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VOL XXIV. JSL BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 25 I9Q i. SENATOR M’LAURIN FIRES FIRST GUN. A Defence of HU Political Course - HU Conception of the South’s Dnty. The Manufacturer’s Club of Char lotte, N. C., had an eventful day in its history when the Chinese minister, Mr. Wu Ting Fang, was the guest of honor, and next in rank among the prominent men present was Senator John L. MsLaurin, of South Carolina, who read a declaration of his position in politics, and while ahe address was entitled “Our Present Condition in the South and Our Duty for the Fu ture,” it was in reality the fli^st gun in his campaign for re-election to the Senate. He indicates the lines along which he will fight. lie has left the “ruts," be says, and for eo doing de fends himself, and indicates the line in politics he thinks the South should fol low. Mr. McLaunn spoke as follows: Mr. Toaatmaker and Gentlemen: I desire to make a statement of somewhat a personal nature before proceeding with this speech, which I intend to deliver tonight A certain newspaper correspondent in the city of Washington bee persistently spread the report that I was coming to Char lotte to make a speech which would launch a new party in the South. The report ie absolutely false. If I had any such intenti>« good lasts would opportunity of this kind. I am coa st u> advocate within Democrat* lines the paiieSee whtrh 1 belters to be beet foe the Mouth, end when 1 can no longor do this 1 am ready to rot)re to private life. la the Month we are today rwalisiag of the dream* of He far-reaching 4 bnetaaae asaa af fifty ago. With prophet«r eye, they sow the led oel no I oud commercial pos sibilities of oar highly favored south land. With aa advtare ef thought that M ,y surprising. they suggests>1 ea- i of wundorfol asagoiiade for up.>u .diog oad commercial dosni* bo. From irjr to le»4» aonven* lions wore held to voice the demends of a doepseais J p*»b .. sentiment far induotnal progress. The alary af these movements is chronic led to a fioswh Carolina pwbtmitoo ( ohsoh, under the •erne of Do bow's Review, did for the old Mowth whet the Meaafortwrvr'e Rec ord in doing for the fiowth today. The some sydnt which eweNod wwr fnthece to leave the fietd of defvoi with noth lag bat their murage sod their war, and by the vicious and incendiary appeals made during the last mouth of the campaign to class hatred and pre judice. • > Fundamental principles were lost sight of, and in aa insane effort to se cure party success at any cost, the at- teuipt was made to combine socialism, populism and sectionalism'^ with'noth ing but the sentiment and traditions of Democracy. The real Democratic leaders of the Senate for the past three years have been Allen, Teller, and Pettigrew, all of them able men, but one a Populist, one a high-tariff Re publican, and the other, 1 do not know what. All of them opposed to State banks of issue with proper safeguards, and most other things we need in the South. This was allied the *‘ New Democracy ” in contradistinction from the old, and some of its leaders stated that its creeds were revolutionary and were so designed to be. To sow discontent with industrial conditions and distrust of the govern ing power; to array class against class, in the hope of securing fancied social and industrial equality, is to my mind the first step in revolution. The South is the American end of America. In no section is there so small a foreign element, s> much conservatism, and so pure a paliolism. What a political paradox then if is for our people to be the allice of prof rased revolutionists elsewhere. It was not the pure type of Southern Democracy that the balance of the country frare.I ia the last Presidential election. They knew that properly in- terp*eted this was conservative and JL nadafetoud, how- ever. wha*. lafloeocee dowileated, aa<T therefore, the Mouth iu national affaire was still power!eee Owe doubt ful Northern State bad Ibeo and baa uow more lofiwracw tbaa the entire Month combined. Owe party says. Why show Id I cnaeult you, 1 can hope ttr oothiag. The other soya, I’ve got tgo aay