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"Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Eids thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's M Consolidated An?. 2, 1881.1 SUMTER, S. C.* WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1892. New Series-fol. XI. No. 52. Pufclislied eirwy We&iesday, BY N. Gr. OSTEEN, SUMTER, S. C. TSRMS: Two Dollars ^er auniira-in advance. 1DVESTIS5X8NTS. One Square, first insertion.........$1 00 Bvery subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications, which subserve private merest? will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. g TBE SIMONOS NATIONAL BANE, OF SUlUTER. STATS, CITY AND CODNTY DEPOSI? TORY, SUMTER, S. C. Paid up Capital.$75,000 CO Surplus Fund. 10,500 00 Transacts a General Banking Business. Carefni attention given to collections. SAYINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In? terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarterly, OD Srst days of January, April, July and October. R. M. WALLACE, ?President. h. S. CARSOK, r A og. 7 ** Cashier. _ Httlf II HUHS " SUMTER* S C. 6mr AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY. . Transacts a general tanking business. Also bas A Sayings Bank Department, Deposits of $1.00 a id upwards received. Interest^Ca?culated at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, payable quarterly. W. F. 8. ?AYNSWORTH, W. F: Be A its, President, Cashier. Aug 21._ 1 ii E. ALTA SQLBIOI, DENTIST. Office ?VESt BROWNS & PURDY'S STORE. Entrance on Maia Street, Between browns & Purdy and Durant & Sou. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock. _ So tn ter, S. C , April 29._ G. W. DIGS, D. D. S. Office over Bogin's New Store, SKTRASCK OH HAIN STSS5T * SUMTER, S.. C. Office Hoars.-9 to 1:30 ; 2:30 to 5. Sept 8 mmim SHOP. All "kinds of "Wg?BHii?! WORK REPAIRS fesn beb?d ia SIKH ter, st short notice, sod in {be very best cf??s ?T woFfe, at the shop re? cently opened by tbe undersigned on Liberty Street, near the C. 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Tho number of persons present was judged at -about 1000, possibly 1200-one thir-1 of whom were colored. Following is the best synopsis we have been able to get of the speeches-the report being made partly from notes taken at the time and partly from the daily papers* reports : GEN. E. W. MOISE, Sumter's brilliant orator and one of South Carolina's most patriotic sons, was introduced as a candidate for Congress from the 7th District. Ile said that it was perfectly natural and right that our people should be divided on State and National issues and asked that each speaker, no mat? ter what his views, should be heard calmly and respectfully. He said that he would discuss Federal issues entirely and would leave State mat? ters for the candidates on the respec? tive State tickets. ?le said he would trace out the causes of thc present distressed condition of the South and State now, m his judgment, thc trou? ble was to be remedied. Ho elo? quently discussed our condition under the present system. He showed that the people of South Carolina now pay $7,000,000 annually into the Federal tri scry with very little compensa? tion m return by having this money disbursed among the people who pay it, but it is spent in other sections while our people are left poor. He advocated that a law be passed which should require that, as far as practi? cable, the amount of money paid into the Federal treasury should bo dis? bursed among the people who paid it, and said that this could easily be done by the government purchasing supplies from the South. He said that all of the trouble did not come from an insufficient circulating med? ium, but that the trouble could be remedied to a great extent by a pro? per distribution of the funds collected, and advocated the purchase of the South's cotton by the national govern? ment, not as a speculation, but as a munition of war. He said, that enor? mous quantities of cotton were requir? ed by the government and if it should buy that cotton direct from the peo? ple, a rise in the price was certain to follow, because, after beingbrought by thc government it would never again be placed on thc market. Tue storage of cotton by tho sub-treasury plan, he said would lower the price and he made a very good argument in support of that position. He said that any system which enables the I pork and wheat raisers in the West lo use SO per cent o? their products at 2 per cent, while the people of thc South are starving on account of the high prices of provisions, would not do. Gen. Moi?c argued that the low price o? cotton, ia teaching industry, economy aud the starting of new in? dustries, would bc a blessing. The 1 question above all others now is : ? "How shall thc prosperity of