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WHITE & SON, Fire Insurance Agency, ESTABLISHED 18?6. Represe.-1, among other Companies i LIVERPOOL * LONDON k GLOBE, NORTH BRITISH k MERCANTILE, HOME, of New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y., LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $75,000,000. Feb. 12_ ?890. 1894. ATOT PHELPS & co., tend mm m Sumter, S. ?? Fire, Life, Accident, Steam Boiler, Plate Glass, Bonds of Surety for persons in posi? tions of trust, and Liability Insurance in every branch, written io the very best Amer cau and Foreign Companies. Over sixty-five millions of capiial repre? sented. Office at Messrs. J. Ryttenberg k Sons, 2d Floor, Front. Mch 14-0 A Manly Statement When Capt. John G. Capers, of the Columbia Zouaves was put on the stand before the Military Court of Inquiry he made the following outspoken and manly statement in reg?r<i to the refusal of the Zouaves to obey Gov. Tillman's orders. AH men will respect and honor Capt Capers the more on account of this statement, for who does noi admire and respect a manly man. I desire to say that at about half past 4 o'clock- on the afternoon of March 30 Gen. Richbourg came into my office, on Law Range, and stated that he had been instructed by Governor Tillman to order me to , assemble my company at the armory to await further orders. The Gen I eral said very little about the trou* j ble at Darlington or the purpose of our being ordered under arms. Jost as the General left my office Col. Watts came in aud repeated the Governor's instructions, stat? ing that four men had been killed at Darlington over the dispensary law and that citizens were chasing the constables and if caught they (the constables) wonld certainly be killed. I at once appointed Corporal Craig special messenger and pot him ou a horse to summon the men to the armory in fatigue uniform. In au hour my company was ready for alignment ? pot Second Lieut. Beevers in charge of the men and armory and ordered him to let no man leave and to admit no visitors I then went out foraging for informa? tion I got no further orders until about 9 o'clock that night, when Gen. Farley met me tn front of the Caro? lina Bank and asked me where my company was. I told him I had a fall company at the armory where they had been for four hours. He then said : "Governor Tillman directs me to order you to bring your men down here ready to take the train for Darlington in twenty minutes." I saluted him and went up to the armory and called the company Co order; delivered the order and explained its meaning as I understood it. I gave the men time to express themselves to their comrades and then ordered the first sergeant to fall the men in line with arms and "count fours." This was done and as the men called out their numbers they, with the excep? tion of four men, fell out of ranks and put aside their arms and accou? trement?. The four remaining men then changed their miods and joined the men in the declination to form line and ?arch out. I then went to Gen. Farley and Col. Jones, who were together, and told them that I bad no command as my men had declined to march out of the armory. Gen Tarley then said : -"Capt. Capers, as you have no command I have no use for you, and you are dismissed.7' Now while I know that technically I disobeyed no orders, bat on the contrary executed every order given me, I do not propose to take advan? tage of the protection such techni? cality throws around me. I think I am wholly responsible for the action of my men, and 1 assume it all. I The confidence my men have io me and the consideration they have I always shown me satisfies me that my influence with them was very great, and I told them in no uncer? tain way that the order looked very much to me as if the volunteer militia was being made an arm of the dispensary constabulary, Win? chester rifle feature and all, and that in my opinion, as we were strictly volunteers and had never enlisted, we bad a perfect right to quit and withdraw from any association of .citizen soldiers whose duty it was to protect these spies and uphold their ?dirty work. I recited th? scene at the Darling? ton depot aod expressed my indigna? tion that we should be called upon to protect men who had under such circumstances committed murder with the arms the State had issued tuena to enforce the dispensary law. Candor compels me to say that I am j satisfied that I could have marched every man out of the armory, and, therefore, knowing as I do that my influence with them was thrown entirely the other way, my duty at this time in assuming the responsi? bility is very clear. Every member of my company is a brave man, and they all come from a long line of people who have in three wars shed their blood for their country. Disbanded or reinstated, they can be counted on at all times to protect the lives and homes of our people and the honor of the State. They know full well and appreciate that "duty is the sublimest word in the English language," and they are as firm .now in their convictions as I am, that their duty was to decline to obey an ill-timed, unnecessary and unpatriotic order, which in their judgment would bring about war among their own people and throw the State into confusion and blood? shed and all because a common mur? derer, fleeing from justice, called for the protection of the citizen soldiers of our State. Mn Tindal Consent?. Editor The Manning Times : I had abandoned all expectation of being a candidate this year for any office, as I mistrusted my health, and thought the Reformers wanted a dif ferent policy from that which I bad expressed. But I cannot disregard