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STATE CAMPAIGN DAY IN OL,I) LAURENS. The Crowd Was Not L/arge or Enthusiastic. TAhHKKT IN TIIK I,KAD, WITH HEYWAKI) AND ANSEL, CEOSKL,Y FOLLOWING. Tilliiiau Complains of Newspaper Persecution and Drawn Pa thctie Picture of His Uncle. Fivo hundred to seven hundred vot ers of Luircns and a number of ladies heard the eandidates for Stete ofllces at the meeting at Holmes Spring Park in Hast Main street on Friday. The speeches were as a rulo not sen sational and the crowd was orderly. There were no " incideuls." County Chairmuu (i. L\ Smith presided. Va rious enndidates doclared that he made the host chairman that had presided over an)' mcetiug yet held in the State. The Governors spoke twenty minntes and other candidates livoand ton oach. Chairman Smith callod each down promptly and releutlessly nt the ex piration of his timo and all had a fair chance. It was iu this that ho excollcd as a presiding ofllcor. The crowd was made up of repre sentative citizens from ovory township. For Governor Col. Talbert ovidontly | had tho most friends, though Mr. Ansel, Capt. Hey ward and Col. Till mau all had friends and wore chcored. Dr. Timmerman, too, had friends. He and Mr. Ausol received bouquets. Kov. W. B. Duncan, of the First Mothodist church, opened t he meeting with prayer, among other things say ing : " We pray for the day when seif-sooking politician* should bo rolo gated to the rear and self-sacrificing htatesmen brought to the front." The chairman stated that the beauti ful park was used by tho courtosy of Capt. W. E. Lucas, president of tho I.?miens cotton mills, to which the paik belongs. SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION. O. B. Martin, of Greenville, candi date for superintendent of education, was the 11 rat speaker introduced. Ho caught tho crowd by sayiug that he married tho daughter of a Laurens man, (Capt. Abe Cook, one of the best men in tho county.) "The proposition of my opponent," he said, " to placo tho c.li .?! ion of county superintendents ot uducntion in the hands of a board is board politics, machine politics. If you people aro capable of selecting a Stato superintendent, why not a county superintendent ? He criticised Mr. Mc Mahau for his policy with regard to the change in text books, doclaring that Mr. McMahau was responsible in so far as he was a member of the State board. He was liberally applauded and the crowd liked his jokes. J, J. McMahan, of Columbia, can didate for reelection, followed. " I promised four years ago to go among the people," he said, " as no superin tendent has cverdoue before and stim ulate them to action in educational matters, and I havo the gratification of knowing that trustees and teachers say 1 have fulfilled the pledge." An swering the criticism as to mode of selecting county superintendents he de clared that similar methods of choosing such oflicers should be employed as in choosing educators for tho best schools. He had been instrumental in providing summer schools for teachers in tho counties, thus supplying them to a de gree with higher education for the duties of teaching. FOR COMPTROLLER. N. W. Urookcr, of Columbia, can didate for comptroller, doclared that lm platform was one of reform in mat ters of collecting taxes. He had been struggling for five years to devise a scheme for the rolief of destitute vete rans. Mr. Sbarpo had made yesterday an unfair and unjust attack upon him. The scheme he has on foot will give ? bread to every suffering old soldier. A. W. Jones, of Abbeville, explain ed the important duties of the office. " Since I have hail control of the fire insurance department of the comptrol ler's ofllce, I defy any man to show that a wild cat company has been licensed. Inequality of taxation assessments is the crying ovil in tho State. Let your Legislature remedy the defects m the law." He said that when a candidate for this office in 1804 he had been sacrificed in the reform convention in order to givo the Pee Dee representa tion on tho ticket. W. II. Sharpe, of Lexington, declar ed that he made no attack on Mr. Hrookor, but as the son of a Confeder ate soldier who was killed in battle he advocated pensioning veterans and leaving them at home among their friends rather than sending them to a public home. He spoko vigorously and was applauded at his close. G. Lawrence Walker, of Greenville, told of his record as treasurer of Green ville County and as a clerk in the comptroller's office. He was raised on ] a farm in I hitler township of Green ville just across the Laurens line. A voice, "Pretty rough country ain't it?" " I am a farmer," he continues, " and my sympathies are with the farmers and I owe nothing to any corporation." ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL. Col. J. C. Boyd, of Greenville, can didate for adjutant and inspector gen eral, told of his record. lie had not been to a military college like some of his young competitors, but forty years ago ho went to another sort of soldiers' school and in every county he met his classmates. He alluded of course to his record as a youthful Confederate soldier. He would withdraw from the race if any man in Greenville County said ho was incompetent. He was - cheered. John D. Frost, of Richland, told of his record as a Citadel cadet, officer of tho volunteers in the war with Spain and assistant ad jutant general. "I am running not on any demerits of my opponents if they have any, but on my own merit*." John' M. Palm*, of Anderson, said that he had no war record like Boyd in the Confederacy and Frost in the war with Spain, ?I am better suited for theso piping times of peace." He had come from a family that never as pired for office before, and related his experience in the military school of his father, the late Col. Patrick, which fitted him for this position. The absence of Messrs. Ayer and Bouse, candidates for this office, was announced, and the chairman read a letter from State Treasurer Jennings, who has no opposition for re election, KAI l.i:o.M) COMMISSION Bit. Tho candidates for railroad coiumis sionor began with A. C. Jepsou. Ho related Im record as a locomotivo eu gineor. "I can build a railroad and run the machinery," ho said. The oliice required a practical expert rail way man, and his forty years uxperi ence made him au expert. Iu all that time ho had nover had oven a ropri- j tnand. H. J. Kiuard, of Greenwood, said ho know about tho troubles of a busi ness man with tho railvf ays because he had had them. Ho was the author of a bill in tho Legislature requiring rail ways to make prompt settlements for losses, and another placiug the matter of demurrage iu the hauds of the rail road commission. He behoved freights wero loo high and illustrated with fig ures as to fertilizers. " Fellow Citi zens. I am your noighbor and Green wood County people can toll you about me." ho declared. John G. Mobloy, of Fair(1 old, said lhat a man was wanted who would siand between the great corporations and tho people, a man with backbone aud couviclious. Ho had served iu tho agricultural socioty with that '* ptiuce of politicians and courtoous gentleman, John II. Wharton, now a railroad commissioner." The absouce of II. II. Prince was announced. J. C. Wilborn, of York, candidnte for re-election, thanked tho peuplo for past support. " These other candi dates make you promises and think you have no better sense than to be lieve them. Mobley, Kinard and W?l ling had been membors of the Legisla ture, aud the tax lovy had been in creased while tho assessed property was greater. While he was a legisla tor the State lovy had been decreased from 0 to 4 1-2 mills." He rend figures to show reduction in freight rates dur ing his term. He was loudly applaud ed. J. G. Mobloy asked to make a cor rection of Wilborn's statement and said that lie had always voted for low er tax levies. W. Boyd Evans, of Ilichland, said that Wilborn had hold office for eight years and drawn 820,000. Mt. Wilborn, from his seat: " How do you make that?" Mr. Evans cited instances of higher freights, which Wilborn from his seat denied. He said that the commisssion should have had the passenger depot in Latirens located on tho western side cf tho tracks instead of the eastern, and thus not have endangered tho lives of the people. John G. W?lling, of Fairfleld, said that he had seven years of experi ence as a railway man as engineer and machinist. He had had twenty-llvo years successful business experieuce. If elected ho would give his whole time to the office. " This isCanslor from Tir/.ah, and my platform is ability," was the next gentleman's introduction of himself. " Wilborn never invited you to his model farm in York," he e?.claimed. " These other fellows tell you about each other's unlit nens and that means that Canaler's the man to vote for." Mr. (Janaler is unique in appoaranco, remarkable in manner and undoubted, ly entertaining. The crowd cheered him tremendously aud laughed by turns. B. L. Caughman, of Saluda, said that ho proved partiality on the part of the commission and Wilborn " had not cheeped about it since." He had reduced passenger fares in the separate coach bill which ho introduced. He referred tho people to Dr. Wolfe, Dr. Smith and others with whom he had served in the Legislature. He would he "as true to the pcopio as when he had introduced tho bill which said no negro man Should ride in the same car with a white woman." THE OOVKUNOnS. M. F. Ansel, of Greenville, candi date for Governor, called attention to the fact that Governor Simpson, of Laurens, was the last Governor from upper South Carolina, and that was twenty-five years ago. " Wo are not running against each other, but each for the office. One of the planks in my platform is to stand by tho old Confederate soldier. Young men of Laurena, let us see to it that the old sol dier goes to his grave with something to eat and something to wear. " I would not take from ono of the State institutions a single dollar or a single brick. I stand for the common schools. But one in every ono hun dred can go to a college. Let us take care of the ninety and nine. "Good roads is another of ray planks. The mule tax and the horse and wag on tax is the biggest tax you pay. Take your convict labor and put them on these roads. Lot's get a little na tional aid. too. for our highways. " We are all together on the dispen sary, the child labor bill and the trusts." Mr. Ansel told his " Craf ford " story, and closed amid cheers. X>. C. Hi y ward was the next speak er. Ho commanded attention from his first word and the crowd seemed to hang on his every syllable. Ho has a ringing, rich voice and spoke with an earnestness that seemed to catch and hold every ear. One might have heard a pin drop during his speech. " I make my living from the soil like most of you," ho said. He is a Colleton county farmer. 