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1ENA R SAYS H E IS UNFIT fm THE HIEH Off!CE INDORSES JUMiL JIiNEt In a Renmrkable Statemeut Issued t Voters on Eve Af the Election t Senator Advises Everyone to Vot For Judge Jones-Declares Goo Name of the State at Stake. Washington, August 23.-Senatc Tillman to-night issued the followin statement concernir.g the Ferguso etter, which has been much discusse in South Carolina during the last fei days: "I have said repeatedly that I wa hands off in the race for Governor 1 South Carolina, and have tried fait: fully to remain neutral to the end but circumstances and condition have compelled me to change my pur pose. After the aims lefter was put lished I was deluged with telegram and letters, both of protest and im portunity from my old friends, o men who claimed to be such. Som of them touched me deeply becaus of their pathos. Most of them de manded that I should say as much fc Elease as I had said for Jones. Other threatened me with retirement on a< count of interference in the Govei nor's race. About ten days ago wrote to one of the latter in Ande: son county, and asked him speciall not to let anyone see it. "Three or four days ago I receive a copy of the letter from Governc Blease, with the inqury whether had written it or not. On the 19. I receirzed a letter from Harriso Ferguson, of Spartanburg, askin whether I thought Blease was not a so eminently Qualified for Governo to which I answered in the altrmA tive, with some restrictions and e: planations, and marked It also pr vate and confeential. And agal the c%.de that obtains among geri i men was violated by Mr. Ferguso: and that part of the letter show1 which said Governor Blease was 'en inently qualified." if Mr. Ferguso has shown all of the letter, he has o1 Iy 'done ;t to such friends as he coul trust, those of the same type wit himself. I am thus made to en dor Blease as "eminently qualified while explanatiors and restrictio: are kept from the public. Uncomfortalp as Fence Straddler. "I am unwilling in this crisis < the State's history to become a sul porter of Governor Blease for re-ele( tion, or to appear to do so. I kno many of my warmest friends a: strongest believers in Blease and hav known this from the beginning. less number of the Tillman!tes of o .but as zood friends as any of ther are supporting Judge Jones. I c not want to appear, and I am uncon fortable. !n the r,-1e as a fenep-stra dier: therefore. I have decided i g!ve the letter in question publiciL so that all the people may understan exactly what my ideas and feelini are. "I have no doubt Governor Elea! has read the whole letter, and such< his lieutenants as he chose to give to are already in possession of it. F is acquainted with my attitude, at will naturally-and I would do tI same, and I do not blame him at a -use it to my disadvantage. "Without considering wheth there will be any countervailing a' vantage to me in gnaking the lettE public, I will at least have the sati faction of knowing that I am no !on~ er considered too cowardly to con: out in the open and make known it opinion. In this grave crinis in t!: State's history I can better afford i retire to privae life, if necessary, tha to be considered, even by indirecio, as endorsing Governor Biease. I wi at least maintain my own self-respel and as my confidence has been bi trayed, I will give the whole letti to the public. "As the battle has progressed, have been more and more convince of the utter unfitness of Blease to I Governor, and rather than feel, as would be compelled to do. that I we in part responsible for it,if I remai: ed silent, I write this statement an will take the consequences. "The State has been disgraced the eye of the whole world, and 11 good name made a byword and a hiss ing. Nobody can cleanse it and ri deem it except its own people. "I imnlore the people to take car of the State's good name next TueE day." The letter to Ferguson is as fo: lows: Letter to Ferguson. "'My Dear Sir: Yours of Augu~ 14th received. I am not in the hab of evading direct answers to diro questions from my friends. so I wi say to you, this: As far as brains g< Blease is 'eminently qualified' to b Governor, but he is hopelessly def cient in judgment, wisdom, and catl olicity oi spirit, and there is so muc smoke about his corruption that I a: bound to believe there must be som flre. For instance; why did he n< cut Ben Stothart's head off whe Stothart refused to swear under oatl that he had not been bribed, undc the pretext that he would incriminat himself?" Why has it been his hab to refer most of those who wanted t get pardons tc some friend like Sat Nichols? Why did he not do the paa doning business himself on his oW judgment, rather than turn it over t a shifty lawyer to charge a fee, unles he was getting some of the money Why is It that he is so intimate wit Ben Abnley, the leading counei fo the Southern Raiway: as to take hi: into his own house, when he know Ben Abney is the greatest lobbyist w have ever had in South Carolina, manipulator of Legislatures and rail road commissioners. " 'If I had been running for Cove: nor like Jones is, what do you sur pose I would have said to Blease who be charged me with having'S Charlie' megaphone up to 'Pa' on th supreme bench? I would have retori ed: 'Governor Blease, Ben Abne ~does not have to use a megaphbone o telephone to reach you and t41 l.o what the Southern Railroad want5 He can talk to you three times a do: across The table, and if he does no finish by supper, he can go to bei with you, and talk over and get ev erything fixed. Every- inteiligent mai in the State knows Ben Abney's per nicous activity in Columbia. Througi the lawyers in the l<gilature, in th< employ of the railroad he has pre vented any relief to n~any p' op about the mln book situation and 'ah other railroad n:atters. "'Gonzales and all the other t. papers are supporting Jones is 5 reason why Jones 3s unfit to be Co. ernor, or that he v. i11 be controlled by~ them, if he is elected. My friends wh< have been so outraged because said Jones was 'eminentcy qualifled to be Governor," and have demand ed that I should say the same fo: Blease, had better take heed lest in their passion and