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? td) m nn 111 TBK SUMTER WATCHMAN, JR?tabli?taecL April, 185?. 'Be Just and Fear not-Let allTthe Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June. 1366 Consolidated Avg. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1894. New Series-Yoi. XIII. No. %k ?tdjmait at? J?outljnm. J. ^ ^ J Published E7ST7 Wednesday, -BY SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : " Two Dollars per aooana-io advance. ADVSRTISSJIESTi Ooe Square first insertion.?1*00 Every subsequent in ser ti OG... 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. AU communications which subserve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for: THJE SUITER INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN. Despite tbe stringency of the times, the Institute bas bad a fairly prosper? ous year. With its foll corps of effi? cient teachers and high standard of scholarship, it offers advantages for educating your ladies, equal tc any col? lege for women io this State. We in? tend that it shall grow io efficiency as it grows in years, aod thus command toe continued favor of its patrons, aod commend itself to the favor of all who bave daughters to educate. For terms aod catalogues apply to H. FRANK WILSON, President, March 21 . Sumter, S. C. THE SiMOSDS NATIONAL BINK OP SUMTER. STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI? TORY, S?JMTBt?, S. C. Paid np Capital.$75,000 00 Surplus .Fond -. . . .* . . 12,500 00 Liabilities of Stockholders to depositors acccording to the law governing National Banks, io excess of their stock . . $75,000 00 Transacts a General Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1 and np wards received. In? terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first days of January, April, Joly and October. 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OFFICE HOURS: I ?tol.30; 2Uo5o'clockr Apf 9. ; - . A. j WHITE & SON, Fire Insurance Agency, ESTABLISHED 1866. Represent, among other Companies : LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE, NORTH BRITISH A MERCANTILE, HOME, of New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y., LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $75,000,000. Feb. 12 1890. 1894. A. C. PHELPS & GO., 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 Messrs. J. Rytteoberg k Sons, 2d Floor, Front. Mcb 14-0 Opinions of the Press. Acting Within the Law. Savannah News The posses that were organized to pnrsne the constables after two of their nomb?r aod two citizens bad been kill? ed were acting within the law. Their purpose was to arrest men who, it was believed, had committed a great crime. The Governor made oo efforts to ar? rest the constables who had precipi? tated a row in which four men bad been killed and the authorities of Dar? lington undertook to-arrest them. The Governor called out the militia not to assist in arrestiog the alleged mur? derers, but to protect the constables who, it is asserted, brought oo the trouble bj their aggressive attitude There was no resistance to the au? thority of the State before the State troops arrived at Darlington and none after they arrived. Yes, With Winchester jRifies and Colt's Revolvers. Edgefield Chronicle. Governor Tillman, says The Green? ville News, is quoted as saying that searches of homes will go on as here? tofore. If he is quoted correctly, his statement bas more truth than he probably intended. The searches if they go ou at all will go on as heretofore. They will go OD with Winchester rifles and Colt's revol? vers of the largest size io active use, with bloodshed, riot and fear, aud the wailing of women and children for the husbands, fathers, sons aud brothers shot down. Our people will fight for the saccity of their homes We believe they ought to do it. We advise them to do it whenever their cooscieoces tell them that they have not been violating the law by selling liquor. Russianizing a State. New York Recorder. Governor Tillman's interference with the private dispatches of this newspaper to ita correspoodeots in the State of which he bas the honor (?) of being the Chief Executive, is the most flagrant abose of power that has been evidenced in this country since Jefferson Davis and Johh 6. Floyd couuived at the turning of Federal arsenals to States in rebellion against the national govern? ment. Fire-eating South Carolina is repeat? ing history for the third time. Would that we bad a Jackson in the Presidential chair to deal with this senseless despot as did "Old Hiokory" with John C. Calhoun when the latter set at defiance the interstate laws that bound this Republic into a unit ! Governor Tillman's usurpation of prerogatives " that have never been granted to the President in times of peace would be serious if it had not already passed the bounds of sanity and covered its instigator with contempt and ridicule. Tillman Held Responsible for the Bloodshed at Darlington. Chattanooga Times. The Evans liquor law is, in and of itself, a most exasperating statu Ce, cal? culated