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VOL. XIV. MANNLNG, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 30,1904- NO. 10 THE DMSPENSARY. What Senator 3 illman Thiuks Ought to b- rone With It. RAISE IT ABGVA SUSPICION Or Farm It Out to Some Itcsponsible Private iadividnai or Firm To Manage As A MonopOIV. Senator Tillman, in a c. nversatior regardir g the dispensary law, th other day, with Mr. Kohn of The News at d Courier staff, said that it would be very unfortunate in more ways than one if nothing were done at the approacir g sesicn of the Gen eral Asst mhly to straighten out the disper:sary system, and raise it above the cloud of susp.ion that is over it. He said that in his opinion the whole point 9 as the be'.termeat of the sys tem. What the General Assembly would have to do would be to straigh ten out thiu gs, remove the doubl about the couduct of the business and raise tt e purchasizg and other feat ures of the system absolutely above suspicicn. It ought to be nothing more than the consideration of the practicability c(f the suggestions made along these lines. Senator Tillman said that if nothing were dune at the approaching session of the General Assemb'y, nost likely at the n-xt session tWe argumea! would be that the propositin had better go before the peeple, as tne General Assembly general'y declined to take any radical steps at its secutd ses-ion, and on that accouit he toped very much for the sake of the dispensary that the toning up of the dispensary law would be undertaken at the approach ing session. In the opionion of Senatci Tillman it is utterly impracticable and ill-ad vIsed t have county mansgement of dispensaries. He urges that the same incentive that it is suggested now ac tuates one b, ard to making mcney out of the dispensary, would exist amor g forty boards. and that if there is corro ption in one central board it would be spread out among forty boards, instead of cne, if there were no charge in the method of purchas ing and the manner of conducting the syste m. Senator Tillman says that he does not for an instant charge that there is ti;is corruption or this mis management, but that the system has to be raised above suspicivn to sAtisfy the people. And then Senator Til'man went on to relate a bit of history. He said that, during the progriss of the dis oussion of the dipensary system in the Constitutional CO:nvention there were all sorts of suggestions made as to the clause in the Constitution rela tive to the conduct of the whiskey business. The dispensary was being attacked on all sides, and there seem - ed to be no way out of the situation. Mr. MeCalla, who was a delegate to the Convention, arose and said that it was remarkable to him that the lath er of the dispensary system, meaning Senator Tillman, had not said a word and that he had allowed the discus sion to go on without even making a sugesstion. Senator Tillman then arose and stated that the right of the State to deal in liquor had not yet been settled by the Supreme Coaurt, and that he was unwilling to enact- a provision that left no leeway to deal with the issue. That afternoon he prepared a substitution for the pend ing propositions, arnd the suggestion that he made is row the fundamental law as enacted in the Constitution. In tnat consti~utionial provision there is a clause which provIdes that tbe State can create an absolute monlojo ly arnd "farm It out." In other w .rds, the Sitate might turn over the dispen sary to any responsible firm under bond, and then require that they con duct the sale of liquor under the con stitutional provisions, requiring first, that liquor be sold only in daylight, second, that no l'quor should be con sumed or openea on the premises where sold, and third, that no liquor should be sold in less than half-pints. With the enforcement of these funda mental principles Senator Tillman in sists that it will be far better for the State to farm out the liiluor selling privilege, or in other words, to create a monop.;1y, and then see tbat it Is carried out according to law, than to allow the syste m to continue under, susolcioni, or to permit the counties' handxling the dispensaries, as has been suggested. Senator Tillman's idea is that the talk about the dispensary must stop for the g~od of the State, whether the talk 'ce w ith or without cause, and the only way to do it is to raise it anove suspic n by p.utting the pur chasing power in the hand3 of p'a ple who io not want to have that privi lege, and who are not candidates for that position, and if some such a rnendment as he suggested in bis Gaff .ey speech canoot be adopted, that a-s a last resort it would be bet ter to "f -rm out" the liquor busIness and have some responsibie firm con duct it under proper bond and re strictions. He is sat'sfied that such an arrange ment could readily be made, but his chief objection to it is that It would bring the elemnent of personal gamn into the sale of iEquor, and the chie? virtue of the dispensary law, If p-o perly enforced, he Insists, is that there is no elen-.ent of personal gain to any one conecCted with the dis pensary sys- emr, and if that personal equv:ion can be eliminated the dis pensary wi.1 he run upon the lines that he has al ways hoped to see. As to the victory agaim-.t the di penary in Gaffoey, Senator Tiliman does not seem to be distur bed at all. Be says that toe vote was not as large as It mignt have been, and that ther.: was by r-o means a full ballot, ana that the advocates of the dispen sary law were discouraged and demor alized wich the present condition o! talk about the dispensary, and