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HE GAVE UP. Allen Emerson, Murderer of Mr. Drake, Voluntarily Surrenders ENTERS ON LIFE TERM. A Reward of $1,100 Was Offered for His Capture.-He Says He b Not Worried About the Crime He Com mitted, But Was Remorseful Be cause It Was Suspected That He Had Been Aided in Escape. Allen Emerson, convicted, mur derer, refugee from justice, with a standing reward of $1,100 for his capture dead or alive, gave himself up to the authorities of Anderson county and donned the garb of a convict at the South Carolina Peni tentiary. He was in hiding for five months and up to the very minute that he walked out into the middle of the lone public road in the southern part of Anderson county last Satur day night, and revealed himself to an officer of the law his whereabouts were a mystery to the authorities. Emerson was delivered to the pen itentiary authorities Monday after noon at 4:30 o'clock by Sheriff Green of Anderson county. Emerson was shaved and got the regulation hair cut and a brand new suit of stripes and was registered on the en try book as No. 17,629. After being weighed and measured and a general inventory registered Emerson sat down and told the following story of his escape and wanderings: "I did Sheriff Green a dirty trick by breaking out of jail and. going off leaving him to be criticised," said Emerson. "I never had a better friend in all the world than that man, and I haven't got a better friend than him today. I was a long ways from home-I don't care to say exactly where-when my con scienc'e told me that I must come back and give up. I had figured o going farther, God knows where just farther away. But that thought that I had done Sheriff Green a los down trick stayed with me. I sav in the newspapers where he was sus pected of aiding me. Finally I madE up my mind to come back and fro= the day I turned my tracks in this direction I never for a minutE thought of turning back. The near er I got to my old home the bettei I felt. "Saturday I reached the Savannal river and rowed across in a batteau I had two good pistols with me, load ed all around, and no one looking for the big reward should have tak en me. I had made up my mind tc come back and surrender and I di not want anybody to get any of the reward. I didn't want Sherif Greer of the State or the relatives of the man that I killed to have anythini to pay. I .just wanted to give up. "I made up my mind ot go to thE house of Will Adams, a magistrate'! constable, who lives about 13 mile! from Anderson. I was on my way to his house when I met him in the road. He was in a buggy- I don't believe he would have recognized me but I called out and asked if that was Bill Adams and he said it was. I told him who I was and what ml purpose was. He said he would be glad to take me to Sheriff Green'! and turned his buggy around right there in the road and carried me straight to the sheriff's house. HE told the sheriff that I surrendered to him on the terms that no reward was to be paid. "I was sure glad to get back and put myself in Sheriff Green's hands again. It's an awful thing to be mt this place, but I feel better thanI did any day I was away because the thought that I had done my best friend an Injustice left me--it just made me miserable and if I hadn't come back I never would have seen any peace- I wouldn't be in this trouble now if I had listened to that man, but that's done and there ain't no use to talk about that now. "It wasn't the crime that worried me. I killed Drake and the Judge sentenced me here for life and I am here to serve my sentence. I don't believe I should have bee~n found guilty of murder in the first place. but I am here and I've got nothing to say against the court's decision now. It wasn't the crime, but it was the thought that I had done Sheriff Green a mean trick, that brought me back--and the jailer-I want to clear them both." Emerson was asked to tell about his escape, and this is his story about that feature of the affair: "I was in the upstairs part of the jail and nobody else was up there. One day, aboute a week. I guess, be fore I got out some plumbers were up there fixing something about the sewer and they had to go back to the court house for some tools or something. They left their things in the jail and while they were gone I hid a piece of the solder. They never mised it, anyway I never heard anything about it if they did. "I knew the shape of the key that unlocked the door which led up the upstairs cells for I had been de puty sheriff under Sheriff Green two years and had handled the key hun dreds of times. I went to work onj that piece of solder to make a key. "A small knife which was left in the jail by a prisoner who had gone was the only thing I had to work with. I used this to cut the