Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. * ' i -s. ?je lUdcljmnn ano tiMfytjim. IM S?HTBK WATCHMAN, Established April, issu. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TREE SOOTHRON. Established Jene. 126 Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUL'S 7, 1897. Sew Series-Vol. XVI. So. 48 %k W&t??mix w? parafe PuKishod. Ever? Wednesdays JXr. cst. Osteen, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : ?$ per an ou m-io advance. A DV S ST I S S K S ST : One Square firs:: insert.oo..................$I 00 S very subsequent insertion._.... 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be mads nt reduced rates. All communications which subserve private interests will be charged foras ad vert ierren ts. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. IRBY IN THE RACE. Talks as if He Will be a Can? didate for U. S. Senate. From all indications former'United States Senator Irby and former Gov erner John Gary Evans are in leanne to defeat Senator McLaurin. Both were in the city yesterday. Before leaving Col. Irby made the following significant statement : "?he Reform movement of which I was member in 1890, was a simon pure, genuine Democratic organiza? tion pledging itself in writing to submit all cf its demands to the de? cision of that party and further pledging its honor to abide its result. Upon this express condition .the Democrats of the State turned the machittery of the party over lo the leader? of the Reform movement. The members of the Reform organi zatiou believed in 1390 ^ that their cause was right and just and they see no reason to change their minds now. While the peopie were at work and unsuspecting they have been betray? ed. An attempt ii being made to deiiver them into -the bands of their enemy who fought them from the be ginning until now To consummate this treachery they have precipitated a canvass on the State in the hottest and busiest months ia the year, when the resort of ibe primary, which has been called, at most is merely a mere suggestion to the legislature, which meets in January, 1898 There is no election following'this primary It could have been held if the con? venience of the people had been con? sulted, as late as December, when all could have heard the discussion and participated in the primary without the least inconvenience. Tn short, the enemies of the Reform movement expected a drag race. In that they are going to be mistaken. It looks as if the colors'of the Reform move ment are trailing in the dust and no ene is willing to take them up and bear tb? brunt of battle. The peo? ple are as firm in their convictions as in 1890 and those who expect an ab? ject surrender of the Reform forces ^vill certainly be disappointed." Thia all appeared to be good enough as far as it went, but the question was asked whether he, Col. Irby, would enter the race. He said : "It does not suit me to reen? ter poliches for many reasons I will gladly yield to any true-bine Reformer, bot If be does not appear I will do so, let consequences be what they may '* The above was shown to ex Gov? ernor Erans last night. After read? ing it over he declared that it was Bound Democratic doctrine. He agreed with Col Irby's statement that- some staunch Reformer would enter the race. In response to a question as to him entering the race, Mr Evans replied that it did not suit for him to run, but that be was going to be at the opening meeting in Sumter. "How about Col. Irby's chances, should he run ?" was asked. "Irby has more friends in the State than we ever credited him with," was the answer. Mr. Evans thought that Mr. Mc Lauri n's tariff views were not in keeling with Democracy and that he had tetrayed the party. It appears from a statement made bv Mr Evans that Senator Tillman will take a part in the campaign. He will not speak in the interest of any candidate, but will make five or six speeches for the dispensary. Senator McLanrin will arrive in Columbia to day and will be quarter? ed at the G-and Central -The State, July 1. Irby Vs. M'Lanrin. Oar Congressmen in Wash? ington Interviewed. Special to The Stale. Washington, July 1.-The an? nouncement of Irby's candidacy against McLaurin was not a surprise here. The South Carolina congress? men all agree that it means a hot, fierce, typical "Reform" campaign, and no member of the delegation is willing to go on reccrd in predicting the result Mr. Latimer said : "I am not com? mited, and I told McLaurin so yes? terday. I have no concealments in the matter. If McLaurio's election means a combination to defeat Till man's re election, I am against him. Until all doubt in that direction is re? moved I have nothing to say, and whiist I may be fresh in legislative experience, I want The State to know that whatever progress has been made in reference to the dispensary bill and whatever hope is entertained of im? mediate or ultimate success, is due entirely to the efforts of Senator Mc? Laurin. " Representative Talbert said ; "I have nothing to say in the matter. The