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SENATOR M'LAURIN REPLIES reviews at Length the Action of the ( Committee. 15 SEVERE ON SENATOR TILLMAN. ? .... # ? Ik'iunir.ces the Action of the Commit tee as Unreasonable and Revolu tionary, Columbia, Spceial.? The Slate l>t m ? eratle executive has receive. 1 Senator McLaurin's reply to their ai-tUn of , July 2j, condemlUK bis course in the Senate and demauilliu: his resignation, it ix. -iS. Mv/ffN-.-rin'nrr'it-* icnjrfn. Senator .Md,aurin writes: Paris Mountain, S. August r>, ion. ! To the Democratic Executive Commit tee. State <if South Carolina. Gentlemen: ? The official notice of tho action of a majority of your com ? mittee on July 25th was received by in ? on August 1st, live days after it ha 1 ; been announce 1 in the newspapers, j This published announcement was the first notice 1 had that an action affect- j int< me was to be taken by your com- i mittee. 1 am now officially informed ' that the majority of your committee! condemns my course in the Senate, de- j mnuds my resignation and undertakes j to expell me from the Democratic par-] ty. Twenty-one men hnvc attempted to ] usurp the powers of 90, 000 Democratic 1 a oters of South Carolina, and as un in cldent, In a meeting calledfor another purpose, have hastily endfjavored to do what can be done only by solemn pro- j ccedings of impeachment, ' expressly provided for In tho constitution of the j United States. 1 lold my commission from th? Dem ocratic voters of South Carolina. I rec ognize no authority but theirs, take in orders from any source but them, and shall in due course 'appeal 1 1? them f r judgment on my course as a Senator and my character us a man and a Dem ocrat. Personally I am in lifferent to your action because nobody has made you my master or censor, and I regard what you have done as merely express. ng th ' malice and the fears of one Individual. Senator it. 1*- Tillman. l?ut for this al ways evil and Indecent influence ordi nary respect tor the proprieties would probably have prevented the four of you who are. my declared coiupetitois for the srat 1 now have the honor to occupy, from attempting to use th<v power entrusted to you by your patty to remove a rival from your path. As a citizen and Democrat of South Carolina 1 am mortified by your action, because it^kis brought upon the State the condemnation and the ridicule of tho psess and the public throughout the country. Unhappily, those who are not intimately acquainted with our eond. Hons accept the action of your major ity as representing the intelligence an 1 ) Democracy of our Slate and butii a:c made objects of derision. Against this 1 Avlsh to enter my solemn protest. 1 shall demonstrate how unfair, absurd and undemocratic your action is. an Y ?? 1 shall trust to the Democrats of South Carolina to repudiate it when the op portunity is given them. Your purpose ir, to, deny that opportunity. It in strong contrast withthc bla tant boast of Senator Tillman at (5 ?ff ney to put me on trial before, the party on the hustings with himself as prose cutor. As you know. 1 sought that test by accepting a proposal of appeal to the people, but the Governor s.iw fit to for bid It. Now Senator Tillman appears as prosecutor against me in my absence and by proceedings like those of the Str.v Chamber, which was the most in famous tribunal of English history, and t \a most abhorrent to Anglo-Saxon in stincts. cocks to exclude inc from tho party aiu) its debates and public assem blages. 11 is, your duty, as custcrdlam or ihe party interests, to seek recruTts imJ ' to strengthen the party. To save Sena tor Tillman from staking his record, strength and fortunes against mine, you undertake to exclude me and my friends from the party. Whatc\er youi Sndi*Mual motives may have been, Uie purport of your action Is to facilitate the Senator in dodging me and to deny the people the opportunity of pass.ng on my position anil conduct. It s^em^ ? to me the Democratic masses of South Carolina are competent to say at the polls whether or not. 1 have been a faithful Senator and a consistent Dem ocrat. Why should you attempt to pre A'ent them? It Is no cause for wonder that Sena tor Tijlman should seek to make polit ical assassins of you to avoid open ami fair flsht. Jle has climbed to power-by venomous abuse of many of the purest men In the State who opposed him. for which he has always carefully shirked personal responsibility, and on the po litical Uvea and fortunes of those who befriended him while he needed friends. Norrls, Tindal %nd Donaldson, ? nun representing earnest purpose and th? interests of the farmers (ft ""State -? an d therefore strong, were *raed by hltn ? to promote hls^wn intere^ and then thrust astde. Irby. Shell