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He hated to insult or be insulte d.
He tried not to say anything per-
sonal or offensive tn anybody.
Tillman can only make one kind
Of speech. He appeals to passion
and class hatred. (Applause.) Till
mans appeals to factory opera
tives to array themselves against
owners of factories is meLance
to South Carolina. (Applause. }
Senator McLaurin had tried to
keep discussion on a higher plane.
Tillman charged him with steal
ing sermons, but if charges were
true Tillman had stolen things of
more value than speeches.
If Tillman meant to insinuate
he had any of Hanna's doodle he
told falsehood, and had uttered
words unbecoming a senator and a
gentleman He had always known
when Tillman was bullying and
clustering around there was one
man in South Carolina who could
handle him, and then he proceed
ed to handle him without gloves,
the crowd yelling applause of zach
hard lick He said Tlllman had
said if McLaurin were elected he
5 would consider it As proof he was
:. not wanted, but Tillman had stop
ped there and had not gone on ant
said he would resign. Senator
Tillman jumped up and said if Nc
8 Laurin would resign he wout
resign and they would 90 befor'
the people together McLauri1
promptly agreed to this proposl
. tion, amid much applause.
:, Senator McLaurln then proceed
ed to logical argument in de
e fense of his position on pubil
. questions.
, Pursuant to the agreemen
above both senator's sent In thei
designations to- Gov. McSweene
after the meeting.
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RAGING. ROARING
FLOOD

Washed down a telegraph line
which Chas. q. Ellis, OF Lisbon,
Ia, had to repair. "Standing
walat deep in icy water" he
writes, "gave me a terrible cold
and cough. 1t grew worse daily.
Finally the best doctors in Oak
land, Neb., Sioux City and Oma-
ha said l had Consumption and
could not live. Then | began u.s.
ing DR.. Kings New Discovery
and was wholly cured by six bot
ties" Positively guaranteed for
Coughs, Colds and all Throat and
Lung troubles by Crawford Bros,
and j F Mackey & Co. Price soc
and $1.0O.
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Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
loc, 23c. II c. c. c. fail, druggists refund money.

At Mountain Island cotton mills
the race dam broke, the mill was
flooded and machinery, yarns, etc,
were washed from the second
story. The wall of the dye room
and one of the warp room walls
were undermined and fell, the
ware house crumbled and the
weave room was entirely under
water for FIVE hours. Logs, IS
inches in diameter, were swept
through the intire length of the
mill. Two islands, of two and three
acres area, rising twenty feet out
of the water and covered with trees
some twenty inches in diameter,
are gone from the river. A new
channel Is feet wide and 10 feet
deep was made from the point
"llSTo Iue WdIcI cuIcIcu TIC IlNSI
again. Water reached the sec ond
floor of tenement houses and of
the presidents house.
Two persons we're drowned and
sixteen houses and contents and
the Baptist Church were washed
away ut Baker sviiie, n, G. Six
houses and contents at Loafers'
Glory, every house at Magnetic
City, twenty at Room Mountain
Station, and eight large stores a
Big Rock Greek were also washed
away. Damage in Mitchell count.
believed to be $500, 600.
The damage to the Ashevill
division of the Southern Railroad
is S5OO,0O0.
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were intruders in the Philippine
Islands. To ratify the treaty
meant not a state of war, hut
mere insul rectiOn and deprived
other nations of an excuse for in
reference. 1t
is charged that my vote ratified
the treaty and stopped the war.
if so, l am proud of the fact, and
| am thankful that l had the
strength to do my duty and cast
that vote. l fear that | would
not have had the courage to do it,
had l felt that my vote WAS abso-
lutely necessary; but realizing the
far reaching effect and the fearful
responsibility, l cast my vote ac-
cordingly. have never seen the
daa when l regretted it, and my
children will, remem her it after l
am dead, with pleasure and pride,
as the most glorious act of my
life.
Expansion, commercial expan-
sion, called forth the following
remarks:
81 am an expansionist-l favor
the political, commercial and re-
hgious expansion of our country.
This is aleng the line of progress.
We cannot attain a certain growth
and then stand still. AS in the
, individual, so in the nation. We
either move towards perfection,
or backwards towar,s decay.
There are certain crises in the life
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JOB COULDN'T HAVE
STOOD

If he'd had Itching Piles.
They're terribly annoying; but
Bucklen's Arnica Salve will cure
the worst case of piles On earth.
