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VS VOL. XVII MANNiING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 4,1903. NO. 31. TILLMAN SPEAKS. He Criticises the President's Door of Hope Policy in CONNECTION WITH THE NEGRO. He Says the Ballot of the Negro in the South is Always a Menace to Good Government. Senator Tillman opened his batte ries in the United Stpates Senate last week on the negro question. le was discussing the Inuianola postutlice trouble. In his introduction he said he proposed to surprise his friends and astonish his enemies, if he has any, by being very mild anI temper ate in what he would say: "If we bad known at the beginning of the civil war," said he, "what we know now there would have been no war." le inquired why the large niajority of the law abiding people of Indianola should be punished because there was a small lawless and brutal element. It was contrary, he said, to the fun damental principles of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence. OReplying to some remarks made by Senator Spooner in his speech. Senator Tillman said: "It is not the dream of the wildest ass that roams over the Southern States with a wax skin on him that the Federal Government is not supreme," but,he said, there were some cognate propositions whiln have been ignored. He said that in the South people have a constant reminder that their ancestors thirty-tive years ago were conquered. "We are perpectually re minded." he said, accentuating his words. "that we are in t"e union, but notin it, except to pay taxes. The poison in the race condition in the South, he declared..lay in tihe ref eree system which had been adopted. The balance of power. he said, in the National Republican Conyentions, was held by the machine of the South,and that machine was composed of ne groes. When the people of the South, said he, lose patience and do "cruel, bitter, fearful, tiendish and savage things, there is a howl from men who know nothing and have never been South of the Potomac, but have theo rized." Continuing, and addressing the Re publican side, he said that if this pol icy of negro equality is carried out, and if some of them could be given piaces in the cabinet he would vote for them. "I will vote to confirm Booker Washington as secretary of anything. Let us have a negro. a genuine negro, not a mulatto or hy brid. Then let us make then otlicrs in the army and navy. Let us give them prorata share of all the good I jobs, wherever they exist, without re gard to local conditions." He said that nothing of the sort would be done. Mr. Tillman said that in dealing with the Indianola 'postotice the pres ident and postmaster general trans cended their authority in resorting to method which were both tyranical and unconstitutional. He wanted to know if in figuring up the purpose of their new born zeal "this cold blood ed, calculative, advisedly-taken ac tion" was not prompted by a low mo tive. He charged that 800,000 ne groes are coercing 50,000,000 of whi~te people in the North to deal with -17. 000,000 white men in the South in the interest of 8,000,000 ignorant negroes in that section. Hie referred to the cost in lives and money on account of the race problem in this country and addressing the itepublican ~side, called on them to meet him "upon the same plane of patriotism of race pri'de and civiliza tion and not to fall into the pitiful cesspool of partisan politics." lie read extracts from the letter of th~e presi dent written some time since covering his views with respect to appointments of negroes to ottice. He wanted to be just to the president, he said, but the views were superficial. "How little and small and in finitesimal." he said, * is the knowledge behind such a view." He added that the people of the North have no more use for the negro at close quarters than he had. He cited instances of assaults by negroes .on white women and declared that. the more the Northern people find out -about the negro the less use they have for him. The ballot of the negro, he maintained, was a menace to good government and the people of the North are coming to realize that the enfranchisement of him bordered on .a crime Reverting to the president's utter ances that he was unwilling to shut the door of hope and opportunity in the case of a worthy and competent colored man. Mr. Tillman said at tirst blush there is not a man alive who would not agree with that sentiment, but he inquired if it ever occurred to any one that in opening that door of' hope it might not be to shut it in the face of the white man. The door of hope ir' South Carolina. he said, at one time had been closed by bayonets to the whites for eight years while rapine, murder and misgovernment ran riot with an abomination in the sight of man. He declared that he did not hate the negro and that all negroes are not bad. Only a small percentage are bad and these, he said,are lead ing the rest and being patted on the ba'ck oy politicians. He regarded it 'is his' duty, he said, to his State to stand forever opposed to any idea of polit cal or social equalty on the part of the negro with the whites. Cuntinu ing. he referred to the adoption of the 9t~h amendment to the constitution. When you remorselessly stand by that. said he. "and say it is sacred, you force us to face the alternative of a contlict of races." The purpose of those who endorse the president's door of nope po'licy. he declared, is that in time South Caro lina should become a State of mula toes. and in this even he predicted there would be more bloodshed than was ever shed before. "I beg you, for God's sake," facing the Republican side.' 'not to reproduce an acute stage of hatred which will bring the two races together with the resolve of the whites to die in order to retain their r. am said his nespper friends ahvays took great pains to quote anything he had said that was hot.