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'-"77 VOL. XXXI. BABNWBLL. S.C., THUBSDAY, JULY 12, 1906. NO. 40. Celebratiflg the NATIONS BIRTHDAY. FLKK IN PANIC At Excelsior, Minn., by the prenoa- I ture explosiOQ of a quantity of fire ' works In front of the Casino late Wednesday nlgnt, Louts A. Dick and ,—-— i . . E D. Thompson were seriously In- People Killed and Wounded in h a?e a andlnthe p&ntcamong the 5,- ' w ~ r ' \ oco people gathered to wltoe» the 1 display, Teddy Montgomery, 14 years old, was tramp ed upon and badly hurt. SKULL CRACKBD. Mrs. William Snyder, aged 35 years, while witnessing the display of fireworks In bluflton, Ind., Wednes day night, was hit on the head by an unexpected aerial bomb.' Her skull was fractured and the accident will result In her death. LOCKJAW FROM WOUND. AtEkhardt, Ind., Riy Browning, 12 years old, died Wednesday from lockjaw, resulting from a wound caused by t^ ei phjslon of a blank cartridge. Frink BstCbloet an eye by a giant firecracker. ' THROWN INTO WATER. At Om&ha, N. b , nearly one bun died persons were precipitated Into about 16 feet of water at Loke Mana- wa, a pleasure resort on the Iowa side of tbe river, by the collapsing of a landing dock Wednesday night. Mary Dtersier, sgrd 20 years, Is miss log. Len BoseLbloom was ancon soious when taken out and had not recovered conscl usness at a late hour and Mias Chamblin is thought to be fatally Injured internally. The crowd was watching a display of fireworks on the water and bathlt g by electric lignts when the duck suddenly sank Into the lakei All the victims live at Omaha. * ill. —■ II ■ I ■ . "" MU— f. WILD DASH OF CAE. THE FIRST GUN In Defence of the State Dispen sary Fired at Sandy Flats BI SEN4T0R1ILLM1N. 38 * 1 11 7 4 1 5 Thirty-Elfht Killed Outright and Two Tbeossed Seven Hundred end. Eighty-Nine Injnnd According *> : — — : to tbe Compilation of the — —-> U - :r:z. - Chicago Tfibune. ,On last Thursday the Chicago Trtbnne published its ninth aucusl summery of deaths and injuries caus ed throughout the United States by tbe Fourth of July celebration. The following are tbe figures: Dead.......... By Fireworks By joannon By firearms By explosive!!......—- By toy pistols { By runaways.. Be drowning Ilogured . v r Bp fireworks... ..I,06« /By cannon 281 By firearms 3S3 By explosives 897 By *97 plntola •.•••••• 394 By runaways. ... 35 Fire Ions. tb6 450. In GhjMKo: injured. 166 im year 42 person■> were klUeo outright, but when 1< j aw and .other diseases induced by It juries bad o m- pleted their work over 400 lives had been saerlfioed.. Tbe number of injured, 2 789, is In exoem of last year s figures by 358. ONB KILLED ONE INJURED. Only one death wm» reputed in New York as the result of celt brating tbe noted day of the nation. Morris Sja- plro, a Seltzer water mail.factum, : was shot In the head by ; a stray bullet as be waf driving In HafUm. He died noon afterwards. The police were un able to leam where tbe bullet came from. At tbe Sheepsbead Bay race track, while standing In a crowd John Fowler of Buffilo, N. Y., was wound ed in tbe beau by a stray bullet. FIVE HOTS ARE KILLED Wanamie, Fa., a mining town, was- thrown Into a fever of excitement toil evening when a U ud report was heard similar to that of a mine explosion Men, women and children ran to tb* scene, and w on disooveied that Hvr boys were killed and nine others In jured by oelctrailrg the Fourth o! July They bad placed p< wder In s Says It’s Mach Harder to Keep Forty Conntv Dlrpeosaries Pure Tima Oae State DUp nsary, aud In dulges In some Plain Talk. —i— -Certain L«gl Gators. Senator B. R. Tillman fired the first gun In this campaign On a Mountain Orade In Pennayl- Tania ProTed Moat Fatal. in defence of tbe State Dispensary on Saturday at Sandy Flats in Jreenvllle County. He was greeted by a large and enthu siastic orowo, and as usual the Sena tor presented hia views with clearness and force. He does - not believe In OountyiDlapensarles and gives his rea sous He outlines bis Ideas as to how the State Dispensary can be run hon estly and pays bis respects to the members of the L'gislature who re fused to v te for measures to reform the dispensary at the last session. We print below tbe full text of tbe Sena tor’s speech, and «re