1t has cured thousands. For In.
juries, Pains, or Bodily Eruptions
it's the best salve in the world.
Price 25c a box Cure guaran-
teed. Sold by Crawford Bros,
and j f Mackey & Co.
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j. X. Stuckey, convicted of
manslaughter at Spartanburg in
July 1899 and sentenced to 10
years, was pardoned Saturday by
the Governor.
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Win wnlCn ne is In accOru WtIu
ssues essential to the maintenan ce
If the army and prestige of the ,
nation are too vital to he relegated
20 the plain of partisan and sec
.ional editorial.
PARTY sectionalism he reSuked
in the following terms:
There is no greater menace to
the stability of our government
than a large minority in the
Congress voting upon
broad, vital, non-partlsan Ameri-
can questions from purely section
al considerations. | am q Demo-
crat, honestly desirous of remain
ing SO, and witnessing the triumph
of the party to which am attach
ed by association and heredity.
1t was never contemplated by the
founders of that party that it
should become purely sectional
affair, yet today there is no Demos
cratic party capable of maxi e
itself felt outside of the South. In
the North and West, it is permeat-
ed with socialism, and has dwin-
died away into the party of sec
tion, not a nation. | do not pro-
pose, however, to pursue this
line of thought; it is painful and
can accomplish no good purpose.
The money question was com
mented on rs follows:
"in 1896, we had campaign
upon the money question. Every,
thing was depressed. Men seek,
ing employment, cotton under
five cents, wheat below the cos
of production, and idleness, dis
content, distrust and misery every
where. We were told that th'
salvation of the counry depended
upon the free coinage of silver.
believed then, and | believe now
that theor etically we were right
but new and unforeseen forces cam
into play, and have enough sens
to recognize the fact that th
"restoration of confidence" abou
which Mr.. Cleveland talked, an
about which | did mot kno
enough at the time to understand
: the discovery of gold in the Klor
dyke, the influx of money fror
, abroad seeking investment, an
: the increase in banking facilities
: for the time ut least, have settle
5 the money question, and nobod
: but a fool would make a "fre
, silver" speech now. Instead {
1 depleted treasury, there is in
1 today the largest amount Cf 60
t in the history of the country, an
2 actually the secretary of tt
Treasury, few weeks ago, d
, posted money in n Spartanbul
!: bank, something that has new
O been done before in the histol
l., of our State
Federal patronage was dispose
Y of in part as follows:
e 81 do not control, l do n
profess TO control, do not wi
1T to control, nor will | become I
l. sponslble for, the Federal patro
,e age IN South Carolina. On q
" count of my liberal views, a
It what he is pleased to consider 4
,e patriotic stand for broad Ame
y can doctrines, the president b
a done me the honor to consult
e. on certain occasions as TO Sou
fit Carolina appointments. He
We done SO, to my certain kDowled!
,g with Senators Morgan, SulIivs
of McEnery and other Democra
We / appreciate it beyond measu
for u wiser man, truer patri
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cussed in connection with the
campaign of '97:
l wish had time to recount to
the people what the rice schedule,
which l got into that bill, has done
for the rice planters on the coasts !!
of South Carolina, the waste
places it has redeemed. the thou
sands of dollars 1T has brought
into this State. What the duty
on pine has done for the lumber
interests, which we're being sacri
feed to the white pine imported
free % duty from Canada. The
North, which is almost bare of
timber, instead Of going to Cana
da, has been forced to go South,
and that has put thousand of dol
lars into this State. There is no
telling what an arrangement of
the schedule on cotton goods, so
as to prevent discrimination
against coarse fabrics, has meant
to the cotton mills of the South.
