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THE BATESBURG ADVOCATE. _ | VOL 1. BATESBURG, 8. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1901. NO. 20 j9 TAKEN FROM A DIVE Whtr* She Had Bstn P.ac d by a Bi nd Beggar, WHO SEEM* TO BE A FRAUD The Timely Rescue of a Little White Oil I From a Motor out Negro D<n In Charleston. The Charleston PSst, of Thursday ays Nanoy Jane MoAtecr, a ytung whito girl, aged 10 years, whoso homo is in Chester, 8. 0., was Thursday morning taken out of F. Capers' rostau raut on Market street by the police. Tho girl had keen placed tbero by Robert Sumner, a blind white man, who was fined in tho lleooTdciB' Court on tho ohargo of being drunk and for lar oony of clothing lrom Auds Stowart, 111 Cumberland street. The placo kept by Capers, who is a negro, is a notorious d.vo, and is in the vtav1t i. altai * f t Ka irtlinli* a ? <? r?/i madl ?v?/ uvai%> VI iuv iviigmov buu ujuov wicked scotion of Market street. It is frtqumtod by >11 seriB of vile tueo acd wemmand is do plaoo for a young whito g:rl. Capers has frequently boen before the grand Jury on tho ohargo of selling liquor ard has also appeared bofore the Rcoorder on tho chargo of keepiDg a gambling divo. As soon as it beotinc known at police headquarters that tho MoAtccr girl was living in this notorious resort, Lieut Dudd, the offioer of tho day, sent an officer to tho placo and had her brought to the station house. She seemed glad to get out of tho place and exprcasod a desire to return to h^r homo in Chester, where her mother and father livo. Steps will bo taken to have her sent tn her homo, in tho meantimo sho wi 1 be cared for by the Florence Criitenton Home, as Miss Thariu, the matron of that institution, has coosin'.id to take ohargo of the gill while arrangements are fating nude to havo her returned to her people- She was sent to tho Crit tenton Hi mo. The child was seen at the polioo sta tion shortly befoie being sent to the Crittonton Hone. She is a blue eyed, fiaxen-haiied girl, and is exoccd ingly bright for a ohild of her years. She told tho story of how sho came to be in Chaileston in a plain, straightforward, child like manm-r. Frequently she would burst into tears and express a wish to return to hor mother and father in Chester. She oiue here last Friday with Sumner, a bl nd man, to load him ab u* the 6-reets, foi which he was to pay her twenty fcve cents a day and board. She left Ler borne with bor mother's con sent to go to Colombia with Sumner, . ? twhojp* to return her to her- pcoplo last Mo.day, but inntead he brought her Ci .irleston Ever sime her arrival in l e citi she has b cn 1 wd inv himabcut tlx > si riots of tho oity aid selling v rs-s to pooplo. The verges are of the usua. oharaoier tnat blind peoplepiddle on the sires s. Sne slep*. and took htr meals at the rcslau-aut ou Market s ree*. "Mr Sumner is a bad man sometimes, ' said the girl, "and ]&->t night he got drunk on te. r and wine and was arrested. He is in the guaid house now. Ho ourses, too. "What are the police going to do wilh moV" askod tho girl, and in the samo broath said she hoped they would send her homo, llor father's narao, she said, is lloed Mo Ateor, and works in a ootton factory at Chester. Robert Sumnors stated that ho had hired tho girl from her mother, saying that he had agreed to pay her twontyfive ocnts per day to load him about the streetp, and according to the contract ho owes the child $5, hut is notable to pay her as business has been dull since com ing to Charleston. When atkod why ho oarricd tho MoAteer ohild to a negro restaurant, ho said that it was tho only cheap boarding house ho could find. He declared he never intended to oomc to Charleston again. Sumner has long curly hair, whioh hangs down on his shoulders, Kid he looks like tho medicine man of ead Man's Guich. In spoaking about his curly tresses ho Baid bo had a sweetheart in days gono by whom he loved intensely, and she atkod him to let his hair grow long, and ho granted her request. "You know, a follow will do anything for ,iho girl fco loves," ho said. Sinoe coming to Charleston Sumner has been a high rollor. All Wednesday afternoon it is said ho was playing Riot maohinos and drinking beer. lie fell into the hards of tho police and from him the whereabouts of tho child were learned. Ended llis Life. Bread, the assassin of tho lato King Humbert, has committed suioide at the penitenttary of Santo Stefano, Italy. Breeoi recently had been buffering from oxtrcmo exoitomont, declared to bo from remorse. Tuosday night he mado a ropo from bin blankets and strangled himself. On tho wall of his cell the word "vengeance" was tcr*tched with hia Klnnrlu iknmK nail Up-.ani'fl Iodco IsHi wock culminated in his at taokirg a jailor, in consequence of which ho was placed in a straight jacket. Later the prisoner feigned docility, in order to soouro an oppor tunity to commit suicide which ho accomplished by hanging himself with an improvised rope attached to the cell ing. In the ealicr days of his imprisonment Bresci resented orders to keep silent and throatned to kill himself. At tho cabinet ocuooil had tonight, Signor Golitti, minister of the in'enor, informed the king of the suicide of Breeoi. His majeBty rcmainod pensive for a few moments and thon said: "It is, perhaps, the host thing that oould have happened to the u.ihappy man." Woodmen of the World. A sposial dispatoh to Tho Nows and Courier sajs the Sovereign Camp of tho Woodmen cf tho World at thoir rooont session in Columbus, Ohio, appropriat ed tho sum of $500 for the relief of Galvoston sufferers and tho sum of $1,000 for the ereotion of a monument in the oitv of Galveston to oommcmorato tho memory of tho Woodmen who lost thoir lives in tho devastating storm. The Pacifu Jurisdiction mado an appropriation of $1,100 for tho sufforors. k. 'jL \ DONT WANT NEGROES A Northern Papsr Bays They Area Aenace. 