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CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1893, i No. 20. ? * We (5 s,&27?.] ffB8Rai cv. IDON in Jfll \ f1'00 pi 0Q ^cL r~L ??a ? ra^? fe,< *? eice^ 1D??nnw t'Oij. **<* tor loc^,. -There num to the i than reter act Q?ua coi ced rss* * be^W? ITrA?Cfc K * D. A-j ?AMt>es, *?&gSst *+ A. a.: ___ S*5ePls2!^ T. J. A . *&S tz* B t A fiL n CAMbgtf ?*<?W( la* Kt I J. A' CAMDEN, Practices 1b ast Courts OlBce B1 J. A. COLLECTOR ' Ci Prompt and tadir " ** X INSUj UAifDfSf^ sSjS'"'??'* Esi Eie ?Tr 4 KB * UYIKS rj^posits of 11 ??*** c*2cak& ^?nauin,pa~ ? How shall fi I daily work ia R coeditions are JTaearly every | aod in many </t m fact, in ? store pupils wl do all grades ?chof)l session Iters long. teteher is to tbe common |t of 9tan<? ping all the jpplied, -a fee will still \ a larsre nm the [lite pur troduced of New lauce com - \ bill, and, ; lit OU to ; t was not, r ilia, but j ... . it it was I end the ! was a state- : ould agree ! fill was. It | the 1 0 per j but to sua- j ix months. ' this The toyed. Only been sent i a request in the Trea ling authen- j loney, or to ided to move. // I / I the banks of j ?ce (the cent { issue for the j ividual notes. ! is: Bank A, XX), would issue 20 per cent of were six such J . All of them Is of each. In 1 lateral security is wfruld be true ks of Savannah, ys, there would additional money t city. It would ney; but would be ividual banks, and paying depts there it would be in all ijectiora were made the ta? on State ould .eapourage the tate banks, the re ne would \ think of atock in t new bank ped out of existence of the/pro visions of t he had a conference berofasable bank in the country, and of the opinion that the provided would relieve , Mississippi and all within a few days al of the embargo on of the cotton crop. It f gigantic moment to The banks were today only without ability to j money for moving the I but they were without imand their own money j sit in the city of New j checks which they drew j deposits in the New York j paid in some other way j circulating medium, he introduced would sup- j ry currency, which would dollar of indebtedness in that happened to poss< as it. not a merchant in any of j of that region who would not the fact that notes of any e amount of 20 per cent. of would be gold iu themselves, dition to that, the banks 'e to put up collateral, and banks would endorse its here was no better money in j try than these notes would be. I uld be equivalent to a ship gold, and would at once move re cotton crop and relieve the j cial stringency. asked the serious attention of ate to the bili. While he bat his remark that it would the panic in fifteen days was ted to provoke a smile, he still >ok to say that it would relieve lie in Georgia in ten days after It would do the same in j Southern State, They never j a defaulting bank in the city of nah. except when they were out of existence during the war. ! asked the reference of the bill to i finance committee, and he asked j t committee to report it back j bill was then read and referred I the finance committee. It suspends j six months the operation of section j 2 of the Revised Statutes, which a tax of 10 per cent on the j of State banks. * Mr. Yoorheea, chairman of the fi- j nance committee, reported back the bill, intnxiuced by him yesterday, national banks to issue circula tion to the amount of the par value of the bonds deposited by them. The bill, he said, had not only the endorse of the committee on finance and the Secretary of the Treasury, but a similar measure had passed the Senate unanimously last session. He did by any manner ^f means, pro claim the measure as one of entire relief, but he looked upon it as a of relief. It would to some help the people. It would authorize an increase of $19,000,000 circulation ot national bank* on the bonds airily dej**siteo. There was not a doubt that it would result in an increase of from forty to fifty mil lions, that would Ik* at this time a solace and comfort to the people in every quarter of the United States. An objection from Mr. Cockrell sent the billl over until tomorrow. Mr. Voorhdes gave notice that )>e would tomorrow to put it ujxm it?pa? saget He also asked ami obtained leave tor the committee on finance to sit during the se"*i?lns of the Senate, ami gave noticeoi'a meeting of that com mittee for Thursday next. The Senate then took up the ques tion of the Montana Senatorship, and Mr Hunton made a speech in support of I>ee Mantle's right to the seat At the close of Mr. Hunton's s|>eeeh, the resolution offered last Tuesday by Mr. Lodge (Rep.) of Massachusetts, directing the commit tee on finance to report at once a bill to rej>eal the purchasing clauses of the Shermaa act, and that a vote be taken on such repeal' on- Tuesday, the 2 2d, was laid before the Senate, and Mr. Lodge made an argument in advocacy of it. He was far from thinking that the Sherman act was the oii^* cause of the. existing state of things. H^believrd