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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-05-26
WALHALLA, S. c.
THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1892.
Platforms.

1t is always in order for the people IN
convention assembled to give expression
to their views on the political questions
of the day. This right has been freely
exercised in both County and State con
ventiors of late, and as a result we have
platforms and platforms of almost every
phase of political faith. doctrine and
practice. Many OF these phases are now
labeled Democracy, and like a sugar
coated pill have been swallowed by De
2aocrats with the most becoming grace
imaginable.
But The point we desire at present to
make is, that while we all have the right
and privilege TO frame County and State
platforms. and present ou petitions foi
redress of grievances to the National
Democracy in convention assembled, yet
we all have to abide by the action of t.,
National Convention, and whatever Its
deliverance a the policy of the party is
binding on the Democracy OF every State.
County and Township in the Union
Whatever in a County platform may be
inconsistent with the State platform is
rendered null and void, and just so with
regard to the State platform wherein ii
might be in con.ravention of the Ma.
tional platform. There a be but one
standard by which to measure the Demo
cracy of the Union, and that standard
must be raised by the National Conven-
fiou
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A Conditional Requisition.

The prosecutions against George Will
son were mol pressed on Tuesday last, the
Oconee Vine Growers and Fruit Dis
filing Association having been made
whole for the loss of and damage to its
property. In these cases a requisition
was obtained from Gov. Tillman on the
Governor of Montana for George Wilson
/ and Tench Hunsinger on the charge OF
housebreaking and larceny; but in grant
! ing it Gov. Tillman saw fit to attach an
unprecedented condition that the prose
cutors should bear all expenses of bring
ing these fugitives back from Montana to
| South Carolina. He seemed to thinl,
that it was a matter of moonshine for
citizens of the State to suffer a loss OF
some 500 TO their property, business,
etc, and they must also be required to
take out OF their own pockets about $500,
to pay for bringing the accused before
the courts for trial. Such q condition
amounts practically to a denial of the
protection which the law throws around
even the humbleSt citizen of the land.
Surely such an idea of economy must be
a false one, if this was the ground on
which our Governor bottomed his condi-
tional reqUiSition. No, the constitution
and laws of our land guarantee to every
citizen the protection of his property
against the depledations of thieves and
robbers. and certainly the treasury of the
State is more able to dcfray the expenses
OF apprehension and trial than the already
impoverished funds of those whose prop
erty has been taken. Besides, there is
no warrant OF law for any such condition
precedent to the granting of acquisitions,
the statute being mandatory that the
expenses sLan he paid tafth CO.
ernor's contingent fund, which is levied
for this special purpose, along with 9th
ers. The attempt to attach such a con-
dition proceeds upon a vicious principle,
and w6en carried to its logical conclu-
sion would place the property Of every
citizen virtually at the mercy of bandits
and robbers.
In these cases, however, the prosecut-
ors had raised the sum necessary to bring
Wilson back, and on Monday morning
Deputy Sheriff b. r. Moss started to
Bozeman, Montana. for him. and had
gone as far as Memphis, Tenn, when the
settlement was made on Tuesday, and he
was called back by wire.
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industry at the expense Of ano-

up one industry at the expense of ano-
they.
CD We regard as the most important
issue before the. people a reform of the
present. UBIQUITOUS tariff, and we demand
a removal of the existing heavy tariff tax
from the necessities OF life, that the
poor Of our land must have.
te) We further demand a just ard
equitable system of graduated tax on in
come.
(d) We believe that the money of the
counsr8 should be kept as much as posi-
BILE in the hands of the people, and hence
ne demand that all national and State
revenue shall be limited to the necessary
expenses of the government economically
and honestly administered.
IA. We demand retrenchment and re-
form in the expenditure of national reve-
nues and especially a correction of the
present pension system which rests like
a mammoth war tax on our section OF
The Union.
Is. We therefore, in a spirit of mutual
concession, offer this, our platform, te
the Democracy of Georgia, and pray that
a divine providence may incline ou1
hearts to wisdom, justice and modera-
ton.
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Sgetial Aatitss.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, May 23.-Judge
Lane, county Judge of Cass county, Mo-.
who is imprisoned here by order of Uni
ted States Judge Phillips, for refusing tc
comply with the latter's order to issue 9
special tax levy to pay bonds voted
twenty-five years ago in aid of a railway
that was never built, received word yes
terday that he had been nominated by
the Democrats of his county as their can.
didate for the State Legislature. The
nomination is an endorsement of his
course in undergoing Imprisonment rather
than to issue a levy, against which the
sentiment of the county is unanimous.
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To the Honorable Body, Southern Bap-
fist Convention, Now in Session at
Atlanta, Ga.
Published by Request.

