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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