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VOL. XVI. A LIVELY MEETING. ? ________ o 11 Senator Tillman Answered the Charges J' cf Editor Appelt ' ? AND IS VOTED NOT GUILTY. I-Ulitnr A|i|? 11 In I i is Iteply Says lie p I) Is a llrinoci'iil ami Will (irai is q I) Cully Submit to tin* Majni ity. According to promise Senator Till- J man spoke at Manning 011 last Friday. The meeting was the result of an in- ^ vital ion to TillimiM r ...?? ........1.. -?<? I i v ' I I I IH(U i) .MMF citizensof ( larendou county to speak in refutation of the charges made l>y Senator Appcll, editor of the Manning Times. Serator Tillman was well received. I le was entertained at a i banquet, at the Manning hotel, tendered by a committee of business men ' and county oilleers. At 11 o'clock 11 Friday moining a committee of 50 ? citizens escorted the Senator to the 11 stand, which had been built, as was ( the case wlien he spoke at Manning p eight years ago, on whiskey barrels. ? Senator Tillman and Fditor Appelt. h were seated immediately on the left >' and the right of Chairman Davis, '' wit hin two feet of each other. After N prayer by the Itev. 1\ It. Wells, the " chairman introduced 8KNATOU Tl I.I.MAN C who was received wit!) considerable :i applause, lie said he. had come to defend his private character and Ids |, olllcia! actions. No prominent man escaped abuse and vituperation, lie y had liad his full share. Notwlt.li- t standing abuse and dirty insinuation tlie people by unparalleled majority a had again and again signilied their a eontidence in him. Not only was his (.' character attacked, but t here were in- 1 sidious-cnemics attacking the Demo- ,l cratic party of South Carolina and J. Iiim as the sentinel on guard. p i >l:t i- %... ** ixc.ui/.mg no nan neon assaulted be- i cause lie had been protecting the V party lie was here to face 11is accuser j1 and to answer once for all these sian- 1 dors. It is customary among Anglo- n Saxon people, and we inherit it from \ our English ancestors, though we arc n not all English (laughter), that the 11 accused be confronted with the ae- cuscr and the witnesses and that a copy 11 of the indictment lie given him before 1 lie goes to trial. ^ WHITES TO A PI'151/1'. y (>n April 10 be had written Appelt ;d that lie would be in Manning today to " answer his charges, by invitation of ^ citizens. In that letter lie said: "i have seen copies of the Manning . Times of Jan. 15 and 22, and I pre- j sume these issues of your paper con- ,, tain the charges referred to. If I am , in error, and there arc others, I desire <1 to have them in writing. You are n the aggressor in this matter, and 1 prosecuting attorney in fact, either in ' your own or McEaurin's interest and under the rules of law and decency, i am entitled to know of just what I am accused. If the two issues of the j. Manning Times do not contain all of t your charges, then I demand that you l give me any others, so that when 1 y speak 1 may lie through with the matter. A prompt response is request- . cd." ruder the circumstances lie f would disregard the usual courtesy ., that obtains among gentlemen and | read the "private" letter that Appelt v wrote him in reply, because lie had 110 v right to answer an otlicial "declaration s of war" with a private eommunlca- f t I f/xt.A Ir. Ua ? UlUlli licii: IS l.IIU ICII.IT; SEN A TO It A I'PELT'S LETT KU. Manning, S. April 17, 1002. I 1 Ion. n. II. Tillman, Washington. 1 >. C. c Dear Sir: Yours of yesterday to hand. I Will say that I have no desire what- 1 ever to appear in the role of "prosecuting attornery" in t his or any other ;i matter. I have sent you regularly s every week The Manning Times, and in \ t lie issue of January 8 I published your '*j harsh letter to me, and replied to it in t same Issue. ;i I regreal very much t hat 1 have only js one copy of January 8, which is my tile copy, and I cannot send it. 1 will, leaves er, t ry t o secure one for you. The charges made by me and so stated,! were based upon newspaper reports, I' certificates and your let ter. I made I j none against you from any personal , jknowledge, because I know nothing,, personally. Your selecting the day (2">) before i t lie clubs are to elect delegates to t he j1 county convent ion I have no doubt is! very gratifying to my opponents, and 1 may say yours also, because some who ' will make very demonstrative proles sions were among the set here who denounced you t wo years ago and even scratched your name at the election. 1 was largely instrument ill in defeating; them and because of t hat it isanylhing to get even. (c If you had modified your letter as I I requested I am sure your feelings to- l wards me would not be as t hey are now. f My purpose in writing you to modify ^ I It'll l.,? 