BS SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 1S50.
kBe Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thon Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's "
T33 TRUE SOCTSRTOif, Eetab?fehvd June/?fcfe
Consolidated Ang. 2, 1881.1
SUMTER, S. C, WEDNESDAY, .JUNE 4, 1890.
Sew Series?Vol. IX. No. 43.
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BS SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 1S50.
kBe Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thon Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's "
T33 TRUE SOCTSRTOif, Eetab?fehvd June/?fcfe
Consolidated Ang. 2, 1881.1
SUMTER, S. C, WEDNESDAY, .JUNE 4, 1890.
Sew Series?Vol. IX. No. 43.
and yours; but bave I misled or deceived
you in any one Using? Once only has a
word been spoken or a scene occurred
that you could perhaps have objected to.
I told you the whole thing in my letter
of Sunday last, and why I had not told
Kate. We have ix>t met sinco that
night, Mr. Ilayne and I, and may sot;
but he is a man whose story excites my
profound pity ant! sorrow, and he is one
of the two or three I feel that I would
like to see more of. Is tins being false
to you or to my promise? If so, Steven,
you cannot say that I have not given you
the whole truth.
"It is very late at night?1 o'clock?
and Kate is not yet ash-ep, and the cap
tain Ts still down stairs, reading. He is
not looking well at all, and Elate is sore
ly anxious about him. It was his evi
dence that brought years of ostracism
and misery upon Lieut. Hayne, and
liiere are vague indications that in Iiis
own regiment the officers are beginning
to believe that possibly he was not the
guilty man. The cavalry officers, of
Course, say nothing to us on the subject,
and I have' never lieard the full story.
If he has been, as is suggested, the vic
tim of a scoundrel, and Capt. Rayner
was at fault in his evidence, no punish
ment on earth could be too great for the
villain who planned his ruin, and no re
morse could atone for Capt. liayner's
sliare. I never saw so sad a face on
mortai man as Mr. Hayne's. Steven
Van Antwerp, ? wish I were a man! I
would trace that mystery to the bitter
end.
"This is a strange letter to send to?to
you; but I am a strange girl. Already 1
am more than expecting you to write
and release me unconditionally; and you
ought to do it. I do not say I want it.
"Faithfully, at least, yours,
"Nellie.
"P. S.?Should you write to Kate, you
are not to tell her, remember, of my
meeting with Mr. Ilayne. Of course I
am anxious to have your reply to that
letter; but it will be five days yet."
An odd letter, indeed, for a girl not
yet twenty, and not of a hope inspiring
character; but when it reached Mr. Van
Antwerp be did not pale in reading it;
his face was gliastly l>eforo ho began. If
anything, he seemed relieved by some
passages, though rejoiced by none. Then
he took from an inner pocket the letter
that had reached him a few days previ
ous, and all alone in his room, late at
night, he read it over again, threw it
upon the table at which he was sitting,
then, with passionato abandonment,
buried his face in his arms and groaned
aloud in anguish.
Two days after writing this letter Miss
Travers was ?o unfortunate as to hear a
conversation in the dining room which
was not intended for her ears. She had
gone to her room immediately after
breakfast, and glancing from her win
dow saw that the officers were just go
ing to headquarters for the daily mati
nee. For half or three-quarters of an
hour, therefore, there could be no proba
ble interruption; and she decided to write
an answer to the letter which came from
Mr. Van Antwerp the previous after
noon. A bright fire was burning in the
old fashioned stove with which frontier
quarters are warmed if not ornamented,
and she perched her little, slippered feet
upon the hearth, took her portfolio in
her lap and began. Mrs. Rayner was in
the nursery, absorbed with the baby and
i the nurse, when a servant came and an
nounced that "a lady was in the kitchen**
and wanted to speak with the lady of
the house. Mrs. Hayner promptly re
sponded that she was busy and couldn't
be disturbed, and wondered who it could
be that came to her kitchen to seo her.
"Can 1 be of service, Kate?" called
Miss Travers. "I will run down, if you
say so."
"I wish you would," was the reply,
and Miss Travers put aside her writing,
j "Didn't she give any name?** asked Mrs.
Rayncrof the Abigail, who was standing
with her head just visible at the stair
way, it being one of the unconquerable
tenets of frontier domestics to go no far
ther than is absolutely necessary in con
veying messages of any kind, and this
damsel, though new to the neighborhood,
was native and to the manner born in all
the tricks of the trade.
"Sho said you knew l>cr name, ma'am.
She's the lady from the hospitaL**
"Here, Jane, take the baby I Never
mind, Nellie; I must goP And Mrs.
