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VOL. XV. f DEFENDS*HIS VOTES Senator J >hn L. McLaurin Fires His First Oun. A REAL CAMPAIGN OPENER. Th? Woik for Southern Statesmen a8 He 8t es I*. Insists on 8aing Independent on Great issues Senator John L McL-uirin spoke as follows at the bamiuot of tho Southern Manufacturers Club at Oharlotto on Thursday. Ho said: L desiro to make a statoinr nt of soinowhat a porsonal na'urc before proceed ing with this speech, which I intend to doliver tonight. A ocrtain newspaper correspondent in tho oity of Washington has persistently spread tho report that 1 was corning to Charlolto to inako a spoeoh which would launoh a new party in the south. Tho report is absolutely falso. If I had any such intontion good tasto would prevent mo lruiu iah.iug auvamago 01 an opportunity of this kind. 1 tin oontont to advocate within Dojoooratio linos the polioos which I belicvo to bo tost for tho south, and when I can no longer do this lam ready to rotiro to private life. In tho south wo aro today roal zing somo of tho dreams of its fur rcaohiug statosmon and business mon of fifty years ago. With prophetic eye, thoy saw tho industrial and oommoroial possibilities of our highly favored southland. With an advanoo of thought that is roally surprising, they suggested on torprisos of wondorful n agnitudo for its upbuilding and oommoroial domi nanoo. From 1838 to 18t>0, conventions wcro hold to voice tho dcuandsof a doopsoatod public sentiment lor iu dustrial progress. Tho story of thoso movomonts is ohroniolod in a South Carolina publication, whioh, under tho namo of JL)obow's lloviow, did for tho old south what tho Manufacturer's liooord is doing for tho south today. Tho samo spirit which onablod our fathers to lcavo tho field of dofoat with nothing but their ocurago and thoir oharaotors left, still livo in tho south, and inspires you today in your groat undertaking. Tho plans of tho groat southorn business men and statosmon of fifty years ago are no longer idle droams. l'ostponod by a oruol war whioh dostroyod our sooial and industrial systoua, and whioh for years rcaohod oooporation in national undortak ingH almost impossible, such mon as 1 moot hero tonight aro making thoso droams actual living roalities. Talk about the "Now South," tho namo is a misnomer. It is tho samo old spirit revived which sixty yoars ago mado tho south tho dominant powor in this nation?a position of whioh nothing but war oould have robbed hor. What wo nood now to again attain that proud ominonoo is tho samo broad oonooption and tho samo oomprehonsivo grasp of tho truo situation. Tho last twonty yoars have wrought an industrial rovolution in tho south, whioh must find expression in our sooial and political lifo. Tho tiino is past for tho disoussion as to whothcr this govcrnmont is to bo ono oonsolidatod in its struoturo or a looso aggrogation of (so oallod) sovoroign States. Tho oivil war sottlod that, it is useloss to disousj tho question of whothor this is to bo a purely theoretical Dcmooratio govornmont or an expanding and giant ltepublio. Tho Spanish war sottlod that. Why not thon accept conditions as they aro and m&ko tho most of thorn V Tho agitation of such issues only servos to sidotraok broad American doctrines and should not bo mado party quostions booauso thry grow out of aotual politioal and ooonomio conditions, whioh it is bojond tho power of oithor party to ohango. 1 oaro not of what politioal faith tho occupant of tho white house might havo boon; for. if a truo Aworioau, mindful of iho honor and dignity of tho nation, tho result of tho Spanish war oould not bo widoly difforont from whal< they aro today. Why should our peoplo bo tho only onos to olose their oyoa to what is going on? Why should wo movo along in tho same old ruts and insist that politioal polioies and old traditions, long sinoo dead aro vital living issues, and dopend upon thorn for tho salva tion of tho south? Tho triumphant ro-clootiou of MrMoKinlcy in tho last campaign is full of signifioauoe. It is a stubborn faot confronting tho Dcmooratio party today; suggostivo of roproaohful romcmbranoos and fearful menaoer. What a reflootion that this new Dt-mooraoy did not oarry a Stato whero tho isssucs were disoussed and judgment passed by the people upon thorn on their merits. Of oourso with us it has boon impossible to dooido cleotions upon issues. It has been simply a question of whito euprcinaoy. In tbe north and the wist, dissolved into factions, taintod by tho errors oi republicanism and the folhos of populism, tho paity could not withstand the tide of popular opposition cxoited by unreasonable oritioism of the oonduot of a foroign war, and by the vioious and inoondiary appeals