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414. - - --e....U....{-. ..'......,, TIKHE E PLES JOURNALN D7)AA TII6.oN. PICKENS, S. C. ThURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1896 N OLA YA Stand to the Party. ADDRESS BY THE BIMETALLIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE, MR. W. D. MAYFIELD URGES STRONGLY THAT THE FIGHT FOR FREE SILVER MUST BE MADE WITIN THE PARTY. When the silver convention met in Memphis last year a " Bimetallic Na tional Democratic Committee " was ap pointed, consisting of one member from each State, with Senator Harrie, of Tennessee, as chairman. lon. W. D. Maytleid is the member from this State, and hot has issued an address to the bimotallists of South Carolina in which he strongly urges them to make their light inside the Democrat ic ranks and shows the folly of hoping to acconiplish anything by " bolting" and wanuoring oif to strange gods.. Gov. Evans and Senator Tillman urged Mr. Mayfild's appointment as a member of the committee, and as Gov. Evans has said that the address "was all right," hence he must favor making the silver fight solely within the Democratic party. The address, which is " To the Bi metallic Democrats of South Carolina," reads as follows : The leaders of the Republican party are active in their efforts to effect a complete organization of their party in this State. They are earnest in bheir solicitations for recruits from .among the white people of the State who are naturally Democrats. The 'Republican party is divided on the fi nancial question. Some of the leading Republicans favor a single gold stand. ard, and others of them believe in the free coinage of silver. Tb spirit favoring the formation of a Third party i entertained by some of our citizens. The advocates of the Third party believe in the free coinage -of silver, and contend that the only -way to get it is througha Third party. 1'hey are advising our people to take no part in the May convention to so loot delegates to the National Domo cratic Convention which meets at Chioago in July. Ma ny of our people who have been life--lomg Democrats are as avowed free coinag'o of sil ver advocates as are these Thiri party advocates ; but to r:frain from seLiding delegates to the Chicago Democratic Convention is Contrary to their pooitical training, and against. the best interest of the Democratic party of thisz State. This Third party policy is uncertain and dangerous, for there is no recasonable prospect for it to succeed, an.4 it i fraught with great possihl)o .angeog to our peace and hap piness at holne, in--smuch as it Is only another step toYarcI the further di vision of the white vcte of the State. It can not control in this State. Irdependent Silv er Leagues are being formed now in tho State, under the call of certain adv ocates. The ad vocates of this policy also favor the free coinage of silver, .%nd they con tend that this is the only waiv to secure It. They hope by this st op t-o commit the State to this policy and to carry the vote of the State into a silver con vention outside of the Democratie party. This policy, which means the organization of an indepentlent silver party within the State, is as dangerous to the interest of the Democrwtic party of the State, and the safety of the lives and property of our- peo, l as is the Third party policy. It is 4 till fur ther a step towards a stil.1 furtlior di vision of the white vote o f the State, and is ruinous to the Demc 'cratic party of the State In Its tenc .oncies, ,.'nd there is no more prospee t for its su~c cess In national affair-. :nor in this State th an there is for- the Third party to succeed. Now, what should be, done ? Let us look at the mat''r for .a moment in the light of existing facts. The first turn we make presents us face to face wvith the fs~ct that tooe De - mocratic party '.s as badly divide d on the money question as is the Rtepili can party. This we m ust and do ad mit. But it is no worse divided on tL'ls question than is the Re publican pairty. The next turn we make brings us face to face with the fact that, the Repu bli can party Is holding tog ether and is not. falling to pieces, arid will not fah'~ to pieces, while some of our Democratic fri ends are trying to effect divisi on upon top of dlivisioni in this State with' in the Democratic r anks. Why shoul d not the Democratic party hold on to its organization, and r~efuse to divide, jus , as the Republican party is doing ? I f these divisions wvitI.iin the Democratic p arty succeed, what are we to hope for in national politi en, and at home ? Defeat stares us in. the face bcefore we even enter the ii ght, if we dividle. B~oth the Third p2.rty and the silver party are without sullicient financial backing to make a successful nationial campaign. They are both without sufficient party o'-ganization to umnder take the fi ght. United in hacking, organization, and membership they are too wea k to hope to succeed of themselves. What then must boc their -hope? Corta inly it is, that they arc depending on uniting tneir forces and relying on ont ugh deserters from the Republican an d D~emocratic parties to enable them to -win the fight. Their reliance Is in desertion from the two great political iparties. T1he