raK SCMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 18SO. Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. "Be Just and Fear not-Let uii the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's. TEE TRCE SOCTEKOX, Established Jene. 126 SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1897. Sew Series-Yoi. XVII. Xo. I Mt W?thm w? Sou?|nra. KT. Gt-. Osteen, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : ?1 50 per aonam-io advance. ADVERTISEMENT: One Square first insertion.............$1 00 S re ry subsequent i o sert ion... 0 Oontracts for three months, or longer will be.made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve priv&te interests will be charged foras advertiements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. / Laury Grant's Gang. Effort to Howl Down Me Laurin. About 1,000 People Beard the Cam? paign Orators Deliver Th?ir'*??? tle Speeches Spa nao borg, July 27 -A deter? mined effort was made bere to-day to bawl down Senator McLaario He was the last speaker. Tbe crowd op to tba: time had given ali an attentive hearing. Hardly had Senator McLaario gotteo the first sentence of bis speech ont when some one from the audience yell? ed : **We wont's listen to a Repabli, can.7' Immediately about 100 men began to yell and in the iambie of soaod Senator McLaario was unable ?o be heard. Turning to the chairman. Congressman Wilsoo, Sena? tor McLanrin appealed to bib to re? store order. The chairman succeeded. Senator' MeLiurin resumed his speech in an outburst, of oratory_tbat even kept bis would-be inwlers-dowu quiet for a time. Apar , from this iecidect nothing oat of the ordinary occured. The speak? ing was held ia a larg8 building on. the encampment grounds? Here fully 1, 000 beard the speakers. Former Congressman Shell and Sheriff Me Gravy of Laurens attended the meeting. Mr. S G. Mayfield was introduced as the arst speaker.. He began by denying that he was io a combine to compass McLanrin 's defeat. He had heard, be said, that be was in the race .to advertise himself preparatory to running for governor next year. This, he assured his auditors, was absolutely false and he was doing ali he could to secure the nomination of senator. He then went on to express his -esteem for Senator McLaario as a man, but op? posed bim on his views of national questions. Mr. Mayfield explained at length his dispensary views. He took up tbe tariff and in his speech said Senator McLanrin was a good Reformer, but not a Democrat. Mr. Mayfield told one of MeLiaric's jokes that created laughter and won for the narrator some applause. Mr. Mayfield charged that McLanrin had tried to get Strait, Talbert and other Sooth Carolina eoagressmen to form a anion with the Populists. McLanrin denied it. Mr. Mayfield did not mention bis metropolitan police charges against Governor Ellrebe. Col. Irby, for the first time since the campaign began, laid aside bis jokes and spoke with great earnestness, fie needed no man to follow him aronnd on this campaign, he declared. McLanrin was his friend last year, be eaid, when be wanted to beat Ellerbe for governor, bot when be saw he could not he ran back to Tillman and begged his pardon. At this point tbe political daddy fea? ture was worked in to the amusement of the crowd. He declared that Shell fathered Mayfield until he had commit? ted political suicide and left him a poor little orphan. Col. Shell was on the stand but -be did not offer to make answer. Col. irby further on in his speech made the assertion that Ellerbe, Neal and Gonzales, if they had their way. would put negro labor in the cotto : mills of the State. He then followed this statemnt with a touchiog wer-; picture of the happy candition of the mill operatives in the Piedmont a ?id drew a comparison of what it won'... ' . should negro labor be introduced in ice factories. Speaking of his record, Cc'-. Irby laid stress on the fact that he h ? : al? ways opposed boitiog. There are going to be two parrie? ia this State, a Democratic and S paoli can party, and 'Jth ere is th" fader," pointing to McLanrin, declared Cv! Irby. He ia laying "the chat ?ii; hatch a full-fledged Republican part-? " Col Irby accused McLiurln of in? gratitude to his frieods Paar if;i . W. D. Evans, be said, gave McLiurio his start. Evans elected McLaario ar torney general. After a while Con pressman Stackhouse died. W. D. Evans wanted to take bis piace it? caa gress. McLaurin wanted the place, too, so he jumped io and b?