The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 03, 1902, Image 1
VOL. XVI.
A HUGLE CALL I
To The Democracy of the Country to
Get Together
AND SAVE THE NATION FROM
Ileitis Moxicanizod l>y the Mnn On
Horseback initio White House
ami (lie Dollar Worshipping
Republicans.
There was a notable gathering of
Democrats in Washington last week.
They were there at the biennial banquet
of the Virginia Democratic association
held in the banquet room of
the Metropolitan hotel. They included
Democrats of national prominence.
Tboso who spoke included the
following: T. W. Mullock, second
vice president of the association: Col.
Henry Wattcrson, of Kentucky; Senator
Carmack, of Tennessee; Hon.
Lewis Nixon, the leader of Tammany
llall: Representative NV. W. Kitchen,
of North Carolina: Representative
DeArmond, of Missouri and members
of congress from Virginia. Col. Wal
icrson spowe as follow:
"There Is no drop of blood in my
veins which is not Virginia blood. Although
for purposes of my own. having
a deep design beneath them, 1
choose this capital of I lie nation for
my birthplace, my earliest vision of
paradise?the very dawn of all my
conceptions of honor and duty and
glory?nestled among yonder hills,
across the Potomac; and, when I go
hence, my ashes shall repose upon the
bosom of Kentucky Virginia's first
born and fairest daughter. There
seems, therefore, some Illness in my
sitt ing among you.
"Anyhow, being a Kcntuokien and
a Democrat , I am glad to be here and
you will not, 1 hope, think me assuming
any consequential airs and graces,
if 1 add that 1 feel very much at
home.
"we auk dkmocahts."
"We are Democrats. We love our
country. Our hearts beat true to its
institutions. We would rescue the
government from the hands of those
who are converting it into a government
of t he t rusts, for the trusts and
by the trusts, and restore it to the
hands of those who will have some
regard for the rights of the people.
"The Republican party Is a syndicated
party. Arbitrary power is its
motor, the almighty dollar its trade
mark. If it be not chocked in the gait
it is going, it will in the end surely
Mexieanizc the republic.
THE MAN ON llOHSKIlAck.
"Once again in t he white house we
have the man on horseback. AiTcctitig
the simplicity of the cowboy, he
conceal beneath the self-conlidencc and
f queer manners of t he broncho buster,
the sentiments and ambit ions, if not
t he talents, of a Piaz. To liim, a little
tiling like treating an admiral of
the navy, wearing the laurel leaves of
imperishable renown, as if he were a
baby in arms, now to be dawdled and
now to be spanked, is merely an undress
alfair begun and ended during
olT-momcnts between breakfast and
luncheon. To him the reprimanding
of the lieutenant-general of the array,
grown gray in the lighting of the battles
of his country, becomes an amusing
horse play, meant to relax his
muscles and 11 lust rate his high-mightiness,
whilst warning lesser ofllcers of
the army to obey orders and say nothing.
A MILITARY DICTATOR.
"As these things go forward, partaking
somewhat of the character of
feats to divert and blinds to hoodwink
public opinion, a bill of army reorganization
is prepared and urged upon
congress, which, if it becomes a law,
win make the power of the president,
absolute, and which it is not too
much to say ought to be entitled 'An
act to make the president of t he I 'tilted
States a military dictator.' liecause
the reprimanded lieutenantgeneral,
answering the summons of a
committee of congress- as was bis
duty?expresses an opinion adverse to
this bill, It is proposed to retire him
from the service. Taken in connection
with some other matters of more
or less sinister suggestion, these arc
menaces of mast ominous Import.
WHITE IIOUHK TO THE CAI'ITOb.
"Hut, turn from the white house to
the capitol, and look at the Republicans
in congress. The trail of the
trade mark is over them all. Old high
tariff dances the cancan in the house,
whilst old ship subsidy does the regulation
cake walk in the senate. Everything
for the syndicates. Nothing
for the people. And, not content with
their arbitrary power in the white
house and their mercenary power in
congress, the leaders of this party of
federalism and false pretension would
rip open Pandora's box to filch thence
t he black, piratical flag of negro domination
-the equally disreputable and
bloody shirt of sectional agitation and,
in order to make sure of the next
house they are proposing to tiring forward
another force bill to smite the
south, to blight the north, and to convert
a land teeming with love and
peace into a land reeking with hate
and strife. Such is the banquet to
which the exit of McKinley, the
statesman, and the advent of Roosevelt,
the Rough Ridor, has invited us.
