The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, February 26, 1904, Image 1

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

"DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE OUR SOULS ANO MAKE OUR OjVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY. OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." .fi BENNETTS VIIJL.E, S. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1904. NO. a RUSSIA'S SIDE. Kr.'Jw. R. Bandall Talki Introit ingly of Saltern P roblem. SPEAKS OF "YELLOW PERIL." ReTiuwo HlBtory i nd Point? Out Fa . mom Lesson* ot Pait. Difficult Problems TI at HfiTO Aa ?ertca Tceiiwrlvc?. Wc clip from the Birmingham, Ala., ' * Age^Herald a very Interesting review on the Eastern eituath u with Mr. Jas. R. Randall, the distinguished . poet and writer, of Augusta, Ga., Mr. Bandall bas been visiting friends tn Birmingham and while there he was sought out by newspaper men. In troducing Mr. Randall as a prominent ' newspaper man and author of the south, that gentleman ia quoted as i?llows: "With all due respect to these dif fering with me, I sympathize with Rut?la. The point has been made that Russia is an engross.ve nation what is called a robber nation-out so are Japan, England, France, Germany apd the United States. Since the Re publican regime at Washington, this republic has joined the band of rob bers; u ?We are getting to be a world power>-an imperialism, in direct con flict .with the advice of Washington, af ter ' forcing war on the South, as Thad Stevens confessed, 'outside the constitution.' i."But for our furnishing England remounts of horses and mules, through ft British camp, on tho plans of Chal roctte and the greater British camp ?n??hn Hay's suite department, the South Arican republics w iuld proba bly have maintained their Indepen dence. You know what bas happened in che Philippines. Japan ls attempt ing to rob Corea of her independence Just as Russia is robbing China In Manchuria. Sn honors ?>r dishonors are easy on that score. RUSSIA'S EXPANSION. "Russia's logical expansion was and is toward the Black Sea toward Con stantinople. But for the interven tion of England she would have driven the Turk back to bis Asiatic lair and . .placed the cross on the spire of St. Sophia, once a Christian church and now, and for ages, a Mobammedcu mosque. So the unspeakable Turk remains in Europe because Russia waa thwarted by so-called Christian nations who are jealous of ber, remem bering the famous proverb of Napole on that the great power, Christian power, dominating Constantinople would rule the world. "It was not because Peter the Great and Catherine II. pointed the road to Byzantium that the Russians gravi tate to the Black Sea, but, because their commerce ia frozen up for half me year in .the Baltic and a nation naturally desires a seaport never dosed to navigation. Besides, when a northern people become redundant in population, they are m ?ved almost mysteriously, or by some nubile natu ral law, to find their horne or grave In the tropic, jusi as the Mississippi river born in a frozen region makes Its way to the warm Mexican gulf-the tropic. Frustrated at the south and diverted from a kind of manifest des tiny In that direction, Rutisia, takln? th? oui) alternative, built the trans Siberian railway and .'avored by events in China, sought a i open port in thc Orient. Ti is alai med Japan and having been tuarned i'rom peace ful Paganism to warlike atheism, with a veneer of European industrial ism ci 'civilisation,' she sought to be CouirHi world powci and exploit Corea. Til IK YELLOW TKUL. "Her secret design, confessed by some of h^r wrlteis ls t) dominate 11 Asia, by converting China into n pug nacious nation like: herself. This is] I the real 'yellow peril.' Napoleon also 1 : said, 'What folly in thc Europ?en na-1 s tions to awaken the Chinese giant M from his "lumber and n ake him a|\ menace to The west. If that yellow r giant, with 100,000 ooo of Inhabitants bnoiiicl become a gigantic Japan, it would be a terrible thing for the world. "Earl Wolseley, Lhe great English soldier, recently said th it properly J led and disciplined, the Chinese made ; ' the best soldiers in the world audi8 that, if they became thus manipulai- '?* ed, a martial natioa, they woulci Ira- E peril the whole western regio i and , J Uko innumerable ants, overwhelm and j J devastate the whole of Europe. Some 1 people, less expert than Earl Wolsc- '( ley, pooh pooh this, but they form ; ' mental processes from vast mislnfor-jfi malton. Before countless little ants j( In Africa every living ;hing, wild * beasts or man lice or aro devoured, j( if millions of warlike Asiatics de- ? * ?cend upon Europe what a peril that would beV VltOlt RBMCTK TI.M KS. "From remote times thc Asiatics v_have threatened Europe. Thoy re peatedly invade.^ G reece. They over turned Hie Roman empire of the west and captured Constantinople, and still hold the Turkish empire hy the jeal ousy of Christian nations. They over ran Russia. Tiley went to thc heart of France, until beaten back by Charles Martel, ob the plains of Chal ons. They would have captured Vienna but for the heroic King of Poland, John Sobleskl. They entered 8paln and held their ground there for centuries. "Tho Turkish sultan, Bajazet, at tho head of OOO,OOO men, proclaimed that he would march on Home and feed his horse, at tho high altar of St. Peter's church or on the tomb of the Apostles Toter and Paul. There was no organized fore* then In Europe capable of resisting the infidel. By prayer and thc Intervention of Provi dence, his purpose was defeated. Just as this Irresistible host waa about to march, word came to liajazct that Tamerlane had seized Damascus, bb eastern capital, and instead of march ing on Rome the sultan moved east ward, was defeated by Tamerlane, captured and, according to some his torians, was placed like a wild beast In a