DEAR BRETHREN: We are happy to
meet so many distinguished clergy as
well as laymen and other mission work
ers in the Masters cause, known as the
creed ''Baptists.n 1t is a noticeable fact
that the increasing capacity of this body,
which was organized in Augu ia, Ca, in
| 1915. has grown to such dimensions that
it is almost unwieldly, and no ordinary
building has seating capacity for this
august body, who are ready to be a wit
ness. workers and co-workers for all that
is worth living for, the redemption Of
human souls. In the great frame work
of religious evolution there seems to be
a place for every fort OF province to work.
But to make a long matter short, we
come directly to u subject. The love
of strong drink seems to be n at least,
if not the greatest, barrier to physical,
mental and spiritual greatness that the
world has ever had to contend with.
Facts are stubborn things and we pro-
pose to deal in nothing else, though the
heavens fall. We make our appeal to our
Baptist friends on this occasion by MOTTO
ing the mighty fallen. DR.. Talmage, Of
New York, says that Noah done the best
thing and the worst thing that man ever
done, Saved the world from the deluge
and then fastened drunkenness or the
land" Perhaps if Noah had never dis
covered wine-making and set the exam
pie of drunkenness that even in this fast
age Of evolution and progression and i'm
provement (?) the drunkard's grave never
would have been filled: So with steam
and electricity. Perhaps if the immortal
Franklin and Fulton had never accident
ally {) made these d~iscoveri.:, the over
land route to Texas by stage and the Pc
destrians of the city of Atlanta would
never have enjoyed a dummy" ride, a
telegram or a pleasant transit by rail to
the four winds of the earth! These men
were said to be crazy at one stage of the
worlds progress; nov a man would GER
tainly have to be considerably crazed to
deny the utility, feasibility and practice
bility of steam and electricity. So in all
stages of the world, many Of our indus
tries are merely the result Of accident.
Noah after becoming a husbandman
had an abundance ef grapes, and no
doubt expressed the'tspure blood of the
grape (which was I1ire until fermentac
ton took place. the ~saccharire Of the
grape was by chemical action converted
to an alcohol. Analysis proves alcohol 9
deadly poison and isaf fit emblem of con-
tamination, u bar-room beverage, Q drink
for devils, aprinciple that gives rise to
Look not upon the vine when it giveth
color, aIt stingesh Ike an adder
sRed eyes and woe and wo
men, pr~overbislo d mischiefs, ETC. and
otheruupIeasant associations connected
viii wine drinking, and last but mot
last byany means, No drurkard shall
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-05-26
Mr.. Cary in Reply to "Justice.'

MEsSRs. EDITORS ask only a short
space in which to answer Justice" as /
think he answers his own article, espe-
cially that portion of a personal nature.
However, he asks some questions to
which he does not furnish replies, either
directly or by implication.
He asks, "Why did he not tell why we
elected such delegates as we did, and
when they were asked to state to the
convention how they stood, what they
said ."
There were no reasons given why the
gentlemen elected as delegates to Column
bia should be chosen, except in the case
of Mr.. Neill W. Macaulav. The reason
given for his election was that he had a
:. free pass" on the railroad. The de-
clarations of the delegates elected, made
known before the ballot was taken, were
as follows:
Mr.. S. !. Stribling: 81 stand upon the
resolutions as passed.
Mr.. A. Bearden: 81 stand upon the
platform and resolutions
Mr.. Neill w. Macaulay: The same"
Mr.. j. B. Pickett: "You all know where
I stand. If anybody wants to ask me
any questions l am ready to answer
them"
DIR. W. Biddle Gilman: Gentlemen, I
am 50 thoroughly in sympathy with the
platform that jump upon it with both
feet and viii not swerve al inch from it"
Mr.. a. P. Crisp: 81 am in favor of the
resolutions"
In regard to the time and nature of Mr..
Burns speech refer sJustice" to that
gentleman's article in your last issue.
In answer to the charge Of taking up a
frank stranger and giving him promi-
nence will say the resolutions of DR..
Gilman endorsing the st. Louis platform,
&C., &c, pertained to national politics,
and vas given, that the citiz IS of oco-
nee might know that the work for the
county convention to do had already been
"fxed" several days in advance by a diff
ferent organization. The convention be-
ing one more directly IN the interest of
national politics, Democratic Of course,)
l quoted DR.. Gilman's Second declara-
ton of American independence" in pref
ence 20 Mr.. Burns resolution on the
H.free guano'' question. However will
say to Justice aud all others they a
see the full resolutions of Mr.. Burns by
reference to the proceedings of the
Burns Mill sub-Alliance, the West Union
Democratic club and the oconee county
Alliance, No. 400, the latter held at Wal
halla; Saturday, I'D of April, 1892, with
only slight variations, the original plan
Being to furnish guano free Except rail-
poa. freight in proportion 0 1.-THE amount
# State tax PAID.
complaint . my neglect to quote
full is answered by .Jus-
an com
S Been
seen my
but
xsre our
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-05-26
FLoE1pE CuSS1NeHAM
Careful Farming.

