The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 16, 1900, Image 1
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vol.. XV.
A LIVELY MEETING.I
Senator Tillman Replies to Dr. j
Gardner's Sermon.
HOYT REPLIES TO TILLMAN |
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And Defends Dr. Gardner's Ser- |
mon. Tillman Takes a Hand
Primary on the
Dispensary.
Tho largest and* liveliest meeting of
tho campaign was at Greenville on
Monday of last week. After tho mooting
was called to order, Col. Hoyt was
presented, and made a happy speech,
giving way to hiH opponents and giving
thom his time and a kind word. lie
said that ho had lived among these people
for twenty years, and that ho felt
that all present knew him and his
work, lie felt that thorn was no need
for him to speak, for all ho might say
lie felt would change no votes as bctweon
him and other candidates, but ho
would like his friends to hoar all tho
other oandidates.
Then Col. Hoyt paid a compliment
to eaoh of his opponents, relating how
woll ho knew eaoh of them and bo
speaking for oaoh a kind audionco.
Then Col. Ilovt startod to walk to his
seat and Mr. Gary suggested that ho
add: "That they all voto for Hoyt,"
and Col. Hoyt turned and remarked
that tho audicneo should not forgot to
voto for him, and this provoked amusement
and much applauso for Col. Hoyt.
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Mr. Hrookor aud Mr. Durham spoke
next and told tlio largo audience what
thoy thought of caoh othor, and why
thoy thought the pcoplo should vote
for them for comptroller-general.
Then followed Messrs. Capers and
MoM&han who tried to impress the
pcoplo why each thought he was better
than tho other for superintendent of
odueation.
Gen. Floyd told tho orowd why he
should be elected adjutant general.
Mr. House was absent, but sent his regrets.
For railroad commissioner Major H.
H. FvanH started out by insisting that
the Fiedmont section was discriminated
against. Augusta and Atlanta
had rates which Greenville oould not
got.
Mr. lhom*s N. Horry romindod tho
. ^ audionoo that ho was born here and
Tia"d always boon a temperance advocate.
Somo ovon^ftfiid ho was too good.
J. 1. Pettigrcw spoke of having gone,
to tho war with Gree nville boys and
his into^ost in those people. IIo went
over his qualifications for tho oflioo,
W. D. Maylield went into his astomary
argumont. Tho outsido wholesalo
dealers can all undersell the South
Carolina wholesalers bcoauso tho local
rates arc against the South Carolina
doalors.
J. H. Wharton took up freight ratcB
aud argued that the roller mills here
were disoritninatcd against, and took
/^up the matter of connections.
f J SENATOR TII-I.MAN
was receivod with much applause. Ho
said it was six years sinoo ho spoke
here, and it was a great pleasure to be
hero again and to bo so well received.
From tho behavior of the platform
thoro must bo something weak in tho
party hero. He did not know whether
it wa8 prohibition or not. Ho felt the
rank and tile hero were true art steel
and would voto right.
Today for the first time the pro
gramme was ohanged and the order of
speaking rovorsed. It was charged
that ho had boon meddling in affairs
and that ho had no right to be hero,
and beoause ho had no opposition ho
ought to keep awuy or discuss nothing
but national issues,
flfejb Ho explained the change of proBk
gramme and was told he had unlimited
time. Before he started ho told why
JB ho was hero and why ho had a right to
Jk be here. Ho explained he was here in
M obedience to party law, and he
JM wanted it understood ho would hew to
.4^ tho line, and if some tingors and toes
are out oil tho fault would not be his.
Then he reitorated that had he remained
away ho would have been acoused of being
too big for his breeohos and having
gotten tho swell hoad, and then whon
he oamc they turned and told him ho
was meddling. It was the samo as of
old; ho would be damned if ho did and
he damned if he didn't. Ho asked tho
orowd to be quiet until ho bottled the
hot stuff.
Then he took up the spcoial board in
this eounty and said tho committco had
turned the candidates loose and was letting
tho question be sottlod for tho
. oounty in a spooial box. It was a bad
ulan and was intondod to lot tho candi
r dates straddlo and honey fugglc the pcoplo.
It is oowardly in the candidates
to ask the committee to allow this
screen. You will bo fools if you do not
have tho candidates line up and say
whether they are for prohibition or the
dispensary. The special box is a fraud
and if you do not like it lump it.
