University of South Carolina Libraries
THE PICKENS SENTINEIAOUR AL Entered A pril 23, 1903 at Pickens, .. C. an second class matter. under act of Congress of March 3, 1879 - 39th Year PICKENS. S. C., JUNE, 17, 1909. Number 11 State News I All the Late Sows Nm 1% G. M. Creswell of Piedmont, died several days ago, aged 82. Clemson and Wofford College commencements are being held this week. Fire in the waste house of the Buffalo cotton mill did consider able damage. H. H. Jennings, has been ap pointed chief deputy clerk of the port of Charleston. Willie Green was shot and kill ed by Jerry Small in a drunken row on Young's Island. Rev. H. J. Morgan, a well known Baptist Minister of Spar tanburg. is dead, aged 76. S. R. Cole, a citizen of Barn well county, died at his home from ptomaine poisoning. Woodside Cotton Mill of Greenville will increase its capi tai from $600,000 to $800,000. The annual Convention of the State Funeral Directors' associa tion will be held in Charleston, June 22-23. A Marion cot fy failed to agree in the eek -ainst John King, char e. 'h complicity in th. a bery. or Ansel has ed a ward for the arrest of the p Y who killed J. B. Smoak in leton county several nights ago Edward Fogle, aged seven years, is dead at his home in 1 Denmark as the result of in juries received by falling from a bt gy. The citizens of Greenville are making arrangements for the entertainment of the members of the South Carolina Press As sociation. Capt. W. L. Roddy, one of the most prominent men of the state, is seriously ill at his home at Rock Hill. There is no hope of his recovery. R. Lebby Clement, a well I known citizen of Wadmalaw ] Island, is being tried in the fed eral court at Charleston on the charge of peonage.r A stalk of corn is growing in 1. the top of a large oak tree near a Seneca. It is supposed the seed t was dropped in the top of the tree a by some bird, and took root and i grew. t Will Foster, a railroad negro, ,has been lodged in j til at Green- c wood, as one of the principals in C a shooting and cutting fracus ~ near there Saturday night in ~ which a Greenwood county i negro, Ellis Fuller, was cut to e death and another, Gill Fuller, was shot in the ueck. Mr. John Watson, a prominent 3 young man of the Greensea sec- C tion of Colleton county, about 20 C miles from Conway, was way laid and shot by a notorious negro. Mr. Watson died a few hours after being shot. Sheriff ~ Sessions learned of the affair by n telegram and wvent immediatelv t, to the scene of the killing. b Announcernent was made Sat- t urdlay that the site for Gaff ney's public building had been selected 0 by the government and the a structure will be erected on the i corner of Grenard and Frederick c streets on property purchased I from the Hon. J. Q. Little and r Col. A. N. Wood. The price ioaid wa $9,900. The site is near the Southern Railway pas- i senger station. The preachers' institute of the South Carolina conference is in I session at Wofford college and 1 will continue for ten (lays. 1 During the sessions of the insti-' tute lectures will be (delivered by men prominent in the Southern I Methodist church. Among the promiinent Methodists who are tot deliver lectures are Bishop James 1 Atkins of Waynesville, N. C., < Dr. J. A. Kern and Dr. Gross 1 A1exander of Nashville.1 3aragraphed. ly soction of seuth calo1ha. Work has begun on the new Baptist church at Clinton. A new Baptist church, to cost $12,000, is being built at Conway. There is some talk of building a new cotton mill at Abbeville. Francis Postell Thackam, aged 90 years, died at his home in Columbia. W. H. Sammons of Traveller's Rest, Greenville county, celebrat ed his 80th birthday Sunday. The People's National Bank of Rock Hill will erect a new four story bank and office building this summer. Gov. M. F. Ansel and Presi dent D. B. Johnson of Winthrop College have gone north on busi ness connected with the college. The body of a new born infant was found near Cedar Grove church in Lexington county. The affair is shrouded in mys tery. Mrs. Lucy M. Hudgens of 3partanburg died Monday, aged 31. The body was taken to Easley, her former home, for in terment. Fred W. Greene of Laurens bas gone to Atlanta to take the Pasteur treatment, having been itten by a dog which it is feared iad rabies. Gov. Ansel has offered a re ward of $100 for the capture of ;he negro who is supposed to iave murdered J. A. Nix near )enmark Saturday. A general free fight occured in t negro holiness church at Gaff iey and one negro, Bud Wood, vas badly beaten up. It is hought he will recover. Rev. J. Ed Wallace, who has ust graduated from the Pres >yterian Theological Seminary n Columbia, has been'elected astor of the Presbyterian hurch at Georgetown. Ae is a irother of Rev. I. E. Wallace of >elzer. The negro state fair will be eld in Batesburg this year. ['he fair aasociation preferred to tse the grounds in Columbia ,gain, but the rent required by he State Agricultural society vas more than they felt able to >ay, so arrangements was made o use the grounds in Batesburg There were two thousand bales f cotton sold in Newberry on aturday at eleven cents-the iggest transaction in that mar :et that has happened for some [me. Of this number Messrs.1 ummer Brothers sold 1,500 to Ir. 0. McR. Holmes. Mr. Gist .lso bought a large quantity. Ir. H. H. Evans sold something ver