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BARNWELL. S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 30. 1896.
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An Audience of Ten Thootand Greet*
Him in Kan*a«—Characteristic
Boldnetu and Independence.
The Topeka State Journal save that
10,000 people tried to grain admittance
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to the vast circuit tent in Wichita,
Kansas, to hear Senator Tillman,
South Carolina’s favorite son, but of
necessity many were disappointed.
The speech was punctuated with
cheers acd laughter and was regarded
as a remarkably powerful one.
Senator Tillman was in fine form
and spoke as follows :
Ladies and Fellow Citizens—I must
be excused when I say that this out
pouring of the citizens of this itate to
greet a stranger touches me-deeply. I
am esprclally glad to see so many of
Kansas’ fair daughters herv; '
We need a new Declaration of Inde
pendence, and “ we are here as free
American citizens to give it utterance.
It is a big question ; it is a moment
ous question, and unless your impa
tience shall indicate to me that I am
going into it too extensively, I pro
pose as best I can to cover the ground
in one general discussion. I could
write a book if I should undertake to
-.elaborate all oLthe details, but I vilL
at least try to touch on the most sali
ent points and present those arguments
and those facts bearing on the present
condition and the future of this coun
try which make it imperative that we
should come together as Americans.
That it is the watchword, 1 not Demo
crat, nor Republican, nor Populist,
but as Americans.
-I win, however, have to begin with
a discussion of my subject. Politics in
my observation are largely a matter
of inheritance. Those of you whose
fathers were Ilepublleans are today
Republicans; those of you whose fa
thers were Democrats are Democrats,
and those of you who have become dis-
f usted with both parties ar* Populists,
t is like religion. We hear a great
deal about this man’s religion and th4t
man's religion, he belongs th^churcH
and he belongs to another, fla I must
v say too few of us belong to any. He is
of the religion which his parents pro
fessed. Think about it and you- are
obliged to acknowledge that it is so.
Now what is the origin of party ?
Constitutional government. That is a
government in which the people them
selves by some written or unwritten
Instrumental or established charter try
to control their actions Mankind, after
two or three centuries of experience
along that line, have come to the con
clusion that it ream res patties to
carry on that form of government. I
our country when this government
was formed immediately there sprang
up two forces, the centrifugal and the
centripetal forces. One party con
tended that the joints or the links
holding the country together were too
loose, that we were a nation; the other
contended that they were too tight,
that the State must be sovereign, and
they will always be here as long as the
people of this country take any inter
est in public affairs or undertake to
govern themselves. Hamilton, the
representative of one, and Jefferson,
the representative of the other. Ham
ilton, the representative of wealth and
intelligence; Jefferson, the represen
tative of men. The forces began as
soon as Washington left the presi
dency ; the struggle was on between
those who sought to fill his place.
Jefferson got the most votes In the first
electoral college, but he did not have
a majority because the election was
determined in the house of represen
tatives, and the fight began in 1776
continued until now, as to wnether we
have any freedom left or not. • -s
It is necessary, my friends, for me to
go back and bring you down in this
way historically, so that we may un
derstand what is Democracy and what
. are the true purposes of this govern
ment. 1 will repeal phases here and
there from Jefferson’s inaugural ad
dress, which indicate . the thepry of
F iractice upon which he based his po-
itioal faith. One was, “ Trust the
people, and teach the people, 0 indica
ting his faith in their capacity for self
government.
The other was fhat error is nevdy
dangerous as Jong as reason is left ffbfe
to dornhat it, ahd in his works I stum
bled the other day on a brief para
graph from one of his letters writtea
from France in 1786, which contains
.;the whole problem of government and
shows the wonderful capacity of the
greatest of Americans as -far as the
* ! ^*~ncerned.
as
duty of the people and me prob
lems which have confronted them.
With your permission I wjll read it:
“ The basis of our government being
the opinion of the people, the very
first object should be to guide them
right, and were it left to me to decide
ether we should hive the govern
ment without newspapers or the
newspapers without the govern
ment, I should .not hesitate for a
moment to prefer the latter, but I
name, mark you, a condition that every
man should receive those papers and
be capable of reading them. I am con
vinced that those societies such aa the
Indians, who live without government,
enjoy a greater degree of happiness
than those who live under European
G overnment. Among the former pub-
c opinion is in the place of law. In
the latter, under pretense of govern
ment, they have divided their nations
into two classes, wolves and shee
The Republican party since RamiL-.
ton has been one of education and the
classes. They bake monopllzed the
fruits of the earth and imposed upon
the people of this country. We have
come to that pass where a»few million
aires own more than the 50,000,000
Americans do. Republicanism was
bom in pure motives and in patriotism
Jefferson said in bis declaration “all
men were ai
ocrats and those who glory in the title
of Republicans. We have on the one
band the man in th£ White House
masquerading in the clothes of Jeffer
son and pretending to lay down a new
doctrine and a new discipline unknown
to any man who has a scintilla of Dem
ocracy in his composition. And as the
apostle of the other party John Sher
man, of Ohio! Oh, God, that the
name of Democrat should be given to a
man like Cleveland, and the. name
Republican to a man like Sherman.
