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TOWNSHIP I GOVERNMENT. ?I'SCLK (>K()K<iK " TILLMAN'S Sl'l-Kni AT KKI> IJ AX'' On tho Occasion of tlic Laying of the Corner-Stone of the StuteV Ilaby County. * Below is the second installment ot "Uncle George" Tillman's speech on Township Government, which was do- [ liverod at lied Bank, on tho occasion of the laying of the eoruer-stoue | of the State's baby county?Saluda: "1 have named about live thousand county ollieials who have far more to do with promoting or refunding the liberty, intt lligeuee, prosperity aud happiness of the people than all the ?i\ or eight elective otlicers in each county. ->i the !'J <>r 1"? elective State oftieera or the bin mouthers of belli brain In > of the State legislature, 111 ; other word*. le.-s than live hundred ollieets are ? lected *?y the people out of about M\ that c oi.-titiit the i ? "t?it :uvi rniiirn', although the live j thotis-in 1 who arc appoint!d l?v th? govern for by tin* county commis- | sioucis control sulVragc by regulating rcgistraio. :i. control elections l.y appointing managers of election anil counting tiie v??tes, control )>u 1 > 1 iu ! schools by selecting school trusties, control taxation by as-cssing property for tuxes an 1 actually collect anil disburse more taxes than the legislature, i control laying out new roaihs or shutting up ohl ones as well as working ex- i isting mails ami establishing ferries or ] building bridges, control the paupers \ and lunatics aud can make or mar j ] good government hi innumerable ways. ( Yet none of these thousands of impor- i j taut ollieials are elected by the people. | I The controlling leudi rs of the last i Democratic State convention must t have mu;'.-. I at tin-igiiorauco and guiia- I bility . ; the human race when thev i made it pass a resolution declaring | i that 'every iVinocrat may vote di- t rectly for th.c man id' his ehoice lor ' t all ollices from the highest to the 1 lowest." i 1 Caund the people of a township [ make out a better poll list of the local i voters w'n should exercise the right of i sutlYage than strangers appointed by t the (b v. rnot V Cannot the voters i in each township select a better set of t managers of election more capable mid | i nccej t.ii'Ie to the peopb than luuuug- , s ers nppo.nied by the commissioni : of \ clcctim.. who in turn are theinsi Ivis , appointed by the Governor? Cannot t the patrons of a public school choose a i i i - .r. -. uixii'i < ! li'iiiu'i'it in<;i"?* .sawsiacion.y l>> nil concerned than tin* eounty rchool | coojuiishinuor citu appoint? 'I lie hoard ; ot oiiuniT c<?Niuiis>ioneiH ami tlio ; rouuty ojiialii'iition ?us w? 11 uh ' 1 as the towushtp ami State equalization | hoards are ali ehoseii from the tow 1 ship eosti!ii.s->ioiier- w ln? are up; nin4. <1 by the C> vcrnor. \t>w who is l.io ly ? to sen ' tile three fittest Inell for t t , n t ship conn ;s ioi;. , tie (I v? riu?r or the township voters*' Surely .! tin ! people n i iv Minn t < !.> 0;:h and vii t.;ou \ enough to tift the tiovernor thev \ ought to he ColliJ etent to Seleet eiijaihle i township eoinuiissioiiers. t A flee people always select in st of ? their ollicers, Inn in a desputi-m like 1 Russia ir China the otllecrs arc up e pointed as is the rase with eleven- 1 twelfths of the civil ollicers of South 1 Carolina today. W hat a commentary a is this ot. the loud-mouthed, vulgar ii tougucil ehampioiis of "a government e of tile people, for the pi ?plo and hv ( the peoj-le. s I'nforP.inntely lo re in South Caroli- a na we liave only eoimty goveimuent e with all it- im llieieiiey < \truviigaiiee . and > | j i? - -1 n. Rut up North wlo-ie t tow Usui; : . VernilO tit c\it- tile peo- I pie real .;.' rule t !;etll>.!\ i l y fleeting ; ail their own local olli.vrs *ueh as t superv of r -l-trat; u, managers oteh.a tru-t< > - of pahiie .schools, v township e >11111.ls-t ?l;e s, etc There, 1 also, i wt". citi n tal.es | art ill j -ublic atfaii's, :.u 1 has 11:i:;earri* d on t>? ' j, mi11 hit :-< ami itcighiiots. II. knows t what i- ' ;':g on aiui 1. > * it is going 1: on, but dov.u here tin Work ofgovern- V m.'iit i-. i'!.r'.>.! i.n i..i 11. . . .i -v "" I" 'V'". >' llllt !l>r t) JHOj'ie iiy ItJ Jioilltl' I oil;- t cor* co-u ty ?v.-riini?*:jt u hu'.uri', t aluitV' ii i? n failure ti!.1 i?!weV-. will lie !i :;.111;r , 1 t ciiii-i' it i- too remote ir. : tin- g??Vfn>f?l, who hnvo tm o)>j ?>rt :!.i:v to ?. ??:i>? tit to mum roiss olV:?