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v-~* I4~ r~:- A THE PEOPLE R VOL.s 1. PICKENS, S. C., TI IJURSDAY, SEPT26, 89. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. CONSTITUTIONAL t 3 CONVENTION. C FROM SALUDA To BUTLER. THE ENTERING WEDGE OF TilE 1 TROUBLE. George D. Tillinan's Onslaught Upon 4 His Brother-The Fight Over the Printing. FIFTH DAY'S PROCEEDINOS. The last day of the week was a no table one in the proceedings of the constitutional convention as it marked the real beginning of its worik. The rest of the week had been spent in necessary preliminary matters, which having been finally gotten into shape, the convention settled down to active business. The features of to-day's proco.edings were the formation of Butler County I out of a portion of Edgelield and the speech of G. D. Tillman on the ques- i tion of naming the new county, and the settlement of the printing natturi by awarding the contract to Mr. C. A. I Calvo, the State Printer. Over each -t of these three matters a hot light was waged and the discussion of them took t up the whole day f'omn 10 o'clock to nearly 3. t After the ordinary preliminaries c the committee on rules made a report e amending rule 27 in reference to print- e ing resolutions presented in accordance a with the will of the convention. The 6 only change of importance permits a measure to be amended on the third v reading by a majority vote instead of t by a two-thirds as originally provided. t Senator Tillman moved to change a the calendar by which the county t government resolution of Mr. Prince was placed ahead of the Butler County report. He said that it would be dib tinctly remembered that the resolution t of Mr. Prince was the last thing con sidered yesterday, and that provision I was made that Saluda County be first taken up. It seemed as it nothing could keep off the Butler County mat ter, and that the convention was in for the preliminary skirmibh. The committee having undur consid eration the Saluda County resolution r had two reports, a muajority report C signed by six Ieibers and a minori ty report signea by live. There was a squabblo among committce men as to r whether the minority had not taken V advantage of the majority and put in t a report without proper authority, and t upon this difference there ensued a de a bate characterized by considerable warmth at times and covert insinua- r tions about bad faith. The majority 0 report recommended the formation of t the county under the name of Butler. A long debate ensued, In which Geo 9 D. Tillman, Frank B. Gary, R. R. t Hemphill, Geo. Johnstone, R. 13. Wat- a son and others participated, the main b effort of those who were opposed to 1 the majority report being directed to 8 a recommittal of the report, which v was proposed by Gen. Hemphill. No I one opposed the formation of Saluda C or Butler County, but there was a fight a against making it an exception. Mr. B. R. Tillman asked to be allow- F ed to make a few remarks before the I matter was disposed of. This conven tion had met to make a new constitu tion, not to form new counties, but Saluda was an exception. There was absolutely no opposition to its forma tion, and he could not see why It should not be formed. He moved the previous question. Mr. Parrott asked him to wi Jhdraw It and not shut off debate. r O ier people s.uggested the same thing, whereup~on Senator Tillman I said : "All right ; I don't want to shut my friend off, but I would rather hear him vote no than to hear him talk." (Laughter.) The vote was then taken as to ~ whether the general resolution provld- i lng that no new county should be y established should be taken up instead h of Saluda and It 'was agreed to, but i, the discussion continued, nevertheless, y as to the merits and demerits of ' Saluda. Senator Tillman offered as a sub - stitute to the resolution that no newc counties should be created, unless de legates from all the counties affected l1 were unanimous, but. on a viva voce c vote this was lest'.c Mr. Derham offered an amendment n to the resolution by adding " provided ~ this does not apply to the proposed ~ Saluda County." Mr. Hemphill moved to lay the h amendment on the table,.f The roll was called and the motion ~ to lay on the table was lost by a vote of ~ 82t1 I Mr. Wilson suggested that the pro- 1! vious question be called. T'he house la had enough and as there seemed to be h a disposition to load the Derham re solutions down the matter was pressed t, and Mr. Prince's resolution that no new counties '3e created by the conven-b tion was thaally adopted with the f< amendment excepting Sal uda County, 14 as the convention seemed to think that a ialuda County was greased and ready a to be rushed through, and so it was n given a fine chance to go through, a Ospecially as all other new county t schemes were cut off.