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ESTABLISH ED 1865 _ ___- _-_.= _.. _ NEWBERLRY, S. C., T UESDAY, JULY 6, 1897. T WICE~ A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR IRBY SAYS HE'S IN IT WILL MAKICET1C 19AE TO HALUdd STATE." Crow his Yarn-"lost" Ilook of Veliations, Chapter 1--1roceedi to Disclose Alleged Conutiences. (Special to The State.) Laurens, July 2.--. In response to my request this afternoon for a pos tive statement as to his entering the race for the senate, Ex-Sonator Irby tsaid: "The Democratic party of this State shall have a representative in the race. I shall run as a Democrat c and Reformer. I contributed to the present confusior in politics in South Carolina by my adherence to the Reform movement throughout my administration of six years as chair. man of the party. I was a Simon pure Democrat, as my colleagues among the Reformers will attest. I am farming and would like to ke P out of politics which is not.e, 0 able to me, but Demnor6cy' 1 not. dead iu St h&6iina and it shall a somebody to defend it. It will t be Irby or something better at Sum ter. My plaftorm will be a tariff for revenue only, and the free coin- i age of silver. By way of warning to t the State say that the combination of a Populist Republican cannot be h forced down the throats of the Dem- 0 ocrats- of the State without a protest. r The editor of The State's influence over some governors since 76 is not r: suprising, but when he dictates to the present governor, who was elected as a Reformer, who shall be 8 the senator of the Democrats and e names a Populist and calls him an d available man, there is some surprise. By the way, I suppose he is satisfied c with the position his Populist Re- 0 publican candidate has taken on the a dispeneary bill, as the interview of tl Congressman Latimer in to-day's n State would indicate. Ex-Governor P Evans and I have met in a hotel as A friends and talked as Democrats, 0 but there is no alliance between us; I don't know what Governor Evans f aspires to." Col. Irby further said: d "Gonzales is McLaurin's adopted P dady. I admire Gonzales' ability, ' but his judgement and Democracy I deplore." p The following advance proof sheet I of an article that will appear in P The Cotton Plant today was fur- v nished by Editor W. T. Crews: ' We called attention last week to e our having received the first formal I protest of The Cotton Plant com twocigainst the editorial policy of t *the paper, but owing to its reaching t us too late for our last wveek's issue, f wve were forced to lay it over for t this week. The committee, however, r for reasons best known to themselves, c have seen proper to have such pro- f test, together with the letter address- I ed to ourself, published in the daily papers of the . State. There are < some inaccuraces in the committee's I letter to the public, but we will pass that by for the present, as our main I object is to show that we haven'ti committed an unpardonable sin, but] are rather more sinned against than 1 sinning. The first time we had our I suspicions aroused that some of the I committee at least were not like 4 Caesar's wife, above suspicion, was' when Col. Neal, the chairman of the printing committoe, took us into his] o anfjydence sufficiently to tell us the pl 'ls and policy of the present ad 'nistration in sh.aping the politics o~ the futmie in this State, when lie -plained to us the necessity of forming a new political all,iance with that faction of the Conservatives known as silverites, and led by Edi tor Gonzales of The State; that it was morally certain that there would 1b0 two factions of the Conservatives in future-one known as g'oldbugs, the other known as silverites; that it had already been arranged for the silverites, led by Eiditor Gon,zaleus to *join forces with "our" sido, and as lie represented much the larger fac tion of the Conservatives "we can therefore control the politics of the State without fear of our political enoemies. We expressed much sur p)rise at this strange turn of the po itic becopo, but the colonel, nired us that there was nothing nore certain than that the editor of Phe State and his silver followers iad joined causes with the Reform. rs and would do battle for "our ide' in the next State campaign. Lhis conversation took place a week r two before Senator Earle's death, ud served to put