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4 MINWILI mm VOL XX. BARNWELL SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY MAY 27. 1897. Senator Earle is Dead A GREAT PUBLIC CALAM ITY. The Untimely End of a Brilliant Career. Brief Sketch of an Upright Life. PromTha Greenville Mountaineer. May «, UV7. South Carolina bae mat with an Ir- roparable luaa. The 'deatE*ot SUaator Joeepb H Carle at an importaat juac- tara la oar public afalra. aad abea be bad jaet eatered apoa the three bold of tal Hail re of bio aailee Stale la II of tbo •»tb a oaraad, It aae yet reoofalted that be dor eaoalleat eereloo t) the latrr. The oe4.ee 111m •bleb bla 10 withdraw frea their la the oaiapalfa of 1M there aae ac ■aaeual deproe of lataraetad u»ao I fee ted throughout the State la r«gard to tbo oholoo of State offloere. A largo element «a the oonreBtloo fought rlgorooely for tbo promotion of young men who were Imbued with progroeelve Ideaa, and among tboer who gore rolled upon aae Senator Karlr. gho rtcelrod the nomination for Attorney General by a handoonu rote over the incumbent, Char. Rich- ardeon Miles, an able lawyer anj pollebed gentleman. In the office of Attorney General, wbioh he held for four ream, be made an unexampled record, aa the office did not cost the State a dollar for epecial counsel dur ing the two terms. Every case was argued by the Attorney General, ex cept where arrangements bad beec made prior to bis Induotlon into office, and his legal ability was shown to b* of the highest order. The State Democratic Convention of 1888 developed a strong desire for » change of administration, oontrarv t* the precedents already e»tablishe< that the Governor should surra foe years, and the dissatisfied elemeal under tbs Ised of Cept. B. K. Tillman urged the nomination of Senator Eero upon tbs beoob A judicial offlos was much la agrwsmsat with his disposition aad temperament, and be was aa toy ing the work devolving upon him wb^a the campaign of 18IM waa opened. He nad no thought whatever of entering politics again, and was not at all In clined to enter the field as a candidate r or United States Senator, wbaa solic ited by members of both factions, and urged to make the race for the purpoee of healing the breaohea of the pact. For several months after be wee ap proached on the subject he wee disin clined to become a candidate, and hts consent wee only partially given at the opening of the campaign in June, ft was not final and conclusive until the initial meeting at Manning, at which time he was bolding court in Charleston. His pledge was in the bands of a former Ibw partner and trusted friend, Mr. R. O. Purdy, of Sumter, and through a misunderstand ng the pledge was filed and afterwards withdrawn, but the matter waa ad- jjstod that evening aad bis pledge uly accepted by the chairman of the state executive committee. For eight or ten meetings It was rapractice'll* for Judge Earle to V .•.'escot unices be bad oboaen to aeglact SU JOKES OK IKE POflR OE GOO. WHAT 18 DOWNRIGHT LOYALTY T His Prelude on (be Col loot Ion— A n Karueut Sermon la Which He Btrlkee Some Sturdy Blowa. Sam Jones, the noted evangelist, is conducting a series of meetings in Au- S ista, Ga., and Is creating a stir in at city by his direct and forcible b'ows at the sins of the day. His ser mon on the concluding sentence of the Lord’s prayer is striking In its vigor and earnestness, and his remarks at tbe time of the collection wore so typi cal that we glye them ae a prelude to tbe sermon Tteetfr '‘Now comes the Inevitable, ubiquit ous collection. It hrunta some people. I wish everything in this world wae free. You have free schools; you-wented free silver, and some of you would like to have free hoarding bouses. Soma of your sons-la law have them. too. It's a hne thing to be able to live oa your wife's father, ain’t it? Some time a man thinks he's lost a daughter when be ftads he's oaly got another kid. It'e living of my fatber-'a-lew or having • y daagbter's bus bawd living on me, j.st