1 Thore lin boon troublo in tbo ooko regions of Pennsylvania. They havo boon importing negroes to tik) tho plaoo of rtoaloitrant workmen. Tho other day tho lynching of one of these negroes was narrowly avertod. Tho Pittsburg Post commends the aotion of officers in protecting tho negro, but Y adds: Tho bringing in of Southern negroes of lawless character is an outrage on oit'zcDS who have their homos in tho ooko regions sod desire peaoeablo surroundings. That is fomething that should bo stopped. Tho negroes are a monaoo, and appear to bo growing moro disordeily and reckless as time goes on. Of oourso, negroes imported lo work a 1U UU11UV1U 1UUUOIIKO UIU UUl IKKUD from southern penitentiaries, nor do f( tho agents who oolicot thorn advortiso j( for tho "lawloas" and "reckless." Thoy Kl t-imply tako them aB thoy tiud them? lj tho oommon run of negro mon to ho u found on tho Btroets of aoy tcuthorn w town. Theso "lawless" and "reckless" C( ncgroea who aro "a menaoo" in tho il ooko regions arc to bo found by tho p] thousands in evory southern stato. In tt tho eyes of northern editors it is a J| groat outrago whon a disturbance oo b cura in a southorn locality whoro thero tl aro as many of tl oso negroes as there w aro whites, but to briDg a handful of r> thorn to work iu tho mines of Ronnsyl jt vania "is an outrage." When will our 0, northern brethren "toto fair" with tho south in its boating of tho whito man's a burden, and be roady to carry ihoir t( Bharc??Augusta Obroniolo ij tr Disastrous Floods. ti A dispatch from Richmond Va., says news rcaoLc i thero Wednesday night of disastrous fl tods all over tho Stato. At 1 Eaimvillo iho Appomattox is higher ^ than in 20 years and there has been j great loss to farmers by the washing ( away of crops. East and northbound Chcbaj oako aud Unio trains wiro do layou at Charlottesville by h gh water, ^ and the Charloucsvillo wollen mills aro dooded to tho sicjnd story. Dativillo reports much damago to tho Danvdio j and Western railroat and at Ushbou's, ^ west of tho city, a church was washed away. The Danville mil's are flooded . and the clcotrio light plant liaa to hi ^ shut down. New river, at Radford, is on tho biggest rise sinco 1878. The ^ eleotric light plam is wrecked and the ^ roller mills are under water the second story. Traffic on tho Radford division of the Norfolk and Western road is suspended. .lames river, at Columbia, has risen rom five foot above low water P mark this morning to 25 foet tonight at ? 11 o'clock and is still rising. This \ ui?ans danger of a big flood hero. Tho " nifch water from up the .James river is P xp. oicdio reaoh hero about noon to s' marrow. Tho merjhaots and otherb in 0 the low iyieg 6oolioa of tLo city aro- B< moving out. A Rrictol special says " Horry Mussic, of Hall's Bottom, Va., ? and Milton Boyd of Wallaoo, Va., aro 11 r puled drowned in tho flood in that J' section. Two residenoos, a school ' uuunc uuu it uiira were w&snea away in Washington county. P fi Comes Too Late. t; P In answer to the question "what has b boon the effoot of tho president's atti- ii tudo toward tho south, lias it tended o to bring about a reconciliation betweon a tho sections?" Sonator Caimack, of t] Tennossoo says: "I fool about that a b good deal as l)r. Johnson did with re- ti spent to the gratuitous patronage of o Lord Chesterfield: 'Had it boon early c it had been kind.' When wo most p necdod tho ohecring word and tho help- s: ing hand we got nothing from Mr. Mo- a Kinlcy and his party butJ.ho cur e and ti tho clinohed fist. So long as thoy could it make party capital by waving tho c bloody shirt and by teaching tho north tl to hate and distrust tho south, they a did so, and tho Republican conception p of all that was vilo in human naturo o was summed up in tlu worus 'the Con- o foderato brigadier.' Thin brigadier was s forbidden by law to draw sword for I tho union and it was not until tho I sword was neoded in the war with n Spain that tho law was repealed. Wo o rcjoioo that tho time of sootional ha- t tred has passod or is passing; but wo t do not forgot that it might bavo passed v many years ago if Mr. McK'.nley and v otht r Republican loaders had desired it to pass." Unprecedented May Rainfall. * g Not sinoo 1888 has tho tital rainfall e for May been so groat as for tho prosont '1 month. In that year G tit! inches foil, e but with only ono heavy r?in 2 80 fell j in 24 hours. This has beon exceeded i in the past day, the amount for tho 24 t hours cndirg at 8 a. m. of tho 21st hav e ing been 2 ?>2 inefce. Tho rainfall c of the past few days aio unique in tho a annals of tho local clBco of the weather j bureau, not only on aceouotof the largo total, that sine? tho ovoningof tho HMi 6 amounted to ti ti!t inches, but also on \ aooount of tho rato of tho fall, which f can be readily ascertained by an elooirio r sod-registering guags with which tho ' offioo has recently bee n < quipped. T ho rainy condition was not confined to c South Carolina, but aoo mpanicd a t genera' storm that entered tho ooati- < ncnt over lower California and moved t in an almost duo oastcriy direction with t copious rains along its entiro courso j In breadth the stomi covered tho cu i tiro cotton belt, and over thin vast area < the rainfall av.rag d over an inoh id 1 depth with, however, tho largest < amounts in Georgia and tho two Carj- t jiniH ?Tho btatc. 1 SSli<>t. for Katin# Pick lew. i A dihli of p'okles, a siok woman, a greedy man and a man with a t-hjtgun constituted tho elenicrts of a tragedy in Birmingham,Ala ,Thursday. Ksther JomibOD, colored, was tho sick woman. . She was abed wit'r ricumatism and wan eating from a dish of nwoet pioklon, ( that being all she desired. Can Allen, , a frior.d, called and oommonood oating ] pickles. The woman protested, but tho , n an contieu:d to cat. About this tinio , Frank Miller, another Irior.d, cntor< d tho room and bccaino apprised of tho aciionn of l??n Allen. Miller had a , shotgun with him. lie ra;ncd the weapon to his shoulder and romarking to Allon: "I'll nhow you how to eat a niok woman's pickles," shot Allon. Allon will die. Miller was arrosted and 1 put in tho county jail. i M'LADRIN SPEAKS "o A Large Crowd in the C tv of Greervl! ?. DEFENDS HIS POSITION, Yhich He Claims is True Democracy, and Not Republicanism as Many Claim It Is. The following is ibe ppocch