A SI.AI' KOU FUNSTON.
"lam something of a Jingo myself
1 believe in the expanding greatness
and glory of my country. I never see
the llag floating above the domo on
yonder capitol that my heart does not
throb with tlie proud, glad thought
that my eyes do not till with liappy
exultant tears?that I, too, am an
American citizen.
"God bless the lla^, and God bless
the ix>ys that fight beneatli It. 1
would carry it inviolate, 1 would keep
them spotless. And with this in view,
1 want to know what is going nn
away outyounder across the multitudinous,
the mysterious waves of the
Pacific sea. 1 want other witnesses
than self-scccing politicians and selfexploiting
soldiers to come here and
tell me. 1 refuse to hold my tongue,
i refuse to rest content. And, if 1
am told by a whippcrsnapper in shoulder
straps that, unless 1 do, 1 am a
traitor to my country, my reply to
him shall be a slap in the face.
TitK TIUMl'KT ( A 1.1..
''Friends, brothers, Democrats, let
us have done with dissension. Let us
turn our hacks on the past, our eyes
to the future, calling against these
i tilings is my comrade, no matter what
in- iiniiks or ever thought about silver j
I or gold. lie who would deny meal
place hy his side to light them, must :
i>e either very perverse or very hlind. j
Let us cross no bridges till we come J
to them. Itutalready we can sec far
enough ahead to take our reckoning.
"TOK T1IE I.IN'K."
"There will be but one test of a
Democrat in 1004 toe the line toe
the line, saving to arbitrary power
and absolutism, thou shalt go no further:
we, too, are in the expansion
business; hut our expansion Is for the
religion of the constitution no less
than for the religion of Christ and
I 111 in crucified; our expansion means
peace, not war; the honor, not the degradation
of the Hag; and Just as surely
as .JetTerson wrote the Declaration
of Independence and Jackson fought
the battle of New Orleans?to resist
despotism?shall we make a new
Court,h of July and celebrate another
eighth of January, in resisting this
unrighteous scheme to abolish the
constitution and Mexieanizc the government
."
Heller IiAle Th:tii Never.
Tin* Columbia State says Henry
Watterson is always racy, always incisive,
and he made gaod use of his
(renins for phrase-making in the
speech he delivered in Washington on
Monday. We hope it will have its effect
upon those present or former
Democrats who need a political chart,
lint Mr. Watterson in urging the
Democracy to unite on a platform of
opposition to imperialism and absolutism
does not bla/.e out a new path
for t he party. The nat ional Democrat
le convention in 11)00 (list inct ly declared
that opposition to the administration's
policy of Imperalistn was "the
paramount issue" of the campaign
and long before t hat action was ollleially
taken by the party a large? majority
of the Democratic papers had
committed themselves to tin? same
proposition. The trouble with Watterson
is that lie has not always been
sound on the isssue himself. Now that
his views arc amended and Improved
we are glad: but we protest that our
newest recruit if somewhat audacious
in signalizing his coining into camp by
reading a general order fixing the plan
of battle.
A Democrat Unseated.
The Republicans in the House last
Wednesday unseated Mr. Ithea of
Kentucky, a Democrat, and seated in
i. i.. ?i ?
ins pi ace .>ir. .1. Mackenzie Moss, who
was formerly a Democrat but who,
according to his brief, is in accord
with Republicans on the dominant
issues. The Republican majority in
the house is 43.?While only two Republicans,
Ilanbury and Vrceland of
New York, voted with the Democrats,
enough Republicans remained away or
declined to vote to reduce the minorito
lo. The conclusion of the debate
upon the case was rather spirited, Mr.
Rhea making an eloquent defense of
his right to the seat. Mr. Rhea made
a severe arraignment of Mr. Moss, the
contestant, charging that although
lie now called himself a Republican
that two weeks before the election he
had registered as a Democrat and had
pledged himself if elected to go into
the Democratic caucus. With impassioned
words lie challenged the
contestant or his friends to deny this
statement. "If it isdenlcd," said he,
"I willprove him to be the poor, miserable
creature 1 know him to be."
Jlimped From a Train.
