The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 20, 1896, Image 1
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?KE SUMTES WATCHMAN, Established April, 1SS0.
"Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's."'
THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jone,1566
Consolidated Aug. 2,1881.
SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1896.
New Series-Vol. XV. No 43
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SUMTER, S. C.
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Rhind and Meat.
The 878,000 Commission on
Our Brilliant Bond Issue is
at Last to go Home.
Baltimore Sun.
Toe litigation over the commission j
.^on ?5,000,000, of bonds issued by the I
State of South Carolina in 1893 was j
finally disposed of by an opinion filed
to the Circuit* C>urt of Baltimore I
yesterday by Judge Dennis, un- \
less an appeal is taken and the decision
reversed.
Phases of the controversy have been
before the court for two years.
Colden Rhind, of Augusta, Ga., was !
appointed by South Carolina as its j
agent to negotiate the sale of the bonds j
for a commission of !?> per cent., |
amounting to ?"8.500. lie applied to I
R. A Lancaster, of N"?w York, to as
ist him in making the sale, agreeing to
g:ve Mr. Lancaster one-third of the
commission. -Mr. Lancaster then form?
ed a syndicate, consisting of Xew York
and Baltimore bankers, to buy the
bonds.
When the syndicate was organized
Mr. Lancaster, it was alleged, rep?
resented all its members that be had
no interest in the commission ; that, he
stood on the some footing with tbe
others, and that the who'e commission
went to Mr. Rhind. Wheo the bonds
were about to be paid for the syndicate
discovered that Mr. Lancaster had an
interest of one third in the commis
sion.
Concealment of Mr. Lancaster's in?
terest, the syndicate contended, ren?
dered the whole contract for the pay?
ment of commission void, aod they
protested against thc payment of it to
either Mr. Lancaster or Mr. Rhind.
Before protest was properly served Mr.
Lancaster had secured bis sitare of the
commission, amounting to ?26,000
Then the syndicate contended that he
should be made to refund what he had
received aod that Mr. Rhind was not ;
entitled to the share provided for him.
About a year ago a decree was
entered by Judge Wiekes dismissing
Mr Lancaster from the suit on the
ground that Air. Lancaster's liability
could not be tested io the suit as insti?
tuted. The cootrovesy then continued
as to Rhino's rights to bis portion aod
Judge Dennis' decision yesterday
awarded the balance of the fund to Mr.
Rhind.
The Baltimore bankers composing
the syndicate are represented in the
litigation bj Archibald H. Jaylor,
Fisher, Bruce & Fisher and Marshall,
Marbury & Bowdoin. Messrs. Lancas?
ter and Rhind are represented by Maj.
Richard M. Venable and Edwin G.
Baetjer.
THE BOND COMMISSION MYSTERY.
Greenville News, 6th.
The funding of the South Carolina
bonds cost $78.000 in commissions.
Of this amount ?26,000 goes to R. A.
Lancaster, of New York, who assisted
ia organizing the' syndicate. The re?
maining ?52.000 is said to go to Cold
en Rhind, a broker, of Augusta, Ga.
Mr. Rbiod did not orgaoiz; the syn?
dicate to ta"ke the bonds. On the
contrary he failed in hts efforts todo so.
Those who did organize it and conduct?
ed the negotiations received no com?
missions. They found their profits in
the gain in price ot the bonds and ic
the interest on them. Mr. Rhind gave
two curious bits of information.
One of these was that no negotiations
for the bonds could be considered ex?
cept through him. The State was sup?
posed to be offering her bonds for the
competition of the world, but the truth
was found to be that the world had to
approach the State through Mr. Rbiod.
The other was that Mr. Rhind would
barely receive enough from the Iraosac
tion to pay his expenses and loss of
time. Estimating his expenses and
time at ?50 a day and allowing that he
spent three months at it, his share, on
his own statement, would be $4,500.
Yet oo the face of the returns he is ro
receive $52,000.
The interesting questions we have
long poudered over and several times
asked are :
Why was Mr. Rhiod given a monop?
oly of the hood negotiations, who gave
j: to him and by what authority ?
