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w> \ i mm reunion ~ a great occasion. FIFTEEN THOUSAND VISITORS ATTEND * CLUS1NG EXERCISES?TILLMAN AND \i SHEPPARD MAKE SPEECHES. ' << Anderson, August t?-^:?Fifteen ! 1 tLuu.-al.u ill' U. Wi'lilvli Uii(l Chliurt ti came to Andercon to-day, sonic to take part in and the others to wit- C Hess the great Ued Shirt parade, and j' to hear the orators of the day. j' The iiLie of march was formed short- j lv aftti 1) o'clock this morning, and I at 11 o'clock the parade moved j under Commander J C Stribling, , passing in review, ami witnessed by thousands on the street, sidewalks, in the windows, ba!ccn:es, etc. Four thousand men and ladies wearing red shirts, 6ome mounted and the others on foot, formed the parade, whtch was more than a mile long. After the review the line marched to Buena Vista Park, i where, under the large and shady 1 trees, Ex-Governor John CShep- ' pard, of Edgetield. andSenatcr Till- < man spoke to live thousand persons. < Col K W Simpsou presided over the J meeting. < Governor Sheppard was the tirst speaker, aud bis remarks were en- < tirely of matters pertaining to the ] Ked Shirt men. He recited personal J experiences during the campaign of i 1876, and most interestingly told of | the deeds of the brave men that ( wore the shirts of red. He related t their history aud explained to the 1 young folks in the audience why the ( Red Shirts organized and told what i they accomplished. i His remarks, lasting nearly two i hours, were brimful of interesting c facta of the campaign made nec- i cessary to take the rule of the St^te } from the negroes and carpet-bagger.-. \ Senator Tillman was the next and ( last speaker. He opened by huil- ( ing compliments at the newspapers r aud ridiculed th^ir editoriils about ] bis leaving Washington during the ( tariff session aud going out West J to make addresses. He sarcastically t raked the newspapeis over the t country about their "barkiug at my t heels just because I have made ar- ^ raogemeuts to leave my lecturing a tour to come to South Carolina to c make five or six speeches." J He then jumped on the negro r question aud made those remarks 1 so often spoken by him about this 1 country going to racK and ruin if 1 1 in 4 compu 1SUI > aiutauuu 19 ? He said President Taft is playing to c 8plit the Solid South, and that he t is dispensing a few census jobs t here and there, hopiug that it will e help him in the job. c He repeated that story about how <3 he, Tillman, blocked the Senate in t the Cruni matter, and said that t nothing pleased hiui better than u getting mouey from the Re- \ publicans for making two-hour s lectures in which he would tell \ them they were fools and idiots. He a rapped the News and Courier and The State. He said that Deacon j Hemphill was advocating the orgau- r ization of a commercial party, ^ which is nothing short of Republi- a can. ( A voice in the audience said that j the newspapers did not amount to 12 much, aud Tillmaa replied: "No, ] they don't; but a mosquitto can s make it mighty unpleasant some- j times/' c After giving Tillmau considerable r advertising, telling what be had s done and what he took special de- s light in and relatiug how he ac- t complished this and that in the I Senate, although opposed by lie- t publican Senators aud unassisted by fc Democratic Senators, and after J rapping the newspapers good and c hard and those persons differing jt from him iu opinion, Senator 1 Tillmau branched off to lied Shirt 1 days. He recited persona) experiences t and told of the awful condition in t which the State was at the time, i He told of the brave deeds of the 1 Red Shirt organization and the bal- r lotiog in the Hampton campaign. Senator Tillman was given an s ovatiou when introduced and a throughout bis speech there was s considerable applause. The au- v dience was with him from start to 1 dnisii and every utterance, especially t sarcasm was used or when an attack p was made, brought forth yells upon 3 tils. He spoke for nearly two lours. When Senator Tillman concluded, i picnic dinner was served in the rove to the immense crowd. The lay passed off pleasantly. Good weather prevailed and few arrests resulted. There were no appreciable ielays in carrying out the programme of events and the first lied Shirt Reunion has gone into history as a grand success. Senator Tillman, speaking of the; bloody shirt drill in Aiken, August j 3, 1876, said: "There has been more or less dis- j cnssion in the papers of the State j recently about the origin of tbej red shirt as the Democratic uniform ! in 1876. I shall leave it to others to sift the evidence and determine, if it can be done, just where the credit lies. I want to tell what I know about the bloody shirt and its effective use in that momentous crisis. In mv story of the Hamburg riot I have mentioned the drum-head court-martial, which condemned and executed prisoners ifter the fighting or firing had leased. "The last man selected to be shot was a notorius thief by the name of1 * , . . I romp Uurry, wnom 1 naa Known From boyhood. He had furnished ihe names of