the I country be restored V and in this question is one that every citizen is vitally coucerned. Thc pension out? rage was discussed and the necessity of having intelligent, fearless repre? sentatives in Congress was urged. The government should give employ? ment to Southern people, white and black, and they should Oe given a chance to learn skilled trodes; &c: He was listened to attentively throughput and too\ his seat amid loud applause: COV. TILLMAN'S SPEECH*'. Gov. Tillman was introduced by Mr. R. M. Wilson and opened his remarks by complimenting Sumter on her improved behavior. This was his third visit here and on the last occasion he had been treated very roughly lie liked Earle and had no hard feelings towards any of his for? mer supporters. He made a vigor? ous attack on those who had voted for Haskell at the general election, but said the Ilaskeiutes of Sumter County had more excuse for their action than anywhere else in the State. There was a principle behind this thing of Tillman and Sheppard. lie (Tillman) embodied thc principles of Democracy, while the Sheppard movement was llaskelliem in dis? guise, [fe was for a Government of the people and had given them the primary they were so soon to enjoy The Straightouts had refused a pri? mary when he wanted it two years ago. and when they wanted it he had refused it. He had quit trying to picase them. Sheppard's platform had nothing in it of any consequence except what he took from the farmers, platform. Ile, (Tillman) represented the true idea of a people's government. The Governor's ofiice was only executive and it was not of much consequence Who filled it were it not for the prin? ciples involved. Ile made a defence of his adminis? tration in the public, debt matter and claimed that the decrease in Value of the State bon ls had been brought .bout by the "damnable attic!:?" of newspapers. Ile tin u toe-", np the matter of rail? road and corporation taxes and said that he construed the law the same way for the people and the corpora? tions, but so'me others had one con? struction for thc money power and another for the private individual. He denied thai he had made war on caoital. Ile referred to the Cantwell cs and said that lie was justified in i attack on Judge Wallace, as I Judge had denied him the right execute the law and that the Sen? had endorsed his position. Ile next discussed the bank qn tions and read the law on the subji and urged that the Administr?t! had acted rightly and his iuterpre tion was the correct one, althou the Judges had decided difieren and been sustianed by the Suprei Couralie charged the Judges had noreb the law in granting the nu damuses, contrary to law. The thr Supreme Judges had said Judge Iii son was right. I 6ay he was not, ai will be "scissors" on this questi until I am dead. Ile said he could not understai how Justice Pope could give one d cisi?n as Attorney-General ft! another as Judge. South Caroli had trouble fifty years ago from t teachings ?f Calhoun, and she actual levied soldiers to fight the Fedei Government ; that she ueed to be "big little hussy," anyway. Ile made defense of his action the Coosaw matter and claimed th the State would yet be greatly ber. fitted by his policy and the taxes the people reduced by the revem from Coosaw. Ile said he had be? unable to redeem pledges because the "driftwood" Legislature, and r peated his charge against them, hand primary was taken, but the was evidently an intention not to i dnlge in such, although a good nur ber of hands went up. Governor Tillman next argued tb he had reduced the taxes of the pe pie thre-quarters of a mill. I advil that the people of South Carol ir levy a three dollar poll tax. On th question, he said, the Legislature hs gone back on him by paying no a tention to hts message. The reasc he is in favor of the three dollar pc tax, is because, under the one ' dolli poll tax the negroes pay one-eight! with the three dollar tax they woul pay one-third. This would give i efficient schools. We should do be ter or quit. Ile here called for a har) primary on this question, aud it wa evident that he was in a hopeless m nority. After some few further remar? the .Governor took his seat. EX-GOV. SHEPPARD'S SPEECH. Gx-Gov. Sheppard was next ii troduced and opened by sayin that if the people here had in proved in manners he trusted als that they had not lost the facult of memory, for if they heard th speech made by Tillman here iw years ago and compare it wit! what he said to-day they wouL see that he promised a great man; thing3 he had never fulfiller] Gov. Tillman had charged hie with unfaithfulness in 1888 an< Governor Tillman had gone to th State Convention from Edgefieh instructed to vote for Hill, and although the State Convention ha? not instructed him to vote for any