The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-11-14
ANTI-OPIION CONVENTION
REPRESENTATIVE MEN APPOINTED
AS DELEGATES.

The MEETING TO be Held at TIcksburR. In
etcst,ons Point to Large and R<pres-
entst.ve Gs,her.oa-Aims OF the Move
ment
COLUMBIA, S. C, Nov. 9.-South
Carolina is to have representatives at
the coming convention Of aati.opsion.
lists to be held Ia Vlcksburg, Miss. The
following letter was received by Ge7-
ernor Tillman yesterday:
His Excellency, Benj. r. TillmaD, Co.
lumbia. S. G.
Dear Sir: 1 have been requested by
tbs commercial bodies Of the city Of
Vicksburg to extend to you cordial
invitation to be present at the anti.
option convert ton to be held in said
city on Tuesday, the Goth day Of No
7em Der, 1894, and to request you to ap-
point two delegates for each Congress
sioL al district and iye delegates for
the State at large to represent your
State in said convention. sm also re.
quested, through you, to invite your
Senators and Representatives In Con-
gress to be present, and to request the
boards Of trade and other CONNER cial
bodies, and the authorities Of the cities
and towns Of your State, to appoint
such number of delegates to represent
them as they may think proper.
The interest TO be considered at this
convention are of the utmost impcc
tance to the cotton and grain growing
States, and l earnestly hope that you
will be present, and have your State
largely represented by good men who
are interested In the important subject
to be considered.
Will you kindly name the delegates
at your earl.st convenience and notify
B. w. Griffith, E3q, secretary, Vlcks-
burg, Miss.
am, sir, your obedient servant,
J. M. STONE, Governor.
In accordance with the request the
Governor has appointed the following
delegates:
First Dtstrict-J. Adger Smith,
Charleston, and J. Il. Ayeril]. Beau
fort.
Second District-Maj Harry Ham
mond, Beech Island, aad Gen. Johnson
Hsgood, Barnwell.
Third District-W. L. Darst. Green
WOOD, end W. a. Courtenav, NeWry.
Fourth District-W. J. Murray, Co
lumbta, and l.. z. Walker, Spartan
burg.
Fifth District-W. J. Roddey, Rock
Hill; Leroy Springs, Lancaster.
Sixth Distr1ct-C. S. Mccall, Ben
netts7ille; J. E. Ellerbe, Marion.
Seventh District-J. 81. Aycock,
Wedgefeld; J. W. Summers, Orange
burg.
State at Larga-Altamont Moses, T..
r. McGshan. Charleston. J. P. O'Neil],
Charleston; J. A. Crawford, Columbia,
and Geo. H. Cornelson, Orangeburg.
The addre issued by the committee
calling the convention reads as fol-
lows:
10 the Cotton Planters, Grain Growers,
Factors, Commission Merchants,
Bankers, aud all Others Interested
In the Agricultural Interests OF the
Country:
The undersigned, joint committee
of the Vicksburg Board Of Trade and
the Vicksburg Cotton Exchange, desire
| to call your earnest attention to con-
| uention to pe held 10 the city of Vicks-
burg, Miss, on the Goth day Of NoVem-
ber, with the view of impressing upon
the United States Senst, the tmpor-
tance Of passing the Hatch bill or some
kindred measure at the coming session
of Congress. We also appeal to you
for your hearty cooperation, and ask
you to use your influence with others
In your vicinity in this behalf.
The present condition of the Hatch
| bill Is such, that with the proper ef-
forts by Its friends in the agricultural
| States, there can be little doubt OF It's
being passed and receiving the sigma
ture of the President.
1t passed the House by an oYerwhelm
ing majority, and there Is a reasonable
| hopa that majority Of the Senators
are favorable to it in It's present form
or to it as 1t may be amended, to make
! 1t more effective.
| The work In hand is to secure action
on it by said body as promptly as posi-
BILE. While two thirds OF the Senotors
may be opposed to future gambling
there are some who are opposed to at
| tempting its suppression By the Fed
eral government, and they might 80
| delay action on this bill, or any similar
one as to defeat it. It is to guard
against this delay that this convention
Of the people is called to meet In the
centre of the cotton belt. 1t should be
a large and influential convention, and
it should take such measures as will
prevent the dangerous delay to which
we have alluded.
In this appeal to the people to aid In
suppressing this great evil which has
| fastened itself on our commerce and
agriculture, We can only refer to g
fe- Of it's worst features. "Futurs
gambling" as IL g universally termed
! has at present the protection Of some Of
our largest trade bodies. 1t Is backed
by an unknown and vast amount o1
money. 1t has invaded banking, com
merce and agriculture to such an ex
tent that 1t Is no aggeration to
state that more money is en-
ployed in gambling in some of tht
exchanges In the cities than Is employed
in legitimate commerce.
Its pernicious effects are so seriously
felt that 1t ia matter Of grave doubt
whether the law of supply and demand
regulates the price OF leading agricul
tural products. To illustrate this W.
would only refer to one exchange. Fol
many years the New York Cotton Ex
change has done little except to bet or
the price of cotton. At this exchange
In q single month the sales (5ets) o
fictitious cotton have reached the tota
of the average crop of the United
State. 100000 bales, and IN one yea
over 80 100000 bales, while the sales o.
actual cotton during the Same year al
New York were only 1000 bales ant
the net receipts of actual cotton a.
that port I07, 900 bales. Such bets can
not possibly aid in the rapid handling
and delivering of cotton and in secur
ing It's manufacture and sale TO con
sumers. On the contrary, the effec
can be nothing but evil, ana the longer
it is permitted the greater tie extent tt
which the evil will be carried.
This Is but a single illustration. 1
there was any way of presenting TIT
actual statistics Of future gambling il
cotton, wheat,;corD, oats and other ag
ricultural products in New York, Chi