If he was only to receive from the
?78,000 commissions he expected to j
?et expenses and pay for his tkne,
here was the rest of the $78,000 to
go to and who was to git it. Between
the ?4.500 for his expenses and time
and 'he ?/S,000 there was a lone,
glittering, beautiful difference of ?73.
500. Who gets that?
?ir Rhiud is said to have told the
brokers and bankers of the syndicate,
who were naturall- anxious to know
where this nice siicc of fat had brm or
would be absorbed, that part of if. had
been required for "Legislative exien
ses"-presumably the cost of getting
the bood legislation through the South
Carolina Legislature. As a matter of
fact not one dollar was spent for any
such purpose
So the question remains, if Mr.
?tbind, baVi?g bee? given the mono?
poly of the business of placing our
bonds, did not get the whole of the
$5*2.000 commission who did get it?
B. li. Tillman was Governor of this
State at that time. If he had beer, a
citizen aspiring for office and somebody
else had been Governor, he would have
said, on this statement of undisputed
facts and figures, there is something
rotten io the State of Denmark." He
said it on far weaker evidence .
Why was Mr. Rhiod, of Augusta,
given the exclusive right and the spe?
cial privilege of placing ?ve millions of
South Carolina bond*-.?
If Mr. Rhind got only expenses and
pay for time from the $52 000 commis?
sion, who got the balance of the $5*2,
000 ?
R S. V. P:
Tillman the Brawler.
That senatorial fomentar of sedi?
tion, sectionalism and strife-who
disgraces the United States Senate
and tlie country at large-B. It. Till?
man, whose hollow claim of democracy
finds repeated illustration in the con?
tempt with which he speaks of the
respectable portion his.own state, as
though it had been entirely subju?
gated to his sway, yesterday again
demonstrated his unfitness to repre?
sent a respectable constituency any?
where by attacking the President of
the United States Tillman had the
supreme insolence to assume to voice
the feeling of the West, and his state?
ment stopped very short of a treason?
ous declaration. This is what he
said, as reported: "I know the West
as weil as the South, and I teil you
that in the States west of the Miss
issipi, there is more deep seated ha?
tred of New York and Wall Street
than there ever was againt the South
in war times. I know how the agri?
cultural interests feel about these
things. You will drive them through
starvrtion to bloodshed, and then
may the blood be on your own head
not on mine. This is what is coming
of the policy of Grover Cleveland,
who vetoes a bill giving a miserable
pittance to a few poor tramps who
were once Union soldiers, and then
turns round and gives ten million dol?
lars to one Jew." This is a cuning
Iy devised slander against the great
agricultural States of the Union,
such as Illinois; Iowa, Ohio, Michi?
gan, Minnesota, Indiana, Wisconsin,
the Dakotas and at least one of the
j more remote Western States. Kan
sas has recently thrown off its Pcp
I ulist yoke. Michigan, Uh Ms, Ohio,
! Minnesota and Wisconsin go for
sound, hard money by a large major?
ity of their voling strength, and
when it comes to a test on ttiat ques?
tion, New York city wil! ..nd strong
friends in every principal town in the
country, East, West, North and South.
The image of starvation and blood,
which this bogus South Carolina re
pudiationist conjures up. is only the
phantom of his diseased, contracted
brain, and perhaps the best punish?
ment fjr him would be confinement
in a mad house. Ile does not pos?
sesses the political knowledge and
foresight to see that the course
he is taking may compel citizens hav?
ing substantial interests in the
country, whether businessmen, bank
j ers or fanner, to look for some presi?
dential candidate unlikely to be awed
by any of the "raw head and bloody
bones" Populist politicians that-in
? fest the land The ' agricultural
interests'' of this country, as a whole,
want the very best money that it is
I possible for them to obtain. And
! when the emergency requires they
j will come down heavily on all poli- |
j ticians of the Tillman stamp. What i
j an utter collapse, political, mental
I and mot al, is revealed in such utter?
ances as the following by Tillman :
"If the silver Democrats did not
get a recognition of silver at the Chi- j
cago convention, then the Demo?
cratic party was dead and gone for- j
ever. A new party would spring j
into existence. If we cannot, beat
you this time we will serve notice on !
you that we will have America for
Americans And 'to hell with Great
I Britain and the Tories ' (Laughter ) |
I If we do not beat you in 1S96, we ?
