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TH E PEOPLE'S JOURNAL VOL io.---NO. 10. *PICKENS S. C., 'THURSDMY L5 O ONE D L A A Y SENATOR TILL4MAN AND THE REPUBLICANS. ACC1JSS' 711111 OF l1YPOUlRIsk. A Flerco Attack Uponi the Porto Itican Policy I tLI Atiaminist ration-The Itepulblicanls IIat(I to liy Soumte Men to Voto for1 the Paris 71reaty of l'ence-Does lit- Mean i the Junior Sena tor ? Mr. l'resi.'ent, there Is an old legal mharim, I believe, that, a man can not take advantage of hIs own w rong ; and those who voted to bring Into this coun try and under its jurisdiction and its 11ag and ito citizen1sn0i) this chCap) con tract labor, this peon labor, Ghis Malay labor, and other forms of Lolored labor. were told what the results would be that would follow the ratification of that treaty ; and it was very hard to get the votes necessary to make that treaty a law, and I-have heard you had to buy sonic tmen to vote for it. 'l.'he question as to whether a wrong is to be done to the American people, as to whetbr a wrong is t. bc-done to our citizenship, as to whether a wrong is to be done to those suffering people, whohave themrselves protested by giving up their lives against being subjugated by the American army that question is before the American people to-day; and it is alimos t the only question before them. They will de termine in November whether the Ilag shall mean one thirg in the United States and another thing in Puerto Itico and still another thing im the Philippine Islands. 1, of course, must bow to their be hests, and if the majority in the elec tion of uext November :ay that they want to have "sunj cts " and citizene under our ig ; that they want " de pendencieb ;' that they want colon ice, and have Congress turned loose un trammeled to legislate as it pleases, to rob those people by sending them a new army of carpetbaggers, to be protected by the bayonet, I can not help it ; but, so hel p me God, bo long as I have got a voice I shall protest against it. But, Mr. President, as we have got off on to the Philippine,-l intended to get there anyway-as I said the other day, the Philippine fever is in the blood of the country. The tiuestion here at stake is not whether -c shall have free trade with Puerto Rico. but whether by giving Pnerto ico free trade we shall establish a precedent which wili rt quire us to give free trade to the Philippince. That is the issue : that Is the ghost that stares you LRe publicans in the face and warcjs you to beware of the ides of November. You would willingly cive Puerto NIco the same moed ol government, the same opportunities, that you gave Llawaii, I presume ; but you are afraid of the const quences of that, and therefore you are compelled to raise the ery that you must, protect Amlerlean labo- I anainst the pauper labor of the Philip. pinLs-the 20-cents a-day man. You would not, let that pauper labor alone. The same obligation to extend your civilization, if you choase, will apply to any other place you may reach out and steal or grab. Here is Haiti or San Domingo at our doors. Why not go down there if we are under obligaions to civitize and educate and rob through our, govern mnent every dependency or (>very other island lying around loose ? If we choose to go to fla ti, nobody in 10u rope will obj-oet or dure to say " no ;" and when we get ready to go from the P1hilippinos on to the Asiatic mainland, and take a slice of Cnina in further ance of our comnmerce, our bunelit as a people, and in a money-making wa~y, England a iu me r of 0, i'urup - wilii be. glad to see the so-called free lipublic of the United States tur n its face bIck ward, carried away from the ideals o . this country, reverse its action for one hundred andi twenty-tive years, and fall in behind the despotisms of Ihurope in the further enslavement of mankind. It has been charged that it was the stleech of the senior Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Lloarj which brought on the rebellion of tine Pilipi nos. It is said that speech was cabled over there unde:' the ocean at a cost of $4,000, andi that on that spe~ech being read to the F'illpinos they rose In re hellion and began to shoot outr soldiers to death. That was one of tile dodges of the Republican press, the Imperial lst press, that wanted to try to lix the fault somewhere and throw the blame on some one. We have had a new story withIn a week. I am sorry th at out' young friend from IndIana [Mr. Bleveridgej is not in the chamber. The latest news is that his great speech in the Senate, in which be outlined the p)olicy to ho fol lowed by this government-the kind of tyranny or despotism we were to set up -has been translated into Spanish and has