The question before you is one offeoting
you and your progeny for a life
time. It is a question to be decided
! upon the merits of the matter. Thero
should be no unduo pressure, lie was
here also because he had been attacked
I and he and his administration had been
attaoked and held up to dorision and
Col. Hoyt the other day. Here the
speaker was interrupted by applause
for Tillman.) Tillman then said ho
intended only to speak of Col. Hoyt
kindly. He would troat him as a high- #
toned gentleman, but warned the crowd
that the more it hollered that way the
less thoy would like it bofoie he got
through. He wanted only ti> discuss
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Then Tillman related how the dispensary
oamo as ho haa heretofore done.
When the Prohibitionists say he
cheated theui they know thoy are not
telling the cxaot truth. He ropoated
why he had no uso for a machine, as ho
had the pcoplo back of him He related
why ho did not want prohibition
and why ho thought it would, bo a failure.
Ho wished ho oould loavo ono matter
unsaid and ho regrotted that ho
oaiuo in oontliot with a distinguished
divine; ono who was honored and bolovod,
and no doubt proporly so. This
diviuo had gono out of his way to mako
a politioal sermon. In this speech ho
had taken tho liborty of mentioning
his (Tillman's) namo. Solf-respoot demanded
his coining hero and talking
plainly. Then he took up Dr. Gardner's
sermon, and read an extract, in which
Dr. Gardner held that tho dispensary
business was immoral, and ho so
arguod. In considering tho argumont
Tillman urged that tho first thing was
whether this proposition, that tho salo
of liquor was immoral, would stand.
There is not a scintilla of diiTorenoo
whothcr tho State soils through lioonsos
or through tho dispensary, but is it an
immoral act? Is it a sin to sell or use
whiskey? i'heso distinguished gontlomen
who havo held a party convention
and nominated their man havo as tho
basis of their fight that it is sinful to
sell liquor as a beverage. Tlioy quoto
from an almost obsolcto part of tho
Bible and from which he never hoard
any other than a prohibition sermon.
Ho has as high a regard for tho ministers
aa*ny one. Thoy do not uso all
of tho text, but quoto it in part, llo
then quoted from Proverbs and St. Paul
to bIiow that wino drinking was not
prohibited. Ho insisted that tho Prohibitionists
garbled their text and that
thoro was nothing in tho Bible to provont
tho uso of whiskoy. Drunkenness
is forbiddon. Ho had substituted
tho dispensary law for prohibition for
tho pooplo's good.
Then lie took up anothor cxtraot from
l)r. Gardner's sermon, that tho profit
feature of tho disponsary mado tho
agents of tho State trv to soil an much
iiH poHhiblo. Tillman said thoro wore
two hides to this quostion. He did not
want the people to get too muoh liquor.
He wanted the appetites controlled,
and then he jumped on the license system.
There is as muoh to bo gotton out of
liquor as any othor legitimate souroo of
taxation. This minister oponly and
boldly wants to tako away tho profit,
which restrains drunkennoss by not
putting so muoh liquor in the consumer's
hand. It was fanaticism run mad
to havo as muoh whiskoy drunk as now
and get nothing out of it, and not restrict
it.
Jn regard to the ohargc of Dr. Gardner
that ho (Tillman) hold tho preachers
up to oontompt, ho said verbatim:
"llo not only oharges mo with elandor
in my uttcrancos, knowing it to bo
untrue, but ho goes furthor and doclaros
i uttered these words to oxpross oontciupt
for certain men for whom I havo
oontompt. 1 say it here in tho prcsonoo
of thoso many pooplo who listen to Dr.
Gardner, that Gardnor owes it to himsolf
to provo his oharges by bringing
certificates to provo thorn or ho owes
an apology. Whon in 1890 and 1892
the preachers charged me with infidolitj'
I said then that I am a poor fallen
sinner going from tho oradle to tho
grave, admitting my weaknesses and
trying to forget them, but 1 swear no
preacher can say that 1 ovor treated
him except with respect. But now is
thoro an alliance betwoon tho bar room
and preachers, eithor written or orthorwise?
(Voico from tho crowd: 'Yes.')
Yory well, then, I will voto you on it.
