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SUB-TREASURY DEBATE. 8ENATOR BUTLER AND OR. STOKES MEET AT PR08PEMTY. Nothing New, r?>r or AkhIi.hi the Mrm ure, Preaenl? <l->Th? Henalor Find? No ? 'Inen In 'I iiK Htufn for h Third 1'ititjr ? Mil n. in ii y ..I Hi.- S.v.. i ui S|..< tin ?? Prosperity, S (?., July 29.?Tholarg cat crowd that Prosperity has ever known assembled toCay to hear the open joint debate on the sub-treasury between the two distinguished speak ers, the Hon. M. 0. Hutler and Dr. J, Win Stokes. From early dawn until the time of debute v v< ry entrance to the town was thronged with interested vis itors, and at 10 o'clock, the time ap pointed for the meeting to commence, quite iifteen hundred persons haa gath ered around the stand. Comfortable seats had been properly prepared for the ladhs in front of the rostrum, and in spite of the threatening appearance of the heavens a considerable number of the gentler sex were present. Every one was struck u 1th the excellent be havior of the assemblage, for through out the entire meeting almost perfect quiet prevailed, except w tun the speak ers were questioned and when applause was given to Gen. Hutler. The audience was doubtless an Intel, llgen't oue, und whh out to hear the "truth developed" aud to give chance for eonvictions. All of the speakers remarked especially concerning the above noted fact. a trap that DID not work. Notwithstanding a trap, similar to tho one arranged for Governor TUlraan at Spartanburg, had been prepared for Senator Hutler, yet it can be safely said that the victory was decidedly his. He held the sympathy of his audience aud his views were heartily received. . Promptly at the time appointed the He v. Mr. Sligh, president of the New berry Alliance, who acted as chairman, announced that the meeting would be opened with prayer by the Rev. J. B. Tray wick. mr. SLIGIl's remarks. After these devotional exercisss the chairman, in his opening remarks, af ter expressing his gratliication on see ing such a goodly number present, said: ''This largo assembly is a hopeful sign. It shows that the peoole are awake to their interests, are beginning to think for themselves and have come in search of knowledge, lie hoped, to see and learn, not to censure or condemn. The debate will boon the sub-treasury plan, not. the bill?that plan embracing the idea of flexible currency. I bespeak the very best attention and behavior. Let us remember that we are citizens capable of thus rellecting, with brains located in the head, not in the heels. Let us listen with the hope of improv ing our idens. These speakers have a difference of opinion and have a right to that opinion, so condemn them not. I know that the Alliance is searching for truth. We recognize that some thing is wrong and seek a remedy, but if the remedy we ask will not help us out of it we'will take another. Allot us, therefore, are for the same purpose, so treat all with the same respect. I lepeat again, that the people of the United States are beginning to think lor themselves. You are capable of doing the eame, then exercise that sound judgment that characterizes us." DOUBLE TEAMING on botler. The programme for the day was then announced as folk) wa: The first speech tobe made by Dr. J. Wm Stokes, the next by the Hon. M. C. Hutler, with the privilege given to tho former to answer the Senator. After this a dinner of barbecued meats would be served, and the programme resumed promptly at 3, with a speech on the same plan by Col. Talbert, superintendent of the Peniten tiary. Dr. Stokes, who was then intro duced, stepped forward and spoke as follows: DR. stokes's first speech. Mr. President, Brothers and Fellow citizens: I esteem it a high privilege to meet you on this occasion. As a na tive of South Carolina I am proud of tier history. I believe also that all hon est men aie my brothers, and while pa triots are thinking for themselves and interested in the measure that is before us I will give the results that I have ar rived at on this great economic ques tion. I count this large audience as a hopeful sign, and certainly think it a hopeful sign, that the people are inter ested in these problems. I rejoice to be at this meeting and to see this large crowd because the Alli ance has bun report* d as being opposed to a discussion of its measures The only reply that I make to such imputa tions is that heretofore the debates were between two Alliance men and especially for Alliance men. Since it is our issue and effects us-most, we deem it our right to have it discussed. Now since its adoption by the State Alliance we determined to urge open discussion of this plan. The idea of secrecy was to eliminate any outside agency that might prejudice the mem bers of the Alliance. This gathering is for Newberry County and the meeting was called lor this particular discim ston. I put it to you, then, whether the Alliance is not in favor of discus sion with the opposition when Gen. Hutler is here for that purpose. It wants free and full discussion and we abide by such discussion. Here Mr. Stokes read his letter of challenge to Senator Butler, which up feared in the News and Courier to-day. le explained it was not his intention to speak, but that Mr. Livingston, of the Georgia Alliance, had accepted the invitation to meet (Jen. Butler. Late last evening he received a message irom Mr. Livingston telling him he could not meet Gen. Butler on account of physical inability. He continued, saying: I am glad to lie here, and remember, fellow-citizens, this Is an intoil-e.tu.il contest of brain with brain. We want to present the position of the Alliance pro and con. Let us gather with minds unprejudced to receive the truth. 1 ask the Alliance especially to give close and practical attention to develope the truth, for wo give the people of this section this opportunity of seeing the bottom of the matter. With these pre liminary remarks I shall proceed. The Alliance has announced as one of its demands the establishment of ware houses in which non-perishable products may be deposited and on which treasury notes be issued. I wish your special attention here, for I will be ablr^o present only a general sum mary. Kith'. I think nearly all the financiers agree that there is an insufllclency of circulating medium even for ordinary business, and all economists agree that there is an important relation between this circulating medium and price. I might cite to dozens of the greatest economists. Calhoun was explicit. Stuart Mill, Clay, all were explicit on than point. But if I lacked in authority I could appeal to your common sense and prveitas explicitly as they, if you have a horse worth 0250 and are forced by circumstances to sell, and if no one has more than 8150, of course you can get no more, even It the horse Is worth more. While there is no exact ratio yet the general truth la establish* SUB-TREASURY DEBATE. 8ENATOR BUTLER AND OR. STOKES MEET AT PR08PEMTY. Nothing New, r?>r or AkhIi.hi the Mrm ure, Preaenl? <l->Th? Henalor Find? No ? 'Inen In 'I iiK Htufn for h Third 1'ititjr ? Mil n. in ii y ..I Hi.- S.v.. i ui S|..