Hayner started with surprising alacrity;
but as she passed her door Miss Travers
saw the. look of deep anxiety on her face.
A moment later-she heard vc ices at fhe
front door?a party of ndies who were
going to spend the morning with the
I colonel's wife at seme ' Dorcas society"
work which many of the ai had embraced
with enthusiasm. "I want to see Miss
Travers, just a minute," she heard a
voice say, and recognized the pleasant
tones of Mrs. Curtis, the young wife of
one of the infantry officers; so a second
time she put aside her writing, and then
ran down to the front door. Mrs. Curtis
, awttniy wanted to remind her that she
must be sure to come and spend the after
noon with her and bring her music, and
was dismayed to find that Miss Travers
could not come before stable call; she had
an engagement,
"Of course; I might have known it;
you are besieged every hour. Well, can
you come to-morrow? Do." And, to
n>orrow being settled upon, and despite
I the fact that several of the party waiting
on the sidewalk looked cold and impa
tient. Mrs. Curtis found it impossible to
tear herself away until certain utterly
irrelevant matters had ton lightly
touched upon and lingeringly abandoned.
The officers were just'beginning to pour
forth from headquarters when the group
of ladies finally got under way again and
j Miss Travers closed the door. It was
now useless to return to her letter; so
she strolled into the parlor just as she
heard her sisters voice at the kitchen
door:
"Come right in here, Mrs. Clancy.
Now, quick, what is it?"
And front the dining room came the
answer, hurried, half whispered and
mysterious:
"He's Ik en drinkin' ever since lie got
I out of hospital, ma'am, an' he's worse
than ever alx>ut I^oot'nant Ilayne. It's
mischief hell bedoin', ma'am; ho'scrazy
like"
"Mrs. Clancy, you must watch him.
You? Hush!"
And hero she stopped short, for, in
astonishment at what she had already
heard, and in her instant effort to hear
no more of what was so evident!}' not
intended for her. Miss Travers hurried
from the parlor, the swish of her skirts
telling loudly of her presence there. She
went again to lier room. What could it
mean? Why was her proud, imperious
Kate holding secret interviews with this
coarse and vulgar woman? What con
cern was it of hers that Clancy should
be "worse" about Mr. Ilayne? It could
not mean that the mischief ho would do
was mischief to the man who had saved
his life and his property. That was out
of the qtiestion. It could not mean that
the poor, broken down, drunken fellow
had the means in his power of further
harming, %jnan. w&o liad. already bejen?
made t? suffer so much. Indeed, Kate's
very exclamation, the very tone in
which she spoke, showed a distress of
mind that arose from no fear for one
wliom she hated as she hated Ilayne.
Her anxiety was personal. It was for
her husband and for herself she feared,
or woman's tone and tongue never yet
revealed a secret.
Nellie Travers stood in her room
stunned and bewildered, yet trying hard
to recall and put together all the scat
tered stories and rumors that had
reached her about the strange conduct
of Clancy after he was taken to the hos
pital?especially about his heart broken
wail when told that it was Lieut. Hayne
who bad rescued him and little Kate
from hideous death. Somewhere, some
how, this man was connected with ti>e
mystery which encircled the long hidden
truth in Hayne's trouble. Could it be
po&iblo that he did not realize it, and
that her 6ister had discovered it? Could
it.be?oh, heaven! no!?could it be that
Kate was standing between that lonely
and friendless man and the revelation
that would set him right? She could
not believe it of her! She would not
believe it of her sister! And yet what
did Kate mean by charging Mrs. Clancy
to watch him?that drunken husband?
What could it mean but that she was
striving to prevent Mr. Hayne's ever
hearing the truth? She longed to learn
more and solve the riddle once and for
all.
They were still earnestly talking to
gether down in the dining room; but 6he
could not listen. Kate knew her so well
that she had not closed the door leading
into the hall, though both she and the
laundress of Company B had lowered
their voices. It was disgraceful at best,
thought Miss Travers, it was beneath her
sister, that she should hold any private
conversation with a woman of that
class. Confidences with such were con
tamination. She half determined to
rush down stairs and put an end to it,
but was saved the 6cene; fresh young
voices, hearty ringing tones, and the
stamp of heavy boot heels were heard at
the door; and as Kayner entered, usher
ing in Royce and Graham, Mrs. Hayner
and the laundress fled once more to the
kitchen.
When the sisters found themselves
alone again, it was late in the evening.
Mrs. Rayner came to Nellie's room and
talked on various topics for some little
time, watching narrowly her sister's
face. The young girl hardly spoke at
alL It was evident to the elder what
her thoughts must be.