key ont -,f the solder. Of course, the frst time I tried it it didn't work, b.,t by turning it in the lock I could see i t how and where it needed to be 'rimmed and cut and I kept on wo:: I at it until I had it all made so it would do the work. "About a ;;arter of one o'clock on the night of August 20, 1907. I unlocked the door and slipped down the stairway into the jailer's office. turned the thumb-latch on the out side door 'which is not a steel door) and went out that and then climbed the wall and got down by resting my foot on a little house which stands just outside the jail yard. "I won't sp.y just where I went to, o where I have been since I have got out. but this I will say, I cross d several States and ta one time figured on going a mighty long ways from home only that thought about the trick I played on Sheriff Green kept working on me until I made up my mind to come back, and walked most of the way from where r was back+ to Andesn. I slent all I SHEARS & SAWBUCK. The Pathetic Tale of Two Far mers Who Bought Away From Home Things That They Should Have Bought at Home From the Country Merchant. Shears & Sawbuck kept a store .'uch as never was before. City folks they wouldn't sell, .ouldn't let them have a smell. Fetched their money-but by jing! Culdn't buy a blessed thing! )ouldn't meet 'em face to face AU' then sell 'em with good grace. Country trade was what they sought; Folks would pay for what they bought 'Fore they saw it, hide or tail, They sent catalogues by mail )ut to ev'ry blessed one ;ittin' mail at Possum Run. W-.e set up nights and read \Vhen we'd orter been in bed. look was 'bout as big as sin .ad a lot of pictures in, ud a list of merchandise, c:'ry kkind and every size . -vin' prices that they swore nocked out ev'ry country store, ooked so straight and seemed so true bit at it-and Jim did, too. im's my neighbor, eross the way est man ever worked in hay, ust let him top off a stack iheds rain like a turtle's back. 'leasure jest to see him work, Never knew ol' Jim to shirk; swings a scythe like it was play& :.ove to watch him in the way. . 'ell; we,like a pair of fools, -ent off-got some hayin' tools. *im got harness and a plow, '. a range, I see it now; -)rat the thing, it was so light I sed it for a torch at night; 'hrow'd the darn thing in the yard Use it now for rendering lard. Fore Jim used the plow an hour :-ound the blame thing couldn't scour; :'ried his harness-broke a tug :ought for solace in his jug 'n the cooler all that night Tim reflected on his plight; In the morning, Richard Stout, Hardware merchant, bailed him out Jim said after that he'd stick Close as brick to good ol' Dick. Since he left the Possum jail Says he won't buy goods by mail; Says Dick's cheaper, anyhow Might have saved some on the plow On the other goods some more. At his ol' friend's hardware store. Jim says, "We ean't sell no truck To such folks as Shears-Sawbuck. I They'll take all our cash away, But won't buy our corn or hay." IThat seemed purty strange to me So I wrote them that night Jist to see if Jim was right. Ast 'em what they'd pay for oats? Ast 'em what they'd pay for goats Could they use some likely shoats! Had about four tons of hay I could ship 'em right away. Could I furnish Mr. Shears With his family roasting ears, Also would my friend Sawbuck Buy some of my garden truck? Answer came one summer day. Said they couldn't use our hay; Couldn't use our oats and shoats, Didn't like our billy goats. When they needed truck to eat Bought it down on Water street Sorry, but they must refuse Anything but cash to use. I sat down and wrote 'em then; "Hate to trouble you again. But 'I want to thank you, sirs, For your bunch of cockle burs, If you love your feller man, Do him good, sirs, when you can While our merchants sweetly sleep Shears &Sawbuck shear your sheep.' SHE CAPTURES HmM. A Frail Little Woman Held Burglar Until Police Came.. At Waterbury. Conn., Mrs. Lizzie Wolff, a frail woman, wife of Ad rian F. Wolfe. superintendent of the Itool room in the Scoville company's works, held up a flat thief in their home on Ridge street Friday night, made him disgorge, and then with a revolver, held him cowed in a eor Iner until the police arrived, eighteen minutes later. Hie is Arthur Rosenthal, a Boston crook, sentenced for burglary in Con Icord, March 28, 1906 and having a lonr criial record. Mr. 1off was at supper when, hearing a noise, she grabbed a re volver, swung the electric switc:h lighting the apartment, and found him ransacking her chamber. t Bank Your Money. The Newberry Observer gives this Igood advice. "If you have any money put it in. the bank. Don't keep it about the house as a temptation to thieves and robbers. Banks are safe. Not one in a thousand ever fails. A railroad engineer in Augusta had $1, 600 