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pN>- -? ' * " ": ; ;;:S\- --?* VOL LIV, WINNSBORO. S, G, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1900. NO. 16. Jj A GREAT SPEECH. Tha Assembled Democra-ic Clubs - ? j 1 i? r> ACaressru uy otjfi- . HUGE AUDIENCE HEARS HIM His Powerful Arraignment of Republicans. WcKfnfsy's Own Woras Us?*d Against Hirr. The hall in which was assembled the National Association of Democratic Club3 at Indianapolis, Ind., on Thnrsday was thronged wiih people, probably 5,000 being present, but as the hour approached for the advent of Mr. Bryan at 4 o'clock the aisles were filled aEd the hall thronged to a degree of almost suffocation. After Aclai E Stevenson had concluded, James S. Sovereign, exgrand master workman of the Knights of Labor, spoke, dealing vrith the workingman from a political standpoint. He said labor is the foundation of liberty in all the world. Mr. Sovereign was followed by Bishoi J. Milton Turner, minister to JLioena under Grant's administration, who spoke briefly and in part as follows: "A great many of my race ^ho formed the rnsjoritv of the n^gro population in'the United States 25 years ago have already been promoted and have gone to their good Christian fathers, but the boys aro coming forth in teeming hundreds and thtu^andsfrom that palladium and safeguard of American institutions, the public school system of our country, and unlike Uncle Tom and Aunt Sally,- they are doing their own thinking like other ycung Americans for themselves. '"We come with a fresh born, disin^_ terested patriotism to put forth our might at this time in the States of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, New'York and New jersey and other States where we have been making the presidents for the last 23 or 30 year?, and ws thinkthis time, through our votes, we will be able to make up such a quota for the election of Wm. Jennings Bryan that we will elect this tickct without any possibility of McKinley defeating it." BEY AN HAD TO CHECK THE CHEERING. As Bishop Turner concluded Mr. r Bryan appeared upon the platform. He had reached the city a few minutes before 3 o'clock, but did not arrive at the hall until a quarter past 4 o'clock. He was escorted through the streets by a number of marching clubs. As soon as the Democratic national candidate appeared en the platform there was a shout of greeting, and this soon developed into a demonstration which continued for sbout six minutes, until there was a call for cessation by Mr. Bryan himself. The speech was liberally applauded throughout, and when it tViara -.zrao n. msh tO the j?L 1 *Y6D ti? stage on the part of those in the audience who wished to shake hands with him. He, however, avoided this demonstration, and soon found his way back to his hotel. Mr. Bryan said: THE WOIlK FOR THE CLUBS 4'I appreciate the work done and being done and to be done by this association of Democratic clubs, and I appreciate the energy, the enthusiasm and the ability displayed by Mr. Hearst, the president of this association. I believe in these ciubs. The work of Democracy, being a work for the people, must be done by the pec; Je. We neeu the clubs to help us colic ct money to carry on our campaign. The republican party can get its money from the corporations, whioh plundtr the people between campaigns in return ror tne money contributed curirg campaigns. "We cannot go to a trust ard ask it to help us, because we do not expect to be helped. The Kepublican party does not ooliect money for its national campaign from one Republican out of 100, aBd when the election is over 99 out of 100 Kepublicans have nothing to say about the running of the government. "We expect that the administration Pwill be conducted in behak of the great mass of the American people, and we have the right to call upon them to help with their money as well as their votes to win this fight, which is their fight, and not our fight. We need the clubs to help ciraulate literature. If ? ?- /tlnkn \r? * 11 ni r lr Alt ? eveiy tut mum ui uicviuuo uu? some acquaintance and find out what he is thinking ibout, prepare to meet his arguments, sapply him with literature and work for his conversion, the members of these clubs will be astonished to find how much can be done. We need the clubs to poll the votes, for we must do by voluntary effort what the Republicans can afford to pay for having done. REPUBLICANS DODGING. "The Republican party is not prepared to meet the issues of this campaign. The Republican party is ;;oday dodging, running from nearly every issue in the campaign. When they started out they said the money question was the question of paramount im nnWnns./y R])t TO vf Tl O T1 O t.h f V f Allnfl j^Vl lauv^> - W ?? ? that when a man says that a question of money is moie important than a question of government he at once arouses suspicion, and people begin to wonder whether he thinks a dollar is more important than a man. Think of trying to make the money question paramount in this campaign! \Y hy, my friends, when the money question was paramount?in 1896?we found the Republicans trying to make out that the tariff was the paramount issue. They said, 'Let us open the mills instead of the minis,' and the first thing they did when they got into power was, noo to ; reform the currency but to reform the tariff. and give the men who contributed a chance to run their hands deeper into the pookets of the people. "Now, when the questions of the human race and human liberty are at stake, the Republicans say that the money question is the paramount issue. They were afraid in 18i>6 thai we were going to have a 50 cent dollar. Now thev have given us an 85 cent citizen in Puerto Rico, and they dare not tell us what per cent, of citizenship the Filipino is to have. In IS96 they said we could not have a double standard of money. Now they think we can have f a doubie standard of government?a republic here