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THE BATESBURG ADVOCATE VOL 1. BATESBURG, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1901. NO 31 [ M'LAURIN'S REPLY To fhe Request to Res'gn His [ Seat In the Senate. I | MEKES A GENERAL DEFENCE. Ho Regards the Action cf Committee as Ridiculous ard of ^ No Legal Effect or Weight. , Senator MoLaurin replica as follows to the action of tbo State Democratic I Kxootivo committee: c n x ?i io wvuf tain, U| V '., August 5th, ItlOl. To tho Democratic Kxeoutivo Commit| t? o, State of South Carolina. I Gentlemen: Tho official notion of tho action of a majority of your committee of .July 25ih wan received by mo on August 1st, five days after it had been announced in tbo newspapers. This publish announcement was the first r notice 1 had that any action affecting me was to be taken by your cjmmittcc. 1 am now officially informed that tho majority of your oommittco condemns my course in the Bcnate, demands my resignation and uudortakca to expel mo from tho Democratic party. Twcntyono men havo attempted to usurb tho powers of tho 510,000 Democratic voters ' of South Carolina nod, as an iooident, in a mooting called for another purpose, havo hastily endoavorod to do what can bo dono only by solomn proocoding of impcaohmcnt, exprosslvorovidcil for in , the constitution of the 11 sited States. I hold myooaimision iromtho Djqqo oratio voters of Scu'h Carolioa I reoognizo no authority but thoiri, tako no orders from aoy source but them, and shall in due ouU'so appeal to thsrn for judgment on my oou- 0 as a Bonr t >r, and my obaraoter as a raau aud a 1) .mo crat. Personally I am indifferent to your motion because nobody has made you my master or censor, aud I regard what you have dono as merely expressing the malinn *ni) ihn fnr.l nf nnn Senator B. It. Tillman. Hut for this always ovil and indecent influence, ordinary rospcot for the proprieties, would probably havo prevented tho four of you who aro my declared competitors for tho scat L now havo tho honor to occupy, from attempting to U30 tho power entrusted to you by your party to remove a rival from your Datb. As a citizen and Democrat of Sou'h Carolina, 1 am mortified by your action, beeauso it has brought upon the Slate tho condemnation and tho ridicule of tho press and public throughout tho country. Unhappily, those who aro not intimately acquainted with our oonditjona sO'ccpt tho Ration of your maI joAty as representing ?bo intelligence x id Democracy of our Si^to ,4nd both aio made objects of derision. Against this 1 wish to enter my solemn protest. 1 shall demonstrate how unfair, absurd undemocratic your aotionis; and L shall trust to the Democrats of South Carolina to repudiate it when tho oppor tunity is given tbtm. Your purpose is to deny that opportunity. It is in strong ontrast with the blatant boaBt of Senator Tillman at Gaffney to put mc on trial before tho party on tho hustings with himself as prosecutor. As you kaow, I sought that tost by accepting a proposal of appeal to tho people, but tho governor saw fit to forbid it. Now Senator Tillman appears as pros >cutor against mo in my absence and by proooodiogs liko those of tho star chamber, which was the most infamous tribunal of English his tory, and the most abhorrent to Aog.oSazon instincts, seeks to exclude mo from-party and its debates end publio assemblages. It is your duty, as custodians oi tho party interests, to seek rcoruits and to strengthen tho party. To save Senator Tillmar. from staking his roooid, strength and fortunes against mino, you undortako to exe'uio me nd my frionds from the party. Whatever your individual motives may havo been, tho purport of your action is to iaoihtate tho senator in dodging me and to deny the peoplo tho opportunity of passing on my positions and c induct. It seems to me the Democratic masses of South Carolina arc competent to say at iho polls whether or no' I havo been a a faithful aenacor and a consistent Democrat. Why should jou attempt to prevent them? It is no oau^e for wonder that Sena tor Tillman should net-k tj make political asaassiua (.1 you to avoid opcu and fair fight. He has o'.imocd to power by venomous abuso of many of tho 1 uret>t men in the state who tppoeed him, lor which he has aiv cjh aarcfu iy shirk;d prson&l responsibility, and on tho po litieal livea and lortuoc-s of those who beiriended him whip he need? d fricrd >. Norris, Tindal and Donsli'ton, men representing earnest purpose and tho intoresta of the f>rmers of tho stato, and, therefore, stiocg, were used by him to promote his own iutcrcs's and then thrust asidj. lrhy, Shell and Farley died despising him beoauso of his treachery to them audio the peoplo. 1 am now in his way, and bicau'O he has failed to strike me down, lio incites you to atten pi to strangle me, and at tho same timcto destroy a white primary, to his advocacy of which he owed much of tho heat of his early following. Party jrnoiples aro fixed, and to tho principles of tho Djroooratio party I have been uniformly faithful. Party policies arc determined from time to timo by party elections and conven tions and no man, nor body of men, has tho power to say bo?weca thoio cleo tions what polioies si all bo the tests of party loyalty. Senator Tillman is assuming the proroga*ivo of supremo bjss and dictator to say who shall or shall not no bo regarded as a lPm>cr?t next year ^j.I?do not. concede any such power to him nor to you. lie, or all ot your oommittco togoiher, has not the power to cxolude from candidacy nor the polls at tho Democratic primary the humblest oitizyuof South Carolina w/io doolaroi himself to bo a Democrat and pledges himself to support tho nominees. Supposo in 18110 tho cxocutivo oommittco of tho stato had ruled cut of tho party all who engaged in tho "farmors' movomont?" Suppose two years later it had exoludcd ail who favored tho sub-treasury idea? Suoh action would have boon unjust, tyranical and insulting to thousands of good oitizens i and Domoorate, but not moro bo than this proceeding or youra. In hiB double