bang me. I'm Ilka tha woman who always wae borrowing her neighbor's team Scum aad wbaa aha got eaa of her own she sate 'Thanh Gad, IH aaiW er barrse nor load- Ail tho aver age girt aba baa teteara aad a btrywte H he— la da au> he la beaa hie I Ilka the maw who la aa tha right aide of everything. That's ebat I call loyalty. The loyal maa Is right oa tbo liquor quostloa. right oa tha monry quaettoa, mot charging 20 par coat. In terest 00 what he leads out, right on everv question. Wbaa a preacher goee to a blow-out banquet and drinks some wine “not to be odd," he has his gun spiked by the devil. And I'd rather make a new gun than unsplke the old one. People don’t respect this man. The saloonkeepers don’t like me, but thev respect me more than they would him. ' Some men have to drink for ^their often-tro ible. It’s mighty often/ for it ittacks them about once every hour. Some men seem to have a chronic stomach. Down right loyalty ! The Bible says, “Taste not, touch not the accursed thing and again. “Avoid even tha appearance of evil. Yet some Cbrla- tlans have a regular peach-blossom no—. The? don't drink, though. Loyalty, loyalty : downright loyalty. Don’t go anywhere that would load aay one to think yon drank. See a woman around a punch bowl dishing oat tha stuff. I can stead a bull aecked bark—per giving it oat, but to see a woman at It Is Intolerable Society wITThecIa to turn oat la a day or twa. aad I’ll trim tbe aid gale if they do A womaa who tlerte bar keys to the devil by the pwecb-bowl 1* a lag s teat. Attorney General Barber replied Is Mr. Bryaa la aa argument within soornwhat narrower so that of bis adrersary. Endowed with a C sreonal appearance that would render im a striking object in aay aeaaa* binge t with bla hair brushed '-aok from the forehead, without parting, is a raven maae over his head ; with a floe open countenance and well-mod Dieted voice, he seemed to Imp-ees both court and spectators with tha justice and moderation of the views which ha pro* •anted. He declined to follow Mr. Bryan, in tha malm Into his hair-snllt- ting refinements, but contented May ha ywa my ywa daal like to •ma is hear Sam i—an haeaaae ywa Ctetafk* k—— — r ■kiwytkw yuan iBsttags araaad aae— thwy u gas berk aayhww * off ■ — self with adhering to the paths aad precedent* blaxed out by tbe courts and relying for the goodness of his cause upon these. At one point ia re ferring to the charge of “sniveling bypocricy” which the counsel had yea- throughout, pay counsel hack la hts owa ooia aad with interest for the ultimate object ol his suit was not to obtela for Vea- deroock A Oa. or other foreigners tha privilege of doing business la tha State, a p—tease that deserved to he charecterlste as “Mlvellag hypoe * ■' hat to throw tha ‘ ilthla' J A imdih m a* I —ad wise tea< tea by P—f Li ah ss ■•wry Ttmeud. I knew see pans ws A M* t—s banal- •dguaf Mm was at O A Or 'sd ft— years age he assumed s peaHtoe la political affairs test woe id bav. aisMst aay maa toob—ority Ha was eeascious of the rectitude o> hie parp—si, aad calmly Mdad the time whea hie vtadioatioa would Claaa aad unimpeachable la a career that had gained him coosiderable emt- amoog his fellow-cltlsens, he had nothing to fear from tha adverse criticisms which came Inevitably to a man who expressed counter opinions to those held by many of his friends and political associate#. Tima would de termine whether he was right, and when thS day arrived that thoughtful men were seeking a leader who would prove acceptable In a great emergency, Joeeph H. Earle stood out foremoet among the citisens upon whom oould he rallied the hitherto warring fac tions, and to him there was a rapid accretion of strength and support that amply repaid him for the apparent indifference and rejection of former days. He oould stand out in the white light of investigation aad go through the refining crucible of tha most —arching examination without — much — tha email of 1— upon hie gar ments. His judgment of Y2 was ee- by a handsome majority