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ESTABLISHED 1865. N EWBERRYP S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUST189.PIE$50AYR UTTLE NEW AT NEWBERRY. THE CANDIDATES COVER ABOUt THE USUAL GROUND. A Good Siz"d Crowd Greet the Circus Pope and Ellerbe Still Oppose the Dis. pensary Reopensxg. NEWBERRY, July 27.-In a quiet grove a wile from the city, a quiet meeting attended by 1.000 people was, held to-day. All the speeches were tame and there wa, nothing fresh in the entertainment. A portion' of the audience yelled ferociously and con stantly for Tillman and Evans, but it is said that most of these people were Edgefield Dem.,erats. In fact the pres ence of Edgefieldians was noted by Dr. Pope. The Newberry people were uno demonstrative. Probably a majority of the crowd, exclusive of the Edgefleld contingent, were Tillmanites, but it was a toalerably*safe bet that the county will go for Butler. This was the best managed meeting of the campaign. All the arrangements were complete. Izens of marshals weie present.and when an Edgefieldian at one time grew obstreperous the chief of police was after him in a twinkling, but the fellow quieted. The Rev. Mr. Stokes ope"the meet ing by asking the audience to lift their hats while he prayed and to lift their hearts to God. He prayed that the 1 State woulc be saved from anarchy and misrule and declared that men had sinned against God for office and de viated from the truth. Chairman Cole L. Blease congratu lated the audience on its sobriety, and requested both the speakers and the audience to behave with credit to them selves. Roaring Wa!t Whitman let off with . ten-minutes talk. He whooped up Aeform and said taxes would be re duced in the sweet bye and bye. He admitted that the Refawm movement had been slow to reduce salaries,wbich "was a blot that could not be gotten off the escutebeon." Ae then launched out into the very remarkable stat ement I that the worst fault of the movement < was its conciliatory spirit. The Roarer did a song and dance act about the South Carolina College. He accused Mayfield of wearing a -silk belly band" but did not know what that was. Mr. Tom Keitt instead of making a speech simply announced that his home people knew his record and he would .turn over his time to his com petitors. The people of Newberry were sufficiently acquainted with his efforts in the line of education. Superintendent of Education May field took exception tolomeof Roaring Walt's statements and said he would treat his personal remark's with the scorn and contempt they deserved. The Roarersaid he meant nothing per sonal. "Then you withdraw what you said" replied Mayfield. He hoped there would be no repetition of the false charge that he knew nothing about the school question. Mr. Whit Man interjected that he supposed May -eld knew all about it that any other superintendent did. Mr. -Mayfield proceeded to show that Mr. Whitman knew very little as to 1 what he was talking about. Whitman could not extend the school term by the little $30,000 that went to the col lege. Teachers are paid little enough, and everyone ought to know that there were no abuses. He urged that the school districts make a special levy ac cordipg to the new law and run the schools for longer terms. He defended the college and showed that the Re formers were pledged to its support. Gen. Rich.bourg rehearsed his con nection with the Haskell ticket and spoke of his allegiance to Reform, and how he had done the soldierly thing int the Darlington trouble. He challenged , the claims of John Gary Watts to the title of Assistant Adjutant and Inspec tor General. Col. Watts then had his say. Het stated that he was born at Gary's Lane, in Newberry County, and claimed that every one knew of the office of Assist ant Adjutant and Inspector- General. He never had the "audacity and cheek to fly under false colors," and Rich bourg ought to be the last one to inti mate it.' Railroad Commissioner Thomas came forward with some matter. He declared that he had done the work of the rail road commission for tbe p'ast three years, both in the office and in the field. None of the other candidates from old man Sligh down knew anything about railroad matters, and that was why they avoided the issues in their speeches. Since he had been in office * he claimed to have done more for the ~ people than all the other commission ers. He was proud that he had re fused to receive twelve miles of the Charleston, Sumter and Northern :road. He had been outvoted on th;e -whiskey rate. He said no intelligent man oould defend the reduction of the I 'rate. He called thbe Spartanburg dum muy line matter an attempt at black-4 ai ateWilborn followed. He admitted he did not know all about railroads. If the laboring people wanted a. to be- free they would have to grapple with' the corporations. The people might not know anything about Thomn as "differentials." but they knew what was right. Mr. Wilborn suggested thatt it was an easy thing for the roads to do some hood-w inking in the Legislature in the election of comm iissioners, while the people could not be fooled now, as the election was left to them. He de clared he could not understand why 1 the rate on melons was so high in pro portion to meat. Candidate "Pony" Yeldell believed he could make as good a commissioner as Thomas, and he wanted to be elected to carry out the principles of Reform. He did not have a lazy bone in him, and he thought he could learn all that was necessary to do the right thing. He jumped on the commission for its rapid .transit inspections