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IEE SUMTER WATCHMAN. K?t?bli?hfd April. ?S50. "Be Jas: a:ic: Fear sot-Lc! a:! the End? thor, Airas't at. b? thy Country's, thy God's a:ici Truth s." THK TKCE SOCTHRON. E8t?bll?hed jane. Consolidated Ans. 2,1881. New Series-Yoi. XIII. No. 4i>. ?ijc oolitdjman ;m?j Soutbron. Polished Svsry Wednesday, -BY 1ST. Gr. Osteen, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : Two Dollars per annum-io advance. ADVERTIS EME KT: One Square first insertion.S.1*00 Every subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private interests will be charged for a* advertisements. Obituaries and tributes ot' respect will be charged for. Tiff: SUMTER INSTITUTE FOR W0.1IK3. Despite the stringency of the times, the institute has had a fairly prosper? ous year. With its fnll corps of effi? cient teachers and high standard of scholarship, it offers advantages for educating your ladies, equal to any col? lege for women in this State. 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WE HAYE FORMED A COPARTNERSHIP For the purpose o? working Maybie and Granite, manufacturing I?w?, Miste, Etc., And doing a General Business in that line. A complete workshop has neen titted up on Ll BERTY STREET, NEA R POST OFFiCE And we are now ready to execute with promptness ail orders consigned to us. Satis action guaranteed. Obtain our price before glacing an order e>sewhere. W. H. COMMANDER. G. E. RICHARDSON'. Jene 10. JOS. F. RHAME. WM. C. DAVIS. KHAME & DAVIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. Attend to business in any parr of the State Practice in U. S. Courjs. Sept. 21-x. G. W. DICK, D. D. S. Office over Levi Bros.' Store. ENTRANCE OS MAIN STREET. SUMTER, S. C. oftioe H.;1-:;-? to I : 2.30 to 5.30. ?y Jill mail DENTIST. Office OVER BROWN k BROWN'S ST' ?RE, E nt rar. c>- on Maia Street Between Brown k Brown and Durant & Son. OFFICE HoFRS: 9 to 1.30: 2 to 5 o'clock. Apr:! S. 2 A. WHITE & SON. I Fire Insurance Agency. ESTABLISHED im. Represent, among other Companies : LIVERPOOLk LONDON k GLOBE, NoiiTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE, H< ?ME. of New York. UNDERWRITERS'AGENCY*, N. Y., LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $75,00^,000. Feb. . 1890. 1894. A. G. PHELPS & CO., General Insurance Agents. Snmt<i\ S. C. Fire Lite, Accident, <i*-*m Boiler, Plate 'i.^f-. Borid'j of Surely for person* posi? tions ol trust, and Liability tu*arnuce ?:i every branch, w.r:tter? in the very best Arnei ca:i and Foreign Companies. .'v?r six tv-5 vt; millions af c*;-::*! repre? sented. oft; ? at Messrs. J. Ry nen berg ?.Sons, 2d Floor, Front. Mch 14 - 0 1 THE STATE CAMPAIGN. The Events of the Week. Butler Makes it Interesting for Tillman. Ellette and Earns Getting Rot. [From Augusta Chronicle.J BENXETTVILLK, S C., June Gov. Tillman struck out on a new line at the campaign meeting here today. This ii? the place where he begao his fight for reform niue years ago, his memorable speech against the old "oli garchv" haring been made in the Court House here at a meeting of tho Farmers' Association. Possibly ho sounded the keynote today of a new fight that he intends to lead, and that will take in a much larger aroa than South Carolina. Ile trumpeted a com? ing mighty battle for greenbacks, and 'called on the South aud West to drop all side issues and make the fight on that alone. There were about ?00 persons pres eut, and the meeting was quiet and orderly In his speech the Governor said ; The Republicans are Hamiltonian? and the antis are at heart Republicans. They are no more democrats than I am a negro. Cleveland is not honest today or else he is the most damnable traitor that has i ever held that seat., shouted the Gov? ernor amid applause. Cleveland and his so-called Democratic Congress were responsible for the poverty stricken condition of the country England had bribed Congress through Wail street. Before they went to Washington and ; bought the nomination of Cleveland. ! They also bought Harrison's nomina- j tion. They were happy, and made the j people pay the piper, no matter which i oue got elected. The Governor argued for greenbacks and asked wby did ^tbe capitalists want the promise of the Government on a bond and reject it on a note. He wanted Uncle Sam to destroy the uatioual banks, and make gold, silver and paper payable for all dues, aud go ahead and turn on a stream of green? backs that would irrigate this country. Of coure the opposition would say this was the rankest heresy, but he did not j care. When the State convention met last year the feeling was uot to send any delegates to Chicago, or if they did to instruct them to leave if Cleveland was nominated. In a caucus he spoke against this, and >howed the reformers ! the unwisdom of such a course. He ' had then argued that they could not afford to risk the election of Harrison ! by dividing the National Democracy. The convention put the Ocala plat- | form in the State Democracy platform, j He did not agree wi-.L them, and told \ them so, but that was their right and : by putting it there the Third Party was | kept down in South Carolina. Said he. j "you and I