"I suppose you think I should explain
Mrs. Clancy's agitation and mysterious
conduct, Nellie," she finally and sudden
ly said.
"I do not want you to tell me anything,
Kate, that you yourself do not wish to
tell me. You understand, of course, how
I happened to bo there?*'
"Oh, certainly. I was thinking of
that. You couldn't help hearing; but
you must have thought it queer?her be
ing so agitated, I mean."
ITo answer.
"Didn't you?"
"I wasn't thinking of her at alL"
"What did you think then?" half defi
antly, yet trembling and growing white.
"I thought it strange that you should
be talking with her in such a way."
"She was worried about her husband
?his drinking so much?and came to
consult me."
"Why should she?and you?show
such consternation at his connection with
tiie name of Mr. Ilayne?''
' "Nellie, that matter is ono you know I
cannot bear to talk of." ("Very recent
ly only," thought the younger.) "You
once asked me to tell you what Mr.
Hayne's crime had been, and I answered
that until you could hear the whole story
you could not understand the matter at
all. Wo are both worried about Clancy.
He is not himself; he is wild and im
aginative when he's drinking. He has
some strange fancies since the fire, and
he thinks he ought to do something to
help the officer because he helped him,
?ad his head is full of Police Gazette
Aeries, utterly without foundation, and
he thinks he can tell who the real cul
prits were, or something of that i< ind.
It is utter nonsense. I have investigated
tl?e whole thing?heard the whole story.
It is the trashiest, most impossible thing
you ever dreamed of, and would only
make fearful trouble if Mr. Hayne got
hold of it."
"Why?"
"Why? Because he is naturally venge
ful and embittered, and he would seize
on any pretext to make it unpleasant
for the officers who brought about his
trial."
"Do you mean that what Clancy says
in any way affects them?" asked Nell,
with quickening pulse and color.
"It might, if there were a word of
trutli in it: but it is the maudlin dream
of a liquor maddened brain. Mrs. Ciancy
and I both know that what ho says is ut
terly impossible. Indeed, he tells no two
stories alike."
"Has he told you anything?"
"No; but she tells me everything."
"How do you know she tells the
truth?"
"Nellie! Why should she deceive me?
I have done every thing for them."
"I distrust her all the same; and you
had better bo warned in time. If he has
any theory, no matter how crack brained,
or if he knows anything about the case
and wants to tell it to Mr. Ilayne, you
are the last woman on earth who should
stand in the way."
"Upon my word, Nellie Travers, this
is going too far! One would think you
believed I wish to stand in the way of
that young man's restoration."
"Kate, if you lift a hand or speak one
word to prevent Clancy's seeing Mr
Hayne and telling him everything he
knows, you will make me believe?pre
cisely that."
Capt. Rayner heard sobbing and lam
entation on the bedroom floor when he
came in a few moments after. Going
aloft he found Miss Travers' door closed
as usual, and his wife in voluble distress
of mind. He could only learn that she
and Nellie had had a falling out, and
that Nell had behaved in a most unjust,
disrespectful and outrag us way. She
declined to give further particulars.
[TO BK CONTIN?KD J
The Charleston Chamber of Com
merce will probably institute legal pro
ceedings against the Charlcstou and
Savannah Railroad Company to com
pel the latter to run its trains into the
city of Charleston and not only to Ash
ley Junction as is thecuwtom now.
The ?dgeticld Monitor of the 5th
states that within the last few days
petitions have been freely circulated
throughout the State, to Ex-Governor
Juhn C. Sbeppard, of Edgefleld, to
enter the race for Governor ; and these
petitions have been so numerously
signed that it is now quite probable
that Sbeppard will yield to the ex
pressed w-ish es of his friends and enter
the field*, j
Tillinanites vs. Anti-Tiilmamtes.
Wedgefield, June 1, 1890,
Mr. Editor: I beg space to reply to the edi
torials in your last issue, because they were
unjust and misleading?they are simply the
vaporings of a prejudiced mind on a serious
and important subject. Von say "Mr.Tillman
has abandoned the charge of corruption
against our State officers." Mr. Till man, in
his Ridgeway speech, which you didn't pub
lish, because yoa didn't want it read, (You
treat that speech like the Catholics treat the
Bible, they don't want it to get among the
common people.) challenges you to bring
forward the preof where he ever charged the
State officers with "corruption."
