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IT IS EA E E A ?TEELY "Old Flag and Cuban Sv/a^," Might Be the Battlecry, FIBS? FB?IT3 0? ?MPEEIAL?SM. G. O. P. Worried Over Thievery a Cab a ami Pears "Werse Larcenies la tlic Philippines?War Taxes Sci to Ee Get Doivrt?Pneamatic Tab? Steal Eea?ca ? Reception o." l?ocr Delearatcs?Deceat Repnblicans D.s srasied V.'ii?i tlie Administration. [Copyright 1300, by Champ Clark.] Messrs. Rathbone and Neely of the United States and of Cuba are the two ?iepublieans now most thoroughly in the public eye. I suggest them as the Republican presidential candidates with the battlecry "The old flag and Cuban *wag." The beauty of such a ticket would be that it would make no sort of difference which stood for first place and which for second; it would be i very much of a whatness. The G. . . is clearly in a bad way when a Republican congress is com- ? pelled to pass a brand new law in or aler to punish Republican thieves who liave been plying their nefarious voca tion in "The Queen of the Antilles." This is one of the f :st fruits of im perialism. What a hoarse hoot Gen eral Weyler must emit when lie reads of the colossal sums stolen by the pets of this administration, which has been supposed to stand especially for sweet Bess, purity, goodness, patriotism and philanthropy! Republican statesmen are not much given to thinking religiously, but to their minds in the present exigency of J their affairs must frequently occur the i ^question, '*If this is done in the green ? tree, what will be done in the dry?" I The Republicans are worried about the j exposures of thievery in Cuba and are I fearful lest worse news of greater lar- ! cen?es come from the faraway Philip pines. It is not only the Democrats who are Stopping cn to them, but honest Repub licans are taking up the cudgels against them. General John B. Henderson, ex United States senator from Missouri, ex-chalrman of a national Republican convention, ex-president of the Pan American congress, ex-brigadier in the i?nion army, has been and is one of the most ardent opponents of the im perial poh*cy. It is very doubtful if there is a profounder lawyer in the United States than General Henderson. In a long and carefully considered ar ticle on the huge thefts of Messrs. j Rathbone and Neely he says inter alia: j With all these guarantees of honesty in the kandling of public fund?, re-enforced by the safe guards of checks and balances suggested by re sponsible accounting officers in an experience of & hundred years, it has been difficult to secure that fidelity and integrity sought and hoped for by the founders o? our institutions. Constitution Ignored. Why should we be surprised, then, at the re cent defalcations and embezzlements in Cuba? Are they not the legitimate consequences of a prc?s and radical departure from the constitution, on which cur institutions and our hopes of fidelity and purity of administration are based? Look at j the order cf the president, made through the postmaster general in July. ISSO, under which Mr. Rathbcne's administration as director gen eral of posts in Cuba has been conducted. Upon him alone is conferred unlimited authority to es tablish pcstof?ces and to appoint postmasters and fix their compensation. He has unrestrained authority to establish post routes and fix the compensation cf all persons and companies carrying the mail. He is to make all contracts touching the questions of transportation and distribution, cf the mail. And his power is equally unlimited to collect and disburse ail mon eys arising from that service in Cuba. Under this ordtr be cc.mbincs in himself, as regards this sub ject, all the functions of the legislative and ex ecutive departments of our Government on an is land containing 2.000.000 people. His sc?e will is the law. He is made an absolute monarch. No such autocracy exists on earth. He is to collect mil lions of dollars and expend them as his own sweet will may dictate. There is no one to inspect his accounts. He is authorized to collect and to hold and disburse as his own treasurer. He can dis turne without an act ci appropriation. He can pay out without a warrant. The lamentable part cf this whole matter is that he who invokes con stitutional limitations to rr-strain this wild de lirium is ::o better than a traitor against his gov ernment. After awhile the traitors will probably t>e in the majority, ar.d then, as heretofore in this uncertain world of ours, treason will again bvcome respectable. Now, please