a>nd died despising him because of his treachery to thera and to the people. I am ?o? to bU way and because be baa failed to strike me down be to attempt to itfiul* me, and at th simeUme to de.tVSiwhlte primary. toJil* adrocacy of whicfefce owed mnch of tbe beat of hla early following. P*rty S^ elSSUa M^ eonrotlona, and sztjxz'sz .... _ Domocratlc primary, the humblest citi zen of South Carolina who declares himself to he a Democrat anil pledgee himself to support the party nominees. Suppose in 1S90 the executive commit tee of the State had ruled out or' the party all who engaged in the "Farmers' Movement ?" Suppose t wo years l.tler it had exclude;! ail who favored the sub-Treasury idea? Such action would have been unjust, tyrannical and in sulting to thousands of good citizens and Democrats, hut not more. -o than this proceeding of yours. In his double character as prose ut ing witness unjj a"orney against m \ Senator Tillman Is reported as saying before your committee that I have voted with the Republicans "in import ant patters" and that he has seyn m ? i 'w/i'fi rafts As 1 will show by the records he him self frequently voted wi ll the Republi cans "in Important matters," as all other Democratic Senators have done from time to time. It is frequently n c < saury, pro] er and courteous l<? c. infer with members of the opposite party, ha h<* knows and as every man of prac tical sense knows. These expressions of his are attempts to lake a '.vantage of credulity and ignorance. I do not think there is a man in South Carolina ??> ! no rant as to be really deceived iiy ^them. He cannot put me under suspic ion as he has put himself by his own acts, i have not in public office retro graded from a. perhaps, honorable I bankruptcy to dishonorable and unex plained wealth, lie and l have drawn ! the same salaries but I have found it impossible to save a dollar from m n \ 1 have never, however truckled to cor : poratlons with the fawiiing of a tamed | spaniel, made speeches" against them, I then voted for them, aiScl accept e.i fa I v^rs as he has done. I have never been ! the ?ole boss and buying agent of a {newly created whiskey trust with iis ' bates of $r?0,OW to $70,000 a year. ? none of which rvt-r resrifeti the State l Treasury. 1 luivu never hLd tiiu haud ling of State bond refunding scheme , with $28,000 of commissions never yet j accounted for or explained. A year ago Senator Tillman went in j to Norilrv Dakota and made speuj-hes j ai'voc at in)f^4jie re-election of Repub ? licit) Senator ? Mr. Pettlgrew. Senator ? Tillman and this Senator were promi nent injircvcnt ing by fillibustering tac j tics a vote on the sflhsldy bill. The ; newspapers said that Mr. Hill, head o" ? the Northern Pacific Jobhy against the ! subsidy bill, gave Senator Tillman's | friend and associate a "tip" which pud j him HuU.OOO in the stock market, Birds I nf a feather, gentlemen of the commit tee, always flock together. Has Senator Tillman, prosecuting at torney against my Democracy, ever j failed to abuse Democrats and I)eino ! cracy? Do you know that in tlie last j two Democratic national conventions i he-has supported the nomination of Republicans? In 189G he favored Sena I tor Teller for President, an old line Ite ' publican and one of the bitterest foes of the' South in reconstruction days. He had himself appeared before the con vention as a competitor of W. J. Bryan and been ignominiously snowed untfer. In 1P00 he was for Towne, also a Ro ? publican, for Vice President. Is he the man to be supreme arbiter and jndg of what Is Democracy in South Caro ? Una? i In tin* Senate I have labored, as the records will show, Id broaden theVfiFoi ! parity of (ho con o try, to pronio^b the interests of tny own people, to spread civilization, to enlarge and increase op portunity for our young men and io stimulate enterprise. Mis whole po'.iti j caI course and methods have beojj to blight and restrain to bite where he blight ami restrain .tc^bite where he dared and to fawn where he feared or sought favor. I Khali ask the people tj contrast the records and shall claim 1 my right as a free man. a born ami reared Democrat and a Senator from South Carolina, to do if regardless o? the orders of twenty-one members of the executive committee. I shall ask i the people to decide between the man i who has tried to help cotton factories, open highways of commerce and to sj command the Democratic party as to . command for it the confidence and ic spect of the business and laboring ele ments North and South; and that of the man whose conduct and record has been to sink t lie party to disrepute and j importance. I nhall ask them to say | whether they prefer the Senator who has tried to retain for South Carolina the honor and dignity won