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L *~ _--?----.-,_ W TUB SDMTEK WATCHMAN, Established April, is50, "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thon Aims't at, be thy Conntry's, thy God's and Trnth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON. Established Jane, 136 I Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUL'S 28, 1897. JXew Series-Yoi, XVI. So. 52 ?_ -_ - . - _ Pabllshed Erery Wednesday, * IV. O. Osteen, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : $1 50 per ano am-in <dvance. ADTSSTISKMEKT: One Square first insertion.$1 00 Svery subsequent insertion...^ 0 Ooo tracts for three months, or longer will : be made at reduced rates. ?H common ica?ions which subserve private - interests will be charged foras ad versements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be Columbia Meeting. Senatorial Candidates Appeal to Ricblanders. They TeU Why They Think They Shy JUbe Voted For. The Richland coo o ty campaign meet* iog was held at Shandon yesterday and .was attended by abo at 350 people. Senator M cL a ar in spok* first and was received with enthusiasm. fie called attention to the fact that thc other candidates were discussing state instead of national issue?, which was not bis fault as be had endeavored tc stick to national issues. There had been salk of rings, bnt be thought the audience woald agree that the only combination was of three or four gen? tlemen to defeat him. They may deny being In a combination, bot they never attack each other and ail pitch into him. He objected to the scheme of time limits, which were being used to choke him off and prevent his foi! reply to the attacks apon him sod his record. He theo plunged into a discussion of the money question, elucidating it thoroughly and showing the great need - for a restoration of bimetallism. Then he turned to the tariff question, apon wricb bjs views had been^o open? ly and persistently misrepresented. It takes about $500,000.000 to pay the' expanses of this government. In the Wilson bill, an income tax was relied upon to furnish part of the revenue of this country. Bot the supreme court declared the income tax unconstitution? al so the expenses Of this government most be met wetb internal taxes and tariff duties. He believed in a tariff for reven oe. He read the tariff plank of the platform on which Bryan rao aod said be stoodopoa it, while Mr Evans stood apoa the tariff plank of the platform upon which Cleveland ran. There can be no tariff for revenue only without affording incidental protection. This should be distributed without dis? crimination agaiost class, section or in? dustry. ?. He called attention to the fact that his opponents tried to create the impres? iona! that he was responsible for the rates of the Dingley bill. Voice : Don't jump up against Evans. McLaorio : No. The people have jumped op against Mr. Evans and they will continoe todo so. (Laughter aod applause) Bat I am not here to make jon ; btit to talk sense and business. He toen showed how be had voted agaiost everything in the Dingley bill, unless it was something that would help the Sooth Wheo he had spoken 45 minutes, tho ebairmaa called time on him. bot the audience refused to allow bim stopped, and be spoke on. He defended his position as to the tariffs on rice aod cottoo, and showed bis opponents knew practically less than nothing of those questions. Evans appeared io the campaign in a crash sait and said he was goiog to wear it all through the campaign, as an object lesson But be had driven him " out of the crash sui ; in ten meetings, and to d*y Le appeared in mourning btso KQ theo discussed the lumber sched? ule and showed how he had helped the South, especially the meo who cut rail? road ties He showed bow Canada objected to tbe lumber duty he and Tillman favored, quoting extracts from Canadian papers Chairman Ray again called time on MeLaorio. Col. J. P. Thomas said the meetiog was io charge of tbe voters aod moved McLiuria be allowed to speak as tong as be wanted. It was carried with a whoop, bat Mclaurin neverthelsss quickly wound up his speech. He pronounced himself unalterably .and emphatically opposed to the Ding? ley bill and its princtole. He would vote agaicst it first, last and all the time Bat if be could do anything to lessen the sectionalism of the bill and make it fairer to the 'South, be woald do so regardless of consequences 'There was great applause at the con? cias! on of bis speech. Mr. Mayfield spoke next. He ob? jected to McLaarin's speaking so long, ^denying the other candidates were com? bined agaiost him. He told of haviog written to Mclaurin before other can- ; didates announced themselves, telling him he ioteoded to rao He then jumped oo The Record, calling it McLaurin's paper, saying i Mclaurin had $500 worth of stock io The ReooVd and that EUerbe and Neal had stock io it also. Mclaurin promptly denied this charge and told the simple troth that Geo R Koester is io sole aod absolute control of The Record and no man oo the face of the earth can dictate to him or tel] bim what to pat in bis paper or not pat