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FOR THE LOVE The "IFamolt.-i 10 ElP1TED"! ALI\- AI Iil' LISTEN TO THEIR LOW P PiICESFoot'sOldS 2ry then ald see. Foot's Old tand--y -NED 1865 EWBERRY, S. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1891. C 1.50 YEAR ESTABLISHED1865 THE BATTLE AT BATESUR G. o Toin WatsOn, of Georgia, aned Cor rt '. C. outier 31e,et in Joilt 1el,%te -The Sub-Treasury P:anl the B,,a6 of Contention-A Full le port of What They Said. [Special to News and(I Courier.1 BATESBURG. September 9.-About t welve hundred cilizens of Edgeield and Lexington and sporadie visitor witnessed to-daY the great political battle of Batesburg between Cnre nan Watson, of Georgia, and Senator Butler, of South Carolina. The narra tive of the clash of wit and oratory is best told in the proceedings given be low, and especially as to the result as it appeared to the two gentlemen mostly concerned in the duel. a Prof. Nash presided and he intro duced the speakers gracefully an wit a fair distribution of compUlimets. It was distinctly understood that only Senator Butler and Congressman Wat son should entertain and instruct the audience. The order of spea king was, Congressman Watson to OPell, Senator Butler to follow and the tirst speaker to reply. Aeiong those on the stage. which was beautifully located it the suburbs of the city, were Capt. J. H. Brooks, Dr. Folk, Capt. Bates, Col. W. J. Tal bert, the Rev. Mr. McSwain, Ex-Gov ernor John C. Sheppard, Editor Hook of the Augusta Chronicle; Editor Mc Lentia, of the Johnston Mocitor; Edi-1 tor Aall. of the Newberry Herald and 1 News; Editor BuchannL;, of the Ches ter Reporter, some reporters and other distinguished gentlemen. The speaking be,ran at 1 o'clock sharp, and was kept up.until 5 o'clock sharp, except a short intermission. Prof. Nash read a letter from Presi- I dent Stokes staling that he regretted his inability to accept the invitation of the committee to be present, but that it was i:npossible on ac,,ouut of engage ments in the eastern part of the State. WHATCOL. WATSON SAID. Col. Watson spoke substantially as follows: I know perfectly well that I will be at a disadvantage in discuFsing this question with Senator Butler., He has all the advantages over me. You know him, and you love him. Iani unknown to you. There is a wide difference be tween ie and him in our relations to you. If Senator Butler were a candi (late for office I would not be here. That would be a matter for you to settle Vourselves. But when Senator Butler takes the position he has on this ques tion it affects every one of you. We are here discussing measures not new. We are discussing measures that affect Geor gia, as well asSouth Carolina. It is a plat form that touches everyone. I am in a position to expect that questions shall be discussed on broader lines than per sonal oues. Each of us will rise to a position of statesmanship and brother lv love. South Caroliua has always tbeen close to the heart of Georgia and Georgians. Your distinguished men are known and honored in Georgia as well as in South Carolina. I say to you. Gen. Butler, with respect, that Von demonstrate the manhood of South Carolina, and I feel it an honor to debate this question with you, and will debate it in the highest sense of honorable dis cussion. I feel thataGeorgia boy is at home with South Carolina boys. We assert that the sub-treasury plan will be a good law. Gen Butler denies it. That puts the burden of proof upon me. It is for me to demonstrate that the plan is a good one. That's good parliamentary lawv. We started it in Georgia, and~ we wanted the sub-trea sury or sometlbiig better, but the more we thought of the sub-treasulry the better we liked it. Now we tvant the sub-treasury from its horns to its hoofs. I don't know how correctly Gen. But Ier was reported in the debate at Pros perity with Dr. Stokes. I hare the report as published in Trhe News and Courier, but I presume it was substan tially correct, and, if there is no correc tion of it, I take it for granted that the report is corre-ct. .1 When we debate a measure we debate the principles underlying it. I am going to demonstrate to this audleuce that Gen. Butler will do himself great injuQtice if he undertakes to discuss the details of any measure without discus sing the principles underlying it. Fur-1 t ber, Gen. Butler will be forced to take one or two positions. The bill was either right or wrong. If it is right .he, as an American statesman, owves it to this people to help them make this bill a lawv. If the plan is wrong, ought not le to be able to demonstrate that it is wrong? He ought to be able to de mionstrate that fact from a constitution al'stand point, from an economic stand point, from precedent and from.legisla ive enactments. When lie wishes to decline to discuss the plan he puts him self in the awk ward pisition of' saying that the plan a right, but lie can't help vou, or it is wrongt and he can't sow~it, and he can take either horn of the dilemma he likes, and he will have some rough riding on either one. [ Applause and laughter.] EJ'T WHAT Is'THE- P'LAN? Vol. Wtatson went on to say that Gen. Butler would have to come out and deate the plan, and may God give the victory to him who is right. A pplause.] Col. Watson, cs an analogy for the dis eussion of the plan, said the greatest re form m.ovements of modern times had been discussed without a bill with its details, just ats the tariff wa discussedI before the Mills bill was framed. andl that Gen. Butler discussed it without waiting for the bill, and so it was with secession, the adoption of the postoffiee system and the railroad system. He then discussed the suo-treasuiry plan 0on three lines: First. V he laws; second, the evils comnplainhed of, and third, the re medy. ATTACKIN(; Tnli cANIKS. He took oni the nattionlal banks and discusedi them as an old lawv and an evil. He denied that they were a war measure. havinig. been establihed in July, is;:;, when the war was nearly ove. Hie elaboraited thle charges of contract ioni and stated that the system was robbery and so forth, and that the system wvas robbherv and so forth. iad t~hat the $>,0,OQ"i they imade every -ear belonged to the people. HeI cia:ged it as disioyalty that Denmo cratic Senators should have voted for the rec'hartering~ of national banks. A p pling the rule, he held that if the. Givernment conld lend money on ionds it couldt also lend it on cottoin andl other tield crops. A Fat.sE ANAI.O(Y. He mh;antied thamt a precedent for the sub-trem-ury couldl be found in the inns of Amisterdum and Hamburg. whiich i-<ued. crtitientes on sold and siv~r niueoine~d, whicb certificates -aedcurrent in Europe. He also ted the cas'e of the~ Land Loan Bank of Eiskelda. Sweden. whlichi isu 1iiimn'y on lands at 4 per cent, nd whicii plan was adopted also in vorw,y. \'one of the banks failed. while the English and Russian banks iad to be helped out by the Bank of ,'ranev. He also cited the case of the silesiari lank, estab!ished by zrede -ick the Great. IE SAYS LEND AND .