Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ESTABLISHED 1865. BERRY, S. C, 1IDAY, MA Y 2, 1T1 A R I1 A TUT mii lxi mmnn. OF DISTILLERIES, THE CAIOLINA COMPANY STATEs THAT IT HAS COAPLIED. Now Glass Works are Talked of-Desire Is to Locate Them in Columbla-Ani other Distillery Permit Urant ed-Other Works ot Hoard. (The State, May 22.) In March the board of directors of hJ Stato dispensary wits in a quan dary. It did not know how to pro coed in the matter of granting li censes to the several applicants for permits to establish distilleries in Columbia. There were half a dozen such applicants. In order to tese their sincerity, the board passed a resolution providing that permits would be granted those concerning which witbin sixty days would file papers showing that they had each invested in real estate in or around Columbia one-tenth of the amount of the capital stock upon which they proposed to operate. The first concern to take advan tage of this opportunity was the Richland Distilling Company, of which J. S. Farnum is the prime mover. Yesterday the board received a no tification from W. Boyd Evans, at torney, saying that the Carolina Dis tilling Company had complied with the requirements, and wants a per mit. This concern was organized by the Kohns of Montgomery, Ala. No action was taken by the board yesterday. Tomorrow, the 23d, is the last day on which a company could file its return with the board in order to secure a distiller's permit to operate in Columbia. GLASS WORKS. Since liquor is to be manufactured in Columbia, attention is being di rected to the advantages of making other supplies here. The saving in freight puts the home manufacturer on a basis of lower prices. A gentleman was in the city last week considering the advisability of establishing here a glass making es tablishment. The dispensary uses hundreds of thousands of bottles an nually. If they can be made near Columbia, it would be an inviting field for that kind of business. Glass can be made in Columbia. That has been settled. Glass is a composition of silica and alkali. This is near Columbia, a limitless supply of the finest kind of sand, the very kind needed in making a tough, hard hard glass. Then, too, there is an almost inexhaustible quantity of feldspar, kolin and other clays which will be needed in the making. Fur thermore there is an abundance of fuel right at hand. The natural oil wells and coal' deposits in P'ennsyl vania have caused that State to be come the centre of the glass making industry, but right at the clay pits and the sand beds of Rtichland County may be found the scrub pine which is regarded as worthless, but which would be a great factor in making glass at a minimum cost. The gentleman who was here seemed to be very well pleased and said that he had at least $40,000 to put into the plant if the chances of selling the product were favorable. OTHER DISTILLERl120. The board received a petition from C. H. Slsson' of Easley, Pickens County, asking for a permit to estab lish a distillery in Easley township. The petition was approved by the county board and was endorsed by a majority of the freeholders of the township. The matter was laid over to the June meeting. This recalled the fact that the board had on file an application from L. E.-Looper who wanted to estab lish a distillery in Hurricane town ship, Piohens County. Looper had been arrested on .the charge of moon shining, and his petition for distiller's permit had in consequence been re jected, But since that time Looper had gone cn trial in the United States court at Greenville. He was there acquitted on the ground that the still Was really operated by another party actingunnder T,nonnr's name and WILLout the latter's knowledge, state monts to this effect had been filed by E. A. Webster, collector of internal reveut, and J. A. Lewis, United States commissioner at Greenville. Looper yesterday got his pormit from theState board. A WHEEL WITHIN A WHEEL. 'the Cotton Manufacturora' Com,ission Company and the Manufacturcrb' Co,n Ineroal Comnpany Connection with tho southern Cotton Spinnerb' Asaooiation Denied. Charlotte, N. C., May 21.