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TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAT, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANT MAN.. rev TTTOMPSON. SMITH & JAYNES. WAIiHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MAY ll, 1893. VOLUME XLIV.-NO. IO. and Bargains! P FLOUR ! I Gold?dst, Fancy Patent Highest Patent < Jo? "i Fam?lv SYRUPS ! Good Xew Orleans Molasses Best Open Kettle New Orleans RICE ! G.1 Xew Orleans Rice Best New Orleans Whole Carolina Head $5 50 4 50 3 50 35 50@6? SEEDS-Ferry's and Buist's Garden. ! ^c;::r ^TS Texas Red Rust Proof, 60 cents. POTATOES ! Early Rose and Early Goodrich Mountain Potatoes - ?2 Ou 75@1 ou Peas, Corn and Meal, 80 cents. HOG FAT! Strictly Pure and I lome-.Made. I63 cents; lower grades cheaper. TRY OPP BOSTON BLACKING FOR GENTS' SHOES. TRY OUR GILT-EDGE BLACKING FOP LADIES' AND CHIL "BREN'S SHOKS-PEsT ON THE MARKET. SPRING GOODS. DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, HATS. SHOES, Etc., arriving-now; Don't fail to call on us before you buy. We will save you money. Respectifutily, O. H. Schumacher. GOODS DELIVERED FREE. Mardi 1G, 1893. A Young Lady's Roles. The Roads to Paradise. The following rules of conduct fell out of the pocket-book of a young Boston Globe.! There are 143 separate and dis lady and an unscrupulous newspaper tinct religious denominations in the United States, including the Christa delphians, the Winnebrenerian Church of God, the Dunkards and the Schewenkteldians. It may be a su prise to some to know that there atv thirteen different kind of Bap tists, seventeen kinds of Methodists reporter picked them up, says the Paducah Standard: 1. I don't let a man smoke when he walks or drives with me. It he knows no better than to do it, I promptly tell him what I think of it. '-. 1 don't give my phot.-graph to an(j a dozen kinds each ot" Presbyte men. I used to occasionally, but I Hans and Mennonites-each con am wiser now. I should hate by- vined that all the other kinds are and-by to know that my face might wron<?. be hanging up in Tom, Dick or j _* ?m_ Harry's room. j 3. I don't let a man take my arm 1 when he walks with me. If he does, I tell him I prefer him to give me his arm. L I don't g<? out with a man friend just because he ask? me. I like it better if he asks another lady ^unVrersfroraLT'?rippe found it jus to go tOO-his sister for instance. ' the thing and under its use had a speed; 5. ? don't let anv man "see me and perfect recovery. Try a sample bot ? f"_ ; - J j,- 1 1.?, tie at our expense and learn for yoursel ?lo ne trom church, it lie nasn t - t) ,. , 1 . . -, ? , , , just how goo,i a th'-.g it is. I rial hot gumption enough to take me there rles free at all druggists in Walhalla W. .1 Lunney, Seneca, Quillian and Cox Westminster. Large size, 00c. and $1. Xow Try This. It will <-OS? yon nothing and willsurcrj do.y wu good, if you have a cough, cob or any trouble with throat, chest or lungs Dr. King's New Discovery for cwnsump tion, coughs and colds is guaranteed t< rive relief or money will be paid back and sit through the services with me. lie may stay away altogether. ?. I don't let a man friend give rae presents unless it is something of a trilling cost, like fruit or flowers. And I alwaysgauge a man by his taste in this respect. 7. I don't encourage any young man who is not perfectly; polite and agreeable to my mother. Whoever calls upon me sees a great deal of her. I don't allow a caller to stay later than 10 o'clock. If he does The wonders achieved at the World' Faur in the way of rapid construction have probably never been equaled sine the world began. Men and machiner have been brought into happy combin; tions to produce results at once magn fixent and astounding. No less than li: teen thousand individual workers ar employed in putting on the finishin touch 's this week, and money has bee poured out like water to secure the rea not go at that time, I politely tell i>;:iti<.;i t>f tbe exposition ideals. In th: him my custom. regard the World's Fair stands una] -- "j prwachable by any similarenterpri.se i How's This I t^ic Past- There has already be*"- raise ... _. ir j m 11 i? , for the fair the enormous sum of $33,243 We offer One IIunored Dollars Reward . ,. , ,_' for any case of catarrh that cannot be '.,:'t ?..'". according to the report of Direct General Davis to the National World Fair Commission-a sum equal, in a probability, to the combined cost of a cured bv Hall's Catarrh Cure F. J. CHENET A CO-, Proprietors. Toledo. Q. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the Lost 15 years, and \ previous international exhibitions. believe him perfectly honorable in all ? _m9m_ business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made jy their firm. WEST & TK.UX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, <>. WAI.I)!N<;, KIXXAX & MAKVI.N, Wholesale Druggists. Toledo,- O The census bulletin on ownership ar debt in South Carolina shows thatamoi 100 farm families sixty-two hire the farms, three own with incumbrance ar thirty-live without incumbrance. On tl Hall's Catarrh Cur?is taken internally, owned farms of this State there are lie: acl^direc?y upon^ $3,303,679, which is 20. sunaces of the system. Price, .?> cents 0 -~ y ' ... , , per bottle. Sold "by all druggists. Tes-' j P*" cent of their value, and this de timbarais free. ' bears interest at the average rate of 8. _ . mmm i per cent, making the average annu interest charge $80 to each family. Ea, owned an incumbered farm, on t average, is worth $1,851, and is subj* , to a debt of $930. The correspond?: lownsend, the man under arrest on the 1 , . . ? . .... / ... . , , . -, . .* _\. , , ; facts for homes are that in 100 familn nominal charge of having discharged al . ',-,". ,,. , . . : on the average, eighty-two hire th) revolver unlawfully m a public place, but : ? ' ~~ . . ,, . . , 1 . . : , j * ' homes, one ownes with incumbrance a: reallv on suspicion of having intended to . , J . . i,. , , v . . f , seventeen own without incumbrance. 1 assassinate Gladstone, lay m wait for , . . . . , , , - *. . ., ; a\-erage deot of $-1,104 incumbers ea Gladstone s departure from nis residence 1_ , . , , JL , Tha Pall Mall Gazette states that on the day that the Irish home rule bill was passed, to its second reading, William home, which has the average value with the fell purpose of murdering the Premier, and was only restrained from doing so for the peculiar reason that the , venerable appearance of the Premier re- j Women love energy without in minded Townsend of his "own father's ' tating it ; men, tenderness withe appearance on bis death-bed. ' returning it. TEACHERS' COLUMN Z3f~ All communication*, intended for this column, should be addressed to PROF. j. w. GAINES, Principal of Westminster High School, ?Westminster, S. C. O'er wayward childhood wouldst thou hold lirm rule. And sun thee in the light of happy faces. Love, Hope au?! Patience-these must be thy graces. And in thine own heart let them tirst keep school. -Coleridge. Wc have just examined Robin son's Kew Arithmetics, and are much pleased with them, especially his chapter on capacity of bins, cisterns and boxes, which subject is so much neglected in our schools. We have also had occasion to examine Barnes' li ?stories of Rome and Greece, which are well written and ure admirably adapted to ase in our schools. Teachers will d'- well to examine these books. They are published by the American Book Company. Are you telling your pupils any thing about the Columbian Exposi tion ? If not, you are losing a golden opportunity to teach them an inter esting portion of history. How many of the teachers of Oco nee arc subscribers to any educational journal ? Subscribe for one at once, as it will do you much good. You may be measured by this. Xext week I shall give you some of my experience in disciplining a school. The extract below ts in continua tion of the plan suggested two weeks since-that teachers should read more concerning their work. This is from the New York School Journal, one of tlie best educational journals pub , lished. We hope every teacher will ? read it and act accordingly : There came to the editors, in De cember, a letter from a teacher in Missouri, which contained the follow , ing lines : "I doubt whether I had i better think of remaining in the ! school-room ; my pay is small, $23 : per month,-and there is but five months' ! school. I can canvass for books and j make twice or three times that. As ; I like teaching it will be hard for me ?to give itu]). This is my second j effort to make a start in life in the ; school room and I have had very good j success." The reply to this letter ? did not attempt to urge the writer to j remain in the school-room. It was ! substantially as follows : Whether you continue to teach is j a matter to be settled by considering ; far more than the fact that you j receive only per month. You ! must consider whether you have natu {ral adaptation to thc work to be dono ' in the school-room. Do yon love to ! be useful to mankind? Do you feel happy in benefiting young people? ! 