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% V A >' VOL. VIII. PROHIBITION CONVINTION. I No State Ticket lo be Nomi* j nated. I ONIti lH'XDllKI) l>l<*I<KtiATRS 1*RKSKNT. All Cumlilnlcs in bo Askctl How rii*\V Stand Upon tin* Prohibition yiicsl inn ? Much Politics Injected lnio tin* Discussions?An I'jIVort to lie Mmlc lo Secure Pnlorcciiictit ?r tin* I'lTScnt Prohibition haw. cobumi.i a, S. c., Juno 7.?The State Prohibition Convention watt called to order at t? o'clock this afternoon by L. 1). Childs, chairman of the executive committee, who read the call uudor which it was held. After reading the call, Chairman Childs said that, before asking for a temporary organization, ho would like to thank t hose present for t heir at tendance. He knew that tnany had como sit groat sacrifice of time and business. Ho congratulated them on the favorable conditions under which |hey met. Two yesirs ago they mot on the eve of a groat political battle and had to tight j for their demands between two political hosts arrayed against ouch other, j Two years ago the liquor power was great, the liquor interests were banded together and over 700 barrooms woro open. To-day there is not a single legalized barroom. All iiquor that is soid is sold by an outlaw, a sneaking fugitive from justice, and every man wh/ buys a drop of liquor aids that outlaw in violating* tho law. Let us take the stainless banner of prohibi-I tion to higher heights. Our defeats are hut incentives to greater efforts and nobler victories. Wo are under some disadvantages. We have no actual prohibition law, only a decision of the Supreme Court that no license can be issued for the sale of liquor. But no sane man believes that as much liquor can be sold | without the State's suction as with it. There is great misapprehension as to what is meant b/ prohibition. Some ; seem to think that prohibition must wipe out all the liquor at once, but it will not do this any more than any other law wipes out the evil it is meant to punish. J .(it us put asido our political feel- ; ings. If the prohibition movement can ' bring the political faetionsof the State together, outside of the prohibitive benefits, what great good will he done the State. He made a strong appeal for harmony of action. There were many points 011 which there could be compromise of action, but there could he no compromising upon the point of outlawing the sale and manufacture of liquor as a beverage in South Carolina. Such a compromise would lie a destruction of the very fabric of prohibition. lie said success would come because the prohibition cause was right and Cod was back of it. Lie appealed to the prohibitionists not to rely upon their own strength but to trust all to God. Me introduced Kov. Mr. Pitts, who led the convention in prayer, lie besought God to aid tho convention in its elicits to suppress tno liquor trutfle. Mr. Whitmire, of Grcenvillo, noininuted Col. Jus. A. Hoyt, of Greonvillo, us temporary chairman, and lio wus ununitnously elected. Messrs. Whitmire, Ilorbortand l'itts worci appointed a committee to conduct Colonel lloyt to the cha'r. Mr. Childs said no introduction of Colonel 1 loyt was necessury, as nearly every man, woman and child in South Carolina know him. Colonel Hoyt thanked the convention for electing him its temporary presiding ollicor. He reminded the convention of the importance of the work before it. He hoped whatever was determined upon, the convention would agree dually as one man, no matter what might bo the dill'oronco of opinion at the start. ltev. Mr. Herbert, of Laurens, was. elected temporary secretary. After a roll of the delegates had been prepared, the temporary organization w e/utade permanent. Colonel Hoyt said he would make no further remarks as the convention had met for business. Mr. T. J. La Motto was elected assistont uoonnt 11 |?Y7 Ull v c?v>v/f uvu. j . Twenty-four counties were reprc- J sonted. Tho total momborship of the I convention was 100. On motion of Mr. I). C. Ropor, thoso who wore notdolegatos wore requested to take scats outside tho bar, in order to facilitate business. A committee of live on resolutions was provided for, all resolutions to bo referred to it, after being road by tho convention. Chairman Floyt appointed Messrs. E. (). Watson, Jeremiah Smith, D. C. R >per, l>. ' Knotts and Z. T. Smith tlie committeo on resolutions. Mr. Miller moved that all present in sympathy with tho objoct of tho convention be allowed to sit as delegates, the number in no ease to exceed the number alloted to each county?twice that county's representation in tho General Assembly. This motion was tabled. Mr. Hugh Wilson, of Abbeville, said ""Uiin uuniniithu ivitJi as lie was nun in unv.. v oj..., ?..v the objects of tho convention anil was not elected a dolegate, it would bo well to erase his name from tho roll. Mr. Hrunson moved tho appointment i of a coinniittco to proparo a platform for the convention. Tho committoo was to consist of one from each county. Kuril delegation nominatod its own member of the committoo on platform. Tho convention took a rocess until 8:40 p. m. v. At the reconvening of the convention. Chairman Hoyt appointed the following committee on finance, in accordance with a resolution adopted before tho rocoss: W. L. Gray, Jos. Sprott. Jr.. C. I\ Wray, P. 1J. Hyatt and J. L. Hurley. Mr. K. I>. Smith submitted a resolution providing for tho appointment of an oxocutive committoo consisting of one member from each county in the State, whose duty it shall bo to appoint a chairman for each county who shall organi/.o prohibition clubs, etc. It was referred to tho committee on resolutions. ' Mr. VV. J.. Gray of I.aureus su!