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4 THEPS JO RNAL. "o VOL. 6.---NO. 29 PICKENS S C THURSDAY, AUG 9,6. ONE DOLLAR A PICKENS S. C. DUNCAN ON THE QHISKEY REBATES, HE MAKS'. GRAVE CHARGES AGAINSE EVANS. Voilmiissioner Mixsoi Does Not Sub stantiato the Charges, Although He is Duncnu's Uhler wit-nessay; At the cAmpaign meeting in Barn wells, Mr. John T. Duncan made quite a sensational statement in regard to whiskey rebates, charging that Gov ernor Evans was cognizant of such re bates being received, and that Tillman lined his pockets with them. The re - porter of the State gave his remarks as follow : . Mr. Duncan then caused a sensation. As he proceeded the meu gathered closer around the stand. Col. Mixson, who was concerned in what he was saying, sat near by but said nothing; neither did Governor Evans. Mr. Duncan, after refering to the facts that Commissioner Mixson had given about the dispensary insurance, said that Col. Mixeon was present. lie regretted to pull these fellows out a little, but did not waste the opportunity when he had them on the stump. He then made the point blank assertion that Mr. Hubbell, the representative of the Mill Creek Distilling company, had offered Col. Mixson a rebate of $562.50 a carload on 100 carloads of rye, which would be a snug total of $26,260. Col. Mixson had refused it, and had told Governor Evans of it. The Governor had said, " You were r'ght,, Mick." Shortly afterwards the Governor had sent for Col. Mixson and ordered him to buy whiskey from Mr. Hubbell's concern. Col. Mixson had said to Gov ernor Evans : " You may have the right to drop my head in the waste basket, but I'll be damned if I will ever buy a gallon of this man's whiskey." (" Hurrah for Mixson.") Mr. Duncan said this cry of rebates was the old cry of stop thief. He said that when Col. Mixson had refused to take the rebates offered, and Governor lVens was visited by that oflicial, the Governor had said :"By God, Mick, I know you are not getting a dollar of this money, but you know that Ben Tillman filled his pockets out of it." (Cheers.) At the meeting in Aiken, Duncan repeated his story it regard to the whiskey rebates, and is reported as follows : .Mr. Duncan again made his state ment as to conversations between Col. Mixson and Governor Evans on rebates. Col. Mixson was absent and Governor Evans mildly pronounced the declara tions false. Mr. Mayfield publicly re peated a message sent Governor Evans y Mr. Mixson, saying Mr. Duncan's statements were unauthorized. Gov ernor Evans seemed satisfied with such refutation of Duafan's statements. Tompkins and Norton, said Duncan, when put upon the stand had contra dicted Evans' statement that they had delegated him to carry out a policy as to the dispensary. Yesterday at Barn well, without previous notice to any one, he had brought out a matter when Col. Mixson was on the stand. Neither Evans nor Mixson had a word to say. He had asserted, giving Mix son as his authority, that Evans had ordered liquor purchased from Hubbell after the latter had offered Mixson big rebates and Mixson treated him Nith contempt. Evans, in an undertone-It is false. Duncan-Oh, yes, Mixson has gone now and you say it's false. Why didn't you deny it yesterday ? The people should thank Col. Mixson for being an honest man and standing between them :and disgrace. When Evans had insinuated Mixson .kuad taken rebates, and Mixson~ was an gry, Evans had said that Tillman lined his pockets with rebates. The other side of the story is told by the Columbia Register, and puts the muatter in an entirely different aspect. H-ere Is the statement au thorized by Commissioner Mixson : Commissioner Mixson attended the Barnwell meeting. Yesterday he was at the State Dispensary as usual. When seen by a Register reporter yes terday, Commissioner Mixson said that Mr. Duncan's statements at Baurnwell were wholly unauthorized by him and were a great surp~rise to him. Colonel Mixson said there had been only one purchase of liquor from the Mill Creek Distillery since he was elected Commissioner. The second day after his election as Commissioner he wired the Mill Creek Distlilery to 'ship the Dispensary two carloads of liquor. At first that company refused to allow' any rebate upon this shipment, but when he wired that he would not .aocept it unless the usual rebate was .allowed, the company backed down .and gave a rebate of five per cent., 'which will be found duly credited upon the books of the Dispensary. A fter that ho made no more purchases from thme Mill Creok Distillery and all talk of big rebates from that company hav ing., been received and pocketed by those in charge of the Dispensary is the veriest bosh. During the year $21,000) was received in rebates upon purchases for the Dlspensary. All of the rebates are duly credited upon the books and specified in Colonel Mixson's annual report. The Register reporter also heard ' 1tat Colonel Mixson had said he would swear before any judge in the land that Governor Evans had not received a single cent of rebates upon any pur chases by the Dispensary. -Lincoln was the first occup~ant of the White House to wear a beard and Grant was the first to wear a incus .tache. Cleveland has a moderate nteoustache, and is the only one of the preLgldents to yvear a moustache with. out