one, he had voted for Boies. Mr. Sheppard defended himsel from the charge of being a Haskell ite in disguise, but the Conven tion which nad brought Gov. Till man out had in it men who wer? then and who are now avower. Republicans. Gov. Tillman in? terrupted and asked how many ' Sheppard replied "Two." He defended himself ?gaii?s? the charge of doing nothing in th( Legislature and explained that, as Speaker of the House, he had no1 tho power to introduce a bill. Tillman he said had charg?e that tho Judges were wrong, and lie asked who was tc be believed Judges Mciver, Pope, Fra?er anc1 Hudson., or Gov. Tillman ? Judge Fraser, he said, wa3 as pure a man as South Carolina had, and he said that the administration had exceeded the law. He held that no greater wrong could be done than to hold np the judiciary to contempt, A very small percent, of the cases carried to the Supreme Court were reversed. Judge Press ley has been declared wrong 23 .times dunug his long years of ser? vice on the bench. Judge Fraser was declared wrong 12 times in ton years and Judge Wallace 16 times during his term. He said that South Carolina's Judiciary wore as pure as could be found anywhere. Mr. Sheppard then took up (He m after of financial reform and said that in South Carolina the circulation was $12.49 per hoad while in Massachusetts it was much more, notwithstanding the fact that our natural resources were far greater. Thc difference lies in thc manufacturing industries, and in the large amount of wages paid in Massachusetts. If we had thc same conditions here we would soon have .$300 per head: This difference was attibutable to the tariff according to Governor Till? man and yet the Governor was in favor of a high tariff and was a candidate for the United States Senate; Tillman came forward and said that he wanted all the reduction he could get and denied the charge .Col. Youmans5 made the day be? fore in Manning, that he was in favor of protection. Col. Youmans said that he was prepared to prove it by Tillman's own utterances. Mr.- Sheppard said that Gov. Tillman's attacks on banks and factor je.? had injured tho people; who could not get along without them. The Governor was incon? sistent in regard to the railroad law and was net sine? re in the reason:-, given for his action in that matter. It would bo a dan? gerous thing tc pm such powers in the hands of an individual or tribunal without the right to' ap? peal. GEN. H. L. FARLEY". Gen. Farley was introduced and and commenced by saying th; Gov. Sheppard's famous messa< had been inspired by Tillma Mr. Sheppard denied ibis but a< mitted that Tillman had advise him to write such a message. Farley advised the crowd to gr three cheers for Gen. Earle, wh he said, was a better man than a seven of the conservative cana dates put together, and was wort! of the respect and admiration < all men. He prided himself (Fa ley) on his war and political r cords. He indulged in a violei attack on J. C. Hemphill. of tl N?t?$ and Courier. Hom phill hz misrepresented him and they we: no longer friends. He asked ti (Mirier correspondent to tal down what he should say. Cc Hemphill said it was a base si ai der because at Edgefield I said was a political child of Mart Gar Mart Gary said of me that I wi his best political and persom friend. My record I am proud < from the day I went into the war sixteen-year-old bo}r. I first kne Cal. as a long, lean, hungry, ugh third-class hoy, and I say that th transformation into a first-cla? boot lick and sycophant, with slight veneer of polish, is trul wonderful. The News and Couru was once a great paper and abl edited, though it never had muc principle. This he deplored, fe he had once been a newspape man. He had not a word to say again* reporters personally, but why wei they not allowed to give clear clear and accurate reports ? H believed the reports received othe doctoring in the office besides heac lines. He attacked Orr because he ha voted for Willard and said ths Orr was not what he was cracke up to be. The reason there is so littl money is because it is ali in th bank surplus funds contrary t law. He also backed Gov. Tillman i: his fight against railroad corpore tions, (fee, and said that Judge in times past needed watching an did still. COL. L. W. YOUMANS. Col. Youmans said the fire thing to do was to settle the mat ter of veracity between himsel and Gov. Tillman in regard to th Governor's tariff views. He quote from Tillman's own letters an proved that he had said that fre trade was a barren ideality an that tariff reform was of minor im pprtance and should be let alone. He argued that instead of rais ing the royalty on Phosphate, Go\ Tillman's course would eventu?ll; lower it. The Florida' phosphat companies had captured th European markets, formerly con trolled by