*ar Evans. Ever since theo, said Irby, EvatiS has been looking mighty ?lek. They thought he was dead politically amii j they "squirted a little political balsam jin him" and revived bim enough to get elected railroad commissioner ! Coi Irby concluded with an appeal [ to the people to stand by Democracy, j He was applauded, as he was through i out his speech and ar. the ?od. Mr Jobo Gary Evaus said he had ? been dared to make this race. He had i accepted it and wa:> here running, not on factional issues, but on national questions. He then proceeded with bis tariff for revenue only speech. He asserted that MoLaurin's Republican tiriff views would never be accepted by the people of this State. Mclaurin, be said, claimed that he ?.nd Tillman s o>d together oo the tariff. He said he didn't believe Tillman held the same tariff views but if he did he could oot come before the people of this State and wio oo that issue alone He than referred to McLaurin as a 1'sapsucker on a limb/' and declared he W88 the hardest man to pm up on an issue ne had ever encountered. He was continually shifting his views, he asserted. Mr Evan6 said he didn't believe IQ a tariff. He was for free trade with a direct, tax to supply the necessary rev? enue for running the government. Mr. Evans again expressed the hope that the factious would cease their fight and unite on the Demo? cratic tariff principle. (Applause.) Sentor McLaurin began his speech by affirming that the people had joet witnessed an example of the unfair? ness of the fight waged on him in this campaign He was attacked and his views misrepresented and distorted by three opponents on every stump. At this instant someone from the crowd yelled : "We won't hear a Republican speak " A hundred or more took np the cry. Aa uproar followed. No voice could rise above that wave of hoarse bound. Senator McLaurin appealed to Chairman Wilson. Mr. Wilson got order restored. v Colonel Irby, who was sitting to ward the front of the stand, asked that for his sake the crowd keep quiet. McLaurin vehemently replied that be did not want to be heard as a favor to Irby or to anyone else. "I de mand the right to speak as a Demo? crat." (Applause.) He had been called a Rep?blica:; by his opponents. He flung the epithet back in their teeth and de? clared that be had served the people as attorney general, as congressman and as United States senator to ? faithfully and too long for this slur against him to be believed He owed all that he was to the people of the State and he would tie ver be false to their interest. Since Colonel Irby bad b:ought up the negro mill labor question, he said, be.wanted to assert most positively that he was opposed to negro opera? tives in factories. So much was he in favor of employing white labor wherever be could that he rented his farms out to white tenants at a less price than Le could get from ne gres. Here other interruptions from a few in the crowd occuired. They continued and grew to euch an extent that Chairman Wilson again had to restore order After getting quiet Senator Mc? Laurin attacked Irbyi and Evans for devising the Coileton plan to override the willi of the people and make Evans governor Evans denied that he had anything to do with forming the plan McLaurin declared that Kraus was the beneficiary of it at any rate Turning his attack to Irby's record Senator McLaurin asserted that the people bad done more for Irby than any mun in the State and got less re? turn for it Re then read I : by-*s record while senator Ile next prodded him ? iib appointing his broth-; er, W (J Irby, a committee ; cletk aud the!) letting him stay in ? ? Laurens the entire time without do j 1 ing any work Ur his pay. Irby got up and explained that in Washington he had Mr. Gantt as his ! secretary so that be (Gantt) could j study law and while he was at horne \ he employed his bruthen* The pay, ! he said, was divided j McLaurin said that since Senator ! Irbv seemed to have needed a cletk i j wmle ne was at home. 1 where he , was ai most of ! the time, more than he needed him i i - 1 : iii washington ?hat he would let the , :natter drop i ;? concluding his speech Senator I McLaurin declareu tie was unalterably j j opposed to the direct tax as proposed i ! by Mr Evans The courts had de- j j efded that an inheritance and an in- j : come tax are unconstitutional ; bonds j ! could net be taxed, so that rea! estate ? and faetones were thr.1 only property that could be taxed The people had j I all of this kind of lax they could stand now, he declared. If a direct , tax were imposed, he said, it would j be a danger to mill operatives, for j cheaper pauper labor from abroad i would be brought in to take the fac? tory laborers' places. Senator McLaurin was applauded j when he concluded Chairman Wilson announced that j Mr G. Walton Whitman wanted to j speak, but that as he had not filed his j pledge at the proper time he was j debarred Mr Whitman / was not to be downed. As a rain had come up the crowd perforce had to listen to him, so he spoke. He received more "cheers" than any of the other speak ers The candidates after a dsy off will speak at Gaffney Thursday. FINE FLIM-FLAMERY. Irby Denies Making Negro Factory Statement. Special to Tbe State. Gaffney, July 29 -Cherokee's yeo manry turned out 500 strung to hear the senatorial candidates to day A more orderly or pleasanter meeting could not; have