boar in mind whose words those are: not tho.se of a ram pant ami ardent Democrat, seeking some temporary political advantage, net those of a wild eyed Populist who wants the government to take charge of all public utilities, not those of an anarchist, shaking his blood red flag in the face of organized society, but the sober words of an eminent Repub lican statesman, a great lawyer and a man cf affairs. Spanish War Taxes. People need not expect that this Re publican congress will cut down the Spanish war taxes, which were estab lished for temporary purposes. The way things are runnin.i; in Cuba the Republicans need all the surplus on hand and to be on hand or their olii cial thieves will produce an enormous deficiency in the treasury. What Re publicans want to do. and what they probably will do, is to give the com mittee on ways and means leave to sit during vacation under the pretense of considering reductions of the Spanish war taxes, but really to place the Re publican majority on that committee in position to promise all things to all men desiring reductions in ordci to win some votes for McKinley, and then, after the election, do as they please, which will be nothing except to help the favorites of the Republican managers and those who contribute liberally to the Republican campaign fund. It is a <rr^nt confidence game?a thiml c r?gglng .tran:?' to in; played for six months while unjust and unneces sary taxes are wrung out of tin* people. _Nobody exced? f$0~ will be deceived | by sucITa tnmspare?t trick it ?s~too i siinple to delude oven a child. It means ! that ?111 the taxes are to be retained j ana that ali sons of promises are to be made to repeal them. Those who want ho taxes cat down., have but one remedy, and that is ; vote with ike Democrats. We are the party of economy, and the Republicans | arc the party cf extravagance. Hon. Martin II. Giynn of New York i in his short servire in congress has demonstrated that or.e needs to he neither an old man nor an old member of the house to he heard with attention and applause. The irata is that i? a man lias something to say a ad knows how to say it his remarles aro always gladly received. Glynn speaks with the ease of a veteran, and. while ila re is nothing impudent in his mamier, he has ?th? courage to hold his own against : his antagi alsts in debate. ?le is only ? 23 years <d ? and is serving his first term, but his speeches bristle with facts, are orna mentei with classical allusions and enlivened humor. Young, good looking, a close student, he already has achieved a fine rank in the house and is destined to rise higher as his service lengthens. Pneumatic Tube Steal. The pneumatic tube steal was knock- j ed out in the senate. The lion's share ; of the credit is due to that great trib une of the people. Senator Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina, who rode into the ranks of the jobbers with his j pitchfork in rest and won a notable j victory for honesty and economy. The envoys of the South African re publics are here. They received the ; marble heart at the state department j from Mr. Secretary Hay, likewise at ; the White House from President Mc- ! Kinley. The president and the secre- ? tary were delighted (?) to see them as ; private citizens, but as envoys?never! i The Republican senate laughed to j scorn Senator Allen's resolution ad- j raitting them "to the privilege of the ?oor." Speaker Henderson informed ? Mr. Sulzer privately that he wouldn't ; recognize him or anybody else to make j such a motion in the house. And this is the American republic? 1 the land of the brave and the home : of the free?the erstwhile asylum for ; the oppressed of every land! Mean- j time Mr. Secretary of State Hay and i Lord Pauncefote, British embassador, j have agreed to give the senate seven months more in which to ratify the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, to further dem onstrate our subserviency to England. People True to Principle. But the vast outpouring of the people of Washington at the Grand Opera House recently demonstrated beyond all cavil that the great pulsing heart of the nation's capital is right, how ever its official head may wag. It was an audience which any orator might well be proud to address. From Martha's \*ineyard to the Golden Gate, from the St. Lawrence to the Rio Grande, the great body of the people is still true to the eternal prin ciple of human liberty for which our fathers fought victoriously. The fire which they kindled upon