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?lje iPatctyman awe 00?tt!ff0?j. THK scMTES WATCHMAN, JKctabiished April,. 1S50. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THJE TKIE SOCTHKON, Established jone, 1266 Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1895._New Serios-Yoi. XIV. So. 49. ?ijt ?Siitrijntc?it w? Sontljroii Published Every Wednesday, JM. ca-. Osteen, SUMTER, S. C. TKRMS ! Two Dollars per annum-io advance. ADVERTISEMENT." One Square first insertion.$1 00 Every subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. A]} communications which subserve private interests will becbarjred foras advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. ?RBFS WAY. HE COMES OUT IN A TI EADE AGAINST THE CONSERVATIVES. Declares Them Independents, Re publicans and Nigger Affilia tors-Drags In the Corpora? tions to Incite Bitterness. Senator Irby has gi veo the Piedmont Headlight the following interview on the political situation : "The mask is off and thank God for it. The Reformers have been wastiog time with Williams, Gonzales, Hemp hill and other Anti-leaders, thinking those Conservatives were honest in their efforts to bring abone peace and unity. Their object was to ger hold of the Con? vention io the interest of corporations by deception and treachery. Till mao saw this aod left them. This tore the mask from their faces. Thereupon they went to Columbia and voluntarily deserted the Democratic party and resolved to organize ooe of their owo ; and Mr. Carson, their chairman of what was hoped a defunct organization, pro? ceeds formally to carry out their instruc? tions. "This is barefaced independentism with all that word means. I can't see io the face of this how honest, loyal ! Reform Democrats can affiliate with them. Io fact, the action of this com? mittee releases every Reformer io the couoties where HQ agreement bad been made. . If these agreements are carried out and this Independent executive com? mittee succeeds in many counties as they propose, theo with che help they expect to get on the plea of peace and * unity from the counties io which they have agreed they will eutirely control the Convention. For instance, they are going to make a clear cat open fight in many counties. They may pretend to agree in Charleston. Richland and other ?oti couoties ; but these agree? ments w<ll be repudiated on election day as sure as the SUD shines, and Aoti Democrats will be elected. "I could oame, but it would perhaps be better not to do it at this time, eoough couoties that they think they wilt carry to aggregate seveoty-two votes by the use of the oegro Theo if they cao pick up oioe from Edgefield Aikeo, Marion, Lexiogtoo ?nd Abbe? ville they will have a majority of the Cooveotioo. This has been their game all aloog aod the corporations have been at the bottom of the whole busi? ness. As long as they preteoded (aod I koow it was mere pretence) to stay io the party Hoes I couldn't attack them. Now led by Gonzales, with soeh^lieutenants as Williams and Car? lington, io opeo battle with the organ? ized Democracy, it is my duty to fight them aod defeat them as such. **If our people divide with them they cao make up their minds for these poli? tical beneficiaries to vote with the In? dependent and negro as soon as the Convention is organized They can't be trusted. Office and cootroi of the State is what they want, and nothing else will ever satisfy them. They want control of the Convention to undo aod destroy everything that has been done since 1890. and disfranchise enough poor, illiterate Democrats to give the rich mao control of South Car? olina for all time to come. "This is piaio talk, but I mean every word I say. The very idea of the poor men of Laurens voting for some peace crying Independent to keep him from desertiog his people, who will go to Columbia aod joio io with other Inde? pendent Democrats to take away their political rights forever and place them upoo ?o equality with the Digger. Our people are not fools, and they will prove this wheo the proper times comes. We are for the principles If they can beat us we will yield. If we beat them somebody else will have to yield. It is no use to disguise it any longer, the issue is simply : The organized Democrats and the white man vs. Inde pendentism and the nigger. We are ready for the fight, and I have no fears of the results.'