oharaotcr aB prosecuting witness and attornoy against mo, Senator Tillman is reportod aa saying bofore your eommittoe that 1 have votod with tho Republicans "in important matters," and that ho haB soon mo conferring with Rcpublioan senators. As I will show by tho records, ho himself frequently voted with tho Republicans "in important matters," as all other Democratic senators have dono fr^iu tirno to tirno. It is frequently tieoessary proper and courteous to oonfor with moiubors of the opposite party, as ho knows and as every man of prao'ical st nao knows. These expressions of his aro attempts to take advantago of credulity and ignorance. I do not thick there is a man in South Carolina so ignorant as to bo really dcocivod by them Ho cannot put mo under suspicion as he lias put himself by his own act*. I havo not in public c lfioo rotrogradc d i> ;ru a, perhaps, honorable bankruptcy to dishonorable and unexplained woalih, Ha and 1 have drawn the same salaries- but I havo found it impossi ^lo to eavo auoI lar Irotn mine. 1 have ncvor, however, truckled to corporations witn the la valag of a tamed spaniel, made speeches against thero, then vorcd for them, aud accepted favors as ho has done. 1 bavj never boon tho sole boss and buying agent of a nowiy created whiskey tru t, with its rcbitos of $00,000 to #70,000 a year, none of which ever reached too statu treasury. 1 have never had tho handling of a stato bond rounding 6oheino with $23,000 of commissions nover yet accounted for or explained. A year ago Senator Tilloiaa wont into North Dakota and mado spceohes advo eating the re election of a Republican senator, Mr. Pcttignw. Senator Tiiluian and this senator Wora prominent in preventing, by tiliibustenug laetios, a vote on the suOsidy bill. Tito newspapers said that Mr. ii ill, head of tho Northern Pacific lobby against tho subsidy bill, gavo Senator Tillman's friend aad associate a "tip" which paid htm $150,000 th? stock market. Bins ot a leather, gontlcmon of tho committoc, always Hook together. HasSena'or Tillman, prose-outing attorney against my Democracy, ever faiitd to aou e Democrats and Denuoraoy ? Do you know that in tho last two Democratic national conventions ho has supported the nomination of Republicans? In 181U1 ho favored Senator Teller for president, an old line Republican and one of the bitterest foes of tho South in reoonstruc.ion days. Ho had himeclf appeared before tho convention as a competitor of W. ?). Rrynn and been ignominously snowed under. In 19U0 ho was for Tjwno, also a Republican for vioo president. Is ho the man to be supremo arbiter aud julgo of what is Doiuocraoy in South Carolina? In tho senate 1 have laborod, as tho reoords will show, to broaden tho prosperity of the country, to promote tho interests of my own people, to spread civilization, to enlarge and increase opportunity for our young noon and to stimulatto enterprise. liis whole political oourso and method havo been to tear down, to abuse and oppose, to blight and restrain, to bito wtioro ho dared and to fawn whore ho feared or aougnt favor. 1 shall a-tk the pooplo to contrast the records and shall claim my right ai a free man, a bora and reared Democrat and a senator from South Carolina, to do it regardless of the ord.ri of twenty ono members of the executive committee 1 shall ask Lho pooplo to decide bctwoen the man who has tried to help cotton factories, opon highways of commerce and to so command tho Democratic party as command for it the confidence and respoot of the business and laboiing elements North and South, and that of the man whoso conduot and record has boon to sink the party to disrepute and impotence, I shall ask them to say whether they prefer tho senator who has triol to rota n for South Carolina the honor and dignity won by a long lino of iilustrous sons and glorious uocds, or tho tona'.or who has postured as balloon and bully and wbo proclaimed on tho ticor of the seaato that ho represented a constituency of ballot box otutfors and murderers who wanted their share of the atoalago. He is now in a northern state holding up our people as negro murderers and ballot box thieves. You have undertaken tocendemn and expel and depose mo, not only wr.hjUi a hearing but without evidence. Upon what grounds aro my good faith ai a senator and my fidelity as a Democrat astailed? it ia ou the tariff? None of you t f tho committee can prove to the peopio that tae Domocratio party is a liej trade party, it has oppoacda tariff for protection only, outasoariy as 17i*7 wc nad a protective tariff, and wo have never in the cno hunurcd and four >cars si^c-j hiiO/ n l'rco trado. General tianoook, the piity nominee for president in lSbil, r? gaidcd the tariff as a ioo d <ju-.hL.u.i. Samuel.I. Rtadall, for years the i arty leaoor and (porker of (bo house, was a protectionist. In every congress v hero tho question has dccu presented LUiob> rs ol D.tnocrrts have vj.cd aga.tise aaa Dilpji to kill fioo trade. L have contended that Southern products shoii.il bo pat ou equality with other*, and in lb!>7 1 fougut to have nee, pine lumber a .d cotton protected The ,.ory of ' K publican" was rained against me thou, but the ptople, beloro whom the i.suo was equ?rctv put, endorsed un by an overwhelming vote. Aro \ou uow undonakiug to reverse that verdict? I have favored ship subsidies. It is a proat question and oue, i submit, on which tne people of this stato aro omnipotent to pass after hearing full argument. Tho subjoot has never boon dhcjsscd beforo them, although it is of vast importance to tho prosperity of this state. Tho purpose of tho rub sidy is to develop tho building and operation of groat fleets of Aincrioau shits It touches tho interest of our sea ports of our lumber in ius riot, of all cur manufacturing enterprises and our grca; agricultural products. 1. is a question on whioh so mo of tho ablest Democrats of tho houso and senate arc divided. 