The 1 thick villi* correspondent of The
State says the passengers on the early
morning train from Augusta to Charleston
witnessed a surprising incident
just be fore the train reached I tlackville
Thursday morning. A young
lady, Miss May Folk, who lives near
Williston, hoarded the train at- that
station en route to Columbia. Upon
nearing the place t he porter as usual
called, "lllaokvllle." Miss Polk immediately
rose from her seat, hastily
ran to the door and leaped from the
train which was then running at some
30 or 40 miles an hour. When the
train stopped it returned and found
the young lady unconscious. She was
brought to the hotel and found to he
severiy Injured, suflerlng from concussion
of the brain, shoulder dislocated
and badly bruised. She is now In a
very critical condit ion.
-JflHttOO At IjJISt
Neely, liathbone and ltecves, the
American carpetbag officials who looted
the Cuban post-office department,
have received tardy Justice in sentences
of ten years' imprisonment accompanied
by tines ranging from $35,000
to $50,000. The cases agains
them were begun two years ago,
and the slowness of the American
administration in Cuba in pressing
the prosecutions has been scandalous.
If ?pf
CONWAY, S. I
THE RACE PROBLEM I
In The South as Seen by a Now i
England Republican.
ENFRANCHISING THE NEGRO.
Whh n FitiidutiMMitiil Mistake, Says
Ulr. I<lttlotlcl<l, a ('(hiki'cnsman
from the Slate
of Maine*
The Washington correspondent of
The News and Courier says Charleston
will hear with Interest of a speech
made In Washington Wednesday night
by Represent at ive Llttletield. of Maine,
upon t he "Race Problem of the South."
Mr. Littletleld was a member of the
Congressional party that visited the
Charleston exposition week before
last. He returned to Washington Sunday
week and has been generous in his
good words about "The ivory City" I
and "The Old City by the Sea." 11 i s |
speech at the annual meeting of the
Washington Congregational Club last
night is but. in line with a number of '
other views held by tlie distinguished
gentlemen from Maine, whom Demo-:
erats and Republicans recognize as one
of the broadest-minded men in Con- i
gross to-day.
Mr. Llttletield gained considerable [
prominence several years ago by a
speech he made in defence of Mrigham
II. Roberts, the Mormon member from
t'tab, whom the Republicans refused
to seat because of 11is religion. Mr.
Littletleld ranged himself with the
Democrats on that question, claiming
that there was no legal reason why
Roberts was not entitled to a seat in
the House. In the debittc upon the
Porto Rican tarill bill Mr. Llttletield
again showed himself broad enough to i
cut away from party fetters and op- I
pose thai measure. His latest utter- I
ancc on the nc^ro problem is iti strik- |
injj contrast to the (Tuinpackcr resolution
which tin clement In the Republican
party is endeavoring to ^et into
t tie Ilouse, with a view to cutting
down the Smith's representation on
account of educational and qualitlcat
ion sutTra^e laws here. The speech
also grains in significance, delivered,
as it was, immediately after Mr. LittlcMeld's
visit to the most Southern
city in the South. It was the tirst
trip of the "Man from Maine'' to that
section of the South and, while dosirousof
seeing the Exposition, It is
understood that the main object of
his trlpwvas to see for himself the exact
conditions in the South.
Mr. Littlcficld, in taking up thenevrro
problem, said that the black slaves
was a vital factor in the development
of the country when cotton became
the staple production of the South.
At the close of the war the t'nited
States was left with four millions of
blacks on Its hands. This was the
most serious problem left by the war.
These negroes had been freed from
slavery and were occupying a position
of peril to the Government. The civilization
of the white people, said Mr.
Littlcticld, had been accomplished
after years of struggle and association
with the greatest races of mankind.
The negro had been brought direct
from his home in Africa and no elTorts
had been made toward his education
or civil!/.at ion.
"By what right," asked the man
from Maine, the man from Blaine's
own State, "does an Act of Congress
seek to place an inferior race on an
equal footing with men who have lived
through two thousand years of
Christianity? The nation sought to
create in the negro race the ability
not only to govern themselves, but to
assist in the government of others.
What was the result? This race was
in the midst of a people developed In
the highest state of civilization known
to man. A people who have been
overwhelmed by one of their own kind
and whose wounds, physical and moral,
were smarting under the blow of
defeat,
"The Kuklux Klan was the outconn;,
with its civilization behind it,
trying to suppress the newly-created
citizens. i nen came tne "granorather
clause which virtually disfranchises
every negro in the Sout h where
it Is in existence, if t,lie elective franchise
had been given only to those
who had the intelligence to use it the
tendency in the South would have
l?cen to increase its representation by
legitimate means. To-day the tendency
is to keep Southern men in igno- i
ranee and to keep the negro out of control.