1 no 1.. ........1 -- 11-1. 1 . ?v i u i ?ki.-> n> ii)uiu a eg*** <111*1 <1 i wrangle in our own ranks. iMy sole object in t he beginning was 1 to work against any attempt being 1 made to exclude a white man from t he g primary who took t he oat h to abide t he e result and support t he nominees of the i primary, and when I started on lhatja line 1 did not dream of any personal { estrangement from you. So far as McLaurin is concerned, I 1 have never said I would vote for him. s Nor would 1 if it is shown convincingly * to me that he is not a Democrat. but o t he place to show t his is at t he regular t campaign meetings.. If he is not a k Democrat, notwithstanding my per- , sonal feelings for him, I could not support him, even if he were my brother. You may regard it grat u it ions on my . part, but 1 will risk the liberty of say- 1 I ing to you that some of t hose who will (l play a prominent part in caring for you 1 are not your friends and are hoping to t profit by your coming. e If I can I will secure a copy of the u aper of January 8, but should 1 fall ml on your arrival you will send some no to my ollico for it I will loan you ly Hie copy to read. I do not want to e uuiairor discourteous. In fact, 1 ave no malice in my heart for you. nd .should you, as I hope you will, rove t hat tho cert ideates in my posL'ssion are false yon will til id me doiiitf he manly t hiiitf hy you. Very respectfully, Louis Appelt. < >n April 22 Tillman wrote to Aped (i?*i11 11k 1 ii>vr that lie furnish him n ids ariival in Manning with copies I tlie atliilavitsof which he spoke in is paper on .lanuary 22 or that lie lave them read on the stand, lie urt her stated: "1 propose to answer on fully and every one of your lies aleady puhlished shall have my attenion, hut I must know what t lie others re before I can answer them. Senaor Tillman then read the following jttcr from Kditor A ppelt, which was iiarked personal: Klll'l'lll! VI'IM.TT'v; Uh'/'nvii I I. M ANN I NO. S. Dl'C. I)!), 11)01. Ion. i>. It. Tillman,Trenton,K C. Dear Sir: Your letter reaelieil me his evening too.late togive it space in ly columns, this week, but. it' you inist upon it of (Course I shall puhlish it i) my next issue. So tar as my meeting you before a 'larcndon audience, or any other jr that matter, I woukl not be j i) foolish, for the reason that I i iHvcn'l t tie ability to cope with' on. The matters which have ofuncled you, and to which you refer, as i on know, are altogether from stale-: lents Which have appeared in the ewspapers and with no pretense of nv personal knowledge. I regret excediug that you tliink 1 never was friend of yours. I was, and a most lithful one, and my unyielding suport to your cause and to you personalv caused ;t rupture in my own family t'hich time has not healed. I was our friend regardless of what you may ; hink now. The tight I am making is for a free nd open primary, one t hat w ill permit ny man to go into the primary audi iscussaii} issue he desires, and I take I from what I can understand of your cts that you will use your inllenee to irevent tlioscwho diiler with you on ertain nat iouaI quest ions from gelt ing i n t lie primary. I have commented on he charges that liavo been brought ut against you wit lioulover once sayng they were true and would not say hey are true unless I had the. proof. ITobahly in my zeal to keep t he priaary free for all white men 1 may itive allowed myself to take for some f my ammunition the charges of icwspapcrs and went beyond bounds, sot will island ing this I think your iinguage towards me is not merited,! nil as 1 liavc punched you 1 suppose ou feel rigid to punch and banter me. I would much prefer not publishing our characterizations of me, but will lo so it you insist, not because you denand it, but because 1 propose t o pertiit any man to use my columns that have writ ten about. Now, senator, you are provoked. i'ou have a way of saying hard things, know you and I do not believe you nean to be as otTcnsive as your letter ppears. Your rough letter will not Irive me into the Republican party, lor will any action you and those who hink like you take. I was born a >emocrat, raised one, and expect to lie one, and what ever action the State onvention takes I will submit to. "his I have said in my own paper and lsewhere and neither will your harsh anguage to a man who at Sumter hrew himself between you and a man ty the name of Yillaucan and saved ou from being disembowelled, cause a hange. 