way, end I will do as I |4eoov, help vow reelf if you can. Whol a poet- Uoa lor a brwoo, high-e|Mnied people fr-nwd hand and foot, the mleemhla oiavee of osm party and a football lot the other. * I, far one. do oat holievs that the f the South are randy In trust (ransom taie the hands af any i begta i he leveling prucoas leading section in this country. The center of manufacturing in the United States has been, transferred from Fall River, Mass., to Columbia, S. C. But if we would make the most of our op portunities we must renounce sectional prejudices and support broad national policies, looking to the creation of for eign markets, the expansion of trade and the upbuilding of a common coun- try. We must demand and have for tme South a full share of the beuefits as well as the burdens of national life. The South is vitally interested in the Asiatic markets. Her manufacturers are studying the needs of those people m an intelligent effort to turn out pro ducts suited to the markets. “ The administration is doing a great deal towanl improving our commercisl opportunities in the east by showing some regard for the inalienable rights of China, while protecting the legiti mate demands of foreign interests. Dewey’s victory first established Amer. ican preatiga along the Asiatic coast. It was then that 800,000,000 yellow, brown and black people learnvd respect for the United Mates and sainted ns as a first class power. - The altitude of the United States since in the field of diplomacy in China has given confi dence aod increased that respect. The United States from the firm took the lead, and even the warlike emperor of Germany baa bad to yield to Unde Sam’s friendly admooit'oos. We now occupy the vantage ground, becanee OU frivodiy terms with all the powers 1 make the eeaectton that the South baa more to gain then aay other eec- iiuo frees the foreign policy now pur- sued by the admtaietraUoo, particularly whsu she seshmiaa e^aktaoowaCa^-* as it will ha. 1 have read v streets front the speech of my amiable aod dieuaguiahed friend hie excellency, Mtuieter Wu, recewlly made In Chi cago. K M replete with wtmlom aad good seswe. We casaol bop* aa J wo should aos wish to break down the civtllaaiiosi of (Tina ujusi which w b med a polity, eoctesy aad fwitghm the •low growth of 4 jOUU years. Ire do eo le to dostr<*v the eswpsre la the alteeept to vwddealy threet epm> heif e weetere imlieatnwi fov which her oem le are All we caa hope lo da and is engaged in the settlement of Southern war claims in the Court of Claims. He was appointed to the pre sent position during the last Cleveland Administration, while Mr. Olney was Attorney General. When Mr. Mc Kinley assumed control Attorney Gen eral Miller was impressed by the legal ability and experience of Mr. Capers and accordingly retained him in the public service. In the meantime Mr. Capers had re nounced Bry anism and declined to fol low the leadership of the free silver wing of the Democratic party. In the last campaign he practically broke away from the Democratic party and went on the stump for McKinley in West Virginia and other doubtful States. For some lime past he has been m frequent conferences with Senator Pritchard, of North Carolina; Senator Mcljuirin, of South Carolina, and other well known Southern men, who profess to be interested in the formation of a white man’s Republican party. One of the most active and in fluential supporters of Mr. Capers Is Senator McLaurin, who recently de clined to co operate with his fonnar Democratic afkociatea in the Senate and has since been classed among the independents or a new convert to Re publican principies. It has been known for some lime that Senator McLaunn has been industriously at work in be half of the appointment of Mr. Capers as district altoi nay in South Carolina. After a careful survey of t^a politi cal field the I'rcsulSDl sp|>arrniJy con cluded that Mr. Capers is well qualified to become an adminMraliou mia- •tooary to kad the oew crusade la the Mr i la jmnny ’ assbilioue. bee had somv capex wove To pwtilies, twloogs to a tmisgsiebtil aouth Candiaa family, aad is the eecoad mm of the well kaown llMhop Capers, of