To increase the representation
properly under such conditions requires
the utmost intelligence.
"Few men to-day know what is to
be done. The negro is with us. lie
has the right of citizenship and we
cannot adopt the measure so often
suggested to deport him. There Is
no authority under which we can deport
a citizen from the I'nited States.
That namesake of the Father of his
Country, who is working down in Alabama,
is doing the most practical
work. We must look to the practical
education of the negro as the only solution
of the problem. Fundamental
mistako was in enfranchising the race,
placing in the hands of those people
powers they were unqualified to exercise,
giving them power over a civilized
race overpowered by war. It takes
more than a generation or two, or
three, even, to oivilizoany people. Fortunate
will be the generation that will
see a true solution of tills problem."
Inclosing Mr. Llttlcfleld touched
upon the Philippine probleiti as another
one which tiie country was called
upontosolve. "It is not possible,"
ho said, "by any legislative act or.by
IXKU I
J., THURSDAY, AI
education to ereato in any race the
power of self-government. Il may lie
latent power In some races that only
need the touch of the higher civilized
bodies of men to develop- I am prepared
to say It Is not in the power of
the negro to govern himself, as some 1
people have said. What we know of |
the Kili it! no what Gen. < !h:?tFiw? ?.-i v < I
In liis report is that Hiis race excels
in duplicity, treachery and the arts of
savagery the American Indian. There
are ten millions of people dependent
upon us. Only a few of them can
read and write. 1 do not know what
will he accomplished. I do not think
it Is giving away a State secret to say
that there is not a man in the House
of Uepresentat Ives on either side who,
sees the proper solution of this proh-'
loin ahead. I Indieve that the American
people now face a serious situation: ,
that it will require all the shrewdness I
and Christianity of our people to solve
this most, dltlleult question. Itut I
have fait h in the future of the Hepuhllo,
despite that international \oriniform
appendix known as t lie Philippine
Archipelago"
Mr. Littlelield's speech lias heen
hailed with delight hy the I>emocrnts I
especially, and should the Crumpaeker
resolut ion ever reach the House from
committee it is thought not unlikely
that t he man from Maine may take t lie
lloor in opposition to the measure.
Certain it is that Mr. Hit tlelield has
shown that he is not afraid to say
what he believes, bo it ltepublioan in
sentiment or not.
Aii lldltor'H laiinciti.
The Knoxville Sentinel says It is
astonishing how the public looks up"n
the newspaper as a free horse to he
ridden to death. People will pay )
money for a hand, for lighbs, Janitor,
to go to a job prinking otllee and buy
thousands of dodgers, pay boys to deliver
them, pay performers in the entertainment.,
if they are professionals,
or pay some manager to get up t he affair
and give him a large percentage J
of the receipts, pay all their bill in
fact, pay for everything except that
which is most valuable to them to
wit, "newspaper advertising. And if,
the newspaper is unwilling to devote <
more notice, to such entertainment
than liberal news notices it comes in
for much abuse. And yet why
should not the newspaper charge!
for its advertising space just as the;
owner of the hall charges for its rent,
the billboard man charges for the use,
of his billboards, the. lithographers;
rhiirtrn for fiirnlohln.Tr i\/ud A?.I
a w 4 i Ul |IVMtT'l .*>, LI II" j
Job printing otlloe charges for the
dodders, and the outside parties charge !
for t heir services? The newspaper has ,
only two sources of revenue. One Is
subscription, the other advertising.
The subscriptions to newspapers are
so cheap that they little more than
pay the cost of the white paper.
A Horrible I'Me.
As a result of an accident at the
Orr Mill at Anderson one day last
week Hugh II. Scott, a machincst and
engineer, 1<?st, his life. Scott was sent,
there several weeks ago by the Westinghouse-Chureh-Kerr
company to
superintend the erection of the new
l.ooo horse power engine. Steam was
turned on the engine for the lirst
time and Scot t was standing by watching
Its movements. lie stepped upon
the base to oil a hearing when his
foot slipped and he fell into the rapidly
moving tly-whecl. lie was whirled
around and hurled to the opposite side
of the engine. lie was horribly
crushed and mangled, both legs heing
broken and the lower part of his body
was ciusucu. rsoiwniisi.anriin^C the
injuries lie was conscious when assistance
reached liiin and wrote the name
of a relative in Michigan to whom he
wished a telegram sent.
