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VOL. XXIX. BARNWELL. S. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1906. NO. 21, -• ■u v GOES FOR TEDDY. occasion of discharging bate (araooal feeling of ill-will kgainat the president of the Uottsd .PV States. It la not a epectaole that anjiaabshae indicated. itis- Senator Tillman Arraifna Presi dent Roosevelt in the Senate. MlN ITORS listen la Brtaihi u $ikace, Whtte ifi lacldeat White Hease UJ ct , the nttsiaaMs’t Letter, JakUtea are Deed In a Pierce Desaaclaties. recent fj:o b’e remoral from the White House of Mrs. Minor Morris vaa made the eut) tot of emphatic de- nnsdatloD by Mr. Tillman in the aen* tea Wednesday. Hla remarks called o«t sssaonetrancea from Meem. Hale nod Daniel and led to the vary abrupt dosing of the doom and thi sodden adjournment of the senate In the middle of the afternoon. The speech abounded In Mr. Till- man’s p ciUar expressions and wa« ebaraoterisid by many aerare sad ex oaptlonillr personal thrusts at the irmifltiit At Umea he wept orar what be regarded as the indigoitiee to Mm. Morris and hie area were full ui team whan ha deoland In the face of protests from his fellow senators that ha would demand »o in mitigation of tt* White Home Inc dent. The refareooe to the treatment of MfB. Morris oonstituted the latter half of a speech bawd upon the; senator's it ui can took upon either with faction or toleration.” The interruption had not been ex* patted and it created general interest hroogbout the senalt ohamber and in the galleries. The quiet that pre vailed was almost oppressive, and It m the leas marked when Mr rillmaa roes to reply. He mid: “1 have each respect for the greet ability, High character and patriotic services of the senator from Maine, and have had such intimate aaMoia- Hi Mer* | lion with Mm during my service bam, white is not half ao long as his own, that he cannot my anything in the way of reprimand to oaom me to tom my temper. I want to my to you, sir (addressing Mr. Hale directly), that not defamieg Theodora R oee velt and I have not allowed my per aonal feelings, suppcs'og I have any, to dictate one utterance of mine to day. 1 want to say to you, sir, that Mete concerning the statue of oor ra MMona with the republic of Santo Dj mingo, and was added to illustrate hie theory that the present administra Mon is bending toward imperialism. In tea first part of the addrem he Charac teris'd the course o: the United States la Santo Domingo as a great axten •loo of tee Monroe Doctrine and said that If pursued the policy would lead i country Into many serious oympli He accused the president of tee treaty into execution in tha face of tea senate's refusal to act, denounced the senate aa willing to sabmit subserviently to all that la ask di of it, and implored sen atom to teow their indspsndenoa and thus laate tea executive a toaaou and at the mme time serve the country. tan MPEKM 1NU1DMT. With reference to the Morris occur enee, he declared teat the president had been daraliet in falling to punish hla subordinates for their course am quoted statements from parsons said to have been witnesses, to show teat the proceeding had been Inhuman. He tetonsally presented and said teat he weald tomorrow formally pmeant resolution for an Invmtlgatlon of the antes Incident. J It was the Introduction of thie res before us tee “This la a vary delicate matter and I hope tee senator will n frain entire ly from presenting such a resolution It Is to be pre- semid,” he want on, “that the pmal- dent will do what is right in hla own house, the house of the first eltisen of the ooun ry, and regard such a resolu tlon as an invasion if tea comity t f government." Hot o ly did he reprobate the pre •entatioo, but he expreamd regret that any allusion had been made to tee M irris affilr sod hoped teat noth ing mom would be heard abcu. It on the fl nr of tee senate. “This is not a tribunal which ought to taka Juris diction in such a matter,” ha added, and after expressing his own attitude of respect for the female sex repeated bis requeetto Mr. Till in in to let the matter drop. Mr. Tillman declined to acc de to tea request, declaring that his resent ment of tba mistreatment of a lady was such teat ha ecu d not reconcile silecos and Insctlon with his idea of Says labor l aws and Trial Jus tice System Drives NEGRO FARM HANDS Prom the State, aad That There is No Desire