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VOL. XXIX. BARNWXLL Q. 0.. THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1906. »- 170# 27. -?<* MUCH BOOZE Captured by the Constables In the City of Charleston AT EXPRESS OFFICE. Pack«|e> CooalpKd to Holden of Here* ~v Mf UceiMi Confiscated and Skip ped io Columbia. Neatly 4M QaOona of Variona Klnda of Booze In Office. -* The Charloaton Pjat aaya Chief of OoDOtoblea W. B. Ham met ahlpped to Colombia Tburaday mornlDir a record breaking haul, made late Wedneaday afternoon at the i ffljeof the Southern Expreaa Company, on Hawaii atreot, where under hla orders, District Chief Holmes, in the name of the State, took poonoasion of nearly four hundred gallons of liqu >n and wines that haye - been hanked up at the express office since December. Chief Him mot said Thursday to a reporter for The Evening Post that u be had consulted the Attorney Gener al about this ease, and had made the seizure of the liquor in the expreaa offloe, consigned to men In Charleston holding revenue licenses, with cbe ad vice of the Attorney General al ng this line of procedure. Ha fu ber . stated that If the oompauy *t4u< d t< was prepared to meet them half way Mr. W. W. Allen, agent of the ex preaa company for Charleston, aald that he did not know what would be dona about the matter by the compa ny, and that he waa in no position to make a statement on the sue loot. Chief Ham met came to Charleston Wednesday for the pu pees of carry ing out the seizure of the stuff, anr. gave the direction for Its formal aelipre late Wednesday afternoon. There were ninety five packages In the lot taken, averaging from three to ten gallons In size, and these confiscated boose bundles were shipped to Colum bia Thursday morning. For over three months, between the hours of sunrise and sunset, Chief Constable Holmes has had from one i ^ to two or three men stationed at x m. express cffice on Haaell street, guanT bad noVarrived. VICIOUS MOB TAKE (HE TOWN AND TBRE 1TEN TO KILL. NEGROES. And Their Houses Bet on Fire Because * a White Brakeman Had Peen Hurt. Several days last week Sprirgfleld, O-iio, was the scene of much disorder on account of the shooting of a white brakeman named M. M. Davis by P.eston Ladd and Edgar Dean, colored both of whom bad been placed under arrest and because of threatened lynching hurried under cover of dark ness by the authorities to Dayton, where they are now safely lodged in j ill. When the mob learned that the prisoners had been taken from Spi 1 fHd It went to that part of town known as the “Jungle," Inhabited by colored people, and began to burn and Isot dwelling houses and saloons. At least six dwellings were burned and the contents of one saloon looteed. A force of 76 members of local military companies are guarding the scene where the mob bolds sway. Mayor Todd shortly after 0 o’clock asked that cmpanles of the Third regiment, Ohio National Guard, be called out. The mob soon reached t' e "Jungles” and battered one hours to pieces with stones and posts used as battering rasas. A general fire alarm was sounded. The sounding of the gongs served to fill the street with people and the feeling In the crowds was tense. The mob entered K mp- ler’s saloon In East Columbia street and quickly looted It. Kempler and his wife fled, leaving their threejittle children asleep In a room over the saloon. The b «as riddled with bullet s and stones and it was only by men that a way was forced through the mob and the children rescued. After the pillaging of tbs saloon drunkenness was an added feature of, the riot. At 11 o’c'.ook members of the mob broke through a cordon of police ank set tire to a house In the ' Jungles, which was quickly'burned down. Sergeant Oreager, who had charge of the: quad of police, was hit on the head with a brick and seriously wour.- ded. A r< quest was sent out 10 o’ clock for the Xedla miltary com pauy. At midnight six houses, which had been fired by the mob, were burning fie: orly and the police had apparent ly lost control of the situation. Only six members of the local militia res ided to the mayor’s call and ! the Xenia ermpany, which was expected BATTLE BEulNS *'• V'" 1 , P-;. . . \ Senator Tillman Opens Greatest Fight In Senate’s History. Senator Aldrich Gives Notice of a Bat tle R»yal Against the Hephera Rats Bill Is the Presence of Crowded Gslerles la the Seaate. • Isg the accumulating packages of li quor that were shipped to the ‘tlgera’ of the oity for the Christmas trade. In several oaaea the liquor was loaded on the expreaa wagoos for delivery, and sent to the addresses on the pack- hut they were not received by the oonslgneee, for behind the