all im portant questli m Is, will the desertion Sbe great enou ghm to enable them to succeed ? The .answer comes at once, no. Truje mcti w'ill not desert the party in ivhich th ey have been raised, and in whose do ctrines their fathers before them belin- vedi and dolightexl to cherish, so long a i the party stickcs to the main funidan teontal principles un derlying its orga nization. Simply be cause the member s of a party disagree, -or are divided, on- a particul ar line of policy, which is' ni it fundamental, is no reason for supp~oti ng that the members of either partiy,. in any considerahlo numbers, will d enm rt their party. And why should they i >t desert their party? Because there Is as much chance for one policy to wi a in the end, within the party, as th eo 'e is for the other, much less the gi 'lation of principle involvedl in dest irti, on. On inatters of ublic policy, pa rty lines are frequent rn ot observed ' now , 'y our members of Congress. The free coinage Rtepubli oanu and thn fri a ,.x nnan Demacrats vote together, while tho gold standard Rtopublicans and the gold standard Democrats vote together. What then may we reasonably expect to be the outcome of the whole matter? Since the Republican party and the Demo cratic party are both divided on the money quosttQn, is It not reasonablo and fair to okpect that both of these parties will mae concessions in their national plat* ins to both gold and silver advocates, and allow the matter to be settled by the people at last throug h their representatives in Con gress ? It looks that way. Certain It is that neither of these great parties will intentionally cast away any great part of its following by disregarding their demands. To expect any new party under thfso circumstances to draw recruits enough from these two great parties to enable it to succeed, is most unreasonable and without prob ability. Now, the question arises, what shall be done by us here In our State? We have among us gold standard Domo crats (monometalists), and Democrats who believe in both gold and silver (bimetallists.) The one i', or should be, as true to the Democratic party as the other. So far as loyalty to Demo cratic principles if concerned, there should be no difference even though we do differ on the financial policy. The Democratic party of this State should go on record on this question in the coming State Democratic Conven tion which mets early in May to elect delegates to the National Democratic Convention. If a majority of the Dem ocrats of this State favor a gold standard, then we should send dole gates to the National Democratic Con vention who will represent that senti ment. But if a majority of the Demo crat-i of the State favor a gold and sil ver itatement, and I believe thag do, then we should send delegates to the National Democratic Convention who will represent that sentiment. This is i fair, it Is Democratic, and it is the only safe course. To do otherwise simply means the disintegration of the Democratic party of the State and its loss of power at homs, and a forfeiture of the right to recognition by the Na tional Democratic party. By all means lot every Democratic bimetallist in the State stand by the Democratic party, and lot us make our ight for what we want within the Democratic ranks, and take our chances with our brother Do- i mocrats who favor a single gold stand ard. By this course we will preserve I it, tact our State Domocratic organiza- 1 tion, which is of far more importance to our people than tho success of any national party. Attempt will doubt less be made during the year by tle signing persons to form coalitions of parties in order to overrun the Demo cratic party of the Stato, and get pos session of the State government. It is, therefore, important that you remain untrammelled. Stay out of the Third party, stay out of the silver leagues, and stick to the Democratic party, which is the only safety you have for home prot:ction. I do not know what steps the single gold standard Democrats of the State will take to ascertain their strength, or to send delegates to the National Democratic Convention. But I bog to urge upon you and through you every Democratic bimetallist in your con munity to be active and energetic in I presenting the cause of bimetallism. 1 There is no necessity at this time, that I can sec, for the formation of bime tallic clubs. Certainly there is no i necess'ty for any Democratic bimetal list to join a Third party, or become a i member of a silver league. All that < the Democratic bimotallists need now I do is to rally their forces at the Dem- I ocratic club meeting, and poll their I strength for bimetallic dolegates to the 1 county conventions, and to see to it ] that only bimetallists are sent to the1 State Convention. Let me urge you not to be lukewarm in this matter, butt 1 to b) et ctio and enthusiastic. We may reasonably cxpect the single gold standardl men to do all in their power to send ,their delegates to the State Convention. This is politics, and~ we I should not think hard of them if they give us the best fight they can; but we should be found making the contest,1 and if we beat them, they should not feel hurt with us. Make the fight for1 the delegates to the finish, but let