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41 - 9 THE PEOPLE' SJUNL VOL. 6.--- NO. ig PIKNS . C., TFH.URSDAY, MA7Y 28 6 ON DLARAYER A Senatorial Spat. Ai Exciiig Scene Between Tillman and Irby, Tillman leatds (he Chicago Delega (iou-No Instrictions as (o Bolting -Lo, (ofResolutiois ant111 Plonty of Talk--Recess Till Sep ember Ist.. If the Chicago convention does not declare for free silver and nominato a straight, unadulterated free silver candidate, then the South Cacolina delegation will withdraw. No resolu tion to that effect was passed, but that was a ,yard stick by which every can didate was measured and unless he camne up to the 'requirements ho couldn't go. The con 0tion' work was rathe'r slow and dI unt the night session, when there was a most lively and in teresting debato between Senators Tillman and Irby and a speech by Governor Evans and a little tilt bu tween Sonator I rby. Senator Irby rapped the convention to order at 12:15 o'clock and announced that nominations for teml)orLry chair man was in order. Mr. McSweenoy nominated Mr. 1. II. McCalla, of Abbeville, who was elect ed. Mr. McSweeney, Mr. Martin, of Beaufort, and Dr. Timinernan were appointed a comnmijfteo, who escorted the temporary chairman to the chair. in taking chargo he said . "Gentlemen, allow to thank you for the honor, but this is a time for action, not for speech making. Nominations for temlporary secretary are in-order." Mr. Shuman nominated Mr. M]. S. Scruggs, of Greenville, as temporary secretary. Col. Aldrich moved that there be two secretai ies. This being adopted, Col. Aldrich nominated Mr. S. W. Vance. Mr. C. J. Allen, of Col leton, and Dr. Burnham, of Charleston, were nonminated as assistants. Mr. Parrott moved that all four be elected, which was agreed to amid much laughter, the convention thus beginning work with a sulicioncy of secretaries anyway. The roll of dole gates was then handed to the secre taries and is there were no contests the appointment of a credentials coin mitteo was dispensed with. Col. Aldrich moved that the conven tion proceed to a permanent organiza tion. Mr. J. B. Watson nominated for president Mr. A. U. Patterson, of Barnwoll. 1Ie was unanimously eleit ed. Messrs. W. 1). Evans, Bohre and Parler were appointed a committee to notify Mr. Patterson. In the mean time elections for one vice president from each Congressional district was entered into. Motions to take a recess untli 4, 4.30 and 5 were made, but finally 8 o'clock was agreed upon. The committees on platform and change in the constitu tion met yesterday afternoon. At 8 o'clock Mr. Patterson again called the convention to order. The committee reports wero called for. Mr. Cooper of the committee on con stitution made its report, being a new constitution constructed upon the old constitution. Tile only material change from the old constitution's pro visions is that presidential electors shall not be voted for in the primary. Another section requires the election of the county chairman by the county convention instead of by the execu ive committee. The other changes are merely verbal and unimportant. Those who have copies of the old constitution arc in possession of the now one by makingthe changes indi cated. The committee on constitution to whom was referred the resolution in structing the delegations to vote and act as a unit on all questions before the na tional conventiion rep)orted the resolui ties wIthout recom mend ation.Th convention declined to strike out the words "'Before the national conven tion" and adopted the resolution. Senator Till man then presented the report of the committee 0on platfor~m and resolutions. At the request of Mr. Efied, the~ pintformi was presented first. Senator Tillmuan read it as fol lows, taking a peculiar pleasurie in doing so, judging from his manner: 1. The Domocralic party of South Carolina realllem its allegiannce to the p rincip)les enunciated by J1eci-son, Monroe and Jackson and followed by their successors in ollice and pledlges itself to etand by those priuciples as the creed of our political faith. 2. WVo denounce the ad innistration of P'resident Cleveland as undemoerat ic andI tyrannical and as a departure from those principles which are cher ished by all liberty -loving Americans. The veto power has hben used to thwart the will of the people as ex pressed by their representaitives in Congress. The appointivo p~ower has been used to subsidize the press, to debauch Congress and to overawe andt control citizens in the free exeise of their constitutional rights as voters. A plutocratic despotism is thus sought to be established on the ruins of the re p~ublic. 