been desired. Col. Irby was the first speaker, and after expressing his pleasure at be ing present, he proceeded to correct that portion of the report of the Spartanburg meeting where i* said that he declared Gonzales. EHerbe and Neal favored negro labor in cot ton milfs. His speech was miscon? strued, nnifttentioiial'y, he knew, by the reporter, he said What he did say, he declared, was that in favoring the election of McLanrin. Gonzales, Ellerbe and Neal were indirectly fa? voring the building up of a Republi? can party party in this State and that should the Republicans gain strength here the tendency would be to sub? stitute negro labor in the mills. Ile knew that Gonzales had opposed put ting negroes in cotton mills, he add? ed There was a conspiracy, how? ever, headed by Gonzales, seconded by klemphiil, and with the editor of that "dirt dauber paper over here in Spartanburg." Garlington, a close third to secure the election of Mc? Lanrin Mr. Gonzales was away front Columbia, but that ten year old schoolboy editor had called him a liar He was eighty five miles away, though, when he did it He thought the present '/ten cent" editor of The State was due him an apology for his indecent and unparliamentary lan? guage. In The Headlight Col. Irby is thus reported : "The combination of Neal, Gonzales and EUerbe is to elect one who has been aiding the rich manu? facturers and trusts of the country by attempting to get the Democratic partj' to accept a heretical policy which wili divide the white people of the State into Republican and Democratic parties. If they can ac complish their designs, then we will j have a motley rule in the State, the farmers and laboring: mechanics will be set back again and capital will rule If they shall find it profitable, negroes will be placed in your fac? tories and white men and women and children will be turned out to give place to cheaper and pauper labor r Editor Garlington. in The Herald, thus report Irby : "If this deal with Ellerbe, McLauriu and Bill Neal is consummated you will find negto operatives driving out white from your cotton mills " After completing this correction, Col. Irby said that all the candidates owed him a debt of gratitude. Evans he had made governor. He was his boy and he didn't deny him Evans-I deny you, though. (Laughter ) Col Irby proceeding, denied that there was any combine against ile Laurin ; declared all talk that na? tional issues should be discussed was buncombe, and asserted that the real issue was whether or not a Repubii can party should be started in tho State Coi. Irby proceeded with his usual speech, and in conclusion declared : "If it hadn't been fur Joh rt Irby you people would never have had your new county " ?.Ie explained but for him there would have been no con? stitutional convention, and if there had been no convention then Chero? kee county would never have been formed It was all he could do, he declared, to secure the convention Col 11 by was applauded. Mr. John Gary Evans fe ?ici ted the people ol' Cherokee that the christen? ing campaign meeting should be so weil attended. After a few more congratulatory remarks, Mr. Evans said he war? not going to talk about ? political daddies, for the people were ? not interested in that kind of talk ' "I rome nearer being troy's political I ( daddy than he does mine, for I voted !, for him for United States senator, ; ; and if he bad behaved himself he'd |, have been there yet," declared j Evans. "Ho has been his worst en- j , erny" ^ * j . Irby asked Evans to specify what j , he meant by his iast remark, but the ! , latte: declined to do so, as he didn't j 6ee the necessity for it j | Mr Evans referred to his candidacy last year and said he was defeated on account of the lies and innuendoes i ? told by men who called themselves gentlemen. lie was charged then with having left the office of gover? nor richer than when be entered. "I am poorer to day than when I become the chief executive of this State," asseverated Mr. Evans, ^'one of these charges have been heard since he retired. Mr. McLaurin was ging over the State, said Mr. Evans, crying that a combine had been formed against him, This was nothing but the sympathetic act, Mr Evans averred, for every man in the race wanted the office. This fight was one of princi? ple and one in which Conservatives and Reformers could unite. "If you vote for the man who has turned his back on the Reform movement, you admit that you have laid aside prin? ciple and given place to animosity." said Mr. Evans in appealing to the Conservatives. Mr. Evans then proceeded with his tariff speech and was cheered when he concluded. Senalor McLaurin was not un? mindful of the glorious history of the Piedmont section. He hoped, he said, to represent the State in the senate long enough to get Cowpens battlefield turned into a national park. The question of negro labor in cot? ton mills, said Senator McLaurin, was