of Sena )r John L. MoLaurin, which he made t Greenville last Wednesday: Follow c'tizonB: Tho political Re irination of 18i?0 had for its main ob:cttho indepondenoo of thought and stion on tho part of tho people in po iicai an airs. it was thin that made j 10 a '"Reformer." A whito primary, hero tho white pooplo of the Sta'e ? luld settle their differences among 1 lemselvcs. In part it has aoooin- f lishod itB obj ot in spite of tho (ffirts ^ > dwarf it into a ono man movement ts loader has not beon content for it to 11 o complete, and has attempted mere > ban oneo to diotate who should and > ho should not bo elected to tffi jo. All < volutions of this kitd go farther than 1 s originators design, no power can 1 ontrol them. ' Men who tuppoco that tho "move- 1 lent" of 181)0 was a mere eff'rvesoenco f > givo tffico to a favored fewaro great- t r mistaken. Some of tho best and ' ucst have nevor held effioe, and the ' mo is ooming when those who betrayed 1 Dd prostitutod this great movemert ' ito a "ono man power" and mere ] ;rauiblc for the "loaves and tho fishes" ' ill bo held to an acoount. T stand to J %y just whero 1 Btood in 18'.)t), with ? to added experience of ten y ars of r ludy and contact with i ubiic men *i d i Hairs. I thai k 0< d that ono tl'icg ! as been accomplished. Tho people < avo boon disenthralled ar.d enlightened ! nd will never bo satisfied with the ac ) -mplishmcnt of anything loss than tho ' ill purposo of tho movement?free 1 lought, free spcooh, a fair ballot aod t ilo of thepnnplo This must and shall t o the final outcome. No attempt to reak down the reforms nearly aocom- t lushed ean suueod. The natural and 1 tevitabls consequmoos of that revolu i on must follow. Nothing oan stay 1 icm. f the "alliance." ' Fellow-oitizere: It affords me great ' Icasuro <o address you today. I thank ou for tho honor and tho opportunity, reoognize tho f aot that I am you pub o servant, and am accountablo to tho 8 oople who elected mo for my steward- ^ tiip. This responsibility of public j Hioo is tho great oonservativo aud p^o J ?rvativa force in otrr rcpublioan form 1 f government. It is tho province and u y of a Representative to study all nportant public questions and form a ldgmont as to their cfiect on tho wel iro of tho pooplo. To do this, ho must t times act independently and l"ad ublic sontimont rather than blindly y) inn; to kaf u rr t a v?a iua ?*? oi ?- - /iivn *t iiav in i v f ivuu VO U'J VI1U IUO J 111 y. It it) his duty to study na'ional 1 roblcms and voto according to his < est lights and honest convictions, lc av- t 3g tho final dcoision as to the wisdom I f his course to tho people. As for > tyself, 1 aoknowledgo no master save < ho sovereign pooplo, spoaking at tho i allot box, and I rofuso to obey tho die < itcs of any politioal Boss, ei'bcr in or i utsido of South Carolina. This is my ' onooption of tho rights, duties and i ositiou of a Senator. My oourso inoo my election has bcon projected long tho lino of discretion and aoooun ability. In voting on great national ! ?sut8 I have oomidi.rod tho best inter- j sts of the South and the country rather , han tho impractical results to flow from 1 rigid adherence to party lines. It is seeing strango that some of tho men lcolod to Congress in 181)2 should 1 ritioizr mo for doing what they olemnly pledged themselves to do. ' )on't you rcmetnbor that an Alliance ' )elegation was eleotod in 1892 pledged 1 ot to bo bound by a Democratic cau- j U9, but to veto for measures ca'culatid o benefit tho na'ion at large, irrcspeoive of party? L fcol liko recalling tho lords, "Oh, Lord God of Hosts, Lest io forget, Lest wo forget." PRINCIPLES HIGHER THAN PARTY. I'olitioil parties uuror ou: form of ovornmcnt aro a necessity. They row cut of tho i olilical relations Btablishod by tho government itself. There have boen since tho birth of tho latien and always will bo two great tolitioal parties, if there were no nal ssuos they would divide and fight over he moro spoils of cffice. Thoso differnoes originated in tho diverso views mtertaincd when our Constitution was .dopted as to what constituted tho proior functions of tho government. Party platforms havo always bocn upposcd to bo tho exponents of thoso riews. A bloody Civil war c?ttled tho luestion of State's rights, and for a iua-ter of a oontury tho waving of the 'blood shirt" on tho one side and tho 'nigger in tho word pile" on tho other lonsiiiutcd tho dividing lines. 1 say iiov vTtiv uinii, mi a pureiy s tr.iomu lUostioD, liko white Btipremaoy, 13 a raitor and a renegade who docs not i and by his own seotioo and his owo >oople. i say that any man, on do ncstio problem?, problems of internal jonoern, should, as f ir at possible, DOW to tho behests of his patty. If ho ;annot agreo with hi? party on ques.iona of this kind, ho bhnuld, if possi jIo, find a party with which no is in icoord. 1 assert, fellow citizens, that it is almost a crime for any party to mako groat, kroad, non political Amcri ?n meastircs, involving the political ind commercial development of the nation, tho teat of party fealty. Is iuoh essential to the maintenance of .ho honor and prcatigo of tho nation tro too vital to bo relegated to tho plane )f partisan and sootional contention Jut of changed industrial and economic conditions havo grown great national questions pertaining to tho ma Lorial interost of the country, whioh must ho considered and settled by that dlont force, tho reserved patriotism of the peoplo. DEMOCRACY liROAHKR THAN HKOTIONAI.1SM. Kellow-citizena: There is no grcator menaoo to tho stability of our government than a largo minority in tho \ t Amorican Congress voting upon broad, rittl, bod-partisan American questions Tom purely scotioral consideration. I km a Democrat, honestly desirous of rmaining so, and witnossing tho trilmph of tho party to whioh I am atached by assooiatioo and horedity. It vas never ooDtemplated by tho found>rs of that party that :t should bee >me i purely sootional affair, yet to day ;hero is no Democratio party oapablo f making itsolf felt outside of the South. In tho North and West, it is ?ermoatcd with socialism, and has dwin iled away into tho party of a section, not k nation. 