the wish so kindly and cordially ex? pressed by my old Reform friends of Clarendon County-backed np, .as it is, by so many people in the State at large. I profoundly appreciate this high? est evidence of their confidence, and will stand as a candidate for Gov? ernor upon the Reform principles which 1 have advocated for eight years. Yours truly, J. E. TINDAL. Uncle George Tillman. One of the latest and most inter? esting pieces of political gossip from South Carolina is the rumor that ex-Congressman George D. Tillman will be a candidate for gov? ernor on an anti-Tillman ticket. The statement is apparently a paradox, bot it is perhaps correct. George Tillman is a brother of Ben, the governor and the Moses of the "re? form movement" io South Carolina, but their political ideas are altogether of different brands. George is a Democrat of the Democrats, and has no sympathy with or for new-fangled political notions. And personally George Tillman is as different from his brother as he is politically. Ben Tillman is not handsome, he is rather under the size of an average man, has black hair and a sharp face with a rather sinister expres? sion. George*, on the other hand, is a good looking man. He is big in body, with a florid complexion, blue eyes, a broad brow under a mass of snow-white hair, and open counte? nance and a general demeanor that is instantly attractive. He was in Con? gress for ten years, and would have: staid there as long as he lived if he bad not fallen a victim to the craze brought about by his brother. It would be a notable circumstance if it shoald be George Tillman who puts an end to Tillmanism in South Caroli? na.- Savannah News. The Little Fellows Cringed and Knelt, bat big Ben Laughed and Kicked. With a solemn blare of deep ton? ed trumpets and awful firmness and ferocity, Messrs. Evans and El i erbe were led to the alliance yardstick like candidates being initiated in the, Knights of Malta, and commanded' in voice of awful portent to answer for their lives. They passed. Then Tillman was called up. He kicked the yardstick over, and answered in efiect that he intended to do about as be liked regardless of demands and standards No thunders rolled, nor did any furious lightnings crash sud? den upon his head. No armed and vengeful host sprang forward with blood curdling yells and sharpened knives to cut him down where be stood. The bluff didn't go. He is very politely told that it is all right, that his answer is entirely satisfac? tory, and that the alliance doesn't seek to bind or pledge anybody to its demands anyhow. Contemplating this surprising re? sult, Messrs. Evans and Ellerbe may unite-if they can unite in noth? ing else-in the melancholy chorus "I think I gare myself away Without sufficient cause." -Edgefield Chronicle. What George Tillman Could Do. Col. George Tillman has not been heard from yet. If he would only say, "I am a candidate for Gover? nor," and go before the people on his own merits there would be bushels of fur flying around loose before the close of the campaign, aud several premature boomlets would chase each other out of sight be? yond the shadows of nowhereland. Johnston Monitor. The Sally Rifles, composed mostly of Reformers, have elected Gen. Rich hourg an honorary member of the com? pany, niade a request for a life size picture to hang in their armary and endorsed bim for Adjutant aud Inspec? tor General. And now let Reformers throughout the State show their appre? ciation of man who fags oot from duty though he may differ with them on some issues, support him for the office suggested, thereby showing to the oppposition that they do not entertain that bitter feeling alledged to them against all of other faith -Lexington Dispatch. Tillman Determined to Have an Army. It turos oat that Gov. Tillmao caoDOt use the aonual military appropriation io armiog the new companies, as was at first suggested. Arms will be sup? plied from other surces, as soon as possi? ble but this will not be at an early day. In the mean time the new companies will bave to possess their souls in patience. The following circular has been issued to the oew companies : COLUMBIA, 8. C., June ll, 1894. Sir : I am instructed by the com? mander-in-chief to issue the following circular for the information of the newly organized military companies. After the Darlington riot every encourage? ment was given by the Governor to the organization of new companies, and to all such a promise was made that they would be armed and equipped as soon as possible. Owing to the policy pursued by the Adjutant Generals during the last ten years the State bas very few first-class arms, and there were none in stock, so that tn arming new companies only those were available that were taken from the companies who refused to obey the Governor's orders and these have already been distributed. The rule adopted in the distribution was to arm companies in the counties where none existed. Second, to leave the arms already in a county where they were giving them to the new companies taking the place of the old ones. Third to arm those companies which came to Colombia during the riot. Upwards of one hundred companies have been organized and officers commissioned, while the Adjutant General has only taken arms from about eighteen companies, thus leaving over eighty still unarmed. The annual appropriation for the maintenance of the militia is not avail? able for the purchase of arms, bat must be distributed pro rata among the com? panies already in existence which meet the requirements of the law. There ts, therefore, no money at present with which to buy arms, but in July the ap? propriation