The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 26, 1897, Image 3
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118ENAT0RIAI CAMPAIGN.!
Candidates are Stumping the State
for Earle's Place.
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A SUMMARY OF THE SPEECHES.
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Irby Says He Made Evans Governor?
McLaurln Not Present on Account ol
Illness?Evans on McLaurln.
The following is a brief summary of
\ the Senatorial campaign speeches from
j day to day.
The Chesterfield Meeting.
About 300 people were at the meeting
held here. Senator McLanrin was not
uresent, owing to his illness. Col.
Irby opened, and proceeding he recounted
his record as a Democrat; told
of Mb opposition to the suffrage clause
of the Constitution, and explained why
he did not 'enter the race last year.
"MoLaurin says, and Evans says, and
Mayfield said before he jumped out of
the pot, that my record as a politician
is "without blemish," said Col. Irbv.
A little later on, in speaking of last
year's campaign, he declared: "I didn't
ote for Evans, I didn't vote for Earle,
, I didn't vote for anybody."
Reverting to his record once more, he
said: "They all say I've been true.
They can't attack my record. Why
don't they all get out of this race?"
S He then proceeded to tell Mr. Evans
^ that he couldn't beat Earle last year,
- and that in the event of a second race
between him and McLauiin that he
couldn't win. He, however, believed
the race lay between Evans and himself.
Col. Irby then took up his services in
the Senate and told of his vote on the
Wilson bill and of his effort to get the
duty taken from sugar.
Col. Irby, in concluding, said that at
Monck's Corner he had proposed to Mc^
? Laurin to postpone the campaign until
October and November, when the farmers
would have had time to attend the
meetings. He bad refused' to acquiesce, i
He was now sick. Since he had become
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dependent movement in the State, comee
out in a pitiful editorial and says,
"Let's postpone the rest of-the campaign."
Gonzales, when he finds his
man whipped, wants to call off the re- <
maining meetings.
From Dorchester through Pickens,
Spartanburg, Gaflney, Kershaw, Lancaster
and Chester the people are saving
th ay are going to down this protection
idea. Now Gonzales, who sees that the
Conservatives are jumping from the support
of McLaurin "like fleas from a dead
rabbit in November," is very solicitous
about this campaign. He wants to put
it off until October. When a man's
whipped he calls for time. Mr. Gon.
sales piteously asks "What says Mr.
Irby to postponing that campaign?"
Mr. Irby says he won't give McLaurin
any time now, for the farmers have laid
tyy their cropB and are ready to turn out
to hear, this discussion, if McLaurin
can't come back in the race let him get
out or send Gov. Ellerbe, who is responsible
for his appointment, to defend
his position.. And if Gov. Ellerbe
does oofne I'll take care of him."
Col. Irbv closed by saying he would
be satisfied even if he were not elected
ahould the people send a Democrat to
the Senate. (Applause.)
Mr. Evans began by twitting Col.
Irby for calling himself his political
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"that an old muscovy drake like that,"
pointing to Irby, "could get a game
4 cock like me?"
r, After further joking he became serious
and took issue with Irby on his suffrage
talk. If Irby knew of a better
suffrage clause than the present one,
why cunn't he propose it? Mr. Evans
then stated that the issue in this cam'
paign was to see whether or not the
Democratic principles of the last 50
.1 years should be upheld. One of these
cardinal doctrines was free raw materials.
Taking leather for example,
ft a pair of shoes, he said, would under
the Dingley bill cost twice as much
as they would were hides on the free
' list
A Mr. Evans then assailed McLaurin's
views. McLaurin is a protectionist for
f his speech at Sumter had been published
in the Congressional Record by Mr.