the South Carolina com panies, and could mine and sel rock cheaper than we could. H denied that the State's manage ment of Coosaw was right, and sai< that its want of business method was apparent to any thinking per son. Among the visions Tillman sayi he had before he came into oiric* were that he would raise the phos phate royalty $100,000 and make ? survey of the territory with $10, 000. We are now behind in th< royalty more than $100,000, anc I am informed that a steam launel he bought is unfit for use. He would net employ a competen! engineer to take charge of it. anc it had to be continuai ly repaired, The consequence is Inspectai Jones has either to employ a tug. or telephone to the phosphate com? panies and borrow one. Tillman had called the legisla? tors lizards, cam?l?ons, ?c., who were continually changing. How long was it before Tillman had changed his color ? He charged Tillman with gross inconsistency and said he was audacity itself. Gov. Tillman begs the people to vote for men who will go to Co? lumbia and do' as he says. He wants to be Governor, Legislature and all. He said he had given the people their freedom and after? wards so id he had 50,000 of the "boys" in . his breeches pocket. Governor Tillman was the avowed friend of the poor man and one of the first things he did was to re commend that the poor man's poll tax bc raised from one dollar to th vee.-' He said Tillman's failure to koop pledges was notorious, ito knew he could not do it when he rn ade them. As far as he ( You man?j was concerned,- he would make no rash promises but Would do* ail he could to give thc people good government. He spo'ke of (he extravagance of the administration. The Gov. had accused ol hers of being bam? boozled by free p'?sses and then within 60 dsyn after he get into office took one himself. Tillman was more to bc blamed than Adam for eating the' forbidden fruit. Adam not only had the devil td urg<- him but Eve added her en? treaties also. Jn Tillman's capo, lie took the pass against tho earn? est entreaties of his wife.* He said the GOT: was responsi? ble for ali the trouble in tho Slate, which had been caused by his appeals to class, and urged that on election day they come out td the poll s and vote for the Conser? vative ticket. /VTTORN?Y-OBNKRAL $C*I?AURIfJ. Gen MeJyaurin was thc last epea'ser an ti:3 Administration eldo. Ho thought tho conservatives Wore' the cause of all thc tfotfb'lc fit thc meetings and illustra ted hy saying that tue meeting in Snor? ter two years ago was controlled by conservatives and was rowdy, while the one to-day, controlled hy Tillmanites, j was all that could bo desired If the ' Conservatives really wanted peace they would stay in the background and let the Tillmanite8 run tho government. Everything would bo lovely and the goose would hang high. He paid a high tribute to Col. Earle and said that his canvass of tho Slate two years ago showed that he was game. Ile came up to the scratch every time in spite of thc odds being against him. He was worth being proud of and Sumter would be glad to get bim again if she could. He paid his respects to Col. Orr and said ho had enough cf the campaign already and did not like thc drubbing Tillman was giving bim. Tillman, he said, did not mean really that free trade was not the thing but that, under ex? isting conditions it oould never bo realized. Money to run the govern? ment would have to be raised by direct taxation and when a man had to pay several times thc amount of his taxes, he would kick. It would nover do to take thc tariff off entirely. He attacked Ex-Gov. Sheppard's position on the currency and asked that Moise's statement that the stringency of money was due to the tribute levied on the South be compared with Sheppard's pica that the lack of money in this State was due to Tillman. Gen. Moise, also came in for a share of thc speaker's good humored com? ments. Moise was worthy of the con? fidence of his people. McLaurin defended the administra? tion in the conduct of the Coosaw case, in Tillman's attack on the judges and various other charges. Fraudulent returns of property had been going on. In the rich County cf Marlboro, (his home) only $250 of bonds and stocks had been returned and only ?4.500 in money. He said this was not right and that this tax-dodging ought to be stop? ped. He said that the bank cases had been decided on technicalities and not on their merits. The banks and rail? roads had not been assessed at a higher rate than any other property. Ho called on every body to come out to the polls and vote for the Tillman ticket, and hoped that "isms" would be forgotten. COL, W. P. MURPHY, The Conservative candidate for At? torney-General, closed the day's speak? ing. He said tho Conservatives oame before the people as pure Democrats