They have gone far afield from the
teachings of the fathers and strange
to say they are in union in the full pur-
>ese to enslave this country and trans-
er its wealth to few and fewer. Yet
we free Americans claim to be intelli
gent I America, the land of the free
and the home of the brave I Pshaw I
You Republicans, if there are any such
here, would like blind sheep drift
more and more into the field of wolves,
are using your ballots to crush out
freedom. And you Democrats, who
say you have always voted with the
party and will continue to vote it, God
have mercy on your inbecility.
But what are you going to do with
this other political child, Populism ?
What can that do for the country, or
what must the country do for It?
What caused Populism ? It was
caused by the men who turned their
backs on both parties. What caused
r rove it.
the ne-
| believe, and right here I
When I tried to show some oi
farious actions being perpetuated in
South Carolina when I was Governor,
every daily and four-fifths of the week-
lies in the State rose up to down
right.
The
voice which was lifted in the
but I have an organ of my own. (
speaker put his finger to his tongue.)
I challenge my opponents to meet me
on the stump before the people who
are the power of the nation—the com
mon people, and decide upon the ques
tion with the ballot. That is all that
we need now. Have the honest men
go before the people and tell them
what is being done to enslave them.
But where, oh where are there enough
honest men to before 70,000,000 of peo
ple, when the leaders of the different
parties previously agree what policy is
to be carried out on the matter at
stake before they appear before the
people? It is a noticeable thing in
every city that the boodle aldermen
to him like the old man of the sea. Af
ter he has paid his taxes and the fixed
charges on his farm, that mortgage is
I growing larger, or if the mortgage has
been foreclosed, he Is a tramp.
action, and I say that bimetalism is
national and goldbuggery is seotlopal.
do not hesitate to swear that in my
belief out of the million and a quarter
of
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have sold this or that franchise to
some corporation; that this legislature
has been bribed to pass that bill. Our
politics have got to be a cesspool, and j
we deserve to be brought to the bar of |
our own consciences for the low and
despicable condition in which we find
oursel ves. We are responsible for it,
for no stream can rise higher than its
source, and if the people are idiots
theydeserve what they are getting.
But why should I be for silver?
There was never a pound produced In
South Carolina, and there are more
silver men in that State than there are
in Kansas, at the door of a silver-pro
ducing State. A few men In the Sea
ate and the goldbugs in New York
keep agitating the ^money questior
and say it is only the people out here
who want bimetalism, because their
chief production is silver. This con
spiracy has been entered into with
England by these men who have bam
boozled the people with that proposi
tion. These powers who constitute
the privileged and money classes have
reduced the standard one-half, and it
lies in the sense of any man that if you
have cuV off'one-half of the money or
ultimate redemption the other half
must fill the vacum. If there la too
much money it becomes cheap. If
there Is too little it becomes dear.
This is a truism. But there are a
great number of people in this country
who vote for their party under the
proposition that it is greater than the
country.
Let me illustrate the double stand
ard by farming. The simile is simple.
Let us present two plates of butter,
one yellow and one white, and let
every man in this audience have a
biscuit apiece. On the plates there is
enough for all. But around comes
John Sherman and Grover Cleveland.
Cleveland smells the butter on one
plate and says that's not good. Con
gressmen must condemn that butter
smells it again ; I don’t think it sound.
Now if any fellow will say he got as
much butter for his biscuit as If the
two plates had been used, he is a fool.
What Is fiat money ? The Latin
word means “so be it.'' It means law
Take gold and hammer it Into a flat
piece and it is not money. You cannot
.force your creditor to take it, but
gold dollar is a gold dollar by reason of
the law ; so la a silver dollar a dollar;
so is a greenback. They are all fiat.