44 My county conven tion gave tue a unanimous endorse-' ment by a rising vote." Here he told an effective story illustrating the en dorsemcnt's value. 44 Col. Tlllman said yesterday that I was riding a 'Cuban pony,' meaning if. G. Gon zales," he continued. 44 Nobody that knows N. G. Gonzales believes any body can ride him. I do not know whether he is supporting me or not. I have never asked his or any other newspaper man's support. If he is supporting tue, thou I would be grate ful for it as I would be for that of any othor or all newspapers. If elected I shall be elected unpledged. I shall wear no man's collar. 1 am plodgod alouo to the servico <>? all the people of South Carolina. 1 favor the common schools and I belteve that no class of people dosorve more from the State than the teachers, especially the hard work iug, poorly paid women teachers. As to the vetorans, it is for thorn to deter mine whether or not they want a soldiers' homo. I personally do not think it a practical plan, but it is a mattet for thorn to consider and deter mine in thoir reunions.*' His tribute to tho Confederate soldier waa splen didly eloquent ami the crowd was visi bly touched. " Beiug a Domocrat I am opposed to trusts and private mono polies." Congressman Talbort, of Edgefleld, was the next speaker. The lority of tho crowd was clearly h d he was frequently cheered. At t close of his speech he had one of the b {gost cheers of tho day. "My people at home," ho exclaimed, " have endorsed mo for twenty-two years, and that is sufficient to answer some of the slanders that have boon circulated about me. I am opposed to all political trickory and combinations. The quostion is whothor manhood or ? tonoy should rulo this country. Wo snould havo lawn to protect the peoplo against greed of corporations. ' !tal and labor should go hand in ha.. " Auy man who will visit Win hron and Clcnibou will come away proud lhat ho is a South Carolinian. I favor reasonable and moderate appropria tions for all our higher institutions. The great bulwark of liberty is tbo education of tbo people. Make the common schools strong and let t he in bo established deep and broad. L>et them be liberally supported. I have soundiincit thought if we eould do it without Fedoral interference both the spelling book and the ballot should be taken from the negro. Then put him in the Held whoro he belongs, (cheeis.) I am opposed to using tho money of the white man to educate tho negro. I beliovo that this can bcclTecled undor tho constitution. The use of the three mill school tax is iu the dis cretion of the trustees. " I favor tho enforcement of the dis pensary law in every nook and ccrncr of South Carolina, in Charleston and Columbia as well as I,aureus, not mak ing fish of ono section and fowl of another. " Having been a youthful soldier of the Confederacy of course I favor pen sioning tho grand old veterans who need help." Col. James II. Tillman opened with telling a joke of Col. Talbert's which the latter had been cut off from by the call of time. ul do not believe, I kuow it," he ussorted, "that tho peo ple will allow I ley ward to ride into office iu the companionship of Gon zales. He says he is thankful for the support of Tho State." Capt. Hoyward from his seat: " And of all newspapers if they support me." Tillman continuing: "And 1 am thankful for his enmity. Ben Tillman was the worst slandered man in the State by the newspapers. ** I have seen tears trickle down the cheeks of my uncle when he read these slanders. 1 am now a clone second to him in being slandered. It looke as though the journalists, and I am not rellecting on the correspondent of The Stato and News aud Courier, had or ganized a scheine to underestimate the size, of the crowds at these meetings and so delude the people into stayiug away from them so that they may not hear tho issues discussed." He called attention to the Greonvillo News esti mate of the Greenville crowd, which ho said was too small. " The dispensary law has many friends, it is popular, but put none but Romans on guard to-night I When the law was put to the test at Darling ton I was ono of the first to respond. My opponents wore not too young or too old to come to its aid. Like Col. Talberl I am opposed to taxing whites to run negro schools, hut I think the less said about it the better, as the white people are already getting more than their proportionate share." "I am the friend of tho old soldiers, but I am unalterably opposed to a soldiers home, which would bo no more than a poor house." Dr. W. H. Tim nor man said that the candidates were agreed on most of the issues. He stressed the necessity of education. If elected