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ESTABLISHED 186 5. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE1,18.PIC_15 El
RED ENSIGNS OF VITORY.
The Bandanna is Thrown to the Breeze
Thurman Named in a Glorious Eashion
-The Plat.orm Adopted at St. Louis.
ST. Louis, June 7.-Before the Con
vention was called to order most of the
State banners were adorned with ban
dannas were hung on the New York
banner. Bandannas were waved from
the galleries and all over the hall. The
Indiana men hoisted a banner with a
Gray handkerchief. Cheering was
begun by the Gray men and the Thur
man people followed at intervals, most
of the delegates being on their feet.
The cheering was renewed when Texas
sported the bandanna.
CALLED TO ORDER.
At 10:30 a. m. the Convention was
called to order. The only delegations
not waving bandannas were Alabama,
Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachu
setts, Louisiana, District of Columbia,
Dakota, Iowa, Tennessee and Mary
land.
TARPEY NOMINATES THURMAN.
When the roll call for the nomination
of Vice President began, Tarpey, of
Ohio, took the platform to nominate
Thurman. The mention of Thurman's
name was greeted with waving of ban
dannas everywhere, and with cheering.
The mention of Governor Gray's name
by Tarpey, brought mingled cheers and
hisses, long continued. Tarpey's speech
was interrupted with
CRIES OF "GRAY."
There was great confusion. Gray's
picture was hoisted by an alternate and
the Chairman rapped for order. There
was further interruption by the Gray
men.
The mention of Black's name by
Patterson brought slight applause. The
roll call was continued amid confusion.
The Chairman threatened to have the
galleries cleared. Tom Patterson, of
Colorado, took the platform. There
was great cheering when he referred to
Black's war service and to his action
in the Chicago Convention of 1884.
Patterson read a telegram from Black
in regard to the situation, saying that
he had hoped for the honor of the
Vice Presidency, but had too long
worked for success not to give way for
the good of the party, and that he
withdrew in favor of Thurman.
Governor Green, of New Jersey, took
the platform to second the nomination
of Thurman. .here was great confu
sion aid -wil4 applause when he men
tioned Thurman's name. J. W. Dor
sey, of Nebraska. was recognized to
second the nomination of Thurman.
There was continued laughter and ap
plause when he said that a thousand
quartz pills would pound their pon
derous pleasure at Thurman's nomnina
tion. George Chaines, of -New York,
seconed Thurman's nomination amid
Capt. F. W. Dawson, of South Caro
lina, took the platformi and seconded
Tumnsnominatin. Thompson, of
greeted with app)lause and cheers wht n
he seconded the nominuation of Thur
man. MIagi nniss of MIontana, seconded
Thurmn'siornination. At 1.33 the
rol cll ascompleted and the clerk
caldtenames of
THURtAN,GRAY AND BLA'CK
astenominees. The voting for Vice
Preidet bganat 1.35. Alabama cast
fifteen voe o hra,four for
Gray and one for Black. Iowa asked
to be passed. New York and New
Jersey voted solid for Thurman. Ohio
cast one vote for Gray. Received with
hisses. Great confusion ensued ini the
hail, amid cries of "Put him out"' re
ferring to the Ohio delegate. Bandan
nas were hoisted on Indiana's ban~ner
amid great confusion. Indiana's ban
ner was waved from the platform with
Gray and Thurman colors entwined.
The confusion continued and delegates
arose to their feet cheering and shouting
and waving Cleveland andI. Thurmanl
b)an ners.
A rooster was thrown on the steno
graphers' deskan shousand laugh
P rr ng continued anu t,be
band struck up. Cleveland's bust on
Sthe platform is ent wined with bandan
na. State banners are grouped in the
centre of the hall.
712 FOR TH E OLD) ROMAN.
An unofficial count of the first ballot
gives 71:2 votes for Thurman. Black's
namne was withdrawn by Patterson,
who moved that Thurman's nomina
tionl be made unanimous. Ohio cast 4U
votes for Thurman.
At eleven miinutes past two o'clock
the Convention adjourned sine die.
The Platform.
Mr. Watterson, said that he had the
honor to report the resolutions unani
mnously agreed upon by the committee
on the platform:
The Democratic party of the United
States, in National Convention as
sembled, renews the pledge of its fideli
ty to the Democratic faith and affirms
the platform adopted by its representa.
tives in the Convention of 1884, and
endorses the views expressed by Presi
dent Cleveland in his last annual mes
sage to Congress' as the correct interpre
tation of that platform upon the ques
tion of tariff reduction; and also en
dorses the efforts of our Democratic rep
resentatives in Congress to secure the~
reduction of excessive taxation.
STATES RIG HTS.
Among its p)rincip)les of party faitla
are the maintenance of the indissolubh
Union of free andl indestructible State:
tury of uiexainpled progress and re
novnl, devotion to the p1lanl of govern
mient regulated by a written Constitt:
tion, strictly specifying every granted
power an1 expressly reserving to the
States and people the entire ungranlted
residue of ptwer, the eneouragelment
of jealous p,+.,lar vigilaI nee directed to
all who have been chosen for brief
terms to enact and execute laws and
are charged with the duty of preserving
the peace, insuring equality and est:th
lishinlg justice.
