The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, September 30, 1904, Image 1
The Marlboro* Democrat
"DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE."
I^XIX.
BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1904
WHIT TILLMAN SAID
The Full Text of tho Eenator'B Lettre
to Mr. Sr;ant.
CHALLENGES AK Y ONE TO DENY
That the Opinions lio Kxprehuod
Are Not Those Hold hy
Nearly All Soulbern
Whith People.
To the Edi' .r ot Tlie News and
Courier: 1 Lave just seen your edi
torial, "Senator Tillman and His
Critics," aDd am Induced to ask you
to publish In full tlie letter I wi ote to
Mr. Wilbur F. Bryant, of Lincoln,
Neb., a short while ago, a copy of
which I enclose.
My wish ls to let your readers see
just what Isaid ai,di shall be glad to
have any one challenge any statement
of facts or show wheielo 1 have ex
pressed any opinion lu that letter
that is not held by ninety per cent of
Southernborn white men and women.
I have concluded ling since, as shu vt a
by my speeches in the Senate and
elsewhere, that we Southerners had
juBt as well call things by their uames
and let the North know our real feel
ings and pui poses. Hypocrisy and
cant have had their day and so far as
I am concernid 1 will none of them.
I may not be a fair representative of
Southern thought atd feeling, but if
1 speak the "truth and nothing but
the truth" my discretion may be
doubted or denied, but my honesty
should not be called in question, and
it is an open question whether my
method of treating the race problem
ls not the right one.
As for the K.ebmot d News Leader
and its venom, 1 have not seen what
it had to say, but yeur readers may
recall that one of its editors used co
run the Greenville (S. C.,) News and
that may explain its attitude toward
me.
Again I challenge any one to dis
pute the attitude and reasoning of the
letter to Mr. Bryant and to specify.
li. It. Tillman.
Trenton, S. C., September 20.
The folk wing is Senator Tillman's
letter to Mr. Bryant:
Trenton, S. C., August 30, 1!?04.
Wilbur F. Bryant, Esq., Lincoln.
Dear Sir: I have your letter of August
19. As y em addressed nie as a Demo
crat, I presume, your Inquiries are
made in good faith, and J therefore
tuke the trouble to answer you at
some length, not as fully, however, as
I would like.
The act of the mob at Statcsboro,
Ga., is to be deplored, but more de
plorable is the fact thai a whole fami
ly of white people have been hutch
tired, stamped out, by the two Mends
who were bumed und their accom
' "plicestv The more deplorable still ls
the condition in the Southern States
which makes such things pessible and
which promises ?o make them ol' more
frequent cccurrenee in the future.
Mob violence is getting to be only too
common in this country, but 1 think
the burning of two confessed murder
era and condemned criminals in
Georgia will nut jeopardize the repub
lic one-thousandth part, as much as
the action of ihe mob in Colorado
which has recer. tly Leen trying and
condemning mun and exiling them,
and doing this, too, outside of the
forms of law.
Mobs are bad, but I hey are e vider ce
<of a spirit of liberty. There was a
un b in Bostou once which boarded a
vessel and threw some tea into the
water In resistance to a tyrannical
tax. A mi b in Paris stormed the
Bastile ard af ter w aid capturai the
French King in his palace. Wu never
hear of a mob in Russia, unless they
are doing the work of religious fana
tics, as was illustrated In the mas
sacre of Jews in that country.
The Southern pee pie are confronted
by a condition such as has never ex
Ist^d in the history of the world. Two
races, one of which hus been slave to
the other, are living in the same coun
try and under thc law they are entire
ly equal and entitled to all the rights
and privileges cl etizens. There are
78fi,000 negroes in South Carol na and
only ??O.O?u white people. For eight
long dismal years these ignorant and
debased negroes govt med, If the w on!
can be applied to such rule as we bael,
and then the white minority threw off
the yoke. We did il because life ba l
ceased to be worth living on the tenus
and conditions which existed from Mis
to 'T<i.
Fr< m necessity we used force and
fraud to overcome the majority. The
negroes were backed by the United
States Government and the great Re
publican party. The whites had
nothing but the meuj< ry of a civiliza
tion coming down to them from a
thousand years of Anglo Saxon man
hood. We used our brains and man
aged to liberale ourselves from a
condition that was hopeless aid un
endurable. We bave re-established
law and older as far as practicable
andar? endeavoring to preserve our
. civilization. The negroes have tlie
memory Of eight years of license anel,
inspired by the actions and utter
anees of President Roosevelt, ihey
have given evidence only loo plainly
.of a hope and belief that their time
will come again. Kace antagonism
.and hatred grow apace
The whites aie resolved to govern
at whatever cost b:cause experience
hus shown that any either cour.-e
means ruin. The criminal class
among the negri es increases at a fear
ful rate and unless the Northern peo
ple can be made to mulei stand that
negro equality is something that will
not be teilerattd and that no power in
the world can loree, it upon us. a race
war is inevitable, willi the result that
the negroes will be: exterminated.
History is full of instances where
white men have governed white men
rutlile.'sly. Tliere are o? Ject lessons
In plenty throughout the world today
.of the fact that the races are not
equal, cannot Le made so either by
law or constitution, and that Hie
white man governs where vcr he ls in
contact with any of the cole red races.
