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C.0 ESTABLISHED 186;*'. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY,_MY 4,188 HARMONIOUS ACTION OF THE DEMO: CATIC CONVENTION. The Delegates at Large to the National Con vention Elected Unanimously by Accla mation - Cleveland's Administration Squarely Endorsed-The Proposi tion for the State Primary Over whe!mingly Defeated, but a State Canvass Agreed to Without Opposition. [Special to the News and Courier.] COLUMBIA, May 17.-At noon to . day there had assembled in the big hall of the House of Representatives one of the finest bodies of men which has ever represented the Democratic party of South Carolina in State Con vention. Nearly all of the 31S del: gates were present, and the few vacan cies which occurred were promptly filled by alternates. Almost every delegation contained men long promi nent in the party councils, and there were besides a great many of the young er Democrats just rising into party prominence. The Convention in fact, contained a very large proportion of young delegates. After a few preliminary taps of the . gavel, which sufficed to bring the Con vention to the point of attention, State Chairman James W Moore, standing - at the Speaker's desk, called the Con vention to order, and the call for the meeting was read by Capt Willie Jones, secretary of the State executive com mittee. Gen Moore, without a speech, nomi nated for temporary chairman the Hon Y J Pope, of Newberry, who was unan imously elected by acclamation. Col Pope, upon taking the chair, briefly spoke as follows: "Gentlemen of the Convention: I have not words at my command to ex press my thanks for this most unex pected distinction. As I take it, the Democratic party of South Carolina has made up its mind as to the work which should be accomplished by this Con vention, and no words of mine need be spoken to bring your minds to a thorough comprehension of the work before you. Again thanking you for your kindness, I now declare the Con vention ready for business." The election *(,f two secretaries was next in order. Col Claude Sawyer, of Aiken, and Mr W L Glaze, of Orange burg, were the only nominees and they were unanimously elected. The ere dentials of the different delegations were handled in by their several chair men and the roll of the Convention was called, the delegates present an swering to their names, and the places of the absentees being filled by selec tions from the alternates. This business consumed considerable time, and it was 1 o'clock before the chairman announced that 306 delegates answering to their names, more than a quorut, the Convention was organized anct ready for business. Col Robert Aldrich moved that the temporary organization be made per manent. He made this motion, he saidI, with the object of saving timie, which to many members of the Con vention was valuiable. There was no opposition, and Col Aldrich, taking the chair, put his mo tion, which was unanimously carried. Mr E W James, Jr, of Sumter, mov ed that the Chair select a minilster of the gospel to open the proceedings with prayer. Carried. The Chair in vited the Rev W R Richardson to pray. Mr Richardson came from his position -in the gallery and offered prayer. The election of seven vice presidents, one from each Congressional distriet, wa next in order. The following nomi nations were made: 1st district, H A Meetze, Lexington, and W B Utsey, Colleton; 2(d, Dr S M Orr, Anderson; 4th, Dr A N Talley, Richland, and Thomas W Woodward, Fairfield, 5th, R T Mack bee, Chester; 6th, C S McCall, Marlboro; 7th, J C Blanding, Sumter. Messrs Utsey and Talley declined elec tion, and the other nominees were unanimously elected. C:ongressmian Perry nominated Capt -Willie Jones, of Columbia, as treasurer -orthe Convention, and he was unanl mously elected. Col George Johnstone, of Newberry, moved that the Convention proceed to elect four delegates at large to tile Na tional Convention at St. Louis, and accepted an amesndmnent by Mr. Dantz Grn~rgeburg, that n<> speeches be mxade in nomintion. Carried. The Hon D) S Henderson, of Aiken, nominated Major James F Hart of York. The Hon. G. L. Buist, of Charleston, nominaii~ted Capt. F W~ Dawson, of Charleston. Mr WV E James Jr. of Sumlter, nomin ated the Hon Jos H Earle, of Sumter, col Blanding, of Sumter, in behalf of Col Earle, withdrew his name. Col D P Duncan, of Unionl, inminat ed Capt Willie Jones, of Columbia. Mr R D Lee. of Sumter, nominated the Hon John C Sheppard, of Edgetield Mr Sheppard, declined, and said that he could not serve if elected. (ier James F Izlar, of Orangeburg, S nomlinated Senator M C Butler. Mr. Shleppard having stated that Senator Butler did not desire electionl, Gen Iz lar drew his namle. Mr Ellis G Giraydon, of Abbeville, -nomiinated the H-on C S McCall, of Marlboro. Mr McCall withdrew his5 maluie. The' Hon1 A T Smlythe, of Chlarlestonl, nomlinlated Mr C A WXoods, of Marion. Thei nominIat ions were freely second, - ed. There being but four nominations be.fore tihe Convention, Mlessr's Dawson, Hart. .Jones amid 'Woods were elected u namnimo usly anId by acclamation. On Senator Buist's mlotionl nomnina tionls were made for alternates. Messrs T M Raysor, of Orangeburg; F W WXagener, of ('harleston; A 31 Ruth, of Hampton; S T McCrh.-ey, of Spartani F Rhanie, of Clarendon, vere Put ill nomninlatiol. The I:yne"s of Messrs WVagener and ('oiemnlt wvere with drawn, and 3(-sSrs lt:!ys-r. tuth, \Ic (ravey and Rnaie were un:miinouisly elected by cclamaton. 