-Dr. Jos H. MoAden, President of the Cotton Manufacturers' Commission Company, of this city, recently or ganized, tells the Observer that the contracts for the financing of his company have been drawn up and signed. "Within ten days," he says, "our company will be ready to do a selling agency business." Speaking of the details of the scheme, he says: "The Manufacturers' Commercial Company will cash all sa1s that come through our company. Our New York company is backed by two New York trust companies' and a capital amounting to $10,000,000. To illustrate our operation: 'A mill man here will sell his yarns to a party in New York or Philadelphia. He will send one bill of goods to the purchaser aud a duplicate bill of lading will be given to us. We en dorse it; send to the Manufacturers' Commercial Company and it will cash the sale on the day the invoice is received. In other words, we will do a spot cash business, and the money resulting from the sale will be placed to the credit of the seller either in New York or in any local bank. Under our system lie will have the advantage of knowing to whom he sells and the price actually received for his goods. All specu lation will be necassarily eliminated. Under the present'system as we sell to Northern comrission men, we never know to whom our produotion goes or what price we sell for. We do know that there is much specula tion and that we aro hurt by it. "We will make a success of our business," continued Dr. McAdon. The commission men charge 2 5-23 per cent for commission. We will never charge over 5 per cent." The business was adjusted today by George D. Mumford, of New York, attorney for the Manufac turers' Commercial Company, and Burwell, Walker & Cansier for the home company. Said' General Manager George B. Hiss: "Our company has just made two contracts today. One is with the Manufacturers' Coinmercial Com pany, by which they wvill finance our company. The agreement is that we handle cotton business for the Commercial Company south of the Potomac and cast of the Missis sippi River. In this territory we will handle yarns, cloths, hosiery and every other kind of cotton man ufactured good, and the Commer cial Company will do the selling and guaranteeing. "The other contract is with the commission house of James Free man-Brown Company, of New York city. They will act as our exclusive selling agency and have general agencies in Boston, Philadelphia, Albany and in other places. We sell through one house to prevent a duplication of ordersto sell. Our gen eral plan in organizing is original, though the plan for selling direct to customers is not new. It is done successfully by the wool manufac turers are now selling direct. "Neither the Commercial Com pany nor the Freeman-Brown Com pany owns stock in our company, which is independent, and is owned entirely by Southern people. We offer no stock for sale. "We wish it understood that our company has no connection what eve~r with the Southern Catton Spin. ners' Association." c.A.O 'rT 2.Z.IL. Bear tue 4lliKind~~y8lwaBOud McLAUJUN AN) HAMPTON. What Watterpon Thinkg About tho olum biat Postofalco Incident. (Louisville Courier Journal.) That the Philadelphia Press should be unable to conceive how any mar on earth, being offered an ofico, couki docline it-particularly a man it ne0d-goes without sayimg; is a siu plo matter of course; of the nature of the Pomisylvania bottling and trade-mark; and thorofore, the covi ments of that thick-and-thin organ upon some recent utterances of Gen. Wado 11amp!ou will surprise no one who can distinguish "13" from "bull's foot." Tho Press ascribes the re fusal af the grim old warrior to be bribed to "sectional prejudice." See ing all things through the green gog gles of political interest and party fooling, it can imagine no other or higher motive. This is the jaun. diced way the Pross puts it: "One or two points in the utter ance of (4on. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, recently reported, deserves attention. It is said to have been intimated to Gen. Hamp ton that he could have the Columbia postmastorship withott any politicil conditions being attached to the office, the appointment, it is understood, being at the disposal of Sonator Mc Laurin. As Gen. Hampton is oJd and in straitened financial circum stances it was probably thought that such an offer would be acceptable. It was promptly declined, however, with the remark: "I would notonly not accept a position from such i source, but I would not even con sider it." 