wagons trailed constables on wheel*, and the tigers were afraid to unload the goods from the express wagons. Consequent^ the liquor was return ed to ths express office and piled up to await delivery. Many attempts have been male by the oonalgnees to get the 11 (no from the offloe wa ons or . the effioe Into their plaoas of business, \ but these for the most part have fall- V ed, and so the packages of whiskies, brandies, wines, oordlals and other /alcoholic beverages, have collected trattl, when the seizure was made Wedneaday, oioee to a hundred pack \ of liquor bad accumulated at the office, valued at between f 1,000 and •2,000, and standing for twice as much profit to the dealers. The liquor has been lying for many weeks unseized. As long as tbe j>ack age was In ths possession k>f the ex press company ths 'on,tables have not heretofore touched any consign ment to a known tiger, but have eon tented themselves pith keeping It un- der guard, and In the possession of the carrier company. Qhlef Hammet has.taken the position, backed by tbe decision of Attorney General Gunter, that the stuff can be seized at the very offloe of the company, and with this in view came to Charleston W« need ay to effect tbe seizure. The guard against the delivery of further shipments Is maintained aa usual, Thursday, and a constable la in front of the offloe ready to follow any suspicious package. Thursday morn ing two kegs were ss'z 3d, after be<ug thrown overboard by a launch amug- gler, and stored at the headquarters of the constables, which showed that the j ware on the alert on all sides. The seizure made at tbe express of floe la record breaking In point of sise, as wall aa in Its nature, aud seems to end tbp chapter of the Christmas 1 quor story for the present . Seta tbe Pace. A dispatch from Washington says Senator Tillman, since he has been brought prominently forward in tbe rate legislation fight has made one announcement that has been well re ceived In the Senate and even In thr House. It Is to the effect that there Is no necessity for bins to visit tbe Whits House for conference with the President. “The Senate now has charge tif this saatter t ” Jie says, "and Srill ba able to perfect It without as stotacoe. The president baa perform ed his duties In ths case in making recommendations to Congress sod in expressing his views as to what he thinks ought to be done." The Idea of Senator Till man la voiced most heartily by tbe Senate. .. -f . . / Fifty r. Hew York Is to have a skvaoraper 60 stories In height, the top of which will he erected at Broedwfcy and Lib erty meat by ths Singer Manufsoiur- taff Sheriff Almoney wired Governor Patterson the following: “Send all possible troops and bold others In radineas for tomorrow.” Sergesnt Oreager, tbe polios man hit In tbe face with a brick, is In a serious c n dltlon. The mob Is stoning and J :er ng the militiamen, cut a show ol bayonets has suffered so fsr to keep tbe rioters on the move Tbe rumor that out of town troops are momen tarily expected Is having a quieting effect on tbe mob. Tbe olty authorities succeeded at 1? 16 o’clock Wedneeday In assembling Companies B. and 0. of tbe third reg ment, O. N. G., which are stotloced here. Tbe total force numbers about 76 men. They are now on tbe scene of the fire and have poshed tbe mob baok both ways In Columbia street, i test from Water street and west from Foster street. Just as the troops ar rived one more building was fired and no efforts were made to save it, tbe forcing tbe rioters beck and saving property outside of the doomed square. The ullltla were assembled only in the sick cf time, as the mob bad been irou-ed to a fret z/ of rage and threat ened to repeat tbe scenes of March 7, 1904, whpn Richard D zoo was lynch ed before the troops otu.d prevent It- The police will make no arrests in connection with the rioting. Davis, the brakeman, la atlll alive at a hospital, but there are no hopes of bis recovery. Two companies of |he Third regiment are on duty at the A company of the Ninth bat- negro troops, la held In raad inesa In the armory. The burned district comprises less than a city block. The buildings were ell cheap tenements. When the police and firh^ department were unable to oope with the situation, Mayor Todd called up the adjutant general on long dlatn r iOa telephone and asked assistance. Mayor Kiefer had great difficulty Id getting tbe militiamen to respond to the oaU to assemble at the armory. Mtiot An Aetreee While aha Chicago Stock Company waa playing at the theatre at Linton Ind., Thursday nlgbs Miss Pearl E Elvyn, a member of the troupe, mads several slighting remarks about the town which some of audience