The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 13, 1894, Image 1
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THE GREAT FOREST FIRES.
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There arc Miles of Country Without a
Human Habitation?The Cyclonic
I'fOm'PSS ol't tie FillU1CH.
Tins details of the groat forest fires
in Wisconsin and Minnesota are sickening
and fearful in the extreme. From
the dispatches sent from day to day,
in which the particulars are given as
the dreadful tales are unfolded by the
survivors, we cull the following summary
:
Inastrotoh of territory twenty-six
miles long, and from one to llfteou
miles wide, not a single human habitation
has been left standing and in
every part of tho track of the flames
Ijodics of men, women, children, horses
and cattle were found. The position
of every body found Aut&ulo of Hinckley
shows that HM?/or of some kind
was sought by tho agonized sufferers
and tho dead are found in holes, behind
stumps, trees, marsh depressions and
in every water course.
The general shape of the fire-swept
district is like a lingo cigar with a
southwestern end about Mission Creek
and the upper terminal a few miles
* cast of Finlayson or Rutledgo. From
tikis a number of branches extend
northward to beyond tho tracks of the
eastern Minnesota Railway. The work
of the flatnos has been complete and
cyclonic in character. Whoro the fire
held sway not a single tree is standing
except as a blackened stump. Thousands
of overturned trees are lying prostrate,
and the roots were burning
fiercely when the welcome rain began
to fall.
A careful canvass reveals tho fact
that soventy-two settlers' homes, outside
of towns, 1. As near as can be
learned, thercr^mjro 500 people in those
homes. At Brookdale, a littlo town,
on the Eastern Minnesota Railroad,
south of Hinckley, about niucty persons
took refuge in the water of a small
crej1'- Out of this place sixty-s^ven
dead" boa'.'"* "fro taken '""l huriod,
and some tint. 1 !'lnf P? ?D8, ??ro
rescued, tt few "hue. " bu,"")?d;
Sargent, of tho St. Puu. ""'.i l/'ridh
Road, has been wnrklncr fn??
' ? r> - "* ** IB t
road with an improvised train, cow.
ing of throe hand ears spliced togothei
with planks, picking up all and identifying
tho bodies of the dead. All the
bodies wore carefully examined and in
many cases were fully identitied and in
every ease a complete record was made
of everything that could possibly lead
to identification.
By tho Duluth relief committees,
most remarkable work has boon done,
without regard to age, box or social
standing. Hundreds of iiooplo including
those of tho very highest social
standing in tho city have been working
day and night since Saturday night.
They have organized thoroughly into
- all needed sub-committees and have in
S a systematic way taken care of men
and women, children and babies. Over
$8,000 in cash has been given for temporary
relief and goods and clothing
valued at as much moro have been given
Nearly all those who survived tho
torrible forest tires in Northern Minnesota
have now been removed to
places of safety in Superior and Duluth
and as a heavy rain has quenched
the Humes thoro will bo no further eas
unities. The work of searching' for the
dead is progressing in earnest. Fiftyfour
bodies were buried at Sandstone,
most of them charred beyond recognition,
and they wore buried wherever
found. When the relief train reached
Sandstone not a sign of a building was
left in the town. Around or in the
ruins of each house were found several
human bodies. The living inhabitants
of the town wero brought into Superior
at midnight. At Hinckley .'{28
bodies wero lying in the streets. They
are hoing burled us rapidly as possible
by a committeo from Pino City.
At Pokogania on the Groat Northern
there are twenty-eight corpses. They
are still lying unburied, tho rest of the
people having left the place. At Partridge
only two are dead, though not a
building is standing. It is impossible
to tell where Partridge was, as tho
wholo surrounding country is in ashes.
Tho special train sent out by citizens
of Minneapolis bearing supplies
and medical relief to tho suffering people
of llinckloy and vicinity had on
hoard olovon peu snsand surgeons with
a full supply ? ??,/ '># and instruments
and fifty oauvas cots. Pino City was
the main objective point, for it was
hero that tho relief supplies were to
be distributed and tho temporary hospitals
had been oponed. The medical
committeo woro met at the depot hy
Sthc heroic little wife of Dr. Barnum,
tho local physician, who with hor husband
had been working day and night
from tho time tho first victims were
brought in, until both wero utmost completely
worn out. "Oh, we'ro so glad
tfAI,l?A H \ tvi/M.i A/?hU/vd Al. - liiii
jruu Luiiiuj uiiuuDU m/uuuu tuu lltblC
womun to Dr. McDonald, as ho stopped
from the train. Tho platform was
crowded with inquisito but glad-lookin^
people with blackened and scarred
faoes and bandaged hands and arms,
boaring pathetic witness of the terrible
oxperionce. Near the edge of tho platform
restod acollln box in which were
tho romainjv^ what was once tho general
pasaeW^d Cgont of the Winnipeg
and Duluti.??~v?M{l. Tho poor fellow
was ono of the passongors on Engineer
Jim Hoot's ill-fated train and tho body
was found yostorday morning, a short
distanco from tho burned train, but so
charred and disfigured that its identity
was only established by tho name
printed on tho inside of a burnod fragment
of a linen collar. IIo had been
In the habit of coming down from Duluth
overy Saturday to spend Sunday
with his family and was on his way
homo when lie mot his death.
