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THE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER published eterv M ednesr?ay. J. f* CI.?NK8CALE8, ) EDITORS AND V. 15. CHESHIRE, s PROPRIETORS. 1JURMS; ONE YEAR, - - - - $1 60 SIX MONTHS, - - - 78 WEDNESDAY, AUG, 8, inn?;. ??????i- i i ?? II J n mi J WHY r<>t invite Hon. William -I' M nings Bryan to Anderson '.' IT i: could Itt' arranged for this statosnisin in speak hore, Amh-r.son would givo him a royal reception. PRESIDENT Roosovrlt has sent in his dollar subscription to the Republican National Campaign fund. Thought it was agin' the regulations for em ployes of the government to chip in to campaign contributions. HUB Evans now admits that the State Dispensary is no Sunday Behool. We've always been taught to believe that it was some kind of a religious or mjral institution, but his admission should be received as final. THERE is time enough for Railroad Commissioner Caughman to redeem himself in the eyes of the people be fore hi? term of office expires, but as for Commissioner Wharton he has seen the handwriting on the wall. Commis sioner Sullivan will impart new life and infuse new blood in the Commis sion and cause it to stand for some thing except its wages and perquisites. ? 0M - HEARD of an apt comparison the other day. A man declared the State dispensary was likened unto an over ripe and unmerchantable egg. It does not improve with age, its Bweet incense is not welcomed by delicate and dis criminating olfactories, it is not pru dent to use too great violence in shak ing it up, its physical turpitude is ab solutely incurable and the man who gets mixed up with it is usually shunned by hi? better neighbors. -? ? - CAPT. H. H. Watkins, who has been for years Democratic chairman in An derson County, has declined to let his name be used in the legislative cam paign this year. His law partner, Gen, M. L. Bonham, has been ill for a long time and will not be able for some time to resume his share of the office work, so that Capt. Watkins would have little time in which to con duct a political campaign.-Columbia Record. t He would not need to make a campaign. His * individual consent to allow the use of his name is all that would be necessary in his case, the people would do the rest. However we are keeping him in soak for higher honors. AT any rate Chicco should be sup pressed in his advertising scheme?; It may be true that Senator "Tillman has known of the unauthorized use of hi? name and picture as an advertisement of Chicco'8 cigars, but this does not . excuse this wily advertiser for taking liberties with a high official of the State to advertise his business. Sena tor Tillman is a representative of J$outh Carolina, and a? such is entitled to the greatest degree of respect, and in the absence of any law prohibiting the use of names and pictures of individuals without the consent of individuals themselves, all advertising schemes of this nature Bhould be treated with the scorn and the contempt they de serve. _ _ IT is natural to suppose that the Southern Cotton Association will act promptly and with due caution in the case of Secretary Cheetham who is censured by the committee appointed to investigate the charges of Repre sentative Anderson against officers of that Association for dealing in futures. Mr. Cheetham has admitted speculat ing for others in a bucket shop, thus lending aid and encouragement to the enemy as the Association believes the bucket shops to be. No matter how valuable a man he may have been to the Association in the past his useful ness is now at an end and his services should be dispensed with. It is hoped that he will relieve the embarrassment of the situation by retiring volunta-, rily. FREIGHT RATE DISCRIM INATIONS. IF the newly organized State Traffic Association will force from: the rail roads a recognition of Charleston as a seaport town the, advantages that will accrue to the State will be more than ;, enough to justify the existence of that organization. It is a fact that Char leston is by virtue of its magnificent harbor one of the logical distributing points along the seaboard, and by rea son of its proximity'the advantages in freight to all inland points are appar ent. Notwithstanding thia the rail roads have persistently, manipulated their freight ratea, so that the people, of the State receive little or rio benefit .from theft* natural advantages. All . freight ratea are baaed with regard to seaports in other States, and : with the apparent effort to discriminate against ; our own seaport The reasons for this is not hard to find considering the State law governing the time limit im . posed on transportation