Qrosvenor, of Ohio, a Republican, to
prove that South Carolina was ccming
to believe in protection. "Why was it
done if McLaurin did not believe in
protection? he asked. Mr. Evans thus
stated the platform on which he is seeking
election:
"I believe in the Democratic doctrine
of a tariff for revenue only. The luxu-v
1 ries of life and the articles used by the
rich should be taxed high, and the ne
cessities of life and the articles used by
the poor classes, upon whom falls the
heaviest burdens of taxation, should be
brought in free of duty. If a deficiency
should arise it should be made up by a
direct tax on property, and this
would necessitate an amendment to
the Constitution. I am a believer
in free trade for the reason
that oar coantry has no longer
^ infant industries, and I am satisfied
.that the only guaranty of an economical
administration of our national affairs
can be had by a direct tax, which
would cause the people to realize the
< burdens upon them and to hold to
r strict account their public servants
charged with its expenditures. Representing
a cotton growing constituency,
free raw materials is the only manner
by which we can provide cheaper manuxactured
products. This doctrine is
the foundation principle, to use the
.* words of Mr. Brvan, underlying the
structure of the democratic platform,
and is the one upon which rests the
/ prosperity and progress of the consum
ers of tho South and West."
r Mr. Evans spoke at a disadvantage.
Hardly had he begun when the
crowd began to leave and before he had
flnisKait holf had loft Tt. nas neariv li
o'clock when he concluded. He was
V applauded.
The Marlboro Meeting.
The meeting at this place?McLaurin'e
home?was attended by about 800
v people. Evans and Irby were the only
speakers, McLaurin being unable to attend,
but he was touchingly remembered
bya number of very handsome boquets
for him being sent to the stand.
Mr. Evans was the first speaker, being
introduced by Chairman W. 1). Evans.
JS? began by saying it was not his in
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tention to strike McLanrin except on
his public utterances. He desired to
conduct the campaign fai-ly and honestly,
but he did not think his mo"th
should be estopped while one of his op
ponents lay sick in bed. Especially
should he have the right of speech, as
that sick opponent was having circulars
and copies of a Yorkville paper containing
the supposed speech of McLaurin
at that place circulated, in speaking in
McLaurin's absence he was at the disadvantage
of having to read from his
speeches and of showing up their fallacies.
The question of this campaign is,
said Mr. Evans. "Will vou follow this
'new evangel,' who would lead you into
the Republican party, or will you cling '
to the faith of your fathers?" Hastily
then he reviewed the history of the tariff
from 1882 to the present. He told of
nullification and declared, "That's
what you got for making a snraignt
fight." He charged that Mr. McLaurin
had spent two hours in Sumter in trying
to show there could be no such
thine as tariff for revenue only. A comparison
was then drawn between the
Democratic and Republican tariff demands.
That word "protection" in the
Republican platform was misleading,
said Mr. Evans. We think of it as the
protection of a father for his child or the
protection told of in holy writ.
The farmer of the South and West is
a free trader if he's got any. sense.
Why? Because he's cot no manufacturing
interest to protect. It is to his interest
to buy his goods as cheap as possible.
A little later Mr. Evans declared he
had to take McLaurin's printed record
around with him, for he would deny
everything if the record was not pulled
on him. He had succeeded in pinning
him down to one thing, and that was
his opposion to free raw material. McLaurin
has declared, "I don't believe
in free raw material." Then he stands
with Havemeyer and the sugar trust.
Should McLaurin be elected on his
platform of opposition to free raw
material he could receive, were he cor- i
rupt, $1,000,000 for voting to place a
duty on sugar. The people would be
estopped from criticising him, because
prior to his election he had announced
that he oppssed free raw material.
Mr. Evans vigorously attacked Mr.
McLaurin on the cotton, wool and hide
schedules. In conclusion, he declared
that McLaurin was the jack-o-lantern
that would lead the people into a bog
until they would sink beyond hope of
extrication.
Mr. Evans was applauded.
Col. lrby was introduced as the "unconquerable
leader of Reform in 1890
and 1892." He spoke with more than
his accustomed fire and vigor.
"I am not the man," he began, "to
strike a sick or fallen foe." He prayed
God that McLaurin would be restored to
health and vigor in time to meet him
once more on the stump. Then, and
only until then, would he assail him.