3. We b~aive the power and usur' pations of the Federal court~s as now organized to be dangerous to the re public. The American peCople have lost confidence ini life tenure of oflcers in and department of govoi-nmcnt and we rep~oat here the warning of Jehifer son against the tendency and elfect of the constitution of the Federal judi clary, which he styles ''an irresponsi ble body working like gravity by night and day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow a;.m advancing its noiseless steps liko a thief ove~r the field of jurisdiction until all shall be unsurped from the States and the gov ernment of all be consolidated into one." The sudden reversal of the decision in the income tax eases has never been satisfactorily explained to the American p)eop)1 and the court has lost the respect and confidence of the peolo as a natural result. To restore confidence in the judiciary and make the courts the bulwarks of lib erty rather than thei apparent tools of the "sordid despotism of wealth." To protect the peopic against the brood of vampires in then shape of monopolies, trusts and combines which have gr'own up under vicious laws badly admilnis terod. To provide for the election of Senators anti of all high government the dangers of toderal phtronage in the hands of an unscrupulous Presi dont. To restore government of the people, by the people and for the poo ple wo demand the calling of a consti tutional convention to form an organic law suitable to the changed conditions and to tho growth of the country. 4. We doinand a more oconomical administration of our national affairs and that taxes shall be levied so as to bear equally on all sectits and alt classes. Labor should be lightly burden ed by a gi-aduated income tax an( woalthbo made to pay for its protection. We repudiate .the construction 1)laced on the financial. plank of the last Democratic national convention by President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle as contrary to the plain mean ing of English words and as baing ain act of bad faith, deserving of severest censure. The issue of bonds in time of lkaceo with which to buy -gold'to re decrh coin obligations, payable in sil ver or gold, at the option of the g'ov ornment, and the use of the procoods to defray the ordinary expenses of the government, ar'e both unlawful and usurpations of authority, deserving impeach mont. 5. A sound and justsystom of finance is the most )otcnt, factor in a nation's prosperity and we demand the resto ration of the money of tie constitution, by giving silver the same rights and privileges now given to gold. We demiland the free and unimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, rogard less of the action of any and all other nations and that such coinage be a legal tender for all debts, public and private. Congress, alone has the power to coin and issuo money and President Jackson declared that this power could not Ile delegated to a cor poration, thorefore, we demand the nationol banking system be abolished. The absorption of wealth by a few, the consolidation of our leading rail road system and the formation of trusts and pools, require a stricter control by the Federal government of those arteries of commerce. We do mand the enlargement of the powors of the interstato commerce comnmis sion. The reading was concluded amid loud applause. Lary Gantt moved that it be adopted unanimnously with every i " (lotted and every "t" crossed. Mr. Reynolds of Richland said that he and another member had a minority report. Senator Tillinan moved to lay the minority report on the table, but with drew it at Mr. Barnwell's request, who spoke against the policy of the Demo cratic party, declaring it was inox pudient at this timo to press for tle free coinage of silver. Ie was aware that he was in a minority, not only here, but among the Conservatives. Ie believed free coinago would ruin the farmers. (Laughter.) Mr. Gadsden spoke earnestly in favor of passing &he -resolution requiring all to abide the action of the national con vention. This money question was a financial and not a party matter. Ho, like.Mr. Barnwell, recounted the acts of friendship that the national party had shown to the people of this State, The galleries and all the available space in the hall we-e by this time crowded to their utmost capaeity. It was in such a presence that Senator Irby came forward in the contre aisle and then the firoworks began. Irby began with great deliberation but warined up to his work rapidly. [Is attack on Tillman was intensely in toresting. Time and again he was loudly applauded by his friends in the convention and the occupants of the galleries. Ie spoke as follows : If I were to consult my own feelings I would not utter ia word on this ques tion; but Mr. President, occupying the position that I do, holding a high trust as the guar'dian of the Democra cy of Southt Carolina, were I to fail to respond for the girand 01(d par'ty w hen she has been challenged, (and shame for it) by her greatest beneficiary. I say, Mr'. President, not in ill will, but in truth and candor and honor, to thme p)eop)1 of the State, that when this "Edgelield D~emocrat.," as5 he has so pr1oudly prmoclai med hiimsel f uponi this Iloor, challenges the party over which I have the hionor' to prieside, that I should be recreant to my duty if I did niot dlefenid it. When this Eddgelicid D~emocrat, wvho was taken from a lowly position, but an honorable one, and raised to the highest in the gift, of the people of South CarolIna, p roclai med himself as an "' Ildgelield Do)mocrat," I must say that I1 knew beforo wvhat an "' Edge lcd Decmocr'at" 'was. (Applause.) Mart Gary was an "' Edgefield Demo ct-at. (Applause.) But, Mr-. President, Mart Gary was not, tbat kind of an Edgelield Democrat. Mart Gar'y was a South Carolina D~emocr'at. (Cheers.) And I speak for Laur'ens wvhen I say that grand 01(d Lauro'ns has no such Democrats within her bor'der's. (Ap 1p luse.) Now, Mr. President, where are we i regret that I have to talk so plainly is 1 am11 talking here to-night-who are woe? Wher'o ar-c we? Hlow come. we here in this convention ? You have all