TIL. Southern Tobacco Journal says that
in 1888 one of the Groomes, the we'll
known tobacco planters, who live near
Greensboro, \. C., planted five acres in
tobacco and sold $1,000 worth of leaf
from his little crop, an even average OF
$500 per acre. Last year Messrs. c.. A.
and Lee Groome had one hundred and
twenty acres in tobacco and sold their
entire crop at an average of $3.50 per
acre all around. 1t is said that the
Groomes have cleared $4,000 growing
tobacco in five years.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-05-26

Many letters are received by the P. P.
P. Co. from patients, saying they had
used such and such a blood purifier and
sarsaparillas, mentioning their names
and stating they did no good, and they
did not get well ur.il P. P. P. {Prickly
Ash, Poke Root and Potassium was tried,
These letters we started to publish, when
the various manufacturers wrote US fear
full letters, and we discontinued same,
but P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root cnd
Potassium is triumphant on every aeea'
sion, ond has made a host Of friends in
cures of syphr1S;; rheumatism, %scrofnla
blood poison, dyspepsia, malaria and
female complaints.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-05-26

Boston, May 21.-The Boston Repnbli
can, printed by colored people n Shi:
city, has an article to-day to the effect
that certain colored men of Cambridge
and Boston belonging to secret societies
have for some time been earnestly dis
cussing the numerous lynchings of col
ored men in the South. According Il
the article these men have been taking
lessons from Socialists and Russians as
to making dynamite bombs, with which
they propose to return to the South and
take revenge, unless the outrages are
stopped. The men are bound together
by solemn oath and Indignantly refuse tc
be classified as anarchists.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-05-26
Electric RitterS.

This remedy is becoming so well known
and so popular as to need no specia
mention. All who have used Electric
Bitters sing the same song of praise. A
purer medicine does not exist, and it is
guaranteed to do all that is claimed
Electric Bitters will cure all diseases OF
the liver and kidneys, will remove PIN.
pies, boils, salt rheum and other affec.
tons caused by impure blood. VIII
drive malaria from the system and pre-
vert as we'll as cure all malarial fevers.
For cure of headache, constipation and
indigestion try Electric Bitters. Entire
satisfaction guaranteed, or money re
funded. Price, so cts, and S1.W per bot
tie at the Norman Carroll Co.'S drugstore,
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For subscription, s1.5o per annum.
strictly in advance; for six months, u
cents; for four months, 50 cents.
Advertisements inserted at n dollar
per square of one inch or less for the hrs'
insertion and fifty cents for each sub
sequent insertion.
Obituary Notices exceeding five lines
Tributes of Respect, Communications o.
a personal character, when admissible
and Announcements of Candidates vii
be charged for as. advertisements.
Job Printing neatly and cheaply execu
ted.
Necessity compels US to adhere strictly
to the requirements of Cash Payments.
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The best thing to give your enemy
is forgiveness to an opponent, toler-
ance /; to a friend, your heart to a
child, good example; to your father.
Difference; to your mother conduct
that will make her proud Of you; to
yourself, respect; and to all men,
charity.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-05-26

People wonder when they find how
rapidly health is restored by taking P. P.
P. Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potas-
sium). The reason is simple, as it is a
powerful combination of the roots and
herbs of the home woods.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-05-26
The reason that murder will out is
because blood will tell.

