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mm mi k mmzii te Inference Troni His Speech At Mountain Lake Park, Md. Mountain Lake Park, Md., ?ugest : 2.?In the presence of an audience of 4,000 persons assembled in the Amphi theatre of the Mountain Lake Park Chautauquan Association, Wm. Jen nings Bryan this afternoon discussed the pr^ifelemE of government. Mr. Bryan pre^cod his address, which was of two boafcg duration, with a denial j that ine ?sSfe&in seek to become the natks??L^?^&?'d bearer of the Demo cratic -gagf?'^?i* denial being contain ed in the Mi?W?ng phrases : * S??pe will give me credit for the possession of s higher ambition than to be satisfied with the office of President of the United States. I am too democratic to covet an ambition that only;a f?w in one generation can share. I prefer the honor of being a pirivate citizen-, an honor greater than that of a King."j Throughout his discussion of the momentous problems now engaging the attention of the two great politi cal parties Mr. Bryan occasionally tap ped a vein of quiet humor that gener ated smiles on many countenances. "You will recall," be said, "that the Republicans have- nad two telling chances at me, and on this occasion I would seek one at them. In dealing with the theme of * Problems of Gov ernment' I shall endeavor to inject enough religion to suit a Republican and enough politics to carry favor with a Democrat." Mr. Bryan> stated that primarily it was his purpose to deal with i;he moral .phase of the suject He declared that the g?Kftisan discussion of the tariff, free sliver, the trusts and imperialism had been dragged down by campaign orators into the mire of dollars and cents. In civilization, which Mr. Bryan defined as the harmonious development of- the human'race, morally, mentally and physically, he regarded the cultivation ?o# the moral element as a paramount issue and de clared thai history supported bis con tention that moral., decay had preceded the. ruin of every nation that had iallen. * ' A nation, ' ' said Mr.. Bryan, : is strong only in proportion to its moral excellence." He declared that the present Admin istration had developed a tendency to amend Gods' hoi ordinances, "Thou shal* not steal,"" "Thou shalt not kill," "Thou shalt not covet," etc; by adding an apologetic clause, "save when done on a very large scale." Reference was made to the Philip pine question and the conduct of the American soldiery in suppressing the insurrection. He denounced ""imper ialism" at great length* then reverted to the currency question, proclaiming himself as devout" an apostle of free silver as ever. He further denounced what he term ed the plutocracy of wealth, the tariff and injunctions, and said that the only possibifity of suppressing anarchy rested in the education of the people to love their Government. Mr. Bryan stated, with marked em phasis, that if he had the power every ^article manufactured by trusts would ?&e place upon "?;he free list," al though he sincerely doubted1 if this . st.tenuous and radical measure, would -wholly frustrate the trusts. Cholera in the Philippines. Manila, Aug. 3.?While cholera is decreasing in. Manila the reports re ceived from the provinces show a large number of cases and deaths. Last Sat urday there were 605 cases and 525 deaths from cholera in the provinces. Since the outbreak of the epidemic there have been throughout the archi pelago a total of 21,408 cases of chol era and 16,105 deaths. It is believed that many cases were not reported and the total number of cases is estimated at 28,000. Forty-eight Americans and eighteen Europeans have died in Ma nila since the outbreak. How the Friars May Leave. Rome, August L?The Osservatore,. Romano, the Vatican organ, reproduc ing an interview with th? Right Rev. Thomas O'Gorman, Bishop, of Sioux Falls, S. D., concerning the Taft negotiations, says that those negotia tions were happily ended, and adds: "Thejgift of tbe Pope to the President is proof that all was concluded accord ing to the desires of the Vatican." According to statements obtained from reliable sources, it is the intention of the Vatican that the friars of Augus tinian, Dominican, Franciscan and Re colleto Orders, now in Manilla, who number about 450 men, should leave there in small numbers at different times, so that when the moment comes to resume negotiations between Gov ernor Taft and the Apostolic delega tion all the friars will have left the archipelago in such a way that- the friar question will have resolved itself without the necessity of further dis cussion. I The foregoing plan is interpreted as a late, but significant, recognition by the Vatican that Secretary of War Root's first propositions, made to the Vatican through Governor Taft, were tbe most liberal that could be devised for the settlement of the question. The great influence of the religious Orders in Reme must be reckoned with, however, should they think it to their interests to