1 am a personal friend of Senator IcLaurin, and you goading him has lad soi net lung to do with lighting t he ttitudc you liave assumed toward dm. I make no charge but refer to rliat is said by others, and if you rant to come to Manning to make a peec.h come ahead. I am certainly not oing to invito you to come hero t<i 'cuss" me out, nor would 1. if you vere t'peome. at tempt tofpiest ion you, >ut it'you want an invitation to come icre I have no doubt that there are diiers who would fnvite you, espccialy if you would make known your purtose. And, then, 1 would not invite you to buse me, because I would not care to land by and hear language such as ou use in your letter, and would not. I Iicrelore if you come you will have odo so on llie invitation of another, nd I certainly would not obligate my* elf to lie liferent ? ~ J' - * "v" ii was no longer than this day 11 i;it. said toa friend: "I do not like the net-lit developments at Washington, md ii' McLatirin really means to go iver to the Republicans I am done. I : lave stood to him and possibly gone! urther than I would for any other nan, lad I cannot go with him into he Itepuhlicaii camp. I am going to Iui 1 popping at old man Hen and let lim and .Man do their own scrapping." 1 regard your letter a remarkable t range coincidence. I shall await our reply with the liope you will vii hdraw it. Yours, eic., Louis A ppelt. SKN ATOK TILLMAN OOKH UN. Tillman said that The Times of I>enmbt r 7 contained slanders against. Din to the effect thai he. was a thief. Ic had ignored similar accusations rom others. If he look time to an* | wer the thousands of lies against him | ic might grow to the age of Met huse-1 all without getting to the top of the i >ilc. At (iallney lie told McLaurin to ;o before the people because he want* <1 to stamp out. treachery, and he knew f he killed the head of the snake the t her part would rot and die. Since hen the little whipper-snapper newstapers that McLaurin had l>ought, uch as the tircenvillc News and the lolumhia Record -one with the postnice at Greenville and the other with he collectorship at (Columbia had :ept their columns tilled wit h abusive barges against him. It was only when my friend here, > ho got your voles Ik-cause he was the ilggest Tillmanite in Clarendon, unertook to fat tier these accusations that deemed It worth my while to answer hem. 1 demanded that Ids slanders ease, but he replied with four colmns of slush and with the cunning of 1 ? he p CONWAY, S. the devil reiterated them. So 1 am liere. hut 1 want to say that I am here more particularly because as we are about to organize the party it is well that one of your leaders come and tell | you some tilings to assist you in maintaining its purity and integrity. If the prosecuting attorney is ready to proceed with the case I will yield him the lloor for the present. The senator then took his seat amid cries of "Hurrah for Tillman," "Trot out Appelt," '"(live Ap a cup of tea and let the j measels break out," "Hit him Appelt." Kt)lTOIt AI'I'KI.T TAKKS TIIK STAND. Kditor Appelt at lirst seemed a little undecided, hut finally he arose and began to speak. I will ask. said lie, that you take into consideration the position 1 occupy, that you consider the powerful adversary that 1 unfortunately have to contend against. While I am. at home still 1 realize what eloquence can do from a man with Tillman's powers. I am unaccustomed to this sort of thing. At this point he was interrupted by the crowd and Tillman came forward and said that he was not here as a bulldozer, hut as a prisoner at the bar on trial for thievery, and 1 h{it lie wanted Appelt to have fair play. Senator Appelt then went on with his presentation, lie said he had sup- I pot ted Tillman as fait hfully and as loyally as any man in South Carolina, and with feeling said: "So help me (iod, I've been his friend and have passed through a great deal for him i right here in t his county." lie insisted that lie had not gone hack mi tliei Reform Movement. < 'ircumstances brought al?>ut the present conditions and he and Senator Tillman's differ* j eneeetime about because of the prlmay system and the restrictions that Till- 1 man favored, which lie did not think i necessary. from the outset he stated that he know nothing, of his personal knowledge, against Tillman and that what he charged wits on written evidence or circumstantial evidence, lie thought it proper to explain why he marked his letters as private, and that he did so j because he did not believe them to be public matters and he did not look upon them as being "two-faced." lie i insisted that he was a Democrat and that if it was shown that McLaurin was not a Democrat he certainly would not support him. I le intended to remain a Democrat as long as he lived. i No one had a right to charge that he ! was an insidious enemy to the Democratic party. McLaurin had nothing to do with his editorials, lie was a friend of McLaurin long before he knew Tillman and as much as he was a friend of Mc- 1 Laurin he has already told him that if he went into the