All who boliove it is not true hold up
their right hand. All who boliovo tho
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lirettuimrs are ill ailianOO With tliom,
cither written or not, hold up their
right hand. Ono more word and I am
done. 1 am sorry 1 had to bring this
matter out hero, but I always boliovo
in going to a man's house, going to his
teeth, faoo to faoo, when 1 have a sontroveray
to sottle, and therefore at other
plaoca I have had very littlo to say
about it 1 am sorry he is not hore,
but when ho oomos back his friends
will tell hiin what 1 have said, and lot
him write an apology and publish it. I
believe he is a man of oharaoter and an
honorablo man, and that ho will do it.
"An effort is now being made by
somo preaohors to talk polities, and not
religion, from tho pulpit. You have
striven to get rid of religion taking
ohargo of jour politics, and should be
careful to keep politics and roligion
separate. Tho effort is made to rally
you around the denominational flags,
but it would bo woll to watoh out for
that.
"You are asked to vote for roligion,
for f riendship, and all that, but he implored
all to vote for prinoiple."
FOR GOVERNOR.
Thon the Gubernatorial candidates
wcro called for. Governor MoSjroeney
spoke first. He argued that the dispensary
law oan bo improved upon, but
prohibition will bo a failure. Prohibition
should be regardod from a business
standpoint. He felt that it would be
a serious mistako to go to prohibition
now. Tho only trouble complained of
was that tho grand juries do not bring
in true bills. Ho empbatioally denied
that*ho was in any deal or agreement
with any one', but was onforoing tho
dispensary law The law is new better
enforoed than in'tho last two or three
years. In referenoe to Mr. Patterson's
nhanrn iVi* . V?n ^- r
Dw UVIUI UIUWIOU u*r DXtures
soized, ho read a copy of an order
dated in Jano, inHtructing oonstabloB
to seize fixtures. The oonstables
had verbel as well as wiitton instructions
to seize liquor, beer and fixtures.
Ho believed the people would agree
that his has beon a business administration.
There was no ttiinoing matters
in his offiee or with the oonstables.
He rend the letters from the mayors to
ehow that the law was being enforced.
He spoke of his administration and
M
CONWy
thanked tho voters, aud wanted to bo
judged on his reoord. Ho was prosontod
with a handsome bouquet of
flowers.
COI,. IIOYT
said ho would not havo spoken except
for what Sonator Tillman had said.
Tillman had said thoso who had sot up
this separato box plan wcro political
cowards. Ho had nothing to do with
it and tho plan, as ho understood, oamo
from a disponsary advocate. Tho poopie
knew what was best for themselves.
Tho committeo had this right and it ill
booamo Tillman as a United States
Senator to oomo horo and abuso what
tho Dcuioorats of this county see fit to
do. Ho for ono never questioned Tillman's
right to bo horo, Out ho had as
muoli right to bo horo and advoeato
prohibition, which ho had done all tho
days of his life. Another thing ho had
not said that Tillman wanted tho disponsary
as a political machine. It is a
political machine, and has loon usod in
this very campaign as a political maohino
and will oontinuo to bo used as a
political maohino. IS or did ho cvor say
Tillman ohoatcd thorn out of prohibition.
Then ho wont ovor tho too familiar
story of tho origin of tho dispensary.
Thoro was no moro dclightod
than ho that Tillman wis studying tho
Biblo. Ho thought Tillman had not
yet read all of the ohaptors quoted.
The pro'aohors wore attackod first iu his
Bonnottsvillo speech and ho had no
doubt Tillman regrottod that spoooh.
The barkoopors of today are tho disponHors;
thoy say tho blind tigors aro
iho barkoopors, but tho blind tigors got
their liquor from tho dispensarios.
Thon he oxpalinod what woro callod
tho "ox blind tigers." Ho insisted
that thoro was no alliance botweou tho
prcaohors and saloon men. Ho spoke
beautifully of Dr. Gardner and his
standing for all that was moral and
high, and ho felt that tho pcoplo would
rohuko Tillman and show that Charlos
S. Gardner was not to bo traduced and
maligned. No one oould prove an immoral
oombiuation on tho part of l)r.
Gardner. Then bo discussed tho right
of tho Stato to soli liquor and insisted
that it was wrong and sinful.
Mil. FRANK U. OAKY,
said tho main question was that of
liquor and he wanted it understood that
ho stood flatly for the disponsary. If
the law is better onforcod now than
over, thon tho law is not what is
claimed for it. McSwooncy said ho
would send oonstablos whorovcr askod
for and in roply to this ho read an affidavit
from M. B. Soruggs, of Chcrokoo
County, in whioh ho stated that he had
repoatodly askod for a constable for his
sootion, that tho pooplo had oonviotod
two blind tigers, but tho Govornor had
not oompliod with tho rcquosts for oonstablcs,
but had said ho would sond
ono after thoolcction, and this looked,
Mr Gary thought, as an offering to tho
tigers in Chorokco.