the practical effect of its rep?ikl would be a tenden cy to lower the rates of interest on money, make money easier and relieve the existing stringency. The first step in restoring confidence was to lower the present exceswve rates of interest. English money did not come here, because Englishmen hail the belief that the United States might at any time go on thesingle silver standard. He did iggtt??g:et, however, that affirmative anTF^itive legislation in reference to the currency would have to be enacted. But that legislation would take time, through consideration and ample discussion. Ife believed that now more important than any financial or economical dis cussion was prompt action. What the people wanted above everything was to see some sort of action in Con gress. If the country was' to have free coinage, let the country know it; if it was to have a limited coinage let the country know it; if there was to be an unconditional repeal of the silver act let the country know it. Mr. Wolcott agreed with Mr. Lodge that this was not a party question. He did not agree with him that the present disturbed state of the finance of the country weie in any way attributable to the Sherman law. It had come partly because of European losses in South America and Autralia; partly l)ecause Russia ami Austria were buying gold, and partly because the United States had purchased more goods abroad than it had sold abroad. All these causes were utterly indepen dent and irrespective of silver and the Sherman act If there had not been a dollar's worth of silver in the coun try, and if there never had been a line of silver legislation, the blight would have come exactly the sam^ Silver was not responsible for it At the close of~*Mr. Wallcott's speech, the Lodge resolution was laid aside without action, and Mr. Hoar addressed the Senate on Mr. Vest's resolution, as to bimetallism. His speech was a general discussion of the whole question of the relation of silver and was a plea for conservative speech and action. He announced himself in favor of both these metals as currency on a parity. He had always been a bimetallist, but it was the bimetallism of Washington and Jefferson, which recognized gold as the finer metal and necessary standard of value. At the close of Mr. Hoar's speech a discussion started as to the old ques tion of responsibility for the demoneti zation of silver, and was carried on for some time by Senators Stewart, Cockrell. Aldrich, Hoar and Sher man. Finally, at 5:10, after a brief executive session, the Senate adjourned until tomorrow. Jadge Izlar I>ecldes That it Mav Continue Operations. Charleston, S. C., August 16. ? Judge^ James I?. Izlar, of the State CircuihCoiirt, has filed a decision in the Mount Pleasant dispensary case. Some time ago, a number of attorneys appeared before Jiim and presented a petition to close the dispensary, on the grounds that the dispensary law is unconstitutional, and also alleging cer tain irregularities in the manner in which W. M. Williams, the dispenser at Mount Pleasant, was appointed. The decision dissolves the temporary injunction which had been granted, and dismisses the petition, on the ground that the petitioners did not show that they would be injured by the operation_of the dispensary law, and therefore had no reasons for ask ing a court of equity for preventive relief. The decision does not touch upon the constitutionality of the dispensary act. 'j. Ft+4 Coinage of Both G<<d and Silier Ad yocared Atlanta, August IB. ? Io an editorial this afternoon on the fiuan cial situation, the Evening Journal, | owned by Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith, called upon Congress "to pass the free ccinage bilLof both gold and silver, putting enough silver in the silver dollar to put it on a parity with the go d dollar." | We further believe," It 9ajs, "that j Mr. Cleveland an<\ his cabinet and the j Democratic leaders in the Senate and ; House squarely favor this plaia." As the Journal has unequivocally j endorsed the president's message, and | has not until called for free coin | age "of both -gold s?nd silver, ila today s ! a iterance is regarded as significant , A QUESTION OF YIRACITY. THE LANCASTER DISPENSARY PLOT THICKENS. Col. springs Sustained by Hi* Colleagues on tlie Buanl of Control. Who Flatly l>eny the Governor's State ment. Lanc aster, August 11. ? The re ply of the Governor in the State of yesterday to the accusation of having arbitrarily and illegally removed Col. LeRoy Springs from the board of con trol for Lancaster county, is not regarded here as exculpating him from the charge, and will not elsewhere be considered as sufficient tor that pur }K>se when the true facts are seen. Tffat portion of the Goveruor'w reply which is true does not excuse his action, and that part which seems in some measure to justify his course, is shown to be untrue by the statements of Messrs. SpriDgs, Gardner and Cauth en, herewith furnished. COL. SPRING'S STATEMENT. Col. Springs, 011 being