The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-06
ANOTHER WAR.

The whisky War in South Carolina Trying
to Guido the Police Board War In COL
orado-Eforts to Enforce Dispensary
Law.
DARLINGTON, s. c., April "A spe-
cial train from Columbia with 300
troops to keep peace and force the dis
pensary law will declare the town
under martial law and will take charge
of the Western Union telegraph Office
and the railways Gov. TillmaD has
assured the citizens that the soldiers
are coming here with no malicious in
tent, but simply to protect the pub
peace Nevertheless trouble is antici-
pated.
Mayor Dargen made short address
to an assemblage on the street and
asked that the citizens maintain a
peaceful bearing toward the soldiers
and offer them no provocation-
The seat of war is now changed to
Columbia The adjutant and inspector
general of the state troops arrived here
on special train. The inspector gen.
eral, under the orders of the governor,
has travelled over the state endeavoring
TO raise force of volunteers to uphold
the dispensary law, but the indications
are he has met complete failure on all
sides, as all classes of citizens are re-
fusing to bear arms against South Car
olinans
The local military have thrown mp
their commissions and resigned by let
ter to the adiutant-generaL 1t is said
here Gov. Tillman is in possession of
the railroad and telegraph lines at
Columbia and that his officers inspect
every message received and none go
out without his authority or sanction.
CAUSE OF PRESENT TROUBLE.
CHARLESTON, S c., April 2.-The
News and Courier says:
Let IT be distinctly borne in mind in the
present disturbed condition of things that there
is no disorder in the state now except what is
of Gov. Tillman's making. Everything" was
reported perfectly Quiet in Darlington on Fri
day night One OF the wounded constables
was guarded by local militia company. Three
others-Gaillard, Swan and Meeking-have not
been moested. Three others who went TO
Sumter on Saturday were guarded by the mil
itary OF that place, and were sent by the local
authorities on a special train to Columbia,
under the protection of the same troops and
the sheriff and his deputies.
Darlington is to purpose whatever There
is no need for them-nothing for them to do at
either place. There is no open or secret re-
bellion against the laws Of the state, or in any
part Of the state There are no 'assemblages
of insurgents" to ''disperse" in any place. All
the present excitement is caused by the mus
tering Of troops by the governors orders, the
issuing Of proclamations, the seizure Of rail-
roads and telegraph Offices The cons tables
who are in hiding are in danger of being
lynched no doubt, but they certainly cannot
be protected in any degree by gathering troops
in Darlington and Columbia or elsewhere.
Gov Tillman and his admirers appear to have
lost their heads. They are acting without
reason or discretion or definite purpose; they
are making disorder and trouble and excite
ment instead of pursuing the peace and restor-
ing order. But for the extraordinary utter
ances and actions of the state authorities the
whole trouble would have been nearly confined
TO the place where it originally began and the
excitement in the state generally would have
subsidized before last Saturday night 1t is as
well to keep this fact in view There is no
rouble or disorder in the state except that
which is Gov Tllman's making II his friends
and advisers will only quiet him the whole
state will resume S normal condition at once