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A PRETTY 'IvITTI-KOF FISH* This is a pretty "kittle of fish," o\-Judge Townscnd a quasi-Republican, manipulating the Alliance caucus through .lohn M. Waddill atul ot hers for his own aggrandizement. At Olio, Marlboro County, Mr. Waddill attack Senator Smith's Democracy, by accusing him of voting for Ilaskill and a negro, when Smith turned the joke on him by making him acknowledge that ho O had never voted the Democratic tick ot in his life. Mr. WaddiU's name was on it Republican club roll, and of course, the presumption is natural that ho voted the Republican ticket in 1870 Ex-Judge Townsend's n fllflf ll/? ?iN?n n ? ?>v> V'CI "(13 i? llVJHIUIIUilll was a surprise to us and lowered hint in our estimation ?it was denying his paternity. If he was not a l^opublican, then he was masquerading as such for oillcial pap He was nominated hy a negioandeleotod by a no. gro legislature, and it is nonsense to say they did it knowing him to bo an uncompromising Dcmoorat.llo ei therprofessed adhesion to ltepubli can principles, or they knew his pliability and adjustability. It is absolutely preposterous to think that he would apply to President Harrison for appointment to the District attorneyship for this State as a plain Democrat. Ho was still wearing the republican mask. Of course Judge Simon ton recommended and promised him his support to supposing him to be a mild Itepubli can, as did also Henderson and Sen ator Hampton. Had he received the appointment it would have been as a Republican and Judge Townsend knows it. v He makes a convenience of his - political garb to suit his official as pirations, he is Republican, Democrat, Independent, or Tillmanitc, as suits the current breeze. Political fealty possesses very little weight for him?he can change his political faith quicker than Gov. Tillman's lizards. f^-Tho Washington corrospon dent of the News and Courier hj]$ inquired at the Law Department about Mr. Townsend's application for the District Attorneyship an(| Attorney General Miller*' "consulted the files of the ap^'AYtment division and founj} V*nat Mr. Townsend's papers w^ro on file, with numerous en^orsjnients in support of his RepubliflfSnism," and yet Mr. Townsend * f * n* ^conies neiore an intelligent audience ' and denies it. Ekitoii Hokky IIkkai.d: 1 notice in the last issue of Tiie Hkhald a communication which seems to be intended to reflect upon our present Senator. Apparently with all "the instinct of a monkey * our friend ".lr" has glided to the "top of his pole,'' greatly to ..< i.:.. i--*? i vim/ (iiiiiiouiiiviil' 111 f5 lOTS, <111(1 chatted out "Jeriemiah the false prophet". After this comic scone, buying completely failed to substanctiate this charge. I presume bo will quietly reaumo his seat at the ''bottom round of his ladder.'' 1 will admit that Senator Smith has not so much, of the "monkey instinct'' as some of his would-be assailants; but ho bad tbe manly courage of a true and honorable gentleman, to defend himself, when attacked and unjustly accused by a "man who never hesitates to resort tp falsohtod whou speaking of political opponents, or to promote Ins own Belli-h personal ends.'' This 1 snbmit ho did ably, thoroughly vindicating himself?quite gliti*fHC'tiotiily to tho thinking poo w *; ... HQ] plo of tbis country. I am sure there are but fow of < his avowed political oppneuts in this County who would even iosin uato that Jerietniah Smith has ever acted in any way "false" to the people whom ho has hid the honor to represent for the past twelve years. On the contrray they knew that he has always been the champion of the fanner and a true advocate of the right of tho working class of people. The vague insinuation that Mr. Snrth "cast his influence in one direction and his vote in another" is oxtrnmnlv uninut /mil 11 null.. j ....J,... ; coining its author. For everybody knows him to be a man who bus the courage of h:s conviction. lie wears but one face under his "wool hat," and in this honost face one can readily detect the Mobility of the man. lie realizes that he has rights as a freo and independent citizen and he never hesitates to maintain Jthom. After due reasoning, he allows his conscience to dictate, and all power could not change him when he is satisfied that he is acting for the best interest of his party and constituents. This it would appear to me is the I kind of man we need to represent us in the national house, and while lie is making a manly tight and a successful run in the upper Counties I think it behoves us as trim and p > triotic Horryites to lay aside all 1 i tional strife and rally to the suppo. of Joriomiah Smith, a true and tie <1 friend of the people. I partly agree with my friend that the majority of the people of I lorrv am not ''made of putty" to be moulded by all kind of "insinuation/' but on the contrary are composed of ' such material as the "man who would suffer his head pulled off and sold rather than sacrifice principle to policy." For this reason 1 can't believe that the people of Horry will sacrifice tho "principle" of voting for "Uncle Jerry" to tho (supposed) "policy" of voting for "little "curleyheaded John.'5, ' i). Ai.i.icn Spivky. Kkiiou J loam I1kh\i.i>: Your paper gets bettor and better, 1 wish to show your rcadears how 1 things arc going up here. I will I say that I have been a member of 1 the Fanners Alliance for several 1 years, and am now a member in 1 good standing, but I do not believe ' in the peoples party as it now exists. 