Yet Carlisle and Cleveland and every
other scoundrel who claims to be a
fool only for the purpose of making
fools of you, says you cannot affect the
values of the metals by legislation
Carlisle said so in Memphis, and so say
all of his ilk. Take 93 and place them
side by side—a gold dollar, a silver dol
lar and a paper dollar. The paper dol
lar is a dollar because it is redeemable
by coin* The silver dollar used to be
a dollar because it was a dollar. It is
now only a 50-oent dollar. Let us burn
them to see. The paper dollar goes up
in smoke, the silver dollar melts and
becomes bullion, theAld dollar ndelts
and is bullion, 'too. The gold is the
favorite metal in (jengrees and it can
f o to the mint and get a new dress
he silver is turned out in the cold be-
the Democrats who taught and felt and
believed with Jefferson to turn their |
backs on Democracy? Simply disgust.
There was that impatient class of
society which sometimes flies off the
hamRe-ane gets lost, These impatient,
hot-blooded, rash but patriotic men are
the men who organized the People’s
party. The People’s party ought to be
one into which everyone would be
willing to go because if we are a free
people and nelleve in the power of the
people to govern themselves and the
republic, of course, we want to belong
to the People’s party. But what sort
of a platform have they got? The
masses, .I say, are anxious to secure
good government, therefore, when
they did not secure it it. indicate* tha,t
they do not understaud the question
and that they are led by designing and,
Interested men. These men put out a
dragnet. It reached out and corraled
in an element of communism, anarch
ism, paternalism and every other ism
that has no business in a political
party. The result was inevitable. It rose
nigh and swept over Kansas, Nebras
ka, Colorado and even the Southern
States, but it did not wash away any
thing. There has been a refluesce and
one of the remarkable consequences,
you Democrats of Kansas, is that your
party teems to have been sponged off
the elate. I believe the record shows
that you have gone down to about 26,-
uOO votes. Of course the administra
tion bad some pie eatbre who were
compelled to vote the Democratic
ticket. #
The policy now offered by the lead
ers of toe Republicans and Democrats
is a policy which means degradation,
poverty and business distress—gold-
buggery, it comes under the tltTe of.
But we have got beyond that tunlof
both-way facing platforms like the one
at Minneapolis, which meant just any
thing anybody wanted. The goldbug
policy summed up means this contin
ued contraction. They want sound
money. Money, if vou will pardon me
for a slight digression, may be likened
to the blood In the body. When it
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healthy. If you conject It in tne heart,
and w* see it congested in New York
and s Boeton, the extremities grow cold,
the poor sufferer, and they think that
we clodhoppers should dictate tbe
policy of this country.
If we are to have more bonds issued
in times of peace to maintain the gold
standard, the Cleveland and Sherman
offen if they a-e to impose more tariff,
if we are to see our mines stop, the
factories stop, tramp* by the millions
on the roads, farmers with granaries
flowing over because they cannot sell
at the cost of production, starvation on
one hand for 60,000, idleness, lack of
suppose we have the free
oonlnage of silver, and that our dollar
would be worth one hundred cents.
Wheat would sell for 00 cents a bushel,
or double the price. That is
estion of political economy
ebraaka farmer will carry his wheat
to London and gets out of It 30 cents a
bushel. H& would brlhg that amount
home and pay double the amount on
his mortgage that he does now. 1 So I
would say to the debtors, and I know
you are not in so overwhelming a ma
jority that the other fellows are not in
it, if you do throw that burden off, you
should take up the question and vote
honestly. x A
When the bill for free coinage was
being agitated in Congsess in 1890 sil
ver went up 'to 102. How long will it
take to bring it to 16 to 1 ? They say
this happens we will have a panic.
Let it come. I say that, because I
would not have torture deferred. Let
us have the agony over. Let them
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mortgages, those who are present, you 1 * Uleve,ana
ere laying the foundation which will
carry the wealth up in smoke some dav
and will carry you to a lamp post with
a rope around your necks. 1 say this
in the light of history, because the ab
sorption of wealth has been the ruin o*
every empire, Persia, Assyria, Rome,
Greece, and you cannot change the law
which makes empire* grow and then
rot and die. They have not made you
all slaves.
If you are so lost to the aspirations
freemen that you can continue to
■ess onward with those lenders who
e going to perdition and bringing
>u with them, you are putting the
ast straw on the camel's back and it
will stand no longer. Where will this
new French revolution break out ? (A
voice—"New York another—"South
Carolina." No, sir, thank God, we
tried revolution once in South Caroli
na. and we got a dose. But whenever
you and enough Americans in this
country are ready you will find South
Carolina will respond. We are ready
now to respond with votes, and we
hope that you have the sense to do like
wise. If you doa’t, at some future day
this anarchistic and communistic ele
ment which is in our cities by the mil-
ion, driven to desperation, will arise,
the modern bastile will be captured,
the armv taken and the millionaire fu
gitives done ilk* the nobles of France
n 1789-91. This does not come from a
disordered brain. History must repeat
iUelf.
