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E STABLISIIEDI ~ -~~~~~~~~~~-I NE B R Y .C,F IA ,A G S , 87 WC E K 15 E l TILLMAN DFEENDS THE DISPENSH" SAYS m iIE TRQ9W; p "X IT THE LAW -r"-- 1, THE UNWIsE . AAbMINISTRATION OF IT. anIs Off On senatorahip-Deelatreo Itele the Only Farnmer li the Senate,and that lie Represents 80,000,000 'enAra In the U. S. ABiBEVILLE, S. C,, August 4.-Sen ator Tillman spoke hero to-day before an audience of a thousand people. His speech- lasted one hour and twelvo minutes. He was in line trim and made an excellent impression. The crowd was generally with him. He discussed the dispensary, the tariff, Clemson College and his per. sonal record, He thought that the dispensary was the best solutior. of the liquor question and he favored State control. He admitted that the dispensary law had been badly man, agod but blamed the mariage0tit and not law. He said the.v,W'board of control had done,jadroharm to the .*!Ci-n^e Sitmonton had. He said that the board should not bo elected by the legislature. He defended the Latimer bill and said he introduced it in the sonate boforo Latimer introduced it in the house. He said he was glad of one thing, that Gonzales lost a whole night's sleep from fear of the bill passing the house. He said that Simonton was more tyrannical than Judge Bond was at his worst. Ho indorsed putting Charleston under control of the metropolitan po. lice. Ho disclaimed taking any sides in the senatorial race and said that all the candidates were his political friends. ' In answer to a question he dis cussed the tariff and defended Mc. Launrin's position on the same. He said that lie voted for everything that MLaurin did in that bill. Ho said that he was opposed to protection but that if there was to be a steal he wanted to get the share duA to his constituency. He said that lie was the only farmer in the United States Senate and that he represented thirty million of farm ors in the country. He said that his speechu in the senato were as popu lar as tney are at home; that when ho rose to speak the cloak rooms were cleared and the galleries filled and that he "threw rocks" there just as he did at home. IRnY AND McLAURIN, Sspirits di Aecount of the telrestlig 001 aquy De t ween Thogs. [Special to The State.J WValbalIa, Aug. 2.-The campaign mooeting at Walhalla to-day was at. tended by some 700 of Oconee's rep. rosontativo citizens. Messrs. Irby, Evans and McLaurint spoke in the crder named. Both Irby and Evans were severe in arraigning and rid iculing McLaurin's' record in con gross, especially his votes and speeches on the Dingley tariff bill. Thleir usual charges of Republican and protection tendencies against McLaurini were answered ini detail by the latter durimg his speech of an hour and a half. His-speech tookc well with the crowd and the occasion may be written down as a co,mplete vindication and victory for M3Laurin. Towardis its close an episode of moure t n passing interest occurred. A g tion wats asked McLaurin by soeand citizen relative to the r.otro rv'tan police imposed on Charles ton. McLaurin answered promptly he wvould never have imposed it on the city. Col. Irby then asked him f he would remove it if he were Gioveraior. McLaurin answered "I \vOuid." IrbV --Then you stab Governor E~llerbo in the back. McLaurin answered that Governor E herbs, was an honest man, and he thought that the metropolitan police would have b)een removed befoie nuw but for a combmnation of cir. eumistances over whtich Governor Ellerbo had no conitrol. He said that it was unfair to drag Governor Elrbo into this discussion when he co..l'n'swer the charges mnsdo ,A him. The crowd drow near . McLaurin waxed warm in the do. fense of Governor Ellorbo and ap. proved of what Le said. Irby then askek. to be heard by way of explanation. Voices-Sit down. Hurrah for MuLaurin Irby advanced to the front of the stand and began speaking in a very excited. and vehement manner. It seemed for once that he would be howled down. McLaurin and Chairman Herndon requested that he be board. Irby was permitted to proceed and charged that Governor Ellerbe