Sentimental Ideas and feelings will
not settle this question. The white
people of thc South arc on top and In
tend to stay tncre. White men or
tbe North would do likewise under
similar circumstances. Intermeddling
with our local conditions, such as ls
threatened by the Republican party,
eely aggravates the already strained
relations between the races, and
while there may be a bad state of
Hf?ilrs ixistlug, bv the acts of violence
by tie blacks against the whites, and
the whites against the blacks in retal
iation, it is useless to say that the re
public ls in danger thereby. The
Northern people can help UH If they
will by sympathy and co-t peratlon,
but they have got to unlearn many of
the Ideas which have come to them in
the last forty years, and most of all
they must rialize that the negroes
will be put down and held down with
a bloody hand regaruless of conse
quences.
If the Four vnth and Fifteenth
amendments wert ?epealed and the
Idea that an educateu negro ls Ht to
govern white men abandoned, the
negroes would soon cease to provoke
the superior race and such lets of
blood and violence as the Statesboro
tragedy would be things of the past.
With the Republican party standing
for equality and demanding the pun
ishment of Southern whites bieause
they do not submit to negro domina
tion the antagonism of the races will
grow, and such detds as that at
Statesboro will he more frequent than
ever.
We are between the devil and the
deep sea, hut will protect our women
and we will stand by tho principles
and form of Government of our fath
ers. R. R. Tillman.
W. B. SMITH WHALEY FAILS.
OblifCAtioiiH Are Dfatrl huted from
New York to Soul li Carolina.
A dispatch from Boston, Mass.,
says owing over a million dollars and
with assets of $1,200, Wm. B. Smith
Whaley, the tinancial supporter OJ
several cotton manufacturing enter
prises in the south, bled a voluntary
petition in bankruptcy in the United
States district court. Mr. Whaley
was the senh r member of the Wm.
B. Smith Whaliy company of Colum
bia and is a resident of Newtown.
For some time he has Leen interested
in raising funds for textile industries
in the southern States, partieularlj In
South Carolina, which have not re
sulted favorably. ^Ir. Whaley's total
liabilities are $1,114,120. The se
cured claims amount to $1,087,951,
and the unsecured to -Si?ti, 174.
In his petition Mr. Whaley states
that his only assets are personal prop
erty valued at $1,100, real estate
worth $100 and household goods.
There are 91 creditors. The Indivi
dual claims range from 3500, the
lowest, to $170,000, the highest.
Among the principal secured creditors
are Merchants National bank, New
York, $170,074; the Draper company,
Boredale, Mass., $107,00; Fales Sc
Jenk, machine manufacturers. Paw
tucket, R. I., $107,000; Baltimore
Trust and Deposit company, Balti
more, $45,000; J. C. Sheehan, Haiti
more, $25,000; Carolina Loan and
Trust company, Charleston, S C.,
$30,000; Carolina National bank of
Columbia, S. C. $03,050.47; Carey,
Bayne & Smith company, Baltimore,
$20,000: Hank of Columbia, Columbia,
S. C., $17,000; Merchants National
HaLk, Camden, S. C., $1.7,000; People's
National bank, Charleston, S. C.,
$10,024: Merchants' Natu nal bank,
Baltimore, $10,000; Orangeburg
Manufacturing company, Orangeburg,
S. C., $lo,ooo.
The largest unsecured claim, $10,
000, is for money advanced by the
Olympia cotton mills, Columbia, S. C.
F. L. Norton, Mr. Whaley's, coun
sel, sa d in ie^ar.1 to the petition:
"Willie nominally it appears to he a
arge failure it is not m arly so bad as
lit loots. The obligations are dis?
tributed from New York to South
Carolina. Mr. Whaley was interested
simply in financing these .southern
mills, and, in a measure, they have
j fallen down."
JewiHh Itiot.
The hay of Atonement was marked
in Loddon by serious rioting in the
Jewish quarter of the East Knd. over
2,ooo Jews engaged in a disturbance
and nearly :t00 police had to be called
before the dis< rder was quelled. The
trouble arose over the action or non
conforming members of a Social Dem
ocratic Jewish club at SpltalticldS,
situated in the heart of a district con
tamil y al?,ut. 20,ooo Jowl li inhabi
tants. The Si c alls ts openly paraded,
in disregard of the fasting injunction,
and n ade a celebration with wines at
the dub house. The orthodox Jews
were angi red and surrounded the club
house and stopped it,. The socialists
threw bott les at the crowd and soon
two or time nt i re w streets in the vic
inity became chocked by a lighting
mob. Tl e magistrate in .sentencing
the various rioters brought up at tho
; looa: police c mt said it was "deplora
ble that a class of persons who for
coutures have b ien distinguished by
the fiercest persecutions should, when
I In the one five country in the world,
j turn upon tues? who disagreed with
t hem upon religious grounds and stone
land persecute even their co religion
ists. "_'
liiiilc (;?I-I AsHaultud.
A dispatch from ti reen ville, S. C.,
to the Atlanta Journal, on Wednes
day sahl news had reached that city
of a criminal assault by an unknown
negro on the 13-year-old daughter of
W. A. Reid, a farmer in the Highland
neighborhood, 20 miles lrom the city.
Mr. Reid was at court, when tlie
message came. Willi the sherill lie
left for 1 omeat midnight, and a posse
is now searching for thc (lend, if
captured the assailant will lie. brought
to Greenville for immediate trial.
This is pn mlsed hy the sherill' and
judge.
Train Collided.
