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he Marlboro' "DO Tn, GBEAT LIBB EY, INPIB* OTJB SOULS ?J?D M4KB OUB LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OBOUB DMVCH? OLOBlOai IN THY OATJgBj.?. - ----ifc__,-_._ VOL.)&XL BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1906. NO. 40. BRYAN COMES To Columbia and is Most Warm ly Welcomed by People MOM ALL THE STAT!' A Cordial R<option is Qivm the Great oiid Elcqu nt Orator by the People of Columbia and Thousands ot Visitors Prom Other Places. JTr. Wllllpm Jennings Bryan's visit to Columbia Wednesday was an occa sion of great political nv ?mont. Tuer* were gathered there to meet him HOV- rpi hundred o' tho leading men of the Stute, and they listened Intont ly to tl e words of wisdom of thc man who ls now rrouldlrg Democratic tin tight and sentiment. Mr. Bryan arrived tn Columbia Wednesday morn ing at S o'ol cok from Charlotte, bis train having been delayed. "Wednesday morning Mr. Bryan wes entorta ?ned at breakfast by a coot mlUee invited hy the Chamber of Con m eec-Mr. R;ohard 1 Manning. Dr C. M Galloway, Dr. Julius D Dreher, Dr. J A.B. Soberer and oth ers, At 10 30 Governor Hey wau] and effort oslled in motor oars Rt Wright's hotel, Mr. Bryan's bead qu*vtei>', and Mr and Mrs. Biyar. and pst ty were tpken in motor ears for a spin f reund tl e city and out Into tb< ot entry. A fte) this thc pari y drovo up to th rear of Legare college and through a back en (.rance to the BfcSK* In fame vi which were gathered 2 500 peoph awaiting the arrival of the great Americ n citizen. All the morning thor?, had boen a tbrorg of men and women around tho doers of Wright'^ hottl, cager md i xpeotant for thc first gl'mpseif ibo guest of South Cardin*. He was e> cered lustily as he carno out and cn*.tied Mic motor oar. Again an ho ascended the p'.at form in front of Legare college there was cheering. Tho morning was beautiful, al though later it became sultry and sbovery. There were many ladle present and altogether the atmos pber? was one cf ?>uoh frank cordiality for the speaker, that be, in effeot. decir red that l e feared he woulr1 lapse. Into platitudes. There were no Republicans for bim to face and bis speech was not given tho emphasis which perhaps it vtould bi VJ received had there been in the air a touch of oftlty to the speaker. Mittyan ?oe "orr.o^oesfy,'iGWOW'x Ldflis? < )M poeitlph/ ' ih^dnajv Rblp proposition y m h talked of lav dared px oly that he is Wt?w/raiu to speak ...o views, and if they be unpopular he ls not afraid to rc ct he the olsitp proval of those who disagree with him. His speech v as In fe ur parts: Wt dlsseotion and ridicule of the speeches on high tariff by Mr. Leslie M. Shaw, seoretary of tho tresury; his declara tion that Roosevelt ls popular not be oause of thc Reiublloan party, but In oplte of it. for bis popularity comes from the reforms which he urges, re forms taken from the Dame eratic platforrr ; his discussion of the PMllp pine situation in a way to show thai had the Demt oratio party been vic torious In 1900, there would have been saved (from subsequent Phillp pine extravagance) ?500.000,000, enough to dig thc. Panan a oana), and there wouldn't be the shame of car pet baggers kept In power by bayonet rub ; rurally bis explanation of the government ownership c f railroads wbloh, In a way, ho favor?!. Thin was the newest and most significant part of bis speech. Some of thc stenographer's uotes were rendered al most undecipherable by thc showers wbloh c ame up toward the latter part of Mr. Bryan's speech. When Mr. Bryan and escort mount ed the stand there was great enthu* slam In tho crowd, and tho Columbi* orohentra, which had been entertain ing the orowd, began to play ''Our Country 'Tis of Thee." The meet lng wat oalled to order by Mr. W. A Clark, president of the chamber of con me ?ce, who presented Rev. Dr. Sam M. Smith, pastor of tho First Presbyterian cl uroh, who made a prayer full of patriotism and noble thought. This wan referred to very feeling)/ by Mr. Bryan subsequent!) In bis ("ftcussicn of Christian citizen ship. E.,dendy Mr. Bryan ls uot accustv med to seeing polltioal meet ings opened with prayer. Mr. c;lark then tot k charge of thc proceedings In the following introduo tory reinarks: Fellow olt'/ms, we hu va as cu gues* today one of America's mcsv distinguished bens, ono dlstlngutsed as a ol- '?rn, distinguished ah a stiff* man, distinguished as an orator. H l as kb dly consented to speak to to. pee pie of Sou'.h Carolina upon thoa great political ci .estions which con cern the nat on. It is our privilege, therefore, to expend to him a Caro Una v/ hvii. c. He is tho guest not only c i the city of Columbia, but ol thc- Btat? of Sc uth Caioiina. lt h. prop- r, therefore, that Columbi* jj|bcuhi extend him cur welcome, i "ita my privliego now to lntiodi.ee Mi J"ln A. Willis, ?.ur mayor proton who wdi extend this welcome. Al.DICKMAN winnis. Mr Willis m.-.cm a v. ry lino spat ot, wbloh was rtoe.