hctard of the manifesto that was issued in 1890. It is a prIominent dloeumtf1t. The peoplo)1 of the Sttato have the right to know about it. I had something to (10 with the r'evision of that document before it, wa issuedl. TIht dlocuiment was at lir'st so framed that it amddressed all the peopl)e of the Stateo whlite, black, Republican and D emocriat anl i lo. I entored my protest that unleI'ss it was changed, 1, as ia D~emocrats and aL loyatl son of the State, would not, go into it,. I was willing to matke lthe' light under01 the macithinery of the partity ; to capture thatt machinery that the p~eople of the State mnight cotrol~, and~ thecrefor'e at my sugges. tioni the words(l " To' the peopl)1 of the State "' whIch included a' classes and compldexions, were' changed to "To the Decmocratts of the Statte," and the words " WVo will abide by the result of tihe Septem ber' convention," inserteod at the end. I insisted upon that be cause I wias a Demtocratt and1 unwilling to destsoy the lDoiuocratic p)arty of tihe State. Untder' that flag the People of this State puit the government of the State into the hands of the Recformi faction. But for that pledge in that manifesto the. M arh conv entIion would have failed. We Camifo in claimtti ni to ho Demo erats. We are enough Deomoerats to elect our1 governor- twie. andi thatt dearw, nld rotte p....... as son.. caln now,. was good enough to elect some peoplo to the United States Senate, but it ain't good enough to elect sonic people to the l'reidency of tho United States. Now, that's what's tile imatter with lannuah ! (Applause and laughter.) Are we, 'teforllers of South Caro lina, to be mero tools in th hands of tiny man ? Aro we to acknowledge the fact that, we arO carried in his breeches pocket to be delivered at any minute? I will teli you, sir, that I for one am not to be carl'ied in the pocket of any-nn. I was opposed to bolting In 1890, when I think mny friend, the Edgellold Democrat, thought a bolter worse than a Radical. Am 1, the legal head of the Demo cratic party, to sit as tamely as a sheep and allow the party to be delivered into the hands of the encmy ? Oh, my dear,, Reform friends, I an talking plainly and honestly to you, and if you fall out with me, I am sorry for it. Four years ago you were such Demo erats that . you required the :le tors ioninated by this conventloh to sign a pledge to vote for the nomninee of the Democratic convention. Are you going to hold tile party responsible for Mr. Cleveland's policy ? The party cannot be held responsible for Cleveland's policy. 'ou had as well hold the Methodist church re ponsible for the action of a minister in it, and say " That minister has gone wrong and I am going to leave the church and go to the Baptists." There is no one miorc sincerely and honestly for free silvor at 1( to I than I am ; but I am not prepared to (lodge this issue. And you men who are going to -run for the Legislature, you sign a pledge reading, " I am willing to abide by. the result of the prinary," and still you are dodging, and unwill ing to abide by the result of the na tional primary. The idea of 18 men out of 914 going into a convention and saying to the balance, We have got to fix this platform ; we have got to name the man, and wo have got to b above suspicion, or we are going to bolt." Why, that's simply ridiculous. If that's the way you are going, you had as well stay at home. Why not propose to turn the wholo mattor over to South Carolina and let her run it. The convention ought to instruct its delegates to abide by the nomina tion. The froe silver mien need not be afraid. They will control tile conven tion by at least a hundred majority. And yet you say wo must' go tbore and run the thing or bolt! Here is a possible candidate for the Presidential nomination within the hearing of miy voiceo. I have no objec tion. If they nominate him in Chi cago I will do as uich for him as I have done for him In South!Carolina in the past, and I think every one will agree that I have done as much as any one else. He is willing to go into that convention and take pot luck with the others, and yet here is the convention dodging the Issue. Why, you delegates here don't represent 5,000 votes in south Carolina; you didn't make a test of the thing in any county in the State. ThE ea are 102,000 white Democrats in South Carolina, you iay go from county to- county, and I will guarantee that we don't represent 10,000 mien any way. And yet you are going to break the record of the Demo cratic party with a possible PresI dential candidate in our midst, by dodging this issue. Lot us for decency sake abide by the result, whatever it nay b-for Deiocracy's sake and for poor old South Carolina's sake. Here you are ciidorsing a man for the Presi dency oi a platform, saying, "If you don't (it) our way wo will walic out." Voice--" Walk where ?" Senator Irby-"God above knows! We Will all be ashamed of this foolish ness5 in thre'e years. A bolter never amlounts to anything aind it's only two or thi-ce years when you see him com ing back and sitting down Onl tile mourner's' henlch. I don't want t) impos5 oil y'our tine and 1 am feeling very unwell, but I have to say tIls, as the head of the party. If 1 hlave offended my13 frIend 1 can't helpl it. This (lodge ruins11 the party--ruills the 1Heoorm pa~rty in South Carolina, and( it mlakes us as guilty as tile fol lowers of Nit. Pop