1 )o you have a good deal of satisfac : tion in reading, studying, learning in general ? Let me suppose that you answei : these questions in the affirmative, i That fact would seem to indicate that you had the natural fitness the ! teacher requires. Now there are sev ? eral things more, two especially: (1) , Have you good scholarship? {'!} \ Have you a knowledge of education: , I do not ask about your experience . that will come in time (you will learr j to teach by teaching): nor about youi . j personal appearance, nor as to y om ' \ manners, nor as to your habiliments i nor as to your knowledge of the wayi 11 of the world. All these have a bear ing on your success in the school room. I will contine myself wholh to tlie first two points-your scholar ship and your pedagogical knowledge Von will allow one to .-?uppose tba j your scholarship is only medium, be j ? cause that is the case with mos 11 teachers. Ninety-nine per cent o j the teaching force know but Hui . i more than their older pupils, unies , i we except primary teachers ; nor di . j they care to. But the best teacher are good thinkers. You cannot be come a good thinker without havin; something t<> think upon, and so th best teachers have good scholarshij Hence, to be a good teacher yo must advance in eight lines c thought, Mathematics, Karth. Pee plc. Things (Physics), Self (Bod and Mind), Ethics, Language an Doing (Drawing, Penmanship, Painl e ing, Constructing, etc.) The bes y way for you is to take up two c i- tliree subjects and study them on lour a day at least. Suppose yo f- j take the first three, Arithmetic, G< e ography ( Botany, Minerals, Zoology ?; and History, and work twenty mit n utes every day in each for a year 1- you will be surprised at your pr< is gress ; you will not be the same pe > son. n ' You will allow me to suppose th: d your knowledge of Pedagogy y- small, for the fact is that, scarce! n any one understands the Science < 's Education. A good many ha^ ,11 made very extensive attainments : ill the Practice of Education, but th( cannot reduce their knowledge accurate statements. For most , these have got hold of the great pri ciples, as I may say, through "thc !g fingers' ends. Such men rise , positions where they obtain ve good salaries. You can get hold these principles in a better and easi - way by studying Education ; as y< study it you must practice it ir. t p_ school-room. *. For example, supj>ose you . a ^ studying the educational principl h^ "Connect the truth of the lesson to-day with that gained from sor c other lesson." You should apr. ? this in every recitation and not : Jf' low yourself not to apply it. n* I have taken it for granted tr. T you cannot attend a normal scho< ? I take it abo for granted that y c^ are willing to attend a sort of hoi 0 normal school. Join with one more teachers, and m meet to stu education at regular times. I firn ii- believe that if you begin to-day, ut reading this letter, in three years y will be receiving $75 per month : ten months in the year; possibly more. But do not look at the money side, look at the fitness side. If you become a skilful teacher people will find it out. Give your days and nights to advancing in a knowledge of the theory and practice of teaching; make it a daily question with your self, "Do I know more about teach ing than yesterday?" You roust, therefore, keep up a continual study ing; you must assiduously keep up the daily effort to make your school room reflect your advancement, your better comprehension. If your school room meets your ideal, then you are richly paid with the ?23 per month. Your school-room is a creation of your brain ; it represents your ideas of teaching; therefore study that school-room. You will see its de fects; you will determine to know the cause of them; that will bring I you round to a study of educational principles. As a teacher desiring advancement, you will find immense help by read- ! ing The Professional Teacher, be cause it deals with theoretical peda gogy. Its price is 50 cents per year. It will open before you the principles of education ; this is usually an un known field of thought. There is a good deal more in this business of teaching than is generally supposed. You think, at the outset, that it is hearing lessons in arithme tic, reading, .etc. As you'advance further you find it is character build ing. This requires trained powers of mind ; the little lesson-hearing business does not fill the bill. Con sider where you stand. Oak way Dots. [Correspondence Keowee Courier.] OAKWAY, S. C., May 6, 1893. Everything is moving on lovely j just now. Plenty of rain and cotton j is up to a good