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Sew Series-Yoi. XVII. No. 6
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Ssnator ITLauriii
Speaks to the People Through ?
the State. j
Bennettsville, Sept. 1.-A large
crowd of the admirers of Senator
. McLaurin from the town and county
serenaded bim at his residence this
evening amid great enthusiasm and
rejoicing The senator on account
of bis health, could puly express his
appreciation of the support and con?
fidence reposed in him by his neigh?
bors and the people of the State ;
pledged himself ' to try to prove
worthy of the trust and predicted the
dawn of a new era }n the State
Marlboro feels honored in honoring
her worthy son.
Col Knox. Livingston was called
upon and made a short speech to the
large crowd present, after which re?
freshments were served by the ladies
of the house.
The ladies of Clarendon county
have sen% Senator McLaurin a large
basket of pretty flowers.
Year correspondent interviewed
Senator McLaurin for The State as
follows :
Senator McLaurin was found at his
borne preparing to ga to Mount Airy
White Sulphur Springs. The sena?
tor was asked about his health, and
replied that he was nearly ?*ell and
was satisSed that a few weeks in the
mountains would restore him to his
accustomed good health
"What about the election ?"
"Wei!, it is not.as large a vote as j
usual, ba? I attribute much of that
to the supreme \ confidence of my
friends that I was bound to win any?
way. I am not sn prised at the re?
sult, for np to the tiaae of my illness ;
there was hardly an audience that
we addressed where it was not clear?
ly apparent that I bad * majority.
-My election, so far as I am concern?
ed, is the culmination of four years
of work upon the lines of 'peace and
unity J Ever since I wrote the
'Appelt letter' and inaugurated what
is known as the 'Forty movement7 I
have been looked upon as peculiarly
representative upon the Reform tide
of the same ideas and principles that
Earle did upon the Conservative side. I
An attempt was made this year to
draw factional lines, but it utterly
failed Reformers and Conservatives
worked side by side for my election,
and to day I stand as the representa
tive of no faction, but of the reunited
white Democracy of South Carolina."
.'What have you to say about the j
campaign methods of your oppo
nents ?"
"Well. I do not care, in the hour j
of triumph, while they an? drinking
the bitter dregs of defeat, to be so i
ungenerous as to refer to them in un?
kind terms. The people have turned
their 'pictures to the wall' and politi?
cians of the IFDV Evans stripe are
done in South Carolina, let us hope,
forever. From henceforth it will
take brains, character and attain?
ments to win distinction in this
State. No future c?fmpaign will ever
be conducted upon a vulgar and low
plane I do not think that the toma?
to fig syrup variety of statesmanship
will long obtain, but men of more
ability, more information and greater
usefulness will be selected for public
office and each 'tub will have to stand
on its own bottom.'
"There is one feature of this cam?
paign that was peculiarly exasperat?
ing to me, to wit : the attacks which
were made upon Gov. Eilerbe. I felt
that he was made the victim merely
because of his appointment of me.
I defended him as best I could, and
my opponents soon found that Ellerbe
needed no defense I never witness?
ed a handsomer thing than the re?
buke given Colonel Irby at Walhalla
for his attack upon Eilerbe. These
attacks make my triumphant election
a vindication of Eilerbe as much so
as of me. and I rejoice in it, because
I believe he has made a conscientious
and true chief executive ?"
"What about your tariff views ?"
"The election is a vindication of
my course and I want to say that
there were several splendid editorials
in The News and Courier on the tariff
question, which I have no doubt con?
tributed largely to my success The
News and Courier of iast Monday
was a fine campaign paper, and the
editorial in The State running the
Greenville 2vews 'into a hole,' wa9
the finest thing of the sort that ? ever
read.
"I want to say this : that 60?*far as
my ambition is concerned, it is com
pletely satisfied My only desire
now is to worthily wear the honors
the people have heaped upon me I
am very proud of my vote in Charles?
ton. I love the old cirvfor its brave,
generous people,'its his heroic memo?
ries and the trials which she has borne
so bravely I want to see every
discrimination against Charleston
wiped oat. She has put herself in
touch with the progressive thought
of the balance of the State and she
ought to be 'fed out of the same
spoon' the balance are.