stolen from his residence one night last week. It has not been many years since a good woman of this county had $1,300 stolen from her premises and a good man had $700 from his. The bank is the place for your moeny until you get ready to spend it. Of course one ought to keep a little loose change about him for convenience; but home' is no place for laying up money for saving." right at night, but while I was awake the thing troubled me. "There ain't a better man in the world than Sheriff Green and I am just as glad as can be that I came back. It was a dirty trick, a mean. low trick and I am sorry I ever did it. That man's been too good to me for me to treat him that way, but it is all right now, as much all right as I can make it." Allen Emerson was convicted of having shot and killed Thomas F.j Drake. August 12. 1906. Drake had a daughter to whom he hadn't spoken~ Lor thirteen years. The woman had married William Bailey, who was al Leged to have been the author of he ownfallI. But Bailey disclaimed this and deserted the woman. She wo years later became a mother d allen Emerson was alleged to ave been visiting her clandestively. n consequence of her immoral con luct, her father became completely esran from her. COTTON GINNED. Little Over Ten Thousand Bales Up to Sixteenth of January Which is Neazly Two Thousand Bales Less Than the Number Ginned U1 to the Same Time Last Year. The census bureau Thursday is sued a report showing that the cot ton in the United States ginned fron the growth of 1907 to January 1( was 10,337,607 bales, against 12, 1176,199 bales for the same perio last year. and 9,989,624 bales foi the same period in 1906. Active ginneries numbered 27,370. Round bales were counted as half bales. The number of round bale: lincluded 187,562 for 1908, 258,71' for 1907, and 270,669 for 1906. Se, island included 80,187 for 1908, 56, 326 for 1907, and 104,710 for 1906 The distribution. of sea island cot ton for 1908 by States is as follows Florida, 27,421: Georgia, 40,436 South Carolina, 12,330. Running bales ginned by State follow: Alabama, 1,070,193 bales; 3,44: ginneries. Arkansas, 667,96 bales; 2,10: ginneries. Florida, 53, 473 bales; 247 gin neries. Georgia, 1,771,913 bales; 4,53: ginneries. I Kentucky, 1,341 bales; 2 gin neries. Louisiana, 596,476 bales, 1,84 ginneries. Mississippi, 1,287,927 pales; 3,51' ginneries. Missouri, 29,378 bales, 75 gin neries. New Mexico, 303 bales; 2 gin neries. North Carolina, 591,356 bales, 2, 716 ginneries. Oklahoma, 779,650 bales, 971 gin neries. South Carolina, 1,093,707 bales 3,177 ginneries. Tennessee, 238,434 bales; 66 ginneries. Texas, 2,146,548 bales; 3,97 ginneries. Virginia, 8,212 bales; 101 gir neries. I duce the Acreage. The Rock Hill Herald calls atter tion to the efforts that are now be ing made to depress the priceof cot ton. The South Carolina spinner in their Columbia meeting decide to curtail production, it says. Th New England spinners have don the same. They say they have n, demand for goods and there is n use piling them up in warehouses rhey claim that cotton is too hig for the spinner to get any profit ou I of it. The English spinner at a re cent meeting passed a resolutio: looking to the establishment of a: immense cotton farm in the Sout] so that they might teach people hos to make, take care of and bale cot ton. This all shows that spinner are anxious to get back to six-cen cotton and that they will unite thei efforts and great capital to~ accomn plish their purpose. In view of this, what should thi cotton growers do? asks the Augus ta Herald. In the first place, as tV the cotton grown last year, the: should continue to hold it. Thb crop last year was a short one, a least two million bales short of meet ing the ordinary requirements. Th< little curtailing of manufacture tha may be done here and there wil have little effect. The new mill~ will more than suffice to make th~ demand for the raw material a~ great asit was last year. So far a the cotton now on hand is concern ed, it is bound to advance in price as the season advances. As to next year the Southerr farmer should prepare to meet thE organized efforts of the mnanufact urers to bear the price by planting more corn, peas and small grain. That will surely lead up to raising colts, hogs and cattle. That will cut down guano bills. Prepare land throughly and plant two-third the usual acreage in cotton. That may give less cotton but more mon ey. If it was known that the South would make only ten million bales this year, the crop would be bought for future delivery at 15 eents if possible.Then let the acreage be cut down. This is the only de Ffense the farmers can make. With an abundance of corn, hay, hogs and cattle on hand the farmer wil be in a condition to hold his cotton till needed. This is a stereotyped