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fBK S?MTEK WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850.
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THIS TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jene,1366
Consolidated lug. 2,1881.
SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1896.
Sew Series-Yol. XV. No 47
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SUMTER, S. C.
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: Irby Hacked.
He Clears the Track and Gives j
John Gary Evans an Open
Field.
Special to The State. ' .
. LAURENS June IT.-In a short in?
terview with Senator Irby to-day, j
your correspondent-asked this ques
? tion : "Will you be at Manning next
Monday, senator ?" To which ? the
senator said : - j
"I shall not attend that or any cam i
paign meeting as a candidate for the
United States senate. I had inten
" ded up. to a short tima ago to ask for
the nomination at the ensuing pri?
mary, but have concluded not to en?
ter the contest. From advices re
ceved from different sections of the
State I Gojieiade 4hat my motives and
my official acts for the last year have
been misunderstood by the faction of
which I was a charter member. It
ii apparent from thes?.?dvices that I
must antagonize those with whom I
have cooperated politically since
.1590. It seems" that the entire
machinery of the party government !
has been organized to'humiliate, de?
feat and destroy me. Tbis-would not j
have been done but for a misnnder- j
standing of my, motives in opposing
the equal division of delegates to the
Constitutional convention, the de?
fense of the name of Butler in the
convention, my opposition to the !
plan of suffrage as adopted and the J
uncompromising position taken by i
me in.opposition to a bolt in the late
State Democrtic convention. In ad- !
dition. if I were to run with my old
friends organized against me, I could
only expect Support from those here?
tofore my political opponents, which
would be distasteful to me, as they
owe me no favors
. "In aniving at this conclusion, I
desire to say that I cherish no spleen
towards those who I believe miscon
. strue my motives and political course
recently, and confidently, anticipate
. the future to vindicate these positions
and policies.'' . " - - -
? The Republican Convention.
ST. L~uivMo., June 17!-The most
striking incident cf the day were not in
the convention, although the proceed?
ings were a trifle more animated than
- yesterday, but in the rooms of the com?
mittee on resolutions, where Senator
Teller declared that he could no longer
remain in the Republican party after it
had been committed to the single gold
standard. The high personal esteem
the members of tbs committee enter?
tained for Mr. Teller and the heartfelt
regret he so plainly showed in being
compelled to sever lifelong ties made
the scene of unusual interest. It was
dramatic, but it was more pathetic than
anything else, because it was evident
Mr. Teller took this course as a matter
of conscience and principle and with?
out any other reason This was fully
understood and it was for this reason
bis associates ex hinted equal marks of
friendship and regret. Notwithstand?
ing that this was a family quarrel in
which two factions were arrayed againt
each other, it was characterised by a
genuine interchange of courtesies which
robbed it of all the bitterness which
usually accompany a party schism.
Senator Frank Canoon of Utah
still io the thirties-a Republican from
boyhood and deeply attached to the
principles of the party, exhibited al?
most equal feeling at terminating his
present affiliations. Notwithstanding
the radical position assumed by the
silver men it is noticeable that only
four-Senators Teller, Dubois and
Cannor, and Mr. Cleveland of Montana
-announced that they would leave the
party. Two other members of the
committee, Hartman of Montana and
Dr. Mott of North Carolina, stated-teat
they were still Republicanes and would
stick to the party.
When the convention adjourned till
tomorrow, instead of taking a recess till
8 p. m., as it was expected to do in
o.der to hear tho report of the commit?
tee on resolutions, which it wa3 stated
wouid be ready by that, hour, rumers
were circulated in the convention hail
that this';"course had been taken because
several States has threatened to boh
bceaus9 of the financial plank. Invg^
tjgatioo failed to disclose any founda?
tion* for this rumor.
The vote of 545 to 359 by which the
! convention at the biddiog of the oreden
I ttals committee refused to reopen any
j contested cases settled by thc national
committee, clearly showed that the
Ohio leaders had the eonventio well io
hand, even io matters where . many of
the delegates felt a strong personal
interest
Members of the committee on r?solu*
tioos expressed much indignation to?
night that io a garbled account of the
platform published this morning they
should have been represented as declar?
ing war against Spain by pledging the
Republican nominee to armed interven?
tion in Cuba They state that the
language employed in the platform sim
ply pledges the good offices of the
United States to bring about a peaceful
settlement
-William McKinley,
Garrett ?. Hobart.
