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VOL. VIII. TREE TRADE AND TARIFE REFORM Till] ST\ U-EYKI) QODDI'XS OF ItKIOlOl IN A till HAT IlAtiF.. Henry WnllorNou, Ftlitor and I'ollli citui, Kil'ON Into I hi: Wilson Taril. Kill?He Then Accepts l hits IIckii 11 i)l I ho Til rill' Agitation us tin Kcst 1 hint; 10 Do Now. One of tho most remarkable political speeches which has been delivered in this country for 11 long while was made by Henry Wuttorson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, at the celebration of Jackson's birthday by the Watterson Club in Louisville. It had boon given out that Mr. Watterson would deal with the political situation and tho expectations of those who wont to hoar him were not disappointed. His speech was received with great surprise, and yet with tremendous enthusiasm by tho vast audience. Tho following ex tenets urn urivon lui show the tretul of the speech which is already exciting much attention : I mean no disrespect to persons in authority when I declare that this Seems to mo an era of very small tilings and very small men. Yet the stream of life goes on. bearing its awful cargo of good and evil, hope and fear, and holding to the least of the generations the relation it held to the greatest. And. surely, never in the history of mankind were deeper problems set to statesmen and philosophers than are hidden in the dark closets of contemporary experience, arising out of the unlixed laws that are to determine and the undo lined boundaries that are at once to separate and inclose the accret ions and the rights of property and the opportunities and the liberties of people. It is now, as ever, the old hut tic between the many and the few, for the bless- I ings of free-labor and free-thought, | which, under our system, are supposed ; to be the birthrights of all. I say "supposed-to-be." Hut are they bo'/ Then why these gigantic fortunes piled up in a quarter of a century devoted to the simple arts of avarice and peace and not swollen by the spoils of war, with captives chained to enariot wheels, and ransacked treasuries and sequestered estates, and all that made the wealth and glory of Human conouost and British valor V Why this cry of want in tho midst of plenty, which arises from one end of the land to the other? Why? POUTHNT OF THE SITUATION. We are told by tho Republican partisans that it is because the Democrats have come into power. We are told by Democratic partisans that it is because of twenty years of bad Republican legislation. The real cause lies deeper: and neither of tho two great party organizations can claim exemption from its share of responsibility Tho Republicans have, sinned in excess: the Democrats in omission. T? neither do the masses of the pc.opn plight their unreserved troth. A little more than a year ugo tin Democrats swept the country. A lit tie year later the Republicans swept the country. There must have bet n some reason for so sudden a change. There was : and if one was to set k t< explore and llnd it. lie will find it in ; certain want of confidence on the part of the people in any one set of poiiti elans and for this want of confidence the politicians are themselves in tie main responsible. In November, 18912. the people voted a change of parties upon wnat the\ supposed a plain, specific political program, a perfectly legible bill of fare. In November, 18921, they voted thi other way because they bad gotten it into their heads that the men they had elected were not as much in earnest atthey bad seemed to be, but were taking their ease in their offices, instead of bestirring themselves to carry out their promises. 1 allow for the resentments among the disaffected place seekers. 1 allow for the wide-spread prer.suro of hard times, for which the party in power is generally held to aovi,j,count. 1 allow for some internal dissensions about financial mutters. Hut back of these forces lay the recumbent figure of distrust. The party spirit which had .'ought and won the buttle of ''.::2 was allowed to go to sleep ix: '921. The watchfo es wore not kept burning, even on the innei lines. There was some dissonance of counsels about headquarters. The doors of the citadel left ajar and many of the outposts abandoned, it was easy for the enemy, who n..,l ? rl><iu..n '..IT <1 i ^ -??. ...... ...... .. v.. ........... V. to get together again and to relriove a { part of tho disaster tliut had befallen' thorn. The political conditions are thus < x-! nctly reversed. It is the victorious : Democrats who arc disheartened. t!.e vanquished Republican*, who are encouraged. And the question for you the veritable, tin* untorrifled. the orig- | inal !