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The Mar?bor?* Democrat. "DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOUL AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." - , , , , - VOL^IX. BENNETTS VILLE S. C., FRIDAY DECEMBER,, 2, 1904 NO. <&: '?/ THE DISPENSARY. What Senator 1 illman Thinks Onght to ba Tone With lt. RAISE IT ABOVE SUSPICION Or Farm lt Out to Homo Responsible Priratn Individual or Firm To Man?K>i AB \ Monopoly. Senator Tillman, in a conversation regardb g tbe dispensary law, the other day, with Mr. Kuhn of The News ai d Courier staff, said that it would be very unfortunate In more ways than one if nu th lng were done at the approachin g session of the Gen eral Ass< mhly to straighten out the dispensary system, and raise it above the cloud bf suspicion that is over lt. He said that in his opinion the whole point wa^ the be.-teime.it of the sys ttm. What the General Assembly would have to do would be to straigh ten out thirgs, remove the doubt about the conduct of the business aud raise the purchasing and other feat ures of the system absolutely above suspicion, lt ought to be nothing more than the consideration of the practicability pf the suggestions made along these lines. Scuator Tillman said that If nothing were done at the approaching session of the General Assembly, most likely at the next 8< sslon tue argument would be that the proposit h n had better go before the people, as tl.e G< neral Assr mbly generally declined to take any radical steps at Hs second sesdon, and on that aocoui.t he I oped very muob for | the sake of the dispensary that the tuning up of tim dispensary law would \y? undertaken at theapproach mg session. In the o pleb ion of Senator Tillman ?t ?6 utterly Impracticable and ??1 ?u ?v vised tn have county management of j dispensaries. He urges that the same | incentive that it is suggested now ac tu a te s one b; ard to making money out of ihe dispensary, would exist amor g forty lu arris, at.d that If there is corruption in one central board it would be spread out among forty boards, Instead of one, If there were no change in the method of purchas ing and the manner of conducting the | system. Senator Tillman says th it he does not for an instant charge that there ls this corruption or this mis management, but that the system has to be raised above suspicion tu satisfy the people. And then Si naior Til'man went on to relate a bit of history. Ile said that, during the progress of the dis cussion of the dispensary system in the Constitutional Convention there were all sorts of suggestions made as '-fc">_^til" Sfejjftily^? Copstltuth-n j-ej* "tive- to Che co?ouct ofHC??e whiskey business. The dispensary was being attached on ail sides, and there seem ed to be no way out of the situation. Mr. M?CaUa, who was a delegate to? Hie Con vi ntlon, aio^e and said that it was icmarkab.e to him that the fath er of th* dispensary system, meaning Senat- r Tilim in, had not said a word and that he had allowed the discus sion to go ou without even making a j sugg, sstlon. Seuatoi Tillman then arose and stated that the rl^ht of the State to deal In hquor had not yet teen settled by tje Supreme C iurt, and that he svas unwilling to enact a provision that le?; no leeway to deal with the issue. ~That afternoon he ? prepared a substitution for the pend- | iug propositions, ai d the suggestion that he made is 1 ow the fundamenta! law as enacted in the Constitution. In that constitutional provision there is a claute winch provides that the j State can create an a' s ihre mt noro ly and "iarm lb out." lu other w rds, the State might turu over the riihpeii sary to any responsible Brm under bond, "i""} i hen require that they con o uC t the sale, of liquor under the con stitu? onal provisions, n quiring first, that 1 quor be sold only in daylight, secoua, that no llciuor should be con sumed or op? nen on the premises) where sold, and third, that no liquor should be sold In less than half-pints. With the enforcement of these funda mental principles Senator Tillman In sists that lt will be far better for the . State to farm out the liquor selling privilege, or in other weirds, to create a roonop ly, and then see that lt ls carried out according to law, than to allow the systt n: m continue uoder suspicion, ir to p rmit the counties' handling the dispensaries, as lias been suggested. Senator Tillman's idea ls that the talk about the riispeivary mu.st stop for the g io? of the Siate, whether the talk oe with or without cause, and thc only way lo do it is to raise lt abe ve suspicion by putting the pur chasing power in tlx hantij of p i pie who co not want to have that privi lege, and who are not candidates for that, position, and if some such a me"dmeut as he niggested in his Gaffney speech cannot he adopted, that as a last resort it would be bet tor to "firm out" the liquor business and have some responsible thin con duct it untie r proper bond and re strictions. He ls sat'sficcl that such an arrange ment c uki readily be made, but his chief objec i?n to it ls that lt would bring the element of personal gain into Hie sale ol liquor, and the chlo' virtue of the dispensary law, If pio perly enforced, he Insists, ls that lhere ls no 1 len eir. of personal gain to any one coi'mete tl with tue dis pensary sys em, ano if that personal etina lon can be eliminated tho dis pensary wi 1 he run uoon the lines that he has always hoped to see. As to the victory again? t the dis pensary lu Gaffney, Senator Til ?man does dot seem lo be disturbed at all. He Mays that me vote was not o> large as lt mignt have been, and that thorn was by no means a full ballot, and that the arivicat' s of the dispen sary la w were riiscour.iged and di mor ally.