a, beard. --The .Broad river in South Carolina was so caled by the whites. The In dian name was Eswan Huppeday, or "Dividing Line river," because it was the boundary betweon the Cherokees and the Cataw bas. -A bride in Montreal appeared at the altar with her pet canary fastened * tolher shoulder by a golden chain. D~uring the marriage ceremony th~e bird broke into song. NICKNAMES IN POLITICS. The Origin and Meaning or Names Given to Certain Factions. New York Tribune. When the followers of " Sockloss" Jerry. Simpson and the bewhiskered Peffer began singing the old negro song " Keep in the Middle of the Road," as a gentle protest against any fusion of their now-born Populist party with the old Kansas Democracy, they proba bly little thought that they were help ing to make history. But such seems to have been the result of their unpre meditated action. They had broken loose froin old party ties, and joincd their fortunes with those of the "Sage of Medicine Lodge " and his senior col league. They objected to tho idea of being absorbed into one of the old par ties, and they gave voice to their senti ments in song. That was four or live years ago. Last week they awoke to fInd themselves famous. very dis patch sent out from St. Louis contained some reference to the " Middle of the Road " faction in the populist conven tion. It was the faction which still wanted to " keep in the middle of the road. " It declined to "turn to the right " or " turn to the loft, " but insist ed on the Populists maintaining their own identity and individuality as a par ty, putting candidates of their own into the field and running their own cam paign regardless of the old parties. What they achieved in the convention does not matter. The interesting fact remains that they have made a pecu liar and suggestive addition to the long list of original factional names with which the history of American politics is full. Some of these names have been at tached to factions in derision by their opponents, and explain themselves; others have been adopted deliberately, almobt as trademarks ; and there are a few whose origin it would bo hard to trace. The first real faction known to American politics under the Constitu tion escaped being labelled by any de risivo appellation which has been handed down, though if such a faction were to crop out now it doubtless would be fittingly characterized. These were the people who lent aid and comfort to "Citizen " Genet, who came here in Washington's second administration as the representative of the French Ie public. His followers were animated by an intense hatred of England, and organized clubs after the manner of the Jacobin clubs of Paris. They address ed each other as " Citizen " and "Cit ers, " and did all in their power to stir up trouble for the administration and the government. As it happened they adopted a name which was afterward taken up by the anti-Federalists, then known as republicans. They called their clubs Democratic clubs, and the name, if not the principles, has become historical. When the lederalist party wos in its decline during Jefferson's second administration there arose a Republi can faction known as the " Quids, " the adherents of John Randolph, whose ex ertions gave fresh life to the Federal ist cause in congress, and who made themselves for a time an active and useful opposition party. Their exist ence was brief. By the time of Jack son's ascendency the -anti-Federalists or Republicans had become gouerally known as the Democrats, and the Whigs had succeeded the Federalists. But it was not long before the Whigs were. calling their opponents "Loco Focos. " This term, like many others of its kind, grew out of factional dis sentions in New York State. A loco foco was a self-ignighting match. At a Democratic meeting in Tammany hail, in 1835, one faction, fearing that the other faction had control of the gathering, put out all of the lights. Matches were produced, the laiups were relighted, and within a short time the whole party was known as "' Loco- Fecos, " a name whIiich cliung to them for ycar's. It was not many years before another split in the same party added two more choice terms to the political vocabula ry. Silas Wright was the leader of the party in the State. He was a friend of Van Buren, and was not always on the best of terms with President F~olk. I n 1846 he was defeated for rc-election as governor, and his friends attributed his downfall to the secret opposition of the administration faction, whom they dubbed "Hunkers," because of their persistent " hunkering " for o00lee. The ''hunkers" were pro-slavery in their symp~athies. Thue Wright faction were such radical anti-slavery men that they became known its the " Barn burn ers " in allusion to the story of the Dutchman who burned his barn to clear it of rats and imicc. The "Barn burners" were practically identical with the " Free-Sellers," who, as every one knows, were merely the iFree Soil Democrats who opposed the extension of slavery into the territories. Politics for some year-s before the war was in a veiry mixed condition, and a revival on a national scale of what was known as the " Native A merican " movement ( again originally a New York nmovement ) resulted In the formi ation of thme " American" party. An elaborate code of signals and