and0111 Mr. Ihas kellI or Alr. anyblody else, and there Is no excuse for it,. It has benen saidl thlat the Edgefild Demociat cairriedl tile State inl his breeches pocket, (or that he knew where it was going. Th~e p~eolo of the whole country are looking at us to see w hich waiy it, goes. Ilut, gentlemen, I tell you (bt re Seknatorir by)3 d row him self upl to is full hleb~lt and1( laid hlis hanlid on his blreaist), her-c is ai Laur'ons Democorat that no man11 has in 11i5 p0ckeCt. Now MJr. Pr'25~esiet, in1 conluiU~on, this is my last oflicial act, as chlairmnln of tile D~emocracy of tihe State. Weo ha~ve had1( mnuch troub11le-wheni Caro linians divide both si ]es hlave trouble. We have been successful1 because we clung to D~emocratcy. If you hadl (18 sor'tedl It, as seome of y'ouri leaders, whlo dlon't like me now wanltedi to do~ in 18!'), and1( whlo wo''ld have gone if I, as head1( of tile party, had not beh1l them back, we would never' haivo ac~omi1ishedt what we have. They picked up '. Bowdon, whlo is conscntious and1( 1hon est, and pi tched im i in thbe st reami of Poulism1t1 ; bitt they catme back andi be hlaved thlemselves wheni they saw wVhat a roughl timhe he had of it. And now, sir, let, me say that if I lose the friendship of every Iteformner adl every D~omocrat in South CarolIna it will be the pr'O~oudSt act of my life that my last olcial act as chtairmnan of the D~emocratic parity of the State, wats to sound a warning to miy friends, to the Roeformors of Southl Carolina not to deset, the party. If we (10, white supremacey is gone. Whlenever we di vide andl go into tanother' party theC breach that Is only factional will'h)e widened and made p~ermalnent, and1 white civilIzation in SouthI Carolina will be destroyed. My friends, It, Is the greatest blunder that has over been made in Sout~h Ci'arolina and( youI will see it. If we stand together we will go to Chicago, or our delegates will go thore (for I (lon't thlink I'll go) (laughter) and 1)0 received as friends. But if you dodlge this you will b~e hissed as traitors and1'1 1nmi in di - .When irby conclu lid h1' spIeechl there wer'e ctries for IlmaIIn. A lihe stepped8( to the positionl o'c''upied' by Irtby while hd was speaking ther'e was deafenIng apniause sceeoimd by wti cheering and throwing hats Into the air. The scene was a most remgarkablo one. Senator Tillman had bu t a few words beforo ). A. G. Outzs, of cai paign famo, forged hiis way through the crowd bearing aloft a handsome pitchfork dec.orated with ribbons and appropriately inscribod. He passed il) the aislo holding the fork over Till man a few momlentits, and then placed it on the president s desk. Tillman was frequently interruped by loud applause. Ie spoke as follows . Mr. President and gen-tlemen of the convention : We have had many re markablo and interesting exhibitions tonight, such as our past history has nver soon the lik1u of. I supposo that so Ill-assorted and uncongenial a com bination as the .one which has oxhib ited its venotin hero to-night on this floor has never bobn'equaled. We have had here a man who has been honored by South Carolina.a great deal more than he has hon-ored l imself Senator Irby -'That's a lie ." Senator Tilliuian's reply was lost in a storm of cheers a'nd counter cheers, while a pronilnent Rtformer of the (is pensary force lugged' in a hugo pitch fork. Senitor Tillman, continuing, as soonI as thq storm lidi somewhat subsided, said : We have had this man, a repre seitativ.o of the peOple of South Caro lina, undertake to speak to us here as it master, and tell you to your tooth that you are not representing the peo )1o. 1 ilay to Glod, such assuranco t Why, he could not have boon elected to this conyontion if he had not nide a combination with the Corservativos. 1 And what is all this about ? Is there' a syllable in the principles that we I rdvocate that is not Democratiu ? Talk about bolting, I know that our people I despiso the idea of a man going utit and p'ulling in the negroes, but two of the men who have spoken here to night have dono It. "Don't even hint at a proposal to go to Chicago unpre pared to lie down and let the Shylocks and gold bugs tramp!c on them. I havo )con doing more than any J other Democrat *in South Carolina to I bring about a revival of the hopes of I the Democratic party in the nation and make it go forward as the party o the people rather than as the tool of the moneyed classos. Two years ago when I was running for the Senate, J told the p)Lople. of Lexington' County about the rascality and treachery of Cleveland, and said to them, "If this man is ai Democrat, I am not a Demo crat, and so help m God, you will i never find ie in alliance with him.'' (Applause.) You are told that the Shell manifes to, (which I wrote, if you want to know it) was alt'ored at the dictation of the Senator from Laurens. Mr. P'rosident, when the Roform movement started in 1880, and Richardson was nominated in the opera house. I moved to make his nomination unanimous. And again, in 188, when the machino was too strong for us, I moved to make it unan imuous. But when I was put forward by the common people, as the exponent of the new Domocracy-the only real Democracy we ever had in South Car olina, as the other was only an oligir chy-theso mon got up and went out. Veut whoro ? They went to the negro and begged the Republican party to sustain the old oligarchy and retain