aud two-thirds of the people ! bad a nerve of Third Partyism up our backs as big as your finger. In other States the Alliance kicked out of the party and bad ruined in itself doing so. South Carolina remained with the Democracy and was an example to the other States which are now regretting that they had not followed our course. "We are likely to have them follow our lead if we lead wisely and well, but j we must not fritter our forces by di- ? viding on small issues. We must not i load down our platform with such im- ! practical schemes as are ou the Populist platform. It we make the fight iu the j Soutli and West ou the questioo of the j ; Government issuing ail the paper money aud taking it away from the corpora- ? I tions, anti making gold, silver aud '? I paper interchangeable we will wiu. . The tari ir is a side issue, and so is I the Government control of railroads. 1 We must leave all those questions out of : it, and concentrate ali our strength on ? j the fight for the people's money.*1 The governor recalled the tact that ? he had beguu his attack ou the i "oligarchy" right here iu Bennetts j ville nine years ago, yet he did not watt I to catch the popular side. J Ie ju>t j ? took his stand and somehow the boys j eaiue right along and ranged themselves j ; around him. Fie was going to be the | j advance guard sent by the people to j ! ?ake the government fro tu the pluto- ! j craey. He was not responsible for the I bitterness that had passed betw< eu bim j and Butler. Ile just pitched back two rocks for one. He wanted peace but lu; was not going to be dictated to by a m i - : u rrj ty. If those who had fought him so ! bitterly were ready to join the church and would unit calling bim a devil he was willing to opeu the doors, i V oice . They want office.'' ; Ves, that is what i- the matter with ; them. Le? tl.'-in take back scats and j i come :u on probation and show they ! ... * " -'j . am t I * ? r revenu- and office and maybe , wc will promote them s une time. I do ! not hate these men who hate inc so. I j . feel s? rry t >r them. They are i enighted j and have rea i rh-- News and Courier -"j ,?(?r?g that they think 1 am a d vii : ; ( Laughter, j I I**- governors bund primary was ij'?t largely participated in, only about i H1?'.? bauds: being i aist'l i n him He j had, however, a majority ol ti.-- crowd I with him. SKXATOi: HITLER*? SPET.Cll. (jer?. Butler in ~;iis speech said thar it) regard to his v n t i r J ir f??r Judge Sioionton's confirmation ht- asked why had Gov 'filliiiau not sent .-onie pro? test to Washington against it. The governor's mouth ought to be cloded on 'hat score. Judge Simonton was an | iionesr, upright tuan whom he had j known for forty years and he could not get up in the Senate and vote against him just because Gov. Tillman did not | like him. The Alliance and the reform party | were just getting on his platform as he i had advocated free silver for fifteen j years in the face of the previous expe- j rience the people had re elected Cleve- l ?and. They knew at the time he would ; veto a free coinage bill or anything that ! would help the South, it was the j politicians who had opposed Cleve- i land. Gen Butler said that if he had ? anythiug to do with the Democratic party in the future he intended to read the riot act and tell the people they ought to have a man from the West, j He had in mind a man from that i section who was with us completely Till: MI NOK A Sr'I II A NTS Senator John Gary Evans was the first speaker for the gubernatorial J plum. He declared thar the only Democrats were those who stood on the ! Ocala platform. He said that the ! Supreme Court of this State had legis? lated more since the reform movement began than the Legislature had It's decision on the dispensary was incon? sistent and could not stand. Referring to Gen. Eilerbee's attacks on him he said that the geuerai was a reformer also, and that he was not go intr to have any quarrel with him and that he would not use his gaffs ou a re? former. Gen. Eilerbee spoke next and pitch? ed red hot bails at Evans. Reading from the House journal he showed that Evans had voted against Clemson col? lege with al! the anti-?illman lawyers. Evans represented the new issue-"the death bed repentance boys''-and had fought reform for five years until he was whipped. Judge L. R. Hill, of Spartanburg, appeared on the scene to-day as a can? didate for Secretary of State. Ile de? clared that Cleveland was a rank traitor and that in his county the people would not support any man who even thought that Cleveland was honest. They be? lieved he W?S dishonest. He was not | after any peace and harmony and if ? elected the people could rest assured j that he would take a broom and sweep i out any antis who might bc around his cmce. The meeting to-morrow will be at Oats, in Darlington county, ten -jr twelve miles out in the country from the county seat. The fact that thc meet? ing is not to be held at Darlington is causing a great deal of comment, as this was the scene cf the dispensary trouble. ,T. W. < i. I) A KLINGTON, S C , June *2S.