"T had rather be defeated ten thousand
times than to know that I had
been elected by striking the sick."
(Applause.")
McLaurin, if possible, should return
to the stump, but if he can't return, I
say he either ought to withdraw from
this race or send Governor Ellerbe.
Why Governor Ellerbe? Because he,
above all other men, is responsible for
the political status of affairs in this
State, and if he comes I'll take care of
him.
"Iam as much cf a reformer today
as I was in 1890, but I am a Democrat.
" No one could impugn his record
as a Democrat or a Reformer. He
told how he was sacrificed last year;
spoke of his record and services to the
party, and declared that McLaurin
himself said he never voted wrong.
His vote on the Wilson bill and his defeat
of the silver compromise, placing
the ratio at 20 to 1, were recounted. He
did uot have and had never had a political
godfather.
Mr. Evans had at Camden intimated
that Tillman favored his (Evans') election.
Mr. Evans denied that he had. He
had only said, he declared, that he
had received a letter from Tillman
saying he was "hands off" in this race,
but that if he were elected he would
welcome him as a colleague.
Col. Irby said the explanation was
satisfactory. He concluded by saying
he had not made the Bpeech he would
have had Senatar McLaurin been present
If elected, he said, the people
would have two United States Senators
who would ever act for the best interests
of the people.
The Darlington Meeting.
The meeting at this place was attended
by at least 400. McLaurin was absent,
and the only speakers were Messrs.
Irby and Evans. Mr. Irbj began hie
speech by declaring that it was 4'an infamous
lie" that was going the rounds
that he was running solely to elect
Evans.
"I say that but for me going to Sumter
and picking up the fallen colors oi
reform there would have been no race.
I didn't want to run. It didn't suit my
business. I went to Governor Evans
and told him to make the race, and thai
if he would I wouldn't. He was afraid
to enter. He waited until after the
Sumter meeting before coming in it
But I say the time to make a race is at
the beginning. I feared that Soutfc
Carolina would be committed to protection
ideas. I have said before, and sa>
now, that Donaldson and Evans wers
afraid to tackle McLaurin, and I made
up my mind to make this race if I
didn't, get but one vote, that of my
brother, Dr. Irby, of Laurens.
"I have nothing to hide. I defy the
world to find so much as a fly speck on
my record. I defy any man to say
where I've deserted a single principle
on which I was elected. Why, when all
others records are being attacked in
this campaign, is it that mine is unassaiied
? Governor Evans, Senator Mc
Laurin and Mr. Mavfield, before ne '
bopped out of the pit, all said my record
is unblemished.
"I'll tell you why I didn't run last
year. Earlesaid if I didn't run he
would. If I had run McLaurin would
have run. The conservatives would
have voted for him. The reformers,
under the lash of Tillman, would have
voted for Evans, and where my vote
would have come from the Lord only
knows."
After he had finished with his talk
about himself, Tillman, MoLaurin and
Evans, he gave his hearers a short account
of his past record in politics, etc.
In conclusion, Col. Irby asked the
suffrage of the people as a Democrat,
"not that I am not a reformer, for I'm
as good y one as ever wore hair, but J
am a Democrat." (.^plause.)
Mr. Evans in his speech said he re?
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counted th.it certain newspapers had
dared him to make this race. He had
accepted, and not one of the lies and
charges against him of last year had
been repeated.
Col. Irby, in saying that he (Evans)
feared to make this race, did himself
an injustice. Was he afraid last year
when he expected to have Irbv for an
opponent? Then why should trby say
he feared to make the race, when he
again had him for an opponent? He
believed Irby spoke without reflection,
for Irby was as brave a man as wore
hair.
The reformers did not vote for him
last year under the last of Tillman.
Irby?"Didn't he try to drive them to
support you?"
Evans?"No; he did not. He said he
would support me because I represented
the principles for which the reform fight
was made."
