The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 10, 1893, Image 1

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TH? SU MT BF. WATCHMAN, Established April. IS 50. Consolidated Aug, 2, 1881.1 "3e Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's THIS TKCE SOCT3BOX, Katabl?fchea Jo??, SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1893. New Series-Vol. XII. Jio. 41. AN IMPORTANT COMBINE. SUMTER-NEW YORK ! REAL ESTATE BANK Organized IX S ?VEX DA YS BY THE Eastern Building and Loan Association, OF SYRACUSE, N. Y., on April 2?, 1893. With $100,000 Capital. Valuable to Sumter. It has now direct communica? tion with the surplus money of the North to upbuild it aad provide private needs. Depositors Guaran? teed Q?X per cent; per annum. fei ?mi ? 6* Years, Interest 5 9-iO Per Gent Per A.imum. Ml Deposits Secured hy Firsi Mortgage Upon 66 per cent, of the Value of lieal Ebtate {finished property) and for Building Purposes, Appraised hy Directors Eltcr'cd hy De? positors. AU De[)Osits Made Here are Loaned Here, Bal? ance of Mon-y for Loans Foncarded from the ?orth, tew a H8ME ENTERPRISE haclced hy Foreign Capital. America's Ml Bili Association. SYRACUSE, N. Y. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $50,000,000.00 CASH ASSET S. APRIL 1, 1893, $321,055.00 PROFITS .$141,757 49 SURPLUS UV KR 21 FER CENT GUARAN?ES.?ti.923 00 A NATIONAL INVESTMENT AND SAVING INSTITUTION. INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. SUBJECT TO STATE INSPECTION. Accountable for its acts strictly as Savings and other. Banks. Officers and Directors Personally Lia? ble Q?ider the law for any fraudu? lent usc, dispution or tnyest useat of any money or Property. Officers, Agents A., Jin non ForPro?e=tiyD and Local Treas-SI 4]iJ of Sharehold urer3 Bonded V*)*AV>VV'W er3> Board of Directors' Power Limited by Charter and Law. NO LOOP HOLES! Charter limits ezpensts to 1 per cent per year of maturity valut of stock. LAPSES, NO FORFEITURE, NO AUCTION SYSTEM. N0TEINS LEST TO ??0N03, Stringent law compris Honest Economic'*.! Administration. EVERY CONTRACT ISSUED BY THE Eastern IS DEFINITE, AU Stocks and Loans Guaranteed to Mature in 6~ Years. lathing will promote development of this city more or make larger profits for its members, than establishment cf the Beal Estate Bank cf "BAST ES FLT JV' $1.00 Admission Fee on SI00 00 installment share. 75 cents monthly payment on each share. Instalment stitch matures in 7S months TOTAL COST, (including admission f?* ) I $59.56; YOU GET $100.00, YOUR ' PROFIT, $40 50, beinp 21 per cent per annum, MONEY LOANED 6* YEARS. 5 9-10 per cent, interest payable mo.thly Withdrawal of Monthly Deposits Without Loss or Expense. No other Association Defi? nitely Matures Stock or allows Withdrawal on Demand. "PAID UP" ; {Yields 15 3S-00 per Share $50 j Par j cent. jValuej Annual profit. ''Fully Paid j SlOO 7 per cent, diri Certificates" SlOOj dend. ! ^Payable quarterly. NO SAFER INVESTMENT. OBJECTS. FJLRST-To pro ?id*' Safe and Bemvnerative Investment for Capita:! ists and Otiters who may purchase its stock. SECOND- To mable its members to st ire and accumulate money, and obtain largest possible interest on same, guarantied to be not less than 2il Per cent per annum. THIRD--To enable, members *<> purchase, bv.ifd and seecre homes, upon plans less burdensome than paying ordinary notes, getting his "HOMi?1 for Beat otherwise throve a away. FOURTH-To 'jive every City and Toica in . the United states, the advantages of a LOCAL BUILDING, LOAN and IM FRO VE M EN T COMPANY. throvgh or? ganization of Branch Offices, with addi? tional advantages of safe and accamula . tive investment for those who may aroil thonselves of the Saving bank privileges. While this Associaf<on is purely co -opera t'.ce, yet the business of such institutions has been reduced to a pefectioa and science, which enables the management to make definite contracts with its members as t) results. The "EASTERN" has proven its plan and : system, aa on January 1st, lil?-,. it placed \ ?1,890.78 <" &<rp?*(* /"?'' in ?re?? ?f earnings necessary to mature its stock at 21 FER CENT., AT END OF ? |?2 ?'"^ and on JAN. 1ST., r93. the excess surplus over 21 7^/* cri?