cage. The expedition e.f Alexander halted Asiatic aggression. "Tnt crusades prevented other ori ental Incursions. But 1 cite these historio incidents to show that it hai been bard to keep the Asiatics out of Europe. I sympathize with Russia In this contest not because I admire her policy or despotism, hub because I believe that she is an instrument In the hands of God to prevent the tre mendous expansion of the yellow peril, which would bc a fearful menace if Japan had her way in China. The Russian czar lias attempted to reform bili people. Ile freed the serfs", he offered to arbitrate national dispute* peacefully, he proposed large disarm aments of Moated standing armies. DIFFICULT FKOllLEM. "He has a dillicult problem to solve and must proceed slowly. It is cer ta: n that George Kennon and English writers hating Russia, have misjudged or lied about her. She has been ma ligned lu literature Just as the north ern writers caluminated the south, In our own country, and educated a gen eration to hate this section and when an opportunity occurred to Invndeand desolate lt. We prate of Hus .ian bar ba-ism, bul If a greater und more brutal barbirlsm than the 'recon struction' ol the South was ever per petrated, I i.m not aware of lt, and if any much more infernal treatment exists than that we did In thc Philip pines it Is not recorded. 'Nothing,' the Bible tills un, 'is more wicked than the heart of man,' and only the Pharisee proclaims 'I am holler than thou.' I believe also that China Is to be exploited and her ancient wall of prejudice and torpor broken down, it is better that this should be done hy i Christian nation, than by Pagan ithelstlc Orientals like the Japanese, io that tho other prophecy may bc fulfilled of the sons of Japhot dwell ing in the tents of Shem. "However, I have said more than I Intended. At any rate, 1 have at tempted to snow that there is a Ros nan side worthy of attention and that sympathy for Japan is more sen timental than well-founded. Such at east are my Individual opinions, and I give them to you for what they are worth." FELL 'i H REE STORIES. Tho Awful Fato or Th roo-Year-Old Cornell Boniieau. That was a terrible death roor lit tle 8-year-old Cornell Bonheau, son of t Proprietor Bonnenu of the Caldwell f lot el, met Tuesday afternoon while \ aughing and playing In the joyous- ? less and innocence of childhood with f lia 5-year-old brother, Campbell. They were In their playroom on the 11 .hird floor of the hotel on the Taylor j t itreet side of the building. While thc t ,wo were playing at rolling over some t nattresses Cornell fell against the I ash. Several panes of glass gave away I iud the little fellow fell three stories t o the cruelly unyielding flagstones on t .he pavement below. Of course the -> ihild probably never suffered any pain ] ifter that sickening thud with which a ds tender franoo met,.the pf. VP ment/ jut it must, have been a horrible tran- c ltlon from mirth to terror, merciful- \ y swift though lt was, as the little l ellow was passing from that last jolly i ummersanlt over the mattress a .hough tlie uir to death below. a With a grip tightened by thc ter- s ors of dc&ti) before Ids eyes, the lit- ? lc fellow carried two pillows down n vlth him, and to this is due the fact c hat he was not Instantly kill. These r Melded his body against tho stones, e tut his heal struck over them ap- ( larjntly, and his skull was so badly t ractured that he died a short time l fter reaching the hospital. t Mr. lllchaids Manning of the South- I i rn Express :ompany's officers nearby j c av. thc fall and picked tin: child up j nd carried 1 im to his mother und the j ither members of the family. After t , brief consultation it w;:s decided ; | o oarry the patient to the Columbia \ hospital, bu J bodied before medical j id could be administered, never hav- , ng regained consciousness. L rI lie budy will be taken to the tam- j ly's former home at Allendale Tues- s lay for inte .ment. A short funeral ;1 er'Ice will be held from the lintel : t Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, those \ vho go to Allendale leaving on the c mon train. Columbia state. 1 Murdered at tho Telephone. At Louisville, Ey., W. H. H?cker va? shot dead Wednesday as ho stood it the telep lone talking tr bli. wife, le was married three weeks ago. lie mc called up his wife at his home, ibout ten squares from ins office. As ?he shot rang nut she heard his shriek inri then th ; sound of his body as it j ell to the floor, overturning a chair. c Hr?. Rucker, running at full speed ? 1 ihrDugh thc streets in the busy part ! .f the day, reached the little office, J vherein lay her husband, almost as jr mon as did occupants of the other | ' ifflccs in the large building. The as- j}' iassiti had stood on the pavement, his ! ?ftiee being on the lirst floor and next j 1 o the street, and from that point liad 1 "ired the I a tal bullet through a win low. lt vent straight to Rocker's ; \ ?eart. Two arrests have been made ! j mt the evidence is purely ? rcum itantial. The suspects had quarrelled i : ?vith Riicker, who was a real estate ! igent, and had threatened him. Af-j ,er tile shooting they were among the jN irstto enter thc room and enlist hil. ,hc search for the assassin, and the | milco considered tho circumstances ? J lUfflciently Incriminating to warrant!'' .he arrests. Ruckcr was 25 years of ige and well regarded._ Heath of a Rector. Rev. Churchill Satterlee, rector of | j Trinity Episcopal church of Columbia, L lied suddenly Tuesday night of heart L liseaseat Summerville, near Augusta, L ia., where he had gone for his health. { tie was .15 years (lld and very highly ?Htcemed-son of Bishop Satterlee of : Washington, 1). C. Propnrlng for flatt Io. t Tiie report that 3,000 Russian f troops had arrived at. Chin Tien Cheng, ! i ipposite Wiju, on the Yalu river, ls 1 confirmed, as is tho report that the t Russians have? occupied Wi Ju itself, lt rhey have 2,000 troops at Wiju andi,? .he first collision Is expected to occur n that vicinity. ? Tiiey W'nui Foolish. William Little r.t'Kl Samuel Hall, nrell-to-do farmers ih?