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^fpim t ' 'Mm X WINNSBOKO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1894. NO. 1. HHHBRmrson meeting. ONE OF THE LARGEST HELD DURING P* THE CAMPAIGN. V Evans ?od Elleibe Oo Jor Kuch Otbir k and Ili?lr PHrtlzai-s App'.iuirt Th?m~ ^Tbe Senatorial Cami!d&t? s ate Very Mild. ANDEP.SON, S. V., August. 7.?Two thousand Qve hundred people sat on an i old cotton platform, with a contingent perched in the trees near by, to near and whoop up the day's performance, jfll Ellerbe gave Evans a sheolic drubbing, r and the slight but manifest preponderance of the crowd was apparently in sympathy with him. The two elements were not altogether friendly with esch other, and they howled mutually and all in a jumble in entertaining antagonism. Governor Tillman spoke last, t The candidates, without exception, had & departed, leaving the field to him, tbe reporters and the unanimous, voluble and jolly Tillman boys. About 500, however, of tbe audience had left. The B Governor and the remainder had a royBr al old time together which they enjoyed Immensely. Jcsh Ashley composed ? a large portion of the audience and me was heard voluminously. CANDIDATES FOR THE STATE OFFICES. Gen. Kichbourg spoke first, and was willing to admit that "he was wrong in Permitting his name to remain on P the.Haskell ticket in 1890." k Four or five cheers hailed Gary Watts, who stated that ' he had been 9 criticised and even black-balled for [ doiDg his duty and being a Tillrnanh ite." Next cane Jones, Whitman, Keitt. LYeldell, Wilborn and Gray,in the order .. named, with scintillations interpolated from Joshna Ashley. Gray stated that his own county convention had endors ed his candidacy. THE GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES. Mr. John Gary Evans was made supremely happy by long continued cheers when be was introduced. Evans read an anonymous note inquiring if he had not said or intimated that he would oppose W. A. Neal for re-election to his present oflice. Evans asserted that Neal had come to him and asked him to lead his il?ht lor superintendent of the penitentiary and he had done it, Xow he had heard that Neal wwjr%a him onH /roooirtnotAlr^ u I rff CU3 U^UUil^ M1U1, UUU \|.UUUlVUU)VViJ / A will fight any man that Oghts me." This raised the ire of one Joshua Ashley, standing twenty feet In front of the stand, who insisted loudly that Evans should "return good for evil." Evans: "Josh and [ are together." The crowd howled and counter howled. Josh appeared inflamed and blared sonorously. A citizen near the stand: "You shut ; up, Josh." A remark which he repeated several times with gaudy re(j trimmings. r Finally the chairman begged for i quiet, and Evans explained that Neal had sent him word byNiis (Evan'?) brother that he was not fighting him, and that ho would support Neal, as he had always supported him, so long as he was true to the Reform movement. Evans referred to the fact that JUiler? . /be owned a plantation and store, and v AAh&ntad, a.f JcaiLwhjj have ?_aliLa Ur~ lawyer350hold up yourS;;:>:^ Two K bands were raised (a symptom that law is cheap in Anderson.) "Now." said Evans, "all of you who have paid a merchant $90 or 8100, hold ud yours" and a good sized forest of them rose and the shriekers shrieked. Mr. Evans ended with the usual hand primary on the opening of the dispensary, with the same old result. The entire audience did not vote; it never does. Mr. Evans closet', anu an enormous bouquet hurled from the crawd narrowly missed crushing hioo. Dr. Pope declared that he did not want to be elected if he had to appeal to passion aBd prejudice. This he foi| lowed with hard blows in advocacy of L?-- the constitutional convention, emphaV sizing the necessity of a solution of the negro question by tne passage 01 a limited suffrage provision. He defend- i ed the sub-treasury vaiorously. My friend Evans, said Dr. Pope, makea fun of what I have said. lie talks like he < could grease a man's ears una fallow ! him whole. I'm not this sort of a man. Here Josh Ashley's hands clapped to gether. Mr. Tindai, after gcing in the history and theory of the Iteform move- i y. , ment and impressing the importance : of education, .isserted that he had come into "the race to cringe and crawl be- i + fore no man." He had fought in the i ranks for Reform in the days when its 1 friends were a minority, and now that : ^ all its objects have been accomplished, they talk about turning us old horses out. "I don't believe you are going to WW do it," he said, with a conlident air. B- Touching the dispensary he said, that it should not be a partisan question, : because thousands of Conservatives fVio Iottt ord mornj Uafnrmoro Ijfcposed it. It was not originally a Storm demand. It was a moral ques^Land could not be enforced with gaient divided, but the grpat ma- ; |ki' the pecple were behind ir. mle came to rce two years ago Hce that I was their choice lor ; H| Governor. Jf t have been Bout of the cilice by trump Bled by political workers in the Bn'C help it. - 1 V was introduced and a cheer i Hen rivalling the Evans demon- ] Wm. There were counter cheers i B5ns. Ellerbe promptly began i ^Kpanking process and the Evans : Howd became restive. They jeered. I Sr. Ellerbe repeated his usual attack ! on Evans, but spcke with unusual pow- i er. Ellerte people on the right yelled and Evansites on the left shrieked. I. 'J"De cna5rrflaa auvanceu out .u,uerue H repelled hi in saying: "1 can handle this crowd." The fuss was kept up for ! Eg several minutes,Ellerbe and the crowd 1 A dividing time about equally. Noise ' wm jjrew louder as Ellerbe's lick became Y harder. Joshua Ashley was lrantic I with delight. Evans is making the "i>etsy and the L bar claim,"exclaimed the'speaker. "Gov. ^ Tillman told him at Winnsboro that he had nothing to do with refunding : tbo State debt and now he is going around claiming credit for. Evans interrupting: "Governor Tillman did not say it." Ellerbe, emphatically: 4,IIe did say r it. He is here and can speak for himself." Evans entered another denial. Mr. Ellerbe asserted tbat he had understood that Eyans represented the syndicate in the bond purchase and not the State and that Kvans was to ocircral thAiioonii rinllnrc fnr if LI CUC1 ? O OVfVliU VMVU^MV* ?V? ... Ellerbe alluded to the Governor havtlng attempted to gtt Evans to withdraw from the race, and declared that he would not have entered it had he not been assured that he would not I Jiave to scramble for it. Can you piow?" asked a man. Yes, get a mule and I'll teach you lething about it." (Great cheers.) Khen Evans says 1 withdrew from fcttiance," continued