-i.ii act-, nI; 1 coi;si ul i>i the 1,11V- <> <T!ii*il .x :In i oiiiir-t' iii* ot liberty. !. Why !! ! t t!.< > i.fu to\\n<i.:|i ,1 *?? V<-1 ti i '..xi-|vf nil I -elect tin If 1 own 1 iKi'i ix Why ?'o!ii].t I tli- in to 1o(i to ro'.iit Iii": -! 1 1 >-i-( their |county - in- . ?'i :i::nix-io:ii r to cLoomi ), their lie.;. 1 iii 1 i:i* soil m! tru-teis? WliV I r.' tiielil to h ive to i'o t > Co w 111III'Ill ! a - U tliC I AeOUtlVe to m | I I i 11 their x iji, rvinir.s of nyixt rntxoti. tl their ii.oii ioi i t of 1 lection f ir the:.' t ? i.xhij* ro:!;::?-;n;ii r- - Itet , ter hu%" i.ui'e rn'.i.t:- lii.e oil '.X--.1 t I 1 III. 1 Ill i: i(ijl 1 ^ lowi.siiij' \. r:> II. lii -*..?! 1 nnn M tics ww . i.i' 1 v\ 11>i.* i? c.>\t rniiii :ii. N Turtow. :m> tin r, , Usually si'lji o! i. . ,sc 11 :ir tlic j. ccnti ? t: t ?\vii~!s;;- : ti.c Mil cry. j, th. .- ii . . ': citi.'cli- :.. !.cic t:. \ I ?" . I parlcii. !. y 1 iw :i- i- \ \ ? ins r:i.t- i.i .1 his . s i.\ . >. j.1. . j, Wei! ii- ! \ pi. "cj-t. I--. < : 11: i. -i c v. , st ilt \.f W Isc-t itli'i !... ! 1!Illstl it 1 t|>i>lit it-ui [ I:;!' !: i fr< ii ii' : -.i i \>ii ? < litis i \ * r \ i ?.;;r li >r? -? It. . ! y , And write in out our American iustitu* j turns was Alexis rocijuoviUc, ami in t. Li- won.li rf:; 1 l oci. ' I > rnncnirv in ? An.i ri<M, anti'.y/ii " o'.tr y *. i-rnrm-r.t, awiiriis 1'ic | >i! in <> ' in my to tl.c , tuMii-i;ij s> .-.{cm < ! v. i.i '!1111< 1 a i j] Jiettij ir 1 est lu-.'.itut: jL the kev ' v stone to iho urch of our grand political structure Ami I have never seen a mull familiar with tho operutious of township government at tho North who docs uot agree with him. During au<l since 1117 boyhood I have attended a half dozen or more public township meetings at the North and each one was a revelation of aouiethiug new, interesting and instructive. I theu and there learned how and by what means the Yankee is tuught his most striking churactcrestics-huhits of curiosity,selfconfidence, thiift, economy and public spirit, especially the latter, for the genuine Yankee is alv a s planning or trying to plan something for the public good as well as his own good. At all of those township meetings everyone Look a deep interest in public uflairs and.everybody wauted to know what had gone or would go with everv dol lar i?f public funds. No jobs passed j unchallenged. No little live-dollar j bridge over u gulhy cost the township i S'Jo. No i:nj roper accounts were paid lor eiihcr mileage or serving papers or for t ratispot ting or dieting prisoners, paupers, or lunatics, or for doing any other public service. There wiro no j disciusinus ubmit defaultilur county ' treasurers or dishonest county com- 1 mi.-sioners. because the duties of these ' otli n i s devolved on township ollieials. I < >:i the contrary, the public business > was completed as well in every particular us private business if not better, | which is a great deal more than can bo 1 said of county gnvermm ut anywhere, i Well 1 .Mowing the inestimable value of township government I tried hard i la^t fall to have incorporab d in our new constitutsoti a provision making it mandatory on the legislature to estab- i l.sh a system of elective township gov- ! eminent, but I could not get it done J for the reason that sonic ] ? tsous, v.ho j style themselves "chatnptons of the f people," opposed it. I o He red the j 1 11 - . . : . i n'lmniii^- proposition wnicn, am r a | l"Ug, hot and libit' debate, was voted j ilowu: "Tho <piulif 1 *.*<I voters of each j township shall elect at such times and j [or such terms of oOicc as mav l>c preictibed by law, township clerk and treasurer al.-o three discreet persons to l)e known as the hoard of township direetors, who shall provide for the euro >f ail paupers ami lunatics in tho ' lownship, assess all property in the | township for taxation and who shall ! iave charge of of the township roads, j tridges ami ferries, public schools, tip- | >oint . he managers of all federal, State, | ounty and township elections, shall ' agister all ipialilicd voters of the ownsliip and shall discharge such oth- , r duties and ree? ive such coinpeus.u- j ion for their services as tlio leglalatuiu | nay presenile." I or tlio above a suit- I tltute agreed Upon by the foXV leaders ! vns adopted i:i the fellowing words: "F.iich t l the several townships of | his State w;ih names and boundaries j is now es.' ib'.ishe I by law shall eonsti- ' nte ? !m> ly politic, but this shall not j mi "ent the general assembly from or- i :>>!ii/.iog other townships or changing j ,^:t t>.lindanes of those already estab- I idied, an the general a-sembly may ' rovi.le s\ tein of township govern 11 "itt its :! shall think proper." ' iiis i . course was ami H but an ; Hi| ty platitude, a frami, a l.ain. iut iob <1 to deceive by pju t n ling to do iueti.il. for local ndf-gov rnmei.t, ?;.t in n ?iity to tio untiling, f??r tin; , \ 'Ml > x' "iMui ii<-i-!,tl !y v.itiy |?r? : nil* nf'i hy-t< :u < : ti?.vrifliiji *^"ViTi:- i in-lit n- it .