ap plauded and others hissed. The act rags took the applause for oommeoda tion and referred again to the town In the same way. While ths audience was Indulging In hissing and applause a man In ths rear of the.bouse with ab oath, draw a revolver and aimed It at the actress and fired. The bullet struck Miss Elvyn In the leg and she tell on the floor of the stage. In an Instant tbe house was tu an uproar, with women and children crying and wringing their hands, and men rush ing, trying to find the person who did tbe shooting. Ths shooting broke up the play. Miss S vyn waa removed to a dressing room and her wound proved not to be serioue, ^ the ball having peostialsd only Ibe calf of her ,lH* ■ —•- WILL BE TO A FINISH. Last week in tbe Senate chamber the ring was pitched for the great battle between the Amerioan people and the railroad i. The following de scription of tbe opening of the battle, which was written for the New Yoxk American by Julian Hawthorne, will bo read wlr.h interest. The public, says Hawthorne, was present to tbe extent of the gallery aooommodations, and nearly every Senator waa at hla desk. Nothing waa done, however, further than that tbe combatants bowed to each other, and pat on their gloves; the seconds conferred as to the roles tbat should govern the combat, and arrangmenti were made for the printing and dissemination of the rec ords of tbe principals up to thls-tlma. It is understood that the fight la tO A flnjylk »lth out for one party or theotber No more important event has oome up for decision In tba national prise ring during recent times. In other language, Senator Tillman, n charge of the Dolllver Hepburn railroad rate bill, made tbe formal statament that the bill had been re commended by the committee for pas sage without amendment, and that he himself, as soon as he had sufficiently digested the aubject, would present his (report upon It In writing. Laying hla left hand on the pile of papers and volumes ou his desk, he added that he wished ten thousand copies of the reports cf testimony and dformation gathered by tbe commit tee to be printed for tbe better In struction of those interested, In which proposal be was supported by Foraker and Allison, and, there being so ' ctlon, It waa so ordered. ALDRICH S NOTIC* OF BATTUE. Senator Aldrich then arose very serious and with leas color than usual u hfs face, though whether owing to emotion or to insufficient breakfast did not appear. He observed tbat In the ore Inary course of things tbe bill wou'4 heve emerged from committee with amendments, and tl at he believ ed that all S natora except Foraker, who objected to any legislation at all. desired tbe bill to be amended. Er O’pt for these amendments no obstrUo tion to Immediate oocalderation of tbe bill would be t ff red on hla side. Mr. MoCumber annout ced that be bad a substitute for the entire bill, wbloh he sent to the desk, and will speak on later; end then other busi ness supervened end the galleries were left with their mouths open. Gog of the fint things that Till man said last week, when asked about tha bill, was that he did not regard It as a partisan mesa ore. Intbls hi waa when the thirteen Colonies rose against King Gttrge. THS PBOFIJI ARB READY TO RUB. Our people has all due respect—Am ple ‘respect—for vested Interests and for fair play. It may for a long time be hood-winked by Intricacies of law and illusions of special privilege, but once it hears a hint of subjection to a moneyed oligarchy It will rise In a menace as formidable as the plague, and as Immitigable as death. Moreover, this Issue, like many others, Is not ons that will be forgot ten, nor can ths people be distracted from It by other Issues. It Is a vital issue to the welfare of them all, and will press upon all more Intolerably day by day. To delay justice Is to tnflune resentment and tbe conse quences of tbat resent ment, if unap- peased, may well appal the most bra zen thief that ever wore broadcloth and cut eff ocupons. J It Is well that Aldrich and Foraker, and their acmmplloes In and out of Congress, should be placed In a post tion where their character and pur pose must be revealed hr their words and acts. L. They thought to gain a strategic point by thrusting the bill Into Till man’s bands, because Tillman has been represented as an extremist, a dangerous man, pnflt to ba entrusted with a measure effecting the welfare of the whole people. But, In truth, ths Scuth Carolinian is a statesman whose calibre has not yet been meas ured. He can be fierce and passion ate, but be bolds himself In his own coutroL He can go forward at need Like a cyclone, but be can also meas ure his steps and see ahead. Hit