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aJE SUMTE? WATCHMAN, Established April, i860? "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Eatabiiahed june, IS66 ed Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 12, 1903. New Series-Yol. XXIII. So. % tent and Bent* TB. Jenkins, Jr., SONIC TE?IRLE liv, w published Ifcrary Wednesdays I*5\ C3-. Osteen, SUMTER, 8. G. TSRX8 : ?1 50 per aunuca-io advance * ADVIiTISSMEET? ?ne Square first Insertion.?1 CO Svery subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer wilt tie made at reduced rates. All commaoicatione which subserve private interests will be charged for asadvertiements. Obituaries and tributes of respects wiil be zharged for. .FODBTEERTB AMENDMENT. Justice Millers Exposure of the Method of its Adoption. Frederick's Hall, Va., July 16th, 1903. Editor of Tiie Times-Dispatch : Sir.-While HO much is being said ! and done by people who have no es 'pecial love for Virginia or the South, in order that the Constitution of our State may be. torn down and that the fair name of the Old Dominion thus besmirched and held up to the ridi? cule of the world, would it not be well to consider the manner and means through and by which several amendments to the Federal Constitu . tion were adopted, especially those which were the outcome/Of the Civil war and the reconstruction period which immediately followed it? According to Mr. Justice Miller, late associate justice of the Supreme Court of the ' United States, %the thirteenth amendment was proposed to the States by Congress by joint reso? lution February 1st, 1865, before the close of the war and was promulgat? ed by the Secretary of State, pursuant to law, as a part of the Constitution, December lSth, having received the assent of the Legislatures of twenty seven States, being three-fourths of the- States-thirty-six in alL This amendment relates entirely to slavery and involuntary servitude^ which it abolisses." "The Fourteenth Amendment was submitted by Congress to the Stares June 16tfa, 1836, after the majority in that body and President Johnson had separated on the question of recon? struction. Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State, issued two promulgations of this amendment. The first, dated July 20th, 186S. It recited that no law ex? pressly or by conclusive implication authorizes the Secretary of State to determine doubtful questions as to the authenticity of the organization of State Legislatures, or as to the power of any State Legislature to recall a previous act or resolution of ratifica? tion of any amendment proposed to the Constitution. It further recited that the assent of Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, South Carolina and Alabama had been given by "newly constituted and newly es? tablished bodies, avowing themselves to be and acting as the Legislatures respectively" of those States, and that the assent of Ohio and New Jersey, once given, had been withdrawn by subsequent resolution of their Legis? latures, and that it wa3 deemed a mat? ter of doubt and uncertainly whether such resolutions are not irregular, in? valid, and therefore ineffectual for withdrawing the consent of the said two States. The document closed by saying that if the resolutions of the Legislatures of Ohio and New Jersey, ratifying the aforesaid amendment, are to be deem? ed as . remaining of full force and effect, then the aforesaid amendment has been ratified. "This document, issued on the 20th of June, 1868, was not accompanied by the order of publication required by the act of April 20, 1818. On the next day, June 2?, 1868, Congress, by joint resolution, resolved : Whereas, the Legislature of the States of New Jersey, Ohio, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Alabama, South Caro? lina and Louisiana-naming twenty nine States, including the Southern States, supposed doubtful, and the Northern States, New Jersey and Ohio, which withdrew their ratifications (before the result was known or obtained, the votes of all were counted in, making up the two-thirds' majority required by the Constitution), have satisfied the Fourteenth amendment; there j "Resolved, That tha said Four? teenth Amendment is hereby declared I to be a part of the Constitution of ! the United States, and it shall be duly promulgated as such by the -Sec ! rotary of State." Bear in mind that there were in the case of the Fourteenth Amendment I some States which rejected the ' amendment and subsequently ratified it. Their votes were counted in mak? ing the necessary three-fourths. There were other States (New Jersey nd others) which ratified it and witdrew the ratification before the result was obtained. The votes of- all were counted in, making np the necessary two-thirds -required by the Constitution, "since which time many cases have been before the Supreme Court of the United States involving the construction of this article, but in no case has any question been raised as to its constitu? tional ratification and incorporation into the Constitution. " j The fourteenth amendment relates ; to citizenship, immunities of citizens, limitations of State power, deals with apportionment of representation, and, etc. This amendment did not radically change the theory of the relation of the State and Federal governments to each other, and of both governments to the people. The same person may be at the same time a citizen of the United States and a citizen of the State. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or im? munities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amend? ment, and the amendment does not add to these pivileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaran? ty for the protection of such as the citizen already had. At thc time of j the adoption of that amendment ! suffrage was not coextensive with citi? zenship of the States. Nor was it at the time of the adoption of the Consti? tution. Neither the Constitution nor the Fourteenth Amendment made all citizens voters." "The Fifteenth Amendment to the Costitution does not confer the right of suffrage, but it invests eirizens of the United States with the right of exemption from discrimination in the exercise of the elective franchise on account of their race, color or previous condition of servitude. ' ' According to Mr. Justice Miller, in his work "On the Constitution of th? United States," there seems to be much doubt and uncertainty as to whether the fourteenth amendment ! has ever been ratified in the manner required by the Constitution or not. And if it can be so shown would it not greatly relieve the situation in Virignia and other Southern States? and require Mr. John S. Wise and the negro Hayes to ciiange their line of attack as well as their field of opera? tion. The Other Side of Lynching. Ida A. JJ. Wright in the Bingham? ton, N. Y., Herald. We have heard enough pleas for the poor negro: let us now hear some? thing for the children, the beautiful, innocent, young girls, knowing and thinking no wrong, crowned with virgin Njcnocence and purity, flitting about their homes like stray sunbeams from Heaven, when suddenly this dark, nameless horror falls upon them and the sunlight of love and Heaven is lost in a fate^infinitely worse than death. Let us liear something cf the h a pp/ homes which these negro ravishers have destroyed, the fathers and moth? ers who are bowed to the earth with insupportable anguish and a horror so great that the light of day and the mercy of God seem a mockery to them. Lynch law is irregular and un? lawful, but so is the crime which is avenged. There is but one way. Just so long as white girls are ravished by black fiends just so long will negroes be burned at the stake. Let them read the writing on the wall. "Let white girls alone," for just solong as they commit this crime the fathers, brothers and sons will arise in their wrath and scourge them from the face of the earth. The law is to protect law-abiding citizens. Lynching is to avenge wrongs so deep, dark and hellish that no torture that can be inflicted is commensurate with the crime. If the negroes will let white girls alone they can enjoy with other citizens the equal justice of our laws. The remnant of our stock of ham? mocks will be closed out at cost. There a few extra fine hammocks in tho lot. Aug. 7-3t. H. G. Osteen & Co. EATS 'EM ALIVE. Senator Burton of Kansas no Match for South Carolinian. To the great force of Senator Ben Tillman, the Chicago Chronicle, most prejudiced of papers, pays a tribute, while not softly worded, should never theless flatter the self-esteem of the emphatic South Carolinian. Senator Tillman and Senator Bur? ton, be it known, are just now circus ing through the North debating the race question, and the southerner is and has been eating the Kansan alive, so to speak. Commenting upon this fact the Chicago Chronicle says : "Whatever we may think of the ideas and sentiments" entertained by Benjamin R. Tillman, we cannot but concede the force and virility of his character. He has been called a bar? barian, but if he has the barbarian's savagery he has likewise the bar? barian's strength. He is not the sort of man against whom weaklings may be sent. "The people who are managing the hippodroming debate between Senator Tillman and Senator Burton owe it to their patrons-the people who pay money at the box office-to maintain at least a show of a 'contest. They owe it to the country at large to pit against the man from South Carolina some one who is capable of confuting him-some one who can expose the fallacies which Mr. Tillman deals oat with the air of an oracle." These be hard facts, and bearing as they do'upon the friend and adviser of the president, they are worthy to challenge the attention of Mr. Roose? velt as well as the country at large. Having said so much of Tillman, the Chicago Chronicle takes occasion to declare the North is no more pro-ne? gro than the South and adds that