Ellerbe, he ^hrfoes me iejastice and tells &)u were given a demit. I K withdrew." ?ell, why didn't you say next denounced as false I the insinuation that he avoided the Governor during the Darlington riots. "I was at the mansioD." he declared energetically, "1 found Mr. Evans there with the Governor* lie was the scaredest fellow I ever saw In iry life. Ilis face was pale as death. Instead of going to the mansion to defend the Governor and his family he was seeking himcelf" Tha rpmsiinincr remarks of Mr. Ellerbe regarding the Alliance and a variety of other matter?, the public are already familiar witn. Tbe band played and the boys were exuoerant for Tillman. THE SENATORIAL CANDIDATES. Senator Uutler waited until tbeir noise subsided. "When I was elected to the Senate in 1870, I never expected to obtain my seat. I should prefer to have died on the field of battle than to have gone through what I did then with my mouth closed and my hands tied." The Senator declared that he had never been identified with either party in State politics and never expected to. The pipers of both sides criticised his conduct. The Conserva Kr?s3 ti/iihim f^r cton^inrr Lii V UAU LliUIV/iocu ura.1 iv/i owuuuiu^ by his principles of lifteen years held long before the Alliance was born or thought of, in his Gght against the repeal of the Sherman act. He denied the slander that Democratic Senators had been bought. The newspaper reporters and editors, he said, had not done the Senate tariff bill justice and had failed to giye the bill's true purport. Then he declared that the bill was one of tfce best ever presented, and announced Himself'in favor of the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax on State hanks as a measure of financial relief. As Senator Butler drew towards his conclusion there were intermittent cries for Tillmand and sit down. The Senator said he had intended to close, but since they were so impolite as to interrupt him, he believed he would speak half an hour iDnger. (More cries lor Tinman.} Senator Butler began to speak again and the crowd howled. The noise partially subsided and the Senator closed. The band broke into "Dixie" and the crowd cheered. The Governor was introduced, hats waved and the Tillman ovation was given with a vim. It was some minutes before the Governor could quiet the enthusiasm. "I've got a good voice and a brass throat. i"ou can all hear me if you'll sit down." The Governor, defending the August convention, asked: "Vou want for Governor a man as much like me as you can get, who will keep the wagon in the middle of the road. Now, do you want to give the Antis a chance to come in and determine wno of the Reform candidates shall govern you? If that Reform committee, which meets in Columbia tonight, should be so treacherous as to call oil the Reform convention, then you will have to watch and pray, too, to save yourselves." The Governor put in a few words for the nispensary, characterizing its enactment as a compromise between "common sense and fanaticism," and explaining his reasons lor reopening it. The Governor discussed the price of liquor, and said the dispensary expected to sell a cheaper whiskev. SO per cent, itttead of 100 proof at S2. Joah Aahla*: itto us for S1.S0." Tillman: "You shan't have it at that price." (Applause.) The Governor in talking on the subtreasury asked when had the sub-treas* urv ever won.a light. He said the politicians are in league with the Butler men to elect men to the Legislature on the Ocala and subtreasury platform. After they get to the legislature they will vote for .Butler. Voice: 4:liut we have got our eyes open." The -Governor asserted that if Tom Watson an! other Southern le'.ders will Dght right and use judgment, the whole South will be ready to go to the West in a bocy in a short time. The Rnwrnnr said thprf> is a hrihffrv fund of a half million dollars to beat him. The crowd st"?~ted that it could not be bought. The Governor advised the crowd not to let any sub-treasury man who is willing to swallow the courthouse come ia and try to beat him. An Attempted Assault. Lowndesville, Aug. 9.?Oj last Friday night, Mrs. King, a widow, who lives about live miles from here, was attacked by a negro. Peter Burner, who made a desperate attempt to ravish her. Mrs. King lives alone with her small children, Barner went to her house, quietiy raised the window, and slipped in without awaking any member of the family. Before entering he had taken the precaution of removing his shoes so as to reach his victim before an alarm could be given. He wandered about in the house for some time before reaching the bed of Mrs. King. Mrs. King at iirst thought that Barner was one of her children walking about in the house and asked what was wanted. The ne?ro then approached the place from which the sound of Mrs. King's voice came. Barner at once tried to intimidate her by threatening her life if she made an alarm. She caught Barner in the collar of his coat and defended herself bravely. She began to scream and call for assistance. Several neighbors heard her distressing cries and immediately started at Mrs. King's house and demanded the door to be opened. Barner realized the dangerous position that he now was in, and quickly escaped from an open window. Diligent search Is being made for him, ar.d if caught. his body will he suspended from the first tree that is found.?State. Terrible Kartlxjaako. London, Aug. 8.?A dispatch from I tome to the Central News Agencv says that many persons have Jbeen killed and an enormous amount of damage itone to property by an earthquake, which visited Sicily this afternoon. The Home correspondent of the Central News telegraphs this evenijg as follows.- "I'he earthquake centered in the province of Catania. The towns of Fieri, Aci and Tisane wero totally destroyed and great damage was done in Itennissi and Safarana. Fifty persons were killed and scores were severely injured. Hundreds of villagers lied 4'n.tkVk 4-K/.I n K AO i ?"? f K a /i rvA?-V AAl 1 f\ 11 uLi-L turn uuLuc<a iuiu u:o u t_wnntry, abandoning everything. The government oiliciais are sending supplies ami sursreons to the distressed dis trie's." A Voang Murd???r. Montgomery", Ala, Aug. 8?A special to the Advertiser from Opelik.i, Ala, gives an occouot of a deplorable tragedy near that place this morning. It appears that lloll Love, the thirteen year old son of Mrs. Sam Love, had some trouble with Emmett Urooks, the fourteen year old son of Air. Charles Urooks. The result was young lirooks received a load of duck shot in his stomach and is thought to be fatally injured. The father of young Love delivered his son to be authorities. The little fellow does not appreciate the enormity 01 nis oueuse ana faiKeu freely ol" the ditliculty. lie says Brooks cursed him and then attempted to assault him with a heavy stick. The parents of tbe children are neighbors, between whom existed friendly relation.. | THE LAST MEETING OF THE CAMPAIGN HELD AT ABBEVILLE ON WEDNESDAY. Tllniun rb I'rUfcl CupturfM ilia Crowrt. lJatlet'4 Frttbe:lc .Speech?The Gubornatorlel Candidates Have Tlulr U*ual L've'y bat Good d Tilt. Abbeville, Aug. 8.?Down in a sbadv hollow under big pines and poplars. 