The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 26, 1894, Image 4
TilH STATU CAMPAIGN.
ICONTINUKI) FROM FIRST PAUK.j
those who had stood by him on every
occasion. Mo talked of liis previous
campaigns and of what ho has done for
the people.
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hiffhory"
Tillman : " rhoy tiro not and you
know it."
Governor Tillman said that tin? people
arc divided, but it was through no
fault of his. Ho said that Hutlor now
spoke of tho antis and the uneles. lie
tnhl how the uneles had l?oen imposed
on for years until they robolled. Hutlor
is hustling to y:et tho votes of the
unelos. but will not jrot them. "If
ever a utan tried to ride two horses
my friend, tho General, is that man.
lie has lost tho love and respect of tho
men who supported Shoppard, but they
are tfointf to support him heeause they
hate mo.
One of the proudest days of his life,
Governor Tillman said, was when tho
Kdgctield Rillos eamo to his assistance
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uui 111^ VIA V I 'U 1 1111^ twu UVMlKir jllKI
wore followed on the next train by the
Kdgefield Hussar8. Irrosnoctivo <of
political feeling, the man of Kdgefield
were soldiers.
A literal volcano of applause followed
the Governor's remarks 011 this
subject.
Mr. Tindal advises, said Governor
Tillman, that the uncles allow the units
to come hack into the family. I
don't object if they are penitent and
honest: and if they 110 longer claim to
be the best people on earth. For God's
sake let's have peace if these people
really want it."
The Governor turned his attention
to national politics and said that a
shaking up of the antis is needed in
Washington. (Laughter and applause.)
Taking a silver dollar from his
pocket. Governor Tillman said: "The
News and Courier and those other littlo
lice dogs say this is a dishonest dollar."
Voieo : " Hand it over here : i will
take it."
About fifteen minutes was given to
national utTuirs and Governor Tillman
ended his speech by saying to Uutlcr:
' I want to notify you that unless you
withdraw your accusation that 1 ran
at Hamburg 1 am prepared to prove
that the men who make that charge
arc liars." The Governor said this in
kih muni ui Miimbii; manner iinagimii le j
and hat down amid u whirlwind of up- '
plauso, and a waving' of hats which
was almost blinding.
Senator Butler, who was sitting in
his chair, turned to Tillman and handed
him the certificate which appears
elsewhere.
Tillman told him to read it when
his time came and he (Tillman) would
read tho one he had.
Four or five beautiful boquets were
humlcd Governor Tillman.
ouuer was received with strong up- j
pltiuso. Ho said that there was approhonsion
all over the State that t he
men of Edgefield would get the devil
in them to-day, hut he boliovod there
would be good order. With pathos in
his words, Butler said he was glad to
see so many of the fair daughters of
Edgefield present.
Hutlor made a fervent anneal for
peace and for the cessation of tuckering
and strife.
General liutlor said 1 hat he endorsed
the noble sentiments of Mr. Tindul.
He endorsed every word and believed
that Tindal's advice could be accepted
by every man of every fuetion.
Tillman, General liutler said, accused
him of riding two horses. If he
(Butler) was any judge Tillman was1
riding four.
Tillman : " But keeping in the middle
of the road."
Butler : " Yes, hut allow yourself
plenty of margin on each side."
" IIow much sugar has ho put in
your gourd ?" asked Butler of the audience.
Voice : " IIow much have you put
in there during eighteen years in the
Senate ?" (Counter ehoers and applause.
)
Butler: ''.lust keep quiet now. 1
know I am hitting you in sore places
but you must take it."
Butler jumped on Tillman harder
than ho has for days and accused him
of being stingy and penurious. He
charged Tillman with not paying his
subscription to a Keform paper.
The yells and applause for Tillman
partially drowned Butler's voice and
the noise was terrific.
When it was over Butler said that
every time ho hit Tillman the Governor's
supporters wince and try to drown
out his voico by chooring.
Butler said that ho had boon riding
only one horse since 1870 and that
horse wus the deliverance of the people.
He told what he had done in lH7h
and of his participation in the Hamburg
riot.
While speaking of the Hamburg riot
II. A. Townes asked Butler if his
(Butler's) house had not been burned
by negroes because ho took part in the
riot.
"Yos." answered Butler.
J. O. Atkinson, a Tillmanite* who was
standing on the stand to the right of
Butler, said :
44 Yos, but you denied it in Washington."
Butler turned like a panther and
quick as lightning said: "That is a
lie; an infernal lie." If ho had stopped
at this there might not have been any
trouble at that time, but ho repeated
what he said two or three times.
Men began to surge toward the stand
while Butler continued his denunciation.
In an instant Charles Hammond
jumped upon the stand, followed by H.
II. Towues. each with his hand resting
on the butt of a pistol in his hip pocket.
Jt was then.that the desperate men of
both sides jumped upon the stand and
those of less courage moved olT.
Hammond and Townos got behind
Butler, and Tillman's friends crowded
around him. The antagonists began to
glare at each other and to talk in
strong language to each other. Pistols
wore changed from ono pocket to anothor
to be convenient for quick use.
It was a squally time. I'he excite
ment is Injyond description.
Atkinson did not move one inch from
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mioiu iiu iiuu in;oij euwiuiilj^. lie WilS
surrounded by excited men.
General Butler quickly recovered his
wits and worked masterfully to check
the riot which seemed imminant. Tillman
did likewise. Each appealed to
men of l>oth sides to stop joworing.
They begged those trying to get on the
stand to stay oil and those who were
already on to get off.
Among some of the men toying with
their pistols wore several known to
havo boon in thrilling aff rays and noted
for coolness und recklessness.
