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OONS'J TUTIONAL 00NVENTION [CONTINUlt FltOM IRST PAW E.| other one In the next one hundret] years. I demand for these illiterate peopil the same protection to exercise the right of the eletive franchiso, as fai as thjs constitution is concerned,' as Ws given to the educated. It is not right and you ought not to discrIminato iin this way against them. I you are go ing to protect thom and give ther tiU right, lot It be a constitutional right or none at all. it is that class of people who alwayE do their duty to their State, and never, never, demand pay in war or in poli. tics. They are satisfied with the priv elege of going to the field or the ballot box and fighting or voting for sone horo or ideal. Your educational and property qual itication of 1898 is tixed. The doors are forever closed against the best and most patriotic class of ieople in South Carolina. Again, Mr. Presidont. I object to this plan because It is a discrimination in favor of the educated and at against the uneducated or illiterate. It is wrong in prilcipl to judge or test the love of country by educatioh or property. It has been said that he who lights for his country has the right to vote. I say, and any Democrat ought to say, that however poor and illiterate the man who offers his life for his country ought not to be subject to even the huili ja tion of a discrimination against him. In truth, sir, you exact of the uneduea ted something harder to he performed than of the educated. I never thought., after all that we have gone throug h, that I would ever he cailed up on to vote against a property and an educit,iontal qualification. Now, Mr. l'rediet, there are at least .1,000 of these people in this State. In war or in pence they have always re sponded and can always be relied LoIn to do their dtity to their contry. Inl 1860, sir, this State furnished n h111.1hers of that class in bIttle. Many of l.hOm were killed. They have left sons who are poor and are now u1 nedlucated and will be politically destroyed int der' tLhis olauso. ,As the chairman of the 1k' 11mo cratic party of South Carolina, I say they have always come to the front when )emocracy was chal lengted . It was that class that I have always re lied uponi. They have never Iai 1(ld. They have never voted ant i ndepndntht. II ticket and I protest now that it is uIn kind, ungrateful and liundemocratic to strike them this olow. 1. for one. amll not. afraid lo bear tlhe word " i)emagogue." it. ha" been showered on some of us during tbhrei catiupaigns until I lave come to take. it as a badge of service in the (dute of the people, and thciefore to lhe desirted and t-onored. I, lot' lne, ali 1141 ashamed of the people wh haive wtved and followed and mwde te id otihes. If I did not honor', love atd dvefe nd these people, I woult be un1Iworthy tI name of mian. They hLve my atmir-11 tion and my gratit.ude. I k now them well, and, God bein \ mi helper., I will stand with them and silik or, sw itm w ii, thoem. There is a ehtss of out citian- ti whom the State las heent I LI h mtar iuth er. She has dellied tem the er-le, tunities of education, showered lavishly on mnore invotel Sonis ; she i ha! yielded them only senlty sub listatII'. irom) her soil. With no property a stake, with less in the State daem ia I ing their love atnd loyalty than amti other class of people, Litey have al wa'IV: gone to the front. All 1.heir le Iarti i has been that they are ment anatl I) 'ini crats and Sou th Catrol inian'Ls, aindI his have had not motive to inuspitre ti11-1 butt the'ir tmanhilootd, their thitelity inl their inllu~hi instinetivye pai~tial. i 'm TIhey were firt in timue (f iu- ion ti battle line, antd there he re t he bret lt the raniks of the red i. slrt haluia lt they wer'e the hard t,(~ idters, t h foremost in facinig datmec , ahvarI's I, lie dlependod on fotr LIhe roughIe'si aml' motst perilous serv~'ice. Nowv it is propoliLsed to' thrust then~t int1.0 the only place tof danger't' 11tlaei whlich their. leaders and11 othcer titiz.en wVill not he0 ri'liredt( toi sharn. Ti tientLins lotr the edulicated andtt propehui ty ow ning class, and makes thiem saf and11 snug forever, whlile it, leaves tht and enudur'e the tests of a hostile cor' l"urthermtore, it leaves thlat, dhmss5 (lurt people dependent oni the grace ani favor of supervti'Isor's wIho tmaty be lit) tile to theml froni personlI reasmns< in the course of local poelities mayu det sire their d isftranchisetmient. Hon ''liS andi naturtal li, wouldl be lot' aL siunervisc to favor aL canmdidatte tto whom he wa friendly, by killing aL few ill iterat whitu votes known to be uni friendl ; . hiim, even by workiung itn with tns clauses a few negt'oes known to lbe 'I r'ight"' In this connetc~'ien. let, mt wat'n my friends, the Ctoniserv'ativye: manyfl of them tmy warm lita..;oiu friends. many of t hem dlemaml inhg m admfiratlti for' L~heirI itel leet and ceba ictLer', that the'.y are, it. seetms itim about to conttinuet. the erreo's whit havo cost them 5o deat' in thte past1. I say to thtemi thait tno tcomlbinatito they may matuke, no allinces they t'i br'ing thom thle 1 iluieneo in the StaL ano the confidence of the people wh it mtany of them deserve to have, tun they prove by their acLts andL thib' tiulilties, and their trecogn itiotn tof tI elaimas and rights of tho people, I sincerity of theit' love atnd resp~et ft the sovereigns who have establishtt theit' power' in Souith Carolitna, anl will hold it, from no(w, henceforth. I would