Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"Oil v ell t J,& [1 II BLSE 1865 NEWBF ~T A B LIsrfE D 1865. NE W BERRY, S.C.,_ F,RIDA Y ,__ N O M BE 189 8 - - T I E A W E ,* . 0 A Y A Don't forget the plao this section are now trading al Goods as any two stores here chants, therefore I can sell Go want you to buy from me. I 50 pieces Black Figured Mohair, othe 25 pieces Black Henrietta and Serges, 800 pieces Colored, Figured and Plaii We know every i CAPEE 100 Capes, a beauty,- for only 85c, oth 100 "s" " 85c, 100 "f" " $1.10 100 " " " 1.50 0Phish Capos, a dandy, 1.98 10 4 0 " 2.40 50 "4" " 2.98 50 Plush Capes, a hummer, 5.00 A TALK WITH TILLMAN | WIFAT HIC HAX TO SAY AtOUT TIE PHOENIX RIOTS. The Now ConAittiutlon of this Stato was Ia tandeo to EIhntnate Nogroes frmui Poll ti-02 nold it has Iteen Ent1ra-ly Sue assful Exoept Witere DeOsIlIng and 0"lfish White Men Seek to Use Them as Tools-Th Phonnix Rlots Woold Nevir Have Occurr ed Exeopt for the Tolberts (Spepl tosNews dg~rier.) %Trenton, lNovermber 1$.. tor lmehrahas debidodviews about the, race 4esbion. Since he openly do.: clarod that. the main purpoie of .the Nstituidnal Convention was to in saue iwhitesupremacy and his plain tallis in North Carolina, he is looked upon as a spokesman of the an i-negro domination sentiment. To-day The ,;ews and Courier correspondent ipent the day with him at Trenton and obtained a pretty free expression ,of his views on the race situation, with direct bearing on the recent ,,V,hoenix troubles. He has rio patieuce 14 t e whites who lead nog oes in to politics and trouble. Senator Tillman said: Th Prho IIinix riot is an outbreak suhas is liable to occur in any comn itiudity thickly populated by negroes in any Southerdl State. Race antagon ibm, which has existed since the dawn of 'history and will continue tco exist while the world lasts, is the bottom of it. This sentiment or prejudiic, or whatever yon~ may term it, is stron ger than either law or religion, and is ineradicable. In this particular case it grew out of a greed for office on the part of a white Rlepublican, one of a large family in Greenwood county -who merely wished to .gets the money which is provided by law casaa of Congressional centest, w 17tt&barest possibility of gda the seat in dngress itself. Whether the'folberts were s'\iiq under instructioire from tho Re.nh )icn n'ational comhittee, or whethet they were active po1 'tically because of the deafre 4 an in their influ once,with the negroes is, of course mere, cohjecture. In eithe't case there wasxno popsible hope of ToIbert be ing elected. -Under the noe Con. sLtiution in this State, which is in 9yery respect similar to that of Mis sissippi, minor differences, which are improveteents, and which' has been sustained by[the Uniit-ed States Sn. * promo - Court, the white -registered vote compared to that of the blacks iri that Cogressional district is at least ten to one. Of course all others are unlawful. I do not believe Tol "bort would have been interfered with, and. th~at iii farcical proceeding of having a box, in which to put the certIiates of the unregistered negro votes, whom ho 'had told to.go to the polls,' knowing they were not legal voters, wonid hnmae excited nly,. t naug a, just follow the crowd and y my store; ask them about n ombined. I pay spot cash foi ds at retail as cheap as most m not here on charity, it is rs ask you 40c per yarAl, our price others ask you 40o per yard, our pri i Dress Goods, worth 25c and 85o, oui irgument is use IT CAPEST er stores ask you - - 49 44t - - 44 44- - 46 44 44 Mimna rision under ordinary circumstances The fact that the race issue in Nortli Carolina had become so prominent o late, that there was widespread inter est and sympathy for the conditioi of the white men in that. Common wealth, and the white men at Phoo nix, remembering our own troubles in 1876, were angered by so bare faced and outrageous a travesty or legal voting, and thus the conflict be. tween the races was brought about, :he murderof Etheridge was like t match to a magazine, and the subse. quent shooting of three white men from ambush provoked a degree of rage and unreasoning anger that alone explains the subsequent pro needing. The Tolberts are solely to blame for all blood that has been shed, because