feel sure it will he read with interest: Tuere is but one Important issue Involved install campaign so far as TSfeven map who were returning from Portage to Puritan, both min , were tmw oirtEer Mar tin's Bia&oh, > spur running from Portage to Puritan, a distance of fuur miles, by a runaway car which nad been started down the steep mountain grade by some unknown person. Tne miners had been to Portage and were returning to their uomes. When the oar was finally stopped near Portage It was seen that the wheels were covered with blood and shreds of ciothifig, and an inves tigation disci sed the bodies of the men laying along tne Hack. Some of the bodies were a half mile AP*rt. candid icy it rests on the record which I have made since I entered public ofe sixteen years ago and the intimate knowledge which the people of the SiAte have of my oharaoter, personal ity and qualifications. 1 am willing to leave it there without discussion or presentation. The fight Is State Dispensary vs. County Dispensary, for no one expeots the prohibition oandi dates, however worthy and well quel tiled they may he, to receive very much support. With all their effjrts (and uiey have been many and long oon slnueo) the newspapers which have always fought the dispensary have not been able to drum up a candidate 3t more than two oodiesirere foundttorG;riraor who advocates local op iu any one spot. The rsllroad track tion straight as against dispensary is generally traversed by people going | »ul prohibition, and only In Ouarlea contend that it Is. E /eh If one half ol the bounties !n the State sliould adopt tbe prohlbltlon-bliud-tlger jug trade program It would be better, more economical and there woull be i possibility of corruption and pe oulatlon In tbe purchaae and handling of liquor in the other dispensary ooun ties, if the buying, bottling and ship plug should be done at one central depot, instead of Id each o junty. It must Dot be forgotten, b 'osuse It kv the undemanding (and a bargain was made) during tbe fight In the leg Islature last winter against thd State Dispensary, that the ultimate pur pose la to have Charleston wholesale liquor dealers supply the county dis pensaries as well as tbe jug trade by express Id dry counties; and while this would be hotter than to have this li quor shipped in from North Carolina and Georgia, as It now is, because it would keep the money at home, I do not believe that the people of the Btate are now willing or will ever be Wing to see the State Dispensary 'destroyed, with the inevitable result that liquor selling' will gradually g i back to the old system of private con trol. I would be glad to have Char leston prosper, bat it is not the loss of tbe tlquBf trade that has hurt Charleston.. Giber things are to bla^ne. The Issue between private control and control by state i til Hals mus hinge at last on tbe qiestion of whether or not the people of South Carolina shall determine that we cau not find honest men enough to carry on the dispensary system and devise laws to make those who are dishonest afraid. I say we can. I do not be lieve that every man who bandies whiskey must become a tblef. I be Ueve tbat the people only need to see and £now that the dispenrary system cau be reformed and cleansed of cor ruptlon to make them stand by it. I will proceed tog.vj tbe plan whlci This it true lu a way and It was a very great mistake, yet the Governor’t oath of efflie r quires him to’‘set that the laws are executed In merey. ’ And with the power to appoint oon stables at his discretion and detec tives also when needed It cannot b< denied that the demoralization ant corruption which have been so muct in evidence would have been prevent ed by the Governors using trust/d agents to keep supervision over tbs Dispensary system and see whether the law was being oarritd out. I dir this, but my successors seem to hav* thought it unnecessary or too muot labor. I not only watched the dls peasers, but I watched the constables too through a detective who reported to me alone. The neoesalty for tbi more rigid enforoem«nt of all lav makes the coming (ration for Gover nor Important. Things have b eu run too loowly and too little regard pak to enforcing the law, I criticise nc one, but limply give tbe people tbt