'he conclusion to be drawn from the circumstances and the language Gon. Hampton used is that he is not in sympathy With the effort Sonator McLaurin is making to liberalize the politics of South Carolina, and that he prefers the old, bigoted methods to any now dopart ure. This is to be regretted, but it is not unexpected. If any one im agined that Southern prejudices which are the growth of generations could be dissipated at once, and that the white Democracy could be split in twain by some Federal appoint ment, the reply of Gen. Hampton will nndeceive them. Said the Gen oral: 'The people of South Carolina should know by this time that I am not for sale, and that I never shall be.'" The fine figure of this venerable soldier and gentleman, all things that were his in youth gone from his age save dignity and integrity, drawing his tattered cloak about him and put ting away an ob)vious and shameless bribe with honest scorn, makes no appeal to this heartless cynic and rabid partisan, who cannot even truthfully relate the facts. We quote the Press again: But at the samo time that Gen, Hampton makes clear his own posi tion he also reveals the inconsistency of the leading Southern white Dem ocrats. Their assert ion, reiterfited time and again, has been that it was no use to attempt to build up a Re publican party in the South until ro spectable white men wore appointed to office. But as soon as it inti mated that a white man can have an offlce from a Republican Administra tion Geon. Hampton denounces it as an attempt to buy Democrats and spurns the offer with contempt. H1 plainly prefers the manners and moth 0ods of Senator Tillman to those o1 Senator McLaurin. Hampton hari been held in higher respect than most Southern Democratic leaders but his latest utterances will not tend to reaffirm that opinion. Geon. Hamp. ton might have helped to pave th way for a more liberal political err in the South. He has refused, bui he cannot atop the movement, how. oer earnestly he may strive to thai end. It has been started and ti utterances of leading Southern news. papers show that it has alread; gained a support that assures ini permanence." Is it true then that, in South Care line, a man must perforce follov either Tillm an, with his pitchfork, oi McLaurin, with his basket of chips May there be no "progress" in th: South without turpitude? Must th: white men of the South, so called bocomio Roplblicanis 1hofore tloy Can bo exempt from ho misrlrueslita tion of Ropublican nowspapers? Is there no such thing as honest, differ onco of opinion touching pubbi af fairs to bo permitted in t ho Caroliinas, or olsowhoro south of the (dd mvythi cal Mason and Dixon's lin' Is tho ascription of iitorauce and projuoe to ho attached to overything in that quarter which is not Imlarked down upon the politicil bargain connter with tho imprint. "IMcaurin?" If ii 1111in be ia Protectionisit, who believes in high tariff, or ito tariff, according to tho bidding of the man IIfact u rers. I f ho be an opport unist, who takes the Presidont for his guido in the matter of 0h li di1position of the outlying torritories como to uts as ia consequence of the Spanish war. If with respect, to the distribution of the Federal patronage li be a tronch - orman who accept-, the prosident fo,r his paymaster. If in the Sonate t follows the load of Senator Hanna even to tho longth of supporting a ihip subsidy notoriously dosigned to pay off Se-rator llnna's caupmlgl obligations. If there ho such a iian, ho is a Itepublican, and let himii be rated as such, nor dishonored thero for. But if, on thes lines, seeking proselytes, this mnai comes among his Domocratic const ituonts disguised as a Democrat, yet carrying trosi his arm a covered basket of appoint monts to ofiico to be doled out to por sons considered to bo of likely use, or importaceo, people ar justified in saying, "Tbis is no Domocrat. This is a Republican. IZ(spect his opin ions for what they are, but lot uis have no falso preteuces." And this seems to us to ho the iso of Senator MeLaurin. That he shuld pursuo his own hent is lis uloubtud right and no rensonabo porson will gainsay it. But it does look a it rill hard that, in reachiug after moral supports, he should go ont of his way to insult an old man liko Wade I-lamp ton with the offer of a bribo fo pial pablo that needs not to bo super scribed to be recognized by the blind est. What elso but inligent rofusal did he