\EANS DORROW. Georgia lends nioney at 3 per cent. Jle maintained that prices were regu ated by unlawful contraction or the !urrency, and he illustrated it by a sup osed case, in which all the banks of country should suddenly call in out tanding obligations. On this point he luoted Mills, Ricardo, Henry Clay and lobn T. Sherman. He eulogized the english system of laws by which the Ireat depression of 1857 was overcome )y the financial measures of Lord astlereagb. He denied that laziness Lud extravagance were the causes of lepression, but drew a picture of a iard-working peoile eating poor pro ,isions, musty meal and white meat, vtinkled like a ribbon. This com >arison created a great deal of laugh er. He couldn't see how people ould be lazy and yet produce a surplus of cotton. Yet cotton goods were high J)d the staple was low, which proved hat there was a bug in the buttermilk omewhere. LAOR AS A UNIT OF VALVE He held that silver and gold were lot the unit of value in the bo%ks on olitical economy. On this point he [uoted Adam Smith, who held that a ariab:e article could never be a cor ect nieasure of the quantity of other hings, that is gold and silv r con inually varying, could not be a cor ect, measure of the value of other com nodities. He held labor to be the cor -ec. standard of value and the sub ,easurv hill was imbedded in this '-::.,*pby. Col. Wason then said hat the sub-treasury could be tested >y the people of a county selecting a actor who would be a bonded officer lected. Let -such an officer issue cer iticates as the Government does on old and silver, and this would be the ub-treasury in its essence without any yovernilent expenditure. The boild, >f course, would be approved by the ,ircuit Judge. Gen. Butler said that the money vould be back in the treasury in the pring, when the people wanted it nost. Col. Watson said that this would >nly be true if all people put in all their otton at the same time and took it out n the first six months. On the con rary, the farmers would put cotton in t various times from September on, so hat the operation would be continuous he whole year. This was the last point made by Col. oVatson in his opening argument,whieh vas closed by a peroration based on he story of the relief of Lucknow, the pplication being the sub-treasury as a eans of relief to the beleaguered farm rs. SENATOR BUTLER'S SPEECH. Gen. Bntler spoke as follows: NIr Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen aid Fellow-citizens: I am almost in hat condition in which my distin uished friend said he was in gpon one ecasion,,when he too.k a bite of that 4d white meat imported from Tennes ee, from Kentucky or some place else. believe I could eat some of that meat iow, and I am afraid that there are a ood many in the audience who have heir minds turned to the dinner table ather than to thespeaker,' but I will oc upy a short portion of the time before ve adjourn to respond, as I may, to the bservations of the distinguished gen leman who has just taken his seat. He reproached me, as I have been eproached before, with discussing what s known as the sub-treasury bill at ?rosperity. I was invited there to dis :uss thbe sub-treasury plan on its merits, md the only plan I have ever seen or. ieard of being the bill I ventured to liscuss it. I have been berated, defamed Lad derided because, forsooth, I exer :ised the right of an American citizen o discuss in public a question of inter et to the people. Trhat bill was pre ented to Congress by the friends of my listinguished friend, it was paraded >efore the would as the consummation >f all the wisdom, of all the statesman hip of America. in the National Economist, by the lobbyists to put it hrough Congress, by the orators upon he stump and off the stump, in the >ress and everywhere, we were told hat it was a consum-nation of the sub reasury plan. But it seems to me after dl the sounding of gongs and blowing >f trumpets, which is a matter of public -ecord in the department at Washing on, that I committed some great crime, md that I will commit a great crime -day if I venture to discuss it without he consent of the bosses who are try ng to domineer over and dominate every man who chances to differ with hem. [Cheering and applause.] Fel ow-citizens, [ never expected to live to ee the day in this State when any citi ~en of thbe Common wealth of the State of outh Carolina should have to go to thbe ~osses of the sub-treasury to get author ty to discuss any public mecasure of in ~erest to the people. THE EOSSES AND THEIR BANTL~INCG. From what I can observe the bosses hemnselves have become ashamed of beir bantling; they have beomue shametd of the bill; and because I ven ured to discuss it have accused me of ad faith, when, as God is my witness, [had no more intention of being guilty >f bad faith than I have this day. I will do my friend the justice to say >ne thing to him, that he has the man :ood and the courage to say to my face, o state the misrepresentation of what have said, while others waited until ;uv back was turned before they p)lied hie tongue of slander and defamation. I[y friend says that I said at Prosperity .at the man who would borro'v money it 2 per cent. did not intend to pay it >ack. I say to you, fellow-citizens, ipon my honor as a man, that as a base falsehood, a base mis -epresentationi. The genteman says .hat 1no other mian who borrowed noney would pay it back except the n:ml who( borrowed it at 7per cent. I ay that TH AT is NOTr TI:r'E. So that my friend had a good deal of ui; lie told a good many anecdo..es; lhe reatedl a good deal of laughter up,on remises which were wholly erroneous nid withiout a particle of foundation. 