Sooth C It is coo traded that the appointment af Mr. Capers appointment, just announced, was made upon the recommendations of Senator McLaunn and Mr. Capers, contrary to the request of “ Boas ” Webster, who strongly urged a colored man named Dickinson. Chaffed was h Gold Democrat who had recently en tered the Republican fold. He was appointed with the understanding that he will eelhct Miss Carson, former postmaster during the Harrison Ad ministration, as bis assistant The turning down of “Boss’* Webster in these two instances indicates a strong determination on the part of the Ad ministration to get rid of him. Il is freely predicted here that Mr. Web ster will not be reappointed collector Of internal revenue when hia term ex pires. It is also said that he will have a hard road to travel to retain hia membership of the committee when the next campaign opens. THB NEGRO IN COTTON MILES Siooug IWOptS Lhls go pony Lhreug MOOT IS li charertot* left, anil 1 live# mi Um . aad Inspires yoa ■eaertakifg. tud#T Ml MMf ffMl The plat*• af . boasnro* s>* o ana lb* greet Mo*tber* •lataaaiea uf fifty yeas* ago are no 1 «oger tela dreaaw. naipoMod by a c reel war wbtrh 'la* I ths sod y sow p reosgsi I ha houlll 4 •om* visas i —rtsl »qosht two dogmas Ou* so. Go of ibotr mm booaoih lbs i •ossa old soci of wh lOa rh i ha Si is Mill ** msiciMag <x TsaaUaa foe lb* | isg v*v red 1strtbuuog » - * *11., oot lloMtai • tsvrtaa SS Iba 'SIlBf vt this is vascsly ohst U«ss j b4s msoas. sod oaisafis of m pnw Isimad by lha vary (ho pfroch Sod ptorUaa j y hvtWaOU tho reraa Tha are lossporehly laSaf j ISU> tha Waat. sMood oos ipoiga m*«UOg«. •rreich thin sod yah will lod lha ml Vipsoltty Awmo, lo tha il of Juha Brows uy (or vtisiisa VO oil thus oriol s has . • this aad ct a, aevaaso amkiag it si achlovsi doaa wall 1*0 may si tract u> ths Rapuhi I UMoy a hi la nwa aha hsva reit | liagarad is lb* I ha** rat cot at.. ^ : cwroaoura caoaa lhay coaid OoS roasaat U» slfiUlo J ^ with o party or avgaauaGoa which oaa I compoasd lor golf of oogreos. Tho sppoiotoaat of Mr. l agora will I surely crusts s ataaausa sotsag South• I are tupubiwaas. aad saaariaily tha ** ,r * ft44v * I Mapuhiwua treasaa ia his oua Mala. " I Mr lathrop. tha press at district ah * eta ^ ao 11. • ... .. , m ' f A Sensible View of the Condition of Things in the South. The following article was recently contributed to Tkt Independent by Col. James L. On, of Greenvllls, and the editor introduces ^s article by say ing that 44 Mr. OnTs president of one of tl*« largest cotton manufaclur. ing plants la the world, sad wall known Ik roughest tbs South aa oas of tbs beat authorities ou negro labor.” This conlribation of Col. On will bo recognised so the common sense view of Mouths roars generally, but which terns lo slflfcl fiWTfl i new so I origins. I raolot aay deflailolj, perhaps, hy ths sagro will saver make a ear- Msful operative la ths eattaa udRs, (• a | haw aaan moat sice Ilea l in that period more than 20 i now ••PI was van. Isasd laasoao tha Vamsa af t .li by ths beatga aoiiueal sad asamssre Scrva the tdaatSty d lha latagriiy af Isaak this po.iey, n Is Chias la became th paadisg amrhsr for a oas a vary af. sfiasswa af ns I power to pro be empire sad ssUoa Coder o la aspari coastaatiy as- prod acta rep. Itmaoy, a re pa table I raptoola preaaratrag sStoa aay pasatsd l-y l*reai list Mcktoloy ths lasammaodasiaa af R. A. w< cat lector at tateteai revvaas a ar •P- pa.lUa Rapa i aas ia««) md saits- rsak i lake stroysd oar social ami si which for io Jest rial eye- rs rear had co* oporattrn ia aslloasl sadortakiBgv si* ■Bust impomiMs. such msa as I meat hare tooighl are making tbees dreams actual living realities. Talk about tho ‘‘New South,' lha Is a n>isoomer« It is tbs same old apint revived which sixty years sg maAc the South it.