The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 21, 1897, Image 2
Who is Right?
Mayor Smyth Makes a State
ment to Council.
-Was Unanimous Consent Not Ho
quired for Removal of Alien
Police.
- Special to the State,
Charleston. April 13 - Mayor
Smy-.h has spofcer oo the metropolitan
police oerre8poodeooe with Governor
Ellerbe tod be throws the responsibility
for the continuance of Charleston's
alien polioe force oo the governor.
Judging from the almost total vacancy
of tfee galleries of eoooeil chamber to
nighi, although in was known that
Mayor Smyth woald present bis side of
the moch-iold-of gubernatorial efforts
to remove the metropolitan force? it
seemed that the public oared very little
about the correspondence, so long as it
did not carry with it the removal of tbe
system^ The mayor's verdon of the
story wi s reserved for the last and after
apparently all the bes i o ess had been
conoluded and. every one was looking for
the gavel to fall and council to adjourn,
S?syor Smyth produced some papers
and with bot a few words of introduc?
tory., begao the reading of his side of
the affair. He spoke slowly and im?
pressively, but excitedly.- The report
was a mass of typewritten pages which
contained little if anything new save
that lt was . the mayor discussing his
part in the grand fare?-oomedy of re?
moval of-the police force. The report
was interesting only for this reasoo.
The samo hackneyed (acts and particu?
lars were gone through with.
In a few words. Mayor Smyth's de?
fense was that the situation bad as?
suaged such shape that he thought
he should speak frr himself ; that he did
not understand that Governor Ellerbe
required a unanimously signed agree?
ment. If be did, be says that he would
uever have brought the paper out of
Colombia. Oa the oootrary, Mayor
Smyth is certain that Governor Eller?
beks stipulations did not provide for
unanimous action on the part of tbe
council.
Major Smyth stated that when be ar?
med at the capital on Governor Eiler
be's invitation aod the governor began
the now famous conference with the re?
mark that the metropolitan system bad
been desired by the city coen eil, he im?
mediately corrected bim and the first
agreement drawn op. which started out
with this assertion, was cancelled. Both
agreements were objectionable. Mayor
Smyth said, bot finally agreed to the
second as he knew that the people of
Charleston desired to be relieved of the
humiliation incident to the acceptance.
Mayor Smyth said that the mere
fact that he wfred the governor that 17
aldermen had signed and be was wait,
in g his proclamation was evidence suffi*
cien! that be knew nothing of soy de*
sired unanimous action.
The mayor stated that the governor
knew, or should bave known, tbat. be
(Mayor: Smyth) with the ehief ot pol ico
vere the proper parties to enforce the
law and that council was not invested
with executive powers Further, that
tferee-foo'bs of council favored th? re
moval aod were williog aod capable to
e&aet aoy ordinances necessary to en?
force properly the dispensary law aod
bring its violators to justice. By his
action the goveroor admits his injustice,
Mayor Smyth said, and the deadlock is
on as a resole of conditions unneces?
sarily imposed-conditions which the
governor should have known could not
be carried oat io consequence of Mar
sba! Martin's openly declared friends,
six - io number on the aldermanio
board.
Col. Z Davis moved that the entire
correspondence be spread on the min?
utes, wbich moiton was daly seconded
aod passed.
? sensation was sprang jaat a? rho
motion was Tarried by Alderman Mat
tbies, ooe of the Regular faction, but
one of tbs seven who refused to sign
the agreement Matthies was a former
wholesale licuor dealer. He deolared
that be bad long been waiting this op?
portunity to explain his positioo.
He indignantly denied that he
waa a friend of Martin He said
that he was opposed to the dispen?
sary law ead the metropolitan police
system. but that be had to
accede to Governor Ellerbe's unjust de
maud* !u a'rong German accents b*
tragically declared that Charleston bad
suffered the humiliation of a metropoli?
tan pelican poiioe Hjstetn for some time,
bat she could endure it for a few years
longer; the day of reckoning would
come. He said that be refused to sign
the agreement because he considered
signing it an additional disgrace put up?
on the city. J. B.
SOME PLAIN TALK.