elsewhere throughout the State there was not the slghtest conflict between the races, and the issue, so far as politics are concern Ad, is absolutely dormant. Of course the recent lynching of three negroes in this county for the assassination Df an intelligent and retined white woman, returning to her home unde.j the protection of her husdand, has no 3onnection whatever with the Phoe nix riot, and was merely retributive justice acting outside of the law. The thoughtful student of govern ruent in Southern States, si. ,e the experiment of negro suffrage was forced on uu in 1868, ha, long since realized that one of two results must follow active participation therein by the negroes. There must be absolute nontrol of the negroes by the whites in matters political, or there will be demoralization and rottenness by the use of the debased and purchasable nolored vote. My observation and experience showed me long ago that where there is white leadelrship and a change with the negroes to control at th'e ballot-box, the colored vote is not purchasable. It is only when contending white factions use the ne gro as an instrument against each other that .this corrupting element enters, and then the race issue is cjormant,,as it is a case of white ras cal against white rascal seeking to control the offices. In the one case the. politics of a given community or State will become more and more corruipt, tmnd in the other the irrepressi ble conflict bet ween the races produce bloodshed and the suppression of the pgro r~ ce. The Anglo Saxon race has neVer len dominated by the colored race, ltywhere in all its history. SEnglarid fry more to do with the colored racebthan any other nation ality --than all ether nations comn bined-and- the Englishman goes about the conquest and governing of Uhinese, Hindoes, Malays anid Afri cans on the sole principle of inherent superiority and right to rule. It is his birthright to govern, and be governs by law, where law will do, and by' force whore force is neces sary. The most striking illustration of this is in ia w ere hal a- -a. hS Du can't miss us. If you are n( , about my Goods, about my w -them, Lots of things I buy merchants buy them to sell ag strictly business With me---one - 25c 50 pieces Kid Cambi ce -25 50 pieces Standard ( price, 19 1 50 pieces Best Jeans d by our compet BLA .75 50 Blank4 1.50 50 10-4 6 - 2.00119f 2.50 50 11-4 " - 3.00 50 11-4 4 3.75 1 - 7:00 ' Ask t ugh. lion or so of Anglo Saxons, includinj the men in the regular army, domi nate absolutely and control two hun dred millions of Hindoos. If ther wore a change of policy on the par of the National Government toward the colored race in the Southeri States, and the negro were allowe< to drop absolutely out of politi'e%, i great cause for irritation would b( removed. It is a notorious fact tha for twenty years or more the negroot in the South, who constitute th( bulk of the Republican voters, onl: enter into national politics as a fa tor in the Ropublican national con ventions and as'a means of holding together the old abolition sentiment which so long gave impulse an< direction to Republican politics. I alone responsible for the "solh< bouth." There has been a grea revolution in sentiment and feeling at the North on. this subject,' as ii shown by the annexation of Hawaii without any pretence of consulting the wishes or protecting the interestE of the colored races there, as wel i by the attitude of Governor Tanfer of Illinois, in refusing to protect the imported negro minors at Virden aot Pana. "Blood is thicker than wator' in Illinois, and I believe in nearl1 every other Northern State, at t.his time, and were it not for the necessi ty, or imagined necessity, of controllI ing the votes from the South in th< National Republican Convention, s< as to insure the nomination of this man or that, there would be soon n< political aspect to the race question One thing is certain as anything earthly can be certain, the white mci of the South will niot submit to negr< control of their politics, local, Stat< or national. The crimo of rape o1 brutal murder, such as that of Mrs Atkinson, will meet punishment surn and swift. The negro mnst take subordinate place, and he will bi treated with consideration and kind ness in proportion as be ;s peaceabl< and