companies for h v the delivery, c* freight at intra-State points, There should be no relinpuiah mmt of tho present limitations of 'r'--;^|reigbt/' deliveries aa a compromise t -i?on. should push them to a speedy ?ec^tkih of out rights in the wiatWcf c?;$re^ht ratea, aa we have suffered long and aev^rofy enough by ; reason of tuijjtyst SENATOR TILLMAN'S SPEECH. IT was not the unexpected that happened, in the opinion of clone students of j the senior Senator's characteristics, when thai gentleman ignored the wishes of Iiis hosts last Thursday in launching out into a discussion of county and State politics and issues instead of confining himself to a calm, dispassionate and dig- i nilled address on national questions such as Senator Latimer made in his aide presentation of Iiis flood Roads idea. Hut to our mind it wa? a most surprising , action, Having laid down the doctrine that a United States Senator has no business intermeddling in tin- affairs of State and county politics and having pointed dut the great impropriety of such action as an offensive broach of civic etiquette, .1 .eas not to be supposed that he would himself forget to be consist- j ? nt v. ith ?i'-- own doctrinos. We admit that wc were in some measure prepared . !'?>i something inconsistency in his address inasmuch a.s he has shown his dis regard for the saving virtue xl" consistency ir: renouncing tin.* State campaign : cirrus which he originated and which lu- says now affords too narrowin compass J for the opportunities of a statesman. Having gagged at his own medicine in j one particular, it is not surprising that he should do so in another. Hut we were not prepared for such a surprising lack of delicacy on his part in view of the fact that he WAS put on notice by The Intelligencer of last week that his discussion of local issues would be construed hy the people of this county as an improper in termeddling in our internal affairs, having assured the people that he could not in common propriety afford to speak of these issues, it is natural to suppose that hundreds of people went to hear him in anticipation of hearing something worthy of the efforts of a great man, such as he is esteemed to be. And so it was that the speech was a disappointment to the large and intelligent audience that faced him and who accorded him the closest and mo?t respectful attention. It was for this reason that he failed on his old time ability to wring enthusiasm and ap plause from even a reluctant audience. Even his well timed and well calculated periods and climaxes failed of eliciting the response that waa expected o? them -all because of the general disappointment in the subject as well as the subject matter of the address. The audience being a representative one and a most in telligent one, conclusions based on fale promises, cobwebs of sophistry, perver sion of facts, and specious reasonings fell not only upon deaf ears but lowered the speaker in the estimation of his hearers as a convincing and logical debater. The burden of his speech was simply a plea for the salvation of the dispen sary on the very lame and halting plea that it has never had a fair chance, and that hostile legislatures and weak executives had so crippled it that the people were naturally disgusted with it. He inveighed strongly against the little "bob tailed" board of three men as one of the causes of the downfall of the dispen sary, yet he did not show that he had ever before raised his voice in opposition to the appointment of such a board or had advocated sufficiently lucrative sala ries for the members of that board to raise them above the temptation to steal everything in sight. He failed to convince his hearers that he had ever exposed any rottenness in the management of the dispensary or had,urged any of the re forms that he is now advocating as purifiers and disinfectants until it had be come evident that the stench in the nostrils of the people was so nauseous that they could stand it no longer and began themselves to expurgate their counties from the taint. On the contrary, he created the impression in the minds of his audience that the revelations of the dispensary investigating committee were not to be relied on, as they were merely hearsny, and for this reason the work of that committee was discounted in his eyes. By the way, not a very small per cent of his argument is based on hearsay evidence, the source of which he seems reluctant to disclose. But to the point of his attack on the investigating com mittee whose duty it was to discover the evils existing in the management and report them to the legislature. It would appear to most minds that Senator Tillman, being the father