and a despotism in the Philippine Islands. They said in 1S96 that we could not maintain a parity between a white metal and a yellow. How can they maintain a parity between a white citizen aDd ayellow subj ct in the Philippine Islands? They hod that it is too sordid a doctrine to say that the standard of money you have is more important than the form of government under which you live. WIIO RUN THE ICR TRUST. "And yet, my friends, while they cannot now boast of the supremacy of the money question, they are not prepared to meet tbe other issues. Mr. Hanna says tbere are no trusts. That settles that question. He ought to 33k his wife. Every wife knows there are trusts. The only trust that any Re publican in this country seems to know about is the ice trust, and the Republicans don't know much about that, for i? thoy did they would know that every stockholder is a Republican. If they knew more about the ioe trust they would know that its harm was confined to the people of Sew York, and if they knew tbat they had a governor of the State of New York, a man who VFonld not let au7 harm come to his people, they would know tbat there would be no ice trust there or the governor would kill it 'New York Jias a ilepubiican governor and a Republican legislature, and you Republicans who have been worrying so much about the ioe trust can ease your minds, for as long as the governor is ont west making speeche?, you may be sure nobody is being hurt in New York. Why is it that no Republican knows anything about the Standard Oil trust, or the sugar trust, or the salt trust, or the trust of cracker?, or the trust of wiudow glass, or the envelope trust, or the writing paper trust, or the trust in paper that Republican editors use to write a defense of the trusts upon. Why don't they know about these trusts? Is it dishonesty or is it ignorance? Why is it that no Rs puDJican ppeasers oomc outa&aiusi auy trust except she ice trust, and why is it that the Republicans in charge did Dot destroy that, so you oan believe Mr. Hanna when he sajs there are no trusts? AFEHID OFTUE ISSUE. "The Republican party is not prepared to defend itself on the trust question, therefore they try to get it out of the campaign. The Republican party is not prepared to defend itself on the army question. They say there is no question of militarism and yet an army four times as great as the standing army of 1896 is demanded by the president's message of December, 1898 How much do we spend for education in the United States? Les9 than $200,000,000. How much do the Republicans want to frpena on a military establishment? (ke hundred million dollars a year. They want no spend more than half as much -for a military establishment as we spend for the education of all the children in the United States Is that not a step towards militarism? What reason can they give for it? They can give only one. That is the one they do not give. There are two reasons which lead men in this country to want a large standing army? One is a domestic one; the other is connected with our foreign affairs. What domestic reason is there for a large army? To protect us from the Indians? No; the less Indians we have the more army the Republican party want. That is not the cause. Why do they want it? So that they can build a fort near every large city and u?e the army to suppress by force the discontent that ought to be cored by remedial legislation. WHY THEY WISH A BIG a..MY. c:The laboring man asks for arbitration and gets a large army; he asks protection from the black li3t and his answer is a large army; he asks for shorter hours of labor in order that he may have more time with his family and for the development of his micd, and bis answer is a large army. He asks for representation in tbe president's cabinet in order that labor may be protected, and his answer is a large army. That is the domestic reason which is not given and yet it is a rea son entertained by many. What is the reason they give? They say we need it for onr foreign policy but, my friends, they asked for the army before the American people had ever decided upon a foreigh policy that made a large army necessary. "In December of 1898 when the president asked for his army the treaty bad not been signed, but its terms were understood. When the Republicans congress voted to raise the army to 100,000 the treaty had been signed and no arm was raised against this nation anywhere in the world. Bat the American people had never voted for a colonial policy; up to this time the American people have never voted for a colonial policy, and yet the Kepublican party is pledges to a large army. What does it want with it? It intends to exploit the Philippine islands and if you want to understand the reasons for a large arm}, icau uie pivspeuLUD issuau ujr tuo Philippines Lumber and Development company. You will find that at the head of the company as president stands a republican member of congress who is the chairman of the army committee of the house of representatives. and another Republican congressman is attorney for the company. What do you want an army for? To hold the Philippines while they are being developed by syndicates headed by Republican politicians? THOSE FOOLISH CHARGES. "The American people have not yet decided in favor of imperialism. The Republicans refuse to meet it. You do not hear defenses of imperialism from those authorized to speak. You find that now the Republicans axe trying to hide behind first one subterfuge and then another. They say now that the reason we are in the Philippines, the reason our boys are dying, the reason a large army is necessary, the reason we cannot come home is bccause I helped to ratify the treaty. ">iy friends, I want you to go back a few moments and you will find that the Republican party said we were in the Philippine islands because of the act of God and it ir a great come down from God to me. If it is the hand of God that takes us to the Philippine islands, An fVia T?onrtViliMns tcanf tn lav it TTiiJ UV VUV >? ?