been spread broadcast among the F'ilipinos. That, no doubt, accounts for the recent renewai of hostilities and the liveliness which the extinct rebel lion is now exhibiting again. Instead of the long-p)rom)ised peace coming, the outlook is that the war will last in definitely, because those people have found, at last. that all our professions of humanitarianism and of philanthropy and of our intention to raise them up in the scale of citizenship and give them the blessings of A merican liberty are lies ; that we propose to go there in order to exploit them, to get them so as to furnish a new field for a new| set of thieves to go andI rob- andl rob) and rob under tihe AmerIcan flag. Then comes along another thorn in the side of our unhappy friends on the other side of the chamber. President Schurmuan, one of the F'ilipino commis sioners, who went out to the Philip pilnes tand (lid not sutcceed in obtaining any conditions of peace or- amity with the rebels, warns you that if you are going to treat i'uerto Rico in this way with a dIscriminating tar If, and your refusal to grant them any rights under the flag, that will only increase the de termination of the Pilipinos to resist to the death. So you ar-c a very on happy fasmily, and I symp~atiz/e with you from the bottom of my heart. I only hope you wIll come to repoentance some day af tot November, when the Amlerican people will have taught you that trade and the flag and libetrty and the constitution all go together. What is the cause of this sudden change of front, this transformatioc of the purposes of the President and of Congens, a ahown by thn withdr~awal of the free-tradoe bill and the introduc tion of the tar lH provisions at the othe end of the capitol and also In this end What caused all this chanize ? I do no know. I have my susplcons, as L said 't Was beciuse you ran up against th uroposition that if you treat P'aert4 Rico in a certain way, you would hav to treat the Philippines in the sam way ; because we hold theni under th same deed, and there can not be ans dillcrentiation In the treatment of th two, unless you propose to display sOet brassy and unadulterated and damn able elilishness and greed that you ar afraid to trustyour cause to the Aneri can voters. 2i' INGhICY's I Ivi:i 'I'tiA IK vi Fl.;w Sena'or Tillman had a running do bate with Senator Foraker, of Ohio upon the attitude of the President anc the Senator from Ohio in regard to fret trade in l'orto 100o, quoting tht Chicago Times lerald at lengt- in itt criticism of the administration. 1H< asked Mr. Poraker to say whether It was for free trade or not, and proddec him with changing his attitude be cause the Chicago Timee-Rleald wa advocating free trade in Porto lico Senator Tiliman alluded to the rela tions existing between Loraker an( Kohlsaat, the editor of the Times Herald, which have been anythint 3lse than corolal and friendly : Al1 i. TILLMAN. The editorial whict I have read here happens to he fro r the Chicago Times- leraid, and eve k hody knows the brotherty Damon a. l'jthias like relalons whichl exist, o tween my friend from (Oio and Mr Kiohlisaat, and I felt constrained to be lieve, knowing the great love tl't these gentlemen have for each other, and knowing that they are both loyal to Mr. McKiney and the Itpublicar paty, that the Senator from OAi simply got out of the free-trade boat because Mr. Nohlsaat got into it : that he could not live in an atmosphere con. taminated by the presence of that per son. MR. 1OAKIEel. In answer to the Senator's.remarr, I will frankly con fess, in the presence of the Senate, that I have felt .,ince learning of Mr. KohisaAt's attitude a great deal more conilence in my present. potition. Laughter I MIt. 7 t L,hi AN. Mr. Prebident, I have been rig :t along that road my self. I have in my care -r come across editorals In papcrs that had fought ind lied on me for years in w'hich my action was commended, and im' mediately I set about t-) investigate in order to find out whether I had not been m rong when I got the approval of such papers, and 1 can understand why the Scrator from Ohio should desert his own principles and his own calmly selected position because Kohlsaat took : position alongside of him. But at the same tima it does not explain why the President, who was a warm friend -and to Wnm Mr. Kohl-aat, is a tructedi *ksi ier, has changed froit, if he did bange front. Nobody can tell us whether he did >r not. I want some gentleman here to explain to me the present attitude >f the President. I have been trying to stand by him. I bore testimony the Ather day to what I said was his patriot. ism and nobility of character. I do not hesitate any time to say that I think William