APPEAL To THI E RECORI.
The Democratic party not only wel
comtes exacting scrutiny of the adnin
istration of the executive power, which
four years ago was coninuitted to its
trust iII the election of t'rover (leve
land as President of the i'nited States,
but it challenges the most searching
inquiry co)cerintlg its fidelity and
devotion to the pledges which . "n
invoked the s-uirtges of the people.
During the most critical periotd of our
tinancial afars, resulting fr1omi over
taxation, the aniom:aous constitution
of our currency andl a public debt un
matured, it hats by the adoption of it"s
policY not only avoided disaster, brut
greatly promoted the prrespxerity of the
people.
RE. TOitATION OF I'tII.I( I)oMAIN.
It has reversed the imtproviden t and
unwise policy of the Republican party
touching the public domain, and it has
reclaimed from corporations and syndi
cates, alien and domestic, and restored
to the people nearly one hundred mil
lions of acres of land to be saciedly held
as homesteads for our citizens.
MAKING A BOAST OF PENSION.
While carefully guarding the inter
ests of tax-payers and conforminlg strict
ly to the principles ofjustiee and equity,
it has paid out more for pensions and
bounties to soldiers and sailors of the
Republic than was ever paid before
during an equal period.
A FOREIGN POLICY OF PEACE.
It has adopted and consistently pur
sued a firm and prudent foreign policy,
preserving peace with all nations,while
scrupulously maintaining all the rights
and interests of our own Government
and people at home and abroad.
THE CHINESE QUESTION.
The exclusion from our shores of
Chinese laborers has been effectually
secured under the provision of a treaty,
the operation of which has been post
poned by the action of the Republican
majority in the Senate.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
Honest reform in the civil service has
been inaugurated and maintained by
President Cleveland, and he has
brought the public service to the high
est standard of efficiency, not only by
rule and precept, but by the example of
his own untiring and unselfish adnlin
istration of p)ublic afUiirs.
EQUALITY UNDER THLE LAW.
In every branch and department of'
Governmnlt unider Demnocrat icecontIro!l,
the rights and wvelfare of all people hlave
been guarded and defended. Every
public interest has been pirotectedl amd
thle eqjuality of all our citizenls under
thiy law, wvithuout regtardi to race or!
c>lori, has been stead1fa-tlyV min i tained.i
PL~EDGES Fon THLE FETL'HE.
U~pon its records thus exliit ed andi
upon the pledge of a cotiuianc oif thle
benefits of Demiiocro-y, the party in
yokes a renlewal itf the popuilar trust by
the re-election 4f the Chief Magistrate,
wvho hla b een faithful, al e anid
prudenit. Wec invoke ini addhitionl to
that trust tile transfer also to the
Democracy otf the cnt ire legislat ive
ARnA IG;N iNG TI'l E R l':It TL LA NS.
IThe Republican pairty cointirollinig thle
Senate and resist ing in bto lt houses of
Congi.ress t he reformat ion of unjust and
uneqjual tax laws, which h ave out'
lasted thle niece.ssities of war aind arc
now uriteriminiing tile abundanice 0f a1
long peace, (ienly to thle peopile equality
before the, law, andiu the fairness andlhe I
justice which aire thleir right. The cry
of the Amiericani laborer ftor a b etter
share ill the rewairtds of iiolustry. is si
lenced with false pretenlces;c enterprise
is fettered and bound dowii to hiome
markets, aind caitaul is diiscoulored1
with a double tax. Unequal, unjust
laws can neither be propherly amhlend(ed
or reptealed. TIhie D)emocratic party
will continue with all the poweron
fided to it the struggle to refornm thest
laws ill accordlance with the(. pledlge~
of its last platform enidorsed at the tal
lot-box by the sull'rages of the people
TILE EVILS of II i(;I TAILRIFF.
Of all the industrious freemien (f out
land, ant iimmnense mlajority, incluiding
evey tiller of the soil, gain no advan
tage fromi tue excessive tax laws. bu'
the price of niearly everyt hing they bug
is increased by thle favoritism of an un
equal systemi of tax legislation. Al
unnecessary taxation1 iiunjust taixatioi
It is repugnanlt to theo creed of D)eiio
cracy that by such taxatiotn the cost (t
the necessaries otf life shiouild be unjus
tifiably iincreased to all our peole
Judged by Demnocratic ptrincipiles, the~
interests of the people are btetrayed
whn,n by unnecessary taxation, t rust;
and onmbinatioins are p)ermnitted to ex
ist, w hi, while uniduly enriching thi
few that combine, rob the body of oui
citizensi by depriving themil of thie bene
tits, of na tural comipetitionl.
TlHE SIN OF THi~ EscIRPLUs.
Every Democ)ratic rule ofgovernmiten
tal*actioll is vittlated when,i through un
necessary taxation, a vast suml of mlonle
far beyond the needs of economical adh
inistrtionI is drawn from the peoll
and the channels of trade and aceCumu
lated ais a demioralizing suirplus in tIl
naion de tte eal treasury. Thrny eo
sulting from superfluous taxatioi
amounts to more thon $12.>,000,(), anl
the surplus collected ts reaching tli
sum of more than sixty millions an
nually.