in. Mayfield paid no attention to this correction, bat repeated his false charges agaiost The Record, io which oeither McLauain, Neal nor EUerbe has a cent of stock. Mayfield theo made a speech in ad? vocacy of low prices for cottoo, lamber and other things tbe South prod aces. Then knowing the antipathy of maoy Colombians to tbe dispensary law, he attacked it, in a play to tbe galleries, despite the fact that no man io South Carolina is more responsible for the dispensary and metropolitan police laws than is S. Gr. Mayfield. He charged Mclaurin with raoniog an independent ticket for tbe constitu? tional con ve? tien. Mclaurin z That is not so. Mayfield : All right, I withdraw it. Did you write the Populist platform? MoLaarin : That is none of your business He said be wanted to ask EUerbe questions bat EUerbe was not present He repeated bis charge about a state boase combination to back Mclaurin. He said Neal was slated to bethe next governor and that Neal made a bargain to defeat Mciver for re-election. He received much applause. ?rby was greeted with much ap? plause as an old warhorse. He was standing jost where be wae in 1886, the only Original package" in the lot. He devoted 'bis attention next to Gonzales, saying that Gonzales's paper got a telegram wrong, misquoting him, sayiog be weald "now" open factional lines, when the word should have beeo "not," The telegram was respoosible for the error, and not the State. He said May Seid had swiped bis speech If May field r8 speech were worth a half of a damn, be would take it. He was at a loss what to say. Be said tbe combination was agaiost him, the only farmer among tbe candi? dates. He was not against toe others, but was skinning bis own cat for office. W. D Mayfield tried to pull S. G. Mayfield out of the race. Evans came in at the last minute. Duncan hid be? hind a leg and came oat at the last mo? ment. Bat for bim there woald have been no fight agaiost Mclaurin. But for bim and Tillman, Evans would have been a law clerk io "Uncle Bill's" office io Augusta, Mayfield would have been a school teacher in Barnwell, Duncan would have been ploughing in Newberry and McLaurin might bave been a probate judge. He told bow he made Eva_8 gover? nor. He said he knew all the Reform se? crets, and they were afraid to fight bim for fear he woJJd tell all be knew. He told bis "?lu" band joke, applying it to the atteajlt to elect EUerbe gov? ernor 1894. ? He told of the attempt to make Evans keep out of the race for govern? or in 1894, and intimated that he made Tillman support Evans instead of El erbe, bis first choice. He told his dad day joke, addiog that Evans, his boy, bad bit bim, wbicb was wrong. After bis buffoonery bad proceeded awhile, a voter asked hin what it ali bad to do with the United States sen? ate. He replied that be would show bim after awhile. He was running bis campaign to suit himself. He attacked Ellerbeks action in re? ference to the court of inquiry. He then criticed Gonzales, charging him with being ao enemy of the poor people and a friend of negroes. He attacked Mclaurin because he alleged McLaurin opposed Tillman's management of tbe Darliogtoo riot. He attacked Shell, because of his alleged support of Butler. He charged that EUerbe was cheat? ed into the office of Comptroller Gen? eral, when Stokes of Colleton beat him nine votes A judge on the bench could tell the whole story. John T. Duncan was the next speak? er. He would not straddle, but would state his position clearly. He bad been a Reformer as loog as the "orig? inal package." His sympathies were eoirely with the administration of the dispensary, which was superior to thc j barroom. He said McLaurin magnified his im? portance when he said the other four j candidates were combined agaiost bim. j He then pitched into McLaurin, ; charging him with plying to both sides. j He was for Ben Tiiiman against the field. He had criticised Tillman when be iound him wrong. He said Evans was as much of an orphan as Mayfield. irby boasts of being on hand to make the people's fight this year, but where was he last year wheo there was a fight to be made. He discussed national questions and predicted a victory for Bryan and silver io 1900. Next, he attacked McLanrin's tariff views Ex Governor Evans spoke last, com? mencing too late, however, for a fall syoopsis of hts remarks to appear io today's Record He wanted to talk of issues and devoted his attention princi? pally to,McLaurin's tariff views, seek? ing to show they were undemocratic He said the others did not fight each other because their views were identi? cal, and as McLaurin's views were in variance, naturally all four attacked them. He joined in the attack cn Governor EUerbe and said that but for him EUerbe would never bavebeeo gov? ernor, and spoke of his friendship for EUerbe and told of his not asking tbe senatorial appointment,though endorsed by 40,000 white voters. The balance of his speech was devoted to McLaurin. -Columbia Record. Campaigners at St. George's SAINT GEORGE, July 22 -The baby county of Dorchester "behaved itself beautifully to-day. There was an aver? age audience and absolutely the best of feeling The speakers, with snob ami? able and attentive auditors, could hard? ly have broken the harmoniousness of things by saying rude things about each other. There were no new or astounding charges or allegations to-day. All was as serene as it was familiar to the candidates. The candidates today, as far as practicable, remodelled their speeches. The same old charges about Republicanism and the tariff were made. The audience was liberal and gene? rous. As for the voters^ they appear ed to be badly divided, but the primary will show more about that than did to-day's meeting. Bamboozling Bamberg. Senatorial Candidates Make Same old Speeches. BAMBERG, July 23.