far Social Egsality on the Part of Negrors, Who ere Uader Obligations to the Whites, t- ,r*» wpK *«-»>» tb. car, ^ ffgr “r 1 testimony of witnesses his ayes filled with team and his voice was almost oboked with amotion when be quoted one of the newspaper man who bad been present aa saying teat “he had since upbraided himself with tears in his eyes, even at the risk of personal Ir jury, that he did not rush to the rescue of Mm. Morris.” “And what ere you going to do about it?' 1 be asksd in a vjloe now attuned to a high key. “Let these Imperialistic practices continue? N >thing l Than, Indeed, will tee senate sink Into oon- 'tempt, IfitO a oentempt that win be deserved, the contempt of every good man and woman in the country. 1 cannot t« a party to suoh a course, but I will take the oousi quencea. I will i Her the resolution and tea aen ate can do aa It pie ises with It” “ TUX FlTZSIMMON‘8 LETTKR. Cjotliulng hie remarks he laid that tease poor, pitiful liars, about the log a oommlttsa if this body, com posad of Republicans atone, to examine Into tba facte. I will give you the of four witnesses as reputable you or I, wbo will swaar to the statement I have mads as to what actually (courted.” Mr. Halt—Lst the Senator produce his testimony. Mr. Tillman—You preadbt your committee. Mr. Hall—And his affliavlti before he stands up before tba '•ountry and assails in this rude of the United States. Mr. Til m'u—A. k 1 Will you than your lesoluilon appointing a itteWto get at tee facts? Halt—Lot the senator himself offer it. Mr. Tillman—It la none of my business. It la your business. Mr. Hale—It is as much the sens- tor’s business as it la mine. ao papers,” had cased me of having personal animoat- time tba Morris i j action ty and hatred to giatify. DISCREDITS THE PRESS. Mr. Hits—Ido not credit teaextg* garated statements of tee niwapaper press about this Incident. I believe they are all extravagent, swollen and not Justified by the facte, but when ever any Senator up (this laapoosiblii -j declares teat there should be an loves tlgallon so that we may have, not statements, not virulence, not denun c ation but facts, nobody on this side will object to that resolution. Mr. Tillman—I will offer it and put you to the teat Mr. Tillman teen quoted tea offl dal statement concerning the Morris Incident and said that and said that Jn.lgPQring tee matter tea president had practically endorsed it. He added that he had bjan told that another lady had bean treated at the Rouse very much as Mrs. Morris had been. x Mr Hale again remonstrated with Mr. Tillman for making tea senate President Thomas E. Millar, of the Oolored State Ooll <ge, made a some what remarkable speech at that In stitution on E-nandpatloo Day. la order teat our madam may themselves what a highly educated oolored man thinks of the problems that confront tea South we make some extracts from the spet c i. After spaaklng of tea Emauclpstlon of the gro, he took up tee subject of - his address, which was,S“the thing! that effect tee negroes in the South aft* forty yearn of freedom.” Hera are soma of the mesons that he. dalmed president had written a latter to Prln Fighter Fitzsimmons, showing that his dignity had not bean so great aa bad bean represented. Nor had be been too dlgnlflodjo epgege in a trlsl system ob- tbe arena for tbe display of his parso nal prej jdloee. He declared teat tt la not true that the senate is inclined to bend the pregnant binges of the knee to the preildent and that toe presi dent bad already learned teat tee olutton wb.c calied cut the preteev}senate lean independent body. He added that senators consult most free ly with bim. “Hone of us hesitate to tell him If we dumAagree with him," he ad ded. “The senator is wrong in undertak ing to create tee Impression .that tee senate ie surrendering its rights. I will not submit to this arrange ment. Mr. Tillman said In reply that he thought Mr. Hale should uot, in view his owq disavowal, had repeated ibe statem :nt that he had spoken as be had because of personal feeling. Mr. Hale replied that the aenator of the j'u jlteu system or to put on the boxing gloves. In view of these reports be had waited In the hope that “the president would take some action apropos ot the brutal treatment of Mrs. Morris that would do credit to him as a gentleman, and it was only sfter he had shown suoh besotted indifference to public opinion teat I