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I ne PITT "PO THOU, fl H10 AT LIBERTY, INHI'IRB OUR SOULS AN!) MAKE OUlt LIVES IS tgal IOSSESB?ON BAOT OH OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY OAUSE." VOL. XX^ BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., Elli DAY,! AU GUST 25, 1905. AN OPEN LETTER From Hon. George B. Cromer to Senator B. R. Tillman ON THE DISPENSARY Air. Cromer Appeals io Senator Tillman to Leave Out Factional Politics When lie Discuses the Whiskey Question, Which Ile Claims ls a Moral Issue. Tho lion. George B. Cromer, former president of tho Newberry College, bas addressed the following open letter to Senator 1!. R, Tillman: The Hon. B. li. Tillman.-Dear Sir: I protest against the introduction of the tom-tom and Hie spirit of fac tion into tho movement by which the merits of tho di;-p nsary are to bo test ed. Tnc tom-tom ls tho instrument o? the Juggler and factionalism ls tho re Bort of the politician. Tue pi opie of this State havo the right to expect something higher and better from yi u. Your recent loiter to Mr. Higgins was a calm, sane and judioal statement of your attitude on the dispensary quea sier but for this very reason it was dlstaaeful in certain qoartors, and you wero accused ( f straddling You gave that letter out as an expression o? your views, and, my name having been kindly suggested by you. l was asked to answer lt in the New Voice. I de clined to do so for tho sim?le reason that in this county wo wi: h to ti.st the dispon-ary <i icslion cn its merits, and, therefore, ueslre to exclude every possible phase of ''Til m uism," In the Higgins h ttei y< u recogni*/, ed the widespread and v/ell founded hollef that the dispensary is comipt in its administration, and that toe present agitation is an expression o' popular dissatisfaction. But In your Edgellold speech you chitted your ground, and took the position that tho movement ls p tlltlcal In .si^nili? canoe and ls a covert attack upon you. lu tho Higgins lotter you said that the remedy for the corruption resi.s with the Legislature; that in the last Legislature tho friends and enemies of the dispensary got together and did nothing hut appoint a committee ; that ever since you were Governor you nave given advice and made suggestions, but that your opini?n has Lad no weigh; with tbe Legislator?.?.; and that li tte next Legislature does not apply the remedy, you will help to kill the dis pensary. ?Y IMPLICATION. In your Edgelield speech you said that if thc next Legislature dons not adopt certain suggesth ns that you in tend to make, yen will help to elco!, a Legislature thal will. And you said, by implication at lc:'.sfc, that you will go to the lloformcrs for that Legis'a ture. I appeal from Philip drunk to Phil ip sober-from thc temper cf thc Edgelield speech to the tono of the Higgins letter. lu Newberry there ls no disposition to make an attack upon you undercover of a movement ?gal nat the dispensary. It is not a political movement, lt was begun in an dT year in. order that lt might ho a test of a great moral q test! i, unclouded by personal and politic) ei?shlur?, tiona, lt is not a mo\,.:> ni t i I tin politician?, but a novement <f the people. You ha^e doubtless not-ccd that the counties that wore ?.!;. "Conservative" arc not? io tho nu ve? merit. .7? do not question j wx rtoht to Ka!? P&rt in the discussion, indnij nlentij of the fact that y m ?ro L u'hor the system in this M. , ii ..^1 ! he strange if you wero to roi dn Klient, By virtue of your bi fi ?iii 5 and of your gn at ii.ll unen i , 1. vour duty to speak-but to sp:4, k ?.anely and tem perately as you did 1 t. ie Higgins h t ter. "You owe a g rt at deal io the youth of this state; \<.u owe thc o bhe best that you have, tc t'ive. Wbei the dispensary was tin t ; ut on trial thero may havo been gotd reason f r an au? peal to a faction, hut that r :a 0 1 no longer exis'.s. The syat m h. bee; on trial more than tw< )v > yt tn 1. 1 ? will soon bo vot ?(I on by thou abd ? of men who wert) only ? Igh* or n!no \ e . rs old when lt waa adopted. Winn \ou speak now, we aro en tl lied to have you speak from th ; p. Int bf view of statesmanship and nob of paitism po litics. NO DANOIfilt TO TILLMAN. liefiides, you have too much sagaci ty to fiar that rhla m >vumcnt against the dispensary CAU endang ry ui po litlcal future. You oe npy a larg place in the history of South Carollua for tho lost fifteen years, and fur a numhor of years no rival bi H C allong ?e! your primacy am ug tho political leaders of the State, B nT Imap,-l 1 Sonator represe 1 ting S u .li Oar lina, can well alford to discard th 1 mi thoth of Ben Tillman the partis ui poll i .1 leador. I do not 1 om tb bo elf naive. You-know of my appreciation of tho distinguished sorvh bl ab you have rendered this S lato kn a 11 imb r of di rections. But 1 earnestly protest thal you have no right to befog this quos tion by lowering lt to tho p'ano of partisan politics. That tho adtnjnlnl ration of the dis pensary system ls corrupt any fool e m BOO as bo runs. But I go farther than that, even at tho risk of having y u charge me wloh cant and hypocrisy. No mattor ho n h gb your pm > ose may have been In adopting I he sysb m, in its origin lt seems to bav 1 ti cn ai eua nlrigly-d?vised sch mg bo obi ?r?form the publio eonsolcnoo, No .Teni 1 tina! attempt to debauch m inis hy using the cud tn justify the menus could have been moro successful if the sys tem had been honestly administered. The ooriupt administration will save us from thc system Itself. Governor Hoch, of Kansas, tells us: "Wo are rearing a new civilization here: I believe there are more than a quarter of a million young people who have never Seen a saloon. Probt cition ls the only logical attitude of law toward tho liquor traillo, and the whole country will some day recognize tho fact." What sort of civilization aro we rearing lu South Carolina? Our Supremo Court, in Its famous deolslou upholding the Constitutionality of the dispensary law, laid down the follow ing as a fundt mental proposition and said that If this proposition ls not true tho lav/ls unconstitutional: "That liquor, in its naturo, ls dangerous to the morals, good order, health and safety of the people, and ls not to bo placed on the same footing with tho ordinary comme dit les of lifo, such as corn, wheat, cotton, tobacco, potatoes, eto. Kansas says to hor children: "Tho liquor traillo ls dangerous and ought to be prohibited." South Car olina says to her thousands of tohool children: "The liquor traillo Is dan gerous to tho morals, good order, health and safety of the people, and therefore we will sell liquor and get all tho money we can for tho schools." You may call it cant If you will, but in ilTect here h an insidious attempt co wed public education to tho liquor tr?, ill J. It ls an unholy alllanco aud Got! will put them a- under. Wc can not i> flo d to lower the Ideals of our BOhools. We must not poison the foun tain that ooo visl H\s the heart and brain of our people. WAS BECOMING DISREPUTABLE. Tlie business of tho saloon ktoper was becoming disreputable lu this State, aud saloon keepers were begin nlrg to find it d.tlioalt to justify the business in the eyes of their children. The dispensary system attempts to make tho traillo respectable and repu table. How can t?ie children In our sehe Ol S answer the sophistry of thc argument that whatever contributes to the support of the school ls good and wiseV 1 lav it down as little short of an axiom that a ny restrictive scheme Unit takes control ( f ?a tr>llli that is dangore Ul to bite morals of thc people, and controls lt in such a way as to make it reputable, ls a vicious and dangerous schomc. L'it me suggest an historical paral lel. A great leader was commanded to go down against thc Amalakites, standing fer immorality, and destroy them and theirs utterly. When lie was called to account by t ho old prophet and asked what meant the lowing of cuttle and tho bleating of sheep, his lanie excuse was that the people had kept tho best of the sheep and oxen to sacrifice to tho Lord. The prophet's answer was ?as swift and withering ?as lightning: 'Behold, toohey is better than Baerl flee." Saerllico is good, but there are bettor tiling \ than a -esac rllicj. Tho Government ot great State was commanded by tho moral sense of the people, expressed at tho ballot box, to go down ?and destroy r,he liquor traillo. And when called to account it makes the pitiful plea that Ahilo it has not destroyed tho traille it has managed lt so as to get money for tho. taxpayers. Mopey for tho schools ls good, bot there are batter tilings than money for the schools. The blight of God's curse falls upon thc people that resort to methods that dull the public conscience and lower the tone of public morals. IT CANNOT UELP YOU. Senator Tillman, the dispensary sys tem cannot help you, and you can help it only temporarily, lt ls wrong in principle and corrupt in practice, and its doom has bien written. By throw ing your powerful Influence against che present agitation you may save the dispensai y for a while, but lt ls tottering and must fall, lt is fortu nate for yon that your reputation restb upon achievements that will endure. YUH recall, do you not, tho desire ol Jefferson that lils epitaph should re mind posterity that ho was the authoi of tho Declaration of independence, nd >.f the bill of religious liberty, anti the father of tho University of Vir guda. And so his name is handed clown, riveted to civil llhorty, and re liglou? liberty end higher education, loree tilings that can never depart from the earth or from the 1 >vo ol oem And you, what would you be rc membered by? There ls Winthrop and there is Clemson; well may your heart ?well with honorable pride. And there i , I will not name the third thing. VVbat true friend w-.it'd link youi mune with the dispensary? What bit ter enemy could desire a worso fate for you iban to hive you raised tc that bad rminene? ? A wisc solutlot of thc liquor problem is ono tiring; tin dispensary is another. 1 have vory little political ambition and no taste for public controversy Y u need not remind me that lt 1 nono of my business to take care o your reputation. 1 know that. Hu in a quiet way I have for many yoar bien doing my best, little as lt rn-; nave been, to dov ?lop strong, clean bravo manhood lu rbis State, and i ,i d ns me to feel that you are abou LO let pride of opinion and tho fervo f debato stand in the way of a fal u d open test of a groat moral epics ?.on. The poople do nut need advice i they need free opoortunity to vote Respectfully, GICOBGK B. CKOMEK. Newberry, August ll, 1006, Start With New York hlfO, insurance Commissioner ll. I< Kohr., of Tennessee, announced Sal urday that the Interstate examinatio f life Insurance companies wool in men ce on Ootobor I. The Nie Y rk hi'o Insurance Company will h . x ? in i ned ilrnt. This an-.ouncemen .v.ui m ; le af tor a c ?nforence bctweo tho Insurance commissioners of Ku Lucky, Minnesota, and WlSOonsll Nebraska, Louisiana and Tenne, s.: iud President John A McCall, cf til Nev/ York Lifo Insurance Compati] A Good Gift. According to the report of tho cx< outovs of the will of tho late W. Vt Franklin, of