In the United States one railroad
passenger in every two million eight
hundred thousand is killed, but in
France the ratio is only one to every
twenty-four million.
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Bargains, Bargains, Bargains:
Reduction in Price

VI FURNITURE, CRoCKERY AND
GLASSWARE. WARDROBES, BT
REAUS, BEDSTEADS, MATTRESs
TABLES, CHAIRS, SAFES, SPRINGS,
CRADLES. CHILDREN'S BEDS, TRUN-
DIE BEDS, COFFINS. VIII be sold at
the lowest figures.
CUPS and SAUCERS, BOWLS and
PITCHERS and & fine Let Of PORCE-
LAIN PLATES will b, sold at a bargain.
All GLASS and TINWARE at low
prices, ard one lot Of BEAUTIFUL
GLASS at a little more than HALF
PRICE.
On hand We have LADIES HATS,
FLOWERS and RIBBONS, OSTRICH
TIPS and PLUMES of latest styles.
Also, some WOOL ROLLS, and 1000
PAPERS FRESH GARDEN SEEDS.
S. NJ. vANWYCK & CO.,
West Main ST., Walhalla, 5. c.
January q, 1892.
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The following letter VIII also be read
with interest:

.frLNE
The following letter viii also be read
with interest:
BOARD OF LADY MANAGERS,
WORLDS COLUMBIAN COMMISSION,
CHARLESTON, S. c., May, 1892.
MY DEAR Mrs. BEARD: I thank you
for your energy and effort, and hasten to
assure yoo that the most satisfactory
guarantee will be given for the safety of
all articles assigned to the Colonial Dis
play. The whole thing is under the I'M
mediate supervision of the National
Board of Lady Managers, and my sug-
gestion that a certain number of young
ladies from each State shall preside IN
the hall is really more for the historical
and picturesque effect than to confer
upon them the onus of the exhibit, which
will rest with US (the Board Of Lady
IManagers) its legitimate custodians, al
though these young girls will of course
inspire still further confidence in its in
tegrity.
In my June report to my State and to
the Commission at Chicago, which will
be published in the Charleston and Co
lumbia papers, J will clearly demonstrate
the line of action for the safeguard Of
all articles loaned to Us.
With high consideration, l am, very
truly yours,
FLoRIDE CUNNINGHAM,
Democratic Lady Manager, for South Ca
rolina, Worlds Columbian Commits
sion, Member at Large and Chairman
of Committee on Colonial Display OF
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aSay," said the elderly farmer
looking man, 81 want a little piece
put in the paper that l want a womsn
who can cook, wash, iron, milk four
COWS, an manage a market -Agon.'
Call right" said the advertising
clerk. "Shall / state What wages
will be paid?" "Wages, nothin't"
shouted the farmer-looking man. q
want to marry her."
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The 0ba|ga Tobacco G6aDaHU
AFFERS the following PPEMIU1

hFFERS the following PFEMIUNS
" forToBACGo grown In this county
this year, to-wit:
The greatest quantity raise.l BY one
farmer, 5000.
The greatest quantity raised on n
acre, $3.50.
Thesscond greatest quantity raised on
one acre, $7G.g2.
The third gfeatess sganttysaised on.
one acre 200.
NoonesshaiI be entitled to mere sH
Enne preininm5
MAJ 1892
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Ehe Wssld,s Columbian Commission
and Oconee.

Miss Floride Cunningham, Democratic
Lady Manager for South Carolina,
Worlds Columbian Commission.eeepre-
sentingsth Commission, has
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Very cordially yours,
FLoRIpE CUNNINGHAM.
THE PLAN.

II Plan.
minimizing out the plan Of the Colo
NAL exhibit of the thirteen original
States the following is evolved:
That these States combine their Colo
NAL exhibit into one grand display.
Sending to it valued and rare relics, con
sisting of jewels, laces and other apparel;
charters, manuscripts, pictures, mirrors.
tapestry, all portable articles that bear
testimony to the period Of 1776 and that
ante-date 1t.
That eighteen young married and IN
married ladies. liDeal descendants of the
Landgraves, of the higher officers of the
Revolution, of the members of the list
Congress and of the signers of the Dec
laration OF independence, be appointed
by the chairman of the Colonial depart
ment Of each State with ~alternates, three
of whom at a time, from each OF the
original States, shall for a m0nth-the
Exposition is to be open for six months
be on duty in Colonial costume in the
hall or chamber of the exhibit and be-
come its custodians as it were and give
to it the favor OF a century gone by.
These lad rs would, Of course, have to
bear their own expenses for that month,
unless each of the States should choose
to make an appropriation for this impor-
tant feature of the exhibit.
That every article offered for display
be accompanied by an authenticated his
tory, and that each State publish a cata-
logue OF the same, embracing each
article accepted; and, for the gratiica-
ton of those who will wish to retain a
certified and full account of this great
historical display, that these catalogues
shall be put on sale from the opening OF
the Exposition to its close.
Jfurther recommend that the exhibit
be given in the woman's building, if
such space can be obtained for the pur-
pose.
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Ladies are UnfOrtur tie,

Because the higher they rise in society
the weaker they find themselves bodily
Risley's Philotoken controls the nerves
aids nature in her various functions, anc
thus combats with the many ills of wo
mankind successfully. If your druggist
has not got it he will order it for you fol-
81 a bottle, from Chas. F. Risley, Whole
sale Druggist, 62 Cortlandt Street, New
York. Send for a descriptive pamphlet
with directions and certificates from
many ladies who have used it and cam
say enoughinf favor of Risley's Philotoken
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-05-26

The Presbyterian General Assembly Of
the Southern church will hold its next
session at Macon, Ga.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-05-26

A fact worth knowing is that blood
diseases which all other medicines fail tc
cure yield slowly but surely to the blood
purifying properties Of P. P. P. (Prickly
Ash. Poke Root and PotasSium).
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Notice Of Final Settlement.

NHE undersigned, administrator of the
i estate of Mrs. Elizabeth MCGEE, de
ceased, hereby gives notice that he will,
on Monday, the 18th day Of June, 1892,
apply to the Judge of Probate for oconee
county for a final settlement of said
estate and q discharge as administrator.
E. C. MARETT,
Administrator.
Nav 10. 1892. 194t
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SURVEYING

w III. F. Erwin viii be found
at his Office, on North side of
Main street, when his Services
are desired on Surveys.
May 5, 1892.
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The Colonial Exhibit.

Miss Floride Cunningham, of South
Carolina, is one of TIE Board OF Lady
Managers, Worlds Columbian Commits
sion. Recently, Miss Cunningham
addressed the following letter to Mrs.
Kidder. of North Carolina:
Mrs. George W. Kidder, Democratic
Lady Commissioner from North Caro-
lima, Woman,s Columbian Commission,
and Chairman of the Standing Commit
tee on Colonial Display-My Dear Mrs.
K:dder: / have simplitied as far as within
me lies the formula for the Colonial ex-
hibit of the thi cen original States, and
send it to you, as our chairman, hoping
it may aid you in the arduous undertake
ing.
You viii see that 1 call for no furniture
in my report. thinking it would be pom
derous for transportation, and that the
possible space allotted for the exhibit
might be overcrowdcd by it. Should
you. however. decide to introduce his
torical furniture Of the period in the dis
play please instruct me. that may men
ton it in the circular / am about to pub
lish. as the chairman Of the department
of the Colonial display of the South
Carolina state commission. and which /
L-a-c-not dnne Observation-Disclosures
know your pleasure as regards this.
Meanwhile have been busy endeavor-
ing to raise by private subscription the
ten thousand dollars which our State
Will require &c. put her in shape for the
Exposition.
i am already encouraged by the prom
Use of some rare and interesting relics
within our boundary. although so far
the excLequer is empty. Our Lesisla-
ture at its last sitting. December. 1891.
making no appropriation forthis purpose
or any other relating to the Worlds Fair,
I personally, by letter. pressed the Presi-
dent of its Senate and its House to urge
the appropriation for the Colonial ex-
hibit, but they saw fit to take no active
measures regarding it.
In the official report made to my state
after my return from the Convention of
September ?, 1891, I recommended that
twelve young married and unmarried
ladies. with alternates. be appointed
from each of the original States. and l
now recommend that the number be in
creased 10 eighteen.
Very cordially yours,
Er oprnr