of the dispensary, would of all men be the one most interested in the ferreting out of such abuses as would bring his child into disre pute. That would be the course he would pursue as a father toward his natural child if he wished to preserve him free from guilt and opprobrium. Yet he is found, not aiding and upholding the hands of the committee in trying to locate the cancerous growth on the body of his political child, but is straining every nerve to draw the veil of secrecy and doubt and suspicion over their operations, thinking to bring them into derision by their failure to discover what he is aiding to hide. To demonstrate the senator's unfair method of warfare, one incident will suffice. He makes great stock of the failure of the investigating committee to probe deep enough in the Parker-Lanahan examination, and asks why Parker was not required to testify as to thc identity of the State officer whom Lanahan had mentioned as being his agent and through the instrumentality of whom he afterward secured full recognition in the placing of orders. No ono knows bet ter than Senator Tillman himself that the investigating committee is not made up wholly of enemies of the dispensary, there being one member of the commit tee at least who is so friendly to it that he is a candidate for governor on that platform and who, as a member of the committee, evidently wielded a very pot ent influence on a majority of his associates and who no doubt is entitled to a greater share of Senator Tillman's censure for the failure of the committee in requiring Mr. Parker to "name his man" than any other member of the com mittee; yet the senator has been pouring cut the vials of his wrath on Mr. Lyon, who voted with Mr. Christenden, to require Mr. Parker to testify in full. He makes the point that under prohibition, such as we have now, we are forcing men who want whiskey to violate the law. He passes over lightly the ordering of whiskey from out of the State for personal use, and takes the posi tion that few people are going to do that. His doubts along this line can be quickly dispelled by making a few daily visits to our express office, where dozens of jugs and packages come in for personal use and pone of them in violation of the law. There is absolutely no excuse for a thirsty man violating the law to get whiskey, and the senator should know it. Besides, granting that we are forcing men to violate the law to get whiskey, the proposition appeals to us as being preferable of forcing them to violate the law to get whiskey rather than forcing Christian men, women and churches to become partners in the iniquitous traffic of the stuff that damns men's souls. Rather that a few men be forced to commit deeper crimes than a violation of the whiskey laws of the State than the entire citizenship of a^ State be damned by putting the bottle to his neighbors lips. . . ' H?B arguments in favor of the State dispensary as against a county dispen sary waa perhaps the weakest portion of his address and failed to convince. As a matter of fact, there were no arguments worth referring to in this criticism; nd we will pass that feature by. Regarding compulsory education, he made a very ingenious argument, yet susceptible to punctures all the way through if subjected to intelligent and thoughtful scrutiny. He is in favor of compulsory education provided you can apply it to white children alone. All right, let's see if he is. Without commit ting ourselves to such a plan, suppose we apply the compulsory education feature to the child labor law now in existence and as an amendment, thereto, stipulating that'no child between certain ages shall be employed in any mill who can not read simple sentences and who can not show a certificate of attending upon some school for at least twelve weeks consecutively the preceding year. This will not force one single negro into the schools and will force thousands of little white children who are growing up in ignorance to secure at least an elementary edu cation, such BB the negro children of the whole State are taking without compul sion. However, we do not know that 'this is quite the most feasible means of securing compulsory education, but we merely suggest it to the senator as one way of securing it without menacing white supremacy. In the Senator's remarks he. dwelt at great length on the complete and shrewd manner in which the negro had been disfranchised and how the boards of registration, having1'the matter en tirely in their hands,1 discriminated against the negro who applied for registra*, tion by submitting to him the various tests and gave the fellowing description of the test as applied to both: "After