their altars 125 years ago has sent its bright and fructifying beams into the uttermost ends of the earth and is lighting the pathway of all peoples into the happiness of civil liberty. The American people, without regard to party affiliations, believe that all : men everywhere should be free, and they do not intend that the government of this puissant republic shall form a j partnership, written or verbal, open or j covert, explicit or implied, with the j cruel murderer of liberty in the heroic ! little republics of South Africa. And they will find a way of making ; their wishes known. j Cannot Be Muzzled. Joseph Choate may gush at London J banquets, diplomats may hobnob ad ? libitum, the London Times may give ! its readers all sorts of assurances of j the administration's friendliness to Jo- ! seph Chamberlain and his jingo crew, but the American people cannot be muzzled, and they will send their sym pathies across sea to the small and di minishing band of liberty lovers and home defenders whose heroism has filled the world with their acclaim. In the humble homes of this broad land linked with the names of Wash ington. Greene and Andrew Jackson are those of Kruger, Joubert and Cron je. and in the geography of liberty Spion Kop. the Modder River and Ma- ! juba IIill are places as conspicuous as j Bunker Hill, King's Mountain, York- j town and New Orleans. If we stand idly by with folded hands ; consenting to the monstrous butchery j of the men, women and children who j are battling for all the heart holds ; dear, we become particeps eriminis in j the bloodiest and most inhuman out- j rage recorded in the book of time. Yet apparently this McKinley admin- j istration has fully made up its mind to j look calmly oa while this devilish work proceeds, because it is so English, don't you know! Por Risr&t and Justice. It is high time for us to throw the weight of our name and prestige into the balance in favor of right and truth j and justice. To temporize longer is to forfeit the j respect of ourselves and of the world. We should speak in a clear and un mistakable tone in favor of liberty and representative government. By long odds the most popular and heroic performance of Grover Cleve- j land's career was his bold defiance of England in the Venezuelan contro versy. On that momentous occasion he had with him the hearts of the Ameri can people, and John Bull, belligerent, domineering and truculent though he ! be. quailed before the righteous wrath | of 70.000,000 freemen and, swearing he i would ne'er consent, consented that ! the Venezuelans should have their ; rights. Thank . .-<? <: : vre a thing of which we may well be proud ' and which challenged th<- admiration ; of the world. And we <lid have our way. We did it. I At that moment we exhibited our- j selves to the world in our best estate, j in pur most heroic attitude. Far be it from mo to recommend G rover as a model for general and in discriminato imitation: but, if I were the spiritual or political adviser of President McKinley?which I regret to say I am not ?I would urge him to raise "the Sage of Princeton** at his own game in dealing with Mr. Bull at the present juncture. A bold, straightforward declaration on Iiis par? thai murder, rapine and larceny in South Africa must cease would put an end to the war in a fort night multiply our fame a thousand fold, save the lives o? thousands of human beine ;, preserve the two tiny South Africa:! republics as the seed of representativo government in the dark continent and place the name of Wil liam McKinley on the scanty list of the immortals. Decent Kepul?iieans Distrusted. Republicans who support the admin istration through good and through evil report get into trouble at every turn about the multiplying scandals and .are sorely worried thereby. Recently Senator Spooner of Wiscon sin, one of the ablest lawyers in public life, who is to do the oratorical act nominating Mr. McKinley at Philadel phia, was making a speech to the conscript fathers recently when Sena tor Eugene Halo of Maine disturbed his peace of mind by interjecting this remark, "I think it wo: id have been better if we had not taught the Cu bans the lesson that has been taught them in the last few months.