Tbe Governor Briefly, Refers
to Mayor Smytn's State?
ment.
Governor Ellerbe did not have
very much to say yesterday about the
statement made by Mayor Smyth of
Charleston to bis council about the
metropolitan police matter. What
be did ssry, however, was very much
to the point. He said that it was
rather remarkable that Mayor Smyth
when be read the pledge that the mem?
bers of the council " in di vid nally"
should give their pledge, did not
intimate to him that he would have
trouble in getting aoy of the alder?
men to sign it, while in all interviewe
and correspondence it appears tito
the mayor thought so and so stated
to others
Governor Ellerbe, continuing, re?
marked : "The mayor did say to me
that he personally would rather not
have the metropolitan police re
I moved ; that it would give him more
j work to do."
! He added that he bad not sent two
telegrams to the mayor as to lequir
ing the signatures of all the council
One dispatch-that published-was
sent and that was the only telegram
he has ever mentioned in anything
he has said about the matter-The
State.
A PROGRESSIVE RAILROAD.
The Seaboard Air Line is one rail?
road corporation that is making in?
telligent and systematic efforts to
build up and permanently improve
the territory which it traverses. The
expenditures that are being made are
heavy, and there is no reason to ex?
pect that there will be any return in
the near future, nevertheless it is the
very best sort of investment for the
Seaboard Air Line, and in years to
come the dividends will be realized
in the shape of increased business
that will continue growing year by
year.
The plans of the Seeaboard offi?
cials are wide in scope and have a
two-fold object-ta diversify the in
dustries of the present residents of
the territory, thereby bettering their
condition and at the same time so im?
prove the country as to make it at?
tractive to settlers from other States
A clear conception of the work
now in progress is gained from the
following extract from a speech made
by Mr. John T. Patrick before the
convention of the Industrial Agents
of the Seaboard Air Line, which met
in Charleston last week :
*'The Seaboard has already established 28
of tbe 100 projected experimental farms, on
which bare been planted 200.GOD fruit trees
and fruit-Gearing shabbs Fifty thousand
packages of seeds have been distributed, and
when the trait season comes in there will be a
travel ling school of instruction to show tbe
methods of canoing, evaporating, picking,
preserving and making j-iirs and fruit butter
by actual process. Ladies skilled In tbis
work will go along as teachers. Tbe object
of this is to show our county people wbat
they cao do on their own farms.
"A road macbise with full equipment is to
travel at tbe same time and show tbe im-'
proved methods of making roads.
4'If a!! these tbiogs are produced at borne
it wi!! withdraw a considerable revenue tbat
tbe Seaboard now derives from freight or
this class of goods But tbe management is
not PO selfish or short sighted as to hesitate
OD tbat account. All this will come back to
os io soother way when the country is built
op and prosper?os " -
The country tributary to the Sea
board Air Line has a bright future
before it, and its great natural ad?
vantages will\be developed and util?
ized at an early date largely through
the efforts of that system. There is
nothing sentimental in the work and
the reward will innure largely to the
owners of the lailroad, but there is
muco reason for the people in that
territory to feel grateful for what has
been doue and is projected for futute
accomplishment. It is the sort of
nelp the South needs-assistance to
utilize and develop the wealth that
has so long remained unused.
The distinguished German scholar
and historian. Muller, like many of the
learned ot bis country, ?as once iodif- j
fereot to the Bible, even full of preju?
dice and sceptical as to its claims. Bat
?fter he had taken the New Testament
;o h Mid and read it earnestly and cou-j
?idera'ely he was captivated as so many
o-her heedless, unbelieving have been
Hs has made a confession tbat does
credit to his oandor, sincerity aod in?
telligence. Hear him:
"The light which struck Paul with
blindness on his way to Damascus was
not more strange, more surprising to
him than it was to me wheo I suddenly
discovered the fulfilment of all hopes,
the highest perfection of philosophy,
the explaoatioo of all revelations, tbe
key to all the seeming contradictions
of thc physical and moral world. ?
?aw religion appear at the moment most
favorable to it? appearance, and io a
manner mest adapted to its acceptance.