2.500 to 3.0G0. some say 3.500 people including GOO Georgians lrom Elberton mostly Tillmanites, generally nicely Pressed and well behaved, and many pretty girls, sat and heard the reverberation of the campaign die away. Senator Jiutler did not speak more than live or ten minutes. The Georgia visitors are said to have bean ropuiisis. it 13 certain iney were not i for Butler, or at least theycid not applaud him. TILLMAN AND BUTLER. Chairman Bradley tallied the crowd, begged that Abbeville's reputation be preserved and that attention be given all the speakers. He introduced the Governor, who advanced and began. Not a sound was heard. The Governor, alter a few remarks, observed that he had more friends in South Carolina than any man. (Whoops, short, sharp and loud.) The Governor enumerated whar. has been done by Reform that is of value to the people and State, beginning with the choking of Coosaw into submission and going through other things as follows: Giving the people the right to see candidates before voting for them; making Railroad Commissioners elective by the people direct; reapportionment of the Scate; primary elections; rei'unding the State debr.; building Clemson College and the Woman's College; collection of railroad and bank taxes and maeing corporations obey the law after a hard light; calling a constitutional convention, and, last and greatest, the Dispensary law. The Governor wa3 applauded as he went through this list and spoke strongly and forcibly of the various achievements of the greatest of all movements. Whea discussing the scarcity of money there were many sharp comments by" the crowd. Tne Governor asked what is money ? Voice: "\Ye Haven't seen enougn 01 it to know." (Applause.) The Governor begin to skin and stew Cleveland. Voice: "Jloast the old devil." (Laughter.) Tillman: "I'm just getting ready to give him his medicine." (Applause.) lie was more than usually bitter on Cleveland and Congress and repeated his charges that Congress had been bought, referring especially to corrupt and bought up Senators. The Governor's pet plan of getting the South and West together, politically, was given a good deal of attention by him. He incidentally said that he had seen nobody against him because he was against the sub treasury. He declared that there are hundreds of men mt.be Alliance who will swallow a court housa or anything else to get to the Senate. It was these men who were kicking up all this row. The politicians had always been against him and now have knives up their sleeves fo:" hi n and will con tinue to keep them up there, but his strength lay with the common people and wool-hat boys. (Great cheering.) lie said the Alliance in Georgia followed Tom Watson off and was lying in a ditch with i'sneck broke. (The boys split the air.) "There are some men in She State," 3houted toe Governor, "who want me to get on the Oeaia platform wi:h all fours Some of those men wouldswallow anything to get to the United States Senate." The Governor spoke on m his usual picturesque style and the boys kept up their comments. A young man just beneath the stand got into ah old time camp meeting hurrah and yelled histericallv. When the Governor ended the usual demonstration occured. It was loud. When General Butler was introduced there was some discourtesy to him as, "we don'c want to bear you," "go home" etc. Chairman Bradley asked for quiet and the fus3 subsided. Gen. Butler welcomed the Georgians thanking them for the aid they gave us in '70. lie spoke of his record and declared that his happiness did not depend on his return to Washington, and he was ready to bow to the will of the people, if he was retired without the agency of political rings and cliques. In closing the General appealed to the people that whatever their political differences might ba that the bond which held old soldiers together would not be forgotten. Bis voice dropped low and trembled with emotion and the last words were, "My fellow countrymen, I wish you all the choicest blessings of Gorf." A small cheer followed interrupts with a whoop for Tillman. Sheriff Nance arose just as the Senaf"' unH ronH tho \ llian/?0 IWA T> CiO UtW?iV.iU^ UUU 4VMW fcwv AAIil?UVV demands, asking the Senatorial candidates what they had to say about them. Senator B utler returned and said that he had given his opinions on the demands in a letter to Secretary Mitchell. He thought ali the demands, except two had good Democracy in them. Tillman got up and reviewed his position to these demands, opposing the sub treasury in his customary words and manner, lie said he didn't want any warehouses around to store corn and cotton in norasystem which would give the party in power a million men. The crowd gradually broke after the two big skyrockets had exploded, but 2,500 remained to see the lour Roman candles go off. POPE, KLLERBE, TJNDAL AND EVANS. Dr. 1'ope argued strongly fortheconstitutional convention, and defended the sub treasury as "the best of the Alliance demands." lie criticised thereopening of the dispensaries and declared if respect for the courts was not maintained anarchy would ensue. He attacked the iietorm convention ana exclaimed, "I believe a great deil of prejudice had been injected into the iietorm movement to place certain men in oHice." He closed with a plea for harmony and said that the Antis disliked him as much as they did any of h:s competitors. lie had fought them but had never struck below the belt. As he sat down the shrieKers shrieked "Evans." Eilerbe remarked that the campaign had been pleasant and instructive. He thought is much of his competitors now as when he went into the campaign. lie made his "farmer for Governor" speech and said that all the lieform lawyers were for a lawyer Governor. On this he took a hand primary and none of the one, two or three thousand lieform lawyers present wanted a farmer Governor. Continuing on this line he aroused a sleepy little yell, and another when he desired to come back and meet Gen. Bob Hemphill on the new county <>uestion. He favored the new county. He was in favor of all the Alliance demands and "I'll stick to