unjustly dragged into this discussion. It had no part in this campaign. Fer himself he favored white labor, wher? ever it could be employed, in prefer? ence to negro labor. f?e preferred white tenants to negro tenants and employed them, hesaid. Mr. Evans at Spartanburg said he favored a direct tax for raising the revenue for the govornment. Now he was opposed to a direct tax for the only property on which it couid be levied was lands and factories and like property. The income and in? heritance tax had been decided uncon? stitutional by the supreme court : bonds were not taxable, so that the direct tax would bear on the farming and factory people. The danger to fac? tory labor was from the importation of paupers from abroad to take its place He wanted operatives pro? tected from this class of labor. Taking up the tariff bill, Senator McLaurin showed what southern in terests he had been contending for. He had a box of monazite mined near here and explained that the duty he and other southern senators had secured on it would raise the price considerably. In the course of Senator MeLsuriVs speech an amusing* colloquy occur? red. It was started by Mr. Evans, who said : "Look out, Mack, don't cuss." McLauriu-"Oh, I've given that up " irby-"Why, Mack, when did you do that?" McLaurin-"Since I've been as sociating with you I've become so disgusted that 1 bad to give it up." This bit of repartee was enjoyed by the audience and in the laugh Irby and Evans joined McLaurin got off the following epi? taph on Irby : "Jobn Irby is my name, America is my nation, Laurens is my dwelling place, And Evans was my damnation " Note-Col. Irby has a volume of Coogler and may retaliate. Senator McLaurin spoke earnestly and was applauded when he con? cluded Upon Senator McLaurin concluding many of the auditors left, as it was then past dinner time. Mr. Mayfield held the remainder of the crowd for 20 minutes with a hurried exposition of his views on the dispensary and the tariff. In that time he could not elucidate as much as he would have liked but while he spoke he was listened to attentitvely and was cheered when he finished The candidates speak at Greenville tomorrow C.B S. Mrs. A. W. Oakley Kills Her? self. Wife of County Treasurer of Aileen Takes Poison and Dies With? out Explanation. Special to The St;>;e. Aiken, Juiy 30.-Mr's. A W\ Oik ley, thc '.fifo of County Treasurer Oak? ley, of Aiken, died this evenicg at 7 30 of poison. lier h us bi ml had oniy left thc bcu's to go up town for a few minutes and returned ar, 7 15 to 5nd bis wife io. ". dying condition. No ssplanattoo couid be gotten from her ; onlj she said : "Darling I can't stay herc." Thc house was crowded when I snc died, and muco eympatny was rr?rj- j ir >fed for the husband, who suffered j much ?rriT A letter was found 'i;:'.t i stated she v?as tired of living and ask- j d her husband to h>rgiv^ her. There j 3ec:us to be no cause for ?he ac*, as the j couple seemed to enjoy life ar.d were j sound up in each other's affection. Hammocks all S?Z?S and prices.-H. G )3teeo & Co. Murdered at Altar. Senat?ona! Tragedy in an j Alabama Church. _ Montgomery, Ala., July 28.-Tn the First Baptist.eburcb, colored here to-day at ocon, while the State congress of min? isters was in session, Prof. P. H. Patterson, one of the leader of his race io be south,a graduate of tbe Uoiversi tv of Michigan, a teacher in the State Normal college and a highly respected oegro. was murdered at the altar. The tragedy grew out of a bitter factional fight between the local negro Baptists over the expulsion ef Rev. J. T. Brown from the pastorate of a big church for immoral conduct a-tth a member of hi3 Sock. Patterson led the fight agaio him and Rev. A. J. S-okes, pastor of another church, sided with Brown. This morning wheo the Stat?? con? gre?? convened and argument between Stokes and Patterson over the Brown case resulted tn a fisticuff, wheo some negro from the crowd shot and killed Prof. Patterson in front of the pulpit. The entire colored populace is very much wrought up. This afternoon a posse composed of negroes, caotured George Prttchetc, who had gone to the woods. He cen fesses to having done the *hootiog. Preacher Stokes and Brown, Bracy and Brenan and five o'her prominent negroes have beea arrested and a con- j spiracy is alieged to have existed An investigation by the cornor was begun this afternoon but bas not been completed. The grand jary is being held in session to consider the case. Lynching was talked of. hut tonight there is every indication that the Uw will take its coarse. Miners are Waiting. So Far Seige on De Ar mitt's Mines Fruitless. Pittsburg, Pa , July 30.