it be fair-ly and openly done. Remnember that the clubs will be I called to meet in April to elect de-1 g ates to the county convention. Be] sure to have every bimetallist to at tend the club meotings regularly.1 Urge this for all It is worth upon1 everyb~ody interested. IEvery biditallist who receives this, (I wouldi send It to every oiue in the State if I could) and every one who hear's of it, is resp~ectfully requested to dirop me a line and inform me of how the bimetallic cause starnds in his comn munity, and to make any suggestions1 that w ill advanee the cause. Let to 1 friend to bimetallismn hesitate to drop me a line, for I assure all that it will be aippreciaited, and will greatly en coutratgo and aid mnc In looking afteri the interest of the cause. Withouti the co-opora-ftlon and help of all the1 .frjonds to bimetallism we may get beaten in the contest for delegates. Most respectfully, W. D). MAY1'mnrD, State Bimetallic D)em. Committeman. A l"EW CONUNDRUMS.-What is that which inceases, the mor'e you take from ity-A hole. Why are coals in London like towns given upl to lunder((~ ?-locause they Why is a gate~post like a potato? Becauso they are both put into the ground to priopamgaito. What word may ho pronounced qiuickor by; adding a syllable to it? Quick. What Is that which Adam never saw, never~ possesmsed, and yet gave two to each of his ch ildl ren? --l'arents5. What Is that which we often see made, but never sece after it is made? A noise. What is that which no one wishes to have and no one wishes to losey-A bald head. What is the di lorence between aL sailor and a beer drinker? One puta his sail up and the, other p)uts his ale down. What ia that which is abovo all1 hum man imperfectIons, and yet shelters and protects the weakest and wicked est as well as the wisest and~ best of mankind?-A hat. Till@wa Sticks to It. THE PARTY IS BOUND TO SPLIT. HE COUNSELS A WITHDRAWAL BY SILVER DEMOCRATS IF THEiR DE MANDS ARE NOT GRANTED. Columbia Iegister. Ever since the publication of Senator Tillman'siletter to Rev. Mr. Ieid, of Spartanburg County, in which he ad vised a bolt from the National Demo oratic party If free silver was not made it plank in the platform, there has bee i great deal of discussion and uncer. 6ainty as to what wonld be done in this Stato. It has been said that Senator riliman had changed his opinion bul The Register publishes a communica ion from him today in which he gives his reason for leaving the party under lertain conditions. The communica ion is by far the most important poli tical document that has been writter in years in this State and is bound tc areate a decided sensation. The letter is as follows: Editor Register: I have just read In your issue of March 20th the editor lal " Stick to the Party "; and if I werc lisposed I could justly complain at its enor. Brushing aside any personal reeling as it no concern to the people .nd desiring only to present to them in as brief space as possible the exact itatus and the reasons actuating my 3onduct, as their servant, I ask space io review the political situation and te inswer some of the statements in the ditorial in question. I will premiso what I shall say by ,he remark that I am not accustomed mnd have never felt it necessary to iave my views on public questions 'each the people of the State through my other mouth than my own; and vhile Mr. Latimer and I are personal md political friends, I have not at ;empted to make him the medium of ominmunicating a change of opinion, aowever " commendable" such a )hange may appear to the Editor of I'he Register. As a inatt-r -f fact, lr. Latimer Informs re that the cor 'espondent of the News and Courier, ,vith his usual inaccuracy, has done im an injustice. He did not speak he words or authorize the statement. redlted to him. He had a conversa ion with the remorter in a private vay, which has been distorted and grossly inisrepresented. As far myself L am only conflirmeid in believing the idvice contained in my letter to Mr. Lleid to be wise and the best course to follow. In the condition of unrest in South arolina and mid the contentions of inbitious politicians seeking to gain idvantnge of one another-though the Reforim movement shall be split in Lwain and the people of the State dis Lracted and torn, Into fraction-I feel ,hat it is my duty to clearly define what I conceive to ho tbo best policy ror our people to pursue. I am not striving to put down any one man or ut up another. I have no purpose or ntertion of attempting the role of a )olitical dictator ; but as a man whom ,he people have honored, and in whose udgment and leadership they have re >osed a degree of confidence and trust, mnposing a heavy responsibility, i dhall speak and speak plainly. If my Ldvice is not heeded I shall make no ,omplaint, but it may as well be dis inctly understood that in this crisis hose who may endeavor to divide the .teformers or absolutely surrender to he influence which has destroyed the Vational Domocratic party will have o meet the issue on the stump if it ecomecs necessary. I will not permit he people to be misled andi deceived mder' pretence of loyalty to D)emocracy. Viy duties here are of a character which leave no leisure for camnpaign peaking in South Carolina