facts as 1 see them and, of course, they alofie can apply the remedy. W> should elect the Governor who will do this and do it fearlessly and z lalously out there Is still small opportunity for graft In the scheme outlined, pr • vided the legislative committee whioi superintends the other State institu tions and the grand juries of tbe vart ous counties pay attention to their duties. No gov.rnment has ever been devised that would run itself and every government Is an index of thr intelligence, public spirit and patriot ism of Its people. If the people are ignorant and Indlff jrent and cease to watch and look after their affairs, thr government they give themselves U aevitably bad and they can blame no one but themseivet. The conditions In the dispensary now are directly traceable to tbi blundering and ne&lect of tbe legisla ture. That body placed the State AN IMPORTANT ACt'. A NE«T LAW AFFEOTINO BLIND TIGERS IN THIS STATE. be t _ __ _ ^ Dispensary in the hands of throe p )H Stote’ifl^sTo’, an^aTfor^iny**own »PPtors Vine aliV agie^-d«* of " • r thought and consideration of sugges to fitneu, experience or oharaoter, tions from very mapy sourcaa . to ba .thxew xio teatrtctloas whatever around the b^st/ We will oegin on the ooun from Portage to Puritan. Uars nevei ruu over toe line after nightfall. Toe car crashed Into a number of eais standing on the track and was wrecked Ac Investigation diselosec blood and paulaes of clothing on the wheels, ana stvsral mea were sent back over the txaok to see what^bad started the car on US wild trip, they had gone but a short dutanoe when they were borlfied by seeing the mangled remains lying beside the pipe and it failed in go off. Tney then I Li*ok.Golng fnrtiAr Miuther-body was forced a stick of rynamite into the I fouud. ijtveral hundred feet up the plpt iKid beufcQ pouniJiDff It. A ter ifcCiiue, two bodiea, horribly mtoglea rifle explosion followed. Four of the w * ie M* 6 trsek. Oa ana boys were badly mangled, and th* on toe searchers went and by the fifth died on the way to tbe hospital ^ey ^ of the U lured are so badly hurt j-elsvin boule* had oeen counted. The 1 accident is one of the most psoultai ^Abat they may die ; HURT BY CRACKERS. At Baton Range, La., giant (Ire crackeis 1> juicd two msnbers of thr LouiMkca state legislature during s Fourth of July parade of the bcuae of representatives. Tbe legislators light . ed and discharged tbe crack/ rs as they marched. One < spied/d before the ft» of MrrGbartes^rStroudbaqk, of New Orleans, tearing his hat and gashing his forehead. Another ton two fingers of Representative J7' M Hart, of Reaerve. Previous to the parade, a barrel was placed In the uoiw chambers, where the members bad been in session, and .giant oracken. mees exploded in it, spme of thtm big enough to jar almost the honae. • f ire state- ROCKED THK BOAT. in rocking a boat Boyish folly in rocking a boat led to the drowning 'July 4, eff Plum Beach, Sheepsbtad Bay, L. I., of two boyi, Benjamin Gcets ano Peter Z.m merman, and the narrow eicape of . lour more, whotwfire rescued by pass ing craft. FOUR PEOPLE KILLED. Reports from different rjtrts of In diana showed four fatalities and > large number of persons Injured as the result of tbe celebration of tbe Fourth The dead: Boy Browning, 12 years old at Elk tart, InQ.i blai k cartridge wound. John Hagir, atScuth Bend, ind., died of over-excitement. ,» Clarenoe Gant* 20 years of ege, at * Ml. Carmel, Ind’., urowned at plena. George Hempers, at Mt. Vernon, drowned in Ohio river. Fatally wounded: . Miaa Anna Parham, 16 years of age, at LaPorte, led., shot in side. Mrs. William Snyder, at Bluffton, Ind., struck by piece of bomb. . -. MX LIV ES LOST. Ox bodies, those of five young wo of Omaha, and an unidentified ware recovered from the waters Manawa where Wednesday _lt more than a hundred persons, Ue watching a display of fire works the lake, were precipitated into Sixteen feet of water fitm a floating dock. Eight persons were reported one of the mutt ihat ever occurred in the history o railroading in this seettonr" ~ An engine aud flat car wera sent ever the line and the bodies gathered and taken to a mining ttultm/nl near Purttan. • Four'"or ff»6 nten were iojared, but not seriously. Officials of the Puritan mine who have just been reached deo ared Tues day morning that Tt is their belies that the oar was started dawn the .ine. by strikers, the mines having started on a np union wtWr ^gft * — 1 i ■ i« ^ Will bwo« p the Uoantry. _At AbHeoe, Texas, Wednesday afternoou, speaking to an audienue o over 5,000 Senator Bailey declared in the moat emphatic and entbustautlc way his desire and belief that William J. Bryan will be nominated and elec ted to the presidency of tbe Unlteo States in 19o8 This declaration met with wildaip.