^ guarantee teas acer $10.000, A N li OX April 1st, 93, 811,923. The life and vitality of Building Asso? ciation:* & Compound Interest, and though \ local institutions, from oliicial reports of ; 1SH0. show assets in the United States aggre? gating ^-136,000,000; still there are ; very few National Building Associations in America able to supply the demand on its Treasury for all the loans applied for. Even in England, where there is a sur? plus of capital and money cheap, building and saving societies are prosperous and make money, ljecause there is no other j system of incest ment so fi ce fruin loss and so advantageous to all classes, either rich or j poor, capitalist, wage-earner or borrower, , each stockholder having his proportionate j rate in all the mortgages held by trustee. The o??eial report of "House of Com? mons,'* l?vS9, shows 2-879 Societies with combined assets of .?320-000-000 ; | while the "BIRKBECK" alone organized 1S51- principal office. LONDON. England, in its ssth annual statement, shows 53,229 Depositors and Shareholders, owning assets over $25,000,000. It received in 1830, $55,000,000, and Since 8? Organization has received in cash $600,000,000, e-^ry cent being faithfully accounted for. The "Birk? beck" ranks to-day with the gieatest nnanoial institutions in the world. Our purpose and system is same as the "Birkbeck," with greater advan? tages, owing to greater scope in purpose and wider field of operation. OUT profits are greater, as interest is higher, and the demand of borrowers witJund practical limit. There are over 20,000 Depositors in the S astern at this time. A PUBLIC BENEFACTOR. As the future upbuilding cf this City largely depends upon Building and Loan Societies, their importance cannot he underrated, because the principal has stood the test of 97 years in Englat.d and 60 years in America, with 8,878 Societies having over ?756,000,000 in 1890, without even one failure of an honest managed Association. And as Sumter is des? tined to become a city of considerable importance, several hundred houses may be built in the next few vears, the subject of Building and Loan and the different plans, laws under which they are organized to protect the stockholders, and powers granted them under the Directory of the vari ous Associations seeking patronage here, should be carefully understood, by the Investor and Borrower exam? ining the prospectus and contract of each association (upon which he only can depend) thereby avoiding disapp intments or misunderstandings in the future as have been experienced in the past, then he can decide WHICH ASSO? CIATION PRESENTS TUE MOST FAVORABLE TERMS, SAFEST, LARGEST RESULTS FOR THE IN VESTOR, AND CHEAPEST FvR THE BORROWER. The Eastern Building and Loan As? sociation of Syracuse,IT. Y. (authorized capital $50,000,000), is nationally popular, because it is the only Association in the world Guaranteeing all Stocks and Loans to Mature in 73 months, and allowing the Investor to withdraw all Monthly deposits on Demand with? out Loss or Ezpense. Every Contract is Definite. Before yon yo in you knoic to a cent how much you pay, how long, and when yon come out. "2To Estimates", "So Guess Work." The date of maturity of the Stock and Loan is staled in the contract. The Eastern allows WITHDRAWAL Of all MONTHLY INSTALMENTS AT ANY TI VE WITHOUT LOSS CR EX?E.\>E, making it similar to banking. No der Association tos Is. Some require 12 to 24 monthly in? stalments, with 60 days' notice, before withdrawal be allowed ; and when withdrawn, only the "loan fund0 will be returned ; some others charge $5 withdrawal fee, on 10 shares, being i but $83 to ?88 on each $100 paid! in. The amount returned by the "Eastern" for each ?100 deposited on 10 shares would be $103, being ?15 tO $20 ON EACH $100 IN ITS FAVOR, making the "Eastern" STOCK AL? WAYS AT PAR, or at a premium, while other Associations' Stock is ?12 to $17 DISCOUNT ON TUE $100. Some allow 6 per cent interest on the "loan fund" for the average time, making ?2.64, and aggregating but $90 94, a DIS COUNT OF ?9 36 If only one monthly instalment l*e made to the "Eastern" it will be REPAID IN FULL UPON DEMAND. No other Association Does This. If 6 instalments be made, they will I also be returned to full. Afrer 6 months, up to 2 years, 6 per cent j dividend per annum allowed ; after 2 years, 7 per cent ; after 3 years, 8 per I cent, until maturity, with PER I CENT ANNUALLY guaranteed at end ot ? 6?, years. j "ILLUSTRATION shoing ,be pro I 6t to the monthly investor or depositor ; take, for example, ten shares of stock or ccrti?cate of deposit of ?100 each You pay a membership fee of ?1 per share, making ?10, and receive a certificate of depo.