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t 4 TILLMAN SCORES New York Banquet Where Whites Dined With Negroes. WILL KURT BLACKS Says the Semite, Who Iterlares the Incident Makes Progress Toward Inevitable Catastrophe, lie Asserts that Northern Peeling DilVers Very Utile In the ltaee Question From tlie Southern. Senator Tillman gave on last Friday to a representative of the Atlanta Journal a ringing interview in which lie spoke in his characteristic fashion of a banquet recently given in New York and attended by white ...in iicK incii and won)oh. who sat side by side at I ho banquet tables. Senator Tillman was severe in his condemnation of the banquets, and stated that the speeches made were not for Now Yorkrs, but specially for southern consumption, as was indicated by some of the orators of the occasion. The story of the banquet which evoked the sentiments expressed by Senator Tillman appeared recently in the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Telegraph and the Washington Times, and all the eastern and western dailies. The entertainment was given tinder the auspices of the Cosmopolitan society of Now York. White women were sandwiched between negro men, and listened to speeches by negroes which advocated intermarriage us a solution of the race problem. Some of those present were Harold O. Villard, editor of the New York Evening Post; William H. Ferris, a negro graduate of Harvard; "Captain" H. A. Thompson, a negro who said he was a soldier at San Juan Hill; Miss Mary W. Ovington, a white woman prominent in settlement work in Brooklyn, who sat between two negro men, and Edward C. Walker, president of the Sunrise Cub, which sanctioned the recent "af.Unity" idea of F. P. Earle, who took I net hk't * " { 1 1 9 * " i. uuuu.i w quu ms wm? ior another woman hp liked bet tor and whom ho designated as his "afUnity." Such ideas Senator Tillman stated that the south would forever resist at every hazard. He said that the best way to eliminate the suggestion of social equality was to remove political quality, and that the best way to do this is by the repeal of the fifteenth amendment and the modification of the fourteenth. This not having been done, it was pointed out that the states of the black belt, with the single exception of Georgia, had taken legal steps to disfranchise large numbers of negroes, and that it was the duty of Georgians to join her sister states by the passage of a similar law. "My views on the race problem," says Senator Tillman, "are so well known, by reason of the great number of lectures 1 have delivered on the subject, that I do not know that it is worth while to discuss this latest. phase of it. Hut this nncident, trival in itself, only marks the rapid progress we are making toward the inevitable catastrophe. I have contended for years that existing conditions can inevitable have but one end ?bloody race conilicts. "This banquet, or dinner, or whatever you call it, at which a few fanatics like Villard and other white men of that ilk, had drummed up a lot of denegrade or lunatic white women, to illustrate their practice of social equality and launched the propaganda of amalgamation between the race, will do no harm in New York, and it was not intended to affect conditions there. It was designed for southern consumption and to affect the south. For instance, Dr. Ferris, the colored Harvard graduate, emphasized this, when he said: " 'This means more to the negro of the black belt of the north.' The incident is a revival of the old scheme of those radicals who, with Thud Stevens and Charles Sumner, caused the re-construction deviltry in the south in '68. That Stevens practiced miscegnation, and Charles Sumner endorsed it, and nothing but the imperial manhood of the southern white people?men and women alike?saved our civilization then. 4,T1u4 nmnvt iwivucii'i ttoro tli mmolwuii A UV HVfjl V IIV " kl|/UJ?WI U LUI WHfjIIV/Ul the country will publish and send broadcast over the south this story of black men and white women sitting down to dinner, with what results I need not say. itoosev.elt's luncheon with Broker Washington caused untold mischief, and, as one of these speakers said, 'conditions are going to get worse in the south betore Ibev get better.' When the colored people get educated, th whites in the South will have to recognize them.' Closing his statement with assertion that deportation is impossible, then it must v- be amalgomatiou and education. "A few statistics will Indicate what tills means, .South Carolina has 2 2f>,000 moro negroes than whites; Mississippi, 265,000 more negroes than whites, and the six southern states of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florda, Mississippi and Ixiuislaiia, constituting the black belt, have 30,000 more negroes than whites. Your own state of Georgia has over 1,000, 000 negroes and less thua 200,000 white majority. \ FAST MOYCLF !U1>IN<; Caused the Dentil of u CoIoihmI Hoy nl Spurt niihurg. A colored boy about 13 years old a as killed Monday morning in Spartanburg by being thrown from a bicycle. The boy was riding down the street at a great speed when he came in collision with acolored woman and vus thrown over the hurdle i)ii<s, re wiving such a severe bl >w on the eft side of bis head that death revolted in a few minutes.. Tb colored boy was employed Ht Wrighton's market, and bad been up South Church street to do some errand Coining back he speeded down Kirby Hill, which is the custom of nine tenths of the cyclists. The ice wa gun was standing in the street, and Mrs. Connor's servant girl was getting a piece of ice. As she turned from behind the wagon the bicycle was upon her. There was no time for her to gel out of the way, or for the boy to turn it is wheel, so there was a collision. Strange to say, the woman was not injured. SAD .