-.'mil I'niiilv | it.j? r," art- hut i liC Mi'.ilii'ili;^ hruss a hrutillii fill- j ii !: us tin' ;t? in ml nsHi-iuhlv cntihl ; itivi- t-.-tuhii-lif.l a systrm of township i ;o\iriiiini.t i-voii if the constitution . m>l sui'l n..thing nhoiit it. The boss | t.-mliTs kiu'W it. Vi-t ai tiny were | friiiil to t:??lit hoi'ie rule openly tln-y It-ti'riiiiiii-tl to ilo it iiitliri'i'tlv uiitl overtly; mi thov gut Mr. Ihirtoti of t tr?-. 11 vi!l?> t > olVt-r tin' tul i to tin- to v. n- , !ii|i whale which was finally ailnptt-il, ' ii.I which 11k:it to t'ln St .I. J>e:uo> j ruti*' I'onvi nti.-ii resolution. "that very i Vino -rut limy vote ilireetlv lor In- man ot In-, i i'.'i.- :t?r all otiii-i-s | rotn tin* hi;.;; st t tii-- Itiin st." \\"Ii ?t 1 tii-- i -.1 truth of tin- iniitti-r. -imply hut nil 5 'V.i r itivarinii'iv -t !;> it- ow:i ; i,. rt ii-.- hot!; in tin- j?!i%" ?:i -s!t i:i n! mriil. i la- liovf'inr hi Soiitii ("nroilM lit till-. tlllM- Ills Il.Oll' Ifl.ltlVf mtfoliage, :i;i>ri o'.'.i-t t i in-stow, mi 1 i i.oi'- l i t! olh.-iai | o\\t r -iti I itiilu nee , o i-\.-r.-ssi- in ]>ro|iortion to tin- i>. |>it- i itio!i :? ..! Wtiiltii t!. >tuti- over .ho ii Ii- jTi-i It - tiiuii t-i !'r -i ! nt f tin- I iiiti-il -t it. . or tl uii tin- i-hti-f i \t i-iit 1\ of any i ;I-i free t-n:iutr\ iti h?- woriil. . I l.t t . .i.f a r.lj'i-i g.uin'e nt -.?:;itf the Governor's patronage Ilo up* t ints ut tin- pn -t r.t uin- louniit- : nn i : ;i.t -ti;u-r\i oj s f i -^r: t itiosi. . i !? t whom *?t ta n:i itnit-in 1 s -i-iry f ' ir ll.D ur time i:. :i 111 a : Ii l vo.-h. ii.I 11*t r tli - yi'iii w ... } ' ! i J i'i-r ntn.m : r lining al.i. -t nothing that ' . i oi-tt ring i.,-w t-ojii itovs who .o il tin ir n.a, . t , n . i la j'i'i an si if,'.-tr i*i11t.ia.i-: i in - o:.j 1 iititlri'.i iiint t i.'iit it -tr..tit?n ntlii'i's. j it:i inmi-oia.- i av ami ! .t 'tilth- In ih. iv lunch ?j:1 jt n:;. r mi>1 tin tv,Msi: i:: 11 v. t r-. in t!v -a M it. \v: 11 , t I ? wild) . -h 1. i ,V!i-):. j O lit 1(1 i i r it^own \ ?t r- in ii -in,.lr .lay , til" Yiar illlil lit I V ?t rM'i'f.iilli,' ! .I<.:i:.it j ;s{ wi ll >iii ! j.rnl> li.ly . a iv 'itint'iirt ry tlma tip- tlmv vnvr- ! iv .r", :in>! n. < !.- t!i \ .t I 1' -v- hi* i vi-t iut ti.-1.1 t :.< < . . . ii-'ly . ii:. in.nth r \wth?. .t t 'it- > >. i ti . ) t < ir I. i!! 1 i uiiv t< t itir(h<?!iM>. ;?. r ii . ihII i<>.. I i. rli iMl !.. > i ] .ilil ii . i.::.l 11::*? < ! .. . ;ii i >i )? . ujty .i| ; >it)t till' ';: mi r I'M mill 11 . . ut i-vi r". % " i i ia t: .ill/. V hvil I'll I It . I ;:.'!l U^t'I'.s Ilil! ' ti )<:ii 1 ii i iifin i ! -ntiiiv :n nriv ; : i . 1 ,? : . a'.tl.otirr!i ii'it l.tt'.i- y utl s i i tln.ii. 1 :i > <?.el r 1:..i'\\ i- iij>- I nit.t tlir11 t..v. ii .hi|? . ! m*or?iin>rc of whutn net u- inctul i-r.- nt . 'n- r- '.lily, t ii ' lis Ii |i Ml . Mnti1 1 ?.i 1 ! I V i'l.i .C t'. V, li.l iU'.'K VI K'Ti U"U".V nig some pay, mileage or per ttiem. or or both, anil although the compensation is small individually 'yet it is large iu the aggregate ami the position of commissioner is one of both dignity ami authority and is nnuch coveted. The total number of such/commissionnets iu the whole State Ainouut likewise to about 1,51)0 tuii^o appointees of the Governor. Cruvjfug for oflicial rank is almost universal aud irresistible. When Caesar iu passing through a village| remarked Jfo a companion that he would rather bo first uiau iu that place than second man in Rome, he only em pressed a sentiment comtnou to mankind, and each of ?tho many thousand pe tty officers appointed by the executive of South Curoliua feels grateful for the place holds. All men love to exercise power over their fellow meu and /hey desire ollico not only for the/ reason that it confers social dignity in the neighborhood but because it flutters i lid r mini) /HIKI ClOlllCH tUOTll With substantial authority. A man that fan determine '/ho