mado during the last month of the campaign to olaas hatrod and prejudioe. Fundamental principles were lost sight of, and in an insane effort to seouro party sucoess at any oost, the attempt was mado to oombine sooialism, populism and sectionalism, with nothing but the sentiment and traditions of Domooraoy. The real Democratic leaders of the eonate for tho past threo years have been Allen, Teller, and Pettigrew, all of them able moo, but one a populist, one a high-tariff llepublioan, and the other, I do not know what. All of them opposed to State m banks of issuo with proper safeguards, and most other things wo need in the south. This was called tho "Now Douooraoy" in oontradistinotion from tho old, and soino of its Isadora stated that its orccds wero revolutionary and were so designed to bo. To rov discontent with industrial oonditious and distrust of tho governing now or: to arrav oIarh airainuf nlaoa in tho hopo of Boouring fanoiod Hooial and industrial equality, in to my uiind tho first stop iu revolution. Tho eouth is tho American end of Amorioa. In uo section is there so email a foroign element, ho much conservatism, and so puro a patiotism. What a political paradox then it is for our people to ho tho allios of professed revolutionists clsowhero. It was not tho puro typo of south otn Democracy that tho balanoo of tho country feared in tho last presidential elootion. Thoy knew that \ ropcrly in terprcted this was onservativo and safe. It was well understood, howovor, what influences dominated, and that tt.creforo, tho south in national affairs was fltiil powerlots. Ono doubtful nurtborn Stato had thon and has now moro intluencc thin tho ontiro south combined. One party says, Why should 1 consult you, I can hopo for nothing. Tho other says, I'vo got you any way, and I will do as I pleas?; help yourself if you can. What a position for a bravo, high-spiritcd people bound hand and foot, tho miserable slaves of one party and a football for tho other. I, for ono, do not bolicvo that tho peoplooftho toith arc ready to trust this givcroiucut into tho hands of any party to begin the lcvoliog process through tho cxtrciso of tho taxing powei; and yet this is exactly what this new propaganda meats and outBid) of tho couth it is proclaimed by tho very samo o'ass who proaoh and praotioo pocial equa'ity Dctwoon tho races. Tho two d ?gni8s aro inseparably intorwovor. Go into tho west, attond ono of their caiupa'go meetings soratoh ben ath tho skin and you will find tho samo old sooial cqua'ity dogma, to tho tuuo of which tho soul of John Brown is still "marching on." Taxation for tho purposo of equalizing or redistributing proporty is rank socialism, not Domocraoy. Lot it tako hold in the south and with it will go those barriors which wo havo creotod to maintain tho purity of our raoo and tho integrity of our civilization. Anothor thing?to my mind it is folly to opposo expansion undor tho namo of imperialism. It doooivos no man of intclligonco. Ilo understands that thoro is no analogy botwoon this oountry and tho Roman Empire, and that thoso who talk of imperialism do not tako into aocount that powor which is born of our froo institutions, a fortress in tho hearts of our pooplo stronger than any over built of stono. As long as this is thcro thoy oan never booomo slavos; and when it is doad it matters not whothor undor ropublio or ompiro, thoy booomo an easy proy. It doponds upon tho pooplo, not tho govornmont, whothcr thoy bo slavos or froomon. It is tho pooplo that mako tho govornmont not tho govornmont tho pooplo. With a brave, strong, intclligont people, with a froo proas and popular oauoation, thoro oan bo no imperialism. Why should wo bo afraid to trust oursolvos? Tho wholo tondonoy of tho timos and tho spirit of the age is toward Democratic instead of imperialistic idoaaof government. j Tho throno of tho "Groat White Czar'' tremblos today at tho roar of tho Democratic Lion, and tho oohoeH rosound ovon from tho far off Orient. Our poople understand that it is not actual torritory or dominion ovor pooplo that wo sock, but tho oxpansion of Aincrioan thought, idoas of govcrnmont oommcroo and oivilir.ation. Political loaders might woll learn that tho law of progress will swoop away as ohaff those who would plaoo barriors agiinst this mighty tide whioh is dostinod to sproad tho Domooratio idoa of govorn mont to the ultormo't bounds of tho earth. My definition of Pomooraoy is liborty for man, formulated into a theory of government. It means man's inaliorablo ownership of himaolf, it moans free thought and free spoooh. _ In the dark agos of tho past somo poor slavo raised his bowod hoad and looking up into tho bluosky caught inspiration from God's froo air and sunshino