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TILLMAN ANSWERS j . I r ! r Charges Preferred Against Him By,j Senator Appelt cs t A LARGE AUDIENCE HEARD HIM i 1 L The Charges Taken Up?Correspond- J c Mo/i/. Pnh ic?Senator Appelt > VIIW iitHMw ?... _ Replies. | Charleston, Special.?Senator B. R. ? Tillman Friday addressed a crowd of < 15,000 people at Manning. S. C. The 1 editor of The Clarendon County news- } paper, Louis A. Appelt, formerly an ea- 1 thusiascic follower of Til.man. but ' more recently an ardent advocate of t "Commercial Democracy," and a sup- ( porter cf Senator McLauria, had for : several iaontb3 made numerous charges against Senator Tillman, claiming that he had received rebates from great , whiskey Aims dealing with the South Carolina dispensary. The charges fell < flat before Tillman's statements and the accuser was met with a torrent of withering sarcasm which reminded j some present of Tillman's tierce cam- j ' paign of 1S90. Senator Tillman took i ' the opportunity to announce his views I 1 of the status of the South Carolina : < - 1 "e KftUtlnne thpri\- j LKTnccracy, anu ui mo i to. He paid a warm tribute to the late General Hampton, declared the abso- 1 lute necessity for party solidity in this < State, denounced Senator McLaurins t alleged defection from the Democracy ] and suggested that the party exact i such pledges of party fealty from can- \ didates as would rule out from nomina- ( tlon and so-called Democrats of the | McLaurin type. He acknowledged hav- 1 Ing accepted a frank from the Western < Union Telegraph Company, which was about the only one of Editor Appclt's > charges that was substantiated. As to ( his speculations, he said he held $1,200 j In a Texas oil well, under the laws of j Texas: that it became a New Jersey Company after he went into it and tha; he expected to lose all the money he had put into it. It was a pure speculation. While he liked to speculate, he . never played cards or bet on horse races. Ho admitted that he had lost ] considerable money in cotton futures 1 and today he owed more money than ] when he went to the United States 1 Senate, and if he were a dishonest man ' he need not owe a cent but could have plenty of money. 1 Senator Tillman said in part: "The Democratic party of South Carolina 1 has occupied a peculiar position for 25 t rears. . The whites are in the minority ( aL1~ ^ f'nn rnonnatrilC. T in IUIS kMillf, illiu UUUC1 IUC 1VVVU>?>>? I . Uon dispensation there were some 35.D00 more negro votes than whites. The consequence was that after the oveithrow of the carpet bag government in 1870. we adopted a system of party government and the white people of the State were educated in the employment of political methods that obtained hardly anywhere else. We have had an 'i.nperium in imperio,' or a government within a government Democracy had meant white supremacy, and Republicanism meant negro equality. The necessity for white unity overshadowed the other conditions. The lamented Hampton taught us that 'an independent was worse than a radical.' "Like all of his actions and utterances in those trying days, that advice was the very essence of wisdom and patriotism. His clear Judgment, his most distinguishing characteristic, aaw the danger to the State, owing to a Democratic split into factions and appealing to toe colored vote. And I lake this occasion to say that no other living South Carolinian more willingly or glad pays tribute to his leadership, or has a better realization of the inval- j uable service to his people and the State rendered by this great man la *7C. It was only after the revolution of 1890 that there was anything like freedom of political utterance and action. The convulsion which brought this about also- brought with it an attempt on the part of those who were in the minority to withstand the popular will: the Haskell movement was based largely on personal opposition to me and there was never any question in regard to the loyalty of those who supported Judge Haskell to the genera! principles of Democracy in the nation. The new constitution adopted in 1895 has eliminated for the present, the negro majority. The number of negroes eligible to vote docs not exceed 15.000 but is constantly increasing and there may be a good many tnousaua wuu aie not registered who would be eligible to registration. There have been recent past evidences of Republicanism cropping out in South Carolina in various directions and there is no doubt, that we shall coon have a white Republican party appealing to the negro voters. "The action of one of your United States Senators in advocating Republican doctrines and voting with that party on all essential measures, con- 't tending til the while that he is a ueraocrat and he has the right to define what Democracy means, has brought things to a focus*' The Democratic party in P-ouffr'Chrolina?end it is well understooci./tfiat the State is overwhelmingd^Dc-mocratie?has a right to 1 De honestly represented in the Senate and in the House, and in fact. I do not believe the Democrats of the State would intentionally and willingly elect any man to office whose Democracy 1 