One of the class words which roll un
der the tongue of mooometsdists is over
production. If we raise too much why
are there so many starving, ill-clad
people? The over-prod action which
U ruining this country is the over
production of rascals in office and
the fools who put them there. The
conditions which exist -to-day are
these : The northwestern States have
given up in the production of staple
crops. They devote themselves to the
products which can be sold near in the
in South Carolina, ten
seen gold' ih five;
ears.
We lire so poor and have got so used
to it, we can look on with complacency
because the other fellow is getting
some of it. We have plenty to eat and
can always sell our cotton whenever
we offer it I saw hundreds of crib* of
corn in Missouri, which they tell me
tbhy can hardly give away at ten
oents a bushel, apd there are plenty of
people in Chicago who would be glad
to get it for their starving, families.
In the South we have stood the tariff,
the war debt, we have stood a solid
phalanx to protect our civilization
against tbe inroads of negro domina
tion. The wool-dyed Democrats go out
of the party and join the wild men in
the west. In the south, we are like
Smith, who one warm day
cotton-growing territory,
ly to do, the Inereaee in the
able conditions fora Mgen
ess than 50 per cent, of I ably force further rises in 1
while for the greater {cotton on ’change.
There was less than the usual amount
[of cloudiness generally, except in
Berkeley County, where the sunshine
was reported 1 less than 50 per cent, of
>rtion of the State it ranged between
> and 90 per cent.
The reports covering the last week
divide the State into two distinct di
visions, but the hue of demarkation is
not a well defined one; in a general
way it runs from Abbeville to Lancas
ter County. To the northward and
westward of this line the reports all
declare the hot, dry weather favorable
[oa crops, with the exception of oats
sowed since January, which is Deeding
rain badly. To toe southward and
westward of the lino the reports indi
cate a less favorable and more di
versified condition, altogether on ac
count of the lack of rain.
Not only has there been less rainfall
in this division since the crop season
began, but the soil is lass retentive of
to take Off hU skin and sit in moisture generally.
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tabor, and then look at the millionaires cause it is a 50-oent dollar, and yet
who are sending over to Europe to get
some bob-tailed lord to sell their
daughters to—ain’t we a glorious na
tion? And yet frantic appeals come
from Wall street to vote for the party
and stand up for sound money
these men say that law does not affect
the value of the metal. They bam-
beetle the people of this nation, and
we must submit the matter to interna
tional agreement. We must submit to
the money-makers and the monarohs
You Republicans pardon me, 1 wn in of Europe. If we must, why did we
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there was a reservation
men who were black were sot free and
equal.* Lincoln’s"deeUtfaQou of inde
pendence included all men. It was yt
'growing power, a glorious purpose,
and stave leader, as I was In my oride
ly inheritance, t say that I concur.
W« have those who claim to be Dem-
the condition here of a free lanoe, and
if I am here at ail it is because I am
that. I hit around and about me wher
ever I thick it is needed. What a
spectacle the Republican party pres
ented at the national convention when
tne question of putting up a candidate
fur President was settled by bought
negro delegates from the South. Such
condition never existed in Rome.
We did not have any of that when we
were Democrats straight and Lincoln
Republicans. What are you going to
do about that, you Republicans who
are today patting the juba and saying
we will have McKinley ? What does
he stand for 1 ? Protection! What
does Reed stand for? What does Alli
son stand for? Every man of them
ho is seeking the Republican nomi
nation says he ' believes in sound
money. We Democrats would believe
in sound money, but what constitutes
sound money ? We must get a politi
cal dictionary to answer that. I will
address myself now to the definition.
There is one difficulty In the way. I
see it everywhere. If it is only the
question of a nation ! But, ah, the
struggle for local office of the little
fry. You must stand by the party.
The solution of the question is handi
capped and, perhaps, will be defeated,
simply because the local politicians
put these petty things above this grand
patriotic form. And we consider our
selves American citizens. We should
go together on this national question,
land therefore we should not have too
many questions in our platform. Af
ter we have done that, say to the
knaves who want to load the (platform
down, let us first settle with Sherman
aad Cleveland.
When I mentioned a little while ago
the deplorable condition of this coun
try I failed to bring in one most im
portant factor. Jefferson said If he
had to hkve a country without news
papers or without government, he
.would have it without government.
iGseat God, did Jefferson know to what
level the preas'descends, that it can be
make the declaration of independence
We whipped the British and the To
ries, both, in that devolution when we
had only 3,000,000. We whipped Great
Britain in 1812 with only 6,000,000.
