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?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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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