\CCI1>F\T. Litllo Hoy and (?irl Drowned oil a Pleasure Sail. A vary sad accident occurred Friday afternoon in Charleston harbor by which Jiinmie and Myrtle Mitchuni, r. and 10 year old children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Milchutn. were drowned near I bum Island, in the overturning; ol the small sail boat in which they were taking; a pleasure trip. In the boat were Capt. Mitclium. his mother in law and four children. The boat was on a tack when a sudden gust of wind struck the sail and before the party could readjust themselves to steady the craft in the water it capsized. The towboat Cecilia went immediately to the assistance of the party and the crew of the boat with the assistance of Capt. Mitchum and his 10 year old son managed to rescue the rest of the party struggling in the water. Negro Murderer Hanged. At Lavvreneoville, Ha.. Friday Henry Campbell, colored, was hanged for the murder of 1*211 a Hudson, a negro woman, last .January. John Hudson, iiiiHDjiiui 01 uic murciereu woman. Intel previously been Riven a life sentence for ihe same crime. "If this program of the V'.ltards should be carried out, the future traveler through the heart of the Con fedracy, when the mixing of the races has been completed, could discover nothing hero except mulattoes, or even a darker admixture. It is needless to say t hat this will never occur, because, if deportation is impossible, the destruction of the black race is not. And those who sow the wind, may live to reap the whirlwind. "I know better than any other souhern man for 1 have tested it, that the northern feeling on this question differs very little from our own. And if the Republican liatloal convention shall adopt the Ohio program of reducing southern representation it would l>e the duty of the Democratic convention to meet it with a plank declaring 'this is a white man's country and white men must govern it.' " In answer to the question whether such a plank would gain us votes in the North, Senator Tillman said "if i lui I?in\nltliohi\c nvnoo i li a issue, 1 have no earthly doubt of it. Southern men would only have to go among the northern people and discuss the question as 1 have done, boldly and frankly. No Republican speaker can meet the arguments and facts that can be presented, and the feeling of caste, race superiority is as indelibly fixed there as here. The question never will se settled until the North shall agree to the repeal of the fifteenth amendment and modification of the fourteenth, so as to set at rest once for all the negro's aspirations social equality, by taking from hint political equality, or leaving it to each state to settle." When asked if the action of South Carolina in regard to negro suffrage was unanimous Senator Tillman said "in a manner yes, and then again, no, because there was considerable discussion and threats in certain quarters of mobilizing the negro vote and controlling the state constitutional convention by those who claimed to be the guardians of vested interest and corporations. If you should ev/At. #. /1.V..1 I. :.. i ~ vi iitivv it uvum fs i ?i 111mv in Kia along those lines and your negroes are not disfranchised, you can readily understand how many thousands of them would have their taxes paid so that their votes could be used at the polls. "It is well understood now by a great many northern people that the negroes are the balance of power in many northern and border states, such as New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana. Missouri and Kansas, and there is intense bitterness of feeling in Washington because of the impending control of the national Republican convention by negro delegates from the South, who, said to me, can deliver no electoral votes, but will nomiuate a man for the safe Republican states to elect. "The South, and least of all Georgia, cannol afford to yield one Inch or father in this conflict. Our civilization, and everything which makes ife worth living, depends on it. And all other Issues sink into inaigaiilcauce In comparison. WILL DO MUCH GOOD DKMONSTItATlO.N' ON KAHMS IN THIS SOI TH. KMrnicrs Cooperating Willi Agricultural Departineiit on Selected Area* to Stimulate lillort uti All. CongtsMnan Lever has recently '? reived a letter front S. A. Knapp, s| ei tl agent in churgu of Farmer's Co >pernt ive I)omonstration work, stating t hut the Department of Agriculture has stalled the work in the 7th Congressional district. South Carolina. and that they hope lo do a groat deal mote next year. Fifteen lemonstt at ion farms and ninety cooperative farms have been established in Lexington county; thirty-five demonstration and ten cooperative in Ki< bland county; ten demonstration and forty cooperative in Orangeburg, and live demonstrative and twenty co operative in Calhoun. Dr. Knapp in his letter said. "A valuable practical feature of this work is that all the held agents are Southern men and residents in the Stales in which (he demonstrations tire made. They know the peopie and the conditions." Dr. Knapp has very briefly outlined what is to be accomplished by