was'unsound, if they knew it. Our < present cangT is Republicanism in the i disguise of Democracy. Therefor? the question has been raised and is now an Issue: and it must be settled as to what renstitutes Democracy and who shall < define it. "We must have a revision of the pledge given by candidates, which will ns.KO it imncrrroie icr any nr?.c:a"i? nan not a Democrat to secure, the nomination. if we are to keep the party rom being stabbed in the back and iGt have a repetition of the presort lisgraceful state of affairs. At this ime South Carolina has no voice in hoping public matters in the Senate. >r if she has a voice, the votes of the wo Senators are nearly always on opposite sides of any given proposition, "his is something that docs not obt.?ir> n any other Democratic State, and I enow of no way by which we can ntard against a recurrence of this coalition except to require all candidates or the Senate. State officers. Congressiwn nnit other Dositions of lienor and rust to pledge faith and loyalty to the loctrines and principles of the parry innounced in the State and national on vent ions." Senator Appelt sdoUo jrlefly in reply, saying he was gratified >t receiving as light a castigation as ie had. His whole fight had been to teep the Democratic primary as it is. 'If Tillman's explanations are satisfac:orv to you. all right. I produced the jvidence. and if it Is untrue that is for rou to say. bur it will rot shew that [ have been untruthful." Tillman concluded with a hand prinary on the question. "Guilty or not "vMtv." T\v rc sed in the affirmative and several hundred in the negative. Some Correspondence. Senator Tillman said that on April 16 he had written Appelt that he would he in Manning to answer his charges, by invitation of citizens. In that letter he said: "I have seen copies of tho Manning Times of Jan. 15 and 22. and I presume these issues of your paper contain the rharges referred to. If I am in error, and there are any others, I desire to have them in writing. You are the aggressor in this matter, and prosecuting attorney in fact, either in your wn or MeLaurln's interest and under the rules of law and decency, I am entitled to know of just what I am ac:used. "If the two issues of the Manning Times do not contain all of your ?harges, then I demand that you give lie any others, so that when I speak [ may be through with the matter. "A prompt response is requested." Under the circumstances he would lisregard the usual courtesy that oh:ains among gentlemen and read the 'private" letter that Appelt wrote him a reply, because he had no right to inswer an official "declaration of war" vitli a private communication. Hero s the letter: [Private.) Manning. S. C., April 17, 1902. don. B. R. Tillman, Washington. D. C. Dear Sir: Yours of yesterday to hand. iVill say that I have no desire what:ver to appear in the role of "prose:uting attorney" in this nor any other natter. I have sent you regularly ivery week The Manning Times, and in he issue of January 8 I published your larsh letter to me, and replied to it in >auic xaouv* I regret very much that I have only >ne copy of January 8, which is my hie ropy, and I cannot send it I will, however, try to securo one for you. The rharges made by me and so stated, vere based upon newspaper reports, ertificates and your letter. I made tone against you from any personal cnowledge. because I know nothing >ersonally. Your selecting the day (25) before he clubs aro to elect delegates to the :ounty convention, I have no doubt is rery gratifying to my opponents, and may say yours also, because some vho will make very demonstrative professions were among the set here who lenounced you two years ago and even scratched your name at the election, was largely instrumental in defeating them and because of that It is anything :o get even. If you had modified your letter as I equested I am sure your feelings towards me would not be as they are low. My purpose in writing yon to ' * *? 1 1 * f O VAI fl Q iWllt xioauy mat lettci m ind a wrangle in our own ranks. My sole object in the beginning was :o work against any attempt being made to exclude a white man from the primary who took the oath to abide the result and support the nominees of the primary, and when I started on that fine I did not dream of any personal estrangement from you. So far as McLaurin is concerned. I have never said I would vote for him. Nor would I if it is shown convincingly to me that he is not a Democrat. But the place to show this is at the regular campaign meetings. If he is not a Democrat, notwithstanding my persoual feelings for him, I could not support him, even If he were my brother. You may regard It gratuitous on my part, but I will risk the liberty of saying to you that some of those who will play a prominent part in caring for you are not your friends and are hoping to Drofit by your coming. If I can I will secure a copy of the paper of January 8, but should I fail and on your arrival you will send some one to my office for It I will loan you my file copy to read. I do not want io be unfair or discourteous. In fact, I have no malice in my .heart for you, and should you, as I hope you will, prove that the certificates in my possession are false you will find me doing the manly thing by you. Very respectfully, Louis Appelt. On April 22 Tillman wrote to Appelt demanding that he furnish him on his arrival in Manning with copies of the affidavits of which he spoke in his paper on January 22 or that he have them read on the stand. He further stated: "I propose to answer you fully an 1 every one of your lies already published shall have my attention, but I must know what the others are before I can answer them." The senator also read the roiiotfing letter that he had received from "h's former friend, for God knows," said lie "I disown him now." (Personal.) Manning, S. C.. Dec. 30. 