ESTABLISHED 1867.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Dr. Spain kills a negro at Darlington
who reported him for participating in
the recent riot-. In a fight between
strikers and workmen in the Pennsyl
vania coke regions yesterday four men
were killed. 1 lie men who took the
Kims from the armory at Florence have
, lit.-'ii arrested by the military. They
have been paroled and are required to re
port to military headquarters every morn
ing. ihey may sue,out writs of habeas
corpus before Chief Justice Mclver.
Near Clav ton, N. C. , about ten days ago
J. li. Wall committed suicide at the
house of A. H. Gook, his son-in-law.
xesterday Cook took his own life with
the same pistol. -Senator Butler is in
terviewed at length by a correspondent
of tho Charleston News and Courier on
the situation in South Carolina. He says
there was no necessity for the calling
, out the militia. He lays the cause of
. the trouble there to the harsh manner
in which Governor Tillman has enforced
iYia T ti rw i ... .. -- 1 . - f T
of Darlington gives out a rejoinder to
Governor Tiliman in which he contra
, diets him as to several statements made
in his Columbia speech and calls the
Governor's informant as to what oc
curred at Darlington last Thursday as
liar. T!ie Dr. Spain or Payne who
killed the negro at Darlington is not a
resident of that place, but is from Ohio,
Fifteen of the Dispensary constables
passed Florence last night on their way
to D.nlingtou to testify at the coroner's
iii'liiest. They were accompanied by
Mayor Dargan. A messenger from the
United States War Department is at
Florence. Lieut. Shipp, military in
structor at Davis school whips, two boys
with a rawhide, one of them so severely
that he had to be sent to the hospital.
An Alabama negro killed a deputy
sheriff ten days ago and yesterday killed
the sheriff of his county. Two barks
from Rio Janeiro are at the quarantine
station, Baltimore, with yellow fever on
board.
Two Suicides.
special to the Messenger.
Raleigh, April 4. A letter received
to night by your correspondent says
.that ten days ago J B. Wall went to the
house of his son-in-law, A. H. Cook,
near Clayton, and, taking Cook's pistol,
-blew out his brains. To-day at the same
hour Cook told his wife good-bye, went
into the woods near by, and with the
name pistol shot himself through the
brain. No cause can be assigned for
cither suicide. Both men were well to
do farmers.
COMMERCIAL NEWS.
Stocks and Bonds iu New York The
Grain and Provision Markets
of Chicago.
New York, April 4. Business at the
stock exchange to day was quiet. After
' a fairly steady opening the market was
? veakened by a drop in General Electrfc
to 40, a loss of 1 per cent, compared
with the closing of yesterday. The stock
c ontinued weak throughout the day, and
in the last half hour of business touched
nearly 20,000 shares having chaDged
hands. The annual report was not con
sidered favorable and there was a steady
supply of the stock from start to finish.
To put it mildly, the statement was a
surprise to the Street, and the
professionals were not slow to dis
cover liquidation and to take ad
vantage of the selling. Distilling and
Cattle Feeding advanced fractionally at
the'start, but, later, receded to 26, a
loss of 1 J per cent, on street rumors that
tha .case now before Judge Gibson will
be decided against the company. Chi
cago Gas was depressed from 64J to 62,
the elections .at Chicago having been
.eonsidered unfavorable to the company.
Missouri Pacific was again active at 31,
'i and 80. Delaware and Hudson rose
from to 143. The advance in the
latter was attributed to purchases by
contending interests in the matter of the
new stock issue. Stockholders are to act
on the matter May 8th. One division of
the board of directors favors issuing the
new stock at 75 and the other at 100.
London did little or nothing, and the re
. ports of railway earnings for the fourth
week and month of March were accepted
with complacency. In the last hour the
weakness of General Electric disturbed
yiiall holders, who proceeded forthwith
to seiJf resulting in a net loss of to 2 J
per cei2t., General Electric leading.
Delaware and Hudson gained 2f and
Consolidated Gas 1 per cent. The mar
ket closed weak. Railway and miscel
laneous bonds were strong. The tran
sactions aggregated 145,000 shares of
listed and 11,000 of unlisted stocks.
Chicago, April 4. The wheat market
. was in the hands of the bulls to-day.
The trade was treated to fifteen minutes
of intense excitement about the middle
of the session, the result of which, when
added to a gain of lie from Monday's
close at the opening, showed a net appre
ciation of 3c per bushel. .There was a
, 8 'ight recession from the outside point of
I tnv day, but final figures were 2 J to 2fc
j j,;! -fr than Chose of Monday. More re
liance being placed in the crop damage
reports which are being received from
the win ter wheat belt, and an equally
strong a cient for higher prices is
found in t drought which now prevails
in Kansas. California also comes to the
front with reports of dry weather.