* doasuianlj In this nation notlung but war could bar. Whafi'ws need n tain that proud eminence broad conception and the same com- S iheqsiva grasp of the true situation. a last twenty years have wrought an industrial revolution in the South, which must find expreeaion in our so cial aod political life. The time ia past for the discuseion aa to whether this government is to be one coneolidated in its structure or a looee aggregation of (so-called) hover eign States. Tbs civil war settled that. It is useless to discuss (he ques tion of whether this is to be a purely theoretical Democratic government or an expanding and giant Republic. The Spanish war settled that. Why not then accept conditions as they are and make the most of them? The agitation of such, issues only serves to eidetrack broad American doctrines and should not be made party questions because they grow out of actual political and economic condi tions, which it is beyond the power of either party to change. I care not of what political faith the occupant of the White House might have been; for, if a true American, mindful of the honor and dignity of the nation, the results of the Spanish war could not be widely different from what they are today „ Why should our people be the only ones to clese their ages to what is going on? Why should we move along iu the same old ruts and insist that political policies and old traditions long since dead, are vital living issues, and depend upon them for the salva' tion of the South. The triumpbantjre-election of Mr McKinley in the last campaign is ful of eignificance. It is a stubborn fact corfronting the Democratic paity to- a l 1m .Mouth an barriers which joiaia thoH ■I read ao«i Aooibvr fully to opH it*m* of iml map of laMll that tber* cousin | that thaoa o| orr | aot taka into account iti mru urwm«> a iMi pcoa Of a ■up* ny li ry. Let with it '• h«re i purity of car of our civtlasatica. my miod U w •mo uador tho wrialiam.- It docotvva do gooca. Us uodvntands is do analogy botwrea thw ‘ tha Human Empire, aod to talk of imponalitm do as grodoally L*r loiavtov l votupod hy a astwovh of reltreads all af her cutrs «pvo*d up ta foresgu rommofvo, the opaoriaauioaaru tslasoM withnat limit. Th* rvuuth aaw coa ts m jet of tli.s ihio< tr i dswlopmesi ! shuold taervua 44 W* are ao I (oral section, j fact snag sad •pruag Into pr 1 goversaMOtai p 1flop them I pontes a ta its Ti rasa to aad sear with sac (oia re toatoM loagvr a at miair kindred i>min*oc at power which day, suggestive of reproachful remem brances aod fearful menaces. What a reflection that thit new Democracy did not cayry a State where the issues were discussed and judgment paaeet by the people upon them on their merits. Of coarse with as it has been impheaible to decide elections upon issues. It has been simply a question of whits supremacy. In tha North sod tha West, dlmalvad into factious l Km tKro m—fW H^llh I—llBi Ly - fcXJW ^resa#aw on m sad tha foBlaa of Populiam, iha party th* lids of pops by on reason shte of lha coadaet of n tho heart*of our people strong any aver built of atoo*. As long as this Is there they can never be come sin vee; and when it ia dead it matters not whether under republic or empire, they become an easy pray. It depends upon the people, not the i overnment, whether they be slaves or freemen. It is the people that make the government, ndl the government the people. With a brave, strong, in telligent people, with a free press and jopular education, there can be no mponalism. Why should wh be afraid to trust ourselves? The whole ten- deucy of. the times and the spirit of the age is toward Democratic instead of imperialistic ideas of governmeut. The throne of tho “Great White Czar” trembles today at the roar of the De mocratic Lion, and the echoes resound even from the far off Orient. """ ‘ Our people understand that it is not actual territory or dominion over peo- >le that we seek, but the expansion of American thought, ideas of govern ment, commerce and civilization. Political leaders might well learn that the law of progress will sweep away as chaff those who would place barriers against this mighty tide which is des tined to spread the Democratic idea of government to the uttermost bounds of the earth. My definition ol Democ racy is liberty for man, formulated into a theory of government^. It means man’s inalienable'ownership of himself, it means free thought and free speech.