Mckinley is one of the nost lovable me. n we have had in public life in America, but the trouble is Mr. McKinicy will not stard up and have *)ackbone sometimes. i.puht1i 2ans would have been in a heap bAtter lix politically if he had stood by his free-trade proposition and let you gen tiemen go on and fight it out amoang yourselves and pass a free-trade meas ure or not. " But, whom the god' would destroy they first made mad,' and confusion of counsel is the beginn Ing of mad ness. That is my interpire tation of the piresent situiation. We had testimuony the other day that God Almighty had given us the Pnilip pines ; thbat, the honor-ed P'resident prc templore of the Senat-e and his cola borers on the Paris commIssion had very little or nothing to do with it; that It had come directly from the Al mighty ; that Lie had held us in the hollow of H Is hand , that the glory of our future history was to come fremi thbe fact that we were to reach out, and grab up that Island and this island: thbat we were to treat the colored races of those islandls, not like we treat the colored people in the South, or not like you gentlemen once tried to treat them but, as we of the South have felt con strained to treat, them ; that you gen tiemnen have changed front on that subject, and that we were to have a gtorious future, with so much mnoney and emnolumnonts and wealth tiowing Into our coffers in coenseq(uence of tis ne w policy that, we could not descend so low as8 to give the credit t~o the Senator from Minnesota and the Senator from Maine and their brethren on the commission, who had.gone over to .l'aris and .demanded. the cession of these Islands in the Pacitic and hadit enforced that demiandl'to the point that we got them, or got what title Spain had. Nobody will tell us, as I said a mo ment ago, whether the President, is for free trade or not., I wish I knew, [ wanted to have the plecasure of supi porting some measure tihat he hlad sent here, an~d that I could indor-se hlonest,i ats American without, regard to being South Carolilian or a D) mnoerat, and now I am robbed (If that pleasure. Y'ou gentlemen are cruel to us. Why do you not let us (10 somethbing some tim( as Americans and not, force us always back to thne nari'ow rut of Democracy and why do you not do something some1 time as Americans and not lbe suet narrow, hitter partisans here, y Mit. I'iItKINS. Of cotirse I amn no authorized to sp~eak for the P'resident but I anm Inclined to think that hi views-I may have imitated themh that respect-we'e influtenced by wha was referred to by my friend; the Sena tor from Sooth Carolina, that grea trusts were beIng formed in iPuert IHico for then purpose of controlling thl sugar' trauflic. Thne Repu~tblican part is 0opposed( to truists and comnbinations avrd knows thnat the only solution of tha prohiomn is tine establishment of loca boot sugar factories, such a'. there ar inl Nebraska and in Utah and In low ar d In M ichligan and in California which has some ten or twelve indeper dent beet-sugar factories. They bu the raw p roduoct from the farmer, ri ine It in their own factories, and sen It to the mechanin& table. Thnat is th] - antidote for trusts. r MRi TIlMIAN. You mean the siugar e trust? t AIR. F i* E I NS. i"or thu sugar trust. ,These het-stigar factories are buying 3 from South Cairolina tibe cotton cloth J that is manufactured from tile cotton 3 grown in their lields. We are buy U in those sacks In which to put the 3 ugar that we may seud it out to our1 Inchianties and oar workinamen. We are pitying from $1.50 to $2 a day for lId or in those factories, and e.ach farmer - who is cultivating .he soil and raising 1sugar beets is an independent sovereign -in this fair land ot ours. We are pay. I Ing $100,000,G00 annually f'e 'sugar in I this country. We want to raiulactuire it at home, ftom Out beet orae, raised by A merican farmers. We do not want the cheap pCon contraCt labor, receiving 10, i o or 20 en its a day, to: Come into comietitlion with the labor i of South Carolina and C.i ifornia. I think, perhaps, that is one of the reasons which iciluenced cur good l're sident, because his whole life has been devoted to protection to Amierican in dubtrieb and the clevation and dign ity of labor. Mu. Tib~r~IAN. I have rea(l some where that, in the Koran tl)et is a Jescription of N ohaimed's bide] t over hell by which those enti heaven must pass, arid I think he 1 scribes it as being so attenuated thi it i-i about the breadtih of a single , . on at woman's heal. 11hat, is abou t I Size Of the bridL'e my friend, the . . tor from California, iis givell the I'r. . ide tI crawl out of Lie hole in wh ihe he was i)Ut when he sent the fr'e-trade Iiessag3e