and any statement to the contrary was false. He said no one ever heard of white men caucusing against each-other until Tillman inaugurated it, and euch actions would eventually ruin thc party. Tillman may not have intended to bring about this evil bot it bad been done nevertheless and the administra? tion faction was responsible for it. He appealed for honesty and fairness in politics. Tillman's claim of having dono good by stirring the people np was unfounded -they were stirred by Chamberlain in '76 and who would say that thanks were due him for it? The Tillman leaders were in the movement for. the offices. The Governor had defamed the good name of the State by his attack on thc judiciary and charges of corruption against the old State officials. He de? fended the Judges and argued that they had decided rightfully. In the Cant? well case Judge Wallace had rendered a decision against his own interest. He had been prominently mentioned for the Justiceship and could have been eleoted easily by courting favor with the Ad? ministration but he was too pure and honest to do it, and in consequence was beaten. The three dollar tax would be a hardship on tho poor man and Tillman knew it. instead of giving better sohool advantages they would bo worse. The poor farmer would have to struggle 60 hard to raise the money that he could not spare his children at school, but would in many ???t?nccs have to put them to work. He derided the Gov? ernor's^ claims of being a Reformer and showed what dire consequences would result from his getting legislators to vote ag ho should dictate. The Con? servatives did not promise all sorts of big things but intended doing their full duty if elected. Ho showed thc bad c??ects of Tillman ism on thc people and its work in dividing thc Democratic part v. Gov Tillman said m 1S90 that he was ?To? ing to give thc people privileges they never had before. They had no more privileges now than before. Gov Tillman, beiorc he got into o?ice ami got the Democratic machinery in his hands, wanted a direct primarv for Governor, but nov? that he is in says ?ic would be a fool to want it. Capt. Keels closed thc mcetiog with a few piesant remarks and congratulated the people of Sumter County on their gocr'd behavior. Tho Augusta Chronicle's R? pori. Tho following ropori of the Sumter meeting by thc Atigesta Chronicle has been commended as fair and truthful: SUVTKR, S. C. July The cam? paign meeting here today passed off without any bad blood or unseemly behavior and thc outlook for tho State canvass appears to be good for "peace and unity'' which the exhibitions of two week'? ago appeared to have knocked into smithereens. A wooden railing frad been built arouod the stand and spocial policemen were distributed throughout, the crowd. There were severa! arrests for drunken? ness, but oiitsidc of this there was perfect order throughout th* meeting. There were from nine huodred to a thousand persons present, several hun? dred of whom were negroes. The political line in thit? c'ooi?ty rs very closely drar?r?, but at tho meeting today thefe waa a' small majority of Conservatives present. Governor Till? man t?ok a hand primary on his three dollars poll tat scheme, but strango to say bis Sumter followers did not appear to favor it as barely 3 hundred h?nds were raised. The brefsiopt foat?re of tho Jay wag vjben Gov. Til I mao said that his admin? istration had bscn handicapped by a note for j??.OOO which it had to pay foi* th? proceeding administration. Ex-State Treasurer Mciver, Wi.o was present, arose and told him he was mistaken, that it had been paid long before ho ? (Tillman ) was inaugurated. Thc Gov? ernor replied that State Treasurer Bates told him SO". Tin? Governor said ^-ovt.-r cor Sheppard represented no ism bat that of o?Bce. He again pitched into the judges, saying that Judge Wallace's law io thc Cantwell ca'je was not oom mon sense, and that the judges were the "people who take care of the corpora? tions." Governor Sheppard spoke nest. He said he hoped the people present had heard Governor Tillman speak two years ago for they could compare that with his speech to-day and realize how many promises he had made that were* unfilled. in regard to Governor Tillman's charge that he had gone to the State convention and disobeyed the instruc? tions of the Edgefield delegation, Gov? ernor Sheppard said the Edge?eld con? vention had heard him express "his views against the question and had elected him regardless of these. Eight others of the delegation voted as he did, and one of thom, Earnest Gary, now heads the list of Tillman electors in Edgefield County. He stated that Governor Till? man had been instructed by the Edge field convention to do all in hi3 power to secure the nomination of Senator Hill, but that he did not