\ed wi? h frequent in ter rup'.ions of an. lause. On bobah of tho olty of Columbia, be said: lo IK wita pleasure l am herenofovi you today in b ha!' of his honor, cu mayor to welcome to our fair city at distinguished a guest, a man wei. known to you all, e.ltl or peisor allv o by repots tion, and a man that atano> 1 Igh In tl e iDtlm tion cf thc Amori oar p plo **H ? ch z n, writer, staler man ai cl orator. Ho has been wltbb our gHieu before, fcijd but a b;co> away addressed cur legislature h open air, and with a ph asant retror pcot of that day wo are g.ad to aga. ; have the p'aanire of oi c* moro wei coming him to our olty, io cur borne: and to our hearts. And I am coull dent I voice the sentiment of every tuan, woman and child of Columbia. I aro glad to see so many strangers with us today, to do honor to BO noted a gucrt, and I bid them welcome ard thark them for coming to aid us In honoring a man wt o In all hts politi cal career stands out apr lust the hort zw of his far away Western'borne with the white fli g of purity wrapped about him-and no mau can Justly point at him except to name a pure and loyal American and loved by al) who know him. 'T?s true our guest ts a coursgenus mar; th's no one can doubt. Ile speaks what he thlnkp and ads as his cousuleno^ dictate and fears no man or pirty. He -wat tivlco the ohotoe of the Dcmooratlc party and twice defea'ed, \ ut tbat did ?ot discourage this God fearing man %nd if the sign* of the tims aro right -ie will ?main bo their ohoioe, and I trust and believe ho will load hiB pa? ! y lotuccess and after November, 1008, we may h vo the pleasure and honor of again welcoming h m not as a etti zan alono, but aa the chief oxooutlv* of this great nation. In this dear ! Southland we lovo a man who proves himself to he pure, true and loyal to his convictions, and to his people, and as I Btand here upon this historic ground and in front of this historic building and basifies theso historio Blands from behind which so many distinguished South i aroliuians h?-.v,; spoken, and as I gr.zo upon tho p r traits of MoDuolo, Legare, Preston, Hampton and the Immortal Calhoun, methinks I seo their faces light up with a smile ot approval and bid mc with you all to weloome to dear old Columbia this true and*tried oli?z n -7rlier, states mau and silver-tongued orator, tho ll n. William Jennings Uryau Mr. Clark then presented Gov. Du: - can Clinch Hayward, wt,o was reoalv d with marked approbation. Gov. Hoy ward Bald: GOVKHNOK II BT WA KD Mr. Ghalrmau Ladies, and My Fellow Cit z n?: I fee'honored to speak for S uth Carolina on tho occasion which calh as together this mornb g. lb is al ways a pleasure tome to fxtond to visiting guestB the cordial hospitality, the greeting and tho we e me of our native State. And today, my fellow d'.taottB, it is in added pleasure and a privilege in deed, to ext. nd the right-hand of geo '. ly fellowship, aye, both hands, lu .varmest greetings to our honored and distinguished gueBt, "Ou: Great Cern xoner," William Jennings Hryan. Sir, you have m-it and mingled with South Carolinians before. You know the sincerity of our welcome, ?nd 1 trust that recollections cf former visits Urger as pleasant memo, ic-s with von, as they do with us. Our guest has Just returned front t. long visit to many distant lands. Every whore he S? J uruod honors were neaped upon Amorloa's dlstlnguisl)od i>^si>o, W*H#>a^.**iif> pVir urti, and h lOaglaud ' 0 ;r Great Com moner'' was termed "the Gladstone ol Amerloa." And when he returned to the land of his b'rth suoh a wei omo was given him as rarelv If ( vor has been (quailed under the Stars and Stripes of his native country. Differing in l umbers and in uolso, perhaps, but (qualing In sincerity and cordiality IH the wolcome willoi; wo South Carolinians give to you, Mr. Hryan, tooay. O Jr only regret ls that your stay must be so brlof. And now, Mr. Hryan, I give yon into tlie caro and keeping of youl South Carolina friends-South Caro llnians, I present to you tho Neb raskan, Willi'.'.m Jennings Bryan, thc ?reat A merlcau. Gov. Hayward's ringing speeoh wat followed by cheeta which swelled lnt< a genuine ovation RS Mr. Hryan came forward smiling. Mr. Hryan was li very tine v .Icc and without difficulty ?ic rnaae ?veryone lu that nig dowd hear him. He was inter:upted with applause frequently. After speaking an hour sud 40 min utes, Mr. hryan onncluded, although tho orowd willingly would have spent the whole afternoon listening to hit words of wisdom and his call to ao tion. Mr. Willis announced that thor*1 would be a puollo recoption at tin State o&pltal and there for half ar hour Mr. Hryan stood shaking hanoi with the South Carolinians who, e^gei and. admiring, crowded upon him. AT LUNCHEON, At 3 o'clock Mr. and Mrs Hryai wore entertained at luuoheon by Capt and Mrs. W E Gor.z.ilosat their hmm on Senate ntreet. The guests Invitai to meit Mr. and Mrs. Hryan were Gov. I). C. Hey ward, Mr. Riobard 1 Manning, Mr. Martin I<\ Ansel, g..?v e.rnor elect; Mr. Jno. C. Sheppard, for -ncr g? v mor of the Stat; ; Mr. Stan hope Sams, Litt. I) ; Mr. \V. A. Cia*] ano Mr. Julius H. Walker. Tho pf.rt remained at? the homo of Capt G )u z;)es until the time for departure c tho train for Augusta. Thero was ct mmlttce from that city waiting t accompttnj Mr. Mryan. Tho great Nebraskan evidently 1 found of Columbia. Hs did not hes cato to say so, and lils fi louds lier ?ore made to feel that his words wer genuine. Market tho Crop Slowly. Mr. liarvle Jordan says "the rcoeti meeting of the executive ccmmlttf of the Southern Cotton Assoolatio :>eld at Hot Springs, Ark., ?xliig tr minimum price on cotton, basis mit diing, at Interior points at. io cents % low price- a?; any farmer could 1 .?laked or advised to bold his Oottoi Ten cents pur pound ls practioa*. the bread and meut linc ar.d coth sold below that llguro, however Bligh barv ly represent