that ho also of right was froo, and over sinoo, that vision of liberty has boon an undyiDg rcvolation for ovory ago and all dime*. Grecian and Koman slavos saw the heavenly light, and faoingthoir masters' swords, bravely diod. Saxon ohurl with woodon collar, and our own fathers, at Cowpans ana King's Mountain, looked upon tho oo lostial picture, and with a smile of j >v gavo up thoir livos. Why noed a truo Dcmooraoy hunt for issues in our relations with foroign oountrics? It is upon domestic problems, the rights of man and man, the relation of labor and oapital and its .1 I .1 1 'Vi 1 Dvauu ujjuu llit'no IIUOIU 1BBUQB 111*1 I1?B ondoarcd it to the people in tho past and upon whioh it must fioally stand or fall. It is folly *to attompt to dwarf great ltational and intornational issues into miro questions of party policy; it failed in tho last oatnpiign, and will fail evory time it ii tried. Kvery member of tho Atnerioan congress, when it ocmos to a foreign polioy a foreign war, and army, a navy, a merchant marine, or any othor question affecting our honor as a nation, or our prosperity as a poople, should bo frco and untrammelod to voto as his judgmont and oonso:onoo diotatos. For myself, 1 would not, under existing conditions, be willing to hold a seat in the United States senate upon any terms. To allow others to think for mo upon these great questions is a cowardly evasion of my responsibilities, and a criminal nagleot of tho true interests of those who soleot me. I am rejoioed tonight to bo in the presenoe of so many of the ....i - * ?? ? * *? w?pv?iuH ot Boutnern industry. Yon are the men whose energy*and enterprise are developing onr natural re w w CON W A Hourocs and thus laying tho foundation for tho full cdj >yraont by our scotion of all that must follow in tho wako of tho oxpaoding glory of our Kopublio; and this in spito of tho faot that it has booorno tho fashion in souio quarters to snoor at what is tormed tho "sordid oommoroial"argumcnt in favor of expansion and othor national issuos. Our political loaders should not forgot tho faot that modern Domooraoy bad its origin in this same eomoooroial : a.:~ .i m 1 i- - i ? ? * lUHiiuiH. i wo nunuroa ana ntiy years ago it had its birth in those oitios along tho river Khino, whore, through trade and manufacturing, tho pooplo could compel tho feudal lords to grant thorn civil lights. Tho froo institutions of which wo boast grow up uador tho fos toring oaro of oouitneroo. Tho rights of tho individual expanded into rights for his oity and thoso for tho State, so that in )dern Doruooraoy doos not teach that thero is an absolute rulo for government, and that auy particular theory of government is of permanent valuo aid adapti d under all oiroumHtanoos for the welfare of mnn. Tho fathors of this Republic nevor intended to lay a foundation which was to bo always of tho same oiroumsoribed pro portions, with a suporstruoturo of nicely measured, parts all to exist permanently just as constructed. Thoy aimed to croato a giant not a pigmy. For a nation tho ocntury has boon o intent to grapplo with questions of internal dovjlopmont, but suddonly in thoovoiution of our national destiny, | wo havo bcoomo ono of tho groat powers of tho world, and can no longor move in a circumscribed orbit. If wo would maintain our supromaoy or ovon quality among tho nations of tho world, the shackles forgod by narrow, soctional prejudices must bo brokon. Tho quostion of tho hour is not whethor this-Republic is what its founders (with tho light beforo thorn) intcudod to mako it; not whethor this is thoorctioally an idoal Djmooratio government, at all timos in oxaot conformity to tho toohnioal rcquiromonts of a writton constitution, but whothor with tho spirit rathor than tho lottor of that nnnolif nliAn t*?? A ma a 1% A wuovnuuv/U| nu dlO 1UA& IU^ VI1U III UDl of our national opportunities and mooting tho politioal ooonomio oonditions growing out of tho constantly ohanging noods of tho pooplo. It is historically truo that no form of govornmont over did rosult from doliborato choico; it has always bcon tho logical result of conditions. Tho nation is nothing but tho typo of individual lifo, and as from childhood to manhood wo outgrow garmonts and duties thoso are put asido, so it is in tho evolutionary dovolopinont of a nation, sooial, politioal, and industrial systoms that have thoir day aro thrust asido for now methods and now systoms to moot a ohango and highor stato of oxistonco. Wo havo reached a stago of dovolopinont in tho south whoro it is unprofitable to rako tho dead ashes and oharrod ombors of tho past and whoro wo must look forward rathor than baokward. Tiuo statesmanship, while vigilant as to tho prosont, looks with prophotio