< tin ?? Prosperity, S (?., July 29.?Tholarg cat crowd that Prosperity has ever known assembled toCay to hear the open joint debate on the sub-treasury between the two distinguished speak ers, the Hon. M. 0. Hutler and Dr. J, Win Stokes. From early dawn until the time of debute v v< ry entrance to the town was thronged with interested vis itors, and at 10 o'clock, the time ap pointed for the meeting to commence, quite iifteen hundred persons haa gath ered around the stand. Comfortable seats had been properly prepared for the ladhs in front of the rostrum, and in spite of the threatening appearance of the heavens a considerable number of the gentler sex were present. Every one was struck u 1th the excellent be havior of the assemblage, for through out the entire meeting almost perfect quiet prevailed, except w tun the speak ers were questioned and when applause was given to Gen. Hutler. The audience was doubtless an Intel, llgen't oue, und whh out to hear the "truth developed" aud to give chance for eonvictions. All of the speakers remarked especially concerning the above noted fact. a trap that DID not work. Notwithstanding a trap, similar to tho one arranged for Governor TUlraan at Spartanburg, had been prepared for Senator Hutler, yet it can be safely said that the victory was decidedly his. He held the sympathy of his audience aud his views were heartily received. . Promptly at the time appointed the He v. Mr. Sligh, president of the New berry Alliance, who acted as chairman, announced that the meeting would be opened with prayer by the Rev. J. B. Tray wick. mr. SLIGIl's remarks. After these devotional exercisss the chairman, in his opening remarks, af ter expressing his gratliication on see ing such a goodly number present, said: ''This largo assembly is a hopeful sign. It shows that the peoole are awake to their interests, are beginning to think for themselves and have come in search of knowledge, lie hoped, to see and learn, not to censure or condemn. The debate will boon the sub-treasury plan, not. the bill?that plan embracing the idea of flexible currency. I bespeak the very best attention and behavior. Let us remember that we are citizens capable of thus rellecting, with brains located in the head, not in the heels. Let us listen with the hope of improv ing our idens. These speakers have a difference of opinion and have a right to that opinion, so condemn them not. I know that the Alliance is searching for truth. We recognize that some thing is wrong and seek a remedy, but if the remedy we ask will not help us out of it we'will take another. Allot us, therefore, are for the same purpose, so treat all with the same respect. I lepeat again, that the people of the United States are beginning to think lor themselves. You are capable of doing the eame, then exercise that sound judgment that characterizes us." DOUBLE TEAMING on botler. The programme for the day was then announced as folk) wa: The first speech tobe made by Dr. J. Wm Stokes, the next by the Hon. M. C. Hutler, with the privilege given to tho former to answer the Senator. After this a dinner of barbecued meats would be served, and the programme resumed promptly at 3, with a speech on the same plan by Col. Talbert, superintendent of the Peniten tiary. Dr. Stokes, who was then intro duced, stepped forward and spoke as follows: DR. stokes's first speech. Mr. President, Brothers and Fellow citizens: I esteem it a high privilege to meet you on this occasion. As a na tive of South Carolina I am proud of tier history. I believe also that all hon est men aie my brothers, and while pa triots are thinking for themselves and interested in the measure that is before us I will give the results that I have ar rived at on this great economic ques tion. I count this large audience as a hopeful sign, and certainly think it a hopeful sign, that the people are inter ested in these problems. I rejoice to be at this meeting and to see this large crowd because the Alli ance has bun report* d as being opposed to a discussion of its measures The only reply that I make to such imputa tions is that heretofore the debates were between two Alliance men and especially for Alliance men. Since it is our issue and effects us-most, we deem it our right to have it discussed. Now since its adoption by the State Alliance we determined to urge open discussion of this plan. The idea of secrecy was to eliminate any outside agency that might prejudice the mem bers of the Alliance. This gathering is for Newberry County and the meeting was called lor this particular discim ston. I put it to you, then, whether the Alliance is not in favor of discus sion with the opposition when Gen. Hutler is here for that purpose. It wants free and full discussion and we abide by such discussion. Here Mr. Stokes read his letter of challenge to Senator Butler, which up feared in the News and Courier to-day. le explained it was not his intention to speak, but that Mr. Livingston, of the Georgia Alliance, had accepted the invitation to meet (Jen. Butler. Late last evening he received a message irom Mr. Livingston telling him he could not meet Gen. Butler on account of physical inability. He continued, saying: I am glad to lie here, and remember, fellow-citizens, this Is an intoil-e.tu.il contest of brain with brain. We want to present the position of the Alliance pro and con. Let us gather with minds unprejudced to receive the truth. 1 ask the Alliance especially to give close and practical attention to develope the truth, for wo give the people of this section this opportunity of seeing the bottom of the matter. With these pre liminary remarks I shall proceed. The Alliance has announced as one of its demands the establishment of ware houses in which non-perishable products may be deposited and on which treasury notes be issued. I wish your special attention here, for I will be ablr^o present only a general sum mary. Kith'. I think nearly all the financiers agree that there is an insufllclency of circulating medium even for ordinary business, and all economists agree that there is an important relation between this circulating medium and price. I might cite to dozens of the greatest economists. Calhoun was explicit. Stuart Mill, Clay, all were explicit on than point. But if I lacked in authority I could appeal to your common sense and prveitas explicitly as they, if you have a horse worth 0250 and are forced by circumstances to sell, and if no one has more than 8150, of course you can get no more, even It the horse Is worth more. While there is no exact ratio yet the general truth la establish* m| If a commodity is worth so muco with the clroulatl \g ineiluin aod you cut the medium, ot course cut the price. Second. Not only does the currency not bear a proper relation to thisgener al business, but it lacks a feature which t he Alliance was the first to promulgate, that 1.? elasticity. I might, show, by a process of reason ing, the hold of it. In the fall or the year when accumulated labor for a year is thrown on the mat kef, even if the money Is not manipulated, there Will he a relative contraction at that time be cause the logical effect is what ail politi cal economists crfll a depression of price. The fact creates, then an abnormal condition and by way of parenthesis that condition is not due solely to the relative iufiux of products, but to the few who control the money. Col llobert Chtsolm, formerly of Charleston, has made the alarming statement that there were six corpora tions and ten men who can lock up in one day one bllliou of dollars. This condition, due to lack of llexibhty,oper ates against all classes of people, and Jou are mistaken when you think it is or the sole interest of the farmer we' are working, for the question is as broad as the country. All business men are cramped by that condition of affairs. Hut. it Is especially hurtful to the farmer, lor he must "labor twelve months before he can produce anything. The commercial men know the condi tion and, therefore, have an opportu nity of getting their money out of the way, so the farmer must sell on a fall ing market. While speaking about the abnormal condition I will answer the arguments against the measure. It does not give the farmer special privileges, hut if it did they would be rather in the line of evening up. There are three, aod only three, classes of