' I wish to thank the people all
over the State for their generous con?
fidence and I s*y to each and every
one that no man shall ever blush be?
cause he ca3t his ballot for me. I
have received hundreds of telegrams
and letters and just as rapidly as I
can I intend to acknowledge person?
ally the receipt of each.
"To Col. Neal, Mr. Blease and
others, who, when I was striken at
Yorkville, took charge of the . fight
and carried it on to victory, I am
unable tc find language to express
the profound gratitude that I feel
They did their work intelligently
and much of the credit is due'to their
surperb management 71
Was ?Real Tidal. Wave.
Senator McLaurin's Majority
Becomes Greater.
The greater portico of tba voie in
rhe State io Tuesday's senatorial pri?
mary has been reported. Toe returns
from missing hoses continued to come
in yesterday and they but served to in?
crease McLaarirj'a majority over all
and make bis ?lection doably sare.
Most of the votes yet to be heard from
are thought to have been cast in
McLaurin's favor. News is as yet
scarce from Coller?n county, which was
expected to give Evans a good vote
But the balk of the outstanding vote
?3 in the sections favorable to Senator
MeLiurio, and knowing ones say that
bis lead will be increased rather than
reduced. Somethiog bas been b?ard
from every county ic the State.
A careful tabulation of all the figures
received shows that out of a total vote
of something over 38,991, McLauric
bas received 25.428, Evans 8.825 and
Irby 4,738. This gives McL turin a
clear majority of 11,865 votes over all.
The total given above represents a
total vote of something over 39,000,
inasmuch as the McLaurio actual
majority over all in Beaufort county
was used io the calculation instead of
the ac'-ual figures. A man who has
bad some experience with South Caro?
lina elections said this morning at 1
o'clock after glancing st the returns
that the total vote, io his opinion,
would fall between 46,000 and 50,000,
bat not more.
The vote is practically complete from
the counties of Abbeville, Aiken, An?
derson, Beaufort, Charleston, Chester,
Clarendon, Edgefield. Fairfield, Green?
ville, Greenwood, Horry, Lancaster,
Laurens. Marion, Marlboro, Newberry,
Oraogeburg, Pickens, Richland, Sa?
luda, Spartauburg, ^Sumter and York,
a total of 24 counties Of
these Mclaurin gets majorities over
all in all but Aiken, Laurens and Soar
tanburg. Greenville and Newberry may
give the opposition a slight majority.
Mclaurin has in fact carried nearly
every county in the State, certainly 32
or 33 out of the 40, no matter what the
outstanding vote may be. Irby
bas crrried L?ureos county by a small
majority, and Eva:;s has carried his
borne county by a majority of 279
Col. Neal's county bas given McLaurio
a majority of 235, while Governor El?
lerbek count piled the votes up for
him. Hcrry has simply turned over
ber vote to McLaurio, very few voters
there seeming to have beard that there
were other ciu.diates in the race.-The
State.
Irby Curses and Threat?
ens Senator Tillman. .
He F.eels Outraged By Tactics of
,:The Man Ho Made" and Warns
Tillman to be on His Guard
When They licet.
Special to The S'ate.
Laurens, Sept 1.-In a short talk
with Cel. Irby this evening, he was
asked "What have you to say about
yesterday's primary ?" To which he
answered : "I have nothing to sny
except that Tillman, pretending to be
hands off, has sneakingly come into
the State and knifed me to the fat. I
made Tillman what he is to-day
I did not ask his support. I
did not except it ; I gave him credit
for being truthful when he said he
was hands off. When he attacked me
in his interview I called him down by
telegrams. In his answer he lied like j
a dog, but I was estopped. I made
this fight to protect the poor people
of the State against the ravages of
the north I expected Tillman would
help because the poor peopie in the
State made us what we are As to
McLaurin, I have nothing to say.