eyo to tho futuro. Tho pooplo havo a right to oxpeot thoir loaders to bo in advanoo of tho thought of tho age, and not tamoly drift with tho ourront. In an ora of transition and ohango liko this, without somo suoh forooast, politioal parties will oling to dead issues, and finally flounder in the maelstrom of faotional uivisions aaa greca ior otnoo. Whon Louisiana, Florida, Toxas, and California woro acquired tho groat loadors of tho Domooraay aotod upon this doc trine, and so when this war with Spain produood oortain rosults it would havo been tho part of wisdom to havo inado party platforms and polioios oorro spond with existing oonditions and thoir natural and inevitable oonso- I quonoos. Wo are now in the oommoroial arona, contesting with tho other nations for tho trade of tho world. So far wo havo built up our foroign trado by. intonso absorption in tho internal dovolopmont of our domestic industries. Wo now produoo sufTioiont for tho noods of twico our population, and not to find a markot for our surplus is to invito stagnation and decay. Tho most striking foaturo in our oxport development is tho romarkablo and constantly increasing domand for our iron and stool. Within six yoars wo havo advanocd to to tho position whero Amorioan iron and stool onters into tho oonstruotion of overy bridgo and railroad in thaworld or fixes tho prioo thtrefor. 1 saw in tho papers a fow days ago that tho Baldwin looomotivo works in Philadelphia woro supplying tho Russian government with 150 locomotives for the Trans Siberian railroad. Tho faots surrounding thin salo are of poouhar interest. The Rusisan government owns its railroads and maintains largo shops. It i uts a duty of 4 cents por pound on imports, but whon it oamo to supplying tho oquipmont for this giant road of 8,000 miles, it was found that thoy had to oomo to the United Statos. And yet, seven yoars ago t) e first iron shipment abroad was fr.m Birmingham, Ala. Another foatuio of American in tluomo is our f-uddonlv aoquired finanoial indopenddnoe. For years wo have boon borrowers, but during tho two years past wo have beoomo loodors of money. Throe of tho largest European governments, England, Qormany and Russia, have found it neooasary to oome to Now York for important, loans, thus showing that the oontro of tho finanoial world has boon transferred from Lombard to Wall street. It is folly for the politioal leaders of the south to olose their eyes tq tho truth that the commo:oial expansions of the United States is a fact of constantly enlarging proportions, demanding ohanged governmental policies to meet new conditions. In spite of higher wages, with laborsaving maohinery, the superior skill and intelegenoe of our operatives, under a faotory system better organised Ot'Vti Y S. C. THU RSDAY. 1 than any in thn world, in giving us industrial asoondanoy. It Doods, however, to support it n broad statesman ship, uot haudioapped by sectional prejudioos. Wo oan diffor about domobtio matters and divido upon party linos, but whon it comos to utiliaiug national opportunities, north, south, east and west should unito in maintain iog tho supromaoy of tho United States in tho great strugglo among tho an tious for tho counnorao of tho world. Tho south mast play an important part in our eouutry's futuro. For a third of a century sho has been hampered by a strugglo for inero existence, forced to devoto all of her ocergy and statosmanship to tho maintonanco of whito supremacy. Thank (Jod, this is permanent and assured beyond icrad vonturo of doubt. At last tho has oruorged from her forlorn and prostrate condition; frcod from hor enthrall moat, sho can put herself intouoh with the bist thought of the ago, aud again exorcise an intluouoo in national lifo. 1 boliovo tho linn will oomo when tho south will bo tho hopo and salva tion of thi * nation. Her marvelous growth in manufacturing enterprises, hor dcvolopmont of national resouroos, and her rapid advaDOO in progressivo thought and aotion, is making hor again the leading scotion in this ooun try. Tho oontro of manufacturing in the United Statos has beon transferred from Fall Rivor, Mass., to Columbia, b. C. Hut if wo would mako the most of our opportunitios wo must ronounoo sectional prejudices and support broad national polioios, looking to tho oroation of foreign markets, tho expansion of trade and tho upbuilding of a common country. Wo must domain! and havo for tho south a full sharo of tho boncfits as woll as tho burdons of national lifo. Tho south is vitally interested in tho Asiatic markets. Hor manufacturers aro studying tho noeds of tho pooplo in an intelligent effort to turn out products Bui'.od to thoao mar kots. Tho olosing of tho ohina markots owing to rcoont troublos