-it ?1000. On the last Saturday of each month you deposit ?7.50 with A C. PHELPS, being provided with deposit slips and book similar to banks. In 78 months you deposit $585, with membership fee, $595 at which time you receive ?1.000 cash upon thc surrender of your certi?cate. You have received back your ?095. and made $105 profit io six and one-half years, equal bo 21 P^r Cent per annum, no "ifs or ands" about * POSITIVELY GUARANTEED. After paying the $10 membership fcc, and depositing three ?7*50 monthly in? stalment*, each member is entitled to a loan of $900 cash on each 10 shares, or $1,000 stock, ho holds. He pays ?15.84 monthly for 78 mouths aggre? gating $1,245 52; (including the ?10 fee,) he has paid off the ?900 loan and ?315.52 interest in six and oue-half years. His interest is ?53.14 yearly on ?900, being 5 9-10 per cent per annum. Had he buiit a house with the $900, the mortgage is now cancelled, but WEES HE A RENTER paid $15 84 monthly for 78 months he would have paid $1,235.52 still a renter-NOTH INO TO SHOW BUT REST RE? CEIPTS. IS IT WISDOM TO TRADE RENT RECEIPTS FOR A HOME ? The Eastern Guarantees to thc monthly deponitor "2: PER CENT PROFIT PER ANNUM, at the same t:me it Guar? antees the. Borrower on bis reo share? 21 PER CENT PItOFIT PER ANNUM, as though he were an investor, and it because he signs 78 notes of ?15 84 payable monthly for ?900 cash loan aggregating in six and a half years ?1 235 52. when his loan and interest are both paid and his mortgage released, he having paid for six and a half years but 5 910 per cent interest per annum. Hinte to Borrowers. Require the Association to.give you a DEFINITE contract, stating the monthlv amount and number of MONTHS YOU PAY before you pay a cent or allow a moifgage to cover your prope'y. ' Don't put $2 Mort? gage on your property to Borrow ONE as other Associations re? quire or you will regret it. The BASTESE for $300 Cash loan PLACES A MORTGAGE on the lot and hou<e for but $1235.52. a note cf ?15 84 is payable monthly and return? ed to the borrower. OTHER promi? nent COMPANIES require bonds and mortgage of $1800. lt you were of? fered 01700, could you sell it thus en? cumbered ? Jj the $000 bond and mortgage were closed, and property sold for $450, would all your property be Jie^d bound to moke vp the difference and all your titles encumbered thereby, and could yon sell any part of it before (his lien were removed t lr G> to ihe Recorder's Office and ?xaitiiiie some Igor images ami see. Meat of Immi i Honor DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY WHERE IT IS PROTECTED BY STRINGENT LAW. NO DISAPPOINTMENT; IF YOU BUY EASTERN STOCK, you will get your loan promptly, for years at 5 9 10 per cent interest per annum, while as an INVESTOR you are ALLOWED to WITHDRAW ALL MONTHLY INSTALMENTS ON DEMAND AT AND ABOVE PAR. In some As? sociations doing business io this cirj' you are compelled to pay 12 months before you can g'"t out. bbiog $9 36 ?12 to $17 oo each $100 paid, then you will realize that No other Association equals the Eastern. DON'T BE SCEPTICAL YOUR MONEY BEING UNQUESTIONABLY SAFE, mitrht it not ne to vour interest to AVAIL YOURSELF OF THIS OPPORTUNITY and de? posit some of your nioner in the Local Real Estate" Bank in THIS CITY, and secure the large profits which will rtauk ? If You Deposit for 78 Months monthly, Total, You get, your Profit 75 cts. " $ 58 50: "S IOU "$ 41.50 .57 50 " $585 O:.; " 1,000 " 415 00 S37 50 2025 00: " 5,000 '; 2075 00 $75 00 " 5850 00; il 10.000 " 4150 00 NotiCS $58,50 invested but 3'4'years yields $4150. Can any Investment without Risk excel this. SHUTER Real Estate Bank. OEFICERS AND DIRECTORS. \V. M. GRAHAM, President; President and Tren?. Sumter Land and Improvement Company. R. P. MONAGHAN', Vice President ; Direc? tor l?iuk o? .Sumter und marchant. A. C. PHELPS, Sec'y and Treas ; Gen'l insurance A yent. W. F. RH AME, Director; Cashier tonk of Sumter. DR A. J. CHINA. Director; Vice president Simonds National Bank. NEIL O'DONNELL, Director; Director Simonds National Bank arid merchant. J. A. MOOD, Director; Physician. ?I. B. CARR, Director; Contractor, Builder ar.d Proprietor of Planing Mill. Bi K REM BERT, Director ; Merchan t. MARION MOISE, Attorney Attorney ni Law, and Vic- President ot Dink o? Sum? ter. BUY EASTERN STOCK, Stock Subscriptions Received cj j A. C. Phelps,1 