mention of my name in con? nection with the seratorsbip is the unsolicited suggestion of others. I promptly declined to entertain it, and I don't care to discuss the pre? sent situation at this time " Representative Strait said : "I am responsible for the use of Talbert's name as a senatorial candidate, and I represented the controlling sentiments in my congressional district in asking him to be a candidate It will be a fclose race in my district between McLaurin and Irby." - Representative Stokes said : "IrbyVcandidacy seriously compli? cates the situation Irby has great capacity as an organizer. He was the only Reform leader in the State who eucceoded harmonizing faction? al differences in the party, and he bas a strong personal following Representative Wilson said : "It will be a sizzling hot ?ght from start to finish. Irby is one of McLaurin's discoverers. He considered him one time the peer of Calhoun and Kayne in ability and statesmanship, and Mc Laurin's rhetorical efforts in aduiatiou of Irby had much to do with his phenomenal political career." "If he doesn't flunk when the pinch comes," said Mr. Sampson Pope, "Irby will make a g?eat campaign and will be a formidable candidate." The impression here is that the at? tempt to make the tariff the issue in the campaign will force Senator Till? man to the espousal of McLaurin's candidacy. ? - I I IM" Irby Says He's in it. Will Make the Race to Balk "The State." Special to the State. Laurens. July 2.-Ia response to my request this afternoon for a positive statement as to his entering the race for the senate. Ex-Senator Irby said : "The" Democratic party of this State shall have a repr?sentative in the race. ? shall ruo as a Democrat and Reform? er. I contributed to the present con? fusion io politics io Sooth Carolina by my adherence to the Reform movement throughout my administration of six years as chai rman of the party. I was a Si mo a-pare Democrat, as my colleagues amone the Refor? mers will al.test I am farming aod would like to keep out of politics which is not agreeable to me,' but Democracy is oot dead io South Carolina sod it shall have somebody to defend it. It will be Irby or somethiog better at Sumter. My platform will be a tariff for revenue ooly, and the free coinage of silver By way of warning to the State say that the combination of a Populist Republican cannot be forced dowo the throats of the Democrats of the State without a protest. The editor of The State's influence ever some gov? ernors since '76 is not surprising, but when he dictates to the preseot govern? or, who was elected as a Reformer, who shall be the senator of the Demo? crats and names a Populist and calls him an available man, there is some garprise. By tbe way, ? suppose he U satisfied with the position his Populist Republican candidate bas taken on the dispensary bill, as the interview of Congressman Latimer in to day'* State would indicate. Ex-Governor Evans and I have met in a hotel as friends and talked as Democrats, but there is no alliance between us ; I don't know what Governor Evans aspires to. Col. Irby further said : "Gonzales is Mc Laurio's adopted daddy. I admire Gon? zales ability, but his judgment aod Democracy I deplore." F. C. W. The failure of the jury of this county to return a true bill against S. W. Scruggs, guilty, by bis own admission, of official misconduct, ia a surprise and a shock It is official misconduct hardly less in degree tbau Scruggs's. The explanation given is that a majority of the jury were countrymen who had been in political affiliation with Scruggs and that they refused allow him to be tried, flow much they may have been influenced by the reported threat of Scruggs that if he were brought to trial oe would "peach" on "Reformers" higher in offije we do not know. We do know thar the shame of this action does not attach to tbe Co? lumbia jurors.-Tbe State. Silver Remonetized. The Gold Standard Having Brought Disaster, the Nations Will Return t> Bimetallsm. Lindon, Juoe 29.-The next issoe of tbe National Review will contain an article announcing ac important bi? metallic development at tbeUnited States Monetary Commission, consist? ing of Senator Edward 0. Wolcott, former Vice President Adlai Stevenson and General Charles Jackson Paine, which will arrive here io a few days. The commission, according to the National Review, will present to the present British government a joint statement from France and the United States declaring their desire to terminate tbe disastrous ex? periments inaugurated in 1875, and claiming our good will and active concurence. The' Natiooal Review adds : 'We are able to announce that England's reply will be that tbe gov? ernment is willing to reopen tbe Indian mints, to make a further substantial contribution to the rehabilita? tion of silver by extending its use io England, by increas? ing the legal tender of silver, making silver the basis of note?, empowering tbe Bank of England to use its its siiver reserve, and that material assistance and strong moral