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SENATOB TILLMAN TALKS.
He is Too Busy in Washington at This
. Time to Attend a Convention, But
Has His Eyes Open.
Washington, March 16.-Senator
^Tillman says that he knows nothing
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of any plans to hold a convention of
the friends of the dispensary. "I have
scarcely had time to give such a thing
a thought," he said today.
feut," he added, "you can say this,
that when the time comes and the
fight is on, I expect to be in it, wheth?
er it begins before the opening of the
campaign or after.".
j? "jJ^yon expect anything to be done
before the opening of the regular cam
palgn?"
. "Well, I say, I don't know. To hold
a convention or to organize, as they
call it, would take a bit of conferring
and a lot of correspondence, and so
far as I am concerned, I haven't the
-time to co it. I wouldn't even have
lime to attend that convention or con?
ference! or anything else, so long as I
.am swamped this way."
. Then he. turned, to a pile of papers
on-nis desk, called a clerk, and added:
"Wfcy raa.r>. I feel life*- a fellow ' down
in a deep well. I can't begin to see
daylight AH I can see is a little gleam
of light which will get bigger and Dig?
ger's I. climb out of this welL But
you know when a fellow's down in
such hole _ as this, the sky looks
about the sfcze of a doJlar and he can't
see even-the sides of the hole-he is in.
How |n jthe name of sense can I see
outside to organize the dispensary
forces or anything else at home?"
"Oh, yes, i'm watching it," he con?
cluded,-The State.
DR. M'DOW CONVICTED.
-> ? ? .
\ '? Ja tige Klugh Imposes a Sentence of
fe Four Months* Imprisonment or $250
Fine.
Lancaster, March 16.-Promptly at
9: SO this morning the argument in the
McDow case was entered upon, Mr.
W. D. Trentham opening for the de?
fense in a speech of 35 minutes. Such
\ difficulties as this, said he, have been
< occurring since the world began and
no such\ difficulty perhaps had ever
occurred - over so small a matter.
Young Witherspoon had the best of
blood in his veins, that of Dr. John
Witherspoon of Princeton, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Inde?
pendence. t McDow was the son of a
Tnan now dead in his grave who never
avowed a man to tread on his toes.
He contended that Witherspoon com?
menced the difficulty by insulting Mc
/Dow and that when Dr. McDow was
knocked down by Mr. Brown he was
thrown into a transport of passion un?
der which circumstances he nret?
thinking "the whole crowd were after
him.
Mr. B. B. Clark followed in an able
and eloquent speech of one hour. .
Solicitor Henry closed the argument,
consuming an hour and five minutes.
Many have expressed the opinion that j
it was the best speech they had ever
heard Mr. Henry make.
Judge Klugh for 15 minutes charged
the jury as to the law of the case. ]
The jury were out for four hours and j
23 minutes and returned into court
with a verdict of assault and battery
and carrying concealed weapons.
Judge Klugh sentenced McDow to a
term of four months in the peniten?
tiary without hard labor or to pay a
fine of $250. McDow's counsel may
appeal, and in the meantime he has
been released on a $500 bond. But it
is thought the fine will be paid. It is
?sid the jury at first stood five for the
highest offense charged and five for
?acquittai.-The State.
THE AMENDE HONORABLE.
Our Hagood Correspondent Disclaims
Any Intention to Reflect Upon Any?
one.
I wish to thank you. Mr. Editor, for
your timely information about that
court house matter. It was foreign to
my purpose to reflect upon any ono.
though I must confess that what T
wrote would lead to ? different con
BBfeon and I sincerely hope no one is
Hfisfeed. Please give this a con
^^^^is place in the Item and oblige
ISSSSSSruly, "Hagood."
A RAILROAD HORROR.
WOUNDED PASSENGERS ARE
* SLOWLY ROASTED TO DEATH
IN WRECKED CARS.
Forty or Fifty Persons Lose Their
Lives as the Result of a Collision of
Two Passenger Trains in Colorado.
The Injured Were Pinned Down
Under the Wreckage of the Cars.
Denver^ Col., March 16.-From for?
ty to fifty passengers were killed or
roasted alive after a collision between
two passenger trains on the Denver
and Rio Grande railway at 2 o'clock
chis morning.