The uproar continued for what appeared
to bo ton minutes. During this
time the hundreds of men who had romainod
on the stand hod gotten ready
for action.
1 know it to bo a fact that almost
every man had siugled out u target for
IiIh pistol and merely awaited the sig*
mil to turn loose.
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The excitement irruduully subtitled,
but was really never oppressed.
i>unur resumou ms speccn to try to |
tret tho audience back in its former dts-1
position. Ilo gradually grow salty I
again and thero was another outbreak
of cheoring for Tillman. Hutlor got
mad aguin and said there was an attempt
to drown his voice with their
braying. " Any common jackass," lie
said vehemently, " may bray, hut I do
not propose to ho stopped in free speech
by a lot of blatant jackasses. I cannot
ho frightened. 1 have seen too much
of real danger to he intimidated.
"Governor Tillman says I am not in
this race. Ho says he will heat me.
1 say if he will leave out his rings and
give mo a separate box I will heat him
three to one. I will heat hitu throe to
one in Meriwether Township, where
both of us live."
Hutlor charged Tlllmun with beluga
ring and caucus man and said it was
charged that there is a ring controlling
the Gubernatorial race. Tillman,
he said, has not denied tiiis charge.
Turning to Tillman Butler exclaimed
: " I daro you? 1 dare you, sir, to
give mo a primary. You will never do
it because you are afraid, liven rings
won't save you."
Butler took from his pocket the certificate
relating to Tillman at Hamburg.
Ho said that he had not considered
it a matter of much importance
and had not intended to refer to it
again, hut as Tillman demanded it he
would give it. The certificate is as
follows:
"This is to certify that at Hamburg,
.Iuly, 187'), wo, the undersigned, wore
present and that Mr U. 1 v. Tillman wan
not soon by any one of us when the firing
began. That wo were in the thickest
of it from start to finish, and if ho
had boon there wo should have seen
him, and certainly did not after the
firing began.
(Signed)?44 W. II. Hammond, T. P.
Hammond, L. V. Strom, II. 1). Strom,
John M. Hightowel*, (J. \V. Walker,
.los. H. MeKie, John A. Sutler."
The reading of the cortilleate finished.
Sutler sat down.
The (Governor waited a few seconds
and walked to tho front. His eyes
were Hashing. He read tho following
certificate refuting the charges of the
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"South Carolina?Aiken County.
"To all concerned : This in to certify
that on the night of the Hamburg
riot, in we, the undersigned, were
in the town of Hamburg from the heginning
to the ending of said riot, and
that wo know of our own knowledge
that Ik U. Tillman stayed in said town
and did his whole duty until the ending
of the said riot.
(Signed)?44 Honry Gitzon, L. W.
Ueeso, .1. O. Holder, W. II. II. Butler,
.1. (J. Hammond, P. O. Thurman, L. I).
Keeso, G. \V. Mod look, .1. I?\ Atkins. S.
B. Mays. T. A. Hays. J. A. Timracrman,
S. W. Miller. w, P. Roper, J. C.
Lanhatn, J. A. White, T. N. Tiinmorraan,
W. P. Doboy."
(Some of these men arc Butloritos.)
As t.ho Governor read each name he
asked the signers if they were not with
him. and they answered in thoafllrmativo.
Another row was expected at any
minute during the reading of the certificate,
hut it did not materialize.
A largo number of men who had not
signed the certificate shouted to Tillman
; " Yes, you were there. We
were with you and saw you."
Tho Hamburg riot incident was
wound up by the following from (governor
Tillman : ".If any man doubts
that (referring to the cortilicatc) lot
him meet mo on the public square."
While Tillman was reading, ten or
fifteen of his friends surrounded him.
A imUIUI !. 1 * * * - *
wiiiriwimi ?>I applause IOIIOWCU Ilim
and u hundred of Ijis admirers warmly
shook his hand. Governor Tillman's
speech was a line one in every sense.
It was impossible to got anything like
a full roportof it, boeauso thefre(|uent
interruption by applause made it disconnected.
AT LEXINGTON.
Lf.xington, .Inly 2d.?The irrepressible
Cal Caughman was howled down
at his own home and I>y his own people
at the campaign meeting today. It
was not exactly howling, as Caughman's
recent friends wore not mad.
They simply cheered everything lie
tried to say and drowned his voice. He
did not speak a total of two minutes.
Dr. .1. Win. Stokes, his opponent, had
things all his own way. The other
speeches were about as usual.
Governor Tillman crawled a little
father away from the Democratic party.
Ho said everybody in this State is a
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if the men who tiro now running the
nutionul party rotuin control the adherents
will have to stick to the principles
but change the name.
Senator Duller came out for Ail hii
10. Stevenson as the next Democratic
nominee, llo said iStcvenson is in
sympathy with the people and can be
elected. He declared that the salvation
of the pcoplo is in sticking to the
Democratic party.
Part of the campaign party will go
to Holly's Ferry tomorrow to an extra
mooting. Holly's Ferry is twelve
miles from nowhere and it is hard to
got there at that. It is on the line of
the Newberry, Lexington Si Aiken
road.
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HILL Alt!' ON STItlKKH.
Lot lCvcryhodv Quit. Work For a
While? Agitators Have to Do Something
to Kcv|) the Hoys Interested,
or the Salaries Would Not lit; I'ahl.
We are crowded now. What with
all the ramifications of the big strike,
the wide-spread war between labor and
capital, the miserable contention over
tho tariff bill and the red-hot strife of
candidates for office, our weak minds
are kept on a continual strain. ICvery
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now, evou to tho barbers and the nowsboys,
and if theso unions don't strike
or boycott Bomothing occasionally tlio
boys {rot lukewarm and quit paying
their dues und that cutsolT the salaries
of tho oflicors, and so they must tret up
a carouseinent to lire up tnolioys again.