Columbus, Ohio, ti Children's hospital and tho Homo fi tho Aged of that city will got$60,0( aoh ar wollan the residue left af h a $70,000 estate Is settled. Tho ex cut os say that tho residue will be tv or three times greater than the spec fie beq (eats Of $60,000 each, and th will oe evenly divided between ti two Institutions, lt ls thought cai Institution will rccelvo $100,000 ; least. _ Voted lt Out, Tho dispensary was voted out Union C ninty Tuesday by a vote t wont j-two to one. Tuc vote ea was very light, showing that mai Of tho citizens of that county can very little which way tho clcoth wcut. HE DENIES IT Senator B. R. Tillman Replies to Or. ti. B. Croiner's Letter. DEFINES POSITION. Says He Has Not Nor Does He Intend to Appeal to Factionalism, but Asserts that thc Leaders Are right ing Him While Fighting the Dispensary. Thc Hon. George B. Cromor.-My Dear Slr: As your "opon letter" ap pealed in The Sunday Nows and In to day's State 1 presume you exptct an answer through tho same medium. I desire, in the beginning, to ex proas my appreciation of your kindly and complimentary allusions to my self. 1 value them moro highly be cause In tlie past you have not been my political friend. .1 have road your lotter carefully and have endeavored to judge your ar guments and weigh the points you presont as sanely as may bc. It ls not always possible for men to agree, even though both aro actuated by the nighest and purest motives, and it is therefore natural that you should misjudge me in some things and disa gree witli me In others. Now shout tlie appeal to factional ism; 1 deny absolutely that I have made such an appeal or intend to make such an appeal, and in just!Ilea tlon of the truthfulness of this state ment let me remind you of what 1 said at Edge?eld. To quote: "I do not wish to revive factionalism and 1 ara sorry to have the appearance of doing so." "1 am aware that many of tho strongest, s apporte rs o? the dis ponsary now are men who were and are yet probably Conservati ves, while some of Its most bitter antagnlsts are former Ref ot mers. lt, thercf re, can not bc charged that 1 am codea vorlog to draw tho cid lines which rent tho State in twain." Again, "1 want this matter settled entlroly apart from my perscnal and political for tunes, lt is a much groator question for thc people of South Carolina .is to how they shall wisely and best gov om the sale of liquor than as to whether I or somo one else represents them in the Si-nato. 1 know there are many, m m who will vote for me regardless of their former poll ties 1 af dilations and of tholr present attitude oil tills question', and it ls probable' " that there will be many who will be aggrieved at my activity lu dealing with tlie question." ONI.Y A CASK OK SKI-K DBFBNOB. When a public man is viciously at tacked with slander and abuse and there is every indication of a purpose to press that attack In tho next Democratic primary with a view to his overthrow, it seems to mc lt ls perfectly legitimate for bim to give notice to his frlc -ds and his one m'es alike of what ls going on, and let all understand that he is prepared to tight. This is all I have done and st? far from expecting to maleo a plea to the Reformers as )0u charge to bo my purpose by "Implication," 1 have ex prcssly said that tlie old lines could cot be drawu and 1 want the Issue settled entirely apart fro;?', my per > sonal and political for;unes. When 1 wrote my loiter to Mr. Higgins 1 merely alluded to the "true Inwardness" of this movement, which I then real!/.'d was liebig engineered by my inveterate political enemies. You seem to be aggrieved because I have shifted position from tho "sane and judicial attitude of the Higgins lettor," and now take tho ground that tho movement ls political and a covert attack up.m me. Your assertion is too sweeping, my dear Doctor. The "movement" against the dispensary among the peoplo arises from thc dis satisfaction witli the management and strong belief In corruption willoh exists, 1 Ut whilo tlie people are light ing tho dispensary either to purify tr destroy lt, the loaders are lighting me. Von may not be. In fact I know you aro not, and probably there are many others who bavo not such feeling or purpose, but look at thc numerous evidences of tho p ill bical purpose and significance of the movement in the minds of tho leaders. One of those who attended the Prohibition Con for enc, in Columbia declared lt to be the Intention to "tilt the State up on edge and spill out not only thc dis pensary, b it tho existing political status." Toe Darlington News de olared that the "dispensary was so intimately interwoven with Senator Tillman's polltlcil fortunes that fur destruction of the one meant tho do struothul of tho other." The mass meeting bold at Yorkville on the 7 h of this m '?nth, under the leadership of tho author of tim Brice hill, d.scussed and abused me a great deal moro than they di ^cussed the dis pensar y or prohibition, and each and every speaker opened ids m. u h in many respects to mo in thc harshest and most insulting manner. Since lt Will not bo (billed that tho anti dis ponsary forres aro au Incongruous and In m< ii, respects an tag nlstlo aggro gath n, ml Isters of tho Gospel, d >c? tors of divinity, advocates of high license, the old bar room system In Its ossencj blind tlgOi'S) who want free liquor for tho money they can make nub of lt, and yet with this army In molloy, lcd by men with all manner of opinions, and marshalling its forces for my destruction, you. ray (?oar Doctor, tell me that I must remain quiet, continue tho Ramo "calm, ju dlelal, sane attitude assumed in thc Higgin?'