-ar Whitcsburg, [Cy., fought a duel e3 Sunday and joth were killed. Tl/sy Vged revolvers ind had "secondo." 'rhey /ought ibout a young '.vornan with whom joth were in love.^ AGAINST CAPERS. Ellery M. Brayton R pudiates Hi* Leadership of the Republicans. SAYS HE DEFENDED A CLIENT And Took Part Iii the Lynching of -tt.v. Three Negroes in Lexington County'. About Twelve ? Years Atio. The following article is clipped from the Southern Reporter, a Republican paper published in Charleston. It is spicy reading, and makes several ex planations from Mr. Capers in order: Editor of Southern Reporter: After witnessing the strange pro ceedings of the State executive com mittee on Jan. 19th, I became con vinced that a crisis had been reached in party atfairs. The submission of the committee to the domination of 1 National Committeeman John G. Ca pers seemed almost abject. Without jolng a member or holding a proxy he participated in its proceedings, spoke ?yeral times, and dictated its action. 1 Df course allowance .should be made 1 or the benumbing effect produced by 1 ihe unexpected and unnatural recoil- 1 siltation between Mr. Capers and ! ?tate Chairman Deas. Rut that this 1 mould have so demoralized and dazed < lie committeemen that not one of 1 hem should have opposed and resent- 1 id the dictation of Mr. Capers or pro- '< nested against the forcing through of ' ?nell an unprecedented dato for tho 1 State convention as Fob. 24th., (three ? nonths earlier than ever before) when t was known that many of them had ixpressed themselves as hostile to his plans and purposes and intended to ' intngonize thom, was-a humiliating 1 evelation. It was clear tlie object of ( lie schemers was to take ad vantage of ihe apathy and forestall tho party be- ! ug aroused so that conventions in some ?uses woll-nigh clandestine could be teld. And some have already been 1 ?eld in advance of the issuance of the 1 :all of the State chairman. I have hoped that some ono would 1 ?ound the alarm and give expression ;o reason for the fear, dread and dis- ' rust which prevails among the Re- * niblicans of thc State, and state the 1 Hounds which preclude the party ; rom giving its confidence, respect ' md allegiance to the leadership of the ; Kit Ional committeeman. Some of 1 beso grounds have not been men- < ioned in the opposition so strongly 1 irged In your paper. Feeling that it ' s right and necessary that this should ie done, and believing that an oppor ?unity should be afforded Mr. Capers lefore the meeting of tho State con tention to deny or explain the charges, ask the uso of your columns for this ' tatement. ' I am -iiiionned 'and "Believe ?rom j ir?dltabl? testimony that Mr. Capers vas present and Implicated in tho ynching of three colored mon in Lex ngton county, S. C., about 12 years go. That ls a vital and disqualifying accusation, if true, against any one 1 coking to control the action of the ( Republican party Is manliest. No 1 irgument or appeal can be needed to ( ause tho Republicans to spurn and 1 opudlate the leadership of i ne taint- ' id with this crime. Others may con- 1 lone and even approve t lis fast- ( hreatenig evil, but no ono would bo- 1 love that the race which h tlie vic- ' ,1m of th's barbarity woulc entrust 1 ts political interests in thc keeping 1 if a lyncher. And at thia articular j tincture when Gov. Ileywrdis ap- ' >e?l lng to the legislature to c ike steps 1 o prevent'HPS demoralizing and de lasing crime, and President Roose velt's magnificent letter to the gover- t lor ol' Indiana calling the ittentlon j if ttie.' country to its di e couse- t Iuences ls having its effect, it seems i ncredlblo that the admit ist ration 1 liotild twice have been Imposed upon, \ nd the Republicans of th's State, in t heir already wretched coin lt ion, af- j Meted with snell an incubus. 1 re- ( all that Editor N. G. Gonzales was \ lunglnefllgy in this city for condemn- j ng lynching. Instead of suffering i etributive justice Mr. Cap-sis holds s he ollice ot prosecuting Unit sd States , .ttorney, and aspires to be tlie boss of ? he Republican party, if he has not il ready achieved that distill! lion. I am also informed and bei ?eve that ir. Capers was indicted In t he federal oort of this State for defrauding a lient in a pension case. When it is ecalled that at that time both Mr. tapers and the district attorney were democrats and that influences tho nest potential wore, unavailing to irevent this prosecution, it. will be mderstood that the proof must have teen incont rovert rible. I am also nformed that to escape n trial re lowed eiTorts were interposed; and inly upon the assurance that Mr. Ca >ers would leave the State, thus ex striating himself, as hs did do, was lie case nol prossed. And now we aro old that Mr. Capers has the effrontery o aspiro to tho appointment of a Jutted States judgeship upon the Orst ?acancy occuring. If tliis change is answered I ask hat a synopsis of the evidence sup lortlng the indictment be given, for I un informed that it is not only con rincing, but convicting. I could say much as to the manner n wnicli Mr. Capers is believed to lave trafficked with tho federal offices n this Slate, his utter failure to do my thy thing to build up the party, ind the methods by which expects to lontrol flie convention, but those are natters that can wait for another op )ort unity. Hut attention should be called o tlie significance of the brazen de ilarat lon made by him In a speech be ere tho State executive committee, n which he said that the reason why ie was anxious for tho State convcu ,lon to be held in February was that he United States courts were in tession in March and April and