1 most humbly eubiuit that it is not in order for ttvonty ouo mombora of your oo in mi it oo to rule that the Democratic inastos of Houth Carolina shall not at their campaign mooting hear this matter of vital mtore it to thorn discussed; and that the psoplo of the pea coast eiuo--, who would like to see new tides of ooramoroc brmght to their harbots, and tlio lumbermen and own ors of forest lands, who would bo glad to soli matoria! for more ships, aro to bo thrown nook and heels out of tho party because they favor ship subsidies. I Senators Carlise, Pugh and Morgan voted for a subsidy bill, which has boen in foroo ton yoard, and whioh has helped our Brazilian trade, in a moasure at least. Are they not Democrats, amording to tho decision of Senator Til man and your oommittco? 1 belicvo that it is our duty to dovelop tho now territory whioh has oomo into our possession along commercial and industrial linos, to oivilizo them and make them tho equal of our own Btatos in material prospority. Senator Tillman would loavo thorn, after wo liavo doprivod thorn of tho protootion of Spain, to a hopoloss struggle ai an independent nation without rosowrcos or self protection. Fortuaatoly for us tho rcoords show thai in building them up wc aro going to bonvfit our own country. I want to givo that territory tho best form of ^ovornmont iu tho world; ho does not want to givo it any form of government at all. Ho says "free ailvor or bust." I say the American people have settled ihat qu-stion at the ballot box. I urn /o' a bound ourron.iy and constant cmpKy moat for all who dooirc work at remunerative wages. This wo oaanot h&ro without an outlet for our surplus pro duo'.a on equal torma with all of our competitors in the m arkots of the world. Do yeu think tho cncrgitio, live, pro gresaiva young bu-iuc.s men of the South will long permit tho oabals of a fowBchotning politicians to stand botweeu him and tho a'.taiouiont of these glonouoeuoo? If this is rot I) mo oraoy, ihen, goatloznou, I invi o you to join hands with me in making it so. Thcao aro tho loading questions on which I understand my Democracy and loyalty havo beeo assailed. fao ro cords givo mo littlo light as to what further ground there mi?y bo for your action. Allow me to lu urn arize them brie tiy. la tho first session of tho fi'ty fifth congress Sooatir Tillaian and my self voted togoihor in 1 IS of 150 yea and nay votes. 1 voted against him for protection to the farmers on an amendment to th tariff bill, proposed by Senator .loci s, of Arkansas, preBint ohairman of tho Democratic executive committee. d'oss.bly you may roconvono your oommit too and read him on of tho party. I voted with Joaes, Vest, Bioon, li?to. Berry, Daniel, Milld, Morgan and all tho other Domooga's, except Senators Tillmm and MoEaery wno voted with tho Republican;*. It was a straight pirty voio. Oj another amendment to the same bill ? voted with tho Demo crats. Senator Tillman was tho one Democrat voting with tho Republicans. See Congressional Record, vol. 30, page 1677. In tho second session of tho same oon gross Senator Tillman and myself voted togethor on of 05 roll onlls. One vote on which wo differed was on a motion to adjourn intended to dofcat a resolution oalliog upon the president to intervene in Cuba Sonator Tillman _lll. a I? I> LI! % iuvcu mill tuu ll'jpuoiloaUB 10 aijoum I and tho motion prevailed. by cco vote. L voted with tho Domoorats. The 1 other votes on whioh wo differed were 1 unimportant and not pariy questions, tho parties dividing on all. i favored tho aoooptanao of tho llawaiaan Islands, along with auoh Democrats as Gorman, Kylo, Money, Mo-gan, Pottus and , Sullivan, and he, with the other Democrats and sorao Kepublioans wero opposed to it. 1 On page 48o8, vol. dl of tho Kcoord, it id shown thai 1 voted, wild all the Democrats but three and all the Republicans, for a bill to provido for arbitration of disputes botweuo railway companies and their employes. Senator Tillman was one of tho throe against i it. We also differed on a bill prohibit- 1 ing intoxicating liquors to be sold in the territory of Alaska. 1 favored and ho opposod tho prohibition. Possibly ho had views on a dispensary and rebates thero. On a voto to recommit the oonferonoe report on the rivor and harbor bill 1 voted for tho recommitment with such Democrats as Chilton, llcitfeldt, Kennoy, Mills, Rawlins and Turnor. lie voted againBt with suih Republicans as Allison, Rurrows, Cullom, Davis, Kilting, Korakcr, Halo, IlawSoy, Lodge, Perkins, Piatt and t4JayIn tho first session of 5Glh congress Senator Tillman and I voted together on f>7 out of 71 roll c?11b. in each of tho four oasos in which wo differed tho parties wore d'vilcd. The most no*aolo of these was on the admission of Sina tor U'lay. I voted for it with Sona.ors Daniel, Kenny, MoEcory, Morgan and Taliaferro, Dcmoorats. Ho opp ed with most of the Djmoorats and cteven Refublieaua, including llanna, P.aa, Korakcr, Galiingor aud ilate. Ij the iast sessiou ol' the samo congress Senator fiilman and myself voted together in most of the 57 votes taken. Oa a resioiiiiou requiring tho president in ton days to i.-sue a proclamation disclaiming any purpose to exorcise sovereignly over tho Philippines i voted "nay" with Poster, K>le, Liodr.ay, Morgan and Suiiivau, D_moorat-<. ricnsl.r Tillman was ono of 22 javjriug 11. <>a ?n amendment <1 c.,.r ing that it was Dot tno purpose of the United Siates to rxercirfe permanent control over tho Philippines, Sc;.afor Tillman with most of the Democrats and Senator Hoar, Uopnblicau, voted "aye." 1, with Senaitra Fostci and Lindsay, Democrats, votod "nay. On tnc final |>a' sage of the arm7 hill wo (Jiff-.rcd. 1 voted for it and h.d with mo Senators Foster, Lindsay, Morgan and Sullivan. Wo voted together for amen incuts extending tho constitution oi tho Uniioi ritslos ovor tho Philippines on strict party linos. Oa tho question of gov.'rain^ our outlaying possessions ho and I voted together, and it is this that determines tho matter of imperialism, not tho pos session of tho territory. 