Corn had a harrow market.show-
inf more independence in its action. The
strength in w hear- was the only influence
that affected prices. May fluctuated
between 37 Jc and 37$c, the close being
at 37J to 37?c, a net gain from Monday
of to Je.
Oats felt the effect of the general
Btrength shown in the other pits. As
there was no particular reason for a de-
'vne m nrices they held lirm m gym
pati
's- with wheat, corn, and provisions.
i If t . i T . - .. 1
A t- U o cwse axajr was trotc uiguer man
at the sA-'ne time Monday.
Provision were as strong as anything
on the floor. Pork showing signs of con
centrated buying which resulted in a
scare among shorts. Prices were rapidly
. advanced and dossed very near the top.
Lard and ribs sympathized. A strong
i w. v..s1tW1 in ,K advance. Mav
pork closed 52 Jc higher than Monday,
May lard 30c higher and May ribs 27c
higher.
piiheumatism knocked higher than a kite.
Mr J. N. Bucher, Mineral Point Ohio,
" deposes and says: ""I have used Salvation
Oil for rheumatism, and m one or twoap
' plications knocked it higher than a kite.
Twenty Years a Teacher.
Campbells ville, Ky. , I have been a
teacher for twenty years, and during
that time have had repeated attacks of
headache. Now I am entirely free from
them after using Simmons Liver Regu
lator. . It was so mild in its action that
-it never interfered with my school duties.
E. A. Cheek.
A DELIBERATE MURDER.
NEGRO AT DARLINGTON
KILLED BY A YANKEE.
xne Inquest Beun-The Constables
Present Citizens of Florence Ar
restedA Statement. From Sen
ator Butler Mayor Dar
can's Reply to the Gov
ernorAgent of the
"War Department
Present.
Special to the Messenger.
Florence, S. C, April 4. The after
clap has come and Florence citizens will
be made to feel the iron arm of Ben,
Tillman. Of course, no one is surprised
at anything that Governor Tillman will
now do.
.ine military officers at this place in
v""'6 -" iub troops nave received in
structions to arrest all the citizens who
went to the armory and look out the
guns belonging to the Florence 'Rifles,
The men who took the guns went before
Gen. Farley yesterday and made a full
statement as to why they took them, and
it was thought that that would be the
end of the matter, but Governor Tillman
says differently. ' I
mis morning Sheriff McLendon, of
this county, summoned several citizens
to the court house. He made no arrests
at that time. The citizens promised the
sheriff to be there at the hour appointed.
it is reported that Governor Tillman
has been urging Gen. Farley for the nast
two days to make these arrests, but he
staved it off. Gen. Farley left the city
this morning for Bishopville and left his
adjutant, Col. W. G. Evans in com
mand. "
The investigative to-day was in charge
of Col. Evans and he informed Messrs.
Jti. a. Douglas, merchant: F. P. PnwW
merchant; T. E. Wallace, merchant; E.
J. Pendergrass, clerk and J. W. Ham
mond, editor of the Florence Messenger,
that they were then under arrest, s Mr.
r"awley asked Col. Evans in what way
was he arrested. He told him imW
martial law and that they were released
upon their own recognition, but most
not leave the city and that they must re
port to the commanding officer as the
balance of the militia, butwould only
require it onoe a day. What the next
step will be cannot now be foretold.
lhe troops are still in Florence, and
are likely to remain here throughout this
wee., xnose oi mem wno came pre
pared are faring first-class and enjoying
it, while those who were not so lucky are
perfectly sick and tired out and want to
go home. 'They are given thirty minutes
out of every hour, however to take in the
town. Those who are held on duty have
kept the business portion of town lively
with their boisterous singing, and every
time they get a chance they yell put like
a crowd of backwoods negroes.
There has been almost a cessation of
business in Florence since Friday. It
seems as if no one wants to do any busi
business, but, on the other hand, stand
around and exchange views on the situa
tion. Trouble has been feared here for Dar
lington all day, as the inquest began
there this morning and it was expected
that the spies would be sent back there
to attend the inquest. The cool-headed
citizens of Darlington, it is understood,
have arranged for all the spies to return
there to testify but will not submit to
the idea of letting McLendon, the slayer
of Norment, return there. Should he
plant his carcass down in that city there
is little doubt but what it will be riddled.
At any rate, it will be well for the Gov
ernor to keep his pet spy away from
Darlington or Florence. The citizens of
these two towns are determined that
justice shall be given to these fugitives.
The last gun belonging to the Florence
Rifles that was in the possession of the
citizens was turned in to-day and we are
in hopes that Ben Tillman is cognizant
of the fact.