? letter" and not lot thc peo pie know what ls going on. THAT "OIIANOK OK POSITION." I stated in that letter If the Legis laturc did not apply tlie remedy for tho existing evils in tlie dispensary management that I would help kill the dispensary, More mature thought and a bettor understanding of the purpose of thc anti-dispensary leaders led mo to givo notice that if that Leg lslaturc did not apply tho remedy 1 would appoal to tho people to oleot a Legislature that would. Is thcro anything wrong In that? Anything Immoral, or unst&tesuian like? If I had remained steadfast' in that position would not all the ILIIU euces that are pe-sslblo bo brought to bear to keep the Legislature from doing anything, especially doing things whloh I suggest? If tho Legis lature now in oilloo could te thus In lluenced, oajjled aud coerced to resist reformation under tho speolous ploa that lt was at my diotation and I had quietly fallon in ranks to help kill the dispensary without first appealing from the Legislature to the pecplo, do you not see that I would have tied my own hands and surrendered at dis cret on to my worst cncm'es? 1 hud to deal with ono "driftwood" Legislature once, and 1 appealed to tho people to riifoim It, which they did most elli Coally by retiring most of those win? had proven false to their professions and pledges, to private life. Tho present Legislature was not elcoted on tho dispensary IHKUO, and ls a very conservative body of men, and with so much political elec tricity In the atmosphere and so much thundering against the dispensary, it may wall pause ere it takes tiny action. Tho disclosures at Spartanburg will undoubtedly cause lt to do something, but whether lt will do anything effec tuai or not remains to be seen. I wish to say hore and now, as though in parenthesis, the result of this light, as far as 1 am personally concerned, gives mo no uneasiness whatever. The olllce of Senator does not. belong to mc, but lt belongs to .?he pcoplo and they will have tho right next year to choose my succes sor, and I will bow to their will, what ever lt may he, without a muriner. 1 rio not believe that the fall of the dis pensary neoessarlally means my fall. 1 do not see what association there is or could possibly be between the dis pensary question and the position which I have taken upon lt and my fit ness fur tho high ollie) which 1 hold. If my health continuos gool I shill ask the pi opie to continue me in the place, not because I am tho father of the dispensary, but because of my ser vico In Washington, 1 am not un easy 1 I the least. So much for that branch of your letter. Ll QUO lt DK1NKINQ NOT IMMOUAL. Wow let us como to the dispensary sary question and vour treatment of lt. You quoto, with great unotlon, from tho decision of our Supreme Court,, ''That liquor In its nature ls dangerous to the morals, good order, health and safety of the people, and is not to be pl deed on the same foot lng with tho ordinary commodities of life, such as corn, wheat, cotton, to bacon, potatoes, etc. " I wish I had that decision before mo so that I could tilve its cssoncn in lylef form rather than take au Isolated sentence;' You* aro too good a lawyer not to know Uiat thc State could have nothing to do with the liquor trafile were lt not for the exercise of tho police power which rests upon thc right of the Slate Government to control or forbid any and every thing which concerns the mora's at,cl health of thc people; and right hero Ls where we part com pany in dealing with thc question. The prohibitionists in general, and you, my dear Dootor, as ono of their leaders, tire thoroughly Imbued with the bell? f that liquor drinking ls dan* goren s to tho morals, good order, health and safety of tito people, and you would therefore forbid its sale In any way a.s a beverage and would lirall itsu-e Lo medicinal, pharmaceutic a and mechanical purposes. South Car olina declares In the dispensary law li self: "The manu facture, sale, barter or exchange, receipt, or acceptance for unlawful use, delivery, storing and keeping in possession within this Statt, of any spirituous, malt, vinous, fer mented, browed, (whethor lager or rice boer,) or other liq Jors; any com pound or mixture thereof, hy what ever nama called or known, which contains alcohol and Is used as a bever age, oxoept as ls hereafter provided, ls hereby prohibited under a penalty of not less than three nor more than t welve months at hard labor In tho State Penitentiary, or pay a lino of not loss than $100 nor more than $500, or both line and Imprisonment, In tho discretion of the Court, for each of tense. All alcoholic liquors in this State, whether manufactured within this Stato or-.{elsewhere, not having be? n tested by thc chemist of the South Carolina College and found to bc pur:1 and free from poisonous, hurt ful and deleterious matters, are here by declared to be of a detrimental character, and their use and consump tion are against tho morals, go id health and safety of tho State, etc." [u thc j idgment of tho Legislature, which enacted tho law as a oorapro? mise, the dispensary system would bring about the best results. You and your friends nuke of thL ques ton a religious Issue, while tho sup p irtcrs of the dispensary law consider lt a political Issue, and tho people of tho State have six tinvs by ovar whelming m-j uitics sustained such view. Y< u and your friends h,\v.