support will be given to the ob? ject the United States and France have in view IS THE TROLLEY RESPONSIBLE ? ^ Staid Old Charleston Getting Gay All at Once. v The following paragraph in the New3 and Courier caused a greater shock than the annoucement that the hay burner was to make way for the trolley. What next ? "A few days ago complaint was made to the police department of the congregating in one of the most re? spectable neighborhoods of the city of quite a number of white people, who conducted themselves in a most unbecoming manner. The matter wa3 thoroughly investigated, with the re? sult that the chief of police detailed a small squad of officers to make a raid upon the house in question. When the metropolitans called the inmates were surround?d with beer, and whiskey and drinking was being indulged iu to a startling decree. As soon as the presence of the officers became known there was a terrific rush and scramble for a place of safe j ty, but the officers were too fast and succeeded in gathering in every in i mate of the house. The young wo men who were caught in the building were released and told to go their way? [which they all lost no time in doing. 'Some of the parties found in the house were young women occupying highly respectable social positions in the city." Kentucky B. and L's Break? Louisville, Ky , July 2.-Within 72 hours four building and loan as? sociations whose estimated assets and liabilities each foot up over a mil? lion and a quarter dollars, have gone to the wall in this city, finding it im? possible to conduct business under the recent decision of the court of appeals in regard to the legal rate of interest. The Kentucky Citizens' Building and Loan association went under this morning with assets and liabilities of $212,000 each. President Fred Hoertz said that before the con? stitutionality of the law under which building and loan associations operated in this State was attacked, they were prospering, but since the .appellate court had decided that all interest charged or collected over G per cent, constituted usury, that they found it impossible to carry on business ex? cept at a lo89 He said that he thought all, or neatly every such corporation in the State that did business under the law referred to would go under. At the offices of all the building and loan companies in the State the greatest uneasiness prevails and 6tock holders are hourly giving notice of withdrawals It is the general opin? ion among local financiers that the building and oan business has suffered its death blow in Kentucky and thou? sands and perhaps millions of dollars will be lost to the shareholders in these institutions. An Il?inv>?8 preacher stopped a ] prize fight by slapping the face of the sheriff, who was in attendance knocking down the lighters twice and then bumping their heads to- ' gether until they pleaded for mercy This may not be a good way of show? ing that lighting is brutal and to be avoided by the righteous, but it was efficacious as an antidote to the im? mediate evil. Down in Charleston. Pinkussohn Original Package Case What Constitutes an Original Pack? age-The Judge Takes the Case . Under Advisement. Charleston, S. C., Jane 29.-The Pinkussohn original package case came un before Judge Simoofon in the ?nited States Circuit Court to-day. It will remembered that Judge Simonton granted a temporary injunction, on June 19th, restraining the State con? stables from interfering with the liquor of W. G Moore, while in transit or in store of F. S. Piokassohn The case came up to-day as to whether or not tbe temporary injunction should be made perpetual against the State con? stables. The State was represented by Attorney General Barber and the pe? titioner by Messrs. J. N. Nathans and J. N. Nathans, Jr. Mr. Nathans made the first speech. His argument was in the line that an original package was a package put up by the importer, and the right of im? portation implies the right to store and sell, .and therefore tbe right to ship liquors into the State for storage and sale. That as to sales in the night time, in the absence of any act of the Legislature prohibiting sales in the night time, the clause of the Consti? tution does cot prohibit such eales, but only prohibits the Legislature from granting license. The Attorney Geoeral spoke next, and argued that the minute those pack? ages were delivered into the hands of the coDsigoee and offered for sale, they come under the police power of the State and could be regulated .hythe State's jurisdiction. The Attorney General propounded three questions to the court : 1. "What is an original package ?" 2. "What limitations are placed on the right of sale?" 3. "Does the right to sell imply the right to store and offer for 6ale at a regular place of business ?" He then announced the following propositions : 1. Any package containing five gallons or more when imported by a manufacturer or rectifier and wholesale dealer to be an original package within the meaning of the law must bear the stamps and brand required by the reve? nue laws of the United States. 