prejudice and mad me- they gen. worse Governor thanj 9L 1INILI ATTAUK ] itORRIBLE DEATH OF CH' NESE GENERU. S1ANG CIEN 'M. Friends Fear for the S.fety of Dr. i Sun Yat Sen, Who Has Started to Go to lekin. The execu:ion of Chang Chen Wu: !by th Cinse Government O*l- S cas co r by the Pek.in corres - ndentr for"h Dailv Telegram to Uapolcans ot of D'ighien at i Vincennes in 18, and what foll-I l owed it. It is the turning point, the writer asserts, in The life of the Chin ese Republic. The correspondent con tinues: r "PresIdent Yua-n Shi Kai, alarmed , at the outcry, is publishing Vice Pres ident Li Yuen Hung's telegrams in crdzr to fasten the blame on that of- c icial and fearing assassination, sur- I rounds himself with troops. s According to the Chinese news papers the execution was carried out - in a fendish manner. The banner man, Gen .Yuan Chi Kuei, who was s entrusted with the execution ac - tually dined with his victim in a Eu ropean hotel and toasted him repeat edly. When the dinner was over he ~ folowed his victim in another car r riage to his 1o-dging. B On alighting from the vehicle Gen. e Yuan Chi Kuei blew a whistle as a signal, whereupon a forest of sabres r nnd bayonets sprung up like magic s about Shang Chen Wu. who was selz -ed and bound, fiung into a muie cart t and carried to the military court. No evidence was given at the trial and the accused o,-icer was condem.ned to "'immediate execution. The trst volley not killing the oris d oner repeated volleys were fired until e general's body was completely Tdisembiowedel. it being necessary to h6 ess the corpse, a message was sent SIto the victim's wife for more clothes a3 her husband "felt cold in the night r'' Iair''. Dr. Sun Yat Sen. former Pro-.%- 1 ional President of China, disregard e warning of friends, who fear for his safety since the execution of; several Hankow generals, left Shang hai f or P-eking-. - GCn. Uuang Sing. who commanded '. the southern republican army in the revolution, which overthrew the Im n peral Government and was to haveI t-accompanied Dr. Sun, has abandoned d the journey. h The soutLern generals recently put 7 o death wxere =eznDers of" Dr. Sun i Tat Sen's party. the Tung Men Hui. Ls and were seized at the capital b direction of President Yt:an Shi Ka. They were charged with being impli cated In an alleged conspiracy against :he Pckin Government. Two of the onicers were tried by a drumhead Court-martial at the capi e tal and shot. The others were re e turned to 1ankow and there execut A ed. Jones can possibly make. 0 " 'I undertake to guarantee that Jones. if elected Governor, will be - Governor of all the people and not of 0 his "Friends" alone. Because all the 71nev-spapers, which have howled at d me, and some of them are still howl s5 ing, are now howling against Blease and for Jones is no manner of prood ethat Blease is the best man of the two or will make the better Cover it nor. e Says Blease IHad Chance. d " 'Blease has had his chance. Has .e he made good? On your honor do 11 you think he has made good as Gov ernor? No man can be a good Gov r ernor unless he realizes that it is a -high onice and that he ought to do r nothing. to bring it under suspicion. ;- The honor of the State is like tae .honor of a woman and ought to be e dear to every Carolinian. y "'I have tried my best to stay out e of this fight, but my friends are try o i ng In every way possible, it seems to' _ m ie, to drag me into it, having nu 1. thought of the consequences to me, 11 but intent only on electing Blease or t Jones. I could not say Blease was as ~- well clualified as Jones without lying , Sexcept as I have explained in this let S "'If I could speak to every Southr d~ Carolinian in the State who is a Till e rianite, between now and the primary Ithis is what I would say: "I am the s same man that I have always ':een, and have not changed one particle. I Sstill believe the poor people .and the farmers ought to have os many rights Sand privileges as anybody else in the s country, but they only play into the hands of their enemies and fight against their own interests when they vote for an unworthy mian. I did notc their confi'dence and love t~y lying toa them, and I do not propose to retain it by lying to themn. I do not believer Blease would make as goca a Gover-o nor as Jones, but a very much worse t one than we have ever had since y the Radical day.s. and he would bring tns disgrace if elected again.' S" 'I know many of my friends re Srard Please as another Tmllmat'. Ho e, cnn Use the pitchfork as well or, per- o haps, better than I can now, but T e neier dipped the pitchfork in filth. .and that is what he has done; and I hope for the credit of the State. he b wii! he beaten. Consider how idiotic t Sand foolish it is to vote againlst a e . tood man 'cecause Gonzales will vote for him and sapports him in his a newspaper. If he should happen to support nie some time, that'a r would be suilcient to damn me for- e ene in the eyes of somre men, judgin t~ by their actions at this time. Such o feeling is nothing but racdness. and is unwority of the brave carolinians~ whno have always beena the backbone Sor the reform movement. Tory truly yours., ' - T. R. Tillman.I -' CILARLESTON KILLS RATS. SSixteen Hundred Rodents Slain in City's Campaign. - The recor u of the Charleston health departmient show that since - - h a iln campa.in was insti - :n'd several weeks ago, about 1,600j I rats and maice have been killed as ar as the c':Teial reports show and h evapaign is still on. The rumber is large, but not asy arge as thie health authorities would 1 o esir andhadre-so~n to~ exp'ect. S tillv er ae been d-'btless many rats ~nd 'mice killed which wvery never re-f d :d te cam:aign has not been *o Cnarleston. Aplcation has been- " made b la i'rves of WVi!!iam Fred, formei Ph~iephia, to have him declar a '--li dead. lHe diaperdi' 80 nd has not been - herl 'ro neo A ort'une of several thousand do!ar. lftby his father, awaits the ill s Rti'ler and Mount. IDuri.pm a heavy rain and thunder no'm, Ca'ivini laciey, a prospero'us r, wa~s inistiatly killed by light n g swas also the mule he was idng. ner Pelhuam, Ga. He leaves Ca his wvife and t'veral thildren. Tihe ph storm stho: knouwn