expect? "Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing?" Is nothing safe against the profana tion of tho Money Dovil, who sits snug and smiling in the sonts of tho mighty at Washiugton, holding that every man has hik prico; not whiton. ing hairs, nor d(istinguished and dis. interested public servico, nor hon1or able poverty ? The Courier-Journal is neither a radical, nor an extremist. Wo fol. low not Senator Tillman any more than we follow Senator McL~aurin. But we believo in honest politics, ini fair-sailing and squareo-doaling, in a word, in all things open~ and above board. Nay, we bolievo in moral obligations in public no less than in prnivato life. We cannot expoet a newspap~er conducted as our.PI hila delphi a con toempornary is conducted and environod as it is environed to comprehend the sensibilities wvhich prompt a man liko Wade Hampton. The Prness is not alone among Bo puiblican organs in being a notablo example of implerfect sympathy. it is caso-hardonled to any other than party influencos. It is iron-clad against (extenal pr-essure t hat (100s not emnato from Washington and Harrisburg. But still in Pennisylva-u nia they pretend to have seome stand ards of honesty, and even in Philua dolphian the mo'st veteran rogues keep an eye both upon the demands of respectability and the doors of the poenitentirry, so that the Press may be credlited with ai cortain porspoc tive; and, adldressinag ourselves to this, let us ask what it would have had Gen. Hampton (1o? lie is a very old man. Little suf fiees him. The worsb of it is over. What matter to him the difference between his shabby old suit arid a smart frock coat, purchased with equivocal, we will not say with dirty money ? How would ho look in a ahiny shirt front an:1 new, slick silk hat, got, as the price of helping, or of Rooming to help, a trading politi cian out of a hole? Imagine this spotless and venerable 0old man, the weight of two wars upon his ga4nd old shoulders, a great and famous care waiting unon01 his tottering footLtps to fi in honorale grav and1( mn untarnishd monumei, Imtl ing out. letters to rng tag and bob tail for it pittitneo allowed him by IesNs 1 P, not. lit. to ti hi sI i o triiig. I it p o '4il I that oven a l'ht(del phiia, acustd(tI to I wloNv the h ive:i m1 F ki ed 1101icil! erv tulde, use'd to paitr! iIia mostrI'oP;I ti , with chrceisi abof tho rai OW-1n0s9 Which somlrAimnosaie ill the busomis of Ihe b, 1. illoe t miolli - v;.ih olae imc. f:- n1 mome1t illu llinns tho wri'd nIn11hte of tho m14o,t inltol(granit -vanI.1ut soo Hitat thoe 1i tiudo of Se11ator M[101cTawril lis J,oth. tag inv coIntIon w01 Nvit It Imnlighteted politics, tho courso of .l Wado ttlilaptonl nothiniig to do with walit it enalk "8 uth-!ri prejud'livo," an! that, from first to Iat, his ceod is an uInkp:itvIotic and dfamltorly a;autill - t u1poln milliois of li countryl WO enid where wo hegal: I low conll Such a neowipaprl. a; the Prosn b0 0XpeCtOd t l taike any view of any ilfair of liro oxcopt. it grovollin, purty viow, except. a inother, m11on10y grbbing!.viel, xcept a malkg s0e tiollll, linpatriott % iew.' It springs from tho school of whivi Thaddols Stevelln" wis tho oracle. It 111 do votld itsolf to the propagation of (Ito idems. <f that school. It would if it coul t-stah h its -.1 ma teach. ing and pr'o,criptive spirit. It lis leiled nlothinl:., forgot ting nothing, thvs3 six aid thit yyars. Noil her tho bonor of man, nor tho virtu of WOn11i, !-'eia'; to hav an- iy phtco in ita moral repository; it. is color blind to ovorythiCg llp)tored by tho partv Iahol; nd it couli no morm unrstanotItd a itIli liko Wa ae m1111ilp 0t7 thanl it llottvintot. could in1ler stand d vorks (f Shikespar, nll ivldintri savage tle words of Holy Wlt. IU i0 rlatd thai aSOm 110 110 midPalinl' 1onlapt! ,Who hand lit iniked i it Ia mdel for Celnova's fimous statue, whether during tho sitting iho did not fool uncomfort able, and that sho prompt-ly answer c.d, "Not, the leasf in lie world. I had plonty to oat, and drink and the room01 was porfectly warned." Pr't,I in sugjair (Canc. (Nows and Courier, May 20.) In a letter to the Maalfacturorn' Record(1. diudgo dosoph Tilmuan, of Qi0.illan, GIt., givos at Sholrt atccollnt. (f thO now money crop inl Soithorn1 (G3eorgill anld FloridIa, which will in torost some faruters and other land holders inl thi. Stato. Uutil of lite, ho says, homeio