-d v. Uh the present condition of talk about t hc di ;pcnsary, and that they are In 1.0 p .sltlon to make a light for i', Unless the dispensary can give an mt!rely clean hill of health that will satisfy ipeople. Senat r Tillman I.-, of the opinion . tba- tho i-alVncy victory was more of a vht. irv for prohl! ill m than a pro tgs, against the. dispensary system. The deposition all over the South, te believes, 1B towards prohibition, and not towards the license system, and the prohibitionists, he says, are earn est and zealous workers who do not allow any opportunity to escape, and who are making rapid gainB with their viewa all over the South, and unless the Gi noral Assemb'y purlQeB the at mosphere around the dispensary sys tem, Senator Tillman is firmly con vinced that prohibition wiU make very much more rapid protz reis in this State than is expeoted. He remark fd that two-thirds of tbs State of Mibsls-dppl is cow prob lol Mon, one half of Georgia, and a very large por tion of North Carolina, and that such a disposition seems to be growing ali over the country. Senator Tillman says that be bas no objection in the world to prohibi tion, but that in his opinion it simply means that they will have all of the evils of liquor and none of the bone tits of the dispensary syBtem, and be is satisfied that in Cherokee County there will be a regular procession of Jug3 and demijohns at evory depot along the railroad. A HUGE ?VTT Vast I", i j) c nell i ii rn of Money On lt to Continue for Years. With Secretary Morton asking con gress to give the navy $114.520,648.34 for its expenses in the fiscal year be ginning July 1, loon, it ls apparent that the fleet that costa $100,000,000 a year has come to stay. Tnis vast expenditure means that the policy of naval expansion will go on until the American navy ls second only to that of England In size, and will remain, as now, second to none in bhlp to Bhlp tfiiclenoy. When all the Ameaican warships now building are completed the navy will too the third largest In the world. Eng land and Franco will be first and sec ond. The sentiment which caused the upbuilding of the navy was awakened twenty years ago, when naval expen ditures were bmall. Only $14.819, ?76 80 was appropriated by coagrt ss in 1883 The cost gradually IncreaHed until 1898, when, with the Spanish American war io sight, it aggregated $33.003,234 19. The expenditures in 1S99 jumped to $56,098,783, and since tuen oy leaps and b unds they have increased as ship after ship hus been added to the list. The navy by January 1, 1900, upon wh'ch the brunt of herrloe will fall in event of war will be: Battleships, 13; armored crulst rs, 8; protected cruis ers, 21; torpedo boat destroyers, 16; t upedo boat-'., 35 Not all ot these ships are now lo commission. The mont notable additions will bs the ar mored cruisers Colorado, Pennsylva nia.-Tir^vv^rgrara^u? auuttr DaKotwr No armored cruisers have been added to the fleet since the Brooklyn and the New York were put in commis sion, more than ten years 8g .. When a battleship is paid for it has ouly begun to eat un money. New ships mean more men, more officers and larger naval stations whore the ships may be dry docked and repairei. There must bi a larger clerical force in the navy department. Tho pur eba-oof supplies must Incoa: o. A bittleshlp bas au Inslatlable maw for coal. Fuel must be carried miles across the seas in great colliers if it cannot ba had in plentiful tunply and satisfactory quality abroad. Cong ret-s has usually bien generous In authorizing new battleships and has readily Increased the number of blue jockets ttl man them. The en list d personnel in 1885 w?s8 260; In 1898, 12,750; in 1889, 20.000; in 1901. 25,Q50; In 1903, 31,000, and In 1901, 34,000. Provision for more officers was made two years ago by doubling the representation of the country at lat ge in the naval academy. Twice us many midshipmen will now study Lhere and h.; graduated to receive commissions. All this c.sts more money. The establishment of large and well i quipped naval stations at Guantanamo, Cuba, and at Olongapo. P. P, a!so swells the financial nqulre meuts of the service. Blow Him Up. At Omoha, Neb., the reildence of Elmer E. Thomas attorney for the Civil Federation, wai dynamited lue.-.day morning. The federa: ion has been a ? t i ye in enforcing the midnight and Sunda." closirg law against sa loons. Thomas was awakened by the 1 ght of a burning fuie on the front porch, and starter lo extinguish the Mjpptaed lire, when the bomb explod ed, tearing away the whole fiont of che house, covering Thomas with de bris, but not seriously injuring him. No arrest han been made. Five I'orlstied in Fire. Five Italians perished in a fire that late Thursday night destroyed the old Noble Grain warehouse at Northl.end, between Christiana and Atelglen, Pa. One of them was v> ashli g a pair of .V rails in a pail of gasolene when a spark from his pii_o fed Into the pall, causing an explosion that scattered the burning oil. Instantly there was a panic among the Italians, most of whom had been asleep. They fought Tcadly to escape from the burning rr> rn, and the live men kl tir ?1 are ;.hought to have boen trampled to death. Oom Down Wit li Orr iv. A special from Laurel, Del., sayB the four masted schooner Jud^e Boyce) built fur Laurel capitan-.Ls, nae turned turtle off the Capes during the storm of Nov. 13 and that its ma-ter, Capt. Maniere Eskldge und jrew of 10 men were lost. The Boyce nos built at Bath, Me., at a cost of $50,000 and was en-route to Savannah, Ga., on L-r malden trip. Sho