The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, April 02, 1902, Image 1
[ THE BATESBURG ADVdCATE/
I VOL.11. BATESBURG, S. C., WEDNESDAY. APRIL 2, iSK>2. NO. 11. >
I A BUGLE CALL
To The Democracy of the Country t<
Get Together
AND SAVE THE NATION FROM
Being Mexlcunizctl by the Man Oi
Horseback in the White House
uuil the Dollar Worshipping
Republicans.
There was a notable gathering ol
I Democrats in Washington last week,
They were there at the biennial ban
quet or We Virginia Democratic as
sociulion held in the banquet room <>i
the Metropolitan hotel. They Included
Democrats of national promt
ncnce. Those who spoke included the
following: T. W. Rullock, second
vice president of the association: Col.
Henry Watterson, of Kentucky; Senator
Carmack, of Tennessee; lion.
Lewis Nixon, the leader of Tammany
ITall; Representative W. W. Kitchen,
of North Carolina: Representative
DeArmond, of Missouri and members
of congress from Virginia. Col. Walterson
spoke .is follow :
"There is no drop of blood in my
veins which is not Virginia blood. Although
for purposes of my own, having
a deep design beneath them, 1
choose this capital of the nation for
my birthplace, my earliest vision of
paradise?the very dawn of all my
conceptions of honor and duty and
glory?nestled among yonder hills,
across the Potomac; and, when I g<>
hence, my ashes shall repose upon the
bosom of Kentucky?Virginia's tirst
born and fairest daughter. There
seems, therefore, some fitness In my
sitting among you.
"Anyhow, being a Kentuekien and
a Democrat, I am glad to be here and
you will not, I hope, think me assuming
any consequential airs and graces,
if I add that I feel very much at
home.
"\VK ARE DKMOC'AUTS."
"We are Democrats. We love our
country. Our hearts beat true to Its
institutions. We would rescue the
government from the hands of those
who are converting it into a govcrn*
meat of the trusts, for the trusts and
by the trusts, and restore it to the
hands of those who will have some
regard for the rights of the people.
"The Republican party is a syndicated
party. Arbitrary power is its
motor, the almighty dollar its trade
mark. If it be not checked in the gait
it is going, It will in the end surely
Mexicanize the republic.
THE MAN ON HOltSKllACK.
" tnivn _ v, ? i. 4l, . ^
have the tnan on horseback. AtTecting
the simplicity of the cowboy, he
conceal beneath the self-conlidcnce and
que^r manners of the broncho buster,
the sentiments and ambitions, if not
tlfe talents, of a Diaz. To him, a little
thing like treating an admiral of
the navy, wearing the laurel leaves of
imperishable, renown, as if lie were a
baby in arms, now to be dawdled and
now to lie spanked. Is merely an undress
affair begun and ended during
off-moments between breakfast and
luncheon. To him the reprimanding
of the lieutenant-general of the army,
grown gray in the lighting of tlie battles
of his country, becomes an amusing
horse play, meant to relax his
muscles and illustrate his high-might iness,
whilst warning lesser otllccrs of
the army tooliey orders and say nothing.
\ MILITARY DICTA Ton.
"As these things go forward, partaking
somewhat of the. character of
feats to divert and blinds to hoodwink
public opinion, a bill of army reorganization
is prepared and urged upon
congress, which, if it becomes a law,
will make tlie power of the president
absolute, and which it is not to<
much to say ought to be entitled 'An
act to make the president of llie I'nited
States a military dictator.' I'.ecause
the reprimanded lieutenantgeneral,
answering the summons of a
committee of congress as was hb
duty?expresses an opinion adverse t<
this bill, it is proposed to retire bin:
from the service. Taken in con nee.
tion with some other matters of more
or less sinister suggestion, these art
menaces of most ominous import.
WIDTH HOUSE TO THE CAIMTOL.
"Rut, turn from t lie white house l<
the capitol, and look at the Republicans
In congress. The trail of the
trade mark is over i Hem all. < Hd higl
tariir dances the cancan in the house
whilst, old ship subsidy does the rcgu
lation cake walk in t he senate. Kverv
think for the syndicates. Nothing
for the people. And, not content wit !
their arbitrary power in the whit*
house and their mercenary power ii
congress, the leaders of this party o
federalism and false pretension wouk
rip open Pandora's hox to tilch thenei
tlie black, piratical Hag of negro dom
inatlon the equally disreputable anc
bloody shirt of sectional agit ition
and, in order to make sure of the ncx
house they are proposing to tiring for
ward another force hill to smite tie
south, to blight the north, and to con
vert a land teeming with love an<
peace into a land reeking with huh
and strife. Such is tin- banquet t<
which the exit, of McKinley, tin
statesman, and the advent of I loose
velt, the ltough Hitler, lias invited um
A SLA I* KOK KL NSTO.W
''I am something of a jingo inysel
I believe in the expanding greatnes
and glory of my country. 1 never se
the Hag floating above the dome 01
yonder capltol that my heart does no
throb with the proud, glad thought
that ray eyes do not 1111 with hupp,
exultant tears that I. too, am ai
American olti/.en.
"God bless the flag, and God hies
the hoys that light beneath it.
would carry it inviolate, I would kee
them spotless. And with this in view
I want to know what is going 01
away out youndcr across t he mult it ml
inous, the mysterious waves of Hi
Pacific sea. I want, other witnesse
than self-seeeing politicians and sell
exploiting soldiers to come here are
tell me. I refuse to hold my tongue
I refuse to rest content. And, if
j am told by a whippersnapper in shoulder
straps that, unless I do, 1 am a
I traitor to my country, my reply to
5 I him shall be a slap in the face. A
TIIK TKUMl'KT CALL.