pre'fer', sitr, and I know tht they would priefer', to r'ely upon)L Lii eignt-box law and whatever legishi tion miiight be necessar'y andit light, I. (lut with the negro r'ather than tn diergo the humniliation of an)~X~i xaiIna tion that would be Gt'ook to thenm lut for thlis illiterate class wher' would your R~eforml movemntt havti been itn this State ? if in 18irl the had gone to Mi'. Shoppard'c our loade would have been defeated fotr thme Gov '3rnoralhip. If you take these vote away, with their frIends 'whio woLuh follow themn, ftrom Senatotr Tillman amn give them to Blutler's side he. woub have boon elected to the United State Senate. In conclusioni, Mr. President, the members of this convention seem t' think that thub report, howevetr wr'oni and unjust it 'nay be, must go through unless 'so'methting that the comm tntte< thinks bofter is presetnted. That 1I -not the queoloen. The real questloi In this-flght 16, is this plan better that the present law Y I boldliy announce 8ir, that, -t. is far worse, because undo' the preseat 'aws, even if the Supt'em< Court sholi@J set aside our registratfot laws, that~ rie oight-box la i 1a will main rain whites upremacy. With .this committee report, It will be impos - ible for thle Democratic party in Soutti Uarolina toQ continue in' control, Ther< is to use to disguitpr dyit. -Thier< are two factions tr Sa tato &t they ae here, t5a&' you adUO.GO this rt pendi quor degrade ani huwnil t 'he. hoest :bt iliterat q% white man below the negro vho hap pens to be able to road andi write, h< will forsake the purty he belongs tu and seek protection in the primary and go to the faction that. stands to him. eor causes that I need not mention, the factions are closer together than miany of you imagine. SoeD14 say thai this plan will qualify 25.000 or 50,00( negroes. I frankly tell you that if it does not enfranclhisc 20,000 or 10,00C the chances are good that theso 10,000 may hold the balance of power in It very short time. Now, Mr. President, I warn both factions in this convention. If you striko down, huniliate or degrade these iuttle but genuine h(-roes you will not only do an ungrateful act, but something you will regret as long as you live. I am no coat, tail swinger, thank God! I never hung oi to any iatin's coat tail aind sneezed every Liime he took snuff. I would rather be a iman than an ollice holder. Tle people of Laurens County thought enough of ine to send tue to the ILegislaturo in 1886, when Mr. Tillmnt's highest ambition Wits only to be a trustee of Clemsol College, and there remaied until the people Of SOutl CaIrol lina, sent ie to the United States Solnate, I have alwiays tried to be honest and sincere. I could not "wing to the coat tail of any mau to be Pr'esident of the United SLIttes. When those people, it home, took ie I toni tihe pIlant ation and elected tme a gaillst Imly will, (the newspaper mle ILI report tILL if they w ish ) I ad mi t~ted u pon the sutilp that i didn't thin k I could hbe elected, but, that I would muake the light. There are dlogate hore who know that that is tihe truth. I went tv the Leg4'11 iture anI l myIll record wats conIsistelit, thbroughout. I amti a NI* form.er. Ltid I believe that timy, record as a1 lIefortlert will size u) wiLh tat (d any mtani ill South 'aloiila as IL It e former. There are 1ian11y reasons why an11 enlort to speak on tLhi occtsioi is inpleasanit to lilt . I honiestly atid conscieuntiousl* behe6rve that this repo-t sutbmitted by the st IuIg' coinmit-tte' is ill viohliion of tile htsic priiciple., that ha1ive gIiti L the people of this StaLte sinct I1 0, ''or sotile Linto it halts seemhed ito Imei ttLL the revolulitionl thiat swept, Lt hi. Stiate froin l'ickens to '-'rLetown mil froiln ol k to Heitfort had beII n ilis understood. I ICl ze, .l. l'r.sidetit, that this is uot inl it. .. tritem sense La -it political gathering althollgh it, ha1S Icillindeo ile ofteti of a polit e I litti ig noie ty. I woLiI not. il a high sen.e of (dut~y didtil i tilil.'Il ilt-, inij.ct ill t'lbjt ONdy alytilinig oike a po'lit-i(al speech. 'hiet'e llt: ir'lt'Son, howeve~ r, LIntt, dce 1iialid sol e ,kich tr-i-t' illlt of the Sill ject. atid I will nlot, ,hrilk fio'om tho re Tiibi~ility whicOh (It illatiis that plaiti, Ir4n aini holiest, itV.ttnes be adt hby lilt, l'trom 1 I '1ti! V91) tlhis Wt,te was govert V thilt Vhite peOple. I1, wILS clatilli .) it) 1 till to 1S90 thajt, it wa-t. not lemo LiCIraLtiC gove I'n mile t- thabl tihe poople re not1contrilling it anu the rule of it Iminority was g Ove Ing it) tilis Stitte. The first, coltaest wIs n11u1lt by the peuo'p in 1Si; LgaList the e'n tinlanIce. l' this uIlo'irIty rule. (I.' the wanit. 'of org anlIizat~ion, prtoper d is cipline and t o1I tical euilctliol tlbe peoplelic fai . This coltest. ws renc ed n l 'and th people falled again, but thuh t It $ uth exihibitecd in their struggLe showedi that success wotih I -Colle iii hs!ii. With still gretter vi'or nu need t an'LIe~w in tbe sprinhg of 1 89n and11( eubnlit Ielt ill tihe SLIucess, from coto necr to UnIit ttes.Lc Senator. oif toeL majorit o~ V f the pleople of Motiiihl Caro lina~ ini Ilhii' Jicris tLo eotrtol this gov 'hiIs. t ini 'lfet cCIwas t.haILt isti 1au of thte nolotile'. tif I-ib' party blei r thbey shIoutIdhl b ' eleeted ly pri Ina~ry ..Ltion in wieb'.I every whliite tman biit ntin'iis vocite sholui couti fotr as ulthl aLs aLny it ime. ToX be ILtuor tx hpiit it that at pow boylI W hether edIneated or iittrate shIoulu halve tbeile l 'ge oft a D~emocrta batL~L o~ dep~Iositjng htis vah' iln aL blloLt boxi andi tlhat, it-s hpower~ - ballot, perIfe'cLt Liltu t iIt.hout u is. - er im inaI11 Pt i o accut. of ' LIueneticin ' tilliteiacy. k I y an opverw'.hein11ung LIu tprecdeted ~l lit tajoityvL te I llmocrat.s of the Sat >f tahltled to Lthe suppo~t 'of tis piropoi-i LI tioni which huai nleen deied biy aL fIue e- ilun of thle pI)tyS w htoill ehfect. chliline: r that, an inttelligenit. prtoperty-ownlii --l miority hadihel, r*ig i, to) rulh andc gov y ciri as' they hadtt dlone lleretopfor'e. Th'i:~ rfactiont wa is detfeated~ ill L.II St.'