resist these meas- ' uree. From present indications this would seem not to be so, as tbe gene ral of the Augustini ans will soon leave there for the United States, to choose American Augustinians to re place the Spanish members of that Order now at Manilla. Cadillac Mich., Aug. 3.?An excur- j sion train on the Ann Arbor railway made up of 11 coaches and carrying 700 people, was wreckedsix miles north | of this place at 9.45 o'clock this morn ing. So far as known, no one was kill ed, but about a dozen persons were in jured, some seriously. Congaree, Aug. 1.?A very strange and lucky incident happened last Mon day. Several years ago Miss Bessie Seay while in bathing '?n a pool of a stream had the misfortune to lose her ring and could not find it by diligert search then. Monday a fisherman sold some carp to Mr. T. H. Auld, of Eastcver, and while the cook was cleaning the fish the same ring was found in the stomach of the fish. The ring was identified by the owner and delivered to her. THE COMINO COUGH CROP. Decrease of 6.9 Points For The Month of July. In the New York Journal of Com merce and Commercial Bulletin of the 1st was published a comprehensive and carefully prepared statement of the coming cotton crop. From this the following has been taken : A decrease of 6.9 points to a general average condition of 79.6 is indicated for the month of July by special re ports from more than 1,300 correspon dents of the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin. The correspon dents are the same who have heretofore furnished this journal with such satis ' factory and accurate information. Their replies bear average date of July 25 and are given in detail below. It will be observed that they do not ! confirm the confident statements re cently circulated in the cotton trade of excessively brilliant prospects. Ma terial damage has undoubtedly taken place. The great; State of Texas, for instance, shows a falling off of 4.3 SDints,' although it is still something ke 5 points better than at this date a year ago. South Carolina, Arkansas and Tennessee all show a reduction ex ceeding 10 points and Florida reports a decline of 15.9 points. In fact, it is only in the Territories that improve ment is shown, Oklahoma indicating an increase of 2.6 and the Indian Ter ritory of 5.1 points. The returns are summarized in the appended tabular statement, which gives the condition by States so far for 1902: August 1. July 1. North Carolina, 85.4 90.1 South Carolina, 82.8 93.3 Georgia, 78. S 88.9 Florida, 77.6 93.5 Alabama, 82.5 84.0 Mississippi, 77,2 85.3 Louisiana^ 78.7 82.6 I Texas, ' 73.0 77.3 Arkansas, 8L2 91.3 Tennessee, 84.6 95.3 Missouri, . 96.4 99.6 ~ Oklahoma, 88.8 8& 2 Indian Territory, 93.8 88.7 United States, 79.6 86.5 NO OLD CROP COTTON ON HAND. Aside from statements of the condi tion of the plant correspondents were asked to send a specific reply to the j following'question : , " In your vicinity what percentage of last year's crop remains in planters' hands?" . The replies to this question show dearth of old crop stock that could hardly^be exceeded. Indeed, a com pilation of the replies to this question is not in any degree merited, for the reason that there is virtual agreement that old stocks have been entirely sold. The floods in. central and Western Texas, the Brazos and Colorado dis tricts are responsible for a consider able part of the damage in the Lone Star State. But aside from this corres pondents report that drought has caused deterioration in large areas, though copious rains have brought relief in this direction. In fact, some of these sections have received too much rain. Aside from the Territories drought, in fact, constitutes the chief cause of complaint. Gen. J. H. Smith Surprised. San Francisco, August 3.?Gen. Jacob H. Smith, who returned last Friday from Manila, said today of his enforced retirement from the army : "It was an unwelcome surprise to me. I merely supposed that I would receive a reprimand as a result of the verdict of the Court-martial, but nothing more. I have always tried to do my duty in a conscientious man ner and conduct myself as a soldier. I am still in the government's service and not at liberty to discuss recent personal occurrences. I could be as readily courtmartialed now as if I were not on the retired list "The natives of Luzon seem consid erably more civilized than those of the other islands. Some of those in Samar are nothing but savages and, of course, cannot be treated like civilized people. They all would resort to most barbarous methods of warfare at times. Instances of the torture and slaughter of American soldiers are very nn me rots. Any one of my commands knows that they were not unduly severe with the natives. I always have tried to conduct my campaigns accord ing to military regulations." COTTON RATE WAR. Boston, Aug. 3.?The cotton brok ers have united with the cotton manu facturers of New England to fight the action of the Boston