3aj4-r liui=t ni1ppd in the ud a io tioln to allpointt a cor!linittc"e o! rso!lu tions, andcl ofli'l the following, whih he read .an ld libe"ral applause: Resolved, lst, That the Demuocratic < party of theState of South Carolina, in State Convention assemllbled, do hereby express their unqualilied app robation of the adininistration of President t Cleveland and their desire for his re nollination and re-election. 2d. That in President Cleveland the 1)enocraev of South Carolina recognize all exalted typJe of American manhood, I inasmuch as he is mindful of official re sponsibilities, fearless in oticial action and steadfast in the face ofinportunity. I 3d. That President Cleveland, in his public life, exeinplifies. the simplicity without parsimony, the dignity with out ostentation, the self-respect without exclusiveness, which should iark the 1 character and conduct of one who is higher than all othe rulers, in being the embodiment of the sovereign m1lajes ty of more than tU0,0(0H),O4of people. 1 4th. That the enormous excess of public revenue over the necessary and r proper expenditure is in itself a start- ') hing evidence of needless and therefore unjust taxation. The millions so with- ] drawn from trade and industry are barren of legitimate fruit, and are in themselves, a menace to the business of I the whole country. 5th. That the message of President I Cleveland, advocating a reduction in the revenue by lowering the taxation on the necessaries of life and raw ila terials of Inanufacture, meets with our I hearty and thcrough approval as.a statesmanlike and practical way in I which the overburdened people can be a relieved without injury to labor or to ( capital. uth. That, recognizing the necessity for concessions in order to secure a e liberal neasure of tariff reform, we give r to the tariff bill reported by the coin- t Imittee on ways and means, and known as the Mills bill, our cordial approval, and urge the Democracy of the country r to accept it as a measure which will 3 make life easier for the people at large, increase the opportunities of the man ufactures and maintain the present r high position of enlightened American r labor. t Major Hart, as soon as these resolu- x tions had been read, moved the ap- t pointnient of a committee of one from i: each Congressional district to act upon e them. Capt Dawson oflered an amen<dment r that there be one member from each county, to be chosen by the delegation p of such county. S This amendment was accepted by Major Hart, as was another that all I other resolutions, without debate, be t referred to the same conmittee. The 1 motion so amended, after an eti'ort by s Ex-Judge Cook. of Greenville, to table it, was unanimiously adopted. . The inenibers of the connulittee were at once namted as follows by the dif'er ent delegations and met inlnieliately in I the Senate chanber. (oMMITTFrE ON REmsoLXTIt.Ns. Abbeville, WV 0 Bra(dley.1 Anderson. E- B~ Xiurray. Barnwvell, Jiohmnon H agood. t lieaufort, H D Elliott. Berkeley, HI A 31 Smith. Charleston, G L Buist. C;hester, WV H Sanders.I Chesterfiel, \W J Hlanna. (larendion,. C S Land. Colleton,. C C Traey. Darlington, Edward E EFvanis. Edgetield, B R. T.'illnman.1 Georgetowvn, J P Steele. G;reenville, WV H Perry. Ha{tmiptoni, 31 B 3leSweenmey. Kershaw. WV 31 Shannon. Lamicaster, C L Connors. Laurens, John R Snmith. Lexingtonl, (; Leaphiart. 3larion, s A D)urhanm. MIarlboro, WV D Evans,3 N ewberry, George .John stone. Oconee, J Cary. Orangeburg, J]ames F. Izlar. Pickens, WV A (lyde. Richland, John C Hlaskell. Spartanbumrg, D P D)uncan. Sumiter, R 1) Lee. U nion, 1D R D)uncan. York, J F" Hart. Williamsburg. TV M3 Gilland. 31r WV L G;ray, of Lautrens, offered1 the following resolution: That the State const itut ion of the1 Democratic pairty be so amlenidedl that all nmomimi tionis for State ottices he made by primiary election. Mir Ellis ( Grayd,l,. of Abbeville,1 introduced t his resolution: Resolved. by tllis Convention, tha t the constitutioni of t he D)enm>eratic par'ty of South Carolina be anmemnded by strik ing out the second1 proviso of tihe last, paragraphl of the thirteenth artILe thlereof, whlich is in these words: "Prto vided further, that no election, either for dlelegates to a convenitioni or under the p)rimaliry plan, shall be hereatftr held prior to the first day of Septenmber i any year. IThe Honi E B 3lurray introduced the following resolution. Resolved. Thlat it is t he sense of this Convention that the candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor should be aftbrdedl ant opportuniity for mally to address the people of the State before the elect ion of delegates to the noiatn coniventionl in each elec tioni year, totlihe end that their views upon puLbi( questionis miav be known in ad vance of the nominat ion, and to this end the constitution of the D)emocrattic party of South Carolina be, and the saune is hereby. amlendled by addi(ng thereto the following section to wit. "The State executive conmmit tee shall, ini eachl year ini which an election for Governor and Lieu teniant Governor oc curs. appoint at least one ptlic meet ing in each C ongressionmal district,I whieh shll I be publicly announcedon saime, whlichl shallh be not mlore than three month ls ando not less- thani one mo':nhi biefore 1the mieeti!ng of the State No'Ilmiatind~ 'onventioni, at