Nominees of the Republican
Party for President and
Vice. President.
ST. LOUIS, June 18 -After & ten
hour's session ia torrid heat and dis?
tressing noise the ll th national Repub?
lican convention nominated a- ticket
pre-ordayoed from the first by the Ohio
political managers, who practically con?
trolled the gathering, and named Wm.
McKinley, of Ohio, and Garrett A.
Hobart, of New Jersey, for. "President
and Vice President respectively, of the
United States. .
McKinley's vote on the first baUc-t?
was 661J votes; Heed's, 84-J- votes;'
Quay 61 J; Levi p. Morton, 58; Sen?
ator Allison, 35 1-2; and Don Cam?
eron, 1.
The result of the ballot for Vjce
President was announced by the chair
as follows : Hobart, 533 1-2 r Evan?,
277 1-2 ; Bulkeley, 39 ; Lispett, ' 8 ;
Walker, 24 ; Reed, 3 ; Thurston, ^ ;
Frederick Grant, 2; Depew? 3; Mor?
eton. 1, absent 23.
No effort was put forth W?arry out
the much-talked of purpose of confer?
ring the second place upou L2vi P.
Morton. Mr. Hobart went throng!* the
first ballot with many votes to spare.
Word was passed around after McKin?
ley had been safely landed, xthat Mr.
McKinley's friends desired the el?ction
of Mr. Hobart.
The chief supporters of the four un?
successful candidates for ther Presi?
dency, Senator Lodgefor Reed ; Repre?
sentative Hepburn for Allison j Gover?
nor Hastings for Qaay and Mr. Depew
for Morton, came out in ringing little
speeches, moving to make McKinley's
nomination Unanimous and pledging
him the royal support of their respec?
tive Stator. When, to these utter?
ances, Mr. Platt" add-ed bis personal
promise of friendly eo-operaticu the
cup of happinesss of the McKinley men
was full. N'
Mr. Depew was at his best in moving
to make McKinley's nomination unani?
mous. He happily s.ikl that he was-,
now nominating a winner. It was,
quite evident-he di<L not feel in tho
?ame frame of mind when he placed
Mr. Morton in nomination for he, most
unusually for him, spoiled one of fps
best points. When leading up to what
it was supposed would evoke a burst'of
applause tor Blaine, he inadvertently
substituted the name of James A. (gar?
field for James G. Blaine, and was
ignominottsly corrected by the bystand?
ers.
An amusing little Blip was perpetrat?
ed by the permanent chairman, Senator
Thurston, who, by the way, made a
most excellent presiding officer. The
incident clearly showed the way his
mind was running. When nominations
fot vice president were called for and
Judge Fort took the stand, the chair?
man introduced him as "Mr. Hobart,
of New Jersey." (The man whom the
MoKinleyites had determined to elect.)
When the laughter this blunder occa?
sioned called bis attention to it,, he
adroitly passed it off by saying : "Mr.
Hobart, of New Jersey, will now be
nominate*! by Judge Fort "
Whatever enthusiasm was-lacking in
the early days of the convention was
supplied when the nominations were
made. A more boisterous scene of
yelling, plume and banner waving and
other manifestations of idiocy has sel?
dom been beard or seen than, that
whi?h, fer nearly half an^hour occupied
the convention after the noimnation of
Wm. McKinley.
Tne silver bolt wasiargely discount?
ed, and its effect was to a great extent
neutralized by the spe?chea which Sen?
ators Mantle, of Montana, Brown, of
Utab, oand thers made, declaring their
continued allegiance tb the Republican
party notwithstanding their disappoint?
ment on the silver plank.
TU2 PLATKOHM
! The Republicans of tho United
' States, assembled by their representa?
tives in national convention, appealing
! for the popular historical ju?iifi:ation of
their claims to the matchless achieve?