1901. Hon. 3. R. Tillman. Trenton. S. C. Dear Sir: Your letter reached me this evening too late to give it space in my columns this week, but if you insist upon it of course I shall publish it in my next issue. So far as my meeting you before a Clarendon audience, for that matter, I would not be so foolish, for the reason i ?vio* t hovan't the ability to cope with iliac * MM . V you. The matters which have offended you, and to which you refer, as you know, are altogether from statements which have appeared in the newspapers and with no pretense of any personal knowledge. I regret exceedingly that you think I never was a friend of yours. I was. and a most faithful one. and my unyielding support to your cause and to you personally caused a rupture in my own family which time I has not healed. I was your friend rei gardless of what you may think now. The fight I am making is for a free and open primary, one that will permit any man to go into the primary and discuss any issue he desires, and r take it from what I can understand of your acts that you will use your influence to prevent those who differ with you on certain national Questions from getting in the primary. I have commented cn the charges that have been brmght out against you without ever on:e saying they were true and would not say they ; are true unless I had the proof, i Probably in my zeal to keep fhe primary free for all white men I may I have allowed myself to t.ake from some of my ammunition the caarges of newspapers and went beyonc bounds. Notwithstanding this I think your language towards me Is not merited, hut feel right to punch and batter me. I would much prefer not publishing your characterizations of me, but will do so If you insist, not because you demand it. but because I propose to permit any man to use my columns that I have written about. Now, senator, you are provoked. You have i way of saying hard things. 1 know you and I do not believe you /->ffnnofvA or vour letter : IRtaii 11/ uc a.-i wuvu?..v ? ? appears. Your rough letter will not 1 drive me into the Republican paxty, I nor will any action you and those who think like you take. I was born a T^omecrat. raised one. and expect to die one, and whatever action the State convention takes I will submit to. This I have said in my own paper and elsewhere and neither will your harsh I language to a man who at Sumter j threw himself between you and a man I by the name of Villancaa and saved i | you from being disembowelled, causo i a change. I am a personal friend of Senator McLaurin, and you goading him has i had something to do with fighting the j attitude you have assumed toward i him. I make no charge but refer to j what is said by others, and if you want to come to Manning to make a speech, j come ahead. I am certainly not going 1 to invite you to come hero to "cuss" | ? ?* ? t if vnn were to I me (jui, li\ji rt \jk. ika A, ^ come, attempt to question you, but if ' you want an invitation to come here I 1 have no doubt that there are others i who would invite you, especially if you would make known your purpose. And then. I would not invite you to abuse me, because I would not care to stand bv and hear language such as you use in your letter, and would not. Therefore if you cor.ie you will have to 1 do so on the invitation of another, and j I certainly would not obligate myself to be present. It was no longer than this day that I ; said to a friend: "I do not like tho j recent developments at Washington, i and if McLaurin really means to 2" ! over to the Republicans I am done. I have stood to him and possibly g.nie further than I would for any otherman, but I cannot go with him into the Republican camp. I am going to quit pepping at old man Ben and let him and Mac do their own scrapping." I regard your letter a remarkable strange coincidence. I shall await your reply with the hope you will withdraw it. Yours, etc., Louis Appelt. Tillman said that The Tines of December 7 contained slanders against him to the effect that he was a thief. He had ignored similar accusations from others. If he took time to answer the thousands of lies against him he i might grow to the age of Methuselah without getting to the top of the pile. Memphis Entertains Schley. MemDhis. Tenn.. Special.?Rear Ad miral and Mrs. Schley will arrive In Memphis from Washington, early Sunday evening, and will be the guests of the city until Wednesday night. Preparations have been made for public