A northbound passenger train on
the New York, Philadelphia and N..r
folk railroad Friday nigl t ran Into a
southbound Ireght at Hloxom, Va.,
demolishing holli engines kill ng En
gineer S. J. Brown, and his lin nun,
Francis 1) noway, of the passenger
train and severely Injuring ? igineer
Clark or the freight. The li reman of
the freight escaped injury by jump
ing. Tue accident-, it is said, was due
to carolessnesss or au inexperienced
break man who threw the wrong
switch.
THE TEXT BOOK
Issued by the Democrats Discussot
the Issues of the Two
LEADING POLITICAL PARTIES.
Tho Absurd Met bods of tbe ftepufrll
oana iu JuRKllrifc W i t h
i'rlces ?ntl Wages Aro
Exposed.
Tbe Democratic campaign text bouk
has been completed and ls about to be
issued from New York, lt makes a
volume of 314 pages, discusses the
issues uf the two patties and reprints
a number of speeches by leading
Democrats. The following synopsis
of the book has been prepared by the
Democratic campaign committee:
''Hy the way of emphasizing the
isiue of 'constitution' opposed to
'imperialism,' the Democratic cam
paign book contains as a preface the
full text of the constitution of the
United States. The place of next im
portance is accorded the 'tariir and
trusts,' sixty of the 314 pages of the
volume being devoted to this discus
sion.
"Concerning the trusts much space
ls given to evidence that the protect
ed combinations having a tarilf mono
poly lu our home markets are compell
ing Americans to pay much higher
prices for manufactured ^oods than
are paid by foreigners. The export
and home prices of hundreds of arti
des are compared. Nearly all kinds
of hardware, implements, machinery,
tools, paints, oils, ammunition,
watches, baking powder, condensed
milk, canned goods and every kind of
steel products are sold to our consum
ers at prices averaging about 2f> per
cent, more than those paid by foreig
ners for the same goods, (?noting
President Schwab's statement to the
industrial commission that goods were
always sold cheaper for export, the
evidence before the Chamberlain
tari IT commission In England and
numerous statements from export
journals, trade journals and commer
cial papers, the conclusion is drawn
that nearly all of our exports of Iron
and steel go ids amounting to Sill,
000,000 last year, are sold to foreign
I ers at an average of about four-tifths
I the price charged to Americans
Never before was s i much sped lie and
unequivocal evidence presented on
this point.
CHICKS ANO WAGES.
"Discussing prices and wages the
absurd methods of the Repubii "ans in
making 'averages' and juggling statis
tics are exposed. Particularly is the
bureau of labor scored for making sta
tistics to order for use of the li puli
can campaign committee-statistics
that raise wages and reduce prices, on
paper, and produce statistical or ar
tificial prosperity. Tbe figures of tne
bureau, which show an increase of
ouly lf> per cent, lu the cost of living
since 1807, are contrasted with the
ligures of R. G. Dun & Co., which
show that the cost of living was 43
per cent, higher last March than on
July 1, ISSI, just Lefore the Dingley
bill became a law.
"Hised up in Dun's ligures and upon
the full and complete*reports of thc
railroads, covering over 1,300,000
workers, which embrace both union
and non-union labor, and show that
wages rose at most only 7 or 8 per
cent, from July 1807 to 1003, when
they were highest, a diagram is pre
sented which shows that the purchas
ing power of wages lias declined rapid
ly so that wage-earners in 1903 pur
chase only 7". per cent, as much as in
1897.
"The conclusion Is reached that If
the dinner pail of today is to be
full, it must be only three-fourths as
large as before the 'Dingley trusts bo
gan their era of prosperity.'
"One of the most interesting and
instructive chapters under tari IVs and
trusts is tl rat showing that the aver
age family pays a tribute of $04 a yt ar
to the protect eil trusts. Taking in de
tail the important items of expendi
ture, the taritr taxis on each item are
cari fully estimated. The total ls $111,
of which only 3s H:.ii goes on taxes to
the. United Stales. The balance, $01
per family or 81,000,000 tor the 17,
000,000, families in this country, JJU-S
to the protected trusts.
I N DUSTKIA I. HUCO lt I).
"Under the heading of 'Business
and Industrial Record of 1903 1004'
aie niven a list of ill important wage
reductions and loo closed nulls for
the last half ol 1903 and the Urst ba I
of 1004. These '?SQ items are con
tr.tsted with trie list of lou similar
though less speeitic items printed in
the Republican campaign bjok giving
tlie. industrial recortl of ls;?.'! anil 1804.
lt ls thus declared that the business
depression of this year is greater than
was that of 1803 and 18iil - the most
of which occurred under tbe McKinley
bill.
"The chapter on the postal frauds
contains a complete history ol the
..caudal from the beginning. Kvl
dence is produced showing that the
investigation of tho department was
suppressed, and although the admin
istration was otllcially informed ol
frauds as early as 1800, no investiga
tion was ordered until 1903. The re
fusal of the Republicans to permit a
congressional investigation by a p trty
vote of both houses i.-; discusserl and
the detailed vote of the house anti
senate is given. The chapter devoted
to civil sei vice abuses maki s a strong
showing against tlie present ad minis*
tration of the law, in comparison with
the sirio', compliance of the Demo
eratic administration,
j "Otiioial corruption in the interim
department is described as wides pread,
and evidence produced to show tin
extent of the land frauds and the ste
recy that I as been maintained as ti
tlie result of any Investigation that
may have been undertaken.
"The other mo:e important issues
treated somewhat fully are tlie 'Phil
ippines,' 'Republican extravagance,
'reciprocity' and 'tlie Panama altair.'