thc cost of produotlo t'lietc is no necessity and no kind sensible repining why the Soul Should i aori Hoe at tho present m turing crop at any prloo under cor.ts per pound. There 's nt) good re son why this crop should noll for le j van that of last yoar, which avera Ida little over ll cents per poon I ti ibo porta. Since September ?904, to Septomher I, 1006, the tavc come into sight 2r>,r>oo,0GU bal >f ccttt n and of thia enormous arnon ll bsd been praetioaUy cc?t sum Koopt about 800 OOO bales." T ;rcp is Short and Mr. Jordan ad vis .ho farmers to market tho orop kio ly and tho prloo ls bound to riso. JflKBCK FIGHT, KKOKO ATTACK i ICNUIKHUK IN 1IIH lONGINI'J CAB. The Xegro fireman Made No Iffort to Fe)p the Engineer in His Battle. Engmcer J L. Leonard, of the S.utbern railway, had a desperate tight with a negro in his engine oab Thursday morning Just after ho bad left Kingsville and was about thirty milts abovo Oraogeburg. His loft ear was obewed nearly off by his ferocious assailant, Daniel Goodwin, who afteward made his esoapo. Wil liam Wilson, the engineer's colored tireman, did not raise his hand to hui o bis superior. Just outside ' f Ringville Tl ursday morning, while Engineer Leonard waa urging bis engine to speed in order to get the raorniug passenger train from Charleston into Columbia on time, Daniel Quod win, a negro who bad act- d a?? tireman for Mr Leonard and who b?,d been discharged some ten days b f oro, leaped upon the on glee steps a \? made his way into the. cab of the eng1 no. Ho announocd that bo was going to ride to Colum bia. Engineer Leonard ordered the bli; negro off tho locomotive. It would have beon against tho rules to let him rldo. Goodv/la refused to go. The engineor stopped tho englno tn put the negro off Goodwin seized a neavy monkey wrenob and mado a deadly awing with it at the engineer's lie&d Ile Baw tho blow ooming just in time ard slid down from bis soat He grappled with Goodwin, and then began the tight. I was the en mincer's task to pr vant G. odwin "run brab 1 ;g bim willi the wrench, and at the samo rime to put the desperate follow ff the engine, The negro wa-, forced steadily baok ward by TAr Leonard, who is not r> big man, but who is well musoled. But Goodwin got a brace against the b:-ok of tho c;?.h and Mr. Leonard' head brushed against his taos. In stan tl v, with the instil, ot of a bull dog. G Godwin crushed the engineer's .;ar between blB teeth, and chowed. The pain was horrible. Tho engineer succeeded in tearing away, and then lt waslhat Goodwin made his escape from the o.;b, and disappeared Into nearby woods. lin Booms to be a des porato fellow, and had an ally in Mr. Leonards negro tireman. Although in great pRi", the en glrmer drove his engine into Colum bia, and there was sent to the io firm try and received treatment. He re turned to Charleston Thursday uight. It is thought th*t Goodwin will bc captured, as he lives in tho neighbor ??mud of the placo where tho assault was made. The Charleston Post says the S millern rallwaj f r many yenni, and ls a good man. Ho was able te 'ecolve vibltors Friday, but will have trouble with thai inj ired ear for some time to come. Reports about bis lu j irks were muoh exaggerated, but ue did have a nairow e.ic;po. WANTS TO B? PlRbONED. i.e.i el Thoao Who Will Go to Pardon Board. The board of pardons will meet In Columbia the ilrst Wodncsday In Oe tober. There aro always a gnat many peoplo interested in the work of thl: board, and so that all interested may know of the pending oaues the follow lng list of tho oases to bo considered at the approaching session of tho board ls given: Dan Rywe, Aiken Canty, man laughter. lt F, and Jil & obey, Andorson, assault and battory aud resisting an ollLior. Dock Davis, Acdorson, murder, re commended to meroy. C. II. Phillips, Borkeloy, larceny live stock. George Stono, Cberckeo, petit lar ceny. E n. Parker, C iesterlleld, murder, recommended to moroy. Kelly Davis, Colleton, manslaugh ter. Eddie Patterson, Georgetown, mur der. ErvIn and Emanuel Limbcrt, lar ceny live Boook. Burwoll Thomas, Hampton, mur der. Ned (). Sessions, Dorry, violation dispensary Uw. Walter C. MiMauus, Lmoaster, manslaughter, recommended to moroy. Bill Mcclintock, Laurens, man slaughter. Polnsett Gosnell and Sol Norton, Greenville, murder. T. J T backs ton, Greenville, viola tion Section 382 Criminal Code Walter Allen, Groonvlllo, murder. Walter Jones, Laurens, assault and battery, Intent. A. B. Amaker, ct al "Amakers,' Orangehurg, conspiracy. Freddie Aiken, Orangeburg, assauh and battery, high aggravated nature A. Eolgor Bowell, Piokens, viola tion dispensary law. John Hendrix, Piokens, burglary, lr night time. William 10 llson, Piokens, vlolatloi dispensary law. Thea. C. Aughtry, H chland, mur der. Henry IVlg^tt, Saluda, dlspoBlm property under lien. U I Turnstall, Spartanburg, larcenj live stooi . J. I). Walker, Lancaster, solllni whiskey, Robert Gunnell8, Greenville, assaul willi intent to rapo. To boratou Umioy. A. D. Jaokaon, ohalrman of th I) mocratlc Exooutlvo Commltteo 0 Woods county, Texas, has Issued a oall for a mass meeting of Democrat of his county at Cj dtman Saturday Soptembor HLh, "toasoortaln and ex pros-? our wlshea in regard to Instruct lng our SI ?Ur, Sonators and our Rep remont?t!ves in voting against J. W Haney, for United States Senate from Texas." Mr. Jiokson states tha the oall is promptod by recent devel op noola made in tho