approached by this correspondent, stated that he was very much surprised at the state j merits of the Governor published ia j the State of yesterday, especially the j clause where he states that Messrs. Gardner and Cauthen, in an inter | view with him at Rock Hill, said that j (Sp?ng8) had never shown them any of the letters of the Governor, and had misled them. H? knew that | no such statement could have been | made by Gardner and Cauthen, as it would have l>een untrue, and the let ter from Gardner and Cauthen pub | lished below shows that no such state ment was made. Col Springs contin ued. "Knowing jthat I had furnished Gardner and Cauthen with all corres pondence between myself and the Governor at each meeting of the board I could not be otherwise than astonished at the Governor's state ment. Ihe public can plainly see, from the correspondence between Governor Tillman and myself, that I have on all occasions shown him that I was acting in good faith with the other members of the board, and en deavoring to carry out the law to the letter; and and while I was ^not dis posed to shove the dispensaries on our county unless the people desire I them, I was ready to act with the iLard in establishing dispensaries wherever the law would permit the same> and we were ready to do this promptly. It is further shown by the correspondence between us that I endeavored to paci fy the Governor on all occasions, while at -the same time I thought that the matter of establishing dispensaries at points in the comity of Laneaot^r should be left under the law to the judgement of the Lancaster board of control I assured the Governor that any statements or letters which he might ha vtr -received to the contrary were false, and should not be credited. However, the Governor seems to have been ir&patient, and for reasons best known to himself, or at least which have not yet been made to appear, saw fit to remove me, alledging what seems to me to be factitious causes. I can only account for this action by the fact that the Governor, in his eager ness to get dispensaries established in this county, has allowed himself to be misled by parties who were trying to get me removed, thinking thereby to further their own selfish ends. The public can rest assured that I would undertake no public duty, it matters not hofr unpleasant, unless I could ? carry it out intelligently, honestly and j strictly in accordance with the law. I do not think there is an honest citizen in Lancaster county, it matters not what his politics may be, that would attribute any other motive to me. ! The Governor also states that he had a number of letters from people in Lancaster county, claiming that I had refused to establish a dispensary at Pleasant Hill, for business reasons. This charge is absurd. All the citi zens of I^ancaster county must be aware of the fact that no such motive can honestly be attributed to me, for the simple reason that in case a dis pensary wa3 established at Pleasant Hill it would force one both at Lan caster and Kershaw. Pleasant Hill has heretofore had a barroom, but no other place of business, and I fail to see that the establishment of a dispen sary at Pleasant Hill would affect the business any more in the future than the location of a bar there has effected it in the past. It has never been my opinion that it was the intention of the bill that dispensaries were to be utilized for the selfish purpose ofhelp ing people to build up their towns. It is further to be noted that I have never refused to act upon the Pleasant Hill matter, and that the motion to defer | action thereon until the 7th of August was made by another member of the county board. I did not, and couH, not, in any way, improperly influence the action of the other members of the board, who are high toned and honora ble men and could not be moved from the discharge of their duty by any in fluence whatsoever." Col Springs further says that the reason he did not give out for publi ( cation the letter of Governor Tillman j dated Jane 27th, and his letter to the ! Governor dated July 8, and the Gov | ernors reply thereto dated July 8, I was because they were all written be fore the organization of the county j board of control ami before his selec f tion as chairman by the board, and because he did not think that the let ters had any bearing on the matter now pending between himself and the Governor. WHAT GARDNER AND CAUTBEN SAY. The following letter from Messrs. Gardner and Cauthen has been re ceived by Col. Springs: Heath Springs, S. C., Aug. 10, '93. LeKoy Springs, Esq., Lancaster, S. C. | Dear Sir: We Jbave seen the in terview in The State of August 10th with Governor Tillman, and notice the clause where the Governor states that we said in the interview which we had with him at Rock Hill that you had never shown to us any of- his letters, and had thus misled us. We beg to state, in justice to both you and ourselves, that we made no such state ment. You withheld no correspon dence of Governor Tillman