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man an Tas SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, IS50. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's/' THE TKCE SOUTHRON, Established Jone, 126 Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER!, 1897. New Series-Yoi. XVII. So. 5 ?k IRafcm m? Sont?jroit Published Ersry "ffeincs^y, ^ff. C3t-. Osteen, SUMTER, S. C. V TERMS : ?1.50 per anoure-io advance. ADVSRTISSSCSfi?: One Square first ,insertion.$1 00 Brer j subsequent insertion. 0 ) Contracts for three months, or : >nger wi?l be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private interests will be charged foras ad versements. * Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. The Trouble in india. Tbe Insurrection Seems to be Graining Strength. Bombay, Aug. 24.-The report that when the M ob m ads attacked Fort Shabakdar they barned all the sacred books of the Sikh temple there has excited tbe greatest indignation ama^g* th'e Sikhs" throughout the province and has greatly incensed the Sikh troops on * the frontier. The plague is increasing at Poonah. The Bombav Gazette announces that three of the principal chiefs of Beiuchietan, Sirdars, Mehratta whan, Ghomesbakhs and Yarroahomed were arrested on the arrival of the Muskaf bolan mail train, upon which they were induced togo to Qoella, to meet an agent of the governor general, the Earle of Elgin, who had arrived there by special train. AH three of the Sirdars who have been made pris? ionera belongto the Sarawan division of Belachist an and are suspected of intriguing against the government. They ar? known to have been disaf? fected for some time past. The ar? rests hare caused a great sensation among the Mohammedans, and fur ther important developments are ex? pected. Simla, Aug 24-The British officer commanding at Jamieud moved a battery of artillery, escorted by the Fourth dragoons, yesterday to the month of Khyber pass and shelled the enemy at a range of 3,209 yards. The Afridi8.retired, but the battery returned to Jameiud, the officer io command deeming it inadvis? able to enter the pass. Gen. Ellos will begin a concerted move? ment igaiust the insurgent tribesmen to day. Later details of the capture of Fort Maude by the insurgent tribesmen show that the garrison of that place retired at 10:30 p m. yesterday and th?t the fort was burned half an hour later. Tbe garrison reached Col. Westmacott^ relief column coming from Kohat at 11:30 p. m. At the same time that Fort Maude was aband? oned, the Khyber Rifles, garrisoning Fort Jawangera, were compelled to abandon that place. The area of ac? tive fighting is enlarging rapidly. The Afrid?8 last evening attacked with great determination the fortified post at at Sudda, but were not suc? cessful in capturing it. Parochinar was attacked to day. The results of the fighting at Fort Ali-Masjidi are not known. There are two English ladies with the gar? rison at Parochinar. The British military authorities have now m obliged 32,000 men for frontier operations, which with the j frontier garrison, make 42,000 men j available for use against he insur j gents Pearls in Arkansas. Litt'.e Rock, Ark., Aug. 24.-New discoveries of valuable deposits of pearls io lakes and rivers io Arkaosas have added greatly to the excitement already existing over similar discoveries and to-day thousands of people are wading throng h the water in different par's of tbe State searching for the precious gems. Tbe latest aod most sensational discoveries were made in the Arkaosas river aod the creeks, lakes aod bayous near Little Rock, where pearls have beeo picked op raogiog io value from $10 to $800 eaob. Hundreds of people are cork? ing the Saline, White aod other rivers, and many valuable finds have beeo reported. Additional dis? coveries were made on the Fourche river yesterday aod hundreds of people are swarming to that stream. A reporter of The Gazette, wbo spent much time investigating the mat? ter, savs there are 57 streams io the State that are rich io pearls of large size. It has now developed that io the course of a eurveo of Whiie river io 1895, ?5,000 worth of pearls were col? lected by members of the survey io the course of their duties Pearls of from 30 to 50 grains io weight are no uocommoo things to Sad io the possession of country Tads who fish for pearls for pastime. The color of the pearls foood is that of a saline j rose aod the tez tore is first-class. Bahr is Suspended Gov. Ellerbs for the Present Gives No Reason. Governor Ellerbe ye^erday morning made the official announcement that be ! bad suspended Chief Constable Bahr, ; who has been in charge of tbe con? stabulary ID Charleston since tbe pres? ent administration took charge of tbe affairs of the State. The governor stated (bat he bad been suspended until a full investigation could be made into certain matters. Wheo asked, he said that he did not care to discuss the rea? sons for the suspeosioQ of Chief Bahr for the present ; be simply wished to make the announcement. The sus? pended chief arrived io Columbia last night; and will have a talk with the governor to day. Governor Ellerbe says that until the investigation refer? red* to has been held and final action has been taken io Babr'e case, the coo stables in Charleston will be required to report. directly