testimony of H Clay P.oice at St. Louis, FIVE ASSAULTS By Negro Fiends on White Wo men in Atlanta Caused 1 NIGHT OF TERROR. Mob Invade N g'o Section In D fiance of the Police, and Cu>, Shoot and Beat Negroes to D attn Thirty Plve Arc Killed mid Minv Wounded. The multlplioiby of assaults com mltted in Fulton county and Atlanta during the past? three months, tlvo of which ooourrcd from ? to I) o'clock Saturday night, resulted in a bitte raoe war in which at le&'it thirty ne <?roes wer# killed by tho Infuriated white people of the city. O \o of the assaults Saturday ovening occurred Jus* beyond the outskirts of tho oity in Fulton county, and four others al most In tho centre of tho city. Abeu* 7 o'clock Mrs. F Arnold, residing h the western part of the city, v,as at tacked In her back yard by a negro, but escaped f mri bis o' u ob es and frightened bim away by her scroaoiR The negro waa ohased by the men of the neighborhood, who heard th cries for help, and later c p' ured and taken to the polios barracks. When t: is faot became kno'/n it fanned a smouldering Hame and in e. short time a small crowd of white pee pie collected a Short distance from tb station house, and lt appeared that there would be trouble. About th> 8ame time news was received tha' Mrs. Obatln, who lives m:*r tho Sol Hers' Home, bad boen attacked In th same manner by a negro, arri a poKSi immediately began soourtng the w. ods In that vlo'nlty for the fluid, Thee* 'wo occurrences, coupled .vith thesov en similar attaoks t.o-.t ha/c been made upon the woman of Atlanta in ft week, t-oon had tb", entire cl'y In > darno of passion. In very s'v rt order three more nport^d attempt c f the <i?mo nature were rec d ved and abeu 7 o'oi'Ck tho mob around that sootion of Decatur street Infos'.od by Hie oe groes bad grown lo more than 500 people. COUNTY DISPENSARIES. Vi o Not l'oriiilfiniibk U udor Our State' Conni 1 ( ul lon. To the Editor of the Haws and Oom ?let?I 'lon'b oxp-ob von *?o- publi?t; this, as you bavo carefully rofralucc from publishing anything that would tend to dispute y< ur position, but at. the d?cidons ar? over and no furvbi r use for misrepresentation, I will tr> you aud see tn what extent you are $ . owspap^r. Waat have you gained lr the el otlon, admitting for the saki f argument that you have the Govor nor aod L?gislature lu favor of oount) dispensaries? This, however, only ai argument; we contend that wo huv* Mie Legislature. Gan you have county ilspensarlet'? In our opinion youi campaign has been a myth, you oan'i eave county dispensaries wit! out ab rogatlng every bustnees principle known to trade ?no* oomumoe. Sa*, that \ou have both t ie G vernor and the LoglBlature In favor o' count dis pensaries, can you bavo them? That ls the cuesti?n. The Constitution o'. South Carolina says, ? fter enumerating what the L g lslaturo oan rio, in regard to the "ll (juor question," and may au'hi riz md empower, State, oounty and mu nicipal olbcers, all or either, udder tb_ authority and In tbo name of tin S .ate, to buv la any maikot and re call wltlib re State liquors and oev erages lu ;(l package.-? aiu! quanti ties undi . such rules and regulations as lt dee xis expedient.'' Now, f.upposo C arleston wants a oounty dispensary, it cannot buy li quor in lt? own name, but mint buy m the name of tne State. So, you nee, we om't have county dispensaries; and thc last campaign has neon mn upon a fraud. You say v/e can have lt, but the State mieit ba resp msiblo for our purohas6B. 1 admit that; hut ls tin. Stato of South OaroHna so laoklng in business qu ill Ilea'don as to permit tin use of its oredU to forty-one cuiiuntie. without any supervisloi ? Certainly tho State ls nob aciudmate for tin lunatic asylum, and wlli prohibition 0.ambles be willing to be taxed to pay debts of dispensary counties and get no revonm V Hardly. SJ you ace Ohat from a busirus i stand point yon bavo got to bavo State supervision ol tho dispensary or entirely repeal the I law. Now you would be willing te ropeal the law and return to bar rooms, ' but that was not the Issue bi this aleotion. So, If you will tell mo what /ou have gained lt will enllg'itum me, as 1 can see no gain with all of this huiebaloo. W. F. Clayton. Florence, S C. i -. Shower orMuncy, A dispatch from Now York says as a result of a collision between a trol . ley oar of the Btooklyn U\pli Tran i lt Co , and a wagon owned hy tho E,? ? stein Coal Company, of Manhattan, 30 bags containing about $20 taoti in , maali ooln wore strewn about the ?itreet In Hath B-jaoh, according t( j the driver. All oxo*pt thc contents of ono bag was Stolen. The amah t oMivas b&gs burst as they went to tb' pivi ment, and tilt J ogling coins at i,raeted a crowd of men andbjys wi r helped themselves until the police ar il rlvod. Out on Itali H Thomas W. Alexander, tho cotton , broker of Augusta, under arrest In ' Pittsburg as a fugitive from J ed icc, left for home In charge of Lieutenant of Police William M. Oolllns of Au . mista, who arrived In Pittsburg. r Lieutenant Collins says tho amount 1 Involved ls between $lf>0 000 and ' $200,000. Thoy anlvod lu Augusta . on Thursday, and Alexander was ball ed, tho hoad being $5,000. BRYAN'S VI SWS ON QOyiOHNMI'lNr OWNBUBHIF OF IIA I Ii KO A ?H. ernroont; owiiorsh'p of railroads M Hryan ?