"Friends, brothers, Democrats, let
j us have done with dissension. Let us
i turn our backs on the past, our eyes
| to the future, calling against these sa
; things is my comrade, no matter what Ji
he thinks or ever thought about silver 0f
t or gold. He who would deny me a
i place by bis side to light them, must ,
j Ihj either very perverse or very blind.
j Let us cross no bridges till we come hi
; to them. Hut already we can see far Si
j enough ahead to take our reckoning. (jj
"tor TIIK LINK." to
f "There will lie but one test of a ri
Democrat in 1904? toe the line?toe sc
' the line, saying to arbitrary power ni
j and absolutism, thou shalt go no fur- in
. ther; we, too, are in the expansion sc
r business; but our expansion is for the ti<
| religion of the constitution no less ga
than for the religion of Christ and , to
Him crueitied; our expansion means as
' peace, not war; t he honor, not the de-1 sli
gruuaunn or meting: .mil Just us sure- hi
ly as .leffcrson wrote the Declaration ed
of Independence and Jackson fought, th
| the battle of New Orleans?to resist ar
despotism?shall wo make a new W
Fourth of July and celebrate another i
, eighth of January, In resisting this so<
unrighteous scheme to abolish the It
constitution and Mexiennizc the gov- ?h
ernment." his
he
A SENSATIONAL CHARGE.
m;
ne
I Agent of Denmark Say* lie Drilled
ou
Members of I'onjjri wi. bei
Co
A genuine sensation was caused in as
i the house Thursday by the prcsenta- hi
! tion by Mr. Richardson of Tennessee, mi
th?' Democratic leader, of charges al- an
leging the corrupt use of a fund of Kl
$500,000 in connection with tire sale an
of the Danish West Indies. The wn
charges were contained in an alleged of
secret report ofCapt. Walter Christ- '
mas to the Danish government which tei
declared that lie had employed corrupt sp<
means to bring about the negotiations Da
for the sale of the islands to a con- hit
summation. sui
The report, extracts from which sti
Mr. Richardson read, mentioned the of
names of Aimer McKinley and his ed
partner, Col. Drown, C. W. Knox, who Mi
was described as "an intimate friend lib
of Senator 1 lamia." Richard l\ Evans Re
who was said to represent "Mr. (lard- of
ner and his friends in the house," and M<
two press associations, the names of th:
which were not given, as having been tin
interested In the matter. The th;
charges against members of con- wa
gross were not specified, l.'pon It
the basis of this report, Mr. Richard- Sa
son asked the adoption of a resolut ion ga
for the appointment of an investigat- no
!ng committee of seven. The speaker ed
ruled that the mat ter was priviledged
' ?t ? ' 14 . 4^.1
his resolution so as to specifically include
members of the house.
Great excitement attended tlie whole
proceeding. Mr. Cannon of Illinois
insisted thai Mr. Richardson's presentation
was fragmentary and that '
the whole mat ter should go over until for
Friday in order that members might ror
read the documents presented, which tin
included newspaper ext racts, affidavits in
etc., in tlic Record. Christmas, lie plii
declared, on 11is own statement, was a m,
briber and worse. lUit tho house j
voted down l lie motion to postpone ha
and tlie- resolution after being amend- of
ed in minor particulars, was adopted. <Ju
The speaker immediately appointed an
the following committee to make the an
investigation: Messrs. Dalzcll (Rep.) ro;
of Pennsylvania, ilitt (Rep.) of 1 Hi- 001
nois. Cousins (Rep.) of Iowa, McCall Se
(Rep.) of Massaehuset ts. Richardson re;
(I )em.) of Tennessee, Dinsmore (item.) ]ai
of Arkansas, and Cowherd (Hem.) of p.
Missouri. 1
A democrat I'nscated. an
The Republicans in tho House last 'ia
Wednesday unseated Mr. Rhea of an
Kentucky, a Democrat, and sealed in
I lis place Mr. .1. Mackenzie Moss, who
1 was formerly a Democrat but who. '
1 according to liis Itricf. is In accord !':l
with Republicans on the dominant. '
issues. The Republican majority In M('
tlie house is 1.1. While only two Re- ! Su
publicans. Ilanbury and Vreeland of'
New York, voted witii the Democrats, w'
' enough Republicans remained away or ',l1
1 declined to vote to reduce the ininorito
to. The conclusion of the debate
' upon the case was rather spirited, Mr.
' Rhea making an eloquent d< fense of 111:1
his rigid to the seat. Mr. Rhea made I
a severe arraignment of Mr. Moss, thol ,
, contestant, charging that although '
. lie now called himself a Republican
. that two weeks before th > election lie , n
, liad registered as a Democrat and had ! ,n
pledged himself if elected to go into ,v
. the Democratic caucus. Wit Ii im-!
. passioned words lie challenged t he j
. contestant!or ids friends to deny this
, statement. "If it isdenied," said he. I W
J "I wlllprove biin to be the poor, miser- j eiJ
, ! able creature 1 know him to be.'' j gc
lumped from ?t Train. !
I i >1
i The Rlaekvillo correspondent of The j ((>
State says the passengers on the early j i)(
' moridng train from Augusta toChar- u,
leston witnessed a surprising Incident ; j',
( just before the train reactie 1 blackville
Thursday morning. A young ! |(1
lady, Miss May Folk, who lives near j fll
W lllistou. tioanlcd the train at thatL,,.
j station en route to Columbia. Upon L.j
ncarin^ the i?lac?- the porter as usual j tr
''called, "Jtlnckvillc." Miss Folk lia- !
I i mediately r>.se from her seat, hastily ;tJ
; ran to tin- door and lt-aped from the *.j
1 t rain which was then running at some .
',.50 or 4o mile. an hour. When the |'(
train stopped it returned and found
t' the voting lady unconscious. She was
s brought to ttie hotel and found to he
e severlj Injured. sulTering from eonous- 'j(
> si on of t lie brain, shoulder dislocated v
t and badly bruised. She is now in a
, very critical condition. I(|
v
<2cii. iiatnploii'H (tirf Inl.iy. re
Friday was (Jen. Hampton's 84th
s birthday and the State says the geneI
ral was in tine spirits. ' was eelcbratp
ed very quietly at his home, lie had ..