to arouse the most determined and constant opposition among a very large number, in any free community. It is essentially a monarchical, pater? nal, arbitrary statute, that does not lack for oppressive features of the most objectionable sort. Its approximate enforcement by a wise, equable temper? ed, but firm and courageous Governor, might be imagined That it would breed the very devil of discord over the State, when wielded by a ruthless bully of the Tillman stamp, was as inevitable as an explosion is, when fire and powder mix. The law was framed in brutal disregard of the rights of hun? dreds of citizens, who had oarried on the liquor trade, for many years, under the sanction - of the statutes it superseded. It was so framed, not in the cause of morality and public order,. but primarily and avowedly, to give the State a monopoly of the traffic. It decreed the closing up. of all liquor houses, wholesale and retail, in the State, in violation of the spirit of the Federal Constitution, and provided an army of spies, under commaod of the Governor, to execute the work. This he has done in a manner apparently intended, and certainly calculated, to arouse resistance to bim and his min? ions, and certain, under his methods, to bring about just the results it has. The Darlington episode of murder, committed by Tillman's janizaries, is merely the culmination of lawlessness on the part of the chief magistrate, who is sworn to uphold the laws. Tillman has kept South Carolina in a constant uproar, for four years. If be was not converting the sheriffs of the State into a mob to assault railway men and property, he was in some oth? er scheme of violence. He is a typical Populist, the southeastern counterpart of Waite of Colorado, and a far greater nuisance than Pennoyer of Oregon, since the latter's violence generally takes the form of stilted gasconade, and is rather ridiculous than danger? ous. To arm such a man with power to seize the telegraph lines, and put an embargo on the distribution news not approved by his henchmen and aides, is to begin the end of public lib? erty. It were only a step from such high-handed devilment, under the sanction of an unwise statute, to the suppression of every real newspaper in the State, the editor of which refused submission to a State censorship. If we could, for a moment, believe that this reckless tyrant's proceedings were approved of by a majority of the people of South Carolina, we would say it was a case for prompt and vigorous intervention of the Federal Government, to restore and preserve a "State govern? ment republican in form ;" but we can? not believe that this usurper has not about ruo his course, and may be safely left to the judgment of, aod to be disposed of by, his own people, whom he has fearfully wronged and disgraced. The South Carolina Conflict. New York Herald. The deplorable outbreak of violence io South Carolina is but the natural fruit of risking toe chief executive power of the State in the hands of a radical theorist who will not hesitate to go to che extreme of recklessness to enforce his impracticable views. Colorado also has just had a warn? ing experience of this kind io its nar row escape from wholesale riot and bloodshed menaced by the autocratic sway of its unbridled Governor. The Dispensary law carried through in South Carolina by a visionary populist Legislature at thc prompting of the present populist Governor is about the craziest piece of lawmaking that has been foisted upon the people of any State in recent years. It bas been made even more obnoxious than ridiculous by the high banded, dicta? torial methods employed by Governor Tillman to enforce it against a strong and growing popular feeling. He has made repeated threats from time to time of the extremes to which he would go if necessary to carry out bis d?termination, and as DOW appears he has oot hesitated to execute them. His seodiog of armed spies into peace? ful communities to invade and search the bornes of citizens was a high handed, un-American proceeding well calculated to arouse popular indigna? tion and resistance. Io keeping with this reckless autocratic spirit is the assumption of dictatorship over tele? graph and railway traffic and abuse of high eecutive power which if persisted io may cal) for action on the part cf the federal authorities. In a conflict between citizens and State officers acting under^orders from the Governor the latter are supposed to represent law and order, aod hence to be supported by the entire power of the State if necessary. But while armed resistance to the lawful author j ities is oot to be countenanced under j our form of government, it is equally ! true that the lawful authorities are not warranted io going to extremes which are unwise, un-American and even un ? safe. Governor Tilllmao seems to have I forgotten that he is the Chief Magis? trate of the people of South Carolina, and assumed that he is their dicta? tor. The Heal Motive for the Darlington Slaughter. Sp ar tan burg Spartan. Io all criminal matters