This afternoon Dr. Payne shot a negro
named Sam Green at Darlington, the
trouble grew out of the fact that Green
sworn before a trial justice that when
the dispensary at Darlington was broken
open Saturday night he saw Dr. Payne
and young Jim King, who is the assists
ant bartender for the Darlington dis
pensary, coming out of that place with
some liquor. . Dr. Payne upon hearing
of this, said he would kill him and went
to the Enterprise hotel and called for
Green, who was one of the waiters. . Dr.
Payne asked Green if he had sworn that
he saw him (Payne) coming out of the
dispensary. Green replied "yes," when
Dr. Payne drew his pistol, "put it to
Green's breast and fired killing.Green in
stantly. The ball tore his heart out. As
soon as the affair happened a company
of troops that is stationed at Darlington,
went in double quick march to the En
terprise hotel, arrested Payne, took him
to jail and locked him up. The shooting,
it is said, took place in the dining room
of the hotel.
Dr. Payne is not a resident of Darling
ton, but lias been stopping there for a
sort while. His home is in Ohio.
Everybody regrets the shooting, es
pecially so at this time, when there is so
much excitement in these two counties.
Still, the shooting had no connection
with the trouble at Darlington that has
been existing for the past week.
Our people are anxiously awaiting a
completion of the testimony in the coro
ner's inquest. They want to hear the re
sult and are anxious to see the time come
when the troops will be called in, as it
makes the blood boil in every Floren
tine's heart to hear the beat of the drum
and the step of military on our streets
when there is no necessity for it.
Fifteen of the spies passed through
here from Columbia going to Darlington
to-night to attend the coroner's jury in
the morning and testify. Chief Gaillord
was in charge of them. Mayor Dargan,
of Darlington, and E. K. Dargan, of the
game place, were along with ' them.
Mayor Dargan has promised that there
shall be no trouble if the spies would re
turn and testify. The coroner's -jury
hold their meeting at the Atlantic Coast
Line station in Parlington, and no one is
allowed to go about the station except on
railroad business.
A messenger from the United States
r
War Department is here. It is supposed
he was sent here at the direction of Gov
ernor Tillman.
At 12 o'clock, midnight, everything is
quiet.
By Southern Press.
Darlington, S. C, April 4. At the
Cleveland house here to-day, Dr. Spain
shot and killed a negro cook who had
reported him as being one of those who
were concerned in the disnensarv trana-
' action which caused the recent riots. Dr.
Spain was at once arrested by a squad of
soldiers who were in charge of the hotel
and taken to police headquarters. Every
thing is now quite and there is apparently
no danger of further trouble. Two com
panies of militia marched double quick
from the camp, however, for the pur
pose of thoroughly policing the city.
Darlington, S. C via. Florence, S.
C, April 4. Everything at the seat of
war is perfectly quiet There is a spirit
of unrest at the nossihilifv nf fmnhia u
the inquest over the two dead bodies
is about to be held this morning A de
tachment of troops has just reported to
act under Mayor Dargan's orders. - No
one excepting those directly interested
will be permitted to go near the railroad
station where the inquest is to be held.
The constablese expected to arrive
here some time during the day, but the
time and place of their arrival is not
made public for good reasons. It is
thought that the constables will be per
mitted to testify without interference
and then can go home. The citizens
have pledged that the men will not be
molested.
Gen. Richbough gives the News and
Courier correspondent th rvura that th
troops will probablv leave here. Ratnrrlnv
or Sunday. There are quite a number
of visitors here for the inquest.
a ? FIVE (pITIZENS ARRESTED.
Florence, S. C. Am-il 4. The citi
zens of Florence were greatly startled
this morning by the announcement that
the men who took the guns from the
armory here Friday last and Darticinated
in the pursuit of the constables would be
arrested by the militia. The disposition
was.
at first to resist, but the mild
methods adopted bv the nffiiwa
induced the men to acquiesce in
the action taken. The men who took
the guns were summoned to the
courthouse, where Col. N. G.
commanding in the absence of Gen. Far
ley, had established his honnarfarc
They assembled there about 10 o'clock
a. m. and conferred with Col. Evans and
Maj. Joseph Wardlaw. Thev
for their names and a roll was made.
The roll was then read with the request
that those who had entered the armory
and taken guns would respond as their
names were called. , The following five
men responded: E. T. Douglass, T. E.
