie saidl. was a cryingt t evil. llis record wvas showni to be that i of an eth'cient oflicer. a Next appeared Senator W. 11.t Sharpe, greeted with cahls of' 'Sharme." Hcame as something new under the un. a main withI no record in the comUp toler Genueral's (tice, no sinking fond c exprice, no pictures sent before.1 'im. Senator Sharpe recounted his s ~oliecareer and received applause. I's mnent'in of .1 udge l~antzier evoked prolongede~ cheers. lie tickled hisi~ herers :n a COesanlt s peeh arid madler a most'. fav'aoraw m10pression. elosing I waithV1prolohnged helee is. Mr. ;. L. WV:iker did not think the ( ottie req uirei speechi-making arid tie as shit. ile did nota go into detailsN but clear ly andl forcibly emiphasizedC the duties of the olleeC and his posi tin in the rae. lie gave his versonal I leased hearers. judging from the re eption given him. Mr. N. W. Br' ooker came next and :a at once asked if he had ''heen in hle wr II is reply elicited "Ihurrah r vou." le was stanci ing on the rme princi ple of tw' years ago. Ie an ted t hr investigation f the sinking fund commission ontioued. Ile wanted people t( now vh:.' was really .oinig (f 1 this depart mnent. Proofs could bh iven. Ile would stand I;y his record. onest and (lte n red o pursue I his ork in the interest of the taxpayers SoNuth Car; linla. Mr. Brooker was cad in e4ruest and asked several uestions of his competitors. which. ioughi without results. were interc i 3 (r Candidates for ADJUTANT GENERAL )llowed, Mr. George D.ouglas lbouse ,adiug. lie spoke of his position in Le race and was well received from he start and his short speech took -ell. Capt. .1. M Patrick next marched to ie tront and in clear cut style stated is candidacy. Capt Patrick asked to e remembered when "they were se cting best man for this ottice" and -on cheers. Col. John 1). Frost came forward d made a strong presentation of his [aims for this office. His record was istinctly military from tae start and is; speech was the right kind of an tTort. Mr. P. E. Ayer was absent again ad Col. J. C. Boyd was well received. or forty-one years he had been with ae military, including 18u1 to 18t'>. teady promotion had been his record ad Col. B')yd's patriotic speech told f a patriotic record. Cheers greeted[ is remarks. RAILROAD COMMISSIONER. Mr. J. G. Wolling spoke first and in aired his aucience. Then caine Mr. as. Cansler. who did not talk in vain pparently. Mr. B. L. Caughman >oke for five minutes. It was a burn ig question. he said, and he added el to the flames, receiving a present sward. Engineer A. C. -Jepson, with is hand on the throttle: presented he claims of an honest man and a good agineer for this office. The audience as quite a demonstrative one, in a od-natured way, but bad to be called order. Mr. H. J. Kinard came on ke an express trairi and set the heels turning at once. making full se of his five-minute schedule. Mr. ohn G. Mobley came next, making a ood speech, that was closely listened , and received practical evidence of ming results. Conductor J. C. Wil. orn gave an account of what he had one. le said he had saved enough r South Carolina to pay his weight 1 gold twelve times. Evidently he Lade a good impression. 31r. W. ord Evans now mounted the plat ran and gave his speech to an in rested, but loquacious audience. He ored a point against Wilborn, which rought applause, liberally repeated. [r. Evans also paid his respects to Mr. augliman. Mr. H H IPrince closed the 3eaking in this department by show ig that classified rates were hard to nderstand and he knew whereof he >oke. it was now late. Many speeches had een made, the setting summer sun lazed, dinner was being enjoyed byv rtunate ones--but the voters and the indidates remained. THE GUBhERNATORIAL CANDIDATEs ow entered the lists and when Mr. D. . Hleyward was introduced he was reeted with a perfect storm of ap lause and rattling cheers, with nlu ierous cries of "Hleyward:" A some 'hat restless audience quieted im iediately and listened with the closest ttention to the candidate who is. be ond question, the favorite here. apt. Hleyward is clear and forcible of peech: he knows what to say and he popular. Hie gave his reason for de ring the office by illustration, which gain brought cheers. HI is speech was bsolutely fair to his competitors. onorable, alike to all concerned, in uding the voters. He said that he .1ly realized the g:-ave responsibilities the office and his statement on this ibject brought the cheers that so fre uently punctuated his admirable ad ress. MIr. Heyward reiterated his latform in dhetain and as every issue 'as squarely met he was thoughtfully card bringing appreciative responses. e showed the high meaning (It De iocracy and his conclusion. "I am a )mocrat."' won hearty recognition. 