seokor fromt other parts of the country have ignored tho region nameiid, btut, sinco learning of t heir profitablo aigricul - Lural products "t(he inmbor of in qui ries have beoun simuply immenso"' -wich is sulggestivo, amiontg other things, it misy bo unoted ini pasing, of t he valuo11 to the peopio of ai pro dunctivo agricuiltu ral dis1tr ict of advor Lining its capatbilit ion. Thoreio i-s a "home xeokor"' for every producltivo aicro ini South Carol inn, if ho only knew of its existence, valuo11 and loca1 tiont. dJ iidgi Tillbniin, however, 'g)os on to lsay thact amlIong the mainy profiitablo prFodclits of the region heO writes about tho li-st including cot I Ln, corn, wheait, p)eachos, pears, varied vegetables in large diemand(, caittle and1( ho0gs-'-sugar canto as aI stamplo crop) is now p)ro-ominontt."' Some of the farmiers, lhe explains, "roealizedc from $1I53 to $250, anmd in a fe, m istances noazrly, if not quite, $300) por acre from their cane," and1( lie addsli that "a1 01n0-horso farmer can cultivate twoenty to twon ty-fivye acres of it as cheaply as5 te 1amo1 numbler of Corn, and at about one-third the cost of the same1( numbTtler in cotton."' i. isl cvidently a good region for one horso farmorst to farmt ini; arnd nt is qjully plalin that the crop has con md(orall (claihns on the conidehirationt of farmers in regions in this Stto whore it can he grown and( handlled generally as chltaply 'ind to as goodi profit as in Southern (oorgia. T1he argument of over- production is mect in a few wordsR. "Statistics of the vast amount of sugar impl1ortod from other countries, together withi the rapidly increasing consumption per capita," show that the posiili.. tien of Southern Geoorgia and Florida "are ynt in their swadidlingatntirn." other colitn:0.1 for suigir. Ur por Capita c )momp ytion inrea"IsId from thirty-six p: -l t in 1N00 to sixy Honell p)iIIIJ. inl 1900, to sa). nothing of iho int's1: - Il i 'n,pllation ii tihe stuole pertiod. Whi,t woli it meanll to H)tltlri M('rgi alld Ilor-idit to :tolp and b; -! !('r:000 ,00 o What wmnl h hu , fho "votion blk w"trth W WhIat wndIt mwan to !4m11 of th1w ot CaI hm'"It counltis "tt lkt ' )c 0".. lI o 't)t h 1, )k P ). I IM0t ir l 1 ' h 1, 11,'FI u II . iti. ( 'nun erill~ i t o'vnI11 oi ou'r~ ";H)uidk Iy 1 i e l'i" I I I cop!I l t ItioI wi the I ic h lot 111 1 s1 of L:m1 iant , it I wd l1 bo obj td oi 1ft olet . ImIg o ' n'I l m alln'o r th- t poin thailln 011 0 I ar i h ofi (4 oorgiat anId F"lorhi -:m<1l "tepiniv lands" C I)Stitut II i to I t h l r p- o rt iO an arillo 1)y fathed b t. a' thov ean contials 2. por c,-w.wt,'u w1'ar, whill lho Lou lisil1 (a01o t ain i I I p,r cout. it Itdh: Thlrv i no4) e1rp 1,hat i t-o 'colritill; n o iusc that poti. 8S.ISe gr1a-mr 1o h wifl)h:tandinig 10 or. v wili th riva( nr almst anIy anld aill ('ondit]'ion 'if r-a.;ovs. Wbat i lhain to it ikJu i it ho known, and our outir t u,ar helt Aill sioonl ho filledl with a Olhrify,1 fruigi ll clitS of imcnnigrnt , wolu will prodco ore ind ofpr-otablo crops tal ci he ralw ii Inany o h1),r pat. of olho coltl 'int. A not Ilm - reat advantag4, uvtr I i Notold Wvst that will readily prelste n tvi ct i tillt tlno farron CMn Io *OiAv pruiltat blea cr ofr motc he oiiytar. All tIhiH is e< idlly applicaleo, inl eory partieillar, oto t the cal giroing region in Soith CtriliI--at rgion mn wihel it hals bween gr-ownvi for neilr Jy two htundrod yearl. Thcrop ap p710uIS to be10 IIel 't w It far 1 - nu0or10 attIeont ionl I Ithai I w rtt "ivingt io itv . Why grow cotton (nI tntih t tlat will yiel Id rotuirns of i ,'-0 to 4300 pleirk acro from eano ail (ino iird tho cont. of an1 ae of cottonl ' Thel counit'ies that, can prodce ai goo( !,,rowth da quality of cal would probably rol dor hoemsolve it valuablo sro-vce 0xhibiting wio of it at tho approach ing exposition. CAN It IIls UFr TO SUOTC11T . IS To.1Minon1)(11lar" ftr vi'mi untiverolty iniucaiiito W Provitk! fslr ICveoir no11y atil G0 lit Peothlkil who enn StadI tho Entra,ice Exim utiion . liondon, Mity 20.