The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, August 12, 1904, Image 4
Two Journeys.
"I go on a journey far away,"
She sa*d-she stooped and kissed me
then, *
"Over the ocean for many a day
Good bye," and she kissed me once
again.
But only a few short months had fled
When again 1 answered my wife's
kiss:
"I could not larry away," she said:
"There is never a land as fair as
this."
Again I stood by my dear wife's side.
"1 goon a journey, sweet, to-day;
Ov r the river the.boatmen glide
Good-bye; I shall linger long away."
"Ah, she will come back soon, I know,"
1 said, as sh? stooped for the parting
kiss;
She cannot tarry, she told me so;
There is never a land so fair as this."
But many a mont ti and many a year
Have flown since my darling went
. away,
Will she never come back to meet me
here?
Has she found the region of perfect
day?
Over tlie ocean she went and came;
Over the river, and lingers there!
Oh "'illid boatman! call my name -
Show me the region so wonderous
fair.
THE NEGRO PROBLEM.
Serious Mistakes Made by the United
States Government
IN REFERENCE TO THE MATTER
lt IH the Problem ol the Agen, and
Not to bo Settled in *
Dennie or A
Century.
The following is the lirst section of
an open letter frc m Ex-Governor D.
H. Chamberlain, formerly or this
State, to Mr. James hryce, a member
of the English Parliament. The sec
ond section will be published next
week. Tiie letter ls well worth read
ing:
The Rt. Hon James Bryce, M. P.,'
No. 51? Portland Place, hond?n, Eng
land-My Dear Mr. Bryce: 1 think
you will understand, after our conver
sation last summer, with what, in
creased interest 1 have re-read and
pondered your great philosophic-for
less than that I cannot call lt-Ox
ford Romanes lecture on "The ite
lations of the Advanced aud the Back
ward Races of Mankind." The Unit
ed States are undoubtedly the theatre
of one of the most notable exhibitions
which history anywhere presents of
this problem; for here about ?,uuO,OOU
of the black race: almost wholly Afri
can, are pluced alongside of, inter
mixed with, about 17,0u0,ui)0 of the
white race, chiclly Teutonic. This
population is disposed over the terri
tory of fifteen States of the Union,
though more than one-half of the
whole number of negroes are found in
six of these States; in two States the
number of negroes lar^ly exceeding
that of the white race; and in the
State of South Carolina the ratio of
negroes to wdiites being as :i to 2; in
Mississippi as 7 to 5, and in Louisiana
as 8 to 9.
ONLY TIIIRTY-KIUIIT YEARS AUO
this entire mass of negroes, or their
Immediate ancestors, were chattel
slaves. To the original, well defined
characteristics of both races have thus
been added all the peculiar influences,
and habitudes, and results which chat
tel slavery, in its modern meaning,
produces. Pride of race and the bab
lt of domination, on the part of the
white race, stand over against the
consciousness of race inferiority and
the habit of submission, on the part
of the negro race.
Here, in its briefest statement, are
presented the factors ol a problem
whose complexity and difficulty have
never before been equalled. 1 wonder
if your study, so much wider than
mine, has found its parallel. Mine
certainly has not.
The sudden, catastrophic transition
of this mass of negroes from slavery
to freedom was marked by one special
peculiarity which ls not often or sulll
clently considered; 1 mean :he fact
that the transition was to DO appre
ciable extent elVected by the enslaved
race itself. Here again my study
does not disclose another Instance any
where of the emancipation from chat
tel slavery ol" a people or race without
exertion on the part of the enslaved
people or race. Usually this has been
the chief force in the stiuggle. But
till the close of our war of secession,
till the actual anti complete triumph
of the armies of the I inion, the negro
race of the United States, which was
In slavery, lifted no single hand,
struck no single blow, for its own
freedom. Thc .signilicatiee of this
fact is tremendous as an indication of
character and capacity.
ANOTIIKU CHOU Ll A ll KKATUKK
or element of this problem ls the fact
that the masters here did not consent
voluntarily in any degree to the eman
cipation of the slaves, lt was strictly
forced upon them at t he point of the
bayonet and without any pecuniary
compens?t ion. This, Lt o, is a fact of
great significance as determining the
temper and attitude of the master
race at the outset of what we call our
negro proplem.
Before I go fail ber let me point out
how largely, almost strictly, artificial,
or man-made, are the elements of this
problem in the United States. Neith
er nature nor providence, to use our
common terms, has placed the negro
race and the white race in the close
contact in which they now live here.
The negro has been forcibly trans
planted by the white race from his
native lard to our shores, from the
wild freedom of the land of his origin
to the slavery of this country. So.
too, as 1 have already remarked, his
emancipation has come not from his
owu natural ellon s or struggles, but
wholly from thc intervention and
force of a people dissociated from him
in locality and ali, n to his habits, bis
peculiar character and his character
istic impulses and passions. Again,
the negro here has bad political rights
thrust upon him without bis demand
for them, without, his knowledge or
appreciation of them, and without the
least preliminary training or ex
perience in using them. Contrastall
these with the relations of any other
backward race with an advanced one,
In any other land or age, and the
peculiarity of the problem here will
. be seen; and not only its peculiarity,
but its complexity and difficulty.