The trains, one of them a double?
header, met on a curve near Florence,
in the Arkansis valley, 140 miles
from Denver. Immediately after the
collision the wreckage caught on fire
and the injured, who were pinned
down, were slowly roasted to death,
and their bodies cremated. One of
the trains was a ?ocaI passenger made
up at Leadville and the other was the
Utah and California express, which
left Denver at 8 o'clock last night. The
I impact caused both, engines and the
i ( i
baggage and day coaches to turn over.
But fifteen of the passengers in them
were able to escape. It is reported
that the crews of both trains are miss?
ing.
A phvsician who reached Portland
from the wreck says forty are dead.
A dozen of the injured have been
taken to Pueblo.
The scene of the wreck after the
cars had been' burned is almost too
horrible to describe. It is impossible
to get a list of the names of the killed
and injured until the railroad conduc?
tors compare their reports.
Every person killed was practically
cremated and nothing now remains of
the trains except the blackened tim?
bers and twisted rods, with here and
there a pile of ?shes.
The official estimate of the number
of dead is 50 and 25 injured.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
; Items of. Interest Condensed and Par
agni obed for Quick Reading.
Code Commissioner William Elliott,
Jr., has just gotten out for distribu?
tion the first forty-eight pages of the
permanent statutes for the year 1906.
This preliminary publication contains
forty-eight of the most important and
interesting statutes.
The new state board of dispensary
directors have struck a serious snag
in attempting to recall the request
blank feature of the dispensary law.
This is clearly evident from a very
emphatic letter the governor received
from the Richland county auditor, W.
H. Gibbes, who says it is impossible
for him to carry out the law, and
pleads with the governor to "devise"
some way to relieve an impossible sit?
uation caused by the passage of fool?
ish and inconsistent laws.
The first meeting of the board of
trustees of the South Carolina Indus?
trial school was held in the governor's
office. There were present: Gover?
nor Heyward, Assistant Attorney Gen?
eral Youmans, Judge A. C. Haskell of
Columbia; Dr. Samuel M. Smith
Of Columbia, Dr. W. C. Irby of
Laurens, Dr. T. A. Crawford of York
ville, Professor Henry P. Archer of
Charleston, Dr. J. L Mann of Flor?
ence, and Dr. D. D. Wallace of Spar
t?nhurg. The - board organized by
electing Governor .^eyward president;
Judge Haskell vice president, Dr.
Mann secretary and Dr. Wallace treas?
urer. The bond of the treasurer was
fixed at $1,000. The board found
several propositions before it of a very
favorable nature, but as there has not
been a general understanding of the
nature and extent of the work contem?
plated in " the establishment and
growth of the South Carolina Indus?
trial school, it was thought best not
to come to any decision at this time.
The Columbia correspondent of the
News and Courier says: There are
S.S04 pensioners on the lists of the
state on account of the Confederate
fund. It is a noteworthy fact that
one-tenth of all of the pensioners in
South Carolina are in Spartanburg dis?
trict.
Mrs. Mary Coggins, who died a few
days 'ago in the mountain section of
Greenville -county, was 94 years of
age. She had 214 descendants. Of
her ll children all are living but 3.
the youngest being 52 years of age.
She has 202 grandchildren and great
grandchildren and f<nn- great-great
granchildren.
At 12 o'clock Thursday night Mr.
M. P. Howell, of Walterboro. filed an
c-der from the Chief Justice, staying
the remitttitur in the li. A. Adams
case until April 19. This means that
nothing can be done until after that
time, and that Adams will not be
hanged until after some new move is
made. j
TILLMAN DISCUSSES
THE HEPBURN BILL
i
The Necessity or Railroad Rate Regula?
tion Made Ciear.
THE RAILROADS' STUPENDOUS POWER.
His Report to the Senate Contains
Startling and Convincing Facts-The
Liberty of the Peeople at Stake and
the Railroad Magnates Warned That
It is the Part of Wisdom to Ac?
quiesce in Wise Legislation.
Washington, March 15.-"The gross
annual earnings of the railroads, in
round numbers, are two thousand mil?
lion dollars. Their net earnings are
seven hundred million dollars. It
will thus be seen that once a year ev?
ery dollar in circulation in the United
States passes through the hands of
the railroads, while once in three years
every dollar in the United States be?
comes a part of their net earnings,
and those net earnings equal in
amount, annually, the entire expendi?
tures of the United States govern?
ment."