felt called upon to present a true statement of tea incident and ask for an Investigation to disprove the falsehoods and garbled statements given out by Mr. Barnes. Mr. Tillman closed with a declare- tlon of bis high regard f >r woman Whltel b o o <l t* r tfri him by hit association with his mother and wife, and said that they had “taught' him to love woman, and whan 1 sea a man ignore his plain duty to right a wrong to tea sex I would be falsa to my nature if I remained silent." The South Caro 11 us aenator closed abruptly and was evidently deeply af from Mr. Daniel, while Mr. Hale Jetted to the presentation of tar at all axoept upon proof. Mr. TUI- maa declared hla. determination not to be guided by their advloe and dos ed with tee reiteration of his deter mination to bring in the resolution tomorrow. Tba announoament ocoa Monad a number of hurried oonfereno aaani it is understood that as a result ] Mr. Till mao wiU be urged not to carry onthtopu*po-a. Prominent senators on bote sides said teat tba reaolatton would oommitnd few votes. Mr. Tillmam’s referei o to tbe Mor ris Incident was preceded by some re marks on the power of ; tee press Id which he charged-that tee president bad gradually assumed to-dhreot that rff irts of tba press until White House baa become oolored and in ted Interests of tee administration. “Secretary Loehia the apothecary," ha mid, “and pills on Panama, on Roomvdt, pills on railroad fected as be took hie seat. It was understood that Mr. Spoon er and Mr. Lodge were to make reply But neit&er row. Instead Mr. Hale again add sued the obair. The ebsir was asking “what ahal be done with the resolution,” when ignoring the query, tbe Maine senator moved an executive session. The mo tion prevailed and in less than two mkutea the doom were cloeed and one of the tensest days In the jrccent his tory of tbe senate oame to an end On: rage lu Bamberg. A dispatch from Bamberg to the News and Courier says a dastardly at tempt was mad oo Thursday night to wreck the 7.42 west-bound passenger ' “ J - *** * uo , Lferalrifrom Charleston to Augusta. The must bo bis own Jud.e as to that and' ”7_,. Mr. Tinman answered teat the state ment was unjuu tided DENIED PERSONAL FEELING. and pills on everything pertaining to public all Um are administered in this way. The newspapers have bwn tbe fnnnel through white this quack phy sic has been sent abroad and wr ~ some newspaper loan refuses to that white the president wants there la great wrath at the executive man sion." Illustrative of some stories white crop out "over and trough tbe bam" Mr. Tillman aail that "the sa’dest and moat pitiful example of anything that has ever been associated with the name if a president was tba recent outrage on Mrs. Minor Morris at the White Hfuae.” Hamid that because only of ted transgression of some rule the woman sitting quietly In tbe of fice had bean dragged rudely away, her cloteas torn, aa ear ring torn out, and thrust into a carriage and taken away. SENATOR HALE PROTESTS. At this point Mr. Hale Interrupted Mr. Tillman to protest against tbe let ter's representation osuoarnlng tea Morris Incident. “I hope,” ha mid, deliberately, “that I may never figure In this body aa a general apologist of tba administration or any one connec ted with it," and continuing aaM:- - - “But I my to tec eanator from South Carolina that, he is making statements and assuming facte for white then is no warrant, and that ha is tea most serious and defam atory charges against the executive of tell country, the presideot of all the United States, having nothing what ever that be adduoas aa proof. "I most my to the aenator that I do not derm it measly that hare In ho should make thie tbs not true, he exclaimed with feeling Mr. TiUman than read a typewritten statement from a newspaper reporter eyewitness of tee White House Incident in white the reporter stated that ha had aeen Mrs. Mima came) off like a sack of ealt with a negro at her heels and her miscreants placed a heavy, thirty foot railroad iron directly across the track, a few hundred yards east of tea depot and within the corporate limits. before Almighty God, It la Tboae wbo committed tee or I me seem hanging dress from her knees. *- “Glva us the name of tea witness," Mr. Galllnger suggested, but Mr. Tillman declined saying teat lie pre ferred to hold It for the proposed in vestigation. He added that he had names of four