Irrigation, ship subsidy and the ex
ecutive pension order are discussed
hrh My. The vacillating records ol
the Republican party and of Presi
dent McKinley and Roosevelt on sil
ver and bimetallism, showing bow
they have played fast and loose will
unsound money, make very interest
irg reading wi.eu put alongside ol
President Roosevelt's positive asser
HOD in Iiis letter of acceptance that
'we believe In the gold standard as
Axed by the usage and verdlot if the
business world' and fiat 'the only
real way to keep the question from,
becoming unsettled is to keep the Re
publican party in power.' "
PESTS KILLED BY FLOOD.
Hats, Uophera sud Habitu Drowned
hy Whole H a le in tho Went.
It is hard to Und any mice, rats,
rabbits, moles or gophers in the valley
districts of southern Nebraska and
northern and eastern Kansas. This
district has been visited two summers
in succession by Mouds, and where
su res, factories and granaries were
overrun by rt dents, now it ls unusual
to lind one. The high water did it.
When the Hoods reached the build
ings along the rivers the animals tried
to get away, but only a few succeed
ed. Following their usual instinct the
rats sought the upper stories of tho
buildings, but there they were shut
off from their usual food supplhs.
Many starved to death, while others
were drowned in their search for food.
For weeks after the water subsided
the ground was covered with soft
mud, and in trying to get through
this more of the rodents perished. In
Topeka, St. Joe, Nebraska Oliy and
other places, where it became neces
sary to hire men to clean the streets,
tho workmen were astonished to lind
so many rats and mice in the dirt they
shoveled into the wagons.
The driving out of the rats was a
good thing for the town people, but
it was the farmeis living along the
Kaw, Nemalia and other rivers that
received the greater benefit, lt is said
that there is not a mole or a gopher
In those valleys, where the land was
under water for at least three days.
The strange part of lt, according to
tlie farmers, is that, contrary to the
rule, the gophers never came back
after this Hood. Tracts of land that
were honeycombed with gopher and
mole boles so that tiley bad become
almost worthless for agricultural pur
poses are now as solid as a piece of
land that had been cultivated, and
fully as valuable. Gophers in eastern
Kansas and prairie dogs in the west
ern part of the state have been sourc
es of co s de. able 1< ss, and tlouds have
proved the only effective remedy so
far.
A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
A Punt FYI CR h I Train Crashes Into
i,omi of Dynamite.
Fast freight No. 34, on the Balti
more and Ohio, struck a wagon loaded
with 7.">u pounds of dynamite at the
crossing at North Branch, W. Va.,
Friday afternoon. Two persons were
killed and niue were injured, three of
them seriously.
Thc Baltimore and Ohio tower was
wrecked as were several residences
near by. The commissary of Mike
K.rrore, Wabash sub contractor, and
ihe Wabash temporary hospital with
other small buildings were demolished.
The windows of the school bouse and
of the residence of G. A. Zimmerly on
the mountain half a mile away were
all broken out. No house escaped
damage.
.lames Laing, who drove the wagon,
escaped with only trivial Injury, as
did the two horses, although the lat
ter wt re blown ?O yards into a field.
According to eye witnesses, Laing,
hearing the train, became terrilijd
and stopped on the track. The wagon
was t hree feet of clearing lt when the
engine st ruck the rear end, carrying
it ? >) feet before the explos on. Lair g
deserted tue wag in and ran down
from the track into a ditch. Ile was
knocked down and rendered ui.concl
ons for a lime but the force of the ex
plodion passed over him.
The engine was overturned and
stripped and seven cars following,
loaded with high grade metcbrn lisj,
wire hioken, several being demolish
ed. Tue tracks were thrown out of
tie heiland twisted serpentine, while
rails were fnapped like pipestems.
The wires were t >m down and relief
was telegraphed for after going to
l'atter.ioti's Greek on a handcar.
Seven d etora went from there by
sj eial train. Koglueer I'tke was held
under iron s ;rap.s on top of the h iller
while being slo.\ly ci oked to death,
lt required tour men to extricate him.
The explo.-.ion knocked nearly every
I pei sun in the neighborhood down,
burled Hunter I', ?wen through a roof
but tint not buri, him, and threw parts
of the et gine Jue) 3 ards. Slack tele
graph wires wire snapped midway be
tween the polls by concussion.
A Fiend Caught.
A dispatch from Newberry to The
News and Cou rier saps Henry Su ber,
a young negro ab ul 20 years of age,
is lo gel in th . Newberry jail, charg
ed with attempt to ravish. The alfalr
1 occurred carly Wednesday morning on
the Fred Harmon place, in No. ti
Township. The lady concerned is a
1 d nighter ol' .Mr. Hool Merchant. It ls
aileged that shortly before daylight
the young woman was aroused from
sleep by some one moving in her n om.
who seemid to be feeling his way
around and who touched her upon the
fae:1. Shu immediately screamed and
aroused her father, who sleeps In a
room opposite to hers. At the tirst
sound the per.-on in her room rushed
' out through the door Into the hall
and disappeared before Mr. Merchant
could reach the door of lils room.
1 Sober ad nits that he was In the
young lady's room but that he went
in it for the purpose of robbery.