1 do rot propose, however, o pursno this lino of thought; it ir ;>aiuiul and can accomplish no gcod pur ^ose. THE MONEY QUESTION. B( ginning with the i unioof there ie.9 never been such rapid iodus<ral ihaoges in nry country. These changes vero in progress, and cur w *r with jpaiu served as a tUih-livht to show ai vhat ?? < going on. lo 188G, we had a lampa'gn upon the money question [Everything was depressed. Men s ek ng employment, oo'ten und- r ivoceuis wheat below (ho cost of production, and dloooss, d'soontent d s ros' at d misery kvorywlw ro. We wore told that tho salration of the country dopecded upon the rco coinage of silver I believed then, knd L b: lievc now, that theoretically wo vtre right; but new and unforeseen orots came it to play, and 1 have !nough senso tu reoi goiz i tho faot that ho "restoration of oonfadonae," abouJ rliinh Mr (llnuplanrl *1 lr r\ <1 alarm* I fhich L did not kaow oncugh at tho imo to understand, tho dieoovory of ;old in the Klondykc, tho influx of nonoy from abroad seeking investment, tnd tho iroreaso in banking facilities, or tho time at least, have settled tho noney question, and nobody but a fool vould make a "fro? silver*' speech now. [artcad of a depleted treasury, there sin it to day the largest amount of ro d in tho history of tho country, and ictualiy tho Secretary of tho Treasury, i few weeks ego, deposited money in a Spartanburg bink, soincthi'-.g that has lever boon qoqo before in tho history of )ur Statu. 1 havo born lisicoicg for louiclcdy to or? out "Republicanism," jeoauso I was ins^rum-m al in beginning k movement which I htfpo >n the future nay enable our larmers and merobaots o secure money at a lover rete of in crest. Ant tier groat obaDge as tho rrsult of he pinic of 1893, is tho rapid developnent of our export trado. Our homo na kets failed us, manufaoturers found hemsolves with immense stocks of ;oods on hand and nobody to buy them, his forced them to soek markets abroad ind ono enter} rising firm in Hirming ^am, A'a., shipped 250 ton of iron to ?aropo. At that lime iron could bo lought for ft! 00 per ton in Birmingham ktid this smail shipment six years ago vastho beginning of the #130,000,000 vorth of iron that wo shipped abroad ast year, 300,000 ions going from Ala. lima. To day, entiro Kuropo is alarmed at ho dovolopcmcnt of ouroommeroc, and vo fco every day indications of a trado lombino on tho part of Kuropo against he United States. In tho finanoial torld, instead of depending upon Eu opo as wo did seven years ago for our noncy, England, Germany and Russia i*ve rooontly had tooomo to New York .o place their government loans. 1 havo ;ivon nothing but a incro outline, and iOt I ask any man within tho Bound of xiy voice if these faots do not presont a .otally ohanged condition. The Spanish var suddenly awoke us to tho faot that >ur country was ono of tho groat comnorciil and politioal powers of tho vorld. how can 1 1jest serve the interest oe south carolina? Bolicving as I do that theroaro vital issues which, growing out of changed ndustrial oorditions, aro higher and broader than mere party questions, I have, as ycur Senator, looking beyond tho lico marked by sectionalism and par lieanship, striven to promote tLo material,political and commercial interests of our common country?for in so doing, I oiu best serve the interests of the State of South Carolina. For this I have boon arraigned beforo tho people of this State and charged with allying mvsolf with the llopublioan party. Criticism, abuso and gross misrepresentation has boon indulged in. Not content with this unfair method of attack, some ft tho papers inthoirvilc persecution have deceived thepooplebv witholding informa t:on on one sido of those great nation il issues and emphasizing and publishing everything on tho otner. They have persistently hold run up as a renegade, and on rnoro than one oocasion alleged that 1 intended to rciigu and accept a Federal appoint ment. Amid all this persecution 1 have maintained my silence, confident that whon an opportu nity was offend, tho peoplu would see that 1 rooeived fair play, and that they would at lcist accord mo honesty of purpose. Thoro aro two question that I submit to tho pcoplo of South Carolina, First. Am I honest in tho v.ows I advocate? Second. Am I mistaken? As to tho first. All that I have to sav is that my people have shod their blood for South Carolina in ovory contest in which she has ever boon engaged. 1 was born in South Carolina, 1 took my wifo in South Carolina, and when I dio 1 expect my bones to bo laid beside five gen rations of honest men and truo won cn who have gone before. 1 havo children whourist hear my name, good or bad. Fvcry dollar that 1 have is invested in this Stato, excopt a small amount in N jrth Caro linn and K.orida. My interest* nro inH jiarably interwoven with tho interest of mv State, no good oan eomo to hor in which I canto: participate, and no evil of whioh I must not bear uy share. If I wanted to have an cany time, L certainly ohooso tho hard nad. I might havo drifted with theourrcnt, sang "mo too," ar.d continued to hold cffico. I had pretty good tutelage and an tllusttiout oxamplo ia my early political oarorr in tho arts of domagogory, and oould do it again in a pinch Hut, follow citizens, tho "gains isn't worth the candio." If 1 can't bo a Senator, worthy tho groat statesmen whom I su jcccd, I do not wish to hold the ortico. L do not olaim to bo infallible, and the time has boon when I would gladly havo boon oonvincod that I was wrong, and thus enabled to osoapo from the position whioh at timos was almost an' ondurablo; but, folio w-oitizsns, I nc longor fool that way. 1 do not wish now to bo oonvinoed. When a mar has suffered for a oauso it bcoomos very dear to him, and I thii.k that it wculd break my heart if I should find now that, after all, it in a mistake, and that 1 havo boon deceived by a mirage in the bleak desert. I am human, and have my fall share if the frailty and vanity whioh go with poor, wrak human nature. 