Tho correspondent found that notwithstanding
tho reports received,
matters relating to tho numbor and
condition of tho wounded and tho no
cossity for supplies had boon ^roatly
oxugj,'crutcd so far as IMno City was
conoornod. I talead of 200 wounded to
bo eared fo^MiPi'd were a baro twenty
and many ofthoso had not boon seriously
hurt. All tho Injured havo boon
brought in too, and it was learned that
oven thoso at Duluth scarcely outnumbered
those at Pino City. It appoars
that it was a oloan-cut case of eithor
lifo or doath. Most of thoso who escaped
did so with little or no physical
hurt. The most severe and dangerous
cases in Pino City had been taken to
tho improvised hospital at tho rink,
and hero nine of tho medical relief sot
to work whilo tho other two went on
to Hinckley. Only a)>out twelve par
! ties wore being eared for at the rink,
but all in all, they presented a pitiful
|and heart-rending spectacle.
Nearly all the patients are Scaudanaviaus.
Tiio women who lost all their
| relatives are maniacs, as well as danI
gerously burned. Between Pino City
land llinekloy the country was swept
bare of everything living or green. At
Hinckley only alx>ut a dozen of the
tents put up by the State uuthoritios
were occupied. There is not a building
left standing. Every person there
was engaged in recovering, identifying
or burying the dead.
THK DEATH ROLL SWELLS.
The Work of Burying the Deatl and
Caring tor the Living.
Pine City, Minn., Sept. *1.?The
general executive committee inehargo
of relief work in this section has made
a report of dead bodies recovered thus
far as follows :
llinekloy 351, Sandstone 77, Miller,
called Sandstone Junction, 18, between
Skunk Lake and Miller 42, Poke Gamma
32, in lumber camps 50 ; total. 450.
Ghouls arc at work in tho vicinity of
Sandstone. Today a party from
Duluth under James Bailey caiuo down
to help bury the dead, and while
searching around at noon came upon
a gang who had broken open boitiu
safes, and when the Bailey party met
them they had just found a cistern
from which they had pulled tifteon
dead bodies, and had robbed them of
jewelry, rings, trinkets, etc., and
wore throwing the bodies back into
tho well. The party were unarmed,
and the ghouls took to their heels and
escaped.
A frame powder magazine at Sandstone,
a portion of which was loft
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Mil mi ni^; ill in iv i nun wus i:iii|iiyf wua
torn down for material for uoflins.
Tho lire was seen by the Sundstono
people four hours before it struck the
town and everything was packed up
in readiness to move to Kettle Kiver,
oust of the village. Uoforo any one was
aware of tho real danger tho lire came
upon the town from the north east and
west and firing the whole town inside
of live minutes. Many were unable to
reach the river and died in tho streets.
A blacksmith burned to a crisp in his
shop, where ho was shoeing a horse,
y sadden was tho lire not a thing was
, "?<d in thirty minutos tho whole
?fnvn wuu w on tho earth. Those
who roamed nver .-emained most
of the night. The' ^rvivors are entirely
destitute and >VO *ot e.von
clothing to their baeks, ex',0Pl aa
is provided by tho relief oon.'ulll'Y^H!
Whole families are wiped out. 1
sident Sum Hill of tho eastern branch
of tho Northern Pacific, came up from
Hinckley this morning and took a
northern train over the St. Paul and
Duluth to within nine miles of Sand'
stono, and then walked over. The big
Mastern Minnesota bridge over tho
Kottlo ltiver lias a stee.' arch in tho
middle 180 feet long and is t?till intact,
though wooden approaches are burned.
" The scone of deatli and ruin a.'^ug
the road is a terrible one," says M
Hill, "not a sign of lifo is anywhere
to be seen, all is a blackened, charred
mass of ruins. Dead animals and human
beings are every where and they
are buried wherever found. There
wore many peculiar features of tho
lire. In one plueo, where all olse was
burned and blackened all around, wo
found ft wagon with tho lmy in
the box intact, while tho horses
wore deftd. There is yet to be closed
up on the Minnesota a gap of twelvo
miles between Hinckley and Duluth,
eight miles of which are between
Hinckley and Sandstone. There are
four,miles in St. Cloud direction, which
will closed up by tomorrow. I noticed
in one place some freight .car wheels
which were melted, while not three
hundred feet away was anothoi' oar untouched."
Judge Netluiway, of Stillwater, has
been one of tho most active in relief
work, and bus boon all over tho .surrounding
country. Ho found ftho
family of Jack Hobinson. man, wife
and seven children all dead and hardl y
recognizable and also found J. O. Ltowley,
passenger agent of the Minnesota
and Winnipeg. Several miles northwest
of Hinckley today he came to a
spot where a farm house had stood.
In front was a well and ovor to the loft
could bo seen five human bodies and
tho bodies of several animals. Judge
Nothaway went at once to tho well to
seo if anyono was there, and found
down in the bottom, a littlo 12-yoar-old
boy in eight inches of water, who had
lived there since Saturday with nothing
to eat. The littlo fellow was
pulled up and said ho had been put
down there when tho fire was seen,
and an "awful bad smoke had passed
over him and it was awful hot." Ho
asked tho judge if ho knew whoro his
father anc mother were, and his dog.
Judge Nothaway took him on his back
to where ho could bo fed, while other
parties went back after tho five bodies.