Republican party he certainly would not support him, and McLaurin has told him he has no idea of going into the Republican party, and he believed him. lie has always advocated the party pledge re- ]' maining as it now reads, and he saw i no reason at this time why there should he a change, and there was especially no reason why Tillman should favor change, as if was upon this very primary pledge that Tillman was selected asLovernor and Uunited States Senator, lie saw no reason why a small body of politicans should prescribe a man's loyalty to the party, I and what, he stood for was that the people should have the chance of judging a candidate's Democracy, otherwise the primary was a failure, Let the people judge of a man's fitness. AITKLT (JUKSTION8 TILLMA N.. i'.diior j\ppcu men read the following (iiicstions, which he suggested might he considered as the charges that lie preferred, and that, he really had nothing further to add this time. The list of questions follow: 1. Was not t he primary .system inaugurated to give every white umn a voice in the selection of candidates for oil ice? 2. Does not our party pledge allow every white man to he a candidate who pledges himself t hat he is a Democrat and will abide the result and support t lie nominees of the primary? I'lien why change it now? 3. Was not one of the main tenets of the Reform movement to hring the candidates face to face with I he people and t hat t here should lie free t bought. free speech, and free aetiirti? I. Are you and some of your pretending friends not in favor of fixing t he party pledge so t hat a man who does not. agrw with you on certain quest Ions, not wit hstaiullng lie. claims folic a Democrat, endeavoring now to prevent him from giving the people an opportunity to decide whet her or not he is a Democrat? When t he dispensary system was I inaugurated, did you not make large1 purchases oi't lie stock? t>. Did there not exist at that time a "whiskey trust," and did you not make large purchases from a member of that t rust ? 7. Did not the trust, have an agreement to pay its purchasers a certain rebate? 8. During several mont hs of your administ rat ion large quant it ies of liquor was purchased, was there any rebates recorded on the Ixxiks of the instltu-' t ion? U. Why do not t he rebates appear on t he Ixxiks? 10. Did you ever get cottonseed meal and have It charged to the penitentiary, and insist upon that, institution paying for it, and only paid after two years and t hen by compromise? 11. What authority 'old you have to buy for your private use and have it charged to the State? 12. Did you not get brick for your I private use t hat belonged to t he people of t lie State. Would you have oilered to pay for these brick had it not been exposed through the Neal invest igat Ion? 13. How many bushels of oats did you get from the State farm and have shipped to you at your home in Trenton? 14. Did you have the right to run a [continued on l'aok 4.) - - \ own C., THURSDAY, M, A BRUTAL MURDER Of ft Young Married Lady Near the City of Charleston. PEOPLE VERY MUCH EXCITED Tin* Victim Celled Willi ('1111> ami lloi* Throat tot. Ilohltcr.s Wah t lit* Object. i>im' >lan Arrested. News comes from Charleston of a brutal murder that was committed near New Roads on the Charleston and Savannah Railway a few miles from Charleston in ('olleton County. The murder, which was one of most extraordinary brutality, was commit* 1 tctl on Monday morning, the victim being a young married lady. Mr. \V. j XV. .1 ones, a section master on the ' railroad on ret urning to his home in ' the forenoon found the ttody of his 1 wife in a doghouse near his home. The throat of the young wife was cut ' from ear to ear, and the head was almost severed from the body. A bloodstained sickle, which lay near lhe| corpse, showed how the crime had ' been commit,tod. As several art icles ' were missing from the house, rubbers is supposscd to have been the main I object. Whether, Ms has been k united, tiiere has been a more fiendish crime will depend upon the reports of physicians. New itoads, where the shocking crime was committed, Is a llag slut ion ;s between Kavenels and Adams Kim. on (lie road running from Charleston to ' Savannah, and is about twelve miles from the lirst named eit.y. Mrs. .1, 10. N Chinls, a neighbor, and a colored girl s went, to call on Mrs. .lones. Valking s about the yard they saw Mrs. .lones 1 in a dog house with her throat cut from car to ear. It seems that the x murderer used a club about three and hud-half feet long in knocking Mrs. 1 .lones down, and seeing a seythe. lying N nearby, used it, and almost severed the ' head from the body, Cain ford, a negro, was arrested Monday night on suspicion of complicity in the murder of Mrs, Jones and | was