- leaving out everything that was rational. decent and sane in their pursiit of sensations. and in this re spect a great wrong had ,'een done him. "A lie," he said, "never had any particular truth," and he would not attempt to make even a start to run dosyn those that have been told on him. Mr. Tillman said he did not want to see the African driven to the wall, and he did not want to shut the door of hope in his face, but he could not consent to the dominance of that peo ple over the whites. He then poked fun at Mr. Hanna and read the title of the bill he recently introduced to pension ex-slaves. "Oh. my God"? said he. "did Mr. Hanna mean that or is it a political dodge?' The effect 1 of the bill was, he declared, to give opportunity to unscrupulous negroes to bamboozle and deceive their people by securing subscriptions ostensibly to further the interests of the bill. He concluded by saying that "in propor tion as you arouse false hope in the minds of these people you are only sowing the wind which will flame up into a whirlwind later on." Mr. Tillman spoke for three hours. He was followed by Mr. Carmack of Tennessee, who said the action of the president in the Indianola case was not in accordance with reason. justice or the constitution. A DEPLORABLE AFFAIR. A School Teacher Shoots One of HRis Larger Pupils. A very deplorable affair took place at Inman in Spartanburg County the first of last week, in which M1r. Reu ben B. Pitts, the principal ot the In nan seniOol, shot and dangerously wounded one of his larger pupils by the name of Ed. Foster. It seems that on. Monday Pitts had ordered Foster to stay in after school was dis missetd, but Fster did not regard the teacher's words. Tuesday afternoon the request was repeated, and along with Foster three other of the oldest. pupils were kept in. The teacher and Foster went into the room ad jlin iog, where the three remaining pupils sat, and after closing the door Mr. Pitts stated to Foster that he would have to whip him. Foster said noth ing. Pitts secured a switch and be gan to strike the student, who was larger and heavier in weight'than he. About this time the door was shoved open and the three male pupils sur rounded the teacher. Pitts changed his hickory from his right hand to the left. reached with his right hand into i his hip pocket and produced a 32 calibre pistol. As he brough the tire arm in front Foster struck forward with his hand. hitting the pistol and causing the weapon and the arm of the teacher to fall, and the gun was discharged. The bullet entered Fos ter's stomach. The wounded boy was i carried to the home of Mrs. R. F. Brown, near the school house. where an operation was performed. Pitts surre'ndered to the sheriff and is now in jail. Foster is laying at the point of death and is not expected to re cover. FOSTER Is DEAD. Foster died on Friday morning. Be fore dieing he made the following statement: The ante-mortem statement of Fos ter was read as follows: 1 State of South Carolina, Spartanburgr County. Personally came E. L. Foster before me and made oath that he is a resi dent of this county, and, being badly wounded by a pistol in the hands of one Reuben Pitts on Fe3. 24, 1903, and realizing that his wound is con sidered dangerous and might prove fa tal makes tbis his ante-mortem decla-i ration: First, that Reuben Pitts is principal of Inman graded school and that on the afternoon of February1 24, 19031 the said Reuben Pitts causedi me to stay in after school' was dis-C missed: after words he called me up 1 to him and said he was going to whip me. H~e sent three other boys out of the room. He asked me why I did not stay is on the day 1 before. I said 1 did not miss but one word and would not take a whipping. 1 He then ordered me to get up and saidC he wasgoing to whip me: brought two s witches from rostrum and laid one on bench: he gave me two :icks I then grabbed the switch and told him -as not going to take it. Hie changed switch from right to left hand and put his hand on hip pocket and drew a pistol threw it up in my face. I then I grabbed pistol and tried to knock it . off: he then tired it. It did not weaken me at tirst. I did not know that I was shot and I caught him by the hair he again threw pistol up. I then began to get weak and fell back on the rostrum. Fred Ballenger. Jessie Ballenger andi Raymond Wolfe who were also kept in, who were in an adjoining room, come in when the pistol tired. Pitts( said as 1 fell down " J ust as I expected. you are all on me." lie jumped up two or three times saying he was aw fully sorry about it. About that time -Jessie Ballenger had nay clothes un fastened. Pitts came up and wanted to know where I was shot, Hie then1 left the room saying he was going to give up. There was no one in the struggle with Pitts but myself. (Signed) "Ed. Foster.Y Sworn to before me this February 2-4th. 1903. G. 1i. Camp. V. P. Opposed by Fanatics. The Washington correspondent of; the Richmond Times-DI)spatch tells his paper that "tremendous oppo. i tion is developing to the propos:tlon to place a statuc of General Lee in Statuary Hall. Republican members of conigress, from States of the north and west are being .verwhelmed with protests. These. come from Grand Army of the Republic organizations and from individu:. A member told' me he had no iathat sentiment against the )proostion was so strong. Ohio. Indiaa Illinois, Kansas. Iow~a and one or tAwo of t..e New England States seem most strongly opposed. Sen timent, against it is not nearly so strong in New E'nglaLnd as5 would be' supposed. New York is paying no attention to, the matter, and but few; protest.s have come up from Peninsyl THE OTHER SIDE. Tillman Gives His Version ot thi Terrible Tragedy. HIS STATEMENT GIVEN IN FULL The Other Testimony Offered in Re biuttal to that Offered by the State in Opposition to Allowing Bail. Last week we published the testi many offered by the State befort Ciiief Justice Pope in opposing the application of James H. Tillman foi bail. Below we publish Tillman% statement in full and other testimony offered by him in rebuttal. Read it and draw your own