A Novel, Mission. ? It seems rather
a novol mission on which the editor of
tho Dundee Courier detailed Miss P.
Mario Imandtand Miss Ucssio Maxwell
in February laHt. They were sent on
a tour around the world for tho purpose
of observing and writing up for
uiat paper uio condition 01 women.
They are going to look at those 26,000
miles of women with a microscope, but
not in the dreary, long-faced way. The
project grow out of the burning question
of the time?suffrage?the never
onding cry for emancipation and restlessness
of every woman within earshot
of that cry. They aro two charming
young womon in overy respect, ready
for impressions and in love with their
work.
Tho tour has been planned for them
and undertaken with all the cairaness
and dignity and freedom from perspiration
that might bo expected from a
Scotch journal, but not one whit less
entorprising for that. They havo unlimited
time, their Scotch thrift never
oversteps their credit, and thoy havo
as many Idays as thoy liko for a place.
Thoy havo two trunks of comfortablo
size and not a worry in tho world, unless
it is black plagues and strikes.
They left Dundee, Scotland, on tho
Rthoflast February, wont from there
to Kngland, thence to Franco, Italy,
Kgypt, China and Japan. From Japan
they arrived in San Francisco on tho
steamer Poru last wook. Aftor studying
tho lifo of women at tho Golden
Gato those two energetic young women
will visit other largo cities in our countrn
in pursuanco of their interesting
mission. i
i
CONWAY, S. C,
POLITICAL VIEW8 OF ALL SORTS.
YOU MANS ON DEMOCRACY.
ll? Views tho Political Hit nut ion
TlirouK>> Darlceued Glasses? Kavoru
an Independent Movement.
The following letter to the editor
of tho Columbia Register has boon
published, and explains itself:
Kditor of the Register: Your
communication of tho 1st hist, received
this evening and in accordance with
your request 1 reply immediately :
in this communication addressed to
me you say, "Knwing you to l>o a
staunch und uncompromising foe of
aught that tends to disturb white
unity and white supremacy and that
your words carry weight and intluonce,
ask that you write tho Register a
letter giving your views upon tho now
Independent movement about to bo
started and outlining the duty of tho
hour. Hoping for an early roply, 1
am," etc.
As to " white unity," that was " disturbed
" four years ago when Govornor
Tillman, conceiving himself to be "tho
only man witli the nerve and the brains
and the ability to array tho common
people against the aristocracy," for the
accomplishment of his own seltish purposes.
spread discord and division
among tho white people by inaugurating
whit he chose to term "a family
quarrel " in tha State.
As to " white supremacy," it should
bo remembered that whilst negro domination
in the reconstructed States has
been one of tho marked foaturos of the
policy of tho Republican party, tho
Northern Democracy, through all of
LUU |iwiintui VlUISSllillUUH Ol UIO lUSll
quarter of a century, has been the unfaltering
friend of the South. It was
duo to its persistent demands that
white supremacy was restored in '7(>
and '77 to South Carolina and Louisiana,
and its aid was freely given to
defeat the force bill and to repeal the
election laws. On the other huud, all
of these new political organizations
which have sprung up like Jonah's
gourd, and will wilt about as soon,
have generally acted with the ltonublican
party against the interests of the
South. The Greenbaekors, many of
whom woreeleeted, in part, by denouncing
Democrats whom they wore trying
to defeat as not sufficiently Democratic,
when elected wero found voting
with the Republicans in the interest
of all measures dragooning the South
in favor of negro domination. The
Populists and Third I'artyitos are no
execution to this rule.. Timv won*.
bag and baggago into 'the camp of our
onomies during the consideration of
tho House bill to reduce the tux burdens
of tho tariff and placed themselves
under tho leadership of tho gentlemen
from Maine, Mr. Hoed and Mr.
Hoytelje, to prevent the Democrats
from oven considering a bill designed
to lift the burden of tarilT taxation
from tho farmers of tho South ; they
joined the Republicans in a body and
voted almost solidly against the repeal
of tho ten per cent, tax on State banking?a
measure, which, if it had been
enacted into law, would have given
,r, aut llnancial relief to tho South.
These' now departures, wherever they
have tak-P11 P'ueo in tho South, have
nearly alwuj1'? resulted in un appeal to
the negro anu a termination within
tho Republican r.^nks witness Mahone,
McLano, Tom yVatson and it. F.
Kolb.
The originator and autocrat' ?' your
politlcul faction?for .he dictates it
not only as to measures but men?has
admitted that he was half Populist in
the canvass of 'D2, that he is now, like
McLano, a Greenbaekor, and hus
served notice on the voters of the
State of his early expectation to dosort
the Democratic party. J think this
" now Independent movement about to
bo started " by Governor Tillman and
those pledged to support him should bo
mot by an immediate reorganization
of the Democratic party in tho State,
ua J that "the duty of the hour" is for
every Democrat who has any manhood
or pu'itical principle, or owns any
property that binds him to tho State
or intcrerttc him in its welfare, to aid
this reformation with all his might.
As to placing .a Democratic tickot in
the Held at this laV' day ; I should be
confirmed in my opposition to it were
it not for tho bloody lawlessness of the
prese?? aouiinisoraMqu ape (>no pro
miso o* its continuance by the^egatoc
-?a policy of outrago and pi pushed,
whieii if /Jorsisted /?$eoms to mo\ii(
ovitably lxn'tod to precspitato tho Stati
into all the h orrors of civil war.