'o. gentlemiein. I have stood tby the ,ide of too mianiy of the good eople of this State when their souils md courage were tried1 to say here r at Prosperity, or anywhere, that here were forty thousand farmers in suth Carolia who were thieves and conidrels. and I brand the author or tas a liar. [Great cheeering and ap ,lu-e.'i [ have lived too long, I have seen to'' mu~chi of this life~ at this day of nyv exit enice to pand~er to deimagoguies mmid charlamtanms for the highesr. oltice in lie gift of lhe pe ple of thik Sate or imy \ ther. Aind now one w.rd,pur~ely of a p)ersoni ii eiwracter. I believe amy fellow-coun r;men~ will do iie the justice to say hat when South Carolina called upon them in war and peace, and I have done so without stopping to count the cost of that contribution. They have honored ie perhaps a thousand-fold more than I deserved. but they have never yet put me in otfiee upon conduct on my part which would create the be lief or impression that I have everstated one fact to the people of this State that did not meet the approbation of my judgment and conscience, [appiause.] and they never will put me in ofice if I have to pay as its price the advocat ing, the sustaining or inaintang of any proposition which my jud ien)t or mijy conscienee will not, approve. TOO STUPID FOR AMENFNjENT. My friend rather rebuked nie because I had not amended the sub-treasury bill. Why, fellow-citizens, I have tlio.-e two bills here and I will submit themt to the candid judgment of any intelli gent and impartial man in this State, and let him say whether or not in that form they were susceptible of amend- I ment. I might as well have tried to amend a proposition to pontoon the Atlantic Ocean or to build a bridge to the moon. [Laughter and applause.] The bills were introduced by Governor t Vance, and they went through the usual course, being referred to the com- t mittee on agriculture and they were buried in the tomb of the Capulets. I I bad no opportunity of amending them if they were not susceptible of amend ment. So, then. I have been reproached because I did not amend the bill, and I am asked to discuss the sub-treasury plan. If my friend will pardon me I would be under the profoundest obliga tions to him if he will only tell me what that plan is. I have not beard it, and he spoke for an hour and a half by the watch. He talked about the battle i of Lucknow, about the Encyclopaedia z Britannica. He talked about the re forms of England, about the Duke of t 'Wellington and the Duke of Newcastle, t about the abject poverty we were all r in, and leading up to that particular flight of his eloquence, from which we would have thought that every man, woman and child in this audience was crawling on his knees in ab ject poverty with not even the white meat of which he talks to satisfy their hunger. EDGEFIELD- NOt STARVIN0. 'Well, I see before me about as heal- t thy and well-diessed an audience as I have seen in a long while. The ladies t seem to be reasonably well attired. If t they will pardon me for referring to i that, and the men are not entirely ragged. I expect if they would go t home they would find a sweet potato or a bit of bacon, although not so white as he talks ibout; a little dust of meal, home made, to the manner born and uot imported from Tennesse or Georgia. I [Laughter and applause.] But my t friend studiously, conspicuously avoid ed t discuss the very plan which he says I did not discuss, and when he had finished I was inlined to jump up, clap my hands and say that the political Millennium had come. [Laughter and applause.] And I say it without ipreverence that the political Messiah had conie. [Laughter and ap- . plause, and hurrah for Butler!] I was about to exclaim, with folded hands, that this generation and day of our Lord had brought us the ulectric tele graph, the Trans-Atlantic cable, the flying machine, the electric light, the telephone, the phonograph, THE GRAPHOPIONE AND TOM WVAT SON. 4 Great laughter and applause.1 A voice: "Hurrah for Watson." Gen. Butler: And I say. so, too. He is a new man, [laughter,] just come to life. He is going to Congress, and he is not only going to pass the sub-treas ury and put money on these trees, where you all can get it by shakinig them, [laughter,] but he is going to smash the national banks, get p.ay for our darkeys, get a return of the cotton tax, and-well, if that is not enough for one man to do I do not know what it is, [great laughter and applause,] and when be goes in for all that he will find me with him. He jumped on the national banks and he destroyed them, but I do not think he was correct in his statement of the history of the banks. Col. Watson: In what particular? Gen. Butler: You said that they did not buy the currency, that they got, say one thousand dollars, deposited them in the treasury and got ninety thousand in currency. Col. Watson: But who gets the in terest?t Gen. Butler: Why the national bankt people, of course, just as a man must f pay interest on his note. Where would I you get bonds if you did not buy them?t Col. Watson: But where do the bonds i come from? Gen. Butler: I said they were bought I from the Government. But let me r point out your inconsistency. When 1 ( say that we deosire to repeal the bill laying a tax of 10 per cent on the State t banks in order to paralyze the nationali banks, he says oh no,sthat will not do. Col. Watson: I di(r-not say that, for I I understood you to say that you ob,-i ject to it as a remedy. What is your bill. Gen. Butler: My plan would be to . repeal the tax on State banks. But It need not discuss the bill. I ami tot furnish the plan and you the hill, fora that is your logic. [ Laughter and ap) plause.1 Col. Watson: T'hat is all right, hut I will make this traide I will come in on I the State balnks if y ou come in on the sub-treasury Gen. Bu~tler: WelI, that is a fair proposition, gentlemen, and I wvill do it. but on this condition, that I will tell I him wvhat my bill is if he will tell me I what his bill is, anid I tell him now f that the bill, which I tried twice to have passed, is to remov-e the 1(1 per cent tax on State banks. Col. Watson: What is your plan? Gen. Butler: .Just keep qiuiet now; have patience, and I will tell you. I waited on you. I woult say to the far mers of th is country-go to the Legisi ture and apply for a chanrter to go into the banking business, depos.it a hunndredl t housand or ti fty t housandl d olhars, as we did before thp war, when the banks of Coumbia and Hamibuirg enjoyed a very high credit. (den. Butler here explained the mie- ' thod of procedure before the war of putting in a given amount and issuing dobe the amount in bank notes. I A voice: "How are you going to get the capital?" w~oKI FOR IT! AH,. TItEiRE's TIHE R1W (: G;en. Butler: Work for it, sir. How else would von expect to get it? [(;reat luhter and applause.] Under thait system there was no contraction of the c'urrency, atnd the~ gentlenman should remenlier that in the instances cited fromi Holland, Sweden andl