A I'ROULBW OK Till". AGES.
Now let me quote a few lines from
the conclusion of your Romanes lec
ture:
"I have sought," you say, "to sall
your attention to a great, secular pro
cess in the history of the world, a pro
cess the steps in which are reckoned
by centuries and who.se magnitude
transcends the political cr commercial
questions which claim our thoughts
from day to day. IL ls a problem
which has now entered a critical
phase, and we see opening before us a
long vista in which there appear pos
sibilities of an immense l?crese in the
productive powers of the earth and
man, possibilities also of trouble and
strife between races now being
brought into closer and more general
contact. As always, elements of peril
are balanced by elements of hope.
The sentiment of race pride, the
keenness of race-rivalry, have been
intensified. But the sense of a com
mon humanity has grown stronger.
When we think of the problems now
being raised by the contact of races,
clouds seem to hang heavy on the
horizon of the future; yet light
streams in when we remember that
the spirit in which civilized States
are preparing to meet those problems
is higher and purer than it was when,
four centuries ago, a great outward
movement of the European nations
began."
In this I find the philosophic and
the Christian spirit. Dealing with a
secular process, how weak and spiritless
ls our anxiety, our discouragement, or
our despair, because in less than four
decades our peculiar problen here in
the United States is still open and un
solved! How poor and shallow the In
sight that falls to take note of the es
sential factors of the problem and
beats aimless about in the factuous ex
pectation that a secular problem will
yield to treatment which is not found
ed upon calm study of all the essential
conditions, or which ls swayed by the
miserable exigencies of temporary per
sonal and political ambitious and de
sires!
I, for one, can have no controversy
with anyone who does come to the con
sideration of this problem lu the Uui
ted States in what I call
TIIK CHIUSTIAN BPIKIT.
If anything is clear to me lt is that
we owe duties, high and solemn duties,
I to thc negro race in our country. 1
trust VUat I am not unduly sentiment
al ?a my sympathy and effection foi
that race. Their lot at best is a hard
one. Heaven forbid that 1 should add
to Its burdens! Still more do I trust
that 1 am not forgetful that If Chris
tianity, if religion, teaches any great
and universal lesson it is that we an
bond- and the more b:>und as the dis
tance between our race and that race
seems wider and wider in respect ol
education or original capacity or pres
ent moral or physical condition-tc
feel and act constantly In the spirit ol
a genuine belief in the brotherhood ol
ail men and the common fatherhood ol
God. Contempt or neglect or hatred to
wards the negro can have no place lt
a Christian man's heart or conduct
How to treat him for his own besl
good, by what influences to elevate
him, by what arts to inspire the race
with ambition to become gcci .men
and women and hence good citizens
how to obliterate all differences except
such as are Ineradicable, how to ex bi
bit towards him and teach others, al
men, how to exhibit towards him, thc
virtues of justice, forbearance, sympa
thy, helpfulness; these are the certaii
and Indisputable claims of our com
mou humanity. In my thinking, speak
iug and writing on this theme I try tx
carry such thoughts In my mind aw
heart at all times. It ls the least o!
my misgivings that I may be charg?e
with inconsistency. 1 hope I am some
what wiser on all subjects-this amont
the rest-than 1 was thirty or fortj
years ago.
Regarding our negro problem In th ii
spirit, I find myself forced by my
KXl'KKIKNCK AND OBSKHVATION
to say that perhaps our first practica
aim should be to undo, so far as possi
ble, what we have heretofore done fo
the negro since his" emancipation
namely, the inspiring in him the hopi
or dream ,of sharing with the whit<
race heie a social or political equality
for -whoever will lay aside wishes ane
fancies and look only at realities wil
see that these things arc i m possi bi li
ties within any measurable range o
time, if ever. 1 assume as a certainty
that what you call "the blending o
races," by Intermarriage, cannot taki
place between the negro and the whiti
race of this country. I go further aiu
say that such intermixture Is us un
desirable as it ls Impossible, lt woulc
be the degradation of the white race
but not the elevation of the negri
race. In your Romanes lecture, afie
discussing "the method of fusion o
two races into one through Interinar
riage," you remark that "this metboi
is not always applicable. Were physl
cal repulsion, usually grounded on dir
terence ot color, exists, sometime
where a sentimental repulsion ground
ed on difference of faith, exists, tin
two races will not mix their blood, bu
remain confronting one another as dis
ti net and unfriendly h dies;" and yoi
point out the Inevitable results of till
attitude on your pages 2tl-:t0, page;
which 1 wish all our people mlgh
read.
T1IKUK AUK THOSK WHO DKNY
the fact and the verity of the exist
ince of this physical repulsion on tb
part of the white race here toward
JUT negro race. I have some eminen
ind wise acquaintances who regard tin
issertion of such repltislon as a pre
euee. I suppose each idi vidual on tin
ndut must be allowed to speak fo
llinself. Speaking for myself I frceb
LCknowledge the repulsion; and speak
tig fruin my observation of others
eel no doubt that this repulsion maj
>e truly described as a natu nd ant
vell-nlgh universal feeling, a fee ! i nj
0 deeply implanted, so strongly fe!