>? ?"v ~?j on to a Democrat? If it is well to be there, if it is a part of the divine mission, why don't they defend their being | I [ there? They claim to be silent partners [ with the Almighty, but the trouble is that they make all the noise and thus j far the Almighty ha3 been the silent partner. .Now they say the war would stop if it were not for the Democratic I party. They say that the Filipinos would lay down their arms but for the hope they have that I may be elected Whenever a Republican tells you that you tell him that the colonists fought the same battle that the Filipinos arefightiDg and they did it, nearly 100 years T tooc Vinrn A. HM J WV* "Teli them thit the Filipinos issued a declaration of independence patterned after ours before the question of imperialism ever entered into American politics. They do me too much honor when they say that 1 am responsible for the Filipinos'hatred of foreign domination. If they have not forgotten the teachings of Abraham Lincoln they would know that he said it was not a party but God himself who planted in the human heart the love of liberty which no Republican pary can take away. , So that the Filipinos would not fight , but for the hope Democratic success. '"Until human nature is entirely , ? > * i t _ t- . ? J Ml cnangea people neia 12 oonaawin rise against it whomever there is a prospect of success <roi never made a race that would -,vjlcome a foreign master and 1,000 years from now, no , matter whac party is in power, the . Filipinos wilt hate us 3&d stand ready , to rise against us if we attempt to hold . them in vassalage aad tax them with- . cut their coaseat. DESTRUCTIVE DOCTRINES. < '"Republicans, what we object to is , that in order to defend yoar imperial policy you have to lay down doctrines j which, if carried out, wiil destroy the right of the American people to partio , ipate in their own government. That ^ is our objection to your policy. If you j are simply going to kiii the Filipinos off and come home wc mutt got over the crime. Bat that is no*- your policy. You dare not kill theinoi! because you want to trade with them You would * destroy your trade argument if you kill J f-V.om Vati rnxmnrkt with ' people. 1 '"You want them for subjects, but * you shall not- have thesa for subjects if we can prevent it. Yon cannot make 1 subjects out of them without changing ^ our ideas of government. You can't 1 hold them in perpetual servitude with- ? out amending your constitution either ^ openly or indirectly and the sam9 power that can disregard the consitu !j tion and make a subject out of a Fili pino can disregard the constitution f and make subjects out of the American 1 peop e. You have as much risht to a disregard the constitution in the United f States as you have in Puerto Kico * You have as much right to exclude j; American citizens from the guarantees of their constitution as you have to ex- j; elude Puerto Ricans. , I FOLLOWING THE PATH8 OF MONARCHY. r "The Republican party is following * the path3 of monarchy. It does not v propose a king, but it proposes a prin- 0 ciple upon which oniy a king can stand. Il does not propose a crown, but it proposes a doctrine that can fit nothing but a crown. The Republican d party has dons in Puerto Rico past c what Eogland did in this country, and J our president is doing today just wnat a George III did a century and a quarter 1 ago. What difference does it matter t whether you call him president, or em- c peror, or king, if he administers to the d power of a king? S "We are not only against imperial- t ism because it strikes a blow at our 1: principles of government; we are I against it because it destroys the moral v prestige of this nation among the na- 1: tions of the earth. ^ f "Let me read you what was said by 1 Mr. McKinley himself in regard to this o nation's position and in regard to the n principles set forth in the Declaration s of Indepsndence. We have insisted, as fc all have insisted who have defended i the declaration, that it was not written t for a day, nor for a year, ncr for a cen- i tury. We have contended that it was fc written for all time and all people and c that no nation would ever be so great q that it oould not rest securely on that t declaration of independence. We were not alone in this idea. Until the poison of imperialism entered the Republicans they agreed with us in this doorrine, a as you will see from a Fourth of July s speech made by the president himself at Chicago five years ago last July. Speaking of the authors and signers of i the Declaration of Independence and the constitution, he said: g m'kinley's own words. " 'They built not for themselves but ^ for posterity. Their plans stretched ( out into the future, compassing the a ages and embracing mankind. Nnt t alone for the present were their sacrifi- 1 ces and their struggles but for ail time * thereafter; not for American colonists * only but for the whole human race, wherever men and women are struggling for higher, freer a;id better ccu- c ditions. It was the yearning of the s soul for emancipation. It was the cry of humanity for freedom?freedom to r think, speak aud act within the limitation of just and proper laws which sheuld be of their own makiDg." "There wtre no limitations on that i constitution then. There wore no limi- : tations on that declaration of indepen- ] dence. It was not intended for the ( people who struggled then; it was for f them and their children's children to < the remotest ages. It was not for the , Anglo-Saxon then. It was for ail man- , kind. ; 4,I cannot better describe the fall*of J the Republican party; I cannot better j picture its demoralization; I cannot j better describe its complete surrender < to the doctrines that underlie monarch- } ies and empires and despotisms than to . tell you that when a king dies