You say, "Perhaps tbe old war err of
'down with the aristocracy,' &c. You define
aristocracy as used by tbe Tiilmanites as "a
protest against the supremacy of intelligence
and virtue over ignorance and rice" Bishop
Strong defines aristocratic government in a
little book entitled "Our Country" thus, "In
all our cities and towns there is a clearly de
fined ruling class, as in the most aristocratic
countries in the world. Its members not
only carry Democratic clubs in their pockets,
make up tbe tickets for nominating conven
tions, distribute office as they bargain to
gether, and tbo' they toil not, neither do they
spin, they wear the best of raiment and spend
money lavishly. Tbey are men of power,
whose favor the ambitious must court and
whose vengeance he must avoid. Who are
these men ? Tbe wise, the good, the learned
?men who have earned the coufidenre of
their fellow-citizens by the purity of their
lives, tbe splendor of their talents or their
probity in public trusts? No, they are gam
blers and rum-suckers who make a trade if
controlling votes, of buying and selling office
and official acts. So that it has come to this,
that our best citizens are almost excluded
from holding public office because tbey refuse
to bend the knee to this sort of cattle for
votes." Bishop Strong's definition of an
aristocrat, as you can see, is a man who con
trives, trades and plots to get an office and
when secured disgraces it by gambling and
drinking to excess. Now, Mr. Editor, I ask
you, before God, if we haven't got some
Bishop Strong aristocrats in office in Sumter
County? No matter how you may answer,
we people know and see the facts and we in
tend to keep fighting against Sum'er's arts-'
tccratic government untii ' Public office shall
be regarded as a pubjic trust," until intelli
gence and virtue stands supreme over official
trickery and drunkenness.
You say, "we have been reliably informed
by parties in Columbia that many investments
contemplated in that ci'fy by alien capita]
have been suspended and in many instances
"indefinitely postponed" on account of Till
manism." Mr. Editor, why didn't you use a
good argument like this, that tbe very peach
trees have refused to bud and bloom all on
account of Tillmanism. Tbe only misfortune
we have beard of Columbia suffering, isthat
Col. M cM as ter says he will leave the State in
case Tiilman is nominated for Governor.
You say again. "On accouut of Tillmanism,
one loan company has withdrawn from the
State and another stopped in tbe course of
organizing a business here." Now Mr.
Editor, den't you know the cause of the'r
leaving is tbe fact, that the Leg'slatare h. a
reduced tbe rates of interest from 10 to 8 per
cent? Abraham Lincoln said "You can fool
part of the people all tbe time; all of tbe
people part of tbe time; but you can't fool
all the people all tbe time" You say Tillman
ism has retarded the progress of the State
already five years and if Tiilman should be
elected we will be Bet back ten years." Mr.
Editor, you have produced poor proof of this
backward movement on account of Tillman
ism, when you complain that he is driving
loan companies out of the State because of
the reduction in the rate of interest.
And let me kindly warn you against these
wild and reckless statements, they don't fool
anybody but cause you to lose the confidence
of the people and when once lost, tis hard to
regain.
Again you tell of another club in Sumter
with Mr. John R. Keels as President, you
tell of it with offensive earcasm and venom
You make fun of tbe majority of the club
being poor men by saying in parenthesis
("we have not heard that tbe club has a
Treasurer") you even intimate that their
principles might be antagonistic to tbe Sum
ter Democratic club.
Now Mr. Editor all this is wrong and it is
the very spirit you show to those brothers of
yours, which, no doubt, caused tbe organiza
tion of tbat.'club of about 227 mem
bers, and I am reliably informed that sbey
have twenty-three dollars in tbe treasury,
and the Jordan club of some 71 mem
bers, split off from the Sumter club?Don't
you haye a suspicion that those poor men
"who don't need a treasurer" have withdrawn
because you did not regard them or their
wishes in tbe Sumter club and desiring to
cast their votes for Mr. Tiilman, that man
who established an Agricultural and Mechan
ical College where a poor boy, their sons
will be taught a trade, paid for their work
educated at the same time and thus enabled
to compete with a negro in the race of life.
In this College, poor men ate given an
opportunity of making their boys respectable
and worthy citizeus, the equals of any men
in the State. These poor men have to labor
and they see in this College, that their boys
are taught that labor is honorable?these
men's sons can't reach the S. C. University,
can't afford tbe class regulation bat?the
Juniors w cloth beavers and tbe Seniors
sleek s*?'k nvers. These poor men are the
sam* -uring the war with no negro and
often no iiome to fight for, yet they uncom
plainingly, without pay or reward "stood
like stonewalls" in the front ranks of battle.