He devoted the remainder of his
speech to the tariff, repeating his tax
views, anJ concluded amid applause.
The Marlon Meeting.
The meeting of the Senatorial candidates
at this point was attended by
about 600, and the speaking taken
place at the large tobacco warehouse.
Mr. McLaurin was absent Chairman
Montgomery introduced Mr. Evans as
the first speaker, thereupon he mounted
a dry goods box, and he hardly
started before some member of the
audience mentioned rebates, and
Evans hotly answered: "There's
another thief and liar. I've :foughtone
and I suppose I'll have to fight another."
At this point the chairman arose and
asked the audience to treat the speakers
with respect
Evans said to the speaker: "Let
him alone. He don't bother me. I
thought I had killed all the carrion
crows last year, but it seems not Let
him alone; I have to have something to
shoot at I have killed one cock and
have two sick ones on mr hands, so I
had as well have a feather leg in the
crowd to shoot at."
For the next five minutes Mr. Evans
spoke on that "campaign of lies and
slanders" of last year and repeated
what he has said about it on the preceding
stumps; how he had accepted
the dare to make this race and not once
in it had his honesty been impugned
by newspapers, etc.
Getting to his argument at last, Mr.
Evans said this was the most important
campaign in fifty years. We of the
South have always been Democrats because
that party stands for the masses of
the South and West It stood for the
masses before and since the war because I
two of its cardinal dqctrines were "free
silver" and a "tariff for revenue only."
In 1816 Mr. Calhoun was a Protectionist;
strange to say he and Mr. Webster
entertained views that were not to the
interests of their respective sections and
each changed, Mr. Calhoun becoming a
free trader and Mr. Webster a Protectionist.
Why should the Southern
farmers be Democrats? Because that
party had declared for a tariff for revenue
only. We thought that issue had
been settled long ago oy the great leaders,
but here comes what is called a new
evangel, who is trying to lead the peo-4
pie into the Republican party.
Tariff means taxes. The people pay
their State taxes to the county treasururers,
but they pay more to the United
States government by what is called
the indirect system of taxation. They
don't pay their taxea to officials, but
every time they buy a coal, a hat,
sugar or any article they pay taxes to
the merchants who are the tax collectors
for the national government.
Every farmer in the south is a free
trader if he's got any sense. They
have to sell 7,000,000 of the 9,000,000
bales of cotton raised, in the free trade
markets of the world.
Mr. Evans took up the duty on ootton.
In the upper part of the State, he
affirmed, McLaurin said Egyptian cotton
competed with American cotton
and that the mill in Marlbaro was ustTior
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yard for all the cloth made in South
Carolina of Egyptian cotton. Since
then McLaurin nad not mentioned it
again but at Bennettaville an officer of
the mill came to him and said their
factory did not use Egytian cotton that
they did have a sample but that was
all.
Mr. Evans told the use to which
Egyptian and Peruvian cottons were
put, such as making cheap silks, balbrigpaa
(Underwear and imitation wool
blankets, and deolarcd these goods were
only used by the farmers and they
therefore had to pay the tax on the cotton.
Mr. Evans announced that his platform
was to place a tariff on the luxuries
of the rich and raise what additional
revenue that might be necessary by direct
taxation. In concluding he said:
Before I would go to the Senate and lick
the feet of the rich Yankee millionaires
for a little honor I would ask the people
to hang me in effigy. I would ask them
to hang me to a pole for betraying the
trust they placid in my keepiDg. (Applause)
Col. Irby spoke next and said no man
in South Carolina can be more embarrassed
by the absence of Mr. McLaurin
than L It is due to him and to the
people of South Carolina that he were
here, and I say for him were he well he
would be here. A sense of fair play
and of justice will not permit me to
strike a fallen foe. I cannot discuss
his record in his absence for fear of
misrepresenting it, which if he were
here he might explain to your satisfaction.
I therefore cannot discuss his
record. I pray that he may be able to
meet me at Horry and on every stump
until the end of* this campaign.