<'Oi*|>8<; 11 <' I< 1 lor Hoard.
A funny ease is reported from St.
Louis. Until a few minutes before
the hour set for the funeral of Mrs.
Carrie Schloslnger, Friday afternoon,
there was doubt as to whether the
services would take place; the body being
held for a hoard hill alleged to he
due Levi Silverman and wife of 281(1
olive street, where Mrs. Schlesinger
died. Henry Schlesinger, the woman's j
son. who is a traveling salesman, was i
notified by wire of his mother's death,
and came to St . Louis to arrange for
the funeral. The Silver mans presented
to him a hill of $8() for his mother's
board and their care for her. Schlesinger
declined to pay and was told
that t he body would bo held. Schlesinger
employed Attorney Howard
Sidener and was about to enter suit in
replevin when the matter was compromised.
_________________
iliiN Thirteen WivcH.
Christian C. Nelson, railroad contractor
and horseman, alleged to have
13 wives Is In jail at St. Joseph, Mo.,
on the charge of bigamy, having just
been brought in from San Antonio,
Tex., where he was arrested a few
days ago. Nelson will be tried in
St. Joseph because one of the women
most active in his prosecution was married
to him In that city last September.
This bride was Mrs. Mary A.
Parker of Plattsburg, Mo. Nelson
admits having three wives, but says
the other 10 arc myths. lie Is said
to l>e wanted for bigamy In Chicago,
San Francisco, l)cs Moines, New York,
St. Paul, Sumter, S. 0., and Conway,
Ark. His preliminary trial will l?e
held before the same justice of the
peace who solemnized bis marriage
with Mrs. Parker In September.
After >1 n11y Year*.
Laborers engaged in digging away
a hill at Old Hrunswlck, near Wilmington,
N. C., uncovered a skeleton
which is believed to be that of a Ilritish
soldier killed during or before the revolutionary
war. In the white sand
about the skeleton were found a number
of brass mlltury buttonsof English
manufacture during the seventeenth
century.
'HI I, a, 1902.
NTOHY OK A TICKKT.
Or How Some Republicans Were
Made to vote for
GEN. HAMPTON IN SEVENTY-SIX.
I low l>. S. 11 i'ihIoi'hoii I'uitl Sovcnlyllvt*
l>ollllt*M I'll!' (>?? Itllil.
icnl Ticket, mid What Wum
Ihtno Willi It.
The writer hopes ami expects to
make good this year a voluntary promise
of hitnseir to himself, that has not |
hoen forgotten since it was made in
the Kail of Ix71>. No previous opportunity
to keep it lias heeii presented, i
Near the elose of that now historic
compaign hotween the republicans tin- i
der the direction ot Chamberlain and
the Democrats under I lie leadership of
Hampton the writer was requested b\
Daniel S. Henderson Ksq., then a
young attorney of the sister town of
Aiken, to come to his home and he i
one of it conference with a few others
who were taking an active part in that
contest. (>n the appointed night tipoil
arrival at the quarters of Mr. Henderson
he was found in lied. sutTcring
from injuries received while riding I
with other hrave young spirits to
quell the riotous proceedings precip- !
ilated in the Southern part of Aiken
County by the republican managers to
secure the presence of the ('lilted
States so', tiers at the polls. Ills phy- .
si.-ian had forbidden the admission of
visitors into his room, but disregarding
I hat advice Mr. I lenderson dismissed
his attendant nurse and called his <
friends around his bedside. Kroin a
sale place of concealment he drew a
hit <>f paper that many leading Democrats
had sought in vain to obtain
one of the republican tickets to be
voted at the election on the following
Tuesday. It was surmounted by an
eagle, printed with red ink, and had j
i,,, c.,a.,i....^i a..,i / >
. f\ * i. n? *iui\'iir?i J ^ l|?il lilt I I M Mil I M* IIIO- I
crat ic knowledge l>v the most faithful
of the republican precinct leaders.,
lb' gave no intimation of how It. had j
been procured. A eomndtt.ee, the
writer heingone of its number, in pur- 1
sua nee of his suggestion, went to An- (
gusta on t he next morning train for j
the purpose of having Democratic
tickets printed in the same style, with i
ink of the same color. No such eagle
could tie found in the Democratic
printing olllces, but an artist was discovered
who made a wood cut and the
press of tlie Constitutionalist was
kept busy in printing hi red ink and
under the eagle the names of the Democratic
candidates in the Western and
Southern Counties of the State. Defore
t he elect ion t hey were spread from
the hills to the sea and many an unsuspecting
republican voted for Hampton
and home rule and by his ballot
helped to end the carnival of the scalawags
and carpet bagger. And there
and then the writer promised himself
if ever opportunity presented to cast
his vote for Daniel S. Henderson for
any ollloe for which he might in the future
l>e a candidate.