wich all the eandidates fo.r Wycvrnoran Lieutlenanlt (;.verno r ihall b e expectedI to i'ddress" the peopIle, andi thle State ex eutive connnitter sha:ll iniake such ari ranlgemnents as they nmay. deeml proper.' M1r WV E James, JIr, ofSumtter, initro duIlced the follow ing: pesn wos lanltes are offered for nominations in hie liemlcocratic State Convention will >e exp ected to address said Conlventiont and answer (juestions asked by the uebibrs thereof biefore a vote is taken >n1 salitl noin11ationi.i MIr Eugeiie B Gary of Abbeville, -f!erced tlh' tollowing: lhesolved, That the delegations from he cotuilties composing each Congres ioual district do proceed tosclect three >emberS to be elected by their conlven ion fcr two years, and until their sue .esso>rs shall be elected to serve oi the state Dmenocratic executive collittee. At 2:30 p. im. a recess for thirty minh ites was taken to allow the district lelegates to meet each other and elect lternates to the Convention. The dis rict conventions were held in different >arts of the hall. DISTRICT DELEGATES. The following results were reported o the Convention: First distriet-Delegates, F W Wag ner, Charleston; G S Grahan, Lex ngton. Alternates-L A O'Neill, Char Lston; A S Hydrick, Orangeburg. Second district-Delegates, M 1 Mc ,weeney, Hampton: A S Seigler, Aiken. ternates-W R Kelly, Barnwell; W Durst, Edgefield. Third district-Delegates, J K Gog ans, Newberry; O M Doyle, Oconee. 1) Maxwell, Anderson. Fourth district-Delegates, N B Dial, aurens; John T Sloan, Jr, Richland. lternate-J M Browning, Union. Fifth district-Delegates. \V I T rince, Chesterfield; Leroy Springs, ,ancaster. Alternates-B D Springs, ,ancaster; J D Means, Fairfield. Sixth district-Delegates, B W Ed ards, Darlington; H 1L Buck, Horry. lternates-A E Bristow, Marlboro; J .Jarnighan, -Marion. Seventh district-Delegates, William lliott, Beaufort; Altamont S Moses, uniter. Alternates - Josiah Doar, orgetown, James PAdamis, Richland. On motion of Mr C J Hutson the lection of delegations and alternates ?ported by the several district conven ons was confirmed by acclamation. Senator Buist, for the committee, first ported adversely on the resolutions of Ir Gray in favor of a State primary. Mr Buist, from the committee on solut ions, submitted the unfavorable sport of the committee on the resolu ion by Mr Graydon, of Laurens, (pro iding for an amendment to the consti tion of the Democratic party, chang lg the pian of nominating State ofri ers from the convention to the primary ystem,) and recommending that the -solution do not pass. Mr .1 C Haskell moved that no dele ote be allowed to make more than one peech on any one question. MIr Robert Aldrich advocated un iited freedom of speech. The ques ion was of vast importance to the ,otle of the State, and he thought it hould be thoroughly discussed. _Mr IIaskell withdrew his motion, and s a-substitute moved that each dele ate be limited to two speeches. Mr Thompson, of Oconee, moved to I the notiod ou the table, which was \hr G ray, of Laurens. moved that the ufav orale report of t he committee lhe ejeted, and that the originial-resolu ion roviding for the pimiary plan lhe dpted. Ipont this g1uestioin Mr Gray openeid he deb ate in favor of the resolution. Mir O'Brien, of Colleton, briefly ad -ocatedl the adoption of the unfavorable eport ofi the commflittee and the rejec ion of the prixmary plan. M1r. 13. RI. Tillman at this point ob ained the Iloor and was received with omed appolause by his friends: M1r. Till nan st: "I1 shall not trespass upont our p)atienice, gentlemen, but a very ew moments. This question of a pri nary election, ini my opinion, is thme ost implortant one surrounding the Jemocracy of .South Carolina to-day. ..If I had time I would showv why ve should have a different system if nominations in the State. "Talk about no heed!for refo:m.. Vhen I think of the outrages which iave beecn ecmiitted in this hall I shud cr to enunmerate. I want to call the .1 tentifon othe conlvenltionl to one fact, hat in 1876, wheni Johnson Hagood vas conmpt roller general, the expendli rs oif the State Government were 50,004) a year. they are now nearly l,000,(N0 a year. The p)eople know buese things and thmef ought to know hem, ar dl they demand that the cani lidates for p)ublic officee shall conie be bre thmeim and see them face to face, di explain to thenm why reform has tone the wrong way. I will not ay anything abotut the injustice which is been done to a certain class of the eople in their edlucational college. I ,vil ot say a word uipoin that subject. I'he oiliticianis miav succeed now i ~oting down the right of the p)eople, >ut they are only dannning back the vaters. Two year:. fronm now, when here is a full head on, vou will be swept efore the flood." [Applause.] M1r. Johni C Haskell was next recog 1zed by the chanirnian. Col. Haskell "Thetre are, Mir. Chairman, in this all nearly three hundred men who are : every sense of the word as true re >resentatives of the people as the gentle nan fronm Edgefield, who threatens us svith 100ods and volcanoes" [Laughter.] Ir. Tilbnan: "I have not threatened mybody withi a volcano, I only said we svere staningfl on one." Mr. Haskell, continuing: "I have meard what he has said, Mir President. ouL have heard what he has said. You' mav just heard him say ini substance: I warn you that I represent the people f South Carolina. The people that I vresenlt