It is like tho groat monarchies of lCuropo.
When their people get rostless
and discontented and threaten tho government,
the monarch gets up a little
wur with some other nation and that
unites the people and kills oil' tho surplus.
Suppose we all strike for a little
while and swear oil' from any kind
of work unless we can get more for it.
Let tho newspapers striko against tho
newsboys ami quit publishing papers.
Lot tho railroads stop running. Let
the merchants quit buying and selling.
Let all the manufactories close up for
awhilo. Let us ail wear our old clothes
and live olT our gardens. Capital is
just as good as labor and brains are better
than both. It takes all three to
koep tho world going and if thoy cannot
get along in peace let us dissolve
tho partnership awhilo and ovorybody
and everything got on a striko. 1
But that woulden'tdo. Just think of
tho poor; not the farmers nor tho lulioi'ers
on the railroads and in tho work- 1
shops, hut tho poor women and children
who toil in the cotton mills or at*
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tlii! needle in sonu! miserable garret Hni
sewing women In the great cities
who muko our garments for a luoro
trlllo anil who still sing "The Song of
the Shirt." Who is striking for them?
Nobody. it is not the very poor who
lire raising all this raeket. It is the
ublo-bodied men who have employment
at living wages. I heard a farmer say
yesterday that they could get along if
lal>or was not so high, and no douhthis
laborers are erowline because wurnw
uro not higbor, anil so it goos. The
farmer grumbles becauso wheat is
down to <><) r?.'iits a bushel and the laborer
would reduce it to *?<> cents if ho
could. And yet nil classes who are not
rich enough to live without work sympathize
with the strike, and in its last
analysis the prime cause is envy and
Bullishness. How rich will a man he
allowed to get and still hnvo the good
will of his poorer neighbors? How
poor must a man get before he will
have the help and pity of tins rich?
Hut every day the press ventilates the
whole business and everybody knows
all about it.
It was a relief when Mrs. Arp told
me this morning she wanted that big
red oak that stood near the corner of
the garden cut bown. I've been hinting
about that a long time, but she is
opposed to cutting down shade trees,
and so I never argued the case at all.
Some years ago I proposed to thin out
the trees in the front yard, hut she objected.
While she was oil' to Koine on
a visit 1 got the boys and wo cut down
three of them level with the ground
and didn't leave a sign of a stump, and
we hauled away every chip and scrap
and covered the p'aees with grass and
she never found it out for two months,
and wouldn't have then, but one of the
mischievous girls remarked one day
that we dident use to see the hills as
plain as we do now, and my wife
caught on to the business right away.
She always docs, lint she suggested
this morning that that oak would have
to come down and it would give us
more garden. As woman sometimes
changes her mind, I went at it like
killing snakes. The trunk of the tree
was perpendicular. I know it was, for
1 planted it. I tied a pair of big scissors
to a string and stood olT and sighted
and was sure it would fall up the
hill where I wanted it. If it went
down the hill it would fall across the
narrow lane and onto the widow's fence
and smash up the fruit trees in her lot.
So to be sure 1 climbed the ladder and
sawed oil'some big limbs on that side,
and I knew that the limbs on the other
side would pull it that way.
1 sharpened the axe and then 1 and
Uncle Sam went to work. When it
was most down the good widow, who is
our nearest neighbor and lives alone in
her cottage, came along and looked
anxiously at what we were doing. I
assured her the trot! was bound to fall
up the hill on my side, and so she went
on to spend the day at a friend's, and
we chopped on a little more. The
wind was blowing quite a breeze, and 1
got my plumb and sighted again.
Then I sighted the top in line with another
tree, and told Uncle Sam to chop
some more. Uy and by I saw it was
moving a litt le up the hill and all right.
"It's going all right, Uncle Sam," said
I. "Let her go?give another lick or
two on the lower corner." .lust then
the wind got up almost a gale, and hefore
we could say Jack Robinson, it
sent that tree crashing down onto
fences and orchards and into my corn
[uin-ii aim jusl ioro limits mi to pieces
generally. "Dar now," said Undo
Bam, and "thoronow" was echoed from
the back door, where my wife and the
girls were watching. "It was all the
wind." said I. "I reckon it was gravity,"
saiil my wife. They guyed mo almost
as bad as the small boys guy a
baseball team from a neighboring town,
and I bail to walk into the garden to let
my collar down. I dident euro anything
about my fence nor the corn
patch, put there was the tree top in the
poor widow's orchard.
My wife and the girls came out to
comfort mo, but 1 wouldont be comforted.
How long would the widow be
gone 1 ruminated, and how long would
it take to clean up things and repair
the damage as far as possible? Hut we
never stopped a minute. There were
throe of us now, all good hands, including
myself. 1 never worked as hard in
my life. 1 dragged oil' brush as fast as
they could trim up the brushy top. 1
got the stop ladder ami sawed oil the
broken limbs of the apple trees and unloosed
thoso that were fastened down.
Wo cut up every part of the tree that
was on tlie widow's side and cleaned
up the fragments and then put a new
pout in the ground and brought plank
and built up the fcnco again and roplaeeil
the barbed wire. Every little while
I looked down the lane to see if the
widow was coming, but she dident
come. Then wo cut up that part that
was in the lane and we carried or rolled
every piece to my woodpile, and by
5 o'clock you could hardly tell that a
tree had fallen thero at all.