Norway ast precedents for tIhe subi-treasury, thet money was disb'ursed irough the banksi and iiot dlirectly to the people by the Government. which is tIhe sub-tre:a?ury )lan. Besides tIhe Constitution prohi-i bits sub-treasury legislation,. and he must swear to obey it nu I have sworn 1 to obh it I shonl 1.ave ben glnad, ;i(I Senator utler, to have keard my listinguished friend on 'ris .: Sr.EE-r o- )EMO lu Y little. If thI lwSpapers are to he elieved, and of course they are. he has ieen doing some very e.airnest work kgainst the party. As the (i6,t1m !ui,hed gentlemian said in introduoig. nv friend. Georgia has often :ided ;'Uth carolina in her political troUlhes. Ier distingnished inen have vrossed he river to aid us in times of ne-d, to naintain the integrity, hoior. charae er and perpetuity of our Dinocrtie >arty. [(treat applainst.] Now I mid4er tanil that this distinguiThed gent:e nan has come to us to put the knife, he entering wedge for its disintegra ion and destruc!ion. A voice: "You wruig hin that imne. Col. Watson: Are we dli-cussing the t ubtreasury plan or iot? t Gen. Butler: I am riot to le governed t )v your ideas on that subject. Col. Watson: I would like to say if ou go into a gem rat talk on m!v record c ' would ask for more tim,ne to !r(.[pl)y, , Cheers.for Wiatsz, n and counter hetrs s or Butler.] t Gen. 111ter: I do not think lie wants 0 diScuss my political record. Col. WVatson: Wet, you op-led the I ist :ld I amt not going to slw tile S .vite feather. [Cheers and hurrahs for Watson.1] Genl. Butler: I undertood y.oiu to ake mrjy record In hand and discuss it vithout reservation. Col. Watson: I did not crltl(1:se your -ecord, but let us go back, the oinly -eference I made was to -your speech I -eported in the News and Codrier and erely wanted you to say whether it t vas correct or not, aid you did not s Lnswer. Gen. Butler: Because I did not want .o interrupt you. He says. gentlemen, .hat he did not take liberties w illh iyv -ecord, but he did criticise a report e iclib did not purport to be steno ,raphic. Col. Watson: I asked you to point I )ut where were the errors. Gen. Butler: And I did, but I will v rive you all the time to reply. e Coi Watson: UO ahead. '11 be able o take care of myself. s A voice: "Now go on, C'eneral, and V ell us about the Third Party. a Gen. Butler: As to that, I say that he d parture advocated and main ained by the gentleman if persevered n a spirit which he nianifested must t esult in a Third Party. I suppose a hat is a legitimate conclusio.. A voice: "Where did the Third Party C ome from last year? Wasn't it Has :ell who led it?" Gen. Butler: Yes, and I hope it will >e a lesson to them, japplause,] for c here is no room for a Third Partv ievor has been and never will be. f Gen. 3utler expressed the hope and . he belief that the Farmers' Alliance vould not,be found in line with the -( [hird Party. He complimented it o l ts work when conined within its t riginal lines, and referred particularly o the successful figh t made against the u ute Trust, and this brought tip the ubject of the tarif, which Gen. But er discussed at some length, explain- ' g its exactions and how they op. rated. Gen. Butler's speech was interr.upted v iere by the hour for adjournment. Resunin,g his speech, Senator Butler )ean by showing that the subtreasury ficials meant Federal interference iu ocal affairs, and he said it would put is, body and soul, back again under he Federal power. He maintained hat the bill was a violation of the first 9 rticle of the Constitution. He said C hat tihe loans in the New Orleanls anid ~ biladelphia exposition cases were in t ursuance of appropriations and were >f doubtful validity, and were justified artly on the general weltare clause. t I denied vehemently that the Demo ratic part y was derelict in its duty. Senator Butler referred again to the act that Col. Watson wanted the na ional banks abolished, and wvhen he, 9 utler, suggested the repeal of the tax I the State banks as a remedy Col. ,atson said it wouldn't do. I have C ome to the conclusion, said he, that if were to suggest a remedy announced y inspiration from Heaven lhe would 'eject it. [A pplause.] ARGIUINGi FOR STATE BANKS. Nevertheless, Senator Butler went c m and explained the operation of the v tate banks before the war, thleir in- t egrity and success, and thought that hey could now be operated as success- v, ully. He maintained that ther' could 6 e no run upon the banks or no sacri- t iccs to speculators if the condition of he hanks were subject tooflicial exam- t nlaton, as wvas the rule in tile nationaln anks. Hie held that tihe national t >ankswere a war measure, althoughl t lot instituted until 183 because Mr. i. ase could not borrow money else here, and he had to float tile bonds of d he Government by the nlational bank- ~ ng plan. Senator Butler said that tile lanld 3 oaii scheme was proved to be a failure n Florida. In general tennms the y cheme could only result in a monopoly f lands anld tmortgages on lands in the b lands of a few. Senator Butler, in his connIectionl, explained the distine- h ;on between bIank currency anId loans y .1( discolunts. Referring to the succor a iven the English by Peel and Castle- j; eagh, Senator Butler reminded Col. v 'atson that such speedy relief was a 1 ossibility only under a constitutional d nonarchy, an~d that this Government i' vas one of tile people, by the people n* .nd for thle people. Our (Constitution, e sur written gospel, prohibits tings e >0ossible to British statesmen.. [Ap ause.] Senlator~ Hutler contiiined as I regret. fellow-citizens, thait any hng shiould hiav.e escapedi mie in my'. emarks whlichl mlight inl the slhghtesti legree ar the coulrtesies of tile oce-a iion to onur (list i uguishied friend, Hi e' em ebet)rs perfectly well that last 3 litfht whIenl wc mlet for the first time I veint to lim) aiid saidl: "Y ou are a b trau er amnon g uls: ebloose vou r ownla osiion! in) thlIis dlebat e. I will either pel and1 reply, or oul call." I hlad very inclinlationl to extend to hlim( very conlrtesy for which thlis State is elehratedh. I referred to his politic~al elatiois to thle panties in Ge,orgia in (spnlse to what I thlouight were tler is lhe hald taken withI my p,olitical a ecor. I have nothing whIateve:- to > ashamed if. so far ais my1 reco.dis 1 ocerned, and I am1 sure that lie has iot.! A pplause andi cheers for Butler' .nd iatson.] Referring to Ts n:itAsKIL. MtovEMEtrt .e. Butlcr sail: 3My fri,-ndl. Hardyl. vantedC' to kno'w a lithe wtiile ago if I here wasn' t a TIhird Party last year in ( his