As to Tilliman, ? put him upon notice
that when we meet he may exDecf,
trouble. All that T ask is that he
give the rattlesnakes notice before he
attacks Further than this, I have
nothing to say/'
Evans Attributes His Defeat
to Tillman and Others.
Former Governor John Gary Evans,
who arrived in the ciry Tuesday night,
before 1 cav?os yesterday morning,
spoke of his defeat in the following
terms : ''I entered this rase reluctant?
ly after being assured by my friends
throughout the State that my chances
of winning were remote. But I de?
cided, afrer bearing Mr. McLaurio's
speech at Sumter and upon defiance of
my enemies, to make the fight, but on
the Democratic platform aud to fight fer
those principles which bave always been
dear to every South Carolinian and
upon which rests all our fn'ure prosper?
ity. ? have been gratified by toe man?
ner in which my speeches have been
received throughout the State and I
have received commendation from even
my bitterest political enemas. The
great majority of South Carolinians be?
lieve to-dav in the principles advocated
by me and areoppo-ed to the attitude i
of both Tillman and McLaurin in the
United States senate. Under the lash
of the Conservative press their followers
have voted without regard to principles,
being actuated more by the desire, as
they term it, to destroy factionalism ia
our local politics.
"An inspection of the vote shows
that not 25 per ceDt of the farmers of
the State have voted aod not one-half
of the Democratic votes of the St2te.
The cause of this was the disgust on
part nf the Reformers with the present
State adminisration and its deals and
dickering with men who have always
been their enemies. Added to this
was Senator Tillman'? tariff views and j
his asssrtion that McLaurin was with
him and the defeat of cue meant the
other. Naturally our friends were at
sea and the^ remained at home, refus?
ing to vote against their honest convie j
tioos but at the smaetirae fearing that
an injury might ba done Senator Till?
man who bas posed a3 the Reform
leader, but who has never led ia a crisis.
' I had especie an honorable, honest
fight, but I regret to say that euch was
rot the case. Pating the last four
days of the campaign slanderous circu?
lars were issued to poison the minds of
the people without giving us a chance
of reply. The sickness of my chief
opponent prevented me from attacking
him while he lay in bed writing mani
festoes and endorsing circulars contain?
ing personal attacks upon me. Bot
more of this hereafter. ? have no re?
grets to make for the campaign and no
apologies to offer. I shall continue the
same line and shall not sulk, but take
my defeat philosophically as I have al?
ways done. I have abiding faith io the
belief that the people of the State will,
yet see the iojustice which has been
done the Democratic party by endorsing
a man who bas repudiated the princi?
ples of the party platform."
When asked what were his future
plans Mr. Evans replied: "To saw
wood and say nothing."
rle returned to Aiken.-The State.
Tillman and irby.
"Our *3en*> Still "the Favorite
Of South Carolina*"
(From tbeX-'w York Evening Sun.)
"I cheated thc question of nomina?
tion in, which savea Tillman, who was
to be the nominee.'' Such is said to
be the boast in plantation p]ngliso of
Ex Senator Irby, who declares that he
"hatched Tillman." The Ex-Senator
was speaking of a Democratic Conven?
tion in 188G? which voted first in the
negative oo the question of making a
nomination for Governor, but on a pro?
test on the ground of irregularity
j made by Irby reversed its decision, the
; second vote showing a majority of one
jin favor of making nominations. Irby,
who says with exultation that he
"cheated" at a D?mocratie Convention,
is a candidato for United States ?cnator
from South Cerolica to succeed John
McLaurin, who ia a candidate for re?
election Irby's motive fer washing
dirty Democratic linen in public is re?
venge. If Tillman had kept out of
thc Sen-itorici conte't his cid pa! would
not be mskir;^ history now Bu*, thc
itch fur notoriety on the familiar hust?
ings with thc Wooibats for an audience
s too much ?or Tillman, tie reap
uearsd in the State, thundered
about the dispensary law. indulged
in psrsonaiitiea uiid made various
ioose ano sweeping statements, the
interpretation of which was that ben?
jamin R. Tillman was still the great
man and favorite son of South Carolina,
all of which proved distasteful to irby,
who had been known as the real political '
power in the State; hence Irby's "I j
batched Tillman" and the unwritten ;
history.