REPUIAN AND IEMCCRATIC RE.
ElD)lES.
Debauched by this immense tempt:
tion, the remedy of the Republica
party is to rueet and exhaust by extrai
aganit appropriations andl expense:
whether constitutional or not, the a<
cumulation of extravagant taxatior
The Democratic policy is to enforce frt
gality in pnblic expense and reduc
unnecessary taxation. Our establishe
domestic industries and enterpris(
should not and need not be endangere
b) e the reduction and correction of ti
burdens of taxation. On the contrari
a iair and careful revision of our ta
laws, with due allowance for the (itle
enee between the wages of Amieriaa
an,l foreign labor, must promote an
encourage every branch of such indu
tries and enterprises by giving them a:
suranecs of extended market and stead
anid (continuLous operaltioni.
TAKING ('A IiOF LABoR.
In the interests of American lab(
which should in no event be neglecte<
the" revision of our tax laws conten
plated by the Democratic party shou
promote the advantage of such lab<
by cheapening the cost of the necess;
ries or life in the home of every worl
ingmtan, and at the same time securin
to him steady remunerative emllplo:
mellt.
THE APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE.
Upon ths question of tariff reforn
so closely concerning every phase
our national life, and upon every que
tioll involved in the problem of go(
g,vornmutent, the Democratic party su
mits its principles and professions i
the intelligent sufYrages of the Amer
can people.
TIE CONVENTION CONSTRU EES TE
P'LATFolRi.
Secretary Thomas Pettitt, of the co]
vention, during the reading of the r
port of the committee on resolution
was frequently compelled to stop f<
several seconds while the conventic
applauded significant passages in tl
platform. There was a moderate vc
unme of applause when the opening sei
tences which reaffirmed the utteran
of the the tariff plank platform of l5!
were read, but when these were fc
lowed by the sentences endorsing tl
President's message and declaring th:
it correctly interpreted that plank, tl
convention fairly rose to its feet ai
cheered wildly for a full minute.
Danger of Being a Human Being.
[Chicago Tribune.]
Heredity is a pnzzle. It seems to 1
easier in this world to inherit bad qui
ities and traits than good, but bo1
sorts make such leaps and jumps, ai
are so inclined to go ofr on collater
lines that the succession is difficult
calculate. The race is linked togeth
in a curious tangle, so that it is ahne
iimpossible to fix the resp)onsibilit
D)efects or vices or virtues will not
ways go ini a straight line. Tlhe elh
dreni of deaf mutes, forexanle, are ni
apt to be deaf miutes, but1 thme cous5ini
those children nmay be (leaf iutt
showing, it is said, that sonme reme
aniestor of both had sonie nmenitll
physical defect which has been tr:mi
miitted to his posterity, though not
the form in wichl he was afflicted.
lIn most cases we caninot do ai
thiing. The older our civilization 1
coumes the more complicated and int
etet are our relationis, so that it has
red eomne a dangerous business
be a hinman being at all. It is not:
Iways tha~it it a man eats sour grapes 1
children's teeth will be set on edge, b
the etl'eet of the sour grape diet m;
skip a generation or two or appeiar ii
collateral line. We try to study t]
proble'1m in our asylums and prisol
anid we get a great many interesti:
Iu fvts, lut they are too conflicting
I uide legislation. The difficulty is
relieve ai peso of responsibility fort
sins of his ancestors without relievi
!limi of resp)onsibility for his own si
The G. C. and N. Road.
[Augusta Chronicle.]
ConLUMIA, June 6.-Captain WV.
ChIiilds, of this city, has done soi
splendlid work for the Georgia, Ca
lina and Northern railroad duringt1
past year or two. He was here yest
day and I asked him about the repor
collpse of the great enterprise.
laughed heartily at the idlea of suel
tihing and declared that the road woi
be built in spite of false rumors that 1h
been started. It is a great scheme a1
deserves success.
wILL w HIP TH E Rt. A ND D. RoaD.
TeGorgia, Carolina and Northe
railroad people declare that they v
whip thme Richmond and Danville rt
Iroad in their fight yet.
Columbilia Canal Bonds.
[Special to the Chronicle.]
CotHA, June.-Messrs. Ired
and D)esportes returned from Char]
ton to-day, after conditionally placi
"3,00 orh of canal bonds, distrib1
ed as follows: Andrew Simonds Sl
000, Carolina Savings Bank $5,(
Bank of Charleston $20,000. Th
amiounts are conditional on the relp
of the solicitors, who will doubt:
report "all right." Arrangements wi
also made in that city for placing $:
0410 more.
The house in which Gen. Grantv
horn has been fioated down the ri
from its original position on thme har
of thle Ohio on a raft to Cincinn
where it is to be placed on exhiit
TILLMAN IN A TANGLE.
d
The Expenditures of the State Government
-3Ir. Tillman Says He Will Take the
Penitentiary and Guarantee a
Revenue to the State.
[From the News and Courier.]
