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THS SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April,.lS??. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TKUE SO?THKON. Established Jone, l; 66 Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30,1895. New Series-Vol. XIV. So. 27. %\t WMm& at? jS?iitljroii Published Every Wednesday, -BY NT. Gr. Osteen, SUMTER, S. C. TEEMS : Two Dollars per hu u um-in advance. ADVKRTISSXB.IT: One Square first insertion.$1 00 Every subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer ?ill 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. Carolina's Cromwell. Ex-Gov. Tillman Wants a New National Party. It has been quite a long time, nearly a year in fact, since the state? ment was made that the then Gover? nor, B. R. Tillman, the "Moses" of Sooth Carolina, was setting his cap for something beyond the United State's Seuate ; that he was looking to the possible organization uf a new National third parity in American politics, and to being put up as one of its leaders Nearly every one perhaps has forgotten the interview the new Senator gave along this line about the middle of March last, but his utterances at the time will be easily recalled when one reads a let? ter he penned a few days a<ro. For some time Thomas F. Byron, . the editor of the Des Moines, Iowa, Farmers' Tribune, has been agitating the organization of a new ?Sational third party, to be known as the "National Reform Movement." He has been publishing a series of letters from all the big Western and South? western leaders of the old Third Party and of the Democratic party, a lat Tillman. Many of the leaders differ on certain particulars, but all agree that the time bas come for a new national party to be fouuded a party differing in its demands from the Third party in the last national campaign. Byron, after getting the views of all the Western and Southern men on the matter, wrote to Ex-Governor Tillman, whom he refers to as the "Cromwell of the South,'' aud asked the new United States Senator for a letter. This letter was written on the 8th ultimo, and Bryon considers the letter "a powerful or.e " The following is a copy of the letter as sent on by thc Ex-Gover? nor : TRFNTON, S. C., Jan 8, 1894. Thos F. Bryon Esq. : Dear Sir-Your valued favor of the 3rd, with marked copy of your paper, have been received aud read with interest. Thanks for your kind words about myself. I am called a "Populist" by the Republi? can papers and by the Cleveland Democrats-God save the mark ! Both of these names are beginning to stink in the nostrils of good men. Beginning? Alas, they are a by? word and a hissing to the Democrats who believe with Jefferson and Jack? son, and the Republicans who follow? ed Lincoln. I see no hope of relief or of saving our institutions, unless the farmers of the South quit voting the Democratic ticket and the farmers of the West quit voting the Repub? lican ticket URGENT DEMAND FOP. UNION. We must get together, and names should not divide us. But the Popu? lists have too many cranks among them and want to do too much. We cannot enlist the conservative masses unless we appeal to reason and common sense ; and the more reforms we demand the fewer we wiil obtain. Plutocracy is drunk with power and the success it has had in amalgamating Republicans and so called Democrats under the lead of Sherman aud Cleveland. The tops will be screwed down tighter and after awhile something will explode. South Carolina is ready with baggage packed, to join the new army of emancipation-the emancipation of the mass of white men from the slavery to corporations, trusts and monopolies. 8KETCH OP TiHE PLATPORM. The name "Democrat" no longer conjures here. The name is dear for its memories, not its present associa? tions. A new party name seems necessary, and all we ask is an ad? herence to the principles of old-time Democracy: "Equal rights, equal opportunities, equal burdens. America for the Americans, an asylum for the honest, industrious home8eeker but a terror to anarchists and law-breakers-the rich as well as the poor. Free coinage of gold and silver, and no paper money except legal tender greenbacks. A tariff that will enable our manufac? turers to supply the home market without becoming millionaires at the expense of the farmers ; a tariff that will give work to all who wish it. A financial system that will give a fair price to the farmer for every bushel of grain and every pound of meat." This is platform enough, and any more will confuse and divide us on these essentials. If the scoundrels and traitors who now rule in Washington are to dictate the policy and name the ticket, our electoral vote will not go to a "Democrat" in '96. It cannot go to a Republican under any cir? cumstances ; and Populism, as now orgauized and led, cannot get it. It is the part of wisdom and pat? riotism for the Third party leaders to retrace their steps and be less radical in their platform. The conditions are similiar to those existing in '26 and '58. Jackson and Lincoln were the outcome. Let us hope the people will be again victorious. FAITH IX THE FUTURE. I have great faith. This country is not ready yet to sink into servi? tude to money. Ballots or bullets will bring relief. The Chicago