1 voted to take possession and rulo justly. He votod not to tako possession, hut to rule. ilo and 1 votod together on all party questions exoopt those concerning t o Philippines, which my judgment, cxoicisod as a senator and a representative of tho pooplo, told Dio was a question oi foreign relations, involving entirely now problems, and, therefore, not properly a party question, and on which my political judgment told mo the oouDtry was praotically united. Tnc Domccaiio party was wrecked by being forovd in this matter into a policy opposed to its own traditions, and the overwhelming sentiment of the oonntry, against my protest and that of other loyal Democrats. Developments have proved that thoso who maintained that tho pacification of thoso islands t / 4 was impossible, that the people would cover aocopt our control, and that their rotoutiou would bo unprofitable and disastrous, wero wrong. 1 am roady to go before tho pooplo of South Carolina and show thorn tho faots. Do you undertake to say that I must resign and put mvseif out of my party booauso 1 lavored upholding tho dignity of tho Amorioan flag aftor its troops had been fired on, and opposed a oowardly abandonment of tho pooplo of these islands to chaos? Is the proposition to punish mo beatuso I did not believe Aguinaldo to bo thotqua! of Georgo Washington or concede that tho Filipinos cruid instantly and ungnided organize for themselves a stable government and a high oivilizetion? 1 hsvo been at somo pains to show from tho reoores, by volume and pace, that where Senator Tillman and I d ff.r in oingress it was not cn party question?; and that he voted w.lhtho Kj publicans at least as often as I did, and that in cvory oaso wL ero we div.dod L had with mo Dcmoor&ts who possess tnat confidence of tho paity throughout tho country, and whoso Deinooray not even his reckless and blanderoua insole use dare to assail. I oou'd go fur.hor rnd show other ins ane.'Sin which he has voted against tho irreai. mai ritrnf hi? n?riu ?() nw.,n against hii own declarations?notably in tho 1'iatt amondojont to the Cuban bid. ilo had declared his pirjoto to orpoie end tight this to iho la-<i ditch; tut no votcu for it. 8om i ol his pros cut now. paper friends said at th?j tiuu that be d;d it to curry favor with tho Charleston vote, hoping to trado tbo exposition through. If that was tho ci o, ho was tho shallow victim o! a political green goodi game and sold hims iif for sawdust. llui I have said enough, I think, 10 prova to you, and to tho public that you?itko many who herj risen and gene before you?have permitted yoursolvos to bo uiaio tools of by Senator Tillman, to promote his own base and brutal endB and to protect htm from a struggle ho fears to face, because he knows that tho foots and arguments are ail against him. ll.s hope is to keep those facts sod argu m nla from the people of S..utbCaro lina. Accept my condolence on tho unhappy and absurd situation into which tins would bo dictator has led you. You may bo assured that ho will find a era vice through which to orawl, leaving you to stand the tiro when it becomes hot, and that having used you he will o*?t you aside liko many ho has formerly used. 1 doBiro to proclaim to tho woild that you do not represent tho intelligence, the Democracy or the peop'.o of South Carolina, and to you and Senator Tiilmsn thai ho has never been my master and shall never be; that ho shall not escape the vengeanoo that must surely fail upon him when the people have boon mado to understand his motives, his methods, his debaBcd ohrraoter and bis shameful record. To that grand s conservator of free govern mon.., tho re- ( served patriotism and oommon sense of ' the poople, I make appeal, against partisan intoforanoo and tyranny. Very rcBpeotfully, Jno. Lowndes McLamin. 5 TEE WEATHER AND CROPS. Cotton Continea to Improve, but Is Late and Remains Small. The followin is the weekly bulletin of the oondilion of the weather and crops in the State issued lust week by Director Bauer of tho South Carolina section of tho climate and orop servioo of tho United Slates weather bureau: The average temperature during tho week ending 8 a. in., Monday, August 5th, was about normal, with a maximum of 102 dogreo at Tillors Ferry, and a minimum of 04 degree at Cheraw and Spaitanburg. Tiicro was nearly tho normal amount of sunthioc. li jaefieial and quite general rains occurred over portions of tho eontral and lower Savannah valley and adjacent counties, and thcro were widely scattered showers ovir tho remainder of ho stato, Boiiio of which wero heavy and were accompanied by damaging hail, in narrow paths in Kaittiold Richland, Sumter, O.-angoburp; Florence, Kershaw and Marion oountios. Thcro were also damaging hi h winds at a few points. A general rain is needed, especially fur young corn that in places is i i.tf.nng ir?in iack of moisture. Lmttoa continued to improve, and looks boalt'av, hut generally remains sm-.il, 13 late, and has very few grown b ..I . A few localities report tho plants growing too much to weeds and not liuit-.g Well, although generally cotton is mcdoracuiy well fruited. A hulo bhvUding is reporto-1, and some fields are infos.ed with lioo and rust. Uj light bandy soils growth has stopped, auuthc plants arc b.coming to tho top Sea island is doing w.ll, but is dwarfed and l.v.c. Com barely hold its previous week's coiioition, except that in places young coi n madu souio improvement, and in others has deteriorated for want of moisture. A worm known as tho cornstaU-borcr is doicg much rtitnago over tho southeastern nnd omlral counties. Fodder ii being stripped from old ooru. 