' will interest von in 1900."
The .'honorable senators" who i
could sit still in their seats and not 1
rebuke such vulgarity as that, nu wit- j
tingly furnish conclusive evidence ol i
the degradation of the legislative j
branch of which they arc members I
-Boston Transcript. j
UNPRECEDENTED i N
CREASE.
The board of regents ot the State
hospital tor the insane held their re?
gular monthly meeting yesterday at
che institution, and a? previously indi?
cated in The State they found it neces?
sary to basten the arrangements for
the accommodation of the greatly in?
creased number of white female pa?
tients
The board found the population to
be S60. This figure is unprecedented
in the history of the ioetitution. Al?
though the board discharged 20 pa?
tients on trial, between the hours of 8
and Ila. m , five applications for the
admission of new patients came in.
After disposing of the ordioary rou?
tine business the board instructed Dr.
Babcock to have the work on rhe new
public road commenced not later than
Monday, [r also ordered the work of
erecting the walls around the
Wallace property to be commenced
i tr? rued i -ate ly a-jd Dr. Babcock was
asked to hasten the work on the houses
on the Wallace property so that they
could be used for white female patiente
by thc time the wal! is ready . In a
short time now the appearance of the
hospital grounds will be entirely trans?
formed.- The Stare.
Must Balance to a Cent
Several times recently references
have been made to the faot that the
county officials were; to be supplied
with a new system of record books
before the annual settlements would
be made by the comptroller general.
The following explanation of the new
system and its purpose was sent out
yesterday by the comptroller general,
and it gives the public some idea of
the scope thereof :
"There has been shipped to your
address by the Walker. Evans & Cog?
swell company the following books,
viz: For the county treasurer, one re?
cord book each for State, county and
school taxes, one record book for
county supervisor for county taxes;
and for school commissioner one re?
cord book for school taxes
"It is desired that these records be
at once perfected for the annual set?
tlement between the auditor and treas?
urer for taxes of 1894-95.
"All items of taxes must contain
in debit columns all items of taxes
chargeable to the treasurer, inclu
ding all back or uncollected taxes
from previous years, and iu credit
side each seperate item paid for State,
county and school purposes as indi?
cated by blank forms as may have
been collected from taxes levied each
fiscal year embraced in the settle?
ment for taxes of 1894-9-5 and from
other sources. When all items have
been properly entered in the proper
book by the treasurer-State taxes
in book for this purpose, county and
school taxes in the respective books
for these purposes-and the county
supervisor and school commissioners
have also entered each item belong?
ing to their respective departments,
then the auditor will check up vouch?
ers held by the treasurer with re?
cords of treasurer and school commisj
stoner, for all schcol taxes must bal?
ance with the record in comptroller
general's office.
'?The county officials having thus
verified all charges and credits for
the settlement of 1894 95 taxes, the
auditor should notify this office and
at once a timo will be fixed and tue
foreman of the grand jury and other
officials required by law to witness
ti'.ese annual settlements will be noti
?ed, and pursuant to legal require?
ments witness said settlement and
sign ail papers accordingly.
i?The design ot* this system of
records is to Keep in permanent form
in each office a complete itemized
statement of the receipts and dis?
bursement of ail State, county and
school taxes and al! funds received
on account of either of these funds
to make perfect the checks and
counter checks between the respec?
tive offices.
"'The county treasurers1 books
thus will balance to a cent for all
State taxes with the comptroller
general's and State treasurer's books,
for all county taxes with books of
conrtty supervisor, and for all school
taxes with the books of school com?
missioner, as above stated.
"Auditors are urged to press these
settlements forward to the earliest
day possible. Do not let matters rest
until these records are in order and
the settlement completed.
"Tiie State pays for books for
treasurers ; the county for those for
supervisors and school commission?
ers."
SPRINGFIELD. Ill , May 13.-The
Supreme Cr>urt ye*? .-rday rendered] a
decidion sustaining the action of 'a
Bloomington druggist who refused to
sell soda water to a negro on account ?>:
h:> color. The Court hol<U thai selling
soda water doesnoc constitute the "fur?
nishing cf lodging, amusement or
meals,'' as provided for in the Act.