, been very unwell Thursday night, but "
n Friday he was feeling quite.strong and u
I- was out for a ride during the forenoon
< and (arly afternoon. A number of
s friends called tomngrat ulate liim upon .
bis birtliday. The general's health lias
ri Ireen bad during the past year, but lie
;. ; has cont inued cheerful and lias taken (>f
1 | a lively interest In current events.
A SALUDA MYSTERY.
Itiul Negro, Who 11 ml tlcou Mli?- ^
lug, Found Dead.
A dispatch from Saluda to The State
,ys the finding of the dead body of
)hn Chapman, a negro In the employ
Mr. S. H. Corley, in Mr. Corley's
isture has created quite a sensation. ^
mpman, a negro of bad reputation,
id been missing for two weeks. On
inday, the 9th inst., soon after
laptnun left Mr. Corley's house to go
Ids tish basket in Little Saluda
ver, three gun shots were heard by
veral persons in the direction Chap- -j
an had gone. Chapman's wife, fearg
a difficulty, as she says, went in v
arch of her husband but failed to 11
id him. Searching parties were or- b
.nixed, and Coroner Gibson under- u
ok an investigation, but on being ^
sured by and estimable lady that ^
e nan seen vjnspman pass nor nouse ^
tor the firing of the guns,lie abandon* C
it. It was then thought by some i;i
at Chapman had run olT to avoid (j
rest for robbing IUley's store at Mt.
illing. T'
Your correspondent went to the a
me and attended tlic inquest. S1
was found that the negro had been V
ot twice, one load of shot entering '?
% heart and the other back of his 01
ad. An empty shell was found near g'
> body. Julia Chapman, the dead ci
ui's wife, was examined by the cor- <?'
r and testified that her husband g
Id heron Saturday afternoon previs
to the time he is supposed to have P
en killed that Bee Corley, Mr. S. It. s|
vley*8 son had warned him to leave, "
Bob Corley and others would kill '
in If he remained there, as he (Chap- tt
m) had lieen telling that Bob Corley L
d Bee Corley had helped him to rob 1J
ley's store. Bee Corley was seen tl
d denied this in toto. Bob Corley It
s not present. Both are young men tl
good reputation. 1*
The only otlicr evidence of any in ni
est brought out lac fore this eorre- ci
mdent left was the statement of 1)(
ive Perry that Chapman had sold ai
m a number of small articles pre- i'1
mod to have been stolen from Biley's ti
ire. The coroner's jury is composed w
good men and they seem determiu- tl
to solve the mystery if possible. d<
. S. B. Corley and the mcml>ers of
1 family. It is understood, say that ti
e Corley was at home at the time
the firing of the shots. Mr. L. J. as
irchaiit. an honorable man, states tl
at Bob Corley was at his house when ci
2 shots were fired. One theory is tr
at Chapman, who was a gambler.
s killed by other negro gamberlers. si
is said that the bottoms of Little ui
luda river are a resort for negro hi
mhlers on Sundays Chapman was a ac
gro of i>ad reputation and has figurin
court quite often. g<
COAST LINE AND SOUTHERN. ,7f
A
i?l to lie I'nitiiig to Ituy tin* 1'laiit
u . 1)1
SVNtCIII.
Ill
i'he Florence Times is authority '
the statement that a veteran rail- s'<
it] man who is in a position to get
j "inside"' of a good many goings on
railroad circles says that the report '4
it. the Pennsylvania was about to al
v up I lie Coast Line was not true. ^
lie gives it as coming from a re- '
blc source that the true explanation (
tlie rise in the Coast Line stock is
e to the fact that the Coast Line 01
d the Southern are to join together .
d buy up the Plant system. The 11
id is the Florida and West Indian (|1
meet ion of t lie two lines and the sr
aboard. The opposition line al- e<
idy has entrance into the promised
id of the South through the F. C. \
ci
The Plant system is the old road
d ramities through the state and a'
s extensive Ceorgia connections ;
d into Alabama, a very rich terri- 11
ry, and the road is regarded as a "
ie piece of property. Since Mr. ^
ant's death it does not, seem to have ?
d tlie successful management that a:
had before, and the two great svs- a
ms which are dependent on it for
uthern connections have Joined
gethcr in securing it between them, c<
dch will prevent any war of rates or 11
isiness Ix-tween the Coast Line and 1
e Southern. The Coast Line concts
with the Plant at Carleston and V
e Southern connects near Savan- 11
b. \i
There are prominent men in all!w
those roads who own stock and large J ll
orks of it in the other lines, and , "
ere is no lack of harmony among
em. This is believed to be the 1
ost plausible explanation of the re- '
nt sensation in railroad circles.
P
* .. I
ift'iii r uitii i Jiaii iii'Trr.
The Columbia State says Henry p
atterson is always racy, always in- |,
sive, and he made ^aod use of his c
liins for phrase-making in the s
eeh lie delivered in Washington on n
onday. Wc hope it will have its of- p
ct upon those present or former |
emocrats who need a political chart. <
at Mr. Watt.erson in urging the |,
emocracy to unite on a platform of v,
position to imperialism and ahso- 0
tism dues not blaze out a new path i p
r the party. The national Demo- ,,
atlc convention in 1000 distinctly de- p
ured tliut opposition to the adminls- p
ation's policy of imperalism was "the
iramount issue" of the campaign e
id long before that action was oni- ,,
ally taken by the party a large ma- j
rlty of the Democratic papers had p
mnnitted themselves to the same U
oposltion. The trouble with Wat- '
rsou is tliat lie lias not always been i ,
mud on t he isssue himself. Now that t,
Is views are amended and improved ,
e are glad; hut we protest that our j
west recruit if somewhat audacious r
i signalizing his coming intocamp hy (
ading a general order fixing tiie plan j
'battle. ,
I
After Many Yearn.