men who would teethy to these facte as staled. Here Mr. Tillman stopped a s ruptly to move the appointment of a com mittee of investigation. He sugges ted that five senator! be named for tee purpose of inquiring into the in cident. Mr. Hale suggested that as the motion should be withdrawn and brought In propar shape tomorrow and Mr. Tillman consented. Here Mr. Hopkins interposed an ob jection to the entire proceeding my ing that he iaw “no mom mason why tbe mnate should Investigate the af fairs of the president's household than that tbe president should Investigate tea personal affairs of the aenator from South Carolina." « Mr. Hale mid teat he had not pre tended to bind any senator by ament- ing to suoh a resolution, but that so far as he was concerned its -would not oppose the resolution, SENATOR DANIEL'S FLEA. Mr. Daniel then took tee fl»r and entered a most earnaat plea with Mr, Tillman not to present tea resolution He evidently regarded the matter as of-vary great moment and aearoelj raised hie voice above a conversation- tons. He referred to his foeLng of attachment for Mr. Tillman aad mid MILLER’S IDEAS for affecting the negtoee for the ill: First, tee law-making body of South Carolina la responsible for the destruction of our labor. If they bad been vm ployed by tba enemies of an agrlciltursl Soute to run off tea la Oor from the South they oould not jqjutfixmfife.thoic wlk ? and completely than they have ne it. . • - ' ■ - E cry law teat has been enacted in the last 28 yearn has been Intended to liroteot the agriculturists and keep ham a full supply of labor; the rights or protection of tee labx has never been considered in a si ogle one of them. Henoaasthe labor iaw was against the laborer he has become more shy year after year; and when ever and wherever be oould get a war from it ha would leave first to little towns, than to the cities, then to tbe North. Tba second cause of the uoreet of the laborer Is the trial Justice svetem with Its plenary powers, and its lr- iasponsible constables. I have saen tea irresponsible con stable ih the country usj hls ready revolver on helpless accused charged their coming cannot in any way' In jun as negrots, but Instead will 'help to develop our country and enlarge ire of their own tand the ne gro’a usefulness aa producers, Ws want thia labor and the cheap | est, easiest and readiest way to get It is te turn the pages of our statutes and b’ot therefrom every labor law teat la detrimental to tee common man, write and black. Toe re is another matter that I touch upon lightly. la Maassohu- [ setts, Rhode Island or Iowa it takes al«ut 40,000 legal votars to elect one [ Congressman, while in Mlsslaaippl• It takes lees than 3.000; and in my be loved State the beggarly number of |about 6.000. The cry of the greatest A merioan agitator and orator, Patrick Henry, waa: “No taxation without repreaeu tatton." It was the sentiment that struck a lesson to the thr one of E g land and gave us tee land of freemen. The North has bean aroused over this oondltloc; hence there is a move ment on foot to out down the Scute’s representation in Congress, and io the Electoral College. Our friends claim that this move ment Is for the benefit of us negroes. But, people of the negro raoe, be not deceived; for to out dawn the South’s representation can In no way benefit ut; but, on the other band, it will work great Injury to us here In the South, To put down tee South’s, representation will fan and sat abLsi the flame of sectional prejudice and hate ahloh will rebound upon negrom the prime oausa, and *111 afflict us xnd tejartiK That provision in tbe 14te amend ment was a compromise, and In tee fullness of time the 15th amendment the billot, and the protection to cast It; and If the North were sincere and wanted us to vote Congress would 'seat tee oontestaots from the South, and tbe Supreme C ou rt of tee natl m ageous, prophetic and patriotic. ROOSEVELT 8 VISIT. His'v’slt to tee Soute lest fall is • lemon that the South and the nation will never forget. His every utter ance was tba speech of braid patriot ism—yea, of broad American ism. He was not speaking to tbe South for the South; he was not speaking to the white man for the white mao; to the negro for the negro; but he spoke the great*at living American to Americans—all of every section; for Americans about Amer'cins. - -* , But in his speeches wa were not tpr