Cattle in ParafiitaVa
? Paraguay has ;i,?00,UO0 cattle on
her pampas, which is more than that
republic ever before bad, and equals
eight for eacli of her LIU,OOO hiliabi
j tauts, or 7 fin for each square mlle, lt
is found that about iii acres per head
1 is sutllcient to sustain tlie herd,
' whereas in German Soutli Africa 5>t)
. acres is thought to bo less than Is re
I quired for a bullock. In Paraguay $2
. will pay for enough land to carry a
. bullock, while southwestern African
. laud enough for such purpose would
r cost $10. Gattle growing In Paraguay
, pays 12 to l? per cent per annum and
where the hacienda ls run by its own
> er thc annual profit goes to 20 and 25
. per cent.
THE LARGEST YOTE
Ever Cast in This State Was in the
Late Primary
RE ULTS DECLARED LAST WEEK
1 -
Voto RAH Over Ton Thousand
Ahead of th? Voto GaBt
j in the Primary Two
^ YearB Ago.
,*|L'be committee to check up the re
turns in the second primary met at
tlie ottlce of Gen. Willie Jones Tues
day night to tabulate the results und
.to$leelare the nominees. This com
mittee represents tlie State Demo
cratic executive committee and the
efctlre committee of 40 was not or
dered here, as it would make addi
tional and useless expense.
There was one member from the
sixth congressional district, one from
the second district and one from the
fifth judicial circuit, in which there
were contests in the second primary.
In addition there were the five local
members of the committee.
. Tlie following were declared the
nominees in the respective contests:
J. fi Ellerbe, for congress from the
sixth district; J. O. Patterson, for
congress from the second district:
Gpo. B. Timmerman, for solicitor
from the Gfth circuit.
The results as ofilclully declared
w-re as follows:
J. 10. Ellerte.7,7:t5
J. W. Ragsdale.5,730
Majority Tor Ellerbe_ .2,005
J. o. Patterson.t;,ti54
S. G. Mayfield.0,020
Majority for Patterson.1,134
G. R. Rembert.4,5iii
G. B. Timmer nan.0,(550
Majority for Timmerman.2,110
in the race Tor railroad commis
Bioner it develops that the vote was
within 100 of the vote in the stcond
primary two years ago, when candi
dates for governor and for United
States senator were voted for. The
total.polled in the second primary on
the 13th Instant was tn,ol!). Of this
number Maj. J no. H. Earle of Green
ville received 50,72(1 and Mr. J no. G.
Mowley of Fairlied 40,2?:*. Maj.
Earle's majority was 10,433. These
results have been declared ollie iah the
committee adjourned, there being no
other business.
Kl HST PRIMA lt Y.
? At the meeting of the State execu
tiyo committee on the 2nd of Septem
ber tlje following were declared nomi
nee* of the party in addition to those
declared the nominees Tuesday night:
)v congress: First district, Geo. S.
S gi third -district., Wvatt Aiken;
foi ,uh, J. T. Johnson; fifth, D. ?5.
Finley; seventh, A. F. Lever.
For governor, D. C. Hey ward; lieu
tenant governor, J no. T. Sloan; secre
tary of state, J. T. Gantt; State treas
urer, R. H. Jennings; attorney gener
al, U. X. Gunter, Jr.; comptroller
general, A. W. Jones; superintendent
of education, O. B. Martin; adjutant
general, J no. I). Frost.
The total number of vote3 cast In
the State in tlie tirst primary must
have been something like 107,500. The
total number recorded for governor
was 10t),0!>5, but in Charleston there
were 5U0 people who did not vote the
State ticket - nd in other counties lt
was tlie same way except in a smaller
proportion. The reason of this
was that the names of the candidates
for State otlices were not printed on
tlie same ticket with the names of the
candidates for county ollices and as the
State olllcers bad no opposition and
there was no great intere.it In the
race for railroad commissioner, the
voters did not take Hie trouble to vote
for the State olllcers.
Governor Heyward received the
highest vote ever cast for a candidate
for governor in tills State and of this
fact he ls very proud, for he is the
tirst candidate to go before the peo
ple without opposition since the in
auguration of the primary system.
At only two precincts in the whole
State was there any evident effort to
cut his name otf tlie ticket and that
was in Charleston, where he bas beeu
active in enforcing the dispensary law,
and because he had refused to revoke
the commission of a notary public,
the notorious W. O. Balles of Kort
Mill.
The total results in the State were
as follows:
ll ey ward.100,000
Sioan .luii.140
Gantt .1 od, 150
Gunter .100,104
Jones. 100,204
Jennings.KUI 207
Frost. 100,054
Martin . 105,870
The only place at which Lieut. Gov.
Sloan and Mr. Gantt were cut was in
Columbia; in berkeley, Morry and
Charleston Supt. Martin was scratched
because of issues between his i (lice
and local politicians. Otherwise the
ticket was voted almost solidly.
As this was the highwater mark in
the history of State primaries in
South Carolina, tte following ligures,
tlie vote for governor, will be of In
t/ rest as a matter of record:
Counties. Total.