to have aed he ALIIJ[I GY LCL A RIKI ~ IAN li u9JSE DEMi ORATS DID GREA TE S SAYS THE PEAKER OF TH BODY T1 ays the Work of the Deznocrats in' intet - by the House of Representatives Will ador Ihere Gives the Party the House, the Sen- ner ate and the Trtesident in the Next tha ling Election. A1 Speaker Champ Clark Saturday, Uni elivering the valedictory of the anm )emocratic House of the sixty-second , ongress, asserted that historians Q ,ould declare with absolute truth next hat the House Democrats of the six- next y-flrst and sixty-second congresses did great things" and "have made a weeping Democratic victory approxi- o aately certain, a victory that will brac :ve us the House, the Senate and oper ho president." nte Dramatically addressing his col- a n eagues while the clock across the Sout louse chamber was slowly moving oward the final adjournment time, antE he - spakr in a tiute to leaders o Inte oth parties. declared that no major- prin ry was ever more successfully leda han by Representative Underwood, .or ny minority ever led more ably cost han by Representative Mann. effic "Leader Mann." said he, "has con- com ested with Leader Underwood every y. tep of the long and wearisome road busi -e have traveled with the stubborn law ourage of the English squares at rem Vaterloo. I have not always agreed comr ",h Drother Mann-God forbid'- the ut he lives up fully to his name. sove e is in very truth a man. Were it ern ot for him I would feel decidedly plan onesome in the speaker-s chair." of s As speaker-as "dean of the fac- cott( ilty, so to speak"-Mr. Clark said clea: e felt very proud of the membership plus f the House, and he declared his be- nec ief that Democrats should sit in the TI eats of the mighty. holid every 'wi oigne of vantage and every place of Ition oGwer. bcc Speaker Clark said that for years nati he Democrats hrad been sneered at ton as a party of negation, green hands the n formulating and conducting pub- the ic b'siness, ridiculed as a mob, a poly -abble. without coherence or discip ine as militia fighting regulars. and ort, -ven exact date on which we wouti of t! Lssolve into waring factions and go o pieces was set down in tpye". does "ut," he si,ed, "the Democrats p ,aVe fought and won like veterans acy .nd constitute thoroughly a discip- the ined force as ever appeared 'n the decr :1ouse or any other parliamentary ey yody since parliamentary bodies were That nstituted among men. mustered our pro; 11l strength on every mportant prop- ' n es sition and passed two great tariff stea >ills over the president's veto, the Supi rst instance of the kind in the his- bue ory of the republic." They had t:m ought a good fight and kept the aith, he said. -Mr. Clark said that "so long as - cotL he earth spins upon its axis or slides cot lown the ecliptic." public men who 1 venid escape the people's wrath sur .ould take to heart the simple and of t nstructive story of the astounding conl~ ~hange in the political situation, 'since that melancholy day in Nov- cott 'ber, t3 flS, when we were so comn- sup: letely fitittened out." The lesson, but n brief. he said. was that the Repub- ters icans. iin ordcr to get in, promised to I 'evise the tariff down, but, being in, 'beat hey proceeded to revise it up.a The speaker expressed thanks and whc he gratiitude of the country to "the W0O >rave, wise and patriotic Republi- reg ans who co-operated with us in pass- u ng good bills. The secret of our sum rarveks success." he said, "is sim- duct te-unity of thought, purpose and A etion, frequent counsel 'together, a sett] pirit of mutual conciliation, strict tion2 tdnerence to principle, with tmost Yor) atitude in non-essential, subordina- of t! ion of individual desiro to the gen.. to t1 ral party good, sacrifice of personal "res mnbitions in the earnest, honest, pa- 117 iotic endeavor to serve the whole dlral ~ople with whatever of capacity God byd ~as blessed us. \Vat "We have won many victories." he ber, aid, "but what is better, we have thles ormed the habit of victory." He suag- havy ested that Roscoe Conkling's decla- fina: atIon that General Grant's fame was ;Iag arned not alone by things written. and Ut by the arduous greatners of k-ing hings done, "fits our case like a 0of t love". valu "Wihat the Democratic House ac- abro omplished, so far as it could for the H1 melioration of conditions," said he, geni thwarted, as it has been, by a Re- ijs eq ublican piresident, is only. an earnest'Can f what we will do when we come mn- oppt a faii possession of the three have ranches of government. President 'free 'aft vetoed most of our bills of a emedical character. a prerogative outi nwiseiy exercised. He made his me- mnas1 ord: we mad~e curs. On these rec- duce rds we apea to the country with in r h5&lute confidence that when the rede olls close in November we will have Ileast lected a Democratic House and Sen- tran te. Governor WVoodmow Wilson to :he he presidency and Governor Mar- ise hail to the viee-presidency-con- -na' timmations devoutly to be wished' pric4 ~hieh we believe and hope will prove i f inestimable and enduring benefit the Sthe entire Ar..erican people, of does htever 'ersuasion. religious or po- lockt tical." mi Doz Kills Aaed FHorse-. hr George Washington, 30years old, w riven muanv "ears ny William Rod- near nhulrg. a distiller of Lawrenceburg. tem '.ded ci aleholic poisor.Ig. The cotte ose w.as in the habit of consuming worn *rr of spirits a (lay and was un- ; SM to wormk withour it. steat Cmti 'ed Man"s Dea'th- Al W""ir "&"~ througrh somnuambulis- purc: 0 iontrertions ine'ident to a had cast' abro; nehtr-e.Torrainle Smith. of~ tage Om1inn Ind., aged forty-five tr'.' eas agt lis heatd in the iron stead ed upon~ which he had boen lying A mi ad 'sran-leri to death. re-:. r a ho!'i: Tapda ro"" W.indow. It Andrew~ Kotwash, aged~ thity-'five !iers ar., was~ ho toeat in Zelin. ers. tie(, Pa., when he" tapped a theC bler ro,ng wind ad"ws mi.taken for prod ar Ier.' e d laTh-d to tap Tb Tenof Queer Accide'nt. "oling ot of bed in his room at av-I ei n Pildelhia'P., Franklin rlt r:B . a 'ted biusless man of uc Bri'tain, Con. almost. tore his rem imad by str'iking the ,rem~ al ns~ido- real t ( persi to. p a Hand1. tatiot