&uae. Speaking of po- litloal oontriuutlons of tbe Imuranoc companies, he said that tbe people’s money was taken to elect Rooeevelt and MvK uley. Continuing be said: "Hear me, all the money that tbe in- uunoi p tentates have w'il not be able to buy toe election In 1908 Againsj Wi l am J. Bryan. I tell you more, my countrymen,” Senator Ball- TO PRATE. Mich., _Jceepbine 4, was burned to death lamee wWsh oommun- eyooutiiued, uulesa the R-publloan party shall recognize the proud and Inolguant judgment of the American people ana pass a law making It a crime no buy an American president, Bryan’s vote in 1908 will be more unanimous Ujan McKinley’s was in 1896. ' ^ Alt* iiipted U# EaOapW. Black Diamond Rigsby, a negro unuer sentence to be banged, made a desperate break for liberty Wednesday whi.e being conveyed from New Or leans to Pisquemlne, La., to be exe cuted. Rigsby and George Poindex ter, another negro, both under the death sentence for onf of the most sensational murders in the history the States, were on their way to Pla- quemine under the guard of Sheriff Petit of Iberville parish. Petit’s prisoners had teen brought to New Orleans from Piaquemme, the scape of the murder, to ebOape threatened lynotang. About 70 milec from New Orleans Bigiby sudoenly produced a revolver and shot the sheriff in the thigh. The officer struggled with his prisoner until au armed peeseoger lent a bnUet Uirougn Rigsby’§ head, ton does that lues have any men of fering for o ffice under it. The looai option offered the people is between prohibition aud county dispensary, and the whole fight la to destroy the State dispoeary first with no other purpose tuan to then obtain the prlv Uege of reopening the old barrooms under the new guise of L'quor store "aedlng under cons I.uticnal limita tions.” Tue real tight is for ooutroi of the legislature biOause the Gover nor cannot make or change the laws and can only try io enforce them. His only Influence over legislation would he In the use of the veto power. But It is all important to get a strong and good man for Governor. The times distinctly demand one* - la any event some oountie! will itand by prohibition fwlta Its blind tigers and heavy jug trade by express. Ocher counties will vote, for county dispensaries and toe cities where the principal newspapers are published wtHiiave the~Bghi on the issue of •state Dispensary or County Dispense ry with toe ultimate purpose of having the county dlspenianer turned into licensed barrooms If the county dls pensarles are abolished. The scheme is to restore toe sa'e of liquor to pri h**!* seveia. j vate individualii rather than let it re main in toe haniU of state ifficiala. Tnose who o anor for cuiiaty uispen sailes Instead of one State Dispensary mu it demons, rate how it ulaslsr t prevent ojrruptlon among the thirty or forty ebunty boards than to stop it in one State Board. I Dave great faith in the gooo common sense of toe people and do not believe they oan be pertuaded to destroy toe State Du penaary and leave each county to purchase and sell its own l'quor. Yet Tne State and The News and Courier which have always hated toe Dispen sary "Worse than the devil hates holy wa ter” are advocating candidates who favo county dispensaries. The only posal bly good reason that oan be advanced on tola line is that the prohibition counties under toe constitution re oeive a part of the profits which arise from toe sale of irquor in the -other counties. This Is unjust as everyone uat acknowledge, but it oan be rem edied very eashy by having toe State Dispensary make no profits other than a few thousand dollars above its run ning expenses, thus leaving the ooun tics and the towns to divide the pro fits between them. This oan be