.o Itu e atnd St-Iate 'illieirs, andli whetn iun n'iea o to) t~bm getteral eleetiont was nl'a. 1i y cruishinlg defeat was againt their lot. I 'lhey were. noLt sattishlitd. :.l itu ile~-It .I 1509. li this cieetionl tilte litn's welt V- was the Iir1st Iin li tt te histor o1~'(f l1.h. , DLmoctxi Lart-y of 1,hi-, ~State that h evety Iitirat/s vote should htv iti ul poweV~r of wieh I havt spolkell nl systeini gaive voIicL to Ibe will oPr tun II I )emIoeurats, andIL LIhe Ito m mo ~ILvemLent te of wic iL~ htave Lihe. honor~ tif bdtin I h mlemb er. I impIhasi zutd its v ictory of Lwa 'II yeatrs heforte. Again in I 'u0 . te t ii andI tllhe ili-moCratte IIejoricv tif ti e StLate locked blayonects litni ts 15s1, 'iThie pLoople won aLgain andit oIrd,-c. d thlrou~lghi I-heirI repiresen taiLve;S iln emp d venitin aissembledl a dliretct p-mtiia for all the electiv iculliecs of the Stait. t, ThIiIs wasi tirle, gent~uine I)L;Loiernec) o 'lT' h pole werel' 5 Isitied ithl it an t- the fir st ev'idence of thle dcinC1 IllY t~h t, r ight 'f a majority of the peopie t I- con ttol -amlo~ in the sprin g of Lt his yeit -wheii a -tmr (If gentiemen-ab--hi .hoenotalIe antI inllIIuientia tIu pon botl I slidOS--came 'ILogethert atnd underc a writ ii ten cotrtet A'reed thai itn the setec y ti(on of delegatess 4~ ' wasutituLtionil r convenition, as - far Its pralctieable, th - two factioins ini caLh couinty shiotiI' s have equaml represetaltionI. P erthap~j I It is known to every tmember in tlhi I con vention that I watS opp)Iosed to til I act, which was tanttamloutitt to the i repud iation (If all thbe peoplo hau fought for and1( accomlplisihed Sinei 1890. .have novet been able to undelrstamn matny things cotneted with ths i gree mninn. I could utnderstatd wvny Mr liarawoll and M~Ir. iiuimphillI, thet leadi I era of a hopeless mtinority it: '-le Silate should agree to an ettualI di vib iin 'I the power of tis coniventLion, but, I re ,spectfully bus hutmbly sulbmit, that It -passeth my cotmpre hension why th<( leader, Senator Tillman, of ono of the greatest mIovemnents Oote known in ISouth Carol Ina. 1f not in 1iho wvhob South, could have agr'Jed, withoui qualms of conscienco, to a propositior of polItics so reckless, so violative o: every priinciple of Domoo'acy, of whll b e stood pre-eminoinly the champIon, 1 h truqted champion of thie people ir tiay be that hetigured the illit. B er4~, of the fjpg iovetnient to bc 15,000' the voting strength of the Con servatives to be 40,000, and the num,. hers of the R7eforners at 55,000 less th) 15,000 illiterates who would be o off-which would mako the two side, 40.000 and 40,000. If that was tile cas the that explains the idea of an equua division. L- l) I uiaiumed at that time by lotter, and subsequent events conflemed it, that If that Contract was carried out it would moan tle political destructiou, by di. franchlsemunt, of the poor and unedu cated white man of South Carolina After a few months. when it had been thoroughly disoussed in every couIt3 and township and neighbothood in the Stat, with a few exceptions, thh equal division idea was repudiated by the Reformers in the selection of del( gates--not only repudiated but ovei - whelmingly so, for we find 110 Itoforn - ors and fifty Conservatives and JAepul - licans in the convention. TILLMAN'S ANSWER TO IRBY. T1I H' G 11l14A T 1S'PAi OF 1}11S III~.. lie lReview1 I tlie If istlory of' ItepulI va lii Rle ilt soith Cir'olila is ait 8thows tie Neuessity i' Wiite sinproi-iliacy. Inl re(iply to Seniator' 1yhy's attack e utiln the report of theC suill'riage Col' nu ittee.'. Senator Till'lii ma1i1de the 0 greitetst teffort of his puiblic catreer. b li k totk 111) he Iilst pprl, of hit I speelcl with anl exhiustive roview of I &tdiCal CoTuiLption and Ioll igacy. aild 81 used this datia of frtid aid coI-riptjii tl, as 1I j1stiicationl of the suppress.ion m policy towards ti he ntgro evel' sinCe, U llis expk-itiol Of hut' Comilliti-ee's plan of mitifrage wits a st'Irolig a ri lilnt, and ,it SU- it e wa-s as follows ' Now. .\l e 'treident. I have at lr'ad3 y A at tided to tt.' fact th at it 1t i 'olig h tite fiegroe.'s ill the eeise of their riight of sulifrage that all tiis villainy. corruIiptiol, ii i~lule and t'obbery cate about. iati I ctauiot tind wordN itn which oJ 'p:drtit. N manl en 1 r .: . rt- d.4 to itu VU. 1., I 1t ' vikeu WI OUt tI Itl ht wL v bc it he I t ti t.ied he wouild Iind sO:1t haMli t his fati i t.fl(I lie dart'd not Lt) o I l rtil wiitout 1110 41,1t' tti. An It is tIthis negro igoVer'inlIent wh'iich furtn'shetl Lbe itaot, t~h at, we ar'e ueat tin lit . 'l'b i t ro v ut his little iecet 0| paper. 11 i , .