will hurl you politicians out Ipiace unlless you give us our way. htose that I re.present are harbioring hir wrongs that they may break forth mdii iverwhel m you.'"' [Laughter.] Mir. Tihhuanm: "I said I did not repre sent amnybody but myvself.'' man that his party was in his hat, and I ani glad to hear him admit thal lie has come to my way of thinking [Laughter and applause.] The people who eomne here year after year are repre sentatives of South Carolina. The eighteen mren of Richland, sitting her< represent the people of Richland, and every mtan in the county had a voiee in their selection. I say the same o: York, and of Anderson, and of every couity in the State. That the peoph select their delegates and select them as they will, and I say that these mer here to-day are as true representatives of the people of South Carolina as th( gentleman from Edgefield is. He says that he has left his data at home, and it is good for him that he has. He says that there has been an increase of a quarter of a million dollars of expenses since 1879. Let him get his data and it will give him an answer as positive as I do-that it is not so.'.' [Applause.[ Mr Tillman: "Do you dare say, sir, that the expenditure of this Govern ment in 1887 was not $247,000 mon than in 1879? I dare you to deny it.' [Applause.1 Mr Haskel: "I do deny it most posi tively. [Applause.] What the gentle man is driving at is very easily explain ed. In 1879 there was a fund of money in the treasury and the Iegislature did make appropriations then largely less than in 1887, because that surplus in the treasury was used in addition to the appropriations made. There is a difte rence between a levy and an appropria tion. The levy is what you collect, and the reason why we collected less in 1879 than in 18S7 was because we had in the treasury a surplus which had been previously collected. It is a fact, sir, that the expenditures have not increas ed materially, and that they have been pretty much the same. The appropria tion bills upon our statutes are things which cannormake mistakes, and they are better proofs than the data which the gentleman has left at kome. These books are here, and my friend can satis fy himself. I say right here that there has been no such increase in the ex penditures of the Government as he charges, and I say that the people are heard here as fairly as they are heard in any primary election. I say that a primary election will be subversive of every opportunity for the whole State to secure a fair representation. If we have a plurality system, the choice of the people will rarely get into positions of honor and trust. If we have a majo rity system the people will be so worn out with repeated elections that they will not enjoy the chance of securing their choice that they now do. [Ap plause.] It will not do, Mr chairman, in an intelligent body of men like this, who come here as the representative of the people with as much right tc speak as the gentleman from Edgefield men who dare to do as much to suffer as much and are as true to the State a he or his ever have been, to taunt thenr with being p)oliticians while lie and hib are the true D)enmocracy of the State [A pplause.] Tell us of real wrongs, tel us of evils that the peop)le are reall~ suffrinmg, anid we will try and help th< gentlemian to relieve them: but it won' do to make vague accusations, to charg< all the sufli'erings of the people resultint fromx the war and the period whiel followed upon the mere systeni of ma king nominations. It will not do t< charge the people of the State who havo done so much to bring up the State t< a higher condition of prosperity, am who will be ever mindful of her inte rests, with the resp)onsibility of ever misfortune suffered by the people. 1 will not do to indulge in such glitterin generalities. Come down to the p)roofs They are here. Let him produce them.' [A prlau-se.] Mr Cannon, of Laurens, suggeste< that for peace sake the Conventior night try the p)rimnar. )plan for on< ternm andl if it did not prove stisfactor It could be changed back to the con vention system. Senator E B. Murray, of Andersorn next obtained the floor. He said tha the change proposed was one of grea consequence for wveal or woe to the peo pIe of the State, amnd unless the Conven tion was satisfied that the people wouki be b)enefited by such a change it wal wiser to leave things as they were. If as the gentleman from Edgefield hat charged, there was lack of economy ii the State Government, the State Legis lature and not the lan of nominatin1 offiers was to blame .'hr it. The remed does not lie in the manner in which thl election for State oficeers is conducted It is said t hat this demand for aprinmari system comes from the people of th< State. What chance, I ask, would poor nman have to run for a State offiec wvith all the expense of a primary can vass before him? What men excep) such as have means could afford to g, into such a canvass? I do not believ< the primary system would afford an' relief whatever to that class of peopl in the State. We have no lawvs to pro teet the condluct of a primary electioi and no guarantee of the accuracy of th, results reached in that election. Mr. Tillman: "Why haven't we suel laws for primary elections? Wasn't bill introduced at the last session of th' Legislature, and wasn't:it voted down?' Mr Murray: "Ninety odd'of the ver' men whoni you essay to speak fo voted againlst