us on our gaurd gainst the political pitfalls which re had reason to believe were being repared for us as the editor of the irmera' organ, and from that time n we were convinced that McLaurin roomers in Columbia and the tate administration were in collu ion with Gonzales and the Haskell e and Pupeite independents to verthrow the Reform movement ndjto strangle Senator Tillman in 4 (0, as we could not conceive how aey could so easily tame the great 4 olitical rip-snorter Gonzales with ut its involving the desertion of ae cardinal principles of Reform nd the cowardly betrayal of Sena )r Tillman into the hands of his itterest enemies. At this time, too, ie Conservatives were patting the tle curly-headed congressman on xe back, and at every cross roads in ie State where there Was a one orse grocery store and a package I Gonzales' free-circulated papers )ad, the Conservatives were telling ie Reformers that they had Tillman ght where they wanted him and lould beat him out sf his boots with [cLaurin in' 1900. All this, we ty, served to make us keep our reB and ears open, although we id not for a moment attempt to de )ive Col. Neal or any member of the )mnittee as to the position we oc ipied towards Tillman, the Alliance nd the Reform movement, as we put iem, and especially Col. Neal, on otice that we did not intend to de art from the original Reform policy.4 ,nd now if, in turning the paper ver to us Col. Neal did so under ie belief that he could toll us away om the ark of political safety or 3ceive us as to the ultimate pur ose of this McLaurin-Gonzales con iracy, he simply took his chances. It was only a short while after this hen we heard that a personal news aper organ, in the interest of Me taurin, would shortly make its ap earance in Columbia, for which enture Senator MeLaurin h'ad very patriotically" dlonated $500, Gov rnor Ellerbe $100, Colonel Neal 200 and Colonel Tompkins $100. Ar. Koester was to be the editor of bis McLaurin organ, and knowing hat he had in the past been the re ox of John L. McLaurin's every bought, look and gesture, we had no eason to doubt the genuineness and guality of the shackles which these allows were assisting Gonzales to orge on confiding Tillmanites and biliancemen until old Ben and the ithor orthodox Reform leaders could io tolled under the political deadfall rhich these conspirators had pro >ared for them. But notwithstand ng Mr. Koester's willingness to sing 4cLaurin's praises there would have >een no need for it had it not been or the fact that the prine:pal part of hat contract with Gonzales' follow rs required the political head of' rillmnan in order to be of full force mdI effect. ~This, these conspirators romised him, but at the same time hey reserved the right to name the nanner in which he should be decap tated-whether publicly executed yofore the populace or secretly stabbed in the back by false friends. Phe latter course was adopted, and so the publication of the Roetrd was resorted to, whose hypocritical mis lion it was to tie McLaurin and Till man together like Siamese twins never praisinlg the one without also praising the other, while the State was to be the chief adulator of Mc Laurin, while at the same time con signing Tillman to the lowest depths of political infamy and demagoguery, anAd is even now importuning the Conservatives to not spoil this pretty little scheme by allowing a Con servative candidate to enter the field. So far, so good. Now comes another feature of the conspiracy. About 10 days before Senator Earle's death we received a letter from Col onel Neal suggesting that we remove The Cotton Plant to Columbia and go in with Koester, the editor of Mc Laurin's personal organ, and now if there is or was any other construe ion to put on their meaning or in tention than that they wanted to use prho Cotton Plant in conjunction 4 wvith the Daily Record to boom Mc Laurin, or that Colonel Neal's mo- i ive was for any other purposo than 4 o use The Cotton Plant for a "par- ] ,isan" motive we will dispel such a i Jelief a little later on. The follow- < ng is the letter: "Columbia, S. C., May 10, 1897. "Dear Crews: On my return to )fMe I find yours of 5th. Colonel Duncan is away from the city a week >r more. "I think it will be a good plan for rou and Koester to join. Make The lecord the daily and The Cotton Plant the weekly, each paper could )e more cheaply