nillion grasshoppers nirotei -sn Kan.. and tions -o uahnd enneart. They crawl- erty' n so~e f dehors and put them ing ti 1 of tune decisi Lightninzg Kills Sheep. ,ra Dur1ig en electrical storm nearj press: .bl Cove, Ore., a flash of lightningj Th< >wd its way through a huddled techna rd of sheen and leg' ninety-six~ door 1 would be historically fit, should he trust questton tureatening the se curity of the nation be settled by South Carolina leading the way back to "State's Rights' and the reserve powers of the people vested in their State Legislatures. No better illustration of the ef-I fectiveness of the scheme which we propose could be found than in the crop just marketed. In October, under the impact of a crop estimated at 14 1-2 million bales, cotton declined to eight cents. This summer when the crop is known to be not much under 17 million ales. cotton has been selling at inter- 3 ior towns around thirteen cents, a difference of about $25.00 per bale. Twenty-five dollars a bale on S00, 000 bales so sacrificed last year' would amount to twenty million dol lars. We call your attention to the undeniable fact that this enormous los has fallen directly upon the plant ers. The banker, merchant and ferti- T lizer factory have been paid in full or are getting interest on balances car ried over. The railroad received ex actly the same freight per bale on c::rrying the largest crop ever produc ed. We further call your attention to S another fact in connection with this loss: Among the planters it has fal len most heavily on the smaller ones. J those least able to stand it, because the planter with money or establish- a cc' credit was able to warehouse his t cotton and realize from 1l1. to 13c. u for it. S We deb:ted for some times in our minds the feature of a direct appro priation from the State and finaliv b concluded that it .was best to let the si cetton crop take care of itself in the r: manner suggested in the bill. Here- 1 tofore, under our methods of market- I ing in competition with each other, n all charges, including transportation, have been borne by the producer. Un der scheme proposed, the expense of E marketing will be in the nature of a tax on consumption, shared by the consumers of cotton the world over, C and every economy which can be in troduced will enure to the benefit of both producer and consumer. We desire to call the special atten- 6 tion of the bankers to the report of a the banking committee of the State Union, and we earnestly request the T assistance of our ban=ts, and suggest that they arrange now to secure suf- D ficient funds or get assurances of ex- i tension which will avert the disasters " of last fall. Your profits, gentlemen, depend very largely upon the surplus IN which farmers are able to deposit with you after settlement of the ex perses of the crop: therefore, we co fidently expect your co-operation. To the manufacturer: We say that this bill does not sek to deprive ye of just profits. We recognize the fact that our product is without val ue until your srindles change it to: cloth. It is to you we look for that P extension of trade and a development a of new markets which creates an ev erwidening demand for American cotton. The inspection, grading and sl lessening of marketing cost, enables F us to give you cheaper raw material and thereby increase your profits as -eli as ours. . T To the laboring man: We say, n the more money our cotton brings in from abroad the greater the demand S for your labor, and the higher wage b you can command, whether in the t4 ,:.ctory, workshop or the farm. The 4 tendency is toward congestion in the city, which' means competition be- h tween laborers. Help us increase the P orofits on the farm to a point where labor from the country will not seek t1 the town to compete with you and 3 and make still higher the cost of liv- 0 In conclusion,, fellow citizens, ash we revere the past and hope for the future, we say that the time has come !n South Carolina for an~ uplift polit ical, social and industrial. E. WV. Dabbs, Pres. I Jno. L. *McLaurin, Committee State Far-' mners' Union. HOW ONE VOTE WAS TURNED. '1 Story of a Blease Veto With a Wide, Application. - A story is being told in Columbia " and also throughout the Piedmont " sction where the big cotton mills are located, of a doctor who called to see the child of a mill operative that was sick. The doctor said to the father ; that his child must have some anti toxin, and the father replied that he wasn't able to buy any. Then the doctor told him to go over to the1 store and get some, which was pro vided by the State. This was done and then the doctor told the man that Governor Blease had vetoed the propriation of (4,000 which wasi tended to buy anti-toxin for poor pe pe's children, as it is costly, and of how the Legislature passed it over the veto. It is said that when the man learned this he promptly an nounced that he would be a Jones man, and is said to be now actively at work in behalf of the Judge. This illustration is given to show tha ones enthusiasm is striking the milI people and many of them will line up for Judge Jones on election day. CAND'LDATES GET PRESENTS. Gov. 151ease the Most Favored by * Friends. Governor Blease has been the re cipient of many handsome gifts dur ing the past few weeks of the canm paign and he has already boon made :!