do a thing and went to Chicago and worked and voted for Boies, despite the fact that the State convention did not instruct him. Governor Sheppard said that Gover? nor Tillman obtained the necessary majority that nominated him in the Maroo convention by tho votes of Re? publicans. Gen. Farely threw hot shot at Editor Hemphill, of the News and Courier, calling him a sycophant and a bootlick, trying to pass for a gentleman. He said the paper was an old huckster and Mr. Hemphill was the scallion, Col. Yoemans made another new speech, and ooo that is spoken of on all sides as a very effective one. He said that, instead of Tillman raising the phosphate royalty $100,000, as he prom? ised to do, there is a deficit of more than that, and the steam launch bought by him was unfit for ase, and Inspector Jones had to hire a tag when oat on official business. Gen. Mclaurin, made a humorous speech that took well with the crowd, and Col. Murphy closed the speaking. He said that Governor Tillman was re? sponsible for the canvass in Sooth Caro? lina, and its effect would bs to disrupt the party. The Meeting at Manning. The campaign meeting at Manning on the 19th was held without any sensa? tional feature. Clarendon deserves great credit for the perfect order that prevailed. There was not an interrup? tion and even the cheering was moder? ate Bx-9cv. Sheppard made a first-class educational speech and showed that cap? ital, the chief ueed of the State, ?rould fight shy of South Carolina if the ad? ministration kept np its tactics. He told the crowd that the signs of the times forced the belief that the next time he visited Manning it would be as governor. Governor Tillman declared that he knew he would be elected despite every? thing. He made h'i? naca! d?nonciation of the newspapers and his level best to make his followers believe that t^e Con? servatives were Haskellites. He denounced the lied law as in? famous. Gen. Farley made a humoro?? speech n which he said ditto to ali that Tillman said. Col. Youmans made a powerful speech in which he showed that the Coosaw c?6e was od feather in the Administration cap ; that half a mil? lion dollars of British gold had thereby been driven to Florida ; he showed that while Tillman was calling the Conserva? tives republicans he was nearer one himself, as he had declared that fae fovored protection and was against free trado, yet today he announced that "Protection is the doctrine of the Republican party." Tillman's going to Chicho and seconding the tariff plank showed that he was a turncoat. The Third party orgau9 ffooh pooh j thc idea that the Force bill is an issue or a factor in this campaign when no intelligent man who is willing to see the truth and acknowledge it questions it for a moment. Thc convention which nominated Benjamin Harrison made it an issue when it endorsed it ?nd incorpo? rated it in the platform on which* the parry and its representative, Mr. Har? rison stands. Some cf the lesidng colored organs of the country have come out squarely for it and urge colored voters to vote for eaudidate Harrison on this ! issue. Meetings of colored meo in the North have eudorsed it and demanded j it. Tho effort is being made to solidfy tho colored vote for tho Republican party on that issue and on that alone. In talking to the colored people all other issues are lost sight of and 'gcored. In the Norfork, Va , rdistriot ex Congressman Bowden is a candidate for Congress and is appealing for negro support, they having a majority in tho district, hy coming out squarely for the Force bill. It is Simple idiocy. Or shameless mendacity, to assert that this is not an issue, and that there is nothing in it. The Deadly Kerosene Cati. A correspondent of the Greenville News writing from Btacksburg, S. C., July 21 st, says : "Yesterday evening late ??iss Uenia Cooper, of Sumter,- wiro is vtsiting her sister, Mrs. W. S. l?arriitcr, was seriously burned b? the explosion of A kerosine eil Cati, which' became ignited while pouring? oil on wood in rf crtove in which there was supposed to be no (ire. Miss Cooper's clothes caught on (ire and E M. Hamiter, in endeavoring io extinguish the fi?mes, v.as se: iotrsly burned! on his hands. Both ate painfully injured." Miss Cooper is said to bc from about Indiarrto'wii, Lift is kuofwu in S?mtrr A Cincinnati phrenoroixist has ask ed Mr. Harrison's permission to ex amine his head. l?o should Wait un? til after fhn election, when ?? will be less ol'a i<>b, for Mr. llavr??o?'a head sill not bc so l?tiro then-. xney stooct Dy one Anotner an? Then Oiirsed CI?T/ekn<L , There is a chumship in the United States senate that is a c?o?ef 'TfeTatiot? than the chumship of o'rir schoolbe^?ayfif and almost as close as common hate? Beck and Allison were such a pair, Doo' Cameron and Butler, of