honesty Is above all shadow of auspiolbn; and of bow many of bis ool- le goes can so much ba said? Ha Is as simple, and as dangerous, as a -two- U thoroughly grounded In justice and cotton acreage la mere thoroughly grounded In.juatloe equity. , ’ ■ BEST CUSTODIAN OT THE BILL. Hi hates wrong, loves right, and feara no mao; and these attributes, together with an ample Intellectual endowment, render him, perhaps, the vary best custodian of tha bill that Its beet friends—or tbe best friends of a just and adequate measure, rath er—could have picked out. If Mr. Aldriob thought otherwise, he made a mistake. But the Hepburn bill in its present shape is not a just and adequate measure, and the more It Is studied, the mors probable does it seem that f it ba sufficiently amended to fu : fil ths real object of railroad legislation there will hardly be a clause of 4t police, firemen and the guardsmen rtowed bls sound tense, and the Amer are now directing their efforts to loan pfople will be found in hearty accord with his attitude. Any senator or Representative who tries to pis? politics with the rate bill will make tbe mistake of hla career. Tne people are In earnest; they want to hi protected against tbe tranny, aggression and insolence of ibe railroads. They know that rob beries and outrages have been and dally art committed against tbe pro perty and rights of Individuals by railroads. They want to have these wrongs righted, and they are uot to be deterred from having them right ed by any special pleas about oonstltu tional limitations or legal technics 11 ties. THE PEOPLE'S POCKETS PICKED They know tbat their pockets are being picked, and they will reeent any suggestion tbat it osn be legal to plok them. Nor will thev accept remedy wbloh Is remedial to tbe eye only, and by means of delays and com plications tarns out to be no practice remedy at all. Something must be done; It must be done at once, and It moat be so done to hi effective for the end In view. That Is tbe ultimatum. Democrat or R'publican, House, Senator or Executive, may take the credit of It when it la done—that Is quite Immaterial to tbe people. But whoever opposes Its doing—still mors, however temporarily prevents its doing—is never likely to find an? ad equ*te compensation,* either personal or political, foi that ast. Moreover the act itself would be futile. - .1 Should tbe bill, owing to tbe ma chinations of tbe railroad gang, fail or be emasculated in this session, It adversaries, but It will be brought up again In a form, and with an empha sis, which Is likely to make its adver saries regret that they did not agree with the people while they were in the wsy with them. Tbe Amerioan spirit Is not dead though It la burled deep under preoc cupation, selfishness and ness, It comes to life when cation is adequate; and tbe provoca tion tc-day is qotte it adequate aa it SWEPT BY One Hundred and Fifty Persons Are Reported Killed. MINT ARE NEGROES 1 . Several Blocks of BaUdlngs Comoletely Demolished, After Which the Wreckage Took Fire. Greet Dsmige to Wires srd Other Properly. _ A dispatch from Mobile aays a prl vats long distance message recalved from Meridian, Miss., at 9 40 p. m.. ■ays the firs Is raging In tbe devastat ed district. 1%# work of tbe rescuers is going bravely mi, but owing to all lights being cut lanterns and candha are being need acd the work ts neces sary slow. It is thought that 160 bodies are in tbe wreckage. The union depot Is one of the buildings blown! away. Tbe telegraph wtr s are still down between Meridian, Mobile and other pointa. A large number of persona are mown to be killed and many sre miss Ing and unaccounted for at midnight. Among those known to be dead are: fire. Ella Singleton and granddaugh ter, Mackey Slaughter, Claude Wil iams. P. T. Molouls, conductor on and Ohio depot la safe as well as the Southern hotel, but the Grand Ave nue hotel waa considerably damaged, the guests In the latter building ee caping, and no one was Injured. From ths business centra the cy clone jumped to East End, where a □umber of residences were blown down and others badly damtged*. Mr. Breaux states that the number or lives lost ts small, probably not more than three or four persons. One of the viotims, a men named Johnson, la hemmed In by the wreckage and at 10 o’clock Friday night be was reach ed by tbe reicaerr, to whom he spoke and begged them to burry and extri cate blm. Severe! fires were started as a re sult of tbe cyclone but the only one of serlrui o msf quecoi waa that la one of the compresses. All Urea ware ex tinguished by 10 p. m. Mr Brpaux reports an trains entering tbe ffity on Urns. Wires of the telegraph comps Dies