ments of the 30 vears of Republican
rule, earnestly and confidently address
themselves to the awakened icteiliger.ee,
J .-. . '. ;- jSS; " . >
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exp?rience and conscione of their <
trjmen in the foilow'mg declarad
facts and principles:
For the first time since the civil
the American people have witnessei
calamitous consequences of fullaoc
restricted Democratic control of
government It bas been a reco
unparalleled incapacity, dishonor
disaster. In administrative man
ment it bas ruthiesiy sacrificed it
pensible revenue, entailed an uncea
deficit, eked out ordinary currenl
penses with borrowed money, pile
the public debt ICK $262,000,00<
time of peace., forced an adverse
ance of trade, keptVperpetual me
hanging over redemption fund, pj
ed American credit to alien syndic
and reversed all the measures anc
suits of.succ*ssful Republican rule
the broad effect of its policy it has
cipated panic, biighied industry
trade with prolonged depression, ck
factories, reduced work and wa
halted and cribed American pro<
tioa, while stim.uiatisg foreign proc
tion for the American market. El
consideration of public safety and in
idual interest demands that tue gov*
ment shall be rescueu from the hand
those-who have shorn themselves
capable to conduct it without-disaste
home and dishonor abroad and shal
restored to the party which for 30 y<
administered it with unequalled suet
and prosperity, and in this connect i
we heartily indorse the wisdom, patr
issi and the success of the administat
of President. Harrison
We renew aol emphasizB our aile
ance to the poli .?y of protection as
bulwark of American industrial in
pendence and t-l?e foundation of Ami
?sn development and prosperity. T
true A mericaai policy taxes foreign p
ducts and encourages home industry
purs rho budden of revenue on forei
goods; it secares the American mar!
for the American producer; it upho
the American standard of wages for l
American ^workingman ; it put3 I
factory by the side of I
fai-m and makes American far
er less depedent on foreign i
maod and prier; it diffuses gene
thrift and founds the strength of all
the strength of each. Io its reasona!
application it is just, fair and imparti
equally opposed to foreign control a
domestic monopoly, to sectional di3cri
ination and individual favoritism.
We denounce the present Democra
tariff as sectional, injurious to the pub
crecfitVand destructive to business en ti
prised We demand such an equitat
tariffc'on foreign imports, which cor
i omjfeom petition with American pr
cucji, as, will not only furnish adequa
revesue for the necessary expenses
thc;'governrnent, but will protect Ame
ica? labor from degradation to the wa
1?re! of other land?. We are o
p^dijed to any particular schedule
The question cf rates ie a practical que
:ior:, tobe governed by thc conditions
the timeaud of production; the ruling ai
.umcompromising principle is the pr
tection and development of Americi
labor and industry. The country d
mauds a tight settlement and then
wants.rest.
We believe the repeal of the recipr
city arrangement negotiated by tl
last Republican administration was
national calamity, and we demand tho
renewal and extension on such tern
as will equalize our trade with othi
nations, remove the restrictions whic
now obstruct the sale of America
products in the ports of other couotrie:
and secure enlarged markets for th
products of our farms, forests and fa(
tories. Protection and reciprocity ai
twin measures of Republican polio
and go hand in hand. Democratic rul
has recklessly struck down7 both, an
both must be re-established. Protei
tion for what we produce ; free admit
sion for the necessaries of life whic
we do not produce ; reciprocity agree
meots of mutual interests which gai
open markets for us in return for ope
market to others. Protection build
up domestic industry and trade an*
secures our own market for ourselves
reciprocity builds up foreign trade ant
finds an outlet for our surplus.
-We condemn the present administra
tion for not keeping faith with tb
sugar producers of this country. Th
Republicn party favors such protectioi
as will lead to the production on Amer
ican soil of all the sugar which thi
American people use, and for whicl
they pay other countries more thai
$100,000,000 annually.
To all market products-to those o
i the mine and the field, as well as tc
j those of the shop and the faotory-tc
hemp, to wool, the product of the great
industry of sheep husbandry, as well ai
to the finished woolens of the mill-wc
premise the most ample protection.
We favir restoring the early Amen
can policy of discriminating duties for
the up building of our merchant marine
and the protection of cur shipping in
the foreign carrying trade, so that
American ships-the product of Amer?
ican labor employed in American ship?
yards, sailing under the stars and
stripe?, and manned, officered and
owned by Americans-may regain the
carrying of our foreign commerce.
The Republican party is unreserved?
ly fer sound money. It caused the en?
actment of 'he law providing for
resumption of specie payments in 187!
since then every dollar bas been ?
good as gold. We are unalterably o?
posed to every measure calculated I
debase our currency or impair tl
credit of our country.