( Then came up the report of the corn- a mittee to change the name to Butler ,I County, as unanimously reported. ' Mr. tR. B. Watson moved to strike ii out the word "Butler" and insert "Saluda." While yielding to no man, a he said, in admiration for the servicesr of the Butler family, yet ho thought c the name of the county ought to be Saluda. It was what the peOople of that section wanted. It was a name that section had borne for many years and was a distinctive one. It was at this juncture that Ex-Con- d grossman George D. Tiliman made by 1 odds the strongest and most forcible, f v~gorous and eloquent speech of theo aaion. He said that he had net uin dertaken to act without authority, as r he had consulted about fifteen men a from that section, who had the mat- t ter in charge, and they had all agreed c that the new county should b)e called f " Butler." It was only very, very re- s cently, he said, that this prejudice d had arisen against the name Butler, mn and he did not understand it. It would a be very manly nand geneou to call the t ow county after its distinguished sons, t he Butlers. It was about one hundred and fifty Pi ears since Col. Wm. Butler, with his at rife riding on his horse behind him, n ame from Virginia to live in Caro- ni Ina. He fought for his adopted State n the Ueyolutionary war and did noble th ervice. Col. Wm. Butler and his th amily have not only illustrated the 13 nanhood and ability of their county, th mt, he might add, of Carolina. They of 'epresented much of the genius of the di state. ni Dr. Butler was the father of Gen. wl Jalbraith Butler and who was himself in 6 member of Congress, and the daugh- on cil married Gen. Waddy Thoinpson, th vho was himself a distinguished Con- ne rressman and minister to Mexico. he L'here were others, many others, of the tb 3utler family and their relatives who ,ook prominent and leading places in ati he history of their State and country. On rhe Butlers have not only been the ch 'quals of any of the families of Caro- let ina, but they are unrivalled by any of n their devotion, In their work and fot a their service they have done their na state. He referred with much feeling to na he liutletr burial ground, which is let Oecated in the new county near the th uture Court House, and which has TI teen so carefully kept and sacredly th egarded by the family, as the resting ou lace of any f a'-lily of such worth would all e by those who venerated their dead. in 'his burial ground would be in twoor be bree miles of the county seat, and he ty new that many a pilgrim would stop tM D se the resting place of this illustri- lie us family, and he predicted that the TI pitaphis upon the stately monuments i these dead would be read with pride th y the Carolinians who went there' TI aluda, he said, was the mere Indian a ame for a dirty little river-a name di rhich has already been fixed to some- in hing, and -then with a magnificent urst of eloquence he said, " My God, re illustrious names so plentiful that of hey should be overlooked for some re etty Indian name Y We can afford to e >se none of them." th If Gen. Butler has ever done any- cc hing to the discredit of himself or to is State he never knew of it. If any ody objected to Calbraith Butler losing re is leg in the Confederacy he never di eard of it. If anybody objected to Cal- th raith Butler risking his life at the ead of the militia at Hamburg he ed ever heard of it, and if anyone object- al d to his risking his life in helping to edeemn Carolina he had never heard cc f it, and yet on account of some petty n nrijudice it is proposed to do him and is family this grave injuatice. He wl eferred to the terrors of distributing oh ublic offices and how difficult it was 3 have sufficient to go around among i he ofliceseekers, and created much ia musement by saying that they were ke a hundred hounds after a fat abbit, and that was the cause of most f the yelping after Gen. Butler at this th me. He spoke of his long career in Con- be a ress and how he had always watched sh lie career and course of Senator Butler h nd if there was ever anything culpa- t le, wrong, or unjust about him or his C lovements he never heard of it or 3w it and he flattered himself that he b 'as a pretty clover observer of men. f he did not do for you all that he cl Duld, if he was not a conscientious re nd honest Senator, then I was not a o Lithful member of Congress for my w cople, and 1 pray that South Carolina it 'ill always have inen in the United al tates Senate his equal, in honesty, a bility and eloquence, but he said that e had great fears that it would be a >ng time before his equal in ability, t loquence and influence would find a lace in the United States Senate from . outh Carolina. He appealed to the sentiment and ~ re ight of justice of the members that ta his distinguished name should be petr etuated In the name of the county rheire the family had lived. Tih e smily had for three generations given he State and countr-y generals, able cO udges. Senators and Congressmen and ' r~ber distinguished citizens, and he re new of no family in any State that us ad done more to deser'vetheoperpetua on of the failyname. With another Po utrst of eloquence he said, if you will, w ta re Calbi-aith Butler out of the mat- ol 3r entirely. Do not count him at all, to 'here are others, and many of them, sh ho have done their full share for the all tate that deserve to have the county th illed Butler. po Hie thea said that he would take the berty of speaking of his dead friend, m en. Mart Gary, and he felt that he be mld call him a friend, for he had cc one who wer'e dearer or- closer to him. [e was nearer and more intimate with po en. Gary than lhe had ever been with is en. Butler, and he and Gen. Gary of ad always been the most intimate of oh 'lends, and yet when Gen. Gary died set tere were suspicions and mutterings pc bout his Independentismn, or leanings cal that wr iet I can say that thereo no 'as net truer or nobler man than is lart Gat;, or a man who did more for' for is State than he did. yel lHe said that long ago the temnpta on was offered him to have the pro- col 080(d county called Tillmnan