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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'

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