Sen? ator Tillman, assuming it is, sets up a man of straw which Burton accepts and seeks to defend, and which the South Carolinian demolishes in spite of the Kansan's attempt to protect it. "There is no more social equality liotween blacks and whites in Chicago than in Charleston. There is no more notion of amalgamating the races by marriage in New York than there is in New Orleans. "The managers of the oratorical soft-glove contest owe it to the north to send a stout and worthy champion against the gentleman from South Carolina. Such a champion will not utter feeble and perfunctory conven? tionalisms about educating the negro. He will not use the language of the tea party or church sociable. He will tell the truth and unmask humbug, apd he will not be partied lar about the exact language he employs in doing so. He will keep Benjamin R. Tillman to the facts and he will make it perfectly clear that while the north is no more 'negrophile' than the south it is deter I mined that the south shall not dis ? franchise the negro and still continue to count him as a basis of representa? tion. ""There are plenty of such men available. If the rhetor? ical circus is to continue their ranks should be drawn upon. Mr. Barton has neither the vocabu? lary nor the personal standing for the task that he has assumed." It seems to us that the South is slow to recognizes the tremendous force of the one-eyed senator. Whoever has watched the comedy of the senate from the gallery has learned that rough thougn he may be, and uncouth, Till? man is the one figure from whom the j able men on republican side shrink, j and the Chicago Chronicle* when it j I says Tillman eats 'em alive, says what j those who know do know.-Atlanta ! j News. i Sad Accident Near Beaufort. ? I Btaufort, August 4.-This after- j j noon young Hampton Lea, the four ! teen-year-old son of Capt. Peter Lea, j was killed by the accidental discharge I of a gun while in a boat shooting, not I far trom his father's residence and store at Burton Station. The boy was accompanied by his little sister, who witnessed the tragic accident, and to j whom he called out to run and tell \ - his father that lie was killed. It is supposed that he was taking j the gun up from the boat with the j muzzle pointed towards him, when the trigger, hitched and the gun went o?T, ! emptying its load into the abdomen j ! and killing him almost instantly. He j was a bright, promising lad, and his j death has caused deep sorrow in our j community, where he often visited and I was well known. i BIT OF FRENCH HISTORY. An Empire Lost for Want of the Right Sort of Riding Habit. An old legend which makes no pre? tence to truth tells ? how a kingdom was lost for want of a horseshoe nail. But a recent volume of sober histori? cal and biographical purpose, written by Count d'Herrison, makes it ap? pear that the Empress Eugenie after the battle of Sedan, lost the chance to preserve the Empire,of her hus? band by not possessing' exactly the right sort of riding habit. It was the evening of September 3, 1S70. The news of the surrender of the French army and of the Emperor Na? poleon at Sedan had spread abont Par? is. The city was excited, and there was talk of a revolution and the ban? ishment ofrthe imperial family. At this juncture Emile de Girardin, a man who was trusted by the Empress and who had had no little experience during the previous changes of Government, arrived at the Palace of the Tuileries. "If your Majesty were to appear on horseback in the midst of the people," Girardin said, "and announce the ab? dication of the Emperor in favor of the Prince Imperial, your^own assump? tion bf the title of Empress Regent, and the appointment of Thiers as prime minister, the Empire might be saved. Something must be done to turn the tide." The Empress accepted the advice. But when the leader of the world's fashion sought for a pro? per costume for her performance it could not be fonnd. The only riding habit in the Tuileries was a fantastic one* of green, embroidered with gold and silver, made for a festal hunting occasion ; and the hat was a not less fantastic three-cornered affair of the epoch of Lonis Quinze. The Empress felt that it would not do to appear in this garb on such an occasion. Her appearance in it might have- the op? posite effect upon the people from that which she intended. The plan had to be given up, the Empress and the Prince Imperial were banished, and the Napoleonic Empire was at an end.