-Thc campaign meeting here to-day was somewhat more personal than usual. Col. Irby poured bis fire into Senator McLaurin and gave bis young friend. ex-Governor Evans a few jabs. Mr. Mayfield was a"bit more severe than usual. Senator McLaurin and Governor Evans follow? ed eacfi other and devoted practically their entire time to the tariff discussion, both making capital speeches. Col. irby palled up his sleeves and did not joke as mach as usual, and Mr. May? field talked right plainly out in meet? ing. Although there are only about 1,500 voters in this county, the four candidates battled for over four hoars to make the best impression. Bradstreet's Market It9port. New York, July 23.-Bradstreet's tomorrow will say : The widespread confidence that there will be a marked revival in general trade in the fall continues to grow, Ad with it material evidence that it is well founded. Chicago jobbers io clothing, dry goods and shoes, and manufacturers there and elsewhere of pianos, organs, wagons .and farm implements report that fall business bas begun, which is much earlier than usual. The dis? tribution of general merchandise from St. Louis is a little less active, although trade there is favorable. Like reports are received from Pittsburg, notwith? standing dulless io iron and steel. Sa? vannah, in spite of this tr: g the busy season oo plantations; >naha, Milwaukee, Duluth, Minneapolis and St. Paul, where merchants are feeling the influence of a prospectively large crop of wheat, and for Galveston and other points in Texas favorable crop outlook and confidence in an increased movement of merchandise next fall. Demand for shipment to the Klondike gold region has made July the busiest instead of the dullest month in thc commercial year at Saattle, and has had aa influence co sales of staples at Tacoma, Portland and San Francisco. Thomas and Evans Fight, Meeting of Railroad Commis? sion Broken Up by a Fisticuff. Columbia, July 21.-The trouble in the State railroad commisssioo which ha3 been existing for some time culmi? nated to-day ?G a little fisticuff, which broke up the meeting for the day. Chairman \V. D. Evans and Commis? sioner H. ll Tnomas were the beliig cr?nt-i. No one was burt, Mr Evans receiving a scratch on thc face as a re? sult of which a few drops of blood ap? peared. The row started during a discussion cf frc-ight. rates Mr. Thomas brought up the old bone ot contention, the rate on fertilizers, and after bis speech he and Commissioners Wilborn and Evans began joking each other. The pleas? antries soon passed into personalities be? tween Messrs. Thomas and Evans and then they commenced to scrap. To the Newspapers. About a month ago the News and Courier received a highly gratifying communication from a number of gen? tlemen in this city who are interested io educational work, thanking tc for ?'the generous manner io which you manifest your interest in the general education of the youth of the State." Yeeterday we received a letter from one of tbe most flourishing colleges in the State enclosing an advertisement of the college and a check for three dollars to pay for it. The advertisment was long and check short. In addition to the publication of the ad? vertisement, as many times as we could afford for the money, a request was made for such a notice ia the read ing columns of the paper as we could prepare. It is only fair to say that tbe president expressed regret that the ap? propriation for advertising was so small that he could not expend more than the amount transmitted for the purpose But we should like to know wby the appropriation for advertising the col? leges and schools is always so small ? The newspapers in South Carolina are remarkably generous io their treatment of the colleges and schools In no other State of the Union, we dare say, do the newspapers fill so much of their space with free advertising of , tbe schools. In no other State, we dare say again, do the colleges spend less for newspaper advertising As to tbe college which we now have io mind, tbe newspapers have within the last few years, or since its establishment, given it thousands of dollars worth of adver? tising, and given it gladly, and from a sense of public duty, and without the hope or expectatation cf reward. We doubt that it could have suc? ceeded without their assistance -certainly it would not have made its way to the public heart so quickly without the