Secretary and Treasurer. CURED ** About seven or eight months ago I was attacked by a rough, and at onco bogan to Take a mecfrdne much adver? tised as an expectorant, and continued using it until I had taken about six bot? tles. Instead of giving me relief, it only made nm worse. I tried several other remedie?, but al! in vain, and I don't think I had three whole nights' rest during my illness. I began to think that Consumption had laid hold of me, and my hopes of recovery were all gone. I was a mere skeleton, but a friend of mine, who had been some time away, called to see me. Ho recommended me to try Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and kindly sending me a bottle, I took it, but with little hopes of recovery. I am thankful, how? ever, to sty that it cured me, and I am to-day enjoying the best of health." - J. Wilmot Payne, Monrovia, Liberia. Cherry Pectoral Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer S: Co., Lowell, Mas?. P ro m pt to act, su re to cure Office and Mills at Junction of W. ( ----- - - BE-? - ? T:;E sifflons NATIONAL BANS, OF SUMTER. STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI? TORY, SUMTER, S. C. Paid up Capital.$75,000 00 Surplus Fund. 11,500 00 Transacts a General Banking Business. Careful attention gi?en to collections. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of Si and upwards received. In? terest allowed at the rr.te cf 4 per cent, per lona?. Payable quarterly, on first dayB of January, April, July nad October. R. M. WALLACE, President. L. S. CARSON, A ug. 7 Cashier. H. A. HOYT, MAIN STREET, SUMTER, S. C. Gold and Silver Watches, FINE DIAMONDS. ClocSs, Jewelry, Spectacles, MERIDEN BRITANIA SILVERWARE, Ac. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Feb 1 L WHITE & S0N7 Fire insurance .Agency ESTABLISHED 1866. Represent, among other Companies : LIVERPOOL & LONDON k GLOBE NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE. HOME, of New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y. LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented, $75,000,000. Feb. 12 OTT! HERS. WHOLESALE And Liquor Dealer. OFFICE AND SALESROOM: IS3 East Bay, Charleston, S. 0, Nov. 7 o B EST A S D CB E A PEST. ALL GOODS GUARANTEED Estimates furnished by return Mail. LARGE STOCK. PROMPT SHIPMENTS. (ii e. ran i m, MANUFACTURERS OF AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN li mi BUM, MOULDING-, - ANO GENEEAL BUILDING- MATERIAL I Of?ice mid Salesrooms, 10 and 12 liny ne St. j CU A R L ESTO If, S. C. Jan 25 o L. 0. JOHNSTON, ?SUMTER, S. C., -THE Practical Carpenter, Contracter; A>:i> BUILDER. TT70?LD RESPECTFULLY inform the \Y citizens of Sumter ?rid surrounding country that he is prepared to furnish plans, { and es ii m;* tes un brick and wooden bni I t? ?ira | All work entrusted to him will bc done j ?.si ciiis?. . SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. AUK ID O 1 Highest of all in Leavening Power.-Latest U. S. Gov't Report ABSOLUTELY PURS Tl BM IIPI?IITI?1, SUMTER, S C. CITY AND COUNTY" DEPUSITORY. Transacts a general Banking business. Also hps A Savings Bank Department, Deposits of $1.00 and upwards received. Iuterest calculated at the rate of 4 per ceut. per annum, payable quarterly. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, W. F. RHAME, President. Cashier. Aug 21. JTBTCAKK9 Contractor and Builder, Sumter, S. C, DEALER IN Rough ai.d Planed Lumber, Doors, Blinds, Sash, Laths, Cypress Shingles, Lim=, Glass and General Building Supplies. Mill Work of nil kinds made to order, such as MANTLES, DOOR AND WINDOW FRAMES, STORE FRONTS, MOULDINGS AND TURNED WORK, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. '. A A , find C. S. & N. R. Rs. GINS! INSURE YOUR GINS -IX THE 3Pi3.oe:o_i:x: Assurance Company, OF LONDON, THE LARGEST COMPANY IN THE WORLD That takes fire risks on Gins. For particulars, etc., apply to ALTAMONT MOSES, AGENT. P. S.