Years after it was incidentally learned
that Mr. Henderson had paid sev
enty-llvc dollars for the one ticket
(t I ki\iro rlnuo?* 11 \/?/l ??rwl ?*./dvl..i?
?un/u/ \u;ov i iia;U| iumi iiw iiimhii n mitribulion
was ever made to t he State
than this gift from the first,earnings
of a young lawyer with his way to
make in the world.
And all the life of the now favorite
and the foremost son of Aiken has
been in keeping with that act which
is remembered as well as If It had occurred
only yesterday.
Just thirty years ago he chose Aiken
as his life home and entered upon
the practice of his profession In copartnership
with the late YV. I'eronnoau
Finley ICsq. Of singularly handsome
person, winning in manner, irreprochablc
in personal and professional
life, gifted with talent of the highest
order, thoroughly trained as an intellectual
athlete In the best schools of
books and men and high endeavor he
found a favor in the eyes of the people
that has grown with the passage
of the years until he has heroine the
uncrowned leader of thought and action
in the county of his adoption. A
safe adviser, an incorruptible advocate,
a steadfast friend, a superb man of affairs,
in the sunlight of the hills where
he make his home, every bloom of
promise has ripened into perfect fruitage,
and from the brawling, tawny
Savannah to the limpid, softllowlng
Kdisto his name is an honored household
word, the synonym of manly
worth and virtue, in every home, bo It
the costly pile of t he multi-millionaire
or the cabin of t he humble toiler whose
daily labor is coined into bread for the
wlfe and little ones.
"Some men are lx?rn great, others
achieve greatness." Senator Henderson,
born a gentleman, has lived a life
sr) white and clean and full of inspiration
to all who have come within touch
/,f Ito ( rur Inlll ?A??OA V-?I? nAr*,\
\7i i la? ? iiiinn,in.r- uiai iiwui: i .ill
say of him that any talent has ever
been burled, nor has his light been hidden
from the public, sight. lie has
achieved a greatness and a goodness
that give undoubted assurance of an
exalted future. To those that have
watched with faithful eyes his past career
It has seemed that in the ways of
Providence men are built to meet the
needs of the times in which they live.
Having measured up to every duty
and every responsibility his friends)
call him to make the race for the
United States Senate, believing, know- j
in#, that In the high noon of his manhood,
of perfect physical vigor, of the
ripe Intellectual culture, of ready and
resourceful equipment, an orator with
all the force of logic, and the power of
i
words, a thinker who reasons from
foundation principles, a student who
has enriched the treasure house of Ids
In.tin with the best. thoughts and
knowledge of all the avjes. lie is first
anions t he sons ready to serve t he St ate
In her highest chamber.
And he, loyal son of a State so rich
in her children, answers Present to
the summons as he has answered to
every call she has Klven him, and is
ready at her bidding to tfo to those
heights where urnw the bravest laurels
that men may ?at her, and pluck! ?.#
t I*.**.* I* l ? I -- t - ? ?
I ? I s I I M l I I till ? II I II' H'M (III' I UIIM (1 I I1IMI \ ( )
lay at the feel of I he mother Stale
with all the love and adoration that
tflo\vs In l he heart of the little maiden
as she pins to her mother's Utsoin
spring's lirst violets for the guerdon of
a kiss from the lips that have stint;
sweet songs and taught pure lessons to
the innocent one lisping at tier knee.
And with such a champion In her
cause South Carolina may look with
contident hope for the coming hack of
the golden age when in all that goes
to make true greatness she was lirst
in all the sisterhood of Stales.
P.pitok Tiik Uaknw ici.i. I'koi'j.k.