>y the vast majority of the white raci
tere that lt ls simply quixotic to at
empt to preach lt down or to essen
?ally lessen its force, lt ls, therefore
. fact to be reckoned with, no
lenied or overlooked.
Starting with this fact, we lind nex
hat a tremendous effort has been mad
1?re to establish political equality be
ween the two races, an e ll ort wbicl
esulted directly in shocking and un
learable misgovernment, wherever tin
cgro race predominated. This in tun
nevitably aroused the fierce antagon
un and hate of the white race. lu th
esp?rate struggle of the white race t'
brow oil its political bondage to tb
ogro, violence and fraud in the!
jany forms resulted. The triumph o
be white race in this struggle left tin
elations of the two races embitterei
.) a high degree, (?enerations will bi
ceded lei overcome completely the ex
eerbations and animosities which an
lie direct fruit of the attempt to es
iblish by force of law a pol?tica
luality between the two races.
Thus we see that our negro problen
as not only been artificially creater
1 the first instance, but that it ha:
eon artificially intensified, made dan
ennis to the peace of the country ant
estructlve of good relations hetwcei
tie two races.
hut this ls not all nor tho worst.
A NA.MKl.KSS OR1MK,
Idely prevalent, has come to heal
ie thrlce-hot antagonisms whicl
.her causes had aroused and has cov
ed with ghastly horrors, not only
ir South, but a great part, of om
orth. Of this phase of the problem
I shall not shrink from speaking with
perfect plainness, for 1 know it U
hopeless to think of-removing or abat
ing the crime of lynching until the
crime which bas called it loto vogue
shall cease or be abated. I do not
wonder, nor will anyone who will real
ly make the case bis own wonder,
that lynching prevails at our South
as a method of punishment or tevenge
for the crime of criminal assault by I
negroes on white women. 1 think lt
entirely safe to say chat uuder Ilk
circumstances it would prevail to a
like extent in any part of our cou ni ry,
or in any Anglo-Saxon community.
Theoretically I would say with Abra
ham Lincoln, "There ls no crime so
bad that lynching for lt is not worse;"
but, practically, I come very near to
saying that 1 do not blame the South
for resorting to lynching for this
crime..
And this terrible remedy has been
attended and followed by the usual
consequences of any resort to lawless
methods. In the tir?t p'uee, lt has
not been deterrent from the crime in
question. In the uext place, lt bas
accumulated horrors such as do not
occur In any other part of the whole
civilized world- the burnihg if hu
man beings at the stake-:<ot ?lone,
be it remembered, at the South, but
In' several of our Middle Western
States, and even in John Brown's
Kansas. Finally, lynching h is been
extended to be the frequent punish
ment for other crimes or alleged
crimes. The depraved part of society
sometimes resort to it for excitement
or for personal revenge.
What are we tu say and do about all
this?
MY ANSWER IS, STOP THE CHIME
which originally set this dreadful train
of horrors in motion. Hut who can
do this? My answer is, thc nogro race
alone. If half the energy and thought
and money that is now wasted in pul
p!ts.and pulitics and schools were de
voted to one grand, overwhelming
crusade against the crime which tir.-,t
caused lynchings, the monstrous
thing could ire stamped out. With
out this, it is as idle to preach and
pray against lynching as it would he
to blow one's breath against a gale ol
wind. Hut 1 know of no special or
i strenuous tlTorts on the part of the
uegro race or Its chief leaders, or of
those of thc white race, who are on
sidered or consider themselves tin
negro's special champion, to extirpate
this crime. Hampton, Tuskegee, the
Ogden Educational Trust, the Ameri
can Missionary Society, all are alike
silent, sa far as 1 know, or engage .'n
no special elforts to root out this foul
crime, the direct cause of so much
woe to beith races. There is in the
whole range nf Hie problem under dis
cusslon no duty so imperative, none
so neglected, as that of focussing ef
fort, to the neglect, If need he, of all
else, on the arousing of all else, on the
arousing ol" the negro race itself to the
necessity of extirpating this one form
of crime. If all the agencies now
working fur the negro tace were turned
to this single end for the tu xt decade
more could he done lo forward the ne
gio's welfare than all that HamptMi
or Tuskegee or all the othe r educa
tional and religious appliances have
done orean ever do. I marvel that
no great voice proclaims this duly:
that no great agency is directed sole
ly to this work. In the tumult and
din of discussl m scarcely a note ls
heard calling attention to this most
necessary, this absolutely Indispen
sable, of all remedies or ellorts.
WHAT NOW DO WE SEE?