> time and time agata presented >our Idoas and pressed them wlth-vigor and ability, but tuc voters have not seen lt as you did. M(?UOU MON IGY IN TUM SCHOOLS. l vfculd Wo the l&st man to lower tho Ideals of our schools. I would be tho last n an to throw temptation In tue way of any one, young or old. 1 .vonld bj tho last man to teach any child to il, liquor ls not dangerous; but is it tho outy of a statesman to hobble the devil, so lo speak, when ho oan't bi chained, or is lt his duty lo ?Imply say he wants to soo him hobbled or Ohftlncd and then tot him ?008C? Tho dispensary law properly administered does reduce drunken ness. It does c.'mince to tamporiMice and good morals, and ti aches men thc uses of llqu ir rather than tho aboso.': of it. Tnat tho Stato board of con trol IR now under suspicion of corrup tion, with many things pointing to th?' belief that the suspicion is well grounded, and that tho local dispon sers have I ?eon debauched, because of tho lax administration or maladminis tration of tho law, proves nothing. Pope long slnco epitomized this whole I subject In that woll known couplet! (Continued on fourth pago.) A Preac?i?jr Calls a Dispensary Adv?cate a Liar and MAKES A SENSATION. Thc Rev. P. A. E. Derrick Charges Sena tor Bleaeje, of Newberry County, With Insulting and Impugning thc Ministry, and Lying If He DenledCharge. A special dispatoh to tho Columbia State from. Newberry says an unex pected and'sousatloual dispensary de bate took placo at Young's Grove in that county on Tuesday of last week, when ltov.^C. M. Byod of Prosperity, ?utraged at statements made by Mr. ?. L. Bl?iise who ls Stato Senator from Newberry concerning tho Chris tian ohuroh and ministry, protested eloquently. Following this and at the close of tho speak lng Mr. Please was halted by the Rev. P. H. E. Derrick, a Lutheran preacher who chargod him with in sulting and impugning thc Ohtistian ministry. Mr. Derrick seemed to be very mad, whon he began talking to Mr. Bleas?. On Mr. Btease's denial that he had made certain remarks in his speech, Rev. Mr. Derrick threateningly and llatly contradicted him, renewing the accusation. Mr. Please' turned to walk away but before he had taken twenty steps Rev. Mr. Derrick shouted after him'tiie words, "and If you deny lt you are aliar." Mr. Please took no notice of the words. Willie denouncing general hypocrisy and corruption in bis speech. Mr Please said that if all tho rascals were turned out of tho churches there would not be a quorum left next Sun day, and that he had never known a preacher , who would not tako a gam bier's money. The whole affair created intonse feeling. ; Mr. A. 0. Jones also inter rupted Mr. Please to express his in dlgnatlon. Ahlde from the above in oident l<lie day was without marked features: All of tire speakers ac quitted ^themselves well and wore lis tened tu with attention but at no time was there groat enthusiasm. Mr. .I.-.bn C. Goggans presided, in .ryrtiyM - Mr. Arthur Klblor as the r.it in. jr. Dr. Geo. u. Oromor and Mr. A. Cajones followed. A lotter was read from Rev. J A. Sllgh, re gretting bis Inability to bc present on account of sickness. Mr. Pleaso's speech followed, being the only ono on the dispensary side After the incident between Mr. Bisase and R iv. Mr. Derrick tlie cro wd called for Rev. Mr. Boyd on the platform Ile responded eloquently for prohib? uion. Thc crowd was estimated a?, about 800. ANOT1IICH ACCOUNT. In speaking of the occurrences nar rated above The News and Courier says: Q lite a sensation developed at Young's Grove Tuesday afternooon at a dispensary discussion. In his speech Senator Blease referred to some pro hlbitionlsts as hypocrites, and said: "If you are going to kill tho dispen sary because lt is rotten, why not kill tho Church? If you turn out every rascal In tlie Church you would not have a quorum Sunday." Hore A. C. Jones interrupted, say ing that Blosse had no right to slan der the Church. Argument followed, the crowd upholding Mr. Jones. Then Blease repeated lt, whereupon some one said: "Talk to us like de cent men or quit." Blease resumed his speech, but the Rev. C. M. Boyd, the Associate Re formed minister here, said: 'Mr. Blease, just now you told a lady how to raise BODS, not drunk ards." Now tell us about the Spar tanburg Investigation, when you said on thc stand, "I wvuld like to have a drink now." Mr. Blease replied: "Yes, I said it. You look like a man who would take a bottle of beer on the sly. When we got up town we will take one to gether. I can generally read any man." When Blcaso was noll li sd that Mr. lloyd was a minister, lie apologized. Col. Please tried to continue, but tlie audience yelled, "Boyd! Boydl Boyd!"' and Pleaso's voice was drowned when he was not half through speak ing. Thc Rev. Mr. Pojd came on the stand. Please asked bl rn not to bo personal, as he had been promised the last speech. Then Mr. Boyd said he would not speak, but the crowd yelled for him. Ho said that what he would !\:>.vo to be personal, when a man said at an Investigation that he wanted a drink and hero teaches a woman how i.o raiso anon, not a drunkard, ?lan dor Churches and virtually blasphemes God. Ile conk! not help from speak ing. Mr. Boyd's speech was a master ful oral! in, to winch nosynopsh herc car do justice. Iludid not want Lo say anything today, but had to When he carno here there was no dis uins.vry, no policeman, no jill. Now all these ai o hero, and the ol tizona know the stato of affaalrs. He ap0! pealed to thinking men to rid the conn ty i f a curs;. When Col. BlcaSO left the stand lie was confronted by the Rev. P. H, G Derrick, tlie Lutheran minister, who challenged the statement made In the speech that no minister ever refused blood money to build a church, Col. Please said he referrod to Newberry and seemingly showed the white, feather, walking