gotten as ao Integral put of the 4 American people. - —* At Jacksonville aud at Tuekegee his admonition to our race was that of an anxious parent to ahelplss child; wholesome and sou ad advLe which should never ha forgotten. Then again ha did not fall to ad monish the South against Its direful and destructive agency, nob Is w: But that wss not all. In North Car >]it>a he explained to the full extent hb meaning 6f a square deal. No man eould have said mbra for us than be laid. Hearken tc iriTword,: “li the negro stumble, help him up; but if he lie down let him He." . Tbst Is all we need and all we •hou’d expect from tee South, from the laws of the land, or from Norte ern philanthropy. Yes, If the negro stumble while asoendlog the heights of American oivU zittop; If he s urn ble whlh he Is diming the rugged' cl ffe of advanced American citizen snip he should ask, aud dues ask, o f the white man, who has assisiied tn making hi* burden heavy by two hun died years of slavery, not to push him <*own and trample upon him, but t: ^ ... „ step one side aud lend him the hand W , h ^ h . t0 .^Df help; betp-htm to stand and walk THE DISPENSARY. A Bill Will Be Passed by the Legislature to » CDT OUT ALL GRAFT. is the path of rectitude, the path of thrift aud Industry, tbe path of mo rality, the path of frugality; all of which lead to tbe high plain of Amer d’J&Muteip- EMte—a—BE» to liave been inspired by no other mo tive tbah mischief or malioe, for the point at which the obstruction was >laoed is within tee town and in rather thickly populated section. It is not thought that robbery oculd have been the motive, for in osie the train had been wrecked a large Crowd of our ouizens would have gathered upon the spot promptly, and thus frustrated the desire. Fortum tely the engineer e the ohstruoklon in time to pre pare for It, and tee only damage done wss a wrecked oow-catoher. As yet there Is no olew to the perpetrators, but no expense will be spared to far ret them out and punish team sever- iy-'. __i_ Found Deed. At Charleston L. P. Fouobe, of Anderson, a pharmacy student of tbe South Oarolioa Medical college, wss found wounded on Coming street at an early hour Friday morning. He bad been shot in the stomach, and a friend, L. S. Maxwell, who waa with him, was taken Into custody by the police, while Fouohe waa sent to the Roper Hospital. An invastegation seamed to establish tba fact Friday that Fouohe had shot hlmaalf proba bly changing his pistol from his pistol from his coat pocket to his hip pooket The wound is not serious and the young man will doubtless recover. Child Burned. Melton Jamison, a negro living on Mr. Lem Berry'i plsoa near Swansea lost a child Tuureday from a severe burn. The child's olothlpg in soi way caught fire and at tobat one half the akin on Its entire body and extrem ttles was burned, tea cuticle peellnj off. The child was 21 months old am did not mem to suffer any pain. It lived about 18 boon after being burn ed. with tee slightest misdemsanor—with oo punishment coming to the consta ble. v If I were an enemy to my dear be loved Southland I would have paid agents and lobbyists bagging our Legislature to continue in power the Irresponsible, harassing trial Justice system. Of all the ills that tff,c\ retard and prevent the progress of tee South the trial Justice system, with its un limited power and lack of responsi bility to G.d or man, Is the greatest Henoa tee things teat affect us aud the South, above all other Ills and destruction, are the labor lawa and the trial justice system. Continue them as they are and we shall not only succeed In driving away black labor, but we will never get white immigrants who are so greatly nee Jed to come and stay in our limits. The third ill Is the lack of proteo tlon in the litUe towns. people run away from tbe labor la* and the trial Justice system to the little towns for polios proteotior; and when they fall to get it there they.go to the big cities, and from the big cities to the North What is the worth to community In money of an honest laborer—man Of woman—between tee ages of 16 and 60? Und.r tee Mate values a laborer was worth 11.000; but the best teach era of political economy claim that we must take into consideration of a laborer the power to consume and produce. Tola would make tee value of each laborer to our Common wealth about 16,000. The price of bis pro duotlon annually plus the