and Maine and New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads in their plan to discontinue the through freight tariffs on all rail cotton from southern points to New England mills. A call is about to issue for a meeting of the brokers and mill men for the purpose of preparing a case to be laid before the inter-State commerce commission. The mill men claim that the rail roads have not the right to deprive them transportation facilities so long as available : that the "per diem" claim of the roads?name ly, that they cannot pay 20 cents per day for the use of foreign cars be cause cotton trafile blockades the cars at the mills?is not borne out by facts : and that the object of the reads is to compel shipment of cotton by water in order that they may simply handle cot ton from the wharves to the mills, ob taining their own rates for the busi ness, instead of only a part of the tariff on all rail business. Bloody Battle in Colombia. Washington, August 3.?"Battle still being fought desperately." These were the words contained in a dispatch received at the Colombia le gation tonight from Gen. Salazar, the Governor of the department of Panama, and were in answer to a mes sage asking that official for informa tion regarding the contest' which has been in progress since Tuesday at Agua Dulce, when the Colombian revo lutionists began to attack that place. The officials here are anxiously await ing additional news of this battle. The understanding here is that the Govern ment's force of about seven thousand men is engaged, with a large portion of the revolutionists^ who have in the department of Panama about four tiboneafcd meajn all. GATHOLIGS IN AMEBICI Archbishop Ireland's Sensible Sermon in St. Paul. St. Paul, Minn, August 3.? Arch ; bishop Ireland in his sermon at the J Cathedral this morning adverted to j the discussion now going on "among certain classes of ^American Catholics ! who complain that the interests of the j Church are made to snffer at the hands j of the Government in the newly ac quired dependencies. "Who are they who complain and I protest and call upon Catholics to be up and doing? Are they those who might claim to represent the Church in its general, or even local, interests? Has the sovereign Pontiff spoken? Certainly, he has not complained ; rather has he been heard from in very different tones. Have the ecclesiasti cal authorities in the dependencies in voked our aid? In no instance have they so acted ; where they have been heard from, as in "the case of Port Bico and of Cuba, it was to tell us in plainest words that they had no grievances, although from irresponsi ble sources it had been, on several previous occasions, dinned into our ears that the Church was robbed and persecuted in both those islands. Whatever complaints have been heard come form individual Catholics or from societies of Catholics; in neither case is there warrant to represent oth ers than the men themselves, or the societies themselves, who do speak." The Archbishop urged that Catholics be careful lest by imprudent agitation and repeated mistrust of the Govern ment of America they instill into the minds of many of their fellow citizens the notion that as Catholics they are disposed to form themselves into a peo ple apart, ever dissatisfied with Amer ica and its institutions, ever ready to complain, ever anxious to find a plea upon which to rest their murmurings. The Catholic body, he said, would never prosper in America unless it be thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the country and with a deep love for its welfare. He added : "In the matters in the Philippine Islands we cannot discuss them. They are for the time being put beyond onr reach, since they are the subject of negotiations between the Government of America and the Sovereign Pon tiff. To take at the present such mat ter into our hands would be to mis trust the wisdom and the good will of the Sovereign Pontiff and of this loy al Catholics should not be capable. It would be to treat with discourteous ingratitude the Administration in Washington, and this, as true Ameri cans, Catholics would not permit themselves to do. The logic .of |the situation in the presence of strange complications for Church and State arising from a change of sovereignty in the Philippine Islands, pointed to a mutual conference between the head of the Church and a representative of I the State as the proper and dignified I way to a final and peaceful solution. Leo XIII saw this; Theodore Roose velt saw this. Leo took the initia tive, proposed the conference and ask ed the Government t? expose frankly and thoroughly its views. The Presi dent and his-advisors accepted the proposal. What more could have been done by the Administration * to prove its good will and sense of justice?" Sensational Cas? in Georgia. Macon, Ga., Aug. 3.?Mrs. Eliza beth H. Shotter, wife of S. P. Shot ter of Savannah, left here this morn ing accompanied by her cousin