conclusions: James H. Tillman being duly sworr says: That. in addition to the affidavit heretofore made by him, he submit the following: That he has read the affidavits o Joseph R. Allen and Policeman Bo land, and says in reply thereto, that he did walk towards the city hall, al] the while, at least for some distance, bliquing to the left, with his pistol down to his side. That as well as he recollects, he bowed to a man on the platform of a street car, whom he took to be either the conductor or motor man. I am under the impression that I walked across the street car track at the end of a car which was standing on it. Directly after I crossed the track on Main street, Policeman Bo land came up to me. I still had my pistol down at my side. I do not re :ollect all that was said by Mr. Boland >r by me. but I think his statement'as to what occurred is near about right. [ recollect Policeman Boland asking .or my pistol, but did not wish to give It up until he assured me that I should )e protected, as I stated to him, I did -ot wish to be butchered u I think I was about midway, oppo site the city hall, when this occurred. [ then turned to go with Policeman Boland to the station house, and after :urning the city hall corner, going lown Gervais street, my brother-in aw Judge Buchanan came rushing up mnd asked what was the matter. I said to the policeman that he was my >rother-in-law, and he then accompa iied us to the police station. The magazine of my pistol had been >roken for some time, and as I was de irous of having it repaired before re urning home,1 asked Mr. Fred. Dom nick on Wednesday to take it to Mr. V. F. Stieglitz's gun shop and have it ixed for me-being then engaged in ny otticial duties at the State house, Ld did not have time to go to the ,unsmith's. He said nothing to me Lbout the magazine until the next norning, when he asked me for the )istol, saying he had to take it to ;teglitz to put the magazine in. I do iot know at what time he took the istol to Stieglitz nor when he brought t to my room at the State house. He old me some time during the morn ng that he had left the pistol in my -oom. I do not own a Prince Albert frock oat, nor have I worn one since my rrival in the City of Columbia. I weither had on a Prince Albert coat on Cuesday, Jan. 13, 1903, nor did I have . pistol in my bip pocket, nor did I top on Main street near the steel >uilding and "look up and down the treet as if expecting some one to ass." I was not looking for any one n whom I was interested to pass me. he atiant F. W. Smith I am inform d is a boy 12 years old, and Vedder ~immerman about the same age. I do not recall meeting Mr. S. T. D. Lanaster on the 14th day of January, .903, but if he did see me, he could not ave seen a pistol -"sticking out from ,he (my) rear coat pocket," as I did mot have a pistol with me-the only istol I had in Columbia being broken s above stated. That MIr. S. J. Young may be correct ven he states he saw me "about 12 eet from the inside of the pavement", and I may have had my pistol eleva ed. know I did not have it pointed at N. G. Gonzales, but I was looking Lt him, momentarily expecting him to ire upon me, and when he did not do .0 I lowered it to my side. In reference to the statement of Ar edge Lyles who, I have been informed s a boy about 12 or 14 years of age, I lo know that after having fired and he fire not being returned, I lowered ny pistol, as by that time Senator albird got between me and MIr. Gon ales. I do not remember saying: "You vill let me alone now." I do know hat I did go as Arledge Lyles says .cross the street, obliquing, looking in he direction where the difficulty oc urred and at M1r. Gonzales, until I ot to the street car track and crossed t and it was about this time that ?oliceman Boland came up. I do not know Mr. C. M. Lide, who .tates he was walking behind Mr. Gon ales and in the same direction Mr. aide states: "That he (referring to ne) maintained that position with his ands in his overcoat pockets until ust before he had fired the shot here nafterwards described." He also tates: "When just as he (Gonzales) vas going around the three, on the in ide of the pavement,Tillman being on he outside of the three, and near the uter edge of the pavement and hay ng both his hands in his overcoat ockets, the latter (that is Tillman) uddenly fired his pistol." My over oat has no front side pockets, and it vas therefore a physical impossibility or me to have my hands in my over :oat pockets--the only pockets in my aid overcoat being in -each tail of the ear of said coat, and 1 had a pair of ~loves in my left hand, both hands be ng by my side. This statement I beg o ve-ify'by the coat wirich is in the ossession of the sheriff.. As to the affidavits of Abram Brown a colored man) and of August Schied man. the same are not true in so far ts they conflict with the statement sow iade and heretofore made, and shich is corroborated by the atildavits >f Melton C. Lorick, and W. H. Hall. md that of Richard H. Holsonbacke. have only to say in reference to the uidavit of Mrs. Emma C. Melton that he lady is mistaken in the position in vbich she places me on the sidewalk. know nothing, of course, neither had I any knowledge up to that time, and lone now, save as is stated mn Mrs. Ielton's affidavit and those or some thers, that it was Mr. Gonzale's hab .t to walk with his hands in his pock ts. When he obliqued across, commig owards me, I again repeat, he glared t ine, pushing his entire right hand .n his Overcoat pocket, and givmng me ver indication and grounds to be .ieve, as I have heretofore stated, that me intended to assault me with a pis :o. To show that Mrs. Melton is mis taken when she says: "He (Gonzales) lid not look in the direction of Mr. rilman: he was looking directly at She opening between the inside gentle nuain kenator Brown) and the tians er station. to which he was walking, .n throuh which 1 ha slowed UD to let him pass " attention is called to the affldavit of Mr. Robert Lathan, wherein