The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 28, 1892, Image 1
CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1892.
BOCTH IN GENERAL.
est News From All Over This
Land.
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mas" 'Tis Trua, But Tfcefct
tms Show Industry and
] Progress.
rLewis Joaestof the^rillant Sixth
pamliha cavalry, died nt his home
Wield,; S C . Tuesday a .d wms
'Wedoesday with Masonic hoa
Japt Jones was 77, be'ng Edge
&ldest inhabitant.
[farmers around BueDa Vista, Va ,
to have a broom f*cto y in that
o that they can find a ready mar
? their broom corn!
| common council of Norfolk, Va ,
^thorized an appropriation of $140, -
?r the purchase of 10) acres of
nrhicb are to be made into a city
e Alabama St*tc f;tir will be opened
Member 9, aod a iar.e attendance
Kicted. A fine s t of exhibits has
prepared, and various amusements,
racing, etc*, wili take place.
Ivices fcora Washington state that it
fobable that the total amount of
r bounty to ba paid this comi
i>n will be newly $9,000,000. This
Id indicate a yield nearly one-q:itr
frcater than last season.
is estimated that the fitsiit, water -
n and vegetable crop of Houston
ty, Ga , brought ab ut $317,000
g the pa>t s ason; 190 carloads of
ich-.'S and 634 carloads of watermelons
re shipped away.
/>cal papers state that some valuaolc
iris have been found in the South
:kin# river, near Lair, in Kentucky,
e said to have been found near Livin
pd, in Pefcdleton co-mty, is reported
weighing! twenty-three gra:ns.
[The Palar ko Kaclin Co. shipped
tough Gainesville on the 23 d inst.,
fer the S., ^F. & W. Railroad thirty
bs of kaolii to Golding, Sons & Co ,
! Trectoo, J. This is said to be the
best kaoliil in Flonaa and more ship
ments will follow. The deposit is io
fcted near Okahimpkn, in Lake county.
t J. W. Mdore, of Wilmington, N. C ,
las invented a machine for taking the
long fibre faom the inside of bark and
Reaving with it a . coarse and strong
Sloth suitable for bagging and similar
A spec:al meeting of the East Ten
nesse Land Co. was recently held in
Harriman, Tean . at which 28,600 9bires.
of stock were represented. It is intend!
ed to recapitalize the company and free
it from all debt.
psc5. Mr. Mo re is now at Port Town
bend. Wash , where th? m chine wili
be used on cedar and redwood bark.
Extensive improvements are bebg
made on the Baltimore (Md.) sugar rc
finerj, and if is thought the plant will
be in operation next year. The new
work will cost from $250,000 to $300,
0-0.
Contract for the Jetty works on the
Cumberland bar at Brunswick, Ga., has
been let to E. H. Gsjnor. The sum of
$112 .000 has been appropriated for this
woric.
San Angelo, Texas, is one of the larg
est wool shipping towns in that State.
During the last 3eason over 6,000,000
pounds of wool were shipped, and this
will be largely exceeded this year.
The Salem (Va ) Steam Tannery is
now working up its stock of hides for
sole leather,; and will shortly change to
belting leather, of which it will make a
specialty. The buildings are being en
larged jind other chaoses made toward
this end. The present main building is
208 feet long by 48 feet wide, with tw<\
wings 48x80 feet. An addition, two
stories 112x48 feet, is being added to
the left wing. In addition to this a new
building 50sc'J6 feet is bciug constructed.
The two bark sheds will each be made
64 feet longer. Seventy two vats, 7x0
feet, will be put in. At present about
forty hands are employed, but *hen in
fuli operation many more will be re
quirea.
At a meeting of the Staunton (Va.)
Development Co. held September 28 the
president read a report showing the con
dition of the company's finances. Out
of iU capital stock of $1, 200,4-00 only
|354,00O his been sold. The liabilities
are $296,519.80; assets $147,369.89; net
liabilities #149,149 91. In the statement
of the resources and liabilities the re
sources are placed at $716,599.83, with a
surplus of $138,901.12. The sale of lots
in June, 18$1, netted $48,796 96. It is
intended to sell some lands and reduce
the liabilities.
A number of vessels drawing from
twelve to sixteen feet have recently en
tered the Brazos river and taken cargo at
Yelasco, Texas. It is said that the cost
of loading there is les* than at some
other Gulf ports.
Arrangements are being made to run
an electric car line in the new town of
Nantahala, Ga. Chafes Boech, the en
gineer in charge, is making surveys
from the top of theNantahala mountains,
where it is proposed to run the cars.
The town is naw laid off and prepara
tions are being made- to erect lumber,
talc and marble mills. - \.
I The railroad commission of North
Carolina hat rendered the Governor a
report shoeing that the value of steam
boats plying on the waters of that State
is $200,000. The steamboat lines have
. never paid' taxes to the State, and it is< \
i now proposed to make tbeai do $o<
On Oct. 30 the corner stone of the Vir
ginia Co'? legate and Industrial Institute
was laid at ifynch burg. Va. ThisisaMeth
odjst collegt for training colored youths,
and a targe attendance to the ceremony
j is expect* d.)