This striking statement was made
by Senator Tillman in his formal writ?
ten report on the Hepburn railroad
rate bill, which he was directed to
make by the senate committee on in?
ter-state commerce and which he pre?
sented in the senate shortly after it
met today. ,
"It is small '.vonder," he continued,
"that with such princely revenues the
most brilliant'legal minds cf the coun?
try are7 at their command to conduct
litigation, frame laws and secure
their passage through legislatures and
congress, and to exercise such an
over-mastering influence over the ju?
diciaries and executive departments
of tooth of states and nation, that the
average citizen is almost driven to be
live the fight is hopeless, and that the
government, instead of controlling the
railroads is controlled by them, and
that the liberties of the people, to
say nothing of their rights, are in jeop?
ardy."
The report is an extensive one. In
conclusion Senator Tillman warns the
friends of the proposed legislation
that all their expectations may not be
realized at this session of Congress.
"The great influence of the rail?
roads," he says, "might prevent the
passage of any bill at all; or the en?
actment of one that will prove wholly
inadequate." Such action on their
part will, in my judgment, be very un?
wise and will only dam up the water,
and if those most interested in these
great properties will not consent to
wise legislation to relieve the distress
of the people, there is danger of more
radical policies and leaders coming to
the front, with the result that legisla?
tion far more drastic and dangerous
than anything proposed in this bill,
and amendments will be offered and
will be enacted."
THE FLORENCE KILLING.
The Coroner's Jury Holds Jesse Clem?
ents for the Murder of J. F. Baker.
Florence, May 15.-J. F. Baker, the
man who was shot by Jesse Clements
at the transfer yard Tuesday night
died last night about 8 o'clock and the
inquest was held this morning. The
body was lying in the Coast Line hos^.
pital.
Baker had been under the care of
Drs. Grigg and Evans since the night
of the shooting but'never rallied suf?
ficiently for the balls to be extracted
and his death seemed certain from the
very first.
No More Crop Bulletins.
Columbia, March 19.-The South
Carolina division will hereafter not
issue crop bulletins as it has done for
years past. For many years the Co?
lumbia station has issued every Tues?
day morning, during the crop season
a bulletin giving a resume of the crop
conditions. This bulletin has been
very interesting and hus been well
done.
Orders have been issued from Wash?
ington that hereafter this weekly re?
port shall on*, y refer to climate condi?
tions, and that there is to be no men?
tion of the crop conditions.
It is understood that this order has
been issued because of the status of
the appropriation bill, and the report
of the Keep investigating committee.
Exactly what will be the nature of
subsequent reports, both by State and
on the part of the government will, it
is said, depend on the verbiage of the
appropriation bill providing for mon?
ey for tho statistical work of the de?
partment, and what conditions are
placed in the bill.
There has been general regret that
these State crop reports are to be dis?
continued.
' STRIKERS USE BOMBS.
NEW YORK TEAMSTERS BLOW
. TJP WHOLESALE GROCERY
BUILDING.
pion-Union Men Have Been Murder
. ously Assaulted and One is Dying in
Hospital-Members of Firm Threat?
ened With Death and Destruction of
Their Property.
?
New York, March 14.-Following
the strike of the teamsters against the
Clark, Chapin & Bushnell Wholesale
Grocery Company, three chalk marks
were placed on the front office door
early today. Later on an explosive was
put under the door and touched off.
The explosion occurred at 4:12 o'clock
this morning, just after the police had
been withdrawn after an all night
watch for the expected effort to de?
stroy the building. The vibration was
so great that it was heard for half a
mile. Part of the building was wreck?
ed. The police quickly surrounded
and searched the vicinity but found
no trace of the perpetrators.
Since the strike the firm has been
employing non-union men. The latter
have been assaulted on numerous
occasions one of whom is now dying in
the hospital as the result of the as?
sault. The firm has also received let?
ters threatening the death of members
of the firm and the destruction of their
property.
TWAIN WOULDN'T BE SENATOR.
'I'm the Laziest 3Ian on Earth and
Congress Needs Industry," He Says
-Thinks He Could Earn the Sal?
ary, but as a Representative of the
People Would be "Dead Timber."..
From the New 7ork Herald.
Suggestion having come from vari?
ous sources that, in the *vent of the
retirement from congress of either of
the New York senators, Samuel L.
Clemens (Mark Twain;- would be
named as successor, a reporter for the
Herald called t pon the humorist ye>
".erday at his home, in 5th avenue, io
git his expressions on the subject
Mr. Cit mens, who was clothed in his
pajamas and busily engaged in shav?
ing when he was asked if he would ac?
cept a senatorial seat, instantly stop?
ped wielding the razor, and, turning to
his questioner with an expansive smile
on his lathered face, said:
"If such an offer as that were made
to me it would be the most gigantic
compliment I ever received. I would
not consider myself, hfiwever, a
worthy successor to Dr. Depew or Mr.