** and the interesting colloquy that then ensued is thus reported by the Washington Post: 'What lesson?" asked Mr. Spooner in apparent surprise. Cnrn?Tttl of Corruption In Cnba. "The lesson of fraud, peculation, appropriation of revenues, cheating, stealing and the carnival of fraud and corruption in every direction," an swered Mr. Hale. Mr. Halo's incisive and emphatic words rang , through the chamber. Instantly every senator j turned in his scat and faced the senator from j Maine. Mr. Spooner flushed. "It is a little tiresome," he retorted, with some warmth, "for mc to be called upon to reply to a ! Democratic speech on this side of the chamber." j Mr. Hale replied with equal warmth, "I am as good a Republican as tiie senator from Wisccn sin," he exclaimed, "but I do net recognize any fealty or party obligation that compels me to as- I sent to the proposition that everything has gone right in Cuba." "Nobody pretends it," answered Mr. Spooner, j standing with his arms folded and cyin;r Mr. Hale j closely. The two senators were not more than an arm's length from each other. "I would vote tomorrow to withdraw from Cuba," continued Mr. Hale, "and leave that peo ple to establish a.d set up and maintain their own government, ihs time will come when Re publicans will be glad when we get out of this thing without worse things happening than are now." "What does the sonator mean," demanded Mr. Spooner, "when he speaks in general terms of a carnival of fraud and corruption?" "I mean the things disclosed. A bill of particu lars has been filed already. It 13 not the admin istration that is at fault. It is a natural result. There never has been an instance of the setting up of a supreme government in a colony or de pendency that has not been attended with precise ly the things that we have seen in Cuba. Eng land had the same experience in India. Congress is as much at fault. The administration is not at fault. The administration has selected men who are believed to be good men. We went into it with utter confidence, believing that it was an easy thinpr. 1 voted against the peace treaty be cause I believed colonial dependencies would re sult in precisely what has occurred. I am glad to see that the administration is trying to guard it, but I do not want anybody to say that it is an unexpected thing." "Is there any suspicion in the senator's mind," asked Mr. Spooner a moment later, "that the pledge made in the resolution passed by congress as to the temporary occupation of Cuba is not to be kept not cr.lv to the letter, but in the spirit also?" Mr. IInle*s Startling Assertion. "I have very grave suspicions," promptly an swered Mr. Hale. Then he added, speaking very j deliberately and evidently measuring every word: ? "1 think there are very powerful influences in j this country?I think they are largely located in j New York city and are largely speculative, con- ! netted with money making corporations?that are j determined that we s'.iail never give up Cuba. ? | think that is the dangerous cloud in the sky. I think that the time will never come, unless some thing ( arnesi and drastic is done by congress, when the last soldier of the United States will be withdrawn from Cuban soil. 1 do not thin!; the president or the secretary cf war favors holding on to Cuba, but I discover?and the Senator has dif ferent apprehensions from mino if he does not dis cover?very powerful influences, Commercial, mer cantile, money and political, that are opposed to our ever withdrawing from Cuba." Compliment For Hale. In that confab Senator Spooner un wittingly paid Senator Hale the high est compliment he ever received by in timating that the Maine statesman talked like a Democrat. I doubt very much if Hon. Zach Chandler's >_>nato rial son-in-law ever, even in his mo ments of greatest mental exaltation, dreamed of being compared to a Dem ocrat. That is praise so high that his ambition never soared so far skyward. But I suggest that all people- interested in the honor, the integrity and the per petuity of this great republic would j do well to carefully read Senator Halo's remarks, especially that part which re- ? fers to a moneyed conspiracy formed or forming in New York to hold Cuba | permanently without regard to the ; wishes of the Cuban people. If that is attempted, as sure as a gun is made of iron we are in for an interminable and disgraceful guerrilla war. In that case we simply assume the role of Spain and do it wantonly and under false pretenses. We would thereby become a stench in the nostrils of the civilized world. The same day that Hale warmed up Spooner Judge Dc Armond of Missouri ran amuck upon the Republicans in the house and gave them a very bad half hour. The more these scandals are in vestigated the worse it becomes for the Republicans and the