A. convenient arrangement has been
j effected between Charleston, S. C , and
! Beairfort, Fprt Royal and Coosaw by
: which British shipmasters at the three
J ports last cpmed c.n communicate by
j wire with t^e British consul in Charlcs
} ton. This will save the time otherwise
! taken in going to the latter port to con
sult with tlie consul, and, owing to a
> apeciii arrangement with the telegraph
compiny, Will be much less expensive.
A wire is run direct to the consul's office,
wfcere a pro-consul, wbo is a j radical
telegrapher,, rapeiyes pjQd answers the
| message < ' '
It is stated in a special dispatch to
j Richin nd. Vs., from Tasley, Accomac
| county, that*"Capt John ^Iarsh, with
; two men, sat'.ed in his sriioue: for Ba!
[ timore to secure a cew cf dredgeis.
TVhcn in Chesapeake B the schooner
: toe capsized in a gale acd th: three \
t were lost
I The coastwise shipments ot iurnber
I from the port of. JiickseatiQe, Fla.,- for
' the ?oi#h ot" September were 4,416,150 ,
, superficial feet of lumber and 22,470
bundles oY shingles. The foreign exports
for the month were 311,833 feet of lum
ber, valued at $3,370.36.
The lumber trade of Alexandria, Va.,
since January 1st is unprecedented, and
has reached proportions and figures almost
fabulous for a city of its size and com
[ merce. One firm has sold since the year
set in 1.2 '7.000 cypress and 300,000 whitr
pine shingles, and others hire shipped
from forty to fiity vessel Ioad6 ef lumber
to poiuts os the Chesapeake tributaries
There is not a day tha: a steamer or a
vessel is not discharging or receiving its
car<ro a*, the Alexandria wharfs. ? South- i
| i e
cm Lumberman.
MEANT TO HAVE THE 6IRL.
Frank Johnson Responsible for the i
Death of Hia Sweetheart's
Father and Brother.
Bristol, Tesn ? Knox county, Kv.> j
near Leacher and Floyd, is be'ng scoured !
by officers of the law who s.:e on the J
hunt for Frank Johnson and party, who j
kilUd two men on Monday night. A
love affair was the cause of the crime.
Johnson, a reckless young man, fell in
love with the daughter of James War
wick^ well known citizen of this county.
The latter objected to the joung
man's attentions and so informed him,
but Johnson did not s'op his visits.
Finally the young people became en
gaged.
On Monday night Johnson went to the j
home of his finance and knocked for ad
mittance. He was met by the irate fath
er, who shut the door in his face. John
son became enraged and went to the
homes of some of his com panions, where
he related the circumstances. In a?short
lime he returned, accompanied by half
a dozen of them, all well armed. They
approached the house and ordered the
father out. He anticipated events and
summoned his son and a laborer to his
aid. A pitched battle ensued, dozens
of shots being fired by both sides. When
the smoke cleared away three meo, !War
wick and his son Tim and on? Jessie of
Johnson's gang, were found to be dead.
Johnson fled with his comrades and
they have not yet been beard from. It is
thought they worked their way to We6t
Virginia.
Legate From the Pops.
Baltimore, Md ? Monsignor Satolli,
the Pope's legate to the World's Fair
d die tion, accompanied by 3ev. Dr.
O'Connell, rector of the American Church
at Rome, and the committee that went to
New York to escort them here, arrived
at Cardinal Gibbons' residence where a
rccep ion was held. Monsignor deliv
ered some verbal messages of extern
sent by the Pope and other high digni
taries of the Church to His Eminence of
a particularly pleasing nature. Monsig
nor Satolli also stated that he had in hto
baggage some important messages from
Cardinal Gibbons, presumably from the
Pope.
A banquet was given by His Eminence
to Monsignor Satolli at uight, at which
time the United Press dispatch from
Home to the effect thit the Vatican hes
doci ;ed to elevate Archbishop Vaughan
and Monsignor Stoner to the cardinalate
caused considerable comment. It led to
a statement by a clergyman high in
Church circles that tin report was no
doubt true and would receive official
confirmation in a few days.
THE CONTRACT LIMIT.
An Important Question As to Cotton
Options.
Galveston, Texas.? The Galveston
Cotton Exchange adopted resolutions
condemning the custom of the New Ytfik
and New Orleans cotton exchanges in
permitting inferior grades of cotton to be
tendered in fulfilment of future contracts,
thereby depressing the market. The
Galveston Exchange asks other exchanges
to join in the movement and induce the j
New York and New Orleans exchanges
to adopt low middling grade as the low- I
est that can be offered in fulfilment of
future contracts, urging that as the only
objection to ths present system of option
trading.
NEW OB LEAKS SATS NO.
New Orleans, La.? The board ot
director of the New Orleans Cotton Ex
change decided at a meeting held that it
?was injudicious at this time to make a
change in theJuajrra of contracts under
which cottons fete? (uture delivery are
sold in this market. Notice to the above
effect was promulgated by President
.^Flower.
The Latest News.
Forty thousand dollars worth of fine
horses were killed in a Texas freight
wreck Snnday. The horses were on ihc
way to Dallas to run on the fair ground
track.