them," he shouted, as he waltzed off the platform to a carriage. Ellerbe obtained just enough applause to show that the crowd was not unanimous against him. Mr. Tindal referred to a speech he. made last year and talked in his usual vein. ''You've got more votes in this county than you think," said a mar. " "I doubt that .John." said another. Col. Tindal declared that when your own newspapers and leaders begin to slaDder and abuse each other the unity of the lleform party is in danger. He spoke vigorously for party harmony and magnanimity towards the conquered Antis." "Your friend. Mr. Hemphill." he said, "made the insinuation", a mean insinuation, that from iry speech at Hampton he believed that 1 had an understanding with the Antis. I said no such thing." Favorable comments from one portion of the crowd were several times interjected. Col. Tindal made his dispensary argument. Voice?If you are Governor, and 1 believe you will be, will you enforce the dispensary law? "I will to the letter," replied the speaker. (Cheers.) "I believe 1 am the only man who can entorce it," he said, "because I can unite more of the moral forces of the Slate in its support than any other man." (Cheers.) "Trot out little John," was the chorus from the colonels. Mr. Evans came forward and was welcomed with twice or three times as much applause as any other gubernatorial candidate for Governor, but not nearly equal to Tillman's. Evans said this race started out with four horses. Voice: "We have 'em yet." Evans: "No we haven't. I'ope bolted the track, Tindal sees spooks and Ellerbe is sprung in the knees." (Laughter.) He shot a good deal of his ammunition at Ellerbe for attacking him and at i'ope and Tindal for trying to do away with the Reform convention. He asserted that the Conservatives were playing 'possum and showed where they are still alive and scheming to kill the Reform movement. lie referred to Haskell's letter of a few days ago. Senator E^ans said that the peo pie pay merchants more money than they do lawyers aod took a hand primary on it. Voice: "Now ask all who haven't paid merchants what they owed to hold up their hands." (Laughter.) He charged that the newspapers all hate hira. The News and Courier won't even publish his speeches. The correspondent of it told him that it does not print what he sends down. He said that no matter whether the Conservatives like the Dispeosajy law or not it is going to be enforced if it takes the whole State of South Carolina to do it. (Applause.) He said if there is any back down on the Dispensary it is good-bye to Heform. He said the Darlington war was premeditated and asserted that 300 nibs were shipped to Darlington from Charleston on the day before the constables went to Darlington. This was a plain evidence of premeditation. He said, in response to a remark, that he is going to "step into Tillman's shoes as sure as tnera is a tioa la neaven." notwithstanding the newspapers of both sides have been stabbing him in the back. RICBBOURG, WATTS, ETC. Tne small firecrackers entertained the people who remained to see their gyrations. There was a spat between General liichbourg and Colonel Watts. A man in the auuieacs asked Cjlonel Watts if he had always been a Tillmanite. He answered that in 1890 he voted for General Bratton for Govemer. Colonel Watts made the usual charges against General Richbourg. Tne latter answered that Colonel Watts was not at the Executive Manbion when Governor Tillman was in danger and asked why did Governor Tillman relieve Watts of the command of the troops at the Penitentiary and put him (Richbourg) in command? The Governor, be said, had more coniidence in him because he was an old soldier. This ended the speaking,and the campaign of 1894 passed into history, this being the last meeting to be held. THE WEATHER AND CROPS. The Interacting Weekly Balletln ot the State Korean. For the week ending August Gib the temerature deviated but little from the normal, but up to and including Friday the 3rd, a minimum of 50 having been reported from S1".. Mattnews on Sunday; elsewhere the lowest was but 59, while the highest temperature for the week,%, was reported from Greenwood and Spartanburg oa Tursday the 2ad. The week began and ended with cloudy weather and gave only from two to three entirely clear days in the interior, while along the southern coast every day was cloudy or partly cloudy; northward along the coast., in the vicinity of Gsorgetown, there was more sunshine, amounting to about the average. Tne rainfall for the week was excessive, Until the 4th, showers were scattered and although heavy in places not generally so; in fact some portions of the State were dry and needing rain, but during Saturday afternoon heavy showers occurred in many counties and by night of that date a general heavy rain set in, and the rain continued falling steadily, or with short intervals through to Alondoy night at which time the weather still looked threaten ing. The rainfall over the entire State during this period varies from two to live Inches the exact measurement not being available at this writing. The effects of this heavy rainfall on ground already too wet for the l>2st development of most crop3 cannot be fairly estimated but will be rellected 'in the toneof next week's bulletin. Injury is already apparent due to freshets which have submerged large tracts of fertile bottom lands highly cultivated and covered with most promising fields of corn and cotton as well as grass for hay and pasturage, Hillside crops sustained injury fiom the washing rains. During the week cotton has fallen off in condition, or at besf, hal failed to take the gains it should at this season. Few correspondents but that reported excessive shedding of fruit or else growing to we?d and fruiting too little, with a decided yellowish color on light sandy soil that showed an unhealthy condition of the plant; rust also no'.ed in manv localities: manv fields laid by in grass. The falling off in condition is estimated at from 10 to 40 per cent. There are portions of the State where the crop is in the most excellent, condition. Com continues to do well except on bottom lands where it is lireing to the injury of the fodder and possibly to the ear. Fodder pulling will soon become general, but the neither Is unfavorable for curing. Jltcb nai vest has begun in a smail way and the entire crop Is heading very well promising from fa:r to very good yield. Tobacco curing ha3 beguD; the crop is ot very good quality aud ar, least up to an aveaage in quantity. A second crop or' strawberries report pd from Darlington county. liayinjr begun with large cropj In sight- out weather