Wallace. J. W. Hammond. J.
gast and E. P. Pawley. all of whom are
merchants. Col. Evans marin
short address. He - said that mar
tial law was in force and that he
was ordered - to arrest these gentlemen
under it. As it was not desired to in
terfere with their business, he would
place them on parole not to Ipava thp
city limits and required them to report
to Maj. Wardlaw every morning at 10
o'clock. The citizens held a con
sultation with lawyers and no steps have
yet been taken to oppose the action of
the officers. It is Dossible.
mat, ftuieus vurpiis proceedings may
be begun before Chief Justice Mc
lver. This will largely depend,
however, upon the action of the
4-Ui- ' i.
officers and the manner in which the
arrested men are treated. The tents of
the militia have arrived, but them is a
yet no disposition to pitch them. Indi
cations are that the force may be with
drawn before the end of the Wfipk and
possibly sooner. Gen. Farley went over
to Bishopville early this morning. It is
thought that his visit mav have some
connection with the action of the Bishon-
vine iuues m eoinsr to Darlington when
ordered and turning straight around and
going home. .
SENATOR BUTLER INTERVIEWED.
Charleston. S. C. Am-il 4. Th fol
lowing is the full text, of Senator But
ler's statement made yesterday to the
conespondent of the News and Courier,
touching the unhappy trend of affairs in
South Carolina, and explaining the
cause of the recent bloody work in Dar
lington county. It is a true review of
the whole trouble, and is a sufficient
answer to the misrepresentations made
by Governor Tillman in his speech at
Columbia yesterday.
senator Butler said:
"I came down from Darlinarton this
evening, where I have been the past
twenty-four hours. As far as I could
learn, everything is perfectly ouiet. The
civil authorities are prepared to dis
charge their duty. It seems that a num
ber of State constables, or spies as they
are called, had been in Darlington for
the purpose of ascertaining if there was
contraband . whiskey there. In the
searches which they made they were
supported by the mayor and civil author
ities of Darlington, and there was not
the snghest resistance to the enforce
ment of the Dispensary law. On the
contrary, the people of Darlington co
operated with the enforcement.
"This was prior to Thursday, March
29th. It appears that the force of con
stables or spjes was increased on that
day by a reinforcement of about eighteen
men, armed with Winchesters and pis
tols. Why this reinforcement of armed
men should be sent into a peaceable, law
abiding community, where there had
been no resistance to law, I -cannot
understand and I think the authorities
will have difficulty in explaining it. It
also appears that this armed band were
about to retire from that community,
where they had not been " molested or
disturbed, when a personal difficulty
arose between two young men at the rail
road station where these spies were. The
difficulty, from what I can learn, was en
tirely a personal matter between the par
ties engaged, and in no way connected
with the execution of the Dispensary
law. One of these armed constables
McLendon by name, interfered in this
private difficulty. A citizen, Mr. F. E.
Norment, who went to the depot on busi
ness, made some remark and there was
an exchange of epithets between him
and this constable, whereupon the con
stable open fire upon Mr. Norment with
the remark 'G d- it, boys, let her
roll.' The firing then became general
between the armed constables and the
few persons who appear to have been at
the station by accident or on business.
The result of this firing was that two
young unoffending citizens were slain,
one constable killed and this man Mc
Lendon badly wounded; -several other
citizens were shot and the chief of po
lice, who was trying to preserve order,
several times wounded. '
"The people of Darlington were natu
rally indignant at the extraordinary and
violent measures adopted by the au
thorities of the State, and upon the in
formation of this emute at the station,
they turned out and pursued the men
whom they rightfully thought had com
mitted a wanton and unprovoked mur
der upon two of their best citizens. They
pursued these men, I take it, as long as
there was a prospect of arresting them,
and we must assume of bringing them
to justice for" what they considered
an unprovoked . homicide. As a
proof of their conservatism,' the
wounded man, McLendon, who had
shot Mr. Norment, was taken to the jail
and there protected from further in jury ,
although the people of the town were
greatly infuriated at bis conduct, I
think it can be safely asserted that there
is not a more law abiding, intelligent
community anywhere in the United
States than in the two counties of Dar
lington and Florence. "Now it would
eem to me that if I had been Governor
WILMINGTON, N. C, THUES DAY, APRIL 5,
of the State f South Carolina I would
have felt it to be my duty, upon being
miormea or the occurrence at Darling-
w uave gone promptly to the scene
7 . ua,Qce &na assured the people of
thaf 'hitherto law abiding community
that they should have fair play. I think if
i T hnan had done' this, matters
wuiu nave oeen composed in twenty-
jour hours and whoever should have
peen proven to be at fault would have
been made amenable to the law. In
stead of that, he issued a proclamation
denouncing the good people of these two
youiiues as insurgents and insurrection
ists, and ordered the military of the
State to camp upon them. .During my
Dwtjr l jjarungton l was deeply im
pressed with the anxiety of both citizens
&uu me mmcary to teep within the limits
of the law. I advised, so far as I had the
rignt to advise, that under our form of
tiovernment the military be subordinate
w uie civil power and the use of the mili
tary arm was only lustifiable when the
civil authority was proved to be power-
Aeoa auu paralyzed. And 1 think if Gov
ernor Tillman had or would recognize
this constitutional relation of the two
powers of our Government, he would
avoid many of the mistakes which he
haajnade.