Sjom Congress will be available for the purchase of arms, and when the Legislature meets the Gover? nor will advise an additional appropria? tion for the purchase of arms. The commander-in-chief takes this opportunity of urging the few com? panies to perfect themselves in drilling, and to purchase a cheap shirt or blouse to be used as a uniform. He will exert himself to the utmost to arm all the companies he has commissioned as soon as possible. By order of thc commander-in-chief. H. L. Farley, Adjutant and Inspector General. - - i t mm Not Repealed. The ten per cent, tax on State banks was not repealed by the vote in the House last Wednesday. Some i Democrats in Congress seem to be bigger than the party. The Party says : "Repeal." The M. C. says : No Repeal." And what are we to do about it ? Keep on losing our golden opportuni? ties and run against the snag of defeat in the next election ? It looks that way. Section 8 of the Democratic plat? form on which President Cleveland and a large majority of the House of Representatives were nominated and elected reade as follows : "We recommend that the prohibi? tive 10 per cent, tax on State bank issue be repealed." That plauk of the platform is plain and simple. But look further. The Democrats in Congress held a caucus in April last, at which they took the following action, without a dissenting vote : Resolved, That it is the sense of this caucus that the prohibitory tax of 10 per cent, on bank issues be repealed. Resolved, That when the bill known as the Brawley and Spencer bill, which the Committee on Banking and Currency has ordered reported to the House, is called up for action, an amendment be offered repealing the prohibitory tax on State banks ; that ample time be afforded for dis? cussion, and if necessary to secure this the Committee on Rules be re? quested to take proper action. This is all very plain also. What is the result ? Seventy-five Democrats deliberately step off the platform and defeat the measure. We believe in sticking to principles. To the credit of the South Carolina delegation be it said, they voted solidly for repeal. The Charlotte, Colombia and Au? gusta Railroad is advertised to be sold iu Columbia on the 10th day of July, and the sale of the Columbia and Green? ville Railroad will take place in the same city, and ou the same day. Thc Columbia State wants to know where Tillman's detectives are 'I They are laid up for repairs just now, but will be ready for business when the dispensary law is again put in operation.-Lexing? ton Dispatch. The Registration Law Test This woroiag the all-important mat? ter of the constitutionality of the regis? tration laws of the State was brought up for argumeot upon the rule to show cause issued by the Court under the mandamus proceedings. Wheo toe csuse was called tbe Attorney General rose aod said that be knew this was the time set for tbe bear? ing of the cause, but the State was not ready to go ahead with the case. He bad oo time whatever to even make the return. The supervisor, the respondent in the case, bad been sick in bed and bad been served while io bed. In con? sequence of this none of the papers cf the case bad reached the hands of the Attorney General till a short time before the Court convened. He therefore made a motion that the case be post? poned till the next term of the Court. Mr. Obear, of counsel, representing the petitioners in the case, replied, say? ing that to postpone the case till the next term would deprive his clients of their constitutions! rights io the coming election and they would be practically disfranchised. He hoped that the Court would take the matter up and decide the important question involved prior to the coming general election. If the petitioner and other men were entitled to have a say in the election, they wished to know it in time to make use of such knowledge. He urged the Court not to postpone tbe matter till the next term of the Court. The Attorney General replied. He said that the great irreparable injury that would be done the petitioner in this case would be the disfranchisement of a voter who had made no attempt to obtaio his "constitutional" rights since 1882. It was too near the time of the adjournment of tbe Court to bring up aod consider such a grave and serions, indeed almost revolutionary, question. No one could get ready in so short a time to argue such a question. The State was not to blame. His office was filled with business. He and his assistants bad had as much as they could do. In the last few days they had been working nearly all night every night. It was a physical impossibility to prepare the case. As be had said the supervisor had only brought the papers to bim that very day and bad gone back to bed sick. Besides this he said the petitioner tiid not even allege that be bad availed himself of the re? medies for his case laid down in the Act. He had not appealed to the Court of assistant supervisors. Just here Capt. L. D. Melton, of counsel for the petitioner, said that as the return of the State bad not been made it was impossible to go into the questions of law involved, and he asked the Court not to consider anything else but the question as to whether the Court felt that it could proceed with the hear? ing or not. There was no eleventh hour in the matter of giving a man bis legal rights. The attorneys could not bring the matter before the Court sooner than it was possible. They had come as early as they could. If the matter was delayed it would be a very serious delay and the people could not enjoy their constitutional principles. Chief Justice Mciver then asked Attorney General Buchanan if he not