Laborers engaged in digging away ' {
hill at < >l?l Brunswick, near Wfl-I.
lington, N. ('.. uncovered a skeleton (
lilch is believed to lie t hat of a British j
tidier killed during or before the rev- j
utionary war. In tlie white sand s
>out the skeleton were found a num- .
r of brass miliary buttons of English
lanufacture during tlic seventecutli ,
sntury. ,
(
THE RACE PROBLEM
!n The South as Seen b7 a Ifew
England Republican.
ENFRANCHISING THE NEGRO.
iVai a Fundamental Mistake, Says
Mr. I.ittlcUeltl, a C-ungrcHMiuiiu
IVoin the State
?l* Maine.
The Washington correspondent til
'ho News and Courier sa>s Charleston
rill hear with interest or a speech
lade in Washington Wednesday night
y Representative Littletield,of Maine
pon the "Race Rrob'em td I he South."
Ir. Littlclield was a member of the
Ongressioual party that visited the
harleston Exposition week befttre
ist. lie returned to Washington Sunay
week and has been generous in his
nod words about "The Ivory City"
nd "The Old City by the Sea." His
;>eeeh at. the annual meeting of the
Washington Congregational Club last
ight is but in line with a number of
ther views held by the distinguished
entlemen from Maine, whom l>emorats
and Republicans recognize as one
f the broadest-miuded men in G'oiiress
to-day.
Mr. Littlciield gained considerable
rominence several years ago by r.
iecc.li lie made in defence of Brigham
[. Roberts, the Mormon member from
tali, whom the Republicans refused
> seat iiecau^of his religion. Mr.
ittlcticld him.-M-lf '
cmocrats on tliat ijuestiof^^^W^w'
lat there was no legal reason v.-J y
oberts was not entitled to a seat in
le House. In the debate upon tlie
orto Kican tarifT liill Mr. Littleflcld
fain showed liiinself broad enougli to
it away from party fetters and opise
that measure, liis latest utterice
on the negro problem is in strikig
cont rast to theCrumpacker resolu011
which an element in the Uepubliin
party is endeavoring to get into
le House, with a view to cutting
>wn the South's representation on
icount of educational and qualiflcaoti
sutfrage laws here. The speech
so gains In significance, delivered,
> it was. immediately after Mr. Litetield's
risR to the most Southern
ty in the South. It was the first
ip of the "Man from Maine" to that
iction of the South and, while derous
of seeing the Exposition, it is
ulerstood that tlie in&in object of
is trip was to sec for himself the ex
;t conditions in the South.
Mr. Littlefteld, in taking up the ne o
problem, said that the black slaves
as a vital factor in the development
.. cotton became
t the close of the war the United
:ates was left with four millions of
acks on its hands. This was the
oat serious problem left by the war.
liesc negroes had been freed from
avery and were occupying a position
' peril to the Government. The civIzation
of the white people, said Mr.
ittlefiold, had been accomplished
'ter years of struggle and association
ith the greatest races of mankind,
lie negro liad been brought direct
om 1 lis home in Africa and no efforts
id been made toward his education
civilizat ion.
"By what riglit," asked the man
om Maine, the man from Maine's
ivn State, "docs an Act of Congress
ek to place an inferior race on an
pial footing with men who have 1 iv1
through two thousand years of
liristinnity? The nation sought to
cate in the negro race the ability
ot. only to govern themselves, but to
vsist in 1 lie government of others,
r'hat was t lie result? This race was
l the midst of a people developed in
le highest state of civilization known
i man. A people who have noe'n
verwhelmed by one of their own kind
nd whose wounds, physical and morI.
were smarting under the blow of
efeat.
"The Kuklux Klan was the outline,
with its eivilization behind It.
rring to suppress the newly-created
itizens. Then came the "grsndfsthr
clause which virtually disfranliisos
every negro in the South where
is in existence. If the elective franItise
had been given only to those
din had the intelligence to use it t lie
endeney in tlie South would have
eon to increase its representation by
igitimate means. To-day the tendeny
is to keep Southern men in ignoiince
and to keep the negro out of conrol.
To increase tlie representation
ropcrly under swell conditions requires
lie utmost intelligence.
"Few men to-day know what is to
i* done. The negro is witli us. lie
as tlie right of citizenship and we
annot adopt the measure so often
uggested to deport. him. There is
i) authority under which we can deort
a citizen from the Fnlted States,
"hat namesake of the Father of lii.s
'ountry, who is working down in Ala
>aina, is uouig ine mosi. practical
rork. \\> must look to the practical
ducation of the negro as the only sunt
ion of the problem. Fundamental
nistake was In enfranchising the rare,
lacing in tlie hands of those people
towers they were unqualified to exerts*,
giving them power over a eivilizd
race overpowered by war. It takes
nore than a (feneration or two. or
liree, even, to civilize any people. Furunate
will b? ttie (feneration that will
ee a true solution of this problem."
Inclosing Mr. Littlefleld touched
ipon tiie I'iiilippine problem as another
one wliicli tlie country was called
i pon to solve. "It is not possible."
le said, "by any legislative act or by
iducat Ion to create In any race the
tower of self-government. It may be
atent power in some races that only
iced the touch of the higher civilized
todies of men to develop. 1 am protared
to say it is not in the power of
lie negro to govern himself, as somv
icople have said. What we know ol
lie Filipino what Gen. ChafTceaay!
n Ills report is that this race excol?
n duplicity, treachery and the arts ol
iavagery the American Indian. There
ire ten millions of people dependent
ipon us. Only a few of them car
ead and write. I do not know wlial
s ill be accomplished. I do not think
f
)
i ll Is giving away a State secret to s:i
that there is not a man In the liou1
i of Representatives on cither side wi
j sees the proper solution of tii'.s prol
' leiu ahead. I believe that the Ainer
t can people now face a serious si tuatloi
i that It will require a!1 tlie slirewdnes
and Christianity of our people to solv
i t his most di Moult question. Hut
; have faith in the future of the Repul
lie, despite that, international verm
| form appendix known us the i'hilippln
: Archipelago"
Mr. Llltlelleld's speech has bee
j hailed with delight by the l)c:n<KT.it
especially, ani should the Cnunpaeke
resolution ever reach the House fror
j committee it is thought not unlike!