he would do his duty. " There is yet to be found in all tnis broad State one man to find fault with one act in ray recood in holding office. Nor has any fault been found with my private life. I was raised on the farm and I know what it is to sympathize with the working peo ple." FOE LIEUTENANT OOVEUNOR, Mr. C. Ii. Blease, of Newberry, attacked the dispensary records of his opponents. He said that he alone had not changed hia dispensary views. Botli of hia opponents had changed theirs. Col. John T. Sloan, of Columbia, expressed hie thanks for suppott in Laurens two years ago. He was then the second man in the race. The win nor of that campaign was opt of it and he was logically entitled to succeed him. Col. Sloan told of his record and referred eloquently to his deceased friend, the late Col. 11. W. Hall, with whom he served in Gary's brigade, saying that" no truer or braver soldier ever rodo in the saddle and no purer patriot had over breathed the air of the State." Frank B. Gary, of Abbovillo, resent ed Col, Sloan's roference to the Gary family having held office. " It was at most' the pot calling the kettle black,' referring to a member of Col. Sloan's family having held office for a long time. I am running for the office, one of honor and without salary, on my merits and if you cannot elect me on them, let me go down in defeat." He was six years Speaker of the House, which fitted him for the office he now sought. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL. Mr. U. X. Gunter, of Spartanburg, was cheered when he began. The crowd seomed to be with him. He devoted his time to speaking of his ecord and referred the people to the county officers who knew of his record as assistant attorney general. W. F. Stevenson, of Cheraw, fol lowed in a speech which was well received. He spoke of his assisting the State in several important law suit*. His speoch made a good im. pression. Tho candidates for secretary of State, J. T. Austin, of Oreonville ; J. H. Wilson, of Lee, and Jesse T. Gautt, of Spartanburg, closed the speaking. Col. Wilson spoke eloquently of the Confederate soldiers aud said he had never held an office of proflt. Col. Austin said that he had come to Laurens in 1870 to assist in the Hamp ton campaign and spoke of his record in Greenville. Mr. Gantt told of his record as as sistant secretary of State and of the passago of a bill which had saved the State thousands of dollars which bad bijou prepared by him and passed upon hin showing before the legislative corn, mittee. Thon the crowd ate a burbecued dinner and weut home. BILL ARP AND THE DOCTORS, HE RECOVERS FROM A SERIOUS ILLNESS. The Physicians Probably Kept Him and Klujf Edward from Dying. Atlanta Constitution. I don't know whether I can write a lottor or not. I will try. The effort will keop me from thinking about my self. For a month I have been play ing " Hilly in the low grounds/' but I had a good doctor who has nursed me night and day and cheered me up and comforted me and I am on the up grade, though as the Georgia crackers say, "I am powerful weak." This doctor is my son and bo says ho has not forgot ten how his mother and I nursed him for three long months in Florida and saved his life, and now I shall not die if ho can help it. I take all his medi cine, quinine, strychnine, calomel, spirits of nitre and capsules without number, aud tonics, too, and if I get well 1 will never know what cured me, but he will. What would the world do without doctors? King Edward and I would have died last wbek. About twenty years ago I hail a spell like this ono, for I had been working in tho water all day trying to dam up tho branch in the meadow so that tho children could go in bathing. That night I liked to have died, and old Dr. Kirk was eont for and worked on me for three or four days and got me up again. My wife told me (ben that if I didn't be more careful of myself I wouldn't live out half my days. She told me the same thing tho other day, and she knows. Oid Dr. Kirk is a trump. He was our family doctor until he got old aud tired and moved away to live with his children. Bofore he moved to this place from South Caroliua he had a love scrape over there, and he had a rival, too, and they fell out. The girl wouldn't have either one of them and the other fellow heard that the doctor had told stories on him to the girl, and so after the doctor lo cated here his rivai wrote to him and demanded a retraxit or else a tight. The doctor wroto him a stinger and re fused to make a retraxit, but would ac cept his challenge and light him until Hades froze over, and as the lighting code gave the challenged party choice of weapons and time and place and distance he should chooso rifles at long range and the next 29th day of Feb ruary as the time, and the other fellow must stay where he was and shoot over this way and he (tho doctor) would etay here and shoot over that way and both must aim high bo as not to hit anybody between them. But I must stop now aud take breath. A good long breath is what I want. The old woman was asked what disease her husband died of and sho said the doctors differed about it, but she always believed he died for lack of breath. I