County, foi ut that lie said he would not have it ob, >r- it would be like robbing the But irs of their just rights. He would avi i soon do such a thing as to r'ob them eal ndl he would sooner', lie said with th< mohel emnotht put a pistol to his head ani nd blow a bul let through his brains ani ban rob the family of its rights. Gen. is ary was under a much greater cloud of t the timne of his death than Gen. an, ~utler, and when he died lie and others co' anted to do the proper ct-edit to the the emnory of Gen. Gary, and held amect- sy, ag at i'dgefleid, at which ho made a tem pooch advo'ating that a handsome val monument be erected to the memor'y f Gon. Gary. As A society wasm organizAed to r-aiso ad< ioney with w hich to build the menu- cr< tent, and books. and pictures were to mt c sold to r'aise the mnoney or help, but lal I was found that it had to be aban- uin oned on account of this shadow. Gary of ad written a letter to Col. Cash and po rr this and other reasons the same the 'cople did Gen. Gar-y the injustice to an e suspicious of him and to undereeti- off late his great setrvices to the State for tic time. He for one never qutestioned bli be wor-k. the honesty or faithfulness mm f Gen. Gary, but he could hardly hellp ani 3eling that ho had some right to atn mart uinder certain things that were one. He wanted to perpetuate the rc tane of the "Bald Eagle of Edgefleld," nd woutld advocate that the naming of ea he new county, hut he wanted to see et, e names of Butler and Garv linked gether. Gary was born inside of the oposed new county of Greenwood Ad the Britlers have been born in -the iw county that is to be given that me. Col. R. 13. Watson, of Edgellold, said at he had no feeling in the matter, at his ancestors and those of Gon. Atler had been killed sido by side in e Revolutionary war, but the people the now county wantod it called Salu , and that was why ho favored the ,in. He said he had no sympathy th newspaper articles that dofamned 311's names and characters, and he for e was not ashamed of the record at Calbraith Butler had mado ither was he ashamed of the name had made in tho Senate. in '76 or on e battlefield. rhe convention was ready for a vote, d the aye and nay vote was called the subject of tabling the report to ange the name from Saluda to But ., and the convention did the justice callingthe new county Butler, by the lowing vote: Yeas, for Saluda, (4: ys, forButler, 76. 'ho report adopting the change of me was then adopted and the But - County ordinance was given the ird reading without further dobate). Le convention seemed to appreciate 3 fact that the sooner It was gotten Lof the way the better it would be for concerned, and, with the gates Ie g shut to all others, there scomed to no objection to the old Saluda Coun plan going through, especially as a entire territory canmi from E-lge Id County. E PRINTING OF TilE CONVENTION. rho next matter for discussion was at of the printing for the convention. to committee's report on the cost of stenographic report was road and iposed of, being received simply as formation. 'be other report of the same con .ttee was in reference to the award the contract. The majority repotrt commended that Mr. Calvo be eleet under the scale of prices allowed by e statute. The minority report re mimonded nothing except that the ajority report do not pass. Mr. Otts moved that the minority port be laid on the table, but with ow it in order to giye Mr. Behre o0 e minority chance to explain his po ion. He said the minority had act as they did in order to do justice tc 1. He didn't know whether any her printing office In Columbia, ex pt Mr. Calvo's, could do the work or t, but he thought that it should be 3n whether there was or not and iether the work could not be done eaper. The committee had found t nothing about prices. He believed special privileges to none-to no0 tIon or the newspaper of any fac In. Mr. Talbert said that The Register a8 better prepared to do the work an any other office. Mmr. Calvo had en elected State Printer nd the tural consequence was that he auld have this printing. So far as knew no other oflce was prepared do the work, and we know that Mr. ,vo can for we have evidence of it fore us. Mr. R. It. Hemphill argued in ia )ar and conclusive manner for his port. ie said Mr. Calvo was the ly' printer in the city able to do the irk and that the State was under )ralif not legal, obligations to give to him. That the convention and oth-r printing for the State was vered by the Act passed by the Leg ature In 1893 and tho work s.houl given Mr. Calvo W1ho was preI'Wa do it. Mr. Timmernan moved to lay thc Lnority report on the table, and thc es and noes being demanded th suit was in favor of laying on the ble by a vote of 70 to 53. Mr. Stanyarne Wilson had the ma 'ity report so amended that Mr. 1,lvo was declared pri'nter' for thc nvention. With a few unimpor'tant >tions and the Introduction of a few' aol utions the convention adjourned til Monday. The committee on miunicip~al cor r'ations will not rep~ort favor'ably on man suffrage generally in cit~y etiona, but the recommendation is be that women holding property uld, through thoir agents, bo owed to vote In elections affecting i bonds em' indebtedness of the cor-. eation only. ['he committee on executive depart mnt will recomnmend an advisor' am'd of par'dons tQ mecommend and isider' appllications for par'dons. ['le right of the Governor to veto a 'tion of a general amproriation bill to be recommended. The question