producers, mining, manufacturing and agriculture, hut two are not producers in a strict sense, mining and manufacturing. But an agriculturalist when he goes into his field and works nine months, using soil, sunshine and rain. Is a producer, and he only. There are two ways of even ing up unequal things, subtract from the larger and add to the smaller, there is an equality. Men who own United States bonds have the special privilege of depositing with the Government, and it issues currency on this deposit. But wo dare not take away that priv ilege, because there Is not enough cur rency. Then add some privileges to the farmer. Some argue it would hurt the miners and manufacturers, but they are always protected, they can put their products on the market every day, but not the farmer. So this is to place the farmer equal to the other two produc ers, and ho is ent it led to it provided he can giv? as solid a basis for issuing currency. Here he guve the plan of Mr. S. M. Stone in the -Forum, who says he ad mits the necessity of elastlcty, but does not admit the Alliance plan. He offers an original plan; propossesa bank of Is sue to issue currency on products. I have this objection: The same men will control the currency as now, but I claim Mr. Stone as a convert to the Alli ance plan of elasticity. Hence we con clude that currency is insufficient and lacks flexibility. Throughout the speech Mr. Stokes quoted Mr. Stone and Mr. Calhoun on the necessity of flexibility. He said the farmers' plan meets the condition, but that If not obtained he will accept a better system than the ware houso .system. lie adds that It Is to be supplied by two ways, the issue of flat money or the national bank issue, and there's no hope of Increasing from thoso sources, because in case of flat money a man can call for his gold or silver and take it away from circulation. In this case the same man's notes control bonds, gold and silver. There is no increase here, because the entire output of gold and silver annually about $(K),000,000, and all Is not used as money. But sup pose all were used. The increase would not be one dollar per capita. The Alli ance demands Uve hundred dollars per capita, and It would take forty years to make the proper Increase. There is no help from national banks, for it is a con stant Bpring of currency, and its power is unwarrrnted and a dangerous usurpa tion, tor by law by t'.e 1st ot September $51,000,000, . will retire, so neither of the two can give the nocessary increase. How can you get ItV I can see only the lauds and products as a salvation. He said that on a State bond issue we would have the same trouble that we contended agamst during the war. The uotes were good only in the State that issued them. 1 know that the notes of Saut 11 Carolina did pass in New York or Liverpool. But It was because South Carolina shipped cotton. Silver, gold and national bank notes are good as far as |they go. Now, If all these can get value tor their deposits, why in the name of common sense cannot the far mer deposit his product and get money on it? THK HON. M. O. BUTLER, Senator Butler then spoke as follows: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle men: All the people in this country are awakening to au Interest in public affairs. Agitation never alarms me. I welcome the idea that all people are taking a profouui interest in them. Subjects when argued honestly and fairly can be decided correctly. 1 want truth and light. Why, fellow-citizens, win a I accepted th's invitation I ex pected to hear unanswerable argu ments, and I yield to him in the main all that he has said, except what he chooses to describe as the sub-treasury plan. 1 may differ In a few details. 1 do not believe lu his arguments that flexibility of currency establishes the ratio of currency and price. The great law of supply and demand settles this question. 1 apply supply and demand to money as well as to products. It Is claimed by the opposition to free coin age that 00 per cent of the business Is done by checks. Such an argument Is deceptive, for a man who gives a check must have a bank account You can't pay railroad fare w ith a check. Taxes cannot be paid with a check. So the argument is misleading. There Is but one billion live hundred million dollars of money for the transaction of the people's business, about 922 per capita. 1 myself asked iu the Senate chamber how much of that was in the United States treasury, and how would that re duce the circulation? O.ie Senator calculated six hundred million, my es timate, about s if; per capita. I agree with you, my f rleno, that there is some thing wrong, An important thing with physicians Is to find out what is the matte1' with a patient, to diagnose the case. A doctor may treat one case when he ought to treat another. We can only judge in general by symptoms. So, when you find out what Is the mat ter, it Is easy to apply the remedy. The Alliance la treating the wrong organ. I do not announce that all are fools who favor the sub-treasury, and we all cannot think alike. We can have a tolerance of opinion, which is the safest way of settling a question. It is not a legitimate argument to say because you oppose me I am a fool. I have brought an official copy of the bill as tabulated. Mr. Stokes: We are discussing the plan not the bill. Hutler: you say that we must dis cuss the plan, not the bill. How can I get the plan without the bill. 1 dls cuss something tangible, not a floating vapor. (Produces bill.) I cannot con scientiously support the hill. There is not a man in Una audience who has not intuitive principles of home rule and self-government. Every man has this. No man would submit to his privu'e affairs being troubled. Communities, municipalities, counties are governed by it. No county would tolerate a dis turbance of its' affairs by outside agencies. A step further, this applies to the State as well. The Federal Gov ernment is supreme, but it cannot, dare not, dictate to a .Mate Government. This bill then is opoosed to this princi ple. This advocates the perpetuity of paternal government. He iirst discussed the ware house system. Every county must be able to deposit productions to a value not less than 8500,000. Every county would not get a ware house. Newberry, your own eouuty, could not get in Horry, Pickens, Ii im well, Beaufort, George town and Lexington would not boon the list. 1 like to meet a fair man like Mr. Stokes, and I have the thing be de mands?a remedy also. Senator Butler thou read the bill through. In the section where it pro vides for a manager to take charge of the sub-treasury he commented as fol lows: Do you know who would bo chosen I in the present state of affairs? A K> publican would be selected as manager. I know Edgefield'a man. A mulatto would probably govern tyrannically your sub-treasury here. Voice: Go ahead, General. In Section 5 it gives the manager the right to grade products?he alone the final arbiter. What chance would a poor man or a rich man either have un der such circumstances? The grade of cotton and corn would come down to I nothing. Where would you be with 80 per cent of. your producta' value in your pocket ? Talk to me about flexibility of cur rency. W hen do we want money most ? Is it not in the spring? According to this the money shall go back to the treasury at the very time it is most needed. In Section 11 it is provided that 850,000,000 be appropriated to carry out the provisions of tue Act. Is it for building ware houses? Some say that the Government should ii.sue money directly to the people. But the Consti tution is in the way. Money cannot be issued unless by appropriation by Con gress, and that provision was put there by tiie wisdom and sagacity of the farmers to protect tho people against dishonest oflicersr to protect them against just what this bill wants. The sub-treasury bill would not stand ton minutes under the Supreme Court. State Senator Keitt: Was the New Orleans Exposition appropriation made in this way ? Senator Butler: ? It was appropriated by the general welfare clause or the blanket clause of the Constitution. Congress has a definite specific power and can appropriate for any national affair. There have been, however, ap propriations fspecially for sulferiug humanity's benefit, for cases of distress. The Secretary of War cannot lend a tent or a gun, the Secretary of the Navy must hold his peace unless authorized by Congress. Yet this bill wants to lend money direct to the people. This same objection of the uncer tainty of the amount of the appropria tion is against the force bill. Not withstanding Mr. Stokes's statement to the contrary, Mr. Calhoun never con templated lending money direct to the people. The treasury is not a bank, hut is for managing the Government disbursements. 