^ld that two ysaro ago the S Louts convention relievod him of r< Bponntbliity asa loader and left him t> freo man, and he nould gay what h; wanted bo Hay and do what ho want ed to dO' Without feeling hurt hy the Domoor'rftta p?rty. "When I wan freo," Mr. Bryan said, "to expr?s myself I dfc'a-ed I had reached tbi conclusion that the railroad mononolv was corrupt lu Its 'niluenoo on Amer Icon politics, md I wanted to fi?d ou< a relief for tho people and have thc. railroad:! sdministorcd by the govern notent foy the people, and not by a fe'" nagnates who enrich themselvc:?, an? .he stockholders. "I have thought about lt sinos ?nd I havo made some Observation? abr?a1' *nd ttiy oouvloMon-. havo bean increas ed, ?nd'yet thc other day when I ?atd in NewfYTork that I "til? Mllnv-s whet I said vt wo years ago i believed, I found I'jWas accused of disturbing the. oarmonjy of tho D moo at lo party 0'\e thing resulted from my utt^r linces, it relieved me of s-ra "- Buaplc lous friends I lmd in New York. "Fir. lnstatico, the o was a Stand ard Oil attorney who lived lc Ohio who had come out and advocated my lomination. That embarrassed mc Thc neit day after the speech In New York Ii felt relieved to soe an inter view fr^m him, where he said tho plan was prienosterons, and some papers v3ro beginning to oorae.around, I feel I can breatho easy now since they oomplhjoent mn with their criticisms hist?'ad?of embarrassing mo with theil 'ompllgionts While it rolleved mc from the support of su?piolous ohar toter?,jit aroused some fears in my mind as to my gool friends "My ;frien is, lam Btill a private oltlzsol The people who say thoy aro 'or mo{for provident aro not in a posi Mon to give bond to confer upon me . hts h ribo r whloh th'-y would havo me . i j y. j I am not going to wait two years &r>d was'e two years of my life ?nd wait for tho possibility of a pr?si dent? i oleotlon. No election could jistlf? mo in keeping allcnt when I Oink I ought to speak on a question of national Imp urta:'09. (Applause.) "I li*ve ncc attempted to foroe my ideas-cu the oouutry, I havo been ac oused^cf lt. Some ppoplo have acoused mo of fastening thc Chicago platform on the Democratic party. You do an injuitbc to others who had so much o do \ylth writing that platform Waon Vie Chico go o >nvontion was held very f<Av pe. pie know much about mo. r. tne.,oommibtee room. When I ask fd them to reiterate this plank on that platform I did not ask them to state a nesv doctrine that tho Democratic party did not stand for. "I cannot force things on the noun' ?ry even if I wanted to; nobody forc ed it on raf cr even o nvlnced me. 1 nave watohed the corrupting influence >f tho railroads. 1 know something of how, railroad lobbies infest evory Slate legislature and the national oap ital, I know how they have corrupted ' ur t lil dals, not merely the legista tures and executives, and hav- H8our ?.d appointments of their employ* s ri jodges when appointments wc?' made "In my stale when wc had tte tl .'ht over tho rote bill thoy io k ? member of the legislature on a Bp' ob: engine and carried him out of th' State and ho has w vcr dared to return from that day to this. "I had reached the conclusion that Instead of attempting tho Impossibili ty, ?s 1 behaved, of regulating them itu thia tremendous Inlluenoa ar**av .jd i.gttnst the people, it W'.:uld bi. bitter to rtogniz. tho Inevitable. "I Bald ultimately I believed tide would bo the solution, centralize na t'onal ownorshio, reserving to the S.ate the power of attending to its own business, because I saw tho dan gor In national ownorshlp, and I pro posed the plan by which national iwnerBhlp should bo limited to a fow trunk Hues and leave the o'.hers with the State In or^rr tbe.t. they might buDd up In the S s e a power to pro too us from centra /. on "I know a goon n.*v> of my frlendi do not agree with me 1 shall not dli? ir with them One wrote a e the o thor day that he liked iv. y 9pooch, that lt wa 9J per oeut. g; od I' 1 can be ?0 per cent, in my Domoor*fly 1 will \carcr approach perice lon .hen H >rac D mocrats with whom I am associa ted In pohtlc. ' I am trying to prevent central z pov/cr at Washington. Tu? railroad system wo have torbay h the Control of a few men interested In the Dlectio? of a president centralizes power at Washington 100 times more than thc plan 1 proposo. M ? plan leaven lt to the Staco, If tho Stato wants private ownorshlp lt can havo private owcor ship, if it want:' puhilo ownorshlp lt cm have it. It leaven thc quostlon to be deoidod by the oommunlty." Tho oapsl7.log of tho American schooner Twilight and the lons of nix of her crew In tho recent storm off the Carolina coast is anuounoed In tho fol lowing mossage received nt tho ravy department at Washington by wire less, via St. Augustine, from thc oui'.ser Minneapolis, on her way to Cuba: "The Minneapolis, fifty milcB cast of Charleston, at midnight pick ed up a mm at sea floating tn a plank. T wo men heard hlH voloe along si le at ll. Stopped the ship and turn cd on tho searchlight and lowered a lifo boat. Tho n.a"'s name is James O don and he belonged to the schooner Twilight, which capsized at ti o'oiook on tho morni ng of September 17. There was aoven in the crew. Wo remained IQ tho vloloity, using searchlights until ('aylight. but saw no wigu of the wreck or any survivors. Fisk, Com mander." Tho Twilight, dpt., Feddcnsen, was of 257 tonnage and her homo port was Wllmighton, Doh She sailed from Charleston Soptombir ll for Phlla dolphla. She wan bml\ at JW ,3t Ha ven, Conn,, in 1874. rp. the CL was written