Tuesday brought before Magistrate Itehling. Never liave the pen- j pie in tills sect ion been more aroused than they were Tuesday. About l.'a) persons were present at the coroner's t inquest over the remains of t lie dead s woman and several times it seemed that the. negro would be taken from | the officers and lynched, but cooler t heads prevented this, and Deputy Sheriff A met t was allowed to carry the prisoner to jail at Walterboro. It the testimony against ford bad been at all positive lie would have been swung to a limb in a very few minutes. The object of the murder was clearly robbery. Mr. Jones, the section master, had been paid olf only a few days. After the crime the trunks in the house were found broken open and the robbers left with a nistol. 1 razor and a gold watch and chain. Dr. \ J. T. Taylor, in Ids testimony, dcelar- jr, cd that Mrs. .lonos was not assaulted. I It is thought that J iin Mack, a uotori-1 ji ous negro in this community, is the ( murderer and that ford knows some- j thing of the crime. One witness testi- t tied that lie saw Jim Mack near the i scene of the murder, hurrying through ^ the woods with a pistol. Deputy 1 Sheriff Arnctt and t he cit izens of t he ; community will leave nothing undone \ to capture the j?ui,lty parties. Mr. and < Mrs. Jones were'married one year ago i Monday, and before the former started < to his work in the morning, he gave i his wife t he gold watch and chain. ( TIIK MUKDKKKK AIMCKSTKJ). I \ Mr. Jones is distracted with grief | and shock at the terrible end of his wife, lie had left, her Monday morn- i ing at their house to go about some < duty at a distance. Kckurning du- ; ring the day he went, into the house 1 i and found no trace of his wife, ('all- ', ing for her and getting no reply, he searched about the premises and was horrified to find the mangled body in a box which had been used as a dog house. The bloody corpse had been thrown into this receptacle by the murderer. Mr. Jones at once gave the. alarm and the trail of the brutes were st ruck. Suspicion fastened upon !' Mack and Ford and they were follow- 1 < (1 across the count ry. Tuesday morn- j ing Ford was caught at Adam's linn 1 and confessed his participation in the ' / 1*1 tYlO M'lio ch/n l fV /d' / '/.U/.t i .?. ' .....liv NVOIIbllil Ul \ < >1 |t-| < II I l/< 111 I I I, V is handling 1 he case and the prisoner 1 will be taken to Walterboro. Excite- ' ment runs high throughout ihecoun-j try and it is possil)le some difficulty will be met in holding the men and in ( bringing the other to jail safely. ( Mrs. Jones was an estimable young woman and had many friends in the > country about Ibm-nel's and in Char- ' leston. Her husband has been in the employ of tile riant system for several years and is highly thought of. Their dwelling was near the railroad. 11 and there were few houses nearby and the surrounding country is but sparsely settled with white people. NKGKOKS HUNTING TWH Itl.K. Sheriff J. Elmore Martin of Charleston County sent a posse of deputies to I iu low's phosphate mines for the protection of the white people and property, on account of reports re-1 cclved that the notorious negro j criminals of that sect ion had de- : termined to clean out the place. The i negroes were worked up over the re-; ports of the white posses hunting for! the negro murderers of the wife of Section Master W. W. Jones of the Plant System, at Kavcncl. The 111ing of Mrs. Jones was a particularly brutal tragedy and the white people 11 LOVED THE MOSSES. \ ^ | I i< I I ll I Ml I ' I < > I III' I .11 I C <ilM I unpeniitLf Ills very **1jiJ???r.it * ad dress at I hi* memorial meeting I John I'. Altyclil at tin* auditorium ( 'Inca^o, iai Sun<l.i\ last, clart'inT s I >arrow saiil: "When tlit* Irish patriot Itoher Emmet was condemned to death, h j bc^r^ed his aecusots and t raduccrs no to w rite his epitaph, hut to leave it h a general ion which ?*<uiId undei>tam liis mot ives and du just ice t<i his cause So, too, mi^lii John I'. A!tp<dd havi asked t he powei In I and meat of tlx generation in which he lived, th who hated, despised and re\ded him t,o he content wiI h dest mv iiiv hi > repu ! t at ion and his life and leave unoihe generation to do justice to liis name Not iintii the present commercial aci shall have passed away, not until tlx world knows and rcconni/.es and wor ships some ot her ^odlhan preed, cat tl ay 1, 1 })o2. uio naturally very much worked up over it and purpose to follow the murderers to their last stand. A telegram was received in Charleston stating that a negro named Cam I'ord had beeneapt ured. I le admit ted complicity, hut said that his only connect Ion was to watch while another negro butchered Mrs. .lones and .searched the house for 11?e valuable.;, w hich were carried