Candidate J. Walter Gray declared he was surprised at the tone of sonic of the speeches and the insinuations.of incompetency, which he thought in dicated symptoms of de-magognery rather than an evidence of modesty.4 He wanted to be the legal counsel of the I board. He was a lawyer, and the board needed a lawyer badly. Common sense was more needed than special require ments. Mr. Jasper Miller annc unced his can didacy for railroad co,mmissioner, anid said if he were elected. that be would see tbat freight rates were reduced on all farm products in keeping with the de-cin? in silver; that silver had been demon&tized anid that cotton was sell-1 ing at 6 to 6 1:2cents as aresult of it,: and that freight rates were as high as when cotton was selling at 10 to 11 cents; that there was no reason why the rates should not be reduced in] keeping with the decline in silver and1 the enhanced value of money, and if elected he would keep rates down until1 silver was restored to its monetary, ~position. The bos ng a little song when John Gary Evans craned his neck out of his long Prince Albert and began a smooth liscourse, which rippled along charm ingly. He discussed national politics. t,e was glad that the dispensary would be opened in August, and that a Gov rnor would be there with nerve enough to enforce it in spite of some weak tneed men without backbone to stand ap to it.- He would enforce the dis ;ensary law if elected Governor. The crowd began to manitest signs of ritality and shouting. "That's right! rhat's right!" was the wise observatiori which one of the brethren uttered at ;he rate of thirty revolutions a minute. Evans advised his fellow-citizens to vote for the Convention. "If I am jovernor, by the grace of God, I shall iee that you control your public schools md not the Digger." Mr. Evans next ipread himself over his dispensary ar tument. and was frequently applauded. Ele explained the methods of man ifacturiug blind tiger whiskey, and :egged the crowd: "Don't think I am mn old soak,.or ever sold w1fiskey, for 3od knows I never did!" "TILLMAN'S LIQUOR." The crowd was plainly in love with ;he dispensary, and showered compli ments upimn it. One chap hollered, ,Hurrah. for Tillman's liquor!" Evans said "be wanted to touch on a ew more points, but his time was up." Voices: "Tell it! Tell it!" ' Evans took a hand primary on the >pening of the dispensary. Of course ,be dispensary was unanimously sus ainea. Evans' temperance lecture was great y enjoyed, and he was loudly ap >lauded. THE DOCTOR AT HOME. Dr. Pope was introduced and a strict ,ood middling cheer welcomed him. A iumber of men shouted, "Hurrah for Pope!" and others, "That's the man!" Dr. Pope was glad to meet his own )eople. He had never been ashamed >f a vote he cast in the Legislature. Eie reviewed the achievements of the Reform movement. There was one luestion of burning interest to the peo )Ie which he would handle with gloves >ff-the dispensary system. Reopened t, will cause trouble. It would cause trouble until the act >f '93 was passed upon by the Supreme 'ourt. (Cheers for Tillman.) Pope: ' I say 'Hurrah for Tillman,' ,oo, but he is human and can make 3iistakes. I say 'o his face that he has made a mistkke in this instance. A bunch of boysshouted for Tillan. Dr. Pope: "I am glad to see Edge leld here, but I hope they will let me Po on.". Dr. Pope complimented the Conser -atives on their course in the campaign n merely asking for the privilege of roting for one of the four Reform can lidates. He painted the evils which would come from a division of the peo )le and the possible bringing in of the iegro. He reiterated his determination o go into the general Democratic pri naries, and a rustic seer said. "You re going to ger left." Dr. Pope was liberally cheered, and one man cried, "Hurrah for Coly Blease!" Dr. Pope talked like a man, and itraight to the point. HIS CUSrOMARY DISCOURSE. Col. Tindal was introduced, and de ivered his usual speech in his usual >retty style. He was very kind in his xpressions of Gen. George Washing on, whose patriotism be highly com neuded. He predicted that the strife n the State must either get better or vors'e. "Don't let it be worse on ac ount of any unfairness in our ranks." Speaking of the dispensary, Col. Tin lal said that he "wouldn't be Gover ior until December," and would not liscuss its opening in August. He hought that tne whiskey question hould be discussed with reason. Col. Tindal received a few cheers. Gen. Ellerbe was introduced in the nidst of a clammy quietude. His broat was sore from the Orangebur~g bower and he "could say very little." le said a good deal all the same. He alled on Alliancemen to stand to their ~rganization and vote only for men in ymipathy with their demands. He avored the dispensary law, and >ledged himself to abide by the result f.the August convention. He warned be people against fraud. He said the nasses of the people, wherever he had >een in the camoaign, and favored bim >ecause they w...ted a farmer. The silence continued, except that ine man said "1 am with you.' Mr. Eller be expressed himself as dif 'ering with the Governor as to the pening of the dispensaries in August, Ld asserted that any one who said hat he bad "dickered or traded with he Antis" ut tered an "infamous lie." le was a Reformer, he was. The peo >le wanted him, but the politicians in early every county were at work for tis frieqd Evans. He attacked Evans' -ecord as usual, and when he closed a nan whistled. John R. Harrison, a candidate for secretary of State, whbo has a kindly, >leasant face, announced his candi lacy. "Old Spartinbug Hill" took the floor Lnd compared something to the leaves >f "Vallambrosia." Hill got a large :beer. Cole. Blease begg~ed for good order Lnd introduced Tillmnan whbo, strange o say, was [AILED WITH CORDIAL YELLS. He alluded to the "parrot and mon sey" time of the meeting two years igo, and congratulated the neople on heir improved manners. He- was 3ere to ask that he be sent to the Sen ite. "We'll do it-we'll do it!" were the avish promises with which the crowd -espondd. "Well why?" said Tillman. "Cause you'se been true," answered Sman. "I thank you," said the Governor. 