them in oflcc. And now they under take to como to us and say, "You must obey the National Democracy and crawl in the mire for it." Jefferson taught no such; and Jack son taught no such doctrine as this. What are parties ? They are organi zations toacconpl ish what they believe to be the best policy for the govern- l mont. Thb Democratic plarty has fol lowed its leador, Jellorson, for more than a hundred years and clung to his princiles until four years ago-and now they say we must not bolt ! There is no obligation to a freeman to stand by a party that has deserted Its princi- I piles just because it is labeled D~emo cratic. We have been hampereud by a' negro majority in South Carolina, and i Democracy meant white supremacy and nothing more. But now, no man can c)laLin that I did not in the Consti-r tutionmal con vention, rise above p)ersonail considlerations and~ endeavor to give I the people of the State an organic law that would last for all time, and insur'ei them good government. And now I can turn to these men and say to them1 that we are r'eady to meet them to-day, with their negr'o vote. If they want, to dr'aw the issue with the Democracy, however, let them doc it under' the name1 of Doemocracy. If we stand together like freemen, we may niot accomplish what we hope in National affairs ; but we will at least exhibit that manhood of manner that hais characterized South Carolina since the (lays of the Revolution. This man exhibits a lack of historical knowledge when lie says that South Carolina always voted the Dcmnocratic ticket. i~n 1832, Andrew Jackson ran oni the D~omocratlc ticket, and South Car'olina was mad at him on account of nullification and voted for his oppo) nient ; ated on another' occasion, South Carolina east hem' eluctor'al vote for a iian w~ho got the vote of no other' State' Anmd so, if we go to Oh Ieago, we will not be bound by the action of a con ven tioni contr'olled by men elected fi cm States that cannot cast a single Dom-n ocrtic voteo in thn elector'al college, andl whose representatives ini Con gress are cheek by jowl with .Johni ShIerm iian. lHe (pointing to Senator Irby) says that the D~emocratlc party was good enioughi to elect me governor twice, anid iroodl enough to elect, me Senator, atnd that the trouble nowv is simply that I want to ho P.residhnt. I think, my friends, that gentleman has simply misunderstood the situation, andi that all of this outcry Is simply due to the fact that, the gentleman wants to 1)0 Senator again. So far as my desliring to be President of the United States is concerned, I view It slimpJly in thmis way: In the fIrst place I come from at State that is hated all over the North because secenision originated here-- I am no fool. Whatever else may be saidl of me, no one has oiver accused mel ofI beling a fool. Therefore, whlen they accuse me of having a Presidential b)00 in my bonnet they simply muagi nfy the purpo~n)'~mmmand hopes of my heart. I hatve done my13 be-st to elevate andt lib (irate the people of South Car'ol i~a, and my am 'ition Is to (10 in the nation al 11i3k( in th)o$C other downtirodden States, what I have done here. If nation I should receive it with the same lmisgivings which Imaniy of you licard 1m10 oxpress when I was nom illat ed here in 1890; because I would reali.o the gregit.ness of the task that I would have before ne. You cannot expect to overcome sec tional projudices in Securing the PI-esidential noiiination. I f VoII saw fit to put me forward., I would lead the party, So hl) 110 God, as I led you! (Cheers.) And that's all there is of that. And if I aim defeated, as I would expect to be, I would lose no sleep on aecount of it, but would beo just as con tended ats I would have bon if I had bon defeated in this State. Aly rulo.in lifo has al ways been to do lily duty as I seo it, anid if I fail, never to cry ovor spilled milk. Though we may split on the Ped oral ticket and have two eloctoralI tickets in the fall, there is no reason why we should have a split in State politics. We cti go on and n3031ominiate nd olect our State and county ollicers its heretofore, Linless soime of these m1en (here Senator Tillman's Voice and n111r Cxlressei great ani1imus) whom the devil halts taken upon the mountain Yo to the legrvo Itid try to bring tile nlack mnti into Solitl Carolina politics IS 3an1 arbiter of oir alfairs. IBut if Lhey do, we can go riglt oil and takeit :aro of the State, aliyway. What principles nave we abandoned? Voice-"None." There is nothing in the platform ,hat even hints at the abandonment of >rinciples. We are si oply saying to ,e Northern frienids who have stood )y us as long as they could kop their land, in our pockots, that, they can no onger dictate to us. I sat oi this Iloor when a gentlenian roi Newborry uttered theso very amc things, and told him that we vould be making ourselves the laugh ug stock of the country if we did what 10 proposed. Now, I hope we will con ,rol the conventioi and will make the )thor follows do the bolting. But if vo dont; if they provo toostrong for us f by the use of money, as they have ised it lavishly in Aliclhigani, Florida, Ilinois, and M linesota, they huy en )mgll of those igloranlt an1d corrupt >eople to force down our tbroats the loetrine of gold bugism, tuen I say it vill be Clovelandisim; and we will ay to them, "Gentlemen, good even I:g.'' You Cn (10 Iothing else. If ,on wish to he