Maj. Fay B. Taliaferro died in Rich
mond, Va., Monday night of congestion
of the brain. During the war he was
major and commissary in Pickett's di
| vision.
During a glove fight Tuesday morning
in New York, William Neary was knock
ed out by John McGarry. A doctor was
called, but he was unable to restore
Neary to consciousness and he was car
ried home, where he died.
Bich Find in Georgia.
Savannah, Ga. ? Three miles ffom
WrighteviJie, liberty county,' Suijbter
James (colored) while digging on; bis
farm 'found an ancient urnv pot. in whioh
were more than three thonsand French
and Spanish silver coinsT ^130 or more
years did. Their value is placed at $4,
OOiX The coins are believed to be part
of the plunder buried by Black Beard,
the pirate, shortly before his capture in
that section of the State. The negroes
have nearly gone crazy over the discovery,
and parties are differing everywhere.
Murderers Lynched.
Camden, Ala. ? Four negro boys,
| Wiliiam Jackson, John Thomas, Abe
[ Davis and Dave Mason were arrested and
? confessed to the murder of R. H. John
son and daughter, in Monroe county, f^r
[ the purpose of robbery and assault. A
i posse of citizens apd- officers took them
back tothesceneof their crime, and on
1 arriving there they were met by/500
> men, white t nd black. The murderers
were taken-fromthe officers aad hanged
to the nearest tree, and their bodies
were then burned.
The city of At&ec?, Ga., ruas a dispen
sary, and thus controls a monopoly in
^fee sale of liquors. The first year expir
ed Wednesday, and a clear ^ rofji of be
: Iween $9,060 and $10. OH) shown
. Any one e'afl purchase liquora of evfiy
kind, tod on which a jsrofr. o?5* p r
? cent, over wholes e eoft is charged. It
\ i* foM id euaDtftte* of from t\ oiot tin
I' i" i ? ? " " *
NEW YORK'S JUBILEE.
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The Metropolis Honors the Memory
of Columbus.
A Grand Gcda Time Wound XJp By
a Columbus Banquet.
COLUMBUS MOJfCTOtST.
Nlw York, N. Y.? In commemora
tion of the di-covcry of America on Oc
tober 12, 1492, by Christopher Colum
bus, tbe 40{kh anniversary was ce'd
br ted here with all ihe pomjhaud dis
play the Metropolitan city is able to
command. Aud that meairs much,-,
when it is known that the *decora
t tions of the buildings nlone represented an
outlaj^of over two millions of dolia>a.
The city was transformed with gay
I colors everywhere from Har'em to the
the Batti ry, eveu the various foreign el
ements, who talk not yd in English,
covering the r tenement houses in bunt
ing, U. S. flags intermingling with flags
of their owq countries
Tue celebra ion commenced Wednes
day morning, continuing two days, and
the parades, pageants, floats and naval
shan* battle were all indescribably grand.
A banquet Thursdy night dosed the
jubilee. The auditorium <f the Lennox
where the feast was held, is an ideal
banquet hall.
1 he guests of houor dined on the stage,
which was so draped as to resemble an
alcove of the main banqueting hall, and
Jiu the centre appeared i portrait of Co
lumbus. encircled by the flags of Italy,
Spain and the United States.
May.-r Grant presided, supported on
the light by Vice Presicwnt .^Morton,
Secretary Foster, ex- President Grover
Cleveland, Mr Arnold, president of the
Board of Aldermen, Baron Fava, the
Italian minister, nod 31 r. G. F.
Wahle, Jr. ; on the left by Governor
Flower, ex-President Hayes, General
Horace Porter and Bishop Potter.
The boxes were assigned, amongst oth
ers, to the Spanish minister and suite,
Secretary Foster of the Treasury, Secre
tary Rusk, the French Charge D'Affaires,
Mr. Fairchiid, Commodore Erben, the
Spanish admiral, Hon. Bcnjamiu Wood,
the Italian admiral and Mr. and Mrs.
Cleveland
The 800 guests included the Governors
of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsyl
vania and South Carolina, General Scho
field and many others of prominence.
Bnt there was only oae empty chair at
the table of honor. Chauucy (ftpew,
who was to have acted as toaatmaster,
was absent. Mayor Grant supplied his
place. The mayor proposed the first
toast, "The Pre-ideit of the United
States," to which Vice-President Mor
ton responded.
Secretary Foster spoke for the "United
States," and Governor Flower for the
"State of New York."
onion Bsminary ?jucs -uooss. ,
New Yokk. ? At a meeticg of the |
bo-trd of directors of the Union Theolog
>caI Senvnary, held last Tuesday, it was
decided by a vote of 19 to 1, the Rev.
Dr. Bootb, pastor of Riverside Presby
terian church, voting in the negative, t<T'
dissolve the relations existing between
the seminary and the General Assembly
of the Presbyterian ( hurch. It whs
rumored that Dr. Booth intended to
resign from the b)ard because of its ac
tion, which severs all official communi
cation between the church and the sem
inary, and places the totter in the posi
tion of an independent institution. This
action o^the part of the seminary is a
direct outcome of the G eneral Assembly's
refttsal to indorse its transfer of Dr. .
