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. '» f} i (MX • *v~ A . ^V=i£ / ' ^ '. , :---w* i * - - > (h ■Vi . ^ VOL. XXVII. RUSSIA’S SIDE. BARNWELL, S. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1904. NO 22 S Mr. Jm. R. Randall Talk* Intamt- ingly of EaaUrn Problem. V. ^ . ■ ■"■ t * ■ ■ ■■ - • ^ - - -- tFXAXS OF “YELLOW PERIL ’ Review* Hiatojrr and Point* Oat Fa- mona Leaaona of Paat. Difficult Problems Tbat Have As serted Themselves. Weclip from the Birmingham, Ala. capable of resisting the infidel 1 . By prayer and the Intervention of Provi dence, his purpose was defeated. Juat as this irresistible host was about to much, word came to Bajazet that Tamerlane had seized Damascus, hta easte rn capital, and instead of march ing or Rime the imlt&n moved east ward. wis defeat-id by Tamerlane, captured and, accirding-to some his torians, was placed like a wild beast in a cagi. The expe lltlon of Alexander halted Asiatic aggression. * “The crusades prevented other ori ental Incursions. But L cite theqe historic incidents vo show that it has been hard to keep the Asiatics out of Age-Herald a very interesting review - Europe. I sympathize with Russia _L~ on the Eastern situatko with Mr. Jaa. R. Randall, the distinguished poet and writer, of Augusta, Ga., Mr. Randall has been visiting friends in Birmingham and while there he was sought out by newspaper men In troducing Mr. Randall as a prominent newspaper man and author of the south, that gentleman is quoted as follows; ' / ' <•— “With all due respect to tho»* dif fering with me, 1 sympathize with Russia. The point has been made tbat Russia is an aggressive nation— what is called a robber nation—bq^so are Japan, England, France, Germany and the United States* Since the Re publican regime at Washingtor, this republic has joined the band of rob bers. We are getting to be a world power’—an imperialism, in direct con flict wltb the advice of Washington, after forcing wan.on the South, as Thad Stevens confessed, ‘outsi:le the constitution.’ “But for our furnishing England remounts of horses and mules, through ft British camp, on the plans of Tlhal- mette and the greater British camp in John Hay’s state departmer t, the South African republics would nroba- bly have maintained their indepen dence. You know what has happened In the Philippines. Japan is «U ‘nnp t - ^ 0 ~ u ' : ing to rob Corea of her indeper dehce Jost as Russia is robbing China in Manchuria. So honors or dishonors are easy on that score. ^ . s~\ - ~ RUSSIA'S EXPANSION. “Russia’s logical expansion w;is and is toward the Black Sea towan Con stantinople. But for the int rven- tioo of England she would have i riven the Turk back to bis Asiatic lair and placed the cross on the spire (f St. Sophia, once a Christian churc i and now, and for ages, a Mobamneden mosque. So the unspeakable Turk remains in Europe because Russia was thwarted by so-called Christian nations who are jealous of her, remem bering the famous proverb of Napole on that the great, power, Christian power, dominating Constantinople would rule the world. ‘It was not because i*eter the Great Catherine 11. pointed the road to that' the Russians gravi tate to the Black Sea, but, beaause their commerce is frozen up for half the year in the Baltic and a nation -naturally- nesires a ^seaport never closed to nuvgatlonA Besides, .when a northern people become redundant hi population, they are moved almost mysteriously, or by some t ubtle istu ral law, to find their bone, or (rave In the tropic, jusw as the Mlsshslppi and Catherl! Byzantium Cornell Ikmneeu. That was a terrible death poor lit tle 3-year-ok! Cornel! Bonneau, son of Proprietor Bonneau of the Caldwell hotel, met Tuesday afternoon while laughing and playing in the joyous ness and innocence of childhood with ■iris- ‘fl-Tear^dtfl ■ hntbifr Campbell. They we&e lp their playroom on the third door of the hotel on the Taylor street side bTthe building. While the ^ , ... I two w-we playing at rolling over some rtter born In a frozen regim males its ^ maMrea8el Cornell fell against the way to the warm Mexicai gulf-the ^h. Several panes of_glas8 gave away - teoplc. Frustrated at tfce south and (iad the ltttle !eJk) , f feH tbree diverted ifrom a kind of manifesiiAes-4 ^ cnle ]]y unyielding flagstones on —Worai&Mdiraction, Russia, taking j ^ below. Of course the the only alternative, bulli, ^he trans- i..biid [robably never suffered any pain after tbat sickening thud with which in this contest not because I