-London Society. Tillman on the Negro Question. Senator Ben Tillman debated the negro question with Senator Burton, of Wisconsin, at the Monona Lake as? sembly a few days ago. As usual, Tillman was fiery and spoke entertain? ingly to an audience estimated at 8, 000. He declared that the Fifteenth amendment must be wiped out. "You could never have beaten ns in the four-year war,' the Senator said, "if it had been thought that the negro was to be put on an equality with the white man. We'd have bees fighting yet. It was given ont that the object cf the war was to preserve the Union, and had it been known that its real purpose was to put the blacks on an eqnailty with the whites it could never have succeeded. " A dispatch has this to say of Senator Tillman : He denied the equality of man. When Jefferson promulgated the theory that all men are born free and equal, he said, the negro wsis not constitu? tionally a man. The white man was made to govern, "and" he added emphatically, "we intend to do it." He brought the question directly home to his audience by proposing the organization of a society to pro? mote the immigration of negroes from the South. "We. have over 700,000 negroes in South Carolina," lie said, "and abont 500,000 whites. In Wis? consin yon have 6,000 negroes. Take 20,000 of our blacks-we'li give yon an extra 100,000 if yon want them. Put them in your schools with your children. Put them beside yoe at your tables. Put them in your beds, and see how you like them. The great trouble is that the North, secure in its few negroes, is attempting to poke its great, long Yankee nose into Southern affairs and dictate to the Southern States what to do with the negro. " In reply to the argument that ,the South is responsible foi the negroes in this country and must take care of them. Senator Tillman said this amounted to the enforcement of the old and severe scriptural doctrine that the sins of the fathers shall be visit? ed upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. Bad Rumor About Tillman. Chicago. August G.-Senator Tillmnn reported stranded at way station near Chicago, after being assaulted and robbed.-Special to News and Courier. THE CORNERING OF COTTON. An Effort to Have Congress Pre? vent a Repetition of the Alleged "Piratical Dealing" of the Brown Hayne Clique. It is not surprising to learn that a I movement is on foot for calling upon j Congress for legislation to prevent the ! cornering of cotton. A dispatch from ? Philadelphia states that "prominent mill men" are engaged in such a move? ment and are advised that such action would come within the power of Con j gress on accoant of the interference I with Inter-Sta.teand foreign commerce. On the 30th of July the New Orleans clique held practically the entire supply for that mont a's delivery, which was demonstrated by W. P. Brown's loudly bidding on i:he Exchange for 5,000 bales at 15 cents a pound without getting an offer. This was regarded asa great triumph for the "tmll clique" in making the corner com? plete. They were said to have 820, 000,000 tied up by the embargo from which the capital and labor of nearly all the mills in the conuntry were suffering, and which'was drawing cot? ton back from the manufacturing cen? tres to meet the demand for merely speculative delivery. On general i)rinciples the inter? ference of Congress in any kind of trading is to be deprecated, because it is so difficult to draw the line between what is legitimate and what is not. Some years ago there was a long con? test in Washington over a bill ab? solutely prohibiting dealing in options and futures in natural products of-the soil, and it was finally defeated; but it is hard to see how Congress can reach the power to get up corners without legislating against specula? tion, which, if effective at all, would do more harm than good. Yet some? thing of the kind is likely to be at? tempted unless the Exchanges so order their trading: that corners cannot be made in cotton or grain. Something may be gained if public opinion can ? be so aroused and directed as to make such proceedings disreputable. Buck? et shops, which injure only their foolish victims, are harmless in com? parison with a gang of speculators who at a critical time seize control of the supply of a material upon which an: important- industry depends. The Brown-Havre clique and any allies they may have here or elsewhere will be chiefly responisble if Congress is in? duced to intervene with some drastic measure to prevent their particular form of piratical dealing.-N. Y. Journal of Commerce. Some Big Salaries. Until a few years ago railroad presi? dents received the topnotch salaries in the country. Now the big industrial combinations pay the highest wages. Naturally aa employe of the Standard Oil Company is at the head of the list. He is S. C. T. Dodd, the general so? licitor of the company. His salary and commissions, it is stated amount to 8250,000 a year. Charles M. Schwab, president o? the steel trust, receives 8100,000 a year. There are a dozen more employes of the corporation who receive annual salaries of more than 820,000. S. R. Callaway has probably had the largest wage increase in re? cent years. As president of the New York Central Railroad he was getting a salary of 840,000. The locomotive combine wen him over and as presi? dent of that concern he is said to have a salary of 8100,000. Marcus Daly, as president of the Amalgamated Copper Company, drew a salary of 8100,000. H. H. Rogers succeeded him at an increased salary but the exact, amount is not known. Henry O. Havemeyer, president of the sugar trust, is in the 8100,000 class. C. A. Coffin, president of the General Electric Compay, receives only 875,000. The highest paid railroad president in the country is A. J. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania. He receives 875,000 a year. The::e are several railroad and bank presidents in New York who re? ceive annual salaries of 850,000. Elliott's Emulsified Oil Lini? ment I? the best Liniment on the market for use in the family or on animals. It is very soothing, very penetrating, relieves quickly and heals in an incredibly short time. Try it you will not he disappointed. Large bottle. Prioe. 22 cent?. For sale by all dealers. STATE BANK EXAMINER IS NOT TO BE APPOINTED. Special Board Decided Financial Difficulties Arrangement Will Not Permit of New Office Being Created. The State of South Carolina will for the present have no bank examiner, as has been for some time advocated so heartily. The matter was freely discussed yesterday by a special beard composed* of Gov. Hey ward, Comp? troller General Jones, Attorney Gen? eral Gunter, State Treasurer Jen? nings and Secretary of State Gantt, and the subject formally dismissed. ; A statement was given to the press as fcJows : "The advisory board met to consider I the appointment of a bank examiner : and advise a way for his remunera I tion. After discussing the matter the board came to the conclusion that it was inadvisable to appoint an examin? er for the re?son that the act was so defective as to be inoperative. The act was passed in 1S96 " and each ad? ministration appreciating the difficulty has declined to take any action, and ? each general assembly since that time has acquiesced in the non action of the board. The chief trouble that con? fronted the board was tho fact that the board was required to make a levr upon the capital of the banking and fiscal corporations; but there is no appropriation, and as the constitution specifically requires that money shall be drawn from the treasury only ic pursuance of an appropriation made by law, the board was left without funds to pay the examiner's salary, This is all the more emphasized from the fact that while this law directs that the actual fare shall be paid by the State treasurer, there is no pro? vision as to who shall pay'the salary. The act is further defective in that there is no summary process to compel the banks to pay the assessment. The I law requiring the railroads to pay the j salary and certain expenses of the rail ! road commissioners specifically directs how these funds shall be assessed and collected and how paid out of annual appropriations for that purpose. - The board appreciates the almost impossi I ble condition of obtaining the desired information as to the capital of the banks upon which to base a levy. This duty should be imposed upon the tax officers of the county. "Ir. view of these difficulties and the inaction of former administra I tious, and the acquiescence of the general assembly therein, the board declined to take any action, but re ! quested the governor to call the atten I tion of the general assembly, to the de? fects in the law and await the sugges? tion of that body."-The State, Aug. 6. Concerning Charter Fees. An interesting point has been brough! out in the matter cf charter fees in this state. The Pacolet Manufacturing ! comDany, through its attorney, Mr* E. K. Carson, applied for an increase of capital from one to two million dol? lars. Mr. Gantt held that the fee charged would be the same as if the corporation had not already beerr. chartered and that the company would have to pay $550, the regular amount charged for a corporation of two mil? lion dollars. The scale of fees charged by law is one mill upon each dollar ' of capital stock up to and including 8100,000: the sum of one-half a mill, upon each dollar of tile capital stock exceeding one million dollars. Mr. ! Carson contended that as the mill al j ready had a capiatal of one million dollars that the charge for the increase of capital should be at the rate of one fourth of a mill, or $250. The matter was referred to Judge Townsend, who decided that as the mill had not been capitalized for two million dollars at one time the fee of $550 had to be paid. The case will be appealed before the supreme court by Mr. Carson. Columbia Cor. News and Courier. End of Bitter Fight. 'Two physicians had a long and stub? born fight with an abscess on my right lung" writes J. F. Hughes of DuPont. Ga. "and gave me np. Everybody thought mv t ime had come. As a last resort I tried Dr. King's New Discovery for Consump? tion. The benefit I received was striking and I -was on my feet in a few days. Now I've entirely regained my health." It con? quers all Coughs, Colds and Throat and Lung troubles. Guaranteed by J. F. W. DeLorme's Drug Store. Price 50c, and ?1.00. Trial bottle free.