was only three days out when the Btorm over took her. A De*dly Flgtn. Six negroes engaged In a deadly tlKiit in a fourteen-foot riu?, near Curtis, La., tho portie.pants being aimed with shot guns and pistols. After the battle three lay dead. The ither three e?captid. A woman and two children were also In tho room during tho affray, but weio n it harmed. Tho trouble aroso ovur the woman. TALK WITH TILLMAN. What the Old Leader 8aya About New State Questions., BTU BF RY THE GREAT DANGER That Threatens tho Primary and Urges Strong Action Against Those Who Resort to the Praotioe. The protest in Greenville County agatnBt the primary syBtem and ihe election of Supervisor Walker against Mr. Speegle has naturally attracted a great deal of Interest, lt is, perhaps, tho hardest blow that the primary sys U m has received .since it has been In vogue In this State. Senator Till man, however, does not appear to at tach very much Importance to the Greenville Incident, and in a talk with Mr. Kobo of the News and Couri er staff about, that matter a day or two ago at Ids home be s dd that the whole trouble arase from the partisan ship and blindness of the county ex ecutive committee to their duty to tho people who had selected them. He is convinced that, if the commit tee bad ordered another primary and the people settle the contention at a regular Democratic primary, there would have been no trouble, and that thc voters would have been satisfied, but the difficulty was that the people thought that they bad been cheated, or in other words had not been fairly treated, and that the result waa large ly accomplished by a trick. This may or may not have been so, but the people all the same got the Impression that there was a trick about the mat ter, and tiley would not consent to any such business, and they took the blt in their t eth and showed their disapproval of the work of the com m.ltt6? End elect-ed Walker. BAD EFFECT OK GREENVILLE nOLT. T^en he went on to talk about the effect of thlB election of Mr. Walker would have upon the primary system, and sild that in bis opinion lt would et courage ludepenr-entism wherever there is any sort of an expuse for lt. lt would tend to relax the discipline I of ti e party; aad in the Piedmont sec tion, where the negroes are so scarce, the only salvation for the primary Is to have lt so honestly and so fairly and openly conducted that no man can complain. These people in the i\edmont st ellon never suffered as did those In the balance of the State dur ing the Reconstruction era and the days of good stealing. They never had ne^ro d'.minai ion nor carpet baglsm except as to the State Govetn rx ont, and therefore they are less tolerant of abuse in the primary than the people in the tide water seotion, who knew that t?'0 possibilities of the negro votd really are. Tao people in the tide water section are going to hold steadfast to the primary system and keep it absolutely intact, because they have greater reason to do so, as they are very much like the burnt child. As a matter uf fact Senator Tillman thought that in nearly all of the counties of the Sta ? the prl miry system was conducto 1 with ab soluto integrity and hone-sty. Then he went on to talk about the necessity of keeping the primary syBtem above su plcion, and preventing the use of money in connection with the direct or indirect purchase of votes. He suggested that he had teen that the Law and Order League, of Aiken, had organized, and that one of the com mendable features of Us work is to cleanse the Augean stables in connec tion with the primary system. DA Nor.lt OK BRIBERY. S. na tor Tillman remarked that hr had beeu toi 1 by well-informed men from the Horse Cre?.k Valley section that there were at least six hundred votes lu the Horse Creek Valley that were absolutely for sale In the last election in that torritory. He knew of his own knowledge very many of j the old time residents of Vaucluse, j Langley, Granitevillc and the older mill commuuitles, and he was satis tied, In his own mind, that this de moralization and corruption does not lie at the door of these self-respecting citizens who have lived in that com munlty for very many years The "limiters" from the Horse Creek Val ley, who were raoit lu evidenc, must, he thought, be new comers, who have ^one there to run the new mills t r to go Into other work. Ho has never thought that any considerable propor tlon of tit.me people we re, purchasable. If these staten cuts as lt? thc nun;ber of votes that were t tiered in Aiken County are true, and if the reports from oihor parts of the Slate are FO, lt is a horrible conduit n of affairs, and the emeral Assembly, he thinks, ought, to meet the condition hy pis;? itig a law imposing a heavy penally bott! upon the man who ( ?T-.-rs a bribe and upon Hie man who receives it In addition to this penalty by law, oublie opinion must be arroused so that convictions can he obtained, be cause without the eult.vatiou of pub tic opinion upon this Hoe absolutely no good can come from such a statute. Ile was very glad bo st o that the Liw and Order League of Aiken had un dertaken to purify the elections, and to build up thc moral tone of tho peo ple, and if this Is succ- ssfully done lt vvl.l Eccompllsh mucli good. BRIBERY SHOULD BE l'UNISHEB Senator Tillman and tills corres pondent had quite a lt ng discussion as io tlte possibilities of st< pplng this practice, and of Information that had been received of where candidates had been asked to pay for tho time of men while they were at work in the Inter cslsof these candidate:, and very many other Indirect ways of getting at the nurse strings of candidates. Senator