that bill. That is all I cai say." (Applause.] Mr Tillman: "Sonme of those ver; farmers came here pledged to vote fo the agricultural college and they wen back on their pledges. There seems t4 be something pernicious in the atmos phere of this building." [Laughter.] Mr[Murray,(i continuing);"The adoi tion of primary will not remove thi Capitol from Coubi. Mr. Tillmnan : "But the primaries il put a different class of officers in building." [Applause.] Mr Murray : "Our section has fa pretty well under the convention tern in the matter of State officers. have four out of the eight. I d< know that we should fare so well der a primary system. I don't thi the gentleman can show any nmate increase in expenditures of the Si Government. Wherever there has i. an increase it appears in the approp tions for a legitimate purpose and been voted for by both brancher your representatives. There is nc man here who would not express h self in favor of the reform which gentleman from Edgefield claiir seek." Mr Tillman : "And then vote aga' it when he comes here to the Legi ture." Mr Murray : "My friend has b here two years trying to get the clas: essays to represent to carry through reform ideas, but they have never b able to agree on the details." Mr Tillman : "The bill was agr to, but the men who promised to port it went back on their pledges." Mr Murray : "In the House of F sentatives the bill received very votes, and in the Senate it receive votes out of 35. It is very easy talk reform, extravagance, retren nient, &c., but the question is w item will you begin at." Mr Tillman: "We can bring the I itentiary back to where it was in l; paying the State $40.00 a year, inst of being an annex to the Canal." Mr Murray : "If you will do that will put you in sole charge and vote a pension." [Laughter.] Major Gary, who next spoke to question, thought there was no ne sity for the change. No one has fered any loss of their rights by convention plan, and he was in favo leaving well enough alone. If the penses of the Government were to bE duced that could be done through executive branch. At this stage of the debate Mr1 man again rose to speak, and tlI were cries of "Question ! question !' Mr Tillman thereupon caHed ou the top of his voice: "You may; me here, but I will meet you before people." Several delegates then moved t Mr Tillman be heard again, and e of Tillman were heard from differ parts of the hall. After some hes tion Mr Tillman walked into the n dle of the aisle and spoke as follo "Gentlemen of the Conventior thank you for this courtesy, aud I try and not impose on your good ture. I want merely to answer somn the points made by some of the spi ers. The gentleman from Anderso anxious to save the dear people trou That has been the cry of all tyra T he Czar of Russia saves his peoJpk trouble, except the trouble of pay2 tax and stopping bullets. There 1 cceen such outrages p)erpetrated in hall I hesitate to name them, must speak of thenm with hated b,re: Charleston stands here to-day with representatives' which she is not titled to if the Constitution had been trampled under foot, and R land has two more than she is enti to, while the men who did the br of the fighting in 1876 are disfranchi by the enormiities perpetratedl by Legislature. They came here andi an oath at this desk to support Constitutioni; but after they got they were bamboozled or affeeter some way by Columbia water or w key or by Charleston-what shall 1 it-brain?~ Charleston always cat< on her feet. If she is tripped ini House, she catches on her feet in Senate ; and if tripped in the Senate turns up all right in the H( [Laughter.] While we poor farn are carried around by the dozen ur the arms of such mcxn as my fri from Charleston, (Buist.) [Laugh1 If we have a bright boy and send here to this College he gets switt off. None but the fools conme hc That is why we want an agricult college to give us brain on the fa The majority of you here don't re sent political cliques and rings in different counties. I won't at tel go into many details that I would to if I had the time." Mr Haskell here produced the utes and showed that in round ni bers the expenditures in 1879) had 1 $908,000 and in 1886 $750,000, to w! should be added about $70,000 to ance a direct appopriation to the F tentiary of that amount in 1879, leaving expenditures for 1886 al $7,500 less than 1879. Amid the plause that followed Mr Haskel' marks, Mr Tillmian was heard to:a "I will prove the falseness of those ures before the people." On Mr Gray's motion to reject unfavorable report of thecommnittee adopt the State primary p)lan the; Iand nays were demanded. The ro delegates was called accordingly. no time was there any doubt as t( result, but when the result was nounced-83 .yeas to 207 nays-the plause was great. The Laurens idea not even carry the Piedmont delega as the result showed. The middle rlower counties were almost solid as.r 1the proposition. The report of the ittee against the primary plan~ then adopted without a division. The next report made by Major 13 twas in favor of the Murray resolut amending the constitution by p)r( -ing for a preliminary canvass by didates for Governor and Lieutei Go(vernor. Major Hart moved to amend b)y viding that the speaking by the A:n.i+aes bedne in ah onnty.' this was talled, and the resolution reported by the committee was adopted viva red voce. ^s- Major Bluist's next report was ,n We James's