approving words of tbe press. But when it comes to "busi? ness," tbe college is singularly con? tracted in its view as to the value of advertising It it bas been willing to accept all that could be said of it and for ic in the news columns of the papers, but it cuts the appropriation for adver? tising to the bone when it comes to doing business in a business way. And as long as the newspapers accept what it chooses to offer for their services they will never get better paid The president of the college ic view doubt? less proceeds upon the theory that "a bird in the hand is "worth two in the bush," and that a check, however, small in amount will often pay for space really worth from two to three times as much as the amount offered. This is trading, however, and not business. While we are on this subject we should like to suggest to cur Colombia contemporaries and to other newspapers . in the State, that there is a greart deal ; of what is called, "official advertising" that should be paid for, but is done for nothing. Possibly there is some "news" in almost every official state? ment, but the "news" could be cov? ered in a few lines while tbe full state? ment would fill half a column or per? haps several columns. Why waste space on proclamations and orders and declarations and statements of a public nature that are worth so much to the newspapers as "news," but would be worth a great deal more as advertising? The present experiment io campaign reporting bas given so general satisfac? tion to tbe newspapers and the public tbat we have thought it might be ex* tended in the direction we have indi? cated. The Baltimore Sun is a very rich newspaper, and ic bas made a pile of money out of the politicians who have statements to make. We have been told 'bat in active campaign years , the income of thc Sun from this source amounts to as much or more than ?"25, 000. A little condensation in the "ne?js" reports would doubtless have a good effect on the advertising business An associated press for news-gathering is a good thing-an associated press for business purposes might not be a bad thing -New? and Courier. PROFESSIONAL. We reproduce an editorial from the Charleston News and Courier which will be interesting to ! the newspaper men of the State and, incidentally, lo the targe army of other people who have been their beneficiaries. What our contemporary says is well said. The only criticism we have to make of it is that it covers but an inch of the acre of truth. The daily pap?is have in the past con sented to be bled so freely to adver? tise the politicians that some of these gentry are at present touring the j State and denouncing the press on | every stump because they are now no loncrer allowed to use its news columns a? their own. The colleges, given thousands upon thousands of dollars of free advertising, reduce their volume of paid advertising as a token of appreciation. The State and county hardly need to issue a circular of instructions to subordi? nates or of official announcements to the public, so freely do they U6e the newspapers for the publication of these matters, without money an( without price. In this county o 45,000 people, for instance, the coun ty estimate for "books, stationery and printing" for the current year ii but ?400, and we doubt whethe one tenth of that sum will go towarc advertising. Moreover, the count} reports required by iaw to be pub lished in the papers are seldom pub Hshed here-because, unlike the other matter, they would have to b( paid for if they were. All these things are true, but the\ only touch the edge of the evil o deadheadism at the expense of thc newspapers We do not think the press of any other State is so unstint ingly liberal in its advertising of pub lie cr 6emi-public undertakings as the press of South Carolina. Every man or set of men who want to start a mill, or a railrod, or a bank, or a building and loan association, or a laundry or an ice house are assured in advance of the favor of the pa? pers. They are backed and boomed and encouraged and helped from the time they announce their purpose until the enterprise is founded or the scheme bas collapsed. This is right, and we do not complain of it A newspapers owes a duty to its public and ought to aid in everything that makes for the public prosperity But from this sound rule and doc? trine there have grown up abuses which literally sap the press of its life blood, which is money, and bur? den it sorely besides. Take some in stances : An institution or organization college, school, library, military company, anything ?