1- Many newsp<aper readers of late have
n been sorely puzzled over the hen and
egg problem: "If a hen and a half lay
s, an egg and a half in aday and a half,
how nmay eggs vill six hens lay in 1
1. seven days?" I have been the innocent
1- cause of giving the people of South
e Carolina a more difficult and perplexing
d problem than this to solre, which may
be stated thus: If a chairman of the
(d ways and means conmmittee (('ol. Has.
e kell) disputes a fact, ald tries to prove
, his assertion by making two contlictinlg
x and incorrect statenmeits if two editors
r- Who are supposed to keep posted (Ti'he
nl News and Courier and Reg;ister; c1n
ci dorse hlim and say lie 1"pr)oved by the
records" that Mr. Tillmi was wromg;
if one omptroller generz'l proulce(lse
Y other records which show that hoth Col.
Haskell and Mr. ''ilhman are incorrect,
and then himself falls intotwo palpable
r errors; and, lastly, if two or more
''special corresponldents" at Columbia
make misstatements and draw dledue
d tions therefrom, all in defence of the
>r powers that be and their psolicy, and to
show Mr. Tillman up as an ignoramus
.and an innmoLcnt or intenitionail liar,
how will the people ever learn the
truth? How will this meddlesome,
impudent, ignorant farmer, who dares
to "whimper" and "yell'' inl Demo
cratic convelitions, and whom the
1' farmers must "unload" if they want to
?f get anything from the manipulators
and "bosses," how will he solve this
sum in political arithmetic and make 1
the taxpayers understand it? The task
may appear a diflicult one, but I must
att,empt it, and from habit, as well as
because I want to reach the people of 1
E the whole State, I must as k you to al
low me space in your columns to defend
[- myself.
e- In the State Convention, which met
s, on the 17th instant, I made the asser
>r tion that the expenditures of the State
>n Government were $240,EX00U more in 1887
ie than they were in 1879. This was
>1- denied by Col. Haskell. That evening
a- I wrote a note to the comptroller gene
?e ral, Mr. Verner, asking him to examine
34 the official records and decide who was
>l- correct. I have just seen in the News
1e and Courier and Augusta Chronicle of
at 26th May the statement of Gen. Ver
le ner, together with the explanations
id and comments of the "special corre
spondents" of their papers. .
Gen. Verner makes the difference in
the expenditures for 1887 and 1879
$220,000 in only $177,000 in cash was
paid as interest on the public debt that
be year, the balance of the interest being
Li- funded. Further, that had the wljole
th of the interest been p)aidl in cash there
id would have been a difference of only
'al $27,000' in round numbers but goes on
to to exp)lain that the t wo year's njamed. IHe
er was not called on to niake any such ex
ist phanationl but to decide simiply the q1ues
y. tion of veracity between Col. Haskell
ii- and myvself. Hlisoflicial position and sup
il- posed familiarity with the niatter had
ot eniabled im to convince the C'onven
of tion that I was talkinig of soimethiing I
s, knew nothing about. I am glad, how
te ever. Gen. Verner has imade' it, as it
or wvas a fact. I did not know, and I am
is- only desirous of having the truth made
ini kniown. Biut Glen. Vecrner. hiimself lhas
falleni into t wo mistatkes, of course unin
The total expndmiitures or the State
for the fiscal year eniding October :31,
A1887, were:
'-(See coimpt roller generals's re
. po(rt,
uS 1887, page 131.............. $187,974
it For 1579................... ..... 74m,74
D Iiffl'rene..................' :;,l90
s On page 112, comphtroller generals
i~, report, 1887, the expenditures are lput at
og Gen. Verner's figulres-9i!,787. He, or
to so)mebody( else, must explain the d ifer'
to ence of $1.S,187. I am not able to d1o it.
he Again, Geni. Verner states that "only
mg $1 77,(H00 was appropriated to pay inter
us. est on the public debt'' in 1879. BuztI
$199, 144 was act ualy paid that year ini
interest as will lbe seeni by reference to
the comptroller general's repourt for
1879, page 100, leaving S175,4.58 duec for
G. interest that year, and1( to pay wvhichi
ne there was in the treasury a cash bal
ro- n1ce, October 21, 1879, oif 243,488. Geni.
he Verner says this interest was "funded
er- n consol bonds." If so, what wenit
:ed ith the money reserved to pay it?
Ee Perhaps Col. Haskell, who knows so
i a much about our finances, will taike the
ilId trouble to explain? Thus far I have
ad showni that, as taken from the official
nd( reports, I was ap)proximately correct in
saying the expenditures for 1887 ex
eeeed those for 1879 $240,000. I had
no0 intention to deceive any onue in not
mnientioning the unpaid interest of
'lwhich I knew nothing at the time,
i-takimng the aggregates just as I found
them. But since I have been forced to
study this question more thoroughly,
I will do somc miore figuring and give
as full and fair a statement as I cani.
I have tried inl vain to obtaini a full and
icomplete set of the comptroller gener
Sal's reports so that I might arrive at all
a the facts, but I have found it impossi
l,- ble to get them. If Col. Haskell or
SGen. Vernuer will sell, lend or give ime
rths books, I will try to learn just how
es and where our money goes, andl why
ere with a large increase in the phosphate
[, royalty, our taxes are on the increase
too.
ras Now here arc some figures which
ver will enale your readers to get a better
usi, idea of the real facts in the case. They
ion arc simiilar or extraorduinmary expienses
1887. 1S79
penit on State House..... 10:>,740 .....
pent on the Soutli(aro
linta College............ 22,497 10,167
,peut on Citadel........... 20,400 ....