It cannot b"? reasonably presumed
that f-eomon w.'1' forever tamely sub
mit to having thoi'r promises i ansacket
and their private packages torii
and scattcrod by t.ho pimps, undfor
strappers and plug-u.glies of any so1
of nondesreript pretty .tyrants, or allow
B. It. Tillman to blow open their iron
safes or break down their doors. How
ever, upon tiiis question I am willing
to bo governed by the combined wisdom
of those with whom I havo beer
politically associated.
L. W. YOUMA Nti.
Fair/ax, S. C., Sept. 3, 181)4.
THE ORGANIZED DEMOCRACY
John Gary Evans on the Politic?
Hit ii.at ion?He Hays the Ilofornaen
of Moutli Carolina arc the rPru<
Denaooracy?The Houtli and Wen
Mus t Combine for Protection urn
ltell CP.
Soi. ator John Gary Evans, of Ai'ttei
Count v, was in Columbia last week
and when aekod to give his views 01
tho political situation, he* said that h
antici pa tod no trouble at the oloctioi
in Novembe r.
In res pons o to an inquiry as to wha
course he w ould pursue if h'e is eled
ed Governor , and upon his o pinions c
tho Oeaia^ platform, and as to wha
action th o next State Convonti. woul
tako on ttio Ocala platform, .Senate
Evans r jald. :
"B I ajn elected Govornor I". sha!
cnaea ,vor to bo tho (Jovornor < ? th
whold poopjo, commanding obeo'ienc
to t a? will <of tlio majority and pt*<
toot ,i0g. Interests of tho mino ritj
lam a Democrat, and in en tir
ay mpathy with tho Democratic p lal
fa/rmas adopted by the party in c on
v entlon assembled in Chicago, of whkcl
'Convention I was a member.
"Ibollovoin froe coinage of alive
in a ratio of Id to 1. The Reformer
in South Caro Hna are simon pun
mocratfc and have never fought th?
pr.rty, but they have fought and wil
continue to fight, ?o-calllea Democrats
f'loaders, such as M>*. Cloveland, whi
*4 >$ '*
fi ^ i *
TIIITDCT\A V CUDTI
, 1 llt/lik7X/a.X , O ?-'.i 1. I I
have prostituted tho principles of tin
party, ignoring almost every plank o
tlie platform. I believe that tho onlj
! salvation for tho Democratic party i.
in tho Southern and Western Douio
i erats combining and overthrowing
the so-called Democrats of the East
I who are nothin# but Republicans it
disguise. I believe in free trade foi
the same reasons that Calhoun am
every other Southern Democrat, win
recognize that a people dependent
upon agriculture, who raise the raw
material, ship it to be manufactured
and then buy it hack again, can nevei
prosper under a Government whiul
makes them compote with tho worlt
in tho sale of their products and force,
them to buy from its protected favor
ites.
" Tho efforts of Mr. Cleveland to post
bofoto tho Democratic party as i
martyr to tariff reform is amusing. t<
sa/ the least of it. When in his lettoi
refusing to sign the Into tariff biil In
protends to love the principles o
Democracy,and in tho next line showi
tho cloven hoof in demanding free raw
materials, which materials are now
raised in the South and West choapoi
than in the Northeast. Ho is painfull,;
silent upon tho necessity of free inanu
factured products, which alone eai
rolievo the farmors of the South am
West, who consume those products, o
tho burden resting upon them.
" As to tho Ocala platform, ever;
principle of it is included in tin; Demo
eratie nlatform. oxc.ont tho snb-treim
ury plan, which has never boon do
manded hy tho Farmers' Alliance, but
on tho contrary, is simply put forth a:
an evidence of tho disease destroying
our industries, namely, uu insulUcieni
currency to do tho business of tho conn
try, and the request for relief fron
Congress in this or some bottter way
It comes with bad grace from the doc
tors of tho nation to dosiro to kill th<
patient for tho reason, if it be true
that he has made un improper diag
nosis of his cwn diseaso.
" As to tho.action of the State Demo
cratic Convention I havo nothing t<
say, except that whatever they do ant
whatever platform thoy adopt I wil
abide by and strenuously advocate if
am nominated for Governor by tin
Convention."
KAltLE ON 1NI>K1'KN1>KNTISM.
He Thinks it Means Nejfro Domini*
tlOlt?He ('alls Upon All to Sustail
White Supremacy.
Editor Hegister : Tho Butler con
ferencos, jus reported, are supposed ti
indicate that having been defeated a
tho recent primary eloctions, tin
lienerai win now organ l zo an Indopen
dont moveraont, in order thut lie in a;
have another chance to be returned ti
tiie Senate. Such a movement- wouh
be "eoncoived In sin and brought fortl
in iniquity." Surely thoro muHt b<
some mistake in the published report
for it is hard to bolieve thut Senate
Iiutlor and his friends, many of when
have proved their manhood, couragi
and patriotism, in war and in peace
would enter upon a venture so fraugh
with evil to the State. Senator llum|]
ton in 1878 declared that "an Indopen
dent was worse than a Radical." Th
conditions which inspired this foreibli
expression remain unchanged, so lo
the word bo again passed down th
lino, "an Independent is worse than
Radical."