Abbeville. 2,1'.?0
Aiken. 3,008
Anderson . 5,?;i>:{
Hamberg. 1,219
Harnwell. 2,20ii
Beaufort. 085
Herkeley. 1,174
'Charleston . :?,(>;!7
Cherokee. 2,usu
Chester. 1,S70
Chester Held. 2,284
Clarendon. 1,784
Colleton. 2,333
Darlington. 2,403
MorcelKster . 1,398
Kdgelield. 1,730
Fairfield. 1,574
Florence. 2,.'tSMi
Georgetown. 1,325
Greenville. <?,7t
Greenwood.,. 2,048
Hampton. 1 550
Morry. 2:iic,;>
Kershaw. 1,002
Lancaster. 2,557
Laurens. 3,194
Lee. 1,754
Lexington. ;t,2U2
Marion. 3,299
Marlboro. 1,999
Newberry._ 2.610
Oconee.. 2.918
Orangeburg..". 3 7o2
Plckens. 2,778
R'ohland. 3,20? I
Saluda. 1,905
Spartanburg. 7,080
Sumter. 1,005
Union. 2,594
Williamsburg. 2,150
York. 3,158
Total.100.095
*Tbe total vote for sherill in Char
leston county was 4,184 and for gover
nor and other State otllcers 3,050.
The total vote in tbe firt?t piimary
In 1902 wa? 05,307; and In the second
primary ul,234.-Columbia State.
CAPT. P. A RAY80R.
Colonel J. P. Thoinaa Pays Tribute to
HIH Memory.
To the Editor of Tbe News and
Courier: Exactly one year ago, Sep
tember ll, 1903, there died at Chap
pell Hill, Texas, a typical South Caro
lina of the clas of the Southern plan
ter.
This man was Peter A. Raysor, a
Citadel graduate of the class of 1852,
of which the only survivors now are
C. S. Gadsen, W. Y. McCammon, W.
A. Dial and S. C. DePass, A. N. Llt
Ue, I). T. Williams, W. S. Brewster,
G. W. Earle, T. W. Fitzgerald. J.
W. Murray, ll. A. Palmer. H. B.
Honscal, G. W. Seabrook C. S. Hen- ,
negau, J. W. Daniels, G. E. Gamble,
John C. Rich, P. A. lUysor, and M.
J. Frothro, being numbered with the
dead after honorable service in the !
battles of the Southern Confederacy or
in the great battle of life.
Peter A. Raysor was the son of tbe
Hon. Thomas Raysor, and the father
of the Hon. Thomas M. Raysor. Tue
Senator from Orangeburg County.
Born In St. Bartholomew's Parish,
Colleton County, where his ancestors
resldeded for generations, he was
graduated from the South Carolina
Military Academy in the year 1852. '
After graduating bc engaged in plant
ing. As captain of cavalry, C. S. A.
be did bis gallant part in the Con
federate army, 1801-05.
After tbe war Capt. Raysor remov- '
ed to Chappell Hill, Tex, aud assumed
the role of a cotton planter. He re
sided at Chappell Hill until his death,
September ll, 1U03,lu lils 7.'!d year.
In his adopted State Capt. Raysor
held during his lifetime Beveral posi
tions of honor and trust. His was
tue pen of a ready writer and be was
a frequent contributor to public
journals. He was also an eludive <
public speaker. In educating he took ,
a deep interest. This was Illustrated ;
by bis trusteeship in several educa
tional initltutlon. With high Ideals 1
of duty he was a sweet tempered gen
tleman, lie was the kindest of neigh- i
bora, tbe most companionable" of men '
and withal a public spirited citizen, :
whose career in peace was adorned by i
tbe practice of civic virtues.
When be died full of yeais and :
honor one of the Texas papers, among i
other eulogistic expressions bad this
to say of the lamented dead.
"Capt. P. A. Raysor, an o'd and
honored citizen, of Chappell Hill, died ;
at bia residence in that village Friday ;
morning, after a lingering illness,
aged 7.5 years.
"Deceased bad been a resident of 1
Washington County for over thirty- 1
live years. He was an honest, just '
aud upright mao, a good citizen, a
splendid neighbor, a kind and in.?ul- :
gent husband and father. In all the 1
walks of life he so conducted himself
as to win the love and esteem of all 1
with whom he came in contact."
The surviving Citadel men who
knew the cadet, familiarly knowu as
"'Pete Raysor," and who will recall
wit h alTection and respect his excel- :
lent traits of kindly spirit and gener- :
ous disposition, will be gratified to 1
know bow to the end of bis life on
earth be did good In his day by the
nobility of lils career thus reflecting
in the Empire State of the South,
honor upon his alma mater and his
native State. J. P. THOMAS.
EMPIRE STATE DEMOCRACY.
A Kult State Ticket ls Nominated
Unanimously at Saratoga.
The New York Democratic State
Convention met at Saratoga on Mon
day of last week, and out of a situa
tion, which at times seemed almost
impossible of amicable s dutton, the
leaders of the Democratic pariy found
a way lo unanimous action, and at
A 23 o'clcck Wedntsday afternoon Hie
State Convention adjourned without
delay, after having Humiliated unani
mously the following ticket:
Por Governor -D. Cady Hen lek, of
Albany, at present Justice or the
State Supreme Court.
for Element Governor- Francis
Kurton Harrison, New York, now a
llepresentativc in Congress from the
13th district.
For Secretary of State -John Pal
lace, Jr., of Monroe, now a member of
the Assembly.
For Attorney General - John
Cuneen, of Urie, the present incum
bent.
For Comptroller-George Hall, of
St. Lawrence, now mayor of the city
of Ogdensburg.
For State Treasurer - William
Bluench, of Onondaga.
For State Engineer and Surveyor
Thomas H. Stryker, of Rome, Oneida
County.
For Chief Judge of the Court of Ap
peals-Elward M. Cullen, of Kings,
(Democrat,) now an assoeite justice
ol' that bench, and the Republican
nominee.