'It's because I h'ave not come before ~ou with smirks and smiles and told rou lies." The risible organs of thbe crowd were iere subjected to a terrible strain, wbich was renewed when the speaker eerred to the "News and Courier and tber me-L,o fice-dog gold-bug news apers." At this p'oint a boy with a kodak iht at the G3overnor. Tillman discussed Cleveland and lotgress rather harshly and delighted is bearers. "If Cleveland is to set le pace for Democracy anid I am isked to suck his sootbing syrup, mug .umpery lies, I boldly proclaim I am aot a Democrat." He reiterated bis suggestion about a iion with the West, and said that some of those slaves in the Senate had urned against their boss since the Wilson letter. (Cheers and a medley f amusing comments ) It was be ieved that Cleveland was interested in he Nova Scotia Coal Company, and ws iherefore in favor of frte raw mia :erial. The People's party was full of yranks, but it contained many true en. He claimed to be a statesman 'h is ini the habit of claiming a good deal) and not a "howdy-do, lying poli tician." He was against womian suf frage, for the women already boss us at home. (Explosive merriment and cheers.) He opposed the sub-treasury and railroad control schemes. It took 244 electoral votes to e!ect a Presideat. Voice: "Uive us a baud primary." Tillman: "I can't elect Presidents with hand primaries." (Which, 'by the way, is true. Laughter and cheers.) The discussion of the sub-treasury had brought to light the fact that its principle was the same as that of na tional banks. It meant special priv ileges. He opposed the sub-treasury because it was unwise and impractica ble. His platform was free silver and greenbacks-not silver or gold certifi cates, but greenbacks issued direct. DOES HE NOW STRADDLE? After winning the fight on these lines he would be willing to support the sub-treasury if nothing better was offered. Candidates for the Legisla ture should be made to pledge them selves to vote for Ben Tillman. Drum mers and others were spreading litera ture in the country and seeing bow many votes could be bought in thp pri maries. Then Wall street would try to buy legislators to vote for Butler and somebody else. He did not think Butler was "in it." He closed by tell ing his bearers that he loved them, which evoked tremendous cheering. Mr. Blease now introduced Gen. Butler. A tolerably lively cheer followed. Mr. Blease stated that it had been circulated in Newberry County that he bad -pledged himself to Butler. Would the General do him the kind ness to say if it was true. Gen. Butler answered, "Not that I am aware of." Gen. Butler said that - he was not asking candidates anywhere to pledge themselves to him. Greater issues even than the election of a Senator were involved in electing a Legislature and he was -willing to trust his chances to good men elected by the people on their merits. "The charge has been made that I am~not n touch with the people and Tillman says I am not 'in it.' Sheri dan found out that I was in it at Tre villian's, Gregg knew I was in it at Sa maria, and Kirkpatrick knew It when I drove him from his camp in his night clothes. (Cries: "I was there." "I was too," and cheers.) When my services were needed in '76 there was no complaint then that. I was not a man of the people. I have been in twenty-three counties with the Gov ernor, and not one faw has been found in my record." He had voted for free silver before Tillman had ever been heard of in public life. He would leave Tillman and the Alliance to settle their quarrels between themselves, but the Alliance was the best organization of farmers ever devised. He pleaded that the people would not divide, and warned them, of the danger of the negro coming in as an arbiter. He had been in one Congres sional district where he had heard that the members of one faction declared that -they would vote for the Congres sional candidate of the Republicans rather than the candidate of the other faction. Illustrating by this, he urged that division and strife be avoided, be cause with the likelihood of a Republi can majority in the next House, Re publicans in all doubtful cases would be seated. Senator Butler was applauded when he concluded. SIGNs OF A BREAK. Pope and Ellerbe Oppose Governor Til man's Wishes und Plans-Alliance men Are After the Governor Toe. CoLUmIA, S. C. July 25.-The Rich land county campaign nieeting to-day was held at the Shandon pavilion just outside the city limits and the eastern terminus of the electric railroad. Seven hundred people, at least five hundred of whom were countrymen and Till manites, were present. The city peo pIe took absolutely no interest in the affair and stayed at home. The meet ing was lively and eventful. ft was one of the drun;kest and noisiest crowds ever seen in these parts, but not a dan gerous one. It is a question whether there was a disposition to bowl down the Governor. His opponents insist that the noise at the commencement of his speech was made by his own drunken friends, who intended the demonstration as a compliment, but were too drunk to know when to quit and that Tillman seized upon~ the in cident to use as political capital in the country hereafter. The first cheer which greeted the Governor when he arose was from his adherents, but it is certain that slight hissing followed it. Then the howls became general and it is probable that the lung power of both sides was exerted to its utmost for five minutes. Butler undoubtedly made friends by the determined way in which he reduced the turmoil to quiet. Ellerbe showed up again in great shape as a rebel. No man could spank him with impunity, he said, referring to Tillman's remark of yesterday and he intimated very plainl3 that the Governor sho.uld mind his own busi ness. Dr. Pope was even more recalcitrant. His declaration that he would carry his candidacy before the whole people of the State is construed as amounting to a kick clear out of thbe reform organiza tion. Both be and Ellerbe trounced Tillman roundly for his proposed re opening of the dispensaries. Altogether, it now appears that the Reform move ment has been torn asunder and there seems little hope of closing the breach. Tillmnan and Evans are arrayed upon one side and Ellerbe, Pope and Tindal are allied powers unfriendly to them. But so far the former combination is without doubt far in the lead. TILE-MAN SAT DOWN. When the Governor arose he was greeted with prolonged cheers, followed by two or three hisses. Whben he com menced to speak hisses continued and at the same moment thbere were more cheers. Tillman. mtimated that there w as a 1.ig reception committee and no tody to keep order. This Chairman Ray ininul resented. The cheers be cam astedyhowl and the Governor declared unless he was listened to be would sit down. The uproar went on. "I don't care three straws to speak," said Governor Tillman crabbedly, and then sat down. Senator Butler came forward and the howling was redoubled. Above the din the Senator commanded quiet. The chairman again tried to quell the disturbance. Then Gteneral Butler be came aroused. Be denounced the howlers as acting like damned savages." "It's an outrage," he exclaimed, "for you mean to act in this way I give you notice now that unless you hear Till man I won't speak." The shriekers apparently were cowed by the senator's sern rebuke and slowly the tumult seats. I am nt afraid of any straight Alliance candidate. If they want to trot out a sub*treasury dark horse, let him meet me. I will run him to death, or I am a nigger. [Loud applause] DANGERS OF DIVISION. "If the Alliance, through its leaders, undertake s to be false and puts that yardstick on you tbe people will resent it. It simply means that I can't be elected. It means division in the Alliance, and between these two divisions and other Reformersof the State our enemies will laugh and snicker and trot out a candidate. I am not going to fight tbe Alliance. I ain't built that way. I claim to represent its true principles. But for mue you would to-day have a Third party in South Carolina and your Alliance would be beaten as it was in other Southern States." The Governor warned his audience that if straight Alliance candidates ft-r the Legislature are put in the field the Haskellites and Conservatives will vote for them simply because they hate him and he declared that if they wanted him to go to the Senate they must ask each candidate if he was going to voted for Tillman. The Gov ernor declared that the extreme Alli ance haters, in case the Alliance tickets are put in the field, will be found vot Ing for this ultra sub-treasury plan. Amalgamation of the Alliance and the Haskellites would be like that of pro hibitionists and whiskey people, that is seen in this State-children of dark ness uniting to serve the devil. Gov ernor Tillman declared that half a million dollars would be spent by Wall street and the whiskey people to pre vent him from going to the Senate. JUMPED ON ELLERBE. The Governor pitched into Ellerbe for his statement at the Columbia meeting yesterday that the Governor had not consulted him concerning the re-opening of the dispensaries. He de clared that Ellerbe misconceived his powers and duties as a member of the State board of control if he thought he (Tillman) was going to consult him on that question. "His duty," said the Governor, "is to help control the dis penskary while it is running. He has nothing to do with enforcing the law. That is my duty as Governor. He criticises me for not waiting until the Supreme Court passes on the act of 1892. I would like to know if I did not revive the law and put It to work again how could the court get hold of it?" Ellerbe suggested that it could be done by making up a case and asking for a special session of the court, as was done in the bond case recently. The governor began to make some remarks about Ellerbe whining because he had not been consulted, when Ellerbe in terrupted him with the statement: "Tell the truth,governor. I said you did not call the board together, and I just wanted to put the responsibility for opening it where it belongs." WILLING TO ASSUME IT. "Thank God," replied the governer. "you have a governor who ib willing to assume the whole responsibility. I could have gotten out of this if I had wanted to play the politician, but we have a debt for whisky, which we bought on credit and I want it paid." There was so much applause at these remarks that the governor said he had a mind t turn loose the dispensaries to-day. He larruped the Supreme Court for walking up the streets of Columbia and seeing a czen barrooms open and doirg nothing about it. EIt-rhe-Governor, tell us why you closed the dispensary i You ought to be impeached for it. TIhe governor said he was afraid the Supreme Court would have made him do so, and he did not care to be ordered about by any one. -The court let the act of 1893 alone, and- as soon as it ad journed he decided he would open again.* Ellerbe-Did not Attorney General Buchanan advise you against it? Tillman-No. Ellerbe-I heard he did. Tillman-Well, he was a little weak backed like you, and he wanted to wait till after the primary, as he was afraid the people might go back on me. But they haven't gone back on me, and never will. LIFE, HEALTH AND STRENGTH. A PA LACH ICoLA. FL A., Feb 17, 1889. MssRs. LIPP-MAN BRos., savannah, Ga., DEAR s5RS---I will write to inform you that I was afflicted with Blood Disease. I tried one bottle of~ * * and it g4.ve me no relief. I was~ In bed seven months. I tried prominent physicians, and they could not do me any good. I saw your advertisement of P. P. P. in the A palachicola Times, an(i thought I would try it. The bottle I got to-night makes seven or eight, and, oh, how good I feel. I have been up ever since anal at my business, lumn ber inspector, You may publish this if you desire. I have infortied my friends that?P. P. P. is life, health and strength. BL N Sold by all Druggists and generarstores. LPPMA N BROS,,Proprieto s and Dr uggists, Savannah, GJa. DURAN'l, Mxss., Dec. 12, 189,. OFFICE OF .S RosAMOoT. I MSsRo. Lr'SPMAN BROS., Savannah. Ga.: GENTLENEN-While in San Antonio, Texas last spring. 1 saw your advertisement of P. P. P. (Prickly A sh. Pok e Root and Potassium) In the paper for the cure of rheumatism, and thought I would try a bottle. finding such great relief from It. on my return homne I had my druggist, Mr. John M1cclellan to order me a supply. Aft*r taking, I think ten bottles, I have not had a pain or ache since, previous to that I suirered for t wenty-five (25) years, and could not get the least benefit until I tried P. P. P.. and therefore, take pleasure in recommending it toall. Yours truly. J. S. ROSAMOND. Civility to a Patron. [Texas Siftings. One rainy day last week Jones, being in a hurry to get home, took a street car. There was a big erack in the roof of thbe car through which the rain fell and ran do~wn the bacit of his neck, so he asked the urbane conductor: "What's the matter with this car? Does it do this way always?" "No, sir, only when its rains." A Grand Feature. Of Hood's Sarsaparilla is that while it purified the blood and sends it coursing through the veins full of richness and health, it also imparts new life and vigor to every function of the body. Hence the expression so often heard: "Hood's Sarsaparilla made a new per. son of me." It overcomes that tired feeling so common now. Hood's Pills are purely vegetable, perfectly harmless, always reliable and beneficial, Where to Look for a Bull Dog's Smile. The architect of the universe planned wisely. If a dog did not laugh with his tail his meaning would be misunder stood when he showed his teeth. What causes bad dreams is a ques tion that has never been satisfactorily answered; but, in nine cases out of ten, frightful dreams are the result of im perfect digestion, whbich a few doses of of Ayer's Sarsaparilla will eff'ectually remedy. n' delay--try it to-day. Governor Tilman continued mis speech in an invective against Cleve land and Wall street. Richland, he said, was one of the five counties w bich had cut themselves off from the re mainder of the State, and if her people insisted upon going to the devil be could not help it. BAD BEHAVIOR BY THE CROWD. General Butler said in his speech that he had been criticised harsbly right here in Columbia by conservatives. It was the right of the people to criticise him, but be was not responsible for those who had been or had not been appointed to federal offices. Those who had been disappointed and who visited their disappointment on him were sim ply unjust. Almost throughout his entire speech General Butler was interrupted by a dark-skinned Tillmanite reeking with liquor, who was on the stand, and, strange to say, he was allowed to keep it up without let or- hindrance. Secre tary of State Tindall said there was great anxiety all over the State as to whether there was going to be fair play in the race (Voice: "It's all right down in our country. Here's the man," slapping John - Gary Evans on the back.)* "Governor Tillman characterized my plan as a double, back-action affair. I tell you it is a straightforward plan. It is none of his business. We are fight ing this battle and we don't get office from Governor Tillman. We get it from the people,~and what we want to know is what you have to say about this matter. That is of vastly more consequence to me." Comptroller Ellerbe than began to beard the lion in his den in this man ner: "I am no hero worshiper. At Wins boro Governor Tillman said be was going to give me a little spanking be cause I bad happened to differ with him. I want to say to the Governor and to the people, that the man who undertakes to spank me will get the worst spanking he ever had. (Ap plause.) I am as good a Reformer as Governor Tillman or any man. Gover nor Tillman is a candidate for the Sen ate. Let him run his campaign and we will run ours. When I want an advisory attorney, I will notify him. I am free, white and twenty-one, and whenever Johnny Evans gets too big for his breeches, I am going to spank him." ELLERBE SAYS IT WAS A BLUNDER. Ellerbe declared that Governor Till man had made a great blunder in issu ing the proclamation to open the dis pensaries. The sentiment of the people was against opening them. "I am a member of the State board of control, and I have never been consulted on this matter. If I had been, I would have told the Governor that it was a mistake, and I would have voted against it." Then came John Gary Evan.s. He thought the dispensary law was the best ever devised, and if Ellerbe was allowed to tinker with it, be would ruin it. "It's good for your bellies," said he. "They will last ten years' longer than if you had barrooms." "On the 1st of August," said he, "you will have the dispensary despite the action of the board of control to the contrary." Dr. Sampson Pope, Reform candi date for Governor, made a notanle speech. "I am a law-abiding man, and intend to obey the decisions of the Supreme Court of the State. That Court has paseed upon the dispensary act of 1892. In pursuance of that Gov ernor Tiliman had the dispensaries closed. Under action 2, it is left, not to Governor Tillman to manage the dis pensary but to the board of control, and, in my judgment, it cannot be opened without two of those gentle men sanctioning it. I am opposed to opening it, though I1 favor tha law. I am a peace-loving citizen, and I had rather see peace in this State than any other thing. [Loud applause ] I think that to open the dispensary again will simply turn loose the flood gates of the devil upon the people and 'cause the spilling of blood. It will cause men to resist the officers of the law. God grant that it will be averted." Dr. Pope then got down to business. "I askedithe committee," said he, "to rescind the order for the convention. I did so because the Conservatives put out no ticket. 1 belIeve they were in earnest. When Larry Gantt went home after the committee refused to grant my. request, he stuck a rooster at the head of his paper a)nd declared that it was a victory for John Gary Evans. As soon as I saw that I saw that the Gerdian knot should be cut, and I thank God I have the courage to cut it. I will tell you I will not go before the convention, but I will submit my claims to a general primary of the Democratic party. [Applause.J I be lieve in tlhrowing out the olivE branch and allowing the Conseivatives to vote for whichever Reform candidate they choose, and then no matter who is elected, I shall roll up my sleeves and work for his success in November." FINDS FAULTS WITHi TILLMAN. Elerbe Keeps After the Governor About Opening the Dispensary-It Will Never Do0, the Governor Says, for the Re from Party to Splt. ORANGEBURG, S. C., July 26.-This was an interesting day with the cam paigners it was made notable by sparring between Ellerbe and Gover nor Tillman and the latter's remarks concerning the dispensary and the de termination of the State Alliance to apply the yardstick to Senatorial and Legislative candidates. The Governor declared that the Alliance could run a hundred men, but he would beat the whole business and, judging from the crowd that faced him to-day, he is about right. There were 1,800 people present, and they cheered him on everything he said. and when he took a hand primary on whether they would vote for him against any candidate the Alliance might bring out, he got all the votes and the Alliance none. Elerbe, one of the gubernatorial candi dtes, bucked the Governor and de clared he ought to be imneached, but it looked very much as if Ellerbs was butting a stone wall. The crowd was impatient to hear Tillman and Evans, and did not take much stoek in any body else. In meeting the Alliance proposition to put out a candidate that stood on all fours on its platform, the Governor said it was idiocy in politics at this time. "I know what all this mean," he said. "Some men in Sonth Carolina have had daggers up their sleeves for me since 1891. They want to pull me down in your affections and get bigher plces. They propose either to make me eat my words or run in another man. They can run in a hundred men if they want to, hut I will never eat myv words. I am neither a muoral nor a pbysical coward. If you believe I am capable of leading you, you have got to mak some of these people to take backI For The Herald and News. Cardinai Wolsey. The subject of this sketch was a p)riest-politician whose humble origin, future rise, brilliant career and sad downfall have been fruitful subjects for the biographer, the historian, and the dramatist, for near four hundred years. Thomas Wolsey was the son of a butcher, and was born in 1471, twenty years before King Henry the Eighth, during whose reign "be became a power behind the throne greater than the throne itself." He was educated class ically and theologically at Magdalen College, Oxford, and took holy orders in the year 1500 at the age of twenty nine. He became an bumble parish priest for a short time at Lymington, whence he was made ebaplain to the household of the Archbishop of Can terbury, at whose death he was given the same office to the household of the Governor of Calais. The Governor recommended him to King Henry the Seventh, who appointed him chaplain in his family. The king discovered in Wolsey an aptitude for State affairs and he soon sent him on a delicate and grave mission to Maximilian at Brus sels. He entered upon this work so promptly-and so adroitly that he had it accomplished, and reported in per son to the king within three days from the date of hisappointment. The king was so surprised and defigbted with this evidence of Wolsey's state craft that he at once rewarded him with the deanery of Lincoln. On the death of Henry Seventh, which occurred soon after, Henry Eighth, at the immature age of eighteen, ascended the throne. Wolsey had immediate adcess to the gay and festive young prince who soon found the prelate "a bale fellow well met" in telds of pleasure, and a most capable adviser in grave matters of ,State. He was, at a bound, the first man in Henry's esteem, and in a short time, his prime minister and master. He was to Henry what Richelieu, a short time after, was to Louis Thir teenth of France. The king showered honors and emolumen s upon him in rapid succession, aud the church vied with the king in bestowing her favors. Bishopricks and archbishopricks, grand official sinecures, with vast incomes, one after another, were bestowed, and to crown all, Pope Leo X. adorned his head with a cardinal's cap. Before his day, no such favorite had ever appeared in England. His salaries from his va rious offices began to to equal the emol uments of the king, and his style of living was as grand as his wealth was great. With eight hundred servants to do his Lidding-with houses fur nished after the manner of oriental kings-cupboards and tables dazzling the eye with vessels of purest gold-he rivalled not only the king of England, but "Solomon in his glory." But the end was coming. Be bad caused the death of Buckingham. He had quickened the king's conscience about the Iegality of his marriage with Catharine of Arragon, the pure and royal wife with whom he had lived for more than twenty years. The pope -was asked to annul the marriage, but he hesitated and delayed when "the king's business required haste," as Henry thought. Archbishop Cranmer (a Protesiant (?) did what the pope de layed to do. He divorced Henry from Catharine, and Henry with indecent baste, married Anne Boleyn, in one re spect none too soon. This was gaul to Wolsey. His scheme was to have Henry marry a French princess, hop ing thereby to further his cherished purpose of reaebing the papal chair tbe goal of his ambition. But Anne had now the ear ouf the king, and she was not slow in filling it with her dis like for Wolsey's character. Simulta neously, others helpec to open Henry's eyes to his duplicity and shocking! abuse of power. Henry's love quickly turned to anger, and in his wrath he degraded Wolsey frsm office. Most of his estates were forfeited and being ar raigned for treason, he died broken hearted before his trial .came oft. Among his last utterances were these: "Had I but served my God as dili gently as I have served my king, he would not have given me over in my gay hairs." Wolsey's career and down fall are replete with instruction. The great lesson is. that ecclesiastics in charge should steer clear of politics. 1. Their ordination vows require their undivided attention to the spirit ual interests of their parishioners. 2 Political diversion, in the way of office seeking, unfits for the pulpit'or pastoral work. It is exciting, de moralizing and degrading to the pastor, filling his mind with political themes and schemes to the suppression of religious truth and purposes, and the heart with love of worldly promotion at the risk of losing heaven,. 3. It is connected with practices di rectly and positively immoral. brink ing, drunkenness, profanity, and ini rigue are the common accomplish ments of canvass for votes, and the parson candidate dare not reprove them lest he alienate some of his friends and helpers. 4. It tends to develop that worst of human traits-duplicify-being one thing, and seeming anotber, or, as the common people expi;ess it, "carrying water on two shoulders." Pilate was a type of this character. He was con vinced that Jesus was innocent, and wanted to release him. But the mob cried "crucify him," and he yielded to te mob. Duplicity studiously carried on for twenty years enabled Wolsey to manage Henry Eighth so adroitly dur ing these years, that Wolsey practically reigned. w hile Henry was little more than a figure head. A man, all things to all men, to gain them to himself, habitually plays false,and will ere long lose all conscientious scruples. 5'. It necessitates framing Excuses that do not stand the test of the moral probe. The pastor of a pauisb, if he is in active politics, will be asked by his parisioners and other people, how he was led into this channel. Instead of saying, "I am fond of office, and love it for glory as well as gain," he will say, "Bro. --, a warm personal friend, asked me to run, so as to stop crruption and incompetency in the Legislature. I consulted with otber brethren. and they advised in the same direction." These same brethren meeting say to each other, "What do you think about our pastor being a candidate for office?' "WVell," says one, "I am opposed to it, but he wants to run, and I don't want to cross his will." "That is my fix," says another, and another, and another. The par isbioners, with one accord in private, oppose his candidacy, but do not want to wound his feelings by telling him to his face. In this way he runs ostensi bly at the advice of his nearest pa:-ish ioners, but really agaiinst their own sense of propriety. When Gen. Lee was asked about the Pickett ebarge at Gettysburg, he replied without pre vgrication, "I ordered it-blame me." There was no subterfuge in that an swer. It came from a brave, grand, and true man, who was unwilling that any one else should be responsible for 6. It fosters worldly ambition. There is a laudable ambition, but this does not consist in striving after worldly distinction to the discredit of the sa cred office, which is the most impor tant ever held by man. Worldly am bition is the sin by which angels fell. It is the sia which ever grasps, but never has enough. Wolsey lirted from his humble parish to a chaplaincy, and to another and another, was no more satisfied as Henry's prime minister, and with a cardinal's cap, than when he obtained his first promotion, wbir-h sharpened his thirst for others, all in tended by him as stepping stones to the papal chair' which, aftr all, he did not reach. A seat in the Lgislature sharpens the desire for Congress, the governorship, and the presidency. Gen. Ja;kson when President was be sought by a clergyman for an office. He listened patiently to the applijant's plea, and then said. "My dear friend, you already hold a greater office than any in my gift. Stick to that." CONGAREE. sm The Gubernatorial Contest. USpecial to the Register.] AIKEN, S. C., July 26.-After the adjournment of the Alliance to-day and while the members were exchang ing congratulations and good-byes a vote was polled as to the sentiment among those present as to the guber natorial candidates. and it was ascer tained that out of forty-eight delegates, officers and committeemen, forty-two were for Ellerbe and six for Evans. .SIGNS OF THE TIMES. fSpecial to News and Courier.1 COTUMIA, July 27.-Figure this out. Does it mean anything? Within the past thirty-six hours Candidate Ellerbe has critieised Governor Tillman for re opening the dispensaries at this time. Dr. Sampson Pope has abandoned the Reform Convention and appealed di rectly to the primary. The official or gan of the Administration has dared to differ with Governor Tillman as to reopening the dispensaries. The Alli ance has decreed that only such as en dorse "each and every Alliance de mand" are wanted. The fun has be gun. Would all the Reformers have dared to do four years ago what has been done in the past thirty-six hours? Decision on Mortgage Liens. [Greenville News, 24th.] Judge Gary gave a decision last week in the case of S. B. Hutchings which has caused some talk among the law yers. The defendant had given W. W. Burgess a mortgage for several hundred dollars on a quantity of yarn. Before the mortgage was due, he paid nearly half of the amount it called for. After that he paid. no more and he sold the yarns covered by the mortgage. He was indicted for disposing of properity under mortgage. The judge decided that the acceptance of the partial pay ment destroyed the operation of the lien and that the prosecutor was with out remedy. The defendant was dis charged. This ruling follows the decision of the Supreme Court in the Summers and Kelly case, last report. It makes it Impossible for creditors secured by chatted mortgages to accept. partial payments on their papers. .Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers is the best, handiest, safest, surest, most economical and satisfactory dye ever invented. It is the gentlemen's favorite. The "Foi-i-tI-cian-er." He loves you well, it is no jest, And loves you all the year, Buzt then he really loves you best When voting time is near. Beneath the sbade of some large tree. Remote from city fuss, He loves to bear you holler, G-e-e! And also hear you "cuss." With calm content he watches now The cotton blooming round; Of course explaining why and how .It sells at live per pound. Sometimes a graceful man is he, Though often like a tub, Result of being too darn free With good old country grub. The man of whom I speak, kind friends, And in hard terms refer, Is he whom satan always tends: The "pol-i-ti-cian-er." While thus I talk, I do not wot But that it may occur - To some, the reader, I'm not A "pol-i-ti-cian-er!" -Creight Cloyd, in A tlanta Constitution. How Sandwiches Got Their Name. It came about in this way: The Earl of Sandwich, a prominer,t En glish nobleman of the last century, was a notorious gambler, having such a passion for this sport that he would not leave the gaming table, even for his meals, but satisfied his hunger with slices of bread and meat, which he car ried with him in a little basket, when ever he started from home to visit the gamiing halls. This pracbice finally be came so w"ll known that lunches pre pared in that way were called sand wiches. Frozen Watermelon. Cut a watermelon into long strips. Remove the seed and cut off the green rind. Now cut the pieces of melon in to two-inches square. Place these in a freezer and pack iu salt and -iee. Let the fruit stand for about an hour, as it is not to be frozen solid. Serve heaped in a glass dish. The pieces of melon may be sprinkled with sugar and wine when they are put in the freezer. State Campaign Days. Spartanburg, Wednesday. August 1. Greenvi'le, Thursday, August 2. Pickens C. H., Friday, August 3. Oconee, Monday, August 6. Anderson, Tuesday, Ausust '7.. Abbeville, Wednesday, August 8. Cordiality. A Vermont wedding invitation hit the bull's-eye of fact. It read. "Your presents is requested." Terms. [Detroit Tribune. Omaha Coxeyite-A ny baggagel? Boston Coxeyite-If you mean lugg age, no. "Mamma, was that a sugar-plum you just gave me?" asked little Mabel. "No, dear, .it was one of Dr. Ayer's Pills." "Please, may Ihave another?" "Not now, dear; one of those nice pills is all you need at present, b'ecausei everydose is effective," ,AT AN END -- tie "feinale com i,laints" and weak nesses that make wo man s life a misery. 'lhev're cured, by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre scription. 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