An Independent movement agains
tiie organized Domacracy could sue
ceod only by forming a coalition wit
{,^0 black Republicans and this woul
eventually result 111 their restoratioi
to power. Shall white men be rule
by negroes? Shall the State be ugai
dominated by ignorance and vice
Shall we have negro judges presldini
over our courts? Shall South Can
linians be again subjected to th
insults, SulTering and humiliation o>
perienced by them in the dark days (
Radicalism? If not, then rise up.i
your might and put down a movemor
which to gain a temporary advantag
would open Pandora's box and lloo
the Stato with evils which will h
fastened not only upon you, but upo
your children.
The duty of the hour compels over
Democrat, whether Tillmanite or ant
1 Tillmanite, to light now on comnx
ground to sustain white supremacy.
jos. ii. eaklk.
NO INTERFERENCE EXPKCTEI
I
j T?ho Congressional Cuimmigti Coi
BiW?e Declines to Aid Oener
ij'ijpr in His Contest Willi Ti
[ man.
1 Hpouial to Ttjo Nowh and Courier.
i Washington, September 4.?Son
- tor Faulkner of West Virginia, chai
t man of tho Congressional Democrat
- oommittoo, said to-day that tho 01
i i0ok for tho Democrats retaining ce
trol t'10 House in tho next Congre
r was growing brighter and bright
every day. I asked him what tho coi
i mittoo proposed to do in tho way
helping the South Carolina Dcmocm
ill tho pending contest.
Ho ropliod that tho committee won
I ,r*tiider some assistance in tho 1st d
trWt to Col. Elliott, but in tho oth
' districts thoro is no substantial c
I position to the Democratic nomine
4 who were named ut tho recent pi
0 niarios.
t Tho committed cannot undortuko
1 interfere with tho Tillman Domocrt
so long as they control tho rogul
ri Democratic organization and conde
, their tight within tho party linen. T
ii subject has received some attenti
e from tho members of tho commit^
n but thov concluded that it would
unwise for them to take any part
>t the factional tight. In Col. Ellipjt
i- district the Republicans propose
>f make a strong contest, and it Is 1:
it just that tho committeo should he
u mm as lar an it jies 111 mo jhjwot,
r similar contests are made in tho otli
districts tho com mitten will also rone
II such aid and comfort an is at hai
o Tho committee does not proposo
o overlook any of tho districts In any
y- tho btatoa whore thoro ia the alight
f, probability of losing a Doinoera
0 vote.
t- .Honator Faulkner says ho doo? i
>- thin* ^ poaaiblo that Speaker Cri
? Senator fiormau and Bourko Cocki
.aro to go in*'' tho South (Carolina on
r p aign in the ini^reit of Senator Butl
? v/hilo they may s^nipathlze with h
& a.nd hope for hia 8uece.M*? y?t they o
5 not afford, aa Democrata, to oppoae
1 that way tho regular organization,
o V.n North Carolina tho committed
9 pe^'ta to havo several contest*. A
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EMBER 13, 1894;
i term 1 nod effort will l>o made to defeat
f the re-election of Tom Settle, the
" Ha by " member of the House.
A CAIjIj TO OIUJAM/U.
The DemoerntH Are Asked to Send
1 Delegates an lOxtra Convention tit
Columbia V Statement of tJrlev*
1 atices.
? COIAIMUIA, s. c., Sept. 7.?The e.\^
oeutlvo eommlttoe of the now Dotr.o'
crattc movement mot tonight and gave
i out the following tit midnight:
'* "To the Democrats of South Caro1
Una: l'ho following preamble and
I veBolutions having been adopted by ti
s representative Ixnly of of democrats
I'limlnir from 11 larire muioritv of tin>
counties in tho Stuto, and having since
3 boon approved by many Democrats in
1 all of the counties of tho State, it be3
comes my duty as chairman of tho
>' Democratic conference committee of
3 South Carolina to publish them to the
f State, to earnestly urge all tree Demo*
H crats to take active part in tho mass
f meetings proposed to he held and to
1 send roprosentativo delegates to the
' Democratic State convention therein
f recommended.
"Thomas W. Cakwihk,
1 " Chm'u Dein. Conference Com."
I " To the Democrats of South Carolina :
f "Whereas, under the guidance of
those so-called Democrats or a majority
/ of them who have control of the party
* machinery in this State, the leaders of
* tho rank and file of the party have at*
tempted to commit them to the Third
t 1'arty and to Populist doctrines, have
s alienated us from our follow Democrats
f of tlu? Union and have brought the
party in South Carolina into reproach
' as to its alignment with the National
1 Democratic platform, adopted false
* and undemocratic principles and pro*
* mitigated them in the name and under
3 the banner of Democracy, and
i "Whereas, the Democratic masses
of the State have been grossly betrayed
by tho men charged with tho party
* management who have usurped tho
' rights and used tho machinery of tho
| party for selfish ends, a majority of
1 tho so called State Democratic oxoeuI
tivo committee actually permitting
3 another self constituted committee
(only claiming to represent a faction
of a faction) to assume control of t he
party management and in the most lla
grant and offensive manner to disfran.
ehiso thousands of true Democrats,
i "Whereas, a ring has been organized
and is exercising the most arbi
trary and tyranical power to tho utter
i) subversion of the will of the people i
t and thereby depriving them of their
a political rights.