oil'. Cord is sale in the toils hut the feeling is said to tie running high and a lynching bee may lake place. The poshes arc close on to the other suspected negroes and if is not improbable that the whole hunch will stretch hemp, if they are caught. The Charleston authorities are maintain^ a st rict vigilance in t lie suburbs for ( lie suspects, and if caught, they will |>o turned over to the Colleton county authorit ies. I he negroes in t lie hot to in lands in I lie suburbs of the cit y do not take kindly to the seared for the suspected negroes of the Kavencl tragedy and I hey arc behaving ugly. Capl! MarI'll Is, however, the wrong man for 'o to run against. as t hoy li i\e lound out in the prompt dispateh of tie posse to the phosphat eset t lenient. II is i ust met ions were positive and the leout ies have gone prepared to pre?er\e the pe.aee and do their full Out v. a si's era t k 11,1.1:0. A dispatch from Charleston to The state says information was received /here Thursday that Hen Smith, a iegro supposed to have had part in (lie tilling ol Mrs. \Y. W. .lottos, near loiveifcd, was killed while at tempt ing o escape from tlie niagistrate's conttables. The negro was liandculled s hen he made the break for liherty. le refused to iiall when ordered to do .0, and he was swifter of foot than lie constables, they opened lire upon dm and brought him to the ground, t was was said here that the negro vould have been a very important vi' 1 less. Ho had prcscrvcd an air of tolidity from the lime he was eapured until Thursday morning when a ady trum the country passing l?y vhcre he was detained, exclaimed hat Hen Smith hail been on her farm Ik* day before and had had a watch vhich corresponded with the deseripion < d t he sect ion mast or. CAUSE OFDELAY? t he State Hoard of IViihIoiim AlaUra an oilielal Statement. riie State pension hoard rei|iiest.s lie newspapers to give the following lulcmcnt puhlieat ion: While tin; law provides that the tension putney shall he disbursed on ; lie Tirst Monday of April of each ear, owing lt> the delay on the pari if certain county pension hoards and heir failure to make reports to I he ' date board on the lirst Monday in darch, as required by t lie rules of the Jtate hoard, I lie Male hoard has hrcn mable to examine now applications md dispose Of them until now their econd meeting. The reports from time comities have heen received since, he 1st of April, and stra^lin^ appli at ions from count ies have heen coning in np to the present, some in fact vere received hy the hoard today, llir memhers composing the. State suird are anxious to dishurse this fund it the. earliest date possible, and any lelay in disbursing the same cannot noperly he cliar^ed to them. It, is a 'act t,hat if the hoard had held their neetlng the 5th day of April, for initanee, v.hich was beyond t lie date t luast regular list, was received and disipproved, all those applications that vere not in due form several hundred ieserviiitf people, who as it is, will cceive pensions, would have been left >1T the list entirely; lint, t he board bavin; returned thein for correction, the lelay caused has resulted in their lie/ , .. f|11 . .* il , 4. I ' ? 111 lie , es sent to all points on short notice k i Dusenbur 3I1. ' TODDVILLE 'tab and covered inc.-. .men with revolvets. 1 h(> V? 1 . inoic'.KP soeed. H t he cntfinuri ...? ... i Stop when they stave the s ?im1. \ mlllcH beyond Herman hey m?) him to stop. Seven or (.; i (sired at \ lie spot designated at l. t rain approached. Meanwhl l? thnij Si jrinccr had pulled the thioU.Itjjjjl in open and when ord^ut (,riv(> -ri,7. roK ,l,an nil in the foreliead anTr-? scarcer was endid. Mrs. MctniKin is a rather trail lady, hut she has exploded the old t heory that a woman cannot throw a rock with true aim. To Ho Treated Alike. I.Vpresental ives Meyer and Kansdell af Louisiana saw the president Thursday in behalf of some Confederate veterans employed in I lie census otlleo. i nese men have passed tin- age limit beyond which employes will not he retained, in the permanent census bureau, all hough an except inn has been made In the ease of Union veterans. The president indicated to them that lie had no discrimination to make as between the two. and that he would take the mat ter up with Direct lot Marriam. Ail iaiitor'N Schedule. An Oklahoma editor announces the following cash-ln-advance scliedule: For telling that a man is a successful citizen when everybody knows he is lazier than a government inule, referring to the deceased as one sincerely mourned by the entire community when lie will l>e missed only at the poker circle, $1.0#; referrl ng to a lady as one whom it is a pleasure to meet, when every business man hides if he sees her coining, $3.10; sending an -tough