Tillman sild that lo his opinion any candidate who usod money McRltl mately in securi >g his election was not a bit too good to reimburse him self alter lils e.ecMon through his (.filce. The. fact, that a mao uses money in an election ought to defeat him, and he behoved that if it were tfcnerally known that uny candidate used money to obtab his dectlon that that fact alone ought tu defeat bim. The uso of "strikers," lie thought, was of very doubtful propriety, and the man who would offer himself os a "striker" to any candidate for money was Just as liable lo sell himself as a striker to the next man who came along. Tbe real and effective work in the interest of any candidate was done by volunteer friends, and not by men who accept money ' ~<vheir ser vices. He does not teliev?, >>t any man is tit to bold .othce who will start the campaign with the Intention of buying bis way Into office. Ho is sat isfied that there are as few-purchasa ble votes in South Carolina as in any other State in the Union, and the sooner this tendency to buy votes di rectly or Indirectly is stopped thebet-1 ter lt will be, and that there ought not to be tbe least hesitancy on the part of any one knowing that a candi date is using money illegitimately to let it be known, and he thioks that is the most effective way of killing out the Improper use of money. If the use of the money is continued in the primary system lt will so demorallz? it that the people will go to the legal election, and that will mean even a worse condition of affiirs by the In troduction of the purchasable vote of many registered negroes. THE PRIMARY CONVENTION IDEA. Then we bad quite a long discussion as to whether the primary system, as at present operated, was really the best method ot choosing candidates, and if better results could not be ob talned and better men could not be in duced to run for office, especially of fices other than that of Governor, if delegates to a State convention were elected under the primary system, and the nominees of the part> ohosen by such convention. Senator Tillman s dd that unfortunately the primary sys tem had gone somewhat astray in this respect, as the candidates for State of fices, other than Governor, had very little to show in thc campaign, and the best men were not always select ed, but he was satisfied that the peo ple would not consent to any change tn the primary system, nor would they consent to a convention of delegates or electoral college sekcttd under a prlmaiy system. Ile thought that the people were sat'stled with their seleo tlotiB, and they were not going to give up any of tho rights that they now had under the primary system, and that there was n > chance at this time for the electoral college idea. LEGISLATORS VOTE KOK EACH OTHER Then Senator Tillman brancied out and said that unfortunately the very best results w ere not to he had from even smaller bodies, and he cited tbe past elections by the General Assem bly in support of this proposition, and said that he had always beeu convinc ed that it was poor policy for a body of ihis kind to select most of the elec tive officers from among its own mem bers, but such a policy of reciproc ity seemed to exist and to be grow ing. He thought that this was not at all in the right line, but that it simply Indicated what an ?lectoral colli ge eleotlon under the primary system might do, and that perhaps the pen nie-wry? rbjbt- Jn holding-fast tno-vQXjh. Privileg i that they now had under the primary system. A OuetorUly Crime. A dispatch from Cokesbury to The State says some evil dispos2d person attempted to take the life of Rev. E. R. Anderson, pastor of St. Paul A. M. E church, at Cokesbury on Sunday night. The would-be assassin secrect ed himself at the encl of the church under the hay window and as the pas tor was entering the back door be sprang out and attempted to shoot him but the pistol failed to tire. The alarm was immediately given and pur ult commonced. The would-be mur eror however, had gotten the start nd then bc fired into his pursuers, which somewhat demoralized them, he escaped in the darkness. The church has offered a reward of $tiu (which amount has been deposited In the flank o? Hodges for this purpose) for the apprehension of, with proof to convict, the party who committed the crime. Itt snit <>i A Dream. At Chicago as a result of a dream, Mrs. Lizzie Couet, 41 years old, lost her lifo Thursday and her husband and Infant child were fatally burned in a fire which destroyed their home. The woman dreamed that her savings had been stolen from a hiding place In the bottom of a sugar jj.r tn the pantry. Startled by the reality of the dream she took a lamp in one hand and hi r baby under her other arm and went to Investigate. The lamp fell from the woman's hand and exploded. Her husband, aroused fruin sleop in an adjoining room, made a brave attempt to put out the il un? and finally succeeded with the aid of a mattress, but. only after he, as well as thc wife and child, I.ad been fright fully burned. Mrs. Couet died while being taken to thc hospital. Xi uro Foully Killed. T ie mutilated body of Mack Aa ? derson, colored, was found We Inesdaj morning near his home, nine miles northwest of Cluster. Andersen lived on Mr. H. A. Brakefield's place and was about "8 years old. The coroner'^ Investigation shows that he had been taken from his hoi.se Tuesday night some 140 yards, foully murdered autl robbed of SoO. A bioo ly uxc and other evidences prove the murder a verj atrocious ono. Anderson was known to bava some money which fact he had unfortunately communicated to othir negroes of the neighborhood. Arthur Williams and Jim