by io. I was not able to get Flouting on M Flank. What the "Reverend" Hayes Has to Say About the ?BATH OF HIS BON \ Who He R fused Medical Aid Claiming that tte Was a Divine Healing Evangelist, Claiming That He Guild Cure Illa With Prayer, Thc following letter 1B taken from "Tho Ltvo Coals," a paporof tho "di vine healing" faith, and waa written iy lt li nay nf?, the 1 evangelist" who refused tu lot Ida son have med loci aid, claiming that to wa? a "divine healing" cvacg< Hst and could euro hit 'on by prayor. Tho young lad was Miff*ring from an abscess on the brain, and died at- An deruen after a brief 111 ness. Huyes has been arrested and *ill b i tried for murder: I)-ar Live Ooala ITimllj: M*y th* 0 d of loyo, p ace and power keep yoe true on all il. ea till J HUS comes ti' take us away. Af tor the ccu.ioll meet lng at this p'ace, of whiob tho unity ..nd fellowship of tho 88lnts Riid won eriul mooting LtlU Ungern, I wont, to Picket Post, O'oneo oeunty, and >oln od in a meeting with' Brother Put .mm, who already had tho tent up That plaoo was what we generally cab 1 "burnt distrlot," where holiness har been preached. Notwithstanding there lad not boen a meeting there on the ietlnltc lire l.ne in nine year?, a fe? ?'cm stUl standing true, while th?, nj* j jrltv were in a baoks'ldden oundt r.ton Tho whole community, espec lally tho cooleslastloal body, legislated a quarantine against tho meeting They Ulled the roads with brush t keep people from oom log to Lhe tont. While this made the baale hard for the ?rst few days, yet we preacher and those that were savotl lay on ou fao38 before God un'il thc vlot ri came. Some prayed until 2 o'jlrc> lu tho morning. To gr">ao Godot Abraham, Isaao, Jacob, and El j - h rodo down in a ohart'tof lire and thf Mde rose higher and higher, and in all this was tiie grandest mooting we have been in for years. Two famllleb lived in night cf each other that had had misunderstandings aud old grud gea against oaoh ctbor for live years and they oame together, settled up. gpt right with God, and nearly all of these families got saved, some sanotl tied, 8ooo baptizad with Uro. Tboj started a red-hot prayer meeting, ano the meeting olosed with vlotory. On Wednesday, the 15vh of A igust, aftor tho connell meeting here, my little son, Baxter, who would havt been ll years old the 28.M day of Do comber, went home with his aunt, Mrs. B am, to Anderson, S. O , to speed a few weeks. lld was seeming ;y woll when he loft home, but wa aken tsc n. xt dar vvion obllls and '..C?daobo. Ile grew worse, and hit. i,unt was not eut on d vine healing ..e called in a doctor, and they gave lui medicine, and she thtnkiug he n u d v>e allrighii In a few days dir: not le* OH know anything aboutit un ll thi 27 h. O this day I took the .em do? n. ann Tuesday morning 1 ama to W*st.Ui.ion, S. (J., and on n> way thoro 1 met a man wltn two lc grams, one from ht mo tellb g rn? ..j.c news *ihry had heara the day be. fore, aiju ene Ton Anderson, toying the doctors would have to perform ar. : petition, BO I met my wife at S?n ica, and went to the child at once. We found bim very low. I went up .own to wiro the children how be was, .ind during my abseooo the dootor came and told my wife that be had absoess of the brain, and ho had done all bc could except perform tho opera .jlon. My wife told him we were ou: m divine boaling, and were trusting the L vd, and sbo refused to lot him eut Baxter's bead. I at onoe Bent for tho saints on my return, and wo pray d and anointed him, and oontlnued to pray. Ho seemad to get hotter livery time we prayed, and when th? saints would oumo in ho would say, "Pray now." Tho dootor ci ai? again while I was away and brought tho policemen with him and tried to furco my wife to bly the operation performed, butsbo re fused. Wo bold onto God, and on Friday, Baxter grew wors', and 1 ab solutely turned him over to Gjd ant prayed for Him to save him and hav?. HIB way, so the L>rd saved him anci saw tit to tako him, and ho sang three .ongs before bodied: "There ls J?y .u the Lord," "Oh, mother I'm Baver" .onlght," and "I'm going homo to db no more." then be passed away at : p. m., to bo whoro thero will be ni moro sickness or pain, to live witt Jesus. Just after this I wont to town t( wiro homo and bavo them dig tin grave and meet us tho next day, anc just after coming baok ' the ctHaeri came with a warrant and arrested nu and oarrled mo to Jail and put me in toa "murder" coll. I oar ri ed my bl ble with me and klssod my wlfo good bye, telling ber to bo truo to God anc pray for me. Ia the nearest coll t( mo wero tbroo whlto men, and I om monood preaching and praying for anc with them. They got und or con vio tien and begged mo to pray for them 1 read in the Bible till they shut of the UghU; thon I prayed nearly al ulght and God tilled that dark oel with His glory, bless Ills namo. J never felt so near G jd and hoav n lr all my life, and notwithstanding thai I was away from wlfo and my deac ooy, Baxter, and my loved ones. Got *a* with mo, and tho glory and fin of heaven wmo down in that dari "murder,' coll and mado lt bea von glory to God and the Lamb forovoi and over. God gavo me the wltncsi Along towards day that He would lo mo out to go home with my wife anc my dead boy to bury him, aud I sain and shouted and prayed. I common cod reading the Bible at daylight, anc read tho first ?even ohaptera of Acts then thought of John Bunyan, who spent 12 veart in JaU, and I also th u?