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mau anh outfyron TBS SHUTTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. "Be Just and Fear not-Let alEthe Ends thou Ainis't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jane, 1266 Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL ll, 1894. New Series-Vol; XIII. No. 37. fte SSatrijiratt m?s Shstiifm 5 wi J Published Zvary Wednesday, --BY KT. Gr. Osteen, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : Two Dollars per annum-in advance. ADTEETIS?MEST: One Square first insertion.......$1*00 Every subsequent insertion......... 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private interests will be charged foras advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. THE SUMTER INSTITUTE FOR WOOTEN. Despite the stringency of the times, the Institute has had a fairly prosper? ous year. With its full corps of effi? cient teachers and" high standard of scholarship, it offers advantages for educating your ladies, equal to any col* lege for women in this State. We in? tend that it shall grow io efficiency as it grows in years, and thus command the continued favor of its patrons, aod commend itself to the favor of all who have daughters to educate. For terms aod catalogues apply to H. FRANK WILSON, President, March 21 Sumter, S. C. THE SIMONOS NATIONAL BINK OP SUMTER. STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI? TORY, SUMTE ti, S. C. Paid np Capital.$75,000 00 Surplus Fund .. 12,500 00 Liabilities of Stockholders to depositors acccordiog to the law governing National Banks, in excess of their stock . . $75,000 00 Transacts a General Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In? terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first days of Januar p. April, July and October. R. M. WALLACE, L. S. CAKSON, President. Aug 7._Cashier._ NEW ~ MARBLE WORKS, COMMANDER ft RICHARDSON, LIBERTY STREET, SUMTER, S. C. WE BAVE FORMED A CO-PARTNERSHIP For the purpose of working Marble aod Granite, manufacturing limits, Tombstones, le, ! And doing a General Business in that liae. A complete workshop has been fitted up on LIBERTY STREET, NEAR POST OFFICE j And we are now ready to execute with promptness all orders consigned to ns. Satis action guaranteed. Obtain our price before placing an order elsewhere. W. H. COMMANDER, G. E. RICHARDSON. J?n? 16. JOS. F. BHAME. WM. C. DAVIS. RHAME & DAVIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. Attend to business in any part of the State Practice in U. S. Courts. Sept. 21-x._ G. W. DICE, D. D. S. Office over Levi Bros.' Store, ENTRA3CE OS MAIS STREET. SUMTER, S. C. Office Hcurs- 9 to 1 ; 2.30 to 5.30. DR. E. Ul t DENTIST. Office OVER BROWN ft BROWN'S STORE, Entrance on Main Street Between Brown ft Brown and Durant ft Soo. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock. April 9. 2 A. WHITE & SON, Fire Insurance Agency. ESTABLISHED 1866. Represent, amoDg other Companies : LIVERPOOL ft L.ONDON ft GLOBE, NORTH BRITISH ft MERCANTILE, HOME, of New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y., LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $75,000,000. Feb. 12_ 1890." 1894. A. C. PHELPS & CO, General Insurance Agents, Sumter, S. C. Fire, Life, Accident, Steam Boiler, Plate Glass, Bonds of Surety for persons in posi? tions of trust, and Liability Insurance in every branch, written in the very best Amer? ican and Foreign Companies. Over sixty-five millions of capiial repre? sented. Office at Meas rs. J. Ry tteoberg ft Sons, 2d Floor, Front. Men 14-0 BOTH SIDES. Tillman's Speech -AND Mayor Dargau's Reply. OD the occasion of dismissing the troops from Columbia on last week (Tuesday) Governor Tillman made a speech-to which editorial reference was made in oar last issue. In refuta? tion of the many mistatements made by the Governor, the Mayor of Darlington has given to the press a statement. Both are published below, in order to complete the history, and give oar readers all obtainable information of the unfortunate affair : The troops stationed a* the peniten? tiary cumbering about 400 were march? ed to the front of tbe State House by the Governor's orders. He intended to dismiss them from the city but before leaving he wanted to make them an address. After they had been properly lined out the Governor, accompanied by Cols. Mixon and Watts, appeared at the middle door and advanced to tbe first step. Citizens generally were crowded on the steps but Tillman ordered them to staod back and give him plenty of room. When the crowd made an opening for him the Governor advanced and spoke as follows : Citizen Soldiers, Volunteers and Fellow Citizens : South Carolina to-day is attracting the attention of all the United States. The situation here is so grave and anomalous that it is proper that a clear j and official statement go forth-an j analysis of the causes that brought it about. As Governor of the entire people (and I have never sooght to be aoything else.) It is best that the statement come from me. All are fa mi il iar with the occurrences of the past few days. There has been a conflict between citizens and officers of the law. The cause of it all was those who resist the enforcement of the dispensary because they say it is tyrannical, invades pri? vate rights, is unconstitutional and should not be enforced. This is a question that should cot be sealed by arms but by the ballot. Lei us look for a moment at the consequences, if the claim set forth that private residen? ces can't be searched for contraband liquor. Why il; amounts to a repeal of the dispensary law in an unconstitution? al way. If a man can keep whiskey ia bis house and make a saloon of it or if be keeps aod carries it in bis pocket or otherwise to saloons then it it useless to have a dispensary law. This law has been eoacted by tbe people. It is on the statute books and [ have sworn to support the laws of the State. Uotil this law is repealed, so help me God, I will exercise every power given me to see that it is obeyed. (Loud cheers.) 