;peiit on Penitentiary... 31,:;00 47,058
pent on Lunatic Asy
lum ........................ 85,09i) 71,200
peit on Deaf, Dumb
and Blind............... 12,.35 9,718
Totals..... . 275,424
Udjusting public debt..... ...... 5,70.S
)eticiencies (1876) ......... ...... 34,417
)eticienciesPenitentiary ...... 9,757
,dvertising forfeited
la.............s... 4,992
3ills Bank of State re
ceived as taxes and
destroved................. ...... 93,507
Total .................... $210 524
NOw let US d:4duct thleSe tw1o SUmS
romc the respectiVe years.
1s79.' 1887.
fotal expendiitires......~749,754 $987,974
2!)11,524 273,424
Net...... .... 459,200 712,550
\dd unpaid interest... 175,455
- $034,718
\ lifl'erence in faVor of
1>i of ................ $ 77,8:32
An atteipt has been imade to saddle
Il the increase in expenditures on the
,tate House and educational and cha
itable institutions of the State; but
naking allowance for these, as I have,
he plea is shown to be false. But this
s not all. In his inaugural address,
ovembner 20, 18 0, Governor Hagood
aid: "The honest, economic and effi
-ient adininistration of the State Gov
'rnment which the revolution of 1876
>romised has been realized. Every
>lligation of the State is met from the
neonie of the fiscal year, and no defi
-iencies are incurred. There.is yet room
or retrenchment, and as from time to
hue without impairing the efficiency
>f the ( Governnient retrenchment can
e made in the executive, legislative
nd judicial departments, as well as in
lhe miscellaneous expenditures, it
lould be done." There has been no
'retrenchment" whatever; on the con
rary, marked increase of burden.
The aggregate increase is as follows:
state House.......................... 103,740
south Carolina College (diter
ence).................................. 12,330
iitadel..................................... 20,400
dd difference between 1879 and 146,476
1887, as above..................... 77,832
We have net increase.....$ 4,308
ind nobody can explain it away, how
ver much it may be defended. This,
t will be remembered, was what the
Legislature of ISM6 appropriated, which,
when it met, was full of the idea of
econoniy. The same Legislature, at
ts last session, increased the taxe?-to
100,000 and voted any and all appro
priations asked of it except for a sepa
rate agricultural college, and the ex
penditures this year are found to be
considerably over a million dollars.
iey gave the Canal to Columbia with
convets free of hire to finish it, voted
Ei0,000) for pensions, gave S5,000 to
Claflin University, $5,000) to the
Winthrop Training School, gave tihe
Soth Carolina (College $22,000) more
than is mlenitioned' aibove, besides tile
iatch and land script funIdS, $20,700,
ref used to r.eapport0in representation
ad do justic~e to the disfranchised
white mein of ( reenville, Spartanburg,
Lau rens, MarlbI oro, Sum iter and Edge
ield, and, was altogether the most sub
servienlt to "ring'' inIluIences that has
ever miet since thme Decmocratic party
camne into p,ower. It miay be "childish to
whlimmper," as the editor of the News
and Courier puts it, '"that menmbers of
the Legislature are debauched or ham
boozed at (Columbmlia."' I have mar
shalled the facts and tihe people cani
judge for themselves. But if "I whim.
pered,"' humiph! wvhen I made thlat
asertion, sQinebod(y must have felt niy
truth when I showed up the mxoral rot
tenness of ( ha rleston and Columbia
about the ensuis. '"It is only tihe galled
j:de whoic winlees,' and 'tis not surpr.is
ing that the ettbrt should be mlade byx
the News awli Courier to discredit me
before the people whose cause I anm
ighting. But I aim not through with:
my figures yet.
In his messoagd to thme G enmeral As
sm bly Novembmler 29 , 1882, Gjovernor
H:good said: "Onm the 1st Novembler,
1881l, there were 690~ eonviets in the
Penitntiary. A t same date this year
the nmber was 824. Anm examiinatior
of the superinmltendent 's report exhmibits
the following transactions:
Balance on han d at beginning of
the year..................21,190
Earnings for tIle yeamr........... 94,22
Expenses p)rop)er of Peniitentiary .50,98$
Expenses board of directors... 1,2W
Paid on Canal................... 8,091
Paid in'to State treasury.........40,00(
Balance on hand O)ctobecr 31, 1882 $14,903)
With onie thousan~id coniviets no0w in
tie Peniitent iary, twvo h undred ami
fifty more thani the average for 1882, the~
institution is run at a loss, and has t(
"borrow" $25,000 fronm the treasury,
wichi it (lid nlot repay. Senator Mur
ray very graceiouisly ofl'ered to "niake
me supierintendlent, and pemnsioni n1
besides," if I would give hond to nmak<
it pay the sanme as it did in '82, and th<
"ring" chleered his cheap wvit. I an
not hunting that or any ot her position]
but I will (10 this, and it is a hona fid<
businiess proposition: I will lease th<
Penitentiary for a term of years, a
40,000 per annum net to the State, an
give a suflieient b)ond to carry o-ut th
contract. Now let him get a bill passe
to lease it under any reasonable an
proper restrictions, and I will showv hin
that Ilam not merely "making a noise.