■ In concluding his remarks, Senator McLaurirr said 44 The South must playau important part in our country’s future. For a third of a century she has been ham pered by a struggle for mere existence, forced to devote all her energy and statesmanship to the maintenance of white supremacy. Thank God, this is permanent and assured beyond -per- adventure of doubt. At last the has emerged from her forlorn and prostrate condition; freed from her enthrallment, she can put herself in loach with the heat thought of lha age, and again ex- eroise an influence in national life. 1 believe the time will come when the South will be lha hope and salvation of this nation. Her marraloua growth in mnnnfactunng entarnriaas. bar de- Telupment of natural rapid advance in mi ire.| agrtcu. , and aaaao itareata have aad ilroiaail Mtctee ta protect sal A slate* manshift so horerter as la adhere to old political dor in dm, either Bottled hy lb* artMlreaMOl of tho suord of firmly fis<d aa govarumeotal pulKios, caa out solve tha pohUcal aad Dwufciamaapw cuulrooting lh« J v Wucti isTatnlHi not p&perly interpret present mtc movements, our provide by aloe and progressive thought for the radically changed conditions now con fronting us.” Suoth-j pan •cono BLACK 18 TO BE MADE WHITE Capers n Missionary to South Carolina-He in Backed by Me Latuin. gaaiaamm Mr. Wah- . • csfpas-hngg* v, has bean I tha Rapobiwaa dirtotsv m nouth Cram 11me lor a numtiar of rears. Hsa pna cspal Uoutoaoaio aad scoots are net tits kind af man that representative* if the old reapactahfo famUtea would I care vn us ta. la fart w la allogod that I many tf the negro points mas af tha tttota era prepared la repmiiais Mr Wsheiet '• issdarehip if ssamhoe* of tho tld faaulMo oul cam# lo tho treat. Aa active psdmnaa from Saath'dare- Itaa, while in Wasluagtoa a shaft time ago, oas Inlarvlawad marsraing th* proposed afgsataaUoo of a whits maa’s Hopuhiioaa party In tha Awth. Ha remarked with tha peculiar dialect ef tha Mowth GsroMoa sagro. 44 I hops it is trsa that auom of tha g«iiti«mes ef tha fitata will corns forward sad load Wa are tired of carpet-bogsqre »• wuqt lulcratc poor obile Usal The offkial snoooocosMBt of Mr. Capers at this time occasioned general surpnaa among South Csroiinians, owing to the fact that District Attorney Lalhrop’a term of ofllc* doss not expire until the Uttar part of next July. At the department of justice and the House there is not a liae fir a suggestion to indicate that Mr. Laibrop U inefficient or that any charges have been brought against him. The inquiry at the White House, however, brought out the fact, noted rare, aa4 brtrkieyore, MarlemHha * amimg tha aeea, hum I during eiovery aad after , but la erdaf I ia got nark sal af the aegro it a areas I eary far them ta ha on las alert, aasag I eamethtag which requirea action, for I if that ar* alluwad in ha qsdal lhay j wtU gn Id akop actaaUf «C metaphors- •.. y |a a vary law manoiss after they are allowed te stop, howoa they hare never hoea werhed ta aay afivaatng* la lha aottea anils It la sot a lark af aaparay, sar is R lastaaaa ; R la the (acuity af raacoatfaliag thslr at tea tlea while quiet that lhay da aat Before vsaaocspasioo I kaow of smoil yors aOils being res enurely by oogreos an tha yiaattlinaa Ths ea- ponm*oi was triad mace sf lam aas- ssaaaaRy sasr Cotamhla. 8. C., aa a large scale, aad staco smaaetpauua a § 'pd mssy af them hav* hsaa seed In tha faaSsi me ia ths fiosth far dosag tha has ns r aad oaahulad work, la aaam places tha amchtstery, lacladisg tha psrkare, has hats ran eaUrefy by sa- groos, hat wherever R has boon triad (adore has quickly fuikxwtd. A rot too mill m Caaeoid, If. (L« oaa la Cafam* hta. AC., aia one* that f recall la roc a sci mo with tho Vesta Mill in I Charisatioa. This saterprie* has been ahandoaed la tha cRy aMottuasd aad Moved lo tiainaaTllla. Go., wuh the | detarminatloa to dlprotiiiaoa eagre labor In tha mill, aa It la a fail are reased percent. We are now cultivating all the^land in cotton that the South haa labor for, and altho we have suffleient area to produce one hundred million balea of cotton, we cannot do it until we get more labor that is willing to work banl and live very economically. You can see, therefore, why it is not to the interest of the