unfavorable tor securing it in good condition. Melons atill plentiful. Cabbages utting owing to wet weather, J. W. Bauer. Director. Columbia, S. C., Aug. Ttb, 1894. TEE POLITICAL PROBLEM. THE RESULT 0F THE GUBERNATORIAL RACE IN DOUBT. The Silent Vote an llokoGwa Quantify?A Prrclcilon an to the Keaalt 1>f Counties? Mavy Schemes KepOrUd Brewing t? Def??t Tillman. Columbia, S. C, Aug. 10.?A few days ago I said in the Register that the man who pretends that he knows who is gomsr to be nominated in the Iteform pnmarips on [Saturday lor Governor was afllictfd with soda water on the brain. I am still of that opinion and believe that he not only has water on the bratn but is full of the new cheap grade dispensary whiskey. I have been In every county in South Carolina since the campaign started and have come in close contact with the Iieform leaders and voters. I have watched the drift of things during a speakiug and have talked with the rank and .rfe. of the Reformers after the meetings'were over. I have done everything possible to try to reach a conclusion of what will be the result on Sat urday. The more 1 talk and the harder ; I try to solve the problem the more enigmatical it becomes. There are so many phases to the situation as it now stands ana so many cojiomations mat it would take a Richard Croker to figure affairs out. I have been vain enough to believe 1 knew something of politics, but I will now surrender that vanity and leave some fellow who has not been out of his county to tell the ; public after it is all over that "1 told you so." At the outset I have nd hesitancy in saying that on the surface theindica- 1 tious are that the Aiken Game Cock is goiog to be nominated, but there is an 1 undercurrent of sentiment and a silent J vote which even Tillman, with all his ! astuteness cannot measure. It is this [ not to be estimated undercurrent which : will cut a big figure Saturday. "Miss j Alliance," as Senator Evans speaks of 1 the Partners Alliance, is at the bottom of this and she is worrying the politicians and the prophets a great deal more than the public imagines. I have , watched the crowd of men after. Governor Tillman got through beratingthe sub-treasury to see what would be the effect of his remarks. I have watched i his band primaries on this subject and have seen what might appear to the ] average person to be the most enthusi- i astic endorsement of his remarks, but ] if any man has looked carefully into a t crowd during one of these votes he I must have seen a l>irge number or old, | sedate and intelligent men who took i no part In the primary and in the hur- i rahlng which invariably followed. In J noting this I want it distinctly under- < stood "that I do not mean to say that these old men will fight Tillman because of his views. I believe that they i love him too well to knife him even ' for the sub-treasury, but they do not ' have the same feeling of love for some I of the younger politicians, and sub- i treasury is going to be felt in the gub ernatorial race if not in the Senatorial. < These old men are Alliancemen and I hold Crmly to the suD-treasury, and < they are the men who CDiiot on election I days. They are the fathers and uncles I oi ltioyouug men who do the hurrah- ' ing. but who do not amount to a great J deal when the time for working arrives. I Oa Saturday you will see these old i men turn out and begin to work. They ' will take some of these same shouters i and vote them just as they please. If i these old men have settled on any par- 1 ticular man or men to vote for Governor you can look out for this man or < ? ? Ar* ~ T , men 10 auuw up uu oaiuiu<vy. j. aui ? giving all this to show at least one ] element of uncertainty in the struggle 1 of- a few days hence. In my own mind I have Ggured out j what candidates will get this almost ] undefined vote, and putting everything , together have made up a-table of what < I candidly believe will be tbe result ] Saturday. No partis m feeling has < guided the make up of the table and I ! have not asked suggestions from any- i body about it. I frankly confess that I the chances of Secretary of State Tin- i dal have puaeled me He is not regard- i ed by tbe public as being in the race, ; but he will show more strength than I anybody supposes. If he had the pri- 1 mary for Governor that lie has asked < for on the stump he would be "in it" to 1 a good extent. Nearly everybody thinks that the race Is between Ellerbe and 1 Evans. This has a tendency to hurt 1 Tindal, because hundreds of men won't < care to "throw away their votes," as it i is called, and will vote for either Ellerbe or Evans. 1 Here are my figures of the counties i each of the candidates will carry. The 1 doubtful counties and the counties ? which will go for Tindal I have put 1 elsewhere. The figures represent the < number of votes tach county will have < in the Reform convention: ] Evans. ? i Abbeville 12 Aiken 8 i Barnwell 12 1 Beaufort 12 Edgefield 12 i Greenville 12 < Georgetown 12 Laurens 8 i Lexington (? i Orangeburg 12 Spartanburg 14 Totals ? i 120 i Eilerbe. Anderson 12 Onester 8 , Darlington 8 ! Fairfield 8 ' Florence 8 , Ilorry (J . Kersliaw 9 Lancaster <? Marion 8 Marlboro 8 X ^ ^ VT UC1 I J w Oconee f? l'ickens 0 , Sumter 12 | Williamsburg 12 York 1U Total ? 142 Mr. Tindal will get the following counties: Clarendon, <5 votes, Chester- . tield, t) votes. The doubtful counties are as follows: Berkeley, 10 votes; Charleston,22 votes; Colleton, 10 votes; HamptoD, t'? votas; Union, 8 votes; Tiichlacd, 10 votes; to- < tol 56 votes. While Charleston is possibly doubtful it will likely get into the ; Evans column and go far toward swell- j iner the vote of the Game Cock. The chances are that a majority of the ot her doubtful counties will get into tiie Ellerbe column. It would not surprise me to see the Tindal delegates hold the balance of power in the Slate conven- < Lion, mere may uut nc luaujr o: mciu, but after all they may have a picnic of their own and on a big scale. Senator Butler offered to bet at Anderson the other day that Tillman will not be the next United States Senator. The offer lie made was $500 to S250. He made tbis offer to a warm admirer of Governor TlllmaD, but St was not taken probably because the man did not hav6 the money at hand. There are hundreds of men, however who stand ready to take all such bets aDd even to reverse jt by betting two to one on Till\ \ * man. I do not know what grounds General Butler has for offering to make such a bet. It cannot be on supposition that Tiliman will not get a majority of the white votes In the State, for he Is cercaintoget that. I have heard a number of suspicious