a Re- j publican president can send a message , of condolence but that when two republics expire no Republican sheds a tear. We want the American people to attend to their own business. We want them to have their own ideas and T stand fyr them. We want this nation to be among the nations as a light ana ' example. j BE JUST AND UPRIGHT. j "I want this nation to be just and ' nrV, t- an fViot tuVion nflier nfttifiriQ ( UUii^KL DV V.UUV nuvu wuv*. ? ? v quarrel, instead of calling out great ] armies to kill each other, they will say, I 'leave the question to the United States i ?they can be trusted.' I want this na- : tion to be a peacemaker among the < nations and tnen it will earn the re- 1 ward promised to the peacemaker: i 'Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.' " At the concluding session of the convention Hoq. Bonrkc Cockrin was the speaker. Gov. McMiilin of Tennessee, called the meeting to order and intropuced Mr. Cockran Mr. Oockran devoted his speech to the question of imperialism. Adlai E Stevenson addressed the convention at the afternoon session. He said in part: WIIAT REPUBLICAN SUCCESS 3I?A>S "The reelection of President McKinley will be held by hiui3elf and his party?acd jastly so?an endorsement o: (he policy o? the administration towards the Philippine islands Let no ' Republican with uneasy conscience, delude himseif with the hope that, if sus'aincu at the polls, there will be a change in the methods and policy of the administration. Such delusion is worse than ^idsuramjr madness. The reelection of the present csccutive would be a votei>f confidence; a solemn | endorsement by the American people i ef a xar of conquest?ihe salient feature of his administration. The condemnation of the administration by the ballot is our only hope of escape from the perilous policy it h?s inaugurated, j "Imperialisms knows nothicgof lim- j itations of power. lis rule is outside j of the constitution. It m^ans the j adoption by the American r^r-ublic of \ the colonial methods of European! monarchies, It means the ri^ht to hold ilien peoples as subjects. Ir entiiioaes force as the controlling agency id govjrnment. Ic means the empire. Kul lowing close in the wake of imperialism will come the immense standing army, fhe dread hand of militarism will he felt in the New World as in the old. fhe strong arm of power will be subjtituted for the peac-ful agenoiess, which have for more th*n a century aide our people contented*nd happy." Waiting the Old Party There is an interesting ir.fbx of old:ime Repablicans into the Democratic jarty. The Springfield Kopubliean lays that "following (Jol. Higginson Qto the Bryan club of Massachusetts, co Judge Putnam of Uibridge, exxovernor Chamberlain, Hiram Vroonan of Roxbury and many others;" vhiie the Chicago Record says "the nost conspicuous convert to the Demo iratic ticket recently is Syndney Webster, who was private secretary to JVilliam Seward and married the laughter of the late Hamilton Fjsh, 7or many years he has enjojed the eputation of being one of the ablest nternational lawyers in the country md been connected with some of the nest famou3 and important cases of nternational litigation. He shares with >Ir. Oiney and Mr Schurz the fear hat Prrsident MeKinley's foreign >olicy will ruin the oouatry, and thereore advises people to vote for Bryan:, dr. Webster i3 an aged man &nd n Vin-r fooKla Vmf lio tpiil r\a In iVWI/lV) wav UV Mil* VV AU ' ?WW^ WV >re3ide over the meeeting at Madison Square when Bryan speaks on the 14-ih ?t October, if he is able to be present." A Boy AbductedWhat looks like a genuine case of abiuetion has come to light in Florcace ounty. Last Friday morning week lohn Hey ward, a 13 year-oid boy, disppeared from hi3 lather's home in the iffiogham section. Mr. J. E Hey ward, he father of the lost boy, has been tcld ly responsible parties thai he was ?e luced from his home by a man named iimmons, a pretended clock peddler and inkerer, Nothing has been seen or leard of Simmono and the boy since today week. It is thought that they rent in the direction of North Caroms. 3immons had been at Effingham or several weeks, and the people be ieved in him. Mr. K. Hateheli knew >f the matter, but at the tim; thought lOthing of it. It seems froia what he ays that Simmons had promised the ioy to take him to Florence and leave iim there, so that he might return in he afternoon with his father, who was n town. Mr. Hcyward is nearly heart>roken over the disappearance of his hild. He has made extensive in[uiries, with no success.?Columbia itate. Bridegroom Wasn't There. In Lippincott's Magazine is given an ccounc by Cbloe, a young negro house ervant in an Atlanta family, of a wedling she had attended. The next day her mistress said to ler: "Well, Chloe, how did the weddiDg 10 off?" ''Oh, la, missy, it was do grandes' reddin' I ebber saw! It was jes' lublj! Jh, yo' jes' ought to ob seen <le flowahs .n' de splendid weddin1 suppah an' de >ride?oh, de bride! She had on de ocgest trail, an' a wtute veil ail ovati ler, an' a wreath ob fbwahs, an' oh, it ras jes'd". mos' elegant weddin'!" "How did the bridegroom look?'' An expression of infinite di^gu^t :ame into the face of Chlce as sh^. said, icornfuily: "La, missy, that good-for nothin', lo-'count niggah nebbah como anigh!" A Fearful Fall. George Whittlesey had a remaikabie escape from death recently while nakicg a balloon aecention. When [000 feet high he cnt locie, the psraa Arvan i r\ cr mih.iItt tkfinr i ^ T,~?r\ nf 'UUU^ '-M M*V^f V# )0 feet, when the saodbsg ssed in jvermraing the balloon broke loose icd feli, staking the parachute on top md crossing it. Whiitlessey f'eii fully )00 feet with lightning speed before ;he parachvte reopened, afier which le landed safely in the meadow adiouraing the Caraivai Midway Grounds. People were a^e-3t~iken *hen the bag struck the parachute, ;he bag passing on down acd missng the daring aeronaut by a close i-argin. An Editor Made Happy. The Nauvoo Rustier says: ';The ?rorld is, after all. a hapjiy one, and as ^e gaze from the window of our edi .uiiai uiuupvc:; ?