We are therefore opposed to the fri
coinage of silver, except by interm
tional agreement with the leading cou
mcrcial nations of the world, which w
pledge ourselves to promote ; aud unt
j such agreement can be obtained, tb
existing gold standard must be pn
! served. All our silver and paper eui
reocy mast be maintained with parit
I with gold, and we favor all measures t
maintain inviolably the obligations <
the United States, and all our monej
whether coin or paper, at the preset
standard, the standard of the most ec
lightened nations of the earth
The veterans of the Uniou arm
deserve and should receive fair treal
ment and generous recognition
Whenever practicable they should b
given the preference in the natter c
employment and they are entitled t
the enactment of such laws as ar
bist calculated to secure the fulfill
merit of the pledges made to ther
in the dark days of the country5
peril. We denounce the practice i
the pension bureau, so recklessly an
unjustly c?.nied on by the presen
administration, of reducing pension
and arbitrarily dropping name? iron
the rolls, as deserving the severer
condemnation of the American pee
pie.
Our foreign policy should be at a'
times firm, vigorous and dignified
and all our interests in the wester
bernispbare carefully watched an
j guarded. The Hawaiian Island
should be controlled by the Unite?
States, and no foreign power shoulc
be permitted to interfere with them
the Nicaraguan canal should be built
owned and operated by the Unite?
States ; and by the purchase of th
Danish Islands we should secure
i proper and much needed naval sta??oi
j in the West Indies.
The massacres in Armenia havi
aroused the dep sympathy and jus
indignation of the American people
and we believe that the United State
should exercise all the interference i
can properly exert to bring thes?
atrocities to an end. In Turkey
American residents have been ex
posed to the -grayest dangers an<
American property destroyed. Then
and everywhere, American citizen
and American property must be abso
lutely protected at all hazards and a
any cost.
We reassert the Monroe doctiim
in its full extent, and we reaffirm thi
right of the United States to giv<
tho doctrine effet by responding t<
the appeal of any American State fo
friendly intervention in .case of Euro
pean encroachment. We have no
interfered, and shall not interfere
with the existing possessions of th<
European powers in this hemisphere
but those possessions must not 01
any pretext be extended. We hope
fully looked forward to the eventua
wilhdiawal of European powers fron
this hemisphere, and to the ultimate
union of all English-speaking parts o
the continent by the free consent o
its inhabitants.
From the hour of achieving theil
own independence, the people of thc
United States have regarded with
sympathy the struggles of othei
American peoples to free them selves
from European domination. We
watch with deep and abiding interesl
the heroic battle of the Cuban patriots
against cruelty and oppression, and
our best hopes go out for the ful!
success of their determined contest
for liberty.
The government-of Spain, having
lost control of Cuba, and being un?
able to protect the property or lives
of resident American citizens, or tc
comply with its treaty obligations,
we believe that the government ol
the United States should actively U6?
its influence and good offices to re?
store peace and give independence to
the island.
The peace and security of the re?
public and the maintenance of its
rightful influence among the nations
of the earth demsfnd a naval power
commensurate with its position
and responsibility. We therefore
favor the continued enlarge
ment of the navy and a complete
system of harbor and seacoast de?
fenses.
For the protection of the quality
of our American citizenship and ol
the wages of our workingmen
against the fatal competition of low
priced labor, we demand that the
immigration laws be thoroughly en?
forced, and so extended as to exclude
from entrance to the United States
those who can neither read nor
write
Tho civil service law was placed
on the statute book by tho Republi?
can party, which has always sustain?
ed it, and we renew our repeated
declarations that it-shall be thorough?
ly and honestly enforced and extend?
ed wherever practicable.
We demand th-?t every citizen of
.fhe "United States shall be allowed to
/ cast one free and unrestricted ballot,
and that such ballet shall be counted
and returned as cast.
We proclaim our unqualified con
demnation of the uncivilized an
barbarous practice well known as
lynching, or killing of human beings
suspected or charged with crime,
without process cf law.
We favor the creat ion of a national
board of arbitration to settle and adjust
differences which may rise between
employers and employes engaged in
interstate commerce.
We beleive in an'immediate return
to the free homestead policy of theRe
publican party and urge the paesage
by congress of satisfactory free
homestead measures, such as has al?
ready passed the house and is now
pending in the senate.
We favor the admission of the re?
maining Territories at the earliest
practicable date, having due regard
to the interests of the people cf the
Territories and of the United States.