tate. WVell, there was an ettert h o run a ticket, which I tho(ughlt very N l-advised, and so expressed mlyself ti hen. butt the power and inlfluence of b. ue man are of little avail. I thiouTht r t was a great mistake and I think V now. [Applause.] I voted the tl lie Democratic ticket straight out dut,.bcaus the mijority orf ( ny feflow-citizens nominated the icket, and I shall do it again. They Iad a right to their opiniun and we iad a right to ours, and I have lived 00 long to be ottended with a lmau be ause he differs with me in opinion. e ad verted to Col. Watson's ara-uent bout the land loan banks of Norway nd Sweden and said the Governnent lid not there lend money direct to the >eople, but the banks, and t at the ame thing was possible in ourcountry inder the present system. STAND 1BY THE PARTY. Senator Butler appealed to the audi nee to stand by the Democratie party, low that its pros;pects of success were o bright. He was pained to hear it aid that the Democratic party had lone nothing for the people. Such a tatement could only have been made brough ignorance or design. and when he party lines were drawn he expected o see all the Democrats together ex. ept a few Hessians. He said: When ver the time comes let us again lock ur shields for the battle, and when my ervices shall be called for I shall not op t.o count the cost. If the people of his State, when my term expires, sha.l wiclude to send some ope else to the Jnited States Senate, in God?s name et them do it. It is their right and I hall i.>t eomplain, but if I am to be xpeeted at this late day to advocate aeasures which my conscience does ot approve you must send some one Ise to the United States Senate. A good deal has been said about what :nator Butler thinks and says, but I 1m not in tbis controversy as Senator -utler. I am plain M. C. Butler, and have never presumed for one moment o oppress the humblest citizen 'by rea on of the high station to which I have ,en elevated. If I have done anyone v rong,as6od is my wjtess,I stand here irepared to make the proper amends. enator or no Senator, I have always xpressed my hoiest judgment, and eLen this country reaches that point wheu I shall not be permitted to tell he trljth as I understand it, let my riends lay re aside ava I shall retire .ithout a murmur. (Applause and heers for Butler.j The foregoing, of course, is only a nopsis of Senator Butler's speech, hich was wildly and enthusiastically pplauded as he closed. Ccl. Wy,tson's Reply. Col. Watson then rose to reply and bere was a second storm of hurrahs nd cheers. He said that Senator Butler had ac used him oif trying to pontoon the Ltlantic and build a bridge to the oon. He, Watson ,had failed in this, ut he was sure Gen. Butler had suc eded, and Gen. Butler was still with be nan in the moon, with his old iend, Bill Spencer, pLying on the ddle. [Great laughter and applause, i which Senator Butler heartily )ined.] If there was anything he did ot .deuate it was certainly the sub reasury, but he had talked about ragedy and comedy to keep his spirits y at the other end of the bridge. Laughter and applause.1 He thought bat his speech was very much speckl d, like the butter in a certaiu old ty's pantry, which the old lady says ras spe6,kled, but that her Jersey cows ,ere a d--d sight more so. [Re ewec laughter and applause.] He de ied that he had not discussed the sub reasury plan. He had discussed it as e would discuss any other grave easure or remedy on the line he had id dlown in his opening speech. He said distinctly it was desired to et money direct to the people at 2per et : that the people should not be iscrimilnated against in favor of na ional banks. He had showed that that wvas wanted was a medium that ould expand or contract only with be necessities of trade. As to the de ils he thought they could be discussed ereafter but he had certainly discussed Lie plan. He would be a pretty fellow 'deed if he came here to talk about a an and didn't do it. Gen. Butler id not catch his idea about the Ham urg bank. They did not issue money n gold and silver, but certificates hat deposits had been made and bie certificates became money. He ad shown that the banKs of Sweden ~sued money direct on land upon mort ages to two-thirds of the value of the nd. He did not see why that rule ould not be applied to cotton, which aried less from century to century han silver. Senator Butler: 'Will you state ;hher the money in Norway and weden is issued by the banks or by he Government ? Col. Watson : The money of the anks is authorized by the Govern :ent, and it circulates just as green acks circulated here. 'That is, that Lie certificates are convertible into oney as good as greenbacks. A voice : "I don't wish to trouble the ebate, but I would-like to ask you a uestionr." Col. Watson: All right, go ahead. ou can't trouble the debate. The 'voice: "I have no land. How rll your land loan benetit me ?" Another voice : "Oh. don't mind im he is a preacher." Col. Watson: Suppose you have no nd, will the change leave you in any .orse condition than you are now? If man has nothing and don't want to ake anything, he is unfortunate and e can't help him. Now, boys, I bink he is in trouble, isn't he? .But I ) say that if the neighbors around you ake plenty of corn and cotton and get wnzev at 2 per cent., they will take are if the one-armed people of this >untry. [Applause and cheers.] Cl. Watson, in answer to another uestion, said that the tetiants would e beneitted because they could get ioev on the surplus over the rent. auvhow, said Col. Watson, I have eeo compared to the Mlessiah, anid lie Lfe to) heal tihe sick and niot the well, Laughter Z4!Id applause,] and besides. ou must remnemnber~ that when one oif ou asked Genz. Butler how to get oe to put in State banuks, he told imu to go andl work for it. [Laughter udi ap~plause.] How do you feel now, ,iny.' (M're laughter and ap)plause.l A voice: "Are you going to vote for Col. WXats'on: Gentlemetn, that fellow ,inds exactly like a last year's April ,il. t Laughter.] The voice: "I want to know who you re "oingT to) vote for for Speaker?" Col. Watson: The man that stands earest the O)cala platfornm. In answer to a suggestionl from 3Mr. amIes I'. Bean Col. W\atsn saidl that bere would be nio expense in issuinug le certiliiates, except in the paper and Lie ink. As to tile dispute between Senator uter and D r. -'!okes it was Julestion) feidencee, somle peole~ atti iried what e is reported to have said, and the uator and4 others denied it. He sough t it strange that Senator Butler ad not corrected it in his favorite aper, the