and guardian, George G. Owens of Savan nah, after a couple of days of struggle between lawyers. Habeas corpus proceedings had been instituted in her behalf and just as the writ signed by Judge Speer at Mount Airy reached here, Mrs. Shotter's train was pulling out, for Augusta. Efforts were made to stop her and her guardian at Augusta, but this was not accomplished. The writ of habeas corpus requires that those responsible for Mrs. Shotter's detention at a pri vate sanitarium in Mil ledge ville show cause on the 9th day of August at Mount Airy why she is restrained of her liberty without due process of law. Mrs. Shotter was quite prominent in that city socially, and she has been in the sanitarium for five years. She claims that she was the victim of a conspiracy, and that she has at no time been mentally irresponisble. Illness of Mr. Steyn. London, August 2.?Former Presi dent Steyn, of the Orange Free State, arrived at Southampton, to dayjwith his family on the steamship Cansbrook Castle. He was met by Messrs. Fischer, Wessels and De Buyn, the former Boer delegates. Mr. Steyn was too ill to bear the journey to London, although a special saloon carriage had been attached to the regular boat train for him'. His physicians would not allow him to be interviewed by the press, but Mr. Steyn sent word that he wished to ex press his thanks for the courtesies ex tended to him by the British authori ties since the surrender and for the care given him during the voyage. The former Preisdent was removed on a stretcher to the Dutch steamer Batavier III, which was moored close to the Carisbrook Castle. He will be landed at the Hook of Holland and conveyed in an ambulance to the cot tage reserved for him near The Hague. Touched a Live Wire. Newberry, July 31.?Mr. Gary Johnson, who trims the electric lights here, met with a serious accident this morning. While near the top of one of the electric light poles he accident ally touched a live wire. He was held fast for several seconds and then drop ped twenty feet, striking a bridge be low. He was painfully scarred and bruised, but unless internal troubles result it is not thought it will be a serious matter. Manila, Aug. 4. ?Governo* Band boltz, of Tayadas province, has tele graphed Acting Governor Wright that the combined police forces of five towns attacked and defeated a force under Ruperto Rios, leader of a fanat ical Filipino society. Many of Rios' followers were killed or wounded, but only a few police were hurt. Gen. Davis has arrived here from Minando and had an extended conference with Gen. Chaffee on the Moro situation. 310 TROLLEY LIKE STRIKE. : I It Affects Various Places in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. I Ironton, Ohio, August 3.?The strike of the employees of the Camden Inter-State Electric Railway almost completely tied up the lines from I Guyandotte, W. Va., to Hanging Rock, Ohio, and intsrmediate points today. In seven hours all the non-union men were driven from the cars in this city by violence. Crowds gathered at street intersections, hurling fruit and eggs and other missiles at motormen and j conductors. At noon James Canders, a union man who refused to quit, was taken from his car and dragged - ward the Ohio River. On promising not to resume his car he was escorted home in a roundabout way to escape the crowds. The conductor on the same car and linemen were taken home in cabs to escape the mobs. Cars were held up ;11 over the city until noon, when traffic was suspended. The non-union men also were afraid to run through the crowds at Catiettsburg and Ashland, Ky., and other points on the Kentucky and West Virginia side of the Ohio River. The Ironton strikers ran cabs and secured more passengers than the cars, women who chose that mode of convey ance in preference to street cars being cheered by the crowds. The concert at Bereswood Park the railway company's Pleasure resort,, was abandoned, the ron ton Orchestra declining to play af ter the strike was declared. The bands of union sympathizers held full sway without molestation from the authori ties, not a policeman appearing at any of the points of the disturbance. The local militia will leave for camp at Newary tomorrow and the preservation of order will devolve* upon the officials in case of moire serious outbreaks, almost certain to occur if the cars shall be operated. Seth Vinson, of Huntington, W. Va., general attorney of the Camden Company, arrived here this afternoon and held an informal conference with the strike leaders, lie said the company was willing to recog nize the union, but there were no as surances tonight of speedy settlement. IUI - ?. The Last of Tracey. Spokane, Wn., Aug. L?Harry Tracey, the fugitive desperado, is now in eastern Washington, un wounded, and in good health,'armed with four guns and 200 pounds of ammunition, provisioned for five days and equipped with two horses. Tracey crossed the Columbia river early yesterday morning and