admire her policy or despotism, but because 1 believe Uiat she is an instrument in the hands of God to prevent the tre mendous expansion of the yellow peril, which would be a fearful menace if Japan had her way in China. The Russian czar has attempted to reform bis people. He freed the serfs, be offered to arbitrate national disputes peacefully, he proposed large disarm aments of bloated standing armies. DimCULT PROBLEM. “He has a difficult problem to solve and must proceed slowly. It is cer tain tbatnGeorge Kennon and English writers gating Russia, have misjudged or lied about her. She has been ma ll gnedin literature just as the borth- ern writers-caluminated the south, in oui' own country, and educated a gen eration to bate this section and when an opportunity occurred to invade and draolate it. We prate of'Russian bar barism. but if a greater and more brutal barbarism than the ‘recon struction' of the South was ever per petrated, I am not Aware of it, and if any much more infernal treatment exists than tbat we did in the Philip pines It is not recorded. ‘Nothing,’ the Bible tells us, ‘Is more wicked than the heart of man,’ and oqly the Pharisee proclaims 'I am holier than I believe also that China is to be exploited and her ancient wall of prejudice and torpor broken down, it is tetter that this should be done by a Christian nation, than by Pagan atheistic Orientals like the Japanese, so tbat the other prophecy may be fulfllkd of the sons of Japhet dwell ing in the tents of Shem. A “However, I have said more than I intended. At any rate, I have at tempted to show that there is a Rus sian side worthy of attention and that sympathy for Japan is more sen- tlmental than well founded. Such at least are my individual opinions, and I give them to you for what they are worth.” j —» FELL aHRIX STORIES. K The Awful Fate of Three-Ycar-Old AGAINST CAPERS Ellery M. Bray ton R pudiate* Leadership of the Republicans Hie SAYS HR DEFER DID A CLUXT And Took Part In the Lynohln*; of _______\ V - *. , ■ Three Negroee In Lexington 4% * A'A . County Abotrt— Twelve— Years Ago. . The following article is clipped from the Southern Reporter, a Republican paper published in Charleston. It is spicy reading, and makes several ex planations from Mr. Capers in order: Editor of Southern Reporter: After witnessing the strange pro ceedings of the State executive com mittee on. Jah. Ikthi i became con vinced that a crisis had teen reached in party affairs. The, submission 6f the committee to the 'domination of National Cemmitteeman John G. Ca pers seemed almost abject. Without being a member or Jiolding a proxy he participated in its proceedings, spoke several times, and dictated its action. in which he said thafthe reason why TILLMAN HITS BACK. re was anxious for the State conven tion to be held in February was that the United States courts were .in session in March and April and he wanted it fixed so that ids official force and that of the marshal could' attend tiie county and district con- PRAISES GOVERNOR HEYWARD ventlons. That seemed the most un blushing defiance and disregard of tiie civil service law I ever heard. It is also an index of tiie man and of the he means to pursue. And for tiie btenumbing effect produced by the unexpected and unnatural' recon ciliation between Mr. Capers .add State Clialrman Deaa But that this should have so demoralized and dazed ■the committeemen that not one of them should have opposed and resent ed the dictation of Mr. Capers or pro tested agafnst the forcing through of such an unprecedented date for .the State convention as Feb. 24th., (three Tndnths earl ler lhan eveFbefore) when it was known that many of-them had expressed themselves a$ hostile to his plans and purposes and intended to antagonize them, was a humiliating revelation. It was clear the object of the schemers was to take advantage of the apathy and forestall the party be ing aroused so that conventions in some cases well-nigh clandestine could be held. And. some have already been call of the State chairman I have hoped that some one would sound the alarm and give expression to reason for the fear, dread and dis gust which prevails among the Re publicans of the State, and state fhe grounds which-preclude the party from giving its confidence, respect and allegiance to the leadership of the national committeeman. Some of these grounds’have not teen‘men tioned in the oppdsitioq so strongly urged in your paper. .