resolution, providing for the mt appearance of candidates before the Unl- State Convention. It was unfavorable, ink I and auainst the protest ofitsauthor the rial resolution was rejected. ate As to a res-lution providing for the een election at thi: Convention of iemnbers of the State executive comnmittee, Ma has jor Buist reported that they considered that in accordance with the constitu a tion the executive committee be elected by the Convention (alled to nominate theState ofiers. The resolution was ac to cordingly rejected. nst There was a favorable report on the ,la- resolution repealing the clause of the constitution requiring that no dele e gates is elected for a Congressional he convention or no Congressional pri Ilary be held before the 1st of Septei is; her. cel Mr Tillman, of Edgefield, moved to ced amend by inserting August instead of up- September. labled. Senator Snythe spoke in favor of the tep- rlaise. It h1ad 1iecn pilaced in the coil few stitution to protect the sitting Con c1 ( gressmnw from the State. If it was re to pealed it would enable competitors of eh- these Con,ressmenl to secure delegates hat to nominating conventions while Con gress was in session and Congressmen 'en- were obliged to he in \Washington. , Mr (ravdon supported the report of ead the comlmittee. If Congressmen and solicitors were so weak or UnlpOpular as we to be in danger of defeat unless they YOU were at home thley deserved defeat. the The connuittee's report was adopted and the constitution amended in ac u cordance with it. suf the Major Buist, concluding his report r of from the committee, recommended the _x- adoption of the resolutions introduced re- by himself endorsing President Cleve the land and his policy, omitting, however, the sixth resolution which endorsed the :ill- Mills bill. tere It is understood that this resolution was opposed in committee by Col John t at C. Haskell, who velt on the enbar gag rassment it would cause the Congress the mon from the 7th district in represent ing the rice-growing interest. hat The report as made was adopted ries unanimously, fto one speaking in be ent half of the eliminated resolution. ita- The business of the Convention being :id- concluded, Ir Brawley moved that ws: the president vacate the chair and that i, I the body go into committee of the vill whole. Carried. na- Mr Brawley then offered the follow of ing : :ak- Resolved, That the thanks of the n is Convention are due to the Hon Y J ble. Pope for the able, courteous, patient and impartial manner with which he nts. has presided over its deliberations, and all that the chiairmnan (1o communicate -ing this resolution. to the president of the ave -ovnin this aIr Brawvley tooik the chair and pro an Posed his resolution, whichi was uinani h.nioulsly adloptedl aid( applausie. en Col Pope, upon assuming the posi tionl of chaiirmn sid nt"TIhis secon d exhibit ion of your kind . noss to mec has touched1 me very deeply. i-h- I announced when i took the~chair as tied temiporarv chairmnan that [ thought the unt work of thle Conventionl was well ini ised *fn adttitwsuseless, therefore, .or mie to addl(ress you at lenigth as to the the duty of the D)emoeraer of South :0(ok Carolina. I uniderstand tluit I)emoc-a tile ey. WXheni they have a duty to per deform and see that dtuty, the5y march .cr straighlt at it. TIhe views of this State Iinm upon nlationlal issues, so far as this Con hlis- vention is conlcrned, are well under eall stood. Indeed tihe verdict has been -hs vri tten al rcady, so therefore feeling isthat I wouldl l.e treniching upon your the valuable timie, permlit mte to thank you the for your t wo exp.iessionls of von fidencee she thlis mIoringl, -.and alssulre youi that I wdil carry wit h me forever the pleasant use. est recollectionls of your kindness. irers "G;entlemlen of tile Convention, I ider must heg you to accep t my heartfelt end thanks for _your exceding kindmcs. I know my inexperience as a presiding ter.] officer miay have triedl you somle, but I him have endeavored to respect tile rights hed of aill, and see thlat the interests of the me. grand oldl Denmocratic party did not stifler at our hands in conIventionl as ural senmbled to-day. I think, gentlenmen, ~rm. that wheni you go hlomie to your respee pre.. tive constituents thlere will go up from -our one end1( of the State to the other the plaudlit of well dlone. The peopIle de >t to mianded tihat we shiouldl act for the best like interest of the D)emoeratic party, andl that their representatives should be t-true and( tried and( devoted sons of tl-Carolina, and in every instance I am um- proud( to say that tihis Convention has 2een ratified those requirements. Again, I mic thank you, gentlenmen, for your kind _al ness." enii- The annlounc(emienit was5 maide that still the (delegates and alternates to the St >ouit Louis Conivenitioni wVould meet in the a11- hlall after adjouenment, andl the Coun av .sine die at 7.40 P M. fig- CONvENTioN NOTEs. (Capt Heniry D Elliott, of Beaufort. the Was elected chaiirmian (If the conventionl and of delegates fromi the 7th district. ceas ( en .Johin Brattoni was the chairman 11 (If of the 4th~ dist rict convenitionl. A t A fter t li hejoulrinment of t he Conv en the tion thle St Louis dlelegaltes met alnd an- unaiuniously elected Capt FW Dawson ap- chairman oIf the delegationi. Arrange did mients were miadle for the transportation tion oIf the dhelegates. The South Carolina and( members of the nationa:l committee inst will be elected by the (delegation from (1m1- tilS State uplon the adjournment (If the wais National Convent ion. ~uist The Olet in Ge~orgia. 