* ..Senator, from what you say, the j Democrats will assume ibat you think the Gonzales crowd have deserted the j Democratic parry V ..That is just what I mean. If you | will read this address, which was evi? dently written by Editor Williams, you will see that they have deliberately sur? rendered all claims to Democrats. It j i is addressed to 'the people of South Carolina' and not to the Democratic party of the State. The people include not only negroes, but Republicans, with whom I have believed that there has beeu an understanding for more than a year The address does not mention the word Democrst and it purely ignores the primary ordered by the Democratic committee, while Mr. Gonzales, in their organ, the State, urges his followers in Reform couotiee to make terms with Reformers "That is the reason why the resolu? tion to slay out of the Democratic pri? mary was not carried. This was done to fool the Reformers in such counties as Abbeville and Edgefield. They are attempting to use a double-barrelled guo on us-make au independen!. straight fight in close counties and ex? pect the Democrats to compromise with them in strong Reform counties. If this is so, why did the members of the conference, or Anti-committee, applaud so vigorously the speech of Mr. Gar lington. editor of the Spartanburg Herald, who long ago withdrew public? ly from the Democratic party ? They are Democrats in Reform counties where they can't elect a delegate, and Anti-Democrats in nigger and Anti counties. We are not children and cannot be fooled in any such way. However, we must be up and doing. The Convention must be carried by a decisive majority. We would bo in danger with a margin of 25, for there are always men who see new light after they are sworn in office." II--?- -??--^M^^ Justice Gaillard "Presented" For Drunkenness. Special to the State. CHARLESTON, June 25.-The grand jury's presentment iu the court of ses? sions to day was sensational. It re? ports Trial Justice W. P. Gaillard as follows : .'It bas come to the notice of the grand jury in various ways that W. P. Gaillard, one of the trial justices of this city, has been seen on many occa? sions, in the streets ar?d elsewhere, under the influence of liquor Several citizens have mentioned to the members of the grand jury that they have seen this officer under the influence of liquor when io the discbarge of his duties. We have been unable to get these peo? ple to testify against this official, mov? ed we presume, either through fear or ou account of friendliness for him, but we are so ?ell satisfied that these charges are correct and just that we do not hesitate to present this trial justice as a person unfit to exercise the duties of the responsible office he holds, and recommend he be removed from office.'' The county board of control of the dispensary, with W. Gibbes Whaley, chairman, are regarded as paying more money for drayage, wheo just asefficieot service could De secured for less. That two responsible parties have offered to do the same work, one for two cents and the other for three cents per pack? age, and the board is DOW paying five cents a The jury asked that this be remedied. The jury complained that the boods of the master, W. Gibbes Whaley, School Commissioner W. H. Dunkin and Trial Justice W. P. Gail lard were insufficient, aod recommend? ed that these officers be required to give good and sufficient bonds. Trial J jBtice Gaillard is out io a card io the Post this afternoon, io which he says he has been maliciously maligned by the gaud jury because he made affidavit that the grand jury, through prejudice to the dispensary law OP caprice, refused to indict parties charged with violating s. the dispensary law, England's New Ministry. LOXDOK, June 25.-The members of the new ministry, so far as they have been selected, are officially announced as follows : Prime Minister and Secretary of State for foreign officers, the Marquis of Salisbury. Lord President of the Council, the Duke of Devonshire. First Lord of the Treasury, Right Hon. Arthur James-Balfour. Secretary of State for the Colonies. Right Hon. Jos. Chamberlain. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Right Hon. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. First Lord of the Admiralty, Right Hon. George Joarchin-Goschen. The other places in the ministry have not as yet been definiieiy allotted. The Oconee Plan. WALHALLA, June 25.-A conference of the Conservative Democracy of Ocooee county was held at the court house yesterday. There were about fifteen delegates in attendance. The offer made by the executive committee of the Reform Democracy of the coun? ty for a division of delegates to the ' Constitutional Convention was accepte;!. 