Then ho explained his position as to
tho prohibition option. Ho regarded
prohibition as a fareo, but wanted those
Mho wished it to havo it.
Ho disousscd tho school question and
his record in tho legislature.
MR A. HOWARD PATTERSON
roviowed tho dispensary from its inception
to tho prosont time, showing that
it did away with tho bad features of tho
bar room systom and had doorcasod
drunkennoss. Ho said that tho prohibition
platform is not prohibition. Ho
disoussod Col. Hoyt and his plaiform
thoroughly. lie said that Govornor
MoSweonoy had not onforoed tho disponsary
law.
THE SORUOOS COMPLAINT.
Governor MoSweonoy roquosts that
this statomont rolativo to tho Soruggs
affidavit be published: Scruggs wroto
Govornor MoSweonoy requosting him to
appoint Sorugg's oonstablo as a dispensary
constable, as the magistrate's oonstablo
rooeivod only $10, and ho wants
him to mako more. Clork Harris wroto
to Soruggs that in oaso a constable was
nooded to writo to Chiof J. It. Fant
and rcquost a dotail, and it would bo
sont. Sorugg* was romindod that as
magistrato ho and his oonstablo should
help onfotoo the disponsary law, and
all the extra pay ho oould allow was
half tho seizures. la reply to a socond
lotter Clerk Harris wroto that Governor
McSwocnoy would probably not bo
ablo to take up the application mado
for the magistrate's constable's appointment
until after tho oleotion. Tho
idea being that Governor MoSwconoy
was too busy now to wade through tho
many applications on hand. Govornor
MoSwoenoy would like to have the entiro
oorrespondonoo printed to show
that Scruggs wanted his oonstablo givon
a spooial job to work in a particular
territory, for whioh ho was already paid
to work and enforoe tho law. a. k.
Has a Bad Name.
Li Hung Chang seoms to be up
against it. Our ministers are unwilling
to aooept his proffered osoort to
Tientsin, and the cantankerous Chinese
want to behead him as a foroign
sympathizer. Nobody is willing to
trust old Li. He has a bad namo.
The quicker yr ur stop a oough or cold
the less danger thero will be of fatal
lung troublo. Oae Minuto Cough Curo
is tho only harmless remody that gives
immediate results. You will like it.
Dr. JO. Norton.
' Good
for Swifc.
Swift ?fc Co., tho groat moat paokors
of Chioago, have issuod an order that
no oigarette smoker is to be employed
k? tk.ii. T.?4 * U ~ ' ?--L
Mjr iiuqii vuuipnu/i 14UV iUU gUUU WUIIl
go on.
In India, the land of famine, thousands
die boeause they cannot obtain
food. In America, the land of plenty
many suffer and die beoau9e they cannot
digest the food they oat. Kodol
Dyspepsia Oure digests what you eat.
It instantly relievos and radically
oures all stomach troubles.
Dr. K. Norton.
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VV. S. C., THURSDAY,
A GOOD SPEECH
On the Ono Oreat Need of Soulh
Carolina
BY MR. W D. MAYFIELD,
Who Is a Candidate for Railroad
Commissioner. He Gives
Us Food for Thought
The following speech of the Hon.
W. 1>. Mayfield, who is aoandidato for
railroad oommissiouor, on (ho froight
rato in South Carolina id woll woith
reading:
The Railroad Commission is composed
of thrco mombora who are now
oleoted by tho pcoplo. Thoro cannot
bo I08H, but may bo more than throo
tnombors. Kaoh member of this commission
holds his oflioo for six years.
As now arranged, one member has to
bo oleoted overy two yoars. Thero is
now ono vacancy on this board and you
havo sovon candidates boforo you asking
you for your support for this offico.
Two years ago thoro was ono vacancy
and you had boforo you eight candidates
for it, and tho man you oloctcd
then wont in for six yoars. Tho man
you oloot now will hold for six years.
Two years honco thoro will bo another
vaoanoy and the man oloctod will hold
for six years, unlosstho law is ohnnged.
