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A LAX. O. KOLLOCK.
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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The editorials in this paper are writ
ten in the singular number, the editorial
‘we” haring been discarded.
AN ANONYMOUS CARD.
General Earle alluded to an anon-
ymouA card which had appeared in a
Sumter paper, asking why he withdrew
from a race for a county office in 1876.
“You all know the author,” he said,
“but I »m ready to answer it. If any
man in the crowd will stand sponsor for
those questions let him appear and I
will answer. Let him stand up.” There
was no sponsor. “You all know where
I stand on State politics. I am a Dem
ocrat; I have not joined In vituperation,
I have given credit for what was done.
—Judge Earle at Sumter.
Judge Earle knows full well
that those questions were
asked by The Editor or The
Darlington News because a
marked copy of the paper was
sent him. But if he persists in
saying the card, as he calls it,
was anonymous, it may be well
to state right here that A. G.
Kollock is The Editor or The
Darlington News and is re
sponsible for said questions.
Does that satisfy you, Judge
Earle?
William J. Bryan, ot Nebras
ka, and Arthur Sewall, of Maine,
have been nominated President
and vice President by the Chi
cago convention. The former
has served two terms in Con
gress and made a brilliant rec
ord and the latter is a banker
and shipbuilder and very wealth
y. While Bryan is probably
the best free silver man that
could have been nominated it is
not clear why the democracy
should have hoped to carry the
State of Maine by placing on
the ticket one of her distinguis
ed citizens. New England is
thoroughly wedded to the gold
standard and a small bait like
the vice Presidency will gain
very few votes in that quarter
for free coinage. Daniel or Mor
gan would have been far prefer
able to the hosts of free silver
But the convention probably
reasoned that the south would
vote that way anyhow and it
was better to try and get votes
in a gold stronghold by tickling
the vanity of the“downeaster8
Ben Tillman had a great op
portunity at Cnicago to make
a speech but he missed it and
showed his inferiority when
brought face to face with an in
telligent audience who did not
approve of his methods. The
newspaper reports say that he
was howled down, cheered and
hissed and that his rage was
terrible. Those who know any
thing about Tillman are perfect
ly aware that he can never
make a speech unless he is be
ing whooped up by the boys—a
hostile crowd enrages him and
he is totally unable to stand the
medicine which he it so fond of
giving to his opponents.
The Lexington Dispatch ot
last week contained advertise
ments of eight first-class barbe
cues which will take place in
that county during the summer.
Why don’t some one now ad
vertise a second-class barbecue;
certainly all of the people of
Lexington county are not able
to patronize first-class barbe
cues, and, as they constitute a
very large portion of the popu
lation, some entertainment in
the way of a barbecue should be
provided for them. The man,
therefore, who advertises a sec
ond-class barbecue will draw
the crowd and rake in the cash.
Whst about the bicycle road to Dar
lington ? It U a good idea, and ahoald
be pushed to completion. The wheel
men of our sister city will certainly bear
their portion.—Florence Tfmes-Met-
Mngsr.
It the wheelmen of Florence
and Darlington are in favor of
the track it would take very lit
tle work to-get the enterprise
in shape. Let representative
bicyclists get together and per
fect an organisation and then
*: would be much easier,
say the Florence wbeel-
The South Carolina delega
tion at Chicago, Tillman except
ed, voted for the 16-to-l-or-bust
candidate. When they saw the
rush, coming to Bryan they de
sired to get on the band wagon,
but Tillman insisted that they
should follow instructions and
vote for him on the first ballot.
Afterwards he tried to induce
them to vote for Teller, but they
refused and cast their ballots
for Bryan.
Bryan, should he be elected,
will be the youngest President
the United States has ever
had. His age is 36 and 36 is the
age required by the Constitu
tion.
It is sixteen to one and busted
now.
A JUDICIAL REFORM SUGGESTED
Let ua have a Public Officer te Defend
aa we have a Solicitor to Proaecute
Criminala.
To the Editor of the Nett’s and
Courier: The Rev. Mr. Gard
ner’s sermon on “The Cheap
ness of Human Life’’ should be
read from every pulpit in South
Carolina. Some reform of our
judicial methods must come
very soon. It years ago occur
red to me that a long step to
ward rectifying the frequent
miscarriages of justice in our
Criminal Courts would be the
election by the people of a de
fendant’s attorney to go around
the circuit (as the solicitor now
does as prosecuting attorney,)
employed and paidhy the State
to defend all causes that come
up for trial in the Criminal
Courts. This would umoad us
of a body of men who now make
it their constant labor and study
to defeat justice by any art that
will pass muster in a so-called
Court of law. The Court is
really incomplete without a de
fendant’s attorney. We have a
Judge, a jury, a
attorney, a sheriff, a clerk,
elected by the people and paid
as public officers, and, in place
of a defendant’s attorney so
elected and paid, we have a
body of private citizens whose
living depends upon their so
using the arts of their profes
sion—their “trade”—that they
will be sought after by persons
accused of crime. The bigger
and more obvious the crime the
better the pay for the lawyer
who defends against the inflict
ion of its penalties.