he states that Mr. Gonzales told him that he had glanced at my face. I deny in toto the statement which Mr. Robert Lathan says Mr. Gonzales made to him in reference to how the ditficulty occurred. Mr. Gonzales never said to me what Mr. Lathan says be told him. If he did so state, I did not hear him, and no affildavit has been submitted by any of the bystanders that they heard him say it. Deponent avers that he has no re collection of any acquaintance with 0. D. Black, who has made an affida vit herein, and denies that he had any conversation at the time referred to on the railroad train, or in November last at the Albion Hotel in Augusta, Ga. I do recollect having a conversation with Mr. E. J. Watson, a reporter for The State, but I deny the truth of the conversation as stated in his aftidavit. As early as 1890 the saia N. G. Gon zales commenced making misstate ments in reference to me in the public prints of this State, and publicly avowed and published the fact that he was instrumental in causing my appli cation for membership in the South Carolina club to be refused, referring to me as cowardly enough to slander him anonymously, which was utterly untrue. Again in the year 1893, when this deponent sent from Washington, D. C. certain dispatches to the Colum bia Evening Journal, the truth of which he did not guarantee,but stated them as rumor. Mr. Gonzales had him self quoted in The State of Apri, 1893, as saying that the statement was a falsehood without a shadow of excuse, and also referred to it in the editorial columns of the said newspaper of which he was the editor, on the 16th day of April, 1893. That the hatred of Mr. Gonzales to wards deponent was personal. That under the pretext of doing public good he hardly attempted to cover his mal ice and -indictiveness towards me. From the time of my entry into pub lic life there has been an incessant, coarse, brutal, and unreasoning ar raignment of your deponent. Even so late as July 31, 1902, there appeared in The State an editorial of abuse, which although headed "Partly Personal Partly Public," was indeed all person al. An arraignment of your deponent is made, beginning with the year 1890, down through the service in the r.rmy, and up to said date, filled with brutal insinuations, coarse perversion of facts. and false insinuations of the actings and doings of your deponent. That in the issue of The State of April 1, 1902, four colums of vituperation and abuse were devoted to your deponent: on August 2, three columns on the edito rial page, of villification and abuse: on August 8, one column; and almost daily editorial comment from said date up to and including August 29, 1902, and even after said time. 1a The State's survey, editorial columns, Au gust 26, 1902, he refers to your deno nent as "reeling off miles of lies" and "confessing to the embezzlement of money entrusted to him for the erec tion or a monument to the Confeder ate dead," And on Augst 29, 1902, after the result of the elections had been declared it is stated that your deponent was not a gamecock, and never "tit" in the pit, "and if he was found dead there, his remains must have been thrown in after his demise from excessive weeping." In the same issue, referring to an occurrence at Gatiey, S. C., he refers to your depo nent as a braggart, and a spotted can didate, and eulogizes E. F. DeCamp, who had brought on the trouble, as "one of the first printers to stick type for The State. H~e will permit us to say that he has handsomely maintain ed the traditions of the paper." That prior to deponent's candidacy to the onfice of governor, to wit: In the issue of The State of June 2, 1901, he wrote a bitter,j'sarcastic editorial of one and a half columns of your depo nent, under the heading "We Plead for a Sporting Statesman." After all this,deponent submits that he was justified in believing, from the writings of the said N. G. Gonzales, from the threats communicated to him, and from his actions when they met, that the said N. G. Gonzales in tended to make an attack upon him, and his every movement as seen by deponent so indicated, and would have been so interpreted by any one possess ed of ordinary firmness and reason,and deponent again reiterates that when' he left the State house to go to his hotel, he did not know that be would meet the said N. G. Gonzales. That when deponent first saw him he was glaring at him and continued to do so until he, Gonzales, was almost up to him. That the said Gonzales then obliqued across the pavement in the direction of deponent. That when he obliqued was the time when deponent saw him thrust the thumb of his right hand into his overcoat pocket, and the pocket was pushed backward. That the said Gonzales glared viciously at deponent at the time he did this, and was cutting across, coming towards him. That deponent firmly believed that the said N. G. Gonzales was about to draw a pistol and fire upon him. That his manner, appearance, and motions. were such as to justify such a belief by deponent or by any person of ordinary reason and firmness, who had been~ slandered, villified, abused, and th1reatened, as deponent had been. Th:at deponent fired believ ing his life was in danger, to save him self. That he ?egrets the necessity of being forced so to do, but fired upon reasonable apprehension that his life was about to be taken, oc that he was about to receive serious bodily harm, and still so believes. Deponent further says; in reference to seeing Mr. Gonzales near a commit tee room in the State house at the time mentioned in the affidavits of Robert Lathan and E. J. Watson, it is not true that deponent tnen saw Mr. Gonzales, although he may have been in the position that these gentlemen say he was. Deponent further says that he has no recollection of seeing Mr. Gonzales either In the lobby of the State house or in the senate chamber, as it appears from the aftidavits of other parties he may have been. James UI. Tillman. Personally appears John G. Rich ards, Jr., who