making the Governor' ex-ofilcio air'man of mostof the boam'ds is being 'lously considered. Trho Idea ap) ars to be to give him the right to .1 for repor'ts from all boards, but, i put him on them. The Governor to have the rilght to suspend olllcera malfeasande In office pending in 3tigation. Jo.gressman Wilson favors a labor umission and ofoered the following the purpose of accomplishing that, oct.: Whereas, by the nature of thoir >cation the egreat cody of wage 'ners aare at a gi'eat (disadvantage in 3 protection of their' rights of pem'son :I property, and the supervision :1 friendly hand of the Gover'nmnent, needful in order that the conditions labor may be known, evils diaelosed :1 the cause of theim' existence dis' reired and the pr'oper remedies foi' siri removal applied, a healthy tem of labor' secured and the in -ests of the labor'ing classes ad nced: '13e it resolved, Thlat the G;ener'al semibly, at its first session after the )Iption of this constitution, shall ate and provide for' the estalish-lm Int and maintenance of a bureau of or State statistics, which shall be Lier' the charge of the comilssioner labor statistics, who shall be ap inted by the Governor by and with advice and consent of the Senate. :1 it shall also proscr'ibe his tei'm of coo, powers, duties and compensa n ; and succeeding General Assem (is shall prmovide fom' the continued ILintenance thereof, with power's of aendling such original Act and mendments ther'eof." Mr'. Smoak offered the following solution for the protection of mor'als: "In the telial of grossly Immoral ses, such as rape, adultery, fornica mn and sodomy the court shall cx. uedo all boys and youn men fron the court room, aI iaty at iis discretion oxcludo all persons such as are un necessary in the conduct of tho trial, and tilo publication or tralsillission of the immoral facts and details in the trial Of thu abovo mentioned cases or any ot-hers not dosignated above shall be deemed at felony. "It shall be the duty of the Legisla ture to enact laws for the Cuforcomont Of this section." Mr. Derhamn proposes to make each race pay for itsown schools, but wants those schools to be good ones. Il of fered the following : That the General Assemhly shall levy at each regular sassion after the adoption of this Constitution an annual tax of not less than tleco mnills on the taxable property throughout the Stato and thero shall ho assessed on all taxable polls in the State an annual tax of one dollar for each poll, for the supilort of the )ubl ic schools of this Stato. There shall be two funds in each county-the ono, for the support of the public schools for the whites to be known as Fund A. and thu one for thu supp1ort Of tile schools for the ne groes to be known as Flund 13. At the time of making the return each tax payer iay designate to which fund his scio ol and pol tax shall be apIplied, an( the auditor shall so apply it. I n case the taxpayer fails to designate tile fund the auditor shall apply tile poll and school taxes of the whi . to l''und A. and poll and schiool tax of the negyroes to l''und 13. The ltund A shall he distributed according to thA snu her of white children of school age inl each county and Pund H shall be dis tribtuted according to the iumber of negro children of school age in each county. No partof this fund shall 1) used for any purposu than to pay sa aries of teaueers actually engaged in teaching the Iul iic schools of the dif fureit co uinties of the State and no pit, thIreof shall he expellued for the cOllection or d ishu rsem lten t, pro vided : That, the Gene'ral .\,-. .mbly shall inl apprOpriating mloneq)- lilr me suipport, of the State edlicatiial i listi tii Liois shall not allplrOpriate It S11111 to exceed one-sixti Of the Consitution and poll tax actually paid-to teachers for teach Ing the publit or coin 1111on schools in) the variotuscounties. BEN TILLMAN'S PHILIPPIC. FUllOUS ASSI' IlI ON .llTIR. A Superb IDescript ion ol' Nottable Ilclid(l5s in tle 'liaapton (1a1ii puip -ni -Mast erly ' I'ri1)110 to ? he NI r. President: As Ily col leaguo on my left has asked that a reason be giveni its to wihy four ilmheburs of the Eddgetield delegation desire to amend the resol ution I will che-rful ly give it to him and to I.:is con ventioni. It so happens that min SaLu rday I was absent when the SpIhOlS Oi 1,11s sibljOet w0re made and the vote taken. I have a daught er who weit to toorgia on a vi:lt to relativos atili, live weeks IgCio. Shortly after that she was takii sick and was dang.erously ill. Sho had stif liciently recovered, so I was informed, to expect to be Iom-e Oi SatturdIa' eveniag, and my only purpose in asking leave of ahsence was the natural desire of a father to see his child. It is per haps fortunatIe tuat I was not here be cause from reports ill the papers its to what was said and what .1 have been told it Iiay not have been posi ble for nie to discuss the question in cold blood. I hope, however, that I have sel f-possCssion enloigh to treat the mnatter calmly and dispassionately. There are personal reasons of a two fold natu re why I Would prefer and couild prayS God that the necessity should not lhe forced on ine to discuss this issuie, but I have nevecr shiirked a duty or been dri von (ruom a stand, wvhich I have taken from principle. Sentiment rules tihe wvorld and while mfateriatl interests anid selfishness govern men, no0 passion can r1ihaovo SC)uti men t, and wvhen the feeIi ngs arec atronlsed or woluned, tien wi'ill do that to which noth ing elso will drive them. Therefore, I rise to do justice to the living andl~ also to do). justice to the dead. 