1 want to borrow money from you at 2 per cent. We have losses and all such losses u ill be made up by taxation. Yet this is what you wish. Mr. Stokes: It does not give special privileges to farmers. There's the fault. It ought to. We have among us three classes of men: First, the man who neither bor rows nor loins money; second, he who lends money and lives on the interest, (and he has a right to do this;) third, the borrowing class. Now, don't call a man who lends money a rascal, for it is his right. Class throe can be sub divided as follows: First, ono who bor rows and returns what he borrows; second, one who borrows aud by un fortunate circumstances cannot pay his debt; third, one who borrows at any price, and never intends to pay it back. This last class is the one who wants to borrow at 2 per cent. Soven per cent is the standard of interest and 2 per cent is entirely too low. [Cheers.l State Senator Keitt: General, do na tional banks borrow from the Govorn mext at 1 per cent? Senator Butler explains: No. nation' al banks place their money in the i re < ury for the notes they circulate. -ie 1 per ceut is only a tax. v The gentleman urged his question again, claiming a desire to be accurate, and the Senator explained again, going into details. Yet the gentleman's per ception was very obtuse. Gen. Butler: I can give a man^.yots, but I cannut furnish him understand ing. I am opposed to national banks, but not as Mr. Stokes. They are the outgrow,'? of the war. They Were es tablished to put down tho war. [Here a history of national banks was given.] Is a man any less partriotie because he owns a national bank slock? I don't oppose national banks because they are thieves. You put money in them to make money out of them. National banks do not want currency. State banks want it. I am opposed to the present system because a nat ional bank puts u sword and a purse in tho same hand and gives the executives of the Government complete control. Senator Butler took issue with Mr. Stokes as to the reason of the dlsap pearence of money out of the treasury. The money was stolen. Ask the billion dollar congress where it went. Now for my remedy. I First, Have a reduction of the tariff from 57 to GO per cent ad volorera to something like 40 por cent. I could not make any amendment to the bill, for I never saw it after it got in Con gress. It laid In the pigeon holes of the agricultural department. No one eamo to me for an amendment. 1 believe in inserting the Mills bill. He spoke of the reduction of prices, in which connection be said: Prices are reduced not by the tariff but by la bor-saving machines. Second, I believe in the reductiou of expenses of the Government. Instead of expending 81,000,000,000 cut it down one-half. Thlr i, I believe in absolute unlimited free coinage of silver. Fourth, Ho peal the 10 per cent Act against State banks. You can't get money from national banks, because it Is not there. The money is scarce bo cause the currency goes back to the cen tres of business and the people can't get it out. Let us put tho power out of I Wall street by each State issuing its [own currency. The only danger In your plan isthat when the collapse comeBit injures the poor man. not the rich. My llrst Senatorial act was the introduc tion of a bill to repeal the 10 per cent It ix on tho issue of State bauks. Mr. Calhoun's idea was to put tho matter hack in the hands of tho people. Mr. Calhoun tavored the sub-treasury as we j have now In Chicago, Now Orleans, etc, ? to ls?ue currency for the benefit of the people, but not to give it to them Thin was for conveuience. Thu -.ub-trcasur ies are ouly branches of the Federal treasury. The peop'e canuot get the money except they have something to sell for it. Another step I wood take to che set tlement of the "unevenuess" is this: Put ten acres of-cotton to the mule for three years. Let farmers do this and they will have the world at their feet. They would be then the most prosper ous people on the globe. As for not be ing able to put their products on the market at any time is all stun*. There is not an acre of grouud in Newberry that cannot make something to sell every month of the year. 1 am opposed to ouly tvvo planks in the Alliance platform. The sub-treas ury bill is unwibe, and the wore*, tldng for the lurmers. I am also opposed to Governmental control or operation of all railroads, for the following reasou: The more you can divert the Interest of the people from the Government, the hotter olf will : he masses be. Voice: How about the Third Party, General ? Butler: We have no room for the Third Party. There can only bo two parties. The old Democratic though null et ed stands still. Voice: What hast lie Democratic par ty uone for the South in the lastthiity live years? Butler: if you aro so far in the back woods as uot to know wtiat that party has done for the South you are a poor Biunner and "ought to be born again." You would be an excellent Third Par ty leader. " Senator Butler then eulogized most stirringly the Democratic party. It has held its own under the direction of the wisest .statesman, Jefferson; held its owo agaiust Revolutionist aud Anarch ists. When 1 hear talk of u t hird Par ty I am overwhelmed with pain The Democratic party has stood like a stone wall against all agsressors and for that alone, if it had nothing else, should be lauded to thu skies, it repressnts home rule und self go /eminent. Party after party has risen m the ruins ot older parties, while tue Democratic party alone has stood the blood of wars and the heat of political activity, it stands with tho very doctrines ot the Alliance except tho two I have opposed above. I believe with 140 majority in the House, with the present Senate, and with the chances favorablo of electing the next President, if it tails to nring relief then I shall talk about the Third Party, but not with such signs of success. Wherever a fanner maki s all he needs does his business on business princi ples, he will uot want money at2 per cent. I Mit. STOKES'S REPLY was only a recital of arguments used in his lirst speech, in several he simply stated that he disagreed with the hon orable Senator. His reply was limited to thirty minutes, but a downpour forced him to conclude earlier. The time of euch speaker was at first placed to one hour and a half, but such a clamor arose when Senator Butler be gan, to take his seat at tho end of the time that it was prolonged. Later in tho day Col. Talbert. made a speeeh, which was not a dlsuusson of the sub-treasury, but a general Alli ance talk. Bayond this it would have been a violation of agreement. Ills address was interrupted by rain. All the speakers