things which make me believe that the opposition to Tillman is counting on beating him in some way make public. They may hope to do this by an independent movement and by a coalition with the negroes. I l-iavo e.i^n heard if. hnnstflrt that Till. man will not be seated if elected to tbe SeDate; tbat a contest will be brought and that he will lose his seat by ltepub lican and Democratic Senators voting against him. Iam absolutely cetain tnat a big scheme fcr the defeat of Tillman outside of the regular channels has already been planned or is being planned. It wilfdevelop before many months. While mentioning the subject of bets I have found that the odds in the betting on the gubernatorial race are offered on Evens, but a good deal of even money is going up, and Ellerbe's friends have been getting more confident every day for the las'; two weeks,. It has been a jolly crowd which has gone tbe rounds of the campaign, and at Abberville Wednesday there was a gederal handshaking and a lot of sincere farewells. There has not been an unpleasant incident in the party from beginning to end, except that between 1 Butler and Till man at Union, and that was to have been expec'el sooner or later. Tbe other candidates have been brothers, dwelling in peace and harmony. The candidates have been kind to the newspaper men and many pleasant and never-to-be-forgotten acquaintances have been formed. Bad luck will be the mistortun ef someof the best and truest men who went arounJ on ' campaign. The newspaper men would wish, if it were possible, that every one of their candidate friends could get an ; office, but as that cannot be they will sympathize with those who are left and congratulate such of the victorious : fellows as they think are worthy to liold the positions they have asked for and have gotteo. W. W. Price. THE CONVENTION [C It Thongt That A Fall State Ticket WW B?Njm?d. Columbia, S, C. Aug. 10.?State polities are getting lively just now. The dull, heavy and uneventful campaign speaking is over now, and the next ten days will witness more real , political campaign work than all the , three month3 just past. The fact is, j Lhe real light is just beginning. It is pretty safe to predict that there Is go- , mg to be no end of fun between now ; and the general election in November, , and no one can tell how It is going to . ind. There is every indication now that . E vans, as stated yesterday,is going to get the Reform convention nomination, without the slightest trouble, on Fhursday next. Tnere is every lndicaLion, too, that the convention is going , ihead and nominate a full State ticket ?the ticket quoted yesterday. The convention is called to make nomina- ( Lions for Governor and Lieutenant Governor only. And thereby will pro- ( bably hang a very Interesting talk? to b? develop9d in the next month or two; . riiere is music in the air. Some ll9form . leaders were talking yesterday, as Reform leaders have not been heard to ( calk for many a day in South Caroliaa. , rhe dissatisfaction over the attempt to ( make a ring nomination has grown to much larger dimensions than any one ] las thought. i The fact is, there is now every indication of a dark horse from the AUi- j ance against Evans, after he is nomi- , aated, if the convention exceeds its du- ( Lies, under the call. The dark horse tvbose name is freelv mentioned, is a ( stronger man than 1'ope, and Pope will , probably step aside if he is put up. J And then again, the Gght from what can be heard, will go beyond tlie State, , Democratic primary and September ( convention and will be fought in the , November general election. The State ' is not at liberty to give what informa- I Lion it has on this matter just yet, but ( it will not be many days perhaps before i It will be known?that is, if anything j it all is done. All the ralk that can be , ieard indicates that such Is going to be :be result, but no one hereabouts of course Is able to tell with positiveness what will come of it. There seems to be a good deal of con- , fusion among the people about what , ;he various political gatherings and ( events scheduled for the next month mean. , Tomorrow the Reform faction of j i,he Democratic party holds its club pri- , maries, to elect delegates?either Eller- j oe, Evans or Tindal men?to the sever- , il county conventions of the Reform 'action, which meet on Monday, to j elect delegates to the State Reform . convention, which meets on Thursday j next to make nominations for Gover- j aor and Lieutenant Governor, for the , lleform faction. In the primaries tomorrow, only members of Reform faction clubs can vote. Then, on the 28th inst., the State Da- , mocratic primary election, to choose ] electors to the State Democratic con- J vent ion in September, will be held. In ; this election, all members of Democrat- j ic party, Conservatives and all, can j vote. September convention electors for the nominee of the Reform conven tion, or ior anyoiner candidates running against his nominee, can be voted , for. When the September convention , meets, composed of these electors, it will make the (inal nomination of a State ticket for the Democratic party of South Carolina. Then any independent or Republican State ticket can come out and oppose the Democratic ticket In the general election to be held in November. In this November election any qualllied voter naving a registration <-.ertiticate can yote.?State. lliicjt; '?y H in Kytbrow. Norkbtown, I'd., Aug. 0.?Frank Supple tfas the victim of an agonizing accident near Merlon Station list evening. He Is the of Mark Supple, and was standing upon a box feeding cows. In making a spring to jump from his perch, his head struck an iron hook used l'or holding the lantern. The sharp point of the hook passd under his right eyelid aud c ime out above the pvebrow, suspending him from the ground. The torn and bleediog flash was strong enough io hold, but he almost fainted from the dreadful torture. Seizing abeam above his head, young Supple pulled his body up so that the hook slipped from the wound. KtOtln MllwituUao. Milwaukee, Wis, Aug. 9.?One hundred police otlicprs, under command of Police Oflicer Johnson, who had been sent to the public square on the corner of E'ghth avenue and Milwaukee street at 8 o'clock tonight to prevent a mass meeting of citizens pro bcztbiug agaiiisu uuu piav/iug \jjl Oluqh ^VA patients in the ho3pitil located In that vicinity, were attacked by a mob numbering 4,000 men, with stones, bricks and clubs, and the the result is a list of twenty liye wounded officers and citizen?, and eleven arrests. Officer Albert Nied.ies had his skull crushed and will probably die. He is