receptions, river excursions and otljer entertainments. While here the admiral will be presented with a magnificent silver service bought with contributions solicited by The Commercial Appeal. To Settle By Arbitration. Augusta, Ga., Special.?It is bo lieved that the strike of cotton mill operatives, which was inaugurated two weeks ago, will be settled in a day or two. A conference between a committee cf the King Mill strikcm and the manufacturers has been a? ranged. An arbitration beard will appointed and its decision will hbinding""}sr both sides. As soon as the di;. create"-of the King r.Iill are arranged the lorloout in the other mills will be declared off. \ i HOW HE KILLS THEMj Arp Tries Colonel Rcdding's Plan to Get Rid of Potato Bugs. OFFERS THE CHILDREN A PRIZE 1 I Gives Them a Nickel a Dozen For Dead Bugs?How the Philosopher Is Succeeding. 3 I I am trying Colonel Redding's plan to exterminate the potato bugs. He says begin early and watch for the first ones that come. Make an inspection every monming and kill the large striped ones before they lay their eggs. My crop is about six inches hign. I have six long rows ia the garden and the other morning I found the pesky things had come. I killed about thirty and then told the children?the grandchildren I mean?that I would pay them a nickle for every dozen bugs they found. That evening they killed sixty and next morning forty, and this morning fifteen, and this evening ten. So the three little girls brought me in debt sixty cents and feel rich. The bargain is that they are to pay aic back for all I find and I have not found but five yet. though I don't look very carefully. Children like to work for money just like grown folks. I remember well the first half dollar I ever earned. My father was clearing land and told me I might have the saplings 11 i wouiu trim them up and pile the brush and I might have the wagon and team to haul them to town and sell them. I had the evenings after school and Saturdays to work and soon had a load ready and sold it to our school teacher for a silver half dollar. I was rich, and as I drove home I felt of it in my pocket every little while to be sure it was there. I Iiko lo reward theso little chaps, for it does them so much good and makes them love me. The love of an Innocent child is the purest on earth except the love of a mother. I have no greater comfort now than the glad smile of a little one that jumps into my arms whenever I come. It flatters my< vanity for though I am old and ugly the li:tle one will hug mo and pat my wrinkled cheeks and turn away from those who are young and handsome. The greatest inducement for a parent to be a Christian is to secure the salvation of their children and meet them in heaven, for it is said in the in thrpp nlftCPS "BeliftVC fa the Lord Jesus Christ and thou siialt be saved?thou and thine house." It was said by Paul and by Peter and the Spirit, "thou and thine house." So let the good mother not despair of her wicked son who went unrepentant to his death and may these words always comfort her. "thou and ihine house." For the sake of ten good people the Lord would have saved Sodom and for the sake of good parents He will save the children. Last year my potato crop was seriously damaged by those bugs, and by the paris green, too, for I used too much of It, and so I am taking Colonel Redding's advice and killing off the big striped beetles before they lay their patches of yellow eggs' on the under side of the leaves. I instructed the rhil- J dren to look for eggs and they found only two loaves with eggs on them. J -41-1, *V.Q? A\icr With a nine snarptutu am-n. uc; UuB crounti the base of every plant, and there found most of the beetles, but I am already satisfied with the experiment, and hope that I will not have to use paris green at all. I shall continue my bargain with the children, even if it is expensive. I overheard them plotting this evening about going to the drug store tomorrow and buying 3ome ice cream, and they agreed to take two saucers apiece. These little girls are great inventions, and I love to watch them and then ruminate and ponder why it was that children, especially boys, get more selfish and decoitful a* they grow older. Tie devil teems to | let them alone until they get weaned from their mothor. The good and the bad are strangely mixed in this world. New plagues and pestilences keep on coming, both on animal and vegetable life, but a kind Providence has provided remedies and given us minds to And them. But I have found no way to keep the pigeons from preying upon my young peas as they peep out of the ground. They utterly destroyed my first planting and have begun on the second. We have had a flock for many years, and I never knew them to trouble the garden uefore. I say. Colonel Redding, what must I do about It? My wife says cover them with brush, and I will if I can find the brush. The English sparrows do leave us most of the crop, but the pigeons don't leave us anything. Reckon I will have to turn the boys loose on them. The beans, onions and early corn are alright yet, and the strawberries seem to have no enemies. They make a beautiful show, and