being duly sworn, deposes and says: That he Is a mem ber of the House from Kershaw; that he was in conversation with Governor Tillman and others on the evening of Janucary 12th last in the city of Colum bia, and there was nothing said by Governor Tillman that he can now re call with reference to Mr. Gonzales, but he states contidently that Gover nor Tillman did not on that occasion or other that he can now recall make any threat of any kind against said Gonzales. J. G. Richards, Jr. Personally appears Preston B. Calli son, who, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is a member of the house from Greenwood county: that he recalls the conversation alluded to by Hon. John G. Richards, Jr., and here by confirms the statement of Mr. Richards in every respect.Caisn Before me personally appears Dr. D. S. Pope, who, being duly swcrn, says: That he does not know Capt. J. A. White, and can give no opinion as to his mental condition; that in the att davit -igned by him on the 16th day of February, 1903, before William El liott, Jr., notary public, lie gave his opinion as to the effect of paralysis, but of course there are many excep tions to the rule, and it does not apply in all cases: that nothing but a per sonal examination of one so afflicted, and knowledge of his condition before the stroke of paralyisis, could enable him or any other physician to say what the effect of such a stroke would be on his memory or otherwise; that in said affidavit the word "apt" is used whereas the word "may" is what de ponent meant to say. D. S. Pope. Personally appeared Joseph R. Allen, who being duly sworn, says: I am city auditor, and on the day Mr. N. G. Ganzales was shot I was standing at my desk facing east, looking direct ly across Main street. In front of my desk and in front of me was a copper wire screen,the spaces-inches, and the glass of the window. Consequently 1 saw Mr. Gonzales through the wire screen and the glass of the window. 1 was about 110 feet from him, and he was about 80 feet from the door of the I street railway transfer office. I did not see the shooting and did not see what transpired immediately prior thereto. ] Jos. R. Allen. Personally appeared befoi e me W. H. Hall, who being duly sworn, says: That he is a resident of the city of Camden, S. C., and was in the city of Columbia on the 15th day of January, 1903. That at the time of the shoot- 1 ing of N. G. Gonzales he was standing 1 on the corner of Main and Gervais streets, and has read the affidavit of R. H. Holsonbacke as to how the difl culty arose and he corroborates the same is every particular. That dur ing the evening of the 15th of January, 1903, after the -infortuate occurrence, he, with the said R. H. Holsonbacke, went to the county jail and there saw I Lieutenant Governor James H. Till man, and told him that he bad seen the difficulty, and narrated to him what the said Holsonbacke stated in his affidavit. W. H. Hall. Before me personally appeared M. C. Lorik, who being duly sworn says: s That the day of the difficulty between ( Gov. Tillman and N. G. Gonzales he t was standing on Main street of the city of Co umbia and saw the same t and was an eyewitness thereto; that he has read the affidavits of Gov. Jas. H. Tillman stating how the difficulty occurred and that his recollection coin- E cidcs and agraes with that statement r in every particular, as it also does with the statement of R. H. Holsonbacke; that he recalls particularly the atti tudE of N.G. Gonzales on that occasion and fully expected to see him open fire uoon Gov. Tillman, as his every movement and every appearance so indicated, and from his actions at the time he believed and believes now that t the said N. G. Gonzales was armed l and was intending to shoot Gov. Till- I man, as there was every indication t that he (Gonzales) was about to draw V a pistol. M. C. Lorick. Personally appeared before me Philip 3 Epstin who being duly sworn, says: I That he was in the hall of the house I of representatives on the day of the I election of speaker-thinks it was I Tuesday, January 13, 1903. That t James H. Tillman came into the hall, went upon the speaker's stand and said a few words to the speaker. That be then came down from the stand on the northeast side and went out of the s hall. That N. G. Gonzales was stand-\ ing a few feet from the reporters' b tables facing to the southwest, his a back being to the passage by which Tillman must pass to reach the door. That Gonzales turned around as Till man was passing and stared at Till man with a sneering and bantering ~ smile of derision upon his face, and in ~ a taunting manner. That Tillman t apparently took no notice of Gonzalesv or his bantering manner but passed on by him with a sad and rather sub- a dued expression on his face. Phillip Epstin. Personally appeared John E. Flani- t gan, whc being duly sworn, says: 1 got off' the street car which was going to r the river in front of the transfer sta- t tion corner. 1 got off about opposite 3 the southern corner of the transfer 1a station and the City Hall and about in the middle of the street. My at tention was attracted by a report, which I at, first thought was a torpedo. I looked and saw Mrs. Emma C. Mel ton; she was very much excited, was moving her head and body in every di- C rection, and jumping up and down-I never seen anyone appear so excited in my life. Just as I looked and saw 3 her, I saw Mr. Gonzales; he took a step or two, and seemed to lean against the building, then he recovered himself, and he turned and walked back to- g wards his ottice. Mr. James Sims and n Mr. A. G. LaMotte joined him when b he got at or near the building occu- e pid by Mr. Way; each of them seem- y ingly had him by the arms, and walked with him down to his office. John E. Flanigan. Personally appeared before me James T. Douglass, who being duly sworn, G says: That he is State senator from Union county, and was in his seat in the senate chamber a day or two be- 3 fore the difficulty between