that theyv are in no pcsition to make a fight for'ir., u ss the dispensary can give an entirely clean bill of health that will satisfy the people. Senat- r Tiliman is of the opinion that th:e Gaisey victo--y was more of a victory for prohibitionf than a pro tes; against tne dispensary system. The dispooition all over the South, he believes, is towards prohibition, and not towards the license system, and the pr )bibitionitts, he says, are earn est and zealous workers who do not allow any opportunity to escape, and a ho are making rapid gains with their views all over the South, and unless the General Assemb'y purifies the at mesphere around the dispensary sys tem, Senator Tillman is firmly con vinced that prohibition will make very much more rapid progress in this State than is expected. He remark. ed that two-tbhds of the S-ate of Missis-ippi Is i ow prohioltion, one Ualf of Ge rgia, and a very large por tion of North Carolina, and that such a disposition seems to be growing all over the country. Senator Tillman says that be has -no objection in the world to prohibi tion, but that in his opinion it simply means that they will have all of the evils of liquor and none of the bene tits of the dispensary system, and he is satisfied that in Cherokee County there will be a regular procession of jugs and demijohns at every depot along the railroad. A RUGE NAVY. Vast Expenditure of Money On it to Continue for Years. With Secrttary Morton asking con gress to give the navy $114.520,648.34 for its expenses in the fiscal year be ginning Jay 1, 1905, it is apparent that the fleet that costs $100,000.000 a year has come to stay. This vast expenditure means that the policy of naval expansion will go on until the American navy is second only to that (f England in size, and will remain, as now, second to none in ship to ship tficiency. When all the Amealcan warships now building are completed the navy will be the third largest In the world. Eng land and France will be first and sec ond. The sentiment which caused the upbuilding of the navy was awakened twenty years ag-, when naval expen ditures were small. Only 814,819, 976 80 was appropriated by congrest. in 1883. The cost gradually increased until 1898. when, with the Spanish American war in sight. It aggregated 33.003,234 19. The expenditures in 1899 jumped to $56,098,783, and since then by leaps and b unds they have increased as ship after ship has been added to the list. The navy by January 1, 1906, upon which the brunt of servise will fall in event of war will be: Battleships, 13; armored cruisers, 8; protected cruis era, 21; torpedo boat destroyers, 16; t rpedo boats, 35. Not all of these ships are now in commission. The most notable additions will be the ar mored cruisers Colorado, Pennsylva nia, West Virginia and South Dakota. No armored cruisers have been added to the fleet since the Brooklyn and the New York were put in commis sion, more than ten years ag 1. When a battleship is paid for it has only begun to eat up money. New ships mean more men, more offloers and larger naval att-ons where the ships may be dry docked and repalre&. There most be a larger clerical force in the navy department. The pur cbaoe of supplies must increa:-e. A battleship has an instatiable maw for coal. Fuel must be carried miles across the seas in great colliers if it cannot be had in plentiful supply and satisfactory quality abroad. Congress has usually been generous In authorizing new battleships and has readily increased the number of blue-jockets to man them. The en list'd personnel in 1885 was 8 260; in 1898, 12,750; In 1889, 20.000; in 1901. 25,050; in 1903, 31,000, and in 190t,: 34,000. Provision for more officers was made two years ago by doubling the representation of the country at large in the naval academy. Twice as many midshipmen will now study there and be graduated to receive commissions. All this costs more money. The establishment of large and well (quipped naval stations at Guantanamo, Cuba, and at Olcngapu. P. I., also swells the financial rtquire ments of the service. Blew Him Up. At Omoha, Neb., the residence of Elmer E. Thomas, attorney for the Civil Federation, wars dynamited Tuediay morning. The federa'.ion has been active in enforcing the midnight and Sunday closi'-g law against sa loons. Thomas was awakened by the light of a burning fuse on the front porch, and started1 to extinguish the supposed fire, when the bomb explod ed, tearing away the whole front of the house, covering Thomas wIth de bris, but not seritusly injuring him. No arrest has been made. Five kPerleed in Fire. Five Italians perished in a fire that late Thursday niguit destroyed the old Noble Grain warehouse at Northieend, between Christiana and Atelglen, Pa. One of them was washing a pair of overalls in a pail of gasoiene when a spark from his pine fell into the pail, -.aumng an e:Eglosk-n that scatterecd the burning oil. Instantly there was a panic among the Italians, most of whom had been asleep. They fought madly to escape frem the burning roanm, and the five men killed are thought to have been trampled to death. Goes Down With Grew. A special from Laurel, Del., says the four masted schooner J1udge Boyce, built for Laurel capitalists. I ad turned turtle off the Capes during the storm of Nov. 13 and that its I .aster, Capt. Manlove Eskidge and crew of 10) men were lost. The B~oyce was built at Bath, Me., at a cost of 550,000 and was en-route to Savannah, Ga., on her maiden trip- She was only three days out when the storm over took her. A Deadly Fight. Six negroes engaged in a deadly dght in a fourteen-foot