-Filing that it is right and necessary that this should be done, and teiieving-U]iat s an oppor tunity should be afforded Mr. Capers before the meeting of the State ciin- vent ion to deny or explain t he chart, es, I ask the use of your columns for tills statement. - y - 1 am informed and believe from Siberian railway and favored by events in China, sought an open port in the Orient. This alarmed Japan and having teen tunrned from peace ful Paganism to warlike athilsm, with a veneer of European industrial lam or ‘civilization,’ she sought to be come a world power and exploit Corea. THE YELLOW PERIL. “ “Her secret design, confessed by aonie uf iier writers is to dominate Asia, by concerting China into a pug nacious nation like herself. This is the real ‘yellow peril.’ N apoleon also ■aid, ‘What folly in the European na tions to awaken the CWiiflae^ Jtiant from Rls slumber and make him a menace to the west. If that yellow — ftaat, With 400,000,000 of inhabitants should become a gigantic: Japan, it would be a terrible thing for the world. . “Earl Wolseley, the great English •oldler, recently said that properly led and disciplined, the Chinese nade the best soldiers in the world and that, If they became thus manipulat ed, a martial nation, they would im peril the whole western region and like Innumerable ants, overwhelm and devastate the whole ot Europe. Some E mple, less expert than Earl Wolse- y, pooh pooh this, but they form mefital processes from vast misinfor mation. Before countless little ants in Africa every living thing, wild beasts or man Bee or are devoured, if millions of warlike Asiatic:* de- icehd Upon Europe what a peril tbat would be? I - FROM REMOTa TIMES. . "From remote times the Aiiatios have threatened Europe. They re peatedly invaded Grefbe. They over l.the Roman empire of th< Vest ired Conn tan tlnople, and still rklsb empire by the Jeal- natlons. They over went to the (Mart i beaten back by i plaint of Obal- have cultured Hi.* of 'entered trefor his tender frame met tbe pavement, but it mutt have teen a horrible tran sition from mirth to terror, merciful ly swift though It was, as the little Jellow was passing i rom that la*t lolly Himmciaault ove- the mattress though tie air to death below. Wita s grip tlgiitened by the ter rors of death before his eyes, the lit tle fellow carried two pillows Id own with him, and to this is due the fact that he was not instantly kill. These shielded his body against the stones, but bis head struck over tbemHtp^ parentlyr and his skull was so badly fractured that be died a short time after reaching the hospital. Mr. Richards Manning of the Sou th em Express company’s officers nearby saw the fall and picked tbe child up and carried him to bis mothef and the other members of the family. After a brief consultation It was decided to carry the patient to the Columbia hospital, but be died before medical aid could be administered, never hav ing regained consciousness.,,. The body-will be taken to the fam ily’s former home at Allendale Tues day for interment. -A short funeral service wilt be held from the hotel Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock, those who go to AUetidale leaving on the tfoon train. Columbia State. -r V was present and implicated in the lyhch^ig of three colored men in Lex- ingtop county, ;k CL, abaut J2 years ago. That is a vital and disqualify ng accusation, jf true, against anyone seeking to control the action of t he Republican party , is manifest. No argument or appeal can be needed to cause tiie Republicans to apurm on( Repudiate the leadership of one taint ed with tWe-crlme. Others may con done and even approve this fasfc- threatenig evil, but no one would 'le Iteve that the race which is the vic tim of th s barbarity would entrust its political interests in the keep! ig of a lyncher. And at this particu ar juncture when Gov. Heyward is ;.p- pealing to tiie leg'slature to take steps Cifprevent bids demoralizing and ^de- Ths fenator Defends Hiihsclf from Newspaper Criticism. V ~ - I. C'lelms Tint What Maid on the Hotnlulde 8(ahjeet methods yW he will be found posing as the original Roosevelt champion in the State, regardless of tiie president’s record as a civil service reformer, and of the fact that he owes his .ofljee to Senator Hanna, by whom he was made national committeeman and for whom he would Jump the fence at the ilrst chance of success. Do not be troubled by the pretenses and false claims of this Imposter. He is a smooth article, but his course is al most run. When the administration