- box and -.1t-e tilbe com i,.1ore to ilboste w hi te scound re . witO WIre thei' Iteder atnld Who Ie hMauc!itl thto:, and this must le Our julstailntiol alnd oul. viditlicat.ion ant. 0111 exet'st. to the world that we at mect Ilu convenltion opt 11.y, boldly. wit- 1 out any'preti ise to sececy,-to at noun thiiat it is outi' I'I)Os'. as far as we n'ar without, e 'in ing in cotlliiet with th United St.at -N 'onstittatt n. t putlL such safegutI'(rds atoutnd tie ballot in futurt as to rcst.'itet t-it sutfrage andA circumi scribe it tiha', t.hs infaimy cal nvel c mic about. naain. The- necgroes Wer<( tilte t0ol,, I acknowledge, tools ano par'ticitots. t willing tools. the poor, :gniorantl Cottoan tield iunds, wi. tIneveUI' saw anyt-hing exe'tI a tpistol. tnd we htoi LIt LIS UIm linIit dly fo. 'OWed iike sh:ep wriver' their white. aid llack tatders told them to go: voted IttiOuI lliit . ly every t.itile for Lt ktlLipblicaln ticket aid thbese result Were Itc iLeved zsolely Ititd wliily in % retsotn of the ballot beilig inl hanitds (; L tutch eattle. a he L anrtinefnm' ,ont.- No. Ill)%w did We recover. Our liberty 1 fraud at1nd violence. We tried to over inigiill'fo eight . ar.. life.heenmeltli I wotthtless andi nd t hettt'Ili leader~tshiI S antd inlspirIation ol f NIhatiztl'y, because sit'raL~i~igh tt I lii, tuo e ie t f 'in iln ShitL of tile low .'otty', fiihting on tiir Iloor' againist, Ltiste wh o wer Ie desirlouts t of puttta;og3li C ha tirain fort'ward as a conirolase undiate Und.'r hiis earni and ilt~brturb! Itis tiagni ii- e I ent roin-age wq won 1-:thrl~iteld atlonet V gave us thlt l'.tetuze tt timl we hadc at y legal r'ight, by3 het' matjority. Granttt's lllt fiot hia ur attlid weL twee i3'ncsua- a As-setihiy t il IlIiayes's title hiad been u svtu.ited by lo 1.b .-hetur'al Veltunssin inl ' Marceh. 'P'e a hobli Stat'' swor'e to n! nave'. It,, linhelisat it die. I low didl we c brt'ing It aout. ' l-:s ey w hite nan satnk ni toget her its tone. \\' iiad t o rt. sor't, L.i t. LIt' 1..' lrai attil I vio lnc ani C i 1101 .t si.nt was tevolved, fr'um thte sulpieritor p Ieli'gnet' tof tihe whi ite manr to , 'tll- ti ittIsli 'ng tat tio t'a I jti ii ~j.il lltete tl'titwe hlaei care ttllt - 140110sitholi, lei I-t t n i - tip V it.iwolloti sttillz be de inh. I I iIs t lit iti tllit I lie itrec iiitl i - ii1 t~t hte Iserhe: lic tii, isad e pilo it l tt o 1 tsplatl so itretw n i t' Vil It, a t'i et or n'~el , et 'lltg. i W e jo 'tid s, Littm'iihI patlrilts tland'IVl Lia s it lsn ; i tt o taket' f . lt l'n itom ever t alo at witite ttl t cifan s itt idrtu ll li| tis Luelllo l men t.. 'I retad ai moluen o fromttft te t rela1't oV1)5f the ommitil, ta . iodii aov- it ernmnt ean~ nly rest', ott inalis.:, t lind tiot. I tuoi ls,4 ttiiisfis td tl ih itgo firt her andIt Lay,~ tha good nkC' Ilrnmenltt ~~ andii l tepbis.I t re.n I ,uid , ati ta'st i t)an Iieligen1 e.1 li biit lie amongLszt ihe ~tn-e tis it gi- hoy -tgece. it' h~atbeen id and it, muist ic apeall apparent..010 Liev~ent thatwere'strict .that irat ge t ai weiu tro)pofse t lba t, with p ii ers 'Ian tl'., It wh1igte ' of diisfra 's t2t Wni' tiatii4' I t the ts r Ist i Lir (: 'l Athee ottsot.teI tt st o gtfulI a~m' e , htiivlio u ofi th eculo r whic toav a (ia tlilS f atm thyall hvea h t blaeisine no-o~eSaxison i'tin- 'l I ier itersL in this gloriou Flo adtia i l cat en have te ta t te pioint I a whitio ann ptoty unite. as brontho t ott'uwit t igti..and gloriou biur- t inw, and Isallimo a~is rita, posibve vi een broughtt touc in tilst matt er, a Sand Ithe aloretaill torso unbi- s akdle uornted any wird inn- t' ,ki rvd o , stn ta ewl swer to what was said this morning -mid leave it to tho patrilotism and wit. lom of this body to Mnove forward au 'lot le.itat. We woro told somethin ibout Ierf'cti, eiality1 Of the whit< non, that tbo poor, tentant, who hait ,othing but his wife and children vho labors for his daily bread fron vear's end, gathlering it) property, I, qual to the highest man In the'State graut It. It has been mry vardinal doctrine at i public man that all white mon. as fat Is the enjoymntib of the pilvilogos 01 rovernminit ui the enoluionts o .ilice is concos 1eW. should ie equal It his State ainld thi. tt majority aloni 1hould governk, bI .hat, doctrino car lot be hrougiht in here' Is tho reasol. hy we must, stop. paust and ftiltor in t) r purpost; to seu to our posterity oo: gom trnmeiwn 0, unles ou carr ii urther andl if You are going to brini. n1 universal blrthVlerhIoo a 11a. n argua tient lRit(!, then art 'lot tile blacks t i1uch1 entitlid to that considerationi a ny ibody ? On this quJestiol of sul rage it is said that sone mn10 will be Loladiztd it) their votes. If thor. reel any w- tnder high haavon b 'hclh weo cot d d(o mltove than we hav, one, iII (;d's name I would glcoriy it he man, ). %w down and worship hlimi if o wollId sho'w us. W l),hat do they oltor *? A eoitint,inton of the x bwn,ii, uiditions and perlprtration of fraud. I' fratidiltent tiethoIs and the swori r atmooies s$1spenLds Overi 01ur, head, V it single hair, and swings and vin.gs antid swingms, and all that is ne vssary to b) rig aoout chaos is for at illieent numiiber of white men ac tlated by hate and ambitioun and from alPatr-iotic liotivUs to elii iu)p and it loose, tiobil ize ani iegisteri' them, ve them at Votq1 and a far coI nt un 2r- the aian hood suilf rage. lie went I tlo ay, after elaborating this point : I sion has bieen liadI. to the fact lat severaligentll men met in this city > See if Ltere coul Id be any terms o, Luty. a'] 1,i.I: I.' nei M:mle betwoon ie warring inut .ni .i theI &ae anuo Ic wor I intrt :nd traitor have 1. U'honillat it. to nection with my lniie as a pa)1rtici pant. \WhIlat was the inlition ? The minority faCtion hat P'Ised almost to a Imian the calling of us ConvelLtion, dealligogucs