/.;to; George bux, and Un a po ? tlet, lUiil, J >hn, Peter, aud others, and I ?aid, "L^rd, am 1 worthy to partake of a little of their suffering ?' and then God filled my soul with HL glory and I nh u'?;d al) ever that0*1) Morning now had cc me, and the beautiful sun was shining in through the bars, and about 9 a. m , tho J-4? or brought breakfast for four pris: n ors, thieo others ard myself. A small tin pan, along with two r-maH pi ce* of bread, and snmethli g like half a cup of black tar molasses, made the mornh g meal, but I was fasting and praying and did not eat Aitor awMl. two sanotilled brothers came nnrl eal) td mc to the door and said they were trying to get me out on bond, and so at lase they got mo out on $1 OOO oond and I was rolfed about 2 pm. Wo came homo on the evening train ?J v'nr Anderson a? 4:47 and arrived t TowOa sr m ?time af er 8. Wo *u>r rf Baxter tue n tat) morning at 10 a rn. Court cornea nfl on Sept. 17, anti L am praying Q<>d to deliver me out of the bands of tho wiokod. I fee' more fixed and settled to go on and bc true than ever before. Lot all toe saints pray muon, for me. Tho men that gol out tho war .*aut aro the wiokod m n of Anderson, nod regular holiness fighting, God ha Avg man, but 1 feel sweet ID my soul i-ov/ard their, aud am pr.yhig for them every day, that G ,d may nave thom and give them a home in heav en. I moan to be trna to Ged If I die In thc o? aingang. I am stili suvod, ranctifkd, bap?'zod with tho Ilolj Ghost and with tire, b d* healed, and I am locking for Je3ua to oome. Tecoma Qa. P* B HAYKS, Pifia IN AGONY. Austrian Scomoit to Hxvo Hvcovond l'.u? Wound Wain*! Healed, Harrowing details aro reported con corning the death of a strong mau, aged 43, who WAS tho victim of a bite from a dog His name was Albls Boehm, aub he was th? owner of ai estate ail Promoutor near Buda Pasth. Four weeks ago, while playing with f ?mall dog, Boehm was bitten lu thu aand. The Aound healod, and he ..bought no more o? it. L*st week Boehm b carno uiiwell, ..nd the doctors ascribed his illuoss te. .be bite. They s^ut Boehm to the P isreur InstUut? at Buda-PfiSth, ?vnere the do ti rs roco^nizAd the symptoms of ab:es, and looouiabsri t .e p?*Uent Thoy wished a'so to ls,1 lato him in a separate room, but Boehm returned home, and luformod tils wife that ho was irtfctrieva ol y lost. In deep grief they emb?acd each oth er, and said farewell. Boohm's conr.itlon became so much worse that ho was candi e .ed again' the next day, in the company of tw?. policemen, to tho Pasteur Ina oh ute ??(id tho d oio/ti o ru. ii d that nothing oould bo doue. The unhappy m in de clared tba; he would die at home, so with two strong attendants, he re turned home to Promontpr, wucro tu was placed in a separate room In his house. B fore the op?m d .or stood tho tw< attendants wita two polioe mau Thu tl juhm could speak tnrou^h the djor ?O his family and friends. F nally hr K-oame very wei.k, so he te>ok to bib oed, then called the attendants wh( ?trapped bim down, after which a vio tent attack se Zid him aud .auted hh death. Afi.er tho death of her husband, the ?u'.appy widow stated that she also had been bitten by the dog, and, at she had al o repeatedly kissed her hu ?und, she was taken to tho Buda Pesth Paiten? Instituto. FIUGHT?N? YilUNG LADIES. M i ci'oo I'ur HU-cl Them Rut Waa Hoftrod Oft* ami Kan. O.i last Tuesday v/eek ago while two young ladies were rolurnlr.g from school, and panging akinr on a baok street In the town of Fort Motto a negro man named Willie Ballard drew .i pistol on thom and at'.empeel to fire lt, but as luok would have lt the pis tol refused to lire, immediately on seeing thc deadly weapon tho young ladles tl d, with the negro man with in a few feet of thom. Aftor pursu ing them about loO foat or more he turned and, retracing his steps, turn ed into a corn field, where ho was lost .Ight of. Within a faw minutes a posse of men woro out after the n^gro, who was Boon captured aud placid in the ?own gunrd house. Ile wai then taken before the young ladles, both of whom identified him as bel?g tho ono who pursued them. Immediately afterwards a meeting of the oltlvwns jf the community was called. E?ch ono present was request ed to offer suggestions or advice aa to what disposition to make of thc pris oner. After fully dismissing the mat ter a vote was taken and lt was al? 11 most unanimous In sonellhg tho pris oner to Jail for tho law to take its course. i The olt.'zonrt of that community are to be congratulated on tho cool man ner lu whloh they handled tho mat ter. Tho scoundrel was lodged In the Orangoburg jail, from where ho ls likely to go to the penitentiary for some years J Kn A'lioUHAitU LOSt? A dlspatoh from Hong Kong, China, says a thou .and lives wero lost during ? the typhoon last week and thedamago to prop uty, publlo and prlvato, was millions of dollars. Twelve ships were, sunk, 21 stranded, aoven damaged and f one half the native craft in tho north I rurik. Tue shipping trade ls paraly 1 /.od through laok of lighters. Tho ty phoon lasted two hours. OvW a thous and Sampans and Junks aio rainslpg t from Hong Kt >ng alone. Tho military ] oarrack* aro In ruins. Tho French i torpedo boat destroyer Fruude waa wrecked Her guns wore saved, hut three potty ofilcers and one seaman lost their iivos. Tho harbor ls strewn r with wreckage thrown on tho shore, s ?nd sevoral thousand Chinese water