price of hia consumption la not less than 8400 This is 10 per oent on 14 000. And to his p oduoteg and consuming pow er must be added the wealth teat oomes from his increase in offspring, which would maks bis value to the Commonwealth greater still. Hence, every able bodied man or woman that has left S^ute Carolina in the l*st 28 years Is a loss of not era than 84,000 for each. If the Ualted States census Is relia ble .we have lost by reason of our peo ple having lift tee State not less than 75,000 able bodied laborers In the last 30 yean; each one of them valued at not lew than 84,000.. We have lost from the field of pro duction and consumption 875 000 multiplied by 84,000, or 8300,000,000 And for what? Why did we not keep these people? Why, because we are short sighted. We have legislated In the wrong way. They era gone, and what? .We must now appropriate annually thousands of dollars to ooax and beg the Huns, the Poles and the Italians, and in time tbe Chinese, to oome hare and take their places. I, as a negro, want prosperity in the South; and If I had it in my pow er I would bring here and locate every nationality from Europe and by an courage ment, and repeal of the obnox loua features, of the labor law r and by tea curtailment of Mw great power of the trial justice system keep team The Soute needs their amendment. No, fellow eit*zn», let us stand ufi and look this question squsrely In tee ^ face. Wwdo notT~w tugroef,* wintT^ any legislation by Congress that will embitter the South sgslnet us. What we need is a united South—black and white—what we need li freedom from outside Interference; what we need is u • il protection and a ohanoe to labor and be, paid for our sarvioes; what we ueed is the dwtruotiou of mob law that is misnamed lyuoh law. Law is the voioe of tbe people, and we need the law teat will coma from the pulpit, press and the fireside of our Southern homes 1 that will prevent Southern sberlffi and constables ar resting us to turn us over to the mob ylulacca teat w aaay be butchered, drowned or burned. These Improvements can only oome to us from within; and tbe great Southern oonsclenoe is not asleep 0-. this subject. The best element, of whom Governor Heyward is a fore moet representative, bee resolved to deliver the Southland from mob law. For which let us return thanks, on thia our day if jubilee, to God aud tbe Southland. There is no bed deed committed In a community that will not and doee not affeot tbe entire people. We, white and blusk, of the South are a Christian, God-loving, God fearing people. Therefore, let us appeal for the protection guaranteed us as oltl zena and nrenr Lst us so conduct ouraelves that they will see that we are wirthy of every prqtectlon that should be glvan. We must banish tba criminals from our social interccursf; we must aralst in turning every evil doer over to tee law; wa must te ei honest toil, loving :-frog«ittv; we'must teach morality everywhere; we must struct the young that this Is our home; that we must love all of Its law; we must put our trust lu God and tne South land, and do tbe right. For God is not d«'d and He wll reward us il we prepare ourselves for the full et j y ment of cltizan- ship. Tbe third thing teat effects us is our great ignorance and our helpless poverty. Ignorai cj Is the m jther of all vices; sod wuile we have many schools still tbe great mass of our race i* untouoiad by the civilizing influence of Christian education. For there are not more than 15 per oent of tbe children of our raoe in the pub lic schools of the South; aud they are permitted to attend school about four months psr year. Then again tbere Is not more than half a million of our people out of the ssrvaot class; tbere are about nine million of our rsce among the wage* earners, or servants of the nation. I am fearful that we have waited almost too long to purchase homes anti.far me; for the farming lands of the South have advanced In the last decade in selling value more than 800 per cent. We need be frugal In sll things. To he ItOutaUal we must secure property —all kinds of property, but especially real estate. There is no si • i thing at social equality anywhere under the sun. So cial equality is founded upon caste distinction, and it haa always been founded upon caste distinction; and no one but a fool would attempt to form it upon any other basis. . . What we needle equality under tbe law