I wish to suggest to my breth
ren of the Bar a discussion
through the public prints of the
practicability and desirability
of having our judicial system
so amended that the people will
elect and the State will pay a
regular defendant’s attorney for
each circuit, at the same time
and by same methods we now
elect a prosecuting attorney.
Speak out, brethren of the Bar.
Respectfully,
John J. Dargan.
MURPHY MUST HANG.
The Fete of Treasurer Copes' Mur
derer Settled.
D. C. Murphy, the convicted
murderer of Treasurer Copes of
Orangeburg, must hang. There
is now no hope for him except
Executive clemency and that is
not likely to be forthcoming.
Murphy is a white man and
is now in the penitentiary,
where he has been confined
since his conviction over a year
ago, for safe keeping. After
conviction an appeal was taken
to the Supreme Court on a tech
nical ground, but yesterday the
court, through Associate Jus
tice Ira B. Jones, rendered a
decision confirming the verdict
in the lower court and Murphy
will be taken back to Orange
burg, re-sentenced and hung in
the bounds of all probability.
Murphy daily, at the peniten
tiary, asks to be allowed to see
some paper, thinking that each
day some decision would be ren
dered which meant life or death
to him. He was not informed
yesterday of his fate and he
will not know it until to-day.
It will be a terrible blow to fiim
when he knows all hope is gone,
but all this should have been
considered by him before he
cruelly murdered Treasurer
Copes on the road near Orange
burg.—Columbia Register.
According to an American
farm paper 40,000,000 eggs are
used by the calico print works
each year. Photographic estab
lishments use millions of dozens
and wine clarifiers call for over
10,000,000 dozens. The demand
from these sources increases
faster than the table de
mand. They are used by* book
binders, kid glove manufactur
ers and for finishing fine leath
er. Dried eggs are being put
upon the market. Fresh eggs
are broken and churned by
machinery, and the mixture is
then evaporated to dryness.
They are claimed to keep inde
finitely in this form. When
cooked with hot water in vari
ous ways they are said to taste
precisely like fresh eggs. It
promises to become an import
ant industry and evidently will
not require an expensive plant.
I0CMTIC FLAM.
full text of every plank that
WAS ADOPTED AT CHICAGO.
FrSa Silver, Free Cuba, Tariff For Rev.
enue—All to be Supported by
William J. Bryan.
The platform aa finally
upon read*-
We, the Democrata of the United
Statea in national convention aaaem-
bled, do reaffirm oar allegiance to
these great eaaential principals of
justice and liberty upon which our
instutlons are founded, and which the
Democratic party has advocated from
Jefferson’s time to our own—freedom
of speech, freedom of the press, free
dom of conscience, the perservation
of personal rights, the equality of
all citisens before the law and the
faithful observance of constitutional
liberties. During all these years the
Democratic party has resisted the
tendency of selfish interests to the
centralization of government power
and steadfastly maintained the in
tegrity of of the dual scheme of gov
ernment established by the founders
of this republic of republics. Under
its guidance and teachings the great
prin iple of local self-government has
found its best expression in the main
tenance of rights of the States and in
its assertion of the necessity of con
fining the general government to the
exercise of the powers granted by the
Constitution of the United States.
The Constitution of the United States
guarantee to every citizen the rights
of civil and religious liberty. The
Democratic party has always been the
exponent of political liberty and re
ligions freedom and it renews its
obligations and reaffirms its devotion
to these fundamental principles of
the Constitution
TBS FINANCIAL PLANK.
Recognizing that the money ques
tion is parmount to all others at this
time, we invite attention to the fact
that the Federal Constitution names
silver and gold together as the money
metal of the United States, and that
the first coinage law passed by con
grass under the Constitution made
the silver dollar the monetary unit
and admitted gold to free coinage at
a ratio based upon the silver dollar
unit. We declare that the act of 1878
demonetizing silver without the
knowledge or approval of the Amer
ican people has resulted in the ap
preciation of gold and a correspond
ing fall in the prices of commodities
produced by the people; a heavy in
crease in the burden of taxation and
of debts, bublic and private; the en
richment of the money lending class
at home and abroad; the prostration
ot industry and impoverishment of
the people.
We are unalterably opposed to
monometalism, which has locked fast
the prosperity of an industrial peo
ple in the paralysis of hard tftnes.