1 The peoples party of this County 1 held a Convention in Morganton about a week ago. They nominated ' an old farmor for the State Legisla- 1 turn whose polities is badly mixed. < They endorsee one strong Republi- ' can, and two independents who are ( doubtful. Sinoo that convention the Uepulicans held one and endorsed ' the same men. Well, you see it is 1 just any thing to breake tho Democratic ranks and if tbeso men should ' ho elected- tlie Republicans would ' say-We elected you?you could have ( done nothing without us and of 1 course you must do the things Wo want done,. ,*?;i ney-"ptll * themselves Wader obligations to the .Republican 1 party. I think the people will get their eyes opened before election day. \\'o could stand tho force bill in > this 111! OOlintrv bllt. it tvrmlil l?n n I I- J "V. .? fearful tiling for eastern N. 0. and South Carolina. I hope the piohibition cause will be successful in South Carolina, i I How can good citizens vote in favor I of the liquor traffic when it is noth- i in jr. Drive whisky out erf South Carolina, elect the Democratic ticket, riase more corn, hay and bacon, and the State is safe. Yours truly J. W. I). Connolly, Springs, N. C. Aug 13th, 1892. muuenu mn Tnu/uprun junuouu hhu lunnacNUCONTINUED FROM FIR8T PAOK. Johnson: Harrison must have taken him upon the hill and showed him the city. Judge Townscnd stayed in Wash iugton expecting tho appointment of District Attorney for some time. Mr. Johnson didn't think the Judge wanted this office lor.g. It can't be the $1,500 a year the Judge wants. Ho couldn't conceive why the gentleman wished to got this par. ticular office, unless for this, he has heard tho threat made that the judg- < es in this state are to he disrobed again and made of one political faction. 1 The Judge's partner was in his ' way. Johnny was in the way. Now i Johnny i* side tracked into Federal ( % I %drTSOS. RUY HERALE politics and the way is open for the ex-Judge. Mr. Johnson't hanked the audience for its patient hearing and took his sea t. EX-JUDilK rUAItl.KS PRI.1IAM TOWN8KX 1?. was next introduced. 1 have always entertained great friendship and respect for the people Horry, he said. Ho had first came to this county when .fudge ami had been received with open arms anu sustained in his official capacity. lie said the Solicitor set himself Up A8 a nuratrqn of official iiHrfontinn niul attempted to impugn his judicial record. 4-1 don't care by whom 1 was elected, I can say that no man Can clianrn t hut I Imlit *l??% 1...1 - - ^ ? - - - v . v, ?. uv I\? tllO u?l mice of justice with an unoven hand" lie accuses Mr. Johnson of attacking him simply to obtain ollico. Ho said his friend who belongs fco the ringsters may well feel hurt that ho had come oil*. The Judge went on to say tfcat he would venture the assertion that there existed in this town previous to '90 a little ring or click who suggested the ofiiccrs for the county. He had a right to come out for Solicitor. I lis friond objected because1 ho didn't conic out soon enough, as if a free citi/on of South Carolina ( < ildn't come out whenever Ik; pleased 1 !c was not dependent upon his opponent for leave to run. le said hi* friend complained of losing Cine and money in going over tii' I)i trie': Why then did lie go round swinging to Sheppard and Orr if he thought there was no necessity. His friend objected to bis card cln tiling it was a misrepresentation mid wanted to know who in Horry asked the Judge to collie out 4'I COllld llllf rnv li ncrnr v lm X J OIIKI, WI.IIWI 13 i)km) in this house who asked mo to run for the olllce of Solicitor." I lo said the reason he c jme out so late was he put (-IT his solicitious friends is long as lie could hut at last was forced to yield to their wishes. It is not belittling for a .Judge to nun for Solicitor. It is not belittling to take any office at the hands of the people, from Judge to constable. A Judge would make the better SoliciIIis competency could not be questioned. Another objection was that his partner Mr. McLaurin was a candidate for Congress. That was no objec;ion. If the people can tint, two Til 1uan lawyers in the place to light for the people why