and I have Lecepted invitations to make addresses n St. Louis, Denver, and New York ity in the near future, but I can and vili go to South Carolina if it be neces ary. blo I will endeavor to state, so ,hat nobody can misunderstand or >retend to misuuderstand, my own ositilon, and give the reasons why, in ny judgment, this policy is the only vise and proper one. Every white )emocrat in South Carolina should articipate in the election of delegates o0 the Ma:, Convention and see that he men trusted to represent them are ~rue and loyal to the principles we ave been contending for. We should end a trusted delegation to Chicago w ith a platformn of principles clearly laid down by the State Convention as i basis for their action. And on the meo overpowering and burning ques ,ion of finance we should demand of ,bo Natonal Democratic party a clear' Lnd unmistakable uttorance for free soinage of silver at 16 to I, the issue >f all paper money by the government, an sufficient volume, and a system of [)anking which will provide against rho concentration and congestion of money in the large cities to the detri mont and1 ruin of the country. Tr'o tre other planks of great importance, m~ut they are few, and the platlorm should bo brief and clear cut. The masses never are cap~able of studying no thanm one great question at a ti me, Lnd in prop~ortion as they are dlistract od by contending ideas just so are they dlivided and defeated. If we fail to get the National Con vention to give us a plIatform of the 3haracter outlined and a loyal candi late on it weshould withdraw. Why ? Because in the priesent condition of the Democoratic p)arty in the United States there is absolute antagoni'sm of pur p)obe and feeling existing between the two wings. The dilTerenco is as groat as between Democracy and Republic anism. It is just as pronounced, as Irreconcilable, as bitter as the feeling whIch existedl at the Charleston Con vention In 1800. The struggle then was for the extension of slavery In the Territories, andl the par ty split asumndcr, nomineating two sets of candidates. Now the issue is whether money or the petople shall rule. As I see it, it iie bound1( to split again when it meets in c!onvention. " Edvenm though." to quote the languagb failsoly attributed to Mr. Laturnor, " the goldbugs arc disposed 'o deal fairly with the silver men and to put up a ticket to repoeesent both factions. ' This is an impossibility. Nc fair dealing can ha epectend from thc CURIOUS TRAGEDY IN REAL LIE. CONSEQUENCES OF A VERDICT REN D E R E D UPON CIRCUMSI ANTIAL EVIDENCE. A correspondent of the Louisville Courior-Journal writing from Doublo Springs, Ala., narrates the following strange story in real life. in -184'George W. Pendloton and his wife, Mrs. Octavla Pendleton, wero re siding at the little village in Brazoria County, Tex. They had been married about three years. They were well fixed fluancially owning a large area of fino grazing inds adjacent to their home ard several thousand head of cattle. They were of congenial tom poraments and lived happily together, and to increase their happiness there had como to them a bright boy. In the same village lived Guy Hin ton, who was also the possessor of con siderablo wealth. Mr. Hinton was !A sturdy, pushing follow, and a man greatly esteemed by all of his neigh hors, but he was unhappily married. One morning Mr. Hinton rode up to Mr. Pendleton's house and told Pon dlieton that he was going to Velasco, about twenty miles distant, and asked if he woult riot go with him. Pendle ton replied that ho had no business In Volasco, but he wanted to sco a Mr. Holt, who lived ou Bastrop Bayou, about half way between Liverpool and Velanco, and that he would go that far. The two friends rtarted off torether, and Mrs. Pendleton says that the to ment her husband mountevd his horse she was seized with amtrange and awful roreboding, and that she could hardly restrain herself from begging her hus band not to go. Mr. PendIcton returned home late thatt afternoon, tired out with his long ride. At the supper tablel he told his wife that Mr. Hinton had confided to hi in that he had left h is home for good : that he and his wife could not get along together, and rather than live in a constant broil lhe had decided to leave her what property ho had and seek fortune and happiness In soe other country. Pendleton said that he had tried to dissuade Hinton from leaving his wife, but without avail. The latter said that as yet he and his wife had no children, and as It was clear they could not live together in peace, he thought it was wise to separate before offsprings of their unhappy union should arrive to complicate matters. Pendleton also told his wife that Hinton had left his wife all he possessed, except a few dol lars, and that to help him out he (Pen dleton) had bought his watch. Mr. and Mrs. Pendleton thought it wise to say nothing a)out Hinton's do parture to any of the neighbors, as they did not want Mrs. Hinton to think them in any manner instrunenal In her husband's having left her. Two weeks later, while eating break fast one morning, there came a knock at the frontsdoor. Mr. P endloton arose from the table to answer the summifons and on opening the door was confronted by a deputy