form of ad vice which has been given Southern farmers for many years before plant ing time. But it is worthy of more consideration now than ever. The high price for which cotton has sold all this season, and the still higher price which those will get who shall be able to hold it, will serve as an incentive to planting a larger acre age. If this be done, it will play to the bands of the manufacturers, as they have stacked the cards, The price next season would be low. So the safe plan will be to devote a larger acreage to corn, small grain ed other crops, and less to cotton. Inis will insure a high price for cot on and at the same time have the farms better stocked with food sup piies. It would mean prosperity for the farmers, and for the entire South. To this the Farmers Union and Sruthern Cotton Association should a dress themselves. As to the last' seasons crop, they can do nothing more. Each individual holder of otton must now determine when he ; l sell his remaining bales. ButI ;krouh the Union and the Southern|I Cot.on Association with their mem- I erhip including the majority cf ~otton olanters, tne urgent need of educing the acerage to be given to otton should be set forth and an ac tual reduction of not less than tnty-fve per cent effected. A GENTLE ROAST Given Secretary Cortelyou By Senator Tillman Because He FAILED rO RESPOND To a Resolution of the Senate in Reference to the Issue of Panama Bonds.-Senator Aldrich Defends Cortelyou and Make Excuses for Him, Which Causes Senator Till man to Use Some Caustic Remarks. Just before the United States Senate adjourned Tuesday Senator Aldrich received a letter from Sec retary Cortelyou explaining the de lay that has been experienced in his reply to the resolution calling on him for information concerning the recent Panama canal bond issue and the letter was promptly laid before the senate. Earlier in the day Sena I tor Tillman indulged in caustic com ment upon what he characterized as the secretary's apparent "diso bedience" to a senate resolution. In his letter Mr. Cortelyou said: "I am sorry that there should have been a misunderstanding as to the time when my answer to the senate resolution regarding the treasury operations would be sent in. Had I been advised of your request to know when it might be expected, I would have replied that I required a little more time to go over the mass of fgures it involved. It is my desire, of course, that all business of this kind shall be disposed oi promptly, but this matter is so im portant that I have felt it desirable that every feature of the repori should be clearly stated, both for the information of the senate and it justice to the department. It is m3 desire and intention to submit i complete response to the resolutior and I hope to have it ready in the course of the next few days-in al probability about the beginning oi next week. "The amount of work involved it t the preparation of such voluminou data may not be fully anpreciate by some, but it should be remember ed that +he force in all the bureau, here, w:. h have to do intimatel] with fin. .ial matters, have beet for weeks working over time on thE regular business of the departmeni and to have this duty put upon then in addition materially increases theil burdens." Mr. Tillman opened this questior in the senate by iquiring whethei the vice president had received a re ply to the resolution from the secre tary of the treasury. "Nothing yet," responded the vice president. "It is a little curious that an of - eier of the government should be 1willing after we have given him con siderable time to send in the infor mation," said Mr. Tillman. "The cur rency bill is to be brought in and Spressed for consideration and i1 -seems strange that the secretary o1 Sthe treasury who is directly respon sible for our financial affairs should refuse to send in a report giving thA 'information we need." -Chairman Aldrich of the finance committee, who was out of the room Swhen Mr. Tillman made the Inquiry, reentered the room at this juncture, just as Senator Platt suggested thai he be called. "We are told," said Mr. Tillman, "that Secretary Cortelyou is ill, but he was not too ill to go to New York to make a speech. It seems extra ordinarily phenomenal that we can not get a report from him." "The fact is," said Mr. Aldrich, "the papers were in form to be pre sented and they were placed before Secretary Cortelyou, but he found in order to make the presentation to the senate in a form satisfactory to himself would require a longer time than was supposed. "The criticism in the senate as to that action led the secretary to make a frank and explicit answer to all suggestions as to what was done with the bonds and certinicates of indebtedness. The secretary assured me this morning that he is