has eausod a glut of goods, whioh is atfootcd by a doolino of throo oonts a pound in raw o) tton, a a *4 i n i nt i i ah /j a? a ?"aa 4 jl aav ?uuiiiiioiiniiuu in uuiug m ?iuiiv deal towards improving our oommcroial opportunities in tho oast, by showing somo rogard for tho inilionablo rights of China, whilo protooting tho longitirnato demands of foroigQ interests. Dowoy's viotory first ostablibhod Amorioan prostigo along tho Asiatit ooast. It was thon that 800 million pooplo in tho oriont learned rospeot for tho United Statos and salutod us as a firstclass powor. Tho attitudo of tho Unitod Siatos sinoo in tho fiold of diplom aoy in China has givon ooniidonoo and inoroasod that rospoot. Tho Unitod States from tho first took load, and ovon tho warliko Emporor of (Jtrmauy has had to yield to '"Undo Sam's" friondly admonitions. Wo now oooupy tho vantage ground, bocauso on friondj ly torms with all tho powors. I mako tho assortion that tho Bouth has moro to gain than any othor section from tho foroign policy now pursued by tho administration, particularly whon tho Isthmian oanal is oonstruoted, as it will bo. 1 havo read oxtraots from tho spoooh of my amiablo and distinguished friond his exoellonoy, Ministor Wu, rooontly mado in Chicago. It is roploto with wisdom and good eenso. Wo cannot hopo and wo should not wish to broak down tho civilization of China upon whioh is based a polity, flooioty and religion tho slow growth of 4,000 yoars. To do bo is to doHtroy tho Kmpiro in tho attompt to BuddoDly thrust upon hor a wostorn civilization for whioh her pcoplo aro not proparod All wo oan hopo to do is to vitalizoth's old oivilization with wostcrn ideas, soionoo and invontivo goniua, thus making it moro potontial in material aohiovomonts. This oountry has dono woll to ubo ovcry effort by tho benign influoneo of its political and oommoroial powor to prcsorvo tho idontity of tho Empire and tho integrity of its civilization. I'ader this policy, it is roasonablo to oxpect China to hooomo tho constantly expanding market for our products, and as gradually her intorior is fully dovolopcd by a notwork of railroads and all of hor oities opened up to foreign oommoroo, the opportunities almost without limit. Tho South now controls most of this trade, and with suoh dovolopmont, in tho near futuro, it should inorcaso tenfold. Wo aro no longer a puroly agrioul tural section, but mining, manufaoturing and kindred interest have sprung into prominonoo and dnnsnd govern mental polioios to proteot and dovolop them. A statcmanship so partisan in its oharaotor as to adhoro to old political dootrinos, oithor sottlod by tho arbitrament of tho sword or firmly fixed as governmental polioios, oannot solve tho political and ooonomio proloms now oonfronting tho southern poo pie. Suoh a statesmanship cannot properly intorprot prcsont ooonomio movements, nor provido by aggrossivo and progrossivo thought for tho radi oally ohangod oonditions now confronting us. Deserters Rewarded, Tho Columbia 8tato says: - "Tho ug licnt foaturo about Prosidont MoKinley's appointment of Mr. Capors an Uoitod Statos district attornoy for South Carolina is that it displaces a man who is admittedly a good offioor and ontirely uuobjootionablo to tho publio although a Kopublioan of longstanding. In this as in othor mattors the president kioks the prinoiple of oivil service reform out of the door. Merit, it seems, is not to count in South Carolina's federal offices when policy demands the reward of deBoiters'from the Domooraoy. We wou'd not be surprised if Postmaster Er.sor of this oity, who has boen a faithful and efficient offioor, and is a ltepublioan who has boon held in much respect by this oommunity, where ho has lived evor sinco the war, should bo displaced to make room for some shabby turnooat." fm: UMUI, 25, 15)01. M'LAURIN SCORED. HI# Terrible A-raignment by Senator Tillman. CHARGES OF OI8HONESTY. Has B.uihnd for South Carolina on His Account and Northern Oontlemnn Have Shared His Feelings. Senator Till id a n was s >on at hie homo at Tronton Friday night and replying to a request for his opioion on Sonstor Mohaurin's Charlotte spcaoh, says: "It is oootrrdiotory, full of paradoxes and scorns intended t > pave the way for tho senator's passago into tho K publioau oamp. It may oxcito fiurpriso outsido of tho State, but tho only thing which astouishes us horo is his oontinuod ctf >rt to pose as a Doinoorat Democracy has a broad or goncral moaning and a spcoial or local moan iug as applied to ono of tho groat na tional par ios. My colleague f ays, 'My definition of democracy is liberty for man formulated into a theory of government; it means man's inalienable ownership of* himsolf. It moans froo thought and