sheriff, who stepped for ward and tlipped a pair of handcuff's on his wrists. Pendleton wai, of course, surprised, and asked the ollicer what it meant. "You are charged with the murder of Guy Hinton," Captain Bennett re plied. "His body has been found in a skirt of woods on Bastrop Bayou. There is much damaging testimony against you. I would advise you not to talk until you consult a lawyer." Pend leton was dumbfounded, not so much at the charge against him, for lie thought he could easily clear him self, as he was at the news of Hinton's death. The unfartunato man, how over, had no conception of the array of circu mstantial evidlenco ho wvas comn polled to face. On preliminary examination It was shown that the b)ody of a man had been found In the woods skirting Bastrop B3ayou with a bullet through his hea~d, and that the body, although somewhat (decomuposed, had been idonti lied as HIinton's; that Pendloton and IHinrton had left Liverp~ool togother- one morn ing somne two weeks b~efor-e; that Hin ton when ho left home he wore his gold watch; that a couple of boys out hunt ing that afternoon had seen Pendleton and Hhiton standing under- a tree talk ing; that after- the hoys had passed out of sight they had hoard a gun or' pistol lired in the direction they had seon the two men; that Pend leton had returined to Liverpool thabt evening wear-ing Hlinton's gold watch; t.hat Hlinton hadl never si neo been seen alive, and that the body had been found under the very tree where he and Pendleton were seen by the boys. Trhe law in Texas seals the defend ant's lips. Hie cannot testify in his own hoehal f, and having no( way to dlisi'rove the case the State had made against him Penlet~on was committed to jail without ball. On final trial he was convicted andl sents need to the penitentiar'y for life. Mrs. Po'ndlcton was present at the trial, and, strange to sny, after hear' lng the testimony, believed her huts band guil ty, hut says now shne can not see how she ever could have bel jeyed it, since s;he knew him to be brave andi honest. A bout two years after that Mrs. Pen d leton secured a dlivorce, and was mat' riodl to a M r. Devit. Shot tly after mar' ringe to D evit she sold all the proporty formerly ownedl by Pond leton, which had been awarded to her by the d ivorce court, and remnoved with her husband to Atlanita. Ga. P.endleton had been in the peniten tiariy about two and a half year-s when a letter bcaring his address and a South Anmrican postmark arrived at the Liv erpool postoflico. It was forwarded to the penitentiary authorities at IHunts ville, anid on bein~g opened was found to be from Guy [linton, the man for killing whom P end loton was serving out al lfe sentence. Poendleton imme dliately wrote hlinton of the strait lhe was in. Hlintont (n receiving this let ter- took passage for G;alveston], and in due time arrived in Brazorla County. Of course the Governor pardoned P'endleton as soonl as the facts were prtesented to him. On his rel',ase Pen d leton retur-nedl to Liverpool. ils coni finemnent had told harshly upon him, and the news of his wife's divorce, marriage, and removal to Georgin threw him into a violent brain fever On his recovery ho left his former home, the scene of his joy and great misfortune, and soilgbtthe home of hh former wifn. now the wife of waote. men who foisted on us the silver plank iii the last national platform. No fair dealing can be expected of those Mast orn Democrats so called who in the face of that plodge sustained the President in repealing the purchasing clauso of the Sherman act. No fair dealing can be expected from the mon who defeated Hardin in Kentucky last fall, and have just provented the elec tion of Blackburn. The diffences are Irreconcilablo, the conflict Is irrespressiblo, and all true Democrats must rerolve to stand by the principles of Jofforson and Jack son, or expect to sco the party utterly destroyed and a now party take its place. Any compromise or straddle will cause the Populists and silver men to swoop the South and the West and the Democratic party will be only a name and will become the third party, should it be fortunate. enough to carry a single Stato. But those who urge that we stick to the party, no matter what may be its platform, will retort at once that if the silver Demo crats bolt at Chicago, the same result will follow. I grant it so far as the prosent organization is concerned and also so far as the name lb cone runed, because there would inevitably be a now party formed embracing all the elements of the three parties which stiand for free silver and financial re form. But the principles and the plat form of such a now party, if it be formed, will be those of Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln; and if it does not win the victory this year, it will be bound to carry the country in 1900. It will be the genuine Democratie party. It must not be forgotten too that the Republican party is split and torn over this issue as well as ours. Now let us look at our local condi tions in the light of past events amd the prosent su rroundings--something The Rcgistcr sums entirely to ignore. In 1892 there were not less than thirty thousand Reformers in the State anti possibly more who were strongly