"There are two ways to execute any
lav.- The one by wisdom and conserva
tism and firmness, and the other by
harshness, violence and an unreasoning
disregard for the feelings of the citizens.
I need not now express my - opinion - In
regard to the Dispensary law, but I may
say that in my judgement the Governor
is attempting to enforce it in a harsh,
violent and ill-advised manner. He
ought to know that the Anglo-Saxon,
particularly in our day and generation,
will not submit beyond a certain point
to be harried, repressed and pursued.
"The Constitutions of the United States
and of this State guarantee the citizens
against unreasonable searches, and there
is nothing in the Dispensary law that I
know of which justifies an invasion of
mis sacred right. Governor Tillman
must not imagine from the patience and
submission of the people in the city of
Charleston, where he seems to have prac
tically unchallenged sway in the harsh
execution of this law, that the people out
side of that city, less "accustomed to the
restraints of municipal government, will
quietly 6ubmit to this invasion of their
rights, and it would oe the part of pru
dence on his part to go slow in the rigid
cmuiwuiem or a very unpopular step,
couragmg in the slightest degree lawless
ness or resistance in any form to lawful
auj;hrities. The people of Darlington
"uuiu uui ue understood as en
i iufeucs, as a ruie, nave not resisted
the lawful authority. They may be ex
ceptional instances as there are in every
community, but they do not justify the
wholesale denunciation which he seems
so nave put upon them. From what I
observed in both of these counties, there
his uuL ueen tne least excuse or justifica
uon tor ordering the military to these
points. He has done so at an enormous
expense to the tax payers of tfie State
ano, or course, he will have to look out
ior tnat.
"While in Darlington I advised, as far
aaiuau me rignt to advise, that the
friends of the deceased who were killed
in the emute at the railroad station go
before the trial justice, make affidavit
charging the .accused parties of. -the
ouence wnicn they thought they were
guilty of, demand the issuance of a war
rant, let the same bo placed in the hands
or a ouiy authorized constable or citizen,
and where the accused has filed the
jurisdiction of -A . warrant, that it be
sent to the sheriff of the county
where they are found, endorsed and
served by him so that the parties might
be arrested according to law, required to
appear, gives nond and answer to' the
charges in the due course of judicial ad
ministration, it resistance should be
made to the constable of the trial ius-
wee auu un snouia iau to mate the i ar
rest, he should be required to endorse
such iailure on the warrant and then
only, the civil authorities should call on
the military to act as a posse for the ar
rest of the accused.
I see by the papers that Governor
xuiman in a note to Capt. McCaughrin,
of the military company, has stated that
the duty of the soldier, and the militia
are soldiers called into service, is blind
obedience to the orders from his superior
auu not to question mem in any way.
lo my mind, this proposition is simply
monstrous and is not true. No officer is
bound to obey the order of his superior
wnen tne oroer issued is illegal. Noth
ing is better settled in military law
than that. Suppose the Governor
had ordered Capt. McCaughrin to fire into
a cnurcn ruled with women and children;
suppose he had ordered him to set fire
to the town of Columbia; suppose he had
ordered him to throw a railroad train
full of innocent passengers from the
track. According to his theory, he
would have to obey, and yet if he had
obeyed Capt. McCaughrin and his com
pany could have been arrested, tried and
douDUess convicted of murder, of arson.
or or incendiarism, and the order of the
superior officer, the Governor, would not
have protected him. This shows how
wild and untenable and absurd is his pro
position. I repeat, no officer can be com
pelled to carry out an unlawful order of
his superior officers, and if he declines to
obey it, the only penalty he incurs is trial
by court martial. I would not advise
any officer or soldier in the military ser
vice of his State or elsewhere to acts of
insubordination or disobedience of orders,
but they are as amenable to law
as other citizens, and should neyer
forget that they are subordinate to the
civu power of the Government. We
have had a recent example of how sen
sitive the officers and soldiers of the reg
ular army are at Denver, Col., where
uen. McvooK, oi the regular army, re
fused to interfere at the instance of Gov.
Waite, saying that he was present with
his troops as preservers of the peace and
could only interfere when the civil pow
ers are paraiyzeu. rnis, i tnink, would
be a safe rule for the military of this and
an otner states.