sees Mr. Capers in close fellowship with Chairman Deas. whom he has been denouncing, and with whom he said his self respect would not allow him to confer as a member of the sub-, committee appointed to agree upon a candidate for collector of customs (neither one of them having retracted Of course allowance should te made Uhe vile things said of each other) and Wes the Correct View take note of the changes and com plaints against him, he will find him self discarded. He cannot stand an nvestigation and will not seek vindica tion. I had little personal acquaintance with Mr. Capers upon his introduc tion to Republican' politics. Since leaving the State I do not remember seeing him here except during the Democratic primary, when lie was those the political manager for Gen. M. C. Butler for United States senator. My first insight into the ingrained duplicity of Mr. Capers was at the congressional district convention held at Orangeburg last summer, when, to my astonishment he proclaimed him self in a set speech as the champion of the negro, and boasted how, at the conference with the sub-executive committee he voted on every ballot held in advance of the issuance of the for Dr. Crum for collector of customs, and taunted Chairman Deas with having deserted his race and prevent ed Dr. Crum’s selection—for nqtlO days before I heard him declare that under no circumstances would' he sup port a negro for that office. I cannot believe that after the brave fight Chairman Deas has made against National Committeeman Capers that he will yield to his im portunities and subject himself to the suspicions and contempt it would Inevitably cause, for no one knows so weir his selfish, corrupt and sinister purposes and how blighting ori even destructive to the best interests of the Republican party wiU be his con tinued ascendency. If only the men that Mr. Capers has played with deceived and betray ed will Assert their self respect and creditabLeJtestunpny thatr^.lirsdGapi»jTesent, .1t_will hilly offset in influence and numbers the office holders who wears his collar and who must work for him -however they distrust him. and the}’ can so rally the rank and file of the party that neither money, prom Ise of office nor threat, or all com bined, can saverhim. Ellery M. Bray ton. following lettir from News of last Wednes- to Take We clip the the Greenville day: Not long Mnca I met a correspond ent in the corridors of the capitol who sends Washington news to sev eral South > Carolina papers, and I hurriedly made some criticism upon the injury to South Carolina result ing from erroneous and false state ments sent ouLby South Carolina correspondents and editors in their papers about crimes in our State. 1 did not take the trouble to elaborate or do more JEthao call attention to the fact, and the resulting damage to the State’s good name. Strange to say, the worst criminals have not received or copied the Interview, and none that I have seen have denied tbe charge or attempted to reply, except the two Greenville papers. I. have just read the editorial, “Senator Tillman’s,. Solicitude,” in the Mountaineer of the 13lh, and an editorial of similar import from The Greenville News, copied in The State. Tbe animus of both the Mountain eer and The Greenville News is of long standing and easily understood "wfio are posted on South Carolina politics, but that Is not a matter of moment. I beg to make a few comments on these two edl- basing crane, and -President Robse- velt’s magnificent letter to the gover nor of Indiana calling the attention of the* country to its dire oonae- quences is having its effect, it seeins incredible that tiie administration should twice have been imposed upon, and the Republicans of th»s State^Ht their already wretched cbuiiiUiML-af-.Lto' secure the negro fiieted with such an Incubus. I re call that Editof N. G. Gonzales was hung in effigy in this city for condemn ing lynching/* Instead of.suffering retributive justice Mr. Capers holds the office Of prosecuting United States attorney, and aspires to te the boss of the Republican party, if he has not already achieved that distinction I am also informed and believe that Mr. Capers was indicted in the federal Death of- a Hector^ T&&V; Churchill Satterlee, rector, pf Trinity Episcopal church ofColrithbia, died suddenly Tuesday nigbtjpf heart disease at Summerville, near Augusta, Ga., where be bad gone for his health. He was 3& years old and very highly esteemed—son of Bishop Satterlee of