For Associate Judge of the Court of
Appeals William E. Werner, of Mon
roe, (Republican,) now of that bench,
by designation of Governor Odell, and
the Republican nominee.
Acquitted ot' Murder.
At Lexington Thursday morning
Hie jury In the case of R. W. Mc
Daniel brought In a verdict of not
guilty, McDaniel ls the son-in-law of
lawrence W. Youmaus, the wealthles
cotton planter In the State. The de
fendant killing thc town marshal at
Swansea on Christmas ever told years
ago and was convicted. After serving
several nu.nt.hs in the penitentiary be
was given a new acquittal Thursday.
BOLD ROB BEES.
Klnitstree Postoflioe Dynamited and
Several Money l*?cka?en Taken.
A d spatch from Kingstree to The
State says about 3 o'clock Thursday
muralug the m(St daring robbery In
tLe history of Kingstree was success
fully accomplisher}, when the back
door of the {.osUttlce was battered in
and by means of high explosives the
large safe for portal deposits was
blown open and rilled of everything
of value except a few books and pa
pers.
The value of the stolen articles ap
proximates $5,000, which Includes a
registered package containing $4,000
for the Bank of Kingstree. This
package, shipped from Charleston
Wednesday, arrived there Wednes
day night, and, the bank then being
closed was left in the posto Qi ce.
The "loss ls fully covered by insur
ance in transit. . Toe other articles
stolen included about $200 in cash,
being postal funus, 9150 in stamps
and about 9500 worth of jewelry be
longing to various members of tho
family of Postmaster Jacobs. Several
people living neat by he ird two distinct
explosions about. 3 o'clock Thursday
morning, but thought little of the re
ports and not until 7 o'clock was the
true cause of the disturlance discover
ed.
It was undoubtedly the work of ex
perienced safe crackers, for they left
the other effects of the office undis
turbed, the broken door, demolished
safe aud a few tools being the only
evidence of the crime. A cold-chisel,
sledge hammer, monkey wreoch, brace
and drill were found In and near the
debris of the shattered safe; these
tools having been stolen from Mr. .1.
T. Sullivan's blacksmith shop, which
was broken into sometime during the
night.
Nothing occrred the day before and
nothing since has happened to arouse
the slightest suspicion, and at this
Lime no clue whatever has been
discovered. The town marshal was
on duty until 12 o'clock and even at
that hour nothing unusual had hap
to attract his attention. The post
otlice authorities have been notitied
and inspectors will probably arrive
here from Charleston Thursday even
ing.
CRIME OF A FIEND.
iV I'eunaytvanlu Lady Horribly Treat
ed by a Brutal Negro.
A dispatch from Johnston, Pa.,
says crowds at Patton and Ebensburg,
excited with the mob spirit, are hour
ly expecting the appearance of Con
stable Jackson and deputies having
in oustody the negro who Thursday
aearJPattoQj in Ajbhlck woods drove
t?rariMiomas 'Bogg?n, aged 30 years,
at the point of a revolver into the un
derbrush and there held her prisoner
from 0 o'clock in the morning until
1 o'clock in the afternoon. Reports
same here from clllcial sources tuat a
tall yellow negro, answering In every
particular the description of Mrs.
Boggan's assailant had been caught
at La Jose, Clearfield county, just
across the Cambria county border.
C nstable Jackson hurried from
Ebeusourg to La Jose, where he was
due to arrive at 2 o'clock in the after
noon. Since that hour no word has
been heard by the public from the of
dcer and the belief is now general that
Sheriff Leuhart has directed 'unsta
ble Jackson to bring the prisoner to
Ebensburg by an obscure route and
uot to make his appeasauce at the
jail until late tjnlgat when lt ls ex
pected the mob will have dispersed.
Mrs. Boggan, who escaped from the
negro almost without clothes, is still
in a serious cjndltion but will recover.
She said she could identify her
assailant "among a thousand.'' The
purpose of the chi .dals, it is believed
is to secretly land the prsoner in the
Ebensburg jail late at night and later
take Mrs. Boggan on to identify him.
Amhuuhed Negroes.
A special from Macon, says that a
report has been received fromTalbot
ton that a crowd of negroes was at
tacked several miles from town. Four
are reported to have been shot and
killed from ambush and others more
or less severely wounded., lt is de
clared to be certain that one was ter
ribly wounded. The telephone hue
from Talhotton has been cut. The
sheri if and a posse have gone to the
scene. The attack is reported to
have been made on several negroes
who had been tried and acquitted on
the charge of belonging to a ''Before
Day (Jluo." When the negroes were
relea.-.e 1 and had kit for their homes
the attack, it is said, was made. The
white people condemn the deed, and
have called a meeting to take steps to
punish the guilty parties.
A tjueor Cane.
A dispatch from Macon, Ca., to the
Atlanta Journal says: Standing on
the railroad track at the foot of Cher
ry street, on the Otb. day of August,
1898, a few minutes before Captain
Chas. R. Warren's company of Ray's
Immunes left for Cuba, Frank Carroll,
a member of the company, was mar
ried to Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Fuller,
a widow residing in Macon. The
groom boarded the train immediate
ly and left his bride. He never saw
her again. He did not return alive.
Application for pension ls now being
made by the widow.
Little Girl Auunultcd.
Au eight-year-old daughter of
Thompson Coultey, of Klsklmlnetas
Junction, Pa., was assaulted there by
a masked man, while on her way to
school .The child had to pass through
a group of trees and it was at this
point that the assault was made. The
girl will die. Great excitern-nt pre
vails and armed men are hunting for
the prepetrator. Bloodhounds have
been put on the trial.
lliyaa in tho tight.