put them there. There was a reason for taking these two in particular. They were the only Tillman lawyers in the Dls.rict. lie said that Mr. Johnson had attacked his record to get oflice, that this ??entIonian was willintr ti? mill o - O "" lown every Tillmanite in the Dis.riot to get office, that he wanted tho jIVioo for the money thero in it. The history of the Judge's election n 167'J had never hecn known. lie had never told it. In 1872, they were looking around m tho Ith Circuit for some one to ill the judges seat. He was approach3d, not by a Republican, ,im\ ft9ked f lie would allow ?am0 to bo used 1 le allowed it. lie said he atttended no caucus at Columbia or any where else; he did not hobbnobb with any clique, ring, Republican or otherwise, and he denounced the statement that he had as false. Two or three other Democrats were seeking this office. Maxwell then Senator from Marlboro, and Donalduldson, then Senator from Chesterlield, approached him o* the subject, lie told thorn ho would accept the of tire but would not merge his politics into Republicanism for if. He took the office in the interest of the white people of the State and lie would challenge anyone to produce any thing on his record that showed Republicanism. "I fool," ho said, that 1 have a conscience void offence in doing tho duties of that office." Although he was surrounded in the court room by Republican officials and many a time had negroes for jurymen, yet lie felt that he never lost his fealty to the Democratic party. Every Democrat in the House in '75 voted for him, lie claimed. I I p W/ll'lrn/1 lie iwl ?^ 1? * 1 1 ' - v irv/rnvu iUU lU Ui ilAH UUWI1 Ulfl bar rooms in Conway when he was judge. Some of the men before him, perhaps, owed their sobriety to day to him. The judge was put out of office mi '77 by a quibblo of law; but for the Bake of peace and harmony in the State did not appeal to U. S. Supreme Court. .fudge Townsond then spoko of the judges of the State. He said he ilid not mean to criticise, hut asked if judges on the bench were in favor :>f Tillman or noh They were not; ' ' J ' . -/I V Si >, THUK8DAY and if they don't nmid, if they don't quit talking, Gov. Tillman will put them nut. Tillniaii is not going to stop till he puts the last one of the ringsters out. The Judge wont on to say that judges were influenced in their decisions by politics. He accused Mr. Johnson of not wishing to tread on Tilltnunites' toes, of flattering Till* man men to get votes. He had been consistent since 1880 when he ran for the Legislature as an Independent. lie SHys he foresaw then exactly what \vu8 coining?was ten years ahead of Tillman and the farmers. The judge then began to explain his Connection with the Republicans, while ho was seeking the appointment of District Attorney over L. P. You mans. *. Judge Simon ton, during open court in Charleston, beckoned to him and suggested that ho apply for the position of District Attorney, referring him to Judge Henderson who knew Assistant U. S. Attorney (Jen. Miller. He took the suggestion and wont on to Washington. Wade Hampton endorsed his petition. Mr. Johnson: Didn't those gentlemen recommend vou as a renubli ?/ I can? Mr. Townsend: No; I did r.ot so understand them. Mr. Johnson: Didn't I recommend you myself as a mild Republican? Mr. Townsend; Not that I know of. I don't rcmemlmr that. The Judge went on to say, admitting all his friend accused him of and he didn't, "if there was forgiveness for who voted for laskell, there's forgiveness for me. If yon forgive him God knows you ought to forgive me.' He then proceeded to ram some "Tillmanism, pure rillmmism" down Mr. Johnson. lie began by treating very lightly with covered sneer the grand light of Gen. Wade Hampton for the redemption of South Carolina in 187<>. He wound up this paragraph by saying that Hampton supported him for Judge. "1 claim," proceeded tho .Judge, "to l)e as good a 1 )cmocrat as ho (Johnson) is. I have voted the Democratic ticket since except in '80 and then what 1 conceived to be it." lie told us then when ho bec^ne. a Tillinanite. "In 1890, Murph, \ was public in my utterances in his favor." The lawyers are usually against him. They are with tlie banker, merchant, etc., in leagudf against tho Farmers' Movement./ it was natural for the lawyer to) favor his friend. * "I've always boon in (Ivor of the tanners. They are thoFsupport of the country. All professions and classes live through /the toil and sweat of tho farmer./ i would not be true to the h^',p\ that feeds mo, if I turned the farmer. They may l>cV/*l?e me as a lawyer but I'll stand firmly by the Farmers' Movement." The Reform Movement in 1800 was natural. There has always boon in South Carolina, a contest between the aristocratic and the poorer class cs. In 1832, the blue bloods, descendants of the old Huguenots tried to overthrow