1 look back to some things that I havo said and done, and 1 know that L was wrong, and I wish it were othorwise. Hut, fellow-citizens, twioe within tho last thrco years I havo felt that I was near the time when 1 would havo to stand before tho bar of a just God, who knows tho Brcrots of my innermost roul, and I folt that ho would mercy havo for petty frailties and short-comings, and givo mo credit fc-*tho earnest and honest effort, for i ln> sacrifices which 1 had made to servo (he best and highest iotircato my ijt-v'o and country. 1 am not alrad to meet my Gcd aad staod t p .u my pub'io record?why, Don, shoald I U ar any tr.b mal here b-lo a? 1 only wi:h that my life as a man wis as sinless and Deo from reprtach as it s ?? yourju'olic servant. Cbu'gcs of corruption tavo boon rilo inSeuh Can lm* cu iug the p?st ten years, but my w. is-, enemies have never charge d that a dirty dollar hus cvor croend tiio I ahu of my hand. Fellow oitiz tis: To a tuau who lev eo sooioty and that sort of tiing, a seat in the Sena to may be a pr to worth having, but to mo, it is of no value save to farth r tho oauso to which 1 aia devoting tho best years of my lifo. I am in tho Senate for what I can got for South Carolina, not to further my personal interest. you suppose that 1 on joy being flayed alive, and called all sorts of pet names by tho growling, grumbling Gor zales, and tho w unniug, clinging dyspeptic Hemphill? U does not worry mo vtry mush, for L know that there is one kind of an animal that will growl just for tho pi- asuro cf growling an 1 another that whl whine, cs coially when milk is scares There a gio local of growling and whiniDg just u w beoauee of a few Federal piums that have boon dropp.ng arouad but 1 notioo that it ali comes from tho cirootoa where none aro dropping or likely to drop. From observation 1 infer that there an a plenty of God Djmoora's, Silver Democrats, Bryan Democrats, Cleveland Democrats, McKinloy Democrats, Ttlimau Democrats. and Democrat" tone whom otj set to a MsLaurin Democrt job uader "Uncle Sam." kKltKKAL PAT HON AG K. Now, fellow-citiz :db, I want to say on i weri on this subject. 1 do not control, 1 do not proftBs to control, 1 do not wish to control, nor will 1 be oo no respoohiblo for, tho Federal pat ronago in South Carolina. On acoount of my liberal views, and wnat ho is pleased to oonsidcr iu ^patriotic stand fjt broad American, doctrines, tho i'esident has done" mo tho honor to consult mn on oortain oooasions as to tLvth Carolina appointments. He has df no So, to lay oortain knowledge, with Senators Morgan, Sullivan MoEnory ar>i other Democrats. i appreciate it boyond measure, for a wiser man, a truei patriot, and a more kindly Christian gentleman, never oooupied tho White 11 ouso than William MeKinley. I believe 1 have bis coDtiionco and friendship, and there is no treasure that I value more highly. 1 would not havo it and 1 oould not rotain it were I a traitor to my Stato and peoplo. II o honors mo, beoauso ho kaows as well as any man living, how much 1 love my nativo State. When ho expressed adosire to be tho President of tho whole country and not of a scolion, why should 1 not meet him half way? When ho is willing that tho patrons wbo support a poBtoffioe in South Carolina should bo consulted as they aro in Vermont, Massachusetts and Ohio, why should 1, as your Senator, stick a pitch-fork into his vitals? Ah, follow oit'z ls, if I havo coatrollod any patronigo, it has bson in the public interest, not my own. No nephews of mine havo been commissioned in tbe United States Army. I have had no sou drawing a largo salary, traveling this Sta'e at government expense, manipulating political alfairs for mo. Tako tho postcifico at Aikon, of what personal interest is it to mo who fills it it docs not put a dollar into my pookot and I do not g"t my mail there. 1 believe in tho rule of tho people, and I want to eco the tiuio como when tho patrons of the iffijo, thoso wbo sup port it, shall Dtmi the postmaster just as they do tho sheriff and clerk of the court. Who do you suppoi e tho pooplo of Aikon prefer for postmaster?a man who is identified with tho town, bora and roared among ihcin, or a citizen of anothoi Stato, with no intorest in the town or people further than to u*-o them for his own personal advantage? Who is not even willing, after death, to permit his dust to mir.gle with tho soil of South Carolina, hut had his body 'hipped homo to Connecticut for burial whero 1 am told his family arc soon to follow him. I nrcfar nnn of our own nnonln either wl.its or black, to bird* of pas sago, who iavost no money here, and fly away whon there aro no offices for them. Let it bo understood that wo g'aily wclcomo any good man who cornea hero seeking a home, who invests his monoy and beooines one of our own people; wo extend to sujh a ono the right hand of fellowship, a: d ho is entitled to all the honors, sooial, political and commercial, which liability and character command. That is not what wo mean by "Carpotbagiam" iu South Carolina Some people, howover, are so disturbed because tho President has appointed a man whom tho people of Aiken have elected Mayor of their town twice, and who is a refined and courteous gootlo man, that thoy aro preforriog ohargo^ against him in Washington; this is done fcr political purposes ami I well under' stand it as a lick at me, not Mr. Chaftco. Who should bo District Attornoy ol South Carolina? A bright, cccrgotii young man, ra'sed up hero in thit beautiful mountain oity, or a foroignor and outsider? I admit ono of tho bes of his class; but, fellow oitizens, South Carolinians aro good OQOugh for mo. Now, when appointments woro mad< absolutely repugnant to tho wishes anc tho traditions of our pooplo, I wa tho only ono who hold up a oonfirma i tion in tho Senate Now whon a gentlo ' man, liko Mr. Chaffee or .John Capers , the son of a Confederate Brigadier i with four \ ankeo hullont-holes in hi body, now tho Bishop of Siuth Caro > Una is made by tho President, not fo i politioal purposop, bat as an indiotioi i of bis good will towards tho pooplo no r only of South Carolina but of th ' I ... i South, L