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(' <'"1 h ESTABLISHED~~~~~~ 185EWBFRRY, S. C., WYEDNTESDAY, APRI2,19.PIE$.0AYA O.M. JAMIESON'S A OOC 7 BCJ MEIT. Having bought my partner's interest in the business, I wish t extend to our many friends and patrons my most sincere thanks fo their liberal patronage in the past. In the future, as in the past, will do my utmost to merit a continuance of your patronage. MY SPRING STOCK T My Spring Stock is now open for your inspection. An Elegant Line of Clothing and Gents' Furnishings My stock of Men's, Boys' and Children's Clothing is fa ahead of any stock we have ever shown. I buy my Clothing fror the best manufacturers in the country, thereby getting the lates novelties and the very perfection of. make-up. Be sure to examin my stock of Clothing and my immense line of Furnishing Goods. Straw Hats enough to supply the County ! Latest Styles Lowest Prices SHOES. TlJ S IIOU OJ .,1B i 1Ry! SHOL3 I will continue to make a specialty of Shoes. My stock is noi more complete than ever. Just received a new line of Lill; Brackett's Hand-Made Shoes-the most comfortable Gents' Sho made. A new lot of E. P. Reid's Fine Shoes for Ladies-ver stylish. Examine our $2.00 Kid Button Shoes-the best shoe eve sold at this price. When in need of anything in my line do not forget to give mi a call. Respectfully, '0. M. JAMIESON, Successor to Minter & Jamieson, Naw a mrR , S. C. $25,000 STOCK ofG OODS! We have moved. our Green, wood store here, and we pro pose to clean out the whole stock at prices to suit the tines. NO GOODS CHHIRED TO ANY M R NOW We propose to slaughter good at UNHEARD-OF PRICES THE Cash is what we want. SMITH & WEARN, The "Newberry Clothiers." BRINC ON YOUR CLOCKS BRIN 0N YOUR E!ELRY! TO BE REPAIRED In Workmanlike Manner. I lavB E10TjO[I a SKillful WoRKmaI FOR THIS BRANCH OFilMYBUS1NESS I HAVE A NICE LINE OF --OF WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVER AND PLATED WARE., Do You Want Any Thing in Tis Line, --IF SO Don't Take Up Your Valuable Time --IN R UNN1NC AROUND, BUT CALL ON JOJIN F. srECK, Th~e Jeweler. A :: 0 *Tuff's Tiny Pills God treatolnodebworoidthanitheyastheir deserve,andwifhe choosesrto treat cure af aybte , . hecrail a elrig t o reoe Dhatyaeml. TILLMAN AT GREENVILLE. wh for H:is Closing Speech on Saturday, April 16, rI as Reported by His Paper, "The Register." pla Thi [Last week we gave a synopsis of rail Tillman's opening speech and Shep- Con a pard's speeck. This week wegiveTill- chi r man's closing speech as reported for the I the Columbia Register:] fori In the last campaign a great deal the was said about Peter's wife's mother. ate [Laughter.] Some of you don't know a what that meant, but I'll tell you, (and t here Tillman told the story of the inno cent abroad in New York who heard a not sermon three times on the subject of the ia Peter's wife's mother and who inferred isl that the ringing of the bells was in ura honor of the old lady's funeral.) Ap- e 3 plying the story the Governor said: ref Now, I have at last discovered the an cestors of Peter's wife's mother on the Ha paternal side. Here is what the Hask elite organ in Columbia said of the isla speeches of Colonel Orr in Laurens and ho% other places-a speech that had been legi and printed, but which he would not speak a r to-day. [The speaker here read an ed- tha F itorial Irom The State, the point of 3 which was that its editor claimed the ato: credit for suggesting the points made atd r by Colonel Orr in his speeches.] Now, here you see, gentlemen, that Colonel tio tol Orr was only the mouthpiece of N. G. th Gonzales. [Applause and laughter.] At this point in the Governor's speech def a great howl was raised on the left of the stand which was long continued, car and as soon as the Governor could be Lel heard he said : Now, my friends, you t all understand what that means, and that I cannot get along with that bois- quc terous crowd over there, but it is a pla small crowd-scarcely more than fifty. ac Now I propose to teach them something- rati My friends, all of you who are going to ora vote for me hold up your hands. [The led crowd obeyed, fully nine-tenths of ure those present holding up their hands the and cheering for Tillman.j Turning- rep to the boisterions fifty he said : "Now he you young gentlemen can either hush tini and so