We see a race prob'em, lu Us origin
artilicially complicated and iutensi
licd by rash and vain attempts to lift
a backward or inferior raes Inferior
certainly hi present attainments -Into
equality pf social privileges and stand
ing and of p wilie il power with a race
lung accustomed to nilethe hack ward
race and filled with what at least wc
must recognized as tierce prejudices
and apparently unconquerable repug
nance to equality of any kind between
the two races. We see further tht.se
relations and long-standing feelings
aggravated to the pitch of madness and
frenzy which ovenidis all law, ina
natural and uncontrollable exa pera
tion at the prevalence of a crime
which no community ol'our race would
tolerate or give over to orderly punish
ment by thc usual methods ol' the law.
1 shall here venture to ask anyone
to point out error, or mistake, or mis
statement in this summation of the
conditions of the race problem which
States at the present time.
H. II. Cl IA M UK lt LA IM.
Killed by a Train.
Tiie North correspondent to the
State says an unknown mulatto ne
gro was struck by northbound freight
No. I on the Scab ?ard Air Line rail
way Tuesday afternoon about .'L.'IO
o'clock and instantly killed. The
dead mau was about lo years of age
and ls thought by a resident witness
to be named Jesse Williams, which
name, however, is faintly recalled.
From the coroner's inquest, held by
Magistrate W. A. .Johnson, it seems
that t he negro got ol? of Tuesday's
mid-day passenger train and was con
siderably under the influence of whis
key. After lounging around the depot
? while he went oil down t he railroad
md was seated on the north end of
Not th Kdisto trestle about two miles
South of that place where he met his
loath as stated. Evidently he was
I ru uk or asleep or both.
A Gootl Mulch.
It is tobi of Mr. Fairbanks, the Re
publican nominee for vice president
ii fact ft is said Mr. Fairbanks is tell
ng it himself that a negro laborer
mo ployed by the father of this In li
ma lawyer, took his meals willi the
family, lt ls further recounted in
die public prints and also by Mr.
fairbanks, it is said,- that when a
vbite laborer employed on the same
duce objected lu taking his meals
vith the negro, a separate table was
irovlded, but not for the negro. He
ema!ned seated at the Fairbanks
lOard with the big and little, male
md female Falrbankscs while tho
vii i Le laborer sat apart. So, of course,
t ls meet and proper that diaries W.
fairbanks reared in that redolent al
ni .sphere should bc thu running mate
f Theodore Roosevelt. State.
A (?ood Su but Unto.
If elected to the legislature an An
crson county man propases to intro
ucea bill providing that negro and
,'hite convicts shall not bc allowed to
rork together. The State oilers as a
ubstitute a bill prohibiting white
'oman and girls, who are not con
lets, from working In the llelds with
egro men; also prohibiting white
omen and girls, not convicts, from
joking for and serving meals to negro
trm laborers. Let US consider the
oman who should bo shielded but
ho are not shielded by their men,
ifore we give a thought to the sen
tl veness of the white criminal in
ripes.
DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION
As Adopted la State Convention at
Columbia Last May.
AKTICLK I. There shall be one or
more Democratic clubs organized in
each township or ward, each of which
clubs shall have a distinct title, "The
- Democratic Club," and shall
elect a president and one or more vice
"residents, a recording and a corrrs
ondlng secretary and a treasurer, and
ihall have the following working com
mittees, of not less than three mem
bers each, viz: A committee o< reg
istration, an executive commiutee,
and such other committees as to each
club may seem expedient.
AKTICLK IL The meetings of the
club shall be frequent after the open
ing of the canvass, and some member
of the club or Invited speaker deliver
an address at each meeting, if practi
cable. The clubs shall meet on the
fourth Saturday lu April and the
county convention on the tlrst Mon
day in May, respectively, of each elec
tion year: Provided, That the Coun
ty Executive Committee may name
any other day within the same week
for such club meeting by giving at
least two weeks notice by advertise
ment in county papers: And provided,
further, That in case any club shall
fail to reorganize on the day fixed for
reorganization, the County Executive
Committee may lixaday for such club
to meet for reorganization by g'vlng
two wet ks notice as provided in this
article. Each county shall bo entitled
to as many delegates in the State Con
vention as double tits number of its
members in the General Assembly.
AKTICLK lil. The president, or D-<e
members, shall have power to call au
extra meeting of the club, and at such
extra meeting, one-fourth of the mein
hers shall constitute a quorum.for the
transaction of business.
AKTICLK IV. The clubs in each
county shall be held together and ope
rate under the control of a County
Executive Committee, which shall
consist of one inemterfrom each club,
to he elected hy the respective clubs.