ring, near Curtis, La., the participants being armed with shot guns and pistola. U.ter the battle three lay dead. The >ther three escaped. A woman and Lwo children were also in the room during the affray, but were not harmed. The trouble arose over the TALK WITH TILLMAN What the Old Leader Says About New State Questions. BRIUBFRY THE GREAT DANGER That Threatens the Primary and Urges Strong Action Against Those Who Resort to the Practice. The protest in Greenville County against the primary system and the election of Supervisor Walker against Mr. Speegle has naturally attracted a great deal of interest. It is, perhaps. the hardest blow that the primary system has received since it has been in vogue in this State. Senator Till man, however, does not appear to at tach very much importance to the Greenville incident, and in a talk with Mr. Kohn of the News and Couri er staff about that matter a day or two ago at his home he said that the whole trouble arose from the partisan ship and blindness of the county ex ecutive committee to their duty to the people who had selected them. He is convinced that, if the c-mmit tee had ordered another primary and the people settle the contention at a regular Democratic primary, there would have been no trouble, and that the voters would have been satisfied, but the difficulty was that the people thought that they had been cheated, or in other words had not been fairly treated, and that the result was large ly accomplished by a trick. This may or may not have been so, but the people all the same got the impression that there was a trick about the mat ter, and they would not consent to any such business, a-d they took the bit in their teth and showed their disapproval of the work of the com mittee and elected Walker. BAD EFFECT OF GREENVILLE BOLT. Tr-en he went on to talk about the effect of this elE ction of Mr. Walker would have upon the primary system, and said that in his opinion it would ercourage independentism wherever there is any ort of an'excuse for it. It would tend to relax the discipline of the party; and in the Piedmont sec tion, where the negroes are so scarce, the only salvation for the primary is to have it so honestly and so fairly and openly conducted that no man cn complain. These people in the Piedmont section never suffered as did those in the balance of the State dur lrg the Reconstruction era and the days of good stealing. They never bad negro d'minat ion nor carpet bagism except as to the State Govern a ent, and therefore they are less tolerant of abuse in the primary than the people in the tide water section, who know that the possibilities of the negro vote really are. Toe people in the tide water section are going to hold steadfast to the primary system and keep it absolutely intact, because they have greater reason to do so, as they are very much like the burnt bild. As a matter ;;f fact Senator Tillman thought that in nearly all >f the counties of the Sta .e the pri mtry system was conduczei with ab solute integrity and honesty. Then he went on to talk about the necessity if keeping the primary system above su-picion, and preventing the use of money in connection with the direct or indirect purchase ot votes. He suggested that he had seen that tbe Law and Order League, of Alken, had onganized, and that one of the com mendable features of its work is to leanse the Augean stables in connec ion with the primary system. DANGER OF BRIBERY. Senator Tillman remarked tbat he had beeu told by well-informed men from the Horse Creek Valley section that there were at least six hundred votes in the Horse Creek Valley that were absolutely for sale in the last election in that territory. He knew of his own knowledge very many of the old time residents of Vancluse, Langley, Graniteville and the older mill commuuitles, and be was satin fied, in his own mind, that this de moralization and corruption 'does not lie at the door of these self-respecting citizens who have lived in that com munity for very many years. The "fioaters" from the Horse Creek Val ley, who were most in evidence, must, he thought, be new comners, who have gone there to run the new mills ;r to i go into other ,vork. He has never thought that any considerab'e propor tion of home people were purchasable. If these statements as to the nutmber of votes that were i fered in Aiken County are true, and if the reports from other parts of the State are so, it is a horrible condition of affairs. ar.d the General Assembly, he thinks, ought to meet the condition by pass ing a law impesing a heavy penalty boto upon the man who cffers a bribe and upon the man who receives it in adcaition to this penalty by law, public opinion must be arroused so that convictions can be obtained, be cause without the cult'vation of pub lic opinion upon this line absolutely no good can come from such a statute. He w'as very- glad to s e that the Law and Order League ot Alken had un dertaken to purify the elections, and to build uip the moral tone of the peo ple, and if this is succ ssfully done It wiil accomplish much good. BRIBERY snULD BE PUNISHED. Senator Tillman and tuis corres pondenit had quite a le ng discu-;sion as to tbe possibiities of steppiog this practice, and of informatio:. that had been received of where candidates had been asked t 'pay for the time of men while they were at work in the inter esis of these candidates and very many other indirect ways of getting at the t-urse strings of candidates. Senator Tillman said that in his opinion any candidate who used money illegiti mately in securi ig his election was not a bit too good