Charles A. Briggs to the chair of Biblical
theology.
A Hint To Our CongTeaa.
Paris Cablegram: Several deputies
have resolved to support in the Chamber ]
a measure fining absent members ten
francs a d iy ; the ?uuunt of the fine to
be deducted from ; \\t-\v otliciil salaries.
The measire is l:i!<ndi.'d to reduce to
the minimum the dxenu-osm from which
the Chamber serious emb?n
rassment frequei:? v in s event year?.
The Gin's Work in South Carolina.
Columbia, S. C. - Capt. G. M. Hodges,
a promineat citizen of Abbeviile, was
jerked into the saws of his gin and bad
both arms and his face mutilated. His
injuries are probably fatal.
Southern Eloquence at Chicago.
Chicago, III.? Senator John W. Dan
iel, of Virginia, delivers the Columbian
oration, October 21 at the dedication of
the exrosirion building.
The ayerage dally earnings of a rail
road locomotive are said to be about
?100.
WASBISGTG!? AiiCtt.
HAIL. KING TOBACCO.
It Will Some Day Supplant Bang1 Cot
ton in South Carolina.
Florence, S. C.? The inside of a
tobacco warehouse on salesday presents
some interesting, ns well as amusing,
sights to the novice in the tobacco in
dustry. To hear the everlasting voice
of the auctioneer and the quick and
snappish bids of the buyers induces one
to come id the conclusion that cotton is
no longer king in South Carolina. The
buyer eagerly seeks the article and pays
a good price tor it, instead of the article
seeking the buyer and getting a small*
sized nothing.
Florence can boast of having the
largest tobacco warehouse in South Car
olina, which fact indicates that this in
dustry is assuming size ki this - par icu
lar section of the State.
Fforence county. ..farmers have wisely
come to the oonch?sion that tobacco at
24 cent* a pound beats cotton at 6 cents,
and the consequence of tfi$s ' conclusion
is tobacco has entirely super- '
ceded cotton. Other counties should
imitate Florence in thjg^ particular line,
and they will soon shake. off the shackles
of poverty. ?*
lousayyou will have to hire some
experienced nun from North Carolina
<t \ irgiuia to teach you the business.^
Hear what one say* who learned the bus
in ss himst-lf, in answer t> the reporter's
questions about learning the business:
'\Do^3u mean to say that you had no*
one fo instruct vou in the tobacco cul
ture?"
Well, sir, I used common sen6?, to
gether with information gathered from
books and papers devoted to the culture
of tobacco. 1 w
''fell mo something about your farm."
'There is nothing1 jnuch to tell, but
what there is, you arVv. welcome to/' it. ?
Thro 3 yea!s ago I commenced to plant
tobacco simply as an experiment. I did
not have much faith in it as^ profitable
crop in South Carolina. At the end of
the first-^ear I came out so ^rell that I
w?.s induced to try it on U' larger scale,
?and ti'e third year finds! me planting
ouly ten acres of cotton, just for the
sake of 'before the war.' The first crop
brought me in about $150 per acre, and
the second and the third, crops have
netted me about a thousand dollars for
every ten acFes; or, in other words, I
clear one hundred dollars per acre.'
" rVh ?t peculiarity does' the soil possess
which makes it good for tobacco?" ?
"Nothing, fir. Tobacco will gr$w
just as well anywhere in South Caro
lina Good cottuu land is good tobacco
land?" J ..
" kVell, you put too muclr-^xpensc in
I bu Id ing your tobacco barn?"
'No, sir. I built it with my own
hand-, and at very little expense."
''In transplanting your crop, do you
I have to wait for rainy weather?"
"Not at all. Dry weather is just as
sfood. Th: tobacco pi tut is almost as
hard to kill as nut grass or wire grass
I o'occo farms are becoming verv nu
uierous in this scction, and we are get
ting better prices here than the planters
of Nonh Carolina and Virgiuia."
The questions compounded by the re
porter and answered by this planter
show that the tobacco culture is a power
in thii this section.
A buyer of Virginia says:: "South
Carolina tobacco is very fine" and de -
mands the best prices, "it brings as bi"h
as $2? per hundred ponnds. "
The planters bring their tobacco to
the Florence warehouse, where it is
auctioned off in piles. Each pi"e is of
a different grad$. The Florence ware
hou-e, on: of the largest of any tobacco
State, holds about seven hundred piles.
Sales are made every day during the to
bacco season. About eight thousand
pounds of tobacco is sold at this ware
house each day.
If cotton rrauks would stop picking
awhile and visit Florence or Darling
ton aud see how much they are making
out of the "uuiversal weed," in two
years South Carolina would not produce
enough cotton to stuff a pillow.
Florence and Darlington, the pioneer
couuties in tobacco culture, started on a
snail scale, and gradually they have
grown to be known as the tobacco coun
ties of South Carolini. Why can't other
c unties join thig small^aud?
The Florence tobacco factory stnds
out a* good stuff as does the factories of
Virginia aud'North Carolina, thus show
; ing thit we can produce first-class raw
material and first-class manufactured
stuff.