may vote or that can raise or lovyvr tax assessments or that call build or not build a bridge, lay out or eloKe a public road, or that can do any of the lneuy things that th< thousands of ollicials appointed by out Governor ean uo is not an insignificant personage ami the a .'grcgute power ot sueh oflioers in South Carolina is immenstj, in fact predominant for a tinu at Ieufrt, as the oiiiciul mass is inclince to o/n y its creator ami is a sort ol bod/ politic actuated by an esprit do coh|?s to sustain one another right ot \\Ubng, ami vote for one another right oy wrong, and vote for one of their set </ ring against any outsider. Lt is only when sueh a ring falls out nmong 4heiuseJves as they invariably do boou ' or late, either from ehngriu at being defeated for ollice or disgust at general rascality, that the Macedonian phalanx of the ring can bo broken. The monster political faction of New York known us Tammany Hall society is organized and held together by a hordt of appointed ollice holders, umonf, whom the greed for ollice, bribery ami peculation is so rife that they periodi eally begtt sueh corruption as cries t< heaven for correction; ami as loug ut South Carolina polities shsll coutiuuc to be run upon the same low plane o) concentrating till power nml patronage in Ihe hands ot but u few men, 01 rather one man, tne fame perioilical upheaval must throw ??It' the eorruptior. ami rottenness that awaits us. 1 | might say, in truth, already upon us. Today charges are being made against j the chief executive of our State?witL or without foundation I cannot say? ! but the tlovernor of South Caroline should be like Ciesar's wife?without crime and above suspicion. Although the primary is lauded in this State as the best method and present method ot nominating candidates for otliee, yet it is continually and grossly violated by appointing as niauy public ollicers as possible and permitting the people neither to nominate nor elect except the members of the Legislature and four or live county otlicers, aud the travelling circus of eight or ten candidates, mostly buffoons seeking Stato ollicers, who are > expected to amuse and delude the people with the idea that they govern themselves, while the appointing power does the aetuul governing. Thingi are so circumstanced in',South Carolina now that the "heud chief" or "real' appoii ting power has only to intimate whom he wants chosen to any ollice and his will is done with a Tammany obodience. Oiliciul appintees are ever eager to obev their masters to prevent removal, ami what makes any appointive despotism so powerful aud the opposition so weak is that the former ; is as thoroughly organized ?h the lutter is a scattered rabble. So irresistible and effective is organization that a Spanish maxim truly says: "Three men organized against an unorganized , town can 1111 u it." The members of I any mere political faction of oftieehunters always stand by each other, right or wrong, until, as before remarked, disgust at the rascality of nu n unsocial! S, or CllUgl'lll at toe I many being .I? 11 at ?i lor office, pro- | duecs division. < >i 1'oiir.se, a ring may i ruu a riotor.s career a good while unless tin: o]>|'i>iiti"U can furnish a i strong rallying force to meet it. This ran I f i!ou? in South Carolina l>v denouncing increase of taxation through increase of assessed valim of property, although lower taxes were promised: it can l>e done also 1 ?y expomirr n! the flcmsou College extrnvugai.ee ami mismanagement; l?v showing up the dispensary iy ranuy ami rotten- I lies-1; by denouncing the consolidation ot | >wer m the iuimlsof the executive, le t only i.y denying the j eojdo tlio right ol i e.il i eltgo\eminent in tho i eotistit.it. iiial eoii\t*ii11<*n, hut also by | t iking away from them the eleetiou o? J eotinty e n.ttiis-imiers, ami then ]?reventing them from electing either j County rn|:: tuissleliers or township, eoiniue>ioiier>, or having any local ! government e\ei pt through appointed 1 officers. Witeu certain men were engaged hi th'-ir wild hunt for ollieo in I s.e one of the charges against the old legiine was that it er? ated m w offices to eat out tin substance of the people, _\et these same inell have tlieinsclvea er< ute?l many m-w ollices, including ai oiit ' eonioeti 1 with the dispensary a'.oin , an 1 i.ii these ollices are j tilled by It-It i.i:.'Iii.-Tit, Dot by election .tie1 ; ; I hi y consist of t he >tati oai i ei litiol, e.