10on, -- vid- Old Aunit Nannie P'layer, a colored can- womnan, lives ini Wilcox cotunty, and mant has attained the extraordinary age (If 118 years. She was the slave of R. N. pro- iPlayer. She was blind at the age (If 100 can- years, but at the age (If 116 she receivedl This her eoeielit THE PHONOGIt.1prI A SUCCESS. Edison Completes his Wondorful Talking Machine-Speech and Music En graved by Sound, Preserv ed and Articulated Again. re . _ S Ni:W Yoai, May 13.-Edison's b; speaking phonograpl is at last perfect- tl ed and ready for public use. The Wizard of Llewelyn Park said to a Herald reporter yesterday that the phonograph had given him more trouble than any other of his numerous inventions. Since it was first exhibited in this country and in London, eleven tl years ago, it has been revolutionized, . and the machine of to-day is entirely unlike the tin foil recording phonogrnph I of 1877, except so far as the-principle on0 which it records sounds is concerned. A Herald reporter made a special: visit to Mr. Edison's labaratory at Llewellvn Park yesterday afternoon. On entering the experimental room he heard a cornet playing, without horns or musicians in sight. It was :dison'sP wonderful phonograph throwing out t music like a brass band. Half an hour d previously horns had been played near!e the instrument. Not a note was lost. "The music would come out just as good fifty years hence as now," said the Wizard to the astonished visitors who ti were gathered around the strange machine. The same musicians were called in, and they played waltzes, h sonates and military marches. A big tl funnel, six feet long, coaxed in the music and focussed it against the tiny drum of the phonographs which, in turn, vibrated under each sound wave si and punched a little needle against a wax cylinder revolving by electric bat- . tery power at the rate of 100 revolutions a minute. EVERY SOUND FAITHFULLY RECORDED. B All the music was faithfully recorded, e and in a few minutes the phonograph b was repeating those wild and stormy a notes as well as the softer cooing pas sages to delighted human ears. In the centre of the room stood a concert grand P piano. "It was made by the manufacturers h for little Josef Hofmann," said Mr. tl Edison. By requeet this instrument s was also played and its music repro- f duced again and again, nearly as it b come from the fingers of the man on t the piano stool. d Mr. Edison said that having perfect- t ed the phonograph for the human 0 voice he was now trying to make it capable of reproducing music exactly as s it is written and played. He had found F great difficulty in determining the d proper length and focus of the receiving a cone which, like an ear trumpet, con ducts sound to its little end attached to the phonograph's drum. Experiments showed that music playedl in a low octas e was transformed into p)icolo by the phonograph wvhen run at a- high speed, wvhile the high I notes b,eco)me rich bass with lower It speed of the phonograph roller. If the t speecd of the roller and the size, length I and pitch of the receiving cone be just I right the music will be transnuttedI and reproduced exactly as played. A good ( illustration was given when one of the I~ expecrts said that a man's image was e exactly rep)roduaced without distortion I in two mirrows if they were placed at the p)roper angles. The slightest devia- 1 tion from correct position would make a man's reflection appear too tall, too I short or out of proportion, as in concave1 or convex mnirrows. The laws g.overn- C ing sound, waves and light are some wvhat similar. The Wizard said he ex pected to have his musical p)honographs ready for use in a fewv weeks. TrIIE T.\LKING M.iIIINE TE.STIED. The sp)eaking phonograph was tested in various ways. It wvas a success. Thei wa cylinders, on which the sound impressions are registered, are hollow, four inches long and about twc inches< inl diamleter-the shell being from a six-teenth to an eighth of an inch thick. They closely resemble four inches of a large church wax candle, b)ored out and turnedl smooth. The phonograph, wvith its wax cylinder re volving, looks like a boy's turning1 lathe, the cutting ehise being the pin1 fastened to the little drunm of the re eeiving tube and wvhich records on the wax roller the sound. They aire mere, dots, so fine that one can scarcely dis tinguish them without a glass. One thousand words are taken onI one of these cylinders and no eye cani distin guish them. Th~le screw that propels it has 100) th reads to the square inch, and the ordlinary speed is seventy revo-I lutions a min)ute. A teni minutes' talk of dictationi tills the roll. A typ)ewriter man can co)py it a tho,usan1d times and then p)ut it away in a box to resp)et in the tones of the original human voice that first uttered the sentences. 