-The campaigu meeting at Oat's Grove twelve miles from here to-day, attracted the largest crowd that has been at any of the present series of meetings, near? ly 2tO0U persous. There were no town people present and it seemed to be a thorough Tillman crowd. The only sign of trouble was when the Governor charged J. M. Waddili with being a Wall street cor? ruption agent. In his speech the Governor declared he would have been glad to speak at Darlington court house iu order to show thc people there that he was not afraid of them and because he wanted to teach them some sense, bur the Executive Committee had willed otherwise. "i believe I am pure.'' said he, "and I know the United State- senators are rotten.'' He declared that Congress has riveted more tightly the shackles about the ankles of the people and they had perpetrated an infamous, dam? nable rascality in repealing the pur? chasing clause ot thc Sherman act. The Democratic party is dead, assassi? nated by Grover Cleveland Wall street has agents travelling over this State trying to buy your senatorship. One of them from your own county. Voice-"You mean Waddill ?" The Governor nodded his head in as? sent and add:; i : -'I hear ii" is paid hy? the month." Hardly had ii" said this when Wad? dili who ? is pre-cut said : .'Governor, you claim to be a brave tuan,'* but here the shout- of the erowJ drowned his voice. '"Put bim down," they cried. W addi!) again spoke to the Governor and asked to reply. The Governor consented, but neither the chairman nor the crowd would ai! >w him to explain. Waddili told them not to attack him hands tied Excitement tau quite high lo.it soon subs id? d The Governor said the "Darlington fi:it'" wa- gutten ap in order to try to fi.?.:.! tie- outside world into believing I that be could not enforce the dispensary law Discussing 'io- dispensary, he | said, the Suprem- * ' ? ? 1 rt wouid have tu ? j/?t out "f th" way. Voices "l'ut out al! anti:judges." : Wbeu thc Governor spoke of taking j in repentant anti- the crowd yelled j ...\o." He saul the people must get j together or the antis would take the j negro and .-POW the reform party under. ; Gen. Butler was greeted with cries : of "Hurrah for Tillman," and received no applause. He stopped once to drink some water at which there were cries of "Don't give him any more water.'" and then the crowd began to interrupt him with all manner of questions. He told 1 them he knew they were brought there ? to howl him down, but he would silence j them ali if they would come one at a j time. Heformula*ed the following questions to Governor Tillman, telling him he could answer at the first opportunity : At the time the dispensary opened iu July, 1893, did you not have on hand j ?08,321 worth of stock io whiskey, j wine, bottles, etc ? As there was ouiy .$50,00" appro- j priated to start business, did you not i exceed the appropriation by ?43,3-1 ! before a dollar's worth af liquor was j sold ? Was the excess paid for? If so, where J did the money come from ; if not, you bought on credit, and what right did you have to purchase goods for the State on credit. Did you not expect to saddle the debt without authority on the taxpayers by a recommendation to the Legislature ? Have you not now seventy-five men j engaged at sixty-five store houses for j which salaries and rent, are paid, aud does it not take six thousand dollars every month to pay fur the same? Could not one store houses and two ? rr J hold and guard the supply oo hand? What became of the per cent, rebate allowed every quarter on all whiskey bought from firms io the liquor trust? (the trust in which the Mill C'eek Dis? tillery is), and don't you know the Ger? man-American Bank, of Peoria, II!., sends a check for rebates allowed all merchants from the trust ? Why is there not a statement in your State dispenser's report of the aggregate amounts of these rebates? And as there is not, where is the money col? lected on thousands of gallons ? Is not Dispenser Traxler getting half salary, if not bow much ? From what fund are his and other dispensers' and store rent being paid? Have you not declared, or is it not your purpose, to open the dispensary j again on August 1st ? Senator Johu Gary Evans in his j speech declared most emphatically that j the dispensary would be re-opened, j He called the members of the Supreme j Court jackasses. General Kllerbe called Evans a pretty j glib talker but not very deep minded i He had heard that Evans had represent- j ed a purchasing syndicate io tte State j bond matter aud not the State, for j which he understood he was to receive j a large fee. He denounced Evans and Stanyame Wilson, of Spartanburg, as coat tail swingers Dr Sampson Pope rejoined the cam? paign party to-day. In his stirring speech he intimated that there were rings and cliques in the reform party. He pleaded for a fair deal before a general primary where all Democrats could vote, instead of a purely reform j primary. He charged that a deal had been consummated. In Spartanburg county Larry Gaott already had forty reform clubs to en? dorse Tillman for the Senate. Evans for Governor and Wilson for Congress eveu j before the campaign meeting had been ? held in that county. Secretary