1 am not here to discuss the whys or wherefores, the advantages or disadvan? tages of the dispensary. It will be an issue in the next campaign and then you can decide whether you want it continued or not. When this collissioo at Darlington occurred the news was flashed bil over the country that 100 men were out in pursuit of the constables. How do the facts bear out the statements ? The constables had done their duty and bad gooe to the depot. They had been sent there and the chief constable and oth? ers had been sent because the mayor had allowed them to be insulted and cursed to their faces. A mob had broken into the armory and stolen the guns and we bad the spectacle of citi? zens of the Slate seizing State property to shoot dowo State officers. I was in? formed tbat the guns bad been returned but net having confidence in Capt. Thomson I ordered the Sumter company to go there. They weut and everything being reported quiet I ordered tbeui back home. Two boys, mere striplings, got ioto a fight and soon 50 men armed to tbe teeth went to the depot. They picked a quarrel with the constables and men on both sides were killed. The fault cannot be clearly placed and probably never will be kuown, but if ever it is it will bc found tbat the constables simply did their dnty. The mayor says the arms were stolen in fan but this sort of fun occurred elsewhere and some of the companies were actually in mutiny. But thank God, there were some brave men who responded and you soldiers and boys are here to-day as an evidence that no oligarchy will ever rule this State again. (Cheers.) The mayor tries to lay the blame on me by saying that I exercised power that uo Governor had ever attempted. But when these troops-these band-box soldiers-were ordered out they refused to obey being influenced by political rancor and men even went so far as to offer assistance. It can't be disproved that the Darlington men hunting consta? bles are not lynchers at heart. The may? or said he bad a right to arrest them bat be had no right to go with armed men hunting them unless accompanied by the sheriff or some lawful constable. The thing bas its ridiculous side too and it looks like a big ?pril fool joke. Her are men admitting themselves to fc lynchers prancing around the coantr banting for a few constables and ther hasn't, been a shoot fired since the ro' at the depot. They didn't want to fin them Why didn't they lynch the ma they had io their power who wa admitted to be in the row. The slandered themselves by proclaimin they would lynch men whom they dido want to catch wheo they had one in thei power In 1876 I witnessed a scene on thi very spot when this whole esplauad clear to the monument was crowde with men indignant that the Stat House had been seized by troops, was there. We were all of one min* then. We were all brothers, friends Carolinians and patriots. To-day w are two hostile camps because the mi nority don't want the majority to rule The body politic is diseased-is io fever. The people of Charleston an? Columbia have taken into their boson a viper io the shape of two paper which daily deal out venom. They tr to abuse me by slander and misrepre sentation but I wear a coat of mai that they have never pierced which ii an honest h?art working for the bes good of the State and its people. Tbes strained relations must cease. The; cannot go on else we will have ci vi war. I deny that we are responsible for this trouble. The opposers of th? law must realize at once that the; must submit. These two newspaper will not let the wound heal Thei keep the wound open and daily pou poison in it, and they are aided ac< abetted by the whiskey men and thei sympathisers. When the news of the coilisiou a Darlington was flashed all over tb? country lying reporters said that ex plosiu would come. That there wai an arsenal of powder in the State anc the spark would soon be dropped in it They said civil war would come, bul it didn't. It cannot come for the peo? ple are io the saddle and intend torc? main there. (Cheers.) These men would destroy the State il they could only destroy me. The re? port has been sent abroad that my life was daily in danger. One promi? nent citizen told Mr. Yeldell, from my own county, that he bad a shot gun and came here to kill me. I can get his name if necessary I have never felt any doubt as to my personal safety I have remained at the mau* sion perfectly safe but rather than gratify my enemies by giving up to them ? would have gone