3Mr. Edison sid lhe would soon be turning olut the talking machines at the rate of To test the practicability of the ma chine, extracts were read to it by ther reporter and a dictation given it. Every word was taken and then copied off on a typewriter by Mir. Edison's secretary. He said that all their correspond(ence was dictated to the wax rolls and copied and~ p)reserv'ed. They were cheap. Each would contain 20,000 words before worn o,ut. A little knife pares off the surface of the roll when filled if the last dictation is not to be p)reserv~ed, otherwise a new roll must be used. MIr. Edison said the miachjine wouldI do away with imuchi of the labor of stenography for dlictations and p)rivate corresp)ondence. For taikinmg public speches the big music funnel must lhe used ais when recording fromi an orchies r. THE RATTLESNAKE BITE. he Search for an Antidote So Far Re warded by Only Partial Succea. [From the Washington Star.] The statement that 30,000 or 40,000 ptiles are kept in one room at the rmithsonian sends chills down the icks of nervous people. So many takes, lizards and toads let loose on e smooth lawn of the park would use some excitement. Hovever, only re of r " these reptiles have any life L them. These five are five ratepi, ho are kept in a deep box with wire ip, and a vigorous poking and pu:eh g with a stick starts the music in ieir tails. When the five are sounna ig their rattles together they fill the >x with nerve-shocking sounds.,The :her 39,993 or 40,000 minus five (as the cact number may be) are securely )rked in glass jars in alcohol, and ar Linged on shelves like cans of preserves. he curator of reptiles, wo is experi renting in search of an antidote for the :ison of a reptile's bite, told a Star.e. Drter yesterday that it was not true - iat they had yet discovered anything iat they knew certainly to be an anti Dte. Far from having satisfactorily )ncluded their experiments, they con der that they have practically just sgun. They have tried every alleged atidote that has been suggested with. ie least probability of success, and the fly thing that they have found that as succeeded in any degree is fluid ex act jaqorandi, which is made from ie South American plant, pilocarpua mnnatifolius. The active alkalo'3 of - Iis is pilocarpine. This has prov. -, an antidote in the case of rabbits ibjected to the rattle-snake. poison. 'here the snake poison has. been in eted into the rabbit, followed at once within a short time by an injection this drug, the animal has recovered. ut it has been found to possess no icacy in the case ofa chicken poisoned y the venom of the rattler. A full. pplication of the drug has never.yet sulted in saving the chicken's life. hey intend to try it on turkeys and igs. The story that one of the assistants ad been bitten by a rattler, and that 1e '"antidote" had been applied with iccess, the curator pronounces utterly Lise. He says that no one has been itten by the reptiles; that as a-fact - iey are in such a sluggish state.itis if%cult to get them to strike st-any iing. The only information he has f jaborandi having been used s .:.. ily to counteract the effects -of a aake bite comes from a physicianof rance, who administered internally a raught of tea made from the plant to girl who was bitten by a viper, andL ie recovered from the poison. What a Vassar Girl Did. [Boston Advertiser.] A Vassar girl tells, in the New York l orning Journal, of the curious way~s 1 which girls in that institution earn daeir pocket money. "Some. of Lie girls who come up to Vas-. ar," she says, "are as helpless s babes. They are the daughters of millionaires, and never brushed their. wvn hair, or sewed a button on their ocots in their lives. They are only to 'lad to have some one do these thir'. >r them, and that is how the poorer irls make pocket money. Last year a - retty, blue-eyed girl came to college, nad stated, during the first week, that ecr tuition and board were paid by ae :id relative, but every penny for dress, ar fare and the thousand and one lit le ineidentals, she must earn herself. "Soon after her arrival the following nnouncement appeared on her door: "'Gloves and shoes neatly mended or 10 cents each. Breakfast brought ip for 10 cents. Hair brushed each iight for 25 cents .a week. Beds made Ip) at 10 cents a week.' "That little Freshman made just 1~0 the first year," continues these-. x>unt, "and that paid all of her ex >enses and a a good part of her tition That Remarkably Dry Year A reminiscent citizen of Macon, Ga., ays : That 1839 was a velr rmarka-' y)y dry year. He was a planter at tiat' ime. He planted his crop and sue eeded in getting a good stand of every hing. On the 3d day of July there 'anme a fine season, the last'of the year, he next falling sometime in January, 8440. He states that every blade of' odder, was pulled, bound and housed rom sun-down to sun-up. There was a ieighbor of hiswho had a isixty acre cot on field, and becoming so utterly hope ess of everything, he turned his cattle in it, but by hard persuasion on the' >art of his friends, he was prevailed Lipon to take them out. He gathered roma those sixty acres twenty bales of otton, which in those days was re arded a full average yield ua:.er far rable circumstances. There never had alleni upon the field a drop of rain fropi, lhe forming to the marketing of the ot ton. In speaking of the Oemulgee iver, he stated that one gentleman,. ust for the novelty of the thing, raiaed crop of turnips in the bed of the river, nd fine ones, too. Another Chance for Belva. D)ES MOINS, IA., May 15.-The Na ional Convention of the Equal Rights >arty met here this afternoonl and noml nated Belva A. Lockwood for Presi ent, and Alfred H. Love, of Philadel >hia for Vice President. Xlghty Right. [D)awson, Ga., Journal.] To Rev. Sam Small-The Dawson ir-sar oppnnsed to third narties