froo speech.' This is not tho definition givon in any dictionary, nor is it tho dclioition given by .lotforson, and it i9 only intended to justify tho sonator's dosortion of his party, his treaohory to its prineiplos and his ho trayai oi tno pooplo ol South Caroliua who havo trusted him. Tho Kansas Citv platform is tho only embodiment of Democratic prinoiploa that can now bo rooogoizod and no m in oan bo oonhidorcd a Democrat who ignoroH tho prinoiplos and polioios laid down in that platform and porsistontly votos with tho itopublican administration in both its foroign and domestic policies "Socator MoLaurin itorates and ro itoratos tho ohargo that tho 'now Domooraoy' is a sootional party and thon truthfully olaims that tho south which in-tho last campaign was alono Demo oratio, 'is tho American ond of Amerioa.' S rango that booauso of this fact and our vonoration and lovo for tho principles upon which our government rests that this 'broad American statesman' and now born Domoorat of a hitherto unknown typo should oounoil our peoplo to 'acoopt conditions as thoy aro and tnako tho most of thorn' "Sonator MoLaurin dodarod in '1)8 that 'MoKinliy si o i!d bo ronouiinalod by acclamation,' and if his spoeoh moans any thing it moans that tho Domooratio party ought to surrondor all of its traditions whioh ho olaims aro 'long sinoo dead,' bcoomo an echo to tho Republican party, ondorso its foreign polioy as woll as its domestic policy, ship-subsidy, largo standing army and everything, and r-ubsido absolutely as a Democratic party, "If the administration party is right what nood is thcro for a political fac tor. 1 havo novor believed that my oolloaguo would daro faoo tho pooplo of South Carolina in any political campaign again, knowing what I do about him, but as ho indioatos his purposo to still masquorado as a Uoraocrat and while attacking mo covertly as one of tho 'leadors' of tho bo called now Domooraoy, it is his purpoao to lead our pooplo into tho Republican camp, duty oompols mo to apeak out and toll ocrtrin things. "Mr. MoLaurin mado in tho Bonato, January 1899, a Hpocoh whioh was as ultra and as pronounood in its donunoiation of tho acquisition of tho 1'hilippinoH and portr lycd tho many dangors whioh throatoned our country in oonscqucnoo as any ovory delivered in that body, lip to Saturday night ho foro wo Votod on tho troaty with Spain on Monday, February 7, 1899, ho ropcatodly told mo and other senators ho was bittorly opposed to tho ratification and would not voto for it. Rotweon adjournment Saturday ovoniug and tho voto on Monday tho mantloof 'broad American statesmanship' dosoendod upon him and a fow minutes boforo tho eonato wont into excoutivo sossion to consider tho troaty and tako a voto as agcod, ho gavo a halting and lamo explanation of his intended chango of front His voto Boourod tho ratification because on tho first roll oall Mr. JonoB of Novada who had also told ub ho would voto against tho troaty, 'passed' when his ntmo was called, and I fcol oortain if Senator MoLaurin had stood by his party and by himself, Mr. Jones wouid net at tho ond havo votod for ratification. "Conscious as ho was that his voto was tho governing faotor in tho train of mimontous oonsequoooos bo farreaching and tcrriblo and involving tho war of subjugation in tho Philippines, tho oxpondituro of hundrods of millions of dollars, tho loss of thousands of livoa and othor diro results whioh no man oan fornann. it i? n*t?i. ral for Senator MoLaurin to make a desporato effort to vindicate tho Prosidont's policy in his own action. Tho doolaration of indopondonco of courio and an abandonment of 'doad tradition' is tho polioy of a man who behaves as ho has done. "Such a man has no oonsoionco of principles. Tho cloquont spoooh whioh ho delivorod in the sonato was largely | stolen from a sermon delivorod by tho itev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke on Thanks* giving day, November 1898, in tho Hriok (Jhuroh of Now York oity, two months before Sonator MoLaurin delivered it in tho sonate. *'I havo not only had to blush be. pause MoLaurin had doosrted his party in a groat orisis undor suspicious oir oumstanoes and oontrary to his avowed purpose but have had tho mortification of having other senators, 1.1 northern gentlcinon, speak of tho (leg radation to which Houth Carolina had ooino in being rcj resented by a man wlio would boldly Htoal tho brain work of anothor by wholo sonUnoos and paragraphs and havo tho effrontery to dolivor it in tho aonato. * ' Plin tinnnln r\( UaiiJK ( ' /?! v |vv|?v vi uviiwii \jmk kjnum u?u* not bo further deooivod or misled by thio man and I apeak now in ordor that thoy may fully inform themsolvos on all of theso mattors and stand ready