is now supposed to be headed toward the Idaho line. Tacey declared that he wants to hold up a bank or rob an ex press car. He says that he has pro mised to give the sum of $5,000 with in one year to the parties who helped him escape from the Oregon peniten tiary. He is mailing his way to the "Hole in the Wall"; country i Wyom ing. When there, hie declares, he will be a thief among thieves and thinks he will be safe. Charleston Boy Wins McLaurin Cadetship. Columbia, Aug. 4.?The central board of examiners here selected to examine and grade the papers of the young men who recently stood the competitive examinations in the seve ral counties for the McLaurin cadet ship in the United States naval aca demy has announced the result. There were 32 applicants in all for the place in 14 counties. The successful appli cant is Mr. Julian H. Collins of 266 Meeting street, Charleston, and the alternates in the order named are as follows: Geo. C. Logan, 37 Church street, Charleston: David G. Cole land, Bamberg; Robt. S. Simons, 16 Broad street, Charleston ; A. S. Zemp, Camden; and Jacob T. Barron, Jr., Columbia. POLITCAL ETHICS. Several years ago Senator Ingalls gave utterance to a. sentiment which is as false as it is infamous: "Politics is a battle for supremacy. Parties are the armies. The Decalogue and the Golden Rule have no place in a politi cal campaign. The object is success. To defeat the antagonist and expel the party in power is the purpose." From appearances it would seem that some of the- candidates for public office in South Carolina have adopted the above code of ethics. To win, no matter by what means, in the race for office is the object. Every principle of morality is ignored. The Bible, with its Decalogue, its Golden Rule, its lofty code of ethics, is trampled upon. Such men are not fit for any office. Their election would be a dis grace to South Carolina and a dishon or to her citizenship. After all, the corruption of politics and the low standard of political ethics is the result of an undeveloped or perverted politicai' conscience in the people,?the men who wield sovereign power at the ballot box. As long as political poltroons ca,n win the elec tion over men of ability and integrity of charatcer, so long will Christian ethics be ruled out of the poli teal campaign, and so long will the purifi cation of politics be an "iridescent dream." The citizetis of a municipal ity or State are responsible for the moral character of their public offi cials. There is a sad corollary to this,?tne moral character of public officials is on a level with the moral character of the citizens who put them in office. A man's vote represents his political ideals and expresses his moral convictions concerning political issues. A man has low political ideals who will cast his ballot for profane swearers and drunkards. What we need in our political life is an educat ed public conscience which will make every vote count for righteousness.? Christian Advocate. Judge Phillips of Cauyhoga county, Ohio, says be will issue naturaliza tion papers to no man who cannot an swer the plain questions he may ask about our form of government and the constitution, as he believes that men who want to become ci tizens should be qualified to vote intelligently, not only to protect their own interests, but those of their fellow citizens. That is what the South is trying to do with qualified suffrage laws, but there is good deal of bowling about it by Re publican politicians on both sides of the line.?Wilmington Star. - GHABGIUS FOR CARS. ? --?-1 The New Rule that Has Been Or dered Into Effect. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 1.?According to the notice previously given shippers by Capt. J. C. Haskell, manager of the Southeastern Car Service associa tion, there was inaugurated today a chejgge of $1 per ear per day, or frac tion of a day, lor delay of cars and use of track on cars not unloaded within 48 hours, computed 10 a. m. of the day after the arrival of the same, or loaded within 48 hours sfter being placed for loading, not includ ing Sundays and legal holidays. On shipments unloaded in deopts, which are not removed by the owners thereof within 48 hours, computed as above, excepting Sundays and holi days, a storage charge of i per cent, per hundred pounds per day, or frac tion of a day, will be made and col lected. Manager Haskeli says, that the rules will be enforced by the South eastern Car Service association with out any discrimination. THE S. ?. L INDEPENDENT. It is Developing its Own Lines and is Having Nothing to do with Any Proposed Combines. Baltimore, Md., August 2.?John Skelton "Williams, president of the Sea board Air Line Railroad, made a fly : ing visit to Baltimore this morning, returning in the afternoon to' New York. While here he spent most of his time in conference with Vice President J. William Middendorf. Being asked by a reporter what part the Seaboard is taking in the pending 