The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 14, 1894, Image 1
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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*_
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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.
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?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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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 ^
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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 \