being ready now, bow soon he could get ready to have the heariog. Mr. Melton remarked that he was perfectly willing to let the State fix any time so that it was before the general election. The Chief Justice then said that there were peculiar circumstances surrounding this case. They were as Judges put there to bear causes io their regular order as prescribed by law. Frequent? ly, however, they diverged from their rules to accommodate the members of the Bar. He did not see, however, bow they could do so in this instance, having due regard for the interests of the peti? tioners and all concerned. He could not see why the matter had been so long postponed, why it bad beeo delayed till the last Monday before the adjournment of the Court But they would be will? ing said the Chief Justice, lo overlook the long delay ordinarily, but they could not do that DOW io this case without disregarding the rights of those who had gone ahead and complied with thc registration laws and were qualified under them to vote. In conclusion the Chief Justice said : "And therefore the Court grants the motion of the Attorney General with this modification, that the return befited on the first Monday of the next term of this Court and that a copy of the same be filed upon the petitioner's attorneys at least twenty days before the first Monday of the next terni."-Columbia Cor. News and Courier June ll. A Mongrel Party. The action of the State Democratic Executive Committee, at its recent meeting, gives us a queer Demo? cratic party in South Carolina. It is a Democratic party sui generis. The door is open wide for any and everybydy to come in and take a band. But after all could anything else have been expected of a Demo? cratic Executive Committee mostly composed of Tillmanites. If they had 8h ut the door on Wea v?rit?s, Populists and others of that ilk they would have decimated their ranks to such an extent as to ensure their de? feat. Now it is stated that anybody who will take the draught the committee has mixed can have a hand in it. It is entirely a measure to secure further foothold in the State for the element which is running the commonwealth by a policy which is sapping its prosperity and putting it outside of clearly defined Democratic lines. This is a real serious matter and should engage the attention of the substantial people of the State If the gods are to be destroyed and are going mad first, in the natural order of disintegration, well and good? But if otherwise, the question occurs: '.What are we going to do about it T The manner in which the resolutions to require candidates to abide by the Chicago platform was voted "out of sight'7 ?howed plainly that the Till? manites intend to have a Democratic party all of their own. Just let them alone, and as soon as the powder is burned out of all their pyrotechnic business the stick will come to the ground.-Florence Messenger. The Somersault of the Demo? cratic Party? Wheo one considers the loss to every business interest that result from the suspense and disturbance of new tariff legislation, it is evident to any unpre? judiced mind that the retention for some years to come of the McKinley act precisely as it stands would be greatly preferable to the adoption of a measure like the one now pending in the Senate, which settles nothing either as to princi? ple or as to practice. The Democratic party has shamelessly and scandalously ignored the promise upon which it came into power to give the country a tariff oo revenue lines. The Wilson bill as originally drafted by the Ways and Means Committee of the House was a faltering and lame attempt to take one ic fini itt. i ru al step in the direction of a revenue tariff But the amended and revised bill now under consideration in tho Senate bas retraced that little step, and the Chicago plat? form is without a defender in the halls of Congress. Even Mr. Milla, of of Texas, while opposing the com? promise, announces that he will vote finally for any tariff bill which make a reduction of duties by the very smallest, degree. His position is an absurd one,,, for it means in plain English that Mr.. Mills would justify a disturbance of business interests that costs the country hundreds of million of dollars for the sake of a slight nominal reduction of tariff rates, wheo the altered rates would, be jost as effectively protective as they were before. So loo g as the principle remains unaltered, nothing whatever is accomplished by a casual reduction, here and there, of tariff rates ; and such work would be the most trifling child's play but for the mischief it accomplishes. Curiously enough, the iocome tax holds its place practically oualtered in the Democratic scheme The one great plank of the Democratic platform pro? nounced protection unconstitutional and demanded a revenue tariff This has been repudiated without ~ausc and without apology. But the Democratic platform did not mention in any way the laying of a tax upon incomes, while this was one of the principal features of the Populist programme. The Demo? crats io Congress have new made the iocome tax their one distinctive teuet. The country will hardly again in twenty years accept any pretense from the Democratio party that it is opposed to protection, and that party will apparent? ly be compelled to stand or fall upon a totally new doctrine which has never bad a place in its platform except by way of condemnation of the Republican income tax of the war period. The situation is a highly absurd oue, and the Democratic par'y will have no light task in adjusting itself to its novel posi? tion. ? mm ? 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