-We do also a Gene? ral Fire Insurance Business, and represent the MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE of New York, the largest in the world. Aug. 17. ANNOUNCEMENT. ROBERT T. CARR, Desires to inform the public that he ii fully equipped and prepared to do TIN ROOFING, PLUMBING, REPAIRIN6 PUMPS, and anything usually done in a ?rat-class plumbing and tinning ebop. -Also SETTING FANCY WOOD AND MARBLE MANTLES, TILE HEARTHS, FACINGS AND GRATES. Makes a specialty of putting in Electric Bells, Annunciators, Speaking tubes, &c. ROBT. T. CARR. Shop at J. B. Carr's Mill. Communications left at Walsn & Co's Sh.ce Siore or through post office will receive prompt attention. Oct 26-o THE Sumter Institute. THE INSTITUTE has opened its sessions! under very auspicious circumstances. The boarding department is weil appointed and the rooms are rapidly filling np. Those desiring rooms should apply at an early day The Art room has hcen enlarged and refitted, ' affording ample light, and all necessary fac?i- I tics for good work. Special lessons in Painting and Drawing, each Slr? a term; in Book-keeping, S't-no grapby, Typewriting and Penmanship, each 510 ?term; Instrumental ami Vocal Music eace $20 a t?rm, with S.'i for use of instilment for practice. Elocution $7 ?? term Students will be received for ?ny of these Spi-cial courses at any time during the year, and we solicit pa:ronage of the young ladies | of the city not regularly entered in the school j For further information apply to H. FRANK WILSON, President. WEST END CALHOUN ST., CHARLESTON, 8. C. General Agent for South Carolina, RELAY BICYCLES. Self-healing or other Pneumatic Tyres. J PRICES $110.00 ami $r.!5.00. Exclusive agencies given at unoccupied points. Correspondence solicited. Feb. 15-v. TUB COLUMBIA j ? PHOTOGRAPH ARTIST, < * ! i Offers Special Inducement tc all j < who haTe neTer had a good picture. Old pictures copied and enlarged. ' Nov I?-x ^ Donaldson vs. the Governor. GREENVILLE, S. C., May 1, 1892. Mr. Editor : In replying to Gover? nor Tillman's confession to having blacklisted me to President Cleveland and the reason he assigus for so doiog I shall Dot attempt to "link" Mr. Till? man as citizen and Mr. Tillman as Governor, nor vice versa, but to deal with him as man to mau, recognizing the fact, as the pablic will also, ?that if his conduct in this matter is shown to be true and noble and manly it will only give lustre to the office which he holds, and that, on the oontrary, if his course has been untrue, ignoble and uoamnly his office as Governor will not shield him from the contempt of all right thinking men. When I first saw the reports in the newspapers that the Governor of the State bad included my name in a black list to Mr. Clevelaod I, in common with the people generally, gave but little credit to it, but receiving no state? ment from the Governor denying it I wrote him a letter of inquiry, which letter he saw fit to ignore. I shall take up his public statements, however, and answer them them seriatim. He disclaims any "reference" to my private character, or any feeling cf resentment or desire to injure me, and yet he deliberately proceeds to charge me with "betrayal" of the Allliance and "treachery to the people and to the Alliance," thus making a deadly thrust at my character and reputation. We read of one Joab of olden time, who, while maddened and blinded by political jealousy, pursued a faithful servant of the King, one who was on a mission to unite and harmonize the people, and when he had 07ertaken him, this Joab, while stroking the beard of his victim, in great show of friendship, thrust the cold steel under his fifi h rib. Perhaps Governor Tillman has yet to learn that to stab a man's character, whether openly, as Joab did Amaso's person, or under cover of supposed secrecy in a black list to the President, means death to the victim. The first reason given by the Gover? nor, to prevent "further betrayal of the Alliance'* is that I was repudiated by the Democracy of Greenville County, etc. So far as my failing to be elected a delegate to the May Convention is concerned I have the records to show, for they are in the hands of three as honorable men as live in Greenville County, that ina caucus of Keformers, held just before the meeting of the County Convention, a ballot was taken for delegates to thc State Convention to be voted for in the open Convention. About one-half of the ballots cast for me were not reported, and still the number of ballots counted for me made me an alternate, which, according to a rule of the caucus, required that my name be printed on the tickets to be used in the open Convention. Having failed, therefore, by the counting-out process to keep me off the ticket, it was dis? covered, in the Convention, after a large number of them were distributed to the unsuspecting members, that my name was left v?? the tickets. This arousing suspicion in the minds of