easily done and when we consider tbe ex pence of buying liquor in retail quan titles and paying local freights on it instead of buying* earload lots sod paying through freights the Bounty dispensary cannot stand toe compart of I son. But tola is net toe greatest ob jection. The leakage or stealage in bottling of liquor at each county dispensary would be immenss and 1 know of no way that it cooiff be prevented, nor do I know any by wnlch it would be poe- slbie to prevent tbe whiskey being watered, bottles refilled, relabeled ano other soheases of making money dis honestly, If toe system wen adopted. It is not possible to prevent it end I kilk ifinnot think any sensible man who will aextoiBly ties. County DUpeosers should be elected dn tbe Democratic pr mary the same as other effljers. The,County Board should be com posed of the Mayor of the toyrn 1q whloh a dispensary is lo oated, the Supervisor of the Canty, who is tbe business agent of tbe coun ty, and one man appointed by tbe Governor. Tbe County Dlspensei should be removable by the Governor for cause. The State B,aid of Con trol ought to be elected by t «e IsgU- lature, but Hi duty ahauld be contu'd to general direction and supervision of i be bu laess the same as tbe Peniten tiary and H wpltal for toe losaoe are run. It should not purchase any euiskey or anything else required in toe business. Everything nqitred, including toe whiskey, should be bought under annual contracts made as follows: After toe State Commls sloner has advertise(Lln-- the manner prescribed by law (and this ought to be very clear and specific, leaving nothing to the discretion of anyone, and going fu ly Into detail/) the bids should be opened in public by three men selected just bef Jre the date fixed oy tbe GjVernor and the contract made with the lowest bidder byJtoe year for the supplies to be ordtred'oui jy the Commissioner as needed. Thest three men are to serve only ones and annually there shall or thrseruew mefi^ chosen to make the contracts. Tue bidders will not know who will make the awards and thertf >re cannot en ter Into collusion in advance and even should toe Governor, whlohJa me on oeivable. ba willing to select a board which would act corruptly, the specl dcations of the bidding made witb minuteness and tbe publicity would -prevent any graft. ~No whiskey nr liquor—ahogli be purchased except from' Government bonded warenouses; In tne cose of wines -and beer the brewers should alone fnralsh the first direct from the breweries, and the smail q lantitv of toe other-used could be htdged about in the advertleemeut so as to Insure honesty and the purest and -best artl ole. For the information of those who is venue Licenses Cau Hertalter i v. ’ ~ Used i gainst Them in the Etate Courts. _ The Columbia Record says collector Mioah Jenkins of the internal revenue offioa at Columbia haa received from toe treasury department at Washlng- /on -ac py of a very important act .tassed by tbe rooent congress that will ffaot the teatimony given by proseou- ore in blind tiger casea. - It abould be ' xplained that all or nearly all, blind Jgere secure a retail i’qior license from tbe government before they at- r .empt to violate the State dispensary AW. The government would not permit the book containing the list of Been* as to be exhibited In tbe State oourts, biding that toe government had ex elusive Jurisdiction over the govern- nent books and also holding tbat gov ernment officials should not be allowed to testify in toe State oourts oonoern lug the lioensesissued. Asa result State officials in States or counties where the sale of whiskey was prohib ited, could never obtain prims fade svideoce from the government that would be admitted lu any court. Some >f the congressman from tbe western States, however, got together and had the following sot passed "That chapter three of the revised statues of the United States be and oereby is amendsd ip section 3.240 so u to read: "Each collector of Internal revenue ihall, under regulations by toe cum mlsildfett of internal revenue, place and kee^bcnstlotously in bis office f i Unahta Says He Did Not Tefl What Was Quoted oo paid shat the administration, left tbe door wide open, limited the salary to S400 And now we see the result. I have