Labor is too mnuch inl demand ini thi
State for so much of it to yield no proti
to any but pets of the "ring."
I will next call attention to Col
Haskell's incorrect and conflict in
Istatements before the Co,nvention. H]
sa.'1 fir,t: " do ,1d,eny it nost nositivt
ly," (What I had said about the ex
penditures) "What the gentleman is
driving at is easily explained. In 1879
there was a fund of money in the treas
ury and the Legislature did make appro
priations then largely le s than in 187,
because that surplus was used in addi
tion to the appropriations made. There
is a difference between a 1lvy and an
appropriation, and the reason why we
collected less in 1879 than in 18S7 was
because we had in the treasury a sur
plus which had been previously collect
ed."
At the close of the debate Col. Has
kellmade another statement "from the
statutes (I quote from the proceedings
of the Convention in the News and
Courier.) "and showed that in round
numbers in 1S79 the expenditures had
been $908,000 and in 1586 (a year I had
not nentioned) they were $750,000," &c.
"Amid the applause that followed Mr.
Haskell's reiarks his 'ringsters'
would have applauded hiii if he had
said black was white, which he did in
efect) Mr. Tilliman was heard to say 'I
will prove the falseness of those figures
before the people, &c..'
I merely desire to call attention to
the contradiction between his first and
last statemnent, and to the fact that the
figures he gave were not official, and
are shown by Gen. Verner's statement
to be totally incorrect. Further, that
Gen. Verner says that the "surplus"
was not used in 1S79, as stated by Col.
Haskell, but that the "unpaid interest
was funded."
"Even the good Homer sometimes
nods," and the distinguished ehairnian
of the ways and means, who has
bulldozed and brow-beaten so many
farmers, will mind how he accepts
another "dare" from one. I have re
deemed by pledge, and shown that I
was right and he was wrong, and I now
"dare" hinm, or any one else, to dis
prove what I have asserted in this let
ter.
A few words on the editorial in the
Weekly News and Courier of 23d and
I am done. In it, what I said in the
Convention is characterized as "dis
creditable in both matter and manner,"
and the bulk of it termed "invective
and exaggeration," &c. I have never
laid any claim to oratory; and knowing
the Convention was very impatient to
adjourn, I made no attempt at any
thing but a direct and clear statement
of my ideas on the matter without wast
ing time on the usual oratorical "bun
combe." I never "delivered myself as
the official spokesman of the people" or
made any "tyreats" of what they
would do. My words were. "I .stand
here in the interest of the common peo
ple of South Carolina and ask that you
give them their rights," and my reply
to Col. Haskell was not "unguarded."
He was misstating my words just as
Capt. Dawson has done, and I said, "I
have never claimed to represent any
body but myself," which is the simple
truth. The only "commission" I had
in Columbia was from the Edgefield
Democratic Convention. After a warm
debate, in which the identical argu.
mients used by C'ol. Haskell, Senator
Murray and Mr. Gary were advanced
by a friend of the "ring," that conven
tion by a vote of 101 to 5S passed a resolu
tion in "favor of p)rimnary elections for
all offices in the gift of the Democratic
party front Governor down." I am
told sneeringly that my "own asso
ciates voted against mec. They (lid it ir
the face of the resolution, and it only
proves that the "yell' I gave about th<
State Convention "not rep)resenting
the peopleC of Edgefield in all things
but I feel sure on this point and I als<
feel sure that it will not be long befort
a State primal:ry for State officers wil
replatea the Rottoniborought Convent ior
systemi. The appeals to sectional pas
sin antd sellishness will not p)reventt th<
eonnnoni peo~ple from learning, even-ir
the negro counties, that their interest!
and rights arc safer in their own keep
ing than when delegated to delegate
who represent themselves and thei:
own personal ambitions only, or wh<
allow themselves to be traded liki
sheep to further the asp)iration of sonm<
place-lhunter.
.Just as surely as D)emiocracy mean:
white supremacy, and that the nomnina
tion by the D)emkocratic party means ar
election, just so surely wvill the peopl<
tire of electing men ini N ovember whton
they have had no voice ini nominating
and the result will be that the Demo
eratic party will fall to pieces of its owi
rottenness unless the peop)le are allow
ed to exercise the right, (dear to ever'
Anglo-Saxon, of self-government. Bu
I forget. 1 arn threatening," or doin;
-what the Newvs and Courier call
"threatening," and I must stop. Thi
is the "volcano" to which I alluded
and no sane man wvill deny the (danger
The editor of the News and( Courie
chooses to assert that my warnings an<
opinions are "threats." "The burde1n
o,f his declamation was that the peopl
dlemanided this, that and the other, an'
if they were dhenied wvhat lie called fom
t his, that and the other would happen.
He does mue too miuch honor. Th
dlemanid for a State primiary' come
from counties wvhere I have never beer
It will continue to conic and growi
volume and strength, without an
effort of mine, and the aristocratic ol
garchy which now governs us had
Swell prepare to yield it gracefully. Thi
fight for it in the Convention was n<d
1my fight, and the defeat, as niany seem
to thinik. It is the people's battle, an
they will win it in the State as the
have won it in the counties.