will refer, however, =,
to the duty on raw cotton, which
advocated at the time. Cotton,
corn and wheat are our great ex
ports. Now l want to ask any
man of reason, why is it that a
> duty of twenty cents per
J bushel is put on wheat, and fifteen
cents per bushel ON corn, while
nothing is put upon cotton ? They
thee stand exactly upon the same
basis. 1t is this, Northern Repre-
q sentatives protect corn and wheat
: against importations from Canadt
: and elsewhere, while cotton has
r been sacrificed to a mere senti
It ment. 1 think that l am the frs
) Representative in Congress e
= point out the danger to the cot
70 planters arising from the i'm
d portatlon of Egyptian cotton
| Ten ..years ago there were no i'm
;, porta tions to speak of. The yea
t; 1 made this speech there was il
le round numbers fiftysix million
Sc of pounds, and last year ther
&c was almost seventy millions, a
ut increase of nearly twenty per cent
I'd Since then two mills have bee
W built in South Carolina in one {
d, which l am interested) using notf
n ing but Egyptian cotton. Now
m contend, if the cotton farmer
nd we're protected like the wheat an
IS, corn planters, we could produ(
ed any kind of cotton that is needed
ly South Carolina is the home of tt
ee cotton plant. No cotton come
of into competition with our Sc
it Island cotton, and common sens
I'D tells me, that we can develop an
nc grade needed between that ar
he the short staple. Wh
le- are we doing now, meeting an
rg passing resolutions to reduce Il
'er acreage while English enginee
ry are constructing dams in the VALE
of the Nile, which within tv
ed years will add one million al
one-half bales or one-eighth
lot the cotton crop; while we a
ish reducing the acreage here o
re- competitors are increasing it, a
IN we are to furnish the market f
ac- the increase. l say, away wi
md the impractical statesmanst
my which will sacrifice the colt
ri planters of South Carolina to tho
has of Egypt.
me After declaring that he had
nth tended to vote against the Span
has treaty, he thus explains his VI
&c, in favor of it:
an, However, on Sunday afternot
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MCLaurin at GreenVille.
The Junior Senator from South
Carolina Declares himself ON
National Issues.

Wednesday, May the 22nd,
Hon. Jno. l.. McLuurln addressed
the citizens of Greenville by
special invitation of a committee
from that city, who had invited
him to speak in their midst so
that he might declare his position
on national issues. His opening
remarks were:
Fellow citizens: The political
Reformation of 1890 had for its
main object the independence of
thought and action on the part of
the people in political affairs. 1t
was this that made me "Re-
former A white PRIMARY,
where the white people of the
State could settle their difference
among themselves. In part it
has accomplished its object in
spite of the efforts to dwarf it in
to a one-man movement. Its
leader has not been content for it
to be complete, and has attempted
more than once to dictate who
should and who should not be
elected TO office. All revolutions
of this kind 90 farther than it's
originators design, no power can
control them.
: Men who suppose that the
smovement" of 1890 was a mere
effervescence to give Office to a
= favored few are greatly mistaken.
, Some of the hest and truest have
never held office, and the time il
coming when those who betrayed
and prostituted this great move
ment into a "one-man power
!. and mere scramb BILE for the "loave.
and the fshes'' will he held to al
account. / stand today just wher'
. / stood in 1890, with the addet
IS experience of ten years of stud.
|. and contact with public men ant
i affairs. l thank God that on
> thing has been accomplished. Th,
people have been disenthralle
e and enlightened, and will neve
;, be satisfied with the accomplish
a ment of anything less than tn
~ full purpose of the movement
free thought, free speech, a fai
ballot and rule of the people. Thi
must and shall be the final out
y. come. No attempt to break dow
the reforms nearly accomplishe
- can succeed. The natural an
" inevitable consequences of ths
~ revolution must follow. Nothin
:" can stay them.
" - His political independence h
10 declared in the following term
" AS for myself, | acknowledge 4
"0 master save the sovereign peopl
" speaking at the ballot-box, and
refuse to obey the dictates of ar
~ political boss either in or outsi'
"o of South Carolina.
"It is passing strange tn
" sume of the men elected to Co
" gress In 1892 should criticize I
~ for doing what they solemn
Wv pledged themselves to do. Dor
you remember that an Allan
Delegation was elected in IS
W. pledged not to be bound by
Democratic caucus, but to vo
for measures calculated to bene
the nation at large, lrrespecti
" of party! / feel like recalli
'"u the words, ooh, Lord God
c: cN H. IS, Lest we forget, Lest
", forget
80 His views in regard to pa
M 80: allegiance was thus expressed:
I"in hloodv civil war SettIed tho uu
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MCLaurin and Tillman.
Both United States Senators Re
slgp-A Hot Time at tho
Gaffney Meeting.

LauriD and Tillman was held here
today and there was large
crowd present.
In his opening speech Senator
McLaurin spokefor half an hour,
reviewing his course and Justify
iug his Official conduct. He only
incidentally referred to Senator
TlIlman. He said he is standing
where he has always stood, but
that Tillman has forsaken his
original platform and no longer
stands for free speech-no
political factions, and sett e.
ment of all differences of white
men at 3, white primary.