some, an investigation was made, and thc facts as above stated sworn to and published by the investigating com mitttee. It was but natural, therefore, (and certainly nothing could be more gratifying to me) that my friends with whom I had so long associated in the work of reform, seeing the- persecution that was attempted towards me, should rally almost to a man to my support iu thc State Convention. H is not a remarkable position for the Governor to put the members of that Convention >u when he states that "through the influence of a few Alliance men they conferred the most honorable and re? sponsible position within the gift upon* one so at Worthy as he would have me appear ? If there was any "presumption'' in that Coveotion as"to my being opposed to the nomination of Mr. Cleveland, I then nor was net aware of it since, till the (Sorernor makes the bald statement that such was tho case. To be entirely frank he makes that statement in the face of indubitable proof to the contrary, for my position towards Mr. Cleveland was given to the press as early as Febiuary, 1S92, and was printed in the newspapers all over this State, and in other as States well, and I know be read my views as then expressed. The Alliance gave co evidence of look? ing upon my preference for Mr. Cleve lanc. as betrayal of them, either st that time or since. Moreover the Convention voted down a resolution to instruct the delegates to .Chicago, as ihe records show. As lo the resolutions afterwards j adopted condemning Mr. Cleveland's ! former administration, it will be reraeui- ! bored by deiegates who talked with nie on tho way to Chicago that I thought the resolution as expressive of the sense of the Convention must having its bear iug upon their action. I went to Chicago, not as delegate, to vote in the Convention, but to meet, the Democratic national executive com - j 1 mittee, in order to organize with that j committee for the work of the campaign, j 1 I associated with thera "openly" t con- i fess ; most of the committee, 1 believe, j ; were supporters of Mr. Cleveland, and ? : tho result* of the Conveairon ind ici at ed 1 i tuat there were ignite a number of vot- j I ?na delegates also vino were in favor of ! ' his nouiination. \ felt then, as I do j now, that I as a free while South Caro- ! i lina Democrat, had as much right to my i j ..hoi oe of Mr. Cleveland for the Prosi- ? ( jenes as Governor Tillaiau had foi his \ choice. I y As already stated, my position for t Mr. Cievelahd was well understood he- \ fore thc May Convention mit. No s demaud was made upou me by that Cor vention, aod I deny the charg that I consciously deceived anv one, either by silence or b speech. The next count in this wou derfal indictment ts that I pledged my self if elected president of the Stat Alliance not to seek any office, cte and this report, Iain told, is being ver industriously circulated in Ailiauc circles as thoagh it were a fact, wbid if believedf will, as is hoped for b; those who seek my injury, have th effect of breaking the unity of th Alliance io supporting my efforts as it officiai bead to bnild up and roaiutaii the true principles of the Order. The exact truth is I did not seek th* nomination of the presidency of th? State Alliance, but, on the contrary expressed to many of those who ap proached me on thc subject that I pre ferred to decline, and I am sure tha every member of the State Allianc who voted for me will bear me out it the statement that I did not in th' slightest degree express or imply an; such pledge, nor was any such require meut laid upon me by anyone whom seever. I did say after my eleciioi that I would do all within my power ti build up and advance the interest of th? Order, which I have doue and wil continue to do. It might be interesting right here ti inquire of the Governor whence cumei this newborn zeal for the welfare ant safety of the Alliance on his part? believe that at one time he wa9 madi president of the EJgcfield Counri Alliance, and that Dotvrirhstaodiog h< bad published far and wide-to shots bis disinterested patriotism-that h< wauted no office save that of a trustei of ao agricultural college, yet he die not hesitate to embrace the first oppor tuuity to held office of another kind When Alliance men all over the Stat? revert to his defiance of the Order auc its principles, as he demonstrated it a! the meeting of the State Alliance a Spartanburg, they