When the war of secession was ended
England blustered, but when the ulti'
matum was sent in she submitted to ar
bitration and paid the bill. And now,
in our zenith of power, when we are
to-day the most powerful nation on Ibe
! :lobo, we are asked to fall at England’
eet and ask permission to adopt a cer
tain monetary policy.
Senator Tillman read some extracts
from a London paper of recent issue,
in which it was stated that owing to its
condition this country was never better'
able to stand an increase in takes, that
the people in general were well satis
fied and well paid, and commenting
upon the utterance of the chancellor
of the exchequer, he said :
And yet we are told by the adminis
tration that we are to go to these peo
ple for our policy. The productions of
America are carried to England fct
half their value to enrich that people
and to the impoverishment-of our own.
I saw it stated in a St. Louis paper
that Senator Teller said he would stand
by the nominee of the Republican par
ty at the St. Louis convention. Let me
remark right here an elaboration of
that Idea. If we had any statesman
ship in conducting our affairs, if we
had any patriotism, if we had any in
sight which took in this whole vast
country and sought to protect it care
fully and foster every State In it, our
nation would be the richest and most
prosperous to-day on the globe. Our
products are low; wheat
the plains of our West
London at a cost less than we have ever
known In 200 years; cotton lower than
It was In 1839 and IMS; and the farm
ers of our country are toiling more
hours a day than anv other cli
something Is responsible for this, and
It Is the present depression in silver.
To illustrate : A man in Nebraska
sells wheat for 35 cents a bushel. The
produced on
Is selling in
['bought and manipulated by the sohem- railroad m—
ing politician* he would ant have ut- absorb nriil th * co “® 1 «lon men
ter* the .on!.. W. h.„ tb. mi, IbTgLE* i" 4
oorn.* ..-tP-P-r, I. tb. .orid, I
cltv—butter, fruit, egg-, etc.
Aad they are meeting the 00m
tioe of the west by standi
farms which are worth only half of
what they were. There are millions
of farmer* Is the west are feeding
a great big, old oow, big enough to
have her bead on the Pacific coast and
reaching all around the sea coast towns
to the Atlantic. The farmers are haul
ing their product* to put into this oow.
Where does the milk go ? That cow’s
bag hangs over New York city and
there are India rubber tubes reaching
Into the national hanks ahd over the
sea to England. Pierpont Morgan,
whom Carlisle gave another
shert time ago, Jav Gould aad a few
other fellows get all the milk. Go to
New York and see now they live, you
benighted, blind, iguoraut workers
The cow’s milk goes into the palatial
residences and stately yacht* which
have made Manhattan Liaad, bought
from the Indians for 940, richer than
the greatest State In the west—it could
buy you. They have already bought
from you Congrees and the supreme
court—and they stand by the party and
you stand by the partv.
Along come the Populists with their
platform, in which there Is one genu
ine piece of good, the income tax, a tax
which appeals to the sense of Justice,
of any man in this country, England
has it, France is going to levy it. They
passed the income tax bill, a sickly lit
tle thing that wouldn’t hurt anybody,
levying 930,000,000 to help support the
government which protects their prop
erty. They set to work to put the
thing in motion, but it did not work.
Thev took another cow with its head
at Maahattan and the bag over Wash
ington. A few Populists tried to milk
into the treasury, but the fellows in
New York kept freding the cow cou
pons till they choked her to death.
They have sold themselves to the rail
roads, so that they get injunctions
whenever a strike comes on under the
construction of the law sustained by
the supreme court. We have seen a
man committed to prison for no crime
whatever, simply because that man put
into force a true and just principle.
(Shouts of Debs, Debs.)
They purchased the President and
the income tax and gave more millions
to the rich and more poverty to the
poor, end yet you vote their ticket.
You did it yourselves, don't grumble
over your physic. Now, gentlemen, I
think 1 have said enough. (ShOuts of
“Go on, go on.”) Well, I suppose
will. I am like the wild man from
Bornefc, and you have a good circus.
I will close by a paraphrase by one
of tbe most distinguished men of the
country and ^apostle of liberty, who
will live as' Iqng as the stars and stripes.
Charles Sumner, (loud cheering) who
in a speech in Faneull hall, said that
slavery was sectional and that freedom
was national. If you will look and see
where rests the strength and power
forcing this issue, see whence comes
the Inspiration which controls ths
newspapers and the government, you
will And it a little moneyed section not
big enough for a cow pasture In the
west. I am come from tbe south which
has been robbed and oppressed by the
domination of negroes* I come to you.
and tali you that the negro slaves are
free, but that ws have more slaves '
teattatfB we ever had Mack 01
to aek you to
his bones. I have received many let
ters since I made that speech in the
Senate from Republicans saying that
they could never vote the Repuolican
ticket and from Democrats, who said
never vote fbr
Democrat.