terrorized by thesheet ighltni ng that you have seen toniight in 0 i icolyorating into the platform the 0sol ution to support the gold bugs. I !eI you, the coiiou people of Soulth ,arolina3 w.ill never support him. (A p lallse.) We milust simply say to these people, "You conie from States that have no electoral stength, and you can lot force us to Support your platform." When the genitleman from Charles bon says that we cannot carry the elec tion on a silver platform, I appeal to him in the name of common sense that herappears to have lost, where is the hope, then? it has been asked where we will go. I favor a iresolut0ion to have the chalilir man of the convention to call it togeth or again in case we have to coie back, to give us further instuctions. The popio are moving, I saw them in Kas11asnd Colorado, and Florida and Kentucky, anld wheni I called a hand primary on uniting with us in Kansas, it might havo bon Anderson county to judge from tle resLponSO. Tile men who are raising this fuss 110 those who feel the teat slipping from their mouths. He said thero could have been an other minority report, for two resolu tions had been introduced to send no ielegates to Chicago. H1e was pro 3eodinlg to contrast tle two ideas w11n ble wias interrupted by a voice: "Bet er saLvo yourself for C Icago." Sena bor Tillman: '"Bless your soul, I'm niot alking in thils convention. i'mx just ,alkinmg to auise these Columbia >eople who camaI13 hore to Whoop) up rby." lie sat do~wn, the last remark cauts ng great laughter In responise to louid callIs from the Onivention, Giorvornior v1yans spIoke ext hiis remnarks beinig recieved wvith hiunderous applaLuse. lil))opsed thle miti-bol ti ng resolu3tions and1( said( that rb~y had set tho example of threaten ng to bolt,. Tbe convenitionl then prouceedled to he election of dlelegates to the national lonvention, nom11inlations to be miade Alr*. :AlcCown nomint3d3. 11 Il l- I erbe for dlelegate at, hargo. AIr . Al - J3alla noinaiItedl I5. 10 T1illmnan. AIlr. I'atumt101 nomiatedh J. G . Il'vans. XI r. J1arris311 nomiatedI I. J.I Heaidham13. Nominalitionis for dlelegatels at, large wvere then closed and1( the fouri namlied LIove were elected by acclilationH. For alternates at, large, Alessrs. C. MI. Il'ird1, W. II. SI auld in, \V. ( . 'Tatumr 131nd J1. C. WVilborn were 101noiated and0. Eheeted by acclamation. D istrict, delegates were thlen elected 1t5 fotlows. 1ist 1I . J'ooper of Col leton and Thomas Slatiin of IBeau fort ;alter' nates, J1. I). lIivens (if Colletoni and Thomas311 Taird1 o)31(f I eau13fort. Second ---. 11. AleSweeney of Ilamp-i ton and' B. L. Cauaghmian of Sallluda; Itternates, W. S. IHamnberg oif larnI well and34 J. I I. l~d wards of Saluda. Thrd-I. IL. McCallIa (of A bbev ille 13im1 J1. I . Watson of A nderson ; ilter' nautes, J1. T1. Du)tncan of New berry and1( l'. I'. lEarle of Oeonee. li here was troubleI in the eauicus of hiis [I istrict as the ( fulI del egation from aoun11ties (onl1y ly'inog partly in the( d is. tract voted. Finally, .J. G. Waliing, o~f Fairfielad, 13nd J1. D). Al . Sha 3w, of I ,aurens0, wereC electedi. AlIter'nates. J1. II. I atimiler, of (lreeniville, anmd Ji. C. O tts, (If Un ion. Fifthi-W. P. Strait of York and 'T. Y . WVillhims of .1an11caster' ;l aterna1tes, T1. .1. Cunningham of Chiester' and( W. I'. Pollock of Chesterlicld. SI xth-i-W. iD. Evans of Mlarlboro and A. II. Williams of Williamsburg : aol tcenates, GI. P. Sca.rborouigh of D aor lIIngton and( 1). HI. Thraxler o3 e'lorence. Seventh-(. R. Loiwman31 of Orange burg and1( 11. T. A bbott of Suumter; alterna~tes, J1. WA. Drieher of Lex ington and1( J. Wm n. Stokes, O)rangebutirg. Ir. I. II. NieinilaI lntriotlitred a rese I itlion that if ini the jud;Ient (If the I 'residnit, the weifare (If thbo Demio eracey rcqires(1 it, he shiall? have p)ower1 to reconvene it. Mr. WV. D. PIvans otcrad nn anf amendment that the convention takt a recess until Septomeber Ist, un1os3 otherwise called to recoivelo by th( [retident ntld if no such Ill is matnid( by the first, day of September, ther tine convention stand adjourned sinm dio. The convetion tt sixteen iinuitei to two o'clock took a recessi until Sep teibar 1. The I.'xecuative Committeeo miet im, mediately after the convention and re. Organized by the election of the fol lowing otieers 1). 11. Tompkins, chairmnn.11m: U. X. Guinter, secretary: Wilie Jones, treaisuirer. Timo's Prodictions for Chicago, FICFIII'l'Uii .It1RVI, a11AVIE A hIUN 1}1M1A) MAJORCITY. Hlis Speech in Atnanta Atiuse't thv A tad iiincev -liv l'tioloyei I Itecent Till Witi Senatior 11111. Senator Tilli man's speech at tine M.