of hie Democrat* la Yd. Bar to had aaly a law days of with his h—ahm . ■ . . _ 1 of 1876, and wae rt-co^n z- d —'a dashing end Impetuous lender of the inviscibit **d shirts of Sumter County. He wa» nominated for the House of Represen tatives In that campaign, but he with drew shortly before tbe election for reasons that were most creditsble to him as a patriot and citixen who was anx loustb promote harmony rather than rxait himself. When the Legislature had lonvened, and the dual govern ment was in operation, with the Wal lace and Mackey Houses contending for tbe mastery, the Democratic offi cials in Columbia summoned five thou sand oiliiefi* to make a demonstration on the beieagured State House for the protection of the noble band under Speaker Wallace, who were threaten ed with extermination by a rowdj gang of negro— from Charleston, brought to the eapltol and concealed within its walls for the consummation of this diabolical plot. Senator Earle with from Sumter was a company _ tha first to arrive oa tha la tha grev dawn of that bie morning he was Ibsre wiu> 00r haadrad stalwart maa, who we ed with Winchester nl—, aad raady ter tha frag. Tha withdrawal of tha Walla— Baa—aadod tha 4 rtrisus with a Tin by lbs Coe* so Moo. after by Cape G. W Shall, aad with tha writing of whieh Till waa basslaoe 01aimed that ha had to log to do. The attack upon tbe admin 1st—lion with which Earlehed been 00a n oted for four years, and tbe charges vaguely presented but vehemently urged, caused him to enter the field aa a candidate for Governor. The mem orable campaign uhtch followed is familiar to tbe people of the State, and when it closed with the overwhelming nomination of Tillman by tbe conven tion in September, 1890, Earle accepted the result in good faith and refused to join a bolting faction, as he recognized the right of the majority to do as it pleased with the public offices. He returned to the practice of law in Sum ter, and remained there nearly two years longer. For quite a while he had been considering the matter of coming hack to his native county, and in 1892he purchased ah—utiful home in this city and entered upon the prac tice of law. It w—soon after coming be— that he advlned against making any opposition to tbe re-election of Governor Tillman, practically —fusing to ally himself with ultjier faction, and Baa at v— Jedgw Saul him U sited •f Jaasiff by a ha a as holding 1 tha baJtefi Sweater Bari# jaet bate— tha L guration w—t to Washington, aad wbaa th« extra oa the 16tb of Me—h he w— swore la — a Suaetor from South Carolina. Ia a coupte of weeks he was taken sick, and from a stubborn attack of the bolding that the white Carolina ought not to by factioaei diff< la this pie of South torn —under ■ His course nan v of bb f—Uy afl grip w— developed other complica tions, hbloh resulted in the advice of bis physician at W—hl.gtoo that a leturn home would be beneficial. For a month he h— been battling against the encroachments,.of Bright's dis ease, which finally terminated his life at half-past fixe o'clock on Thursday afternoon, surrounded by his entire family, and in full possession of his consciousness that the end w— at hand. It Is not proper to Intrude further into the family circle than to say that hip domestic relations were of tta happiest and sunnieet nature. His devotion to home aud loved ones was a most excellent and conspicuous trait in his character, and the fondness with which be guarded the sacred precincts of the hou—hold w— reciprocated by a reve—noa and affection that were noted by all who ever came witbin the charmed circle B aid— the grief- stricken wife, tbe— a— eight children who survive him: Dr. Beylis H. Earle, of Now York ; Mrs. H f. Rice, of Barnwell; Mrs. T. Sioaa Crawford, ef Bparteaharg; Juba H. Eerie, who w— hU Inlbar's private sser—ary ; Mbs N- Berta, Im U Eerie J* Mts—a Lutes M aed Votes O term. ** r __ ^ - - ia. Ww _ w “ — er hay n» ss—i Mb IS W —a e sSniwm ones— m teeSerked rt8« res—Ss fo a— I we— te sail if She p—gtag —te