by a i<;ng line of illustrious sons and glorious | deeds, or the Senator who has postured i as buffoon and bully and who pro- | claimed on the floor of the Senate that lie represented a constituency of ballot j box stuffers and murderers who want - j ed their share of the stealage. You have undertaken to condemn and j expel and depose me, not only without , a hearing but without evidence. Upon ; what grounds are my good faith as a j Senator and my fidelity as a Democrat assailed? Is It on the tariff? None of you of the committee can prove to the j people that the Democratic party Is a j free trade party. It has oppaecd a tar- j Iff policy /or protection omy, but as early as 1797 we had a protective tar iff and we havjs, never Jn^the one hun dred and four^years slncemiown- free trade. General Hancock, tt?e party nominee for President In 1880. regarded the tariff as a local question. Samuel ,J. Randall, for years the party leader f-and Speaker of the House, was a pro tectionist. In every Congress where, the question baa been presented num bers of Democrats bare voted against J and h sip lid to lOU free trade, I have contended that Southern products ahovtd be pat on equality ilth others. , and ta ltd? I fought to have rice, pine 1 1 timber aad eotton protected. The cry of ^Bapvbtlcaa" was %Im4 agaiaat ar tkaa. bst tl iv.ont. 'Uhe subject has never been d.s | cussoU before them although 11 lS : vast Importance to the prosperity o. tlraVtaie. The purposo of tho subsi t> | U toV^velop the buildins and opera . lion of grea't Hoots of A ? u c; i v .? ti . It tow-ties tho interest of our son ions j of our lumber industiies. of all our manufacturing enterprises an t our un.it agricultural products. It is a question on which some of tho ab.es. Hem o?- rats of the House an.] j are divided. I most humbly submit that it is not In order for twenty -one J I,, is of your committee to rule tUaV-ino p, mocratic masses of South Oay/d n> shnll not at tholr campaign liicktings lit-ar this manor of vlial intorost to thP!n discussed; ami that the people ot ihe s?a coast cities, who would like to see now tides of coninn nice brought t ? 'th?ir ), arbors and tho lumbermen an I j owners of roset lands who would 1 o Klad to sell material for more slilps; are to lie thrown iuaU and heels out o , tho party beeause they favor ship ????;] ?' . ?^' V.-t ss ..v. -. -, Morgan voted for ft sub Idy bill W]V"-' j has been In foroo ten ve. us and wni.ii , has bellied our Hia/.illan trade, >'> ?| measure at least. Are they not Ivnn crats. according to the decision of Sen ator Tillman and your committee". 1 belii ve that it is our duty to de velop the new territory which has liiiiii' into our possession along niere.ial and industrial lines, to rlyiii/e thein, and make them the equal 01 oai own State in material prosper. .y. I Senator Tillman would l.aye th m j after we have deprived them ot the | mot"dlon of Spain, to a hop Jle :t- g Lie as an independent mtion without resources or self-protection. Fortr.n te lv for us the records show that in building thein up. wo are go:ng to he i j elit our n*n country. 1 want to g:\< that territory the best form of govern im"..t ill the world; he does not want !?? ; give it any form of government at all. Hp nays "free silver or bust." 1 say the American people have settled that question at the ballot box. 1 am for a sound currency and con stant employment for all who desire work at remunerative wages 'I h:s jve surplus "products on equal tonus w.tli all of our comet! tors in the umfttm**,, of the world. Do you thinl: the e:ier L'ctie live, progressive young bUMisco man of the South will long permit the cables of a few sch'-ming politietyns to stand between him and the nt?ai:nu5M of these glorious ends? If th.s is not Jiemocraey. then gentlemen. i invite you to join hands with me in making it so. These are the leading question on which I understand my Democracy .rid lovaltv have been assailed. Tho rec I ords give me little light as to what further ground the. re ir.ay be To, j ? ? action. Allow me to summarize them I brielly. , f, ,, I In the first session of the ?>??<" ((,n' gross Senator Tillman and myself voted together in 148 of 150 yea and nnj N l' 'voted against him for protection to Mho farmers on an amendment to Hie tariff bill, proposed by Senator of Arkansas, present chairman of . > Democratic executive committee. sibly you may reoovene your commit tee and read him out of the party, voted with Jones. Ves.\ Macon. Uerrv. Daniel. Mills. Morgan and all the other Democrats, except S.-nato is Tillman and McKnery. who voted u.t. the Republicans/ It was a stiagm nartv vote. On another amendment to the same bill 1 voted with the Demo crats Senator Tillman was the on Democrat voting with the See Congressional Keloid, vol. > , I g In the second session of the Congress Senator iillman i an. ? voted together on S2 <> .'