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Bryan To The People. The Fight Against the Money Power Has Not Ended. LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 6 -Mr. Bryan to-day gave ont the following: To the Bimetallists of tbe United States: Coo scions that millions of loyal hearts are saddened by temporary de? feat, I beg to offer a word of hope and encouragement. No cause ever had supporters more irave, earnest and de? voted than those who have espoused the cause of bimetalism. They have fought from conviction, and have fought with ail the zeal which conviction in? spired Events will prove whether they ar? right or wrong. Having done their doty as they saw it, they have nothing to regret. The. Republican candidate has beeo heralded as the ad > vance agent of prosperity If bis poli otes bring real prosperity co the Ameri? can people those who opposed bim will K share in that prosperity. If, 'on the other band, his policies prove an injury to the pepple generally, those of his supporters who do not belong to the office-holding class or to the privileged classes will suffer in oommon with those who opposed him. The friends of bi? metallism have oot been vanquished; they have simply been overwhelmed. . They believe that the gold standard is , t conspiracy of the money changers against the welfare of tbe human race, and until convinced of their error they will continue the warfare against it. The .JOtest bas been waged this year under great embarrassments and against great odds. For the first time daring this generation, public attention has beeo centered upon the money question as the paramount issue, aod this has been done in spite of all at? tempts upon the part of our opponents to prevent it. The Rep?blicas conven? tion held out the delusive hope of inter? nst iona! -bimetalism, while Republican leaders labored secretly for gold mono metalista. Gold standard Democrats have publicly advocated (he election of the Indianapolis ticket, while they la? bored secretly for the electioo of the Republican ticket. The trusts and corporations have tried to excite a fever of lawlessness, while they have been defying the law, aod American finan? ciers bave boasted that they were the custodians of the national honor while they were secretly barteriog away the nation's financial independence. But ID spits of the efforts of the administra? tion and irs supporters; io spite of threats of moeey loaners at home and abroad; io spite of the coercion practiced by corporatioos and employers; in spite of trusts and syndicates; in spite of an enormous Republican campaign fund; aod io spite of the influence of a hostile daily press, bimetalism has almost triumphed io its first great fight. The loss of a few State?; aod that, too, by a very small plurality, has defeated bi? metalism for the present; but bimetal . ism emerges from the contest stronger than it was four months ago * I desire to commend the work of the three national committees which have : 2 )ioed io tbe management of this cam? paign Co-operatioo be-ween the mern bars of distinct political organization U always difficult, but it has beeo less so this year than usual Interest io a com moo cause of great importance bas re? duced friction toa minimum. I hereby express my personal gratitude to the in? dividual members, as weil a9- the exe? cutive officers of the national commit? tees of the Democratic. Populist and Silver parties for their efficient, untiring and unselfish labors. They have laid the foundation for future success aod will be remembered as pioneers wheo victory is at last secured. . No personal or political friend need ?I grieve because of mydrrVat. My ambi? tion has been to secure immediate legis? lation rather than enjoy the n ?t.ors of office. Therefore defeat brings n> me i ?? feeliog of personal loss. Spiking for the wife who has shared my lab.JO, as well as myself, I desire to say that we have beeo ampi) repaid for all that we bave dooe In the love of millions of oar fellow citizens, so kindly expressed, in know'edge gained by personal con? tact with the people and in broadened sympathies, we find full compensation for whatever efforts we have put forth. Our hearts have been touched by tbe devotion of friends and our lives shall prove our appreciation of the affection whioh we prize as the richest reward which this campaign bas brought. In the face of an enemy rejoicing in its victory, let the roll be called for tho engagement, and urge all friends of bimetalism to renew their allegiance to the cause. If we are right, as I be? lieve we are, we shall yet triumph. Uotil convinced of his error, let each advocate of bimetalism continue the work. Let all silver clubs retain their organization, hold regular meetings and eirouiate literature. Our opponents have succeeded in this campaign and must now put their theories to the test. Instead of talking mysteriously about "sound money" and an "honest dol? lar/' they must now elaborate and de? fend a financial system. Every step taken by them should be publicly con? sidered by silver clubs. Our cause has prospered most where the money ques? tion has been longest discussed amoog the people. During the next four years it will be studied all over this na? tion, even more than it bas been studied in the past. The year 1900 is not far away. Be? fore that year arrives international bi? metalism will