here and then backed water and changed front on it. Alit. .:KNm. low about the tobacco indutry of South Carolina', AIR Ti 1..MAN. Speaking about tile aillusion which my friend has madc. I will say to him, as to the purchase by the 'ugar prou ucers of the cotton ham;!s in which to put the sugar of tle few factorics in the United States, talit we are very glad to furni-h tile cotton cloth, if it. comes from my State, but the manu la turing industry of South Carolina-the marufactourc of cotton 1 principally-which we will say in 1890i i -howed that there were oniv 4O )00 1 spindleF, has doubled an11d t reiie(d I1ce, < until they have now eighteen hu ndreo ( thousand spindles and a iproortionate I numl er of looms. Since the Ib-t of J aunary we have organ z !d new mills or given charters to new enterprises to huild mills to the amount ('1 14 01)o, (OW, and we are reaching out hand Over list to overtake Massachtusetts. We are already the second State' in the manufactoure of cotton. We do not find a bit of protection from the I)ng IVy tar!l':, heCAuse we ( 01Ir till of that cloth to China: and we :lave to comn. pete with lEngiand; and we do it., and we whip them, and make 20 to 40 per cent. diviOend. on our cotton factories. T l ' -il, I ,:1. N 1I ( . 1 IN g CAIN"(, 'NA. Senator Spooner, (if Wisconsin, e). pressed the opini ol Llat South Caro lina wis the lIat place on eaLh to orig Inate any impeachmi nt, of the Iepub lican party as to the principle of tIuual ity among men, and s:id he basuC the observation partly upon tile testimony of Senator TillIman, who stated the other day that they had made a great e Ifor t in South Carolinia to disfran chike the "nit'ger that they had rtulled the ballot boxes, and that they had u.3ed the sheotgon against them. That is why I say that. frul South Carolila there ought not to come eritleiin upon the iepubliczan party its being opposed to ((I quality milloing mllen. Mli. Til.,.m.N. Mr. 'resident, in rising herte to explain my language. and to jistify it. I have not, the aiw . meints at hand to sustain all the charges I make, but, I will, brieMly and1(1 in the best waty I can, re cait IIlate tile conidi tions whichel brooghlt about1 the nlees sity for stullling ballot hoxes, for shoot-i ing negroes, and1 for usin g violenice ainO fraud in taking charge of our State government, In South Carolina. The Senator, I supphose, dIidl not, underIstand imc to say3 that ituch conditions exist there now, because I hlave never mlade any sulch lacknow led gmient. lproclaimed the fact thbat in l~T6, when we had stood eight years of car pethbag government and there was noth.1 ing left, us of our civil izationl unless we r*ose ini oil might and took thle governl mient back from the carpletbag b orde of thieves anid scounldrelS atlo theirI scalawag allies, the naltivye horn ratp seal lions, who Iiad been foisted u pun us at the po1int, of t hlu bayonet-w hen government, ceaised to y'ield protection, when0 there was siem i-anarchy, when 8,000 armed negro m111ilta were parad ing upl and down tobe roads, threaten ing ouri wives and1( our clhildren and 0our homes, wh ien at niighit btriniig houses were lighting up tihe horizon in almost, ove'ry county, whenO the coniditlions were so ap~palling chat any kinld of government, any il iitary .Jespotism, was prmeferalie to that, we mallde uiP our minds that tile fourteenth and fifteenth amlendmennts to the Constitution were thlemlselves null and1( void; that the acts oif Congress undler themu lahlinlg 00ur State ulnder carpetbag rule were nul1l and void; that .oaths required by suchl laws wer-e nuil 1and( void, we re,,olvedl that tile intelligence, tihe wealith, and tile patriotib-t of the State, belonging onily to tile white people0, should seize the1. </vernment, from the horde of 1g noratnce antd vice; that we would not longer tolerate bribho-takers oni thie bench and1( thieves In (our hiigh pl aces; thtt life wvas not worth having on thu term iand under1111 i the c~odIitins forced on us. We s wor'e by ihe meiriories of revoluo. tiinar'y sires '.hat we w ould rfeeem1 our St ate from tue grasp of albens and n neg roe-. and1 we did it i: and 1 have nio :apologies to mlakde foir it. If you con Stend th at no~ ind inenlt o' It publi11cans I dcan coime fromli SouthLi Car ol ina, I will tell you thlat Lih lI -p ubliean party was -responlsihie for that condi tioin (if tilngs t I will tell yo thiat Gran1it, who was ) tibeni l'resident, sent the army there to 3 hold1( down the whites andI perpetuate 'the cond ition oif irule Ia nd anarchy ,and robbery whtileh prnevatiled. al t, where the troops were the wh11itoe ma1 I jorities, tile D emocratic mraj3ir itles, 0 were tile greatest-not by