stand. Corn is being i worked over and small grain is mak ing a good show. Miss Katie Flemmings is visiting frisnds and relatives near here. Married, on Sunday, April 30, at the residence of the officiating clergy man, Rev. D. B. Wait, Mr. John W. Grayham and Miss Missouri Bear den. May the richest blessings crown their new relation. Messrs. J. O. B. Haley, J. W. Bearden and J. J. Haley are having bills of lumber sawed which will' be used in building and completicg-tfcll dwellings. This wilt add raudb-i&o the building up of the community, besides making their homes more comfortable. Rev. Mr. Abbott and wife have been carrying on holiness meetings j at this place. They were not allowed i to preach in the" Methodist church, ! consequently they went to the grove. ?As a result of their preaching about j thirty members withdrew from the M. E. church and organized one known as the "Wesleyan Methodist church." A "division" in the church is a sad scene, but we hope it may be all for the best. j Messrs. W. S. Haley and W. W. Bearden contemplate visiting friends and relatives in Georgia this week We wish for these gentlemen a pleas ant trip. Miss Frankie Sheldon will vacate her school next Friday. During vacation she hopes to attend some o: the normal schools and learn nev ideas and better methods of teaching Miss Frankie, already one among th< best educators in the up-country, ii gradually rising. She has succeeded in building up for us a school o which any community might be proud There is no reason why we shouh not have a first-class school at thi place ; we have the teacher. Let u keep her. Hurrah for Oakway Hig, School ! OBSERVER. Letter from Texas. [Correspondence Keowee Courier.] LocKETT, TEXAS, April 30,1893. Please allow sj ?ace in your valui ble paper for a few words from on little burg and vicinity. We are having a nice rain to-da] The people were all sadly diaaj: pointed to-day, as most o? the con munity were going to Mt. Zion to th union meeting. I guess we will a have a good dinner at home to-darj On the 17th instant crcurred th death of Mr. J. M. Grubbs. Aboi 4 o'clock he crossed over'the riv* from darkness into light. Mr. Grub! was a man of about eighty years < age. He was born in Abbevil county, S. C., and moved from the: to Anderson county, and left the: and came to Texas, ile had been ; Texas about twenty years. Ile fir came to Russ county and lived the one year, and went from there 1 Cass. From there he came to Mario where he lived until the time of I death. After his wife died he brol up housekeeping and moved in tl house with his son-in-law, Mr. W. '. Davis. His death was not une pected, as he had been suffering und heavy afflictions for several monti There were but three of his childr present "at his funeral. He was member of the Baptist church a had been a faithful woA ker for ma: years. We miss him on the fro bench in Sunday school and at prea< ing. He was an honor to bis ho! and a blessirg to his country. The farmers are making go speed wjth the crops. Corn, o and cotton are looking fine. EDDIE HER NAME. [Sam W. Small, in Atlanta Constitution.] Sbe flaunted herself in the highest places, Airing her charms and showing her) graces; She flattered the young and petted the ] old, Poured wine as water and lavished her| gold, Gave music its liberty, wit its way, And lent her beauty to dance and play. She said that virtue was worldly loss, As she scoffed the church and sneered j the cross; Her creed was lust and her faith was froth ! I asked her name-for my soul was j wroth Hut they said: "To know her is even a| shame. For her father is Satan ami Sin is lier name!" A WILD-CAT HUNT IX SOUTH CAROLINA. [For the Keowee Courier.] I was"sitting on a log at the foot! of a hill in a clump of woods in upper South Carolina some years j sir-.-e, waiting for my companions, with whom I had arranged a wild cat hunt. They said it was not the "right season, but as cats frequently destroyed young lambs and pigs, we agreed to try a night's hunt any way. It was in the latter part of April. The air had just been refreshed by a thunder-shower, and the last rays of the sun, just disappearing behind the distant mountains, were reflected by the rain drops on the trees and grass like so many diamonds. The air was balmy and grateful to tired humanity. The leaves, which in that climate put ! forth early, were nearly full grown, clothing hill anl dale in a soft, deli cate green mantle, while the honey suckle, violet and dogwood blossoms laded the air with sweet perfume. Yonder to the East shown in great splendor that beautiful phenomenon, the