Let 1 8t*3 be the tobacco vear and
mark the downfall of His Majesty Kine
Cotton. t . p. \vy, aa.
UNLOADED PISTOL IN YADKIN.
A Young Lady Snaps It at Her Sweet
heart and He is Not Expect-ed
to Live.
Winstos, X. C. ? A. sad and horiible
accident occurred Sunday night at lit.
isebo. Yadkincounty. A youog man
named Shugart called to see his sweet
heart, a Miss Pardue. Shortly :ifttr
calling Miss Pardue escorted her sweet
heart into the parlor. - In a few minutes
he pulled a pistol from his pocket and
after removing the cartridges began snap
ping it at the youn<? la ly. She present
:y took the pistoi from him and b<*gnn
snapping it at him. While thus atnus
ing themselves a noise wa? he <rd on the
outside of th? house. Shugirt loaded
his pistol arid went out to investigate
Finding nothing, ?e relumed a*udt M&k
the pistol on the tablii Mi?s Pairiiue,i
fo gotting that the cartridges bad beeo
replaced, picked up ttafj \ istol nud point
ipg it at Shugart? puli^d the trigger, w th
a fearful re ult '
The ball cnt red the young man's fact
just above the chin and ranged through
the mouth into thy head. A phyfieitn
wa? immediately sent lor, but the last
report reeled was tW^: the w^updt-d
man could not possibly jliv'e. Miss P?r
duy is almo t f an ic with.irrief
The Court Short of Cash.
Ciiati \Nu jV, Tkns ? The famous
Cu'?. Wnilurd C'ouj t of Inq'.tuy ?t Cod
Creek presents ,i humoi.u^ side The
Colonel w%3 tried sever ?j '-v< :>ks ?:> ? i.ut
the matter, ha> lingered without any :c ?
port. Now it appears 'hnt the pi etty
typewriter who took the evidence sent
, it *?' . 0. D. $157'' to rhe recorder of the
court. /'
TliC'COurt didn't h*vc the money, and
I the package s.til: lies, in tbeexpresiofF.ee
at Coal Cre k. waiting the$l>0 Th.*
law requires that thj ev: :o ct- b_
to the cjuit be: a. br.rg s>ni to the
Governor. a::i 1.30 "... ;-.t;::i
no further <ictioi c?l:i '^2 taktu
T'. e first inhabitants ef the far north
did not t-mpioy dogt, but drew their
\ walrus-rib iledi thtcwelm.
A BAD RECORD. !
benjajhn Harrison's administratioi
UNDEB INDICTMENT ? EXTRAVA
?ANCE, CORRUPTION AND UTTE'
Disregard op solemn pledges.*
The issued -this campaign is* the Ra
paolicaa record of the last four years.
It is a very bad record. It is a record
of wrong-doing, of unfair favoritism in
legislation aad of scandalous misconduct
in administration ; a record of reckless
squandering; of the debauchment of the
-public service; of corruption in office
and in getting office, and of shameful
malpractices in the attempt to retain
power regardless of the popular will.
The Administration and the Fifty-first
Congress cumo Into power by plain pur
chase. The Republican. Party in 1888
secured its triumph by selling legislation
short. ,
Abandoning all that it had piofessel
and all that its leaders, living aad deal,
had taught concerning the limitations of
Tight in tarif! legislation, it framed a*
platform in C ilia ago in which it o tiered
to monopolists stfo^ tariff, rates as they
should desir? for theif'e&richment at the
expense of the people, in return for con
tributions to the campaign fund.
The -offer wis acaepted. Tae money
)$ras paid, and with it the notorious em
bezzler and corruptionist, Matthew
Quay, with his lieutenant, Dudley, was j
set to buy the election. When the funds
ran low John Wanamaker purchased an
option on a Cabinet office by securing an
additional contribution of $400,000
from the buj^rs of legislation upon a
ipiargin.
j When the Congress thus elected came
Itogether the Republican majority was
too-* narrow and uncertain to do the work
it bad promised. It could not deliver
the legislative goods it "had sold to mon
opolists without resort to further un
fairness and wroggt It proceeded to un
' seat members dfthe minority whom the
people had elected and to seat Republic
cans whom the people had refused to
elect, and not a man in all t!ie majority
t was brave or honest enough to raise a-*
yoice in protest.
When the time came for debate the
majority decided not to permit debate,
lest the truth be made plain to the peo
ple. *
The rules of the House were revolu
tionized. A dictator of peculiarly arbi
trary will was placed in the chair who
suppressed discussion, overrode all con
siderations of fairness, changed the
House from a deliberative body into a
mere machine for recording /his deter
mination, and thus enacted the measures
of monopoly which the party had been
pa; \ in advaifbe to pass. .
In I >vo short years this Congress sqUan ?
3ere.l an enormous surplus, reduced the
! treasury to the sorest straits, laid heavy
, bur Jens upon the people and upon in
3u;try and made a determined, though
fort'in itely a fruitless, effort to rob the
several States of the right of free elec
tions in order to secure for the Republi
can Party a longer lease of power. It
Knight to buy votes for the future by
pension legislation of the most reckless
j mi unjust character, whose shadow
j bangs like a pall over the finances of the
| country and must embarrass its prosper
ity for a generation to come.