from us, nor have we been misled by you. You furnished us with all the correspon dence of the Governor. Upon the board of control we have always acted in perfect harmony and unanimously on all questions. In our conversation with Governor Tillmau at'Rock Hill, we told him that you had wjver en deavored to influence us in any way, and if there had been any cause for your removal the cause would apply to us, same as we had acted unanimously, and had equal ly endeavored to faithfully dis charge our duties. From our per sonal knowledge of you, and from your action while associated with us on the board, we do not believe that any business interest whatever could have influenced you in any way as to your action on the board of control. Yours truly, H. J. Gardner, P. T. Cauthen. A STRONG TESTIMONIAL. We, the undersigned, hereby certify that we have known Henry J. Gard- j ner and Philip T. Cauthen, members of the county board of control for Lancaster county, for many years, that they are hone&t, upright and strictly reliable men, and that anv statements made by them is entitled to implicit credence. John P. Hunter, Sheriff L. C. ,T. E. Stewman, County Treasurer. Geo. McO. W ithebspoon, j I Probate Judge, J. R. Massey, , ? School Commissioner^ W. W. Perry, C. C. C. & G. C. J. F. Gregory, N. P., S. C. August 11, 1893. This endorsement is also signed l?y many other citizens. the governor placed in a hole. It is to be noted that the only real charge brought by the governor against Mr. Springs is that of ignoring the petition for the establishment of a dispensary at Pleasant Hill. In mak ing this charge, the governor himself shuts his eyes- to the fact that other members concurred with Mr. Springs in the action taken by the board in postponing the consideration of the Pleasant Hill petition until the 7th day of August. But the Governor further deliberately overlooks the lact that by the provisions of Section 8 of the dispensary act, the matter of establishing dispensaries at points other than the county seat is left to the discretion of the county board of con trol. After providing for the location of a dispensary at the . county seat, this section provides that, "in the judgement of the county board of con trol, other dispensaries may ;be establi shed in other towns in th& county." It is clear, from the language used, that the advisability of locating dispen saries at other points than the county seat is left to the sound discretion of the board of control. This sound discretion was exercised by the Lan caster county board when, by unanimous vote they postponed the consideration of the advisability of putting a dispensary at Pleasant Hill. This postponment was in effect, a declaration, by the concurring voice of every member of the board , that it was not advisable, at that time at least, to open a dispensary at that rural point. It is difficult to imagine where the Governor finds warrant tor the re moval alone of Col Springs for the joinder of the latter in the unanimous action of the board in a matter left to their discretion by express legal pro vision. It cannot be successfully claimed that the failure to locate a dis pensary at a rural hamlet, where no business is transacted, was not a sounds exercise of discretion on the part dW the Lancaster county board of control. The Governor's action in removing Col. Springs seeks to substitute his will for that discretion reposed by the law in the local county board. Sr. Paul^ Minn., August 14. ? At noo today a daring thief stole a bag containiBg SI 0,000 in gold, which was lying at the window of the receiving teller of the First National Bank The bag had been sent over to the clearing ! house by the Merchants Bank, and was lying just inside of the receiving teller's window. An unknown man stepped up to the window, seized the bag, made off with it, and escaped bet, fore any sort of pursuit could be or* ganized. As yet there is no trace of the robber. . The Bice ..Beer Te*t. I Rice beer continues to be the sub ject of much speculation. The bar keepers say that they are willing to let Governor Tillman have as much as is necessary for a satisfactory test. It was learned last night that the Gover nor ordered five bottles secured from each bar now selling it and put in Dr. Burney's hands for the test. FOR AKD AGAINST SILVER. i * THE FIQHT IN CONGRESS GOES BRAVE LY ON. Protracted Debate In the House of Kepresen ' * tative?? Moth Sides Have Their La I / \ ulngs ? Outlines of the Discus sion Washington, Aug. 14. ? When the house met at 11 o'clock this morn ing there was a large\ array of mem bers present than at the corresponding hour on Saturday last, DOt the atten dance was still far short of a quorum. It was composed principally of new men, the old members being generally absent There were notable except ions to the rule, however. Among them on the Democratic side were Wilson of West Virginia, Bynum, McMillon, Holman and Boatner. Chi the Republican side were Reed, Lacy, Burrows, O'Niel of PensytVania