strike caused a demand for an increase in the army. In 1789 the national guard of France fraternized with the starving masses People who have ballots should not require bullets. The people are now bewildered but angry Let us pray? that the mists will clear away by 1S9G, and that the lost sheep will have found a shep? herd. Abe Lincoln said : "You can foot part of the people all the time ; you can fool all the people part of the time, but you can never fool all of the people all the time." It is a grand truth, and while we believe it we can hope. Yours truly, B. R. TILLMAN. An Appeal in Humanity's Name. Editor of Daily, Item Sumter, S. C. Dear Sir : We, a committee appoint? ed by "The Young Men's Business League" of this city, to lake charge of appeal of Nebraska Sufferers and such donation as might be made for this pur? pose ; ask your kind co-operation by circulating through your valued jour? nal, the appeal for Aid of the starving farmers of Nebraska, who have bad two years complete failure of their orops, and now need assistance from more favored sections of the United States to keep them from starvation. Thanking you in advance for your kind assistance in spreading this appeal for "humanity sake," we are, Yours trulv, R. P. EVANS, J. A. ADGSR, JR., A. 0. MUSTARD, I. P. O'NEILL, R. H. SIMONS, H. W. THOMAS, Committee. "Fellow citizens of South Carolina : In consequence of the complete failure of the provision crops of Nebraska hundreds of families are suffering the pangs of starvation. Additional hor? ror is given to their forlorn and un? fortunate condition by the fact that the unfortunates are exposed to the severi? ties of a winter unusually arduous even for that section. "The destitute farmers have appealeu to their fellow citizens of the Southern States for aid. Neighboring States have heard their cry of distress and their citizens are opening their hearts to thom in this their hour of terrible need. "The Young Men's Business League of Charleston has undertaken to collect and forward nny supplies that the chart table people of South Carolina eau spare tor this deserving purpose. The contributions which are asked are corn, meal, meat, clothing and mouey. The farmers of this State have beeu especial? ly blessed by Providence with a ?aper abundance of corn, and it is believed that they will be giad of au opportunity to conti ibufc to the relief of their fellow farmers of Nebra&ka. The railroads j have generously couseuted to forward auy supplies for this purpose to the headuuarters of the League in this citv, from which point they will be forward? ed in bulk to their final destination, ile who gives quickly gives well. The need of the sufferers is urgent.'' AU donations should be marked "Y. M. B. Lg.," Charleston, S. C. For Nebraska Sufferers. Railroads will transport free of charge. An attempt will be made early in the spring by three aeronauts to cross the continent from New York in a balloon, their intention being to make a land? ing somewhere in California. They are Mortimer McKin, Leo Stevens and Don Carlos, all experienced balloonists who have made ascensions in various parts of the oountry. They conceived tbe idea of travelling to San Francisco, and arranged for a generator weighing bat 90 pounds and generating 25,000 cubic feet of gas an hour, to be made, for a balloon which they are building after their own model. Tho new bal? loon will bold 60,000 feet of gas, and is qaiag made of an especially constructed cloth, half linen and half silk, thus giving all the strength, with extreme lightness. Pope's Appeal. The Doctor's Petition Laid Before The Senate. WASHINGTON*, Jan. 22.-Senator Butler laid before the Senate to day the petition of Mr. Sampson Pope, late candidate for Governor of South Carolina on the Democratic ticket. The petition is in the handwriting of Mr. Pope, is addressed to the Senate and makes some very plain state? ments relative to the conduct of the election. It says : "The undersigned respectfully rep? resents that he is a citizen of the State of South Carolina, and that at the election held in that State on November 6, 1894, he was a candi? date for the office of Governor, and was, as he believes, defrauded at said election to such an extent as to deprive him of said office ; that mern bers of the General Assembly were elected at the same election, who have recently elected B. R. Tillman a United States Senator ; that thous? ands of voters were prevented from casting their ballots at said election by reason of fraud, force and intimi? dation ; that thousands of ballots were thrown out or destroyed, and in many instances other ballots were substituted for them by managers and other persons ; that the constitu? tion of the United States and of the State of South Carolina and the laws passed pursuant thereto were utterly disregarded ; that these frauds were committed under the direction of Benjamin R. Tillman, then Governor of said State, and of Hon. J. L M. Irby, chairmau of the State executive committee, who is a member of your honorable body. "Wherefore, your petitioner prays that a committee may be appointed by your honorable body charged with examining into the conduct of 6aid election, with power to send for per? sons and papers, and on the coming in of the