The Executive Committee, when
elected, shall appoint Its own oilhers
(except the chairman who shall be
elected by the County Convention.)
who shall not necessarily be members
of said committee, but a vacancy in
the membership of the committee
shall be lilied by the club, through the
loss of whose member by death, resig
nation or otherwise the vacancy oc
curs: Provided, That lu case the ollice
of Chairman of the County Executive
Committe shall become vacant by
death, resignation or otherwise, the
committee shall have power to fill the
vacancy by electing a chairman to
ssrve until thc organization of the
next regular County Convention: And
provided, further, That any otllcer so
elided who is not a member of
the committee shall not be entitled to
a vote on any question except the
chairman, and then only in case of a
tie voto. The tenure of ollice of the
executive committee shall be until the
first Monday in May of each election
year, at which time the County Con
vention shall be called together to re
organize the party. Every presiden
tial election year County Conventions
shall be called by the County Execu
tive Committee to meet on the first
Munday iu May, which shall elect
delegates to a State Convention called
for the purpose of electing delegates to
the National Democratic ln.\en
tion and to ekct the member . to
the National Democratic Executive
Committee from this State. The
State Convention shall be called by
the State Executive Committee to
meet every presidential election year
on the third Wednesday in May, and
every State election year, and County
and Sta'e ti inventions shall meeton
the tirst Monday in May and the third
Wednesday in May respectively.
AKTICLK V. County Democratic
Conventions shall be composed of dele
ga? es elected by the several local
clubs, one delegate for every twenty
five members, and one delegate for a
majority fraction thereof, with the
right to each County Convention to
enlarge or diminish the representa
tion according to circumstances. The
County Conventions shall be called to
gcthcr by the chairman of the respec
tive Executive Committees under such
rule, not inconsistent with the Con
stitution nor with the rules adopter!
by the State Democratic Executive
L'ommittcc, as each county may
adopt, and when assembled shall be
silled to order hythe Chairman of the
Executive Committee, and the Con
vention shall proceed to nominate and
dect from among its members a pies
Ident, one or more vice presidents, a
secretary and a treasurer. Any Corni
ly Convention may permit or reccg
dze the formation of a new dub or
dubs by a majority of its members.
In all cities with a population o? f>,OUO
iud over there may be two clubs in
iach ward; they shall be organized in
>bcdlenee to this Constitution, as are
.he clubs elsewhere in this State, and
n organizing said clubs, they shall
nive representation in the County
Jonventions respectively as said Con
tention situ ll declare In accordance
villi the provisions of this Constitu
tion.
AKTICLK VI. For the purpose of
10mmating candidates for Governor,
lieutenant Governor, and all other
Stat? ( Ulcers, Including Solicitors in
,he respective Circuits, and Congress
lien in their respective districts and
' 11 i tori States Senators, and all eoun
y officers, except Magistrates and
d asters, and Supervisors of Registra
ion, a direct primary election shall
ie held on the last Tuesday In August
?I each election year, and a second
ind third primary each two weeks
uccesslvely thereafter If necessary:
'rovided, That County Executive
Jommittee of any county shall beal.
?berty lo order a primary election for
Magistrates and Masters, but not for
aembers of the County hoard of Con
rol of the Dispensaries nor for Corni
y Dispensers. At this election only
lemocralio white voters who have
icen residents of the State twelve
Qonths and the county sixty days
'receding the next general election,
nd such negroes as voted the Demo
ratic ticket In 187?, and as have
oted the Democratic ticket contlnu
usly siuce, to be shown by the ccrtili
ate of ton white Democratic voters,
dio will pledge themselves to support
he nominees of such elections, may
otc: Provided, That no person shall
c allowed to vote except his name be
drolled on the particular club list at
-bleb he oilers td vote, at least five
ays before the first election, which
luh shall have a separate polling
lace for primary elections; except in
ie County of Charleston the voter's
iime must be on the particular club
st at which he oilers to vote at least
xty (no) days before the primary
lection; and the County Executive
ominlttee ls authorized to designate
ie number of polling places in that
)unty: Provided, further, That in
harleston County the candidates for
(ingress, Solicitor and oouuty otllcos
Il pp^pp
lhall lile their pledges and pay their
L8sessments within the time fixed by
ihe County Executive Committee.
The olub rolls of the party shall
jonstltuta the registry list and shall
je open to h/spection by any member
>f tbe party, and the election under
ibis clause shall be held and regulated
inder the Act of the dene.al AsseT
jly of this State, approved December
?2.-1888, and any subsequent Acta of
ih? Legislature of this State. The
State Executive Committee shall meet
m the Friday after each primary, or
lucb other time as may be designated
jy the chai nu in to canvass the vote
ind declare the result as to all State
slicers, Congressmen and ' Coiled
states Senators. All contests for all
lomluationsat primary elections shall
J3 heard first by the County Execu
tive Committee-of the county in which
mell irregularities may have occurred,
ind may be reviewed by the State
Executive Committee, whose action
shall be final: Provided, That no vote
shall be counted for any candidate
who does not tile with the Chairman
ifthe State Executive Committe, or
rvitb the respective Chairmen of the
bounty Executive Committe:s, a
pledge in writing that he will abide
Lhe result of such, primary and supp ?rt
:,he nomioces thereof, and that be is
not, nor will bc become, thc can lidate
A auy faction, either privately or
publicly suggested, other tba-i the
regular Democratic nomination, and
?ach candidate for the United States
3euate and for the United States
House of Representatives shall tile an
idditional p odge that he will sup
-?ort the political principles and
policies of thc pa:ty during the
;erm of ollice for which he may
je sleeted, and . work in accord
villi bis Democratic associates In Con
'ress on all party questions: Provided,
'urther, That no candidate shall b2
leclareel nominated unless he receives
1 majority of the votes cast for the
idlee for which he ls a candidate:
Provided, That the pledge of such
candidate shall be tiled on or before
2 o'clock meridian of the day preced
ng the day fixed hy the Coun'y Kxecu
ive Committee or the Stale Ex<eu
,ive Committee for the lirst campaign
neetlng of the County or Slate re
pectivelv.