the most seriously hurt. - KOLB ME^NS TO FIGHT. HI* R'cent Defeat Denonncrd as Wtoeb rnds Kobb?r7, Birmingham, Ala., Auar. 9.?The conference of Kolb leaders which con vened yesterday liaisbed tneir labors today. They have been consuming on the situation ail discussing a plan of action. The following address to the people was given out this afternoon as the result of their labors: To the people of Alabama: The campaign committee of the Jeifarsonian Democracy and the People's pirty of Alabama have been instructed by a conference of our State candidates, the leading supporters of that ticket and the State Executive Committee to promulgate the following: The election returns as reported by the Associated Press and supporters of the ticket headed by Colonel Oate? s'iow a repetition of the election frauds ol 1892 with less pretext and absolutely without the least semblance of jasti fica ion, in order to overcome legitimate majorities for our ticket in fortyone white counties. The false and fraudulent majorities aggregate 24,107 from fifteen black belt counties. In 10Afl Unlf oAtinHao AOtTu OUC3O 3(IU1C7 UlA^H wuuuica uau i aggregated majorities of 28,669. In addition to this frauds have been perpetrated in white counties of not less than 15,000 With the consummation of these has been alsa brought forth four or five fraudulent elections of Senators and eleven or twelve fraudulent elections of Representatives in the General Assembly. This outrageous action, intensified by the impudence and effrontery with which it has been taken, displays a disregard of public sentiment in such a brazen faced manner that it seems to have been intended to add insult to injury. The 1 under which the election ef 1892 was h^ld, which was devised to assure the prevention of fraud with ease facility and safety, has been amended by the Sayre law, the purpose of which to assure the perpetration of greater wereto disfranchise illiterate voters and frauds in the black belt counties. This has been demonstrated by the election just held, and was known and intended by the usurper who exercises the functions of Governor and was illustrated by his remark when he signed that bill. A contest law was promised to allay and prevent a popular uprising in 1892 to be broken in the most shameful manner, and the perfidy and treachery displayed was afterwards boasted of as a fine piece of legerdemain. We admonish our people not to accept prom? (ses nor pledges from those who have proven themselves recreant to every requirement of law, to every demand of honor and to every r\Y> nf A TPhOTT /"i ??m/"in G t T" Af.Pfl CAAUOIUU UL UUUJ* xuw; that they are enemies to liberty and republican institutions. In the face of the fact that only a few months ago the proposition to submit the election to a State primary was made, In which only white voters should participate, which was afterwards so amended as to meet the supposed wishes of Oate's followers by eliminating white Republicans, which they declined to accept upon a specious excuse that was an after thought and very puerile, combined with the fact that only 42.000 rotes were polled la the Siate primary that brought, out the full strength of that party, they now claim, urge and insist upon the most extravagant and rediculo'us figures as correct and true. The conditions in this State ha7e reached a climax. There is no doubt that the State ticket headed bp Captain E. F. Kolb has baen elected. The alternative is presented of submission to wrong, insult and robbery or to assert the sovereign power before which thrones totter, scepters fall and oatragee of tyrants cease. That alternative must meet a response from manhood or silent submission from those unworthy of citizenship. A proud and chivalrous people worthy of freedom cannot shirk the responsibilities the situation enforces. A distinguished patriot has asserted that the man who will not fight for his liberty is unworthy of freedom. We do not advise fighting or lawlessness of any kind, but the crisis has arisen that the sovereign Dower shall assert itself to compell unworthy servants of its will to submit to Its nower and recognize it? authority. Your committee recognizes that it has been entrusted with certain duties and that its powers are circumscribed; and it feels authorized only in going to the extent of advising and urging those whom it represents to exercise the power invested in them and to hold meetings on Thursday, the 23d of August, at the respective court houses, if not otherwise specified to act upon tnis great crisis and to Insist that manhood patriotism arid love of liberty which has always evoked prompt and decisive action from them shall find expression In their course, that will be creditable to their revolutionary sires and furnish a precedent in our history to which all will ever revert with pride and satisfaction. At the same time and place, we would urge the organization of law and order leagues to uphold the supremacy of that greatest of all law and power?the sove reign will or a iree peopie. upon me adjournment o? these meetings, reports of the proceedings should be furnished immediately to W. II. Skaggs, chairman, Birmingham, Ala. (Signed)?W. H. Skaggs, Chairman Central Campaign Committee; A. T, Goodwin, Chairman Jeffersonian Executive Committee; John VV. Pitts, Chairman Peopl's Party Executive Committee. Went Back on Him. Montgomery, Ala., Au?. 7.? Nearly every County turns up with a heavy loss for Kolb as compared with his vote Qf 1892. For instance, Madison County in 1892 went for Kolb by 298; official returnes give it to Oites by 1,443, a change of over 1,700 votes. Lawrence, another Tennessee Valley County, goes for Kolb by only 1,250, as against 2,135 before. Limestons goes for Kolb by only 153, as against 1,623 in 1892. Tallapoosa goes for Kolb by only COO, as against 2,449 in 1892. In Cherokee bis majority falls 300. Crenshaw went for Kolb 775 in 1892. This year it is very close. Sumter goes for Oites by over 2,500; Damocrai-ic gain of over one thousand; and Macon goes for Oites by 800, a Democratic gain of over 1,500. Henry Oatea' o<vn County went for Kolb in 1892 by over 1,500; tbis year over 500 for Gates, Harbour, official Democratic majority insreased. The smaller Counties go the same way in less degree. Oates' majority will be closed to 40,000. No one places it under 25,000. Legislative returns indicate safe Democratic majority, even with* mif. .Taff>rerun's dAlacation of six. though the prospects are that .Jefferson has gone Democratic. A Mao Trap. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 7.?DeVitt McDowell, a prominent business man and his wife were imprisoned in thetc folding bed Sunday night, caused by its accidentally closing up. /They were extricated with diftlcult^/after being in their perilous positioner several hours. McDowell died yes^rday from the injuries received ancMiiswife is seriously hurt. S * / r < * wno WILL BE GOVERNOR? HOW THINGS STANO AT THE CLOSE OF THE FIGHT. Accordlrg t ) the Columbia Register ud Governor Tl!]m*n the Kac? for nor la Nip and Tack Between Emu and x-ueroe. Columbia, S. C., An*. 5.?-The Roister of today prints the following from its campaign correspondent, Mr. W. W. Price, who has followed the speakers all over the State: The people are trying to figure cut who is to be the next Governor, or rather who is to be the Reform nominee for that place. This now perplexing question will be answered in a lew days by the people of tbe State. There are. going to be some surprises, la a prediction t make Well, the fact and the straight fact is this: The man who says he know* who is going to be the Rslotm ?omine* bassoda water on tbe brain and ' neafcexamioation. Governor Tillman agrees with me. I spent Friday night with him at Clemson College, and in conversation with several persons he said the race ia one with as much doubt in it as -he ever knew. He declared that nobody knows who will be the winning man. He even went so far as" to say that there is a quiet vote in the Reform ranks which cannot be cusssed at and that the weight ot it will be felt. This is the vote which the friends of Elierbe and Tindal claim. It's all muddled. I have now been in ever? ccunty in the State except three, but the nearer I get to the end of my campaign work tha more muddled I become on th'3 q xestion of the next Governor, Oae day I think it 'S going to be Elierbe and the next I think Evans is the winner. I do not believe there will be twenty votes diflerence between them m the Reform convention. It may turn out that Secretary of State Tindal'e friends will hold the balance of power in ' me couveuuuu. Goveroner Tillman made a statement in his speech at Pickens which was understood by some to have indirect reference to General Ellerbe. He vu talking about the efforts being made to change the C ^lleton plant convention to a piimarv and said that the friends of "beaten" candidates were responsible for all trouble. In view of the impression nearly every where that the Governor is a friend to Senator Evans, it is not to ba wondered that the remark was taksn as a slap at General Ellerbe, I remarke-! to the Governor at Clemsoa College that his words had a peculiar sou ad or significance. He said that he had no reference to General Ellerbe, and then proceeded to eaiogiz? ?;uert)8 u one ot the best and strongest men m the Reform ranks. He warmly complimented the Marion Swamp Fox on his Spartanburg speech. The Governor up to now has not seemed to appreciate that the conditions are such at this time that almost anything he may say which is not definite and explicit will be likely to more than one construction. The situation is delicate and I am satisfied the Governor is chafing under it. : Since the Union row Governor Till- \ ; man and Ssnator Burler have let each other severely alone. They were getting pretty "chummy" before that exciting little incident. They med to ride together in carriages and would joke each other on trains and everywhere. They ? *- *-- *? ?? Uam A* yui. to U3 as (fUiUK OS DUUWl mm w cay with each other as tiro-year-old*. Now they avoid each other and to hear one ot them speak yoa would not think he kaew the name of his rival. I beard in Greenville that they refused to ride to thespeaking place in the same carriage together. This may have baen a rumor. At any rate it is not probable that they will reter to each other on the stump again this campaign. Interesting to Stockmen. Colonel Thos. W. HoUoway furnisher?, the following interesting information to raisers of live stock In the State: ? At the meeting of the State Agrlcul- ' tural and Mechanical Society of Sooth Carolina, at Rock Hill, August 2d, Messrs. E. R. Mclver, R. A. Love and W. G. Hinson were appointed a committee to consider and to report upon the feasibility and advisability ot having sales of stock during Fair Week, made the following report, which was adopted: "The committee to whom was referred the resolution to institute auction ctalpq nf livn stnrtlr at the ftnnnftl State Fair, and to suggest a plan for regulating same, beg leave to report tnat they have carefully considered the same and make the following report, viz: " ^ "1st. The committee think it entirely feasible to have such sales and suggest that the Secretary be instructed to have prepared for general distribution as long before the beginning of the Fair as possible a catalogue of all animals to be sold with their pedigree registration numbers, and such other information as shall be furnished by owners of said animals, concerning such animals as may be offered for sale. M2d. That no by-bidding wiu he allowed, but the owner will be allowed to fix a price below which 110 bid will. bs considered. "33. All entries must be made on or before November 1st, 1894. "4 th. That a payment of 25 per cent of purchase money shall be made by such purchaser of an animal as soon as the animal is knocked down to him, and the balance shall be paid within twenty-four hours of close of sale; but -? _ ( the animal shall be at the risk of the purchaser immediately after his bid Is accepted and sale completed. "5:h. That the sale shall take place in the horse arena, beginning at 2 o'clock p. m. on Thursday, November 15th, 1894* "155b. That in order to compensate the Society for advertising the sale, paying the auctioneer and other expense?, no animal shall be entered in said catalogue for sale before the ownor r.iM to the Secretary of the Society the sum of S1.00 for each horse and 50 cents for 6 very other anlmaL and there shall also be paid to tbe Society by the owner of the animal a commission of 2 1-2 per cent, upon all moneys received for sales." Stock raisers throughout the State are hereby Informed that as soon as blanks can be gotton ready 1 will most glady furnish the blanks to all applicants'. Already 1 have information of three horses to be sold incompliance with the foregoing report of the committee. Stock can be shown at the Fair as well as sold. Fell FlveSto*le?. New York, Aug. 3.?Mary Hasea lives a3 339 East S&venty fourth street. Sue is 22 years old. While watering plants she leaned too far oat of the window and &he and the plants and pots tumbled down five stones to the street. She was taken to the Presbyterian hospital internally injured, but will proba* i bly get well. , , .. i