gotton out. I will iee Koester, and would suggest that rou come down here about Sunday, 0th, and by that time Colonel Dun ian will be back and we can talk >ver the business. Come down and et us talk the whole thing over. Wishing you much good luck and ['he Cotton Plant many readers for nany yeara. Truly, W. A. Neal." We dislike to parade this letter in )ublic, but we have been driven to . We do not purpose to rest un ler tue charge of havinp broken our wontract with printing committee, vhen it was plain enough that if we tad entered into the treacherous cheme of MoLaurin's boomers with lonzales and his silver followers to lisrupt the Reform movement and he defeat of Tillman there would iot have been one word said about >ur "partisan editorials." Accord ngly, at the time set we went to Jolumbia, when Colonel Neal, who ioems to have been vested with full mthority by the printing committee, nade u,.a proposition, but on ac .ount of some delay or hesitancy on :he part of Editor Koester, no do inite agreement was arrived at, :wing, as Colonel Duncan remarked, o Koester's unwillingness to go too lar in the direction indicated in Col )nel Neal's letter until he (Koester) 3ould . first consult McLaurin. So he readers of The Cotton Plant can very plainly see that in the opinion >t the.printing committee "partisan" politics in this paper depended al ~ogether as to whether we advocated or opposed the election of John L. MIcLaurin, as they say in their pub-. Lished cards, that "when Mr. Crews Look charge of the paper the comn tnittee instructed him to conduot it as an Alliance paper, so as to ad vance and promote the interests of the Allianice principles and organi zations, and that no politics should be indulged in." Certainly not. The committee did not want any "politics indulged in" unless such politics was in the interest of the ad ministration's candidate, Mr. Mc Laurin, anid we believe that a fair minded public can very readily see that there c3ould barely be anything more "partisan" than to seek to have The Cotton Plant "join hands" with Koester, the man who publishes and edits the personal organ of the ad ministration candidate, and for whose support the Mark Hlannas of Governor Ellerbe's administration are furnishing the bood.le. But we are digressing somewhat. A', we were saying, there was nothing defi nitely decided upon at. this mee&ing, because Editor Koester had not had an opprtunity to discuss the matter with his patron-saint, John L. Mc Laurin; but after .sufficient time had elapsed to enable him to see or communicate with Johnny, we re ceived the following telegram: Columbia, S. C., May 81, 1897. To WV. T. Crews: Can you conmc to Columbia to-morrow. Cotton Plant committee wanta to see you. Come at our expense. WV. A. NmA, Chairman. It appears that all through this transanntin. the committee ha 3lothed Col. Neal with plenipoton iary power to attend to the whole )usiness, so we went to Columbia at )ur earliest convenionce and in coin any with Col. Duncan went to Col. .qeal's -residence. Col. Duncan, on kccount of some urgent business, ex med himself and loft Col. Neal and )urself to talk the matter over, when he Col. mado us the following prop )Sition. That if we would consent to re nove the Cotton Plant to Columbia ind publish it in connection with the )aily Record, and further consent to -elinquish the entiro editorial eontrol )f the paper into the hands of Editor Koester, the printing committee vould relieve us from all expenso of niblishing'paper, pay us a salary of 50 per month, and also pay out >oard at the Grand Central hotoll Ne politely declined Col. Neal's )roposition, and told him under no tonsideration could we accept his ernis. And as to that matter of )rotesting against our "partisan edi orials" the colonel did say somo hing about certain editorials we had )ublished against Governor Ellerbe, aid as his objection was well founded is to one particular editorial we )romised him we would make the recessary correction in our next is ue, which we did. The next day vas set for our meeting with the )rinting committee, in the afternoon, Md at the hour appointed, upon earning that there were only two of he committee-Col. Neal and Capt. Junningham-we concluded not to Ittend any more meetings where a najority of the committee could not >o present, so we wrote Col. Neal a iote stating that we had