to the goveroor's cffice, when they will receive their in? structions. Qf coarse, while tbe governor would not talk about the cause of tbe suspen? sion, reasons therefor could be heard elsewhere. It appears that Bahr has been doing too mach talking through the newspapers down in CharlestOD, assuming to be the mouthpiece of Gov? ernor Ellerbe. He had, it is said, been warned about this several times. Again, it is said that there is no love lost between Bahr and Chief Martin of the metropolitan police. They arc each charged with the enforcement of the dispensary law in Charleston and experience has taught tba: nothing can be accomplished. when the beads of such departments are fightiog each other. It may be that the encounter that fohr had with Editor Moore of Tbe Critic io the Charleston Critic office last week has something to do with the governor's action. Editor Moore, io a strong open letter, brought the matter and certain charges that he had pre? viously made against Bahr to the gov erpor's attention. GOV ELLERBE OX THE LIQUOR PROBLEM. But the suspension of Bahr was not the only matter of geoeral interest in dispensary circles yesterday. Govern or Ellerbe gave the representatives of the press an interview tn regard to the liquor situation in South Carolina. He said : "I have been very anxious to see the dispensary law given a fair trial ; then if it don't pan out the peo? ple can abolish ii. I believe that the dispensary law is a good liquor law and that the majority of the people are in favor of it, and that it is here to stay. "I am glad to see that a good many of the'towns throughout the State are very much opposed to these original package stores and are passing ordinances re? quiring licenses, privilege taxes, one half of the profits, etc." When asked about the movement of the prohibitionists Governor Ellerbe said: "I don't think that it will amen ot to anything. As between prohibition and high license, I think the people would vote for probitioD, under the high j license system it being impossible to 'have the law enforced. The incentive to make money would be too great and there are so many ways in which to evade sack a law. I don't see why the State legislature, at its coming session, should make any changes save some I plight amendments in the present law. j I will make some recommendations io j regard to these necessary amendments, j b~:c I do not care to say anything about j them jost at present." j Io all that the governor bad to say ; he spoke just as if tbe United States court and Judge Simontoo's decisions did not exist. TO FIGHT THE RAILRAD3. il j Governor Ellerbe prefaced the talk : given above with the announcement tbat the State proposed forthwith to institute proceedings in the State courts against the railroad companies bauliog ; packages ioto the State. The actions j will be brought ander certain sections jj of the dispensary law which the State \ claims have not been effected by Judge ? Simontoo's decision. In speaking of the original package business, Govern? or Ellerbe said : "No man who has any respect for himself, it seems to me, would engage io a business prohibited by the laws of his State." The governor intimated that ?.bese proceedings would be instituted imme? diately It may be that the State, when tbe proceedings are started aod tbe roads show a dispositioo to go into the United States court, will call into play the recently passed act which will nullify all the characters of the com? plaining roads in case it does not sub? mit to thc jurisdiction of the State court.-The State. milli li I - Four persons escaped from the Marion, S C , jail on Monday night. A special to The News and Observer from Greenboro says : Luke Richard- ? son, colored, who attempted an aesault on a young lady named Sirffert in that place about a mooth ago, was sentenced to 15 years in the penitentiary. IRBY-DOESN'T REPLY To Mam Questions Put as to Murphy-Hill Affair. BUT HE BLACKGUARDS Blusteringly 'and Brazenly, An swering a Charge Never Made. A MORTGAGE BUT NO INTER? EST. Georgetown Aug. 25.-Over a hundred white men and twice as many negroes heard the senatorial candidates speak to day. Mr. Evans was interrupted at one. point in his speech by an old fellow, to the amusement of the crowd. Col. Irby throughout his speech frequently caused laughter and was applauded. Mr. John Gary Evans was sorry to see the slim attendance of voters, and attributed it to the fact that the race had narrowed dc^o to one heat The few here, however, looked like thor? oughbreds and men who believed in fair play.. Since McLaurin had been ill the mouths of his opponents had been stopped -from criticising any? thing exceDt bis public records and public speeches, which were public property. But while Mr. McLaurin's opponents were attempting to carry on a high-minded and fair fight against him, his agents in Columbia had opened a McLaurin campaien bureau in Columbia and are sending out al! over the State a circular at? tacking: the records of the other -r v candidates in this race. He did not say that that circular is infamous It's a lie. He hoped that the bureau was being run without the consent or knowledge of Mr. McLaurin, bufe "I say right here, Mr. McLaurin, will be held personally responsible for anything coming from his headquar? ters unless he