pass words was adopted, and all operations of the " Americans " weire wrapp~ed In pro found secrecy. If a member of time or der- was asked about Its practices and purposes, he answered thath he know nothing about them, and the " Ameri cans " for that reason soon came to be called " Know Nothings." The "Copperhead " faction of the Democracy during the war fnrnishes anotheir well known example of a name applied in derision by oppionents. The "Copperheads" were the Souther-n sympathizers in the north, and weiro, naturally, named after the venomous serpent common in many sections of the country. The origin of the name Greenbackers, as applied to a party, is of course obvi ous. The men who formed it wvero ad vocates of unlimited issues of United States notes which early in their cai rerm were characterized as greenbacks from the color of their back,,. " Stalwarts " andl " Half-Breeds " were the outcome of the Blaino-Conk lhng strife as It foumnd x pressionm in this State. Mr. ilaine invented the formom term as applied to itepuIblicans, but Conkling's adherents appropriated it. Trhey "p~ointed with prido" to their stalwart Roepublicanism, and the name was. in their eyes, a badge of d istino tion, until Guiteau, after the assassina tioni of Garfi'eld, proclaimed himself a " Stalwart of the Stalwarts. " Tho "Stalwarts" called their opponents " Half-Beeeds " in derision, that being the term which best expressed the con tempt they affected to fool for them and their political attitude. Two Virginia factions which not many years ago attracted national at tention wore the " Fundore " and " Re adjusters." Their differonces wore over the settlement of Virginia's recon struction debt, and with the disposition of that matter they faded from view. The "Snappers" and " Anti-Snappers " In this State are too vividly impressed on the public mind to require more than a mere mention. The origin of the term everyone knows. Finally, there are the " Mugwumps." This genus, as it is known today, ap ponied on the stage during the Blaine campaign of 844. The word had boon uied in politlcs bofore, however. chiony during the days of the " Loco-F'ocos, " when the newspapers occasionally in dulgod In some facetious romark as this: "The great Mugwump was de livered of a speech, which the faithful loudly applauded. " The word is or In dian origin, and meant with the red mer a big chief. Locally, along the New 1ngland coast, it came to mean a nan of consequenco ; when its second ary meaning, a man who thinks him Belf of consequonce, or, as he was de fined in 188.1, a man educated beyond his intellect." THIE STATE FARMEIRS' ALLIANCE. A Strong Fight. Will be Waged oii the Cotton-Tio Trust-Every Farm er Ought to Joini i the Fight. The State l'armers' Alliance held its annual session in Columbia last week. Pres. Jos. L. Keitt submitted a report for the past year, showing an increase of interest in the Alliance. The an nual election of ollicers resulted as fol lows: Hon. .1. L. Keitt was unanimous ly re-elected president. Hon. J. C. Wilborn was re-elected vice president and State lecture.. J. W. Iteid was unailnimously re-elected secretary and treasurer. Dr. J. L. Shuler, of Lex ington, was elected a member of the executive committee to succeed E. R.t. Walter, of Orangeburg, who declined re-election on account of his health. President Keitt was elected delegate to the National Alliance. The committe on cotton-ties made Its report, which was unanimously adopted and is as follows: Whereas, the manufacturers and wholesale dealers in cotton-ties have advanced prices of ties about 95 per cent. over last season's while the market price of steel only justifies an advance of ten per cent., thus furnishing us with another evidence that this is a day of trusts and com bines against all producers; and whero as suitable wire can be had at a cost of 12 cents per bale against 28 cents a bale for ties, thus offecting a saving of 16 cents per bale on the crop, which amounts to a saving of $128,000 on one year's crop, therefore be it Itesolved, That we ask all Alliance men and farmers interested in the baling of cotton in this State and the Cotton States to co-operate with us in breaking down this new formed- trust by placing their orders at onceifor wire to be used instead of ties in baling the present crop of cotton. And your committee further rccomt mond that our State business agent bO requested to at once obtain.all infor mation as to the supply and cost of using this wire as a substitute for iron ties and report to all sub-all'iances, and that our agent also be directed to corres;onid with the agencies of the Southern States. (SIgned) J1. 1B. D~onnrrur', T. W. StIANNON, C. A. P'ivist., Committee. Thhe committee in charge made a replor't onl the condition of the Cotton IPlant, the organ of the State-Alliance, whic-h was unanimously adopted, and includes the follow ing : "'1The coin miittee in publishing the paper in this city on their- own account did it at a cost of about $50 p)er week. This ex penlso they found they could not con tinue to bear- and they made a contract with Mmr. J. 