-iiiitv boards e i.tiol, ili-j i !.: i ;assistant ?lis 1 . l . i; ei iit ndent, I oohkeeper*, -i.. 1 ; r . b tth t -. hil? r- rs, etc., thir* ; \ III 1 i \ :ili- > lilt I ilmlalilr*, k]?|I'S i i ::.t i i ( ?>v?Tix>r Scott's | ,s I'. lic:il lm?. I li<- |i|'t-li'\t ! >i ? . .i-ii.i./ Hp ilis|>ci)sury was t(? j i -.i *i lor tin Stall-, | nunoU- tin: :: in ? : I?.- | ?? titi.i it:i)-r?>\? tiit>it* I ; !. il i i i,t:i Iiy siijiiilvin^ tin-in with ci i i..i. i v ji..ii liijunr. Tht) liquor, , . i. ; - : i n:. i m\ limit nil i-\)irriciii-o ami | ii'i - -vati i!.. l- inferior, lit tlio prico ohargoJ, to that formerly furnished by the Imrkeepera. Iu place of the morals of tbe people being better tbey are decidedly worse, because mnnv of them have lost tbe manly independeiice they oueo possessed ami have learned to smuggle, to bide, to lie, to play apv and informer, a Leak behind a door to take a drink, and to do many other mean contemptible thing* that South Carolinians once scorned. Then, too, the Dispeusury constables are too busy dabbling in politics and watching the few blind tigers of the hutod towns to pay any attention to tho contraband whiskey that is daily peddled all over tlio country un?l sold at alracst ovory Negro church where religious services are held. As to getting auy revenue foi the State, that is not worth considering, since there are too many opportunities to steal, too many doubtful characters who know their opportunity. "Always ready for ud tlition, division and silence." is a tit translation of the J.atin motto on their bottles. However, the heavy expense of the huge, ill-th vised, impractical, unwise scheme would forever prevent the Stub- making any money out of it. Every well-governed State in the ' world derives much, if not most of its ! revenue from a tax on stimulants? either a tax on their manufacture or I xn heavy license on their sale, l ither i the State, the counties or the towns of I South Carolina formerly got not much | short of $lOO,bO;> revenue from the i '?alo of liquors, but that sort of thing I is all gone and shall stay gone as long , ii? 11ji I'lm-ju i 'ispensnry humbug is I attempted to bo enforced. No doubt ! the barkeepers would readily pay ! South Carolina :?ino,oiiO for a mouop! olv of the privilege to sell whiskey .throughout tIn* State 11s now provided ^n the new Constitution, and each bnrI 'keeper would be bis own spy or hire his own constables. The State would then be at no expense, as was the case when she received a revenue from whiskey before the dispensary farce was inaugurated. The license fees she theu charged were all clear profit, but j there is no profit now?there can be none. Yet the statesmen who estab- ! lished the dispensary and still chain* j pion it promised the people that the | profit should be so great that it would j almost prevent the necessity of collect- | ing any taxes; that it would biing 111 j a revenue of about iJoOO.OOl). It is deplorable that a once legitimate I business?not the most reputable, it is ; true, but still recognized as legitimate , ?has been confiscated and inouopo- ' li/.ed by the State in the confident ex- ' pectation of deriving a big revenue ' l'roui it: yet alter three or four years' j trial it has proven a failure, as all the | I profits of 11 business inclndiug re- j bates, except what made be stolen l>_? . employees auil their partners, go to pay an army of about three hundred idle drones to carry elections, harry the people as well as shoot them down if they indignantly resist oppression. Unless judgment has tied to brutish beast and men have lo>t their reason, I our people will some day tear with indignant hand from the statute book the page that is stuiucd with such a law. The essence and th<> test of civil liberty in its last analysis is consent of | the governed, an I what more shamelees, vulgar tyinn iy could be indicted j than to force a ? ispensary w hiskey shop ! upoll a prohibit on community. Think | of how deeply ihe principle of self- J government is w< muled by establish- j ing a retail dispel sii'V in a town or county which has lor years refused to license the sale of li<|tu>r. Local option cannot bo improved upon ami as communities are like individuals iu having tluir sober spells and drinking humors, better let them alternate between license and no li- I cense, thereby going to hell or "heaven i in their own way and as long as they ; tread on nobody else's too it is no- j uuu; n umiui^N unc