repudiates the acts of his agents." Why, yesterday he re? ceived a letter from a gentleman in Greenville saying this man Neal had offered him money to distribute this circular. Where did this money come! from? He had no money to subsidize newspapers or pay a man to.write anonymous circulars. These men even took the speeches of the candidates and placed such construe tionB on them as they saw fit. It was unfair and dishonorable to start this kind of a fight four days before the campaign closed. It offered them no time to answer the false charges con? tained in those circulars. But the people have not forgotten the slan? derous and unparalleled campaign of last year. Those charges then were never proved, and yet at the very end of this campaign they were re? vived with evil intent to injure him. He was trying to pitch his fight on a high plane, aud his opponents oughj to be ashamed to resort to such means Neal is a paid officer of the State and should attend to his busi? ness. If, however, he wants to work for Mr. McLaurin let him come on the stump, and not run a bureau for the distribution of such campaign literature ?ince Mr. McLaurin had left the campaign he had no one to attack on the tariff question. Col. Irby en dorsed what he said on the tariff, 90 he could not pitch ;~ 0 him It, therefore, only remain L to him to show that McLaurin's position was injurious to the interests of South Carolina and would lead to the bank? ruptcy of the people at large ; not of a few, but of the 1,100,000 in this State. Mr. Evans then entered on the discussion of the tariff He was soon interrupted by an old man in the audience who asked : "Are you a Democrat ?" Evans-Just wait and judge by what I say A man's actions tells best what he is. A little later, while discussing the leather schedule, the same person said : "You're a da-n lie.'' Evans-Now, old man, I might slap your jaw, but you are an old gray-haired man and I don't want to have anything to do with you Turning to the chairman, Mr. Evans asked that he keep better order as he did not like to be inter? rupted by such "cattle.99 Mr Evans took up the different schedules of the Dingley bill, and in discussing the duty on sugar said McLaurin was with Havemeyer and the sugar trust. He further tried to show that McLaurin was a Republi? can. In conclusion he said he could sit silent and let a duty be on rice, but he was opposed to having a duty on the articles the south buys from the north. In the circular that wa3 being sent cut in McLaurin's interest it was said he favored a direct tax on the head. That was a lie. He 83id he favored a tariff cn the luxuries of the rich, which he thought would pro? duce sufficient revenue to run the government, but in case it did not, be believed a direct tax should be levied on property. A constitutional amendment wouid be necessary tt do this I In his 6peech Mr Evsns repeatec ! what he has said before, that if Mc ? Lam in were elected on the anti-free raw material views he now advocated ! if he were dishonest he could mak< .a million dollars out of ,his vote ot the sugar schedule, provided he hac the deciding vote as Irby had, anc the people could say nothing. Whet he was about to sit down Chairmat S. M. Ward asked bira if by th? above he ment to insinuate that Mc Laurin would accept a bribe. Mr. Evans repeated what he had said. Mr. Ward again asked wat that an insinuation that McLaurin could be bribed. Mr. Evans declared he meant ex? actly what he had said. Mr. Ward for a third time pressed the question "If such an apportuni ty should present itself to Mr. Mc? Laurin do you think he would ac cept a bribe V9 Mr. Evans answered : "My friends Pm not thinkingly thing. I'll thick what I please I never try to answer for another man's conscience." He then repeated that if McLaurin were elected to the senate on the anti-free raw material platform he now advoca? ted, in case he had the deciding vote, he could make a million dollars out o? his vote on sugar, if he were dis? honorable, and the people could not say a word With this statement Governor Evans concluded. Col. Irby's speech was a reply to an editorial in The State of the 23d inst. Col. Irby began : Without meaning to reflect or the able ad? dress of Governor Evans, I say during the illness of Mr. McLaurin, my at? tack on him is stayed. (Applause. ) I appeal to the manhood of all when I say I come to protect a faith? ful wife and little ones and to answer the charges and * insinuations of that pot-gutted hyena, the editor of The State Fellow citizens of Georgetown, I am no hypocrite. I believe a man should be as honest in his politics a? he is in his financial and personal relations to his fellow man. I know to whom I speak as a Reformo: I am not ashamed and God knows [ ara not afraid to say I am where I have always been from 18T6 to now. I have no apologies to make to either Conservatives or Re? formers. I have helped to make the men to whose coattails little politi cins swing. I had the honor to serve the people in the legislature and the United States senate. I had the honor to defeat the great chieftain, Wade Hampton : not that we loved him less, but because we believed his views were not in accord with ours I did my duty while senater ; there is no fly speck on my record. I helped to take the handcuffs off the poor