of State Tindai's speech was dignified and educative. The meeting to-morrow will be in the wildwoods of Florence county. J. W. G. It is mighty hard for the truth to j keep up with a He at an even start and : a fair track. Butler starts six years be- j hind --Laurens Advertiser. A rumor comes from Washington : that certain citizens of the District are ; making contributions to assist Gov? ernor Tillman in defeating Senator But- j 1er. The alleged reason for this geuer- j osity is that Senator Butler voted for Taylor's confirmation. However, it 1 was impossible to verify the story, as no other Senator would tell how Senator Butler voted -Augusta Chrouciclc. Senator Cali, of Florida, knocked ? the socks off Senatorial dignity the ; other <iay when in; pulied his shoes j off and planted his feet on his desk ? and proceeded deliberately to fan j them. That was about the time that j Senators Harris and Hill were knock- 1 in g tho aforesaid dignity winding with | rh'. ir jawbones. And Senator Cali j wore blue socks, too which make this , fete with his feet all the more pic- j turesque -Wilmington Star. Col Ellison S. Keitt. of Kooree will j -tart ont on the first of .Juiy and make J >?.eh<-* in every county in the State ! mi National questions. Ile has made' a special study of the financial quot i m \ and i-^ prepared to meet any of the campaigns iu join debate It would b< a good idea foi lum to join the State I campaigners and teach them something j in finalice He i> a good speaker ami is well informed. He may he in the rae<- ?>rr the United States Senate aud if he docs enter he will make it lively for both (icu. Butler and Gov. Tillmau. A Distinguished Carolinian. W e have before called attention to the "Life and Letters of M. P O'Con nor," issued from the ptibl?sliing house of Dempsey & Carroll, New York, and written and edited by his daughter Mary Doline O'Connor, It is now on sale in this city, and is a volume which merits more than passing atten- j tion both for the entertaining manner I in which it has been prepared and for ; the charming and distinguished life I which it is meant to embalm. M. P. O'Connor was a citizen of whom South Carolina was justly proud, and an Irishman who was always loyal to Erin. He was well known in ; Augusta, and it was in his eloquent | address delivered here in I$70 before : the Hibernian Society that he thus spoke of thai trait in Irish character which his own life so well illustrated : "Love of country is a distinguishing trait of the Irish character, that senti- j meut which is called patriotism-aod j which can only exist where truth, honor and sincerity prevail. Io all j the wanderings of that oppressed and expatriated people, that true filial de- i votion to the laud of their nativity has ; never been wauting, and with what tender emotion and deep pathos may not the poor emigrant, as he toils his ; lonely way westward over the rugged slopes of the Oregon, looking back to j old Ireland, pour forth this day the '? lament of his country's bard : ?Though the Us! glimpse of Krin with sorrow I see, j Vet wherever thoa arl shall Seena Erin to aie ; lu exile thy bosom snail still be my home, Ar d thine eyes make my climate wherever , I roam.: "Space has not been able to over- i come, nor time to subdue this spirit, j Chilled by no foreign atmosphere, but j communicating its genial warmth by j alliance to other nationalities, like the j vestal fires of old guarded by the im- i mortal virgins, it has been kept alive ! and burning by the purity and chastity J of her children." There are many members of the Hibernian Society who wili recall the splendid oration of that day. and who hold io fond remembrance the eloquent Carolinian. He was a man of rare com panionability, and his warm, genial nature was mirrored in bis face. He was always ready of speech and the orations which he delivered on many public occasions, at home and abroad, show in what esteem he was held as a public orator. His speeches which are preserved in the volume make it exceedingly attractive and valuable. Above we gave his tribute to Irish character, aud here follows a tribute to Ireland : "Her monuments and towers are as ancient as the pyramids : her legends and traditions as old as the Druids. The line of her monarchies surpasses io antiquity the proudest royal houses of Europe. She was renowoed before the Saxon invaded Britain, or the Frank crossed the Khine. From ber secluded isolation she bas beheld the Roman legions pass in triumph the gates of every capital io Europe, aud her triumphant eagles, sustained by Agricola, waving over thc wall of Antoninus. Grecian eloquence is no looter heard iu the Acropolis at Athens, aud the turbaned Turk now tramples the soil which shook with the thuuders of Macedon. Peace reigns at Warsaw, and Polish independence sleeps for? ever: while Ireland, prolific in her children, constantly renewing her youth iu the ubiquity of her progeny, is pregnant with vitality." But though a loyal descendant of Ireland, he was none tiie less a devoted sou of South Carolina, and his loyalty to her best interests was as marked as his Irish patriotism In the dark days