?> One vote on which we ciiffere.l * as ? ?*> amotion to adjourn, intern CI to dec., a resolution calling upon the r; hi 1, n to intervene in Cuba. Senator I W ma voted with the Republicans to a .ljoj ini and- the motion prevailed by on< \ote; I voted with the Democrats. Ihr o.h i votes on which we differed were "?l1" , u, riant and not party ^'''^ns ? parties dividing on all. 1 f?Vt> ^ L n a. eeptanco of the Hawaiian along wltliHiuch Democrats as firman. Kvle Money. Morgan,. I'ettus an-1 S il. - v,? ai?'.l he. with the other Democrats and' some Republicans was oppose, I io I it. . I I On page 1.S58, vol. 3, of Lire Record ' I it is shown that I voteJ,'"$1th a'l the! I Democrats l>ut three and all the He I publicans, for a bill to brovlde for ar- I I bitrution of disputes h/tween railway I companies and their employes, r-'ena- i tor Tillman was one of the thre>' against it. ,\Ve also differed on a bill ! Inhibiting intoxicating liquors to In I sold in the territory of Alaska. I fa- , vored and he opposed the /prohibition. ! I Possibly lie had views on a dispensary and rebates there. On the final passage of the army bill ; we differed. 1 voted for it and had j with me Senator* KWter, I?lnditay. ; Morgan and Sullivan. We voted to- j ; gcther for amendments extending the; | constitution of the United States over j the I'bilippim s on strict party lines. On the question cf governing onr ont-lying possessions he and I voted ( together and it Is this t'hat determines the matter of Imperialism, not t.ho possession of the territory.| I voted to tako possession and rule justly. He voted not to take possession but to rul*. ~ ' He and I voted together on all party questions except those concerning the Philippine* which my judgment exer cised as a Senator and a representative of the people, told me was a question j of foreign relations, involving entire- 1 1y newproftlrmjr and, therefore, not properly a party queatlqp and on Which mjr political judgment told SM-the country was practically united. The Democratic party was wrecked by be Inc forced la Hits matter Into a policy ' opposed to Its own traditions*, and The I overwhelming sentiment b? the conn- 1 ! try, sgaisst my protest aad that of I other loyal Democrats. Developments have proved that those Who maintain ed that the part Heat loa of theee jjaads was Impossible, Out the paople woaM aevac accept oar control aad that ty reteatloa^ wtmfbe sa?ro*AMe t - - i J C.mdin.i and show tli.tn the farts. Po you undertake to say that l must .re [sign and put mys df out of my party ! became I favored uphobllns the di<u'. iy ? ? f i.iv' Ana rlcai? tla.n after it s troops had In- u II rid on. and oppos -d a inwardly abandonment of the pe >:?'<* ??n ilii.se islands to chao*? Is the prop i ? punish me. bccaus .? I d.d n.: I>t lieve AKUinaldo to be i ho njua! of liiv'igi.' Washington or concede mat the Filipinos OyMild jf i-tant y and un Kui ! 1 i>: j;aniz?}-t jr Jii<. nuolvvs a xtablo government and a nij-'h civil. aa: ion ? I have biu-n'ai sumo pains 10 show :'!.):n i lit* ivj.\ii\ls, by 'vohimo an. I page. that whore Senator Yillman and I iliifon .l in i on^rcss It was not on I arly quistious; and that no voted with tiir Hepublicans al a,s on u as i did. and that in every en e where ivi1 divided I had with nu' Democrats v\ lio p >s.s t!it* confidence of iho p;u\'y throughout t!it' country an I w itO'.e Demon avy not cv. a h;s i vMcs.j j and slanderous hii. leave dare to v-v.-v,-'. . s -j> -? v<-rn iriti tniti tfnmv other ins;an>es in which he has voted aji:ai.n.si t !??* great majority of h.a prrt.v and cm n against his own decla.* ratious probably on the I'latt amend* ;;;i;il ti lit - I'll bar. Pill. lie had UO clareri his purp.se lo oppo.v unci lii* hi this lo l tic lust ultch; but he voted r .r it. Sami of h s pre- out newspaper fi lends said at ill ? flinty ibi! he did ii to curry f;^':'5"' Mrtfh tho Charleston vote, h >ping to i-r^de tho , xp ;siti.m bill thiough. /f that was the ? a c, he was the .shalliiw vlct in of a political green moods game and sold himself lor Ktwdusr. Hut I havo ?id enough, I think, to prove to you and to the public that you ? likt* many who have risen and g-one In fore you have ixuniiUd yuuiu. Ivi.s to be inn I* tools of by Senator 'i illman. to pro mole his own haw ami brut.-tl nidi i and l > protect him from the sinmglo lie IVars to face, hi cause he kuiwd that t!ie facta and arguments are al again.-! lilui. i i i hope is in keep i ho ?;?* facts and arguments from the p ople of South Carolina. ^ .Vccipt my condolence un the unha/> pv and absurd siiu.it; >t| into which ?'this would be dn tutor . has led you. You ih-hv M!?v:trcd That h" will find i cnvici t b :\).