at sate Id df a a f — v Taw nka—e— Ss— a— Uka a teat lay r. Whwa ywa dteaaeea— is fi lights ge —s eed IS w—t m—e e toot. But put — the —rveet eed ail III ha right If She cbtircbws •—id ly g— ouaawctwd wltta tow dlvl— dy nemo whet a —Mil tbwy oould aehieva bum# of th—a old church mamba— a— — still — a atoer. Tbay aiat moving a foot Suit they slog, “I'm going to my journey's end.” It’s a 11a. 1 ain't a going. For tnioe Is the power. This reference to citizenship and loyalty. Nothing Is despised like a traitor. Ail uate Benedict Arnold because he wa* an officer in the American army who sold out and went to the other side. Don’t you think a church member who leaves the ranks and go— into tbe dev il's gang is a traitor ? Tbe old Presby terian sister who goee' to the theater is one of tbrae. She’s the devil’s old bell ewe. B.medlct Arnold wae a gen tleman compared to her. Loyalty! Love, true love! If I w— to spell love out according to ita meaning it would be wit* tbe letters that compose loy alty. C iri*t himselPsaid that love de manded loyalty. “If any man says he ioves me and keeps not my command- menu the —me is a liar and the truth m not in him.” -Loyalty ! Think of a deaoon, an el der or a steward of the church be longing 10 tha Commercial club. Ha's gewa late a hog wallow. What do you thlak of 000 who oarrtas oa gsm . c* la eouoa or stocks r Why. I had rathor y hoy play aovoa-ap lor 10 ewoto wiU a g—y ate d—h of a—It of _ f[ *»• ••• ■■ , . Mr Bryaa. te as—mw that tha court la fiiiag a—flout dw- oisioua aad dalivariag Itself of tbo vi- plielt utteraae— — —curd —lating to —lldlt^if tha State law — a com petent exerctsw of lU poll— power*, had be—tofo— taken this basis for granted, its attention having —ver be fore been properly and adequately directed to the— mo— Important phases of tbe question. H* has pro ceeded, therefore, on the theory, and labored to Impress the particular court in question with tbe impression that these questions have never been fully considered and passed upon by it, but that its position ia the premises have been, — it were, assumed., owing to the fact that they had not before, in tbe opinion of counsel.at least,been directly and properly brought to its attention on their merits. ... , 4 This method of interpreting or in structing tbe court as to the signifi canoe and scope of ite own decisions so Ingeniously interwoven by oouos< 1 into the case, ooubtless has impressed tie court to tbe extent of persuadiog it o(; neceaslty of —viewing the law In tbe neceesity of —viewing the all ite features aad sitting in judgment meat up— end —versing ite own da- elsioaa, if foaad to be just an*! eery—uvea though tha Sfote, — tha te ha, b— —find chicly ep— tAudecic'ous la q sect I— ter mate- laiatag tha gaudm ss of a vanity of vaaittaa Still tha . m—. w b<> oa— aapi—d to baeoma what tea world —Is Immortal — p—te, ad- l— tha lofty idaai of Ttmrod aad bin fidelity to bla art. They look with pelbaiic lata—at up— his record aad would rejolua to e— hie memory —ana- ed from tbe sordid things of earth. For my part I do not value — I 00— did tbo— things that many men contend for, and I know how empty they a—, but it U Impossible to con tern piste whatH -nry Timrod accomplished and not ueeire that he should be properly honored, loved and crowned. c • Tbaddeus Stevens was on— opposed in debate by Horace Maynard, of To if- ■* neesee. Mtynard was very tall and straight, and had long black hair, which be wo— well down over his c—t collar ani which gave him some what the appearance of an lodlao. it was even rumored tint ce had soma aburlgloni bl tod in bis veins. May nard prid-d mmseif on hie scholarly -pttaiamenta, and at tbe oioee of bis address be quoted one 01 two Latin .verses. Old i'bnd —plied to Maynardt Argument in his usual vigorous nea ter, and tbaa pansad for a few eeooada. until be had secured tha attention of of tha —U— Hoa—. Turaiag to May nard, who sat soma dlstaa— heated aikLh*dative—d tat* parting sb H: **do me— for tha gwatt-m*a « Cigiuh- As