1 Tiic working committee of the Forty j has boen called to meet on next Satur day. There was no contention upon thc question '>f < i ? v i J i o ir the delegates, I'uf there was considerable discussion as to ;. the majority plan. Catting Out the Cancer. The Heroic Treatment by Aiken's Doctors. Special to The State. AIKEN, June 24.--The grand jury nf this county bas made a supplemdntai report, which I appsod below. It is of interest and may not be generally known that Mr. John T. Gaston, whose presence, with explanatory accompani? ment, seems, to be so eagerly desired here just now, is io Columbia holding a responsible position-superintendent, I believe-in that great and glorious in titution for the reformation of che pub? lic moral*, the State dispensary. The grand jury's report follows: "VVe find that an order was issued by his honor, I. D Witherspoon, pre siding judge at the September term of court of 1894, requiring that so much of the report of the grand jury presented at said term of court as relates to Pro? bate Judge John T. Gaston, be 6erved upoo him, and that he, the said John T. Gaston, show cause before this court at the next session thereof, why he should not be indicted for failing to invest the money held by him as public guardian in the manner required by law, and also why he shauld not be in? dicted for cot making his return to court as such guardian, as required by law. "Inasmuch as the said John T. Gas? ton has failed to comply with said order we respectfully ask that steps be taken to fore? a compliance with the demands of the law as set forth therein." Judge Watts said that he had been in more than a dozen counties and he had fouod none of them in as bad con? dition as Aiken. He said the report showed that the county commissioners were guilty of negligence, extrava? gance, forgery and unlawful appropria? tion of county fund? and he promised to see that proper steps should be taken to have the grand jury's recommenda? tions carried out. On Saturday morning, the judge is? sued the following: SPECIAL ORDERS State cf South Carolina, Aiken County. -In the Sessioos: Upon the report of the grand jury, wherein certain presentments are made under their official oath, aod on mo? tion of G. D. Belleoger, solicitor, or? dered: 1. That the clerk do at once issue bench warrants for G. W. Sawyer. R. A- Johnson and W. E. Arthur, late county oemmissiooers for said county, and the sheriff do proceed forthwith to take such steps as arc necessary to iu sure the presence of said parties before me as soon as said warrants can be exe? cuted for the purpose of fixing such amount of bail as may be sufficient to insure the presence of said parties at the next session of this court to an? swer such bills of indictment as may be returned against them on the charges made in said presentment. 2 That pursuant to the order of his honor, Judge I. D. Witherspoon, made during the October term past of this court, the clerk do issue a ruie against John T. Gaston, late probate judge of said county, "to ebow cause before this court at the next session why be should not be indicted for failing to invest thc money held by him as public guardian, in the manner required by law, and also why he should not be indicted for not making his returns to the court as such guardian, as required by law." And further, that the said county board of commissioners be and are hereby authorized and instructed to begin suit upon the official bond of the said John T. Gaston as said probate judge. 3. That Dave H. Wise, county audi? tor be, and be is hereby ordered to re? ceive and keep in safe custody,^sub? ject to the cali of court, or the solici? tor, ail the books, accounts, vouchers and extra papers relating to the busi? ness of late board of county commis? sioners, and the clerk of the preseot county board of commissioners and all other persons now having in their cus? tody said books, papers, ?fee , be, and are hereby ordered immediately to turn them over to the said Dave H. Wise, and take itemized receipts for the same; such custody not to inter? fere with the business of the present board, and said Wise to be responsible for the safe keeping of said records. 4. Whereas the law requires that *i) prosecutions before a trail justice shall be begun upon the oath of the party prosecuting, it is further ordered that the foreman or any other member of the said grand jury be aod is hereby directed forthwith to go before Trial Justice li R. Weeks, there to make the proper affidavit for the prosecution of 'Squire Jones for carrying concealed weapons, which should have been done in the first instance. 