'T. Gantt, of Spartanburg, a~ practical pr1inter, beginning March I, 189)6, to prinmt the pap~er for- *50 per month for the pr1esenit year. This arriangetnent h as proven very satisfac tory to y our- committee. The sub scrip~tion list has about doubled In the past two years. Your- committee desires to call your- special -atten tion to the State organ and bespeak the hearty and cormdial -suppor-t of all All iancemen for Its advancement and usefulness. We think Mrii. Gantt is to be commended for- the car-nest zeal with which he has entetrod into this work and the itmptrovement he has made in the paper-, and we feel assut-ed the paper wvill conttinuo to Improve and only needs thoe hearty co-operation of thme order to make it one of the best Alliancee and agr-icul tural papers in the country." The committoo on State 10xchmange made a v'erhal r-eport, stating that the Institution wa~s in the best of shape and that it was doing a liurishing business. 1t was decided that the next meeting of the State Alliance be held in Colum bia on the fo-urth Wednesday in July, 189)7. Columbia was chosen on accounat of being in the centr-al p~ortion of the State. Trhe thanks of the Alliance were ex tendled its oflicer-s for their faith fuil and etl'cient seervices. A rosolution was adopted endorsing the sentiments of P resident Keitt's addr-ess. A'UnRonmN WIDow.-The Charles ton Sun has the following adver-tise ment: "Fox SArLE-A horse owned by a widow 15 hands high, broken double and single." It Is riot remarkable that the widow should be 15 :hands high, for that is only 5 foot. Theore at-c plenty of Spar-tanburg girls not 16 years old that ar-e 15 hands high. But the strange thing about the Charleston widow is that she seems to be "broken, doU blean single." Thtatis ver~y much Elvery mother hates to make her children take Castor Oil. Laxol is sweet. (atom. t il . TILLMAN AND COBB AT ORANGEBURG, THE BOY ORATOIR Ol' GlEoltU11l ON FI010I0 SILVE.IR. The War Horse of Carolina aml till Young Racer from Georgia Ornan iso a Mutual Adimiration Society. The anniversary of the Tillman Vol unteers, a crack military company o1 Orangoburg, was the occasion las1 week of a semi-political meeting, al which Senator Tillimau and M r. Thos. R. R. Cobb, of Atlanta, Ga., wore tlu orators of the day. Mr. Cobb is 011 28 years old, and is a very tine speaker He began by saying thatoho felt thai he was no stranger to South Carolina because he had learned from his texi books when a boy that Georgia lia been fobuded as an outpost between th( settlements in this State- and those ir Plorida. The coimittoo had kindl3 allowed him to select the subject (on1 which lie would speak. There was )ut1 one subject to speak' on ,today, but be fore starting into It he had something elso to say. Some yoars beforo hIo ha1w learned to look deepor into men than: the characters which woro'given thenm by tJhe newspapers he had thought that if there was one flannel-mouthed, black hearted Anarchist in the country thait man was 13. R. Tillman. But since ht had learned to look deeper than the tempbrary flash of the daily press ht had learn to know him as a true mnar battling for the common people. (Ap plause.) They could be pretty sure thai when in these days the entire press o0 the East was pecking at any man thai it was his Democracy and not his an archy which was feared. (Applauso. He referred to Tillman's fights in th< Senate with Hill, and then he went oi to talk of the recentgrowth of political sentiment. It, wi moiure like TrLiIInan scattered here and there'over the coun try which had brought about i plat form and a candidate which they could sul)port. Some time ago they had scei man after man refusing to be a candi date for the nomination, because, nHone thought the ticket could possibly win. But look at it now. It was when it )e came apparent that the party was making great strides forward in thc race, even before the convention had assembled, that the first squeal hiad been brought from our elephantino ex ecutive. Now the country was rising for Bryan and sewall. A Voice: "Watson ! How about Wat son ? You can't leave out Tom Wat son, of Georgia !" Cobb: "My friend, I don't know whether you are a )emocrat or a Pop uliot, but-" The other fellow: "im a 1)emocrat, but I am a Southern man. They have given us a Southerner, and yot shall not leave out 'Vom. Watson." Cobb: "Well, my friend, my feelings on that subject are like yours. Porsat, ally I have all the pride of my section. Tom Watson is a dear friend of mino. I admito and love him, butI regard my party higher than my personal prefer ences, and I stick to Bryan and Sowall.' (Great cheering for Cobb.) l He watited to speak of the Suprecn Court of the United States. The plat forth did not mention it. He stood witli Bryati, )oweyer, and If they wanted criticisms of that body they should g( to the dissenting opinions. He gre%% 3ibl-oal atul made a comparison, th< point bf wpilch was thmwt. evob the des. diples', it -they did wrong, 'should b( criticised. It was a question of whal was tight, and be did not care if hit views were those of a Populist or a Ro. publican. If they were right he wouk hold them. It was true that the Su. premeo Uourt:w'aka tuost sacred buiwarli of our liberties arid should be criticisec slowly, but he believed there wor< cases on record that showved, at leaist, suspicious conduct on the p~art of memb~er or members of the court. iler( the Demnocrats had been lighting 1"ed eralism for a century, and what hat they conmo to ? Cleveland