't'ho pecople oIf this propose.9d new county want the name of Salutdat. They petitionedi for it as Satluda :they druw the ordintance as Saludla and they still wvant it to he0 Saluada. Thurefore justice dumands that they shall have it inmd Saluda. I wish to say3 here that in discussing this questioni I shiallI attempt not, to d isplaty prejuic -. 1 hiopo I ami cuple of )ising above Pncjudl ice. The qu testion is necesari 1'ly ponoal in iarge measure, blecause the man after wvhom it is sought to nameul thle comuty hats been considered somnewhalt as bei ng supplantedl in the United States Sunate by 111 'andio seine perhaptls think ei oppo)0o it because ol his name. It is true, but not from p~rejudolice. I am not lighting an inudiviadult. I am simply attempting to pre-vent this con vention fromr stultify ing itsel f anud send in~g the news abro~adI thiat then iformi constitu'tional eon vent-ion of South Ca rol it hats rebunk ed the L egisl aturei whiiich retired Ilu tle r from thle I'itedl States SI nato,. Yo enn'dit dIivorce01 thle nameilt of I lutler from MI. U. You mutst, rcemniber that ho is the only living reOprest ativ o (ft * 's niame~ of any' pro iinenee. I hutler- of IHovol ut ionary (ame, I 'ice Ba itier, the hero~ of the Mexican War, who was1 ki4 iIledo at Cherublusco, anmd A. IP. IBuitler, the jutrist, jud~ge andic staitesmian, wvho wits the uncle of Geon. MI. C. Hutler, have atll passed oumit oIf recollection and the record (of t~heiri deeds is anlcienit history with wh ich the people of outside Stattes are not. famiiahr, anud very fvw i nsidle the State remnemb er thiemi. That atiton (If the conivention would herald it abrIoadt tha' t lie eon vention hiad re versed the acet.i(on (If the Log islatuo aIs fair ats posIsile and named the cou nty3 for M. C. lHutler. ieo is the only One of his namie and 80omo years ago 11e was tihe h ighiest replresentativ Vo(f that namie. T1hiere ar-u other nltaes ill us trious in ourii hiistory that we could give to thiis territotry. There is Cal hioun, MI e0l)u tle, H ay no, 1-ammtond}, MoulItrie-scorecs of thmemi .v w o have not ye(t, thus1 beeni10 h rord bly the State. I saty here attt nd masutre my wvords, thait thtis latst, rpresentativye has (his gr-ac-d tee namn~~ (If ihlttli- and mrade it at stencih in the nostrils; of e ver-y whiit- manto in Sotuth Carolina who loveb hi i, racee and wvould pr-eser-vo its civilizatioIn. A fter lhe hali maido Is tight th orwe th16001nnu (If .Month Cat lina and been fairly boaton in the can vass last summer he continued his efforts to defeat the will of the people. Wo are told tbat it was the disgruntled ollico seekers who barked at his 1h00ls like hounds and who retired him. You know whether it is true or not. We have also been told that it is -doubtful if bis equal will over be seen in the United States Senate from this State. I enni meet the stab coming from whence it does without a word. I don't sot i) mysol f ias being his equal or superior. I have never blowed my own horni. I have met all my op ponents fairly and bravely in the forum of debato and the peoplo havo passed oil mily record as a man and as an ollicer, and when they have given me such substantial recognition, I can alford to pass this by. As to my friend on my right (Irby) who seems to bo in the samille boat as I al ill tile con toeillptuous Comparison iltde by the gentleian who spoko on Saturday, tLat is his concern and not inile, but. if he is willing to acknowledge his inferiority tj Gen. Butler he can do so. Perhaps there are others here who will agree with him. I wish now to pass to another phase of the subject-to do justice to the dead. The assertion wats made that Mart Gary dledl under a cloud of pre judice. I say it Is not true. lie died under a cloud of slander and lies heaped oi him by thbe man who ic feated him by unfair methods in 1880, who broke his heIrt, took snap judg ment on him and the people and nomi nated ilagood. I happen to be a wit ness who can disprove this assertion from personal knowledge. A bout two weeks beforo the Edgotiold conven tion, I happened in Augusta, and thero mot Ia man who was a friend of Gen. l3utje' and he let it out to me that there Wias a scheme on foot to beat Gary in his own county and that he was being ellarged with indepen dlentism. I wrote to Gonl. Gary and in formled him of this scheei and asked < ill by tile mem1liories Of 'iti to put the lie (1n the insinuation that lie would riu ias an Independeout by declaring I that he would abide by tile result of I the State convention. Oin the liloln illg of tile Illeeting of tihe IdgelielI 1 convention I went. to Gary aid he showed me his spoeb in manuscript, saying " that is what I shall print. 