TILLMANS CHARGES.
Senator Motniii'lii'h I-TIcimIh ln?.Uis
on an I uvcHt igiit Ion.
Senator Pritchard, of North Carolina,
is making an etfort at the meet- j
lug of the committee on privileges,
and eleetlotis to secure action on tin;
resolution he introduced some time
ago calling for an investigation of the
charges made by Senator Tillman
against John L. McLaitrin, that the
latter was Influenced by promises of
control of federal patronage In cast Ing
his vote for the ratification of the
Paris peace t realy.
There Is a feeling among certain
Hcpuhllcans In the senate that thlsl
subject should he allowed to drop,
hut Senator Mef,aurln\s friends Insist
that the investigation he made, audi
Mr. Pritchard, who Is a memtrcr of
t he committee before which t he resolution
is pending, will urge that a favorable
report i>c adopted. Sentiment
in the senate seems to favor the adoption
of this resolution. Mr. Tillman's
friends say he can prove the charges
lie has made, while Mr. McLaurin's
friends Insist that lie cannot. Itoth
sides, therefore, are ready to support
the proposition for an Investigation.
It Is said that Senator J. (J. Ihirrows,
of Michigan, chairman of the
committee, does not favor the Prltchard
resolution, and will strive to have
It suppressed. Among the warmest
advocates of the resolution Is Senator
M. A. Manna, who says he believes
the Tillman charge reflect on the late
President McKlnloy, and he will lend
Ids efforts to a favorable report upon
the ground that the memory of the
assassinated President should he
purged of all aspersions.
(/IIIIHCH lilg; I'rofCHt.
A dispatch from Washington to the
Atlanta Journal says "business Interest,
of the north have been aroused by
the Criiiupacker resolution to investigate
southern election laws. Since
the publication of the fact, that the
Republican niemliers of t he house committee
on rules had voted to report
the Crumpacker resolution, the Republican
leaders have been fairly overwhelmed
with letters from the business
men of the north, protesting
against what they term an attempt
to revive the "bloody shirf'and"Force
hill" Issue. The letters have been so
numerous and vigorous as to have had
an appreciable effect on certain Republican
members. 11 was stated that
the committee on rules will take its
own time In reporting the Crumpacker
resolution to the house, notwit hstanding
that the rnsi torit.v of tli-it
tee -Speaker Henderson, Rcprcscntative
Dal/ell and Orosvenor a week
a#o last, Saturday voted to report the
resolution.
llepuhliCAim In n Hole.
Speaking of the C rum packer resolution,
Representative 1). Linn Hooch,
of Kentucky, who Is one of the most
conservative men in the house, said
last week that "for once the Republicans
have placed themselves In a hole."
He said further: "We remember what
followed the force bill legislation of the
fifty-lirst congress?the election of a
Democratic house and two years later
the election of Mr. Cleveland. I do
not hesitate to say that in my humble
opinion we will elect a I lemocratlc house
this fall and thus pave the way to carry
the presidential election in 15104,
and the Crumpacker resolution will
prove to l>e worth thousands of votes
to us next November."
Oavc II in HI fo for < >l horn.
To the Editor of The State:
S^>r>(>l.r or, Innnl... I -
i 'vv/iii^ evil 111111111 y in jruui M
to the whorcaboutsof I>r. .1. W. l'owcll,
8iirgcon in tho Confederate States
l army. I will say Dr. l'owell went to
Mississippi during the yellow fever
epidemic several years ago and died of
the fever. Me went theje to help the
fever sufferers and lost ids life. I)r.
l'owell was a native of Fairfield county
and has quite a number of relatives
In that county now.
J. S. Gunnbll.
New Brook land, March 20.
A Dangeronft Tool.
The best of bank safes are no longer
burglar proof for Julius E. Haschko, a
| Chicago electrician, who has bought
an Invention which will enable the
man applying it to cut through the
hardest steel plate as a boy with a
I knife would cut St. Lawrence county
cheese. Armor plate such as is used
on the United States battleships, can
l>e perforated as an auger would bite
its way tnrougha plank of Northern
pine.
. I i I? ' <.V J r'? *j /
no. 30.
80me plain talk
From General Miles on the Proposed
Army Bill.
IT MEANS rENTRATI7Arinv
"Throwing t fns Door Wbte <>|h>ii
for a Fuliii'O Autocrnt Or
u Military llenpot,"
Says tlio (ii'iicrnl.