had dom more towards upholding the lFederal is1 idea than any manm since Lincoln. If would name the act. Lie did it whcs he sent soldiers into a State of the U nion to quell a local disturhanet Cleveland struck at the very heart c our dual system of government wheni supreme self confidence and contempa for the Constitution he sent soldiers t, Illinois to shoot down the citizens c that State. And now rumblings ar heard in the East, rumblings thgt ir dicate that Cleveland will be the noni ne of the gold democrats for the Pro'e idoncy. Ho did not believe it, he hopei it was not so, but if Cleveland would dI such a thing after what he had r'eceiv ed from the party he was the basest o Judascs. (Applause.) W hat was the govern ment coming to any how ? It was only a short time ag that 1peop1)1, free born citizens8, ha gone to Washington to exercise th sacredi right of petition, and they ha( been prosecuted for descraation of th< sacredi grase about the caplitol. We. see riots in t'he l'ast, rits in the Wes and debts and desperation in thc South, anid we are asked, "'What is th<( matter '' I , reinminded hi m of tha little boy out, West who was holding 3 sick baby and lookinug very dIisconso late. Somebody came by and asket him what was the matter. T1ho littl< fellow had roplied that there was mate ter enough. ~llis father had stolen ant got caught, his mother was drunk, hit sister wats flirting with a total stranger the baby had the colic and he didn'I give a--whethber jhe (old expeditionl ever got to Califor:hia or not. Thi b joke was plroductive of much laughtm andi app~lause. T1he spleaker said that wvhen an American boy felt that way, wvhen there wore 70,0010,000 oif thbem feeling that way, that he himellfd began to fool that if satisfaction could not be gotten from the ballot box that it would come from the bullet box. (Cheers.) ie was sorry to say it, but that was his conviction. (More cheers. A Voico. "'You are right this time, for that's what it is comning to." Mr. C;obb saidl hi hoped niot. Tihe p~eolo could settle their diffecrences by' aL pcacetful revolotion just such as wan now in progress. ILe hald been in New York when lI ryan was non'nted, an' lbe wanted to say Ihat lhe h ad nmever. hearzd miore good'tilngs said about a man than he had heaird said about TIIh nami, and he had never ardni mforo har-d th ingt said about One thani was raid there ol him also. (Cheers for Tillhnian.) 11 they got tired of himl In South Caroli (,, for' God's sake send hin over to Georgia. (Cheers for Tillman.) But Mr. Cobb was not lending himself just then to the Idea. lie Woul not agree with him. 110 holieved The News and Courier wouIld print his speech and do it fairly. !ic waas only saying what Ie conscientiously believed ; he was not asltmed of it, and he was ready to stand lby it. AI r. Cobb then tried to close his speech, but tfhe crowd insisted that he should go on, and Tillman called out that he was doing far too well to stop. So he went on speaking. 1It touched upon a variety of things In a fragincex tairy mannor, and was frequontly ap plauded. le tried once more to stop, but the crowd would not havc it, and he had to go on again. Somebody wanted him to talk about McKinley. le did not intend to talk about him, he saiLd. McKinley had been hartping on a dead issue. lie (AicK inley) looked like a man astrido or a (ead jackass in a storm. The speaker then insisted on stopping,al though the crow agailn tried to make imi go on. After lie sat down the crowd cheered him for nicarly a minute. TILI-MAN'S 'A1.N. Dr. Stokos tried to introduce Sh-n atr Tillman, but the crowd started to cheering antid wouIld not Aisten to him. Mien cal led out, "(Oh, we all know old 33n " " Come on, Ben, dn't wait for him '" and other minilar things. So Drm. Stokes stopped aside and Senator Pillinan Caime to the front. lie began with a reference to the op proi-sive weather, quoting S I dney Smith's famous desire to take oil his liesh and sit in his hones. Ile was, he said, at a disadvantage-tlhero was no body in sight to light. lie comn pl1imeont 0d Cobb h ighly' onl his speech. It was asking too much to expect them to sit there while ho told theimi over agaiii what everyone of them believed. He d.id inot think there was a gold hug in the audionce, and if there were any in the Stato they were very fow. The country had at last come down to some genuine Democr-acy. They :ow Saw that. light in the West they had heard about. He thought lie had had smoine thing to (10 with bringing about tihe conditions which pievai led. lie had been out among the people, and lie had yet to mot an audience that did not give him the courtesy and the enthus iasm that lie had received there. lie said lie did not propose to mniko a regular speech. L1e was only going to touch on two or throo points, and lie would detain them but a few minuiites. le referred to the occasion whieh brought him there-celebrating the birth of the Tillman Volunteers. Ho complimented the company highly, and referrod to the part it had taken in the )arl ington war. Ie urged them to look well to their liberties ; no one would do it if thev did not. He referred to the first visit, lie had ever iaid to Orangohurg. lie made his-second speech 1,hre, aid ie drew a humorous picture of how he had felt. OrangCburg had always stuck by him. It was the banner county of Ruform. Tie people had sometimes shown a confidence in him which lie did not have in himself. This had sustained him in his light. When lie made 4is speech in the Senate it aippoared to him that, the country was in a critical condition. Put see the effect that had been pro ducod by pressing that issue by himn self antd others, amiong whom was Bryan. See the elfeet of declaring that they %yould no longer cling to a party that betrayed the people. They had gone back to true Deloct-acy of Jeferson. The victory at Chicago was the greatebt achieved since Jackson whipped the banks. The Democracy had been on trial ;it had b'een carried back to first principles and taken out of the hands of the buceanecrs who had taken possession of it. 