The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-12
MANY INACcURA oIEs.
News and Courier Corrects a State
nent Made by the Associated Press.

ment Made by the Associated Press.
+ Charleston, s. c., Sept. 1.-THE. press
dispatch from Baltimore last night re-
porting the proceedings IN the United
States court in the IN junction suit TO pre-
vent Gov. TilIman from taking possession
of TIE arms Of the Washington Light In
fantry of Charleston. contained so many
inaccuracies Of statement that it is neceS-
sary that some CORE ctiOn shall be made.
Taking up the statement made in the dis
patch. the News and Courier will say edi-
tOrially JO-mOrrO1:
This statement is absolutely untrue in
every material particular The dis ems
airy raiders did not pass the line of Of
feusiveness' drawn by the citi ems Of
Darlington and other towns. IL was
drawn at the threshold Of their homes,
and the raiders In Darlington did not at
tempt 10 pass it, and were not, therefore,
mOlested in the conduct of their raid.
They finished their business in the town
after three days stay, and were assem-
b led at the railroad station TO take the
train when the fight occurred in which
they took so conspicuous a part.
They were not attacked by
anybody. There were not more
than half do en- citizens, men
and boys at the station besides the regu-
lar station officials and attendants. Two
young men got into quarrel and fight,
one OF the whisky cOnstables interfered
in behalf of his friend, and without prov
alton or excuse Tor his act, shot and
killed a citi en-, who was seated near the
scene OF the fight. This was the first
shot fired, and it caused the general
shooting that followed i'm medIately, in
which several of the raiders and
several of the by-standers took part,
with the result that two of the
citizens, and only one of the raiders. not
"a number, - was killed. The rest of the
raiders were not put to fight they held
the ground when the shooting was over
and then fed to the woods to avoid arrest
for the homicides they had committed
The local authorities sent out posses to
capture them. which failed TO find them,
and returned to their homes in few
hours. This was the extent of the up
rising.
During the next two or three days Gov
/ TiIlman published proclamation declar-
ing the people Of two counties to be in
state of insurrection or rebellion, and
sent large body of militia to Darlington
and Florence under the command of two
generals, both of whom were his parts
ans, and both of whom reported that they
found perfect order prevailing in the
counties. There was no resistance to the
"guOernatorial authority from first to
last and the governors action was taken
without the application or approval of
any local authority and without the
slightest warrant for it in the condition
existing,
TILLMAN's APRIL FOOL REBELLION.
The governor filled the capitol with his
armed partisans, at the same time re-
NAMED closely guarded in his home for
two days and has since plainly explained
his extraordinary conduct by the ridicu-
lous statement that he believed his politi-
cal re in ba ~ raj 70
in conspiracy to depose him. The up
rising existed only in his disordered
mind, and the state of things which
he organized and sustained for week or
ten days, for its suppression is now known
as 'Tillman's April fool rebellion" from
the date of the publication of his procla-
nation. Some of the companies of
militia which he ordered to 20 to Darling
ton refused to obey him. The Washington
Light Infantry was not among the num-
Der, however so that the assertion that
the members of the company "hatly re-
fused to take up arms" at his command is
as false as the other statements in the
repOrt