out there a corpse. The barroom element is at the bot? tom of it all, and the rulers of the former oligarchy are encouraging them and this row is the result of political freenzy. These lives are offerings to the moloch?of whiskey. The dealers de? clare that they will resume their in? iquitous business and they propose to do so by selling whiskey from their residences. Shall the demon have any more victories ? I don't intend for them to have any more if I can help it. Here somebody standing near the Governor was talking: "Shut up there," Tillman said and resumed. I shall not budge one inch but shall continue to carry out the will of the people. I'm not going to aggravate the situation but I'm going to let the people know to-morrow by a proclama? tion what ? intend to du. The General Statutes of the State are a mine of wealth, wisdom and strength. What would I have been able to do bad I uot been empowered to control the telegraph and railroad companies and keep assistance from the insur? gents and lying reports to go out and further influence the people? But I have another sword of Domocles to suspend over the heads of the insur? gents and I will cut the string to-mor? row. Section 519 of the Statutes gives me power to take control of the police of the State and mayors and city councils must compel them to carry out the law. I intend to see that the police do their duty or I'll discharge every man of theta. I intend to con? trol and will not sorreuder. The laws must bc obeyed. Some one way back in the crowd yelled out : "Why don't you obey the laws ?" "Wherein have I broken any law, sir," was the response. The militia and the volunteers then commenced yelling, "arrest him," "run bim off.'' One man hollered "shoot bim," and it looked as if ranks would be broken and a riot precipitated, Col. Mixon was the first to call out "hush" aod Governor Tillman waving his hand said. in imperative tones, "stop. Stop I tell yon." The militia did stop and what might have been a most serious affair was averted. Gov. Tillman resumed his speech and con? tinuing said : If people want the dispensary they can have it. Those that don't want it have got to take it. Hereafter I shall confine the constables to the duty of watching railroads, of watching the police and reporting to me whether they do their duty. If the authorities of the cities and towns don't co-operate with me the Legislature will be called and laws will be made giving me power to re? move these mee aod patting in their places people who will carry oat the law Private houses will continue to be searched. With an extra session io sight the police must do their duty or be removed. Let the opposers of this law quit. They must submit. I want harmony and peace. I have not nor never will aggravate the situation, but [ cannot, will not, dare not, submit to the will of the minority. The people must govern. Rebellion must get off the track for the train is coming. I am at the throttle and intend to get in on time. Just as he said this he waved his hand, turned around, and went in the building. He was loudly cheered. John Gary Evans then appeared and read the following order No. 10 : The emergency requiring the assemb ling of troops at the capitol no longer exists and the colonel commanding will return them to their homes by the nearest practicable route oo the first outgoing train. The commander of each company of militia and volunteers will give a certificate to the railroad, conductors of the number of meo trans? ported and the point to which they go, which will be a voucher to the rail? roads for payment of their service Tbe Commaoder-io Chief in the name of the State extends thanks to the gallant'and potriotic soldiers and citi? zens who at a moment's notice, drop? ped their various avocations and pur? suits to respond to his call. Their action is a stinging rebuke to those companies which failed to do their duty io this crisis when civil war and anarchy seemed to stare us io the face It shows to the world, however when the masses of the people uphold the government treachery and mutiny cannot overthrow it. B. R. TILLMAN, Governor and Commander-in-Chief The volnnteers then marched up stairs in the State House and stacked the arms given them. The troops then disbanded and each company went to trains to go home. Before leaving the captains were paid off for their men. They got ?1 a day and their board. It is understood that it will take at least $15,000 to pay for "suppressing the in? surrection.'' DAK GAN" S ANSWER. The Mayor of Darlington's True Story of the Trouble. The Mayor of Darlington on last Wednesday gave to the press the follow? ing : "I have seen the Governor's remarks published io The Columbia Evening Journal. I have not much to say. Yon know the Governor is a politician, .and he was making a campaign speech. When a politician gets into a hole he naturally tries to get out, and if he bas committed a mistake he is the last man under the sun to honestly own it. He tries to pat it on some one else. There are one or two inaccurate statements of minor importance which I do not like to pass over without cor? recting. He says speaking of consta? bles, that 'they bad been sent tbere because the mayor bad allowed them to be insulted and