of a cor kinl stri 1' had used the iewspaprl)s ol I- State, threatening to terrify thi Our wlites with tihe possible and pio antie loss of their ballot if the conven* (A Wis eal let. Spartanliburg whie) ad never sutfered Irom negro domina oil, and which Cal never sulf'er in its iCal 1 Utfir from i gro domination oted oiver'w'1el in i Ig against the con ent.or. - When the iliht seemed almost h st til those of us hvlo had strutgagled fer 01n. yea)rs ti mo, in season and oun f sea-on, whenever' an clpportun it3 t 1ered toI uge on the peoplc: the w is urm and necess ity for calling a con erition and taklcinag care of oui1ir )os rity by limitirg 'the sufae wher e Iit t.hat the li ilt wars (desp rate, n Aobr a meeting was called a tidgeway. The Gover'nori and mysci no Ithe Claittmai of the Demtoerati. xecutive coitl 111 tee, who hoas I lot hi inugue run so it. t V, w -o ;uy; d ruin I t I1 I to rI ti d ibeuiss it. her.e atid z.imket tic as tuel. I wI, here and talked ivom the shtilder a. akwalys talk. Where was the chair 1an of the Do-lnocratic partyle Mr. I rby: Will the gentleman allow ic ' I dt not remember. It ha, hiee ti litni ago. b't I dIid expiet t.o spe.ak lire. I accept1 ted t~ne iniitation of Mir ohn tsonr. 10 wasL my itetio~cn to go, utSfitt tug (oe; m-ri athit hIomel, either inekntess or somehincarg li kc that kept le tromt ging. I woubtli like tio ast lii one iquestionr. I Iirn't, I comec here, Lan, ait Ii il t, as hitrd ats anty mim (ss iblly co~ud itio carrmy thiis conven, A\Irn. Tillminan: 'tm d~ iid, but youii alter. -ards iltargedl that. 'vhen t~e riattie 'a. tn invan~rs ran out of thie State, nhereas I'vans waIs at his polst andic Out at home sick, so you say. Alr. Irey: Ii iti ttsay I was sick. L, comes15 with ill gtrce froim im after 11 bthat, has happenI)' ted inii te unst, that e shortld( charge med for (one moinment iih sinirkiLng any ', rtespotnsibliity or trinning? fromt any1 thu ing. I didi say that hena te light was liuircest , that Gov trr i lvans lied the Stte and could ait het forund by tLvieg raim or letter, and assert li for the retasont that, I asked y telegrati, or probhably in persion, of ic brother til tine Go.vernfor, why it its that 110 did not come11 andI help me r his iiwnr electio, aind iln th1is des rnte stntuggle in callirng the conven til.. lII ctold not teli ime where the tended G overnor wtas and on tihe ighit of thue election at 2 oi''lck, after le light had bieeni won, before thbe io smotke iof thotle battnSiL cleared way~,. 1)ur1 younrg Governor cattme itot ly roomti and I reprnoachued him anid sked im wh i iy it was that he hadti lcft le ini such tan extremity and hia riot une1 to imy assistance, lie said: " Weij, ihavt bieen olf toi see iiy girl."' (Linughr riiubetllcomit, tme to somtie pledige that eott nout isarry out."' Now, sir, I say that, wheni I was here teiin! all thle danngersof defeatatnd the .1ittml of defeat that he had Ilitthle to 1 and11 lit imighit have sparedC( the time >tilome ier antld hlp Pcarrty oil Iiis wn chiet.ion as well as carryling the .\lr. Tillhnan : XWith that I have 0th in toIi dc. I only mention this in dtliiially ans I myself hald b~etn accused fcertami iinii'gs anid the gentlemian mahl rememberlil)5 tnat thouse whlo live hilss htou~ses shldI ntt throw'. 'diles,11( ani inamauch as hie ha~s steen ltver tl iAwit, tmo wVith tlht, it comeiis itih ihi graece for me to eveni insiinutot ich in ings rL2ainst him. I take tIs reatson~ oi lit, yout and the State of iith Ca~ti r.u i<nowu" thait the apphar rati quarra betweenr thre geltlemn iid mil'I 1: istal of his oiwn miake and atI a: mai ini n ise responasib1)1. \VitW bthe I i'rnwell-flomtiph Ill- L'.vans 'i ilua conferencett wais held I wvent Iti it relta ntly becaurse it brtoughit 1mtt intiiiotnet. wiithi a1 man~, the editor fThe Nuwis arid Courier, wvho hats een mltst, implilaeable and1( infamousn in is tabuse oif trn. ini the nlewspar~ andil tih Blarn wtell, the rcealeitrant l,'ador, holt Hatskellite. whto sidi oin this oni " Io kT .'illman~ r shall never be ovenort tof Souitlh (Carol ina." Htt as I saiw at that timie tho tenti'on etweenl tilbe factions was such that veryi, tittspett was that, wen woulId avt' thre (cnra tives mob11iizing li:heneurOts int tn (effort to conltrli hiis S'lnvenI IOn to keep us ats they lai ild from1 dlinrg wron'~lg to thoitr luiper'Vy, thieir rigchts and thilr lIbor les, I sunk mry personauIl feeling and rent to that conference. Wo had it In tie Gor~itnor's 'iilce. It began at 8 'cloek. We talked. We jarre~d anfd Fr'angledl untilI 2, arid 1 tave it to thre lombl~ers of that conference oin this oor', that after' having tallked over he qutestion as to how we could comie. igeihiir anid come to atgreemxent, if I Id not say, " Gentlemnar, do anything rnd we had jrut as well retire." There re men on this floor who wore present nid they will boar me out. If not lot hoem risnen m a a .,.u . I dic.at at's all right, We .welcome any rthern man who comes here to stay. t oy are most always good oitizens. E u ruoan ones don't come. They bad m her stay np there and abuso us. A h n told me that about half of the G. b R.'s who came to the Lousville an- e opment the other day were foreign. e , who didn't speak EInglish and e le with one shirt and *2 and didn't 0 migo either till they got back home. : wo are hia'O rmonizing at last and we p ,t everybody from up there to come c in to our show. There are a good v ny signs of coming peace and godd a I betwoon the sections. ' A North- p Democrat sont my