cease to deoive; before that year arrives those whs have called themselves gold standard Democrats will become bimetalists aod be with us, or they will decome Republicans and thus opeB enemies; before that year arrives trusts will have con? vinced still more people that a trust is a menace to private wel? fare and to public safety; before that year arrives the evils of a gold standard will be even more evident tbao they are now, and the people will then be ready to demand an American financial policy for the American peo? ple, and will join with us in the imme? diate restoration of the free and unlim? ited coinage of gold and silver ot the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other natioo. (Signed) WM J. BRTAN Defeated. Defeated? Yes! but not ashamed The cause which the Democratic party advanced against an opponent Sashed with confidence, strong in funds and prejudice and falsehood, aided secretly by masked allies, and backed by the money power of the world, was a cause which though lost for the year is as assured of ultimate triumph as any whiob ever wrought its way to victory. The first advance bas failed, but that proves nothing against the success of the second. We have had bat three months to enlist the people! we shall now have two years Unrestricted Re? publicanism was ever a good thing for Democracy. Io 1898 we shall present to the voters of this Union the record of McKinleyism and monometallism That that record will be evil others may doubt but we do not. There will ! be higher taxes, lower prices for the great products of the farms and shops, a merrier aod more impudent assertion of mastership by the trusts and syndi? cates, more bonds, mere bleeding of the people's veins. That the beginnings of this saturna? lia of privilege and plutocracy have been made ander a so-called Democratic administration is not the least of our misfortunes It bas served to make hidebound Republicanism hug itself and continue to believe in itself. Bryan was a Dsmoorat-ergo. be must be held responsible for ali the things done io the name of Democracy by an adminis? tration in greatest purpose Republican. The power of blind partisanship on the ooe hand and a plutocracy on the other has served the Republicans well tn this election; but it cannot last through two years of an administration like Hanna's. This newspaper isn't "hacked." It has enlisted for the war, and be v brief or long.' The State will not desert the standard to which it has stood io the campaign of 1896. It is for the same platform and the same candidate, the same broad cause of justice Aod it will share in the inevitable triumph of the right.- The State The Presidential Election. The indications are that the Hon. Wm. McKioley is elected President of the United States by a large majority The Republicans and their allies will administer the government for foar years If in the meantime the country prospers uoder the gold standard and protection, the Republican party will have a loog lease of political power in the administration of the Federal Gov? ernment. If the country does not prosper-if the great manses who labor coatiue fo be the hewers of wood and the drawers of water for the money power and the syndicates and trusts and monopolies the issues of the present campaign wiil be renewed with redoubled strength and determination to rescue the government from tbe hands of the privileged classes who for thirty year* have so adminis? tered it as to make the rich lieber and the poor poorer. We shall rejoice, if contrary to our expectations, prosperity shall come to the masses who labor for a livelihood in every pursuit of life It is sad to think that money bas been used to cor? rupt the ballot. Io the great centres of population, io New York, Chicago, and other large cities, millions of dollars have been expended to carry tbe elec? tion. There appears to be no doubt of this. It was the boast of the Republi? can managers, and they relied upon their immense corruption fund to de bauch the voters and to elect their President. The evidence of this corruption of the ballot was made manifest in every doubtful State, and the result is the ?lection of the Republican President. Fearful is the example and dreadful is the responsibility of the Republican party. \ The Democratic cause and its candi? date 8ti Ulive to vindicate the liberties, the right and the interests of the peo? ple The free and independent coinage of silver is not dead. We still have faith in its viodicatien. Wm. Jennings Bryan lives in the hearts and confidence of his country? men. He has proven himself the fore? most American cf his day, and he will continue to be tbe leader of the peopla and the ablest defender of their cause. His cause is not lost. His victory is but deferred.