>oys in the trenches?tho question i ^ for you to consider is, whether you j ^ are going to sit down and sulk under it. or wake to the danger and make yourselves heard and felt in those seats of power, which exist by your will and breatho the breath of life out of your nostrils. THE TRUTH OP HISTORY. In the National Democratic Convention of 181)2, the platform committee appeared with a tariff plank, which, to say the best that could be said for it. was open to doublo construction. My own opinion is that it embodied excellent Republican doctrine. The convention would not havo it. In its place it substituted a resolution, repeating the declarations of 1870, 18H0 and 1888, which demanded " a tariff for revenue only." This resolution was so plain in TL its terms that no one could misread it. So the covert enemies of tariff reform, who masquerade as Democrats, the better to servo the devil of protection, straightway set about to have Mr. Cleveland repudiate it in his letter ol acceptance, lie did no such thing either in that letter, or any other utterance. Then they trumped up the plea that the resolution was a trick of the Anti-Clovoland men in tho convention to embarrass the Cleveland men and, if possible, to delay a vote, and in that way defeat the nomination of Mr. Cleveland; that tho Cleveland nu-n saw the devfeo and conceiving that Mr. Cleveland would be his own platform relused to fall into tho snaro, but let the resolution pass; and that, thus, tho Noal substitute carried no moral force with it, not even representing the opin rrr-i' ,.f>TU-,L v.'v-t 1 ... . . _ ion of tho convention. To clinch this view, the whole affair was descriijcd as the midnight swirl of a turbulent tnob. II history were fiction, and politics a game of blind man's butt, poets would he statesmen, and only children would vol . T 101*0 was never a more do* liberativo act dono by a deliberative body than tiiu siibstitutionof the Neal plank for the Vilas plank by tho National Democratic Convention of lspj. II was the logical culmination of a campaign of education covering ten years, it was an act of tho people setling aside a subterfuge of the politicians. It was not done at the dead of night, under whip and spur, but between the hours of li anil i) o'clock, in tho evening, .vhon tho convention was wide awake, and knew perfectly what it was about. It was not planned to obstruct tho nomination of Mr. Cleveland; though. if the convention had suspected that Mr. Cleveland had any hand in the original tariff plank which it struck out ho would not have received one-third of its votes. Both Mr. Vilas and Mr. Whitney wore asserted by myself and others that no oh struction was meditated ; and it is wel known that, averse? as I was to the nomination of Mr. Cleveland, I regarded it a foregone conclusion bo fore the eonventii n met, and had ceased to disturb anybody or be disturbed, on that account. In short, in tho most decisive, and, as far as anything in American politics can bo solemn, in tlie most solemn at least in tho most serious a ay the convention ended, as I Imped finally and forever, the long stru rgh1 between the forces of light and uarkio'.-s in t.ko Democratic party, hy stamp ng out a double-tongued assi i ti' n of its tariff policy, and inserting* adre arnt on which no human being nn mlo . . ... i \'i i in i \;j r\ 11 u. l.'iiitl.: i>;n was dead?Curlisloistn whs rampant. And with Cleveland for Mijsos (.'leveland and his message of 'H? Cleveland as tlie Democrats'ideal of tariff roforni?we went to the country. We met the onset of Republicans full in front. They made their light directly on our tariff plank. They described it as a slip out of the Confederate t'onstit ution. They denounced it as a Calhounism, redivivua. There was nothing that could bo said of it, or of us, that they did not say. All the worn out pleas of protection, ail 1 ho exploded shells of sectionalism, were thrown into the broach wo had made in the wall of the robber cust !e. Hut they did not so Mice to save it. In spite of all. with our tarifT-for-revenue-only Hag Hying and our down-with-protoction 1 drums beating, we drove the robber ! barons out of their earth-works across their moats and dikes, into their lair, and out again, remaining, for the first time since IK",7, complete masters of ( the situation every department of the j jov) rnnu lit in our possession. I ask you. not merely as Democrats, hut as sem-iblo men, was all tliis ?c omplished. after years of discussion, ti'MM !y to condone and conserve Republican policies, or was its mirnose to re i'lTsr the.-e policies, and to set up in j room of them Democratic policies; cqunlK . s dear and clear to tho men 1.0 a i fought and won tin* buttle? TIIH M ?I< A I. (?L*' TIIK VICTORY. Kit her wo were right or wo were vron^r. Too vote of 1890. following i the passage of tho McKinloy act, j enncd to indicate that tho people j ihougl t wo were right. Hat the vote 1 f IS92 electing a Democratic, l'resi-j tent and a Democratic, House and Senate wan conclusive on 111 is point, j If it was not so, then Homebody was most ogregiously deceived. Who was It? An eminent member of the present government said to me just after the elections of last November, "it seems impossible now-a-days for tho partyoaders to make sure of their voters !" He spoke in a tone of general despondency. ' How can you expect anything else." I replied, "when you are always ; leeoiving and disappointing thorn?! I'he voters are all right. They know ! what they want and what they mean. ' It. is that as soon as one of these little great men gets into what he thinks a big and a snug placo that ho easts about to see how he may keep it, and straightway he sets up for a little tin Jupiter, who knows more than anybody else Then the people finding him too | great a man to be good for anything, j turn about and turn hiin out. often in i sheer perversity. Men of real genius, of real courage, of real conviction, of real inspiration, of real worth do their I duty first and count the costs afterward. As a consequence the voters believe in them and follow them, even as 1 hey followed Clay through forty ,i urs of run and shower; even as they t I..wen .J K-kson through thirty years if t >1*1;i