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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."
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