My friends, we are face to face with
the crisis. Since 1860 men are restless
and anxious. They are looking around.
The Democratic party is to meet short-
What purports to be the Demo
cratic party ? The Republican party
meet—what is the Republican
party ? McKinley stands as the expo
nent of tariff taxation and yon fellows
out west vote for that cow. Cleveland
and Carlisle stand there and say, retire
the government paper and stop this
endless chain. Sqund money is their
cry. Didn’t the Republicans promise
us a short time ago that in their admin
istration confidence would be restored,
the price of wheat would rise—(a voice,
“they lied.") Yes, sir, you hit it, in
lain Asglo Saxon, they were liars,
we we? (A voice, “Wo are
My friend, you are a discrim
inating genius. I congratulate you.
Coming from the home of secession
and of genuine Democracy, where all
the seed of the pure crop is left from
the teachings of Jackson and Jefferson,
I have ootne to you* who have been Re
publicans In the past, to ask you if you
111 give the hand of amltv to your
brethren in the South and take a hand
In carrying our united flag to victor
(Ringing cheers, and voioes
wlllT We will! ’)
Democrats of Kansas, 1 don’t know
what you can do. You oan do this at
t, go to Chicago and if the men of
the East who have masqueraded as Re
publicans under the guise of Democrats
come before you, make the tact of par
ty above nation. I pledge you my werd
that I will be there a* a delegate, will
stand with yon for bimetalism, and if
you do not care to lead, just follow
where I go. (Loud and long cheers.)
I don’t go there any more with a bridle
oa. They must give me the doctrine
of Jefferson and tbe promise of Jack-
son, or something to lighten the lend
of my enslnvened people. If we cannot
be Democrats straight, tat us be Lin
coln Republicans. I pledge myself
straight to either ticket. (Prolonged
applause.) There are enough of us If
we get together and throw down the
animosity that exists between theSouth
and the West. (Shouts of “There L
none.”) South of tbe Potomac we have
electoral vote* aad tl only takes
234 to elect a President. (Long and
loul cheers.) But ws must be careful
that the scoundrels do not divide the
flock and let the wolves take the ad
vantage. I plead with you to come to
the South and join us in our efforts to
make this country tbe land of the free
and the home of the brave, and as sure
as we join so sura will victory he ours
in November, the victory that comes
to patriots who know their rights aad
win not be held or bought and know
ing these righto dare to maintain them.
(Loud and prolonged cheering.)
e iV
Corn of earliest planting is generally
up with 1 a good color ;and growing
fast, but few satisfactory stands are
reported and replanted oorn does not
come up and will not until it rains;
the snme is true. of late -planting.
Corn planting Is practically finished
except late or Majr and June oorn.
Cotton planting slackens, both, be
cause the greater portion of it has been
S lanted and because tka .ground Is too
ry for thorough preparation, while
others prefer to wait for rain before
planting. The first planting is up, but
not to. good stands. Later planting
cannot germinate.
Wheat -is doing well generally, but
needs rain to prevent it from heading
prematurely.
The condition of falls oats has not
changed materially since last week
and is fairly promising except that it
is likely to head prematurely should
the dry weather continue. Spring
oats are falling everywhere and In
some localities the crop has already
failed.
Pastures improved generally under
the Influence of the hot weather, but
in Beaufort County pastures are fail
ing.
Tobacco lands are prepared
only waiting for rain to begin I
planting, a little of which was done
before the ground became too dry
Irish potatoo# need rain as do
gardens, the latter are parched oa light
soils.
Melons and sorghum case are being
largely planted but coming up slowly.
Early blossoming fruit does not look
( •remising generally, but lata bl
. ng varieties appear more favorable,
except that some report fruit, eepe-
peciaily peaches, dropping bealy
account of tbe dryaeee.
In vie* of the hot weather there is
a remarkable freedom from destructive
inaeota ; reporta from various sectloos
of the State indicate that ooae have
yet appeared.
J. W. Backk, Director.
and
COTTON MADE A JUMP.
■ar Baser Dtooseees Upoa tl
Abnormal Climatic OondltloBa Pre
vailing tn the Veiled States Dari eg
the Laet Portatght.
tm
Providence is Bead!
over the South to rectify the error of
the Southern farmers la pi
a huge crop of cotton this year,
normally low temperature for a
or ten days will probably flsors—
yield of ootton aseffaoinaUjr as would
a reduction of the cotton 1
DR MATO OH
the Gtrle School.