/
Tbe Chicago Exposition Ex?
hibit Matter.
The State, May 16.
At the request of Commissioner
Roche of the South Carolina Exposi?
tion company, charged with getting up
he exhibit from this State at the Chi?
cago Cotton exposition, The State pub?
lishes the following circular letter to
the commissioners of the several coun?
ties issued yesterday from the beadquar*
ters in this city :
COLUMBIA, S. C., May 16, 1896.
Dear Sir-A convention of the peo?
ple of South Carolina, io the interest of
the State exhibit at the Southern States
exposition in Chicago next fall, was
held in the city of Spartaoburg io
April last, at which it was decided to
form the South Carolina Exposition
company. His excellency, the gover?
nor of this State was made president,
and Hon. W. A. Courtney vice presi?
dent. Mr. E. L. Roche, commissioner,
and Messrs. VV A Clark. J. C. Hemp
hill and J. B Cleveland, with the offi
I cers named, were constituted the State
executive committee. It was also de?
cided to appoint an active, progressive
man in each county as the commission?
er for his county, who will have charge
of the work in the county and who may
associate with him such persons as he
deems best to promote the work. A
meeting of thc officers of the State Ex?
position company aod the commissioners
from the different, counties was held in
j Columbia on the 6th inst for the pur?
pose of considering the best means of
pushing the work. The first question
considered was the proper division of
the amount to be raised for the exposi?
tion, viz : ?10,000
The following was agreed upon as a
proper apportionment of the funds to
the several counties :
Abbeville; $405, Aiken ?349, An?
derson, ?384, Barnwell $373, Beau?
fort, $211, Berkeley ?302, Charleston
$1,216, Chester $223, Chesterfield $91,
Clarendon ?151, Colleton ?251, Dar?
lington $221, Edgefield ?200, Fairfield
$211, Florence ?215. Georgetown
?119, Greenville $407, Hampton
?129, Horry $96, Kershaw ?158, Lan?
caster $131, Laurens $230, Lexington
?198, Marion $249, Marlboro ?149.
Newberry ?298, Oconee ?155, Orange
burg ?410, Pickens ?125 Richland
$443, Saluda ?165, Spartan burg ?643,
Sumter ?377. (Jnion ?195, Williams?
burg $155, York $365.
Mr. W A Clark, president of the
Carolina National bank, Columbia, was
elected treasurer of the fund, and ali
money should be forwarded to him as
soon as collected. It is necessary to
collect thc funds at once, as the time is
very short in which to prepare the ex?
hibit.
The exhibit will represent all the re?
sources of the State, and all produc?s,
manufactured and unmanufactured. It
will be arranged to represent the State
as a whole, but companies or individ?
uals desiring to make special exhibits
will be allowed to do so in the space
alloted to South Carolina. Each coun?
ty o: town will get full credit for ail
articles exhibited by it.
The duty of the county commission?
ers will be, first, to see to the collection
of the money assessed to the counties,
to assist the State commissioner in se?
curing material for the State exhibit,
and to induce manufacturers and others
to make special exhibits. The commis
sioner in each county may appoint such
committees to aid him as he finds neces
? sary. There should not be less than
one in each township, the commission?
ers having charge of ail the details in
his county. The women of the State
are invited to help to raise the money
I for the general exhibit, as there will be
no separate woman's exhibit.
Commissioners may prepare lists of
j ali properties for sale in their respec
; tive counties, as farms, water powers,
J manufacturing sites, fruit and stock
i farms, truck farms, timber aud mine
. ral lands, etc., and such lists should be
I printed for distribution at the exposi?
tion. 9
As this is to be a strictly southern
exposition it affords us an unusual and
valuable opportunity to make our re?
sources known to millions of people who
! would never become aware of them
j through other- channels. It will ad
j vertise our State far more extensively
j and effectively than has ever been done
j bv any other means.
We call upon the people of South
Carolina to zealously improve the
chance offered to them by Chicago's un?
rivaled generosity. That city pays all
j the expense for buildings and maoage
j ment, and the South has only to pro
! vide the exhibits.
j South Carolina should not be second
to any other State in the character of
her exhibit.