weoll behaved, and make friendi of his white neighbors. The die franchisoment of the ignorant ne groes in South Carolina, by constitu tional and lawful methods, hai worked no injury, but is a benefit ii many respcts, insuring peatco an( good order and, as far as possible, cessation of angry race feeling. The outbreak at Phoenix would not, aatc could not, have occurred but for t'% leadership and inspiration of design ing and seltlah white men. Left t< himself th a negro cares nothing aboul politics, for his experience in thu State has shown him that it is a hol iron, and always burns him when ever he touches it. Senator Tillman is resting at home and by the way; he is having hiu home neatly repainted. It was rainy and dreary day here, and he inquired about matters in the State talked about the race troubles ani read some bits of literature. Sena tor Tillmanm and his fan.ily will leavi here in a couple of weeks for Wash ingon. ig Dr >t one of my customers now you ay of doing business. If they a is a jobber from first hands. In tin. If you think, or if you lot of the best equipped stores in ic Dress Lining, worth 5c, now only - ,alicoes, worth 5o, now only - - - - , worth 25c and 38hc, now only - - - itors to prevent y( 6NKETST BLANIH )ts, as long as they last, 4 ,o see these four Numbers NEWBERRY, S. ( THE PHOENIX RESOLUTIONS. WIAT TiE PROPLEM OF THE I'LCE s.%Y IN TIlEMI OwNJDEFEN(E, Tisero Haw Always be.-it. Kindly, Law. Sabidthig acid S-le,adly itelalonst Exint lI g nttwoeoo White- atid Negroes Until the Recent Itiot, whileh was Pavoelpitattecl by an Attack by T1lbert on d.heredge anid the Killing of the Lat ter by One of Tol bert's Negro Followers. Greenwood, S. C., Nov. 14.-Judge I Townsend convened Court this morn morning. A large and orderly crowd is in town today. Bat little is being r said now about the Phoenix riot. A leading and trustwothy citizen of that section told me today that bat t for the ambushing of the three white men there would have been no lynch. ing, as the leaders, Joe Circuit and Will White, in the shooting of Etheredge, were not caught. He further states that no wholly inno cent negro has been molested. They have no complaint against the news. papers or their representatives, ex cfpt the Augata Chronicle, which, lhn says, was in some partictlars un just in the misrepresentation and ex aggeration of fuacts. He also handed me the following resolutions for pub licnt ion: At a mass held at Phoenix Sator day, November 12, the following proceedings took place: Mr. W. H. Stallworthi, on being called to the chair, opened with a few remarks, which were folk~ ved by resolutions offered by Mr. J. M. Gaines. EEsoLUTIONs. tect R,esolv ed, first, That we, tect izens of Phoenix anid surrounding country, in mass meeting assembled, desire to express onr deep regret at the loss of life and bloodshed that has occurred in this vicinity during the pa'st few days anid to call attention to the fact that this section has al ways been noted for the high moral character of its people, its peaceful, law-aiding disposition anid the friend ly relations that have heretofore ex isted between the races. Second. Trho evidence of negro as well as wvhite eye-witness of Tues dlay's riot agrees that the first hostile attack was made by Thomas Tolbert and certain negroes, and that the first shot fired was the one which killed J. I. Ethoredge and was fired by a negro. We regret that deluded negroes have had to suffer the penal ty for misdeeds committed us a re suIt of the influences of white men whose greed and selfilhness have led them to act the part of eneomips to Iboth the white and colored people of our country. IThird. We hereby express our firm conviction that the deplorable troubles through which we have just passed are attributable solely to the evil influences exerted by John R1. Tolbort. 1R Rnd4 Taihm+t Joseph Wr y Go will be as soon as you soo how c re satisfied, then you will be si fact, I buy them as cheap as hoi some slick-tongue follow imako the up country. 