* - ut ruu < scape, sweet visions of miikand honeycumming birds and molasses dance before our astonished vision li We a calf bc'ore a circus procession. Last Saturiay one.oi' our subscribers came in and paid, in cold cash and in cold blood, ;hree years in arrearages and two years in advance. 'Praise God from 'svhom ill blessings flow." Now if aa any of jur delinquents want to make us happy t\ey can do so by following the example set by the Rustler's delinquent. A TIMELY RESCUE. Adrift On An Open Sea for Ten Days. PASSED BY SEVERAL SHIPS The Captain and Crew of the Ship Ellsrslie Rescued After Severe Suffering. The Britisfe steamer Amana; Captain Carr, fromSamarang, Java, via St. Michael's, arrived at Boston Wednesday afternoon, having on board the captain and thirteen of the crew of tie Liverpool ship Ellertlie, which was abandoned at sea, dismasted and waterlogged. The steamer rescued the men O 1 on _ t. T J ^ - on oepiemoer auer tuey iiau uten buffeted about by fearful seas for tec days. The master of the Ellerslie is Captain Llewellyn Cook. Oae member of the crew was lost overboard on September 18 The Eileralie sailed from Piseagoula, Miss., on August 18, for Liverpool* She was a three masted wooden ship of 1 346 tons. Captain Cock states that the Eilerslie sailed August IS with nearly a mil- 1 lioa feet of pioe lumber for Liverpool and had light winds until September 3, : alter which a succession of gales was ; eDC'juntered, developing on the 18ch ' into a perfect Hurricane. During the J nest few days the wind blew at the rate ] of eighty miles an hour at times, the vessel rolling and piloting in a terri-. ble manner. The men were forced to 1 fnrp?msfclp. h^ad tn rtrfivent bftine 1 carricd overboard. The sufferings of j the mea became intense through lack of fresh water, the supply having become exhausted. After the masts went by the board the vessel was relieved somewhat and the gale moderated poon afterwards. The crew set to work clearing away the mass of wreckage from the deck, ia order to secure a donkey boiler with which to condense the salt water. About eight gallons of sea water were thus condensed and the crew were given small drinks diluted with lime juice. During ail these days the vessel was be-' ing made the toy of the waves, the ? rrr V\T7 m r> O aiornolc I t V/i^rr \j j iuvauo VI. to attract the attention of passing ves- 1 sels. Three or four steamers passed 3 within sight of the shipwreoked men, J but apparently did not see their signals 2 of distress, or at least they paid no at- J tention to them. Finally on the 20th, i at 2 p. m., \Japt. Cook saw a faint < streak of smoke far away to the east- 1 ward and all hands eagerly watohed the < volume grow ia size until faint outlines c of a steamer were finally made out on ^ the horizon. The stump of the main- I mast was now utilized for distress flags, r and not cn'y the British jack, but a I bunch of the international coda signals s was nailed to it to attract the attention of the oncoming steamer. The latter proved to be the Amana, Java for Boston, and was soon in hailing distance, j The steamer's boats were speedily low- a ered. and after several ineffectual ef- j forts to get the men off the wreck from ; the side of their vessel, the boats were ] pulled under the jibboom, and by means ( of lines the men were lowered from this t part of the wreck and taken on bo*Td j the steamer. The Ellerslie was th( n : set on fire. ^ Bryan Nails a Lie \ W. J. Bryan's attention was called j to the statement alleged to have been } made by Mr. Kingman, that he received ( $150,000 for insisting upon the silver ; plank of the Kansas City platform, and ( nesaia: T "It is hardly worth while to deny the ] charge of a man who hides behind a j woman whose namo he will not give, \ hut in order that the most unscrupulous Republican may have no reason tor repeating the charge I will say that it is absolute'y false in every particular. No one ever offered, promised or gave ] me that sum or any other sum for urging ' that plank or any other plank of the ( Kansas City platform or any other platform. 1 do not know anything of \ Mr. KiDgman, but it is said that he is a cousin to Senator Cullom. The sen- 1 ator ought to know whether his cousin ] is trustworthy or not, and if the senator * will state over his own signature that ' lie believes what ins cousio says, ana J is willing to represent bim in an inves- J tigation of the charge, I will make him ! a proposition which will give him an opportunity to produce his evidence." ' Served Him Eight. a The Spartanburg correspondent of ' The State eajs Lewis Byarp, a white ] man, subjected to a rough and de served experience in that city on Wed- i nesday. The day before he had been convicted in the court of an aggravated assault, 3nd the man he assaulted appeared and a&ked for mercy. He wa3 given a sentence of one year in the . penitentiary or $150 floe. As he was 1 going out of the court room Byars j struck the object of his former assault i one blow in the mouth, making a blooay I - i lUJpiCSDiUU. T* CUUC3Ui?JT l/UUjcc Wtutv a called Bjars into court, revoked the 1 former sentence and imposed a sentenee l of eighteen months on the chaingang. i In Heed of Money. National Democratic Chairman Jas. j K Jones has written from Chicago to ( Scate Chairman Willie Jones as follows: My Dear Sir: Please accept my very sincere thanks for your letter of recent date enclosing check for $60 as a contribution to the campaign fund from ( citiz ins of Marion county, S. C. I will place this amount in the hands of the ! treasurer of the national committee, ' and it will be used for furthering the J cause of Democraoy. Please extend 1 my thanks to the gentlemen who joined ! in this contribution, and assure them it i