1 railway combinations reported in. the South President Williams said : "The Seaboard is now, and will con tinue, absolutely independent We have never entertained a proposition to enter any combination, although we have been approached as to one or the other of the various schemes of this sort. Our attention is entirely absorb ed in developing the opportunities of the Seaboard system." President Williamsjsaid he had just awarded contracts for twenty thousand tons of steel rails; /his in addition to. the ten thousand tons which are now being delivered. Be also said that bids are being asked for about $10, 000,000 of equipments for the line to Birmingham. Engines, coal cars,^box cars and other rolling stock are in cluded in this lot. A Dangerous Joke. A Seattle, Wash., special says: Wil liam Nixon tried to win a woman's confidence in the guise of outlaw Tracy and is nearly dead- as a result of his act. He told an actress in a music hall that he was none other than the desperado, and threatened her life if she told. Later, when he reentered the theatre, he was attacked by police men and the proprietor, Joe Williams, a brother of deputy Sheriff Jack Wil liams, who was wounded in a battle with Tracy at Bothel] July 3. He was pounded into insensibility and has not fully regained his faculties yet. The mistake was discovered when the man's features were compared with a photograph at police headqaar ters. It is almost a miracle that the policeman did not shoot first and in vestigate afterward, as he was told positively that the man was Tracy, and a reward of $7,000. is offered for the desperado, dead or alive. Washington, August 1.?The Gov ernment will print its own postage stamps, as the result of the bids opened at the postoffice department today for the contract; for supplying the adhesive postage stamps for the United States for the four years, be ginning Oct. J next. It has been stat ed that the price asked by the bureau of engraving and printing was exorbit ant, and the work would have to go to a private concern. The .bureau's bid, however, proved the lowest. The only other bidder was the American Bank Note and Engraving Company, of New York, whose bid is estimated to be about 815,000 higher for the four years than the bureau's bid. Gen. Chaffee, in reprimanding Capt. Frederick S. Wild, of the Thirteenth infantry, under the sentence of a court-martial for disobeyng orders of the civil authorities in the Philip pines, said Wild's conduct was but mildly punished by reprimand. Venice, Aug. 3.?A great window in the Basicila of Dominican church of St. John and St. Paul fell in today as the results of having been shaken by a clap of thunder. The church it self, which ranks next in importance to St. Marks, has been declared to be in danger of collapse. It contains fine monuments of the most famous Doges who lie buried there. London, August 4.?In its issue of this morning the Daily Mail says that one of the great porticos of St. Paul's Cathedral threatens to collapse unless thorough repairs are undertaken. The Columbia Reco'rd contains this interesting paragraph: "A gentleman who reads the campaign reports said today that he would have been more interested if Mr. DeCamp, at Gaff ney, had told whether Jim Tillman's check cashed out or not. He said he had one of Tillman's which he had been trying to get cashed for about two years and he would like to know where Mr. DeCamp succeeded in getting his honored. There are one or two others in the same boat. The Charleston correspondent of the Atlanta Constituton says: "The per sistency with which the name of Judge William Christie Benet has been mentioned in connection with the presidency of Clemson College seems to indicate that this well known jurist may be asked to take charge of that institution when the trustees meet next momrh. President Hartzog, after an eventful career, has resigned to become the president of the Uni versity of Arkansas, and ft is neces sary to elect his successor. Many prominent educators have been men tioned, although it is not known just what course will be pursued by the trustees. ' ' ; simrn TiLLRSAN KS VON KOLSITZ, Declares That He W?s Very Much in Earnest As to Charles ton's Democracy. Charleston, Aug. 4.?On the publi cation recently of Senator Tillrnan's letters pronouncing against the candi dacy of Mr. George F. Von Kolnitz for the State senate from Charleston coun ty, the question was raised as to whether Tillman thought Von Kolnitz should be barred from the primary or whether he should be admitted to* run and be defeated by Democratic votes. It was said that a protest might be filed against the candidacy and it was reported by The Evening Post's Co lumbia correspondent that some mem bers of the State committee would vote to sustain such a protest and exclude Von Kolnitz from the primary. To as certain Senator Tillrnan's attitude exactly, the editor of The Evening Post asked him for a definite expres sion on the