Gold monometalism is a British policy,
and its adoption has brought other
nations into financial servitude to
London. It is not only un-American,
but anti-American, and it can be
fastened on the United States only by
the stifling of that spirit and love of
liberty which proclaimed our politic
al independence in 1776 and won it in
war of the Revolution.
We demand the free and unlimited
coinage of both silver and gold at the
present legal ratio of 16 to 1 without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation. We demand that the
silver dollar shall be a full legal ten
der equally with gold for all debts,
public and private, and we favor such
legislation as will prevent for the
future the demonetization of any
kind of legal tender money by private
contract.
We are opposed to the policy and
practice of surrendering to the hold
ers of the obligations of the United
States the option reserved by law to
the government of redeeming such
obligations in either silver or gold
coin.
We are opposed to the issuing of
interest-bearing bonds of tha United
States in time of peace, and condemn
the trafflcing with banking syndi
cates, which, in exchange for bonds
and at an enormous profit to them
selves, supply the Federal treasury
with gold to maintain the policy of
gold monometalism-
Congress alone has the power to
coin and issue money and President
Jackson declares that this power
could not be delegated to corporation
or individuals. We therefore de
nounce the issuance of notes intended
to circulate as money by national
banks as in derogation of the Con
stitution, and we demand that all
paper which is made a legal tender
for public and private debts, or which
is receivable for duties to the United
States shall be issued by the govern
ment of the United States and shall
be redeemable in coin.
TARIFF FOR REVENUE.
We hold that the tariff duties
should be levied for purposes of rev
enue, such dutissb to e so adjusted as
to operate equally throughout the
country and not discriminate between
or section and that taxation
ahoald be limited by the'needs of the
government honestly and economical
ly administered. We denounce as
disturbing to business the Republi
can threat to restore the McKinley
law which has twice been condemn
ed by the people in national elections,
and which, enacted under the false
plea of protection to home industries.
proved a prolific breeder of trusts and
monopolies enriched the few at the
expense of the many, restiicted trade
and deprived the producers of the
great American staples of access to
their natural markets. Until the
money question is settled we are
opposed to any agitation for further
changes in our tariff laws except
such as are necessary to meet the
agreed* 'deficit in revenue caused by the ad
verse decision of the supreme court
on the income tax. But for this de
cision by the supreme court, there
would be no deficit in the revenue
under the law passed by a Democrat
ic congress in strict pursuance of the
uniform decision of that court for
nearly 100 years; that court having
in that decision sustained consti
tutional objections to its enactment
which has previously been overruled
by the ablest judges who have ever
sat on that bench. We declare that
it is the duty of congress to use ail
the constitutional powers which re
main after that, decision or which
may come from its reversal by the
court as it may hereafter be constitu
ted, so that the burdens of taxation
may be equally and impartially laid
to the end that wealth may bear its
due proportion of the expenses of the
government.
TO RESTRICT IMMIGRATION.
We hold that the most efficient way
of protecting American labor is to
prevent the importation of foreign
pauper labor to compete withit in the
home market, and that the value of
the home market to our American
farmers and artisans is greatly re
duced by a vicious monetary system
which depresses the price of their
production, and thus depiives them
of the means of purchasing the pro
ducts of our home manufacturers.
AS TO CORPORAOIONS.
The absorption of wealth by the
few, the consolidation of our leading
railroad systems and the formation of
trusts and pools require a stricter
control by the Fedral government of
these arteries of commerce. We de
mand the eniargment of the powers
of the interstate commerce commis
sion and such restrictions and guar
antees in the control of railroads as
will protect the people from robbery
and oppression, and as labor created
the wealth of the country, we demand
the passage of such laws as may be
necessary to protect it in all its rights.
LABOR ARBITRATION.
We are in favor of the arbitration
of differences between' employers en
gaged in interstate commerce and
their employees and recommend such
legislation as is necessary to carry
out this principle.
A DEMAND FOR ECONOMY.
We denounce the profligate waste
of the money wrung from the people
by oppressive taxation and the lav
ish appropriation of recent Repub
lican congress, which have kept taxes
high while the labor that pays them
is unemployed and the products of the
people’s toil are depressed in piice
till they no longer repay the cost of
production.
We demand a return to that sim
plicity and economy which befits a
Democratic governo.ent and a reduct
ion in the number of useless offices,
the salaries of which drain the sub
stance of the people.
FHDERAL INTERFERENCE DE
NOUNCED.
We denounce arbitrary interference
by Fedral authorities in local affairs
as a violation of the Constitution of
the United States and a crime against
free institutions and we especially
object to government by injunction
as a new and highly dangerous form
of oppression by which Federal
judges, in contempt of the laws of
the State and rights of citizens, be
come at once legislators, judges and
executioners, and we approve the bill
pending in the house of represent
atives relative to contempts in Fed
eral courts and providing trials by
jury in certain cases of contempt.