James H. Tillman and N. G Gonzales: that de ponent is not certain of the day of the month, but feels confident it was Wed., the 14th day of January, 1903. t That Lieut. Gov. Tillman was presid- r ing when N. G. Gonzales entered the p senate chamber, took his stand about o where the seats com mence on the main , entrance of the senate chamber, andc for fully five minutes stood there look ing over the senate chamber. That. his action was so strange, unusual and peculiar that he deponent, noticed it: P that be inferred this from Mr. Gon- y zales' manner and actions. James T. Douglass. si Personally appears Tillman Bunch, who being duly sworn, deposes and says: That he was told by G~ov. Till man to take a certain pistol, a Colt's 38 calibre weapon, from his room and ' carry or return to its supposed owner r at anther hotel. After attempting t to do so he had to return the weapon, e being unable to find any owner for the t same, and himself carriea the same a down to the president's room and left it there, where it was when Gov. Till man began to remove his effects. That ~ he did not tell Gov. Tillman he had ' left it in the president's room. That he did not know who was the owner of the weapon, and does not now know. Tillman Bunch. Personally appeared before me B. F. 1 Lewis, who being duly sworn, says: f That he has been acquainted with t Richard H. Holsonback for a number of years and that he bears a reputation of being a truthful, upright and reli able man. B. F. Lewis. 8 Personally appeared before me W. . rTimmmna n who being duly sworn says: That he has known Richard 1-. Holsonbacke for a number of years; that he had worked for him and that he had always done his work faithfully: that he bears the name of paying his debts and rents on lands leased for cultivation. W. H. Timmerman. Personally appeared before me P. B. Mayson, who being duly sworL , says: I That he had known R. H. Holson backe for a number of years and that his general reputation for truthful ness and veracity is good; that he is known to pay his debts. and that de ponent would believe him on oath. P. B. Mayson. t Personally appeared before me (de ponents stated below) ard being duly sworn said that they know Richard R. Holsonbacke's general reputation r for truth and veracity and that his reputation is good and that they would elieve him on oath: a A. P. Lott, C. A. Austin, J. W. Rester, J. P. Odom, Samuel Hyatt, Tas. G. Mobley, J. Goldberg, Thos. Lfolmes, J. F. Fulrman, W. H. Hall, W. E. La Grove, A. C. Mayer. J. F. Vurrel, A. E. Carpenter, M. G. Car penter, J. S. Bush, Malcolm Jackson' a T. W. Hardy, Willie Cogburn, Jas. remples, F. L. Sawyer, C. W. Wil .iams, G. W. Williams, P. A. John ,on, J. A. Lott, W. H. Lott, J. E. Lott, J. S. Culbreath, R. M. Powell, d r. C. Workman, M. 0. Norris, Hon. F. G. Edmunds, W. T. Walton, J. N. arpenter, N. H. Jackson, J. H. Cour ;ey, W. H. Carpenter, R. B. Carpen- f er, t. 0. Car penter, C. B. Carpen- t er. A similar certiticate as to Holson )acke's character was signed by citi ens of Aiken county, as follows: M. C. Whitlock, John R. Edison, 1. A. Turner, J. M. Paul, P. L. Brog [on, J. G. Hoard, J. T. Mayer, B. W. lester, Samuel Hyatt, J. G. Mobley, . B. Odam, P. L. Brogdon, J. G. land, J. T. Mayer, J. Goldberg, B. Tlinn, W. L. La Grove. 1 Before me personally appeared B. 1. Tillman, who being duly sworn ays: That he is a resident of the ounty of Edgefield, South Carolina; g bat he knows the reputation and t baracter of Capt. J. A. White of the own of E Igefield in said county and tate; that his reputation for truth a nd veracity is high. and he (depon- c nt) would believe any statement he g ade. B. R. Tillman. a Personally appeared before me (de- c onents stated below) and being daly C worn, says: That they are well ac- C tuainted with J. A. White and know ds general reputation for truth and E eracity and honesty and fair dealing 0 o be excellent, and that they would ti elieve him on oath. That Captain f1 Vhite is in full possession of his men- s1 al faculties and consequently knows ehat he says and does. W. G. Ouzts, deputy sheriff. P. B. t layson, C. W. Odom, J. G. Faulkner, 1. L. Brunson, magistrate; N. G. n Dvans, J. T. Patterson, M. D.; C. M. a Villiams, county treasurer; W. A. ird, cou'iny superintendent of educa M on; W. H. Timmerman. Personally appeared before me N. C r. Timmerman, who being duly sworn, bi a~ys: That he has known J. A. Vhite for a number of years and that is repatation and character have Iways been excellent for truth. W. H. Timmerman. Personally appeared before me R. L. Holsonback, who being duly sworn ., ays: That be did make a statement hat he had something else in view hen he came to comnmbia besides aa osition as doorkeeper to the senate t nid that the business to which he re erred was to secure a position as spe- t ial constable on the dispensary force, hat he was also trying to get a posi ion as doorkeeper to the house of epresentatives; that he attaches to his affidavit letters from Hon. L. J. Villiams and Maj. G. W. Croft, which tters have reference to the above c tatement- hss -Richard H. (x) Holsonbacke, mark-.i )tfice State Board of Directors of the e South Carolina Dispensary.b Columbia, S. C., Jan. 9, 1903. t Ir. R. H. Holsonbacke, Johnson, S. C-.i Dear Sir: I have again seen the overnor in your behalf and he assures ie that he will have the status ofh lind tigerism in Johnston investigat- s. d and if he concludes it will be ad antageous to appoint a resident con table he will try and help you, . Yours very truly, a L. J. Williams. . W. Croft & Son, Attorneys andr Counsellors. Aiken. S. C., Dec. 26, 1902.t Ir. R. H. Holsonbacke, Johnston, S. C. My Dear Sir: Your favor of Dec.0 3 received and hasten to reply andg o enclose a letter to Mr. M. L. Smith ecommending you, which you can 'resent to him when the legislature ~ pens, and I will also do what I can ith him personally. I find that my t ourt meets here at Aiken on Januaryr 2th, extra court session, and it may terfere