always >ald and believed it was designedly/ done to destroy it. Politics and fitness have most always controlled the legislative elections, but no amount of salary alone would cure toe evil of which we complain. The original Board was composed of the Governor, Attorney General HE DENIES IT. THE WITNESS ST IND By Parker tmi frbertsoa la the Msptt- sary laves tJgstioe Abort Hia Bay- •■I Bovkla. Says These Oeatlesien Mi.aoderstood __ WhslHsR^ - ~ ^ Mr. Wm. H. Lyles, a proatiorat lawyer of Columbia, appeared before he dispensary Investigating oomsaib- tee while it was in seation last week and made the following statement: "Just as I same In on the train, a paper was handed me by William Lenahan with toe request tost I make the statement to tot oomsuttee that they would ba glad to have any of their matters investigated shortly. That they bad expsoted same to ba investigated, but 4he subcommittee while in Baltimore had not called - jpon them and they would ba glad to maka any showing that was wanted.’ 1 Mr. Lyon mads the following sa* planation why Lanahan A 8jus wen not investigated: I would iika to ax plain why the suhojmmittea did not call on Lana han & Bona. The list of creditors * ubllc lusp ction, an alphabetical He: 114(1 h® 80 furnished >f all persona who shall have special taxes in bis 44stfiet, and »tate thereon the tiuie, place and bus ‘.ness for whloh such special taxes shal uave been paid, and upon appltoatioo >)f any proseouttng officer of any State county or munlolpallty he shall fur nish a certified copy thereof as of a public record for which a fee of one dollar for each hundred words or frac tion thereof in the copy or copies re quested shallbs charged.” Ibis means that the State cffljlals here interested in toe suppression or and tita ComptrolISr General, three of lh# blind tigers may obtain from the our highest State-officials elected by tne people, but the vital mistake was in not making strict rules and regula tions for the purchase of whiskey. The enemies of tbe D ape nsary declare that it is inherently vicious and that it cannot be purified. This cry is in dicative that those who thus contend practically ccnfesa that they have lost all faith in the honesty of man or of tbe ability of men to give themselves just and honest government. I for one do not believe that all of the hon est man are dead.' The paopia are disgusted and they bare a right to ba, but the one crime whloh they should not forgive is the failure of the last legislature to change toe law so as to prevent say further stealing and to restore the dispensary system to its original purpose, that of controlling whiskey and minimizing. the evils in- separaole from Its sale and use. The enemies of tneDijpensary were bent on-ki.ling it and tne combination of I collector of internal revenue certified copies of all those who have obtaintd government llceases and tbat as they practically contain tbe seal of toe gov ernment may be inlrodooed in any court in the State and thus become aa Instrument for conviction of the lew break ir. Tbe office In Columbia has not yet received any requests for cer tified copies of the list of licen e hold ers in South Carolina probably because the law is not generally known, but It wHl not be long before toil kind of evidence will be used in tbe State courts. No change has been made in tost section of the act forbidding gov ernment revenue officers from testify Inf concerning tha holdaw of these are not posted 1 will say that the Government beaded warehouses are under th» control of the Ualted States Internal Revenue officials entirely and whiskey deposited In them cornea dl rectly from the still and tne owner Is not permitted to manipulate It or handle It in any way until the tax is paid and It is removed. We thus get a guarantee of absolute purity without a chemical analysis and such liquors Are as muoh staple articles of com merce as corn, wheat or bacon. It is the blended and rectified whiskeys that are adulterated and where tbe cheating comes in. Tne blending and mixing could be done in the State Dispensary where there would be no incentive to increase profits by adul terations, besides the law would pro vide severe penalties for that kind of thing. The County Dispensers being sleet ed by