soo a throat in tbo papers that I the confirmation is to be fought. If that ii politics, if that is Domooraoy, thoa Cod savo mo from suoh infamy. I THE GENTLEMAN FROM MEXICO Thcro is ono thing that 1 have not heard much of a kick about, tho loan of tho government exhibit at lfoililo to Charleston. I bcliovo, however, j somebody elso claims tho credit. That is all right with mo, it matters not who gets tho credit, jest so tho city of ] Charleston gots tho friendly hand of this government in a groat cntepriso in whioh tho whole State is iatcres'od. Irrespective of personal and political uithronces, I am willing to join hands , wuh my oolleaguo in tho Smato and J tho momberd in the House ia si curing j an appropriation to roiuibureo Char l<rs>ou lor all expenses incurred. It wo lay aside lit'lo differences and cvorv- < body g i to work as one man. it c?u bo dono. I *aut to say here, ia jaslioo to Senator Tillman and myself, we are both capable of rising high euough not ( to prcmit anything to intcrfcro wi.h a matter of such general interest to tho I Siato. I will even go odd bctlerand agree, if C iarloeton go's tho appropria lion, to givo all of tbo or id it to tho ' (Jonllcuian fiooi Mexico." will not bk old v en. i have just ono or two uioro things to say on tho Grst question I am discus ! lag. My intimato frioads know tbat it has been my desire to rotirc from publio life i had determined never again to undotako tho canvass of this State, and wore it not thai 1 f jit that I owed it to the peoplo of South Carolina to discuss thtso issues and enable | them to aot intelligently by placing themsolvas in touch w th the best he thought of iho ago, L would not hero to day. 'Ihe people of this Slate gave me the grandest clnoco that any young man has had sinoo the war acd 1, fully realizo tho opportunity and duty, i. sever doubled fur ono moment but it allowed to i resent ray easo fairly to tho pco, le, I would be re-olcou d to h 1 Sen ate. I l ave not made a vote that can bo succ s.-fully assaikd, save upon nar row partisan ground?. 1 had, however, determined not to ruu on ace tun of my health. Tno campaign ot 1S'.?7 loft me in a physical and mental wr> ok. My physician lias repeatedly said that i eouid not siaud either mentally or physically the btrain of suoa another campaign Within the ton months past however, my health has boon wonderfully improved and I am ready for tho fray. 1 desire here and now to tell the "Bosicb ' (in and out of the Stan.) who have decreed my political death ttiat I defy them. The only way they can do feat me is to rule mo out of tho pr.mary and thus prevent the peop'o from cx pressing themselves. Let them, if they dare, prevent white men from passing judgment at the ballot box upon theso great national issues. One thing more on tho quosiotn, Am 1 honest? Those who know mo and arc my frioads will never be]i"ve ant thing ?1ni,_ who arc fair and unprejudiced, I say, give me an impartial hearing, and if you arc not eanvinced vote against me, then wc will still respect each othor. For my encuiios, thoso who would condemn me unheard, tho growlers and whincrs, I care not a red oent what they think, so long that i know that I am boDOst. L desire now to take up some of my votes and spooohes, and address inysolf to the question, Am I mistaken? When 1 was placed on the Ways a-.d Means Committee of tho House, 1 began a ays tcmatio course of reading on the tar.ff question with reference toils effeot upon tho peoplo of tho South. In Maroh, 1897, 1 made a specoh in which 1 embodied my views I had offered an amendment for a duty of two and onehalf cents per pound on cotton imports, and had mado a fagfit in tho Committee for a proper schedulo on rioo, pine lumber, turpentine, cotton seed oil, oil oake, jute bagging, cotton ties and theooarso grade of goods made in our Southern mills. This is neither tho time nor tho placo to go into a discussion of the tariff. 1 oan sum it up in tho statement that 1 did not discuss the question from a thoorolio or philanthropic stand point, but mi rely claimed a full share for the South of all tho benefits to acoruo from legislation. 1 recognized tho fact that our revonues were to come from tho imposi tion of import duties, and asserted that this boiDg true, it was but fair to givo oach section and industry a share o' the benefits, as tho burden must bo bircc by all. I attacked the dootrine of free raw material as a clandestine and un juHt form of protection. 1 traced its history and showed that it was devis'd and offered to tho manufacturers of ih-j Kist by Mr. Cleveland in his first raort, ai a form of protection. In othor words, Roger Q. Mills, tho Chairman cf tho Ways and Means Committee of tho House, was sent up into tho New Kog land States to otf.r them th's "loftbanded protection," whilo free trade was talked in tho South and West. It was a iucro party ezpediont to catch votes 1 think that no political party will ever attempt again suoh a monstrous irj is tico. It moans that the farmers in ibis country shall bo forced to buy in a restricted market and then sell all of their products in competition with tho pauper labor of tho world 1 mado this fight for Sculhorn industries while a member of the House, when I had no idea in the world of noiog into the Senate. You all roruoinbcr what universal chorus of approval there was. Sonators Tillcutn, Haood, Clay and others took up the "buio lino in the Sonato The News and Courier, the Columbia State and nino1 ty per oont. of tho papers of the South commended my course. 1 hazard little in saying had I never been a oondidaic ' for tho Senate, tho wisdom of my course would novor have been questioned. 1 wa-t strongly urged to run for the Sonato 1 in 1SUG, butjl did not wish to leave ' tho Wa>8 and Means Committee, and besides I was thoroughly oi-gusted with . tho condition of affairs in South Carolina. 