and Grosvenor. The speaker announced the follow ing committee appointments. Enrolled Bills ? Peareon, chairman; Russell of Georgia, Latimer, Hinee, Hager, Adams, aud Gillett of New" York. Accounts ? Rusk, chairman, Payn ter, Tate, Mutchler Jkert, Wells, Post, Wright of Massachusetts, and Mar vin. Milieage? Lynch* chairman; Strait, Pendleton of Texas, And M ah one. .?? Hainan introduced a resolution making immediately available the appropriation for the mileage of Sen ators and Representatives. Agreed to. The silver debate was then re sumed. \ Boatner of Louisiana was accorded the floor. . He spoke from a silver stand point, and charged that the advocates of the Wilson bill, the gold men of the Democratic party and of the Republican party, were responsi ble for the excitement which had cre ated the distrust of public confidence, and which had caused the runs upon banking institutions. They had sowed the wind and were reaping the whirlwind, and they alone were re sponsible for the present financial and commercial scare. He further charged that the Democrats from New York and from the Eastern States were not prepared to carry out all the pledges of the Chicago platform relative to the currency. Warner (Dem.) of New York, speaking for the Democratic members of New York, pledge them to carry out ? and they intended to carry out ? every plodg^ made to the people. Boatner was glad to hear this state ment. He insisted that the Demo cratic party should fulfill its pledges to attempt to carry bimetallism into ef tfect I>ayton (Dem) of Ohio spoke, as he said, as a conservative roan. He would vote for the bill under consider ation tor the repeal the of purchasing clause of the Sherman bill. He would do this, however, relying upon the good faith of the Democratic ad ministration and the Democratic Con gress that in the coming regular ses sion some permanent legislation would be enacted that would give all our people some suitable ngoney worth a dollar all the world round, then all of tike national banks to issue notes the full par value of the bonds held by them, and then, in order to fully restore confidence, the Democrats should call down the bluff made by the "Republicans that this Congress did not have any serious intention to interfere with the McKinley tariff law. The law should and must be revised. Patterson (Dem.) of Tennessee advocated the repeal of the purchas ing clause, and criticised the amend ments proposed to the pending ineas ure. If the government agreed to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 1(> to 1, it would at once and ab ruptly bring to the country a single silver standard. In order to main tain silver in circulation, France had absolutely stopped the coinage of silver and the purchase of silver bul lion. If Congress repealed the pur chasing clause of the Sherman act every silver dollar now in circulation would remain in circulation. But 'we had to folow the example of France and to adhere to single gold standard, or we could notaccomplish that object. Simpson of Kansas, read a speech fcnade by the gentlemen from Tennes see during the first session of the Fifty Second Congress, in which that gen tlemau advocated the free coinage of silver, and asked him to reconcile those views with those he had today. Patterson replied that he had mod ified his views, and he had gone before bis people, and told them that he had so modified them, he had been re-elect- ! e<i- "Consistency," said Carlisle, "is the hobgoblin oflegal minds/' Simpson ? The gentleman admits that he was ia error. Snodgrass of Tennessee interrupted his colleague with' the question; When G rover Cleveland was a candi date for the nomination you knew all these things, did you not? Patterson ? I did. Sjiod grass? Were you an advocate of tbe nomination of David B. Hill? Patterson ? No, sir. Snodgrass ? Did you iutI talk t? > myself and -others in his interests? Patterson declined to be drawn in to any further controversy upon his positfyn as to Cleveland and Hill be fore the nomination. Bailey of Texas followed Patterson in a speech advocating the Bland free coinage suljfijtute for the Wilson repeal bill. He traced the history of financial legislation in this country and Europe since the beginning of the century, and asserted that through the whole period there has been a concerted movement to demonetize the most abundant metal. Up to within recent years the movement had been directed against gold;^ How silver was the object of their labors. ^Speaking of the effect upon the country of the passage of the Wilson bill, Bailey said it would lead at once to a scramble for gold by all the nati ons of the earth, reducing the prices of property to be exchanged for that gold to a lower figure than ever before known in the history of the world, and precipitating a universal panic. He wa^in favor of paying the govern ment bondholders in the coin of the country, but the law said that they might be paid in 41 grains of sil ver and, by the Eternal Gftd, he was ip