cursed to their faces ' If the Governor was so informed that I, as mayor, bad allowed that, his in? formant is just a liar. This is the first information I have ever reveived of such a charge. He says again, 'two boys, mere striplings, got into a fight, and soon fifty men armed to the teeth went to the depot and picked a] quarrel with the constables, and men on both sides were killed.' I don't know who informed him of this, but who ever did just lied and knew he lied when he gave such information. Again he says : 'The fault canoot be clearly placed, ?nd possibly never will bekoowu.' The Governor is a very badly informed man if he lays that flattering unction to his soul, and 1 venture the prediction that he wili find thc fault clearly placed and that it will be found that the con? stables simply did anything else but their duty. You will find 1 never said, as he I states, that the Governor had exercised power that no Governor had ever at? tempted ; but I say it now, and I think that facts well knowu to the peopie of South Carolina bear out my statement. But what I did say was, 'Governor Tillman assumes that his spies have privileges that are not enjoyed by aoy other citizens of this State,' and I will add, privileges that even he does not enjoy. I notice that the Governor tries to get iu an April joke. Well, I hope he eojoyed it. It does look a little funny that after all this fuss and feathers the chief officer of the State would march his troops up the bill and then march them down agaio. That ir a joke we have enjoyed very much these serious times, but it does look funny that the Governor and his friends go to so much trouble to try and get his constables out of the hands of people who were not trying to find them, and I reckon it is a good thing they did not, because bad they done so, possibly some good citi? zens would have had to die before these spies hit the dust. I notice that be asked the question, j 'why did they not lynch the mao they had in their power, who was admitted to be in the row T I will tell yon why; because we are not lynchers, we are not cutthroats nor robbers. We are Sooth Carolinians. We fight a man as long as he is ap, bat we never hit the man that is dowo. We don't fight that way, and that is the reason that man was not lynched. I know pretty well what Governor Tillman wanted os to do.., I under? stand him very well. He is not the first politician I have seen. The Governor would have liked our people m their rage to have murdered this man McLendon, who ? am informed boasts of the fact that be bas killed three other men. He would have liked us to have destroyed the dispensary, because then there would have been two facts which he could have pointed to as a justification of his unprecedent? ed course in this whole matter, bat, thank God, oar people are not of that sort. They arc made of different staff from what be imagines, and we con? gratulate ourselves to-day that the mao McLendon (who, f am satisfied, will be showo to have brought on this blood? shed) having been shot down and thereby disabled from makiog his escane, and thrown into our hands helpless, bas been treated as all helpless men are, and as wounded men are by civilized people. This action stands ont in a startling and striking contrast to the action of his privileged State officers, who, it appears from the facts, shot the body of poor Frank Norm en t after he was down, in four different places with Winchester rifles, and our chief of police, discharging his duty. That was enough to 'fire the blood of age and make the infant sinews strong as steel/ but cool beads were here and possessed by men who were not poli? ticians, who were not looking for votes, who were not playing to tickle the fancy of crowds, and reason had full sway. Yea, I know now, after that speech of the Governor, that he wanted us to destroy the State property, but I am thankful to say that it, with all prop? erty of the town of Darlington, bas been protected and is in tact to-day. Our people only wish that the lives of our fellow citizens, now lying cold and stiff, were as well preserved. .'The Governor is a curious kind of individual. There is one peculiar and striking thing about him-he judges everybody by himself. When he wants information about anything be never goes to the man who is charged with knowing the state of affairs, unless that man is either a hireling of bis or one of his own'peculiar political faith. He would take information given him by a bootblack if be belonged to his party about the condition of a munici? pality rather than the information fur? nished him by the officers of it. I al? ways, when I want information, go to the man whose peculiar duty it is to have charge of the concern which I wish to inqaire of, and waste no time seeking information from people who have no character, knowledge or stand? ing. "In the commencement of this mat? ter, if the Governor, had been judging me by himself, had wished infor? mation about the status at Darlington, had addressed his communications to me who am charged under the law with the administration of the affairs of this town, as he is with the affairs of the State, he would have been - informed accurately and truthfully of the situation ; but instead of that it