Tho salary of eaoh mombor of tho
0 immission is $1,1)00 per aunum and is
paii by tho railroads. The pcoplo oloot
tho commissioners, ono overy two years,
but tho railroads pay their salaries,
furnish thorn with au ufiicc, their stationary,
stamps, l'uol and lights, pay
(heir clerk, nnil irivn Hir> tnninhnru un/l
tho olcrk a past* over all roads, to bo
used whoa oa official busiaoss. , Tnis
is wrong. Tlio State should have a troo
and independent board to look after its
interest. The law should ho ohanged ;
tho salaries should bo paid by the State;
tho torui of offico should bo mado two
yoars, and theso officers, like all other
State ollicors, should bo mado to oomo
before the people cvory two years and
give an aooount of their stewardship.
1 sound the noto of warning and urgo
tho pcoplo to uiako it an issue in tho
oounty campaign and to demand of tho
candidates for the houso and senate to
ohango this law. When this ia?dono,
you will havo a board frco and indopondent
of all obligations to tho railroads
to look aftor tho interests of tlio
pooplo of tho Stato. The ory goes up
from ovory quarter demauding protoo
tion from trusts and corporations. Tho
oorporato railroad interest in this Stutc
is already immense and it is high time
tho pcoplo were protootcd against unlawful
encroachments upon their
rights. It will bo too Into to look the
stahlo door whon tho horso is gono.
4,No man can Bcrvo two mastors; for
cither ho will lovo the one and hate tho
othor; or olso ho will hold to tho one
and despiso tho othor."
11 ndor tho laws of this Stato tho Kailroad
Commission havo full oontrol of
tho railroads in this Stato, subject to
tho right of appeal to the oourts. Notwithstanding
this faot, what aro tho
ondition of affairs in this Stato? Why,
wo havo the highost freight rato of any
Stato in the South, exoept Florida.
This is not right. Thore is no good
roason why South Carolina should not
havo as good freight rates as North
Carolina and Georgia. Until wo g \
tho best of ratos allowed on all ho?"s/
oultural, agricultural and manufaot^sput
products and all oommorcial arA 1/1
wo oannot hopo to oompete suooc V
ly with tho pcoplo of othor more-nd AW
nato Statos. U0F>
Wo havo a variety and grot ,!'( Vt * rJ
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it cannot bo manufactured in,)t (l s,/turo,
vohioloB and farming anq busfnical
implements and plaood on tf/Amarket
because your freight rato will not
allow equal competition with other
States. North Carolina ovon can sell
your morehants cheaper than a factory
in your Stato eould soil thorn because
of the highness of tho looal rates in
this Sta'e. Is this right?
Groat quantities of tohaeoo is now
being grown in this Stato and wo should
bo able to manufacture it here, but wo
cannot compete with North Carolina
and Virginia in freight ratos aqd a tobacco
faotory in this State would likely
provo a poor investment, if not a failure.
Is this right?
Our soil is well adaptod to truck
farming and fruit growing and to a
limited oztont our people have enterod
thoso fields; but these industries must
of necessity romain small comparatively
so long as other Statos havo hotter
rates than we have. Cars are loaded
with truok and fruit in Georgia and
shippod north, through South Carolina,
at a loss rato than our pooplo have to
pay. Is this right?
On- pooplo are now growing wheat
in oertain sections and flour mills are
boing built, but these mills oannot compete
with mills in Georgia in selling to
our own morehants booauso of tho highness
of our looal rates on flour. Is
a a.: !-LiO
LIUN rigllll
Our ootton mills should ho able to
buy the ootton raised in this State and
lap it down as ohcap as thoy oan buy
and ship ootton from Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi, but tho looal rates in
this State are suoh that tjiey eannot
buy in oortain seotions of the State and
thoy are forced to go outside of the
State for a large part of the cotton they
need over that raised in the mill section.
Is this right?
Our manufacturing interests should
be diversified as muoh as possible. We
should not limit ourselves to tho manufaoturing
of oqtton. We have taken
the lead in tho manufacturing of ootton.
If we aro to hold our lead our
mills must be able to buy our ootton,
or in futuio new mills will go where
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, AUGUST 10, 1000.
they oan got cotton ohoapost. .lust as
we took tho lead in manufacturing cotIon
so will souio southern state tako
tho lead in knitting mills, furniture
faotorios, brooiu faotorics, soap factories,
buggy and wagon faotorios, rope,
glass and shoe factories, A a. Why not
this stato bo tho loador in all of those.