all whom he recognized :o District Attorney Stone and his jvidence caused warrants to be issued against practically all the neaibers of the Sweetwater Sabre dub and a few others who were lot members: We were charged villi murder aud conspiracy to nurder, and the sheriff of Aiken :ouuty was ordered to make the ar ests. Like a wise and prudent man le did not attempt to execute the varrants, but communicated with :ol Butler, our captain, and by :ommon understanding all of the neu thus charged assembled at r*V*abaa rvAnr] u nloao roar uunci viiciuatc |/vuuj u uvit& Jol Butler's home, and started for Uke:i. The procession was led by he sheriff in a buggy, followed by he so-called prisoners, armed to he teeth, and accompanied by bagjage wagons with supplies for horses ind men, cooks and a full camping ?ut6t, except tents. The llev Wm >haw, who owued a plantation two uiles west of Aiken, the dwelling louse on which was unoccupied, lad kindly offered it for our use. ?Ve reached this place some time beore sun-down and took up our |uarters for the night. Court was o convene two days later and we pere thus early on the ground in irder to give the lawyers who had iur case in hand, opportunity to Iraw up the papers and prepare for >ail, if we were to be allowed to reurn home. Gen Butler, who was inder indictment, the Hon George Y Croft, the Hon D S Henderon, of the Aiken bar, and Majo: Villiam T Gray were acting as our ttornejs. "Among those whose interest had nduced them to acompany us was ny brother, the Hon George D Tillman, who had been nominated is a candidate for Congress in our Jongressional district. He had beeu n correspondence with General, ifterwards Senator J Z George, of Mississippi, the man whose contractive statesmanship in devisng means to safeguard Southern civilization by the elimination of the legro vote will cause his name to hiue for all time as a great con- , titutional lawyer and benefactor of he South. It was under him that Mississippi led off in disfranchising he negro and practically every southern State has followed suit. Mississippi had thrown off the arpet-bag yoke two years before hat, and Gen George advised my irotlier to have the South Caroinians impress the negroes both as o our strength and the purpose of he whites by using a spectacular miform and urged the parade of ong processions of armed white nen through the country. "The Hamburg riot had caused uch a furore throughout the North md the Kepublican press of that ection was waving the bloody shirt nth such frantic energy that Mr Dillman suggested to Col Butler hat we, though then assembled as irisoners, should wave the bloody hirt in reality as a token of defiance. The idea was seized upon by all of us and Luther Ransom and myself wer?- appointed a committee to visit Aiken, confer with tin Democratic authorities and see if we could in* duce them to help us in secuiing shirts to be donned as uniforms. Col Ceorge \V Croft, then county chair, man, entered into the scheme with great zeal, and gave us au order for the necessary yellow homespun. Having obtained this, Ransom, who knew nearly all of the ladies of .viivrij, iiCLuiupaiuei* me in uiy uu^^y | aud we distributed the bolts of cloth among the ladies with the request that they make us forty homespun shirts just as soon as possibb. As I remember it, the cloth was distributed one afternoon and the next morning we drove into town from our camp aud gathered up the garments, obtaining a good supply ot turpentine and Venetiau red at the same time: I had telegraphed to a friend in Augusta, Tom Henry, to send me without fail two negro paper masks; or rough faces, aud a kiuky chignon. I had ordered a carpenter to make a large flag staff in the shape of a cross and I got one of the ladies to make an enormous shirt, bigger than Goliath of Gath would have woru. This shirt was t Registration NoticeNotice Is hereby given that the books of registration for tne Town cf Kingstree. S C are now open in the office of (he Kings tree Hardware Company on Academy Street of said Town, for the registration of all voters and qualified electors within the limits of the Town of Kingstree, S C. who, under the laws of the State have the right to become qualified voters within the limits of said Town. Applicants for registration must, when applying for a certificate of registration, present his certificate of registration from the Board or Supervisor of Registration of the County entitling him to vote at the polling precinct within said Town, ana must offer proof of his residence within the limits of the Town for four months und the payment of all taxes assessed tgainst him due and collectible for j the previous fiscal year. * C C Burgess, Supervisor of registration for the Town of Kingstree. August lltli 1909. 