South, or any other people depending on the Sooth’s cotton, for ihe negro to be taken from the cotton fields and put into the mills. ! Another reason why I do not think the negro should be put in the mills it that this industry furnishes almost the only refuge for the laboring white peo ple of the South from the strong com petition of cheap negro labor ; on the farms, in the cotton gins and oil mills the negro fills practically every place except the boat’s. The poor white mao in the South with a| family dependent on him finds it very hard to jay rent on land and buy suigdiet on credit and compete with the negro in raising cot ton. That was one of the greatest hardships during slavery, for the white man either owned or controlled negro slaves, or came in direct competition with them in labor. Ooe can readily understand, therefore, that this class of people have found great relief by going into Um cotton milla, where they not only receive belter wages than lhay could make on the farms, but am cure better school and church facili ties, and art freed from the haiafai petit too. There le a very strong antipathy between this clam and the pv, wfcfc* iv oat oral, aod tho h j ho only a prejwdiee it la qwrrahfa. A moo assy ha te ha forced to work hia family in tha aloogasde nf the negro , but noth- lag hot dire necessity makes him do R; and ho would reseat moat Mtfarly aay tatresioa of the negro Iu the eoUoumiU work, which •wu. It ■ all right *lMte Iu the mines, at masonrv all kinds of hard •sr~w t la mix reraa, hot M ia wrong la * ta aasarsatma wuh white children. State can stand. Ha mid that mm, people objected to the Stntn'e drawtag an income from the basin em; to the SRUe’s going into the buRiMM. Hn replied to this by saying the State was already in the business whan the law wm passed, and was it not better for tha State to rot tha unacnqmloua bar keeper out of the way: giro lha people pure liquor, and gat all tha moony tha basineoa yielded when properly and economically managed? The Senator referred, in peasing, to the herd time the State constabulary had in Charleston when the lew want into forte, end rather felt that fTiariM ton wanted to be e sort of Mate by itself. • ■ y, Various questions were asked the speaker. One that caused grietert laughter in the reply it got wee: “Do you think the dispensary lew could be worked hare in New York ?”\ “No: n Mr. Tillman replied, 44 1 do not thiak you have civic virtna and spirit enough to adopt the law In New York.” In the course of hia Tillman said: 44 Wa hero Carolina about 180 do not know that I quite giro the: Dei) and they supply ths whole f Hera in Buffalo you have e cRy 350,000, with about 2,000 saioom The coo treat wee tailing, Indeed; I Buffalo has oaa saloon to every Ifif person# la the dty. Mr. — a could ill afford to mahe In V voted apoo Ihe Washington correspondent of 1 in the official bulletin, that Mr. Capers's the News and CiHiiier says that advo- appointment does not take effect until cates of a white man’s Republican Uie expiration of Mr. Lalhrop’a term party iu the South have received a The records of the White House crumb of encouragement from the show that Mr. Capers’ commission President. Among the Federal ap- reads as follows: “John G. Capers, pointmeuts formally promulgated at of South Carolina, to be altoruey of the White Honse ia the name of John the United Slate* for the district of G. Capers, of South Carolina, to be at-' South Carolina, commencing July 24, torney of the United States for the dis- 1901.” trict of South Carolina. There will undoubtedly be consider Under ordinary circumstances but able opposition to the confirmation of little or no significance would be at- Mr. Capers’s appointment. It is tached to an appointment of this kind, well known fact that the Republican However there is said to be a new organization in South Carolina is political principle underlying the Presi- united in urging the appointment of dent’s action. Since the election of Mr. Lathrop. Not only has he satisfied McKinley for a second term there have | the members of his own party, but it Thu will teat negro ability (unity te favorable ciicunsaUnce. A plant wutlh 1600,000 was bought fur 1100,000, lo in Charlootoo, whore they ha I lumbar of the mqat iulcllig.