Washington, D. C. . > Prepart** for Battle. The report that 3,000 Russian troops had arrived at Chin Tien Cheng, Oppoelte Wiju, on the Yalu river, is , m is the report that the have occupied Wiju itself. Tfeey have *,000 troope at Wlju and the first collision is expected to occur In that vicinity. court of tills State for defrauding a client in a pension case. When it is recalled that at that time both Mr. Capers and tiie district attorney 'were Democrats arid' that Influences the most potential were unavailing to prevent this prosecution, it will te understood that the proof must have been incontrovertrible. I am also informed tjhat to escape a trial re newed efforts were interposed; and only.upon the assjirahdd 1 that Mr. (A- j?ere would leaw the. Statef thus ex it ing Mmspfi as he did do, was case nol pressed. And now we are lid that Mr. .Capershas the effrontery ppointment of Upon the first . to aspire United vacancy occuring. If this change is answered I ask that a synopsis of the evidence sup porting the indictment be given, for am informed that it is not only Con vincing, but convicting. I could say much •$ to the manner in wniefi Mr. Gapers is believed to have trafficked with the federal offices in this State, his utter failure to da Ssred.by Soldiers. At Columbus, Ga., on Wednesday afternoon he local military was called out to-pre v ent the lynching of Willie Hudson, a negro who plea< ed guilty to attempted criminal assault upon Emma Burton, a, 12-yeaf r otd ! 1ri, a wee i ago, the plea be ng enter ed at a sp*5Cial term of the superior court today.- Hudson \tas given the imit of the law—twenty yei rs in the penitentiary. As tiie negro was be- ng taken back to the jail M; rtin Bur ton, the-father of the yOung lady, made a desperate attempt to get to the prisoner, but was overpowered by the officers. Tiie trial had caused great excitement and fearing efforts would te made by friends of Burton oT , iTcbmpahy State troops was ordered out. # A 8*d Story. H. Troutman, casbter of C. H. Troutman, casbter of tbe Merchants and Farmers bank of MilledgeviUe, Ga., shot himself twice Wednesday night. In a letter to Pres ident J. T. Allen of the bank be said be bad touched none of the bank’s funds, but had used 123,000 of tbe State funds. This money was in bis own possession as treasurer of the State sanitarium. He had engaged in cotton specblation, and while be bar gained a large amount he lost It ant more In tbe slump. He was a pas', grand chancellor of the Knights o: Phythlas. The bank has teen closed temporarily. Anti-Trestin* Bill. The anti-treat{ng bill has got through both* bouses, variously amended. In its shape the bill reads: ‘'It shall te un lawful hereafter for any person to sell barter or give away, or treat a voter to any malt or intoxicating liquor within one mile of any voting precinct daring any primary or other election under a penalty upon conviction there for of not more than 30 day’s prisonment with labor.’’ at last though present A*rtcm4 ference committee Col. p. O. Herbert’s bill scholarships at • Clemson ey Wer# Foolish. Llttte and Samual Hall. Hamers near Wbltesburf, Rome cndlKy., fought a dud on Sunday and bulb were killed. They used revolvers ’ ~ Hm. ■■■ n in wua ouuaj, ms utter i*uure w uu create floholanimps tt Clemson any thy thing to build up the party, college made Its report in favor of tbe and the methods by which expects to amendment, fisaHte these ooQventioqfhub thoes are soMU.rshlnS'aDDly to the about u i hi km. They fought a with whom control the matters that can wait for another op* portunity. But atftttitibn should be called to thg cigntflaanoe of, the brasea de- by him'inai .be* Stabs executive eoipmlttee, lp» apply alone, i accepted. This additional confined to the agricultural This bill will be of great torials for tbe benefit of your readers. You say: “This is a new role for the virile senator, as, he has teeu going about tbe country for several years advertising the lawlessness of which he approves, and from his ^at ia the Senate be has boasted of what he would do lu certain eireumstauees to wreak vengenancefupon criminals. ” Once for ali, let me say I have time and again announced my wlllingiess to head a lynching party to^tring up any man who would rape a woman. I did this first In the campaign when 1' was running for the Senate in 1894. I have never seen reason to change that opinion and I never expect to change It, and 1 feel tbat in making that declaration J voice the senti ment of nine-tenths