three hundred bales and thers sold in smaller lots. Several burglaries have taken lace in Greenville during the ast week. The residence of J. [. Cafe was entered Sunday ight and $60 stolen from his ousers pocket. Another rob ery of somewhat the same na ire took place some time during aturday night at the residence f Mr. J. H. Austin on Pinckney treet. Mr. Austin's trousers ockets were rifled for the am ut of some $15. As in the ot ier case the guilty parties have ot- as yet been located. While walking through the :rave-yard at Cherokee church, iear Gaffnsy, the three-year-old I 'n of Mr. Gibbs Pridmore met vith a peculiar accident. A ieavy' tombstone fell on him, >inning his left leg and foot to 1 he ground. It required the ser- 1 -ice of three men to lift the tone off the little fellow. For- I unately no bones were fractured1 ts the ground was so soft from he recent heavy rain that it al owed the child's leg to sink suffi iently to keep from breaking the L ones. The leg and foot werei )adly mahed however, It is stated in the newspapers, that the Waterboro oil mill made forty per cent on its capital stock last year. Deputy Sheriff Arthur Long of Union, was severely choked by Dave Rice; a negro, whom the officer had arrested. The citizens of Greenville are raising a fund for the purchase of an automobile for County Supervisor J. P. Goodwin. Tho monument erected by the women of Lancaster county to the veterans was unveiled Sat urday with appropriate exer cises. J. A. Nix, a farmer living near Denmark, was shot and killed by Isadore Nimmons, a negro tennant. The negro es caped. It is estimated that the farm ers along the Wateree and Con garee rivers will lose $50,000 worth of oats and corn by the freshet. L. F. Causey was elected clerk of court of Hampton county to fill out the unexpired term of his brother, Mr. W. B. Causey, deceased. It is stated that W. S. Peter son will remain in Orangeburg, as head of the Orangeburg Col legiate Institute, although he had offers to go elsewhere. Adjutant General Boyd, who suffered a stroke of apoplexy at Aiken several weeks ago, has recovered sufficiently to be able to attend to his duties again. Rev, J. T. Plunkett, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Augusta, has been offered the presidency of [the Columbia Theological Seminary Mr. W. C. Middleton of Travelers' Rest, has a rare freak' of nature in the shape of a full grown rooster with only one wing and he has never possessed but one. Matt L. Douglass, a young farmer living near Springfield, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a shot gun. Despondency over ill health and debt was the cause. Near Greenville Saturday while a man wife and child were crossing Reedy river the bridge gave way and the buggy, horse and everything was swept some distance down stream. No lives were lost. The suummer term of the :ourt of sessions for Cherokee :ounty will convene on the 28th >f this month, and if Judge Prince is unable to preside the affney barwill ask the supreme :ourt to designate Judge Purdy ;o preside. The state board of equalization vill meet June 17th ini Columbia. Ihis boardiconsists of Cot. P. H. 3adsden of Charleston. chair nan, and the chairman of the rarious county hoards, assess he textile companies, fertilizer First Lieut. J. Adam Hayne >f Greenville. who was recently ippointed to the medical reserve :orps, of the army, has been rdered to Fort Assiniboni, \ont., He will proceed west at meeC and take up the duties to > assigned1 him. On account of sickness, Dr. fames H. Carlisle., president em ritus of Wofford College, was mable to attend the commence nent exercises of the college this veek. This is the first comm en ~eent in more than 50 years vhen he was not present. In an election held at Union [uesday to decide whether or not his school district should issue Onds not to exceed the sum of ~2.000 for the purpose of erect ng an additional public school milding, only 52 votes were ast. Of these 50 were in favor f the bond1 issue, and only 2 igainst it. W. D. Arthur. '.incumbent, was reelected own' eas&'rer without opposi Marion Eugene Brown, aged 21, was killed by lightning on his farm at Mt. Holly, F. Marion Day, a leading citi zen of Easley, is dead, aged 74. He was a Confederate veteran, serving in Brooks' troop of the Hampton Legion. Edgar Miles, a negro, narrow ly escaped being lynched in Aik en by an angry mob of negroes. Miles is accused of making a criminal assault on a young col ored girl. Rev. Francis W, Gregg of A b beville has accepted the pastor of the- Limestone Prebyterian church at Gaffney and will be his labors on the third Sunday of this month. The prohibitionists in several of the counties that have dis pensaries are organizing for the purpose of carrying their coun ties for prohibition in the elec tions this summer. John Harrison, a negro, was convicted in the court of sessions in Columbia of housebreaking and larceny, and sentenced to serve 16 years in the penitent iary. He was an old offender. The supreme court has refused a rehearing in the case of Thom as J. Gibson, the aged Columbia broker convicted of fraud in con nection with the stolen state bonds, and Gibson will have to serve his sentence in the peni tentiary. The double marriage on Wed nesday night of this week at Cheraw of Miss Ruth Kinsey to Mr. Will Duvall and Miss Leila