off. Derrick said: "And you are a liar, " Tr At rt mt xiii-m. Four young men who reside In Charlotto, N. C., sat on the Southern railway track near Greenville Tuesday night foll asleep. Tlie outgoing Go ? lumbla brain in passing killed c. Williams Instantly and seriously in Ju rod Paul Fowlor and Henry Holley, l?dward Kills oscapod unhurt* FELL F?OM A POLE. A Promising Young Man Meots With a Fearful Peath. itobort Haynewortti of donison, '02, Dios From Injuries Ile oo iv oil Whtlo PorformlnK His Duty. A spcolal dispatch from Darlington to Tho Stato says Mr. Itobort Hayns worth, a ye ung man of much promise, died there Thursday morning from the effects of injuries he sustained in falling from an oleotrio light pole Wednesday night. The storm Wed nesday afternoon had upset tho cloe trio light wires and Wednesday night it was discovered that sume of the aro lights woro not burning. The euginecr. Mr. Hatohell, at the power plant apprised young Haynsworth of this fact and tho latter started on his round to remedy tho trouble Ho was cautioned, howevor, bo phono when ho found a wire that needed tixlng so tire power could be cut ott and he did so once or twice but no message v/as received at the tho point where the sad acoldent oc curred. When fouud by the Coast Line night watchman Mr. Haynsworth was lying at the foot of an cleotric light pole between tho depot and a nearby shed. II ls mangled limbs were across the railroad track and his bady was drawn as if he had suffered intense conges tion. One leg v/as completely crushed, causing tlie main bone to project through the outer skin and clothing; his forehoad also SUB tal ne 1 a seven blow in which tho skull was slightly fractured. Ile bled profusely and was never conscious aftor the fall. Mr. llatchell says that Mr. Haynsworth left the power plant about 0 o'clock and was not found until 10.15. Ith probable that he lay there for over an hour before any one saw bim. Tncro arc numerous conjectures as to how this accident occurred, but ll ls generally believed that you np Haynsworth ascended the pole ano came in contact with a live Wirf which caused him to lose iris grip arr fal!. He must have ftdlen 25 or .'lo feet. When fourni he was moved t the home of his grandmother, M rs H. E. P. Sanders, and a doctor wa summoned but to no avail. He dior Thursday morning at 8 o'clock ano will probably be buried Friday at Florence, where bis family reside. He ls the son of Mr. and Mrs. Moo ney Haynsworth of Florence and ii nephew of that city. ' In 1002 h. graduated at Clemson in the eleotrica lepartment and came immediately t Darlington, where ho accepted a pos) oion with the Carolina Witter "?nd Light company. He proved hlmsel' in (.dictent electrician and ho advanoee rapidly in this line of work. Only s few months prior to his death he wa? promoted to the position of genera superintendent of the elcctrlct plain there. He was a young mau with i bright future and he had a host o' friends in Darlington. His untimely lea th has cast a gioom over the en tire town. Hungry l'oasants. A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, says the dlsordors in Andalusia as i result of the famine aro growing alarming. The sacking of farms ano the slaughtering of sheep and cattli continuo pratlcally unchecked. Thi district-? around Carmona, Ouina. Estepa, Utrlra, Marou and Jerez an terrorized by hunger driven peasent:. The wealthier resident.! are fleeing and abandoning their homes taking refuge in Seville, Cordova and otho' large cities. The starving peasant* continue to invado the towns, clamor lng for f x>d and sometimes looting It is stated that 1,000 are massed outside Oiuna, thrcatnlng to storn. tho houses of the rich. Aid from tho go ver ment and public charity ls in.ade q ti ate and distributed sbwly. Troops aro protecting many towns, but tin author!tCB hesitate to take seven I mca-.ures, partly through sympathy with tho distressed and partly through fear lest a wave of vlolenoe be provoked, lt ls est?mala 1 that 1,000,000 are desperately hungry, and that 100,000 of those are actually starving. 'Wounded hy ItnlHans, A special dispatch from Anderson to The S! te says Sheriff Nelson It Green and his deputy, W. N. Scott, receiver." .-dight wounds at the farmers' barbecue Wednesday afternoon iti ar resting four young men of the cou nt v for disorderly conduct. The men an A. L. Wi litton and three brothers named Richey, lt seems that these men were cursing and talking loudly at tho table and when they were or dered by tho sheriff to keep quiet one of them resisted tito oilloor, who was cut across the ab ?omen. His depu ty was also slightly wounded. Thc men were taken Into custody andar? in the county jail. Pearla Found lo ('ooonnutH, "Pearls aro not found in oysters alone." Sometimes, "said a lapidary, thoy aro found In coeoanuts. 