will no doubt looi upon his great and sudden Alliance virtue io this case as somewhat lud? crous aod grotesque. In the last count he charges me witt "treachery to the people and to the Alliance," in that I injected into the rail? road bill of '91 "two objectionable features," viz : The right of appeal oe the part of the railroads to the Courti and the feature of the bill which allowed the eletion of railroad com missioner by the General Assembly. To anyone with the information and intelligence ol a schoolboy a reply to these cbargej would seem superfluous. Mr. Tillman, when inaugurated Governor, took a solemn oath to sustain the Constitution of this State and of thi United States. I, with every other mern ber of the Senate and House of Represen' tative8, took the same oath. The Constitution unquestionably guaranteer to the citizen the right of appeal to the Courts, which right is one of the bed rocks of civil liberty, and yet thc Governor of a great State, who ha? sworn to sustain the Constitution there? of, feels justified in proceeding serious? ly and deliberately to Washington, aud apparently nnder cover of secrecy asks the Chief Executive of the nation tc decapitate a man who, as State Senator refused to betray his trust by denying to the citizen his rights under the Con? stitution-for in its last analysis that is what this reason, as given to Mr. Cleveland, means. So far as relates to "Bunch" McBee having suggested to me that the right of appeal be'inserted in the bill, ? have to say that Mr McBee never once mentioned the matter to me, nor to ike best of my recoljection did he ever discuss the bill in my presence. "I have been told," by the best authority, ?hat the railroad men, failing in their efforts to defeat the bill io tte Hou?e and Senate, concurred very fully with the Governor in his desire to deny the right of appeal to the railroads, as that would have rendered the tfhole A"ct unconstitutional and const queutly nuga toiy. A<*ain, I incsrre? th? displeasure' of the Governor by allowing the Legis? lature to elect the com missioners instead of the people. As a matter of fact I was in favor of a clause being inserted in the bill to have the commissioners elected by the people, one every two years', but it was thought best by some of the Reform Senators not ta do so at th?.t time, for the reason that there could be no election by the people till the nest general election, and that as a matter of necesssify thc Legislature must elect as the nearest approach to the people. Lt was also thought best not to increase opposition to the passage of thc HH by inserting tha; provision inasmuch aj. the same Legislature would sit the next winter, when it would be easy to amend the Act. In these ffimsy reasons given by the Governor for his course he again over? reached himself, for it is weil known that the Reform Seuatcrs had a baie majority in tbeSeoate, and that without their uuited support 20 part of the bill could have been passed. Why did he not black list them all? hi this connec? tion I will abo state that upon all important bills the Reform Senators held meetings and agreed upon what they wi>bcd passed, afer which one of their number was chosen to trsfee charge L)f thc bill and conduct it en the fl>or of thc gestate. Sn this railroad bill this iu?y was devolved upon mc to make all tnotioBS, o?er imendmeB-te, et?, as agreed apon. So t will be readily understood that each >f the other Reform Senators is as chargeable with the crime in the G-or ?rnor's sight as I am. I bare thus given tbe facts.in this jase in refutation of the twsue of per Fers?cns a:?d misstatement made in thc >overnor?s charges against me, and ? eel happy rn the knowledge that there ire scores of men who are personally iccuiaiuted with every circumstance ueutioucd and who can testify to the acts as I have stated them, some of vfctoin have already done so by letter. lu conclusion allow me to call attea ion to some things that are significant n the Governor's statement. He dis ?Isims ?ny desire to do me harm, and hot} stamps upou my charae'er the j voids "betrayal and treachery." He ? lays- "the Alliance has nothing to do j vifh it, either directly or indirectly," : iud yet tr ks. So dcfttnl his evuduct! towards its president oa the ground of his love for the Alliance. He intimates by the mention of Hunch Mc Bee that ? was in collusion with the railroads and that I appeared to be governed