report of said committee, that such action be taken in the premises as the report will justify." Dr. Girardeau Resigns. He Will Leave the Seminary Faculty After This Session. The boanl of trustees of the Presby? terian Theological Seminary will meet io tbis city at 9 o'clock this morning to elect a successor to Dr. J. L Girar? deau, io the chair of systematic the? ology ar. the iostitutiou named. Dr. Girardeau will retire a6 the close of the present session. What his plans are for the future are not known- Last May, when the board was io session here, be tendered hid resignation, to take effect a: the close of the present session. The board apppoinfed a com? mittee, which waited on him and urged him to withdraw his resignation, but he declined to do eo. Dr. Girardeau has been a member of the faculty or the seminary continu? ously since 1876, with exception of the scholastic year of 1886 87, when he re? signed on account of the ''evolution trouble." Dr. Girardeau is one of the most brilliant meo of the Presbyterian denomination in this country, and his retirement will be a serious los? to the seminary. His place will be hard to fiTi -The State, Columbia. Split in The Knights of Labor. PROVIDENCE. R. !.. January 20. District No. 99, Knights of -Labor, ar its annual meetiog here to-day. denounced the present national organ? ization and adopted resolutions with? drawing from its control. Addresses denunciatory of Sovereign, Hayes and All Worthy Master Foreman Bishop, of Massachusetts, were delivered. The organization elected P. H. Quion as district master workmau and also made hitn a representative to thc meetiug at Columbus, Ohio, at which the dis? affected district assembles will form a new national body. NEW HAVEN CONN., January 20. National Trades Assembly, No. 252, Knights of Labor, met here to-day and adopted resolutions similar to those of the Providence Assembly. --^m>-mm The illness of Speaker Crisp is to be regretted, but it is not to be wondered at. Coosideriog the condition to which the country has been brought as the re? sult of congressional incompetence is it a wonder that any congressman who bas either patriotism or conscience is not sick The painful fact in the whole sit? uation is the circumstance that, while every intelligent citizen outside of con? gress is keenly alive to the increasing difficulties of tbe country and to the necessity of a prompt application of those remedies which legislation alone can provide, congress seems to be as indifferent as it is incompetent, and to have settled down to a conviction that tbe end of the session is all that it has to look foward to.-New York World (Dem) \ The Fizzle of The Forty.] So Far as Outlining a Plan is Concerned. Columbia State, Jan. 24. Last night the address of the Forty which has been locked forward to with so mach interest for the past month, was issued and given to the p;ess. As will be seen from the address it means business, as it calls meetings in each county to select staunch mea to attend a State conference to be held here the following Wednesday. The solution offered seems to be one that don't solve the problem; but merely amounts to the calling of an? other convention on the subject in hand. This makes the third convention booked for the next two months, all to work on the same problem, the two others being conventions of negroes. It might be noted, too, that the number of signers is less than heretofore. Here is the document: % To the Democrats of South Carolina : As an executive committee authoriz? ed by those who put forth the recent address in which they urged upon you to consider the question of securing a non-partisan cooventiou, we again call your attention to that subject aud sum? mon you to action. Dissension io your ranks threatens disaster. The purity of government, the very safety of the State, depends upon unity. To preserve these war? rants your utmost codeivor, and the burial of prejudice. Those in both factions, who would avert the catas? trophe of an appeal to the negro for control of the convention, must come shoulder to shoulder at once. Let white men, from the mountains to the sea combine to make our convention and new Constitution a bond and seal of re? union between the white men of South Carolina. This may be done by hav? ing the convention represent truly all elements of our Democracy, not a fac? tion merely. It will be a supreme body limited by its own will only ?nd the Federal Constitution. Its compo? sition will be of the highest importance to the welfare of the State. Therefore, in behalf of the earnest men who have already spoken, we call upon any and ali white Democrats in accordance with those views to meet at their several county seats on Satur? day the second day of March next to select three representative men from each county who will attend a general conference which will assemble in Co? lumbia at 5 p. m., on the following Wednesday, March Gth, 1895, to con? sult how best to affectuate the purposes herein expressed, subject to the regular Democratic organization. In order that full notice may be given we also request citizens in each county, who agree- with us, to repeat the call for their respective county meetings to be held on the second of March. Signed ' W. H. Timmerman, D. K. Norris, J. Townes Robertson, John R. Harrison, J. E. Pettigrew, D. E. Finley, John W. Lyles, Thos. J. Kirkland, Godfrey B. Fowler, J. E Eilerbe. W. Henry Thomas, D. McL. Therrell. .Josh W. Ashley. - a ?? *- - - Why Tim Didn't Contribute In one of our suburbs a few Sundays ago the priest of one of the churches an? nounced that a collection would bc- taken up to defray tho cost of coal for heating the church, says the Boston Traveler. Evervbody chipped in but Tim-well, never mind bis other name-who gave a sly wink as thc plate was presented to him but nothing else. The priest noticed Tim's dereliction, but surmised that he might have left his money at home. Not quite enongh money having been realized a similar contribution was levied the fol lowing Sunday. As before every one gave but Tim, who looked mighty sly, and the priest wondered thereat. Mect in? Tim after the service, he took him to task for his conduct. "Now, Tim, why didn't you give something, if only a penny?" "Faith, father, I'm onto yez." "Tim!" "Yes, father." "What do you mean ?" "0, nothing, father. Just that I'm onto yez ; that's all." "Then your words are disrespectful, and require an explanation. What do you mean ?" "Oh ! faith, father, a thryin' to pall the wool over mi eyes. A-thryin' to make us believe yez wants the money to buy coal to heat the church, and yer riverence knows it's heated by steam. There are 200,000 women in this country who are earning independent incomes, and the number is steadily in? creasing from year to year. It would be a most interesting addition to this statistical statement ?fit could bc shown how many of these women contribute to the support of male dependents. A Fight or a Fizzle. Will we Play Their Stocked Cards or Have a Square Deal. STATEBURG, S. C., Jan. 17, '95. To ike Editor of tJie Columbia State: It is bard to see what the Conserv? atives have to gain by going into an agreement with the Tilimanites by which they will be allowed to hope that they may have a share of repre? sentatives on the floor cf the Constitu? tional convention. Among those re? presentatives there may be Hampton, Wallace, Hagood, McCrady, Bratton, and others like them, who would hon? or ?ny body of men in the world by their presence among them, but what reason have we to hope that they would be listened to when Tillman, Irby, Larry Gantt, Thomas and a host of J. Garys pop their whips and point out the road, down which lies their hopes of a continuance in office? It is true we can have the supreme satisfaction of toiling ourselves we j made the effort for the sake of peace. ! By the stand taken by the repre- ; seutatives of the two factions in the Legislature, the lines may be con- ! side red distinctly drawn, each side identified with their own notions of right and wrong. On one side j stand the Conservatives for a free ! ballot for all who qualify themselves {'or that right, and above all things a fair count, as all sensible men know that tvituout it no people can long preserve their liberties nor be fit for them: no searching of private houses to allow the State to make money out of the whiskey business, and no change in the Constitution without submission to the people. On the other side stand the Tilimanites, Re? formers (?) against all this, because Tillman and his band of office-hold? ing satellites tell them that with these principles lurks danger to their liberties from the Bourbons, assisted by the negro. And that season will be all sufficient. If the whole thing is cut aud dried and a certain number of delegates ap? portioned to each faction the issue cannot be discussed by such candi? dates in a manner to make the people realize ils fateful importance. While if each side stands b}* what it believes right their earnestness will present in full relief the blessings and the dan? gers of what they advocate. There are many men among the reformers who honestly desire the good of the State, but they seem to have no lead? ers with enough of the courage of his convictions to enable him to repudi? ate that reckless gang of demagogues DO O O who would root up or tear down any? thing to keep themselves in office. They would not hesitate tc pull down the South Carolina College or the Citadel and set up whiskey palaces m their places, for the offices and money there would be for them. If we pre? sent a solid column in determined, earnest opposition to them, many hitherto Reformers would join us. But if we servilely accept their terms, a crazy quilt of a Constitution, which Tillman has doubtless written (or is now in his great silence writing) and Irby punctuated, will be rammed down our throats and we will find, : when too late, that Peace, for whom | we sacrificed our independence will still further avert her sweet face. Have we not made this mistake often enough already to know that the preparation for a fight is the most important part about it ? And not to try to fight them after a large pait of our faction has been allowed and even urged by some of our leaders to tie their hands by obligations that they are not willing to break, no mat- I ter how dear the cause. They whip us in the primary because some of our men won't vote, and then again in the general election, because those who voted in the primary