\oody tiabernitcl in Atlianta, at the invi tation of a l inumber of free silver advocates in that city, was before one of the most rema'kahie gathetrings ever witnssed in this city. Close onto live thousaind people tlllned out to heat him. They sat to the last word and ahtnost con tin uously the Soutth Carolinian wias haltf drowned with ap pnlause. I t was the firtst pol1itieai speech thait Senittor Tillimin ever imade in Atilanta, and he mOr thatn filliilled the exjpectiatins of his crowd. The Atlanta Constitution had an ian terview with Senator' Tillnan before ho left the city, and the following re port is given as tine result of ti. inl terview lie hns been on at tour of the Wvst Ind Soutlhwet, recontly. lie went nut as far as Denver and spoke iln Ransas, Nobraskin, St. Louis anild hicaigo. At 8on1 ot Iintb he 1ad imense anad ielees, tinld every where drew largo crowds. When ho roturned from that tour Ine dropped down into Florida, imde two speeches anind then jimped ovenr to 'I exas. lie spoko at two or thr e places in Lono tine Start State, uddlressed ono Arkanisas audience and jumiped back to Athanta. le would be in Texas yet, hind it not been for tine Ip proacl of tine South Caroliina State Dolc-cr'atic convention, which nmects in Columnbia to-daty. Senator Tilm n haiIs at strong grip oni his Stat. There is not such ant other leader in tine United States. Three-four'ths of tihe whitt. popimuation of his State hlievo str'onngly inn hitml. Ie expilunns this very bilply I have been in public affair's in inmy State for ten years. I have made three tours of the State, and have spoken In every county at least three times. Nearly every man in South Carolina has set me. lost of them have hneard me and they have never caught mne In I lie. 1 tell them the truth, and whei i make a )1edge I doi my best to redeen1 it. I never pIay aniny attentioni to th politicians. I work direct with ti people, of whoim i atnm one. I know in intuition lhow they feel on piblie quIe tions. The politicians atlwaLys tric and try to filnd out how tho people aiu going before they will aeclaro. I keel tine peoplo right and they keep thI politicians right. ' The plaitn peopl run South Carolina. They just rose t aind took char,'gno of things tionisolves They got tired of being treatted liki a ward who had to bo cared for by guardians. They decided to try tle giar' dian businness themnselves for awhile, and tlney like the ciangen.'" During his stay in Atlanta -Senator Tillimin had at constant etramn of callet's at Ithis r'oomn. One or two popu lists called on Setnator' Tililmain yestor day atftca'rnoon. To tinbin hec said: " oun IPopuilists ask nin wvhy I d idan't go withn you, anad winy I donn't go with you now. WhIere have youtI felows got, that anybody shnould go ithi youn y You think you have a mtooin atnd all that youi'v'e got to do is to renan up aund puli it dlown. \Why don't, youi till come down ount of the clois y if y'ou had n'omaiuneil in the old party you would be able to count'rol it, bunt wvhen you left tine D~emctratic par'ty tine enement, tinatt opplosedt you denrnads fot' r'lief jutst abiount, conintoarhnatancad the mean whno were in symanathny witin youn and whoii resoivend to nnk e tlno fighitt insidou tine linnes. O ver in S:>nuthn Car'olinna wvo mando up ourn nindas niot, to slit butt to stay r'ightt ian tihe I )omnoeratic party and captnr' it. Anmd we didl it,. That is whiy wve hayo not, t~ne danigr' of being trn oven' by tine goldbunig crowd.'' Sotnator' Tillmanan is not, averse to considering tine piossi bil ity of l ighatninig stn'ik ing imn. "' If tine pressunru keeps anp,'" he ,-aid to somne caillnrs, "' I may ibe a caind idate for' ai uplace ion tihe ticket. A fter' I made thnt speech in tine Senato lia-t winter' I r'eceived a delugo of let ter's-nor'e tinnin I inaIvo even' lad timtie tin read-i,000 to 25i,000 lett~t's. Thney came fn'omn till oven' tine counntr'y, iand as far as I got in n'aiing titem ai nap prnoved whtt I mad said. P'opulists wrnote that thbey wenre glad to r'ead wh at I had oxpre'i)sed. liepnbl ieans saiti thoy were gilad that thorno was one Democorat wino dan'ed to tell the trunthn orn hnis owvn par'ty. A nd Diemaocrats ever'y whe'n wn'ote thnat ttnoy wer'e withn mne. Iin Texas I aiddressedl audiences rangling from 3,000 to 6n,000. Out in Coion'ado the taudieinces were all ite pubjilicans anmd IPopuiiists. Vet'y few D~emrocr'ats ar'e left ount thnor'o-they ate too disgusted with the natiotnal admninistr'atinn. In Nebraska ther'e arc mighty few D~emnocrats left-almnost is aL great firte buna'ni ng Inn th is Joutnn'ry on tinis Iintatnci al quennstin. Th'Ie peol ne aire not goingi to hoe cheated ount of an op~por'tunnity to) vote on it, citner'. Th'ie bannkerns and tine corplorantions of the (o1d pantrtics are goinng to tr'y to pick mand idates and shnape platforms, so that the people will not got a chance to expr'ess themselves fon' silver. But they cannot provent it. Cleveland, rnor Canrlisie, not' Morrison, nor L.tussolnl, not' anay of tine rest of those Wall street hnodgor's, could carnry throe States In tine entiare coutntr'y, as a Denmocrat on aL goid platforma. it Is doubtful i niney couahli carry a siangle one. Thorti in jnnst a canainee fon' the Domnnoearats' ha New Yonrk becauso tine people arne mna at. the itatince liquor law, whnich is mol o~netonth as good as ourn disp)onsair.3 rhytannm, over' in South Car'oli nat." Some one asked thne Sen ator' what ht. thought of Morrison ais a canidalitt "Why, ho does not know where he I stlinds. The peopl would not have himi." "A nd how abou t Bolos ?" " If he had hoen for silvor two years ago, his chances would be bright. But he waited to se0 how the people were going bMfore he would take an active and plain stand." " Has Cleveland any prospects of - another nomiIlation ?" " Not much, in my o)iniion."1 " What do you think of Hill as a de bater ?" " lie is a stuart fellow, but he has been onl both sides of this financial question, like a lot of peopl down this way. I tried to got him to define him self the other day, but ho never would say where he stood. I-e is on the gold Si(e, but he declines to statO his 1)0 sition. I