-Augusta Chronicle. - 11 - - How to Cure Bilious Colic. I suffered for weeks with colic and pains in my stomacb caused by biliousness and had to take medicine all the while until I used Cham? berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem? edy wb-ich cured me. I bave since recom? mended it to a good many people. Mrs. F. Butler, Fairhaven, Conn. Persons who are subject to bilious colic can ward off the at? tack by laking this remedy as soon as the Grst symptoms appear. Sold by Dr. A. J. China. Kentucky's Votes Divided. LOUISVILLE, KY., November 6,-As the official retorDS como in to Dight the statement is confirmed that the electoral vote of the State is going to stand 12 to 1. In some counties the head of the electoral ticket leads the other twelve by more than 100 votes It will take the official count to satisfy both sides. The last newspaper figures place Mc? Kinley's plurality in the State at 633 Tbe official count by counties is abo.ut complete outt<i;le of ibis, Jefferson, which will not be finished for four or fi?e days, owiog to the large vote. The State returning board will meet three weeks from Tuesday to pass cn the count by counties. Kash and Smith, the first electors on the Republican and Democratic ticket respectively, are the otber electors on tbe oficial count, and no matter which way the State goes the electoral vote in going to be divided, that is if tbe,. Re? publicans carry tbe State they will get twelve electors aod the Democrats one, aod vice versa if the Democrats wiol This results from the fact that a large Dumber cf voter? placed the crossjop posite the name of the first elector in? stead of under tbe devica. The canvassing board bas ruled io these ca-es that the vote should count orly for one elector DOtwithsraodiDg the evi dent iotentioQ of the voter. This raises an interesting question io regard to the votes (Jbairmao Roberts, of the Republi? can State committee, said to night : "We have received official returns from all except twenty-seven counties We have ti unworthy returns from the mishiog ones, however, and the one hundred and nioeteen counties show 435 plurality for McKinley. Weare perfectly satisfied that we have carried the State. I am waiting on further official returns and expect to send Major McKinley a telegram bfore mid? night. I concede the Demoorats one elector, owiog to the failure of voters to mark their bailors correctly " Major H. P. Joh? soo, chairmao of the Democratic State central commit? tee, said to-night that from ioformaiioo io his possession be believed tbe State had giveo Bryao 1,000 plurality. Uorey Woodsoo, member of the Demoratic oatiooal committee for Ken? tucky, makes the following statement : "I am more oonfident to-night than I have been at aoy time since the election that the Democratic electoral ticket wan elected io Keotucky, hat ? have an abundance of evidence that the Repub? licans of tbe mountain counties, wbere Democrats are exceedingly scarce, have perpetrated the 'grossest frauds both be? fore and sioce the polls closed on Tues? day. This information bias come to me from the most reputable meo at Mid? dlesbrough, Pioevillfi, Barboorsville, London, Somerset and other towns io Eas'ern Kentucky. The Republican committee and the press of Lowville have kept up a steady claim the pin three days of a plurality of from 600 to 1,000. Daring this time they have been forced to acknowledge errors which reduced their claims nearly 300 votes Every time they have been forced to acknowledge the truth about one of these central and western coun? ties, which with good telegraphic and telephone facilities were speedily cov? ered by thc news agencies, they have beeo able to draw oo one of these re? mote mountain counties for a majority far surpassing anything ever known in their hiwtorv, and still they claim the State by 600. I am entirely confident of the election of the Bryan electors by a small but safe plurality, which will be shown on the final count, Our people are collecting the evidence of thee frauds." Mr. Woodson declined to give out any figures Death of John H. Inman. NEW YORK, NOV. 6.-S. M. Inman to tight made the following state? ment : "Friends inform me that there are sensational rumors being circulated to day with reference to the sudden death of my brother, John Ii Inman, and it has been thought best that I make a full statement, to forestall any possible distortion of the facts "Mr Inman has been a sick man since about July first of this year. About that day his physicians earn? estly advised him that he should give up his business affairs and take com? plete rest His trouble? were acute indigestion, accompanied by insom? nia, which did not yield readily un? der treatment Finally his illness reached such a stage that at times there were alarming symptoms of weakness of the functions of the heart "Some six weeks ago it was de? termined, on the part of my brother, Hugh T and myself, hie partners, to place him under the care of Dr. Kindred in his sanitarium, near New Canaan, Conn Under the treatment at the sanitarium he improved, and we had every reason to believe in his complete recovery On last Wednesday night there was a sud? den change for the worse Ile sank rapidly from the time of this attack and died withi- ** few hours "The attack j curring as it did, so late iu the night, and the fatal end coming so soon, it was impossible for his family to reach him before he died. Mr. Swann and 1, however, reached there within a few hours af? ter he died. These are the facts in the case." Further dismissals were made in the treasury yesterday by Secretary Carlisle as follows : Judge VV. B. Flemming, of Kentucky, law clerk in the supervising architect's office, an appointee of Senator Blackburn ; Miss Minnie McMillan, of Kentucky, a clerk in tbe office of the supervis? ing architect's office, an appointee of Senator Blackburn ; Robert E. Adams, of Montana, agent at the Seal leland, "Alaska, a nephew of Mrs. Blackburn ; W. E. Ryan, of New York, a