don't want to go that way. I was ruminating about those physi cians, for doctor is not the proper name. Doctor means a teacher of any thing whether it be science or art or law or pharmacy or theology. Physi cian is the right word. It is a very ancient namo for the profession. The Bible tells how Joseph got the physi cians to embalm his old father, but I do not think it was a very popular pro fession among the Jews, for it is men tioned only two or three times and with doubtful favor. King Asa had a disease in his feet and would not call upon tbo Lord for relief, but sent for a physician, and ho died and slept with his fathers. Then there was a woman who had had an issue of blood for twelve years and had suffered much from many physicians and spent all she had and was nothing better, but rather grew worse. The Jews unto this day do not give much patronage to physicians or quack medicine. I never knew but one Jew doctor. though there are a few very eminent ones in the large cities, for whatever a learned Jew does he does well. There is a Doctor Jacohl in New York city who stand at the head of tho profession and is consulted by the rich and great men of the nation, Now, let me stop for another good, long breath. When I was a boy we didn't have but one doctor in the towu, and he weighed 800 pounds and was never in a hurry. He left little babies around ever and anon and when one came to our house our old cook told us where he got them and she slyly point ed to his corporosity. He had a little Thc?WoiKs Greatest. Cure for /Tafana X i i-.it.? I ffcrall form* ?f M*Ur!U .DC Uk? Jobn.uo'n Chill T*Mk # A i%int <>'?MMnrlal i*I hi yoirbloocJ means mlaery ?od fallnre. Blood m?dloin?soan'(oar? Malarial poisoning. # l he anttdoU St^tfay w's Tow,c fctitt 5? Erato If It Emm. oftlce on the street and a few shelves with bottles on them coulaimng calo mel, salts and castor oil, senna and cammomilo and Peruvian bark, balsam , of copaiba, ami suchsimplo things, and in the corner was a skeleton in a box that stood upright, with a screw in tbo skull, and somotimos the little, long door was open and we school children could peep in and then run for our lives. It was an awful sight. Put the old doctor got too old and fat to prac tice and sent to New York for his ne phew. Dr. Philo D. Wildman, astudent of Valentino M ott, the great Now York physician and surgeon. Ho was as smart as his tutor aud went to cutting and slashing our people just like killing hogs. He strightened cross eyes and sewed up hare lips and cut stones out of'bladders. The agonizing screams of poor little John Thompson, my school mate still haunt me, for ho was simplying dying of stone in tho bladdor and the doctor cut it out. It was as large as a pigeon egg, and tho little boy got well. My brotbor and Jim Cratg studied under Wildman, and when they wanted a stiff thoy would go out to the Redland grave yard in the night and dig up a fresh buried corpse and haul it to a liltlo room back of their ofllco and cut it up and boil is down and make a skeleton out of tho bones. I went with them one night and helped them to dig up a negro, but somebody rocked us as we wero taking it out and we had to run for our lives for they threatened to shoot. That satisfied me with tho businoss and I never went again. But our little town wasn't big enough for Wildman and so he moved to Co lumbus and made a groat reputation. About that time the yellow fever visited Savannah, and Wildman be lieved he could stamp it out and that he was an immune, but he wasn't, lie took the fever right, away and died. It is a curious coincidence that threo doctors from our town went to Savau nah to fight the fever and ovory one of them took it and died. But I was ruminatiug about tho suf fering and agony that the advance in surgery aud physic has saved mankind and 1 rejoice that Crawford Long has been given tho first place in the Hall of Fame. I was at school in Athens when his discovery was made, but the maguiuidu of it was not realized until long affer. 1 was one of tho first to have a tooth extracted by tho use of his lethoan. Let me rest a while, for I am weak and nervous aud, as Byron said? 44 My visions flit less palpably boforo me." I have just eojoyed a good, long let ter from my old school mate, Nathan Crawford, of Liincolnton. He is the honored school commissioner of tho county and will die in harness, 1 reckon. He is in his eightieth year, but we were class mates, for he was one of these sura and slow boys, while I was precocious and uncertain. Only three of us left uow, for Tom Aloxan der is living at Rome. Nathan wntos a good, old-fashioned, cheerful letter, and says that ho nevor stolo Frank Alexander's watermelons, and hints that it was Overton Young aud a boy of my name. The only roason ho' didn't steal them was thut he boarded with Mr. Alexander and got a plenty without stealiug. It is too late now for him to assume a saintly morality, for Tom and I still live to testify. Hut it was a good letter and the memory of Nat Crawford Is always comforting and refreshing. Now, for a good long rest. Bim. A nr. THE SENATORIAL, CARAVAN Au Audience That Looked Like ??Patience on a Monument Smiling: at