'rThe speaker then reviewed the for mation of the party and tne issues that have separated tile two great national I parties since the beginning Cloveland had been a hietter Repuiblica~n thar , arrison. See what he with now con spiring to do-nominate a ticet the XI exressed oibject of w hich would be 3 the (defeat of the Demuocracy. lie hop. . (d they would dio it. Thoure wvas n fsuch thxing as a gold bug I )cmocrat 1 the name wvas a misnomer. t Hie toldi of how Whitney, Hussellam . Belmont had gone to Chicago. tatkiny. iSenator 11ill with them, and then he( a told of how the silIvor men had caucusa - etd there and won the fighit. - Bryan was not afraidl to come to 1thex -commifon people iandt tell them what lha i felt and~ believed, bCcaudse hiis hearti ) wias puiro. T1hat was the di Iference he twoeon hi m iand Ml inloy. .1lis young friend had paid his respets to the U~nitedi States Courts. Thoy would see ,I in the platform that government, by iniju nction had to cease. 'JlTh p)eo I pic knew what this meant ;they had soo hOoII1w a man right here amnonig thoii had tried to overth row the law and bi ndl down the dispensary. These usu ri.ti onj of the c iederal jumd ici ary were a mlenace to the country. T1hie Courts had crept from one pioin t to another until now nothing was sacured from them. Tihey had seen inu the pa pers of tile (liy before what one( lFederal Judge had dione. ile read here the (dispatch announc ing that Judge Simonton had issued an injunction prmoh ibiting the cuitti ng of rates. Hie went over thme history of the rate war, tellin~g how the tight caime upJ. Tihe Seaboard hlad cut itts rates to protect itself and~ its territory and( then the Souitherin and( tile Associttionm had made a still larger cut. These are coi plorattions runn~ ing through mnauyStates. They have thiri charters in the various States and h ad Lbciir righIits und--r them. \Voeuld any one deny that they had time righ t to cut rates i f they wanted to ?~ W hom did they hurt? Thiir stock hohders ? 11lad not the stock holders control of tlieir plroperty, andit if they w ishe~d to stop) the war- coul d thbey not (1o so without, outsidle aId ? it, was a pri vate bumsi ness allair.' imut, inusteoad of letting timem light it out here comesC a federal judge, who steps forward, as sumues iali power and stops them. Th e eriar says you shall do so and so; lhere is uanotheri cz.ar, who says you shatll not do) ( oln ho. lEach i tyrannxy, amid thme one is no imore oppress~5ive thanm the othier. WA~here does- this main got, hiis author ity to control solvent comporations ? If lhe had' the powver to say that they sh~allI unot cut the rate then he has power to say that they shall cut. Then whose proporty is safe fi'om his intorforeico? iHe can imitate Judge Woods, who) Il1mrisoned Dobs because h stopped work. To what point haiive wo tcomoi, when suich things are0 possible ? It Is time11 that thoro wias soime one to step forwtard and say to thise judges: "You infernal tcoun-' drels, if you go any further wo w'ill not, only chokO you. but, we will hang you." 'T his m1anl In South Carolina has gone further than any of them. lH0 directly interferes with tle liberteios of corpor ations and people. He know ho wias safe, decause lie know they could not got a Congress to impeach him. This was the point antd featuro of Senator Tillinan's spooch. lin conclu sion lho urged upon the people to main-. t1ain the interrity of whatt had been done by the Reforii movement. IIe did not Wailt, to see them pulling down the house that hiad boon completed. $top tinkering with it. There wats no use stirring Ip now strifo. lluch had boeen accomplished, and if tile peopl wbuld send godd iuenl to ollie tih whole thing woild work out right. Tle peo ple wantcd to got togothor and stop lighting. le waS pot making refer 0)(10oto any particular tnan, h1e was addressing himiiself to the Condition confr'onting the State. Let the people stand by the work that. reform had ac ompl13 P1ished.(i, but lot thoim stop lighting ani1d work inl harilony and aecord. .lhre was long, co31ntnued cheoerlng wIorn Selttor 'Iilhn'an sat, down, aLId smelI one stepped forward tland pre sented him wit-h i iloral pitchfork from the ladies of IUimtstone section. SLElTING LaA N)IAlls 191. Anl i.nperienleeti 1,'arn-114er Given Good Itensins l'or Occupy ing Land All the Time With Growing Crops. 