Sanders, both co orcd, were arrested on suspic ion and lodged In jail Friday. Coroner Gladden ls continuing his investiga tion, with the aid of a detective, and probaly other arrests will be made. WantH DamitKeH. The boston says papers In a suit for $350,000 were served Tuesday after noon ou Thus. W. Lawson, the noted copper magnate. The suit ls brought by New York parties supposed to bo acting fur the Standard Oil Interests. It ls also Btated that the w Idow of At torney Georgo Towle will sue Mr. Lawson for Hool. Ili>th suits are tho result of alleged disclosures mido by Lawson in his story "Frenzied Fi nance," which ls running in a maga zine. Wei com ti Ulm. President Roosevelt has promised to visit Texis early in the spring, and willi make speeches at Fort VVorth, Dallas, Houston and either Austin or San Antonio. BOLL WEEVIL WAE. Names of Delegates to Convention to be Held at Shreveport. BATTLE TO BB PUSHED HARP. The Peat or tba Texas Cotton I F leid a la Now a Mon? aoe to the Entire South. The State says: Gov. Hey ward ls taking a great deal of Interest in the meeting of the cotton growers to be held at Shreveport. La., on the 12th of December. At the suggestion of Commissioner Watson, tho following gentlemen were appointed Tuesday to represent tbls State at th? meeting: M. L. Donaldson, Greenville. J. E. Wan na maker. St Matthews. L. A. Seaae, Prosperity. E. J. Watson, Columbia. Charles E. ChambllBS, Clemson Coi ege. E. D. Smith, Magnolia. E. W. Dahbi, Goodwill. J. G Stribllng, Pendleton. R. M. Pegues. Cheraw. H. B. Tindall. Greenville. P. L. Hardin, Chester. J. J. Fretwell, Anderson. E. E. Vernor, Seneca. R. P. Hamers, Jr., Hamer. A. W- Love, Chester. Sumter Brabham, Manning. . J. W. McCloud, Manning Bright Williamson Darlington. D. B. Cook, Hartsvllle. N. g. Gibson, Winona. J. H. Manning, Dillon. C. S. McCall, Bennott8ville. A. J. Matheson, Bennettsvllle. W: E. Lea, Tlmmonsvllle. J. I,owls Lee, Conway. S. G. May Held, Denmark. E. $. Addison, Ninety-Six. J. C. Lanham, EdgcQeld. J. B. Stepp, Switzer. J. Allen Tobin, Barnwell. W. T. Jones, Santuc. E F. Strother, Batesburg. Harry Hammond, Beeob Islands W.,'D. Evans, Cheraw. J: W. Lj brand, Wagner. 3. S. Booser, Newberry. J. G. McCullough, Bensar. T. ?. Moore, Moores. W.;Q. Hammond, Anderron. W. G. Hinson, Charleston. E 1. Watson, R dge Spring. I. F. Still, Blackville. W. S. Middleton, Clark'B Hill. A E. Aycock, Wedgefield. B. H. Boykin, Boykin. 1). iff. Bradley, Easley. Richard Singleton, Acton. D. r*. Splvey, Conway. A. IK. Sanders, Hagood. J. .1. Peterkin, Fort Motto. . D.. B. Norris, Pendlettjn. ' ,rs Norton, Marlon, otttli?airt, WTnnsboro. D. EQrd, Lexington. John H. Wharton, Laurens. W. T. Aycock, Columbia. F. H. Wea ton, Columbia. C. B. May, Waltorboro. Gov. Heyward requests that all who can attend will notify Commis sioner Watson at once. The three delegate. ?rst named are members of the State board of entomology, arid Pro'. Chamblhss ls the entomologist at Clemson who went out to .Texas tblr. summer to study tho boll weevil. A MENACE TO THE BOUTn. The executive committee of the na tlonal cotton convention In its address says: . "No more serious menace has ever confronted any orop in any country. Since 1893 the cotton boll weevil bas spread and devastated the greater part of the cotton growing area of Texas and has this year Invaded sev eral parishes of Louisiana. The Hight of the weevil during the summer of 1904 fas been fully 60 miles north and east into territory heretofore un infected, and Indicates a habit that ls beyond the power of Individual States to control. "In an tff jrtto proteot the produc tion of cotton from the ravages of the weevil, large sums of money have been spent by the national government, and the States of Texas and Louis iana; and most of the cotton growing States have enacted laws prohibiting the importation of the product from Infebted areas liable to introduce the weevil. These past efforts havo been of untold value to the territory In volved, but nevertheless emphasize In ho uncertain tones the danger threat enlog the citton crop of this coun try, unless lmmed'.atc, detlnlte and co-operative action is taken by every cotton growing State and every cot ton Interest to utilizo the result of past investigations to further perfect remedial endeavor. A division of i pinion und Interest In a campaign against the weevil will bring disaster and defeat. "A national cotton convention for the purpose of dlsousslng aud organiz ing a uniform plan of campaign is opportune and expedient and the pro ceedings of tho convention should reach the fireside of every cotton far mer of tho south, and Bhould BO stimulate natio.ial Interest as to make this vexed prob'em much easier of solution. Lot no State fail to intelli gently shoulder its share of tho re sponsibility. " THE OFFICIAL PROGRAMMS. The following programme has been arranged: First day, Dec. 12, 1904, 2.00 p. m.-Address of welcome, Governor Blanchard of Louisiana. Respons?, the governor of Tennessee. Election of officers, appointment of commit tees. Second day, D.c. 13, 1004, 9.30 a. m.-Address, Hon. James Wilson, secretary department of agriculture, U. S. "The Boll Weevil Situation," Dr. W. D. Hunter, bureau of etomo logy, U. S., department of agricul ture; "Louisiana Legislation and the Work of Her Crop Pest Commission," Dr. W. C. Stubbs, director Louisiana experiment station; general discus sion. Afternoon session 2.30 p. m.-Dis cussions by the representatives from tho various cotton growing States, limited to 15 minutai each. Third day, Deo. 14, 1904, 0 30 a. m.