declare yourselves to be gen- he tiemen or -continue to be rowdyish. sur [Cheering and applause.] But "Now, those of you who are going to thi vote for Sheppard hold up your hands." wit [A very infinitely small portion of the has crowd obeyed.J "Now," said the Gov- by - ernor, "if you have any decency at all the I suppose you will hush now." The bee noise continuing, Orr endeavored to se- I I cure silence but failed, and Tillman can continuing said: I suppose that is teli } what you people understand by peace say and harmony. [Laughter ^-d ap- spei 1 plause.] But I tell you that c eame prii r here to speak, and I am going to speak raci if it takes till to-morrow. I tell you, say young men, that you will have to vote thr for me or appeal to the nigger just as haN 4 Haskell did. [Applause, jeers and cou cheers.] You may outholler me, but ces, you can't out-vote that grand army cha out there. Sheppard has alluded to km' the farmers' movement and said that pie every feeling, every motive, of his heart it 0 was loyal to our agricultur'al people. He int< grew so eloquent that he almost made eve me believe that he had discovered the "w< movement instead of myself. [Laugh- wil ter and applause.] Well, I tell you 'I that in 1886 in convention I voted for tioi Sheppard for Governor and tried to thra elect him. Why ? First because at for that time I knew none of the public s men of the. State, and second because der we had been school-mates and were sine then and are now personal friends. con There were then three candidates iu the too field-Senator Coker of Darlington, he IJohr Peter Richardson and Sheppargl, no Iwho had received the otlice at the per hankh of Hugh S. Thompson. The ate movement then had two principal the demands-the reorganization of the law Iagrichltural bureau and the establish- dor mnent of an agricultural college. I alt wrote to Coker and asked him if he wei would support these demands. He Ch: wrote me back that he would not, and ha( I had Richardson approached and tice found that .he was the ring candidate. o [Voice : "Tell us about that free pass."1 use .Yes, I'll tell you about it if you'!l bo~ hush, because I am not here to dodge vot anything. [Cheers for Trillman.] I then went to Sheppard, and wve had a the conference. He told me he was in at 1 favor of everything the farmers' asso ciation had demanded except the abo-pe lition of the Citadel Academy-thefr dude factory. I was then left in this Cit condition with Sheppard, who had -by been miy school fellow. [A voice: . "And Judge Wallace's son-in-law."] |ern Well, yes. but that had nothing to do Ithe with it :and why shouldn't I vote for Ijud him, ana .especially after he cameeq over and joined us ? But what was thepr result?' Col. Lawrence Orr and W ci L. Mauldin headed' the delegation cia from Greenville, went to Columbia is and were responsible for.Sheppard's det defeat in 1SSG. John C. Sheppard had m, beaten' Orr for Speaker arid he hates brr -him for it to-this day. [Colonel Orr sid "Cidn't you vote for Mason, who was m opposed to the Agric'ultural C ollege "?] ~ Tillman--yes, .and. Mauldin was op- rec posed to it.se P[Colonel Orrg :"No, sir'; lie cast the ani vote that saved the college."] ha Tillnmai-In 188S I again asked Shep- for pard] to oppose Richardson. He said du "I il~vl go to Columbia next week and to a e bot it." It was two or three fr" d ays before the meiet~ing at Hodges. an' He went down there and was converted rul ]to the other side, and1 Lawrence Orr 011 presided over the convention that by defeated Earle in favor of Rich- pri ardson. Now, these are the men wl.o tot -say "we are in favor of the farmers' or tmovement. Oh 'we do love you far- ICu mers so~ welta ecould take you inha our arms and embrace you." ]Laugh- lai it they have done with our plat n. he speaker here compared the two :forms and made points that the rteen had omitted the demands for road control and a constitutional vention. He then denied the rges of ex.ravagance, alluding tc building of the inauguration plat n, which he said was suggested by committees of the Hou. ..rnd Sen He then acknowledged that he alluded to some of the legis rs as driftwood, and showed that failure to carry out economies was due to his want of suggestion, but bIdcking of legislation in the Leg ture. He quoted from his inaug and from his speeches