tempted to voto for Weaver and were loath to participate in the national De mocratic convention by sending dele gates to it. Where do these men stand to-day, after having been de ceived and betrayed? The news comes to me from all parts of the State that they feel just what the Rev. Mr. Reid expressed in his letter, and they feel it so strongly that unless they have assurances that participation in the next National Convention will not bind their consciences and votes if they do not see proper to endorse its action, that they are now gravely considering the question of remaining aloof from the party primary in May. I think. however, their numbers are largely increased. and that they in fact embrace a great many Conserva Lives and a large majority of the Re formers. There Is no analogy in the comparison which The Register makes between those Democrats who in the past have run on Independent tickets in the State and those of us who now propose to leave the party at Chicago should it be untrue to its principles and its old faith. Our one overpowering and overmas tering issue in State affairs has been white supremacy, and this under the conditions existing beforo the new con stitution was adopted made revolt against the white majority nothing less than a crime. While those condi tions do not now exist, and while I am always ready to abide the will of the State, there is nothing which demands such loyalty in national affairs as is urged by The R-gister. The party or ganization in the State will remain in tact and those white men who choose to go to the Republicans or to ally themselves with goldbugs of the Clove land-Carlisle stripe, can do so. What 1 am striving to provent is the division of the silver Democrats and the de struction of the Reform movement, just what has occurred in every othe Southern Stats. I know there are some men in the| State who will remain in the party as now organized, and be for whoeve r may be nominated on any kind of a platform, but it is a poor- compliment to the pe-ople at large to consider them so blind and so wedded to the name Democracy that they will longer take the shadow for the substance. I in,'e striven wvith might and imain to pie vent the disintegration of the Reoform Democracy. There are fe w w ho will be bold enough to deny that I kept the Alliance mfrom committing the blun der of sloughing off and joining the Populists in '92, which practically de stroyed it in other States. I have promised the people who have trusted me and who have heeded my counsels that I would lead them out when the time came. That time is now upon us, either to purify and reorganize the party or leave it, and If my advice has any weight with the people of the State, they will align thems~elves In soik phalanx for the purpose I have Indicated, and by so doing force the retirement of the coward(s and sy cophants and treacherous leaders now masqueradling as D~emocrats. Trhe party can only be thus rejuvenated and then press onward in its glorious mission of emancipat'ng the people and restoring their libertios under the old1 banners, and always under the time honored principles of JIelferson andl Jackson. It is simply a question o f reforming the party and bringing it back or leaving it. If we can re form it we can hold on to the name andl the principles. If we do not suc ceed in docing this then we take the principles and seek new allies and a new name. Every con2udoration of statesman ship and patriotism demands such action on our part. We cannot stand still but must move forward or surren decr to traitors. As South Carolinians, we should move together and towards the light, boldly and bravely. We all want to stay in the party and hold on to the name if we can do so to retain our self-respect. This will be deter mninedl when we get to Chicago. The present duty is to timrnm out at the pri maries andl select true men to attendl tihe State convention. Washington, March 22. What is that which is often brought to the tabie, always cuit, and never eaton?--A Pack of car-ds. WV hat are the most unmeiable things in the world?--Milestone 8, for you never see two of them tonethem. and county officers, does voting there in bind one to support the national Democratic nominee for President? Has not any white man the right,.a cording to the rules, to vote in the primary election if he will simply pledge him to ,bido by the result and vote for the nominees of the primary at the general election, voting what ticket he pleases for Presidential electoes ? I woul be please to hoar from you on those qustions at your earliest convenience. It would be well also for these matters to be laid before your committee when 4f meets. Some authoritative statement in re gard to those matters ought to be given to the public. I desiro to give this to the press as an opon lettor, but send it to you first so that your answer may appear with it. Yours respectfully, J. W. REID. WASHINGTON, March 21.-Mr. J. W. lRead, Dear Sir: Re pflying to your letter of recent dato, I will say that the ex ecutivo committeo, which meets on the 7th of April, will take under con sideration the questions propounded in your letter. An answer from that source, no doubt, will be more satis factory to you. In any event I prefer to wait until it meets. Ro0spectfully, J. L. M., IRuY. RiEi)viLmI., S. C., March 23.