deserte I Prosperity this evening. Senator Butler goes im mediately to Washington. Dr. J. W. Stokes was called to Greenville. Col. Talbert returned to his duties in Co* lumbia.?News aud Courier. Surromlerit Ittt Chnrtnr, WkdGEFIELD, S. c, July 27.?At the regular meeting ol the Wedge.licld Sub Alliance Saturday afternoon il was un animously resolved to disband and re t. n the charter. Their reasons lor taking this step are not secret, and a prominent member of tho Alliance said: ?'The entry of tho Alliance into poli tics having seemingly destroyed all in terest in the prime objects of the organ ization, and tho recent actions of the county and State Alliances having shown that all who will not follow the behests of coat-tail politicians and swal low tho visionary sub-treasury bill in toto are to be held no longer loyal Alii ancemen or worthy of consideration in the councils ot the order, the Wedgelield Sub-Alliance is much displeased at this prostitution of the organization, which is titill worthy of great venera! Ion in its true conception, and has decided that rather than be compelled to give up their manhood and the inalienable light to think and vote as the members choose, they will leave the organization to the* faio which Is yawning to receive it, ir its present policy and leaders are fol io wed."_ Cheering; to the r.u m. i... The weekly weather and crop bulle tin of the South Carolina weather ser vice, in co-operation with the United States Signal Service, for tho pa<t week was issued Saturday afternoon aud it is as follows, giving much encouragement to the farmers in the various sections of the State. Tho total rainfall was about tho nor mal und well distributed, and was bene ficial to the growing crops, particularly in those sections where tho drouth had prevailed for soino time. Temperature and sunshine have been about an aver age umountfand have .been of material benefit to crops. From oh?'ond of tho State to the oilier comes tho cheering news that there has been a marked improvement of the condition of the c >t,ton 3rop over that of the previous week. The dry and cool weather had somewhat checked not only the growth of tho plant, but had prevented it from taking on fruit By tho recent showers the plant has re covered its lost condition and a decided improvement is noticed. 'Most of the crop is clean and was just in condition to be benefited by the rains. The great est drawback to the crop is the Inferior stands which tvlll necessarily reduce the yield. The corn has suifered less than cotton from t he el i eels of the drouth. The crop on bottom lands was never better, but is young. An average crop may he ex pected and the yield will be much larger than last year's, The rice crop while In fair condition has suffered in some sections lroui drouth, but as rain have fallen in those sections wnere most ineded, the pros pects are much brighter than thov were at the last report. Prom the iamb ut a Tree, Fkankj.in, Ky., July 25.?A few days ago a negro named Job Granger had a dilllculty with a while man by the name of Witt. Ho die -v a knife on Witt, and ran him into Iiis house. Last Bight a mob look the negro out and swung him to a limb of a tree. He was found hanging this morning, his leot dangling in mid-air and his neck broken. The speLube.ro ho was hung is just across the Tennessee line,,and Is tho snmo limb from which Hicks and Taylor wnro hanged by a mob sovernl yonra a-Jto. A Murderouit Holuior. be?l1n. duly 24.?At Posen today a drunken soldier ran amuck through tho streets, sword in hand, and killed a priest and aphvslciau before he could rim^fni.iffiii THE GREAT DEBATE. TERRELL AND TILL MAN HAVE IT HOT AND HEAVY. The Kulea of the Alllaiico h? Construed by PrPHlili'nt HtokeH Give the Hub-Treim. ury Advocutu the AilvantaRool OnMilnic and CIonIuk the Argiiiuent. Spahtaniiuro, S. C, J uly 21.?Today tho debate between Governor Tillman aud Col. Terrell wss the great point of interest, and reportorial inquiry for the debate was strictly in Beeret. The Al liance people had put forth extra force to preserve that secrecy. Iteporters gathered on the balconies, in windows of the hotels*and in the shadows of the walls of the Opera House. It was all in vain. All that could be gathered was a word here and there from the speakers. It was, of course, especially desired to hear what Governor Tillman had to siy. Alliance men got into tue ball, but there were Non-Alliance men, in a crowd three feet thick and deep, w ho did not get into the hall. If there were any reporters in the hall they were very tew in number and were not known in that official capacity. Can vassers, who were Alliance men for the revenno ot this meeting only, were pro jected into space. They knew nothing, could get nothing, and have nothing that is either news or true. oovkrnor TILLMAN appears. About HA. M. Governor Tillman was driven clown to the hotel from the resi dence of Adjt Gen Farley. At that time the Merchants' Hotel lonby was crowded with business men and adven turers and uoliticlans. Among the lat ter wore Gen Staekhouse, Capt Sneli, .Senator Evans, Capt Waddell, Col J. S. Krowmnir, Senator Donaldson, the Hev J. A. Sligh and a host of others. Gov ernor Tillman stepped into the lobby, aud was met there by Col Terrell and President Stokes. There was a hearty greeting, and in a few minutes all the initiated were on the way in the rain to the Opera House. In front of tho academy there was - a GREAT jam of people, who, in turn, were halted at the gaits, and asked to give the pass word, just as it was at Fdgelield some weeks ago. The capacity of the beau tiful Opera House is about six hundred, but if there was one liiere were one thousand people in the building when the fireworks began. Governor Tillman, President Stokes and Col Terrell went on the stage through the crowd in the left side pas sage and were cheered every step of the way and wero cheered again when they stepped on tho stage. ? THE ORDER OK DEBATE was as given this morning in The News and Courier. Col Terrell^.^.ng "a civil case," had the opening^ and reply. An arrangement was promptly made by giving Col Terrell half an hour to open, then Governor Tillman an hour and a half, Col Terrell to close in an hour. Governor Tillman was also accorded the privilege of interrupting his oppo nent and gottingcategorical answers to his interrogatories. C0?i TERRELL was warmly received, and coming for ward he said that he deemed it a moral obligation to bo here, but one that, aside from that consideration, gave him infinite pleasure. He had learned to know and appreciate tho South Caroli i.;. Aiiiatice- wen and those who wero not only alli< "'. him organically but in thou&<.?