AKTICLK VII. The olllcers of the
?tate Conventi m shall be a president,
dee president from each Congressional
>!strlct, two secretaries and a
.rcasu rer.
AuTicnK VIII. Thc State Kxecu"
ive Commit!ce shall he comp sad of
me member from each county, to be
lected by the County Convention on
he lirst Monday In May ol' each elec
lon year. When elected, said execu
ive committee shall choose its own
'Ulcers, not. necessarily members
hereof, prior to said elections: Pro
dded, That any otlieer so elected who
s not a member of the committee
hall not be entitled to a vote on any
[uestion,' except the chairman, and
nen only in cuse of a tie vote. The
?tate Executive Committee shall meet
t the call of the chairman or any live
aembsrs, and at sucb time and place
s he or they may appoint. The
?embers of the National Democratic
Executive Committe from South Caro
ma shall be elected by the May S'ate
convention in 1890? and every four
ears thereafter, and when elected
hall he ex-olllcio a mcmlier of the
?tate Executive Committee. Vacan
tes on said Executive Committee by
eath, resignation or otherwise, shall
e filled by the respective County
Executive Committees. The State
Executive Committee is charged with
he execution and direction of the
ol i cy of the party-in this State, sub
let to this Constitution, the princl
les declared in the plat foi ra of prin
ip'es, and such instruction, by re-:o
ition or otherwise, as a S late Conven
ion may from time to time adopt, uot
aconslstent with this Constitution,
nd shall continue In onlee for two
ears from the lime of election e r
ntil their successors have been e'ec
ed. The committee shall nominate
residential electors, and if any vacan
y tccur In the State ticket of electors
r of thc member of the National
Executive Committee, by death,
asignation or other cause, the cora
littee shall have the power to lill
he vacancy; all hy a majority of the
,'hole committee.
AUTIOLK IX. The vote In the
'Spec tl ve counties for all of the State
llicers, Congre smen and United
tates Senat ir shall be transmitted
y the Chairman of the re*p~ctivt
Ounty Exeu tl ve Committees to the
hairman ol the Stale Executive Com
litee as early as practicable aftei
ich primary, who shall proceed tc
invass the vote and declare the
?suit.
AKTICI.K X. When the State Con
ehtion assembles It shall he called
3 order by thc Chairman of t he State
ixecutivc Committee. A temporary
hairman shall be nominated anei
lected by thc Convention, and after
.5 organization the Convention shall
recced immediately to the election
f permanent oillcers and to the tran
lotion ol business. When the bush
PSS has concluded lt shall adjourn
nc die.
Ait'rionK XI. I te fore the election
i 1H02, and each election thereafter,
(cept as herein provided, the State
democratic Executive Committee
mil appoint and arrange for two
impaign meetings to be held in each
ninty, not less than two weeks apart
ie of which meetings shall be ad
ressed only by candidates for State
bees, and the oilier oui/hy Cindi
ates for United States Senator,
nited St ates House of llepresenta
ves and Circuit S il ici tors. In addi
on to such campaign meetings the
O' nty Chairman of the respective
Qiigresslonal Districts and .Indica
i reu I ts shall, when there is mort
ian one candidate for either of sait
bees, arrange for and appoint sepa
ite campaign meetings for theil
ispective districts or judicial cir
lits the time and place of such
eetings to be published in ead
ninty, at which only the candidate.'
ir said offices Shall be invited toad
.ess the people: Provided. Trial
i any year in which no candidate foi
nited States Senator is to be voted
?r, the State Executive Committee
ay dispense with the second cam
lign meeting it is authorized to ap
)int under this article.
Au'xionB xii. It shall be thc duty
each County Executive Committee
i appoint meetings in their respec
ve counties to be addrcsied by the
.nd hints for thc General Assembly
id for aill?rent county offices, all of
hom except Magistrates, Masten
id Supervisors of Registration, shall
; elected hy primaries on the last
uesday in Augusta of each election
ar under the same rules and regula
ms hereinbefore provided.
ARTICLE XIII. Each county dele
itlon to a State Convention shall
ive power to lill any vacancy there
AuTicr.n XIV. This Constitution
ay bo ameuded or altered at the
gular May Convention of the State
j
v -
.or at any convention called specifically
for that puposo, the call for which
shall specify the changes to be made.
AHTICLE XV. Any county failing
or refusing to organize under the pro
visions of this Constitution shall not
have representation in the State
Democratic Convention.
WILIE JONES,
Chair. State Dem. Ex Com.
Secretary.