prepar Iing this matter as rapidly as possi ble." "Is no definite time ffxed?" asked Mr. Tillman. "As soon as possible means between now and doomsday." "Those of us who know Mr. Cor telyou," said Mr. Aldrich, "know that he is never delinquent In his public duties, and I think if the sen ator from South Carolina would find an opportunity to talk this matter over with him he would be satisfied." "It did not take that long to Issue the bonds," Insisted Mr. Tlllman. "That was a simple matter," re torted Mr. Aldrich. '"The senator from South Carolina does not realize that he can put down on paper in quiries that will take many months and much work on the part of the force of a great department to an swer. It is much easier to ask ques tions than to answer them. "The senator will recall." inter rupted Mr. Tillman, "th~c these questions were asked by his own I ommittee. Now I will give some additional reasons why we would have this information forwarded to us. I have a letter from Mr. Klo be'rg inclosing a reply he received from Assistant Secretary Edwards. "This." he continued, "may give some light as showing why the sec retary finds it so difficult to answer inquiries we 'nave propounded. This is the letter giving reasons why he refused to recognize bidders for bonds. " In reply Mr. Tillman read from Ed ward's letter: 'You are advised that under the reservation made by the department allotment was first ma.de to individuals and institutions for amounts not exceeding $10.000. The remainder was allotted to the highest national bank.'I "This course was followed,." the letter continued, "because it was not deemed wise in the currency strin gency making allotments to individ uals which resulted in leaving 91) per cent. purchase price in the~ banks and allowed them to take out irculation on the Panama honds. "This circular made no reservation f bids," declared Mr. Tillmau. This is purely an executive function and when the facts are br-ought out [ think they will show that the sec retary of the treasury has utterly 1 isregarded the law in his anxiety, MURDERERS RUN DOWN. Members of Desperate Band of Ne groes Are Captured. Three of a gang of negroes who brained a Cincinnati Southern tele graph operator, John Brown, at An nadel, Morgan county, Tennessee, and later shot and killed a bridge watchman, David Langley, last Sat urday night, have been captured or killed. One, name unknown, was killed Monday by a posse. A second one was captured and is being held for safekeeping. The third surren dered to a farmer living near Wart burg after he had been shot by a posse, pursuing him. He was turn ed over to Sheriff Langley of Mor gan county, who started for knox ville with him. hxcitement is too high in Morgan county to keel) the men in Wartburg jail. t SHE FOOLED HIM. A Georgia Farmer Who Had Faith in a Faker's Story. A special to The Augusta Chron icle says a Russel county farmer claims to have lost $45 by consult ing a clarivoyant in Columbus, Ga. Slaughter had a barn of his burn ed some weeks since, and came to the clairvoyant to find out who fired the structure. He was told that in ten days he would be told, and the "mind reader" incidentally inform ed him that gold was to be found on his land. He paid down $45 with the agreement that he would be told in ten days exactly where to locate the gold. He returned when the ten days were up, but the clairvoyant had fled. - t Will Be Bitter Fight. The general impression in Wash ington is that Senator Knox will be the man upon whom all the anti Roosevelt interests will combine, and that when the ultimate show down in the convention comes Knox and Taft will be the leading candidates. It is probable that the rase will be a close one between them on tne final ballot and it is possible that if some other candidate like Fairbanxs. or La Follette, sticks to the last that there will be a deadlock. The con trol of the Nationai Committee by the anti-Roosevelt faction, with its power to decide which of the con testing delegations shall be placed upon the roll of delegates ASy t-urn the scale against Mr. Rnosevelt and his candidate. All the power and money of the corporations and the tariff protected intererts will be used to prevent President Roosevelt from rounding up the Southern delegates into the Taft corral, and the opportunity fox corruption will not be wanting where one side is ready to buy and the other side to sell. Such is the present condition in the Republican camp, but with "practical" politic. ians involved with both factions, there may be lightening changes in the program when fonnd necessarry to achieve their ends. Whichever faction succeeds and whoever is nominated by the Re publicans, will leave gaping wounds that will be hard to heal before election time. especially in Ohio and New York. Thus