The Administration thus elected de- |
? livered to Wanamaker the Cabinet office ;
I he had bought, put Tanner into the Pen
! sion Office, with his exultant exelama- I
| tion, "God help the surplus!" not upon
! h.s lips, aud when his scandalous mis
conduct made his removal a necessity,
pit Rium there instead, to work still
larger mischief in less vociferous fash
: ion, and to fill the office with specula
! tion3, peculations and sc tndals so shame
i ful that even the Heed Congress could
1 not be dragooned into palliating then.
i Aud, in spite of further and more fla- I
grant exposure, Raum is in office still!
The Administration c.vne into power
i protesting most solemnly its purpose to
! enforce the Civil Service law in letter
| and spirit, and to extend its scope and .
| influence. It straightway set Clarkson ;
j at work to behead' postmasters ak a rate !
! wholly unprecedented. Th*. President '
openly farmel out the Federal offices as j
I spoils to such bosses as Quiy and Piatt,
! and quartered hi3 owu relatives and !
i partners and chums upon the public ser
i vice. When the Civil Service Commis
I sion discovered the mo3t flagrant ani
j shameless abuses in Baltimore and urged
I the removal of numbers of persons by
: name for proved misconduct amounting
1 to criminality ? misconduct perpetrated
{ in the name and on behalf of the Ad
j ministration ? the whole matter was
I jauntily put aside by Wanamaker, aad
' the President in no way interfered to re
1 deem his pledge* or to tree himself from
! the shame of it all.
Dudiep was one of the agents in the
purchase of Mr. Harrison's election, aud
he was found vut. Mr. Harrison has
i since refused to hold intim\te personal
relations with the "Blocks of Five'1
statesman, but through his Attorney
General and former law partner he has
j interfered with the administration of
! justice in Dudley's case, l^s caused a
; judge upon the bench to shield a id pro
tect fpime, and has since regarded that
corrMMhjgneaa by
elevatitigAm to a higher judicial posi
tion.
And within the?e later months the
country has seen the President or_M 7,e
the Civil Service into a po'.iticVt ma
chine, an 1 with dt co;n.)d his 0 >v a
^ ' uomiiia'.ion for a second
; From the very beginning Mr. IT ; r
i rison has ined the apooiatin.: po*\er :i \
I means of recurin^ t seond term for
I ?
j himself. > He resorte 1 at the outset to a
' device justlv denounced by the eider
President of his name as wroDi I
dangerous. He muzzled the pre>c of
his own party so far as criticism of his
! administration was concerne 1. He mile '
. sure of tlje support' of^ ti/o prominent
! Republican newspapers for a'! his j
j ambitions by putting t h&r editors under J
! obligations to hiinsstf for high office, j
j carrying with it) pecuniary rewards, |
| ooliticial advantages or social distiac- ]
1 t:on, according fo^fte kno^n need and
desire of cicb of Lis henedciaries.
In certam directions lie filled tl?e
foreign s&i?:ee 7?th incapable tuea to
oblige unworthy interests. He sent
M'zner to Central America, and kept
i Jim mere long a iter t he country hud
given expression to. its disgust *ad
witij $ae coquet of an
To Wanamaker he has added Elkins as
a Cabinet officer ? Elk ins, a political
adventurer and speculator, who had
giown rich out of politics without, hav
ing "won respect enough anywhere to
make his name suggestive even of possU
bilities in connection with honorable of
fice. He made Porter tho Superinten
dent of the Census knowing him to be
an already discredited manipulator of
statistics, a foreign adventurer destitute
of convictions and in search of a market
for his peculiar abilities, a man at that
very time conducting business as a vul
var wine tout in combination with poli
tics and ready to placan his advertise
ments in the Executive Mansion itself.
He permitted this man to falsify the cen
sus of great States by way of robbing
them of their just representation and
thus increasing, the chances of fiat
party's Buccesa \fx> whose service ho had
hired himself. >/. J
It is a sad and shameful story of
pledges broken; of fiscal legislation bar
tered for campaign funds; of e'ections
secured by the purchase ot voter* ; of
high office made the subject of vcigar
traffic; of the/public service, including
tho most honorable places, prostituted to
the promotion of the President's personal
ambitions ; of a court converted into a
sanctuary for the protection of a scoun
drel; of judicial subserviency rewarded
with high judicial place; of debate sup
pressed iu Congress; of a surplus squan*
dered, and of the enormous increase of
the people's tax burdens that the pro I
ceeds might flow into the 'coffers of
favored monopolists willing to share
their spoil with the political organization
that made its collection pcssible.
It is a grievous indictment that is here
made, but it is perfect^ true and it
covers but a part of the truth. The
specifications will come Hater in the
course qf these letters. The facts will
ba given upon which every accusation
rests. "The whole recor^' will be laid
bare? that record which the people by
their votet^in November art to approve
or condemn.
And this is not a mere recalling of
,old errors, a recurrence to offenses re
pented of. The courses that condemn
this Administration have been ccntinuout.