he .sauted it fixed so that his otllcial 'oreo and that of tho marshal could tttend the county and district con tentions. That seemed the most un blushing detiance and disregard of the jlvll service law I ever heard. It is Uso an Index of tho man and of the methods he means to pursue. And rot he will ba found posing as th? prlginal Roosevelt champion In the stale, regardless of the president's record as a civil ser vico reformer, and of the fact that ho owes his oi5ice to Senator Hanna, bj' whom he was made national committeeman and for whoni he would jump the fence at tho first chance of success. Ho not be troubled by the pretenses and false claims of tliis imposter. He ia a smooth article, but his course ls al most run. When the administration seeb Mr. Capers in close fellowship with Chairman Deas, whom he has been denouncing, and with whom he said his self respect would not allow him to confer as a member of the sub committee appointed to agree upon a candidate for collector of customs (neither one of them having retracted tho vile things said of each other) and take note of the changes and conj plaints against him, he will And him self discarded. He cannot stand an investigation and will not seek vindica- I tion. I had little personal acquaintance with Mr. Capers upon his Introduc tion to Republican politics. Since leaving the State 1 do not remember < seeing him here except during tho Democratic primary, when ho waa < the political manager for Gen. M. C. > Butler for United States senator. 1 My first Insight into the ingrained ; duplicity of Mr. Capors was at the i congressional district convention held . it Orangeburg laab summer, when, to my astonishment he proclaimed him- i self in a sot speech as the champion of i tho negro, and boasted how, at the conference with the sub-executive committee he voted on every ballot I for Dr. Crum for collector of customs, < md taunted Chairman Deas with < laving deserted his race and prevent 3d Dr. Crum's selection-for not 10 < 3ays before I hoard him declare that 1 under no circumstances would ie sup- | p?rU a iilgiu lut mmi vim*. I I cannot believe that after tho i brave light Chairman Deas has 'made i igainst National Committeeman | Dapers that he will yield to his im portunities and subject himself to tho I suspicions and contempt it would j inevitably causo, for no one knows so j well Iiis saltish, corrupt and sinister i purposes and now blighting or even | destructive to the best interests of I the Republican party will be his con- i tinned ascendency. If only the men that Mr. Capers i has played with deceived and betray- I 2d will assert their self respect and i resent, it will fully offset in influence ] ind numbers the office holders who nears his collar and who must work for him however they distrust him, md they can so rally the rank and file nf the party that neither money, prom iso of office nor threat, or all com jlnod, can save him. Ellery M. Brayton. Blot Maohine Bill. A great many merchants in. South Carolina are very much interested in the slot machi un bill whioh has pas ed both bouge? pf ""'be legislator./; and. , ?vjw aw?iCs'Tno governor's signature i Ho make lt a law of the State. The alli provides. "That from and after the passage and approval of this act, lt shall bo unlawful for any person to keep on his premises or operate or per Bit to be kept on his premises or iperated within this Stato any slot nachine of whatever name or kind ex :ept automatio weighing, measuring, nusical and vending machines which ire so constructed as to give a certain inilorm and fair return In value for iaob coln deposited therein, and In ivbleh there is no element of chance. f\ny parson who shall violate tills act ?hall be subject to a lina of not more han 6100 or imprisonment upon the jubile works of tha count ' wherein ihe on", nse ls committed, for a period if tot more than 3C days." Tho Kent llor?os. Tie Charlotte Chronicle says. "Ad nln.l Urlo, thc Japanese hero of the Kittle of Chemulpo, ls a graduate o' he United States naval academy ac \nnapolls." To which the State adds: 'New, to be fair, if there was any ex ) I bi tion of heroism displayed at Che nal po it was by the Russians on the AVO cruisers who ref ised to surren ler to a powerful and overwhelmlng y superior JapannS3 lleet. They ought their ships until the vessels legt n to sink, then tioy took to the vater and were taken aboard foreign 'essils. The Japanese did their work is lt should be done in war, but the tusnians were as gallant as the Span ard i in Manila bay. Tho vanqulsh ?d may be heroes as well as the vic ers " _ KiiTcd by Soldiers. At Columbus, Ga., on Wednesday ifternoon the local military was called Mit to prevent the lynching of Willie Hudson, a negro who pleaded guilty o attempted criminal assault upon Kinma Burton, a 12-year-old school ri ri, a week ago, the plea being entor ?d at a special term of the superior court today. Hudson was given tho imit of the law-twenty years in the penitentiary. As tho negro was be ing taken back to the jail Martin Bur toni thc father of thc young lady, made a desperat o attempt to get to t'o prisoner, but was overpowered by the officers. The trial had caused jrrcat excitement and fearing ct?orts would be made by friends of Burton lo secure the negro, a company of State troops was ordered out. A Sad Story. C. H. Troutman, cashier of the Merchants and Farmers bank of Milledgevlllc, Ga., shot himself twice Wednesday night. In a letter to Pres ident J. T. Allen of tho bank he said lie had touched nono of tho bank's hinds, but had used 82.1,000 of tho Stato funds. This money was In bis jwn possession as treasurer of the ?state sanitarium. Ho had engaged in cotton speculation, and while he had gained a large amount he lost lt and moro In tho slump. He was a past ?