2. Any package containing less than five galions, put up by a manu? facturer or rectifier and wholesale deal? er, is an original package, without stamps and brands, so long as it is in exactly the condition in which it is im-, ported. 3. When liquors are put up in bot? tles, and a number of bottles are pack? ed io a case, the box or case is the ori? ginal package If bottles are shipped in cars packed to straw or otherwise, each bottle oan not be considered an original package and sold as such. The Attorney General cited the case of Brown vs, Houston, and drew from that case the followiog application: It is clear that the liquors stored and offered for sale by the petitioner's agent, at 269 King street, are now incor? porated into the bulk of the property of this State and are subject to the tax? ing power of the State. They have theo ceased to be articles of commerce and are subject to the police power aod as well. The polibe power the taxing power are io many respects identical, and they are in all respect subject alike to the limitations of the Federal Constitution as to interstate commerce. The arguments consumed several hours, and a great maay authorities were cited on both sides. At the con? clusion of the arguments, Judge Si montoo announced that be would take the case under advisement and render a decisioL later. JUDGE SIMONTON DE? CIDES FOR WESLEY. The Agricultural Hail is the Property of Wesley and He Must Have lt. > "' Special to The State. Charleston, July 2.-Judge Simon ton handed down his decision to-day in the agricultural hall case. The court dismissed the claims of the at? torney general for the possession of the hall It refuses to make S. W. Vance the superintendent of the build? ing, which is now used as the State dispensary, a party defendant in the action, for the reaason that he does uot show by what authority he oc? cupies the building, whether by act of the legislature or otherwise. Tho petitioner, thecourt states, claims that he, as a State officer, cannot be dis posseessetl To aid him in tirs claim, he makes the same questions which were overruled in the trial of Wesley vs. Tindall. A warrant dispossessing the dis? pensary or State officials will be is? sued in a few days and Edward B. Wesley put in charge of the building. Bradstreet's Observations. New York. July 2 -Bradstreet's to? morrow will say : Better weather has favorably affected the sale of season? able goods, particularly clotbiog, hats and shoes. Orders for prompt ship? ment are fewer, but the movement of goods for fall delivery has begun. Tbe most encouraging feature is tbe continued and in some instance increas? ed confidence of merchants and manu? facturers that the autumn will bring a large volume of business at higher prices. General trade is reported quite satisfactory at Kansas City, St. Louis, Omaha, Memphis and New Orleans; fair without special expansion, at Mil? waukee, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Sa vannab, Galveston and Chicago; and slow or qaiet at Birmingham, Little Rock, Alaota, Charleston, Cincinnati and Detroit. None of the large East? ern centers record 'an increase. The least favorable feature of the week is found in disappointment at lack of de? mand and reaction in quotations for some varieties of iron and steel. The threatened idleness of 200,000 iron, steel and glass workers and soft coal miners is, except in the latter instance, due. in part, to the season of the year. Exports of wheat (fleur included as wheat) from both coasts of the United States and from Montreal ibis week amount to 2, 676,883 bushels, against 2,156,000 bushels last week. 2,601,000 bushels in the last week of June, 1896. 2,007,000 bushels in the tike week of 1895,and 1,860,000 boshels io.1895, as compared with 3,677,000 bushels in the corresponding week ia' 1893. Exports of Indian corn amount to 1,923.938 bushels this week, as ? compared with 2,281,000 bushels .last I week, 1,698,000 bushels in the corres I pending week last year, 388.000 j bushels ic the like week of 1895, 539. 000 bushels in 1894, and as contrasted i with 870,000 bushels in the corres-" i ponding week of 1893. ; There were 7.024 business failures reported by Bradstreet's throughout the United States during the past six months, a falling off of 578 from the like total last year, with which excep? tion it is the largest aggregate of fail - ? ures ic a like period. The total liabil? ities of individuals, firms and corpora? tions failing amount to $93,656,000, a I decrease of '$11,879,000 from the cor i responding total last year, and of $77, I 204.000 from the liabilities reported io the first half of the panic year of 1893. This total is a'so smalier than in the first half of the year 1884, with which exception it is the largest recorded for the six months period in eighteen years. While there has been only a moderate decline in the number of fail? ures since last year, liabilities have been unexpectedly increased by the