had said he intended to use the constabulary force to elect McLaurin. Cries of "HOtrah for McLaurin I" "Sit down." kcLaurin replied that Governor P, ilorbe told him he had said no each thing, but he had said if his administration was attacked, he would have to iso his iufluonco in its do fense. Voices-Hurrah for Ellerbo. Hur. rah for McLaurin. McLaurin proceeded to clo-e his speech in a happy manner and many gathered around the pl-tfor:n to shake his hand and ooncgratulate him on his magnificent reply to the various charges of sinister pur poses mado against him. This afternoon the expressions of citizens from different setions of the county show McLaurin to be far in the b3ad, if every other county goes like Oconee. Judging from the meeting to-day and preferences of the voters expressed since ad journment, McLaurin will win edsily against the field in the first pri. mary. BAvS EOLLERU HAS LIED. Senatorial Cal,didate Maynold Jumpo Ont Governov Again at And% ramu. [Special to The Atlanta Journal.j Anderson, S C., August 4.--May field, was the first speaker at the senatorial campaign meeting hero today. He renewed his charge of duplicity on the part of Governor Ellerbe in the matter of the metro politan police and said: "Elle: )e told your representative, Mr. Ashley, that he would remove the metropolitan police. He told' Representatives Weston and Bacot that he would remove them but he never told thom he would require every alderman to sign the agree ment to enforce the dispensary lawa-" In conclusion, Mayfield said: Governor Ellerbe has spoken false ly, not me. Ashley, Ilderton, Bacon and Crum can showv that the gover nor is the one wvho told the false hood." Evans who followed May field, said Ellerbe, did right in not re moving the police. He could not see why Ellerbe should be' called honest and defended by McLaurin and be twitted about the police, for Ellerbe had his experience to go by. Evans said he'had to ap)ply the po lice to Charleston and had no regrets or apologies for wvhat he had done and was not tallking one way in Char leston and another way in Anderson. There was nothing striking about M~cLaurin's or Irby's speeches. Campaign Appointmnts. The following are the appoint. ments for tile senatorial campaign now in progress in this State: Abbeville, Friday, Aug. 0. Laurens, Saturday, Aug. 7. Newbe -ry,.Monday, Aug. 9. Che.ster, Wednesday, Aug. 11. York, Thursday, Aug. 12. Lancaster, Friday, Aug. 13. Kershaw. Saturday, Aug. 14. Chesterfild, Monday, Aug. 10. Marlboro, Wednesday, Aug. 18. 'Darlington, Thursday, Aug. 19. Marion, Saturday, Aug. 21. Horry, Mohday, Aug. 28. Georgetown, Wednesday. Aug. 25. Williamsburg, Thursday, Aug. 20. Manning, Friday, Aug. 27. Florence, Saturday, Aug. 28. "Only norvo'is" is a sure Indication that the blC'M is not pure. Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies the blood and cures nervounnnss. NEGROES PROTEST AOAINIr Dion VIOLENCE IN soUrl UAROLINA, A Lveal . as Meetng-1-o'ut?oans Adopt ed and Com,ntte Appolaiied to Prtsc tit Thvin to Governor Elterbo. Ln-t unight, there was quito a largo ly attended mass meeting of the col ored people of the city at the col ored Odd Follows hall. Resolutions in rogard to the recent lynching in Laurens county wore adopted and a committoe appointed to wait on Gov,. Ellerbo and present them to him to day. The following addresn was pre pared and issued: To the Peoplo of the State and Nation: Wo -gain bring before you our grievances and hope that in the namo of justice and humanity you will turn a listening car to our ap peal and sympathize with us in our deplorable condition. We have long looked forth with a prayerful hope to the final end of mob violence, but to our sad dismay we are compelled to note an increase for the worse, not. an improvement. We -thought that the late consti tutional convention, by the lynch law clause, would greatly relieve our State of such occurrences, but just last week Gray was brutally put to death in Laurens county. Chris Harris, if he has not been over taken and murdered, is now being hunted by a raging mob, and dis order and confusion are