E. L. Roche,
Commissioner for South Carolina.
The members of the Farmers' Mu?
tual Fire Association, of Ivi^efieid,
i held a meeting in Eigeficld last
! week and resolved that, an appe:tl bc
made through the township directors
if f.ho association- to contribute to tb?
relief o? Dr. W H. Timmcrman, w;io
Court decided was liable for al!
' looses sustained by the Association.
The South Carolina Braiding
Company at Work.
Cheraw has the admirable faculty of
working* in-a hurry while doing work.
It does not waste much time in pre?
liminaries, powwows and perambula?
ting subscription work, but intro?
duces and establishes new industries
and turns out their products in first
class shape, while the people of
slower towns are holding down dry
goods boxes and "figuring" out esti?
mates and charg ing each other with
having no public spirit. The an?
nouncement that Cheraw .'contem?
plated" a knitting mill was hardly
cold before merchants in different
part of the State were contemplating
the goods of the mill neatly put up of?
fered for sale at their counters. The
canning factory was at work within j
j a month, we believe, after it was j
j'-'projected. " A very few days ago !
it was reported that the business
men of the town and some Rhode
Island parries were in correspond- j
ence relative to the establishment of ;
a factory in the town to make braided
rope, corset laces, suspender ends and
other such things, and we received !
yesterday a bank of the rope made by j
the new mill! It is a very sudden j
gaited community in business mat- j
ters and has a way of lighting where
it looks that is truly admirable.
The letter of our local correspond?
ent printed this morning, tells the
j story of the success and importance
I of the latest new enterprise in a brief j
but business like and convincing way. 1
The mill began work on Tuesday,
and its rope product is of unrivalled
character and quality, as is explain?
ed. Samples have been submitted to
the United States Government and
many manufacturers, "and all pro?
nounce it the "best of its kind " It
is so far superior to other ropes that it
sustains more than four times as much
strain, its exceptioal strength being
due to the fact that it is a solid braid
throughout, instead of being a braid?
ed skin enclosing loose parallel strands.
An important point is that the Che?
raw company control the special ma?
chines for making this kind of rope,
and there is "no limit to the enlarge?
ment of "the works.'' The product
is sold at the same price as inferior
products, and, as previously announc j
ed, the mill has orders enough to keep
it busy for the next six months !
Cotton rope of the same character j
will be made, from yarn tobe spun !
in the mill, and there is an assured i
market for this product also in the
cotton mills. The new mill is an im?
portant one to begin with, and holds
a strong position, and there is no
room to doubt that it will attain very j
much larger and more important pro?
portions Cheraw is to be congratu?
lated on having captured so valuable
I an industry and the Rhode Islanders j
are to be congratulated no less on i
their good judgment and good for?
tune in the chice of a town for their
venture. They have cast their
braided lines in a pleasant place, and
in a thoroughly live one as weli.
News and Courier
Trade Conservative.
NEW YORK. May 15 -Bradstreet's j
tomorrow will say : General trade j
throughout thecouofrv remains quiet,
wholesale merchants continue conserva-:
five and the distribution of general
merchaodiss is almost, u. hand to rcouth
character. South aod northwest busi?
ness are most dull and featureless-un?
changed from last week. At Urger east
ern centers travelers are preparing ro start
out, but unfavorable features io recent
weeks with respect to cotton and woolen
aod steel and iron industries show no
change. Collections io roes' directions
continue unsatisfactory.
SPANISH RELATIONS
CORDIAL.
WASHINGTON, May 15.-The Spanish
minister, Mr. Depuy de Lime, being
shown rbis morning dispatches from
Madrid asserting that rho Spanish gov?
ernment had authorizad a forma! re?
monstrance to be presented against '.he
attitude of the United States in regard
to Cuba, replied that this was directly
contrary ;o ail his information and io
the explicit, statement contained in the
(jueen1? speech He said that his gov- \
ernment had warned him to pay oo at?
tention to disturbing dispatches in the
press, as they would keep him fully ad- i
vised on all points. Thc relations be- |
tween Spaiu and the United States, be j
added, were eut:.ely cordial, and there |
was no friction of aoy kind.