>mittod a resolution providing for tho nomination of prohibition candidates, by tba convention, subject to tho ao ?i I turn of tho Doinocratic primaries proI videil tho State Domoentio Executive Committee gives tho Prohibition faction equul representation upon tho I olectiou boards, etc. lloferred to tho | commit toe on resolutions. Mr. Cray's resolution was as foli lows : Whereas our State and county | ollleors were nominated by a system of conventions from 18(50 to 1890. and | whereas said system of nominations ! bocamo unpopular and was considered | by many of our public men as un-Uej mocratic. and whereas the convention assembled in the city of Columbia in t.tiA vann I S<w l ,li.l nJa? Utaf. ..II nan. ilidiitos for public ollleo should before becoming the nominees of tho Democratic party of our State fjo boforo tho white Democratic voters of our State in primary elections, and whereas parties who should receive a majority of the votes east in said primary election wore to be declared the nominees of tho Democratic party for the several positions to bo tilled in tho State , and whereas this was demanded as one of the reforms to bo brought about by the farmers movement of our State, and whereas tho present leaders of the said farmers movement are now attempting to in fringe upon this fundamental principle of reform by calling a convention to meet in the city of Columbia prior to the date of the Democratic primary election and upon candidates to bo voted for in the Democratic primary election to the exclusion of all other aspirants for said Slate olllcers : therefore, bo it Unsolved, That it is the sense of this convention that we, the Prohibitionists of South Carolina, in order to bring clearly, impartially and justly before the Democratic voters of our State the real issue of prohibition, believe it our duty to nominate a State ticket to go before the Democratic voters of our State upon the issue of prohibition pure and simple in the Democratic primary. That we respectfully ask the executive committee to give us as Prohibitionists equal representation upon all election committees and boards of managers provided for in the rules of the Democratic party, with any other faction now composing said party, and should the Democratic Executive Committee iMcedo to this request, Kosolved, That we as Prohibitionists will submit to the result of said primary and we shall support whoever may receive the majority of said votes in tho primary election as the standard bearer of the Democratic party. Mr. Watson presented the following report: Your committee on resolutions having carefully considered a paper, "an appeal lo the ministry of tin; State," finding that said paper is not^ in our opinion, suitable for this body to pass upon beg permission to report tho same unfavorably. The report was adopted. Mr. Smith's resolution was reported on and is as follows : Resolved, That this convention elect an executive committee, composed of one person from each county in the State, represented in the convention to be nominated by tho delegation from said county. They will elect their own chairman, and make all rules necessary for their government. The executive committee shall appoint a chairman for each county, who will he charged with the organization of leagues in each township under the rules proscribed by the executive committee. Mr. Itopor submitted the following report upon the above resolution : Your committee on resolutions having under consideration a resolution regarding the election of an executive committee, etc., beg leave to report said resolution favorably, with the following prdviso: i I'rovided, that the committee, so] ] elected, shall havo power to appoint a member of the executive committee I in each county not represented in this convention ; provided that organi/.a hoiks aircaoy in exisionco snail not Do disturbed by this resolution. The report was adopted. Mr. 10. D. Smith introduced the following : Whereas wo believe the best interest of prohibition will bo best advanced by the election of members of the Legislature pledged to support of prohibition rather than the nomination of a Stato ticket; therefore bo it Resolved, That we pledgo our support to those candidates who will pledge themselves for prohibition. Referred to the committee on resolutions. Mr. Mercer introduced the following : Whereas there has been given us unexpectedly and as it were by accidont a law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors in our Stato, and whereas our people throughout the Stato do not seem as yet to realize the full valuo of this great boon given us, and whereas it is needful to arouse at once and fully every good citizen to the gravity of the situation and the necessity of immediate and earnest action if wo would hold to and imi prove the blessing now in our hands ; therefore, Unsolved, 1. That this convention recommend to delegatus that immodiatcly upon their return homo they proceed to organize permanent county prohibition associations according to the plan already agreed upon by resolutions adopted inviting to active membership in said associations all friends of prohibition. 