New.. and (Courier, which. -as Ati-Alliatnce and a supporter or1 Ie Seniator. Senator Butler: I d:d~ correct it in the ottn Plant. Col. n% atson, continuing nis speeen, said that he did not know much about polities in South Carolina, but he knew ithe Alliance was Jeffersonian Demo cratie in Georgia. [Applause.1 tie claimed that the force bill was killed through the orders of the National Al liance Convention at Ocala. Col. Watson devoted a geat part of his argument after this to the needs of an income tax. Recurring to the 2 per cent difliculty at Prosperity Col. Wat son ised tLs language: "You have ad mitted, General, that your own paper on that reported an infamuois lie." Senator Butler: "No, sir, I did not. I said that whoever said that I charged forty thousand farmers of South Caro lina with being thieves and scoundrels were infamous liars. Col. Watior), wJt4 the assent of Sena tor Butler, tooli a b4nd priaiary as fol: lows; "Those men in this audience who believe that the Ocala platforni is pure Jeffersonian I)emno(ra--y hold up your right hands." Here the right hands of about nine-tenths of those who voted declared it was. Then a similar vote was taken on the sub-treasury plau with the same result. Col. Watson: Now I hope the re poters will put down that an over whelwin majority of tile audiene voted for the Q'e4la-platform. Near the close of this speech Senator Btutler said; I would like you, Qol. Watson, to come down more practically on the subject of Democracy. I would like to ask you if the Ocala platform is submitted to the National-Democratic Convention and itis rejected, will you stand by the National Conventin' WATsON TRIES TO DODGE. Col. Watson: Sufficient for the day d the evil thereof. Voice: "Oh, no, that won't do, that won't do." Col. Watson: Well, my people are my bosses not you. They told me to stand by the Ocala platform, and I am going to do it if I meet my political death by it, and I shall die with the colors wrapped around my body. [Applause.1 qontinuin- Col, Watson attacked the record orkleveland, said he would no. vote for him and the farmers could not expect the abolition of national banks so long as a Wall street binker was chairman of the national executive committee. Col. Watson subsequeuty took a hAnd primary as to who wasi right in the bebate, he or Senator Butler, aid it resulted pretty much as before. Col. WN atson: I think, General, you are in a minority here to-day. Gen. Butler: 0, no, I am not. Voices: '"He will get there all the same." Col. Watson: This crowd is with me, sure as you live. I can swear to a crowd like this. Shortly after this Col. Watson oon cluded his speech, his friends cheering viciferously, and Gen. Butler's frieLds hurrahing for Butler, and everybody to all appearances in a very laudable and lovely good humor. 31. F. T. THE COUNTY TEACHERS. The Institute Closes-A Profitable and Sut cesfful Week-A Full Report of the rroceedings. On Wednesday afternoon we had a most interesting and helpful talk from Director Iorrison on oral arithme tic. In this be stressed the desi.ability of continuous and continued exercises in order to develop great mental ac tivity and readiness. He exemplified these points by original examples, thus giving an opportunity to test his muethod practically. I believe it was unanimously conceded that thlis is the kind of work which gives that rapidity and accuracy so desirable in an account ant. This being true, its importance cannot be overestimated. Mr. Welch now resumed his talk on Least Common Multiple and Greatest Common Divisor. By examples on the black-board he so clearly and thoroughly explained the methods, that I think the teachers who heard him will no longer have difficulty in imparting the underlying principles. After a brief talk on arithmetic the Institute adjourned to mueet at 9:30 tomorrow. A fter the opening exercises were through, 3Miss Bonham took the board to exemplify the phonic method. The flashing eyes of the primary work ers plainly indicated their enthusiasm, and the deep attenltion of all showed the great interest felt by them in this mlost important work. Trhis work was beautifully and sys tematically presented. Trhe vowels were taken and marked to shlow the long and short sounds, then such con sonants as had but a single sound were taken-tho,se having two sounds being purposely left out to avoid confusing the child-and these sounds distinctly given, and the difficulties that children inud were explained, thus showing the location of tne rocks, that we [might avoid the breakers in presenting this to children. Questions were freely asked and satisfactorily answered. Dr. 3McIntoshl was now introduced to the Institute, and mIade a pratctical and most instructive talk on Sch~ool Hyv giene. HeI gave practical advice as to what should be done' in case oi p)oison-. ing, fainting, or cu' blood ves-'el. In case of poison, do not wait to in vestigate wvhether the poison be min eral or vegetable; but give emetic at oce,-hot water, water and mustard. failing thlese, tickle throat with a featber, or insert finger iin mouth to base of tongue and press forward. Thlis last is always at hand. JIn case a pupil faints, at oiice place hlim in liori zontal positionl, thus doing away with the action of gravity arid beneie assist ing an enfeebled heart to force the blood to the brain, dash cold water in the face. By all mecans have him placedl in a horizontal position and loose thle clothing. Dr. 31c1Intosh calledl attention to the divine wisdlom displayed ini the fashl ioning of the human~ being. Thle vital organs are all protected, andl it i.s dilli cult tO reachI thlemi. Whbere larg!e arte ries or blood vessels colle near the sun ace thley are onl thec inside of tile limb, and hence farthest fromr danger. In~ ase a large artery or biloo'i vessel is cut, tie a handkerchief or.