The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-01
CALL TO ARMS.
Rebellion in South
Carolina.
TROOPS ORDERED OUT
They Refuse to Obey the
Governor.
EXTREME MEASURES TAKEN.
EXTREME MEASURES TAKEN.
TiIlman Is Determined to Have
His Way.
TRYING TO SUPPRESS ALL NEWS
A Command to Which the Tele'
graph Companies Will Pay
No Attention.

COLUMBIA, ). u, March 31.-S0utn Car
olina is in state of rebellion. Fortunately.
to-day passed without any further blood
shed, but the situation is considered by the
coolest heads to be very grave. Governor
Tillman is very much worried and has tel
egraphed orders to nearly every military
company In the State to proceed here at
once, the intention being to mass all the
troops possible together to 90 to Darling
ton. Already several companies have ar
rived, but If the action of these companies
Is safeguard. the Governor is depending
on a forlorn hope. The company from
Newberry has already disbanded and the
troops from the Governors own county
say that they have merely come in obedi-
ence 10 military orders to be on the scene,
and that they will refuse to go to Darling
ton.
All day the Governor has been telegraph
ing orders to military organizations In
various parts Of the State to 60 to Darling
fusals on the part of troops. Last night
the troops of Columbia refused to obey
the Governors orders and disbapded. To-
day the Gordon Light Infantry declined
t, go and sent the Governor dispatch
saying:
"We are In sympathy with the citizens
Of Darlington in their purpose of the de-
fense of their homes"
To- 70 vofu fo
obey the orders. The Bishopville Com
pany of Sumpter Infantry went to Dar-
lington to-day, but at once returned home
and would not perform the work expected
of them. The Fourth Brigade of Charles
ton. the largest and best equipped troop in
the State, has been ordered to the front
and will not go. Several companies. how
ever, have been more faithful to the Gov
ernor and are now en- route to that place.
A company from Orangeburg. company
from Clarendon County ana perhaps sew
eral other companies will reach the seat of
war to. n light or tomorrow.
At Orangeburg to-day j. NJ. Stokes, who
was defeated for Congress at the recent
election, made passionate harangue and
organized a company of 100 men. who had
a farmer as a captain, to go to the support
of Tillman.
1t is the Governors purpose to mobilize
II. COO men at Darlington. but he finds. the
task difficult:in the extreme. He. will ex-
haust all his power to suppress thetrouble.
In the meantime the citizens of Darling
ton, Florence and Vicinity are idle and all
90 armed. prepared for trouble. Local
dispensaries at perhaps dozen points
have been raided and their contents run
out. Scouting PARTIES have been after con-
stables who escaped yesterday, and while
some of them are now safe from capture
others are liable to be taken. and in the
mood of the peopie in and around Darling.
ton may meet death speedily if their cap
ture is effected by the enraged people.
The affair has intensified the bitter feeling
in this State, and not in thirty years has
there. been such estrangement. between
different factions and elements of South
Carolina -
COLUMBIA. S. c.. April 1.-Up to 1 &c
this morning no troops, have left this city
for Darlington and the probability is that
not one of the companies will obey orders.
There are seven visiting companies quar-
tered here, and FIVE Of these declare they
will disband before they: will. go to
Darlington and carry out orders. The
other TWO companies number about eighty.
five men. =