'apt. Heyward's speech was well >unded and complete and at its close be audience were wild in their cheers ad commendations. "You're right, ~overnor," and similar exclamations rom the audience were frequent uring Capt. H~ey ward's speech. Next CONGREsSMAN w. J. TALBERT, to began with one of his good jokes. le was not born in the plough handles. ut got there very soon. MIr. Talbert unded the first fractional note by eking to revive Alliance doctrine but, his did not take. Col. Talbert, in sponse to remarks from the crowd at "the Alliance was dead," said hat the great principles of the Alli ne would never die. it--the Alli ne-never went into politics; it was rn in politics. MIr. Talbert raised e old reform cry and a few scatter heers brought cheer after cheer for [ayvward with some conunte r cheers >r Tabert. Continuing Mr. Talbert silencedl an 'terlocutor on the state, who inter upted his war record. Col. Talbert orked himself into a fine frenzy. per piring and shouting. Ile turned his ack on the audience, replying to an terruption from Hleyward. Cheers nd hurrahs for Hleyward were so loud1 hat only Col. Talbert's gesticulations ud fushed face were seen- -not one .ord could be heard. Mr. Talhart appeared very much cx ited and w-as not always studied in is politeness about this time. lHe non recove red himself, however, anad old so me jokes, resuming his speech. Mr. T'a'bert's views on teaching tegro chiildren with white mens noney brought applause. II is tribute o the CTonfederate soldier wvas ap lauded also. H~e said he had intro need the first bill for the relict of :n federate soldiers andl was proud of t. He believed in and stood by the lispensary law,. and he would never traddle a fence. Hie said: "We have ia a littl quarrel, but let's tell jnoe and get in gooid numor.' which he proceeded to do. Col. Talbert is a popular. resource ful speaker, and in spite of many in terrulptions and the "little quarrel" referred to. lie made a speech that was listened to and ended with a good joke' and some applause. mingled with cries for lie ward and Talbert. LIEL'TENANT oOVER(NOR TILLMAN, came iext. greeted with scattering cheers and a few cries for "Tillman." Col. Tillman first referred to Col. Sloan's remiark concerning his name. There is I." doubt but that he could a: ve beat Sloa n without no name at all After somP preliminary remarks Cdl.1'illma n ;id he had no record to )oast. Will not say how iong he has held oitice. as would his compettitors. (ol. Tillman assailed Ileywar;s farming interests. and also paid his respects to Talbert, who had held olice twenty-two years. (Cheers and laughter.) Bays in this audience who can vote, he said. had been born since Talbert had been annually drawing salaries from paying otlices. Col. Till man also stated that through the Alli ance Col. Talbert defeated his father. Why had he left Congress for the offce he sought! lie would never be elect ed--he was dead and gone now. The coon Talbert said he caught would smell like a muskrat. Col, Tillman crowded Cu!. Talbert closely, amid some cheers for Tillman and much laughter. lie said "some of the sanders that have been printeiagainst me are false"---making no further ref erence to the matter of the Senate Journal. During Col. Tillman's speech some of the long patient audience began to leave, but he continued and held a large number of the audience. Dit. TIMMERM~AN made his speech under ditliculties, the audience seeking dinner, MR. ANSEL closed the meeting late in the after noon to a small audience, Mjr. Ansel is a good speaker and made friends with his well ehosen and pleasant re marks. WEATHER AND CROPS. All 'arjn Work Made Rapid Pro gres the Past Week. The following weekly bulletin of the weather and crops in South Caro lina was issued last week by Director Bauer of the South Carolina section of the climate and crop service of the United States weather bureau: The average temperature for the week ending Monday, June 16th, was 7 degrees, which