to reimburse him self after his e'.ection through his office. The fact that a man uses money in an election ought to defeat him, and he belheved that if it were irenerally known that any candidate used money to obtain his election that that fact alone ought nu defeat him. The use of "strikers," he thought, was of very doubtful propriety, and the man who would offer hin-self as a I"striker" to any candidate for money wa intas l oial to sell hmseas a striker to the next man who came along. The real and effective worl in the interest of any car didate was done by volunteer friends, and not by men who accept money for their ser vices. He does rot telieve that any man is fit tj hold offlce who will start the campaign with the intention of buying his way into offlce. He is sat isfied that there are as few purchasa ble votes in South Carolina as in any other State in the Union, and the sooner this tendency to buy votes di rectly or indirectly is stopped the bet-L ter it will be, and that there ought not to be the least hesitancy on the part of any one knowing that a candi date is using money ilegitimately to let It be known, and be thinks that is the most effective way of killing out the improper use of money. If the use of the money is continued in the primary syst(m it will so demoralize it that the people will go to the legal election, and that will mean even a worse condition of affairs by the in troduction of the purchasable vote of many registered negroes. THE PRDIARY CoNVTriON IDEA. Then we had quite a long discussion as to whether the primary system, as at present operated, was really the best method of choosing candidates, and if better results could not be ob tained and better men could not be in duced to run for offlce, especially of Bees other than that of Governor, if delegates to a State convention were elected under the primary system, and the nominees of the partj chosen by such convention. Senator Tillman s -id that unfortunately the primary sys tem had gone somewhat astray in this respect, as the candidates for State of fices, other than Governor, had very little to show in the campaign, and the best men were not always select ed, but he was satisfied that tbe peo ple would not consent to any change in the primary system, nor would they con- ent to a convention of delegates or electoral colle.e selected under a primary system. He thought that the people were sat'sied with their selec tions, and they were not going to give up any of the rights that they now had under the primary system, and that there was no charce at this time for the electoral college Idea. LEGISLATORs VOTE FOR EACH OTHER Then Senator Till man branched out and said that unfortunately the very best results were not to be had from even smaller bodies, and he cited the past elections by the General Assem bly in support of this proposition, and said that he had always been convinc ed that it was poor policy for a body of this kind to select most of the elec tive officers from among its own mem bers, but such a policy of reciproc ity seemed to exist and to be grow ing. He thought that this was not at all in the right line, but that it simply indicated what' an electoral coll: ge election under the primary system might do, and that perhaps the peo ple were right in holding fast to every privile ga that they now had under the primary system. A Dastordly Crime. A dispatch from Cokesbury to The State says some evil disposed person attempted to take the life of Rev. E. R. Anderson, paster of St. Paul A. M. E church, at Cokesbury on Sunday night. The would-be assassin secrect ed himself at the end of the church under the bay window and as the pas tor was entering the back door he sprang out and attempted to shcot him but the pistol failed to fire. The alarm was immediately given and pur uit commenced. The would- be mur-. erer however, had gotten the start ud then be fired into his pursuers, which somewhat demorallzedi them, he escaped in the darkness. The church has offered a reward or $60 (which amount has been deposited In the Bank of Hodges for this purpose) for the apprehension cf, with proof to convict, the party who committed the crime. Re-enlt o1 a Dream. At Chicago as a result of a dream, Mrs. Lizzie Couet, 41 years old, lost her life Thnlrsi4ay and her husband and infannt child were fatally burned in a fire which destroyed their home. The woman dreamed that her savings bad been stolen from a hiding place in the bottom of a sugar jatr mn the pantry. Startled by the reality of the dream she took a lamp In one hand and her baoty under her other arm and went to investigate. .The lamp fel from the woman's hand and exploded. Her husband, aroused from sleep in an adjoining room, made a brave attempt to put out the fiames and finally succeeded with the aid of a mattress, but only after he, as well as the wife anid child, bad been fright fully burned. Mrs. Conet died while being taken to the hospital. Toe mutilated body of Mack An derson, colored, was found Wednesday morning near his home, nine miles rnorthwest of Chester. Andersen lived on Mr. H. A. Brakefield's place and was about 28 years old. The coroner's investigation shuv's that he had been taken from his house Tuesday' night some 140 yards, foully murdered and robbed of $50. A bloody axe and other evidence s prove the murder a very atrolious one. Anderson was known to have some money which fact he had unfortunately communicated to other negroes of the neighborhood. Arthur Williams and Jim Sanders, both co'ored, were arrested on suspic ion and lodged in jail Friday. Coroner Gladden is continuing his