rampant. We appehl to the Cbi3tlan-hearted and law abiding citizens everywhere to exercise all their power in pro venting the reign of mob violence, for at the hands of mobs the inno cent perish as well as the guilty. In the struggle we hope the assist anco of all who favor law and ordor, because if the systtem of lynching prevail the lives anud property of overy citizen in the State Y.11 be en dangered. Believing the voice of tha people will be the law of the land, we pray that such a sentiment will be created among those who desire the suprem acy of the law that it will bo impos sible for a baud of onraged citizens to prostitute our form of govern ment.. Wo hope that tho gover.-or of the State will be encouraged in his ef forts to uphold and defend the sacred status, that peaco and order might take place of confusion and lawloss ness. We hope that the press of the State, being a medium through which a great de:. ad can be (lone, will copy this~ ap)peal, that it may receive general consideration. Re~frainiing from wor-rying you with any lengthy appeal, wa pr-ay that sufficient has been saidl to arouse the minds of the readers to the surrounding situatio-~, and trust the efreet many be to assist in creat ing a favorable sentiment opposed to the murderous practice of lynch law. Colored Citizens of Columbia, S. C. The Lynching Problem. (Dalton, Georgia, Argus.] Mrs. l3eulah S. Mosely, editress of the Rome Georgian, the state or gan of the Georgia Woman's Fed oration, jumps into the discussion of lynching for r-ape with one of the best editorials we have yet seen on the subject. The article is so full of sense and vigor, that the Argus hero repio.kees it in full: "It is not our policy to touch u pon things sensational andl vicious, but when the daily papers teem with ac counts of brutal assaults upon help-. less women and innocent children, the very rooks should cry ailond The constant agitation of what moa sures shall he taken to prevent lynching should be changed to what punishment will prove the no'st ef fectual terrorizer of the fiends in carnate who need only opportunity to inflict upon defonicolcss purity outrage and shame, to be far imore dreaded than death, and infinitely more horrible than any torturos that could bo invented for tho por. potrator. "It has beCOmO the custom of northern papers to doprecato wholo. salo lynching i- tho south, and ovei England in this matter has meddled. If it bo a stigioa to protect women and cl ildron, w ho areo poweorless to protect themilselves, then all wo havo to say is, tiat the south may bo proud of her reproach. Of her climes and nationa may not seo the neces sity of protecting their mothers, wivoe, sisters and children, oven in defianco of tho law itself; in tho veins of tho southern man thero boils hot blood, tnd whoni the honor and purity of his homo is in vaded, personal vengeance ho will havo. "This is just as potent a condition as that firo burns, and as you iiust koop yourselves from 1ho flame if you wish to go unscratched, so the negro must keep himsolf humanized or Olso expet to be dealt with as wild beasts. "So, instead of so much discussion upon lynching, the pros and cons of which have the tendency to imbuo those brutes with tho idea that some tim, somo how, the cant of 'law and order' will servo to savo them from immedinto justice, it. would btter servo tho onds of just ice for the crim. inal, and humanity for the victim, if thero could :e a littlo moro talk against the brutal, cowardly crimo and a remed.y. "Lynching has not proved efft c tual; thoro i- a glamour of martyr dom about it that. makes of the crim. inal a hmro to be !at torned after by his kind, and tho quick death, is really merciful compared to tho crimo. "Wo believo if ,omo sure, dreaded physival puniiilmelnt were meted out, and the :tNw thia allowed to tako its cour.e, wo believo that assaulters would quickly learn their lesson, and woeno and ehildron, living in urlprotected districts, could ventoro from their ovn throshold witLout tho deadly danger of being sacrificed to brutes in Ltman fornm." Mrs. Moseley is eminently correct -specially