1 was hot and tired and my garments
stuck to my perspiring llesh. I looked
again for the widow, and sure enough
siio was in sight. Putting on a smile,
I said : " Well, the wind did take the
tree down in your lot." She looked at
the fence and the orchard, and said :
"Well, 1 don't seo where it fell. The
fence looks just like it did, only better."
" it broke a large limb from that beautiful
apple tree," said I. "Well, that
doesent matter," she said. " It hardly
ever bears any fruit, and when it does
the applet are not much account."
"Thero was a young peach tree there."
said I, " but it is not there now." ".lust
a volunteer," she said, "and they were
too thick, anyhow." If 1 had known
she would be so pleasant about it 1
wouldont have worked so hard, but
"all's well that ends well." Hereafter
when I go to fell a big tree 1 shall
make more allowance for wind or wait
till there is none. Now I am going to
make a new strawberry bed and plant
out runner? when they have taken a
littlo more root, but that tree business
will never bo forgotten. It will bo a
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|/<iv/w^K?|/ii vu IIIJ niuiiivH (y. i i aciuuiiy
crowded out the strike and politics,
and aftor it was all over it loftmocalm
and serene. BILL AR1\
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?In Clarendon County, an eighteonyoar-old
negro named l)ave Manning
made a ,'icious attack upon a white
woman in the absence of her husband.
He was arrested and conlined in jail
at Manning. Last night there was a
rumor of a probable lynching but the
Manning Guards were placed in charge
of the juil and the attempt was not
made.
?Lewis McJunkin and Obey llcrndon
of Union engaged in a shooting scrape
a few days ago. Nobody but a woman
at the bottom of it.
?The citizens of Anderson are
making efforts to raise a monument in
memory of tho late Edwards F. Murry.
II. lleinoinan, Milwaukee, writes:
"One box Japanese Pilo Cure has
cured mo of a case of 28years standing,
after being treated by New York's best
physicians." Sold by Carpenter Bros.,
Greenville, S. C.
?Judge Siraonton will hear tho railroad
tax cases on August 21th.
Mr.I leas, reliable, mm-.
OUR POLITICAL CHART.
! Til 10 CONSTITUTION OF Till: I>F.MOC1IAT1C
FAIVTY.
Adopted u( Columbia mi tlic loth ol"
September, 1HOO, and Aim mlcd
September l!l, IHO'J.
j Article I. Thero shall be one or
i more Democratic clubs organized In
i each township or ward, each of which
clubs shall have a distinct title, " The
Democratic Club," and shall
elect a president, one or more vice
presidents, a recording and a corros*
spending secretary, and a treasurer,
and shall have the following working
coininittcos, of not less than throe
members ouch, viz: A oommit1e< on
registration, tin executive c.ominitteo,
and such other committees as to each
club may seem expedient.
Art. *2. The meetings of the clubs
should be frequent after the opening
of the canvass, and some iiicinliiT of
tho club or invited speaker deliver an
address at each meeting, if practicable.
Art. it. Tin! president shall have
power to call an extra mooting'<?f tho
club, and one fourth of tho members
shall constitute a quorum for tho transaction
of business.
Art. 4. Tho club in each county
shall ho hold together and operate under
tho control of a county executive
committee, which shall consist of one
member from each club, to bo elected
by the respective clubs, but these
powers to the said executive committees
do not carry with them the
power to pass upon tho election of
members of tho county convention, or
their (|ualificution to situs members,
for this power belongs to the members
of the convention through tho appointment
and action of a committee on
credentials, whose report shall be:
acted upon as the members of tho con-!
vention may deem proper. The executive
committee, when elected, shall'
appoint its own olliecrs, who shall
not necessarily be members of said 1
committee, and till all vacancies which
may arise when the convention is not
in session ; provided that any olllcerso
elected, who is not a member of tho
committee, shall not be entitled to a
vote on any question, except the chairman,
and then only in case of a tie
"ote. The tenure of olllco of the executive
committee shall be until the
1st Monday in August of each election
year, at which time the county convention
shall be called together to reorganize
the party. lOvory presideni
tial your the county convention shall
bo called by the county executive committee
in May. and shall elect delegates
) to a State convention called for the
purpose of electing delegates to the
National convention and to elect tho
j member of the national Domocrat'c'
executive committee for this State, I
and such State convention shall oxer-I
ciso no other power. This State convention
shall be called by the State
executive committee to meet every
| presidential election year on the .'Ird
Wednesday in May, and the State
Democratic nominating convention
shall bo called by the State Democratic
exective committee to meet on
the .'Ird Wednesday of September of
each year.
Art. ;*?. County Democratic conventions
shall be composed of delegates
elected by the several local clubs, one
delegate for every twenty-live voters,
as shown by the poll list made at the
preceding iirst primary election, and
one delegate for a majority fraction
thereof, with the right to each county
convention to enlarge or diminish the
representation according to circumstances.
The county convention shall
be called together by the chairman of
the respective executive committees
under such rule, not inconsistent with
the consitution nor with the rules
adopted by the State Democratic exec- 1
utivo committee, as each county may
adopt, and when assembled shall be
called to order by the chairman of the
exeeutivo committee, and the convention
shall proceed to nominate and
i elect from among its members a president,
one or more vice-presidents,
a secretary and a treasurer. 'J'ho
clubs recognized by the respective
county conventions which sent delegates
to the State convention which
met on August l.'l, 1 HIM), shall be re:
cognized as the only legal clubs : Provided.'
however, That any county convention
may permit the formation of a
new club or clubs by a majority vote
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111 un iiiuuiuurs. i ruviuuu, lUI'Hier,
that in all cities with a population of
| .">,<100 and over, there may he two clubs
in each ward : they shall ho organized 1
in obedience to this constitution, as are
the clubs elsewhere in this State, and
in organizing said clubs they shall
have representation in the county
I conventions, respectively, as said conventions
shall doelare in Accordance
with the provisions of this conslituS
tlon.
Art. 0. The nominating eonvonj
tion for the nomination of governor,
! lieutenant governor and other State
| oUicers, in 181)2 and thereafter, and for
electors for president and vice president
in the same year and every presidential
year thereafter, shall he composed
of delegates from each county,
double the number to which such
counties are entitled in both branches
! of the general assembly. Said delei
gates to he chosen by primary elections
to 1m held on the last Tuesday in
August of each election year : the dolegate
elected to receive a majority of
the votes cast. At this election only
white Democrats shall be allowed to
vote, except those negroes who voted
for General Uamption in 1S7<> and who
have voted the Democratic ticket
| continuously since, may be allowed to
vote. The club rolls of the party shall
I I'onuti 1.1 lift tin* muriui ??*F l?o4 .?%wl ..lw.11 I
I ? v^iovi j not aim oiian
bo upon to inspection by any member
of tho purty and tho election under
111ih clause shall be held and rogulatcd
under the act of tho general assembly
of this State approved December 22,
1888, and any subsequent acts of tho
legislature of this State. Seeond primaries,
when necessary, shall bo bold
two weeks later.
Art. 7. The oflieors of the State
convention shall be a president, a vice
president from each congressional district,
two secretaries and a treasurer.
Art. 8. The State executive coinlnittco
shall bo composed of one member
from each county, to he selected
by the respective delegations and
elected by tho convention. When
elected, said executlvo committee
shall choose its own ollicors, not "necessarily
members thereof, prior to said
election. Provided, That any ollicor
so elected who is not a member of tho
committee, shall not bo entitled to a
vote on any question, oxcopt tho chairman.
The oxecutive committee shall
meet at tho call of tho chairman or
any live mombers, and at such time
and place as thoy may appoint. The
member of tho National Democratic
executive committee from South Carolina
shall bo elected by tho May State
convention in V892, and every four
years thereafter, and when elected
shall bo ex-ofliclo a member of the
State oxecutive cominitteo. Vacancies
on said oxocutivo committee by death,
resignation or otherwise, shall bo filled
by tho respective county executive <
r ' 1 ?1 / I
committee. The State executive com- ot
in it too is charged with tho oxocution ai
and (lirootion of tho policy of this
party in tho State. subject to this con- et
stitution, tho principles declared in 1 :u
the platform of principles, and such
instructions by resolution or othcrw isc.
as a Stuto convention may from time
to time adopt, and shull continue in
otlioo for two years from the time of
election or until the assembling of the
Stat'.' nominating convention which
moots in September of each election
your. If any vacancy occur on the
State ticket or for electors, by couth,
removal or other cause, the oommittoo a
shall liu\o tie- power to till the vacancy
by a majority voto of the whole committee.
Art. :). Wit u the State e nvi ntion t
assembles it I bo ''al!e?l to order
by the chairman of tin; State executive
committee. A temporary presi- 1
dent shall be nominated and elected
by the convent ion. and after its organization
the convention shall proceed
immediately to the election of permanent
ollieers and to the transaction
of business. When the business lias
been concluded it shall adjourn sine t
die.
Art. It). There shall bo a primary t
election in each congressional district t
in this State on the last Tuesday in t
August, 181)2, and every two years
thereafter, to nominate candidates for
congress, to be conducted and man- <
aged as is hereinafter provided in the
election of delegates to the State convention
The veto to bo received,
f II bll 111 to.) mwl III1I1IIIII1..H.1 !?' !?.? S1..1.,
i?J lllU OttltU 1
executive committee to tho chair mur. lit
of which ihe result is to bo transmitted In
by the respective county chairmen by tl
tho first Tuesday in September, 1S!>2, st
and every two years thereafter. The di
election for solicitors of the different d<
circuits shall be by primary, subject so
to the same rules and regulations, and <p
to be announced in the same way as tl
before set forth for congressmen. at
Art. II. Ilofore tho election in 181)2, h:
and each election year thereafter, tho hi
State Democratic Kxecutivo com- n
mittco shall issuo a call to all eandi- p<
dates for State olliccs to address ii
the people of the different counties si
of ?tho State, fixing the dates of si
tho meetings, and also inviting tho i*
candidates for Congress, United States
Senate, delegates to tho Stat e con veil- w
tion, and for solicitor, in their re- ci
spectivo districts and circuits, to bo in
present and address tho people. At r<
such meetings only the candidates in
above sot forth shall be allowed to at
speak. of
ivn. I-, it. snail ho the duty of each tr
county oxceutivo committee to u}ipoint li
moctiin their rosnoytivo counties, ds
to bo addressed by tlie candid ales for w
the general assembly and for thy el if- In
feront county ollices, all of whom ex- hi
copting trial justices and masters,
shall be elected by primary on tbe last w
Tuesday in August of each election til
year under tbe same rules and regula- pc
lions hereinbefore provided. m
Art. Id. Knoll county delegation to fo
a State convention shall have power to fo
till any vacancy therein. in
Art. 14. This constitution may be so
amended and altered only by the State m
nominating convention which meets tl
in September of each election your. ol
Art. 15. Any county failing or re- hi
fusing to organize under the provisions w
of this constitution shall not have rep- di
rescntation in the State Democratic so
convention. J. L. M. ikiiy, tli
Chairman State Dem. Kx. Com. \vi
1). II. Tompkins, Secretary. be
SOCIAIj litI-'IO IN PICItSlA.
la
m
Tho Social and Domestic llclat ion.s of | ())
an Ancient People. \y<
Tho following article is from the 'n
pen of Hon. S. G. W. Henjamin, formerly
U. rt. Minister to I'ersia:
The social life of I'ersia was originally
the natural outgrowth of certain 1 ^
climatic and racial conditions. As it '
was 2500 yours ago, such it continues
to-day practically unchanged. Only
when the condition change will the sot
cial life of the country also chango. It os
is a mistake to suppose that Mohamet 111
or tho precepts ho laid down in Koran
produced any radical deviations in the a
social or domestic institutions of the b(
countries wnieii cmbrueod his doe- 111
trinos. He enunciated the great prilleiples
of monoihoism, new in many th
parts of the Kastor forgotten ; and only ?t
seemed to introduce a now social ays- jii
tein by simply placing his ollieial seal
of approbation on what already exist- ti<
cd, adding a few details hero and fli
thore, and thus making obligatory as 'c
articles of faith customs which had oh- fo
taincd for ages by reason of usage rathor
than law. tr
The patriarchal life of thoearly l'er- 111
sians served as tho foundation for tho i*i
great nation which was finally evolved tr
when numerous nomadic tribes were i*i
4..11I 1!- i - *
crysiiHiu/.uu nuo a nomogonoous, pow- ct!
erful and absolute monarchy. The
soveroigu continued to ho simply a pa ctJ
triurch governing hut controlling a W(
larger family or elan, and in the social nr
system the father or head of ai family h\i
is still in Persia not merely a father, l('i
hut a ruler to whom aill his deacon- 1,1
(hints pay due reveroneo and allegi- ; l)l
anco. lie is the patriarch until death j th
removes him and his eldest son takes I oe
his place. ' th
It was not the Koran which instituted
polygamy, and the kings of Per- hi
sia with their vast harems merely hi
practiced on a scalo suited to their hi
rank a connubial system established
by their ancestors, the early patri- hi
arehs. At the outset the women were ?f
not kept in seclusion, nor are they now th
among those Persians who are still w'
nomads, lint the kings, in order to bl
exhibit greator state and preserve a 15,1
pure lineage, introduced the custom of w'
carefully guarding their wives and con- of
oubines and keeping them from tho rij
public eye. The custom extended to 111
the nobles, and was gradually adopted
by all classes except tho nomads, th
But of course it is impossible for any th
one but a sovereign to entirely seclude he
his wives, hence tho Persian women ca
have liberty to go abroad, but they ne
must lie closely veiled, and no man can
enter the quarter of a dwelling do- ta
vou3u lo tnoin except tbo husband and tb
the sons. It is evident tiiat theso cs- 'J1
aontiul traits of Porsian life arc directly
evolved from the early patriarchal ch
system, while the elaborate ucromonial co
etiquette which is universally practiced 1?
in Porsiu is l>orrowed from tlio ox- l)!
trorao ceremonies which protect up- (,n
preach to tho sovereign, and make his its
person and power more august and terrible
in tho eyes of tho people. In ftn
like manner it is precisely by strictly co
maintaining a graded scalo of cti- ro
quotto that men in ditTcront social Hi
grades protoct thomsclvos in a country ha
where all are equally tho slaves of the hi:
sovereign. All these apparently ab- th
surd social rules, which so often arouse ini
the derision of Europeans, have their 'in
basis therefore in utility. When the of
necessity for them censes with cluing- of
ing conditions, this claborato social <;o
system of Persia will pass away, exact- mi
ly as dueling, or the too ready resort to 1>"
arms for resenting affronts will wholly
disappear from the South when it is CO]
found that sooifcty is sufficiently "well tr^
organized and compact to give a man on
;her ami nunc rational means for
/oiding a'Tront or aggression.
The social life of Persia is condition1
uh./v ! A .. -1 4 ! ? * ' *
< oisu *jii i is uuiuuttiiu mo i wie two
o distinct in thut country, instead of
ling inter-related or forming one
istoni us with us. Polygamy and the
.elusion of Oriental women makes it
npossible for the sexes to meet in
oi'siu on soeial terms, or for such a
iin;,' to exist as gonerul society,
/hatcver society eaeli sex enjoys mu>t
i exclusively with members of its own
x. Women may give entertainments
visit, moii may do the samei but on
i such occassions only one sex is re eseutcd.
The interchange of visits
noug Persian ladies is attended by an
.iquette si mi liar to that practiced by
ie men. with somewhat more attenuition
perhaps to serving and urging
ie guest to eat fruits and eonfcctiuu*
y. Hut except among women of the
ighest rank, who have private ha I s
ducked to their residences, the mo t
iiporlant social factor among Persian
omen is t he public bath. There they
iscmblo with their children, and uftci
ithingand having their long ' r .v-.es
icd with liciiua and o.iitcd I,
aids, which arc goo I for several
lys, they gather in groups, making
ic exquisite cuibroiilory for which
icy arc famous, and exchanging tin- I
>ssip of the neighborhood. Thus I
icy plan the marriages of their chilron,
retail the nows they have had
oin their husbands, and learn what is
jing on in the world, adding to the
cans which they posses in no less dome
than their European sisters forinueueing
the male members of their
iiusoholds and swaying the atTuirs of
ie nation. They who think that the
elusion of Oriental women results in a
iiniuntion of their inlliiciiee, labor mijr
a grout mistake. If anything this |
elusion sharpens their wits and
Tickens their talent for intrigue and
ie execution of deep laid design-',
id the men are like putty in their
amis. Occasionally a Persian hits-i
md in a sudden paroxysm of rage, or
istive under petticoat rule may teinirnrilv
rebel and vigorously assert
iniseir; but he is soon reduced to ;
ibjection again, and fair woman re-;
lines hersway. Ifalf tbeyivil wursof I
orsia have been duo to the women.