reaisonl ol a1 the presence oif thle tr-iops, hut because tile whiltes d 11idlot hleri tate to vote -early and often and to carry tihe elec y tions in any way that was hiu..d neces-I e- sary. The liepublllia palrty (lid atll d tbat, wrong blindly. but it, does not now o. trnat thn oloreda 'acae Lilal have onme to us as it treated tle sottrt n1 groes, and that is the reaston wh bl charge It with hypocri.y. Mn. SPOONER. Mr. Pre1ident, thi itepublican party was not resno I for it. The liepublican paetv. h i true, after the war had t'nded ave t the colred Ia'n the right to VteW. Tl Itepublitcan party did not iten j legislation upon tLhe theory 1hat it % necessary in order to pre'Nt ot Democratie succeSSes. At th , ono dared to proplcsy tlat , Detmocratic party of tie wau. would live very tnuch 0on', foresaw it iWtwonderilal vitl i.1 'he lIeputmiican party aod legislation, wirely or unwi elvbe there had been enacted in Lt, s ern States wnat were cilh 6 Codes," whiebl aboostre4 'r ored inntm to slavery. TI pl party enaeted that legb- ao i. U) give the negro a Wt ApN.0 O I agiaiost such legzislatio- aind acted it, t'r. ''reslden.. : - iuaintain in the sight of ; fore .11 the world in gooi t and In spirit, th pr. Wwetn Olmalncipation Which hlad h"b1 hy A hahai l.incoln: o(,() imiemory forever ' A PP a gal leries.I M111. Timmb.lA. nth Mr. i'reident, let it it t thiat n dealing with tih4 ra in the South those of th L pli Who were enlga.; war, the Confederate war, h' t3 A. it i laves. They h i t t. I Krm childbood that thu to ;- . I) Wlavery was not wrong, ini-Ahy o etally. The author of the It aratim )f Intlepiendence was a shavehoider; lit :Onstitut'.on recoiaized alav t:a A(ter tie strife was over and tLh imw had heen settlea by the sword. it. iaestion ab to the disposition of the uanlc(I)atedJ SlaVes was, ,of cour.i(,' i re'' per pie i ng one. The Searitor iays that but. for tIe inactient, by the Southern legislatures >f tbe "black codes," in which there ,vas to he a practical restoration of lavery tinder the guise of iberty, lhere WOuld have been no enfranchise )lent of the cx-.lave: that they would lot have been given the ballot H istory loes not state that, and the condition if polities it the til does not war ant it. 'T'Loz)te who voted for it, or ome of tliei. were no doubt hoinest in ,he belief that it was necessary, but ,bere is no earthly toiulit but. that iltL rior and baser moot: es were iat, tlit 'ott of it. There waI lrt a desire of 'eveuge I' putting tie ex-slaves in :Jntrol of the Southern ita',es and plit AlIg white lecks unb r birck hul;. 1'here was next a di r to ierp'..tuatc ,he domuination of the lIpulican )arty in the t.'nAed States. Tlien, wvh tLi it coiue to a coinparison if the action of the two partles, I say a tihot Se.nator t:at the are a great nainy wrongs that the inck'0roCs loir to ulfer inl II.bc Sukt ib. and i t rhere wilh (on ,iiue to Ibe many. Neither he nor any )ody else can help it: and no legisla ion which can lie enacted can help it. , can only cure itself in a better at nosphere, and be ;olved by the peioIe onee'ned. because outzidc influence 61nd Outside interference would only iggravate the -trouble and inore em iroil t h ray. But I want to call the attention of he Senate to the fact that we have in c. 1)ast mo0nth had intr-oducetd here r1omu a lI. publica Clln ill i om ittc a pro. ision upon the I.lawalian hill by whicb -ontract slaves- in that island w!!rc to )e governed under a sitilar Ilacli -ode to that which we enacted in S.iuth :arolina and in other Southern Status. You -,ought to perpetuate that condi. ion in your own bill, for the beneii t 01 the ug ar planters, until it witea- tricker iOut by a motion on tihe part of tlt Sen ator rol l assach uset t:. T'he Wa~tshinu.gton corre'sneihl . io t h Charlesttin l'vening li'ost wirites asfo lowvs:. S iinator Me Ltau rin, w hlo wveit, to A t lantie City for the ben( lit of his heal th has returned to Washington wIth bh fam ly. Although the weather at At Ian tie City att thIs season of the year I ver~y cold, the trilp has greatly benefit Dd the South Carolina Senator, who, tecord ing to In formation "eceived, h ar b~een threatened with nervous prostra ion. T1he Senator is now at the ca pit il daily, and is looking Li) he in hi; usual good heal th. II is a ppearanet hias g rcat Lim3 1proved. I t is s~tated that th e Senatoir and hiis fanily13 enjioyed thelOi utin vl~~ery muchel. Al Ithough nothling can he lear net de finitely ats to Silnator Ale laulrin' atti tude upon1 the Il'orto Llican tarin hillI, those wh l ar e ber'tt cqu ain tet with the Senator have no dloubt that hiis vote will he eait with the oppos i LIon to the bill. llis course In the Sen