rainbow, painted in gorgeous hues against the sky. Away toward the j ; South winds-the small river, or creek, j ? like a silver ribbon, until it is lost in I ' the mazes of the forest. On the hill slopes in the distance the tauk-a-lank-: a-tank of bells told that the cows were coming home, while the tink ling of sheep bells made a very pretty accompaniment. From a distance icame the sound of the axe, as the ^?fettler prepared the night's fuel, and from the opposite hill-side came the not unmusical "pig-ee, pig-oo" of the fanner calling his swine for their evening feed. The dignified "bob white" piped his shrill notes from the old rail fence on the hill, bobbing his head up and down meanwhile, as if beating time. The sun had now entirely disap ? neared, leaving a brilliant glow in I the Western horizon, which gradu ally faded away as the purple mist deepened on the distant mountains. The plaintive notes of the whippoor will were now heard echoing from j afar, the firefly illuminated the scene, and thc roar of a distant cataract added to the grandeur of the sur roundings, while the soft breeze sighed mournfully through the tops of the tall pines. f I Suddenly my horse pricked up his ears and listened attentively, and soon I heard the clatter of horses1 hoofs coming up thc road. It proved j to be my companions, who were very J tardy. Soon we were mounted and f cantering briskly toward the moun tains. ] I Arriving at the,foot of the moun tains we dismounted, and, leading our horses to a sheltered spot som( distance from the road, we fetterec them securely and set out. A lone blast from the horn resounded throng} the mountain solitudes, the houndi scattered out and the hunt began. After about half an hour of wait ing the deep baying of a hound abou half a mile from where we stood tob i- us that a eat had been scented. Th? ir other dogs hurried to the spot, an< soon they were going full tilt on th *. trn.it. Wc bad some pretty brisl )- running and walking to keep withii i- hearing of the pack. The barking ie of the hounds was to my ears th' ll finest music I had ever heard, an< f. being a stranger to the country an< e such sports, the effect on my feeling it was pleasant indeed, ir After about three hours of run )S ning, walking, crawling, climbing an >f falling over mountain crag, gorg le and glen, we heard all the dogs bari re ing furiously, and our leader, wh re was a gigantic mountaineer of si in feet two, decided that they had baye st him. But th'ire was nearly a mi! re of the roughest land imaginab to between us and our game. We stun n, bled on over rocks, logs, brush ac lis gullies until we came to the tree s tee which his catship had climbed, iie One of the party had brought alor R. some torch-pine for the purpose i x- "shining his eyes." This was so< er lighted, and after much walkir is. around the tree, craning of neel en and straining of eyes, the red g?a a of the torch was" reflected hy' t\ ?d ghring balls in^e top the tre ny *7hich looked like fire-bails. . nt "Here she air, boys ; jist look :h- 'er ize," exclaimed our torchman. n j- "Jes' lemme hev half a chance wi this here ole musket, an' his ize woi od shine up thar much longer," said o ats ? marksman. Placing the gan-barrel on t torchman's shoulder, he took care: aim by the torchlight-, and fired. The j shining eyes disappeared, but the j cat did not fall. Soon we beard something falling on the leaves, which j our hunters at once declared to be j blood, and so it proved to be, for in j about five minutes our game came j tumbling down and struck the ground j heavily. All rushed up to see what ! sort of game we had. It proved to be only a medium sized cat. It was i the first one I had ever seen. Its | long, agile looking body was covered with a thick coat of yellow and white fur, with now and then a black spot. The legs wtre short and heavy, with large feet, armed by long, powerful claws. The head was large and round, like that of an ordinary house cat. His bristling "moustache''' added a great deal to the look of ferocity which pervaded his catship's "fea tures." The greatest dissimilarity I observed between a wild-cat and a house-cat, or '?tabby cat,'' as our hunters called them, except in size, was the extreme brevity ot the for mer's tail. After flaying our cat, the skin being ali that is worth preserv ing, the born was blown and off we started again. The next trail we struck was after about half an hours' travel and the hounds dashed away again. We followed as fast as we could, keeping on the highest peaks as much as pos sible, so as to keep within