to go hone hat afternoon, and that our mind vas made up against "joining hands" vith the Record, but that we would amooth that other matter over in the iext issue of our paper. This note a the "letter" to which reference is nade in the committee's published etter to us. Now, these are the facts connected vith the "breaking of our contract" vith the committee that no "politics vere to be indulged in," although ve considered this prohibition a mere joke as we cannot remember the time, ;ince under the control of the Alli ince, wheft the Cotton Plant did not indulge in politics, and we leave it Lo the public to decide as to whether Lhe Cotton Plant printing committee, in desiring the removal of the paper and its publication and editorial supervision turned over to the man who is editing McLaurin's owvn ex elusive organ, did so in the interest of the Cotton Plant as an agricultu ral and Alliance paper? or was it their intention to divert it to the po litical ambition of little Curly-headed Johnny. Was the prop)osition to pay our board and give us a salary of $50 made with a view to promote the interest of the Alliance princip)les and organizations," when the pub lishing of the paper at Lauronis C. H. was not costing the committee a cent? Can anybody account for such "Alliance" patriotism in any .other way than that the committee must have had "money to burn,'' and if it is thus plentiful, what is the use of unitmng with Gonzales or anybody else on account of free silver? T1he very 'atmosphere surrounding Mc Laurin's Mark Hana might be more inspiring and invigorating to edito rial work, but certainly not mnort elevating or respectable to those whc believe ini honest politics. We have some more behind yet but will keel) it in soak with which: to vary the monotony of the camn paign speeches if, in any event, they hiappen to become monotonous. W. T. Cmuavs, Editor of The Cotton Plant. niuckIon's, Arnica Salve. The tyist Saive in the wvorld for Cumts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rhenum F1ever Mores, Tetter, Chmap ped Hfande Ciibiatus, Corns, and all Mkin Erny tins, and positively cures Piles, or nm pay required. It ls guaranteed to giv perfect satisfaction or money refunder Price 25~ cents per box. For sale b Robertson & Gilder. Brick! Brick!! For sale by BI. C. Matthews, Nov COL, NEAL'S REPLY. TO THE STATEME' rMADI HEDITOR URRtIVWS. '1b Opiulon of fjottonk Planut's Editor For. ubiy Exprewsedt-Anlegod Vokubiation Dealt With. |The State, 4th.] Last night the following reply to the editorial of Editor Crows of the Cotton Plant, printed yesterday, was received at this offico. The Crows editorial was much talked of yestor day in political circles. To the Editor of The State: Dear Sir: I road with much sur prise an editorial from The Cotton Plant, which appeared in your paper this morning, In this edi torial Mr. Crows makes many state ients in reference to the publishing committee of The Cotton Plant. Mr. Crows himself admits that much of the information which he has soon fit to give to the public was private ly and confidentially received. If his statements be true lie is unwor thy of the rospect and confidenco of the good peoplo of South Carolina for he has betrayed the confidenco which among honorable gentlemon destroys the force of whatever he may say. However, Mr. Editor, there is scarcely one statemont made by Mr. Crows which is not partly or wholly untrue. He states that I, as chairman of the committoo, offered him 850 a month and his board at the Grand Central hotel if he would move The Cotton Plant to Columbia. His statomont is absolutely incorrect. The committee's contract with Mr. Crews provides that we were to have given him $80 to assist in mnov ing the material etc., from Sparton burg to Laurens and otherwise got the paper started. This was all we agreed to pay under the contract covering the year 1897. The committoo paid Mr. Crows $113 in a very short time after the paper was removed to Laurons. Learning from Mr. Crows that we should have to continue to make ad vances in money from time to time, we were forced to look around in order t> make some other arrange ments. Accordingly we suggested the propriety of romoving The Cotton Plant to Columbia, which proposi tion Mr. Crows readily consented to. We did have a conference with Mr. Kooster and endeavored to make an arrangement with