of '"(>, and before, he was a staunch and trusted lieutenant in the right to throw off the chains which bound his native State, and hi> voice was often raised with no uncertain sound in her behalf. Hear him : "We are in the crisis of our destiny. The signal bells of alarm and prepara? tion from one end of the State to the ot her are tolling : the drums are beat? ing, and South Carolina, appealing to ali her sons, tu the words of England's brave admirai, "expects every mau todo his duty ' The incubus of radical misrule is weighing down and crushing >>ut the energies of the people. We have borne outrages in Government without a parallel iu the history of any civilized people." And hear him before l tie New Eng? land society in 1>77. after South Caro? lina had been reclaimed : "The State has beer> recaptured, but to one who knew her in the palmy days of her past splendor-retaken in a shattered and dismantled condition. Nothing that wa? venerable in her pas: treated as sacred, and nothing that was valuable, escaped the ravages of the plunderer. Her laws were over? turned-her institutions uprooted-her wealth dissipated-her resources almost annihilated-and the spirit of ber peo ple'from long and datient suffering, sunk to the lowest ebb. Her jewels have been stolen and carried away, but the casket which contained them remains: our teeming and bounteous soil, our balmy climate and genial and warming sky, associating the memories of an illus? trious past, with the ruin and devasta? tion inflicted on our State; it is calcu? lated to remind us of thc ruins of some old castle, or grand old cathedral with battered walls, lifting its waste above the surrounding wreck, with the shadow of one epoch in its base, and the day? break cf another in its oriels." But interesting as they are, we can? not further prolong these extracts. As one reads, the splendid personality of the man rises up before the mind's eye, and we feel almost as if we can hear the melody and earnestness of his voice as it proclaimed the eloquent, and patriotic sentiments which abound in the volume. We bespeak a liberal patronage for the volume, and feel assured that everyone in Augusta who knew the gallant Carolina Irishman, and many others besides will show their appreciation of the loving work which has been so admirably performed by his daughter.-Augusta Chronicle. To the Reform Voters of the Democratic Party. The perpetuation of the Reform movement depends upon the manner of conducting the ensuing the ensuing primary. Under the rules of the State primary candidates are required to get a majority of the vote cast, and if more than two are running for the same office and none get a majority in the first primary then a second primary settles it-the two highest in the first primary being the candidates in the second. There is, therefore, no dan? ger of a Conservative getting a ma? jority, except io those controlled by them, which are few in number. In other counties a Conservative and a Reformer would run it over and the Reformers would concentrate on the Reform candidate at the second pri? mary. The Reform Executive Committee have ordered an intervening primary between the Reform candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor to tak? place in August which will be in advance of some of the county meet? ings : in some of the counties is is pro? posed to substitute mass meetings for a pria?ary : the candidates for Governor have already been forestalled iu some of the counties by Reform clubs endorsing certain candidates. This is unfair, to say the least of it. If all of the other candidates, even those who are running for the General Assembly which is to elect a United States Senator, are allowed to submit their claims to the general primary, why not the candi? dates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor 1 The Conservatives say that they will not run a candidate for Governor and Lieutenant Governor if they are allowed to choose one from those ?untiing: but if not allowed to do so that they may not be bound by the action of thc Reform primary. We are for peace and fair dealing, we are opposed to rings and cliques, then let us give them an equal chance with us. All white mon arc allowed te participate in the general \ rim a ry who will take th" oath prescribed hy the General Assembly. This is a step forward in the int?r?t of peace and harmony-them let ali have a fair showing. The Reform Executive Committee can be called together and they can rescined their call for a primary, and the State Democratic Executive Committee can make the necessary arrangement for a box at each poi! tor State i rricers and rix it so that those who get the majority in the respective counties shall receive the vote i f til- delegates from those counties ti? th" State con.vt ri rion All of the candidates are pronounced Reformers, no advantage can accrue to any one of tin rm over rho ethers. 1 ant willing to fake my chances in thc pri? mary and 1 believe that the other can? didates will be willing also. Respectfully, S VMPSON Porn. .lune -J:;. 1S04. Highest of all in Leavening Power.-I atest U. S. Gov't Report. ABSOLUTELY PURE