Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04

them and to restore the law there.
The Governor says he has a report
that oung Gaillard, constable
who was wounded in the riot, was
found in the swamp suffering from
his wounds, and that he was shot
and killed while in critical con-
dition. The Governor was inform
ed that Constable Mccullough,
who ives wounded, and was in
Darlington jail had beon taken
charge of by friends, and he has
telegraphed that he wants to know
who the friends are.
ALL QUIET IN DARLINGTON.
The Governor received the tele-
gram at s o'clock tonight that all
was quiet in Darlington, but troops
had not arrived there at that hour.
The Governor says 600 soldiers
went to Darlington tonight, and
that many are here in Columbia,
and there will be about 700 men
here to answer to the call by morn
ing. He says they are not all SOL
diers. but are good fighting mate
rial. The Governor considers that
the massacre in Darlington will,
inste.,d of causing the death OF
the dispensary act, strengthen it
and make it more popular with the
people.
D1sPENsARIEs CLOSED.
He tonight ordered all dispensa-
ries in the counties where there is
any excitement, closed until fur
ther orders. He does not intend
to open dispensarias and make CIT
izens drunk and turn them into
demons to shoot at each other.
The Governor said if whiskey had
been easily obtained the last few
days the condition would have
been very much more desperate
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than what has been experienced.
Under the dispensary law he says
the smuggling of liquor is grow
. ing less and less every day, which
ho Judges from the situation and
] recent scarcity of seizure of liquor
: The Govern ,r says if the police
and city and town authorities had
e co-operated with him IN carrying
t out the dispensary laws ne woulo
e not have been compelled to ap'
t poin. constables, and he says it'll
e the efforts of the whiskey elemen
e to bring about friction, and they
8 depend considerably upon the peo
!. pie to help them. He says loss b!
t looting OF two dispensaries Fri
: day night is no consideration 9th
q err than the infringement upon tn
n law.
s. MILITARY MAY BE coURTMART1ALEI
n AS to the companies disbandln
re and refusing to obey his command
d Governor Tillman says all compa
: nies in his militia are enlisted an
It every member who refused to obe
20 orders is subject to court MARTA
e which may follow.
n He says the boys who acted ba
in that particular were from town
that were opposed to him pollt:
cally and the soldiers were Unfit
r encod by their fathers and other
Is to act as they have.
Is Governor Tillman considers ths
> the disappearance of the Stat
Ie arms from the armories of til
10 Zouaves and Volunteers in Colun
y bia and the company in Chester
al a. serious affair. He says he
'u going to have the guns back, IL
oe be does not propose to have tt
re State arms in the hands of thoi
10 who are against the State troop
ey He is in hopes of having the gur
as returned to him and says he hi
II ID two means of getting them. Or
~ is by writ Of mandamus and sem
ne lug all members to jail and Il
ne other is by declaring martial la
'fe and making a search for the1
es He says he does not want to reso
TO either of these means but be |
Cd tends to get the arms back.
~ The Governor was asked II
ke knew that his constables who we
ne in Augusta, Ca, watching liqu
ne houses to catch packages OF smu
ell gled liquor from Georgia into Ca
eo olina had been threatened. !
ef' said he had heard it, but that t
Mayor and police of Angus
.bo would protect his officers who We
.rs disturbing no one.
llg THE GOVERNOR AND THE GUARDS