better for the (Democrats. In the meantime McKin ley is as anxious to get "congress off his hands" as Cleveland was, but he has too much tact to say so. Ills Ability. Old Crusty ?Von ask for my daugh ter? Why. young man. at your present salary you could not even dress her. Suitor?Oh, yes. sir; 1 could keep her in gloves! Old Crusty?Gloves! Do you mean to insinuate thai my daughter would only wear gloves? Suitor-Pardon me, sir; I ashed only for her hand. THE SITUATION AT PRETORIA. Spenser Wilkinson's Review of Events of the Week, London, June 3 ?Spenser Wilkio ?'' > reviewing the events of the week in ecu! l? A?rica l'or tbc Associated Prc?::, says : "The si?ua'ior. c-n c?e&rJy be understood if io ihn ? sr instance wc neglect tt-c Pretoria reio ?r22)s. ?j ra i?:...vcr..- na^ant-c? from tbe Vasi io two cc'ueD?, ho ht?se?i r- i ; h the n:ai:? body, ???l?wmg rh* ?n^ cf ra; irt ay snc G' 2? F.e::cb aod :> ton keeping ;>azc whh hfn a s&ot; march io thj lei* r.i:d cli^h:;y in acl 1 On Monday ni?b: Cor; Itihefie war. s" Klip River Station, the ?efr r;ip? c^iusu bc-ir.o: south o? K?p Rivers berg. The Boers retreated before Got; Roberts, but resisted the left wir:? **On Tuesday night Gcti Roberts was Gern i.-ton acd the left wing r;car Fiorido, just west of Jebaacss burr. Oo Wednesday morning Go Rob erts summoned Johannesburg sor* agreed to give tweoiy fours delay be fere entering tbe town, which, however, be surrounded with hi? trcops Gens French and Hamilton were kept a^ray ?rem tee ?owo and pushed forward "Oo Thursday Gsn Roberts co?erec! Johannesburg and made a formal cccu p?tion. He heid a review or two divisions, atd theo, leaving a brigade to garrison the town, be put bis maio body into camp to tbe corib, en tbe Pretoria road, on Friday meroing. At that time French aed Hamilton were weii toward Pretoria. Very likely Geo French was east of the railway and the remainder .of tbe army sub?a two e-sy n.a'cbes of the Borr capital 'Meantime, Lord Rober?as commu nications wore wcli covered and tbe Fr^e State forces were receiving: punish ment. On Tuesday Generai Ruodie defeated tbe Free Staters oear Senekal, and recsived reinforcements from tbe 5d brigade. On tbe same day tbe Highland brigade, which bad marched north from Ventersburg, entered Heii brun. ,lOo Thursday tbe Free Stater*, near Fyckbarg, were reported from Maseru to have been surroaoded by General Brabant aod Rundle, which prove? that Gen Brabant bas an infantry brigade, which, though not Rundie;s may be Chcrmside's. "Now to Pretoria. On Wednesday President Kroger left. The Boer troops were dismissed from the forts at Pretoria, and tbe town resolved to surrendor aod made its arrangements Tbe burghers were in a panic and believed that Robert? was closest band. The facts were telegrrpbed here by two independent witnesses "Oar news of Lord Roberts was 24 boors old and there was nothing improbable in his troops being where Pretoria reported them to be There fore we were ready to believe tbat Pretoria would be occupied on Tbars day. Now is it clear that tbe Preioria teiegrarna expected the occupation two cr ibree days too scon. "Gen Roberts must now be before Pretoria, but the evidence is not suffi ciect to enable us to judge wbeiher he has met serious resistance. There might be. slight difficulty if the B ers have recccupied tbe forts, bur, in all probability the entry into Pretoria will not be long delaved. Tbe Boer mili tary power is now completely broken ar.d tbe war practically is 0V2r, altboogh tbe compiete occopaticn of the country will take some time and probably wiil be delayed by many guerilla bands. "President Kroger may form a baod at Lydeoberg, *bieb, however, can do 00 great barm as Gen Bailer will move op to tbe Deiagoa Bay Railway and step Krugerr6 sopplies. So soon as tbe British beve ali tbe railway* flying columns- will quickly make an end to all lecal opposition and the Lycenburg region cao be (Irait- with at leisure v THE BILL AGAINST THE TRUSTS. It is Passed m the House by an Almost Unanimous Vote Washington, June 2.? Only one vote was cast in the house today against the Littlefield anti trust bili to amend the Sherman act of 1890, to make it more effective in the pros ecution of trusts and combinations, their agente, officers or attorneys Mr Mann of Illinois, republican, cast the negative vote The bill, accord ing to the statements of the Republi can leaders, goes to the limit of the authority of congress, under tbe con stitution. AU the D?mocratie minor ity amendments, except