the general government. But they had Andrew Jackson to meet and they failed. In 1800, it was the slave class seeking the ascendency. The war was a crushing blow to the aristocratic domination. Before this the blue bloods here controlled the political destinies of the State. The wrr came; South Carolina passed under tl,? -11? < mu iuu ? wn? puioucuuy a prost.raio State. The Revolution of 1870 put j the aristocracy again in power. An oligarchy ruled the State till 1890. History of South4Carolina from '7<> to '90 is the history of the rule of rings and cliques. A few men in Columbia controlled the government and dictated to the people whom thoy should put in oflice. The peoplo were apathetic. They trusted the oligarchy. But they at last arose in their might in 1890 and overthrow the rings, and restored to themselves the right to rule. If lien Tillman had novci* lived, this revolution would have happened. The Judge supported him, he said, because he was the exponent of the principles that underlie the Farmers' Movement. The Conservative leaders are not abusing Ben Tillman; they don't care anything about Ben Tillman. They are abusing the farmers and the Farmers' Movement through Ben Tillman. The men in tho towns and cities are the ones opposing Tillman; the onns who used to have AUGUST 25, tho rings, who used to rule Soutl Carolina. All they want is to gn hack into power. It is a studied of fort on thoir part to got in a position to control tlio offices again; bul they'll never do it. It is written 1>) the Recording Angel that this Rovo lution shall novel go backward, thai tho farmers shall have their just and natural rights. It is moving and will keep on forward and those in the way shall boorashed. Vote no longer for men; vote for principles. I n that way only can you lift yourself out of the slough ol Despond. Vote for competent men who will carry out your principles. The Jltdtre said that thero win nothing against the record of Mr Johnson, that he had punished man) a rascal. Hut the Judge advised thf people to put a man of their own principles?a Tillman man in hit place. lie said Mr, .Johnson had grabed at the straw of speculation, had ac cused him of wanting to bo a Judge again. "You not only want a Tillman Solicitor, but a Tillman Judge. 1 may be a candidates and may not 1 am nmr runing for Solicitor*'' 1 le stated that lie .stood squarely ! upon the Ocaln nlaifnrm Mr. Johnson there arose and stated there was an issue of fact between them, ho himself had stated an good authority that .1 ml go Totvnsend was in the Republican cuucu* in 1871. , Tho .1 udgo denies it. Mr. Johnson propose* to prove I positively his assertion. The audience was very quiet throughout. During Mr. .Johnson's talk there much laughter. Both Speeches were punchuated with applause. The two speakers left on two o'clock train, they spoke in Darlington on Saturday following. .1. O. Norton. ADVETISE MEN TS. G. A. CROFT. I 'roft sells cloth shoes at 50 cents, per pair. ()ther merchants get $1.50 a pair, but Croft don't want tho eartli, lie behoves in old saying of ''Live and let live." Why buy an old Calico Dress, at G to 10 cents a yard, & and after taking it homo, have your wife fusyou all Sunv.nov vhen you i t /i 41 rjui uuy irom tjroris, f'U'atnor ot Low Prices") nice lawn dress, 10 yards for 35 cents, Buttons & Thread Thrown in. o Call and seo what good nice, sweet, juicy Tobacco, Croft can sell you C pounds for 1 Silver Dollar at both stores Conway and Port Ilarrelson o If Croft catches a clerk in his store, selling a dress, without throwing in thread and buttons, he will discharge him before sunrise. Croft will have some bodsteads, for the Pall trade, which ho will sell for $1.50 eaclt, They are "Stemwindcrs." 100 Pair Childrens Shoes at 30 cts a pair-Crofts Store. Paint tho town rod or any other by using the New Jersey Popular Mixed Paints. For sale hv O A Croft, at low prices. FOR SALE. One yoke Oxen or will sell single ox. Apply at once to (1. A. Croft, or .J. II. McCaskill, Conway, S. C. Croft, the father of low prices in Horry, will giye yon '20 pounds tine granulated sugar for one dollar. Croft still selling those elegant hand turned Kangaroo $2 ladies shoe for $1.25. Will have 1000 pair by 15th of August for Kail trade. Nice worsted dresses all colors, 10 yards for 60 cents at Crofts. Cro'ts stores, at Conway ai.d at Port Ilarrelson, have received a fine line dents hats, that are going at un parrel led prices. Crofts Silver Dollar Ladies shoe is a "hummer" and the ladies all say they are worth 2.00. All of Croft's prices at his Conway store, hold good at his store at I'ort llarrolson. AN EXPLANATION. Every hoy in Horry County will want to know how Croft can sell 50 cent tobacco for 25 cents, and 6 lbs for one dollar?worth 30cts a pound. Why? 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