the chances of the Democrats are apparently im proved, but so much depends upon whether the party can unite upon a candidate, who will not drive away naccessary votes to win in the doubtful states, makes it impossi ble to look forward to the result of the election until, at least the nom inations of both parties have been made. When women borrow trouble they usually pay back double. supply currency to New York against other parts of the country." Mr. Tillman then turned to Mr Aldrich and indulged in some per sonal references to him. He decla .d that nothing could have consider ation in the senate while the chair man of the finance committee was out of the chamber. "We have to sit here," he said, 'until his great personage comes through the door." Mr. Tillman declared that the Re publican side had to await the nod of the chairman of the committee on finance. "The senator." added Mr. Tillman, looking' at Mr. Aldri'ch, "knows the great power and influ ence which he deservedly holds with the senate and with the country, and it is not worth while for him to affect mock modesty. He is too great a man to have any affectation of any sort." Mr. Aldrich said he had great confidence in the secretary of the treasury and did not wish to discuss this question until he had before him the statement and suggestions of the secretary. He was safisfied that in a. short time they would be laid be-' fore the senate and he thought the secretary should be given time to reply in the best possible manner. He was sure the secretary had done what he thought was best. Mr. Tillman disavowed any inten ion of saying Mr. Cortelyou had not one what he thought the best. "Un fortunately," he added, "in this coun ry we find ourselves subjected to~ what appeals to some of us as usur >ation of power. Mr. Tillman said he had noticed in he newspapers that the department of justice had given notice that -i rould not prosecute the coal carry ng railroads of Pennsylvania it' the? id not obey the Hepburn interstate ommerce law in regard to the own ~rship of products they transport. I~ hink this statement is phenomenal." eclared Mr. Tillman. Senator Gallinger suggested that] be law does not becoine operative ntil May 1, and he regarded the :1 tatement as so incredible that lie1 id not believe it. "I is time the senate should do a ttle business," said Mr. Tillman, on s own accord. We have got a doc'tor ,t a command of a ship and all sorts Ir f things are going on. I do not( now what is going to happen next. : may be a declaration of war. The senate devoted over two hours o considering the bill revising the i riminal laws of the United States ( THE RACE ISSUE Discussed Before the Members of the General Assembly. MORE WHITE PEOPLE Needed in this State.--Sees in This the Only Solution of the Race Question.-Constitution of 1895 Was But a Temporary Subterfuge Which Must Loose Efficiency. Favors Inigration. Before several hundred people Senator B. R. Tillman Thursday night delivered in the State capitol Jan address on immigration as it af fects the race question. He spoke in responce to an invitation from the general assembly. The address last ed not quite two hours and was closely followed by those present. His utterances on the immigration question are perhaps his first from a platform in this State and were therefore of particular interest to the members.' On the race problem the senator toucned, arguing in the main for a repeal of the 15th amendment of the constitution of the United States, but his main argument was that South Carolina needs more settlers ,of- the right sort, the kind authori zed in the act creating the depart ment of agriculture, commerce and immigration, and the only way to get these settlers is by advertising the advantages of South Carolina a plan now being used in the West, where .there are also many advan tages, where wages are higher and where the negro is not met in com petion, Senator Tillman anaylized the re sult of his lectures in the North, told of the disappearence of sectiona feeling and closed with a strong plea for more education of the whites calling attention to the growing ex. tent of the education of the negroes pointing out the fact that the con. stitution of 1895 was only a tem porary remedy and emphasizing thn growing danger of the use of the educated negro for political purpos es. After being introduced by Lieut Gov. McLeod he expressed his grati fication on account of the invita tion and declared that he would try to comply with its terms. He be lieves the discussion of immigration and the race question to be so close ly interwoven that one can not be handled without the other. There is still a wide divergence o: opinion on the race question, but h< is not disposed to quarrel with those who differed with him. He is will ing to