to heaven, with poetry thrown in, $5. John I'. \ I' ut ! -1 and nil n like him tak< I ho place they cam in the hearts o the unwilling world the wrvo, "U In 11 teyson and Justice and 1 it> m l v .hall once more emit ml t he mind? of men a rejuvenated world will louli hack upon .lolin I'. Allvjeld and and It his luiinhlc hiith, his patient work his heroic life, and his dramat ic doat I ope ol the greatest and highest r-xum pies of devotion and righteousness I hat has ever heen ulven to t lie world. No man in this general ion has hccii more misunderstood and mali|/neii than he in whose honor we have as seinhled here. The measureless abuse that was heaped upon him while he i lived was due almost wholly to the fact that he was a lover of Ids fellow man. This has ever heen t he one unpardonable sin that the rulers of the world cannot forgive. John I'. AllKcld was not the Hist mat t\ rand will not Ire the last to Ire crucllled for righteousness' sake, Through all the a^es t lie form of mart vnloin has Ireen practically the same, hut the cause has shifted according' to the prevailing sentiment of this day. In onetime the martyr was Hi Irrave soul who could cry out against religious intolerance; in another the man who fearlessly challenged polit leal t vrannv: and in the present aye the man who dared to quest ion t he absolute riyhi (rf tfold toconl rol the eonseienee and the Judgment of the world. This was John 1*. Altyeld's eriine. I le dared to place t he rights and liberties of man above the power of yreed and wealth." I<'uiiHtnii In M ii/./.Ie<I. Jty direction of President lloosevclt, Acting Secretary of War Sanger has addressed the following letter to (Jell. Krederlck Kutiston: War Department, Washington, April 22, lt?02. Sir: I am directed 1 ?y the president to instruct you that lie wishes you to cease further public discussion ot the situation in the Philippines; and also to express his regret that you should make a senator of the United Stales the. object of public criticism 01 I discussion. Very respectfully, Wm. ('ary Sanger, Acting Secretary of War. Itrltf. (Jen. Uunslon, commanding do partineiit, of the Colorado, Denver Colo. At a banquet last Sat urday ni^ht o! i the Colorado Sons of t he devolution (Jen. I'unst hi is reported to have sub of Senator lloar: "I have only sympathy for t.hcsenioi senator from Massachusetts, who i: sulFerhiK from an overlieated con j science." Probably what caused the issue o t his particular letter was an applica tion from (Jen. Kunston for leave o absence in order that he mi^ht atteiu t lie banquet to be kIvcii in Itoston b; ' ' Middlesex club. The request wa : 'ised and t he president tele^raphet . Kunston not to speak at the Mid , w j ex. A copy of Mr. Sanger's lette V forwarded to Senator Hoar. ?./ ,\ "Dastard Vililan." uator Uiiwlins got hot wivler tin '' *" ' ollar while discussing t he Philip question in the United State ito on Thursday. lie quoted tin is issued by general otlieers in tin %lrll|)|)ines. lie was interrupted h] . < /'a r mack of Tennessee, who direct particular uttention to this phras in <>ne of (Jen. <'bailee's orders: ^ il do not urge inhuman conduct." It st rikes me." sw^u'ested Mr. Car mack, "that Uen. ChalTee should hav I said: 'I forbid inhuman conduct.'" "The purpose was." said Mr. Itaw litis, "that the soldiers were left t practice with Inpunity and withou disapproval inhuman conduct. Tha is the only intelligent and reasonabli interpretation thai can he put iq>oi It. "That was tlic meaning ascribed t< ! it t?y the subordinate commander who pract iced the most inhuman con duct that the mind of man can con cievc. Mr. Itawlins sharply criticised (Jen Chalice and derinunccd him as a "das lard villian who had brought dishono upon the American name and Lh i American people." Should I'unm. Senator MeLaurin of this State introduced in tlie United States o Thursday a hill providing that afte the passage of the act, "there shouli not he collected any duty upon pork veal, mutton or t>eef imported Int the United States from foreign conn tries." The bill was referred to th 11 committee on finance. CnHualilcM (o Veterans. A. V. Winters, a veteran froi Macon, (la., died from heart disease a i ] tlie depot at Terrell, Texas while o 11 his way to the Dallas reunion. An j other- veteran, whose name is ur known, fell from the train at Elm i Texas, ifnd will die. I N(). 