- --u drow Carne gio hs give'i12,000,000 to eta lish frv oducation il f<mr cotch uniteordLos, Edinburgh, lIla sgow, Abordn, andiiii Sltt,M Adw's. afd otipu erola eltat the honeticiatrio hmo tnly renotis, Withtish, pcolils thr fonrefer. t Thind will appol to meal aqiis well ast tho conneroial foreait.o tn ll for plauicrditoi thatd. trusteesl,O( lh ill ay c1the~ willenive an icottis studec:nts ton. aled undf plo g chomo.rac ~ain Mr. Carnegie had flortOmIfod thars tben onsidorin th oopln to r help oing cotch stdntvo obti paui-m winnectrd Uihour, oft Buligh Lord thatal repreusn.aiedeno, andhvo the resutlt wase tht ho prsnted th fual rfrodotng whicwill produe is ginquiriot to ta t thetl toal teir fpaidh to tho uiiveritisi tha(t l th l. ',00,00 hsem has doae wil giver anvenmen auficei tpo Aofrdin toivthety odcationl aor abl hoftisitge thdintratnce oxamin Maregie'sgii dreetermnerldthat cteois nso hl breopon tho richn poorai, fo that l)eter h e nooking thuggeftiv ho f nh pautrs mowhllne the ihirn unvinieo tohcil ats bt the univedofMrCri,o Cargo's iftprsen. eealdf SENATORIAL RACE AND POSSI 1I 1ES, TVIMAs: W110 AIa .: 1,11;L.V 'To (OPPOSEI .1IoN .. Ii l.A--ICIN. Ovorge? J-1111htowm :n., u V idi e !.K S:416a ItI l'olllvant( l e \n h coltilv hun tion ["ho tAre ay '!2n.) ."'Inor MvLailvint's spe'ch tod:Ly at Gicoivilh, is goner!ly regarded aL tho opolning ol, his camplai"'.1 for rk%l(woin althrmugh ithvio lare wio whof still pr-ofoss to lieve thia t h nt. ab Lautri ill i I not bo il tIe 4111m1nigii next simecr. I lowovjr :it ma1y b , I his Ieti-:ity atl tho present time n Vtur aI llI Osk Itten t iell t4) t he ract t"r the sont onco hl+ b y Wad w1 Itl inptont . Fr-oml pr-,eoent ildienitiuk,:u that tho raeo will bo it varill oneo. (ongresumn Lat i mw,r, of the Tir id listrict, is ilroily at.n o w Iid Itn idt, I I v nd 1 N ac tirl tood that ait thi!; tifio alat Conul grIossi 1 Iatinlwr, 111l ltho gool will if not. the ilictivo suppoi of -iiatur 'illman. Stato Senator ). S, 11ln. derson, of A iken, is lko indoertood to ho inl tho r11co fol ill b111 is worthl, whlichI i3 noIt at liffo H,e j1vhas recoent Iv bet'nl tated tiut tiwn- i14 an tin1 dr't an<hig h ot wIein M ULs. 1 ati in0r aid I loilte-Soi; th:it tho forlor is looking afltor Charloiston and the Il countiry id the inter pitying part iculla It-tent i I t th, Pied Inoit. J ust What cal ho gained from thill filogod co oporatilonl is ioit Iown, but CireliiSt Ilnet's givo cl (11onco to t.ho roport. Coig'ro.-4siai Latilimr's elforti ill behlif of thL 'uue4tn xsitiO1 Itn0 1 a1 11pOd to givo him Ch1Varleston'oto so far av i( !in be controlled, while Solnal to Ni ( deorion being,.v pO:1 SM)sd of tiottio iiittionco with the cotton proti idont of tho Piodmollt Would be MOro apt to undormino ArIcLaurin ill that quarter. Th1e nailo of Col. Goorgo, John stone, of Nowberry, hai boon ofton mnonitioned ii connection with this 11O. if ho should be i canlidato to wouli bo pitted against tho maln who defoatod him for roolection to con1gress ---A. C. Lat imor. This is anl inittorostinf coincilonce. Col. jJIohliitono was ill the city yeterday, but was not tal1kiing )O!itics, being busy with omiolgal iffairS. A close ri-enidi, howevor, statod that it Was most probablo that. Col. Johnstonlo would have soilot.hing to say On the sI map next summeshl'.. lie is one1 of tihl mt,itt ooquent speakers is- tihe tha Lt is en utry into( thle Iild woul do muchiti to l ivetn ma Ltter5 upl. 'lhore are a numlber of' othe(r gen Yos-terdaiy La gentlemnan wiLo is well inig ablouIt thei ituation, sid:( "Thle last timio Senator Mec Laurini spoke at GIroonlvillo-1 8WJ--ho wals one of the wvorst 'hLackedl' men t hat over aLppeairod on the stuLmp) in South Carolina. It may 1)1 dlittert tomor auldiencoc unIder the ausi8)ces of cot ton mnill ir 0:iidenlts, bankers and birokers, lbut ho spoko to aI crowd of the 'wool hat iboys' out nionr 1t hocomfo tory and hoforo t hey got through with him ho was hailhy roattlou. Evans Irby siimly went for him5 with gloves and( they hadiu thie ciowdl wit h them aill 1th1e wHyIi troulgh. it was one of the st rongest anti- McLauria mnect ings of thmenampalignl. I was over a large part of to county duiring the campaign of last year and am pretty sure thero has1 niot boen any groat change of seintimient among the votersa in regard to national issues. Joe Johnson made some of the sitrongeost anti- imporialist speeches th at havo~' ever beon heard in the south and the Grooniville votora received thia por tiotn of his ronmarks with no0 htile fa vor. McLaurin may got. a fino re ception tomorrow but it wvill b)o well for him niot to believe that it moans a solidl county back of him. Boan3 the Kh ind You have AlWay3 Bo0gh eignatuiro