to furnish tho proof of ovorything I nay and if ncooHsary will moot Mr. MoLaurin faoo to faoo in any forum ho many chooso. If his proposed Hohcmo of broad statomanship is Douicoraoy, thon L am not and have uover boon a Douloorat, and as thopoocplo of South Carolina have recently rcolooted mo as a Democrat without opposition, 1 feol warranted in lotting tho pcoplo outside of tho Stato as woll as thoso inside know just what nianuor of man this is. I have kept silent horotoforc, bo cause I wan ashamed to let, tho world k tow how our pooplo had boon do ocivcd in him." Tito Kvilsof Divorce. Charles II. Swoonoy, a woalthy ootton planter of Uroonvillr, Ky , Thursday shot and killed his wito and then committed suicide in tho apartmont of his wife's hiucr, Mrs. W. L. Philips, wife <>f a Chicago tobacco merchant, in the Dubu'iuo flats, Hush street, near the (Jcanaiada, hotel Chicago. Mrs. Swoo noy loft hor homo at Uroonvillo a month sinco yoing to Chicago, it is said, for tho purpeHo of socuring a logal separation. Sweeney is said to liavo told his wfo ho would kill hor if she porsistod in Hiiing foradivoroo. Swooonoy roachod Chicago Thursday morning and carried out his throat. Mrs. Swoonoy arrived a day or two ago and Thursday morning during tho tomporaay absonoo of her sister, sho wont down town shopping. ono roturoeu at o olook and stepping into tho apartmont, was mot by hor hus baud who ha i boon admitted by Mrs. Philip's 0 year old son. Hwoonoy graspjd hor wrist and pullod hor insido At tho point ofarovolvor hoordorod tho boy to run. CryiDg out that a murdor waH being oomittod, tho ohild tlod to tho (Jranada hotol, but boforo holp oould arrivo two shots was heard and the hotol attaohos found tho man and woman lying on tho floor. Mrs Hwoonoy was do ad and in a fow moments hor husband oxpircd. Mrs. Hwoonoy was tho daughtor of Thomas P. Morgan, an extonsivo plantorof Groonvillo. KNIGHTS OF HONOR. A Pleasant and Profitable Seiaion. Order in Good Shape Tho Grand Lodge of tho Knights of Honor mot Wadnosday night in Columbia with a good attondanoo of dolegatos. Tho roportsof tho grand oftioors woro road and proporly roforrod. Tho following working oommittoos woro appointed: On Memoirs to tho Bupromo Offioors ? P. K. MoCully, B Q Clifford ?nd 1) Mol ntyro. On Mrinoira for Grand Lodgo Members?N N Burton, A Borg and J O Vornon. On Koturns?Win. Iloffman, M It Haimar and L 1) ilarrall. On Btato of tho Order?Hoi Blank, W A Fowoll and Samuol Littlojohn. On Appoals and Oriovanoos?II It ltyttonborg, J P Phillips and M 8 Policr. On Proas?B 0 DuPro, C W Birohinoro. Kx-Govornor .John OShoppard roprosonts tho supromo lodgo of tho ordor and on boing oallod on Wodnosday night mado an appropriato rosponso. Aftor tho reading of tho roport on tho stato of tho ordor, Hon. .J C Bhoppard, Hupcrme vioo president, addrossod the grand lodgo, which was groatly onjoyod. Tho grand lodgo dctorminod to again omploy an agont to roprosont and promulgate tho prinoiplos and bone fits of tho ordor. Tho following offioors woro installed by Vioo Bupromo Dictator Shoppard: J W Todd, Sancoa, past graad diota tor. M F Konncdy, Charloston, grand diotatnr. P B Waters. .Johnston, ^rand vio? dictator. .J It Lewis, Andorfoo, grand asaiatant dic'a'or. L N 7, aly, Columbia, grand reporter. J T llobortaon, Abbevillo, grand treasurer. ltov. N N Burton, grand ohaylain. T PQiarles, Abbevillo, grand guido. John Konnorly, Hlgofiold, grand guardiau. W C Moredith, Polzor, gtand sontinol. J () Ladd, Sumtor; II '0 Mosaoa, Sumraoivillc, and B C DuPre, Co'um* ba truatocs, J (J fompkina, Kdgcfiold, roproaontativo to tho auprcni) lodge for two years; John Konnorloy, altornato. How Ho Got It. A Waahington dispatch to tho Charleston Nowa and Oonrior, roferring to the appointmont of Mr. John G Capers aa IJaitod Htatoa district attorney for South Carolina, says that "for some timo past ho haa been in frcquont eon foronooa with Senator Pritahard of North Carolina, Senator MoLaurin of I n r? ? - " " aoum uarouna and other well known aouthorn men who profess to be interested in the formation of a white man's Hepublioan party. One of the most active and influential supporters of Mr. Capers is Senator MoLaurin, who reoently deelined to oooperate with his formor Domoratio aasooiates in tho senate and has sinoe been olassed among tho independents or a new oonvert to Hepublioan principles. It has boon known for sons time that Senator MoLaurin has been industriously at work in bohalf of tho appointment of Mr. Capers at distriot attorney for South Carolina." f: m NO. 39 A DEADLY FOE. Mosquitoes Responsible for the Spread of Yellow Fever. TO PREVENT THE DISEASE The United States Oovernment Revolutionizes its Methods. No Quarantine of Baggage