TREAT ALL ALIKE.
No discrimination should be indulg
ed in by the government of the United
States in favor of any of its debtors.
We approve of the refusal of the fifty-
third congress to pass the Pacific
railroad funding bill, and denounce
the efforts of the present Republican
congress to enact a similar measure.
THE PENSION PLANK.
Recognizing the just claims of de
serving Union Soldiers, we heartily
endorse the rule of the present com
missioner of pensions that no names
shall be arbitrarily dropped from the
penei m roll; and the fact of enlist
ment and service should be deemed
conclusive evidence against disease
and disability before enlistment.
ADMITTING NEW STATES.
We favor the admission ot the ter
ritories of New Mexico and Aiizona
into the Union as States, and we
favor the early admisson of all the
territories having the necessary pop
ulation and resources to enable them
to statehood, and while they remain
territories we hold that the officials
of any territory, together with the
District of Columbia and Alaska,
should be bonafide residents of the
territory or district in which the
duties are to be performed.
home r^le.
The Democratic party believes in
home rule and that all public lands
of the United States should be ap
pointed to the establishment of free
homes for American citizens.
ALASKA’S DELEGATE.
We recommend that the Territory
of Alaska be granted a delegate in
congress and that the general land
and timber laws of the United States
tie extended to said Territory.
SYMPATHY FOR CUBA.
We extend our sympathy to the
people of Cuba in their heoric strug
gle for liberty and independence.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
The Monroe doctrine as originally
declared and as interpreted by
succeeding Presidents, is a permanent
part of the foreign policy of the
United States and must at all times
be maintained.
FIXED TERMS OF OFFICR.
We are opposed to life tenure in the
public service. We favor appoint
ments based upon merit, fixed terms
of office and such administra
tion of the civil service laws as will
afford equal opportunities to all citi
zens of ascertained fiitness.
NO THIRD TERM.
We declare it to be the unwritten
law of this republic, established by
custom and usage of one hundred
years and sanctioned by the examples
of the greatest and wisest of those
who founded and have maintained
our government, that no nan should
be eiible for a third term of the
Presidential office.
IMPROVED WATERWAYS.
The Federal government should
care for and improve the Mississippi
river and other great waterways of
the republic so as to secure for the
interior States easy and cheap trans
portation to tide water. When any
waterway of the republic is of suf
ficient importance to demand aid of
the government, such aid should be
extended upon a detiuate plan of con-
tinous work until permanent im
provement is secured.
Confiding in the justice of our
cause and the necessity of its success
at the polls, we submit the foregoing
declaration of prinaiples and pur
poses to the considerate judgement
ef the American peop’e. We invite
the support of all citizens who ap
prove them and who desire to have
them made effective through legis
lation for the relief of the people and
the restoration of the country’s pros-
perii y.
GROVES^
TASTELESS
CHILL
TDNIC
IS JUST AS GOOD FOR ADULTS.
WARRANTED. PRICE 60 cts.
Galatia, Ills., Not. K, 1885.
Paris Medldno Co., St. Ixnila, Mo.
Gentlemen:—We sold last rear. 800 bottles of
GROVE’S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC sod baTo
bought three gross already Ibis year. In all oar ex
perience of 1< rears. In tbs drug buslneM. bare
uorereold an article that gays eticb unlTetsal aotla-
taction aa your Tonic. Yours truly,
Abssy.Cabb ACC
For sale by O. B. DAVIS and ail
Druggists.
June 11—6m
nvitd.
Darlington Lodge,
No. 7, Knights of PythL
as, meets on 1st and 8rd
Tuesday Evenings Ir
each month, at Caatis
Hall, Florence street
opposite Broad. Visit-
ing brothers fraternally
Til, Pill
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News in which they inform the
tobacco planters that they are
doing business at the old stand.
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surrounding counties are well
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SILVERWARE
TO WEAR
Is a sort here—just in—+
new in design—prices sot
small you’ll scarcely no t
tice them.—Put a little!
hof your silver in some ♦
rof our silverware and f
[dress yonr table up.-We +
[will be glad to show you $
ill the pretty things in
JEWELRY.
S. WOLFRAM,
Jeweler and Silversmith,
DARLINGTON, S. C
-If we can’t hit you jn styles then nobody else can
Fine baby carriages at cost to make room for our fall line. We
have some special offerings to make in
•Vice Dining ChuivH ^
which we will close out cheap. Those handsome polished oak
leather seat rockers, worth every where $5 each, we offer TUTS:
WEEK ONLY at $7.50 a pair, spot cash.—Only a few on hand,
better get two now at this price as such an offer will not appear
again.
Do you want
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out at $25, worth $35.
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