He referred to Senator Till |
man attempt to make Demo
cratic presidential candidate out
of Teller, of Colorado, who said
a negro was as good as = white
man and entitled to as much share
IN the government, and who also
favored the Infamous force bill.
Teller was CT airman Of the COM
mission which in 1876 tried to
steal the votes of Louisiana and
South Carolina.
Towne, whom Senator Tillman
wanted as the Democratic vice
presidential candidate last year,
was similar kind of Republican.
He showed from his utterances
that Bryan held himself superior
to party platforms and not bound
bN them.
Senator TAlman was received with
applause. He said he was here
because invited by genuine Demo-
Gratis of Cherokee and nat to die
tate. He claimed that McLaurin
attacked him and therefore ne had
right to assail McLaurin.
He appealed to the prejndices
and passions of his auditors in his
old familiar style. Whenever the
majority of the people were
against him, he said, and he could
not subscribe to the part plat
form, he would resign.
In this connection he did not
expl,in his sixteen to one or frs
threats prior to the Chicago con
vention. He jumped on newspa-
pers for slandering and misrepre
senting him.
He said he would oppose an.
proposition to keep McLaurin ou
of the Democratic primary if b
would take the regular party oath
He said McLaurin had heretofor
taken the oath and inslnuated tina
he had broken it.
In the remainder of his speec
he picked out sentences of McIav
rims IN the speeches and mad
serious comments without enter
ing into general discussion of G,
pansion, subsidies, etc. He RI
peated his statement that McLal
rim stole from Rev. DR. Van Dyk ke
sermon. He later touched in
guneral wav on expansion, sui
sides, etc, sneering at McLa'
rims position on them. He insil
uated that cotton mill men won
try to drum UP votes for M
Laurln. He lnsinuated that NJ
Laurin was traitor and
h,pocrit.
1T was great speech from
Tlllman standpoint and evoke
considerable applause. 1t was
full of srtful demagogy as eggs
meat. elf you elect McLaurir
hs concluded 81 will take it
notice that you don't want n
II l
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Just received carload of Co.
lumbia and jewel Buggies. Top
and open, all the different kinds
of springs and coiors. These bug
gles are beyond doubt the incest
and best wearing that we have
handled. We have also a large
lot of Buggy Harness, from Sc. 90
to SIS. 90 per set. Plow and Wag-
on Brides, from the cheapest to
the best.
We still sell the best Mules and
Horses for the least money of any
other dealers in the up country.
We have q number of extra
good Harness and Saddle horses.
Our livery outfit is the best and
we can always furnish a nice turn.
out at very reasonable rates.
Come and see us.
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CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE.
The daily sentinel., 1901-02-13
Notice of SherifPs Foreclosure
Sale.

Public notice q hereby given that by virtue
of a certain order, judgment and decree of
foreclosure made and entered by the county
court of Mesa county, Colorado, on the third
day of Jaruary, A. D., 1901, and by virtue
of a special execution lien, issued out of said
court and to me directed in said suit wherein
Orson Adams, Jr., was plaintiff, and Benja-
min F. Kiefer and Frank d. Klefer, ct al,
were defendants, wherein and whereby am
commanded to make the sum of sixteen
hundred and eighty five dollars and seventy
cents ($1, ,685.70), including costs and ex-
penses of suit, the amount of certain judg-
ment and decree recovered against the said
Benjamin F. KIefer and Frank d. Kiefer
and in favor of the said Orson Adams, Jr.,
in a certain action of foreclosure pending in
said county court, out of the lands, tene-
meuts, goods and chattels of the said Benja-
min F. Kiefer and Frank D. Kiefer, which
said Judgment, interest and costs were by
said court declared a lien upon the following
described property, towit:-
The west half (w1-2) of the north east
quarter In e1-4) and the north half (n1-2) of
the north west quarter (n w1-4), both being
in the south west quarter Is wl-4) of Section
Six (6) in Township One Q), north of Range
Two (2), west of the Ute meridian in the
County Of Mesa and State of Colorado, to-
eether with stock of the Grand Valley Irri-
CATION company representing An equivalent
The daily sentinel., 1901-02-13
Notice of Sheriffs Foreclosure
Sale.