The Columbia State saya lt Is re
ported that there ls some lifo la the
eumpaign out west, Mr. Bryan is busy
out their, still lighting the battles of
the Democratic party. Some of those
who didn't fight very hard in 1865
and 1900 "confer" daily In New York.
CAE BLOWN UP.
Nine Ferions Are Killed and Nine
teen Are Injured.
TRAGEDY OCCURED BEAK BOSTON
Express Watson Dropped Fifty Pound
Box of Dynamite on Track .
Which Oar Struck With
Terrible Results.
Ac outward bound electric car con
taiulng thirty-two persons, was blown
up in Melrose, Mass., Wednesday night
by striking a fifty-pound box of dyna- .
mite that had fallen off an express
wagon. Six persons were killed out
right; three more died of their In
jures within an hour, and nineteen
others on the car were taken to the
two hospitals suffering from severe in
juries. At least a score of persons in
the immediate vicinity of the explo
sion were burt by Hying glass and
splinters.
The following dead have been
identified:
Dr. Malcom E. McLennan, Melrose
Highlands.
E. ii. Haynes, Melrose.
Winfield Rowe, Sangus, Mass, mo
torman.
E. A. Stowe, South Boston.
Fred D. Marshall, Boston.
The uuldentltied dead were three
women and a 3-year-old girl.
Edward A. Waterhouse, of Mel
rose, had a foot amputated, and waa )
otherwise badly injured.
Dr. Perry, of Waketield, had both
legs broken. . j
Mrs. John Conway, of Melrose, had
both legs broken.
George H. Andrews, of Melrose, re
ceived a compound fracture of the
left leg and his foot also was amputa
ted:
All of these are likely to die.
So great was the force of the explo
sion that all but ten feet of the rear
portion of the car was blown into
small pieces, while windows within a
radius of a quarter of a mlle were
shattered.
The immediate vicinity of the acci
dent presented a fearful spectacle
when those in the neighborhood
reached the sceae. The ground was
strewn with legs, arms, and other
portions of the bodies of those who
had been killed, while shrieks and
groans came from the writhing forms
of the injured.
The car contained mostly men on
their way to their home In the city,
the accident taking place only a quar
ter of a mile from Melrose centre.
Within a few^ minutes a crowd had
collected and the injured were oared
for until the pbyscians, not only from
Meh-?Mc, -out- from - Medfordf-Bvereti^-' -
and Malden reached the scene.
Fur more than three hours there
was the greatest confusion and it was
dilUcult to obtain the names of any of
the dead or Injured, or to ascertain
the cause of the accident.
Thousands of people rushed about
trying to lind relatives and friends,
and the hospitals were besieged.
The police announce that the cause
of the wreck was the striking of a fif
ty-pound box of dynamite, walch had
fallen from an express wagon just
ahead of the car. The express wagon
was driven by Roy Fenton, who dis
covered that the box bad dropped off
and rushed back to take lt off the
track, but before he got within a hun
dred yards of the box the car came
along and was blown up. Fenton was
taken into custody by the police.
The police arrested Roy Fenton,
driver of an express wagon. Fenton,
it was learned, was carrying two fifty
pound boxes of dynamite on his wagon
and did not know until he reacbed
the expr?ss odlce that one of the boxes
had dropped off. He hurried back lu
the hope of piciking it up, but the
electric car reached the box first.
The force of the explosion was ter
rille, and the report was heard many
miles. Directly opposite the scene
was the Masonic Building every win
dow of which was shattered, and
through one of the windows a human
fout was blown. A score of persons
within a hundred yards of the car
were knocked down and rendered deaf
by the concussion.
iii min on a Jue.
Fifty goats at Old Forge, near
Wilkesharre, l'a., got drunk Saturday
aud had a hilarious time. Now sever
al of them are dead and others are
sick. Someone emptied a lot of fer
mented wheat In a tield near where
the goats are pastured, and it was not
many minutes before the appetizing
smell of the wheat attracted them.
Tuey ate of it, and soon afterward
there were SO goats aching like so
many rough-and-ready comedians.
Some|fought, some danced, others per
formed all sorts of gyrations. They
dashed up the mountain side, stagger
ed along tho streets and cut many un
goaillke capers. Soon the hilarity
wore off, and the remorse period was
reached.
Not Wanted.
The "door of hope" has been closed
upon Isaac B. Allen colored, of Bos
ton, this, too, in the home of the
President's friend, Senator Henry
(Jabot Lodge. Allen was two years
ago elected a member of the couucll.
He aspired to higher things and in
spite of bis color announced for the
llepublinan congressional nominatiou
in the Eleventh Massachusetts dis
trict. After the example set by
President Roosevelt, Allen did not see
why he shouldn't announce and have
the support of every Republican in
the district, but tile Republicans clos
ed the "door of hope" in face by put
ting up a white man for Congress.
Ile Ought to Die.
At Philadelphia with every pros
pect of gaining a reprieve and event
ually a commutation to a short term
of Imprisonment, Jamos Webb, under
sentence for the murder of his wife
and nuther-in-law, has declared In
his cell at Moyamensing prison that
ho wishes to die aud by bis own act
has cut off his one chance of escaping
the gallows. When his attorney went
to the prison with the documenta
needing the convicted mau'a signa
ture, Webb rofused to sign and said
he wanted to die on the gallows.