this Fanners' Cooperative Demonstration work in the following; ' The object of the work is primarily to greatly increase the net earnings of the average farmer, by the improvement of the soil, by the use ui iiM* iM-si seen and uv in*> adoption of better and more economic: met hods on the farm. ? "This is accomplished hy farm demonstrations of an acre or more made hv a farmer in every neighborhood, if possible, under instructions from our central office and supervised by field agents, who visit those demonstrations monthly. "Thus the crop on an acre under the best management is contrasted in every ncighbornood with the crop of tlie average farmer. The effect is immediate and the results are astonishing. "In 19011 tli first cooperative farm was established at Turrell, Texas, and the farmer, W. C. Porter, was guaranteed by tlie citizens against lost, if any should occur in following the department instructions. The work was a success. "From this small beginning the Farmers' Cooperation Demonstration work has increased in five years from one locality to ten States, and from one field agent to 1 11, from one farm to thirty two thousand directly instructed and nossihlv half a million uided through observation. "The funds appropriated l>v Congress tiro used only in boll weevil infested territory: to wit, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and one district in Southwestern Mississippi. Cooperative Demonstration w ork in the remainder of Misssippi, Alabama, | Ceorgia and the two Carolinas and Virginia is done by funds from other than government sources. The great value of this work is shown by the successful production of cotton by the average farmer under boll weevil infest ion. "Our instructions are also directed to the more profitable production of the standard crops, because rotation is necessary to he best success in cotton prod act ion. "Aside from the demonstrations, the educational features of the work consists mainly in reducing the science of agriculture to a few practical problems, easily understood by the common farmer, as the following: Letter drainage of the soil; a deeper and better seed bed; more humus; tno Dost seem; thorough tillage; moiv horspower and better fools; more and better farm stock; these are taught by letters, circulars, lectures and demonstrations. "The cooperative feature of our work gives to it elasticity and adjustment to conditions. Farmers cooperate in furnishing land and working lite demonstration. "Hankers and merchants cooperate in furnishing, free of cost, the best seed for the demonstrations and in refusing to advance less the tenant works the crop under our instructions. "Business men's clubs and boards of trade organize farm demonstrations under our agents and pay all expenses. The Business Men's Club of Helena, Ark?, has 1,000 such farms. The Farmers' unions are givling great assistance by organizing de monstration farms in cooperation with us. "Some 2,000 women in the South are organized in clubs for the betterment of the conditions o f rural homes. They are actively assisting us by urging the general adoption of our demonstration work. " "These women are practical and urge not only greater earning capacity for the farmer, but greater economy and more comforts in the home. Miss Mary T. Nance, president of the Women's Clubs of South Carolina, for rural improvement, has been largely instrumental in organizing this effective work. "County superintendents of public Instruction are organizing hoys' clubs on a largo scale. The superintendent does the work free of charge. The boys demonstrate on their father's farms. The public gives suitable prizes. Our department furnishes seed aim instructions. "tu addition, our agents visit the ry TALE OF HORROR Eleven Bodies Found Buried in Farmhouse Yard. i HAD BEEN MURDERED. Anxiety of John llelgeleiu Over l)isnppenruuee ol' liis I hot her I.earls to Diseovery of Murdered Bodies of Two Men, a Woman und Two Children in Vnitl of Woman lie. contly lliirncd to Dentil. A dispatch from Laparte, Intl., says one of t h?? most growsorae murder mysteries ever unearthed in that section of the country came to light Tuesday when the bodies of five persons. all of them murdered, were found in the yard in the homo of Mrs. Belle Ounness, who, with three of her children was hurtled to death on the night of April L'8. So far only two of the bodies have been identified. These are Andrew lielelee, who came to that eity from Aberdeen, S. !)., for the purpose of marrying Mrs. dullness, whose acquaintance he had made through a matrimonial bureau. Tht other is that of Jennie Olson dullness, a Chicago girl, who had been adopted by Mrs. dullness. She disappeared in September, 1906, and it was said bad gone to Los Angeles to attend school. The other bodies were those of a man and two children, apparently 1? years old. The body of llolgonein was dismembered and the arms, legs, trunk and head were hurled in different parts of th yard. It is believed by the authorities that Guy Lamphere, who has been under arrest since the burning of the dullness home, on the charge of murdering Mrs. dullness and her family, committed the Helgelein crime, Lamphere is a carpenter and the manner in which the body of Illgelein was dismembered lends to the belief that it was done by somebody familiar with the use of a saw. In some quarters it. is believed that Mrs. dimness may have known something of tho murderers of the live people. A