Platt, as I am in no way qualified for
the post. A senator needs to know the
political history of the country, past
and present, as well as its commercial
Industrial and financial affairs. Of
these things I am blissfully ignorant.
"Even if I were qualified, the du?
ties of a Senator would be distasteful
to me. My own particular work is
the greatest source of pleasure I have,
and for that reason I do not consider
it as work at all. I regard myself as
the most lazy human being on earth.
I have absolutely no industry in me
whatever, and to 'make good' as a
Senator one must be in love with his
job and be industrious. If a man is to
succeed in any occupation the work to
him must be a labor of love. It has
always been so with me and my work,
and I think I can justly say, without
vanity, that my career has been, to a
fair degree, a success.
"For five days every week I am busy
writing or dictating, and I'm in a mod?
ified paradise the while. Saturdays
and Sundays I take off, and during
these two holidays, as I call them, I'm
in a modified hades."
When reminded that the senate, as
a body, is sadly lacking in humor, and
needed livening up, Mr. Twain said,
smilingly:
"Well, as Falstaff to the Senate, I
guess I could fill the bill and earn my
salary. But as a representative of the
people I would be certain to prove
dead timber."
"But can't humorists be serious as
well as other mortals. Mr. Twain?
"Most assuredly. There is no man
alive-not even excepting a Scotch
Presbyterian minister-who can be
more serious than T. Put as a senator
the people would refuse tn take me
any more seriously than they do in my
natural capacity as a humorits, and j
I don't care to make an unattractive
exhibition of myself. It's a humorist's
business to laugh at other folks, not
inspire other folks to laugh at him.
Mr. Twain is now writing his auto?
biography. He started on the book on
January 9. he said, and has now 100.
000 words of it completed. He devotes
mic hour and three-quarters to th?
?york every morning, dictating it while
'n bed.-New York Herald.
Mr. Burr Jolly, a well-to-do farmer
of Cherokee county dropped dead in
the road Saturday while returning
home from Gaffney.
Does your baking powder
contain alum ? Look upon
the label. Use only a powder
whose label shows it to be
made with cream of tartar*
NOTE. - Safety lies in buying
only the Royal Baking Powder,
which is the best cream of tartar
baking powder that can be had.
i
NO SPECIAL TERMS.
Governor Heyward Will Refuse all
i Requests for Extra Courts Unless
Attorney General Advises Him That
the Lau- is Mandatory.
Columbia, March 15.-If he finds
out from the assistant attorney general
that the law allows him such discre?
tion, Governor Heyward will not order
any special terms of court for this
year, and if it is decided that the
statute makes ordering them obliga?
tory, he will refuse to pay the judges,
as the legislature cut off this appro?
priation. He will simply report the
bill for special terms to the legisla?
ture. He will not pay them from his
contingent fund.
Solicitor Timmerman has asked for
a special term for Richland and the
application is being held up for an
opinion from the attorney general's of?
fice.
Mrs. Charles Martin Niles, wife of
the rector of Trinity, died here today
in her fortieth year of cancer of the
stomach. She was a native of Ro?
chester, Nev? York, and came here
with her husband, who succeeded the
late Rev. Mr. Satterlee, who was also
a New Yorker. McCaw.
COTTON TALK.
Camden, March 14.-If we fail r.o
send you the news as you think we
should, remember we are four miles
in the country, and have charge of
two eight horse farms three miles
apart. So you see we are kept on the
go all the time, and sometimes don't
hear important news in Camden till it
is published, and we don't care to be
like an old lady we once knew who
fold everybody she saw for six months
about the death of a neighbor.
As our interest is the farm, it is of
the Nfarmer we will have most to say.
The recent drop in the price of cotton
proves that we were right last fall in
condemning the action of the Cotton
Growers' Association in fixing the
price at 15 cents. If they had said xl
or 12 cents, which is a fair pf ice, I
believe every bale of last year's crop
would have brought it. But they
were unreasonable, and demanded
more than they were in po?
sition to force. So you see
in place of getting more it
is actually worth less. It is impos?
sible to control the market without a
complete warehouse system. Place
the farmer where he can, if necessary,
borrow money on his cotton, and he
can then sell as he sees fit. It is high
time the farmer should have some say
so in fixing the price of his own pro
duct But he will have to makej the
change by little. One farmer cannot
say he will not sell sell for less than
15 cents, when his neighbor is selling
for 10 cents. The manufacturer does
not care whose cotton he gets just so
he gets the cotton.