(rand chancellor of the Knights of Phythlas. Tho bank has been closed temporarily. Antl'Treattriff Bill. Thc anti-treatlng bill has at last irot through both houses, though variously amended. lu its present shape the bill reads: "It shall he un lawful hereafter for any person to sell, harter or give away, or treat a voter, Lo any malt or intoxicating liquor within ono mlle of any voting precinct luring any primary or other election undor a penalty upon conviction there for of not mora than 30 day'? Im prisonment with labor." TILLMAN HITS BACK. Tht ftjbator Defends Himsolf from newspaper Criticism. I PRAXES GOVERNOR HEY WARD. Ho Olijima That What He Maid on j the Homlcido Subjoct Vas the Correct Vlow to Take. We 4ip the following letter from the Granville News of last Wednes day^ j Not long ?ince I met a correspond ent luJtho corridors of the capitol who B?rjrjs Washington new? to sev eral Soith Carolina papers, and 1 hurriedly tnade some orlttolsm upon the injijiy to South Carolina result- ?'. ing fruit erroneous and false Btate- ' monts sc^t out by South Carolina corre8pcju(iont8 and editors in their papers about crimes in our State. I did not take the trouble to elaborate or do m i., co than call attention to the raot, antvthe resulting damage to the State's fcood name. Strange to Bay, Dbe worst criminals have not received >r copied, the interview, and none that I have Stjen have denied the charge or ittempUd -to reply, except the two Sreenville papers. 1 hav] just read tho editorial, "Senary/ Tillman's Solicitude," in the Mountaineer of the 13th, and au ?ditorlalhf similar import from The Glreenvli^ News, copied In Tho State. Tho ai?mus of both the Mountain ?er and '.The Greenville News is of long stat ?Ung and easily understood Dy thos^i who are posted on South jarolini' 'politics, but that is not a matter of moment. I beg to make i few cements on these two edi torials fog the benefit of your readers. You s-J}-: "This is a new role for ibo virba senator, as he has been i ioing abVut the country for several ?oars adj^rtising thc lawlessness of .vhich hef approves, and from bis seat a the Sedate he has boasted of what ie would ido In certain circumstances .o wreak-syengenance upon criminals. " Once for all, let mo say I. baye time ind agairf announced my willingness to head .-'dynchlng party to string up vny man \vho would rape a woman. [ did tbljvtlrst in the campaign when [ was running for the Senate in 1894. [ have n'iver seen reason to change that ophdon and I never expect to :hango it,, and I feel that in making that decoration I voice the senti ment of ii MIC-tenths of the white peo ple of Si-uth Carolina, and I doubt u?w whether tho editor of either the Mountaineer or. Greenville News will )ver his own signature, dare take Is mo with! tl io sentiment. Again the Mountaineer says: . "His violent and 1 turbule'^ ?isnositloh/dn and out of ?o.' .i''"!ny.V. ev.v.npfo ?Q j so comm - at homo oi abroad, > ind his denunciation of the newspa pers for exposing the criminal record )f thc State comes with ill grace trom a man who has never lifted a inger to stay the tide of crime and awlessness which has grown at a learful rate since he entered upon jubile Ufo and becamo a controlling 'actor ID the political life of the state." I call attention right here to the 'act thzt in my Interview I mention id no names either of men or of vapors, singled out noboJy for crltl :ism, at d only denounced a senseless ilar.dcr of our State and its people iy tts o rn citizens. But., let nw cull ho att mtlou of your readers to some 'acts. In mv Inaugural address as gover or I m ide the strongest posslb'e plea o the .vblte people of t ie State for iw and order, and I exerted myself 0 the utmost as executive to protect ? .ersons charged with crime from, ranching, and as for the charge that ! he tide, of crime and la*/lowness has irown, I desire to say that may be ittrlbuted much moro justly to the: iducating Inlluences of those papers] ,/hlch have counselled dhobedlence to j ho law, notably the dispensary law, ; ind ha\e encouraged in '.very way its unification. The grand Juries in cor aln cointlcs under these influences : ave systematically brok m their oaths ind pureed themselves, t nd lt Is little 1 hort o.' Infamous for tl ose who are .uilty cf thus attempting to override [he will of the majority o charge the csultlnj demoralization to me. The llountaincer says that 1 do not "ln leigh against the crinan ils or censure ;helr actions but am incensed at the 'acts being given to the vorld." This i Just wlicro the trouble Iles. Thc 'acts have not been given to the world. Eve-y homide mentioned in the lttorney general's report ncccessl tated l technical indictment for "murder," aut that was no warrant for tho news papers to herald it to the world that 220 "murders" had been committed in South Carolina in tho last year. It was no warrant for the slander that the juries failed to do their duty In icariy every Instance and that crimi nals were r.nre'y punished. Grant that there ts demoralization in the State, zrant that we are ever ready as a peo ple, to ready tn resent Insult, and to ase the pistol, lt has always heen so ind what good can come from distort ing the facts and setting every case of i negro killing another ne?ro In a drunken brawl as a "murder" to be tharged against our State's civiliza tion? Tho Statements willoh bav? been sent abroad to claim that all or aalf of tho violent doaths mentioned liy thc attorney general are "m?r iers." I may not be privileged to act xs judge in regard to what constitutes murder," yet almost the whole edi torial fraternity In South Carolina iiavo assumed the right to declare . what constitutes "murder," and have' exercised the privilege of abuskig Ju ries for failure to do their duty, as! the editors saw it. Whethor or not 1 have done moro to "befoul tho good name of South karolina by my public utterances at j llorac and abroad" than then* slundor jus editorials. I leave for