is slightly below normal. A maximum of 102 degrees >ceurred at Hodges on the 12th, and a minimum of 52 degrees at Santuc on the 10th. There was considerable loudiness. although the middle of the week was nearly clear, and the close was cloudy and rainy. High winds iccompanied the thundzr storms of the 8th. doing much damage in places. Beneficial showers occurred on the 8th. over a large portion of the State, that partially relieved the drought in the southwestern counties. On the 12th, there were showers in the north western counties, but they were par tial. Other sections alsohad showers, but there were many points that had no rain until Saturday and Sunday 14th and'1->th), when a genera.l rain set in that covered the entire State, and was generally heavy. This rain al is not reflected in the reports for the current week as it occured after the majority of the cards were mailed. Ihail on thc. 8th damaged crops exten sively in the central and eastern coun ties, especially tobacco. Farm work made rapid progress, and 11elds are remarkably clean and well cultivated. Worms ,continue to njure corn, while chinch bugs nearly ruined some fields of wheat and corn in the central courties. Early corn is being laid hy in fine :ondition. and is well earned. In some sections it was suffering for moisture and looked yellow, but the recent copi Jus rainfall will make this portion of the corn crop. Ilotom and stubble lands can now be planted to corn. Cotton continues; to look well. withi nly a few reports of damage by lice, and that the plants are smaller than usual. Lice are fas t disappearing. The rop is clear, and well cultivated. Blooms are nut yet general, but the plants are full of squares. Some report yellow cast, but generally the plants are dark greer. and healthy. In most placs, cotton has fully recovered from the recent cool weather. Sea-island oton ha~s improved. Tobacco is being laid by and topped. In places it needed rain, which has now been copiously supplied. Some was ured during the week, but cutting will not be general until next week. The condition of rice is up to a. full average and June planting has been nea:ly finished. Wheat and oats harvest is about inished, the threshing has been begun. Th yield of both grains are ver~y poior aver the western half of the State, and from fair to excellent over the eastern counties. Melons are very promj~ising and are beginning to ripen. Canteloupes are bei ng mark'e ted. Sweet otatoes have been poor, and siips scarce. but trans planting can now be actively prose euted. Peaches and apples continue to drop extensively, and some of the former roti as they ripen. Pastures have been scant. Gardens were nearly ruined but have revived somewhat recently. .inor crops generally promising. The Green Eyed Mionster. Andrewv Diess, of Peoria. 1l1., cut the throat of his girl bride Thursday morning, and killed himself by swal lowing carbolic acid. The girl says D)eiss threatened to kill her r number if times. She said he was so jealous that he would not leave her alone to attend to his business. She awoke at 2 oek and found the razor lying tetween her and lDeiss, who was awake. Whben Mrs. Deiss' hand graspedl the weapon it was also seized by the husband, who wvrenched it from her hand, cut her, and thendrank the c-id. The bride is badly wounddd GEN. ROBT. E. LEE. What a Boston Man Says About Him and His Cause. HE WAS NOT A TRAITOR SAYS HE Charles Francis Adams Says General Robert E. Lee Will Have a Mon ument I~rected in His Hon or by the Government. "Shall Cromwell have a statue?" Such is the quotation with which Mr. Charles Francis Adams perfaced the speech which he dellverel Wednesday before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of the University of Chicago. In open ing his address Mr. Adams briefly sum marri4 t4- st9ry of the ignominies heaped upon the remaips of Croliwell on the restoration of Charles II, of the eXegration in which his memory was held by the Royalists for many years but of the justice that was at last ac corded to Cromwell more than two centuries after his death, and the fact that a Stature pf Cromwell was erected in the yard of Weatiuinister Hiatl, where it now stands. Mr. Adams then proceeded to notice the gradual change of Northern opinjiQ as to the character of the Confederate generals and statemen and the motives which actuated theim. Having completed