TO GO TO MANAS8AS.
Col. Herbert Issues Orders Govern Inj;
Preparation l'or Trip.
The Second regiment of State mili
tia will leave this State on the 2nd of
September for Manoseas. The pro
visional regiment will be commanded
by Col. 1). O. Herbert of Oraugeburg
and will consist of eight companies
from his own regiment and four from
the Third regiment. Orders for the
First regiment have not yet been is
sued.
Col. Ilerbert lias Issued the follow
ing general order governing the prep
arations for Uie trip:
''Far. I-The Second regiment of
infantry (S. C. V. T.), provisional,
will leave home stations fur the Ma
nassas, Va., encampment and manoe
uvres on September i2i.d, 1 ?04, and
the organization will be as follows,
viz:
''First-The field officers and the
entire regimental stall of Uie Second
regiment will be expected to go.
"Second-The company orgaidzv
Lion will be as follows, viz: Com
panies A, Bi C, I), E, F, G, 1, IC and
M of the Second regiment, S. C. V.
T., and Comp in b's G and II of the
Third regiment, S. C. V. T.
"Par. II-Officers and meu will
wear tile khaki service uniform com
plete in all particulars, and they will
j go fully armed and equipped. Com
pany commanders will see that men
are fully uniformed, and will at ouc?
take steps to get any missing parts of
uniforms, such as regulation chevrons,
hat bands, ero s rides, etc., which they
will have to order from some uniform
house.
"Far. lil - No ammunition of any
kind whatever will be carried by the
troops. Baggage will noL be allowed
tj exceed une lield allowance as lixed
by tile United States anny iemula
tions: and captains will at once see
ttat ail arms and accoutre ments are
In proper condition. Care stu tdd be
taken that all men have stout, easy
and comfortable shoes suitable for
marching.
"Far. IV-Company commanders
will push the drilling in extended
order until all ollicets and men are
prolicie ut In this drill. This is of ut
most importun ce and must be attend
ed to at once.
"Far. V- This regiment will he a
portion of the second division, or thc
"Frown army," and the service uni
form alone will te worn while on
duty.
"Par. VI-The otllcers of the field
and stall will carry their horses with
them from their hume stations.
"Far. VU-Bach company must
carry at least 40 men besides Olli ot rs,
and captains will soe that each mau
carries a brdtiek or sack. Straw will
be issued at camp "
Further detailed instructions win
be issued later.
THE CITADEL SCHOLARSHIP.
Qualification ol (lie Candidates for
Sctioiarsliip Passed Upon.
The Columbia State says few young
men were rejected Tuesday by the
board of visitors < f the South Caroli
na Military academy, which met In
the oilier ol Gov. Heyward to pass
upon the applications of the candi
dates for the beueficary scho'arshlps
at the Institution. There are each
year a number of applicants f*>r the
scholarships and thc qualifications of
each must be passed upon before they
are allowed to stand the competitive
examinations. If a hoy is able to ed
ucate himself or be educated by his
parents it is seid ?rn that he is giveu.a
beneficiary scholarship.
Tuesday Col. C. S. Gadsden, the
chairman of the board, the governor,
Gen. .lohn. I). Frost, Maj. J. J. Lucas 1
nf Society lli'l and Superintendent ol'
Education Martin were pres nt. Those
ab lent were. Messrs. E. M. Fly the of
Greenville, W. W. Lewis of York ville,
Orlando Sheppard ct Llgelield and the
legislative members of the board.
The examinations this year will be
held an August -ii hy the county
hoards of education, 'l here are 8-1 ap
lioauts for 19 vacancies as follows:
Vacan- Appli
cies. cants.
A hbo ville. 2 8
Anderson . 1 S
Colleton. 1 4
Cherokee. 1 'A
Darlington . I :t
Edgelield. 1 2
Dorry. 1 2
Kershaw. 1 1
Lee. 1 2
Lancaster. 1 4
Marlon. I ?>
i >rangeburg.2 14
Pickens. I li
Richland. t J1
Spartanburg. 1 ;t
Sumter. 1 4
Saluda. 1 :i
Killed :t Pol I et; man.
J. W. Brown, a member of the
Charlotte, N. C., police force, was
killed by Paul Diggers, a IO-year-old
white hoy Tuesday. Diggers had
been arrested for violating a city
ordinance and after the hearing the
boy passed the olllcer and laughed
or sneered Rh him. Drown gave chase
and laid hold of Diggers, who struck
him in the stomach with Iiis list. The
officer thereupon knocked the boy
si useless with ids club. A large crowd
gathered and threats against the olil
eer were made but the crowd was
kept back and the b.iy taken tn the
police station. Drown was taken ill
shortly afterward as a result of the
blow struck by Bigge rs abd died a few
hours later, niggers was released on
11,000 bond. _
Waterspout Was Seen.