Public notice is hereby given that by virtue
of a certain order, Judgment and decree OF
foreclosure made and entered by the county
court of Mesa County, Colorado, the third
day of January, A. ID. 1901, and by virtue of
a special execution lien, issued out of said
court and to me directed in said suit wherein
Orson Adams, Jr., was plaintiff, and Benja
min F. Kiefer and Frank d. Kiefer, ct al,
were defendants, wherein and whereby am
commanded to make the sum of sixteen
hundred and sixty dollars and nine cents
Isl ,66OU9), the amount of a certain Judg-
ment and decree recovered against the said
Benjamin f. Kiefer and Frank ID. Kiefer and
in favor of the said Orson Adams, DR., in a
certain action of foreclosure pending in said
county court, out of the lands, tenements,
goods and chattels of the said Benjamin +.
Kiefer and Frank d. Kiefer, which said
judgment, interest and costs were by said
court declared a lien upon the following
described property, towit:-
East one-half (e1-2) of the northeast
quarter Ia e1-4) of the southwest quarter
Is wl-4) of Section Six (6) in Township One
meridian in the County OF Mesa and State of
Colorado, with stock of the Grand Valley Ir-
rigation company representing and equiv
alent to six and one-fourth (6 1-4) statute
inches of water attached to and used upon
said land for irrigation purposes.
Therefore, according to the command of said
writ so issued to me by the said clerk of the
county court Of Mesa Co., Colorado, have
levied upon the above described property
and water rights and shall expose for sale at
public auction. for cash, to the highest bid
der, all the right, title and interest of the
above named Benjamin F. Kiefer and Frank
d. Kiefer in and to the above described
lands and water rights, on Saturday, the
ninth (9th) day of February, A. d. 1901, at
ten 1O) O'Clock a. IN. of said day at the east
front door of tine court house in the city of
Grand Junction, in the County of Mesa and
State of Colorado, for the purpose of paying
said debt and Gusts as above set forth.
Witness my hand this fourteenth day of
January, A. ID. 1901.
CHARLES Fl. WALLIS.
Sheriff of Mesa County.
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Notice of Sheriffs Foreclosure
Sale.

Public notice is hereby given that by vir-
tue of certain order, judgment and decree
of foreclosure, made and entered by the
county court of Mesa county, Colorado,
on the third day of january, A.
D., 1901. and by virtue of special execution
lien, issued out of said court and to me dir
ected in said suit, wherein Orson Adams, Jr.,
was plaintiff, and Benjamin F. Kiefer and
Frank B. Kiefer, ct al, were defendants,
wherein and whereby l am commanded to
make the sum of sixteen hundred and fifty
SIX dollars and seventy five cents ($1 $500,
including costs and expenses of suit, the
amount of certain Judgment and decree
recoveIed against the said BEN F..
Kiefer and Flank d. Kiefer, and in favor of
the said Orson Adams, Jr., in a certain action
of foreclosure pending in said county court,
out of the lands, tenements, goods and chat
tells of the said Benjamin +. klefer and
Frank ID. Kiefer, which said Judgment, in
terest and costs were by said court declared
lien upon the following described property,
towit:-
East half (e1-2) of the southeast quarter
Is e1-D of the southwest quarter Is wl-4)
and the northwest quarter In wl-4) of the
south west quarter Is w1-4) of the south
west quarter Is w14), all in Section Six 49,,
in Township One, Q), north of Range Two
(2), west of the Ute meridian, in the County
of Mesa and the State of Colorado, contain
ing thirty (30) acres of land, with stock of
the Grand Valley Irrigation company, repre-
senting an equivalent to nine and three
eighths % 3-8) statute inches of water at
tached to and used upon said land for irri-
gaIion purposes.
Therefore, according to the command of
said writ 30 issued to me by the said clerk of
the county court of Mesa county, Colorado,
1 have levied upon the above described
property and water rights, and shall expose
ior sale at public auction, for cash, to the
highest bidder, all the right, title and inter
est of the above named Benjamin h. Kiefer
and Frank d. Kiefer in and to the above
described lands and water rights, on Satur-
day, the ninth (9th) day of February, A. D..
1901, at ten (l0) O'Clock a. M, of said day,
at the east front door of the court house, in
the city of Grand Junction, County of
Mesa and State of Colorado, for the purpose
of paying said debt and costs above set forth.
Witness my hand this fourteenth Q4th)
day of January, A. d. 1901.
CHARLES H. WALLIS,
Sheriff of Mesa County