I tliat the man from Maine may take th
j 11* >! in opposition to the measure
j Certain it is thai Mr. l.iUlctieid li.i
! shown that In* is not afrai i to sa;
what he believes, he it Rep ihlican h
1 seiitlinent or not.
i
An l-Xitor's iiiimeiit.
The Kooxville Sentinel savs it I:
i istoni-liing how the public looks upoi
' the newspaper as a free horse to h<
ridden to dcatli. I'eople will p.n
money for a hand, for lights, janitor
to go to a job printing otiice and inn
thousands of dodgers, pay hoys .o do
liver them, pay performers in the cn
tertainiueiit. :f they arc professionals
or pay so ?.? manager to get up the ai
fair an 1 give him a large percentage
of the re eipts. pay all their hill ir
I fact, pay for everything except that
{which is most valuable to tiiem -i?
j wit, 'newspaper advertising. And il
i : lw. .. . - >
.... i .-> .?i in 11 ^ i ? <i ? r.
more n >; i ;c to sue'i en >rtui:rn nit
than liberal news notices it cum-, in
for much abuse. And jet win
shoul \ not t he newspaper charge
f'>r it- :i Ivtsrtisi:*_r spice jus* as the
owner >; the hail clurges for its rent,
t he b'.i ? >ar.l 111 in c!i irg > foe to* use
of his hi Ibo.ir Is. the ii? h.igrap'ieis
Udiaruw ._f *r furnishing posters, the
job printing ofll charges for 1 lie
dodgers, and the outside parties eha'ge
for their services? The newspaper has
only two sources of revenue. One is
subscription, ttie other advertising.
The subscriptions to newspapers are
so cheap that they little more than
pay the cost of the white paper.
A Cruel Husband.
J. It. Post, a farmer .'to years old.
living on tlie Worth road, four miles
south of Tanawauda. N. V.. hound his
wife Amanda to a stake In tlie hull
pen of his stable Thursday morning.
She wore a red calico apron, which
aroused a con lined hull to frenzy and
in its rage the animal attacked the
woman and gored hcV to death. It is
said that l'ost's act was caused by
jealousy of Hiram Coates, a Free
Methodist preacher wtio lives at Kenmore.
half a mile south of the Post
farm. Coates lias been a frequent
caller at the Post, farm and had often
gone out driving witli Mrs. Post.
Thursday night lie met Mrs. Post at a
prayer meeting at, Ivenmorc, and as
fJie pair were attentive to each other
turning home.
A Horrible Fate.
As a result of an accident at the
Orr Mill at Anderson one day last
week Hugh II. Scott, a machincstand
engineer, lost his life. Scott was sent
there several weeks ago by the Westinghousc-Churcli-Kcrr
company to
| superintend the erection of tlie new
1,000 horse power engine. Steam wne
turned on the engine for tlie tirsi
t ime and Scott was standing by watching
its movements. He stepped upon
the base to oil a bearing when Ids
foot slipped and lie fell into the rapidly
moving fly-wheel. He was whirled
! around and hurled to i lie opposite side
of tlie engine. He was horribly
crushed and mangled, both legs being
I hrnL'rtii onrl t ho l/nvor tvii'i ??f I >ivl i
was crushed. No*withstanding the
injuries lie was conscious when assist'
anee reached iiiin and wrote the name
of a relative in Michigan to whom lu
wished a telegram sent.
CorpKO " Oil for Hoard.
A funnv ease is reported from St
Louis, t'ntii a few minutes hefon
the hour set for tlie funeral of Mrs
Carrie Sehlosinger, i'ridav afternoon
tliere was doubt as to whether tin
services would take place; the body lie
lng liold for a luiard 1>>II alleged to l><
due Levi Silverman and wife of 2' 1?
olive street, where Mrs. Schlesinge
died. Henry Sehlosinger, the woman*:
son. who is a traveling salesman, wa:
notified by wire of Ids mother's death
and came to St. Louis to arrange fo
tlie funeral. TheSilvermans presentci
to him a ttill of $So for iiis mother'
ljoard and their rare for her. Schles
inger declined to pay and was tol<
that the body would lie held. Schles
inger employed Attorney llowan
Sidenor and was about to enter suit ii
replevin when the matter was conipn
mised.
Has Thirteen Wives.
Christian ('. Nelson, railroad con
tractor and horseman, alleged to hav
13 wives is in jail at St. Joseph. Mo.
on the charge of bigamy, having jus
been brougtit in from San Antonio
Tex., where he was arrested a fer
; days ago. Nelson will he tried i
j St. Joseph because one of tlie womei
| most active in his pros ration was mar
I ried to him in that city last Septem
j bcr. This bride was Mrs. Mary A
! Purlrer of I'lullalmr.r Mo Nialym
I admits having three wives, hul aaj
the other 10 are myths. Ho is hh!
] to l?e wanted fur bigamy in Chicagi
San Francisco, l>es Moines. New York
St. l'aul, Sumter, S. C.. and Conwav
Ark. His preliminary trial will ti
! held before the same justice of th
peace who solemnized his inarriay
with Mrs. Parker in September.
Ilnril on t'unilii.i.