'j'obtcoo ouiuug and curing blill progressing favorably, and is nctnug comptction in localities. J'tio early crop is poor, but ia.o tobacco is doing well, except I hat woruu are numerous. ItlrtA h .11' H nr.. rn>Miriv ? n ?1 aa Sweet potatoes tro the most promising of all tho minor crop?, thn oar.iost are ahou* rift'ly to markot. Some white potatoes aro being planted. Some peas havo beon cut for forage, peas aro poor in plac.s and ii no in other. Turnips Doing sown. 1'taohos aro worthless in many places, and generally rotting extensively. Apples oontinuo to drop. Mnoh hay being gathered aloDg the coa-L and from river bottoms. Tea and coffee plants aro very promising. A Negro I'mlrr litst Thursday night Mrs. l'attorsor spout spout tho night with her mother in Lw, Mrs. Milter, and during the night sho aweko and discovered that tho light had beon extinguished an 1 the window opened. Sho callul her mother in law, who Diado a light in tho room, and there stioking from under tho bed was a pair of largo black foot. They slippod out of tho rooms and Mrs. Miller went for a neighbor, but Mrr,. IVtorson could not bear the strain of being loft alono and she screamed out, frightoning tho negro away boforo holp oamo. A TILLMAN AT UNION, i ( Ha Pours Hot Shot Into the Camp j of the Commercalis's. : i ADVICE TO THE WOMEN. < I Warrs Cotton Mill Presilents J and Pays R specie to ! "Those Damnable ] i Charges." 1 Tho staff orrrcspondont of Tho Slate ] furnishes tho following speech of Sena- 1 tor Tillman delivered at Uunion last < Friday: Senator Tilltnan said that as J noar as ho oouli calculate \hoBo who ( were hear had been listen:-.g to abcut 1 11 hours of spoechtnakir..'. "Wo were 1 told two and ono-half irruths ago that 1 *ou did not want to bo stirred up," ho . ' aid, "You must be stirred up about | something or you woulda't bo hero. < Voice?Wo wanted to hoar Tillman. I 1 Tillman?That is ?iuitc a compliment. 1 Thank you. Soma time ago it was paid they couldo'i got up a meeting in Anderson '0 hear him. Ni such effort was made; it was a story kolteu up by somo of this new langlcd Cominetoial Domooracy press. I haven t been here in t-omo years, but I an glad to come and tnauk you for tho.honors givon mo. II) toid something of life ia Washington. Ho had become nauseated on 'loquencc. While he ust <1 to iove to -peak him-c f, now ho was iiko an old mule plouge i six or eight years that has lost h.'s Qrc and upiru. Ho mido 45 specohes last year and had lo^k d more South Carolinians in tbo face than any mau alive lis knew mrh about the gcorgrapby ol his State. When ho rcH :ctcd they had heard all the spccohcs they had thore was nothing loft for him to say. Tbo bono hid not only been gnawed cloan, but licked white. He would have to pick up tho scraps and make tbo habh for them (Laughter,) ''and the best thing about it is tho salt and pepper," ho added. (Laughter) ' You know I used to have a good supply of those condiments. We 6eem to have a new issuo bobbing up here. 1 would like to dress it, but tho man who raised it is not hero That is tho went thing about it, for L don't like to fight that way. 1 like to get in front of a man and shake my fist in his face.'(Applause and laughter.) What is this issue? The very fiist thing is Democracy. What oonetiiutcs Democracy and who are Democrats? 1 go north Bonio times? and 1 do love to take my pitchfork and stick it in-and drivo it home. (Laugh tor ) Tho Republicans uorlh will come iut to i1" what this animal looks Iiko. (Laughtor ) Now as to this now issue. Have wo any sinners hero? 1 would line to know how many, if any, aro here in doubt if thoy aro Domocrats or not? Ti oso who aro somewhat doubtful as to what Democracy moans? If thoro aro any honest doubters hero? those who see anything in this dow Democracy to make them thin* thoy don't know whero you are at, if so please hold up your hands? Thoro was not a ono. Tillman?Well, this is a manufacturing oontre, whore ootton manufacturing nas expanded and tho growth has boon marvelous. Surely there must bo somo ono hero who takes hold ul those dow doctrines, but no one holds up his hand. 1 believe 1 11 try the other std j. A great many hands wont up, but thoro wero somo that did not. Voici?They all go up. Tillman?No, not all. Hut may be when 1 put soino nure salt and popper on their baoks they will got a littlo more life in them. Senator Tilluiau wont on to givo his dotinuion of Domooraoy which ho said was that ol Thomas Jc&erson, the greatest exponent ol l>cmocraoy. "Dsuiocraoy is tho government of the people." How then are the people to govern themselves? By moans of tho baliotbox. When tho hontstly cast ballots aro oounud the man who gots the majority must bo the spokesman of the pooplo. The people can't voto every week or mouth. Their will can only be expressed through those who aro solcetoa as spokesmen. These men onco chosen they arc bound for the term to whioh they aro elected as the spokesman and agent of tho people, lie may represent ideas of his own, but he must suoscivo them to tho wishes ol tue people. Tho w.ll of tbc people can bo expressed in no other way. 1 want to impress just hero tho responsibility of .no individual voter. Wnat a great thiig it is to bo ono of 90,000 and do ahlo to sdcot your agent to do your will. No water can riso higher than us souroo. If tno spring is mu idy ino stream will be mml m ?? ?-j j iicuigiii it the vour misuses his vote, allows ' boiuo ono to boss aod direct him, how dorpioablo a oharaoter ho b. comes. J Fellow citia)D9, rtho timo seems to be > oomiog when tlic effort to cocroo you will touki you scratch your beads and 1 therefore it is timo for airvants Jo * tace>thu people and answers questions. ! This is the great vaiuo of our ptituary ! system. In England suffrago is lim- ' itcd; only property owners can vote. 1 In other cauntrios it is worso. Egt'sgo * to tlio other end. Jjjt't go to the inon f jou have olootod to the fen ate and the 1 houso. if youhavo your allegations as 1 a voter, what of tho men, your agents? ' Aro they to soil tlio power thoy have 1 had entrustod to them; arc thoy to 1 trado it for patronngo, to bartor it so { they can appoint sorno one postmaster at Oreonvil!*?, Union or Columbia? 1 You didn t give this power to thom to 1 uso f >r their own aegrandujment. 