of the white peo ple of South Carolina, and I doubt now whether the editor of either tb« : . Mountaineer cr Greenville News will over his own signature, dare take is sue with tbe sentiment. Agr,lq the Mountaineer lays:* “HirvLoleut and turbulent dls losition in and )ut of office ir by no means an exam ple to be oqir.mende.l at home or abrc*ad,- and his denur elation of the njwspv. pefs for exposing the criminal record of the State comes Vvith ill grace from a who baa never lifted a finger to stay 'the tide of crime and lawlessness w rich has grown at a fearful rate (luce be entered upon public ife ani became a controlling factor in the -political .life of the State.” ‘ ’ I call attention right here to tbe fact that in n y Interview I mention ed no names either of men or of )apers, slnglec out nobody for criti cism, and only denounced a se rseless slander of our State and fbs people by its own citizens. But, let me call sch©oi-|the attention of your readers to some acts. J In n y inaugural address as gover nor 1 trade thn strongest possit le plea tp the white people of the SU te for aw and order, and 1 exerted myself to tbe utmost as executive to jtrotoct ]arsons charged with crime from lynching, and as for the charge thati, the tide of crime andiawiessntss has grown, I desire to say that may te attributed much more justly to the educating influences of those capcnt which have counselled disobedience to the law, notably the dispensary law, —|~aud have encouraged in every way Its nullification. The grand juries In cer tain counties under these influences have systematically broken their oaths and purged themselves, and it is little short of infamous fdf those who are guilty of thus attempting to override the will of the majority to charge the, resulting demoralization to me. The Mountaineer says that I do not “In veigh against the criminals or censure their actions but am incensed at tbe facts being given to.the world.” This is just where the trouble lies. The facts have not teen given to the world. Every homide mentioned in the attorney general’s report necessitated a technical indictment for “murder,” but that was no warrant for the news papers to herald it to the world that 220 “murders’’ had teen committed in South Carolina in tbe last year. It was no warrant for the slander tbat the Juries tailed to do their duty in nearly every instance and that crimi nals were rarely punished- Grant that there is demoralization In the Stats, grant that we are ever ready as a peo-. pie, to ready to resent Insult, and to use the pistol. It has always teen so what good can come from distort ing tbe facts and setting every case ot a negro killing another negro in a drunke^brawl as a “murder” to be cbargerPagaiost our State’s civiliza tion? The Statements which have teen sent abroad to claim tbat all or half of the violent deaths mentioned by the attorney general are “mur ders.” . I may not ba privileged to act as Judge in regar&to what ooostltales murder,” yet almost the whole edi torial fraternity In South. Carolina have amumed the yight to declare what ooaalitatea “murder," and have to exerolsed the privilegMftiljWlft tbe editors saw it. Whether or not I have done more to “befoul tbe good name of South Carolina by my public utterances at home and abroad” than these slander ous editorials, I leave for the people [ to judge. I have spoken the tyuth as 11 have underntood li, both in the Sen- and before Nothern audiences, and I have nothing to regret or to take back. But I suggest that it is an evi dence of malice and of personal ha tred rather than of calm deliberate judgment and sense of public duty that made my indictment against the slanders ot South Carolina in regard to crime an excuse for villi flcatlon and abuse of me personally. 1 can stand it because 1 an used to It. Can the editors of the Mountaineer and The News justify themselves for befouling- South Carolina’s good name In the w»y they have? This much for the Mountaineer. Now for the Greenville News. That paper makes allusions to my Itoture tour In West last summer, and speaks thus: “When lie was spouting fire on that spectacular trip this newspaper declared tbat Senator Tillman was killing off all hope of bringing a desir ably class of immigrants to this State by his' alarming speeches.” I recall the fact that some garbled and dis torted reports were sent abroad while the debate with Senator Burton was going on last sqmmer, with a view to creating a sensation. I cannot discuss tbe Immigration question in an article like this, but In, presenting the view to the Nothern people that with 780,- 000 negroes and only 560,000 white people in our State tbat absolute equality before tbe law meant domi nation by tbe blacks, and tha , whites would resort to fighting tefore they would submit to it, I thought told the plain, unvarnished trutl, and I think so still. 