Senator Pattersons, of Colorado i
the United States Senate Thursda
sharply criticised the metluKls b
wjiich Hen. Funston capture
i Aguinaldo and sought to show t ha
| <iei?. Funston's statement publisher
' to today that he had not violated tii
particles of civilized warfare was n<
' accurate. The senator said that a
i authorities upon international la<
i and the articles of civilized warfar
r declared that the use of the enemy
| uniform was not warrante 1 and thy
. a man in an enemy's uniform wti
i killed another man was guilty c
tj assasiuation and outside the pale <
:' protection.
/
DID A GOOD BUSINESS.
>o
'I'tiu Insurance Muilo 11 If iiiiiiwoitiu
1- ;
1" | Prolli Liiiut Ycnr.
'e The oOlciat figures were received j
1 Friday from Mr. A. \V. J ones, who is :
)- i in charge of tlie insurance department |
I- of the C'oniptrolier General's op,ice, I
c j showing ttie Income and losses paid by !
I t.he foreign Insurance companies on
" ' their business in this State. The eor- j
>s reeled and ofllcial Ugrires are today:
r ?iven for the foreign companies hav-;
n injf agencies in this State. Tlie state-1
> | ment slum's tlmt 111?* foreign com-!
c panics, which do about half of I'm lire
j insurance business in this State, have .
*; not come out at all badly and that
>' | they have a safe and liberal allowance
Hon which to do business and, thai.
alter agents' commissions have been
paid and an allowance is made for! |
iadj!>stip.ii and the ilkc. there is still h
s a pretty good margin of profits in the
' S mill Carolina business, if the in-!'
suraure companies have, as they <daim, I i
' j lost three millions of vloiiars on their ! J
* busines east of the It .cIvies they eer- i ?
tainly have not. iost any part of it in t
ibis State, if their aggregate reports,
made lit) by the companies tiieinselvrs. 1
' are to be reiied upon, ami these re- j
' I ports are made under oath and are the j f
basis for lli" taxation of tiio various! |
1 j companies in this State. | ;i
The American companies have ai |e
. i-.'ported, but their figures have not a
| been verified; hut the figures, which J a
are practically c irreet and mostly < )j
jurilied, show that the total receipts j t
, I from premiums'for lire insurance for r
the y< ar 19<M arc 4941,74o and out of g
this sum $534,712 was paid in losses,
which gu\e the companies 44 percent s
, <>ut of tlicir cross receipts i:i tnis t
State on which to do business, an i ii >
looks rather reasonable that insurance \
i business ought to be done on 14 per a
c.Mit after losses have been paid provi.i- o
> .! the salari( s arc not it o great a i>cr- : v
centagc of the earnings of the various o
| companies. As will be seen, ofcourse, v
some individual companies aid not ti
take in as much iti premiums as they h
paid out In losses, but the figures that t
are given are for the business of all the a
companies doing business in South t
Carolina and, parenthetically, it may o
be mentioned that those companies fi
that made money last year on t. Jr v
Inisiness In tills, as well as other t
i States, have all Joined In the general n
j increase of 25 per cent on the rates on a
: merchandise and stores. The follow!
ing is the official showing made bv the
foreign Insurance companies doing
business In this State for the year ending
December 31, 1901: s
Name of Company. Risks written.
* Iialolse 1 * * *
Br.-Auier. Assu. Co 421,802 00
Caledonian 237,312 On
Coinmer. Union Assu 1,957,509 <k)
| Hamburg-Bremen 497,000 00 II
Helvetia Swiss Fire * * * p
I imperial Insurance Co 400,745 00
| *1 l.'irn * * * Q.
i ? ... j?ool. London. <?lobe. 5,403.049 00] n
L.onuon Assurance oo
London & Lancashire 1,101,543 00 c
Madgeburg Fire * * * .,
Manchester Fire 350,082 00
Netherlands Fire *** '
North Br. Mercantile 1,632,606 00 c
Northern Assurance 1.100,781 00
Norwich Colon 1.453,840 00
Palatine 590,310 00 1
i IVo< nix Assurance 1.452.083 00
Royal Insurance 3,142.353 00 .
; I Royal Exchange Assu 315,23100
| Scottish l.\& N 155,502 00 s
Sun Ins. otllce 613,879 00 i
*Svea Fire and Life * *
1 | Thames & Mersey Marine 1.078,529 oo ,
Union Assu.Society 752,479 00 *
i Western Assu 1,139,550 00 *
I 1
. I Total $24,884,332 93 ?'
j * Withdrawn from tiie State. i
* ** No report. \
Premiums Losses i
Received. Paid, j
i Buloise $ 2,886 26 * * * I
" | Br.-Am. A. Co.. 7.544 99 2,437.56 ,
Caledonian 7,131 36 4.711 2s '
' 'Com. C Assu... 20.645 36 15,682 62
| IFhurg.Bremen. 10,740 15 14,116 35
! Mlelve'aS'iss F. 3,746 04 * * *
Imperial Ins. Co 8.263 21 16.401 91 <
* Lancashire F... 5,087 98 * ** ;
*Lion 1.677 27 2,253 97 j
~ Liverpool L & t J 72,174 4s 29,476 07 ;
. London Assu 1.528 95 5,415 is
, Madgeb'g Fire. 7,915 75 10,954 78
j Manchester Fire 533 87 ***
. Netherland F... 7,460 6 s 7.128 63
North Br. Mcr.. 21,422 37 7.925 6s
Northern Assn.. 15,3*97 In 3,14n 23
Norwich I 'liion 21,063 52 5,763 30
rj Palatine 6,01583 7300
i Phoenix Assil 20,300 42 11,598 09
si Royal Ins 25,954 84 25,262 68
. Royal Ex. Assn.. 4,069 94 658 04
c Scottish C \ N 8.41ti 12 10,046 18
I Sun Ins. otllce.... It),7.30 45 4.723 97
*S ven F & 1 1.879 26 * * *
i names ,v >1. .m. i:.441 so :w>
* ; Union Assil So.. 40 7.740 11
1 Western Assn .. Ill,204 no 12.902 41)
1 Total $316,117 80 $198,826 47
n I
<Jj?vc Mis liiIV for Other*.