in the advocacy of a quick undt si-ecly pulishilent for the rapist. He ought to bo lynelbd on the spot-Lot tcm rid of as we would exterminato dangerous wild beat.A. Tho Argus is glad that such lyncbngs occur in Georgia, and hopes it ma.y never see ti.e day when they will not occur-until the crime of rape is noi longer known. And the Ar-gus wvould not object to see ing public sentiment so amendl thme lynching custonm as to includoin "'the lynching boo" seine of those who sympathize wit.h thle br1utal rapist, or who try to kocop him fromt the just vengei1nce of the relati ves, friends andl neighbors of the girl or woman he hats brutally outruned. The effTor;s of our Governor, our legislature, our courts and our offcers should be directed townards stopping the crime of rape. That's where they are mest needed. Our sot thorn manhood can attend to the l :ru! al lac x.dr; u ho out rage our wvives and( daughters, niothers and sisters. We can fi.< them. wIIO'LL iiE TiiE r.tNYS CILemsonx Trusmters to Eiot ni 1'reshdoent Last [Thoe State, .3d inst.] A -peciaml mee'tingY of the~ board of trustees of ('1emsiona ll~ I eo has been called to b.e hld1 at the i institi on WVednesday non~ . Th is meetinag, so Glovernor- llerboj said .5 esterday, hais beenm called for thIe s;pei1ic puirposo ( f electing a pro- i denrt of t ho col logo to sluCeedl Pr~of. Cra..i head, who re corntly resiigne.. TJ'o triu:,t' es, from v watI ean be as cert ainmed, dlo not intend( to askc Dr. McBride to comge, Ib,ecause' of thle fact, I hat Io is alt eady get ting a salary of $ 1,000 in Vi rgirnia andii couild niot be persuaded toc .comne b,ack to SoothI Caurolinar. All inidicaitionms at present pwot to the )lion. James E'. TJindali, ex -Se)crtarmy atI Smate, asM thle mocit likely to succeed Mr. Craighmead. Gov. Ellerbuj will attend the meet. LETTER FROM ARP AUrItOli'ilP OF A POEI1 STARTS A DISCUSsION. Sidebo.ard Get#; Discussed-Sago of Hartow It .m n ttos Over Miany Thingt Thait Are anud Others That Might ie. The last lettor I had about the poem was anonymous. Of course it was, for it road: "Man wants bu1. little here below, So Young and Goldsmith say; But woman wants it all, you know, All wants it right away." Mrs. Arp was s wing on somo in fantilo garmont as I quiotly laid the missive on her lap. She .neither smilod'nor frowned nor stopped the play of her noodle as 8ho remarked. "Maybe they do, but they don't get it nor expect. ' rocon," said I, "that, som stingy old bouedict wroto that; somo follow who would spend more money on his horse than on his wife." "No," said Mrs. Arp, "it was somn1 old bachelor whoso rojoeted addresses havo made him cynical and liko Byron Io vents his revenge in dog gerol. Whn you go down town I wish you would see Mr. Hicks aboiut that dining room chair. May be ho can put a i ow cane bottom to it. W need it sometimes when we havo coi. pany, and ihat. old sidebdard ought to be r0varnished and have now knobs. Do you know how old that sideboard is." "Yes," said I "Jim Sumter made it in 1852. He was one of the boat mien and best workmen I over know. I paid him $50 for the sidoboard. lie wias a well-road, well-bred man, a good j.eighbor and a good cit.izon, and I hv.vo respect for the sideboard. It is liko an Opita)h on his tomb11I stono and seems to read, 'Sacred to the merory of-' Yes, I will see Mr. Hioks about tLe ssdoboard. Is thero annything elso in his line that you walit?" "No," said she, "but you know we aro obliged to havo another extension table. 'Wo gavo ours to Jessie when she was married and have been using ono that was h ft here three years ago and nowI the owner has settled down and wants it. You had better ).ttend to this right away." "Right away, right away," I mntused. "But. womni ,wants it all you know, And wants it right away." Mrs. Arp looked at mo and re marked, "I want thesoe thingsi for you and the children. It's precious little that I wvant for myself now." I dlon't think she admires the song or the sentiment. "I1 know it, I know it, may dlear," said I. "Thore was a time when you wanted a good deal for yourself and it pleased~ me to 'gratify your every