1 am thoroughly well satisfied that a race war would result should Northern fanatics again en deavor to- force negro equality upon I think it did good to tell those peo ple this and let them understand the true situation. drives inoml- THE DISPENSARY. Tkt House Pass* MU With ths Local Opttsa HOW TEX 14 | I 4 if VOTED. - Any County Can Vot# Out Dis pensary it It Will Tus Itself to Bnforss the Law. T ie Brice local option bill, which passed tbe Senate last week came up n the House on Thursday, and pamed pretty much in the shape it came from the Senate- The boose refused all amemdments to tbe MU. Mr. Dor* rob’s amendment was tbe only one on which ataet vote was taken. r This amendment provided that- instead of tbe Oat tax of half a mill on the coun ty which yotee out tbe dispensary, the matter should be left to the gov ernor, and if, In his discretion, he should think tbe law was not being enforced by tbe people of tbat county be should order tbe half mill tax lev ied. This was rejected by a vote of 49 to 66, as follows: Ayes—Messrs. Baker, Banks, Bar ron, Bates, Beam guard, Bomar, Brpwn, Bunch, Capey, Coggeshall, Doar, Dorroh, Doyle, Ford, Hendrix, E. Herbert, ‘Hunter, Humphrey, James, Kibler, King, Kirby, Lanb&m, Lofton, Logan, McCain, MoGoll, Maul- diu, Middleton, Morgan, Parnell, Peurlfoy, Potts, ;Py»tt, Quick, Ready, Richardson, Sarmtt, Slnkler, Jeremiah Smith, Strong, Toole, Wade, Waller, t be Wingo, Wise, Wright, Youmans—49. Nays—Speaker Smith and Repre sentatives Aull, Ayoock, Bailey, Bees, Bennettr Black, Blackwood, Brocks, Calllson, Carwlle, Coloock, Oooper, Culler, Davis, DeBruhl, Dennis, Dea- Champs, DeVore, Donnald. Dowll ig, Edwards, Efird, Fox, Fraser, Gourdln, Haile, Harrellson, Haskell, Herbert, D. O.; Hill, Holman, Irby, Jarnegnn, Johnson, Kelley, Lancaster, Lan)?, Lesesne, Llde, Littlfi, Lylea, ■ —r-.-j . ‘.fsa * \e* : __ ^-^_ 1 -mmim grants away from our borders well and TIace, Magill, Mabaffey, Mims, Mosea, good, but certainly^the statement which has teen made in cold blood by South Carolina newspaper men that murder and lawlessness were ram }ant, that jurors were perjurers, life and property were unsafe, etc., were cal culated to deter home seekers much more than tbe threatened shadow of a race conflict, as 1 predicted and which may never corner 1 mentioned Immi gration in that Interview for the pur pose of showing the Inoonsistency and the idiocy of those who proclaim such condition of affairs In South Caro lina, and yet were urging the expen dlture of Dur taxes for the purpose of bringing mmlgrants to our State. The N- ws charges that I spoke thus because 1 was paid to do it while claiming that danders by it and others “ oloed t ie sentiments of the decent U * abiding people In protest ing ag&i st tbe disgrace of the com- moqwealrh and ll dld so that it "’as performing a public ser vice, aud. not because there was a re ward.” At first Hush it would appear that beanse I received money for my work and tbe newspapers did not, I am in the wrong. Ijb is a bad bird that will befoul its own nest whether for reward or wU bout It. In standing up for white superemscy tefore North ern audiences and proclaiming frankly and boidy our in' entlon to preserve it at all hazards, a id driving tbe hypo crisy and politic .1 greed of tboee who were apposing it . I may have been in error, but what defense can be offered by him who tefoiled the State’s good name either truthfully or untruthful ly. No good w i a lever has teen ac complished, and I really cannot see what my bavin* teen paid has to do with it,—; ' ' . The condltiori in. South are not such as I would like to see, but those who cl arge tbat the dispen sary lav, as The News does, is respon sible, must drat answer for tbe ednea- tton onbe people to wBIclTT have made allusion in the belief that it was right and proper to override that law by Shy and all means. They have sown to the wind and are reaping tbe Mow, Nichols, Pollock, Potts, Pyatt, Quick, Ready, Richardson, Barrett, Slnkler, Jeremiah Smith, Strong, Toole, Wade, Walker,. Williams, Wlngard—A6. THE BILL AND ITS RIDER. — The bill provides that