'lonitry Gienleriman, IParlnlrs lre beg itinning to NCe the ai vantage of occutpying their grain ilids with somlio gre wv ing orop after the grain is halveste(I. Land in ia stato of nature Is occupiel Lite season through. There is no " rest, " as is held necessary by some, With Cliultivated soil, for the rea sonl that 10 elforL is rlequired for grow thb. 'ractico has demaonstratod this long ago, where land hats been Oiled annual ly for generations, bearing as good crops now as it flrbt, and better where the land has been propr-ly taken ca:.o of. Pii practice of keeping tihe ground un occupied the latter part of the season from the timle the grain crop Is rImov od, hais nothing at all to recommond It, aid much to oppose. Tle land is not, only idle, but there is a chance for weeds an31d coarse grasses to grow anIld ripuln ,tiheir eds, oupocially in moist WCLther3, Which UomtU1 mils oC us inthie latter part of the season. This, in a large proportion of laud, is a great, sourcoe of evil, as our litids abundantly attLest. To iave the ground exposed duin g L.hi heat and d ronutlh of August, a nd Be i'temhoi:', Is not Ii koly to boneti t it. On tho otlher hand, to culItivat and10 har-ow it is a belnelit. no dolit m1ore tll ing for tile trilling expenSe of the wori, which is Soon11 aLclomplishied. I f the plow is n doded on accollit of grass and weeds, all tho greater will be the blnelit. imm 13edfliatOly after the groIIid 1s workedl when yet moist, sow it to soime crop '40 a1S Lo get it started in CasO of dro th. thu-ing the rest of the season1 the growth will he i-awing fertility froi the aLLItosphlero, and shadiing the groind Io doubt, furthers fort ility. '1h1is cr'op rLnllied down in the fall Iiatiu er' Iig ligly, ' ill alord an excel lent stied bed ill the spring, With the cortainty of an increased yield inl the Cr01), atid the land will be cleaner and in better conditLion. This practice continued yearly wviil be aL constant benefit, re qu1iring less mnuLlre anid the vegetable mineral thus a~dded wvill further favor fertility bly relntioni anid chemical ef feet upion the mineral maiitter of the soil. 'lay soil will also be loss Lenaci 0ous11( indead. The elfect is sonmowhia like yearly turning down sod, with tho ad vantage of mior'e speedy decomposi tion, anid bonelit to the crop that, fol The advantage here over green ma nluring properi~ is thait, it (1001 not intr fore wVith, theo reguilar crop~pinog of Lh< season. l'ii elerlie 10'cr'op, like wh len arid r'ye, beinrg removed, a larg ruas. of vegetable m3ater-ial many bo growi and(LI turned dlolwn1 ini Limoi for the fal SOwVIing of wVinrter grini. 1"or Lihis pur13 pose0 the rc is probhably nothing hottei thani the pmea, wich o will -radly l and ailford paltbilum3 for ai good gr-ow L of the grin bly wint~er, the ground bo ig sulhieiently compact b~y sp3rig fo1 Liibis grin , esp~ecilly in clay soils. Ono of my neigh bors raised 22 burshels p)3erc oIf whoamt (In sodi tulrned r':wn aL few weeks befor-e sowving. Th~le sea1 son wais favorale for whiea~t. TVhe next yearV wheat, on the 8sam3 grournd, well worked wi'Ithouit, mahlnurei', waIs a failur13.. I have knlowni sti bbie ground3( beaing coarsxo grass arid weecds Lturned clown w ih sucesS for whieat,, and thiis wvith (1u3t nimn1ure, the soll not ver-y rich , arid for years cJr'opped and1( rodclod5. Thle point of imlportance to b)0 al ways kept in view Is the amiountof vegetable malltter in the soilI. In old worn (out land it is al ways more- omr less wanting, arid hicre It has the greatest, eliect, and a comparatively 5311al1 amount doing much to Inr'ease thbe gr-ow thl. I have seen Lthis don in riot a few calses, 3and it hias alw~ays been satisfaet~ory. ityonnd0 0aH are tbe plants mostly usidan illet.V lherie the gron d is not poor', is reicommiiended. Any qjuick growinig rlich pla1nt, wVill do. WA ii~ rye and1( p0ens nio rmistako Can 00 made, as they ar'e of qJ uieck growthi arid rich In fer-ti lizilng mailterial. Th'ie pea is best, adaphtedl to summer gr-owthi, to follow afteor whIoIat or' rye. As it, Is a fast'ur gr'ower a lar'ger amoun31t (If mallterili is s(0iecre to be0 tulirned dIown in the fall 01' ipriig, An other th Ing w ith Lh Is g raIn Is of spUci al value ; it is adapted to poor or' run downv oil ; wV ih the aId of plaster which, where' it has Its full (elect, mfore than doubles10 the gr-owth, andil hence shiould a1 lys be used for' this purpose. In su1ch calsos nothinilg appr~ioachles It for' fertilIzingj land cheaply i na short time, and,1 no imo is better than~l afterI the grin crop, to fill the idle gny. Where the LIm ro Ogr'opoth is sho(r'ter 118 afteor & 'D I., ice iaint, grw ~ ., ou wVi. .r, arnd arily arid rapiid ly in tie 8pr'rig, a tfordig a r'ich an~d Labundant mai1ss of m1altteri to tium dlown on land nlot, Ltoo much01 3 iOu or and~ It, is a1 palyinig (loperat1o0 where the time will allo1(w of its annpJaion ; h manure instead of being fritterddaay, is retainod in the soil, I should' tie study of the farmer how best he iaf fill tip this gap of the season-a great advantago long neglected. Muoh can be (lone. and in various ways and it should be made a rogular wdrk on the farm. Thore is a wide renge of treat ment, from simple harrowing the 1ind. and sow ing the seod, is on sandy soil to moro olr borate working and manuring which clay requires. For experimep tako light soil, harrow well, weighting the harrow if necessary; sow peas, us ing gypsum for manuro. This is soon dono wi th little cost. Omit the expe riment on part of the field so as to sed the differenco in the effct if any. Let the oxperi mont cover severalseasons in. succession. 