tbe people will be anxious to plsass the people as they will be beaten at toe polls if they do not do their duty. The County Board chosen as indicated will be responsible to the people also with every incentive to give a good* administration. Tbe whiskey purchased in that way will be as pure and as good as oan be ob tained under any possible conditions end there is absolutely no way in which corruption oan creep in, if there is toe least effort on tbe pert of toe people and toe Governor to prevent Tbe trouble with tha Dispensary now is that our Governors have neg leebed their duties and have not kept supervision over tha workings of tha local dlspensars and tha Stale Board. Excuse m%y ba found for tois by say lag tha legislature put the Diapeon ry bayuod the t Governor’s control. political and other influeLoss in the flu use having foiled In tost, ocaapell- ed the election of a new Board because toey refused to change the law and continued all of the old and proven evils. It was the most glaring betmy- al of the people’s interests that iliave ever known respectable white men to be guilty of, and while many of tlem are my fileuds, at least -pnatloally, 1 take the responsibility to say mat every-man who refused to put safe guards arcuad the purouase of whis key and change toe systun of m&n- agemeut in me ia»t kgistamre ooght to be left at home. S^cu men cannot be trusted. They put partl&an advan tage above public duty. L^glslatore are pot the masters of, the people. I'ney are toelr seivauts and the people had -liutT instructed’ them to abolish the h^Ate Dispensary tor there was no Such issue when they were elsoted; and when they them- 1 selvas were responsible or their prede cessors were responsible for the cor ruption wnlch tuey had reason to be lieve existed, it is incomprehensible to me now any man with the least idea of obligations to the people who elecioJ him could act as that legisla ture did. The people have a ilgut to destroy the dispensary, but no mete representativs of toe people bas e right to assume such a responsibility as tbat would have been without having a campaign aod making the issue before the people and getting instructions from them. All 1 hav; ever asked is to have all of toe white people pass on the question and let the majority govern. I do not believe la permitting newspapers to dictate to a few scheming politicians and lo trade among themselves and settle the question. If tha people of a county want no liquor sold in It, 1st them vote for legislators to aay so and lor the candidate for Governor who advo cates that. Let us be open and hon est in our politics and not vote for fence straddlers and effloe seekers who will say and do anything to get elected. Four L,« K*.d UbioReu The Laurens correspondent of The State says last Saturday Mr. Sam Simpson, who lives about tlx mll« below Clinton, brougnt quite a freak to town in toe way of s chicken, which h*d four well developed legs, and tobohiag tbs ground at too chicken stood ereet. Ojs of its legs corns out just under tne left wing, one just above tbe ‘‘di-bag” fod tbe otasr twb in shM* —tnfj mmUoK' V-* licenses. Crew Lom. -The loss of four men sod of the three-masted schqo.qer.EJa G. Eils r rt Backport, Maine, bound from New Bs&ford to Windsor, is reported in a message received from Oapt. Breen, the-eebooner, 'torubTyr survivor. The schooner was wrecked on Libby island. When the ves&sl as broken up by the surf on the submerged Isdgs, toe captain and crew clung to a large section of tbe-stern of the sehooner. This was thrown against the rocks on Libby Island and all ex oept tbs captain were sucked back by tbe undertow and drowned. CSpt. Breen grasped a rope thrown out by life savers and was drawn to safety. ~ • \ * *~ "-WTTT A spco'al from Wadesbcro, N. 0., says. "Early Wednesday morning just acroM the line in Union county, whloh borders Burnsville township, 6f that county, Wat Hill shot and killed Marlon Burgees, Burgess and his wife were in a buggy together when be was killed and the cause of the killing oould not be learned, but it is supposed to have been the result of bad blood between tbe parties. Hill lives in Uuion county and Bur gess in this oouuty. Burgess is seid to have bsen a notorious whiskey dealer aud bsars a