1 (Ion't know what I shall say." There was a pilase in it which might havo given his eneies chance to make un just charges against hil, and at m y request lie allowed ime to change it to atiecided expression of his (etermina tion to stand by the result of the State Convention. He thereby pledged him self and wont to tihe convention the trule choice of tile people of the State. AS N0011 as his enlemiCs hlad gotten hold of tile ropeic Whi I had placed aroudll( his neck, although tle CoInve 'n t1ion ha d been calle(i to nominate delegates to tho national convention, t.hey tricked him and nominated Lhagood and we all had to submit. Nobody can sa1y truthfully that he was accused of Ilidependeltism except by his enemies. Mr. G. 1). .IillllLl : Did you ever hear Of tihe letter le wrote to Gen. Cash ? Senator Till man : Yes, I have heard of tile CaIsIh letter, and it ha(1 reference to Geln. liutler's cowairdly and ingrate fill attick oil Col. Cash about the (Idl with Shannon. It had no ruf ference whatever to indepondentism anId was not published until after Galy's deatil. WVen the 1111s 111oot ing was calhed at Edgetield at which mily distinguisied collleague paid his trilite to his de-adt friend, tile mass lleeting to c-onlSider tile (ueistioll of raising it IL monu ment to the bald'eagle of I Idigelield. it wias Senaitor Hlitier's in IILience and that of his friends which p 1roventedl titon being taken. They pu~lrsuecd the (lead hlero even inlto hiis grave andl~ pairailyzed tile ellorts to hono11r his mlemlory. Thiiis It, wasE anid not 'inO~eneotismI, wh)ichl h1Is enei es hadl wh)isperePd alnd ci rclatedl. If Malt Gary had runIl1 as1 an Indep)en (lent it, woul d have been nolthing mot0o t~lhan lie Eough~t to halvo (1011 aft~Cr beoing s'wind11ledl and eboa~ltod~ by H~amp toll, Butler, Hiagood anld thalt c)rowd. I alm not pur suingl Gell. Ilutler. A fter lie wasi dlefeated last summiller did lie submIlit ? No. There are mon i1 (In thlis Iloor who, if thecy wouldl speak,i could tell y'ou, heeau~lso they havo told me, thait hle organlized the movement. Elf whlichl l'ope waIs tihe leadelr, and trav'oled from 11CEounflty toI county tol put, I indepenohdent tickets in the 11io(d ; thalt< lhe abused0( aLlI UEl'Irers ; theo news lIp3pr chalrgedl that theLre was IL ring and~ ( did every th inrg that wa'ls dIisgrace-i fuil land tried ton use t~le negrol. lie Is] purllsuinlg m11 in1 the Henate1. tol keepl melO from1 be in sl eatedl as your reWpr iesen1ta ti ve ill that bodliy. DoeIs thiis con von-1 tionl want to aidl bim l to st~rangle me11 tEol < by giving h is name tol th is ne0w county ? No lItlcr but lhe is knw 111 Iout.sidie oE 1 thle State exeplt to those15 who hlaveI studied its h)istory. You cannoll(t Edivorce himI fr'om his ancestry. Woe a~~lskOEd to namel1 a county after th)is traitor. Will youl ( disgraIco yomll self by giving 1his namle toI thlis coumntyi To'E r 1am1 tlihis counhty' iutlor illi hbe re garnded by the oultsiEl world as IL vinudi cation Eof h1is recen t actiona. Allusions hlave bleen malude to llutleir and( Gar'y linIk inlg thiir naml~es toigether as5 tile heroe(I~s (If '7d. I aCknlowledge thait Buit ler did his full duty, but he was not the peerlless leader that tile other mlaa waLs and1 I aissert here- from1 peirsonal knowledge that, it was Gary's bravery and1( audal1city which won tihe tight for Anglo-Saxon civilizatIon in that trying peiriod1 anid rQeomed tile State from thle thrliLdomn and1 degradation Into wichI el it had sunk. Memlory brin~gs to min i two Inelidenlts of thait mnemorable campl laignl anld I Canlnot reLfrai n from relating thema as t.hey will feolingly illu-trato the temporel and chlaractor and1( somrvices of the two m110n. Thlose (if you~l who arIO old( enough will rememb~ller thait aifter the famous joint dlebalte with Cll~hambelain at FIld4'efioldI Cour1t IfOouse onl tile I 2th of Amugust, In wlhc that11 dirty.3 car-pot bagger had been so badL'ly worsted, tile troops wVorO senlt to IEdgefilid anld a jpetext was soulght to decblro martial 11aw. The11 lLadica)l mana~llgers felt thait 1.11 waLve of liberty wats swecoping themf out tol thme SOIL and1 that something must51 be (lone to stein the tide. Notice was sonlt out to the negroes in Edgefield of a1 mass meeting to lbe 11o1(, at wvhich Chamlfberlain would again attemlpt to speak under01 thle pro tection of the troops, and naitur-ally a large number of co10ored people woro0 on hland on the (a13 apnted. Cci. Gary, Who was county chairminit, II organized Edgeleld more thorough than hats over boon known in the I tory of any people. IEvery man in able to ride a horso belonged to sot company, with rogularly elected ( Bicers, and many of those comupanl had aMed thiUISlVeS With ilot'OV wealpons. And such was the stato fooling that Gary could at any in mobilizO and concontrate a thousal red shirts Iln ten hours. Chamberlai however, did not Come. HI e wais t cowalrdly to risk it. The speake who ventured into the ion's den, f( Edgellid was as much in a state -ovolution as l'aris was in 1789, we [woor th roe of the minor State oflicor including Jillson, Naglo and the fa tuulatto Smalls. Gary had sent ot irders for it largo number of red shir "o be on hanld, and upwards of Ia thou ld were in atid about the publi quare when the hour for the R ad ic lIpeaking to begin had lLrrived. vas decided that such game was II borthy the I-agle's talons, but to sho that the preseneu of troops had in ,owed the spirit of liberty in ti whites, it was determined that II red shirts In procession should nuu by the stand where the negroes wet Assembled aid then disperse to the homes. While the procession w forming G.en. Butler took it upon hit :elf to ride in adi'ivaile and pick o the line of maiurch. le had it co ferenece with a scalawag white m; who was actitig Its mirshal for ti niegroes and a:greed thit the proec sion shouli take It route through ti Aca(lemy Grove upwtrd of 100 yar from the stand. When the Hald l'day At the head of his red shirt logit Imitking IL procession over a inmile length, reaLched the edge Of the grou Ie wisIl met by tho ltadtlical marsh mnd tol( of the agrooment wih ikm 1 0er had Imatde. In a vtiIce which raI mt so