Til'mec':* reply is curions. Ose |
would expect, a feilow of his kindly to !
burst out with horrid objurgation* and j
fairly fiiy the audacious irby alive.
Nothing of the sort! Tillman feigns
to be unconcerned, and is mild and
guarded. "I do not believed that ?
was 'cheated in,'" says the Senator;
"irby is a sharp politician and likes to
ra?k." Again : "Irby is a very
shrewd man." and "irby is sharp, very
scarp." Evidently here is suppression
and caution, .as if tba rabid Tillman
were saying under his breath ; "Sup?
pose ? were to cuss Irby, wba' might be
not say next? Bat ? think bc is very
indiscreet.'' No doubi Irby could say
a great deal if he should only run
amuck in the political confidences be?
tween himself and Tillman. "He
proved an excellent lieutenant.ro me,"
says the Senator reflectively. Tillman
doesn't get excited even when asked
whether it is true that Irby "hatched"
him. Extraordinary self-control!
.'Hatch me, indeed!" says the Sena?
tor. It is aimost the soft answer that
turnetb away wrath ! He must be
a queer compound of a roan who is
proud to say that he "batched" Till?
man. And what a nice candidate for
Senator is Irby, who says "I cheated I
the questiou of nomination io !"
_
----MHB- .??-Ulm
TES EUROPEAN WAR
CLOUD LOOMS UP ONCE
MORE.
AN OMINOUS OUTLOOK.
Berlin, Sent. 2 -It is asserted
upon reliable authority that the Ger?
man government will demand from
France an explanation of the dispatch
sent by M. Meline, the French pre?
mier, in reply to the message of
congratulation of the Alsace-Lor?
raine society upon the signing of the
Franco-Russian alliance, in which
dispatch M. Meline expressed the
hope of a reunion of Alsace-Lorraine
with the French Republic
Germany, it is announced also,
will demand satisfaction for the ex?
cesses committed before the German
embassy in Paris on the evening of
President Faure's return from his
visit to Russia.
ALABAMA'S COTTON
CROP SHORT.
Montgomery,AIa., Sep 2 -Reports
have been received at the office of
Commissioner of Agriculture Culver
from fifty-four of the sixty-six coun?
ties in this state as to the condition
of cotton. The output for the state
will not exceed TO per cent, of last
year's crop. There have been heavy
losses during the ia6t two weeks, ou
account of rust. The railroad com?
missioners, who have been over every
railroad in the state recently, esti?
mated the crop even Ipwer than the
above. These are facts as to the cot?
ton crop of Alabama.
HOW VINDICATED?
In my opinion the total vote in the
State will not exceed 65,000. Un?
less it does I shall consider that the
position of The News will have been
fully vindicated. A small vote will
show that the conservatives have not
been fooled in McLaurin and that
they resent the effort that has been
made to choke him down their
throats
Mr. McLaurin is popularly sup
posed to be a little king in the Sixth
Congressional district where he is
known. If he receives in that dis?
trict three fourths of the votes ca^t it
will be a crippling blow to the judg?
ment of The News. His friends have
blatantly insisted that he would car?
ry the district with practical unani?
mity. If his vote falls below 75 per
cent of the total the suspicion that
Mr. McLaurin is not the man to tie
to will be confirmed -Greenville
News.
The old discussion as to whether
the rich are growing richer and the
poor poorer has been revived. If we
are to believe 31 r. Sherman's Forum
article, the contention is virtually
settled Mr. Sherman gives the
amount of wealth in the hands of
persons with over ?500 OOO each in
the United States, aa follows : 200
persons at $20,000,000 each. $4,000,
000,000 ; -100 persons at $10.000,
000 each, $4.000.000,000 ; 1,000 per
sons at $5,000,000 each, ?5,000,000,
I 000 ; 2,000 persons at $2,500,000
each, $5,000,000,000 ; 6,000 persons
at $1.000.000 each, $6,000.000,000 ;
15.000 persons at ?500,000 each,
?7,500,000,000. Upon this basis,
! which is admitted to be lar below the j
i . !
actual truth, we aro confronted with :
the startling result that 24,600 por i
sons now possess $31,500,000,000^
more than half of the national wealth, j
real and personal, according to the
highest estimate any one has yet
ventured to make of the aggregate
amount.-Augusta Chronicle.