his exordium, Mr. Adams asked abrupt. ly, "shall Robert E. Lee have a "stat ue's" and then offered ssme "reasons why be should and, "assuredly will, have ope, if pot now, then "presently." In proceeding with his argument Mr. Adams then asked' "was Robert E. Lee a "traitor?" and answered his uestion by saying that Lee was tech nically a traitor, just as "were George Washington, Oliver Crom well, John Hampden and William "of range " Having admitted this much, Mr. Adams says: But there are, as I have said, trait >rs and traitors-Catalnes, Arnolds ind Gorgeis, as well as Cromwells, lampdens and Washingtons. To reach any satisfactory conclusion con 3erning a candidate for "everlasting Came"-whether to praise him or to iamn him-enroll him as saviour, as cnartyr, or as criminal-it is, therefore, 2esssary still further to discriminate. Ihe cause, the motive, the conduct nust be passed in review. Did tur pitude anywhere attach to the original Caking of sides or to subsequent act? Was the man a self-seeker? Did low )r sordid motives impel him? Did he ;eek to aggrandize himself at his :ountry's cost? Did he strike with a parridal hand? . These are grave questions; and, in. the case of Lee, their consideration rings us at the threshold face to face with issues which have perplexed and livided the country since the day the United States became a country. They erplex and divide historians now. Mr. Adams then entered into an elab >rate discussion of the nature of the sontest between 'the seceding States md the General Government, and the :ourse and conduct of Gen. Lee and ~he motives which actuated him. What we wish to do here is to indicate he standpoint from which M~r. Adams speaks and to call attention to his con :lusions after a careful study of Gen. ee's career. These conclusions are est indicated by the following ex :racts from the closing paragraphs of 2i speech.: The year 1965 will look upon its :auses. its incidents and its men with lifferent eyes from those with which ve see them now-eyes wholly different ~rom those with which we saw them orty years ago. They-for we by ~hat time will have rejoined the gen ~raion to which we belonged-will ecognize the somewhat essential fact, ndubitably true, that all the honest ~onviction, all the loyalty, all the pa riotic devotion and self-sacrifice were ot then, any more than all the cour ige, on the victor's side. True! the noral right, the spirit of nationality, he sacred cause of humanity even, verejin our side; those among opposed, nd who in the end went down, were nen not less sincere, not less devoted, 20t less truly patriotic according to :heir lights than he who among us vas first in all those qualities. Men >f whom it was and is a cause of pride md contidence to say-"They, too, were countrymen!" Typical ot those men-most typical --was Lee. Hie represented, individ alized, all that was highest and best n the Southern mind and the Confed ~rate cause--the loyalty to State, the een sense of honor an'd personal obli ation, the slightly archaic, the al ost patriarchal, love of dependent, amily and home. As I have more han once said, he wvas a Virginian of :he Virginians. He represents a type hich is gone--hardly less extinct than hat of the great Englist n .blemen of he feudal times, or the ideal head of :he Scotch clan of a later period; but lust so long as men admire courage, evotion, patriotism, the high sense )f duty and personal honor-all, in a word, which go to make up what we niow as character-just so long will hat type of man be held in atiection ite, reverential memory. It is all a question of time: the time is, probably. not quite yet. The wounds of the great war are not alto tether healed, its personal memories mre still fresh, its passions not wholly illayed. It would, indeed, be a won ir if they were. But I am as con vinced as an unilllumined man can he >f anything future that, when such time does come, a justice not done now will e~ done to those descendants of Washington. of .Jefferson, of Rutledge md of Lee. who stood opposed to us in su::eeding generation. That the national spirit is now supreme and the nation cemented I hold to be unques ionable. That property in man has anished from the civilized world is Te to our civil war. Tfhe two are worth the great price then paid for ithem. Biut wrong as he may have been, and as he was proved by events in these