there is gen? erally a motive. Sometimes there is an apparent one, easily seeo by every per? son. Io the Darlington tragedy it would seem that the obnoxious enforce? ment of an ?un popular law, coupled with undue excitement and resistance on the part of citizens, aod the meddlesome interference of constable McLendon io a fight by private citizens, caused all the trouble. That appears oo the surface, but the real motive Hes bidden behind all that. For the last four weeks it bas been very evident that the conservative papers were oot abusing Tillman^ Some of them were osing a little ridi? cule which was very funny. It was also evident that many of thc Reform? ers, in every county, . were endorsing Tindal, Ellerbe, Farley. W. D. Evans Congressmen McLaurin, Shell, Latimer and Talbert io their efforts to eliminate the worst practices from their party policy. The Governor and Jobo Gary Evans felt that they could retrain their supremacy only through revolutionary measures and that the old plans would have to be kept up. The Governor holds his constables and the dispensary law as the great reserve power to keep his followers together and wean them away from the men whose names are mentioned above. When the Spartan burg meeting was held, it was apparent that there was revolt in the ranks. The Governor understands human nature. He knows his men, or.he thinks be does. He believes that an occasional killing will hold them together and nullify all the influence of tho worthy Reformers whose desire is to promote peace and harmony throughout the State. We verily believe that the Gov? ernor concocted this plan to keep his forces together. He bas the brains and the nerve to do such a thing and he glo? ries in the ruin he is working. His success depends on the sharp and bitter anta- ! goriism of the two factions in our State and he will oot hesitate to have any number of people killed, if it will only accomplish his purpose. j The constables whave. private orders They were suddenly masfed at Dar? lington armed with the best guns and pistols They had their orders to shoot and kill, knowing thai, blank pardons were ready for the Governor's signa? ture, if any of them should be convicted. When the strife began in Darlington, if Governor Tillman had gone there and held a conference with the Mayor and a few leading citizens all the trouble would have been averted. Instead of going as a peace maker, be ordered his constables to the number of twenty three to assemble there and shoot. That is his standing order to them. He said in public that he hopsd they would kill some of the Darlington peo? ple. After the killing was done be laughingly and flippantly said "honors are easyand seemed to have no sort of regret that the killing took place. John Gary Evans was his chief adviser. Irby telegraphed to bim that his taking charge of the telegraph lines "would injure our cause.99 All this shows that these three men, Tillman, Irby and Evans have conspired to bolster up themselves and prevent the scattering of their forces Their plan is clearly revealed. They wish to keep up strife and have people killed. They do not care for human life so they can pur? chase success at that price. Such are the tneo who now control the State. '-The Dispensary Law, or its En? forcement, Unprecedented? ly Odious." Harper's Weekly. The state of things that has for some days existed in South Carolina amounts toan impeachment of the power of the community to govern itself. It may be said that the performances of Governor Waite in Colorado justify as serious doubts about that commonwealth as the performances of Governor Tillman in South Carolina. There is. however, i a distinct difference. Governor Waite, whatever his intentions may have been, did not succeed in bringing Colorado so near a civil war and to anarchy as Gevernor Tillman has brought South Carolina in the name of the law. In no other Americac community bas it ever been made so evident that the people were opposed to the law which, in theory, was of their own making, and were prepared to resist the enforcement of it, even to the shedding of blood. How? ever much the Governor may have transcended his legal powers since the disturbance began, it seems clear that the beginning of it was his attempt to enforce provisions of the State dispen? sary law that were odious. The claim he made for the State constabulary of a ight to search private houses in quest of liquor seems to have been perfectly warraoted by the law under which he was acting. The people simply would not submit to the law. "Nullification'' of unpopular laws is by no means a novelty in South Caro? lina. It is over sixty years since a con? certed attempt was made, and came near succeeding, to induce the State to take that course with respect to a statute 'of the United States. Times have greatly changed. The representatives of the nullifiers of 1832, however, are according to Governor Tillman, the nullifiers of 1894 ; only now it ts a question of nullifying not a Federal but a State law. In a speech at