possible solution of the dunness fiirm in vctnrv *' ? ' , << uiv ii ? <m ut-epeiHJU Wednesday when four additional bodies wore found in the barn yard, developed Wednesday night. Evidence tending to show that the nine dismembered corpses unearthed Tuesday and Wednesday had been shipped to Laporte, probably from Chicago, came to light. The testimony of draymen who had carted trunks and boxes to the (iunness home lent color to this supposition. The Laporte police also received information that two trunks, consigned to ,'Mrs. Belle Ounness. Laporte, Ind." are help in an express otlice in Chicago. Two of the nine mutilated bodies were identified with reasonable certainty. Anton Olson, of Chicago, viewed the body supposed to be that of Jennie Olson, 16 years old. foster daughter of Mrs. (iunness, and pronounced it to lie that of his daughter. A sister of the girl, Mrs. Leo Olander, of Chicago, confirmed the lather's khmtiHeat ion. Ask K. Helegein, whose inquires regarding his missing brother, Andrew, led to the first dscoveries on the death haunted farm, became sure that the largest and best preserved of the corpses is that of his brother, Against this identification, however, is the result of the autopsy performed on this body by Dr. J. II. Meyer. lie found conditions which, to his mind, proved that the man perished long after Andrew Helegein disappeared last January. Dr. Meyer said the corpse showed evidence of having been in the ground less than two weeks. Ask Helegein, however, refused to be convinced by these findings, and his certainty led the coroner to accept his identifteatkn for the present. TKAGFiDY IN GKOHG1A. Two Young Men Shot and Killed Near East mat*. A dispatch from Eastman, Ga., says Tom Spiers shot and killed Oscar Stuckey Wednesday afternoon about dark. - It seems from reports that an altercation arose over some work on the farm of Mr. .1. S. Stuckey, which resulted in Spiers shooting and killing the young men. The Stuckoys ore among the best families in Dodge County, being highly respected and esteemed as quiet and law abiding citizens. The community is very much wrought up over the affair. A deputy sheriff and posse left for tho scene of the killing. All who try don't succeed, but all who succeed tried. I rural schools when invited, (and this is almost universal), and instruct the boys in demonstrations." It is thus seen that this work is do?ng a great deal of good throughout the South, and with more liberal appropriations by Congress in the future this work will greatly nh^ to bring the South b ack to the top of ti e ladder where she was before the war, and to which she is now taking great strides. * WANT BRYAN I T-he South Carolina Democracy^ Will Vote For Him. THE DETAILED VOTE. A Majority of tin* Delegates to the State Convention Instructed to Vote for Inst ructcd Delegates to the National lh'inoerntie Convention Who Will Vote for the firent Com* nioner's Nomination. There will L?e 1>32 members of the State convention, two for each of the 12 senators and two for each of the 124 representatives. Of these 332 there are 170 who are instructed by their county conventions to vote for delegates to the national convention who will support Win. J. Bryan for the presidency. This is a majority O .1 .it., ti i ? ?| O, uciuuu'iy instructed. Tho Columbia State Bays of the 1G2 delegates from counties which have not instructed delegates, there are quite a number who will vote to instruct for Bryan In some counties the matter was not brought up at all, in other counties resolutions of endorsement for Bryan were adopted. but t in- delegation to the State convention were not instructed. In Richland, for instance, tho convention took no action, and these 10 votes are placed in the nninstructed column, although it is known thai five and probably more of the ten will vote for an instructed delegation ICx-Oov. I). C. Hevward c'aid that lie will go to tlie Stat' I emocratie convention a liryan man. Ifo is not entirely wedded to the idea of instructing the delegates to denver, hut he docs believe in endorsing most heartily Mr. Bryan's career. (Jen. Wllie Jones, who is a candidate to go to Denver, is out ipok^n for Bryan. Both (Jen. Jones and Gov. Heyward have attended national conventions before. Therefore it appears that the majority elected from Richland county will favor endorsing Bryan, the county convention havincr failed to instruct the delegates one way or the others, resolutions on both sides being tabled simultaneously' There was a strong Bryan sentiment in Barnwell, and Chester, and Williamsburg, Lexington endorsed Bryan. Nothing has been heard from Georgetown and these counties, therefore, are put in tne uninstructed column, although as a matter of fact there are perhaps a score of the 162 which may be counted upon for instruction and a few others may be classed as "doubtful," but are classified as "uninstructed" in order to err on the side of liberty. Ins. Unins. Abbeville .S Aiken 10 Anderson 12 Bamberg 6 Barnwell S Beaufort 8 Berkeley S Charleston 18 Cherokee C Chester 8 Chesterfield 6 Clarendon 8 Colleton S Calhoun . . -1 Darlington S Dorchester 1 Edgefield 6 Fairfield 8 Florence 8 Georgetown 6 Greenville 12 Greenwood ... 8 Hampton 6 Horry 6 Kershaw 6 Lancaster 6 Leo 6 Laurens 8 Lexington 8 Marlboro 8 Marion 8 Newberry 8 Ooonee 6 Ornngeburg 10 Pickens 6 Richland 10 Saluda w 0 Sumter. . 8 Spartanburg 14 \ ? |"^??' 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