tlie people Lo Judge. I havo spoken the truth as I have understood it, both in thc Sen ind before Nothern audiences, .ind 1 liave nothing to regret or to take back. But I suggest that it is an ? vl clence of malice and of personal na iled rather than of calm deliberate judgment and sense of publie duty that made my indictment against the stand of South Carolina in regard to crime an excuse for villi tication and abuse of me person ul ly. .1 can stand lt becauso I am used to lt. Can the editors of the Mountaineer and The News justify themselves for befouling South Carolina's good name In the way they have? This much for the Mountaineer. Now for thc Greenville News. That paper makes allusions to my lecture tour in West last summer, and speaks thus: "When he was spouting fire on that spectacular trip this newspaper declared that Senator Tillman was killing off all hope of bringing a desir ably class of immigrants to this State by bis alarming speeches." I recall the faot that some garbled and dis torted reports were sent abroad while the debate with Senator Burton waa going on last summer, with a view to orcating a sensation. I cannot discuss the Immigration question in an article like this, but in presenting the view to the Nothern people that with 780, 000 negroes and only 600,000 white people lu our State that absolute equality before tho law meant domi nation by the blacks, aud that the whites would resort to fighting before they would submit to lt, I thought I told the plain, unvarnished truth, and 1 think BO still. I am thoroughly well satisfied tnat a race war would result should Nortborn fanatics again en deavor to force negro equality upon us. I think it did good to tell those peo ple this and let them understand . the true situation. If lt drives immi grants away from our borders .well abd good, but certainly th* statement which has been made In cold blood by South Carolina newspaper mon that murder and lawlessness were rampant, that Jurors were perjurers, life and property were unsafe, etc., were cal culated to deter home seekers much more than the threatened shadow of a race conflict, as I predicted and which may never come. I mentioned immi gration In that interview for the pur pose of showing the Inconsistency and the idiocy o' those, who proclaim such a condition of affairs In South Caro lina, and yet were urging the expen diture of our taxes for the purpose of bringing immigrants to our State. Thc News oharges that I spoke thus becauso I was paid to do it while claiming that slanders by lt and others "voiced the sentiments of the decent law abiding people in protest ing against tho disgrace cf tho com monwealth and it did BO believing that lt was performing a publio ser vice, and not becauso thera was a re ward." At. first blush lt would appear that because 1 received mc ney for my work and the newspapers did not, I am in the wrong. It ls a bad bird that will befoul ita own nest wt hoi for reward or without lt. In staaumg "P for white superemaoy before North ern audiences and proclaiming franki j and boldy our inteutlon Co preserve il at. ajl harArd?] and rlrl^lna-.t-be .hypo crisy and political greed ol thoae wht were apposing it, I may ht.ve. been ir error, but what defense can be offerer: by him who befouled the State's gooc name either truthfully or untruthful ly. No good whatever has been ac complishcd, and I really cannot set whit my having been paid has to d( with lt. The conditions in South Carolin? aro not such as I would like to see but those who charge that thedlspen saiv law, ES The News does, is respon sil o, muso first answer for the educa tic i of the people to which I hav ru; le allin ion In the belief that it wa rife it and proper to override that lav by any a id all means. They hav so n to tl e wind and are reaping th? wi rlwlnd. - want to Bay further that whet Tl 3 New.i says "that the exist in co :dltlons in South Carolina are du to .he wei k politicians who have bee elected to ofllce and nearly all of thes men are lisciples of Tillman," tha it ls well known that thc lash tw Leglsl?tuics of South Carolina hav had a mtjorltyof former Conserve live In tl em, and our present brav and noble-hearted governor, who i doing his whole duty towards enfon inn this obnoxious law-obnoxious t The News and the Mouutinoer-i9 we known to lave been a ConBesvative. I closo by saying to*Tho Greenvill News that I am not worrying aboc the immigrants I have kept ?.wa from Sou .h Carolina nor those wh may be de; erred from coming to Sout Carolina iy its own slanders, but le us keep t ie record straight, and le the peop e understand that the: senior soi ator may be "violent an turbulent' as the Mountaineer sayi and Thc News may not have ari "faith in his sinrereity" about 1mm grants or nnything else, but they hat not cleared themselves from tl charge he made of having slanden South Carolina, and what is moro tin cannot. They have simply abused n to hide their own fault. Bi R. Tlllmaa. Washington, D. C., Feb. lfl, 1004 Tillman On Hanna. When asked by tho Washingtt Post for an expression on Senat Hanna's death, Senator Tillman sal "Senator lianna won a place f himself In tho senate eqalled by fe men among us simply tbrought h manliness. When he came to the se ntc ho wis painted in lurid coloi and the senate was suspicious of hit Ile won thc day in short time, ho1 ever, through his manly and stralg foward chiractcr. "Ho was ono of tho true type progressive, aggressive aid capnt American manhood that coes thlnjj Wo have had men in the 8mate mo brilliant, but few who equalled Sen tor Hanna In plain, hones*} nianllne and effective ability?- no was at oi time a very much maligned man; fact, during ono of the la"<est talks had with him wo laughingly discuss our relative grievances li that i spect. I remember that ) remark to bira tnat if we were both as b as we were sometimes made out to we ought to bc hung. " 'Yes, senator,' he replied. 