Possibilit?s of Serious inter?
national Complications.
United States to Make Claim
to a Large Portion of the
Ptich Yukon Gold
Fields.
Port Townsend, Wash., Sept. 2.
A letter just received from John U.
Smith, United States commissioner at
Dyea and Skaguay, intimates that
government officials now on the way
to the upper Yukon may, by their
official acts, bring on serious interna?
tional complication with the Domin?
ion government. He says :
"It is announced here by a deputy
United States marshal that the
United States government is to make
claims to a large portion of the Yu?
kon fields which have heretofore been
supposed to be in British territory,
and that the territory which is Claim?
ed as being within Alaska includes
Dawson City. The basis to the
claims to be made by ihe United
States officials to the disputed terri?
tory is in the fact that the boundary
line has never been determined, and
the United States authorities are
claiming to possess information as to
the surveys made by the Canadian
government that fixed Dawson City
and a large portion of the gold dis?
trict within Alaska ;;
-NO TROUBLE FEARED.
Washington, Sept. 2.-Gen. Duf?
field, superintendent of the coast and
geodetic survey, who has been prom?
inently identified in determining the
line between Alaska and the British
Northwest territory, is not impressed
with the probability of trouble be?
tween this goverraent and Great Bri?
tain over the location of the Klondike
gold fields. "It is true,'" he said,
when shown the dispatch from Port
Townsend, "that the location of the
line between the two countries has
not yet been formally accepted, but
the location has been very definitely
determined The 141st meridian was
designated, as the boundary between
Russia and Great Britain, and noth
ing remained after our acceptance of
thai understanding but to locate the
meridian
i THE LINE LOCATED.
"The location was made on the
north at Porcupine river by our sur?
veyors and in the vicinity of the
Yukon by the Canadians under Ogil?
vie, and their work then checked by
our men. We found that when Ogil
vie's line crossed Forty Mile creek it
was 15 100 of a sec?nd, or six feet
and nine inches, too far east, and
when it crossed the Yukon it was
fourteen seconds, or 618 feet, too far
west. Thus it may be seen that the
line as located by Ogilvie is substan?
tially correct. There is no possibili?
ty of an error the correction of which
could place the new gold region in
American territory. At the nearest
point Dawson City is 50 miles on
the Canadian side of the Ogilvie
line."
If the treaty now before the senate
providing for fixing the boundary is
ratified, a commissin will be ap
poited ,to perform this duty. It is
considered more than probable that
the Ogilvie survey will be accepted "
Death of Dr. Bratton?
Yorkville, Sept 1.-Special: Dr.
J. Rufns Bratton died at his home in
Qorkville this afternoon, aged about
76 years. Dr. Bratton was one of
the best known physicians in the
State. Ile served with distinction
as a surgeon in the Confederate army,
and was a member of the State board
of health for many years, and a leader
in the councils of the South Caro?
lina Medical Association. Ile was a
native of Yrork County, having been
born at Brattonsville, ten mils south
of Yorkville. He practiced his pro?
fession constantly in this section for
a period of fifty-two years, with the
exception of four years during the
war and two years spent in Canada
to escape arrest on the charge of be?
ing connected with, the Kuklux orga?
nization in the early seventies Ile
was a Mason and a member of the
Presbyterian Church, from which the
funeral will be conducted to morrow
with Masonic honors. The burial
will take place at Bethesda grave?
yard, about one mile from his birth.
y lace.
BUCKLEN's ARNICA 3ALVE.