respects, the Confederate had many great and generous qualities: he ilso was brave, chivalrous, self-sacri icing, sincere and patriotic. So I look forward with confidenceto the ed in our national pantheon. Then the query will be answered here. as the query in regard to Cromwell's stat ue put 60 years ago'has recently been answered in England. The bronze effigy of Robert E. Lee, mounted on his charger and with the insignia of his Confederate rank, will from its pedestal in the nation's Capitol look across the Potomac at his old home at; Arlington, even as that of Cromwell dominates the yard of Westminister upon which his skull once looked down. When that time comes Lee's monu ment will be educational-it will typi fy the historical appreciation of all that goes to make up the loftiest type of character, military and civic. ex emplitierl in an Qpporlent, Once dlend ed, but over respected; and, abov o ilil. it will symbolize and corameuorate that loyal acceptance of the conse quences of defeat, and the patient up building of a people under new cond&, tions by gonlstitL ional rrietn, walon if hold to be the greatest educational lesson 4merlca has yet taught to a once sceptical but now silenced world. Some of Mr. Adarm's cornlcluqis Ire from t. t oUtierr statinapoint not beyond criticism, but his treatment of his real subject, the position which the Confederates will occupy in history is so ap$Qlutely fiir andi judical that we refrain froin any adverse comment. -News and Courier. GREEN 'ANQ Ordered Back to Montroi1 Where Proceed'ngs will Continue. Judge Andrews Saturday discharged the motion for contempt against De tective Carpenter and remanded Messrs. Gaynor, and Greene to Mon treal in charge of the jailer elf that gity, In rendering judgment in Carpen- c ter's case Judge Andrews said that t the proceedings connected with the a arrest of the accused deserved certain t censure. The Judge then stated that he had received a declaration from the c attorneys of Gaynor and Greens where- t by they withdraw their declarations t and informed counsel that he was ( ready to hear them. Mr. MeMaster, t for the prosecution, moved that judg ment be rendered on the motions made C by the prosecution to set aside the writs of habeas corpus. Mr. Tasch- a ereau, counsel for the prisoners, ob- e jected to the motions. s Judge Andrews says that since re ceiving the notices Saturday evening a he had given the latter his greatest t attention, and as the case was in his t hands he would now render judgment on the motions to quash the habeas corpus writs, The judgment was a very elaborate one and concluded bp rejecting the petitions forwrits of certiorari; quash- t ing the writs of habeas corpus and or- t dering that the prisoners be remanded r to Jailer Vallee, of Montreal, there to e be dealt with, and ordering Sheriff t Langelier to deliver both prisoners to the Montreal jailer. NEW WRITS ISSUED. t New writs were issued in the Gay- v nor-Greene case Saturday night and t the men have been again remanded to C the Quebec jail for eight days. COUNsEL NOT sURPRIsED. - Marion Erwin, special assistant to c the Attorney General in charge of the C Greene-Gaynor case, was not surprised a Saturday night to learn of the new . writs, because knowing that the ~ Canada law gave the prisoners a right to a second writ to the Court of Ap peals, he anticipated that they would immediately apply for it aid that this I would delay their removal from Quebect to Montreal. Mr. Erwin is satisfied the case will work itself Qut in due time. __________ The Cherry Tree Swindlers. The Charlotte News says in the United States District Court at that place on last Thursday .Judge Boyd pronounced sentence on the defen- 1 dants in the celebrated A mos Owenj herry tree swindle case. The sentence 1 emphasizes restitution It is requir ed that Dr. Frank Bright. Rev. T. Bright and C. D. Wilkie and G. W. I Rollins. C. C. Watkins, M. C. Padgett and C. F. Ceer pay into the court by the October term the costs of the cases and $12,000, which will be paid to the women wvho were defrauded of money by the operation of the endless chain swindle At the October term Judge Boyd will give his ilnal decision as to the fate of the defendants. Lie1 said that if restitution were made he would sentence no defendant to the penitentiary: and it was intimated that imprisonment In jail for a short period will