-"Tbe Cotton Factors' Interest lu the Boll Weevil," D. A. Tompkins. Charlotte, N. C.; "Cotton," S. F. B. Morse, 74 Broadway, New York city; "Cotton Transportation," E. L. Ruf eell of tbe M. and O railway, Mobile' Ala.; general discussion. Afternoon session 2.30 p. m.-"The Nation's Interest In Cotton," Ed ward Atklram, Boston, Mass.; "Tile World's Interest In Cotton," Baron Speck von Sbernburg, German ambus sador to tbe United States; general discussion. Fourth day, Deo. 15, 1904, 9 30 a. m.-"What the Weevil Has Dme, What tho Weevil May Do, and What the Weevil Must Not be Allowed to Do," Prof. J. fIf. Connell, editor of Farm and Ranch, Dallas, Tex.; "Can National L?gislation Prevent the De struction of Our Cotton Industry?'' Corgrcssman A. S. Bur.'eson of Texas; geueral discussion. Afternoon session, 2.30 p. m. "Ways and Means," speeches United to 10 minutes; committee reports; r .'icirnmeut. KO CHALLAN GUS. Tho South's Proper Attitude To warda Congressional Reduction. Proposed reduction of Southern rep resentation, as voiced in the Chicago platform, is little credited among the well Informed. Congress In neither branch ls likely to enter upen such a programme. But the subject contin ues in the forum of political jhcus slon, where lt is kept by many of tbe. very Republican leaders who, in pri vate, emphasize the utter Impossibil ity, if not unwisdom, of such action. In meeting such a discussion, the Southerners differ widely in theil views. A few days ago Representative Bur leson, of Ttxas, told Tho Post that be would practically welcome sach a crusade, if the Republicans wanted to enter upon it. Representative Sims, of Tennessee, who comes from one . A the close congressional districts of the South, but, after untiring work, has been reelected by a good majority, lit tie effected by the geueral Demucratl slump elsewhere in the state, thinks that ls not the correct attitude to as sume. "I grant that the possibilities of ac tion by congress to reduce our rcpre sentatlun are remote," says Mr. Sims, "I am one of thoa?>. who think that not even the house Of representative; will undertake any legislation of that character, to say nothing of the sen ate, where thc battle would be fought to the last ditch. But I do not believe that the Democratic party should challenge Its opponents to the si' p. Il is enough for us to be ready tu defend ourselves whenever we are attacked. We have a good defense. And yet it, is not necessary for us to constantly provoke the Republicans by inviting rjbem to make a great issue on that plank In their platform." Mr. Sims says that pluralities in several seotlons of Tennessee were largely induced at the recent election. Congressional districts that have been going D.mocratio by 5,000 or 7,000 returned Democratic members by lets than 1,000 plurality. The indifference of ?he voters was very marked all dur lng the canvass. No interest in Demo eratic speakers was displayed by the audiences, which seemed dead to po lltlcal appeals. Only by the most ani mated personal work was he able to get the voters to the polls.-Washing ton Post. Compromised. The damage suit for 865,000 against the Southern raliway brought by the family of the late James L. Andrews of Greenwood has been compromised The road offered to pay 810,000 ant this amount has been accepted. The death of Mr. Andrews was unu uallj sad. He was one of the best knowt business men of Greenwood and at the time ot his death was president of thc 1 Hirst-Andrews company, a large wholesale and retail general merchan dise concern. He was standing In a car watching the unloading of some dour and while so doing the car was moved by a shifting engine and Mr. Andrews was thrown out violently on the ground and sustained injuries from which he died a few days later in a hospital in Augusta, Ga. Shut by HIT Stepson. A special from Waycross, Ga., says: Mrs. Julia Williams, wife of Henry T. Williams, a well known citizen, died Thursday morning at 4 o'clock at bet home near that city from the e freeth of a pistol shot wound inflicted by het stepson, Kinch Williams, a young man 18 years old. The sheeting occurred on ? Nuv. 14 because she refused to give j him some whiskey He thought she had hidden lt. Williams shot his step mother with a 32 calibre pistol, tnt ball entering her right leg near the kneo, passing through tho bone. ft. ls said that the young man was orazy I drunk when he tired the shot. Killed nt Hsluda. A dispatch from Saluda to The State says late Tuesday afternoon Will Culbreath. colored, the negro who was driving the wagon the night W. M. Morse was killed, was shot ano instantly killed, lt is said, by M t Morse, S. D. Gillon and others. He was plowing for a bother of W. L. Henderson and was killed in the Held. Ho was shot only once, tho weapon used being a pistol. Tho wound was in the head, lt is Bald that they baa gone to arrest Culbreth and that he attempted to run when they fired upon bim. Accidentally Killed. A sad .and fatal accident occurred about ten milos east of Swansea ID Lexington County on Wednesday evening a.,oui 5 o'clock. Vandy Say lor, white, and Welton Glover, color ed, were out hunting and by some ac cident young Saylor's gun was dis charged at short range, the entire load taking effect in Welton Glover's back in the region of the right kidney and just to tho right of tho spinal column. The wound was two and a half or three 1 nobes across. Welton died in 18 hours after uccldent. . In ante-mortem stateimnt Glover said that it was an accident. Entiro Crow L>ost. Tho Swedish steamer Bur, from Grimsby, Eng., with a cargo, founder ed Thursday at the entrance uf Arko sound. Tho entiro crew, numbering 17 men, perished. It ls believed the ves sel grounded and that her hollers ex