investiga tion, with the aid of a detective, and probaly other arrests will be made. Wants Damages. The Boston says papers in a suit for $350,000 were served Tuesday af ter noon on Thos. W. Lawson, the noted copper magnate. The suit is brought by New York parties supposed to be acting for the Standard Oil interests. It is also stated that the widow of At torney George Towle will sue Mr. Lawson for lioel. Buth suits are the result of alleged disclosures made by Lawson in his story "Frenzied Fi nance," which is running in a maga zine. IWelcome Him. IPresident Roosevelt has promised to Ivisit Texas early in the spring, and will; make speeches at Fort Worth, IDallas, Houston and either Austin or I Sn Antonio. BOLL WEEVIL WAR. Namcs of Delegates to Convention tc be Held at Shreveport. P i'TLE TO BE PUSHED HARP. The Pest of the Texas C o t t o n Fieids is Now a -Men ace to the Entire South. The State says: Gov. Heyward is taking a great deal of interest in the meeting of the cotton growers to be held at Shreveport, La., on the 12th of December. At the suggestion of Commissioner Watson, the following gentlemen were appointed Tuesday to represent this State at the meeting: M. L. Donaldson, Greenville. J. E. Wannamaker, St Matthews. L. A. Sease, Prosperity. E. J. Watson, Columbia. Canarles E. Chambliss, Clemson Col ege. E. D. Smith, Magnolia. E . W. Dal-b3, Goodwill. J. C. Stribling, Pendleton. R. M. Pegues. Cheraw. H. B. Tindall, Greenville. P. L. Hardin, Chester. J. J. Fretwell, Anderson. E. E. Verner, Seneca. R. P. Hamers, Jr., Hamee. A. W. Love, Chester. Sumter Brabbam, Manning. J. W. McCloud, Manning. Bright Williamson, Darltngton. D. R. Cook, Hartsville. N. S. Gibson, Winona. J. H Manning, Dillon. C. S. McCall, Bennettsville. A. J. Matheson, Bennettsville. W. E. Lea, Timmonsville. J. Lewis Lee, Conway. S. G. Mayfield, Denmark. E. S. Addison, Ninety-Six. J. C. Lanbam, Edgefield. J. B. Stepp, Switzer. J. Allen Tobin, Barnwell. W. T. Jones, Santuc. E F. Strother, Batesburg. Harry Hammond, Beech Island. W. D. Evans, Cheraw. J. W. L~brand, Wagner. B. S. Booser, Newberry. J. G. McCullough, Bensar. T. J. Moore, Meores. W. Q Hammond, AnderEon. W. G. Hinson, Charleston. R B. Watson, R:dge Spring, I. F. Still, Blackville.. W. S. Middleton, Clark's Hill. A. E. Aycock, Wedgedeld. B. R. Boykin, Boykin. D. F. Bradley, Easley. Richard Singleton, Acton. D. A. Spivey, Conway. A. K. Sanders, Hagood. J. A. Peterkin, Fort Motto. D. X. Norris, Pendleton. Jamnes Norton, Marion. J. S. Cathcart, Winnsboro. D. F. Efrd, Lexington. John H. Wharton, Laurens. W. T. Aycock, Columbia. F. H. Weston, Columbia. C. B. May, Walterboro. Gov. Heyward requests that all who can attend will notify Com mis sioner Watson at once. The three delegates first named are members of the State board of entomology, and Prof. Chambliss is the entomologist at Clemson who went out to Texas this summer to study the boll weevil. A MENACE TO THE SOUTH. The executive committee of the na tional catton convention in Its address says: "No more sericus menac6 has ever confronted any crop in any country. Since 1893 the cotton boll weevil has spread and devastated the greater part of the cotton growing area of Texas and has this year invaded sev eral parishes of Louisiana. The flight of the weevil during the summer of 1904 bas been fully 50 miles north and east intoI territory heretofore un infested, and indicates a habit that is beyond the power of individual States to control. "Tn an Effort to protect the produc tion of cotton frcm the ravages of the weevil, large sums or money have been spent by the national government, and the States of Texas and Louis iana; and most of the cotton growing States have enacted laws prohibiting the Importation of the product from infested areas liable to introduce the weevil. These past efforts hive been of unt.old value to the territory in volved, but nevertheless emphasize in ho uncertain tones the danger threat ening the catton crop of tuis coun try, unless immediate, definite and co-operative action is taken by every cotton growing State and every cot ton interest to utilize the result of past investigations to further perfect remedial endeavor. A division of opinion and interest in a campaign against the weevil will bring disaster and defeat. "jA national cotton c-mvention for tif>urpose of discussing and organlz ingsa uniform plan of campaign is opportune and expedient and the pro ceedings of the convention should reach the fireside of every cotton far mer of the Eouth, and should so stimulate national interest as to make this vexed prob'.em much easier of solution. Let no State fail to intelli gently shoulder its share of the re sponsibility." THE OFFICIAL PROGBAM&ME. The foilowing programme has been arranged: First day, Dec. 12, 1904, 2.00 p. m.-Address of welcome, Governor Blanchard of Louisiana. Response, the governor of Tennessee. Election of officers, appointment of commit tees. Second day, Dec. 13, 1904, 9.30 a. mn. -Address, Bon. James Wilson, secretary department of agriculture, U. S. "The Boll Weevil Situation," Dr. W. D. Hunter, bureau of etomo logy, U. S., department of agricul ture; "Louisiana Legiation and the Work of Her Crop Pest Commission," Dr. W. C. Stubbs, director Louisiana experiment station; general discus sion. Afternoon session 2.30 p. m.-Dis cussions by the representatives from the various coitton growing States, limited to 15 minutesq each. Third day, Dec. 14, 1904, 9.30 -a. m.--"The Cotton Factors' Interest in the Boll Weevil," D. A. Tompkins, Charlotte, N. C.; "Cotton," S. F. B. Morse, '7 nroadwy New Yorkr city; "Cotton Transportation," E. L. Ru sell of the M. and 0. railway, Mobile Ala.; general discussion. Afternoon session 2.30 p. m.