2. That said county associations make it their immediate business to institute a general campaign of education as to the vuluo of prohibition, inirstL/'iiitr limit' ;iiil fm? f hiu Miipn/mn tl?i? voioo and influonco <?f tho ministry and of tho press, making use also of public mass meetings and such other agencies as shall commend themselves to their judgment. Whereas it is .commonly roportcd and believed that liquor is boing illegally sold in many communities and localities throughout our State, thus violating tho prosent laws on that subject. And whereas it is right and proper that tho parties on gaged in such illegal tranle should be brought to justice and properly punished as outlaws: and whereas we, as tho prohibitionists. are looked to by the people to lead In this ; therefore, Kosolved, That wo recommend to all county or local prohibition associa CONWAY, tions that they take all the moral and a I steps that are within their powo?* to have sueh violators of the present prohibition law detected, prosecuted and punished. Referred to committee on resolutions. Chairman lirunson prosented the following as the report of the comi mit.t.ce on nhitfnrm * I Wo tho representatives of prohlbi, tion sentiment of South Carolina in convention assembled, thanking Cod for His mercies and praying His blessing upon our efforts in His cause, issue I for tho fol lowing : I. We believe tho use of alcoholic | liquors to result in enormous increase of tho death rate of our country, uddimr about one hundred thousand annually to the death roll. II. We believe alcoholic liquors used as a beverage to be 0110 of tho most potent aganeies in tho ruin of moral | character. III. Wo believe at least three-fourths of the crime committed in our land to ho traceable to alcoholic liquors. IV. We believe tho liquor tratllc to ! be ono great curse of the fearful tinuueial depression now generally felt in our country, since it annually drains about nine hundred millions dollars from tho pockets of tho masses and instead of giving value in return paralyzes productive energy of an equal amount ($1)00,000,000), thus making an annual loss of nearly two billion dollars to the legitimate trade. V. W ^ believe trjiflie in thnt. wliinh in against the poaeo, good health, safety, commercial prosperity and moral eharaeter of a community, State or nation, to bo in violation of the real rights of the men, and therefore inherently wrong. VI. We bolievo all forms of license of the sale of liquor as a beverage to he morally wrong, and in violation of the highest purpose for which government exists. VII. We believe the State should prohibit absolutely the sale of liquor as a beverage and should provide for its sale only for medicinal, mechanical and sacramental purposes with such I regulations, provisions for enforcement i and penalties for violation as may be expected to prove ellleient. VIII. We believe that to make any prohibitory law elTectivo tho executive ! and other ollieers of the law should bo in full sympathy therewith. The report was signed by the entire committee, and was unanimously adopted by a rising vote of the convention. The committee on resolutions reported as follows upon Mr. Gray's resolution : Your committee on resolutions having carefully considered the resolution submitted by Mr. W. L. Gary to the convention and referred to the committee. that while they believe a State j Prohibition ticket should be nominated i ! they do not approve of said resolution, as a whole, but report the following as a substitute : Unsolved, That this convention take steps towards nominating a full State ticket. Mr. Gray stated that ho offered his resolution for the purpose of testing the sonso of tho convention on that | suojcct. it was his pleasure to bo a ' member of the (convention which met' hero in 185)0, sent by the so-called Ho- I formers. As a representative of the people ho favored a primary instead of the convention system which prevailed in South Carolina. He offered a resolution to that effect, which was seconded and supported by Governor Tillman with his usual eloquence. There had boon no time before 181)0 when ho had not boon proud of South Carolina; since then ho and many others had had many heartaches over the division i of the people of South Carolina. Ho praised .Tillman's utterances at the laying of tho corner-stone of Winthrop College, especially that deprecating tho strife among the people of the State and hoping for peace. X III" UlillVl-lllilUII wuh lol peUOO, hoi for ahuso of Tillnmn and the Dispensary, not to keep up strifes fomented by politicians, but to offer such a platform us could bo