Raum is still at the head of the Pension
Bureau, and that bureau is not reformed
or purified. Marshall Aire^y still holds
office in Baltimore, notwithstanding
Commissioner Roosevelt's report as to
his organization of the po3 toffies and
Custom House /employes there into a
band of political ruffians, his use of
them to carry primaries in the Adminis
trations interest by wholesale cheating
and by actual physical violence, in which
he personally participated. .Neither he
nor Postmaster Johnson nor any of their
subordinates have been removed, nWtfiJTT"
their conduct was fully set forth and
their removal strongly urged by Mr.
Roosevelt, a Republican moinber of the
Civil Service Commission ; though soma
of them, accordiug to Mr. Roosevelt'*
report, deliberately testified to - lies ;
though many of them openly confessed
to cheating; though all of them set at
naught the law against political assess
ments, and though they all professed
with more or less of candor the creed of
lying, cheating and ballot-box stuftiag
which the testimony showed that they
had practiced.
These men who, as one of them put it
in his testimony, believe "in/doing any
thing to win," are still in office by grace
of Mr. Wanaruaker's favdf aod Mr.\
Harrison's neglect of duty. "And they*
-till constitute the Administration ma
chine in Baltimore and Maryland politics.
In brief, the Administration is what it
has been. It profits still by the practices
for which honest meu in both . parties
have condemned it iu the past. It pro
tects its scoundrels and its law- breakers.
It keeps theui in office. It uses them in
politics. It sanctions their creeds aud
their performances. It seat them and
such as them to Minneapolis to nominate
Mr. Harrison lor a second term in spite
of any desire the Republican Party might
Give for some other candidate.
It still looks to the monopolies it has
fostered for the money with which to
, carry the election. Iu their behalf it
has not only made laws, but has neglected
and refused to enforce such laws as there
I are on the statute books adverse to them.
I'he coal coo spiracy has been formed
| during this Administration. Without Ic
or hindrance it has levied a tr;bute upou
[ the people iu face of tlie auti-Trust law.
That law makes it the imperative duty j
of the Attorney-General, through th> j
District Attorneys, to brir!* criminal i
prosecutions against all the conspirators; {
but no District Attorney has moved, and j
the Attorney-General weakly protest j
that he has no information touching the j
conspiracy.
In the interest of good government it j
is necessary to chastise official miscon
duct by deleat. The men and the party
now in power mast be sent into retire
ment for the public good. Our public
life is in need of disinfection. It is time
to restore legislation to. its proper service
of ali the people.
The simple facts of these four years' '
history constitute the most conchisive
reasons for refusing to intrust this Ad
ministration or the pajty it represents!
with a further 1(4*4 of pow^r.? Xevr j
York World.
The Tariff and th* Fsrm?r.
Pensylvauia Democrat writes th?
? Courier-Journal for information up>u
! the following pcints
"1. How does the tariff atfect the
American Minister who, iu the intercut
: of a speculative syndicate, sacrificed th?
: bono:- of the Nation and the flag.
lie sent and McCreery to Chile,
with results grievously hurtful both to
t'ue ^ood nane .ind to t Lie commercial
interests of the country.
qrain farmers as compared with the cjt-i
ton growers? ,
"2. How are tariff rebates reiu- [
lated ? *
"3. What articles of trad?, either ;
produced on the farm or manufactured, ?"
can be sold in the English market!
cheaper than in the American 'm.afketf I:
mean American goods.'' \ j
1. The tariff atfects grain farmers!
| and cotton growers alike in this, that it
; robs both. It is true thai tber* i. ij
ta:iii on corn, wheat and oat;, ou : :t j
P'tteaitt of fy-otfcctia^ tbt.2, bu:*.a*yj
! i?cea no profcetioa, becau-b the/ are
exported in large qbautiti':> and ?3^1 jn
eorapfctftioii with the of otht. I
coii^irie?. Whenever a eomjuouity c.ij
be exerted in large quiotitiei, it is be- i
caus?; it yk proiuoed aor* cheaply here.
'than it is abroad. Ia the
year we exported 137,000,
wheat, worth $161,000,
15,000,000 barrel* of
000,000; also 75,000, <
com, worth $41,500,000,
3,000,000,000 pounds of
$25^,000.000. We were enabled
this because these commodities
cheaper in the United States than ia
countries to which thej were seat;.
price abroad, leas freight,
and other charges, being the
alized jbr them here. It ? n(
talk or protect! ag cheap goodi
those that are dearer; by th?
laws of trade commodity jieek the
kets where prices are DMt. Ootfe
. ob the free list, while wheat
j nally protected bj a duty of
cents a bushel ; bat cotton it as <
ally protected by its cheepaaps ak
| and neither is protected by the t<
Where the robbery oomss in is in
? tax on the goods which feraan
for their grain and cotton. We
abroad last 3 ear, ,in round
$SOO, 000,000 worth of products jot
culture of all kinds. What did ^
in return ? Did we get our pay fa
No; we exported more gold tad
than we imported. Wo' had to j
foreign merchandise ia exchange*!
on all dutiable goods the tariff
a duty cf nearly fifty per coat
of the $161,000,000 worth o( wl
ported, the farmers, if paid in
goods, would get back only about
000,000 worth, the remainder
necessary to pay the duties. It fc
tbftt all imports are not dutiable;
is ako true that the -farmers pay
mestiOsmanufacturers much higher
lor goods obtained from the
similar -goods would oost
that a reduction of one-third
purchasing power of our agri"
ports does not by any means
the exaction which the. tariff -makffc
the farmers.! ' /ylg
2. When imported material is
in the manufacture of on article, aUttfi j ! ?
nine per cent, of the duties paid Qaea
material is refunded when the artioie.
exported.