"Now, therefore, be it resolved :
y " That we, as true, loyal and uncoin.
......... I i. ?lw.
LJ I'll/llIICIII^ I'UHIUVI I UI1U
1 Third 1 'arty plat form re pouted ly (and
:i ut the roeont August State convention
i of tlie faction now in power) forced
h upon our party and hereby pledge the
r continued allegiance to true Douioii
cratic principles as enunciated in the
u last National Democratic convention,
i, We feel the absolute necessity of a
t complete reorganization of the party
i- in this State and invite all truo Demoi
erats to assist us in its rehabilitation
0 and in the organization of Democracy
i) in South Carolina squarely in line
t with sound Democratic doctrine : be it
o " further resolved, That we hereby
a invite the Democrats of the State of
South Carolina to assemble in the court
t houses of their respective counties on
i- Saturday the 15th day of September,
h I Hp 1, or at such other places and inanil
nor us they may determine, for the
ii purpose of selecting delegates (two for
il every representative for the lower
it House and the Senate to which the
? county is entitled) to meet in Columbia
[r at a convention to be held on the 17th
t- day of September ut 8 p. in. for the
e purposoof reorganizing the Democratic
party in South Carolina, considering
>f the political situation of the State and
n taaing such action au tiieir coilectivo
it wisdom may suggest for tlio public
o welfare."
d
? THIO l'KIMAKY 8Y8TKM.
n
Homo Reasons Why I he Party Imw
y Hliouhl bo Changed,
Editor Register : As the State nominating
convention will assemble in Columbia
on the 19th inst., and as that
convention alone will have full power,
when convened, of making any amend'>
raents thought necessary to the organic
law of the Democratic party of
the State, 1 desere to call attention to
J, that fact, to the end that delegates t?
that convention may have their minds
directed to the consideration of contemplated
changes, if any, in said oria
ganic law.
ir- If I read tho public mind correctly,
-ic both factions of the Democratic party
it- expect that Article VI of the party
in- law will bo so amended as to require
iss all primary elections for State oflices
or including Railroad Commissioner, ir
in- tho future to ho made hy a direct voti
of for tho candidates for each ollloi
its sought, from Governor down, undoi
the same rules and methods that now
ild govern in primary elootions for Con
is- gressmen and Solicitors. Isoonovalh
or reason why it should not bo done. Tht
>p- only objection I have hoard raised t<
ies the change suggested is, that it wouli
II- ISIJUI ttW UliKlll Ijr U|7UI1 VUUDU V>V/U III/1U1
that have a largely preponderating
to negro population, by depriving thou
its of tho power they havo in the preson1
ar system of nominating conventions. I
let there is any force in that objection, i
ho would apply as well in Congrosslona
on and Solicitor primaries ; and yet i hoa
30, no complaint from that source. So
be must conclude that there is not mucl
in in it. The adoption of the proposo<
change would afford every candldat
to for a State office an equal opportunit;
>ut without reference to locality of iui
sip pressing his fitness for theotfice sough
If r>y him, and ho would thus bo onabio
lor to carry the individual voto, whotho
lor by his oloquonco, reasoning powerf
[id. virtue, forco of character, person*
to magnetism or other winning qualities
of who would appreciate the privilege (
oat casting his voto for tho man 01 hi
tic choice without too interventions e
a second porvon. Besides the princ
aot pies of Democracy are at variance wit
sp, the present method of nominatin
*an State officers.
un- Lastly, tho Itoformorsarocommlttc
er. by previous declarations to insure I
Im the people such change, and if the
an- fail to fulfill this moral obligation the
> in cannot reasonably hopo to uoservo ar
retain thoir oonifUenco aud support,
ex- w. ii. Tjmmkuman.
do- Timmorinau, S. C., Sept. 3.
>1II. ('IiKVKI<ANI> HKNYIMKNTAIi. '
How ii I.ittlo Dliic-KyiMl CJirl Mcctircd
II ((OVOI'llllieilt 1'osithlO Kl'NIlK of
Shooting Squirrels on an < >I<I
I'limul's Plantation.
Special to lla- Augusta ( hroniele.
W.\SIIIN(iTON, I). Sept. I.? 1
There in a good deal of .sentiment
aliout Mr. Cleveland in spite of his
big form mid strictly business methods.
In a cold and callous way he turned
down thousands of oHloo-seekers during
the past year and refused favors to
his best friends when his judgment
ran contrary to theirs, hut before a
little blue-eyed girl of 1~> who wanted !
to work, hid big heart melted away.
Without the endorsement of a single (
eoiitieian he provided for her as a
father would look to the interest of Ills ,
own child.
.lust fifteen miles from Washington (
there lives an old school mate of
Grovor Cleveland?William Burr. He
owns oOO acres of wooded land just off (
the old State road. He is an old j |
bachelor and lives in a quiet and un- ,
assuming manner, and though so near ,
Washington has not visited the Capital
of his country since Grant's first in- J
auguration.
The soldier 1 'resident was his ideal, |
and since Lee's surrender at Anpomat- ,
tox old Burr lias been a strict follower ,
of Republican traditions. During
Mr. Cleveland's first administration
Burr never visited the White House ,
nor oven asked the President a favor,
and Mr. Cleveland possibly never
knew that an old school mate was ]
living so near. Representative Compton,
who know of the association between
the two men in their boyhood, ,
told tiie 1'resident of Burr's residence
and asked if he remembered him. ,
With that strange memory which
never seems to forget a name Mr.