Some men, some aristocrats might desert the
Democratic party for office, but don't try to
cast suspicion on these men, they have noth
ing to gain and they have a reeord. I pre
sume they desire to cast their votes for Tiil
man who says "Accursed, thrice accursed
be the man who would build his greatness on
bis country's ruin. Accursed, thrice ac
cursed be those who in South Carolina, con
fronted as we are by dangers, engender feel
ings of discontent." He is the only candi
date in South Carolina, who was ever known
to kick ringsters and politicians and oh.
don't they squeal, as they feel they are being
kicked off from the public teat. To esalt
and to make labor honorable these men want
to vote for that man who proposes to step
into the Governor's chair from between the
plow handles?that man who for intellectual
attaioments has no superior in the State?
for that man, against whose character and
virtue the bitterest opponents can find no
flaw. You say "Mr. Tiilman has raised a
clsss issue and shouts out a genuine partisan
cry" while some of his enemies find fault
with him, because he supported lawyer Earle.
You say "Does our situation justify us in
risking such a disaffection aod dissension as
will surely be produced if Mr Tiilman is
declared the nominee of the Democratic
party." Thank you for acknowledging
what we know to be a fact, that the Tillmao
ites will support the nominee of the Demo
cratic party whoever he may be, we are
pledged and there is no danger of a split, in
the party from them and I think you are
unjust to the Anti-TillmanitfS, for I am sure
thetc will be no "dissenter?," no bolters
among them should Mr. Tiilman receive the
nomination. In him we would have a
Governor of the people?a solid, unpreten
tious, upright, sober farmer. He might
aliock the fine sensibilities of some men by a
total disregard to the style and fit of bis
coat, or the set of his cravat, but he will
never seek distinction by being President of
the Columbia club, nor would he seek to
merit a picture among the distinguished
gentlemen who grace tbe pages of the Police
Gazette. H. . Thomas.
P. S. Mr. Editor, did your man, Earle,
get more letters asking him to run for
Governor than he got votes in that "Twenty
One" Convention? I am still prepared to
furnish you the official aflidavit, that he
didn't get a single vote.
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The Tillman Ticket.
Gen Y. J. Pope formally ?n-'
DouDces himself as a candidate for At
torney General, "upon the ticket of tEftf
farmers' movement.'h He says :
*I endorse the platform of principled*
adopted by the March contention, t
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Tillman for Governor, and shall advo
cate the wisdom of his election. To be"
more explicit, I rise or fall with the'
candidates of the 'farmers' movement/ -
This makes the Tillman tfcit?t>
so far :
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Capt. B. R. Tillman. of EdgcfieldV
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL,
Gen. Y. J. Pope, of NewberryV
Coi. E. 13. Gary,- of Abbeville.
FOR ADJUTANT GENERAL.
Col. Hugh L. Farley, of Spartanburg?
This gives three lawyer* and on? f?f
mer?two Colonels, one General a Cap
U-in, and :,o privates.
Symmetry would be promoted if Curl
Gary and Gen. Pope could be sorter""
spread out over the ticket. Two m?u*
covering ooe place is a little awkward.
But the campaign is progressing?.
The fun has just begun.?-Grecnvflfe
Neics.
For Governor.
The people have been wondering who*
will become a candidate for Governor/
and they want a man to run who wantg?
the cffice. If the people should* b?
foolish enough to "put up" a candidate/
he will be beaten.
General McCrady has atfrarrers- ?tf
Abbeville County, but not in sufficient
numbers to indicate that he could lead*
them to victory.
General Bratton has been named (of
the office, but the mention of his natm?
creates but little enthusiasm*
Ex-Governor Sheppard could at one?
time have commanded a good following,*
and we believe the auti Tillmanitc#
would have readily united on hi go, bcrf
he is not a candidate.
Many eyes are turned to Colonel Orf,
and he could command a majority of the?
votes of Abbeville County, bat he &
not a candidate.
Now, public attention is being draw'tf
to General Earle, as the best man to filf
the office of Governor, and if he should
become a candidate the antt-Tillmanite#
would rally to his support.
He has proven that he has both the"
ability and courage to defend himself
and the Democratic party from anju%#
charges and damaging inarauatross.
The poor enthusiasm which was*
based on the jeers of a few college
students, cannot stand before the Hgbtf
of reason, and full grown men, wher?
clothed in their right mind, are like!/
to conclude that college boys have little
ability and less skill in train re g of pre'
paring candidates for official station".
But if the College students can in a*
single night, fit and prepare Mr. Till-'
man for Governor, we think the Preps'
of that institution had better open a'
political training school.?Abbe?iU??
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every undulating place. Ft is impossf^
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idea can be formed of the rain from* the*
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