-Hon. J. L. M. Irby, Chairman State Demo eratie Executive Committee, Wash ington, 1). C.: Doar Sir : Your favor of the 21st instant received. I hope you will lay these questions before your committoo when it meets and publishi a statement from them. Your respectfully, J. W.REID. OUR PHOSPHATE INTERESTS. Gov. Evans Believes No State Can Compete With Us. Gov. Evans has roturned from a visit to Florida. l1e had been in that State a week, accompanied by Phosphate Inspector Jones, looking over the phos)hate mining industry of that State. The Governor comes back lirmly convinced of thu fact that South Carolina will always lead in the phos )hate industry as long as the supply lasts in our rivers, He went over the whole phosphate territory of Florida and personiuly inspected the mines and their operation. The rock, in the first place, is inferior to ours and has to be dug out of great banks of sand. It has to bie cleaned and then shipped by rail to somio seaport. This handling, of course, adds much to the price of an artielo inferior to our own. I. the second plaeo l'lorida has no deep water sna)orts liko Charleston or leaufortor Port Royal, and consequently only com paratively small cargoes can be car ried out. Ilo found the nearest ap prech to our rock that called " pebble rock," in that State. It is small and mixed with sand and has to be freed froma it before it is ready for shipment. Gov. Evans found few fertilizer fac tories in the Stato andi he does not be hevo they can Over SuccOssfully com peto with factories in this State, owing to tho long distance pyrites and sul u1r has to ho hauled to the mines. T'ho only country that can come any way near approach Ing us in the quality of our11 rock, is Algiers, but there the rock has to be hauled fifteen or twenty miles to a scaport and with a royalty about thu same as ours and the extra cost of handling, the Governor says South Carolina can hold her own with that country. On the whole the Gov ernor is of the confident opinion that Charleston and Beaufort and Port lioyal mranufactur*ers have by odds tne advantage over the world and that as soon as the present period of depres sion paZsHs aiway there will be a great revival in the business. GJov. Evans came back im pressed wvith the fact that South Carolina was the best State in the Union. While he lad a pleasant time in Florida, he was [not greatly impressed with the looks of the country or its fertility. WONOmS OF SCIENOC.-While we arc having political agitation, the men of scienco promise startling dis coveries and applications in the ma terial universe. Dr. 1lies is confident that tihe day is r.ear at hand when electricity will dominate usefully al most coirything in the way of plowing fields, harvesting crops, rail and water transportation, cooking, heating and ventiflation. He says : "Electric current for power, heat ing, cooking and lighting purposes will be on tap in every house, just as water is today. Electric elevators and lifts will convert stair climbing Into a recreation and electric ventila tion, refrigeration and temperate re gulation wIll keop the up1-to-date home In an ideal condItion and permit thb owner to manufacture his own climate, no matter what the exterior weather condition may be. " Electricity will play music, road books and write letters for the man of the future, it will prepare the food and bring it to the table. It will im part nourishment and strength with out the necessity of eating and drink ing. " Dr. Rlies is also certain that electric communications, as the telegraph, will shortly he made between points with out the necessity of wires between the places, and that the currents in the earth may have a bearing on the solu tion of this question." -Goev. Evans, in his speech at Bleau fort, said that when the Port Royal road was sold it would be bought by a~ I corporation which would make it a - link In a continuous line from San I Francisco to the Atlantic ocean. Thio ,consummation of such a lan would B mean millions to l'ort Royal but uni ,fortunately some legal complications have arisen which may delay for an in a definite time the sale of the road. Soe t of the parties to the suit, It is understood (lquestion the constitutionality of the n act authorizing the salt and maybe it -will have to undergo a long siege of i udicial inerpreao and the laws de o ay befo r the question Ie definitely do t cided. r -Times are changing t6 such an ox tent that it will only be a few years un n ti. par'ents will bo sent to bed for talk-C '1,,ng.ack with the purpose of having his boy a1 any cost. Tie nows of Ilinton's return anI Pend leton's consequent pardon had preceded him to Georgia. It was toc much for Mrs. Pendleton, or rather Mrs. Dovit. She felt herself a biga mist. She Immediately left Dovit, and a woek before Pendleton arrived at Atlanta she became a raving maniac and had to be sent to the asylum. Pen dioton secured his boy and worked his way to 'alifornia. Being a man of for tile resources, he soon got another start in the world, and Is now a pros porous fruit grower. Mr. Pendleton's son, George, was too young when the ovents above recorded occurred to remember much about