by self-interest rather than by patriotism," and yet he will not deny t: at as citizen and patriot he' told thc people, when first be asked* them to make him their Governor, that the corruption and Debauchery in the State was due to the use of free passes* by members of the Legislature and State officials. Was it "self-infereslf rather than patriotism" that governed him when after hts elaction he received more passes than perhaps anyone who preceded him ? Common prudence, icT* wouldseem, as well as st-lf-preserva? tion, ought to have steered the Gov? ernor clear of Bunch Mc Bec "Truly whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." Lastly, he regrets the necessity* which ha? forced a rehearsal of these' undisputed facts." Of this I have no' doubt, for "I was told" that the Gov? ernor has said to several parties ?uaf his letter to President Cleveland f?as: intended to be regard ai confidential, but as it ieaked out the necessity came1 upon bim to explain, and theo, al? though the ..Alliance haa nothing to do' with it. eith. r directly or rn direct ly," ho winds up by taking refuge in th?5 sanctuary of the Reform 3Iovement and the Alliance "To Cansr be has ap? pealed, to Caemar he shall go." As to the Reform Movement I am1 ready to compare records with him as to loyalty, consistency au? length of service. In the Alliance cause, with' which I have been identified from ita? infancy in this State, I have wor&ed irr its almost every department. If there' is a brother in the Order who is will? ing to eharge me with the betrayal of trust or treachery to the brotherhood t am ready to meet him, or as a' Demo ocrat I ara prepared to answer for mf stewardship. I shall willingly leave* this rna* ter to the honest and discrimina? ting judgment of those whom Governor Tillmao says I have betrayed and abide by their verdict. M L DONALDSON^ Lawsuit About The C. S & & R R Bonds. The town of I>arlington is now enga? ged in a lawsuit in the ?nited States* Court. The facts in the case, briefly stated, are as follows. The town, as is* well known, bas uever paid any inter-; est on the eighty thousand dollars* worth of bonds issued by it to aid in' the' construction of the Charleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad. Interest has' twice fallen due on these bonds, or? April 1, 1892, and on April 1, 1893. The position taken by the town: iti re? fusing to pay interest is that the party to whom the bonds were issued failed to* carry out the contract. The Atlantic Trust Company, of ?et# York, holds seventy thousand dollars' worth of these bonds and claims that the town is dire it (the Trust Company)? ?6,085 66 as interest thereon. The Company has complained to the United; States CouTt and that court bas4 summoned the town of Darling? ton to a?sWer this" complaint. Otf Saturday an o??ber of the tfrnted? States Court appeared ia Ikrlmgt??f and served a copy of the s?*^*onS*cpotk* W. F. Dargan, as Mayor, aod! S. ?\ Viobds, as treasurer, of the town of Darlington. The Atlantic Trust Company Has*, employed Knox Livingston, Esq , of Bennetsville, and Messrs Smythe &Leer of Charleston as' their attorneys in the* case. "?b'e town will have to answer the cooplaiut within tWeuty days' after SatUTdap lsS% the day Of servisse of summons. 1*he Town Cor?hci? helo? a meeting1' 'yesterday and decided to maintain their position and defend in the court their' action rh refasing to pay the interest. An absii^er to the ?oGipla'-?t Will be filed in the . Uuited States Court. Mayor W. F. Dargan and E- O. Woods, Esq., the attorney for the town, Were* authorized to employ the besi counsel to assist in prosecuting the fight and. for this purpose these gentlemen w"i?* go to Charleston to-morroW (Friday)-; '-Darlington News. 3*ade it ar Misden$ean??> It is quite a habit with new ventures in newspaperdom to begin boasting very soon about their circ'tfatiori, and it is af mighty conservative paper that gets" tor bc a year old without claiming to have "the largest circulation in the city.*' In San Francisco there vras" stich a1 convict to claims on the part cf the pa? pers, aud it being C3rtain that some of them Were misrepresenting the facts, the legislature tool? tlie t?att?er i's* baner and-passed the following, law: Section 1". A new section i* hereby abided to the peca! code; M Be kuow^as* section 538. to read as follows :. 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