debate his views with any one however, because he believes he is right. He is now three score years of ag< and he had found that young mez who were infants in the days o: Hampton, Gary and 1876 are under taking to lay down rules of con duct on the subjeet. Sees a Crisis. He believes that the most dread ful crisis is ahead of us and claimed that he could prove it to an intelli gent audience. Some have said there is no race problem; that it was solv ed by the convention of 1895; thai the negroes are now quiet, why stit it up? These very men were oppos ed to this convention and as "I was one of those who advocated the con vention I have a right to speak and show that everything is not quiet.' It is true that the new constitution disqualified many negroes and that the government is now conducted by white men, but his analysis of con ditions is that despite the education al and suffrage qualifications, the expedient .is only temporary, not a remedy but the best that could be done at the time. Therefore he want ed to warn the people that the terms of the constitution requiring a man to read and write or pay taxes on $300 of property before he could vote, might react. The report from every county showed that more ne groes were - going to school than white children. There are more of them. He reviewed the work of the con stitutional convention of 1868, which he said was attended^ by three-four ths negroes and nearly all the car petbaggers. The people seemed to forget the negro rule of eight long years that followed. Of course this can not return, but something worse can. The school attendance by tbe negroes shows that, at our expense, they are now getting the ability to read and write and can comply with the requirements of the constitution. He was not one to objiect to their education, but how long irould it be before enough of them can read and write to equal the white vote s&nd then balance the power? He was not objecting to the negro schools; he wanted to emphasize this, but they are here. The 14th and 15th amendments are staring us in the face and the Southern people are manacled to them. With the millions of dollars being poured into the South for ne gro education it can not be denied that in the future there will be a strong struggle for mastery--no1 doubt urged by unprincipled - ite men who wish power. And yet it is charged that "Tillman is running up and down t he country making money a lectures~ on the rac- questm.t ' Those who believe this were charac terized as either ostr-iches. who hid from danger by stiking their head. n the sand, or fools. Nothing hrs savedl the South from :he negro being the balance of power ,it the Democratic primary. He re erred to North Car-olina and "the ~apture of that State by Pr-itchard." such a thing would not happen in outh Carolina in his day. Immigration the Remedy. Coming to a question of remedy he vanted to say first that the problem ind not yet been safely solved but~i he: >elieved thei-e was only one answer o the question--the white race must e rein forced. We have no race uicide or divorce and we have the turest blooded citizenship in America1 rith the most glorious history. All his should nerve us to get at once .more white men and womei. in South ~arolina. In his travels across thei onlinent he had noticed that other1 tates want more settlers and a greati tany of these States have far more l dvantages an i' '-'i; h1 lu De "x reakin their neeks to gs-t hiere. t Absolutely Pure d From Grapes, the most healthful of fruits, comes the chief ingredient of r.PWDER The only baking powder { I& made from Royal 'Grape Cream * of Tartare *,e,e (.et' Cost a Wite more than the injuros alt= or phosphate of lime powde but with Royalyouaresreof purheaulfocd. "Its a good State, but a great many - Official Statistics. coldblooded people will see the gul- The figures given out, from& the leys and the swamps and may ge White House, that Taft is certain However there are things in this of 521 votes in the Republican Con State we have to offer and these ad- vention, with more to come, may vantages can be displayed. He has be found after all to- be colored by found people who do not want new- the enthusiastie statisticians of the comers. He would like to adopt that theory, but conditions are such that settlers are needed and are neessary. I rather extraordinary for a Repub As- to what kind ar best, he declared ican Convention to nominate a can that he had a fellow feeling for the didate for President against the English, German and Irish, having protest sf New York. Pennsl that blood in his veins. He, however, in going through this State was Indiana, Illinois and other impor struck with the good stock, the pure tant sttites. The nomination of Taft blood and the fact that every citi- can ony he brought