The whole world seemed to be ordered
for the sole purpose of furthering the
religion of the Redeemer, and if this
religion is not divine I understand
nothing at ail I have read uo hooks
on the subject, but in ali my studies of
aocieot times I have always felt thc
want of sometbiog, aod it was not till
I koew our Lord (hat all was clear to
me. With him there is nothing I am
Oct able to solve "
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j Spain's Plan to
Retire Graceful!
i_
j Will Give Us Cuba's Trac
and Pardon's All Prison?
ers if U. S. WiU
"Hands Off"
-
New York, April 14 -A special
this morning's World's from Mad
says : Political aod diplomatic eire
io Madrid are animatedly discussi
(he improvement of the prospects
Spanish mle in Cuba, io ooosequen<
it ip said, of an active exchange
confidential aod unofficial commuait
tioos between the United States a
.Spanish governments since McKiol
and Sherman took office. Ic seei
that Spanish diplomacy bas intimal
at Washington that Spain cannot en ti
tain aoy suggestion of American med
tion to obtain tba submission of t
Cuban insurgents, and that Spain as
only that the American executive co
tinue to check and punish filibuster e
pedition and juntas and propagand
wherever the Spanish legation and co
sui provides sufficient evidence of thc
existence, as was done recently in tl
case of the New York separatist jant*
correspondence - with instructions
Cuban insurgents.
Spanish diplomaoy is authorized
give unofficial confidential verbal assu
anees that if the Amerioan goverome
did that much Spain considered be
self quite equal to the task of short
reducing the rebellion to such a pa
that tbe Madrid government will I
justified in the eyes of publie opio ic
in Spain and the colonies to carry 01
West Indian home rule io a very libt
ral spirit, and in its wake extensn
tariff reforms that would lead easily ti
wards a treaty of commerce betwec
the United Staus, Cuba and Pori
Rico.
In the same way the Amerioan stal
department was given to understan
that Spain will in the future deal mot
leniently with thesevparties, and whe
home rule is put io fores a general au
nesty will be granted to ioc'ude a
rebels surrendered within a certain pc
riod and ali political cooviots. prisonei
and suspects exiled or transported t
Spanish fortresses and penal settlerneoi
without trial.
AN IMPORTANT BATTLE ABOUT TO B
FOUGHT.
Hibana. April 15.-Via Key West
April 14.- Bane.), an important por
on tbs coast near Git ara, from wino
exportations of bananas to the Unite*
States are made and which is the site c
H Dumers & Co., Americao citizen?
narrowly escaped total destruction ta
day Tbe expedition under Genera
Roloff on the steamer Liorada. carry
ing 2.400 rifles. 500,000 cartridge
aod rapid firing artillery landed along
i side th? quay of Bane?.
General Calixto Garcia, with 5.00(
! men, came to protect the convoy o
j arm? and ammunition, but as Rolof
bad no men to arm. Garcia was com
pel led to carry the arms into the inte
rior It is reported that the insurgent*
hearing that a Spanish gunboat might
arrive at any moment, closed the en
trance to the port with torpodoe*.
General Roloff assisted by looal bands
and soldiers under General Garcia,
commenced to fortify the beigh ts
around the port, hastily casting op
trenches to make the port temporarily
impregnable to any Spanish forces in
the neighborhood of Gibara
The gaoboars Nueva, Empanas and
Meal?eia had arrived at Nipe from
Habana The cruiser Reina Mercedes
had left Habana on tbe 12th with four
eren anio? of marines and infantry un?
der the command or Rear Admiral
Marenoca, to unite with all the forets
which left Nipe and Gibara, witb a view
to a combined Jaod and sea attack
upon tbe insurgent's position for the
recovery of the port of Banes Nipe
is separated from Bane/s by the San
Ramon canals Three columns march?
ed on Banes in fuil view of the formida?
ble and nearly impregnable insurgent
position Reinforcements have been
sent forward by the Spaniards, and Ad?
miral Navarro will sail to morrow by
the cruiner Lsgaspi for the Carribber
and thence for Nipe to personally
direct the "attack by sea. The rein?
forcements expected wil! be under Gen?
eral Li vares
Evidently ao important battle is in
sight if the insurgents try to defend
their advantageous stronghold, and
their claim of beiog able to bold a sea?
port. Great axiety exists with refer?
ence to the garrison of 100 men in the
fort defending the quay at Banes. It
is believed they will be compelled to
surrender for lack of water and sup?
plies The cruiser Pingon has twice
been compelkd to break cbaios in or?
der to enter the Banes port.