appears from the telegrams I saw published, that he gave full credence to his hireling of a dispenser over here, J. B. Floyd, who in the administration of the affairs of this town is absoluely as nothing. If 1 could not have been relied on, or if he had information that from my character and standing he eould not trust me to give him reliable information, surely he could have sought information from some gentleman of standing and respectability in this community. He did not choose to do so, and that occa? sions his many mistakes and blunders made in this matter. Both thc Queen and the Prince of Wales are now carefully guarded by de? tectives. The Anarchists have alarmed them. Gov. Northern has appointed Hon. Patrick Walsh to succeed the late Hon. A. H. Colquitt as U. S. Senator from Georgia, and Mr. Walsh has accepted the appointment. Mr. Walsh is the editor of The Augusta Chronicle and ene of Georgia's ablest and most patriotic citizens. He will wear the honor with dignity, and discbarge his duties faithfully. Highest of all in Leavening Po\ ABSOLU Prohibition Convention. A Ticket Likely to be Nominated A Call Issued. Columbia Journal, April S. The Prohibitionists of the State have always been unsatisfied with the dis? pensary law. Strenuous efforts have been made to induce them to believe that the dispensary law was "a step towards prohibition," but everybody koowa that is not true. The Prohibi? tionists, therefore, are likely to make an effort to have prohibition straight and simple in the State. The executive committee met yesterday afternoon at Washington Street Church chapel. With a short recess at dark the com? mittee was in session until 2 o'clock this morning when the following ad? dress was issued: To the Citizens of South Carolina : Whereas, the people of the State at the last election did, with the consent and approval of both political factions, vote upon the question of prohibition ; that the understanding of agreement to abide the result of that vote was generally accepted by most of our peo? ple and that in said election prohibition received a large majority of the votes cast, thereby showing that prohibition of the liquor traffic plain and simple was the demand of the people of South Carolina. And, whereas the legislators of our State chosen at the same election with the understanding as above set forth did, cootrary to the demand of the peo? ple, enact a law which, while it prohib? ited the citizen from selling liquor made a monopoly of the business for, in and by the State. Now, thereore, in order to carry out the wishes of our people as expressed at the election two years ago and io order to beal the terrible dissension and strife in our State, in order that peace and prosperity may spring up under the benign influence of prohibition, and in order that our people may ooce again become a happy and united people, we, the State Prohibition Executive Com? mittee, do hereby request all Demo? cratic voters of the State who will sustain prohibition in the coming elec? tion to assemble at their respective county seats on the first Monday in June next, and elect delegates double the number of Representatives in the General Assembly from ?aid county to a State Convention to be held io Colum? bia Thursday, June 7. Said Convention to take into consider? ation the best means to remove the liquor traffic from our State, and if deemed advisable r<> nominate a full State ticket to b*? placed before the Democracy of the Si a e for elecion. JOEL E. BRUNSON, J. P. GIBSON, THOS. J. LAMOTTE. Committee. i Another Crime. The governor of South Carolina bas frequently boasted that nooe but men of the highest character were appointed1 constables. We learned yesterday from a man who bas just come from the home* of McLennon, the spy who killed Nor caeot, some facts that deepen the shade already dense around the governorV reputation for truthfulness. When thatpoor, innocent and defense? less negro was lynched at Denmark it was the same McLennon who caused it. After conservative men bad quieted the crowd McLennon mounted a buggy and declared that somebody bad to die and it might as well be this negro, and be was lynched. When the dispensary law came into effect and made jobs for such men as these, this infamous scroaodel applied to Tillman for an appointment as con? stable. He took his application to one of the most prominent Tillmanites in the county for his endorsement. The latter refused his endorsement and wrote to j Tillman by all means not to appoint bim as he was only fit for a murderer and was kot the kind ct a man to execute any law. By virtue of his position this Tillmanite was a man whose advice cer ! tainly should have been respected by j the governor. Tillman nevertheless appointed bim and he is the man who brought on the trouble at Darlington, by shooting a I man, who was not armed and was not j molesting or threatening to molest him. This only adds to the governor's respon? sibility for this terrible assassination. Spartanburg Herald. Elections in Ohio show great Repub? licans gains everywhere. The fruit outlook in Delaware is good for berries, but a poor crop of peaches and pears is the talk. ver.-Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking i Powder ray PURE