>gh which to crawl. ic.iv .ng you u stand Ihe'lin* when i! b j omt i hot, and that havlny; used you ? ho will east you aside like many he t,jjis formerly u.-ed. rt: to piui'ali.i to ' Wo:! ! that yofi ?!o IK. L- 1 in;< s.")t the smelli gt nee, t h;' Demccracy or the people of South Carolina; and to you, and Sena tor Tillman that he has ncv. r been my master and .shall tit vor !)<?; that lie shall no; escape ' ijie vcnReancu that must surely f ill upon lilni wh :i the ptujile have been made to under stand ii'-- motives, tils melh ids, his <!? based character ami his s'laliitful re cord. To that ?;vand conservator of free g^verjitncut. the re^tvrved pa'rb? tism jtnd common h?'iis<? <jf the people, I make appeal a^aUfst partisan intol erance and tyranny. Very respectfully, J NO. F/)\VNUI5S MeDArUIN. News Notes. According to an English paper King lid ward liars pronounced that an auto mobile is part of the necessary equip ment of a gentleman, says the New York Times. The papcr^vhlch prints iltis decree of royalty remarks gently I that there was a time when a gentle man was defined as "<>no who keeps .1 j gig." We hope that certain members i of the summer colony at Newport will j derive just graiific -ailon from the knowledge that they a:e gentlemen) according to the standard 01 Rdward VII. Hut meanwhile it .seems to or dinary human beings fyttfrfejiing to hear audi twaddle irohi him wh.) should he "the first gentleman of Eu rope." For a time it looked as ii he were going to bo -'every inch a King." but ii he is going to utter such evi donees of royaJ wisdom we shall all find that he is still our old acquaint ance. the Prince of Wales. I,*<< n.s hope that he did not say It. There are more perilous places than the inside of a modern railroad car, uays the Hartford Courant. In Great Britain last year railroad accident^ killed one passenger in every 79,01)0.. 000. The Inter-Stato- commerce com mission's tables for the year I.S99-190U show one passenger killed in tliia country for every 64.4 miirn traveled. Of the 210 passengers killed in that year only 8X lost their lives in collisions and derailments. Th "Railroad Gazette" figures il nut thai the ordinary American who does not tool with hW life mav reasonably ex pect to travel 182,261,445 miles by rail before perishing in a collision or a derailment. While in a room crowded with friends taking a farewell look at U/tlo Annie, the Infant daughter of George liudah, one of the mourners accident* ally upset one of the burnUig candles near the casket, and in an instant the little whito# coffin was ablaze, says a dispatch from McKeesport, Pa., to the Philadelphia Record. The women in the room became frantic and a nunuA her fainted. The mother pulled J*Ke J corpse- from the burning easket^nd j ran frantically about the room. Her clothing caughl fire from the dead child8' dress and she was fatally burned. Water was thrown on the burning corpse, but not until the child's, face and head had* been burned black. In ancient timed Norway was cov ered with vast tracts of forests, of which the presence ar^rtenslre peat fog* give evidence/ but In eonse qutnet of forert flrci and U irrational forestry the area has been greatly re duced aad the country Impoverished In proportion. Legislative meaeures are now being tatren to prevent a 4^1 struct ion of the forcaUkWhlch are still of great im porta ncs/ia - 1IM Nor way exported Umber aad wood pelp. matches, etc.. for upward of ?0.000 Unmet. The values of Ike ea portal Ion A GENERAL STRIKE Ordered By President Shaffer, of Hie Ania!K?iiii:i!ed > ? " Al'ulST 10 HI Si r AS I ill: DAY. f " ? - A (ilgnntk Contest Now On lietween Labor and capital 1 00,000 Men \S II lie Idle. 1 'it!. sin. rv. Spec iu I. - -The die is t nr'.j 1 In I 4 ' I !(' (i| I lit- ^ I) | ?; j;; oil jit i;l.n est. whether iu irnominioiui di feat it cue side or Jin' other. or roiupiomisc, remains to hi' ni'i ii. I'p (o Tuesday evening it has turn merel., a sklrtnLsh. each Mm- trying to tin. I tlic vulnerable ?,vi Sivit* vnti\'i"a rirnior. V,n\v '11 "is ' tlilli ;?i ut . hrottgh t about by the ac tual I. suain e liv l'i evident Shatter of till* long talked uf jm-11,1 a! t ;i il... ,n tifr. This order was pioinutgati d to tal.o ri1? < t afti'r the J : 1 t tin a i t th.i ini!h; on August 10. What the i v : nit will be ui> man can foreiell, but Judg lug l?y li?t* i'\|'iri.sc:| determination >>r both parties to tlif I'oai ro\ < 1 sy tit.' battle w ill hi' w ar.cd last an 1 t ti ri < > < l.v. Allah money will hi* lost, iiu.;i sands uprii thoii.aiiil.'i c ? 1 nun will i idle. pn at suffering is In >k<' l 1 ? 