stood upon by all the people of South Carolina, lie then dopreeatcd the evils of the liquor trulllc. lie said be bud been told that the Democratic committee was going to start the campaign on Juno 18. They would not let Prohibitionists come into that. Ho urged nominations and the advocacy of tho prohibition cause in the Democratic campaign and primary. Once the street cars in Columbia only Ihm-o two signs?"Cemetery" and " Asylum." If the convention did not make nominations he honed those signs would be restored and all the members of the convention given a ride to one or the other places, for they would bo the places to which they should go. Mr. VV. D. Evans stated that ho was elected while ho was awav from home, but with the understanding that he would not support nominations. IIo saw that the convention was drifting into nominations and he was not in sympathy with it. Every vote ho hud cast in the Gonoral Assembly had boon against prohibition, and ovory vote ho would over cast would bo prohibition. As an honorable man, if ho romuincd through a ballot on the question of nominations, he would bo bound to support a ticket put out. He asked to huvo his name be withdrawn from tho roll, which was dono. Mr. Waddy C. Thompson of Lancaster asked if the Greenville delegation had not come Instructed against nominations. Being answered in tho normative, ho asked if adoption of the report would not doprivo the convention I if I fa aKo.4 nmflLflV U .1_ O.rnin or*_ --- - " ? ?sworod in tho afllrmative. Ho expressed his opposition to nominations. Mr. T. Y. Wiiliams ox pressed opposition to tho making of nominations by tho convention. Mr. (Jruv statod tiiat his resolution tied tho Prohibitionists to tho Democratic. party, whilo tho report of the committee cut tho Prohibitionists loose and tied thom to nothing. Mr. Williams said ho was opposed to nominations oithor in or outside of tho Domocratio party. A Htato ticket could not ho oloctod. What votes wore ohtainod must como from tho Reform party. The larger citios tako no interest in tho prohibition oause. In thom eithor mootinirs woro not hold or wore slimly attended. Tho Roformors will not vote for prohibition candidates if in order to do so thoy had to go back on Reform or Reform nominees. A Prohibition tlckot would bo buried deop. Mr. L. B. Haynss said the Prohibi"M* J fill S. C., THURSDAY, J tionists had gotten ovorything thoy had over askou for and thoy only neodod to got thu State otHcors ami could have thom for the asking. Ho was in favor of nominating Stato officers. The Reformers never won until tliey had a ticket upon their platform, and they I never could have won without that. ] Kvon if the Prohibitionists did not win, thoy would do a work of education. Mr. It. B. Watson opened his smooch with the statement that he had never taken a drop of liquor as a beverage and had never failed to do all he could to put it down, llo believed it would be the supromcst folly to nominate a I ticket. What did tho people see ? In t an hour after tho Dispensary law was I declared unconstitutional over 2(H) bar- ! rooms wore opened in Charleston and I they had boon open all alony. Mi1, (iray : Whore tiro, they? They are hidden. Mr. Watson : No, sir ; they are open. He then went on to show that education is necessary to briny about suppression of the liquor traffic. lie , showed how juries in Charleston had acquitted men who had said they were yullty. llo then showed the progress in the direction of thatodueatlon which would suppress the liquor trafile. He said a man must bo iynorant of the history of South Carolina if he believed the Tillinanltos would desert the Reform cause or the Conservatives their cause and elect a now establishment. A prohibition ticket would be knocked down and no cause would be helped by defeat. Mr. .loromiah Smith said that for twelve years ho hud been a member of the South Carolina General Assembly, and in all that time he had never failed to vote to out. down linnm* Mr. Smith said tho Conservatives formed tho strength of tho prohibition voto in his county two yours ago. llo said tho assertion that the Reformers had furnished the hulk of tho prohibition vote was a mistake. In the last election the prohibitionists asked to he allowed to express their sentiments in the ballot box. Tho prohibitionists carried the State by 10.000 majority and now wo have got tho biggest sort of a whiskey monopoly, which has forced liquor upon counties which had been dry. His county, Horry, had prohibition under popular sentiment for twenty years. 