- and principle. [Ap plause.] He had come not only to teach as best he could, but to bo taught, for mutual enlightenment was the spirit, of tho age. I Applause ] lie was glad to meet so skilful and able an opponent, but the audience should remember that the meeting was for a single purpose to discuss before the Order (he would em phasize this expression) the sub-treas ury bill In its essential features and its principles, and he knew that the discus sion on the other side would take no wider latitude. Going into the argument he said that the sub-treasury was one of the demands ot tho Alliance and as such it should bo respected. Ho felt and knew that neither the Alliance nor any other popular organization could exist if it did not ask something that would benefit the whole people. He held that the men of tho St Louis Con vention were equal in brain and inllu ence to any delegates that ever attend ed a convention. That convention was composed of men who in the end repre sented the sub-Alliance and therefore the people. GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF TRANSPOR * TATION the third demand of the Alliance. He held that the constitutional right of the Government could not bo controverted, and the Alliance was only asking the Government to carry out the law. He held that the expenses of the railroads in lobbying, etc, must bo paid out of the people's pockets. IIo then alluded to the demand for financial reform, or, as expressed by the Ocala platform, the abolition of national banks and the es tablishment of sub-treasuries. The position of Col Terrell is here given in his language as follows: "we demand tbeabolitton of national banks. Hy this (he Alliance means banks of issue. We believe the Gov ern me it alone has the right to make money and in the national banking sys tern the Government has delegated thai power to the banks, without restriction as to the amount they should kiep :u circulation. With the latitude gieat abuses have grown up in connection with them, and the circulation has been expanded to suit the money power to the great hurt of the farmers aud labor ers of the country. The property of any country is at the mercy of those who can control its money, and believ ing this to be so the Alliance rightly de mands the abolition of the national bunas as banks of issue. COMING to TUB point. "Second. We demand that the Govern ment shall establish sub treasuries or depositories in the several States which shall loan money direct to the peopleat a low rate of interest, not to exceed 2 percent per annum, on i mperishabla farm products and also upon real estate, with proper limitations upjn llie quan tity of land and amount of money. In this demand the Alliance intended (o provide for increasing the circulating medium by advancing money on land (which they demand shall be increased 10 850 per capita.) In the advance on farm products the intention was to give to the oircul itlon (hat flexibility abso lutely necesfury to the welfare and pro 11 et em of the larniers. "Now let us lirst look at tfio necessity of an Increase of the crculation. 1 be lieve that 1 shall be ablo to prove to the satisfaction of any lair mindol man that a very great crimo has been com mitted against the poople by contrac tion of our circulation. If you will ex amine at aunties for tho last twenty-live \ car i von will lind that they will prove three things: First. That the per capita volume of currency has been con stantly and materially leHsened; second, that bankruptcies and 1 allures have rapidly multlplited in consequence; third, that the national debt during this period has increased instead of being diminished." > die then dealt with the Hiibjfctfof the cob tract ion of the currency aid the resultant failures aud losses. Speaking of the plan of relief Col Terrell said that the subtreu8ury was introdiiQetl to give the people control of the circula tion and thu power to prevent discrim ination against the producer. He dis cussed at length the need for more money and defended cotton as good a basts as gold bullion, WE SHOULD SAY SOl This was the essential part of the ornament, and tho speaker maintained It with great force. Col Terrell in his address necessarily went over a great deal of the around covered in the ad dress of Col Polk, and which was given to-day in The Nows and Courier. GOVERNOR TILLMAN was received with great enthusiasm when he aro>eto speak. He was evi dently in the house of Alliance men nr.d friends. Opening his speech he said: "I thank you for the cordiality with which I was receiver by you yesterday, and for the renewal of that feeling to day. At. the outset 1 would call atten tion to the charges that have been made inside ami outside that 1 have been fighting the Alliauce. I noed not tell you that such charges are not true. [Applause.] "1 am aware thai the Alliance has been criticised and tnat I have been ap plauded and patted on the back on the assumption that there was a personal light between the Alliance and myself, but I tell you my friends thai that en dorsement has been of no avail. [Ap plause.] It wai too transparent. [Ap plause.] If they have beeu urging me forward on the tui - position that there was a war between uio and my friends in the Alliance, they i .vebwen mista ken." GOING FOlt POLK AND iTOKES. Governor Till man said'that at the outset he was obliged to com plan of the injustice of President Polk coming here aud taking a vote in the Alliance on tho subject matter of tho debate of to-day. He desired also to know why President Polk had the right to elim inate live planks of the Ocala platform and that such a furor was raised be cause he differed with his brethern on one single plank. [Applause.] 1 claim, said Governor Tillman, that the action of President Polk and of President Stokes was nothing more or less than a usurpation of authority not granted by the constitution of the Alliance. TESTING TUB OCA LA PLATFORM. Governor rillmau then took up the Ocala platform and discussed it from tho opening to the closing section, lie laid great stress on the value and im portance of the free coinage of silver and explained the robbery committed by its demonetization. He then argued in favor of an income tax and the ab solute necessity of having Senators elected directly by the people so as to get rid of the power exercised by mil lionaires who bought and sold the peo ple like cattle or hogs. lie claimed that the sub-treasury bill had come to the people downward from the St Louis meeting in a perfunctory way, and that it had gone back to Ocala and had been endorsed in the same way, with the result and effects not under stood by the people, the source of author ty. [Applause.] ?'Hut 1 will not deny," he said, "that the agitation has dono great good in this broad country of ours, for it has called attention of tho world to tho fact that the producing classes are sorely oppressed, and aro demanding, crying for relief. [Applause] Governor Tillman then touched upon tho currency question. I am, he said, in favor ot a flexible currency, of a greater volume of currency; but I maintain that a flexible currency as en unciated by Col Terrell means an at tempt to tlx prices by legislation, to tlx the price ol commodities by statute. That, my friends, If' f"'Jacy, bec*??*? tho price must bo regulativ. Hexl hie law of supply and denuu.... FOLLY OK TIJE COTTON STORAGE IDEA, Governor Tillman said that in case cotton got dammed up in the ware houses the consumers would know that it would have to come out in time and that just as soon as tho quantity was known, which could not be concealed, the price would gravitate to its normal level. This illustration he introduced to show that an artificial means could not evade or run counter to an estab lished law in the commercial world. It was asserted, ho said, that by spreading the supply over twelve months tho fall in price would bo prevented and that the evils of inconstant prices would be obviated. They had, however, forgot ten that by the terms of the bill by which tho whole could be only held for twelve months,one-twelfth of"the crops must l)e sold each mouth, aud that there was absolutely nothing to prevent the speculator from havidg tho same chance as be holds under existing laws. He would havo the same chance with the sub-treasury as he now has with the people. The Governor held to tho posi tion that the sub-treasury bill was class legislation, or, as ho put it to-day, "it is a special privilege rather than aright." I admit, he said, that the Government has loaned money, but the right for such action is based on the general Wel fare clause of the Constit ution, and not upon prescriptive or statutory right. It w.11 not be denied that any scheme may take for its assumption of right the elastic general