4(). A NOTE OF WARNING. . I " Senator Rawlins Vigorously Attacks Government's Philippine Policy. I- j THE COMMISSION'S POWERS. \ If Can Make IVan* or Dorian' War , Without \skiiiK * I (it'll. I'llllstOII <fiVOtt 1 a Itoast lni{. P Formal discussion of the l?lll tetn' pornrily lo provide a government for ' the Philippine Islands was hetfun In , III" t 'lilted States Senate on Tuesday , of last week. Mr. Itawllnsof I'tall, the leading minority memlier of the i'hll ippine eoinmlt tee, opening the debate - with a speech in opposition to the mniMiif. lie uenouneeo t h?'hill as an 1 unwarranted impivsith o upon the Filii pinos, declaring 1h 1t it would establish *iiic ol the toiilest oligarchies in the history ol the world. He maintained > that tiie l'liilippine eoininissiun was ; vrivon too great power by tho bill and i asserted that under its provisions, the . islands would he exploited for private i gain. While lie was speaking two elTorts ? were made to maintain a quorum, tho second resulting in a lively lilt among i several senators. Mr. Seott of West I Virginia intimating tttat no argument I hat eould he made upon the subject ' would Influence any senator. "We seem to have arrived at that 1 point in our history," said M r. Kawlins, "where there are those who alTeet to believe I hat it is sedit ion to think and t reason to talk. ' For < ?< d's sake, let us keep silent until the war is over!' ex claims a peripatetic hero and gradual if mm 1 lie Philippines who wants to make free speech treason and to curt us away to the gallows, although he might give 1 he senator from Massachusetts the lament of clergy on account n of his sympathy for a 'superheated conscience.' All, if we are to believe him. with t lie approval of the president of the IJnited States. "Congress no longer has to declare war. An Otis or a OhalTeo are prepared to attend to this any day In the week. A few; days ago a message came to us that Maivar, the last of the insurrectos, had surrendered. The next day it was announced that (Jen. Chaffee had declared a new war and had dispatched an army to wage it against two millions of people in the island of Mindanao. Put mum is to lie the word ' so long as there is any disturbance anywhere within our borders or in any one of tiie more than thousand Islands beyond t he seas. "This hill sticks its roots into and derives its support from that excres! ence upon the army appropriation bill of 11)01, known as the Spooner amendment. Tiie qualification of the absoI lute power therein conferred, adopted at tho instance of the senator from Massachusetts, hy this bill is eliminated. All property rights in the islands and the fate of their inhabitants are turned over to the control and disposition of the commission, without any ' qualification of importance. , " The commission may declare war and make peace; raise armies and proj vide navies; regulate commerce with all sorts of discriminations lietween I isianus ;uin ports; levy taxes without 1 limit and without uniformity. It may 1 coin money and regulate the value thereof; and may establish religion and punish those who do not conform to Its tenets. It may destroy frecspeech, ' and punish as an act of sedition the publication of truth in regard to their administration. 11 can establish an In' (pilsition; devise and apply methods of 1 excruciating torture, compelling persons to be witnesses against themselves and disclose Information which 1 the commission may desire to extort, it may practice any or all of the acts of tyranny which history lias disclosed b or genius may devise. "It is useless to say that this power s will not he abused. Attention will lie e Invited to some Instancces in the hisb tory of our relations with the islands V showing the extent to which our rep resentatives have gone in acts of perc tidy, injustice, oppression and cruelty." Still Fighting. A dispatch from Manila says two 15 engagements have been fought between the American troops and the Moros of the Island of Mindanao dur" Ing the past twenty-four hours. Moore of the Twenty-seventh in1 fantry, while out with a small party bunting for water, was tired upon at 1 long range. Lieut, rvn with a battalion of troops and a 1 mountain gun, went to the assistance s of Moore's party and drove off the :* Moras, who lost seven men. The tir* ing was at 1,100 yards' range. The Moro villages are Hying red Hags, ' meaning that they intend to tight to '* the utmost. Later the Sultan of 1 l'ualo and a force of natives attempt* t; cd to re-occupy the ground gained by the Americans but the Moros were forcibly dispersed. n HtealiiiK Children. j A dispatch from the city of Mexico says continued revelations in the mat* ' ter of child stealing for Yucatan have " greatly excited the common peoplp, from among whom a larg& nunrt>6r of* ( children have been lured aVay by a band of professional kidnapped The children which were stolen have been' n sent to Yucatan, some to work as X slaves on the Honcquin plantations, n others to be servants. Enrique Igleslas, i- one of the alleged leaders of the kidi nappers, has delivered himself up tc o the police and Is in Kelem prison in communicado.