'I ho Dispensary would have gotten into Horry but for the decision of tho Supremo Court. Ho fired hot shot at the Dispensary. Ho advocated the establishment of a separate prohibition party. Flo said the adoption of the platform made the prohibitionists a party. He saiil seeds of discord had boon sown in the convention since it had assembled, because it was necessary to the carrying out of schomesof some people in South Carolina. He was opposed to submitting to tho executive committee and begging them for representation. They would let Populists in to voto, hut excluded all who had not endorsed tiie Reform administration. Mr. II. R. Huistsaid t he speeches hud poured oil upon the water but Mr. Jerry Smith had sethis nil on lire, if that was prohibition, Cod save him from prohibition. Ho then wont on to show how much good had been accomplished by t he Dispensary law. Mr. John Lake proposed tho following as a substitute to tho roport of the committee on resolutions upon Mr. Cray's resolution, which was under dis cussion : Resolved, That the State Prohibition Executive Committee be authorized and instructed to formulate questions to be put to candidates for State ollices and for the Legislature and Senate in accordance with the platform adopted by this convention as to their position upon the same in order that the friends of prohibition throughout the State may vote intelligently in the primary. A motion to table Mr. Lake's substitute was lost by a vote of -7 to i.">. Mr. S. A. Nettles said it had been charged that the Legislature hud gone back on the primary plodgo. lie had the honor of presenting the resolution in the Democratic Executive Committee which provided a box in the last primary for a vote on prohibition. The I louse, of which ho was a member, had passed an ironclad prohibition law and had been true to its pledges. The House was not responsible for the action of the Senate. There was talk of putting u|> a State ticket pledged to prohibition. Governor Tillman said in his inaugural address that he was not in favor of prohibition, but would enforce any law on urn suojeci. pui on uio statute hooks. Ho has nobly carriod out that pledge. (Applause and hisses.) Mr. Nettles made a strong rebuke of those who hissed him. Mr. Scott of Newberry said that tho trouble was there was too much Til 1manism and auti-Tillmunism, and too little prohibition in the convention, lie said he had voted for prohibition and then denounced tho Dispensary. He had voted for Tillman every ti no he had run. He advocated a State ticket. Ho did not seo what tho convention was for if it was not to nominate a ticket. Nomination of a ticket did not bind peoplo to voto against Tillman for the Senate, nor to fail to give support to the institutions brought by tho Koform movement. Mr. Gulphin said there had been lot of blow und dust in tho convention and nothing else. Ho spoko against the airing of their sentiments by members of the factions serving in tho convention. Ho called for tho question. Mr. Wroten said L3urnwoll County hod instructed her delegates to oppose nominations and if they were to be made ho would have to leave tho convention. Mr. Kidgoll wanted to know where the prohibitionists would bo if Mr. Lake sbsutitute wore adopted and the candidates wore asked if tney were for prohibition and they should say they wore not. Mr. Stackhouso submitted tho following substitute for Mr. Hake's substitute : / 11 .1 rni x ^ * ? ? xvuwiiveu, j. nai me suite executive Committee shall call a prohibition convention not lator than August 15th, should tho interests of tho cause require it, such convention to decide upon too question of nominating a State tiokot. By a vote of 1(5 to 15 Mr. Stack house's suhitltuto was tabled. Mr. Mercer moved as a substitute a resolution stating that it was thesonse of tho convention that it was not expedient to mako nominations. Mr, Gray raised a point that Mr. U,\E 14, 1894. MiMTor's substitute was out of ordor. Chairman Iloyt ruled tlio point not well taken. Mr. Stanley moved to table Mr. Mercer's substituio. Lost l>v u voto of lb to 31. Mr. Lako accepted Mr. Moreor's resolution as an addition to liis substituto for tho report of the committee on resolutions upon Mr. Gray's resolution. Mr. Mercer spoke against nominations and thought tliat the prohibitionists could do more by preserving; tlioir organization intact and striving to obtain what they wanted by using themselves as tho balance of power. Mr. L. 11. llaynes said if tlio convention didn't nominate a ticket it might as well adopt tho Dispensary and go home. r. \v. Scruggs said tho adoption of tlio resolution iloos notprevent any man i running for otHce. Circumstances, ho doelai'od were against tho prohibitionists. Tlio oonvontion adopted Mr. Lake's substitute for tho report of the committee on resolutions upon Mr. Gray's resolutions by a nearly unanimous vote. Mr. Watson stated that his committee still had some further resolutions to offer. He offered the following, which was adopted : Your committee having carefully considered resolutions regarding the necessity of electing mouthers of the Legislature in favor of prohibition, favor amending said resolutions by striking out the accompanying preamble, and with such amendment they recommend the passage of the resolutions. The preamble and resolutions were as follows: Whereas we believe that tho canst? of prohibition will bo best advanced at this time by the election of members of the Legislature, who are pledged to the enactment of a prohibitory law. rather than by the nomination of a State ticket therefore, Uesolvod, That it bo the policy of tho Prohibitionists of South Carolina in the coming' campaign to oho every olTort to secure the olootion of members of tiie Legislature