to show that had been consistently in favor of ,rm. He denied that he had acted . dictator. He quoted a letter of ;kell to The State which he said ex ned how the members of the Leg ture had been bamboozled and also that newspaper had twitted the slators with being under his control causing them to vote otherwise n had been expected. He admitted t a good deal of time had been spent the election of a United States Sen ; that nothing was being done, that he therefore called upon twc citors to assist in what administra measures embodied the views of farmers' platform. He then went to show how these measures were ated, but contended that he had ied out his pledges and that the islature had failed to carry out irs. s a part of the argument here he ted extensively from the party ;form, stating in what repects he endeavored to carry out his decla ons. He also entered into an elab :e discussion of the causes which to the defeat of several of his meas ;, and especially the railroad bill, Sheriff bill, and others. He then ied to some of the statements that lost ground in the State, and con ted thus: Sheppard has claimed that will carry my township as as fate. Well, General M. C. ler, who has had a finger in pie, has had a heap to dc bi stirring up this township, and so A. P. Butler who was sent home the Legislature, and who lives on edge of the township. They have a distributing The State free gratis. ave been at home but seldom, be -e I have stayed in Columbia at ing to your business; but I will that I will go home, make three ?ches, and if I can't beat him in the naries I will withdraw from the Governor Sheppard, will you as much ? I have gone, my friends, )ugh h-I to get this office, and I e been told that no other man Id have led the movement to suc . Since my election I have dis rged my duty as faithfully as I w, and I am now asking this peo whether they think I have done r not. I made a living before I gol >the Governor's office, and when r the majority of the people say Sdon't want you any longer?" . retire without a murmur. he Governor recurred to his posi Sas defined in his inaugural on the e dollar poll tax, giving his reasons the recommendations. peaking of the Judge Wallace inci t he said: One of the unpardonable ,the un washable sin,whbich I have imitted, is that in my message] issue with Judge Wallace because bad decided that the Governor had right to remove C2antwell, the Sn visor of Registration, while the Sen was not in session. I have showi law under which I acted, and nc yer has yet answered me. They t dare to take issue with that law, iough I am no lawyer. Now,whai 'e my motives? The people o1 trieston were under ring rule. They the-most outrageous tyranny prac d upon them, and Cantwell was of the instruments which the ring d to keep itself in power by issuing us tickets and allowing them to be 'he reform movement there begged t this man be removed. I looked ,he law and I had the right to sus d him until the Senate met. I sim desired to remove the shackles n the hands of your friends in the y by the Sea, and Judge Wallace his decision, had them locked again w, what is this scheme of our gov ment? It has three departments legislative, the executive and th< icial-and they are considered co tal. Now, it looks to me that if it i per to criticise the Governor, espe ly as I have been criticised-I mear icism of my office-and if my office ot enough to insure being criticise< 'ently, in God's name where is tbh propriety in my criticising anothe nh of the government? And, be es, are these judges in fallible? Le show you: ere is a list from th'e Supreme Cour ords. I am in the citadel now, yoi and I can get the records. not obliged, as I used to be, t e to chunk around for things, as be e I was elected. This list shows tha ring the last five years, or from 188 1890, there were 0.57 appeals take' the decisions of the Circuit Judges I that over 250 of them were over ed or modified. That is, that ove 3-third of these opinions deliverei these Judges-the Sanhedrim, th ethood of the inner temple--mei holy to be criticised by the Govern -were overruled by the Suprem urt. And as to this Supreme Couri ven't you many a time heard th ryers curse and damn it as being f jracae LGArat lnahter nn applause.] You will understand, o course, that this is not my language In this issue the