with my getting down 5 .romptly, so I give you a letter which i ou can show M~r. Smith yourself. ~ With best wishes for yourself this eason, believe me, Your friend, G. W. Crjft. F The statement made by Governor illman on the relation mentioned by 1e was looked upon by me as a mat- t er of pleasantry and was not consid- t red by me at the time as a matter of ti reat at all. The allusioni was madek so to editorials in The State news aper in which newspaper there had a een an accusation against Governorh ~illman of a rogue. etc. a W. B. Gause. a Want the Dispensary- a The governor has received a request p rom several members of the State Pt tgislature of New Hampshire asking s~ r full information about the opera- c< ion of the South Carolina dispensary ce y, their purpose being to introduce n like measure in the New Hampshire st eneral assembly. The governor will pl orward a copy of the law and copies W f the otticial reports of the operations e the disensacry. FERTILIZER T&G TAX Is Greatly Increased This Year Over Last Year. The Columbia State says there has yeen a remarkable spurt in the re :eipts of "tag tax," or fertuizer tax. Jp to the 1st of Marci the receipts vill be $22,000 more than for the ame period last year, or a gain of 50 >er cent. Whether this stride will :eep up or not cannot be foretold. There are three possible causes for he heavy purchases of fertilizers. One s that the farmers are making their 'urchases earlier than usual because 3oney does not appear to be as tight his year as is customary. Another is bat the acreage in crops requiring artilizers will be materially increased, nd another possible reason is that the artilizers will be used more intensive 7 or more thoroughly. It may be that this rush of orders ,ill soon be over and that the sales of he entire year will aggregate little 2ore than in other years, but the mount of tax received so far is a rec rd breaker and there are two months et before the sales of fertilizers for he year will practically be over. A comparative table of the sales in ifferent years might be of interest at his time. The receipts to date in 903 are $61,991.55; same time last ear $40,630.55, and for the year be >re $57,697.63. Following are the atals for the several years since the iauguration of the "tag" tax system: ear. Amount. 890-91........ ......$53,285.85 892.. ...............36,108.98 893...... ...........50,243.95 894. ................43,423.88 895.. ...............30,135.93 896.. ...............54,524.37 897.......... ......59,352.33 898.. ............ ..6,494.33 899.. ...............62,123.88 900...................... 75,214.34 901.................84,073.43 902.... .............81,744.94 Ail of the receipts from this fund o to Clemson College-avowedly for le purpose of paying for the inspec on of the commercial fertilizers to rotect the farmers from beiug im ised upn. Really less tban $10,000 year is spent upon the analysis of ymmercial fertilizers. Clemson thus ts for operating expenses from the rivilege tax more than the combined ppropriations to the South Carolina llege. the Citadel and the State olored College. In addition to this lemson gets revenue from other >urces. There is $15,000 from the atch fund; $3,600 from the interest 2 Mr. Clemson's bequest; $6,000 from 2e land scrip fund, and about $50,000 -om the "cadet fund," which, as ated in the annual report of the gislative inspecting committee, is :pended on board, laundry, etc., for ie cadets. Clemson has indeed a :incely income, just how much can yt be told from the annual reports, id is doing a superb work. Out of ie income the permanent improve ents are made. Last year nearly i0,000 was paid out for new build gs. The question -arises: "When emson gets through putting up iildings and adding to the equip tent. wvill there not be an annual-res ue from the tag tax receipts." That question has worried the gen 'al assembly for several years--but as not touched upon at, the session it ended, although there were sev 11l bills to reduce the tag tax from ~cents a ton toi15cents, to raise it 35 cents, etc. But the proposition hich has ever attracted the greatest ~tention is to have Clemson divide ie privilege tax with Winthrop. his has been opposed on the ground lat the State has no right to levy a iecial tax and that this "inspection" x is but a subterfuge for a special x on a commodity. Should the in me be diverted from the inspecting gency of the government, then the hole scheme might be declared un mstitutional and Clemson suffer a rious loss. If Clemson continues to ~velop and extend her magniticent ant, it is probable that all of this spection tax may be required for op ating expenses and that there would a no residue. Judge Lyon, who attends to the fer lizer tax books in the State treasur s offce, stated Friday that there little or no chance for the fertilizer >mpanies to defraud the State gov nment. The companies are liable to savy penalty if they omit from the cks of fertilizers the tags showing e authority of the State govern tent. The consumer may be defraud I, because every sack is not tested 2d its contents analyzed, but the yment of the tax cannot be escaped. When a fertilizer company makes a equisition for tags, the check is sent the State treasurer's offce and ence forwarded to the State chem t at Clemson. The latter sends the icial tags to the company. The Vir niaCarolina Chemical Company tys the greater part of the privilege tx, although some members of the gislature are impressed with the .ct that the people themselves pay is tax and that if it were removed ue price of fertilizers would, not be duced correspondingly. Friday 2dge Lyon received a check for $2, ) from the Virginia-Carolina Chem al Company accompanying an order r tags. ________ Wiped Out the Family. Earl Wood, the 17 year old son of a ominent farmer seven miles west of rankfort, lnd., Tuesday evening urdered his father, shot and fatally ounded his mother and sister and ten committed suicide. The mo vefor the boy's bloody