"Governor Tillman has ruthlessly and
wantonly insulted this gallant young offi
cer of Newberry. There is, and can be,
no justification for such cruely. Capt.
McCaughrin is a gentleman and exer
cised the right which every soldier has
of tendering his resignation rather than
serve under a braggart or an incompe
tent superior officer. He has a right to
exercise this privilege at all times and
the exercise of the right does not justify
or excuse this wanton insult, from his
superior officer. I can't comprehend
what Governor Tillman means by his
wild and reckless conduct. The think
ing people of this State of all factions
are tired of dissension, wrangling, and
of his fire-alarm, pyrotechic style
of Government. It is having a bad ef
fect upon the material and social inter
ests of the State. It is making us an
object of ridicule and a by-word with all
enlightened, intelligent people. We want
repose, quiet, peace, order. And it will
not do for him to say that these disturb-
i
Highest of all in Leavening Power.
ABSClHBEttf P2JE3B
ances are brought about by an oligarchy
or an aristocracy or ring. He has had un
disputed control of every department of
the Government for nearly four years
M very 8tranS that all of thes
disturbances and dissensions and
t, wangling and "blood-
STIn-8?ld "BP from his own
administration. Does it not argue , that
there is something rotten, radically
wrong, m his administration? The peo
ple of, this State are not felons or outlaws-
! As a rule they are conservative
sT"abudlng PP'9 of all factions,
i. T i ', they arose m their power and
hurled from the administration of the
btate Government officials who had
brought disaster and sorrow upon the
A"ey are long suffering and
patient and he ought to stop and think.
He ought to call aroand him in council
the most prudent
OI all factions. Nnhrr uTor,fa rt fl l
him an any honorable ' effort he
may make for the general wel
fare Of the Wholft iwinlo TTa . U4.
know that he cannot run rough shod
over the people or any part of the people
of the State. He says he represents a
iajuiiiy. jjoes ne mean to have it
ln-
iciieu. irom tnis that h vrill
trample on
IT , minority and ignore
thenar Is he prepared tn admit th?
or three or a dozen newspapers can pre
w?., i3 doiDg i118" to all the people?
Will he say that the newspapers can
drive him into extreme and resentful
measures? I should be very sorry to see
the Governor of this State in that posi
tion. 1
'Why does he continue in hi eflwta
to array class against class, country
aKaiusgtown? Why will he appeal to
the passions and resentments of the peo
ple ratter than to their reasonr and wis
dom add forbearance one for the other?
Weardone people, with Pmmnn ,
terept and a common fate, and it be
hooves him. as it hehrvwoa oil , ,i j
patriotic men of this State, to keen cnnl
to obeyjthe law, and to respect honorable
differences of opinion, one for the other.
J.here is no occasion for the disturbances
now existing in this State. There is no
occasion to call on the military. Let
send them home and administer the laws
in mercy and justice, and my word for
it, all will be well.
"I see by the papers to-night that Gov
ernor Tillman proposes to issue a procla
mation taking charge of the entire police
force of the State. How he can have
the effrpntery to do this when the last
Legislature, representatives of the peo
ple, refbsed to give him that power in
terms, 1 cannot understand. Why he
should desire to destroy home rule and
local self-government, the very founda
tion of ur people's institutions, is equally
iiu ueiter leave to each
community the right to govern itselt
according to its own exigencies, subor
dinate of course, to the narammint nnnror
and authority of the State. If he does
this; if he does take charge of the police,
he will add fuel to the flame and may
precipitate bloody collisions and inflict
endless harm and injury upon the whole
State. Let him attend to his own con
stitutional duties and leave th
govern themselves. He is not wiser than
all the people nor more patriotic than
the majority."
MAYOR DARGAN'S STATEMENT.
Darlington. S. C. Anril 4.
Dargan has made another statement for
publication, this one in reioinder tn
Governor! Tillman's speech. It is as fol
lows:
"You khow the Governor is a noli-
tician and he is making campaign
speeches. When a politician gets in a
hole he naturally tries to get out of it,
and if he has made a mistake ho ia thn
last man under Jthe sun to honestly own
it. He tres to put it on some one else.
There are one or two inaccurate state
ments of his which I do not like to pass
over without, correcting. Ha
speaking I of the constables, that
they had; ben sent here because
the mayor had udov. them to be in
sulted and cursed to their faces. If the
Governor was so informed that I, as
mayor, had allowed that, his informant
is just a liar. This is the first informa
tion I have ever received of such a fact.
He says again, tw boys, mere striplings,
got into a fight, and some fifty armed
men went to the depot and picked a
quarrel with the constables and men on
both sides were killed. I dbn't know who
informed him of this fact, but whoever
did so just lied and knew he lied
when he gave such information.