essential point which had been made. The following answer was receivedvfrom the senator today: Trenton, S. C, Aug. 2, 1902. Thos. R. Waring, - Esq., Charleston, S. C. Dear Sir : I have your letter of July 130, asking whether I am of the opinion shat Mr. Von Kolnitz "should be de nied entry to the Democratic primary on the score of his Republican disposi tion in 1896, or whether he should Joe allowed to run in the primary but sJhould be defeated by Democratic votes for presuming to aspire to office so soon after his affiliation with the Republicans." When the State Democratic conven tion met in May this whole subject was carefully considered by thecommit tee of which I was chairman. In view of the peculiar conditions exist ing in South Carolina, it was unani mously agreed that there would be no pledge exacted of any candidate in the Democratic primary other than the one which we have had all along, ex cept for candidates for congress and the United States senate. It was thought that the .fullest freedom of action should be permitted and for that reason I have never considered for a moment the propriety of denying Mr. Von Kolnitz the right to run, just as Cunningham or Ensor or Geo. W. Murray might run if . they would file their pledges. My, attitude in the matter is easily understood if it be remembered that I am a member of the national commit tee for this State, charged with the duty of watching for the interest of the party. Had I not been national comitteeman, I would not have tackled McLaurin at Gaffney. The election to th? State senate of Mr. Von Kolnitz with or without op position would indicate to my mind that a majority of tbe citizens of Charleston are no longer iDemcerats, and I should be bound to take steps to see that the Republicans who elected him were barred from the Democatic primaries in the future and should not be recognized in the next Demo cratic State convention. We have get to draw the line somewhere and at some time, and we had just as well do it now as any other. En passant, allow me to say: The editor of The Post may be a better Democrat than I am, in his own opin ion, but he would not find' many peo ple in South Carolina who would^gree with him in saying so. The voting for McKinley in 1S96 by gold Democrats was an act of war on the Democratic party, and so far as I am concerned such Demorcats are Re publicans, and ought to be ashamed to claim to be anything else ; but when, -, in addition to voting, there was service' under the Republican committee, as in the case of Mr. Von K?nitz, and an effort to get office, the Democats of the State have a right to expect the people of Chareston to repudiate any such Democracy, and if they fail to do so, without the possibility of a doubt the other Democrats of the State will repudiate them and cease to affiliate with them. I note what The Post has to say^ about my not being in earnest about this matter, and that if Charleston elects Von Kolnitz, I "could not afford to neglect her interests." I never was more serious in my life than when I said what I repeat now, that if Charleston is a Republican city I shall leave the Republicans to take care of it in national legislation. 1 represent the entire people of South Carolina and have tried to do my duty by all of them, but there is a , difference between working with zeal and earnestness and allowing things to drift. If the people of Charleston aje so indifferent or have undergone a change of heart, they should have the manhood and courage to come out in their true colors. If they will organ ize a Republican party in the city and* capture it like brave men, it would make no difference to me, but to sneak around with Democratic colors on and aid the Republican party is too low a type of manhood for my. liking. Yours trulv, B. R. Tillman. Oil Prospecting in Georgia. Atlanta, Aug. 2.?From Charlton county comes the report that Mr. Lucas, who discovered the Texas oil fields, has purchased options on large tracts of lands in that county. It is said that he Believes that there is oil in the foot-hills of the Appa lachian mountains. Ware and Charl ton counties are on the east ridge of that mountain and taper off into the Okeefenokee swamps. Mr. Lucas be lieves that the lowland just this side of the swamp is the place to drill foi: oil. Mr. J. S. Sharp, of Waycross, is convinced that this theory is right and has organized a company to bore wells in Ware county, and that he will strike the same veins that Mr. Lucas does in Charlton county. Rathbone seems to have an idea that what this coantry is longing for now is to hear a pardoned convict express his opinions of Cuba. "Nobody can feel safe,'" he says, "in formulating a prediction of any kind as to what the future has in store for Cuba." But everybody can feel sa*e in formulating the prediction that, like the legendary apple core, there ain't gain' to be no future for Cuba if the Kathbones get their grip on the island.?Courier Journal.