man ; I would't fool you ; I would't lie to you to be President of the United States, much less to go back to the senate. Notwithstanding Mr. McLaurin's absence and my generosity to him, the editor of The State has seen fit to cast reflections on my record. My honor is as dear to me as life. When you touch the honor of man you not only injure that man, but his wife and children ; to breathe a foul slander against a man's honor is to scar it, ihough he stand it and live under its sting. When he dies it reacts against his wife and children. Gon? zales can't realize this because no wo? man in South Carolina would marry him When he places a slur on me, he does my wife and children: an in? justice He has said what no candi? date would dare say and this is my first opportunity to answer him. And yet this man, this miserable mau, be? cause he never could boas me, when he sees the honest men and yeomanry of the State flocking to my support, attempts to blast my character to carry out his infernal and damnable schemes. Now listen to what this mao says. (He then read from The State of the 23d inst., asking him to ex? plain the loan made him by Senator Murphy of New York ) I haven't spoken tc this man siooe 1890, because be was so obnoxious in private conversation. I wouldn't do him any harm. In his absence I would protect him from infamous in? sinuations. That is the way all honor? able men do. The State says it de? sires to ask me a few questions about that Murphy loan, that it has no desire to do me an injustice, so asks them over a week before the election, in or? der to give me time to answer That sounds fair enough, but when tbe devil goes to you be wears a smiie. Gon? zales knew when he asked these ques? tions that my answer could not gee in the couuty papers before the primary. He is playing the hypocrite. He ' doesu't desire for my reply to get be I fore the people. Mere's a washtub of i slop and filth he's dishing oui to thc chronic liars to injure mc. ! He fir6t asks me if I have any docu? mentary evidence as to the amount of! the loan made me by Seoator Murphy ; thc amount of such loan and the inter? est on it, and if my vote was not influ? enced by the loan. In reply Jo tbis I will read tbe following telegram I re? ceived from Senator Murphy : West End, Long Branch, N. J., Aug 24. Hon. J. L. M. Irby, Geor^etow: S.O.: The charge that [ loaned 50a mooe^ for ?he purpose of icflaencieg your vet? io senate at my dictation on Wilson bil or any other measure is absolutely ace unqualifiedly false. EDWARD MCRPEY. Who is Murphy? He is a big heart ed, noble hearted Irishman and a sena tor from New York. I have a dash 0 Irish io me aod it's the best blood ic me. Murphy was elected senator it '94, but wc were friends as far back a? j '92. Oar friendship came about ic this way : Murphy was a frieod of Seo [ ator Hill. I desked with Hill io the senate and was a friend of Hill aod wanted him nominated for Presideot ic '92. The South Carolina delegation, of which I was a member, ail worked for bis nomination and through this my friendship for Murphy sprang up. Murphy is a noble hearted, generous, multi-millionaire. I was sitting one day in the senate cloak room with Senators Blackburn, Murphy aod others when Murphy asked what caused the great revolution io this State io '90. I answered him, "You'll be surprised, bot it was caused by the high rate of in? terest collected from the poor people under the lien law. The merchants simply measured up a man's pile and took it through exorbitant rates." Murphy asked what the rate was and I told him it ranged from 50 to 500 per cent, under the lien law. He ask? ed me about banks and I told him it was 1 per cent, per month. Murphy wanted to know if I was borrowing any and ? answered that I had borrowed ?5,000 from the Loan aod Investment company of Columbia, but had paid a part with my salary un? til I BO ionger owed but $4,100. The interest with the fees and dues I told him amounted to from betweeo 12 and O3 per cent. Murphy said "Why 1 can let you have money at 4 per cent." I told him I would be mighty glad if he would and that I would make bim se? cure. He weot to New York and did not return for three weeks. When he got back I asked him if he had arranged to lend me the money he bad said ho would. Murphy wanted tokoow whai arrange? ments I had made. I told him that I had made the Loan and Investment company safe with a mortgage on all my property and besides was gradually paying off my indebtdeness with my salary I offered, if he would let me have the m an ey to have the mortgages transferred to him and to pay him ?250 per month of my salary, leaving me only $116 a mont tho live on. He said if ? would do that he would let me have the money, bat- that he would charge me no interest on tt We went before the secretary of the senate and I had all my checks made out for three years in advance and it was fixed so that Murphy would get ?250 each month until he was paid off. I then telegraphed Col. Wilie Jooes in Columbia to have Mr. Woodrow to turn over the mortgage he had on my property to him. But before Murphy would let me have the money he bad the papers and everything examined into by his lawyer. f The State said I borrowed ?5,000. That's a lie; it was $4,000, but it's im? material what the amount was. The property