~ tile owner of quite a handsome stock - of silver. These aliver laying cups, a b: old headed walking cane, a gotld ih eaded umbrella, a watch, bangle and lu chain andi flowers and watermelons La ~aior3 he has becu presented byiRi fr lcnds during the past three weeks Ito of campaignt!n;- and each of the sil- hr ver and gold gifts has been present- cr ed by some ad ni'ri'r friend. appro- m~ iriate wordls marking the presenta tin. While the fi ends of Judge w; Jones and John T. Dunr :an have nlot g been so extrer- in thi' r exprcessions5 Di for love for their favorite candidateo Jdge Jones has been presented vith ed scores of handsome flornl creations. md in some places his friends banked t th stage with enormous bouquets md wrert's of flowers. South to See Warships. Secretary Meyer announced Tues 37y that some time this fall or win-m er he would show the Southern peo le the magnificent Atlantic fleet at s manny as the tprincipal harbors ofih e South Atlantiean gulf coasts asa e dreadrnou-:hts can enter or even r p'rach within reasonable distance. e og from New York to Chicago. Family Die by- P~Ooiso. That thec entire fanmi!y of the hr-v. my~t La::io . pastor of the Germa niTi utheran church, at Rocky' For. 01.. wets dell'erepvly poione is the to elief of the coroner, wno is investi- js st ing the sudden death of Mr. andhr Vts. Latz(E~ and their two children. a til lagchter~ nine y.ears old. end a son of lea :eve-. A b::by is the solo survivor. thi Ligthtning Kills Cat. , ti Lihtning played a novel prank in|I he bomne of Michael Pulas in Par-I co ns. Pa.. when it dlanoed about ten|Wo ersons in a room, killed a cat and ar< hen flashed from the room. Even I IE[D LONlIN5 INTO )ME UNUSUAL DOIN64S AT OLD SOLDIERS HOME IAJOR THE WHITE BRUSH r. John T. Wise, Former Adjutant of the Home, Makes Aflidavit That 31ajor Hal Richardson Took Vege tables and Other Goods From the Confederate Infirmary. o the Editor of The State: Seeing in newspapers tie condi on of things at the old soldiers' ome I wish you would publish my Tidavit inclosed. John J. Wise. Columbia, August 18. tate of South Carolina-Richland County. Before me personally appears John ines Wise, and on oath says: 1. I was born in Aiken County, ad I went into the war of 1861 in ie Second South Carolina Artillery, nder Col. Lamar, Company G, and arrendered at Greensboro, N. C., ith Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. I was wounded in the leg at the zttle of Secessionville. and in the de at the battle of Bentoaville, car rng the ball to this day, and I was L the hospital from the wound at reensboro at the surrender. I was ver absent from my command ithout permission. 2. I rode with A. P. Butler's Red hirts in 1876, and was at the Ellen n riot, with George Croft, Nat But r and W. Brooks Harley (later of olumbia) by my side. Nat Butler nd I captured the negro leader. mon Coker, who was at the time a ember of the legislature. He and " otliers were "put away" that day 3cording to my count, though the ewspapers made it small--only 22. here were 200 in my detachment, 'hich operated in squads of about . We were from Aiken and Edge eld and Augusta. . The Barnwell de chment arrived later. 3. I did all that one man could ell do for B. R. Tillman in 1890. 4. When my brothei-in-law, Col. rank M. Mixon. became command it of the Confederate infIrmary Feb lary. 1911, I was here on a visit, ad he beged me to take the posi on of adjutant at the home, and I rentually accepted. Maj. H. W. ichardson was at that time chair an of the bcard in charge, by ap inatment of Gov. Blease. After the rst meeting of the board, Maj. Rich dson was the board-the others, ving away from Columbia. Just emed to leave everything with him. e ran everything. 5. Frank Mixon asked me to take arge of the few acres of land and ake truck for the home. I said we rst get a mule and start. He said, Wait. Hal (meaning Mai. Richard mn) wanted to bring one of his." He rought a horse and it wouldn't work the plow, and it stayed there and e at the hene till it got fat. We red the plowin done by a man with is own mule. at considerable ex nse. We had some negro men hir I at the home, who could have done le plowing if we had owned a plow nimal cr could have hired one with t the man with it. Richardson afterwards took his ors'e off and brought another, which orked all right, but was old. Frank ked me what I thought the horse as worth. I told him about $50. e said Hal wanted more than that. was hought, and was there when I ft last December. It was allowed >get fat before it was bought, but -e used it from the beginning. Mixon -ould never tell me what was paid yr it. He would just say, "We paid 6. Mr. Richardson brought three inter vutos there. and toarned over >the cook to raise for hIm. They br'ed and wallowed in my seed beds ad I comiplained to him, but could at got rid of them. 7. Mr. Richardson had about two arrels of coal sent from the soldiers' am'e to his house at one time, say g that he could not get c-cal in town. e would take vegetables home is s buggy regularly. He asked for em. and I put them In myself. We ad plenty. but could have given em to the cows and hogs. Hie fre .ently asked for buttermilk and ok it home with him. Repeatedly I as ordered by Col. Mi;:on to put a iart of lirouor in Hal Richardson's Lggy. which I did. Richardson ould come there and ask for it. noe at Mixon's request I shipped a .1on of whiskey and a gallon of sinfeetant to Maj. Richardson at lendale. He was down there, and ixon said, "I got a letter from Hal l morning, and he says he wants e to ship him a gallon of liquor, id I reckon I will have to do it." "hen goods were delivercd there. I eived them and checked the bills. ee thcre were two boxes of shirts. d I opened them and looked at cm, and I said to Col. Mixon. 'rank. there is a mistake about esc shirts. You didn't buy dollar id a half shirts for old soldiers, rely." He said, "Keep quiet about at: that is Hal's work. Hal made e a present of one box, and the oth box he is .goinz to send to his boy Allen dale.'' There were a half zen shirts to the box, and they ?e a do!lar and a half apiece, $9 a 'x. There was a whiskey case erc, bought by Col. Mixon for the rme, to sit on a table and open like writg desk. After Mixon's death, chardson said he wanted something remember Frank by and he took it ae in hi:s huggy. There are sev n other bickayuuish things I could S. Col. Mixon once told me. "Hal trt to act rid of you."