hearing of the dogs. Perhaps an hour passed before the dogs "treed" again. This time it proved to be an immense cata mount, which is simply a large spe cies of wild-cat. He was as large as an ordinary dog, with yellow fur. He was sitting on a limb about twenty feet high, and growling vi ciously. Our" gunner again raised bis piece and with the report of the gun the cat dropped lifeless to the ground. All bands being wearied we de cided to make back toward our horses and return, as we had several miles to travel b'tck horne, which we reached ; safe and sound a little after two in ; the morning. JEFF PKRKI.VS. COL. M. L. DONALDSON'S EEPLY TO GOVERNOR TILLMAN. [Cotton Plant.] GKKENVILLE, S. C., May 1, 1893. In replying to Gov. Tillman's con fession to having blacklisted1 rae to ! President Cleveland, and the reason he assigns for so doing, I shall not attempt to "link" Mr. Tillman as citizen, with Mr. Tillman as Governor, nor vice-versa, but to deal with him as man to man, recognizing tho fact, as the public will also, that if his conduct in this matter, is shown to be true and noble and manly, it will only give lustre to the office j which he holds, and that on the con j trary if his course has beer? untrue, j ignoble and unmanly, his office as ?Governor, will not shield him from ?the contempt of all righi thinking ; men. When I first saw the reports in ! the newspapers that the Governor of the State had included my name in a blacklist to Mr. Cleveland, I in com mon with the people generally, gave but little credit to it, but receiving no statement from the Governor denying it I wrote him a letter of in quiry, which letter he saw lit to ig nore. I sha.ll take up his public statements, however, and answer them seriatim. He disclaims any "reference" tc my private character, or any feeling of resentment, or desire to injure me. and yet he deliberately proceeds tc charge me with "betrayal" of the Al liance, and "treachery to the peopb and to the Alliance," thus making i deadly thrust at my character an<: reputation. We read of one Joab ol olden time, who, while maddened am j blinded by political jealousy, pursue? a faithful servant of the "king, ori< who was on a mission to unite anc harmonize the people, and when h< i had overtaken him this Joab, whilt i stroking the beard of his victim, ii ?great show of friendship, thrust th< ' cold steel under his fifth rib. Per haps Gov. Tillman has yet to lean that to stab a man's character, whe ther openly, as Joab did Amasa' person, or under cover of suppose? secresy in a blacklist to the Presiden means death to the victim. The first reason given by the Gov ernor to prevent "further betrayal c the Alliance" is that I wa? repudi ated by the Democracy of Greenvill county, etc. So far as ray failing t be elected a delegate to the May cor vention is concerned, I have th records to show, for they are in th hands of three as honorable men a live in Greenville county, that in caucus of reformers, held just befor the meeting of the county conver tion, a ballot was taken for delegate to the State convention to be vote for in the open convention. Abot one-half of the ballots cast for ri: were not reported, and still the nun ber of ballots counted for me mac me an alternate, which, according t a rule of the caucus required that m name be printed ort the tickets to \ used in the open convention. Havir failed therefore by the counting 01 process to keep me off the ticket, was discovered in the conventio after a large number of them we: distributed U> the ucs .opecting mer bers, that my name was left off tl tickets.^. This arousing suspicion the minds of some, an investigate was made, and the facts as abo' stated sworn to and published by tl investigating committee. It was b natural therefore (and certainly not ing could have been more gratifyii to me) that my friends with whom had so long associated in the work reform, seeing the persecution th Was attempted towards me shoo rally almost to a man to my suppc in the State convention. I'. :." sol remarkable position for the Govern to pat the members of that conve tion in when he state? tn at ''toroa the influence of a few Alliance they unanimously conferred th? honorable ard responsible po within their gift upon one so u thy as he would have me appen If there was any "presumpti< that convention as to my bein: posed to the nomination of Cleveland, I was not aware of i nor since, till the Governor i the bald statement, that such w case. To be entirely frank he i that statement in the face of bitable proof to the contrary, ff position towards Mr. Cleveland given to the press as early a< F ary, 1391, and was printed ii newspapers all over this State, in other ?States as well, and I he read my views, as then expr< The Alliance gave no evident looking upon my pr?f?rence for Cleveland as a betrayal of I either-at that time or since. 