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Spaniards' Scheme
i -.
To JEfFect Arrest of Mem?
bers of Cuban Junta.
Philadelphia, April 15.-A private
meeting of Cubans and Coban ?ympa
thizers wa* held in this ci'y tonight,
at which ir. was decided to take sters '0
frustrate whst the Oubar,? claim is the
object of the Major Ji;o Sandoval'*
visit to the Uuited State? Thi* is said
to be the arrest of no less persons than
the members of the Cuban juota in thi?
country. It has been stated That Major
Sandoval oarr.e to Philadelphia to par
chase munitions of war to be shipped
io the regular way to General 'Weyler
in Cuba Leading Cubans, however,
assert ?hat it is to gather information
that will culminate in the arrest of
Estrada Palma ot New York and Gen?
eral Queseda at Washington.
The former is the minister of the so
called Cubao republic and the latter
charge de affaires at the capital. It. is
asserted that Mspr Sandoval was com
mi?siontd by General Weyler for this
purpose and is known to bave in his
possession documeots found on the
steamer Lturada on one of ber recent
trips to Cubao, showing the part
placed by Generals Palma and Ques?
eda in her movements Should the
arrest of tbe junta leaders result and
the issue be made in court as ?o the
liability of such a body there will be a
question of jurisdiction that' will not.
only involve the interstate commerce
laws, but also the questioos of belliger?
ency and the customs comity of na?
tions
Myers Respited.
Frank Myers, colored, who was to
hang in Georgetown to day, has an
other week of life, at least. The
Governor yesterday granted him a
respite until next Friday. Perhaps
the special re?son for the respite is
one that has never occured before
To day is Good Friday, and, as is the
custom with ail devout of the .Epis
copal Church in Georgetown and
elsewhere, they attend services in the
church to-day The church happens
to be next to the jail, and if the exe?
cution was to take place to day at the
appointed time the crowds of negroes
and those morbidly curious would in?
terfere with the services. Mayor
Morgan wrote that under the circum
stances he thought it would be best
to postpone the execution, as he felt
certain that a large crowd of negroes
would be present and it would take
an extra force of constables to pre?
serve order. Under these circum
tances the Governor readily issued
the order for a respite
As to whether Myers will eventual?
ly hang or not there is much doubt
Solicitor Wilson was in the city yes
terday, and called on the Governor
in reference to the case It is un?
derstood that he says it is his posi?
tive opinion that the negro is not guil?
ty of the charge wholly, and the prob?
abilities are that he will get a coos?
mutation to life imprisonment -
Columbia Register.
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The preparing and dressing of dead bodies
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OTTO G?BHARDT
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INFORMS HIS CUSTOMERS and the
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articles in
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Also Cabbage Plo nts and Other Ya'
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100 Cabbage Plaots, $ .25
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100 Pansy Plants, 1 00
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For prices **nd '?rms address
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Sumter, S. C.
Mch 24.
D. M. YOUNG,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Prompt attention to nil business entrusted
to him. Office ou Court House Square, io
Blanding office
STANTON
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D. J. JONES, Poprietor.
Raies $2.00 Per Day.
SPECIAL TERMS TO -FAMILIES
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foal
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and all the charms which beau?
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Jewels like these would en?
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SION OF THE BIG WATCH,
Oct. 16.
SUMTER RESTAURANT.
Reduced Prices
Regular Meals 25cts.
Private Dining Room for Ladies.
Dec. 30.
THE BANK OF SUMTER,
SUMTER, S. C.
City and County Depository
Transact? a general Baking business, alsc
bas
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nnuu?j. Parable quarterly, on first davs c:
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W F. PHAMK, Cashier. President.
Jiu 13.
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