'I, ha been quite relieved since I oame he to find that you wore not suoh an u speakable scoundrel as I thought y were." ' _ Carload of Dynamite. A special says a carload of dynam exploded near Ilogup, on tho 0?de LtOOln Cut-off, Friday afternoon, k lng about 2? and injuring about workmen. Th* flatlet, lt U aa are mostly Greeks. SHOT FROM AMBUoH. A Lexington Farmer Met Dtutb at t Ii e II au da of Two Me u. The Columbia State says John W. Meetze, a Lexington county farmer, was shot In the face with two loads of buckshot Friday afternoon within a stone's throw of his young wife and little child by an unknown white man said to have been concealed behind Meotze's pasture fence with a lad, also white and also unknown. The affair was reported in Brookland, six and one-half miles datant, by a negro wo man servant, whom Meetze's assailant fired upon at the same time and who ls dangerously if not fatally injured. She was shot through the lower lobe of the right lung and in the right elbow. The negro woman was brought to Brookland in a wagon by a negro man, whose house nearby sbe manag ed to reach after being shot down near the public road, toward which she was retreating from the fence at the .time she was Oro upon. She reported the facts to Dr. C. W. Barron, ber employer's physician at Brookland, and he with Mr. Lee Meetze, ? Brookland brother of thc murdered man, Mr. Doyle and Mr. Woods, hastened to the scene, leaving the other Brookland brother, Mr. Early Meetze, in Brookland to care for his mother, who is ill. They aroused the nelgbbohood but no trace of the assailants could be found. This ! was about 6 o'clock and some three hourn after the shooting, but Mr. George Earhardt, living about a quarter of a mile from the scene, who bad heard of the matter from the ne groes, had begun investigations at. once but also without result. The body was found within 15 yards of the fence on its back with the left side of the face toward the fence. Fourteen buckshot had entered the face and side of the head, the theory being that Meetze met the first lood square in the face as he was approaching the men in hiding and that-the second carno in the side of the head as he turned in falling. Either load would have resulted in instant death. Meetze was said to bo unarmed. Tho negro woman says that she did not notify Mrs. Meetze, whowasalohe with her child In tho house, for fear of disastrously frightening her. She says that she first discovered the men lying behind the fence, which crowns a little ridge just above the Meetze mill pond, and went to the mill where Mr. Meetze was at work and told him what she had seen. Sue went with bim to point out the place. When they fired on him she ran and they fired the third load at her. She pre sumes that they ran to make-their escape when they saw her fall sup posedly dead. She saw only the man with the shotgun well enougtvto re cognize him if she sees hi tn again. She dtiiioiibed-hlm 'as being" clean shaven and wearing a heavy head of black hair. The other man, who was unarmed so far as she could see, was careful to conceal his face frc m ber. A remarkable fact in connection with the matter is that Meetze's father, Dub Meetze, mut bis death about 16 years ago In a similar man ner within half a mlle of the same spot. The dead man's Brookland brotbors aro said to be good citizens. They are doing well In the livery stable business there. John ls said to have been a hard drinker at times and of a turbulent disposition when uuder the influence of whiskey, and, lt is al leged, he has been In several rows within the last few months. BEGINNING OF JAPAN'* NAVY. Con federate Boat Stonewall Jackson l'Mrut of Ita Modern Warships. Probably no officer of the American navy has followed the development of that of Japan with greater interest, : says Tho New York Tribune, than ; Lieut. Henry E. Rhoades, now on duty at the Brooklyn navy yard, for he was officially Identified with the beginning of the navy of Japan as far back as 1808. A reporter of The Tri bune called on him Tuesday, but he i was disposed to express him; elf guard edly, because of his official position. When asked if he was not ene of the American navy officers who received appointments In 180!? to aid in the or ganization of the Japanese navy, ne replied: "I believe that the cred.t for the Japanese navy may be plac id to the American navy officers. It really be gan with the purchase of the armor ?clad Stonewall Jackson (later named [ tho Adzuma) from thc United States government in 1860, although the con struction of tho naval dockyard at . Yokoska was commenced in 1805, un der the supervision of a French engi neer. This was not completed till 1810. It cost nearly $2,500,000. The Stoneball Jackson was built in ; Franc-*, under a contract with the ; Danish government, and was to be ' known as the Sphynx, but as this was ? about the time of thc closing of thc SchlcBwlg-Holstcin war, and there was delay In tho completion of the ves sel, Denmark became lukewarm In carrying out the terms of the pur chase, and the boat passed into the possession of the Confederates. Sho put to sea soon afterward, but owing to some derangement of the steering maohlnery silo ran into Fer- j roi, Spain, for repairs, In Fab., 1865, whore were lying the American war vessels Niagara and Sacramento. The commander of tho American vessels allowed the Stonewall to est ape, and isho wont'to Lisbon, and thence across i tho Atlantlo to Havana. Here she lay until after tho close of tho oivil war, and was then given up by Spain to the United States. Later tho Stonewall was sold to Japan, and she was sent over there by tho United States under command of Captain (now Rear Ad miral) George Brown, and do'.lvored to Yokohoma In the latter part of the spring of 1868." Hight Hundred Rilled. The Albanians who neve besieging Shemshl Paaha, who with 