and battle ; even as they will follow you. if you dure to be as brave and honest as Jackson and Ciay !" TIIK TWO HKPORT8. I have lead with exceeding euro and deep concern the reports accompanying t e newiy introduced tneasuro of tariff revision. The Democratic report hegin hy a masterly declaration of tariff for-revenue-only logic, to end in an actual exposition of protectionist practice. The Republican report seizes the weak point effectively, and, l>oth in its sarcasm and its effrontery, shows us how impossible it is to plucato the implacable. For the chairman of the ways and means committee I entertain the very greatest respect. Ho is an uble, conscientious, patriotic Democrat. He lias encountered difficulties and mado sacrifices and endured disappointments which should earn him the sympathy rather than the criticism of bis party associates. Hut, with sul>mlssion, I think be has been forced by pressure, and not by bis own consent. mi oring in a measure thai strikes a blow at tho cause of genuino tariff reform, and may sot the policy of revenue only back for many yours to come. i hold tl.nt protection is roblicry. I I hold the protective theory to 1)0 equally i unccm-titut ional and unjust. Bollov: ing tiiis, I would extirpate its root and branch, and when, alter a debate of ; ton years, beginning with the election of Mr. Carlislo to tho Speakership, we ; carried a resolution to that effect through a National Democratic Con* ; vontien. and. on that resolution, swept I the country, I little thought that forces would be arrayed strong enough to set the vordiet aside. But such is the ' io riv of polities in a land ivjioro tho ; i:ih?.\ are too busy minding tboir own I private business to look sharply after tho few, who are sent to Washington 1 to mind tho public businoss. CONWAY, S C BMlMMMHHBMWflinnaiMMWMMMMMMIMMWMft'l ' 1 road, with more amusement than , imuzoiiK'nt, the ingenious report of ! tho Republican njinority. It is i a very smooth document. If I wore : not familiar with the pleadings, aim with the llotions upon which it is has ' od, I should tremble for my country, i might believe the report the work ol Col. Robert (1. Ingorsoll- since then is no Cod in it if 1 did not have an im pression that the Hon. Thomas H Rood is as great a humorist and skeptic as the witty pagan himself. Mr ' Rood gives thanks for everything t< the painted harlot of protection, nom to tho Creator of the Universe. No ' whero is tliero the least recognition oi tho divine hand, unless the hand oi MoKinley he divine: everywhere tin ; assertion that, but for high tarilT wt [ should be at the morey of < -utiada Xovj I Scotia, Mexico and the Sandwich Is i lands. All the confidence and courage which inspire those heroes when the\ | wrap the bloody shirt about them and jmaieh down to the footliplijs. to destroy imaginary rebels and traitors. 1 seem to ooze out at the palms of tlieii hands, when they encounter?even it fancy ?a foreign competitor. I bit al this is perfectly topical. The protee tionist has said in his heart "there i i no (iod !" It is only protection that ! " doeth all things well." it is protee | tion that increases the profits of capi I tal and the wapes of labor. It is pro ! tee tion that raises the price to tie ! sol let* and lowers it to the buyer. It is protection and protection alone tha not only defends us against the paupei ! labor of Europe. t?ut. insures us upuin.-o strikes, eonvertinp every manufactur imr establishment into an e.leomosynar\ iii.sMuiuoi). aiui giving lo every opera j live, along will) his weeks earnings never cut and always paid. )i ehronio bearing on one side a picture of tin mill at. Homestead, and the other tlx head of William McKinley in a halo KREK TRADE VERSUS PROTECTION. I do no not claim nearly so much foi free trade. I claim thai it will muk< more work by creating wider markets I claim that it will decrease the cost oi living in greater measure than it wil reduce earnings. The question o [ wages is a question of supply and do I maud, pure and simple. In the crowd I ed eities, where men must work 01 ' starve, they take what they can got and wages are low. In new and les. crowded communities, where oppoi tunities are open to all and good inei are at a premium wages are high. A our waste places are lilling up. tin problem is how shall all, who want t? work, be kept in sternly employment : Relatively, wages are hound to g< down as population increases am labor-saving machinery take the plue< of handwork, and this problem is, liov shall we decrease, in fair proportion the cost of living ? My answer to tin first problem is, by breaking down tin barriers that shut us out from fre? commercial intercourse with tho rest of tho world, which wants as much ot us as wo want of it. Ami to tho second by a fairer distribution of tho fruits oi labor between the employer and tin employed. Rut. I am n-du d. can the&< two things be done without ruin to tin American inanufaetiiror? My answto is that they can be done and have beci done to the eminent good fortune o American manufactures and com inerco, and can be done again with tin same result; that ve have had gooi and bad seasons under all tariffs. big* and low; but the low tari IT otters advantages to many by curtailing sub sidy and limiting monopoly, while i high tariIV pours wealth into t he lap oi the few by the opportunities it offer to combinations and trusts. For proo I point to the operation of thirty yean ,.f w. . IWIIll IllUlin WCllll/ll 111 1 few hands; a universal struggle t? live umong the many : deeper, durkei contrasts of life, and discoutent every where. PHOM TIIK PEW TO THE MANY. I appeal from the selfishness am timidity of the politicans to the com men honesty and common sense of tin American neoole. 