1J10K LY CROP BUI Eli. The Weathor wan Favorable For All Cropmt and Notamy Cotton. This bulletin covers the weather and crop conditions for the week ending Saturday,J uly 25, and in its preparation woro used reportws from onek or more correspondents in each county of the Stat. The ti est of the wook the temperature was considerably bolow the normal with a steady rise throoghout the wook. The condition of the air was humid and sultiry, and the nights very warm. The maxinmum temperature was 100 at Boaufort, Allendale and Gillisonvillo on the 24th and 25th ; the -minimum. 64, at Liberty and Loopere onl the 19th. The moan temperature for the week was 80, and the approxi-. mato normal is 81. Thiorio woro s'nattored showers, gon orall ' light, over the entiro State, as .0( of th rainfall stations reported. somie rain during the week, the aver ago amount for the Stato having been 0. 17 and the normal for the samo pe riod is approximately 1.4]. The fol lowing places reported heavy rains: Augusta, Ga., 1.75; tlorenco, 1.79 Kingstree, l.9o ; Yomassee, 2.20 Loopers, 1.50: Longshoro, 1.29; Chos torliold, 1.30 ; Mtllingha'n, 1.84 : Liber .v, 1.00; Andorson, 2.06; Darlington, 1.00; Colum bia, 2.47 ; Hagood, 1.30. The percontage of sunshine for the State was 17 por cent. of the possible which was nearly normal, but in por tions of tho.Stato there was very little sunshine while in the northeastrn counties there was hlmost an entire absence of clouds. The week wias a favorablo one for all crops and for some, notably cotton, exactly tihe weather nood for its best tdcveloInmeiint. Corn fired in a few localities under the itnih nence of the hot sun on wet giround, and in such places fodder pull 1ig was hurried. Saving fodder is geneCrii in the eusturn 'portion of the S-tato ani well hogun elsewhere. Late (or.n- looks very promising OV0or the en , iro Stat.c. Iteporlts on cotton indicate a rapid (ovelopmuent of the plant, and. from a mumbr of places como reports of growth having titoppod, but blooming and fruiting frcely. Itust and shedding aro reported fron nino counties, as cribod to the wet condition of the soil. In the wCstern counties, an OxcessivO growth of wood Is reported, and at the sanme time the cr.op is characterized as ".as int a crop as over known." Tle identical words being used by corros Ioidents from four counties. Sea Island cotton made marked improve ment. Tobaccoo curing well under way, but not curing woll. In 1'lorence the 0irop3 is doing well, olstwlieore it is not so good. Peas, turnips, forage crops and sweet potatoes are doing well, except that the latter are running very much to.v inc. Correspondents report fruit generally to have been more or less a failure. Peaches bloomed freely and the young fruit set well, exeplt for some varieties that were injured by frost it March, but the hot weather of May caused the young peaches to drop freely, which continued to maturity. Peaches also suffered from insect enemies, so that of the frimit that ripened but a small portion was perfect or marketable. There were reports of t peacheOs rottling on the trees. Taking g quantity and quality into consideration, thme peach elrop was about one-fourth of an average ono. Apples are qiulto lentitul in certain counties or parts of counties, and very scar'ce elsewhere. Some trees that bore no fruit last year are loaded this year. Apples blossomed freely and - generally the fruit set well, but duringI the extreme heat of May it began to drop freely and the condition of apples acetorior'atod steadily. Wuhile aplos are plentiful in places, all correspond ents speak of the fruit as of very in ferior quality, due it seems to insect bites and worms. Thus reducing its conimmtercial value to considerable less than half of an average crop. i'oars wore excellent in a few places onily, and generally suffered the same injury with likeoiresults as apples and peaches d11(. Blight affected fruit trees seriously. and In places where never before known. I'lums, apricots and cherries were falInures. H~ico continues to grow well, and mutchi of it. is heading. As far as known no damage resulted from the high water' on the Santee, Cooper, Eidist() orI other rivers in the main rice' region. 'rThe reports on grapes indicate a " uniform excellence of condition thiroughot, the State, with local ex~ ccl)Lons wvhero they are rotting more or loss, and on1e eCport from Lexing ton, where they are pronounced a failure, b)ut this condition will not apply to the whole county. T1he quality of grapes is pronounced excellent evor'ywhere, and sttmmning up all re piorts., grapes are a full average both as toqlity and qantity. The bullace Cultivated berries did fairly wol$, and wild berries were exceedingly plentiful and of fine quality. On the whole the season was a poor one for fruit, and tho' main 'reason ass ig ned by correspondent# was the exessive heat during May, co-exipt. ing with severe diroughty conditions, and after the heat moderatod and the drought was relieved, insects damaged the remaining fruit, or the rains caused it to rot so that there was a steady decline In condition from tihe tine fruit blossomeduni ,mm tri