-nt in th^South, with plenty of capital behind it, as competent a selling agent ss thaie is in New York hand ling their goods and the beet manufac turer in the South' in charge of the actual operation, still after a vaar’a patient labor it baa proved a failure— not because the negro could not do the work properly, but simply because he would not work regularly. The ne- gioea had no ambition, were satisfied to make half wages, if they were al lowed to only half workywera not will ing to come regularly, but missed from two to three days out of every week, went off to every burial, excursion, picnic, and never could be aroused to take any interest in the work, The relative value of tha, mixed been frequent statements emanating I is said that the legal profession through- from Cabinet officers and other mem- out the State, without regatd to party,, here of the Administration to the effect has endorsed him for reappointment, that it was the intention of the Presi- In addition, it is said that Senator dent to assist as far as he was able in Tillman would rather see Mr. Lathi op the rehabilitation of the Republican appointed than any one whom Senator party in the South. As at present McLaurin might name. It is, there- constituted the Republican organixation fore probable that when the nomina- in the South is composed largely of tion of Mr. Caperj comes before the negroes and carpet-baggers, and except Senate for confirmation there maybe when a-national convention is at hand a battle royal between the rival Sena- Kut Uals..interest or pride it taken in I tors from South Carolina. Senator the Southern contingent by the Re- j^HcLkUrtn is said to be prepared to publican bosses at the North. k ‘ - [stand by his present convictions in During tho campaigns of 189G‘and any emergency, and having cast his 1900 a number of prominent Gold loLin favor of Mr. Capers and a new Democrats in the South refused to dispensation in South Carolina politics, support Mr. Bryan and giadoally he proposes to fight to the bitter end drifted away from the old line Demo- to sustain the position he assumed in critic moorings. Added to this ele- the Senate last winter, when he dia ment is a younger generation, with regarded the caucus dicUtion of the new ideas aod new ambitions in Democratic party and supported the politic*, who have, to a certain extent, Republican Administration on all of acted, or boeoa* Indirectly associated, I the great issues of the day. with the Republican Administration. A further evidence that the Presi Mr. Capon rUim« to be a represent*- dent Is fairly ouJer way in his crusade tiro of the latter eleas ol Root hern Do-1 in bchali of e white Republican party found in Chaffee, poet- • RMATOR TILLMAN KM BUFFALO- Mte Talk ea Meard WRh My pastel m te* Xvo* as4 OonM Bt r?4U>, X. Y , April roaUt Donates Boo TUI Garaaae. dalirorod aa dwpoaaarj law of Dm Mato Inoapeudaot dub of B ooeetoou •** sue ef the cteb has IU Ra prsasamivM from the auluvated baa* sees end profaaatooai ciaaeae ef the aRy. Tha great fits lag ream, ta ffllirosl aquae*, was filled with haadasoMij drerosd gusato With tr lablse aad ogare la fasuv* ssokpsay wars ready lor Mr. TUlteaa. Mr. TUltoaa ga** akasrh of lha tow. Ha ad natron af poIRke Iu the qoosuoo af Unaor ar no bquar had i by the peopis, wtth e mg M favor ef He weal ou te au 1 agtstMare of tho Stale set it Me for tha law-maker* le ieews. HooMthlag must be was not pcaat jpKMre th* lot th* laws of Steles liks Kantat, and carefully looked the matter of prohibition. After giv ing tha •abject touch careful tbougiU, be was thoroughly convinced that pro hibition would not work in South Caro lina—tha people ware not randy for It With tha drapedury law in Bwcdea before him be skaichod a bare akalatoo of tha dispensary law, which proved to be the thing that struck the Legisla ture with favor. It was. indeed, in- terasling to hear Mr. Tillman aat this law forth as a thing of bis own crea- {Th* great Majority are lion while Governor of tha State, as ~ " we commonly associate tha execution of the laws with the