had his Elmira speech on my desk. lie was a free silver man then, and 1 just waited for a chance to read it, but he was shy. However, I haven't 11d SO much fun since 1890. If there is anything "in this world that I do on joy is a joint debate that has somo ginger. An opponent like Hill makes it interesting. Most of these little feather weigits, though, don't even yuntertaini me."' WIERLY CitoP" IIAITIN. The )urughtu I1t Seriously Itjured Crolus in Some Portio ns or the State. Th is hulletiln covers the weather aid erop coniditions for the wook end ' ng .Sattrd(la3, Mlay 16, an( in the pre ptrattion were used reports from one or m1oro correspondents in each county of the State. '.l'ho temperaturo during tho week under review averaged about 8 degrees per day higher than the normal, with naxina in the nineties each day, at a few places reaching to and above 100 degroos, except in the extreme west 01rn piortions where it was slightly cool er: 'The heat was tempored during the lattor portlon of the, week by partly eioutdy weather in the afternoons, wihich hail, however, but little offect in reducing temperature, and the niglts were hottest at the close of the week. The avetge mean temperaturo for the statte, (lutring titb entire week, was 79t degrees, ranging froi 72 at Groon viiie to Mi at, MeCroll, Marlboro County. Tie nortal for time sani period is ap proxiitnately 7 1 degrees. The Iighest. temperatures reported were 104 at Gillisonville, 102 at Shaw's 1 1orks, I at. Blackville and Greenwood on 1,h I Itit ; 101 at Gillisonville and 100 at Blcakville on the 12th ; the lowest reported was ;I at Batesburg on the 100h and 12th. The rain fall during the week was very light and scattered, and of the 44 places keeping rainfall records the fol lowing pilces only reported any rain for the week : ilackville, 0.30; Tron ton, "T" K ingstree, 0.17; Lttle Moun tain, "T;Poverty 11111, 0.05; Hagood, 0.5; Stateburg, 0.11. The normal Itamoun t for tlhie siie priod is approx iuately 0.10 ilnchi. 'he droughtt has become a serious miienace to Crops over larg portions of the State. Tie delicioney in rainfall has been aecetimutlat1ing since SeptIm ber Ist, 1895, and since then only ono m1on th, Februt ty, 1890. gave more than Wite usual aniounLt of rain. Tle ord i natry or n1orm-11al amitouit of rain from Septeim ber Ist to date is 31.22 inchoF. Tit aiount tit foil is 21.98 Inches. I'lis sh'ows that no rosorvo supply of water was stored in the subsoil. Com paring the rainfall since the begin ni ng of the crop season-March 1t with ti nornuil for the samo period the deficiency is more marked. The normal rainfall, for the entire State, from March Ist to dato is 9.17 inches, tibe nlverage actutal rainfall has been hut 5'.00 inches; hut this 5).00 inches was very unoevenly d istrib~uted leavinig manytt3 localities with but a small per centage of the usutal amount, instane i ng Chaleston where the dleliciency is (i.55 I nches, and Columbia wvith a deii cienicy ti.38 inches. A corrosp~ond~ent in the southeastern section of the State writes as follows: "TIhere is no further use of dlenying the fact, or' withholding the truth, a most serious drought prevails in thiis section of the State." '1 he same is true of a large section in the In terior of the State, having Ricebland, Fairifield ane Kershawv C.ounties as tbe center of gteatest a&i n fall dulileney . The defi ciencey in rain fail does not, by itoel f, convey an audeq uato conuopition of the diryross of the ground. TIhe showers hamve b)een fily niumertouts but so light that, t1be sutrfaceo soil only was wetted andl tiihat cvapo)rated in a few hours un dnetr tile influel(nce of tihe extreme heat that prwevai led tihe greater portion of tile titne. At times, too, the winds wore high, hot and exceedingly dry antd dlesiecating. Not, a single replort was received but that stated the urgent need of rain for somoetcrop or other, indicating that droughty conditions of more 01r less severity exist over the whole State. Ligh t hail was reported from Biarn wvell County on tihe 13th with no injury to crop)s. The sunshine excCeeded the normal, tanging frotm 70 to 10(1 per cent. of the piossihie, with most cloudiness in An derson County anrd least in the North ulastcirn p)ortionIs of the State, being prac ticall y a cloutdiess week, except for au few hours oach (lay during the latter portion of thte woek Crops are being adversely atfocted b'y thte drought. Corn and( cotton, where stands have beetn attained, are doinmg fii y wvell, ptarticulatly in the wecstern and northwestern counties, whtere thorto was plenty of rain during the preOvious week. Corn is reported as wilting during the day. it is well worked, clean and~ of a healthy color generally. -Soe late planting not yet up and com[ple tion of planting delayed, owing to drought. The same Is rciported of cot ton and on redl landls small cotton is dying. Where stands are goodl cotton looks fine, is growing well, is clean, and of a healthy color1 and fair size. Chopping out continues, and is nearing compie',ion in many s(etions$. As comnpared w ith the prmeviouis week etrops have dtitirted ini01( cni tion, OXOcep corni and cotton, whiiich have hlttd their l'own generall~hy, thte hot weathter bring the cond(1ition best suit ed for thir* deOve'lpmenlt, hut they also would he greatliy benefited by rain. The hot weauther' injured peacehes and herries. J. W. liammu imirem.