Grief." The Senatorial meeting at Walter boro was held in the presence of a thousand voters. There was no spe cial featuro or enthusiasm. Tho au dience was just like a Sunday school picnic crowd, and during the four long hours patiently waited for the end. Their interact is concentrated in the Stato campaign, for this is tho home of ('apt. D. C. Heyward, one of tho can didates for Governor, and it was in this same grove that such a cordial ovation was given him not long ago. The candidates had nothing to say about each other. Even Latimcr and Evans seemed to have tempo rarily buried the hatchet, but the half has not yet been told. As soon as the up-country is reached tho po litical volcano may break out again. The meeting was called to order by Major M. P. Howell, county chairman, who introduced the first speaker, Hon. D. S. Henderson. Mr. Henderson was born in this county and his record has beon a source of pride to these people and now he is here asking thoir votes for the highest gift at the hands of the State. He reiterated hiB statement that in this campaign he intends to attack no man, but will always defend himself when evor attacked by an opponent. Ho told of the constitutional convention and the results accomplished. The people are thinking, even if they are not attending the meetings, and are watching closely the morits of tho men asking office, and will silonily cast their votes on August '2G for tho best men. Mr. Henderson thon passed on to a broad platform, whero ho was safe from the attacfcs of his oppononts. Ho spoke on the trusts, imperialism and I the tariff, ending with a strong appeal for a grand Democratic rally in 1904. Col. Ucorge Johnstohe twitted Mr. Henderson about being born in Col leton, but as soon as he could ho tod-1 died away and went to Aiken and now he only comes back hore wheu he wants office. He delivered his tariff speech, and when he told his farmer audience about nine billions ot money they looked at him as much as to say: ** Well, how does that interest us?" Yet they listened patiently as he illu CASTOR IA Por Infanta and Children. The Kind Yon Have Always Bough! slrated by example tho effect of the existing tariff laws. Tariff reform is the watchword of Dotnocracy and twice has brought success to the Democratic cause. He is waging no war against capital, but when it exceeds its limita tions and becomes an engine of op pression then his arm will ever be raised against it. No dormant party can live. It is tbo aggressive policy that wins. We cannot afford to waste time by affiliating with tho Republic ans. Ho told of hardships endured in tho Philippines by American troops and Baid their blood and sufforing is upon tho hands of tho Itopuhlican party. Ho closed with a strong argu ment iu favor of constitutional govern ment. He has sought the favors of no political manipulators, but is relying solely upon tho people, whose servant he shall over bo when tboy olect him to the Senate. Congressman Wm. Elliott is still at home and in his old district. In fact he was born just beyond tho river in Boaufort County. Ho was gladly re ceived. Ho thinks some of I com petitors are unjust to those v, ., have been in Congress in stating that the Domocrats have been inactive. Col. Elliott told of Democratic work, es pecially in tho Cuban reciprocity mat tor. He told of his record and tho fight of his life in rcdoeniing this low-country from negro domiuation. No one elso would undortako tho task, for it was regardod as a forlorn hope, and now that victory is complote he turns it over to othurts and asks that ho he sent to the Senate. Ho has never deserted or betrayed his people, and a man's record is the boat way by which the people can judge a candidate. Hon. J. J. Ilemphill thinks that the Southern people are land poor and argued that the Unitod States has neither the right nor reason to go into the colony business. For years to como we have enough territory hero in the United States to demand our time aud attention, therefore ho argued against colonial expansion. Mr. Homphill's jokes proved re freshing to the hot, weary and patient crowd. He closed with an argument against expansion and told of the delusion of Commercial Democracy that came so near getting a foothold in this State. Just before Ex-Governor Evans be gan his spocch tho negro band, which was furnishing tho music for the day, struck up the old familiar air, "There Will be a Hot Timo in the Old Town," aud it was wondered if this was pro phetic. Hut it was not. Mr. ICvaus' voice was hoarso from his effort at Charleston last night. His argumont was an ingouious one, waruiug tho pooplo against recent con verts and asking their support, because he is a Democrat, and proved this, ho claimed, by finding out and denouncing McLaurin's Republicanism. Because he was a watchman ou the wall he claimod recognition at tho hands of South Carolinians. Ho told of his trip to Cuba and said that the Spaniards were tho only ones ou the island who made any pretenco to decency. Mr. Evans mado his tariff reform speech, deeming this the paramount issue before the country. The Trans portion Trust is only exceeded in in iquity by the Virginia-Carolina