are still down. REDUCE ACREAGE. AND DIVERSIFY'CROPS IS THti ROAD TO SUCCESS FOR Perhaps no one feels this soon sen- sib'y than Mr. Tillman. And oertaln- y In that osae no one could be more ifljdhle than Mr. Tillman In Insist ing that the requisite alterations, even though they result In an entire- y new bill, shall be made. In Its final form, be what it may, It will go baok from the Senate to the House sad thence to the President. What will the President do with it? Should he venture to defeat, or to leave unsupported, a truly ure for relief from railroad opp nothing Is more certain than public obloquy will overtake him. Much will be urged on him abcut ''giving the railroads a square deal” and not alienating Investment of cap ital In railway enterprise but there la no danger of our being left railroad er of railroad millionaires being driven to the poorfaouse. Let him keep hU eye single upon the rights and needs of the pec pie, In the long long run—not aupljfe very ilther—cverv limb end O'* and. In long run, either—every limb- and 6' gau of tbe body corporate will per uke of the benefits. BTOHY OF A L1TT11 Whteh Went Avowna tbe ■lx Months. World Id Henry M. Fleldner, of Anderson, 8 0., received a letter Sunday from Cape Town, Africa. Baok of the receipt of the letter le an Interesting story. Last August, while living In Greenville, Mr. Fleldner read a news paper article telling of the t ffieiecoy of the postal system of the world, working In harmony with eaob other end determined to test the matter for himself. He addremsd a letter to himself at Cape Town, Africa. The envelope bore the request to be forwarded to Sidney, New South Wales, If not de livered at Cape Town, and If not de livered at Sidney to be returned to Greenville. Tbe letter was mailed on train Nil 11 at Greenville o.j August 16. end started on Its long journey. It was received at Caps Town on Saptembar 28, and was forwarded from there to Sidney, raaoblng tbe latter place oo October 19. Not being claimed at Sidney it was started baok to Green rille. It reached Seattle, Washington February 24, aud waa forwarded from Greenville to Mr. Fleldoer’s address In Anderson, reaching him on Febru- ary.26. Toe letter had bean traveling a lit tle over six months, and had been to anumber of different placee. The cl otoe and during that period three will not only be tbe eanae of woetoite “"■“I, |fo* whole squares were devested. which were Illegible, but waa still In toot and In good shape. Tbe cost of carrying the letter on Its long journey waa only 16 cento. Mr. Fleldner has the satls'aetkm of knowing tbat tbe postal ay a tern of tbe world le a pretty efficient Inetltotljn. He alec has tbs saUafactlon of know log tbat there Is nobody by tbe of Henry M. Fleldner at Cape Town, . _ _ Boutb Africa, or at Stoner, MM ANth I dings, tbe names of which are IWAKf/t 1 at Ibli boor, „ Tba Mobbi V • ~ . . . —-i-'af: Our Southern Farmers, Who Are Yqw at the Criati in the Got. ton Situation. This la the critical year with tbe Southern cotton farmer. This is the year that is to decide whether he has self-control enough to govern himself, or whether lack of self-eoutrol will again make him a slave of the speou- shall. Among the wounded are; ' Jharlea K.mlre, W. J. Wcodslde, T. I. Brown, Erneat Bennett, Frank Wiodruff, Will Yarbrough and W. 0. Morrison.''' - - . , v Information has reached Mobile by telephone, all telegraph wires bel g diwn, that a destructive tornado vix- ted Meridian, Mim., at 6 30 o’olook last evening, killing 21 white persons and over a hundred negroes and dam aging property to the extent of 11,- 600,000. There were also scores seri ously Ir jured bv being ccught In the wreckage of he uses. The tornado caught tlie city oo tbe southwest and traveled to the northeast, expending taelf in two suburbs where many ne groes were killed and In jured, a whole anement district being wiped out. | above tie pilOe of Two large wholesale stores, several smaller ones, part of the prinelpal lotel, the electric lighting plant and all the small property between tbe Mobile and Ohio railroad and the boai- part of tbe oity was badly dam aged. Twenty men were caught in one restaurant and several were killed Two stories of the Y. M. 0. A. build ing were wracked and other building* tuff and in tbe upper stories. The negro tenement district north of tbe city was demolished and the debris caught fire, threatening a new danger but the local department, with the jp of hundreds of oltlz ns, ov« reame ibis after a bard fight. They were assisted by torrential rain following the tornado. The oity la In darkness snd the full extent of the disaster will not be known until daylight Tbe