ineir own nnu their (foil's. Hence the present com- j pulsory dispensary ought to be iibolislieil because it forces the siile of liquor on tin; whole State, whereas every separate municipality should be allowed to govern itself in its own way 1 not only as regards liquor but us re gards everything else. Let us hope that we shall have real j true-blue genuine reform at no distant j day. The most hopeful sign in sight is that every white man in the State 1 seems t<> be registering, apparently tic- | tcrmined to vote at the next or the : succeeding (lection and appears re- i Solved to have his vote correctly ; counted or know the reason why. The best plan to break up ring In re and have holiest elections once more, with i a fair count ami a higher class of sue- ! eosftful candidates for ollice is to ratal)- i lish township elective government like j they have at the North in lieu of our appointive local government. Wo once ; had ami elective county government by three county commissioners, chosen ! by a popular vote, but our reform leaders in order to strengthen their , ring organization, abolished that ami established the present mixed system of local county ami township govern incut, controlled not by election but by appointment. Changing from nominating candidates for otiice by j the ninny liiiin power through ti priinary election to the otie-niun appointing powi r by the governor or school , commissioner is going buckwnnl from I >einocr acy not towards it. Some til' the result*, are the dispensary tyranny, t iie State constabulary, the i:n tropolitilli police, I ho government by injiiiietioii ami otl'. r om man power high jinks in tin- State, It is an open <p'.estion wiiieh is the better plan o| nominating **nt <ti?1 ?*t lor olliee by primary or convention of delegates but cither i- incomparably superior to thcom mamlietatoria! ring mentioneil of appointing men to ofiice. I in people of South Carolina have little or no local s? il'-gov? rnmcnt, but are riih ! by r.pt>omtcd o'dicer) ar- j cording to the discretion of those of- , tieers ami no man is free who hohls Lib rights subject to the discretion ol another, since nil rights should be pro tcctod and secured l\v Inw. It took 40 years vigorous ngitntioc and hard work to get your new county anil I advise you to ugitnto 40 luore il necessary to secure elective townshij government, for I believe it would bi of more value to you than even thai which you have just attained, lleuct I urge you to always press *ho question ou your county candidates for the legislature and ou all the candidate! for State oHices when they comi among you. I will suggest to you n question which you ought ask and make them answer fully: "Do you 01 not favor a system of local townshi); self-government in which the ollicert shall be elected by the voters of till i township and not appointed by any superior authority; and if elected will ! you advocate the same?" Saluda I ought to take the lead in lighting foi j elective township government. Then i would be something oi poetic pro| pricty in her doing so. As the youngj est county in the State she is one ol ' all others, that, having suffered long j iKi lor mo want ot self-government ! nuil must fool keenest the great wroug i that was done her ami cau therefore j better champion the eaiiHe of elective | township hone rule, i I am no anxious to see township ; liovernment established in South Can ? | gtia that 1 v.ill close by saving if any of you feel that you owe me something for my long ami earnest eilbrts in be! half of your new county, all 1 ask n j that you shall light ami fori ver eon! tinue to light for this form of government until you get it. Fellow-citizens, T am done, ami j would I could have done better. I have tried to speak the truth according to mv honest, best judgment, as I always do, without regard to the fear | or favor of anybody. I thank you sin; cerelv for the kind aa-l patient attention you have given me. Above all I ; thank you from the eeutcr of my heart and with my whole heart for the uniform. zealous and generous support yoUjhftvc always extended to my aspirations in life. No constituency ever stooi\ by a representative more loyally than you have stood by me, and 1 bei. ? * ;.. - - ? * - a ia mmh I111U in Villi 1*1111 Miy, "George Tillmau deserved it, because he never deceived the Saluda jieojile? never Wed to them?never betrayed their trust and always tried to do his duty faithfully as he saw