1 appeal from tin rapacity of the American aristocrat, rolling in luxury and wealth, to th? simple and homely genius of thai Americanism which won the revolutionary battle for liberty, and madi the constitution. 1 do not confuse tin issue. I am not the slave of a singh idea. I know that theory is one thin), and practice is another thing, and tliu> statesmanship is a practical science Hut ho is no statesman who does not hitch the steeds of action to the hackney-coach of theory, and even then as he stands with the reins in hit j hands ho must look far before, seeinp not only with the eyes in his head, hut out of those eyes of the mind that reach much further. i ouueve in rnc integrity and courng? of Grover Cleveland. I believe in ih? j patriotism and genius of .lohn (?. Carlisle. If wo could put tho two into one. .Juckson would live again. I am giving the administration tho moat earnest and disinterested support, because I helievo it is trying to do right, and because, in the main, my judgment approves the fruits of its intention. My judgment docs not approv? tho Wilson hill, either in method or in detail, hut if it is tho host that can he got out of Congress, so he it. I shall say nothing, do nothing, to make its transit harder. It is, at least, some degree better than the MeKinley bill, i since it proceeds upon the lower and I not on the higher scale, and faces in tho right directic n. lint it is far. very far. from a measure that can he truthfully described as ombodvinir the idea of a " tiii-ifT-for rovenuo-only." It is merely bettor than the McKinley bill in decree, not in kind, and if protectionism is over to tie dislodged I doubt tho Trojan-horse strategy to which it seems to incline. Wo live in the age of tho Carnegics and the Goulds, not in that of Priam and /Knoas. Tho robber barons know their business. They never go to sloop. They relinquish nothing. Tnoir rapacity is insatiable. It was the history tho old slave power that tho more it got the more it demanded. It might have had emancipation.and its gradual and peaceful elimination from tho body-corporate. It refused this, to end in blood and flame, carrying with them vast hisses and cruel hardships. Yet. in splto of the tenacity with which the Southern people clung to slavery, gong to war to defend and maintain it, the South would not havo it back today on any terms. Mr. Wilson's moderate dose of revenue powders in protectionist capsules is rejected by the pro tec ' , THURSDAY, JANU Max nMaaMBMMMMW' taMMMMi 'ioni ts as vigorously a tho slavi i?.vnt i s rejected Mr. Clay suj^e'stloi ??i ei: aneipation. Idku ti slavehold ers, the robber baronsyi "Id nothing rhey will not reform thee . Tho work oust, thoroforo, bo done I oni without. It will never proceed f \>in within. \nd when it is (lone, if it be done by statesmen and not by th> sword, the Amor loan iminufac*uror < ill rise like me who has boon in ebaii , amazed, as tho slaveowner was, to ! ml that tho theory ho cherished was v curse. and not a blessing. Tho Chii oho wall ronoved, tho world will be at his feet. Does national character e< mt for nothnKr ? Does a land tocminj with original re>Hources count for no hing? Are l,l?e eeentivi* niioi'iriiw m <1 i ,renlus of a people who lutvo reversed the feudal policies of t he < Id World to huild a fabric in the now v hose cornerstone is competition, and vhoso watch word is " freedom," to h * accounted nothing ? TilK WHYS AN'l) WII Kit JFOKKS. Tlio cry of the poor goi s up to God for work ! Hut there i < no work. vVhy ? I localise there is < vor prod union. Why? Because wo can produce n nine mont hs more than wo can connine in twelve. The rone dv ? More onsu tiers : wider markets : freedom of Made with all mankind. Lotus out f the black-hole of pi tcctionisni, vhere, with hanks Imi-ting with noncy and millionaires nu Itiplying by Kindreds, men are starvii g hy thous* itnls. Let us tint, out to the world, iiid with plants established, processes >orfe? ted and cheapened, 1 ratio marks aid patents carrying all tl protection unt honesty ought to dc- ire, and we an meet and heat all our commercial avals yea. Knglnud ? in c cry neutral uurket. recovering those 1 utrkcts that ( *.( 1 ill i#?Jl 1 1 v Iwilnnir * K??* ... K ;..i. , ... I,. II .. m.i V? mi ll avu been sto.on from us b our senseess p dioy of restriction. Tin ro will not be such c ;eessivo and uicquul profits to tho m .nufacturor. fliere will not bo so nany grout ortuncs accumulated bv the spoiled diildren of monopoly. 