Kinsey to Mr. Herbert Wanna maker, four popular young peo ple of Cheraw, is an event of in terest throughout the state. President Jno. G. Anderson of the Rock Hill Buggy company, who is now travelling in foreign lands, has sent his concern an order from Jerusalem for vehic les for a dealer there. This com pany has already sent orders to Holland and to South Africa. J. L. Courtney, known as "Sugar Babe" Courtney, who fired upon his wife at the Ley don hotel in Columbia Saturday morning, has pleaded guilty to the charge of carrying an unlaw ful weapon, and was fined by Magistrate Fowles $50, which he paid immediately. A small cyclone passed about one mile northwest of Denmark about 6 o'clock Thursday even ing, wrecking the home and stables of Mr. Asa Baxter and a tenant house of Mr. J. W, Bax ter. Mr. Asa Baxter's eldest daughter was slightly injured. No one was killed. Burri & Spurgeon of Gaffney, have received contract to build an addition for the Gaff ney Manufacturing company, of that city. This addition will be equipped with new machinery, though to what extent has not yet been stated. The company, which increased its capital from $75,000 to $200,000 a few weeks ago, now operates 4,000 spindles. A special from Barnwell says: Mr. Jut Still shot and instantly killed a Mr. Davis in the Red Oak township on last Saturday. Da vis is said to have been drunk and was advancing upon Mr. Still with a gun, when Still fired. Davis has only been living in' that community for a few months, and was from Georgia. Mr. Still immediately came to Barnwell and gave himself up. Mr. Still is a prosperous farmer of the Red Oak township and has always beeni considered a peaceable citizen. As yet bond Ihas not been asked for. The many friends of Maj. D. F. Bradley of Easley, who has been confined to his home, and for a greater part of the time to his bed, for the past ten months, Iwill, no doubt, be sorry to know that he improves very slowly. Mrs. Bradley, his wife has also been in such feeble health for some time as to necessitate tak Iing her to a sanitarium. Sheriff Corley of Lexington, who was shot by a negro two weeks ago, is slowly improving. The annual convention of the South Carolina Bankers' asscia tion will be held at Wrightsville Beach, near Wilmington, N. C., June 16-18. The bank men of Wilmington and the commercial organizations of that place are making elaborate arrangements to entertain the bankers of South Carolina. The Citadel minstrel show, which made such a big hit in April in Charleston, is to make a tour of the principal towns of the state in July. Col. Bond has given the official sanction to the enterprise and is sending out an advance agent this week to make arrangements for the com ing of the military minstrel men. During a moderate rain storm Monday afternoon the Presby terian manse at Lancaster was struck by lightning the bolt partly wrecking a chimney and shattering the glass in a window of the pastor's study. Dr. Chal mers Fraser, the pastor, was sit ting in the study at the time and felt the shock, but was not hurt. Arrangements are being made it is understood, by the manage ment of the Monaghan Mills, Greenville, for the driving of the plant by electricity, al though the change will not be made for some time. The large CooperCorliss cross compound engine now in operation at the plant will- be used for emergen cies after the installation of elec tricity. Banks Williams, a young white man, wanted in Lancester county on the charge of seducing a white girl under 14 years of age, and who had disappeared, was located by Sheriff Hunter in Danville, Va., last Saturday The sheriff went to Danville and returned with his prisoner, who is now in jail. The young man was willing to come with out requisition papers. The bids for building a new dining room and kitchen at Winthrop college were opened on the 4th. The contract has been awarded to J. J. Keller & Co., of Rock Hill at a figure in the neighborhood of $32,000. The time which the contractors have in which to finish these, September 10, is very limited and it is possible that a night shift may be necessary in order to finish by then.* The South Carolina Cotton Manufacturers' association will meet at Glenn Springs next Fri day. It is expected that the meeting will be attended by re presentatives of nearly every cotton mill in the state. The meeting this year will be purely for the transaction of business as no arrangements have been made for any social features. Many questions of importance to the cotton mill will be discuss ed. The board of trustees of the South Carolina University have honored N. F. Walker. superin tndenft of the South Carolina Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind at Cedar Springs, by conferring the honorary degree of LL. D. upon him. Mr. Wal ker has been at the head of this institution for many years and his work h is been self sacrific ing and of great proficiency. The honor was worthily bestow ed. On Tuesday afternoon, during an electric storm which passed through the upper part of Greenville county, the barn of Dr. J. S. Bruce of Sandy Elat was struck by lightning and burned to the ground almost be fore any one had detected the fire. Six head of horses, to gether with all of the feed stuff, was demolished in the fire, causing a loss of about $2,500 with only a very small amount' of