his mother, and his father carefully kept the facts of this awful drama in real life from him until he arrived at his majority. On the boy's reaching the ago of twenty-one years the father told him of the sad romance of their lives. George was anxious to learn what had become of his mother, and, obtain ing his father's permission to do so, visited Georgia. On inquiry at the asylum, he learned that she had been discharged yoars before as cured ana that she had gone to live with a broth er then residing at some place in North Carolina. In North Carolina he learned that the brother with whom Mrs. Devit was liing had removed to this (Win ston) county, Alabama. The young man arrived here about two months ago, and sought out his parent. The meet ing of the mother and son, so long part ed, was a most allocting scene. George subsequently wroto his father of his muther's course after learning of his innocence. That letter rekindled all the old love in George Penditon's heart, and ho crossed the continent as fast as steam could bring him ind yes terday romarried the companion of his early man hood. M rs. Pondileton is yet a beautiful woman on the sunny side of forty. Mr. Peidleton is in the prime of life. Tue abovo facts were related to the writer en the evening of this happy second marriago. Mr. 1'endleton also told the writer that the body identilied as Ulinton's was that of a peddler namned MeDbo, whom a negro who was hanged at Houston, Texas, some year-s ago confessed to have murdered and robbed. Stickers, Doubters, Bolters and Seceders, HOW ARE THEY TO BE KEPT TO GETHER. The following interesting corres spondenco has passed between Mr. .1. W. Reid, of Iteidville, and Hon. J. L. N. I-by, chairman of the Stato Demo Cratic lxouu tive CommilitteO : UR MvILLa, S. C., March 20.-i[on. .1. L. M. Irby, Chairman Stato Demo cratic Executive ComInitteC, Wash ington, 1). C. Dear Sir :I so in the papel's that you havo called the Stato DCmocratic 10xecutivo Committee to moet on the 7th of April for the pur 1)0s of taking the neCeSSIlry StOps looking to the reorganization of tho Democratic party and to the assem bling of the Stato convention to olect delegates to the National Democratic Convention to be hold in Chicago on the 7tLh of July. As you are doubtless well aware, there is considerable diversity of opin ion as to the best course for the inmasses of the white people of South Carolina to pursue in preparing themselves for the great struggle just before thorn-a battle of ballots, the issue of which will be of vital importance to the American p~eople. T1'he masses of the w hito people of th is State whoi have heretofore allil iated1 with the Demo eraitic party and have al ways voted the Democratic ticket in both State andl Federal elections inay now be divided into four classes, as follows: I. Stickers.-- Those who are Deomo erats first, last and all the time, and say that they wvill vote for the Chicago nominee utterly regardiless of his char acter andl former recordl no matter wvhat sort of platform is adopted by the National Convention. 2. Dioubtere.--Those who fear that w hi to suprematcy will be endiangercd by leavinag the Domnocratie party, andl who are loathe to break up life-long associations, while at the time they earnestly desire to secure reforms in national finances wvhich they doubt very much the possibility of securing through the machinery of the National Democoratic party. They arec at sea, and they hardly know what to do. 3. Bloiters.-T'hose who profer to remain in the organization until they see what the Chicago convention will do, saying that unless an unequivocal free silver platform is adopted and a candidate nominatcd who is above sus picion as to his loyalty to silver, they intendl to holt andl ally themselves with fr-ec silver umen of the West. 4. Seeders.-Those who have lost all confidence in the National D~emo cr-atic party and have determined to sever their connection with the organ ization and will not partIcipate in the club) meetings called to elect delegates to the State convoation held to choose party representatives to be sent to Chricago'. They prefer to b)e repre sented in tihe silver convention which meets in St. Louis on the 22d of .July, and will organize with that in view. As the May convention is not far ofi it might be well to ask for an opinior from you on these questions at your D~emocratic party in South Carolina ar to the relationship existing between private member of said party and the national convention. Tihe members o tire party assemble at the various precincts in their club meetings an< lets doelogates to the county conven thon. This body thus made up clee delegates to the State convention which, being made up by delegate fr-om the various con tios in the State eleets eighteen (1$) men to be sent t Chicago to represent the party in th national convention. Trhen does nc every voter who attends the club meal ing at his preinct and participatesi the convention thereby assume an ol ligation to abide by the result of th national convention and to support th nominee of the party? This argunmn was used in 1892 to keep the party I line and to help carry the State fc Cleveland. IIn reference to the primary electic for nomination ot oangre...oa, 8ta