wife a photo- a ph of Lincoln as he was away back w the littios-Lincoln in the woods, n coln the rail splitter-and says he h had it thirty-three years. It Is a 1( Larkable picture- -the most earnest w serious and the ugliest white man h ver saw on a cardboard. It Is ngoly attractive, and you never g tired looking at it. No wonder lie hi Ivated the common people. Mr. ilenan writes that he wants us to a ieconciled to old Abe. Well, we b( Tle South admired hin and re- o) s his mo'enory. lie was the best b( tic nman the North had. He was 3st. sincere and big hearted. But I all the Sh,.,-nans may the good - 1 deliver us. id now [ think I feel better. ural Palmer made me mnad in his id Army speech at Louisville. He brag and lemagoguo and I'm id to get even with him and his BiLL Ami. G(overnor Waints to h .IO'A' hether or Not Liuior 1)risiking I ireas ig, mb:a llegikter.a Il the State will be interested to .( x hiat part the i)ispensa'y is tak- t-k 011 the tem11peranciee line and to see (t ther it is a step in that direjtion. h general inpti'ression is that the >(,Isary system is a great tuove to ds teiperance anId lxiiieved frot start that iL wotild be a great I for the whole StaLt. It. it cat ly be said that less whiskey i. ig used when the Stitao [iquot R11issiOnler's books shIow1% that over [Ity-sevenm thousaund dollars wat m in during the week closing witi Saturday. The good price whicl .ing paid for coLton has a grea to do with the amount of whiske3 l and bold. The StateO ilpet, ' is working Ilight and (lay an( i i not able to stl)ply t.iie demand. ers for the " inlliically pure' C in I isttr than they (all Ie lillod is hard to tell j list what elfeet. al liqui l' is having on the peopl ernor l. Evans is anxious to Uind ou ther drunkenness is on the in tse or decrease, and to that end hta ,he folloving letter to the mayo itenidant of each town in the State )lie of State Bloard of Control, jolhuin hia, S. C., Oct. 29. 189,. 0ar Sir ': You w ill treatly oblig, by answering the following qiteO S .t, your earliest (Onvenienet. s is iimiport.nt: rst. Has drnmikenn1ss and crim( ast or dlreaed In your -ow cuunty dnnce Aigust ist, 1894, to .'eseit I i1o. and if so by what Per 16dI . ia-, ithe 11n1111nber of Ilai ,s of drunkiniiess tijied before you -1 incrtea-.ed or deerentsed sinl' tsf, 1st. and if so by what p)er hiiirdl. flias the consit mptior, 0' ~key int~cealt'i or1 d3crLeed sinrce estalishn~mtentL of the l)ispensary. b Wh-i hat. beeni the dede Dis'-punsary la v upeon the generl or .1er and pece otf .y'our town~f or me :lie aLgO wo h ad repl1ies to q it es fromit your IHoazd of Con but thet lettets ha~ve been d is d o: atnd it is imptantit that we 'fIron .you. I 'lense nu in'Aoi .your' .ers to con formc Lto the niumber o -.01I N (.\uy YIv A NS, (overnor -\ in . it who wansted to leara what - - toa would have his s in eniter . ... in a roomi with a I ible, an o, and a dol latr bill. I f he found whlen hte retuIrnled roadinug the it. he would IiakeC a clergyman o1 __ if eating thbe apple, aL fariner' ; L, if tuterestked 'in the dollt bill, a <tr. Whnlim he r'oturned he fonn d I : boy sitting on h.e Bieble, with thu .tm bill in his poe kot., and the anple. .)st (levret co. -le t1111de3 a politi of hini. ST. ViTUS IDINCE~ mhysician Prescribes Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine. Mlilles Meeulie-'el (',., Elkharti 1 i. t dauicghter Maol hI', aede 1-, wIs delted spiring w ith Si. Vie eu. daree-e cuE mie sneess, her ent iro a i.ri- sie nac iemenh Ar nlearly J:ea rlyzced. We~ conesuilted aL phIy - ~ Lv .1 ad heI pres'cr ~ie lit. Miles' IRt'stor'a N~et v ine. Shle took i be ho Icles beeforo a1w anty cerc tuie clh'ns of itiep~o v4i'een., iandc I nothinkiie she, Is 'et Irely eneds. ye has ta(keenii nice hco, thl's of thIe Nervinte, be tof lther meieiC i of an ity kIcnd. lng x, Ined.,.kian. 5, 'It. I. WV. Ils'rt.:'rrna. A ySl(elan s pescrb!e Dr. Mih l e eies 2 usei thle'y ce'I enowna to be Ihte ran It, eef 8ll 4non pirachiitil nd xp~eince of ne of Ne terightestOi., refbtier of the i profes'iom ? aret caefel ly ('cmceiceended by exI.r. e l ci chlemi st'; c. :i .nie~n e ldace we'iit hi 1'e prtescripjt lins, :e' uis(ed in hiis pret(t ee. 81, Safe' at, all dIrnegilsts. Write for lir. -0 ' iok ott th leoIlearct, antd Nereves. hir.is Medeial Co,., Elkhaort, Ined. 'WI Miles4' Remedies Re to ealtea. ad OUT LUMBER. w. Vative Georgia pince lumber Is a product of I trent .importanece. It sases are mairnifoid. securmge ouer snepply frome the best tImber ,elt hae the .Statec we stucceed Ihe mnufac uering strictly lIigh G;rade Doors Sshe ~lndsa, FlooringCelin~ug, &c..andu all kineds >f Ornamnental WVoodwork;-2equa1l to the >roduct of thce best Norte factorieq. AUCIUSTA I.UI1BER Co. V. * fth M~ aker. mAmeur A AN RA6PjftATXD L&NpDnOy.