Highest cf all in Leavening Pew
The Citadel Cadets Win.
The First Prize of S6O0 Will
be Sent Them.
SAVANNAH, May 15.-At thecouclu
siou of the military celebration to night
the prizes were awarded by Col. Gar?
rard. The total presentations amounted
to just 55,000, not including the tro?
phies. Lieut. Col. Wm. Gerrard, presi?
dent of the association, first awarded
the prizes to the tilting teams. The
first team of the Liberty county inde?
pendent troop won the first prize of
$110 on a score of '250 points, and the
first team of the Liberty County
Guards won toe second prize on a score
of 222 1-2 points The Liberty inde?
pendent troops won the first of $110
for the largest turnout-41 men-and
the second to the Liberty Guards withoO
men. The prize of $1,000 offered in the
zouave contest was awarded the Aurora
Zouaves of Aurora, 111. This was the
oniy company participating, the Neeley
Zouaves of Memphis, Tone, having
been ruled out at the last moment on
account of a te legram from the Ten?
nessee military authorities, which stated
that they had no right to enter Geor?
gia under arms. They were not allow?
ed to enter the drill on specific orders
from Governor Atkinson.
The cadet companies had to return
home iasfc night, but thc prizes won
were awaded and will be forwarded.
The first prize of ?G00 was awarded to
the Citadel cadets of Charleston, S. C.,
aod the second prize of $400 to the
Gordon institute cadets of Barnesviile,
Ga.
Theo came the presentation of the
big prizes won in the interstate drili.
Calling Capt. Edgar A. Shilling of
the Morton Cadets forward, Col. Ger?
rard presented him with a certified
check for $2,600 amidst cheers which
lasted for nevera! minutes. Coi. Ger?
rard then delivered the second prize of
$400 to Capt. Porter Llemiog of the
Oglethorpe infantry of Augusta, whe
put up a most excellent drill and whose
percentage was not far below that of
the Morton Cadets. Next came the
award of the Galveston cup, which car?
ries with it the title of championship
military organization of the United
States. Col. Gerrard received a tele
gran: this afternoon in answer to a
special letter written Adjutant General
W. H. Mabry of Texas, iu which
Gen Marby told bim to go ahead and
award the cup to the wionicg company,
whether the Thurston Rifles of Omaha
or the cup were here or not. This Col.
Gerrard did, awarding the cup to the
Morton Cadets amidst prolonged ap?
plause. With the award, Col. Gerrard
pronounced the Morton Cadets thc
champion military organization of the
United States. Gen. Mabry is the sole
trustee of the cup, and as he has de?
cided it should be competed for here,
ali the Morton Cadets will have to co
?viii be to take out a possessary warrant
for it ;n some court in Nebraska.
^his concluded the military festivities
of the week, and all the companies and
commands will leave with more than
satisfaction with the facilities and enter?
tainments that have been afforded
them.
Wevler Tries Starvation.
He Would Drain the Country
of all Provisions.
HABANA, May 15-Captain General
j Wey!e~ has issued a proclamation orcer
i ing the farmers and peasantry, during
' th-j next 20 dajs, to trac-sport to the
: towns in.their vicinity all of the corn
j and other grain stored upo:i their farms.
I This order applies to the provinces of
' Pinar dei Rio, H habana and Matanzas.
; The military ouartermastcre are autho
! rized by this order to parchase the grain
! scot to the towns by the farmers at the
; current price, and if the grain is not
j required by the government it will be
I stored for the account o? its owncts.
I After the period of 20 days hss elapsed,
. the proclamation declare?, any grain
I found upon farms io the provinces men
: tiooed will be regarded as contraband of
' war and bo seized, and iho owners
i thereof subjected to ennr.rid proceed
! ings.
i Tho rebel leader Manu! Koetro was
shot this morning at Cieefu?oes.
- .? ' i .?O' II I I ??? -
i Santa Barba, Cal , May 14 -The
Oregon on her trial trip to-day mado
j 16 and 78-100 knots per hour,. This,
! it is believed, breaks ali records fer
, vessels of her class.
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