In speaking of Evans defeating Ellerbe
for governor, in regard to Ellerbe,
Col. Irby said: 'Tm the cne that beat
him. I kept Tillmat. from going to
him, if you want to know it. Tillman
came to Washington to muzzle me, but
instead Tillman came home himself
with a muzzle on. I was better to
Evans than Tillman was. I tried to
make Evans governor and I did, but
Tillman tried to make him United
States Senator last i ear and failed.
Fcr my service to him Evans gave me
the Joab stab."
On the suffrage clause, Col. Irby
said: "I forced the constitutional convention
though the poor people were
afraid of it. I promised, however, that
no white man should be disfranchised."
He then pointed out the dangers of the
suffrage clause and affirmed that the
people could not tell how long they
were going to be in conlrol of this
State. They were not in control now,
he even charged, for Gonzales was Governor.
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''Original Packages" Lesson Their
i Dispensary Quota,
THE FAIRFIELD WHITECAPPERS.
The Coming State Fair?Instrnctione
to Beer Dlspensers<*-Other Palmetto
Doings.
Last week in Columbia during the
e^tra session of the State Board of.
Control, Mayor Evans, of Newberry, in
his talk before.the board, struck a very
vital and important question as to the
"original package" dealers and the dispensaries.
The towns are looking after
revenue, and they do not want to have
what little money comes in through the
dispensary still further reduced. To
him, and to a great many others, this is
a very practical question. As things
now run the towns will get very little,
if anything, out of the "original package"
dealers, and by the business drifting
to the "original package" dealers it
will not go to the dispensaries, consequently
the profits will be minimized,
and the cities will get less and lesS. It
would be very well if the town authorities
could legally license the "original
package" dealers, as they did the sa- 1
loons in former days. By this plan the
direct revenue could no doubt be largely
increased, and as a matter of fact a
great many of the "original package"
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ling to pay reasonable licenses to keep
'.'original" competition out of their way.
So it will be seen that this is a serious
problem, and one which will confront
the municipal authorities. In some
places it is contended that the municipal
share of the profits is a small matter.
With a right to impose license it would
be much more than at present.
It is contended that themuricipal authorities,
under the existing decisions
and laws, have no right to license
"original package" stores as anything
but places for the sale of general merchandise.
The contention is that under
the present conditions the "original
package" man has to be charged upon a
uniform basis with his neighbor, the
frocer and clothier. The contention
ere further is that under the decisions
and law no municipal authority can by
license or taxation keep an "original
package" dealer from opening up
his place and selling "original packages.
"
The question arose as to Bennettsville,
Rock Hill and Yorkville, where ;
there are no dispensaries, and the
saloons are out of date. The argument 1
is made that under the Constitution of
the State and the decisions of Judge !
Simonton no municipality can charge
anything but uniform and graduated (
licenses, and the "original package" ]
houses are not to be licensed under the
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lectio.*, bat as any other business :
would.
Wh<sn the General Assembly meets it >
is pretty safe to say that some way will
be devised to make the "original pack- 1
age" dealers oontribate to the municipal
coffers, if they are to be continued.
The State Board of Control having
granted several beer privileges in the
tate has also sent out to the dispen
sers appointed the following instruo- '
tions: /
1st Bond of $3,000, payable to State
Board of Control; contract and agreement,
properly executed, sent immediately
to office in Columbia, S. C.
2d. Beer dispensers will order all
beer through the office of the State
Board of Control at Columbia, S. C.,
giving the names of parties from whom
they wish to purchase.
3a. Beer dispensers are alio wed to
sell to customers at prices to bj fixed
by themselves, on which they ahull pay I
to the State Board of Control a royalty >
of $1.80 per cask; 35 cents per 1-4 cask;
15 cents per dozen in bottles.