that the negroes lnd wilit 'ould hour I im lie excli m11ed : " G mit of my way, you damnti White p1II) L'his is public pr1)1)oporty and I will rk mit it whore I please." And he headt ,h coluimn stritight for the Academ amssing witin twenty yards of ti tand thoit Which 1.h1o n tegroes wiv Ilassed, forcing soic of them to Iioi 0) keep fromt biti run over. Another incident gi ves even at 111oi itriking illusti ration of the claiti I pI forward in h0lhaif of myi.' dead friet that he deserves the hontotr more that aty other of redeem ing the State. t the day of electiotn there were twell c0m11patiies of United States inifanlit, inl our county. They hud beetin sui there to overawe ithe whites Ild ei -ourage the negroes to vot,. Six. lcese coIpantties lad been distribut. it variols election precinets ill tL ,OuIty wIlere the heav iest. negro Vol "1as usu ally east. The ot1hier six We it Ikdgehield Cot House under cot naild of Gun. Ituger. TIe negt'oes arg tue1r11'', pr'Obltbly 3,000, mIassi itL the Court liou1 heforo dIty on ti morning of the election. (a-y hi itanticpated this and the eveni before the election about 800 pick men, over one-half of them fri Salula, with their baggIago wiLgo prOvisions amid Lrm1tis, had taken p sessioln of the Court llouse andI] MisoI Hall land were in readiness to obey t ortders of their chief. whatever th inight be. There was no sloop. T citlp tires gieamed out brightly, it wias cold and drizz!ing rain, a Oakley 11.ll. the Geleral's residen< wvas like at militatry headquitrtue while tiddling and dancing were goi on in the two buildings I h ave tmt tionied. I t had bouon Igr'ed betwo 1(uger a0Und Gitr'y that the whites sIoi; voto at, the box in the court hou wih 1 Iu- the negroes should vote tihe school house, Inotholbor prc1(in on1e-h1al IIle away. A wx'hite coi any wats detailed to watceh the hi loting ILL the lattor lace antd a Jay long the votinig wenC~t (n at, hot very rapiud ly at the court hlous 'ery slowly at the school house. I an n1 thlo eveninig Cin,~ tile muILt ~oiinty chirimani, tiid ing that it wou )0 imp lossible1 to votte his mn at,11IL ti cehoot lhouse, detoeri'nIned to mnake hespeirato move and tr'y to captur'e ti >ther box. A . iln head~ of his bla1 >hlanx, 2,:>00 negroes, atrmed wi dlubs anld pas5t0ls, he mar~tchled towar ,ho pl)Uic 5(quariet. A swift couri iotitled Gary 1,hat thley wor'e coin g. lieloimmediately oirdei'ed that LJ )ourtt house 1)0 packed, steps, por'tie Lad all, antd s1 promnptly Iand thiooug y was his or'der carr'tiod out, thiat aL 11 nIon standing on thle stepis. Th'le upp)1) ,vindows in the Masonic IlaLI, in wvhi H he titles aund otl~dor ai'mts had( bet )laced, wer'e mannedi~i with shIt thooters andl~ all the other meno i sould be spared were ordiered to m->'ui ,heir' hior'ses andii ma~ss themitsel ves mel side of the squatie. When Ca Lhd hiis negr'oes rcILhied tihe head he str'eet Iolag into the squarI~ illng it compllletely, seeing tile pt >arlationis malIde to) r'eceive them, th' ILted1 and aL mnesago waLs seat [uger. .iluger' left his qutar'ters sOr wo hundt'ed yardos on aL side str'eet a ~ame toward'is the court house. Ga tdvanced to meet him atnd after t 1'wo had saluteid, with ilitar'y put S,'liousness, Glen. I (ugor' saId :' "Geor I am infor'med by the lIepubthlic Coua. tv ChatirmaIn thait lie can't, vt aill Ils '.- at thle otherl prcinIi You mtl tmalke your men~i give wv and hict these negroes got to thie batll box. My orders atre to m"e that the ariO 110 obstr'uctiouis to voting." T'he one wits dlresm'ed in the blu uirii for'm of the UJnited~ Stiates army Ial hiad been senit, to I'ddgeli d1 by. G(a TIhie other' had on the gr'ey coat, of tL Con federato brigadbir atnd 1militalm boo0ts. It was the cr'ucial test, of nei'v South Car'olinat's destiny hung in ti balatnce itnd G;ary saved her. Ti " itld I'1ay4lk " stratghtenled upI, h. yes gleamIIing, lai' clear' and shlri 'or his voice atlways r'ang like a si ly ucli, 110 exclaimedo~, "' ly God, sl 'Il not do it. I will keop the cot act 1Ilmade with you this mIor'nin hatt the whites and negroes shou ote at sepaatto b)oxesl and if you thit ourt blue coats can maike wity for' the oig roes to vote again try it." Thoe had been the stillness loath whIle these two confront msuch ther, but when that voice ra: out tile whiitos caught up the yell dhelance and for inumtes pandeomonit r'eignedl. fHuger quietly turinodl on I 11ee1s amnd went back to 1118 qularto 'lThe negr'oes slunk away like disso iig muist and in less timo than I ha taken to tell it not one of them was id Allusion has been made to Butler's ly service at Hainburg. I was at Ham is- burg and know that those services it wore groat. But the people were lo ready to act without his loadership f- and you all remember the despicable 0e and cowardly stabt ho aimed at me last A Summor with reforenco to that riot. of For all his services to the State he has 1o been amply rewaided and had he id possessed a scintilla of genuine patrilo n, tism ho would have died befUre lie )o entered upon the role which lie played Is sinco August, 1891. )r We are asked to name a county )f aftt r this traitor. Will you disgrace 'e yourselves by giving his name to this s, county ? But the clouds will roll by, it we are told, and when roason shall it rogain l hor sway, the prejudice, as my Is colleague torrus It, against this man s- will pass away Mr. President, there is c no prejud ice. I t is a senso of righteous LI indignation and woundod sentiment t which called down the wrath