give us great comfort In a week or two we will have ripe fruit in abundance and shall send some to the preachers. Brother Yar'ooror.gh says he does not think it any harm to send good things to a preacher even on Susdav. Strawberrv culture is BDro&d ing rapidly in our town and some of the neighbors are trying it as a business for profit Dr. Felton, Jr., h?l put out thirty thousand plants the last season. It was Isaac Walton, the great .e-1 ? n.Virt rnrnto in his hook OH usueilliaii, nuw .www ... angling. "Dr. Butler said that 'doubtless God could have made a better berry than the strawberry, but doubtless God never didi' and so I say that God never made a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." My good friends. Dr. Benham and Colonel Murphy heartily indorse Walton on fishing and will sit in a boat half a day in a summer's sun and watch the corks and ruminate and not catch enough fish for supper. If I was as fond of it as they are I th^nk I would move to Florida and stay there. I have caught more fish there in one day than in all my life up here in Georgia. I did not go to Dallas, the long spell of grippe left me too dilapidated to travel that far and give up my home habits and comforts, but I read ail about the great reunion with keen satisfaction. Thee is life in the old land yet and love for the "Lost Cause" in the hearts of our people, the confederates and their children and children's children. May it never be extinguished.? Eill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. \ LABOR WORLD, South Carolina has 30,000 operallrea iu cotton mills. Clliumi inu:i.cr uunuus U?>C granted an eight-hour day. The Portsmouth (X. H.) striking paiu'ers have resumed work. They get eight hours aud $2.25 a day. The teu per cent, advance has gono iulo effect iu all New Bedford cotton mills, benefiting 20,000 operatives. Lawrence (Mass.) hostlers and teamsters are organizing and propose to demand shorter hours and more pay. 4 The carpenters' union of Cincinnati, Ohio, demands an increase in wages from $2.50 to $2.S0 per day of eight hours. Indiana labor unions have, begun an agitation against tbe chain-making work done iu the Stat: Reformatory r.tr Jefferson vllle. The Conimou Council of Rockviiie,' Conn., voted to make the working' hours of city laborers nine boursi in-j stead of ten as heretofore. "Bushelmeu," the journeymen tailors; who do the ^alteration work in the! offices of the most fashionable Chicago' tailors, have formed a union. , f The teamsters of Kankakee, IlLj. have organized, and the painters and decorators have received an increase of twenty-five cents per day without strike. pci t'trui. K>. luv v* Germany are organized. making the strongest union in that country. The total membership is 28,838. The receipts for 1!KX) were $103,002. the ex-""-"^ uenditures $301,820, nud the organization now has in the hank $1)48,124. The Cloakniakers' Union, of New York City, has made a demand on all manufacturers for the abolition of the contract system in the pressing department. If the demand is refused a gentfral strike of all'branches will be ordered, which will bring out 14,090 _v workers in Greater New York. f NEWSY GLEANINGS. iCatu-r.3 Lanks have $87,000,00 cx deposit. Keveuuc collections duriug Marclr? amounted to $21,227,535. The shipyards of the raeific Coast are at work ou scores of vessels. The Philippine Islands wili he r?iv resented at the St. Louis fair. The strike of dock laborers at pari* In Denmark now includes 8000 men. The Kuglish Tobacco Trust has i planned a vigorous caiupaigu in the i South. Germany has invited America t? send three army officers to the uisncu- * ' | vers next fall. ( / ' Secretary ltoot has arranged to mainj lain a light in the Statue of Liberty, in New York Harbor. ; Archdeacon Wilberfqrce is holding I "smoking church services' in Westminster Abbey, London. A number of Japanese otiicers hej euscd of looting during the operation*. I in China are to be tried l?y co?..imartial. l-'ifty pounds* worth of games, including football, cricket, and piug pong sets, have been dispatched to Ceylon, fA?? thu Uiuif rtriunntM'ti. J i Ulli J AUiUUli, IV/& vuc JkfWft ^/i.uv^v..,. The warden of the State Prison nt Kansas bus written to a New York ] City firm nuking it to forward a haugI man's rope to be used at au early ciej cutlon. . The Holland Submarine Boat Com- - < pany has been notified by the 1 Admiralty that one of its submarine I torpedo boats has been accepted by ' the British Navy. The Municipal Council of Havana, Cuba, has decided to issue a new loan of tfiiS.WO.oou for the purpose of redeeming the first mid second-mortgage bonds of the city, to take np the fioatj iug debt and to i>rovide money for the ! payment of the city sewer and pav- r | :tii' contracts. ' r . j 1 ' : | Figures compiled by the Treasury J Bureau of Statistics prove that the trade between til? United Stetes and Spain was never to jtreat as it has been since the Spanish-Amerioan v?ar. Tho experts an 1 Imports for the calender year If 1 have fcsan exceeded but once In our history, and there is no parallel to the shov/ins made for the three years 1SS9, 1900,and 190L . J