very bad reputa tion. Only a few weeks ago he knock ed his wife in the head. Both mao are White.” V A General Mlnaghter. *A dispatch from Warsaw, Ruttiao Poland says the recent rumors that the terrorists were organls ng a gen eral slaughter of toe police, were parnelly corroborated when two policemen were shot dead and two were mortally wounded simultaneous ly In various parts of the city. lu monscque&tifr of the attask made oo tbe police the latter have been with drawn from the streets, whloh are now patrolled by infantry. Terrorists shot and killed a gendarme and aa infantry captain named Tobolziff, toe latter having been accused by revqflp tlonary papers of commanding pla toons at sxreutiQns. Tha awittlns escaped. Senator Christensen al Columbia bad Lanahan & Sons down for M00. I knew that MOO was no inducement to Lanahan, aod it was reported to ue chat he said he would prefer to loee that than auomit to an InvosUgatioe. We have heard since tbat time that his claims were somewhere 110,000 and 112,000—that tha meat furnished us was not correct. I isle phoned Mr. Tatomthis morning to send it up, and 1 presame ho will eentMt up some time this evenfciff.” Mr. R. H. Welch, urther lawyer, who wes preeent, aroee and following statement: 1 wish to introduce the affidavit of Mr. Lanahan lu the matter of the testimony of Lewis W. Parker and B. w. R jbsrtson. 1 wish to introduce it as a pan of the record. leanaotpro duce Mr. Labahan and this la tha jest l oan do. Affidavits have bean accepted under similar elrejmstanoee before end 1 do not see how it tan be refused.” It will be remembered that Mr. Parker testified to Mr. Lanahin’s en ure dissatisfaction with ooodlihms at toe Stats dispensary, as Laoahan had thousands of dolare in vested in South Caroline. Tula was easreboratsd by Mr. B. W. Rooemon, and Mr. W. A. dark tMOledlo otoar eoovereationa nature whloh he had, had of a lUm with iff. *1 Mr. Parker went mom into detalle and testified that Mr. Tisnsiiil wish ing to remeBy tite situation had em ployed Mr. L- W. Boykin to wpre- hiBvon the board, Or si least it was testified that Mr. Lanahan had ao stated. Furthermore ha had be- ooms disistisfled with Mr. Boykin's services aud had employed another agent wooee name bes never been made public. Now, in reply to UUe .testimony, Mr. Welch, representing Mr. L. W. Boykin, presented the following fliavit from Mr. Lanahan: State of Maryland, County of Rich land. Personally came before me S. J. Lanahan woo, upon oath, depones and says that with reference to the leetl- mony of Mr. Lewis W. Parker before the dispensary investigating oommlt- teo at Columbia, S. 0., on toe Cto day ol June, 1916, he makes the following statements: Mr. L. W. Bjykin was employed by toe firm of William Lanahan 4 Son as a salesman, but this was months prlgr to his election as a member of toe board of directors of tbs State dispensary; that Mr. Boykin had severed his ounnecUon with said firm as said salesman and otherwise about a year before his srtdelseUon. White Mr. Boykin was in our employ a said salesman he was paid a ttlary, of course, but tote salary oeaeed the mo ment he severed his oonnectkm with toe firm as salesman. He haa never oeen in our employ since nor have 1 or any member of our firm paid him one dollar or other wise rtam he sever ed his ooaneottoa is above stated with our business. I never told Mr. Park er anything dlffsrent from this. From what Mr. Parker has taotiflsd to hr fore tne committee he baa evidently saner entirely what I nave said and meant or .his Uon of what was said it erroneous. I never meant by any thing that was said to convey the 1m- treisioa tbat white Mr. Bjykte wan* member of thn btord jbn j me or my firm orabai wet nim out cent. SamtotJ Says Its Bryww- At Gresnsboro, N. a, W. W. Kit- Ohio was unanimously renominated for being imprisoned six days in a*i congress by the Desfiborate of toe flf.h district. Mr. Kitobln bu ahead) ounsnofl served foot consecutive terms in sap ad were weened alive greas. In his apeeen of aooeptanae Mr. Kitobln Mid that much prates of President Booaeveit wit beard, bat that it vvaa due to tbe stood anon the main planks of the Demoerstte he Tj: mi J. Bryan In 1908. * He predtetod i eteotten of Wife i -W. t mBMimiiw!iif a . .V t'