-proposes tc raise funds for itself It engages a lecturer, a theatrical troupe, any? thing I-and the profits of the per? formance are to be divided The newspaper are loaded with "advance notices they drum up the busi? ness, and bring the crowds The performers get their money, the con? cern for which the benefit is given gets its share, the owner of the hall or theatre, the musicians, the printer cf the programmes, get half price at least But the newspapers whose space has been used so freely and whose aid has made the affair a suc cess get nothing We forgot-they get thanks, sometimes 'W(iy down at the end of the resolutions "the press" is sometimes thanked-in a bunch, with no specifications. An entertainment is given for a charitable or semi charitable purpose Those who take part are not profes? sionals They receive nothing for their work But they charge money for the entertainment, and, for the things needed and used-except newspaper composition and newspa? per space-they pay out of the pro? ceeds, if not full rates, at least cost price. There is no thought of cost price for a newspaper An association exists. It has worthy purposes, but not more worthy than the purposes of any good individual. It is conducted for mutual advantage, with incidental advantage to those who are not mern bers It literally loads the newspa? pers down with notices of itself and its work, with announcements of every entertainment, every meeting, repeated so often that they affect the reader-hundreds of columns of it in a year, worth thousands of dollars at advertising rates Of course noth? ing is paid for it-'twere sacrilege to ask money of people "trying to be good !-but as an evidence that the papers are likeed for what they have done they are asked to furnish free copies to the association, thus ena? bling 50 or i00 persons, some of whom might otherwise subscribe, io escape that necessity. And 60 it goes. The space avail? able for real news is cut dows), tbe local page is loaded with "grinds" of interest to comparatively few, and the paper is deprived of an income which may make up the difference between loss and profit, failure and success II seems to us that when newspapers shall do all this booming for half the regular advertising rates they will have made ample sacrifice to benevolence. The politicians are not the onLy people who regard the press as legitimate spoil. Another blossom of deadheadism is the man who nominates somebody for something. It may be for gover? nor or it may be for alderman, for college president or for pastor-the nominating fiend conceives that be cause he is "a subscriber" or because he ' likes the paper and reads a neighbor's copy," his individual views as to the filling; of the office should be printed Yet it is adver? tising, pure and simple ; advertising j somebody for a salary : and it ought ? to be p-iid for, and at pretty stiff ratos, too. So with the man, a candidate for office, who presents his "views'1 to the people through the press; with? out being asked to do so. He is making a bid for election ; his "views" ought to go in under the head of "proposals" and at the regu? lar rates ' "There are others"-lots of them ! They have been running riot through A the columns of the press these many years, and it is really a marvel thai they have not brought more newspa papers to bankruptcy The newspaper has its public duties. Let it perform them But it also has its duty to it? self which is-to live. That is what the public buy it for. But it cannot print the news if it must first make room for all the puffs that people want to put in it. And to get and print the news it needs money. Bot it cannot get the money it needs if it gives away it3 space to deadheaded advertisers. The papers of the State have been driven almost to the dead line. They owe it to themselves to end the imposition which menace them.-The State. The Tariff Fight is Over. The Final Vote Will be Taken in the Senate at 3 p. m. To-day. Washington, July 23.-The final vote on the tariff conference report will be taken in the Senate at 3 p. m. to morrow. A unanimous agreement on this ef? fect was reached in the Senate this afternoon, after an exciting and dra? matic debate. The proposition for the final vote came most unexpected? ly from Democratic sources, the se? nior Senator from Alabama, Senator Morgan, presneting it. It was greet? ed with shouts of "Good, good," from Senators on the Republican side, who, for the first time, saw the path clear for the final enactment of the tariff bill. Senator Morgan's proposition was coupled with one that the Senate meet at 10 a, m. to morrow, in order that speeches may be heard before the vote is taken. This was accept? ed as a whole, and the agreement was formally announced, when Mr. Morgan expressed profound reluc? tance in submitting the proposition, but said he recognized the right of the majority to register their will. The agreement was preceded by the most heated personal colloquy that has occurred during the consid? eration of the tariff bill, Senators Foraker, of Ohio, and Allen, of Ne? braska, joining issue over Senotor Allen's charges of fraud in the Ohio elections of last year. In April, 1896, Dr, Ryder commit? ted a hq/rible murder, shooting down an innocent girl while sitting in her parlor all uoscious of her danger. Af? ter fifteen mooths the case is po?fponed on account of the sickness of counsel. Tiiis does not justify lynching, but it provokes it --Augusta Chronicle Io a fight on Tuesday between Wal? ters H. Altman and Philip Bullard, of Wahee, Marion county, the former was killed. 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