To the Kditor of The State:
Seeing an inquiry in your paper as
to the whereabouts of 1 >r. J. VV. l'owell,
e surgeon in the Coufederale States
, army. 1 will say I)r. l'owell went to
t Mississippi during tlie yellow fever
. epidemic several years a^o and died of
y the fever, lie went there to help the
n fever sufferers and lost Ills life. Dr.
n l'owell was a native of Fairfield coun
ty and has quite a number of relatives
i- in that county now.
. , J. S. Gun null.
i New Hrooklhnd, March 20.
I A Dangerous Tool.
' The heat of I r i K a re n.. ! n n-r i
' burglar preuf for Julius L. Ihischkc, a
' Ciiicago electrician, who has bought
an invention which will enable (lie
| man applying it to cut through the
hardest steel plate as a boy with a
knife would cut St. Lawrence county
cheese. Armor plate such as Is used
on the United States battleship,, can
: be perforated as an auger would bite
v its way tnrough a plank of Northern
v pine.
d : ; :
.liiatlco nt l>nMt.
;1 Necly, Rathttone and Kecves, the
e American carpetbag officials who lootit
od the Cuban postoftlce department,
II! have received tardy justice in sentcnw
ccs of ten years' Imprisonment accoine
panied by fines ranging from >.'15,"s
ooo to $50,000. The cases agains
it them wore begun two years ago,
iO and the slowness of the American
if administration in Cuba in pressing
>f the prosecutions has been scandalous.
MASONS ON A LARK
Shriners do Not Represent Serious
Side of Oraud Lodge.
Grand Master Walter M. Whitehead,
of the South Carolina Grand lodge,
contributes a card tj the Charleston
Evening Post Thursday, called "Drawing
the distinction between Ancient
Free Masonry and the order of the
Mystic Shrine" with the end In view
that the public should not confuse the
serious order with the amusement
branch of Masoniy, about whicti so
nine!) islrdng wiiiten and talked now
in connection with tile coining celebration
of "Shrinors* day" at the exposition.
(irund Master Whitehead explains
that the Mystic Shrine with all
its amusements and at t raetions is not
Masonry, although the only prcrequiste
tVr membership in the Mystic
shrine is that the applicant must lie j
dther a Knight Templar or a Mason j
?r t he iiind degree of the Seottisti Kite, j
Among <.t!ier things ttrand Master
iVhite'iea i states:
ii is to l?e expected that ttie "pro-1
'a tie,"the uninitiated who lias never j
Nirne 1 tlie beautifid system mor- !
dity tint Masonry inculcates, may condude
from the absurd, farcical parade
i'id til-* reference to hot sands," "hot
i!r," "sober cam?ds." "astute astrolorer.s,"
"rope ends." and other funtasic
and nonsensical terms, that Masonv
is unworthy the attention of serintsand
dignitlcd men.
Such, however, is not the ease. The
ibrine should not be confounded with
he Masonic system, as it is neither
in onry nor a branch of Masonry.
Vhile it diverts its members and
mines the gaping crowd the grand
Id order of lite Masonic fraternity,
rhio'.i has smviv-ri the criticism of
enturies of inquiring thought, surived
tlie hostility of crowned and
litercd heads, grown grander as it
as grown older, which has secured
he fealty of sages, philanthropists
nd patriots, which lias dried the
ears of orphanage, hushed tlie wail ]
f widowhood, helped the stranger to
riendsand tlie poor to lienefactors
rill continue to move forward down
lie centuries undisturbed and undis- i
layed by the silly pranks and foolish
titles of the Mystic Shrine. '
i
TILLMAN'S CHARGES.
1
i
cuator Mcl.uurln'k Friends Insists '
on ua Investigation.
Senator Pritchard, of North Caro- \
Ina, is making an efibrt at the meet- I
>gr of tlie committee on privileges 1
ud elections Lu seeurc-acLion on the
go calling for an investigation of the '
harges made 'by Senator Tillman '
gainst John L. McLaurin, that tlie ;
utter was influenced by promises of j
ontrolof federal patronage in casting
lis vote for the ratification of the
'alis peace treaty.
There Is a feeling among certain
Republicans in the senate that this
aibject should he allowed to drop,
nit Senator McLaurin's friends insist
hat the investigation be made, and
dr. Pritchard, who is a member of
lie committee before which the resolu;ion
is pending, will urge that a favorihle
report l?e adopted. Sentiment
n tiie senate seems to favor the adopion
of this resolution. Mr. Tillman's
'riends say lie can prove tlie charges
le lias made, while Mr. McLaurin's
friends insist that he can not. Both
tides, therefore, are ready to support
L'.ie proposition for an investigation.
It is said that Senator J. C. Burrows.
of Michigan, chairman of the
onimittce, does not favor the Pritchim
resolution, and will strive to have
it suppressed. Among the warmest
advocates of the resolution is Senator
M. A. lluiina, who says lie believes
the Tillman charge retlect on the late
President McKiniey, and he will lend
his efforts to a favorable report upon
the ground that the memory of the
assassinated President should he
purged of all aspersions.
Tircil ol' l.ifc.
Wednesday evening a porter of the
Scriven House, Savannah, (la., detected
an odor of gas. It came from
room 63. lie tried tlie door and found
that it was locked on the inside. He
got on a table and pushed open the
transom over the door. It was dark
inside and tlie porter struch a match
and held it up. Instantly there was an
explosion, lioom 63 and a number
adjoining were wrecked, and windows
sliat tered in other parts of the house.
A tire alarm was turned in. Firemen
entered room t>3 and found on the bed
the dead body of W P. Hankinson,
aged 24. of kilenton. S. C. lie had
taken morphine, unscrewed the tip
from the iras burner and turned on
tin- gas. Letters found on his body explained
that In- was despondent and
determined to die.