who will make prohibition paramount to every other issue before the people. Unsolved, 2. That each candidate lie required to pledge himself for prohibition before lie receive our votes. Mr. Watson moved that the convention go into the election of the executive oommitte provided for by a resolution already adopted. Mr. Watson's motion was adopted and the following committee selected : Abbeville, l\ I,. Sturkey. Aiken, Uov. J. C. Brown. Anderson, . Barnwell, 11. L. Wroton. Berkeley, l'otor Klintworth. Beaufort, . Clarendon, Jos. Sprott, Jr. Charleston, A. S. Thomas. Darlington, Itov. (J. T. Grosham. Fdgoliold, John Lake. Fairfield, It. H. Jennings. Florence, . Greenville, Col. J. A. Iloyt. Hampton, . Horry, * Lancaster, Waddy C. Thompson. Laurens, itov. J. W. Shell. Hampton, Lexington, J. J. Fox. Marion, W. J. Montgomery. Marlboro, J. P. Gibson. Newberry, A. II. Kolin. Oconee, U. K. Mason. Itichland, Capt. L. I). Childs. Orangeburg, K. I'. Galphin. lMckons, . Summer, K. IJ. Smith. Spartanburg, J. L. Sifly. Union, . Williamsburg, . York, . Mr. Watson introduced a favorable report upon M. Mercer's second resolution regarding suppression of the liquor tratllc. Adopted. The convention, then at 2 a. in., adjourned. ANOTHER 1'IjEIKJE REPUDIATED. The IO per cent Tax on Slate Hanks Relealetl?75 Democrats Vole Willi the Republicans? All of Our Coil* gresmen Vole for the Repeal. Washington. June n.?the irmmn proceeded to tho consideration of tho bill to repeal tho State bank tax under the arrangement agreed to yesterday. Turner (Deni/) spoke In favor of ropeal. lie contrasted favorably to the first tho availability and desirability of State bunk and national bank issues of currency. What was more vital to the best interests of tho country, in bis opinion, however, was the passage of the tariff bill, and bo pictured a band impatient to put in motion the machinery that would produce an era of prosperity of the country. Moiklejohn (Hep.) speaking of the probable conditions under which State Dank issues would be made, in case the system were reba'bibilitated, called attention to a bank law passed by the Georgia Legislature last December in expectation of the repeal of the State bank tax. That law, besaid, authorized a bank with one-quarter of its capital in national bonds, one-quarter in State, county or municipal bonds of the State, and one-half in currency, to issue, upon the deposit of the bonds with the State Treasury, notes to the amount of throe times tho security. The subject was further discussed by Bingham (Hop.), Hall-(Doin.), Kobinson (Hep.) and Cockran (Dem.). The latter denounced the national bank currency as the worst that could be conceived and ought not to be allowed to stand. Hut as long ?s it did exist Cockran said ho did not beliovo in attempting to make a tributary system. Relieving in tho platform's demand for a repeal of tho State bank tax be did not Isdievo in doing so haphazard. i'resent conditions would have to bo chunked l?oforo it could bo dono ftafoly. Tbo dobato cloSTTd at 2:10 o'clock and a vote wan taken on the Cox amendment to repeal the 10 per cent, tax outright. Tho vote wiw announced as yean 102; nays 170. Tho announcement woe roeoivod with alight applause. ? ?-? iwm? i i ?? ?1). A. J. Sullivan, of Charleston, | has definitely decided to be a candidate for Congress in tho now First District. W. St. Julian Jorvoy is a candidate also. \ 1)1 TV IT r <).\ SI (i \ It. LrKlHlitliiiK Ibr tlio llPiK'flt ?!' tlio i-Mii^ur i riisi -.All < (iiisiiiiicrs t'oni i-iltiitc lol lie Knuriiiohm I'rofli oi l lir J Sharks, * I-colaI to the Atlantii Const tution. Wasliintiton, Juno .">.?Tho su^ar solunluto has safely run tho gauntlet of tho Son a to, not liually, so far as that body is concerned, for by a parliamentary Ihtlonthe Senate did not today act oxeept as a committee of tho whole. So],tho entire schedule will have to bo votoil on a^ain formally in the Senate. The result of the votes taken today, however, practically settles the matter. They mean that the tarilT bill as amended by the finance eommitt.ee v ill pass the Senate and ^o to tin* House and to conference. The riddle of the tariff sphinx was read today. Senator llill voted against his party when be voted at all. His defection was made up by the votes of Allen and Kyle, the Nebraska and South Dakota Populists. PelTor voted steadily with the lb-publicans. Tho talk is revived that, an attempt ' will lie made when tho bill comes into the House to induce that body to accept the Senate amendments and so prevent the delay and inevitable changes that will result from a conference. This attempt can only sue cood by unamious consent, und tlmt will not l>o accorded. There will bo a conference on the hill and it, is impossible at this time to form anything like a correct idea of what the outcome of the conference will ho. It is believed in well informed circles, howover, that the bill will ho substantially as it passes the Senate. The fact is the Somite has had morg to do with the form and sub-dance of tariff acts than the House for many years. This was tire case with the tariff of I arid with the Mo Ki nicy law. There was a