is the more appreciated because we are very much in need of such assistance. Killed .Forty Boxers. A dispatch from Pekin says the German column consisting of 1,700 men | under Gen. von Hoopfner, encountered : a small Boxer force south of the imrM?rin.l nark rfifip.ntlv and killed 1 40 of the Chinese during a fight which followed. The Chinese were put to flight and scattered. Four Germans were wounded. THE B3ITISH LOSES The Boers, Though Conquered, Kade a Gallant Fight. The official report of British casualties in the Boer war up to September 15 shows how expensive even a small and successful war may be to say nothing of a big one. The total losses are given at 40,075, of which 28,199 are persons sent home as invalids, 285 officers and 2,718 men kiiied in action, 86 r.fficers and 797men died of wounds, 149 officers and 5 5S2 men died of dis- ! ease, 3 officers and 86 men died in | captivity, 12 officers and 809 men are "missing" or in captivity and 3 officers and 107 men were killed in accidents. Every week uses up nearly half a regi ment. In the week ended September j 15, for example, there were 24 officers and 440 men killed, wounded, died of disease or invalided home. As m'-my as 110 died in South Africa of dis- j ease during the week mentioned There were 1,073 officers and 13 001 men wounded during the war. The British taken prisoners, or missing, were 284 officers and 7 339 men, of' whom 269 officers and 6,444 men have been released or have escaped. These were losses of an army aggregating about 230,000 men, including colonials. The total of 40,075 casualties, it will be observed, about equals the aggregate of Boer soldiers of the Transvaal. and Orange Free State. Including the Boers of Cape Colony and Natal who joined the burgher army, the erand total of the" bur gner army wnen it was strongest was not over52,000 But it was all mounted infantry or artillery and the most mobile army of modern times. It was also an army of the best marksmen the world has ever seen, armed with the best weapons ever used so far in war. fJV their mobility and marksmanship the Boers added the advantage of jxceptional skill in selecting defensive positions in a country that offered fine facilities for the defensive. To Buy up the Rice. A meeeting of rice growers have been fcield in Beaumont, Crowley and other :owns in tnc nee district ox Louisiana mdTexas,at which the proposition made )y the New York syndicate to buy up ;he entire rice crop waa submitted. It ieemed to meet with the approval of ;he farmers, and it is olaimed that 90 per cent, of the rice growers of South Jarolina, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texts, have agreed to the plan and signed ;he contract engaging to sell all the ice they may grow for the next four rears, to the New York syndicate. Messrs. Anderson, Herd, of New York, mdC. D. Dusen, of Crowley, La., represented the syndicate at these meetngs. It is said the syndicate has a sash capial of $7,500,000. New Oceans rice brokers are likely to raise an >bjeotion as it will largely shut them ut of their business, The agreement rill probably be perfected this week, >ut it can scarcely be put in operation mtil the next season as the bulk of the w'/ia At?An V> o o 1 o^ rr Kzior* mar. S1G3CUK JLiVC UlV/y U?4D t?ii v?u j I7VVU :eted. After Thirty-Eight Years General R. N. Richbourg, who for a ong time commanded the Fourth brig bde, South Carolina milita, and was a esident of Columbia for many years, ?as twic^ wounded 3t the battle of brazier's farm, June 27, 1862, while iharging the breast works. One bullet ,ook off a finger, while another struck lim full in the breast. No effort was nade to locate the bullet and the vounded soldier recovered and coninued fighting until the end of the var. General Richbourg writes from Montgomery to say that a few days ago le felt a pain in Ms back. A spot be>ame inflamed and tore to the touch, rhat night he placed a drawing pla&ter >n the spot. Next morning the pain vas relieved, and taking off the plaster le found the old bullet that he had car ied for 38 years sticking to it. It was lattended and weig ed one ounce. How They Talk "Negro disfranchisement the paramount issue," was the subject discussed jy several speakers at a mass meeting >f colored people in Cooper union, New ?ork, Wednesday night. It was coniucted by the Colored Citizens' league. l?e Hall was niiea, ana aDoui nan tne people present were whiie. Resolutions i?ere passed protesting against the disTanchising of negroes in Southern states; calling on congress to reduce the representation of such states to a proportion of votes cast; asking congress to pass laws for the enforcement of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the jonstitution, and "a force bill if necessary," protesting against lynching; isking the president to use the military torce to prevent lynching; pledging the meeting to oppose the election of Mr. Bryan and favoring the election of Mr. McKinley, byway of "rebuke to recent lammany police methods." Burned at the Stake. Winfield Townsend, alias Floyd, a Negro, was burned 3t the stake in the little town of Eclectic, Ala , a half hour after midnight Wednesday morn Lug. The Negro's crime was an attempted assault on Mrs. Lonnie Harrington, whose bus'oand set fire to the brands which reduced Townsend's body to ashes. Townsend made a confession implicating seven other Negroes in his jrime. As this is the second white woman assaulted in this vicinity within the month it is believed there is a lonspiracy among the Negroes A Lucky Nurse. Mrs. Ora Horsmac, Lynn, Mass.. a Qurse, is woith perhaps $1,000,000, iuc to the beneficence of Mrs. William Porter of Boston. Mrs. Porter is 85 J f.