section 7 of tbe old dispensary law te amended eo, that the removal ot a dispensary may te obtained in tbe same manner as the establishment, upon the petition of one-fourth of tbe qualified electors of tbe oountj^L when the county sup ervisor shall order ah election upon tbe quwtion of “dispensary” or no dispensary,” to be voted upon by tbs qualified voters. Tbe bill then con tinues: “And If a majority of tbs ballots cm; te found and declared to te for a dispensary, then a dispen sary may te established in said coun ty, but If a majority (Of the ballots cast te found and declared to. ba- against the dispensary, then no. dis-_ pensr.ry st all be established therein, and any dispensary already established shall te closed.. Elections under this section can be held not oftener than once In four yean. ' - “No dispensary shall be established In any county, town or city wherein tbe axle of alcoholic liquors w|i pro- bibitited prior to July 1,1893, except m b sreln permitted: provideo, that when dispensaries hare been satab- llsbe>l in such county, town, or city, they shall remain as established un til removed or closed as permitted in this act: provided, a tax of one-tolf mill .s hereby levied upon every dollar of tin value of all taxahft hrofiert; in all counties voting to ^remove or close tbe dispensaries as shore pro vide! ; for tbs purpose tof defraying the ixpensw of the enforcement of the dispensary law In said county under and by direction of the gover nor, said tax to be collected is cither county taxes and forwarded to the . ta be expended, or so much thereof m may he necowary, as bow provided by law, for such pur poses. Any balance remaining un expended at tbe end 6f the year to be returned by the Stole treasurer to 'whirlwind; I the county treMurer of such county I want to say further that wheat for general county purposes, and that The News says ftbat the existing the va i ue 0 f in confiscations of ooo- conditions In South Carolina are due traband goods seized In such county, to ths weak politicians who have teen u determined by toe State board of elected to office and nearly all of these directors, shall be paid to toe State men are disciples of Tillman,” that | treasurer, to te credited to toe fund m tettoro todo it is well known that the last two Legislatures of South Carolina have had a majority of former Conserva- tive -itr-them, and our present breve and noble-hearted governor; who is doing bis whole duty towards enforc ing this obnoxious law—obnoxious to Tbe News and tiie Mouutineer-is well known to have been a Consesvative. I close by saying to The Greenville News that l am not worrying about the • immigrants I have kept away from South Carolina nor those who may te deterred from coming to South Carolina by its own sl&ndera, but let us keep the record straight, and let the people understand that their senior senator may be “violent and turbulent” m the Mountaineer says, and The News may not have any “faith in bis sincereity” about immi grants or anything else, but they have not cleared themselves from tbe charge he made of having slandered South Carolina, and what is more they cannot. They have simply abused me to hide their own fault. ; B. R. Tillman. Washington, D. C., Feb. 16, 1904 Will Jola the Marines. ' Jeter R. Horton, for toe past three yean city editor of toe Greenville Newa, has received the appointment of lieutenant of marines through toe influence oUpongrresman Joe J Hla place on ^ "" by raised by said levy for the enforce ment of the lawj as'above provided. And any amount expended in aald county for the enforcement of the dispensary law aball he refunded to the State treasury upon the collec tion of toe tax above letted. Anv county voting out a dispensary shall not thereafter receive any part of the surplus that may remain of th®, dls-,„ pensary school fund after the deficien cies in the various county school funds have teen made up as provided by law. w There Is also s povision put in tbe committee tost “A dispensary may be located elsewhere than Id an in- ^ corpora ted town In toe counties of Beaufort and Horry, and no others, except such as are authorised by spe cial act of toe general assembly.” : Mr/ Tatum withdrew his proposed amendment providing tor electrons ^ “no oftener than once in two yeaw,” > and the bill went through wfUk the four year limit. Eight Handred Killed. The. Albanians who were besieging Shemshi Pasha, who wttbl»M0 Tur- t'trobps and tbs guns, day nportofitoba^ Albanians N| ~ " rout