it." It may he I shall never have the op portunity to address you again, ami in bidding you good-bv permit me to express the hope that Saluda county may always tlourish like a green bay tree, ami that every man, woman and child in the county may enjoy the choicest blessings of God in this world and the I'AbMIOTTO 1'KXCIL I'OIXTS. Frank Mursneils. a State convict employed at Lipscoiub-Xeal brick yard, near Columbia, committed suicide by jumping between a belt and pulley. A commission has been granted to .7. . Gentry, Ij. M. Gentry, U. C. Correll and T. 11. Thnekston as corporators of tho Spartanburg Knitting Mills, whose capital stock will be 81",0U0 in 100 shares of 8-~> each. The requirements for anyone to tako part in the primary election thismonth is the following, which is taken from the rules governing the Democratic party: "No person shall he permitted to vote unless lie has been unrolled on 1L club list lit ll'Mst fivii duvu !.?> .. . v, -1 1/V.iUlt bUU anid primary election." The contract for the erection of a College Home at Krskine College, Due West, has been awarded to Mr. J. V. Orders, of Charlotte, X. C., tho lowest bidder, for Work will begin at once and the building will be completed by December 15. Bond i??.000. A strange woman went to Seneca tho other day ami stopped at a boarding house, and iuter she was discovered in an out house with a ropo around her neck trying to hang herself and she fought desperately those who tried to prevent her rash act. She was afterwards lodged in the guard house but continued to try to kill herself with whatever she could get hold of. She is a white woman about do years old. Ialter ir: the day it was discovered that her name was Scott and that she was a lunatic escaped from tho county poor-house. TIIK :s t'A I ! ; f (>N V l-.NTM >N Of I he Sunday Schools of Soul li Carolina Postponed I he llcason Why. The following circular in regard to the annual State Sunday School convention is of special interest to the Sunday School people of lie Slat. "Scleral id' the State Sunday School conventions arranged !. hold their meeting.* this year the last week m Angle t. I his made it impos.-ibio for i'riiit'HMtr (111 iniiI, tin* representative oi" the international convention, to met I with tin-Hi all. "Mr. Jacobs, chairman of the inter national executive cemmittee, r?-?|nt-nti d ns, ll ) o>r-il>|e, to change tin- tiino ol on molting, so that I'rof. Hainill could la- with :i i. "I poii it*vi stii.'atioii it seemed ipiito pruc'irahlc and coiivt xiii-nt I r us to do so. and lh< date for our meeting has la en clinti ;ed t o Septelnher 'J, if and I. ilist-a 1 of August g'i and 'J7, and i ro'. .i Kauiill, of Illinois, one of tin- I. aiillio- Sund.iV School t "111 h I s of ' in ma. and ant ho I' o ( tin- "legion of lioiior NoMual i'-ii-n' and 1 ruining lit'NSolls," will I'O | I'l'SI'Ilt. "! i' ; a!ri a-'\ '.<-li Know n to a greet ,'iianv < I tin Sunday ""ohml ]>i oph> of t:.i- at -. and !.:- in- m*. i- Millici -nt p .11 a r.t i- t fin t t lir in "it sii;* will lii> olio ot great n,t, |, s; and profit I. t no p: tor or Sunday School woil;. . v. h" can attend. miss the treat ir t oi' tor lis lit I'lori'ticc, S. Sept. and !. S. If. Iaiii.i,, t h .inn an I i\i i'. i: \ i < 'om to it to. PALMETTO :! POINTERS. 1 | * j "L'NCLK GKOIUiK" OX IIKVAX. He Thinks Ho Will bo the Next President. } Hon. Georgo D. Tillmnu bus gpven ; the Augusta Chronicle bis opinion of I tbo Democratio nominee. Col.. Till; man is not a man to go wild over false ^ i lights, but is a good judgo of human . | nature, besides being a statesman hiw. self. Ho savs: ) , j "During my career in Congress I ' ! spent sixteen winters in Washington, , | where I ciuuo in euntaet more oA leas I i with nearly nil tho grout men of .this | country, nutl,with innny from foreign \ j countries; ami while serving two years ** ' ! in Congress with Dryan, lie always imj pressed me as being the greatest matt | I over met, and as being just as good : ! as he was great. As an orator 1 have 1 never heard but three men who could . j be compared with him. They were ' ; lien Mill, lilaine and illaekburn. He either knows everything or has such a facility of reference to books that he cau quickly get \ any information ho wants. llis I ' memory is simply marvelous, and ho ' " j lnu such an intimate knowledge of 1 men that he can read their characters at a glance, lie is always at work i seeking knowlc dge, by readiug, eou; versatiou