1 over the convention voted do' resolution to instruct the dele to Chicago, as ?he records show, to the resolutions afterwards ado condemning Mr. Cleveland's fe administration, it will be rememl by delegates, who talked with tr the way to Chicago, that I th? the resolution as expressive ol sense of the convention must its bearing upon their actio went to Chicago, not as" a dele to vote in the Convention, but to the Democratic National Exec Committee, in order to organize that committee for the work of campaign. I associated with "openly" I confess ; most of the mittee I believe were supportei Mr. Cleveland, and the results o convention indicated that there quite a number of voting deles also, who were in favor of his r. nation. I felt then as I do now, I, as a free white South Car Democrat, had as much right to choice of Mr. Cleveland for the sidency as Gov. Tillman had for choice. As already stated my tiou for Mr. Cleveland was well derstood before the May, con vcr met. No demand was made t rae by that convention, and I < the charge thSt- I consciously ceived any one, either by ailene by speech. The next count in wonderful indictment is tha pledged mycelf ir elected Presi of the State Alliance, not tc seek office, etc., and this report, "I told," is being very industrious!} culated in Alliance circles as th< it were a fact, which, if believed, as is hoped for by those who my injury have the effect of br ing the unity of the Alliance, in porting my efforts as its officia! h to build up and maintain the principles of the order. The exact truth is, I did not the nomination of the Presidenc the State Alliance, but on the I trary expressed to many of those j approached me on the subject, ? I preferred to decline, and I am i that every member of the State . ance who roted for mc will bear I out in the statement ; that I did j in the slightest degree, expr?s? j imply any such pledge, nor was I such requirement bud upon me jany one whomsoever. I did ' after my election that I would d< i within my power to build up ! advance the interests of the or I which I have done and will cont: to do. It might be interesting r lhere to inquire of the Gover . whence comes this new-born zeal j the welfare and safety of the . j ance on his part ? I believe tba) one time he was made President the Edgc-tield county Alliance, that, notwithstanding, he had } lishe?! far and wide--to show his interested patriotism-that he wai : no office save that of a trustee o agricultural college, yet he did hesitate to embrace the first op . tunity to hold office of another k When Allianceir.cn all over the S i revert to his defiance of the o: > and its principles, as he demonstn . I it at the meeting ot the State . -1 ance, at Spartanburg, they will, 1 . doubt, look upon his great and i J ; den Alliance virtue in this case f somewhat ludicrous and grote? ' In the last count he charges me i ! "treachery, to the people and to ; Alliance," in that I injected ?ute 1 railroad bill of '91 "two objections - features," vi/.: The right of apj i on the part of tho railroads to 1 courts and the feat ti iv of the c which allowed the election of li ? road Commissioners by the Gen 1 Assembly. To any one with th?1 - formation and intelligence of 8 school-boy a reply to these chai 1 would seem superfluous. Mr. '1 1 man, when inaugurated Govert took a solemn oath to sustain - constitution of th:-< State and of if United States, t, with every Ot i- member of the Senate and House e Repr?sentatives, took the same <>: o The constitution nnquestiona i- guarantees to the citizen the ri e of appeal to the courts, which ri e is one o? the bed rocks of civil libe is and yet the Governor of a gi a State, who has sworn to sustain e constitution thereof, feels justi i- in proceeding seriously and delil :s ately to Washington and apparel d under cover of secrecy asks the cl it Executive of the nation to dec ie tate a man, who, as State Sena i- refused to betray his trust by de Ie ing to the citizen his rights, un x> the constitution-for in its ty analysis that is what this reason, >e given to Mr. Cleveland, means. ig So far as relates to Bur oh Mci it having suggested to me that it right of appeal be inserted in the 1 n, I haw to say that Mr. McBee ne re once mentioned the matter to r a- nor to the best of my recollection ie he ever discuss the bill in my pi in ence. "I have been told," by >n best authority, that the railroad rn ve after failing in their efforts to def ae the bill in the House and Sen; ut concurred very fully with the G h- ernor in his desire to deny the ri lg of appeal to the railroads, as t : I would have rendered the whole ? of unconstitutional and consequer at nugatory. ld Again, I incurred the displeas ?rt of the Governor by allowing the L ; a islature to elect the commission or instead of the people. As a mal :n- of fact, I was in favor of a cia gb. being inserted in the bill to have commissioners eiectea oj lae pwp?