1 Otico cut a cocoanut pearl. It was the si/.j of a pea, and Its quality was good, lt resembled an oysier pearl, only iu was a little duller, Cocoanut pearls are found in tlie heart of tho nut. It ls thought that they aro formed by tho hardening of tho nut's tl sh. T.ioy aro, so to speak, a kind o* oryslallzod tumor or wart. Thee pearls aro. raro. They aro rarer i h ui oyster pearls. They are also cheaper than Oyster pearls, hoing less hard and less transparent." \ Minali Voto. The Columbia Record says Union county last week voted out thc dis pensary hy 7(H to 410. In tho last primary 2,(?75 votes wcro oast. In tlie last general election, In which there was no interest whatever, the vote was 1,051 or 473 moro tiran were oust In the dispensary election. Only reglsterod voters aro allowed to voto. We have no reason to bellovo that tho result would have been different, but ino faot is that ie&s than half of the white mon of Union over twenty-one years old expressed an opinion on this most important question S???H?M liUINJSD By a Etrange Bug that Was First Econ in Columbia. Tho Nut mo ol tho New Par?sito ls as Yot HomiwhRtUnknoAvn to tho Department of Afcrtoulturo. Tho State says there is a strange bug on tho farm of tho State Ilospi tal for the Insano, and oven the bu reau of entomology of the department of agriculture ls unable to ascertain, fora time, tho ancestry ot thlsinseot. Not long ago, it will bo remembered, tho atteutlon of Mr. J. W. Bundi, su perintendent of tho Stato hospital, was oalled to the fact that sorghum whloh was med to feed the cattle w<u> dying rapidly. Investigation showeo that a small post was preying on the soi gluon and an export was askod foi from tho government. Mr. E. G. S. Titus, entomologist, came to tho ol ty and inspected thc damage done by tho pest, but eoulo not tell what lt was. Ile left for Wash ington with some of the "animals" in lils valise and microscopical examina tions have boon going on. Yesterday Mr. hunch received tho following let ter: Mr. J. W. Bundi, Stato "Hospital foi the l:mue, Oolumoia, S. 0. Dear Mr. hunch: I am very muct ludobced to you for your kindness te Mr. Titus on his recent visit. Since ois return ho has been very enthusi astic regarding courtesies shown him. 1 have to thank you for tho arrauge .neut to send us material at periods ol ten days, in order to better euablo tu to study tho habits of tho little pest which seems to bo working so mool, destruction In your sorghum. Uati. wo can get au adult mojth wo shall Le wholly lu the dark as to the Idontlt) >f the depredator. As soon as wc sc ouro a moth and lind out what lt is, tt will throw a groat deal of light upon the problem. From the faot that lt appsrs t( >rocd freely in crab grass, 1 am led t-o believe that lt has attacked corn ie .veil as sorghum, without having bea detected by you. Whether its presen! severity ls duo to your system of farm ng, made necessary, as 1 understand, by the rules of your Institution, ot w he thor lt ls a periodical outbreak such as WO nave witnessed lu the cast if other Insects, I am absolutely un ib!e to tell. 1 would judge If the crab grass was ploughed ander this fall lt would great y reduce the peat another year, but rf course, crab grass grows on othci premises besides your own, and unless lt ls known to ocour In other premise.1 tbout you, 1 should bo very mue!) In dined to urge rotation for a singh /ear with some crop that would noe issltate the destruction of this grass. Some orup thit would require constant cultivation until late in tho seasoi. would seem to he preferable. I wi uki like to ask If ordluaril) .herc ls muoh of this crab grass witt /our oats. If not, thou you shoul bave to look elsewhere for relief. 1 an. n hopes to be able to visit you during Lhe next month, and probably soudai vssistant your way later in the season md he will endeavor to, If possible, lind out some measure of relief. Thanking you again for your oour tesy, 1 am, yours truly, E. M. WEBSTER. In Charge of Eiold Crop Insect luves g?tions. It ls said that thc pest is making itself known iii other vicinities, notai) ly on the farm of Mr. 13. F. Taylor. It is seldom that there ls an insect so strange to tho bureau of entomology. Had nu Kollow Kovor. The desperate elTort3 of the health authorities to prevent the spreading if the typhoid fever epidemic pre valent lu Brooklyn have not been sue cessfulsof.tr and the situatlon ls be ?inning to be (falto ritlcal. lt seem that Batch Beach, liensonhurst and ?lmor Park, situated on the lirooklyi beach, extending from the Narrows ro (Jolley Island, from the center or heart of the disease d'strlot. There are various theories concerning tin causes of tho epidemic. The most plausible ls that persons living In tin icaoh 'district Insisted pu bathing at the wrong side of the tide, when lin water, backed up by the rising tide, was strongly contaminated by the con tents of the numerous sowers empty ing Into the bay. The infected area is constantly spreading and lt is feared dist b fore long tho epidemic will ga<n a foothold on thc Manhattan side. Should that happen, the rosa I ?n the overcrowded and unsanitary districts of the E ist and West sides would be appalling. Up to the pres nt time there have been nearly tw< b usand O&ses of typhoid In Now York and about four hundred deaths, caused by that disease. licHN Whtbkov Uaed. Mr. .John 0. Watkins, Clerk of Court of Anderson County, writes av follows to Senator. Tinman;" Tho re coups in tibs ollloe show that thc curt of general sosslo.is for Aude r son bounty during the years 18'Jl ano 18U1? there wi ro 108 trials and lhat during,tho years 1903 and 1004 then v.oro only 61. In this oonneoolon 1 will add an extract (rom presentment of the grand Jury of Feburavy, 1904: "Wc Ihluk lt is a matter worthy of nbtico that notwithstanding the rapid increase of population <>? i ur county, tho influx of people from other counties and other States, ai d tho aggregation of so roany places of the Industrial enterprises located In our mid it, yot ci imo seems to bc do creasing._ .Inul I.Ike Tin m. "Reuben (fields, tho Johnson countj mathematician, who ls oonelderod h> many to bo an idiotic wonder, stopped at a hotel lu a small t "WU in Hoary county recently," says Thc Oak Grove (Mn.) Banner. "As usual, In mich places, there wore a number of drum mers on hand; there was also a un Ot* ing of some medical men at the placo, who used tho