one, were defeated That was an amendment declaring that nothing in the act should be conetrued to apply to trades union or labor organizations, which was adooted by a vote of 260 to S Mr Ray of New Yctk, in charge of the bill, raised a point of order against it, but was overruled by the speaker. All voted for the bill ex cept eight RepublicanH?Mesate Ai ri rich of Alabama. Allen ami Little fie'd of Maine, Bailey, Long and Caldei head o? Kansas and Canuou and Hitt of Illinois. The bill amends the Shot man anti rust law eo ae to declare every con nect, combination, in the form of trust or conspiracy in restraint of [ commerce ernong the states or wilh foreigo nations illegal, and every ? party to such contract or combina lion guilty of a crime punishable by a fine of* not less than $50U nor more than $5,000, and by impri?onrnont net less than six months or more tnan two years It provider thai any person injured by a violation o? ; the provisions of the law may reco v. ? er threefold damages Tom definition of 'person" and "persona' in the! pr?sent law is enlarged so ss in ! elude the ag' ?#to, GSicers or attorneys of corporations. ?'- :? r-urp^ses cf commerce it decii:r-.-s rilegai ali cor porations, :??;sgc?:i?:o:?6 formed or car ! iy;;:g on burine:-* for purposes de i ciared illegal by the common ?aw3 ; ; provider ?nat they caay be perpetual ? ;y enjoined irc:n carrying on inter- ! fir*to C?/ram^-ca and forbids -err. the nsc of the United ?Mies mai;s It provides for Vm: producion cf per- j sons and papers ; confer-"; jurise'e ? tion upon United States, circuit and j district courts for the trial o! causes under it, and au.horizes any person, ? firm, corporation or association to j beg;u and prosecute proceedings ander it - ?P- -O-O- -<L. I'M - Van Horn, Tes, dune 3 ? a a figbt between cowboys and Mexican cattle thieves on the Rio Grande, 30 miles south cf here, two Mexicans were killed and Deeaiur Graves, a cowboy, was mortally wounded ORNAMENTS. - ! Jexvelry a Fasci ionnble Accessory to tue Street Cost?me. An immense amount of jewelry is now worn in the street, which is quite con trary to what has formerly been con sidered the best usa;re. The ornaments must have some apparent use, however, in order to bo admirable. Brooches, clasps, hatpins, belt buckles, studs, lon.^ chains to hold the purse or lorgnette, chains for the watch and chatelaine ac cessories are all used, and even the han dle of the parasol or umbrella may often come under the beading of jewelry. It is hardly necessary to say that large and valuable gems are not worn in the street. Antique earrings may often be made into butter.3. stickpins or hatpins and are exceedingly effective. Large, old fashioned brooches are also sometimes PLAITED SACK. available, by their shape and size, fot belt buckles. A novel idea is to make buckles or brooches from antique or curious foreign ! coins, the plain part of the metal beins cut out so that the ligures alone are left, inclosed in the eircle of the rim. A picture is given of a lonjr. straight sack, exemplifying the reigning idea of plaits. The body is laid in stitched folds back and front, which are left free to ward the lower edge. There \< a triple yoke, or. rather, a yoke and two pele rines, with a single revers. The tight sleeves have two scant circular ruffles at the wrist and a stitched strap, and there is a flaring collar. Horn buttons close the collar and yoke and ornament the wrists, and all edges are stitched. The material employed is thin cloth, and the lining is of satin. .Trnic Ciror.LET. Is Alaska Grow ins Warmer? Prospective visitors and gold seekers In the Klondike region may extract some comfort from the discovery, made by the Ilarriman Alaska expedition, that most of the glaciers which abound in that territory are receding. The fact is an indication that the average weather there is growing warmer. If it were growing colder the glaciers would be advancing, while if it were about the same one year with another they would maintain the sam? general position, neither creeping nearer to the sea nor melting away from their termi nal moraines. The rate of glacial re cession is so slow, however, that fur ? overcoats and warm sleeping bags are likely to remain as a part of the neces sary equipment of Alaskan travel for some years to come.?Leslie's Weekly. Old London Sntidays. We have got it into our heads that Sunday was better observed in the puritanical acceptance of the word three or four generations back than it ! is now. It was