of thia i- people on Butler's head. He has at v tempted to stab the State through it. Judge Golf by overthrowing our lec etion machinery and this is hIs unpar e donlablo sin. h I haleo used my inilonce to bring ,e about poee in this convention. I had ir hoped that no factional lines would be Li drawn, but they have been. Not one 11- solitiary Conservatiive voted for the A nano Saluda 1 and soio few good Re I,- formiers yielded through influence to o disgrace thoir SLatO. You have 1o drawnml the linte and not we. Those of is- youl Who have blilLidered in thiis move 10 ment take warning. If yeu givo us dS the poinut of the' sword you will receive I( it back. If yu olfer' us the olive n1, branch We will receive it as South in Carolinianis and do nothing to draw e, the lines. In Gou's 11111110 let's stamp;) al out any attempt to inject partisan t- feeling here. Now, I apologize for Ig trespassinmg on your patience by this s long attention and move that Saluda it he suibstituted for the name Butler . wherever it appears in the ordinance. 0 d SUIND1ltY PROPOSITIONS. 71 e New Jntimalll Sysemm, Mimaller Coun ( lt ati Itetioet0e(I Suiffrage. T Te convention spent three hours and a quarter in the discussion of the ruiles of proceduro ats Compiled by the it comnittee oi rules. The report was 1 atdopted chapter by chapter and the o readaig on adoption of thei was por n functory except when the matter of * pr'inltinIg hiIIs and resolutions Wa in 3 volved. 1; lpon th is a considerable light Was made, ox-Governor Shoppard . leading the opposition to having overy )f resol ution or ordinaneo printed whon (I introduced, coltendimle that only the 0 coiiittee report and the ordinance 0 upon w hi ich the reliort was made should '0 be printed. 1- r. G(Jeorge .Johnstone, Senator n1 Kliedl, Seniattor W. 1). I41vans, Conl d gressmanm Wilson and others contended 10 for the printing of all resolutions 6d forthwiLi, in order that, membors 1g might clearly understand what all ted I'usolitions proposed mnenIit, and thus >M be able to vote intellitently upon IS, theml. D s- *r. V. ). I'vans said that lie fully R! endorseI whILt Messrs. .Johnstono and 10 aaLt-on 111d aiJ, and lie moved to re 0Y coiniit Mile 27 to the committee oil hc rule, anti ofered a rosol uttion to the or eleet, that it was thme sense of the con Id vent ion tli:t each rosolution, order or !C, prayer he pinte it longth in the .S, journal. lie wanted the views of everiv miiiemiber of the convention on all in- mautteris plI aced before it and this could an only I done by haiiving all resolutions Id printed. , The Evans amendiment was adopted, Lt m9 muem htrs votinog in the allirmnative, A't' ad no tlegative 'oteo being counted. I'- So thbe convention will have every p1 jroplosition pi'lntedl ini full. II A large number of pr1opositionls wer'e 4 sbmitted, inciluil inhg the fol lowing Mr. J1. W. Stokes ofoered an outline .0 of ai proposesd new judicial system pro 'o viding: tI I. Taiking the existing system as a 10 basis, to abolish51 the Suplremne Court as a~ such. o 2. Suthsti tute a ('oiurt of appleals t) k conisist, of all the circud.it judges save ,ithiat (one w hose courm t is under' review Isby appelial. 21 . PT) elect in each county one coun t-y judtge to pros0ideC in all misdomn nor101s, andl~ in casos inviolvinug loss thanm $%0I0 -ex cept mattesrs of pr'obato, testa m ienitary and~t gumardanmship), of whIch ai lhe shiallI have or'iginai and exclusivo 1' -I. in felonies, and1( casos involvinig I$ 100) or mnore, other than matters testa n mientary, or guard ianshipII, or' probate, I' let the circulit judige set with the couin 0 ty judge. 't 5. In cases of an aiggravated nature, nf like Irape and murder, provide by law ni for speedy13 trIal or the eiause at special )f session. 0, (1. ict on10 county attornoly ini each 0- county to peOrform the (duties of solici iy Lor' and to act as Stato ~oun rsel to all to olllcers of the county. 30 7. County courti's'to sit at, least once (1a mon11th, and as often as the exIgency ry ma ariisti for a spiecial session. Go Co. I). T1 imn proposed)( the follow e-2 1ing in rogardl to smiallecr couinties: il 1. New coumnties maylL be formed, but nf in~ doing" it,, no0 existinig county seat toshall be abol ished, nor shall1 any new 0-. coun ty line lbe runn neai'er than lIve Ly mi les to anZ established court house. Ot, 2. No county seat shall1 be rcmovcd .e ~ uless such rmoval he authorIzed by .two-tird'ts oif thbe (lector; of the coun -ty voting therefor ;but when the prko di posed seat shall b)0 towairds the centre - 'f thme county, it may be made when aL 0 maljoriity of the elector's piarticipating y in tl4e election shualI vote therefor. 3 :. jo new county shall be formed o unless a majority of the qjualifed eloc \e tosvtn in each part of the county 8 or counties posed(t be disonmber ,( ed1and (Imbraed~ in the new county r shall separately vote thorfor'. The ri elections provided for in thIs and the n- sction next proQeecding shall not be ',held In any county oftener than once Id in four years. k . The Legislature may provide for se the consolidlation of existing counties If a majority of the qualifled eleotors of of such counties vote therefor'. ad Senator Trilhna.' introduced the fol ig lowing: of " The; Leg islatur'e may from time to m tIme establish smaller counties in the us follow ing manner : '8- " leirst---Whenever a majority of the .v- qualified voter's within the area of a eproposed new county shall petition VO INUE~D'ONFPOURTH PAGti