1 have tried as senator to always guard your interests first and got mv < own step to tho roar and a Uomocrat < will do it always. It is a Hopublioan I dootrino that publio officio is a privato < snap, and tho holder mav use it for his f own pur noses. Thcro ;is no prinoiplo i in it. Our government is suoh that, < patterning after England, wo havo ' always had two great parties, with leaders roprcsontiog woll defined poli- i cios. IKrc Hamilton was on ono :>idc 1 urging that only tho wealthy property i owners should havo a voioo. Jefferson < stood for popular govormont, tho only i froe government. Somo pooplo don't i soom to want free government any more. rhero aro some people in our State now lining up, and buying up nowspapers. Are jo 1 ready to say the people must rivo way to these modern idoa leaders, i who want to look out after all interests? i 1'hty aro not making muoh of a raoket ret but perhaps like snakes in the grass ih< y aro sneaking around to sting you i When you do oatoh them you aro going | .0 crush their heads. I Tho Democratic party's dootrino is to I Leaoh the people and then trust them. < [f 1 have any hold on you it is booause 1 L have trusted you oolleotivoly. .1 havo 1 tlways beon trusted and you havo fol- < owt<l mo; I'm not always right, but I rou lave boon with mo. My proudo^t loaBt in Washington is tnat 1 rep- ! CHont my people; that when I speak l rou speak. Whon 1 feol that 1 havo oit your oonfidenoo and respeot then ] L m going heme- And it is that sense >f power?booauso I fool 1 do ropre- 1 lent you?that maks me so sassy. 1 Laughter,) It was that whioh made mo i ast week go into Koiublican strong- i r. 1 ?. 1 1 I' ? jviua iu vuu uvuuwiDi. 11 was aluzuty ' 0 toll them to thoir teeth when they | ibkcd mo to discuss tho r*oo question ] ,h$t they didn't know a blamo thing i tbjut it. 1 told thorn that 1 would 1 ead a uiob to lynch a negro or any ono < jlso guilty of tho crirno of rape and .hey applauded me to tho ooho. Blood i ,s as thick up thoro as it ia hero. < L tpoko of the fact that Union had nado groat progress. 1 want to say I hat a fow to.ton faotory men are belind tho ato:yihat this new dootnne i ,s strong in tho3e industries and in thiB lootion. I deny that. I know of tonio mil prosidonts who aro not. I give .hem credit for having tome senso and f they do try to coerce y*. u they will i eutiastono wall. 1 believe that you will bland to 'ho piinoiplos of sjilto.'ernuiout, booauso joi lovo your 'ightsaud will sustain them. 1 waut to ;ivo a word of warning to tneso eetton iiill men who have gone north and some back with these now ideas. There iro sonic of these weak pooplo around, n*ybo they inoludo ono-balf of these sihoera. .When did cotton milling iu South Carolina begin to grow? In 18!1J vo had only a haudfui. It began whon Jlevoland was in tho White Hjusc. D.d it owo Cleveland anything? 1 deny t. Since McKinley has como in the mills continue to go up. Tho building )f mills continue because it was diejovered that it was moro profitable to juild and oporato mills hero than anywhere oIbo on earth. Ihon why should vo all join the llepubiiean party? iVhoro is tho contention's ba3ib? it is 1 humbug and a ho. It is as plain as .wo and two makos four. Why do our nill presidents then wish to fail in be rind those new ideas? 1 can see no >thor hypothesis unless they havo been lootlicking tho money mon north. 1c irdcr to curry favor they must take tho vholo dooirino. They oau't tako the iperatives with them. Wtiy won't they >j persuaded or ooorood? Because ,hey are mon?eome of tho best mon we have. 1 want to toll these men why [ know they won't follow. W-Uon you were working night and day to mako ho big profits, did tho officers raise rour wagos, etQ. ? No, in some in- i i.suuub vuejr out wages wnno aoUDllOg ' heir monoy insido ol a year, and thou I hey bay you mast bo Commercial i Jomoorats because it is to thoir inter- < isis. They tried to vjto those peoplo < gainst nioio 1890 and in 1892, but ? hey didn t do it, and whou they try t o make them vote for John L. MoLau- I in to go to the senate next year to nisroproscnt tho Stato thoy are not i ;oing to do it. (Cries?"Harrah for < Tillman.") Thoy toll us wo must allow I atitude for tho mill owners to control ho mills. With tho now constitution lowdaro thcBO mill proBiUonts oomo < lore to lead these peoplo into the llo- < ubliccan party ana turn them over to > VIark ilanna? The timo may oomo to < tali down thoso who have no right to i noddle and try to run the politics of 1 South Carolina. Are we to havj this < ulo of wealth oomo hero. If you have t >unk so low as to bo herded then it vill come; if not, it won't; 1 suppose here will be a row raistd. 1 am not irraying tho mill operatives against , tmployers. I'm tolliog factory owners 0 attend to thoir own ousincss. That j s all. If thoy try to coerce operatives , 1 pledge ytu I will goto every village , tnd taik to theso tree whito mon and j ell them of tho inquttics they are try- , ng to prac.ioe upon them. South Carolina has fostered ootton mils. Tho constitutional oonvontion olt the thing upon and there has oeon , 10 adverse legisla.ion, but there may )0. Thoy tell you that tho nogrois out of ,ho way. My liLd, don't seduce jour,clf into believing that. Hvory man who was in tho constitutional oonveuion knows that the Sword of Damoclos tangs over our hjai; that tho suffrage provision is only temporary at best, is long as tho fourteenth and fifteenth iinondmmts are m force. Us explained ho provisions. When a whito man booomas infamous ,he u ore educated ho is tho more infanons he is. In tho K.vilutton not onetall of tho mon who mado South Car ilina froa could read or wrilo. You isn't put tho yardstick of education Tnen iheffc is tho question of caste. Wiiothor wo aro bottor than tho negro we aro going to run this oountry. Tho jffort to revolutionui the party means hat tho negro who is educated will he ho balanoo of pjwer bjtweon tho slacks and whiten and the white man tfho oom.s nearer being a nigger will $ct tho in >st votes. Let too show you lomothiog. Ho citod the Ohio Kopubli:an platform just adopted?in the presdnn*'fl own State. He road the olauso 'elating to tho south's depriving tho negro of his franchise and domand that eproeontation ba givon on a basis of copulation. Mark Ilanna presided and tore is his lieutenant down bore pa-ading an and down tolling you tro legro won't bother you any more? that tho ghost is doad. This scheme will tako away 50 of oar )ongrcsonacn and 50 from tho doctoral tollego. This is to put negroos on a sasts with you faotory operatives, to establish equality and send won to oun sress to botray them. Thoy drivo tho aogro back from Illioois when he goes there, moot hint with rifles, yet they iay thoy must bo allowod to vote here. I don't hate tho uogro. i don't bolicvo in lynching for anything but rapo. I io for that orimo. 