insurance. Dr. King's New .Ife Pills Thebhat in the mrId~ HAS AIDED TRUSTS REAL EFFECT OF REPUBLICAN PARTY'S POLICY. Planks In National Platforms Conclu sively Prove That the Democrats Are the Real Friends of the Taxpayers. The two sides of the tariff issue must be considered in deciding wheth, er the Democratic position, or the Re publican, is for the best interest of the majority of the people. The Re publican national convention declared In 1888: "We are uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of pro tection." In 1892, it said: "We re-af firm the American doctrine of pro tection." In 1896, it said: "We renew and emphasize our allegiance to the policy of protection as the bulwark of American industrial independence and the foundation of American develop ment and prosperity." In 1900 it said: "We renew our faith in the policy of protection to American labor; in that policy our industries have been established, diversified and main tained. By protecting the home mar ket competition has been stimulated and production cheapened." In 1904, it said: "Protection which guards. and develops our industries is a cardinal policy of the Republican party. The measure of protection should always at least equal the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad. We insist upon the mainten ance of the principle of protection, and, therefore, rates of duty should be readjusted only when conditions have so changed that tie public interest de mnands their alteratiop." The same platform also said: "A Democratic tar iff ha.s always been followed by busi ness adversity; a Republican tariff by business prosperity." The present p.anic, which is producing business adversity, shows that Republican plat forms are not to be relied on when at tempting to forecast the future, and the history of the panics since the war shows that the panic of 1872 was under a Republican administration, and a Republican tariff for protec tion. The panic of 1892-3 was In full blast before Mr. Cleveland was elected, and the United States treas ury was left by the Harrison admin Istration practically bankrupt The semi-panic of 1901, when prices of commodities and of stocks and bonds rapidly declined and factories were closed or reduced their output, was under Republican auspices and the present high protective tariff. The present panic, perhaps the most dis astrous in its consequences that ever occurred, has followed the boast that a Republiean tariff Jas "always been followed by business prosperity." Such are the declarations of the Re publican party, and the undesirable results of its tariff policy. The Democratic position on the tar 1ff in 1876 was: "We demand that all custom house taxation shall be only for revenue." In 1880: "A tariff for revenue only." In 1884: "The Democ racy pledges itself to reduce taxation to the lowest limit consistent with due regard to the preservation of the faith of the nation to its creditors and pensioners." In 1888, the platform of 1884 was reaffirmed and further de elared: "It is repugnant to the creed of Democracy that by such taxation the cost of the necessaries of life should be unjustiflably Increased to all our people. Judged by Democratic principles the interests of the people are betrayed when by unnecessary taxation, trusts and combinations are permitted to exist,' which, while un luly enriching the few that combine, rob the body of our citizens by deprir ing them of the benefits of natural competition. Every Democratic rule of governmental action is violated when through unnecessary taxation a vast sum of money, far beyond the needs of an economical edministration, is irawn from tie people and the chan nels of trade, and accumulated as a demoralizing surplus in the national treasury." In 1892: "We denounce the Republican protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundament al principle of the Democratic party that the federal government has no constitutional power to Impose and collect tariff duties, except for the pur pose of revenue only, and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the government when honestly and eco nomically administered." In 1896: 'We hold that tariff duties should be levied for purposes of revenue, such luties to be so adjusted as to operate eqiually throughout the country, and sot discriminate between class or sec tion, and that taxation should be limi [ted by the needs of the government, bonestly and economically admin [stered. We denounce as disturbing to business the Republican threat to restore the McKinley law, which hag twice been condemned by the ~ [n national elections, and whicTs acted under the false plea of prd tion to home industry, proved a pro lific breeder of trusts and monopolies, enriched the few at the expense of the many, restricted trade and de prived the producers of the great American staples of access to their natural markets." In 1900: "We condemn the Dingley tariff law as a trust-breeding measure, skilfully devised to give the few fav ors which they do not deserve and to place upon the many burdens which they should not bear." In 1904: "The Democratic party has been,' and will continue, to be, the consistent oppon ent of that class of tariff legislation by which certain Interests have been -ena amnugh ' onpeio.aa favor, to draw a heavy tribute from the American people. This