Again, he Bays the fault cannot be
clearly placed and possibly never will be
known. As to that, the Governor is a
very badly informed man if he lays that
flattering unction to his soul, and I ven
ture the prediction that he will find the
fault clearly placed and that it will be
found that the constables simply did
everything else but their duty.
xou will hnd 1 never said, as he states.
that the Governor had exercised power
that no Governor had ever attempted.
but I say it now, and I think facts well
known to the people of South Carolina
bear out my statements; but what
I did say was that Governor Tillman
assumes that his spies have privileges
that are not enjoyed by any other citi
zens of this State, etc., and, I will add,
privileges that even he does not enjoy. I
notice that the Governor tries to get in
an April joke. Well, I hope he enjoyed
it. It does look a little funny that after
all this fuss and feathers the Chief officer
of the State would march his troops up
the hid and then march them down
again. Well, that is a joke we have en
joyed very much inthese serious times,
out it does look funny that the Governor
had his friends go to so much trouble to
try and get his constables out of the
hands of the people who were not trying
to find them. . .
" Well, they did not find them, and I
reckon it is a good thing they did not.
because had they done so, possibly some
good citizens would have had to die be
fore the spies bit the dust. I notice that
he asked the question: 'Why did they
not lynch the man they had in their
power, who was admitted to be in the
rowr l answer, because we are not
lynchers; we are not cut throats nor rob
bers. We are South Carolinians and
fight a man as long as he is up. but we
never hit the man that is down. We
don't fight that way, and that is the rea
son that the man was not lynched.
'L Know pretty well what Goyernor
Human wanted us to do. I understand
him very well. He is not the first poli
tician l nave seen. , The tiovernor would
have liked ur people in their raere to
have murdered this man McLendon, who
I am informed, boasts of the fact that he
has killed three other men. He "would
have liked for us to have destroyed the
dispensary, because then there would
have been two facts which he could
have pointed to : as iustiflcation for
his unprecedented course in 'this
whole, matter; but thank God our
people are not that sort. They are made
oi ourerent stun from what he imagines,
and we congratulate ourselves to-day
that the man McLendon, who, I am sat
isfied it will be shown, brought on, this
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bloodshed, having been shot down and
thereby disabled from matin
and thw. T? . rr1!
r """"" "jw our nanus helpless,
has been treated as all j helpless men
are and . as wounded enemies
o vy civilized people. This ac-
"Uli BUU1US OUt in ft igfurtli'nn
striking contrast to the action of his
..ucgeu Qune omcers, who, it appears
ifV6 podT of lor
-i ff . ' , wr- ne 1 was o-own, in
four-different' places with w;ui.-
rifles and shot our chiAf r.f t.h
?8haTnf . hl? dut7 This was enough
to fire tie blood and make even 'an in
fant s smews strong as steeL' But cool
heads were here possessed by men who
were not politicians and reason had full
sway. i
"I know now after that
Governor's that he wanted us to destroy
State property; but I am thankful to sav
that it with all other property of the
town of Darlington, has been protected
yT"5 . J Wlsn tnat i the lives of
Rerv were as .well pre- I
The Governor is a curious kind of in
drviduaL There is one peculiar and
striking thing about him. i He judges
everybody by himself, When he waite
information about anything he never
goes to the man who is charged with
knowing the state, of affaire unless
that man, is eitheir a hireling
of,.; one of his own peculiar
political faith. He would take informa
tion given him by a bootblack if he be
longed to bis party rather than the in
formation furnished him by the officers
of a place. In the commencement of
this matter, if the Governor had not
been judging me by himself, had he
wished information nhnnt tho e
Darlington, had, he addressed his com
munications to me, who have charge un
der the law with the administration of
affairs of the town, likn ho hQa tu u
affairs of the State, he would haye been
informed accurately and truthfully of
the situation, but instead of that
it appears from telegrams I saw published
that he gave full credence to his
hireling, a dispenser over ! here, J. B
Moyd, whose knowledge of affairs of
this town is absolutely as nothing If I
could, not have been relied on, or if he
had information that from my character
and standing he could not trust me to
give him reliable information, surely he
could have sought it from some gentle
man of standing and respectability in
this community. He did not choose to
do so, and that occasions his many mis
takes and blunders in this matter
?e if friShtened by all this bluff
and bluster of the Governor's; and no
one fears him or anything he can do,
except Tillmamtes. I think they' are all
very much afraid of him. I do not
think anybody else is"
Columbia, S: C April 41 The Gov
ernor was called upon to-day by three of
the citizens of Darlington with whom he
vacuuvci me situation in that.citv.