'lvh trust wiP >o harder to form and m; intain, and lonce fewer in number. Hut there vill bo a more general dil usion of the eal wealth of the conn ry. There vill bo more work, and st- adier work, uul a greater demand for labor. The iving of the poor will ho cheapened. The living of all will I bettered. Socialism will bo shorn < f its potent irynment. and one llrobr ind at least vill lie extracted from tho brain, one aI let from the weapon < i the Anarchist. I oo not predict tho mill* inium. No ict of Congress, but Godwill alone, an hasten that. Hut frc> trade may tnd I boliovo it will, witno -? the realisation of the dream of that great talesman who braved the execrations f tin- rich, and laid down lower, with ue In-pc that lie might " I avo a name j omeUmes remembered w th ex pros- j ions of good will in tli > abodes of fdioso whose let is to lal >r, and to ) arn I icir daily bread wit t he sweat f tin r brow, when they mil recruit j heir ovhjiii-iti'h wii'imni i> 1 ant i. nd untaxed food, the > woe tor be-| nuso it is no longer leuvt led with a ! onso of injustice." fellow Democrats, it is of the first mportance for us to kn ?w, and to inow as speedily as possib \ whotbor v? have a Democratic pj rty, homogeneous and' strong, as ii the day of be sstge and hero \v! oso uomory we clebiato this night?a ] irty whose iaes are laid in fixed ?rineiples ? lonost money, home rul > and free rude -with power to eomp d discipline jvcry where?or wliether w 5 are a more iggiomeration of faetio :s, thrown together by tiio upheaval < f the times. .\ly own efi'ort is, and alwa's shall bo, /or straight polities and si| jure issues. I want to know a spade w len I see it. md to call it a spade. I d m't want to lecoivo, to mislead anyb. dy. I love 10 neighbor less because ic does not igroe witli mo. Tie may hi right and I may bo wrong, lint., let is, at least, be honest. Let us say whs t wo mean, tnd mean what we say. ' 'hat is the road to good government It is also the iou<i to universal patriotism. .vlncli, founded in free t lought and iroo speech, and suppor ed by the virtue and intelligence of the people, s to precede that period >f peace on arth. good will to men, t> which the Christian world looks as e< lfidently as ro the coming of its Redo iner. ! do not despair of its rcalizatw n. I do not despair of the Democratic ?arty. The mmediate outlook may no be all that wo would have it: but the future is always ours. Lot us cling t< it. Lot us light for the best that it hi s to give. ? Tim.man vs. Simonto ; Aoain.? The < eeision of .fudge Sin inton in the C'antini case, inCharlestoi , whicli was iuain-t the constables, .as aroused Oovei nor Tillman, and /hen asked what 10 intended to do alar t furnishing bonds for the constables whom the Federal Judge had decide I must give bonds, he said that be thought he would allow them to go to ail. " 1 will lot Judge Simon ton go < t," bo said. unt I he becomes soodioi s to the people that they will want o mob him. He is acting under a law that was repealed before the alleged crimes were committed and before b? issued the order of arrest. He is rying to intimidate and paralyze tl constables in the performance of w tat is their duty." The Governor Hay that a time will eomo when all this violation of laws supposed to bo sacrc I must stop. ?Columbia Register. ?- - ? ? Rev. G. F. H. Howa d, of claim agency famo. is still in th< county jail at Juekson, Tenn. He ha freedom of the corridors, and his wif spends the days with him. He hi s olentv of " * opportunity to converso v ith his witnesscs who are confined ii jail awaiting ihn special term oi the federal eourl in FVbruary. The g vernment is getting its evidence rei ly by that time. Howard seems el eerful, and hums the ponular airs of i 10 day as ho walk-i up and down the t til corridor. A great many visitors a??ply for admission, but the sheriff .>nfy admits members of his family. It is said Howard will write a hook >n his life. ?Tho Now York Wor i is doing a gran I work in collecting nd distributing free broad for tho p< r. Starting with a subscription of 20 HX) loaves of its own, it has already ra.sed a grand total of 208,344 loaves. ARY 18, 1894. 5 HAWAII AM) THIS TAHITI'. t'onj?r?'kn In Xihv CliarKod Willi lli<> tlio Solllcniciil ill' Hawaiian Afl'ulrs ?Tlio Debate mi TarlV HolVirm and I'losprci til' | In* Income Tux, special In Ilia All ? la Constitution. WASHINGTON, January D.?Tho resolution introduced by Senator Turpio yesterday in remind to lluwuii means much, it declares that "it. is unwise, inexpedient and not in accordance with tho character and dignity of the United States to consider further, at this time, either tho treaty or project of annexation of the Hawaiian territory to this country; that the provisional government therein having been duly recognized, tho highest international interest require that it shall pursue its own line of policy and that foreign intervention in the political atVairsof tho islands will be regarded as an act unfriendly to the government of the United States." This resolution is stud to have boon drawn up at the State department and j Mr. Turpio introduced it at the ro| quest of the Uresident himself. Tho j i'resilient is sorely tirod of this I Hawaiian matter and lie wants to yet ' out of it just as quickly as possible. I His policy will now be to " bands oil " i Hawaii. He takes tbe position now I that when Minister Willis asked the i provisional government to step down ! and out, and make way for tbe queen's retui n to the throne, and the proi visional government declined to do so, that tbe United States did al I necessary I under tbe circumstances. He thinks | Minister Willis's efforts have shown ! that this government did all that was possible through peaceful means and that the condition of affairs is such 011 the island that it is neither possible or desirable to make a further move towards the restoration of the queon and that tbe only danger to be feared is 1 from foreign interference. It. is known that the I'resident, will have Minister Willis instructed to do | nothing further in