Columbia the Governor has declared that the trouble has come from "the bar-room element," backed up by "the old oli? garchy." The Governor, indeed, rep? resents and personifies the triumph of the new democracy over the old oli? garchy. One of the representatives of the old oligarchy was Senator Wade Hampton, who was unseated by a rep? resentative of the Farmers7 Alliaoce. Another is Senator Butler, whose seat is in peril from the same source. The old oligarchy, not only represented but comprised the wealth and standing and education of the State. The new Domocracy now in control is composed of the poor whites. It is "the resi? duum" that has for all these generation? been kept under, kept poor, and kept ignorant, and now it is having its revenge by acting according to its kind. Being ignorant, it takes up with crude, absurd crotchets of economy of finance and of local legislation. It tries to impose these crotchets upon the country at large, and has succeeded in imposing them upon itself. Perhaps the failure of the State dis? pensary law in South Carolina has been no more marked than the failure of pro? hibitory laws in every State in which they are not sustained by public opin? ion. But the law itself, or the manner of its enforcement, has in South Caro been unprecedentedly odious. What is to be said, from the point of view of a practical legislator, of a law the enforce? ment of which, according to the exe? cutive charged with enforcing it, requires not only an invasion of private dwellings, but empowers the inquisitors to slay whoever resists them without being called to account ; requires the calling out of the whole armed force of the State to put down resistance ; and requires the Governor to paralyze busi? ness by taking control of the railroads and the telegraph, and permits no account of bis own doings but such as be sanctions to go forth to the world ? It is not to be expected that the peo? ple of any civilized community will ac- j quiesce ic euch methods of enforcing the law. In three cities the resistance of the law has been so determined that the Governor has been compelled, still according to his own story, to enforce martial law in them. So odious is the law that many companies of militia have disbanded rather than take part io enforcing it, and that other companies, without disbanding, ignore the orders of their commander-in-chief. It is so odious that "the mayors and city councils have refused to make the po? lice do their duty," and therefore the Governor, under the statutory powers that be says are conferred upon him, has assumed the immediate command of the police. Surely Governor Tillman's bitterest opponent could not make out a worse case for him than that he makes out for himself. It is his own showing that the law, the enactment of which be advised and .the enforcement of which bebas undertaken, is so odious that it cannot be eoforced without invoking the whole force of the ?tate, and so odious that force of the State refuses the invocation. This is the result of the passing of political power from the old to (be new South, from a selfish and educated aristocracy to an envious and ignorant Democracy which is incom? petent to the functions it bas assumed. It seems that the first requisite of South Carolina is not the Ocala platform, nor the State saloon law, but the difusi?n of elementary education. A New Word. Wheo little Maud began to go to school she ?was the naughtiest of soholars. She was naughty io so reckless a way that Hilda, .her sister, two years older than she, became heartily ashamed of her. Maud oc? casionally talked aloud in class ; she made such absurd faces that even the teacher was forced to smile, and she cherished so hearty a love for re? cess that it was difficult to induce her to come io wheo the quarter boor was o.ver. ?8 she was a very little girl and quite unused to rules or punishments DO very severe measures were taken with her. But Hilda bad at last boroe all she could. "Mamma," she said ooe day wheo she came home, with tears in her eyes, "mayn't Maud give up going to school till she knows how to behave better ?" "But I hope she will learn by going," said her mother "We must have patience, you kDow." "But, mamma, she does things that are just awful, and everybody knows she is my sister and f am so ashamed !" "Well, Hilda, I think we must keeping on doing our best and just help ber to be good." "Ob, I'd do that," said Hilda, two tears stealing down her cheeks. "I'm not tired of Maud nor ber naughti- j ness, but, mamma, I am tired of being j so coo8picuated by her!"