A form for the bond to be given by
each has also been issued and seat oat ,
to the prospective beer dispenseri'. The
contract and agreement requires beer :
dispensers not to sell to drnnkai-ds or ]
minors and to generally observe the
rules and regulations of the dispensary 1
law. i
A special to The State from Kid geway '
says 100 men disguised and fully irmed
raided the Centerville neighborhood in 1
search of Mormon elders on the l?th. 1
They visited a dozen houses occupied '
by Mormons, but failed to find them, i
The mob forced open private apartments
and intimidated the Mormon's wives,
who made a determined resistance.
Masks were torn off four of the whitecappers
and among them Lewis Sharp
was recognized. A respectable citizen,
not a Mormon, was covered with a rifle
and was forced to lower his wea<>on in I
his own house. His wife resisted; a 1
lamp was thrown down and the dwelling 1
endangered. Such conduct is deplored |
here and the law should be enforced. 1
President Childs, of the State Agri- j
cultural and Mechanical Society, in
speaking to a representative of The State :
of the outlook for the coming fair, indi
cated that he believed it would be the
biggest and best fair ever given in the
State. He is hard at work getting all
preliminaries in shape for the fair, and
will spare no efforts to make it a neat
success. He said that copies of the
premium list are being sent all over the
State and will be sent at once to any who
wan t them upon appl ication to him. Mr.
Childs is delighted at the prospects for a
fine show in all departments. 1
A special from Washington says it 1
has been agreed that no change would 1
be made in the Clemson College postoffice
for the present
Early next month a contract will be 1
let for dredging a channel deep enough
for large ships to come up to the dry
dock at Port Royal. This dock is large
enough for the Indiana Jor any other ,
battleship, but cannot be reached owing
to the shallow channel.
The State Board of Control is to establish
beer dispensaries in various
parts of the State tnmeet the competit- 1
ion from the breweries in adjoining 1
cities of other States finder the provis- 1
ion of Judge Simonton's original package
decision.
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AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.
Straightening Crooked Streams.
It does not matter much how crooked
the little stream may be that meanders
through pasture lands. But if it
is to be cut for hay, or especially if it
is desired to use the land for plowing,
it is important to have the brook
straightened, so as to take as little
room as possible. In many places a
straight, deep ditch, cut to lead off a
stream that only runs in the spring,
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diain. The convenience of plowing
over it and the land saved will make it
pay
When to Handle Bees.
To handle bees with the best satisfaction
select the warm, bright days,
when the bees are flying most. The
fact is, the warmer the day the less
danger of stings. Avoid as much as
possible working with them on cool,
cloudy days, as they will be found
more irritable on such days. Also
avoid handling them early in the
morning and late in the evening, for
the same reason. Bees abhor being
molested at night, and no work can
be performed with them at that time
with any satisfaction. They arc always
the most peaceable when they
are gathering honey, and may be han
died as safely as a brood of chickens.
?Agricultural Epitomist.
Care of the Cow.
It is by physicians and'scientists
considered of the utmost importance
that the milk supply be regulated and
watched over with a thousand times
more vigilance than has ever before
been done. Tuberculosis may get
firmly rooted in the cow's system and
continue there for a long time before
any dtuiger is suspected. First of all
things it is necessary that a healthy
cow be selected, then that she have
every advantage of healthful conditions.
Crowding, dampness and darkness
are serious faults in the buildings
where cows are kept. Milk for
bottle babies should not be furnished
from cows kept in badly-ventilated
and ill-smelling buildings. A very
small proportion of the milk furnished
to cities is fit for the use of infaats.
If the present state of things continues
there will of necessity be a revolution
in society and consumers will demand
the enactment of sanitary laws as regards
cows, and will insist that every
regulation be complied with.?The
Ledger.
Home lalk.
If your horse has had a particularly
hard drive, or has been worked
until he is very tired, give him a little
rest before he is fed.
Bab him well all over and give his
legs particular attention.
Every farmer should raise a few
carrots. You can feed at least a third
less oats and the horse will do better.
They cost less to raise than oats,
and you will have the satisfaction of
having your horses in better condition
at less cost.