South ^Carolina Test and Plumb, E'drnnnds and Thur? man, and so on. When a republican; rascal ia the treasury department waff about to be turned out bj Higgins, a re? publican senator would rush over, to,hi? democratic chum and say: "I want JOE to sate a poor devil ia the treasury. Ha is not St for anything else, and .iihe,is turned out I will have to suppoft.himv , Here is hi3 name ; go, see .Manging ,a^a 1 have him retained. It is a work of char? ity, and I will not forget you if the sun I ever chines on my side the hedge." Tho : democratic senator rushes down to see' I Manning and storms around awhile, and 1 keeps the fellow in. Then he goes back to the senate and spends the remainder of the day cussing Cleveland for not turning the rascals out. Now that is nos only history, bat it is truth. It was done* ia hundreds and hundreds of cases, and! had David B. Hill been elected preside nf: io 1884 he would have made as many enemies because of spoils as Mr. Cleve? land made. The whole fact of the busi? ness is that post masters, United States' marshals, collectors of internal revenue" and some other Federal officials ought to' be elected directly by the people.-^-' Washington Correspondent ?ouisyilt? Courier Journal. A Bright Flash. The election of Air. Brayton', a? - Republican, as member of the Rich? land County Alliance executive committee, is entirely in Accord w h h the principles of that organization which are strictly non-partisan, and . for this reason we 'Lave always . contended that Alliance men, -as a body, have no right to espouse -the', cause of any party,, but its member* are left free to vote as their jcdgmejit dictates. All demanded ia that they ; must endorse- the Ocala platform Columbia Register. .--.-??**:; Of all the desprised Radical manipi* lator8 iu this State, there is none who deserves and receives more contempt at the hands of Democrats, generally ? than E. M. Bray fen, the man to whoo! the Register*s editor from Georgia iff now pleased to lift hid hat The pea? pie of this Stale can readily see front the above clipping where we, as ct. while people,. fresh from thai greaf fight fur freedom, are drifting tinder the guidance of the powers that bo. t ; This Brayton is not a lover of tho men of South Carolina who noW constitute the Alliance ; ha has bee? their enemy ail along, and will con-, tinue to be, therefore, we ^cannot believe that Alliance men, generally^ will, in the same snave manner as < the, editor from Georgia, endorse^ ooo oZ the blackest hearted Republicans tfwX our State has ever kn owo., 1^% Register's editor needs and ought td provide t?rns?rf^w1tfe^g?*de-?for th? dark places of journalism in the old Palmetto State -Barnwell Sentinel .'Lay ?oWHj Forty-Tto?^ "When 6ov. r?^b^0^y^^s\^f Virgina, was placed in corflTtiand.of the Forty-ninth regiment, in JS?f? satd a Misso?rian to a.St Louis Repui^ lie writer, "he was really too old for service and not disposed to learn mili? tary tactics. Sc. when ' it rhteeffm? necessary to ?ive an .order He wofjiX simply give it in hi6 own way and iii his own language. Whenever lief took his regiment frito" line and placed it in position and Oie skirmishing be? gan his first order invariably was: r " 'Lay down, forty-ninth! "By this order ho protected "his cofl from the fire of the enemy and saved them from unnecessary exposure. Bait this saying- became commoir^ir-t?s? anny of N^rtr?er'n Virginia J^WIft?f^S were in winter quarters an? tfo^enemy near, a soldier would fire off his gnni and then the famot?s order of Gover? nor Smith to his idolized regiment wouid be repeated by the boysaU along the line. ' " At the recent national conventiot? at Chicago, On the last day of its pro? ceedings, while the Candidate for vice president was being nominated, a number of men stood tip and so ob? structed the view that no one behind! them could see tire delegates. There were cries of'sit down/ but the .ob? structionists paid no attention to th? audience until 6omc old soldier of Lee's army shouted: * 'Lay down, Forty-ninth.* Weil, sir; it was recogniz?d at ?uc? by ali o? tiiose old 'boys' and repeated by many of them*, doubtless bringing back to their memories in ? vivid way the exciting scenes of thoss Jears from IHQl to ?S65. H had a pleasing* I effect, too, for they prompth sat ! down." - ; ?tf r - -r x A party wa? maae up iu Columbia j last week to excavate a mound oa the* Seegors plantation near that city and the Register Snid that it bad been predicted that the remains of the old Haskellitef faction would be found there. It will not take excavation but only ? little' scramming of some of the Til?o??ftes to* bring to Wew Greeobaefcers; Third party reen and perhaps sn occasional Republican -Anderson Journal. 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