asking the negro if he could read and Write and, receiving a negative reply, the registry, would then read him a long section of tho State Constitution and the meaning of which lio two lawyers '.cr::ld agree and require him to interpret it. Of course, he couldn't do it and so he passed on; but when a white man who couldn't read nor write-presented himself for registration a little short section wra read to him and one that was so simple a child could understand it, the white man Of course gave a satisfactory interpre tation and he was duly registered. The natural inference ia, if the registration officers of the State, having in charge the machinery of the elections, can bend the laws to maintain white supremacy in the face Of tremendous negro ma jori ties-and can keep the negro out of politic?, why, in the name of common sense,' can't .a County School Board, the cliairman. of which ia elected by the people and the two other members of which are appointed by the State Board and the State Board in tum is appointed by tho governor, why la it that this County Board of Education With its district school trustees will not be able to manipulate the at tendance upon the public schools as well aa the registration offlcera manipulated the attendance upon th? registration booka? Who ia rash enough to charge that any white trustee will force n^gro children tb gp to ecbool? "$he .ar?rgastie?-ia too ludicrous to combar. The acts are that avery negro of school age hr taking advantage of every day of whoo)/and for this, reason labor ia getting to be a ' very eerioua problem. They can not be hired for love nor money, nor can their mothers be hired as cooks and washerwomen for the. reason that they ytij0?0- \ stay at home and keep their imikW farma aro getting leasTam* leaa^portunitiea each year for goto* tb a?hool ft* ; ^^^J^^^^t^^^^ counties,tfiatwhit* ,an?c>^^|breed to stop school to help on the farm because of the inability of the parent? to secure negro help who viii not unsent to.n^s^ a^W0<era^aaa^ Jj?Jjgg^^ a bigman in^e Um and we doubt not he ia, but be dicfrkit" A SOFT ANSWER. THE Columbia State, in replying to Senator Tillman's intimation that a block of stock in the Richland Distill ing Co., was owned in the State office, states its side of the case in the fol lowing parliamentary manner: "There is not and never has been a dollar's worth of stock of the com panies named owned in the State office; neither are the owners of the paper under pecuniary or other obligations, nor have they ever been, to stockhold ers of those companies; the owners of the distilling company are not only not friends of The State, but they are personally unknown- all sneaking, dirty liars to the contrary notwithstand ing." Will Senator Tillman send this to Gov. Hey ward with instructions to "do something about it." EQUALIZATION A FARCE. WHAT'S in a name-for instance the | State Board of Equalization? How can there be any reason or equality in re quiring corporations with visible assets to pay taxes on sixty per cent of their total valuation, while other classes of taxable property only pay on not over half this valuation? Granting that they pay on a forty per cent valuation as is claimed by the State Board, why Bhould there be any disparity at all? No class should receive any special favors at the hands of the Board, but all classes of property should be re quired to bear its legitimate share of the burdens of taxation and the pres ent system of tax dodging should be brought to its timely end by the next l?gislature in the adoption of a sensible and more equitable method of assessing property for taxation. Unless the as sembled ingenuity of the next legisla ture can devise some means by which the constitutional method of making returns at actual value can be made effective, the name of the present board should be changed to the State Board Of Favoritism. " -? . ? ? THAT CHICCO FAN. Columbia State. . THE other day somebody sent Tillman a fan bearing the likeness of himself and Chicco, the far-famed Charleston blind tiger. The pictures are labeled 'The Two Determined," and have been familiar for years on the boxes of a brand of cigars sold by Checco. Thc Senator displayed much heat when ex hibiting the fan. He got red in the face and told his audience he had been insulted. He declared he was going to send the fan to Governor Heyward, who was responsible, he said, for the existence of Blind Tiger Chicco. And now comes The News and Courier with this letter from a Charleston police man: J . "Tb the Editor of The News and Courier: Anent this "fan affair;" do you recall that this same Senator Till man, when governor of South Carolina, atone time