favor of giving them no more. [Applause.] . Place gold aud silver on the same basis in regard to coinage, and goM and silver would have the same intrinsic value. He would rather retire from public life than to vote to allow gold aud silver to be coined into dollars of unequal value. Pendleton (Dem.) of West Virginia said that upon this question all Demo crats ould differ without surrender ing their convictions. At oue time he "had different opinions from those which dominated him now. He was satis fied that the only way that a parity could be brought about between gold and. silver was for the country to come in accord with |he other commercial nations of the world, and when that was done the promise of the Demo cratic national platform would be kept Lacy' (Rep.) of Iowa spoke in favor of an amendment, which he proposed to offer if he had an opportunity pro viding that the Wilson act should not take effect^untill the silver circulation should be increased to $700,000,000. The trend of his remarks, however, was to the effect that the present busi ness depression was due to the fact of Democratic tinkering with the tariff. Mr. Warner (Dem.) of New. York said that it seemed to be a mistaken idea of the opponents of the Wilson bill that there were no institutions in New York except banking instituti ons. It was a fact that the reasorr s that York city was where it was on account olGod Almighty putting New York where He had put it. The chamber of commerce of New York, which had been alluded to, was not composed of bankers. ItT was com posed of business men, who stood in relation to the banks as they did to the business men of the West and of the South. The business men of New YorArere borrowers of the banks, not lSldere to them. On the pros perity of the country depended their possibility of prosperity. Knowing the full sense of the responsibility, knowing that their own existence hung in the balance, the business men of New York asked Congress to repeal the act providing for the purchase of silver. He would first vote for the repeal of the purchase clause of the Sherman act, and next he would vote for the coinage of gold and silver on a parity. But these metals must be of the same intrinsic value. If there ever was a pledge made by any party, this Democratic pledge -was sacred and plain. When silver men came and asked CoDgres to inaugurate a new and hopeless scheme, which had already damned the business of the country, he must object. Whenever an international agreement was arri ved at, he was ready to try the ex periment. He would try to sink his convictions and follow the convictions of his party. Then he would haveviu dicated his right to l>e called an honest man; but it would be a long time be fore New York Congressmen would support an experiment which had fniled as long as this one had. But there was sL+ plank in the platform which represented the issue, and that was the tariff plank. [Applause]. The people had asked not only for the repeal of the Sherman act, but for a safe and elastic currency. Hutchison (Dem) of Texas, made a humorous speech in favor of the coin age of silver, but before he concluded the House at ?*> o'clock adjourned un til 1 1 o'clock tomorrow. THE DISPENSARY HOURS. An KfTort living Maile to Have Clomj Later. From the figures given out by the State board of control it could Ikj seen by a little calculation that the dispen sary was not the "howling success" that Governor Tillman would pretend that it is. The tact is that anything that will i increase the sales will be <lone and it is very probable that some change in the hours of the dispensaries will l>e made. It was learned yesterday from an unofficial source that the Charleston board of control had re- j commended that the dispensaries in j that city be allowed to keep open ua- j til 9 o'clock. The State board of con- ! trol has taken no action on the matter but it is underst>>od that strong pressure iB being brought to bear upon them by those in favor of the dispensary U change the present hour of closing, from o'clock to some later hour at night and the argument made is i ? c ^ j that sale will be increased and as that" is ' what the dispensary was established for j it is presumed that such arguments i will have considerable weight with the members of the board. So far as could be learned the Charleston board is the first one to officially recommend that the hour be made later than at present. ? State The Governor An a Prophet. The New York Herald seat out in quiries a few days ago to, the Gover nors of the several States as to what effect the repeal of the Sherman law would have. Gov. Tillman, in his an swer, says the repeal, unlen accom panied by a free coinage act, will, "de stroy the Democratic party." This doleful prophecy by His Ex cellency recalls another prophecy of hi&that he made in an inteview in Chicago daring the sitting of th$ 'Na tional Democratic Convention, to to which he was a delegate. We print the two prophecies side by side: FROl'HBCf