Senate has sustained me and the Supreme Court has not de cided the point raised by Judge Wal lace, and I will do it again; and if any other supervisor shall act in the way that Cantwell did I would not hesitate to take him by the throat and put him out to-morrow. [Laughter.] I am told that my time is about out. Colonel Orr has harried your souls by charging that I in an interview de clared that the farmers' movement could whip the Alliance. I deny abso lutely that I ever thought such a thing, wrote such a thing or said such a thing. Can you believe that I would see the reform movement split in half and tak ing each other by the throat, and like two dogs quarreling over a bone, de stroy their combined power? Do you suppose that I would ever by this means let that gang of sheep over there seize this govern ment again? [Applause and cheers.] My friends, I would have been not only a political idiot but a double-dyed traitor had I announced such a sentiment. [Applause and cheers.] Last year I said that I believed that the sub-treasury bill was unwise. I went to Spartanburg and in a meeting of the State Alliance gave my reasons for saying that I opposed it. I say to you to-day that at that time I was fighting what I supposed was a third party movement and not the Alliance. [Applause and cheers.] I was opposed to it, and I believe that all of you are opposed to it now, because it has been withdrawn by the Alliance itself. rsay to you here now, as a loyal Democrat, as a loyal Allianceman, as a loyal farm er's movement man, that I am bound by the rule of the majority and that if a majority of the people want these de mands I shall not attempt to dictate to you. (Prolonged cheering and ap plause.] I have been accused of trying to dic tate to the Alliance, but I have given you my reasons for my opinion and my position. I am on record as op posed to the sub-treasury, and I am opposed to it now, but the rule in the Alliance and of the Democracy is to abide the will of the majority, and I am not going to fight my brethren. ICheers and applause.] Just before the Spartanburg meeting, don't you remember how sweet and smiling the newspapers were to me? They actually slobbered over me. The Greenville News [voices: "Oh! oh!"] and the News and Courier [voices: "oh, yes, yes, old 'primary or split'] and that catamount in Columbia (the State) [derisive laughter and cheers] were trying to seduce me. They wanted tc get me away, and if I had chosen to gc with them I would have been a king among the Sheep, but a traitor to the Goats. [Applause and cheers.] I want to say to you that we have but one party in South Carolina, the Democratic party, and we will have peace and unity if these gentlemen will let us. If we are beaten in this fight we will not do as the Haskellites did ,get out of the party and bolt. We have control of the Democratic party. We can enunciate any platform thai we please, and on that platform we will make our fight. The majority must rule in this State and I would prefer to follow you to h-Il than t.o go wvith ~these men to heaven. [Tumultuou! cheering.] Of course I mean this a! merely typical language, a simile with out intending to be irreverent, but ii does mean that I am now with thE farmers of South Carolina, and witi them I expect to die. [Applause,] It 1S90 I did not run on the Alliance plat form, or a sub-treasury platform.] tried my best to make the fight and that the Alliance should not go in as an Alliance. I objected to that al Ridgeway. I have not betrayed a sin gle pledge I ever made. I have neve: tailed to keep a promise, and I defy any man to prove it. I made charge! of corruption, and I found that one officer of t:.e government had embez zled $5,000 within a month after I cami into my office ; that three Count) Treasurers have taken some thousant more, and that there were shortage! (and that is an euphonious word) o about $20,000. Your endorsement, my friends, show me Lhat you realize the objects of thos4 men who are trying to put me off thi plat form which I founded, who are try ing to ride in on the palace car. Bu don't you know that there is a sign or the door of this car that you must no ride on the platform. [Applause; and cheers.] 