be the severest punishment iniicted. "The sentence means my financial ruin," said Dr. Frank Bright Friday afternoon, and the other defendants also aver that it will take all the money they have to pay the sum required. In the meantime all the prisoners are free on bonds. Give the Facts. Mr. Charles M. Dodson, a corres pondent of the Associated Press, alleges that Gen. Gomez was paid 823,000 to I keep his bushwhackers quiet during I 1899 and 1900, so as to insure the Re- 1 publican national campaign against 1 embarrassments which might be i troublesome. If not fatal. The Wash- 1 ington Post adds: "There seems to( be no doubt that Gen. Gomez has beenJ paid large sums of money. W\e have reason to believe that between May 28, 1899, and Feburary 23, 1900. he re- 1 elved $19.000. How much he has] had since we have no means of know-( ing. What harm can it do to tell the country why he was paid these sums( and to explain the consideration upon which they were -awardedY" l-a-is in Trestle. A portion of a mixed train on the South Carolina and Georgia Extention railroad fell through an approach to 1 the bridge over Broad river Thursday afternoon, killing one man and injur ing over a dozen passengers. About the time the rear coach was on the 1 span just above the river Engineer Albert felt the trestle giving way and 1 opened the throttle, sent the train< across the bridge saving all of :texcept i the rear coach and three box cars. The coach fell precipitately 50 feet on the brink of the river swollen by the 1 recent rains and was caught by1 the. stone pier supporting the bridgei which saved the passengers from a FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Sketch of Col. John T. Sloan of Rich land County. [Communicated.1 Col. John T. Sloan of Columbia whose candidacy for the position of Lieutenant-Governor has been dulh innounced, was born at Pendleton, S. ., in 1846, and received his education it the academy of that place. When )nly 17 years old he left school to join :lie Confederate army. As a private n Company A, 7th South Carolina Av;'aIrv, lie soryed first on our coast . t. ciliotiy in Virginia where he took cart in the battles of Cold Harbor Recond Riddle's Shop, Malvern Hill, E'assett Mill and Sainaria Church and n the many en goreetsground lRich 11n r- irenderig with Lee's army it A ppomattox. As courier for. Gen. A. W. Gary, he bore the kst order :arried in the army ?f Northern Vir pinia-an order to a captain of artil ery to pot fire on the enemy. In 1846 Col. Sloan entered the Uni 'ersity of South Carolina, and after yards took with credit several diplo nas in the academlic department. ratinuing with distinction from the aw school in 1868, he prepared at once or the active practice of his chosen )rofessiop. Temporarily forced to en rge in aoine business promising imme ate returns, he accepted a position n the staff of the Charleston Courier. :n that cznnectlon ate reported the roceedlings of the Legislature, and vas expelled from the halls of that >ody for his aggressive and effective xposgrcs of the frauds and infamies f the radical crew then dominating outh Carolina. Entering upon the active practice of is profession, Col, Sloan soon attained prominent position at the bar. He FM elected solicitor of the Central rational Bank in 1882, and continued a that relation until 1901, when the ank was bought by the Loan and Ex hange Bank. He was one of the Cen ral's directors for 21 years. He served s city attorney of Columbia for one erm. As president or attorney of dif rent building and loan associations e has done much for the upbuilding' f that city. He was prominent in he organization of the Columbia Elec ric Street Railway, Light and Power ,ompany-an enterprise that has con ributed greatly to Columbia's ad ancement, to the conveniences of her itizens, and to the taxable- property f the State. In the general move lent which has, in Columbia alone, dded millions to the taxable property f South Carolina, Col. Sloan has con tantly, heartily joined. In 1874, Col. Sloan was elected, as n avowed and recognized Democrat, a a seat in the House of Representa ivas. In that body, joining with men ke Wm. H. Wallace, Jos. W. Barn rell, Wm. L. Trenholm and others, e did his full part to stay the progress f the corruption and waste that were erily threatening the State with uin. He was more than once called a act as