Ropr's S.C.,May 29, 1888.
.P. S.- I hope a senise of fair play wvi
gmake all papgs copy this that publisi
e ed the debate in Convention or Ge:
DR. WOODROW'S SUCCESSOR.
New Men Elected to Professorships in the
Seminary at Columbia.
AUGUSTA, June 6.-The directors of
the Columbia Theological Seminary
met in the Telfair building to-day and
the four synods of South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and Florida were
represented. All the directors but
three were present. The Carolina
Synod was represented by the Rev. Dr.
Thompson, of Charleston, and Georgia
by the Rev. Dr. Adams, of Augusta,
and Mr. W. C. Sibley. Dr. Adams was
the successful prosecutor of Dr. Wood
row in Baltimore.
Dr. W oodrow's successor as Perkins
profe sor of natural science in connec
tion with revelation, and also professor
of Christian apogetics, is the Rev. Dr.
Francis R. Beattie, of Ranford, Ontario,
Canada. He is nne of the most scholar
ly men in the Canadian Dominion, and
holds a great many literary honors,
such as D. D., LL. D., and Ph. D., all
gaine by examination in Canadian
and American colleges. He is the
author of several valuable works on
Biblical literature, natural and revealed
religion, the higher criticism, &c. He
is a linguist of remarkable ability, and
is a master of Greek, Latin, German,
Syriac, Chaldeari and Hebrew. He is
recommended by the leading minds in
Canada and the United States, includ
ing Sir William Dawson, Dr. Patton,
of Princeton, Dr. Vicker, of Montreal,
Dr. Charles M. Morse, of Tllinois Uni
versity, and others.
Dr. Adams informs your correspond
ent that Dr. Beattie is perfectly ortho
dox in his belie"fs and does not hold to
any of the evolution fancies. He has
ample reason to believe that Dr. Beat
tie will accept; indeed, the directors
were well assured of this fact.
Another important chair in the Semi
nary was filled to-day and the Rev. Dr.
Petrie, of Charlottesville, Va., was
elected to succeed the Rev. Dr. Hers
man, who recently resigned the chair
of Biblical Exegesis. Dr. Petrie is a
young manof 3- or 40, but one of the
most eminent scholars of the Church.
He has one of the most select libraries
of any minister in the South and has
kept up with the Oriental languages
better than most ministers in pastoral
charge. He is much admired by the
students of the University of Virginia,
who sit under his mini-jry, and there
is every prospect that his selection will
prove satisfactory. The directors feel
that they have done a good day's work.
The Knight of the Unshaken Hand.
WASHINGTON, June 3.-It has been
known for some time that Governor
Lee, of Virginia,and Governor Foraker,
of Ohio, have been upon personally un
friendly terms. It began by Governor
Foraker paying no attention to Gover
nor Lee's requisitions for prisoners
escaped across the Ohio river, and after
the exchange of several sharp commu
nications, things took such a personal
and pugnacious turn that the governor
of Virginia declined to know the gov
ernor of Ohio, Governor Foraker's un
popularity with Governor Lee becami
communicated to the people of Vir
ginia, and any slap at Foraker before :
Virginia audience is greeted with up
roarious applause. Not long ago, a Vir
ginia orator was making a tremendous
sp)eechl,in which he implied that natur<
never made but one such man as For
aker, and then broke the mould, di
gusted with the whole job. When th<
speech was over, a thin, knock-knee<
man, with a patch over his eye, calle<
the orator to one side.
"You might 'a made a pint there tha
you didn't," said he. "pin my pax
of the State, where sheriffs git tired c
chasin' horse thieves across the Ohi<
river, to find 'em settin' in rockin
cheers under Governor Foraker's wing
they call him 'The Knight of the Un
shaken Hand.'"
So in Virginia now, Mr. Forakeri
commonly known as "Thie Knight C
the Unshaken Hand."
stonewanl Jackson's Remains.
[From the Lexington, Va., Gazette.]
Mrs. .Jackson has consented to th
removal of the body of her late husband
Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson, from it
present resting place in our cemetery t
the "Jackson Circle," which is abou
100) feet from the present grave. Thi
-will be done that the proposed bronz
figure may mark the grave on tha
beautiful circle set apart for Jackson
monument. The body of Gen. Jacksoi
is in a east iron casket, and the remova
can bie accomplished without muec
trouble.
Crus.hed b)y a Thousand Pounds.
R JlIMnos, VA, June 4.-This morr
ing Edwin Van Arsdale, first assistati
Ienginecer, and Antone Arzee, firemar
of the steamer Old Domninion, were er
gaged in making repairs to the machir
e ry in the engine room when the to
S of tihe air pump) cylinder, weighin
.over 1,000 poundls, fell upon them. Tb
:1 men yere gotten out as quickly as poi
i sible and taken to the hospital. It we
- found that the men's backs were boker
5 anld that they were paralyzed fro:
C their hips down. Their condition
t very critical. Va1: Arsdale livesi
1 Jersey City, and Arzee in New York.
yThe Anderson Hotel Company we
organized June 2 by the election of M\
Frank T. Wilhite president, and Judi
W. F. Cox secretary. Application wi
be made at once for a charter and tl
1 company will get to business. Cor
mlittees were appointed to dIraft by-la'
Iand select a site for the hotel. For1
thousand dollars will be invested I
the -ommany.