tbe matter. Of course, the Democratic Congressmen w ill uphold the I'resident's act, but 1 they criticise liini rather severely. They think that be made a mistake m ! asking the provisional government to stop down and out. If ho was going to do tliat at all ho should have placed hiinsolf in a position to liavo forced the provisional government out and rej placed the queen. Hut every American is opposed to the restoration of the queen and all are glad that President Dole refused to step down. The whole thing leaves the administration in an unenviable position, but Mr. Cleveland and his cabinet think they have done the correct tiling, and the matter will probably rest just where [ it is. The investigation which is being carried on by the Senate committee will probably amount to but little. It j will simply develop the facts in the ease which have already been fully published. It is not probable that Congress will do anything except, perhaps, to puss the resolution of Senator Turpio. That is the only way out of the ditlieulty for the Democratic party. It must uphold the acts of the administration as far as possible. The majority of the Democratic Senators and members, however, wish it to be understood that the Hawaiian matter was managed entirely by the Congressional leaders, and that Mr. Cleveland, personally, more than the party, is responsible. In the debate which will come up over the resolution Mr. Cleveland will he defended by Democrats to the best of their ability. While they do not endorse his policy still. as a Democrat and the chief i ollleer c?f the government, they will ! uphold him. The Republicans will endeavor to | make much political capital out of the j atfair. Tbov may make some, hut fol'tunutelv Mr. Clevehiml hnu nut. ironn %r ' M""" mj fur ttiut ho cannot got out of it. Nobody censures Minister Willis for uis acts, lie was simply acting under instructions. Mr. Blount, who arrived uero yesterday, will appear before the Senate committee investigating the Hawaiian matter 011 Friday. Mr. Blount has declined to discuss the Hawaiian situation with any of tho newspaper correspondents. Ho will toll tne committee all ho knows about it on Friday, but will probably have very little to tell in addition to what be lias already said in his report. Tho debate on tho tariff bill continued to-day. Mr. Wilson concluded nis speech this morning. It was a good speech, but tho tariff debate is not attracting as much general attention nor is there so much interest in it as there was in tho discussion over the Mills bill or tho McKinley bill in previous Congresses. Mr. Wilson deliovored a very strong and well prepared speech. It will read remarkably well. Mr. Wilson is not an orator, lie is a scholarly talker, but is not magnetic in bis delivery. Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, followed Mr. Wilson and opened the debate for the Kepublicans in opposition to the bill. Mr. Burrows is one of the orators of the House. His delivery is decidedly attractive, but bis speech was not as well prepared as some of his previous efforts on the tariff question. From a Republican standpoint it was a fairly good argument and Mr. Burrows has a very attractive way of talking. He was listened to with much interest. Mr. Black, of Illinois, followed Mr. Burrows and Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, closed the debate for the day session. Neither Mr. Black nor Mr. Hopkins are great orators by any means, and as the members and spectators had become somewhat wearied, they were not given that attention their remarks deserved. ijimrm) v iicRniu unci i om i?;eu will j attract more attention that any othor I men who will speak during the general debate. The interest in the tariIT discussion will he when the debate under ' he five-minute rule opons. Then overy man will have an opportunity j to speak and there will he a lively and interesting debate. That will not be j until next week. Though Senator Voorhoos, after having for years been a freo coinage man, led the tight in favor of the ronoal of the Sherman law, ho will fight for his old-time convictions in favor i of an individual Income tax. Twenty years ago in the House he voted against the repeal of this tax which was then in force. He declares now emphatically that he will never lend his Influence to increasing the tax on boor and tobacco, for the reason that theso are tho only luxuries of the working man. He favors a tax cm . r clgurettos, but less for tho purpose ol raising revenue than for sanitary con sidcrathms. Hut ubovo all those he is in favor of un income tax and will make a gallant fight for the same in I t lie Senate. A story has gone out over tho counI try to tne e fleet that fifteen Democrat ie Senators are opposed to. and will vote against, an income tax. These Senators are said to be Messrs. Hideo, ('.linden. Faulkner, Ctilison, (ioruiau, (iray. Hill, Lindsay, Mel'hersou, Vilas, Murphy, White e( California. Smith and White of Louisiana. While the majority of these Senators are undoubtedly, opposed to an income tax several of them may not vote against it. It Is not certain by any means t hat oitucr Senator 11 ill or Senator M urphy will vote against an niromr iax. Nor >s it, eertn n that Senators Faulkner o Lindsay will. Indeed, if it in iiiuuo a par i v uiOiimii there may not he more than three 01 four holt i no Detnocrutic Senator, nave talked with several Senator.vvho are advocates of an income ta> and they believe that tin tax stands 1 much hotter chance of Koino throng I the Senate tlian is generally believed Indeed, many of the Southern Senator believe that the Senate will pass an in come tax bill. Representative Springer, of Illitioi -ays he knows from personal ex perience that an individual ineono tax is not unconstitutional. Whet this form of tax was in votfuo in thi country more than twenty ycarg noMr. Springer had quite an income II.. in...).. .. Inol .. ?