ploded. A STATE R13FOBMAT0BY. Women's Federation Aol Ivel j Pro motlng Snoh an Establishment. About seven years ago the women ot Alabama, seeing the great evil done to youthful law-breakers by as sociatlon with adult criminals, Inaug urated a movement for the establish ment of an industrial school for white toys. A committee was appointed, which presented to certain legislators the great need of suoh an Institution. The Legislature granted a charter for a "reformatory and industrial school, to be established under the care of the State of Alabama * * * for the bench t of orphan, helpless and wayward children," and said school "io receive and provide for the wel fare of white children between the ages of eight and sixteen who, by rea son of their conduct or surroundings, aie likely to become base or criminal, cr hurtful to the State or the best in leiests of society * ** * or such chil dren as shall have committed petty offerees or crimes;" said children to oe committed to the school or refor matory by any judge or other proper utlicer. ~. The Legislature approprated three thousand dollars for this school, appropriation wis supplemented by contributions from public-spirited ottlzens, aud a school wasestbliBbedat East Lake, near Blrmhgnam. The Legislature has since made increasing appropriations, and now ninety bois are being cktbed, boarded, educated and tialned in useful industries. A pron,h.eut judge recently said that Alabama could better do away with every other p die institution than the industrial school. Tennessee has bad an industrial icboel for fifteen years. Careful re' curds kept of the subsequent careers ol tue tbousaud boys dismissed show that less than two per cent, reverted to evil ways. Experience having thown that lt ls cheaper to prevent crime tnau to punish the crimioal, all save fourteen of the United States h ive e .t.. bl iahe (I such schools. In the last fifteen years, how many South Coolina bojs have been allowed o commit one petty offence after an ?Tlier, and left unpunished and un cared for, until old enough to perpe . rate crimes leading to terms lu the penitentiary? Tne South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, having undertaken he work e f securing a school modeled m the lines of the one successfully operated In Alabama, asks and confi dently exp. eta, the hearty support of 0.11 citizens of South Carolina. It Is proposed to form an industrial school association, with a vice presl lent fur each oounty, which vice pres ident will organize the work in her county, endeavoring to arouse inter st In the movement. Tue following committee urges tho co-operatiou of all women lu South Carolina who be lieve In giving every boy a chance: Mrs. M. F. Ansel, Greenville; Mrs W. B. Wilsen, Rock Hill; Mrs. Ira B. Iones, Lanceaster; Mrs. J. M. Vsm-, ka, Charleston; Miss E. Mcclintock, Columbia; Miss M. E. Waterhouse, Beaufort; Mrs. John G. White, Ches ter; Mrs. B. G. Clifford, Union; Mrs. Charles Petty, Spirtanburg; Miss M Caroline Mciver, Darlington; Mrs. Mortimer Glover, Orangeburg; Mrs. A. P. McKlsslck, Greenwood; Mrs. R. D. Wright, Newberry; Mrs. S. Uleckley, Anderson; Mrs. F. W. P. Butler, Edgefiela; Mrs. W. H. Car roll, Bannettsville; Miss Dulce Moise, Sumter; Mrs. J. O. C. Fleming, Laur ens; Mrs. Martha Orr Patterson, iiecnville, chairman. HEPHEW KILLS OW ULE. Business Rivalry Causes One Mer- | chant to KUI Another. As a result of business rivalry W. lt. Murray Friday mornh g shot and instantly killed his uncle, J. S. Mor ay, at Durham N. C. The shoottrg took place In front of the store of the dead man on Main street In the bud ness section of the city. Both men had been running music stores and were well known business nen, W. R. Murray, who did the ihooting, ls a brother-in-law of LE Emerson of Baltimore, Md., the well known ch?, mist. Early Friday morning J. S. Murray xas preparing to ship a plano and be accused a salesman of W. R. Murray of watching and prying Into his busi ness for the purpe.se of trying to thwart the trade. W. R. Murray heard that his sales man had been accused and, accom panied by his son, Eirle Murray, he .vent to the store of his uncle, which is about half a block from his own place of business. At the door he was j^et by J. S. Murray. A short, bitter quarrel followed and J. S. Murray pulled his revolver and icgan shooting at W. R. and Eirle Murray, the three bullets fired all tak mg effect on Earle, in the hand, aim and thigh. W. R. Murray, a powerful nan, closed in on his assailant and, taking the revolver from bim, shot ulm, tho bullet entering just to the right of the breast and ranging up -s ard and to the left, severing an art ery. Tho wounded man fell and was tak en Into his storo where he expired within a few minutes without have spoken. W. R. Murray was arrested and will remain in custody until 10 o'clock Sat urday, when the. Coroner's Inquest ,vjll be held. Nearly every lawyer in Durham has been retained on one side -or the other and several out of town lawyers have been called In. The af fair has caused a sensation in Durham. \V a KI'S Ot'Hm. Mrs. Lola Green of Atlanta, late of Greenville, S. C., was shot and killed in a hack at Kennesaw, Ga., on Sun day night by J. B. Butler, : nengineer on the Central railroad. Butler then shot and mortally wounded himself with the same pistol. Thc couple were on thie-r way to the depot to oatch a train for Atlanta. Negroes Mast Go. Tho chief of police of Reno, Nov., has I sued orders that all negroes must leave town-and they are leav ing by every train. A BLACK FIEND ehooU Twioo at Young Lady Hear CAME BE IB BEING LYNCHED. y;^ Bill Willtamfi, the Suspect, la Now la the