<ome equilva lent around the limb, insert a .stick or ruler between limb and handkerchief aid twist the handkerchief, thus miak ingr a tourniquet. On ventilation he gave som11e very int eresting fact . By sonic miental -:al culations lie showed how inaide lUate are our school rooms to (10 lihe work desired-that is to furnish puire, t ho roughly oxygenated air to thre pupllils. As the oxygen is used ini thre lungs arid comes back carbonie gas t he proporton Ii of gas to oxygen increases. T his brinzs about sleepiness, languor, headache, and kindred troubles, arid the pupil canoi(t dor himself justice. On this head lie gave a very practical and wise suggetion as to how to secure fresh air in cold weather. Raise the window about six inches and place under it a UVLt:Ce1 LL P3an,: 01 giass, imis woui add considerably to the ventilation of the room. Dr. Joynes, at !1 e close of Dr. -Ncin tosh's remarks resumed his subject, Higher English. His former talks on this line had led up to the treatment of sentences by analysis. Now he began to aulyze. This was done in a man ner which was masterful in its sim plicity, and which satisfied a want long lelt by the writer. Since the sentence is the unit of thought, and hence of ex pression, in English, we must treat it as a whole. This word "whole" is the key to the situation, and must be con stantly kept in mind. A simple sen tence is resolved into subject and predi cate. That is all there is in it, nothing more, nothing less, Right here the squbilug blovk co:nes in. Not conl tent to analyze and get the sense in tetided to be conveyed, paruing is at tempt-d Ind ofte we btt our head against dificulties of wbich the genius of the language doet; not dispose. I) this eveit, raise your hat, make your politest bow and admit that there is ujore beyond, and that you yet have an incentive Lo study. In doing this you recognize the wonderful power und scope of our mother top4ue, The Doc, tor ook a printed list ot sentences and practically exempliied his method and showed occularly the great ease attend ing its use. J ust before Dr. Joynes closed, State Superintendent of Educa tion Mayfield tntered. The Dootor brought his talk to a close and Director Morrison introduced Nr. Maytield to the Instittte. Mr. Mayfield favored the Ins, itute with some very pertinent remarks about Teachers' Institutes, and the profession generally. He bade them press forward in the work, and prom ised all the help in his power. He said the press, almost to a paper, had criti cised his efforts to raise the standard of proficiency among the teachers, but that he intended to pursue the even tenor of his way. He said thatabroad, Newberry County stood highest in efficiency of teachers and teachers' association work. Mr. Mayfield's remarks were well received and were helpful. We gret his stay was so short. The afternoon session was devoted to Geography and Arithmetic. Director Morrison took up Geogiaphy, and niade a helpful talk. Hie placed upon the blackboard a chart on which were written the steps thought most desirable to be pursued in teaching this study. He amplified this chart by pertinent remarks. Mr. Welch followed on the subject of fractions-the pons asinorum of arith metic. 31r. Welch took up a highly complex form of fractions and by sini ple cancellation arrived at the result in one-fourth the time generally con sumed. Mental arithmetic was stressed and its importaLce brought out. On Thursday night we had quite a literary treat in a lecture by Dr. Joynes. The Newberrians who did not hear it missed a great deal. Dr. Joynes took for his. subject-Engli3h Language. After a few prelimica-,y remarks, be said that, as he prayeth best who loveth best, so he teacheth best who loveth best. English is our mother tougue and is entitled to our admiration and love, and our reverence. It is the patent of our nobility. The English language is the most perfect instru ment of expression ever put at the command of man. Historically speak ing, the latest born, the Benjamin of the linguistic family. Its character is composite, Germanic. (in the original sense) blended with French. Here Dr. Joynes showed the effect of the Norman conquest upon our lan guage. How the German and French inflections, not agreeing, swallowed each other and left us a tongue almost without inflection, and which is neither German nor French, but English, dif ferent from both or either. The his torical and philological contents of our language are very rich. We draw freely from German, French, Greek Latin, &c. Our vocabulary is mixced. Manifold in its origin; unequalled int range and richness of words, in accentt and intonation. We ha.ve many synonyms in ouri language which, while meaning prac tically the same thing, have by that , accuracy of thought and distmection j: peculiar to our tongue, taken on shadesli r>f meaning pecnliar to themselves, e. g. building, edifice, house, mansion. Speech, address, oration. Tale, word, 1 narration, history. Short, I rief, con eise, laconic. Build, erect, construct. In no other language in the world is< there so great power in diction. In no other is it so important to use right words. H-ence give great heed to diction. The dictionary is not uji.ll if read witht the intellect. The words, as we find them thbere. are only skeletons. Learn their structure, so that when we build sentences of them, we maly know just where to fit them in to make a perfect I sentence, conveying a liviog thought. Our tonCeue is beterogeneous and imani :old in its constituents. WVonderful in< its power and scope. There is a word for which, as yet, we have no need, eurator, when we need it wve will take< it, as we have taken orator and sena-( tor, anil by chaingizng the acce.zt madej them English. D)r. .Jiyties used many exampilles to show the genius of the language. Its great power to incorpo rate and( assimilate foreigmi words.5 This. he s'aid, showed not only the power of rowth, but was a p'edfyc of growth. In sharp contrast he showed the weak-] ness of the Gjermnan language. Its ima bility to assimilate foreign words. The< infiection of these words had to) bei learned sepa rateiy. Societies wecre formed pledgedl to nlot use foreignt words-thus admitting the weakness f the language. Our gramniar is pe-1 euliar for its extreme brevity of word forms. Iintlections dropped; polysyl lables repah'ed by imonosyllables; con riensat ion and comlpression oft word< forms; torce and power of enmphasis-t a great elemient in oratory. Here the I loetor s:id hle had intended to read two o,f Tennyson's poems, but the< time was too short. In the-e p)oems 7~> o 10 per cenit of the words are mo(nO-t yllables, showing that Enhglish goes like a biullet to the miark. Our Ian ~uage is essentially logical and inot eraimatical. We get the mnee.ing of wo rdls by thi r posit ion. English isa characterizedl by cohesion. si mplicity, e iearness. Is sub.ieet to' logical laws.