If your horse bolts his feed put a
few cobblestones in hie manger or a
handful of shelled oorn, well mixed
with the oats.
Low mangers are best for horses.
Go slowly with the colts, do not expect
them to do as much work ae the
old horses. Give them time to learn
and develop.
Never lose patience with the colt, he
will know it in one second, and your
mastery over him will be gone, and a
trick or bad habit may be the result.
Use only the first-class thoroughbred
sire of the very best type.
Don t lose sicrht of Mortran blood if it
is within reach.
Buckle a pad made of flannel and
wet in cold water around the hoof. I
do not like the use of oil on the hoof
in any case.?Tim, in Farm Journal.
The Economic Value of a Toad.
The Hatch Experiment Station of
the State College at Amherst has just
issued bulletin No. 46, which is on
"The Habits, Food and Economic
Value of the American Toad." The
bulletin is the work of A. H. Kirkland,
assistant entomologist to the gypsy
moth committee. Mr. Kirkland tinds
that insects constitute seventy-seven
per cent, of the food of a toad. To
show the number of worms which a
toad destroys he states that in the
stomach of a single toad were found
flfty-five army worms, in another sixty-five
gypsy moth caterpillars, and in
a third thirty-seven tent caterpillars.
He records an experiment whore in
three hours' time a toad had consumed
between, thirty and thirty-five fullgrown
celery worms. He fovad by
examination of a large number < toads
that eighty-seven per cent, of 1 :e insects
they destroy are injurious .0 cultivated
crpps, or in other ways obnoxious
to man. A toad would devour, in
the months of May, June and July,the
following: 3312 ants, 2208 cut worms,
1840 myrapods, 2208 sour bugs, 368
weevils and 368 carabids. Of these
9936 are injurious insects, and 368
beneficial insects. Mr. Kirkland then
figures out the amount in dollars andf
cents which a toad may be worth.
Confining his attention to but one element
of the food, the cut worms, and
assuming tiiat ten per cent, of these
insects would have been killed by the
carabid beetles, it still leaves 1988 cut
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worms to the toad's crean; auu u mo
damage the cut worms would have
caused be estimated at one per cent,
per worrr., a figure which gardeners
and tobacco growers will probably
consider ridiculously low, it will be
seen that a toad might destroy cut
worms which would otherwise have destroyed
crops to the extent of $19.88.
Goose With Three Legs and Fonr Fee.
Heury Mathews has a three-legged
and four-footed young goose at his
home, near Goshen, in Lane County.
The leg and feet are ordinarily developed,
except the leg is short and lacks
about an inch of being long enough to
allow the feet to touch the ground.?
Portland Oregonian. _ ,1,,
SflUlltlUIWin ;1
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Fifteen Thousand People Hear Him
in the Interest of the New
COUNTY SCHEME OF EDISTO.
t
He Showed the Advantage* of Small
Counties?Denounced the Manage
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ment of the Dispensary.
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Senator Tilman addressed an audience
of 1,500 people at Wagoner's on the 17th
in the interest of the new county
scheme of Edisto. He showed the advantages
of small counties, and said
that if he lived in the proposed territory
he would vote for the new county, but
he wanted the people to think over tha
matter and act for their own best interAai
XT - -aa/1a a 1 r? ort/T ^AVAiKIa v'^39
c?k. no iunuo a iuug ?uu iv? v?v??
speech in the interest of the dispenser/.
He charged the present board of control a
with incompetency, and said that the ..-Jflj
election of the board shonld be taken
away from the Legislature, as it was
almost impossible to secure good men
so long as there was so much "logrolling"
among the members for their \,j
friends.
One man would say, you rote for me, .
and I will vote for your man; hence the
the inevitable result is the selection of
men unfit for the position. He said ,i?]ja
that while some of the members ot the
present board were his personal friends,
and all of them his political friends, he
did not propose to let that hinder him
from telling the plain truth in reference
to their management of the dispensary. vj?