Chemi cal Company. South Carolinians must rise up against this corporation or they will be permanently hurt by tho com bination. The penitential v is not pay ing, therefore Mr. Evans thinks it best to turn it into a big fertilizer factory for the benefit of the State, especially the agriculturist. Mr. ISvans was well received. Mr. Eatimor had laid aside bis dress suit of last evening and appeared in the costume of a prosperous Southern planter. Every two yea; ?, he said, I the people have candidates come be fore them and toll them what is wrong with the country, and incidentally ask for votes. After election nothing more is heard of them for two years. Ho turned the hands of time backward and told what " wo farmors" did and what "wo farmers" accomplished in 1802, when the South Carolinians in Congress had to atop down and out and make room for Reformers. Ho told of his work and the moasures accom plished and advocated by him. What we need is practical business men, not theoretical ones; men who work and will not bo content with making flowery Speeche. Mr. Latimer, with apol ogies to Mr. 11 in uphill, told his goat story, notwithstanding there were many ladios prenent, who blushed aud hid their luces bohind their hands, but laughed just tho samo. What wo need in this country is equal rights and equal privileges; the rich will stay rich and the poor noor to the end of time. but bo believos in giving overy man an ?quiil chance. A voice: Mr. I .utimer, it is re ported that you aro interested in Mex ican mining stock. Is it true? Mr. Latimer: Yes, sir; after Con gress was over I had an oiter of Mex ican mining stock at $1 20 a share, and 1 accepted the option and it afterward wont up to 81 40 and I sold out. I mado some monoy on the deal. That is all there is in it. Life has always been a success with mo, and I claim that I am a successful business man. 1 never have dealt in cotton futures or any gambling scheme, but I have worked hard aud enorgotically and in creased my possoBsiona honestly and honorably. There were no further questions. The Crow Indiana, once the terror of t'<e plains, are now schudulod as among the mott induBtrious aud pros perous Indians in tho country. There are about two thousand of them on tho Crow reservation in Montana, and they have been reported at Washing ton as " self-sustaining." There are gradations of wortblcisnoaa even among savages, and tho Crows were more enorgetio in their wild life than were many of the other tribes, and es pecially those of tho coast. It is not surprising, therefore, that they are more energetic in acini-civilized Ihe than the others and are ready sooner to dispense with government rations. OA0TORXA. giants* yjTtoKInd You Haw Always fcASIDRlA ?Vegctable Preparation for As slmilaling ihcFood andHcgula ling the Stomachs and Bowels of In fan rs/Children Promotes Digestion.Cheerful ness and Rest.Conlains neither Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. wot ^NAllcotic. JhcieafOM OrSMfi/Et/mi/a/t f^myiAin Seed' Mix. Senna * Anite Srrd * mhtnyrm* rlaYBK A perfect Remedy forConslipa Tlon, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss of Si.kep. Fac Simile Signnlure or NEW YORK. Alb iiioiilh-. itlcl J5 Dos> s - ] jt i n i s EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. GASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears th? Signature In Use For Over Thirty Years GASTORIA THI OINTAUfl COMPANY. NCW YORK CITY. ?INDUSTRIAL ? 8 AND GENKRAL, g Thousands of Londoners have taken out special insurance policies against smallpox, ranging from #500 to ?50,000. Australian sheep raisers mean to erect a f1,500,000 mill in Seattle, to which they can aond tho product of their Mocks. It is said that tho Chinese pay their doctors only whilo they are well. When they got sick they don't give the physicians anything. Tho biggest trial ou record is soon to come oft at IvieiT, Russia, where 0,000 people are to be arraigned for participation in popular uprisings. Dr. W. H. Milburn, the blind chap lain of the Senate for the past nine years, is eighty years old. He held the same ollico for many years in the House. The park commissioners of Hull, England, have refused tho gift of a polar bear because it would cost ?200 to dig a pit and build a house for tho animal. Three hundred million feet of logs were cut on tho Eenobscot Jriver last season. This is the biggest harvest ever known, and nearly half of it is i for tho manufacture of paper. In a recent Indian cyclone the force of tho wind was so great that railway trains running against it were brought to a standstill. Its velocity was esti mated at 100 miles an hour. The United States gold dollar is so scarce that coin dealers are advertis ing for them and paying from ?1.50 to ?fil.OO for all that they can get. The miuts have not coined any since 1880. The output of gold from the Ural mines is steadily Increasing, and as peace in South Africa will add to the world's supply, the market price as a commodity should decrease in the near future. Dr. (latling, who invented tho gun known by his name, has invented a plow operated by gasoline, which will do tho work of thirty men and eight horsos at an