JNo promises were made, but as a result
fr .. , """"i "e troops now in
Darlington will be returned to their
homes Friday morning if the condition
of affairs there remains as tranquil as it
is apparently at present. f
Contest Between Florida's Sena tors
Washington, April 4. The Senate
consumed two hours again to-day in an
effort to dispose of the nomination of
Henry W. Long, to be register of the
Florida land office. No voting quorum
appeared and the Senate adjourned as it
did yesterday, with the case still in
statu quo. The vote was taken on
Senator Pasco's motion to recom
mit' the nomination to the com
mittee, but Senator Call land his
followers who are in th
fused to permit this to be done. Senator
Pasco insisted that the man j be given
another hearing before the committee
and Senator Call asserted that it was
Hllrrimant t-n. AT i. 1
. - i """ win me nominee was
his bitter political enemy and that the
nomination had been made as a personal
affront to him. This led to some warm
words between the two Florida Senators;
but nothing approaching the sensational.
A Negro Kills Xwo Officers.
Mobile, Ala., April 4. A special to
the Register from Repton, Ala., says: J.
D. Foster, sheriff of Monroe county, was
shot and killed at Monroeville last night
byra negro, Wyatt Tait. The sheriff
wim a posse of men went to Tait's house
to arrtst him. He was secluded in the
woods nearby and shot the sheriff as he
approached the building. This negro
"""u Jtuieu ueputy snentt vvm.
. .r,1 owul "su uays ago. The negro
is still at large, heavily armed with pis
tols and a Winchester rifle with a full j
supply of ammunition. . i
Brutality to School Boys.
Winston, N. C, April 4. At the Davis
military college, to-day, Lieut. Shipp
gave Cadet Reider a whipping with a
rawmue, mulcting injuries that caused
young Reider to be sent to the ! hospital.
The trouble arose through Reider cursing
and striking Cadet Martin with a rock.
Martin received a painful blow. Lieut.
Shipp also gave another cadet a thrash
ing for criticising his action in Reider's
case. Lient. Shinn is a United Rtata
army officer, and controls the discipline
Rhode Island Election.
Providence, April 4. The ! Republi-
laiLu mo eieunon oi rsrown oy a
plurality of 1,500, and a majority of over
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JrcMDS o 0Iiver English in
u county is the second lynching
m the State this year. During 1393
there was not a single lynching. It ap
pears that English was hanged to an ap
ple tree in a church yard, after haying
been allowed time for-prayer. The
lynchers are spoken of as having been
"very gentlemanly."
it was current news here last night
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All Ithe liquor dealers, save three are
id to haye left ' Durham '.a!S
said
Piiun afc una term of court. There
are about seventy-five cases agaS
them, mainly on charges of selhnt tn
Shuford, it appears, so had , business
away from Durham. eas
The owner of the new Academy of
Music here tells me he will close itf It
seems that he does not like the HMftf
TMrvnftni 4- a. a 1
u yo keeP1DS open a theatre.
lhe Supreme court again decides
against the boaid of education of LW.
lm county, m the case in which the lat-
k0"' a11 the school taxra
disbursed directly, pro rata, fronTthl
cotiSeaSUry' m8tead f thrughthe
The Grand Council of the Royal Arca
mum meets here May 3rd, and its head
quarters will be at the Park hotel. The
Kaleigh councd now has 250 members.
Deputy Revenue Collector W. C. Trov
wS? W116 re of the 50-gal-lon
illicit, distillery of William McKay,
near Fayetteville. y,
At Wake Forest this afternoon Mr. H.
G. Holding, off Knoxville, Tenn., was
married to Miss Elmer T. Davis, of Falls
of Neuse. They left today for Knox
ville and upon thir return Mr. Holding
will take charge of the Falls of Neuse
paper mills.
Mr. Baird, of Darlington, S. C, is here
on some business connected with the in
surance of Mr, Norment, who was mur
dered there by Tillmaa's spies. Mr.
ru was at the depot when the now
famous battle between spies and citizens
occurred.
Many persons who had been spending
the winter at Southern Pines were here
to-aayen their way to their northern
homes;' --. . -.. ,.....,
Chairman Wilson, of the Railway
Commission, will devote some tinfe to his
inspection of the various roads in the
eastern part of the State.
As yet the place at which the Third
and Fourth regiments of the State
Guard will encamp this year has not
been chosen.' The annual appropriation
does not much more than suffice to cover
the expenses of transportation. Aid will
therefore have to be given by citizens of
the place at which the encampment is
held.
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shiner, made a daring escape yesterday
from a deputy marshal who had him
under arrest. Carter sprang from a win
dow of a rapidly running train, yet was
not hurt and got away easily.
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