A man's social life in Persia begins |
itb sunrise, after lie lias bad hiscarly
ij) of colTco or tea, has said his morn- j
ig prayer, and issued from the aude>0111,
or woman's upurtinent. where lie
ivariably lives from the dinner hour
, sunset until morning with some one 1
his wives. Social life in that couny
gives place at twilight to domestic 1
fc ; there is of course no visiting after
irk, the whole city retiring, as it
ere to the audorooin, and the streets
jcomo deserted except by tho dogs
id an occasional policeman.
Tho dry, steady, and extreme boat
liicli prevails a good part of the year,
though not unhealthy, obliges the i
joplo to rise early and rest in the
iddlo of tho day. iJuslucss is thorcro
transacted or visits are made he
r?j iaii in iiuuiuuriiin^ ami inter three
i the ufternoon. A certain amount of
iciality in customary in purely busi ss
transactions, the more important
ic business the greater tho etiquette
iservod. Refreshments arc served,
a! honeyed phrases about health uud
ealth precede and follow the busine:-- !
soussion. Hut it is when purely
eial visits are to bo paid and received
lat one sees to its full o\te;it the
underfill and really burdensome elairation
of social cermonies in I'ersia,
romonics which take ono back to the
ine of Darius. Much qs wo may
Ugh at them here in our simpler deoeratic
and less polished circles, yet
ic cannot afTord to despise them who
ould maintain his position and cargo
his influence in that country.
_ ? ? c
NOKTH AMHHIUAM INDIANS.
?e Iroquois <?r ihe Grand Ittver?j
Some C urious Fuels in Their His-!
lory.
nrper's Weekly,
Within the last decade public intcrit
in tbo North American Indians lias
idergono a revival, whotlior induced
r the hiet that the red man is making
final and powerful clTort to obtain a
Hiring 01 ins wrongs, a net omphasizg
this endeavor by frequent bloodied
in the far West, or whether by
ie renewal and ussidous application of
bnologists and archaeologists to Irian
subjects, it is dijiicult to decide,
he latter may well direct their attenun
to the investigation and study of
lis probably most romantic and poet- ;
people the world has ever known, :
r the day is wellnigh dead fortho puty
of ceremonial 'ites, folk-lore, and
adition amongst their many hundred
itions, for civilization and intonuar-!
ago are adulterating those exclusive
ibal ordinances that for many cenlues
have been the stronghold of a most
mservative r ace,
With the exception of Finland, the
inntry is unknown that possesses such
ealth of folk-lore as America. Tin re
o mines of unchronicled legends and
perstitions, each colored by tribal
stinetions, that scholars will never
icarth, and that will perish with the i
jople whoso blood grows annuallv I
[inner and paler as their prairies re- i
ive the "white man's footprint," as !
ieir rivers ripple to the dip of his oar, !
thoir forests fall at the hurling of !
s axe, and who will themselves he |
it a tradition and a memory in the
pse of a century or so.
l'rohahlv the most famous and well- 1
town Indian nation, hothon tjio pages
history and in the press of today, is
e Iroquois, that magnificent people
hose name w^ts synonymous with war,
ood, and bravery throughout the seviteenth
and eighteenth centuries, and
hose descendants still possess much
the lire and all of the exclusive birt h- !
ghts of tradition so jealously treas- '
ed by their ancestors.
The six distinct tribes that compose
e Iroquois nation, being the Mohawk,
tyuga, Onondaga, Senaea, Oneida,
id Tuscarora, have since the Ameri11
War of Independence been perm auitly
settled in southwestern Ontario.
When, under the generalship of (Japin
Joseph Brant, these people allied
eir forces with the British, and left
the Mohawk Valley a precarious
rolihood that had been riddled and '
icekercd by the numerous wars of the
lonists, the imperial government jilted
them u reserve grant wliieh com- i
iscd the land lying within six miles j
either side of the Grand ltiver, from !
i source to its mouth.
At that period these were hunting
d fishing grounds unequalled in the
untry; hut a century of insidious inads
made by white settlors, of a civzation
not always wisely conducted,
,s despoiled the Iroquois of his game,
s national glory and hardihood, and
e greater portion of his real estate,
nsmuch as the rescrvo has dwindled
d shrunken into a comparative dot
land that embracos but 53,000 acres
the least value jilong the entire
urso of the liver. In early times
loh of this land slipped out of the
dians' possesion in an unrecorded
inner; but after a season, when inruing
whites were settling the oounr,
the demand for river lands in south1
Upper Canada grew urgont, and I
__g?? ll?IMI
I n I IhMIl .1. I I fll
How an Enemy was Foiled.
Tho following graphic statement will lvj
roud with Intenso Interest: "I cannot dot erltxj
I III' fill Mill, ITlU'py HODHttVIUII 1 Hill IMINll'll III Illy
iirinw, hands ami legs. 1 had to rub and beat
those parts until tlioy wore sore, toovercom?
In a measure the dead feeling thut hud taken
possession of them. In addition, 1 had a
strange Meukness la my baek and around my
waist, together with an Indescribable 'gone'
fooling in my stomach. Physicians said It
\v is creeping paralysis, from which, according
to their universal conclusion, there,is iu>
relief. Onco it fostons upon u porsuh, tlioy
say, it continues its Insidious progress Until
it reaches a vital point and the suiteror dies.