-"The Nation's Interest in Cotton," Ed ward Atkir s n, Boston, Mass.; "The World's Interest in Cotton," Baror Speck von Sternburg, German anbas sador to the United States; general discussion. Fourth day, Dec. 15, 1904, 9 30 a. m.--"What the Weevil Has D)ne, What the Weevil May Do, and What the Weevil Must Not be Allowed to Do," Prcl. J. !H. Connell, editor of Farm and Ranch, Dallas, Tex.; "Can Natiooal Legislation Prevent the De struction of Our Cotton Industry?' Corgressman A. S. Bureson of Texa-: general discussion. Afternoon session, 2.30 p. m. "Ways and Means," speeches limited to 10 minutes; committee rcports; adjournment. NO CHALLYNGE. The South's Proper Attitude To wards Congresslonal Reduction. Proposed reduction of Southern rep resentation, as voiced in the Chicago platform, is little credited among the well informed. Congress in neither branch is likely to enter upon such a programme. But the subject contin des in the forum of political Jiscus sion, where it is kept by many of tme very Republican leaders who, in pri vate, emphaslze the utter impossibil ity, if not unwisdem, of such action. In meeting such a discussion, th: Southerners differ widely in thei views. A few days ago Representative Bur lesecn, of Trxas, told The Post that he wou5 practically welcome such a crusauz, i; the Rpublicans wanted to enter upon it. Representative Sim., of Tennessee, who comes from one A the close congressional distric's of the South, but, after untiring woik, has been reelected b) a good majority, lit tle effected by the general Democratic slump elsewhere in the state, thinks that is not the correct attitude to as sume. "I grant that the possibilities of ac tion by congress to reduce our repre sentation are remote," says Mr. Sims, "I am one of those who think that not even the house of repyesentatives will undertake any legislation of that character, to say nothing of the sen ate, where the battle would be fought to the last ditch. But I do not believe that the Democratic party should challenge its opponents to the step. It is enough for us to be ready to defend ourbelves whenever we are attacked. We have a good defense. And yet it is not necessary for us to constantly provoke the Republicans by inviting tiem to make a greas Issue on that plank in their platforw." Mr. Sims says that pluralities in several sections of Tennessee were largely reduced at the recent election. Congressional districts that have been going Democratic by 5,000 or 7,oC0 returned Democratic members by less than 1,000 plurality. The indiffereace of the voters was very marked all dur ing the canvass. No interest in Demo cratic speakers was displayed by the audiences, which seemed dead to po litical appeals. Only by the most ani mated personal work was he able to get the voters to the polls.-Washing ton Post. Compromised. The damage suit for $85,000 against the Southern railway brought by the family of the late James L. _Andrews of Greenwood has been compromised. The road offered to pay 810,000 and this amount has been accepted. The death of Mr. Andrews was unumually sad. He was one of the best known business men of Greenwood and at the time of his death was presidentof the Durst-Andrews company, a large wholesale and retail general merchan dise concern. He was standing in a car watcinog the unloading of some dour and while so doing the car was moved by a shifting engine and Mr. Andrews was thrown out violently on the ground and sustained injuries from which he died a few days later In a hospital in Augusta, Ga. Shot byHer Stepson. A special from Waycross, Ga., says: Mrs. Julia Williaws, wife of Henry T. Williams, a well known citizen, died Thursday morning at 4 o'clock at her home near that city from the effects of a pistol shot wound inflicted by her stepson, Kinch Williams, a young man 18 years old. The shcoting occurred on No.v. 14 because she refused to give him some whiskey He thought she had hidden it. Williams shot his step mother with a 32 calibre pistol, the ball entering her right leg near the knee, passing through the bone. It is said that the young man was crazy drunk when he fired the shot. Killed at Saluda. A dispatch from Saluda to The State says late Tuesday afternoon Will Culbreath, colored, the negro who was driving the wagon the night W. M. Morse was killed, was shot anid Instantly killed, it is said, by Mit Morse, S. D. Gillon and others. He was plowing for a bother of W. L. Henderson and was killed in the field. He was shot only once, the weapon used being a pistol. The wound was In the head. It is said that they hac goue to arrest Culbreth and that he attempted to run when they fired upon him. Accidentally Killed. A sad and fatal accident occurred about ten miles east of Swansea In Lexington County on Wednesday evening auout 5 o'clock. Vandy Say lor, white, and Welton Glover, color ed. were out hunting and by some ac cident young Saylor's gun was dis charged at short range, the entire load taking effect In Welton Glover'a back in the region of the right kidney and just to the right of tne spiral column. The wound was twe and a half or three inches across. Welton died in 18 hours after accident. In ante-mortem statement Glover said that it was an accident. Entire Crew Lost. The Swedish steamer Bar, from Grimsby, Bag., with a cargo, founder ed Thursday at the entrance of Ark. sound. The entire crew, numbering 17 men, perished. It is believed the ves sel grounded and that her boilers ex A S TE PEORX&TORY. Women's Federation