Special to The State.
Dr. A. D. Mayo, of Boston, one of the ^
most influestial trustees of the Pea
body fund, who has devoted sixteen
years of his life aad talents to the
noble ministry of education la the
South, and who visited for about tan
days recently at Winthrop College,
was interviewed by a representative of
the State, from which we take the
following: * ___
In tbe pleasant interview which Dr.
Mayo gave upon tbe broad portico ef
Winthrop college, he spoke at length
of the condition of the schools, especial
ly In the country, which onlm for
better Instructors, and made ncosseery
the establishment of aa InstituUoa
which should send out competent
teachers. In the way of such efforts
he mentioned tbe begianiag r by tba
establishment of such aa lastttutiou in
MigaUtfippl some six or eight years
ago, followed taf
North Carolina,
line.
Discussing the different ones, ha
came to lock et Winthrop Normal aad
Industrial collage of Sooth Oaroilaa.
la soma respects he considered It
" unique "—eotabiy, la eomMaiag aa
academic education with a normal aad
Industrial one and spoke of the oemM
nation as a most desirable oae.
The buildings be ooeeiderad eUsoet
perfect—“the beet la the South, and.
compares meet favorably with
anywhere."
The thorough asm of tho
into aad tbe model way la'which
this “ up-to-date hotel" to kept, make
it ea object-lessee to mats with tho
educational edvaatagen
oally, he spoke of T
living la the ooii
hi* 16 years sxperloao* vtohtom <
he had never eetaa suoh “good 1
He also spoke of the great 1
to be derived from tho farm :
tioe with the ooltagn.
Dr. Mayo seemed to be
the broad ideas which had <
la the seleetioe of tho
allowing social
to lafluaooe it—and commanded
thoroughness^aod^ effictaec^* of the
He also paid a high trlbuta la tha
organising qualities aad s—aatlfU
powers of President Johnson."
Upoa tho whole Dr. Mmto seamed to
be very highly ptaaeed with the work
being doae at W La three gad hoped
»
Caro-
WSKILLY CROP BULLETIN.
The KWert of tbe Hot Weather Upon
the Growing Crops.
This bulletin covers the weather and
conditions for the week ending
Colombia Register.
Misery to said to love company ; if
that be to; the people ia South Caro
lina who are made miserable by the
unusually hot weather of the lest fort
night may find some ooeeotaUou is tbe
feet that they had lota of company, for
pheoomeal climatic ooodltioos p
vailed over the entire Usited State
while ooe-half of the country roasted
sad fried aad slssled aad sought com
fort is cussing the hot weather, la free
use of fans and in copious draughts of
summer drinks, the other half came to
the conclusion tnat winter was sitting
in the lap of spring and that overcoats
end stove* bad been too uniokly dis
carded.
Farmer Bauer, the Weather Bureau
Observer at Columbia, who is a verita
ble walking enoyclopadia off!nforma
tion about the weather, told a Register
reporter some Interesting facto yester
day concerning the sweltering beat of
the East and chilly breexes of the West
the beginning of the work, aad wosdd
give the college tbw support it do-
strike 12 at the hegiaaiey* _
He sxvrwmed himself as much
used with the reeawMoo ke had
always received in South Osroileo aad
said that It was but natural that ha
should feel warmly attached to her.
clock should aal
crop conditions lor me week ending mo »uu ou«»j ureews
with Satunley, April 18th, and in its during the last fortnight.
preparation were used reports from
one or more correspondents in each
county of the State.
The hot weather of the past week
was noteworthy not only bemuse the
highest April temperatures, within
the time covered by the Weather'
Bureau records, were recorded, but
also because the heat wave was so pro
longed, as such steady heat is charac
teristic of July or August but, remark
able for April.
Tbe heat of the week converted a
deficiency of 70 degrees in tempera
ture since March 1st which existed at
the beginning of the week Into an ex
cess of abput 26 degrees.
The week exhibited another feature
of mid-summer temperature in that It
was as hot, or hotter, in the interior
as on the coast.
The dally mean temperature aver-
ed from 7 to 12 degrees per day
her than the normal, and from 11
to 16 degrees higher per day than
during the previous week. The great
est gain occurred in the extreme wes
tern counties, and it was warmest in
the south central counties. The high
est temperature reported was 98 on
Friday the 17th at Gillionsville, Hamp-
top county, and the lowest was 47 on
Sunday, the 12th, at Greenville.
The mean temperature for tbe week
for the whole State, taken at 45 dif
ferent stations, was 73, and the normal
for the same period is approximately
63.