Certain it is she Oftnnnt unlnau ulm li?
given tho bout of freight ratos. Other
States scouro good rates and why oannot
this State got thorn?
Wholosalo houses of all kinds should
bo encouraged in this Stato by giving
thorn ratos which will onablo them to
ootupoto with wholosalo housos located
in othor southern statos. It is a well
known faot that our wholosalo houses
aro not on an equal footing with housos
looated in Augusta, Atlanta, Savannah,
Kiohmond, hynohburg and Wilmington.
This is not right and it should bo
rcgulatod. Charleston, 1'ort Koyal
and Georgetown should bo mado import
and oxport oitics instoad of boing "bottled
up" by rates which prevont thom
from oompoting for tho trade with Savannah,
Wilmington and Norfolk, and
Columbia and tho othor inland oitios of
the State which hnvo the railroad facilities
to onti'lo thom to it should bo givon
ratos whiohwill put thom on a footing
with tho inland wholosulo cities of other
States. Whon this isdono, our mor
chants will trado with tho wholesalers
of our stato and largo wholosalo businesses
will bo scon iu sovoral sootions
of the Stato. liut until a rato is obtained
wo must ooutinuo to wait and
struggle against odds in tho wholosalo
bv-isincss, and allow wholcsalo housos
outside of our Stato to enjoy tho benofits
of tho trado of our morohauts and
to cap tho Stato of that part of lur
wealth whioh should be ocnteralizcd in
largo wholosalo houses looated in this
Stato.
Give South Carolina a chance to dovolopo
materially and commercially. Opon
up hor doors to greater development
and moro oxtonsivo prosperity by giving
hor a freight rato which will oommand
capital and onoourago her pooplo
to rcnnwmt >ni) ?
? - V, M>?va gk A VUVUl VllV/l vn? 1 IIU
wealth of tho State rosta io tho riohno88
and varioty of hor soil, the abundance
and variety of h?r timber, tbo
magnificence of hor wator power and
tho Halubrioty of her olimato. Hor Boil
is capable of untold dovolopmont and
ia Huitcd to every varioty of orop and
the yield ia moaaurcd by the cultivation;
hIic nocda only tho purse of tho capitaliat
and tho hand of skill to mako hor
blossom 3H tho rose and yield a rioh roturn
to labor. From hor timber can bo
tnado tho boat of vohicloa, furnituro
and wooden implements and alio awaits
tho ooming of tho manufaoturor. llor
water yot unused ia suflioiont to turn
half tho spindloa in the I'nitod Statoa,
or more, and daily runs undisturbed for
tho lack of dovolopmont. Givo her
ratos which allow hcrgfown and manufactured
produota to be markoted, and
her wholesale morohants to oompctc,
on lorma equal to tho tonus of any
state and a prosperity unknown to our
people will orown hor with a wreath of
silver and gold; her cotton mills will
multiply and tho oliok of tho loom and
tho hum of tho apindlo will bo hoard in
ovory sootion; numorous maoufaoturios
of ovory kind will spring up aa if by
magio to eonvort hor timbor and tho
produota of hor soil into useful and
profitable artiolcs of trade; tho unemployod
will bo given employment and
new citizens become his noighbor; in
ovory way matorial woalth will bo added
to tho Stato and plenty, poaoe and
oontontmont Mill bo tho portion of our
pcoplo.
A Call to Organize.
Tho following address was issued tonight:
To tho Democrats of tho llnitod States:
Tho Demooratio party and its friends
must meet tho forces of corruption and
intimidation in politics this yoar by
thorough organization. A Democratic
club or sooioty should bo organized in
ovory city, town, village and prooinot
in tho United Statos. Democrats and
all who are in sympathy with tho prinoiplcs
sot forth in tho Kansas City
platform aro oarnostly urged to join
tho Demooiatio olubs, and whon nono
exists to assist in organizing thorn.
Thia work in uniting tho foroos of law
and liberty into ono groat systematized
civic army should bo carried on simultaneously
in ovory part of tho country,
and without delay. Tho frionds of tho
govornmont, aooording to the hithorto
unohallongcd American theory of political
equality everywhere under our
flag, oannot afford to bo less zealous or
less aotivo than tho advocates of an
Amorioan oolonial ompire supportod by
riff os.
No patriotio oitizen can ignore the attacks
which are being mado upon tho
very foundations of our prosont irroproaohablo
form of government. This
year every oitizen should be a politician.
Clubs and sooieties should at
once oommunioato with tho seoretary
of the National Assooiatiou of Democratic
olubs, 1370Hroadway, New York,
so that the united memberiihin miv
work systematically in defonse of tho
ropublic as the fathers made it. All
Domooratio committees, State and
looal, are roquoatod to aid the National
Assooiation of Domooratio clubs in this
work.
W. J. Dryan,
Adlai K. Stevenson,
* James K. Jonos,
Oh'm. National J>em. Com.
Wm. 11. Ilearst,
Pres. National Ass'n Dem, Clubs.
Millions will be spent in politics this
year. Wo oan't koep the oampaign going
without money any more than we
oan keep tho body vigorous without
food. Dyspeptics used to starvo themselvos.
Now Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
digests what you eat and allows yoo to
eat all the good food you want. It r>dioally
cures stomaoh troubles.
*Dr. K. Norton. V Ti
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PR0PHET9 ELECTING BRYAN.
What Experts Say of the Coming
Presidential Election.
Tho iuon who figure and make cati
mates on olootious aro not idle. Though
the oatupaign it) yet in its infi noy and
the lines have not boon drawn with
suilioicnt clearness for positivo estimates
of tho result to bo made, thoro
is no lack of figuring, nor is there any
lack of thoso who predict I>emocratio
hucccrs.
Congressman MoCullooh, of the lrir?t
Arkansas district, has heon doing hoido
Domooratio figuring. 11o counts for
Hryan in tho oleotoral college, in addition
to thostatos lie carried four yoara
ago, Kentucky, 12 votos; Maryland, H;
West Virginia, (> Indiana, lf? Miohi
gan, 11, and Minnosota. !) a total
ohango of <?4 from the MoKinlcy to tho
Hryan column, of Id moro than aro
needed.
A oitizon of Ohio who had tho distinction
of winning a prize of $15 offorod
by tho Voungstown, <)., Vindica
tor for tho closest guoss to the voto
of tho atato of Ohio in 180(1, and who
mipscd tho actual rosult only S votes,
now oomcs forward with the following
prodiotioo:
i boliovo Hryan is absolutely suro
of all the doctoral votos received in
181)0, vix 170. To this can bo added
with a certainty Kentucky Hi, Maryland
H, total '21, making sure without
further dotails, 107.
MoKiuloy's roasonably cortain olootora
do not inoludo moro than 125, viz;
Maino, 0; Now Hampshire, I Vermont,
4; Massachusetts, 15 Khodo Island, I;
Connecticut, 0; Honnsylvania, 22; Wisconsin,
12; Now .Jersey, 10; Michigan,
14; Minnesota, ! California, 1), which
suui up tho 125 given above.
"The statos considered doubtful of
which Hryan is suro of at loast ouothird
of the electors and has an oqual
show of one-half giving him a majority
in any ovont are Wost Virginia, (5;
\r M. ? in- i .
iiurtii I'.uom, .j. Illinois, Zl\ Indiana,
If); Delaware, 8; Iowa, lit; Now York,
80; Ohio, 28, making 128 olcotoral
votes classed as doubtful, 27 of whioh
arc all that aro ncocssary to plaoo ltryan
in the presidential chair."?Augusta
Chronicle.
Leaped to Instant Doath.
Wash Turner, an unsophisticated
young farmer with his wifo and twoyear-old
baby, jumped from a wost
bound Houthorn railway passon&or train
at MoKall, Ala., Thursday morning,
and was killod. lie throw his wifo and
ohild from tho train and thoy worn
seriously injurod. Mrs. Tumor will
probably dio. Tho train had whistled
for MoKall and Tumor immediately
jumped from his neat and hurried his
wifo and baby to tho door. Two or
throo passengers tried to stip him, but
ho brushed them asido. Ilo cvidontly
was not used to travoling and did not
approoiatothe dangor of jumping off.
Mrs. Tumor's leg was broken and tho
child's arm brokon It is statod that
Tumor had novor boon on a train beforo.
Li Hung Chang in DespairA
dispatch from Washington says
an important dispatoh has been rocoivcd
in diplomatic quarters, forwarded from
tho foroign ofliocs of ono of tho powers
taking part in tho intornational movement
and giving with muoh dotail conversation
by Li Hung Chang in whioh
ho exprossod his despair over tho condition
of tho Cliinosc government in
his fears that tho anti-foroign element
had gainod oomploto asoendonoy at
Pekin. The oonvorsation was with
tho consul of ttio power receiving tho
dispatoh and as ho is an intimate,
friond of long standing with Karl Li
tho latter spoko unreservedly of tho do*
plorablo condition of affairs among his
own peoplo.
Ho Withdraws
Wednesday Stato Chairman Jones
received from Mr. J. II. Moore of
Charleston nandidnte fnr Aoni">??
Geuoral, a lottor of withdrawal from
tho raoe. In his lottor Mr. Mooro
statos that ho withdraws for roaaons
over whioh ho has no control, ono boing
that ho finds it impoasiblo to got
his oppouont to moot him upon tho
stump. Ilo say, in otfeot, it is duo to
tho numbor of frionds throughout tho
Stato who havo given him onoouragoinont
to apologizo to thorn for tho disappointment
caused thom by his withdrawal.
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ANOTHER BATTLE
In Which the Americans Suffer
Serious Loss.
CASUALTIES OF SIXTY.
The Town of Yang Tsun was
Captured and Will be
ma uma VI iriO
Allies.
A dispatch from Washington sa)i
tlio oapturo of Yang Tsun, tho final objective
point of the international forces
was the supremo news of importanoo
received Thursday on tho Chinoso situation.
Tho lirst word of this oapturo,
effected last Monday, oamo in a brief
dispatoh to tho signal office at tho war
department f/om Col. Sorivon, tho signal
officer atChofoo, saying:
Chofoo, Aug. 0.? Yang Tsun eapj
turod today. Wiro up. Need own
transportation. All well. Horivon.
Half an hour after this mossago a
cablegram oamo from (ion. Chaffoe.
giving additional dotails of tho capture
and showing that it had boon at tho
oost of about 60 casualties among tho
American troops. Con. Chaffoo's dispatch
is as follows:
Yang Tsun, Aug. fi.
Y ang Tsun oooupiod today. Wounded
Second Lieut. Frank H. Long, Ninth
infantry, modcrato; casualties about HO
moil. Ninth United States infantry:
Fourteenth (Jnitod States infantry ana
lUttcry F, Fifth I J. 8. artillery. Nearly
all from Fourtoonth infantry. Names
Wtor. Many mon prostrated, heat and
fAtiguo. Chaffco.
A JAPANESE REPORT.
Hardly less important was a dispatoh
from Con. Torauohi, second in oommand
on tho Japanoso staff, sont to tho
war office of Japan, and transmitted to
tho legation horo, stating that ho international
army would total 50,000
mon on Aug. 15. at which time tho real
advanco on Fokin would begin. Con.
lorauohi's dispatch stated that on tho
4th, when it was forwarded, the advance
had not yot begun. This was at
first incomprohonsiblo, in view of the
fact that fighting has actually occurred.
Hut tho lator statomont that tho international
force would total 50,000 on the
15th appears to mako clearQen. Terauohi's
moaning and to reoonoilo it with
Gon. Chaffoo's dispatches. Tho presont
movoniont of some 18,000 men
doubtloss is viewed in tho light of a
rcocnnaissanco in forco, tho main movement
of the army of 50,000 to follow
on the 15th. This makos oloar tho
moaning of Gen. Chaffoo's dispatch
that Vang Tsun was tho objootive
point. Tho war dopartmont horo has
been oonsidorably puzzled ovor this
I statement of an objective point, far
I short of Pokin. It would appear, howover,
from Gen, Torauohi's dispatch
that tho first foroo of 16,000 men having
oponed up communications to Yang
Tsun, brought forward supplioB and established
this advanoo base, tho way
would thon bo olear for the advanoo of
tho largor force on tho 15th. The capture
of Vang Tsun is therefore an important
stratogio branch of tho fast
maturing military plans. Tho place is
about 18 miles beyond Tien Tsin and
little less than quarter of tho way to
Pokin.
Asido from tho military developments
of tho day tho diplomatic aspoot of the
orisis was mado more oloar by the publioation
of tho demand mado by the
United Statos on tho imporial government
of China and transmitted to Minister
Wu last evomng.
Chineso aro dangerous enemies, for
thoy aro troaohorom. That's why all
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Hewitt's but instead of tho all-healing
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Dr. K. Norton.
Killed Three Thousand'1
ho Russians, who have, boon fighting
around Tasi Chow, aro reported, acoording
to a dispatoh from Shanghai,
datod Aug. f), to have killed 3,000 Chi nese.
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