~ I asked ta he had against me. Mixon re ed. "I r'ekoni be wrnts your sal ."Mixon i. "I am disap~point >n Hal-he wants too much. The stak. I made was in havi1ng him on e hoarrd." A'atr Ccl. M'von's de-ith, Richard n zot. ril of me as soon as he could enehe kaew that I knew toe I lhave used the name "Hal", moan rMaji. II. W. Ricehardlson, the pres t chairman of the board, and anak"' mea nicts my brother-In-law, :2 the Col. F. M. Dixon, command t o the soldiors' home from F'eb 'ary 1, 19fl1 , till his death in Nov iber of that year. 9. Ator Col. Mixon's death, thic dic:rs got up a petition to have me ointcd commandant. Richardson d. "They are in a hurry about it. e board met and Richardson was no:uced as commflandlant. He went his planration at Allendale, ask r ni to run things just as I had en doing. He did not come back nay day. Thea he drew $100 and d. me my $45. He had not been are at all or attended to a thing.; e old soldiers got up another pe ton for me to be commandant and zhardson told me Blease said he iid not get around that and I uld bo elected commandant. Rich isn had resianed as commandant.J ten the hoard met they elected aj FARMERS' EXHAME W UNITED STATES SENATE INO DORSES TlHE MEASURE, A Bureau of Markets to be Establish ed and Medium of Exchanbe Be tween City and Country.L Ill.wdcerned-recsedieetaoin etaoinshr A "division of markets" in the ag- Thi ricultural department to act as the clearing house for farmers and con sumers in distributing farm products reducing the chances of shortage or over-supply was authorized in Sena tor Hoke Smith's bills passed by the I Senate Friday. Information as -o supplies of farm produce and the condition of the mar- th ket. In different cities would be dis- ne tributed daily to "farmers, farmers' ya eeeeeeeeeetttatataaaaaaaaaoooooooo dis organizations and societies of consu- ce mers." The bureau also would be In authorized to investigate and report m on co-operative systems usedin the the United States or foreign countries cr whereby farm products are more eco- bo nomically placed in the hands of con- th sumers. The subject matter of the rip bill is as follows: m "That hereafter there shall be in as the bureau of statistics, in the depart ment of agriculture, a division be n known as the division of markets. n The chief of said division shall re- o. ceive a salary of $3,000 per annum, Wb and the assistant chtet a salary of ,2,500 per annum. There shall also be in said division such special ro agents, clerics, and other employees as may be necessary to fulfil the du- " ties thereof in or out of the District cl c of Columbia. "That the chief of the bureau of statistics shall have the power and g authority to make, through the divis- r ion of markets, under the direction of the secretary of agriculture, investi- V gation as to the system of marketing 0T farm products, co-operative and oth erwise, in practice in various sec- I tions of the United States and in for- t eign countries, and shall collect data in foreign references thereto. The information and data thus collected ies shall be distributed to farmers, farm- ho ers' organizations, and societies of to consumers throughout the various, ye agricultural sections of tne county, and made available for the use of any individual or organization, either by the circulation of printed bulletins I and telegrams or by information giv- I en personally hy special agents of I said bureau. It shall be the duty of a the chief of bureau of statistics to a. make , through the sala division of markets under the directions of tne -, secretary of agriculture investigation bu of demands for farm proaucts in var- , lous trade centers and tne current r. movement of such products, giving specfic data as to the supply, normal d demand. and the price thereof, with WP the view of furnishing information as To to the best available markets, which mn( information shall be distributed un- lev der the directions of the secretary of a agriculture. "That it shall be the duty of the h-. chief of the bureau o1 statistics to Fti collect, through the said division of we markets by any expeditious method rot as by telegraph, telephone, mail or ! l other wise, compile, and report to to, farmers, organizations and societies ne: of consumers dahly buiettms or tele- 1' graphic repor$ of such information hr' and statistic as will enable them to nih adopt plans of marketing that may his facilitate the handling of farm prd- e ducts at a minimum cost; provided, that when such reports or statistic als are regnested to be furnished by tele- th phone or telegraph, or methods other on than the United States mal, the per- 'a son or association making such re- vit quest must adratice the fee for the ho cost of transmission, which shall be ia deposited to the appropriation for the stt maintenance of said division of mar kets. It shall be the duty of the see- th retary of agriculture to make an an- M nual report to congress regarding the cr work of the said divisIon of mar- tr: kets, with any recommendations that :m. may enable congress to enact any ad- no ditional necessary legislation. "That the secretary of agriculture bih shall make alt necessary arrange- the ments for ofices and supplies for the an: tse of said equipment, rent in or out ly of the DIstrict of Cosumnia, station- : ary, telegraphing, and~ all other nec- an essary expernses. The compensation th. of clerks and employees not other- Th wise specifically provided for in this by act shall be fixed by the secretary of or agriculture subjiect to the restrictions wa of existing law. knc "That the sum of $50,000 or so rel much thereof as may be necessary, Is inl hereby .ppropriated for the expenses sh< of such division, to be available dur- .sel ing the fiscal year ending June 30, . 191'3.'' tio - I..-. --- --oni I MET AFTER TIURTY TEARS. Sisters Although On Same Block roi Didn't See Each Otnier. After having lived at New Orleans fic for seventeen years, the last yearth within a block of each other, Mrs. Adele Columbus Aniau and Mrs. sm: Marie Columbus Algero, sisters, me: hlg Thursday for the first time in 30 .to years. They were separated when 0o :'nildren in Havanna and had remain- gre ed in Iguorance of the whereabouts tol of each other until a chance meeting an at a factory, where they had sought onm employment, one because she was a wa widow with a family to support, the wi other because her husband was out tmi of employme'nt. A similarity in ap- thle rearance attracted each to the oth er and questions disclosed their iden- ma tity ___________ i Pictu.res Kill Man. (lief :lt While witnessin a mo'.ing pictureat presentation of the battle of Gettys b)urg Saturday night, Harvey Cheiger,' a Civil War veteran. droped dead ofj j heart failure at Milton, Pa. The finm h: showed the part GeIger's regiment took in the batle, and the old man who was woundecd in this engagement accame so overcome with this emo- Sai tion that he could not withstand the shcck. Over one Hundred Perish.' A tremendous hurricane that swept inl the Spanish coast has caused heavy Iwhi !fe and property loss. Fourteen mo: itilboa fishinag boats capsized durnng kuc the worst storm and at least 119 sail.