Such was my prospect. 1 had been doctoring
a year and a liulf steadily, but with no particular
benefit, when I saw an advertisement
of Dr Miles' Kostorutlvo Nervine, procured a
battle and began using it. Marvelous as it
may seem, but a few days had passed before
evory bit of that creepy feeling had loft me,
and there has not been even tlio slightest
indication of its return. I now feel as
well as I over did, and liuvo gained ten
pounils in weight, though I had run down
from 170 to l!J7. Pour others liavo used I)r.
M ile.-,' Kostorutlvo Nervine on my rcoomeitdatloti,
and it liasbeon as satisfactory in their
casus as in mine."?James Kane, l,a Duo, O.
Dr. .Miles' Uestorativo Nervine is sold by till
druggists on a posltlvo guarautco, or sent
direct by the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart*
lud.. on receipt of prlco, $1 per 1 Kittle, six
bottles for?i, express prepaid, it Is free froui
dplutv* or dangerous drugs.
Sold by Carpenter Rros.. Dnujgigt.
tin? lroquos were induced to surrender
their reserve bit ufter bit, until now,
in lieu of their erstwhile real eslute^l
they have deposited with the Doininibn
government upwards of ? i<4:1 >t hundrod
thousand dollars, the interest on which
they draw biuunually individually, the
amount varying in aoeordauee with tho
expenditure they make on public works
within their own reserve.
The history of the iroquos is unquestionably
the most interesting of the
myriad native tribes in the Americas
from tho time of the formation of the
groat Iroquois Confederacy, more than
four hundred years ago, down to the
present day. Qf this mighty alliance
that t<n verified the entire continent
qonh of Mexico, ami which was originally
cemented together by l'Llie lifty
greait chiefs of the iilty noble families
under ibe leadership of Iliawatba, who
framed thateonfederaey,'' Mr. Iloratio
ilale writes: "During the American
War of Indepcdcncc, this confederacy,
in tho clash of strong* r fer.es, was for
a time broken up. The government for
which they fought gave them lauds
along tho brand Kiver, and hero just a
hundred years ago they re-estahliishcd
their league and rekindled its council
tires. The laws and policies framed
by Hiawatha and his associates more
than four centuries ago are still in
force among their descendants in this
1.. ?'?i "
... ui.io miiuii domain tno
chiefs lire; still elected. The councils
are still conducted and the civil policy
is decided as nearly as possible by the
rules of their ancient league. Not
many persons are awuro that there exists
in the heart of Canada this relic of
the oldest constitutional government
of America a free commonwealth older
even than any in Europo except j
those of England and Switzerland, and
perhaps two small semi-independent
republics which lurk in the fastnesses
of the Pyrenees and the Apennines."
Possessing such historical interest with
their veins tilled with patrician blood
distilled through generations and centuries,
with that wollnigh faultless find
impregnable constitutional alliance as
a foundation, it is small wonder that
the Iroquois excite more scholarly interest
and concern than any other of
America's red men.
The Wix Nations, as they arc now
generally called, have always boon to a
great extent an agricultural people,
notwithstanding tho terrible battles
and depredations they found time to
engage in with both the earlv settlnru
(Viul with rival tribes. Refcring again
to Mr. 11 ale, we learn that "their ox- S
tensive plantations of maize, beans,
and pumkins excited the admiration of
the first explorers." This early tendency
has developed with years into a
positive industry, and today the Grand
River Indians are a peaceful, law-abiding,
self-supporting pool>ld?%ihick to
adopt educational as well ad Agricultural
advancement, and skilled in
many branches of trade and handicraft.
1 'rimitive farming is almost unknown
to them: the well-to-do have thrashing
machines, reapers, binders, fanning
mills, and most of the modern improvements
conneoted} therewith. The Jg|
poorer have their little plot of soil,
plant purple corn and potatoes, and
eke out a livelihood by basket-weaving,
mat-braiding, making axe bundles,
lacrosse sticks, hickory whip handles
and the score of other things that Indian
lingers are so deft at, and this
happy condition has been attained
solely by individual industry. ?
Japanese Pile Curo is tho only one
that can be guaranteed, as it is tho
only cure. Sold by Carpenter Pros.,
Greenvillo, S. C.
Cases of lb years standing when, operations
have failed, have been cured
by Japanese Pile Cure. Guaranteed by
Carpenter Pros., Greenville, S. C.
When traveling, always take a cako
of Johnson's Oriental Soap with you;
diseases are often caught from using
hotel soap. Sold by Carpenter Pres.,
Greenville, S. C. vj
?Thoro is no truth in tho rumor
that. Ormni-o! \t "
... muuiwiii \irouu 01 uio
Southern Railway Company luia resigned.
jW
? Lambert .1. Jones, a venerable and
estimable citizen of Newberry, died on
Sunday. He was SI years old.
fillo LSsslsr I
" cure
A Now and Com pinto Trentinont, consisting of
SUPrOSITOniKS. Capsulos of Ointment uml two
Jinxes of Ointment. A novor-fnlllng Onro for PIIoh
of ovory nnturo ntvl tlctfroo, It mako* nn operation
with tho knife or Injections of curtsiltc ncM, which
aro painful ami noldom a permanent euro, and ofton
resulting in donth, unnecessary. Why endure
thio terrlblo dloeaoo? We cuarnnteo e
hoxoe to cure arty ease. Yoq only pay for
benefits received, tin Ih?x, fl for $5. 8ont by tunll.
dimranteos Isenod by our agent*.
constipation tojj&hj?ii!55?5ll!ft
tho groat T.IVKH nnd HTOM AOII KEOULATOK and '
ni.<K>l> PlIHIFlKlt. Hinall, inlhl and pleasant to
take, especially adapted for children's use. fx) Dose*
93 cents.
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