5. It is further ordered that the pre? sent grand jury hereafter, in making J n their presentment, in addition to the ? n charges to be specifically and particu- | b larly set forth shall give tho names of the witnesses t.> prove the same, and . shall cali upon the solicitor to asssist p '??.?in in formulating said charges \\ whenever in their judgment ;i speedy 1 prosecution is advisable or important y to the interest of the county or ?late, (j 6. It is further ordered that copies of tbe.xe orders be immediately served upon the foreman of the grand jury, county auditor and clerk nf the county board of commissioner}*. 7. It is further ordered that copies of the presentment of the grand jury be at once served upon the county board of commissioners and the solicitor of this circuit. (Signed.) R. C. WATTS, Presiding Judge. W. E Arthur and R L Johnson sent in their resignations to the Gover? nor at once. On Monday morning on the assemb? ling of the Court of Common Pleas G. W. Sawyer, W. E. Arthur and R. L. Johnson appeared in response to the bench warrants issued, and were order? ed by the judge to enter into recogniz? ance before the clerk of court to ap? pear at the next term of Court of Ses? sions to answer any bills of indictment that may be prepared against them, and that they give bonds in the sum of $1,000 each with sureties for their ap? pearance. In default of giving such bonds that they be confined in jail un? til the further order of the court. All three of the parties at once gave bonds Doing More Than Duty. WASHINGTON, June 25 -From this time on the government will spare no effort to capture and punish any ex? p?dition that aftemps to leave the United States coast to violate the neu? trality laws by aiding Cuban insurrec? tionists. In addition to the three war? ships, Atlanta, Raleigh and Montgom? ery, keeping a sharp lookout io the j high seas, explicit orders for a through patrol of cur own coast have been is? sued to the commanders of the reve? nue cutters, McLoao. stationed at Key West. Penrose at Pensacola. Forward at Mobile, Seward at Ray Sr. Louis, Miss , Smith at New Orleans. Galves veston, at Galveston. Lex and Morrill recently sent to Key West temporarily. The determination is also expressed by the officials of the Treasury department to augument this force if it is found in? effectual by sending one of the three cutters from the North Carolina sounds and one of three from the Chesapeake to the Gulf coast, but it is not believed this will be necessary as the seven ves? sels already there in addition to the warships ought to prove sufficient, es specially as the agencies ashore are ex? ceedingly active at present and the government would probably learn of any expedition before it could embark. -*? . mm Stricken Santos. BALTIMORE, June 25.-The Ameri? can barkentine Priscilla, Captain Kla? gers, arrived to-day from Rio and San? tos, with a cargo of 14,254 bags of cof? fee, Captain Klagers reports that when the Priscilla left Santos, May 12, yellow fever was raging on every side, and the scenes in the city and harbor were harrowing, men dropping dead in the streets and being buried by scores from vessels in the port. Some vessels had their flags at half mast day after day for weeks, as mao after man of their crews succumbed to the scourge. The dealh boat was beiog rowed about the harbor day aod night from vessel to vessel containing the dead, and then ashore for burial. Some vessels had ooly one or two left of their crews, and many of them were unable to get away from the pest bole of fever owing to lack of men. Sea? men were scarce, and when vessels lost their crews it was with greatest diffi? culty men were secured to take their places. Captains of vessels had to ex? ercise the greatest caution to prevent :heir crews from deserting or being lur ?d ashore by the boarding house and shipping masters. J. M. Gayle, the irst officer of the Priscilla, was stricken with yellow fever while in the harbor )f Santos. He was removed to a hos? pital ashore and was sufficiently recov? ered, to be taken aboard wheo the ves ?el sailed. A Fox Run Down. kn Absconding Postmaster Caught After a Long Chase. WASHINGTON, June 27.