There was but one shower reported
the entire week, and that occurred in
the upper portion bf Sumter County
on tha evening of Friday, the 17th, and
the greatest amount that fell was less
than one-tenth of an Inch (0.03 at Cam
den). Along the immediate coast the
absence of rain was partially supplied
by heavy desw, which sustained vegeta
tion, but in the interior there were
scarcely any dews.
The normal rainfall for the week is
approximately. 0.80 inch. The defici
ency In rainfall for tbe whole State to
now over four inches sinoe March 1st.
The last benefloial rain occurred
passed
from West to
b I
Three weeks ago. ,r said he, “ a hot
wave struck the Pacific Coast and has
slowly over the United State*
i to East, gaining in intensity
aa it went along. In its wake haa fol
lowed a cold wave, which traveled at
about the same rate of progress. The
result has been a strange contrast of
climatic conditions. East of the Mis
sissippi the temperature has been
muen in excess of the normal tempera
ture for this season of the year, the
exoees being greatest in Eastern Penn
sylvania, where it was from 20 to 25
degrees above the normal. On the
other hand, weet of the Missiseippl,
the temperature for the season being
as, muon as 20 to 23 degress below In
Montana.
“ The climatic conditions during the
last week broke all records of the
Weather Bureau. East of the Missis
sippi, the temperature was from 3 to
9 degrees higher in various placet than
ever before recorded at this season by
the Weather Bureau, which has been
In o^
whil
end
temperature was from 2 to 6 degrees
below all observations for this season by
the Weather Bureau.
“ While the people bf South Carolina
were sweltering under a heat 10 de
grees gveater than tbe normal for the
season and in North Carolina the heat
was 16 degrees above the normal, on
Monday there were fourteen inches of
IVYITBO tO kAYAMTAR
| Adjutant Qeaeral Waite has receiv
ed th* following letter from tha Ad
jutant General of Georgia:
Sir: 1 have the boaor to lavlte roar
attention to tha fact that tha MlUtaT
Inter-State Association of Savannah,
will hold Ito first meeilag
from May 11th to May 16th. Tba ex
ercises will include military drills of
different kinds for cavalry, artillery
and infantry. Contest* for rUte, ear-
bine and pistol aad cavalry
in the school of the trooper
such as riding at heads, rings, ate.
The State has no direction of tha af
fairs of this meeting yet. as tha par-
pot* to to test tbe usefulness aad effi
ciency for active service of those tak
ing part in hand tha exercise* ar* to
be of a practical nature, this depart
ment win extood nay aid la Ito power
to make It a suooasK Tha manage
ment is to the hands of leading wi
ltary moo and citizens of Savannah,
and]
ties
UtiXVHRI
will prove a beneficial 00 well aa a
pleasant experience for the visltlag
military.
The ground for manoevuree 4a a park
near the center of the oityand to well
adapted to the purpose.. The arrange
ments for rifle firing are of the moot
complete character.
The Avondale Rifle Range near the
city on an electric car line, to pro
nounced one of the finest ranges ia tho
country. It bos recently been finished
and is thoroughly equipped with all
modern appliance* to insure safety
and rapidity and accuracy of fire.
Should it meet ’with your approval. I
would be pleased to have you maae
known to your troops the time and
purpose of the meeting, and 1 can n*^.
sure you that any representation from
7 men ana citizen* or ^avannan,
posseMiag, a* they do, all faoili-
1 for carrying out aa undertaxing
hi* character, it to believed that it
jn
A^rU 2d.
wind* were generally from ths
south aad southwest, aad
e very
pioweu
k,- ... 4
sqow in North Dakota and Montana
wa* also covered with a mantle of
•now crystals. This is a vast country,
an is evidenced by the strange con
trasts of extremes of temperature so
frequently prevailing in different parte
at the same time.
The inevitable deduction from Farm
er Bauer’s explanation of tbe weather
conditions which have prevailed dur
ing the last week to that South Caro
lina and the other ootton States will
hav* a touch of the cold wave which
has passed over the Want in ths trail
of the hot wave. Ia fact, the advance
of the cold wave stuck Texas yesterday
sad its advent there was promptly re
corded la the Cotton Excasage is New
York by advance of 8 to 7 points in ths
price of ths cotton crop. If tha
wave
I oar State will be cordially welcomed
1 Savannah. - ,
•Very respectfully.
. Jno. Mcintosh Kell,
Adjntaat
—Maine’s labor commissioner
been gathering statistics on the
[of living ia that State. He _
that the avenge dally costs of a liv
ing to 21 cento a day for each Individual
in the avenge family. The cost of iiv-
| ing to single men, boarding, to
These figures cover rant, food,
and light. -