OF 18i?3. X Columbia, 8, C., Aug. *i. ? Governor Till man of South Carolina, said in reply to the Herali's question: "We stand squarely mm) Hatly on the silver plank of the Democratic 'platform adopted in Chicago last year. The Sherman law should be repealed And free coinage substituted therefor, and let the sil ver certificates be redeemable in coin ? Gold or silver, at the option of the Treasurer of the United States. If gold hides under this arrangement it is because it is ashamed of the robbery already committed on the people. Silver will rise aud gold will fall until the equilibrium is re-established. "The repeal of the 8herman law without the admission of silver to free coinage will destroy the Democratic party, producing new alignment in each of the old parties. The creditor and manufacturing States will be arrayed against the debtor and producing States ? a solid South and west against the Northeast.'' * / PBonixcT or 18fl2. "Chicago, ILL., June 1G. ? Governor Till man, of Sbuth Carolina, call led upon some of ihc Cleveland managers tonight^and told them emphatically that if they presented and nominated Mr. Cleveland he did not believe the DjHnocracy could carry South Carolina. He-further stated that he had information from the Alliance people all over the South ern States (hat they would not vote for Cleveland on account of his silver views, but would vote for the People's party candidate for President. He believed Cleveland's nomination would cause the loss of twenty or thirty congressional districts in the Southern States, which would give the House of Repre sentatives to the Republicans." Let us see how the prophecy of June 19th, 1892 turned out: 1. South Carolina gave Cleveland her 1) electoral votes by a majority of 41,000. 2. The Southern States went solid for Cleveland by the biggest majority ever given a Democratic candidate. The People's party candidate for President didn't get an electoral vote in the whole South. - 3. Cleveland's nomination didn't cause the loss of a single congressional district in the Southern States. 'And c the House of Representatives is not Republican by several jugfuls. It stands: Democrats, 222; Republicans, 120; Poj?, 8. Aud the Governor's prophecy as to the repeal of the Sherman law will turn out as did his Chicago prophecy. This is a big country: little local interests do not control the politics of the United States. The Democratic party is not confined to South Caro lina. * It is the national party ? the people's party. A few small States may fuss and threaten and possibly revolt; but they cannot hurt the great Democratic party. Let South Caro- . Una get out, if she wants to. If the 1 platform of that party does not suit her as well as the platform of some other party, then she ought, in honor and conscience, get out at once. The Democratic party'' wants no double dealing. But if South Carolina is going to quit the Democratic party, for good- } uess sake, let her go Into some party that amounts to something ? not into , a little faction of discontents that amounts to 'nothing now and will never amount to anything more than kickers and whiners and grumblere. Don't be a Pop. If you can't be a Democrat, be a Republican. ? New tarry 01>server. The Female Teacher. Among the <jueens that I woulr crown are the female day school teachers of our great citie^ I put a coronet on their brow. .Selected from a vast multitude of applicants beause of an especial entellectual endowment, no more worthy women are in all your homes. Some of .^betn coming forth from homes of affluence becau3e? they desire a useful occupation, but some of th(jm coming forth because they have found that father is older than he used to be, and his eyesight is not so keen, and his arm not so strong, trying to help with the burden. ()t the vast majority of the female day school teachers ot this county I have to say that the history is, lather is dead ami after the family property waa settled that family, which was in comfort before, are thrown on their own resources. It is hard enough for a nipn to get a living; it is harder for a woman to earn a living, for her health is not so rugged, her arm is not so strong, and her opportunities are fewer. Alter tremblingly passing the examination as to her fitness to teach, with half bewildered step she goes across the doorsili of the public school to do two things ? instruct the young and earn her own bread. Aft! what an exhausting work. Tile management of forty or fifty frisky and intractable children, the sup pression of their vices and encourag ing their virtues, the right distribu tion of rewards and ^punishments, the sending of so many bars of soap and fine twth combs on benignant mis- ? sion, the breaking of m many colts to the harness of practical life. Oh, this work sends her home it night worn out, neuralgic, exhausted 1 Give her a fair chance. If you smite teachers,^ smite male teachers. They^can take up their own cudgels. Do not smite women. God will smite you* ? Dr* Talmage.