'These fellows are trying t< ride on it, but I know you will switel them off in September, and in the elec tion I will vouch for it that Orr an< Sheppard will vote the straight Demo cratic ticket. [Applause.] SThe speaker next took up the Coosav case and explained the litigation an< howv it was begun by the company. Hi said there had been a lot of talk abou the people having to pay the fees of thi assistant coun'el but he believed tha Coosaw would eventually have then to pay. He said that if hehad not mad the fight the newspapers would hay charged him with neglect of officia duty. He then took up the primar; business and gave his views thbereol substantially as in his interview re cently published in The Register. On the subject of having an organ h said: They say I have an organ. Well Mr. Perry established a paper up hern That is his bnsiness. The Registeri making some people veky sick righ about now, and I think you migb take those two papers. I only have on ,organ and that is between my teeti and if they can prove that I have eve falsified a pledge I am perfectly willin in admit it and go home. Governor Tillman then went into railroad and bank litigation and cited the causes that led to it and present status. Speaking on the f1 pass matter he said. They say I mad mistake. Well, our humble Savio1 the lowly Nazarene, when sometbi of this sert was said repeated "Let h who is without sin among ycu cast t first stone." If Jamnes L. Orr b never ridden (.n :'ree pass or if he - not president of a factory that is woi ing poor men and women thirte hours a day with only forty-five m utes for dinner-[Colonel Orr, int rupting: " 1'hat is not true."] Tillman: Well I am glad but let i say that we have no antagonism capital nor do we wait to oppress It is not our purpose to have one I for a corporation and another the people. We want equal right? all and special privileges for n. Here is a table prepared from offic records of the Railroad Commissioue office: n-.u r opit pr haetae it- up.___ int thoFdealco wih^heobj coc.. . c raiedwhnts said thtCot tTeurhde isut Col. OrI did n mk t s Tilman "Truhcnnvroet v ^ V =Z. o ? c cooo Afersoe urhr palen ovr th pyet o xes, etc. Reer U r+r.t - x.11 to Orr' statement tha te pepl in . '76 hei: t Go0 O to his(tht th assofhns days . unde Chmerlain!" ' 0'' : cusio h sad:"Idsay Ctha w GoI V ,C . - i mn sa ttIa iO race 1H ue thanug ofJ the Baptis abou th avor.N wasvapoilted showedComisi neiher muntnor oppssoveno Yet he instance, I suppose, of Senator Cothran, re- and James L. Orr helped to put that its infamous Radical scoundrel into office ree over a gallant Confederate soldier e a named Williams. ur, Referring to a charge that his admin ng istration had injured the credit of the im State, he said: I have been informed he that Piedmont stock has gone from 140 ad to 110 since James L. Orr became presi ras dent. Now, if, in one short year, he rk- wrecked that property and carried stock en from 144) to 110, in God's name, where in- would he carry the State bonds if he er- were elected Governor? [Laughter and applause.] I am told, too, that he has oe reduced wages there 10 per cent. to Col. Orr, interrupting: "That is not it. true." iw Tillman: "Well, I- thank God that for you have denied it." for Orr: "You are mistaken about the ie. stock." ial Tillman: "Well, H. B. Buist is my rs' authority. But it does not matter; Mr. Buist is responsible for the statement." - About this time the cheering for Till- I man became very loud and continued. The crowd surged upon the stand, taking his hand, congratulating him on his speech and giving him their pledges for continued support. Further speech-making was impossible. The crowd lifted him bodily from the stage and conducted him to his carriage, in which he was driven off rapidly up the street with Sheppard. The crowd dis persed and rapidly followed the proces sion to the hotel, and so ended Till man's Austerlitz in the Piedmont. RESENTS TILL3AN'S TALK. Mr. A. A. Glover, of Edgefleld. a Former Supporter of Governor Tillman, After the Vile Language,tUsed in the Green ville Speech, Renounces his Alle glance to Such a Candi date. To the Editor of The 'News and Cou rier: In yest rday's issue of The News and Courier appeared Governor Till man's speech of Saturday at Greenville. Your Reporter quotes him as saying: "I had rather go to hell with my fol lowers than go to heaven with the other crowd." In the last campa-gn I wasa staunch friend of Governor