hotel as headquarters One of the doctors thought lt woulo be q lite a Joke to toll Fields that so mu of tno M. D.'s had concluded to kidnap Ihm and take out his brains to learn , how it was ho was so good In nutho ; mattes. He was th.cn asirnd by them i what ho was going to do about it. i Fields replied: I will go on without brains Just like you doctors aro doing. FIFTY KILLED By Excursion Train Plunging Twenty-five Feet in River. BRAKE DIDN'f WOBK. The Train Was from Klnston, N, C., on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. , Ail, Except Two of the Un fortunate Victims, Were Colored People. A dispatch frcm Norfolk, Va., says jhat o*vlng to tlie Inability of Engi neer D. l?. Ralg to ootroi bis air brakes, an exoursiou train from Kinston, N. C., bound to tbatoity, p'unged through ? n open draw in a bridge over the western brai.ci of tho Elizabeth river ?.t Bruoo station, eight milos from Norfolk, Tnursday afternoon, and 50 per jons, mostly negroes, were drown? ed. Up to a lato hour Thursday night only so von bodies had been recovered from the wreckage. The list of injur ed so far as oan be ascertained, num bars nearly 100, though most of these *ro slightly hurt. A largo numer of physicians from Norfolk and, nearby ol ties went, to the scene. Among tho victims, the only white ones wero Edward J oliffe, manager of oho excursion, aud Edward Forbes, who assisted bira, both of Greenville, N. G. Tue Merrit wrooking organizi on Tnur&day night dispatches an ex pedition from Norfolk to the soono for the purpose of raising tho sunken oars, which He In ab jut 25 feet Of .vater. Until tho cars are ralsjd. no icourato estimate nf thc number of tho dead can be given. Tue train WHS composed of aa en gine and six passenger oars. Toe en gine and two oars went through tho haw, leaving tho four rear oars ? n jiie traok. Ooo oar was comp^e^ely iubmerged and tho other partly sub nerged. Nothing ls visible of tho lo-. I ;onoollvo not oven the smokestack. It j s believed every occupant of tho llrst jar perished. Tho dead can bo gjtton jut ouly by diving under tho oar. The some following tuc wreck was oae ot indescribable horror, with the shrlek 0 g of men, women and children, who meo drowning, struggling out of the partly submerged coach and floating .n the rlvor. Tho passengers who were uninjured immediately started to roscue thoso inprlsoaed in tho oars. Norfolk and Portsmouth wero communicated with md physicians v/oro sent out on a vrccklug train. Many people in tho neighborhood went to the scono of the vrcck and helped In the roscue. The njured were taken to tho traok era mnkmont and were attended thereby 1 ho physicians. Collins Ferguson, the ?olored bridge tender of tho Atlantlo I Coast Hue, was knocked from the iridge hy the Impact and killed. En jlneor lldg and IPireman Alfred Coop er, colored, escaped by jumping. The vrecked train left Kidston, N. C., at 7 o'oioek Tnursday morning with 165 colored excursionists for Norfolk. It vas due to arrive at Norfolk at 1 ?'clock Thursday afternoon. Following thia tialu was another ex ?ursion train over tho samo road bring ing ?100 excursionists fron Rook7 Mount, N. C. Preceding tho wrecked rain was still another excursion train ;arrylng some 300 merchants and itiiers from Augusta, Qa., Cnarlcston, .5. C., and J ackson v die, E.a., bound to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, for the pure^aso of fall good. This Drat train arrived at Norfolk it 8.;io o'olook Thursday morning without accident and tho Augusta, Jacksonville and Charleston merchants ioft for tho north Tnursday night by water. Tho Rocky Mount excursion ists and thc survivors of the wreok vere brought to Norfolk ovor tho Nor folk and Western. Cr ":linl Into Trolley. At Cincinnati, Oolo, three m*n .vere killed and ton wero Injured Wed nesday night when a fast through ex orcss from Nev/ York to Cincinnati on the Haiti more and Oalo South western crashed into a Winton Place r,rolloy|car In Winton Placo a suburb. VII tho killed lived in Winuon Place. According to some witnesses of tho wreck John Driscoll, gate tender, hud let the gate down to allow a 'relght to pass. The locomotive of the frelghtemltted heavy clouds of smoak, preventing tiie tender from seeing the passenger train bearing do vu at high ?peed and ho raia 'd tao gates, it ls ?aid. The locomotive striuk tho n ick part of thc street car and lt .vas tossed to pieces lu all directions. A Voling .viiiilior. Holen G itor, who would have boon thlrtoen years old ou Novombor 5th a xt, died In the Now York Post Graduate hospital Saturday forty livo minutes a'ter the surgeons performed the Caes iran op: rai iou on hor. Tho operation was the last retort to save i he Uves of mother and baby, lt was ?moor s'u:, for, although Obiter causes vere, it? ,al to the ohtld motlier, nor baby survived and was cheerful and m 1 ' ?,-, weighing so von pounds, The Ohlld /as an illegitimate one. 'Mi ?O' Illili iltt.HMO. At Baxley, Ga., A. J. Chestnut, who a few days ago shot and killed Marshall Mike. Asplnwall, and being pursued hy the sheriff and a largo number of Citizens was wounded, died Wednesday evening. William Smith .if Waycross, engaged at Baxley at work on the school building, shot Chi stunt with a rlilo and since has become iu?-i?ic and Is now in tbs asy lum. r Another Polar KxnoiUtion, A dispatch from Christina Norway, says tho steamer Terrauova has boon sighted off llonnlgsgaag, with Zolgler, of thc north polo exploring exp?di tion, hovllng by Anthony F?ala of Brooklyn, aboard, Tho vessel had got to 85 degrees i i minutes north i latltu lo. All tho Amerioans in the party aro well.