Cleveland recalled him and told sever..! ,
anecdotes which had linked his life
with Burr's in their earlier days. !
an,.,., o.a ..i.i m i i - i ?? -- i ' > 1
<1 nun mm- i mi mui\y mini plainer iicuru
thill, liis old school nuilu hud not forgotten
111 in ho wrote a letter to the
White House, and in his characteristic, ,
blunt way stated that he was a lie- |
publican, and if the President didn't!
mind tliut he could come out and shoot |
squirrels on his place. He went on to
describe, so Compton says, that he had ,
not allowed a squirrel to be shot on (
his place since the war, and suggested
that when politicians became too much
for him the President might come and
take a crack at some of them. The
letter be^an in a very formal way, but ,
the old farmer soon dropped into a
personal address and closed in the following
familiar manner: "Now,
(Irover, if you don't mind my politics
I'll be, mighty glad to see you again
and talk over old times."
This was a chance out of a thousand
lor aii*. vjioveianu. mis mouth fairly
watered for those squirrels and his
heart yearned for just such an escape
from political friends and batterers.
Iie told Compton to say nothing about
his proposed visit, for he was determined
to take his old friend by surprise.
Accordingly one morning at day-break,
seated in a side bar buggy he started
out in quest of Burr's plantation, tie
started from his summer home at
Wood ley and that day it was given out
by his ever faithful Thurber that he
was not well and would remain in the
country.
lie had two men from his placo with
him and the sun was well up before
| they reached their destination. Break'
fast was over and Burr had gone to the
postoilico several miles distunt. Mr.
Cleveland, without revealing his identity,
sat on the front porch to wait for
his old friend. lie wius pretty tired
and very hungry. It was at this time
that Lena Bradford, the heroine of this
little story uppearod on the scenes.
She lived on the Burr place and had
the run of the house. She sat down on
the steps in front of Mr. Cleveland, not
finding old Mr. Burr at homo and rattled
on ul>out crops until she got the
President interested. When ho finally
suggested that ho wanted some water
she went to tho well near by and
brought him a gourd full. On learning
that ho had had a long ride site
volunteered to got him something to
oat. She soon had tho conventional
country breakfast of ham and eggs
spread and the President ate heartily.
Shortly after ho had appeased his appetite
old Burr came in and old memories
wore revived.
Before leaving that night ins inqulr
ou as 10 mo niswtry 01 lama nrauroni,
1 and found that sho was one of sovoral
1 children of a widow who had rooontly
1 boon appointed postmaster at Colesvillo,
the little station whore Burr had
gone to got his mail.
Apparently whonover ho thought of
i his visit to old Burr ho thought of the
' little bluo-oyed girl who had brought
' him water. The episode closed only
> last week when Lena was brought to
. Washington and installed in a $iM)0 poi
sitlon directly under the supervision of
> the Secretary of Agrienlturo. The
' people around Colesville say that the
' President has paid Burr several visits
f since that morning when Lena Brad*
ford served him breakfast. The good
1 people of that town had a greater suri
prise in store for them when William
> Iiurr, sitting in the postofllco, one day
1 announced that he " rockoned he'd
* vote the Democratic ticket next tlino."
r
mm ? ? m*
J A lIOKItlllLH CHIMK I.N GHKSTKK.
f The liriital Murder ol' a Young Col*
ore<l Woman by a .Man Who lla?l
' Outraged Her?The Disreputable
r Hon ol a Itcputable Parmer SusI
peeled of the Crime.
> FORT Lawn, Sept. 4.?A coroner's
1 inouest hold hero to-day over the body
of Mattie Heath, colored, brought out
Y the details of the most horrible crime
i* ever committed in Chester County,
t Mattie Heath, the wife of a young colli
orcd laborer in the employ of Col. C.
i' Hives, a prominent planter, living fout
?i miles north of hero, was attacked
)1 outraged and murdered while return
h ing to her homo from a neighbor'*
" nouao on laat, I riursday morning, tlx
in Mat ult. It appoara that tho younu
>f woman had gone homo with anothei
i- woman to got some vogotablos for hoi
h husband's dinner, ho boing at work 01
K tho public roada that day, and tha
having secured hoido roasting earn ahi
d started on her return Hinging loudly
Suddenly tho woman who had givoi
y her tho corn noticed that tho singlnj
>y oeasod abruptly, but hoard no outer;
id of any kind. This aho states wa
about 10o'clock in tho morning.
At 0 o'clock In tho ovening Anthon;
Iloath returning homo from his day'
NO 8.
?
work wan mot by bin landlord, Col.
Hi vow, near that gentleman's home,
and was Informed in a somewhat excited
manner that his wife had not
been at home since morning, and udI.I...
l.w.U I n t
? mm uv unrrv ai n;i in*i . II*' HUTriod
home and questioned his children,
who said that their mother had gone
over to Amelia Marshall'* and had not
returned. Somewhat frightened at
this unusual occurrence young Heath
started in search of his wife, and had
not gone two hundred yards bo fore he
found her body in a horribly mutilated
condition I reside the foot path. Her
throat had boon cut from ono car to
the other. In r head crushed to pieces
with a largo done, her iiody gashed
across the abdomen, and finally her online
body charred by the hurtling of tho
clothing, which tho fiend had lighted
with a match after accomplishing iris
abject.