visited Charleston." He was the guest of Capt. Martin. One day, while walking through the Market with Capt. Martin, Vincent Chicco rah out from his place of business with a box of cigars marked "The Two Deter mined," and offered a cigar to Gover nor Tillman. Governor Tillman took one, and so did Cap tu Martin. Gover nor Tillman shook hands with Chicco. I know, for I was the policeman stand ing beside them. Why all this fuss, about something Tillman knew when he was Governor? Every. year sine? he has been senator, Chicco sends him a box of "The 'Two Determined*' ci gars, and. he accepts them. Why all this kick and grandstand play? Yours very truly, ; "A Polipeman/'. So when Tillman w?s governor, his picture and that of Chicco Were along side each other on a box ot cigars-arid were labelled "The Two Determin?dL^ Not only so, but at that time the blind tiger offered the governor cigars from such a box;; tho governor accepted the same,r and ; waa quite friendly with Chicco. And Chicco subsequently sent hun cigars by the box. i.With this light before us, Tillman's feigned choler at the Bight of his picture next to Chic co*8 would be amusing, were it not that it reveals his utter inain?erity in dealing with the people of South Caro [ liria?," Dothey - ca^e . for that kind of ^dictator? :- , . & I. 'tr Given up ta Ole. \ | . B. Spiegel, im N? Virginia M?\ Evansville Ind., writes : "For overi il ve ycart I was troubled with k idnov and- bladder-affections which caused me much pain and worry I lost flesh three of the best physicians who did mo no good and I was prac t itally gi vea VP te Sie.^ Fol?ni ,EdneX^w^ j)raa recommended and tho tiret bottle gave me gre?t relief, ao? af tertaking the second bottle I was entirely cored." Evans Pharmacy.. The first cost should , not be tho greatest or only consideration in bay ir g a Mower. Some Howers aie bullt Died From Appendicitis. J. Brown GasBaway, son of Mr. B. '. Gassaway, of Honea Path, died iHt Thursday. Mr. Gassaway was 27 years of age ?J was a prosperous plantar, living bout a mile from Honea Path. He /as a member of the Baptist Ch-'reh, nd was a devoted Christian. He was he son of a deacon of the Baptist 'burch and a nephew of the Rev. Ma ion Gassaway, who died in Mexico as a nissionary a few years ago. He was seized on Friday night with hat dread disease, appendicitis. All hat medical skill and kind hands of datives could do could not save him. The funeral services were held Fri lay at ll o'clock, conducted by Dr. J. V. Perry, his pastor, assisted by Rev. {. W. Burts and the Rev. Mike Mc Jee. Reunion Postponed. To the Sufvivors of Orr's Regiment of Rifles: For certain reasons the,reunion of toe survivors of Orr's Regiment, which ,vr.o to be held at Buena Vujt?s, Park, in the city of Anderson, Auguj^b 13 and L4, is Hereby indefinite!v postponed. W. T. McGill, John Eekew, John W. Thompson, Committee. ANNOUNCEMENTS. AUDITOR. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for the office of County Auditor of Anderson County, subject to the action of the Democratic primary elec tion. JOHN A. MAJOR I hereby announce for the office ot Auditor for Anderson County, subject to the roles of the Democratic primary. CALMA O. BURRISS. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for Auditor of Anderson Coun ty, subject to the ruleB of the Demo cratic primary. JAS. H. CRAIG. JUDGE OF PROBATE. , I hereby announce myself as a candi date for the office of the Judge of Pro bate for Anderson County, enbjeet to the rules of the Democratic primary. J. N. VANDIVER. The undersigned respectfully an nounce himself a candidate for the office of Judge of Probate for Ander son County, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. W. PLUMER NICHOLSON. I hereby announces myself a candi-, date for the office of Probate Jndge for Anderson County, and will abide the result of^the Democratic primary. _D. H. BUSSELL. COUNTY TREASURER. J M. PAYNE is hereby an noun oed as a candidate for re-election aa Couuty Treasurer, subject tu the mles of tho Democratic primary. _ SUPERVISOR. I hereby announce myself a candi-, date for re-election aa Supervisor for Anderson Connty, subject to the Demo cratic primary. S. O. JACKSON. GEORGE M. Ii EID ia hereby an nounced as a candidate for Connty Supervisor, subject to the mies pf the Democratic primary. SENATOR. I hereby announce myself a candi date for State Senator, subject to tho Democratic primary. r? : _ GEO. W. SULLIVAN. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The friends of JOSHUA W. ASH LEY hereby announce ' "m an u candi date for the House of Representatives;: subject to the roles of the Democratic party. '. . ;?. '? >>?M I hereby announce myself n candi date for re-election to the House of Representatives for Anderson County, subject to the mles of the Democratic primary. J. A. HALL. I respectfully announce myself -a candidate for re-election to tho House of Representatives, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. . . - Ew "M. R?CK?R, Jr. We are authorized to announce W. F. LEE an n candidato for the JQonee of Rep re s e n ta t i ves at the next el e ct i on c subject to the action of the Democratic primary. ? :/. . L hereby announce myself as a can didate for the Honae of Rep ti vee at ; the next election, st Belton News? (Belton Tiroes.) M ?S3 Olive Lilli mer is on a visit to her sister, Mrs. M. L. Heard, at Elber ton, Ga. Mr. Lester E. Boykin is visiting a former schoolmate, Mr. Walter Beaty, at Deans. Mr. J. H. McCuen will give up his position as salesman for W. J. Moore head and open a business of his own in one of W. K. Stringer's store rooms when completed. Prof. B. E. Geer of Greenville was in town this week visiting his mother and brothers. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Cuthbert of Sum merville are visiting their bon, Dr. G. S. Cuthbert, Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Brown and other relatives in town. { Interesting protracted services have 1 been in progress at thc Methodist Church this week. Rev. Holroyd, the pastor, has been ably assisted by Rev. W. E. Wiggins of Anderson. We are glad to note the reorganiza tion of the Belton Band. George and Mary Brown, children of ' Mr. Geo. M. Brown of Atlanta, are visiting at Senator A. C. Latimer's. Mr. C. W. McGee has moved into his beautiful and neatly arranged new cottage which Contractor Callaham has just completed. Mr. E. R. Parker, now of Cordele, Ga., will occupy the one vacated after Sept. 1st. Mrs. W. R. Haynie and children visi ted her parents at Due West last week. Dr. Haynie went down Saturday night to snend Sunday. Dr. and Bira. Poore have returned tp> their hume in Columbia after a few days visit to Dr. P>,ore's mother. Dr. W. R. Haynie and Jno. A. Hor ton have bought from W. P. Shirley about 40 acres of land just beyond the western limits. They will open up some new streets on the premises, cut it up into convenient building lots and beautify it in other ways so as to make it the most attractive residence section of Belton. Already this ?B a popular neighborhood, more residences having gone up in this vicinity in the past 2 or 3 years than any other one portion of town. Mr. D. E. Gossett has just finished the bric!', work on the new building of Rico Bros. Mr. J. G. Wilson of nea." Craven ville has bought the Elijah Willingham house near the academy and wiii move here with his family in the early fall. Mr. E. P. Vandiver stopped overa short, while with friends Wednesday morning on his way to Hones Path to attend the Association. Anderson is only his home by adoption; Belton still claims him as her offspring. Ed. is one of the best business men of that city and still continues to grow and expand --financially not physically-recently he he has become interested as a third owner of a ?big lumber plant which will handle all kinds of building material in large quantities. Messrs. F. L. Hopper and F. M. Cos v/?nt to Atlanta Wednesday on a short business trip.* The Lord has laid the crops by. Truck Farms for Sale. I have divided my Fr.rm into Lots ranging from seven"acres up. Will sell these Lots for oash or one fourth oash, balance on time, at seven per cent por annum. Also, will aell them all on tima at aboye interest, provided pur chaser will build on them to the extent of {$500. Now is your chance to buy Land JUST OUTSIDE THE CITY LIM?TS and close to the Oar lineal reasonable prices. I have recently opened through my Land a connection witbv the Greenville Road whioh will be the main line to ' the city from that direc tion, as it.doesn't come in contact with the Oar line, only to oross it, and is as* near to the eity for parties oomiog to town, will naturally get the travel. Come and see me before the best Lots are sold. R, S. LIQOfl, Anderson, g. C. } Hitching Quarters, DEPOT STREET. When in town and wanting ? nia', to leave your teams bri:jg-them to the? New Hitching Quarters to be opened up by the" FretweH-Henfcs Co: They have bought tho old stand formerly/ occupied by Clarence Osborao on Depot. Street. Thia Stable will be fitted up to accommodate teams-lOo. for a hitch ing stall, 25e. for a stall and feed. Send us your teams. . Still doing businoss at some old St and, Bolling High Grade ; - DRY GOODS, I ?rom 10 to 40" per ?tent Cheaper j I than other Merchants. 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