about by the zen was proud of the State. More of v controlled by the federal of this kind are needed. The general assem;Ably a few years ci in t ago passed a bill for a department of such an endorsementof my poli immigration. Now what is wanted cies" and "my candidate" wold. - are homezeekers. Those of us whC hardly be a recommendation toM have thousands of acres of land and dependent voters and civil service are facing labor trouble with the negroes, realizing that the negroes reforners in the doubtful states are more and more ' independent, The Repubiia factional.fight -thus know that something must be done. seem. to be drifting in favor of the. The difficulties grow day by day and what would be the result of an influx on a c- itidate upon whom theBrY-' of 200,000 people who seek to be come South Carolinians? Can we expect them to come here. A a Prison. however, when the advantages of the "imag-ne a p'rk or garden' in the West, with its high wages, are being Japan..se syi. wth dwarf trees, sur constantly advocated everywhere and rovune .r by a hedge, instead of a the government spending millions ofwal"ayawrt. nthspk Idollars on the desert land? He hadon esagupofJaeehues served niotice, however, that if this ietoeocpe ytepaat. government was going to put waterThprsnsaealatwkprp on the desert lands of the West he toe . hi hsclaiiy.Sm expected the government to take thearthsinadgidngic;o South Carolina. But suppose this IS dr e ooo~wihtepio dione. 'ihne settler will find the ne- uiom r ae h l n n gro there, five and 10 to one. He fr r eaaiglae fppr believes firmly that immigration isAlo hm.rcieapecnaeo thae solution. True, he did not be-thieangsTeyogrpio kindmak goo ciizes an thy ae futnd ftepriato efrm or.ereb eeded.tae fewthusis ntitstansiof the. FiftethAmenment "esenith hcabne" t could bee WhenLee urrederdat pp rethedr eraonr for si thepubf one nd hatslaery xised olng-isead oveto te bestinte arcan er. ut w didnotnowhat iec- te prfonrs reiide aant the foret ll e ongpas an delarIcodiangas tlleyi aeilad o efrapo the. egro s goo as tewh t atoy sates.aTe ointipn o eTcet Whie Rdiclis ha ben tro n only we broha boubyth offtemorailythee i ony oe d- "ot confement inhe sodrt of repealof the15th mendmet.ath on ther pounihmnt N pWest-n Souternrepesetatve houdvo an' enoremn cf ' " my poli catd t~s.Hehadtaledtoun-fais" orinds asume" esoubl dredsof Nother audinces and diy or ai. remmendastion to.in foun tht tey ad vry itte u epergnde.n voter *arnd ii~ sevce forth nero athoghthy wntd rforners aid sotesubfl. tae his votebiandnarecconseluentlt tery polie t th cooredbroheroCbelditin in fiavo. fh said whthe ornot t wsnttmeDeerag, warhe cn. thet babtoehe Sfr te Suthto nit an cal o ta ae infadated upny h the Brynt I th repal o thi amedmen. an tiv -B Eroan civztion n gre the Suth nver akedfrithey ative of we.rk and gaentra Afia. would nver ge it. T e.1 e boy in uestio insaderf In ramig ovr te ladhwa Beali," rayes He writes: "In fou prk able o brng te new bactha one e years atgroup .of Japne o ue tionl felingwas ead.Ther we e tho s ae occupioed i the neasns oldides. ut her ar may wo podhe prisoerste all t tor theopor hav coe Suthdurng he pan' o arly thrashing and Arndnga rise th ish-merian wr, hve ives ers east ingth icrenct . Thea numre olor hum' lies thatp-hsvn thei moey ereandhav viite benfrs are mdectl Thnd nd itl here and thetheaveethevsamepideastagehef arosedmor enhuias inWison-plteir engs ofThe usts, B ris on inehav e e n the incatter nofwhiour- s are ina scholls. exnddi supremacy the hac o llowedbu this olthree er.7.0 arrdeih styeno aegod priaiens and usuay r dcino ni ubr'adh cur a Fifepeofthi Amendment and . the n Sout sudremndd at arAppeor-uiltd bcus o mattoyxcwetridgetusedttheUsoldiers on n that peopler texiscte tha thlong- d:*l ensmr ha .0 tim wil cme he th nero otefo the foml told dicpie repeatelay, in te Suthwillcout. orehit btht it siriltermatory. There menar nedd ndweca nt etate butew eirns gnowstadng"e the w mstsa toth Nrt eta e wthhichthe_ coudbef thi amndmnt ustbe epeled'fActednt ras tongold this iShe.f The uesion ustbe pessdupn ienyota her Capste is licetwhoch. them caus the orthknowsnoth offerd o sae the aution. t wasl ir. aBut wit o no ht se rst ah rishestrngholded intothree tionyal hate eoul evidence fNoretha orres,an aat aifrnl much lar andhe. fri as goo asn the rhie. perry, asenablseorcipln ore WHe Rad icalism haso cretng mrewn , after he batte of-xa off ttoal the ish o say den "oitwary consieedndtaen aftrto fasiteandut permat wouldy-tea asuntn langotreegfy days The reea f h 15hmedmnt ah balla y her uihewis. Nospri HeNwas t1old thalh, was hica olnere wity the chae dn howeve Sou n fthen eesenaticefhondrvo n~~" ''r " crstl "fo"^^ inth dred of orthrnadienes niyhforhood. 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