him for Mr. Crows, but could not persuade Mr. Koester to agree to take the paper and1 em ploy Mr. Crews. Mr. Crews agreed to work on Tfhe Record and Cotton Plant, set type, or (10 any other work for $50 a month. I insisted that Mr. Crews should demand $50 and his board, but lie argued t hat he wvould be glad to get $50 to begin with. This nearest propositon to buy out Mr. Crews nrnd h~is .in fluence that was made to hir,n by the committee. In reference to consulting Mr. Mc - Laurini, which Mr. Crews states was necessary before Mr. K(oester would agree to any p)roposition, Mr. KCoester did consult Mr. W. T. Martin, wvho owns The Record plant,. Mr. var tin advised agaiinst taing Thue Cotton Plant as a busineoss prop osition. With the nnfavorable advice of Mr. Martin this was calculated to have moore effect with Mr. Koehter than thme advice of any political or personal friend. I doubt if Mr. McLaurin was ever consulted in this matter. Mr.. Cirews' statement that the ed itor of The State and his frionds had joined hands with the Reformors and would do battle for our cause ,is wholly untrue. Wo never stated o. intimated to Mr. Crews that we hiad had any undlerstaniding or agreemord with the enitor of T1he State. As t matter of fact I have never met Mr. Gonizales but twice in my life and up to the time Mr. Crews wvas ir B Columbia sooking' to make a trad< with The Record I had not met Mi Gonzales at all. I have only known M. Crews fo a short time. I met him for t Ifirst timn whon lie cmaint Coln1nmi to solicit the publication of The Cotton Plant, and in all my transac tions and dealings with him I have ondeavored to treat, him fairly and as a gentleman, giving him all as sistance and onconragemont, possible in the publication of the paper, ntd was moro than surprised when ho Logan the criticism and abuso of Governor Ellerbo and. Sonator Mc Laurin. As chairman of the com mittoo of The Cotton Plant. I have always discountonauced porsonal abuso or sovero criticism of any man or sot of mn, fooling that 'TPhe Cotton Plant should be conducted on a high plano, dofonding the prin ciplos of the Allianco and making war on nobody. I regrot the nocessity for this news paper notoriety and I hopo tlis will end it. Tho committoo will ondoavor as soon as possiblo to got possossion of The Cotton Plant and have it con ducted not as a porsonal organ of any body but as an oxponent. and dofender of Alliance principles. Respect-fully, WV. A. N11A .. Columbia, S. C., .J uly :3, 1897. 801MC.311N(I OF Till,, NEWi TEURRITORVy Svisat sisal Ivhmere tisme Einwnai,s ~an aIsanl Are-Their Nattivem asaid uN-alI Charactorlst Irm, Uliunatle, P'op ulaion1 iuni ForrIgn The Hawaiian or Smlu)wich ihilands comprise i group of twolve, vight. of which areinhabited i-nd four mn habitod. They lio in the Nort bt Pa cific, and were discovered in h 1 k8 by Captain Cook, who gave tIlem the name sandwich in honor of the Earl of Sandwich. ie other niamo - - that under which they are todIy aInoIxOd to the United States-- is taken from that of the largest, of the group, Hawaii, which was adopted by the inhabitants. The natives of theso islands are of the Malayo-Polnosian race, and phy sically, are splendid specimons of manhood. They bear a strong re semblance to the New Zoalanders in staturo and in musilar development. They have reddislh-brown skin, straight. black hair, broad faces, and thick lips. They a, as i race, m1ore hardy and indistrioins than thoso living nearer the equator, probably from the fact, that the climiato of their island hoime is bracing and sa lubrious, and the soil raLlIer sterilo, 1ompolling them so emiltivit t.lioso articles of food upon which t.hey are dependent. Largo amounits oif Amiericanm cap)ital have boeon inlvested ini the produ ictioni of sugar in these island, withI profit able returns. O)winig to their goo. graphlical position, t.heira connniier cial develop)ment has hbeei rapid. lhe United States are the largest cus tomers for the exp)orts of thle islanids, and supply imost of the impol)rled pro dlucts TLhelHawaiian islands are 5,00miiles Aistant from Wasington and1( over 2,000) from San Framicisco. Thie p)rosenit, popullaition is estimaiited at a little more1( thiani 100,000, compI~risinig 10),,000 En~gl ish .speak inag whluite(s, ,15,000) Portuguose, 30,000 niat ivyes, 10,000 half. -breeds, 15,0(0) Chiinese and 25,000 