The bes: Salve In tho TV. rid for Cuts
SOnapped Kands, Chilblains, Corns
and Skin Era] ::-.r.?; and positively euro
Ii io oreo pay required. It is guaranteed to
give perfect satisfaction, or iuo:;ey refunded
price 25 cents per bos. For ja?e by Dr J. F.
?v. o* Lo rna c.
Ik.
Watch Russia !
If the revoiuting native? io India
succeed in following and utilizing the
advantages which they have already
gained over their British oppress?
or?. Russia will soon bc beard from."
For years Russia has heed advancing
upon India. Sae bas abandoned ber
old route, and ibe present movement is
from the Caspian and aims at Herat.
The Russian railway to India may yet
be thc most iroportaot highway in the
world, and may determine tbe fate of
Europe and Asia.
There is little to keep the Russians
out cf Herat, and when they once cap?
ture that city tbe British in India will
be half defeated. This stronghold
commands tbe valleys which lead to
tbs vulnerable part of India.
Why does Russia wait? Heretofore
she bas been stopped by Afghanistan,
whose ruler, the Ameer, is paid ?600,
000 a year by Esg'and for his good?
will. This, however, doss not control,
his tribesmen,and it is now reported that
he and his followers are ready to join in
a holy war against Eogland. In thia
event the British will have serious trou?
ble
Russia's recent alliance with Ger?
many and France makes the situation
all the more interesting. It means
tba* England is left by the other great
powers to shift for herself, and if she
is forced to defend hbr Indian empire
against Russia she can net expect the
aid cf aoy other cation.
It may bs that tbe British will sup?
press the present rebellion by resorting
to prompt and'eruel measures, but they
run the risk of losing their great em?
pire in tbe east, and when they lose
that it needs no prophet to predict the
speedy secession or capture by other
powers of England's colonial poses
sions.
The loss of the Indian empire would be
a heavy blow to England's prestige and
power, and tbeshylocks of London and
the cotton lords of Liverpool and Man?
chester would no longer .dominate tbe
stock exchanges and marketa of the
world.
Every eye is now turned upon Rus?
sia. When tbe Bear tackles the Lion
there will be a battle royal -Atlanta
Journal. ?
Sect'y Hester's Crop Report.
New Orleans, Sept. 1 --Secretary
Hester's annual report shows receipts
of cotton at lall United Stares ports for
year 6.829,100 biles,against 5,420.246
last yerr ; overland 940,482 against
873.465 ; southern consomption taken
direct, 988,382 against 863,635, mak?
ing the cotton crop of the United States
for 1896-97 amount to 8,757,964 bales
against 7,157,346 last year s,od 9,901,
251 the year before, Altogether the
southern mills took 1,042 671 bales, an
increase of 138,000.
Mr. Hester makes the actual cotton
crop of Texas, iocluding Indian terri?
tory 2,247,554. His report on the
crop of the different States ia given as
follws: North Carolina 500,000;
South Carolina 800.000. Georgia 1,.
300,000, Alabama 1.019,000, Florida
60,000. Mississippi 1,226 000. Louis?
iana 575.000. Arkansas 700.000. Ten?
nessee 330.000, Texas 2.248.000.
Total crop 8.758 000
North Carolina above iociudes Ken?
tucky and Virginia ; Tennessee in?
cludes Oklahoma; Missouri includes
Kansas and Utah ; Texas includes
Indian territory.
Hammocks all sizes uod prices.-rH. G
O?teen ? Co.
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Something to Depend on.
Mr. James Jones, of the drug ?rm of Jones
& Son. Cowden, 111., in speaking of Dr. King's
New Discovery, says that las: winter his wife
was attacked with La Grip-e, ard her case
crew so serious that physician? at Cowden and
Pana could do nothing for her. 1: [seemed to
develop into hasty consumption. Having Dr.
King's New Discovery in store, and selling lots
of ir, he took a bottle home, and to the sur?
prise of ail she began to get better from the
first ?lose, and half dozen doi'ar bottles cured
her sound and well. Dr. King's New Discov?
ery for Consumption. Coughs and Colds is
guaranteed to do th:s good work. Try it.
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