Tillman and worked hard to have my club endorse him. I have up to yesterday been a warm friend of the Administration, but such language, emanating from the lips of the Chief Executive of this proud and grand old Commonwealth, is unbecom ing, and is a reflection upon the people, and I can no longer support him. A man who under any circumstances could wish togo tosuch a place is unfit to fill any position within the gift of the people, and should by no means be given the cintrol of the Government. Whatever may be said of Mr Shep pard, I cannot for one moment believe that he would face the fair women and children of our State and make use of such language. The love that he bears his wife, the welfare of his children, both in this life and that which is to come, the respect that he has for his fellow-beings, "if nothing else, would keep him from doing so. Such langu age is not only indecent, bit is an outrage upon society, and will tend to demoralize the young men of our coun try. His words, spoken perhaps on the impulse of the moment, will be her alded far and near, and I leave it to him to say what effect it will have. This plan of conducting a campaign might suit the Governor and some of his followers, but I am one, and I know of others, who would not follow him to hell. In fact, if Governor Tillman should start on such a journey, when he gets there I am afraid his followers would be few. Now, Mr. Editor, in conclusion, I wish to urge those who have the love and welfare of our State at heart, those - who wish to rid the State of all that is his immoral and impure, to unite, and at till- the primary in August give their un vas divided support to Governor Sheppard, :e a man loved by his countrymen. ges A. A. G LOVE R. pa- Edgefield, April 19. ng Death of Dr. Rt. W. Bates. id- [Special to the News and Courier.] cy ST. MATTHEW'S, April 21.-Dr. B. Wn X. Bates, father of State Treasurer to Bates, an old and highly respected citi as zen of this place, died to-night at 6 3rr o'clock after a protracted illness. Dr. R. WV. Bates was 73 years old and has .te- been a consistent member of the Meth odist Episcopal Church for a number ike of years. He was quite a successful business man. He has a large family connection and quite a number of warm ten friends throughout the State, who will deeply regret his death. His body will nbe interred at the M. E. Church to ormorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. au--_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Lt- Women Who Die Early. tor Many of our most beautiful and ac *for complished ludies die before they have ing reached the prime of life. Of_ those ere who live to middle age only one in two 'ere hundred is sound ; tbe other one hun mdred and ninety-nine are sufferers. meWhy is it ? Self-neglect. The shat *o- tered health can be restored ; the home ais- made happy, and your life lengthened ica if you commence at once. "Rose Buzds" have been used for 20 years in the private practice of one of li- .e most eminent physicians of Paris, en and the following diseases and their un- distressing symptoms yield to them elike magic : Ulceration, Congestion he-and Falling of the Womb, Ovarian du- Tumors, Dropsy of the WVomb. Bear )hn lng Down Pains, Rupture at Child s T birth and 31iscarriages. One package tof "Rose Buda' will make a new ard woman of you. ad (Leucorrhea or Whites are generally .bat cured by one application.) Price per son package (one month's treatment) $1.00 rsent by mail post paid, securely packed. nrTHE LEvERETTE SPECIFIC Co., 339 TEACHERS' COLUMN. TuoS. W. KEITT, Editor. Importance of Decimalo. At our recent school meeting, we have had decimal and common frac tions ably discussed. To children, the name of fractions seems to be a syno nym of all that is difficult, but by the present system of teaching, some of the intricacies are partially removed. Why so much more attention is given to common than decimal fractions we can not tell, but the arithmetic seems to call more attention to the former than the latter. When a child, we never understood the significance of a decimal point, though we had some fine mathematical teachers. In our own first teaching if we had been rigidly examined on deci mals we would have gone whirling to the foot of the list. Now, we think that our teachers are, by examinations