wish anid more than younasked for. Nothing was too good for you when I had the morney. Silks and sables, lawnos and muslins, a car. riago and horses. Wilton carpets and dlamia-k curtains, so forth, and so forth, and( so on, et cetera, o' luribuas unurn. But arnno domii kept rolling on aind the war camie and I discovered that you were grad-. ually losing your concern for your self, and all your care was for your children. I was ruminating about th is while y.) ou o re stit ching an a so earnestly uponi that little garment, for now your love and care have Ilappfed over to anothier generation. The lit tlIe grandchildren have comoe in for a shareocf your manteral love, aind your p)ersonal wants havo ecmo down to a mini mumr. Of :o:arso you raust be clothed as becomes thn maternal head of nu mnerous anid lovely offspring, tor if you are not aqueen you have r-eign - ed in ou r home nearly as long as Queen Victoria has in England and-" "'Well, that will (do nowv,"' saLid .ny wvife. "You had boetter gor to town. Aunt Ann says the rice is out and the cowfeed too." "'I was r-uminatinig," said I, "how fort unart it was that your ambition surrendered wvhen my money did. You ceased to cravo na fine thingsag I used to got you. You adaptod your wants to our misfortunes. Why, forty years: ago I would not havo lot you go about in that grizzly gray muslin. I had a contempt for cheap things, especially for )ou; d'dn't 1, my dear l'a "You certainly did," she said with I a kind of sad, reminiscoit ,Smile in her tono of voice, "but this iuslin ii good enough now. But you had better go to town. There are four little grandchildren here to dinner, aid Aunt Ann wants tho rico right, away." "And wants it right away," I hum med tothe tune of "Auld Lang Sync." Somehow I can't got that refrain out of my mind-"And wants it right away." Sometimes I think that men don't understand nor appreciate woman' nature. She was created with alovo for the beautiful, for ornament, for flowers and gems and jewels and gold and silverware and damask and fine linen. She can't help her nature, and this very nature provos that sho is nearer heaven than we are. What do I care for diamonds? Not a cent. I wouldn't give a dllar for a bushel of them. An old-fash ioned tin waiter with ilowers painted on it is good as a silver one to mie. I wouldn't Wash the window gias more than oneo i year, and a wash. pan suits Ino as well as a chinait ba sin. But I recognizo the fact that I am a man with an unrefined nature. The twelvo gates of the now Jeiusa lem that are made of precious stones are no attraction to 1mo; neither are the gold-paved streets that St. John 9,W in his vision. But still I have hop) of getting there and heoliming moro refined, for I do lovo flower. and protty birds and orango troos IauI(I hisciouti fruits and beautiful sconery and mountains and the great, waters of the mighty sea. My wife and ily daughters can spend half a (lay in looking at the heautiful things in the show windows in Atlanta, bat I never stop to gazo or to admire, except, perhaps, to look at the 1)10. tographer's display or the life-like models of lovoly women that seem smiling at my thro scoro and ten. Reading and observation teach me thatt all good men have revervnce for womankind and are conscious of her better nature, her otter moris anld Omotions. Shakespeare and Scott wi-ito of women as ministoring angels. Wadsworth sapi of her 'eoation: T'o warn, to comsfort anid commanid.'" No great poet savo-such a rake as Byron would have written: "As well believe a wvomnan, or1 anl Or any other thing that's false." Even Solomon in all his glory with his wives and concubines, said: "Young man, rejoice with the wife of thy youth, and be thou awas ravished with her love." iw. Edward W. Bok says in 'L1T La dies' H-onmo Journal. "No economy is so false and misgu.led as that which seeks to withhold one pleasure froim the life of ai good wvoman, a true wifeoor a loving mother. The best home a man can give her becomes tiresome if she is asked to live in it' 365 days in a year. The Lord knows! that woman's life is hard enough. She travels a path