t dwollors must have perished, many 1 within a short dlstanoo of shore. Loses ( In lives and property among the Ohl neae is appalling, O to launoh that l|oapslssd had 130 Chinese on board. They wera all drowacd, A Dozen People Killed and Scores Hurt Friday by A GREAT } XPL08ION Ol a CT ot Dynamite at Jelllco, Temi. The Railroad Station Demolished and Many Other Buildings Are Wrecked, Causing Heavy Loss. At Jelllco, Tenn., on Friday twelve ilvea were snuffed out, scores of peo ple were hurt and property destroyed ho the amount of half a million dol lar? hy the explosion of a carload of lynamltc, which was standing on a rack near the Southern depot In that ;lty. The explosion made a report .?hat was heard twenty ralles away, chattered buildings In the business cotton of the town. Evorv piece of ?laai within a radiance of one mile of the explosion was shattered. Tue freight oar, one of the Pennsyb vania's lines, o >ntalned 450 boxes of ?.'.0.000 pounds of high explosives ounsigned to thc R.\nd Powder Oom* pany, at Olearflold, Tenn. Two causes are assigned for the explosion, One is that throe parties were shooting at a mark on tho oar and that a bullet outercd tho oar and caused tho ex plosion. The other is that while the car waa standing on a side traok a oarload of pig iron was swltohed against It and that the force of the J ir caused the explosion. The depot of the Southern, which was looated nour the scene of the tx? "logion, was wholly wrecked. T*o hotels, the Glenmorgan and the Oar mothcrn wero badly wrecked, the ; hird story of the latter being wholly tog troy ad. O :e person, Mark Atkins, who was aJo'.'p in a room on this floor it tho time, is one of the most sert* >usly Irj ired of the entire Hat, whioh ?111 number fully two hundred, count ng all who were but slightly hurt. Justness houses were badly disfigured, ic o\ i of goo'.'S ruined, while residen ?es suffered severely, windows and loor8 blown out of the houses aa far 'mm the socuo aa one mile. Among the buildings totally des* ?.royed were the Armour Packing Oom jany's warehouse, the Jung Brewing Jompany's warehouse, Pinnacle Brew og Company's warehouse, oil tank ind warehouse of Kentucky. Consum ?a'Chi Company and the Standard Dil Ci mpany'a warehouse. Bssides 'iu1 two damaged hotels, the .lolicu Furniture Company's building collap sed aud the stock of the Smith Dry doods Company was practically ruin* d, although the building wbi?h it oe* ?up'.erl, the Oumb ria nd Opera House, tue llno.it a'ruobure in J thoo, escaped with httlo d ?raago. Fully twenty other firmi suff ered losses, but they occupied small building*. R -i?ouers began work soon after the explosion and medical aid was asked ot Knoxville, which sent a dozen phy s'otans to administer to the wounded. T velve of the most seriously injured were sent to Knoxville to the hospit als in that city. The holding of in quests over the bodies of the vlotlms was begun this afternoon, but was not complotcd. It is the most serious dis aster in the history of the East Tenn essee mining section since the terrible explosion in the Fratervihb mines In 1902, when 184 miners, men and boys, lost their lives lu a o al mine, n?ar Coal Greek, less than twenty miles from the scene of Friday's explosion. Mayor R B. Baird issued aolrcular, notifying the public that all person* found on the streets after 8 o'olook Friday night would be arrested, unless they were owners of building or stocks of goods or agents therefor. Many people are homeless as a result of the disaster, and as almost every ohimney was destroyed, cooking oannot be done in any of the houses. Some estimates made Friday night on the loss of life place tho number of victims at as high a figuro as forty, but lt is believed that this a gross exaggeration, and that not more than fifteen have lost their lives, if that many. Tho Governor Knookotl Down. Gov. Heyward mot with a painful acoldent in Oolumbla on Friday. He crossed over Malu Street from the Jerome Hotel to Abbott's ooruer, and j ist as he was passing under an awn ing lt was le? down. Tho heavy polo on whioh the awning ls rolled up struok lite Governor on tho head, and ho was kunoked down. He was taken <nto Abbotts store, where ho was given attention, and later on ho was takon to tho 10 ??o. i bi ve Mansion in a car riego. The accident was painful but not serious. _ Htrnok by a AI arillo. At Omaha, Neb., a small glass mar ble, drepped by a boy from the top of a building, Thursday caused the fatal injury of William Porter, who hap. p.- nert to bo in line of the fall of tue marbia The hoy was playing on the fourih floor of a building when oro of his marblo9 fell down an elevator shaft. Perter was working In tho shaf o and was bareheaded. The marble fell squarely on his head and he dropped like a log. The ir J urea man was taken to a hospital. He has been unconscious for several hours, F ?.tal AloMiulto Itlto. A dispatch from Charleston says Ulbert n Walton, a well known young man, of that oity, died from the bite of a mosquito. The I nt:cob stung him on his face and he soratoii ed tho place with his (inger nails, re sulting in bio d poison setting In and hin nnnRftouftnt death. Al inlstor Killed' The Riv. Frank Cornelius, a Bap. tisb minister, near Dupont. Ga., was shot through the head while reading on his front poroh. His family rush ed to his asslatanoo. It was thought he wai assassinated, but indications are that bo commuted suicido,