30 50 pieces - - .2e 100 Ladi -- - 19 98c >u buying our Go ETS T L9 cents a pair W 5 " want si 8 comie at 9 " rs hav ways wi 1111 Tolbert, Thomas P. Tolbert and I Robert H. Henderson, awl we be- 1 lieve their further residence in i Greenwood County or its vicinity will tend to imperil the lives and property of both the white and col- ( ored people, and we earnestly hope I that they will choose to remove t themselves and their evil influences elsewhere. Fourth. That we urge all good t citizens, white and colored, to go to i their homes and use every effort to avoid further violence and blood obed. Fifth. That a committoo of safety be appointed, who shall. be asked to suggest an d put into operation such measures as will best insure peace and the protection of life and prop erty. That we desire to assure the colored eitizens of this community that we will, to the uestof our abili. ty, protect them so long as they are in the discharge of their duties and in the exercise of their rights as peaceful and orderly citizens, and C that we conden.n all reckless assaults of negroes by white persons. Immediately following action on the above resolutions the following statement was read from Elias Tol bert and received as information.: To the Citizens of Greenwood Couzty: Heretofore I have acted1 as I have from a sense of high Chris tian duty, from pure conscientious y moutivos, not from a doeire for any v. office. I have tried to do my duty b)y my country, as I knew it, by ~ Church and school. I have never shirked my duty as I saw it. I tried to do mny duty as a fifteen-year-oldp soldier boy in the 2(d South Carolina Cavalry, Company I. If there are any old soldiers present belonging to my company they cani testisy to thi il fact that I was' always found at the (1 front.n I find that in many things I made mistakes. That the, two races can-h not act together in the formation of c a Government, and that the country C should have white supremacy; that r the Anglo-Saxon race should pro dorammato, and hernaftor I intend to a stand shoulder to shoulder with the g white people to do all in my power b to have a gove'rnmenit that will pro-. tect everyone alike, but let it be made by the white people. I solemn- o ly p)romise to (10 all in my power and j shall heartily co oporate with them a in doing this. E. L. ToLDFJnv. Stockmans, S. C., Nov 12, 1898. According to Sotion 5 of the reso. lutions the following committeo of safet) were appointed: W. H. Stall worth, Br., J. 0. Penn, 0. C. Stall- I worth, E. A. Rodgers, A. A. Domi nick, John Teddords, S. C. Whatloy, Henry Cooper, J. H. Kemp and J.) W. Bowers. This committee to be0 enlarged and improved upon as thought advisable. The committee of aafety was au thorized to raien truionsa for. lsap othoi buy hero A. ajo ttisflod also. Bear in mind at i .ses do who send drummors lic you think, that you can do I Best Table Oilcloth, others ask you I es' Ready -made Skirts, cheopor than 3110h. ods, but they are SHOEST 8] 3 have tho greatest 8hoc Depa ,ylish, nobby Footwear thatj Id se me. I carry more Shoes 3 in their entiro stock. Como acome at naugh. ,he purpo.se of roimibursing pir-tes vhose larders wore so hevily drawn ipon during the excitemnit. A rosolution wai also adopted ton lorig thianks to the poopdo of ironwood for their kind rsem irances, especially in the way of ipplioH. The me resolution was itlo tonl. lered the people of Phoenix for heir open doors imd of hor hospita - ties. After Home further discumsion the a noolting adjourned. W. H. SrAILIwoUrr, Sn., Ohr. J. W. Bowris, Soerotary. TIC TOLURRIN WHItM M1,LVCASPUP. 'hare Wax No ICvIdenco to Eosevict Thenm or Invitnag a Mist, anld Prott(-cutist id f Not Appear. (The Stato, 15th.) Col. John R. Tolbert and his son, 00, have bwon reloased from cis ody. Yosterday at 2 o'clock waiiosst or the timn of the proliminiary her ig boforo Magititril.o Smith on the hargo of inciting a riot. When Ch i our arrived no prostecutor was pro ent. Judge Crawford, attorney for bi Tolbortm, moved that the casm be isimisseiid as there wvas- no e'videnice gauinsrt the accused. Later Lieit. ...War,represeniting heproso utors, came Iin and said( that a thor ugh exainaition 01 of the caso had '0 agrooab)le to Liont. Wyatt Aiken, rho sworo out the nirranrt. Conisequiently, Magis-ttrato Sit i h iRtmissed the caso arid so riot iIied( 1 udge (Gary, who iss-ued an ordePr for 1e prisoners to hot r(tlased1 from thre enitentilary where they had( b)0en 1 laced for safe hieeping. r The prosocution says that the roa. an no ones wasf p)rosenit to testiry in be caso is that rorally the poor 5o ition of the question wasn to have ii CIO cs dimissed. Thore is no0 evi - once to prove that thme Tolberts tore guilty of the charge of inciting riot. Or if guilty, no one could he t mnird to so testify. bLint. Aiken as rec(eived a rinhir of comninuni - aitions and1( letters from (Groonwood nunty saying that it were besit to lns1ois Col. Troibtrt andI hiis son. Jr. Aikon's miotivo in swealrinig ont hie warrant was dual, lie thioughit t the ti rme t hat t,hie parties) were uilty of the charge, arid if so, should (I apprehendedi(4. 