1 triod tostoplynohings when 1 was govornor How many of you aro for sale? Aro you roady to sell out without knowing it. They are no low and moan that its hard to believe God Almighty made them. Mr. Latimer?Tho devil mado them, ) 70a mean. Tillman?I don't rooall in the Biblo anythying about tho dnvil having mado anybody. (Laughter.) ? When tho tariff bill was passing I voted for a protective tariff on long staple ootton, rioe, ot2. Southern conjcrossmon had asked that bagging and ties bo put on the free list. We asked ^ Fox'some cqualty. The bagging tru-t oamo and had the southern farmer knocked out. The northern farmer got A his binder twino free. If you vote for tho Republican tiokot will tbey take tho tariff off? Do you reokon they will? Kvery man, woman and child is paying 12 apiece for ponsions. Aro thoy going to oliango that? My God, why if wo all become Its publicans who will thero be left to rob? Mo told of a Mexican war votorao iu Uhestor who had lo9t his area in that 01 war. IIo had also, howovcr, served in e< tho Confodcrato army. They refused fe to give that old soldier his money. Ho told of ihn hard lrnrt !?.?. U-.l D1 eot it. They consider the southern peo- T plo ai slaves born to pay taxes. N jw is they want you to go with thorn. Id,n't Ql bolicvo there's a oounty of South Car- .. elina that can be seduced iu this way. I tried to avoid all this. L walked out *( in tlio pond with him and wanted to ol drown him out. But our governor d( wanted poaco and unity. LIo had no f more right to do it than you havo. And . McLiurin. Ho coiida't tak? it back fist enough He was so glad to get it back. No chicken ever lit on a juno ci hug an he did. Hiwassovory g:ad. pj (Lsughter ) And now he's out in a papor last week and ac.ually says L'.M AlvllAlL) TO MEKL' IIIM, (Ltughter) m Permit me to digross a moment. You tl romember those old threshed ever fll ehirgosGen. Butler made sevon years ago about my getting rebates. It ro- a' minds me of last year's bird nest story. Ihey c argo that Lstolo money because al I could, b.cau-c 1 had the ohaaoc. Now g the $6,000 charged then baa grown to $60,UO'i. Isn't ihrt charge that I stolo n because I had a ohanco to a high plane to get to? Lot's see whattaai would a! load to. Let a lady and gontleman bo ?* alone for half an hour and hor roputa m Lion would be gong. 1 nover took a dollar and everybody knows it. If you think I've boaime woalthy as they tell " you, go to Edgefiold and lo)k up the tc mortgages on my plaoo and go to tho ai Uarolina Dank in Columbia aad see how ]z I Btand there. When ho says I steal 11 beoauso I oould, I say people who live 8' in glas3 houses ought not to throw al stones. Why did ho vote for tho troaty "f on that Monday morning after speaking against it the Saturday before? I don't 01 shargo that he was bribed, but what was tho quid pro quo? oc "Let aio say to you that it will take 'e somebody of moro responsibility and jharactor than thisJno. L. McLrurin " Lo make tho pcoplo believe that any dis- m honest dollar ever passed my palm. They won t beliove any suoh damnablo slander^. " Sentor Tillman then paid tribute tor ?( the women and Baid he had been under pottiaoat government all his life. There was nothing to equal the elevating in- m Juecoe of a good woman. They often m made bravo men of oowards. He oonjluded by advising the wives that if se their husbands sLowod signs of running *c jlf after Republican floshpots to take 111 their broom sticks and make them do their duty. As Senator Tillman ooncludoi tho ludiencc rose and chcorcd him to the joho, and a number cams on tho stand ft flhftlrn j ?r?$V? *<uuuu ?TUU 1111X1. His speech ended the meeting. Pi After the speech Senator Tillman said q :hat he had digniticd MoLaurinand his jrowd by noticing tho oharge about the ,r cbates, bnt he felt that it was high 0 :imo for ttoic.who made these ohargos *a ind repoatod them?now threshed over ror years?to either furnish the proof m >r stop rehashing such dirty iusinualions" is New Disease Among Animals. Charbon or anthrax, which is rav- T aging tho plantations of the Missis- ca uppi delta and killing tho cattle, w Horses and mulos at a foarful rate, is a of now disoaso to ui, as it probably is to pi most of our readers. Reports from se the Infected distrio, say tho disoaso is af spreading, and horseflies and mosqui- oc loos are credited with bciog responsi- H die for a largo part in tho dissemina- al lion cf tho infection. Tho name of st the disease, anthrax, is of Greek ori w gin, and VVebstor's definition of it is: a< "A oarbuccle; a malignant boil, ac- w oompaniod with gangreon of the celu T lar tissue." w Oae authority djsoribes the disoaso as virulent ailmont among horses and sheep, often producing death within twclvo to forty-eight hoars. It seldom makes its appcaraaoo in man. In most aouto cases tbc ani 1 als fall as if they p had received a severe blow, and go into p eoavulsions. Tho pulse is quick and ja the trcalhing rapid and labored. In j] such instances, doath usually ooeur .. within a few hours. In less acute ,j cases, tho animal loses appetite and a, bctmos feverish and tliiraty, and suf- y f^rs intestinal troubles. Tho li st at- t| ta-'k may pass off. only to bo sucoeeded by a second attack, which usually p proves fatal. Too morta'ity from an- p thrax is very high. N ) spcaifie has yet bet n due ivercd f >r the d. caao. Pre- a ventivo inoculation l,as been 1 *aotioed t( in sumo sections with soma degree of _ success. Burnetl at Stak<\ tj With agonizing sorrams and his eyes si hlllffinv frr.tr* kia