Acively Pro moting Such an Establishmcnt. About seven years ago the women of Alabama, seeing the great evil dor.e to youthful law-breakers by as seciation with alult criminals, inaug urated a movement for the establish ment of an industritl school for white boys. A committee was appointed. which presented to certain legislators the great need of such an institution. The Leglislature granted a charter for a "reformatory and industrial -chool, to be established under the care of the State of Alabeml * * * or the beneft of orphan, helpless and wayward children," and said school "to receive and provide for the wel rare of white children between the ages of eight and sixteen who, by rea sun of their conduct or surroundings, ire likely to become base or criminal, cr hu-tful to the State or the best in erests of scciety ** * cr such chil dren as shall have committed petty offerces or crimes;" said children to -A committed to the school or refor ma.tory by any judge or other proper oufcer. The Legislature approprated three thouand dollars for this school, appropriation was supplemented by conLributions from public-spirited citizens, and a school wasestblished at East Lake, near Birmikgham. The Legislature has since made increasing appropriations, and now ninety boys are beiug clcthed, boarded, educated and trained in useful industries. A pronL.ent judge recently said that Alabama could better do away with every other polic institution than the industrial schooL Tennessee has had an industrial school for fifteen years. Careful re cords k,. pt of the subsequent careers of the tnousand boys dismissed show that less than two per cent. reverted to evil ways. Experience having ihone that it is claper to prevent orime toan to punish the criminal, all save fourteen of the United States haive estblished such schools. IQ twe last fifteen years, how many South Ca! olina boys have been alloweo ;o commit one petty offence after an *-ther., and left unpunished and un cared ror, until old enough to perpe orate crimes leading to terms in the penitentiary? Tne South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, having undertaken .he work cf securing a school modeled in the lines of the one successfully operated in Alabama, asks and confi dently expc=s,. the hearty support of all citizens of South Carolina. It is proposed to form an industrial school association, with a vice presi dent for each county, which vice pres ident will orgahize the work in her county, endeavoring to arouse inter ,st in the movement. Tne following committee urges the co-operationl of all women in South Carolina who be ileve in giving every boy a chance: Mrs. X. F. Ansel, Greenville; Mrs W. B. Wilson, Rock Hill; Mrs. Ira B. Jones, Lanceaster; Mrs. J. M. V sIn -ia, Charleston; Mis3 E. Mic~lintock, Columbia; Miss M. E. Waterhouse, Beaufort; Mrs. John G. White, Ches ter; Mrs. B. 0. Clifford, Union; Mrs. Chariks Petty, Spartanburg; Miss M. Caroline Mciver, Darlington; Mrs. Mortimer Glover, Orangeburg; Mrs. A. F. McKisslck, Greenwood; Mrs. R. D.- Wright, Newberry; Mrs. S. Bleckley, Anderson; Mrs. F. W. P. Butler, Edgefiela; Mrs. W. H. Car roll, Bennettsville; Miss Dulce Moise, Sumter; Mrs. J. 0. C. Fleming, Laur ens; Mrs. Martha Orr Patterson, Greenville, chairman. NEPEW KILLS UNCLE. Susiness Rivalry Causes One Mer chant to Kill Another. As a result of business rivalry W. R. Murray Friday mornirg shot and instantly killed his uncle, J. S. Mur ray, at Durham N. C. The shootlrg took place in front of the store of the dead man on Main street in the busi ness section of tue city. Both men had been running music stores and were well known business men, W. B. Murray, who did the shooting, Is a brother-in-law of I. E Emerson of Baltimore, Md., the well known chemist. Early Friday morning J. S. Murray was preparing to ship a piano and he accused a salesman of W. B. Murray of watching and prying into his busi ness for the purpcse of trying to thwart the trade. W. R. Murray heard that his sales: man had been accused and, accom panied by his son, Earle Murray, he Rent to the store of his uncle, which ~s about half a block from his own place of business. At the door he was met by J. S. Murray. A snort, bitter quarrel followed and J. S. Murray pulled his revolver and oegan shooting at W. R. and E trle Murray, the three bullets firedi all tak ing effect on Earle, in the hand, aim and thigh. W. R. Murray, a powerful man, closed in on his assailant and, tailing the revolver from him, shot aim, the bullet entering just to the ri ght of the breast and ranging up '.ard and to the left, severing an art cry. The wounded man fell and was tak en Into his store where he expired within a few minutes without have spoken. W. R. Murray was arrested and will remain In custody untIl 10 o'clock Sat urday, when tht coroner's Inquest wsill be held. Nearly every lawyer in Durham has been retained on one side .r the other and several cut of town lawyers have been cailed in. The at rair has caused a sensation in Durhamn. W ages orsan. Mrs. Lola Green of Atlanta, late of Greenville, S. C., was shot and killed in a hack at K~ennesaw, Ga., on Sun day night by J. B. Butler, n engineer on the Central railroad. Butler then shot and mortally wonnded himself Rith the same pistol. The couple were on thier way to the depot to catch a train for Atlanta. Negroes Must Go. The chief of police of Beno, Nev., has issued orders that all negroes must leave town-and they are leav ing- by ever train. A BLACK FIEND shoots Twice at Young :ady Year Zinety-Six. CAMR IE & BMIJG LYJEC D." Bill WiUlams, the Suspect, Is Now in the Greenwood