welfare clause of the Constitution, which from its very name settles no specilic right or prin ciple. (H)OD DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE. . I hold again, said Governor Tillman on the next branch of discussion, that tho sub treasury bill is fairly open to the charge of paternalism. It pi eposes to concentrate the business of this peo ple in the hands of a centralized power at Washington, and this is in absolute contradiction of the principle laid down by .JefiVrson that the Government gov erns best that governs least. [Ap plause.] In other words, that tnere should be equal rights to all and special privileges to none. He would appeal, he said, to the good s use and patriot ism of the people in the majority to aid in the obtaining of just and reasonable laws, instead of the partisan favoritism sho* n by tho Government in the main tenance of national hanks and nursing private manufacturing Industries. [Ap plause J POLK AS A SOCIALIST. He characterized Col. Polk's views on the money question, referring to the Government lending money with the avowed intent of injuring o her classes of business, as Socialism. It would amount in the end to a division of the property ot the people and produce a condition in which the provident and the improvident would share alike. Governor Tillman repeated here that the Alliance all agreed as to a greivous wrong existing, and that the dispute was only as to the remedy. He pointed out as causes of the burden on the peo ple of the South the Inequalities of the burdens laid on their shoulders as com pared with the people of tho North and elsewhere. He showed that the mil lionaire and tho poor farmer wore the simultaneous and necessary product of such laws. He thought that there was just as much hope at present for getting the sub-treasury bill through as then; was for the South being paid for ne groes or getting the Federal pensions reduced. On the contrary, he saw a disposition to pension every bummer, whether or not. he had ever heard the whiz of a bullet. In fact, he believed tho time was coming when the pensions would bo increased to ttpO,000,(XX). SOMETHING ABOUT THE THIRD PARTY. Governor Tillman then pahl his re spects to the Third Party, lie read tabulated statements showing the elec toral strength of the Democratic and Republican parties of all the States. He took those States in which the farm ers were iu the majority and said that if all of them declared for a Third Party they could not elect the President. The idea la, ho said, for the Western and Southern farmer to control the country, but that, would be impossible if they"earned all the States in which the farmers havea majority. It should be remembered that, while there were 8,000,000 engaged in agriculture, there were 11.COO.000 engaged in other occupa tions. They should remember that the Republican farmers in the North were particularly bitter, hostile and partisan as regards the South, and that the Democrats were for the most part from the cities. They should remember that the Democratic majority of 00,000 in the city of New York had been, and cuuld be, discounted by the Republican farmers of New York State. They should remember that Kansas had given 80,000.majority for Harrison, and yet we are asked by them to turn our backs on the Democrats of Connecticut, I New Jersey, Now York and- Indiana, I and this too for tho mere risk of elect ing a Democratic President by the Western vote. THE DANGER OK DIVISION. Governor Tillman showed that the sub-treasury bill could not bo forced on the National Democratic Convention and that the issues now could only have the result of dividing the National Democratic party, as it did in 18(10 and give the Republicans a continued lease of power. 1 ask you, he said do you not realize that there are anxious poli ticians all over the United States, ami right here, too, In South Carolina, who are fervently praying" that we divide here to-day Y Do you not know that the Haskell party watches our proceed ings aud is hoping for and expecting a division, and so are the Republicans und all other opponents of the State ijemocracv? He would remind tho Alliance that Senator Pelf er, the ex ponent of the Kansas Alliance, ,had said that, of course, he would support the Alliance, but ho would voto with the Republicans on other interests, aud that Powderly, the chief of the other wing of tho Industrial army, the Knights of Labor, coupled his support of the Alliance demands with tho con dition that political equality should be accorded the negro. I maintain, he concluded in vigorous stylo and earnest manner, thatdlvision in South Carolina means the negro. THE governor's IDEAS ON THE CUR RENCY Governor Tillman gave as his remedy for a llexible currency the repeal of the 10 per cent tax on State banks and the establishment of banks to issue money based on land and crops just as our credit is now based on loans and mort gages, lie was in favor of the farmers establishing their own banks and print ing their own money instead of paying such rates of interest. He held that we might have a sub-treasury under State control, but a sub-treasury under national control meant tho perpetua tion in power of the party by which it was established. A TIMELY WARNING. lie would warn his brethren that a division in the Democracy at this junc tion meant a continuance of the Re publicans in power and the possible enactment of the forco bill. Ho would further say that a division between the Farmers' Movement and tho Alliance meant a return to power of the Ring, which they, with such a hard light, overthrew last fall. [Applause and ^?nrn^an'ai.ernor Tillman closed by ?.?.. ... ppeal for unity, harmony and charity, and tho State. Resolutions of thanks were tendered Governor Tillman and Colonel Terrell for the information they had imparted by the discussion. A Work .Shop. Every farmer has frequent?almost constant?need of a work shop. It may not bo a seperato building; a place at one side of the carriage-room will answer. There should be a good sized bench with a vice at one end and a place for using the planes, of which there should bo at least two kinds pro vided. A shaving bench, with a draw ing knife, is an essential feature of a well stocked work shop; and saws, chis els, bit-stocks, and bits, hatchet, liles, screw-drivers, wrenches, etc., should all be at hand. For work iu metal, punches, cold-chisels, anvil, etc., are all needed. A soldering iron is important, and alBO a few needles and awls for doing the ne cessary mending of the harness. Ry thoso provided with a work shop or work room, many a rainy day may be turned to good account. A well-equip ped work shop will do much to make tho boys interested in tho farm work, and tend strongly to keep them at homo when they might be tempted to go to the villiago or elsewhere. Democracy an<l Alliance. NEW York, .luly 23,--.lust before Sam Small left town he had a few things to say on tho politics of the south. "Tho Alliance brother," said Mr. Small, "is a horse, and galloping through the south with great energy. The rank ami file of the southern De mocracy are under the Alliance banner. They don't want a third party. The Democratic party is the party of the people. They aro tho people, and they have a few planks which they want to see in the platform of the People's party. They control seven or eiudit southern stat?s and, as Democrats, they will send delegates to the national convention who will, as Democrats, ask that tho Alliance doctrine be considered. Geor gia has 81,000 Alliance Democrats. Ar kansas has 75,000. Nearly all the farm ers in South Carolina are for the De mocracy and the Alliance. A Horrible Death. Patterson, n. J? July 25.?Rawson Labar, aged 10,of Maple street, was draw n through tlie rollers of a compris ing machine at the Ivanhoe paper mill tins afternoon and crushed to doath. Labar was an employee at the mill, having commenced work there to-day. When the horrible accident happened he was feeding the machine With paper hulls. Accidentially lie fell on tho re ceiving board,his arm catching between the rollers. In an instant his entire body had passed through. A Warning. london, .Inly 25.?