A dispatch from Charleston to The
state says a largo waterspout was seen
it sea late Thursday afternoon. The
rreat mass of water, In state of con
tinual revolution and swayed by the
vital, presented an inspiring picture,
md the spectators marveled at the
ihenoraenon. The shaft seemed to
each from the sea to the sky, being
arge at the liase, narrowing in the
?entre and then broadening forwards
he apex. The column of water mov
id rapidly and was dissipated when it
truck a fringe of woods on Morris
island. There was no shipping in the
our.se of the spout elsa damage would
nive been none.
Tine men who aro guilty of the foul
nurder at EutO-wville should bo
mulshed to the full extent of the
aw.
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
CLirJTOIM, s. c,
BOARD, ROOM-RENT and TUITION for Collegiate Year for
$117.00. Next Session begins Sept. 22, 1904.
For Catalogue or information address
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a College. University plan of studies. Strong faculty. Literary, Music
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Great advancement lu Music department.
For catalogue address the President, W. W. DANIEL,
Columbia, S. C.
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1? . . aro fully competent are scarce. We du wurk only uno way.-the
pr PTYllt'l fl Cf BOBt-we can make any pan of a which, or a completo watch.
AV^f o* ^ur prices aro often no moro than yuu pvy for inferior work.
VVhon;our ohar
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-?nce solicited.
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Everything for supplying Saw Mills, Oil Mills, Quarries and Ginneries,
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Inline cement, Plaster,
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When Dog DayaBegin.
Several persons have recently made
inquiries as to the first dog day.
They have ccih making the same in
ipi I ry at Intervals for more thau
twenty centuries. In the days when
Home was mistress of the world they
supposed that malarial diseases pre
vailing ju the Italian coast came in
with the sultry days that b;gan when
Sit ius, or the dog star, rose with the
sun. Owing to the presence of the
equinoxes the helical risln; of Sirius ls
later now atid dues not occur until
August lu to li). The old lloma ns
and dwellers on the coast of the Medi
terranean believed those days very
productive of diseases. In recent
times until lately all almanac makers
had to note the beginning of dog days.
They differed considerably. Some of
them reckoned the time from July 9
to August ll; others from July 24 to
August 21, while nearly every day of
the last week of July has been consid
ered at one time or another as the be
ginning of these days. So there Is no
lixed date for the lirst dog day and
thc makers of almanacs generally
omit to nute the day.
Solillers Proteot Negro.
George W. Williams, the negro who
wits rtcjntly arrested for assaulting
Miss Laura Knude, a white school
teacher, near Harper's Ferry, was
tried at Charlestown Va., Tuesday
afternoon and found guilty. He was
sentenced to be hanged next mouth.
The trial was held with soldiers sur
rounding the court house, during the
proceedings 13 men were arrested for
beating down the doors. No shots
were tired, but the military was kept
in active service to prevent an upris
ing. The ne^ro ls now under strong
guard and renewed reports are in cir
culation thr.t the Charlestuwn jail will
be attacked. *
Killed Oy "Kat Biscuit."
Flole Hurbon, aged 3 years, the child
of Mr. M. R. Burton of Marianna,
Fla., died about midnight Sunday
from eating poison. Karly Sunday
morning, playing on her father's desk,
the little girl found an open package
of "rat biscuit," and ate two of them.
A negro child with ber ate one or two
of the biscuits also. Antidotes were at
once given both children, and Sunday
afternoon lt was thought they were
out of danger. During tho night Floie
became much worse and died about
midnight. The negro child will get
well.
Refused to l'union Wooten.
Gov. Hey ward Tuesday refused to
pardon Pink Wooten of Greenville,
convicted ot violation of the dispen
sary law and sentenced to serve 60
days on the county chaingang.
Wooten was tried in the mayorvs c?uf%
of Greenville. The p?tition stated
that be was sick and unable to work
and at the time he had already served
ten/days. Gov. Hey ward was Inform
ed t.iat Wooten, was an old offender
against the dispensary law and at the
time of this trial there were beside
the city case two State cases against
him. Ile was glved 30 days ou the
city case and 30 days on one of the
State cases. He confessed bis guilt. *
Death of D. A. Hart.
D. A. Hart, maisbal of Holly Hill,
who has been 111 with typhoid fever
for some time, died at his residence
there Saturday night July 30, and waa
burled Sunday afternoon following by
Holly Camp No. 148, W. O. "W., of
which be was a member. He leaves
a widow and one child. Hart was
under a $1,000 bond to appear for
trial at the next term of court in the
case of the negro taken from the. guard
house and shot bo death.
Men^
who ar* tn need of th?
beat liirilloM treat
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way at once, as he U
r e c OR n 11, e d aa the
leading and moat suc
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longest established
and has the best rep
utatlon. He cures
where others fall.
thar? la no patchwork
or experimenting lu
his treatment. Per
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Hathaway, also ape
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> associate physician*
when necpR'sary, which no other office has. If
von cnn not call, write for free booklets and
question blanks. Mention your trouble. Ev
erything Htrlctly confidential. J. NewtuD
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has married seven women-one maid
and six widows. He passed under a
dozen aliases and has served one sen
tence of four years for bigamy. Ills
regular business was to marry women
who had property and then get pos
session of the property.
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