have their hands tied. This is the most import- j ant issue we have ever had with them, and it depends on the Conservatives whether we go forward in the march of civilization in a manner worthy of South Carolina's past, or remain here . wrangling among ourselves, a dis- i grace to the whole South, as wei! as to ourselves, and the truest, quickest way is to have the question present- j ed to the people is by candidates who know that their election depends on the intelligence with which they pre? sent it to a people free to vote as they have chosen to think right. All of the little, so-called leadens and politicians, who choose to can meet and fix up as many little plans as they please, but I believe that there are many men in South Carolina who have come to love freedom of choice i in seeking their honest wishes vs ho will not again go into an}- more such little plans, even if they have uo representation in the convention, and they are the men who will eventually win and bring a true and worthy peace to the State. I know ?at The State has nailed its colors to the mast for this idea, s.nd there are more and more men every day thinking it was right from the first, the only mistake, it seems to me, to have made is that, with many other brave men it has wanted to fight after a large part of Conservatives had agreed not to fight and I hope that it can persuade all not to agree not to fight on the pre? sent issue, and to start in time ?.nd keep on to the general election, as that is the only hope of lasting peace. .W. J. REES. -? ? i - - A Grave Case. Tombstone - Vender-and- Whiskey - Spy Jenkins Nearly Needs a Marble Slab. Special to The State. DARLINGTON-, Jan. 28.-For some time a detective named Jenkios has been operating in the Hartville sect on io the interest of the dispensary -?nd be b?s made several arrests fur alleged selling of whiskey. He was in Dar? lington on yesterday for the purpose of bringing perscn accused before the officers of the law. Last night after {jetting home he was f-hot. He had gone to bed but some ^ue went in the room for the purpose of speaking to him. When he awoke he struck a match and he was instantly fired upon by some one who was standing outside of the window. The ball was slightly turned by going through tbe glass and inflicted only a flesh wound in the I neck. This Jenkins, who bas a gcod j many other names, has been in that neighborhood for some time past a;? a tombstone vender, and has samples of : his wares with him. He requited the j hospitality of the people by playing ihe ; spy upon them. There have been no I arrests as yet. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. I Special to The State. DARLINGTON, Jan. 23.-News reach? ed Darlington this morning of ihe .' shooting of one of the State constables at Hartsville, whereupon The State's ! correspondent repaired ro the scene of the crime and obtained au intervisw I with Constable C. L. Jenkins. Mr. Jenkins is in the service of the United j States, is a member of the Pinion De? tective Agency, and is employed bv the Governor of this State as a private detective to aid io breaking up tho illicit sale of liquor in a section of this county known as "Kellytown." He has been boarding in that section ever since the first of last December, aad evidently had the confidence of the par? ties guilty of violating the liquor law, for he had worked up forty-eight ca.'es against different parties, and was f x ing to leave Hartsville and his "Kel.y town*' companions when the shootiog took place in the Wylie Bell Hotel in Hartsville last evening at 9 o'clock. Constable Jenkins bad retired, and Newitt Kelly came to bis room and insisted on Jenkins getting out of bed. Jenkius sat up in bed. and by chance was rubbing his head when he was shot through the window by an unknown party, the ball striking the third aad second fingers of bis right baud, glancing and striking tbe mastoid bone on the right side of the head, and thzu extending downward about an inch. The .-hooting was done wirb a 38-caliber pistol. .Jenkins is a native of Ewart, N. C., is oo years old, and his been in the de? tective service sixteen years. The wound is not very dangeroos, au-i Jen? kins is feeling much borter than on Ust evening He was only about two feet from the pistol, and had it not be:n for the window glass and his hand, t ie results would have been fatal. Tie neighborhood in which Jenkins had been workiug up the illicit sale of liquor is thickly populated with Re? formers, and the principal parties are reputed to be strong Till mao i tes. Warrants have been issued, but no arrests made so far. Hetty Green's husband, after a disas? trous experience in Wall Street years a^o, retired from "Change'* and setthd down as a club man of very simple and regular habits. Since theo be has had nothing to do with business, living as a gentleman of leisure and resisting Ul temptations to again enter speculation. His acquaintances are coofioed almost exclusively to the members of the Ua ion League Club. THS SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April,.lS??. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TKUE SO?THKON. Established Jone, l; 66 Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30,1895. New Series-Vol. XIV. So. 27.