1 r. even bloodshed an I itiatli aie pes sible. ami teatvd. Tin- strike rail in rlmli's practically alt A i:iat,;amai < I im-n la tin* l'nite.1 Slates Steel Cor poration's employ, me now on strike. It was issued from the Amalgamate! Aj-Morlatioii headquarter- an J mai!u.l t? all Amalgamated lodge o!!ii ial.?. who aii' expected to rail !l..'1r ni.-n into tin! fill Ike. Tin- ti'M of the rail follows: " Mi rt lireu : Thr official.! ol t h?* I nlted States steel trii' t hive refused to recognize as union men these who art' now sirivin,; 1 1 . :* til ? ritht to or ganize. Thf; execu!ive( 1 oard la a u;i thorlzed nir to i:':u;r a <ali upen a'l Amalgamated :i : 1 I other union in. a in name an i luaii to join in tin move incut rn firrtit for labor's rir;hfn. "We nsuat (lgh i or j ; i \ ? up forever our personal liberties. "You will he toh! that you ba\ ? ? signed contracts, hilt you never agreed (o surrcudci those contracts to the tnited Stales .Steel ( 'or pi at ion. Its oiiii< :o thiilk you were I"! ! <?' llielu j list u;-) (he mills wej-e, contracts and all. "Homember. before y<wi agreed ti, any contract yon ti*>wk an oidigat io. to the A 'nalgamated Association. l now < alls you t._> hi lp In this hour of Peed "I'lileA the I rouble ia settled < n < beloie i-'aini <iu> , A'W.'inl i >. mills v.iil rii,sc when tin* hiai mill i.s niii'l" on that day. "Mrelhrcn. this ia the call Jo pre. serve our organization. We trust vou and need yon. Come ami help us ami may right come to a just cause. "Fi aternally % ours. t Signed) "T. .1. A II A FFKSt." President Shaffer added this state inent: "The call goes to the vice preshh ills of the dlslilets in which there are mills ownntl and operated by the Na tional Steel, National Tube and Fed eral Steel Companies, as well as to the onhiais of the lodges in the mills. "No notice litis been, or is being, pent to the managers of the mills. We think their nolic'e has come from the other side and that they have had warning of this ever since the inaug uration of the si 1 ike. Thai ought, to be sufficient." The order given out is expected to swell the number of idle men to more than Hindoo. Cyc'one Norfolk. No] folk, Fp- Norfolk was via' ted by ti cyelonc Shortly after o'c.Ick Tuesday afternoon. Tho whirlwind came in (I10 usual funnel vh.iped cloud and its path was in th ? outlying portion of th" < Ity an I n it through the thickly settled se tioas. The ro >fs of 2t? hon es were blown away and several people were In.iur ed bv falling timbers. In t.!ie eonnlry all tht* out buildings on a large farm wrre demollsluMl. Several houses In the town of llcrkley were unroof -d Ttct.t were torn up and chimney.* blown down throughout the section p:i <ned over by t.he cyclone. No fatal ities have been reported, 'Pile whit I wind was followed by a rain storm t'hat. almoist equalled a clomlbuist. HcKlnlcy Sends Com!o!ei;c2, Washington, I). Special. ? Presi dent McKiiilcy lias sent the foil >win? message to ISmperon Williams of (Jr-i many on t !i o death of his hint her, t !i o Dowager impress Frederick : "State Department, " Washington, F>. Auk. <*>. "His Imperial and Koyal Mejesty, Wil helin. Gcrmau Hmpcror. Liurl.u: "I learn with deep sorrow of tho death of Your Majesty's lieiove'l moth er, the Dowapfr Empress an i (.itieon Frederlek. Her nohlo qualities have endeared her memory to the American p*3pio In whose name and in my own I t?**P'! lo^^ur Majesty heart-felt <? n olence. '"iVH I 1 vTTTmiVl FY " Capt. Parker Hard at Work. Washington, ^i). C., Special. ? Capt. Jamas Parker, Admiral Sehley'iK as sistant counsel, appeared at Navy Department to resume his liW^stlga tlon of the official records In connec tion with the disputed poii&s if( the Santiago campaign. Ho was gfven a deal in tho Secretary's bfllce as he ?u last week, and such records as he called for were placed at his disposal hy tho Bureau of Navigation. ? . Th? Drv Ooods Market. New York, 8 pedal w? -The demand on ? " Accovit for brum* cottons baa bat kmm.IMi reported _ qoantftlea for export Hii rally rejected by ael eotored eottoa goods are WEATHER ANi> CROPS. CK iU'ral l'o\ low of Conditions 'it the Clo.se (it the Week. Tlii' average temperture during the t\ < ? k er.iing s a in. Monday. August MJi. wis about normal, with u ina.\i n.utn . t' lt>- degrees lit Tillers lViiv, ami a minimum of til doom's at Che-: raw an I Spartanburg. There was iu lily the normal amount of sunshine. Heu.'lleiitl, an. I quite general rains (i eured over portions of the central an. I lower Savannah valley, and ad ^ j;\ ut counties, uiul there were widely scattered sllowers over the remainder of the State, some of whieh \v?ve heavy and were accompanied hy damaging hail in narrow paths in Pairllebi, It ch l.i n I . S1??n tor Oiaimeburg. Floi dice. I ini^i Wiit'iiiii t-ounYiex. **( ur,re wci' '!? also damaging high winds at ft few p. hits. A general rain is needed i-speelall) for young eorn that In p'a its is .stiffening from lack of moisture. Cotton continued to improve ?and hu:k.?i health y , !