Speaker, and in that capacity y his clear rulings on the side of zhe ight, he helped to defeat schemes ach of which involve some robbery of he people's money. In 1890 Col. Sloan was elected to the tate Senate from Richland county. n that body he served eight years hen, of his own desire, retiring. He ras regarded as one of the most indus rious, intelligent and useful members f the upper branch of the General As Bimbly. He took part in all the more :nportant debates and always comn Tanded close attention. He served n the committees on the Judiciary, n military, on enrolled acts, on rules, ud on railroads and internal improve ents and was chairman of the last entioned. Col. Sloan served in the constitution ,1 convention of 1895, and was recog ized as one of the most useful mem ers of that body-itself comparing andomnely with anyr assemblage in he history of South Carolina. Col. Sloan is a man of large informa ion, derived from the actual experi nces of a busy life, and supplemented y reading and travel-the latter in luding a tour of England, Ireland and cotland, and extending to Germany nd many other portions of the conti ent. He is a ready speaker, good in ebate and quick at repartee. His one experience in the Senate familiar zetY him not only with the rules of hat body but with parliamentary isage in general. Col. Sloan is a South Carolinian, >roud of South Carolina, and in the igh office to which he aspires he would im to preserve and perpetuate all hat every lover of his State honors nd reveres in her history. WThat is Expected of a Newspaper. The public is insistent in its de nands. It expects the newspaper to >e a pack horse, a dray team, a ditch ligger, a gas inspector, a water tester, ,special policeman, a detective >ureau, a dog chaser, a sidewalk fixer, cow finder, a thief catcher, a busi iess maker, a city pusher, a house sel er, a paving inspector, a sewer direc or, a pocket-book finder, a lost article iunter, council regulator, fraud dis overer, panic preventer, obituary reacher, chief taff v pourer at wed lings and social functions, sporting nascot, fish liar, big egg prevaricator, nake story expander, judge on earliest ~ardens, -business boomer, husband inder, sweetheart securer, school in pector and general all-round handy nan for the community. In fact, if here is a single thing of importance o human life and human happiness hat doesn't go through the newspaper t has never yet been discovered. It ouches every feature of human en eavor from the cradle to the grave. t smiles with those who smile and veeps with those who mourn. It is verywhere all the time the most busy, he mnost useful of all public agencies. t makes mistakes. All human agen is do. Sometimes it is dishon st. But it stands out so in the glare f the arc light of publicity that it an but half succeed if dishonest-and hen only for a brief time. The above, rom the Adrian Telegram comes >retty close to being truth, too. But hen the public reads the papers and ever takes time to think of such hings. A Big Reward. Governor Aycock of North Carolina as offered rewards aggregating $30, 00 for the arrest and conviction of mnnown persons who, on the night >f June 11, took the two Gillespie >oys-young negroes-from the jail at alisbury and lynched them. There vere about 75 men in the party and he governor offers a reward of 8400 or each of them. It is asserted that iew evidence discovered in Salisbury hows the younger boy to have been nnnoent of the murder charged. CLEANED THEM OUT. How the Negro is Treated in a Repub lican State. A NEGRO SCHOOL BREN UP By Mob of. White. People. The Negro Teachers Attacked and Driven Out of the Town. The Atlanta Journal says those who really imagine, or pretend to believe, that the Northern ahd Westen States are a paradise for the negro, while the South gives him no chance to enjoy his constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, must blind their eyes to frequent occurren ces which show better than Bepubli can party platforms and bloody shirt speeches, how the negro is really re garded and treated in those sections where love for him is most exurberant ly professed. They should be interested, for in stance, in the accounts given by 11i nois newspapers of the recent treat ment of a negro school near Eldorado, in that State. All of these accounts agree that there was no provocation for the bruel treatment