->/ >K1 n RVio lives in thp yc'aid ui'j. auu ??i%w Back Bay district, and there has been nursed and cared for by Mrs. Ora Horsoian. On September o Mrs. Porter paid her nurse with $80,000, and on September 9, made a wili leaving Mrs. Horseman all her property. Messages to the Dead. A sad leaf in the history of telegraphic communication is encompassed in the story that never before ha3 there been so many messages sent to the dead as at Galveston. Thousands of despatches have been sent to persons 1 J Vtt mrtfln f linn. who were uesiiioycu uj mc mvu> | ricane, and who can never call for them. ALL IS QUIET. Some Einejleaders Arrested, Others Have Fled. A dispatch from Georgetown says Main street Tuesday morning presented a scene wbieh would do credit to Manila. Soldiers marchcd, drums were beating and the whole towr: apparently was under military rule, but such was not the case. Mayor Morgan and the councilme'n, to whom were added several prominent citizens, constituting an advisory board, were in session and have been discussing what was best to do in the premises. About noon it was given out that twenty warrants had been issued for the arrest of ringleaders in the disturbance of Sunday night, and these were served Tuesday afternoon. Walter Deaison, a negro barber, is considered the ringleader, and is being held responsible, in a large measure, for the excitement Sunday night. While it is not generally admitted by some ii is believed that by the thoughtless remarks of a few hot heads Snndav afternoon the negroes believed that John Brownfield would be taken from the jail by the whites Sunday night aiid lynched, and that the ringing of the fire alarm would be the signal. At the first sound of the bell, therefore, there was a hue and cry raised, especially by the ' negro woineD, and there was a general rush to the j ail, each bearing some kind of weapon, from a rice reaphook to a rifle, and in a few minutes 1,500 negroes were around the jail and in the streets adjoining. The whites at first did not understand the meaning of this outpour and some of the prominent citizens, including Mayor W. D. Morgan, Col. Sparkman, Sheriff Skinner and others wentamongst the mob and told them that no one was going to lynch John Brownfield. Here the rice field virago, the length of whose vindictive tongue has never yet been ascertained, got in her vilest work. "Don't go home, mens, like de buckra men tell you; stay here and save John. Bu'n de dam town down to ashes. Yunnakill all tie buckra men, an' we will 'tend to de buckra 'ooman and chillun. De buckra want to run : over xis, but we will show dem." These and other remarks followed in rapid succession, and the consequence ! was that pandemonium reigned su- . preme. The Georgetown Rifles were . sumuoned and remained in their ar- j mory all night awaiting orders. Mayor j Morgan understands the negro well. | As far as he is concerned, he was un- } willing to-call on the governor for j troops, but yielded to the judgment of ? others whom he called into consultation. , As soon as- it was learned that the troops were coming the leaders among the negroes;advised them to go to rheir homes andstay there, which they liave done. It seems as if this negro, John Brownfield, was a leader in the society of coondom as well as a member of the Odd Fellows and other organizations. It was believed that a large stock of arms was stored in a certain hall in town, and a committee was sent to seize them, but it proved to be false. Not more than sixteen arrests were made this afternoon on the twenty warrants issued this morning on the charge of riotous conduct, carrying arms and using menacing language to the terror of the people. Some cf the principal ringleaders have escaped, including Walter Denison. As predicted, these arrests were made without resistance, and a few of the cases were heard this afternoon, a conviction resulting in . every case. Three are in jail under < sentence of 30 days or $100. One ( woman paid her fine of $15. i Killed in a WreckA serious and fatal wreck occurred oh the Plant System road near Benbow mines, several miles from Charleston, Wednesday night. The engine and i several freight cars jumped the track i and tumbled down an embankment, i killing Engineer Gooding, a young white man, and Fireman Harvey : Thompson and Brakeman Ben White, colored. When the cars and engine ; went down the lo?g embankment the cars caught on fire, and the surviving members of the crew fought the fire to prevent the bodies of the dead from being burned to a crisp. The cause of the wreck is not known. The railroad sv ?C> Ari tt f a W IrA A UiUUiai.3 iciu:c jxiaa.^ a statement. The conduct of the railroad officials cannot be explained, unless it be that they are anxious to cover up something that ought to be exposed. Coroner DuSus was holding the inquest Thursday afternoon and Friday. The examination was a most thorough one, and the blame will be fixed where it lies. Sanaa's Way It was recently stated that Senator Mark Hanna demanded a contribution of $80,000 from the Baltimore Clearing House association for the Republican campaign fund. Not only has this report not been denied but the Baltimore sua puDiisnes statements rrom two directors of Baltimore banks who corroborate it and tell how the domand was made. One of these is a Bryan man and was indignant when the proposition was presented to the directors' meeting. Ten Dollars Per Family. The census of 1900 is expected to show a population for the Uoitde States of from 75,000,000 to 80,000,000. The yearly current cost of holding the Phil: : ~?-7 ? lysines, (.ucreiuie, auiuums IU uc4xjijr i or quite $2 per individual. It accordingly amounts to $10 per year for each average family. To the large majority of families in 'the United States this sum is nearly or quite equal to what the heads thereof arc able to earn in a week. Galveston Still Nee'Iy. The Fund for the Gilveston suffers so far collected is altogether inade quate to t fiord the relief that is so much needed. Charitable persons should njt withhold their hands from giving because the city is beginning to "do business at the old stand." There are many victims of the storm who lost their all. and who must be helped to their feet again before they can earn a livelihood. j la Hard Luck. - The Union correspondent of The State says Mr. G. Wait Whitman, late candidate for governor, was recently elected in that town for disorderly conduct and carrying concealed weapons. He was fined $25 and costs. PEKIN HORRORS. They Are Reviswad by a Returned Missionary. ___ WHAT OTHERS HAVE TO SAY. The Refugees Arriving in San ,,, .