Necessary. Surgeon (lonoral Steeburg ban just given hisapprovol, without reservation, to iho report of tho spooial board oomporod of Surgoons Heed, Carroll and Agrainonto upon tho "otiology of yellow fever," in whioh tho oonolusion was reached that tho mosquito is roaponsiblo for tlio tianHuiHftion of this fell disoaso. Moreover, tho medioal dopartuiont of tho army is moving energetioally to put into praoiioal operation methods of treatment for tho prevention of yollow fovor, involving a radioal rovorsal of oxisting mothods, whioh form tho basis of tho roport. Wodnosday, Surgeon General Storn1 t 11 1 uui'k luriuany approveua oirouiar prepared by Chiof Hurgoon Havard at llahana, with thin ondoraomont: ''In my opinion tho proaont atate of our knowlodgo fully Juatifioa tho publioation of thin oirouiar." Tho toit of tho oirouiar whioh will form tho inatruotiona for all modioal ofhoora in tho army in troating fovcr is attaohod. Tho gonoral ordora roforred to under head ono providoa for tho liberal uao of ooal oil to provont the hatohing out of mosquito egga. The circular aaya: "The rooont oxperimonta mado in llabana by tho modioal dopartment of tho army having provod that yellow fovor, liko malarial fovor, ia conveyed oh icily, and probably exclusively, by tho bito of infeotod moquitoea, important ohangoa in tho moaanras used for tho provontion and treatment of thia diaoaao havo become nooeiaary. "iSo far aa yollow fovor ia ooneerned, infootion of a room or building aimply moana that it contain infootod mosquitoos, that ia, moaquitooa whioh have fod on yollow fovor patients. Diainfootion, therofore, moana tho employment of moaauroa aimod at the deatruotion of thoao motquitoos. The moat effootivo of these measures ia fumigation oithor with sulphur, formaldohydo or inaeot powder. The f 11 mnn nt anlntin* /> ? >? ?L ??* , ...MW V? HUIJpiiui ?iO Itiio i|U1U&OBV AUtt tho inoflt offootivo inseotioido, but are othorwiso objootionablo. Formaldehyde gas is quito offootivo if the infeoted roouiH aro kopt olosod and sealed for two ot throo hours. The smoke of inHoot powder has also boon proved usefulj it readily stupofios mosquitoes, whioh drop to tho floor and oan be oasily dostroyod. "Tho washing of walls, floors, ceilings and furniture with disinfectants is unnooossary, "As it has boon demonstrated that yollow fovor cannot bo conveyed by bodding, clothing, effects and baggage, thoy need not bo subject to any speoial disinfection. Oaro should bo taken, howovor, not to movo thorn from the infootod rooms until aftor formaldehydo fumigation, so that thoy may not harbor any infootod mosquitoes. "Modioal oflioors taking oaro of yellow fovcr pationts nood not be isolated; thoy oan attond other pationts and associate with non immunos with perfoot safoty to tho garrison. Nurses and attondants taking oaro of yollow fever pationts shall romain isolatod, so as to avoid any possiblo dangor of their convoying mosquitoos from patients to nonimmunes. "Malarial fovor, liko yollow fever, is communioatod by mosquito bites, and is just as much of an infootion disoase and rcquiros tho saruo measures of protootion against mosquitoes. Oq the assumption that mosquitoos remain in tho vioiniiy of thoir brooding plaoer, or novor travel far, tho provalonoe of malarial fovor at a post would indioate want or proper caro and diligonoe on tho part of tho surgoon and commanding offioor." A Maddog Epidemic. J. N. Barwiok, P. E. Meyers, Geo. W. Avingcr, 11 K. M. Avinger and J. II. Villo Pontoaux, oitizons of (Jordesville, in Berkeley oounty, havo written the govt rnor about a inaddog epidemio in thoir scolion and asking for somekind of aid. They say their oommunity if so infested with maddogs that it it really dangerous for children and older folks te be out. They detail many instanoeB. They say: "They have been going mad in Berkeley oounty for tome timo and we write asking for proteotion. Tho negroes of our oounty have half starved dugs by the soore running at Urge/' ana that the owners pay no taxos on them and thoy should bo confined at loast. As tho State has not yet pro* vidcd a hospital for maddogs, and the legislature has always stopped aside to lot all kinds of dogs pass, it is diffioult to see what tho governor oan do. And this is ono epidemio report that oannot bo "referred to Dr. Evans. Fatal Collision. A rear end collision oooarrred in tho oity limits of Danvillle, Vs., Wednesday afternoon net ween a freight train of the Danville and Western road with a freight train of the main line of the Southern railway, resulting in the wreoking of a oaboose and box oar of Southern freight and engine of Danville and Western and oausing the death of Fireman John MoBride of the Danville and Western Engine.