-A. le comes from.tbe. Nutiieg State of Man Who. treled much and was roll known *rherevea. he Went by otel men. and Others e as b yrover id kicker." Nothing as ever ood nough or bad enoligh hdt enoug or old enough," rich enough or poor nough for him. One. day he went to no of the best hotela in the State and ut up for the lght. His fame had receded blin, and the landlord gave rders to high and low to serve him 1ith the best. and to wait on him with lacrity. His wishes were all antici. atod that night, and he went to bed 9 happy as a muan like him could be ith nothing to growl about. In the iorning extra pains were taken with is breakfast,. after which the land >rd wont and inquired if everythin as all right, adding that he truste5 is broakfast has been satisfaotor.. Well, it was fai-,' admliitted the uest, ".but I like a breakfiat to be A. This wasn't hot enough " "Very well, sir," responded the ex iporated landlord. "we have done our 3st for you. Thero is, however, only 1e place 4o hot your breakfast would 3 aurie to please you. You'd better > there." And'walked oig. JOH NSON'S MACNETIC OIL! !nstant Killorof Pain. Internal and External. !WrAs itl-MATISMI NEURAL. (hA, ,ailinck Iprains Bruites swellings, 8(11ifet ohLiu anu1 1RAM lPs ista;itly. era M m, Uroupdipt heria, Sore Throat I TEAD AC1, tit by magio. IE HORSE BRANDo, s 'oyo for I n1o8t Powerful and Penctratin'gIAnimentfor May; Behatin existence. Largo $1 size 7f., 60o. sized4e dOHNSON'S ORIENTAL SOAP. aoicatod and Toilet. The Great Skin Our. ant ice BOLutifier. Ladies will flnd It the most loate and highly perfumed Toilet Soap on inarket. Itll absolutely pure. Makes the zn soft and velvety and restores the lost com. exIon; is n luxury for the Bath for Infants, alays itohiTIg, cleanses the scalp, and yroimotes wrowth of hair. rico25, For sale by We Desire To introduce 0i , furnit tiro busiiness Into every coinlatunity in thle South ern states, itilI in orer to do so in the Q uick1'est Ilme, hakvo concluded to mark11e some( very lbrloffers inl bed room tnte to secure at( least one( custoiller it every Iost-oflice I tle next, 60 daysC. I e lis read tih adver tiseent carefuly a ndsend at once for on1e of our sp'ecial offers. Our great otTer No. I consists of oue Solid Oak ilieirwon Suite with largt dlresser with 20x24 bevel mirror, 011 large Washistandl, witi double door <ud dritwe r. on1e t-foot Iledsteal full -Vidth. This sItite of furniture i vort i inl inly IlI'frittre'store not les than $35:. Do lot. t hink for once that it is a little heap suite, for we assurt you it 1 n1ot. but a large full-sizt iu it e eluil to anythilig oil the market Iin order to start the sale of t hest it*es andl(] to keep our men busy amll( it roduee our b ruinems inl your neigh tlorhool. we agre0 to 4h1 ii o11 stuiti .mly3 to ealch shipingil point inl thll iouti for 315, when tho 4Cash come? .vith the order. This aivertimeimen will pOssibIly alppeatr twice in, this lil per. therefore if you aire interested ut ths out ad sd with i r $15 and thi ilte will be shipped to you. If it : lot js.t its represented yol nimy re turn the s1uito it our oxpen0se amH your $15 will bo refui1led *to you. O)hu ,-ntalogue containinlA imin11y illustral tions of litre largtlls anl house t-ur ilshilg goods will ie se t to you up ml application. Thuie su ht llboveo descriiod is it pec il] bargai iland does not Itppeair ill th1e Ctlltlogueo, therefore it is useless t< write for ilistrat ions of this suite mr11 ~Ii hleou)11 al-eletyling wnraitn 41om11 11ne else ma1y1 get I he baiirgin. Wie assum11 you tat we witl n ot eip til on 00suiite ini your1 ne0igh1b0iooo .at this price. A fieronesulte11 hitsbeen shipped1111 in i th neighbiorhoodl the prliev will gt' o tat least. 5:0. L. F. PA DG ETT 8143 lIit1)A 1) ST., Al U( LSTA, GA. PiEDMONT AiR LINE,. CONDE~na RCniP.nULE OF PA.BaENGKa TRAUI Nobrhbn 6. 181.'4*i No.12 No.18 Ne.83 er 6. . lst>- Daily E~un Daily .A tlanta C'. T. . iai Ip7 50a 48p40 A tlanitii . 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Os. 3I~*11(1 11 flittod M _ic F 4t'p ........ ma epin Car brt cciiA 111115 40w ......... 6 York.0 05. 1 an 32 Exptit 11 Fl 0pr 6riotg Pull a7leeshtwclN Yr apn6 Atlant Aperatad bewc. mI T. ntindAlnt. 11aasad .sn~iycneto 40p At ta t Rlhninil iththrtighslepin 2a WABHI4GTN, 1. C.A'FLT9 04a 'A .m "" m." M" J no. "N"P niht stiule EaLmiedThoug fPlma 8Meqper ,wenNwork anP. wOlanva.ah tonAtlata mi Mntgmery an als be the toi.*'me on which we agreed, and the Th basic principle was thut no white man No should bb disfranchised except for Th crime, becau tbat- was the guiding Th star which tt uateo my entire pur- rat pose and action. I would suffer the mna loss of both of my arms before I would A. do anything knowingly to jeopardize cat those rights and not- re deom my pledge ere to those men. Suppose we had .not cat had any con forence, no one knows what ehi might have happened. Bu - ~ Wa BILL AltP WANTS NO WAlR, do% ma Knows Wlhen 110 kias Had EUougla-- wit The People are So Diterent. lk-om ern Old Time. ra All is peace and harmony about Fir Atlanta now, but I haven't forgotton Lin when Sherman was throwing his tin- has feeling shells over the city. Such a ron panic, such a stampedo, such helpless and terror ationg women and children I I C never witnessed. I had gotten my1v strii wife and little children away, but 'I get had to stay, and the scene was as aw- CapR ful as the picture of death on a pale ul horse. Everybody and evor3 thing that be could move was moving. Shetes are are. not so ter'ribly destructive, but as Big ver< John said that day, they are the "most pub >rilyzing thing " in the world. I not hon rimi on Deaitur"- street. making tracks fron01 toward Stone mountain, carrying his Lorl three hundred pounds of liesh-mnost of A it in front. Big beads of porspiration Gen were oil his forehead and he was car- Gra rying his wig in one hand and an old is a ctrpct bag in the other. " Where boui now, my friend ?" said 1. " Anywhere sort, in this direcolon," said he, with a dis tressing smile. " lam bound to keel) I' ahead of 'emn, the infernal devils. They don't travel fast, thank the rlwe Lord." " Where is your cart and W steei s" said 1. " Sold 'em- sold 'em is to a free nigger for two hundred dol- colti tars Con federate money. about etough A to keop mue in vittlee and whiskey for kno a week." " And ithen what?" said 1. ing " Jine the conscript camp at Decatur." w said he. and he tiopped the sweat olf rThe his head and face with his big ban- i dana handkerchief. Another shell wa. sang through the air and Big John tjhe moved on With alacrity, never ever thii said goodby. bIt hallooed back, " Pray iari for me Bill." The next week I och got him a place in the orainance de- Conl partment at Macon under General ,(% (lowell Cobb and left him sitting on a Lmk, oox full of guns. He placed two boxes last close together for a bud and said he is b should 8,eep on ioIs a4rms. dea The shells kept coming on making t their parabolas and singing and siz- 1.1 zing in the circumambiosit air. I had .: sorter gottien used to shells in ola Vir- 1.