and equal administration of tbe law, and an equal protection of our poflaeeelona, life and liberties. This may aound idealistic to the tbougbtleae, but tee foundation of this government guarantees, these ■acred rights that are Inalienable fn. m human existence, and they must and will some to us If wa prepare ouraelves for their enj >ymeat. We have at tee bead of tbajOovqyn- mant tea greatest American ah •; preseooc; TAn^in Ha is bioad, catholic, oour- ...waannlEBEhi Let ua upon this, our day of jubilee return thanks to God tor having giv en the American people thia greatest Americans, Theodore Roosevelt. What have I to say, you ask, shout the future? Fellow ett z ms, if we b'grotg havs a future It is in tea South. She is undeveloped, teeming with millions of wealth of the fields, forests aud mine*; waiting for enlightened skill to light the furnsoe fires that whl start tee buzz of manufacturing industry upon •vary hill top and amid the valleys. There is standing room here for us, aud a fighting ohanoe for the aooumu lation of wealth and tee possession cf refinement. The industrial devalopmant of our . . . , . „ great Southland has just hegufti and -tty cm Hals of the St^a de ao -teem Sens'or ritlmsa Says He Expects Brice Law to be Repealed New Vear and Tbst the D spensiry , Will Return to tbs Favor • of lbe People. The WsihlDgvm c'rresp indent of .he C-iarleston Pis’) sayi U ha* bean learned there ibot 8 nator Tillman bad several imp ant—eonferencee when In Columbia with the support era of the dispensary In the L giola- ture and that when be left them it was with a mighty guod understand ing that a bill will ba agitod upon by ihe dispensary people and pushed at the present aes ion. The bill will seek to remedy defects of the existing law, ohe especial obj ict. being to plsci tba leading officers of the ins hutkm be- yonl the temptitlon of corruption. Your oorros on i nt is In loeition to state that the mam features of the proposed MU will be these: Flrat—Tne purchase of rye, corn and bcurboo under yearly oontract, &kk to. be advorttaod forran tjpanod ’ during the sessions ot tbe L. gtslature, the State to buy aver/tblng from tee loweat bldner.^X ---—— -S*CDnd—Nobidwlllber o ivedfrom a* j firm test reasurar of tee S.aiaa certified check far a Iaw* suoa os an evidence of good faith. The firm reoelv ng th bid io ba r quiied to put up witu the Scale treasurer 5 per oent of the gross salea cf the State d spensary for the pre vious year. Tuw will ba a guarantee of falth'ul and honest p rfoimaco of contract. Third—The State to got tbe whis key direct from the bonded ware ions- es of tbe goyernmentrhefore there haa been mixing or blending and when the product ie aa pure as tea government can guarantee It.' FjdVth—Tbe State to do Its own blending and mixing, thereby guaran teeing an absolutely pun article, tbere being no obanoa for doctoring, unlees every avenue of honest toll and achievement is opened to ua, her black ■one and daughters. All we have tc do la to remain here, join bands with tea white maa, ano put our shoulder to tea wheel of me terlal progress and prosperity, and wait the result: for the white man of tbe Southhaa been doing^kud is doing his part toward us iu very many more ways than we have given him ore-lit for. He is resdy and willing to help us; and If wa remain as we have been, faithful to every trust, ba will wipt firm the statute books every law thai Id any way frightens us, runs us off or oppresses us. He will give to us all nied3d prctec tlon; ha will tax himself and us for our education and Improvement; bt will help ue to make tee Scnth th> hems of us all with no prcnorlptlOD hy the law. or under the law. Any negro who does not believe wives, which woull be'male iu itsh- abls by a heavy sentence. F f th—Every bid, and Senator Till- man-la understood to regard this is about tbe moat important feature, to oe submitted in CripL'cite, one bid to -be Governor, another to the Speaker if the House and a third to the treas urer; these oflic al« to hold the bids until the day of their opening, when sll are to be presented at ones la tea opinion of Senator Tillman, teliUBUld absolutely prevent collusion and tea altering of bids, as tee laWWOuld pro vide teat all bid* received should re main sealed until opened at a certain„„ tima and in a certain iffloe. Senator Tillman believes that tea only way c Huston would ba possible would