known path of tbe storm was about 600 feet wide and one mile In length. A long dUtanoe message to Tbe Item from Meridian, Miss., says a cy clone aocom panted by heavy rain struck that city this evening at 6.30 ololQCk. Tha stnm centre waa In the that of .1906, If It la Increased, just in that proportion will prices decline There la nothing surer than that. Or if proof were needed, let any one ex amine the “Statistical View of the Cotton Situation” In tbe Manufactur ers' Record of January 27tfa by that unbiased authority, Col. Alfred B Sbeppenon, of New York. From Co.. Shepperson’s article wa get these In controvertible points: 1. Tha vleib'e supply cf eotton le materially larger n w than a year 2 E igliali mill* are likely to urn leu of our cottou tbia year, 'lu rev • f the very mu :b larg ir supply of E At Indian cotton this season and the comparatively high p; c;s of Ameri can o.itor (tow five rents per a jeaTeg Ci>l. Sheppersou, "1 think European mills will u>«,uur.!g the season 600,- 000 bales more of East Indian cotton than lut season and 400,000 bales lau of Amerioan ootton.” 3. Japanese mills will also require eu American option this year. Half they um In the East Indian cotton, and they have already Imported a large Mock of Amerioan ootton. OoL southern portion Of the oity and part Icularly hea-y along Front street, one of tbe principal business streets of tbe town. Nearly every house on Front street Is reported to have been demolished. The Armour Packing plant from which this ms celved by long distance, la tbe only building left standing and the roof ol this is gone. Fire broke out in the ruins and de spite tbe heavy rain, the fl imes were burning fiercely when this report was filed. A cumber of bodies are report ed to be in the ruins and the rescu ;rs are working by caudle light. Tbe city is in total ( darkness, tbe electric lighting plant having been put out of busloeu. The cyclone did severe damage at other points ad j loeut to Meridian and all trains entering Mer idan are delayed Indefinitely. Tbe The Western Union Telegraph comp any reported having lost ! 6 miles of wire and the Postal Telegraph com pany also suffered great damage. Tbe wires are down between Atlan ta, Blrimgham, Memphis and other pointa’ and it la Impossible to secure communication with the stricken oity. A long distance message to The Item from J. D. Breaux, service man of tbe Cumberland Telephone compa ny at Meridian, Miss., glvu complete detailsnf the cyclone that struck Maridtan at 6 30 o’clock Friday evan lag u follows. During a heavy rain storm at 6.30 o'clock a storm cloud developed In the south and moved on the^olty, striking Fnnt street, the tuslnese centre with full fores. The wind waa prob ably blowing 75 miles an hoar. The cyclone .passed over in about two min or squares were devested. A conservative estimate places tbe num her of buildings blown down at be tween 30 fnd 40. 1 Among the heaviest losers are tbe Meyer A Neville Hardware company Tons Lvle A Co., wholesale dry goods and groceries; Joseph H. Moore, wholesale dry goods anddroeerlce; the Hew 0 releans and Nortnwsstern rail road freight depot and other boil whether the WILL BEHELD. K Conference of £he Friends of the State Dispensary MAY BE CALLED SOON To Ontaaixe For Next s Fight le the Deomcratk Primary. 41 Cssidstes Are te be ptiled to Slate Where Thry Stead. Toe Columbia Rioord says it is ex tremely probable that the leaders Id this State will eall vention or coo Irenes at a early date to outline a progranune ter the coming campaign. The Information that this Is bstaf aer.oualy co is der d «x m$» frost aa In side source tbat la high enough ng tt now what is being talked of and what V likely to be done. It le understood to be the Ini of zone of the' leaders to soon a call and send H to prominent for their signatures. The eall, which will name abate and arrange the Site tails for the convention, will than be promu'gUed. Tne-oblef obj oToflfie c wmtMftoCtnJfde i 'pfitoW and tofffdot an organ's ttion ter increased bey ondj tog tbe campaign vigorously. Toe or gan's ition may or may net provide d permanent heed to direct the cam paign, all tbat being a matter of de tail for the ieadeis to deeide Snob a sail, It it believed, create a sensation In the give notice to the enemies of piuA vry tbftt they were a^a>< it a much atiffer than thry h .d T im CoL. ef-. oee piste fcufe suggestion of any governor or anything of that d d the famuns March con 1893 that put fo.vard Bsojamta lillman aa the reform eenldile ter governor of tha state. The foot, however, that nearly all the field are regarded a* openly or so* credv hostile to tbe ooetlnoattoB of the dispenearv system would undoubt edly lead, it le belie red, to oooa.deratloo of men who ably command the rapport of pie of the state. This have an important »-*»**«§ on the campaign. — Dispensary advocates who eat thinking of a convention want to do Sbeppenon thinks tjie Japanese de- oos thing: That Is to prozlds mand will he for 160,00) fewer bales qhan last year. 4. India with If Ireirnaard nrop will probably send 600,000 more bales to Europe than last season, and this also means a lessened demapd for our Southern product. 