( ginia and so ventured to walk ( own amif ia milo on Walton street to sue It vhat had become of an old uncle and hi, lis family who lived tuere. His fou j0v wiys were all in the war, but. 11y unet. ,.), and aunt and their only daughte - lived there. . I found the in I uddled uljie in the ba-enent, for a shell had a. a ready torn part of the roof away an they had mnoved--noved lower down and were waiting, waiting, he said, i ) see what the Lord or the devil woutk i do. They esenpe I unuatrned. One o no t i'ir absent buo s was k it.ed and an ,ther was trimmed up, but that wa I te coiion lot. Bitt now everybod' is happy except some--everybody Cx cept the very rich and the very poor, ud That is why old Augur didn't want to do either. .)list the extression of the people you meet-mcet on the trains or at the (Cpots or the fair grounds or Oa" on tue streets or in the churches, Hlow lt inuch morie pleasant it is than a few A mintths ago. Hlow happy are the wo U *n and~ children. Hiow cordiail the , greetings betweon the. Not Lh amnd the wM' " South-the blue andh t~me gray. The i fact is, when ourii Nor'thern brethren comec down herei' anid eat ouri barbe Cuted( mtet, andu receivye our' hiospit~ality and took at 'our beattifutl women thcy .' are nearly ready to apologir~o for ~ ev'erythin u t.hecy have done to us or saidl about us. I've been waitins for year's, biut they say they can't 'do it coinsistently until Lhey begin to p~en- ni-a strtn ouri soml ier's atnd our widows and ts orphans. I believe they will pass a (3 "e penision law for 'iur soldietrs aboutt the time they ate all dead, fotr it is a fact that unpensioned1 soldiers d1o die. "' Time cuts down all, pr," ' Hloth great and small, pt Excep)t a pensioned soldile." ipp An insurance man told mte that a hii mani whoi was drawing a pension could bilei get, hiis li fe isutred for hal f price. n im It is curious how short sighted are .md the wyisost andi the greatest men~i. Cal. batn houn and D~avis atnd Stephens and~ the Ileoniy Clay and 'Johni HLundol ph tall (loll said that no r'acs of lpeopte coutd ove alma live togotheir int pee uin le one was eiar itt sitbjection and( under1W the~ civil do- -"" minion (of the other. That has proved a mistake. We aire living together new on tetrms of civil equality and get- A I ting along fairly well. Giddings and I 'hill ip au nd all the abolition leaders said mUnat, just, ais soon as a war br'oke Dr. out, the negroes would rise up) and kill M and btuirn .and destr'oy all ever the lasI Sout~t. 'I'hey did nothing of the kind. vot Nathaniel flawthorne said :'" I am ttit for' the wari, but I don't under'stand what we aie lighting about or wbat good iresults can come from it. I r'e jeice that the old union is smashed. We never wora one people and never will be. I f we pummel the South ever so htard( they will love us none the hotter." But, the union is not smashed. It is stronger tihan ever' and Dana says the nation will have to look to the South for Its p rosirvation-pr'eseirvation freom anar'dhy and ismts that seem to breed and fester and flourish in the North. \nd Chauncey D~opow says tihe South is fuller than ever of the old spirit. the 01(1 flag anti the old desiire for an -' appropriiation. Yes, confound him, I like Chauncoy, butt why didn't he mon tion that the North got 95 por1 cent, of '' till the auipropri'ations,' all the money 4i tht is spont en the army and1 navy a' and~ pl~hic pint'ting and sutpplies of over'y kindl, w hile till we get is a little cuttoml house aind p)ostoilllco hero and .ii thore and for those we have to take a Northern aurchitect and build It with1tv Northern stonie or brick and fill it with 1t Northern fi'nrn'tture. Con found 'em, dogon. Thbey tiarow a s01p to its once in a whie. just UkL tttirowing a hone) to a bt dog. N(10nn- fthyd get uip Ki a wa wih sme oregn outntrv they p3 w iill wvant its to do the fighting and wec Iex pet to have it to do, bit thbey will th have t(1 apologize anmd heal uip the old1 m, sor'e fir'st. Now mnark my praediction. umm If a wair doos becomt imm inenit be- tn tween this Joutriy and any one of time ~ great powers, some follow fr'om Massa- o, chusetts or Tom iteed frmom Maine will Mtie introducte a bill to give pensionsa and M1 back pay to the Southbern soldiers. Up to date there has been paid1( *:L000,- 1r. 000,00)0 in pensions since the war' antd the Grand Ar'my is howling for mnor'e A and Mtr. Cloelandl mind Carlisle have to keep issuing bonds to keep up) with it. But lot the procession proceed. Mtr. Lochren says be thinks that some of the pensioners will begin to die off next year. Some of them are muovin g down to Georgia and buying land and 'a building towns in the piny woods.