-After a long and weary night of waiting to learn the results of the meetings of the miners of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company, the camping strikers were a disappointed lot of men this morning, for the ex? pected exodus from the Plum Creek, Sandy Creek and Oak Hill mines', did not occur. The miners did not quit work, as they promised to do last night, and all the mines were in oper? ation to day. Until daylight the in? dications were that the strikers had won, but the dawn brought disap pointaient. In the vicinity of the Sandy Creek and Oak Hill mines anxious inquiry was made about Plum Creek. At the two meetings last night the leaders announced that the Plum Creek miners would come out and that no more coal wouid be dug until the strike wa6 won. The statements must have been unfounded, for at 3 30 this rooming the strikers', after making a demonstration at the Plum Creek mines, went into camp at Negly post office, one half mile from the tipple, and they remained until 5 o'clock and left only when they learn? ed that all the rainere had gone in. and that yesterday's work had been fruitless. - mm- WM - JAPAN ACCEPTS. Willing to Arbitrate Differ? ences With Hawaii, Washington, July 30 - The Japan? ese government has accepted the of? fer made by Hawaii tu arbitrate the dispute between the two countries. The state department lias been in? formed of the offer and acceptance. The arbitration will include not only the difficulty over the landing of the Japanese immigrants, but also will include the ocher disagreements be? tween the two countries, the most im? portant of which is the tax im? posed upon Japanese liquor, largely imported and consumed by the Ja? panese in Hawaii. The acceptance of the offer of arbv iration, a brief synopsis of which has j boen cabled to the Japanese minister j here and given to the state depart- ? mont, states that the Japanese gov- j ernment accepts arbitration in prim j cipie and is prepared to enter upon j the terms for a settlement of pending ' dispute?. * The suk tax, of which the Japanese complain, is an increase of the duty on this liquor f rom i o cents to 31 per gallon. This tax '.vas passed by the Hawaiian legislature and vetoed by President Dole on the ground that ; it was unconstitutional, and in Viola- j tien of the treaty with Japan, who \ had tights under the most favored ! nation clause. The tax was passed | over his veto almost unanimously, j only one vote being cast to sustaiu j lite president. Ir you have headache try Gienn Springs Water and you will get relief, at Dr. A. J. Chioa't!. McLaurin Makes Friends. The Sparianburg Daily Herald in its introductory to the report of Toes day's meeting, says : It has long been recognized that this was an important meeting. It was conceded on ail sides that Irby?s strength in this race lies in Spartan burg. The Piedmont Headlight has been devoting ali its space to him for weeks and in every issue recently the Irby voters have been urged to turn out in ful! force and cheer the great .'Commoner. " $ It was thought that a great many would respond, and while McLaurin's friends made not the slightest effort conceding that Irby would have the crowd here, it developed that of those who come to howl McLaurin down, many went home to vote for him. It proved to be a decidedly McLaurin meeting More than half of the one thousand persons present were strongly for McLaurin before the ad? journment, and a great deal of this would have been accomplished if Senator McLaurin Irad not opened his mouth The conspiracy against him was so patent, the means em? ployed so unfair, the arguments against him so unjust and withal the outrageous treatment he received at the hands of the combination oppos? ing him had its effect in his favor. That inherent desire for justice and fair play made those who were in doubt McLaurin's friends. When the candidates attempted to charge that McLaurin was for putting negro labor in the factories, they went one step too far, and instead of having the effect they desired, they made several hundred votes for him As a /hole, the people behaved beautifully, and ' while all were; cheered, all received respectful at? tention. The Governor on Lynching;. In speaking about the lynching problem, which now seems to be agi? tating the whole country. Governor Ellerbe said that he did not think that any crime justified lynching. He thinks the real remedy fer lynch law lies ia speedy calls?of the Courts and immediate trials, with restric? tions preventing appeals from the finding of those Courts cn technical? ities. ? ? ? t ? mt Jas. E. Tindal for President. According to Governor Ellerbe the board of trustees of Clemson College are .to proceed to the election cf a president to succeed Prof. Craighead, who some time ag;o resigned. A special meeting of thc board has been called for the purpose of dis? posing of tiie election. _Frcrn what can be heard it looks very much as if Ex-Secretary of State Tindal is to be chosen. Tbe ly ochers say they seek only to execute justice What- they really do is to wreak vengeance -Atlanta Jour? nal. Dr. King's New Discovery for ConsuMap '.ion. 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