cm barrassement of several large maoufac turning concerns in New England within the past quarter. It is worthy of note that the New Eogland States and the Territories alone among groups of States and territories report increas? es io tbe number of failures, compared with last year. J There have been 1,074 business fail? ures reported from the Dominion of Canada to Bradstreet's during the past six moDtbs, 110 less than in the first half of last year, with aggregate lia? bilities amounting to $7.618,000, a decrease of about 7 per cent. There are 32 fewer failures in the province of Ontario and 85 fewer in Quebec, but liabilities of failing traders in the for? mer show a sligot increase, while those ic tbe latter indicate a moderate de crease, oompared with the corr espood ing period last year. -mt -- THE BOARD OF HEALTH AND THE FEVER AT CLEMSON. As yet the cause of the epidemic of fever at Clemson College is not known to the general public, nor will it be until an official report has been made. Yesterday tjfe several members of the State board of health, who went up to Clemson at the request of Gov? ernor Ellerbe lo look into the cause of the epidemic, returned, and they spent most of the day here. While they were at Clemson two more of the cadets died of the fever which carried away the first victims. They declined to have anything to 6ay as to the result of their investi? gations until they make their official report. That will deal with the mat? ter exhaustively. Governor Ellerbe likewise declined to have anything to say until this report has been made It is said now that the fever is ty? phoid instead of malarial, as first sup? posed, and it is generally thought that the water and sewerage at the college are responsible for the epi? demic of the fever. But the official report, which is ex pected to be forthcoming shortly, will deal with the matter fully -The State, July 3. A dispatch from Constantinople, dated Wednesday, says : Twefik Pasha will announce to the ambassa? dors of the Powers to-morrow (Thursday) that the Cabinet main? tains the indefensible right of Tur? key to retain Thessaly by virtue of conquest. CROP CONDITIONS. General, Outlook in the South Less Favorable. Washington, Jaoe 29.-The depart? ment of agriculture's weekly crop bul? letin issued to-day says in part : While somewhat too cool for the best results over the more northerly dis? tricts, with execessive beat in the southern States, the week bas, upon the whole, been favorable for the growth and cultivation of crops and harvesting -of grian. Loeal storms have caused injury to crops in portions of New Jersey, Alabama, Kentucky and Missouri, but tbr damgc has been ^comparatively light Portions of the Ohio Valley. Gulf States, western Kansas and Colorado are needing rain. Cotton bas made rapid growth in Oklahoma and Texas, and a general improvement is reported elsewhere. Io the central and eastern portions of the cotton belt, however, the re? ports generally indicate that the plant is small ana backward. A general rain is much needed over the ceotral and western portions of the cotton belt. Corn has made further improvement during the week io tbe principal corn States, having made rapid growth in Illinois, Missouri. Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. In the more northerly sections the crop has generally im? proved but condones backward. In the southern * States the general outlook is less favorable than previous? ly reported,[having been damaged by hot winds in Texas and by drou'ght tn Ar? kansas and io the east. Gulf States. Solid for Free Silver. Columbus, O , June 30-The Democratic State convention has nominated Ilorace L. Champman for Governor, ex-State Senator Meville C. Shaw for Lieutenant Governor and a full State ticket. It was a free sil? ver convention throughout, and there was not a dissenting voice to the declaration for the free and unlimited coinage, of silver at -the ratio of 16 to 1, without the co operation of any. other nation ; and the name of Wil? liam J. Bryan was mentioned in some way by every speaker as the only sure way of bringing a chorus of ap? plause. Considering that last year the mur? ders and homicides it) the United States are known to have exceeded* 10,000, and in six years have reach? ed 50,000, the hangings by Judge Lynch have not been so numerous as some think. They are less now than ten or twelve years ago In 188b they were 184; in 1891, 176 ; in ?892, 235 ; in 1893, 200. But in 1896 they were but 141. We grant that they were 141 too many. But crime bad increased greatly, from 4,500 or 5,000 a few years ago to more than 10,000 in 1896. The num? ber of hangings by the reg? ular courts was but little over 100. If you suppose that the South alone is guilty you are mistaken Last year Colorado had four lynchings, Idaho 1, Illinois 1, Indiana 1, Min? nesota 7, New York 1, Indian Terri? tory 3. and Oklahoma 7. Lamp shades wheo artistically made c crepe tissue are thinee of beauty. 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