* **! Francisco Tell of Great Hardships Experienced In China. Rev. C. H. Fenn, a returned missionary from Pekin, tells of the first receipt during the siege, of direct news by Minister CoDger from secretary of State Qay. He said: "On July 15 we received a message that said: , t? 'Communicate tidings bearer.' ''There was no date and no signature. This Conger sent to the Tsung Li Ya- ? men with the request that it be plain. He received in rcplp a copy of Minister Wu's dispatch which stated that the United States government. demanded word from Minister (Jonger ia cipher. The message made our hearts jump with j.>y. Conger sent his,reply at once. "The night before relief arrived we heard the rattle from Chinese gens in the distance and it was sweet music. ' . Everybody got up?it was about 1 r o'clock?the women made coffee and there was no more sleeping that night. The nezc day as the Americans came in I went down and shook hands. with each man as he came through the water gate." . Cecile E. Payne, who went to Pekin last spring as the guests of Minister and Mrs. Conger, was a passenger on the steamer Coptic. She told a graphic story of the siege on her arrival here. "Of the whole eight weeks of terrible anxiety and dreadshe Isaid, "three nights stand out with special prominence. They are spoken of-by the besieged as 'the three nights,' The , first was just before the siege?about Jane 17 or 18. That was while we were in the American legation. "We went into the British legation compeuad on Jane 20. The night I speak Df was one the foreigners will never forget All night long went up terrible cries?howls and shouts of thousands upon thousands of Chinese crying for the blood of the foreigners. The second terrible night was about the mid He of the siege when after three - or 'our days of muggy and sultry weather'. , >ne of the most violent thounderstorms [ ever experienced broke over tHe city. Everybody had predicted that with the joining of rain the Chinese would cease iring, but the effect was just the oppo- y site. It was a night of bellowing thun- ' ier, roaring artillery, incessant lightling and pouring rain. "The third and last night of horrors 7as that of August 13th, the day before ;he rtlief came. On that night the Chinese were fairly frantic to break 2 and kill us. The firing that had before seemed furious was tame compared rith the hail of shot and shell that poured in upen us that night It came :rom all quarters, and seemed to bo :rom every imaginable kind of firearm. tVe had received reports of the approach of the relief column, and knew :hat it must be near from the furious itttempts.of the Chinese .to slay us. We expected that any moment might be pur last, as many breaches Were made by shells, and a determined assault at my one place would have opened the -. s?ay for the hordes outside." Talking: Through Their Eat. In a statement issued from Republii* i i T i can national neaaqaarcers tnrougn Committeeman Manly, the national committee claims 266 votes certain in the electoral college for McKinley, 112 for Bryan and 54 ptit down as donbtful. The States oonceded to Bryan are: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, tfl? Carolinas, Tennessee, Texas 'and Virginia. In the doubtful column is put Colorado, Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Nebraska and Utah. Everything else is put down for McKinley, but Indiana, which with its 15 votes is admitted to be in doubt. When shown this Republican claim Mr. Biohardson for the Democrats characterized it as only "so much coasting." iie oaoea tnattne itemocrats also had a poll which was very different'from the Republican one, but that it would not be made publio. Sounds the Key Note. - ? ' Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, has sounded the key-note of the McKinley imperial campaign. He was put forward by the Hanna national committee i.~. _c ii. j L i? cu VUIM LUC spi;it ui cue nuat yar&jr, and at the Auditorium in Chicago, Sept. 25, he sums up the whole matter in ^ these words: "If the opposition says that our constitution forbids American people to hold and govern possessions as their situation may require, .I demand that they show me the denial of that power in the constitution. We are a nation. We can acquire territory. If we can acquire territory we can govern it. If we can govern it we ?; cao govern it as its situation may demand." Memories of Homestead. The great staike now in progress in the anthracite 5elds of Pennsylvania had its counter part in the bloody Homeofacii efinlra in 1 QQ'7 Tlli la+a? Annn^m. ObWOVt Jlliag XU Awl/?" . J. uv 4MWWJL VVUMU1 buted largely to the defeat of the Republicans in that memorable year. The Homestead affair was one of the worst in the history of monopoly war on labor. The steel barons had setout to destroy the nnions and the culmination of their efforts was reacted in the murderous assault of the Pinkertons upon an unarmed populace. ' Died in the Mountains. Gen. MacArthur reported to the was department Friday that five soldierr died in the mountains of Laguna province after having made their escape from the insurgents by whom they had been captured. The date of their death, is unknown and.no details # _! ''3 . _ j .1 . ? ii are iurmsneu as 10 me manner ox tneir death. It is supposed, however, that they perished from starvation and exposure, having lost their way in the mountains in their endeavor to return to their comrades. ' l-ll .. " " -7VZ: