The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-26
THE CLEMSON COLLEGE.
Farmer Tillman's Plan OF Campal Gn-A
Talk with One Of the Conferees
Of the Committee.
TSpe,.ial News and Courier.

Of the Committee.
Especial News and Courier
COLUMBIA, April 21.-It was very
gratifying to the News and Courier Bu-
reau to ascertain to-day that its report
of the proceedings Of the executive COM
mittee of the Farmers Association, be-
tween II O'Clock last night and 2.3O
this morning, was so accurate.
The committee adjourned shortly
after q. III.
No meeting was held to-day, the
conterees dispensing to their homes.
Late this afternoon representative
of the News and Courier interviewed
Mr.. B. 0. Duncan, one Of the friends
of the committee, who had participated
in its debates and action. Mr.. Duncan
was aftable and not uncommunicatlVe.
He said that against his wish the COM
mittee had designated him to draft the
address, and that he had spent some
time to-day in revising with Capt. Till
man the paper discussed and acted on
last night. The words he said were
Capt. Tillmau's, which cOrroborates the
supposition teleg graphed last night. He
hoped to have duplicates prepared by
M0nd4y or Tuesday, and would send
copies simultaneously from Newberry
to the News and Courier and the Green
willie News. This would be done by the
direction of the committee, who, on &C
| count of the course of the Columbia
Register, would not consent to supply
that paper with the address. He es-
tinlated that the address would occupy
a colum and half Of ordinary PRINT.
Some of the clauses Of the document
originally submitted had been stricken
out.
As to the purport Of tine address, Mr..
Duncan spoke with equal freeness and
it is interesting to note how distinctly
it was foreshadowed in the News and
Courier this morning. Its principal
points are as follows:
The farmers are urged to organize 10
their interest and demand the Agrlcul'
tural College provided for by Mr.. Glenn
sons Fort Mill bequest. The organlza'
tions in each of the Counties are recon-,
mended to require pledges from all
candidates to support retrenchment ano
reform and the Agricultural College
according to the plans Of the advanced
Tillmanites. Nothing is said as to STATE
officers, but the people are urged te
elect only such delegates to the STATE
Convention in May as will be in favol
of postponing the nomination OF State
officers until a later period.
dates viii Be developed more II aeeoFa
with the movement than the present
State officers"
The issue Of fretrenchmentan and reform
is to be made prominent, and in the
address 1.-The deadly parallel" is to be
drawn in regard to the salaries of State
officers in South Carolina, North Caro-
lima, and Georgia. This position is
taken, so the explanation goes, not only
because it is believed to be a popular
one, but because great point was made
against the separate college scheme in
the last Legislature by the argument
that it meant additional taxation.
The object of the movement is to eff
feet retrenchment and reform in order
to provide support for the Agricultural
College. Nothing is said in'the address
about the Citadel, proving that the ad-
vice of a member against antagonizing
that institution until the Farmers Col
lege should be firmly established, was
| taken.
Mr.. Duncan went on to say, however,
that it was with regret that some Of the
confereeS consented to postpone the
attack on the Citadel, and this bears
out the report made to the News and
Courier that the movement is unques-
tionably hostile to the Citadel.
AS to the university, the address will
declare that it is the desire t the farm
ers' movement to maintain it on its
present liberal appropriations, and to
make it high institution, after cutting
off the agricultural college feature.
Mr.. Duncan said that in the Confer
ence very little hostility was manifested
toward the university as classical in
stitution.
There will be no demand for the
abolition of the experiment stations at
Spartanburg and Darlington, the fear
of opposition in those counties evidently
deterring the committee from attacking
these establishments, but the Columbia
station is expected to 60 with the agri-
cultural college branch ofthe university.
The address will demand the endow-
ment of the Agricultural College at
Fort Mill by the devotion toits support
of the Hatch fund of $4,000, one-half
of the interest on the Agricultural Col
lege scrip and the whole of the privilege
tax on fertilizers now used for the sup
port of the agricultural department with
its departments Of fish culture, weather
service, veterinary surgery, &c.
These three funds will provide, it is
estimated fifty thousand dollars year
for the support of the Fort Mill College.
The Clemson bequest, amounting to
about hundred thousand dollars, is
sufficient for the equipment |
of the college without State aid.
When asked what fate was proposed |
for the department ofagriculture when
left without support Mr.. Duncan said
it Was proposed to turn its business over
to the trustees of the Agricultural Col
lege, a majority of whom, it will be re-
were appointed in advance
by Mr.. Clemson. The experimental
stations are to receive the same DISPOSE
ton. All the analyses Of fertilizers and
:rop experiments are to be made by the
staff of the college.
According to the plan of campaign it
will be seen that the proposition soon to
oe placed before the people is, in brief,
me to turn over the entire agricultural
work Of the State, executive and educa.
ional, to seven citizens selected by Mr.
clemson without consultation with the
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