Itc|tul>lirnnM in a lloie.
Speaking of the Crumpacker resolution.
Representative IX Linn Gooch,
of Kentucky, who is one of tlie most
conservative men in the house, said
last week that "for once the Republicans
have placed themselves in a hole."
lie said further: "We rememlx'r what
followed t he force hill legislation of the
tifty-tirst congress the election of a
Democratic house and two years later
the election of Mr. Cleveland. 1 do
not hesitate to say that In my humble
opinion we will elect al>emocratlc house
this fall and thus pave the way to carry
the presidential election in 1904,
and the Crumpacker resolution will
prove to t?e worth thousands of votes
to us next November."
WhoCun Answer'/
Governor McSwcency has received
a letter from Pdwin l>. Newton, A.
M., M. 1>.. asivnig tor the whereabouts
of Dr. .1. W. Powell who was medical
director of the ;td army corps of the
Army of Northern Virginia. Mr.
Newton was a member of the immediate
stall of Chief Surgeon Guild, A.
N. V.
! SOME PLAIN TALK
i
From General Miles on the Proposed
Army Bill.
IT MEANS CENTRALIZATION.
j "Throwing the Door Wide Open
for a Future Autocrat Or
a Military Despot,"
Kays the General.
'I'lw. -? n ??" -
, *..v ouuviiK'iitui ?ten. miics oerore
! the senate committee on Military affairs
as It will appear In the official
i records, lias been made public. The
, features which caused something of a
j sensation when published the dav the
! statement was made do not appear
I and the following colloquy at the close
of the hearing explains it:
Mr. Pettus?Mr. Chairman, I think
there ought to be some mode of having
these notes revised.
The Chairman?That will be done.
Mr. Pettus?The report of the proceedings
should be submitted to Gen.
Miles, with permission to strike out
such portions as ought not to be pub- \
lished. 1
Mr. Proctor?That is it.
Gen. .tiles?I do not know that
there is anything to he stricken out.
The Chairman?We have been in
the habit of submitting to the witness
before the committee, whoever he was,
the stenographer's report of his remarks
for correction, of course.
Mr. Pettus?I wanted to go further
than that. The stenographer has no
doubt taken down correctly what the
general lias said, but there are some
tilings that lie said whicli lie may desire
to strikeout, and I think he should
be allowed that privilege.
The Chairman?He must lie the
judge of that.
Mr. Pettus?lie should be allowed g
the liberty of striking out anything I
which ought not to Ire published, even 1
if it is stated correctly In the report. J
The stenographer's report was Bub j
mitted to (Jen. Miles and the offlcia1
report indicates that he followed ^
closely tlie written statement he had
prepared and read to the committee.
The main factsof the general's opposition
to the war department staff bill
were given at the time. Some of the
reatures of the statement, however,
not reported at the- time are of Interest.
j
Gen. Miles said of the bill:
"It is centralization of the. most ^
oronotinred tvne
-w r-^? Mugiuv^uio L11U puwcr 1
jf the staff and in effect removes it J
further from touch with the lighting M
force of the army. The scheme is rev-*v fl
dutionary, casts to the winds the^t *. m
most
H
in republican
government such as ours, a
peculiarly, adopted to monarchies ha^^^^
ing immense standing armies. It
would seem to Germanize and Rus- 1
sianize the small army of the United '
States."
In addition to that portion of the |
statements heretofore published showing
how the president could by promotions
make a captain chief of staff
with the grade of lieutenant general,
Gen. Miles said:
4*It seems to me you are throwing
the door wide open for a future autocrat
or a military despot. It is not, in my
judgment, in accordance with the (
principle and theory of democratic
government and for the best interests
of the army, which has existed more 4
than a hundred years and fultilled all
your requirments, to adopt such a
scheme "
In commenting on the aliove The
State says this is strong language, j
certainly, and quite enough to make 1
it plain why President Rossevelt 011
hearing of it was seized by and almost
irresistible desire to retire Gen. Miles
from his position at the head of the %
arinv a method of restoring liar- a
mony hi the military establishment J
which lie was i nly kept from adopting |
by the urgent advice of ids friends in i
the senate. This indictment of the fl
measure bv Gen. Miles rnrresnnnds
with that pro sented several days ago i
by this newspaper on the strength of I
Secretary Root's admission that the 9
purpose of the army bill was to let I
the ranking officer of the army "come I
in with the president and go out with 1
president." We observe that Henry m -- ^
Watterson took the same view in his |S
speech on Monday night, when he de- O
dared that 11?is army reoorgnlcation w
bill, if it shall become a law, "will f
make the power of the president abso- J
lute" and that it ought to be entitled
"an act to make the president of the
United States a military dictator."
Cotton Warehouses.
The stockholders of the Trust Company
of the Republic met last week
In New York and elected I). Leroy >
Dresser, president; Alexander Grieg,
vice president; F. F. Robertson, second
vice president; and James L. Livingston,
third vice president. Thomas
Clarke will be the secretary and treasurer.
The company was organied prin- J
cipally to develop, in conjunction with <
the Security Warehousing company, a j
system "t' warehouses through the oot" J
u>u uea ana 10 nnance issues of In- M
vestment certificates basedonguaran- I
teed warehouse certificates. To carry m
out this plan the Security Warehouse
company .will enlarge capital and build
about. 150 fireproof warehouses
tarough the South. Connections will
also he established with a large
number of southern banks, and
it is intended to reduce the rates
the of insurance and interest to
producers. The company plans 5m
also to extend this system eventually 15B
toother industries, such as mining. |gg
lumbering and grain growing.
A lllintl Architect.
D. E. ltearden, a Hoston architect,
is totally blind. Nevertheless he has ffij
designed may building in that city, PC
and has Just completed tht plane for 3H
a six-story apartment house to be 1||?
erected by the Perkins Institute for IK
t he Bllpd. jlfl