THE WIGWA:,I ON rIIF.
All the Flags and Bunting in Taim,,nv
Hall Destroyed-St. Tanmany Sa .!,
but Kelly's Bi t and Jefferor'.. ',.
file Wrecked.
NEw Y oRK, June 6.-About a. tbis
morning fire broke out in Tony P:a-to
Theatre in East 14th street. As lhe
flames gained rapid headway the
alarms and seven or eight special -i:l
were sent out and a large number itof
engines and firemen were sunuo.ed
quickly to the spot. The theatre is in
Tammany Hall building and adjoi:s
the Academy of Music, whickat one
time was seriously threatened l,v the
flames. By dint of hard work. how
ever, the firemen succeeded in lpe
ing this. At 8.43 o'clock the fire w
got under control. The loss on the:n re
fittings and to the interiorofT ana:i::nv
Hall is about $50,000. The interior of
the hall is badly wrecked by fire, wa ter
and smoke. All the flags and huntin.g
belonging to the Tammany Society
were ruined. The big Indian, St. T:n
many, was carried out of the building
in safety. The bust of John Kelly and
the plaster profile of Jefferson fell down
and were broken. The portraits of
Cleveland and Thurman, which it was
intended to display at the ratification
meeting, were si'ved. This meeting
will probably be held in- the Academy
of Music.
- O -
CLEvELAND.
How he Received the News of I i No:ina
tion.
WAsINGTON, June G.-The Pre-i
dent passed the day very quietly at the
White House and in the afterrnoon
went out to Oakview. There wa. no
incident of any significance.orespec"ial
note connected with his reception of
the news of his renomination. 1ie
came to the White House from his
suburban home about 9:30 o'clock in the
morning and was immediately shown
the bulletin from General Sheridan s
physicians. He spent the morning
quietly, and received no news from the
convention except the press bulletins,
and few of those, it is said, were taken
in to him. He was alone when the
bulletin announcing his renomination
was received. Col. Lamont took the
dispatch in to him, and the President
expressed his gratification. The news
was at once telephoned to Mrs. Cleve
land. The President then resui.ed
work, and, 4:30 left the White House
for Oakview, where he will spend the
.night.. 3any co4grntulatory telegrams
were received. Col. - Lamont said the
President had received no communica.
tion regarding the platform from ainy
one. The platform was in the hands
of the Democratic managers and the
President was probably the last person
Senator Gorman saw before lie left for
St. Louis.
Frightened by a Bicyle.
[Special to Augusta Ch ronicle. j
SPART AsNBG, Julie ->.-While Mlrs.
Davis and her daughter, MIiss Annie,
were driving on College hill this after
noon the horse took fright at a pasmin
bicycle and ran away, throwving both
ladies out and completely demiolishinm
the buggy. Mrs. Davis recetie a
slight cut in the back of the head and
was badly bruised by the lines which
she had wrapped around it in her en
deavor to stop the horse. D)r. Moore,
howvever, thinks that neither wou:nd
'will prove seriou..
spirays of Molten Goil.
t [ From the McDutfie (G;a.) JonirnaL.]
t:Spring abruptly vanished on Sna
and summer, with heated breath anud
perspiring brow, stepped eagerly inlto
her place. The mercury, like a eri at
"ing sycophant, quick to do homageio'
the coming queen, bounded up toward'
the nineties, and the glowing sunshine
s showered upon the woods and fields
and swelterinmt mortals like wavering
sprays of molten gold.
The Rtepublicans Carry Oregon.
PowTLAxN', Om-x;ox, .June 5.-i.at e
e returns indicate that Hermians, li(1epub
lican,) for Congress, is elected by 4.in00
s majority. Both houses of the L.egishiu
o ture will be Republican. standling onl
t joint ballot Republicans 4;1, D)emocrats
s about :24.
t Perils of Teething.
aL.At-REL,D)el., May :1 .-SnithH leh
.1 ens died at his residlence, near huere,
iyesterday, aged ninety-eight. A few
weeks prior to his death he cut a s 1 of
teeth.
A D)elicate l1oardier.
.t [From the Elberton, Gai., Leadetr.)
4It is told by a faithful cook in our
- city that an inv~alid boarder ini a private
Sfamily was left alone by the landclord
p and his lady. In their absence he
gmade his supper on two bottles of beer
.e and some coffe'e, four pounds ofl beef
steak, nine biscuits, one chicken and
s seven eggs, and left the table eclear with
4 a good will to eat more. It is cuISto
n mary to have three meals a dlay. "r
is ninety mueals a month, anid ait this rate
n it will take just eighty-one doeil:rs to
run this machine; in a ye:ar $I, lt
say nothing of the co)sts cf ha:ving it
is prepared.
r. __- _
LI July 13has been fixed for the e:x,W&u
ie tion of Hugh M. Brooks, alias Maxwell,
n- the chloroform murderer of C. A r: hur
SPreller at the Southern H. '. The
caseN is generally knocwn-as the unk
rourder.~