sharp closing debate this morning in which crimination 1 and recrimination wore banded about i as freely between the two sides of the j chamber as they are in the Centres- i sional campaign now waglug in the Lexington Oistrict. Chandler declared, in his rasping i tones, that lie had not the slightest doubt that some Senators had boon speculating in sugar certificates AU1rich taunted the finance committee with having given the sugar trust all it wanted. Bryco entered thd arena and asked his colleague if lie knew how much the sugar trust was stocked at in the halcyon days when the Ltopublicans were weaving about the neck of American trade and commerce the burden known as the McKlnloy law. Sherman said ho did not. liryco enlightened him by saying it was $o0,000,000, and added that the price of sugar eon ideates rose from May to October, 181)0, the period when the McKinloy bill was before the senate and in conference, from 0."> to !).'{, That settled that phase of the discussion, for everybody knows Bryco is a Wall street sharper and of course bus such figures at his tongue's end. \T, * .... 1.1- I I'"' mull v i;?u ruiMKMl a lllMO poppof 111 tlio raw places of tho Republicans by declaring that tlio sugar trust had dictatod tho (id por cent, protection of sugar in tlio MoKiuloy bill. For Aldrioh's bonofit ho pointed out that that Senator had said in tho debate at tho time that ho (Aldrioh) could no resist the arguments of the 1 'hiladolphia sugar relinora, and that this admission was eiubalinod in the printed pages of 'J'ho Congressional Record of tho FiftyFirst Congress. In tho midst of those personalities and pleasantries the hour for taking the vote arrived and cut tliein short. A great deal is being said of tho enormous profit tho sugar trust will realize from tho sugar sohoduls as approved in the Senate today. Tho date for the schedules going into elToot is set at January 1st next, the date being fixed upon to enable the sugar planters to profit by tho bounty on this year's crop. The sugar trust, of course, will bo on tho free list until that time which it will refine and soil at the prices that will prevail after the duty goes into effect. The prospective profits are estimated all tho way from $20,000,000 to $.r?0,000,000, which Is an object even to'the sugar trust. Tho Republicans are making a great todo over this state of affairs. Vet if they had planned to bring about this result, they could not have done anothing else halnso certain to bring it about as what they did do in the McKinlev bill. They knew that tho Iwiunty system would not be long tolerated ; that it is un-American and intolerable, and would not l>e permitted to remain in existence a great length of time. They know that the probabilities, when the bounty came to bo alxilished, were that the duty on sugar would be restored and that in the transition from one system to the other the sugar trust would wring millions from the American people. Perhaps they did not deliberately plan this result, but had they boon scheming in the pecuniary interest of tho trust they would have done exactly what they did They could not have devised a better scheme for enriching tho trust and robbing the people than the one adopted, ingenious as it must be admitted they are in devising such schemes. With the sugar schedule out of tho way, rapid progress should he made with the other features of the hill. CO-OPKKATIVK COTTON llovv to itlalte (be .South a .Manufacturing Centre for the World. Mr. D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte, N. one of tho most successful cotton manufacturers in that section, has an interesting article in the Manufacturer's Record on co-operation in buildI ....i 111 _ uiH uubuui mills. | Mr. Tompkins shows how companies can bo organized and tlio money raised >?y weekly payments for building cotton mills in such a way as to make the organization of such companies feasible in hundreds of townswhoreit would bo Impossible toeccure largo subscriptions. In the South wo have few savi iugs bauKs compared with those in the North, and wo need enterprises that will oneourage the habit of saving and investing a portion of the weekly earnings of tlie average citizen. Building and loan associations supply this want I t > some oxt? nt. hut wo need oo-oporatlve companies to push industrial enterprises with the capital that can easily be furnished in small weekly in < NO 48. I i stallmonts from thousands of our pcoplt?. The success of this plan in Charlotte speaks for itself. Mills havo been built near Churlotto by subscriptions payable woek'y in small sums for one, two, four and eight years, but the favorite plan Is that of paying f?0 cents per week on a share for four years. At this rate 1.0(H) shares would make a capital of $100.0(M), a sum suniclont to ? build a cotton mill of about O.