All the Federal officers appointed for
the Territories should be elected from
bona fide residents thereof, and the
right of self-government should be
accorded as far as practicable.
We believe the citizens of Alaska
should have representation in the
congress of the United States, to the
end that needful legislation may be
intelligently enacted.
We sympathize with all wise and
legitimate efforts to lessen and pre?
vent the evils of intemperance and
promote morality.
The Republican party is rofndfai-cf
the rights and interests of women.
Protection of American industries in?
cludes equal opportunities, equal pay
for equal work and protection to the
home. We favor the admission of
women to wider spheres of useful?
ness, and welcome their co-operation
in rescuing the couutry from Demo?
cratic and Populist mismanagement
and misrule.
Such are the principles and policies
of the Republican party. By these
principles we will abide, and these
policies we will put into execution.
We ask for them the consider all judg?
ment of the American people. Con?
fident alike in the history of our
great party and in the justice of our
cause, we present our platform and
our candidates, in the full assurance
|lhat the election will bring victory
to the Republican party and prosper?
ity to the people of the United
States
--^-????-?^?
Democratic Prospects.
On a straight-out silver platform
16 to 1-free, unlimited and indepen?
dent, the Democratic candidates for
President and Vice President will
sweep the South end West. We
think the following States can be
counted safely for the Democratic
candidates :
Alabama, ll
Arkansas, 8
Florida, 4
Georgia, 13
Kentucky, . 13
Louisana, S
Mississippi, 0
North Carolina, ll
South Carolina, 9
Tennessee, 12
Texas, 15
Virginia, 12
Indiana, 15
Missouri, > 17
Illinois. 24
Montana, 3
Idaho, 3
Colorado, 4
Navada, 3
Utah. 3
Califarnia, 9
Kansas, 10
Nebraska, 8
North Dakota, 6
South Dekota, 4
Oregon, 4
Washington, 4
Wyoming, 3
242
This is 18 more than is necessary,
but besides the States named the
Democrats have a good chance of
capturing Michigan, with 14 votes ;
Montana, with 9, and even Ohio,
McKinley's own State, with 22 votes.
Democracy is waging the battle cf
the people and the masses will rally
around its standard when it unfurls
the flag of bimetallism against the
yellow emblem that means more
severe trade paralysis and depres?
sion.-Augusta Chronicle.
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Approved the seventh day of Feb?
ruary, A. D. 1896.
Railroad men are talking^bout a
fine run made on the Ailapt?cM??ast
Line to-day between Sumter ana
Columbia. The regular passenger
train was a little late on account of
the cadet travel. The trip from
Sumter to Columbia, 43 miles, was
made in 59 minutes, or 1 hour and
20 seconds including time' necessary
to bring the train under the union
depot. Nine stops were made,
which are figured at two minutes
each. This would make the run net
43 miles in 41 minutes. 'The regular
run is 1 hour and 15 minutes. One
of the heavy coal burners used on
the-vestibule travel was used-Col.
Cor. News and Courier 17th.
Where War is Waged.
HABANA, June IT -Large bands
of insurgents under the leaders. Diaz
and Berraudez. on the 14th inst, at?
tacked a. party of volunteers near
Yaguas in the-Pinar del Rio province,
wounding a lieutenant and killing a
sergeant A column of government
troc came to the asiriance of the
volunteers and the fight was contin?
ued, resulting in the loss by the
Spaniards of one lieutenant and six
privates of the regulars, and one of?
ficer and three of the volunteers.
The rebel loss was thirteen
killed.
A band of TOO rebels attacked
Pasco in the same province, but
were repulsed.
A dispach sent from Habana to
Madrid under the dale of June 12th
having contained the statemet that
General Lee, the recently appointed
United States consul general; had in?
spired a feeling of distrust because
of the interest he displayed in per?
sons held in custody by the author?
ities and by having dined with ene?
mies of the Spanish goverment, it is
proper to state that since his ar?
rival here Consul General Lee, with
the exception of having dined with
personal friends, has accepted only
wo invitations One of these was
from Captain General Weyler him?
self. Upon the other occasion the
consul general was the guest at the
Hotel Inglaterra of Mr. Charles
Akers, the correspondent of the Lon?
don Times Upon the latter occa
* sion invation8 were sent to all of the
foreign consuls in Habana
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