k -* A I r.k-? f 0. -r> ...? " UIIU >? LUC/ | Pennington, a negro, wan burned at >! the etako near Enterprise, Ala., Thura- fi day, beforo a cro*d of five hundrod on- al raged cit ?inn of Coffee county. The d assemblago was oomposcd of both h whites and blacks, and although tho negto plead for mercy and frantioally endeavored to break tho ohains that tightly bound him, not a trace of sympathy was shown on tho hardened faoea u that poered at him through tho tl tines. h Ponnington had oommittod an assault e upon Mrs. ,J. 0. Davis, tho wtfo of a v prominent farmer of Coffoo oounty and li had oonfessed his guilt. The crimo / was oommittod on Thursday afternoon \t whilo Mrs. Davis was gathering vego- f< tables in her g\rdcn. As soon as she ti regained her sonses, Mrs. Davis crawl- n ed to tho house and told her husband a what had happoned. A largo posse 2 was quickly organiiod and with blood- o hounds thoy ohascd tho negro until t e*rly in the morning, when he was cap I n tared in a swamp. I t IEN AGAINST MONEY M trorgest Labor and Financial Organizations In America flLL NOW ENQAQE IN WAR. Oeneral Strike in All Steal Companies Works Ordered. Si? Industrial Army Called from Their Poets. A dispatoh from Pittsburg, Pa., unsr date of August, 6, stye: The die is tst. The battle of tho giants is on in truest, whether to ignominious dent of one sido or tho other, or oom- -< romiso, remains to bo soon. Up to uosday cvoning it was merely a skirm h, each aide trying to find the vulerable spot in the othor's armor. Now is different, brought abont by the stnal isauranoc by Prosident Shaffer f the long talked of general strike orer. This ordor was promulgated ucsiay evening to take effsot after ie last turn of the mills on August Jth. Wnat the result will bo no man in fortell, but judging by the exressed determination of both pares to the oontrovorsy tho battle will s waged fast and furiously. Much loney will be lost, thon-ands upon lousanda cf men will be idle, groat iffcring is looked for, even bloodshed ad doath are possible and feared. Tho striko call includes praotioally 1 Amalgamated men in tho United tatjs Steel corporation's employ not ow on striko. It was issued from the malgamatcd association headquarters id mailod to all Amalgamated lodge fioials who arc expeotod to call their on into the striko. Tho text of tho oall follows: "Brethren: Tho officials of tho nited States steel trust have refused i recagnize as anion men those who e now striving for tho right to organ3. The exeoutivo board has authored mo to issuo a oall upou all Amalimated and other union men in name id heart to Join in the movoment to gh.t for labor's rights. "Wo must fight or give up forever lr personal liberties. "You will bo told that you signed intraetB, but you never agreed to aurndor these contracts to the United lates Steel oorporation. Its officers link you were sold to them jnst as the ills wore, oontraots and all. "Remember you agreed to xpact you took an obligationH ma! gam a tod association. It >n to help it this hour of "Unless tho trouble is settled I'ore Saturday, August 10, 1901, the ills will olose when the last turn is ado on that day. "Brethron, this is the oall to prerve our organizstion. We trust you id need yon. Come and help as and ay right oome to a jnst cause. "Fraternally yours. (9igued) "T. J. Shaffor." The Texas Cotton Crop. Mr. Harvio Jordan, of Macon, Qa., resident of tho Southern Cotton rower's Association, has just returned om a trip to Texas where he made a ur of that State in the interest of the sooiation. With regard to the or.nisition there ho said that it was oro thorough than in any other State ith tho exception of Georgia. Every >unty has its organizer and the State being flooded with literature oalling 1 tho farmers to organise for proteoon. Mr. Jordan traveled all over exts and says that tho cotton crop mnot possibly bo as largo there as it as last year, notwithstanding tho faot ' inoreasei acreage. For the most art this increased acreage is repre:nted by ootton plaotod on grain laods 'tor the grain had beon out off and tho >tton will not amount to anything. 0 said he talked to business men in 1 the prinoipal cities and tho univerd opinion was that tho ootton crop ould bo less than last year. When ikod about corn ho said that there ould bo about a third of a orop. exas is will adapted for any plant ith a tap root in oaso of dry weather. A Brave Qirl. Wncn a burglar attempted to enter 10 residence of W. (J. Huttleston, 294 last avenue, Atlanta, Tuesday night, o was met by a very oourageous young idy with a pistol in her hand. Mr. luttleston and his wife lift homo to ?ond tho evoning with friends and icir daughter, Miss Carrie, remained t homo with her grandmother. About ^ o'olock the young lady disoovered oat a burglar was trying to break into ie house through a rear window that ad boon left open. She quietly got -^| or pistol and slipped into tue yard by I oing around the side of tho house. For young woman to attempt in this way ) head off a burglar, and she at home nd unprotected, was about as brave a ccd as a lady might well perform, liss Carrio did it. atd when she be burglar dart away in tho darkness bo dcliboratoly tired two shots at him. 'ho burglar ran aronnd the homo and liss Carrio again headed him of! and red two more shots. The only reason be m;sacd him was because it wan too ark for her to got a good aim, and tho urglar kopt on tho run. It Took Forty Minutes. J Guarded by throe companies of State lilitia, called out by Gov. Candler for is protection, Raymond Ross, a negro harged with assanlting Mrs. Miller, as oarricd to Canton, Ga., from Attnta Wednosday to stand his trial. l special session of the Cherokee conrt 'as called by .Jrlge Gobor, who asked jr troops from Got. Candlor. The ime tho trial consumed was only 40 jinutes. Tho nogro was oonTir.ted sentonoed to bo banged Angust 7 th. Ross was brought back to this ity by the troops. Gov. Candler said he expense incurred by sending the ailitia to Canton to protoot Ross will tot be muoh under (SO,