monstrous perversion of those equal opportuni ties which our political institutions were established to secure has caused what may once have been Infant In dustries to become the greatest com binations of capital that the world has ever known. These especial favorites of the government have, through tfust methods, been converted into monop olies, thns bringing to. an end domes tic competition, which was the only alleged check upon the extravagant, profits made possible by the protec tive system. These industrial combin& tions, led by the financial assistance they can give, now control the policy of the Republican party." That plat form further declared: "We denounce protectionism as a robbery of the many to enrich the few, and we favor a tariff limited to the needs of the government, economically, effectively and constitutionally administered, and so levied as not to discriminate against any industry, class, or section to the end that the burdens of taxa tion shall be distributed as equally as possible. We favor a revision and* a gradual reduction of the tariff by the friends of the masses and for the common weal, and not by the frisnds of its abuses, its extortions, and Its discriminations, keeping in view the ultimate end of 'equality of burdens and equality of opportunities,' and the constitutional purpose of raising a revenue by taxation, to-wit, the sup port of the federal government in all Its Integrity and virility, but in sim tcity." These declarations of the Demo racy show it favors tariff reform, be cause so-called protectio4 has fostered the trusts which by high prices for their prodigcts have Increased the cost of living over 50 per cent. The Republican tariff poli ., has, been to increase the -ariff tax instead of reducing it and the leaders still re fuse to revise even the most oppres sive schedules. Speaker Cannon but a few days ago speaking to the Asso ciation of American Potters declared that the tariff tax on crockery should be increased. The attempt of President Roosevelt to convict and punish the trusts for "restraining trade" has . been a com plete failure, and trust prices will re main exorbitant until the tariff is so revised as to produce competition from abroad, which will compel the trusts to reduce the price of their products or lose trade. BOTHERED BY THE PANIC. Official of Protective Tariff League in Hard Straits. The treasui-er and general secretary of the Protective Tariff league thinks .'the changes in the Dingley tariff bill, for which the administration is re sponsible, have worked serious harm to the industries of this country and have cut down imports alarmingly." As the present tariff law was intend ed to prevent Imports, and thus pro tect the trusts from competition from abroad, why this change of front on the part of its subsidized chieftain? He should be glad instead of regret ting that imports are reduced. The changes in the tariff law attributed to the administration are the Cuban treaty which reduced the tariff on sugar and other products 20 per cent. As sugar is the chief article of Im port from Cuba and still pays over 55, per cent ad valorem, to -protect the sugar trust, which controls the home grown sugar, that reduction can hard ly "work serious harm" to the sugar industry. The German tariff trade agreement, which has been extended to France, Gat Britain, Holland and Austria, and which prevents the over-valuation of the products of those countries, until such time as congress passes remedial legislation, can hardry "work serious harm to the industries of this country." It Is true the imports from Germany have largely increased under this agreement, but because our consum ers can obtain cheaper German goods, upon which the tariff tax could be fur ther reduced one-halt to their great advantage, it is absurd to say tils country is injured. The cheaper we can buy what we need the more it re leases us from the thralldom of the trusts and combines. The Protective Tariff League is in a tight place on account of the panic and finds no way to creep out of it, except by laying the blame onl those simple modifications of the tariff enumerated above. As the business depression, that will fol low the panic, will reduce importsa tions of foreign goods, as it will re duce the consumption of our home products from sheer inability of the people to purchase as much as they have been doing, the Protective Tar 1ff league will soon see "serious harm to the Industries of the country," al though we have been assured by the Republican party that the tariff pro duces prosperity. Reduced consump tion of luxuries has already set In ad this will unfortunately be fol ed by reduced consumption of ne by those' who are thrown out ~work by the closing of factories, for which the Republican policies of protection and financial Tegisiation for the benefit of the few can be blamed. If the Republican party could fore go Its campaign contributions from, the trusts and protected interests, in stead of standing pat, the American people would vastiy benefit, but no such reform can be expected until the people see the way they are being plundered by the tariff and elect a Democratic congress pledged to re form its abuses. The joy of the tars at the sailing of Ithe battleships is going to be consid erably subdued before the head. o$ Golen Gate catch the lookout's eyes.