>i;t gcucrall y remains f:h;i!I, late, ami has very few grown j hulls. A lew laealitles report the plants ; growing too much to weed and not j frilling well, although generally cot i t?>n !s mo Ictaiely well fruited. A little I shedding is reported, and some Held* \ ai" infested with llee and rust. On j lifht sandy sails growth Iris stopped lend the plants are blooming to the j top. Sea Island is doing well but is i dwarfed and late. 1 <\<rn barely held its previous week's condition, except that in places young , r;u'!i made some improvement, and In 1 others has deteriorated for want of j moisture. A worm known as the eorn stalk borer is doing much damage over i the sou I loist e ni' * a n d eenlral counties. ro lder is being stripped from obi eorn I Tobacco eiitting and viti'lng s ill p o ! gre.ssing favorably, and is nearinv t cwnplet Ion In 1 ?eaiitles. The early erop is poor. hut late tobacco is doing well . ( y, that worms are numerous. ; Hi. r> looks promising, and is heading : Swet potatoes art* the most proniislr.fl of all the minor crops; the carli si are about ri?ady to market. Some white po tatoes are being planted. Some pros h i ve been rut for forage; p*is are p:v.?r in nlaees and line in others. Turnip!? l.e'.n:* ?;?w li. Peaches are worthless in ? many places, and generally rotting ex tensively. Apples continue to "drop. ! Much hay being gathered along the coast a n.l from river bottoms. Tea and coffee plants are very promising. I roin Washington. n Rt?>pliil ? The monthly report of the Statistician of the Department of Agriculture hIiows tlic average 'condition of cotton on .July 25 to have been 77.2, as compared will) S1.1 on the 2Mb of the preceding month; 7?J on August I. 1900, XI on ' August 1. 1*1)9. nnd a ten year average; of s.J. There was an Improvement of conditions during July amounting to r, points in Georgia, f? points in Souin Carolina, 2 In Alabama and Missis eifipl .and 8 in Virginia. On the. other hand, there was a decline of 11) points tu Missouri, 15 in Arkansas and Ten nessee, Kl in Oklahoma and Indian Tturitorv, 12 in Texas. 7 in Florida. 1 in North Carolina, nnd 2 in Louisi ana. The impairment in condition If largely du*? to drought, but in a por tion of the eastern section of the cot ton belt it is attributable to the pro ! \ aleiH e of excessive rain during a' large part of the month. While the condition in Mississippi Is 5 points above t he States' ten-year average, ev ' cry other State reports a condition ; below such average, Virginia being 1 Louisiana 2. Alabama 3,1 Texas 7 Georgia x. South Carolina and Florida <i North Carolina 12, Arkansas. Ten n'eapee and Missouri 1G points below their respective ten-year averages The averages of condition in the die f.-TMit States are reported as fol lows; Virginia MI. North Carolina 7!t. South Carolina 75 Georgia 7?. Florida 7<? Alabama *2. Mississippi H8, Louisi ana yj. Texas 74. Arkansas <>9, Ten nesse?? 7n, Missouri 71, Oklahoma 7<* ? Indian Territory 75. Young Man MurJcreU. Newton Lanier, a young man from I'm I Mill. H. C., wart murdered and rolil mil (if a consldernblo amount of money in Charlotte last week. The supposed murderer, .*i man namotf Lyle, is still at largo. f'xposhlon Hulldlng Burned. Kansas City, Special. ? Tho exposi tion l)iiil:llng, erected during the boom of 1^x7, at a cost of $200,000 was de stroyed by fire Manriay afternoon. A hoy. among a crowd whirl) gathered to watch a large circus that had pitched its tents across the street, set flre In rtinrli of mischief lo some lo<>se rubbis on the Iloor. Tr-i-ncmAi?riicTi3R5iTins. The Congress of Nicaragua assemb led when President Zelaya read a men sago advocating the Monroe Doctrine, welcoming the assistance of thfetJniteJ States against European colonization in the Americas and setting; forth that Nicaragua is anxious for tho construc tion of the canal by the United States* Suit Is to be filed by tho Attorney Geucral of Texas to cancel the permit of the Waters- Pierce Oil Company, of Missouri, to do business In Texas. Un der the antitrust law, 31,899 corpora tions are required to file an affidavit ^ach year, stating In effect that they have not been guilty of rimtfalnl Of trade. This th? Waters- Pearce Oil' C&ffiNBflnilMMirdK . .7 .