-nt "i rMiMlUIUHIiaill} in thi' 111 iuois courts by refusing to pa\ it, on tbo ground that it was a direo' tax and could only bo levied by th? State. The ease was appealed and tin Supremo Court sustained the eonstitu tionality of the act at Mr. Springer' expense. Mr. Springer bad not onl\ to pay tho tax but several hundrec dollars eost foes. ?? SPKAItKIl CK1SI?\S POSITION'. A Hot tcrTnrtfl'Itcfttrm Democrat than 11 is Cornier ('i mIcn. The Washington Post has an editorial under the caption of "Some Changes in Politics, which throws a very elCar light upon tho situation in Congress just now, and shows Spcaket Crisp's true position. It is complimentary to the Speaker and it is correct. Thoeditoiial reads: " In view of thu position occupied by Speaker Crisp at tho present time, some of the allegations made during tho speakership light of two years ago. soun 1 rather strange. It will bo readily recalled that the opponents of Judgo Crisp's candidacy urged in the most vigorous manner that tins Georgian was not sound on the tariff question. By the declarations of these gen lemon the present Speaker of the House of I IcprcKcntutives was pictured as an individual who would betray the iiiuw UK? mums 01 mo nign larillitos should ho bo chosen to proside over tho deliberations of the House. The gentleman from Georgia, thoy declared, would prove but a second edition of tin; lute Samuel J. Randall and block all tariff reform legislation. "After a very exciting contest on these lines, after ovory elTort had been made to enlist all of tho tarill' reform Democrats in the ranks of the antiCrisp candidates, the Georgian was elected to tho high and honorable position he has tilled with such ability. Rut the light on Speaker Crisp didn't cease there. The New York Reform Club undertook the contract of preventing his re-election, and with this end in view the Speaker was invited to the annual dinner of that organization and publicly insulted. This was done in order that the country might be made to understand that the Reform Club didn't approve of Speaker Crip, hut notwithstanding this extraordinary effort the Speaker was accorded a reelection. ' Rut perhaps tho most extraordinary feature of this war on tho Georgian is the present situation. With the various clashing interests at war on the tariff question there is one central liguro in the light. Upon his ( shoulders falls the brunt of the battle. | He is out in the open and exposed to a lire from both the front and the rear, j Some of tho shots tired from the last named direction are from weapons in the hands of Democrats who didn't think Crisp a good tariff reformer when he was a candidate for Speaker. Tho head and front of tho light for tariff reform is Hon. Charles Frederick Crisp, of Georgia, and if tho Wilson hill finally passes tho House it will be largely duo to tho vigor and courage displayed by the Speaker of that laxly. "This hut goes to show that tho predictions and declarations of the politicians cannot always be relied upon. There is abundance of evidence toshow that somebody misrepresented things in the memorablo Speakership canvass of ififll." ???? ? ?Thomas Puyno Kirg, who dropped (load on tho street at Wichita. Kan., a few days since, is said to havo been one of the immortal 000 who rodo at llalaklava. Inhisyouth ho hold a commission in the British army. In 1H01 ho resigned and enlisted in the United States army. Ho was a person of superior education, and since the war hud succeeded in amus.ing a considerable fortuno, estimated at some $70,ooo. He owned property in Chicago, Kansas City, Wichita and other places, and drew a pension both from Great Britain and the United States, but it is said that he never spent a cent, living in squalor, dressing in rags and eating refuse begged at tho doors of restaurant and hotel kitchens. It does not yet appear who gets the property which he failed to enjoy, but it is dollars to doughnuts that somebody will spend it fast enough now. ? i ? A New Remedy kok Rh kmatism.? It was Christmas day as Uncle Henry came limping by on his eano, much lamer than l had seen him in weeks. " Me'y Christmas, Ma's Cunnel," ho said cheorily. ' The same to you, unclo. How's your rheumatism ? It seems to be I worse." | M So hit am, sab ; so hit am." " Don't you know some remedy that j might help It, more than that liniment I gave you last, undo?" " Vas. sab," ho ohueklod, with that , peculiar laugh of th?