2,500 Tur kish troops and the guns, wis Thurs day reported to be besieged hy 20,000 Albanians at Babajhosi, have been routed, losing 800 men killed and wounded. Tho Turkish losse.i are said io bo heavy. Flue additional battal ions ot eroeps have asen old?red to Verljovloh. THE DISPENSARY. The Home Faisei the Local Option Bill With Amendments, HOW THE MEMBERS VOTED. :K?y County Otu Vote Out- Ole penaary lt It Will TAX Itaolf to I0n for ? a the Law, Tho Brice local option bill, which. passed the Senate last week came up in the House on Thursday, and passed pretty much in the shape it came from the Senate. The house refused all amemdmenta to toe bill. Hr. Dor* rob's amendment was the only one on whioh a test vote waa taken. This amendment provided that instead ot the (lat tax of half a mill on the coun ty which votes out the dispensary, tho matter should be left to the gov ernor, and if, in his discretion, he should think the law was not oelng enforced by the people of that county he should order the half mill tax lev ied. Thia was rejected by a vote of 49 to 66,' as follows: Ayes-Messrs. Baker, Banks, Bar ron, Bates, . Beamguard, Bomar, Brown, Bunch, Carey, Coggemall, Doar, Dorroh, Doyle, Ford, Hendrix, J. E. Herbert, Hunter, Humphrey, James, Kibler, King, Kirby, Lanham, Lofton, Logan, McCain, Mccoll, Maul diu, Middleton, Morgan, Farnell, Peurlfoy, Potts, Pyatt, Quick, Ready, Richardson, Sarratt,*Slnkler, Jeremiah Smith, Strong, Toole, Wade, Walker, Wlngo, Wise, Wright, Youmans-49. Nays-Speaker Smith &sd Repre sentatives Aull, Aycook, Bailey, Bass, Bennett, Blaok, Blaokwood, Brooks, Calllson, Carwile, Colcock, Cooper, Culler, Davis, DeBruhl, Dennis, D?s Champs, DeVore, Donnald, Dowling, Edwards, Etird, Fox, Fraser, Gourdin, Halle, Harrellson, Haskell, Herbert, D. u.; Hiii, Holman, Irby, Jarnegan, Johnson, Kelley, Lancaster, Laney, Loverett, Lesesne, Lide, Little, Lyles, Mace, Magill, Mahafley, Mlms, Moses, xMos8, Nichols, Pollock, Potts, Pyatt, Quick, Ready, Richardson, Barratt, Sinkler, Jeremiah Smith, Strong, Toole, Wade, Walker, WIBI arno, Wingard-66. TIIE BILL AND ITS RIDER. The bill provides that section 7 of tho old dispensary liw be amended so that the removal of a dispensary may be obtained In thc same manner as the establishment, upon the petition of one-fourth of the qualified electors of the county, when the county sup ervisor shall order an election upon tho question of "dispensary" or "no dispensary*" to be voted upon by the qualified voters. The bill then con tinues: "And if a majority of the ballots cast be found and declared to uo- for .a di.-.pausary, Iben a dispen sary may bo established in said coun ty, but If a majority of the ballots cast be found and declared- to .bo. . against the dispensary, then no dis pensary shall be established therein, and any dispensary already established shall be clos d. Elections under this section can be held not oftener than once In four years. "No dispensary shall be established in any county, town or city wherein the sale of alcoholic liquors was pro hiblbited prior to July 1, 1893, excepb as herein permitted: provldea, that ' where dispensaries have been estab lished In such county, town, or city, they shall remain as established un til removed or closed as permitted in this act: provided, e. tax of one-half mill is hereby levied upon every dollar ol the value of all taxable property in all counties voting to remove or close the dispensaries as above pro vided: for the purpose ?of defraying the expenses of the enforcement of the dispensary law in said county under and by direction of the gover nor, said tax to be collected as other county taxes and forwarded to the State treasurer, to be expended, or so much thereof as may be necessary, us now provided by law, for such pur poses. Any balance remaining un expended at the end of the year lo be returned by the State treasurer to the county treasurer of such county for general county purposes, and that the value of all confiscations of con traband goods seized in such county, as determined by the State board of directors, shall be paid to the State treasurer, to be credited to the fund raised by said levy for the enforce ment of the law, as above provided. And any amount expended in said county for the enforcement of the dispensary law shall be refunded to the State treasury upon thc colleo tion of the tax above levied. Any county voting out a dispensary Bball not thereafter receive any part of the surplus tbat may remain of the dis pensary school fund after the deficien cies In the various county sobool funds have been made up as provided by law. There ls also a povlslon put in the cimmittee that "A dispensary may be located elsewhere than In an in corporated town in the counties of Beaufort and Horry, and no others, except such as are authorized by spe cial act of the general assembly." Mr. Tatum withdrew his proposed amendment providing for elections "no oftener than once in two years," and the bill wont through with the four year limit. They Want to Die. It ls said Japanese, officers from the general staff downward aro enthusias tically patriotic, and the rank and file desire to die fighting, rather than live at home with their families. Friends and relati ves of departing soldiers say not gcod-by, but "fare well, for your sake 1 hope never to sec you again." Perilous pasts are eagerly sought, and the opportunity to die is coveted. Id fe ls regarded as synonymous with dlnhonor. Worth Two Dollars. The Columbia State says: "When cotton waa selling for five and six cents a pound thc p-?bl?ohcrs cf many weekly papers rodi ced the price to one dollar a year. They probably now realize thc unwisdon of that course, when everytoing that goes to make a newspaper and to keep the makers of newspapers alive has advanced in price. Any weekly paper worth read ing ls worth ?2 a year, according to present standard.