Tin- statcmcntnf (Jen. Miles before
the senate committee an Military affairs
as it will appear in the oHIeial
1 records, has been made public. The
i features which caused something of a
'sensation when published the dav the
j statement was made do not appear
! and t lie following colloquy at the close
of the hearing explains it:
Mr. IVttus Mr. Chairman, 1 think
there ought to tie some mode of having
these notes revised.
| The ('hairman That will is; done.
Mr. IVttus The report of the proceedings
should be submitted to (Jen.
Miles, with permission to strike out
I such portions as ought not to tie published.
Mr. Proctor That is It.
(Jen. Miles I do not know that
there Is anything to lie stricken out.
The Chairman NVe have iicen in
the habit of submitting to the witness
lie fore, the committee, whoever lie was,
the stenographer's report of his remarks
for correction, of course.
Mr. IVttus I wanted to go further
than that. Tho stenographer lias no
doubt taken down correct ly what the
general has said, hut there are some
things t hat lie said which lie may desire
to st rike out. and 1 think lie should
lie allowed that privilege.
The Chairman lie must lie the
judge of t hat.
Mr. IVttus lie should lie allowed
the liberty of striking out anything
which ought not to he published, even
If It, Is stated correctly in the report.
The stenographer's report was submit
ted to (?en. Miles and thcothelal
report Indicates that lie followed
closely the written statement lie had
i prepared and read to the committee.
I The main faetsof the general's opposlI
tlon to the war department staif bill
I mjc ki>f11 .it uic nine, home or tin*
features of the statement, however,
not reported at the time are of Interest.
(Jon. Miles said of the hill:
"It Is centralization of the most
pronounced type, augments tin- power
of the stair and in elTect removes it
further from touch with the lighting
force of the army. The scheme Is revolutionary,
casts to the winds the lessons
of experience, and abandons
methods which successfully carried us
through the nnxst memorable war
epochs of our history. * * * The proposed
plan is hut an etTort to adopt
and foster, In a republican form of
government such as ours, a system
peculiarly, adopted to monarchies having
Immense standing armies. It
would seem to Germanize and Russianize
the small army of t he United
States."
In addition to that portion of the
statements heretofore published showing
how the president could by promotions
make a captain chief of stalf
with the grade of lieutenant general,
Gen. Miles said:
"It seems to me you are throwing
the door wideopen for a future autocrat
or a military despot. It is not, In my
judgment, in accordance with the
principle and theory of democratic
government and for the l>est Interests
of the army, which has existed more
than a hundred years and fultilled all
your requlrmcnts, to adopt such a
scheme."
In commenting on the above The
State says this Is strong language,
certainly, and quite enough to make
It plain why President llossevelt on
hearing of It was seized by and almost
Irresistible desire to retire Gen. Miles
from his position at the head of the
arrav?a method of restoring harmony
ill the military establishment
which he was only kept from adopting
bv the urgentnrivlPA nie
the senate. This indictment of the
measure by Oen. Miles corresponds
with that pro Seated several days ago
by tills newspaper on the strength of
Secretary Root's admission that the
purpose of the army bill was to let
the ranking otliccr of the army "come
in with the president and go out with
president." Wo observe that Henry
Watterson took the same view in his
speech on Monday night, when he declared
that this army recorgnlzation
bill, If it shall become a law, "will
make the power of the president absolute"
and that It ought to be entitled
"an act to make the president of the
United States a military dictator."
A Cruel l(u*l>ttn<l.
J. H. Post, a farmer 36 years old,
I living on the Worth road, four miles
south of Tanawanda, N. Y., bound his
I wife Amftnfla tn n ut'ii/n v...11
? v\' i? >n*t i\v< ill tllU 'Mil I
pen of his stable Thursday morning.
She wore a red calico apron, which
aroused a confined hull to frenzy and
in its rage the animal attacked the,
woman and gored her to death. It Is
said that Post's act was caused by
Jealousy of Hiram Coates, a Free
Methodist preacher who lives at Ken- ?
more, half a mile south of the Post
farm. Coates has l>ecn a frequent
caller at the Post farm and had often
gone out driving with Mrs. Post.
Thursday night he met Mrs. Post at a
prayer meeting at Kenmore, and as
the pair were attentive to each other
Post quarreled with Ids wife on returning
home.