Jail Charged With the Awful Crime of Brutal Assault. A special dispatch from Greenwood to The St ate say s Bill Williar S. a negro, was brought there. Monday night by Mag'strate W. L. Fouche and Mr. D. Sidney Haltiwanger of Ninety S.x and lodged in jail, charged with attempting a criminal assault upon Miss Ludie Smith, the 16-year Ald daughter of Mr. Milledge Smith, a well known farmer who lives below Ninety-Six, about half a~ mile from Sister Springs church. The story of the attempt, as tWd by Miss Smith, is substantially as follows: Tuesday afterncon she was out in front of her father's house sweeping up leaves and burning them and otherwise cleaning up the yard. Her father and motlier were both away from home, and heri two brothers were picking cottonln a field aoout 150 yards back of the house. Between 2 and 3 o'cock while she was sweeping as above de scribed, she beard a noise back of he and, turning to see what it was, saw a young negro man advancing towards her. His appearance was forbidding and becoming frightened she started' to run. H ordered her to stop, and. followed his order by a threat to shoot. She did not stop, and he drew, a pistol and fired. At the irst shot sae glanced over her shoulder, and he - again ordered her to stop. She'had now realized her danger fully .and ra in the direction of the field where. brothers were at work. The neer fired a second shot at her, but bo failed of thtir aim. In a few she had reached her brothers and them of what the negro Tad. and they both rushed to the hbuse only to find tha 6he brute hadmads J. good his escape. The news spread rapidly, andat 3 o'clock the news had reached thew sheriff's office In a request for blood hounds with which to trail the negr It was kept quiet, but the dogs were sent at orce in charge of Deputy' Sheriff Charles Dukes and Capt. Jlni>-1 McCombs, who has charge of the county chaingang. e Judge Ernest Gary who'.sh holding ,tha court of common pleas thls week, aeard of the attemptr ', he at once had himsalf put in tele phonic cormunication with Ninety Six, and in a conversation withfi. L-pscomb, president of the ' oridge ban:, there, and Capt. -ames Rogers, former magistrate and-ow county superintendent of edtca tion for this county, he urged uponi thise two gentlemen the necessity of using their influence to prevent lynching, and -told them to protect Willian s there and bring him t Greenwood and that he Qutge Gak - would see to it that he was protected here. Both these gentlemen and many others, all men of sound,-calm. common sense, at orice left for the scene to use all their influence to have the lair uphield.. Meanwhile Ine dcgs had arrived Iii charge of Messrs. Dukes and. Me Combs and they were pput to work, but so many people had visited the place: and had been riding and walking so promiscuously around the premises that the dogs could not make a start. Finally they got off on some trail and ran !. a short while, but finally gave it up. While this was going on,- and a majority of the crowd were watch2 lng with feverish interst the work of the dogs, an ,ther party were at work oro a clue wnich a few had got hold of and which had been kept from -the main body of men. Following tip their clue, they soon had under arre4 the negro Bill Williams. -He was. carried before Miss Smith, whio-cild ~ not positively identiiy him, but she@ said he was about the right size, and there were other similar marks -of identification. She thought that the negro who fired at her had on a dova colored hat, but the negro Bill Will iams was wearinxg a black hat. It~ was ascertained that he had changed shoes in the afternoon, and it is like ly, orit is possible, that he .might have changed his headgear. He was not armed when found, but as -nod search was made of the house in which he was found, this fact does not go as far as in might in bis favor. The negro lives about a mile from Mr. Smith's house. Tuesday afternoon he came up from Chappel's to-ysed~ on a log cart -belonging to another Mr. Smith. From Dyson's he started out to walk to his home. On the s.ay he stopped and had some talk with a negro, and this conversatior was denied by Williams, although the: other negro held to It that he talked with Williams. Also, the negro Bill Williams claimed that he did not go' up the regular road by Mr. Smith's, but went around the back, a route that was in the neighborhood of a mile and a half out of the way. Others saw him going towards his home that afternoon by a road dif ferent from what he claimed he used. Even if there had been no fear of a lyncihing, there was enough against the negro to warrant his being held, and tbere was certainly enough against him to warrant some, it no other negro answering more closely the descripztion could be found, in making him pay the customary pen alty in the customary way. Uniess some other negro is found, Bill Wil liams will have to stand trial for his dastardly attempt, but it Js greatly to the crejdit of every one concerned in the aff..ir that he is now in the Greenwuoo. jail in the hands of the officers of she law. Faz mer Killed Bis Son. In a dis~mte over some farm work, Payne Hi akman, a farmer residing near Kno:.vilje, Tenn., killed his son, Walter, aced 21, striking him a blow on the hee d with a stick, which broke - the young man's neck. The tragedy was witnessed by other members of the family. The young man is said to have be en advancing on his father with a dr3.wn knife when the latter struck hi m in self defense. The al leged mturderer was arrested and brought t)> jail in that city, being un *able to fu-nish bonds for 85.000.