-The Post >ffice Department has been advised of be arrest,ic Panama of A. C. Love, for? merly assistant postmaster at Calvert, j < rex. Love absconded from Calvert ? J ome years ago with 32,500 of money irder funds and went to Galveitoo, ehere he remained long enough to stu- J ly medicine and graduate as a pbysi- i ian. The postoffice inspectors located jove but he escaped arrest and went to Jobiie and from there sailing ' to Oo ombia, South America, aod Focas del !'oro. The United States consul there ? formed the postoffice athorities of his reseoce, but before extradition pa ers could be secured, Love again disap eared and finally was arrested at Pa ama, where he was residing ULder the anjo of Dr. Fox. Love will be rought hack to Texas far trial Sometime ago I WHS troubled with an al? ick of rheumatism. I used Chamberlain's a;r; iin!m and was corople'ely cured. ? av?- since advised many ol my friends :. i customer? to try the remedy and ?t?? >r-:ik highly of i'. Simon Goldb&uin, 8?o uis Rey. "Gal. Fur sale by Dr. A. J. luria. Edge?ield Disgraced. Free Speech Denied John J. Dargan-Cursed and Vili? fied on the Streets-A Reproach to South Carolina. Special to The State. EDGEFIELD, Juoe 26.-Seen*0 OD the streets of Edgefield to-day *? i have been a disgrace for Zulu Lana. It was stated in the papers that Col. John J. Dargan would speak at Edgefield to? day. There were none here who agree with Col. Dargan's political views, but most of the citizens of the town hoped, for decency'* sake, that nobody would interfere with Col. Dargan, or any other citizen of South Carolina who attempt? ed to spe?k. But this was not to be. The strife promoters notified the faith? ful in the county that Dargan must not be allowed to speak. This morning brought in a couple of hundred, and a committee was appointed to wait on him and tell him he could not speak, j aod it is said another committee was ? selected to see that he should not speak if he attempted it. Col. Dargan did not attempt to speak, and while walking along the pavement wa?* followed by a crowd, some of them well filled with chemically pure, who hooted at, cursed and abused him. But they were all careful not to lay hands on him. Your correspondent was staoding in the door of a store when Col. Dargan passed. He stepped out aud introduced himself to Col. Dargan aud, as a mat? ter of course, received his share of their drunken epithets. This was re? ceived as a compliment, coming from such a source. Let these brave fellows go on ; they will in all probability kill some good ? men before they can be satisfied, but as sure as God rules, the day is coming when they will call on the mountains to hide them. There is a point beyond which they will not be allowed to go* The Conservatives here will not go into a primary and the Conservative, so-called, who will consent to be a can? didate before the primary had just as well joio in with the enemy and be dooe with it. Everything has its end- I ing and so will the Tillman craze in this State. The Situation. The Conservatives have one thing they can be sure of. They can oot be treated any worse outside the primaries than they have been inside them They have the right to feel that they have nothing to gain by going in and everything to gain by staying out. If the "dominant element'' is honestly in favor of a fair convention it will give us one any bow. If it is not there is no sense in our tieing ourselves up to accept results. We can, at least, re? serve the right of entering our protest and making our fight at the polls of the general election and feeling that we have acted like men and free American citizens aud not like children to be made fools of with a little soft talk acd a few sugar plums held out to be snatched away when reached for. We have begged and submitted and been kicked right along. There bas never been and never will be arything gained by trusting to the generosity or* men who are too geedy for power and salaries to know what the word means, to the magnanimity of those who scorn magnanimity as a weakness unworthy of practical politics. Nf victory has ever been w : by meeting an opponent on his own grouod and terms and with his own weapons aod in his power. No cause has ever been advaneed by sur? renders. The duty of every Conservative now is to put himself io line with all who oppose ring rule and to keep himself free to fight for the rights of the State aod the people and against the ruling ring. The first thing to be done is to organize in every towosbip of the State slubs pledged to work and vote for a jonvention of free men who will not belong to or be bossed by Tillmao, Irby and Evans. Every white Demo? krat in the State ought to be invited ind urged to joio one of these clubs Ibe sooner they are organized and the more strength they develop the better 3rospect there will be for peace and a ion-partisan convention. The longer ve delay ?he more firmly will Ibe riog ix its clutches on the State.