As we said before, let the associa?
tion preach less acreage in cotton, j
more grain and meat, and be in a po?
sition to let the price adjust itself. As j
long as the South owes the greater
portion of the crop, before it is plant- I
ed so long will the gamblers take ad- i
cantage of his necessity and fix the j
.price as they see fit. Let each farm be '
i committee of one to see to making j
werything used on the farm, and the ?
Sy^uth will soon be in position to defy !
'he world. But it is useless with your J
barn and smoke house in the West j
to say that you will not sell cotton for <
loss than in cents. You can't eat or j
feed mules on cotton. Now don't un- j
derstand me to oppose the work of the !
association-we ar.- far ?rom that-|
hut think it unreasonable with the j
condition <?f nine-tenths of the farm- j
ors. \V<- make a large cotton crop, j
but raise plenty of corn and meat to {
run the farm. And the south will
never prosper till she adopts this j
method. B. M. Hudson.
PRESIDENT KING WARNS.
Head of New York Cotton Exchange
Says the Time is Critical With the
Cotton Planters and Urges That
They ilo Not Yield tc the Tempta?
tion to Over-Plant.
The following very interesting letter
from Mr. Wm. V. King, superintend
dent of the New York Cotton Ex?
change, was received h.- Richard
Cheatham, secretary of the Southern
Cotton Association:
Mr. Richard Cheatham, Secretary
Southern Cotton Association, Atlanta,
Ga.-Dear Sir: Your favor of the 18th
instant is received. Thanks for Presi?
dent Jordan's cotton statistics, etc.,
which give the facts clearly and intel?
ligently.
In my opinion the coming planting
season will prove to be the most try?
ing, if not the most critical, in the
experience of the cotton growers of
the South. Trying because there are
many who believe 10 or 10 1-2 cents
will prove so serious a temptation to
the planter that he will put every
available acre in cotton. This opinion
is not confined* to this section of the
country alone, but is endorsed by
many of the good people of the South,
not planters of cotton, I am glad to
say.
It will indeed prove a critical sea?
son for the planter, and for the entire
South, should the temptation to over
plant in cotton be carried out. The
years of splendid work of your Asso
r'ation. together with that of xrthers
who have co-operated, will be swept
away, and a condition of servitude for
the planter will be re-enacted, with its
consenquent 6 cents or 7 cents for cot?
ton.
This is not an extreme picture. It Is
certain to occur unless the planters
stand solidly together and, for their
own protection, diversify the planting,
putting in a moderate acreage only in
cotton. If the planters will not pro?
tect themselves in a matter of such
vital interest, to whom can they look
for help? Certainly not to the buyer
and the consumer.
To sum up the matter, the situation;
for weal or woe, for 7 cents or for
12 cents, is entirely in the hands of the
planter. In a brief interval of time the
world will know whether he has prov*
en false to himself or has had the
courage and manliness to resist the
temptation, which now threatens to
wrest from him the control of the sit*
uation. Yours truly,
Wm. V. King.
The pardon board was hard at work
Thursday and disposed of over 20 of
the petitions turned over to them by
Governor Heyward. There were only
four which received favorable consid?
eration and all of these were for pris?
oners who have a short time to serve.
The Farmers' State Mutual Hail In?
surance Company has been reorgan?
ized with F. H. McMaster of Colum?
bia as president, and a strong board of
directors.
Andrew Carnegie has agreed to con?
tribute Lo Wofford college $20.000
provided tho movement on foot reach?
es $SO,000 which v. ill te a reality.
George Wilsonian A. C. L. brake
man. was run over and killed in
Charleston Friday night.
The drug store, of-Dr. J. A. Torbin
Barnwell was burned Sunday.
Carroll' S. Moree won the inter
society gold medal at Furman Univer?
sity Friday night and will represent
that school in the State Oratorical
contest.
Mr. 'C. C. Wy oho will represent the
Citadel in the snit;- oratorical contest.
Major Alex W. Marshall, a promi
net citizen of Charleston, died Sunday
afternoon.
Tho 4-year-old son of Mr. Judson
RtcMaxin was burned to death Friday
to Lancaster county.