clerk in the third audi? tor's office, and late Democratic can? didate for Congress in the Rochester, N. Y , di*8tiict, and J M . Leacb, of j North C arolina, a messenger in the internal revenue bureau, who recent? ly criticised Postmaster General Wil? son in a newspaper letter. Attorney General Harmon has removed .lames H. Couch, assistant United States district attorney for West Virginia. Mr. Couch was an unsuccessful can? didate for office in the recent election in that State on the Democratic ticket, and declined to resign his official position or relinquish his can? ditfacy. With Hood's Sarsapa? rilla, "Sales Talk," and show that this medi- ? H L cine has enjoyed public confidence a.... patronage to a greater extent than accord? ed any other proprietary medicine. Thij is simply because it possesses greater merit and produces greater cures tha;i any other. It is not what we say, but what Hood's Sarsaparilla does, that tells the story. All advertisements of Hood's Sarsaparilla, like Hood's Sarsaparilla it? self, are honest. We have never deceived the public, and this with its superlative medicinal merit, is why the people have abiding confidence in it, and buy Sarsaparilla Almost to the exclusion of all others. Try ft Prepared only by C. t Hood & Po., Lowell, Mass. j, r^.*? are010 ouIy pills 10 take HOOd S PlliS with Hood's Sarsaparilla. STANTON ROUSE. D. J. JONES, Poprietor. Rates $2.00 Per Day. SPECIAL TKftMS TO FAMILIES. Two Minutes Walls From Central Depot. Chattanooga, Tenn. July 29. le Largest ii Most Complete Establishment South Geo. S. Hacker & Son, -MANUFACTURERS OF DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, Moulding & Building Material. rffice and Warerooms, King, opposite Can? non Street, CHARLESTON, S. C, Purchase our make, which we gu?rante' superior to eny sold South, and ther?hj pave money. Window and Paney Glass a Specialty October 16-o The Sumter Music House, MAIN STREET, NEXT TO CROSS WELL'S GROCERY. Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines of the best grade sold cheap ior cash or on easy terms Old ones taken in exchange for new ones. CLEANING AND REPAIRING DONE PROMPTLY. We also keep NEEDLES, OILS, And parts of every Sewing? Machine. "We have some rare bargains in Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines. M. B. HANDLE, Jan 8. Manager. Soap! Soap! AN ELEGANT LINE OF -Toilet Soaps Fi?e Extracts aod everything for a Ladies* Toilet. -Try our 5c. and 10c. Soaps. Fine Cigars ! Favorite Brands ! Auk for Tokios, Humboldt's and Exports. None better. DRUGS ! Fresh Drugs Every Week. Prescriptions Carefully Com .pounded Doy and Night. . J. S. HUGHSON & GO., DRUGGISTS. MONAGHAN BLOCK SUMTER, S. 0. RED OATS. NATIVE RED, RUST PROOF OATS FOR SALE BY C. P. ROBERTS, Oct 27-lm* NINETY-SIX, S. C. -TI YThat has bi this busin e -ii' The people of Sumter hi is to be depended upon is called cotton here. T anything that we do or an unsatisfactory piece o your money hack or satis We Solicit the Trac Every Wage-Earne Solely on the que most complete as? ment is made, u prices are absolut TV e Offer Exceptional values in 1 coats. ?100, $5.00, $< tronage will be ours if y high grade goods. We claim for our B( ment absolute supre Look at it from ai sortments, Styles head and shoulde the city. We are sole agents for the celebrated ranted r 100 Children's Ki 100 Children's Kr 50 Boy's blue, b 19 years, $3 9; 100 pair Men's W Our Shoe Departan Like all others is in th kinds, all qualities and a line of Women's, Boy's selling at 98 cents. These are Facts an Facts are Hard to D Come and see for yourse stand why we are doing i bidding for more. Yours Re Jjlyttenbc N. W. Corner, Ma Su TO AI This 1 One Ci Horses a] H. Sumter, S. C., Nov. 2, 1896. BEAUTY HATH CHARMS and all the charms which beau? ty likes best to don are shown in our grand display of fash? ionable jewelry for this season. Jewels like these would en? hance the charms of the most fascinating belle, and surely no fair one would despise such brilliant aids to her 'beauty. Like personal loveliness, they conquer admiration on sight ; they score new victories at ev? ery inspection. Those who look over our stock do not willingly stop with examina? tion. Beauty may now be made ea,ii/ irresistible by a few judicious purchases from our display of up to date jew? elry. L. W. FOLSOM, Jeweler and Optician, SION OF TffE BIG WA TC ff, Oct 16. ?E lilt up ?SS is ave been taught that this firm -Wool is called wool and cotton here is nothing mysterious about say, and should by any chance f goods creep into our stock, faction given. le of r.e... stion of merit. We promise you the ?ortment. we promise you every gar pon honor and we promise you our ely and without exception The Lowes!. ..rien's Woolen Suits and Over 3 00, $7.00, $7.50. Yourpa ou will call and examine these >ys5 Depart maey.... ly standpoint you choose. Size, As , Qualities or Prices, and you'll find it rs above any Boys' Clothing stock iu Faultless Clothing ; every suit War iot to rip. nee Suits at 98c, worth ?1 25. iee Suits at $1 49. worth $2.00. lack and brown Cheviot Suits, lo to >, worth $5 00. orkiog Pants, 77c, worth $1 25. 3flt e lead. We have shoes of all ll at the lowest price. See the and Children's Shoes we are d own. ??If and yon will readily under such a large business and still spectfully, in and Liberty Sts. tinter, S. C. Week, u* each ad Mules. HARRY.