(HH) .spindles, with looms enough to weavo their product. Mr. Tompkins ^ivrs the following estimate for such a mill: Kmployos, nton and Iniys, .'10; women and yirls, (50; roll per week, about $.'150. In North Carolina the products of the dilToront mills vary greatly. At Charlotto 0110 mill makes warp yarns, another skein yarns doubled and twisted, another makes both warps and skeins, another white cloth, another ginghams, another counterpanes and towels, another stockings and knit goods. Those mills which make colored goods must have dye works. I f the subscriptions to the stock of an installment mill are made payable ! at the rate of 50 cents per week per share, and the capital subscribed was $100,000, then in the first year the amount paid in to the company's treasury would he about $25,000. With this money the buildings could bo built and paid for, leaving a surplus in the treasury. The buildings would be a main building, engine room, boiler room and houses or cottages for the bauds to live in. I n some special cases, where the factory was to be built in a city, these houses might not be built, as the > hands could find hoard or houses to rent near by the factory in the city. ' (Generally speaking, however, it is bust so put i factory one to four miles i juvuy irum it, city, an? let the company build and own the houses the employes live in. In Charlotte no house rent in charged, the factories furnishing houses free of rent. In soino other places rent, is ohai god at the rate of *1 per room. Considering that subscriptions were being paid regularly, and that the buildings were all comph ted and paid for at the end of about one year, and that the company's income was nt>out $2,000 per month from regular installment payments on subscriptions, then under those conditions aoout 2,500 spindles and appertaining machinery could he bought for a good cash payment, and the remainder payable $1,000 to $2,000 per month. In about sixteen to eighteen months from the time the tlrst payments were made the mill could he started up on about one-third to one-half its capacity; then the remainder of the machinery could he added and started up from time t > time as the money continued to come in by installments. No dividends should he paid until t he stock is paid in full and the ofllcers should receive very small salaries. The mills near Charlotte, built on this plan, have boon very successful, and some of them during the dull season have run night and day to till orders for their goods. The co-operative plan if fairly tried would soon make the South the cotton manufacturing ccnt?r of the world. A FATAL .SHOOTING. Henry T. llroodeii Shoots.I. I). Moore, His llrotl?er-ii?-ljn\v ? Whiskey the Cause?Moore Will l>ie. Special to The State. Bennettbvillk, June ?i.?Our usually (pilot and orderly town has been shocked by a tragedy u in parallel! in sadness. Last night about 9:.' 10 o'clock a horseman, with lightning speed, rushed up town to notify physicians and relatives that Mr. J. Douglas Moore had been shot down with a double-barrel shotgun at the residence of Mr. llonrv T Ui'im.i..n i... >i j .ij, mr. Broedon himself. Thoy aro both residents of this town and aro brothers-in-law, Mr. Broedon having marriod Mr. Monro's sister. Thoy aro young men, representatives of tho very best and most prominent, families in Marlboro county, and hud been fast friends. Your correspondent immediately secured a buggy and drove to tho place of tho sad a Hair. 1 found three physicians and about one dozen citizens present. Mr. Mooro was stretched on a mattress on tho floor of one of the porches near where ho was shot and fell. Your correspondent obtained tho following facts: Both men wore under tho influonco of liquor they drank together in Broodon's house ; hot words passed in reference to family matters. Broedon got his gun, but Mooro induced him to put it up; thoy then drank together. Moore started home and was on the porch near the steps when shot. Tho load entered just bo low tho naval. Tho wound bled profusely, and tho unfortunate man suffered much pain. Mooro told your correspondent that ho was leaving for homo, and was shot without provocation. Mrs. Adam*, proprietress of the Adams House, is tho mother of Mr . Moore, and sho, with her daughter . Miss Moore, were sent for. When thoy arrived I witnossod tho mort touching and heartrending scene of my life. Burly this morning tho wounded mun was removed to his mother's. His two uncles and cousin arrived from tha country. His an to mortem statement waa taken by Trial Justice Kastorling, The contents of tho statement have not been made public. Dr. C. Kollock, of Choraw, assisted >>y local physicians, by investigation discovered that,the bladder hail been shot to pieces, and thoy at once oronounced his case hopeless. Hecun live but a few hours. Moore stated that ho entertained no ill will toward Breodon and that he freely forgavo him. Whiskey caused the trouble. No ^ ... ?. vovo lldlU LHlttll made this evening. ?" You aro doing nicely," said ths doctor encouragingly to an old dark? y patient. "I will call again tomorrow, and will leave you this proscription now, to save you from pain in the interim." Then he went. out. "Da's or 'scription dat do doctah lof," sa.d the patient feebly to his wife, "an'I want yo' tor go to do drug sto' an' get it III led. Toll do drug sto' man dut it's fo' my interim, an* be sho an' nx him of I'so tor take itetornally, or jeti rub It on tho outside, an* sf so whar \