- Grecn .ille Se ivs. --- Blank books of all kinds; daily, weekly nd monthly time books. H. G. ?steen k Jo. Highest of all in Leavening Pow( Cuba s Friends Active. The Selection of a Provision? al President. NEW YORK, Jurie 26 -The utmost activity prevails among the leaders of the Cuban revolutionary party in this city, and some momentous ques? tions are the eve of settlement. On July 10th in this city a convention of delegates from the Cuban revolution? ary club? throughout the United States will be held to choose a presi? dent of the provisional government of the republic of Cuba. Immedi? ately upon the settlement of that im? portant question, and upon the in? duction of the successor of the late Jose Marti into office, the officials of the revolutionary govevment will cause an issue of interest-bearing bonds of the Cuban republic, which will be redeemed by the republic when the domination of Spain over the "Queen of the Antilles" is suc? cessfully overthrown. "The revolutionists in the United States," said Senor Enrique Trujillo, a prominent Cuban leader, "are in favor of the selection of Senor Thomas Estrada Palma to occupy the place made vacant by the death of Jose Marti, and he will doubtless be elected. Senor Palma is quietly domiciled al Pleasant Valle}', N Y., and many prominent Cubans have visited him there." Dr. Savas Gonzales de Quesada will continue as secretary of the rev? olutionary party and Senor Benjamin J. Guerra as the treasurer. Senor Trujuillo said that Cubans were pleased at the return of Consul General Williams to Havana, as Mr. Williams has always been zealous in his protection of the interest of American citizens in Cuba. Honduras Takes Action. WASHINGTON, June 26-The State Department to-day received the gratify? ing information that the government of Honduras has at last taken positive ac? tion toward bringing to jus.ice the mur? derers of Charles W. Renton, an Amer? ican citizen who resided at Brewers La? goon, Honduras, with his wife and niece. The information was received this morning io a telegraphic dispatch from Mr. Pringle, charge de affairs of the United States at Guatemala City, in which he says that the Honduras minister for foreign affairs told him three of the persons implicated io the murder had been arrested. For more thao a year the State De? partment bas tried to bring the gov? ernment of Honduras to a realization of its responsibilities in the case. Mr. Reotou was murdered March 16, 1894, and his wife and niece were driven from the country by the murderers, who are said to have been business rivals of their victim Mrs. Renton came to Washington in May, and presented her case personally, and then went to New York, where she engaged counsel and submitted.a formal statement. Mr. Uhl, who was acting Secretary of State at the time, immediately called on the United States consul of Hon? duras to report all the facts iu the mat? ter, but the reports received from there were unsatisfactory, as the nearest station was 300 miles from the scene. So Mr. Uhl then concluded to send a war vessel to the scene of crime to in? vestigate. The Montgomery was dis? patched io March last and about the middle of that month Commander Davis submitted his report. On March 19. 1895. Mr. Uhl cabled Mr. Young, United States minister to Guatemala and Honduras, that the naval investigation had established that Renton was .murdered, aod instructed him to urge on the government of Honduras prompt action, so that the guilty parties should not. escape punish? ment. Two days later Mr Young cabled that he bad requested 'he Hon? duras government to act promptly, and on the 23d of that month he again in? formed tbe department, that Honduras had promised to take action. Mr. Ubi was dissatisfied, however, with the course of events and on the next day telegraphed Mr. Young that the Presi? dent was disappointed because Hondu? ras bas not acted promptly, and in? structing Mr. Young to urge action and report progress. Mr Young responded on the 26tb that he had again impressed on Honduras the necessity for vigorous action and .peedy reports ; that the govern? ment had assured him they were prosecuting the investigation with the utmost diligence and that he boped soon to be able to report satis ractory results The next communica :ion in the correspondetce is that re ?eived to day from Mr. Pringle. :r.-Latest U. S. Gov't Report