3-12?tf. Administrator's Notice. All persons having claims against the estate of Frank Scott, deceased, ivill present them, duly attested, ami ill persons indebted to said estate will make payment to the undersigned. John Scott, 812-4t Administrator. GTiorifFc SqIa WIAVA AAA M WWAW^ By virtue of an execution to me directed I have levied upon and will sell for cash for taxes on the first Monday n September, the 6th, before the court muse door in King-tree, S C, thefolow.ng described lands, to wit: 100 teres more or less in Sumter township jelonging to L> R Cook and bounded as follows: North by lands of J L C Cook, >n the Eastby landsof Floyd & Moore, m the South by lands of Norman foung, on the West by landsof Warren ^IcClam. Purchaser to pay for papers. GeorgeJ Graham, 8-19-3t S W C Kingstree / CAMP N?-27 .fe" twirLA* Mtrriifoi X v - lit and 3rd Monday ' 'MwBhUI I] Sight* in each ' v^JHIs iyJa I month. "i' "i PfiVkW Visiting chopper* oor\ ' "v>^?:v*i>eirvv dlally Invited to come v. i4Bf// up and sit on a stump or bang about on the limbs. Thos. McCutchen, 37 13m. Con. Com. Ihv- ' . ; turned into a flag with the arms outstreched over the crosspieces. The negro faces were tacked to the top back to back, so as to make a grin uing negro head from either side, aud the chignon was nailed on top of these. "Satan's appeal to the fallen angels: 'Awake, arise, or be forever fallen' had been emblazoned in large black letters on one side and my brother suggested the motto for the other side: 'None but the guilty need fear.' " 'The shirt was made bloody with the marks of bullet wounds iu red, and when the work of making the unique banner was completed, Kansom and others making suggestions, it was surely a most ghast. ly object. "The yellow homespun shirts had been put on and every wearer stained his shirt with artificial blood according to his own fancy. Some used poke-berries to make the color more fiery tnan the Venetian red and turpentine, and vary the tint. "Everything in readiness, about 4 o'clock the day before Court was fi-v /tAnronn fKo TJomKnirr viotoro tn IV LVI1 T giiVj 11JV liuuiuui^ iivwiCj vv tbe number of forty, uniformed as uo men have ever been before or since, rode into the town of Aiken in column of twos. The flag, which was in itself not very heavy, required a very strong and muscular man to handle it when we began to gallop, and Milledge Horn was selected as flag-bearer. He was six feet high, weighed over 200 pounds and was correspondingly muscular, and had lost five brothers in the Confederate army, a sure guarantee of his courage and daring. As soon I as we reached Aiken we rode quietly by every house where the ladies ' had been at work on onr shirts, so ; as to let them see us. Then string- 1 ing out in column of file, making ! a line nearly a quarter of a mile ' long, the order was given to gallop, and for half an hour, at break-neck ' speed, we paraded through every street. It being dry we soon kicked up a great cloud of dust, while all (Continued on third |?:ige.) I p Wood's Descriptive Q ; Fall Seed Catalog now ready, gives the fullest information about all Seeds for the , Farm and Garden, ! j Grasses and Clovers, Vetches, Alfalfa, < Seed Wheat, Oats. [ Rye, Barley, etc. J Also tells all about ( ? - ? 1 Vegetable & Flower Seeds II; that can be planted in the fall to j ad vantage and profit, and about | . Hyacinths, Tulips and other ' Flowering Bulbs, Vegetable and J Strawberry Plants, Poultry Supplies and Fertilizers. I 1 Every Farmer and Gardener nhonH have this catalog. It I s Invaluable in J Its helpfulness and suggestive Ideas for a profitable and satisfactory Farm or Garden. Catalogue mailed free on request. Write for it. T. W. WOOD & SONS, j ^ Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. (j POOR CROP CONDITIONS. I Recent Hot Wave Has Damaged Cotton \ Crop 15 to 25 Per Cent. j The Columbia State published | last Saturday reports from its corre- | spoudeuts, covering twenty Gve | counties in South Carolina, as to | crop conditions, especially cotton. | The consensus of opinion indicate s | that the recent drought has caused | the cotton crop to deteriorate from | 15 to 25 per cent. The hot days with | dry, cool nights have caused cot- | toil to drop its leaTes and forms , and checked the growth of the plant. | Conditions in this vicinity are 3et | forth by the local correspondent of | The State as follows: j Kmgstree, August 27:?On ac- < count of the extremely dry weather | for the past two weeks the cotton crop of Williamsburg county has been greatly damaged Shapes are * falling and the fruit is not*^ - ' iug. Until the beginning of ? , present drought the prospects for an unusually large yield were eucourag- , ing, but some planters now estimate i the damage to the crop in this vicin- ; ity at about 20 per cent. The corn crop generally is excellent, and will ! return possibly the largest yield for ; the past ten years. Practically the entire tobacco crop has been gather- i ed and is ready for the market. The ; weed handled by the Kingstree ware i i * nouses nas orougQi very encuuragiug prices, although the best quality of tobacco has yet been generally marketed. Prospects for a large forage crop are good. A Narrow Escape. Edgar N Bayliss, a merchant of Robinsonville, Del, wrote: "About two years ago I was thin and sick, and coughed all the time and if 1 did not have consumption,it was near to it. 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