be tor the dispensary officials to connive with the bidders to deliver a poorer grade of jjroof wblakar, bit this oould be av tided txciu&e tba spe cific it Ion* would ca 1L r goods c f a oar- tain proof, direct from t je government this doctrine that I am laving down u “ OCfcirom * j ef»ren*meM and cannot be converted thereto hooded warehouses and the proof of _ ' vmrkfufeAwv 4 a c 41 rt a A s A _ ^ J1 Cl a 111 should not live In the South. For tht history of nations teac ics teat all great reforms, laitiug reforms, oomes from within. ' Then 1st us be J ubilant on this on: freedom's j ibiler; let us praise God in songs and prayers for having given ut tee air sties of freedom who assHte: in making it possible for LIucjIo t free us and seal cur commission wit: mg it iis praise God for tbe new ns tlon teat was founded tt at Appomat tox, and let us praise Him above all for the Njw South that is educating itself to its full duty to us negroes. Lst us stand here prepued to aoswei every call; to do every service; to love the white man, and to stand by him In a spirit of forgiveness and fbibsa.r anoe and thankfulness, With a bean free from rancor, strife, or bltterne s, laboring for the good of cur -country, the uplift of all Americans, white anb black, and the glory of God. L'it us always reoormber that th< South is full to ovetfljw with .good, well-meaning white men, of whom Wade Hampton was tee ripest type Lit us not forget his dying bene diction of the blessing oi peace, peace, peace. Cheated tbe Ualluwe. Booker Glass, a negro confined in Selma, Ala., for tee morderof K. E. Allen, a young white man, and senten ced to bang January 19th, cheated the gallows In a daring dash for liber ty Tuesday, In wblch be was shot to desth by deputise. The negro fited- eff his manacles with s shoe Iron and tried to wrest a revolver from a guard. Two men were required to overpower tbe negro and one deputy shot him at tbe risk of the other’s Ufe. The dead negro was named for Booker Wash ing too. Tin dinner plates were found folded over his heart when tbe body was examined. * Patera Kicks. Col. E S. Peters, former vice-presi dent of the Southern Qottoa Asaoola tlon, In a latter, "cEarges President Jordan, who deposed hinTlast sum; mar, with using tbe arganlzstiou for political puposes and deomrea tent tee decision to bold oit** at 18 fippte Is ridiculous. whiskey Is easily ascertained. Still soother important feature will ba c) eng in*! the personnel of the State hoard or control so as to give the peo ple of the State confidence In the manjgimen*. Thie la understood to be now under oonelderatlon. “In my opinion, tie people of tbe State are overwhe lmingly for tbe dis pensary," said Senator Tillman, “even io the counties where It has been voir ■d cut. The system is all right, but ihe people are tried of the bed ddor and want to see a change In tbe lav. The advocates of tbe dispensary will, In my opinion, amend tbe law at the present sessions) as to pre vent cor ruption and insure the sale of pure whiskey. If the enemies of tbe lean prevent the Legislature doing any thing in that direction they will have to be accountable to the people. Wa viil see to tba*, but unless the Legis lature attempts to do aomethlng, there Is grave danger of the death of tea aw. I am sure, though, that tba friends Of tbe dispensary wiU maks every - II rt at this session of the Leg- islatura to purify conditions and to ‘.gain esUblutn tue system In tee coc- filer oe of the people. It they fail it will be because tbe enemies of the lav unite against them. No, there is no danger of the law being knocked out at tnis sessions, as I see it. The Legislature knows the people prefer tel law to anything else and will not knife it. Then when wa go before the people this summer and put out candidates for Ssoate and members cf the House wa will line up things so as to show tee heads of everybody. T iers will be much dif- f teic- then, ted tele vote that baa been remaining at home will show np for tbe dispensary.*' Senator Tillman expressed the opin ion that If counties that have rcoot- !y voted out the dispensary uud.r tea Brice law should elect Senators aud representatives this summer ei ted to the dispense<7 those eleol the dispensary ptatf xm would I perfect right to put W* lack in the n U’jtlea 1 joying blind tigers fie 1 Senator Tillman law will ba reps tied I ture elected this i 1 January,