crime is not own. A fter the shooting the young an went to the'home of a neighbor id said that robbers had entered his >me and killed his father, mother id sister and that he escaped after running battle with the desperadoes. e apparently was greatly excited id said he was organizing a posse to irsue his father's slayers. He stop d at another house and told the me story. When he was questioned acerning the shooting he became nfused and resented the inquisitive ~ss of the man to whom he told the ory. He started away and -disap ~ared behind a barn, when a shot as heard. An investigation discov 'ed the youthful murdered dying ith a bulle; through his bhast. CAUSE OF STA(GERS. A Fatal Nalady Now Prevalent Among the Horses. DISEASE OF NEEVOUS SYSTE. Dr. Nesom Says it is Always As sociated With Mouldy Food. Bad Water and Uncleanly Surroundings. Dr. Nesom, the State veterinarium at Clemson College, is receiving .so many letters from various sections in reference to staggers that he bas found it impossible to answer them all. The following letter will be of interest to many throughout the State. As it is quite out of the question to give personal answers to all of the letters received from citizens of South. Carolina and Georgia regarding a horse disease commonly referred to as staggers, I take this method of sayw ing to those concerned that more and more cases appear every week, and just at a season when horses and mules are so much in demand for farm work it becomes a serious questionU The losses in South Carolina from this disease during the past year are esti-- - mated at about $10,000, and it Is prevalent in Maryland, Virginia... North Carolina and Kansas. .I had diagnosed the disease as cerebro-spi nal meningetis nearly a year ago, but many of the diseases did not seem typical of this disease. I have recent ly forwarded to the bureau of animal industry at Washington six of the brains taken from horses that had died of this disease. A partial report has been received and the diseas proves to be cerebro-spinal meningetis,. or leucoencephalitis. This is a disease of the nervous sis tem, affecting chiefly the brain and its covering membranes. Most of the brains taken out recently have been' conge.ted, some blood serum aroun the brain.and in either the rightror left half of the upper portion of the brain (cerebrum)'Isheke has been found a large area of deger-rtion. This cannot be seen on the surrace, but if the brain be cut open what appears to be a large ulcer is found in the substance of the brain. This s th principal losion and is responsible for most of the ill syinptoms. The symptoms are those of. nearl all the other forms of so-called "stag gers," and death generally follows in one or two days if not very soon after the disease is noticed. The causeO the disease is not well understood is always associated with mould food, bad water and unclean surround ings. The remedy is to avoid the causesi - use only the best food, pure water and keep the animals under the best of conditions as to cleanliness. In one case I saw where a number of mules died, the only bad environment I could find was that a lot of rank weeds had been ipowed down around the barn and left there to decay dur lug a rainy spell of weather. Medical treatment is almost useless4 as the losions of the brain have al ready occurred when the symptoms are noticed and cure is generally out of the question when so much of the brain has become decayed. Cold shower baths to head. doses of one ounce of chloral hydrate, one ounce loes, or for ounces of whiskey, may relieve the symptoms for a while.. When the disease appears clean, dis infect and whitewash the barn, and do not use a stall where a horse has died. If possible abandon lots and. barns for two or three months and provide quarters elsewhere for all horses kept on the place. G. B. Nesom, State Veterinarium. Thins to Forget. If you would increase your hap piness and prolong your life forget your neighbors faults. Forget the slander you have heard. Forget the tesiptation. Forget the faultfind ing and give a little thought to the cause which provoked it. For- - get the peculiarities of your friends and only remember the good points which maka you fond of them. For get all personal quarrels or histories you may have heard by accident, and which if repeated would seem a thious and times worse than they are. Blot out as far as possible all the disagree ables of life; they will come, but they will grow ]arger when you remember them, and the constant thought of the acts of meanness are worse still, mnalice, will only tend to make you :nore familiar with them. Obliterate verything disagreeable from yester ay, start out with a clean sheet for oday, and write upon it for sweet miemory's sake only those things which are lovely and lovable. A Destructive. At three o'clock Thursday morning the town of i'eak was aroused by the alarm of fire at the Southern railroad epot. Forty-four bales of cotton were n fire. The depot and nine store ouses and warehouses were burned to the ground. As all were wooden build ngs very little was saved. Mr. W. H. Suber lost two stores and two warehouses. Mr. S. T. Swygert, stock of goods valued at $5,000; insur ance, $2,000, and 8500 on house. Mr. H. WV. White's store was occupied by . H. Bushard as postoffice and mer hantile business, was destroyed. The ontents were partially saved. N~o in urance. Thomas Jefferson. A letter has been received by Gov ~rnor Heyward from the Thomas Jef erson association of the United States, ~sking his cooperation and endorse nent of a project to erect in the city f Washington a suitable memorial to he man who wrote the Declaration f Independence. The letter calls'par icular attention that there has never een provided such a memorial in any ity of tbe United States. The asso iation wishes the endorsement. of the plan by the governors of all the States. apt. F. W. Wagener of Charleston i the South Carolina member of the bnoard of overnors of the association.