itte IndIcates that he will east his 101 with itis ownu pol itical party inl thI( Benatte upon thIs measure. Ile ha: Lhus far sine3 his returnl to Washing Lon from A tlanutic City votco ith th< D~emoc rats in the Senate in favor el the extending .olf the const'tutLion t< I'orto litco, there having been several vtes take n upon amilendmients to thi: 3lfect. These votes Indicate itrongo that Senator Mcl aurin will vote with the Deomocra44i aga~1inst the hillI. OUR IC tFAT IC-eT SPIA: l.i flt isT. F"ori( --'0 ear.'1)r. J1. Newton I I al hawal hiasi sti soie.ltilv t reitetiliroiie d,. a es. thiit lie is'. ack'luowledlged today:t to Iaii att the hiead 0: hits profess-iion iin is (ie lli- exicliu ve mietiiod if triatn i t i .i Vatr.coicele antd i-rioehiure, wui~t :1.e ai of kife~ii retiteili''irycure ini pfl per nii.'' atl l as's. Iini the t rent ment il Ift.e !is- 3 Vital l'orces. Nirvous I)is.ordert, lNdi anid I 'iriary (Complaiints. L'ara|\ si-, lfl' lPiisoniing. Whettmlantm, I 'alarri., ail 'I easeH lieiiliiar lo womlen,. lie is equallt.\ suiessfiul. Dr. llathauai v's piraee more,' thant doubl131 that of iani th-r sphe l'Ibysiciansi readily yichl 4o is trioaunent Write himl todaytt. tully' abliit ' ur 3ase lie maktes ,ii eliarge "for consoiiition i(H . adlvite, eitherct at, his iitheie 'r bv inati .1. Ne'wtion liihaway . .\. Ii.,3 seat ferotta t tr'et , At lanta, lil. CASTOR aA For Infants and Children. fhe Kind You Have Always Boughl Boars the |Sigaature of A TIl E STAT19 CAMPAIGN BY COUNTIFS. i 1 11N 1% WANT A (CIANUG '? n~eTilloaln iteplies to Sofoe We do Aoog thisH Ijlane Hel I bhioi. Ithe i'rimary is in Ji opardy. T t, lowingj Cor Ire, p(omi cet will k e irttscLtAgi to the vote'rs of thie im' MAarcb I i, 11.01). n LTillmnan, Washingjtonl, I).C. I * Sir and i-'riend : According * titutiotn of the ltim-raltic ( I South Carolii, thie state .etic Convention wid I iconvew in, 1 olWednecztday, , ay id'.h t t, delegates to 0he ntinaiI nye'l lltil, at lue iber of tht liatioi) l lbiratie executive cmlittee an1Md to inorv Such change'4ati amiert.g14 itimti s tW the iUritutLiion of the I)temoratic t1irty In this Stato as may s'eIn desira m: or the prolipir conduct of the conit it camupaiign. 't: object of this comimunicntion it t a-k Your OpiittOn aIs to thi Iroriet,V wit desirahility of abmonding artictle II ti the consltitutioli of the Democratic arty of this State, which iads as foI Article I. Ilrefore the election in I -IG, and each election Lbuhreafter, the iat Demo icrabtie eXecUtive comm in ittee Shall issi a ci a to all candidates for State tillis to) addrss the peo pal of tio- di'forent ceunties of this State. lixiig the diatts of the IniOLings, and also invitiin thie candidaites for Con grc s, lnited States Senaitte and for 0olicitorn in their respective diotricts anid circit:, to he present lnd aiddress th iople. At such iaieetings oily the Canldidates- abo(ve! :-et forth :.hall bei allowedii i tieak. Th tahe artlticl I islmanat'ory. i It tive imLie to frmulati Lhe scedi UWi for the whoie Site eiatpaignl with out giviniZ the counity e-xcutie cioiin Inittee of the various etnintles any voice inl th a n m of the- tini and place. of ntintmg for their rve per LIV counItii . (,' 0i1e i noumbiel' OfI pe) pie , and wih appatrenltg re-a .o, think that thin artieli of the ptyl eon Litlition should be eihelet;Irely th rogated. or at, least, so ammto1cle ais to vivo the indiviul counties i voiw it making the sliediule of the mett.inis. The muost poitent reason adidi uced it behlf of such changi or amndi'itn'nit inl the constitution of our-party air e thlese : Lirst,. The county excoutive com tmi LLU, of thu several counties, know ing the desire and the need of the peuo Ile in their respective counties btIt' than is pinIibIS for the State wu t vc con.mittLee to know. Ilould habtve tbe privileue Of lixin1 a tin- al ai plae for tne State (amptaign tectlziDg of their respective comui. S -cond. Many of the meetintigs in the last two cam paigns w ieru mirely farees. They were fored upon comi m1unlities at ilopportuone timties and lit pilacies wi'here no miieeltngs were diesi red, Thi should bi avoided in the future. '.l'h i rd. I L is im possiho to run . .ml u iaigII Of ithilion,00i On the 0ld jan. When aLl cindidates aret r uilired to Ittiid the tis f.ing ai t at cerfLitain ti5) en and place, the great number preset"It to a1dress the voters pri-ecludest the iden. of iItel ligieit disioSiol tf grLve' public questions in the brief -,paIes of live, Len or lifteen minutes allowed each spaiiker. Iiiourthl. The newspaper report~s of the variolls Ileetings are virtually the tiate, day after day, and ire isually bt a imere stereot,yped tilkeulton of lb skeleton argument, and in no leise stuf lieiently iaoattute to ex pt'e- ilerly the views of tile spea'lkers ior to en Ilighten the heabrerB. 