or reilcetion, and scenic to j look upon idleness as a crime. If ho , has even any small vice?chewing, | emoking, drinking, gaming, cursing, [ etc., 1 never discovered it during two ; years personal and olliciul intercourse | with him. In fact, the man always npJ pcured to be conscientiously inspired j with enthusiasm to do good for others. ! Vet he is a most devoted father, and : uc-is more into a lover iiiuu a uusnauu ; towards his wife. Iu a few words, morally speaking, he is so well balI aueed that he eouhl not intentionally , I do a wrong thing if he were to try, and uis intellect is so clear and strong that 1 he always avoids evil as near as it is human to do so. Therefore, I think Bryan will be President, becuuso lie ought to be; because he was born 1 great, and becuuso not oveu the l'resi5 deiicy could confer greatness upon i him." 1 PRKPARINti FOR TilK PRIMARY. i The Tickets Rave tleen Printed and I)Ist rlbiitcd. I Chairman 1). II. Tompkins, of tho | State Democratic Executive Commitj tee, is making preparations for holdi ing the primary in the State on the j 2.">th inst. The tickets have ull been I printed and are being distributed iu the various counties. Chairman Tompkins had 20.*,< 0 ) tickets printed. lie addressed a circular letter to each of the county chairman and ascertained about how many tickets would bo needed in bis county, and most of tho replies have been received. The ' names of all the candidates for United j States Senator, the candidates for State J oOiccs uud the one candidate for rnilI road commissioner, Mr. !.('. Wilboru, ' arc on the ticket. At the bottom of i the ticket appears the following: "linn i a pen or pencil mark through tho names of those for whom you do not wish to vote." The rules of the party require the county Jexecutive commit too id' each county to appoint three managers of election at least two weeks before the election and to publish the i names of the managers in two or more papers of tho county. -4??Wariitng to County Otllcbils. Comptroller < iouorul Norton says tho law with reference to settlement of county olliciuls w ill be as rigidly enforced this year us ever. The Comptroller has to have in all the reports I of county otlieers in the State iu time : t<> presents his annual report to tho I (iencrul Assembly. Of cotirso tho meeting of that body is some titno off, J tint the Comptroller desires to remind ! county offends of the fact that tiicy | must lie on time. Tho county treasJ uref iitid iiinlitor of each county got up the i* |u?rt of tlie State taxes in j their respective counties and the set! tlement is made in the presence of tho ! Comptroller t(ciicral or his represent' j ative, the county supervis ?r, foreman j of the grant! jury ami the county | school commissioner, each of whom ! certifies us to the signing of the ro| port hy the officers, who submit tho ! ui'itters to tlie Comptroller. Tho I school tux'cs arc reported to the conni ty school commissioner-', who makes up his report and submits it to tho Comptroller (icncral. .Mr. Norton j says tiiat he will not settle with a sinvie olliccr until tie- r< porta are rcgtii larh gotten up and eel tilled to. Tho books, etc., have >11 r< :i<I\ be-n sent to . the county officials. Mr. I'dackwildcr, while lishing on tlie farther f-ide of the ('atnwlia river recently, found tin liodv of a newlv %f ? " ~ tf horn, white mult; eliihl. It Im< 1 hei'U ; ni tho water iihoiit t!in ? dayn and \vh? ; enelosed in two oiiniio Hacks with a w> if_r 111 attached. No elite to the horrihlu deed. It is rumored that the Iloplihli eai.i inti lid to eid! a - ate ('onveuttou ; and consider tin- outlook lor n State t if!-. -I to le |>ut :n the iichl this year. Knelt iiml Kl?iires Alton! I he Ileal. 'i!i f 11 \vi11iii-i' Mini" hi il!" extremely I .K'li teinei rutin i r -j.nrte.S >.t the Weather li irei.n st iti'.i.s, in lilT<*rer;t sis'tiiina of tiio e. u;itry: Si: i;.v N r ..I!., tts; Washington, H8; Ok In* I i. st. !. .ui?. '.<s |'a!< -1iiii*. !'S; Kansas i a . Wilialin.'l riiil.'elelfrliia, '.itij .I.i't.- .|,\iile. 'I. Mie.!i*..:11 TV, Cinoiantili, i I' '.r at, .'l: Nurili 1'iaile, 02; Haveni ?!. ''j i ! i i;iIMltnhurg, 03; Huston, '.'J. \'laii'.a, ''J, Ni-w York, 0(1. j M i|e!:o li..i. >i ;n:I. Idle lioil'/e City, 100; | S ; .aiili:; I, le-as Cilv, OS; Montgomery, I ' '. I; -ten, Norfolk, or.; Wn-hlnKton, 04; | Willi i: II, i. Allnntn, HI; I'liilai|el|ihia, 0J; St, 1, jiils, ( iie'iunati, 0J; Chicago, HI).