'Then, too, hoie E(dr't want to olt arny blood( sh110d in Jolumbhia, and( hie staten t hat lie had on1 pretty good aut.hority thai~t anll rganrized mfovoemnt wais being pro )cted1 and1 had riot thle Tlolb)ertsi hoon rrested they mrighit hrave lost their ves, as well as others of the sus ected lynching party. Tried Friends Best. 'or thirty years'Tutt's Pills have >roven a blessing to the invalid. re truly thc sick man's friend A Known Fact 'or bilious headache, dyspepsia our stomach, malaria,constipa ion and all kindred diseases.t I'UTT'S Liver PILLS ' AN ABSOLUTE CURE. . rity of the very best people of ew facts--I 'buy,A s maiy Dry re0 to sell good-I to other mer. letter elsewhere, then I don't ic, our pricm - - - - - - 1o0 you can buy tbo matrial, our price, wasting breath. 4OEST rtment in Newberry. I f you s up to the highest standard, under tables than most dual o ha<l<imarter-, you are al.. "I ~ ~ ~ l4 liAIT i,It a( lts 4,ll phittedl .tichini Wcrk. P'o (ho Editor of Tho Stato: Oceonsioially I moo in the pape's of hi StatO andI of other Southern itates, fiugi,stioni a11i to the necessity ad propritity of liavitig an impartial istory (of thi war btwoen the Statei, ir the War of Socession. Quite ro ontly I road an articlo by Mr. Wil on, criticising tomo remarks of Prof. Ian1d oil the wir and oxpressing the kopo or th wish that a good history f that. war might bo pivared l6 iso in the school8 of thi.4 State, and f othor Southern States, written rom a stiindpoint froo from bias. I do not remomber Mr. Wileon's miguago preciioly, as I have not his rticlo by mo, but the gonoral im ort is at" abovo. Now, will you pnrimit me to say to bI peophi through The Stato, that loll)y yilrH ago at the muggestion of Ir. W. J. Dullio, an onitorprising (ook solivr and publiosr, of Colum. ill, I bogin the writing of a history f that war, and during the summer Jst )IS(Id I hIIV0 CompIOlod the rork. TIhe, book, however, is niot yet vised* so as)16 to ho readty for the ross, bult that lbhor wvould tako [me ut a little whdol. TJhe( whole field as8 boon0 gozno over and1( the work is 01no. The boo0k is initendedc to be) a ah1ool boo0k. All I waniit now is a ublishier. As for my comOI)tey to ro'paro such i work I cani onily offer 1evidenlco thle historical b)ooks istory of this State anid others, al1 iindy p)ublisheod by myself. Yours respetfully, JOns8 A. CIJAIMAN. Nowiborry, S. C., Nov. 14, 1898. T'he Seaboard Air Line has6 issued 13i4 sPasn thmre'e hani,dsomeo illIustrat.. :1 bOOklotS, "WVi,t or E'xeursionis" Southerni Pines"' and1( "Sportsmani's tumde." T[hose aire now ready for 'stribution 6.1(d will ho sent free f cost to any a ddross. "Their "Win-. Fr xcuirsioins" gives full informna onl inl regard( to lUatos anId Routes > thel be4st Winter flesorts in the >unitry. "Tho "Sportsmnan's Guido"' 1 on4e of tihe handl(somlest and moost >mipleto hooks of its kindl ever soonf y uts. Its maiko up i8 artistic from JOvr to cover anid it contains niot on ' imformiatio>n in ro1 ird to hunting roundu(, gumdes, dog ., Hotel rat es, cc., but a dligest of the Glarno Laws t the States covered b)y it and some otual oxperienIces of hiunters along lie hno of tho Seatboard Air L.e 'he "Southe(rni Pins" booklet is also ory art istical Ily got ten up, anrd the aformaution contined covers every 'omit. Any or all of these wvill be nlailed upon0 app)Jlication to Mr. T. J. ndo(Irson, Genejral Passenger Agent, ~ortsmlouth, Va. t&f 5L Moro than twenty~~ milIIon free sam les of DeoWitt's With liazel Salve ave been dilstribumted by thoc manufac ui*rra. What bectter proof of theie on lenee In It's mer-its doi you want-. I' ciire4 p1Iles, burn-s, scald4s, 51res. i-1 he shortest spaco0 of timo, W. I10, pet. ta'-.