and by intercourse with each other, able to do better work than they were thirty-five years ago. The demand is greater, hence, the supply must cer tainly be greater. As we have said, we think, teaching better, but think we are making quite a mistake in having so much attention to common fractions and so little to decimals. In practical life halfs, fourths and eighths areabout the only common fractions used, and these are easily managed. In banking, railroading, simple interest, etc., deci mals are almost entirely used, and this is why we contend for more familiarity with them. Children should be taught to notate and numerate decimals well. Many who are far advanced in arith metic will often err in a simple interest, or any other percentage example by notating the per cent. wrong. Again if you speak of gaining one half it seems plain, but if you say 50 per cent., the pupil seems to beat aloss to understand the expression. We think decimals harder to understand than common fractions, but if the analysis cannot be satisfactory to the young mind, we believe that the prin ciples can be so soundly impressed !: the mechanical process,being thorough ly practiced, that they will be retained until the mind is sufficiently developed to take in the whole. We like analysis, but must admit that by us there has been many a bit of knowledge learned which has been of incalculable'value in our life work. J. A. L. A Correction. The correspondent of The Herald News, who reported the Association meeting at Johnstone's Academy, cer tainly misapprehended our remarks, on "The necessity of reading the Bible in school." I did.not and do unt hold that the "classes should read much," but I did and do hold that the Bible should be used in the opening exercises of schools, and fundamentai truths should be impressed upon the children. This I conceive to be our duty not only as Christians, but as educators. T. W. K. Programme of Teachers' Association. :The importance of thorough prepara tory work in our common schools. Dr. Holland. Should teachers' certificates of qaali fication be granted on diplomas? 3. T. Boozer. Should we attenmpt to teach the higher branches (Latin, Algebra, etc.) in our public schools? Miss Ella Sheldon. Association will meet at Newberry on the 2nd Saturday in May. TALK OF FRAUD I LOUISIANA. Foster's Plurality at Least 40,000, but the McEueryltes Dispute the Figures. NEW ORLEANS,-April 20.-The plu rality for Foster, anti-lottery candidate for governor, is no estimated at more than 40,000. He seems to have swept everything before him in the parishes of north Louisiana, particularly the negro parishes, where he gets a nearly unanimous vote. The result is a great surprise to the Republicans, who join with the McEnery Democrats in charg ing fraud and ballot-box stuffing. The McEnery strength seems to have shrunk greatly since the Democratic primary of last month and the Repub lican party to have completely and sud denly disappeared in that section of the State North of Red River. Foster car ries every parish there but one. The People's party polled an unexpectedly large vote in the Red River Valley, and Breaux, the candidate of the Custom House Republicans, did better than was expected. The vote indicated to night is: Foster, 86,700; McEnery, 44, 200; Leonard, 48,100. The chief interest now centres on the Legislature, which will have the count ing of the vote for Governor. This has also been carried by the Fosterites, who have 19 out of 36 Senators and 53 out of 101 members of the House. There is is some talk among the McEnery Dem ocrats about contesting the election, calling upon the Secretary of State to refuse to issue certificates to the Foster members elect, and carrying the rpatter before the Legislature. It is also pro posed to carry the matter before Con gress on the ground that there is not a republican form of government in Lou isiana, but on these propositions there is a difference of opinion among the McEnery Democrats, and it is not cer tain yet what policy they will pursue. They will certainly keep up an inde pendent political organization claiming to be the regular Democracy, and will, in every probability, place a separate Democratic electoral ticket in the field this fall. The election of the entire Mcnery or regular Democratic ticket in Nw Orleans is conceded by all.