< real negro. " I I six o a half dollah'd he'p hit sab, I c'nsid'ble," and I handed over this new mnedy for rhmimaifcUm). NO 27. p HTATK NKWH IN IIIUEF. Interestlug Notes IVom Various Hour. 4cwt. ? It will pay to ruiHO more outs. The prlco is iiik 11 compared with corn and I wheat. Col. W. I*. Butler, one of tho old* | est eitlz *ns of Kdgefleld County, and a ! cousin of Senator Butler, dropped dead i January H. Constables Galllard, Copper, Swan and McDonald have given bond as required by tho United States Court in the Cantinl case. ?The office of Master has been alM)lished in Anderson County, to take effect next winter. The duties of the dlice will devolve upon the i'robate | Judge. John Smith, the negro who shot Molvina Adams in Columbia, on Tin-slay night, was captured by the police >f Winnsboro. He confesses to tho diooting and says his accomplice Martin can be urrested by telegraph to Charlotte. The largest shipment of guano ever made to one man from Charleston >ver the South Carolina and Richmond and Danville Railroads, was received it Newberry last week by Mr. .J. Lane. The shipment consisted of u .olid train of 20 cars loaded with Wundo Fertilizer. Mrs. Harriet Perry Miller, the beloved wife of Dr. II. V. M. Miller, died in Atlanta 011 tho 8th inst., aged sov ntv-six vears. of intln???iv.?i \l i. vi;i icr's maiden nuino was Clark, and she was a native (?f 1'endloton District, S. C. She was married to Dr. Miliar at Cassville, Ga., in lH.'UJ. Mai. C. S. Gadsden lias been oleet d president of t he Northeastern Kailroad, vice A. F. Havonol, deceased. Maj. Gadsden will also retain his nres nt position as superintendent of the Charleston and Savannah Railroad, with which ho has heen connected ever -inee its construction. Representative Yoldoll of Kd#olield County, has been appointed by Governor Tillman as chairman of the State board of control, to bo a I -.pedal inspector and accountant to tfo I to the various dispensaries in the State mil keep them up to a desired standard of excellence and ai-eni'iioi/ ?Judge Izlur lias liled an order with 1 tho clerk of court in Charleston decree! ing thut a receiver shall bo appointed j m the now famous Koyal Fertilizer Company's iui.se. Tho receiver has not | yet been named. Tho case is one of | /rout interest to Churlestonians and of much importance to fertillizer interests in tho State. ? in tho United States Court at Charleston on the 12th inst., Mr. Gihbcs Whaloy made a motion before .1 udgo Siinonton for a dismissal of the order in tho Cantini case on new grounds. The judge issued a decree refusing to dismiss the ease, it is understood tho Attorney General has other steps to take. - It has been reported that Secretary of State Tindal had appointed Ltepresontative li. II. Lesencoof Williamsburg County to tiio position of general I traveling agent of tho Sinking Fund Commission to lilt the vacancy caused by tho deatii of S. C. Cartledgo. When asked about tho report Secretary Tindal said tliat he had not yet mude an assignment, but has decided to appoint several agents of the Commission to work in dilToropt portions of tho State. Mr. Lesosno will be one of the agents. Governor Tillman has appointed Mr. Legrlel A. Wittkowsky as Master for Kershaw County. Mr. Wittkowsky ' is a young man and graduated from the South Carolina College in 188b. lie has boon practicing law in Camden. TbA ..ill . / %? . * ?. iiu uiuuu m iYiusiur tor tvorahuw County was created at the recent si ssion of the Legislature. The upoointcnont was made at the recommendation of the members from thut county und the bar of Camden. ? York County will have two latest improved roller mills, with a combined capacity of eight barrels of Hour a day, in operation by the time the growiug wheat crop is harvested. One of these mills has been in operation sinco lust July, and produces as tine quulity of i Hour as is mude anywhere, und it is kept busy all the time. The other will bo at Hiekoiy Crovo, and it is probable that one or two more will be erected during the present year. ?A Yorkvillo merchant, who has been engaged in furnishing pluntution supplies on time to farmers in that county for more than twenty years, said a day or two ago that never in his experience hud his customers pa d their accounts so promptly, fully and freely, and that he had not been olaced under the necessity of invoking the " strong arm " of the law in colle ding a single account, lie takes a great many lions and chattel mortgages to secure accounts. This is a remarkable stutomont at a time when the wail of hard times and short crops is going up all over the lund. A Surprising Verdict.?A most I surprising verdict wiim given in the Unltod States court last week at Knoxville, Tenn., when Cloo Berry, ono of the most famous criminals in Hawkins county, failed of conviction. Borry is past tifty years of ago, and was indicted for counterfeiting. The neighbori hood in which ho lived was Hooded with bogus half dollars and dollars, the manufacture of them was traced to him and utensils necessary to their manufacture wore found in his house. It was proven plainly that ho had passed countless counterfeits, but ho played the innocent racket on thoir manufacture and failed of conviction through a jury's verdict that was anything but proper. Berry has long uoseu us a uunKum preacher, in fact lias pulled the wool over the eyes of the unsuspecting mountaineers with the greatest regularity. United States Marshal Condon says Berry is guilty of every crime in the calendar, murder not exoopted, for on a high mountain peak, near Mooresburg, there to-day stands a lone gravestone on which is tho inscription " Murdered by Cleo Horry." Who this victim is no one knows, but it is known that this stouo marks the last resting place of but one of the Dunkard preaohor's victims. ?Collectors of customs at Corpus Christ!. El Paso and Laredo have been instructed to keep a close watch along tho iiordor to Drevont Chinamen from coming Into toe United States from