-louth's Companion. Jame? Gallagher, of Providence, Pa . fell 250 feet ic a mine and is still alive. Not a bone was broken, but he was greatly bruised and otherwise injured. It is the opinion of the atend iog physician that Mr. Gallagher will io time recover from the effecfis of bis wonderful fall. As the ships increase their armor so the makers of heavy guns increase their power to shoot. A recent test has been made in this country wheo a shot was. fired through 13J inches of tempered steel. Think of that. The plate was 150 yards distant. The charge consisted of 355J- pounds of prismatic powder. The pro? jectile used, a Rotzer, weighed 997 pounds The expense was great. The four, shots cost $380, each. The plate cost $12,000, its mouutiog $2, 560 and the powder $150. A star, which is one of the un explained wonders of astronomers, bas beeo visible for several weeks. It could be seen between the bright twilight and dark just above the Wes? tern horizon beneath Jupiter and the Seven Stars. It is known to astron omers as "Omicron Ceti" or it is some? times called the "Marvel of the Whale." It is a variable star. That is, sometimes it is not visible to the naked eye and with a mode? rate telescope it is a very faint star. Then it will blaze up and j become very brilliant when to all ap? pearances and according to measurement it radiates 2000 times as much light as it does when it appears smallest. Our readers may get a glimpse of it be? fore it becomes invisible again. Highest of all in Leavening Pov AB50LU1 The Solemn Truth of lt. Tillman's Court of Inquiry Tells the Bloody Tale. General Richbourg io his report to Governor. Till OJ an says : In obedience to orders from you I organized a court of inquiry, composed of the following officers and men : Capt. J. A. Mooney, Capt H. J. Harvey, Corporal A. D. Milster and Private F. H. Dantzler. This court of inquiry was siting at the same time as the coroner's jury and participated- in the investigation being conducted. At the close of the inquest the court of inquiry made the following report to me : "DARLINGTON, S. C., April 5, 1894. Brigadier ^General R. N. Richbourg, Commanding troops, Darlington, S. C.: The undersigned having been ap* pointed by you to constitute a military court of inquiry, under orders of Governor Tillman, commander-in-chfef, to sit with the jury of inquest in session at the Atlantic Coast Line Depot, said inquest being for the pur? pose of inquiring into the death of Frank E. Norment, R. H. Pepper and Lewis Redmond : We Jhave the honor to report that we attended the inquest, asking through the coroner such questions as we thought proper, and beard all the testimony. We have reached the following conclusions therefrom : The sad tragedy which ended to the death of the three men above named bad its origin in a fight between two young men of Darlington-Rogers and Floyd. They met at the depot and after a few words engaged in a fistcuff, in which Rogers was whipped. At the fight one J. D. McLendon, a State constable, was the friend and backer of Floyd, having a good deal to say to encourage the fight. After the fight Rogers went up town and returned with several friends. About the same time the chief of police of the town arrived at the depot. Rogers began cursing Floyd, and at the same time pointing to McLendon, said that he had aided Floyd, using very opprobrious epithets, to which McLen? don replied in very forcible language. The chief of police arrested Rogers and Floyd aod for the moment had order restored. Mr. Norment and one or two other citizens pointed to McLendon and said he was responsible for the whole matter. Norment called McLendon a d-d s- of a b-. McLendoo replied that he would not take that and immediately drew his pistol and fired at Norment.. Immediately some six or eight citizens drew their pistols and the constables arew their pistols and began firing at each other, several of the constables using Winchester rifles. We .firmly believe that had McLsndoo not interfered the chief of police would have had no trouble iu preserving order and avertiug the tragedy. We deem it unnecessary to state all of the testimony, as a copy of the same will be transmitted to your headquarters and to the commander in-chief. We conclude from the evidence that Frank E. Norment came to bis deatb in Darlington, S. C., on thc 30th day of 31arch, 1894. from the effects of a gunshot wound inflicted by one J D. McLendon and that the said killing was felonious murder, and that W P. Gaillard, C. P. McDonald, J C. Mur phey, J. L. Nunamaker, R M. Gardoer, John Felder, J. M. Scott, L. H. McCaots, William Livingston, O C. Cain, E. C. Black. J. W. Hollo? way, W. H. Bryeon, Jack Holling and Wash Owens are accessories. We conclude that R H Pepper came to bis deatb at the same time and place from a gunshot wound inflicted by one Lewis Redmond and that the said Len is Redmond came to his death at the hands of O. C- Cain and that said killing was felonious murder. Redmond was running from the constables and Cain shot bim in the back with a Winchester rifle. All of which is respectfully submitted. J. A. MOOXEY, Capt. and Cba'm Court of Inquiry. H. J. HARVEY. Captain. J. C. COOPER, Sergeant. A. D. MILSTER, Corporal. F. II. DANTZLER, Fort Mott Guards." For Over Fifty Years. Mas. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP bas been used for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diar? rhoea. Twenty-five cen's a bottle. /er.--Latest U. S. Gov't Repqrt Baking ; Powder "ELY PORE