quire otherwise. All the great ladies when Queen Victoria i came to the throne?the Duchess of Wellington, tin4 Duchess of Rutland, j tin- Marchioness of Salisbury, the La dy Hyde Parker, the Misses Walpole? ; had regular card parties on a Sunday, and there were concerts and receptions all over tin* town announced with be- ! coming regularity in The Morning j Post.?Saturday Review. ' Democratic Party Preparing for Work. TRI? OF THIS STATE'S DELEGATION TO KAN SAS . Preparations for both the State and national campaigns in South Carolina p.n* being: pushed forward by Col. Wilie Jones chairman cf tbe State Democratic erecuiive committee. Ke' proposes have erciything ready for every step to be taken by the State Democracy during the cam pan year up to the time the votes ?iave been counted in the general election Coi Jenes if now completing the details of the trip of the South Caro lina delegation to the national con vention at Kansas Ciiy Tbe trip wiii be made by the Southern rail way, the party leaving here at 11 40* a m., oo July 1st and reaching Kan sas City at 9 45 a ra., July 3d. Tbe railroad fare will be $27. The party will have a chartered Pullman car on which the fare will be $6 50 extra Senator Tiilman is arranging for the quartering of the delegation after Kansas City is reached The dele gation has the right to fili any vacan cies, and for this reason Col Jones hopes that ail of the delegates wiU give notice as early as possible as to whether tbey are going. Things are being gotten into shape for the opening of tbe State campaign on the I3th inst In response to Col. Jones' request a number of the candi dates have already filed their pledges and paid their assessments. Those who bave done so thus far, tberebv becoming official candidates, are as follows: For Congress, Second District?W J Talbert For Congress. Third District?A C Latimer For Governor?G Walt Whitman. For Lieutenant Governor?Cole L. Blease. John Sloan. For Secretary of State? . E Cooper. For State Treasurer?W H Tim merman, Jennings. For Superintendent of Education? J J McMahan. For Comptroller General?J Der ham. For Solicitor Sixth Circait?J Henry. For Solicitor First Circuit? W Thomas. For Solicitor Seventh Circuit? tir* Seaee. The pledgee of most of the other caodidatee will doubtless come in during the next week. Ae will be noted from tbe above, G Walt Whitman is, as usual, in the race for governor ?The State. Peck in Trouble. Paris, June 2?The repablication bere of articles which have appeared in the American press, directed against Commissioner Peck's management, aod charging the misuse of authority by ois* staff, bas started a fund of gossip, but bas resulted in no tangible evidence hat the cbar5e3 are true. While tome are at variance with Mr Peck's ideas, no one insinuates that be is involved io any act not accordance with absolote booesry. Or that be is actuated by aoy but tbe best1*? motive in directing the werk of the American commission. That there is considerable friction aod discontent among tbosc conoeoted with tbe com-v mission aod among some of tbe exhib itors is bevond dcobt, aod this is one of the causes for tbe national commis sioners organizing into a body on Thursday and offering their services to Mr Peck in an effort to smooth cut tbe uneven places. Tbe pay roll is being de creased each week as the various experts and employees complete their work, and the official force will soon be moch smaller. The exposition itself drags along to wards completion, with many exhibits still ocfio!6bed Tbe chief complaint of visitors is cot a lack of sufficient to i-ee, bat tbe absence of any form of amusement except that of viewing tbe txbibits. There is oo cottide music or any of tbe ether attractions whio?i made the Chicago World's Fair each * oight a ecene of gayety and brilliancy. TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. OFFICE OF CO. SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION. Snmter, S. C , May 23, 1900. rj^HE REGULAR examination for Teacb I ere' County Certificates will be held June 15tb (3d Friday). For whites in my effice. For colored in the Court Honse. J. EDWIN REMBF.RT, County Superintendent Education. May 3) Fire Insurance Agency, ESTABLISHED 1866. Represent, among other Companies : LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE, NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE HOME, of New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y. LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $75,000,000. Feb 28.