6 Egypt alaq comes up with a ma terially increased crop—a fifth warn- place In the field a large ing against a big Southern orop. Most of ries of direct questions for to answer as to their attitude to the dispensary and their wilHncmmi to amend the laws with the objMI of jtrengtheotng and making popular the InfUtution. It Is real's xd that of the principal objects of the anomten cf tbe dispensary system will be to fi Most of the new Manchestery mills of which we have beard so much are for spinning fine yarns from Egyp tian cotton—tnd so do not call for the excepted increase from oar South ern farms. „ 7. All In all then, Col Sbeppersoc az- seris that with a materlsly increased supply of our ootton on band, “the estimated consumption of American cotton by tbe world’s mills this- sea son wll be only 11,368,000 bass.o AOO OOfr baie* less thro last siaion." In velw of these facts, and in view of the farther fact Wat throughout the South there Is an unusual demand for guano and for mules, says tbe Progressive Farmer and Ootton Plant, It is indeed high time for tbe South ern farmers to call a halt and take their bearings. ^ And there Is no better way for them to work out orthls difficulty than to come twgether In tbs Cottou Growers’ Association, and resolve that the South with Its laurels of victory freeb on its brow; must not now comma financial suicide must not lDcresw> tbe cotton acreage beyond that of 1905. Let orop diversification be tbe watchword. There Is money In corn. In peas, in fruits, In vegetables, In live stock. If we keep our ootton aoreage where It Is aud make supplies for ourselves and our neighbors from thcae other crops, the South will mod become the richest section of oar country. If we /S wild over ootton and repeat the blander of 1904, the mortgage and the orop lien will again return to haunt us and to mock us for our folly Go to your Ootton Growers’ meet- logs, orgsnixa each township and county aa directed elsewltere in this issue, and prepare for tbe contest. Tbe Southern farmers have shown that they have the manhood and szet- tle to stand adversity. Tbe next forty days will show whether they have the prudence and self-control of stand praraerity. Or- jgaoiz) your township.— At New - York Thomas Dottman ■hot and killed his brother-In-law, Thomas Fennen, during a quarrel over tbe death of Fennen's young wife, Dettman’s sister, wbqee body at tbe Um of tbe shooting lay awaiting burial In an gd joining room. Dett- oanl dates who will ties, and, If also ted do all power to knife the system It le desired to make every hie real colors and to anaouaae be proposiStodo. Tbe man wnu Is position will not receive any from ths dispensary element and will have to depend for hie eteottaa on tba opposite elsmt.^ Toe teeue Is to btAP dearly drawn that there any dodging or trimming will be tolerated. Every Ume every wnere a Oinidate shows bis na m in is- ugHl dtmt and judged by the aoswer be gives. Editorially Tne Record says the annuuooemeLt made In Tbe tbat there will oe held soon to oity a conference of friends of the dispensary la of much Importance to connection with tbe fortoeoatfag campaign. Tbs Issue as to the pensaryisjitem has been baoleoded so m%uy unsupported stat direct ml*representations that It Ig me .-Mary that aomei organ: zjd cl be made to deaf tbe situation so i tbe people may cUArly the iisue. We do not oeileve prohibition wlU ta muoa of ao Issue—that Is wa go uot thick anytolng hka deaf a ma jority vi the pepple favor sueb •t handling the uqi.ur trafflo. do we believe the license system wtH cut any considerable figure, bat i tne main issue will ba between ai dispensary and county Tbe monstrous evils of the were dearly, unmistakably and u» questlotiy shown dorin tbs last lag- lalature. Notwithstanding that to waa It that tbe Intention of pensaryitee was to dertroy and Mil form that nothing elee wmdd be ip» toned to. Solo tbe oomteg aaaa- paign that same elemmit wte i first to destroy, whatever Um « quanom may be. Tberwtitl Uculary concerned abbot a control of the liquor I sumption of liquors, object la to destroy Um i ■ary. That there or an alllabbe of prohlbiUonlata, high I