-, one every two years, but it was thorght best by some ot the reform Senators mi todo so at that time, for the reason that there could be no election by the people till the next general election, and that, as a mat ter of necessity, the Legislature must elect as the nearest approach to the people. It was also thought best not to increase opposition to the passage of the bill by inserting that provi sion, inasmuch as the same Legisla ture would sit thc next winter, when it would bc easy to amend the Act. In these flimsy reasons given by the Governor for bis course he again overreached himself, for it is well known that the reform Senators had a bare majority it: the Senate, ami that without their united support no part of the bill could have been passed. Why did he not blacklist them all? Tn this connection I will also state that upon ali important bills the reform Senators held meetings and agreed noon what they wished passed, after which one of their number was chosen to take charge of the 'oil! and conduct it on the floor of the Senate. In this railroad bill this duty was devolved upon me to make al! motions, offer amendments, etc., as agreed upon. So it will bc readily understood that each of the other reform Senators is ^35T9???2S this crime m the > I have thus given the facts in this ?case in refutation of the tissue of per versions arid misstatements made in j the Governor's charges against me, j and I feel happy in the knowledge j that there are scores of mon who are : personally acquainted with every cir ' cuuistunce mentioned and who can ? testify to the facts as I have stated them, some of whom have already done so by letter. In conclusion, allow mc to call attent'on to some things that are sig nificant in the Governor's statement, j lie disclaims any uesire to do me j han.*, and then stamp? upon my . character the words ..betrayal and i treachery." Ile says "the Alliance has nothing to do with it, either direotiy?or indirectly," and } et tries to defend his conduct towards its President on the ground of his love for the'Alliance. Ile intimates ?hy the mention of Bunch .McKee that I was in collu sion with the railroads and that I .. speared to be governed by .-elf interest rather than by patriotism,"' and yet he wiil not deny thal as citi zen ainl patriot he told the people, when first he asked them t<> make him their Governor, that thc corrup tion and debauchery in the State was due to the use of free passes by mem ' bers of the Legislature and State officials. Was it "self-interest rather than patriotism" ihz*. governed him when, after his election, he received more passes than perhaps any one who preceded him? Common pru dence, it would seem, as well ns self preservation, ought t<> have steered the Governor clear of Punen McBee. i "Tr.dy whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." Lastly, he regrets the necessity "which has forced a rehearsal of those undisputed facts.'' Of this I have no doubt whatever, for ..! was told" that the Governor has said to : several parties that his leitet to Pre sident Cleveland was intended to be regarded as confidential, but as it leaked out the necessity car ie upon him to* explain, and then, although "the Alliance has nothing to .lo wi' i I it, either directly or indirectly," he winds up by taking refuge in the sanctuary of thc reform movement ; and the Alliance, "'?'o Ctesar he has appealed, to Caesar he shall go." As to the reform movement I am rea?!y to compare records with him as to loyalty, consistency and length of ; service. In the Alliance cause, with which I have been identified from its infancy in this State, I have worked in its almost every department, ii ' there is a brother it. the order who is ; willing to charge nie with the be . t rayai bf trust or treachery to the rorotherhood I am ready to meet ? him. cr is a Democrat I am prepared to answer for my stewardship'. 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