Japanese. Take JOHNSON'S CILL & FE~VER TONIC. , ' Hsumer Ilesorta ICen,ched vlin N. A. L. Th'le Passenger D)epart.ment of the Seaboard Air Line, haus just issued an attractive, interestinig and valuable Summonir Excursion Book, descriptive of the Seaside and Mountain Homes and( resorts lo cated on and reaicheId via that linlO. Parties contemplating a sunmner ' trip or vacation, will do wvell to ex, -amine same, a copy of which can h)4 secured upon al)plicat.ion to any r Ticket Agent, or by addressing T1..J 13 Anderson, General Passenger Agent a Portsmnaiiot va COL JONES VINDICATED ICEAU.T OF INVENTIOATION HY COA MIlTTEE PF IN4JUIRY. Somethilg Alrnut Charleston and the Kept of the 1tate-Dceisions of 1he Urand Juries In Disponmary Cases. Columbia, S. U., July L.-Tho lat mst of tho disldnmry invostig-itions hits "busted." Col. Willie Jones wasi Charged with mIisianaging the dis ponsary. The special committeo charged with the inquiry has just finisliod up with its work and made its roport today complotoly vindicat ing Col. Jones from all charges. Mr. Douthit, of the cominitteo, iaid that he would not sign the ro port. He has not yot decidod wheth. mr he will make a minority report. or not. All of this shows that the same A1d light is ou hand aind that the friction in the board will continuo u1nder its presoemt composition. It is to be notod that every caseo Ihat is in any way connected with Uhe disponisary has resulted*in an ac iuittal or. no bill hofore the grand and potit juries of this country. The juries al mIostly made up of Reform ors. Til curious thing is that the loforiors, who talk, point to Char lostOl and say that. it is the hell hole of Uhe sfato; that the peoplo of that ,it.y are attempting to run the state, amid that, they have no respoect for law and order. They have been giv mi the Metropolitan police. They have boon given special oloction laws; they 1avu Leo ill)0s0d 111)011 in overy way that could be devised, aid they have been and are still be ilig charged with violatiig the laws of th6 stato andI having no respect for tI o law. Now this would be very wollY if Charlhst.on were different from any othor parts of the stato. Al has boon remarked overy caso diroet 1,y o.'r indirectly conmectod with the dispeisary that has come bofore i july in this county at this term of the court his boon thrown out in short order. The only case thit went. to a petit jury was against lenn11, who was not present at his trial aid the case sonmed to go by dorault and still he was found not guilty. The grand jury found no bills against Evans, Hayos, a color 'jd wo,-mIian andO other casos aid still fo) political roasons Charloston is mkado to appear as the holl hole of the state when, as a matter of fact and record, couity after county, jury aftor jnry doos just exactly what is donlo inl chlrlolt'on1. Why thiigs aire aH5 they are is aliothmer ib.at ter. Pe.rualy1 (ontl ict edg Touiir to I*rov'idence, lisssin nem whs I'Iite, Moe auana u vin . A., L iand MI. & Ml. T- (o. August 1 li, 1897, is the datto selected for the special e'xcur.sion to p rovidonce via Hoahsoard A ir Line aind Motrchaniits' & Minlers. Trais po(rtait.iUIn CoX. Steamer TJickets will only3 1be sol oni the .1 lth, and wvill be hiimiitod to 20 days from date, al lowirig passeiiger.i to retrr: omi any regular steamer andmu traini within that liinit. 'The following rates and anid schedu(llo will applly. Charlole ....N. (4 C .15 82 .Il < hIer.a . ....... . 8. S) 5O . ( LRelisle ........ I. ii 'atzileaW........18 j).Si e( t l ........ ~1 ~ im Cltintona ........34 JI.S tt~5iWOOI .. ' 19.55 8.-11 p. mi. Abev ille .. 21.85 5.15 p. ml. The stainss iip "Chathain"' will he placed ini ser'c onOi this occasion anmd the service will he first Class in every respoect. Meals and state.. room borth on steamer, going and return, will be furnished hiolders of thiose speial excursion tickots, wil h ont extra charge. The capacity of lhe steamier is of coursed limited and1( app1l1icattion for reservation sliluld henmadoe as early ais jIOssible ini order to secure t.he best accomoda tion. S. A. L.. Ticket Agent at At lanta Ga. AI mnako reservations and farnish nr' ' of roomsi occupied. ThIe Passonmger Department of the Seaboard Air Line at Portsmouth, Vam., has issued an attractive Itime, rary of this trip, copies of wichl will be furnished upor ipphecationto any S. A. Ti. Agent.