-Capt. Armit, re cently tin officer on the Chilian warship President Pinto, writes to tho press warning Englishmen not to accept of fers made by Halmaceda's agents. He says that he did three months' service in tho Chilian navy under Admiral Latoroo, and that he was unable to get payment for his services, and that the sailors who asked for pay were put in irons. A l'oislhlv t u t a I full. Charleston, S. C, .luly 21).?Mr. E. L. Kerrison, the widely known dry goods merchant of this city, was sud denly taken with an attach of dizziness while decending the front steps of his residence this morning, and fell. He was very seriously injured, and because of his advanced age his friends are fear f u. ol the n suit. A TALE OF HORROR, THE COLLISION BETWEEN THE FRENCH EXCURSION TRAINS. Fully ?OO r?5TBou? Killed or Injured ? Slimy Slowly KoMted to Death, and 01 horn Diowned?Slckenloft- Sndu. Paris, .luly 2ft.-A terrible railway accident occurred today near the vil liage of Saint Maude, in the department of the Seine. Two excursion traimkw collided, owing to some error on the^ part of the driver of one of the trains. Both were loaded with pfbple for a holi day. The collision was followed by a scene of frightful confusion. Three carriages were utterly wrecked, and many persons were crushed and injur ed la the ruins. About fifty were res cued, more or less hurt. Owing to the greatness of the canfusion, the extent of the calamity is not yet known. Later advices show that of the sixty injured in the collision, forty are dead, includ ing two children mangled beyond rec ognition. Most ot the bodies recover ed are without legs, through the seats being jammed together and cutting off their limbs. Twenty thousand people assembled at the scene, including many relatives of the injured and dead. The scenes were most heartrending as the victims were extricated. The driver and fireman of the second train were burned alive. The station master, on whose oversight the blameis now placed, baa, it is reported, gone mad anu disap peared. Paris, July 27.?A dispatch just re ceived from the scene of last night's fearful collision between excursion trains near Sainte Mande represents the accident as having been of a more distressing character than at first ap peared. After tho fearful crash the train caught fire, and those unfortun ates who were hopelessly wedged iu the debris were slowly roasted. Many of the poor creatures were so placed that for many agonizing moments they were forced to look upon death remorseless ly burning its way to them. All that humanity could do to extricate them from a situation not to be described by language was done, but in most in stances to no avail. The awe-strickon multitude were forced to stand help lessly by and listen to the awful din made by the crackling flames, the fall ing iron work of the burning cars, and the .shrieks, moans and prayers of the doomed. Occasionally a voice would raise itself above the tumult, supplicat ing the merciful to kill the unhappy speaker and put him out of pain. In a number of Instances men and women were seen laughing, gibbering, and Hinging their arms wildly about. Fear had dethroned their reasons. The engine of the rear train tele scoped the last three cars of the train ahead, and almost Instantly the reser voir in which the gas was stored ex ploded with terrilic force. The wreck age then caught fire. A half hour elapsed after the outbreak of the flames before the last taint cry of agony was stilled in death. Fully two hundred persons are known to have been killed or injured. It now appears that in addition to the other horrors of the collision, tho death by drowning of many ot the Imprisoned passengers is to' be added, Forty min utes elapsed before the pompiers were able to obtain water, when, however, they did so, they poured torrents upon the wreck, and 'seemed to be utterly un aware that they were drowning half of the people whom they were trying to rescue. An awful spectacle is presented at the town hall of Salute Mande, where the charred and terribly disfigured oodies of the dead lie In rows upon the lloor and upon tables. In some cases 'the remains are but little more than a heap of cinders. Paris, July 28.?The Marquis and Marchioness of Montferrat were among the victims of tho Sainte Mande disas ter. An artillery lieutenant climbed upon the burning railway carriage to rescue a young woman. Both the lieu tenant and the young woman fell into the burning mass aud were consumed. Pauls, July 27.?An otllcial state ment of the dead and wounded in the railway accident at Sainte Mande, Sun day, places the number of dead at for ty-three and of Injured 104. Death at a Kallroad Groaning. Blmira.N. Y., July 27.?An accident occurred about 9 o'clock this evening on the Erie railroad crossing, near Kid ridge Park, in which four persons were killed and two so seriously injured that the doctors say they are likely to die at any moment. The accident occured while the Key. Wellington White was outdriving with his wife and three children, Hattie Hast ings, a daughter of a neighbor, and Susie McCartv, a nurse girl. Approaching the crossing of the rail road, a freight train, which had been cut in two to allow vehicles to drive in the park, occupied the near track. Mr. White, believing that everything was (dear, and not being warned by the sig nal man, drove between the halves of the freight train upon the other track just in time to be struck by Erie passen ger train No. 24, from tho West. Mr. White, his daughter Lillian, aged nine, Hattie Hastings, aged nine, and Susie McCarty, aged nine, were instant ly killed. Mrs. White and child two years old each received fractures of the skull and have been unconcious since the accident. Planning the Ohio C?mpalfn. columbus, O , July 23.?The Demo cratic Stato executive committee has extended a formal invitation to Ex President Cleveland to deliver not less than six speeches in behalf of Governor Campbell during the coming campaign. Assurance was given that the Ex-Pres ident would accept such an invitation. Governor Hill, Gen. Palmer, Governors Peck and Holes, with Senators Voor hcos, Vance, Vilas and other represen tative Democrats will be asked to give aid to the campaign. James E. Neal, who led Governor Campbell to victory two years ago, was selected as chairman of the campaign committee. The State campaign will open about the 1st of September. Pianos and Organs. N. W. Trump, 134 Main Street Co in inbia, S. C, sells Pianos and Organs, direct from factory. No agents' com missions. The celebrated Chlckering Piano. Mathushek Piano, celebrated for Its clearness of tone, lightness of touch and lasting qualities. Mason St Hamlin Upright Piano. Sterling Up right Pianos, from $225 up. Mason St Hamlin Organs surpassed by none.Ster ling Organs, 850 up. Every Instrument guaranteed for six years. Fifteen days' trial, expenses both ways, if not satis factory. Sold on Instalments. After Sherman's Sealp. Birmingham, Ala., July 21.?Hon. Jerry Simpson spoke here today to a good audience. He disclaimed being here In the Interest of any party, but made a speech against both old parties. He declared that John Sherman, father of our financial system, is the arch ene my of the human race, and tho Alliance has determined to defeat him in Ohio.