-o crs perished. All coast towns suff- jtwo red from the gale. T n Struck Dumb in Pulpit. ng The Rev. Henry B. Elliott, the er I oidest alumnus of New York univer- her sity and UnIon Theological seminary, t was struck dumb while occupying "cou the pulpit of his son's church at Port 'oul Teferson. L. I. He is eighty-nine it ears old and has been a minister hen ~or over seventy years. left, and I had not known that A Richardson was drawing a salaryan ince that first month till I saw it in tomn he paper the other day. Jan] John J. Wise. run Sworn to and subscribed before me thrc his -19th day of August, 1912. the (Seal) J. Hughes Cooper, The HO MURDERiE HIM CLUE TO THE SLAYER NOR MOTIVE FOR THE CRIME 1DENTLY A BURLAR ' Murder of a Negro Near the Na ry Yard Reveals the Treasure jouse of a Successful Thief some of the Articles Found Have leen Identified. rhe Charleston Evening Post says discovery of the dead body of a Yro man in a field near the navy -d Friday has .led to a series of coveries as remarkable as have re itly come to light in police circles. the first place the mu had been rdered by being stabbed through heart, and the mystery of the me is as deep now as when the Iv was first discovered, In spite of Unestigatlon that has been car d on since that time. The dead .n was at once identified as Thom Sapp, the porter in Marks' store on meeting street road nedf the gov ment reservation, and Friday ht when the case had been turned er to Coronr O'Donnell and the y police by Magistrate Behrens o conducted the first investigatic a, local otheritin discovered Sapps >ms at No. 52 Calhoun street to be veritable treasure house of stolen ds. Trunks and boxes full of thinz. fine linen and drug goods, rked table silver in large quantity, med nortraits, and other valuable t to the value of several hundred Hars were found in the dead man's >m. yfst of the recovered booty was re >ed to the police headquarters at ee. and the rest was transferred turday, and all morning at the sta n house the owners of lost proper which bad in some case been stolen ring last fall and winter were Iden ring their goods. Several robber took place last winter in several rees in the lower part of the city, which no clue was ever found. Sil r and furnishings were found tonz the murdered porter's booty, tich evidently had come from these rglaries. some of it being identified urday morning. Merchants whose ires had been broken into and rob i also appeared and ideitified ods. and from the evidence at iand n this soon after the discovery of pp's store house. It Is certain that was either one of the cleverest reiars that ever operated In Char on or els- was a succesful "fence" stolen coods. No suspicion had ever been attach to the man before the search that s made of his rooms by Coroner O' nell and Chief Cantwell who were >king for some clue that would d to an explanation of his myster s murder. and he was said by his nloyer at the Marks store and also his fellow residents in the Calhoun eat house to be a quiet. sober rkm an. regular in his habits and o-ether trustworthy. The double a that he was evidently leading and Sreal reason for his urosperous ap nance and enntinual possession of ty of spending money that had ~n noted by his friends W6i1ld pos ly never 'b-een explained except for sudden death and the investiga nthat is being made of it. Tomnas Sann's murdered body was cvered early lying in a field off SMeeting street road at StatIon 14, thbe navy yard car line. He had evi div been dead for some time pre >usly and the only mark on the ri was a krife wound through the art. which must have produced in nt death. A careful search of the rounding ground gave no clue to manner in which the crime had n committed or the murderer. The fe used was not foond. Magis ~te TPehrens. of Ten Mile. in whose v~ltion tha body was found, was tified and conducted a thorough in siation together with his consta s, but beyond an identification of Sman nothing was found to throw rlight on the mystery. According the magistrate who exercises the ties of coroner in his district held inquest over the body at which Sjury returned the verdict that omas Sap-p had come to his death a knife wound infliceted by party parties unitnown, and the man s buried by the county. He was own to be unmarried and without atives. In the rockets of his cloth there was found $121 in cash, >wing that the motive was not rob y. whatever it may have been. After a further fruitless investiga n M1agistrate Behrens notified Cor er O'Donnell and Chief Cantwell of facts and turned the local inves ation of the case over to them. The oner wished to examine Sapp's im which was discovered to be at .52 Calhoun street and accompa d by Chief Cantwell and other of rs the official search party .broke ough the locked 'door Saturday ~ht. 'he biggest surprise of the whole prising af~air was then brought to [ht, when ~the little room was found be stacked and piled high with tes containing stolen goods of at value. Six new suits of clothes, ether with whole bolts of linen I other fine cloth were found to fill trunk and odds and ends of hard re and house furnishings, together h a large quantity of silver, both rke and unmarked, were some of other loot. -he police headquarters the whole ss of recovered goods is being efully gone over with a view to lin the owners, and later more iite results will undoubtedly be lined. The marks of some of the r wIll probably lead to the clear up of some robberies committed :winter, which completely foiled efforts of the police at thie time. POLICE SEEK ROBBER. I to be the Most Brutal in the City of New York. 