1Tierief(ore, if tile m1eestinitgs arte to hbe eduitis ll , Lthe wVill anid the econvenienice of the peopile mu lst he eonsunILed in abppioin t~ing the i camp1 jaign mleeti ng, so that labrger' auioni~iees will be abttracted1 and longer Ltile he given toi spealkers'. ["'itth. 'kThe p)ropoised eibnges ill the coinsti Lution wouldi give Olachl eland idiate tile greabtest piossilo lattitulde abnd lib ity3 in cotnducting his own camnpaigni and would give tile rospetivo coiunties the trig ht to regulto and 11(1t di,'.,~ thei r o)w n polItical appoi ntmintLs and1 tio in - vite winom-toever they d~'tesi Li) lie pr'esient whenever and whiereveir Lthe peo~le w ishedi t heai' r t. S xthi. Untditr the (1hl ptlan.i lb melt, wvhethert desIre ort (t ntiti, anid eachl can-i diidates muiiIt fotllow' Lthe pitouces Ion Ltoughutt tilt 8) ate reigardiIless itt ex pee oiC(r con ISveni11ence. The yretiib 'x pen'sei of maitking the isianv'b-s of liih Statie wvill even~tully tshiut itut a poor. manbt ftromi rLtuning~ for.' a Statis illee, howiueer worthiy andli cttmpjtent lie maylb bt. T'his l.- onel tif the stronigest abrgumenisits for ab thatngie. Sesvenths. IL is very deusir'ale tbat abttentiion oft the Iipolis for fuil and f'ree~ dIIiscusIion- befoire the N1aty ion venition. Theii fotregoting ar beri ni - ttch up~on the noumlerouii minor0 pjits Liihat. mighlt, lie iiddltced. I 'lbI shal ieier t giadi itot heari rim youl tother' thait may13 sugge~is't thisiIves5 toi youi a-, peritinent to Liie yiuerstin iithesr for ori agin tt tile propotusedlltiit( amen mn toiIi t5 e ns'ti Ltuto . *\\'hatL i desr mol 1(st and whI)at I he -iye Lthi puici dessires is thtL from ai yil an mby hie ievled whichi ill woirk orut thie biuts intLertsts of Lthes Stt and 'r tile (comfott, ton veniiece andti i ii'uenidenciei of hochl thit -caida iiltes ini th comng campi~lagn and the pisttu:e wh liiiihll to know them. Ver'y sineeresly yttutr friend. .IAMis TI. I'Ang,. Inl rel(hy to this Sentoir T:.!hnanui vi rolet as fol lows: W 4 A SI I NG'T(N, I). C.. .\I arbi'h :. tilt. -I have your letter of NI1aren ii hi anrd the Iiportabnce (of the miattiert pr' sentetd therein must hie lapaet to every one. It is a psrplexinug *a uuitsti and has been1 ab souhy.eL ttof srm o thoug hit with moe fori a itong Liti he. cause 1 have foreseen that, Lthe primary system was being jeopt~ardl .usi by this abuses to which it tu hascien uijec(ted. P oliIticail conditions in ou s-tate forced the Joint i tcussiols before tile people of the issues, becaluske the iewspaIpers were Soi unfa'r and partiisan: and any abrogation of tilt, system low inl vogie would in all probability result in the return to the oid cond ition;l , when it wits iII the ioweir of two or three lead ing newspapers to make and unmn akte tmlenII, and to hlaIgetly control otir State politics. The neceu.sy of freed of speechl and t h( presention by the caididates of their views, directly to the voters without having them tinged ir d istorted or sippressed by different newspapers Will make thc peoipl e un willinig to give up to presnt )itln unII lets "something- hetter' can bi sub ztitlLed fir it. You have ,tated the deifeels i e presont -ystel Iloneo tiito trogly, and there are otilrs which ()c cur ti) ml%- wichv you have not filen) tilod : for inlaniee, it wan never con 14,Vid'ti pill-i ble that it 111M)n Wouild oTffer a18'a candidate filr- Lhe high position "imply becati-c Of vattlity (If hlis beinge 11 erank, Atill i's Llt t one would enter auCh a rIt e' With 114) no hiopes of beiig e'letedLtk, b110 sim ly ih thet viwW O' defeating anith 11111. TIei'e Cn he:, nto limit~ittion as to Lih' numiibei of per-* li) iiliitio t'ii it ru Lit 1113'u iIlte f mils who tha10 ritn10 for itay CLic i TLke Join disciulision w itte ind' ued tO Lie til L ol fe atil lprtn t y of.1 h'etl.r-i i V L, t1L )211 C 111 itic 0tra d1 1 ~tillilte LII 11111 Ing but~h ,idvs, and Of alhoving thek aniat st to prerI ent1 their viwt, directly to Rhv The e reC it in I - take that hat" eue milade Li he at 1hptportio l it, Out, ling 101 tiet, adi dates. TIhs 1%, ther havt naid, tbore wvas no chance for t candidate LO make i Speech or to do himszelf any Credit, an ii'd tie peopIl' were0 disgulsAt' d tO thlit extent, th th at they re fused to turn Ol t, i 1o the meet-f,in , I Clanvased thle Stat~ three timtes and there wats never any limitation oin any ipeaker. The lir 1ra1ngm11 llnt wa11'1, Ill ill iii' flbI r Ovel ill to h v t h Lit p ak r AltlInate : anii i ' tile e fOr' L 10 Sl In1 , to in vert the orderl of -ipelkilli, :-4 that. 1,hek t11:1n1 r 1111dithi -es c ul v r itcber iI ity beg i n II t d haei t 1 t tir' Ily inl ful II w% 1 h i w e''l rowd., were In- ;ih andl not, tit firci d Lit take the lavin i of til e iui not iva ti d mlt b y prviiul evelakurz;. W iit veir i lt e it y bel" dlitne, i Li ereo Silli uti l-v'' h1 c il Il thet 111LA M1t ituld nv er h In tile fuItlu. aly i t 'aliin (i 1iiler. Ii wilid ie b tter o have!