1 could hear of nothing hut 3 "oharges of corruption," "b nd deals." ? "whiskey rebates, ' oto. 1 did not wish to bo mix'.d up in such an affair, how1 ever it might oventuafe, a man oouid not 1 hut feel lowered and degraded by coming in oontact with suoh filth. I folt I reasonably suro at that time that 1 could have been olecte d to tho Sonato. I was 9 assured, by one authorized to speak,that Judge Karlo would not ho a candidate if 1 ran; but 1 concluded to go on in a modest, quiet way and work out my ' destiny in tho Hou90. This was not to 0 bo, however. It was nut intended that my lines should fall in easy plaoos. That r puro man, chivalrous gontlomon and 0 I up-right Judge, your townsmen and my o I (.Continued on page 4.J > SHE CLAIMS SELF DEFEN8E. Mrs. Boninw H\t Confess tad to Killing Ycung Ayr?s. The mystery attending tho killing of JamoH Seymour Ayrea, a census offioo slr^ik, in the Konmore lictol early last WedaobQay morning, at Washington, D. C., and whih because of tho peculiar ciroumstaross surrounding it has TCUHed Washington linro than any tragedy in several 'cars, was Bolvcd Monday by a voluntary confession from Mtb Lulu L. Uoa'ne, a mirriod woman and a guest at tho house, that tho tbroo 3hots which en led A>ros' life lul been fired in a strueglo between hersolf and AjreB. Mrs. Uon.no. whote husband is a drum . er for tho wholesale drug ( hous of Dcaitt & Co. of Ct i ;ago, ex 1 J i * iintiitu uorpresenio id iiyros room at ' 1 o'clock in iho morning by saying that ] ho had ocme to her room complaining ' uf a ohill and asaiog for nudioin , and < had inducod h> r to follow hi . to his ' room to talk over eomo matters of differ- ' race thera had bom holwocn them. She ^ iaid that sho dress.d herself in * wrap- ' per and wont to his room. Ho had pre- 1 Doeded htr and when sho opened tho I door acd walked in ho quiokly c'.oted it 1 and informed her ho had ontiood her to ! the room for his own purposes and raid if sho did not submit to his wiahos ho ; would kill her. Ayros, sho said, was J undressed and had a revolver in his bar d and in * stru/glo for its pessossion ! which onsuid immediately after sho entered, it was discharged thrio differ- 1 onl times, tho shjts striking Ayros at ' each d ohargo, the last ono proving 1 Tatal. After her statement, which was mado to the chief of polios and a number of other officials, Mrs. limine was 1 placed under arrest and taken to tho I house of detention, where she will be 1 field pending the result of ths coroner s 1 iaqu-st, wlucb hai b en in session since Saturday aud at which Mrs. 1 limine was to have appeared tomorrow 1 as a witness. Tho tragedy which re- 1 auhed in Avers' death was discovered first about 8 30 o'clock last Wednesday ' morning when hi-, dead body was found in his room at the Kcnuiorc, a small fanny hotel situated not far from tho canitcl. An eximiuatim of Ayrcs' ' body showed that ho had been show three times, one ball entering tho left 1 leg, another the left arm, and tho third penetrating tho hoart and causing death. Suicide wai the first theory advanocd, but statements from two j witness that on the night of tho murdor they had soon a woman descending a ' firo escape leading from the front of Aycrs' room at tho hotel and d:sappear ' into the parlor of the houso ended this ' theory and tho Killing was quickly dc ! volopod into a mysterious and sensational affair that baftLd tho police an- 1 til Mrs. Bonino oonfostod. Saturday the corner began his in. quosv^ l>ul~~fio' Substantial due was found to eonccot any person spooifically with tho tragedy. Tho inquest was ro sumcd Monday and had developed nothing directly boaring on tho tragedy except that Mrs. limine was much in Ayers' room, whon it was suddenly adjourned on information that tho district attornoy and others wore wanted at polioo headquarters to hear a statement made by Mrs. Bonino. Disastrous Storm on Lakes. A special from Tawas Citv bays: A lemtico northeaster rovailed all day and last night. The steamier Baltimore, ooal laden, broko in two and sank off Au Sable this morning before dayligt. Thirteen were drowned including a woman and a boy. The tug Columb:a of Detroit with a government steam J red go and two loaded lighters for the Soj was caught in the storm. Tho lighters and dredge woro lost, parting their six inch cable. The crow of six mon is missing. While Bearohing today for her tow the Columbia picked up two men from tho Baltimore on a raft. They were almost deal and wcro taken to east Tawas. An other man was on tho raft, but was lost despite tho efforts to save him. Tho Seoooner Montmorency, wbioh went around on the Charity islands scvoral days ago, has gone to pioocs. Her crew left lur Thursday. Tl e Tawas life saving crew made a trip to her at midnight and rowed 18 miles in the storm and against tho wind, hut found no ono aboard. Tho Columbia picked up her dredgo tonight, but tho lightors and tho expensive machinery I hey earned and tho six men are still missiLg. The wind is now going down. A Hundred Entombed. An txpijiiiuo occurr.d Friday morning at tho Universal colliery at Song.ienjdd, in the Khonida valley England. About a huodrel men wire in tho pit at the timo of the disaster and thcro is little hop.) >f saving tho lives of any of them. the rescu <rs at tho Universal colliery arc working with great difficulty owing to lack of air. Five bndies h*vo boon recovered. T.vo wreckage of tho pit is oompleto, almost procluling hope that the imprisontd men oan havo survived. Thcro arc 78 miners missing. Tho rescuers havo found more bodies, but thero is uo hope thai 70 miners who are still entombid will be brought out alive. kill.'.I Hinia/ilf A dispatch from Cambridge, Mies., says Frou C. Fostor, of Cambridge po;t, win was under suspicion of tho polic.' in ojuiiieoUon with tho explo sion wnioh wrecked tho Cambridgoport National ba:;k hero VVtdnoaday, eom in.ttcd suiciio by Bhooticg today in tho prcscnco of a police officer who had . ailc o . Fo.i er make inquiries in cona.oiioa with tho caso. Foster was 43 years ? 