which I bad mortgaged was worth from ?25,000 to $35,000 and there was no chance for Murphy to lose his money. I never would have paid that mort? gage with the big rate of interest but for this man. When I did get out of debt I gave a free barbecue to the peo? ple of my county to celebrate. Some one in the orowd called Col. Irby's attention to the fact if he bad had his checks for ?250 a month made over to Senator Murphy for three years that it would amount to about $9,000. Col. Irby accepted the correction and said be had 17 checks, he thought, made out to Murphy, but be bad not had time to look the matter up or pre? pare and figures. Murphy never said anything or at? tempted in any way to influence my vote. He did own a collar and cuff factory and would never have consent? ed to the Wilson bill being passed until his goods were protected. Mur? phy's vote was necessary to secure tbe passage of the bill. A tariff bill is never gotten through without catering I to different industries. For example, ? they gave Murphy protection on collars and cuffs ; Morgan of Alabama pro? tection on iron, and Vest came to me and offered to let me place a reasonable duty 00 rice if I would vote for the Wilson bill. Vest did this whea he thought 1 was going to destroy the bill on account of the differential on sugar. I was at least honest in my views and would not accept- Vest's proposition. Every Democratic senator voted with Mr. Murphy 00 the passage of the bill a'jd ? vorcd with the party. Yet, because I had borrowed money from Senator Murphy this infamous devil in Columbia has tho temerity to say I was bribed. I did no more than the other Democratic senators and I am single out to bs charged with bri? bery. \ Only one time Mr Morpby inti ; mared how he wished me to vote. It 1 was when tho Wilson bill wa<? in con? ference committee. I was at home at? tending the campaign meeting in Lau? rens. Murphy telegraphed to me to know if I would allow Senator James K. JoDes who wae in charge of my pair, to place my vote io favor of a postponement of further tariff legisla? tion until Jaouary. I answered, No. Gonzales attempts to make you believe that there is something rotten with my vote. He does it in order to elect a man who is unable to be present. If ever I received a penny that wasn't right I hope that God will strike me down this moment. "He wbo steals my purse stea?9 trasb. But he who filches from me my good name Takes from me that wbicb neither enriches bim, But leaves me poor, indeed/' This closed Col. Irby's reply to the editor of The State. Col. Irby theo told the people that had George Johnstone or George M ower of Newberry entered this race that neither be nor Evans would have run. Io speaking of the rice industry Col. Irby said that a dajty would do tbe planters no good ; that the only thing to revive the rice industry would be to give them back the negro. In conclusion, he said : Conservatives and Reformers, be men, be Carolinians. Meet this issue like men. Discard your bickerings and bury the past. Lat us lock hands and join hearts and save the Democratic sartv of the State. (Applause.) * ' C. B. S. HE DIDN'T SO VOTE. McLaurin Not Present at the Murray-Moise Voting. In view of the charge which is being persistently made that Senator McLau? rin, while a member of the State board of canvassers, voted to give the certifi? cate of election for congress to George W. Murray over Geo E. W. Moise, the announcement was made at McLau? rin's headquarters yesterday that an ex? amination of the records of the State board of canvassers in the secretary of state's office showed that Mr. McLaurin did oot so vote; that he was oot in the city at the time the vote was taken and had oot been presont and voting for two days previous, being at his borne on iccounc of illness ic his family -The State. Monument io Women. Pledges of Four Thousand Dollars Made. Special to The State. Greenville, Aug. 23.-Tile fka, session cf the United Confederate Vet? erans' convention was held this morn? ing at 10 o'clock, io ao eloquent and wity speech Col. James Arm? strong presented the invitation of the city council aod Young Men's Business League of Char? leston inviting the veterans to hold their convention in that city next spring. The resolutions were unani? mously adopted, Chaplain General Elwell ca!led for pledges for woman's monument from camps tbat had not responded the previous evening, and about ?1,200 more was pledged,making the total amount raised over ?4,000. AU of the old officers were unani? mously re elected and Col. Coward was re elected brigadier-general of the First brigade and Major Carwile brigadier general of tbs Second bri? gade. Resolutions of thanks to tbe re)ple of Greenville were offered by Capt. Des-Portes and unanimously adopted. BUCKLEN'S ARNICA 3ALVE. The best Salve in the world for Outs Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sore, Tetter; Chapped Har.ds, Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Eruptions, acd positively cure Pile* OT no pay required It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money relunded price 25 cents per box. For sale bj Dr J. F. W. DeLorcoe. Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for its great leavening strength and healthfulness. 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