of endurance and suffering to which the average mian is an entire stranger. Then let us make the path ais pleasant, as easy and as bright as possible. Every dollar that a man spends on his home for the happiness and comfort of his wife will come I ask to him four-fold." That is trueo-all trne. J3etter mendi the broken pane or that saish cord or that gate latch anid some times take an hour off from business and take her to ride. The Odd Fol. lows and Masons and Knights of P'ythias are good institutions, but should not comoi in between at man and his wife. The mother wants bolp wvit h the children, for I tell you, my brothern, there is no care nior anxiety liko nursing and caring for a little child, arnd nobody but a nothor who ha rared night or ten ehiildren from infancy to maturity,. and four yours of the time during a pitiless war, when she had to floe from the foul invador with her littlo anes and hide them, half clad and always higry, can say with Paul, "I h1ave fought a good fight; I have linished my course." Yo% Paul said hlat, but he w-s an old bachelor, md know nothing c! what a mother ;ufers. The iost pathetic line in Ill potr ry is that of Fits-Groene 1lalleck, whoix ho apostrophizes loath: 'Como to the mother whon Rh feels -or tho first tuimo her first.born's breath." The doath of a young mother in hild birth is tho saddost of all na ur1O's cailamlitivs. Maternail lovo--miatornal interostl Xhat Is it that so inspires a woman o hear her fato --to suffor and bo trong? Bn., Aar. OENERAL ORDE1t -roIU OLU Major-Geieral, Ron* of Coafed criato Vteraus. General Order No. 1: ANDIEKisoN, S. C., July 20. . Having been appointed to tho onimmand of the South Carolina di 'ision, United Sons Confederato Vot raiw I have accepted said appoint nent and horeby assumo command >f tho division. 2. The United Confederate Vot 'rans of South Carolina will hold heir annual reunion at Groenville, i. C., on August 25th: and that has iepn deemed to be a most desirablo Iccasion for a moting of the mom wrs of tho cni.p. of this division of ho Sons of Confedorate Voterans; yh0oroforo each canip within the di 'ision is hereby Instructed to send lelegates, Iot less than two, to such neeting. The railroads l-.4ve gra.ted lhe low rato of t cont per mile anid ho aways hospittblo peopln of 1reOnvillo will makO the stay of vi.q tors lontsalt, and so it is hoped hat otch cminp will bo largely rep -Osented at. this m11eting. . In view of the fact that South 'arolina has next to t iho largest num >vr of ciim of voterans in all the southern States, it behooves us, the 'ons of thoso veterail, to omiulato heir zeal and cnthusiasiim in the -aise. To the end that we imay in nronso tho 1mn1Iber of our camps, anid he mnembership of (hoso in existenco, eou are eariostly urged to use overy )mIdeavor to add now nenihers to y'our eamnmp anid to mduce thme forma ion of of her carmps wit hin thme radius >f your influ menice. All thme assistanlco ni ihe piower of I hise' heahiuarters orendolr youl, will be gladly givoni. B y ordler, Oflicial: Adlj. -Gonmorl. No,neIt of Irby's li, "Ima friend( of thoe ono-gallus p)ooplO of the Stato and I'm a pretty iard mian to beat ini a tussle." I hiavei been to thei Senate once, mnd vwen I got back I hand to moert zaigo miy planitaition, but I could have 30u baeck rich if I'd wanted to. I you1ld have had en(iough money to buy mt every moan in this crowd. I used to be a lawyer, but I got religion aind became a farmer. What done for politics in South Carolina vou know as well as I do. As a re rormeitr I'm the only original pack igo iln the Stato. Even Whitman bere, who is the bummer of the pairty, woul never have beeu heard >f if it ha~dn't ben for mne. I wenit dlown to Charleston and rounmd McLaurinm rearing and1( buck ing like at Te'xas pony3 amnd having averythinig his own way, I said: Look here, old follow, I'm dlown bero to rid1o you,' and I done it. I b)rok(o hi m ini two dayt si and he rides 54 easy and gentle no0w as a lady's mxare. Ilo rides so easy that even FI vans and Mayfiold are climbing on him now, but they've got no right to do it. I broke him and ho's my