Greenwood Jail Charged With the] Awful Crime nt Brutal Assault. A special dispatch from Greenwood to The Slate sat s Bill ' Wilbarr s, a negro, was brought there Monday ? night by Magistrate W. L. Fouo^r?; and Mr. D. Sidney Haitiwaugcr o? Ninety S x and lodged in jail, charged witb attomptlog a criminal assault upon Miss Ludle Smith, the 10-year old daughter of Mr. Mllledge Smith, a well known farmer who lives below Ninety-Six, about half a mile from Sister Springs church. The story of the attempt, as told by Miss Smith, is substantially as follows: Tuesday afternoon Bhe was out in -front of ber father's house sweeping up leaves and burning them and otherwise cleaning up the yard. Her father and mother were both away from home, and ber two brothers were picking cotton in a field about 150 yards back ot the house; Between 2 and 3 o'clock, while she was sweeping as above de scribed, she beard a noise back of her, and, turning to see what it was, saw a young negro man advancing towards ber. His appearance was forbidding, and becoming frightened she started to run. 11 : ordered her to stop, and followed his order by a threat to shoot. She did not step, and.b^inw ---- a pistol and fired. At the /rfst shot s'ie glanced over her shoul/wir, ana" he again ordered her to sl?up. She had uow realized her dang/Sx fully and ran in the direction of/the field where ber brothers wera-^ac work. Tue negro (ired a secoan shot at ber, but both failed of.fini lr aim. In a fev? seconds a^e had'reached her brothers and told th-3m of what the negro had done, 'and they both rushed to the house only to find that the brute had mada good his escape. The news spread rapidly, and at 3 o'olock the news had reached the sheriff's office in a request for blood hounds with wbiob to trail the negro. It was kept quiet, but thu dogs were sent at once In charge of Deputy Sheriff Chark s Dukes and Capt. Jim McCombs, who has charge of the county cbaingang. ? Judge Ernest Gary who "ls here holding the court of common pleas this week, beard of the attempt and he at once had himself put in tele phonic communication with Ninety Six, and in a conversation with E. M. L'pscomb, pres dent of the Cami--""''' orldge bank thero, an J o??tu. james Rogers, former magistrate and now county superintendent of educa tion for tbif county, he urged upon thise two gentlemen the neorsslty of using theil- Influence to pi evo nh a lynching, and told them to prelect W?llans taere and bring him to Greenwood and that he (Jur'ge Gary) would see tc it that he was protected here. Both thes3 gentlemen and many others, all men cf sound, calm common sense, at once left for the scene to use all their influence to have the law upheld. " , Meanwhile the degs had arrived In . ' ~~ ubarge of Messrs. Dukes and Mo Combs and ?.hey were put to work, but so many people bad visited the place and had been rid li g and walking so promiscuoui ly around tbe premises that the dogs could not make a start. Finally the-, got off on some trail aDd ran it a she rc while, but finally gave it up. Wb le this was goiDg on, and a majority of the crowd were watch ing with feverish interst the work of the dogs, an ther party were at work or a due which a few had got hold of and which had been kept from the main body of men. Following up their clue, they soon bad under arrest the negro Bill Williams. He was carried before Miss Smith, who cuuld not positively identify bim, but she said be was about the right size, and there were other similar marks of identification. She thought that the negro who fired at her had on a dove colored hat, but the negro Bill Will iams was wearing a black bat. It was ascertained that he bad changed shoes in the afternoon, aud it ls like ly, or lt ls possible, that he might have changed his headgear. He was not aimed when found, but as no search was made of the house in which he was found, this fact does not go as far as it might in his favor. The negro lives ab ut a mlle from Mr. Smith's house. Tuesday afternoon he came up f rem Chappel's to Dyson's on a log cart belonging to another Mr. Smith. From Dyson's he started out to walk to his borne. On tho way he stopped and bad some talk with a negro, and this conversation was denied by Williams, although tho other negro held to it that he talked with Williams. Also, the negro Bill Williams claimed that he did not go up the regular road by Mr. Smith's, but went around the back, a routo that was in the neighborhood of a mlle and a half out of the way. Others saw him going towards his home that afternoon by a road dif ferent from what he claimed be used. Even if there had been no fear of a lynching, there was enough against tbe negro to warrant bri being held, and there was certainly enough against him to warrant some, if no other negro answeriug more closely tho description could be found, in making bim pay fie customary pen alty in the customary way. Unless some other negro Is found, Bib Wil liams will have to stand trial for his dastardly attempt, but it is greatly to the credit of every one concerned In the affair that he is now in tho Gleenwood Jail in the hands of tho olllcers of the law. Tanner Killed ill.. Bon. In a dispute over some farm work, Pay no HLkman, a farmer residing near Knoxville, Tenn., killed his sou, Walter, aged 21, striking him.a blew on the head with a stick, which broke the young man's neck. Tho tragedy was witmsscd by other members of the family. The young man is said to have IK cn advancing on his father with a drawn knife when the latter struck him In Keif defense. The al leged murderer was arrested and brought ti Jail In that city, being un able to furnish bonds for 95,000,