1J F stcr had a wifo and throe children. IIo had been under sur* voilance, the polioo nay, sinoo Wcdneday afternoon, when it became known that he presented a check at the bank calling for $1,100 for which ho had no funds in tho bank. The gates of Bilibid prisons, Manila, swung open Friday and admitted a mule wagon bearing threo former Cnitcd officers who reluctantly alighted and began to servo sentonocs in expiation of crimes in oonncotion with tho commissary scandals. Captain Frederick J. Barrows, lato dcpit quattermastor of tho department of Southern Lui>n, is sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Captain dames C. Hoed, lato depot oommis-tary at Manila, to thrco years' imprisonment, and Lieutenant Frodoric?. Boy or, lato depot oemmissary at Calamba, to ono yoar's imprisonment. M'LAURINS PLACE. j Thera Aro Many Candidate* In the Field For It. 1 I THE CAMPAIGN OPENED. There Will be No Leek of Candidates, but Who the Lucky One Will Be No One Knows Senator MoLmrin'a speech Wcdneslay at Grcjnvi'lo is gonorally regarded is the opening of his campaign tor rejection, although there are some who siill profess to beliove that Sonator McLaurin will not be iu the jampaign next snmmor. ilowover that nay bo, his activity at the present tiiuo naturally directs attention to the 'aoo for tho scat onoo held by Wade Hampton. From presont indications that raoo will be a warm ono. Congressman Latimer, of tho Third district, is already an avowod candidate tnd is actively at work. It is generally understood that at tbis time at least Uongrcssman Latimer has tho good will if not the aotivo support of Senator Tillman. Stato Senator D. S. Honderion, of Aikon, is also understood to be in tho race for all ho iB worth, whioh is not a little. It has recently boon stated (hat there is an understanding botween Messrs. Latimer and Ilonder son; that the farmor is looking after Charleston and the low country and tho latter paying particular attention to the Piedmont. Just what oan bo gained from this alleged cooperation is not known, but circumstances give Bredenco t> tho roport. Congressman Latimer's efforts in behalf of the CbarloHton exposition aro supposed to givo him Charleston's vote so far as it can bo controlled, wbile Senator Henderson being possessed of some influence with the cotton mill presidents of tho Piedmont would bo more apt to undermine MoLaurin in that quarter. The name of Col. Goorgo Johnstone, of Newberry, has boon often mentioned in connection with tbis race. If he should bo a candidate ho would be pitted against the man who defeated him for rocleotion to oongross ? A. C. Latimer. This is an interesting coincidence. Col. Johnstone was in the city Tuesday, but was not talking politics, being busy with some legal aflairs. A close friend, however, stated that it was most probable that Col. Johnstono would have something .o say on tho stump next eummer. Ho is one of tho most eloquent speakers in the State and a roady stump debater, so 1 that Mb entry into the field would do 1 much to ljvr/ biwnnp. There are a J of other for tho plaoe, being McSwccncy. ^ V A West Virginia Story. a A Job, W. Va., special says: To be , crushed to death in tho embrace of a monstrous black boar and their little bodies afterward mangled and partly devoured was tho frightful fate that befell tho throe young children of E. P. Portertiold, a mountaineer residing about 12 miles southeast of this plaoe. The remains wore found Wednesday by a searching party which had beon out since Sunday evening. The party included John Weldcn, a Maryland huntor, who within a fow minutos after discovering tho bodies, shot and killed the bear in a neighboring thicket. The ohildren were Mary, aged 3, Willie, agod 5, and Henry, agod 7. Shortly after noon Sunday they left home to gather flowers in a clearing near their home. Nothing more is known but it is supposod thoy wandered into tho woods and beooiuing lost oontinuel on their way until thoy wore overtaken by the bear in the denso forest three miles from their parents' home. Tho boar feasted oft all throe of tho bodies. The bonos of the ohillrcn had been crushed like straws and the flesh stripped oft with teeth and claws. The party divided and began a search. Within a few minutes Woldon discovered it in a thiok clump of hemlock saplings near a small stream. A singlo shot ended its life. n was Gooiarea to Dotho largest bear ever seen in this neighborhood. Burned the Site. Tho 3lato leper board recently quietly purchased a large i lantation in Jefferson parish, opposite New Orleans, and made arrangements to establish a leper lazaretto. When the news beoame public Jefferson and St. Charlos parishes arose to an indignant protest and throats were freely made that the toroh and ride would bo employed to provent tho transfer of t ho lepor oolony to the point soleotod. At a m loting tho board hoard the vigorous protests of tho oitizonsof tho two parishes but deoided to take no action at prosont The protostanta concluded, however, that tho board had determined at least to attempt the osiablishmentof tho lazaretto in Jefferson. Tho rosult was that during tht night tho proposod home and other buildings on tho plantation selected were fired and totally dostroyed. Lost in tho b lood. Millions of dollars of damago has been done and at least eight livos lost io Uppar Tennessee by tho floods, caused by tho rccont heavy rains. The Doo rivor, tho Wautaga, the llolston, tho Ohukoy and the Frcnoh Brod are out of bounds and growing crops have been swept away along their courses. On ?i,? ? .u ?. -LUi? -* ...v uuu>?/ iiwi, lurvu oQiiuron 01 Joseph Hill were drowned in his house while he was at his bam looking after his stock and unaware of the danger. Oa thin river six bridges wore swept away, doing a damage of about t>0,000, whilo the damage to farms, houses and stook along this stream in Ureene county alone will amouot to one half a million dollars. At Hooper's mill, on Ohukcy rivor, two Holivar brothers fell from a boat into the river, ono being drowned. A Voyage in a Buggy. A dispatoh from Sharon says Willie lloyle startod to Yorkville Wednesday morning in a buggy and in crossing a small stream just this side of Yorkville his buggy broke looso aud was carried down the stream. Ho oould not swim but saved himself by getting on the horso and riding it out. He wont on to Yorkvillo and procured assistanee and etui3 back took the buggy out but it was badly torn up.