A local trial justice was immediately
summoned, and a jury empanelled
an tho following morning to view tho
body. The inquest was then adjourned
until Saturday morning, sufficient ovlilenco
having been taken to fix suspicion
upon Lawrence Kives, tho
twonty-throo-year-ohl son of Col. C.
Kives, tho negro's landlord. ludi^uullcn
immediately begun to run high,
and justice being despaired of by tho
ixeited blacks, throats of lynching
were freely circulated. Young Kives,
not being under arrest, slipped away
luring the night, and on the following
morning appeared at tho door of the
jail at Chester and demanded protection.
Tho inquest on Saturday falling to
bring out enough facts for a verdict
was adjournen until to-day, the ith,
when the presence of young Kives was
,L.... 1 -.1 1- -- A I- ? ?
liomiuiiuuu i iy tiiu ntae's uiloi'UCy.
Triul Justice C. T. Minors i in mod Wittily
telegraphed to Governor Tillrniin,
stilting thlit tho prisoner would bt; in
great danger of lynching unless liouvily
guarded. Attorney Gcnoral Buchanan
proceeded to order out tho Let; Light
infantry, of Chester, at once, and
Itives was brought down on tin; midday
train in charge of SlieriIT Hood and
twenty-live men with lixod bayonets,
who escorted him to tho scene of the
in<|tinst.
Pacts now brought to light lay tho
crime almost beyond a doubt at Kivos'
iloor. lie had been known to make
improper advances to the young woman
on two former occassions, trucks
where there had been a sculTle corresponded
with the size of his foot and
other tracks found in a watermelon
patch, where he hud been that morning.
Tho clothing and shoes which
he had been seen to wear on the morning
of tho killing are missing and unobtainable,
and his behavior on the
evening and night of the same day
was most unusual and suspicious. Both
lie and his father made great elTorts to
criminate an old negro man without
the slightest success.
The coroner's jury has not rendered
a verdict up to this time, but there
ohm bo no doubt, iiu to what it will be.
Tho best whito people of thooommuni
ty tiro highly incensed, and liavo raisod
a purse to employ lawyers to prosoouto
tho Cose. \ oung Jlivos' roputu
tlon in very bad. Ho Isjaecussed of
having oominittod an outrage on a
young nogrogirl about a year ago, and
lias neon whipped by a eominittee of
neighbors on account of relations with
a negro woman. He is not a bud looking
young follow, and carries it olT
with a bold face. Ho was brought
back to Chester and put in jail tonight,
awaiting tho verdict of the
jury, which may bo expected in the
morning. No further disturbance is
expected. Tho blacks are now satistied
that they have tho sympathy and
support of the best part'of tho community.
?-?
KKVOI/r IN Til 10 WKMT.
The People There Are of One Accord
oil tho truest ion of Finance.
| Special to Atlanta Constitution.
! VW t OlIIKT/lfltAVf ll I* i - A
i tt aoiuiivi *?,? Lb ia rujjuri*
ed hero to-day und credit*, d unions
many politicians thut Senator bulmis
and Senator Shoup, of Idaho, and Senator
Teller, of Colorado, have determined
upon a course similar to that pursued
by Senator Jones and leave the
Republican party. It has been known
here for some time past that Senator
Dubois was meditating loavlng the
Republican party and joining the
Democratic ranks, but the report that
Senators Shoup and Teller contemplate
similar action has created consternation
among the Republicans in the
city.
Senator Dubois himself is the authority
that should the next Republican
convention fail to act favorably on
silver that l>oth he and Senator Teller
would walk out of the convention. Ho
is not even a protectionist and all his
proclivities are toward the Democratic
party, if that party continues its tight
for the free coinage of silver.
I called at the headquarters of the
Republican congressional campaign
committee, but nothing definite could
bo learned there. Chairman Balxiock
pretends to hoot at the idea that Mr.
I'dlor will renounce the Republican
faith, but is mum in regard io Messrs.
Shoup and Du)>ois. Since Senator
Jones' flop they are prepared for any
thunderbolt and do not know whore the
lightning will next strike. There is a
fever of uneortainty at the Republican
j headquarters and the next few weeks
may briug forth a decided change in
| the condition of tho Republican party
which will shako it to pieces in the
west and with its record on silver it
, can hope for nothing in the south.
9
' The annual review of tho News and
1 Courier shows that during tho past year
more hay was sold in Charleston than
In any year, save one, in tho last twenty
years ; more corn, by .">0,000 bushels,
than in twenty years, and more outs
than in any year, but one, in twenty. It
is true that more bacon was raised in
' tho State last year than in any year since
' tho war; but the fact remains that
> 1,040 carloads, of 41,000,000 pounds, of
r bacon wore brought from tho West
r j and sold in Charleston during the last
1 ! twelve months. Tho hay was brought
k : from tho North and the corn and bacon
} ' from the West. None of it was made
in South Carolina and a great deal of
1 , it was sold to South Carolina farmers
f who should raise their supplies on their
f own farms.
drains of wheat in Egyptian mummy
V cases have boon known to germinate
s after lying dormant 3,000 years.