expense of a littlo over $2.00 a day. In a recent interview on Cuba (Jen. [fttzhugh Leo predicts falling away in trado, caused by lack of confidence in tho new government, resulting decline of tho income of that governinent to the starvation point, internal anarchy and a pica from the Cubans them solves for annexation. Typhoid fever has made its appear ance at Camp Thomas, Chickaraanga Park, Georgia, for the lirst time since tho epidemic among tho soldiers du ring the Spanish American war. Tho troops now slationod at Camp Thomas are tho 7th cavalry and tho .'Ird bat tery of Held artillery. Louis Wllkins, who died in Chicago tho other day, deserves a foot-note in history as one of tho sons of Anak. lie was :10 yoars old, eight feet two inches high, and ?'U?5 pounds. A half dollar could be put through his liugor ring, and a special bed had to be con structed for bim at tho hospital where he died. Mrs. Lindley, the wife of a soldier, went through some of the sharpest en gagements of tho civil war. She en listed in company D, Sixth Ohio cav-1 airy, and fought at Port Magruder, Hanover Court House, Hull Run, An tietam and BooiiBboro. She is said to be still living and the mothor of sev eral children. A persistent campaign against mos quitoes has been maintained in Rrook lino, Mass., for woeks by tho Health Hoard and good results aro reported. Noarly every pond, pool and stream and the 1,000 catch basins in the town have been examined and treated with orude petroleum. The areas treated have varied from r>0 squaro feet to 50,000, and more than 100 gallons of oil have boon usod. OASTOIIIA. Bout th? N? Kind You Have Always Bought Signatur?, Thm Confederate Reunion.? (Jeu. Thomas W. Carwde, m ijor-gen cral commanding the South Carolina Division of Confederate Veterans, has issued the following general circular of information regarding the Confederate reunion that is to be held in Green ville next month: General Order No. 'j. 1. Having been appointed niajoi' goueral, to succeed Gen !, I. Walker, promoted to command tho department of tho Army of Northern Virginia, by tho commanding general iu General Order No. 1206, 1 hereby assume com mand of the South Caroliua Division, United Confederate Veterans. 2. The South Carolina Division, United Confederate Vetozans, will meet in Greenville, S. C, at their an nual reunion on the 0th, 7th and 8th of August, 1002, The Convention will be called to order at 11 o'clock a. m. at tho hall designated by the Grcon villocommittee. All veterans aro earn* oslly requested to alteud this meeting, as year by year our numbers aro grow ing loss. 8. Commanders of all camps com posing this division will call them to gether at once and elect delegates to attend said reunion. ?1. The commanding general regrets to call attention to a largo number of. camps who are in arrears as to dues, both to tho general headquarters at New Orleans and also to th^. division headquarters. These dues -c small and should be paid at once. Ao camp will be allowed to vote who is in arrears to either tho general headquarters or .division during the Convention, j 5. Col. J. M. J Inn, of Camp Pul lian, Greenville, S. ?'., will act as chief , of staff during the juuion at Grocn I ville, to whom all c ' . ;iv ho remit" I ted. G. It is with pit > ? that I an nounce to tho voter. ? t our com rade, Col. Robert il, of Jiarn well, S. C, will dolh .? annual ad dress, and that Miss U iipkin, of Co lumbia, S. C., will welcome the Vet erans in behalf of the United Daugh ters of the Confederacy. 7. All railroads have given the low rate of one cent a mile for each way travelled. Hy order of Thomas W. Carwile, Major General, Commanding South Carolina Division, Untied Confederate Veterans. Official: J. M. Jordan, Acting Chief of Staff. A British medical commission has been sent out to tho Congo country to study a peculiar disease which has made considerable ravages upon tho natives during the past few years. The disease is called the "sleeping sick ness." White men seem to ho im mune to it, but tho natives attacked lie down and sleep themsclyes to death. The desire to sleep is not COntlni '.a, but periodical, each period la ling longor than the one before it. Tho desiro to sleep may come on in tho midst of a meal and it is irresistible. The unnatural sleep is not rofreshing but has just the opposite offect, and tho patient loses strength until death finally intervenes. No pain attends the malady; it is just a wasting away of strength during sleep. Among the clerks selected lor tho pormancnt census bureau is Mr. S. D< I'eariuan, of South Ci ?lina, who has I boon in Washington or about two I y i'B. Mr. Teni inan is OUO of ttlC most efficient clerks in the bureau, and has a high record. I lo is a graduato of Clomson College, S. C, and is highly regarded by his superiors and assort* atcs. Out in Stunner County, Kansas, one Tnomas A. Ilubbard is a candidate for county treasurer. lie has is sued a great many cards announc ing that ho is in tho Held, but thriftily raakos uso of tho other sido with an advertisement that ho is a broeder of line hogs, which he offers for sale cheap. OASTOIllA. tan th? j* TN Kind You Have Alwajs Boujtit Signatar?