'he haunts of ruffians and crim s were searched for a robber > the police say is one of the t brutal crooks they have ever w. In an apartment building Fith Avenue, the robber made attacks on women. he burglar, in one case, picked up irmocent infant and dashed it nst the wall to torture the moth nto revealing the hiding place of money. The mother, Mrs. Paul derton, had no money in the se. The second victim was a g bride, whom the ruffian choked insensibility and then robbed of her jewelry and money. Tack Rabbits Spills Auto. jack rabbit, which became en tied in the running gear of an an obile belonging to W. L. Lidesay, owa man, caused the machine to into a fence near Dover, Cal., wing members of his party into road and damaging his machine. rabbit was attracted by the ELPINi TtHE FARMER ADDRESS ON COTTON AND COTTON 3MARIKETING. 11 to Regulate the Ginning, Bal g, Inspecting, Warehousing and irketing Farm Product. Le following address will be of est to all and it enould be read 11 classes of our people. The tion of some such measures as proposed means the saving of ons of dollars to the farmers of State and less trouble in hand-' the products of the farm: the annual meeting of the State n. held in Columbia on the 23 24 of July. the undersigned were ucted to issue an address to the le on cotton marketing and to t a bill for introduction at the session of general Assembly, h will be in conformity with the at decision of tle $upreme Court lie State Wharehouse Act. e herby submit a measure em lag not only a State owned and qted wharehouse system, but also ded to standardize cotton grades baling, so that the stamp of h Carolina, will be accepted the d over at its face value as a-guar e of merit. is recognized as a vital business ciple today, that consolidation, competition, is the foundation ;ealth, because it reduces the of production. and makes for :iency and economy in placing mnodites on the market. allow farmers, it Is only in our ness where the oldtime brutal of "the survival of the fittest" ains- of force. We alone are petitors, one with the other, in markets of the world. With the reign of power of tne State gov aents behind them, let the cotton ters, with due regard to the laws upply and demard, market their )n only when demand ensures a r profit, taking care of the sur as do the producers of iron, ssities of life. le marketing of cotton s of world im;- crt, because since the adop of the gold standard cotton has me the very cornerstone of inter nal finance. It is through cot that the United States controls balance of the world's trade, and South having a natural mono in its production, has it in her er through wisely directed eff to largely doninate the finances e United States instead of occup the subservient position she today. olitical eenomists are agreed that .nce or decline automatically as measure of value increases or 'eases. If the quantitive mon heory then be correct it means if the supply of goid increases in iortion to the increase in bus s transactions, that prices hold dy and prosperity reigns: per )1, and an increosing volume of iness, pricas decane and hard s comes. The Proposed Bill. pplying these basic principles to n, what do we find? Cotton is an export crop, the lus sold abroad fixing the price hat which enters into domestic umption. .This being true, the price of an is fixed not in relation to the 31y of gold in the United States, in the cotton manufacturing cen abroad. bero is no other great world crop -ing just the relations to the fin al system that cotton does. at, grain, wool and meat are L-wide products, a failure in one on is compensated by over-pro ion in another. World-wide con tion and restricted area of pro ion is what makes cotton "King". fter the panic of 1893 and the ement of the free silver ques the great financiers in New Swere quick to take advantage ie monopoly in cotton production rn exports Into imports, thereby toring confidence" and prosper New York steadily each fall ned Europe of her gold reserves eanding pay for ootton in gold. ch the imports durirng Septem October, and November. It is o which within sixteen years transferred the center of the icial world from the banks of the u to the banks of the Hudson made Morgan. not Rothschild, Its .Each year the foreign balance rade is just about equal to the e of Southern cotton sold ad. as the time come when Southern us and Southern statesmanship ual to the task offer.e us of God? we turn to our own advantage an rtunity greater than any people! had since Canaan was offered a gift to the children of Israel? present we "make brick with traw" and the hand of the "task :er" is heavy. Our crop is pro d and the expenses are paid, not oney, but credit paper, whose iption in gold is unheard of; at 90 per cent, of all the business saction connected with making rp is by check, draft or "prom o pay"'. When it comes time to et the crop abroad where the is fixed, payment is demanded old, and the actual shipment of metal itself begins. This gold not enter into circulation, but is d in the vaults of New York to ama a commercial supremacy in h the South is not permitted toI e have a vision of the time in the future when. through this sys Sotthern ports will become the n distributing points of the d. andI Southaern banks, the chan through which shall flow this ly stream of-gold, which fructi he commerce of the -nation. present we permit eacn year the asing power of our customers d to be depleted for an advan to Ndw York which is a posi injury to us. because of the y fall in cotton prices resulting. ro statement of the proposition iS the economic blunder which the South in bondage. is as unjust to European spin as it is cruel +o Southern plant It is generou:- only to the gamn who exploit both spinner and remedy we propose is to bring roducer and the spinner togeth rough a system of government ouss, which will, as sure as become the basis of a foreign1 domestic sy:stemn of banking. 1will reduce interest rates and Ite money to Its only legitimate ion--a modiuim of exchange. e reent decision' of the Su e Court is of far-roachinr effect. er, perhaps, than any of us now :e. for it. gives a broad interpre tof the powers of the State in ! ting her citirzens from combina-' which would confiscate prop by dlestroying the proflrs aris 'erefromn. The South Carolina on marks a new era an~d will be uthority most quoted In the so id industrial questions now ng for solution. objections to the bill were on cal cuestions, and the broad o the police powers of the State