( The La:tin moves in graceral, swee-p in curves. the English by right lines. e CI arness is an essential in English.e We may write Md English but it is im-f possible to write obscuire English. Our I la:guag~e p4oses9ss precision, assinmila 1in. powe~Vr. st ruet nral simplici-y, brev-t tv. emphasis and force. The su-t ,reequalitlies of 1anguag~e. The.growtht f our lanigange formis the grandest hapter in modern history. Englishr iteratuire is the richest and highest.a meient or modern. lIn history the Anglo Saxon has beeii called Roman in onquest for civilization and progress. he is more than Romnan. Thle doctor bere very graphically andb elogjuently rewv a p)icture o~f a New Ze-alander in jgs to comec travelling to the tight a litl Isl toai view t he ruinms of St. P'aul's I ana London bridge, and as he sat upon the crumbled arches of the bridge and sketched the wonders of former ages he thought upon the grandness and power of the civilization of the days gone by, and when awe-inspired he re turned to his far-away home, tw tell of the grandeur of the scenes be had looked upon, he would tell it in En fjlbh. Dr. Jovnes impresed it upon his hearers to possess, love, guard, rever euce and study our mother tongue. The writer listened with wrapt atten tion to Dr. Joynes' address and feEls how imperfectly be has given it. The eloquence, intonation, emphasis. force thrown Into the words by Dr. Joynes can not be reproduced or. paper. The address closed all too soon. Friday morning was uRbered in with a heavy rain, but not sufficiently heavy to dampen the ardor of the teaehers quite a number being present. The ex ercises were opened with prayer by Director Morrison. The first subjoct, spelling, was taken up by the director and the following suggestions placed upon the blackboard, vri 1. Correct errors when made. 2. Teach by groups. 3. Spelling bees. 4. Word, part of speech, definitior. 3. Spell backwards. ' O. Keep list of common errors. 7. Written spelling. 8. Spelling in concert. 9. Letter about. 10. By syllable. 11. "A" pronounce, "B" spell. 12. Teasher furnish phonics, pupils et ters. 13. At close of History or Geography iall for difficult words. 14. "A" spells all words, others note 7rrors. 1.5. Look for errors in poorly edited 2ewspapers. 1G. Introduce like sounded words. 17. Use names of a class of eubjects- - is elephant, (-1c. As each of the above was written lown., Director Morrison gave reason or the '.se of it, and used examples to Jttingly exemplify same. Dr. Joynes took part in the discus ion and called special attention to writ ten spelling. This he said trained .he eye and developed the child along ,he line of "form." Many words by lht-ir sound did not give any hint as 'o he letter used, and if one knew '.he orm, one would at once detect the ,rror, a. g. Lessen, lesson. Mortal, )istol, axle. He said bad spellIng was ,o inherent and so universal that we ibould fight it as we would fight the levil. The Doctor also stressed distinctness )f articulation as a great help to spell ng, foi instance, if"steady"and"atudy vere spoken in a slipshod, slovenly nanner we could not tell what to pell. Mr. Welch also gave good reasons, - ased on Psychological facts, why 'form" should be stressed. The next subject reached was Higher English, assigned to Dr. Joynes. The Doctor in his former talks had lone all that could be expected of him n so short a time. Beside teaching nany valuable facts, he had set the >eople'to thinking. He now took pars ag. After a few preliminary remarks >n analysis, leading up to parsing he >!aeed the following on the blackboard, nz: )IFFICULTIES IN ENGLISH PARSING. Parse the English idiom without sub ititution, omission or addition, except n case of ellipsis. Supply what is clearly implied. Equivalence is not identity-sacrcd 1ess of idiom. Transter or adaptation of parts of peech. TheDoctor emphasized the fact that we Dust parse what we see. When we meet Sdifficulty do not hit it on the head iiith a ha:nmer, and substitute some hing else and fondly believe the diffi ~ulty solved--it is not so-you have dis osed of the difficulty, but not scientifi ally. It is there still. When you ranspose and substitute you do violence *o the genius of the mother tongue. dier idiom is torn to pieces. And thbis s something no one should do. Treat >ur mother tongue reverently as we vould our mnotber after the flesh. The )0etor took a list of sentences which 1e had selected to exemplify this work Lfnd I1 think satisfied the audience. ['he great interest taken in his alks and the questions put to him bowed that he bad most successfully iroused enthusiasm. Several knotty inestions were asked him, but these te answered in a most satisfactory nauner. His reasoning was clear, ogical, forcible, convincing. One of ne main points of discussion was the se of a conjunction as asubject. Iam ure the Doctor made this so plain that -be who runs may read." At the close of his talk Dr. .Joynes ave the names of three books; also the ~ddress of the publishers. These books -especially the firet and second, lhe re ~om mended to the teachers. They are as follows: Eniglish in preparatory schools (Huff-. ratt) 2~>c. English in the schools * Woeod ward) 2.5.-D. C. Heath & Co., 3ost on. Lessons in linguist ic methods Laurie) McMillan & Co., N. Y. Miss B3onham followed Dr. Joynes vithi a talk on numbers. This was rery interesting, and gave the teachens nany new ideas.MissBonham stressed be fact that we must not push too fast. et the child have time, endeavor to et the natural expression from the bild. To force the mind is to injure t. Mr. Welch followed Miss Bonhamon epetends. His motto is "stick to prin iples." Mr. Welch had just gotten varmed up to his work when his time xpired. Hei had just reached the nagic No. 9. The repetend maker. We vere very s'ua ry . > ind that the time to a se tileInstimute had arrived. It seems o us one week is too short, for this im >ortanit work. We just begin to receive he beeis and are in a condition to btain lasting good when the time to lose is uploIJ us. Especial thanks are lue the able faculty for their untirinig eal and efficient work. And to the state Superintendentof Education, Mr. dlavfid tor his interest and efforts in ur~ behuif. Too muwch comminendationi nid thatnks can not be bestowed upon u renergetic and eflicieu tCou ntySchool :omiione-r for his untiriug effor-ts ii behairof the teachers and the cause f educ-ation. To the hot'pitable people *f Newberrv the teachers are indebted or their kind consideration. We be ieve t he cause of education cani in no0 ray be better fostered than by Insti utes, and we would :impress up'>n all eatThers the necessity of attending bxe'e wherever they cant be reached. The teacher who wishes to stucceed oust be abreast the times in methods rnd ini all that pertains to pedagogie. Ve learn all these at In4t:tuites. PEDAGOGU' Tlo keel) the beard from turning gray, uid thus prevent the appearance of ~ze, use Buckingham's Dye for the V'hiskers, the bes dye made.