Spartanburg Journal, 1902-05-09

will allow me, I am amazed at the 1 moderation?only 3.900 ! Mr. Tillman?Well, that was all we needed. We only wanted enough , to establish decent, honest govern uient and white supremacy, and we did it. Where is the man in this chamber, or out of it, who will say ' we did not do right? If there be one, let him hold np his hand and , dare get np here and say so. We had to preserve onr civilization, onr homes, oar lives, oar wives, onr children. Our everything was at , stake, and we asserted onr rights , I to live on the earth and to inhabit | the land we had won from the In1 dial*before the Revolution, and we had helped to win the Revolution r itself. You can not help it then and 5 you can not help it now. You say that the negroes in the South are fit to govern themselves and fit to govern us if they - have the majority, and yet you say . the Filipinos are absolutely unfit to . participate in government or have anything to do with it; they have got to be edncated, and by what? } By a military despotism such as you ? claim that Aguinaldo has establish3 ed and would have maintained if we had recognized the Filipino people and left, them to govern 5 themselves in their own way and s had kept out of the miserable mess

estrangement whir* bad separated the families of Patmdecesier Ford, the author, and jncolm Webster Ford, the atbleteM to be forgotten as the brothers, 7n, the murdered, and Malcolm, B suicide, will be buried togethi I tw same plot Baturday. Death hovered afnight over tbe bed of the widowq bride, who is about to become a lother and her condition today f critical. The family formally fcnonnoed that Maloolm killed bis lother and himself in a fit of temjV&ry insanity. A feud over the esta > of bis father led to the tragedy^ Malcolm had been disinherited be use he devoted his life to athletic The shooting took place yeaterd ^ morning at the home of Paul. \ loolm entered the room of his brol er and asked assistance. Paul, v aried by his importunities, refusal. Then followed the tragedy. Paul was the author of "Janice uaridith" and other popular nove*! Malcolm's seven-rear-old son wJ be oared for by the family and tufaght that his father s act was the rkult of insanns the rights of freenit, that is all We are in the Unim. We are not dissatisfied with dr\ condition, although every day j|Be discrimI ination upon discrj^^Mon here, J continue to tre^^^^^^^wi^und.f II squeeze from qollar yoi

that yon only wished to restore th Union unci to destroy slavery. But with the reconstruction p< riod which followed?I am not goiu to talk about it at length ; but whe I think of it bitterness surges nj it conies up in such a volume c animosity and recollection of fct degradation to which my peop! were subjected fi mi 1WH to 18< under the horde of enrpetbaggei and thieves and scoundrels an ignorant negroes that I hardly kno how to contain myself?but it sn flees for mo to say for the purposw 1 have in vidw right uowHhat afti we had sqon our>ox-sltvro)K-poo ignorant creatures?givoi^ihp ,bu \l??t?after we had seen fchoTdeatJc held under the Invyonef tind^vikh numerical majority, of 30,000'n groes inducted info tfh#,'<?jitjt>l i the stato of South CttroHtrei at there being today 235,000 more n groes in my state than there ai whites, and 300,000 mors negroes Mississippi than there are whites von declared that a man 21 years age, without regard to any oth qualification, was fit to vote, ai that, the right to vote carried wi

regaraea as me one regrmuiuiu feature of ceremonies that pay remarkable honor to the dead ^ admiral, especially as he was a a retired officer. " Grave and silent crowds snrronnd- n Wl the Church of the Covenant ^ today where the services was held. ^ Except on the occasion of President; ? McKinley's fnneral it was the > greatest turnout seen in Washing-! ton. The president and his cabinet C and committees composed of notable members of the house and senate and the supreme court and 0 diplomatic corps attended. ! o THE BAPTISTS IN SESSION, c b Southern Baptist Convention Meets in Asheville. v Asheville, N. C., May 9.?The Southern Baptist Convention met in ita 4jy^nnual convention at the r audi this morning ut 10 ^ o'clockJ^^Bi iueetingw^a opened . o is pv^deat of the convcnnon^^HEi b teen hundred delegates Were prese ent and the auditorium was crowdn ed with delegates and visitors, e The convention may adjourn next: o Tuesday, or it may remain longer , ? in session. A plan which has the! it nf nil tlio nfflnprj i? til 1

** and who * / uo 1(1 me no good to <0p, bnt B* will produce tMs?3M?-^ Witness. ?" have in my han/d the Memoirs '8 Gen. William TJ. Sherman, writfc | by himself, anj from puge 287 11' | volume 2 I read this : 1(1 'Many of the people thought th this fire was deliberately plunn u|: uud executed. This is not true. >9 ! was accidental, and. in my jud i ment, began with the cotton whl p" 1 General Hampton's men had 8 ; tire to on leaving the city (wheth | by bis orders jr not is not materia in ' which hre was partially subdu ; early in the cay by our men ; bi 9 j when night hame, the high wi ,s fanned it agriin into full blaze, cj 86! ried it againlst the frame hons n" | which c&nglJt like tinder, and so ,l|. spread beyond our control." n" I Now, the city of Columbia is vr J city of home's. It was at that tii a c ty of homes. In recent ye< I manufacturing Industries h? 11111 sprung up in the suburbs. But t ou ' citv us theai constituted bad w

is frugal use of the power of p*ron. It is considered doubtful rhether he will decide on amnesty mong the Cubans and it id not uprobabla that the Cuban congress lay adopt a resolution requesting lie president to take such action efore the government is turned ver. JO DECISION^ REACHEDlemson Trustees Consider the Sophomore Trouble. Clkmsox Colleok, May 9.?Speial: The trustees met iast night. )r. Thornwell presented an appeal n behalf of his son. The faculty ommittee at the request of the ioard read a statement giving facta ipon which the faculty's decision iras based. Dr. Brackett appeared and teatU led as to the circumstances of the eport against Cadet Thornwell. ?he entire evening was consumed n taking evidqpce and no decision of the week was the afternoon partygiven Wednesday by Miss Dot Dean ; in honor of a most attractive visij tor, Miss Minna MoLeod Beck of ! Atlanta. Miss Dean's guests west* iTAiinif lu^ inu \UOVA

h hear of some horrible crime bein >f committed by one of' these poo a wretches ; there is not a day tha n wo do not rea l of white people wh e become enraged and lose their sens I, of civilization and everything els< e and seizing him and doing him t death in a brutal and fiendish mai 5- ner without trial or anything elm g Why, even bleeding Kansas he n her story of rape und a negr >; burned for it. I have known ( >f two rajxes, followed by murderi le within the sight of the dome i le this Capitol since I have been hci re -?white girls, son*ewhere in tl rs suburbs of this city, robbed of thi id jewel which is the most preoioi w possession of a woman's life, ar f- then butchered to hide the crim as Throughout the South there is t EJr day an unnamed horror hungir r, over every household whose lovt .1- ones are left in isolation or sogregi >n tion on the various farms nr