He said they should all resign and
give way to men who could and trould
run the dispensary as the great boat- M
ness concerns are run?on business
principles; that the people need not
expect the best results where there waa ?
so much bickerings and disagreem?1
He was in favor of electing the board
by the people, and thought that the
Governor should have the power to Hh '
move a dispenser immediately im? . <j
where so great an interest was at stake
arbitrary power had to be exercised by
someone or the interest of the people *33
would suffer; where the responsibility
was divided you would hare no one to
hold to an accountability.
He claimed that the enforcement of
the law should be given to the Governor,
as he has charge of the constabn- <
He paid his respects to Judge Simonton
in very forcible language. He said
that the very best lawyers in the United ^
States Senate told him that Simonton's ' ,
decision was contrary to law, and for fig
that reason they voted nnanimonaly for
his dispensary bill in the Senate. He
claims that the bill will pass when Congress
meets.
He was charged with slandering the
preachers, but all that he had said about
them was that a great many of them in
their zeal for prohibition were helping
the devil, saloon keepers and Simontbn
to choke the dispensary to death. He
said that none of the preachers could ,
show anywhere in the Bible where V?
whiskev drinking was condemned.
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xne nev. niram nugut kwi ihui
with him, and a spicy'colloquy waa the / '
result *
Mr. Bagot: 'The good Book said
that no *drunkard could enter the - j
Kingdom."'
Senator Tillman: "It is the abuse,
not the nse of whiskey, that the Bible '
condemns, and I can show you hundreds
of passages in the Bible where the
use of whiskey and wine is sustained
by Divine authority."
The Senator claims that the preachers
and Prohibitionists are contending for ^
an ideal which is impossible of fulfillment.
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'If you cannot get your ideal, do noft 'T?
help the saloon keepers to defeat the ' '
dispensary," said the Senator fiercely. . ^
He took a hand primary on the dispensary,
and over three-fourths of the '~'i
people voted to sustain the dispensary, . A
Senator Tillman has certainly lost no /4m
ground with the country people. Thvf
gave him an enthusiastic reoeption.
Someone asked him how about the -'J
tariff and direct taxes?
He said that we were compelled to
have protection to raise revenue, 'and
that be was opposed to direct taxes, as f
direct taxes would have to p* levied on .
population, and the rich man would
pay no more than the poor man.
"How do voa stand on the Senatorial . ,r:j
race?" asked someone in the audience. '
"I decline to answer/' said the Sen*- v!-|
tor. "I advised you all last year to
elect Evans and you would not do it^
and I can't see how yon can expect me
to take sides asrainst any of the^ndidates,
as they are all reformer^Hfijfe
must decide for yourselves wi^H^^Kay
interference from me. He "* ?
great applause."
Traveling la Mtate.
When kings and other mighty high- ^4
nesscs pay state visits, they generally
travel In grand style. Thus it came to
pass that when Peter the Great Visited
Prance. Louis XIV., then a mere lad,
sent a gorgeous coach-ajid-six to meet
the Russian Czar at Calais. For some
reason or other, Peter got tired of this
method of traveling. At the lirst inn
at which he stopped?and Peter was
just the man to stop at the flret Inn be
came to?he spied the body of an old
carriage lying, like so much lumber, in
the courtyard. He there and then ordered
this to be slung from a pole, each
end of which was carried by a servant
on horseback; and in this palanquin he
was conveyed througnout uie rest 01
hLs journey, much to his own gratification
and the amusement of the spectators
who crowded at various potatg i jL " j
to see this remarkable man. ^ ;
p. SLraon Wolf, in refutation of the oft- a |
repeat id assertion that no Jews served this
country either in Its Avar of th?
revolution or of the rebellion, lias published
a book in which he shows that
from six to eight thousand Jews Served
in the Union army, Avliile some uiuetj
served in the revolution and in the wai
of 1812. The number of these earl}
Jewish-American soldiers was so small according
to Mr. Wolf, because there
were but 3,000 Jews, all told, in Amer