which was visited upon the teachers and pupils of this school by a white mob compos ed of white Illinois cltizens. The Normal and Industrial School for Ne groes, upon which the outrage was visited, is conducted on the lines of the practical education that Is given to negroes at Tuskegee and in other Southern schools, which are dealing most successfully with the problem of negro education. The Eldorado institute seems to be a model of its kind, and no complaint has ever been lodged against it. But it is a negro school and that.. = _ enough to fire the fury of thewbtteciti zens of Illinois in its vicinity. On the eve of the commencement -.exerses they organized a mob. and eished a reign of terror for the negroteachers and pupils of this institution. These were driven from the neigbborhooa, the school buildings were attacked and badly injured and- the crops which were being cultivated by- the negro students were destroyed.. Nothing of this kind has ever hap pened in the South. Negroes who had perpetrated revolting crimes in this section have provoked mob vio lence, but no negro -school has ever been attacked by a mob in any part of the South. The Chicago.Tribune, the leading Republican newspaper of-the West denounces the Eldoradooutsage "a disgrace to Illinois" and calls upon Governor Yates to go- tothe limits of his power in the effort to bring the perpetrators of the crime to justice. The Tribune says that ne groes have sometimes received severe treatment in the South, especially du ring the Ku-klux days; but there has never been in this section an instance - of breaking up of negro schools . and the driving away of their teachers, or the destruction of their crops. The Tribune adds: - "The Southern people appreciate the importance of a practical educa tion for the colored people. They have a high opinion of the work car ried on at Tuskegee. It would be im possible to raise a mob to break itup or break up any school like it. -It Is reserved for an Illinois mob to endeav or to prevent the education of black men in a way calculated to make them. useful to themselves and to the com munity. "If an outrage like that at Eldorado is allowed to go bnpunished it will-be apparent that there are somie sections of Illinois where the negro, hnesty trying to better his condition, is expos ed to worse treatment than If he were domiciled in any of the States south of the Ohio." This is an honest admission that. there obtains in Illinois, a virulent feeling against the negro which Is not found in the south and which the peo ple of this section regard with disgust and indignation. Ifsa school inathe South which wss doing good work for the practical education of negro youths along lines that will help them to be come useful citizens should be attadk ed, terrorized and plundered by a mob of white men what a howl would go up in the North! But most of the newspapers of the North iihich are - continually reading lectures to the peo ple of the South about their duty to the negro have very little to say In condemnation of the Eldorado mob and its despicable work. The Chicago Tribune is an exception, and It has the candor to confess that such an ottrage would be impossible In thiu section. Dewey Warned. Admiral Dewey, it is announced, will command the big fleet of Ameri can war ships which will assemhle next winter in West Indian waters. The ships are to be put through just such manaeuvres as they would make in actual warfare. The Baltimore Sun thoughtfully and kindly warns him not to make a loop, or turning movement, as he did at Manila. Loops, it says, are not permitted In the navy now. Wire Given Credit, In the autobigraphy which he fur nished for the Congressional Directory Representative Davis, of Florida, tells of his early struggles and subsequent achievements, and gallantly adds: "Be fore reaching his majority he was mar ried to Miss Mercer, and to her influ eece is due whatever of success he has attained. Five Lives Lost. The coining mill of the Cambria Powder company plant at Seward, Pa. blew up Thursday afternoon, killing three men and injuring five others, one of whom has since died. Two others are fatally hurt. Five Killed in a Collision. Five killed and 29 Injured are given in the list of casualties resulting from a collision between two passenger trains on the Northern Pacific near Staples Minn., at 1.45 o'clock Friday morning.