3. Many agricultural implements,
iug machines, and many. , other '
are sold abroad at lower prices
hom& This feat been denied, but
been proved beyond qfuesfion ; and
protectionists admit end defend
proper. The rebate ot duties on
ed material contributes to rea
possible ; but it also happens in
of articles on which no rebate
because high tariffs euable the
turer to exact exes ssive profits
while abroad, whero the tariff gi
no advantage, be is compelled to
reasonable profit? Couri er-J
It Is a Stimulant.
Mr. Mason, one of the Repubtieaifi
stumpers, declares that ^the tariff U ttni
a tax but a stimulant. " j.Jj
A true word. '^1 P
The tariff stimulates campaign cok*
tributions from its bene!iciaries, the proj
tected millionaires. The fat-friers know
this.
It stimulated Carnegie to buy pNtlO^f
in Scotland and to set up as e monef!
lord in England while reducing wages at
home. v ^ 1
It stimulates- mauufacturers to shoddy
ize their goods and raise their prices. >
It stimulates the tariff and the usuril '
to collect the debts. of itrvictim*.
It puts the stimulant of necessity upOl \
workingmen to secure the extra* cost of
their necessaries due to exactions.
Mr. Mason i^ only half right. The
tarii! is both a taxjuid a stimulant. i .
* Oil trow torUrw
It will probably be a surprise to"
to know that there is a company i
purchases corn solely to extract the oi
from it. This is precisely what a sugpu
refining company in Chicago is doing,)
This company is the only*>ne which lull
the secret of obtaining the oil, and em-'
ploys it altdr the corn bos bqjfu cool
into a starch or glucoso.so that n<
will be wasted. The oil is a soft yelk
liquid, and r^cmbles linseed oil io ap
pearance. jDr. Arno Behr discovered1
the pvoces^of separating the oil from the;
corn, an/f the dtoctor says this in retard .
to the f\V ' 'It has been known tor *'
long pe that maiz: contained an oily?]
property, remaining for some one totalis
the ilea to account. There is no di
ger oi corn oil ever taking the place
linseep oil. In the Crst place, it will
too scarce. The amouafof oil con!
in corn is only four per cent, of its
weight, and wc lo3e almost half of it I
the process of abstraction/ so thatj
get a very vnall amouat o? oil afte]
The assertion has been raadp that.
oil can be put to little ua*-? that ij^
not be employed in making eif
or paint. Tne great value of lit ^
' paints is that it dries readily, atfd
j" been averted that corn oil wM-lot dry,' J
I Now, this is a mistake, and * a mattti
i of fact, corn oil can be <aajM in'Wkiojgi
I paint or varnish, and U soaps. U
makes a splendid softlokp.' That therq
are valuable use? to tv&eh it can be pu*:<
j is sho-.vn by the fact that there is a d e~
! mand tor it in foreign markets."? >Amsr?
ican Fffrmeu ? ';*^f r
The Hat's Weapon*
T.e rat i? remarkably well cqufafj
f ?> r the peouliir life he is ordainfljl ;
le-vl. lf?j has strong weapons in thi
! *hr.pc ot four long and very sharj .
teot two in the upper jaw and
tbe lo-tfer. T!^,c teeth are weijj^ <
shaped, and by- a r.o-veriul provision oil
nature have always a fine, sharp, cut* !;
tin;* edge. On ex&uiioiog them car* 5;
! fu ;ly, ihe inner part is found to be of i
; t-oii, ivory -like couipoiition, which can
cosily be worn away, and the o?.it$idje it
: e miposei ot a ghet-like enamel, whidcV
: w exceedingly hard. The upper tectlaL
work into the under so that the ccnlrei/
of the opposed meet perfectly ta tbe act
of pnaw dg; i.eace tbe soft part ii being
continual!/ worn away, while the haxd
pari kee:>s a sharp, cbiseMike ed?* ill
; the tiuae, aad at the fame time the toctb
: arc co&s;antiy ?row \rri up froai the
; bottom, so tha'.-as they wear awiy *
: fresh supply l? read v. Shou'd one o(
; tbeie U'.'h he removed by ^er.ueojt or
otherwise, the o;:;.o.?b,' t<X>Lt} jpriit ew
I tinue t0pj.rcw. at i there being nothing?
j to weir :t t will projcct irom ttuu
' mou-' i.uJv turned upon itscaf, and ~
;? uv,er tooth it r< iUoycn
| ? > ;)2aetrate tUe skall.? 4>wlf
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