Governor, rather than their making. Still this was not done aa an autocrat might hav* don* it. Mr. Tillman bad nothing hot good words for the law. Its resalts are fully justifying its passajge. Drunken ness has been reduced in South Caro lina from 40 to 50 per cent. The open saloon it not to be seen. The State controls its liquor stores, pays men salaries for taking care of them, thos removing the temptation of such men to defrbud the State. Tho business is put upon an entirely new basis, in blood has given me a great deal of thought, and I have observed it fqr years. As a general rule, I would say that the mulatto is more intelligent and less reliable, and the black negro less intelligent and more trustworthy. The best class of negroes, however, that I have ever seen for reliableness and in- telligence combined are the copper col- Sputh Carolina. Treating and night ored negroes. ' * drinking have about disappeared, I am changing my mind very much the dispensary stores are not the scene as to the value of educating the negro, of drinking, closing at snnset. ttariing out with the belief that an He did not regard the law as remov- educated man or woman is far superior ing all other drinking places irom the to one with*equal capacity uneducated; State. There are a good many secret I have about concluded, so far as the places where liquor is sold in South negro is concerned that a lady ex-1 Carolina pressed the true philosophy in speak- Mr. Tillman went on to say that he ing of educating the negro when she attributed much of the succees of the said that every one of them that you dispensary law to the fact that Sooth educate beyond the point of being able Ciirolina has its population mainly in to read their Biblee and to write their rural sections rather than in' large accounts you utterly-- unfit for their I cities. It is the great city that is hard mission in this world,-and change a I to handle in the liquor business, satisfied and helpful citizen into a It was claimed that prohibition would worthless and frequently criminal eo- have failed in South Carolina juat an cumbrance. ' in. some olher parts of the country. The most serious want that the South Men will have liqnor, he stated, and if will feel in the next ten or fifteen years, they cannot get it lawfully they will if cotton maiiafsctnring increases the | get it some other wffy world over as U Is doing at the present time, will be liends to pultlvale the crops. In the lest ten ysat* thFcot- too crop has increased probably 50 per , cent, and we are making now an aver- the ap- iage of about ten million balea par y< There an aboat 1^000 flowiag in South Dakota, about forty of « furnish over 1,000 end ooe eight inches la ow lees in distorter. Of ships hero over thirty, ones outside of towns ere fast irrigation end have produced lesults. Physicians romai' that sickness has greatly wherever Artesian waters have into naa. Th* waters contain difcnts valuable for enriching lha eofl. Phenomenal crops have r ly obtained by their i £C tbs (act lung as seek ta t* Mr. Tillman claims that eo men have appetites they will gratify them. 44 Men era not If the dispensary lew holds on in Carolina a new generntioo practically just fre* from a vitiated appetite may make I oaa Not content with providing its own gas/electricity, water and street car service, the city of Glasgow proposes to dispense its own liquor, and tha municipal saloon is talked about A committee appointed to coortdar the question has reported in favor of an experiment and Parliament to to be asked for the necessary power. — te i ran The total agricultural exports for the eight mouths of the fiscal year' ended March 1, 1901 were 1550,000 against 1466,000,000 for the corresponding mouths of 1900. This in cranes to found in cattle, hogs, provtoioas, bat most largely in cotton, the exports of which were $73,000,000 greater than In 1900. ' - Although cooking by generally conceded to 1 method, it has not been adopted te any greet extent, chiefly bacanas tee appliances have been not beenase the entreat to compete with eoai, oil or gna George W. Boyer, ten fit tee in the I haa ged at I lust died te a baiter tow; but