* ? For conducting a raffle of a building, at Ofnaha. Neb., several prominent of ficeholders are to be prosecuted. Jealousy caused Prirate LouCs Hag* geriy. Tenth Artillery, to kill his wlii and blow oat his brains at 8nltUnrfa Island, 8. C. Owing to a strike only cars and REJUVENATING THE ALLIANCE. The Work of RisOrganl/atlon to 15? I'tiAlicd Vigorously. When the State Alltanco mot Inst s; w.ek ami decided t ? > proceed at onco ' with the rejuvenation and reo.rganlza ii"ii <>i tin* Order which has played such an Important part' In South Car olina all. lira in (ho last dorado, nlany, thought that th - action would amount l>> nothing for >:mm> timo to como. Hut it looks as ii tho special committee in whose hauda the plan of roorganl fe:i?.n was left means business. It pfopn.-ii'.s ta m>t to work immodlato l> in the organization of suh-nlliancos j throughout the State, and has secured N> j no le.-s a personage for tho State lec I i * i ret and organizer than President J. i I'. w illi'irn pf the National Alliance i nim Oi airman o7 n\e :smto ral&roaO commission. \ \ President lCHred of tho Stato *Villl ('hiii e on liehalf of the committee up pcinicd by the Alliance has sent out | an announcement as to the stepa ; taken thus far by the committee. ThU ? ! anmmuf ement as it appears in The Cotton riant reads as follows: At the recent meeting of the State Allivince it whs made the duty of D. iv 1'iird. Lexington, s. O., president; .. W. N. Hitler .(iuthriesvllle, S. 0., vlco president; and A. C. l.yles, Carlisle, S. i hairman of tho hoard of direo, : tors of the Exchange fund, to arrange foi putting a lecturer in the Hold and I reorganizing tho defunct subordlnatq ; [Alliances in the State.* ! In the discharge of that duty, wo , will ii-'suo an addreas to (ho 'Alliance' J men of the iUate, which will ho di?? ; tribiited In a short time. Wo have so j cured the services of lion. J. C. Wll?. | horn as lecturer and organizer. Hev icial Allianri incn in ?each county will ? he asked to assist' us In arranging j meetings ai d getting up funds in ! their rcHifcctlve counties. While Iron. \V. N. Elder 1b tfocro? Miry and Iroasuror for Ui*o commltloo, yet cacli of um will ho ple&sod to ans wcr any commuuleatlon In regard to the work. D. F. Ellfd, For Cmmlttee. In speaking of the man Who 1b to travel over the State and endeavor to ? thoroughly reorganize tho order, Tho ! COttOH SBVR* j "The lecturer, lion. J. C. Wllbbrn, v i who Is also president of the National Farmers" Alliance, Is too well Known' i to the farmers of the State to ueed any commendation to their respect and conlldenec, and ho will faithfully per* form his :ihnre of tho work If the AV> ? llancemcu will rally to his assist/ unco." Congressional Entries. State Chairman Jones of the Demo1 crat-ie executive committee Saturday reeelvod the pledges and tho assess nients of tho Hon. II. I*. Howell of CoN lelon and of Judge 0. VV."IVuch?Hi*n of Sumter, who thus qualify themsel ves as candidates in tho primary election for congressmen for the sev enth district. This makes four can didates who have qualified to date. It -Is certain that in addition to these Dr. Sturkie of Orangeburg, and'NptfC (iraham of Lexington, will qualify and enter the raco. There may be v others before the entry ll3ts close.. It' w;i;f gtated here yesterday that -there was some talk of Mr. IYarry Adams of this county, who comes from that por ! tlon of the county which Is within the j seventh district, entering the contest. Another Departure. Co v. McSwecnoy again departed from the regular set way of exercising the power of ( xecutlve clemency. A boy, Giol*go Stone, was convicted In March last in Cherokee county for; breaking Into a dwelling house In the day time, and stealing thorefjflDm an nil* gun. Ho was sentenced to serve ? 11 months on the county chaingang by Judge Townscnd. At the suggest..! tlon of Solicitor Henry the governor .. J ordered the boy prisoner transferred from the chaingang to the State Re-? lorniatory for Youthful Criminals on ? the i>sxlngton farm: The boy 1? only 12 years old, Is absolutely useless on the gang, and Is said to be a pretty bad youth. In sending him to the re: forinctory he is taken from contact with the older. Jand more hardened / ronvlots. ~ T f* LHflR APIIIC TRRSIT1ES. Within ten days thfc property selcct fd by the board which located fhc na val station at ChaMcstoA, S. C., will j have passed Into tno ow&ershln/frf the United States. , V 'gi> - j A telegram frctif New ?rlelns sayf > that a mob from Carrol ton^Jifes., was I chasing Sallle Sutton, a sister of Bcl fleld M cCray, but had been unahl? to natch hor. ' Petition Refused. C*ov. McSweeney has ri grant petitions for clemency t(\ him in beha.fr. of B. P. Grc W. H. Roberson, coavlcted in tanburg county of the vlolatkya dispensary law and seotsncM ffj if"" ^ a fine of $250 or serve six months *jn?- ** hCT^halngang. SOTToHo? g?a?~ C" emphatically declined to - recc that the* petitions be the contrary, he aaya tlMkl f / has been carrying on the lUl^St liquor altice he waa ooaVl?tt<f, there Is now on tT true bill ajfliiir offenae. ___ , ^