-oine -andhtmt misr, spIeak in, ait ever1y Inet-lLing: thnin followi UChI i phl f C altg h.lg th iIlet1c q lues tiol now in ettii i rt'tie coLIl tuanli 'il thll r n, wthiti L ith such himit t ions Is i have illtiica tl, e htihit ginLJii it it- ylu ntlvvoml, Ill sO ied i th couitn tie to deturine wha tiunn heui want to hear~t alld PXtendli IntlatIons- LO ch it, heu iltof cir-l t flw y p1 rmiV fair lor at 1a1 Ldn iitti t4) InouL ni IJi)it I - ienti? to et tio thlephw Lat fii l ien . wit L a ,and t 11 inv ite Ill-, ()i Oii lt fo ithie oLi. ', Io a jui k li -- i iion. T i a iinon'iV0tg u d illwl's whi (-ompily# wit. tLh riie, but thie l co n Lyt comt iitti' Alin ing control Ofit- 1111,h ti e ings cW nil ref lu l' to Invite tI 11o he Willi ttr. not, wantlled. :1d It it~shoullt ev rOUCc r, whieb if hardl y il., that, ai caitdk d111'- lililgel 1)C3 w,- I )jI iy ,10atLl kitv it. could ti n inak ran ene t flir it 'aliatLkb invting to wii'ch i. Op poneritc uid 0o invited. It is nit light Lioig to WV itlarn tril' liti e y It and attl d meeati inl fOLVtl y ! intitie , 416ni(1 'ti cuta L i vy x n Manltily Of ouri' pkOIple- it) inot -even i tike their counts Ial.r, and Itilcu thIeit: patteiLI Lutid'te havi cmeli ilin vogiei With I few Cret-ditable xtrran on t 1,h oty )to i new naper he dewptiora'e Very muensibly from What thcyv ,vereL h1tI %L-Mn ye l go. COIR-AeitlOtl halil caused U)hem r'p duce their ub!crpi tion, Iat wii e mo e nd sb rthes g ax'i 1ileh ia they pty fm- it jeanvethelan fitirdnt rthableo rewpors i nolttr. blrni:- a11. itadh dn yh and l iew a. the ystted tof.on aessii n for rgardoterhwilae deilomenittb iindae frthe meeting1scandidt can rlte neglc'ar ine ofrt pJ:Irevent, iaxiiaoh wis " teci the people and trust the .e ,and under the existing condi Lions in our State thoro Is no certain way tIto have this don except through the 1ne4u111 of public debate. Yours sincrely, B. It. Tir NMAN. Itv Mr. Sheldon wil recolvod be tween *10,00ad a as i is share of the ventur if ruinIig tho Topeka Capi tal as a Ctirstian daily, and lie intends to Lxpntl it ill improving and ,beaitki fying at negro settlement inl ol'ip ka, v.ilb izi -,urrounded by the hom, i ari.tiocratic citizens. The l1aetrO' a lvid to bly out the no !ro" , ' t iiaviv failed], and their hloilo " n t M\ r. sliidon will make the lom 111more respecta~ble. fitor D avis, of Minliesota, hias iltro0W .o d a enubstitute for the P'orto Ia , i, whiliclihl p(ovlies for freo d1.1o ( t en the Ulited Sates and o)to iii and cxtenlids the internal net' ll0 Iaws. with ialeidnents over b. island. Tei act is declared pro ion2l Ian hl not coltinl110 longer hanl March 1, 1I92. -it is reotldLI that, the name of Augustine Van Wyck will be placed liefore the Kiists City convelntiol for IPresident, aild tl elfort k bling inl t.rio1;ly madet112 ill New York to crcate t1he! einl' ill) that th re Is at growilg r-evolt g intBra - :lxviteinent Wa& ca, e in Sanl . cinto, C. l., b Iy L is cOVery tihat part Wt L li' a11 .Ja intLo Molintaii lias 111e jinto I s u trr n n envern formbiiur a nitVew valley six hundred acres! in iextent,. . --W e in aSmall hoy is <itlot he's either asleen) or plainning so.)no new Save mouiy by buying youir Diy Goods and Shoes 111i mll. [8S10y Brwi1th Sioroa Our buyer is now in New Voik seClIriing bargails ill all IIes. Il1 aI few days we Will have everything you can Call or Il1i a pill tAI an Fie \Ve will iqu\ arS compIlee ',I 1iuul Sl (,'5 Is VOLI W ill fI nd in any sto rl inl a town tell I nies a1'- Id ie as Easley. Encourage us to keep the stock ip by buying all YOU can fr(m )our LEasley store. Our prices will always be as low as any housC in (Greenl Ville will or can Sell at. WVe shall have many bar gainls to oler which We 'will from linm to 1jme imlelition in this pper, >i1 watch this Whlili (;ieeville call in and seet ii.. Wec are always iip to date, and will give V'on Yours for businless, R. L. R. Bentz, llagaoer IEasley liranch. a 'lhe niiu1) wl) ree~s to) is opp)lorttraiities is Ihe succesful man1.2. llo 's the op~portui lliIy for not ore, buti d0oens of men01. 0(ur -ale of MnI Is ando Laidios' I)'ine frit \\'ear' at spOcil pri1cos is iilIdwin (1 o tI 0(I Storo' tlioS~wo WllOp PrI)!lbI yle and~ quit~iy. S rs for 04ua~re dealinig, PRILs & PA1T'CN, 106) S. Main Street, *i' i'irst door abovosele'