IN RADICAL DAYS. Chester Negro Tells of Time When H Was a Senator. How Wade Hampton redeemed th State in carpetbagging days in Sout Carolina formed the topic of a rar interview with Greene Coleman, c Charlotte, yesterday, when the age negro, once a State senator, wearin a high beaver hat and Prince Albei coat, was in the seventh zenith c negro heaven in the halls of the ol South Carolina State house at C< * * T i-ii. lumDia, says tne ^iia-nutte wuscivc, "Them was days when de nigg was in his glory fo sure," remarke Coleman, as he related with a relisl recollections of 1875 and '76 whe the carpetbaggers and the niggei held the State of South Carolina ? their mercy; when the corridors ( the State house at Columbia reeke with drunken statesmen, when thoi sands of dollars worth of liquors an cordials and choice cigars were kei constantly on tap at the State hous for the hundred or more nigger ser ators and 'statesmen' and their cai petbagging friends, who conducted reign of terror second only to th days of the Roman upheaval. The skies were overcast with dar ominous clouds of social and polit cal unrest back there in '75 and '7 when Wade Hampton stepped in an redeemed the fair name of the Pa metto State, with the cooperation c native whites and the since-famou "red-shirts" whose loyalty and devc tion to their intrepid leader and ir "born courage within their blood-re shirts turned out every negro froi a statesman's berth, stopped the lool +Via Olota troQciirv hri'rllp "AS KJL tliO wivuUUA j ) w* graft and bribes and again mad South Carolina righteous and ue ashamed. And Greene Coleman, then a resi dent of Chester, S. C., and a typica negro of his day and time in intell: gence and moral stamina, was elecl ed to office by his henchmen and nig ger voters, to represent Chester i the State legislature. The old ne gro tells about it with rare frank ness. He described in his own inimitabl way how the niggers and carpetbag gers ran rampant with the people' money and with their voting powei appropriations for anything unde the sun being as readily obtained a a match with which to light a twer ty-cent cigar purchased at the es pense of the commonwealth. Ther were maybe, he says, 150 niggers i the halls of the State legislature bac ' there in '75 and '76, and every on of them felt that it was a wonderft time for the black race. And the made every minute of it count be cause deep in their hearts they kne^ a day of reckoning would come, an when it did?they realized the negr would be no more in the exalte places so rudely usurped by the pow er of men who stripped the State c all it held dear and sold themselve ? to the highest bidders. Votes were sold openly and with out shame, ten, twenty, thirty, at time some for as high as a hundrei dollars and others as low ^s five an< ten dollars, according to the amoun of graft the niggers had been tob were available. Greene Coleman ad mitted without a touch of shame o remorse, that the highest price h ever obtained for his vote in th South Carolina State house was $10' in United States currency, and it wa a "heap sight of money" to a nigge brought up on a plantation in thos< days. Then the former Chester negri told of the silent, mysterious, awe inspiring activities of the Ku-Klux Klan and the terrible way in whicl one after another negro senators an< lawmakers of the day before disap peared as if the earth had opene< and swallowed them until the fea of the wrath of God or some unseen unknown force turned craven the nig ger heart and his little stock of cour age oozed through his skin until i left him weak, hollow eyed and shiv ?ring on the threshold of frantic de spair. "We took our meals with the whit carpetbaggers at the hotel near th< State house in Columbia and slep there too, when we got any slee] because thero was gambling goins on all night and games of chance fo money and such things, but we mixei with the white folks all the time am at night we had carriages and span of horses to draw us about town o wherever we wanted to go with ou beaver hats and our good clothes Oh, boss, things come easy in thos days. "Yas sir, boss, I done sold m votes "many en many a time for mos cash in sight but the highest bid eve T erit u-fls $1 00 pn T tnrks it in m jeans like all de rest. I didn't ear no moah for South Carolina den wha I could git outen it, jes like all of d white folks en niggers in power der days. We had good liquor too in ou desks and out in de halls where w could ask folks to take some wit us, en we had pages fer to wait o us like we all was lords of the land. 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Wade Hamp- tales, 1 y e ton, twice governor of South Caro- explica .t Una, and how Hampton's mighty and sc e power and stalwart personality clear- sociate n ed the atmosphere within a few of the r months, drove the carpetbaggers to "I ( e cover and the Ku-Klux-Klan made in- said G h roads into the ranks of the pilferers periem ? ^ ^ cfof aVi nn/1 nr? a Ktt at? a f Iiq HDOT ll ii ui oiatcnuuu anu uuu u v unc 111^ u " dark senators and lawmakers disap- one, 't o peared as if by magic, leaving no de Ku e word, writing no regrets, telling no Den oi / < (& , Standard : d , * : ft ^ V JpsXu, T ^ # *?< ????? AH ' ^~ ~ f lil roducing t | f^ 9 pi 'aitre Pairri ew Series Paige Fairfield "Six-46,'* itroduce the most completely ped motor car that can be purJ on the American market?irrespective of price. i broad claim?a sweeping claim, ke every other statement made in inouncements of this company, it actual, literal Truth. 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I finds a note to >me never even told their as- him dat if he 's is of those grewsome warnings breave he better fate that lay before them.. dey can't tell him lone got scared unto death," j Boss, did I stay reene, in relating his own ex- en recompense? 3es. "I done see dem disap- boss man, jes tul ke dey go up in smoke, one by locomotion dis ni il they begin whispering 'bout takes mahself bac -Klux getting dis one en dat. ter. En den I di ie day I goes to mah room in right on goin',boss of Value and I HT he INew ield "Si: that any one ne in automobiling And please don't lightly or top s yourself justice I So let as make you i to the show room this new car is 01 give you a thon any road conditi Then, when you re; drive the Paige motor car that American mark^ feature for feati See for yourself wht ing in any one dt f er efficiency, co any car?at an, intrinsic value th If we have oversti know it just th completed such the other hand, i cerely believe th have done yours shall both be th Surely no propositi this. Surely r afford to purch* made an imparl kind. Will you see th< today ? S-PASSENGER, $1375 f. o. b -PASSENGER, $1090 f. o. b COM PA NY, DETF & BLAC BERG, S. C. ; all stay and dere line. I 'spec ?'? on Al? v? i orln dis nigger a teiiin j ouu?uw ux&w ;pects ter live en (*on< got so fer way dat Hea< from black smoke, dere in mah glory "Has your Did I? 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